skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I understand now. It all makes sense! To get out from under them thumb of the evil Formats, we must subjugate ourselves to an even greater, larger and more complex (but singular) Format! What could possibly go wrong?
Re: FPGA bitstreams: Here’s one attempt at standardization in spite of the hostility of chip vendors: the “MPGA”:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050414203105/http://ce.et.tudel...
Julian Sanchez' "The Sun Never Sets on the PATRIOT Act" has context: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-sun-never-sets-on-the-pat...

BORDC, who's helped lead the fight against the PATRIOT Act for years, has a lobby day on January 27. More at http://www.bordc.org/lobbyday/
It's like the "mass animal deaths" stuff at the beginning of the year. Despite all statistics saying it's normal, it suddenly feels like a real problem because the news is covering it. 24/7 news is probably the worst thing to come from the 20th century.
It's very apparent in the small version they want you to plaster on your site: http://www.w3.org/html/logo/badge/html5-badge-h-css3-semanti...
Well, we don't need to choose.

In fact, it seems like each would support the other.
Ignoring myriad other differences, Clojure's syntactic improvements on Lisp/Scheme alone would create far more work than would be worthwhile.

It's simply unnecessary and excessively painful in the face of much better alternatives.

Like cutting the bloody limb off when you haven't even tried a penicillin derivative yet, a common "first step".
The 80s weren't completely serene either though. That's when the whole day care sex abuse hysteria really picked up steam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_care_sex_abuse_hysteria
I don't believe anyone will make smell-immersion practical without sending direct input into the olfactory nerves.
Which article are you referring to ?
These were really neat machines. When I worked with them, the dominate language was Pascal and I think they were running a version of X Windows (or at least a similarly powerful windowing system). The funnest part was that we had these utilities that would allow you to do things like 'melt' another workstation's screen (this pixels would all start to drop to the bottom of the screen). It was hilarious. PCs in those days just had character based screens and Macs were still B&W. Amigas were the most interesting micro...
I just tried out the colour scheme from the gitimmersion.com tutorial. Pastel green on very dark grey works well for me.
It appears the date has changed to April 2011
No worries, I'm looking forward to checking it out. Watching your videos I immediately thought that it would be cool if I could export the flows my team created into cucumber stories...
>Simply Beautiful?

Seriously? Since when Beauty is that top priority for GUI? Usability, Gnome, Usability!
> this model is the polar opposite of Free software. Instead of users having absolute control over what runs on their system, they have practically no control at all. They surrender everything to the first webpage they open, and to whatever agent is controlling that page at a time.

If you read my "laws of computing" piece:

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

do you still believe this?

For the impatient: I advocate a switch to direct hardware execution of exclusively high-level (human readable!) code. Does it get more user-modifiable than that? I'd like to know.
Interesting point. I was reading a sociologist (Simmel) talk about the rise of individualism leading to the abstraction of other people: coming to think of them as all just 'friends' rather than seperate individuals we relate to differently.
I think this is a situation where the votes this story is getting ARE the data.

I imagine many men voting this story up have noticed this trend in their own lives.

It's not hard data, but it shows a trend.

Heck just yesterday I rode an elevator up with 2 parents and their maybe 3 year old kid. The kid had been out in the rain and I made a comment directly to the child about the rain. The parents looked pissed just because I was talking to their kid.

I was just trying to make awkward elevator conversation a little less awkward.
Kidnapping and child abuse are almost always relatives or friends of the family. Strangers, statistically, are very safe.
I find the dark red text on red background (like what's used on http://chalkboardhq.com/pricing) very hard to read. You might consider changing that.
Link to that? I must have missed it.
I agree. We should go back to the W3C's existing visual design, which I've always found to be beautiful.
Ask HN: Would having read and studied any particular books help a CV?
A bit difficult to cut it down to less than 80 characters. Better read the rest. :)

To continue the never-ending discussion of how to make it easier for your potential employer to assess your skill, and the recent discussions of the canonical SICP, are there any books that would make it easier for you to interview me and assess my applications and skills, if I had read them?

It's obviously easy to slap on some books that you claim to have read and studied on you About section on your website or other digital calling card, but you would obviously be able to call the bluff in an interview.

Maybe I could fork my answers to any (particular) exercises in said books.

Many fields have their favourite books - Bibles to some - and it gives people a better way of finding a common ground and talking together, and, presumably, gives you a decent topic to discuss in an interview.

I know people and companies haven't been known to do this, but, putting this aside, could this be explored and used by both programmer as well as potential employer?
Does it really make any difference? I grew up in an anachronistic small town and had at least 50% male teachers from 1st grade on up. I can't say I paid attention to any of my teachers, male or female. If anything, I thought the male teachers were much bigger idiots and losers than the female teachers. In no way did I view them as "role models."
This one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110756

Obv there are more comments here now :-)
That would be awesome. An incredibly awkward contortion of CSS is always a better way to render a logo than, you know, pixels.
I have to admit I'd go the complete opposite. I do know there are great male teachers, but in environments where the male teacher might be alone with children I am hesitant. The data bears this out, as does personal experience.

With that said male coaches or piano teachers or tutors I have no problem with, since those generally take place in plainsight of parents.

I know that really sucks for the good ones, and most are. But there are enough bad ones that the risk seems too great.
[I originally posted this on a reddit discussion, link's at the bottom]

One day, my friend Bryan was charged with the daunting task of getting Ellie, one of the older and more difficult students, to read out of a children's book for a distinct and measurable amount of time.

After some cajoling, pleading, and maybe even trickery, the two were finally sitting down at a table with myself and another student. To keep Ellie in control long enough to read more than a sentance was a complicated maneuver, but the best way (this was relayed by the teacher-coordinator person) involved being really close with him and loosely holding him in place. I don't know much about Ellie's potential conditions or history, but this makes some sort of sense. Suffice it to say, they were close, but in a totally appropriate manner (I was in a position to guage, because I was basically staring in awe the entire time)

But a few minutes in, Ellie decides he's done reading for the day. And for one reason or another, he jumps up out of the bench seat, pointing an accusatory finger at his tutor. His English wasn't super clear, and he wasn't being very loud (thank god), but I did catch "touch" and "special area."

The two of us are frozen in horror. What can you say but "I... b... no..."? Ellie maintains this outrage long enough to really get some good satisfaction out of the looks on our faces, and then he relents and just starts laughing at us.

What if someone walking by had heard? We were in a partially exposed church basement kind of area, so it's not unheard of for random people to be walking by - and the cry of abuse stirs the indignation better than most anything else - so there was a really good chance that something really awful was about to happen.

But it didn't.

So the question was, what do you do now? We tried to impress upon him never to do something like that again, but he clearly didn't grasp the full potential force of his actions. We were like 20 at the time, and ill-equipped to deal with children on this level, so we probably should have relayed the event to an adult of some sort, but we were too worried about how it would be perceived, so we just moved on.

Neither of us stopped volunteering because of the incident, but I'll never forget the sinking dread of that instant, that's for sure.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/e7l16/i_work_with...
UPDATE: There seems to be a bug in with creating a project. I and my my partner are working on it right now. We're very very sorry about this bug. An update will arrive when we fix it.
I went to the Exploratorium by myself on Sunday. I figured people would probably assume I wasn't there by myself. But I couldn't help thinking about this Asiz Ansari joke where he's talking to a kid at a museum, and finds out they have a lot of things in common, including Call of Duty on xbox, theories about LOST and stuff, and then the kid's dad leaves him there with his new "friend"
You can also split your product into different skus to get around the problem. My major professor in grad school built a lab that had long stainless steel benchtops split in two sections to avoid going over the $500 per item purchasing limit that triggered an automatic and prolonged bidding process at the school.
Is there a link that contains list of your mobile apps?
What a fucking horrible way to live :-(
I did the same. They also started pumping out too much content and added too many additional authors. I loved reading their blog posts, but it became work to keep up with everything.
YES. This is one of numerous sites that I love that I flat-out don't read because of a lack of full-text RSS.
Is there a page that has links to your apps?
Ask HN: Review my video startup {vidinotes.com}
My web app makes cheatsheets of any video. You can print or save as PDF. Currently. http://www.vidinotes.com is free.

Would love to hear if people think this site has 'legs'?
That is an old gtk theme. The GTK3 look fits better with the new titlebar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakubsteiner/5201953378/sizes/o...
Barter in a Recession
HN has been very slow the last day or two.
my thoughts exactly. i like it.
Restaurants Try Texting To Speed Service
TankWorld, a stunning, 3D HTML5 game
FCC approves Comcast-NBC merger
Yes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1056391 (later update: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/06/25/qt-for-google-native-cli... , transcript of Kay talk: http://blog.moryton.net/2007/12/computer-revolution-hasnt-ha... ) WebGL wouldn't hurt either.
Citation? What evidence shows that there are enough bad ones? Cherry picked news stories by for-profit media?

What if all the good ones packed up and left when they were treated like predators-to-be?
How much of the eye-candy (IM, etc.) is so woven into the desktop that it's impossible to remove?

With OS X and Windows, I add the extraneous stuff - it doesn't come pre-installed and pre-enabled.

I'll stick w/XFCE, thanks. It's based on Gnome, but it doesn't have the cruft.
Ask HN: Where can I obtain location based db for all the schools/univs?
I am developing an app where I need to provide a list of all the schools, universities, and training centers based on location. Are there databases available with such information that I can obtain for free or paid? Any help in general for obtaining such information will be appreciated.
Since "google it" seems to be the alpha and omega of your research abilities, here are some papers and research from the last five years that supports the case that smaller class sizes leads to better student outcomes when applied to K-6 education (as in long-term quantitative results and not just "student satisfaction"):

Spyros Konstantopoulos and Vicki Chun, What Are the Long-Term Effects of Small Classes on the Achievement Gap? Evidence from the Lasting Benefits Study, American Journal of Education 116, November 2009.

Peter Muennig and Steven H. Woolf, Health and Economic Benefits of Reducing the Number of Students per Classroom in US Primary Schools, American Journal of Public Health, published online September 27, 2007.

Philip Babcock and Julian R. Betts, Reduced-class Distinctions: Effort, Ability and the Education Production Function, NBER Working paper 14777, March 2009.

Sarah Theule Lubienski et.al., Achievement Differences and School Type: The Role of School Climate, Teacher Certification, and Instruction, American Journal of Education 115, November 2008.

Elizabeth Graue, et.al. The Wisdom of Class-Size Reduction, American Educational Research Journal, September 2007, Vol. 44, No. 3.

Douglas D. Ready and Valerie E. Lee, Optimal Context Size in Elementary Schools: Disentangling the Effects of Class Size and School Size, Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2006/2007, pp. 99-135.

Fatih Unlu, California Class Size Reduction Reform: New Findings from the NAEP, Princeton Univ., Nov. 2005

Jeremy D. Finn et.al., Small Classes in the Early Grades, Academic Achievement, and Graduating From High School, Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005.

The best that the opponents of initiatives to reduce class sizes can muster are exemplified the recent efforts by anti-tax groups to fight Amendment 9 in Florida (see http://floridataxwatch.org/archive/amendment9.html for an example) where there is a a great deal of political weaseling to try to minimize the available data. No studies are presented that show that reduced class sizes have a detrimental effect and a lot of words are spent trying to spin the results that are available.

We are not talking about college-level instruction and you know that. The attempt to claim that research on college pedagogy is in any way applicable to elementary education is poor sophistry at best. To return the favor, how about you start listing some studies that show that reduced class sizes in K-6 have no long-terms effects on student outcome?
The development team proposed NaCl as a potential solution to many of the format problems. We could make a lot of custom compression formats that would be better than gzip. A multitude of image formats tuned for various categories of images or videos.

Fast JavaScript could go a long way in that direction too https://github.com/antimatter15/weppy With types and WebGL hardware access who knows.

NaCl project has social forces going against it. People want a homogenous platform. Platforms solve a social problem, developers become familiar with the same API, make libraries for it, make development easier, etc.. NaCl would have to play that game and it takes a long time. By the time it's done it won't be a good fit for problems of the day, just like high level VMs today.
"Jobs also took an unpublicized flight to Switzerland to undergo an unusual radiological treatment at the University of Basel for neuroendocrine cancer, according to Jerry York, the Apple (AAPL) director who died in March 2010... (With York's death, the off-the-record agreement is no longer in place.)"

This strikes me as odd - York specifically asked to keep this out of the news, and yet now that he's dead, the off-the-record request no longer applies? Is it standard for "off-the-record" comments to become "on-the-record" after the source passes away?
More men are not needed in childcare/teaching because women are naturally - from birth - better at the type of empathy and communication that is required in those fields.

It's the same reason that women excel in technology management roles (while generally being inferior in technical roles because of inadequate training or aptitude, exceptional cases like Marissa Mayer excepted).

Even a woman with average communication/empathy skills relative to other women (emphasis on 'empathy' - because this is what really separates men from women in communication) is often far better at management/planning than 99.99% of male technologists.
I've been building my own in Sinatra. Haven't got everything I want yet but if you're interested in the source, it could save you some time on the design side of things. It's all CSS3/HTML + Basic HTTP Auth. (Screenshot with different color "themes" displayed: http://i.imgur.com/8h9jK.jpg)
I thought rails was a pain to set up until I got a mac. That's not an advertisement for osx though, it's just what rails is catered for. I would love to see better support on other platforms. This includes linux, it's easier than osx, but there are still issues.
It could be that the business model is less suited to correspondents who have their own brand. Bringing the this particular blog into the NYT fold probably helped both a little but I am betting that the ongoing costs to the Freakonomics brand were getting to be a bit much (e.g. myself and probably thousands of others who dropped the freakonomics blog when the stopped providing full RSS feeds.)
Good point. I've been on 1.9 for so long I'd forgotten about the 1.8.7 requirement for Rails 3.
I guess that's why most of the successful tech CEOs are female.
> The data bears this out

I'd really appreciate a citation on that.
listening and tweaking my notes for the redis workshop which is due friday :)
They're trying to sell "simply beautiful" but all of the images on the front page have serious antialiasing problems.

Huh.
I think some children at least understand fully the power it gives them, and for some troubled children it is a tool to lash out.
Kids aren't stupid and they are mischevious. Little kids in Brooklyn already mess around with older people by yelling "pedo" at them. I've seen more than one dark British comedy where this is a repeated joke. When adults get too neurotic about stuff kids end up using it against them.
I guess this is an implicit admission on your part that class size matters. Very good. I agree with you.

At most large universities freshman and sophomore classes can be found in the hundreds. (They typically come with recitation but these are usually glorified tutoring sessions.) At my college class sizes in the department of mathematics run at 45. Typical depends on what institution you are talking about.

Given that class size matters it becomes a relevant topic on what the optimal size is. He made the statement with regard to class size:

" They do little, if anything, for education."

This is clearly not the case.
PG: Have you considered setting up Varnish on HN?
I think this would solve most of the current issues with the performance.

http://www.varnish-cache.org/
Hacking Subway's $5 Footlong
Today at lunch I went to Subway for a $5 Footlong. The Italian BMT (whose initials apparently don't relate to the meats it contains) looked tempting, but it was $6, and I wasn't too keen on the salami, though the pepperoni and ham sounded good. I asked my sandwich artist if it were possible to either double up on pepperoni or ham and he said no. Then it hit me...there is a $5 black forest ham sandwich, to which I could add pepperoni for $0.50, in effect giving me the substitution they wouldn't allow, with a $0.50 discount to boot! Had they simply given me the substitution int the first place, I would have paid more.

Does anyone else have an example of hacking restaurant menus?
OpenTable also has their equivalent offering:
http://spotlight.opentable.com/deal/los-angeles/losangeles25

More competition drives the group-buying model to a more sustainable proposition for local businesses.
Churchill defended Britain, Napoleon conquered all Europe. Apple can survive with Cook at the helm, but nobody will describe him as visionary and creative (even if he is). With Jobs gone, the press won't be afraid ask, "Ping? What were they thinking?"
It's getting better, but that screenshot has plenty of it's own problems. That titlebar, menu, icon row and tabs takes up like 200+ px. Versus like 60 with Chrome.

What's the deal?
Old news that dating sites manufacture profiles to attract other users, but this approach doesnt seem viable. Its like uploading the white pages, the connect rate for users will be abysmal.
You're defining 'successful' in monetary terms while I'm more concerned with the psychological health of the working environment.

I'm saying women are better managers because they are less prone to the types of socially tone-deaf interpersonal problems you see lampooned in Dilbert.

In other words, if I had to choose between a male manager who could create a succesful company versus a female manager who knew how to foster a harmonious working environment, I would choose the harmonious working environment over monetary "success" every time.

In the end, what does it matter to me if the company I work for is financially successful or not? On the other hand, if my manager is able to help create an environment that is more pleasant for every involved, that's something I'm interested in and that's where I think women in general are more naturally capable than men.
In the 'olden' days, we used to have discipline in schools. So male teachers were extremely useful to have. Bad pupils used to get told off, disciplined, and snapped into line.

Now, naughty kids get 'diagnosed' and given a cool label, get a 'teachers assistant' assigned to them - effectively praised for being naughty.

I agree with your point about women excelling at empathy and communication, but I'd say the movement away from male teachers has also been due to the removal of discipline in schools, and a movement toward empathising with bad behavior rather than correcting it.
EoPL seems like an interesting read. But why is the 1st edition better?
Are you ready for global awesomization?
Two immediate thoughts:

1) Any similar argument about women and another profession would instantly be met with cries of sexism.

2) This is a great example of the types of unsubstantiated mass hysteria that seem to be more and more common. I find it really depressing, not least of which because I can't think of a solution.
The article pokes fun at Netflix for purchasing little-known, unpopular titles, as if Hollywood is somehow putting one over on Netflix. But what drew me to Netflix initially was its ultra-deep selection of DVDs, which was far better than the local video store. Seems to me Netflix is trying the same thing with streaming, building the biggest catalog as fast as possible so people will view it as the #1 streaming choice, even if Warner Brothers withholds its marquee movies and sticks it with "Pushing Daisies."
I meant the "comparatively" to apply to all of those measures. The median time to completion at top-rated humanities programs seems to be in the 7-8 year range, with Columbia Art History as high as 9. The same stat for Physical and Mathematical Science, Engineering, or Biological Science at top rated schools is more typically 5-6 years. Social Science seems to be more spread out, I'd say roughly 5-8 years.

While I don't mean to suggest that half a decade is a drop in the bucket, it's certainly faster than in the humanities, and if you believe me that the pay is better, not quite as onerous as the popular culture tends to portray it.

[1] http://www.nap.edu/rdp/
It could make a difference. If fewer women are interested in technical/scientific fields, and we have all or predominately female teachers, the education (and enthusiasm) in technical fields will be lacking. There's no reason that trend in gender interests cannot change but at the present there is an imbalance.
Do it. My Galaxy S with 2.2 is so much better than with 2.1 that it seems like a different phone. It's faster, more stable, the battery lasts longer. I wish I'd done it sooner.