skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone want to tackle a bookmarklet version to inject ReMarkdown into any page? Even better, a Chrome extension that Mardownifies thebwhole Internet for you...
>the law is the law

Tell this to MLK Jr.

Note: I am not comparing these teenagers to MLK Jr., I am just pointing out that this is a terrible principle.
Yes, each workout is just 10m each too. Incredibly intense, though. I've spent maybe 100 minutes total time in the gym, and have seen incredible results.
Netbeans has some very nice autocomplete, drop-down help, and refactoring and debugging stuff for Ruby, but I could never use it for serous code editing. I liked it for the WYSIWYG GUI editor when building some Ruby GUI apps, but much prefer vim for general coding (vim plugins for Netbeans notwithstanding).
I left early in 2005; my supervisor wanted to return to his native Australia, so I went with him as a "visiting fellow".
One of the really nice things about Backbone is you can you as little or as much as you need. Don't need collections? Don't use them. No need for a controller structure? Not a problem. You could also build your own thinner structures on top of its Event structure to get the advantages of event-driven callback structures without any of the other stuff.

It sounds to me like you're using controllers because it seems logical coming from a Rails background, not because you need to. Take a look at the example Todo app - no controller, entirely atomic screen repaints as needed via collection/model to view bindings.

The models provide a framework for things like validation or presenter methods and keeping data and methods separate as well as a framework for event binding with a really, really nice syntax.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=buran%20speyer&#...

google images reveals some amazing pictures of the transport to the museum.
Political protest is always slightly dangerous. And I feel the sit-in analogy is pretty apt.

But seriously, "the law is the law" isn't a great argument. Sometimes laws are bad. They need to be changed. Yeah, you can expect to serve some jailtime for doing civil disobedience, but that doesn't mean that they're stupid, what they're doing is stupid, or anything else.

You can still hold that opinion for other reasons, of course.
I think this is a great start for Microsoft. Windows Phone 7 is awesome.
Supposedly Buran's launch pad is also due to this.

Because it's pad was built on top of an earlier Apollo pad the shuttle launches in the wrong orientation and has to make a roll just after takeoff to head into orbit.

The Russians copied this non-optimal arrangement for Buran believing that there must be some advantage that they didn't know about but Nasa had discovered,
Not only that but somebody's been dumping nuclear waste and other toxins near their coastline. Since they don't have a government with a coast guard, I don't know how else they're supposed to handle the situation.
Thanks for the tip - will be checking this out tonight. Double thanks for the MacVim tip - I'm sure I would have been tripped up and off to Google without it.
Your analysis is very accurate. In most of western Europe university quality tends to be much more uniform than in US. I think many people choose a Uni based on other criteria: livable city, near/far from parents/partner, etc. There have been attempts in past 10 years to create "elite" hubs, but it goes against the main currents here.
> Now let's look at ebooks.

In January, I haven't done a single bit of promotion. No touring. No signing. No interviews. I've basically sat on my ass this month.

Fallacy. The classic example is the successful individual who gets paid $50k or more for a single speech. They would not have been bookable at the rate had they not created enough personal value to be worth that much. This author busted his ass on the road for years. He is probably the best example of "1,000 true fans" that I've read of recently.

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...
I don't know of anything offhand, I just know that it's been extensively studied. One of the terms you might want to search for is "first day pop." If you read through a few of those papers then you should be able to find most of the other important metrics as well.

For a company like LinkedIn with relatively weak fundamentals, one would expect the executives to purposely underprice the stock in order to generate a big first day pop because they are looking for an exit. So if I had money to invest, I'd probably buy at the opening bell and sell at noon. But don't take that as investment advice.
But Unity can be used for 2D development.
http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/2d-gameplay-t...

and can create for iPhone.
http://www.zombievilleusa.com/zombieville1.html
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2009/12/apptalk-interview-with-no...

They're both development environments, they're both designed to help you create code for mobile devices, they both have physics and are currently marketing in the 'game engine' space.

It may be apples to oranges - but they're still both fruit.

I'm not saying corona has no advantages. There are some... but in terms of product maturity and value for dev time spent (learning the framework, system and language), In my opinion Unity comes out way further ahead.
Same thing here. I looked for a job in NYC recently, and I would have had to make over twice what I make living in the Midwest, and on top of that my lifestyle still wouldn't have been the same (e.g. renting vs. owning, public transportation vs. personal transportation, sending kids to private vs. public school, etc.)
For small web pages (not web apps), as well as web apps that don't involve much JavaScript -- you're absolutely right, there's no benefit in using Backbone.js.

The idea with Backbone is to provide structure for large JS applications that involve manipulating state in the client. Too often, they can devolve into jQuery spaghetti, all updating a nested global JSON object. Backbone models provide a large number of data manipulation functions (map, reduce, filter, reject, any, etc...), RESTful persistence for your data, as well as events you can hook into, so that your models and views are notified whenever the state changes.

In the end, instead of peeking into a blob of JSON, tweaking the DOM manually, and making a $.ajax call, the hope is that you'll be able to write:

note.save({title: "Lorem Ipsum"});

... and all of the UI currently referencing the note automatically updates, and the changes are saved to the server.

Also, note that Backbone has quite a different philosophy than Sammy. For more on that, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1887563
This is how the Zombie Apocalypse will start
Lockerz Acquires Plixi App (Formerly TweetPhoto)
Book on real world parallel programming techniques, by Linux kernel developers
When I was running eduFire, finding the tutors was easy - it was aggregating the students (and parents) that was the difficult part. If you can aggregate the demand in a two-sided market, the supply will come.
Am I the only person who cannot focus on an article without ad-blocking all the animated stuff around it first? I may very well have A.D.D., so that could be it, but it's a huge distraction for me.

EDIT: I didn't intend to imply that this spammy behavior at all, as noahc's reply seems to indicate. There's tons of otherwise fantastic blogs that do the same thing.
Peter Naur (Turing award winner) wrote an Antiphilosophical Dictionary. http://www.naur.com/Antiphil.html.
And Microsoft helped old regime: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2138565
Finally: Google, nine others to run "white space" databases
or work with someone who likes to do that kind of boring work.
A Look At MongoDB 1.8's MapReduce Changes
I totally agree. It's such a piss poor way to rank universities I can't believe they published it. The data isn't even really complete so there are a bunch of universities (like the University of Waterloo) in the 76-100 ranking that should be in the top 30 that aren't because they haven't bothered to do all of their homework.
How to Make Trillions of Dollars
That depends on the author. But for what it's worth, Joe Konrath, the self-publishing advocate who wrote the original blog post, does pay for packaging assistance, and strongly recommends that others do likewise. (The right hand sidebar of his blog has links to his cover artist --- for ebooks, if you want the Amazon "buy this" page to look like anything --- and book interior designers. Editing is more of a mixed bag, but it's a very rare, and generally very experienced author whose work doesn't need a second set of eyes.)
If you get this imported, I say we make something to better classify and organise the data at the next London Python Dojo!
Did anyone else notice that the BBC tarted up their headline to the point that it's actually false? The piece of paper was written by the Germans. It didn't "fool" them. It was proof that the Germans had been fooled, but I guess that's not quite as good for linkbait.
Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple Over Broken iPhone 4 Glass
There certainly are. The Oxbridge mafia is everywhere shifty eyes.

I'm pretty sure there's at least a few dozen moderately active HN users from Oxford (I'm one).
Paul Graham wrote an essay a few years ago about his very frustration with this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
> Yes, let the trolls and fake accounts people are creating solely for this thread have their way with this comment. I can spare it.

You're losing it. You need a non-trivial amount of upvotes to downvote a comment. You're not being downvoted by fake accounts.

You also haven't provided any productive suggestions for human individuals wishing to exert pressure on the decision making processes of large corporations. Should we take this as a statement that you don't believe those exist, or that you don't believe those should exist?
Thank you for this post..it really is a breath of fresh air after all the buzzword-laden but completely substance-free pitches you tend to hear after spending time in the Bay Area.

When startups respond to the question of "How will you make money" with "We'll get VC funding", you know there is a problem.

Here's a bigger problem: It seems that the set of people building the next big thing social whatever and looking for VC funding and the set of people who know about business stuff and lead generation rarely intersect.

This is the great paradox of the valley: It seems that most of the people who know about sales, driving traffic, etc and are thus most likely to succeed are building unsexy businesses in web hosting, B2B services, etc. In other words, the kinds of businesses Valley investors are not interested in it all.

The people who are clueless about marketing or generating revenue get the lion's share of the funding...because they're making a social iPad app(or whatever is hot at the moment).
My college (RPI) had been pushing something very similar for a while now, which is why I have a degree in Computer Science and Philosophy.

They strongly encouraged CS majors to dual-major in CS/Philosophy or CS/Psychology. It was called the "Minds and Machines" program and was a precursor to their full-on undergraduate Cognitive Science program, Which didn't exist when I started in 2006 but does today.

I went in as Computer Science and picked up the CS/Philosophy dual-major in my first semester after talking at length to my advisor (who was head of Minds and Machines and is now head of Cognitive Science).

People ask me about it a lot when they find out, but to me it always seemed like an impeccably good match.
This data is basically complete crap. Most academic rankings are borderline useless, but this appears worse than average.
I cannot second this enough. When I was just starting exercising I was overthinking things and it was a waste of time. The important thing at the beginning was just to start doing something.

Once I started hitting plateaus then I started reading again and tweaking my routine to help get past them, but that was after several months working hard to develop a solid base.

Now, after being in grad school for a couple of years while working full time and raising kids, I lost a lot and I need to start working on my baseline again, but that is another story.
I do JRuby/Rails development. Typically I'm in emacs (Aquamacs, actually), but I've used NetBeans occasionally when I wanted to use the debugger... beats the hell out of tracing w/ Rails.logger.
I'm not suggesting that Ireland is devoid of successful startups, just they seem to be the exception rather than the rule. We have also had Baltimore, Iona etc but we should be producing way more.
Or you can approach it from the philosophy side; one of the profs in my grad program was a joint appointment in philosophy (logic) and computer science.
>And lastly, no, spending $15,000 for a single "hard disk" from FusionIO is certainly not bragging rights.

I'm pretty sure that middle management feels differently. I also evaluated a FusionIO, and told my client he'd be /much/ better off with a few intel X25-E devices instead. Much cheaper, and it's standard, so it's much easier to upgrade once newer/better stuff is out, or to get a replacement if it breaks after the support contract runs out.

The FusionIO was faster, but both of them were so much faster than the spinning disk we were moving away from that I don't think it would have been noticeable in production.
It's using Prezi. I agree the presentation is top notch. No surprises they won!
That's like answering, "How do I write a good book?" with "Start typing."

Applying isn't the same thing as "getting in"--it's one small part. Where do you apply to? What matters in the application? Do you apply under the course or do you apply generically? Are "A-levels" a thing that matters? What are people looking for in applicants, or how do you find out?
When is this being implemented? It wasn't an option for the 2011 application cycle, and unfortunately it's a real hassle to change courses from the one you applied to.
How much would it cost to take a three-day course with five skilled teachers ( http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/rdbms-iap-2011 )? Maybe $2000?

If only Greenspun had thought this through - then he might have suggested something like this:

for people who’ve been unemployed for 12 weeks, simply pay for a year of education in programs with proven records of skills-building (I guess you measure by how many finished and were able to get jobs)

I guess ad-hominem attacks are a lot easier than addressing Greenspun's simple economic question: "Is the 99-weeks-of-Xbox system that Congress created more sensible than it seems?"
I would say you have the wrong type of programming job then. Some can be massively creative and require "philosophical" thought. Areas that come to mind are the ones in computer science which bleed over naturally into philosophy, e.g. AI.
Ask HN: How do you get started in tech biz dev?
It seems to be there are two options:

1. Take an entry level position that is actually just making sales by cold calling.

2. Have 10 years of experience and have a prestigious ivy league MBA.
Can you give us some comments on knockout.js and <angular>?
I'm not who you were asking, but snappier performance.

And reward people for good use of the site. Share your contact list with your contacts? You get some free InMail credits. Complete profile? Some more. etc.
Washington Is For Lobbyists, Not Entrepreneurs
Am I the only one who finds this a little bit of bad taste?

"Social Media Blocked In Your Country? Email Keeps The News Flowing"

This sounds like an infomercial about how to start a revolution in three easy steps.

I'm sure they're well-intended, but I wouldn't call this "taking a stand". Google took a stand against China. Here, Posterous is saying "we've heard you can't use Twitter and Facebook anymore, but you can use us instead!" but they're not really changing anything to their service for that situation.

In a way, it feels like YouTube saying to the Chilean miners "Blocked in a mine shaft for months? YouTube Leanback will keep you entertained indefinitely!"
You shouldn't compare the OS-es that way, otherwise Mac OS X is a clear loser, because it only supports Apple hardware.

If we are comparing the two OS-es the only fair comparison we can make is the peripherals, where again, I doubt that OS X would win, sure it has great support from a lot of descent vendors, but again Linux support is huge, not because of the companies interest but because the developer community does a great job in writing drivers at an insane pace, heck they even managed to make broadcom cards work using binary blobs created originally for windows.
This seems pretty similar to the experiences of some of my colleagues at university who were doing a Physics with Philosophy cross-discipline course (I was studying computational physics). The philosophy professors seemed to have little to no understanding of even basic physics, yet were quite happy to theorise. You'd think they might have at least run their ideas by some physics professors (there were plenty of them in our dept. who were probably wacky enough to humour them) before doing lectures and seminars on them.

Of course, this was York ("only" in the top ~10 UK unis), not Oxford (top 2-3).
If physics was taught the same way philosophy is, we'd learn about the four elements before getting to Newtonian mechanics.
Sandip is correct! Big thanks to the team at Prezi -- it was great fun using their tools to create that presentation.
Not only would that be more productive, I think it would make for a much more interesting study. What are the common traits found in the 0.015% of women who choose to create startups, and how can we encourage these traits in other women who have an interest in entrepreneurial ventures of any kind?
Is there a business opportunity in here somewhere?

Can someone sell 3rd-party support for Google? I know it sounds crazy, but there has to be a way to "arbitrage" their lack of support. In a sense, that's what SEO consultants are: they know how to make things happen despite Google's obscurity.

Any better ideas?
I really like your article and totally agree in principle, I've found that attitude pervasive in the bay... but are there any numbers around it? Like do we know the percentage of startups that succeed? Obviously a significant percentage of them in the valley make it work, right? Is there an amazing arbitrage opportunity to be had investing in non-valley based companies?
Oracle already invests in JDeveloper & Eclipse, and now the have Netbeans. It's obvious that they wouldn't make each IDE full-featured.
The UK only has five: Oxbridge, Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol. That said, for the size of the UK compared to US/China I guess it isn't too bad. I still feel the UK performed poorly. But from what I can tell of other European countries, the analysis is correct.

It's another question to ask whether it's better to have a higher baseline of knowledge in a subject, or to have a group far, far above the rest. As most European countries are social democratic in orientation (the UK less so) I would guess the former is preferred.
Apple, News Corp to hold event to launch The Daily
Kaist and Yonsei are here but Seoul National and Postech aren't? Fail.
Today she would be applying to YC. Sounds like the right kind of founder.
It's likely that the Shuttle design may be lighter as it only has support weight in one direction while the Buran design requires it to have load bearing structures for two orientations.
One with Vim
Is there an example of an internet company that started in the way she suggests (no funding, biz model first, start small..) that went on to be a major online property? Off the top of my head I can't think of one and all of the biggest successes (Google, Facebook, Twitter) definitely didn't go that route.

I like her article and tone, but I suspect she's talking about a different class of business that doesn't fit with the typical valley startup
"These two fields have been begging to merge for several years now."

You could say this about almost every discipline, except maybe for religious studies and a couple other niche fields. Ignoring the epistemology is easily one of the biggest problems with academia today, to the point where 'higher education' generally isn't even much worth doing.

There is a pervasive attitude on HN and elsewhere that we don't need epistemology anymore because we have iPods and penicillin, which is anti-intellectual (and flat-out wrong) to the point of being sickening.
As an undergrad philosopher who became self-taught hacker after graduation, I can say with confidence that this is a great synthesis.

While contemporary academic philosophy is little more than a circular passing of jargon, there is no doubt that the practice of philosophy has inspired great science. Kant, for example, wrote books about anatomy and other empirical topics prior to this metaphysical work, and made prescient suggestions about the existence of other galaxies and the theory of evolution. Perhaps an infusion of CS will help win Philosophy back from the ivory tower.
The problem with these sorts of calculations is that people are much more likely to cite research done by people they know, people in their own country and works in a language they understand. So it ends up skewed in the favour of english speaking countries and countries with large numbers of computer scientists.
Air Force wants cryptographic security for iPhones, Android
This major is undoubtedly related to the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. The academics associated with it take a very technical perspective, so I think you'd be satisfied. I believe Nick Bostrom is the main guy behind the FHI.
That sounds an awful lot like lazy and/or out-of-touch entrepreneurs being broken to me. Still, while the venture and angel money in the area isn't explicitly "must be present to win," you have to admit it helps. But being present doesn't guarantee winning.
I've been doing compound barbell lifts (usually 3x5 on dl, squat, bench, bar row, body pull-up) for almost 6 months now - I've lost a significant amount of weight and improved my posture, confidence, and appearance.

By combining this with 10x sprints twice a week, it's absolutely amazing how fast you can drop fat.

I've still got bad habits that set back my progress, but it's a marathon, not a sprint! Turning into a fit person isn't going to happen overnight, and I believe the only sustainable way to do it is through slow lifestyle changes.

Just my 2 cents. Go to the gym and start lifting barbells!
After doing it once, he had a lot of credibility when he said "Hey, remember the centrifuges the Germans helped us build in the 80's? and the chemical weapons we bought from Germany, refined with French equipment, and used to genocide the Kurds? Yeah, we're doing that stuff again."

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Al-Anfal_Camp...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Iraq_and_weap...