skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, this is true. If I look just one district over, the math level stopped somewhere around Trig. I think. For my cousins who lived just a few hours away, again, the schools didn't offer much. I think that there is something to be said for taking advantage of the opportunities that are provided to you--but we should be aware of the impact of luck in determining what opportunities we are presented with....

With that having been said, what do suggest we can do to help out with districts with less resources? I've done a lot of outreach, but it often feels like a drop in the bucket....
Good way for the author who works in the area to be able to organize their thoughts on the app. Without the structure of the blog post it can be hard to clear your mind and gain some insight from what you are seeing.
Thanks for the feedback. All of those are great features. #3 is my favorite though :). Ideally it would be open enough that adding "modules" would be easy. Not exactly sure what that means, perhaps an API with OAuth so others can build apps. Really interesting...but definitely phase II.
It seems like they put in a ton of work to prevent one person, Robert Scoble, from 'gaming' the system and having his sub-optimal answers go to the top. (As implied by original link and the SV drama-fest of the past couple weeks)

I think this is interesting for two reasons.

1) Based on the post by Adam D'Angelo, I don't think the changes will cause Robert Scoble's sub-optimal answers to be placed lower on the page. Scoble's past answers are interpreted to be 'high quality' by an algorithm because they get so many up votes. Every answer he posts from now on, will get a higher 'quality score' because of all the upvotes he has already included (See: "Answers written by users who have written good answers in the past will be ranked higher.")

2) This seems like a ton of work to battle the habits of one extremely unique user. It strikes me that Quora's resources could have been better used by controlling the spam caused by the social media crowd infestation (i.e astro-turfers). Or by encouraging more experts from fields other than SV start-ups to join and contribute at a high level.

Having been extremely harsh to Quora so far, I do really like that "A vote from a user who has written good answers in the past carries more weight (both upvotes and downvotes)" And this change will admittedly knock down Scoble's answers a bit.
Where is the audience in this equation?

Maybe I misinterpreted part of the post, but it seems edits aren't publicly viewable. When Jeff says "suggested edits for a post are always visible on the post itself", it seems like he means that there is a visible counter showing the post has an edit in the queue, not that the edit is live.

If the audience for the edit is only the handful of folks that will review it, then the entertainment value of the vandalism drops way down.

Presumably your counter-argument will be Wikipedia, which does get vandalized on a regular basis. My response to that would be that Wikipedia articles are higher value targets than a post on a Q&A site. Also, anonymous Wikipedia edits are world-viewable on submit, whereas in the StackOverflow implementation they are subject to review before publication. Vandalism edits will be killed as quickly as enough people view them in the queue.
Unsure if Dropbox has an API to do that. The original target was geeks which is why I asked on HN.

Dropping photos into a directory and having those resized and uploaded is just a script that looks for photos in a given directory and posts them to any of the photo sharing sites with an API, no? But then you don't really own the storage of your photos (or at least aren't billed for it - which implies some level of ownership).
I enjoyed your post. It does demonstrate that Tiger mom raised Chinese kids lack any ability to understand humor, being far too uptight and serious about stuff.
I'm orig from LA, lived in Vienna for a few years, then moved to the bay area for the past 10yrs. You'll feel at home and like it just fine, it's a no brainier IMO.
Maybe we can turn this discussion around to be a bit more relevant to HNers.

I'm a third generation overseas Chinese, and I've many cousins who don't grow up in a Tiger mom environment but end up doing very well in life.

You see, there are two types of families.

One, where the parents are well educated, and see to it their children excel academically.

Then there are those whose parents are involved in business. Those cousins don't have the same pressure from parents to excel academically. While they don't do well at school, they end up doing very well at business.

Amy Chua's style is very much waterfall. The goal is known, and far away, and it takes about two decades of work to get there. As long as the world doesn't change too quickly, the method is a slog but assured.

Meanwhile, the other parents approach life in a more exploratory manner. One cousin was good at drawing, and he helped out his fathers furniture shop helping customers visualise what a finished kitchen may look like. Eventually he branched into contract renovations hiring about 20 people, and now he's moved on to a more lucrative business of building houses in Singapore.
their market share may be laughable, but that still doesn't eliminate the fact that many knowledgeable people prefer either blekko or duckduckgo over google.

it can definitely be viewed as a "calm before the storm". or if you're familiar with gentrification, the "cool cats" are living on this side of town.
Good article. Does having a full documentation substitute the readme file?

Thanks,

--Gautam

http://fast-code.sourceforge.net/documentation.htm
I heard them and I disagree.
I'm so thankful for this. I can finally fix up all those irritating spelling mistakes and gramatical errors in the new questions section.

It was infuriating to read poorly worded, badly spelt questions and not be able to do anything about it.
This article suggests he's not actually running in organized races every day:

"He will do his 42km (26-mile) daily jogs at Battersea Park every day until Monday..."
yr a worse ddg fanboy than me :P
I am a little confused on what the daily is try to achieve. I've read that they were bringing together a top notch team of journalists to product top notch content. From other thing's it seems like they are content light and are playing on the interactiveness of the ipad to produce somewhat unique and engaging multimedia. And from everywhere I've read that even if they are doing this well the tech fails it horribly.
if the red of the lhs is distracting, try this

javascript:document.getElementById('menu').style.backgroundColor="#c0c0c0"

[Edit: just realised it's only red if your mouse is over that area, which mine was]
Classified Cable Proves US Ok’d Saddam’s Kuwait Invasion
Einstein on God. Often misquoted, Einstein elaborates.
I knew the initial greatness of Quora was dead first on Twitter. I saw a few social media and PR people I follow on Twitter starting to write "pithy" tweets about how PR and social media people were missing the boat if they weren't at Quora promoting their product. Whenever the social media and PR professionals start flocking to a thing, its usefulness is gone for me, generally speaking.
I don't have enough expertise in design to articulate why, but it seems to fall quite short of `cleaner and more modern.' Well, maybe it is a bit less '90s than the previous design, but I'd hardly call it clean and modern. The logo off to the left of the banner is odd, the different fonts and sizes aren't pleasing together, the columns of links seem like something you'd see at the bottom of a page rather than in the middle -- I could go on.

Sorry to call someone's baby ugly. Is it just me?
Facebook did the same with friend requests. Actually denying a friend request is a 15-minute-long affair that, I would bet, almost nobody actually does.

It works, though. "Not Now", most likely, has replaced "Deny Request" for good.
The best resume is no resume. Don't tell me where you've worked show me what you've made. Don't tell me what certificates you have, show me what you can do no. The best way for me to know what you can do in the future is to see what you've done in the past, and are doing right now. I hope resumes die out. At least in software anyway.

On a related note, I think I just might be at a point in my career where I never need to send a resume out ever again. I definitely bias to not sending them. I think resumes are, like the commute-9-to-5-yes-boss job paradigm, just another relic of the Industrial Age for blue collar workers.

Can you imagine Roger Waters of Pink Floyd "applying" for a job as a musician/singer? "Sir, you'll have to fill out this form and submit a resume, k thanks." He hands them The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, etc. "Sorry sir, not good enough. Yo have to eat all your meat like everyone else otherwise we can't give you any pudding."
Portland's one of my favorite cities in the country (and I'm a lifelong East Coaster) and it's definitely worth a visit.

That said, if Stanford and Berkeley are in the mix, I don't know if any schools in Portland can quite compete.
18 is too young to know for sure whether the parenting style accomplished something.
Many videos online!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rDnqGWARu8&playnext=1...
It works just fine with unetbootin, though I can't vouch for any others.
The issue here seems to be that the author doesn't seem to really understand the concept of "expensive".

"Expensive" is relative, and while yes, SSL does require more number crunching than not using SSL, the difference, as evidenced and backed up by google, is peanuts. In the age of widely distributed tools like Firesheep, there is no excuse to not use SSL if there is any reason at all that it should be used. Price should be no concern.

EDIT: In my (admittedly, probably overly harsh) opinion, this whole article just reads like someone whining about not wanting to do their job. The kind of thing I'd send to my boss if I wanted to tell him something wasn't technically feasible because I just wanted to sit around and sip cola.
Edits aren't publicly viewable until someone reviews them and they are accepted.
I'm sorry, what? Have you ever BEEN to San Francisco? I lived there for 2.5 years. It's unforgettable, and I miss it every day.
This model seems to be concerned with one only thing: competing. You must be better than everyone else. So you will be happy only in the interval between when (if) you find you're beating someone else and when you realize (inevitably) there's still someone better than you.

A self-worth determined entirely on comparing yourself to others is a recipe for stress and unhappiness, and it is sheer foolishness.
Sorry for failing to catch on to your attempt at humor, especially when there are multiple other posters in the thread, expressing the same view, who clearly aren't kidding. I apologize for failing to make light of a situation that seems to be inspiring a whole new round of anti-Chinese racism.

And thank you for the ad hominem, it's really what I've come to expect from a place like HN.
Definitely consider couch surfing during your visit, as it will give you an instant connection to the area and local advice.

SF itself is heavily populated by hipsters, which is either your thing or very irritating. SF is foggier and cooler than the surrounding areas, particularly in the summer months.
You clearly have no understanding of the enormity of the eastern time zone if MIT is the only engineering school you can think of.
I can promise you I don't look at the contents of your email -- I only gather statistics necessary to support the gaming mechanics. In fact, I never ask for offline access to your Gmail account at all.

Also, data is sent to my server via https.
I see that you no longer use the internet.
Thanks for the confirmation. Intuitively, that's the only way it made sense to me, but Jeff's comment seemed a bit ambiguous to me.

If you want to say that the queue is hidden from normal view, but qualified reviewers will be able to identify when a post has edits in the queue, I don't think a good first sentence of the explanation should be "Suggested edits for a post are always visible on the post itself." It's misleading.
I love the part where not buying an SSL load balancer implies "perhaps less than ethical business practices". Say what?
Well, I read the article and it seems like it has a lot to do with the different crypto algorithms and key sizes. While that is true, note that even 1024-bit RSA with RC4 is better than nothing.
A week with a ChromeOS netbook
I do not know what he is about to study but for example in CS there are very very good places on the east besides MIT.

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...

The OP does not want to get details info in rankings and at such a top level I think being in Berkeley or Stanford or Cornell or Princeton is not so different.
There's plenty to see in the Bay Area, but if you need to get out, there's a lot of natural beauty elsewhere. When I visited, I rented a car and drove down the Pacific Coast Highway[1] to Big Sur and it was absolutely amazing. Dramatic views of the coast, beautiful canyons... Loved it. I definitely came away with a case of coastline envy (although I don't know how it compares with Australia).

You can get there and back in a day if you get an early start (or you can overnight).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Highway_(Californ...
this is just another kind of display, which is very common in courtship. no mystery
he's apparently used duckduckgo. i can recognize it from a mile away because the stalking/wow factor that all us users experience after using it seems to have also bit him. :)
Been in the area once. Spent most of my time at the awesomest bookstore in the world on the Stanford campus.
Could you elaborate why having these people on Quora makes its usefulness go to zero for you?
BTW, for those of who don't know, that natetrue guy she mentions is the same dude from cre.ations.net who built tap tap revolution for the iphone first unofficially and then officially.
no, it is too fancy, cluttered, and hard to read. creative, yes, full credit there. but not easy to read, and comes across as pretentious. great if you're looking for graphic design work. not great if you're looking for engineering work or programming work. simple, black ink on white paper, edited content (get to "the point"), easy to scan and read quickly is what you want.
So the underlying question is: how important is it that your children are capable of the types of success which require enormous determination and tenacity.

I don't it's fair to say that opting for the Tiger Mom approach necessarily implies that all self worth comes from winning.

The really tough questions is: How much of your child's self esteem should come from enduring extended periods of hard work to achieve a goal. It's tough because the extent to which a child tries hard may be directly affected by the extent to which their self esteem requires that success.
The mechanism proposed by the authors actually explained an interesting pattern for me - why people destroy value to signal superiority. Having lots of value (possessions, money, social capital) is already a hard-to-falsify social signal. But destroying the value significantly amplifies this effect. You're demonstrating that you must have a lot of less-visible value to be able to afford to do this. And then the act of destruction removes any unwanted side effects or false incentives for other parties involved.

I'm pretty sure this is a general pattern of interaction as it's been observed in tribal societies around the world - destroying or sacrificing valuable property and gifts to "service the purpose of buying peace" (Mauss). And I think the destructive aspect of this must contribute to some behaviours which are hard to explain economically - large corporate behaviour, personal conspicuous consumption, inefficient charity work.
So, is Google officially supportive of the revolution? What about twitter? Are Google and Twitter more supportive of the anti-Mubarak campaign than the US government? What are the political implications of this?
He says about his heart rate that it's "below 100 if I run 10 kilometers". That seems pretty amazing to me. I've been measuring my heart rate recently and mine's at about 150 bpm if I run at a medium pace.
Going further, I'm starting to get the feeling that the pomodoro technique is becoming too hip for its own good. I find it easier to follow my own flow than try to manipulate it with intense time management.

I lack self-discipline and most of my productivity occurs between the time I achieve flow and the time the flow ends. Yet, whenever I have tried the pomodoro technique, I felt it did little to get me to do stuff I did not want to; and when I did begin doing something, I found the idea of taking a break every x minutes annoying when I am super into something.

I guess Pornodoro technique is not a fit for those who want to keep on working without interruption once they get in the groove. Doesn't mean it is good or bad.
Hidden amongst the frothing rant are some good considerations. Unfortunately most of the article is FUD. A couple points I'll mention,

"DISECONOMY of SCALE #1: CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT"

The author states that distributing keys to a "farm" of servers (10 apparently) is hard. Presumably if you have 10 servers running your website you've figured out how to distribute code to them all without injuring yourself. Distributing certs is not much different.

DISECONOMY of SCALE #2: CERTIFICATE/KEY SECURITY

The author states that SSL keys are sensitive. Indeed, and so is your source code. The paragraph contains some excellent FUD in the form of, a key on your "commodity hardware" server is immediately at risk of theft and will lead to "further breaches."

DISECONOMY of SCALE #3: LOSS of VISIBILITY / SECURITY / AGILITY

The author argues that SSL to the server introduces "unacceptable amounts of latency." This is just patently false. Many of the top 100 websites on the internet operate under this model.

The same paragraph says that not decrypting traffic at every hop will open up your service to "compromise." Even if parsing all the traffic is part of your threat mitigation strategy, out-of-band or port-mirroring can give you this ability without adding latency to the request or response.

Ah and I think the author should remove the bolded article that says Virtual Hosts can not be used with SSL certs. This is what the SNI extension is for.

Remember, security is hard and always a compromise.
Exactly! I don't understand how his heart rate is below 100 when running 10 kilometers (he says).
Cornell and Princeton have very poor engineering schools compared to Stanford. Princeton's physics and sciences are great, but not engineering is not comparable at all.
The relevant section seems to be

NOTE: ON THE BORDER QUESTION, SADDAM REFERRED
TO THE 1961 AGREEMENT AND A "LINE OF PATROL" IT
HAD ESTABLISHED. THE KUWAITIS, HE SAID, HAD TOLD
MUBARAK IRAQ WAS 20 KILOMETERS "IN FRONT" OF THIS
LINE. THE AMBASSADOR SAID THAT SHE HAD SERVED IN
KUWAIT 20 YEARS BEFORE; THEN, AS NOW, WE TOOK NO
POSITION ON THESE ARAB AFFAIRS.

Which I suppose can be read as the US taking no position on Iraq-Kuwait affairs at all, but given the context it seems to me to refer only to the statement by the Kuwaitis to Mubarak that Iraqi troops were too close to the border. If Saddam is asserting this is a lie, then the US response may only refer to the US not taking a position on these statements.

Or, to conclude, I would really like to hear confirmation or refutation by someone more familiar with the history or with experience in diplomatic matters.
CMU, Olin, UIUC? (Technically, two of those three are in the Midwest, but close enough...)
People can do anything if they want it bad enough.
FYI Cody's is closed: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Codys_Books
I can think of dozens of engineering schools. I listed the only one in the east that is comparable to Stanford or CalTech, not a comprehensive list of all the schools that are not as good. I hope now you understand the purpose of my previous post. Thanks.
Maintained: Yes http://sagerss.com/

XSS: Fixed https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=19185

Firefox-4: Yes
Ok, I love the idea firstly and I think he shouldn't quit just yet, pivot and iterate, yes.

Problems to be addressed.

1) Trying to do two things at once - It should be Date or Done, that is it nothing else. Don't try to be Date or Do; do one thing and do it well.

2)Reduce the options available to users - Give your users too much choices and they don't want to use your site, Choice Paradox. So, take away that form on the front page about what they want to see.

3)Remove the How to Use - The site should be intuitive enough so that they understand how to use the site.

4)One Question on the front page - Again limit the options the users have. Only one question to respond to.

5)Don't require login to vote, Date or Done - Make it easy for the users to interact with your site.

6)Seed your stories - Give your users something to munch on while they don't have any questions of their own.

7)Make comments one liners - Comments should be able to fit in a twitter status. Also, give them a button to allow for more characters.

8)Sharable comments - When you make a comment, it is suppose to be likeable and tweetable[new words]. People have this need to show they are smart or funny or whatever to their friends, make it easier for them do to this will allow your site to spread virally.

9) Get a technical founder - I will leave the percentage up to you. But, a huge chunk will be my suggestion.

10) Make link SEO friendly - I see they kinda seo friendly, but we need them to be questions that people would actually google for.

11) Anonymous posting of questions

--->

Take a month off and get back to it. You definitely have not tried everything.
> And thank you for the ad hominem, it's really what I've come to expect from a place like HN.

What's upsetting to me is this used to be a place where you could have really civil disagreements. Now when people disagree, they get nasty, or they throw around links to psychological disorders of whoever they disagree with. It's screwed up.

Having been around the world and immersed in many cultures, I think the traditional Chinese way is pretty good.

Actually, I think it'd be really excellent to take traditional Chinese parenting but also emphasize exploratory creative fail-forwards type work, and then mixed in some Italian-style entertaining, hosting people, socializing and being friendly.

I do think Americans sometimes under-emphasize practical success these days, and that can actually wind up really hurting people... you see someone with a masters degrees in fine arts who work at Starbucks has and is staring at crushing student loan debt for their entire life... that's not good.

Nowhere's perfect, but I think the traditional Chinese way is a very good starting block. Patch the underemphasis on socializing and abstract-fail-forwards stuff, and I think you're looking at a very successful parenting model.
If you feel like you lost, your initial offer wasn't high enough.

I once suggested a salary range from [thrilling for me] to [unbelievable] and was offered the high number. I never felt like I "lost" -- until of course a year later when we were all laid off in early 2001. Ah, the "dot-com era."

I suppose some people will always be haunted by suspicions their deal could have been better. But for me, people instantly accepting my high offer is not going to be a lifelong regret.