skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big difference between private schools and urban public schools is the level of parent involvement. I've seen both up close and personal. It's not just involvement in school functions but involvement in their kid's education before and after school as well. The kids that are acting out in school probably don't have parents who can/will be involved in their homework, who can take the call during school hours or come in to meet their kid's teachers.

If the kids are raised by single parents, parents who have to work long and underpaid hours or parents who have substance abuse and/or crime issues the best teacher in the world will not, in most cases, be able to have impact. Yes, there are exceptions. And teachers need to be accountable for what they do in their classrooms. But the pervasive problems can't just be blamed on the teachers alone, the problems need to be addressed by promoting family support systems, promoting teachers who care and school systems provisioned with resources.
I didn't notice any unusual flickering in Chrome 10 on Ubuntu. Maybe it's been fixed in the 14 hours since you first saw the problem?

Also, re: 9ec4c12949a4f3 (since I can't reply directly): I prefer continuously flowing text to paginated layouts. One of the things I like about the web is that I can choose the size of the chunks I read, rather than having a page layout defined for me. However, I do agree that an HTML-based paginated layout would be preferable to PDF for many things.
I'd say justice is more than legal punishment, it is punishment appropriate to the crime. If you steal from me and then I shoot and kill you, that's revenge but it's probably not justice.
They should have coding requirements for the freebie. Nothing crazy - just enough to prove the person knows at least one language or maybe even a bit of HTML.
Apparently Niagra Falls is the only option at any price point for me.
IceCube is up and running
Well done gentlemen. I don't give a fuck that I'm on that list. I use bounce email addresses and multiple, very difficult to crack passwords for a reason.

Good for exposing their 'security' company.
For more technical info: http://icecube.wisc.edu/
Seems like site redesigns always just make things worse... this might be a slight improvements over the last one though, which looked to me like a parked spam page.
That's it. The bit about the shim is what I was specifically thinking of.
Quipu: Ancient Incan Digital Recording Devices
However, going after anon is also ruining lives.
What do you study to become an Information Architect? Information Science? I noticed there's a growing trend of iSchools recently
should just ship Firefox 2011, instantly beating Chrome 9 by 2002!
Fuse xmpp client (xmppfs)
Adioso strikes me as a company with little social sense. Asking how much I 'value' my girlfriend is just... off. And similarly, the fact their normal site actually _admits_ that it has a confusing interface and asks if you want help understanding it is just the oddest UX design I've ever heard of.
GitTorrent explained
The other reason, which he probably didn't admit to himself and certainly didn't admit to the world, is that he was probably soul-crushingly tired all the time. See: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm
When I open a new tab, I still see the form "My Goal today is..." which is kind of irritating. Shouldn't it just show my goals. If I have to set my goal I shall click on the reup extension icon to fill it.

Nice idea btw, planning to try this for a week.
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Any critique of our ad or design spec are also very very welcome!
So if your fellow man isn't starving to death they're doing all right?

This idea that survival and happiness is all about how you're doing by some absolute scale of quality of life is absolutely bonkers. The plight of third world people has about as much to do with the poverty of your countrymen as the plight of political prisoners in North Korea has to do with Bradley Manning. Which is to say, we have our standards of justice and wealth and they have theirs - that's why this is the United States and that's North Korea.

It is completely legitimate for someone in the United States to be upset that Warren Buffett can make his billions while they can't make rent, even though they're willing and able to work. They are trying to maintain this idea that we live in one nation, after all.
My reddit karma shows 0, probably because it takes forever to load arbitrary /user/x pages on reddit until they're cached, at which point it merely takes a long time.
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I would totally agree with this.

They raided a kid at my university and all he was doing was administrating one of the IRC channels
The letter lacks date, so I'm not sure if it's too late or is it still current?
You sound like a typical middle class person who doesn't get out much in an urban area or have had to struggle. Bill Gates isn't a rags to riches tale -- he had every advantage.

The poorest people around us probably aren't dying of hunger anymore. But there is more to life than a full belly. The welfare state destroyed the notion of an intact family completely -- to the point that a household with a father present is an unusual event.

People need dignity and a purpose. If you moved into the "big city" from the farm with a 6th grade education 100 years ago, you could get a job in a factory or get into a union and support a family. Life was hard, but you had a purpose.

Picture yourself as a 12 year old in the hood:
- You can barely read. Your teacher doesn't know your name
- You have a single parent who may or may not be present. She's 27
- You probably don't have a computer
- There's a 1 in 5 chance that your father is in prison.
- Of the adults that you are acquainted with 80% are not employed.
- You live in decrepit housing in an area with high crime. You're literally surrounded by violent criminals, molesters and misery.

How would you do?
I feel the same way about Network Solutions, they deliberately delete my PHP Conifg files and host me on servers without enough memory. Whenever I call tech support, they just say that they're relocating my files but "cant tell me when it will be done". I can't even get a basic install of Drupal to work reliably on their Unix hosting accounts because the servers time out after one hit, and its not because of my skills. My google analytics figures are horrible because the hosting is down 45% of the time. Its also amazing how horrible their admin account interfaces are with booby traps to try to get you to "opt in" to services as well. And mysteriously, the "Auto Renew" option selected itself just this year when I've always had it off since I started the account years ago. It charged my credit card, not even worth trying to get that undone... The concept of Ethics is lost on the web hosting industry. sigh
Sometimes the back button just closes a sub-menu, sometimes it will close the whole menu. Often, the back button will drop me back at the main screen for the app instead of the place in the app I had come from. Sometimes I hit the back button by accident and there's no way to go "forward".

ETA since this happened to me: A notification will jump me into the middle of an app, like voicemail. Sometimes the back button will send me to the main page of the app instead of back where I was before the notification.
IIRC, Clinton is the last US president that will receive lifetime Secret Service detail. Bush Jr. is limited to protection for a span of 10 years after his service.

http://www.secretservice.gov/faq.shtml
Actually, I do think there's something to be gained by keeping the Space Jam site up. Just look at it: That's what a professionally made website looked like back then! I still remember the day, but I think for the fast-approaching generation of designers who were born after that site (remember, this year's Web Design 101 students were born in 1993), it will be an interesting history lesson with some insight into how the Web evolved.
>> "it looks like they are trying to catch customers who are used to use Google Wave"

Both of them?
This was posted on Twitter earlier today (~4 hours ago):

http://twitter.com/#!/EFF/status/34679524058861568

Tell your Representative to reject the #PATRIOTAct sneak attack before tomorrow's vote! https://eff.org/r.x8P
The Formula 1 Driver's distastrous Car accident wouldn't have happened if...
A little...direct. But I think there's some good points.
Meanwhile, back in Egypt...
I just reviewed the site as well - REALLY nicely done (both .test and www). I've passed it on to a few friends of mine who are literary fanatics, i'm sure they'll find it useful as well. Hope you launch the new site soon!
I truly enjoy having a large library in my pocket. My commute is a lot better with it than without it.
Hear hear. For those who haven't had a lot of exposure to rap, I highly encourage you to explore the early roots of rap and hip-hop; you will find that much of it is extremely socially conscious, in ways more authentic and more compelling than long, drawn-out exposes and journal reports.

And then mainstream rap took a dive off a cliff into meaningless misogyny, bling, and euphemisms involving skeet shooting.
Digital confessions now possible... Roman Catholic app approved
#1 problem: NO UTF-8 Language Support

http://www.meetup.com/boards/thread/8385095/0/

If you still haven't voted, please add your voice here:

http://meetup.uservoice.com/forums/37079-ideas-and-suggestio...
I pull this data from the user's PayPal account.

Zero fields :) is what I absolutely strive for in my UX.

Other than that, I also have logic in place to auto-insert your city and state. That's just a waste of time for the user and I honestly couldn't care less since all I really need is their Zip.
I wasn't aware of this. You're saying that the bankruptcy essentially created a new company, with the original stockholders left with dangling pointers to essentially nothing but a prayer that the new company might give them something?
Wall Street’s new lie to Main Street – Asset Allocation
As of now, there are six people. What would be the minimum number of people to pull such a thing off?
So as long as you can convince impressionable young people that some entity is acting against Freedom, you will be able to mobilize them to give you cover for your activities.

That seems true in other circumstances also.
The real problem with disparity in income is the disparity in political power that comes with it. As the gap between the rich and poor widens so does the gap between those who matter and those who don't.
whois 65.74.181.132 shows that they ssh'd into the webserver from another machine on hbgary's network, perhaps the mailserver. I believe it's really easy to do email MITM when you have a login to the mailserver or own a machine on the same subnet and put its NIC into promiscuous mode.
At a Sprint Developer Platform conference they gave everyone a free Android phone if you attended an Android development workshop - but a requirement to literally get past the door was that you had to have the Android SDK installed and a "hello world" running on the simulator.

It was amazing to see how many people couldn't get that far... folks who were just cruising for a free phone.

It was also a smart test because it wasn't like an answer to a programming puzzle that could be circulated - you actually had to have this already running (or know how to quickly install it).
I've been meaning to update my photography portfolio, which would be a great use for this. The "relayout" demo is quite engaging--I played with it for a good 15+ seconds, which is a long time to interact with anything lacking content (http://isotope.metafizzy.co/demos/relayout.html).
I hope he recovers soon!
I almost agree about google. Yes google had a very very simple interface but surely pagerank must have played some part in its success. A page with a single text field doing altavista like search would not have gone far right?
Because 2 years ago everyone was registering there HTC ion with the 1 month prepaid sims they gave. Anyway that's the reason they gave.
They definitely still do as of a few days ago; I got an unrequested email from them the other day with my password in plain text and was pissed.
These are really good ideas. Look for free reddit codes shortly=).

Does anyone else have ideas?
Kickstarter.com - a unique kind of microfunding for your project
The solution is simple - increase teacher salaries and have more computers in schools. It's worked for the last 30years
Humans have stuck with flesh long after it was strictly necessary in an evolutionary sense. So I wouldn't be at all comfortable assuming we needn't ever worry about robot taste over-riding necessity.

Personally, I've yet to hear a convincing argument for why machine intelligence would naturally act in a way consistent with its underlying machinery in the first place. But even if we were to assume it would naturally act in such a way, I've also heard no convincing argument for why it wouldn't choose to act in ways counter to that nature, for entertainment, sport, variety or any reason of personal 'taste'. Further, I've yet to hear a convincing argument for why a group of such intelligences would all come to the same conclusions about such topics, even those as seemingly open-and-shut as "whether we should eat other thinking beings, despite a surfeit of better alternatives".

Even if almost all robots decided against eating humans, humans would still have plenty to be concerned about, with regards to those who dissent. Even the dissenters have merely taken a dispassionate stance toward humans accidentally gathered in their metaphorical nets, in a "humans are to robots as dolphins are to humans" analogy.
Do you want to run this as an open source project? Also, are you going for standard lab protocols (of say the pharma variety), or reproducible statistical analysis as well?
I am a research scientist but not a web developer. Is there anyway/anywhere I can sign my email up to be notified when an Alpha/Beta is available? I'd love to contribute if possible!
I think this is where all the zero tolerance policies come from. If there is any disciplinary decision that is made where there is discretion by an administrator, there is an opportunity for a lawsuit. With zero tolerance, you remove discretion so you avoid lawsuits at the expense of unnecessarily disciplining students.
The VC industry's most colorful colloquialisms
Three steps to new habits, by BJ Fogg
I've read this three times now on the assumption that its point was going over my head - I'm now fairly sure it's not.

The lesson I've learned is not to turn my phone off, in case I want to show someone pictures stored on it.
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Absolutely. Should have linked this off the bat, but here is our signup page: http://openprotocols.net/
It'll be open source (like most projects in the open science space are, see PLOS's open journal effort for a good example) because there is no reason for it not to be :)

As for the type of protocol, since the site is oriented around user-moderated groups, we're absolutely down with any kinds of protocol our users are interested in.
Seems like its designed for a tablet to me... I think we'll start to see more content displayed like this (not that it is blowing my socks off now though)
PicPlz Beats Instagram To An API
1) Make it tiny - simplify the behavior, so you can't fail.

2) Find a spot - a clear trigger, like right after lunch.

3) Train the cycle - doing something until it becomes automatic.
113" Projection screen out of spare 2x8s and photographers white drop cloth has been my favorite build so far.

Way more useful day to day though, I have a wrist rest that is far more comfortable than others I've used but unfortunately, beads are constantly leaking out of it. I put it inside a huge tube sock to stop the leaking issues and i've had no complaints ever since.
Wait, are you listing Bill Gates as someone who was "born to nothing"? Seriously?
I have to wonder why you consider port knocking to be a useful security-usability tradeoff. If SSH alone isn't "secure" enough for you, then adding a port knock doesn't actually lift it over that boundary.
Is the engineer that discussed this still an employee I wonder....

Although the article doesn't really reveal anything that any person with reasonable skill in the art of clustering, machine learning et al would not easily guess.
Had to go look at the main site again as this isn't my recollection of it. So yes, there is a small "show search help" link under the main search entry, but I don't see this as an admission of a confusing interface. Feels more like helps there if you need it, but unobtrusive if you don't.

I think in the problem domain the Adioso guys are in, this is a fair trade off. Not all first time users would understand the concept of natural language search and would instead be looking for "from and to" dates.

What's you suggestion to improve the main site? I think it's pretty good.
Yeah, but Oracle's GNU/Linux came a long time ago in the form of MySQL and Postgres.
How to tell when your rates are too low.
People worry too much for other people
At least for reddit, there's http://www.karmawhores.net/ . You won't see much, 'cause it doesn't start keeping data until you add yourself. Here's mine, so you know what it will look like: http://www.karmawhores.net/user/zck
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_On the other hand, note that some big shops, particularly in the big 4, offer huge discounts on consulting rates that they make up on audit works._

I'd be very surprised to see this in 2011.

Giving discounts to ensure audit work was one of the evils at the core of the Enron collapse and led directly to the _Big 5_ becoming _Big 4_ [1].

Even before Enron, the writing was on the wall. The Big 4 were very cautious about the conflict between highly paid "consulting" and audit work. How can you audit the effectiveness of the financial controls built into someone's SAP deployment, if it was you who implemented them!? This was partially the reason some of the Big 5 spun off their consulting arms [2] [3].

Don't forget, a large chunk of the Big 4 brand is their "independence" and "impartiality". How can you win audit work without those? (OK, doesn't work _exactly_ like that).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgemini
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
Anonymous Continues to Pursue Lawless Exploits
Touche about governments throwing good money after bad money ( or just bad money after bad money for that matter)...

Virtual Case File anybody? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File
A related BJ Fogg post from 2004 that would be useful for startups, "Ten Ways Computers Manipulate People." The only place I could find it was at archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041204095306/http://captology.s...
Having used Reason, Logic and a huge amount of audio software, I can only half heartedly agree with this post. Ultrabeat and some of Logics other instruments(sculpture) are indeed examples of how not to do a UI.

Reason, for me is probably the most intuitive application I have used since I initially was plugging hardware cables to make music. However, it certainly isn't the most efficient way to patch something, but with the huge amount of routing flexibility in that software, I don't see a better option, the context menu for cable patching isn't really an effective method either since its list can exceed the height of my screen in some cases.
I find though that most audio applications(reason included) do offer very flexible and easy linkage to hardware controllers which makes life easier. Most audio processing is about hands on control of many parameters simultaneously, and I think some of the best solutions(jazz mutant had some purpose built touch control surfaces) were much too expensive for the average user. I really hope that someone can make a tablet based app equivalent for iOS/android that could mimic these types of things. <shameless plug> (any software vendors want a dev(me) who would LOVE to work on this sorta project?!?! :)</shameless plug>

One other point that wasnt addressed properly in this article is that much of the "hardware look" UI chrome is due to these things being "emulations" of real gear. I think the market has decided that if you want to model a piece of gear, you had better draw up a photo-realistic picture of it and add some 3dfx to the knobs and sliders. For better or worse, a lot of users just dont buy into the sound emulation thing unless it looks like real device.

I have seen a lot of developers out there that have made some very functional very pretty UIs that also look like gear. U-he, FXPansion come to mind. Interestingly, Logic contains some very clean and easy to use UIs(the included efx) along with the dogs like Sculpture and Ultrabeat. Hopefully Logic10 will have a UI refresh to improve things...
I am not a lawyer, but I do no think having the policy would in any way protect against a lawsuit. If anything, I would suspect it could make it easier for one to succeed because you could show that no due process was provided when a state actor delivered a non-judicial punishment to a minor.
Research problem: measuring the anonymity of the Tor network
Read it again. The real message is when meeting with a friend you haven't seen in a while, make sure you set it up so you get a lot of calls, emails, and texts. Then when you go to airplane mode you seem super important, yet considerate.

And then when you go home, make sure to thank your mom for the messages.
The lesson is more that technology frequently plays an interruptive role in our lives and that sometimes it's just a sign of respect to turn everyone else off and focus on the person you're actually with. He was honoured to be treated that way and it's something we might all consider doing at times.

The alternate use of airplane more was more of a subtext.
...or take notes, or reference my calendar, or use app X (that remains useful without a live internet stream), etc.

What Airplane Mode says (in this context) is: I don't want to be interrupted but I still want this increasingly important pocket computer to be available.

I've been doing this myself quite a bit; though more-so with my iPad. What I'd really like to see for this, is some sort of device-wide "Do Not Disturb". Something that doesn't turn off the radios, but does suppress the various 'interruptions': rings, buzzes, reminders, push notifications, etc. Because sometimes you want to focus on an app that requires a data connection.
old school BBS callback verification!

Reminds me of these tricks: http://www.skepticfiles.org/cowtext/bbs/cbv.htm
Android Market poses remote installation risk
Egypt's Facebook Police Target Protesters Facebook Page
The email they sent announcing the early giveaway suggested they wanted people to be able to get their feet wet with the SDK on a modern Android device and maybe show off your prototype apps with people over lunch or beers at the after hours party.

It worked well for me; a friend of mine and I spent a couple Saturdays at a coffee shop ahead of the conference tinkering with the Android SDK to learn how things worked. I already had an N1, but he didn't, and so now we could actually hack together on stuff. After messing with things ahead of time I got a lot more value out of the sessions and was able to hit the ground running when I got home.
I know what poetic justice is. I'm reminded of an English professor who said that it was so-called because it only happens in poetry. :-)

Regardless, poetic justice is more about fate making the good guys get their reward while still being good and the bad guys get punished as a result of their actions. This isn't a case of fate. It's a case of someone (deliberately) posting someone's social security numbers online for everyone to see. Was that the just thing to do? I suppose that's debatable. But I don't think it meets the literary definition of poetic justice.
Google exec's first interview after jail release
Portraits of the 16 people killed last month in PGC:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01...