skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that attendance should be voluntary this solution doesn't address the whole problem.

Part of the problem is that education is not valued - neither by the kids, nor their parents. As a culture we need to make sure education is valued across the board.

Another part of the problem is that once these kids are out of school they'll be causing trouble at home or in their neighborhoods.

I think a better plan would be the following:
- Make attendance voluntary, but put programs in place that allow people to return to school and learn regardless of their age.

- Put trade schools in place that teach practical skills quickly. This way even if you're not cut out for school, at least you can learn a skill that can make you some money. A lot of these kids are coming from low income families.

- Make parents responsible for their kids. Right now a lot of parents treat school as daycare for their kids, they don't care what happens there as long as the kids aren't at home. Schools need to be able to expel and discipline kids without being fiscally punished. (either by lawsuit or losing funding because of poor performance)

Long term maxharris is absolutely right, you can't teach someone who doesn't want to learn. It doesn't work. We need a cultural shift that places education at the top of the list. And we need political leaders who are willing to risk their necks and hold parents accountable instead of throwing money and bad policy at the problem.
I don't agree with the notion that classroom discipline is the teacher's responsibility. If a child needs discipline, the child should be sent away to receive it. A teacher should be responsible for teaching, period.

Also, if a child commits a crime in school (vandalism, verbal assault, physical assault, disturbing the peace) and is found to be a threat to the learning environment then they should be suspended. It's simply a matter of giving some power back to the authorities. Right now the children know that the teachers are their bitches. Until that changes the fight can't be won. Especially in children who have a gang member mentality.
It doesn't seem obvious to me at all that forcing kids to attend school against their will results in them becoming "educated" in any meaningful sense.
I wouldn't necessarily say "surprised" that this is the case; I think there's an opportunity to craft a solution that works for those that do want to explore the startup life. I feel like, in hindsight, there were a lot of students in our major who might be suited for a startup, but they hadn't explored it and thus may be in a different job. That's unfortunate. If there were more focus on startups, more people would at least be exposed to it and they could decide from there.

On top of that, I'm not suggesting entrepreneurs would love to take a class and enjoy coloring in the lines, so to speak. The imaginary classes I suggested were all super open-ended, with little to no structure or curriculum. I think that's the best way to teach that subset of the population.
Raganwald,

When you pay $250 an hour for a major consulting firm, you get $50 worth of consultant, and $200 worth of "Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM/Accenture/CGI/Thoughtworks."

The assumption above is somewhat flawed. Here is why.

Most large companies have department budgets, project budgets etc and are usually sensible enough not a pay $250 for a huge team of developers etc. Most of the time, they hire a couple of devs at that rate. And usually when they bring in contractors, these contractors work with an existing team of in-house developers, project leads, PM's. Very rarely, they bring in a whole team of consultants/developers to run the whole show within the company. If they do that, the company better fire the whole IT or software department.

So it is ludicrous to think that when a project fails, the blame should go to the consultant or to the choice of the consulting co. and that is why people choose to use 'the big 4" to be safe. That assumption is flawed. Like i said, consultants usually work with a team of in-house devs, leads, PM's etc. So it wrong to think that your head is on the chopping block because of a small number of consultants working on the project or the consulting company that you choose to bring in. If the project fails, it is mostly due to mismanagement of the project by whoever is responsible. Not the small number of consultants or consulting company you choose to bring in.
A lot of that has to do with the age of the information technology. There's been a great deal of science fiction written about space ships and aliens, throughout the last century, but the concept of an information economy emerged, quite to humanity's surprise, rather recently. Science fiction of the digital bent hasn't had much time to mature.
I understand that it is a demand side problem, but the majority of people going into the corporate world are missing some key skills and abilities that go beyond team building. Self motivation, and the ability to see long-term visions is critical to become not only a successful entrepreneur but a successful employee as well.

Also, being a hardcore entrepreneur does not mean you completely reject authority and advice. It all depends on the structure of the course. You could implement self determined courses using professors in the position as board advisors and run semester long projects.

This would compliment the natural character of the entrepreneur.
I believe www.mindvalley.com does something similar as they are located in Malaysia. I had an initial interview with them once and know a friend who worked for them. They pay quite low by US standards but charge as if they were in the US.
Not that I'm disagreeing with the list. I figured Fred Wilson would be higher on the list, and I'm surprised to not see Randy Komisar make the top 30 (or even the almost there), but wouldn't this list be skewed by those who are most active on social networks?

I noticed that Dave McClure was high on both sentiment and social, but is unrated on the funded... strange?
1.5 cents:
- fine book placing some of the key ideas of greek philosophy in a context where they could resonate with baby boomers / others (now hackers). "first contact" with such ideas by most thoughtful people is exciting, hence a lot of the feedback.
- those well read in philosophy tend to find it problematic, thin, etc. they also tend to dislike the practical application of the ideas suggested by RP.
- lastly, Pirsig certainly did not break any new ground in philosophy but comparisons to the crazed rambling of Ayn Rand are unfair.
The title is flat wrong, my opinion of GoDaddy actually improved from reading his rant.

What I don't understand is how someone with a modicum of technical skill could expect anything from a GoDaddy shared hosting account.
John, launch announcements and any PR needs to be carefully planned. There are many factors, but at the very least before you start contacting media outlets you need to be super-clear on 2 things:
1. Your target audience - be as specific as possible. You say that your service is regarding home-safety. Does this require a significant $$ or time investment on the part of a homeowner to install and manage? Do you have to own your home to be able to take advantage of it? Does this appeal to more affluent people? With children? etc. Get very specific. You can then see how your target intersects with the demo of specific media outlets.
2. Purpose of your PR. what do you want to get out of this announcement? Do you need funding? Do you want to attract actual end users? Do you want to create buzz so that retailers will contact you to carry your product? These goals require extremely different tactics and usually very different media outlets. In general, end user acquisition for a mass market product is rarely accomplished from PR unless you get into NY Times/ USA Today/ Oprah. If user acquisition is your goal, I would suggest not spending much on the announcement at all (announce wherever) and instead get really awesome at SEO, and contact mass-market blogs (like the kind Yahoo / AOL / MSN feature) and even niche home-owners blogs etc. to get written up.
Agreed. They're taking part in dangerous work, with very little protection...the laws regarding the activities they participate in are ridiculously overpowered, and have occasionally landed teenagers in prison for years.

A scorched earth policy regarding those who come after them is pretty much the only rational course of action, given the consequences of being positively identified as taking part in those activities. They aren't equipped (nor are most of them of the disposition), to kill, physically intimidate, or otherwise silence people that cross them or hold evidence against them, as most organized crime groups or corrupt law enforcement officers do. So, they have to take extreme actions to prevent people from wanting to gather evidence against them. Intimidation via a constant stream of uneasy feelings about how much of your life they can and will reveal is generally pretty powerful.

It's also probably important that they stick close to the side of "right" enough of the time that it is unpopular to attack them, even if they occasionally cause some actual harm to people who maybe didn't deserve that level of harm.

In this case, though, I'd say this was a funny result. A lot of "security experts" are nothing of the sort, and are deserving of ridicule at the very least. If this prevents incompetent security contractors from suckling at the government teat, I'm all for it.
Dude. I already know how to make sushi, and I don't have a TV now.

There are plenty of interesting books in a library that's way classier than the one we have now - and the Wright Brothers live down the street (well; they might have gone to Dayton by 1900) and plenty of other tinkers and inventors. There were more patents in this county in 1900 than any other county in the United States.

1900 in Richmond, Indiana was where it was at.
>These websites are only mentioned in dramas, they are pretty much useless after a few weeks.

They're worth at least a little more than their domain names and content costs by virtue of them being SEO bait. "Bad Wolf" could be a good company [trading] name or band name if you could buy out the top spot in the listings from the BBC.
Artificial satellites. Next steps will take longer...
There are also user submissions at http://www.visualizing.org/
Pitt here.

> But this is exactly what the market demands, so why are we surprised?

Well, CS is _supposed_ to be a theoretical discipline. It's supposed to be basically math. We're supposed to be discovering the nature of computation, not having only one optional upper-level class on it.

Instead we get Java schools. It sucks.

Furthermore, college doesn't even make for a good vocational experience! You know how many times I heard 'VCS'? Zero. makfiles? Twice. In my web programming class, I was taught Java applets and spaghetti PHP. Software Engineering teaches waterfall, Java beans, and UML.

/rant off.
"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow"
"Their goal in this case is to discourage people from messing with them."

The goal is always the lulz. That's why they actually welcome people messing with them.
Just now bothered to look at your calculator thing, since I maintain the actual numbers involved are pointless details. However...

The there was a 50x growth between now and the single year of 2002. Schmidt's quote stated 260,000X growth between now and the average of all data created in the past 5000 years.

In order to create an actual comparison of Schmidt Rate vs Real Rate, you need a 'real' number for the amount of data from recorded history until 2002, something that nobody has volunteered. Nobody is debating that Schmidt's numbers were inaccurate, and the number he provides for this is almost certainly wrong, however we don't know by how much. Extrapolating out from data from the single year of 2002 is flawed; it is foolish to think that the growth rates of data in 2002CE and 2002BCE are the same without data to suggest so.

If we accept that there has been a constant rate of growth of data creation, then your conclusion is valid.
"But you are supposed to be semantic when handing out classes and ids."

Yes, in order to achieve certain goals, not because there is some absolute Platonic ideal correctness about it.

A question, then is does the pragmatic use of grids to more easily obtain certain layout goals end up making things worse in the long run.

Adherence to semantic purity may be a case of premature optimisation.
> Why don't they chrome up their touchable objects? Because its a _touch screen_ and the only thing you can POSSIBLY do is _touch_ them.

Not sure I can agree. Check out this confusing screen when editing a contact on the iPhone: http://scotth.tumblr.com/post/2473971776/the-iphones-contact...

Can you tell that the words "mobile" and "iPhone" are essentially select menus that are meant to be touched?
Godaddy hosts websites? I kid, but it's so clearly not their core business. Their advertisements have one single message: register your domain at GoDaddy. And they do that great. Now that you have your domain name, go find a business whose core business is hosting! Wow.
Sounds to me like the result of a lack of accountability. I see the same thing in many areas of the public sector in my country where responsibility is deferred in an infinite loop.

It's as frustrating to the those who use the system as to those who work in it.
If I can have dinners at expensive restaurants, yachts, manors, apartments throughout the world, unlimited access to high class prostitutes, the respect, deference, fear, and love of the masses who stand in awe of my wealth...

rich in pretty much ANY time.

No matter what year it is it's always better to be on top. That's where most of the human pleasure comes from.

Xboxes and iPhones are really no substitute for being on top of society.
Up to what age do you consider them "just kids"?
I agree about the first part; a teacher should be responsible for teaching, and other administrative staff for disciplinary issues. However, this requires (naturally) that there be funding in place for the necessary staff positions. As long as school funding is tied to local property taxes, there are going to be huge variations in the amount of spending per pupil, and staffing follows suit.

As for your second point, I think it is a gross simplification to say "It's simply a matter of giving some power back to the authorities." We do need to give some power back to the authorities, but there's nothing simple about it.
> Where is the point in cycling if you don't have to use your own muscles to ride?

In the case of the vehicle in the article, it is transportation.

For instance, I live in the Puget Sound area, across from Seattle. If I were to get a job in Seattle, my commute would consist of driving my car to the ferry terminal, paying something like $15 for transportation for me an my car to Seattle, then driving on to work. Reverse the process to come home. $30 in ferry fees for the day.

With a device like the one in the article, that could be changed to driving my car to the free park-and-ride lot near the Ferry terminal, riding the bike to the terminal, folding it up and going on as a walk-on. In Seattle, I could then unfold the bike and head on to work. Reverse the process to come home. The ferry fee for walk-on passengers is $7 in one of the directions, and free in the other direction.

In under a year, the $23 per day saved in ferry fares would pay for the bike.

A regular bike would simply not work for me for this. The hills in Seattle would be too much for me.
This is a serious security problem for San Francisco public transit... "in addition to being able to read cards, also have the capability to emulate a card".
I had considered duplicating a card, since it's a tag based system. So two or more people could share things like a month Caltrain pass, or two people riding together on the bus could both tag and only pay once. Using this program would be certainly easier, than what I was thinking.
> This wasn't justice. It was revenge. There's a difference. Justice accomplishes something. It keeps a bad person from doing bad things. Revenge only makes things worse.

I disagree with your definitions. I would say justice is sanctioned legally, while revenge isn't. Aside from that, they're nearly indistinguishable. And given what is and isn't legally sanctioned by countries ("torture" for example), I think the difference is even less.
A quick TLDR: It seems probable that a lot of the people are just going for the freebies, and by announcing that there will be no giveaways and offering refunds, that will open up spots for people that actually want to go to the conference
Does it matter? Hmm. That's a good point -- it may not.

But ZAMM and Atlas Shrugged certainly felt to me a bit dishonest in that these works are primarily delivery devices for the authors' philosophical ideas. Other authors inject philosophy and ethics into their "straight" fiction, such as the philosophical rant-free work of Tolkien (LOTR = a treatise against fascism) and Stephen King (The Stand = a treatise against organized religion), but their philosophies never smack you in the face. [edit: grammar]
Fuck you I would.
The Five Habits of Quality-Focused Companies
if I may ask why the downvote?
Robots that get their energy from flesh. What could possibly go wrong? Can we teach them to regard eating humans as cannibalism?
that video of HP describing their design process is PAINFUL. As if every company that designs and builds their own products doesn't go through the same steps.
A very rambly video. That's cool, that's what the journalists are for. Hopefully the article can boil it down for me.

"I won’t belabor the features and screen shots here. Hear the pitch from the founders yourself."

...Oh.

The author could have added a lot more value by actually describing the product and its differentiating characteristics.

(edit: Ohhh! Is it uncharitable to assume she couldn't sit through the video either? Maybe she doesn't know yet.)

Instead, the post waxed philosophical, at great length, about a bunch of things tangential and ultimately irrelevant to what the hell it is they've actually made. It's left as an exercise to the reader to slog through a loose, one hour video to figure out why this matters.

I don't mean to be a grumpy gus, but how do people get paid to do such sloppy, self-indulgent work?

Anyone have a tl;dr on the magic and rainbows delivered by Asana? (Hunch/spoiler: Basecamp plus complexity, splitviews, more AJAX, a non-2004 design)
This may or may not be true, depending on specific details that I don't know.

But it's certainly true that equity holders came out quite a bit richer than they otherwise would have. Owners of common stock are last in line in a liquidation, so they likely would have gotten very little. But now they've got more equity than at the time of the bailout.

Thus, the government pumped taxpayer money into GM shareholders.
Well I guess when you have a track record like Facebook, you think people will just believe that your product will work and rock...
I'd argue that a properly designed dyson swarm -does- launch itself, is self replicating, and only takes construction of, say, fifty first generation Von-Neumann machines.

I further suggest that we could start it if we spent an equivalent of the energy we put into the cold war.
I've not missed a Google I/O event since the first "Google Developer Day" in San Jose in 2007 and so I'm bummed not to be attending this year.

Google did offer me a 'pre registration" but I didn't anticipate the level of demand that would occur :(

If people are indeed registering just for the (potential) freebie, I wonder what impact that will have on the conference in terms of people sticking around to actually attend sessions and participate.

I might lobbycon it anyway.
It would be nice to have Chris Pruet show more about games and android. His former presentations in 2009 and 2010 were really good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Bk5rmIpic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-62tRHLcHk
I am sorry to hear you had that experience. I do not approve of running a school, or any organization, based on fear, much less the threat of physical violence. Is this something that would be appropriate for the adult world? I don't think so. We shouldn't beat children just because they're smaller than us and can't fight back.
CS departments might not be good at turning out startup candidates because the people running the departments are more interested in the academic side of CS.

Where I've been learning comp sci (Pomona & Harvey Mudd) the teachers' interest in CS is more academic and less practical. It's a reflection of what they're interested in - they probably turned down jobs in the industry to work in academia and teach students.

Almost all of the marketable skills I've learned have been self-taught outside of class.
Call of Juarez: The Cartel will go modern this Summer
Ubisoft has just announced that the next Call of Juarez title will go modern. The award-winning games new installment is called The Cartel. The game will be quite different form the last two, with the setting being in LA and Juarez. This game will allow you to use modern technology, weapons, and other gadgets. Although this sounds exiting, we will first need to see some gameplay before we make an opinion.
A lot of the physical decay in New York in the 1970s was the result of rent control, which led to abandoned buildings as landlords could not operate the buildings at a profit. At one point the city owned 70% of Harlem.
Then you're fired because the server doesn't actually work.

If I were interviewing you, your answer would be considered nonsense and would cause you to not get hired in the first place. I actually need to write such a server for a product I'm working on. All it ever does is encrypted communications with other machines.
Wow! Thanks for sharing it.

0.1 sec to recompile 100K files project. It looks really impressive.
Nearly all of the algorithms I described extend well into multiple dimensions. I'm not sure how Eller's would work in 3D, but there is probably a way. And the Binary Tree and Sidewinder algorithms seem like they ought to be possible to adapt to 3D, but I don't immediately see how. The others, though, are all trivially expandable to n-dimensions (just add "up", "down" and any other directions you like to the list of possible moves).
Well it depends on the user. If it it a user like me, that has 1 album with 10 photos and update my status once in a blue moon... well not a lot, but, if it's somebody like my mum's cousin that updates there status every few hours with 10's of comments, and has around 30-50 albums with an average of 100 photos each, well it costs them much much more.
Google I/O tickets sell out in 59 mins
Google I/O sold out in 59 minutes
Thanks for the suggestion. The Archos 32 http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_32it/index.html?cou... seems like the closest to an android phone in terms of size.
If the stats were not available from previous years, doesn't that mean that a small sampling of highly paid AIs would skew the salary to a very high average?
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Huffington Post and AOL: Why the Deal’s a Mess
You're right, but I think he's allowed the indulgence considering the kind of "peers" he had to deal with usually.

Besides that, the man just isn't given enough credit these days.
A Big Window Labs company has launched
I would have loved to do more in depth measurement, but I couldn't get to any disk stats under /proc. Even iostat was crippled.

I'm also not sure the distinction was that important in that case. With their VPS implementation there were no knobs I could turn. The root cause of the problem had to be on their side of the fence. "Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with axe"
Couldn't you display the one email and use a separate Reply-To addy to get responses? (and hope no one notices)

This is not my forte I'm likely off.
You and I are both firing on all rhetorical cylinders today, aren't we? :)