skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish them well! There's definitely room for innovation in this space.

One thing that bothers me, though (and this is based on a quick run-through of their demo, so I'm prepared to be set straight if this is not correct):

It looks like they've made the same mistake as Blackboard, WebCT, etc. by making resource type (files, assignments, discussion forums, etc.) the primary organizational method rather than organizing by instructional unit.

It may make good sense from a programming perspective to put all the discussion forums together, all the downloadable files together, all the external web links together, but that's not the mental model that teachers use. To a teacher teaching (e.g.) American history, the PDF of the Gettysburg Address and the PDF of the Declaration of Independence don't "go together". Instead, the Gettysburg Address "goes together" with the discussion forum on the American Civil War and the link to the National Park Service page on the Battle of Gettysburg.

Most teachers would prefer to build the Civil War unit in one place, rather than clicking back and forth between the file section and the discussion forum section and whatnot.

Canvas does have a "Module" type that lets you do this, more or less, but it's not the primary schema for organization.

If they want this system to have maximum comprehensibility and usability for teachers and students alike, I'd recommend that they promote their Modules to the top level, and make them the primary organizational method for the system.

Moodle gets this right -- few of the others do. When you start a new Moodle course, you see a list of weeks (or topics) to which you can then add files, discussion forums, web links...on an ad hoc basis. While you CAN click on links in Moodle to see all the files in one place, all the assignments in one place, and so on, in practice no one ever does that (except maybe at the beginning of the semester when the students click on the assignments link to make a note of all the due dates).

You don't have to copy Moodle slavishly, but please don't copy the organizational schemas of Blackboard and WebCT. They just plain suck.
Why so much hate for this? I think it is a fantastic idea. People have no idea how much their health care costs.

EDIT: so people really think this is a burden? For my company of 25 it is trivial. Just a little more info to send to ADP.

As I said above, the extra work will have benefits.
I'm tired of hearing about the degradation of language content - the 'race to the bottom' of simplified language - being defended as 'just what language does'. Why can't people be proactive about the language they want to use?

What's wrong with someone discussing why they think it's poor, and providing motivation to a 'this'-er to see why it's poor and changing their behaviour towards a more informative approach?

Particularly in an intellectual environment such as what HN wants to fill, why is it wrong to say 'please don't dumb down conversation, please inject content'? After all, screaming 'first post' and trolling are also natural social progressions, but they're frowned on too.
I am sure there are 100% coverage plans, but I would expect them to be very expensive. Many health insurance plans basically say, the most you will pay in one calendar year is $x,xxx. Since it's so early in the year and assuming his year starts on Jan 1st, I would expect that he will have some expense for the doctors visit.

A personal example,I pay the first $3500 dollars of medical expenses and most things after that are covered. I pay about $2500 a year for high deductible insurance. So the most my out of pocket expenses for the year would be ~$6000. Because I'm a part of an insurance plan they've pre-negotiated rates with hospitals for me. My full medical expenses for the year tend to be around $3000 ($2500 insurance payments + $500 medical expenses).
I say that a little tongue in cheek -- regardless of what Paul thinks about Case, he was certainly an inspiration to me, proving that what you actually do is more important than where you came from.
It is acceptable for App Store to use Cocos3d in an application ? I know that from a programming language point of view it should be no problem (Objective-C and C++).

The MIT license is allowed by Apple ?
Fair enough.

I was more responding to the "there is a balance" comment, which I took to mean that uuilly thinks it's better on the whole if children are given some amount of freedom but are still forced to do certain things. That's the idea I was really trying to challenge, though that's admittedly not what I wrote in my first sentence. My comment was too hasty.
The books others have suggested are very good. However here are 3 that will challenge you to produce:

"QBQ! The Question Behind the Question":
as the review says:aimed at purging the "blame, complaining, and procrastination" from the workplace

"The Ant and the Elephant":
I read about several hundred nonfiction books mainly marketing or programming annually - this book is profound on motivating yourself. The idea that before you start your journey - imagine the milestones then imagine the ways you fail and NOW imagine what will do you when this happens is stunning. It is rehearsing for the worst so when the worst happens you you feel sad and then immediately move on.

Finally, I just loved this book "How to Get Rich" especially the section about hiring and keeping talent and negotiating the sale of your business.
Malcom Gladwell: Does Egypt Need Twitter?
"A final decision in any appeal under this subsection shall be a final agency action that shall not be subject to judicial review." Section 254(c)(1); appears on pg. 402 of the linked draft.

I am against any law which contains those words. Other parts of the law are troubling to various degrees, but that single sentence is enough for me to know that I oppose this law.
Although $20,000 is a nice pile of money, it does not create a notion of confidence.
One more zero would do the job though.
Oh man, this is really great. Thanks again!
it's only a matter of time until someone will try to capitalize on what's happening right now in Egypt...something like "I survived Mubarak"
The two things in my mac menubar i definitely know i can do without are the two things i can't remove:

- Searchlight icon

- TimeMachine icon

Everything else in my menubar is either removable myself, or indicate state about my machine that i need to track (input mode, wireless connection, volume level and the like)
If he does? More power to him. Clearly, he sees that he's more productive when that's taken away from him, and he's not letting it distract him from more important things.
RoR Developer and/or Interested in Style & Social Shopping? Pls Inquire Within.
Just launched the first version of my site, an online Q&A platform for style related advice, built with RoR, called GoodToGoOut (www.goodtogoout.com), and I'm looking to contract/hire an engineer who's interested in the idea, preferably in NYC, to help with the concepting and development of some part of the product's next iteration.

Also, if anyone's interested in checking out the site and offering some feedback it'd be much appreciated. I'll get back to you ASAP with an invite code if you email me at emeka@goodtogoout.com. Thanks in advance and much appreciated!
They acquired and kept the names for Android, Dodgeball, and Picasa.

Google Path has a nice ring to it and would integrate well within their current product lineup.
I'm curious - how many people have only one passion?

I remember that when I was a kid, I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. Then I wanted to be a naval architect. (Well, technically I didn't know the names for either of those, I just knew I wanted to design planes and ships.) I played violin and clarinet, I wanted to be in a rock band, I liked computer programming, I fancied myself a novelist (even though I hated writing), I wanted to be a famous theoretical physicist, and I was going to make a few million dollars founding a software startup.

I ended up a computer programmer, because that was the optimal intersection between what I wanted to be and what other people would pay for. Although that software startup may yet happen.

But I continued - and sometimes still continue - the other things quite far along. I made All-State Orchestra in violin, and continued to play throughout college, and still occasionally pick it up. I nearly ended up a physics major; I didn't switch away from it until my last semester. Now that I have no immediate plans to become a writer, writing is kinda fun.

Is this unusual? Do people get "stuck" on one dream and then ignore everything else that they might enjoy?
So, I've now been trying this for I don't know how long (yeah, I mean that literally) with interesting results.

I hid the clock on my taskbar, put masking tape over the clock on my landline phone, and put my mobile phone face down and out of my reach. Then I set up my scheduling program to remind me when it's lunch or home time.

But my mind! That little part of my consciousness where it used to keep the time, it doesn't know what to put there any more. And it's freaking out about it, too.

I never realised before this how much mental effort was dedicated to keeping track of time. Now that I know, I'm definitely not going back. I shouldn't be doing anything my computer can do as well as or better than me. That includes keeping track of time.
I'm very curious to know how much you made off of this (ballpark).
Years ago I remember contacting my representatives about ICE seizing domains. The response I got was very rude and didn't address my concerns, but instead just pointed out how they could legally do this.
Chicago and central il (home and college home). Of course the shirt applies to pretty much the whole Midwest right now, so that helps from a market segment perspective.
System Preferences > (System Row) Time Machine > Uncheck "Show time machine status in Menu Bar"
Contacting Apple though the blogosphere is a much better way to generate publicity for yourself and your software. This kind of story is always picked up everywhere.
Salvation via consumption also seems to be the go. It baffles me that people think you need to buy something to fix a problem like emotional wellbeing / fitness / etc. Self help is one of the more insidious forms of consumerism, from my perspective.
We'll fix that, sorry for the trouble. -- Editor of Gizable
Plus spreading us into suburbs made us less susceptible to nuclear annihilation.
I actually use the clock for something other than time: it tells me when the computer is bogged down/frozen. If the seconds stop updating, it means something else is sucking the resources (usually some loop in the latest build of whatever app I'm working on).
Recently (and I suspect, at all times in the past) I've had trouble focusing with even one epileptic app throbbing in the background, or even redrawing some pointless animation or status update. For me one of the criteria for a desktop program is whether it can be prevented from audibly or visually disturbing me with its desires.

It may occasionally mean an impatient peer being upset at the lack of a speedy reply, but my thoughts are guaranteed to be uninterrupted unless the conversation is of sufficient importance to hold my attention after returning to real work.

The only 'active' notifications I have are mail and calendar, on my phone, which can be silenced temporarily with a single swipe. On the desktop, the only notification is Adium's small, static icon in the menu bar, which raises its wings to politely remind me of some ongoing IM.

I'd suggest disabling that almost pointless thermal monitor and the many similarly looking distracting icons long before I'd hide the clock, as it's the only reliable gauge of progress throughout the day.
My GF read Amy's book just the other day. She found it hilarious - the book mocks this parenting method. It's not intended as serious advice.
I'm doing everything aside from printing. Good experience and more profit that way - cant go wrong there, right?
I can't speak for the masses but this is a net lose for Google in my eyes because it paints them as being extremely hypocritical IMO.

Keep in mind that we're talking about Google here. The Google of Google News, the web-corpus assisted translation engine, the Google book scanning project, wifi scanning, etc. Not that I'm negative on any of those projects, but based on the amazing degree to which their business piggybacks off the work of others it does make it difficult for me to take them seriously when they come out swinging at somebody else for piggybacking off of them, especially when the piggybacking going on here appears to be fairly minor and incidental.
All those looking for the pronunciation:
Terminal.app > "say gizable"

But you can say it however you please. =P
He answered that in another thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173482
تردد قناة الجزيرة
UBB overturned - Canada no longer biggest internet loser.
At the risk of starting a religious war...

zsh is a little snappier than bash and offers some neat options which are not present in bash (at least not out of the box AFAIK - e.g. spellcheck).

From my experience, zsh targets power users (and people who really don't like to type). For most people sticking with bash is probably leaving well enough alone.

From my POV it's not a religious issue, though in just a short while of using zsh I find it more productive than bash.
Building up orders to place a bulk wholesale order. Cafe press and zazzle are overpriced for the customers and too low profits for sellers. Why would I charge somebody $24 + shipping for a shirt if I would never pay that myself?
Photo Essay: Chinese Lunar New Year Celebrations
Its a very nice site. Nicely designed and you know exactly what you're getting and what it's about when you look at it.

I wish my site was so intuitive =(.
Three Emerging Startup Hubs not in the Valley
From what I hear, Groupon doesn't do a lot of their engineering in house. Buying a company that can make their site into more of a 'local destination' like Yelp/Hotpot/CitySearch makes a lot of sense. And they can probably get them for a much cheaper price pre-launch.
Losing, not "loosing." (I do a lot of proofreading. Stuff like that just jumps off the page for me.)
This is what I did; I have an N1 and an iPhone 4, and every now and then I swap my SIM into the N1. Just needed to get a MicroSIM adapter off Amazon and everything works great.
what stack did you build it on?

Really impressive from conceptual to live site in 8 hours. Your profile says you're currently learning RoR. Is that the stack you built on?
This sounds like you're replying to the wrong link... how could anyone not see the immense amount of work involved in 1099ing almost every business, retail store and website anyone in your company buys anything from?
Imagine the Google terms of service said, 'Users must not share any information we provide with anyone else'. Does that mean that use of the Microsoft toolbar would violate these terms and Google could sue Microsoft to stop them using the 'clickstream' data?
This has nothing to do with healthcare. Every time your business paid another more than $600 in a year, you would need to deal with 1099:s. (Unless you use credit cards.)

That means that if you buy one laptop, a 1099. If you spend that much at Office Depot, a 1099.
Explicit pricing is better for moderate users and worse for heavy users. "Unlimited" effectively subsidizes heavy users by overcharging moderate users. As a heavy user, I'm a fan of "unlimited".
What's the saying - desperation drives innovation? Maybe I'm thinking of "necessity is the mother of invention".. either way, i'll figure it out.

Absolute worst case scenario is that I refund everybody's money and end up exactly where I am now. But I don't see that happening.
Review roundup: Verizon iPhone 4 is same set, different service
I'm not sure if you were just using "digg" and "newsvine" as examples, or if you think they actually were aiming to be competitors.

Reddit launched in 2005. Newsvine launched in 2006. The Reddit founders also didn't know Digg existed when they launched.

Given the state of Digg and I don't believe Newsvine has been doing particularly well, maybe Reddit has it right.
As a non-employee I can't post specifics, but it's a lot less traffic.
Your story is very similar to mine. Except instead of music I was interested in film and comedy.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10013322-37.html

Supposedly there is some sort of kill switch functionality in the iOS app store, and I haven't heard about copyright infringement to the level of taking someone else's game and redistributing it before. In my mind, the best case scenario is to refund everyone's money and take the game off the market, uninstalling from computers. The only backlash you receive is the press about the kill switch functionality and the whole "dude, where's my game" moments that people will have.
answer: nope
And OfficeDepot has to receive and reconcile 50 million 1099s from its shoppers...
Nope, this one was just straight up css and html. Nothing fancy here - no reason to, its only a single page :) oh and its hosted on whatever my cheap web hosting is. Is it sad that I don't even know the tech specs? Maybe that's s reason for the success - only focusing on what matters.. now there's a good takeaway point
"One of the problems I've faced throughout life is that I'm kind of lazy, or maybe I lack will power or discipline or something."

- The guy who invented Gmail and founded FriendFeed
I need to see my clock so I can spend at least a good hour dreading the next scheduled conference call!
If you can do without them, then why can't you remove them?
Space Indian genocide!
Ask HN: Advice on getting over romantic rejection? It's killing my startup
Any hackers tips on getting over romantic rejection?

I got pwned hard by a woman last year and the stuff she said about me stung very badly and continues to do so. It's been months since she told me to buzz off and I still have a hard time not fixating on the flaws she saw in me. It's killing my productivity at work. Not sure what to do. I can't stop picking at the scabs.
Locksmiths | Locksmith
Yes a user story is missing. Thanks for pointing that out
I completely agree, but to quote the person I was replying to: "Searching for "torsorophy" on Google brings up the Wikipedia page for Tarsorrhaphy because of Google's advanced spelling and error correction algorithms."

Both companies have good algorithms for spelling and error correction, but neither appears to be a superset of the other. (For example, Bing corrects "Kransas" to "Kansas", but Google does not).

I was addressing the fact that Bing has at its disposal some advanced techniques too. It's not just Google that does. And I illustrated this by pointing out that there are a lot of queries that do the spell correction on Bing that obviously weren't honeypotted -- as seemed to be implied by the original comment.
Its amazing to see how far Malcolm has backed himself into a corner by initially pooh-poohing the impact of twitter on social activism.

Yes, revolutions will come and go with or without twitter, but to ignore the massive multiplier effect that viral social media has in situations such as this is ludicrous ... the fact that this is coming from the man who wrote 'The Tipping Point' is especially ironic.
More to the point, every icon in the menu bar except for Spotlight can be turned on or off in the System Preferences. If hunting down those checkboxes is too much work, you can also Command-click on any of Apple’s icons [0] and drag them out of the menu bar. This also allows you to rearrange icons. (That works also for buttons on toolbars.)

Super User has a hacky way of disabling the Spotlight icon: http://superuser.com/questions/32593/remove-spotlight-icon-f...

[0] I only have one third-party icon in my menu bar (Dropbox) and it can’t be dragged out of the menu bar. I don’t know whether that’s the case for all third-party icons.
Why Nerds Are Unpopular
The whole point of it was that it was one of the many tricks used to "pay" for the healthcare bill.

Without, the healthcare bill will increase the deficit to an even greater extent.
"[Using] web-like technologies such as DOM and stylesheets", is an insufficient qualifier here. XUL (Mozilla's internal UI markup language) uses those things, but if you were to say it's closer to Web-based UIs (i.e., using the CSS box model) than traditional desktop application UI layout, you'd be making a misstatement.
Risk in heart attack can be identified by Hereditary
Not to mention the fact that in the book she ultimately rejects the harsh, forced approach.
In fact it's often more fun at the beginning. As coders, we have to constantly be learning new things - new languages, frameworks, APIS, etc... more than most professions I know. Personally I think getting that first little project done, a first proof of concept, in a new (language/framework/api) to be exhilarating - probably more fun than almost anything afterwards.
IRS Goes Mobile With IRS2Go
It is better to have pwned and lost than to have never pwned at all.
Plug and Play Seeks 50 Chicago Startups & $100 Million in VC Funding
Why Al Jazeera Isn't Available in the United States
as people wrote that getting this double from integer part and then applying scale doesn't cause problems, i assumed that the problem in parsing that specific string, but not in that particular double value, which can be represented differently
The system doesn't allow you to remove the Spotlight icon, but Time Machine's icon is removable (just Cmd-drag it off or disable it in System Preferences).
I like this idea. I have a 3 monitor setup(across 2 computers) using Synergy. This affords me the luxury(distraction) of always having my IM clients/browsers open. I've taken to using a focus/fader application so that when I'm not on the screen, only my coding monitor is focused. It helps a lot. I'll try killing the clocks next!
> But that means that you have not created an actual search program. You are just using googles data.

No, if your learning system is working properly you should be using Google's data only to the extent it is legitimately observable and more relevant than anything else you're feeding your system. And, for lots of searches, Google's data leave much room for other sources to be more relevant. In the limiting case, when you're feeding your system everything that Google is feeding its, you should almost never return Google-derived knowledge because your system should almost always be able to come up with greater relevance from knowledge derived from primary sources.

Your final question is on the right track, but I'd suggest a small tweak: If Google didn't exist, would the system still offer highly relevant results and, if Google did exist, would the system be able to learn from Google-supplied knowledge, to the extent allowed by law and terms of service and so forth, to offer results at least as relevant?
Announcing Power Track – Full Firehose filtering for the Tweets you want
Good. It would be a huge costly hassle and wouldn't raise one cent in new tax revenue, despite their wild eyed hallucinations to the contrary.
Oh, there's certainly a kill switch. Jobs admitted to it during an interview, but it hasn't been used. The closest App Store comparison is probably Abuse (source code released into public domain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_(video_game) ):

http://appshopper.com/games/alien-abuse (pulled from app store)

http://appshopper.com/games/abuse-classic (official version)

reason:
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=426791&post...

Long story short, Eurocenter did not have the right to use the sound effects, registered levels (levels 5 and up), or the Abuse trademark in their game "Alien Abuse".

So very similar circumstances. And the original app was never killswitched.