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She's writing for her audience, not HN's. Plus, she's quite inexperienced in both writing professionally and self-publishing, both of which some have toiled away on for years and have not even a 1/100th of her success to show for it.

Finally, her blogging style isn't for everyone. Some people want to come across as "not phony" and tailor their writing style to that ethic. Maybe you don't have the patience for a non-professional tone.
Tell HN: Stackoverflow University
I've been reading Clayton Christensen's analysis of education being disrupted, and I realized that Stackoverflow is doing this.

He analyses universities in terms of the task that it performs for its customers (students). These are basically: imparting problem-solving ability and credentials/qualifications. He covers some disruptive education entrants: online courses; in-house corporate training; community colleges.

This prompted me to think about online training. Traditionally, computer aided education has been disappointed; but it seems to me that it might be possible to do it well. We just haven't figured it out yet. I thought of the strategy that I have used to educate myself: look at questions people have, and research them (reading specs, prototyping code and testing it). I used to do this with mailing lists; but recently I've done it with Stackoverflow. You sometimes (not always) get knowledgeable feedback on your answer ("teachers") and/or see alternative/better answers. It's a good way to learn. Now, this requires a fair bit of self-teaching ability and skills (autodidacticism ftw!), of analyzing a problem; researching; proposing solutions; coding them etc, so it may not be feasible for everyone who wants to learn. However, it is a way, that's much more effective than traditional CAE.

But the interesting part is not in imparting problem-solving ability, but in conferring credentials/qualifications. If you have high karma (OWTFII) in some area, it's pretty compelling proof that you know about that area. Even if you gamed the system, you would have picked up quite a bit along the way. It's probably a comparable measure of knowledge in that area to having passed a university course in the subject, and probably far superior in terms of practical problem solving, of the problems that actually come up in practice.

Stackoverflow has created a qualification. It is an alternative to a university qualification. It is superior training and assessment for practical problem-solving. And of course, they now offer "careers 2.0", for connecting contributors to employers. They are disrupting universities.

Stackoverflow University.

The next stage would be to get formally accredited by government bodies. Tricky; maybe unnecessary.
Unfortunately that's not very representative. The stuff Stanford have listed are pretty intro courses and do not represent all types of CS courses you'd encounter
2. that's the difference. i know a company that was screened off from both angel list (almost a year ago when it was not that hot) and open angel forum, but it is definitely good and fundable.

so looks like only people who take decisions by themselves, not relying on an opinion of a crowd, would win that deal ;)
oh, yes.... how this can be possible
Actions always speak louder than words. Their turn around time on these promises will be the real reply.
With only two courses left, why bother transferring? You don't even know if all the courses will transfer correctly assuming you do get accepted. I don't get the logic behind this move?
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I mean, more like light coming from the back through the LCD screen into your eyes, unlike transreflective LCDs.

One needs a white tent pitched behind the laptop screen, and one needs to sit facing the sun. You'd be looking into the space of the tent, which is much like the display in the OP demonstration except the source of light is the sun coming through diffused through the tent fabric (and there are no buildings). The bottom floor could be a mirror.

SUN

/\
fab. / \ <-- laptop LCD
/ \
/ tent \
--------======== <- keyboard
mirror

where fab == white tent fabric
I worked in the RIM ecosystem for about a year and was always repulsed by their inability to self-criticize, so a fast and humble response like this is refreshing, even if it doesn't offer any solutions.
You obviously missed this part:

Just like with any dynamic programming problem, we need to produce a matrix

very nice code, I found it much clearer than the blog post

The key intuition is that by considering the items sequentially, you only care about being able to reach a given sum rather than caring about all the subsets that can reach that sum. So the performance is linear in the number of different sums rather than the number of subsets.
While I'm glad to see RIM respond to Jamie's post, they didn't address the ridiculous cost of the developer program. It boils down to $20/app.

I suspect the iPad will continue to dominate this year as more android developers gear up for honeycomb. Where does that really leave the playbook. Specs are great, but apps sell hardware.
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Actually it does, at least as outlined in his book.
Some one is creating work for themselves inside RIM. Instead of here's a file to DL, and some docs - it is "don't we want to grab some personal info?"; instead of "Push your apps here", someone has decided to put in another yak to shave. If in doubt, just try to get some thing on the developers machine as quickly as possible.
HN is a leading indicator.
Cost is $0 currently and most likely will remain that way unless RIM somehow recaptures number one spot (not gona happen).
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Why does Amazon Prime exist in Germany, but not Canada? Heh. I knew it existed in the US and not Canada, so I assumed that most of Amazon's "cool stuff" was just US-only.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Adversaries are limited by their budget. When it comes to security, the you should assume that any security protocol can be beaten by a sophisticated and well-funded adversary. There are too many points of failure, and human ingenuity is too powerful, for any security scheme to be impenetrable. Next you should wonder, how expensive would it be to break in? If you can make it too expensive for an adversary to break your security protocol, they will not break it.

One other important thing to consider here is that ideologically motivated adversaries (like governments) will have a different idea of what is "too expensive" than adversaries motivated purely by profit (like carders). If you're trying to avoid an ideologically motivated adversary with billions of dollars at their disposal, you have to be capable of thinking outside of the box.
What kills me is that wikipedia scrapped content out of countless sites on places like geocities which are no longer around — so wikipedia gains the benefits from having the oldest page on said topic.
> Hiring a professional editor and copy-editor is probably going to run you four-figures for a feature length book. Considering most books don't sell well, the first time writer takes a significant risk eating those costs.

If you're an author, your first book is like a startup.

You have to either beg your friends and family to do copy-editing for you, do a lot of it yourself, or somehow raise funds to get a pro copy-editor.
>That's what he'd be doing. Spending time with friends/family/ or bowing to the pressure that I know I'd face at work to close all the loose ends I might leave behind.

Be practical. They aren't going to spend all the time he's around and awake with him. ALS isn't exactly fast.

Yes, lots end up wasting their last times with TV, and yes he did something hard and helpful and that's great. But lets not kid ourselves about how oh-I-should-do-that-too, my-excuses-are-lame. Different situations, different possibilities.
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So they're getting 0 in revenue and getting bad press about the potential 200$ price point that they set themselves. Seems like pretty bad marketing, unless they're trying to avoid the trap of not being able to raise the price later because of a built expectation of free.

Is this actually a meaningful revenue source?
This is not JSON. I don't know what it is.

{ "post" { "id" : 1, "title" : "A blog post", "body" : "Some useful content" } }
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So the 3g will be free a bit later.
I'm currently working on something regarding Kindle publishing. If you're interested in having an early look, or maybe even interested in contributing, get in touch with me. Hopefully I'll be able to do a 'Show HN' in a week or two.

I'd be especially interested in a quick email chat with people who have written content for it, even though you and other HN readers are most likely not my target market.
For the past two years I've donated all of Tarsnap's profits for December to the FreeBSD Foundation. (Considerably more than 1/12th of the annual profits, due to Tarsnap's growth -- last year it worked out to 15%.)

Good to see that I'm not alone. :-)
Knowing a distribution, you know its median. Even if you just know the weight in a quantile (e.g. X% of wealth is in the hands of the top Y% of people), then you can upper bound the median wealth once you know per-capita wealth. And if you're willing to make some assumption about the general shape of the distribution, knowing it tells you even more.
Wow, if anything I would feel ebooks would make it more accessible for the blind by being usable in braille readers and text-to-speech! This was a lawsuit that shouldn't of happened.
No, I didn't miss that part. I just didn't believe it.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#Dynamic_pro.... You will find that having a table is only one of several options. The approach that I took fits the description of the second class of technique there, going bottom up.
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When did that happen to you account? and how was ur account restored?
Nice. Somehow I expected "The Final Countdown" to be playing.

What does this mean?
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Would it be feasibly possible for Angellist to somehow make a legal entity of itself as an investment consortium of which investor members became shareholders? The online Angellist platform would still be open to all interested but any actual investing done would go through the entity (Much like a Berkshire Hathaway house), and now that they have gone global, foreign start-up founding would be far easier by simply setting up foreign subsidiaries or branches.
Dude, you probably haven't seen anyone close by suffer from a debilitating disease and pass away in the recent times.
It is painful for everyone involved and it takes tremendous amount of dedication to work on something like gnome. He could have said who gives a shit.

No one dying from a disease ever thinks that 'Oh, next week is gonna be my last, let me enjoy it'. Every day is a struggle trying to find something that might help you live better or longer.
Working on an OS project is the last thing you would think of if you don't believe it passionately.
What does it means to use messaging?
Just to clarify it's not $20/app - it's $20/app AND every update to that app. It's $20/submission.
I heard from developer relations that the fee has been waved for the moment.
RIM also used to want $2K/year for HTTP access over BIS. I've heard this has been waved (but docs are still up saying this is a benefit of membership: https://partners.blackberry.com/web/guest/access-to-blackber...)
Unison also hasn't been updated at all since the original authors stopped working on it, as far as I can tell. It's only one data point, but it does suggest a downside of using ocaml for open source software...
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As someone who has worked on both sides of the table (i've looked after developer relations and I'm a developer) credit should be given for the fact that this response was internally agreed, written and published during a weekend.

I think the RIM response was great given the timing and don't be too quick to decide it fell short given that the people who would need to be involved in any change to their policies probably are not easily obtained during a weekend.

Lets see what else happens over the course of the working week.
Oops. Sorry for the upvote there, everyone. I had intended to downvote it but missed.

What bothers me about the current generation of internet users is the self-righteous segment. At least those from the US should consider that EVERYONE commits crimes, even felonies, regularly without even being aware of it. The complexity of the legal system has reached that point. In fact, based on the estimates in the Reason article linked below, the average American commits 3 felonies a day. Doesn't is seem possible that maybe there's a difference between ethical and legal?

Broad unreasonable laws have a corrosive effect-- they reduce the average person's respect for the law. The culprit isn't "this generation of Internet users". It's the laws. And it's not hard to argue that IP protections that lock down important pieces of our shared culture decades after it could have any effect on the original authors ability or desire to create works for the public fall into that category of corrosive laws.

http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367645363324303.html
Most of the things he mentions are very cheap to pull off, though. Proxy honeypots, sniffing ISP internet connections, querying IPs, email surveillance -- the infrastructure is already in place they just have to type some commands. Cost: $0.

On the other hand, actions that require actually sending men in suits and vans filled surveillance equipment can be costly. If they're doing that, you know you're in big trouble.
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At which point did I state the opposite of any of that, or even imply it? You're agreeing with me. "No one dying from a disease ever thinks that..." is precisely my point, instead people look for things with meaning.

Like contributing to community projects.

My point is more that people go all hero-worshipy when someone does something cool when they are dying, and take everything out of context and set them on a pedestal and it's ludicrous. All rationality goes out the window. "... they all suddenly seem pretty lame" is a flawed way of looking at the world, a loss of context, and it helps nobody.
It's probably a result of the very intimate relationship they have with DHL and the German postal service.
I was kidding :)

seriously though, what's up with the sort() call?
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When you are dying, All rationality goes out the window.
Working on open source project is the last thing they worry about.

Let me ask you something. Whom do you respect?
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That is not really answering the question.

Are you also going to design your iPhone or iPad apps in objective-c?

It's easy to use code for structure and basic skinning but if you need details you are simply going to have to take it through some editor
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what's up with the sort() call?

The spec for the problem he was actually trying to solve said that you needed to provide the set of activities in sorted order. The list is generated in no particular order, so I sorted them before returning them. (A Python array sort sorts the array in place.)
The game companies generally don't care about the really old stuff. They don't see much (if any) commercial value in them anymore.

Don't try to emulate their latest or one-to-latest console though.
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thanks a lot, will do
Indeed. If you really need layer upon layer of abstraction, why not go back to the XMLRPC protocols?

The charm of JSON, to me, is its simplicity: that it can run on a bare HTTP server without worrying about dispatching, using a special library with a schema to strictly format responses, and so on.
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Meh. Why develop for RIM? They don't have any market share, and they're not easier to work with than Apple (or the runner-up, Google). They're even behind #3, Palm/HP. They haven't shipped, and I don't have any idea when they will. I read the tech press pretty much every day, and I have no idea when this is supposed to be. I assume this year?

If you're working on a RIM app, I'm asking you: why? I am honestly curious.

Edit: I went to rim.com, and after three pages and six clicks (including that funny country selector thing - why do I have to do this again? I don't need to do this when I visit apple.com), I finally got to the "playbook" page. But nowhere on that page is any indication of when I'll be able to buy this thing, or any kind of online store that would let me order it. All I can see is "Get Updates" which takes me to the form on the bottom of the page where I can tell them how to send me a promotional newsletter. (This makes me glad that I bought an iPad last April. If I had to wait for RIM, the best I could do would be to print out a picture of their product, glue it to a thin book and pretend that I have an iPad.)

Edit #2: You know, Palm made a great effort at almost this same thing, actually shippped their product, and they still sank (and they're only relevant now because HP picked up the pieces) for messing up less than this. How is this going to be any different, except that this time around, there's won't be a suitor like HP to buy up what's left of RIM?
The service is impressively good.
Support is fast and interested in what you need.
The bandwidth is incredible and cheap as hell!
Processing power seems great (even on lower speeds)
The features keep coming and KVM/Qemu rules the virtualization world! ;)

Hey, sorry for that, I'm just a happy user/fan
I have both devices and use them in completely different ways. The iPad is a poor book reading device but great for other things.

I can pick up the Kindle and use it just as I would use a paper book but I'd never use it to surf the web even if it was possible.
And an Amazon link, rather than amazn(wtf?) http://www.amazon.com/Pale-King-David-Foster-Wallace/dp/0316...
A well rounded software developer needs both. You need to know how to design, get that design to work, and after that submit your code to a test team and later clients, take their feedback and correct or enhance the code accordingly. You cannot do much with a guy who is only willing to create, as his code will eventually have bugs. A guy who only wants to fix though will probably be able to find a place in service or customer support.
This is very similar to the plan Mubarak executed* during the protests in Egypt. People will see right through this, will likely forward to take credit but will ignore the advice. Either way there's no going back after killing your own people with mercenaries.

* Vodafone: Egypt Forced Us to Send Text Messages:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=12830205
Actually, I spent a year at death's door and I agree with Groxx. Some folks who are sick do not have the ability to do something like this. But lots of them spend time on email lists, trying to give support to others as one of the few useful, gratifying things they are still capable of. I went back to school (part-time and mostly online) and, while still very ill, began growing some little websites (which originated as emails on some email lists). Finding something, anything to do to occupy your mind while your body is a hellish prison of endless torment is blessed relief and sometimes the only reason to not commit suicide. Different people handle it differently, but people who are dying don't typically do stuff like this to be remembered heroically. They typically do it to still have something of a life in spite of it all.

The main text for my class on homelessness and public policy was a book called "Tell them who I am" written by a man dying of cancer. He was already doing volunteer work with a homeless shelter and when it became clear he likely wouldn't live, he decided to do something more satisfying with his life than just keep showing up for his job. So he quit and spent more time with these homeless women and wrote a book. It is an amazing book. But the guy didn't do it to be all heroic. He did it because he valued the experience more than showing up for work and wanted to grab a little gusto while he still could.

Anyway, I upvoted you for all the good it did. It went right back to negative 4 before I could hit reply. Sigh.
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I'm currently reading Masters of Doom, and I can't help but chuckle: John Carmack was doing this in 1990 on the PC platform. Back then it was considered too slow to do side-scrolling.