skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another point where I'm a bit irrational, if I find out that an ebook had a sale for a substantially lower price than now (like the 15$ sale for the "authoring ebooks" book), I'm much less likely to want to buy it at full price because then I feel cheated... It's the same thing for Iphone Apps and so on...

I'm not sure if there are many people like me, it's a bit irrational but it's something that might be a good idea to take into account before doing a sale... By doing a sale you fix the value of your product in the mind of the customer to the price of the sale.
Just a simple web app up. I was tinkering with grails so I thought I'll use that for my latest project. The idea is simple, you put the sticker on your device. If someone finds it, we manage the return process you just pay for shipping and and give the person a reward.

What do you think about this?
I teach at mathematics at a community college. I have videos for each section of the book and created problem sets for each section of the book. In essence, I've created my own book.

My intention was to invert the role of homework and classwork. That is, that homework would now consist of watching the lecture. Classwork would focus on solving problems. The outcome? Disaster.

I tracked usage of the videos. Around half the class didn't watch a given lecture. Around 1/3 consistently watched the lectures. The effect of this was that over time only around 1/3 of the class was able (and willing) to engage in problem solving and discussions about the material.

I had 2/3 of the students hopelessly lost by the tenth week. How does this compare to the traditional format? When I give the standard lecture/homework assignment type class around 2/3 will pass. I double the number of people passing but I strongly suspect that they end up failing in the next course. (It is quite easy to pass beginning math classes these days. ) My anecdotal experience is that while I get more people to pass by giving lectures each day I end up with a group of people who know the material less well.

My experience tells me that around 1/4 of the students will learn the material from my video lectures because they are motivated and willing to engage me when they are lost. Around 1/4 will stumble through the course and learn something regardless of the format it is given in. The rest are mostly hopeless. They lack motivation, drive, and the ability to work intellectually.

What you describe does work with motivated students and the right teacher. I am not the right teacher for this though. Without motivated students I don't think it works. That's the essence of the problem. Too many students don't want to learn.

In a traditional class a student can hide their ignorance. They don't raise their hand and don't participate. The facade of being studious and understanding the material can be maintained. When you assign lecture watching as the homework and then spend class time solving problems it becomes evident who is not keeping up. It can't be hidden. This causes negative reactions in my experience.

Here's a great lecture by Eric Mazur. It's long but well worth watching. It's called, "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI
Interesting. Thanks for the writeup.
"Am I supposed to tweet about it? If so, why doesn’t the interface encourage that? Even if I hit the (effectively invisible) New Tweet button from this screen, my tweet isn’t prepopulated with “#michigan”, so whatever I say in response won’t be included here."

The new tweet button is the same size and in the same place as in the rest of the application. Trying the button and it does auto fill the trending hash tag.

The rest of the article hits the point, but there is no need for these inaccuracies.
I haven't had big troubles for browsing the web, though interacting with it (e.g. posting stuff in comment areas) is more problematic. Looking at the sites I regularly visit, all can be browsed fine without js: Wikipedia, HN, Reddit, Twitter, any Wordpress blog, Slashdot, Google News and just about everything it links to, university professor/project websites, etc.

In fact, I can't think of a site I regularly visit that doesn't work without js, except for things clearly in the category of "web apps", like canvaspaint.org, where the idea of "browsing" them doesn't even necessarily make sense. Even gmail works without js!
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And imagine if the interface did encourage Marco to tweet about it. Then what would he say? "Why should I tweet about this crap? I'm double offended!!"
Zend Studio is the best there is when writing PHP code. I wouldn't use Notepad++ or any other editor instead :) Of course ZDE does so much more: http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/
Someone made something like this a few weeks back based on the IE6 Countdown. Screen grab:
http://37prime.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iecountdo...
Actually, if both ways "sound wrong" to people who aren't used to them, but one way is consistent, then I'd argue it's the objectively "better" way.

By the way I'm used to the American usage, myself.
... which redirects to http://www.britishmuseum.org/ .
"I think Twitter's a good thing. Why say a lot to a few people when you can say virtually nothing to everyone"

--Jerry Seinfeld
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It's a culture issue that's difficult to work around.

Haters gonna hate. Ignore em.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

Surprisingly, perhaps, this is the first post that actually made me consider entrepreneurship. You indicated succinctly what positive and negative forces to expect -- and how to reality-check an idea (people freaking out over it ;-))
Is this possible to see if URL was shared/liked by currently signed in facebook user?
I've wanted to create such a site for many years now. My focus is on community college level mathematics. My goal is to make it topic based.

My college's administration is a bit conservative when it comes to new ideas. I think you are wrong about not having enough videos though. More and more college faculty are creating their own videos. What is lacking is a central storage location for these videos. I think people would be willing to upload their videos and make them publicly available.

I could, over time, what evolves is a book. In math this would work because at the beginning levels the knowledge is static. How to factor trinomials is not ever going to change. I think a Stackoverflow site would work for lecture videos.
Life is overrated. Honestly. This isn't the most popular view but it has to be said. We, as human race, seriously think we are the cream of the world but we are deluded in that thinking.

We are capable of torturing each other, and killing each other, while guided by our own desires only.

"Oh, gee, will me raping that kid put him in a 23-year old dark room that'll end with his suicide? Too bad, I'm special, I can't stop, I won't stop, I don't care! Fuck you!"

And look, you, all the people against suicide, are you any better?

"Hey, dude, I know you're probably enduring torture since you think death is better than what you are going through but, if you kill yourself, you'll be an asshole since you provide so much entertainment for the rest of us. "

Honestly, human race doesn't deserve any respect (yet).
Maybe not offensive. But definitely distracting and defeats the purpose of Twitter - which, for me at least, is to show me stuff I'm interested in.

Plus, it takes up a load of pixels on a device that is already short on screen space (a problem I have with all ad-supported mobile apps - I was quite happy to pay for Tweetie and I was quite happy to pay for Twitteriffic - and I am returning to using Twitteriffic full time).
As usual the trick is to get inspired and not slavishly follow any particular implementation. Due to each site having differences in design and purpose, the only way is to do continuous a/b testing.

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/tag/cal...

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3073/a-b-testing-th...

http://thinkvitamin.com/web-apps/how-to-increase-sign-ups-by...
Not really: One organization is one thing, logically speaking.

Then why say "people love this" instead of "people loves this" (as in Spanish or French)? Saying "my people love this" while you say "my family loves this" is highly inconsistent.
It does for IDE. A mostly C tool may be extended to work with C++ but it's not a perfect fit [1]. Probably it goes the other way around as well.

When used with inheritance, virtual functions, overloading and templates, C++ is much different semantically than the relatively straightforward C. Thus a different tool is to be preferred.

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[1] that's my experience with the http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
Main reason for the lack of mobility for places other than US is because of the size of the mobilizable area one can take. Before the formation of EU, Europeans can only move within their own nation, and comparing that to US, you can see the big difference in terms of land size and number of cities to choose from.

With that regard, one need some other forms of statistics to compare if there is no such housing prison (which exists all over the world) and how would this different from the current situation.
> The only thing missing from the traditional classroom learning cycle is the possibility of something being explained in a different way if the student is still having difficulty.

I believe Khan's "Coaches" are for just this purpose. I really think that this is one of the more ingenious parts of Khan Academy. In traditional education, there was very little opportunity for collaborative learning because the roles of student and teacher are so well defined.

The role of a coach can engender and empower a collaborative learning environment.
ActivePython is surely most often edited in Komodo? They are both ActiveState products.
i.e.: http://twigkit.github.com/tempo/examples/twitter
with no-script turned on
http://yfrog.com/h2g6vcqj
well, i'm not quite sure how "Degrades gracefully" is defined, but i would not call the no js-version "gracefully"
Google needs Android to succeed in Africa.
While that is true, I think the looting cases there could be viewed as an exception, as compared to widespread looting that happens just after natural disaster anywhere else in the world.
Being an entrepreneur is like periodically being dragged through Hell and loving it. :)
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You prove my point and contradict OP's suggestions, exactly.
"How does the judge/jury distinction come into play? Is there empirical evidence that trials with juries have more accurate outcomes?"

Juries may be less accurate and the OP's point still stands - there's a difference. I can easily imagine that juries tend to convict less often. That doesn't mean they're more accurate.
Related to the hardware buttons complaint...that's maybe relevant for HTC phones. LG, for instance, has REAL buttons not those touch sensitive crap and you really can't press those by mistake.
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Interesting that you chose Zynga or Groupon and not Facebook or Google. I think it's the latter YC is looking out for more than the former.
Unix was taken one step further with Plan 9. On P9, the two common editors are Sam [1] and Acme [2]. While not IDEs per se, Acme yields very well to scripting. A bunch of scripts tailored to the current project really makes my day.

Acme has that neat feature of interpreting text as potential hypertext -- each of several addressing formats [3], when clicked, opens indicated file or resource, at the indicated point. Click on compiler error message and you get there. Prepare a command, click on it and you execute it. Etc., etc.

Also, unlike the mainstream IDEs and editors, those two work surprisingly well over network.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

[3] implemented via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumber_(program)
A C IDE is barely usable with C++.
I wrote "PHP bitches" since I found the exclusion of PHP to be rather rude indeed.
I'm sorry, but if you have money and you're not allowed to spend it on what you do need the most, then actually you don't have money and you've definitely got a money problem.
Searching for 'site:cat' in Google yields over 81M results, 11M more than 'site:me'. As a sample of real use, check out the site of the Catalan Government: http://www.gencat.cat/.
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That's probably because they're mistaken as to what an IDE is.

In my mind, if it's not background compiling your code as you type, it's not an IDE in the modern sense.
Reddit-style thread?
omega is a word character.

Insert rant about cultural imperialism here.
In addition to the technical details, I'd like to know what sort of impact BN has had, particularly how things are going now. Have you been able to capitalize on BN's popularity? Is it still popular now that it's been reinstated?

Anyways, great writeup; I'm looking forward to your future posts.
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I agree that gedit is a very nice and light editor for code.

The only feature I really miss in gedit is "Replace in selection". I use this many times in refactoring code. There have been many requests for it but the developers are refusing to add this basic feature.
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Why combine c and c++ together. If you are using mostly C with some C++, you are really using C++. If you are using C++, well you are using C++.
Nope, that'll be W12 for me.
Xcode is also quite handy as a simple text editor. I have linked all my txt/py/sh/js files to be opened with Xcode. For most languages it has some syntax highlighting support and it always has some semi intelligent autocompletion.
Alcoholics are often better off avoiding alcohol than trying to maintain a light buzz when partying. It's also easier to setup and use safe transpiration before people start drinking.

It takes less willpower to avoid buying soda/chocolate/candy/etc at the supermarket than it does to keep some in the refrigerator but drink it in moderation. It's easier to avoid driving recklessly in a normal car than a sports car. People are more rational when shopping for a car online than in showrooms.
I don’t think you read the article.
.cat is because of their language. I think it makes sense.

I mean Catalán, not lolcat :-)
Strange. It doesn't seem to work with twitter.com.
Emacs is more an IDE than text editor, though it may not look like one at the first glance. Maybe if it had more windows opened by default...
YC sounds amazing from the outside. I'm not a part, nor will I ever be. (I'm an entrepreneur in the software space, but I'm not a technical founder and have no plans to pick up any books on code, which means I'm out of the running immediately...and understandably.)

However, also from the outside, it seems like YC is creating entrepreneurs that experience their first business startup in a dreamworld that doesn't exist anywhere else; a bubble if you will, but not the kind of bubble that pops and brings down an industry...more like the bubble that private school kids experience during high school that sends them into a tizzy when they breathe the free air of college.

What happens to these founders when their first startup fails and they try again in the real world without the thick black book of strategic contacts in PG's back pocket and the guaranteed $150k from Yuri and Co? Starting companies out here in the "ghetto" (where money is earned, not given) is hard.

There is a story that's sitting near the top of HN right now that says YC is like a bootcamp for founders. That's a joke, right? I'm pretty sure it's more like summer camp for founders...or maybe a gentleman's club for founders where the sexiest startups dance on stage and investors try to stick money in the g-strings of the founders.

So, getting more to the point, I'm less concerned about what Y Combinator will look like in 3 years and more concerned for the founders that fail on round one and don't have the cushion of YC's couch to sleep on while they dream up their next big idea. But YC will most likely be exactly what PG wants it to be in 3 years, just like it always has been.
The plans were shelved because thorium does not produce plutonium for bombs.

At least according to wikipedia the MSR produce 233U which could be used to making nuclear weapons (see Operation Teapot http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Teapot.html)
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A voice of reason speaks of the tragedies in Japan.
I did. What's your point?
It would be great if the answer(s) were initially obscured so that one could use this site to challenge themself.
.cat is for Catalunya, and only open for sites in Catalan.

.co is for Colombia

Google uses both:

http://www.google.cat/ (in Catalan)

http://www.google.com.co/ (in Spanish)
You should start your sequence with C--, another popular language in the C family.
Ok, then, where is the entitlement you are sensing? I couldn’t find any.
Yep, I was on the Wikipedia IRC the other day and there was a debate about whether the Wikimedia Foundation should register wikipedia.xxx, wikimedia.xxx, wikinews.xxx etc. to prevent people from squatting them and doing evil things with them.

I'm sure plenty of businesses, non-profits and governments are thinking the same thing in order to prevent whitehouse.com/whitehouse.gov mixups.
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Feedback wanted! :) Yes, I know, I should add hyperspace! :D Websockets and highscores maybe?
You view the site in IE, don't you?
This article forgets: A lot of (most?) open source software is aimed at servers. Those certainly aren't in danger of a 'post-PC' world, one could argue the server side will become even more important. So open source will certainly 'survive'.
Ask HN: What's the best way of learning a foreign language on your own?
Amidst all of these news from Japan, an old itch of mine has re-surfaced: learning japanese. However, I live in a spanish speaking country, and can't find (decent or not) teachers of that language in my town.
I've attempted to learn it online before, but haven't succeeded, mostly because I had no guidelines on how to attack this problem. I'm sure some of the HN members have faced this same issue before (perhaps with another language), so I'm asking: If you learnt the language (be that japanese or other) on your own, how did you accomplished it? Which would be the main tips to succeed in this enterprise?
Who pays (sticker - $5) for a used book? Add the shipping cost and you're more expensive than a new one! Plus, what kind of book do you buy that have resale value? They surely aren't programming/IT books, because those become worthless after 3 years or so.
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rapportive functionality connected with something like Lanyrd

You mean something like this? :) http://lanyrd.com/blog/2011/rapportive/
The best way (as per the title of your post) to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it by going there, and at the same time, get lessons in the grammar and other fine points of it.
The UK has some interesting ones:

http://bl.uk/ (British Library)

http://nhs.uk/ (National Health Service)

http://police.uk/ (takes you to a page which links to all the individual police forces)

http://mod.uk/ (Ministry of Defence)
Really nice post, I felt like I was re-living the week as you wrote
I don't see how you can call it a "Stack Overflow for X" if it doesn't have voting.
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Speaking a language other than English, and knowing about a non-US culture.

Yes, that is sarcastic.
What am I missing? Why is this good / funny / useful / whatever?
{{tag}} is not "valid" markup (it will pass a validator but has negative semantic value), which is even worse than mixing a little well crafted logic into your display code.
Two-billion year old nuclear reactor found in Africa (2009)
By whom? Where?
Thanks for the tip. I'll rephrase the question.
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not really, the server can't see that # in the URL, it doesn't get sent by the browser. The only way they could do that is if they switched to #! style ajax urls ala twitter
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2 points:

1. Having quizzes post-video is still different than having a different teaching style. In terms of learning outcomes, the two styles could potentially be equal, however in terms of student motivation/engagement/interest, they are different.

2. I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily here, but I thought the quizzes are only for some math at the moment, and nothing else? This would mean that at the moment his argument applies to everything except some math concepts?
inotify? You can get the OS to respond to filesystem events, for example, compiling as you type.

Scripting languages don't need this though.
> However, if xxx sees wide adoption, and the xxx sites move off of com (redirect), that's a big weight off the shoulders of blacklist and filtration vendors.

So, they should move to .xxx to facilitate being blocked? Somehow I do not see it.
There are two separate Fukushima nuclear power plants, Fukushima I (Daiichi) and Fukushima II (Daini). The reason we're not hearing much about Fukushima II is that some of the reactors incurred some damage, but it was addressed quickly and all four reactors were in stable cold shutdown by early last week.
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He's raising a stink about a company's (poor) attempt at making money by causing its users the slightest inconvenience. That ad uses what, less than 10% of the screen space? Now, you can criticise how bad or ineffective the ads are. But, no, the dude is offended! He feels entitled to get even more from Twitter than what he's paying for, which is $0.

It's like if I got offended for Instapaper charging money for a premium subscription. No, I'm just grateful Marco's built an amazingly useful tool and is letting me use it for free. I'm not entitled to more than that.
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I think it's just a hack and a private joke against the dickbar news going around. It's all in good thoughts.

I am genuinely impressed how fast these pop up on the net (and on hn) based on today's news.

That reminds me of the days where you had a new flash game following new memes.
Lets look into the precedents. Modern interpretation used by courts is that automated weapons didn't exist when 2nd Amendment was written.
The same way it will be with email didn't exist back then.

It doesn't matter that rifles of the time were the assault weapons of the time and the meaning of "papers" of the time can be extended to email.