skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A kid who has his own illegible handwriting may face some obstacles later on...Bias against poor penmanship can push a score by two standard deviations."People form opinions about the quality of ideas based on the handwriting," he says.

In that case, we should definitely kill standardized cursive. Then everyone will have bad handwriting and graders will be obligated to grade based on content.
An incentive to support coreboot/openbios?
Advertising that you only spent one week on it hardly makes me want to invest my own time in it. It sounds like a website thats going to rot away in the same timeframe.
I got Ruby Best Practices and the Pragmatic Bookshelf's 'Programming Ruby 1.9' from the library last summer, and had an incredibly productive time. I would sit in front of my laptop reading RBP, and any time I was confused by a class or anything, flip there in the reference and see what the method did. I could keep my terminal up on screen and not switch into "web browser + search engine" mode at all.

Having a book is like having an additional monitor full of information that is uncompromising on your task. It's also wonderful to read, and easy to pop open even when your laptop isn't out, and you're just curious "I wonder if Array has a method to do ...."

A final note, because of that, having a paper reference (especially an annotated one) lends itself strongly to actually reading large swaths of it, instead of just finding the method you need and putting it away. With it being clunky, you don't want to do a lookup twice, so you open it and keep it open, and often read through a module/class' entire method list. That really improves your knowledge.

So in short, because it encourages good work and work practices.
... or MongoDB.
I could write a book just answering this question. I find that most online reference sites, while extremely useful, lack a certain style, as well as, you know, in-depth treatment of language concepts.
Found Computrace in my ThinkPad X201's BIOS. However, there's an option to permanently disable it.
Anyone doing anything like manual labor or factory work in the U.S. must be paid time and a half for all hours after the first 40 hours per week. (Organization with only a handful of employees might be exempt from this law.) In contrast, professionals receiving a salary usually do not have to be paid overtime. (I live in the U.S.)
I agree that people ought to be entitled to keep secrets. But Google is not a person, it is a publicly traded corporation which wields economic power on the same scale as state governments. I don't argue that they aren't entitled to secrets, but if they are, it is for different reasons and the comparison of those rights is misleading.
This is gold... "The only kind of marketing you need is an amazing product. If it’s good, people will spread the word for you. All other kind of marketing is disingenuous."
39: You will die, and you do not know when. When you start to truly accept this you will go about your life with little fear. Change friends, Pick up an old book, choose a new career path, move to another state or country, ask for a raise, and more importantly know there isn't the "only one for me", there are many of them.
But the author is clearly delusional.

He doesn't seem to understand the difference between being an employee for a company that was hired by Google and being a Google employee and instead concocts this story about class warfare and injustice.
I'm impressed that they support the features of CPython 2.7 already. PyPy seems to be developing much faster than other alternate python implementations.
The blog page doesn't work, and the main page brings up a permission dialog. Without knowing what this is about or why I should allow my video to be shared(or possibly recorded, etc), I can't click "allow".
Is There Hope for Liberty in Our Lifetime?
Why it's so relaxing to think about social issues
Its true in its essence, but the author skipped out a lot of details in marketing. You would never hear about many great products unless it was promoted by "disingenuous" marketing.
That page has been removed from Absolute's website; cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vb0e0b5...

edit: Or Absolute updated their site map; list here: http://www.absolute.com/en/partners/bios-compatibility.aspx
Python Cookbook is the best if you do not need to learn programming.
I personally find this article's brand of narcissism-masquerading-as-activism really upsetting. This is not a blog entry about uncovering the seedy side of Google and how they abuse their employees. The only information of this kind to be found in the article is that a). Google has contract workers and b). they're mostly minorities. That's it.

The rest of the blog entry is a passive-aggressive lament wherein the author attempts to convert the reader's sympathy for said workers into sympathy for himself and his treatment at the hands of Google. If this were really an article about class conflict in tech companies, that might be interesting, but it's not. The way the author flings around adjectives that border on insults ("chubby white man"; "sedate black guard" -- what?) indicates that he doesn't really have any substantial background in race, class, or gender studies. Nor does he have anything interesting to say on those subjects.

As it is, this is (passive-aggressive) mud-flinging with no real evidence or substance behind it.
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After that, http://www.blueprintcss.org/ (or http://960.gs/) and http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes
In a defense of Absolute software - I met with them few years ago and they are a fairly large and very technical company, not a bunch of hacks. Their CTO is a guy who wrote QEMM [1] back in 80-90s. Younglings may not know what this is, but it was one of the most impressive and useful bits of software to ever hit MS-DOS.

With regards to the CompuTrace - it is their primary product and it has been in the development for quite a while. From what I remember they have went to great pains to standardize the placement of the tracing software on bootable disks, i.e. create an open standard through RFC process with disk/OS vendors and what not. As I said they are not some random hacks, and they fully understand the importance of being open and transparent.

In other words, if you want to point a finger here, point it at Toshiba that failed to disclose the placement of ComputTrace on their laptops. Also understand that the software is designed to be hard to detect as its primary usage is tracking, recovery and remote wipe of stolen laptops, hence it being very similar to a rootkit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM
Because sitting below high tide and yelling at the sea is a good way to get your feet wet.
Chelsy Davy Royal Wedding - Prince
Chelsy Davy Royal Wedding - Prince Harry has reportedly called ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy, Prince William and Kate Middleton at the wedding in April.
According to Pyrex, they made the switch to soda-lime glass in America over 60 years ago.

http://www.pyrexware.com/index.asp?pageId=30#TruthID6

and according to STATS.org:

"[...]the industry as a whole switched from borosilicate [...] in the 1980s for a variety of reasons, including the fact that soda lime was easier to melt and work with (fewer deformities in the glass). But one of the major reasons for moving to soda lime was environmental compliance: borosilicate glass produces far more emissions from a glass furnace, accounting, in part, for the presence of boric acid in the water and soil. And it was not economical for companies to install multi-million dollar filter systems."

http://stats.org/stories/2009/exploding_pyrex_oct14_09.html
no it wasn't then. It was around 2000 or so and more related to (as i remember) two things - securing government and enterprise contracts and public perception related to viruses and security. I was there as an employee in Visual Studio and distinctly remember the admonition from Brian Valentine that there were to be NO easter eggs in Win2K and on. They couldn't credibly say that they were in control of the security of the platform with people hiding doom levels in Excel and (in the case of Visual Studio) working slot machines...
Alexia Tsotsis interview with Andrew Mason
I would have preferred to see your response up there instead of his. More substance. Less abuse.
On the contrary, since Schmidt was actually running Google when this incident happened, it would seem to be perfectly applicable. <sarcasm> Or are you saying that Schmidt only meant it for others and not for Google itself? </sarcasm>
Ask HN: Can you recommend some directories to list your app?
Hello! I have a side project:

I'd like to make it more known to freelancers - it doesn't cost anything & it's embeddable on your site (most likely, your contact page)

What are some good places that list apps (not startups, so like killerstartups.com but for apps)?

One that I am already aware of, that I will be trying to get listed on: go2web20.net
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Actually, I doubt that any cursive standard really applies and I think everyone sort of does their own thing anyway, even the most anal teachers.
Exactly: even when there was no X windowing system installed on my Linux and the only browser I have access to was Lynx, I found myself using Lynx to procrastinate.

ADDED. Actually, the proper way to think about anti-procrastination is "willpower conservation", and not having a graphical browser installed or not having software on the computer that allows the watching of videos does conserve significant willpower when one is trying to get work done.
it would certainly have been possible for the comment author (bane) to have made that point without all the nasty name-calling.
Can Google Fix Google TV This Time Round?
Rumors are that Google is about to release the next version of Google TV. Some thoughts on what needs to be done to convert the product from a dud to a hit
If I got a letter like this from someone that I wasn't dating for a while I would be totally creeped out.
I completely agree with you!

As someone who has dysgraphia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia), I have faced this problem so many time in school. Luckily in India esp. in my state, if you have Dysgraphia, you could use a scribe and dictate your answers at least for major examinations.

I am happy that even though I am in a grad school, I now rarely have to write anything.
The mobile web, bookmarks and the apps they should be able to play with
Seems to me there are two issues:

1.) Yellow badge worker treatment -- most of the comments here seem to accept his description of their work life (right or wrong) as fact, it is unsubstantiated to me. I see a video of people getting in their cars and going home, that is all. Considering he claims to have never spoken to any of them, except for a brief encounter before security grabbed him, it would seem even he is admitting he does not have first hand knowledge of anything he said. It is an entirely less than complete view (and possibly incorrect description) to which to draw any conclusion.

For that reason most of the discussion seems premature to me. With that said, no luxury transport, no free meals, etc -- does in fact describe the working conditions of 99.9% of Americans. A company treating people normally is not substantially interesting, tho apparently juxtaposition makes it so -- because what is interesting, and has always been interesting about Google, is that they treat their employees extraordinarily well.

2.) Was Google "right" for wanting him off the campus? Sure -- they contracted with his employer to provide some service, not to film an expose about Google itself,made possible only by being on the Google campus with unfettered access to the grounds. I realize he says he did not film it with the idea it would be an expose, but film is shot to be shown, and in his letter he makes it fairly clear what his interest was in filming, the assumptions and/or understanding he had while filming -- which gives a fairly clear picture of why he was filming. And it resulted in just about the kind of film you would expect. That isn't what he was there for. There is nothing that even remotely rises to a whistleblower type defense, as there is nothing remotely illegal about what he claims to be the yellow badge worker treatment. If he had in fact been filming something illegal (or at least in some way out of the norm in a negative fashion, even), my opinion would be more substantially in his favor -- in relation to how egregious the treatment actually was.
The Python overview in the Web2py docs might be sufficient (http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/02). It's very concise but covers the basics. Then, for reference, the Python docs are the way to go.
I think your confusing two separate things. Independant contractors that receive a 1099, and "contractors" where a company pays another company for services.

The IRS doesn't care if companies contract services from other companies. They don't like full time employees being treated as 1099 employees because tax collection is more difficult. 1099 employees, as independent business owners, can write off many expenses which are hard to audit and result in lower tax revenue.
No, I'm suggesting that the way they stucture these perks and their security arrangements is not as good as it could be. It creates more segregation than necessary. I think that money works pretty well as a general equivalent and perks that require social segregation are not the best way to pay according to different levels of performance or competence.
Yeah I was kinda thinking of HTML applications that are not intended to be used in the browser.
What the fuck was that about?

I'm so sorry to speak so frankly but I thought this time my unvarnished first impression would be useful

The overwhelming screaming in my head was

What the fuck was that about?

Make it clear what you are trying to achieve. fewer distractions. one goal

Good luck
Did someone bury the lede here or is this not the first time joshu's talked about exactly what Tasty Labs is doing?
IronPython actually beat us to 2.7, however I will note that it was pretty fast. We went from 2.5 to 2.7 support in under 12 months.
Oh weird, my handwriting looks almost exactly like the "motor dysgraphia" sample and I seem to have a good number of the symptoms of motor dysgraphia (pretty much everything except the spelling mistakes and talking to myself while writing). I never realized it might a "thing" before.

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I was born left-handed and retrained to be right-handed as a kid?
"Bricklayers don’t have laws guaranteeing they make money, marketers don’t, plumbers don’t, and nobody else does, either."

They do if you take their services/products.
Two words: fuck bureaucracy.

This is why I'll never work for a large company.
I don't think most people refer as a "weekend project" to brag about performance and how much they did with little time, for me it's a general term that refers to something you do on your "free" time or time outside your normal work schedule.
You're getting a little mixed up. People with red badges (like the author) are contractors. The article is about people with yellow badges, who receive far fewer perquisites and are kept separate from the general googler population.

Who are the people with yellow badges? The author never found out. And Google does not appear to have made the information public.
Maybe this is a dumb question but why not just work on making CPython faster?

Edit: I guess this provides insights:

http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/architecture.html
Show HN: a social site designed to manage multiple groups
Abstraction versus Mock Objects
About a month ago, there was a post here on hacker news about how Google was potentially working on a social networking site based around your circles. Turns out that it was just a rumor and that Google has no intention on working on such a site. I really liked the idea and it was something that i had personally been waiting for. Since Google had abandoned circles (or the idea of it at least) i then entertained the thought of rolling one out for me and my friends. So I started digging around on the subject and found Paul Adam's presentation "The real life social network" http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... and became fully inspired to create CircleRiot. One fun month later of just coding; i rolled out CircleRiot for me and my friends to enjoy. Needless to say they loved it. So now I thought i'd share this with hacker news hoping that you guys will enjoy it as well as we did. So enjoy! Feel free to leave feedback. I'm anxious to hear what you guys think of this.

Btw: this site is invites only. If you'd like to invite your friends, please send them the invite link that is created with your account. Thank you!
As far as sociology or expose goes, the article is uninteresting. What, a giant corporation uses every legal means at its disposal to make sure it gets only good PR? What, there exist serious race and class disparities in the United States that manifest themselves in the workplace? What, Google has a good PR department that doesn't reflect actual internal practices? Quelle horreur!

What's more interesting from a sociological perspective is the range of most of the reactions here on Hacker News, which seem to vary between "he doesn't understand that this is just how things work" to brick shitting freak out ("passive aggressive", "nitwit", "see a psychologist").

If you find yourself immediately jumping into defense mechanisms, stop for a second and think about why that is.
Depends on the project

clickable: http://www.phpframeworks.com/
The premise of the article is that cursive is the natural consequence of writing more efficiently. Individuals will write in their own form of cursive even if not taught explicitly.

This completely misses the point that people won't be writing enough to bother optimizing it with their own cursive style. Nor will they be writing in cursive frequently enough to keep up the skill.

How do I know this? Because this is the life I have lived. Moreover, I was taught cursive and have lost the ability to write legible cursive in high school and have reverted to printing ever since when I absolutely have to write with a pen.

Is cursive dead? No, but it is dying.
Entitled or not, it's clear that organizations have many reasons to want to keep secrets.
I wish I could find the video the talk where we explained this in great detail, but basically: it's hard, it's been tried and failed (notably by Armin Rigo, one of the leads of PyPy). Adding a new GC to CPython is insanely hard, and manually writing a JIT for Python even moreso.
How about breaking into a bank to learn more about their security systems?
They lost momentum.
A call of action to all PHP developers out there: We must defend our language against this misrepresentation that PHP is ugly and verbose. It is not a fair comparison of teh power of PHP as it is now. I suggest we start a similar project called "Sucralose" in which we compile PHP into Ruby 1.8 written in Objective-C using MacRuby. I will host it on PEAR. All hail Zend!
Unladen Swallow seems to indicate that making CPython substantially faster in the general way is not feasible as of now.
The sale of the Pyrex brand? No. The reformulation of the glass? Yes.
"Wrongful termination" is largely a myth. I know a lot of educated professionals who believe they have the right to a "fair" termination, but except for very specific instances, it isn't the case, and these threats go nowhere.

In most cases, unless there is a smoking gun, employers just sidestep the issue by targeting "layoffs", rather firing for cause.

The bigger issue HR deals with is sexual harassment or discrimination cases. And, even nuisance lawsuits can be expensive to deal with, and HR/clerical staff is a lot cheaper than lawyers.
I dont know what your experience is but if you were coming in at a jr level that seems a bit low. 50-75k seems to be the range for 0-3 yrs of experience. If you are able to get in somewhere and work with the senior guys and find a good group of them who are willing to share knowledge with you it is very easy to get to mid/senior level with some effort.
Screenshots please.
For me-

* Meta is mapped to the Command key (and the option key).
* Control is mapped to control.
* I suppose I should try to remap the Fn key to be Control to really make it work right instead of the weird curve that currently has to happen.

When I really am interested in getting typing done I hook up a MS Natural 4K. It's a much more pleasant experience. My keybindings are customized for maximum ease there (and believe me, my hands/wrists do not hurt after a long-term coding session there). Laptops are fine for messing around for a while, but after a period of typing my hands hurt.
I'm really interested in this project. The abundance of C as "the new machine language" for language implementation, as well as the JVM-based languages, makes me wonder what it means for the programming language landscape. I would be very interested in learning whether this un-C implementation made any difference to Python, and what can be learned from it in way of other language implementations
Borosilicate is a lot more difficult to work with in general. Basically, they cut corners and downgraded goods available to consumers, as companies have done with many other products in the past 50 years.
I agree that Google is within its right to deny them lunch, shuttle services or whatever fancy perks they dish out to their regular employees. But what I can't understand is the discrimination that Google is perpetrating against them by denying them the basic human privilege of talking to another human being.

As employees Vic Gundotra or Marissa Mayer will be knowing more company secrets than these guys will know in their lifetime. Do they also have a phone number on the back of their badge to call if somebody unknown approaches them? Are they also prevented from talking to other employees so that they don't leak those secrets? Why is Google afraid that only the yellow badges cannot keep the company secrets? What if their supervisor simply tells them that what they are working on is a company secret. Like almost any other employees why Google thinks they can' keep it a secret? Why do they have to impose this almost draconian measure of human segregation only for them?
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I'm guessing there's a difference (legally) between benefits like health insurance and a retirement account versus luxuries like disneyland trips, massage chairs, gourmet food, etc.
It's made - just not by Pyrex. I bought some a month ago.
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That ruling kinda screwed up a couple of consulting gigs for me. A couple of companies wouldn't keep people over 12 - 24 months and projects rarely got totally done by then. So they switch to outsourcing (no problem with the lawyers) and the independent contractor (who was making good coin) is pushed out of the picture. The reason was always "The Microsoft Ruling".
I agree. I haven't been able to write in cursive since the seventh grade (when we weren't required to use it in school anymore (I'm finnish)), but that hasn't been a problem since I barely ever write by hand anyway.