skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree on your tea assessment, and I also greatly prefer Oolong tea. We'd only ever drink Oolong if we were in a teahouse or other formally prepared setting, as I can't recall a single we (me and my wife) made it successfully.

I've lived in China for nearly a year and completely agree with your budget, but I'm really curious about the 20,000RMB meals you've had. I'd say I've had quite a few meals with governmental officials and company board members, but nothing even close to that type of budget. Mind if I ask which city and/or what circumstances led to such an outing?
Kahn's videos are what magazines are to books.

It's much more accessible/enjoyable to read a PC magazine than read a technical document.
They expose topics to a much broader audience.

I loved the French Revolution videos.
Apple plans new 'spaceship'-like campus
Sal,

Its interesting to see your reaction to the criticism, especially that of being defensive (understandable first reaction). But if you look at the article objectively there are a lot of opportunities it creates for Khan Academy to be even more impactful than what it is today.

You are certainly a great teacher, orator and have the understanding of math and finance. However, one person cannot be good at grasping, understanding and teaching ALL subjects. Thats where you have an opportunity to enlist the best the the brightest teachers from US to create videos for you on subjects they are most passionate about. Why not create a video contest to identify in a democratic way who are these top teachers??

Also, just to answer your point about a teacher's ability to put 20 video online rather than writing criticism. The thing is that you have already gained a lot of fame and respect for your work and its a very difficult thing to do. Its unreasonable to expect a teacher to gain the same level of viewership now like you have. Thats why I say that take the interest that you have developed around you to uplift other teachers to bring up education as a 'whole'.

Otherwise, Kahn Academy will remain a closet work... Just my two cents...

Cheers
Ritu
A 3D-Text Adventure Game in HTML5
you want to use this http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cirrus/ or you want to make mobile apps (or both)
Like the idea, but not willing to buy any until it has proven more robust and usable
Maybe my imagination isn't strong enough, but I don't see how a processor could work without being reducible to a series of instructions. The lowest level of "code" you give it might be more "functional", but there's a direct mapping between that and a sequence of states the processor goes through to actually do anything.

In looking for such a thing, I've seen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECD_machine and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_reduction_machine, but I'm not sure either of these fit your description. Do you have experience with them or another machine you could share?
I would agree with this.

But I'm assuming you're a developer and the founders aren't and if they are trying to hire you, you have a certain set of skills they want.
http://www.google.com/buzz/post

Better link.
Fuck the guilt. Be "the one who abandoned them". Get the hell out of there. You don't owe them squat.

It would be one thing if they appreciated your efforts and you enjoyed their company. It's not so bad to care for someone if they give you a little back, if they understand what you're giving up for them, if they show you some gratitude, even just a smile and a quiet "thanks" when you help them across the room or whatever. But if they're "constantly and consistently negative about every situation" -- understand that every time they're like that, they're making a choice to be that way. It may be a habitual choice for them at this point, maybe it doesn't even occur to them anymore to choose anything different, but it's still a choice that they're making and they're responsible for. And if the consequence of that choice is that you don't get any reward, not even the faintest warm feeling, from helping them, then I think you shouldn't feel bad about leaving.

And they have no friends?? This speaks volumes about what kind of people they are. Once again this is their choice -- you didn't make them that way!

How to extract yourself? Tell them that you're not cut out to be a caretaker, and you need to live in a different place with a different kind of economy. They won't understand, or even if they do they won't admit it, it sounds like, but never mind that. It's a good enough reason and they'll have to accept it.

It also sounds like you've done a lot of the needed planning already, so your continued personal presence is not necessarily so important. If you move somewhere where you can find the kind of work you are cut out for, then maybe you can pay for someone to spend a few hours a day with them.
History isn't easily convinced.
Grasshopper CEO had to leave microconf due to an emergency before speaking earlier this week. I'm curious if this is related.

Hope they figure it out. we use them and have been down all day.
"2 million unique students are viewing our videos every month by choice"

Page hits isn't a very good metric if you're trying to get feedback about what viewers actually thought of the videos. A lot of people have heard of Khan Academy through the news or may land there via a search engine. How many of them watch the video all the way through? How many stick around and watch parts II, III, etc.? I could be totally wrong about this (please correct me if that is the case), but my suspicion is that YouTube's stats probably aren't sufficiently granular to distinguish between a page visit in which the viewer watches the video in its entirety (suggesting that the video was perceived as worthwhile) and a visit in which the viewer watches for a little while and then bails (indicating that it was not perceived as a valuable experience). User comments are subject to a great deal of self-selection bias. Viewers who thought the video was the best thing since sliced bread are way more likely to take the time to login (if already registered) or register and login (if not already a registered YouTuber) than those who thought it was a waste of time.

There's also a more fundamentally important question to consider: Did the viewer actually learn the material or were they simply duped into a false belief in their own competency? HN regularly features posts about interviewing techniques aimed at sorting out real programmers who can write code proficiently from people who simply possess a false belief that they are programmers. Sound pedagogical methods require some means of verifying that the student has, in fact, built a valid mental model of the subject matter and, of particular importance in the sciences, is capable of applying their knowledge to reason about novel situations. How do you know that your students actually understand the material? Do you have any way of distinguishing between students who have had a previous formal learning experience with the subject matter and are simply looking for a refresher course, students who are concurrently receiving other instruction (the teacher is using Khan Academy as a supplement), and students who have had no prior exposure to the material?
Good question. I am interested in hearing how they pay themselves with no product as well?
you should use fluid layout for such a website, and not limit to 960.
OK, I had to laugh at this one. First off, I have a huge amount of respect for Mr. Sivers; he's one of the few advice-peddlers in the startup world that I think is probably worth listening to most of the time.

But this is quite the opposite of long-term thinking.

(Except, maybe, in the startup world, where long-term often seems to mean, "next year".)

Focusing on just one thing at a time for a few years means leaving it entirely behind when you're done with it; it means not thinking about other things in the meantime; it means ignoring the possibility that, in 10 years' time, the three projects that you're juggling simultaneously could tie together in a really neat (and maybe profitable) way.

Maybe some people are doing lots of things at once because they feel like they have to hurry, and that could indicate really short-term thinking; but slowing down to a rate of one thing every few years is, at best, near-term thinking.

I've spent the last three years building a really tiny business because, one day, I intend to build an empire.
Foreign government hack posing as hacker group called  Lulz
Could it be a Foreign Government Attacks posing as hacker group called Lulz.
Blehost site got hacked- HELP
What can I do to prevent this? Thanks
What is your slightly unusual use case?
I have been trying to figure out how to simplify selling to enterprise. The problem is sales decisions are made by managers who don't use the software. Getting the attention of these managers is expensive and the sale takes months.

I think if you could let the enterprise user try the software first, then let them push management to buy the software you could sell to enterprise for less money w/o the sales people.

The idea has holes, but I am working through it.
They've taken some liberties in correcting (arguable) flaws in standard stylesheets, ex. setting cursor:pointer on form buttons, but I like all that they've chosen to include. Never been a fan of full reset stylesheets, but there's a really good chance I'll take advantage of this, and the research they put in, for future projects.
Creating a Framework For HTML5 Canvas
In the parts of India I've been to, most neighborhoods are inside gated communities. Within these gated communities the houses have high walls around each home. This is the system. The same goes for offices, universities, etc... nothing is open to plain sight either to the folks looking out of the offices or the folks looking at them.

So unless they absolutely need exposure - mostly the form of street-side businesses and vendors, the MO is to be behind walls.

This system of construction / mindset / infrastructure.. call it what you'd like makes it hard for ordinary Indians to do what is literally beyond what they can see. It isn't the lack of empathy but the system that works against change.

By contrast, most homes have stone floors and get mopped shiny clean everyday.
It certainly motivated me.

(former small town kid, went to Carnegie Mellon and realized I wasn't "the smart one" any more)
His simplified version of history could be way better than what e.g. an 8 year old might otherwise have access to.

I've had four different eight-year-olds in my household, while living in two different countries, over the years, and any eight-year-old who is literate can find better information about history than what's in the current Khan Academy videos in any country where there is a public lending library. There is the issue, of course, of some students not having access to libraries, but there is also the issue of some students not having access to the Internet. In the best case, Salman Khan will implement his plan of having subject matter experts who have specialized knowledge of various topics (gained, in part, from their years of using libraries assiduously) produce a broader array of Khan Academy videos, and curious eight-year-olds will go beyond both Khan Academy and their school lessons by seeking out other sources of information on a variety of subjects. That's what I encourage my four children to do. Khan Academy is one of a huge variety of sources we use in homeschooling. In my day, as a pupil in a typical public school, I avidly supplemented my school lessons by reading library books. If Khan Academy is part of encouraging more young learners to be more curious and to seek out a greater variety of sources for their learning, more power to it.
"The two companies merged in 1991 after a fierce media campaign led by the employees of the canning company, who accused him of being a capitalist."

Well... it seems to have been a valid 'criticism'. Does anyone know if this sort of attack still happens in China? I'd be amused if it did at the very least.
Why clear it? Why not leave http:// in there?

Might be worth A/B testing it. :-p
Apple: users win, industry loses
Wow that was a terrible article. The author misunderstands iTunes Match so badly that the whole thing makes no sense. It's ALL local copies, idiot.
Thanks for the feedback. We recognize that customers do have to place some level of trust in us as a company, however, we've pledged to delete all individual transactional data 30 days after a transaction is completed.

Our customers do have to trust that we'll honor this pledge, but it is in our best interest to do so, since our entire model is one of retaining customer privacy. We try to limit the amount of information we collect on customers in the first place, and delete it soon (30 days) after.

Thanks again for your feedback, we need it to improve our service!
ok. fixed that
Im sorry, but the whole idea of Dropbox was simplicity. This method requires installation of two more pieces software on every machine that will need access to encrypted data and does not explain or guarantee that it will work across platforms which is what dropbox is all about(I can access same files on my phones, tablets, windows pcs, macs and web)

I basically approach Dropbox as a tool that fits its purpose and this purpose unfortunately does not include properly encrypted data. So any sensitive documents would NOT go into dropbox. They would be backed up into an online backup that is encrypted on my side instead.
I can sympathize to your frustration. I went through a bout of similar frustration albeit for what you may consider a much more positive situation. I finally came up with my idea for a startup around the same time I started a family and the recession hit.

After the birth of my 2nd child in 3 years, I was extremely frustrated because I really wanted to work on my project but my family responsibilities didn't give me enough time.

What I finally concluded was I didn't want to be frustrated and I had to prioritize. So I prioritized my family, stopped working on a startup and focused on my idea being a project. Since then I've put maybe 2-3 hours a week into my site, unscatter.com. It's coming along extremely slowly, but I've also been able to focus on more fun parts of the development that I wouldn't have prioritized in the past. Along way, I've come to conclusion that I really like programming, something I gave up on as doing professionally years ago when I went the sysadmin route.

More importantly, I've had a ton of fun with my family. My 3 year old girl beat me 2 times in a row in Candy Land tonight and now I just finished reading Hop On Pop for probably the hundredth before putting her to bed. Looking back, I've made the right choice. We're still stuck in a townhouse that we're upside down in and is smaller than we'd like. We're still on the east coast when my wife is chomping at the bit to move back the West Coast so she can get our girls more associated with her culture (she's Native American, her tribe is Haida Gwaii which is a Canadian west coast tribe). However, we're spending the time with our girls and it shows in their behavior and attitude we're doing the right thing. Forget a startup, I'm helping build the foundation for 2 lives and while money would help it's become obvious that my time really is the better investment.

So, how does this equate to your situation? Heck you posted this 7 hours ago so I don't even know if you'll ever read this. But here's my impression based on your post above.

You moved back with your family to help take care of your parents who are in their 70's. You'd move, but you'd feel guilty. Look, you've already made the same choice I did, you've decided to put your family first. Obviously you love your parents, are you'd already be gone. So, love them. Cherish all the time you can have with them because you will miss them when they're gone. Forget professional momentum, you can get back on that track later. Or, try to see how you can keep that momentum going now. You can do a startup anywhere, just maybe you need to scale it down a notch.

I saw below in the comments your a business guy. Awesome, start a business. Do your own coffee shop. Find something that interests you that you can build a business in within that area. If you have the skills, then you'll accomplish it. If you lack the skills but really have the drive, you'll learn the skills and accomplish it. Failures are learning experiences. First you just need to believe in yourself.
I'd love to own some, but the price is a little too volatile right now and it's very difficult to exchange USD and BTC due to lack of proper PayPal/debit card support at most exchanges.
Function/app integration into the Apple OS' is a logical next step for the company, and if anyone was going to do it, it would be Apple. They destroyed a section of the market to do it, but that was a market already under control of the company anyway. No one should be surprised by a dictator flexing his muscles.

Also, stifling creativity makes everyone lose. The title should be "Apple: users lose, industry loses".
I don't have any affiliation. other than a direct customer relationship, but I use flowroute dot com for wholesale SIP termination.
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds [women] and fast cars; the rest I just squandered." -- George Best

That quote always gives me a giggle. If nothing else it serves to remind me that everyone has their own priorities.
What'd you switch to, out of curiosity? I loved the idea of it but the UI kept me from ever really getting into it.
Foreign government is hacking as a
hacker group called Lulz
Jobsy?
Police Shooting Video Saved by Hidden Memory Card in Witness’ Mouth
Contacting Grono.net ...
Geordie Shore Season 1 Episode 3 
the ladies saw some girls coming back within the house; these we’re the ladies that the blokes had invited to return over. Now, whereas the blokes are having fun flirting and creating out with the lasses from the club, the ladies we’re within their short temperedly looking ahead to the party to finish. You can
EDIT: I should probably mention that we run freeswitch[1] on a 4 yr old box on our LAN.

[1] freeswitch.org
Don't be so insensitive. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
Read the article as s/bitcoin/cash/ and you see that all the things they hate about bitcoins exist with cash already, but they don't care about that.
iOS Is The Most Secure Mobile OS
Why is Dwolla using a .org? Also, I think a plain English description of what Dwolla is or is trying to do would be helpful (and I've been in the payments business for the past 20 years).
I am still working at finding the right process for absorbing information and integrating it into habit.
Can you guys recommend other books on CS that touch on the topics mentioned in the review?
Why does a HS/freshman-level discrete math course count as "advanced"? Same with that undergrad algorithms course at UIUC (though it does have great lecture notes).
That's fantastic; thanks.
Maybe Khan is trying to appeal to a global crowd greater than subjective US politics we call "history". Do you realize how much history has happened since the beginning of man? And how much of that is completely useless to know? Paraphrasing is most appropriate, but not to the liking of this academic with a blog. He helped start Wikipedia, he's not a complete nobody.
I was kind of bored in my current job, and Google contacted me to interview.

At first I was hesitant because of my failure the first two times I interviewed and the fact that I now have a house far from the office. Both times before, I thought I had actually done very good.

I decided to go through the process, though, because I would really like to work at Google all things being equal. In the end they offered me much better compensation and stock than my current job. However, my company countered with a new role, more money, and options.

In the end, I have decided to take the Google offer and at least try it.
The PATH is great but it doesn't do the job. The 7 Line could run all the way from the east side of Manhattan to Secaucus for one subway fare for starters. There needs to be more rail lines off the island.
First job out of school was Andersen Consulting. Went to their programming boot camp which was two or three weeks of 14-hour days learning their methodology and (sigh) COBOL. One of the final assignments was to write the code for a particular set of requirements. Then desk check it (i.e. on paper) until you were certain it was correct. Then you saved it and submitted the file. You got one chance, it had to compile cleanly and pass their suite of tests.

Most people passed; it was not a "gotcha" problem, you just had to be able to read carefully and pay attention to detail. Andersen hired a lot of liberal arts majors who had done a lot of writing, I was one of only a few in that group who had done a C.S. curriculum.
Innovative touchscreen interfaces [video]
Techvibes' Comprehensive list of Canadian Tech Acquisitions - 50 and counting
While the use of app + smart cover is ingenious, what I am more excited about is that this opens to a possibility of a whole slew of "smart accessories" + apps that utilises the magnets on the iPad screen.

Which got me thinking...what sort of really clever apps/accessories can one make that utilises these magnets?

I.e. Perhaps a puzzle game that uses "magnetic chopsticks" to interact with it. Or maybe an organizer app with "magnetic labels" where when you cover different parts of the screen, it pulls up a different functionality.
the intention was prolly a good one.

i hate people tagging me in pictures on facebook. i'm pretty sure facebook keeps the tags in its database even if you untag them.
Details can be seen in Michael Knuepfel's thesis video:

http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis/spring2011_archives/Extending%20th...

and the corresponding slides:

http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis/spring2011_archives/Extending%20th...
_The Myth of Certainty_ by Daniel Taylor

_Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing_ by Soren Kierkegaard

_The Invisible Computer_ by Donald Norman

_Death March_ by Edward Yourdon

_War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning_ by Chris Hedges

_What Do You Care What Other People Think?_ by Richard P. Feynman
You're right, it doesn't really. When I started building this list it was more carefully given over to graduate-level courses. It evolved into a bit of a repository of courses that aligned with my interests and thought were good.
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I'm going to be harsh. Please don't take it personally, my perspective is obviously limited.

I'd think 1.5 years of unemployment, being broke and a failed start-up would make you more humble. Yet everyone else seems to be the problem. Your parents don't understand, fellow business owners don't understand, no one understands your fabulous planning, no one has your passion, ...

Have you looked for work? Applied to jobs? Since you don't mention any of it, I get the sense that you wouldn't consider a minimum wage job at a restaurant or retail or something like that. Shame on you, man up, man has to feed his family.

Also, you should be nicer to your parents. Read point #3 again, and it almost sounds like you are describing yourself. Negative about everything? Not planning for the future? Refusing to accept change is needed? That's you!

This is what you do: You check your ego at the door, get a job, and take pride that you are helping your family out. While people are watching their TV (which you have contempt for, even though they've done more than you have in the last 1.5 years), you regain your passion and try again.

It's simple.
Marketplace for Windows Mobile website closing shop on July 15th
Or it could be The Masons! Or the Bilderbergers, or Little Green Beings from Inside the Hollow Earth Controlled by Hitler's Brain! Or Ritalin-Infused Baboons with Titanium Snakes for Teeth.

Get a grip, man.
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I think great scientists and thinkers wouldn't tell another person that they're "full of shit", just in case they themselves are wrong. Scientists tend to be tolerant, sometimes to a fault, of differing views. Their training demands of it. And that's why we have that evolution vs pseudo-science thing today.