skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LiveNation merger certainly did seem to spark them to update parts of their product, but the user experience is awful. Unfortunately, there's no real major competitor now on that scale. Sure, there are solutions like AudienceView and Tessi but they don't fit the same business model.

And who'd want to compete? LiveNation is owning more and more venues by the minute.
You paste that link over and over again. I do not think it means what you think it means. And if you look at Thompson's 200+ papers, including the linked one that is the subject of the press release, you might be enlightened.

For whatever ideological reason you've convinced yourself that genes have nothing to do with brains, intelligence, or wealth.
Given the juiciness of this, I'm surprised that more companies don't have corp espionage groups to carry out little lulsec attacks.
Seems like it hit the main page, so I'd say people like it.
Director Jayendra ‘happy’ about ‘Nootrenbadhu’
When I worked in Pleasanton, I found it amusing that my coworkers considered it part of Silicon Valley.

Also San Jose has called itself in the past "the capitol of Silicon Valley".

Perhaps they felt Silicon Valley was a SF bay area mindset rather than a specific geographic location.
Your definition of ethics seems strange. If people don't like what they're doing, they'll stop interacting with them. If they're lying about the bugs, people will stop trusting their explanations (as you have), and evaluate them accordingly.

They may be taking a risk by engaging in behavior like this, but its up to the public to judge them. Within the context of this forum, I think seeing their experiment and seeing how people react to it is tremendously valuable.
It's good idea. I know a couple of companies that do Windows Support this way. Even Norton does Virus cleaning this way. But, how easy/hard is it to going to be for them to login/register to your site , create an account and make payments themselves ? It gets harder for them to enter credit card numbers online and I don't think you can provide support for that.
I was a long time linux user too. I switched for the quality of the hardware and because I was tired of fighting poor hardware support.

For me a Mac is a much better experience, you focus on your work, the hardware/OS just work. No more fighting with XF86Config, broken wireless driver, and a hardware market focused on bringing the cost low instead of improving quality. If you look at how much time you spend on a computer, the cost is not the most important factor. When I get back to a pc, it always hit me how much the quality is inferior, but then I think about the cost pressure to sell a laptop at 400$ and I undersand.

What I don't like on Mac, is that I feel as a just another follower of a cult, yes the look is good but I think I would prefer a less flashy brand.
I understand the Laplace transform ideas above (used to TA the class where it's taught) and I agree with your that they are more definitional than explanatory.

To provide actual explanatory power, you'd have to explain what the reactive portion ("imaginary part" in the phasor notation) of the impedance is actually doing in real terms.

What it's doing is to cause the current to lead or lag the voltage in the AC signal. In a purely resistive circuit, current and voltage vary exactly the same way at every instant.

You can actually go a long way with this just by understanding that, e.g., for an inductor,

V = L dI/dt

so that small current changes will imply very large voltage changes. If you're in to intuition, this means "voltage leads current" (i.e., the sinusoid of voltage is 90 degrees ahead of the sinusoid of current).

The above equation is also why lights in your house dim when you turn on a motor (= inductor). There is a significant current change, and the voltage changes even more, so the lights dim.

Or, you can be even more intuitive, and note that it's obvious that when you put a coil of wire (= motor = inductor) across the two sides of your house's electrical wiring, the coil of wire will pull the + and - conductors together in voltage at first. Until the magnetic field sets up to provide reactance, the coil of wire is basically a short circuit.

And finally, a capacitor is just the dual of the inductor.
I don't think that people would want to pay for things that I make, I'm not very good. :)
Part of the reason for this is that the center of the galaxy is in the South, at about 30 degrees. So many astronomically interesting things are in that direction. Obviously not the case for a solar system object like an asteroid however.
funny, we're talking about almost the same thing here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2695521
And from my experience, most admins turn it off immediately rather than rewriting security policies so that Apache can access data outside of /var/www/, etc. Sure you could modify the policy, but it's enough of a hassle that no one I know has ever done it.

Restrictive security that just gets in people's way is terrible security. Just like forcing people to change their password every 14 days results in people using the same password repeatedly and incrementing a digit on the end (or writing the password down and sticking it on their monitor), creating overly complex rules means that people who absolutely must deal with these things (or who have the time) do so, and everyone else just turns it off and forgets it ever existed.
Given it's size it's probably not something easy to spot from to far away. Also if I remember correctly there is an issue with near earth asteroids hiding in the glare of the sun which makes them hard to spot.
What is remarkable about Khan Academy is that it was done. It was a huge effort. And it was done from scratch, out of nothing. Not in order to promote some crapware like Silverlight or Flash, but with commitment to teach poor people.

Collecting videos around the net and put it in one page is useless idea. There are plenty of really great courses from MIT, Yale, Berkeley and they were already aggregated on sites like academicearch.

And of course, no one could ever beat 6.001 from MIT ^_^ It is art. Btw, if you like to improve your education in CS courses from MIT are enough. For general education visit Yale. For everything else there is Berkeley. CS69A is a masterpiece.
New customers that never return.
I had the same idea a few years ago but decided not to go through with it because of the sheer uselessness. Looks like i made the right choice.
The problem is that those events are "Ticketmaster events" they are "events I want to attend that are only handled by Ticketmaster."

So it really comes down to accepting the Ticketmaster model or pretty much not going to any live concert or sporting events.

Of course the other annoying thing that the article didn't mention was TM's habit of "sharing" your email address with partners (which you couldn't opt out of) and then leaving it up to the individual to remove themselves from the subsequent spam lists. I bought a ticket to an NFL game a couple of years back and then spent the next six months trying to get TM partners to stop spamming me.
Google to End Health Records Service
Make things look better by using themes which are on the net in the thousands. Get better at coding by coding more, by building your own things. ;)
Lulz Security Says It Is Ending Hacking Spree
I'm actually working on something now that is probably pretty trivial. Drop me an e-mail at jjb127@mun.ca if you want to know more.
I find Python inelegant in general but Python's support for keyword arguments strikes the best balance of simplicity and flexibility in any language I've used.
Yes - this happened to me three times in my early 20-somethings.

Sadly, with the tech media reporting on all the riches being made these days, I expect it happens even more often now. It's so easy for one to be overly trusting and conned while blinded by the huge payout mirage up ahead.

I hope the Skype fiasco at least brings more awareness to the risks.
Thompson's work is peer-reviewed. Of course, that does not mean it does not fall into some of the experimental issues pointed out by Norvig. His works certainly has no link with poverty.
Remarkable, someone still pay money for copy-pasting from "Think And Grow Rich" and "How To Win Friends..". ^_^
Don't forget Stanford: http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx. Their intro to programming courses are some of the best.
More like a tiny little asteroid, or mega-meteoroid.
And those ACL's are available within OS X as well, as well as within Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD (UFS2 and ZFS).

This complaint doesn't hold water. Those features are available within standard Unix environments (Solaris probably counts the most as a real Unix, OS X is technically certified Unix as well!).

So Unix file permissions can use ACL's. The default is POSIX file permissions but they aren't the only ones available.
I've heard a lot of stories of politicking at Microsoft (e.g. the Office project manager didn't want to implement handwriting recognition to add support for tablets, which hurt MS's early tablet OSes).

I compare that to Apple, which seems to have a top-down vision, from which all project behaviours and priorities descend. Lion's adding support for auto-save? You'd better believe that implementing auto-save support into iWork is a top priority, regardless of what the iWork PM thinks about it. That said, Apple seems to rarely hire people who don't share the same vision, and with that comes a certain uniformity of direction that tends to reduce inter-project scuffles.

Also, I get the sense that if (for example) the project manager for iWork was causing unnecessary friction with other teams instead of working with them towards a common goal, he'd be replaced with someone else who's more of a team player.
In the US, four times as many deaths attributable to smoking are caused by cardiovascular disease than to cancer. Indeed the number of cancer deaths attributable to smoking is approximately the same as the number of smoking deaths attributable to non-cancer respiratory disease.

[http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5745a3.htm#tab]
The blog post wont open on an iPad...
It's not perplexing at all. They have convinced the public the extra fees are justified.

If you have a monopoly, your buyers are paying extra fees, and the cost of goods actually drops, you do not drop your prices.
My first job out of college was at Nortel, coding their 4G data network infrastructure. I still think I only understood about 20% of the big picture by the time I left. So many moving parts, massive code base and tons of acronyms.
Good, this must mean they've solved the deletionist problem and have moved on to other things more important...oh wait, they haven't.

sigh
why would anyone want to do that?
If you want to attach a debugger to a program in OS X you are required to be in a developer group, and it will ask you for a password.

See: http://i.imgur.com/l6Ntz.png
Same way they make scads of money elsewhere: sell eyeballs. It just so happens that they're freeing up millions of eyeballs by developing driverless cars.
Quaaludes (methaqualone) have a similar effect to alcohol (sans hangover) but are classified as Schedule I in the United States.

I doubt that they are particularly healthy though.
Yes, that's a valid point.

Whenever you get someone's good attitudes you also get a little (or a lot if you aren't careful) of the not-so-good attitudes.

Great to know you are willing to take the risk to learn something new.
As one commenter brought up, I think you need to keep in mind who you are targeting. The real brilliance about Khan Academy, in my mind, is that they aren't just another video tutorial repository. They have a sophisticated back-end tracking system that allows teachers and parents to gauge the level of comprehension the students are working at.

The other thing to note about Khan, is that the site is precisely intended for younger students in an effort to give them a solid foundational backing for further study.

Personally, I don't think we need another resource for experienced developers. Experienced developers have a level of understanding that already allows them to be more critical of the tools and resources they choose. If you're truly interested in following the Khan model, you should be focusing on the core fundamentals that are often taken for granted in many of the other resources. That's not to say that you couldn't expand to more advanced topics, but starting at the lowest level and working up would be more beneficial in my eyes.

Anyhow, interested to see what you get up there. Cheers!
Like any real problem, this one has lots of parts.

* the tax system gives better tax incentives for coffee makers than bottles ( etc, etc)

* maternity leave anyone?

* paternity leave? That's just crazy talk.

A good, no, great stay-home friend of ours is watching our kids our most of the summer. We have half-jokingly discussed getting a bigger house and just moving both families in. seriously, the savings in time and money and health are tremendous. Not only is it cheaper or them and us, we routinely (even before the summer) had their family over or they have us for dinner. If we ever move, it may require family counseling.

That's what's involved. Overcome the physical isolation of modern life and you can overcome some of the economics.

Now, here's the catch. We met vis-a-vis the playground. See, my son and their son are in the same class and my wife and he chatted at the playground for a month, oh and we both live two blocks from school in the same direction. And at the time, they were hard up for some place to eat as their kitchen was demolished as part of a major remodel.

yeah, that's way to many coincidences. But somebody could male a website for this. C'mon: you can get a babysitter over the web, you can get airbnb. Surely we can network neighborhoods.
"P.S. I have a long bet that SELinux is an NSA backdoor. Any takers?" Really? Zed Shaw lost the credibility to talk about anything security related with that one sentence ...
One thing in this article that I found extremely interesting was that the infamous charge to print your own tickets -- essentially charging the customer for saving Ticketmaster and the box offices money -- is apparently driven largely by the venues. It claims that Hubbard has been successful in getting a third of their partners to drop the fee, which suggests that two-thirds of venues are holding out, and more responsible for some of the egregious fees than Ticketmaster themselves are.

I definitely came away with the impression that Hubbard may be the right guy for the job. It seems clear he understands exactly what consumers hate about Ticketmaster, and appears to be trying to address it as best he can.
I'd say undergraduate university education in CS. Most students in fact are only exposed to CS in college, so it'd be the basics they get there. A good review for seniors, an excellent introduction for students from high school, and a quick refresher for programming interviewee candidates.
Well, many of the high school kids in the world are getting less than nothing about CS in school: anything is good.
Added a disclaimer about the non-affiliation.
found this to be salient, there's a lot of malice to be done in plain sight of an ignorant user:
Root access is only needed if you want to modify the system in some way so as to avoid detection. Doing so is by no means necessary however, and a lot of malware is more than happy to operate as a standard user, never once raising an elevation prompt and silently infection or copying files or sending out data or doing processing, or whatever malicious thing it may do.
I don't see an option for working for the open-source community. This chart doesn't answer the question, "Should I continue to open-source my unpaid work if I don't get any compensation?"

Of course, this is HN, so everybody's concerned with making money.
I don't have the links handy, but there are RSS feeds that only serve up HN items that hit certain point levels, such as 20, 50, or 100 points. I like them because there is often a lot of noise getting submitted to HN and often only want to see what has managed to garner some attention.
This brings to mind an interesting question. What is the cost to have a lawyer go over and negotiate an employment contract? Are there any firms offering that service?
This is all the more puzzling because their work contributed to significant and practical solutions against poverty (http://www.ted.com/talks/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_...). There is nothing condescendant in their approach (randomized experiments). On the contrary, it goes against the usual "big plan, big project" idea so common in aid policies.

There are arguments against the approach (Chris Blattman sometimes write on his blog about them). But in any case, they advanced the debate.
You mention that there are 2-3 times a year when you have peak traffic load. Do you exactly know when those times take place? If not, EC2 is great for automatically spinning up new servers when your load gets too high.
Typically, "upgrade your browser" techniques are welcomed in HN. Google drops support for IE6, then IE7 - smiles all around. Apps block off IE6 - "good for them".

AT&T does something similar and it's met with frustration?

Requiring IE* should be frowned upon. But anything that says "upgrade from IE6", in end-user land, is probably a good thing.
So it really comes down to accepting the Ticketmaster model or pretty much not going to any live concert or sporting events.

I haven't paid a TicketMaster fee in years, and I go to live music events all the time.

How, you ask? Indie music. It is alive and well, and the best bands working right now are not playing in arenas. In any major city in the country on any given night (and at least once or twice a week in most mid-sized cities), you can see a great band for five to fifteen bucks. They'll be ecstatic that you showed up, you'll probably be able to sit or stand within spitting distance of the band if you want, and you'll share a unique experience with 50-300 like-minded individuals. You'll also meet more interesting people, be able to drink good beer (not that swill they serve at arenas for 9 bucks a pop), and you can do it all again the next night, and the next, if you want, without breaking the bank.

I swore off of arena shows for reasons unrelated to TicketMaster, but it's an equally valid reason to opt out of the bullshit commercial entertainment industry and instead focus on artists for whom the work is the important thing, and not merely the money they're paid to do the work.
Should Mozilla Ditch The Rapid Release Cycle Again?
quanticle,
This is the thing that I think people don't realize. Even the most successful people failed a ton before they got big success.

Big Failures = some people who let failure become bigger than them and destroy them + some people who learn from it and succeed big down the line.

When you write:

tl;dr; Your desire to quit is also greatest right before you go totally bankrupt and wreck your life.

*

You're exaggerating the consequences.

There's the type of failure where you take on bank loans and have to go bankrupt and there's the type of failure where you run out of your own money and have to start from scratch - perhaps with a new venture, or perhaps take up a job and then come back to entrepreneurship after a while.

The former is what you're assuming. The latter is reality - provided you don't go overboard in where you get money.

Just out of curisoity - what would the Color guys qualify as. It looks like they might fail. Would that be 'wrecking their lives'?

Here's the interesting part:

1) If you always give up right when you feel things are bleakest -> You'll never go bankrupt or to be more precise never experience total failure.

2) At the same time - you'll never experience the best possible success you could have. Because if everything is easy and guaranteed that probably means you never did the maximum you could and never pushed yourself.

*

Again, the first point he says - Stay outside of your comfort zone.

Is it a bit of a cliche? Yes.

However, lots of people who you would probably quantify as 'not evil like Bob Parsons' succeeded precisely for this reason. They pushed out of their comfort zone.

I think entreprenuership pretty much means getting out of your comfort zone, getting other people out of their comfort zone and changing things - for the better, or, if you are not inclined that way, for money.
> It's also not cheaper to buy brown bread and raw carrots. It's less expensive to buy the "tasty" higher-sodium canned foods. Eating healthy is not inexpensive.

Also, you have to factor in how much it costs in terms of time to prepare a meal from fresh, more-or-less whole ingredients compared to throwing something prepared into the microwave or onto the stove. If you have the time to cook after your job, wouldn't you be tempted to get a second job instead of cooking, if only to make your constant, grinding debt go away faster?

Then you get into 'cultural poverty', where someone flatly doesn't know how to cook because their parents never cooked and only ate at cheap restaurants (which isn't cheap) and used prepared food. You might say 'oh, just get a cookbook', but I know first-hand how much implied knowledge you have to have to get much out of a cookbook. Implied knowledge has to come from somewhere; if you didn't get it from your parents, you likely don't have it.
They may be taking a risk by engaging in behavior like this, but its up to the public to judge them.

wangwei isn't a member of the public?
1-4 are essentially the same piece of advice: Never quit moving forward outside your comfort zone.
Python's argument conventions are even more flexible; they actually work by passing a tuple of positional arguments and a dictionary of keyword arguments, and unpacking/repacking according to the signature of each function. You can pass any iterable as positional arguments and any mapping as keyword arguments. You can also retrieve the positional and keyword arguments inside a callable as a tuple and dictionary. It's the best calling convention I've ever seen.
Captcha is not working on the page's comment engine. So I'll post here:

Have you considered an automated toll free number for businesses to opt in and opt out? You know, to make it easy. Good Luck!
Well, keyword arguments can be used well in ruby, though clearly, in the code you've been dealing with they haven't.

Some guidelines.
Use .merge for default values, not ternary operators.
Keep it minimal. Rails does a good job of using keywords for stuff that's optional, and positional arguments for stuff that isn't. For instance

link_to 'My Website', 'http://example.net', :class => 'my-css-class'.

Here, the arguments you need, the link title and href are non-optional positional args. HTML attributes OTOH are option hash args..

It sounds like in the code you've inherited, though I can't be sure, there are fairly complicated hashes being passed around all kinds of places. These should probably be objects, not hashes, in the first place. I'll admit though, I can't be certain from my limited vantage point.
THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE

I would recommend you give Khan a shout (if you can find an email or phone number for him) and see what he thinks. It's always possible that he might (at some point, not necessarily now) be interested in adding a CS section to Khan Academy.

I'll admit that you're right, the reason I click on the link was because of the comparison to Khan Academy.