skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many ways my scholastic experience mirrored yours, and it wasn't until years later that I learned our entire method of school education for k-12 is based on creating industrial factory workers.

Sit still, quietly do your work (which means memorization) and do your time (x hours per day for x days per week for x years), and you will get your degree, which would lead to a job working in a factory where you can do the same until retirement.

Our economy has changed, our culture has changed, and the schools are changing (I see that with my own daughter's experience), but for many people my age, we suffered through the change without support.

Now, the really big elephant in the room is the collegiate education system, which has become a system of paying exorbitant sums of money for a degree that will never pay for itself, for most students.
My favorite bit so far, in the section on graphic designers:

"It's a complicated industry with its own ecology made up of incredibly hard work individuals that is routinely undermined by its own customers."

Routinely undermined - so true!
I got all excited that this was the "Spot" we've been hearing about... but alas, something even newer. I have dreams of a Go-like language that could be used for both web server and web client programming.
Zagat may not be an eagle, but it's hardly a turkey, either. I find that at the very least, Zagat reviews are more literate than Yelp reviews.
Systems programming, very explicitly. Go is basically aiming at C, whereas it sounds like this is going to be aiming at trendier languages like Python and JavaScript.
A Few Notes on Raising Venture Capital Part 1
What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?
Mozilla Publishes Do Not Track Field Guide
'The last two will (hopefully) be a basis for my future startup(s).'

So is that SpaceboX - synchronize files between spaceships and Earth?
Per-project environment variables with Foreman
I would expect a banker / financial advisor to pick up on value and risk points. A really good, experienced lawyer should, but it isn't entirely in their expertise.

(BTW, if the lawyer does see a lot of deals, I would wonder how much of their business is representing investors, and how that colors their thinking. Their duty is to their client, but it's just human nature to see things in the same terms as your client base.)

These negotiate for a living, but investors shouldn't be intimidated. Take your time, think the thing through. DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SAY NO. Always have a plan to walk away, and never get committed beyond your comfort with the terms of the deal. Always have some plan to bootstrap, if only to prevent psychological commitment to _this_ funding deal.

I'm sure the fundraising process is a pain, but a lot of the preparation and strategizing is stuff that management should be doing anyway.
Go is to compete with cpp/c#, it slowly growing, lately it's available on google app engine
Dad's 2nd job? Dumpster diver
To me, the minimal definition of "open source" is that "if it's good enough to sell binaries to end users, it should be good enough to release source to developers", so by that definition, Honeycomb is not open source (although I have no reason to believe that it violates any open source licenses).

I've always found the argument that a product that is being sold to customers is "not ready for public use" specious.
I agree, the defaults that Apple set will probably be preferred by most people. This is more of a hacker optimized set of defaults.
Andreessen Horowitz Invests $5.7M In Hadoop Analytics Platform
I built a simple, free (and hopefully pretty) Caltrain app for iPhone and iPad that makes my daily travels a little bit more fun every day.

I wasn't happy with the current options, and the website isn't fun to use (flicking all around trying to make sure you're still looking at the right stations, selecting the right schedule, etc.)! So I built this.

Please try it out and let me know what you think. It's super simple (but still useful!) now, but I may improve it if I see some usage.

Thanks!
There is a lot to be learned from the design, even if you can't buy the SoC. Other chips may be compatible with existing footprints, and you could build extra features onto the current design.

Additionally, having a schematic would make OS development a lot easier. The information can be obtained from the currently published source code, or at $25 it would be cheap to sacrifice one to a hot-air gun and generate some schematics.
All Google services are carbon neutral since 2007.
Depending on how well your terminal deals with things like high unicode characters and RTL, I wonder if you could trick curl. You could also send the curl user agent harmless HTML and send Firefox / IE user agents a nasty exploit - that would probably fool me for a while.
I think you're missing adamtmca's point, which is that when you are given advice from someone who you have no opportunity to evaluate their capabilities it is necessary to question their advice when it contradicts your own evaluation of the situation.

In the scenario you present, I would expect adamtmca to question advice from the appointed physician, lawyer, etc. as they would that of the public schoolteacher.

I'd go even further to state that you should aways question the assertions of specialists regardless of their credentials or prior experience when their opinion does not agree with your own; any rational professional should be capable of explaining there position reasonably and if they cannot, then further evaluation is in order.
>Make sure your passwords are salted and hashed.

Better, use bcrypt:

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

Or if you really want to go pro, use Colin Percival's scrypt:

http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html
Ask HN: Quick way to build a simple e-commerce website (for a non-tech person)
I'm trying to build an e-commerce website to sell a product. I'm not a tech person by any means. I wanted to get your guys' input on the quickest way to build a simple website (using open source if possible) by .

More specifically, should I be focusing on any specific technology like HTML5, etc.? Or is it too early for me to think about this?

Also, I started looking into WordPress. Is that the best way to go?

Any kind of help/pointers will be greatly appreciated!
This makes sense to me. For a company that wants to "organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful", sometimes it's great to have the foremost team of experts on restaurants. Who knows what else they'll branch out to.

Plus the brand is trusted, so it's a good move from the PR perspective alsy.
Summary: the author doesn't like MG. No need to read article in full. :)
Also, using Google services (even YouTube) is the energy equivalent of leaving a light on for 3 hours. Pretty amazing.
Judge Characterizes Lawsuits as “Massive Collection Scheme”
GM's Palo Alto office melds Silicon Valley fancy with Detroit pragmatism
It's being developed by a non-profit foundation.
Numis Network UK Our Story Introduction MLM - Not Scam
Thank you! That was very helpful. :)
Just wondering if anyone knows what the difference between this and some of the other simple, so called 'Balkan Style' yoghurts is. Something like Olympic's or Astro's where the ingredients consist only of milk and bacterial culture.

I live in western Canada and haven't had opportunity to try anything from Chobani, so I'm genuinely curious.
Yeah, fixing other people's code takes longer, most of the time. I did frequently have to fix bugs in other people's game code, though I've done games long enough that usually I would know how to dig and find the issue pretty quickly.

It didn't typically take more than a day or two to find such bugs, even if the original developer (working on their own code) had tried to find it for weeks and had given up. I could always come in with fresh eyes, and I know most of the ways that people write games, good and bad. In one case I had their "intractable" bug fixed in less than a half hour, having never seen their code before.

So I think I'd probably still pass that interview question, though I'm not looking for a job right now. ;)
I know this sounds a little coarse, but I really don't care about yet another new programming language. There are too many already with so many distinct use cases and niches.

I think a simple, general purpose programming language is good enough(1) for the web and I'd rather have one tool for all jobs versus another edge case language. In fact I'd rather have someone concentrate on one good "multi-tool" than provide me with a hundreds of cheap short-lived screwdrivers with different shaped heads.

Innovation should be about making the status-quo better, not introducing a new status-quo every 5 minutes with new promises.

(1) - "Good enough" is an under-used term these days.
The argument of The Mona Lisa With a Moustache is actually a rather thinly stretched argument on the concept of derivative work. In fact it illustrates the exemption to copyright in that it falls under parody in fair-use. You could put a moustache on FHM's sexiest woman and be exempt from any copyright and have created a derivative work. So I fail to see how the derivative work clauses in copyright is harming anything when your example of a trivial derivative work actually trumps the evil you're claiming.

> Sure, it's inconvenient for you, but I can't pretend to be "the real thing" as your trademark is certainly still covered.Sure, it's inconvenient for you, but I can't pretend to be "the real thing" as your trademark is certainly still covered.

Actually yes you can, it's virtually impossible to trademark a name and it would be easy to fool untold thousands by publishing an eighth Harry Potter and simply leave out the authors name. This then lands the pressure on book sellers to vet the works they sell to ensure a work is a legitimate sequel so as not to damage their own profits by selling inferior knockoffs.

> The fan-fiction universe seems to suggest such a "parallel" universe can exist without anyone mistaking one for the other.

Because a crudely written story on some fanfic board is really going to confuse consumers in a bookstore or on Amazon. Seriously, it's absurd claiming people don't mistake the two when you'll never see the two together in the first place. You'll never see fanfic anywhere but backwater sites because when people start making money off of it, the person will be screwed beyond belief. People get raped by the RIAA for allegedly costing them money; imagine what lawyers can do when they can prove you cost them money by having a record of your sales.
Because it's the price of a textboox.

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/why-a-25-pc-because-its-t...
Ask HN: What do you use to convert uploaded audio
I need to be able to convert audio uploaded from the user to a format which my service can read and I was curious as to the tools which people are using to do this.

I'm working with a .NET stack however, it does not have to be exclusive to .NET. OSS is preferred but I'm looking for a list to be able to determine the best tool to use.
Congrats Liz, great little piece of kit!

Think we are seeing the start of a new uber cheap PC market. Almost zero cost. It will make a big difference in the developing world and I think will be a huge hit (at least amongst the tech geeks) in developed nations.

PS +1 on the comment for wifi in v2
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> What about people who are paid to blog? What are they?

Winer actually addressed that with
<blockquote>
(Also, some people who call themselves bloggers are paid to write. I don't think they are bloggers. But there's nothing I can do to stop them from calling themselves bloggers.)
</blockquote>

> Also, the point about reporters and bloggers having opposing interests is silly. ... If anything, blogs help reporters discover potential sources with interesting ideas and specialized knowledge.

Again, from Winer
<blockquote>
I see the bloggers as sources. Not all of them, and not for all reporters. But the people who reporters quote, more often than not these days, have blogs.

The relationship between reporters and bloggers is the same relationship that travel agents have to flights or hotel rooms. Reporters facilitate access to the sources. And to the extent that we can go direct to the sources' blogs, that interferes with #1 above.
</blockquote>

> the outcome Winer wants to see for his friend.

I'm pretty sure that neither Winer nor Arrington see the other as a friend.

I don't always agree with Winer but his writing is reasonably clear so if you're going to criticise his ethics, it's bad form to misstate his positions.
I had a very similar, if not identical, experience only I went to a fairly poor elementary / middle school and a good high school. I finished school with a D average.. and managed to still get into a private college on the strength of my test scores and writing sample. I've since excelled at college and graduate school.

I spend a lot of time these days wondering if I should home school my children. I learned so much more at home than I did at school. I'd hate to give my children the type of experience I did in public school.
oh! no such thing happened, man.

I guess people just like it! :D
Obama Jobs Plan Cannot Be Taken Seriously
What was the cause of death? It isn't mentioned in his obituary or any of the news items I've seen so far.
Anecdotal rebuttal:

The soldiers I've met and interacted with are among the most varied group of people I can imagine that all do the same basic job. They show more inherent variance than any other profession I've ever seen. I concur completely with the Atlantic's letter, and sincerely doubt it was a PR plant.

Just my .02.
Carol Bartz says Yahoo “f—ed me over,” and f—s over Yahoo in the process
FBI Raids Solyndra
Facebook Implements New Privacy Feature
How to solve network problems with network forensics
August 2007 - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4291933
That's actually quite the oddity. It seems to go against conventional wisdom (but then when has the British Government done anything wise lately?) and copyright law itself in that once copyright lapses it is supposed to be non-ownable from that point on.
The most notorious split infinitive.
Hair Extensions and Chemical Treating
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I think the idea of technical and non-technical cofounders applies less to yogurt or restaurants than it does to most of the web startups discussed here. People can be passionate social networking, offering web analytics, and sharing photos without knowing anything about programming or having the skills needed to build these businesses.

I don't think many people decide to start selling yogurt because of a business opportunity. People that start yogurt companies are (hopefully) passionate about yogurt, and I would think they would have some experience in making their own yogurt. Starting a restaurant would be similar.

In summary, I think the main distinction is that the barrier of entry to programming (and engineering in general) is greater than that of making yogurt or cooking. There are many people passionate about computers and their applications that don't know anything about programming, but I would think there are far less people passionate about yogurt (and unhappy with the current offerings) that don't know anything about making yogurt.
In a small town the school system serves two primary purposes, neither of which are education. It's primarily a way to employ local people. The sports teams provide the main form of entertainment in the town outside of alcohol and television.
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IELTS4U is an online training center dedicated to providing online training for IELTS through video classes and end-to-end training for the aspirants of IELTS. It is a globally conducted test which is focused on all four major language skills which involve Listening, Reading, Writing and finally speaking. IELTS has greater impact on the people. IELTS accepted by most of the universities including USA.
The assumption is if they had preferential treatment for the DOE loan.

However there are a lot of indicators that they DID have preferential treatment based on the 20+ WhiteHouse visits from investors and staff of the company.

They were touted as being a "Green Shoots" and posterboy for .gov investment to create jobs, and they pull the douchebaggery of shuttering out 1,100 employees with no notice, severance or vacation pay.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/08/solyndra-officials-made-nu...
Atmosphere.next Update: WebSocket, Javascript, full docs ...
Http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/83000.aspx
Don't forget CSRF, and don't do destructive actions via GETs.
which means memorization

I wonder, why do people have problem with this. The trend seems to be a desire to learn without puttint any effort into that. I doubt that's possible at all.
Not, not free... is a 20% discount code if you tweet first.

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IOS source code for Wolfenstein 3D & Doom classic
It reads like a plain promo piece (which it is) and it is not terribly exciting. There is nothing creative about what you listed. With 1000 randomized targets you could at least try and build a weathermap of the Internet, or something along these lines. And even that wouldn't be that creative... because there is a patent for that.

(edit) Looked at your site, FAQ included, and you have a major misunderstanding what the most important feature of a monitoring service is. From your customer's perspective. It is not pricing, it is not contractlessness and it is not 1000 targets. It is your reliability. How many monitoring locations you have? How well distributed they are geographically? How would handle the case of one segment of the Internet getting detached from another? Etc, etc. To pull a URL (or a 1000) from some location on the Internet and match the response against a regexp - there is absolutely nothing to it, anyone can do it and that's why there is a metric ton of trivial monitoring services. Do tell how you are different, and not in miniscule details.
For heavier work, hg's patch queue's are unmatched. (not to mention you can version the patch queue as well!)

If bookmarks are too lightweight for something (say you have an experimental branch that you want to branch on-top of) patch queues are amazing.

Not to mention their ease of use!!

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/managing-change-with-mercuri...
Gimme a mix of harmony and coffeescript on the server and I'm sold. Btw, no static typing please, the web is definitely dynamic, oh one last thing, remember the hobbyists.
Sadly, I have to agree with this.

You're very smart, zhoutong, and your eager and polite acceptance of feedback does you great credit. But I would not attempt what you're doing, and I know a fair amount about both trading infrastructure and security.

And though your site is very impressive, I immediately spot a major omission: you say nothing about your margin call policy. Do you have one? What will you do when one of your users' accounts goes to zero, and then negative?
I have to completely disagree, there isn't enough innovation in the programming language space. The more people we have writing languages and the more people using them, the more quickly we'll discover new patterns and improved ways of doing things. Improved programming languages with better abstractions, better guarantees can allow whole new classes of programs to be written. Of course, they could be written using traditional techniques but the complexity and difficulty involved can make them almost impossible.
/me did not know this - thank you for the fill in (I'll stop preaching about them for hg then, I thought they were unique to hg!)
I recall someone mentioning that the Haskell implementations of FRP suffer from various performance problems. Anyone know if those issues are relevant here too?
> We have more users who’ve turned on DNT within Firefox than are using Adblock Plus ... we’re seeing almost 5% of our user base with DNT enabled

That's a staggering pair of statistics. More people care about not being tracked than not being shown ads, and there is a significant number who don't mind ads but don't want to be tracked.
The BCM2835 chipset can decode Level 4.1 H.264 which is an approximately a maximum resolution/fps of 1080p30 at about 60-70mbit/s.
If you think social policy should be premised on the idea that any random person is likely to be Michael Faraday, there probably isn't much productive discussion about policy to be had with you. That doesn't make you wrong, just an intractable absolutist.
http://ruxum.com (also http://campbx.com). Fwiw, I've seen one or two posts over on reddit.com/r/bitcoin offering invite codes to Ruxum in the past few weeks.
Milanosb11
> Btw, no static typing please, the web is definitely dynamic

Could you explain what you mean with that?
They are human like the rest of us, good and bad. Do not assume integrity simply because of somebodies profession.
twitter is the most powerful tool if used properly. you can cultivate a rapport that can translate into a relationship before you know it...and for companies like ours that are completely outside of the heart of the action, it's allowed us to stay somewhat attached.
Show HN: a weekend project, Caltrainer
Business Lesson From A 6-Year-Old
Are you sure the article didn't just flip the relevance bit for you when you read "investors are looking for good companies with low risk, not great companies with high risk"?

The stuff in there about how earnouts are structured seems germane. I have friends who have sold tech startups where earnout structure was a material issue.
http is a text protocol. Best to deal with values as text, and dynamically as other types when needed.
Cooking Quick Vegetarian Meals for those techies that prefer it Chow.
Can I automatically sync files using it? I work in multiple places and if I have to manually run a sync operation before I leave, I'm certain to forget or be unable to at some occasion, and then I'm screwed.
Summary: Unix (and especially BSD 4.3)

I hate articles which ask a question in the headline and then answer it only in the last few paragraphs.
Perhaps there is some good reason for developing a whole new language. However my gut tells me that they should instead put their weight behind a new promising language that's still evolving.
Ask HN: Can you accept payment through native android or iPhone app?
Hi All,

I'm new to mobile side of the things so just wondering if you can accept payment through your native iPhone or Anroid application. I'm looking for integration with PayPal or some payment gateway where you can accept CC.

Thanks,
I completely disagree with your disagreement.

There is plenty of innovation in the programming language space. There is too much. We're too busy working out how to talk to the machines versus how to get problems solved. We're here to solve problems, not serve the machines.

In fact, the shortage is in computer-science research. There has been NOTHING as fundamentaly important as Knuth's work in the last couple of decades. It's an innovation standstill. Nothing fundamentally better than the UNIX and LISP paradigms is out there for example.

Until something fundamental changes, most of what we have will do the job fine.
Well, there is a very good reason for this: Clojure tries to reduce the number of parentheses by substituting other characters, namely square brackets []. For example:

; Common Lisp
(defun add (x y) (+ x y))
; Scheme
(define (add x y) (+ x y))
; Clojure
(defn add [x y] (+ x y))

Also, Clojure eliminates some parentheses that are used in other Lisps:

; Common Lisp and Scheme
(cond ((> x 0) 1)
((= x 0) 0)
(t -1))
; Clojure
(cond (> x 0) 1
(= x 0) 0
:else -1)