skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple answer
Do they sell out? Because if they do, then it's not too much (and may even be too little).

The slightly more complicated answer
Pricing can be used in a number of different ways - for example, it can force only a certain 'level' of people (experience, money, focus in an area) to attend.

Picking (randomly) EuroPython from your list at 210€ - if you attend, you know you will be surrounded by other people who believe the event is worth at least 210€ to them, as opposed to people who may only have a passing interest in Python. Similarly, topics will be targeted at your level - if you've ever been to a 'free' course on a topic you know really well and found it full of noobs asking basic questions that don't help you, then you will understand the value that these levels have.
If SEO is a meaningful part of your marketing strategy, then you should invest time in getting links. Linkbait on HN and elsewhere is a good path for this... Though you'd obviously be better served getting links from places where your customers spend their time, that's not always available/easy.
Regarding ability to predict the future: There is a huge amount of survivor bias involved. Given how many people predicted incorrectly (just look at 1950s Pop Sci covers), somebody was bound to be somewhat correct. We only know his prediction because it came true; how many other predictions of his haven't?

Clarke was an amazing writer, and there is no question he had an eye for possible futures. I wish I could write half as well.
"Free Text Messaging" is an interesting 4 year period, though it looks like it's dead as a search term now. Is this because of Google Voice? Or did people give up on the idea?

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:g2VSqRc0n...
Unfortunately, they haven't made the talks public just yet. Maybe soon? Check out the exceleratelabs.com site to see when they are up.
I've got a slicehost machine out there, and their communication with the cutover to rackspace has been awful. I'm still not sure if it's going to be mostly transparent, needs dns coordination, or if I'm going to have to rebuild my vm on the cloudwhatever. To be fair, it's not a common configuration (debian lenny/32bit,384mb), but everything I see just makes me think that it's going to be more of a pain than I want to have to deal with.

Linode looks good, are there any red flags to worry about?
The basic technology for this has been around for years (e.g., the logitech digipen), though I think this latest iteration is the first to add pressure sensitivity. I've always wanted one of these (back when I was getting my physics PhD, I would have killed for this), but everything out there to date seems to be the same rehashed product that is doomed to be abandoned shortly after its release. Here's to hoping wacom does it right.
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It's not mentioned in the linked article but a significant proportion of the space junk in orbit can be traced to China using a missile to destroy a satellite back in 2007.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2007/01/china_blows_u...
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Most people don't take 50 minutes to fall asleep unless they've just slept. It's been a while, but I believe the well-rested person carrying no sleep debt (according to Maas) takes about 20 minutes to fall asleep. If you're over-exerted (as most of us are), it should take less time than that. You just need to time this stuff properly, and get a sense for about how long it takes you to fall asleep.

Also, the 1.5 hours between sleep cycles isn't completely accurate - but it makes more practical sense to time it this way. Add to this, that not everyone has the same internal functionality, and you have a really complicated problem. Everyone needs a different amount of sleep each night, and I believe the cycles are different as well.

However, if you wake up around the times it suggests, you have a higher chance of feeling better. It doesn't ensure anything, but if you were going to wake up around that time anyway, might as well adjust 10-20 minutes for a better chance.
This looks pretty cool and futuristic, just not sure how extremely useful it is. But anything that brings us closer to our inevitable, dystopian, blade runner-esque world, I am all for.
The great thing about not having to report to investors, is that you can focus on your job, and on your product.
You do not have to focus on profit (provided you can afford living with low income).

I love the story behind GitHub, they managed to live to a few bucks, and with patience all their effort is paying themselves, not having to share their effort with others.

Congratulations to those guys behind those Bootstrapped Startups.
Scala is to Java as F# is to VB.
This is not meant to be a complete list yet. If I get some interest outside of NYC, I will expand it to other cities.
It's total bullshit. There's no half way.

You don't get to pick and choose which ethics you adhere to. Arrington's dodge has always been "I'm not a journalist," so he shouldn't have to adhere to journalistic ethics. But if you report on news, you're a reporter, simple as that. It doesn't matter whether your news organization was founded 150 years ago or 5 years ago, or whether you publish with electrons or dead trees. Journalistic ethics are there for a reason, particularly in business journalism.

I mean, I'd like to exempt myself from the cumbersome ethical restrictions pertaining to murder and robbery, but simply declaring I'm above all that doesn't make it so.
I think you may have missed what I think is the most important point made in the article:

"It is also interesting to consider that students in the treatment group spent approximately half of the summer working on pre-algebra skills. Because the Khan software is individualized, it identified that most of our students had significant pre-algebra skill gaps and delivered instruction and practice problems to address these deficits. Students in the Khan/treatment group therefore spent up to 50% less time than the control group on the algebra content that the MDTP exam measured. The treatment group, however, still performed at a similar level the control group on the algebra measures."

That says to me that these students spent most of their time filling in gaps in their knowledge and still managed to keep up and even get ahead of the other class in a very short amount of time. They're basically saying flat out that these students learned as much of the advanced material in half the time as the other group and probably have better foundational knowledge.

No significant difference my ass.
No. The suggestion I give all my clients is to first pass every potential recruit through a 'Family Photo Fit' - ie, will they fit in with the rest of your team. If not, then their skills, relationships, intelligence etc won't have a chance to be leveraged.

I think Branson has written about 'hiring for attitude, training for skills' which is along the same vein.

Annoying team members are bad. If you have a bad performer who is disruptive, it's bad for your business; if you have a good performer who is disruptive, it is many multiples worse as their behavious starts to become accepted by others who want to also perform at their level.

But definitely be open about the 'non-match' on your organisation's culture - there are possibly other businesses there where he would fit better, and at least it gives him a chance at become more aware of those hardwired elements.
Some of you might already know about this, but 37Signals produces a series called Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud where they interview bootstrapped companies with more than 1M in revenues.

You can see a list of interviewed companies at: http://37signals.com/bootstrapped
Autorelease isn't a silver bullet for Obj-C memory management. There are a number of cases in which you would NOT want to autorelease objects - tight loops, for example.

If you're already in the habit of autoreleasing everything you +alloc, why not just release it when you're done with it instead?
Yeah, both my mother and my father are biologists who do a lot of laboratory work. They, along with chemist friend have told me that one typical health issue in laboratories is circulation problems due to extended standing periods.

That's why I approached the half and half idea of standing/sitting for my work :)
dumbest thing i've ever seen. do people really need an app to tell them when to go to bed??
Ingenious! Now I can be stuffed with genuine NYT ads even when taking a leak! Can't wait!

Seriously though - it's a great tech, but their focus on ad revenue at the prototyping phase is disturbing.
I don't think Woz has done that kind of work since the 1980's at the latest.

Everyone knows the x86 architecture is inelegant. The 1990's saw a number of new CPU architectures being introduced and marketed to replace it, but none of them could keep up with the performance of x86. Apple fought that battle for the longest, up until PPC petered out. When they gave up and adopted x86, Macs became that much more useful for their ability to dual-boot Windows, or to run Windows in a VM. Apple was able to ignore some of the rougher parts of the PC architecture by avoiding BIOS and MBR.
It depends whether your culture is passive or one with some teeth that will challenge this guy. If your culture is too weak to confront him, then don't let him in.
This was actually enough for me to avoid buying an Optimus equipped netbook I had my eyes on... :(
Arrington is the future of what we used to call journalism
Maybe that $3000 includes VAT?
Personal growth is like git
Branding for tech-startups
You can try using Bumblebee[1] or Ironhide[2], as they seem to be coming along fairly well.

[1] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee
[2] http://www.martin-juhl.dk/2011/08/ironhide-reporting-for-dut...
I really enjoy this series and they do a good job of writing about the companies. However, I don't think it's fair to call companies that took an angel investment as being "bootstrapped." What does the rest of HN think? Is that being pedantic? Please share your thoughts.
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Kind off-topic for the site.
But geeks do also need to have good health.
I'm not sure if up-vote this or flag it. :).

Doing nothing.
The Powerbook Prank. How to scam scammer.
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Apparently the acronym "OOMF" is hot right now: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:lhfq3Utw3...
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RightNow Technologies http://www.rightnow.com Bozeman, MT

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The CIS layer requires a high performance, scalable, fault tolerant architecture. CIS is the interface between the RightNow application and the cloud hosting environment. CIS provides services such as installation/configuration, software upgrades, database replication, file attachment storage, and deferred job processing.

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* No telecommuting
Your "The slightly more complicated answer" give a good view... but i think that focusing on money is a wrong way to "filter" partecipations.

Would be much better to ask for some code, like a job interview... something like InterviewStreet.

Focusing on money will block a lot of people to move since (say) moving from europe to an SF conference might cost almost, and i think it's a price that not everyone, even talented people, can afford.
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I think finding your individual recipe for a good night sleep is really important. From what I have read people seem to have their own patterns etc. If the app also had some kind of feedback/tuning system so you could use it as a tool to find your perfect routine, this might be great...

TYPO: "try to get into bed around 15 before one of these times" - change to "15 mins"
When I was in college, and first looking for a job, an internship would have been great.

Good work on this!
Air Griffey Max 2
hockey arena

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AP3Onqn6...
Good, so i dont have to worry i m bringing google down / google is going to put a cap on this
For me there was an issue with the fact that most of my work apps aren't standard and didn't cooperate with the hijacked toolbar. If I'm going to use a distro that prides itself on ease of use, I'm not going to bother with any additional configuration just to have a toolbar in Intellij and Spring Tool Suite. No clue if this has been remedied at all yet. My dance with Unity lasted only a week before I just removed it and went to Linux Mint.
Good luck spending thousands of man-years reimplementing all of statistics and numeric computing in Scala.
Wrong link? Was it supposed to be the Forbes article?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/08/25/when-you-...
Google specifically allows this behavior for paid content. It is called "First Click Free" which allows your paid content to be indexed provided you allow at least the first click from search results to be freely-accessible to users. Afterwards, you can ask that they sign up/subscribe.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon
[n.b. I work for Intel on MeeGo]

MeeGo Netbook uses Clutter. It also supports Qt applications. Other products from our partners have used Clutter and I would expect them to use Clutter in the future.
A halfway engaged HS physics teacher would do far better than the videos I sampled on basic kinematics and newtons laws.

The stuff there is just _begging_ for in person demos.

From what I've seen, KA is better than nothing, or a really indifferent teacher. But If you have a better than average teacher, they're going to far surpass KA.
The key paragraph:

"WGU’s answer to the status quo is to offer a degree that is based on competency rather than time. By gathering information from employers, industry experts, and academics, Western Governors formulates a detailed, institution- wide sense of what every graduate of a given degree program needs to know. Then they work backward from there, defining what every student who has taken a given course needs to know. As they go, they design assessments—tests—of all those competencies. “Essentially,” says Kevin Kinser, a professor of education at the State University of New York at Albany, “they’re creating a bar exam for each point along the way that leads to a degree.”"
Speaking from experience? The reason why I am asking is because the post states "the fearful perception doesn’t map to the realities of the language experienced after consistent usage"
> Open source never dies.

Your assertion immediately led me to try to come up with a counter-example, and the first candidate that popped into my head was FVWM95[1]. This was a dumb choice of course, as it was a popular package in its day, and it's not that old in the grand scheme of things. I suppose there's a decent chance that a few people out there still run it on old machines, perhaps even just for the novelty. In fact, the shot of the full desktop[2] reminds me that I still occasionally use xcalc, partly because of its light weight and partly I suppose for the nostalgia of it.

To your point, I'm sure there are plenty of software projects whose last remnants exist only on dusty tape cartridges in the basements of university computer science departments. For practical purposes, it seems reasonable to call these "dead". I'd bet there are many more projects in this state than there are people willing to resurrect them. It's safe to say though that MeeGo has a ways to go before it reaches this point.

[1] http://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/screenshot-full.gif
I'm pretty sure that's looking through a modern lens at a much older situation. The religious right were not in power (or even really existent as a political force) through the entire history of Israel, and yet, Israel has always had US support.

I'll buy that the religious right consider Israel a useful political tool, and that it fits the worldview of the people the religious right are trying to herd (I'm pretty confident most of the people calling the shots in the religious right are not particularly religious; it's just useful to them). But, I can't buy a Tea Party conspiracy that goes back 60+ years.
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I don't think it's pedantic. I read bootstrapped to being self-funded by either the founders money and/or cash flow.
No I would not hire them, if I was convinced it was hardwired. A bad fit in the case of your team, would mean your happiness and thus your productivity for the whole team would go down. Also in terms of culture, values and brand you could be sending a bad message to your team and anyone outside that has to work or interact with them.

I should declare an interest my startup (Professional You) is building a system to help you find your perfect boss, as our data shows that if you like your boss you are happier and more productive and if you trust them you are will take the occasional risk and thus be more innovative..
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+1000 on this. It took me a long time to realize, but I can either spend my time trying to be a big deal in the tech blogosphere, or try to engage with my actual customers.

If HN users aren't your customer base, then coverage in TC or HN frontpage will do nothing for you. It may stroke your ego, but it won't pad your pocketbook.
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Beam.js: V8 on top of the Erlang BEAM
Linode's weak spot is storage. Their offerings are pretty pathetic.
You're crazy town.

How does it add more complexity to your view hierarchy exactly?

Most people are getting away from doing their UI's in code and moving back to their proper place in IB.

This is done almost entirely in IB:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk8HCkqZsNU

As is this:

http://shavevideo.com/

I'd still be typing if I did it in code.

Weird.
Paper has to come from an accredited institution, right?

So, there is some bureaucratic stuff involved in order to be able to qualify for issuing the paper. Not sure KA meets that requirement yet.
Exactly right. Khan Academy's macro effect on K-12 education at present is limited to challenging the value and application of lectures. (Gamification of education which is not an original concept at all.)

It's not even close to replacing instruction, since there are dozens of valuable things that instructors do besides lecture.

And the notion that it will replace or even put a dent in traditional higher ed in our lifetime is pretty uninformed -- that isn't the problem they're setting out to fix.
Considering the attitude towards testing in this article.. How much would someone generally pay for say a testing consultant to test their app for them?
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Ask HN: Is it really worth it to join AngelList?
I am Co-founder of a young startup (NoBadGift.com) and recently had a talk with my partners about how we plan to go about getting funding beyond ourselves, friends, and family. That's when one of my partners said we should sign up AngelList.co, but is it really as great as people say it is. Or, are we better off going at funding the old fashion way through networking and trying our best to get in front of investors
Damm I’m a smoker again. But a productive one.
Some thoughts on creating change and realizing your own personal power
Organizational change, relationship change, begins with individual. Power comes knowing your personal limitations, evaluating the situation, and putting forth right effort.
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I'm afraid i'm not familiar enough with the politics and dynamics of the situation to be able to comment, but i hear what you are saying.

Like you, i think its more important to focus on being bound by a common set of ideals and purpose.
Did you do any research to determine why MAX(id) was greater than NEXTVAL() for the sequence? That would be useful knowledge to add to your post (and, presumably, for you to have).
This might as well turn into a new New Coke [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
Unfortunately many of the compass mixins require extensions to SASS to work. This makes them difficult to use without using all of compass.
Basic implementation of garbage collection in C++.
bootstrapping makes your scrappy. the success is ever sweater when you did it yourself.
Does anyone have a combined PDF? While I appreciate the author putting out the PDF, separating the files out into individual chapters and figures makes it harder to read in a sitting.
What's worse than a blanket assertion that one language is hands down better than another? Defending that assertion with trite infographics and limp analogies.

If you're in a technical leadership role and convinced that Scala is better than Java then run your team on Scala and take a quantitative look at the results - bugs, developer happiness, velocity, etc - all the myriad dimensions of development.

Anything else is just anecdotal, an assertion, fluff.
Before I read the article I assumed this was all about the hung EC2 instances in the Great Virginia Datacenter Outage.

I need to get out of the house more.
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I know you cant speak on behalf on Intel, but pretty much the "is supported by the open source community. Its development is sponsored by Intel." on http://clutter-project.org still stands ?
Also, for more excellent writing by Zeilberger, try this:

http://math.rejecta.org/vol1-num1/10-17

Be sure to scroll through until you find the Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report.
Whatever. Life is way too short for some of us. Sign up for the Corona SDK and just have fun.

Creating good apps has nothing to do with the tools you use, it is how you use them ... And more importantly than that, knowing how to design, polish, shine, and pay attention to detail is what makes a good app. Maybe adhering to some standard UI styles and layouts as well.

EDIT: Wow, I'm bummed that this is getting down-voted. Maybe reply with WHY you are down-voting because developing GOOD apps in Corona is much easier than the route described by the author of this post.
agreed, that would be more beneficial than the actual fix - this could potentially just paper over the underlying problem.
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1.5gb out with 880 frontend instance hours in 24 hours.

Someone needs to rethink their architecture.
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Google search to circumvent paywall:

http://www.google.com/webhp#q=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2F...
Lost iPhone 5 prototype found in a bar: Hoax or clever PR stunt?
But there's probably an interesting middle ground.
You should also consider teaching. Talking about interesting stuff to interested young people is very satisfying.
Whatever happens with FCPX is utterly insignificant compared to the rest of Apple. To call this a Vista moment is laughable.