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What are your thoughts on Stanford's Open Classroom HTML courses?

They may not be HTML5, and I have not had a chance to browse codeschool's offerings, but I'd be curious to hear how it compares in complexity to Stanford's lectures.

[*] http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?...
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I must be a truly mean person. My first thought was "I can know when I have spammed them exactly enough"... I think I would personally make a game out of trying to keep people's inbox completely full. Like I said... I'm prolly just a mean spirited person.
How would he be incompetent if he was a MS mole? Sounds like he was pretty competent if he succeeded?

That Wiki article seems to be a hit job. A few references:

http://www.msboycott.com/news/00_01_17.shtml

http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=rick+belluzzo+%2...

And we have someone on HN here quoting the Urban dictionary reference. How long does it take to make a new entry for anyone or anything yourself?

Didn't know Google searches can be used as a reference on the Wiki.

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Anyway, I guess Linus was right, MS hatred is a disease, and one such manifestation is the people who wrote that Wiki article.
Desktops aren't going anywhere until laptops catch up to desktop performance on video games and graphics in general. The only reason I have a desktop is for gaming. I imagine most people who buy new desktops now only get them for gaming. I mean honestly, who would choose a desktop over a laptop for anything unless they need to interact with graphics heavily. I suppose you can get a more powerful desktop for cheaper than an equivalent laptop but I think this is a minority case.

(Just my thoughts, no data whatsoever to back this up).
After reading the horror stories on the site, I can't help but ask if PayPal is trying to push business to the insurance industry?

These horror stories may provide incentives for more "progressive" insurance companies to create exotic insurance instruments covering large ecommerce providers, insuring against the chance that the payment provider will arbitrarily freeze your account when you need it most.

For all the epic fails that we read regarding PayPal's seemingly draconian fraud detection department/algorithms, one wonders what the percentage is versus overall PayPal transaction volume.
You can always turn this into little guy vs Goliath in the media, get free PR and crowdsource the data.
Why announce the deal when he did? I'll give you a Billion reasons ...
I'm sick of these posts. What I got out of the article was "I think I know how Google should design its product, and thus I deem decisions not in agreement to be total bullshit."

Personally, I prefer to respect the work they've put into the product and to accept that they may have insights deeper than mine. It's evident from Google's announcement that they see more complex issues around pseudonyms, and I will form an opinion after I see their changes. I do not understand this attitude of "Fuck those guys" - so much anger over a social network!
I believe Firefox mobile does allow you to resume and visit your currently opened tabs and bookmarks.
Interesting concept, but a look at the branding and what exists of an implementation makes me hard-pressed to believe that users would be compelled to use it. Heres hoping though, I for one would welcome our new parachute panted overlords, if they should arrive.
What is the relevance of the traffic numbers?

(Not trolling, I'm just wondering what I'm missing.)
Facebook "friends" and the size of people’s brain regions.
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If Google still requires you to use your real name to register but allows you to show only a pseudonym, the problem ceases to exist because there is no one able to rat you out.

That is, unless they write an algorithm that checks for "Dear realname" in your emails and compares it to your purported name & pseudonym. Yuck.
> Desktops aren't going anywhere until laptops catch up to desktop performance on video games and graphics in general

I used to be a die-hard desktop fan until I found xoticpc http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-lapto... I can vouch for the sager brand...the specs are sick. I can play all modern games, plus I'm portable.
This.

Thoughtful analysis is far more useful than these sensationalist rants.
> "the screen is too small to do any useful reading."

This is where I disagree. I love my smartphone (Galaxy S2!) because it lets me read my Google Reader and Kindle on the go. But if you don't like the experience of reading on the screen, I can see how its perceived usefulness will diminish.

Smartphone utility is probably also strongly correlated with time spent away from a laptop. I rarely use my smartphone at work or at home, but I tend to spend most of my time out and about on the weekends, so access to email, IM and Maps while out of the house is worth the price of admission. You are never out of touch, you can find the address/directions to anything, from anywhere, anytime.

Then add on camera, Facebook, Yelp for finding restaurants, Yahoo Fantasy Football app, Evernote for keeping workout logs and saving commonly run queries and I'm pretty much in love. But as always, YMMV.
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Ask HN: Does it mean anything to have been a finalist for an accelerator?
I would like to think that being named a finalist for a highly acclaimed startup accelerator is a good sign, even if we were not selected. I am so grateful to have been considered and we learned so much from the experience. It certainly helped us to refine our product and it provided deeper motivation to succeed. So in these ways, it means a lot, of course. But does it serve as an indicator for the potential of the product?
I think he understands the distinction perfectly.

He's saying you can't have true Psuedonimity (as you, and Google define it) without complete privacy. If someone can scratch the surface of your psuedonym and find your real name then there's no real point.
Was there a vote I was unaware of?

(Sorry, the unflinching confidence in your statement made the snarkyness irresistible to me)

I realize there's a spectrum to every debate and it's sometimes hard to know where the fringe is. But I have to assume most people realize Google has the right to know who they are providing a service to.

Again, I see the distinction here between Google knowing your name (which I think they have the right to do) and Google using your name to build a whole database on you (which I don't support). But these are all privacy issues.

Pseudonymity is about how you present yourself to the community at large and to the best of my knowledge it always has been. For example, Samuel Clemens published under Mark Twain but his publisher paid Samuel Clemens.
well, just switch to a dumb phone, and I think you'll probably still be alright. Limit yourself to calls and text and for most people you'll realize how little your life has changed.
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No you're totally missing the point. This is holographic photography. Capturing the entire light field means this captures depth. I'm surprised they're not touting this on the web site -- there are already 3D displays. Perhaps they don't have the processing technology yet?

Edit: Yup here it is: http://blog.lytro.com/news/it-gets-better-lytro-3d-demo/ They can do more though; with a proper holographic display you could actually focus on different parts of the image (with your eyes) and "see around" objects to a limited extent. (Their field-of-view-to-depth-of-field ratio is limited by the size of the lens though.)
Why do you think they're hiding these "deeper insights," do they think we're too stupid to understand?
The girlfriend was working her way through rubykoans.com and ran into several problems with the site throwing proxy errors. Maybe it's fixed by now, but something gave me the impression it hasn't been maintained very well.
If Google knows your name but allows you to post under a pseudonym then how can someone scratch the surface and find out your real name (unless they work for Google)? That's like saying you can't post an anonymous blog because the web provider knows your real name.
Betterment Interview With CEO Jon Stein
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jon Stein from Betterment. You won't want to miss this Betterment interview! Betterment is great.
It takes a lot of time to become good at this.

HOWEVER:

I strongly feel that anyone who is going to be working with or managing programmers should spend at least some time learning to code. You will not be able to do their job, but you will have a much better understanding of the basic issues involved.

As a technical person, I also have much more respect for someone who wants to talk to me about an idea they have after they have taken the effort to make some sort of rough mock-up or prototype. I may have to throw it out and start over, but it shows commitment and it shows that you have been doing some serious thinking about the problem.
adding a testimonial from the paralyzed man and any other satisfied customers on your front page might go a long way to show how your app can be useful to certain niche markets.
This is a pretty cool, quick puzzle. I was able to reverse the snow by just changing a handful of characters (I assume this is the most common solution). Not going to try tackling the advanced part though.

I did see a really cool solution from a buddy on IRC that does some string manipulation...
Yes, of course I want Siri secure as well. That's why Siri's button is turned on, to enable security. On a page where you are turning on security.
Google Maps with Voice Navigation was the killer app that made me ditch iPhone 3G for Nexus One. Now with Nexus S, I haven't looked back.

If your digital life is in Google apps, a Nexus phone is a very sensible choice.

I'm not willing to put up with carrier crapware on non-Nexus phones though. That would be too big of a compromise for me.
then how can someone scratch the surface and find out your real name

A subpoena will do it.
Don't buy it. If you cut out the top 1%, the income distribution doesn't look that dissimilar to how it did 40 years ago. Most gains have gone to that elite stratum. And engineers and doctors comprise only a very small proportion of that 1%.

"[Engineers] have wages that are increasing on an inflation-adjusted basis if – and this is the key – they are any good at their job." This is technically true, but it's not the driving force behind what #OWS is protesting. The magnitude of that inflation-adjusted increase in wages is very small compared to the increase in wages and investment income of those who rely on ownership or proximity to capital instead of labor for their wealth.

The actual driver of increasing inequality isn't the growth in wages of "knowledge workers." It's the financialization of the American economy. Investment bankers and financiers aren't knowledge workers. Calling them that is misleading, because it's easy to distinguish between them and (doctors and engineers), and clumping them all together gives a misleading view of how society has changed in the past several decades.
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They really need to decouple a Google account from a person's email address(s).

Exactly. In fact, one should be able to "attach" multiple email accounts to a single Profile.
That's only for people with Google Apps for Education (teachers)!! Also, if you are under 13 you can't use the site if you didn't sign up with google/facebook (which have their own weird under 13 rules)

See "1. Eligibility" in (http://www.khanacademy.org/about/tos)

EDIT: Also, I found out that youtube actually doesn't let anyone under 13 use their service, so I'm guessing you can't watch the videos either if you're under 13. See "12. Ability to Accept Terms of Service" in (http://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&template=terms)

I just found out the internet is just for people over 13...
I don't know. I think it's two different issues. One is an issue of policy the other is an issue of incompetence in implementing a policy.
Thousands to many millions. Your problem definition as it stands is overly broad. What are your goals for the project?
To be clear, the guy was selling an app which provided access to radio programs that the CBC was providing for free. My impression was that the charging money part was the problem as the CBC is funded partly by tax dollars.

http://mobile.davander.com/2011/09/cbc-is-forcing-me-to-remo...
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Finally. Google has given me way too much time to bad mouth their service simply because I'm bitter that I can't have it yet.
The news is that android.git.kernel.org is back up. I'm not sure why the headline is about Android 4 as that is only briefly mentioned in the post.
meego runs MUCH better than webos on the same hardware tho. also its not proprietary.
Ask HN: Where to find iOS developers?
Hi HN,

I'm wondering where the best place to find contract (or full time) iOS developers. We are looking for a candidate who has some iOS experience before. All views are done in illustrator and we can slice them appropriately.

Anyone interested? Anyone know anywhere other than eLance or oDesk (or have specific people they'd recommend)?
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Not a bad idea and UI/UX. I'm checking it out now. Good luck with it.

I was just running through the matches and there are like >10 girls (which is fine for a young startup). Nonetheless, don't just have a message that says you're out of matches. Allow the user to start his /her search over again. The site is of no use to me now because I couldn't see matches.
I'm shocked that you inferred as much from his quote. He's notoriously vague (because he's not actually saying anything), and after re-reading the quote I'm not sure where you got the "growth" part from.
SCPD is generally aimed at people with training budget money to spend that need some kind of certificate to show for it. There are a few more (Stanford Advanced Project Management some in financial engineering and risk management, some in bio engineering, IIRC).

The OpenCourseWare classes, which have a lot of spiritual overlap and more delivery system lap with SCPD, are aimed at everyone else.

Oh, the SCPD GPA requirement is not particularly strict, it seems, if you have a professional background in the area or a degree from ``top tier'' school or such. They just don't want to let anyone in who will reflect particularly poorly. (Which you might argue the corporate orientation defeats, but that's a different argument entirely.)
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I solved one of the puzzles in there and got a job interview and then job offer from it!
Again I think that's a privacy issue more than an issue of being pseudonymous. Someone using a pseudonym wants to be identified they just want to do it on their own terms.

What you're talking about is complete anonymity which is a different concept.
Props just for the Anna Karenina reference :-)
It seems rather polarizing. Instead of coming to an agreement through thought and evidence based argument, calling things "wars" seems to suggest one should pick a side and stick with it.

Promoting an opinion based on ideology alone is dangerous.
Nope, not at all. This is in essence digital holography.

(In holography, each "pixel" captures along the 3rd dimension of angle of incidence. The image is reconstructed simply by each pixel reflecting/emanating light as a function of its angle of incidence.)
I'm amazed at my smartphone constantly, because it does things that my laptop/desktop cannot ever hope to do that are productive and important to me.

I have, more times than I can remember, looked up restaurant recommendations, reached consensus with other people wirelessly, and then made a reservation, all without leaving my smartphone, while standing on the sidewalk somewhere.

I have also walked up to a restaurant only to find it closed, and found a delicious alternative within seconds thanks to Yelp, Urbanspoon, et al.

I have taken pictures, uploaded them to [social network] and received responses within minutes, if not seconds. I have met up with friends because the GPS told us we were near each other.

My smartphone is great for consuming the day's news (especially on a high-ppi screen, reading is a joy) while on the train to work. Laptop or even tablet? Don't be ridiculous, I need one hand hanging onto a railing.

My smartphone is also my light meter, when I'm out and about playing with vintage cameras that pre-date my birth. Not a very typical use case, but one where a laptop or even a tablet would be utterly useless.

I love my smartphone.
I kind of feel sorry for this guy. "Hate" is such a strong word though he probably didn't really mean it.

He just picked out all the negative things about a smartphone and nothing else.

Would he rather carry a laptop for driving navigation? How about a standalone digital camera to take a picture?

This reminded me of this video:

Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
Well, I might be confused with exact terms, but Blackberry supports Qt on it's new platforms, meaning developers can distribute Qt apps. See http://blackberry.github.com/ndk/components.html#Qt

If I'm correct, the Qt Lighthouse is integrated in Qt 4.8 (now RC1), which means easy porting for any platform, including Android. Remains to be seen if Nokia and Google come in terms with this officially though. Of course, you can already distribute Qt apps on Android, using third party ports like Necessitas: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/28/necessitas/ .
Current instruction or active instruction (at the processor level)

Currrent statement or active statement at the code level
By getting a warrant.

By not getting a warrant but saying it's a matter of national security.

By fraudulently misusing your government id and claiming you have some right to the information.
A better name for a system where Google insists on knowing your true identity, but helps you hide it from others might be 'qualified masking' – since it's not true pseudonymity.

Rather than being something which provides all the protections of pseudonymity, such a 'masking' system would give further asymmetric informational advantage (and user lock-in) to Google.
What are the best alternatives for email?
I work on a site called

http://backbonetutorials.com
Yeah, but Android is not locked down enough to implement real remote wipe.
Brin: “I’m Not A Social Person” But “Google+, I Instantly Found Compelling”
ICS was just officially unveiled last night. The SDK has been out less than 24 hours.

Still haven't done it? Seriously?
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Wow, what a blast of fresh air, reading this. I miss the old Internet, when Aunt Sally still couldn't figure it out and certainly would be horrified to find her birthday party photos posted on it, much less would she even conceive of going and posting them herself under her real name.

Why does online marketing have to be built around maintenance of a database of people's Real Identities® ? If it's a page full of comments about guitars, stick a Stratocaster ad on it and be done. The Internet was supposed to be about freedom and personal expression. I used to scoff at things like Second Life and people on BBSes with ridiculously fake avatars, but now we have the horrors of everyday life invading and taking over the "virtual" space, which is less and less virtual every day. Even the visual and auditory carnage of MySpace was preferable to the cookie-cutter sameness of Facebook, helpfully tracking your every single move before you even think to make it, and broadcasting the mundane minutiae of everyday existence to all your "friends".

I used to love Google when it first came out, it beat the pants off Alta Vista and it was a fantastic way to extract cool links from the vastness of the 'net. Now people log on to +1 each other on all the right topics and say all the right things and fit themselves into all the right pigeonholes. What if you want to go online not to maintain your identity as it is now, but to explore new ones? What if you need more than one identity? What if the whole notion of "identity" is something you find burdensome and ultimately repugnant? Well then, there must be something wrong with you and you must have something ghastly and awful to hide.

So yeah, fuck those guys.
The 10000 Hour Rule.
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I would choose the desktop anytime. It's just a matter of use case, but a desktop plus a netbook will likely be around the same order of prices as a laptop alone.
Dealt with this from an asshat running a semester-long school project. Solution: Drafting my own spec doc, sharing w/ rest of team, asking for comments, saying it would lock in two weeks.

Followed that doc for the next month or two.

Of course, the asshat was ticked off when the semester was about to close and tried to edit the doc (for the first time). I just said no.

I consider it a success even though even Those Kids who contribute nothing got As and I got a B+ despite working quite a bit.
If you believe that drugs add value to people's life, then you've chosen the world you want to live in. I chose to believe that (addictive) drugs are really a tax levied on people with weaknesses to be exploited (we all have weaknesses that can be exploited). The purchase of addictive drugs doesn't create value but redistributes wealth from the folks that are weak to the exploiters of that weakness. I don't value drug wealth. That's the world I choose to live in.
Not "kids". Kids under two. Here's the sentence you're quoting:

Unlike school-age children, infants and toddlers “just have no idea what’s going on” no matter how well done a video is, Dr. Troseth said.

How old are your kids?

The article also mentions specifically that once kids are over 3, they can learn from some TV -- Sesame Street specifically has been the subject of lots of studies, and shows some benefits, though it still can't compare with learning from actual people.

That's the main takeaway -- for kids under 2, it's actively harmful; for kids over two, it's not as bad, but kids will still be better off if it's possible to spend those hours interacting with people or playing (by themselves, with others, anything).
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Unfortunately, clumsiness in implementing security theater has privacy implications.
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Optics.

(There's more to a camera than just a sensor and an LCD screen...)
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Really looking forward to gaining access to Wunderkit. As Wunderlist was great, but this looks so much better.
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