skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am talking about university-replacing, curauted list of courses and subjects. Every web developer you know went to university. They have that base. Im talking about high school kids.
Siri is exactly what the average person imagines when they hear "Artificial Intelligence". I suppose that gives it a big edge.

But yeah, the guy is a bit too enthusiastic.
Yes - on the bottom of the page you have a link to Lists - http://news.ycombinator.com/lists
sure it does, fat is high in calories, an excess of calories are stored by your body as fat. Of course, it's possible to get fat by eating calorie dense but low fat food. But it's a lot easier to get fat eating fatty food because of the high calorie / high reward nature of it.
I am not colorblind, but I did read a review in interest. These are not recommended for driving because they apparently make dim and night more difficult, and things like tunnels can be a problem.
As others have stated, most devs have gotten a large chunk of their knowledge from the web. Google is their school.

However, I believe you were asking about those that want a more 'structured' university-like approach.
Although these exist, I'd certainly say there's room for the 'google of education', or the 'wikipedia of programming' etc.

The most VITAL factor for structured learning is the result at the end. How will the world know that I'm any better than when I'd started?
Any organization that can serve as a single authoritative credential node, to be referenced in my bio, would certainly be sought after. Much like the MCP, Cisco certifications etc.

I'd imagine an initiative quite like stanford giving out certificates for its AI (&other) online classes, would be interesting. Or perhaps similar to paul wilmott's CQF certification for quants.

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To sum it up, there's tons of free content that can be used. What's important is structure, and being an authoritative, well-respected provider of credentials. Also, the organization should have strong credentials themselves, and build awareness constantly. Tests would certainly feature heavily in the process. They could leverage startups and other universities to get there quicker~
"Now, the watchword to the development team is: it's not done until I can one-click deploy it."

I have apparently been spoiled somewhere along the line, because I really don't like having clumsy manual processes that involve software/computers. I was recently tasked with figuring out how some researcher's code worked (with an eye towards automating the use of their tools), and it took 8 pages to get most of the steps documented well enough that I could follow them. Steps like, "edit the path in line 977 to point to your input files, recompile, run, click button A..." -- i.e., things that should never have been done manually to start with.

How on earth people whose primary job involves writing code to do things for them can fail to automate tedious (and frequently error-prone) parts of their job is beyond me.

That said, many companies are still going to need to hire somebody to write the one-click deployment. Somebody will have to know how to interact with the cloud services, and how to get around all the little minefields and gaps left in the cloud service offerings, and odds are you aren't going to want to pay that person as much as you pay your developers that do the "real work." That's probably where the sysadmins will go.
Look above for more info on how the list was crafted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3117846
What you're saying is that you spend money and it increases your luck surface area; but there are plenty of free ways to do this. You don't need to go on vacation, make extravagant purchases or even go to the coffee shop to meet new people, make contacts, etc.

It sounds like you need money to get outside of your social comfort zone. If that works for you, fine. But it's not necessary.

Also, don't confuse using money to increase your luck surface area with blatant consumerism. Flying to a conference in Finland is much different than buying a new TV.
Nobody said anything about "general-purpose functional programming languages", the blurb says "existing functional languages". All of Epigram, Agda and Coq are functional and currently exist. :) More seriously, Coq is designed explicitly to be a proof assistant, but Agda and Epigram are meant to be programming languages.
Ms+phd program
how can I find a university that have ms+phd program in my major(civil engineering/surveying)? I've searched thorough universities but I can't find any
Shouldn't you filter the ones that don't have a real photo? Seeing the photo of the person makes them seem real and personable...those pure avatar ones to me feels like one is just looking at the HN username.
Ellie

Figure out your own backronym, if you need one. As far as I'm concerned, I don't.

P.S. The form also asks for a prefix to the existing name. So, I propose the "Arroway" Very Large Array .

Call me sentimental, but that story represents for me a superb merging of fact and vision.
On the other hand, as todsul pointed out, cutting your expenses can give you more money to invest. Cutting costs that also eat up your time also gives you more time to increase your earnings potential. Owning many things brings to mind the definition of a boat as "a hole in the water into which you pour money" and your time.
All that cash Apple has in the bank... I wonder if it's primarily there to make sure Apple can comfortably ride out another global financial crisis (and then clean up as the competition drop like flies).
International Open Government Data Camp looks to build community
> encryption is hard, and thereby expensive

The problem with that is that systems like Skype require strong encryption to work at all, and Skype manages to provide high quality voice transmission despite using encryption on a wide variety of OSs and hardware.

It will probably be more technically difficult to make Skype friendly to snooping than it was to make it secure.
Just watch this video[1] of Siri asking for the user to choose Home or Work and then after the user, who has a heavily accented English, says "work" twice it offers up "walk" and "wall". There are only two possible answers, both his replies start with a "w", the first ends with a "k", and this "most sophisticate piece of AI to ever see the light of the consumer market" can't figure out he probably means work?

Edit: I work with, and know personally, a lot of geeks, hackers and researchers. I don't know anyone who uses Quora or thinks it's the key to anything.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiU8GPlsZqE
What would you like? I can change it.
Nitpick: Well I would say precommit hooks interact with git and not githaven.
This is interesting, but I'm not sure if it's really saying anything more than: Quora, as a knowledge-store, can power mobile search. I say mobile search, since that seems to be the implication of his dream of a siri-quora collaboration.

But is knowledge extraction from Quora really so game-changing with respect to the mobile web? Don't get me wrong--I love Quora and I think it's an incredible knowledge resource online.

But I think the power of siri comes from real-time knowledge (that is, knowledge or information that is useful to us while we're on the go). My experience on Quora has been so much more about intelligent, high-quality content than about real-time, practical, in-the-moment information.
500 Startups: A Continuing Work in Progress
The problem with the idea of "an internet on which the best answers to the majority of our queries come not from the vast, increasingly noisy expanses of the world-wide-web but from the concentrated knowledge and experience of its most articulate experts" doesn't exist on any sort of large scale. A site that gets you in conversation with intelligent insiders and hooks them in with upvotes used to be called Reddit. We see what happens to that on a large scale (which, in Quora's case, doesn't even seem to be in the cards).

Google and Wikipedia work because they don't limit who has a voice (initially, of course). They gather every contribution, and then make a decision. That way they can be both more comprehensive and often better sources of information than some guy who has a bit of cachet in a community.
YouTube tribute to Steve Jobs with Apple Sounds
AGPL only grants an exception to GPL code. Not the unlicensed and presumed to be owned by the person who wrote it code.
Direct link to the USPTO dashboard:

http://www.uspto.gov/dashboards/patents/main.dashxml

Tufte doesn't appear to be exaggerating.
You'd be more convincing if you didn't imply that anyone who worked for less than $100/hr was "substandard". For full-time salaried, I assure you, $200k/yr is not the going rate for sysadmin.
"The amount you will to be proved?" No, it's
Quod Erat Demonstrandum, "which was to be proved."
I read a paper by a Swedish researcher about this. Even if you compare schools with a similar proportion of immigrant descendants, Finnish schools tend to do well compared to Sweden.

I think the biggest difference overall was a lower amount of underachievers in Finland.

I don't know if the Finnish school system is that super great. Maybe you get some knowledge of this and that, and gain a work ethic, but one could teach the kids so much more about life than that would help them a lot later on.

Also I've heard that talented / energetic people have more opportunities to go extra far elsewhere (I've heard positive stuff from California), while here it's more egalitarian, at least at normal schools.

Our kids start school the year they turn seven and the school days are shorter than elsewhere.
"Beware Geeks bearing gifts."

I mean, really, it's an old story: One spouse cheating on the other and gets caught. The only real twist is how she got caught.
I print everything on a color printer, and more than once I've tried to click on a blue link. And that was BEFORE touch screens.
Having used OpenX for several years I wouldn't recommend it.

We used both the (free) hosted version and also hosted it ourselves. Either way it had a habit of hanging for no apparent reason. This didn't seem related to site load though, sometimes it just dozed off. When it was running "well" performance was OK but never earth shattering. To answer your specific question; with the right hardware 40k views shouldn't strain OpenX though it depends on the number of ads you have per page and whether you can use optimisations like Single Page Call. To give you an idea we used a single medium instance on EC2 and it worked fine, even coping with some meaty traffic spikes during TV advertising. We averaged 3 ad units per page.

Putting aside performance issues it was my experience that OpenX wasn't that reliable a delivery platform. It would frequently under deliver for no apparent reason.

Delivery issues are well documented if you search for "openx under delivering". It's been going on years. Thinking we were doing something stupid we got in one of the leading OpenX consultants who confirmed it's a "quirk" of OpenX. The way to "fix" it was through fudging the system with bizarre combinations of remnant ads and weightings. We upgraded several times to a version that was slated to fix the problems but it never did. The last time we upgraded was early this year (can't remember the specific version) but that didn't help.

If all you're doing is using your own Google Ads (or other in-house ads) then under delivery is less of an issue. If you're selling inventory to 3rd party agencies you'll soon become fed up with explaining why you continuously under deliver. Not only is it embarrassing it's bad commercially as well.

I don't have a great deal of experience with other ad platforms but if I ever need to do ads again I'll look into Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP). It's free upto a large number of monthly impressions and based on a comparison I did at the start of this year it can do pretty much anything OpenX could do - the only slight headache was targeting in DFP is not as straight forward as OpenX. Other than that I'd happily have migrated to DFP but just didn't have the time.

Hope that helps,
Paul.
I get a blank page for some reason, even after enabling everything with NoScript.
If you can't even explain what the system would appear to do from a user's perspective in less than (hold a sec...) 11 paragraphs, I don't think you get to call Google "evil" for not doing it.
Most version control systems are only suitable for smaller files, not for graphical assets which tend to be much bigger and even if the system supports large files, files using these formats generates big diffs even for smaller changes.
"I work with, and know personally, a lot of geeks, hackers and researchers. I don't know anyone who uses Quora or thinks it's the key to anything."

What about Stack Overflow?
If you've already decided on Chef then the Opscode platform provides great value. You get the best and most knowledgable Chef admins handling your Chef server for a few bucks per hour.
What are you claiming is the "real problem?" I'd argue that the housing market in CPH is no more scarce than any major city, and the only reason it seems so to you is because you were seriously handicapping yourself by not optimizing your approach.

The fact that my landlord's ad received over 100 replies just indicates that there's a pool of "bottom performers" who are repeatedly trying to find housing by responding to ads despite the fact that they're doing some things wrong. Every new ad is going to receive a large number of responses from this same group of hopeless people. If they want to find a place, they're going to have to find out what's wrong with their approach and make some changes, just as I had to do.
Go ahead and work on it! You have my blessing. The problem of encrypting a home directory is nothing like the problem of implementing a secure, persistent, long-term group messaging system that has to scale up to the entire world.
Please, please do not use 9% as your expected investment return. The numbers touted over the past decade & a half are mostly an artifact of the post WWII period.

Furthermore, consider the demographic issue of boomers retiring. These boomers are forced sellers, in other words returns will be muted for the foreseeable future because of the larger class of people who will sell equities in order to fund their retirements.

The equity risk premium is closer to 4% over cash, which in today's markets means your expected returns should be between 4.25% & 5%.

Regards,
TDL
I like the idea, but there is a lot of scrolling and [More] clicking going on. Would love to see an easier navigation option.

Also just out of curiosity: What is the current minimum kama level required to get into the top 1000?
Typography for Developers (slide deck)
You cant directly equate contract hourly rate with yearly salary. If you don't have the budget to hire a 100k a yr salary, you'll have to pay contract rates which could be over 100/hr
Absolutely related to this: Use an automated off-site backup system. Something like CrashPlan[1] - automatic, cheap, both on-site and off-site backups.

[1] http://www.crashplan.com/
I wonder about the implications this has with regards to human rights issues: Apple has always dismissed allegations of human rights violations with the argument that it's basically not their direct responsibility and that it's their suppliers' duty to adher to their supplier code of conduct.

Now if they own their suppliers, that argument suddenly wouldn't really be persuasive.

The human rights story comes to mind because I read this piece the other day and the description of the "man whose right hand was permanently curled into a claw from being smashed in a metal press at Foxconn" has remained vividly in my imagination: :-(

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/jobs-looked-to-the...
simply believing in creationism does not conflict with most science, even biological science,

To the contrary, taking the Sunday school story (it's not really the Bible story) of creation seriously as an explanation for the world's origin or the origin of species requires willfully massive amounts of scientific evidence.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age.html

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/age.html

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-playing-field/201005...

If someone who takes the Sunday school story of creation seriously has sole influence on a school curriculum, that will be a lousy school curriculum about most areas of science. That said, I support the liberty of parents to direct the education of their own children while their children are minors, believing with John Stuart Mill that "A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body. An education established and controlled by the State should only exist, if it exist at all, as one among many competing experiments, carried on for the purpose of example and stimulus, to keep others up to a certain standard of excellence." On Liberty (1859), pp. 190-91. But within the framework of pluralism in provision of primary education, I strongly support government-funded schools using the best available evidence in designing curricula in science, mathematics, history, and really any subject, and that takes creationism out of the science curriculum.

(Basis of knowledge: I grew up in a religious denomination that promoted belief in creationism, and had a childhood friend, an all-but-Ph.D. electrical engineer, who grew up in a denomination that demanded belief in creationism. He took me to "creation science" conferences beginning at high school age, and I have read much from all sides on theories of the origin of humankind, the earth, and the universe. Creationism simply has no leg to stand on scientifically. I don't require my homeschooled children to believe in creationism, but rather read aloud to them books like Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne and The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, so that they are more familiar with scientific evidence than most of their neighbors who attend the local public schools.)
i am pretty sure that cloud9 ide has a symmetrical three bubble cloud that is different
I don't buy it. I've scaled up code with tens of thousands of millisecond-granular demand-scheduled timers without a special kernel interface for them. Timers are a straightforward data structure problem. The only kernel hook you need to support them has been a part of select(2) and poll(2) for decades.

I'm see the point of timerfd(2), don't get me wrong. I'm just saying: a performant timer implementation only needs to tell the kernel one thing: when the next timer fires. Unlike poll(2) and select(2), which have O(n) bottlenecks in the u/k interface, timers are performant in pure userland code.

gettimeofday(2), on the other hand... there's a problem.
I've found frames on alibaba.com that only cost $0.50. Like you said, the trick is finding prescription lenses that are very cheap, and that could be made to fit a certain frame. Thanks for the comment!
I found out from reading the source to Wordpad, that on Windows 95/98, Wordpad would reject ANY file starting 'MZ' as 'executable'. Quite amusing.
"We congratulate the LibreOffice community on their success over their inaugural year and wish them luck in their future endeavors. We look forward to opening up the dialogue between Open Document Format-oriented communities to deepen understanding and cease the unwarranted spread of misinformation."

Interesting. I wonder how exactly they see their relationship with libreoffice going forward.

Regardless, this is great news. Apache cannot possibly mishandle the project more than Sun/Oracle were.
Just wondering, Is it possible for a patent troll to sue the USPTO because of their website?
I buy that the valley is so hot right now that a sysadmin commands $100k/yr there, but they don't in Chicago, Seattle, or New York.

I'm not looking to argue so much as to inject some more data into the price point that was casually dropped on this thread earlier. I do not think the other guy overpaid for sysadmin; if he's got an amazing admin, great! I can see paying a premium for that.

Another point I'd like to raise is, if you're paying $100k/hr for sysadmin, and using them frequently, contracting instead of fulltiming sysadmin might be penny-wise-pound-foolish. But maybe not, if you're only paying $10,000/yr in sysadmin. We've used over 100 hours of admin in just the last couple weeks. A great hire; one we made "37signals-style", after realizing that doing all the sysadmin chores ourselves was subtly making us all miserable and ineffective.

Believe me, I know the difference between contracting rates and salary. ;)
zero chance the next one will be called iPhone 5

Zero? There a reason for the certainty? I'm genuinely curious.

They're talking about the device that'll end up being called the 'iPhone 5'. Apple has a history of planning years in advance.
Does this AI API exist?
Symbols have a lower line for indicating orientation, similar to what is used to distinguish 6 from 9.
I think you're deliberately misconstruing 'jrockway's point. The kernel has an internal printf, but userland programs don't ask the kernel to printf-format strings for them.
Worldwide network measurements with RIPE Atlas
Awesome!

When you get a chance to develop this out, would be great to have:

embedded twitter follow buttons
autoload further users when scrolling reaches close to the bottom
look-through AJAX box for their recent posts/comments

Thanks and great job

Rayhan
http://rayhano.com
Holy crap, 100k karma? I knew Paul Graham was cool (I've even told other people to read his essays), but I didn't know he was 100k karma cool.
Programs that use cooperative thread scheduling are written very different than programs that use events directly. At the end of the day, every networked program on your computer is implemented in terms of interrupt service routines, but that doesn't make Firefox a driver.
How do so many websites break the zoom feature on iPhone?

So frustrating. Patio's massive face drowns out all the content. =)
I was expecting a more explicit "let's get together and feel alright" overture.
He is absolutely correct. A senior Linux admin is going to charge $75 an hour, and the contracting company that finds them will charge $25 an hour for handling the paperwork.

You could hire someone full time for about $120K a year but then with benefits and employer taxes it will end up being closer to $150K a year anyway.
I know it's not popular on Hacker News, but actually AI research has little to do with Lisp/the language of the moment or the Q&A website of the moment. It's to do with algorithms and core datasets. Watson being one example that's not just based on shuffling around email and setting alarms on your phone.[1] Andrew Ng's work at Stanford is another example of something that's feeding into really changing the world, not the HN stereotype of two ivy grads doing a ruby on rails app which gets an edge in a market dominated by a few lumbering megacorporations. Not that both aren't important, but there is a heavy bias on HN toward the latter, and new languages, rather than core research and algorithms.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)