skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because developers hear a TON of ideas, and it's very difficult to get excited about anything when you get pitched so much. Sure, your idea sounds amazing, groundbreaking and world-changing to you, but to us? We've heard it all, a hundred times before.

I run a software development company, and whenever someone offers me to work for %, in most cases the answer is an automatic "no". In order to even consider doing something like that, we'd have to put in a ton of research into .. well, YOU mostly.

Whether your idea is good enough or not is secondary. The most important thing is whether you are qualified enough to take this business to the stars if we put in work for equity, so that equity becomes worth our time. And we, as developers, are not qualified for that work. We know code, we don't know researching potential investment decisions - that's angels' and VC's job.

I don't know your story, but usually, when someone does a similar complaint, that's my answer to them.
Several hours later, it looks like FB has finally corrected the issue.
Ah it's great to hear that the TouchFire will be very fast to take on and off. There's still a bit of fidley-ness to it but it sounds like you've done everything you can to address that design concern.

Hmm, yah it will be interesting to see the WPM difference using TouchFire. Maybe we need a third leaderboard to account for it ;).
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It'd be nice if it was possible to search up an exact song based on the melody. Sometimes I remember a melody but I can't remember what song it came from, and it drives me nuts trying to find it.
Actually I use Growl (and libnotify on Linux) for a very specific set of notifications I want to be notified of.
Everything else doesn't apply.
Just wait until they hear about the RTG powered pacemakers, first implanted in 1970. ( http://home.comcast.net/~dprutchi/nuclear_pacemakers.pdf ) [PDF]
Sure they should be taught to think, but do you have any good ideas on how that should be done?

Tests are used because a metric is useful for identifying weak schools so that they may be improved. Do you have a better metric?
How do the kids cope with the book being online? Last year my wife, who's a Biology/Chemistry teacher ran out of books. Cause the kids take them, never bring them back and the school doesn't enforce any kind of book return policy. Anyways, she ran out of physical books to give her kids and tried to get them to use an online version of the books. Magically 90% of the students had no internet access. Mind you these are kids with iPhones and Android smartphones. The book was pdf and was accessible through any web browser. The kids ended up complaining and the school ended up finding the money to buy new books.
From what I have seen thus far there is no export capability for the data. There's an outstanding question on the jawbone forums with no response http://forums.jawbone.com/t5/Product-Support/Can-we-export-o...
I don't understand funding based on performance on standardised tests. I mean it's one thing if you double-blind it, but who wants to be the parents of the kid in the control group who get zero education to see how well the teachers actually improved their students abilities.

The only reprieve I have for standardises testing in the UK was that a teachers opinion of you doesn't reflect on your ability to get grades. I was a d-average student in one of my classes. I never got marked well for my essays, etc. I took the exam expecting failure and received a B, comparing with friends I found I was only a few marks short of an A. The teacher never liked me, because he never liked my brother, because my brother was a cocky asshole. If I'd have been graded by him, I would have failed.
It would only take us one generation to just switch over to everyone using UTC in a 24 hour clock and we could get rid of time zones, DST, AM / PM, and all the other time crap built up over the last thousand years around people wanting to always get up at 7 am.

But then again, if the US can't implement the metric system, I have no idea how ~6.5 billion people (those not in GMT right now) would learn that dawn does not always mean 7 am and dusk does not mean 7 pm.

But think of the benefits! Schedule an appointment in CA from NY, and you don't have to explode your brain thinking about time conversions. New show at 20:00! Wait, 8, is that am or pm? No problem!

Just like the metric system! D:
Change hurts. It hurts doubly so when uncertainty is mixed in.

The majority of the western population has a fairly rigid definition of job: trade your time for money. Its one thing to change how you trade your time for money: e.g. going from plowing a field a shuffling papers at a desk. It’s a whole another thing to adopt a certain level of self-responsibility (and risk) in determining how you provide value for your employer/customers. This is intrinsic to almost all new-era, tech-enabled jobs.

This is what is different now.

A cultural evolution in the western world is needed to facilitate widespread success in the evolved economy. It’s going to hurt.
On the one hand this is brilliant and a good 'rebuttal' to the expensive textbook market. I think that this style works particularily well with subjects such as Maths where there is little to no disagreement or controversy on the subject matter taught (unlike say biology in the USA).

But that raises a concern of mine, where every school creates their own textbook, they are free to include their own side or angle of a particular topic, much to the detriment of their students. Sure this can be done in the current situation, but I would wager it would be easier to get experts to review one or a handful of textbooks rather than one for every school.

Maybe some sort of cooperative organisation is what is required here, to share the best of the cooperatively created textbooks around.
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There is a link to request an invite at mortardata.com -- if you'd like access, let us know. We just got a lot of invitation requests from this post, but we'll invite you as soon as we can.
And in the case of Facebook it is strangling them... roughly 2/3 of their 9000+ MySQL servers do nothing but control the servers that actually store data.
Interesting, would you care to expand?
I obviously can't say for sure how it works as I'm just an end user, but I can say you tell the device you are going to sleep and when you wake up. In between, it is obviously sensing your movement using the accelerometer, etc. My guess would be if you fidget around while you sleep this would be considered a light sleep.
Not a developer, but I used your tips for my talk yesterday. I thought the slides came out great and the talk went over very well. Thanks for sharing your tips!

Here's what I came up with, if you're interested: http://www.slideshare.net/tomcatalini/putting-yourself-out-t...
Yeah there are hundreds of examples of open textbooks for both the K-12 and college levels. It's nice to see a few school districts (and colleges - like Western Governors) officially adopting them and replacing the old books. However, again, thousands of instructors are already doing so individually ('edupunks' :)

Here are some open textbook sites:

http://collegeopentextbooks.org/

http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks

http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

http://www.lightandmatter.com/books.html

Related are the many wiki-based books & notes created in or for courses. For example:

http://anatowiki.wetpaint.com/

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FHSST_Physics
Interesting; I'd heard about that but there weren't any screenings near me, but it looks like it's out on DVD now. Maybe I'll watch. In my day job I'm "just" a technologist, but I like to keep up on history/philosophy of technology as well, when possible.

Incidentally, it appears you can also read Stiegler via Twitter, possibly to his chagrin (he's made some skeptical comments about what Twitter does for thought/communication): https://twitter.com/TechnicsAndTime
It is possible to 'build' a monetary system from scratch.
Do you have any empirical evidence to support this?

In the H-1B wikipedia article:
"Employers must attest that wages offered are at least equal to the actual wage paid by the employer to other workers with similar experience and qualifications for the job in question, or alternatively, pay the prevailing wage for the occupation in the area of intended employment, whichever is greater"
For simple-to-digest stats I usually turn to www.gapminder.org. Always useful when arguing with someone who thinks that everything has gone to hell.
Thank you, I appreciate the feedback.
This is neat. Coincidentally, I helped build a site a while ago with much less design polish, but essentially the same idea.

http://nooges.com

Essentially a daily topic was posted, and people could disagree or agree.

Hope your site does well.
Quora's move from Python to Scala is a 'clear indicator' of the 'fact' that type safety is better? That's just a weak and clearly incomplete line of reasoning.
If that's truly all that's stopping you, try out Middleman (http://middlemanapp.com/) or my own Draughtsman (https://github.com/stdbrouw/draughtsman). Taking two minutes to install an app hopefully does not constitute "wasting time futzing around with build systems" :-)

Also, I think your problem is very particular to front-end devs and designers-that-code. If you're already doing back-end in your framework of choice, adding CoffeeScript or any kind of precompilation into the mix is usually just a one-liner in a config file away.
> In Australia we have a strict financial regulation regime, arguably too strict in some cases, but we didn't have the bubble in real estate prices that the US did. "No doc" and "low doc" lending never reached the point of collapsing the market.

The "no doc" and "low doc" lending was "encouraged" by US govt regulation, specifically "if you're not loaning enough money to {the disadvantaged}, we're going to shut you down". Meanwhile, the "govt sponsored enterprises" that ran the secondary market for mortgages were buying portfolios of crap and lying about it. The latter meant that no one knew how much crap was in the market.

> Combine this with Federal government bailouts and investment bankers seem to act with complete impunity with regards to risk.

Of course they're going to bail out their buddies, future employers, and campaign funders (I'm talking about Obama here).

> Much like a law firm, the partners are personally liable for losses.

Partners at major law firms are NOT personally liable. They've all moved to LLPs and the like.
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I disagree fundamentally with the article; it does not reflect the experience of many people at all.

I excelled in all subjects in high school except for math, which I detested and felt as difficult and, for the most part, uninteresting.

Fast forward to third year of Uni and I was looking at set theory, graph theory, and logical proofs. They were all difficult, yet they sucked me in. It was hard but I wasn't dissuaded from studying. And the reason why was because thinking of interesting proofs and devising ways of solving puzzles is far, far more interesting than doing arithmetic from rote memory.

It really doesn't surprise me at all that kids do badly in math when they're introduced to such boring and dry topics. Kids are taught useless trigonometric identities when they could be studying applied statistics, which is not only substantially more useful, but it opens a lot more doors for reasoning about the world. Learning statistics, graph theory and logic have literally helped to mold my thinking. I can't really say the same about trig of high-school level calculus (not that there's anything wrong with calculus, but i think that in order to get something out of it you need to dedicate much more time than what is available in high school).
Even in those cases, the quantity of information you need stays constant. Now, you need their time zone. With UTC everywhere, you need their hours of availability.

There is currently some implicit transfer here, in that if they're in an office in Timbuktu, you can figure out their time zone without asking. But you should still coordinate with them, at which point you can find out their hours.... And I'm sure that in a world where everything is UTC, looking up a particular place's customary business hours will be no more difficult than it currently is to look up a particular place's time zone.
Trying to tax multi-national corporations is futile and encourages huge amounts of rent-seeking. We should just go to a low flat corporate tax rate (say 10%). To offset that we should stop taxing capital gains at a lower rate and crack down on tax avoidance by high-income individual taxpayers in the US.

A corporation can run their activities from Bermuda or wherever they want, but corporate executives and shareholders aren't going to move to a shitty low-tax jurisdiction if we up their rates.
That's certainly more viable, but requires much more discipline (to avoid spending the extra money too early) and is probably less beneficial as well, due to diminishing returns and such.
>> But that raises a concern of mine, where every school creates their own textbook, they are free to include their own side or angle of a particular topic

True, but who's to say a major publisher has experts and know what they're doing? Signs point to the fact that they don't.

Also, they all have to teach to the standardized tests anyway, so they don't have a massive amount of say.
I have a U.S. history textbook that starts off every chapter by listing the California standard that will be covered.

It's pretty lame, but the good teachers are totally capable of making sure they cover the standards that people seem to value so much, while still teaching they're own unique experience or style. It just sucks because first year teachers are handed the bare curriculum/standards/readings and don't realize how much freedom they have to make it way better.
Yeah, my pre-readers jumped on that too.
It has happened in the past, at least by using an existing monetary framework as a starting point. See what Brazil did with the unidade real de valor (URV) in 1994.
Joel likes the sink or swim approach apparently.

The first book, Code - Charles Petzold, is only ten bucks on the Kindle right now (SOLD) and I own the other two.

I remember SICP being like 90 bucks for my hardcover copy and I'm pretty sure I bought it after reading the Joel on Software article "The Perils of Java Schools" while I was loving life as a bank IT guy so this is workable advice. It only took five years to become a "real" programmer after that. Also I sure don't remember K&R being $68[1]. (Yes I know SICP and K&R are both online for free)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernigh...

[2] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
This is a tough thing for founders. I was in this situation earlier this year after I won a ticket to Google I/O. One of the events was a Google Ventures mixer, which turned out to be a "speed-dating" event. I was excited to meet Joe Kraus, who gave my favorite Startup School speech ever, but what to do in this format? Launch into a cooked-up pitch? But I wanted to talk to Joe, not use him for target practice based on his job. But wasn't that kind of what I was expected to do? Still, what a borderline-presumptuous missionary tack to take with someone I respect. But wouldn't I get over that knowing teammates were counting on me to get us funding any way we could?

At last, I decided to skip the pitch, chatted very pleasantly with Joe, got some great advice and his card. In retrospect, that was really about as much as I should expect in a five-minute sit-down. He seems twice as much of a great guy as I thought he was. The pitch can wait until the next time we cross paths or it's been a lot better tested. But I better recognize now how awkward these situations can get.
I don't know if it's so bad if the press hears about the nuclear batteries. It might distract them from the larger risks involved with launching a satellite. For example, the tank of hydrazine used for the propulsion system. If that springs a leak there is a highly unstable and toxic gas all over your launch site - even after the giant fireball it causes destroys your satellite. Next I would worry about the ready to explode rocket stack beneath the satellite. If that explodes on your town it will hurt many, many more people than the thermoelectric generator that was incinerated in the explosion.
Well again I haven't looked at the job/revenue numbers, I wouldn't go by personal impressions.

The gimmicks in Century of Self are the standard of today's obnoxiously annoying advertising. It's hard to say how well those tricks worked in their heyday, but they're certainly less effective in today's over-saturated markets. Those approaches relied heavily on guesswork because data gathering and analysis wasn't always available. Focus groups can't keep up with brain scans and behind the scenes data gathering like Facebook's.

The industry certainly knows about brain science but most people don't have a good grasp of it. Most are involved in shmoozing clients and doing production work. This work is then judged subjectively by clients and art directors. A/B testing hasn't gained much popularity in that process.
Great response. I'll take this over an anonymous, half-informed screed any day.
If this means I can type on the iPad without looking at the keyboard, that's an awesome use case. It means I can type 100+ wpm while taking notes in a meeting or class, just like with a laptop. I can leave my external keyboard at home.
I think that the ideal position for anyone would be to be able to quit their jobs, still be able to live a healthy life without being forced to work again.

Of course, there´s each one of us definition of "healthy life". For some this must include a yatch or a huge house. For some others, being with friends and being able to fullfill their basic needs is enough.

Me, I'd go for something in between. I don´t need a yatch, but I need nature. I don´t need an iPhone, but I need the Internet.
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I thought that until I used it. Then I discovered that it was awesome.
The angle from the origin to the point (2, 1) isn't 22.5 degrees – it's arctan(1/2) = 26.6 deg. In fact, the slope of the point you want should be sqrt(2) – 1 = 0.414, not 0.5.
I suppose most of us would give a similar answer as what Joel gave, but I found this nice pair of comments:

Is this really the only way to be a good programmer? I'm someone that wants to study programming in my spare time and that's a bit of a daunting list for someone new to the industry... – toleero Jul 28 at 14:54

No, it is not the only way to be a good programmer. But if three books is a "daunting list" than you might be underestimating what it is that programmers do. – Joel Spolsky Jul 28 at 15:05

Seriously.
I like the interface. Really simple and it presents the content nicely. I found myself browsing quite a few of the dogfights on the homepage. Great work on it!
Except for the fact that historically this sort of maneuver is used to defer repatriating money earned abroad until such time as the conditions are favorable to do so. For example, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-11-02/news/bs-ed-tax-r...

This article discusses how in 2004 there was a tax holiday for corporations to 'repatriate' profits stashed over seas. Presently corporations are lobbying Congress for another such one time tax holiday. Under these special one time deals the money being brought in is generally taxed at a ridiculously low rate. In 2004 it was 5% meaning Google's effective tax rate once the money arrives back in Mountain View is 7.5% still very very low.
What annoys me about typing on the iPad is that I can't take my eyes off the keyboard, because there are no physical cues to keep my hand positioned correctly. The iPad is the first keyboard I've had to look at since I was 8 years old. It totally changes the way my brain works while I'm typing, in a negative way.
Very cool demo, this looks like an amazing tool (and I don't even know much about Hadoop!). One question -- it looks like you're skipping over the time it takes for the "illustrate" function to calculate your results. How long does it take for this million-song dataset?
There are exceptions. But for software engineers who contribute to Google's (non-open source) code base, Google pretty much got out of using contractors around 2008 or so. Some contractors became employees.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10107141-93.html
Lazy kids have the power to change a lot :)

I think kids are supposed to print out the relevant chapter before a lesson. It's probably a waste of paper, but at least the teacher can make sure everyone has the reading in class.

I've never actually seen a digital learning experience, whether it's a textbook or online lesson or whatever else, work. Things like the Khan Academy are great but you have to be motivated to use them. It's too easy for people to blame their inability to focus on the technology being hard to use.
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How is an external keyboard less of a physical encumbrance than a thin plastic overlay?
Would you be able to sum up the things you consider Mongo to be extremely good at? Particularly in comparison to things like Riak (which I believe supports a similar data model), or indeed compared to an RDBMS.

All databases perform poorly if you try to use them for use cases they don't fit, but I find with NoSQL databases it can be hard to find concise, objective statements of which use cases each is ideal for.
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Yeah I think one of the assignments at the end of the year is to take a photo demonstrating some physics property. There is some really cool photos that come out of it, and he puts the best in the book.