skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They totally do! (Ok, our revenue is just a trickle -- http://beeminder.com/meta/paid -- but it seems like a steady trickle since launching so we're feeling very hopeful!)

We've had a lot of discussions -- for example, http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z1/antiakrasia_tool_like_stickkcom_... -- about the charity question. We do hope to offer that at some point but we're not considering it a core feature just yet.

Here's something from our FAQ about this:

Q: You make money from people failing at their goals?

A: Yes, but we make you fail less! We force you to toe the line at least for a while so that when/if you do fall off your yellow brick road then the motivation it provided up until that point still seems worth it. Everything we've worked on in building Beeminder has been with the objective of making people succeed and we'd have to be very myopic for it to be otherwise.

It's very important to us that no one ever lose on a technicality. We want to make money by making you more awesome, and we're convinced that's what's happening. But don't take our word for it. Try it and see. The first attempt is free: http://beeminder.com/money
Could you elaborate? Most job boards have a generic 'enter City & search radius' option. What could be done to improve on that?
I'd say it takes a lot more thought to game essay-writing than it does to game multiple-choice.
Actually, Eric S Raymond, one of the founders of OSI, was also one of the people credited with coining the term "open source" at a meeting discussing Netscape releasing source code.
Please add subtitles to the videos. I don't always watch with sound and would like to be able to read as I go along.
I totally agree with your point. However, unlike you, I didn't click on anything because (a) my time is valuable and I can't waste it on a site which may not provide value to me and (b) I don't trust web sites which don't explicitly tell me what they do or have an obvious "About" link on the home page.

Please add a sentence or two at the top of the page to tell me your target audience and why I should use the site.
I had the same thought at first -- next time, make sure the text is bold enough to be legible at 320x240. Once I maximized the vid it looked great, of course.
I would love to work for such an obnoxious prick. I am tired of all of the incompetents in the corporate world who just try to get along with each other while accomplishing little or the startups producing yet another "social" site.
The conclusion that them "giving their money away, at the end of their life" is correlated to them "not being comfortable with how they made it" is idiotic.

Gates still leaves his family more than enough to live a comfortable happy life. Whatever his motivation, is purely speculative.
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"There is no doubt that MongoDB has benefitted from an aggressive marketing push. There are more MongoDB conferences held (organized by 10gen) and MongoDB books written (mainly by 10gen employees) than for the other NoSQL datastores combined."

Latest developments around MongoDB remind me the history of Oracle DB described in "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison..." book: they basically were selling a DB that was far away from prime time. I'm not surprised at all that people may run into the issues with bleeding edge software - I figure that's the price that early adopters must pay anyway.
Great posting! You actually have an idea of how to self-motivate people in order to learn something. The suggestion "come back after reading three books" looks to me as one of the best ways to make sure that they will never ever become interested in coding again. It is like telling a person interested in learning a language that they should come back after learning the dictionary. Just completely inable to relate to non-coding people.
There is that... and of course all Public Companies in the US have the SOX BS baked into the process.
Treehouse used to be called Think Vitamin Membership. It's been around for about a year and a half, and the testimonials are from current customers.
This kind of work is one way we let people know.
The deludedly optimistic youth of America
I learned a lot of things using apropos-command (after I got comfortable with basic editing.) When I found myself thinking "it would be cool if emacs did X", I just tried C-h a X Ret to see if there is a function for it. Emacs also tells you to which key sequence the function is bound (if any.)

Exploring Emacs that way is like browsing Wikipedia going from article from article: you don't follow a predetermined itinerary but end up learning a lot along the way.
Well if the article in question exemplifies Gladwell's thinking, then I will save reading more of him for a rainy day, and will instead read about those people who do things instead of those who talk about those who do. As someone said, one's time on Earth is limited.
"Java" is not an open source project.

As a Java programmer, I've not really heard a particular level of criticism of the OpenJDK project. Java the language sure does have its fault.

Although I suspect you were just Java bashing.

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That's exactly the first question that came to my mind. When I don't see a "plans and pricing" link, I always start wondering where's the catch.
To be fair, another interpretation is that darknets are not needed in the US because you can use the regular Internet for free expression.
Digital Garage invests in file sharing service Kicksend
We know that it produces toxic (and radioactive) wastewater that contaminates drinking water

Yes, some of the runoff is almost five times as radioactive as a banana. I don't mean to say that we shouldn't be concerned about the chemical sin fraking fluids, clearly those are things we should worry about. But raising the specter of radiation here just seems like fear mongering.
Feedback number deux:

1. From first glance this is an education website

2. No free tier, so you can't actually take any of the quizes without paying at least $25.

3. This is when I closed the tab
NuoDB another NewSQL database.
Well, the recommendation at the end of the post was "outsource your engineering". I suspect that, instead of ridiculous wages becoming "increasingly more common over time", offshoring is what companies will do instead of continuing to pay engineers higher and higher wages.
There are wimax routers that already make it possible, but the vast majority of people want simple wifi. It does the job and most importantly it's what the ISP installs for them.

There is not a good evolutionarily stable strategy that leads to 1-mile-range wifi becoming standard. At least not now and not any time soon.
I just want to say that this is awesome. Congratulations on the launch. I do not have an iOS device, so I cannot use it. However, the whole blogging about building an app in X amount of time is a great idea and I am definitely considering doing this in the future. :)
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Treehouse has been around under the name Think Vitamin Membership for about a year and a half. We charge a subscription (from day one), and reached profitability before we took on our investors.
>So here's where I'm coming from: Putting food on the table as a result of your work is satisfying and a source of pride. Not being able to do it is shameful. This is a fundamental dynamic.

You act like this is a fundamental feature of humanity; it's not. Its a learned response to thousands of years of scarcity. There were plenty of societies where food was plentiful and thus they never developed this sort of social conditioning.

In a world where food, shelter, necessities are plentiful people will be freed up to gain social standing through creative endeavors. Or perhaps we'll do away with our need to rank each other based on arbitrary metrics. I welcome this future.
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Just think of the countless programmer-hours saved when we don't have to debug DST-related time glitches!
You don't really need to reach for "propaganda" as an explanation as to why people have not been in a big rush to buy more expensive (both up front and ongoing) and less reliable electricity, and when and if that ever changes it won't be "despite the mighty power of progaganda", it'll be because it's cheaper and better.
Barnes & Noble Officially Unveils The 7-Inch Nook Tablet
Based on this competition [1] it seems that their business model is different subscription packages. The Gold package, for example, is supposedly $588 per year.

[1] http://thinkvitamin.com/asides/guess-this-badge-and-win-a-fr...
Covering the whole solution space would be an enormous (as compared to just huge) undertaking. But if you limit yourself to the types of passwords people usually use, you can prune it down quite a bit.

The currently available databases are surprisingly large, even if not in the scale of 62^8. Consider a random pick from decrypt.fr: "phytostrote972". It's far from a random string, but not exactly a trivial one either.
Bitwise Gems and other optimizations
Javascript patterns to use in speed critical situations.
That looks awesome - are you looking to get rid of the 98 lights alone, or the whole thing?

Edit: Was going to write a seperate comment to the thread but had a change of heart, so I'll add my congratulations to jgc to this comment rather than cluttering the place up. Things like this regularly make me want to start playing with Arduinos, hopefully someday my laziness / lack of time (depending on how you look at it) will ease off.
It looks like the Glass Whiteboard people at the link above coat the back of their glass with white material. But what you are saying appeals more to me because I'm on a budget, and you can just mount the glass to a wall that's been painted white.
Classic case of correlation not causing causation. I don't think anyone's particularly surprised when they see large gaggles of children being given a large quantity of sugary foodstuff and behaving in a very animated manner.

But what's the context where that happens? Parties, mostly.
This reminds me of Armin Ronacher's famous post, "STD stands for Sleazy, Tattered, and Dead" [1]. Basically, the point is that trying to collect too much stuff in the stdlib in the name of "batteries included" results in the packages atrophying and not being updated fast enough (or ever, due to backwards compatibility concerns).

Though I know that the distro maintainers are just going to love this.

[1]: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/3/2/std-stands-for-sleazy-tatte...
Code Cards: Letterpress printed greeting cards for nerds
The issue is the same in principle - just less extreme in that barring a total meltdown you have an easier time assessing the lower end value of the package. But to take the Yahoo example: When I joined, a share was worth about 1/10th of the strike price of the bulk of the options of several people that worked for me. 1/10th would've been a lot better than getting nothing, but still.
This is great. I've been watching things like codecademy get tons of buzz and quietly thought: has no one been over to Think Vitamin Membership? I think this rebranding is a great idea and the new design is wonderful. Now add in some of that fancy interactive-in-browser-coding/learning and you'd be unstoppable (not that the more in-depth stuff should be done this way, but it's a really compelling and addictive hook).
I found Eli Dourado's take on 'Race Against The Machine' quite an interesting analysis and somewhat related to this article
http://elidourado.com/blog/technologies-of-control-and-resis...

It's mainly how points of control incentivize some of these factors to move faster, or out of step with the other factors.
I'd like to note that "the Internet" is a vast, broadly-scoped amalgamation of routers and different network topologies. They don't use one kind of hardware or software to manage it all. Any successor or parallel alternative network should be as (if not more) flexible to achieve it's goals.

I'd also like to suggest that the network be powered purely by standard Internet client machines and off-the-shelf hardware. Custom software would be necessary, but it's better to rely on a random guy with a quick installer on a USB key than custom hardware mesh routers deployed by professional installers.
I guess it depends on your target market.

If it is for native english speakers then adding voice files for each kana sound would be a good thing.

For native Japanese speakers ( usually kids ) I'm not sure they need sounds.

I released something similar:
http://ethyreal.com/projects/19-Kana-Trace

My app just focuses on writing the characters. My english responces mentions sounds and adding quiz functionality.

However even though I didn't think it would do well there I translated the UI into Japanese and most of my users come from Japan.

In Japan they just want their kids to practice and don't seem to care about sounds or quiz features.

But that's just my experience.
It distinctly asks at the top "What do you want to learn today?" and then gives you three options: Web Design, Web Development, or iOS (btw, it should say iOS Development not just iOS). That's enough to make any user realize they're a site that helps you learn these things.
Well that's interesting; I started using emacs around 1986 or so, and the first thing I did was go thru the tutorial; I don't remember it being overly basic at all.
A friend of mine put these cards together. Pretty great.
Maybe my comment hinted I appove of diminishing people. I do not.

However, I wish I had the patience, clout, timing and resources to say no, until I am satsfied with the outcome (Hopfully before the use expires).

I would love to do so being as humane as possible
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There has been some work in this area:

http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~caesar/papers/rofl.pdf
http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/~pasquini/artigos/sbrc_2009.pd...
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/pbg/papers/Scalable_Routing_on_...

None of these find shortest paths; they aim to find paths that are within a constant factor of shortest.
Ask HN: What's your preferred PDF layout/orientation?
How do you prefer your PDFs? Landscape with two columns? Landscape with one column and lots of white space? A smaller portrait page so you could print out two per letter-sized piece of paper? A regular-sized portrait page for easy printing?
Do Startups Create Jobs or Destroy Them
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You want tobacco? Go and work for it. You want booze? Go and work for it. You want PS3? Go and work for it.

Isn't this how food stamps are currently supposed to work? They only cover staples, and users aren't allowed to pay for tobacco, etc. The thing is, in the real world, food stamp recipients frequently barter their vouchers for these luxury items.

When considering such measures, we need to stop imagining what an optimal government might be able to do. Instead, look at the history of such efforts, and the incentive structures (consider Public Choice economics) to understand what is likely to transpire.
Look at the algorithm you use for adding two integers by hand, for example. You add the ones digits together and possibly have to carry one over. You then add the tens digits and possibly carry over. You repeat as long as the numbers "share" digit places.

This isn't constant time because the number of individual digit additions and carries changes based upon the length of the inputs. In fact, this particular algorithm is linear in the number of digits.

You could also implement linear addition as a series of increments, as I said above. Translate "a + b" into code looking something like

for(int i = 0; i < b; i++){
a += 1;
}

This obviously runs in linear time, and is how we teach addition at first. It's not an unreasonable thing to assume at first, especially since your professors will almost certainly tell you to assume that, but there can be hidden complexity under the covers. You just don't need to care about it in most cases.
Guide to Node.js
What is up with these posts?
Vulnerabilities give hackers ability to open prison cells from afar
Your comment would be funny, if it didn't have so much truth to it.

From now on, for all my open source code, I'm going to version with this translation table:

Alpha: Beta

Beta: increment version by random number between .1 and .2, eg: 2.0 becomes 2.1.7

Release Candidate: add the word "Enterprise Edition" to the version

Release: Add the same letter Oracle added for that version: 8 -> 8i, 9 -> 9i, 10 -> 10g. The exception is anything that happens to be a BMW model, in which case I'll just make it the same as the BMW. 3.2.8 -> 3.2.8xi, 4 -> z4, &c.
https://teamtreehouse.com/subscribe/plans

When you click the "Sign Up" link it takes you there. Either $25/month or $40/month. The cheapest you can get away with is $300/year.
Smart design, quality video production and badges. Treehouse looks solid. Good luck!
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HP’s Redstone Servers, Open Source Textbooks, Netflix on GNU/Linux
They are like traditional floods but much faster access - although much much more expensive
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That's because Debian deliberately broke gems. I hardly think the Ruby team should compromise anything to better suit Debian. Debian Rubyists just do a little dance on every install to bring up a fresh Rubygems instance.
The address system used is 6 bits long with one address reserved for broadcast, thus the maximum on one string is 63 LEDs. You'd also need to supply enough power (49 LEDs took 1.7A @ 5V). If you wanted to do 10x50 then I expected the simplest way would be to use 10 separate I/O ports to address them.
Note: I am only speaking for myself personally, not for my employer.

I did a little searching, and http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-microsoft-tax-i... says that in their last fiscal years,

- Microsoft had an overall effective worldwide tax rate of 17.5%.

- Google's effective tax rate was 21%.

- Apple's effective tax rate was 24%.

- IBM's effective tax rate was 25%.

Then with a bit more digging into (independent Senator from Vermont) Bernie Sanders' twitter feed, I saw:

- General Electric had an effective tax rate of -45.3% from 2008 to 2010: https://twitter.com/#!/SenatorSanders/status/132791467994386...

- ExxonMobil had an effective tax rate of -38.3% in 2009: https://twitter.com/#!/SenatorSanders/status/132835853536989...

- Merck had an effective tax rate of -1% in 2009: https://twitter.com/#!/SenatorSanders/status/132927696131985...

- Boeing had an effective tax rate of -1.8% in 2008-2010: https://twitter.com/#!/SenatorSanders/status/132973012763938...

- Verizon had an effective tax rate of -5.4% in 2009 and 2010: https://twitter.com/#!/SenatorSanders/status/132944059814785...

Again, I'm just speaking for myself personally, not on behalf of my employer. My issue with the article was that I felt like it focused on Google when a broader perspective on corporate tax rates would have been more helpful.
I would contest the assertion that emacs is powerful enough to emulate vi. Every attempt I've seen so far has been a superficial effort that enables some keystrokes but doesn't really get at the heart of what makes vi(m) what it is. I was actually a full-time emacs user for several years. There was a lot I liked: lisp, programmability in general, readable-if-verbose-identifiers. But I went back to vim because it offered enough programmability (I had been using plain vi before!) to suit my needs, but it had the addictive center of the vi experience. That is:

* The action + (motion | text object) system. I haven't tried evil yet, but viper and vimpulse just don't seem to get this right. It's there but it's incomplete, which kinda kills it for an experienced user. More importantly, though, it's broken. Text objects aren't real, atomic elements at the deepest level -- they're simulated programmatically, which means the illusion breaks down if there are errors in the middle. It also means there are things which vi gets for free in all circumstances that the emulator has to laboriously simulate each time -- like atomic undo. Of course, you CAN do all the programming (hasn't happened yet) but all of that circumlocution has a cost, which is...

* Performance. I was shocked, when I tried out vimpulse on a relatively modern machine several months ago, 15 years after I last used emacs regularly, to find that emacs still feels like a movie with the framerate set too low. It's especially noticeable when, courtesy of viper and vimpulse, you can compare commands somewhat apples to apples. There's just this little delay. It might be milliseconds, but when it's something you're doing all day every day, that really starts to annoy.

So, no. I don't think emacs CAN emulate vi, if you actually consider what most vi users value in their editor. At best, it reaches the level of, say, eclipse emulating emacs movement keys. I would love an editor with vi speed and the movement model, but a sane programming environment. I'm still waiting.

(Sublime text 2 seems like it might be heading there, though for now its vi mode is not much better than vimpulse.)
Supercomputers have been massively parallel for decades. They run customized operating systems, have very expensive interconnects(networks) and entire teams of programmers work to make applications that are able to use their full capacity.

These are machines that use millions of dollars of electricity a year. They aren't really comparable to a laptop with 6 cores.
The reason the idea requiring direct democracy is that it involves two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

Make that one wolf and 99 pissed-off sheep.

The thing is, it's not up to us to decide if it's a good idea: it's up to the people who would benefit -- which is the vast majority.

You can have concentrated wealth or you can have democratic principles, but you can't long maintain both.
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Do you have a reference that you would consider "the minimum you should know?" And, perhaps, maybe one somewhat better than that one? TIA.
Similarly, whenever anyone cold calls me or knocks on my door to sell me services I don't want I ask for a brochure to "read over" later.
USA windpower now producing over 43,000 megawatts
Obligatory http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ link which taught me a ton.
More evidence: nomoremongo and nmongo have some differences in their writing style. nomoremongo uses semicolons properly, nmongo does not. An even bigger difference: nmongo doesn't capitalize his Is.

"Maybe i already work for Fox News"

"and i am the original owner"

"based on the FUD i'm spreading"

"Yes, i am a troll"

"And i think everyone who truly"

It's a different person.