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I don't mean to imply that schools should be in it for the $$$. I get your point. But costs are an issue. A big issue. And right now student tuitions shoulder a large part of that burden.

Stanford's total enrollment is about 20,000 students. $35,000 per year = $700,000,000.

Offer 16 new online courses which yields 20,000 students per course taking a $99 final exam. $31,680,000. Less than 5% of annual tuition-based revenue. That's a new library without hitting the endowment fund, underwriting existing salaries, funding pension obligations, or adding a new facility dedicated solely to the production of online educational content.

I think Leland and Jane Stanford would be proud to know that the memorial they built to their son is today moving in the direction of educating millions worldwide.

It's okay to "be strong and stay strong and while being of benefit to others."
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There is no reason that the most difficult grades must be open to the public for free. Slap a paywall on it, a "With Student ID" bypass, and call it a day.
Not sure your point, I make my income from advertising (well company does and pays me, same thing right?) my fascination was with the single employee part.
This could just be an expectation problem. I think most of these free courses have that 'Applied' stuck infront of them, ok, fine. But for my education I want rigor. I don't want to just know how to use something, I want to know how the guy who came up with it figured it out and I want to be bale to prove things about it. Not having to know what a derivative is does not fit this. I don't think it's a matter of the elite thinking only elite people can grok something like ML, it's a matter of that they expect the dirty details and are annoyed when they don't get it.
I'm surprise no one mentioned stocks and real estate investments. Those are, in some ways, gambling as well. I know many people who have no idea what they are doing and just blindly follow someone's advise and lost their money.
I think at the root of it all, gambling in one form or another, is a problem for people who hope to change their life by taking big, miscalculated risks.
When I said plan for success I didn't mean PHP can't scale it was related to the lower argument that very few people under 25 uses PHP anymore.

(In truth the benchmarks I've seen show PHP is faster than modern languages)

The point is from a management perspective being able to hire cheap junior programmers is a significant issue. Finding someone young, cheap and experiences in PHP is hard. Even harder if you want the people you hire to be passionate about their job (using yesterday's technology makes you seem like a dinosaur to many)

Trust me I've been on the other side of this. I, to this day, believe 80% of startups would be better off using ASP.NET MVC. But if I were building a startup I wouldn't pick that as my platform. Because the most talented young developers don't want to work with Microsoft technology.

Honestly I'm not even going to bother with your last argument. If being clear cut could automatically cause everyone to agree we wouldn't have political parties, religions and any host of other organizations based around disagreement.
Oh definitely. I was just pointing out that it's a very viable model for anyone here to copy, contrary to the advice of most here.
Not in the next two months. Will keep everyone posted when that happens.
It's the same problem 3rd party devs have had with Twitter, anyone who uses the Facebook API, and a variety of other groups.

When your product is wholly dependent on a single component from a single vendor... risky is an understatement.
That's strange, your grep looks fine to me. Is it possible that you have configured nginx to use different log files for different locations (or maybe don't log at all)? Other than that, I don't have any good explanation.
Nobody's saying it's impossible — just that like many other possible sources of revenue, such as lottery tickets, it isn't very dependable. If you're able to get 200 million pageviews a day, all sorts of avenues for making money are open to you. For most prospective businesses, though, "I will get 200 million pageviews a day and be able to maintain it practically by myself" is not a very safe assumption to make.
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Please, no pay walled articles on HN.
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Deny? No. Limit? Probably.

The current fad with startups seems to be to operate under extreme pressure, so you should expect to find that as a requirement at most of them. But, I bet they don't all work that way, so keep looking and good luck. :-)
i would be terrified of the slippery slope.

1. robot that can hug

2. robot that can perform the heimlich maneuver

3. robot that will crush you with some tweaked / injected params

i'd argue there is no place at all for this kind of faux emotion/interaction in robots, it's just creepy.
I m still shaking my head, the logical side of my brain has a hard time accepting that those emails are real and that someone would be so stupid. And then when someone that can mess up his life steps in, he does not see the error of his ways, he just doubles down on being a jerk to them. I am amazed that there are people out there that would act in such a manner.
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> I cant help but wince every time I hear a story about a deeply religious person becoming a teacher to teach biology or history!

History? Why?

As to biology, while evolution is fundamental for some things, it's irrelevant much of the time[1]. Insisting on "true believers" in those cases is imposing an irrelevant religious test.

[1] Yes, irrelevant. Very little in biochemistry or molecular biology depends on how life evolved to use the chemical reactions that it uses. Cellular biology is much the same. There are parts of physiology where evolution has a little more relevance but ....
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Fair point. I admit that Khan does an incredible job. I believe it [lecturing to a microphone] is an extremely rare and underdeveloped skill. "EVERY" might have been hyperbole.

But when the lecturers at hand are professors who have spent decades teaching to a room full of students who become visibly impatient, confused, eager, or antsy --- they should keep doing that.

To keep a pleasant rhythm to instruction, many professors tell jokes; I think it's VERY hard to tell a joke to a webcam when you are used to an audience.
Split test that!
Well, I can't respond to all this, but I did think you should read about the seven people who were killed by Tylenol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

So far I don't think anyone has been killed by SOPA.

Something to think about.
On a scale of 0-100::

Value of technical co-founder(s) with 5 yrs experience in any particular language: 99

Value of language/framework "sexiness": 5

The only marginal value of "sexiness" is that it can attract more forward thinking developers. However, PHP is alive and well. The sheer volume of PHP developers available increases your chances of finding someone competent to work on your project.
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From the comments:

If you are paying in US Dollars, Gandi has currently discounted the transfer rate of .biz, .com, .info, .net, and .org domains to $8.
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So around 2.3k HPS monthly average. Assuming an average peak is 10 times that, 23k HPS seems a little little high but doable for a handful of servers (after load balancing and caching come into play).

One note says "everything is dynamic, nothing is static" which sounds weird if they're using Akamai for anything but images. Images are claimed to be served at 100K HPS, which would be difficult for a handful of servers, especially with the dynamic content on top of it. It comes down to caching and hardware as usual.
It was annoying enough that my computers eventually became too slow to run the newest versions of Windows/Ubuntu/Mac OS. I can't imagine the the frustration Android users must feel to be denied updates not because of obsolete hardware but because of handset and carrier neglect.

Google should step in and assure that all Android (tm) hardware can be updated to vanilla releases of the operating system without the need to be a technology wizard.
I think it's the racial allusions. I don't think you intended to sound cavalier about race, but I can see how someone reading very quickly would come to that conclusion.
To apologize for it's operating system. I have a Samdroid, and it doesn't hug me, probably because it can't hold a charge for more than 4 hours.
Nope we've got a handful now and we're hiring! http://www.pof.com/careers
The question is pretty simple. The question is whether you want Wikipedia to be beholden to its users or to corporate interests.
So a child got a MacBook and made a popular app with it which garnered serious attention from investors.

And then you complain that he was given a MacBook?
No, they have a jobs page (http://www.pof.com/careers/) and it lists director of technology. Another user posted above an inc article saying that he had 4 employees in 2009 and planned for 30, so maybe he has 30 now!
150 degrees Fahrenheit (65 C) would exceed the highest surface temperature ever recorded on Earth -- by a wide margin. I can't find a good reference at the moment, but I think 150F would be immediately fatal.

I think the infographic is humorously saying that you can find whatever level of excitement you want by taking the underground. Fishing is a boring 5 degrees, football gets you to body temperature, and music halls are a scorching 150.
We have a couple of Safari accounts for the team, but nobody uses them. People like having books, I guess.
Normally I find a lot of these lawsuits frivolous, but on the surface this sounds completely legitimate.

It's obvious he wasn't just another engineer, but rather someone with very specific skills and credentials such that his employment caused other parties to enter into business, sign a contract, etc.

Coupled with the fact that this wasn't a simple decision for the guy and his family (up and move from Texas to Minnesnowda), Seagate obviously made some short-term decisions that were quite underhanded.

Makes one wonder -- what was a reasonable threshold time that Seagate needed to employ the engineer before this lawsuit didn't have merit?
Why only 32?
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For 3: Look into using Distribute ( http://packages.python.org/distribute/ ). It'll let you specify the "scripts" parameter to the setup() function, which handles placing executables in the OS's PATH.
what about monthly and discounted annual? this way you give the incentive to pay annually but leave the option for monthly commitment.
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Eh, the study of theology is mostly the study of historical development of theology. Theology student to history teacher isnt as far of a jump as you would think. If he was a philosophy student, you wouldnt have jumped to the same judgement.
I know ML and have a math degree; I don't see why you'd need to know what a derivative is. If anything, I think exposure to ML and functional programming before differential calculus could be beneficial since you'd better appreciate that differentiation is just one special application (no pun intended) of the concept of higher order functions.
Not sure a i would want to have anything with a startup that model its self on Dexter - even as a fluffy guardian reader there are some cases where a Red stop is appropriate.
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Under the UK definition if you're "in business" then it's unlikely that you're upper class.
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It's probably cheaper to just buy them in batch than it is to pay for the hosting.
Does anyone know the technology stack used for front and backend by POF?
Thanks for the screenshot!

Two quick follow-up questions:
On that screenshot, it looks like it's the main profile picture and the profile picture thumbnails for the circles that are slow to load (but the images from the stream are loaded). Is that typically what you see, or is that just what happened in this case?

Do have a sense for whether this happens more often when you're looking at profiles of people who are in a lot of circles (like Tim O'Reilly)?

Thanks for your help.
Crowded sourced content for this app would be great, especially in other languages. Rosetta Stone only covers a small sliver of the world's spoken languages.
>When I said plan for success I didn't mean PHP can't scale it was related to the lower argument that very few people under 25 uses PHP anymore.

I wonder where you get your statistics. The three most popular languages I know people under 25 uses (I'm under 25 myself) are .NET (well, not a language, but I mean mostly C#), Java and PHP. Maybe this has to do with the enviroments where this kids learn to code.
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It's better to try and work harder than not. Otherwise, your startup fails, or it really wasn't a startup in the first place (just a traditional company calling itself a startup).

Startups aren't for everyone. If you're a brilliant programmer who doesn't want to be pressured into quickly adapting, perhaps you should apply to Google instead.
I took the AI class, and I also saw a degradation of the difficulty. At the beginning it was great. I even undusted my old 48SX, and had lots of fun: they actually made me think. But some of the lessons towards the end were almost a joke: I sure don't need to spend time applying a trivial formula back and forth, as we did in the computer vision lessons (deriving it would have been a slightly more interesting exercise.) I don't know if Stanford students were paying for this, but I'd not be very happy if I had.

On the other hand, I am very happy that they are doing it, and I intend to take as many as my time will allow. And I wish they'll figure out a way to charge a small fee for having "Stanford" in the title in some manner, so that they don't have to spend about half of the certificate of accomplishment making sure that everybody understands that this is _not_ an actual Stanford certificate.
Absolutely no disrespect intended, but Tylenol is still a non-sequitur. Would you rather discuss them or GoDaddy?
Agreed entirely. Though lately, I've heard a lot of people invoke what I'll call the "Steve Jobs Defense" in response to the author's point. Roughly speaking, the logic goes that Steve Jobs never asked customers what they wanted; he didn't believe they knew what they wanted until he made it for them.

This is dangerous thinking, first and foremost, because it's somewhat untrue. Steve Jobs may have shunned focus groups, but he didn't ignore market research altogether. He didn't leap blindly into new markets; in fact, the vast majority of his company's "inventions" were simply brilliant iterations on existing pieces of technology. Apple certainly made markets, but it didn't invent those markets out of whole cloth. Steve couldn't have launched the iPod and iTunes without understanding how people consumed music -- even if he planned to change how they did so. Likewise, he couldn't have launched the iPhone without a thorough understanding of the dynamics of the carrier and customer sides of the mobile business. And so on, and so forth.
If you want to know how the guy came up with it , do you think someone taught him that or he delved into the topic deeper by himself and figured it out .The professor makes it clear that you can do the derivates if you know so I do not understand how the course would be better if that was given as a assignment. Also if the professor thought the same way why would he want to teach a class instead of working for a bigco or a research firm ?
i highly enjoyed 'introduction to algorithms' http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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It is :)

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The picture on page 2 ( http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/12/22/memristor.jpg ), taken from the Williams PDF also linked in the article, is worth a look.

Took me a bit to figure out that, in the waveforms, voltage is the grey line, with the resulting current color coded by device. I guess the mysterious little arrows point left and right to the correct word (and do not indicate some flux ;-)

Another pause for the resistor, which is shown non-linear; this is not the usual depiction, but of course it is the more general case, entirely possible and sometimes desirable.
I will be more impressed when they stop storing plain text passwords.
Previous similar submission, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3397786

Like I said there, big news for http://www.palantirtech.com/government/mobile
That's a good question; and is really the heart of my question... What do we need to put together to create something good for this... I would invision is as akin to a meetup group only virtual. Here's a quick list of things you might want (With no claims about whether or not they already exist):

1) Real time communication along with some async comm.

-Real time comm needs to be archived in a readable form

2) Method for an instructor(leader) to create 'outlines' and have those bullet points contain conversations.

3) The ability to "sign up" for a book / experience.

-When we get enough signups and a leader we schedule a start date.

4) A method for people who want to participate at a later date to feel involved and "step though" the old forum / chats at the speed they happened.

-A way for slow people or later people to use the site without spoilers

-A way for two groups doing the same book at different speeds to work together.

5) [random idea] Make users anonymous to each other... Except for the moderator.

6) Track books participated in.

7) [random idea] Does this idea make more sense as a specialized learning system for literature courses?

All the ideas I have right now.
Agree.

A lot of the things I've learned in AI class are pretty darn simple, once explained properly. So far all this knowledge has been hidden behind jargon and badly defined notations. IMO, the guys at Stanford are liberating it.

Moreover, this is the first time in my life I'm actually seeing a practical use for things like derivatives in programming I can relate to. Sure, I know there are, theoretically, lots of different applications, but I've never seen them since college. Seeing an example of a practical application makes me more interested and more likely to deepen the knowledge of the underlying math.
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Google+ itself is a good service, but my distaste for it comes from taking a look at a "bigger picture", as this is not just about sharing cat photos and fart jokes online.

Let me begin by saying I don't hate it, I just see it as a poor decision as Google+ allows Google to make a verified and robust profile of me for sale or subpoena, while giving me very little more than what facebook already offers. (Keeping in mind that while the USA already has low-requirements for digital subpoenas, it's still heading towards a completely warrantless-everything approach for digital information.)

G+ picks up where GMail and Google Analytics weren't able to go:

- It will have my full name (with google killing off accounts that were using pseudonyms.)

- It has my phone number and contacts: With a Google+ on my phone it has access to my contacts, geographic location and phone number.

- It follows me around the web far better than what Analytics was able to achieve.

- It follows me around real life: It can know what I'm doing and where I'm doing it, even if it has nothing to do with the web such as tagging, GPS-photos from all current era mobile devices, events and location based ("geo-everything") services.

Then when I include other google-owned services such as search, maps, youtube & blogger. I'm left placing a huge amount of information and trust in a company that has a business model defined by profiling me, a history of providing information to the USA government (don't forget Chinese hacking) and a track record of storing more than what I bargained for (such as Google Desktop) with the later landing them in hot water with the EFF.

I take pause because I live in a country where there was raging debate about combining the profiles from various government run services as it gives the government an orwellian-like power over it's citizens (they remained separate). Plus it provides an obvious target for those looking to abuse the data. When you consider that in the judicial system, a judge must approve the fishing and combining of this sort of information, I'm not about to hand over the same level of information to a company free from oversight.
I'm not sure I believe this and here is why:

At one point Highscalability covered the reddit architecture, but he didn't actually talk to anyone at reddit about it, and got a lot of it wrong.

I tried to contact him and get it fixed, but he never responded to me.

So I have to wonder where these numbers are coming from.
In addition to what tptacek said, viewing pricing through the race lens is grossly oversimplifying the state of the world. Copyright protection laws, cost of living, and other local market conditions are probably much more important than race when firm X decides its pricing tiers.
How is wide usage of Qt relevant to the claim that almost all GUI apps are written in C++?
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Probably here http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/32-billion-imag... which he cites in the article ;)
Paging kirubakran! He built a PoC with this exact same concept, but it is a chrome extension.
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I've recently been wondering if there might be a way to actually own a domain such that I'm not paying someone else a monthly/yearly fee.

I've seen those "premium" domain names that you have to pay $1,000 for and thought "If I bought that, would that be it? I get it forever?"

I haven't really looked into it closely yet, but would be interested to know.
In my early 20's I met at a party one of my parent's friends, who hadn't seen me for 4-5 years since I'd left home for university and then my first job. He squarely greeted me with "Crikey, you're starting to look fat".

It was completely out of the blue, and really hurt - initially - but it sank in and became a turning point. After that point I started eating less and realised I could no longer just eat whatever I wanted without consequence.

His unusual honesty has had a direct positive effect on my health, and then indirectly those around me.
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I have copies of all the data I had on there, and my company has strict rules about using TrueCrypt encryption on any external drives.
You just proved the claim that there are many GUI apps written in C++ on OS X and X Window platforms, which is, incidentally, not the claim I find false. What I find false is the claim that almost all GUI apps are written in C++.
> Make water, juice, tea, and coffee free

Why is coffee in the "good" list?

Note that all of the "benefits" are achieved by cheap coffee....