skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you of the belief that Nintendo needs to bow out of the hardware business? I could see this line of thinking in... 2004? But in the last 5 years Nintendo has seen wildly uncontrolled profits rolling in from the DS and Wii. The 3DS is beginning to pick up now too, after a slow launch.

Nintendo has a viable, innovative product in the gaming industry. They make games for their platform because their platform is unique and their games take advantage of that. Because of this, they are raking in cash from all directions.
Thanks for the correction, I didn't know that. Is there somewhere in the Facbook ToS that I can reference? I tried to find it, but couldn't.
You don't sell off your dream to end up in the middle of some rusty hierarchy.

Actually, founders do sell off their dream to end up in the middle of some rusty hierarchy. It happens all the time. Why? You answered it yourself: they are selling their dream. The money from the exit is usually worth the "rusty hierarchy" of the acquiring company.
The one warning I want to provide though is that not all SSDs are created equal: Make sure you get one that writes its cache to the disk on power failure, or you're going to be in a world of hurt.
The obligatory comment from the old guy:

My first computer, an IBM 7094, had 32k of 36 bit words, about 200K characters. The memory cost about $1M and was the size of a refrigerator.
The intervention in Libya cost about $2.7BB[1]. With things heating up in Syria, and the need to further isolate Iran, we could be looking at another "low-intensity" operation there in support of the pro-democracy dissidents. Now, what would be more cost-effective: a similar campaign in Syria, or paying Assad $1BB to fuck off to Venezuela and stay there, and a further $1BB distributed to military commanders to get them to agree to cede power to an elected government? Yes it's dirty, but so is bombing the crap out of Damascus.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_L...
I believe that facebook won't allow current employees to trade on the secondary markets (though obviously there will be exceptions to that rule). I also believe that it's been years since facebook has been compensating with actual stock (since '07?), my understanding is that they take the form of restricted stock units that convert into stock once the company is public. This was to avoid breaking 500 shareholders at the time.

I doubt any of those are a primary concern - I think it's much more likely that since they broke 500 shareholders last year they've just assumed they would. With a calm, up market it's probably a better time to IPO than recent conditions. Being able to put $10B in the bank for a rainy day is nothing to sneeze at.
My Archlinux Desktop
I did this just last month. The postal worker informed me that the forwarding only lasted for a period of one year -- that's not a very good long-term solution.
The taskbar menu shows how much I've used of my quota, but what would be very useful would be the dropbox-esque bit of info that tells me how much of it has actually sync'd.
I took part in SecondMarket's 1/18/12 Facebook auction and was unaware of any trading being halted for that week.

Does anyone know what normal IPO timelines are? My uneducated expectation is that shares begin trading something like 3-6 months after filing the prospectus.
Are you serious?! Really?!

That’s not what a walled garden is. You can walk out at any time and keep everything you bought. There is nothing forcing you to stay there. Getting in is a bit harder than opening a web browser – but that’s getting in, not getting out. It doesn’t matter. It’s not like you have a right to buy something there.
If the alternative is being unemployed, then people will take any job, no matter how bad it is. That doesn't mean the employer should be applauded just because they realized they could exploit the local labor market.
"EVERYBODY DOES IT"

so we should turn our eyes the other way. really?! it's like saying "everybody does slavery, let's not care"... amazing...if what everybody does is good, great!!! but when it's bad, it should be brought to light in order to stop it.

"ITS JUST POLITICS"

if it's about bad practices being brought to light, i don't care if it's politics or not

"DON'T POLLUTE HACKER NEWS"

don't try to find a "getaway reason" to dismiss an uncomfortable discussion, hackers are not "robots", the more you know about our geopolitical world, the better hacker you are

that being said, good that those bad practices are being shown to the world, it will push Apple and co to do something about it, which in the end will better for everyone
I recall reading about a doctoral student or new professor who was teaching an intro computer science course and the whole while all of his peers were telling him that his course was too difficult for the dolts he had as students. (I can't find the article with what little I remember) By having his students complete much harder, smaller homework than normal (I think?) he was able to push his students farther in the one term than most would be able to get in several.

As the final exam approached the instructors asked his peers to go over the exam he had written up to which they replied something like, "you can't give this to your class, it's too hard and they will all fail and that will make you look bad." The instructor was worried, decided his students could hack it and gave them the exam despite of peer unease. Upon grading the exam, a higher than "normal" proportion (as measured from years previous) of the class left with higher grades and greater grasp of material.

Now hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about so I can re-read that account.
Did you go about this project doing TDD/BDD?
Probably because they've been burned before in similar circumstances.
I'm sure there are requests that governments can make that Twitter will not be able to report to Chilling Effects.
Xmonad mainly, look at the video you'll see some usages where tiling shines ( chat , monitor ), only drawback, it requires haskell which is a large bundle. When space is limited , dwm6, less fancy tile modes but super tiny.

I found those peaceful to use, you just forget they're here even though they lay things for you.

Should start a Tiling WM thread :D
The laws are also being created by China, who doesn't really give a shit about their workers.
I think the CS Unplugged approach has a tremendous amount of potential, particularly with its intended audience (primary school). In my 3rd grade class in 1986, one day the teacher told us that she had a loaf of sliced bread in a bag, a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jam, and a knife. She asked each student to write, on a sheet of paper, instructions for making a PBJ sandwich. When all the students had finished, the teacher followed each set of instructions exactly as written. It was amazing and hilarious to see the literal interpretations. I remember it very clearly because I was one of the students who gave incomplete instructions, and it was a minor blow to my ego because I was one of the smart kids. It was also my first programming lesson.

For young students, simple activities like these (and other communication / language exercises like sentence diagramming) can have significant benefits later in their education. I don't think introductory CS education should be completely replaced by non-computer exercises, but it's no surprise that many HS students and college freshmen don't "get it" when the first thing they're exposed to is a pile of code.
The lockup is 180 days
It all happened pretty quickly.

It started with this post: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/oye34/meet_omari_two_d... -- made by a person working with Longonot Education. The person only asked for $2000, but Redditors have donated 70,000 (and counting) in under 24 hours so far. Upon the suggestion of someone to help out with their skills and labor -- not just money, /r/rwb was spontaneously created to formalize the initiative and articulate clear goals.
Yup, your iOS gaming really hurt the sales of the Wii, a product that is only slowing down in sales because everyone owns one already.
This is sometimes called "procedural literacy" or "operational literacy" (http://grandtextauto.org/2004/06/02/procedural-literacy-an-i...), a sort of meta-programming-literacy that isn't literacy in any specific programming language (or even necessarily programming at all), but rather the ability to reason about how systems behave in rational, programmed manners.
Startup Payscale - real time market compensation data
Someone was raising the question if there's a coincidence between them doing this now, a month after that Arabian prince invested $300 million in Twitter.

It's probably not a coincidence, but I bet the US Government wanting to censor tweets from certain groups in the Middle East for "spreading propaganda" has a lot to do with it, too. And I'm a lot more worried about that than about a certain country wanting to censor their own people's tweets, because at least then that country's citizens can protest against it. Not much another country can do about US censoring their tweets.
The reason that I compared Jobs to Da Vinci is that both were visionaries that changed the way the world looked at things.

Don't just compare the visuals of Da Vinci's paintings with their museum neighbors. Compare the dates as well.

Da Vinci changed how artists, engineers, architects, and scientists organized visual information. If his works seem ordinary that's because his methods and systems have been internalized into our culture. People watch building size vehicles fly over their heads and talk to people instantaneously and globally over computer networks, and think nothing of it. Commonplace. Ordinary.

So what's the big stink with Newton? I mean, we have much better mathematicians and scientists now? By modern standards Newton is incomplete and imprecise. <-- Note sarcasm.

Try looking at some medieval European paintings or icons. Beautiful, to be sure, but try and imagine trying to visualize and present complex models at that level. I'm guessing you can't; probably you are having a hard time understanding just what the hell I'm talking about. I mean, he just made pictures, right?

That's how powerful Da Vinci's works are.

(Note: Don't confuse what I'm talking about with linear perspective, developed in the west by Brunelleschi, a contemporary of Da Vinci. Linear perspective is vitally important to this, and Da Vinci made good use of it. Visually, better than anyone else at the time.)

And, back to his paintings for just a second. My degree is in Fine Arts. Back in the '70s if you wanted to do computer image synthesis, there was barely any hardware and no commercial software for such. We had to write our own software. My personal curriculum caused my advisor nightmares. But I did do my share of oil painting. I copied several great masters, to try and get into their heads a bit. It's one thing to glance at the surface of a work in the museum and make a quick judgement. It's quite another to try and recreate something like that.

Da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_with_an_Ermine) was one project. I still have nightmares about it. I spent six months on it and never got anywhere close. And it's considered a lessor work.
Great link....I hadn't heard of this! Thanks
...yet. Decent digitisation / handwriting recognition should take care of that, and will probably be ultimately more useful than physical notes, since you'll be able to search, edit, or send them to other people.
I've also heard this argument used by libertarians such as Milton Friedman to denounce the FDA, saying that it has costed lives through being overly cautious by delaying the approval of life-saving drugs. The proposed alternative is to not have an FDA, but rather sue the drug companies directly in civil court if their drug ends up being harmful and they haven't performed adequate testing/trials.
Next Galaxy Tab: dual core 2 Ghz Cortex A15, Mali T604 GPU, 2560x1600 display
Even if Mozilla fails to keep their browser relevant, the investment is sure to pay off with a new widely respected system programming language.

I thought the mission of Mozilla was to ensure the web stays open. If their only lasting result in the end is to have produced the new standard systems programming language, that's an impressive feat.

But they'd also be a complete and utter failure.
I like this. Sipser is already on my reading list. I'll make sure I get to it once I finish working my way through SICP.
But in order for children to mature, they must be exposed to circumstances that challenge their naive understanding. Maturity is only correlated with age, not caused by it.

Watching a shuttle explode on TV is not the same as, say, witnessing first-hand the gruesome death of one's own parents at the hands of a psychopath.

I agree that a balance has to be struck, but I think you've lost sight of where that balance is.
Ruby on Rails (for the search engine)
check out the results and add your (anonymous) data to the survey!
Nothing special, and nothing new. I think I saw more beautiful work.

As for for the pictures: I expected a human male reproduction organ...
If you don't think that's impressive, here's 32k of RAM from just a few ago:

http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/CompuPro/RAM%...
With the possible exception of economic, although the two are often difficult to distinguish.
If facebook goes through with this. How would this effect the privacy of their users?
Agree. Knowing all that I have heard about Sabeer Bhatia beside the link you shared, I would take a random guy's word over Sabeer's any day. And I form this opinion after talking with some people who know the guy first hand.
Stalk your future employer?
That's not a piece of cake. Buying a company is not just buying its assets —employees, database, source code etc, but also acquiring its culture and it is really hard to sustain a culture. There should be a reason behind why Apple buys Facebook. Does it want user base, for what? Does it want employees or the project idea? Not that simple as many of you already know.
Once ago, I spent a few hours during the night installing Arch, painfully managed to set most of stuff working and then... formatted it the hell out. Just as you say, my computer and my OS are my tools too, and tools only. I need to get my shit done, not spend all days long quircking every basic detail just to make it work. Even if my disk crashes I can set up a fully configured and working Debian with all most needed software, repos downloaded and ready to do real work in one hour flat. And if I wanted real challenge and had way too much free time, I'd probably try LFS. Or shoot myself in the foot.

If you don't like the way Ubuntu went, go with Debian (sid if you like the warm feeling of having the newest stuff).
To give this a little more context, we're not just trying to make a cheap 3D printer. Our goal is to make the first consumer friendly, sub $300 level 3D printer so that 3D printing can break from the current hobbyists / hackers market, into the hands of the designers and the average consumers. You can see my post here for more: https://plus.google.com/104194244178141073757/posts/fNjEoVJf...

It's my personal goal to enable the average consumer to innovate and become co-creators. My previous project was the LEGO crowdfunding site - http://LEGO.cuusoo.com/ Makible is a new startup I co-founded that will hopefully disrupt the current mass-manufacturing system and give power back to the local craftsmen & makers.
I ran with an arch install for about a semester, similarly after not liking Ubuntu's direction. I figured it was also a nice time to try out a tiling window manage so I used xmonad. It was fun for a bit and the rolling release cycle was nice, but when it comes down to it every small change takes too much time. You end up hunting down config files or hacking things to work the way you want them and it can burn hours.
If i were a complete noob to programming I could definitely see any of the following as possibly true.

a = 20 b = 20

a = 20 b = 10

a = 20 b = 0
you mean Coursera is founded by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller? well that means Stanford picked Coursera over Udacity, all their other online courses due to start are on Coursera. Andrew Ng is also the Director of their AI lab, pretty unusual for someone who isn't a full professor yet.
Chargify, SnapEngage, SalesForce, Campfire, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, DropBox, BufferApp
Geoff Ralston is the man. He was one of our YC mentors and is now an investor in Earbits. He took the time to meet with us long before any formal YC meeting, simply because he knew we were involved in music. His insights were amazing and he doesn't bullshit you about anything. He's fun to work with and brings a wide array of experiences to the startups he works with. YC just got better - is that possible?!
I found your Latin project through your profile. That's very cool—I also did the vaunted CompSci/Classics combo and I've considered doing something like this before. It's nice to see that something is already out there.

To be more on topic, I've found Linode to be pretty excellent along with everybody else. If your relational data happens to be in MySQL, Dreamhost has an enormous quota. Not the best for performance but I assume your data set is static, aside from user accounts.
The same is true of video game retailing. The 20 minutes I spent arguing with someone who'd bought a game, torn open the CD sleeve with the serial on it (THROUGH the serial), spilt coffee on another CD sleeve, and then demanded that I let him return it because it didn't support LAN play is time I will never get back. And that was hardly one of the worst customers.
I just did it because I was working on a horrifically complicated gyp/make build system for work and I came up with enough infrastructure that I realized I could do something like this. (for work I was computing relative and inverse paths, among other things).

@jgrahamc I'll check out your projects.
and @msgilligan, thanks for registering just so you could upvote me =)
I took a few CS classes at the University of Washington in the 08–09 academic year. The intro CS classes had recently been redesigned [1] to be more effective. Anecdotally: I talked four of my friends into taking one or both of the intro classes (split evenly between science/non-science majors), and they all did well and really enjoyed them. I think how programming is taught at colleges is definitely a fixable problem.

[1] http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/reges/sigcse/
The price really should be in the FAQ. I am guessing that it is the most frequently asked question.

I don't want to go through your funnels before I get hit with a price.
Is there a difference between a formal logout and shutting down the browser?
We figured PBH-10 would make it about 2500 miles, it actually went about 2000. Prediction is pretty hard because it depends on a bunch of physical properties that are hard to measure.

We had a pretty intense model that we ran with some probabilistic ambiguity and live weather data; it's written in C and unfortunately locked behind a proprietary wall from my previous employer. The physics in the sim were mostly described by Rodger Farley (IMO he's the world expert on the subject), the short version of his paper is available here[1] (we contacted him directly to get the full version from NASA). The model also reads live weather data, which helps with figuring out direction.

The hard part to measure is heating effect from the sun and indirect heating effect from ground and cloud albedo. You can get pretty close, but IR sensors would probably have done the trick.

One cool thing about our flights were that they had 2-way comms; we could actually instruct the payload from over 1000 miles away by sending Morse Code to it. Morse Code might seem like an odd choice for a protocol, but we were required to use it so that other amateurs could communicate with the payload to cut it down if we were in a signaling dead-spot. Another fun fact is that it used a custom-designed Morse decoder that performed pretty near 0dB SNR.

[1]:http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2005024...
Aw, there's some sanity checking missing. The Linux kernel example report has commits from 1970 & 2037, which really screws up the graphs.
I am willing to bet a largeish sum of money that had such a test been around for literacy sometime in 1870 when mass education in the uk started in earnest, we would have found a double hump of people who had a consistent mental model of sentence construction, story arcs, past and future tenses.

The fact almost everyone has same mental model now is down to very early age education. When your parents are literate you will be too.

It's possible this test could be done today in countries with terribly low rates of literacy
> We are paying for this with our privacy.

I agree, and my point is that it seems like a pretty fair deal to me.

Maybe where we differ is that I sort of see the end of privacy as a foregone conclusion. Credit card companies already have way more (and maybe more important) information about people than Google does, and sells that data with absolutely no compunctions. I think data is only going to get harder to control in the future.

But back to the point of the thread: I don't think data collection is evil in and of itself, and so I don't think it's fair to call Google "evil" until they actually do something evil.
> IT: "No, we probably can't run [important software] off your office computer and save money."

'Yes, I know we can get an HP desktop from Staples for $350, and yes, I still think that $10,000 is a reasonable price for the master database server.'
They had a design challenge related to this awhile back. I think I received the lowest score of the entrants for this desktop metaphor concept: http://vimeo.com/9451028 (pardon my rookie screencasting skills). I think in the end though those favorite sites aren't much different than active windows, "top apps" is quite similar to a quick launch bar ... and the sidebar chat window looks like ... a sidebar chat window. That's the way things will go #IMHO. Firefox 12 looks like a great gateway toward this.
It's a language that is heavily used for server apps, which the top post was saying JS shouldn't do. My point was, quirks like these haven't outweighed the advantages of PHP, and I don't think they should for JS either.
Peak social ? Like AOL's "diversifying" in 2000 signaled the peak of the original internet bubble? Zuckerberg is smart and knows when to stick the average Joe's retirement fund with the downside.

I know, I know. Mod me down. Somebody's got to say it, though. But, I mean, c'mon. All fads fade away ... someday ... right?
Does anyone believe that the nature of censorship on the internet actually makes a situation worse? Maybe during tv days censorship worked because a story was blacked out completely, but on the internet the fact that a story is blacked out can become a story. It may be argued that this is an attempt to make more gradual the shift to a more free and open society but isn't it a step backwards?
True, but I think that's thinking too small. In a autonomous car world why would everyone have their own? The car could drive itself home after driving you to work to take other people where they need to go, but that is still thinking too small - thinking within the current system.

In a world with autonomous cars I think a subscription service for car ownership makes more sense. A parked car is a wasted resource, autonomous cars could have uptimes similar to airplanes. Of course this isn't even including the advantages an autonomous fleet would have with fuel efficiency and traffic handling.
I get really annoyed when there is an element that follows me down the page as I scroll. It's really distracting. I get even more annoyed when I have to set up an adblock rule to make it go away.

Please, designers, stop doing this (and stop doing menu bars with the same behavior). There's not much on your site that is important enough that I need it to follow me everywhere.