skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What My 11 Year Old's Stanford Course Taught Me About Online Education
No, and the absence of the 0 doesn't say anything definitive either. But there's a general tendency that you can get more durable products if you're willing to pay for it.

Nokias came at a premium a decade ago, and in the "dumb-phone" market still do. Not exactly 10x, though. Their dumb-phones division is hugely profitable, it's smart-phones that are weighing them down. By the way, while they are durable, they're not the least bit serviceable.
With regards to Vert.x, it seems like really cool stuff.

On the blog post about version 1 being released it mentions being able to mix and match several programming languages. Does this mean you can use different libraries written in different languages in the same Vert.x server?
Wolfenstein 3D Director's Commentary with John Carmack
I don't speak from knowing, but FWIW doing it right + doing first, if possible, may be an advantage.
You know, not having a shadow on the Arrow (if arrow is on bottom) kind looks like it's popping off the page then, at a slight angle. I don't mind it - tho obviously not for every use.
This has already been done long ago, here:
http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/
Either way your going to have to install something, either a python runtime or a mono/.net runtime.

Plus your going to at least want to install a better text editor and probably set some environment variables.

The installation process for all of these things shouldn't be a big hurdle since all you'd have to do is follow a set of steps that can be easily demonstrated.
Yet another meaningless micro benchmark. There is no point in measuring a hello world http request in one framework vs. another.

There should be a larger application that even remotely resembles some kind of real world usage. Maybe some day we'll have some kind of a "standard" for a web framework benchmark, an application that actually does something so it's worth benchmarking.
That includes things that are clearly not broadband, like satellite and "3G" that has a 2GB cap. Very few homes have access to more than 2 "real" broadband providers (your choices are the cable company or the telephone company, period.)
True but a lot of VC money comes from public pension pots etc. So there is some scope for innocent people to be indirectly damaged by a bust.
Slightly off-topic: In Python you will also benefit from using the sorted and reverse functions to avoid mutability. Generator functions are a nice way to build collections without using explicit append:

def collection ():
list = []
while someLoopCondition ():
while someOtherLoopCondition ():
list.append (someStuff ())
return list

vs

def collection2():
while someCondition ():
while someOtherLoopCondition ():
yield someStuff ()
Noam Chomsky, A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?
Minecraft's hand holding and difficulty curve are still pretty bad. They tried to help the situation with achievements that are like little tutorials, but the wiki is still required for anything other than the basics.
EmailPrivacyTester.com Q&A
It can go a bit too much the other way. A lab full of PhD physicists and engineers designing and building an advanced radar sat and we can't get an extension cord. Instead we get the extension block and a separate plug and wire.

We then need an maintenance 'engineer' who has been on the half day PAT course to come and fit the cable for us.
a) TU Munich is not necessarily the leading Technical University... it depends very much on 1) the department and 2) the criteria one wants to apply

b) the announcement is (up to now) only for the math department
That's one way to look at it. Another is that Shark Tank is itself a business and they're taking a risk putting you on TV; if you don't generate interest, the show could get cancelled because of poor ratings. In effect, they are investing in you and the success of your product, and I don't see why it's unfair they receive a return on your potential subsequent success.

The last episode of Shark Tank had 6 million viewers [1]. If we pick $1/thousand impressions as a reasonable advertising cost, you'd have to spend $600K for 6 million impressions. It's difficult to overstate how good this deal is. That's what you'd be looking at paying for a Google ad that is displayed for a few seconds while a user searches or reads a page (not even looking at your ad). On Shark Tank you're holding people's direct attention for 5-15min.

For you to start losing money, ABC would need to take > 600K out of your business. At 5% equity, that equates to $12 million in distributable net profits. Let's say the life-time of your business is 10 years - that's $1.2 million net profit distributed to shareholders/year. To redistribute $1.2 million/year you're looking at (one imagines) at least 4 times that in net profit before taxes, i.e. $4.8 million. If your net profit margin is an optimistic and very healthy 30% that's $16 million revenue/year.

To be generating $16m revenue/year makes you a pretty successful business and the chances are if you got to that point it's because you were on Shark Tank. Very few people grow a business to that size without spending substantially more than 600K on advertising and investment.

At that point, assuming you still own 65% of the business (you negotiated 30% away to Shark), you're pulling in 780K (65% of $1.2m) per year vs. ABC's 60K/year. And this is a bad deal?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shark_Tank_(TV_series)_...
Some Measure of Anonymity
Does Zynga have a case against the French Kobojo over the use of "Ville"
hi antirez, do you have a top contender from the current crop or a suspicion of which/what C Next would be like? I would guess that you would also eliminate languages like ATS, Felix, Rust and Vala.

What about languages like Cyclone, decac, Clay?
Check out stylus, it's pretty neat too: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/js.html

My favorite features:

- auto-insert vendor prefixes, even IE filters (no need for css3 'mixins', which are most of the mixins the avg dev will need)

- can even rasterize linear-gradient backgrounds and serve as image for more pre-css3 browser support. This one I haven't tested but it sounds awesome

Edit: paragraph formatting
Find Open Access Scholarly Articles Using New iOS Apps from CORE Project
Searching the bottom of the web
Just what I need to make a little one-off JavaScript app.

To be more DRY, shouldn't the "Autorun JavaScript" make use of selected JavaScript libraries (i.e. jQuery if possible)?
Adding Pinterest sharing to your iOS app
If we are going to play at the low level, taking a look at Machine Forth might not hurt.
According to the code, it actually does a file read on every request -- this is certainly suspicious because some implicit caching may significantly change the results.
3. you throw out the kettle and buy another made in china one for 5quid.

After the fire you discover that the CE mark on the side doesn't mean it has passed all the european safety checks just that it is "china export"
Ship duels in SC2 are awesome too no reason not to play it now:

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
How to Use a Web App Firewall (The Right Way)
Here's a quick hack for a CSS arrow that casts a shadow.
http://jsfiddle.net/BKtnn/1/

Adding border is a bit problematic but I'm sure solution could be found, just a question of few more minutes. Also, it should be doable in IE with filters.
As I understand it, manufacturers receive fees for packaging bloatware on Windows machines, and so there's little to no savings to be had with preinstalled Linux, at least until there's bloatware to package with Linux...
There's a #startups that HN users hang out in.
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Vert.x leverages the JVM so I don't think library support is really going to be much of a problem. Far from it.
I don't think it's the assembly line at all.

I think the cause is the move to doing stuff on PCBs, doing logic in proprietary controllers rather than electro-mechanically with relays, limit switches, etc, and consumer demand for lower prices, which generally leads to lots of molded plastic and other similar cost-cutting methods, rather than use stamped metal or other more expensive processes.
Surely the obvious cure is: start every connection using Vegas, detect unreasonable backoff and switch to Cubic. (In game theory: optimistic tit-for-tat.)
The Rise of Fractional Scholarship and the Ronin Institute
> If there really was a strong market demand (and supply!) for preinstalled Linux laptops, why hasn't any reseller stepped up to fill this gaping void?

One possibility is that the market is too fragmented.

Yes, many of you want a pre-installed linux laptop. However, there are two variables in that "want", the software (which distribution) and the hardware (the amount of memory, the processors, the screen, the pointing device, battery life, etc).

With retail MS or Apple laptops, hardware is the only variable.

So, you've got a significantly smaller market, consisting mainly of folks who are reasonably happy doing it themselves, and it's more fragmented.
(one of the authors) We agree with you. Yes it is being discussed. But you can do it now with Hitch. Our goal with Hitch isn't necessarily to create a new standard, as much as it is to influence the standards to move more quickly. Likewise with browser vendors.

I read in that blog article you mentioned :local-link. Hitch also supports this but with even more ability: http://hitchjs.com/describe/bkardell.links/1

We'd love all the feedback we can get. Thanks for taking a look.
Why do so many people still use redundant HTML tags?

The opening and closing body and head tags aren't needed, nether is the closing html tag. It doesn't make that much difference to the page as a whole but it adds another level of indenting to your code and makes it more complicated than it needs to be.
The problem with IE is it's poor track record. We don't trust you to keep it up.

Abandon the project and let people who care about beauty handle things, google.
The problem isn't controllers. Controller are responsible for mediating the behavior presented to external actors, not defining complex "business" logic.

Complex logic interacts with complex object graphs, not individual models. Therefore, complex logic does not belong in models or controllers (or views). Complex logic belongs in instantated objects (not modules) that represent complex logic. This style may also be known as the "Strategy" Design Pattern.

Strategy objects can have state during their activities, this is why they should be instantiated.

Strategy objects simplify testing because they can be connected with any object graph that presents the same interfaces as the target object graphs.

This leads to interchangable Strategy objects that represent generic behavior which can be applied to actual, simulated or speculative object graphs.
Complaining that someone has invented a new low-level language?
Yup, I suck at CSS too. I still think there's something fundamentally wrong with it, but that's probably more a marker on my own ignorance than anything.

Anyway, I do have fun playing around with the FF style tools. It is quite cool and informative.
Hi, i'm the product manager of the Joshfire Factory.

In the Factory, is your application showing UI and data in the preview panel on the right?
It would help us understand if it is an "xproj project" issue or more an application issue.

Thanks a lot.
The video is funny, but usually real kids are happy with 2 or 3 chained answers and a "I don't know." Another possible last answer is "Let's look in a book" or the modern version "Let's google that".

After 10 minutes of googling : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5OYH2lDNqU
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This resonates more with me:

"Airbnb makes its money in real estate. But everything inside of how Airbnb runs has much more in common with Facebook or Google or Microsoft or Oracle than with any real estate company. What makes Airbnb function is its software engine, which matches customers to properties, sets prices, flags potential problems. It’s a tech company—a company where, if the developers all quit tomorrow, you’d have to shut the company down. To us, that’s a good thing."

Marc Andreessen
http://m.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/ff_andreessen/all/1
Completely agree with his review of the course material. It's very informative but also dry. I find myself skipping through the videos since they just read over the slides and underline important topics mostly.

It would be great if Coursera or the professors including tags on the video timeline that corresponded to new topics they discuss during the lecture.

Overall though I've been really happy with the material and thankful for the opportunity to learn through Coursera and Professors Jackson and Shoham. Looking forward to see how Coursera progresses
I don't think Git submodules were added until 2009 (at least that's what the commit history looks like). We deployed with SVN at least six years ago, long before git could compete.

Still, I would like to use git as my svn client, but it's just not a suitable replacement without externals handled nicely.
The argument about France's strength at the end of the article is anecdotal (and not argued at all), and the title is misleading.

(and as a French CS student who did his undergrad in France and started a PhD in the US (and have many friends in PhD tracks in both systems), I'd actually argue that France is better at "pure/abstract research" rather than R&D. Inria is a very unusual organization, not representative of research in France at all)
Losing trust in someone and punishing them are two different things. It's fair to say you don't immediately trust someone who has shown bad behavior over a long period of time just because their recent behavior seems improved. Trust happens over time.
Ah, but is Vert.x web scale?
Hi, thanks a lot for your feedback.
Merging data sources is in our roadmap and is a feature often requested. We will implement it very soon.

The issue was to design a simple UI for this. We don't want to go in a too complex "node system" for data sources.
From Accidental Entrepreneur to Google Acquisition
It's cool but really the one thing I want to be able to see and illustrate is code contributions to OSS projects. Pull request history and when they got pulled (if it could filter only those that got pulled that would be great).

I'd like to look back over a year and seeing how much OSS work I got done.
as the great Tony Williams
SV-POW has a number of posts on the subject of open access in general[0] and elsevier in particular[1].

[0] http://svpow.com/category/open-access/

[1] http://svpow.com/category/stinkin-mammals/stinkin-publishers...
John Carmack's "Director's Commentary" on Wolfenstein 3D
It's interesting. It would be helpful to me if it included a set of simple templates for different basic css layouts.

e.g. box centered in the center of the screen, three column fixed, two column flexible, etc.

here's a page with a whole listing of example css layouts. http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/css-layouts/
I find modules namespacing to be a more elegant solution than prefixed field names. (I haven't played around with lenses for this kind of use, enough.) It's just a shame that Haskell doesn't have an in-file syntax for modules like, say, OCaml but each module needs to put into a separate file.
I agree the "micro" benchmark isn't something people should look to as a definitive answer, but I don't think they should be outright dismissed either. If nothing else, they should be a jumping off point for real testing.
In addition to the reasons already mentioned, they are necessary in certain secure environments (DOD closed areas and prisons, for instance) where only receive-only devices are permitted.
Fwiw he didn't say Darcs will replace git, he said that whatever eventually replaces git will likely implement some of Darcs best features like the patch algebra.

Hence, it's worth taking a little time to actually understand those features, even if you never use darcs. Plus the mental exercise and learning something new is valuable in and of itself.
I'm the creator of Player FM. It's a Rails + HTML5 app and I'd be happy to answer any questions about it here.
mouse gestures is now a chrome add-on :D
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aaokajckoheafemlmj...
Perhaps a dumb question: Are the headers the same? With so small files, the header layout is suddenly very important for your measurement.

I've seen my share of web servers which are very different in their compliance.
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ops sorry didn't see you already posted the link thanks a lot for making it :D
Yahoo CEO search panel’s chief to resign, report says
and he was the happiest when he found the "sweet spot" on stage.
Part of it is common sense. Plenty of ugly working apps do fine in the market. Apps that don't work at all don't ever do fine.

Part of it is long-term experience. My field is dominated by products that sell to businesses; they have universally terrible UIs, many of which wouldn't have passed muster in 1999.

Part of it is direct, current, ongoing experience: we sell security engineering services to application providers, and so my working weeks consist of looking at other people's applications --- in fact, of looking at successful applications, because nobody spends 5 figures on security assessment if their app isn't doing well. Most of the applications we see look worse and are less useable than Themeforest templates.

Part of it is friends, who have launched products on templates instead of professional designs, who have done fine and not observed any objection to their application's lack of a vertical baseline typographic grid or the correct noise texture in the background or the color-theoretic implications of their button colors. Again: launched on templates, did fine.

HN overvalues design expertise. For most of the businesses started by people on HN, from weather tracking to fraud prediction to appointment reminding to credit card processing, a unique design tailored to the company's exact business is not a real requirement. In many cases, custom designs are mostly about vanity.

I'm not bagging on designers. My sense is that for the subset of designers who are actually both talented and competent consultants, there is too much work, not too little. I admire and can geek out about graphic design and UX. I wish designers the best.

But: design is one of those things that keeps people from shipping their apps, or sometimes even from starting on it. The belief that a poorly designed rev1 app will destroy the prospects of a new business has harmed more startups than inadequate design ever will. Unrealistic and frankly pointless expectations about bespoke design are a mental obstacle to getting shit done. So I think it's worth pointing out how overvalued design is, repeatedly and at length.
Depends, he had classical chops and attended Juilliard briefly (in those days it was uptown by Columbia) and could produce beautiful tone in all registers, but critics have commented that he couldn't produce the dazzling topspeed runs that Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker or Coltrane had, nor did he want to duplicate what anybody else had done.
I agree that micro benchmarks are kind of useful in spotting anomalous, bad performance in the very simplest of cases.
I've filed many bugs with Apple over the years. There are two strategies which work:

1. For security issues, use full disclosure. I received phone calls immediately when I included something like "disclosure in 30 days unless otherwise requested". Otherwise bugs were fixed in the next OS release a year later.

2. Otherwise: our Apple rep (.edu) told us that bugs were prioritized based on how many Macs you couldn't buy until it was fixed. Later, this changed to how the bug was preventing you from deploying iPhones (“iPhone: it's like sudo for Apple”) and I imagine this now includes iPads.
Totally agree. The PullRequest events have stale data regarding the status of the pull request. I think it's capturing the status at the time the event occurs.

I was considering firing off requests to find out the latest status of PullRequests and indicating that in the design. e.g. When pull requests were merged in and closed.
Really useful tips. Makes me feel like I've been using my WAF blindly...
I think it's more semantic than a non-content div or image that has no real semantic content, which is what my solution (and most I've seen) amounted to. I suppose ideally some property on the dialog container like 'data-refersto="#indicatedContent"' would be a little more semantic. And eventually that could be implemented directly in HTML and stylable in CSS. That'd be neat.
The original blog post wonders whether function programming will give a solution to the problem using immutability and lack / tagging of side-effects. Haskell is a purely functional language, but the feature of the type system, algebraic data types, that actually helps solve the problem here would be perfectly feasible to add to a language like C.

It reminds me of other features, like garbage collection, that were initially introduced in languages like Lisp, but turn out to be useful in the wider world.
If they say no, I'd suggest Milles Bornes - a French card game from the 50s I used to play and love until I lost the cards back around the turn of the century :(
Hm, not for me :/. Well, there is still the rule about mature content before 22:00 sigh and all that stuff.
The 'autorun Javascript' at the bottom would be better of in a directly run anonymous function to avoid polluting the global scope with an 'autorun' function. Also, the 'On page loaded' example is not really needed. Any Javascript included at the very last in the page will run automatically on 'page load'.
I know what you are saying about knowledge. I want to break out of the terrible world of throw-away razorblades, but it requires some googling (and living in the right country).

One obvious item where I have made the wrong decision twice are bloody Eastpak backpacks. They have a gazillion years of warranty on everything except the zippers. Now both backpacks' zippers are broken and I am shocked that absolutely noone is willing to repair them, even if you'd pay them most of the €90 that the bag originally cost.

The advantage of a service model for computers, cars etc., would be to avoid the huge one-time cost.
(the other author) It is definitely worth noting too that this was first proposed and seriously discussed well over a decade ago now. The subject selector is inherently less powerful than the original (has) proposal, but even that got pushed out to selectors level 4 and (if you keep an eye on the lists) there is a very real possibility that it may get shoved to selectors 5.

There are legit reasons for this, don't get me wrong - putting this natively in the browser opens a different can of worms. With Hitch, you "opt-in" and have the option to choose the features that you need. This means that the vast majority of sites can benefit from things that are problematic for the paradoxically hard cases (like the HTML living draft, single page edition with 135k+ and counting elements) -- and we think that is a good thing :)
Livin' the Dream - 2 Years of Being a Bootstrapped iOS Developer
This sort of thing used to happen a lot at an Android app company I worked for. It would be easier and cleaner to implement something like a button background in XML, but it wouldn't look nearly as good as a button produced using real graphics. It wasn't just looks either, they were less usable in that case. If a button doesn't look 3D due to being limited to a simple linear gradient or something then users are less likely to click it, and we did have user testing reports of people mistaking the biggest buttons that we wanted people to click most for section titles. So even if a shadow can be pulled off, what else is missing that a raster graphics solution would include. ;/