skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I see it, subjects taught in school are ranked according to their perceived importance:

1 - Math, english

2 - Science, PE

3 - LOTE, history, geography, music, etc

4 - IT, drama, shop, economics, etc

5 - Plumbing, mechanics, technical drawing, etc

Joel is, I think, arguing against people that say coding should be a tier 1 or 2 subject.
you have 211 followers .. I don't think you have wider reach than HN.
May I be the first to say, what could possibly go wrong?
>Maybe the design of blog comment systems are the problem?

How would you design a blog comment system that doesn't get spam without using a CAPTCHA?
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Be the guy
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Just make sure you have your properly registered tracking chip charged and programmed with your destination (and route thereto, approved 24 hours in advance) and you will be fine. For your convenience, we will embed it for you.

Don't worry, we would never make you travel with papers. That's for a fascist state.
It seems like it might be difficult to test really complex CSS like drop-down menus, interactive hover effects, etc

Such complex CSS behaviors are probably better off being tested by an integration test.

It would be so great to have unit testing to keep an eye on these kinds of things.

Agreed! The Cactus approach does work well for unit tests.
Heinlein was a great guy and all, but for all of this rant against specialization did he ever make a serious attempt to write any other genre besides science fiction? And not for nothing Isaac Asimov wrote about every damn topic under the sun with his non-fiction work...
Wasn't there a post on HN recently about YouTube's viewcounts being extrapolated and not actually real-time?
It's hash-tagged on #Santorum.
$50 for a year of the NYT?
Part of me agrees with your assumption, that, yes, that is the ultimate goal for me…and perhaps it is.

I'm taking this advice right now, as far as the debt reduction. But need to really get a consistent freelance gig going to get that kind of savings. Honestly, we've been cutting costs everywhere and it really does help in the long run.

I'm ok with waiting a few years for this to happen, and that's probably the more likely reality for me.

Thanks!
I was going to check and get back to you, but I can't find one on either of their sites.
Yup. Definitely doing this now. There's no way to do things while they're awake. Impossible. They're too cute.
Roaming doesn't work quite like that. My cell phone is associated with a "home switch" (HS) (based on the provider and cell phone number [1]). When roaming, my cell phone associates with a switch and becomes a visitor to that switch (VS). The VS will inform the HS that it will handle my calls.

Now, when you call me, the HS gets "the call". It then contacts the VS. The VS will assign a temporary phone number to my cell, and send this number back to the HS. The HS then sends this number back to the switch making the call. That switch will then call the temporary number, hitting the VS. The VS sees that number and since it assigned that number to my cell, knows to "ring" my cell phone.

And that's just for cell phones. That doesn't cover call forwarding, for instance.

[1] Number portability adds another layer of indirection to this.
I bet a dozen of so developers are reading this, trying to figure out how it can be used in a productivity web app of some kind.
oh, that would do it.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for the poor market maker? They were trying to skim an enormous profit and ended up with a small loss. Ç'est la vie.
Thanks. Yeah, I'm finally turning the corner, and actually doing work, rather than surfing the web, or caving and watching TV or something unproductive.

Yeah I attempted that many months ago. My body told me a definitive, "NO." I listened. :)
In twenty years or so, this could easily be widely available, just like machine guns today. Even if there was an explicit ban on the endproduct itself, the basic technology could be understood well enough to allow underground manufacturing. If true, this would allow anonymous murders and a complete breakdown of law and order. The more advanced miniature variants with face recognition software, might elude detection and jamming technologies.
Popular officials might find it too dangerous just to go outside. This would provoke even more intrusive surveillance systems.

There seems to be a broader trend where our offensive technologies are moving much faster than our protective systems. At a state level, this has been handled by deterrence. Fortunately, for nuclear weapons, the necessary materials were rare enough for regulation to be possible. But deterrence wont work when these technologies become popularly available. Hopefully, there is some non-brutal solution that we can find for this problem.
UBS, Citadel, Knight also announced losses, bringing total market maker losses to around $115m:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/us-facebook-nasdaq...

A longer read on all the Nasdaq glitches
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-facebook-proble...

Hard to know the counterfactual, but if the IPO had a clean start and some traders hadn't been scared to the sidelines by not knowing if trades were going through on NASDAQ, the stock might have traded up. If it looks like everybody's buying, people hop in. If it looks like a dud, people hold off. Social proof is a powerful thing.

In the long run, the market is a profit-weighing machine, not a voting machine, so a few opening trades shouldn't really matter.

On the other hand the perception of a hot stock and company impact ability to hire, acquire etc. Remember how a Yahoo stock drop nixed their handshake agreement to acquire Facebook. The stock price can impact the business and, in an extreme case, create the reality it tries to measure.
While I do love and use Handlebars for our Backbone app, if you find yourself using a lot of such each block helpers... you may want to create a new Backbone view to handle that
Django versus ajax or together with ajax?
If technology was advanced enough: An automaton that sweeps comments, keeps only ones that are relevant and deletes the rest. Both automatons and humans can comment, as long as their comment is relevant.
Second on that. I find that pythonbrew fits the way I actually work with multiple installs much better than virtualenv (even with virtualenvwrapper) does.
Well they shouldn't have bought it. Sorry but that's capitalism and the way the market works. If you invest, you invest in the possibility of it going down.

Day and Short-termers should have known it wasn't going to do well. For me, this stock was literally the Grinch. And long-term investors well it certainly hasn't been long-term yet now has it.

But really, why anyone bought any Facebook stock...I'm just clueless.
Bitcoinica lost customer database, has no up to date record of trading balances
That is sexier. Re-brand! But perhaps he just didn't think of it?

Obvious question gets an obvious answer. (Plus, and you may not have meant too, but your question came off a little asshole-ish)
they can pay contractors on odesk to write these reviews.
It's not all good. Facebook employees are locked up for 3 months right? So the winners here were the VC's and other "preferred stock holders" who were allowed to sell their stock as part of the IPO. And the banks/underwriters who apparently always profit from ipo's even if they are mispriced.

The losers for the most part were retail investors and various funds/traders who believed the banks that the IPO was correctly priced, and probably facebook employees who will have to sell at a lower price now because this botched IPO has sown a lot of distrust in facebook stock.

The goal for an IPO is to correctly price the offering. Usually tech stocks are wildly over-valued and speculated on when they IPO, that doesn't make the banks wrong for setting a reasonable price.

Shrug it's all bullshit anyway. When your talking in the scale of billions of dollars, capitalism can get pretty inefficient. Internet bubbles just highlight the most absurd parts of it. $1B for a 1 month project on iOS(instagram)? $100B for a monopoly on the social graph?(facebook) It makes no sense, but it's really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to market inefficiencies and the huge amount of capital some companies have compared to the value they provide to society.
I caught myself doing just that and to force my mind to snap out of an endless train of thought.
Looks good to me, somebody fly it up
I know right! He was totally just a man his whole life too. He should have spent some time as a woman. That was kinda hypocritical of him.
I think the problem with the car trade-in and the Spanish call (I've heard it is a content sign-up type of thing) is that it's possible they're not even legit businesses. I'm guessing it's going to be really tough, if not impossible to find out the owner, let alone sue them and get any money.

I would LOVE to do that, though.
> I find this time of the day work better for me than if I stay up late to the night. You are alone, the air is fresh, and you are like having the whole world :-)

I love that feeling, and may find myself trying that out again, seems like several people have echoed the same timeframe.

Great post! Thanks so much for sharing.

> Is that what I really want? Admit defeat without even try hard enough? Then what is the lesson I am teaching my son here? How am I supposed to tell him that you can be all that you want to be as long as you work hard enough? What kind of example I am setting for him?

That is exactly my worst fear. I'm talented, and I know I can succeed, and I know I can be a good father while doing it. That's what I'm going to strive for. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Until I saw this comment, I'd been pronouncing it "drop-ache" in my head, and scratching my head wondering whether it was a reference to dropbears or not. Now I see the light. Maybe instead of rebranding, make a logo that sets the "apache" part in a different color or font?
How long does it take to pay off a skyscraper?
There's no such thing as a non-lethal weapon: there are only less lethal weapons.

Even a fist can be lethal, either by design or bad luck.

When you start using weapons, you start risking deaths.

That's not to say that all use of weapons is always morally, wrong, but it IS designed to deflate the idea that force can be used without risk.

A few years back Boston cops use a "non lethal" pepper ball, shot a student straight in the eye, penetrated her brain, and dropped her in a fraction of a second, stone dead.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/1...

Police also kill people all the time using "non lethal" tasers. The firm manufacturing them and the police have a vested and shared interest in denying that any of these deaths were actually caused by the weapons; it is - apparently - sheerest coincidence that people die of heart attacks at the same time that they're hit with 50,000 volts.
Yes. This seems to be a repeating theme through the comments. I'm definitely going to give this a try. :)
Heinlein had one trick worked out nearly perfectly: he could persuade you he knew what he was writing about, even if he was making it up out of whole cloth. If you went back and thought about it analytically, you would spot hole after hole... but most people don't.

Persuasion is very entertaining.
This is super cool! Is HTML5 audio in a pretty decent state at this point as far as reliability?
Which would also leak. Guaranteed.
When AWS goes down people get angry. When NASDAQ goes down different people get angry.
It's not just algorithmic and logical thinking, both have been around for thousands of years. (Most prevalently after the rise of general writing.) I'm sure both Lady Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, being competent mathematicians, wouldn't have had much trouble following an insertion sort algorithm (since humans do this naturally already when sorting) for a pile of cards or be much fooled by the 'tricky' true/false Knight questions. When it comes to implementing these things on a machine (and building the machine, which nowadays is a freshman/sophomore CE project), though, they struggled immensely. And their struggles with the purely abstract side of things were not just from having a lack of expressive language, for even with the most expressive languages today concurrency and other parts of programming are still mentally challenging.

The reason computing is different from mere algorithms and logic is because programmers and machines face incredibly deep abstract and physical hierarchies and orders of magnitude for even the fairly mundane things. It's even further different in that programmers have perfect (or near-perfect with error correction) digital precision and control at immense scale down to whatever the relevant atom is (a bit, a microsecond) and the ratio between the upper bound and lower bound keeps increasing. Physicists have a similarly large order-of-magnitude gap to cross, but carbon nanotubes are state-of-the-art whereas programmers have been perfectly manipulating gigabytes of data for years.

Dijkstra called computers a radical novelty[1], his reasoning is why I dislike these poor metaphors and analogies about programming "being another tool in a toolbox of job-skills like plumbing or life-skills like tying a knot", or "learning to program is like learning how a car works", or even the notion that "learning to program should only be for the passionate, for those who enjoy it, or for those who want to make money with it." It was ridiculous and wrong when Socrates said similar things about writing, it's still ridiculous and wrong when people say it about programming.

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036...
Good advice.

I've recently started running again. Can you believe I did a half-marathon in high school? God that was a long time ago, but I want to get back there, fitness-wise, and I'm trying to commit to this. I definitely feel better when I exercise. I did today, and I just think clearer, you know?

For now, seems like the side projects are going to the back-burner, and the real concern is to just get a consistent freelance gig, to make ends meet better. I love my family, and I'm trying to get advice on making this all work. Thanks for your feedback.
And a knowledgeable developer would do that automatically. It's not a user's job to know to do this, and it's not a developer's job to train users to know this. You need security turned on by default, end of discussion.

Is HN a site with sensitive information? Not particularly, unless you put way too much faith in your karma. That doesn't make a default behavior of sending passwords over plaintext excusable. And despite most HN users knowing better, I guarantee there's plenty of password re-use here (hopefully re-use of the throw-away password that most people have, but that does't make the situation any more acceptable).
The fact remains that literacy with computer syntax is what literacy with arithmetic was a hundred years ago. There are so many ways to take advantage of it today, it is insane not to encourage just about anyone to stick with it long enough to see what possibilities might be revealed.
Yeah, we've talked about this a lot. We're on the same page with the direction I'm going. At least one solid freelance gig, for the time being to help better make ends meet.
How is this different than using Uniform Server, XAMP, sharing on OSX or even SimpleHTTPServer, serving from the Dropbox folder? Setup looks more involved than any of those.
Just discovered this, amazing work.
All presentation materials from #HITB2012
I listened to it earlier, and am still confused as to what John meant by the "longstanding [business] disagreements" he had with Dan. However, I'm glad he moved it, I got tired of John just talking and Dan pretty much agreeing with whatever he said, and this is the reason I went from listening to almost all of the 5by5 podcasts to listening to none of them (except for one, but this one in particular wasn't always part of 5by5 and doesn't include Dan).
I was an undergrad in the tech bubble a decade ago. CS was the most in demand and popular major on campus.

It's funny, this again seems to be the case at a lot of universities today.
Fulfilling your talents and becoming a good father (while also a good husband and son), there are lot to juggle, but no one say they must be mutually exclusive.
So Good luck :-)
Yet the others are full replacement browsers. I'd call Safari and Chrome (on desktop) entirely different browsers, because the browser itself is designed a lot differently in each case. The way Opera Mini works, I'd certainly call Opera Mini a different browser from Mobile Safari.

Who cares what the rendering tech is? Only Web designers and anal retentive people; everybody else just wants a browser experience, and doesn't give a shit. Honestly.

If only WebKit apps are permitted that means they're paying attention to securing just WebKit, which is good from my perspective even as a developer that supports open-source. I'm betting that in the future Android will be the Windows of yesteryear, where the first thing you do is install a virus scanner. Apple is selling me on closed platforms so far.
Facebook wants to buy Opera and make its own browser
http://jsmad.org
Kind of misleading. The webOS engineering team is not leaving, just a few people in the Enyo team.
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UPDATE:

Wow, thanks everyone! Some great advice.

I wasn't expecting such a solid response, and was almost afraid I was going to get bombarded by early twenty-somethings working at startups asking why I was dirtying their site, with my silly old-man fodder. :)

Great to hear other hacker-fathers in the same position as I am. All in all, I'm taking the advice of trying to go to bed when the boy does, and get up early to get work done in the morning before the rest of the house gets up. While trying to stay sane at my regular job, and making sure I exercise, and get enough sleep to make it all work, and discuss with my spouse what I'm doing, and make sure we're still all good in the hood, with our relationship, and doing what's best for our young family.
This one seems more authoritative: http://i.imgur.com/xDLKS.gif
Very nice, I believe that's the image that shipped with Voyager-I 30 years ago. It's actually a map that you can use to locate Earth based on known pulsar distances, sort of a galactic GPS coordinates.
This is a seriously great piece of software. It works really well and integrates perfectly, making it feel like it was a part of Xcode all along. Wonderful work.
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that was actually a pretty bad article. I am a webOS user and I am a developer who uses Enyo. Situation is bad at HP but with Open webOS comming, it will not matter what happens at HP, you can`t kill open source software.

A portion of the Enyo team left for google but the project is there on github. HP is hiring more people to work on Enyo and anyone can join the forums and help.

bad articles add nothing, help no one.
That's a very broad definition. With enough effort and (bad) luck, almost anything can be lethal. It then become convenient to differentiate things which are designed to kill (lethal weapons), things which are designed to incapacitate without killing (non-lethal weapons) and things not designed to do either (not weapons).

Your definition would place almost everything into one category: lethal weapons. And that isn't very useful.
I enrolled today.

I wonder what the intentions of these universities are by offering these courses for free. (seriously) hm...

It might just be me being a pessimist, but they have to have some kind of evil motive, right? It seems unheard of that any university offers something for free.

Found this article about Coursera...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/net-us-usa-college...

I guess I'll just enjoy it while it lasts.

For the OP I'd suggest why's guide http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.htm...
So you just have your bot Google the article's keywords and repost content it finds along with spam links. Or heck, just repost part of the article or another comment. Practically guaranteed relevance. Some bots already do this. Even this fictional ridiculously smart AI is not up tithe task.
"It's my fault to not set up a offline backup schedule."

For fuck's sake.
With all the disclosures and absolute failures of security and operations that we've seen coming out of the Bitcoin field, can we start to quell the attitude that the Bitcoin market as it stands today is a real currency market? The only people that seem to work on Bitcoin secondary trading mechanisms are people that just know how to write a Rails app, and most seem to lack security sense or reliability awareness. Personally, as a seasoned developer, even I know that I probably shouldn't write a currency trading platform alone. I'm aware of the ramifications and what can go wrong, and I'm smart enough to rule myself out.

I will never call Bitcoin a real currency until you see a platform that actually knows what it's doing. Really, I'm sorry, that's just how it is, and the Bitcoin fans that are about to show up and try to tell me otherwise are just as misled (and are inevitably going to be victims of being so myopic). If you want to call Bitcoin real money, it needs to be treated like real money. In software terms, that means it is a big deal.

There is a reason currency is regulated heavily. You are witnessing it.

Edit: Clarified that I'm not attacking Bitcoin itself.
I am seriously considering Go for a portion of a desktop application. This portion needs to be cross-platform (Linux, OS X, and Windows), thread-aware, and safe (I really don't want buffer overruns raining on my parade).

I would also prefer to have a single executable as opposed to a run time that has to be installed first, especially since I want to be able to sign the executable.

Are there any other options out there that fits the bill? I don't consider C or C++ safe. Python, ruby and others are safe, but they aren't wrapped up as conveniently (especially on Windows). C# would work on Windows, but is less than ideal on OS X and Linux (but it is a contender, thanks to Mono).
Wait, is this going to happen to all of them trading sites, in turn?! Is it something to say about the kind of people that are attracted to fast and furious trading, or is it just random negligence hiveminding?
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Don't those (at least sharing on OS X) necessitate your machine running?
Why Cisco Stopped Making Tablets
Some earlier efforts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Earth
The currency and its audience are different.
It almost always is. The term has a connotation of "the existing state of affairs for the majority of people". So the majority of the web is largely template driven web pages/apps, served from php or java or maybe python behind apache, with some stuff enhanced by javascript. That is the status quo. All of us here of course know that is largely going to go away (and it's actively even happeninge), replaced by javscript driven single page apps where templating happens client side, and the web server becomes a file transfer mechanism for the code and some data, a well tested way of doing rpc for the rest of the data.

So yes, there are pages doing this new style web right now, but that doesn't change that the mojority of web stuff is the older style. So yeah, the current state of affairs is that the web is mostly outdated.

This is necessarily true always, unless that which is being examined is stagnant.
Cool. I don't suppose there is anything cross platform?
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