skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're worried about a guy at a brokerage buying 107% of all traded shares of a company?
Here's my simple response to a particularly complicated (and touchy) issue: children that do extremely well on standardized tests, especially from an early age, do not need them. If you're consistently in the 90+ percentile in reading comprehension, critical thinking and mathematics from an early age, you are probably not only great at standardized tests, but an intelligent child to boot. These are the kids that should be playing with real-world physics applications (rockets) or rudimentary robotics (Lego Mindstorm).

If, however, you're a child that does consistently badly in these tests, it probably makes sense to get the book learning straight before venturing forth into the practical applications of math and science. After all, the point isn't supposed to be to play with rockets, it's to understand the physics behind them (right?).

Unfortunately, this is an unfair line to draw. Should smart kids get to play with cool science projects while the kids who are struggling--or who were sick on the day of the standardized test--are stuck inside studying "the basics" needed to understand these projects? Personally, I don't think that's fair line to draw.

The result? Everyone needs to be book smart, and hopefully, everyone should also build cool stuff with science.
I'd like an easy interface to events around the phone being at rest (no accelerometer input).

For the rest state: I assume that most people have their phone by their beds at night. I have a locale rule that puts my phone into airplane mode during the hours I'm normally asleep. This is much more easily/accurately expressed as "phone at rest for 15m". Similarly, I'd like to sync news when I pick up the phone to leave in the morning (I don't always unlock the phone when I do) so it can sync over wifi.

I'd also like to monitor signal strength. I do so in Locale and shut down the 3g data connection if the signal strength is under 25%. This combined with the airplane mode at night and an undervolted kernel gets my (old, otherwise stock) Droid Incredible up to 3 days of battery life through normal use.
This is great. Congrads Mike!
Well I think it depends.

Starcraft 2 has improved it's e-sports appeal which I credit mostly to the community but it suffers from the lack of variety in strategy and the dumbing down/nerfing of a lot of micro. HotS will likely shift add more strategies alongside future patches that tweak the balance, but I think it's still about a year or two before gamers are truly satisfied with the state of the game. Kind of like what Starcraft 1 went through.
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Or you already knew how a microscope works, and performed that step implicitly like the rest of us did.
The class is pretty easy to crash, you just show up and sit in the back, there is plenty of room. Parking is pretty easy too.

04/02/2012 - 06/06/2012 Mon, Wed 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM at Annaud
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https://my.infocaptor.com was launched in May
Ideally, as student feedback.
Try asking <insert closest university> students.
Yeah, fairly obvious.

Design is about delivering to a brief. Not necessarily discovering a problem, or necessarily a problem many people have.

"(noun) a specification of an object, manifested by an agent, intended to accomplish goals, in a particular environment, using a set of primitive components, satisfying a set of requirements, subject to constraints;"

It's really hard to judge a design without knowing the circumstances behind it. That is the first clue that someone does not really know about design - they will judge some design where they know nothing about the goals, constraints, or requirements.
> My hope is one day we have a social network which contains no pictures.

I don't think you understand how humans work.
So it's chatroulette but with more intelligence using your FB social graph. Like "you might want to talk to this person because they like cats and are friends with your friend Jane." This seems to have good applicability in the dating world.
The UI is horrendous. Especially if you attempt to use it without a video camera.
If I have to login with Facebook how is that 'no registration'? They will know more about me than if I had registered with a throw away email address.
Yes it is quite undocumented, this is the best I could find:
http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/lqlO-zYGki4/zTT...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but costmetic issues in the enterprise are exactly that: cosmetic. You may think people care about them, but believe me, they don't.

Enterprise people need solutions to their problems and answers to their questions, no matter how pretty.

Just one (out of thousands) of everyday examples:

I already know from existing reporting that 984 orders (18% of our backlog) are already past due. For those
984 orders:

- How many are for one item and how many are for multiples?
- Do we own what we owe those customers?
- If we do own it, is it in the proper warehouse?
- If it is in the proper warehouse, can we find it?
- If we can find it, is it undamaged and certified?
- If it's shippable, do we have enough labor to ship it?
- If it isn't certified, how soon can QA certify it?
- If it isn't in the right warehouse, can we move it?
- If we don't own any, where can we get some?
- Which vendors have it on the shelf?
- Which vendors do we have blanket purchase orders with?
- Which vendors do we have contracts with?
- Which orders can be split to satisfy a partial?
- Which orders are for customers already on credit hold?
- Which customers are threatening not to renew with us?

and (ironically) the most asked question of all:

- Which orders must be shipped to hit our quarterly numbers?

Carve the answers to those questions into a pile of shit, and enterprise customers will dump the contents of their wallets into your bank account.

Give them something pretty that doesn't answer those questions and you're just wasting your time.
oh, that's much better. You should make that clear somewhere on the site before starting to chat[1], I signed up and was unaware that I remained anonymous so decided not to go any further. I saw my details listed so made the assumption everyone saw them.

[1] I see "Anonymous You are anonymous until you send an add request" but that's after I started to search for people just now to check, I would never have got that far if you hadn't explained about anonymity.
I bought the second edition last Friday and have watched videos 1 to 7 last weekend. Really well done, love how the new edition uses Bootstrap!
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These are great. Does anyone have any similar recommendations for Python / Django? I tried the MIT OCW videos for Python and they're pretty dry.
What happened to cyberpunk?
And, not trying to steal the thread, but I'd love to get some recommendations for Erlang as well.
Could you post this on StackOverflow or would you allow me to? It's very useful, way more people could benefit from this!
> I suggest you guys have a long and hard think about who your customer really is in enterprise (its not the end user, its middle management)

Which is also why their strategy might work.

Management have iphones and they have seen good design and can tell that their intranet web portal from 1999 looks shitty.

But the bigger trick, is not actually the design or the feature set. The trick is to know how to sell to enterprise. So hire Oracle salesmen who know how to play golf and loose just enough.

Sadly, if you know how to sell golfware, it doesn't matter much what golfware does.
I hate this trend so much. I must say it feels like it
"Breaks" the web. I use Gill Dyslexic[1] on all websites across the internet and I'm tired of having to put in exceptions for sites like github. Icons should be images.

[1]http://www.pixelscript.net/gilldyslexic/
Worked perfectly fine for me.
So basically a SFW Chatroulette with tight Facebook integration. I could see that work out.
Oh dear! That's really not the answer I was hoping for. That's about where I gave up last time -- somewhere around a dozen nested vertical and horizontal linear layouts with various weights, gravities and alignments that still wasn't giving me quite what I wanted.

Still, for correcting me on the button background thing alone, I suspect you've added years to my life. Dunno what the online equivalent of buying you a drink is, but . . . thank you.
We can't say much information about the concept, but it is more about collaboration, hiring, promoting and most importantly keeping posts alive.
I'm not calling you a liar but Blizzard is.

Here's yet another post from an hour ago: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5592454673?page=9#176
I'm not sure you realize just how strapped for cash most school districts are. The average K-12 teacher in the US spends around $350 out of their own pocket each year just to buy supplies like books, pencils and glue that schools and parents can't or won't pay for. Only 8% of teachers can get through a year without spending any of their own money on supplies. (http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/07/08/teachers-spend-1.3..., http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/08/most_teachers_spend_...)

If school districts can't afford to buy pencils, it's unlikely they can afford to buy robots, no matter how cheap the robots are.
Finish it, and please post/announce it to HN when you can! I'm looking forward to reading both books.
True, but for most folks logging in with another service (FB, Twitter etc) is the same as 'no registration'. Clearly, it's also where they get the data about you to use the service at all. Seems they need FB connect and 'additional permissions' [1].

It'll be interesting to see if they decide to add further methods of logging in (twitter/linkedin) but I wouldn't be surprised if this remains FB-only (I've decided I won't be trying it out since it's FB only).

[1] https://www.airtime.com/faq#ss1
Yeah, that's a neat project. I was already thinking about building this before they launched, and their positive reception spurred me on.

If you're already using Heroku Postgres there's a ton of overlap between the services, but I'm hoping to provide a decent open source alternative for the rest of us. :)
Great scenarios!
Writing these down to make sure we will be able to cover them.
I was stuck debugging a C++ application that was just using A+ objects as its wire protocol. I never even managed to get the fonts to display properly. It was horrible. I ended up having to write my own print-these-boxed-values routines, just to see what was going on.

A few years later, and we were using kdb+ and q to develop major analytics. That was actually a lot of fun.
Seriously, almost all of modern food/health science could be reduced down to this simple phrase. Eating too much of "X" is bad for you. No, really? Ya think?

Even cigarettes in moderation won't kill you.
great reading =)
"If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXABcv9djQ0
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The problem with Chrome not having such an option is not just limited to startup time when restoring a session. Having too many open tabs causes the resource consumption to go through the roof (especially RAM and CPU cycles). I can easily have several hundreds of tabs in Firefox (in combination with tab groups) because I usually use different small subsets of tabs during my sessions so the resource usage is quite manageable.

I've said it times and again: Chrome is optimized for a single use case (i.e. few tab users) at which it excels but tends to break down quickly once you leave its comfort zone, unless you have a fairly powerful system. Maybe the project leader nudge, nudge could divert some resources to make Chrome scale better. ;-)
I appreciate the great guide!
Copy away. I don't care. Information wants to be beer.
True, but it's a good sign that irrational exuberance is not taking hold of the open market, which was a cornerstone of the .com bubble.

I find it somewhat refreshing that with the number of people who use Facebook and feel it has significantly impacted their lives, that there wasn't a upwards pop on this.
My vote would be a google account since my phone already requires this.
Says the guy who probably has 60+ hours in the game and "will continue to play it". How much do you think your $60 is worth exactly?
Yes, it's learning *nix all over again. There is an easy way to do things, which you cannot on any account find, until you complain and look like an idiot when someone tells you how to do it in twenty-eight characters.

I'm moving to the "It's not me, it's you" phase of the relationship faster this time, though.
It creeps me out to no end that people would log such kind of data to a remote, online service they have zero control over. I hope at least you keep backups for you. But my concerns are the privacy.
Try Freelancer.com (or any other market place with lots of participants).

Freelancer.com is good for your use case because:

- Many users from all over the world bidding in an auction for your project => usually you get very competitive prices and no negotiation hassle

- Nice payment options with milestones and ratings => give you a good control over the project development and progress and at the same time force you to think about specification and what should be done at which milestone

- Granular categories: you can get really anything from embedded C++ devs over Ruby to copy writer who write a book for you

Only drawback (but this drawback is with all agencies or contractors): after work is done you are in some dependency to your contractor and introducing the work to a new contractor costs time and money. So, you have to look that the chosen guy has a fair after work policy and doesn't demand day rates beyond 1,000$

To solve (somehow) this problem the pros usually choose two contractors for each critical tasks and let both know that there's another one doing exactly the same. This leads to better competitive prices after the project is finished but has to be keepen through the entire project and doubles the cost.
No offense but this is really an intellectually weak statement because moderation is dependent on what is considered "too much", and here we are looking to redefine just what "too much" really is.
Tinychat[1] and especially vChatter[2] have served the same purpose on Facebook for a while now. Exactly what is "first" about Airtime?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/03/tinychat-facebook/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/vchatter-launches-a-pg-rate...
I've been keeping a journal since 2007, however, my entries were not as frequent as Steve. Lately, I've been obsessive with personal data collection a la Daytum.com, iDoneThis.com, Fitocracy, MemoLane.com, RescueTime.com, and Timehop.com that passively record things about my past, which is fascinating, empowering or downright depressing when I see what I've done in the past.

It's interesting to use these services or manually (Moleskine and pen) to be more cognizant and aware of where we're going in our lives, to be more appreciative of what we've done or how we've spent our time in the most "ideal" way we construct for ourselves.
> Without facebook, I'd have no idea cousin X is having a baby...

You mean you can't use a phone to stay in contact with your family and friends? That's a bit strange...

What bothers me the most is that a lot of the comments have totally forgotten about MySpace. That was a site where you could truly customize your homepage with a little html knowledge. And they didn't force things like retarded timelines where I can basically see your entire Facebook history recorded on your page. Now that's creepy...
That's a tautology. The question is, what counts as a moderate intake of salt?

If Taubes is correct, average US salt intake is moderate. The government says it is excessive.
Selling your company doesn’t make you happy
Who takes Massive Open Online Course?
I think it still is, especially if you have friends to play it with. With all the vitriol with regards to Inferno being a grind-fest in order to progress, I do think it is a more of a thinking game compared to Diablo 2, with classes being able to adopt roles in a group with ease. The higher difficulties (especially true with Inferno) are much more fun in a group setting and there's a lot of strategy involved in coordinating roles and load-outs between your party members. There's a whole lot of strategy involved than most people think.
I agree 100% in regards to the Auction House. Me and a buddy are in the middle of Nightmare difficulty, and we hadn't taken a look at the AH yet. Upon visiting the AH, we realized just how bad our gear was, and we managed to cheaply replace almost every piece of armor having stats magnitudes better. Also, the boss fights are extremely disappointing. I fear the only rush I'll get out of the game is rolling a Hardcore character.
So, I like the idea! I share a lot of videos on facebook but their present UI makes it super hard to only check out videos. You seem to kind of address that.

I do think you can improve your messaging. I kind of knew what you offer but not really until I signed up. One way you could pitch this is show a screenshot of a facebook newsfeed on the left and a screenshot of Mixy on the right going through that feed and picking out all the videos. Of course, make those sample videos in the screenshot seem very compelling and bait-ish.

Edit: Dude, put a huge link that just shows all the videos I've shared on facebook. That itself would be extremely useful to me.
There is no reason to say "likely," the article comes out and says that android was the easy platform:

"Shira Weinberg, the team’s Program Manager, explained that the less strict security model of the Android platform is well suited for deploying early stage technology previews."

I am not a mobile developer so when I read the statement I was not sure if it was an underhanded slap at andriod or a valid assessment of mobile platforms. Can anyone comment?
Yeah, I don't like the New Tab page either.

For those reading, you can disable the interface entirely (click the grid button in the top right corner).
• Also, don't buy airplanes or spaceships manufactured by corporations with Daedalus in its name.
As someone who has lost around 40 pounds of fat switching to the high fat paleo diet I'm not at all surprised that the current state of the conventional wisdom on food is wrong in any number of ways. It is funny that we really have no idea what we should be eating naturally at all.

Grains were making me sick and I didn't notice for years. It wasn't until I read a book listing side effects of grain consumption that I considered that the grains were the cause of my problems.
SPDY is in a better position to dictate the development of HTTP 2.0 as there are already two independent implementation in the wild, unlike S+M which so far only exists as a concept paper AFAIK.
Stacking up your idea
The elaborate on the Schultz paper, dopaminergic reward feedback mechanism is for unexpected reward only. Repeated stimulation depreciates the neuronal signals.

A take home message from this is that an ideal diablo 2 drop has a expected drop time of T, and should never change. The reward, of course, can come from increased benefit of character strength, or from the rare item itself (Herald of Zakarum + Barnar Star ftw).

It seems to me like the T for Diablo 3 is much greater than that of Diablo 2, and because pretty much set items and unique items are non-existent, the satisfaction of getting the item from drops is also non-existent. Alas, the AH allows you to gain strength when you are stuck, but because the time it takes you to go to AH is not a function of T itself, since you can go whenever you want, it does not really contribute to the over all game reward mechanism.

Not to mention the horrible infrastructure they have built for the AH as Lewisham mentioned.
It sounds like he's taking about the "permissions model" that exists on Android, Facebook, etc. That is, before the user installs the app, they're given a list of what operations that app will be allowed to perform. It's a very simple interface, just one screen with "accept" or "decline".
You can keep the data private and there is no built in "social" with Daytum. It doesn't look like the founders will be working on it anytime soon since they were "acq-hired" by Facebook. I've been using it for the last 2 years to measure and visualize my personal data.

But to each their own, I suppose.
I really need to meet the new folks:) You guys did a great job!
"... but who exactly was asking for this kind of service?"

There are many things that people don't ask for but which have big impacts when they arrive. There are plenty of anecdotes to this effect, right the way from "a faster horse" by Ford to Drew Houston's comments regarding how Dropbox spread.
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I didn't know this was an issue, I get my items immediately.
Considering you're asking them to build the whole product 8k seems fairly cheap. Run some of the numbers:

Let's say it takes 1 month to build an MVP with 2 people at a small firm.

Programmer + (Programmer OR Designer) = 2 people

40hrs/week working on this to get it out the door.

2 (people) * 40 hrs * 4 (weeks)* X (hourly rate) = 8k

320 work hours * X = 8k

X = $25/hr

That's a pretty cheap rate in my mind. Of course you can play with the numbers and expectations.

You could always try a startup weekend or something to build an MVP with a team.
What about Native Client? If he wants "web apps" to be as powerful as native apps, isn't that a good direction?

That's another option. But don't forget about using JNLP / Java Web Start if you want the power of "native" apps, but delivered over the web. Trying to turn a web browser into an Operating System + Crappy X-Server is just silly. We're layering hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks, to use a web-browser to do something it wasn't meant to do: remote application delivery / UI remoting.

Web browsers are great at browsing hypermedia, is it really necessary that they also try to replace the OS, networking stack and implement a poor man's X server?
There are Walter Mitty's in every walk of life.
I find it funny that his earlier posts say he is "giving up social media" when he tweeted about this blog post. I question the validity of the 1091 days.
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Have they really killed it? There's obviously more casual gamers carrying mobile devices around, but but they weren't buying handhelds to begin with. Everyone I know that previously used a DS or PSP for gaming still prefer that type of device over a touch screen phone for any sort of involved gaming session. If you have a link to research showing that core market has moved on, I'd love to see it.
Cool, but where I work, the cookie would be gone
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Additionally, the boss mechanics were extremely disappointing for normal and nightmare, so there's no real triumph the first two times you play through the story. For most of the bosses, you have to _try_ to die.
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Trying out Airtime, ran into Zuckerberg.