skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone think this revision of the Facebook Ad Platform is viable? Or would users be freaked out with too much a focus on ads?
JSLR - ASLR for JavaScript
Sorry, but I thought that was a great question. If you have ever used a microscope before it's obvious and if you have not you can still figure it out in under 30 seconds of logical thought.
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'We walked into an empty room that once was the metal shop. It was perfect. I could imagine it having tools and materials and workbenches. I could imagine groups of curious kids being active, social, and mobile. '

When I was in 6th grade, they let us use a spot welder and press brake. I still have the box I made out of folded sheet metal from that time. We also had to make a little container out of folded sheet metal that surrounded an egg. The metal shop teacher piled weights on everyone's in the class until the eggs broke.

In 8th grade (2001), they let us use MIG welders and the project was to make a crane with the maximum cantilever given a set of counterweights and a limited amount of 1/8"x1" steel. I remember the entire class standing around watching as we piled weights up until they failed spectactulary.

It's not a coincidence that those are some of my (few) vivid memories of middle school. I remember being bored in a lot of classes that simply weren't challenging enough, but never in metal shop or science class.

They don't even have metal or wood shop in the middle school anymore. They barely have it in the high school. It's probably some combination of safety and budget, but can anyone imagine the school allowing basically 13 year olds to handle MIG welders anymore? It gets hot! Or sheet metal in 11 year olds hands? It's sharp!

By high school all of the best and brightest are maxing out AP classes for college applications. There is no time left for 'fun' classes like metal shop if you aren't going to trade school. (That becomes quite apparent when you get to college and there are mechanical engineer majors who can't work a hand drill.)

If we lose all of this stuff, we are going to lose the next generation of engineers. FIRST robotics is a great program, but we need more things like it.
lean-startup-circle@googlegroups.com ?
The inventor of the bubble test wanted to get them removed from schools as a measure of testing knowledge.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/he-invented-bubble-...
I came up the ranks like you, and actually abandoned Rails but stuck with Ruby for a while longer. I supplemented my Ruby skills the same way I do with most programming languages - I had an end-state in mind, and I coded towards it. In my case, this was a script and wrapper based around the MediaWiki API, but that doesn't matter. It just needs to be something doable. At that point, it's just a 10,000 hour play - code until you get it. I spend a lot of time with the docs open, but eventually that goes down, which is when you know you're getting it.
Next Fox News headline:

"Angry Birds encourages children to launch themselves at buildings. Suicide bombings expected to rise in coming months."
What I find interesting is that the article implies Andrew Mason really screwed up not taking the Google offer. But that assumption assumes that Mason's only motivation in life is to get as much money as possible from Groupon.

I don't know Andrew Mason and I can't speak to his intentions but doesn't the possibility exist that he looked at his bank account and thought, "I've already got more money than I'm ever going to need and I love running Groupon."

Don't get me wrong, if making money was his top concern he made a huge mistake. I live in Chicago and own a small business here. Even before the Google offer small business owners in Chicago (especially restaurants) were already talking about what a rotten deal Groupon was for their business. The writing was on the wall 2 years ago.

That said, maybe it's time people consider that a person's motivations might not only be about sucking as much profit as possible from their business. Maybe they really love owning and running it.
Ninja Object Properties in JavaScript
They do have a free plan, which gets you one dashboard and unlimited custom metrics.
Lovely! Far far nicer looking than the current panel, though it doesn't really make good use of my resolution; and some of the elements feel a little 'big'. But a massive improvement nonetheless.
Ah, well, I meant with regards to Angry Birds.

The rest is par for the course for any news organization covering technology.
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Or perhaps Mr. Market thinks it's a solid, say, $25 or $35 billion company that was just way overvalued at the IPO valuation of $100 billion plus. There's certainly a whole lot of commentary along those lines in the financial press, like this example from a few days before the IPO: http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/15/11702548-is-...

That's certainly a defensible position: the company is stable and profitable as is, but the current valuation has a lot of growth priced in, which could only be realized by growing revenue per user substantially, and they haven't yet demonstrated how they're going to do that.
Prefer this approach. It's more readable and less fragile.
Paranoid Companies Miss the Best New Opportunities
Did you know that Norway is not a democracy, because police don't carry guns? You heard it first at Fox News!
Exactly, ZenPsycho, the purpose of RJSON is to convert data with dynamic schema. Fields with default values are omitted often, for example if most of data have 'private' property set to False, it have sense to output it only for 1% of objects with 'private' set to True. This issue is addressed in RJSON.
"...the Facebook IPO will hurt the funding market for earlier stage startups. But no one knows yet how much. Possibly only a little. Possibly a lot, if it becomes a vicious circle." - PG [1]

"I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening." - AVC [2]

We are now in a contracting market where funding for earlier stage startups, late stage and secondary markets is drying up.

AVC referenced PG's letter, but didn't address the letter. Now that we are in a post-frothy market and the froth is drying up, where does this leave early stage startups that are feeding the late stage startups with talent? It would be nice for AVC to address PG's letter directly and not just provide financial analysis to the Facebook valuation.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4067297

[2] http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/06/some-perspective.html
Scrum, Agile, all overrated buzz words.

This project management evangelists will never understand that methodologies won't make things happen.

Motivation drives people. Not daily scrums, agile, obscure names or roles. Motivation comes through great people, a MVP mindset and none existant project managers, no methodology and just some basic tools like group chat, Github and whiteboards.
I don't HATE Javascript. It is a rather limited language. Especially if you're used to the standard Java/C#/C++ way of doing OO programming. Then again, sometimes I just want to instantiate a new object without having to say:

Dog dog = new Dog();

I'm lazy and I find that sometimes expressing myself in JS is just what the doctor ordered. But with the lack of a type system, I can get pretty frustrated.
You learn something new every day.

SOL, then, but I'll leave my first post intact in order not to ruin your joke.

The Lua community is also barely existent, BTW.
If anyone is interested in real news: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questi...

Flame is a "virus" with about 20 MB using all sorts of libraries: sqlite3, zlib, Lua, etc. Pure Lua code is relatively small, just 3000 lines.
Not sure if you meant investing or inventing (or both). But either one of those could have interesting implications in the valley.
You can see it in the unit tests:
https://github.com/dogada/RJSON/blob/master/test/tests.js#L4...
@signa11
I downloaded the screencast your government is filtering, and re-uploaded it here:
http://ompldr.org/vZTNyZw/MeteorJS.mp4
I hope the MeteorJS guys don't mind me doing this, it's for a good cause.
I don't watch entertainment news or follow gossip sites, so I was unaware that Bieber was in a spot of bother.

I googled for "justin bieber court case" intrigued by your comment about how there was a cover up from Big Media.

Top 3 results for that query?

LA Times
MTV
CNN

They're doing a really bad job of covering it up.
I'd say a destroying a city definitely meets that definition. Deliberately destroying part of a national group. Also, the inhabitants of a city are definitely an ethnicity (though that depends on how restrictive a definition of ethnicity you use.) So, sure, you kill a lot of people it's not genocide, but you systematically eradicate a city, I'd call it genocide.
Publishing data on the web with Node.JS
When you move into the new school/industry, beat up on the largest kid, just to make point and precedent. Problem is that the kid, had support of administrative staff. I bet that Oracle thought through this gambit and saw this as a worth while tactic anyway.
Stock price.
Can't they be using bigger telescopes? The James Webb Space Telescope is declassified technology and has a self-assembling 6.5m mirror.

I'm not sure how atmosphere is optically taken into the equation, but maybe having a mathematical model of it can be used to increase the 10cm practical limit... sort of like with heat shimmer binoculars.
I would just be worried about how they lock us out, what if the block both of our IP's and then the hacker manages to change his IP and can now get in and has an advantage over the legitimate account holder.
look, Javascript creator Brendan Eich giving a whole talk on why this won't happen. http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/splash-9915475
And that, folks, is the value of a journalism degree:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge

> Herridge's salary of $900,000 per year

Wait, never mind. :-/
hey look, I found this http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/jszap/
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I'm in the middle of picking up Ruby primarily because there was a GitHub project I wanted to fork and modify for my purposes that happened to be written in Ruby.The biggest problem I found is that the Ruby (or maybe the Rails?) community by and large provides shit instructions on how to get something running. I checked out a handful of projects and they all said things like, "Just deploy the normal what you deploy a rails app" and the like. Likewise, googling had almost universally bad / outdated information. Eventually I ended up with Passenger who had awesome instructions.

I finally pushed through but I suspect just getting things running is a big enough PITA to deter new people from participating in Ruby land. Even if Hannson says it's a myth.
23 Years Tiananmen Square: China Censors Shanghai Stock Exchange
Yes, they should be. It also would be nice if they had personalized attention of highly qualified education professionals, as well. But they don't. The unions, bureaucracy, politics, and funding is what it is.
Oh, and the don't already? My 12 year old nice had her account for about two years now.
Here's what I make of it:

I have a big problem with equating blacks to poor people, mostly because it makes blacks monolithic, as if all blacks are poor. This isn't the case, even if you limit your analysis to the SF area.

Consider how ridiculous it is to equate an entire ethnic group with poverty, or wealth for that matter--there are wealthy and poor people across all demographics. Far better for the NYT to have said poorer residents, or some such like.

It does seem the mayor specifically mentioned blacks (could be a political calculus or real concern), but the reporters also referenced them separately, vaguely. Either way, the characterization of blacks in this article was done poorly.

You asked if this is racism; probably something like implicit bias - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aversive_racism.

Also: it seems you thought that the contributor's name (Malia) somehow indicates that she is black. A google search shows otherwise.
So are you saying that the bubble did not burst with the FB IPO, but rather the FB IPO has caused a leak in the bubble which is (still rather rapidly) deflating?

While i feel this is (mostly) true, I also think that we are in so much of a stronger position than the last time the bubble burst that the tech market is not going anywhere any time soon.

Valuations will be lower (which is a good thing) but investment will still be strong.
Napster founders launch Airtime
You didn't. You even explicitly mentioned that it is restrictive. But you seemed to think it wasn't a big deal. Thus, my post.

But if you're going to be snarky and pedantic about it, please point out where I said you said Steam isn't DRM.
Yeah, for arrays with first numeric value is reserved schema with index 0. You can see more examples in the unit tests:
https://github.com/dogada/RJSON/blob/master/test/tests.js
Napster Founders Unveil a Video Chat Service
I can't recommend Eloquent Ruby at all: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803016
I did the NCSS challenge back in 2010 and I'm so glad I did. It got me in to programming and now I am doing a Bachelor of IT because of it
I'm too scared to take part.
Touchscreen technology with disappearing physical keys
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I'd highly recommend The Well Grounded Rubyist by David Black http://www.manning.com/black2/ if you want a good intro to Ruby, I found it a much better intro than the Pickaxe
us$139 can be pretty steep for students in third world countries.
I'm opposed to standardized tests more than most people, however I have to take issue with this article. The author of this article stated early on that this was a 'reading comprehension question', and then goes onto to critique the question as if it was about learning about microscopes. He also says that he 'couldn't figure it out' by guessing. He should've tried reading.

As an aside, I did know the correct answer because I had been trained numerous times on microscope use. I didn't even look at the question until after reading the rest of the article. The test makers wouldn't have been testing my reading comprehension. I suspect this would be true of most people who got the correct answer. Interestingly, anyone who has been trained in taking such tests knows to read the answers first, as well as to guess the correct one. Then scan the actual question to find the relevant bit, as well as the 'trick', if it exists.

Like many people, I believe this author confuses learning with being a student. A student's job is to be a student, and that includes trying to score higher than average on tests by any legal means. Learning is something else altogether, and I have my doubts about being able to get far with that in an institutionalized setting.
By 4 poking speakers with pencils, by 7 burning raw sulphur to investigate the blue flame & burning holes in test tubes, by 8 taking photos of bugs & crystals down microscopes, by 9 re-wiring light switches into 240 volts, by 10 hacking electric motors with propellers, by 12 building & flying balloons & model aircraft & programming.
JavaScript vs. Python
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She does not give much details about that. 3 times a week half an hour "exercise" is one type, preparing and doing a triathlon or a marathon is another. From anecdotal experience when I just exercised I felt better, when I became a serious runner I started to feel amazing.
I think this is why a lot of Hollywood actors tend to be liberal on economic issues. They may be rich and famous, but they also got the "big break" that many of their fellow actors did not get. Brad Pitt may be handsome and a good actor, but there are a lot of handsome and good actors. Only one of them got to co-star with Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire.
They don't need to do anything new or different. The barrier to a user to use a new search is miniscule. It's even less if you're already spending 90% of your online time on that site to begin with. G+ didn't work out because there is a huge barrier to users to become active on it. The two are vastly different.
That quote belongs on a t-shirt, but I wouldn't like to wear it while going through an airport.
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Why APL Is Still Cool
Ask HN: Why can't I post?
In my recent posts for some reasons I don't see my posts at all, only the "Ask HN"
Any reason why?
Really? Eloquent Ruby is one of the best Ruby books I've read - Russ Olsen is one of the best and most well respected technical writers out there. Design Patterns in Ruby is also excellent.
Whenever I see something like this, I have a sneaking suspicion that it's just a way to teach creationism (or even young earth biblical creationism) in schools. Or at least to avoid teaching anything to do with evolution.
dogada, do you have any results showing both size reduction, and speed of compression/decompression vs. other methods?
I get that. But there's no explanation as to why that's bad for the client, as is implied by the article.
> We are now in a contracting market where funding for earlier stage startups, late stage and secondary markets is drying up.

Have some data for that assertion? PG's letter never said that. He just identified sentiment and provided warning advice. I think it's still too early to see if there is a material impact.
And JavaScript is looking good for casual numerical analysis, mostly because you can very easily create UIs with dynamic plots that you can publish.
It's probably mor like 1/2 that (engineers). I live in Champaign (Wolfram's HQ), and know several current and former employees.

Mathematica development is split into two main groups. The Math Kernel group has about 20-30 engineers, and the FE group is around 10-15. There's a handfull of developers floating around that work on mathlink (a communication lib that allows external apps to hook into the math kernel).

Overall, they're actually a fairly efficient company. I can't speak to the current state of their finances, but I do know that about ten years ago (just after Methematica 5) they were running at about $24M gross anual revenue for the U.S, about $30M for asia, and $12M for U.K.
Upvoted a thousand percent. This sums up everything that is wrong with education.

(EDIT: spellchecking my dumb arse)
Sigh. You need both. The reality is that there's a lot of book-learning in the world. You're never going to build a rocket to the moon by starting in your backyard with some sheet metal - your lifespan isn't long enough if you take that approach. You have to read books written by people who have gone before, and learn from their mistakes, which you can do at a far more rapid pace than you can by making all those mistakes yourself. Only by standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before - that is, by reading their books - can you hope to push boundaries.

The writer's complaint is daft. The purpose is to test if you can read a passage and comprehend it. Has nothing to do with microscopes. Has nothing to do with "teaching science", as the writer asserts. Just because he doesn't understand the purpose of the test doesn't mean there isn't one. Reading and comprehending text is one of life's fundamental skills. It is, in fact, useful to know if schools are teaching that well or not.

Before I get downvoted into oblivion I should say I also think schools should do hands-on work (which, of course, they do).
In an all technical team, sure. But any time you have to interface with normals, tools like Scrum are often the only thing standing between you and "That page that gets their facebook photos and creates a PDF collage out of them will only take you a few hours right?"
Airtime has launched
I'm thinking that too. Reminds me of the "RIP Good Times" Sequoia effect. And now, other prominent investors are posting in agreement with this article, furthering the ripples.
About this curation brouhaha
The mechanic is pretty cool, I unlocked all 23 boxes and only when prompted did I realise what had happened. I wonder how this could be applied beyond blog posts
Agreed. 48 units on Redfin, under a million bucks, listed in the last week alone: http://tinyurl.com/83pknzd
I've also heard good things about the PragProg Ruby course - its $199 but is supposed to be excellent, though I have no direct personal experience with the course.
Overstock's shareholders were not Goldman's clients. I want to know how the 'muppets' were harmed, as the article claims.

There is a story here, but this is not the author who's going to write it.
I had this discussion already (see the link). Maybe it's a matter of taste but I think this book has some severe weaknesses and thus, I wouldn't recommend it.
Related: TechCrunch had an article a while ago about the dubious nature of many apps in that marketplace: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/windows-phone-has-a-nasty-p...
Ex-Google employee calls Google+ a ‘stupid Facebook clone’
Sounds a bit like Valve. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838880

Or the free 20% at Google.

I get the feeling that if you have a group of highly talented people around, it really pays off to give them much freedom.

From the view of the employee, it is also probably a much more motivating, challenging and interesting setting.
His previous book Ruby for Rails is just as good an introduction to Ruby.
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I doubt the product itself (UX etc.) is why users are on facebook; rather, the user-base is their competitive advantage.
Agreed! The situation is similar to professional organizations like ACM and IEEE who act as gatekeeper and moneymaker for academic journals, which make people angry (justifiably so). It's a bad solution, but you need some form of reputation management. You can't have kids who want to enroll to MIT line up in a stadium and have them build metal boxes, or write code. However, you can use these as additional input to the standardized test scores.

Articles like this continuously bicker about standardized tests but don't realize how much better the situation is compared with other countries, like China, India, Japan, etc. There nothing else matters other than your score, here at least they look at your application essay, your extracurricular activities and such.
EBITDA is a form of profit. Whenever someone says they made X in profit - you should immediately ask what kind - net income, operating profit, etc. Depending on the business, different definitions of profit can produce wildly different numbers.

It's a generally accepted proxy for cash earnings since it looks at profit and takes out:

- non-operating costs such as interest and tax. These are "non-operating" because they have nothing to do with delivering your service/product.

- non-cash costs such depreciation and amortization.

It is worth noting that EBITDA is non-GAAP, which is to say that it's not an officially recognized accounting term. You won't see it in an audit and if you do there will be a big disclaimer next to it. The term gained popularity in the 80s with the rise of private equity. It's used in debt agreements to approximate how a business will pay back loan principal and interest.
Yes, that's right. What I find hard to believe is that the main reason behind the project is the self driving car. I can easily believe it's one of a set of objectives.
Sean Parker's Airtime launches to create shared experiences with people you know