skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting thought. This is the heart of my argument. "Good code is common sense" makes me wonder where is the science in deciding if code is good or not.

When deciding if code is good or not, surely there should be quantified criteria for assessment. Code cannot be judged to be "good" or "not good" without specific pre defined measures of assessment. I would suggest that close to 0% of employers that want to "see your code" are assessing against pre defined assessment criteria.
Over 3 Million Americans Now on IPv6
I'm a little shocked that this is being down voted given that its recounting what I thought was the consensus view of historians....
each auction has a different prize, there are many auctions
Because of the Windows world that generally don't care about OpenGL, of course.
Passive income is pretty great but no source of income is truly passive. You'll always have certain issues like maintenance, customer support, etc. i.e. when you're talking about software.

If it were a website/webapp you'd still run into issues with bugs, security fixes.

This doesn't even take into account the fact that new competitors might come in, search algorithms may change, etc.

That said, a well SEO'ed site (for a popular keyword) is possibly the best kind of passive income one can have. No marketing expenses, the content is already there (presuming that's what got it SEO'ed well..) and you'll keep getting visitors. Awesome :)
I doubt this will have a lasting negative impact on the Windows 8 platform, because I suspect that the majority of mainstream users haven't really encoded the 'Metro' name into their minds yet.

Still, if this is true, it's not great news for MS.

(And neither for those who have already registered sites like metrodev.com)
GMO crops so tough that farmers are turning to Kevlar tractor tires
I'm looking for code that can be definitely attributed entirely to a single developer. I'm pretty sure Linus is not the only developer of that code. Also it's C, whereas most companies these days are looking for OO coding so C is somewhat less relevant for my specific purpose in this exercise.
So, you'd like to go for a year without filling judicial vacancies, or confirming executive branch appointments or passing any appropriation bills? Do you realize that this would cause the government to stop paying its bills?
In other words, they are too big to fail, eh!
There are cases where having a human in the loop is appropriate, particularly manufacturing. A human, thanks to a combination of slowness and observation skill, will pick up on a fault after the first error while a machine, thanks to a combination of speed and lack of observation skill, will produce fault after fault until things come to a crashing halt or someone notices before that happens.

This $440m example shows that a human should be thrown into the mix. Let the human/machine strengths cancel out each other's weaknesses.
Google Docs^WDrive works .. eventually. Seems to take a while to process.

I'd make it public, but that would be a copyright violation.

I wonder if Google hashes and caches the result. If they do the next upload should be much faster for anyone.
You're implying that this is the picture someone (companies? media? society?) has painted for "purely" digital artists. It is a silly position to look at this document and say, "See! ~40,000 and only ~$100 for their efforts! Haha!". If you think about how many people use Spotify, then remember how many listen to songs repeatedly, and then also remember how many listen to songs and then leave the room because someone rung the door bell, that's a shit ton of plays. So 40,000 plays doesn't take long to accumulate and if you only acquire this amount you're not good, niche genre, etc.

We don't hold this same criticism to pure e-commerce startups. If an internet startup fails it's likely because they had a boring product and/or marketed themselves poorly, or some other reason.

The barrier to entry for someone to create music these days is very low. Software is cheap, talent is cheap, and distribution (digital) is very cheap. So why would an artist expect to make more money making a song that took maybe 100 hours to make than a person who works 40 hours a week every week?
I think he's saying after 2-3 weeks of intermittent fasting, not fasting for 2-3 weeks at a time intermittently.

Yup, I got that and I'm challenging it.
I didn't, and still don't understand what they are trying to do with Airtime, how it is worth any multiplier of what they've raised around it, or why it was so hyped up. Parker was able to raise money around it mainly because of who he is, not because of what he was building.

It didn't fill any market need. There are hundreds of video chat solutions out there. "Randomly meeting people non-anonymously via videochat" didn't sound like a market that really needed met. My old boss seemed to think that it was the next big thing, because "The investors on it know more than you do about the market", but I didn't and still don't buy it.

Chatroulette was interesting (and got huge) because of the anonymity. It was funny, random, and dangerous feeling. You never knew when you'd be bombed with a penis (about every 2-3 refreshes generally) and everyone was looking for something different. It didn't make sense commercially, which is exactly why people liked it. It spoke to the wild-west feeling of the internet that we're quickly losing, or have already lost and just fall in love with small shadows of it.

Airtime does none of this. Instead it requires my Facebook information, which I dislike the fact that it exists even and dislike giving it out to additional companies even more. And then provides a very sterile experience.

If I remember right when I tried it on launch day, they tried to build in light gamification things (awards/points), and pulled in everything you "liked" on Facebook to try to match you up with people. Neither of which made it a better product. What I "like" on Facebook has very little to do with what I actually enjoy, or want to talk with random strangers about online.

Here's a market for actual video chat: I want something that gives me 1080p, crystal clear, multiparty video chat with great audio quality. Unfortunately, this requires bigger broadband (especially upload) connection than americans have, and higher quality cameras and microphones than the majority have. Make it look like what you imagine video chat should look like. Then maybe we'll have something interesting. Oh yea, and make it work across any devices. No faux-open stuff like Facetime.
Sure, but what in your option is a less biased TV or Radio news source?
Thoughts On the new Python courses at Code Academy
If you dropped me in a forest and required me to hunt animals with a spear, there would be significant higher-order mental involvement. For someone who has been doing it their whole life, I expect that is not the case in the typical hunt.
Single page article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0801-mo...
Thanks. We're definitely considering that, I think it would make a lot of sense.
Indeed I agree that a changing price doesn't necessarily mean that the currency is useless as a medium for transporting wealth just that when the exchange rate is volatile it's much more attractive to see BitCoins as a speculative vehicle. That's what drove the bubble last year and could very well be the same thing that's happening now. The growth rates are similar (although starting from a higher base) and that's primarily what I'm worried about.

And don't worry I'm quite familiar with fiat currencies ;)

Yet again I agree with you, the BitCoin economy needs more investment in it in order to counteract the issues that I highlighted. Thankfully that seems to be happening (I believe YC just accepted its first BitCoin based start up) and as time goes on the market should stabilize. I think that's when we'll start to see BitCoin spread outside the high tech sector and I'll gladly count BitCoin among all the other "proper" currencies.
What technologies do personal data startups use? [PDEC/ISOC report]
2.7 - Because of Django (mainly).
Certainly, and it really depends on the context.

For example, being far from family and friends, I love putting on my earphones, laying down and listening to my friends' messages.

The nice thing is that I can listen to these messages anytime my hands are busy but my brain isn't. Running, driving, biking, cooking are all more fun with a story from an old-friend in the background.
Indeed – I try to avoid the hive mind (when it isn't backed by science) and form my own opinions, though. The great thing about personal fitness and nutrition is that everyone has got a great laboratory at their disposal at all times.
FWIW, I've got both her albums and her EP on CD, one of those albums on vinyl as well, and an iTunes copy of the other album (since the CD didn't arrive quickly enough).

I also buy concert tickets at every opportunity: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/7325677270/

I'm a bit of a fan…

If you've not heard her music (or want to hear more) there's a free (legal) download here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundquality/sq...

She's a bit of a geek/hacker too - she runs a laptop with Ableton Live, sooperlooper, and a bunch of custom applescripts (which don't always play nice when the laptop sleeps, she sometimes needs to reboot on stage), and she was talking about building some custom microcontroller hardware to give her easier/different control compared to the midi footpedal she's using.
rock on, tptacek! if you're not eating sushi off the top of a rare steak right now, stop what you're doing. :)
Another thing to keep in mind is the game is HARDER now than it was years ago when RetailMeNot, CouponMountain, CouponCabin all started. Google is less forgiving, it's harder to get links, and harder to get through that low morale period when you're gonna be getting ZERO Google love.

In order to do well in SEO I'd say you should take advantage of your programming abilities. Look up this company called Narrative Science. Using algorithms to create automated stories. Now I'm not saying make spam, but leverage something like that to give you a competitive advantage. Plus, I know Demand Media gets tons of hate, but check out "site:livestrong.com" and "site:ehow.com". Millions of pages indexed, and thousands more created day after day. You're competing with people like them.. how the heck are you supposed to succeed?! Create quality content, but also find a way to make it scalable.
Side note, I've had Marie's cakes before, and they are pretty fucking amazing. I previously didn't think I liked poppy seeds on a bagel much less a cake.

http://goodwillion.com/lot/14860

These cakes are rumored to cure cancer but the FDA is hesitant to prescribe them because in clinical trials some patients had the side effect of having their heads blow up due to an overloead of awesomeness.
I like toast. Especially with jam and a nice cup of tea.
Thanks for the great feedback!

As far as screen size goes, it adjusts in lesson 2 or 3 to a different layout that is better for small screens. But I should probably just do that right from the beginning if the screen is less than 800px high.

As for CHECK, maybe I should force them to VIEW their page 1st... Also, I am thinking about showing the USERS page by default. They will have to click the EXAMPLE page to see what the page should look like. I will have to test this approach out on a few users first.

That course is targeted at 12-18 year olds. The programming course is aimed at 15yo+. But we have had people use the course in yrs 6-12. I plan on creating stuff for younger kids in the future.

As far as boys vs girls, the lessons do have a bit to try and entice girls as you go a long. And we have a bunch of stuff my younger sister is helping me out with that will hopefully make it more enjoyable for females.

Regarding copyright, I am in communication with Marvel lawyers, they didn't like our original logo, but seem OK with the current logo... at the moment. But havn't got the 100% green light on the new logo yet.

Also, in negotiations for sponsorship from Samsung. If that falls through, will be looking at other phone companies.

As far as the Flash goes, I have a friend drawing original images and he was promising them last week, but has been held up, so hopefully we will have those up by next week.
Create a site in a profitable niche where there's opportunities to plug in several different affiliate products, not just 1. So if you're making a camera review site, and Adorama affiliate program sucks, you can switch to Amazon, or NewEgg, or Best Buy, etc.
Care to link to any graphs that support this? Gold isn't that volatile, even though it may have swings of $50 up/down every week that's 3%, far below the volatility we're seeing in the current BitCoin market.
If you point out that it has poor usability for payment, well, it's actually a way to store your wealth. If you point out that the volatility makes it a bad idea there, well, it's actually a vehicle for speculation. Why would you speculate on randomly-generated numbers? Well, because it's so good for payment... or keeping your money away from the government... or... crap.
Personally I tend to get up three hours earlier than the day job, work on my projects, go to work then have an earlier night. But that doesn't work for everyone. You need to do what suits you. Increasing the amount of exercise I.E. cardio can improve motivation and productivity.
Source in San Francisco serves this. If I didn't know it was faux meat I wouldn't have been able to distinguish this from real chicken.
Someone really dropped the ball on this. They should have had this figured out before they used the name "Metro" for the first time.
Isn't that what the open source movement encourages?

And are you implying that it is simply KHTML rebranded and that they have not worked on it for more than 10 years?
How did this not come up before?
Or at least documenting the hardware.
Number of competitors to medals won
That's not how it works. "If you right-click on an app in the Finder and then choose Open, you’re prompted with a different dialog box—one that also offers to open the offending app. If you choose Open, the app launches normally, and that’s it." http://www.macworld.com/article/1165408/mountain_lion_hands_...

As little protection as that is, I think it could make a dent against trojans. If there were enough trojans to measure, that is.
Well, scientific metrics of code quality may be more related to software design than the code craftsmanship itself.

A good experience would be get 4 experienced developers to read and evaluate a piece of code; that'd raise some interesting practical aspects of their evaluation of its goodness.
It most likely will be in the next month or so, if you know where to look (hint: pay attention to Brackets).
But how can there be trademark confusion between a retail store and an OS interface?

I'm really surprised at this. Or was Metro just a codename all along, the word never used in the Windows 8 product itself? In which case, not worth a fight?
Yes, the zero is dotted.
"Since FB can't make money off mobile users"

Facebook is making $183 Million per year off mobile ads whilst, this may not be a huge number when considering Facebook's user numbers, the amount of users who use Facebook on their phone or even the amount of users who only use Facebook through their phone this number is certainly going to grow considerably over the next few years.

In fact, Facebook haven't even rolled out these advertisements worldwide yet and the ones they are testing are only showing every 150 or so, again this is something Facebook aren't being aggressive about their CFO David Ebersman said Facebook are "being very careful about the volume of sponsored stories in the news feed because it’s so core to the user experience."
In the case of the Senate, it only requires a simple majority to pass legislation. Terminating debate is what requires a supermajority. That seems fair to me since the Senate is supposed to be extremely deliberative. Also, the 60% supermajority isn't even that arbitrary: two-thirds of the Senate are up for reelection every couple of years. The requirement of a 60% supermajority to terminate deliberation almost ensures that the debate will benefit from the members that can afford the longer-term outlook (i.e. 5-6 years).
Survey: Why Are You Using CoffeeScript?
Indeed! I'm a huge fan of her work, glad to see others enjoying it as well.

If you like the comic, Ms. Beaton has all her online historical comics indexed by subject here:

http://harkavagrant.com/archivecat.php

And she's published a book of them as well that Amazon picked as one of their "best books of 2011":

http://www.amazon.com/Hark-Vagrant-Kate-Beaton/dp/1770460608
Sounds interesting, I'll give it a shot.
> committing the grave sin of mixed pixel sizes.

Never thought about that before, but I completely agree!
Yes. Look up the definition of "ponzi scheme." There is no way for an open source currency to be a ponzi scheme, by definition.
Doing simultaneously. Udacity has less glitches. Codecademy hangs from time to time. Lots of traffic? Udacity also is longer and has more theory.

But.... Given the time and focus, Codecademy will catch up.
I saw Katy's talk at DefCon and it was EPIC! Having the chance to have her come talk about Robotics is pretty sweet.
Why is nearest neighbor scaling better? It would make images look like on a non-retina display, but is that the best use of the additional pixels? Nearest neighbor scaling is usually considered one of the worse scaling algorithms, unless you're looking at pixel art.
This is rather silly, I wonder if this is also why Longhorn was changed to Vista. I for one hope the use of Metro sticks around just to spite Metro AG.
Yes, fasting really isn't bad if you drink plenty of water. I fast and pray semi-regularly (I'm a Christian). It is rough at first but you get into the groove about half-way through the day. Fasting never hurt by ability to code. Fasting sharpens sensitivity; my body kicks into "prayer" mode and I can focus better. On the other hand, it is really hard to fast and stay up late! I usually end up going to bed early.
Not sure if this was what you were referring to, but as well as some of her music being used in shows, she was interviewed in a podcast: http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2008/aug/25/quan...
Interestingly the Australian Senate was modelled on the US Senate, in as much as it was intended to give the smaller states a brake on federal power (and similarly was really a necessary carrot in order to get the smaller states on board with federation).

It's now a directly elected proportional-representation body, so 60% of Senators in that body would tend to represent a similar proportion of voters.
Their whole goal was to rasie 33MM of (NOT THEIR OWN) money and build a chatroulette that had some level of social credibility such that they could be acquired by FB so as to be the user vid/chat/call infrastructure for FB...

Not looking too good.
Plus the "real" money for niche artists like these should be in live concerts. Honestly, I had expected the numbers to be much worse.
"Parker was able to raise money around it mainly because of who he is, not because of what he was building."

VC's invest in people, not ideas, especially when the founder has a track record. You could be a no-name (first timer) executing on a great idea, but the founder with a track record and bad idea will be able to raise funding a lot quicker than the no-name founder.

I wonder how often founders hit it out of the park twice... anyone?
I'm not sure how much of an impact this will have. I'm guessing that the name 'Metro' will stick around, even if Microsoft doesn't officially use it.
Logging is the worst kind of Python standard-library module: too clunky and ugly to be pleasant, but not bad enough to justify the breakage of using a third-party alternative. In comparison, urllib and urllib2 are great, because they suck so much that everybody just uses requests instead.

</rant>
Interest rates for Fixed deposits are around 8-9% for a year in some Indian banks. There were times when it was more than 10% too.
I actually LIKE the Google ads as they target me so well.

As as member of western civilization, I am highly trained to ignore ads - but with Google, I have learned to overcome that and actually peruse them,,
All of that applies equally to legitimate, unsigned apps. So again, either Gatekeeper is good against trojans but also good at locking out legitimate apps, or Gatekeeper doesn't lock out legitimate apps but is bad against trojans. I don't see any middle ground where both get satisfied.
A recent post on the Apple developer forums indicated that it is still using gc. But it's a very large, old codebase at this point so that's not surprising.

I imagine that as they drop support for older platforms and have the time, they'll slowly remove reliance on gc.
Longhorn wasn't changed to vista, it was always a code name and never intended for release. Just like windows whistler and windows blackcomb were never intended to be release names.
Has your G+ account been suspended? Don't seek shelter from Google
Instead of putting a dotfile or dotdir in the user's home directory, do follow the XDG Base Directory specification: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-l... .

It's easy to understand and requires only a marginal increase in effort/code.
Sites like Airtime are similar to FB, Google +, Twitter etc... They are not different restaurants, they are different dishes serving the same need (satiation), and the point is how many different meals can you have per day before you are full?
$80,000 (net after fees) of downloads/physical sales in six months (without label support, which is pretty impressive to me) - that's presumably something like $120K gross sales (before iTunes/Amazon's 30% cut and credit card fees).

If you attribute _all_ of that to twitter (big assumption!), then it values her twitter followers at ~$0.18/year. I wonder how many twitterers beat that?
Unused memory is wasted. You should be complaining about the system that doesn't use all available memory.
Note on the Afterlife
Who could wholeheartedly embrace the idea that his dear dead companions have really disappeared from his life?
That was precisely my experience, but I did see a lot of things going on around me that were both interesting and for which I was far better qualified than what was assigned to me. The dealbreaker for me was when it was made abundantly clear that there was a near zero chance of transferring off my assigned gig, and given that I had plenty of other options besides Google, I quit and moved on to one of them.
Emerging-market companies are trying to build global brands
Just wanted to say thanks for this link - I'm not interested in her numbers, but to stumble across this on HN, and head off and listen to her music, awesome. I really love the sound of the cello, and discovered another cellist, Philip Sheppard, in a similar way.

And her album is only 8 bucks! in FLAC format!
23andMe Wants FDA Approval for Personal DNA Testing
First time to how stuff works. Selected "mind blower" of the day (crop circles) or how crop circles work is what I thought I'd be reading. Not only does it break a short article into 5,yes five pages, but the howto part doesn't come until Page 5, but the howto is useless speculation. I was tricked into wasting my time and loading 5 pages.

IMO it is a horrible site
... and report the bug to the app's developer! Be sure to include the sample.