skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two are about the same with regards to employment and educational purposes. If you happen to like one, go with it, otherwise you can just flip a coin and get to the real problems!
The electricity costs for such a site is probably a couple a bucks a day. It would be very weird if they were really turning of the servers every night just to save a few dollars.
It doesn't. It shouldn't. Our profession has progressed past that medieval method of instruction.
I like the documentation navigation style using affix in rc - http://rc.getbootstrap.com/customize.html
Don't know why people would downvote this. It's a pretty good idea of how to measure the value of a company. It's somewhat shy of the true metric which would be along the lines of 'how much better it made the world'. Market cap is appealing because it's trivial.

These definitions would also allow comparing non-standard corporations, like churches and states. It seems like this is a natural comparison - it's inevitable that big companies are ranked among comparable countries.
Ya thanks we didn't have this before... all exercises and videos will be archived on the site.
Selling before the end of the year saves him over a hundred million in capital gains, too.
It is actually Anders Ericsson's[1] theory, popularized by Gladwell. Feel free to read Ericsson if you like, but he says basically the same thing, though neither he nor Gladwell ever said "put in the 10,000 hours and you will be the Tiger Woods". Ericsson has studied the realm of expert learning (for quite some time) and tries to tease apart what makes Tiger Woods, and those like him, able to attain the things they do. He has a lot of evidence that it is not some inborn talent but rather (shockingly) a shit-ton of hard work (and the quip "You'll never be Tiger Woods because your dad wasn't Earl Woods"). The book Talent is Overrated[2] is also a decent read on the topic. It also tells the somewhat humorous story of László Polgár[3], who wrote about how he was going to turn his yet to be born children into chess stars through rigorous training/practice, and then proceeded to do so.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Ericsson

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Overrated-World-Class-Performer...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
Google already has this with Checkout (now Wallet) and it isn't terribly popular.
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The article has wrong facts. The columbia journalism review author double counted inflation. The NYTimes piece he cites has already adjusted for inflation in the 1967 IBM Market cap.
> Rails has a rather steep learning curve.

I can't agree more. I came in thinking it was going to be fairly easy to pick up, but it seems like I spend most of my time just looking up how to do things "the Rails way" (not that that's a bad thing persay, but you definitely feel like you're doing nothing sometimes).

Anyways, I found Agile Web Development with Rails (4th Edition):

http://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-r...

to be fairly useful if you don't mind buying a book. Plus, the ebook gets updated fairly frequently with erratas and stuff, as per usual with the PragProg team.
Sorry about that. I made the app so that you can organize your todos into projects (so more of a pm app), and invite others to work with you on projects. What I could try and do is just set it up so you're logged into a test account by default to poke around.

I'll let you know when I've taken care of that. Thanks for showing interest!
Fontacto is a 500Startups company doing the Virtual Phone System thing (The Google Voice for businesses) outside the US, which is a heavily overlooked market.
I really don't see the problem. You have to download the release to use it and the documentation is included, what's the huge deal about keeping a tiny HTML file around? It's not like you suddenly need to start renting a VPS to read it..
If you don't know "tricks" like this ... what are you doing on HACKER news?
Are you focusing on the US only?? or are you planning to expand outside?
I agree that an IDE does not separate from the need to know how stuff works. But I certainly know a few programmers who do not dare to think beyond what their IDE allows them to do. They use built-in wizards and refactorings, but they do not seek solutions that are not easily expressible with those.

Hence, their code is factored just the way the IDE would, even if there are better alternatives available. This is the kind of mediocrity I am talking about. (And by the way, you could go much worse than Eclipse at that)

I actually had quite a few discussions where the main misunderstanding was that we used different tools and thus thought of different things as "easy" or "natural". In one case, one developer argued that it would be a good idea to create a whole bunch of classes to encapsulate a problem space. However, creating all these classes really would not have been necessary at all, he could have accomplished the same goal with a much simpler list of functions. Thus, we ended up with a HUGE file containing some several dozen classes that no-one but him could navigate, because it was factored just right for his programming editor but was all but unusable for anyone else.

One developer even told me that he did not know how to write a correct if statement in C because his editor had a template for that. What my argument boils down to is that this kind of behavior is bad, and I have seen it becoming a sad kind of sub-culture in Eclipse/Java land.

That said, I completely agree that if used correctly, there is nothing inherently wrong with Eclipse or Java per se.
Oh wow, I love the new doc website. This is so cool! Keep up the great work!
You are somehow assuming that they only had a reason to learn from their last mistake. The fact that there have been numerous mistakes suggests that they don't get it and won't learn from it.
The navbar component is now white by default.

Thank you for handing out coloring papers to the devs. Seriously, this will make the entire web 10% more unique.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil was possibly even more valuable - at the time of it's anti-trust mandated breakup it produced around 90% of USA's oil. The companies it split into became Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Amoco, Conoco, Unilever (!) and a whole bunch of others.
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I don't think that's true at all - every organization I've worked with has planned for a 1-2 month ramp-up program. Generally you start off doing trivial bugfixes until the codebase makes sense and move on from there. Hell, learning on the job extends past this phase and is essentially neverending.

You just need to have enough background to make it through the ramp-up phase and start teaching yourself. That holds true whether you went to college or are self-taught.
I haven't made Aeropress myself yet but had a great cup at Heart in Portland and really enjoyed it. I like the hybrid approach between full immersion and filtered brewing. You get the fuller flavor of a french press without the residue that ruins your last sips.
My last paragraph is intentionally supposed to humourously expose one of the difficulties in using 'consciousness'. I think the term is extraordinarily difficult to define, so a good start is removing it from easy conflators.

My gut response is that it's the 'thinking about thinking' or being able to think in a 'meta' fashion that makes up self-awareness. That you can observe your own actions from a hypothetical third person view. Animal minds are of course a black box - dogs could theoretically be far more intelligent than the smartest humans, but it may just be that their brains don't allow them to express themselves appropriately. As they're a black box, we're reduced to things like the mirror test to try and approximate an idea.

Ultimately I think the real answer will be that consciousness/self-awareness is not a binary thing, but a sliding scale. I think the biggest block in discussing these concepts is the next link in the chain: the unwritten assumption that once something is 'conscious', it has a 'soul' or 'special essence' of some kind and therefore can't be morally farmed/eaten/whathaveyou. Because the label of 'conscious' carries this weight, it becomes a sacred label we have to be cautious about applying. An interesting paradox, in that scientific observation might suggest other animals are capable of consciousness, but there is no scientific evidence to suggest that consciousness is particularly special in a moral sense, yet the latter is largely taken for granted.
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Hmm, simpler with a solid state relay [1], $5 qty 1 from Digikey, 5mA activation, can turn on/off a 100W light bulb (does 1A of current @ 120V) Oh and its solid state so no 'clicking.'

[1] http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ASSR-1511-001E/516-...
Because the ability for JS to 'interfere' with the keyboard input enables some very useful features. e.g. using keyboard navigation in web apps.
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Fixed headers also break the pagedown behaviour: when you press the page down key, you miss some lines that are hidden below the fixed headers. (If we mean the same thing by fixed headers)
For anyone who wanrs the original story here's the link.

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/misleading_and_incomplete_cove....

PS: TechCrunch is somewhat pushy on they iPad app. I wonder if it is because the UX on mobile Safari is not that great.
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Am curious why someone downvoted this.
I think the main point is that any time value in a monetary unit is measured over time, it is naturally adjusted for inflation. This is done with basically everything. So it's not necessarily a "neener neener" situation, it's applying standard process.

I think the real question that is trying to be answered is which company is worth more, period. How do you measure worth? In dollars is one way, making use of the market cap. Which has/has made a larger (positive) impact in the world is another. Which metrics should you use to get to the answer is the question...

Adjusting for change of price in goods (your suggestion) is a little shaky of any idea in my mind, as 1. inflation affects all goods instead of a subset, which means there's more choice. 2. IBM must've had it harder since the cost was higher and they still managed such a large market cap, ie. took more value output to create the market cap.

Just some thoughts.
Yet another mandatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/922/
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
What's wrong with udev and pmount? Do you want to scan dmesg to see which serial port your USB AVR programmer has appeared as? Do you really want to edit /etc/fstab to mount a flash drive?

pmount and udev are both simple pieces of software that automate away common tasks. I don't understand all the hate.
I don't know, pretty snarky. Seems to read : you guys in the valley are pretenders, we're going to get some "real" ideas to see how you do with them, then we'll uh talk about them.

Ideas are free, if you don't like the investment choices of Y combinator or the rest of the valley than by all means, come on out, put out your shingle, and start funding real game changers. In all seriousness, bring it on, please.
Most startups don't have HR resources to waste on that sort of thing. In any case, what kind of HR person would even understand a detailed story of programming-related failure?
I think there may be a generation gap. Most older people I know don't even think to look it up. Many younger people instinctively look it up

I'm not denying it can be fun to debate and guess but there are plenty of times it just better to look it up and then move on to deeper more meaningful conversation
PetroChina was actually worth more than one billion USD a few years ago when a-shares became available at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
This is not a good time :-)
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I have to admit I had a bit of culture shock to discover that both the valley and San Francisco weren't 24/7 environments (it's 3am as I write this and I'm heading home to Brooklyn from manhattan). Although that said there was a quality of life...
Countries are corporations too you know.

The United States of America (formerly known as The Virginia Company) is probably bigger then Apple could ever hope to be.
HtmlUnit has very good support for javascript. http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/
The site seems to have plagiarized par of rubular.com

Note its quick guide: http://imgur.com/vU0fo
And here is Rubular's quick guide: http://imgur.com/gJjhM
There are other similarities too.

The site also doesn't say what regular expression specification it is using.

All this aside, is the website doing any real harm? Probably not. But in my opinion you should at least credit a website if you use things from it.

Note: These were just my first impressions. There are numerous ways how this situation could be different than it first seems, and I don't want to condemn anyone unnecessarily.
Sadly as HN has become more popular it really ought to be renamed Larval Stage Hacker News. Recently some pretty bad articles have made the front page, like The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers which embarrassingly conflates arrays and pointers, or my personal pet peeve, the endless stream of puffy $EDITOR advocacy posts, for those folks who are still on the fence about what tool they're going to use to edit a fucking file.

Anyway, as much as I complain about all the puff pieces, there are still plenty of articles with real technical meat on HN, you just got to wade through some crap to get to them.
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I find this similar to the math vs arithmetic issue. Math is not arithmetic. We used to have to spend a lot of time on arithmetic to do math. Now we skip the arithmetic since a calculator or computer can do it leaving us free to do the fun and interesting part, math

Similarly, we used to have to wonder about simple facts. Now though simple facts are at our finger tips leaving us to move directly to the deeper more interesting topics.
In Linux selecting text and middle-click has saved me countless times
(Former ThoughtWorker) TW does have a very solid training program. Before the program ends, the trainees are often contributing bug fixes and features to production codebases, pairing quite a bit with experienced devs and so on (at least in the version in place when I used to work there).

TW is a great company to work for (if you are working on enterprise software, and you don't mind some agile/oo rah rah ism) but for someone with no experience, it is an absolute no brainer. Its training program is the most effective I've seen in my career.
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There are a lot of health startups out there. But only a few thats founders convey an impression of personality and authenticity.

Knowing Sean and Will at least via Skype conversations, I always had the feeling they are a perfect team and make a difference to a lot of products as they try to tackle a problem. I mean a real problem.

Some initiatives do their best to improve the lives of patients with IBD. But the more empathy you have for the patients with his needs and the less you think about the market size or exit opportunities of your product, the better you might perform. While social proof in medical communities is the far biggest challenge of all, I´m convinced, they are the right people at the right time.

Maybe, the chances for patient driven innovation and exchange have never been better. Sean, Will and team - you know that our team is trying to contribute to that movement with a different idea and approach. Let´s build a beehive and feed the honeycombs with new solutions ;)
Who knows, but they'd almost certainly be different readers.

Not everyone uses an RSS reader and people forget to check blogs. I have most of my favourite blogs bookmarked, but every now and then I come across a blog I used to read occasionally and just forgot about, or end up googling for a blog or web site I vaguely remember seeing once.

There are a few online 'magazines' I read published in PDF form. I really wish they'd send out an email when a new issue comes out with a link to download it, but as it is I keep forgetting to visit the web site regularly to get the latest copy.

For many people, email is still the main push protocol they use to receive content and it's still useful even to those of us that also use other options.
I asked a GetGamesGo employee about the pasting issue and that is what he told me. Let me get the full quote:

"Cut/paste passwords – that’s a stipulation of PCI compliance. We could scrap it, but they ask for it. We have to be PCI compliant on card processing."

I provided as much information as I had available, I do not know the chapter/verse. Apologies if I spread any misinformation, I took this rep at his word.
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decent reviews is a small sample subset of reviewers. A better metric would be returns to the store and loyalty.
Likewise sales is also capped by distribution and sales channels. Otherwise you could argue that the original iPhone was much more inferior to its competitors in 2007.
That is not what science is. Science is 'robust observation and reporting'. This includes, but is not exclusive to, empirical, falsifiable tests.

From what you're saying, exploratory experiments are not scientific, and neither are entire fields like Taxonomy.
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Some people buying branded t-shirts may simply prefer the fit and price of a shirt, and don't care what it says on it.
Time for Uncle Sam to nationalize Facebook?
Suggest HN: anonymous insurance comparisons
I was thinking about building some kind of insurance comparison site where as a user you'd submit your key details (age, gender, etc.) as well as your monthly premium, and you'd get back an average of all matching (or similar) results so you'd be able to know if you're being ripped off and whether you should shop around for new insurance.

But the number of variables is far too great for the number of permutations that would be available, making comparisons not so viable. Does anyone have any other ideas on how this could be implemented?
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I agree with you on ease to read on iPad/tablet. But for programming stuff I read a lot on my Kindle when I'm on the move or when I'm tired to sit in front of my computer screen and even if it opens PDF the rendering is never as good as the MOBI version. But I can understand it not being a priority for now.

One other concern : If someone buys a book, you digitalize it and destroy it in the process. Now if someone else order the same book a week later, do you digitalize it again or do you detect it's already been digitalized before and send the previous version. The latter seems more efficient (but maybe not legal?) but the former kind of allow you to keep/resell the version bought previously (which must not be legal from what I understood on your FAQ?).
You are both confusing S3 and EC2. S3 is just storage.
yep. But if you think about the incentives of a CEO (not mark, as its his baby, but just a CEO generally for a company facing this sort of decision), they have every incentive to do a "bad" thing that yields short to medium term benefit, at the cost of long term benefit (coz by then, they would've exited with their millions).
How do you set up a system wide proxy under linux?
Oh my god, twitter.app and tweet deck use the exact same key, "chickunchickunchickun"! What are the odds!
I'm not I'd like to get on either side of this argument, but I'd like to point out a steady decline in systems and operating systems (both research and teaching) across the academic world. Rob Pike wrote a polemic touching on it, and he wasn't entirely off base.

This isn't to say that they don't exist, but there are a wealth of examples demonstrating the transition of major progress in those fields to companies like Google and Amazon. For anecdotal examples, see GFS, MapReduce, and Dynamo; there are many unpublished/trade-secret examples that will take years to come out.

Additionally, many schools have reduced their requirements for what exposure students should have to systems and OS:

A Harvard CS concentrator, for example, is not required to take either the introductory systems or operating systems classes; he/she may opt to take a high-level mobile programming class instead. Indeed, the operating systems and distributed systems courses are taught every other year, further reducing enrollment. The last time CS 161 (intro OS) was taught, there were only 23 students. 25 in CS 153 (Compilers). This is a stark contrast to the 100-200 students who took other upper-level CS classes (189 in mobile, for example).

While I will not contest the value of the formal CS education, I see some of the 'naive'(for lack of a better term) CS proliferating even there.
This is also a Nice related article:

http://spareclockcycles.org/2009/04/10/ssh-secure-browsing-v...
I'm an unemployed programmer with 10 years of experience and I've been looking for a (part-time) job for less than six months. I keep telling myself it would be great if instead of looking for a job I could spend all that time just coding. I have plenty of ideas. I've avoided that because it feels like running away from my responsibilities, but this post makes me think again.

On the other hand the situation seems to be more difficult where I live (Geneva, Switzerland). I've always been so enthusiastic about programming that I want to encourage everyone to learn it, but today it sounds like bad career advice around here.
I get a 404, and when I go to http://aws.amazon.com/ I see nothing about glacier in the news feed.
This link should work better: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
The Swedish tax agency also has some arbitrary times to post forms through their web site. I've had it explained to me that this is done to prevent major backlogs with (most likely) erroneous data (as people who send in their tax declaration at 2 am might be more prone to errors than at other times).

This means that if they were to have 24/7 service the taxmen and women would start each day with a back log, and Mondays with a larger backlog and then probably get even more delayed than they already are.

Now, I don't know at all if this is true or not, but I find it a rather plausible explanation.
Try this link

http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/?utm_source=AWS&utm_medium...
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It's denying a positive, not a negative. "Previously, it was thought you had to have a neocortex. Now, we see evidence that you don't". Corvids and Eastern Grey Parrots don't have a neocortex, and they still perform well on experiments we apply to other animals around the concept of consciousness.

The sentence you're quoting is a triple negative, not a double negative, perhaps that's the problem.
Exactly - headers is how SSLH does its "routing".

Sorry about the S3/EC2 confusion, but in the end it's still a better idea to go with a smaller VPS resaler to avoid preexisting subnet blacklists.
> What is state of the art today will be laughably archaic in 5 - 10 years (especially so for technology companies).

Not everything works like this. It takes decades for some ideas to filter out to the mainstream.
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