skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't state that Powershell was a Unix. Instead, I implied it's a superior way to control Windows from a command line, which it is.

Running Linux scripts is a double edged sword: you can use existing scripts, but they can't access the whole Windows API, are too long due to unnecessary regex work, and can't report as easily.
Joel on crack
Well, the link made it to the front page of HN...
In economics, how much you get paid is a function of the value society puts on your skills divided by how common your skills are. So, Lebron James makes millions because we value the ability to throw a ball through a metal ring, and we demand that someone be so good at this that only a handful of Americans can fulfill these positions. I'll let you continue the reasoning for teacher pay as a homework exercise...
I am appalled that people could think of education as a luxury. In many Eurpean countries University is free or very cheap. Full educational opportunites for all a countries citizens, as well as comprehensive healthcare, are the hallmarks of a civilized society. Good luck, prosperity and happiness to you all.
In art the patron knows the artist. In the government funding of research, the government picks people (heads of NIH, NSF, etc.) who then pick people (division heads) who then pick people from the community (study sections) who then choose from among their peers who gets funding...

...I'd say it's probably the least politicized thing the government does.
Tell HN: We need more web-apps like this...
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse

While it may not be the most profitable model for developing an app; it instead attempts to act as a repository for a type or form of communication for talking to a machine. The machine does not define the hacker, it is how the hacker communicates what that defines the machine, which defines the hacker.
"I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur."
Ermm, the Catholic Church doesn't ignore science. In fact it even funds science! http://vaticanobservatory.org/ You would think that a science journalist would know that.
Oh wow.

I just got into work and saw this on my Google Alerts. It's funny--I'm currently redesigning the entire front page. I think it looks kind of sloppy right now and was hoping to rerelease on Sunday before I started promoting it and receiving more traffic. So much for that idea :)

Can't complain too much...
The advice I got didn't only apply to startups. But, hey, you would know a lot more about this than I.

commit logs should be fine for that

You have commit logs for business plans? You're a good man.
> However, if the market chooses the testing procedures, it will reward metrics which are harder to game.

How would you achieve this?

> This would take several iterations (read: many years) to stabilize, but it should converge on some sort of solution.

What makes you think this? Markets aren't immune to fashion and fad. We don't see stable financial markets, why should we see stable markets in education?
Sir, I applaud you.
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I have been looking through javascript performance videos quite a lot recently, not entirely applicable to this video, but one problem I see is that firebug are great at profiling "userland" javascript, but there doesnt seem to be much information about how to measure the time spent in reflow and repaint, its basically guesswork of removing nodes from the dom / absolutely positioning thing etc.
Who owns the application delivery meta-data in the cloud?
Hear, hear.

Just to see Bill Gates reading from "Code Complete" to that kid was worth the whole thing....
Not too long ago I thought web apps could never really compete with desktop apps in terms of usabilty. Meanwhile I clearly prefer Gmail over Outlook. Attaching files via drag&drop is the only thing I really miss. Great job, Gmail team!
What I like about the Catholics is their position that science and religion are pursuing the same (one) truth. So they aren't scared of it. That's a very different response than is given in certain protestant sects, especially down in the Southern states of the US.
Wow, you're right. And here I thought I knew JavaScript!
I'd say it's probably the least politicized thing the government does

I don't know if I'd describe the grant approval process as a-political, especially after hearing my professors describe how it operates on a nuts and bolts level.

There is probably a salient difference between Congress, the grant committee reviewing AI research proposals, and a gang of chimpanzees doing grooming and dominance games. An alien race unfamiliar with primates might conclude that the difference is how many fleas are killed in each activity.
Couldn't you argue that philanthropy is really just a product of the market?
Opposing condoms leads to a higher (STD) infection rate, teen pregnancies and it leads to humanity breeding out of control, the Catholic church is on record as opposing condoms.

As for the church being a teacher of sexual morality that is probably an even more inflammatory subject than this one already is.
Exceptions to this include the nuclear bomb :p
in brief, he says making games isn't easy just because it's fun. even if you have the best tools, it takes years to bootstrap up.

he expresses a lot of the startup sentiments w/ 2 differences of perspective. first, raising money is not an option to him, and second, the focus is on growing multiple revenue streams from a portfolio of several small games rather than aiming for one big win.

i suppose it's evidence for how much novelty and newness weigh in for game sales.
Am I missing something? I can't see anything good about this submission at all, and I'd be pleased if someone could remove it.
No, Galbraith would say, I think, (and I would agree with him) that sexual and social needs are innate and would express themselves even if information about possible means of expression is suppressed.

You might as well say "raise a group of boys without clothes" and then tell them "there's this thing called clothes that will keep you warm". It doesn't matter if you don't tell them: they'll still be cold.

On the other hand, no one has a need for a MegaBananaChoco bar in particular. If you never tell anyone about the bar, they're not going to suffer from not having it.
Is there a feature in the works to resolve these sort of stories with more than one source?
Best way I've done it is to use Firefox+Greasemonkey+"HN Splitview" (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/28372). When I click a link for HN now, it opens in a frame - half is the post and half is the comments.
It's definitely not a good submission, but because of it, I finally got curious enough to check out where the "First they came..." thing came from, which I've often wondered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
Exactly. I don't really need the karma for me, but we need it as a community to tell good and bad content apart.
Made me think of the Lorax: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get better. It's not."
Thanks a lot for the link.

It looks like going for PCI compliance is what's necessary for credit card information storage - any idea whether there are similar regulations around bank routing / account information?
Why your pop-up blocker doesn't work as well as it used to
The is a good reading regarding similarities of religion (especially ancient east philosophies) and modern science. If anyone is interested take a look at F.Kapra's book "Dao of physics".
I've read it on my philosophy class in uni. After it I see much less contradictions.
My brother described pricing thusly: there are two main types of pricing, cost plus, which is good if you like to be poor, and value-based pricing.
You're completely right. I wish religions were focused on morals, on reasonable morals, instead of opposing science in some aspects.

And I believe that spreading the idea that condoms are bad was not just a big mistake the Church made and possibly will admit later on, it's a crime against humanity. I don't have anything against religions, I'm a believer myself, but misinforming people and putting them in danger is something we don't think of as completely wrong enough.
To me, that's actually more support for the idea that you shouldn't wait for everything to be absolutely perfect before launching.
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8 Pioneering Moments in Digital Photography
Fourteen years after Lally’s blueprint, Steve Sasson of Kodak took a few spare camera parts, and old jet engine and his grandma’s broken black and white television into his shed and emerged a few months later with what is now recognised as the world’s first digital camera.
Wow. Those numbers are higher than I thought. My impression was that the percentages who go on to academic (not including vocational) university education was in the teens. This is based on family in Switzerland, but the data is probably stale at this point (1980s).

I should point out that I'm not against a third or half of Americans getting some kind of free higher education. I just think it's a waste for them to have an academic education, when only a minority of jobs require one. Appropriate vocational training would be better.
Yeah, good point.

Patten said "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." Not a bad way to approach your projects either...
I'll try to dig up the link later but I remember a Time or Newsweek cover story that said that the number one reason teachers quit the profession is the students' parents. I recall two horrifying stories from it: 1) A parent calling to complain about a 'C' that her daughter got because she wrote the daughter's report, 2) A college student handing his cellphone during class to the professor. On the line was his irate parent to complain for his kid about a grade.

That being said, I've discussed this with my friends many times and I've gradually been convinced that more than anything - parents' involvement in their education was/is vitally important. A couple of them made it out of the ghetto.
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Really? You'd think they'd just attack on their old strengths & Apple's old weaknesses.

First, more hardware choice. There are a lot of hot PCs out there (netbooks, lots of what Sony puts out, panasonic toughbooks, UMPCs, tablets).

Second, software choice. Just start shooting off titles that have no (or no good) mac equivalent.

Of course, I'm a mac/unix guy, so I couldn't say I miss that stuff myself :-)
The final . on the URL wasn't treated as part of the link! Perhaps this link will come out correctly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came....
Perhaps I didn't understand fully, but didn't he just say that nobody knows why some teachers are better than others?
The Kaplan Daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln - earliest known photographic portrait?
I finished a job using Spring as the core. Ugh, never again. Yes, yes, they completed the impossible feats of parsing XML and using reflection to call getters and setters. Good for them.

It is not enough to do serious work. I spent the last 6 months trying to find ways to sandbox that toy and get stuff done.
Funny thing is, I seem to recall that Sun engineers used to be able to hold off a release of a product until they thought it was really ready to go.

Which sounded like it really helped quality and got the team involved.

Sadly, either I heard wrong, they stopped, or they didn't implement that for MySQL.
Real Life Hacked: Fake Parking Tickets Lead to Malware Site 
Criminally minded 'hackers' have managed to con residents of Grand Forks, North Dakota, into infecting their own computers with malware - using a fake parking ticket scam.
I'd imagine that a simple check on the vocabulary of the page vs the vocabularies of the pages linked in the last couple of months would do that just fine.

Easier said than done though! The devil with these things is always in the details.
Unreasonable parents are part of the problem, yes. In the case of the cell-phone, what would happen if the director of that school would enforce "law and order"?
And in so far as government represents the interests of its electorate, so is it.

Of course, campaign finance distorts the incentives, which is why it needs to be reformed.
I'm not Matt, so I could be way off, but when I first heard the name I associated "pigeon" with carrier pigeons. Almost like domain pigeon is powered by a carrier pigeon fetching you the latest domain results.
The difference between a show and a story
Nobody -knows- anything, what happened in the past barely applies today. What economists say is loosing credibility every time they open their mouth.

To even make an educated guess is hard. This is an unpopular thing but its time people realize if you want to help, save your money in a higher interest savings account (ingdirect is what I use), keep working, and never let anyone make you feel bad for the job you have. All work even the lowliest of McDonalds jobs is honorable. Also avoid all loans possible, keep living in that apartment, keep driving the beater and cut the credit cards now.
Ask YC: Online editable database?
I'm starting a project that'll involve a lot of data (we're creating an online database of coeliac/wheat free foods) -- I'd like a database that has a very user friendly UI, versioning (eg, users can edit other users entries) and has an API -- so we can get the data back out.

Any suggestions? A sample database schema may be:
id | product name | manf | wheat free? | other info | source
The market is heartless, for the same reasons government isn't - the hearts of the citizens. Markets don't feel, because they need to reflect the feelings of stakeholders, politicians do feel because they are increasingly elected to impose their feelings on citizens.
It appears to me that an economic depression is the best time to invest in projects that last for a long time. When you have a depression, people are cheap, things are cheap, and it is a bit safer to print money because people are tending to hoard money - in this case, you take money and sink it into needed material things like roads and schools that last for decades.

At some point in the future, things get back to normal, but now you have a whole bunch of new roads and nicer schools that were built when things were a bit cheap.

And as an added side effect, you put a lot of money into circulation, which should lead to more purchasing and spending, which will reactivate the economy.

The train system in the U.S for example, should be upgraded. I've seen videos of some cities, and they really looked almost 3rd world - such places should be invested in.
There are "ageist" technology employers out there, especially on Wall Street where 35 is considered "old" (you're either MD-level or at the top of the RIF list), but my observation is that if you're good, you can always find someone who will hire you.

I think that a problem a lot of aging developers face is that many of them went into "programming" because, like law or medicine, it was a respectable career choice that provided a middle-class standard of living and a cozy work environment. This is fine, but if you're not willing to dedicate serious energy to keeping your skills up to date, you are going to be forced to contend either with an income plateau, or a move into management.
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I think that at many employers experience can work against you especially if the manager isn't too technical. A 22-year-old will be like "I'm a net-generation Ruby rockstar and I'll build you a ninja terrorist website" whereas a 40-year-old will be more, umm, realistic.
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I think a big part of Nadal's game is his incredible endurance. Thus, it is to his advantage to contest every point, because the longer the match wears on, the greater his edge over his opponent. You might think of it as though Nadal has unlimited resources relative to his opponent. In that case, conservation is a worse strategy than playing every point because it fails to exploit one of his advantages.
There are, but I personally have no experience of them. I'd be surprised tho' if you were PCI compliant and not compliant with whatever that is.
There is always going to be a disconnect between the Catholic Church and science, simply because science is interested in the real world, the Church is interested in dualism, i.e., subjugating the physical (i.e. real) world to an imaginary spiritual/Platonic world. Maybe scientists and church people can get along on a personal level and that is great, I know a few myself, but there is always going to be a disagreement of approach. In science there is a desire to understand the actual material world, and make use of it, and not denigrate it or subjugate it to some kind of Platonic world. Why do you think the Catholics hate sex so much, to a point that they would rather have AIDS spread than for people to use protection? It is simply that that sex is an act purely of and for the material world, indeed, it is almost a celebration of the material world, and they hate sex because they hate the material world. I know a lot about Catholicism, in fact I am sorry to say I flirted with it myself when I was younger and still clinging to the fading meme of the god delusion in my mind. Again, I am not saying we can't have a beer with these people, they can be nice and good people and all that. I am saying there is a fundamental difference of approach, one approach that values the actual, real world, and the other that seeks to subjugate, and finally destroy it, just like their gnostic cult ancestors wanted. The material world is good or it is evil. Science says it is good, the Catholics say it is evil. Between these polarities there is little compromise. Simple as that.
Please tell me that Dabble is faster than ZoHo. I used ZoHo, and it was an awful experience.
If you started out married to my wife, you would quickly find yourself single! With alimony payments. Trying to date?
The security aspects of the president's SIPRnet phone
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Well since that is in the year 2038, there isn't exactly a rush to fix it (I'd be surprised if 32-bit software/hardware is still in use by then). Something tells me it won't be an issue.

Thankfully a 64bit integer clock gets us past the year 292 billion.
Pretty good discussion here: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
Almost anything will do the job (even a list of foods can't get that long by modern standards) so pick a database that works well with the development tool you select.
What language will you be using to develop this in ?

Most languages come only with a limited number of bindings for databases out of the box.
Hmm, I'm really not sure what the issue is, off-hand. It doesn't seem like you're hugely interested - but this is definitely what libraries are for (making annoyingly complex interactions like this possible). The jQuery UI Draggables are quite good (for example):
http://ui.jquery.com/demos/draggable/
One of the greatest tragedies of our time is happening right now in Africa, and if it was up to the Catholic church it would be a lot bigger than it is already. (HIV/AIDS spread because of a lack of / refusal to use condoms).

Incorrect. If it were up to the Catholic Church, which it is not, the AIDS epidemic would be far smaller than it is. Why? Because if everyone adhered to the teachings of the Catholic Church, no one would have sex outside of marriage, which means HIV simply could not spread. It'd be gone within a generation.

But people don't want to not have sex outside of marriage, because that requires self-control, and that's hard.

As Chesterton put it: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
From Tampere Finland:

traceroute to webnlb.fogcreek.com (64.34.80.173), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
<snip>
14 64.34.60.28 (64.34.60.28) 147.040 ms !H 147.266 ms !H 148.065 ms !H

traceroute to web1copilot.fogcreek.com (64.34.80.167), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
<snip>
14 64.34.60.28 (64.34.60.28) 147.379 ms !H 146.844 ms !H 147.589 ms !H

The routes look identical. Wonder if I tracerouted to the wrong place? Not sure where andrewtj got a259.srip1.akasrip.net.a9502240.1.cn.akasripcn.net
I love writing on notebooks. But I have to guard them with my life as it is not easy to make backups. Any ideas?
+1 - I tried playing with both hands on the various keys, then realized I still needed the mouse, and then everything went downhill from there....
The thought of unusual Unix times brings back memories... or nightmares...

For several years, the company I had been working for used a multi-platform GUI library called C++/Views. We had the code for the library itself and compiled it as needed for the various platforms we needed to support. It came with a handy, yet annoyingly buggy, WYSIWYG GUI-creator tool.

Wouldn't you know, the WYSIWYG tool stopped working in September 2001. C++/Views was no longer supported, and we didn't have source code for the WYSIWYG tool. A guy Brian and I experimented around with it awhile and discovered we could use the tool only if we set the system clock back before September 8, 2001. So, that became every developer's workaround: temporarily setting the clock back to use the darn tool.

Nasty billennium (1,000,000,000) bug. Fun, fun.
Some teachers are paid very well, it depends on the district really. When I lived in upstate NY, I remember hearing that a few of the teachers in my school district made almost 100k, which is terrific for the cost of living in that region.

And there are a lot of reasons other than financial, that people choose to become teachers.

From my observations on decent school systems (I haven't seen the TED speech yet), the biggest feature of schoolteachers is complacency. It's not that they aren't intelligent, it's that they aren't ambitious. People go into teaching in order to have a safe, comfortable, predictable career path. And in many cases that's what it is, and the result is that teachers wind up living in a different reality.
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A couple of thoughts...

Have you looked at the webmin UI for mysql management? That is a sort of template you could consider for what you are doing.

Another thought is... do you need the info to be immediate real-time? What if you exported the data into text, posted that to a wiki, and then imported the updates to the wiki at some interval (daily, 4-hourly, etc)?

I might be reading your request too literally, but I kinda cringe at the idea of a "community" making mass edits to a database.
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Promoting open government is now a political incentive
I wonder if it's a global pattern that women switch jobs less. Whenever a company's in trouble, it seems that men move on for better jobs whereas women stay on. This happened in my last firm, there were women all around heading projects when we were in trouble .Does anyone else have the same info ?
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