skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I explained the patent system to my young child, he came up with an invention for a marshmallow roaster that roasts from the inside. I was tempted to go through the steps of filing a patent for him so we could both learn from the process, but the time effort wasn't worth it.

No, we have no working prototype for this world-changing device.
http://golang.org/doc/

http://research.swtch.com/
You are getting good advice from everyone. Learn HTML (and the HTML5 specifics) and learn how to use jQuery, javascript and css. Every front end dev needs to learn css and be totally comfortable with it.

My 2 cents on starting with javascript/jQuery: learn how to select items by id, using css selectors etc. Then learn how to get and set values of different input types, setting css properties, showing and hiding elements etc. All this is basic but will give you a good start. Also good to learn how to properly use ajax and jquery to and populate list boxes or something just for practice.

Learn how to use Firebug and the browser tools like Chrome dev tools to debug javascript and css issues. Get familiar with Fiddler or similiar tools if you aren't already.

Just some idea's on things you will always find yourself using or needing to know so you can figure out how some library is working which helps you debug.
> My intent is not to discourage this author specifically, but rather to call into question the underlying motivation and behind and utility of all posts of this type.

http://xkcd.com/974/
You have to take a pragmatic perspective here as well. I'd wager that the only reason Bootstrap is a Twitter project to begin with is because of the assignment clause of most employment agreements: If you develop something at a company, the company owns it.

I can't imagine any managers at Twitter were sitting there thinking "Hey, I have this great idea that will make us boatloads of money! Let's release an open-source html/css/js framework that makes it super easy for anyone to make a site that looks like Twitter."

In all likelihood, it was a project that the developers wrote for internal ops and later attempted (and succeeded) to open source. If you look at the Impact Graph on github (https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/graphs/impact), you can see that it's pretty much Jacob and Mark's project.

From Twitter's perspective, they can either let Jacob and Mark continue to run with it at no real cost to themselves (since it's open source and they can still use Bootstrap), or they can try to find someone within the organization to continue to maintain it, which has a very real cost -- developer time. Given that they may not find someone to fill that role and that forcing someone into it would probably be bad for the project, I think the decision makes a lot of sense for Twitter.
With all of the great extensions people have developed for Bootstrap so far, It's clear that they're really on to something. I can't wait to see what direction they take it in after severing ties with Twitter.
Looks good from here.
"I would just like to make a completely speculative, and probably erroneous assersion as fact...."
iMessage: before and after
A data set of SMS usage with a sample size of one.
Why choose? Its not like its not possible to understand the full stack and you've not even gotten to and age where most folks would be starting college. Work through the various web frameworks (Bootstrap, Node, Django, Rails, ...), then look at the API systems that people have setup, then move on to Varnish / Nginx / Apache followed by CGI scripting, databases, and Python / Perl / Go / Java back ends. Should be able to get to all of that by the time you're 19 maybe 20. Follow what ever is the most fun / engaging / thrilling.
Quora does this as well.
>For the most part they aren't trying to box you into some mindless, slave-like existence, but really just want you to have a plan-B in case your rockstar/pro-snowboarder/billionaire-entrepreneur career doesn't work out.

If I want to be the first american-born Pope slash skateboarding yodeling-R&B singer slash KKK activist, who are you to tell me I cannot do it?
Questionable Decision #1

You went from something you paid for (Brightcove) to something free (Youtube).

Questionable Decision #2
You put all your eggs in one basket with a platform (Youtube) that's known to have horrible support AND act unilaterally in its own favor with totally automated systems.

You have somewhat low view counts. (Based on what's stated in the HN comments page, I'm too lazy to look)
I'm not sure what you expected, but it looks like old media jumping on a new media bandwagon and expecting it all to just work.
It's never as simple as a designer offering a redesign (have to coordinate a CMS, approval, etc). It'd be best if the people involved took an interest in it.
> better autocompletion

Bash has context dependent auto completion as well. So what's the advantage of zsh here?
I was thinking more along the lines that this person was passionate enough about improving the quality that they were willing to code up a prototype way of visualizing relative quality. Perhaps I've known too many engineers where I've asked "How do you know that is ready for prime time?" and they have sort of glazed over and said, "Uh, I don't it seems to work?"
We've found creative/digital agencies are a great source of work for freelancers.

In Australia at least agencies pay very well, they are billing to the client at a high rate, so the freelancer rates are easy to accomodate for.
You can very well have the same issue with Google. There are folks who have had their Google account shut down for some innocuous issue with Gmail, G+. It hasn't necessarily lead to an exodus from Google.
I beg pardon, what do you mean by that?
Chrome's New Reload Options For Developers
I really hope they can move to bootstrap full / part time and really kickstart it into something that merges bootswatch with wrapbootstrap.. I want to give bootstrap money.. this is a good step :)
You know what, my standard answer would be: "Go take a degree if you want to cross the screening barrier at companies for a job. This is what companies usually do to avoid spending time looking for individuals who don't have a degree but are awesome".
But over a round of beers at a nice pub I would say is that the education system is highly overrated. If everybody started looking for talent of an individual, leaving aside the educational certificates they hold, we would have society working at its full potential.
In my opinion, the aim should be learning, not getting a degree. Also to get higher up, you don't need a degree. Just because one has a degree doesn't mean one is capable of executing the task assigned to. Suppose, you get a degree and grab a job, but you fail to deliver. Are you still gonna get higher up? Now say, you get in without a degree, but really churn out a stellar performance at work. Is anybody going to stop you from climbing up? What is the difference between the two scenarios? One is of course the degree and the other one is the quality of work you are putting in.
I really didn't give you an answer as you might have subconsciously made a decision but I hope I have propelled you to think more and take a right direction.
I'd say judging by the way this is handled that it comes down on the side of 'definitely to Stripe in Canada'.
Fun with Constrained Programming
Fair enough but fark adsense. I had my account locked out as well after getting click bombed. Horrible customer service/follow up.
I mentioned this in a thread the other day; I've yet to see a good use case for hot code reloading. Can you really not drain requests to that host via HAProxy (or similar), and then actually restart the service? The nice thing about that approach is that your choice of service runtime doesn't matter.
Deity Here, yes. OneNote is one of those pieces of software I use honestly daily - bi-hourly, more or less, if only for Win+S - and no one knows about it! "Copy Text From Image" is also simply great. And I also use it to quickly document series of screenshots for functionality tests (or rather "worksforme"s).
What arcade game is that? I can only think of Odell Down Under, but that was an old PC/Mac game...
Wow, big news for Bootstrap. I think Matt and Jacob realize the huge impact they've made on the web development community and the potential Bootstrap has to become the jQuery of HTML. New developers may begin to ask, "should I learn HTML or Bootstrap?" It's not a far-fetched idea because the same question is sometimes asked by beginners when "deciding between" jQuery and (vanilla) JavaScript. jQuery plugins are ubiquitous and are a large part its success. Bootsnipp (http://bootsnipp.com/) could be the start of a "markup plugin" community. Bootstrap has an impressive ecosystem for a front-end HTML framework and I think that is what sets them apart from the rest. Good luck, guys!
New AWS service? Video Cloud Delivery.
We've seen the same behavior, so we do the draining via HAProxy, which does the right thing.
Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes Universes
Thanks for the assistance michael, I got confirmation from Darragh as well so I will wait for funds to come in on Monday as stated. I assume it should be safe to continue using Stripe, as this problem should not happen again correct?
Outstanding. My personal favourite is,

"Our experiments soon proved that exokernelizing our fuzzy Knesis keyboards was more effective than making autonomous them, as previous work suggested. Our experiments soon proved that microkernelizing our PDP 11s was more effective than exokernelizing them, as previous work suggested. We note that other researchers have tried and failed to enable this functionality."
Just one comment, from what I've noticed(haven't checked the code to make sure), the size of spawned bubbles is a random function biased by your current size. While I think that's a good idea in general I think they should be overall smaller.

Right now, when you get to a certain size it just spawns 4~5 giant bubbles that fill almost all the screen and make it impossible to move without dying.
Trivia: ebay.com was named after Echo Bay, a Canadian consulting firm, which in turn was named after the township. Echobay.com was taken, the rest is history.
I'm very interested to see what direction the project moves toward, albeit a little bit concerned. Best of luck to Jacob and Mark on their next steps.
IPhone 5 In Depth Review: A little Bit Longer & a lot Stronger
Bravo!
I realise bootstrap isn't for everyone, but in my humble line of work (specialist web apps in the ----- industry) it is an absolute godsend.

Great move away from Twitter. May the winds be forever at your backs.
That's exactly right: it's safe to continue using Stripe (you'll receive your money on time) and you should expect a great experience going forward.
The author of "To Mock a Mockingbird", Raymond Smullyan, has written extensively
on logic, and he has books all across the spectrum of difficulty. He even wrote
what some consider to be "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever
hackin9 got punk'd!!! Get down guys!
Why would it matter? If they decide to not release a maps app at all that would be their prerogative.
The FeedBurner Deathwatch Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds
That's a code authoring technique I picked up from Code Complete.

It's useful for keeping your code in conformance with documentation. The problem is when the original spec turns out to be impossible (or difficult/expensive) to implement, and needs to be changed.

However if you doc then build, you've got a change control process that should accommodate this.
Didn't like the video. From
http://ycombinator.com/video.html:

"Please do not recite a script written beforehand. Just talk spontaneously as you would to a friend. People delivering memorized speeches (or worse still, text read off the screen) usually come off as stupid. Unless you're a good enough actor to fake spontaneity, you lose more in the stilted delivery than you gain from a more polished message."
My POINT was that parks don't have swings on branches. At least no park I've ever seen.

Even you apparently had to find a random picture on the internet. They must be sooo easy to find by going outside.

Edit: I think you are mistaking me for the parent comment-er. Notice I'm not him/her and my argument was only about not finding swings on branches at PARKS (because that's who I responded to).
LOL.
Well for what it's worth, I looked up an address in Montréal and Maps had it completely screwed up.
I don't mind the beta quality of the product (Apple has to gather the raw data somehow) but I do mind its hubris and the fanboys' initial rave reviews of iOS 6.
Companies trying to shut down a website will often go after anything they can connected to that site: the service itself, its hosting service, their upstream bandwidth provider, their payment processor, and anything else they think they can get away with.
The iOS Gmail situation is an unmitigated nightmare of epic proportions
Didn't the winrar author pass away several years ago? Vaguely remember.

Is it still being developed?

Oh okay, it was the distributor, not author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dwight
Okay but what did you think of the post?
These mobile platforms that use web tech(boot to gecko, webOS, etc) really aught to wait till ES.Next becomes implemented before they go 1.0. If they have C++ code extensions, they aught to wait till C++11 is full implemented in their compiler of choice.
Of course the typo is logically irrelevant, and yes, I should have referred to diction rather than spelling.

But I don't think my point is illogical at all. Statements like "College is broken" (the original submission title) are counterintuitive (outside of HN, anyway) enough that they strain credibility. Sloppiness strains it further.

You're right on the unnecessary negativity. It would have been more helpful to note specific typos in a friendly manner. What was posted, however, was just my knee-jerk reaction upon opening the link. That said, though it doesn't serve as a good excuse, I doubt I'm the only one who might react as such.
I have a very extensive torrent file collection on my SkyDrive (well over a thousand torrents), and have had it on there for a long time (before SkyDrive existed, when i was only using Live Sync). 99% of that collection are torrents to copyrighted works. Some from Pirate Bay, some from Private trackers.

I also have a few folders of 'Funny' images, some of which can certainly be classified as tasteless, extremely graphic pornography (what can i say, i have sick sense of humor).

Nothing is shared with anyone, and i access it daily from the SkyDrive App on my Windows Phone, and from my Netbook via the web from a million different places all over the state, country, and a few countries in Europe.

Never had it taken down. Not a peep from anyone.

The nightmare scenario is a database of checksums on Microsoft's servers which is continually referenced once your files land on the server. But i doubt it, maybe naively.
http://iwantmyname.com/
Yahoo have just opened their offering up again, in partnership with Media.net.

I currently run ads through Media.net, and they're responsive and good to work with (so far). I'm quite excited by this new development.
we use snapengage on our site and it's a pretty smooth experience. Very happy with it.
>Based solely on what's in this article (perhaps reality is different), this reinforces my inkling that people get truly rich from mostly just two things: who you know, and marketing.

You're forgetting the most important one - already being rich, especially if it was through past entrepreneurial successes as in Bill's case [1].

[1]: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bill-nguyen
Me too. Ever since 22, Chrome has felt really unstable. Flash runs slowly, and if I have a bunch of tabs open, eventually pages start becoming completely white. If I pull a tab out to make it it's own window, Chrome crashes. I also can't seem to download anything anymore (Windows can't find the downloaded file).

Maybe it's just me, but I swear I didn't do anything weird to my system...
Sugar Batteries Could Store 20% More Energy Than Li-Ions
There are two things that should be done to fight national security letters and gag orders:

1) Sue the US government to fight the order.

2) Use technical workarounds to inform your users without breaking the law. For example, rsync.net has a signed notice that they haven't been served a warrant: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
The whole "lets use jQuery without learning Javascript" thing didn't work out so well for the community.
The Public folder in my Dropbox is already my Poor Man's CVS, this is a great idea. Best of luck!
Every time I go on Color webpage, they have a completely different product under same name. I feel sorry for people getting tricked with ridiculous pivot attempts.
How going off the grid will help you get more done.
One assumes that all usage of 37 is logged and reported to the user privacy and data security team, and that any attempt to connect to those databases in any other fashion is a firable offense.
This was in Unreal Tournament 2004, it wasn't as bad a scene!
How old is your Bash? GNU bash, version 4.2.37(2)-release produces

$ ls
R1004.jpg R1006.jpg R1008.jpg R1010.jpg R1012.jpg
R1005.jpg R1007.jpg R1009.jpg R1011.jpg R1013.jpg
$ ls R{1005..1009}*
R1005.jpg R1006.jpg R1007.jpg R1008.jpg R1009.jpg
Government has no profit motive and so no concern of being crushed by commercial competition.
You're repeating yourself now, do remember that all systems are built by humans, and as far as encryption goes do remember that unless your email is encrypted on the server using a password requested from you in order to encrypt and decrypt it every time you read it, then you are not safe. We are professionals offering a professional service. And FYI, Rails developers have been aware of mass assignment bugs a long time before github got bitten.
Claim 1 states:

"A method of swinging on a swing, the method comprising the steps of: a) suspending a seat for supporting a user between only two chains that are hung from a tree branch; b) positioning a user on the seat so that the user is facing a direction perpendicular to the tree branch; c) having the user pull alternately on one chain to induce movement of the user and the swing toward one side, and then on the other chain to induce movement of the user and the swing toward the other side; and d) repeating step c) to create side-to-side swinging motion, relative to the user, that is parallel to the tree branch."

Now go find prior art for this where it shows steps a, b, c, d. Not easy anymore is it?

I'm not sure what it matters if said invention is in one of various settings with repsect to prior art. Ultimately, the fact that it took 1/10 of a second to find an example of experimenters on a substantially similar context in a backyard makes this whole thing seem rather trivial. The variation of seat type or suspension technology is trivial, as are the N possible ways of generating momentum (a/k/a swinging).

BTW that's a hell of a view for backyard =]
They work on iOS 5.0.1 in Kyoto, Japan.
Open webOS ported to Galaxy Nexus by WebOS Ports team (video)
Anybody else notice that the date in the post is set to Sept 29th? Do you think this was supposed to be published tomorrow instead of today?
The curse of too much venture money
I actually prefer the way the new Maps look, specially when I am walking. As a photographer I do end up in the wild often and the new Maps is just better and more fluid to browse the surroundings, specially in satellite.

If only it had the data..or a way to pull in Foursquare locations.
"Almost every company listed there is hiring there, both on the site and at the on site jobs fair"

It's true. That's how I got my job at (2013 Gold sponsor) TrueCar, back in 2011. It's a great event to attend, just to be around that many like-minded folks.

I was actually on "Startup Row" and wandered around a bit during talks when the exhibit hall was empty and was asked if I'd like to work two blocks from the beach. The line worked.

Speaking of Startup Row, do you have plans to run that again this year? It was great to see all the young companies using Python.
Your method will stall responses for server shutdown + server startup time, which for Ruby/Python apps is usually measured in tens of seconds, and for other web servers can be much worse. Hot code reloading lets you avoid any downtime at all, and with it usually being built into the framework/language specific server you get the functionality "for free".

Zdd (the project I linked to) is all about spawning a new process in parallel. All the advantages of your approach (switch to an entirely different language? Who cares) but without the stalls.

Zdd also lets you keep the old process alive through the duration of the deploy (and after), and with a little work could let you switch back in the event of a bad deploy without having to start the old version up again.
Exactly. The very fact it was approved in the first place proves the system is massively flawed. If it took bad press for it to be revoked, that just makes the patent system look even worse.
Why not give the book away to students as part of their tuiton and earn your salary as a university professor?
I've begun thinking of Bootstrap as something like a front-end version of WordPress. It has so much potential to lay the foundation for anything web, whether traditional websites or rich web apps.

I entirely agree about the jQuery analogy. There is going to be a huge Bootstrap ecosystem - again similar to WordPress as well as jQuery. It's kind of a problem for the web when this happens, in that it creates the kind of fragmentation the web should ideally avoid, but it's a reality nonetheless that technologies like this are going to be two steps ahead of the standards.

Just seeing the various Bootstrap themes sites is exciting. When I've looked for themes in the past, there are very few focusing on rich HTML5 apps. Mostly just static websites and WordPress stuff. That's just one area which has changed since Bootstrap, as it's now possible to build a theme around standard higher-level constructs.
Inside the Mind of Worry
What service/product that doesn't exist yet would you pay $10 a month for?
> If the judges were at a competitive level, colour me impressed - but if it was their first time, or even their first week, I'm a little more skeptical.

There's a pretty broad area between those two extremes - I'm nowhere near competitive level, but I played (very casually, mainly with friends rather than online) a few hours a week for years, and I definitely understand the game well and can identify good and bad plays, and humans and bots.

I do thoroughly agree, though, that this is nowhere near the level of a true Turing test - but I thought it was still quite interesting!

--

Aside: I think these days with the rise of game spectating and commentary and analysis of matches, more and more non-competitive players are gaining deeper understanding of games they like even if they couldn't necessarily pull it all off themselves.

For a more modern game like Starcraft II for example I think you could find a very large number of non-competitive players that could reliably identify bots from humans.
This is an interesting idea, I'm going to have to experiment with this to see if I can get that effect.
I started with CL because I started learning lisp through the excellent book "Land of Lisp". However, I've since moved to Clojure, which I would recommend over CL. The main reason is that you can do more with Clojure. The packaging system is a lot easier to deal with, and you have a lot more at your disposal through your access to Java libraries. Another good reason is that Clojure is just more pleasant to deal with than CL. For example, there are many CL implementations and dealing with their differences is a pain in the ass. With Clojure, you have a lot more good ideas baked right into the language.

I hope this helps!
They became professors because they enjoy the freedom to self-direct their work and draw a full salary while working on a textbook.