skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. This is kind of the test of my hypothesis, that doing these projects in the real world create a motivation that influences your school work, life, career, etc.

I've long thought that there should be a 'maker scholarship', giving small amounts of funding to people/students building real things. I found small amounts of this in the form of sponsorships from companies, but I really had to hustle for it. Whereas I randomly (literally just showed up in my mail) received a scholarship simply because my grades were above a certain mark. The 'Maker Scholarship' idea is definitely scalable.

As far as a new kind of school, I'm not sure the best way to do that. Certainly interested in all the online activity but I do like the social feel of a 'real life' school.
I do remember this. I wonder if Nguyen has never encountered a failure before? He's apparantely a successful early-stage startup CEO. Has everything he's worked on worked out?
I don't have a lot of faith in lionized history.
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I use zsh for day-to-day use. It's mostly been good to me but sometimes I contemplate switching back to bash because of the performance: sometimes zsh simply hangs for seconds at a time. I'm sure one extension or another is at fault and I could fix the performance issues by reconfiguring things, but I really don't want to put the time into doing that.
Without wishing to piggy back on this thread I feel its a good time to point out that this is exactly why enterprises stick with IE. People are risk averse in businesses.
I'm curious why you choose Windows over OS X. I went from Windows, to Linux, to OS X. To me OS X is an alternative to Linux that just works. I still have a proper shell without resorting to virtualization and splitting systems.
My understanding is that negotiations broke down because Apple wanted turn-by-turn navigation but in exchange Google wanting more branding and Latitude integration.

http://allthingsd.com/20120926/apple-google-maps-talks-crash...
As long as the AI is running around like an idiot spamming rockets, getting run over by vehicles and generally wasting ammo, yep that sounds like most humans who played UT04. Not exactly the most difficult test to pass...
So what I personally find interesting about this code is how it just... asychronously kicks off arbitrary functions. It reads like scripting except it isn't.

I ask out of curiosity: are there other statically typed languages where you can do stuff like this? Java has Futures, but those are far more heavyweight. Clojure has concurrency constructs which are pretty close, but Clojure is dynamic. I only know a little bit of Haskell, so there might be something like this in there.
The root of this issue is that writing documentation is not something that really good hackers like to do...these days [1].

And it's damn sure not something that good writers are interested in...unless they are paid. Paying good writers to write documentation is not a core competency of the FOSS community, nor part of its ethos.[2]

[1] These days being the age of the internet and languages implementing brogrammar. People like McCarthy and Knuth wrote their own documentation to a dead tree publication standard, not a rough draft of a Wiki standard.

[2] Erlang and Go aren't going to give the world another RPG or PG writing passionately about their wonders.
patio11 what you have written is great and I have the highest respect for what you do (and things that you have said).

But - separate from any conflict or cynicism that others have raised as far as HN becoming a marketplace, there was to much to read (and in fact I didn't read it, I skimmed it) so I wouldn't feel comfortable paying the amount you are asking which was located at the bottom.

I feel you should have started at the top with:

"If This Doesn't Create Value For Your Business, I Don't Want Your Money"

(pricing options)

Want to know more? Read below.

Just my thoughts. By the way I have no doubt that you have thought long and hard about putting that price at the bottom of the letter and could point to backup for that strategy (perhaps in something you've written before or generally accepted knowledge). But my reaction is my reaction so I just thought I'd throw it out there.
Is this wiki page for real?

"He grew up in Houston, the son of Vietnamese immigrants whom he says he consistently disappointed. They wanted him to score A's. Instead, he scored an unpredictable mix of A's and F's, and earned a 1.4 grade point average in his senior year. He was easily distracted and confused."

Pretty much sums it up.
I am glad that Redhat and Canonical exist; there certainly is a place for value-added "deep dives". I am glad that this is available for purchase instead of being locked away in his head.
First time hearing about Ludum Dare and so far the community + concept look fantastic!

Since anyone can write a post, is it hard to get your post seen? (Not sure how many new posts get written per day)
How many is enough? Is it encouraged to spam with many presentations to see if any stick? I submitted one tutorial, three talks...
"is there some critical mass that once reached will cause business to decline?"

not when you own the market
Exactly. Like Google peeping into your inbox.
Probably is really nice to be on the apple-map-team team right now. They get pushed in delivering something, then probably gets a nice "you suck and you should feel bad for making us look bad"-reception from everyone. I don't know about you guys, but I for one think someone ought to give these guys a pat on the back and a pitcher of beer with a note saying "this too shall pass".
"So now textbook authors are forced to license their books in such a manner?" No. This would be much bigger news if that were the case. This is who would make them from the council digest:
"The bill would require the council to establish a competitive
request-for-proposal process in which faculty members, publishers,
and other interested parties would apply for funds to produce, in
2013, 50 high-quality, affordable, digital open source textbooks and
related materials, meeting specified requirements."
This will enable the exact opposite of your last three conjectures. It will decrease the cost of textbooks, the quality will go up, and we'll have even more options to choose from. Plus this is a big win for other educational enterprises. Under the CC BY license outside industries will be able to utilize the material for commercial endeavors.
Maybe there is some concept you can develop at one school that can spread to more. I'd also bet maker companies like sparkfun would be interested in sponsoring such things.
It is basically a chatroulette for mobile photos, with the additional creepiness factor of knowing that the people on the app are some where nearby.
Am I reading something different than you? Perhaps my reading comprehension is as poor as "the guy at the newspaper".

The "list of issues" Google provides is a generic list of possible reasons. Essentially, "Thanks for choosing Google. Your account has been disabled. Here is a list of reasons we normally disable an account with no warning. You may or may not have directly or indirectly done any of the activities listed, but we're not going to tell you either way. Feel free to figure it out. If you think you know and have taken steps to remedy the issue(s), then please let us know by submitting an appeal. However, you only get one chance and our single response to your appeal is final."

So this guy and every other person that has to go through this terrible experience has a right to be mad and express their anger.

And it's not a matter of being able to read. It's a matter of Google's terrible customer service.
Support for touch events on mobile perhaps?
P2P file-sharing for private use is legal in Portugal, court rules
Well, Microsoft would have to pay me a LOT to move to South Florida as well. : P
For what it's worth, I now describe myself as a full-stack developer even though I cannot make something pretty. I see that as a designer's job, and while a front-end specialist should be able to whip something up in photoshop, I think that it's perfectly reasonable to say that your part of the work ends with something being functional.

It's almost essential to be familiar with jQuery for in-browser Javascript development these days (I'm not sure of its market penetration but I'd be shocked if fewer than 33% of websites use it). There's lots of cool new libraries on the front end with various pros and cons, but jQuery is a really good start.
Pretty sure they see the SAS office stuff as their bread and butter going forward - they have been steering SMB to office 365 for more than a year.
I empathize with your concern about the tone. Without trying to dispute your feelings (which are yours and I respect that), I'd just like to point out some considerations that may or may not make any particular comment an exception to the rule:

1. There is a difference between being uncivil to a fellow HNer in a comment thread and being uncivil to a third party that is the subject of a post.

2. There is a difference between kicking a dog when it is down and kicking a giant that topples.
Geckoboard online IDE for widgets
> I still don't understand what the concern is?

Where do you buy your groceries? Do you go to a guy who sells tomatoes and then drive to the other side of town to get apples from a different guy?

Most of us just go to a market and buy all our groceries there.

Now tell me, Mr. Customer, what is the name of the guy who grows your tomatoes? What is the name of the farm? Do you consider yourself his customer or the customer of the market? If the tomatoes taste bad, who will you complain to?

Who are you loyal to? If the market starts buying tomatoes from a different guy ... will you shrug your shoulders and buy the new tomatoes ... or will you drive across town to get the original tomatoes?

I'm sure you see my point. The very same thing is happening to the software market.

Yes, we will make more money. But there is more to life than money!

We will no longer have any customers. We will become employees of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.

Mind you, not employees with benefits, no. Independent contractors who are "hired" and "fired" at whim.

Again, yes, we can all make more money. But if money is all we wanted, we would have chosen to work for the big boys to begin with!

This movement toward centralized markets is the fundamental reason I chose to go into web development and avoided app development like the plague. Each part of my stack is easily replaceable and my customers are my customers. I don't care if I make less money. I have the freedom to see my vision come to life and to see it being put to work by people I know and who know me.

Funny enough, the same push-back is happening in the food biz. The entire local food movement is based on a fairly similar desire.
I'm not sure what the symbols mean, but there's a red circle next to Kingston, ON. The Kingston info is correct. It's in the right location and Portsmouth is part of Kingston.

The Belleville information looks mostly correct, though it places Belleville city center a few miles north. Actual street addresses work.

And it place Picton, ON in Australia...
If you guys want to learn direct mail marketing, print and read all these letters from Gary Halbert from the 80s. It still applies now very much so.
http://www.trafficplusconversion.com/1345/gary-halbert-lette...
There is a limit how much you can learn by reading and watching million dollar videos. Its all about doing and testing for your business.
Sounds cool but -and I know I'm biased- I won't let anything pull me back into an Office world.
There's no rule against snark here, so long as it is snark of interest to an intelligent hacker.
What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?
If you're going to post fiction here --- and I'm really not sure that people want fiction posted here --- could you mark it as fiction in the link text, so that people who do not follow the link are not mislead into thinking the title is factual?
I'm sorry mate but that simply isn't how this works.

If you come up with an idea while working for a company, and apply it at that company, then the company owns the idea. That's always the way it's been, and I think it's quite natural.
Exactly, I still remember that story. Certainly a big red flag for majority of potential users, myself included.
The expectation of privacy on anything you put online is a false one.
Look at his comment: "but would prefer talking about the business of doing this rather than about the product. (I'm not comfortable selling on HN.)".

The site also goes in to a lot of detail about the method used on WPEngine, unlike most of these product sites which only drip feed you enough information to convince you to buy their product. He even commended an article[1] which attempts to de-construct his method and share it. I personally believe that he is genuinely offering to share his help (for a fee - which is reasonable), rather than trying to extract money out of HN user's.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587080
Actually, it's possible to make WebGL run in IE as well, with a plugin which automatically installs on the users system. Its name is IEWebGL and works quite nice: http://www.iewebgl.com/
CopperCube for example is using this: http://www.ambiera.com/coppercube/faq.html#iewebgl
I think there is a huge difference between a top commenter on HN trying to sell something and a non-top commenter doing the same after achieving a nominal karma rate. (I'm thinking specifically about what appears to be the recent spate of attempts by an company that rhymes with "muffer" to blog about all types of things in order to draw attention to their products.)

Anyone who spends considerable time on HN should be allowed to sell whatever they want that relates to their expertise within reason.

Perhaps the jealousy surrounding people who view "selling" and "business guys" as bad comes from people who don't have the makeup to take rejection that comes with selling. Lest anyone think there is no value to a "business guy" that it's all about technology.
Maybe I'm just an asshole, but if I were involved in Color and my CEO has been vacationing for two months while we struggle with product failure... I'd say something fairly similar to his face (if he showed his face in the office, anyhow).

> "Do you really want people lining up to mock you the next time you invest a chunk of your life into a project and it goes south?"

Nobody is picking on him because of Color's product failure. Not even the TechCrunch article. People are picking on him because he's vacationing while his company flounders.

I don't know enough about this guy's life to tell whether or not this is the right call for him personally, but I don't think it takes a rocket surgeon to figure that this is really bad for the company and its employees.
1. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=billnguyen

2. I don't really mind poking fun at projects, but poking fun at people, especially when they're probably feeling shitty about things, in a place that they're likely to read it, just seems nasty to me and exactly the sort of thing that doesn't belong on HN.
Hyperbole much? They seem to be using a automated scanning program to flag content. Didn't Google do something similar that became a big issue on HN?
Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications
I take a pretty libertarian approach to it: if I say "startup" and you understand what I mean, then I'm using the word correctly
I'm not agreeing with the op. Just looking cross eyed at the wall of text statement.
Your framework is a liability
I'm not sure if you didn't read to the end, but he's clearly been removed, despite lukewarm protests to the contrary. "I'm not sure what they're doing [...] but if I was there I'd [...]". I'm reading between the lines here, but he's not showing up at his next board meeting because they told him not to - he probably expects to be formally ousted and for whatever reason isn't planning on fighting it.
Oh, that's what happened? Apologies for the alarmist title, but depending on your site's CSS this can completely destroy its usability. I meant it in the sense of a user saying everything on a site is broken, not that everything in Chrome 22 is literally broken.
Is it wrong that I have a strong desire to write a cheesy blog post about how patio11 made me millions of dollars, or even better about how he LOST me millions of dollars?! I think they'd get me tons of hits, bucket loads of karma, and millions of dollars in ill-gotten ad revenue on my blog. I could retire early and live the life of luxury.

Then I could follow up with a post about how my previous blog post gamed HN and got me tons of cash simply by ripping on patio11, which would be even more of the same. A double HN front page win!

Then I follow up weeks later with a "How To Game Hacker News" ebook.

I feel like I've finally discovered the ? in the Underpants Gnomes' business model.

</joke>
Argghh, please do not decry the state of general education when you can't spell. I know this is a nitpick, but phrases like "I've had the good fortunate" do not help your cause.
From a reality perspective, Apple Maps is a first-generation product.

And while you may have considered it a "fifth generation product", Google Maps went virtually untouched between iOS 1.1.3 and iOS 5.1. Although its map data was very accurate, its feature set was sorely lacking when compared to Google's map app on Android.

I sympathize with people who have encountered inaccuracies, but that hasn't been my experience so far. Hopefully, this will get worked out and we'll end up with a map app that is both accurate and has a competitive feature set.
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Blazing fast vim movement
I would hope that Tim Cook has a sense of humor about things as well as a sense of perspective about life. As such, you need to be able to laugh at yourself (sometimes) and you certainly need to separate a problem like this from your general happiness. The parent-poster could very well become "FakeTimCook" (tm).

As for Bill Nguyen, my impression is that he's become a bit too comfortable with failure, but you're right ... we don't really know what's up based on the fluff piece we read.
I tried, it, really really liked it. LOVED the cheap prices for larger capacities, and was about to give them my money to share stuff with other people...

Until I discovered the hard way that files shared across accounts CANNOT be synchronized to the local hard drive... It was a "What the fuck???" moment, surely MS cannot roll out without this critical functionality... Yet, it's correct, you can only sync to the local hard drive stuff that belongs to your account. If it's shared from someone else's account then you can only see the files online and need to download them if you need it locally.

Big fail, and a showstopper for me. Dropbox does this just fine, BTW. so I am reluctant Dropbox user.
Is Python dying? Don't think so. [video]
Even Science Professors Think Men Are Smarter Than Women
Since they also own the phone OS, they could get the location of those millions of phones at all times, no need to have the maps app open.
Actually I thought the parent was a very witty and relevant comment. It's seems absurd that the CEO would just take off and vacation in Tahoe and Hawaii for MONTHS while his company is completely failing from pretty much any perspective.

He says, man if I was there we'd be pivoting. Well, you're the CEO, get your ass in the office and pivot. If he's been forced out, then say that. Fire him and get a new CEO. Maybe this is a problem with Color's board, maybe it's a problem with the CEO, but you can be damn sure this is a problem for Color. It needs a CEO, and he needs to be actively leading the company.
YMMV!

I've tried that sort of thing, but something in my head just works so much better for me when reading or talking to people... podcast and video just basically make my mind wander, even if it's the coolest thing ever.
From the last line in the article:

"An ACAPOR representative was quoted in the article as saying he did not understand how one can share a file and still keep it for private use. ACAPOR will apparently try to have the judgement overturned."

Perhaps an 'old media' scenario would help. One line of reasoning here would be that I read a book and remember the story (thus a copy of the story is stored in my mind), and then I share that book with friends...
Just my personal opinion:

* If you work in the field of software development, you may acquire a deeper appreciation for the value of a more complete education. This may increase your level of devotion and commitment if you return to school.

* By working in the field, you may acquire a better sense of which educational areas have value, and which don't need your attention.

* By working in the field, you will meet people with different degrees (and no degrees), and this may allow you some insight into which degrees have which prospects.

So my opinion is that working in the field has nothing but advantages. By the way, many colleges agree -- many of them recommend a "work-sabbatical" to give students some perspective on their educational choices.

> Can work experience really count more than a degree?

Sometimes, yes. It depends on the individual. Count the people in the field who don't have a college degree:

Bill Gates, Paul Allen, cofounders of Microsoft.

Larry Page, one of the cofounders of Google.

Mark Zuckerberg, you know -- Facebook?

Larry Ellison, Oracle founder.

The list goes on. The fact that none of these captains of industry has a college degree might mean something.
The GitHub repository is at https://github.com/openwebos/ for anyone who is interested.
I'm not sure that it's completely bizarre. Dropbox will work on case-sensitive file systems, but it does very strange things if two files exist with the same name, but different case.

I suspect MS just didn't want to deal with this complexity for what was (perceived) to be an issue for a relatively small number of people.

To be clear, I don't necessarily agree with their reasoning, but I do see where it could have come from.
Your comment assumes he's actually just on vacation and not that he was forced (or significantly nudged) out. I'd put my money on the latter. That he wrote a mail saying, "Everything's fine, this is totally normal..." in a time of (probable) crisis speaks very little to actual structure of events.
Update: patio11 is 3x bigger than Kevin Rose. dave1619 compares girth.
One thing I've done a few times is to help out just by writing docs for open source projects.

I know it's a drag. I know it's not that much fun. But it massively - MASSIVELY - improves the project's value, especially if it's low on the totem pole.
That math and engineering is wildly beyond me! But one suckypoo downer once you do sequester all that CO2? No planetary magnetic field.

In short, scientists think there has to be a convecting, rotating, liquid metal core in order to create a substantial magnetosphere. Venus's planetary core is almost certainly missing one, two, or three of those things.

The fact that Venus is extremely hot on the surface (460ºC) is at least partially assisting with creating a "stagnant lid" tectonic regime where no heat-venting plate action is seen. So if the surface of the planet is nearly as hot as the mantle and the mantle is nearly as hot as the core, convection doesn't happen. Wiki "geothermal gradient" for more.

Thus no magnetosphere, thus no electromagnetic deflection of the sun's blast. Not a dealkiller, but certainly not preferable if you'd like to move in someday.
I just watched Robert Hancock's talk on coroutines [0]. More of that or him would be awesome!

[0] http://lanyrd.com/2011/pygotham/shppw