skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even know how you can justify the "only detrimental to poor kids."

It is far more an effect of the parents and household than it is economics of the house.

And that of the school hours is kind of wrong when you reach high school because that is when children take the bus or ride with friends with cars and drivers licenses.

Hours for school where I went (in the US):

Elementary: 8:30am - 3:10pm
Middle School: 8:20am - 3:00pm
High School: 7:30am - 2:20pm

There is a huge difference in the high school, especially in bus in areas where buses come at anywhere from 6-6:45am. This isn't an issue caused by parent schedules or you would see similar times for middle and elementary school.
"However traditional desktop software cannot be compiled for or installed on Windows RT."

What you meant to say that existing Windows apps cannot be installed or run on Windows RT. Technically they can be compiled to ARM, but there is no way you can install them. And Windows RT cannot emulate x86.
Where startups go to die
Being right a lot is a core value of that Amazon requires in it's leaders. The rest of the list is available here:

http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?ie=UTF8&...
Facebook Android SDK released
Moving from failure to failure with enthusiasm
"Oh, and can you guess when Apple — now the world’s biggest company — announces its first earnings post-iPhone 5? Oct. 24. "

Uh, yeah. An earnings report is going to steal the thunder of a product launch.

"It doesn’t matter if Microsoft creates the greatest operating system in the world if it then allows others to junk it up. And, ultimately, it means that Microsoft isn’t in control of its brand."

No one can succeed if they give up absolute control of their platforms to OEMs ... oh wait that's exactly what android does. And OEMs put (non-uninstallable!) crapware on android phones, and they still sell. Only Apple is pushing the complete control angle, and while it works for them, it's hardly the only model that could work.

I love android phones, and while I won't be getting a windows phone, I think this article's arguments are pretty weak and don't have enough substance to back up that link bait title.
Combining Design and Development Stories in Pivotal Tracker
Google reboots the chromebook
Sure, that's his advice today, but what will it be tomorrow?
Show HN: Live Video streaming using Animated GIFs
eBay - maybe this one, but there was other eCommerce before them.
Yahoo! - Definitely not the first search engine, also not a "winner". See Wandex.
Craig's List - It may have been first, but it is unlikely it was the first "online classifieds" since it wasn't started unti l998. (I believe 1995 he started an email distribution though).

The point is, for every company that is a first mover that we know of, there were usually lots of others started before it that failed. There are a number of academic papers on the subject, one was called something like "First mover disadvantage".
It's interesting you had to work with CCBill, don't know too many other (good) developers who were in that industry. I have so many horror stories with CCBill and Epoch.
The tech savvy Android users? They would be the last people to switch to WP. That thing does not have a viable way to run unsigned applications. No proper multitasking, no proper notifications. What exactly about WP is supposed to attract tech savvy users?
How about an audio captcha service? Seems simple enough with voice recognition so widely available? Might confuse my grandparents though..
Their two higher-end plans both seem to offer phone support - wouldn't that be the support phone number you're talking about? It seems like you'd need to talk to them about their Premium plan, but it might come in cheaper than Wordpress VIP while still being managed and specialized for Wordpress.

I'm not a WPEngine customer, so I have nothing to say about others experiences with them - I've heard good things, but that's all I've got. You've got to do what makes sense for you - good luck.

EDIT: after doing some more reading, their Enterprise offering seems like exactly what you want (assuming they don't still make edits to sites): http://wpengine.com/enterprise/ - the price tag is out of your range, though. :(
"A professor's job is to profess - often wrong, but never in doubt."
This post is getting some pretty interesting discussion on the blog. It's clearly a topic that people have strong feelings on. I'm interested in the thoughts of people here.
I completely agree with the following from the article:

"Even when Microsoft has a great product on its hands, even when its product, engineering and design teams manage to hit one out of the park, it won’t matter once the business team comes in and ruins it for everyone."

The whole history of all screw ups from Microsoft just confirms that.
NaCl for ARM isn't shipping, is it? Last I heard, there were some serious issues with it, but that may have changed (I hope!).
If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time.

This works both ways. If someone can't get more than one level below the surface and understand the details that form the whole, they’re also often wrong much of the time. Just ask any boss I've ever had.
Good advice but I'm curious about:

"Jason Fried is the fastest white man you'll ever meet."

Is Jason actually really fast and/or was he an athlete at a prior time?
Rails Caching: A problem with etags and a solution
They could start by banning it for politicians. There goes 50% of them for me ...
Looks like their trying to launch some new staff as well:
https://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team
well, than I guess defining what is "idea" from you point of view would've been a good start for this article :)
Cheaper? Not sure about that. I've done a couple 3000+ mile drives and the price was pretty comparable to a flight (in terms of fuel). If you have more than one person in the car, it's cheaper than flying.

And these are electric cars we are talking about. I would imagine they would beat the cost of flying every time.
Some refreshing honesty from an angel - good article
Giving it further consideration, I'm sure you're right. My comment was really based on my experiences, in particular with misogyny (racism and to a lesser extent homophobia are definitely more taboo where I live). Generally, (but not always) misogyny requires men.

The thrust of my comment though is really that the entire group conversation is often dictated by the lowest common denominator. Generally that person is someone that's realised that saying something offensive will get them more attention from everyone than actually trying to engage in interesting discussion would.
sigh I'm really getting sick of these sensationalist and utterly misleading headlines. Once you actually read the article, it becomes very clear that the state is enforcing an old regulation for PHYSICAL schools within the state using online courseware, not the online provider itself.

Regulations like these, put in place with very good reason 20 years ago, take time to update to meet a new reality.

Nothing to see here. Move along.
Show HN: Super Smart - a modern take take on quiz/trivia genre (iOS)
Guess we should be a for-loss society huh? Or perhaps perpetually stagnate. It's not profit motive here, it's government meddling, protectionism, mercantilism.
You've redefined the meaning of "idea". Would it be safe to say that an "idea" - in its traditional meaning, as understood by everyone else - is worthless?
Will fix it. https://github.com/vlamanna/BootstrapFormHelpers/issues/8
Even if the advice changes tomorrow, the current one hold true nevertheless!
This article demonstrates the increasing gap between tech reporters and consumers. Announcements and marketing aren't the metrics for the quality of a product. Design, user experience and features will ultimately decide whether the latest line of Microsoft products succeeds.

But he does have a point with bloatware and control over the brand. I commonly associate the Windows brand with garbage software that comes pre-installed on every PC.
That's a great suggestion.

I would improve it even further:
Charge not $0.50, but amount depending on how many complaints that caller is getting. The more complaints - the higher is per-complaint charge. All the way to $10 per unwanted call.

First few complaints per month - no charges.
After that fines go to $1 per reported unwanted call and up.

Phone company gets 50% or the charges. The remainder is deducted from call recipient bill.

If caller is legally allowed to harass call recipient (for example in debt collection case) - that could be solved by special amendment.

Whether the call is robocall or any other unwanted call - it does not really matter.
I am not sure they should scale any worse than any turnpike rest-stop with food, the average time any person parked there stays there would be about the same (and chances are, people are going to want something to snack on while they wait). (On that note, I heard an idea in another HN thread about this that certain small businesses may provide charge-ups for free to customers. The power cost would be negligible (installation a bit more of an investment), and currently it would attract a likely profitable demographic. This variation of the idea should certainly scale.)

The one problem I see is if you could actually get enough power to a place like this the size of a parking lot.
Cool. FWIW, my retina MBP idles around 45 deg C, goes up to about 65 when watching a Flash video (maybe 55 for HTML5 video), and as high as 90 deg C when playing XCOM in Parallels (at which point I manually crank up the fans because OS X tends to prefer heat over noise and I do not).
Marginal Revolution University has stated they plan to ignore the law and continue offering their course in Minnesota. They claim they'll fight to the point of going to jail for it.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/10/mar...
> A tight summary by someone who understands all this would be appreciated by many readers, not just myself.

A tight summary of all of it would be as long as the article. However, the point about semicolons in Rust is:

1. ; is a separator, not a terminator.

2. a;b separates a and b.

3. a; is a special case which means a;nil(or whatever is the equivalent in Rust)

4. The last expression in a function will be the return value of the function.

5. If the last line in a function is "a", it returns a. If it's "a;", it returns nil(from 3)
Twilio is hiring engineers at a rate of 20 per quarter
Interview With Reddit Troll, 'Violentacrez' (video)
> so older Mac programmers are no strangers to this sort of stuff.

And embedded software programmers. There is still a market for chips that don't consume more power than an electric blanket.
I wasn't aware this was a points scoring exercise, frankly, who cares if I'm right? I was just pointing out that the original post was not related to Apple's financial performance, but was criticising their lack of direction and quality lately - those have a long lead time in relation to profits - they can coast for a very long time now on the reputation they have built up, and the loyal customers they have (just as MS has for the last decade).

You took jumped the shark to mean peaked in profits, I suspect the OP didn't mean it that way as it's normally used to refer to a decline in quality, that's all we disagree on.
Actually, I only have a vague understanding of this and I'm probably what you would call an expert. I have used many of these features in JS, but like the author says it's unintuitive and "wrong" the way javascript does it. Basically OOP is a horrible hack in JS, and this is a very good article explaining various gotchas that I wasn't aware of.
Indeed! I just switched over to select2 from Chosen yesterday. The excellent UI of Chosen, but with a MUCH better API.
In that case, hope that a charger standard would emerge fast. It would be useless to buy a car that uses an obsolete charger system, that you can't charge at whatever the future standard would be. Still, maybe there will be adapters to charge cars from a different charger standard.

Tesla open-sourced their connector design and specification. Let's hope it's good enough to be reused by other manufacturers so we won't have a connector/charger war.
about NDA: I've worked with a friend on an idea. It was my idea. Because of the way he worked I decided I don't want to continue on that project. He continued anyway. The funny thing is that even though I told him all the details of my idea and I helped him even after I stopped working, he didn't build my idea. The result was similar with what was done before and so was not enough to differentiate in the market. Essentially he did all the easy stuff without understanding why it was so important to do the hard/new stuff.
I make sure to hold on the line for the entire call. If it says 'Press 4 to speak to a representative', I press 4. When they come on the line, I keep them occupied for as long as I possibly can. Every minute on the phone with me is a minute that they aren't trying to scam my grandmother.

If enough people would do this, I would hope that the ecomonics of it would shift.
That stood out to me too... is there an inside joke? What's the white have to do with it?
Here's one: http://green.autoblog.com/2012/09/24/tesla-supercharger-netw...
The First Amendment and Free Online Courses
Yep. There was a great article a while back about how the Start button orb for Windows 7 and the Start button search box (one of the best features of modern Windows) were thought up and programmed very quickly, but took several months to be properly implemented and debugged because of management.
Zalando wins Kinnevik as long term strategic shareholder
Makes a lot of sense to be honest. If ideas aren't held too dearly you'll be able to weed out the bad ones. A lot of people (myself included) have a certain irrational loss aversion when it comes to ideas. I'm sure one could find plenty of articles on this on LessWrong.
I hadn't seen this. Great list. I especially like "As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time."
I feel like consumers are clamoring for an Android phone that runs stock Jelly Bean. The Nexus 7 shipped with stock Android 4.1 and it has been very successful in the tablet market.
The point is that often the solution idea is derived from the market + opportunity.

So I'd say that every idea who didn't come from that understanding and observation is worthless, the ones that are conscious reasonings based on a lot of factors are not.

Deal? :)
Maybe I'm just naive but it seems that if the TSA were significantly more transparent about how they deploy new screening procedures, US travelers would hate them a little less.

Why not just say safety testing results were inconclusive and in the best interests of passengers we'd prefer a more efficient alternative?

Meh, whatever. I'm still going to opt-out until I'm required by law to go through whatever contraption they have deployed.
Thanks for pointing it out. I didn't see it. Your comment motivated me to look at the whole post about JavaScript prototypes again and read it. It is very good, I refreshed my knowledge about Object.prototype, Function.prototype design.
I understand your position, and it's fine as far as it goes.

But consider the long run for the guy behind this.

Say he wants to run another project down the road. He has the negative of having failed, but he has the positive of offering people's money back. Which in most people's mind would mitigate the failure to some degree.

Does that change your view that it can never be the right thing? The backers and the project leader benefit from his stance. What makes it wrong?
Definitely.

Windows 8 runs as Windows 8 and as Windows 8 RT. However, there's also WinRT which is something else:

WinRT == Windows Runtime

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime

"Not to be confused with Windows RT"

Now

"Windows RT (formerly known as Windows on ARM) is an upcoming version of the Windows 8 operating system for ARM devices such as tablets. The RT acronym does not officially stand for anything.[1] It will officially only run software available through the Windows Store or included in Windows RT."

Homework: try to explain that in less words. :)
That's easy: It's me!
Awesome, thanks a ton! Fixing up deploybutton now, hope to have some of the bugs worked out soon.
Interesting. Though of course you can just use my http://createjs.org/ and get pretty much the same thing for free :-)
What a confusing name. Did they really need to reuse a term that is already very well defined in the automotive world?
I think that you are missing the factors why tech savvy users of Android use Android and not iPhone. It is not the vendor of the tech, it is what you can do with it. With WP8, Microsoft copied from Apple exactly those things, that Android users do not want.
I find this to be very wrong on many levels. I understand the OP worked in VC, so he comes from a place of knowledge, but let me deconstruct the argument slightly.

- "The idea is the core of a company and what defines it entirely"

But ideas change. An early stage company might work on a completely different idea next week, or a company that has not found product/market fit might pivot. Will the company have changed? It will still have the same founding team, still have the same employees, and the same tech. I don't think there is any evidence (none was provided) for how an idea "defines a company entirely".

- "That’s where an investor’s evaluation will start and end"

Bullshit. I know you are (were?) an investor, but it would be wrong to say that your method of evaluation is the way all people evaluate. Could a team of idiots with a great idea get funding? To give a pathelogic case, could a team with an amazing idea to change social networking, made up of unproven non-coders in a distributed team spread across the Eastern Europe, get funding? No.

- "Idea = “market + problem + opportunity”"

Well, if you redefine the term, its quite easy to say it has value. But even this disregards the value of the team.

- "If an investor turns you down, they probably think that, in order of probability: your idea is bad"

Again, different investors are different. There are plenty who look at the team first.

- "BUT, extraordinary teams executing extremely well on any idea doesn’t guarantee success."

Any team worth anything will pivot away from a bad idea.

But the biggest criticism I think I have is that the reason "ideas are worthless", is because you can't think up a good market, opportunity, and customer base. You start with the kernel of an idea, and refine it through continuous customer development, until you have a product which may differ substantially from the initial idea.
Is Google really "winning" with Android (example in the article)? Sure, they have more smartphone deployments, but are they even earning any money with it? Most likely nowhere near what Apple makes in that market.
I use it fairly often in combination with cw. 'dwcw' is easier for me than '2cw'. One character longer but on QWERTY it is slightly easier, and it has a sort of repetition anyway.
CreateJS is awesome. This service seems to be more about content hosting though. So still useful to some people I think.
That's not the kind of failure that's going to put a dent in crowd funding. Low funding level, sincere founder trying to make it right, etc. What's going to hurt is when someone just disappears with more money.
Of course ideas aren't worthless.

The reason this meme became popular here is that the audience to Hacker News is predominately developers, and many are sick of people that don't value the ability to execute and try to negotiate as if the developer would be lucky to join them.

Business = Marketing + Advertising + Sales + Idea + Implementation + Finance

Even this is too simple though. However, my point is that business isn't just about "execution" of an idea into a product...

The most important thing is working in skilled, multi-discipline teams where people will support each others weak areas.
Wow, just amazing how much some people can do in such a short time. The winner's design is awesome http://findseri.es/tv_series/search
this whole thing has really turned me off reddit. i blocked it in my /etc/hosts and my productivity has gone way up.
also, makes me appreciate the efforts of HN to keep things civil and intelligent - even if it means a lot of my posts and comments go nowhere.
Not sure I understand your comment, given the link you gave.

IMHO the return value of calling `Object()` without parameters is exactly what one would expect. Calling it w/ parameters is what I think causes surprising behavior

var x = {a: 2}
console.log(x === x) // true
console.log(Object(x) === x) // true
console.log(new Object(x) === x) // true

For the `Object.call(x)` case, I'd expect it to return a new object (and not x), for the same reason I'd expect [].slice.call(arguments) to return a new array (and not arguments).
I was talking about both -- for the purposes of explanation, frequency-hopping is more intuitive. (I was trying to be responsive to @Redfern above, who mentions frequency-domain jamming.)

Both frequency-hopping and direct-sequence spread energy over a larger bandwidth. Direct-sequence does not explicitly frequency-hop, but the time-domain switching it uses will spread the energy out in Fourier space.
The idea that design patterns have to be large and possibly overwrought elements is untrue

They everything is design pattern. Except it is not.

I don't interested in what the GoF says, but in the FP world this is not pattern. It's just an another function actually

(.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c

(And referential transparency, lambda calculus, higher-order functions and HM type inference are not design patterns)
And the sad thing is that society often punishes people who change their minds or "flip-flop". See politics.
RMS Endorses Pirate Party Position on Trademarks, Patent, Copyright Monopolies
I think you're saying that ideas are worthless, but ideas can become valuable when combined with good execution (involving market and opportunity, etc)?
I hadn't seen their enterprise option, but if our budget allowed for $5000/mo we'd be with Wordpress VIP anyway. Maybe someday! :)
Exactly. The contentions that

a) live lectures are crucial for the interactive element

b) the best, modern textbooks are necessary for acceptable education

sound reasonable but don't stand up to much scrutiny.

> Perhaps instead educators could band together to produce open source textbooks.

You would think there'd be more interest in 'spend once, solve forever' initiatives like that.
My time in a gifted program was certainly valuable, a close second to the free lunch program that kept me fed.

I attended and later worked in and around the public school system. I have a lot of ideas about what's wrong with it that would impossible to fully articulate here. However, I can say that I wouldn't put "nurturing nascent genius" particularly high on the list.
I've been beta testing Super Smart and loving the sense of humor in the questions and answers. Nice to see a quiz game that doesn't take itself too seriously/feel like taking the SATs. Good luck!
Scholarpedia is trying a competition-and-prize model to spur contributions
Cool kickstarter: bluetooth "cell phone" toy headset for kids
While very impressive it makes me nervous. The JS it outputs just in the basic tutorial looks extremely complex, I'd hate to debug that code! Compare with CoffeeScript, where the output is quite easy to follow, and therefore debug.
I actually don't want robocalls to be illegal.
Some of them could be useful (e.g. confirmation about appointment I've made).

I want unwanted calls to stop (no matter whether they are robocalls or not).