skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this being touted as an Apple feature that Android retroactively stole 3 years in the past yet?
Here's a good summary: http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Organizing...

Their overview: "Some charters do better; the majority do the same or worse. CREDO also moved beyond individual student performance to examine the overall performance of charter schools across multiple subject areas. They found that while some charter schools do better than the traditional public schools that fed them, the majority do the same or worse. Almost one-fifth of charters (17 percent) performed significantly better (at the 95 percent confidence level) than the traditional public school. However, an even larger group of charters (37 percent) performed significantly worse in terms of reading and math. The remainder (46 percent) did not do significantly better or worse."

Education is very hard to judge, particularly for a new institution. I'm not at all surprised people pay for private schools or apply to charter schools — exclusivity might seem to provide additional value.

Also, charter schools != private schools. I don't know the data there, but if you have lots more money than a public school, different things are possible.
I think it depends on whether the biz has been validated in some way or not. I think the first version of most products should be simple enough to not need 100% dedication in order to build it. If it requires that much focus, you might try shedding some features so that you can ship something while reliably making an income.

I WOULD NOT quit my job to build something which hasn't been validated in some way. I have done that and it was a huge mistake.

Imagine the following:

1.) you have a product idea

2.) you have talked to potential clients and find out they need it and are willing to pay for

3.) a percentage of them will agree to pay you, specifically you, when it ships

4.) those potential clients know other people in their field who also need your product and are willing to give you a warm intro to them

Here we have imagined a circumstance where you have a business with an unprecedentedly high probability of success. Furthermore, it's a circumstance which didn't require you to build or really focus heavily on anything. If you're worried about how long it will take you to get off the ground with something like this, don't. Making the above a reality is so valuable, you can afford to spend a little time on it.

After quitting my job and jumping into an idea-phase business, I've raised my standards quite a bit. An idea won't cut it for me anymore. I need validation.
Why Google “Personalizes” Results On Obama But Not Romney (RE: DDG/WSJ FUD)
I am all for changing who is in the White House every four years until they take the hint. I would be of the same mind for Congress but they keep changing the rules to make it near impossible to get them out. The only recent threat to them had even the press siding with politicians!

Just like with schools, most people will claim that Congress is bad but have no reason NOT to support their guy because he is "the good one".

Term Limits, I am more than willing to take the bad many associate with term limits over the situation as is
Agreed that laws should be consistent but this isn't just a problem with animal cruelty laws.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be humane to animals, even ones that are ultimately killed for their meat (such as pigs). It's possible for an animal to live a perfectly content life and then be killed quickly and with as little pain as possible. And that's what a lot of people are campaigning for.

Reducing animal cruelty is not at odds with breeding livestock for food. We can have both. And to not support one because you want the other is disingenuous.
So, for instance, if you live in Minnesota, this page thinks you should vote for Kurt Bills instead of returning Amy Klobuchar to the Senate, because voting against someone who supported SOPA makes it sensible to vote for someone who supports a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and who believes we should consider unborn fetuses "persons" and thus ban not only abortion but also stem cell research.

Asinine.

The objections on this thread blow my mind. "But but but what if their opponent also supports SOPA?" How about first you make sure your "alternative" candidate doesn't think we should nuke Mecca? Jiminy Christmas, if you don't already know why you support your Senate and Congressional candidates and can't be bothered to go look up their positions on real issues, please stay the hell away from the voting booth.
No they're not, they're empty space.
Sales Lessons From TV's "Say Yes To The Dress"
3 killer features that are coming in Ruby 2.0
OT: I'd love an interactive "Learn Git" webpage where you could learn to use Git with demo scenarios. Something like "Try Ruby" but for git.
You're cargo culting on security dogma.

Information assymetry is probably your only advantage against credit card fraudsters, because there is no security hole, rather they are exploiting your core business flow.
A knee-jerk reaction by poorly informed and motivated reviewers, which included a fear of:

- Hydrolock (solved by default)
- Corrosion (solved)
- Inability to separate water and air (easy to solve and quickly solved)
- a lack of understanding that water could provide heat to air on expansion (proven...)

We actually disproved all of their claims within 2 weeks of their decision. The problem, however, is that you don't get a conversation when talking with grant agencies. So most things are misunderstood and they default to funding based on seniority.

At the time, our competitors were not taking the water based approach...

The advantage of world class investors is that, even if they disagree with you, they think for themselves, so you can actually talk to them.
What's different about Microsoft Surface that suddenly allows it to create content rather than merely consume it? Wouldn't it make sense to give a content creating device more free space to store content?
Site wont load for me.

I'm a big fan of "git gui". You can commit individual lines.
I Always use -p.

I can't count the number of times I've caught stuff that wasn't supposed to be committed.

Also, site isn't loading for me so maybe this is discussed, but I also like using it to not commit logging / debugging statements without removing or stashing them.
I'm excited, you can also try it on Heroku as of today! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744573
Sure, but "working" is a perfectly reasonable lower standard.
Downvoted. Nobody mentioned anything about Apple being first, merely that this feature exists and is useful.
Nobody said anything about equal rights, just rights. That's why they want to encourage discussion, to figure out what rights they would be given.
Shucks. I guess I just try to deal with the truths in front of and around me. And I found myself moving in important, but uncharted waters.
Not all of it, but I'd expect more than half of it to be available.
See your GitHub projects progress in a glance.
FWIW, Peter Thiel is totally awesome, and one of the most rational and brilliant and human people I know.
The truly asinine thing is our political system constantly pits media and copyright issues against social issues like abortion and same sex marriage. The fact remains most Democrats are very much in the RIAA and MPAA camp. The whole system is asinine.
Agreed. I wrote the pro-MBA post on HN and think that this guy nailed it.
Project Pigeon - WWII attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile
I would expect the vast majority of it to be free space.

If you bought a laptop with a 250GB hard drive, and found when you booted it that ~125GB were used by the OS, would you be okay with that? Especially when the HD storage was a prominently advertised feature?
There's a huge difference between "nofollow" and blacklisting a search engine- as the link I pointed out shows, google is still pulling in their information and displaying it in search results. They're just not giving it preferencial treatment like they are Google+.

Seriously, try the browser extension or tools setup on the link I sent- they use Google's own results, they're not just injecting things randomly.
‎2 Guys + 1 World + ∞ Hacks == The Endless Hack
"65% of people said personalized search was a 'bad thing'"

So does this guy ( http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu... ) on TED and will easily convince you if you aren't already.
> 6GB were used for the OS.

Not really the same though, since the XBox OS fully resides in Flash/ROM/however-you-want-to—call-it-internal-storage 16MB (megabytes!) filesystem, and you can readily boot without the hard disk[0]. Those 6GB were merely "set aside".

The price is a complete rip-off though.

[0] this may have changed since NXE, but the OS is still extremely small by today's standards, e.g the last one is 113MB: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/system-updates/system...
You are so wedded to your theory that you are unable to accept facts at face value. Presented with evidence that Feynman's IQ was not exceptional, you conclude that he was not a genius. Presented with evidence that he was a genius, you conclude that there must be an external reason that he did not do better on the IQ test, and the test result can be thrown out.

The conclusion that you seem to think impossible is that someone can clearly be a genius and yet that genius would not be reflected on IQ tests.

Let me offer you two alternate hypotheses.

The first fits the criticism in the above post. Many questions on IQ tests are ambiguous - there are multiple logically possible answers, and to find the "right" one you have to figure out what line of reasoning the test maker was most likely to have followed. This is a question about conventions, and Feynman clearly was extremely unconventional. He therefore is an example of someone who was literally too creative to do well on the test.

A second possibility is that Feynman's gifts were overwhelmingly mathematical, not verbal. His graduate entrance exams stand as evidence of this, as do comments from people who have examined his work. See http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/finding-the-next-einstei... for an example. Since an IQ test has a large verbal component, on which Feynman would have only been somewhat above average, he did not score exceptionally well.

I like the first theory better, but there is significantly more evidence for the second. But either way there is no evidence from anyone who knew him, including Feynman, that the IQ score he got is not what he should have been expected to get based on what an IQ test measures.
John Kary's page is down, but he created two screencasts, which are the meat of his post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl0NfWYrvlY&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqMjJeyKpw&feature=plcp
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>The point still remains that they advertised the tablet as being higher value, when it's not

Err, it is higher value, unless Apple and Google are doing false advertising as well by not advertizing by the free space.

>You can get a Nexus 10 with 16 GB of storage and a much higher resolution than the Surface for $400

Sure, but you lose the kickstand, MicroSD slot, full sized powered USB, Office RT, Touch and type cover compatibility.
My dad is visiting and we're playing bagpipe music on the stereo :-)
I think the better take away might be: avoid changing the structure of 'hot' objects at runtime.

JS engines will zero-in on these 'hot' objects and attempt to optimize access to it, a task which will be helped if object doesn't change in structure over its life-time. 'delete' will trigger such a structure change.

By structure in context of JS, one should think inferrable structure like always setting .a to a Number then .b to a String after instantiating an object.
There's also 'git reset -p' to interactively unstage changes
The title should be "Writing JavaScript code that turns out to be fast and memory-efficient in the 2012 editions of JS engines".

When discussing the efficiency of a language, especially an interpreted language, one must always take into account the peculiarities of the used VM. And be sure that today's optimisations may be "pessimizations" in the future (see the many Linux optimisations that are being removed in the last years).
But first we need to find out exactly which slaves have it the worst, and free all of them. We can't go around doing good things for anyone other than the absolute worst off people. Luckily this means we can spend all our time debating who has it worst instead of doing anything to help anyone.
"Empty space" isn't made out of atoms. And yes, there's plenty of air in a loaf of bread.
The NY Times should do a behind the visuals for every post with visuals. Excellent work recently.
There are lots of air atoms inside a loaf of bread.
Here is exactly what you're looking for: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git
Uprooting a life is complex, expensive, difficult, and unpleasant. Nobody's going to do it until it's more attractive than staying. Look at where people immigrate here from, and you'll have a good benchmark for the difference in quality of life that will have to exist in order for it to start looking attractive to emigrate--and remember that even then, the vast majority of people stay because it was easier or they find it tolerable.
That tis not correct. It's much more than a gig.
0.3% of a big number is still probably pretty large.
I am a Biz dev guy. A decent person in NYC will be walking away from at LEAST $75k a year in salary to join you. Thus you're going to have to sell them hard on the equity they're getting, because of this I'd personally not do the trick with having someone else send the resume.

I know you're short on funds, but why not bump the salary up and set a line that this person pay for themselves in 3 months or they get cut?
From the docs I could see how to allocate memory, but how can do the "same" with cpu?
Then you should check out http://try.github.com/
my primary skills are on iOS/Android. So what ever i create ended up as apps rather than products. I'm tinkering with the idea of learning django to setup some basic webservice to support app as a product.
nanotubes
Class 10 MicroSD can do 20MB/sec, that's not that bad.
For most devices in most quarters (aside from those in which a major upgrade to that device is introduced), Apple doesn't tend to have shortages, so it doesn't seem like their growth is being significantly constrained by component supply.
Amy Klobuchar doesn't support a teenage rape victim's right not to be forced by law into bearing a the resulting fetus to term because it's a strategy to keep you from pirating Creed CDs.
If you want to be honest about this, consider that SOPA is an issue (as in, potentially will impact) for far more Americans (and people worldwide!) than same-sex marriage or even abortion.

The system is broken, etc. etc. Might as well play the long game.
It's equally plausible that with nothing to lose he would make PATRIOT worse.
s/process/thread/
You didn't look very hard then :] There is a course made by the same people who made Try Ruby, on the same site. It's named, unsurprisingly, 'Try Git':

http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git

They also have a second, more advanced course on the site.
Interesting facts about Chrome Web Store [Presentation]
This is cool.

font-weight: bold;

would increase readability.
V8 is not the only javascript engine.
Do you really believe that which characteristic is important about an animal is not a cultural question? If it seems "obvious" that's because your culture is invisible from the inside.

http://www.zompist.com/amercult.html
A Fort Knox for Web crypto keys: Inside Symantec's SSL certificate vault
Have you looked at:

http://try.github.com

and

http://gitimmersion.com/
So, your solution to the problem (carefully stated and with recompense offered) is: "Have a time machine"?

I guess it is a good solution, but it would require a lot of fundamental physics work so it might not match the time-frame he needs.

My point, and I apologise for the snark, is that when people have a problem and ask for help, they are not asking for judgement on things they should have done in the past, they are looking for ideas for how to move forward. If you feel strongly that people who build on APIs do not deserve this help, then perhaps consider making that point on any of the frequent "X API sucks" threads the pop up from time to time.
yes, considering the prevailing (up until Surface arrived) advertisements for pads talked about space available, not total space.
For starters, at least the US government wouldn't have their fingers in my data. I'd tolerate high latency for that.

Second, There are millions of people living relatively close to New Zealand, so not everyone will have high latency.
The link is broken. the tumblr page is down. you can still read the post at Altavista's cache at http://74.6.117.15/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F...
The Unlicense: The First Year in Review
The 8350 and 8150 are 8-core, not 16-core, is that throwing off the math?
While it's not news for a computing device to rely on ignorance in regards to marketing of specs, at what point does it cross the line from casually misleading to intentionally deceptive?
No chance of getting the alternative back?
Does http://maps.google.com not work?
And git checkout -p to interactively bring over parts of another commit (or interactively revert uncommitted changes, if you're checking out HEAD).
As soon as dolphins show that they can respect my rights, I'll grant them rights.
If you think SOPA is more important than whether a woman should be forced to testify in front of a court and then drive across 2 states to secure a first trimester abortion after being raped, then you're an asshole.

I'd respect someone more if they strongly believed that women should have to endure that hardship, because it takes some serious principles to confront that issue and come out thinking the state should be demanding women carry hostile pregnancies to term. But your comment suggests they should just so you can keep torrenting The Avengers.

I don't want to know these things about people on HN, so I flagged this story, unflagged it, hit my keyboard a couple times, and then flagged it again.
If weighted by the severity of impact, though, I think it comes out the other way. Not to mention that I have no confidence that the religious-right candidates will leave the internet alone anyway, given the strongly pro-censorship history of religious conservatives in American politics.
>I still had to sync all my music from iTunes though, but I don't see how the Surface would be able to do this without requiring to be 'tethered' (iTunes has WiFi sync) to a PC.

By storing your music in Skydrive, this removes the need to 'tether' to a PC
Congrats Danielle.
You are making a whole lot of unfounded assumptions. Who says those that escape knew the fate of those that didn't? Who says they have a choice as to where to go? Perhaps they need to be in that area at that time because that is where their food is at that time. The options you present are not even remotely close to exhaustive, yet you hide behind their totality for your excuse to avoid considering the issue at all.
I tend to dislike the idea of labeling introverts and generalizing them.

I used to be solidly in that introvert group, accepting that it was completely fine to want to be alone, that it was who I was and that I should be proud of it.

I went through a huge shift in college (one of the reasons I believe college is a great experience) and now I'm far more extroverted than I used to be, truly a sea change.

I believe that this change has been incredibly positive for me, and I wish I hadn't held myself back so much by being too complacent with my personality.

You are who you are, and you shouldn't hate yourself or do anything harmful to your self confidence, but don't be afraid of change either! And for pete's sake, don't pigeon-hole yourself into a category just because you think you fit it. Over your life, you will change more than you know, and hopefully for the better—there's no reason to limit yourself.

So my recommendation is to collaborate as much as possible, go outside your comfort zone, break the barriers that make you cringe, and learn from it to grow as a person and as a coder.
yeah 3 million in 3 days that is almost as fast as how windows sold (4 million in 4 days) that really is impressive!
What I would like to see is a special legal status/recognition given to dolphins. My motivation for wanting to see this done is that I think it would provide a sort of precedence for extending traditionally human rights to things that are not traditionally seen as equals of humans. I think there is a possibility that doing so may become necessary in the future, when "machines" and intelligence begin to blur.
Yep, wanted to link your book if people wanted more resources like this!
Hacking LinkedIn to find out who visits your site
Project 256meg aims to slim down Firefox for low-end Androids
There was a story on front page how Android tablets are winning market from Apple. I guess that is too a product of marketing?
>>[Storage size is] a nice line item on a spec sheet [...] but how many users actually care?

Ah, that is why there are never any buyers for more than the 16 GB iPads?

Oh, wait...

(Meta: Could these fan boy wars at least use some minimum quality arguments? :-( )
Something about this rubs me up the wrong way.

Certainly I can imagine many bands would like to be mentioned on the front page of the pirate bay, it is a major website and a major piece of free advertising. However, the first sentence:

"While the major record labels and movie studios do what they can to shutter The Pirate Bay, thousands of lesser known artists are eager to become featured on the site’s homepage."

Seems unreasonable to me. I have no problem with bands who want to be on the pirate bay being there. I don't think even the music industry would complain about people giving their music away for free if they want to. The problem is putting up the music of people who don't want to be there.
I kept trying to select the text (when I scroll that's how I keep my place on the page). You probably don't need to re-do this page, but consider a text option in the future.
Link is down. Cached page at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ybdWn7-...
This looks more like an excellent enumeration of cargo cult concepts from Lean and Agile. Seems to have little to do with UX though. Two-pizza teams? Silos? Tribes? You could completely fill an "Agile" buzzword bingo card with this presentation.

Putting the word Lean in front of your team's process doesn't suddenly make you experts in customer development or eliminating waste. Any more than putting UX after it will make them understand usability, or user centered design process.

These things are in fact hard to do and hard to learn, they require a constant practice and measurement of results. It is far harder than most people ever give credit for. Saying you're "up-ending company culture" (a physical impossibility in my opinion) and going "full bore" on lean, agile, fill-in-the-blank, then sending your teams some blog posts to read, and a presentation of "anti-patterns" to watch is pretty much the textbook definition of a cargo cult.
I think this will be a great product for startups -- everyone wants to build products on top of a dynamic environment, but to really do it, you would need to invest in heavy use of things like using Zookeeper -- but Zookeeper has a very high cost to integrate and maintain.

Netflix has released something very similar, Eureka, as open source here:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/09/eureka.html

But the Rackspace Service Registry comes with a SaaS model, more client libraries, and is hopefully easier to integrate.

(disclaimer, I work at Rackspace, but not on this product)