skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add some context to the title, this isn't a traditional IDE in the browser.

It's a kind of experimental touch-centric IDE with it's own semi-visual programming language (your not exactly dragging boxes around, but your not editing text either).

I only played with it for 2 minutes, but it's apparent that this is a "research" project. It's not meant as a replacement SDK for whatever is the de facto standard for Win8 apps.
Yeah, I should have left out the market capitalization delta. There were definitely other factors involved besides the acquisition. The quarterly loss by Merrill was pretty astounding though. Definitely large enough to be involved in any "worst corporate deal" discussion.
CMU?
I probably should avoid responding to this, but here goes: If you don't like it, submit something you do like and let people vote it up or down. Don't like the community? Go elsewhere. Friends of mine are always talking about how the quality of comments has gown downhill on Hacker News, and your comment is proof. Please stop turning everything fun into a referendum on karma.
First spend less time reading hacker news and more time talking with actual people who might feel pain in the online education space.
As a current PhD. student in the liberal arts my position likely veers significantly from the mean around here. But having read a lot of these sorts of "higher education is in tatters" sorts of discussions--and tending toward skepticism about the general fitness of most humans to be involved in higher education of any kind--I find myself pushing back against the critics. My classroom experience as a philosophy and psychology major at a mid-tier, state university left very little to be desired. I'm not sure I am capable of being crafted into a good employee, whatever the skills of the institution attempting the task. But I learned a whole lot about the world, how to reason, how to communicate, etc. And I wasn't even a particularly good student.

As an undergraduate in our college of arts the average student, regardless of major, was required to write scores of pages per semester, all to be read and responded to by someone more than qualified to critique even the especially precocious 19 year old. Most classes were of less than 20 students and involved lively discussion with a professor who, more often than not, was well published and read in his or her field. Setting aside employment for the moment, I just can't imagine a much better way to grow a person.

There are certainly problems with higher education--too many to list really. But the core of what universities do, as it relates to undergraduate education, they do pretty well by and large. It is true, due largely to economic distortions and poor alternatives, too many who would be better suited by something more vocational go to four year universities looking for something the university is not designed to provide. Hence the present discussion I suppose. But for those who are looking for education in the broader sense, I find universities to be serving as advertised.
both to increase contrast and figure out where the heck I am. But I also have a safari extension that shades alternate paragraphs as I read them , so I do it much less often now.
I haven't used it, but there's also Google's Caja, "a tool for making third party HTML, CSS and JavaScript safe to embed in your website".

https://developers.google.com/caja/
Clicking through the intro this was (oddly) one of the biggest thing for me.

> "We need to log you in first."

Argh...

> "You can login with your Microsoft, Facebook, or Google account."

... oh, yay! Microsoft figured out OpenID/OAuth!
And they succeeded. Enyo is a nice, stable cross platform JS framework, and Open webOS has a decent sized hacker community around it (webOS Ports).
Meteor (the company) uses Hackpad extensively and I don't know what we'd do without it. We do almost of our systems and API design in collaborative Hackpad documents.
Secret ITU wants to censor your Internet.
As I said, dual motivation. It serves the claimed consumer protection purposes, but standing industry defense.
I recently read Racing the Beam (Monfort, Bogost), a survey of the defining technical details of the Atari 2600. I've read a number of gaming history books, and RtB was by far the most interesting. It might be better described as a hacker history of the platform, focusing on the limitations of the system and the hacks around them that caused Atari VCS games to have a personality distinct from its contemporaries. Also highly recommended.

[http://www.nickm.com/vcs/]

[http://www.platformstudies.com/]
Don't do both. Multitasking is not for humans. Concentrate on the engineering part first. It's hard enough. Try to read books from great entrepreneurs in your spare time,like Bill Gates, Seth Godin, Richard Branson. Watch shows like "The Apprentice UK", "Shark Tank" on youtube, you'll pick up some interesting patterns. Browse inc.com . When you're done with all that, do the MBA if you still think if it will be useful.
So I signed in, going to change my username and it says 'nickname is too short' (at least 8 characters). I uploaded my avatar image, it says 'Only proper JPEG files allowed' :(
I'll second Litmus. It's one of the few tools that I've really felt were worth paying for. It's just tons better than try to test emails ad-hoc.
I actually use my Google email address to log into my Windows account too - they know we don't want yet another email address to manage.
The typical mode of operation is developing apps in TouchDevelop and running them in TouchDevelop, in the browser (or the WP7 app). If you want, you can also export the apps and sell them in the store, but you will need a dev account.

TouchDevelop is a research project exploring programming paradigms that are more touch-centric.

Think of it as a way of programming your phone or tablet, whatever it may be, on the device itself.
Look out Greenland!
Talk to users. Build product.
Avoid meetups.
Avoid advisors.
Avoid hackathons.

Good luck.
Does anyone take HP seriously as a modern software company? Although I haven't looked into their operations and financials, my impression is that they sell plenty of servers (going on the Compaq legacy); a certain amount of ill-regarded desktops, laptops, and peripherals; probably lots of scientific equipment like oscilloscopes, gas chromatographs, etc.; and networking hardware. Of course there are also printers, but their once-wonderful reputation has dropped precipitously since the 1990s.
I hate to be a scrooge, but Bootstrap already supports multi-colored progress bars:

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#progress

Check out the "Stacked" example.
Isn't it fascinating what kind of things people come up with for fun?
I think that really wouldn't work. You cannot compel people to make X amount of money. You can compel them to pay back X amount. I don't understand why you think this would do anything.
Linking it may work in some clients, the style tag works in more, but if you want your css to show up in most clients (like outlook), inline it.

So if you had `p { color: red; }` in your style sheet, then all your `p` tags should read: `<p style="color: red;">`. It sounds horrid, and it is, but you can automate the process with a preprocessor.

When it comes to email, you unfortunately need to throw out the last 10 years of advances.
Dead reckoning is subject to cumulative errors, so that would have to be REALLY accurate.
I'd be really interested to hear about the actual migration. That's what I thought this article was going to be about, instead of just how to use the feature.
Whoever made the sale happen must be one heck of a sales guy. HP would've been really desperate. Somebody within the company should have seen a red flag or two.
Ultimath: A tool for elementary math (feedback please)
With how much % marketshare ? I don't mean to be snarky but that question is essential to drive home the point on WebOS's current irrelevancy however good or superior it is as a software platform in vacuum. Software is meant to be used & despite all its shortcomings, marketshare is as good a metric as we'll ever get to measure an ecosystem's health. WebOs fails that test.
For anyone looking to get to the report quickly without having to read another diatribe, the info they're citing is here: https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/wi...
At PostageApp.com we focus on transactional emails, which these days are moving heavily towards HTML email as a standard now that deliverability is much more focused on IP reputation than content.

We provide a templating system which allows you to build and preview with separate HTML and CSS, and we compile to inline CSS at runtime to ensure compatibility with the majority of email clients.

The painful thing to remember is that html/css for email is a weird mix of HTML3 and HTML5 - meaning some major providers only allow for basic functionality, but other platforms support the bleeding edge while omitting some of the simpler aspects. In the end your demographics will strongly influence where you focus your efforts.

The templates from Zurb here are a great basis - as a start on a responsive email boilerplate this will be great value to the community - individuals using this for customization will hopefully push the development of these bases further.
Do you have to download/save documents every time you want to view an HTML page or run a new copy of a python script? If they've have a way of saving a copy locally while working on it online then I'm in.
Not only did Jobs bring with him the trunk of what effectively would become OSX. Within months of his return , Jobs had slimmed down Apple's product portfolio to a handful of products then immediately started executing on that vision. As flawed as he was as a human being, Jobs was decisive.

She took forever to make a decision about the fate of the PSG (personal systems groups,) Agonized months over what to do with (granted, a fatally wounded) WebOs.
I'm not saying she wasn't dealt a tough hand. I couldn't agree more. Her predecessors strategic blunders were atrocious, but she could have acted with more urgency.
The scientific equipment business was spun off into a new company, Agilent, in 1999. Some argue that Agilent is the 'real' HP.
And as soon as they get the Galaxy Nexus port into a state that's stable enough to be a daily driver I'm going to pick one up. Until then I'll be sticking with my Pre2.
Right there with you. Choosing B
I looked at it, I could imagine being interested in such a site, but I was not able to see anything I couldn't find by Yelp or Google.

Some questions I might be interested in finding answers to:

* Does this church have large number of single people in their twenties and thirties?

* How intellectual are the sermons?

* What, overall, are the priorities and personalities of the people who attend there?

* What does the church think about [women pastors|gay marriage|etc.,etc.]? Does everyone there agree?

I would suggest looking at OKCupid for ideas. OKC, as with all online dating, has its faults -- but it is good at figuring out what you are looking for and then showing it to you. Such a model might work here, as most churches don't share a dater's desire to be selective.
You say that universities provide learners with a wider exposure to ideas. I don't doubt that this was true in the hundreds of years that universities have existed. However, up until 1989, universities basically had a monopoly on a place where it is easy to be exposed to many ideas. Since TBL invented the www, and hyperlinks became commonplace, it's never been easier to be exposed to ideas. It's far easier to come across new ideas on the internet than in any university in the world. All you need to be exposed to thousands of ideas is hyperlinks and intellectual curiosity.

The only feature that university has that the internet doesn't is a curriculum required to get a degree. However a required curriculum without intellectual curiosity isn't worth much. A required curriculum with intellectual curiosity is worth something. But now with phenomena like Wikipedia and MMOC's and a generation that has grown up online, the internet is most certainly overtaking universities.

I'm 30 years old and were I to do it again, I wouldn't go to university. I'm know I'm not alone in this sentiment, but I also know this isn't yet a majority sentiment. I expect a significant portion of the generation currently at uni that grew up with the internet to feel this regret when they are 30.
#include <iostream>

You've just parsed ~6MB of code. You might instantiate 2 or 3 templates from it. The parsing truly is non-trivial.
Exactly - you don't own the depreciating car, nor maintain or insure it (a.k.a. backup, disaster recovery) or even train in how to operate or secure it in a potentially risky environment. Transportation as a Service, man, it's the hot new thing.

Personally I'm still waiting for Service-Oriented Automobiles to knit together.
Does that mean it only runs on Windows 8 Pro, or does it also run on Windows RT devices?
Surely the massive revenue would be an incentive for the record labels to keep Spotify alive.
Raspberry PI: Bottlepy and Twitter Bootstrap
I assume that Autonomy probably does all its sales via sales people long personalised processes, but I have to say their website isn't particularly good at all. Given the money involved you would think they would have invested in a more modern website, telling people who do happen to visit it in less abstract terms exactly what they do and why people should care.
24 ways, the advent calendar for web geeks, starts again today
You could leverage zencoder to generate your thumbnails. Send the job as a test so it's free (limited to 5 seconds but that's ok since we only want thumbnails) and specify your thumbnail settings as desired. You could even set the clip length to one frame so the video encoding step is nearly skipped. Since zencoder runs on AWS, you should get near-LAN transfers between S3 and zencoder
This is not a tech company.

And so chances of shutting down are fairly slim unless it was the team Google was after.
Monkeys demand fair pay - this is insane (go to 1:31)
"In colloquial English, labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze" means that yes, this is a labyrinth because "labyrinth" is synonymous with "maze". "Many contemporary scholars observe a distinction between the two" means "most people don't observe any distinction between the two."
All Windows Store apps run on all versions of Windows 8.
John Updike = Pennsylvania Dutch, funny accents, psychology of the middle class

Upton Sinclair = Chicago stockyards, abuse of animals and immigrants
It's down as of 11/30 11:30PM CST.
Can you loophole around it by renting out someone else's apt and having them rent out yours on a quid pro quo basis?

This means that the person staying in your home is not a friend of a friend and no longer a customer. It ceases to be a sublet, and is now you housing a friend's friend.

Intent is there. But it gets you off the hook for breaking the contract. It instead puts you on the hook for inducing someone else to break a contract, which is a harder case to prove.
Do you have any idea--any notion at all--how respected is the football program at Penn State? Why, the mere suggestion of any impropriety is such a laughable proposition that my vest-buttons threaten violent detachment.
Reading several of the points made here bring on an eery sort of deja vu from work situations I've been in.
If they go back several hundred years then they probably have more to do with rent-seeking than consumer protection, and if that is in fact the motivation for their existence, then they should be eliminated.
> This is the exact equivalent of the coal industry finding the minority of scientists who think climate change is not man-made and funding their studies.

No it isn't. This isn't about coal or climate change. It's about whether or not it's ok for people to drink coffee.

If you think they've published bad science you should prove it. That's the awesome thing about science, it's refutable.
Personally, I am a fan of electronica but have not been a fan of skrillex as an old fogie who is akin to resenting anything with the dubstep label. However after playing this game I am more inclined to check out some skrillex music. Therefore, as an advertisement, this in my mind gets an A++ in effectiveness. I would also point out that being an 80s kid the sample images in the glitches evoked memories of Duck Hunt and Mike Tyson's punch out which made an emotional connection with me that is in turn associated with some great samples of the musicians catalog. Double A++.

Last I will add that I am not a gamer as an adult but I thoroughly enjoyed this "game". My 5 year old daughter completed the game after I did an had no trouble whatsoever with the controls and the story line (I read the text for her). There is definable a market out there for non-gamers who would invest more time into games if the target was not as narrow. This market is likely larger than the Call of Duty/SOCOM market.

So to wrap up.. This is no my cup-of-tea per se, but it is one of those things that can cross boundaries and bring new customers into a market if executed as well as this is.
To add to that, I'd highly recommend something like Spriter to complement the above:

http://www.brashmonkey.com/spriter.htm

(No affiliation, but I did back the kickstarter...)

Lots of developers undervalue the importance of a good set of tools for the asset pipeline.
I went cold turkey a couple months ago because I didn't like the afternoon headache and general feeling of uselessness that I'd suffer on days when it wasn't practical to get coffee. Nor was it pleasant to live with the very fact of a chemical dependency... I'm not quite as sharp in the morning on just chamomile, but afternoons and sleep are much improved.
Honestly sounds no different to me. It's probably better to go with the single S in Founder Stash.
Ipad based free-form shape detection
I reckon they got the idea from http://www.24ways.org, which in turn is inspired by the advent calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_calendar).

"The traditional [advent] calendar consists of two pieces of card stock on top of each other. Twenty-four doors are cut out in the top layer, with a number ranging from one to twenty-four on each. Beginning on the first day of December, one door is opened each day [containing a chocolate and/or showing an illustration related to Christmas], counting down the days remaining until Christmas Eve, from one to twenty-four where the 24th door often holds an extra surprise like an extra large piece of chocolate."
You're missing the "quit my job and do it" option :)
Pretty impressive. interesting bits of the ipad app demo on youtube begin at 1m15secs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvPLRRt79uo#t=1m15s
TouchDevelop runs in IE10, Chrome (including on Android), Firefox, Safari (on Mac and iOS). You can run apps you create right away, inside TouchDevelop, in the browser.

If you want to sell them, then they will run on Windows Phone, Windows RT and Windows 8. To submit them to the store you will need a Windows 8 PC and a dev account.
Could you please provide some hard numerical reference that shows that "almost all the developers" that produced "the most popular apps on Android and iOS are running OS X". That would be a great cross referenced treasure trove of data. It seems absurd and borderline illogical that one does not come to have contact with such a fountain of proof that supports the stated inference. This would be an invaluable source. Thank you in advance.
Interesting, I love the idea of sending your notes through SMS. No need to sign in or even have a working internet connection. I am thinking the app authenticates you using the phone number on your profile. Brilliant concept!
It's because, as has been observed by many others, most candidates simply can't code.

If 90% of people who walk in the door can't implement FizzBuzz, and Google wants to hire the top 10% of coders, then it would be expected for the interview process to reject 99% of interview candidates. A more typical hiring goal of "top 1% of coders" means a 99.9% rejection rate.

The phone screen process is supposed to reduce the number of low-quality candidates, but it's a fairly coarse filter, and very easy to game.

Google cares much more about what you've accomplished than about what number is on your transcript, what university's name is on your degree, or even whether you have a degree. If you feel your GPA is too low to be taken seriously, spend a few months coding and put it all online for browsing.
You should never have a newborn sleeping directly on a mattress next to you. Ever. Regardless of the mattress.
Depends on what you count as launch but BufferBox has been running at the University of Waterloo for a couple of years already.
Not as easy as that: the coffee industry can easily spend $6 million to promote its interests, but there isn't an "anti-coffee" industry that can spend $6 million to refute those studies. This principle of "organizability" is one of the big drivers of political power -- those who can organize into an interest group win.
Ask HN: HN Caliber Site for Enterprise and B2B
Good Evening,

Can anyone provide links to online forums and communities that offer the same caliber of knowledge and conversations as this board but that is more focused on enterprise software and B2B?

Thanks,
Nope, and I work there (for now, briefly).
A college education is only four years. A good portion of the value of those four years is the contact with other intelligent young people. So quality of the graduates coming out is likely proportional to the quality of the students admitted.

That is to say, aside from the important other factors mentioned in the article, the decline of American secondary education clearly is a factor in the decline of American college education.
I can't stand Business Insider.
What I am aiming for is to capture your thoughts very quickly at first. I know you mean to exapand on those thoughts, drawing up a sketch etc but that would be the second or third step after you capture your idea.

The problem I am trying to solve is that it is very easy to lose our ideas in all our notes. Most of the time, our ideas sit somewhere in a folder and we forget about them. By capturing stats about how and when you generate your ideas, I am looking to (hopefully) trigger some motivation and enhance creativity by reproducing the circumstances that generated your previous ideas in the first place. I hope it makes sense...
I hate to be so self-promoting, but http://jsfiddle.net/GTYX5/2/ should do everything you're asking for
That mandrill site is slick! Thanks for the links
Wait, what did deadmau5 have to do with Something Awful?
Since there is some interest, here is what I have so far: http://ideatagr.com

Please remember that it is still in very early stages. I am at a point where I am getting people to test the concept and the practicality of this app.

There is a system in app to report bugs and gather feedback. Since I created this from scratch and am the only one working on it, it takes me a bit to implement bug fixes but I do get to them eventually.

Feel free to sign up and give me your feedback. Thank you!
FB shares close at $28, highest since July
I'm with you. I've always liked Klaypex (of Dubstep Guns fame) better than Skrillex, but I'm willing to give Skrillex another shot after this.

Dubstep Guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDlif8Km4S4
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To put it into perspective. Imagine a dead-reckoning system with 1ppm error (ridiculously low) and no drift (again ridiculous). Say you use this for in-car navigation. After driving around for 10k miles, the error is now 53 feet, which is too great for navigation.
In that case, leaving this other thing on ice until you get an exit might be the best plan. Then you'll have time, and money. And meanwhile, if you have extra energy, maybe you can find a creative way to further improve the odds of success at your current startup.

Good exits are rare and precious things. I wouldn't give up a good shot at one for even a pretty promising idea.