skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To elaborate, from Harvard's financial aid website:
"Beginning in the fall of 2012, this "zero contribution threshold" will be increased to $65,000. Financial aid is available to all students based on assessed need. Beginning with the class of 2016, families with incomes up to $150,000 will have an average expected parent contribution of 10 percent or less of their income"

For most people, going to Harvard would be cheaper than attending a state university.
US Digital Ad Spending to Top $37 Billion in 2012 as Market Consolidates. Google alone to account for 41.3% of total US digital ad revenues

(1) A majority of Google is ~21% of total market.

(2) 79% of the total market is a Majority of the Market.

(3) 59% of the total market is a Majority of the Market.

and so forth...
UK Universities partner to create free online courses challenging the US
I was (stunned).
My mother committed suicide when I was five years old. She was lost for seven months and I never really understood she was dead until several months had passed. It took years before I actually came to the point where I could cry. Believe me, it is better to embrace the sorrow now and deal with it rather than to keep it within you for the rest of your life.
Pix: Canabalt-inspired game in DCPU-16 assembly.
This looks interesting but what is more interesting to me is the brackets-shell, which looks to be a chromium shell for running an HTML/JS app as a native application. It looks to be very minimal and would just be fantastic for creating desktop apps. Every one of the existing solutions I've checked out so far all kinda suck in some way.

I hadn't realized that was working yet. I saw the repo for the shell itself is here https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell - it seems almost like a lightweight version of AIR. Does anybody have any more information on this..?
FB doesn't delete any info - period. They seem to archive everything. For example, if you post a photo, then delete it, they still archive it. Delete to you is Archive to them. I have been doing small tests and this is what I have found.
The Internet is more than the World Wide Web.
For what usual uninteresting reasons?

All the reasons that people move to the 'burbs are (a) sociologically interesting and (b) irrelevant on an acquihire salary.
Is this the awesome & absolutely cr*p generator?
Thanks. A RAID controller decided to die, took a bit of time to bring it back up.
Anyone got sales data on these books? Just because they're for sale doesn't mean anyone is buying them.
I don't get it.

When I am shopping for hosting services or hardware, I am shopping across entire country, I don't care if the vendors had to markup this or that, and I don't have to buy local, and vendors don't mark up their prices based on my location within US.

When selling, I am paying tax only on sales to WA residents, which is like 1% of my world-wide sales, and on those I am paying like 0.5% gross receipts tax. So it's 0.005% tax rate total.

How did you end up with "for a software/internet startup who buys hosting from a single provider only, it is probably more like a 3-4% income tax." ???
For what % of people? We should assume that bigger pipes cost more money, at least they do now, so why should Jack and Jill pay for 1Gig/s when a 5-10-20 mbps is more they need? Cable seems to have no problem bringing movies through the old copper wires.
Maskew - A JavaScript Library For Skewing The Shapes Of Elements
Stripe's Terms on Github
A very nice JavaScript library with a simple API to skew elements. Works well on images and is also available as a jQuery plugin. You just need to provide the skew angle as parameter.

via: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/12/maskew-javascript-libr...
i got goosebumps - i mean, the people of old are really intelligent! they used whatever piece of data they can scrunge together to piece the truth out.

I feel like these days, we aren't putting in as much effort in these endeavours as the days of old. I wonder why...
Yes, Seattle summers are beautiful. 10 months of rain makes for a very green summer. :)
While it is a nit, it's actually an interesting nit if you follow the trail a little. The most significant problems with the modern Internet, I think, come from the "walled gardens" that DRM creates -- and DRM is almost entirely the fault of media publishers rather than distributors. Apple gets a lot of fingers pointed at it, but I honestly don't think Apple -- or Amazon, for that matter -- really cares about DRM one way or the other. If the movie and television studios or the book publishers said tomorrow, "We want you to drop all the DRM from your files," I doubt Apple would stand in their way any more than they did with the music publishers.

Ironically, it's Apple's dominance in the music distribution market that led to record labels wanting to drop DRM, because they realized it was the only way to loosen the vise grip they'd inadvertently given Apple on their balls. Eventually the same thing will happen with books due to Amazon. Video is going to be the really tough nut to crack, though.

(Incidentally, if you turn on iTunes Match, it will let you replace all your remaining DRM-encumbered tracks with the DRM-free and higher quality ones, even ones that for arcane reasons weren't eligible for the $0.30/track upgrade. That, combined with switching my remaining MP3s to AAC -- yes, I think the quality's a little better -- made it worth the price for me, at least for a year.)
How do you have a real discussion in real life when the discussion is effectively flat? You let a 'branch' peter out, then re-raise a previous point for response.
Since the blog is loading slowly, direct link to the video:

http://youtu.be/HZkrlX7jJcg
it'd be interesting to have recounts of what people's thoughts were of the speed of light, when it was found out that it's so damn fast.
My point is: you don't have to worry in Dart either. If the code you are shipping is suffering due to the lack of OSR and you have to work around that --- just add an example to the bug and we will fix it.
Microsoft told IBM that they had an OS when they didn't. The boys sold a dream, and lied about it. Allen ran down the street and bought it from SCP. They sold what they didn't own to build an empire.
> I don't have an answer for free ad-based apps.

I do. Your game would need to display the ads as part of the game's texture (say, if its a side scroller). its much harder to hack it out, and its less intrusive (it doesn't stop the game and force you to watch the ad).

But think about the business proposition of an ad based revuenue stream - your customers are no longer the gamer, but the advertiser! Which means that either you don't serve your customer well (by displaying ads that don't convert), or _do_ serve your customer well, but fuck over the actual gamer. Neither is a good way to go in my opinion. Its better to get the game paid for by the gamer, and if your game is worth it, it will be bought.
I was wondering today if someone could create a great way of reading threaded discussions, a little like how Flipboard provide a different way of viewing paged content?
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This looks great. Especially with so many comparisons common such as x >= 0.5 etc this will keep those weird errors away. Thanks for sharing.
How hard would it be for someone to build and IDE (with nice code browser, refactoring and all the smart stuff... like JetBrains products) on top of or incorporating an editor like Sublime or Textmate?

I'd pay an arm and leg for IDEA or PyCharm with Sublime as the text editor (or something else with multiple cursors and all the "shiny" editor stuff), and the ability to launch either the full IDE or just the editor and be able to share editor settings, depending on what I'm doing (eg. the IDE for browsing a huge codebase or just the editor for working on a small project)...

I can even think of a business idea: 1. make awesome open source editor (Sublime text with optional Vim keybindings is awesome enough for me) 2. build smart IDE on top of it (what I expect from an IDE are things that require "understanding the code", ie. lots of language specific features, refactoring and tools integration, nice looking tree code browser etc.) 3. profit!!! (imagine that you'll also profit from the evolution of the open-source editor and from the "complex" IDE features you develop, at the same time! and the "IDE haters" that will just use the editor would use or recommend the IDE whenever they would need to navigate an ugly codebase or recommend something to someone else)
Digiarty Released Xmas Software Serial Giveaway with More than Free DVD Copy Pro
Today, Digiarty Software formally launched the 1st round of 2012 Xmas software serial giveaway, which is providing full copies of WinX DVD Copy Pro (regularly $49.95), 5-in-1 software gift pack, and DVD Ripper Platinum bundle. WinX DVD Copy Pro giveaway is valid before Dec.20 and the next round will go live from Dec.21 with more iPhone iPad software.
That's "easy" in 2012: You Like them on Facebook (and wait for them to pay $$$ to promote their postings to get into your newsfeed).
Oh man I agree whole-heartedly. Let programs do what they're already good at. PyCharm is good at managing things and being a general IDE, and Sublime is fricken awesome at editing text.

Both try to dabble in eachother's realm, but the places where they shine should be inter-operable, not combative.
Emptiness.
Pyramid Single File App Tutorial
53 'Arrested Development' jokes you probably missed
Low CosOpen Source Wireless Hacking – HackRF Jawbreaker
We totally agree. Wait for what is coming ;)
It's worth noticing that, in Google+, only one link gets a first-class position in any given post. If you want to throw down a fuller list of citations, it's a lot less visible. To me, this says that Google subconsciously understands what they've done and have chosen not to fight it. Or they just don't know how and have given up.
2012: What a Year for Linux
You are setting yourself up for failure using these methods.

- You're being misleading by asking them to write a concat method when you really want unit tests for that method. Just be straightforward. You're being too clever for your own good.

- People rarely code in a linear fashion. For example, I often write the meat of my methods first. Then do edge cases / error handling in a second or third pass. I have been dinged for this in interviews before. But imo, it says nothing about me as a programmer.

- You want them to be comfortable with tools, but they are behind enemy lines and under enemy fire. Dont expect them to achieve any kind of comfort level (and I would put 'thinking to use debugger' up there as something you would forget/ignore while being uncomfortable).

- When you are in extreme concentration mode, do you talk to others? Probably not. If you want them to talk, ask them questions. Again you're expecting them to read your mind. (also, keep them away from a keyboard if you want them to talk. Put them in front of a white board instead)

As others have said, talking to people and getting to know them and how they solve problems is much better than giving them mechanical interviews.
How accurate is this? It doesn't show Russia as a backer of the proposal.
Does Instagram have the critical mass that Facebook has? Personal anecdote: I have stopped sharing photos on instagram since Facebook made it easier to share photos (especially in bunch) on mobile.
I've got an openphoto account. The friction I feel each subscription time is all the places out there on the internet that are linking to my Flickr pictures with the Flickr urls. It's worth ~$25/yr to not even consider going and finding all the places I've got pictures linked out of my Flickr account and working out how to update them (if it's even possible). I could very easily store all my own photos in S3, but I can't easily go back and update old urls, and hey - $25 isn't _that_ much…
Hopefully the pricing will be competitive with Google Fiber, and not several times more.
People seem to have bought a few books and given reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Websters-Icelandic-English-Thesaurus-D...
Interesting. I just publish my first work myself, slightly along the lines of this, though obviously nowhere near the scale.

I basically just took a freely available dictionary data source and compiled it into a nicely readable, Kindle-compatible format.
I put it up on Amazon through their KDP and almost instantly had sales, which was a cool experience.

The whole thing got me thinking of some of the large number of other opportunities of throwing a little code at compiling data into useful volumes for for instance the Kindle.
Nope. A search for anchovy pizza, which I've never searched for before, turned up results.

Edit: In Seattle.
Mathematics itself is about structures and operations, properties of mathematical objects (like closedness and completeness) a.s.o.
Numbers and proofs are just the tools of mathematics to work with those things.
It's quite misleading. Sublime and Textmate support lots of languages whereas as far as I can see Brackets is only for HTML/CSS/JS.
> Harper would install backdoors in everyone's computers tomorrow if he could.

{{citation needed}}

I certainly, certainly, understand that politicians often act against the interests of those they are meant to serve. However, I don't know why this level of discourse which includes unfounded, outrageous claims with regards to Politicians and Governments is so prevalent.

As a citizen, you also need to accept that Politicians typically act and make decisions on more data points than you or I have access to. The President of the United Staes represents the interest of 312 million people and those interests often conflict quite violently. He has to make life and death decisions which affect the lives of millions of people in America and around the world, and he does so on a daily basis using incomplete and conflicting information. That shit ain't easy.

To be opposed to a Politician or Government is completely fine and the right of any citizen in a democracy. Governments are imperfect organizations made up of imperfect political parties composed of humans who are imperfect. However, statements like, "Harper would install backdoors in everyone's computers tomorrow if he could.", without citation does nothing to improve the situation. The governing of our society is too important of a topic for such unproductive and toxic level of discourse which is all too common.
But there are also managed hosting companies specifically for WordPress, which offer pre-configured servers, optimized WordPress installs and WordPress related support. Most of these companies have custom solutions that are suitable for enterprise customers. A couple of them, such as BlogDroid or Pagely, will even help customers solve issues with their code's performance.
I always thought that HN's two favourite editors were VI and EMACS...
Rapleaf was crawling and providing information crawled from social networking sites (much more than just links to profiles) back in 2007. They were providing an API to access this data in 2008 or 2009 I think. They no longer do any of this I think and have pivoted towards offline data, but don't quote me on that.
Thanks. It mostly worked. Of course, the real benefit of ipython is the notebook. For that you need (on OS X)

brew install python # or just download and install from source
pip install numpy
pip install matplotlib
pip install ipython[zmq,qtconsole,notebook,test]

Actually, for qtconsole you need to install Qt and
pip install pyside

But the latter failed to build on my machine...
(Given that Apple's gcc version is ancient and clang is the default compiler on OS X -- it's a wonder the other tools were built correctly)
Well the downvoting was a question I had at one point (but now is answered). I have actually just noticed the FAQ and Guidelines links so that might answer many of the questions I've wondered about.

I am glad that they don't have collapsible branches here.
It might be that here the discussion is generally on track and in general is educational and/or polite.
On a site like Reddit though I do like the threaded as they (from the little I go there) seem to devolve into long threads with not much substance.

When I didn't find any extensions for Chrome that made comments' depth more visible (but did see many for collapsible) I learned how to write my own extension (not polished but functional) and am in the process of making another.
If this is based on/complies with the IBM decimal arithmetic standard you should advertise the compliance.
I shared it here: http://dot-js.com/posts/acef2f2d-1818-412d-807b-4977f1ec431f
He could know that from someone else. But from whom - is a separate question.
I stopped at "you can edit the editor's source code in HTML/JS/CSS" For me personally, I want the best native editor I can find that makes doing my job easier/simpler - I don't want an editor that I can tinker around with its source code and accidentally shoot myself in the foot.
I'm not sure why it's possible to change the division sign, but using a colon (":") to indicate a fraction is confusing given that it's generally used for odds.

( 0.1 + 0.2 )/( 1/3 * 12 ) = 3/40
3:40 = "three to forty odds" = 3/43
I am surprised that discipline wasn't an externally-applied requirement. Seriously, change management wasn't part of the contract? WTF?
so because it's an Enterprise thing, someone just decided to add one more bullet point "out of thin air" and pasted that incomprehensible thing about "Javascript customization" ...niiiiiice.
They're definitely working on it. I know the JetBrains folks are working very hard to integrate the editing systems of something like emacs / sublime into their IDE.

I'll ping @intelliyole on twitter to respond.

https://twitter.com/mahmoudimus/status/279494119431217153

Update:

For now, what I do is use an external command that pipes out the buffer to Emacs and I use Emacs to slice and dice - then I just C-c # out of Emacs and switch back to PyCharm and keep on coding.
I think the whole concept of storing files in folders and folder hierarchies is outdated. Why don't we use tagging for our files yet?
Isn't a webapp just like any website?
I don't understand what the apprehension is towards learning mathematics. Take it at college (university). Take as much as you can. Take it instead of silly courses like philosophy (for which you can sit in a lecture in your spare time, or look at online videos, or take out a book from the library and read at your own leisure). Just learn the freggin' math and stop bitching about "is it necessary, do I really need it, blah blah blah". It's an IMMENSELY useful subject in just about every branch of human knowledge. It's never a waste of time, perhaps even more so if you're a computer programmer.
nice to see Telescope being used :)
Had a conversation about UI design once that went along the lines of:

Q: How do we make that [...] noticeable?

A: I know, let's make it freakyn ugly!

...

A: Hmmm... seems that we overestimated peoples' aesthetic sense.
That's an interesting idea: automatically commit every change during development.

I guess developer may choose to label current set of files as "share with other developers on my team" or "production ready". IDE may also auto-assign labels such as "buildable" and "auto-tests passed".
Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content
Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. All these editors like Sublime Text 2, Chocolat, Light IDE, Cloud9, etc fail at very basic task: sticking around. They also fail at another task: being available everywhere.

If a new decent editor shows up, it wont be shiny, it wont grab headlines on HN with a fancily designed website, it will simply grow popular slowly, be added to package managers across platforms after withstanding the test of time. The test of more than one person or just a few developing it and then moving on to something else.

With vim and emacs you're guaranteed to not be wasting your time learning their arcane ways. Long after humans have left the Earth someone will be reprogramming a couple of launch tubes on their trans-stellar space vehicle with vim. They wont be using this fluff from Adobe.
I don't think so. There's some Adobe heavyweights involved with the project.

The flipside is Twitter Bootstrap, which was never an "official" Twitter project.

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/b95033c270af
Neither of them did anything particularly noteworthy this year, other than fail to bring peace to the Middle East for the nth year in a row.
A digital cold war?
Marc Andreessen:'Every Single Idea From The Dotcom Era Was Correct'
Payment wasn't the reason that the US, UK, Canada, etc... aren't signing, it's the idea of opening up "Internet" governance into an ITU treaty. Once you start mixing Internet and telecommunications governance, you open the door to a treaty that would force countries with a strong free speech tradition to enforce the censorship laws of other countries.
SKYNET begins collecting information that it will use to become self-conscious during the formative years of intelligent writing computers (2011-2012)
Most businesses buy a lot of products and services locally. It is infeasible for your garbage collection service or other utilities to be sourced from outside the local area, for a lot of goods there are licensing or transportation issues which make them local, etc.

Internet companies are a huge exception to normal businesses. (which is why they're so awesome and can turn into scalable startups so easily). Income tax is on profits, so if you have a low margin business, or an earlier startup business, you'd be paying low total income taxes even at the 3-4% rate., so a tiny B&O direct expense and higher costs for facilities, contractors, etc. translates to a much higher equivalent income tax rate.

B&O isn't a good argument against setting up your tech company in WA; it's just an unfair tax which penalizes some businesses (inherently local ones) while favoring others (prof services and internet). (the only good argument against tech startups in Seattle is the somewhat-smaller-than-Bay-Area pool of tech workers, largely better now than it was 10y ago when they were just Boeing and Microsoft, and the lack of great VCs (there are a few, but not the best in the world, and not many vs. SF, NYC, or Boston).
Another interesting read is "The island of the day before" by Umberto Eco. A 1995 novel about the problem of longitude and time zones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_the_Day_Before
I had known about some of this before like the eclipses being evidence of a round earth and how the estimate for the size of earth from the well story.
From this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Theories-Everything-Illustrated-Histor...

What I found most fascinating about the explanations (I was in pre-calc at school at the time) was the math involved.
During my classes (or any math class I've ever been in) they gave us formulas and equations but no meaning or real world context. If they'd told us how we could use the distance and angles to figure out what they'd figured out so long ago I think the math would have been much more interesting and brought home the point of why it is relevant to anything.
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Yes, you are correct! Egg on my face for not noticing the earlier mentions. Unfortunately for the army or Bracket promoters, substance really matters within the technical community. One can't market their way into product adoption with an inferior technical product in this community.
Wow, that's definitely a step in the right direction. Valve has been picking up reverse-engineers (to work on VAC) for years and I've always thought about applying, but didn't want to live in WA. While I also don't particularly want to live in SF, it definitely makes it far more tempting. Very interesting.