skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of SV (except for San Francisco itself) is family friendly. This is suburbia with a large tech population. The big issue you are going to face, depending on the ages of your children, is school selection and you can expect to pay a premium ranging from "a lot" to "you must be joking" for housing in areas with really good schools.
I was thinking more in the way of creating a product that would be installed on the universitys server and hosted on their intranet, just like traditional e-learning suites.

I can't imagine many schools would want to keep their data on a third party server.
Thank you very much for this link because due to your posting I found a little treasure of video tutorials on JavaScript.

And it's just what the doctor pre-scribed (pun intended) with the nearing release of the Palm Pre and webOS. I've got a handful of ideas for IMHO great but simple apps and the possibility of me being actually able to do it fairly easily is very exciting...

I've also got an idea for one not so simple game, already a proven success on desktop for years that wouldn't even require direct access to Palm's hardware. Unfortunately, I presume this would require much more real programming skills (not web programming skills I can provide) so we'll see what happens with that... And this game, with clever notification system that webOS sports would really excel on webOS...
Interesting. Maybe it's a dialect distinction, but to my ear, you have reversed the meanings of make and earn. A counterfeiter makes money, but a laborer earns it.
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but I almost always start from the previous session
Honestly, the problem isn't restricted to Chinese students. A lot of the US students that these Professors teach at Wharton and other comparable business schools see I-Banking and finance jobs as the path to personal wealth, not as a way to create value in the economy.

But what would you expect when finance industry jobs pay so much more than anything else.
We used Gmail internally and all had a lot of email, so we never even considered designs that wouldn't allow for a lot of mail.

Another example of the utility of eating one's own dogfood.
They have "evolved" a style of "journalism" that involves blind repetition of speculative, often unverified, information.

A fine, ringing denunciation. But let's consider performance. Do you learn more about startups from TechCrunch or the New York Times? I learn much more from TechCrunch. By the time the NYT gets around to writing about a startup, the news is usually pretty old. And they often get the story wrong, despite their supposedly greater professionalism, because they don't understand the domain as well as TC's writers do.

If you think there's a better source of information about startups than TechCrunch, what is it?
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As a for instance... why would "avoiding US constitutional law"
matter when it doesn't cover the detainees anyhow, as the
Constitution only really covers citizens?

This is dead wrong. The Constitution covers all residents of the United States. Even illegal aliens are entitled to constitutional protections thanks to the 14th Amendment, which specifically says that no state shall "...deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." See the cases of Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 369, 6 Sup. Ct. 1064. and Wong Wing v. U S, 163 U.S. 228 (1896) 163 U.S. 228.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yick_Wo_v._Hopkins

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wong_Wing_v._United_States

Now, the U.S. argued under Bush (and perhaps is still arguing?) that the detainees at Guantanamo are neither citizens nor are they within the territory United States. But I think this theory is far from completely decided. Arguing that Guantanamo is somehow not part of the territory of the United States, when clearly we exert our sovereignty there takes a special sort of blind sightedness. Furthermore, after Guantanamo is closed, if the detainees are brought onto US soil, then the Constitution will unquestionably apply to them.

Getting back to my original point: saying that the Constitution only applies to citizens likewise ignores nuance and simplifies the problem to the point of falsehood.
The news is not the part about where he stayed; it's that he's back on the job.
Please don't conclude that lisp-2 is a bad idea until you've considered that:

• there are disadvantages as well as advantages to lisp-1; and

• there is nothing about lisp-2-ness itself that requires the verbosity of (funcall #'…)-ing in Common Lisp:

Firstly, even in Common Lisp, (funcall (lambda …) …) and (funcall 'car list) are valid. (And many implementations allow ((lambda …) …) — though I can't remember whether the standard defines this.)

Secondly, funcall can be renamed something shorter (e.g. fun).

And finally, for those lispers not against a little syntax, a lisp-2 could define some syntax so that one could write, e.g. (#f …) for (funcall f …) and (##f …) for (funcall 'f …).

Then the above code would be:

(defun Y (r)
((lambda (f) (#f f))
(lambda (f)
(#r (lambda (x)
(fun (#f f) x))))))

etc.. (And we can make it even shorter if we call lambda something shorter, e.g. fn.)
Crazy that people still try to solve this stuff by hand instead of leveraging a library like jQuery or Prototype. The Taconite plugin is my favourite way of dealing with this specific problem. http://malsup.com/jquery/taconite/
I use a small page I put together that displays the weather for my location and the links I use most. I've been meaning for a long time to add a bit of functionality (adding/deleting/changing links) to it but haven't gotten around to it yet. It's just a handcoded file, but it gets the job done.

here it is: http://www.maximise.dk/start/
Anyone who uses public transport for commuting. Newspapers keeps being interesting for so long.
I disagree. My experience has been that no matter how well thought-out the first version is, there are always a few extra features added, or previously major features abandoned. These types of changes represent a distinct shift in the structure of the program, but are often simply tacked on or hacked out, respectively.

On the other hand, this article is simply stoking the embers of the long-standing war between refactoring and rewriting, without adding a whole lot to the debate.

Some other insightful opinions on the issue:

Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Jeff Atwood:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000684.html

Ronkes Agerbeek: http://www.ronkes.nl/blog/?2005-04-15-neverrewritecode
This entrepreneurship attitude differs from country to country. In many socialist countries people like jobs in the government - it is cushy, extremely stable and offers excellent benefits.

In other societies risk taking are discouraged (through various means). You should also take into account the difficulty of starting a business when you do not have access to capital.

The USA is one of the few countries that almost seems to reward risk taking and is not over-regulated (thereby cancelling out small companies). This is fairly unique and is probably a part of what make the USA great.
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The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics
I'm not very literate in functional programming ... so excuse such a dumb question. But I'm curious why you write the recursing function duplicated? eg. isn't this version of your code equivalent?

function Y(X) {
var fn = function(procedure) {
return X(function(arg) {
return procedure(procedure)(arg);
});
};
return fn(fn);
}

Or am I missing something vital here about how it is all working? The shorter version seems clearer to me (not that any of this is clear to me), and functionally equivalent.
We are building it. And we were rejected by 3 VC firms, not just one. =)

On the other hand, we do have to compete against both SoundCloud.com and BandCamp.com, both of which accomplish some/most of our idea.

Its should be an interesting year for music.
I would caution you against looking at e-learning as a single market - there's the K to 12 market and then the post-secondary market. You also need to look at geography and the educational direction of countries, regions, states, etc. For example, the UK market is very different than the US or AUS markets, and potential clients in each country are looking for very different things.

Blackboard doesn't really play much in K to 12, but virtually owns the post-secondary market in North America. I think you could spend a lot of time and effort trying to build a Blackboard competitor and not get very far.

However, if you take a look at what teachers are doing with Moodle http://moodle.org/ or Joomla http://www.joomlalms.com/, there's probably a niche there to get your hands onto.

In reference to some of the sales comments - if you can connect with teachers, professors or curriculum oriented staff and get them excited, there's a good chance to find some budget.
Someone motivated purely by money will usually be chasing the field after the fact, whereas those that truly love something will likely have been practicing and gaining information and skills in the area for a much longer period of time with greater concentration. It naturally follows that the later entrants will be, on average, of inferior quality. Not in all cases, but probably most.
Ex-Microsoft Vets Gearing Up New Incubator, 8ninths, and New Social Startup, Lolligift
There isn't too much on their main web page, however, the about page describes their objectives:

http://www.sagebase.org/about.html
I'm going to assume since they mention getting dugg on that form that they will respond to that form quickly.

But you know what they say about assumptions.
I don't like this one bit. Work for free and we might introduce you to a VC? wtf.
This pretty much mirrors my reasons.

I move around a lot, meetings at remote sites, day trips, work for a few hours from some random coffee shop.

Also, I have my sideline job where I host a growing cache of customer servers in a datacenter I have some space carved out of.

Lastly, I spend most of my weekends at a second home and in the summer spend a sub-part of those weekends on my boat.

In all these cases a small, portable, light-weight machine is often all I need or want for the basic tasks I'll be doing. A netbook (Asus EEE 4G) with my Verizon USB EVDO dongle gives me portable computing, with or without Wifi available. The fact that it's pretty much impossible to store anything personal/private on it (especially if you don't store passwords in FF) and the low cost make it basically disposable if it gets lost/damaged/stolen/dropped in the lake.

If 99% of my job was spent in a cubicle I would probably have less use for it.

Sometimes it'll sit for a month, sometimes it will get used almost everyday.
And possibly the biggest events site, etc.

Basically, for the subset of things where having the most people you know on the site is more important than the fact that the interface of some other site is better, facebook may win out.

I know people who have resisted joining any social network that are succumbing and joining facebook. These are people who are not going to be signing up for half a dozen accounts on different specialty sites anytime soon. If facebook does it, they'll likely use facebook for it. If I want to keep in touch with them, or invite them to an event, facebook is the easiest way to do so. This means I'll use facebook more for these things, even though (unlike some of my friends) I'm perfectly willing to sign up for all sorts of specialty sites.
The problem as I understand it is this. Let's imagine that the rotor spins forever. At some stage that rotor has to be attached to something else to actually harness the energy and here some friction will occur.
my homepage is set to my bookmarks (an html page with the exported bookmarks).
A) Freddie and Fannie did better than the rest of the industry.

B) Fannie and Freddie have over 5 trillion dollars in their portfolios, owned and guaranteed. The mortgages from before 2006 are pretty sound, from 2006 are not so good, from 2007 really bad - but nowhere near as bad as those from the rest of the industry.

C) Fannie and Freddie should never have been "private" in the first place: trying for year after year growth to keep their stock growing led them to make a lot of mistakes, often aided and abetted by their political friends.
If I want to be a billionaire, I want to be, just to replicate the Silicon Valley here in Cairo, Egypt!

One of my big wishes is having a copy of Stanford University here... and what a crazy? I want to make it for free for high talented "poor" students.
How do you feel about things like sweatshops and sharecropping? (Personally, I'd rather be a debt slave than starve to death, but many people see these sorts of businesses as abusive.)
Actually, I wasn't saying that you should always use the first version (or that you should always use the second version) but simple that at some point you need to release and that the result you release will be imperfect(I have edited my original post to reflect this).

I would actually agree that one should not rewrite existing, production code for the purposes of using it in the same application. The main reason is that the compromises that you remember as silly actually happened for important "semi-major" reasons you have forgotten about. Development can feel like a huge "rolling jello" activity but that jello-rolling produces a "compromise path" which cannot be found by deductions from first principles.

The reason to rewrite code from scratch is to produce a different application.

Any serious application, produced over a matter of months, has so many man-hours in it that it impossible for even the creator to comprehend the sum-total of compromises which it involved and their motivation. Thus the "character" of a particular application can almost never be recaptured by a rewrite.
California Western's February 2008 bar exam passage rate was the second-highest of any law school in the state of California (behind only Stanford University Law School) and its July 2008 bar exam passage rate was approximately 85%.
This is over a year old. It would be interesting to see if there's any changes, especially with jQuery 1.3's browser feature/bug detection.
Tell me something good
This is over a year old. At the pace these libraries evolve, this is not very useful data anymore.
Seldom a good idea. And faulty in so many ways. eg.

It's long been a tenet at the Schindler bitranch that when you find a block of code with several bugs, it's time to dump the whole file and write it again from scratch. It's faster than trying to squash all the bugs in your bug factory.

So now you've traded bugs you know about for bugs you know nothing about.

The real key isn't rewriting, it's refactoring. And in my opinion, should be done almost continually.
There's a Google-Firefox search page as well: http://www.google.com/firefox
How would you compete with Moodle, which is Open source, free, and has a lot of momentum? It's also pretty crappy, but I'm not sure that matters in this case - don't forget it isn't the users of the software who are the buyers.
my brother who is studying for his masters (not in a tech field) has one.. light + portable + cheap is a big win for students.

My wife wants one on the light + cute angle.. (A MacBook Air would be great - but it's pretty pricey to browse facebook)
Only one migration can be applied to a database at a time, so the migrations will need to be arranged sequentially at some point. With the scheme above, I guess this involves lots of file renaming...
You can just download all their data in a giant tarball and pull it out of there yourself.
It's disappointing Obama's Twitter account hasn't been updated since inauguration.
The authors include some very well known economists as described here: http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/02/26/and-you-think-...
Competitive advantage:
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congrats Jeff... happy to be in the round :)

- dmc
>If you think there's a better source of information about startups than TechCrunch, what is it?

Both readwriteweb and gigaom have better articles. The only arguable thing TC has going for it is that they're usually the first with the "news", which is only the result of Arrington's refusal to cover startups if they don't go to him first.
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Samsung is the forename of devotion and superiority which has urbanized its own prominent position in the communiqué subdivision by launching mobile handsets of best distinction.
I thought a lot of those sales came with stipulations that the house be fixed up in a certain amount of time. If not, it is a pretty good price. You would think that the materials cost more than that.
Steve Jobs is an Industrial Beethoven
Does anybody know what actual figures are for getting Dugg, Reddited, Slashdotted, NYTimed, etc?

500 requests/second seems pretty high to me. But I'm admittedly new to the big leagues.
Although this article is pretty old, it's the fact that John pays attention to details like this that makes me completely confident in my choice to use jQuery.
I have the Asus eeepc 4g. I use it daily. When I bought it, my only computer was a Macbook, and I wanted to start using a desktop again as my primary machine so I bought the eee for times when a mobile computer would be useful.

It's been a great little machine, I like the fact that its small and can handle bumps and drops which would kill hard drives in a normal laptop.
Azure and AppEngine are much more closely related than either to EC2.

Both Azure and AppEngine are platform-aware and do the scale-out magic for you; you write your code and they make sure it scales (more or less, I'm certain there's still some application-efficiency/scalability rewriting, but you never worry about individual machines, in theory)

EC2 means machine level administration and custom scale-out/scale-up techniques. Not to mention there are load-balancing concerns when you're in the more-requests-than-a-single-machine-can-handle range, although that's above 500/sec for many applications.
App engine averages out your quotas over time, so the limiting does kick in before you reach 30,000. It's not 30,000 every minute where once you reach 30,000 you have to wait until the next minute.
It looks like some newspaper replacements are doing a fine job watching the gov (and the gov's money): http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/01/tmz-story-forces-bank-to-retur...
Hacks a lot for all the negative karma, hackers. Hack you, too. >:(
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As a Wharton student, I feel that contrary to what the professor says, top business school students (Wharton students) are still interested in creating another paper monster, because historically finance offered a much greater salary for the individual.

Operations, marketing, and the other essentials have a much lower salary and potential to growth. I feel that the traditional product-making firms should offer more "fast-track" positions to attract top students to create real products.

I feel that in our global society today, people are more interested in me than we.
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the duplication is to allow it to be anonymous. Your version names a function.
Evan Williams interview with Charlie Rose
I think you're right. I recently graduated from one of the nation's top universities and I can tell you first hand that only a couple years ago, you could ask almost any ambitious student what their aspirations were after college and the default answer for many of them would be banking or consulting. I think this default position can be partly explained by the large salaries attached to these jobs and partly explained by students not knowing what exactly they wanted to do with their lives. If they were going to do anything, they should be well-compensated for it...right?

It is surprising, however, that graduating students are still gunning for these i-banking jobs given current industry conditions. If you're bright, ambitious, and hard working, I would think the odds of procurring some measure of wealth from some form of entrepreneurship would be on par with i-banking. Students lack foresight if they don't see that the banking industry will be drastically changed given current events.
is it me or did Evan look a bit out of it in this interview? Almost as if he was sleep deprived.
Ask HN: Is Open Source a Moral Imperative?
Or: Should I feel guilty for using my Mac?

I love the idea of open source software. I use languages and editors that are open source, and I feel like it is an excellent movement to support. I was a Windows user for years, used it all through my programming courses in college, and recently switched to Os X. I really enjoy using my Mac, but it's mostly because of the underlying tools that can be found on any decent linux distribution. Lately I've been feeling like I should make the effort to switch to some distribution of GNU/Linux. I know it will make me less productive for a while, but I am starting to feel guilty touting the benefits of open source while carrying around a MacBook Pro and using Os X. While I'm not a purchaser of content on their iTunes store, I do find myself wishing the iPhone development process was more open as well.

This is obviously a personal decision, but I was just curious if the rest of the hacker community went through this thought process at all (macs seem popular around here), or if it ever bothered anyone else? What did you do?

Thanks!
At work, my company's cafeteria menu on the Intranet. Think Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Ask HN: a bug in HN/Clickpass login?
I log in to HN with a Clickpass identity. Whenever I go to http://news.ycombinator.com with a newly started browser (ie no memory cookie, but a file cookie) the title bar shows a random user ID; when I refresh, it shows me logged in as me.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?
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If you mean "multiple" to be "more than a dozen", then yeah, you're right that you might need to think harder. For small projects though (which could be defined as "anything small enough to conceivably work with an ORM"), it works great.

I guess that one necessary assumption is that your shop doesn't have a strong requirement for Code Ownership (in capitals). Since anybody can change the schema, and thus the object model, anybody needs to be able to propagate out their changes as far as necessary to keep the tests running and the build unbroken.
I love this. If everyone did this, then Microsoft would lose the power to do whatever it wanted. Standards compliance would not be optional for them anymore. I hope this is a trend that continues.
"The other thing is a survey that I just read about in the Times. Over six in ten Americans think that someone in their household will lose their job in the next year. That means six in ten people won't buy anything other than basics. The economy comes to a full halt even worse than now."

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/02/we_are_all_vultures_now...
I am very big fan of Paul!
This guy is more than awesome.

In everytime I read his blog, and in everytime I read something he says... I just learn something new or a good habit that I should have!
I second ReadWriteWeb as well. Almost as fast, more technical, less sensationalism. I've pretty much stopped reading TechCrunch except for the UK section of late (and there just to keep tabs on Europe-specific stuff since I prefer it to TheNextWeb).
The big buyers will people who don't want to spend $1.5K on a macbook. Particularly once you start seeing these w/ built-in EVDO / whatever cards, I think they'll be everywhere. Consider most people on the internet -- do they use it for more than google, gmail, fb, twitter? Do they need a $1500 device or a $300 device?