skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Count up the glorified open air malls in your area and do a little local history.

This can be casually done by noting average home build dates in various neighborhoods. Find a neighborhood with houses from the 40s/50s and note the layout. Then find a neighborhood built in the 70s and note the layout. You can do that with any number of real-estate tools and/or Google Maps.

Just in the county I grew up in there was at least a dozen of those small towns -- each with shops, mainstreets, mixed-use zoning, surrounding homes, often with train stations and/or bus depots (some surviving to this day), all very walkable and livable.

Then the farmland around them was cut up into suburbs in the 40s and 50s.

But even those were notably different from modern suburbs: walkable, smaller lots, still some mixed use with corner stores and restaurants. The cul-de-sac and single-use zoning atrocities didn't start showing up until the 70s, when they basically stitched the old towns and old neighborhoods together into one largely-unbroken stream of Modern Americana.

And again, the thrust isn't that we should all have small towns or that suburbs are wrong for everyone. It's that the old spectrum has been reduced to a binary.

You have suburbs and you have New York City.

The fact that 'US city' discussions always revert to talking about a handful of the oldest cities is itself a tell: if it didn't grow into a city before suburbanization, they didn't really grow into a city. Many look for all the world like a high-rise downtown bolted onto suburban sprawl like an upscale version of a big box strip mall. They don't really "count" as a city like New York or Chicago and we all know it.
Let's build a JPEG Decoder
I was curious about it for a bunch of reasons.

I'm curious if there's a high order pattern for apps that make more on ios than android and vice versa.

I'm curious if as much promotion went into the android app as the ios app.

I'm always interested in finding new quality android apps, and I enjoy promoting ones that I'm particularly happy with.
It is Wizards of the Coast and they are selling high quality scans of the old classic books. (So not free.)
It's not obvious what the goal of this organization is, other than showing that there is interest in reporting all results. It would be nice to have a clear plan that they want to implement.

The goal here should be simple -- all clinical tests for a drug must be registered before they being in order to be considered evidence of a drug's effectiveness. This has to be done on the level of the FDA or other drug-approving organization, and is a simple and effective means of achieving this end.

Studies that are registered but never publish results will be noted and can be used to identify organizations that either routinely trash results through negligence or poor planning (the good faith version) or who refuse to publish negative results (the bad faith version). In either case, this can be taken into consideration when considering whether to green light a drug.
Webmaster world - good info about what's what in the webmaster world.
As I said in my post, I don't believe his intent was malicious (which is what I assume you mean by "hack into").

But that doesn't make the scanner any less stressful or detrimental to the system
Freelancing as a Couple
It is WoTC's own store, so it fully legal.
Not-So-Ephemeral Messaging: New SnapChat “Hack” Lets Users Save Photos Forever
"serious games"

I get a smile in my face every time I see those two words toghether.
By shutting out existing members and giving non members more features?
Our functional reactive web framework is specific for the R language but supports what you're describing (if I understand you correctly).

http://rstudio.github.com/shiny/tutorial/#dynamic-ui (scroll down to reactiveUI)

An example:
http://glimmer.rstudio.com/winston/dynamic_ui/
https://gist.github.com/4211337
We tend to run out of private repos on our organisation gold plan, but have a little ruby script which can pull down some of the older projects (and their wikis), zip them up, archive them to S3 and then remove the repo on Github.

It can also do the reverse, pull the archives down, create a new private repo and push everything back up.

It works quite well, and certainly solved the problem of hitting that ceiling.
Here's a Wired article about it, for those who can't connect: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2013/01/dndclassics/

It's pretty much a total hodgepodge of out-of-print material. You won't find 4th edition rulebooks or anything like that, but there apparently are a handful of 4th edition scenarios there.
They are also just NOT buying. A five year old computer should run email and Office just fine. Maybe get a RAM upgrade or something for $50.
This may be the first time I've ever seen an article headline phrased as a question that can unequivocally be answered as "Yes", counter to Betteridge's law of headlines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
This is awesome. Good work!
Too late (I wouldn't call myself brilliant though) :P

If anything the fact that so many people don't get there motivates me.

I've never belived in actually caring about the job market and such (or career planning). If you're sufficiently motivated that usually takes care of itself.

I mean I'm mostly in it because I need to change the world a bit. Kind of the whole "you just see the world in a different way" that gets brought up by entrepreneurs all the time. Some research isn't the slow and incremental type everyone keeps talking about in their "lol PhD/academics" rants :D

[Also getting a PhD here is vastly different. I get payed, teach classes and tutor students and work on my PhD on the side. Basically all self management/motivation and we don't take any classes and the like. Just thesis+defend]
Granted, good examples. Other than programs that install memory resident apps for their own use (which isn't even part of this discussion), most of them do not affect day-to-day usage of Windows.

On a side note, about that memory resident stuff. A quick look at the Activity Monitor on my Mac suggests similar stories. I have an iTunes Helper process running, don't use iTunes. A bunch of MS Office stuff, irony there. There's one for Spotify, which isn't running. Another for VMWare Fusion which is also not running. A large amount of processes that I have to assume that a number of them are typical system processes but not familiar with such things on a Mac I have no way to tell. Following your thought then I totally blame Apple for their lack of control over their third parties.

But again, why exactly is this the fault of Windows and/or Microsoft? Are you saying that Microsoft should have had a heavier hand in terms of third-parties? Seems to me, considering history, they would have answered to the Justice Department for doing such a thing. Keep in mind that almost every single one of your examples come from third-party sources outside of Microsoft's control.

Are you suggesting that it is impossible for nefarious entities to get crapware, bloatware, or other unwanted things into Linux or OS X through social engineering or shady practices? My Mac comes with all kinds of iSoftware that I don't want/need/use so can I call those bloatware?

I'm still waiting for enough examples of crapware bothering people on a day-to-day basis that can support the statement that such behavior is the "Windows philosophy".

Although, I grant to you that if you somehow managed to get all that stuff on your system at the same time then that would affect your day-to-day because of eventual performance issues. But then again, in most cases if people would bother to read what they click on then they'll avoid most of this stuff. It's the ones that install themselves without your knowledge are the truly offensive crap.
do you always post this too? :P
> To complete a PhD, you really have to have to want a research career.

(disclosure: loved my Ph.D., was a professor, now doing a startup)

This is almost true, and I don't mean to quibble, but the slight inaccuracy is an important one: to complete a PhD you have to want to complete a body of research-quality work that is recognized by experts in your field as a meaningful advance over the current state of the art.

Everyone I know who did the Ph.D. wanting to have completed something (improve file systems, discover a new alloy hardening process, etc.) had a great time and reports it as among the best years of their life. But there are lots of people who just see it as the next credential to get, and for them the lack of intrinsic motivation to complete specific independent work can make the process quite depressing and disorienting.

It's an interesting environment because you have a lot of the initiative/innovation challenges faced as an entrepreneur, but that part isn't evident to everyone. It is absolutely not like a job where you will be given responsibilities and expected to fulfill them.
Looks pretty normal to me?
Just because the returns are lower doesn't mean it's not viable. There are plenty of Android success stories. Even Angry Birds makes more money on Android than on iOS last I heard.

One of the big challenges on Android is Google doesn't have many credit cards for Apps so right there non-free apps are in trouble. Android may have double the iOS market share but if they only have half as many credit cards their effective market share for paid apps is 1/4 their true market share. That's before you even look at customer demographics, etc.
I think this is the heart of the matter. Why are people disengaging?
I have the same experience as you in central Austin which, while not NYC, is still one the biggest cities in the US. I encounter people I know everywhere I go. The grocery store, theater, bar, etc. But I'm engaged in my community.
I think there's something else at play here. I suspect many people aren't interested in engagement and are seeking out ways to retreat. Clearly in your rural Texas town someone could still buy a house miles away from anyone and not engage at all. I wonder if people aren't doing so, or if they do so in such small numbers that you don't really notice.
Yeah, I liked it, but after so many years I'd forgotten most shortcuts anyway, and Renoise has an impressive set of features.
> I'm not particularly special; just tenacious.

It's a myth that you require to be "smart" to do a Ph.D. You just require few basic skills, a good supervisor and persistence. You are good to go! Here's a quote which is another version of what you said and you will realize it's exactly the same. If this person could do it(with wide spread fame) why not you?

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with
problems longer. - Albert Einstein
So... what's the catch? Can someone provide a devil's advocate against picking up Elixir?

I've been working at learning Erlang, but it's been a challenge and Ruby's syntax was a first love, so Elixir sounds ideal for me and I'm tempted to try it. It just... can't be as good as the hype. So I'd like some earnest objections to Elixir, especially if they're answered objections.
So wait...SnapChat isn't secure?
Aren't there some important cases in family law that would need to be referenced by a self-represented litigant?
This Interactive Map Lets You Spy on Insecure Webcam Feeds
What we have in store for you at The Next Web Conference Europe 2013
The problem with using your inbox as a todo list is that anybody in the world can write to it. (citation needed.) The point of putting todo messages in a separate place is to separate the activities of doing stuff (ie, the items on your list) and deciding what needs to be done (processing your inbox and building your list).

When you're looking at starred messages, you know that a) you've already read the message, and b) there's an important task you need to do. Your job is to remember what you wanted to do and get it done. When you're in your inbox, you know that your seeing new information and your job is to decide whether or not its important.

This distinction may sound trivial, but it makes a huge difference. Think of it this way: When you read a message and then mark it as "unread," you're throwing away all the work you've already done in reading and evaluating it. Next time you encounter the message you're starting from scratch. By starring it and taking it out of your inbox, you give yourself enough of a cue to quickly resume processing the message where you left off.
I haven't seen it before, but it's a fantastic time waster.

I dare say it may be more interesting than StumbleUpon?????
Cool. Secure Boot for all your dell stuff.
So much about this doesn't make sense to me. What features does Github offer that make you want to use it over, good example, BitBucket? Why do you feel you deserve those features for free? Why in particular do you feel you deserve to use those features for free to do your own paying work? Come to think of it, what kind of freelancing are you doing where $7/mo is a notable expense?

Really, help me, I want to understand— but you sound like a crazy person.
His coworkers are overpaid?
Wither Alienware?
Going from idea to product
i just did a Q&A with loren brichter, the guy behind letterpress and tweetie, and was intrigued by his approach to turning ideas into products. "I may be an outlier, but I prototype first in my head, second in code. Rarely will I circle back and draw something out on paper — usually if I hit a wall that I can’t reason through. And if I hit that point it might be a symptom of an error in my thinking." full text is here http://startupjuicer.com/2013/01/loren-brichter-founder-of-atebits/

it seemed like a very free way to explore ideas although and very much different to the deliverable led work found inside agency type environments and probably most places when the head count grows.

i'm curious how others think about their work and take things from that transient state of imagination into shipped code.
I feel like that reasoning should be outlined in the tutorial. As a newbie, it seems like a pain to get django running if I have to set up a VM just to do it, and the author provides little explanation.

Coming from rails, its weird to me that he seems to emphasize their 'gem install' equivalent over their bundler equivalent.

Otherwise, a great tutorial.
With all due respect, that's some priceless apologist BS. You still didn't outline the fucking strategic goal being served here with this "perfect tactic". If the course is to stay a major dick in the software world, then yes it is par for the course. But that doesn't make much business sense - does it?
Quick cash from blogging revealed
How to make quick money online? Blogging and Ads - simply as that. Have you tried combination of AdFly + Clicksor + Billionuploads + today's trends? no? Ok let's earn your first $30 with no effort. What's next? Maybe $270.
I think this could be how thing get done in the future
Basically this isn't dedupe. If two people upload the same file, Mega will store two copies.
You act like everybody wants to be the next Apple. I and many others will be happy with a smart phone that runs free software. There's room in this space for "The Red Hat of Phones" to come make some money and foster a loyal, if small, community. I don't know who it will be yet, but I don't think anybody expects Mozilla or Canonical to produce the next iphone.
That you are classifying the unpaid internship as an opportunity says something about your goals. That you are debating a paid internship over an unpaid one says something, too.

Internships are supposed to be about learning. There's plenty of other options if you just want a job.

Good luck.
Meh. It sucks that businesses like 500px have to be a marter in a bottle necked distribution environment. Its amazing enough that they built a beautiful product that people want to use, found a way to get adoption and have cultivated such a passionate users base. Now they have to go solve a tangential business that wasn't part of their vision or expertise.
In the comments of his post, Jason wrote:

"Customers are bad about figuring out features, but good about explaining their pain or what they'd like solved."

In your chat with Nathan, you said that people are not good at explaining or even noticing their pains. I guess your experience differs from Jason's in that respect. Mine is probably somewhere in the middle :-)

So, if your prospects are not aware of their pain, how do you sell them your solution?

I expect you have to educate them. It's probably unlikely that you just build something, unveil it, and they go "Of course I need this! Why didn't I think of it?! Silly me! Here's my money."

But then how long do you spend on educating them? Is this why you recommend info products? So that you don't waste time educating for free?

Or do you recommend doing landing page tests?

This is turning into an interview, so I'll stop here. I don't expect you to give away all the secrets you teach in your courses, but would appreciate anything you can share. Thanks!
This sounds very important if true. Citation needed?

(For fake studies, and for the vast majority of trials not being published.)
As an individual with an IT Startup, I have to agree with this article. I certainly don't have the money to pay for PhD-level talent, but I'm in dire need of skilled individuals to implement the technical side of my business plans and maintain them. I think it's critical that we stem the tide of over-educated people entering the workforce in America and the best way to do it is FUD-y articles like this that exaggerate every negative aspect of the academic environment to the extreme. Just because you have the opportunity and resources necessary to get a PhD, doesn't mean you should take advantage of that and improve your possibility in life dramatically. Chances are you'll end up moving to a European country where all the successful startups seem to be based anymore.
Most developers go where users go, most of the time, until some of them have a reason not to. Luckily for those who don't always follow the money, demand sometimes follows supply instead of the other way around.
Awesome! Some advice from a writing group I've attended: Find a good editor that has the time to do a good job. Think of it like this, you can have the greatest band in existence and it can sound like crap with a bad person on the mixer.

I'm not a novelist myself, more of a hobbyist but I've seen the results of good and bad editors in my little group. I've also run the mixer at my parent's church. The key to a good artistic performance is both you and the people supporting you. :)
Kindle Desktop Publishing, to see if my short story has sold any copies (the answer is nope).
Are you really asking this? The answer is obvious--the law. If you are offended that court records are public, start lobbying to get a bill passed that protects them. Healthcare has HIPAA which is why medical records are private.
We Must Run Government IT Like A Startup
Elsevier published six fake journals, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, designed to look like peer reviewed journals.

(http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27383/...)
McDonald's tried this and it turned out minimum wage workers are cheaper and break less than cooking robots.
This sounds more accurate to me: Depictions of sex have little to no effect on all but the most borderline of individuals. Depictions of violence have little to no effect on all but the most borderline of individuals.
Author here. If Erlang's community is small, Elixir has an even smaller community. Elixir did just recently rise to the #56 most popular language on Github[1] from #57 however, so it's on the rise.

[1]: https://github.com/languages/Elixir
I don't think this works... There are event listeners to prevent screenshot mechanism.
Been there, has a strong Stepford Wives type of neighborhood feel to it. But it is a nice neighborhood because of so much being within walking distance. I would consider living there.

The pink flamingo rebel from a few years back had to provide some good laughs.
Does anyone have a counterpoint to this article about why not to use Elixir?

We're pretty deep into using native erlang for our work so I don't know how much benefit we'd squeeze out of a switch to Elixir, but this is quite intriguing.

BTW, thanks so much for the mention. The core of Kazoo is an all Erlang Stack and we're proud of it (before anyone jumps at me FreeSWITCH is not written in Erlang but it's also not something we at 2600hz wrote). Building the sorts of massively scalable infrastructures we want with the uptime requirements we need would be much harder without the awesome concurrency tools Erlang provides.

Delighted that people care about these kinds of languages :D.

Disclaimer: I am the Community manager for http://www.2600hz.com and the Kazoo Product.
I don't sell apps. I own a piece of hardware. Apple restricts the software I can run on the hardware that I own.

We would all be better off if Apple did not do this.
WordPress, WordCamp, and the GPL License War
Open Source File System Takes On Microsoft's exFAT Patents
I'm sure Dell would have preferred Microsoft give them an OS that people would want to buy PC to use. But this will do.
Agreed, the cause and effect between heart disease and periodontal disease is not well proven. However, the beneficial effects of flossing in preventing periodontal disease is well understood and you're welcome to read the literature yourself if you don't believe me. I believe this is exactly what I said in my original comment.
Paul Graham praises applications from Waterloo students
We've been doubling down on QA since the last LTS, there's some info on that here: http://qa.ubuntu.com/
CommonJS: Why and How
Because nothing defines usability like a crap soft keyboard, broken voice search, broken inter-app sharing, tiny, static notifications, and junk stock apps, right?

Take away Gmail, Google maps, and Google search and all your iphone has left to brag about is smooth scrolling.
Why get an education and work hard, stand up for my principles and all that garbage when I can just go work the corner?
A New Use for StackOverflow
Yeah I'm monitoring them. Seems like a good bet that Elixir will be my language of choice down the road. Some great people behind it, I have a feeling once Dynamo gets a bit more mature (2013 is their year) the language will take off.

This video is a nice intro imo (~50 minutes):
http://vimeo.com/53221562
Thanks for pointing this out.

Just a few paragraphs into the article, I was thinking the author had done a spectacularly bad job of picking an adviser (or supervisor). In my experience, "meaningful intermediate goals" and feedback are the reason for having an adviser.

Not to say that all advisers are very good at providing goals and feedback, though.
I don't know if you can distinguish the two so easily. You can't really expect the government to provide a slick interface or make the data easy to use. It's well outside of the court system's core competency. But if you make the raw data easily accessible then it creates the possibility for entrepreneurs to do something innovative with it, which leads to the public benefit.

Heck, that's pretty much where Lexis and West came from so long ago, but now technology is offering the possibility (at least in theory) to democratize the process so that someone can screw around with the data over a weekend or three and see if they can create something worth following up before they go through the trouble of looking for funding in order to buy data.

I don't know if we're even particularly arguing about anything. Is there really an argument to be made that this data should not be freely available? If "that day will come" then I guess all I'm saying is that sooner is better than later.
I think you should clarify that you mean New York City and maybe even indicate what borough you would live to live in. New York is a big state and $65k is a nice salary in Utica, NY.