skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did more to save online retail with just fighting a patent - they have excellent customer service.

Not quite as good as Amazon but way up there.
This is awesome. Nice work!
I like the minimalistic requirements.

- No JavaScript required!

- No eMail required!

- It even works in Lynx!

Well done. Keep it this way, and I might actually use it.

One wish on the list: Make it https ;-)
One of the biggest issues I see my self facing is raising awareness about this new type of service is this industry. Usually technology on the internet has come from porn and in this instance the role is reversed. I don't think advertising will be effective because the publishers in the porn industry usually advertise content, and not services. Do you have any advice for getting the word out and educating people?
I love this post....thought they would be 'lame' ideas, but I love them.

I run 5KMVP and am interested in doing the metrics idea.

If you are interested in having your startup data crunched and you sent the key metrics on a weekly basis - reach out to me: marc+metrics @ 5kmvp.com
Unless you are trying to make a snarky remark about college-graduates being taught how to work for someone else instead of run their own company--this is not true.

It is not hard to imagine a society where work is more collaboration among equals and less hierarchical. I.e. Valve Software.
I think you're describing the majority of freelance blog writers you'll find on places like Elance, etc. these days.

What I meant was the blogger should deliver not only articles but all the other (very important) tasks for running an effective blog: editorial calendar, topic development, blogger outreach, etc. A premium blogging service, if you will.
What excites me about Firefox OS is how HTML makes it so much easier to programatically lay out all those UI elements. Android's XML layouts are okay with me but look at how there's much less code to be typed in FFOS to achieve the same effect! I guess the same can be said about iOS?
But -1*INT_MIN is still 1 greater than INT_MAX in two's complement ... so that's signed overflow and thus undefined behavior in C.

Assuming x86 signed overflow behavior, you're just back to INT_MIN again? Or am I crazy?
You want to be an independent contractor. That is cool, but not what an employer is.

Do you think responsible adults should just pay employees whatever they need and can, and not agree on a number in advance? Why or why not?
I have yet to see or hear of anybody with an iPhone in the Seoul area. I know they are out there, but an incredible minority. The lack of NFC and a local market version that supports the ubiquitous over the air digital TV (which is so common even in-car GPSs let people watch TV while they're stuck in traffic) [1] makes them more or less a non-starter. [2]

But I'm not sure how much of a signal Asia's fashion trends are towards western markets, I mean the Turbo Engine, X68000, MSX and VCDs and MiniDiscs (among others) were all very popular in various parts of Asia, but DOA pretty much everywhere else.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcasting

2 - this is more or less the solution http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/koreas-iphones-become-more-powerf...
"The PHP in our themes is covered under the GPL, but the images, CSS, and JavaScript are not."

I know a lot of companies do this. Heck, even ID software provided free source of their engines, but didn't give away their WADs. But is the PhP in this case of any value without the rest? Can anything be done with it?

If the PhP is of no value on its own and it specific to the CSS, JS, and images, then imo that totally would violate the spirit of GPL'ing the other. If that is the case and you want to have it be proprietary, don't provide the source/files for any of it (for the new stuff). If you want it to be GPL, then sell it, but make all of it free source, including the images, JS, and CSS. Note: I believe that Stallman's view (if you care) is that not providing images is ok if it is art and not source/required for the source, but I think that is a loophole that can be exploited, so I say make it all free.

However, if the PhP provides some value on its own and is usable (like one of ID's engines), it's all good and do what you want.

There is nothing in GPL that says that you can't get paid for it. Just because you have to provide the source for free doesn't mean people can't pay you for the work, it just means they can't pay you for the source. They could pay you for the bundle (which they could create on their own if they wanted for free, but some may not be savvy enough to do that). GPL is not anti-capitalist.
"“Science literacy” tests quiz the initiated on their command of abstract dogmas acquired through no exercise of one’s ability to generate knowledge."

This is something that often bothers me about the r/atheism crowd.

A young person encountering an idea like evolution for the first time should be extremely skeptical and require much convincing, because it is not an intuitive idea at all. Believing in it just because the teacher says you will get a bad grade on the test if you don't does nothing to inculcate scientific thinking in young people.

Now, students unwilling to engage with physical evidence obviously have a different problem. But with the level of discourse I see coming out of many proponents of atheism on the Internet, I often feel many of them are proud of their "command of abstract dogmas" and are not particularly people demonstrating the "ability to generate knowledge."
It is true that duck and structural typing have only a subtle difference. But it is also true that duck typing has to be at run time essentially by definition.

Structural typing looks for structural isomorphsims - it is total. Duck typing looks at run time compatibility, so long as the runtime accessed portion is the correct signature it passes.

So structural typing is about isomorphisms and duck typing is about checking the correct boxes before entry. Both have the attribute of looking at structure but you cannot expect them to cluster types in the same manner.

In ML* terms I like to think of structural typing making hard clusters and Duck typing allowing for soft clusters.

* No, not that ML.
From your link:

"The informational value of the credential comes from the fact that the employer assumes it is positively correlated with having greater ability."

An often-cited reason why a lot of recent college-grads are without jobs is that they are not actually prepared for real work.

As the number of people graduate college, the meaning of a degree lessens. If everyone has one, then it stops meaning as much.
I've always assumed this is exactly why silicon valley companies have unlimited vacation policies. They know their employees won't take much vacation time, and this way they won't have to put the balance on the books.
Donate to this kid, and you get extremely good benefits...
He only needs $70, and i am the only donator. Seriously? Every dollar you help him, he will give you 0.5% equity (up into $70).
Link: www.aeipalt.webs.com
This is just a purely academic response to your question, but if you took me straight out of high school, and just dropped me into an apprenticeship-type situation in any medical field, I'm pretty confident I could come out just as competent had I gone through the classical college->residency gauntlet, and probably in a shorter amount of time. This of course assumes I have a minimum level of intelligence/work-ethic, a passion for medicine, and there were enough willing doctors going around to fulfill the demand for apprenticeships, but I think it's thusly theoretically possible to do away with college, although it would never happen.
A portfolio is a great first step. Doesn't have to be many projects. Just a few really impressive ones.

The good news is there are plenty of startups in need of videos. Offer to do a couple on the cheap to start your portfolio. Then start charging market rates.
Or, just hold down the O key and check out the variations available to you.
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I immediately wondered, based on the dates, where Viaweb fit into this conversation. Thanks for adding that information.
Not a bad article.

But why did you specify iPhone? This advice cold apply to Android as well.
One potential downside is that it's a lot harder or more computationally expensive to figure out class/interface relationships in IDEs or other tools. (I haven't used Go, though, so I'm not sure what kinds of tools are available for it.)

Generally, "what classes implement this interface?" is a question I need to ask quite a bit when working with Java in Eclipse. The simple way in Go (looking through all classes) would generate a bunch of false positives in a large enough codebase, and the more precise way (looking through all implicit casts everywhere to find all classes that are implicitly casted to the interface) is probably pretty slow or memory intensive and could potentially have false negatives (e.g. implementing classes that haven't been hooked up yet, and uses that aren't contained in your source tree).

There are other Eclipse operations that rely on this that would also be a lot harder to implement (in the same way they're implemented in Eclipse):

-"Find callers" on a class method includes calls to that method on superclasses and superinterfaces.

-"Rename method" automatically renames all methods with that name that are reachable through a path of implementer/interface relationships.
Yeah because the majority of college students are going to study medicine.

When people talk about the "end" of higher education they mean an end to the thousands of psychology, communications, liberal arts type degrees. We will still have universities and phd's but not kids taking on thousands in debt so universities can build massive new building and sports arenas.
I'm not the least bit a Go programmer, but it sounds pretty different from a programmer's perspective to me. With duck typing your methods end up with conditional logic based around respond_to calls. With Go it seems like it's declarative. Whether you like that or not, you have to admit it's pretty different for the developer.
The MVP is already useful to me...actually, I can't think of what more you could add (except a favicon). Can you do an NYC version?
Care to fill in the explanation of how people who ignore assign 0 probability to failure take well calculated risks?
Being successful on the app store involves a bit more than making a great app. It's how you play the search ranking/rating game. There are quite a few things that need to be done right.

The way you get ranked in Search plays a huge part in your sales (Unless it's a top 50 app). Another huge factor is your screenshot. Your leading screenshot should not be a shot of the launch image. Here's more info on screenshots: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mobile-design-tutorials...

[1]: (App Store Optimization Cheat Sheet [PDF]): http://www.apptamin.com/ASO_Cheat_Sheet-v2.2.pdf
Yes they are very effective (when the content is good).

The podcast listener-host relationship is much more intimate than the blog reader-writer relationship. They connect with the personality. Better medium to build trust than writing articles.
Two British Airways pilots die, both claimed poisoning by contaminated cabin air
Scorched earth, like Saddam's army torching Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreated in desert storm. If they can't have it, no one can, I guess.
Yup. For the handful of podcasts that I subscribe to, I try and listen to EVERY new episode. I can't say the same for every blog I subscribe to.
So, if I have this right. In order to speak at this wordpress conference one must not distribute anything related to wordpress that isn't 100% GPL? That's pretty hardcore.
I'll add it to the list =]
I'm on board with the Vine revolution. Two questions:

1. When is there going to be an Android app?

2. Where can I find an (Android) phone-or-tablet-friendly version of one of these websites?
Yes a directed acyclic graph would help a lot.

But there isn't any mind map apps support that. (Not that I know of)

I now use yEd and OmniGraffle from time to time
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He doesnt want to give too much of the idea away. Donating $1 isn't that bad you know...
I agree, but then there's a second order effect. If you know you're not going to get a payout when you leave a job, you're going to make damn sure you get a payout (in the form of vacation) while you're at the job.
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/2110301

Haha wow.
I do miss IrDA though.
I bet you do great in the stock market.
Just want to point out that all of your examples are white men.

Higher education is still a great way for those who don't already have every door open to them to advance in the world.
https added to my todo!
I like it, a lot. I never had much or was proud of my personal website, so for fun I pointed my A records over to my brand new shiny website at prtfl.io. It's waynepierson.com ( http://wpierson.prtflio.eu/ if the changes haven't propagated yet to your neck of the woods, but CloudFlare is pretty good about that)

I also got a little carried away, wrote out my about page, and even wrote three blog posts. Yes three. I'm a fan.
At one point the discussion turned to language productivity and Phillip remarked that writing C# feels like completing government forms in triplicate. As he elaborated I experienced a sudden burst of clarity into one of the major things that had been bothering me about C# – it’s verbosity!

It's like a parallel universe to the Scala/Java relationship.
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Why awfully insecure?
What I think is a more interesting ideas is this: minimum vacation time. You must take at least X vacation days / weeks per year. I think that would be the best of both worlds and avoids the psychology wherein no vacation is had, which is toxic
I think I just gave you your 7000th karmapoint for that comment.
I use OmniGraffle when a mac is handy; thanks for the reference to yEd, I hadn't seen that one before.
Why hasn't there been a boycott of businesses in the East Texas district where all these judgments originate? Or at least some social action against Texas to try to shame them into behaving responsibly?

Could it gain traction?
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The language in question isn't C, so they can have whatever semantics they want.
I'll contact you by mail to talk about it.
This article from last August hits the nail on the head with regard to systemd:

http://www.pappp.net/?p=969

"I’m not sure that this is a bad design, but it is most definitely not UNIX or anything like it."
I was referring to other drugs, specifically cannabis.

This petition was in direct response to the DEA's recent refusal to remove it from Schedule I status. This keeps it in the same class of drugs as heroin and cocaine.
It's a Federal court -- you can't avoid jurisdiction just by not doing business in TX.

My understanding is that it's the trolls that open offices in Tyler just so that they can file the suit in that district. I.e. the plaintiff is dragging the defendant into TX, and the defendant can't avoid that court.
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We also know that social connections matter for personal position. It's a zero-sum game and it's shitty that we have to play it, but if you don't get the "who you know" game in order, then you can't make use of what you know, and you become yet another bitter, smart underachiever.

To clarify-there's capital-C Connections, which have to do with old money and social status, and these are destructive. There are also lowercase-c connections, which is basically knowing people or having friends, and these are a major positive. Without knowing anyone the work you produce will actually be of lesser value, because you may end up doing something no one cares about really well.

As an example, I got into Machine Learning through connections about 2 years ago. If I hadn't known anyone I might have spent a lot of time trying to break into classical AI, I-banking, or programming. Instead I knew that Machine Learning was becoming more and more important, so I was able to focus my energy on learning that as opposed to, say, C++.
This is a really good idea. I think it actually changes the psychology, because not taking vacation would now be the negative.
Take some time to plan out your attire and appearance, as part of the point of this trip is them determining whether or not they will want to see you across from them for the next few years.
... And then she began again.

James Lasdun is a writer who ... This essay is adapted from his new book, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked, to be published next month by ...

I can't help but feel that I've been had.
You can also just use the sdl, which provides abstractions for network, sound, graphics, and input. If you hit snags, you could just commit back the fixes to sdl proper. I've used it a bit and I have had good experiences so far with successful cross platform builds.

It also supports Android, so in theory you could almost have one code base with only a UI and input revamp for Android target every PC os.
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Scripts that create user interfaces with the Html Service can contain HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
> our local public television satiation

That is a beautiful typo.
Yeah, I was wondering how he did that too. Maybe he spoofed a caller ID number with the other guy's number, calling 911 and telling them something involving horrific criminal intentions.
It's a shame that prior art was even necessary here.
Isn't this plainly "obvious to anybody skilled in this field"?
> Just saying you have questions doesn't cast doubt on any theories. Evidence casts doubt on theories.

The Zapruder film clearly shows Kennedy being hit from the front when approaching the grassy knoll. That's the evidence I am talking about. And when the official government story has a single magic bullet making 7 injuries by going in all crazy directions, then I wonder which one is really the conspiracy theory in the end? You are not the only one capable of doing research.

> This doesn't qualify as a conspiracy theory because the cat was essentially out of the bag from the beginning.

Well it was a conspiracy theory that become true, actually. It's just that there were too many people who did not believe the lie and did not want to walk into it, and foreign powers involved who did not want to be trapped in another war. But the US and UK governments did try to fool people with false evidence as long as they could.

> conspiracy theory believers

Classic fallacy. It's not because some believers are morons that all believers are. And the other fallacy is the put all the theories in the same bag no matter how much research is done on them : some are obviously ridiculous, some other deserve more attention. It's too easy to dismiss everything.
Whoa, Microsoft producing a new version of their OS (think Millenium, or 2000, or Vista) that has absolutely no use case and is rubbish, because they make money off per unit sales and having an absurd amount of market dominance?

Windows 8 was not an operating system meant to be better than what came before, it was meant to get Microsoft some of that app store money. The priorities were thusly apparent.
And a more severe class than meth. Meth has medical uses, you see.
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> The GPL is not designed to be "viral".

It is designed so that if one chooses to create a work that makes use of another GPLed work, that the license "spreads" to the resulting combined work. It is in that sense that some people call it "viral" though, unlike most viral infections, choosing to incorporate a GPLed work into a larger work is done so willingly, even if sometimes those making the choice don't fully understand the ramifications. For example, as Torvalds notes [0] it's sometimes a gray area; kernel modules may or may not be considered derived works.

As you correctly note, it's the author's choice to adopt the license for a new project or to combined works licensed under the GPL into an existing project. That it is a choice doesn't preclude an analysis of the license's effect on any given work.

[0] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.0/0670.h...
To be even more generous, I might not actually be worried about my users and their data--only about whether I am legally liable for what ends up being found uploaded to my servers. If all content pushed to me is encrypted before it gets there--and I don't have the keys--then I can honestly say I have no idea what it was. SSL only gets me half-way there; I need some form of PGP-type crypto to let me receive the data and store it without decrypting it first. It'd be great it if were implemented natively and exposed as a browser API, but doing it in Javascript doesn't seem so bad. Even if the data became compromised on my server, It would still be provable that I didn't have access to it.
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A quick search of HN shows how frequently passwords are in fact not salted.
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Are you paying for them to be there for a prescribed time or are you paying them to get the work done?
It's interesting that people who harp on about avoiding a single point of failure would gleefully go along with a single login option. Mind you, these are the same folks who insist you shouldn't use one password everywhere. But one login (which may still have one password) is totally OK.

Very interesting.
http://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/Microsoft-Azure-CDN

http://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/Microsoft-Azure-Blob-Storage
The magic problem is people hate change. They don't want anything to change. They want to get Call of Boring 15 DLC Pack 582 and zombie their brain out for a few hours.

Installing Linux, although in many ways superior (I think iptables is such a better firewall, no need for antivirus because of a good privileges model, Apparmor can be really useful, packages are amazing and almost every Linux distro does them pretty well) is too much of a hassle for the 90% of people that want a computer like they want a hammer or TV. It is a tool, you hit the button, something you want happens. Having to understand the entire thing is slightly more complex than that requires way too much mental exertion.

It is, in the end, why "Linux on the desktop" never happened. It was never the default. It was never on the Best Buy shelf when grannies 15 year old laptop broke and she needed a new facebook machine.
$20k is too low, but your point stands.
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Nice, thanks for sharing. I used the same variables with the exception of dbn; my code is here https://gist.github.com/4652968 (I later started applying filters such as 4th-grade teachers only, etc., which is reflected in the gist.)

I was pretty curious how the author specifically munged his data, since then we could put to rest the speculation about the degree of correlation.
The U.S. needs patent law/tort reform- something to stop this nonsense without reputable companies having to pay millions to patent trolls. I'll definitely make sure to buy from newegg next Christmas.
Send me an email with your resumé / portfolio.
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I personally fell in love with qt qml layouts recently, just because having a layout and styling syntax based off something like JSON rather than XML is so much nicer.

But then again, I hate xml. So much useless overhead.
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There exists a matter of degree. Praying for guidance is something I'd prefer my president or prime minister not do. However it's a far cry from persecuting and in some places executing those who put forward theories critical of literal interpretations of Islam.