skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, These are good insights! (nimblenotes is great too!) Perhaps it would be possible for me to save the ZenPen output as markdown (compressed) and then re-assemble it into html on load... ideally avoiding sneaky man-edited html all together.
If Java was a Haskell
Cloud Migration is Not Enough
A smart move would be waiting for the NTSB report instead if assuming that you can divine what is happening with a minimal set of facts.

I've had my share of "experts" opine on their imagine root causes of problems based on whatever bullshit they made up while the incident response folks were figuring it out using real data.

The problem is, the folks figuring this out aren't talking, because they aren't done. So now a bunch of people will remember what Elon Musk said, and the whole process is tainted.

IMO, good PR is talking about how your company implemented battery technology in a safe way. Not this.
And the FAA seems pretty conservative?

"Finally, the FAA changes so slowly that if this were even all possible, the adoption and certification would all take at least 50 years." --Eric Schmidt, http://longbets.org/4/
And http://throwww.com

(a project by me)
Split it by age too - I think that would be a significant factor.
wow, reading this and it's replies was somewhat surprising to me in the opposite way. I live in Utah, if I walked out to my back yard right now, given a little time, I could spot at least a couple satellites. I guess I just took it for granted that other places aren't like that. It makes sense now why all the rangers in the national parks here like to point out how dark our sky is.
I also made http://throwww.com a while back. It started as something similar to this but evolved into a simple blogging platform as people wanted more feature...
Symbiotic Languages: Transpiling into JavaScript
‘A Million Plays A Month’: Meet The New Benchmark For Music Streaming
40 years ago there was no Fedex, no email, no Twitter, and everything moved at a slow pace.

Incorrect, Fedex was founded in 1971.[1] Its worth noting that the the founder of FedEx also recognized that time was more important than ever before:

"The concept for what became Federal Express came to Fred Smith while he was studying at Yale University. For a class there, he submitted a paper which argued that in modern technological society time meant money more than ever before"[2]

I understand what the author was going for but I do not understand starting a piece with a bold and catchy introduction if you can't be bothered to check your facts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_Express
This model requires two things - a very competent Director of Studies who herds the TAs, and is also requires sufficiently competent undergrads. One would think that at Yale this will be less of a problem, but at lesser institutions, where half of the incoming class has problems with mathematics at the level that is required there will be problems. And that is why the Director of Studies needs to be given some authority to throw out incapable TAs, or else there will be a case of blind leading the blind.
Stanford's enrollment was over 700 for fall quarter. Over 1500 students took the course during the entire year. A typical class has around 1650-1800 students for perspective.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/10/04/cs106a-enrollment-re...
Yet another distraction free writer
Oh nice, I really like this. Especially the transition between markdown, and the rendered text. Will be interested to see where you go with it :)
foursquare explore feature let's you find places to eat and drink bars around you which directly collide with our idea. And because foursquare has a huge user base it's hard for us i think to compete with them.

What we're thinking is a way like for people to find their destination of the trip get places that area. Invite the friends who'll join the trip an a way to them to discuss about their journey what and what not to do and some other features etc
http://ex-prj.com. A place where you can post your not-so-successful & don't-want-to-continue side-project.
WARNING

If you submit a request and allow it to be public, your email address becomes available for all to see and harvest! Nice idea overall but this is a horrible, horrible flaw.
We can port your number in if you want (just email us). Or you could setup an existing number to forward to Close.io
A very radical thought in our context would be suggesting that Aaron Swartz is not actually dead, but instead staged his suicide. I realize for a man who is probably dead, that is a very terrible thought to think. But given the fact that the last words on Aaron's last blog post are "STAGED SUICIDE" don't we owe it to somebody like Aaron to think outside the box?

Other stupid points include:
0. Footer "I'm not dead yet!" on http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity not updated as per instructions
1. Batman last blog post also seems out of place in anonymous warhead video (tribute by anon to Swartz?)
2. Supreme court justices always a point of fascination for Swartz ("warhead names"). (tribute?)
3. Aarons ArkAngel name of poster of the youtube anonymous warhead video (tribute?)
4. Friend says discussed w/ swartz what public reaction to his suicide might be (bizarre!) at first eulogy
5. Weird green times font on black bg in ussc.gov hack uniquely reminiscent of style of Swartz's blog and possibly due to his near sightedness.
6. "A 24 Puzzle" blog post by Aaron very closely describes the situation he is in now having to send out sensitive documents to reliable sites while under pressure (but way back in March 4, 2009)
7. Takes about 6 months to a year to prepare and execute the hack of ussc.gov and related sites, why did preparation coincide with suicide? (random chance?)
8. Anon message on ussc.gov has very similar cadences to swartz's extremely unique writing style "succinct".

So I took the liberty while procrastinating of running stylometric software:
http://www.philocomp.net/?pageref=humanities&page=signat...
on a downloaded corpora of Aaron Swartz's and Paul Graham's Blog posts and the ussc.gov anon message:
https://mega.co.nz/#!9gc13bhK!DtetrAmSyTrEChK7vViMNnBbS-doTH...
As you can see it easily distinguishes between randomly chosen books by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and it also tells who wrote the 54th federalist paper (Madison not Hamilton):
http://imageshack.us/a/img838/927/austenvsdickensfederali.pn...

The results show that Aaron Swartz is more likely to have written the ussc.gov message than Paul Graham:
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/843/swartzvsgrahamresults...

I don't have time to review how the statistics work or how "keywords work". So it is very likely I'm doing this all wrong. Here is the seminal paper by Mosteller and Wallace on their identification of the author of the federalist papers (Ironically from JSTOR):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/122904915/INFERENCE-IN-AN-AUTHORSH...

Presumably now you need to download corpora online from other authors like Kevin Poulsen and see if Aaron is always a likelier candidate than all of them, but I don't have anymore time right now and I'm only doing this half heartedly. Maybe someone else who's bored can try it?
Foodspotting reportedly had 2MM users. Depending on the % active, etc. OT is picking up users at $5/per is probably in decent range of what they typically will pay for an active user through other marketing channels.

Add in the talent, the app, etc. and they get a good deal out of it as well.
You can drop a lit match into a bucket of gasoline. It needs to be aerosolized to be explosive.
Awesome watches I love them, worth every penny.
I'd say that the taboo is now stronger than it has been. I'm half way through the excellent Montefiore book Jeresulem, the biography, and royal families and leader mentioned in it definitely didn't have strong taboos here. This may just be a ruling class thing I suppose.
Link to book review as the book is fascinating. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/16/jerusalem-biogra...
WISSARD Team collects first samples of subglacial lake 800m below the surface
Chief Game Designer Brian Reynolds Leaves Zynga
As much as my life has gone great, I really wonder what would've happened if I'd gone to RPI rather than RIT.
When I was TAing I remember the office staff glancing at my "classes I would like to TA" list and thanking me for putting all upper division courses; apparently most of the TAs competed for lower division course slots where the problems were easier and so presumably the workload was lessened. I always went for upper division because I hated dealing with entitlement complexes and don't like trying to teach shallow material. We never really had enough resources, but it wasn't quite that bad.
FourSquare might be a little too cumbersome for an acquisition. They are based in New York and Apple generally buys for specific technology not for brands as well.

As for the technology WebObjects has been a Java technology for years now and it is used for iTunes Store and Apple Online Store (not sure about iCloud) but only to a limited extent. There really isn't anything specific that other technologies could bring to the table. Sure Akka/Scala could improve concurrency but Apple services are built such that you can just throw more hardware at it.
It's risk/reward. Let's say it takes you 2-3 years of savings to save up enough to live 1 year without a salary. If you're committed to your startup you could take no pay at all to try to start your business. It's risky, some would say foolish, but that's why you have the upside of all the equity. Once you start offering someone enough of a salary to get by, even if it's less than market price, they still don't have as much skin in the game as someone "risking it all." I'm not saying you should risk it all, I'm just saying some founders choose to.
Good idea, but you should do research before calling applications/startups clones. For example, Microsoft OneNote was released on 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote) while evernote was founded in 2007 (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/evernote). At least get your facts straight.
> If Apple wants to compete in cloud services like mapping

Who says they want to ?

Maybe they just didn't want Google screwing them over for an important app like Maps. Which in maybe a self fulfilling prophecy ended up being true.
I've said it before... Musk just wants attention.

The investigators looking into this have already said they haven't found a problem with the batteries.. and they are turning their attention to the electrical system.

So who are you going to believe. Musk, who has no access to the details of these batteries, or the investigators who have access to everything and are looking at and testing these batteries themselves.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21230940
Mostly in jest:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better
than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
-- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
-- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981

"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."
-- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.

I did come across an interesting letter that is not necessarily relevant to this discussion but might be worth reading:

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
He called it abandonware. He didn't say "fuck you." He didn't say "he's a shit developer." He called the program abandonware. Have a sense of perspective already. Frankly, I'd find it insulting if you were defending me from the tiniest barbs like this. Onlookers couldn't help but conclude I'd be knocked over and bruised by a warm breeze.
"There are several fallacies in your argument."

There are only questions. There isn't an argument at all, let alone a fallacious one.
Well, either we believe that government is the solution to all our problems or we don't. Right?

(In jest)
Are you sure? the webpage showed me these:

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The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://tweetping.net/

Connection to 91.121.175.82 failed.

The system returned: (111) Connection refused

The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.
Your points are common sense. You can therefore assume that other men, including the men you are criticizing, know them. Given this, and given that they are speaking publicly, I would wager that they have more access to data than you presume.
> it's like claiming to know what happened with a race horse that died clear across the country because you know race horses. Wouldn't you first have to see the veterinarian's records on that horse as well as such things as dietary and other data before really being able to say anything at all.

If the differential has 5 items, and the most likely is most likely by 99% just on demographics, then it's going to take a lot of lab data to refute that.

Similarly, heat dissipation is a first-order problem in battery design. Especially in these high-capacity designs using high-density chemistries. What else is on the differential?
Ask yourself: Just how much revenue do you expect from such a niche idea with existing, entrenched competition? You shouldn't "pivot," you should completely trash the idea and find another idea that has a chance to make serious money--unless you like providing useful tools to others for free.
10 DON’Ts when moving your startup to Silicon Valley
I've got no immediate plans to play around with any Backbone-on-the-client-and-server stuff ... the next web app library in the works is only semi-related:

The basic idea is that for many public-facing websites (think NYTimes, natch, or Airbnb's search result listings, for example), the usual Rails convention of "Hey, here comes a request, let me generate a page just for you", is fairly inappropriate. Lots of "publishing" applications will melt very quickly if Rails ever ends up serving dynamic requests. Instead, you cache everything, either on disk with Nginx, in Memcached, or in Varnish.

But you know when the data is changing -- when an article has been updated and republished ... or when you've done another load of the government dataset that's powering your visualization. Waiting for a user request to come in and then caching your response to that (while hoping that the thundering herd doesn't knock you over first) is backwards, right?

I think it would be fun to play around with a Node-based framework that is based around this inverted publishing model, instead of the usual serving one. The default would be to bake out static resources when data changes, and you'd want to automatically track all of the data flows and dependencies within the application. So when your user submits a change, or your cron picks up new data from the FEC, or when your editor hits "publish", all of the bits that need to be updated get generated right then.

It's only a small step from there to pushing down the updates to Backbone models for active users ... but one step at a time, right? No need to couple those things together.

ps. Kudos to you for reading the source. It's always enlightening: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/roo...
Brown has been doing this from the start of its CS department in the 80s (this probably developed because we don't have very many graduate students), as far as I can tell. The only difference is that the undergraduate Head TAs are typically "higher" in the food chain of responsibility than the Graduate TAs (who are more responsible for course development). This worked incredibly well: in 2011, one of our three intro sequences (the one meant for people who knew they wanted to do CS, but don't have the background in it) went from an enrollment of 70 students to 200. We managed by scaling the undergraduate TA group from 11 to 20 (with two, instead of one, HTA), and assigning a good number of those TAs to work on better automation for things like grading.

I've been a TA for three years now, and I've probably gotten more from it than from my actual classes. And because we see what the class needs to teach, as well as what the class has taught in the past, we're actually a lot better (IMHO) than grad students (and even many professors) at figuring out how to change the course to push students further.

As our professor last year put it:
"I am the Pope of CS17. The head TAs are the Roman Curia, the TAs are the dedicated priests, and the students are the Faithful."

http://teachingintrotocs.blogspot.com/2011/09/teaching-with-...
But they've been increasing tuition like crazy too right?

~4-6% every 3 years according to
http://oir.yale.edu/node/108/attachment

Apparently that gets spent on all kinds of things, just not the actual education the students need. At >30k a year you could really expect that they would hire enough real teachers.
God no, don't do it in git. Otherwise no one outside of developers will ever look at it, and the whole point (as I understand it) is to bridge the tech, law, and politics worlds. So some of the primary users aren't developers and have probably never seen a command line.
What are the differences between the Web app and the native apps (I'm on Linux)?
Legal immigration flow-chart
Sorry if it seems misleading. The shared page here isn't actually the front page, but rather something little I show when the user clicks the little question mark on the bottom right... so the links where hacked in manually.

In retrospect, this wasn't the best idea, since the links also break the "quotation" functionality on the page. Lesson learned ;)
I launched http://wikicancel.org/ this month.

WikiCancel is a subscription, contract, and account cancellation guide. There have been over 40k unique visitors so far. More importantly, visitors are contributing content. I am humbled by the response the site has gotten so far, and I am going to continue to improve WikiCancel based on user feedback.

It was featured on Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5978253/wikicancel-is-a-collection-of-...

Featured on Swissmiss design blog: http://www.swiss-miss.com/2013/01/wikicancel.html

Lots of Tweets including a tweet from @brainpicker who has 298k followers. List of tweets: https://twitter.com/search?q=wikicancel
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For you that may be true. But billions of human beings live like this and find a way to be content and happy with their lives. If they can be happy with having little then maybe having little isn't depressing. Maybe your mindset is what's depressing.
The NY Times does this to some extent. Comments are moderated in batches. Comments within the first batch are about the article itself. Subsequent comments are made both on the article and in response to thoughtful comments that made it past the initial moderation filter.
A student's grandmother is far more likely to die just before an exam
Well, here he's not saying that its safe, and never going to have problems.. He's saying its a bad design.. which I think he's competent enough to recognize the physics of
I am really sick of corporations getting away with treating people so poorly. Amex screwed me out of ~$250 and there's nothing I can really do about it besides share my story.
I was hoping for something on "how" :(
Agreed. They're definitely preparing for the world that's coming faster than anyone else
I do. Cannot discuss publicly though at this point. Something like this cannot be built in 12 hours, so I'll certainly need some upfront preparations.

My follow up question then is if I can participate all by myself. My co-founder would not be able to make it.
> Boeing didn't design, engineer, fabricate, test and qualify these batteries in-house.

Are you implying Tesla does?

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/panasonic-en...
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...

vs

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...

Get back to work! :) I would start by leveraging browser caching.
FRP is super nice, but no magic. I found that it makes it natural to decompose the codebase in model/view/controller and encourages an explicit state machine for updating the model. At the same time, a time-varying value is a plain old observable. But the discipline enforced by FRP avoids the spagetti trap most event-based systems eventually fall into. No magic, therefore useable my mere mortals :)
Here's an update from March 2012: http://www.1tv.ru/news/sport/201780
You can hear her speak around 50 seconds in. She says she's very sick.

One thing I didn't realise until I talked to my grandma is how famous she is in Russia, but it makes sense.
Never write validation code again
What do you mean? That just says to me Dell has returned a lot of money to shareholders.
The lack of professors may also be caused by the whole "world-class researcher" fetish. You don't need ninja rockstars to teach intro CS.
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Excellent point about unavailability, thanks.
There's also the somewhat circuitous route provided by the visas known as the “E” and “L” series. You have to have a fair amount of money to make this work, but with the amount of money people are spending these days trying to get in with skilled labor visas, I'm surprised it isn't gamed more.
Yale CS alum here (DC 04). Yale unfortunately tends to be on the extreme side of theories and fundamentals. Having some more practical experience helps those theories and fundamentals sink in. For example, I didn't appreciate closures until I started programming professionally. It was a curiosity before that. The professors there sort of expect you to get that sort of experience on your own, which some students do get but it's really uneven.
I didn't love him. I didn't dislike him or anything, he's a nice person, but most of my other CS professors were better teachers than he was. His lecturing style was dry and boring, and his selection of course material and assignments was mediocre. (The threading assignment in Operating Systems didn't even involve running more than one thread concurrently. You spawned a thread and immediately waited for it!) Looking at the recent OS course website I googled (Goldschmidt's) the assignments are more rigorous and more interesting.
A Quiet Breakthrough in Geothermal Energy
You make a very good point about having to compete with piracy.

If piracy is so easy and so ubiquitous, it has to combated with features that are at the very least equal in order to persuade the on-the-fence pirates. Thanks.
Except common sense is not very common.
So if enrollment for hard CS is off the charts and you don't have enough people to teach it... create more light CS classes to encourage broader enrollment?
This article makes it sound like it could have been an issue more with the human factors surrounding battery user than with the battery itself. http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020241385_7...
What exactly does the word count target actually do? I couldn't get it to do anything.

I liked the experience of this web app. It was very clean.
Michael Dell Contributing As Much As $1 Billion Of His Own Personal Funds