skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that already happened..
> I don't know what happened to cartoons, but nothing seems to be interesting that's also geared towards children these days

I don't disagree entirely, but there are still some gems today that are enjoyable for kids and adults. Speaking of Looney Tunes, the new "The Looney Tunes Show" is pretty great. And there are some things on Cartoon Network that are passable, like Adventure Time and reruns of other niche shows from the past 10 years.

I think the options are fewer, or the ocean of content is vaster, so it seems like there's nothing there when there is.
Beware, you Ingvar Kamprads, Karl Albrechts, and Sam Waltons: only poverty awaits.
Another math major here (in my final year). My professors routinely use square brackets after the second or third level of bracket nesting.

I think it must depend on the professor/university.
Opera was also commercial. At some point there was a free adware version, but I think that was later than 2001. After IE, most people stopped paying for web browsers.
Marketer here… developers think they are smarter than marketers.

But, I cry foul on the full stack marketer. Asking for someone that is an expert at everything you mentioned is like asking for an old C wizard, who loves LISP, but plays with Python, Go, & still finds time for iOS, Android, & web development skills. Oh and he happens to be a UI person too…

You can be extremely good at several of those items, but no one person will be an expert in all of them.
How to program if you are blind
I asked about this specifically because, when I got the book that really started me deep into programming [1], I was hampered by my lack of a C compiler and assembler, and the ~$200 cost thereof ($400 total, in mid-1990's dollars, for the two tools -- kids these days have it easy with binary downloads of Windows ports of gcc and NASM available free on the web). If I'd had that kind of money in middle school, I would have blown it on video games. (I didn't know about GNU, I don't think the DOS port of gcc, the Allegro system, was yet born, and I didn't have any mentors.)

The source is messy and compiler-specific, and many implementations are irrelevant to modern systems. For example, I recall Chapter 14 is about implementing multiplayer over serial cable by directly writing to I/O ports in assembly language to drive the UART. I never did get that to work, but trying to translate the book from the Watcom C + MASM toolchain to the QBASIC + DEBUG toolchain -- without access to a working copy of the former and zero prior C experience! -- actually taught me a lot.

So maybe there is a reason toolchains should be expensive -- to encourage starving students with lots of time but little money to expand their minds by jury-rigging alternatives :)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Game-Programming-Gurus-Andre-La...
Also, check out Dashing at http://shopify.github.com/dashing/ which we released at Shopify. It's optimized to run on your extra laptop screen via https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/looking-glass/id584492076?mt... or on your Samsung SmartTV ( it supports switching dashboards via tv remote )
The two are far from mutually exclusive.
Can't you use the "never mark this as spam" option? I haven't tested that, however, so it's possible that it wouldn't work.
Cars and Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible
Plus, if you're new, templates are dangerous. The excitement of saving all that time on 'boilerplate' always turns into twelve hours of flailing around on StackOverflow, totally over your head, for the right way to override some Devise controller -- all because you wanted to save some time.
The bike jibe is unwarranted, and misses the real issue: does the Model S work as advertised, and was the NY Times review a fair test?

Tesla is absolutely not an economic choice at present, though neither are the vehicles it competes with (higher-end BMW and Mercedes models). The purchase decision is one of social status signaling and a vote of faith in the underlying technology, which is generally considered practical but not yet economical. If you're not ready to drop $50-$100k on the car, I can completely understand, as I'm not either. That said, I'm keeping an eye on Tesla, and still think I may have already bought my last 100% conventionally fueled vehicle.
"Or, say, personal information that can be used in targeting advertising."

This time, it's the word 'pay' that is being shoehorned.

Let's assume I run a survey company, and I invite a bunch of people over for a BBQ. During lunch I passively monitor their interactions and sell that data. Did the guests pay for the BBQ?

">I'd describe them a suppliers,"

That is a bit more specific and possibly more accurate, but at least 67% less sexy ;).

However it does not invalidate the original product claim. Often suppliers are part of that chain. They supply raw goods (personal data in this case) that gets packaged as part of a product offering (aka adwords) or service, and then sold to the customer.
I'm on a mac desktop and they still don't line up.
I'm not sure if top notch engineering talent is available in a place like Tijuana - from what I've read, it doesn't seem like their education system is churning out engineers a couple a minute like China and India are...
No storage. Where is the AppleTV supposed to keep the gigabytes needed to run some of these titles? Is it going to stream off the cloud every time you run it?
I think I must've read "Back to Klondike" (in Serbian) about 60 times at least.
Maybe we should start everyone off with XSL? /s
Isn't cutting edge research a very pure version of trying to hit it big? Sure, there might be no VC involved. But what does that matter?
>>>> Do you find that the fact you are paid by parents for your work has any effect on... your own motivation or performance?

>>> ...paying teachers more does almost nothing to improve motivation or performance.

>> The answer about teacher motivation/performance is interesting, not least because it isn't answering the question that was asked.

> I actually ignored your question because it seemed obvious (to me at least) that it would have virtually no effect. I cannot imagine a situation in which the motivation of the student would be in any way affected by the fact that the parent was paying the teacher.

Do you teach reading comprehension? I would have hoped that it was clear: I was asking about the effect that being paid directly by the customer has on the performance and motivation of the teacher. Much like it affects the performance of waitresses, auto mechanics, architects, dentists, store clerks, pro athletes, and in fact most occupations in a market economy. If we're not providing a service that customers prefer to competing services, we're out of a job. tokenadult is a teacher who might have some experience of this phenomenon, so I asked him about it.

I really hope you're trolling me here, but I suspect instead a sort of epistemic blindness.
I'm not too sure about anyone else, but I had rather limited success with this site. The only jobs I were offered were not those I applied for, but shady third-party offers from companies who the site must've sold my information.

Also, not sure what country you are in, but for many Web design and simple programming jobs it is hard to compete with those willing to do the work for a much lower price (I even saw some people bidding for jobs at $2 per hour in some cases).

Just my take.
That too, but it wouldn't have been as much of a problem if they hadn't needed to spend billions cleaning up their mess. They were already taking a loss on the system, then they had to take yet another loss because the systems didn't work.
You're going to blame him for not quitting to devote himself to some quixotic, unpaid battle against testing? Of course he's going to finish his years and get his pension. He's not any more obligated to die on a cross than you are.

RE: unions, they have a lot of problems, most of them centered around protecting bad teachers and pensions at the cost of good teachers and young teachers. But the funding problem for teacher salaries is about 80% healthcare-driven, it's not the unions' fault that healthcare has had 2 decades of >10% annual cost inflation (do the math on that).
If you are on OS X, check out http://www.grandtotal.biz/CheatSheet/ to see shortcuts for any application, not just ST2.
If SQL is the non-coder, power-user database access, what is the formal programming access method? Genuinely curious.
Does Tesla expect drivers to adhere to posted speed limits even when prevailing speeds are much higher (as they are on I-95)?

Expected or not, I've flown past Model Xs, doing 65 MPH myself, on the odd stretch of highway where I suspected the Tesla driver might have some 20-30 miles to go before finding a home port. If you're cruising on, erm, fumes, you'll baby your speed to increase mileage.

Even in a gasoline-powered automobile, I've noted (and adapted to) highly variable range depending on driving conditions and speed, of up to 150 miles' delta per tank. Not inconsiderable, particularly if operating in areas where services are infrequent (also a possibility for conventionally fueled vehicles).
Ah yeah, I've heard of the Looney Tunes show and looked at some clips online. I was kind of turned off when I saw they had Yosemite Sam rapping though[1]. Just seemed like they were trying too hard to be relevant to kids. I know that might be premature judgment, so I'm keeping an open mind and have a question for anyone who has watched it.

How is it outside of that? Is it pretty faithful to the original Looney Tunes? I know my example could be somewhat of a hyperbole, so I would love to get another opinion on it before passing final judgment.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP2qEo8j2KM
Oh wow, good point I totally forgot about valve holy crap. That should be soon!

I'm not sure Apple will/would do it, but I think they have the muscle. They aren't competing with CoD, they are competing with Tetris. They want you to buy and play games on your media device, not watch media on your games device. Hugely different market which is ripe for picking.

Apple would probably not build a device they lose money on: that isn't their game. They are a hardware company and they make their money on hardware. This is why I assume they would build something similar to the AppleTV with maybe a bit more juice: rely on the iPad to deliver the CPU juice and the AppleTV (or whatever) to show the content. "Everyone" already has an iDevice, leverage that and jump in.
Disappointed the top comments are criticizing and discussing the browser limitations.

For a weekend project, this guy created a UI that deals intuitively deals with angles, bezier curves, dependent relations between objects, and turns it all into HTML, and you guys are that butt hurt it only works in Chrome?
It's hard to find "one version of the truth"

This is where network shares, Sharepoint, and so on come in handy.

Even more so if Excel supports revisions the way Word apparently does now.
> Let's assume I run a survey company, and I invite a
> bunch of people over for a BBQ. I then monitor their
> interactions and sell that data. Did the guest pay for
> the BBQ?

If you told them ahead of time that you would do this, then yes, they paid for the food by giving you some information about who they like to talk to at lunch. They would be customers.

If you did not tell them, then you spied on them without consent, and they would be victims.
Sounds like a SteamBox. http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/01/18/the-promise-and-potent...
Why cyclists enrage car drivers
Every teacher I've talked to gets routinely exasperated by people who think they know about teaching because they went to high school.

Whether or not the "we're professionals" card is valid, I think it should be pretty damned obvious that eating paste in kindergarten does not give you equivalent experience to teaching kindergarten.
All the other caveats aside, I'm willing to consider those results "crushing", particularly when it comes to Sony. Yes, Sony and Microsoft are close to parity, but think about how quickly Microsoft got to parity. This is their second console, ever.
Sorry, if/as I missed your comment. Looking for it now (commenting here from another page)...
I'm vaguely imaging a scenario where they don't sell anything resembling a console, but expect you to own some sort of iDevice to go a long with your AppleTV, or maybe sell it with a iPod touch?

But yeah, I could see your scenario happening. It would probably be amazing either way
Also code space. The cartridges I wrote typically over-filled the code space by a factor of 25 percent, whereupon you crunched.

Usually you wound up with a handful of bytes free. One cartridge I did had 6 bytes left, and another one had less than 20 and I was trying to think of something cool I could do with 20 bytes.
The problem is most if not all games on iOS rely on touch controls, and transferring that control across to a portable controller isn't easy ... although a portable touchpad might be the way to go.
Is this what you might call a "soft pivot"?

The idea is that instead of waiting until it's clear your original idea won't be viable before pivoting, instead you take the most successful part of your business and differentiate it early (giving it its own brand image and so on) so that if the broader vision of your offering doesn't pan out, you've automatically expanded into your most successful niche(s) and, if needed, can shut the bigger business down without throwing out the baby with the proverbial bathwater.

Businesses have done this kind of thing for centuries, but since we're in the startup world, why not give it a name? ;-)
Last I remember IBM was merging Symphony back into OpenOffice and committing to continued development. Hard to tell how significant they are today to the overall effort.

Disclaimer: I am technically an AOO committer, but I'm not particularly active in the project right now. That said, I monitor the mailing lists from time to time, and from what I can see, a lot of the Symphony code has been merged back into AOO, but not all of it. And there's no question that IBM is a substantial part of the AOO community. In fact, that is probably one of the reasons it took so long for AOO to graduate the incubator... there was concern that the project was too "IBM heavy".

But, for better or worse, things seem to be moving forward and, personally, I'm excited for the future of the project. The one thing that disappoints me, however, is the perception that there's still some sense of conflict between AOO and LO and that the two projects don't collaborate as much as they could. I'm hoping that - over time - any sort of adversarial air will die off and the two projects will be "friendly competitors" but time will tell. shrug
I need to introduce you to a site called http://lowendbox.com - where scriptkiddies, 12 year old "web hosts" (like, a web host run by a 12 year old) and just weird (sorry, but I just don't get the personality type) people seek out to spend as little money on VPS's - often debating the merits of switching from one to another in order to pay $3.50/m instead of $4.

They then try to eeek out every bit of performance they can from the accounts they "collect". It's a curious sub-culture.
Australia. I suspect it's a localised thing.
Many consulting companies and freelancers spin up projects on a regular basis. My experience working in an environment like that was that having an in-house generator saved time in the long run. Same goes for developers who spin up lots of personal projects whenever they have a new idea.
I remember reading his Hardware Hacker column in Radio-Electronics magazine. I recall an article from 1989 where he described how to build a 3D printer using a UV-sensitive resin. 1989!
The first season of My Little Pony (stigma or not) was really great, too. It was headed by Lauren Faust who was behind The Powerpuff Girls.

She recently did Super Best Friends Forever, which was just as great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ging4Nqww.

Bruce Timm, who was involved in Batman: TAS, and later The Adventures of Superman, and then Justice League Animated, is now doing Green Lantern, all of which are excellent.

I don't think we should get too wistful, because a lot of the greats are still around making material on par with some of their earlier, classic work.

I remember watching interviews Vince Gilligan, who went from writing for X-Files (and Lone Gunmen) to Breaking Bad, and back in the days of X-Files, the budgets were just obscene, which allowed them to do whatever they want. The now-ancient Superman cartoons also had a by our standards insane budget, and a lot of that probably explains why today feels slightly different, nostalgia aside. I mean, just consider back when Tom & Jerry and Donald Duck cartoons employed entire orchestras to score the sketches.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Super...
Is that possible? I'm not the software will allow it. The OEM version phones home with your license key during install.
With Tim Cook's track record of world class supply chain management it will surely be profitable for them.

When the iPod was introduced it didn't compete on tech specs with the other music players. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - the famous last words dismissing the iPod.

When the iPhone was introduced it did have innovative tech but it was secondary to the overall experience.

I'd say when, not if, Apple really wades into the TV market, they should be able to achieve the same kind of disruption. TV's are an obvious choice for Apple, because the TV is one of those consumer electronic devices that occupy a sweet spot between status symbol and the everyday always connected lifestyle.

Thanks for the article. Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo better watch out!
This is a very revealing article:

- It gives official confirmation of the (somewhat obvious) idea that the XBox was a defensive move against general living-room entertainment boxes.

- It shows that he has a very distorted view of the gaming landscape, if the truly thinks that the XBox is the dominant platform, or that mobile games are a genuine threat to console gaming (they most certainly are not).

- He singles out Apple of all companies, as the biggest threat to mobile gaming, despite the fact that Apple doesn't seem to be too interested in anything other than simple 99¢ iOS apps, dismissing the companies like Nintendo who, for all their recent troubles, have a long and storied history with gaming that Microsoft can only hope to compete with.

- He brings some good points about the interface though. But that's honestly not the XBox's biggest problem.
Given my slightly advanced age, my motivation seems to come from the desire to feed and clothe myself and those I care about.

Initially, I was motivated by the idea that learning certain technologies could make me valuable to employers in many industries and regions. Having previously studied business and foreign languages, it took my breath away to search for tech jobs and find hundreds of job openings across multiple continents.

I guess it can be summed up as motivation by a lingering fear of failure with a desire for freedom thrown into the mix. Classes can help, but if you hate what you are learning, why not find something equally valuable that you love?
The (unintentional) irony was in TFA to which he was responding. But if you prefer the word "incoherence" to "irony" when discussing that piece I won't argue.

It's like rain on your wedding day.
Yeah, the Carl Barks stories and Donald Duck in general are very popular in the Nederlands for example. Most families will have a subscription to the weekly Donald Duck magazine; supposedly for the kids, but I think all the parents read it too.
Product lesson: Make to deploy and start using in 60 seconds
You made me briefly imagine an 'excel app' with a 10 hour download from an app store. Don't make me do that again. I'm still recovering.
.doc is a legacy format as far as modern Office is concerned (.docx is its native format). Not that this makes your example any less goofy, but it probably explains why Office 2013 isn't considered the top match for .doc files.
Don't forget "Gargoyles". Where else can you find a Disney 'toon voiced by half the cast of TNG?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyles_(TV_series)
Love and real estate: Where do San Francisco singles live?
Ideally one would embed a webpage with a hidden image that loaded the upvote URL for a particular post of yours. Every logged in user would unknowingly upvote that post ID. Thankfully HN is built with form keys, so that particular CSRF attack won't work.

Social engineering would be more difficult, I seem to remember that Chrome prevents javascript strings from being pasted into it's URL (you can still type them), in order to prevent attacks just like this. There was a number of attacks on Facebook that involved asking users to copy and paste a dodgy looking javascript string into a Facebook tab in order to "win" something. Of course it just spammed posts and stole session information, but it was still an interesting attack.
it seems like a number of countries have figured out a way to do public healthcare better... (and more cheaply)

"More cheaply" if you only look at health care, perhaps. But not if you look at total government spending:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending

But the real point is that all of those numbers have been increasing over time, and will continue to increase until the governments and countries collapse under the deadweight costs of centralized control. And on the way, we get to have laws bought by special interests and government regulations written by the companies that are supposed to be regulated.
Pebble CEO: An Apple Smartwatch Won't Stop Us
Duck Tales is by far the best, most fulfilling cartoon I can remember watching. I don't know how old I was when I saw that episode where they bring bottle caps to Shangri La, but I've never forgotten how inflation works since then :)
"But take a closer look, and you'll see that the time is simply being moved around."

No, it's not. Manual effort is being automated. That manual effort includes calling to remembrance a list of gems, looking up their installation instructions on GitHub, modifying views, editing initializers, converting ERB files to Haml, setting up your test environment just so, and whatever else floats your boat. Assuming a team can agree on some sensible defaults, it can save significant amounts of time to have all those steps automated each time you want to spin up a new project.

"The technical and social friction in changing the template discourages evolution."

No, it doesn't. There is nothing stopping me from deviating from the norm once the application is generated. Or if I need to preempt a step in the generator, I just 'gem unpack' the generator, make my tweak, 'rake install', and generate from that. If it works out, I can push the change up in a branch and submit a pull request. The team can discuss.

Automation is good. From a business perspective I believe it's codifying your expertise. Clients benefit from that automation, because you spend 10 minutes spinning up their project instead of 2-8 hours recreating pretty much the same wheel you created last month.
Apple has never shown itself to have the wherewithal to correctly interface with game development, and I doubt they have any appetite for doing so. They're already doing gangbusters on iOS without any particular help offered, but the market realities of consoles (and, to a certain extent, PCs) are very different.

Microsoft's huge win on both PC and Xbox has been their active and aggressive devrel for games, which was where Sony stumbled hard on the PS3 (Cell processor development difficulty abound).
> Migicovsky said he couldn't comment on whether or not Apple or other companies had approached him about a possible acquisition of Pebble.

Interesting.