skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've talked this to death around here, though it doesn't seem to have made a bit of difference to the Ninja Rockstar crowd. Nor to the Asperger's Memorial crowd at FaceGoogAzon.
This reminds me of Richard Feynman answering a question about magnets.

I really can't do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else you're more familiar with, because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you're more familiar with.

Transcript: http://lesswrong.com/lw/99c/transcript_richard_feynman_on_wh...
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
Haml is soo 2012. :) Try Jade (http://jade-lang.com/), it has a much cleaner syntax and integrated markdown support. You can even use it as a preprocessor for other templating languages.
I'm not tokenadult, but I can offer my two cents.

Assuming they're being paid "enough", paying teachers more does almost nothing to improve motivation or performance. There are quite a few studies about this, and my own experience bears that out.

Having students that are out of the normal context does make a difference, though. Especially given that there is high parental expectation for the student to make an effort. That's really a big deal, and parental support like that is very inconsistent in public schools.
These will be very helpful to the mobile community. It's great to read about larger scale services and how they tackled mobile. It was great when LinkedIn shared about their new mobile app and the development efforts.
I'm betting it's PG ;-)
Why Real Businesses Don't Charge $5/month
Actually, Amazon does, if indirectly: http://www.amazon.com/2-page-Corp-GC/b/ref=amb_link_85153671...
> We somehow implicitly trust that they're doing good in all other areas, but there is absolutely no circumstance in the entire company where a customer can reach a person and receive true support.

That's not true. Their customer support will call you so frequently it's almost harassment if you're actually a customer to them; i.e., have an Adwords account. Now they've started selling consumer electronics, they should expand of course and I'm not giving any free passes. But don't pretend that they don't have a very, very large and extremely active and excellent customer support department. They do. They just choose not to use it with 99% of their customers.
The Pinball Wizard
Why Is Learning To Program A Good Thing?
You can let someone out of prison if they're later proven innocent. You can't let someone out of the grave. That's the main reason.

It's possible he rejected the plea bargain out of hand, though Thoreau, Gandhi, King, and Mandela would all question the assumption that going to prison diminishes the integrity of someone with a noble cause. If he thinks his integrity was better preserved by hanging himself in his apartment and leaving his body there for his girlfriend to discover, he wasn't really thinking clearly at all, was he?
Wow. I found the complete opposite.

Linode would routinely not respond during major incidents (e.g. power outage at Fremont which was common for me) and when they did they were often not clear about what was happening. Their infrastructure is hardly tight as a drum (Google 'Linode bitcoin').
What I Think About Recruiters After Being One for 30 Days
4% Interest, Without Fees: Too Good to Be Checking?
Great personal finance article highlighting rare checking accounts offering 4% interest earned nationwide!
> They only identify (catch?) 50% - but incredibly 95% of robbers can have their race identified (doesn't anyone wear masks anymore?)

A ski mask or similar does not necessarily obscure all racially identifying characteristics (e.g. you can see skin color, eye color, eye shape and often pick up the gist of bone structure — as well as hear their voice if they speak).
I still go to concerts occasionally. The loud noise does not bother me. However, in the short term it can exacerbate the tinnitus. And it the long term concert-level noise is known to cause hearing loss (and maybe worsen tinnitus). Good venues usually play the volume at a safe and enjoyable level.
I think a policy of intentionally fucking over your users would get a lot of bad press. You can't hold people hostage.
Every single pizza place I have ordered from required a phone number in case the driver can't find the house or is lost etc.
I go to a private school in Florida, so I never had to take the FCATs, or any of the No Child Left Behind tests. When I was in elementary school, I took the ERBs, but the tests meant nothing, so nobody really cared about them that much--or at least the students didn't care. It's hard to remember because that was so many years ago, but my friend who were in public school would always talk about the FCATs, and from what I gathered, teachers taught for the FCATs pretty much the entire year, and almost exclusively for the test in the couple of months proceeding the examination. Meanwhile, I had teachers teaching me the subjects, not the tests.

I didn't really have much testing until during middle school, but staring in freshman year I took the PSATs and AP tests. All the PSAT prep we did was vocab in English class, and then in Junior year some brief prep in math. Luckily most of my class sizes were and are small enough that my teachers could give us individual attention if we needed/need it. As a second semester senior, I don't need it anymore. My friends had the FCATs up through 10th grade, after which they changed gears into (P)SAT mode. I'm not sure if their teachers taught for the SATs, or just taught for the class at that point.

I've had teachers that teach for the APs and teachers that teach the class topic, and I'm of the opinion that if a teacher teaches for the class, and not for the test, and does it well, then a byproduct of the class should be good grades on the AP test. I'm also of the opinion that the AP Lit and Lang tests need to be remade, because it is incredibly hard to teach critical reading. Math and science AP tests make sense, because there is a right and wrong, but language is much more subjective.

Testing is important, however. While the SAT isn't perfect, and while I don't think it will ever be perfect, it's a necessary evil. It's a standard--or as close of a standard that we can probably get to, and so we, and colleges, still need it.
Looks like a MOS Tech 6502? Seems pretty similar to a Zilog Z80. 8 bit processor with a 16-bit PC, though seemingly without the 16-bit paired 8-bit registers.

Machines from when assembly was still fun.
Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor
I disagree. I never said anything about teaching everything you know. I can explain to someone why a certain metal in a product is better than a less expensive metal without getting into advanced materials science/crystal theory yet not use hand-wavy 'You wouldn't understand' language or mentality.

Pretty much anything I can think of, as long as you're willing to spend five to ten minutes on explaining it, can be discussed with a person without the same background. That isn't to say at the end they could or should be expected to be able to build a bridge safely, but at least the can understand why it's costing them so much.
How I got kicked out of Y combinator & then raised money
The awesome blog The Digital Antiquarian had a piece on Bill Budge and PCS two weeks ago:

http://www.filfre.net/2013/02/01/
Technically and legally / morally acceptable and simple. The financial cost however would be unimaginably spectacular. Simply buy your competitors and shut them down, and create a simple 1e8 price range deal with some well known browser devs to make your page the home page.

Lack of communications ability could be an issue. Oh you didn't REALLY mean everyone's computer in the world you just meant in this office. Oh you mean the top adwords link on google not search results. Well...
> It is nowhere near significance. Stopping it is completely wrong under the procedure we're using, we'll have no idea whether we're making the right decision!

I don't know anyone who runs an experiment until they find "significance". That's comparable to only reporting outliers. What if the variable you are testing is simply not causal? That's why you pick the sample size before running the experiment, based on the minimum causal effect you want to detect.
Disclaimer: I am not a CPA or Lawyer so take this advice purely as a guidance based on my own experience of running my company.

The "cost" of an employee generally includes:

Salary paid

This in your case would be lets say 100K

Payroll taxes (employer portion)

Usually has 2 main components. Social Security and Medicare also combined to be called FICA. SSN is 6.2% of W-2 salary (applies max to 110K). Medicare is 2.45% of entire W-2. So in your case, totak of 7.65% of 100K = $7650

Health Insurance premium for the employee

This really varies and depends on what you offer. I will just estimate an average of say $500-$800 per month per employee. So you are looking at about $6000-$10,000 per year. Make it $8000 average for this example.

retirement account match

Really varies depending on whether you contribute or not. Lets say you match about 1000 per year max (a very average conservative matching) which is 1% of the salary.

State level disability insurance

This depends on state. Some states charge employers while in some, employees pay for it.

Workers compensation

Average cost per employee can be about $500-$1000 per year.

Other costs to manage employee record

These could include payroll software cost per employee, accounting cost/employee, other benefits provided. I would keep about $500-$1000 per year min.

Adding all of the above, you are looking at approx 100K + 18,650 = 118,650

I am just giving an estimate here of course. But you hopefully got the idea.
This post is scary. I have been operating under a new set of rules. I refuse to by goods/services from customer service deficient firms. It has been working great and dealing with small teams and companies that provide fantastic service makes your life easy and efficient. Not to mention building great relationships. I make sure to buy a service from a startup, e.g cloud storage rather than for instance Amazon.
Reading through the intro, he managed to get some things right and some things horribly wrong. Predictions from 1992 of technologies that would fail : solid state cooling, QWERTY alternatives, touch screens, NeXT computers, UNIX, TrueType, DVI video & Teletext.
Middleman: simple ruby-based site generator
I just read his 'infamous' post. He explains that he got accepted, then found out he would have to change his cofounders for personal reasons. This concerned ycombinator, which changed its mind and decided not to fund him because of all the sudden changes and the fact that it was affectively a single-founder company.

http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out...
In our CS program they had us start from Analysis 1 and Linear Algebra 1 (proof based course). I sure as hell wasn't prepared.
This has a whiff of the perennial 'kids today' rant. I know Google NGrams is hardly a robust research tool, but a few phrases that are fun to speculate about ...

'Failing student' - big in the 30's, went out of fashion?
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=failing+student...

'Unprepared student' - relatively constant over time
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=unprepared+stud...

'Underprepared student' - what happend in the 70's to get people writing this way?
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=underprepared+s...
Excel really is programming. It is classified as cell-oriented dataflow programming. Functional Reactive Programming is a close cousin to such paradigm.
Slightly OT, but I hadn't heard of Apptopia before. Cool idea. Anyone had any experience, either as a buyer or seller?
Re: your firetruck analogy… that's not very common in most parts of the US. I've never lived somewhere with that level of direct democracy about infrastructure, certainly.

But, let's assume you do get to have a say on whether your local fire station gets to have a new fire truck. You don't get to have a say on who gets hired or fired, or what training they require, or, perhaps most aptly, what people who are being rescued must be or do in a given circumstance.
I never interpreted the question the way presented in the article. I always interpreted it as "Does something exist if it is unobserved?" and therefore never cared if the sound of a falling tree is heard by a human, recorded by a cassette recorder or recognized due to seeing a tiny movement of a light object caused by the pressure wave. This problem seems - at least to me - to be much more interesting than arguing about the (correct) definition of sound (to use in this context).
What happens when you insert a row at the beginning or end? That's a bit less "certain", for most people, and can lead to incorrect sums.

Re the grandparent, Excel does have named ranges. Some it constructs on its own based upon column headers and whatnot. Others can be explicitly defined.

Unfortunately (again), the tools/widget Excel provided -- back a decade or more ago, when I lasted used it intensively -- were "out of the way" and fairly limited in terms of their interface and behavior/functionality.

Still, if you have e.g. a column headed REVENUE and a column headed COST, you can insert "= REVENUE - COST" into an adjacent column in the same row, and Excel will know what you mean. And... in this case, it is less likely to become "confused" (do what it's programmed to, versus "do what I mean" -- DWIM) if/when you move individual cells around.

P.S. What I do wish, or did, was that Microsoft would better document and explain publicly some of Excel's underlying behavior and edge cases. It can take some time, exposure, and mental effort to trick some of these out.

Excel is a powerful tool that does its job very well. A good part of the problem is that with its ubiquitous distribution and use, much of the time this is like handing a toddler a loaded handgun to play with.

The handgun is functioning just fine. Its deployment and use in this case is, however, less than optimal.
I'm a marxist as well, so you're preaching to the choir there. I also happen to be an anarchist, and rather than putting laws in place (which would be impossible to enforce), I think the first step to changing these issues is to change the culture.
Poor backblaze ... they are doomed. Call them and tell them they are not real business.
I'd wager (though not with bitcoins) that Linode would be entirely happy to not have bitcoin-related apps running on their systems either, considering the probability of attracting highly motivated attackers.
I think it leads people to assume they have been forgotten about entirely and are starting over from zero each time they call.
Not a comment on the blog service, but there's a great graphic on the linked site, of a USB memory stick inside a traditional oceangoing message bottle. Pretty cute idea.
In other words, you approach school like prison or perhaps like a military occupation. In a prison, the guards must ensure that the inmates know who's boss, or else they will lose control of a population of dangerous people. In a military occupation, soldiers have to occasionally harass or intimidate the citizens whose lands they control before those citizens get any bright ideas about rebellion or independence.
The author is complaining that non-educators are trying to tell him how to do his job, not that they are judging him and his fellow teachers based on the results:
"Today I have listened to people who are not teachers, have never worked in a classroom, and have never taught a single student tell me how to teach."

There's a big difference between judging others based on the objectively observable results of their actions and ordering others to do things a certain way. If a non-programmer complains about slow or buggy software from a vendor, that's fair, but if he tries to tell the vendor how to write it, it's a completely different matter.
I will concede that we both appear to agree that if you define "something" as "something very common and simple" then you win and if we define "something" as "something very complicated" then I win.

It would appear the main point of the discussion was how to deal with my definition rather than your definition...
Apparently Fremont is their oldest DC and seems to attract the lion's share of the downtime. I've had 8 linode's running in their London DC for almost 3 years now and can't remember any DC related downtime. The only hiccup I've ever experienced is a host machine having disk issues once which meant they needed to move one of my vms. From being alerted of the problem to having the vm back up and running took ~45 mins with no intervention on my part.
Was someone's referral code embedded in the link?
This is spectacular. I really wish more great old game developers would do stuff like this. Not having the source code to the greatest games of our time is like having only half of the bible, or War and Peace. Or only half of Snowcrash or Neuromancer. Imagine!

Bill's also not the only developer who has this stuff in the garage. I think the IP rights are just tricky to deal with, so few developers are comfortable dumping this stuff into github yet.
Fremont is a terrible DC for linode and it sucks if you are not aware of that when you buy a vps from them but I use the Dallas DC and haven't had any major problems to speak of in quite a long time (at least 5 AWS outages or more).
Don't say: "Do you understand?" or "Do you know what I mean?"
Instead say: "Did I explain that well?" or "Am I making myself clear?"
It is 6502.

(I'm not sure the 6502 counts as particularly much like a Z80?!)
How is it possible that amazon charge $0.050 per GB (for more than 350 TB / month ) while DigitalOcean charge $0.02 per GB for each extra GB and 0.005$ / GB for the 5$ plan?
How can they make any profit?
Surely the whole point of lowering prices is to reduce cost of acquisition as well as churn. Where is this in your example?
I have three responses to that:

1. That's an ad, not a presentation at a conference. There are different "rules" for ads, but even those have to comply with local norms and expectations (it would not, for example, be aired in the U.S.).

2. It's mildly funny, yes—but only because you provided a translation. It's also sexist and people could legitimately find it offensive. The ad is a variation on the themes represented in the various AXE Effect advertisements (e.g., this product/service has made me so irresistible to women that I have to do this other outrageous thing). It sets up unrealistic expectations among both men and women. It's not sexist because it uses a nude, it's sexist because of the attitude.

3. Unless you are (a) at an advertising conference talking about the use of gender normatives and selling with sexual promises or (b) at a fitness conference talking about effectively attracting the male 18-29 demographic…this ad and images from it would be completely inappropriate for use in presentation materials. Even if (a) and (b) are true…it would be worth considering whether the ad is one to use in your presentation.

The problem is one of time, place, and appropriateness of the material to the audience. Even in Denmark, I suspect this ad would be criticized if it were played in the early afternoon while children are watching after-school television.

Without trying to generalize too much, a lot of guys don't get it because they think that there's no such thing as too much attention from someone whose gender you're attracted to. They think that they'd love to get catcalls from random (usually female) strangers about how toned their abs are, etc. If that sort of thing happened in real life to guys on a regular basis…it would get old fast. (Which is sort of the backhanded point of the ad you pointed to. It just doesn't happen that way, and women by and large don't need to try to do anything to encounter creeps in the tech world or fandom or…)
Correct - if you have adequate response, you need less prevention.

In Central America, my house is fully encased in steel bars (in addition to a wall), so you'll need to spend a bit of time and noise getting in. And we have 24/7 armed guards on rotation, and the entire subdivision is walled off with ~15-20 foot gates.

A friend I know consulted on a few bank robbery cases and reviewed the security videos. The firepower the criminals would bring in was astounding. Big long machine gun (not rifle) type things. I believe I read reports of grenades/RPG or something, too.

Whereas in the states, none of the places I've lived would take much more than a pointed stick to get in.
A new iPhone costs $200 from any major US carrier. Most other Android phones are between $100 and $200.

At $300 or $350, the Nexus 4 is priced as a premium device.
Apple makes more from iTunes than Sony, Moto, HTC etc. make from phones
Not everything is explainable by analogy. Analogy maps an abstract concept from a domain a person is familiar with to a domain with which they are not. However, for a number of technical areas many non-technical individuals completely lack familiarity with the fundamental concepts in any domain, and in some cases have intuitive beliefs that are inconsistent with these concepts. In these cases, no useful analogy can be constructed because nothing analogous exists in that person's understanding of the world.

In cases where people are lacking fundamental concepts, the only path to understanding is an inordinate investment in education, adding that concept to their repertoire. It can be done but it is not a small hurdle.

I will also note that more often than not the purpose of analogies is to convince the audience that they understand a technical subject matter even when they do not. It is a mechanism for creating agreement rather than understanding in many cases.
Thiel Fellow Says He’s Not Welcome At His Former College
It's even more complicated than that:

http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out...

He glosses over it, but basically he appears to be a biz guy who had lost his technical cofounders for some reason and had his (idiosyncratic and evidently tenatative) acceptance rescinded.
Intel to Launch Online TV Service This Year
google charges $5/yr for their basic data plan.
> I'm also confused why the overwhelming majority of HN readers manage to claim that a HTML5/PhoneGap app is inferior to a native one, but then somehow bob and weave when 37signals does the same thing. Confusing!

I agree with you there; it is confusing.
>All the FUD spread around about Haskell is unfortunate.

Not necessarily, Haskell's unofficial motto is after all, "Avoid success at all costs". ;)

http://www.codersatwork.com/simon-peyton-jones.html
They should have stated a brief blurb about themselves in their blog post. Not knowing anything about Apptopia, I thought they released something this guy created on his own from scratch.
The QuickMatch system on OkCupid has the exact same fatal flaw.

It's a similar sort of thing. If you rate someone highly, they are notified that "somebody" rated them highly, but they don't know who did it. If they rate you highly in turn, then you're both notified. What ends up happening is a lot of people rate everybody highly so that they find out who rated them highly, ultimately defeating the purpose of the system.
I'm going to have to tell our CTO to close up shop. Here we were, thinking we were profitable...alas and alack!:)
Perhaps not, I'm mostly just familiar with the Z80 though so I might just be seeing what is familiar to me. ;)
It was sponsored by Dell, for Dell customers :)

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