skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MOOCS are nice as a kind of podcast when they are on a n interesting subject. That being said I don't see them replacing academia until three big problems are solved.

The first is the value added problem, at the end of the day they aren't better than normal lectures and are actually a bit worse. It's funny that even the most innovate institutions have accomplished little more than putting lectures up online. Lectures are about on level with books when it comes to retention. A much better model would be adopting something more like code academy with a good balance of interactivity and theory.

The second and probably most important problem is the depth problem. You don't go to college to take general ed requirements. You go to take the high level sophisticated classes in your field. These classes are rarely delivered in the form of a lecture and often have extensive lab courses and student teacher interaction. I've yet to see a MOOC that can replace this effectively. Similarly, there is no good model for students to come in and pick up lab classes or lab materials. I'm sure there is a volunteer system that could do it, but it doesn't exist yet.

The final problem is of course credentialing. While many classes provide you with a certificate at the end the value of this is really up in the air. For most people, a certificate is unnecessary, the value is in the material, but if they plan to replace colleges they need to solve this problem.

I think MOOCs are the future. Just more like the 10 or 15 year future over the 5 to 10 year future.
No, but they are exposing an internal contradiction of academia. Academics want to research, students want them to teach. Simple, fine. But society wants teachers with research-frontier-level knowledge, so it unified the two functions in research universities. Unfortunately, society wants to pay at the level of free-to-cheap, both for tuition and for public investment.

So we get ever-rising tuition driven by state cutbacks, ever-rising student debt, ever-tightening research funding, and MOOCs. A reasonably good institution (research academia) is destroyed because nobody really believes in its original mission (uniting teaching with research) anymore, and just want its members to specialize in one aspect or the other.
Performance management for mobile workers is harder for the manager. There's a lot more metrics and measuring than most "soft skill" managers are comfortable with. And until recently, many managers are selected because of their "face skills" and not their project management chops.

There will always be jobs were people will go to a place and work with other people (McDonald's, Prisons, Hospitals.) But there will be a increasingly large sector of the economy where it will be economically beneficial to "do away" with the office. Those who have those skills are destined to benefit.
I think that offices will always be around. Yes, being able to work from wherever and connect with people through tech is amazing but there is NOTHING like a face to face discussion. Human contact is essential; especially where company culture is concerned.
This article, while entertaining, is not true.

Canonical will not migrate to SurfaceFlinger.

Speaking on behalf of myself here, and making an individual decision to prevent the spreading of FUD.

EDIT: And here is the public announcement of what we are working on that I've been waiting for:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec

http://www.olli-ries.com/mir-unity-qml-unity-apis-unity/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-March/03...
First step: Stop checking Hacker News.
If Bastille was still in working order, I'd recommend it as a very good starting point for locking down a configuration. Actual configuration deployment setups I don't put much stock in because I'm not managing enough machines for it to be worthwhile. Would love to hear from someone who manages a large farm/cluster/VM hosting on a very clean and straightforward way to manage configurations. Last I looked, most setups were custom, or some hobbled together packages that didn't "hang" together very well.
> Peddling to work takes longer.

For me it's actually faster. Due to heavy traffic at rush hours.
Thanks. Wattpad looks very cool. Is there anything like this that is self hosted?
Study explains why it’s tough to pass liberal laws
This has a male equivalent as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI
MOOCs combine the INCREDIBLE FREEDOM (and efficacy) of self-directed learning with the benefit of access to discipline-leading educators, scaleable web-based interactivity, and active participatory online community.

Even given all that, nothing can replace the educational value of a 5 minute meatworld conversation with someone more knowledgeable than you. Unfortunately, this does not describe 99% of university experiences. I get better (more productive) conversations at my local hackerspace than I ever did during my undergrad years. And I'm the kind of person who is not happy unless I am learning.

I'm never going back to academia because I need relevant, active learning to be an every day thing.

Academia is really only appropriate for people who want to produce original research, (and also want that research to be taken seriously.)

And that's only because we haven't figured out a better system of peer review outside of academia with sufficiently high standards of ethics, quality, credibility and adherence to scientific methods.

So yeah. Even if you don't consider the depreciating real-world value of university degrees, academia is in trouble.

IMHO if academia wants to survive it needs to take a serious look at the real, tangible value it provides society and focus on that (and only that.)

Aside: There are plenty of shitty MOOCs, plenty that don't suit my learning style, but there is also a handful of golden MOOCs that have absolutely changed my life, and shape how I view the world. The difference between a shitty MOOC and a shitty pre-requisite or required university course is that you can leave the MOOC, stop participating and learn the content elsewhere. You are never locked into an unpleasant learning experience. Shitty MOOCs will either have to get better or die. In the shitty university course, you either suffer or fail. It's not a hard choice to make, given a choice.
I did receive the web link. I'm just saying that itself is enough. The zipped file attachment just felt odd when all I sent was a one-word hand-scribbled message.
It's open source, so have your way with it.
SimCity Review: engineering addiction
Thanks for your comment! Did I have a choice about what ORM I used? No

I agree about your approach regarding a service in a larger app but in a smaller app I have come to the conclusion today that IDBContext injected into a controller would be better than a repo, as you say you arent going to change ORMs in reality and it exposes the native functionality of your ORM.
It is hard to say if Google will abandon its own OS for Android. Completely opposite phenomenon might be happening where Chrome OS comes to phones.
There are numerous individual software developers in finance that are easily making $450,000+ cash without resorting to stock and option grants.
The web has totally changed compared to just a few years ago. The things you mention were once issues, but are solved now :)

>security issues

web apps run in a secure sandbox. Native code is insecure by comparison. Users don't trust native apps.

>browser overhead

irrelevant in the age of multi GHz CPUs in your phone

> bugs

native platforms have bugs too

>file systems

most people don't need a file system at all when they have the cloud, but it's there if you need it http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/

>cross-process communication

http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/

>i18n

libraries for that will come

>networking

Websockets, WebRTC etc

>device access

anything common or mainstream is already available (cameras, microphones, gps, accelerometers etc)

> compositing

https://www.khronos.org/webgl/

>UI look&feel

The freedom to create your own UI without being constrained by platform conventions is going to open up many new and exciting UI paradigms now that we finally get a true open and free market in interface ideas.

>About breaking cross-platform apps... there is simply a better solution -- open, solid protocols

protocols and file standards won't save your app from breaking when the OS vendor kills the framework you are using
How the Telecom Lobby is Killing Municipal Broadband (2011)
Neat trick with the insert, but shouldn't one really be using PDO and at least making a pretense of using bind variables?
Zepto 1.0 Released
I can only speak for SF cost of living. SV is likely cheaper.

If you want to live in a nice area in SF, I would say the answer is going to be mostly 'no'.

80,000 seems like more than it is out here, but it unfortunately is not. A 3 bedroom apartment in the sunset district will be at best about 3k/month. If you want to move to a nicer area, it will be closer to 4k+.

The bigger issue is, most places wont rent a unit like that to you unless your income is 3x higher than the rent, which yours would not be (roughly 2x).

That said- Dont give up hope! The only real way to find housing out here is to come out and hit the pavement. Things go really quick and you need to be on your feet
Yeah there are countless programs to do this outside web browsers some of my favorites of the last 20 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala,_Inc (Amiga tool , see we did stuff too before the web !)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster (another awesome amiga based h/w )

The point is it doesn't take any messing about with web technologies , the people doign this sort of titling professionaly for Sky/Fox BBC are using a combination of broadcast hardware & occasionally Apple Shake in the case of sky sports though i may be out of touch now since shake is not avail much longer.
I was confused by this initially too. I think it's just "token" that throws me off. I know what a gateway is, so maybe just saying "25 Gateways" or "$10/Gateway" instead of "gateway token" might be better? Just my initial thought.
Please be assured that I am aware of this and hence the conversion I've mentioned in 3rd paragraph last line.

If someone reads the comment he/she must have seen that, I have reasons to believe you didn't either(kidding :P).
So, they would know what is one lakh INR in dollars(roughly). But yes, they would now know the count in one go. My bad.

AAMOF I should have rather mentioned the $ amount which I can't now.
Meanwhile one of the wealthiest men ever to live is (one of the many people working towards) making sure that polio vaccines will not be necessary in the future. How bleak.
They do have DISCARD so if you call MULTI and want to bail out you can say DISCARD. What they don't have is automatically rolling back if there's a failure while executing commands. However, failures in Redis are mainly going to happen if you issue a bad command (something you should catch during development). IIRC, if there's a power failure or something happens before the transaction finishes, Redis is able to discard the transaction during startup.
1M/1M Finds New Friends At The SAP Startup Focus
Except that that's exactly what I was replying to: "Apache or Nginx replacement".
The DRM'd chair
Nothing, because your answer is incorrect!

If you require the pieces to be exactly 2m long without allowing for any margin of error, then there isn't a saw that will cut that accurately, so the answer is 0, not 2.

If you allow for the accuracy of the saw, then the answer is 3 since any saw can cut within its own accuracy. :-)
Patent-less information technology / what is your job
Something that this article sidesteps is the notion of synthesis vs. modeling -- we can make accurate models of existing behaviors using lots and lots of data, but it's much harder to synthesize new behaviors without a deeper understanding.
I recently got myself a 27" 2560 x 1440 monitor at home primarily for programming. At work, I have 2 24" 1920 x 1080 screens with a really nice monitor mount and a laptop stand, so I have 3 screens at the same time.

I have to say, that I right now, I'm preferring my setup at home. Not only is the screen beautiful, but the increased resolution allows me to have 2 vertical buffers of code in Emacs with a browser next to it. I sit far enough back that I don't have to use constant neck movements, but then again, I only have 1 monitor.

At work, I use a standing desk, and have the monitors mounted in a half-hexagon around me, so it's easier to just do slight neck movements.
Video: Bypass Android Lockscreen on Samsung Phones
A Step Toward a Quantum Computer
Jake Applebaum's Afterword to Corey Doctrows "Homeland"
Maybe. What is the price of 25 kg of filament in bulk?

I know almost nothing about producing filament, but if I had to guess, I would say its price is high because of low demand. If demand goes up, competition will drive the price down.
Computers are an extension of one's mind, and should be subject to the same fifth amendment protection. We wouldn't say that protection against self incrimination no longer applies once information can be scanned directly out of the brain (although the doublespeaking sovereign nine probably would, sigh). I have hope that ubiquitous stenographic file systems can maybe show people the way and encourage such push back. We'll see.
My wife's mind boggles that so much money is spent on this stuff when you can buy a menstrual cup every year or two and face almost none of the cons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cup .. I wonder if this is one of those "the industry doesn't want this to happen" dealies. (Disclaimer: I do not have a vagina so don't have direct experience, but she raves about it.)
Outperform Online Competition through Chatwing Chat Software
Definitely need this in the UK. I can't understand why, but my partner HATES buying tampons in the supermarket, the amount of times I've had to pick them up on my way home is countless. It's a normal part of being a woman, there is no prejudice women.

Any women here who don't mind sharing why this is so embarrassing for the alike?
Polyphasic sleep is one way to get more time. The basic idea is that by splitting sleep up from one 8 hour chuck at night to one or more naps throughout the day can reduce your overall need for sleep. I first discovered the Uberman schedule, which requires you to take on extreme sleep deprivation in order to compress your normally 90 minute sleep cycle into 20 minutes, and then only take 6 20 minute naps throughout the day.

This is the extreme case, and I'm still not convinced that can be healthy, but the less extreme options seem to have some long-term merit. My friend has successfully adapted to sleeping 3 hours at night and taking 3 20 minutes naps during the day, and he says he loves all of the extra time during the night. And apparently biphasic sleep is the norm in some countries. http://www.polyphasicsociety.com/ has some interesting articles about different schedules.
It's interesting because (in Ontario, Canada) there is an ongoing trend to adopt online classes because of the touted lower costs.

Since there is an explosion of demand of students who primarily see post-secondary institutions as job training grounds (and don't necessarily understand academia), the institutions wan't to adopt these online courses to help deal with demand and attract students with the appeal of 'remote' courses, all at lower costs.

If MOOCs can be credentialed and recognized by employers, I think it's logical that they'll steal a lot of the undergrads from universities, which are the primary revenue generator for these institutions.
Teens have always gone where identity isn't
Looks pretty awesome. You got a lot of good feedback already but here's a couple things:

- The resume page is the only page without navigation.

- Maybe I just like footers, but... there's no footer. Not really "wrong" but, I expect it to be there.

- The header shifts a few pixels when you go from About back to the index.

- Personally, I prefer to see technical skills broken up on the resume like on your My Skills section. That is to say, have languages, tools, IDEs, split up. Not sure what industry standards there are though.

- If you get bored, throw some URL rewriting in to get rid of the .html on the pages, just for fun.

All in all, much better than most personal websites I see.
Does Watsi do analysis/testing of the blurbs on each patient's solicitations. I notice two distinct themes in the front-page text (before the jump):

* X is sweet, smart, precious, etc

* X has Y condition, that means Z

IMO, stuff like this is unhelpful:

* "The doctor who submitted X case to Watsi describes her as “"

* "X's parents adore her. "

* "to loving parents "

(but tests are better than MO)
Ask HN: How to Choose the Right Startup to Join?
So far, Google only returned with the article by Eric Stromberg.

http://estromberg.com/post/7886304364/how-to-choose-the-right-startup-to-join?8c2637e0

Love to hear from you guys. Any input is useful.
ps: I am undecided which to join. :(
Empowering employees with choice is always a good thing as long as results are prioritized above their choices. My policy has always been to present company goals to our staff like so: Get X done, by Y, and be sure it meets our standard of quality. I don't care if you work in your childhood tree house up until Y as long as I am able to contact you if needed & you produce the desired results.

Marissa Meyer likely saw that the freedom wasn't producing the results she would like & decided to reel it in. I'm sure it will return when appropriate.

The wave of the future will be MORE offices that make people not want to leave.
Yeah. I know. But AFAIK they do not support USD. Am I wrong? Also Indian payment gateways sucks. I wanted to know if there are other gateways which support Indian merchants
>That's quite a leap considering that the big movement of late has been towards native apps (in the context of tablets/phones)

That was a few years ago, the industry has moved on since the iPhone. I can't think of any exciting new native apps in the last few years. Were there even any native apps at all created by the last batch of YC companies?

>Also considering that much effort is being spent on things like PNacl to get native apps to run over the web.

PNacl is not going to take off, and rightly so: it's Google's attempt to lock the web into their own proprietary platform.

>Web apps still suck compared to their native counterparts

I disagree. I don't have to worry about saving, I can use them from any computer anywhere in the world and continue what I was doing. I don't have to worry about updates. My system won't get compromised because I forgot to install a vital security upgrade for app X Y or Z. My app won't suddenly get deleted from my computer because the OS vendor decided to censor it. I don't have to worry if it will run on my system, or work out what dependencies I need to install. It will always just work.
Directory of firms investing in Asia's startups (beta). Feedback welcome.
I only skimmed this article, but I don't see how this argument works. US "academia" (in the sense of the top handful of universities in any given field) isn't supported by student tuition in any meaningful way. It's supported mostly by government grants to the science departments and by alumni giving (typically buffered by a large endowment foundation) to make up the slack. Only schools with no graduate programs (i.e. pretty much "not academia" by typical definition) need to get by on tuition.

US academic institutions are dominant because they have more money (largely because of historical government policy), not because of any monopoly position enjoyed over the students. I can certainly see European or Asian institutions taking over this lead, but certainly not because students want to attend "MOOCs". If you want a top-tier university go and buy one.
Dad gets $22,000 data roaming 'shock' from Fido
I don't know how old you are, but I'm in my mid-40s. For the longest time, everything I did was related to learning more about computers. Over the past couple of years, that changed - I found that I was no longer interested in learning new stuff so much. It's easy to pick up new skills, but I don't seek them out the way I did.

I realized that I had completely forgotten what I LIKED to do, in favor of doing what I HAD to do to keep making money. I actually had to sit down and write a list of things I liked to do, and make sure to start doing them. It's easy to lose sight of why we are hear. No one ever wished they had worked more, as they lay dying.

My point is, don't feel bad about doing what you want to do.
I've seen many millions of dollars spent on websites, logos, and webpage designs in the United States over the past decade. In many cases, there was clearly A LOT of profit built into the price. $15 million is no doubt a lot for a Wordpress site. But, I've seen $6 million spent on a logo. Is that more or less ridiculous?
My initial reaction as a person without a vagina is "Ew, isn't that a bit like installing a catheter so you don't have to go pee?"

I mean, I prefer paper handkerchiefs so I can throw them away after use, rather than carrying around a piece of cloth that gets all messy.
You're forced to use the roads. There is no practical way around government services since they're so pervasive. Just because someone benefited from a government service does not make it morally justifiable to steal.
The thing is, you can still do all this in Apache now. CGI still exists (in fact, it's the default way Perl's ran). So I'm really struggling to work out why I'd install their tool over Apache.

And I don't mean this negatively, I really do want to know what separates this product from existing webservers runing CGI, but there's no useful information on their website what-so-ever.

If any of the Rebin devs are reading this, are you able to elaborate on this tool a little more?
Because of the physical size of bacteria, the word became a mass noun and functions as both plural and singular. Same reason for taking "data": it is collective.

I had to look this up and it's far from authoritative but Wikipedia doesn't seem to think that's entirely true for data, at least (that is, you may say "a bacteria" but you do not say "a data"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data

In English, the word datum is still used in the general sense of "an item given". [..] Any measurement or result is a datum, but data point is more usual [..] Even when a very small quantity of data is referenced (one number, for example) the phrase piece of data is often used, as opposed to datum. The debate over appropriate usage is ongoing.
They're cost effective and environmentally friendly, however dropping one on the floor of a public restroom is quite the faux pas.
It's a well made video, I don't get why anyone would want email like that.

The grammar is wrong in the text, exams be over, not get over.
you CAN buy this for your gf/wife if you use Juniper — Just go to http://www.getjuniper.com/gift !
I am used to traditional disclaimers such as "I work for the company ..." But I don't have a vagina has to be the strangest and best disclaimer all year :-). Have some karma

Ps

Someday I shall have to write a book to go with a title that popped into my head over the weekend:

"Men; turns out we are all crap, who knew?"