skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is really tough as a young person, especially as a front-end designer. I'm 18 now, but I started dabbling when I was about your age. A couple things I'd really recommend doing.
- Do NOT use a framework. They're really easy, and you learn nothing. Once you have enough experience in HTML5/CSS3 to code a responsive site from scratch without looking stuff up, then frameworks are beneficial.
-Build yourself a portfolio site. Building my portfolio (http://robs.im) has taught me so much. If you want more on this, let me know. I have some snippets of JS/CSS/HTML from the first version of my portfolio site that you might be able to use, they're quite unique, but they didn't suit my purposes.
-Forrst and Dribbble. My very first piece of work came in the day after I got into Dribbble. I'm going to be really honest with you right now. What you have is probably not good enough to get you into Dribbble. For tips on how to improve, email me. Link on my site. If you improve a lot, I have a Dribbble invite.
-GitHub: Work on something on GitHub. If you're looking for a Project, I have a couple of side projects you could work on. Again, email me.
- Last tip: Don't lie about your age. The general opinion seems to be "If you do good work, I don't care how old you are." Take Jared Erondu for example. If you don't know who he is, look him up. He's 18, and awesome. Lying about your age doesn't work, I did it once, and that was the end of that project.

Hope this helps,
Rob Sim
We're talking about opening a short position in the face of manic buying. Buyers will still vastly outnumber sellers, and in the end you'll be forced to buy back at a higher price in a so-called short squeeze which will drive prices even higher.

Lots of reasonable people thought they could short the dot com bubble only to get creamed as prices moved higher.
"AT& T is most likely gonna sue Austin unless they provide them with the same incentives as Google is getting."

Could Austin make the argument that AT&T is only entitled to the incentives Google receives if they agree to the additional community work Google is doing (i.e. free fiber for schools, government buildings, and hospitals)?
100% reactionary and nearly 100% political.

In the Chicagoland area, their DSL service was simply horrible, and it languished, until Comcast started rolling out Internet and triple-play (cable TV, Internet, and phone).

Suddenly, AT&T's market was at material risk.

Even then, their Internet offerings remained poorly supported, if relatively somewhat improved.

I suspect the primary reason for this announcement is for use in manipulating various political entities, including Congress. Also, some public PR value, from those who are still inclined to believe anything they might have to say.

Note that today's AT&T is really SBC. AT&T was a mostly empty shell at the time SBC bought them up -- largely, I suspect, for the branding.
Last I checked educated consumers don't drive product decisions for products that aren't targeted at educated consumers or for which educated consumers are a minority.
The bar doesn't want to price its drinks in bitcoin, and it doesn't want to hold bitcoin either. The BitPay intermediary is needed to display the bar's USD price as a bitcoin price to the customer, and to convert the customers bitcoin payment into a USD receipt for the bar.
Pretty delightful message for Google, actually.

Google never dreamed of becoming a telecom monopolist. It just wants faster, cheaper internet for everyone. Google wants more people online, more people googling, more people clicking on ads.

So AT&T's announcement? Exactly what Google wants. Well, this, or AT&T announcing it will sit on its hands while Google patiently erodes their subscriber base. Either one, really, is a win for Google. To use a chess analogy, AT&T (and friends) have been "forked."
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Maintenance. If somebody designed a site to look a certain way on a certain size of screen using "span-whatever" classes, you have to either a) remove them and rewrite the CSS b) change each one to the correct number of "spans" or c) override span6 to actually mean span8 in some cases.

This becomes an even bigger nightmare when you're designing for resolution independence, which everyone should be doing all the time.

If I want a different separation character for inline lists, I should be able to make that change in the CSS instead of doing a find-replace for every instance of <span class=sep>/</span>. That's what the CSS :after pseudo element was designed for.

The "hide" class should be added by JavaScript if its going to be added at all, because having a "hide" class with no way to toggle it off is wasting the users time and bandwidth and you should be ashamed.

I could go on and on, but I have run in to all these issues and more on real-world projects, and in my opinion, whatever marginal decrease in development time you get from bootstrap is not worth the technical debt that comes with it.
No, it's looking at sex, not gender.
It stands for "Pro". That means it's used by professionals. You know - lawyers, doctors, salespeople, sportspeople, professors of ancient history. That sort of thing. Most are unlikely to need to upgrade the SSD.
Sort of. I suppose there is some secondary market in beer. Near a college, maybe?

You can readily hock a car for money, so that's a few levels closer to being a currency. You can sell used media.

But there are people in the business of buying and selling gold for the sole purpose of readily converting it to currency and vica versa so that gold can be used as an alternative to paper currency managed by a nation's central bank. That's almost all that gold is used for, and that's what dealers in gold coin and gold bars are in business to enable.
What's funny is, depending on which side of Frisco you are on, you do have that choice. In general, if you are west of the Tollway, you can get both services. Several other cities in north Texas are like that (Watauga, for instance, as well as Keller, north Fort Worth, far North Dallas).

What you are seeing, at least in Texas, is the historical division between what used to be GTE and Southwestern Bell. Back when those companies were regulated utilities, you are exactly right: the markets were divvied up between the two. Generally, Southwestern Bell got the big cities and GTE got the suburbs and rural areas. Inertia and a general unwillingness to rock the boat means that situation persists, though you can see some areas where it has melded.
Even if everything you say above is true.

None of these rules are brand new and AppGratis had been approved by Apple staff time and time again and worked with the company when there were problems.

The fact a new person can come along and totally pull the rug out should highlight just how wildly inconsistent the approval system is.
seconded. not to mention the rest..
Error handling is node is terrible due to a lack of consistency about errors. Any function can potentially either:

a) throw an exception, which will crash your app

b) emit an error event, which will crash your app if you aren't handling it

c) include the error in the first response of the callback

Domains are a knee jerk reaction to try and remedy this, but it's a pretty gross bandaid. I doubt that Nodejitsu's specific issues here are related to this, but it's one of the main reasons that I've moved away from building things in Node.
This person did not arrive "simply" an hour later and not to an "open event." Read the general policies of the Stern School of Business, which cover the course in question:

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/AcademicAffairs/Policies/GeneralPol...
Can you point us to your popular time-saving framework that does all of this the correct way then?

Yes I'm purposely being snarky here because while I can accept that your are allowed to not like the choices the Bootstrap designers made, this kind of attitude doesn't help.

Bootstrap provides a ton of other valuable benefits to a web project's lifecycle, apart from catering to the one-man pedantic HTML developer who doesn't care about everyone else's jobs (IA, design, prototyping, etc) and dismisses the whole thing because it doesn't cater to his/her views.

Calling a project garbage and dismissing it in this manner is just short-sighted and, well, selfish. If Bootstrap's code was really that bad, wouldn't it be less popular? Wouldn't someone have produced a better competing product?
Pricing doesn't need to be in bitcoin, the rate can be obtained at the time of purchase, but the purchase still can happen wallet to wallet. If the bar doesn't want to hold bitcoins - that's a different story of course.
A friendly word of PR advice: I'm not a customer and not affected by your outage, but if I were, being told to keep calm would really irritate me, especially if I were fighting fires right now. If you want someone to calm down, telling them to calm down generally won't have the desired effect.
If this is a message to Google, then AT&T must be pretty stupid. It seems obvious that Google's goal is to get high-speed internet to people, because Google makes money when people use the internet, and they don't care who delivers the connectivity. Google is only doing it themselves because ISPs have not stepped up to the plate.
Well, adding rich-text support to ot.js and CodeMirror wasn't trivial, but both of these projects were certainly instrumental in building Firepad.

And we'd love to see integrations with ShareJS as well as other editors besides CodeMirror.
Why didn't they just go direct to SRI? I'm guessing summly got a good lisencing deal.
do you seriously expect coherent thought or real journalism from BI?
No legitimate prime broker is going to touch this thing.
I believe security as we know it will be different in 10 years time, and that your request will be granted.

However your post brought up a very thought-provoking point in my opinion:

I was intrigued by your point that today's parents are publishing details of tomorrow's adults. I have friends that are sharing pictures of their children, embarrassing stories of their children, and personal details of their children's lives. 20 years ago, parents shared that kind of by word of mouth to other friends, or showed pictures at a family get-together. The spread of that kind of information would usually die when reaching the intended recipient. Now with the Internet, that information lives on and spreads much further, and is accessible to strangers for who knows how many years. How can the adults of tomorrow expect a right to privacy when they can't even control what is being shared about them today?

My baby pictures live in a drawer in my parent's house (and on my hard drive just in case the originals accidentally get destroyed). I want my family and descendants to be able to have those pictures, not the whole world. Today's children (tomorrow's adults) aren't getting that option when their parents post their pictures and stories online.

It will probably be about 10 years before I start having children, and I will do my best to keep their lives private. Though with my friends having children today, how can I ask them not to share stories and pictures of their children without seeming insensitive? I certainly can't make the argument as a fellow parent. I can try to convince politely that they are destroying any notion of privacy for their children.

The world is only going to get more interesting as technology gets more advanced, and as humanity grows up with the technology.
>I think the outcry here is that government has much bigger fish to fry than hounding taxpayers over a few thousands bucks worth of free food every year.

I know the article repeatedly talks about employees paying additional tax, but at glance such taxes would seem to be paid by employers?

Also, to go off on a bit of a tangent - I've noticed that the perceived size of the "fish to fry" has a way of changing in line with the predilections of the source of the outcry.

Present the same person with the same dollar value as tax increase/break, spending cut/increase and watch their impression of the relative size and opinion of the change turn on a dime.
It doesn't make you crazy, it just means your thought lacks substance. "Textbooks should be free too" is so vague and ambiguous that it has no useful meaning.
AWS, Heroku, and many other PaaS providers have had their own share of downtime occasionally. I see nothing so damning about this particular instance of PaaS going down that warrants complete abandonment of the platform.
> You very much dislike Ryan Carson on the basis of a blog post he wrote arguing that you don't necessarily need a co-founder to run a successful company ?

Not quite. I don't believe it's necessary to have a co-founder to run a successful company. I agree completely with the headline. But the primary arguments for why this was done were to maintain equity and control. It came off as though he wasn't sharing equity with early employees and wanted to keep an extraordinary level of equity. It seems to me like the company is being set up for an acquisition in which 1 person and exactly 1 person benefits. Additionally, it felt like there was an innate distrust in all employees and potential business partners, and a need to assert dominance and complete control. What kind of professional relationships do you have to suffer through before the only thing you are interested in is total ownership? A company should be much more than a bunch of people being paid to do your bidding, and that's what I took away from the post.

> Have you ever even spoken to Ryan ? I've met him a few times - he's a genuinely nice guy, passionate about running good businesses which are successful and provide real benefits to his customers.

No I haven't, but I'm not sure I see it. I wouldn't go so far as to say he's not a nice guy (I have no idea), but I disagree strongly with some of his views from a leadership role, and it feels to me there are other motives than just making a great product and providing benefits to customers.
Aereo Has TV Networks Circling the Wagons
Assessment of the best hashtag tools for Twitter marketing
If you already know your hashtags, great. Use them. If you have an event or brand tag that is relevant to what you’re sharing, use it. To reach beyond your followers, you’ll want to take your topic and search hashtags that have gone out with the topic word(s). Several social media tools provide for this.
Sounds like the problem is with Apache then (I haven't used it in ages). As someone else suggested, have you thought about using nginx?
> I never thought such a thing would be possible without amplification on an acoustic guitar.

Of course there is amplification. There is a huge battery pack in there driving the strings.
Big up BuyVM!

http://www.doesbuyvmhavestock.com/

They actually have stock which only seems to happen a few times a year.
30M is a lot, I'm not actually sure it alone was worth it.
Apparently the app has been hidden in the Windows Phone store and uploads are blocked because of some issues with the app. The devs commented on a thread at WP Central - http://www.wpcentral.com/comment/354383#comment-354383
Even here in Northern Virginia, it's spotty. Alexandria is still a FiOS-free zone, for example. Verizon was planning on it for a couple of years, but then changed their mind. Their statement said, essentially, that they already had enough FiOS customers and didn't need any more, thanks but no thanks.
>Yeah, if AT&T is trying to play some kind of "chicken game" with Google, they will lose, because Google doesn't care that much about the profits as they do about dramatically increasing the competition in the ISP market.

The interesting thing is that AT&T's response is not going to help them, but the thing they actually could do is what Google would like them to do -- install gigabit fiber in other cities, that Google isn't in yet.

If Google installs fiber in a city and AT&T doesn't, that city belongs to Google. AT&T is going to lose the large majority of their customers in that city if they don't upgrade their network in response. But if AT&T does install gigabit fiber in that city, now they're in the position of having to make a large capital investment only to enter an aggressive price war. In either case, for that city, AT&T is screwed.

However, suppose AT&T decides instead to install gigabit fiber in, say, Chicago, or Hartford. Preemptively. Those cities immediately fall off the short list for the next Google Fiber rollout, because why put fiber in a city that already has it when there are so many that don't? So now AT&T owns the market in that city. They still had to make the capital investment, but at least now they stave off the subsequent price war. And if they do it in all the cities in their service area which would be good candidates, the next Google Fiber city ends up being in Verizon territory -- unless Verizon et al all do the same thing, in which case Google may just bow out having accomplished their goal.
I've been working remotely (1500 km from the office) as a programmer since Sept. 2006. I believe there is huge potential for innovation here and that current collaboration tools are pretty primitive, although I have to say, Webex is a lifesaver. This Screenhero application looks like a great complement.

Companies can gain a lot by allowing people to work remotely - they vastly increase the talent pool and they save money by not having to supply office space. But like the article said, there's a cultural issue here. The whole thing reminds me of online dating ten years ago, when the perception was that it's for losers. Now seemingly everyone does it.

What's needed is basically validation for this lifestyle. Once that happens, the awesome tools will follow. Screenhero seems like a great first step for sure.
I feel the same - intermittent short (1min) down times happen pretty regularly, about once a month, and I only know that from my own monitoring tools - no emails or notifications from them. I want to love them too :(
Oh, I've seen the other sides. But that's the point. This video seems completely faked. It's clearly an advertisement, and it's not representative of Jolie's typical personality, and at the same time I feel that if I were a woman in tech, that this video would bother me (any of you care to comment?).

I don't like being lied to, especially not by journalists.
We arranged things so that we held onto 25% at the outset. Now worth ¥25B+ ($250M+), split six ways. Some of us have already cashed in a small fraction, but we're mostly holding out for another few years. Thanks everyone. S et al.
In other words, "have you tried being a man?"

More constructively: your advice is not really actionable if your premise is that one must have the same emotions as you and think the way you do. And people can't just rewire their brains because a man on the Internet says their problems are all in their head.
So you think these drawbacks are in someway related to the fact that they are offline? It seems like you are just jumping for a chance to kick a project and or spread some FUD.

Not to mention "database queries can be costly do to transaction over http" => Not gonna get into this too much, but couchdb has an optimistic concurrency model, yeah?

An implementation that uses a technology ( or like iriscouch is a db as a service) is not that technology. If heroku postgresdb's go down because they configure things incorrectly is that the fault of the project? Could be, could be documentation was lacking, or it was a real footgun. It is also possible to deploy technology within a budget where failures are the expected outcome, it is also very possible to deploy technology in a manner which does not support a use case, or may not even be something the technology can support, that does not make it 'bad' or 'great', and has nothing to do with "control vs ease" or http vs a yet to be named wire protocol...

I just don't see how this is helpful, accurate, or adds to the discussion, sorry if I am jumping down your throat about it.
A lot of people are talking shit about a service they've either never tried, or are paying $3 per drone per month for. Relax.

Having been with nodejitsu for 4 months now, I can say with confidently that they provide the best support out there. 24/7 IRC support with guys that go beyond the call of duty is worth way more than $3.

Yes, jitsu deploy used to have its 500 problems, but when we reduced our package size these all went away. We've had +98% deploy success for the last 4 weeks.

Yes, they are working on enterprise solutions, and if you're paying for enterprise, nobody forced you to buy into a provider that is less than 3 months old.

Nodejitsu have teething problems, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm happy with the experience, and nobody has a gun to my head to stick with nodejitsu if I didn't want to.
Java is a great choice for CS. It's similarity to C/C++ is handy for those who need to transition high performance computing or move to work on low level systems (kernels, drivers, embedded systems, etc). The JVM is also a great target for learning about virtual machines, since the JVM itself is quite an amazing virtual machine by it's own regard. The JVM can also be used to study a 'real life' implementation of stack machines, and Java bytecode can be used as a [gentler] introduction to assembly.

So yes, while you're startup may choose Python or Ruby or the latest language of the day, Java is a great system to teach a lot of fundamental computer science topics with.

Besides, Google uses it.
A better deal than Yahoo! could've gotten? That doesn't smell right to me.
Looks like they were down for about 90 minutes maybe less
I didn't really say that, nor did I imply it. I said I'm for high quality, free educational materials at all levels.

There's an entirely different rant about textbook sales in schools, more to do with corruption, greed, and sweetheart deals than trying to provide quality materials for learning. I definitely believe those materials (the ones marketed at the expense of students) are entirely bad, no doubt.
Yeah, that's fair. There's some grey area though -- like, if you accidentally delete a file on your site, your server will return 400. How is the server supposed to know it's accidental? So it's accurate (the user has requested a file that doesn't exist) while at the same time being misleading -- the file should be there.
is that meant as a serious reply?

Pro is a badge. Just like "Super Deluxe", "Extra Special", "Custom Ordered"..

We don't go around saying that a super deluxe cheeseburger is only for the super deluxe among us.
Micro formats are underrated and simple to achieve: http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page
I'm confused on how summly would have gotten a better licensing deal than Yahoo! could have managed. [Honest question.]
It's admittedly subjective; I didn't mean to imply that aren't real advantages to a lighter phone. At the same time, reading "30% more battery" on the product stats doesn't have the same wow factor as "omg, this thing is freakishly light".
Hmmm... but this is bad PR.

The PR read that Yahoo is acquiring a company but shutting down its product and getting only 2 of their engineers for 30 million dollars. PR like that gets Yahoo's name in the press but does nothing to improve the image that Yahoo has no idea what it's doing.
Have you seen the people are online dating these days? I don't think much has changed.
Obvious troll is obvious. You don't have a clue what you're talking about. They run thousands of instances on an infrastructure they've built mostly themselves. They built the platform to be provider agnostic, meaning they can run it on EC2, Rackspace Cloud, or an internal rack.

If you actually look at the open source projects listed you'll see most of them are from Nodejitsu and are used internally.
You go to http://status.twitter.com/, which is powered by Tumblr which, in one of my favourite bits of Internet insanity, uses Twitter for status announcements: https://twitter.com/tumblr (there is a status.tumblr.com but it's blank).