skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're "unschooling" our kids (4 and 2, right now). At their age, it means pretty much the same thing it means at any other age, as I understand it.

To us, unschooling means we don't push an agenda. Neither I nor my wife are our childrens' teachers, in the classical sense. We know a hell of a lot more and have the experience to back it up, so when the occasion arises and the questions are asked, we're there with guidance. Which is pretty much what I'd expect any parent to do in similar situations.

The biggest difference between us and more mainstream parents is that we're not anxious about our kids' pre-reading skills or whether we enrolled in the right preschool.

> Do you just leave your five year old on her own, since her life is her own?

Of course not! That's the reactionary response most folks give in the unschooling discussion, but it's nowhere near the truth. We don't push bare academics (information without context) or arbitrary schedules because we don't believe those have any value. We're involved with our kids all day, every day, as far as we're able. No preschool, no highly structured "educational opportunities". Live life, meet people, do stuff that matters, don't be anxious about how your kids compare.
Ugh, I really don't feel like writing a spider...
Counts that you finished and launched a project. Keep using it, post it anywhere you need to and maybe you get enough users to sell it.

Or, go ahead and try to sell it over and over again to anyone who wants to start a URL service.
If you're asking for an opinion from the entrepreneur in me, I'd tell you to go get a job at Starbucks and stay as far away from the Web as possible.

If you're asking for an opinion from the programmer in me, I'd give you a pat on the back and buy you lunch.
Only after they posted the puzzle did solutions pop up on their own search engine. :)
skyline chili! if i moved back to the 'nati i'd get a job there. i miss it so... (the canned stuff doesn't come close)
Well, your call on how to spend your time, but if you were willing to bump that up to about 2342 minutes you could have written something people would actually pay for, and you'd get a bit of experience on the non-programming parts of running a business in the bargain.

As to what's it is missing: I'm guessing the anti-spam measures in place are kind of lacking, but I'm not going to exploit it to test.
GE's Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disk
Man whoa, where is all this hate coming from? Good job, under 6 hours isn't bad at all. I think it looks great to have launched projects up on the web as part of a resume.

If I had a suggestion it would be to automatically show me the "tracking" stats.
If you think you'll learn something from it, go ahead and do it.
Our culture does something to screw most of them up

If that's true, there ought to be some culture that doesn't have this problem. Can you name one?
Hotel devon
Devon Hotels - Prince Hall Dartmoor hotel is a dog friendly Luxury Devon Hotel near Two Bridges.
nice idea... might add that
Capital punishment for possession, you mean? I think that's a little extreme, even though I am Singaporean.
Mojave Philosophy, Short film by Director 
Mojave Philosophy, a dramatic short film depicting the life of a woman past her prime stuck in a small town, wows audiences with its raw, simplistic beauty.
well you have to admit there's a lot of ppl listening to underground news (bypassing GFW, etc), and they spread them proudly.
Hotel devon 
Devon Hotels - Prince Hall Dartmoor hotel is a dog friendly Luxury Devon Hotel near Two Bridges.
IBM builds machine to compete on Jeopardy
What about multiple selectors in SASS? I don't see any in http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/rdoc/classes/Sass.html or in the screencast.

I'd usually rather do:

p.date,
.author h3 {
font-family: italic;
color: #777;
} /* Or whatever */

Than:

=fancy_shmancy
font-family: italic
color: #777

p.date
+fancy_shmancy

.author h3
+fancy_shmancy
Anyone Want to Bet on Technological Advances?
Not a bad question. I am absolutely in grad school for the degree. It is not, however, my first reason for being in grad school or even one of my primary reasons.

Much of what I am learning I could learn on my own by studying the books and thinkers my peers and I have studied in the classroom setting this semester; I know this to be true. The draw of graduate work (and any post secondary education as far as I'm concerned) is the opportunity to think alongside professors with a wealth of accumulated knowledge and wisdom in their particular field, and to think and discuss with classmates who share a similar passion to one's own. Learning completely on your own doesn't come close to the experience of learning from and with people who share one's passion for a particular subject.

So it's pretty disappointing when a rather large chunk of those peers don't seem to care one way or the other about real learning and application of knowledge, but only seem to care about the grade.
Yes, "preloading the delta between the server clock and the client clock" is what I had in mind when I wrote "synchronized to the same clock". That is, synchronized to the server clock.
BugMeNot is closed.

Edit: OK, so it's not. I doesn't work for me, but I guess it works for other people. I didn't know it was just me till just now.
Hour long video explains what I could have picked up in 10 minutes of reading.

SASS looks like it could have been so much more. Its syntax differs from CSS in ways that it doesn't need to (specifically, requiring newlines and prohibiting multiple rules or selectors on a single line), and the lack of local variable also decreases one's mobility with the tool.

It's a good start, but it could have been so much better.
Can you push to a twitter account? For personal reasons I do not use facebook, but consider me included.

I'm in Pasadena, CA and am on-board with your thoughts. Thanks.
For cheap, really? When did you get it. I've wanted one for years but now that poster costs hundreds online (last I checked).
apparently they didn't
http://www.adrants.com/2009/03/honda-insight-commercials-car...
Why is it a bad thing? It's better to have tons of shortening services, than a few big ones. Just to spread the risk incase one goes down.

If tinyurl.com or bit.ly went down right now, half of the links on Twitter would go dead...
Rideau asks who will certify the certifiers and who will certify the certifier certifiers ad adnseaum an concluded that there is no one qualified, so go away. I suspect the malpractitioners that Sussman wants to eliminate already have their MS certifications and their Sun certifications. All us old hands will be grandfathered in because of experience. The people that it will inconvenience are the self-taught, partially degreed, and otherwise uncredentialed, just those people who became programmers because they loved it. I dont need no stinking badge.
I was under the impression that Wikipedia has this vandalism problem, especially with popular articles.
HackerDojo: Bay Area Hackers Unite
HackerDojo is looking for members! We've almost got a location finalized and we're looking for hackers to fill the space with.

Project: Create a community center for hackers and thinkers to meet, discuss, learn, and create in the San Francisco Bay Area.

http://hackerdojo.pbwiki.com/
First, congratulations. You're making the right decision. Programmers who are ignorant of C leave certain roles and problem domains closed off to them. Even if your primary language is something else, not being afraid to roll up your sleeves and fix performance and correctness problems in the compilers and runtimes themselves makes you more valuable, more confident, and better able to reason about how the runtime will map your input to the machine. And proficiency with system-building languages and tools is a prerequisite if you ever aspire to be a "head surgeon," "10x programmer", "ninja", or whatever the heck the kids are calling it these days :).

K&R et al. are fine, but I'm a particular fan of two slightly oddball, but great, books about C:

1. van der Linden's Deep C Secrets. Short of implementing a C compiler yourself, reading this book is the surest path to completely understanding some aspects of the C linkage model, and the distinction between arrays and pointers. It's also entertainingly written, which always helps.

2. The Lions Book, an annotated source listing for the Unix v6 kernel. The subject matter is one of the most beautiful and influential programs ever written. This ~10k-line program is completely understandable in six weeks' study, a couple months' tops, yet it staked out almost all of the abstractions that still underly modern operating systems. It is also C's native environment: C was literally invented to write this program. And while it's dated in some of its peculiarities ("=+" where we'd write "+=", identifiers only being significant in the first 8 characters, no typedef yet, a lot more reliance on the register keyword, etc.), it's damned fine code, by any standard. Each page brims over with good, informed engineering trade-offs; the sweet spot may have shifted since the days of 128k core and 16-bit CPUs, but the thinking that goes into those trade-offs is mostly unchanged.
I'm partial to UCSB's AlloSphere: http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu/
Very interesting application, but I think they'll have a hard time attempting to approximate the amount of information a human competitor would have (assuming they want to limit the machine's knowledge to better represent human memory).

I would rather have them give it access to Google's entire cache, since the real feat is processing and understanding the questions and then giving an appropriate answer. In theory, if the machine has 100% question recognition and can research an answer as fast as Google serves its pages, it should wipe the floor with the human contestants.

I do hope they find a way to keep the contest competitive and interesting.
Oh, come on. There's the good kind of can-do attitude, which is useful, and then this kind, where if you think you want something enough, anything can happen.

Consider how much effort had to go into just putting a man on the moon, and compare that to the effort required to affect the fundamental energy processes of a body in which one million Earths can fit. The two problems are many, many orders of magnitude apart. Affecting the Sun in a noticeable way is well out of our reach now, and with high probability will be for the next millennium.

EDIT: I'm full of shit, it's 1 million
The Economic Case Against the GPL
Really? I've made a lot more from URL shorteners than someone makes at Starbucks.
Wattvision's (YC W09) down and dirty energy management dreams
StartupWeekendSF produces a record 23 startups
No, it isn't:

http://www.bugmenot.com/
I'm sort of in the same situation here in Indy (albeit I'll end up with an AS + `green`) and am having absolutely no luck marketing my resume [pdf: http://tinyurl.com/cs9mbp] for entry-level opportunities. Note: you might want to include an active email address in your resume

One my friends suggested to me that I get up early in the morning and just start cold-calling companies or show up to their front-door (of their business) and ask if they're hiring. If they're not, summarize your story [get some empathy points] and politely ask the secretary if they would file your resume with HR.

Another method is go to more career fairs/conventions; I've found that I get more leads and feedback here than any job board or online application.
If I'm using a url shortener and worried about my links dying, I'm pretty sure that I trust tinyurl or bit.ly to be around longer than 99% of the url shorteners that have popped up in the last two weeks.
Report: Personal Internet use at work out of control
Please post this on reddit or a similar site. Can't there be one site with tech-related articles without these off-topic incendiary posts?
Yes, but the New York Times has an ignorance problem, which turns out to be more severe in practice, in my experience. Your mileage may vary. Other newspapers and magazines are even worse.
If anyone wants to be on the private 'alpha' send a mail to info [at] wattvision.com with a digital photo of your electricity meter. Also, one minor factual issue (already pinged Katie) Wattvision is not a year and a half old. The company received YC funding in Jan '09. ;)
why'd it take you so long? :)

Seriously though, good job, nice clean design, fast performing and seems to work (always important). As for usefulness in a world full of url shortening services I'm more skeptical about, but as a fun/school project its a good job.
Flag it, don't complain.
From your resume it seems the entrepreneur in you has little experience.

I think a true entrepreneur would be impressed with getting a project finished quickly.
Fun app [game], I scored a 301, I observed too many vowels. :D
People have paid you to create a URL shortener?
This worked pretty well for me:

http://www.43folders.com/2005/09/08/kick-procrastinations-as...
Have you looked for jobs at nearby universities? UC, MU, etc.?
Do you really think that everyone has the natural talent to be able to do well at calculus?

but rather because he is "learning to play them for fun"

But what is fun? A person experiences fun when they have a feedback loop of effort, accomplishment, and reward. If you are good at math, you get this from doing math and you find math fun. If you are good at Halo, you get this from beating levels, and playing Halo is fun.
We're also looking for corporate sponsorship, so if anyone knows a good person at your company whom I can contact, please send them my way!

It's a community effort and I think there's enough hackers in the Bay Area to make this into a reality. It will also be the only coworking facility in the south bay so hopefully there's hackers out here looking for a cheap office!
I grew up in Cincinnati - might try applying to GlobalCloud.net - they are a pretty big web dev firm in Cincinnati.
I used Compass + 960.gs on a recent project. It took me a while to understand, but once I got it, I really saw the value. Simply put, it makes producing good looking websites easier. I particularly like the helpers provided in the Utilities Module:

http://wiki.github.com/chriseppstein/compass/compass-core-ut...

I actually find Sass more useful than Haml. I find Haml gets in my way too much, and I'd rather do things in ERB.
Did you even read the article? It is hardly an incendiary post, the article reads with little to no bias and is a mere commentary on the after events of an Atheist move.

If anything this article is actually giving a lot of credit to the Christians in their community as the atheist group clearly states they received a lot more positive emails than they were expecting. This means the Christian's didn't overreact like everyone expects them to do.

HN is about news hackers find interesting, this isn't a tech news service, please go to one of the many dedicated news sites for that. Whilst I don't agree with religious posts, I do believe this article is interesting. I'm not going to up-vote the article, but unlike other religion based articles (like the top 50 atheists or whatever BS post we had a couple weeks ago) I'm not going to flag this one because it's a well thought out article.
Yes. Although I don't get out much. :)

I'm also bound by golden handcuffs for a few years but I'm not sure I'm going to hang around that long anyways (options weren't worth much).
The tech market in in Columbus is starting to grow quite a bit (I graduated from Ohio State). They've had 2 startup weekends, have a number of smaller web development firms, and also he could try to find an opportunity at Ohio State or with the state government.
What if USPS sent mail to our @twittername
What if the USPS let us be addressed by our twitter names, instead of using physical locations? Wouldn't that be awesome?
Is there a registration-free version out there?
Have you tried searching LinkedIn and Craigslist? Craigslist is definitely hit or miss and you'll be browsing through a ton of scams, but you might get lucky - some good companies do use it.

LinkedIn always seems to have interesting jobs, though I've never actually applied for one on there.
When I go there it's a completely blank page (0 byte document). And then I found: http://email.bugmenot.com/

So, it seems closed to me.

Although, now that I think about it email.bugmenot.com might be something else. But then why is the site blank when I go to it?

Edit: Odd, wget also returns a 0 byte document, but elinks works. I just assumed it was closed, and never checked up on it before.
Great link. If you haven't checked this out, do so. I've been using SASS for about 2 years and Compass for about 6 months now and its completely changed that way I do CSS development.

Chris Eppstein is doing amazing work. I think it'll revolutionize how web stylesheets are built.
I would like it to,
1.copy the short-url to clipboard directly.
2.provide a firefox addon to make short urls directly without visitng website.
It's not like this is going on your permanent record, relax.
Registration is free. And they don't spam you.
Internet TV moves from the computer to the living room
Rate My App: Build Time = 60 Minutes
It prevents the tooltip from disappearing when you mouse over an image, like an xkcd comic. (Obviously it could be used on sites besides xkcd, but honestly that's the only place I've wanted it.)

http://xkcdtips.appspot.com/
After entering a few words it finished the game out with each "letter not used". Then "Game Over" popups repeated until I closed the tab. Firefox 3.0.6 Linux
How to build an iPhone App that doesn't suck
Nice job. Simple and functional. Just as good as any of the other shortening services.

Couple points. Bad domain name (IMO) and I'm not entirely sure it'll stay around. Do you plan on keeping it hosted? Someone would need to know you plan on staying online and operational if they were going to post something using it.

Want to post the source?
A US user costs Vimeo 'x' amount of dollars in terms of bandwidth and Vimeo makes 'y' dollars off that user, where x < y. In developing countries, x > y for 2 reasons - they're eating up more bandwidth ('x' goes up) and are much harder to monetize ('y' goes down).

What about a text-based site that doesn't host multimedia? The idea is the same - to cater to a global audience and monetize accordingly. In a developing nation, the 'y' doesn't change, but can the 'x' be pushed lower than 'y' for a text-based site?
What's going on? Coincidence or grumpiness in the air? ;)
4/24 ESR: How to get banned from my blog (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=923)

4/25 GVR: People Who Annoy Me (http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/people-who-annoy-me.html)

...
Apple and Verizon Consider iPhone Deal
Wattvision’s Down and Dirty Energy Management Dreams
Does it work with digital meters or only analog ones?
Yeah, that flash intro that you can't skip isn't at all annoying...
I would so switch away from AT&T in 2 seconds. Even if I had to buy a new phone. Really, really hope this deal goes through. Too long have I dealt with the bullshit horrible cell phone coverage and crapping internet that is AT&T 3g.

I have a verizon 3g computer modem and it never fails me.
Meeting a friend in a corridor, Wittgenstein said: “Tell me, why do people always say that it was natural for men to assume that the sun went around the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?” His friend said, “Well, obviously, because it just looks as if the sun is going around the earth.” To which the philosopher replied, “Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth was rotating?”

—from Jumpers5, a play by Tom Stoppard.
I'd say URL shorteners belong in the realm of the "information technology program" department, as my school called it, not CS... but otherwise I agree with you.
Appearances are deceiving.
I'd be interested in how the process at Apple compares. Does anyone know of credible references/interviews on the web?
Getting Started on Twitter the Easy Way
But this is only the latest in a long list of events that has flooded twitter with useless/false/panicky/retarded comments. Do they censor/moderate all stories? Or none? It seems hard to draw a line in between (blatant illegality aside)...
I had the same problem, except I had to close my browser. Firefox 3.0.9 Windows
I think it's incredibly clear to anyone with half an ounce of design sense that Google has fantastic design. It isn't pretty design...but it is design that functions better than almost anything it competes with. GMail is a dramatically better mail client than anything else out there. Search, obviously, is the perfect example of stay out of the way design. iGoogle maybe isn't perfect, but it works as well as anything else I've tried. Google Reader is a solid effort.

This article is talking about design as art, lone visionaries with exciting new ideas. Google is design as function and usability and using proven design principles to deliver products that work in obvious ways, that also happen to look good. I strongly prefer the latter, and I think the market strongly prefers the latter. There are many beautiful failures on the web (and amusingly, many of them have been celebrated on design sites). Google is a good looking (though not often beautiful) success.
If he needs to be within driving distance of Cincinnati, he should move to Indianapolis. Indy has a healthier and more progressive business climate. It's only two hours away, but it feels like a completely different world.
Have Kindle, Will Travel — And Stay Up-To-Date Thanks To Offbeat Guides
When there's something better, I'll gladly use that.

Until then, I think it's sad that you've chosen to focus on the "negatives" that are largely style instead of the positives that are the substance of the screencast.

For what it's worth, in about a day or so of hacking on the sass source code, one could change it to be white-space inactive and to just rely on css tokens. If someone cared enough, they could add that feature. But, it turns out no one has, because it takes all of 15 minutes to get used to it.
Senator: open source software needed for medical records
Yes exactly, but I don't have anything to say about specifics yet.

This was on my radar from few years now, but slacking off as usual I got wakened only by recent buzzing around. In fact I'm still slacking off, being nowhere exceptional programmer, my motivation slightly diminished when everyone and their pets started digging into this too.

Speaking for myself, this is one of the rare applications of mathematics to DM that is proper and doesn't outright stink.
This sounds great. Maybe, at least in its early days, you should play up the coworking angle, as it's less of an abstract concept, to get anchor members.
Sass actually does have local variables. All variables are local to the level of nesting at which they're declared.

Also, multiple properties on a single line is a feature planned for version 2.4.
I've only found two books on C worth the money. One is K&R, the other one (which I haven't seen mentioned here) is "The Standard C Library" by P.J. Plauger. It not only presents the ISO standard for the library, but Plauger's commentary on the standard, how to implement the standard C library, along with his implementation. It explains some of the murkier aspects of the C library, along with how to go about writing portable code.
I have started making TODO lists which deal with what I have to do the next day instead of writing long lists for the entire week or month. I review my list before I go to sleep and write down the tasks for the next day.

I find this helps a lot.
That would definitely be a step up from AT&T, in my area Verizon is clearly better than its competitors signal wise. Unfortunately I am stuck on Sprint because I have the greatest cell phone plan in the entire world. I'll just have to suffer with a Palm Pre.