skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically speaking, at a minimum, she should be required to demonstrate an ability to student teach for a half year before being hired.

There are definitely some tricks to running a good classroom, but I have no idea if the education courses are in anyway connected to what is needed for the real experience. At a minimum, I would hope they would provide some guidance in how to compensate for different learning styles, how to properly handle difficult students, etc.
Every time I've thought about using Twisted for something, I go back to their documentation and remember why I wrote it myself with asyncore last time.
Just watched the video. Arrington is seriously disgusting in this video. Do we not know how to interact respectfully in real life anymore? Calacanis actually saved the day and kept the interview on point as much as he could.
See: http://typophile.com/node/60577

YouTube and BBC icons with improved readability.
Since most modern books either have high-quality print copies or digital copies available, I doubt that this technology will be used for much else than scanning old books for the foreseeable future.
Crunching The Numbers - What Was The Xumii Acquisition Deal Worth?
Much of this looks good; however, I really hope that "unfriendly" stuff isn't taken to heart. (Or maybe everyone can take it to heart, except for one language community, and then that becomes the "acceptable Lisp".)

On the other hand, I'm interested in a different set of issues. Consider Haskell. As a language, it's not doing too badly. Why? Well, one reason is that it is very well designed. But another is Hugs. Hugs was available a decade ago, it ran anywhere, was lightweight, let you use your favorite editor, implemented almost the complete standard, let you write and run Haskell code easily immediately after installation (which was fast), and, while it's a bit short on tools, it does let you write and run "real" programs.

I would say that Lisp desperately needs a Hugs.

If I look into getting a Lisp implementation, I see that they want me to learn Emacs, or mess with the JVM, or are not available on all platforms, etc. None of these things have much to do with the language itself, and they are all barriers to adoption.

I just want to click a box in my package manager, hit the button to download, run the program, and be in a REPL, or maybe say "edit" (or whatever) and be typing in a source file, which I can easily compile and execute.

Again, Lisp needs a Hugs. But Hugs was designed years ago, and things have changed. What does "a Hugs" for today look like? I'm not completely sure, but the above is a start toward describing it, I think.
The throbber going constantly is annoying.
In my opinion, digitizing old books and newspapers is doing good for the world no matter who is profiting from it. The information will still be made publicly available on the internet, which it is not now. More information is a good thing.
Whether selling a startup is a good idea or not is really different for each and every startup. Some good ideas would probably be youtube/twitter, some bad ideas would be more along the lines of facebook, skype(especially considering market but you can't go wrong with pricetag so probably better they did). In the end though it comes down to weighing price to what you value.

I'm gonna say I must belong to the don't mess up parentheses for smilies group (seriously ;)) I prefer Aliens.
A copyright infringement suit - HA, that's funny coming from the guys who created Kazaa.
This is probably closely connected to why Florida is in the bottom 25% of states in terms of school quality.

The red tape scares away some of the best teachers.

Of course, I'm not sure any of those rankings compensate for social-economic factors that will skew these factors. What I have heard is that the Florida districts really set back the migrant students who ended up in my Mother in Laws classroom in NJ for part of every year. That might be due to them ending up in some of Florida's worst school districts of course.
Yes, but the question is how do you keep track of the real information between the page views? The obvious answer would be session variables, but this still means the data would be stored briefly in the server's memory.
Then she should be applying at the private schools, who still have the option of paying her less.
>While I think I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t like Chrome

I have and they aren't always firefox extension users.
I was actually more interested in high-tech startups. And, yeah, I think the ratio of successful startups founded by MBAs and those by engineers would be quite interesting. My guess is that it'd heavily lean towards engineers. "Success" could also be somewhat subjective.

I think only Scott held MBA degree when SUN was founded. I am not sure if I'd call Extreme Networks a success.... 3Com had its high, but now it's limping....
What specifically didn't they like? I'm sure you can find someone to dislike just about anything.
I disagree, you can know quite a bit of lisp and still be caught.

There usually not a lot of development time to rework an application from one distro to the next. Also very rarely you'll need a package that is only available on another distribution. It is the case with CL implementations tough.
Ask HN: What's the coolest computer simulation you can think of?
Hello everyone.
I'm working on an open-source project called GarlicSim (http://garlicsim.com), which is a Pythonic framework for working with simulations. I've been working on it for about 6 months, and it's progressing, but what I want to have now is a nice example of a simulation to implement with it. I'm free to choose pretty much anything I want. It can be a simulation of physical solid bodies interacting with each other (like maybe a solar system), or of a road system with traffic lights and cars driving through it, or anything else.

So I figured I might ask here and get some nice ideas. Do you have any?
I head up UX and Web Strategy at Zappos, here is my open letter response to that post:

http://tinyurl.com/rcrz3o
Most Overused Buzzwords in the Workplace
Article recommends that these words not be used by a job seeker. I think I've seen these words used more times by more people trying to sell more crap than I'd like to admit. This is a site all about start-ups so...
I've reposted this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827071
Regardless of your personal taste on the matter (with which I am admittedly sympathetic), the fact that the software _fails_ to support it---and in particular, fails to the exclusion of other mail!---is inexcusable. "Can't send messages large enough to annoy you" is obviously not an intended feature; it's just extremely poor software.

Whether any of us like it or not, in most office environments large email attachments have become part of the landscape, and Apple seemingly doesn't care. I can't bring myself to believe that this could have slipped past QA, which leads me to believe that someone made a conscious decision to ship software with a feature most would take for granted in an unusable state.

My goodness, it almost seems like I'm turning into an Apple detractor. I assure you, I do not intend it! Poor software design is equally repugnant whether it comes from Redmond, 1 Infinite Loop, or RMS. That the poor design in question happens to satisfy your or my proclivities with respect to attachment sizing isn't really relevant.
Thanks jacquesm. I'm somewhat familiar with PCI standards, and your answer is what I suspected. However, it doesn't totally answer my question, because confirmation screens are quite common. Even meeting PCI Level 1 compliance, and thus being allowed to store the acct #, cardholder name, and expiration date, its still not kosher to store the CVV2 number or track data, so how are others pulling this off?

I know some gateways will run cards without the CVV2 #, but the fees are usually higher. Is the answer then that order confirmation screens and sending CVV2 data are mutually exclusive to all merchants, regardless of their bankroll?

Edit: Unless you are planning on being an IPSP you should not attempt to either receive or store CC info.

This seems a bit extreme. Are you saying no one should build any sort of on-site payment processing into their own site?

We build a lot of e-commerce sites for clients, and our standard MO has been to send the data to the gateway immediately and never store it. With SSL and PCI Level 4 compliance, this hasn't been a problem. In this particular case, a desire for a confirmation page was voiced and we at first sought to examine whether or not this would require Level 1 compliance. Upon digging deeper, I'm now of the opinion that its not possible, even with Level 1 compliance, yet I see this in the wild all the time. What gives?
Here is my response to the letter (I head up UX at Zappos) http://tinyurl.com/rcrz3o
I head up UX at zappos, here is my response: http://tinyurl.com/rcrz3o
Take a look here, it is my response to the original post. http://tinyurl.com/rcrz3o
... and where are you based?
Blog post: http://jacobian.org/writing/snakes-on-the-web/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=805528
The iPhone doesn't download attachments automatically and the attachment link clearly shows the file size. If it is too big or you don't have unlimited data, don't click it.
Chome slows to a crawl when you have a lot of tabs open >70 in my personal experience
How To Find Out What Your Twitter Followers Want Using This FREE Twitter Program
Do you have a Twitter account yet? If you do then great, but if you don’t, I think it’s time you get one. But that’s not what this post is about. This post is about getting inside the heads of your Twitter followers and finding out what they really want from you as a follower.
That's a lot of tabs. But yes, I've noticed that as well.
2109: The reality?
Checking to see if the field is visible is an extremely difficult task. It should be hidden by CSS, so you would need to download all external style sheets and parse all inline and embedded styles. Same goes if the field is hidden by JavaScript, only it becomes much harder then. The only problem with this technique are dumb auto form-fillers.
Icy stares and dirty minds: Hitch-hiking emotions
No because the customer would never use that bad address, none of their customers would ever use it as a home address for instance.

If they decided to post a letter to every address in the database then one of them would be undelivered - but that is probably not a problem given the efficency of the post service!
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No way of toggling images, no easy control of individual site settings, no popup/ad blocking. No way of editing the visited sites or bookmarks.
i love the fact that how innocently you mention >70 tabs
I don't know if it's true or not (they are litigious, CYA), but it appears as though it's possible that maybe Niklas Zennstrom or Janus Friis were trying to blackmail eBay into selling Skype back to them cheap and this is the punishment for not doing so.
I remember installing BeOS when it came out. It was impressive and beautiful, and I really wanted it to catch on. I think I'll give Haiku a spin. With VMware, it'll be much easier this time around.
I think they've learned well from their adversaries that laws can be used for financial gain, not just for justice.
There should be a sliding scale of apportionment, and a statement of the perspective doing the evaluation (and there is no 'global' perspective).

For Q1, it's fairly easy to say 100% store -- there's an implied warranty their food is fit to eat, and the friend has no special insight or customary duty to double-check (via lab equipment?) the healthfulness of already-warranted food.

For Q2, it could approach more like 50/50 -- and depends on the perspective involved. From the perspective of the driver or victim, it's easy to say 100% car company -- again because the risk flowed through the car company, which had the expertise and commercial duty to sell a safe product.

But between the car company and the original feature developers it depends on their arrangement. If the developers are an outside firm that sold the system as fit for a particular purpose, much or all of the blame then flows to them. If the developers are the car company's in-house employees, the company probably agreed to take on the blame along with the profits, as the company is the coordinator and tester/seller of a multi-person process that failed.

For Q3, again it could vary and be a matter of perspective. From the perspective of the customer, it's 100% the shop, which has taken on responsibility for the benefits and costs generated by its employees in the performance of their duties. (From the customer's perspective, the barista and the shop are one and the same.) For the shop owner, responsibility may be thought to lie with the barista, especially if the rate of mistakes goes beyond typical/achievable levels. Still, as a practical matter of employee morale and labor law, a policy where the barista pays the costs of occasional errors is unlikely. The remedy for excessive errors is change of employees, not compensation for individual mistakes.
How to find reliable programmers?
So, I am sure we all have this problem. But is there a way to find reliable programmers in the US/Canada? I know services like elance exist, but they seem to be overrun by overseas programmers. That is fine, but not what I am looking for. Any ideas?
Hah! Then, it might make sense to put an actual price so I can cash out on all of this karma I've been working on ;)
I click "Sign in with Twitter", give it my u/p and click "Allow", then it takes me back to the exact same starting page ("Sign in with Twitter").
Except when it's probably not Mail's fault.

I've never encountered such problems despite having sent 100mb+ email attachments from Mail before. I've just tried sending a 35mb email attachment to myself (other email account) and sure enough it was sent without a hitch.

Maybe instead of having the urge to whine how about just chill and dig deeper.
except they've been doing all of their development in virtual machines, so the actual real hardware support is quite thin.
yep - they are going to monetize captchas. How typical of google :)
My interpretation is fine.

Paragraph 3 on Page 55 (which is describing Table 5) indicates that it refers to full time teachers. It's true that the caption doesn't make it completely clear, however.

Table 10 says full time teachers work about 5.5 hours/day (averaged over a week) which adds up to 38.5 hours/week. My estimate from Table 5 was 38.25 hours/week.
Also, the paper:

http://www.brics.dk/~hosc/local/HOSC-12-3-pp221-236.pdf
Dear god. He didn't even look at Garry...not even for a millisecond when he was leaving. How rude. What a dibshit.
The "where did the energy come from?" game
yeah please give me a real use case for 70+ tabs that doesn't involve a PHD research paper :)
How did eBay pay $2.6B for Skype and not obtain eternal, iron-clad rights to use and create derivative works of all IP contained within?

Who did the due diligence? Who handled the acquisition paperwork?

If eBay used any external counsel or investment bankers on the deal, they may be the next to be sued. Unless the Joltid claims are total bunk, and thrown out quickly.
I agree that systems Hungarian (tracking types) is a lose. Apps Hungarian (tracking semantics) is a win in languages like Python, but the need for it is a symptom of a wimpy or non-existent static type system. If you can encode a semantic property into a variable name, then you also ought to be able to reify that property into a type and get the type checker to catch your mistakes. Here's the most impressive example of this I've ever seen: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/papers/LZ06a.pdf
You may want to consider where people gained their MBAs. Some second wave MBA programs were a blatant attempt to cash in on the successes of the first wave, but have much lower standards of admission, teaching and content. Any analysis and statistics would be most interesting to read.
It sure is an impressive piece of software. I hope it catches on, or find itself a niche market.

I wonder if they're doing anything for developers to easily leverage pervasive multithreading, the bare bones fine-grained threading can be a pain to deal with.
A full economy, with people on normal sleep / commute / eat / work schedules. Each person is a free agent. You'd model different relationships and the likelihood of in person interaction.

And then you simulate a zombie outbreak in your virtual society.
Reviving the Radio Serial: “The Lacey Study” - Wall Street Journal
really cool idea. it's a comedy radio serial called the lacey study.
> What's the coolest computer simulation you can think of?

Supernova http://www.flickr.com/photos/argonne/3772984024/sizes/o/ !

> ... a simulation to implement...

Oh :-/
I remember reading an article about fish population simulation in Scientific American a while back. Modeling how fish swim together with external influences like currents, predators etc. etc. Each fish was modeled independently with knowledge only of the fish surrounding it.

The results were very interesting given that the school did some pretty complex things while each individual fish was pretty dumb.
10% they say? And internal projections are even higher? This sounds like a use for corporate prediction markets to me. I'd bet against that.
The way he demonstrated what he was talking about with the way he talked about it reminded me a bit of the dialogues in Godel, Escher, Bach. Cleverly done.
That would introduce more extraneous variables. Do you think that different violinists might suit different violins better to an extent that overrides that additional noise?
> It's how America doesn't produce anything anymore.

This article is about an American company that produces equipment that makes solar panels and microchips.
It will be interesting to see how many actually do. They have to use a different toolset than they're used to; and a lot of .Net guys are skeeved out by Mono.
Ask HN: Songs for Startup Inspiration?
I'm looking for inspirational songs that capture the entrepreneurial spirit.

I'd start with Leonard Cohen's "First we take Manhattan:"

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

...

I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons

...

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFBKV0zVXSE

A darker choice might be David Olney's "Millionaire." More suggestions?
Zappos responds to Andrew Wilkinson's "You're Killing Me Zappos" letter
Clickable link to "First we take Manhattan:"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFBKV0zVXSE
still waiting to try the official mac version...
If you want to display a heat map of incidents/sales/etc where you have an address then something like this is essential. In the US, for example, the Census Bureau's Tiger/Line database is free and maps all the way to street addresses. This UK database isn't nearly as thorough as Tiger/Line but it's much better than nothing.
I assure that you that short of molecular self-assemblers, these fungus treated violins are not going to be cheap. They will cost well above the average for a new violin, but much, much less than a violin from a classic master.
He could have been subconsciously influenced to play the Opus because of its novelty.
Good, reliable programmers are very expensive. Think $200k/year minimum.

This might not have entered into your vision of reality but I assure you that's how it works. If you keep getting shafted by cheap programming "talent" and keep looking for more, you might just be a fucking idiot.
Well you could list your karma along with their associated comments, someone might want to buy your output!

-edit: also, karma here isn't transferable, that's the problem, but people would like to have increased karma for status value, but that status value would disappear if it became transferable.
The Awesomeness Manifesto
How do you to propose that? Put time limits between receiving information and acting on it? This will just increase the arbitrage possibilities.
No Q, V, nor Y?
"Internet Tablet" ring a bell? Check out N900, it has quite nice ARM CPU etc
Ghost fleet of the recession anchored just east of Singapore
Doesn't Chrome automatically block popups?
How important is physical proximity, really? An electrical signal can travel 186 miles in a millisecond. So locate the servers in cheaper real estate 10 miles away an you lose like about .1 millisecond round-trip. If that really makes a difference in trading success something is really screwed up.
Lots of brands have been putting text or characters in favicons-- Facebook, Twitter, and Y-Combinator, to name a few. I think it makes the brand more recognizable.
Lovely response. I never said I was getting shafted by cheap programming.
Ask HN: How will twitter make money?
Now that they've raised money on a billion dollar valuation, it's clear that someone thinks twitter will have a serious revenue model. Who has the best guess as to what that could be?
One thing the WSJ does not notice is that the business owner category definitely self selects for success. If you are one of that majority of businesses that fail, than you soon stop being a business owner and you won't be measured by the survey. Also if you do not like being a business owner, or you are not good at it, it is a very easy category to exit.

So the survey will tend to measure at least relatively successful business owners. Nevertheless, I have noticed that business owners tend to be happier.

One thing that worried me about the survey is that it put professionals second. I do not know much about doctors but I am a lawyer and know many of them, and if we are anywhere near the second profession in terms of happiness and wellbeing there must be a lot of suffering out there.
It's called Agent-Based Economics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-Based_Computational_Econo...

and it's fun, but somewhat useless. Without analytical results, simulation results tend not to be insightful. You may see that something happens, but you don't understand the causal relations.
With something like this it is impossible to really estimate, even if you are looking only at direct effects (starvation. etc.)

First when you have a chain of necessary companents: (Scientific Invention > development of agricultural techniques > NGO Deploying of techniques > Rich guy funding the deployment > ex politician who convinced the rich guy) , each one can claim full credit for the process.

Then you have to guess what would have happened if this guy didn't do it? Would Mexicans still be farming like 1824?