jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The average user would probably appreciate a driver experience most similar to Mac OS, and such an experience is available on Linux for non-nvidia graphics hardware because other vendors cooperate with standards.
The Dutch islands are in no way involved in the tax tricks. There is no need, all you need is an entity with a PO box in Amsterdam and one in Dublin.
This blog post gives a nice example of how that could be implemented:

https://levlaz.org/sqlite-db-migrations-with-pragma-user_ver...
The laptop runs Ubuntu Linux 10.10 and it uses a password protected log in screen. SSH is enabled.

I have thought about the questions you raise but I do not have any answer for that. Thanks for your reply.
Steve Jobs has "only a high school diploma".
Too add: BitTorrent is heavily "multi-user" in the sense that you communicate with numerous peers (200+ is not uncommon). Each peer gets turned into a small set of processes inside etorrent (4 per peer), so it quite heavily makes use of the process-parts of Erlang. I wouldn't say you need to have to be a "server" in the usual sense to argue the point. In the case of BitTorrent the client is also a server however.
> you won't be left out to dry with your skills even if you
> go do a startup, burn all your cash, and fail miserably.

That's true, but you might develop a distaste for 'regular' jobs. Not that those will be your only option, but it might be harder to go back.

> lots of young people will never realize that youth is working
> capital that should be spent while they still have it.

I'm in my mid twenties too, and I'm sure I'll sound like an idiot when I say that youth is also social capital that shouldn't be wasted. I've spent most of my 20s with my head down on work, and I would take a lot of it back to do some more living. I'm not saying that your youth isn't working capital - it is. But always work smarter, not just harder and longer. There's no immediate prize for effort.
As long as we are calling BS (the article refers to this term), I call BS on the article's claim that "Making Software", released only two months ago in October 2010, and with very few reviews, is one of three books essential to read along with Peopleware and The Mythical Man Month. The latter two though have proven themselves over decades.

It has the smell of stealth advertising. I must ask: Is there some sort of familial, professional or financial connection between the author of the article and one of the three dozen contributors to that new release? Or perhaps to the publisher? Or is it just the affiliate links he provides that provide the explanation?
I doubt I'm smart enough to work for Apple, but I doubt I'd ever want to. Why?

Everything the company does is something done "single-handedly" by Steve Jobs. Steve may be the driving force of the company and have great insight into what people want/need/etc. But he has a great team to actually implement what he wants, and Apple as a company are the ones who restructured an industry.
I'm surprised classical mechanics would be the weed out course. I found discrete mathematics quite a bit harder than that.

But then again I found field physics and quantum physics quite a bit harder than discrete mathematics (and relativistic physics relatively straightforward no pun intended). I could probably still derive most of the equations for classical mechanics if I really sat down and worked at it (it's been many years since I looked at any of that material) but would definitely have a hard time with Maxwell's equations.

I didn't create the hierarchy, but I think it was the perceived hardness of the applied calc in field physics and applied dif-EQ in quantum that led the Comp Sci folks to hold the Physics majors in higher esteem (since we had to take like 9 credits of Physics and at least 2 lab courses at my school).
Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry as thousands of Apple employees watched in awe wondering what have they been doing all this time.
Transferring private losses to the public balance sheet is going to be disastrous. It's the 'hair of the dog' solution - avoid a hangover by continuing to drink. The problem is the eventual hangover is made that much worse.
EC2 is pretty complicated. You really have to restructure the way you work your app to make it scale well with EC2. You can usually get a lot of scalability out of a normal
web app without going that far.

Start "top". Is MySQL using a lot of CPU? If so, get a second dedicated server at the same data center and put your MySQL on that. Next, look at the MySQL top queries and figure out what you can cache out of the equation with memcache.
I knew about the Burroughs B5000, but this tidbit about its 1956 predecessor is thought provoking:

The 205 had a number of interesting characteristics besides being a decimal computer. It utilized an spinning magnetic drum with average access time of 8.5 milliseconds. The drum had two sections. The high speed access section which had each piece of data duplicated 10 times and offset on various bands on the drum to increase the access time by 10. Here the average data access time was .85 milliseconds.
If you say that the whole point was to provoke people to think, and not to glean any information about what they would actually do, I'm fine with that. However, I'm skeptical that women would devote much thought to the imaginary situation that will never happen when they were in a real situation where they were being asked to discuss their sexuality. It's kind of like you've never seen or heard a goat before, so you walk up to someone with your pet tiger on a leash and ask them to do an impression of a goat. You're going to get an impression calculated not to excite the tiger, without much thought to what a goat looks and sounds like.

I'm actually most interested in your currently undefended assertion that people have thought about their "price". It's the most interesting part of this for me.

As a kid I had multiple conversations in different groups of guys where the question of having sex with another guy for money came up, so I think I can vouch for guys. Even in groups of guys who weren't particularly intimate and didn't trust each other, you'd get exchanges like, "Dude, you are so in love with that guy you would suck his duck." "Fuck you, I'm not sucking anybody's dick." "So you wouldn't even for a million dollars?" "You saying you wouldn't? What are you trying to hide?"

As for girls, girlfriends have told me about giggly conversations they had with their friends when they were thirteen. The question naturally arises from the question of whether you would marry a gross old guy who had billions of dollars -- and that's something that all young girls talk about. It's an irresistible mixture of horror and fantasy. Start altering that story and you're only two or three steps from outright prostitution. (Amusingly, in the one story I remember pretty well, the question posed was, "Would you have sex with a guy for a million dollars, even if you didn't love him?" I guess to thirteen-year-old girls, love is the factor that makes everything okay or not okay, even prostitution.)

Another reason is how people reacted to the movie Indecent Proposal with Robert Redford, Demi Moore, and Woody Harrelson. It wasn't an alien idea for most people. Anytime people talked about it, they seemed to be picking up the threads of conversations from a long time ago. Of course, people are a lot less likely to talk about it with people they don't trust, especially when the intent seems to be hostile or transgressive.
We've practically made "attending college" a universal expectation for every American high school graduate.

Realistic options such as trade schools, community colleges, military enlistment, and good old fashion "on the job training" need to be valid FIRST choices of most high school grads!

Not some fall back plan after dropping out of college with lingering debt and 2,3, and 4 lost earning years.
I've been using *nix for a while, but there are things in here I haven't used (tr, for example, and I haven't used much awk). A nice little diversion, and it's something I'd feel comfortable showing to a newbie if I were nearby to help out.

Definitely worth going through, yourself, if you've got some spare time and want to use a little more of your shell.

NB: Don't pull up man pages right away (like I did for tr); the author explains things after using them. Which works out pretty well.

EDIT1: Additionally, it's fun to rewrite some of these using tools I use more regularly. E.g. replace the first uses of tr with grep. I prefer tr, now, though; it makes more sense to "translate" non letter chars to newlines than to just print all occurrences of a n-letter match.
Solve a specific real-world problem you have by writing a program to do it. Start with Python or Ruby. Start on one platform (Windows, Mac, Linux). Start small and get bigger by solving bigger problems as you progress.

Then, write a program that works on all major platforms with little or no modifications. Learn C++ or C. Learn how to use a debugger, how to distribute code to end-users, etc. While doing this, learn data structures, big O notation and why they are important when you need to scale. Learn how to handle threaded data safely and Unicode input too.

Just start coding ASAP to solve "real-world" problems (not book exercises), the rest will come as you progress.

Edit: Spelling
It took me quick a while to figure out that there are actually a bunch of different lists of 30 people (per-category). Frustrating interface.
People confuse PPI (pixels) and DPI (dots) all the time. Yes, a press might run at a higher DPI than 300, but a 300-400PPI image is generally considered sufficient for even coffee table book-quality printing.

http://www.tildefrugal.net/photo/dpi.php
"Ambient sociability" is my new favorite expression. Thanks!
Yeah, this aspect of Google Map Maker really annoys me. If you contribute to OpenStreetMap, your contributions are under a much more useful license than if you contribute to Google.
From my understanding, they can't patent the physics, and that is the real discovery here.

They have potentially hit on a way to create energy from a previously unknown or ignored phenomenon, but just like you can't patent gravity, you can't patent this.

Now that people are paying attention to this phenomenon, lots more research will go into the best way of capturing it. Sure all those will likely be patented as well, but there is nothing (in theory) stopping you from developing your own way of capturing this energy and making it freely available to the world.
That's naive of you. You can't just fly in the states and interview for a job. Without a green card, you can only stay in US with a tourist visa for 3 months max, or with a student visa if you enroll in some university over there and pay their thousands-dollar tuitions (but you can't get a job), they're very strict on immigration policies. Oddly enough, it might be easier to get a full permit if you start a company, but I guess you'd have to prove that you're investing (bringing in) a substantial amount of money.
To be honest, I'm not even going to read this beyond the title. The answer to your question is yes. You are 21, and there is plenty of time. University isn't 100% about what you learn, but rather how you learn it and who you learn it with. Finishing a degree also teaches commitment and endurance -- two things which are critical to making a startup successful.

Successful startups are few and far between, and you may need a fall back plan. Getting a CS related job without a degree, at least here in the States, is very difficult. Do yourself a favor; finish what you started.

You mention being bored and tired of easy assignments. What's stopping you from building a startup while you're in school? You could probably kick out a minimum viable product with all that free time.
I really begin to like suckless (and tried wmii in the past)! I don't think that's about the fact that I discovered the awesome (ahah) of tiling WMs but about the fact that:
1) it creates an isolation bubble in the middle of my current WM/setup.
2) I'm now way better at using Vim than I was back in the days.
3) while hacking (a little) XMonad (or dwm or awesome or...), one can quickly create a light IDE to work in, just adding the very few missing features to my "no mouse, Vim centric" development environment.

(Did I mentioned I can't bother using Eclipse/Netbeans/VS? Now I did.)

But I still need a classic WM for some tasks (unfortunately).
Perhaps a compromise would be to give the user the option to send emails to a hard-to-guess email address and then, if the user comes across the situation where he needs to delete a spoofed post, make a note near the deletion link that the option is available

This way, grandpa talking about his dog doesn't need to bother learning about security he doesn't really care about and the power user can post securely if it so happens that someone decides to spam his blog
Someone has seen a vision of the future; and it is bright, shiny, orderly, and ... beautiful!!!

In my 30 years in and out of the software development world, I've seen _many_ visions of the future. In particular I've been reading about the death of the desktop application since, well, since before desktop applications were around. Anytime someone starts to tell me that the future is going to be X, then my response is, yes, the future may include X, but it will also include a bunch of old stuff, and a bunch of stuff that no one has foreseen. Entropy increases until a given system falls apart and is replaced by something better that works ... at least as well. Usually. (See Ted Nelson's vision of Xanadu, that which was supposed to _prevent_ the World Wide Web.)

And the duct tape and bailing wire holding it all together is ... wait for it ... faster processing speeds, more and better storage, faster networks, desktop apps, plug ins, scripts, prayer, and lots and lots of consulting fees. (edit: I forgot to add faith, hope and charity as well.)

Don't get me wrong, your vision _is_ beautiful. It's worth believing in and probably worth working toward. Some version of it will probably crawl, writhing noisily and messily, from the sea of change. Just don't bet the farm on a particular version of it.

Edit: I will also add this in direct response. My desktop computers are quickly _becoming_ my data center. I'm spending most of my face time with mobile devices: laptops, smart phone/pda music player, and, of course, my beloved beautiful iPad...

So I hereby create the new buzz term PDC. Personal Desktop Cloud. Bask in its glory and power.
I've been using AwesomeWM in Ubuntu 10.04 since pretty much the day Ubuntu 10.04 came out. My hesitancy with Ubuntu always lay in a good browser (I'm a web developer), but with Chrome/Firefox as good as they are, I didn't really have an excuse anymore.

I used to be a Mac/TextMate zealot (Rubyist, go figure), and have wholly switched over to AwesomeWM, Vim, and a host of other open source tools and will never look back. I just feel like an incapable two year old with a messy desk trying to work in a floating WM like OS X/Windows now.

If you want to try AwesomeWM, but don't want to risk going crazy from setting up xinit scripts or scrapping all that vanilla Gnome install gives you, follow this wiki article and it'll side side-by-side in Gnome: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_...

I get NetworkManager support, audio support, bluetooth, and battery life all out of the box. As long as you're not a purist about what's running in your WM and what's not, this setup works great with little risk/time investment.
How embarrassing for you. How exactly would the email go to the forger if they are spoofing YOUR email address. Coffee in the morning, gin at night. Never switch the two.
Yes, and unless I'm missing something I don't see a way to turn this type of confirmation-before-posting functionality on.
coming over!
Could you link to some concrete examples? If I find a bug, I will always use Github's issue tracker. I also usually ask questions directly on Github for the less popular libraries and only use SO for more popular languages/libraries/frameworks. I don't think there's a big overlap in my usage pattern.
He quotes:

For example, LISP, Python, and Ruby all offer beautiful and concise constructs for operating on lists of things.

This might be a matter of taste, but macros, void pointers, lack of closures, etc. don't really spell "beautiful and concise" to me. And I think that's what the original quotation is about - you can get similar things done in Java using anonymous classes, and C using function pointers, and probably more or less any language if you try hard enough, but it's just neither beautiful nor concise.
tl;dr: Don't worry about your employability, but your startup has a bigger chance of success if you do the big company first and then the startup.

As long as you challenge yourself during the startup, it's normally not a problem. Typically, having "Founder" on your resume attracts a lot of attention, and then the purpose of the interviews becomes to determine whether you actually have the skills that a founder should or whether you just sat back and waited for the phone to ring the whole time.

A word of warning: when I got out of college, I read all the articles that said "Go blue-chip", figured they didn't apply to me because I only ever wanted to do startups, and so I worked at a startup for a couple years and then founded one. And while I don't exactly regret my choice - I needed to do it, based on my personality and my experiences in life up to that point - I think it made things harder on me and set me back a couple years.

You get several things "for free" when you take a job at a big, successful company. You'll pick up development practices like version control, continuous integration, unit testing, etc. because they're just the way things are done. You'll probably learn several technologies, though those technologies are often more proprietary than you'd get if you struck out on your own. You'll learn how large software systems are put together. You'll learn the sorts of problems that companies with money face, which is absolutely essential if you ever want to sell to said companies. And you'll hopefully build up a network of trusted coworkers that you can tap for cofounders later.

All of that stuff, I had to teach myself when I was working at somebody else's startup and later founding my own. I remember scouring the web for any public information I could find about how Google put their infrastructure together, and then when I actually got to Google, I found that the publicly available information is only the tip of the iceberg. A/B testing wasn't widely publicized at the time; nowadays, most people in the startup community know about it (largely thanks to patio11), but when I was hunting around, the only indication I had of how this was done was Max Levchin's 2-word aside in a PayPal presentation: "Measure everything". I remember obsessing about things like scalability and internationalization that really aren't that important for a startup, but I vaguely knew that successful companies did them, so I had to know how.

Most of that becomes a "well, duh" once you've spent a couple weeks working with it in practice. At good companies, there'll be code review, so you can just have a senior engineer tell you how it's done. And then once you do strike out on your own, you can say "Well, I know how to do this, but it's a gigantic timesink and not really that important to my current situation, so I'm going to leave it until later," and focus on the parts that actually are important, like getting product/market fit.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders of SendingBee

If you want to use Amazon SES but prefer a hosted service, you can give us a try (https://sendingbee.com). SendingBee among other things has our own component based template editor that automatically generates responsive templates that work in all major clients.
And Wordpress is/was going to try the same thing with some official ancient stable/always-security-patched release. I don't follow the WP world anymore. It was a noble thought back then, I just wonder if anyone actually runs the old stable release.
get really good at sysops/dev for legacy mainframes: AIX, etc.
get an IT job at a hospital or financial institution that has this legacy system. Install a remote access serial device. Write automations that cover most failure cases. profit (time)
well, Rails happened.
Official project website with video and earlier publications:
http://lis.epfl.ch/DALER

Official press release from this week with more details on the recent paper:
http://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-flying-robot-that-can-walk-4/

It's amusing to note that the primary author of the paper (Ludovic Daler) created a meaningful acronym for the project that matches his last name (DALER: Deployable Air-Land Exploration Robot).
How much money have you made with these tactics? How much have you lost?
I saw crews of idiots doing wheelies up and down the street when I lived in Harlem on 146th St. and didn't feel particularly threatened.
I assume he wants consumption (i.e. sales or vat tax) instead of income tax.

Google "fair tax" for one such proposal.
Sorry, but I stopped reading at "his mom pays his rent".
You know, Yelp should cut off its relationship with Opentable and just jump into this business itself and charge either no fee or a nominal fee to restaurants (basic vs. pro).

This would solve a big problem for Yelp; if Yelp could save restaurants from the crushing cost of reservations, restaurants would be more inclined to forgive Yelp for allowing us "bored, jobless layabouts" to trash them in a public forum (http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2010/11/people_hate_us...).
Considering the type of people on HN to begin with, I'd be surprised if the moderation system wasn't regularly "messed with". All you need to affect a collaborative ranking system is one really good hacker shill.
I'm 100% sure. You can deduct all expenses including medical insurance for yourself.
see jws's post above.

*SUN*

++--++--++--++--++ layer 1

--++--++--++--++-- layer 2

layer 1 polarizes all light in the '+' direction or the '-' direction. layer 2 does the same, but is the inverse of layer 1.

Notice that ambient light can pass through at an angle because the light didn't pass through both polarization directions. I think jws is saying 25% of ambient light passes through because the polarization step takes 50%, but half the ambient directions are blocked off completely (say by the moire patterns) so that makes 25% of ambient light.
Links to where I can read more about this "fast training" stuff? never heard of it.
It didn't do that for me on Chrome, and it links to a "donate to download" page. Odd.
Straight after. I will train, have a shower then eat. My window is generally 4-8 hours depending how full I get.

I have seen only improvement in my lifts since I started this regimen. Lost some serious bodyfat % whilst gained muscle.
To me, jurisdictional questions around the particular authority claimed by ICE to censor the web are interesting only in relation to the larger political decision to censor the web.

Tptacek focuses on only the first question and righteously refuses to look at the latter question. He "prefer not to be baited into discussing" the substantial question here. What I consider an important and disturbing development: the US government effectively taking up the authority to censor websites sans any conviction of web master for anything (sure they "file a lawsuit" but they do NOT have to actually convict or even serve the webmaster in question. It's the effective negation of free speech whatever the ostensible argument).

I thus think the various responses are appropriate. I've disagreed with Yummy on plenty of other issues but he decodes the misdirection in the GP well here.