skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nkurz, if you follow the link in your comment you will come to a page with two 'per capita' data charts on it. Click either, and under the 'Series Detail' section of the resultant page you will see something like the following:

http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/SeriesDetail.aspx?srid=752

Series Name:	Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), metric tons of CO2 per capita (UNFCCC)

Goal:	Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability

Target:	Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

----HERE---->>
Indicator:	Indicator 7.2 Carbon dioxide emissions, total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP) <<<----HERE----

EDIT:
I apologize, I mistook the meaning of your response.
END EDIT
Last time I used WePay, the product was a little rough around the edges (though this is probably all fixed by now), but all the core ideas and features were there. This is one of the very few products I actually used, and greatly enjoyed.

Also, the founders are top-notch. Barring any external factors nobody can control, I think WePay will grow very big. I would gladly invest my own money into this company.
I can't believe no one's mentioned:

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

Contrary to the beliefs or desires of some, colleges and universities are not vocational training institutions. In the actuarial world, there is a rigorous credentialing process involving a series of exams usually taking a minimum of 4.5 years to complete. However, even with all of the exams passed, without experience you'd be put into an entry-level position. If your experience is in one field of insurance and you want to get into another, that experience won't count for much in the new field and you'll probably be starting near entry-level again.

That's for good reason. Academia is for teaching you known facts and theories, and how to think for yourself. Experience in an industry teaches you how to do a particular type of work so that other people are willing to give you money in exchange for your labor. These are inherently different activities, though the former can weed out some inappropriate candidates for the latter.
yeah the design is going to be changed, basically it was a choice between launching now, or spending more time tinkering with it. At a certain point, you just have to launch, and leave the fixes for the next version. At this point, I have a list about a mile wide of things I want to do, and you know how it is, every time you finish something you get a dozen new ideas you want to implement.

Gravatars already exist, you just have to enter the actual question to see them. No gravatars on the homepage, so that it loads faster.

And I'll make another post about the pitch email and the press page tomorrow.
This is a great concept. I've had partially finished code sitting around that performed similar task in a worse way. I really wanted a simple way to calculate and divide bills between roommates or clubs. They look like they got it right.

Hopefully they get an iPhone app going, as I see that as a critical part of this.

"Hey, I just bought stuff for the party, I'll add up the receipts on my phone and everyone can pay me back whenever they get a chance. I'll send the invites right from my addressbook".
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College is totally worthless. Everyone is the very smart entrepreneurial type like we all of course are, and already posses the vast majority of skills that they'll ever need in life. Indeed, college for them would be nothing more than nights spent alone in their dorm room working on their next failed startup and leaving comments around the Internet about how much more successful they'd be if they stayed out of college. Man, now if only they could get invited to a party or talk to a girl.
RIM still have the killer-app for business mobile phones, which is simple corporate email integration, sorted with relative ease.
Because of the love/hate we have with creativity, could we be seeing only the most creative people as our sample size for "creativity"? If everyone were allowed to be creative, we might realize that most people aren't very good at it. Right now, those only slightly or moderately creative vaguely blame "society" for stunting their creative abilities.
There's no need for China to cut emissions. As western economy fails in the next 2 decades, its emissions will drastically fall as well. So why should east cut down emissions if western economy will cut back by itself?

This whole Copenhagen fiasco was to put a lid on developing nations so the west could further delay the transfer of global power to the Asian nations.

USA had no intention of cutting its own emissions but asks China that they should. What kind of deal is that?
Hulu does this. You can't access Hulu from the PS3's browser anymore. REALLY annoying, because otherwise I could easily watch Hulu on the bigger screen.

" For instance, placing different text in JavaScript than in a noscript tag violates our webmaster guidelines because it displays different content for users (who see the JavaScript-based text) than for search engines (which see the noscript-based text)".

Doesn't Youtube do this? If you don't have Flash, something else is displayed.
Seeing this question really bothers me.

Because it's a impossible question to answer, it's too broad and there are so many factors.

The Major and the school. Each and every one is so different, I don't really see if it makes any sense to even average them together.

Personal need and motivation? Are you there to learn and challenge your self, or for the social experience, or just to do the lowest possible to get a piece of paper that says Degree.

Indirect opportunities. For example meeting great researchers and professors and working side by side with them in some cases. Internship opportunities. Social networking and meeting people.

Causation vs. Correlation. Are people who go to college more successful because of college, or are those people bound to be successful anyway, they just happen to go to college.
To the point where you need to rewrite 10 lines of comments when you change one increment operator? I doubt it.
wait; has anyone considered this: college is fun.
Yes. That is pretty much the only kind of deal that gets talked about.

The discussion is always about cutting or freezing. Sometimes it's about slowing growth, then freezing then cutting.

The "inequality" of the deal will allow developing countries to get a little closer to developed country per capita emissions, but overall proportions are supposed to remain prety much fixed. So, if China currently emits 4.5 X US per capita, that may become 3 X at some point. It will never be 1=1.

The reason for this is pragmatic. Demanding the developed countries cut till they reach China levels while China continues to grow emissions will take too long.

{edit} I forgot to mention the other non pragmatic approach that some see as fair. Developing countries should be allowed to continue emitting carbon until their historical effect on atmospheric carbon equals that of the west. This solution locks in catastrophe at some point. (I fee like I need to qualify these sentences with "If the assumptions about climate change are close to correct")
To me failing fast, just means that you realize that the idea sucks and you close down shop and move on. And yeah if you have a crappy launch, you shouldn't use that to discount your idea. You only need to hit a certain niche of users to make your idea work.

To tell the truth, we really haven't gotten that much feedback after we came out of private beta. In private beta we got hundreds of tips, feature requests etc, and now in public beta, nada. Not a single feature request last week.

Yeah an article on TC won't make or break a startup, but it sure does help. a) better response to your other coverage requests b) a small bump to your page rank c) a flood of potential new users to help jump start the site.

If I had to give it a numerical value, I'd say major launch coverage, can help you save 1-2 years of building your traffic the old fashioned way...1 person at a time
Uh,

* Yes, this kind of thing often comes down to "real politic".

* No, we shouldn't be happy to let it just stand as that.

I'll give you that the exact result of continuing unlimited production of hydrocarbons is unknown. The "Green Lobby" has ill-served itself by framing things as 'we know global warming will happen' rather than "do you want to risk eating your own industrial shit for longer than necessary?'. "Planetary Suicide" is indeed an almost meaningless term. Tremendous environmental impact with a negative, say terminal, impact for millions of people is concrete and likely. Desertification advances as quickly in China as anywhere.

The Chinese leadership is far-sighted and near-sighted according to their historical origins and material interests. You know about the Cultural Revolution?

Edit: And the particular strategy "the West" have taken certainly has made the bed they are lying in as much as China has. Again, does that mean we should be happy with this situation?
Wow, what a horrific (but funny, yes) spelling error. Must have mistyped, as I (think) I'd know how to type it if someone were to ask...
Since it was an extraction from WordPress, which is GPL-licensed, maybe it was super hard to make this library LGPL since everyone who had contributed code had GPL-licensed it.
I am going to copy the same response given to @nkurz, EDIT:END EDIT, as you do seem to have a genuine intellectual curiosity. I hope you don't mind. At any rate if you follow this link:

http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=28&...

as @nkurz suggests, then you will come to a page with two 'per capita' data charts on it. Click either, and under the 'Series Detail' section of the resultant page you will see something like the following:

Series Name: Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), metric tons of CO2 per capita (UNFCCC)

Goal: Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability

Target: Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

----HERE---->> Indicator: Indicator 7.2 Carbon dioxide emissions, total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP) <<<----HERE----

As you can see it is per capita per $1 GDP (PPP). By the way, the (PPP), Purchasing Power Parity, makes this data even less useful. But I didn't want to get into ALL of the things that are wrong with this dataset.

Alternatively, here is a direct link to:

Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), metric tons of CO2 per capita (UNFCCC)

http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/SeriesDetail.aspx?srid=752

Again, check under 'Series Detail' and you will see the above dataset description.
It's educational and gives you a place you could meet future co-founders as well. I feel like people look at college from a purely educational perspective, which isn't exactly correct. If you're going to college just for the education, you're in the wrong place, if you ask me.
Isn't that his point? That making gross generalizations off a small sample size is ridiculous? That's what I got out of it anyway.
It seems to me that unique visitors aren't the important metric here, but tweets. Anyone know what the trend is for those?
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Copenhagen is really waking the conspiracy theorists.

If the US had agreed to a minor cut, China would have probably agreed to limiting growth and eventually (10-15 years reducing). The argument is how big the gap is. I've mostly heard talk of between a 15% & a 30% delay for developing countries. @ 15% delay, the US cuts by 5% & China gets to grow by 10%. 20 years later the US cuts by 20% & China cuts by 5%. etc.

Any deal that emerges will probably slightly favour the developing world. It is they that will need to pay for most of it because they have the money. "The West" will subsidise "The East's" reductions somewhat. The only qestion is how much.

The US is holding up the show at the moment. Maybe after next US elections they will be ready for 5-10% cuts with China limiting itself to about 10% growth (by 2020 or 2025). Most other developed countries are ready for 20% by 2020 now.
Considering the amount of failed *chans that showed up both before and after 4chan - world2ch, 5chan, etc, I wouldn't count Moot as merely lucky. At the very least, he kept the site sane by continuing to run it -- in contrast with, say, the constantly fluctuating staff at 7chan.
Then again then college isn't the only way you can do those things. Perhaps if college didn't exist, there could be something filling the void that's not only more efficient at educating, but at fulfilling those things too.
Great design. One suggestion: make it very clear if it finds scholarships internationally or is it just restricted to US?

Looks like it is limited to US only. Plus your database size looks small at the moment.

But it is great start and a genuine problem you have solved.
Humans have a biological distaste for hypocrisy and bullshit, even if the entity spouting them is generally better than those against which it is being compared.
The purists complaining that CS isn't about programming are correct but misguided: the vast majority of CS majors don't _want_ to study "real," abstract CS.

IMO the right thing is to offer degrees in Software Development, which would include some classic CS curriculum but by no means all, and we could have discussions about the right way to teach programming without people getting bent out of shape that Programming Is Not CS.
The pragmatic and well educated Communist Party leaders have already been responsible for the death of over 15 million Chinese in the 1958 famine, when they muddled with nature to achieve unrealistic growth goals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

No doubt, the Party is pragmatic (so pragmatic it supplied Sudan with weapons during the Darfur genocide, collecting their support in Copenhagen in return). It is well aware that to maintain its control over the nation it has to keep delivering the current high growth rate. This has a lot more to do with the politicians' power than the people's quality of life.
Per capita aside, they've already passed us in emissions-per-GDP.

Just saying.
I don't think you even have to be smart, because college really just forces people who aren't really motivated to learn, to learn. I mean what's a better substitute for motivation than the threat of thousands of dollars going down the drain because you failed.

EDIT: and really even with the forcing learning is not guaranteed.
Also, be mindful that your figures, when multiplied by population, add up to almost as much Chinese carbon production as America.

The numbers matter.
no, one of the major problems in China is drought and heat. Beijing suffers from both of them and each year the desert is moving closer to Beijing and the sandstorms are getting worse. Increasing global warming will also make the situation worse in China.
They're not ads, just a much-maligned preview "feature" from snap.com.
Personally, I just find it kind of shameful for anyone with credibility to lend some of it to 4chan. From where I'm standing, it seems like the primary exports of 4chan are the stifling of independent thought and social validation for antisocial teenagers.

In brief, I think people who participate in shaping 4chan are bad and they should feel bad.
I've seen some people use "myth" and "cult" to describe the theistic and worshipful aspects of religion, respectively. Unfortunately these words both have other, more common meanings with negative connotations, so using them in any sort of open discussion tends to raise some hackles.
> Moreover, the narrative of sin and redemption is not a coincidence: progressivism (including its environmentalism subset) is not metaphorically a religion; it is a real, living (nontheistic) religion,* the clear intellectual descendant of mainline ecumenical protestant Christianity.

I've heard that, but never found a reasonably objective source that references primary sources. I've read a couple pieces: The general gist I got is that North American Christianity split into two basic movements - Fundamentalist Christianity, which emphasized that the Bible was literal and the ancient rites were necessary to be followed, and Progressive Christianity, which said that the Bible was not literal and was more inclusive and open to discussion. But I've not found any primary or objective secondary sources on how this went - you sound knowledgeable, do you happen to know any?

> If a nontheistic religion seems like a contradiction in terms, the problem is merely linguistic; English lacks a good word meaning "all religious beliefs minus the supernatural stuff".

Yes, that I'm very aware of. I've traveled a lot, and you can clearly see that most non-religious people still inherited their basic religious beliefs of their culture. Very few people actively study ethics and come to independent decisions from their peer group - most people inherit their base ethics from their surroundings, and since religions were the way that most people got their ethics for a very long time now, it's mirrored quite well even in non-religious people. People with formerly Confucian surroundings tend to have a very strong family emphasis, which was a fundamental tenet of Confucianism. People with Jewish surroundings tend to get a very strong scholarly emphasis, at least partially descending from the heavy emphasis on Torah studies. Places that had a heavy Christian presence often are more ashamed about sex, pornography, and nudity than places like Africa and Japan which had did not have those same religious views on sex.

The fastest growing religions in the world are nontheistic - this will enter common thought in the next 50-100 years as the power of formal religions continues to decrease and more nontheistic religions gain followers. And that's not a bad thing, but you still absolutely need to insulate public servants and scientists from their religious beliefs, lest they impose their morals on their science and law, thus leading to - well, most people are aware of the impact religion had on law and science throughout the ages. It's a little bit of a dangerous time now, because there's no separation of nontheistic churches and the state.
When I joined my group pretty much everyone was either using a blackberry (the majority) or Windows Mobile phones. Today the majority are iPhones. Thats for a group that has grown a lot since then too, so one could easily argue that the other manufacturers (at least Apple) are making inroads into the business phone market without the need to make dedicated devices.
OT, what year was that?
4chan survived out of his sheer stubbornness to run the site at a loss for a long period of time and refusing to sell it to some porn network (possibly on multiple occasions?) It's impressive he was willing to spend the past 6 years running; 4chan clearly means a lot to him, god knows why.
Excellent question. For coders trying to maximize their probability of getting rich enough not to worry about money by the time they are 25 or 30, I'm sure going to college is an awful bet, especially in the US, where college education is expensive. And the more education you get, the worse of a bet it is (I have a PhD from an Ivy League school, BTW, as does pg, I think)

However, some important work and innovation absolutely requires higher education. For example, you are extremely unlikely to learn linear algebra and matrix theory "on the job", while running a startup, or even if you are just relaxing at home with nothing else to do for a few years.

tl;dr: don't go to college, but expect to have your
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And don't forget the "dirt vaccine":
http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/7892/dirt-vaccine-resear...
That '70s Show Seasons 1-8 DVD
Obviously they didn't need their support in Copenhagen to get what they wanted.
> I've seen some people use "myth" and "cult" to describe the theistic and worshipful aspects of religion, respectively. Unfortunately these words both have other, more common meanings with negative connotations, so using them in any sort of open discussion tends to raise some hackles.

Strongly agree - do you have opinions on good words? I'm currently using "mysticism", "ritual", and "canon", which are often used by religions themselves. They don't seem completely neutral though.

I think this has the potential to be an area of language that changes quickly, so we all look ignorant in 50 years when our writings are read, similar to how the terms for different races have changed a lot. My grandmother is almost 90 and calls a man of Chinese descent a "Chinaman", and I have to say, "No Grandma, we don't say that any more." And she's got a bit of a sense of humor, and says, "I listen to the radio, and they say Irishman, but Chinaman is wrong?" And I don't know how to answer that, since the Irish got all sorts of hell in the States too, and Irishman used to be derogatory, but now it's not and it's okay usage. I think the words used to describe religion are likely going to go through that, and references to myth (bad), cult (bad), mysticism (okay), ritual (okay), canon (generally positive) might all be passed by other words.
This kills me -- I've seen so many financial illustrations about the miracle of compound interest and the true cost of a loan. But these lessons are never applied to paying off an onerous student loan until middle age.

This unexamined attitude of education as an unqualified good has already led a lot of young people overpaying for professional education of questionable benefit, and now to even more taking on unreasonable debt in pursuit of a bachelor's degree.
Having large numbers of males with a feeling of being left out tends to lead to societal distress. It's why people are concerned about the male/female imbalance in China and India. There will soon be millions of men in both countries with few prospects of getting laid and this generally has bad consequences for neighboring nations.
One of the nice things about Basic was that you didn't need to know how to use a text editor to program in it. Line numbers and the LIST command got you started. vi and emacs are a bit much for the wee ones. You can use a simple text editor, but there's still the concept of files, saving, extensions, vs. the integrated environment that a microcomputer Basic provided.

<power on>

10 print "Hello, World."

RUN

Doesn't get simpler than that.
oh, it exists.
I'm very excited about this. Chris Anderson asked for an intro to moot (who I only barely know through ROFLCon[1]) earlier this year; when he said it was to have him speak at TED, I was floored.

The thought, "Chris Anderson reads 4chan?! Maybe even /b/?" crossed my mind only for a moment -- instead, it dawned on me just how obvious a speaker for a session on "provocation" he would be. I was impressed he'd be on the TED radar, frankly, which goes to show how ignorant I am.

The theme of the 2010 TED is "What the World Needs Now" -- for all of the garbage on 4chan, it represents the 'cost' of the free and open exchange of ideas that is the Internet.

I'm expecting a thoughtful talk from Chris. But even if he trolls TED, it'll still make for a great talk. And in a way, further underscore the importance of provocation (at least for some) in what the world needs now.

[1] http://breadpig.com/blog/category/rofldna-project/
Horrible marks in English. And yes, I do apologize for subjecting everyone to my subpar written communication skills.
The great expansion of Web 2.0 is coming to and end, gradually the big ones will unite the rest and people will choose from few only.
Umm 4chan is moderated thats why it doesn't get raided by the FBI, you obviously have never been there