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That's not necessarily true. Some people compartmentalize things on a need to know basis. They'll lie about stuff that isn't on the list for fun or profit, but will absolutely do the right thing if it concerns you.
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I've never done it (it's on my list of things to do), but I'm guessing that a summer job at a used car dealership will teach you everything there is to know about sales.
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I tried it on IE 8 on Windows 7 . Didn't crash.
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The bottom line is that people, and by extension governments, are very poor at judging risks. The distortions in our prioritization reflects underlying cognitive bias, and our existing biases are greatly amplified by the mass media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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"- Does it bother you as much that doctors probably get better health care than the rest of us? That the children of teachers tend to get better grades? That airline pilots fly for free?"

Does it bother them we know how to use our computers computers while many of them lost their work because they pressed Control-A instead of Control-S? ;-)
That's a good point. I rarely had to do it and, when I could, I opted to distribute the data.

Still, Python needs better threading.
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We took an initial stab at this and aggregated about 10K videos, and give tools to take notes and tests. Eventually we plan to extensively integrate text contents from Wikipedia, OpenCourseWare etc along with these videos.

We are a very young website and would love to get feedback on what are the other resources you guys looking for:
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I'd add:

* Terse programmer: The only thing he loves more than one-letter variable names are non-alphabetic one-character variable names. Has won obfuscated code contests multiple times.

* Self-evident programmer: Doesn't comment any of his code because he thinks what it does is perfectly obvious. Could be a finalist in an obfuscated code contest, but would never dream of entering it.

* Premature optimizer: Must squeeze every ounce of performance even out of a "Hello world!" program.

* Fad-of-the-day programmer: If it was praised on a hot blog, it's his new religion.
" He doesn't really care how innovations in mathematics resulted in fractional multiplication."

But I care.

In your world do only potato sellers need text books?

I wasn't talking about textbooks for potato sellers, so I fail to see how this is relevant. The implicit audience in my post is a reader of HN. Does your potato vendor post on HN? ;-)

I wasn't talking about elementary mathematics in case that wasn't clear from the context. So now you know.

As you no doubt know already, I was responding to a very specific comment that said "I found that the best way for me to internalize a particular subject in hard science is to follow its history by reading the original papers." and I just made an observation noting my surprise why (some) textbooks aren't structured to help people like the commenter , not your potato vendor whom I haven't had the honor of meeting.

"What we really need is professors knowledgeable enough to answer these questions or point the student to the right texts."

Another strawman?

(a)I was asking for some textbooks to be structured this way for people who like learning that way.

(b) there is no reason not to wish for good professors and textbooks of all kinds (NOT professors ExclusiveOr textbooks - where did you get that idea?) .

Since I wasn't advocating that potato sellers should be taught the history of additions and fractions, or that textbooks should be substitutes for good professors, I'll leave you be to hack at your favorite strawmen in peace ;-).
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059421
Cavendish's Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth is still worth reading. In the 18th century, it took some impressive hacking to isolate two balls sufficiently that their mutual gravity was the strongest force acting on them.
Spam via HN ...
Well, I've just received my first unsolicited commercial email to the address I've advertised in my profile here. Given that it takes some effort to extract it, I'm not concerned that this might be the start of a flood, and given that it's advertising for applicants to join a start-up currently in stealth and going beta in February, it's mostly "on topic."

It is, however, unsolicited "commercial" email.

Via HN.

It's a shame. I'd come to think of HN as somewhere a bit special, and that's gradually being eroded, which makes me sad.

(EDIT: That last bit used to to read "Shame." but it was misinterpreted, so I've expanded it.)
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It's a webkit bug - it won't load more than 200 iframes.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16184
I got my first spam today too. It must be the same one.

The most annoying part was that they were looking for people to work at Stanford, CA while I am here in Bangalore, India.
I think the real problem in this instance isn't that IE crashes. We've all seen, used, and in most cases, written buggy code. Large systems are hard to get right, we all know that.

The problem is how hard it is to report such problems and get taken seriously. I, for one, have spent hours trying to tell someone that their code/system/service is severely broken, and yet repeatedly get ignored. I often don't know if this is because they already know, or whether they don't care. The problem is trying to report it, and getting ignored.

Here's a crazy idea. Have an on-line bug reporting service that includes a CAPTCHA, but the CAPTCHA requires that you write a small piece of code, or solve a problem, or something techie. Very, very few reports of problems will come in via such a portal, but at least you know they can be taken reasonably seriously.
"It is, however, unsolicited "commercial" email.

Via HN."

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought your email was available on your profile page for anyone to read and extract. So as far as I can see all this means is that someone is trawling HN profiles for email of likely startup employees and sending out email.

How is this different from posting your email on any web page anywhere on the Internet? I would imagine if you publish your email on an investments discussion board you'd get spam about "lucrative investment opportunities". How is this any different? Publish your email id anywhere (including your own pages) and you'll get spam. How is this new? And what is with all the drama about "via HN"?

"Shame" (EDIT: this has been edited in the submission. Originally it was just this one word on a line by itself)

huh? Are you asking the spammer to feel shame? Or are you surprised spammers trawled HN and suggesting HN readers (or moderators) feel shame?

(fwiw I got this message too. "Mark as spam". Done).
The article started off well with a look at the way we give undue priority to terrorism, then seemed to deteriorate into an anti-capitalist rant.

Yes, humans make bad choices. However, I have never seen it explained to me how government, made up entirely of fallible humans, will make better choices than it's constituents.
I got one... I wonder how many they sent out.

For anyone else considering doing this, please just submit it as a story.
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I got one too, perhaps to everyone on the leader board? Though, it's not the first that I've gotten via HN.

The thing is I find it find for people to do recruiting over HN, but if they don't have the time to read my profile, then I don't have time to not flag their mail as spam and delete with prejudice.
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Welcome to Estonia, although a word of warning - you might get slightly disillusioned with our government (well, actually it's EU) policies once you get here.

Incidentally, .au is a favorite place for a lot of estonians to go for (temporary) work lately.
It would seem the next step up from all those upgrade IE6 banners is just to crash the entire browser. If enough sites did it then using IE6 would become untenable.

It seems a bit drastic to crash people's software intentionally but you could argue that you're doing them a favor.
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Ok, the email in your profile requires a human to interpret it, but this is still most likely the case (I got that spam too).

If someone got it on the non-public email used for YC submissions, it would be a different story (HN security compromised, or someone with legitimate access to these addresses leaking them).
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought
> your email was available on your profile page
> for anyone to read and extract.

Yes it is.

> So as far as I can see all this means is that
> someone is trawling HN profiles for email of
> likely startup employees and sending out email.

Almost. They are trawling HN profiles for emails of anyone on HN. Even a tiny amount of research would show that I'm not the sort of person they want, I'm not in a location that's likely to be of assistance, and I don't have the skills they're looking for.

It's bulk email, sent to semi-automatically harvested email addresses, with no underlying research or targetting.

> How is this different from posting your email
> on any web page anywhere on the Internet?

Clearly it isn't.

> And what is with all the drama about "via HN"?

You seem to have a different concept of "drama" than I do, but I'll accept that.

>> Shame
> Are you asking the spammer to feel shame?
> Or are you surprised spammers trawled HN
> and suggesting HN readers (or moderators)
> feel shame?

No, I think it's a shame that I've got spam through this source. I am saddened - not really sure why. I guess I've come to think of HN as different from "other forums." That impression is being eroded, bit by bit.

> (fwiw I got this message too. "Mark as spam". Done).

Good for you. Sadly, this is so close to other emails I get that are relevant to consultancy work I do that my spam filtering didn't catch it. Indeed, I'm not using it to train my spam filters because it is so close.

<shrug> As someone else said - welcome to the internet.
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One thing that video has that HTML doesn't: single-file archive ability. Sure you can have a single HTML file as long as you keep it text-only, but most of these topics are going to be diagram (and math figure) heavy. There's just no good way to archive the content for later perusal. (Granted YouTube doesn't want you to directly download the videos, but it's not like it's that hard to circumvent -- and once you have the video you can easily find a player for it on any platform)

[Note: I don't count .webarchive or .mht files as 'good enough'. .webarchive files are Safari-only, and I don't even know of a tool to be able to extract data from them. .mht files are 'sorta' supported (IE, Opera, Firefox w/ an extension), but I don't like the idea that the data is Base64/MIME-encoded. Personally I like .maff (Mozilla Archive File Format). It's only supported in Firefox with an extension (and nowhere else unfortunately), but it's basically a Zip file with the HTML/CSS/images inside of it.]
I suspect there is a compromise between an extreme use of history and ignoring it.

In my physics class in high school, we discussed the progression of models of the atom. Each time, we learned what experiment led to the new thoughts, and how surprising it was. I thought this was a great way to learn the topic. We didn't, however, spend too much time on the history and never read any of the original papers.

Note: We did have a great teacher.

On the other hand, one difficulty with teaching topics historically is that it is hard to group things by topics. For example, in mathematics, the function is a relatively recent idea. Newton died before the function was thought up, but calculus is usually taught as "take the derivative of a function." This is not to say that history would be useless in this case, but it may require even more talent from the teacher.
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Yeah me too, same one.
In which country? (Just curious).
I got one too! It was annoying. I am based out of India and the posting is for CA.
The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin is pretty good, and is considered a classic.

http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_...

It's in the field of population biology, but the principles are broadly applicable to any system where self-interested actors can gain more than they lose by actions that hurt the community.
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This has already been posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052565 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051392
I like the idea - I've been toying on and off with similar thoughts, it appears you're more advanced in your thinking than I.

However, you say:

> I think HN community is composed of mostly independent thinkers ...

That's certainly been true, and is probably still mostly true, but the evidence suggests it's becoming less true as HN becomes more popular and well-known. I think that's inevitable, and is recognised by PG, which is why he's testing and experimenting with the way votes and karma work.

I think you need to plan for the quality and subjects to drift significantly in the future, starting now. If you can solve (or anticipate) that, you may have a winner.
Diluting is balanced by desire of the shareholders to keep larger portion of the company and need for the fresh funds.

I.e. seed investors + founders + pre-seed employees (+ISO pool) share all the stock between themselves. Now they are all in the same boat: additional stock is going to be issued for Series A investment and if investment is too large, all of them get diluted too match, if it's not enough, company dies. If you are employee, you can't do much about it, but founders and angels are going to look after their own interest and protect you as well. In this sense the most important number for pre-seed employee is the ratio of his stock to the founders stock.

It's possible to issue additional stock and just grant it to some parties to dilute other party, it's quite hard to do because if diluted party is dissatisfied (and it usually is), it exposes company to litigation.
I'm reading a book at the moment called 'the mathematical experience' by Davis and Hersh which looks at some of these same issues. I haven't got very far through it yet but it seems like a good book so if you're interested in this sort of thing you might want to check it out.
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For every link on ED, roll over it and take a look at its URL at the bottom of your browser. This'll keep you from being trolled into the offended page. Also, the contrast between URL and hyperlink text is one of ED's sources of irony.

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Its completely like I read everything but the last paragraph.

If mahmuds suggestion of Python is Ok, then I don't see why mine isn't either. The languages I listed are great for parallel/concurrent programming, much more so than Go and if you need low level access, you can write C extensions for just those parts that require low level access.

Go's concurrency support is weak, at best. Sure, its better than C (without libraries), but compared to other concurrency oriented languages, it doesn't really provide much. Other disadvantages are that Go is new and still under heavy development. If they decide to change something, then you're code gets obsoleted. You also have to use an immature toolchain, learn the intricacies of a totally new language and compiler and live without existing Go libraries. You could use C libraries, of course, but IMHO I don't see the value of using Go. Maybe in the future it can take on its role as "better C", but I don't believe its ready yet. If you want a "better C", try the D programming language.

By the sounds of things, you don't like the archaic C-ness of the C/C++ languages. Honestly, I don't see Go as much of a step up (yet! I'm optimistic that it could fill in its role as a better, safer C in the future), hence suggesting languages with some top-notch concurrency support which have been proven (well, not Clojure afaik) to work well in highly concurrent networked environments. If you were to use erlang, you would get all its fault tolerance and code hot swapping facilities almost for free too.

So.. no, I personally do not believe Go is ready for a serious project.
Yes, if you can buy enough shares that your vote will block any attempt to issue additional shares, your share will be fixed.
This is fascinating. Yet another reason I should dive in and learn Ruby!

There are some great screencasts on their blip.tv channel (which don't all appear to be on their website) http://adhearsion.blip.tv/
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2188-i...

Still broken, I guess? This is a show-stopper for ruby-1.9 & rails-2 deployments.
Yes, your analogy is faulty.

First, what you're given is a number of shares, not a fixed percentage of the company - if you're given 100,000 options at the start of the year, you still have 100,000 options at the end of the year.

Second, the dilution that occurs through the issuing of shares to investors should make the company more valuable, not less - because the company takes that money and grows with it. Your shares are a smaller percentage of the overall company but end up worth more in absolute dollar terms. (If that's not the case, the company is wasting other people's money - the value of your shares goes down, but this is deserved.)

In other words, if you go from a 1% stake to a 0.1% stake through dilution and then get $20K of a $20M sale, you haven't been ripped off, you just overestimated the company's ability to turn your initial 1% stake into something meaningful.
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They are very similar aren't they? But I like 89 much more, looks much neater tucked in on the left in my opinion.
Zenburn is still my favourite colour scheme. Shame the preview for it doesn't seem to work on that page.
Agreed. This is an excellent book:

http://www.amazon.com/Risk-Science-Politics-Dan-Gardner/dp/1...

on the subject (I've recommended it a few times before)
Yeah, I loved this:

> China, a socialist state, handles earthquakes well.

> When will we get our priorities right, and learn how useless the free market is in dealing with tsunamis, earthquakes, Aboriginal health, African AIDS, Middle Eastern pogroms, Chinese tyranny and the sort of shameful poverty that breeds terrorists everywhere and sends them walking in explosive underpants out of universities into airline waiting rooms?

So China is socialist when it's handling earthquakes well, and free market when it's tyrannical? I think the fellow has the reasoning backwards.
very impressive write-up, sir!

i'm not super-proud of it, but i got started in programming by breaking the copy protection of dos games. i ran the game on my color monitor and borland's turbo debugger on the monochrome one, and single-stepped my way through the code until i had figured it out. then i'd use the norton utilities to find a particular code string in the executable on disk, and patch it with my NOP'ed out version. twenty years later and i still have the byte patterns of many 8086 machine language instructions memorized.

this would have just been harmless fun, except i posted my cracks on the BBSes of the day. well, i was young.
It is not Spam per se if it is relevant - and clearly in this case someone has gone to some trouble to identify relevant recipients for a specific email. Where is the "crime" in the commercial aspect - we are all in business one way or another? I do think you are being too sensitive. If you do not want to receive emails from users of HN then perhaps you should not make your address available.
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