skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
University is, IMHO, less about learning what the jobs want and more about learning the things that you may find hard or dont have the opportunity to do in your own time - this includes things unrelated to your career choice (eg, I learned to snowboard), build your social network (especially with people on other complementary career paths), learn and do things you may not have the resources to do yourself (electronics, robotics, any exotic hardware (I built an (location aware, 3D audio centered) augmented reality headset, for example), learn those theory subjects that a company isnt going to spend time teaching you but that will ultimately help you understand and solve problems better (computability, statistics, computational complexity, compiler construction, whatever!).

Theres no reason you can't do this things on your own, but Universities provide an environment which makes these much easier, puts you in touch with other students and professors, provides you with resources and also helps you prove to future employers that you have the drive to stick with something. For these reasons, I think University is more valuable than the paper you get at the end.
I think vendors should not hold back, but start selling those 4k disks now. So XP users won't buy them, if they know what they're doing...

But it might be a compelling reason for people to upgrade their OS, if disks for their OS are smaller and/or more expensive than the new 4k ones.
10/10 for coolness factor, but the usefulness has plummeted. How can I tell which domains are still available now? Oh that's right, I have to click thru?

If I were cynical, I'd say you're just trying to get people to click your affiliate registrar links :(
I would absolutely love a simply Ruby based way to easily get these together (simple dashboard framework) and pull together the data. Might have to work on that unless someone knows of one already.
> Outside of the open source tech bubble Bill G doesn't/didn't have a negative image to counter.

His company is a convicted monopolist by the US government,not by OSS fans.

More anecdotally, most people acknowledge that Windows is pretty shit these days.
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I was like you few years ago. I finished high school with strait As, working full time on the side as a programmer and I decide to not continue in my education and take job as a programmer and then product manager and I thought that I know everything I need.

I am from very well educated familly and they always says that I should go to the uni, otherwise I will regret this in my 50s and you can always make money later. It takes me four years to discover that and I am in the half of the undergraduate CS program right now (in my mid-20s) and I am happy with it.

Maybe you need more time to see benefits of the college education, but be warned: comming back to the school "from-the-real-world" is very, very hard.
Practise, practise, practise! In Real Life.

Couchsurfing.org is good for this - you're not obliged to offer your couch. You can just meet up with people, hang out, speak English.

Don't pitch it as "I want to practise my English with you" - that's off-putting. Be interested in the person - and as a side-effect of the fun, you'll be practising your English!

Now, if only I'd practise what I preach...
Another thing would be nice is if it was possible to click the sample commands and have them added to the command line history and executed, to save a bit on typing.
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The IP address is in the filename of the image!?!
I'd bet good money that biotech is similar to the majority of technologies: offense beats defense. A thousand things have to work just right for a human being to stay alive. Only one thing needs to go wrong for them to die.
Can I check out anything you've worked on before?
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"I would definitely choose HTML5 if I can make something that can not be done with Flash nor HTML4"

Interactive graphics that work on the iPhone and iPad.
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News is so broken
Looking for a developer to join me on my mission to fix news!

News seems to be broken and I want to try and fix that. I want to create a place that offers a simple way to follow and find the stuff that you care about, presented in a way that is easy to scan and consume. The second part of this idea is I want to build discussion around news items, as a story unfolds it gets more context and is curated in one place. The idea is in its early stages, but I do have a screenshot to share with you that gives you a very clear idea of where I am going with this

I am looking for a developer to join me building this idea. I am willing to share equity and am ideally looking for a co-founder to work alongside with. I don't really mind too much where you are located, but we are based in Melbourne, Australia. Beyond being a great coder we are looking for someone who is on the same wave length and can add value to the idea when it comes to user experience. Our technology stack is Java and JSP running on the App engine.

About me: I am a designer that has been in the industry for some time now. I believe in UX and simplicity. You can find some of my work here:
http://www.jasonstrachan.com

If you are interested please contact me and I will share with you some screen-shots of the idea: oneintenthousand@gmail.com

Cheers,
Jason
I'm in Maine right now. Here's a warning message from chatroulettemap.com that I see when I visit:

"We'd like to advise maine.edu to stop using
student's names in their hostnames.
We've decided, at least for the time being, to
hide IP & host information as some user-identifiable
information was found in some entries."
Yup, honestly, the post is really good but the plug at the end gave a linkbait flavor to the whole thing.
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An excellent point. This whole thread is (I think necessarily) subjective, but I will do my best. I would also be interested to hear what the parents of this post mean when they refer to 'value'.

What inspired me to comment in the first place was the unquestioned assumption that saving a human life is always an acceptable motivation or excuse for (apparently) unbounded destruction of other life forms. This implies some sort of scale of relative worth with humans at the top, which guides us to make such decisions. My belief is that there should be no such scale - that is, it should never automatically be right to favour one life-form over another, whatever the species involved. Thus the inference that humans and trees have the same 'value'.

I'm sure if you ask the Ents, they would not find it acceptable to save themselves at the expense of the non-Ents ;-)
I admit that deduplication isn't going to work if you encrypt everything with different keys, but why can a Tarsnap-like design not be "convenient" in the way you seem to use the word?

A few good (encrypted!) indices are all you need. You could write something like a WebDAV proxy if you want to make it "universally" accessible.

(Of course, Tarsnap isn't designed for this, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't be.)
There are at least 100 towns within 25 miles of my house. One of them is New York City. I guess I'm not concerned about GeoIP's accuracy... this is one of the advantages of living in a very dense area.
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I've never heard the "split parenthesis" - perhaps Quebec is different.

I have a Lisp teacher in Japan who has an interesting way of reading code. He says 'kakko' for '(', which is the usual Japanese word for a parenthesis. For the closing one, he says the word in reverse: 'kokka'. So "(def a (fn))" would be read "kakko def a kakko fn kokka kokka". It's quite effective.
I think this could also be used to calculate the mode?

lim n->0 argmin(x,sum(abs(x-s)^n))
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Some are concurrent, but hardly all of them!
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Hmm. Upon reading your post I'd say that you need to further tweak your grammar and choice of words.

- The placement of your commas is often incorrect.

- "I didn't reach" should be "I haven't reached".

- "The hard point is.." should probably be "The hard part is" etc...

So three things to work on:

- Grammer, especially the placement of commas - when to pause in a statement.

- Use of correct choice of words - this will come from more practice.

And finally:
- Try listening to more rock / alternative music. For the first few years, it will mostly sound like gibberish. This is partially an exercise to train your ear =)
Ahh, yes. I know exactly what you mean. I felt that at BigCo. also.
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Absolutely, which is why I pretty much gave up using Canvas and decided to try Raphaël http://raphaeljs.com/
You need to examine the trend of the planet and of the universe, of the 'natural world.'

This is going to be a pretty crazy flash-forward: when the universe began, it was sheer anarchy. Now, after billions of years of self organizing, here on Earth is the most structured thing in existence: our minds.

Alright, somebody else may have had a head start, but humans are still the most special thing on Earth.

We are important. This isn't arrogance. Everything leading up to us has played a part.

Placing us on the same level as trees is backwards, and it is not very useful. We need to understand our place in the universe, and Earth, and be responsible with respect it. No more rampant disrespect, like unchecked children.

So, in the grand scheme of things, we hold more value. The implications of this are good and don't mean we can do whatever we want.
Your comment reminded me of Ben Franklin's case for older women.
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Find someone that cares about UX... and actually knows what that is. Its also important to for the designer to understand what it is you are tying to communicate and what the mechanics of the idea are. What is it that makes users come back? Who are you focussing on?

I guess I am not really answering you question :) But I find crowd sourced design very hit and miss. You don't get any real thinking, you also don't get any solid UE stuff... and that's where it counts. let me know if you need a hand.
oneintenthousand@gmail.com
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In my case, there are a couple buildings, to say nothing about one of the busiest airports in the country.
Vim has a good plugin for this, FuzzyFileFinder. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1894614/vim-fuzzyfinder-u... for instructions on how to set it up.
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Out of interest how does your idea differ from reddit, digg, hacker news or many of the other social news sites currently around? they all offer methods of easily scanning & consuming content as well as allowing discussions. I do agree that there are issues with our current methods of consuming news but I think there needs to be a much more significant paradigm shift than what you are proposing.

I am however very happy to be corrected, could you provide a little more information?
You may like to visit the science museum:

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> Placing us on the same level as trees is backwards, and it is not very useful thinking in those terms.

My turn to ask for some definitions - what do you mean by 'backwards', and 'useful'?

> We need to understand our place in the universe, and Earth, and be responsible with respect it

It's precisely my point that we, as a species, don't understand our place in the universe because we tend to inflate our importance with respect to it - indeed this was (is?) a cornerstone of some religion thought (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair).

If you take the view that self organisation/structure equates to relative importance, then, let's suppose a more 'highly evolved' alien race visited the Earth. Would you happily accept our new-found second place on the importance scale? How about if we develop a microchip more complex than the human brain (assuming that we have the capacity to do it)? Does that device become more important than a human being?

To me, the idea that all of Earth exists to support us is what I would call 'backwards'.
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Meh .. by the time Eclipse boots up, and by the time you load your project in Eclipse, I'm already in-the-flow with tickets read / 5 files open / the project running on my localhost.

Besides, it's not like it's a primitive environment ... when I want some API discovery/learning or when I want to do some debugging (or both) ... I open up an interactive shell.

I have Textmate-like snippets setup in my Emacs, and for CRUD-stuff I bet I'm ten times more efficient than you (and adding new snippets is a piece of cake ... not to mention that we share them company wide because they are text-files in our SVN).

When wanting "rename" refactoring, commands with grep/find/sed are already hardwired in my brain.

And nothing beats editors like Vim/Emacs on pure text-editing efficiency. Also, good luck using your favorite IDE when trying out a new language ;)

So you can cringe all you want, some of us are quite happy with just text-editors.
Ripped off what ? that is the product i have rebranded and i am selling, please see http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-general-discussions/291-tons-... . Thank you!
Sounds neat, with a simple API for application specific metrics it could be really useful.
Feature request: better separation of vote buttons
what do you think about indroducint some better separation between upvote and downwote buttons?
I've probably voted the wrong way more than a dozen times. The fact that visually arrows are seprated but there is no real separation between the links does not help either.
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What did i wrote wrong there ? can you explain?
Ask HN: Have you read "Rework" yet? 
And if so, how much do you love it?

I got it on Tuesday, and finished this morning, so its a pretty quick read. Its extremely clear and concise - I'm going to read it a few more times to burn some of these things into my brain. I'd call it a must read for anyone - working.
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If you can make it in person and record the talk, I hope you put it on line. BTW, an intelink search didn't return anything for "postabon" except a soft drink firm.
"Hulu app could launch a player on the iPhone or iPad, if, of course, Apple allowed them to do so. If not, then a mobile site would have to be built in HTML5, video controls, overall UI, advertisements and all. That's no simple process."

I'm not really sure that writing a new Objective-C player is tremendously easier than writing an HTML 5 one. If it were, wouldn't they have already done this for the iPhone?

At least everyone would benefit from the option of getting rid of flash if they did write a seamless HTML 5 rendition.
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The grandparent isn't exactly old, and he is right.
This reminds me of the students who attempted to flush an elemental Lithium compound down a toilet. Lithium is extremely reactive in an exothermic manner with water. Lithium floats.
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> "If we exclude the 'blame the economy' explanation..."
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I can imagine when I talk about this stuff you are thinking digg, reddit etc. But its quite different to that.

The biggest difference is this is a competitor to traditional news (New York Times, CNN) and not digg and reddit.

I believe we are going to share some of the mechanics that drive digg, but where this is very different is when you view story it is not a link to someone else's content - the content lives within the context of the site.

Also I will say that the idea is not fully formed yet and needs some more thought. The biggest problem is how the content gets curated and how it gets seeded.
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In any hire-at-will state, including California, you have the right to walk out at any time just as they have the right to let you go at any time.

2 weeks is just a typical professional courtesy. The employee handbook might state "we prefer two weeks notice", but you don't owe them that.
HTML is doomed. Flash is way more powerful and installed on almost every computer in the world. Flash also runs almost the same on all browsers, even IE6, where many HTML sites break - another clear advantage...

Seriously, this argument is getting old. Chose the right technology for your purpose and use it wisely to prevent CPU spikes, security issues, etc. HTML makes strides forward and so does Flash. HTML is great for 90% of all needs, and Flash fills in the other 10% where you need some more flexibility, play audio, have multiple file-uploads, run it as an Air app on the desktop, etc.
"Adobe can fix" < "Anybody can fix"

I've lived in a world where I couldn't access online banking if I was using anything as exotic as Mozilla on Linux. Thankfully, the situation has improved a bit since those days, but I would never want to return to them. Note that today you don't have to stray very far from the mainstream before Adobe stops delivering their plugin. The web should be such that it can be used on innovative platforms without being at the mercy of one CEO who doesn't like another CEO that day, or thinks your FreeBSD or Plan 9 or Haiku are too marginal, or that your CPU instruction set insufficiently ubiquitous.
If you were in a hire-at-will state, you could have just walked. They can't hold you to a time period.
> In 5 years why should the web require a plugin

For the end user, what's the difference between "require a plugin" and "require a browser"?
I really don't know how to react to this comment. It is in normal in China to suffer delays when you order something from a factory. It is normal when doing business in China.

The unit does have phone functionality through the dongle, and a custom application.

Scrape together all the money ? you must be joking.
Do you have access to my financial informations, or do you know me personally ?

If the answer is no, how can you tell this ?

Regarding "how to spot fake watches", that's a sick business idea that came out after dealing with watch copies here in China, i thought i could make up a service and help people on eBay.

Yes lostintech and admin-enso-now are other account on my own. Then ?

You have been smart to find http://watch-replicas.net/, but not smart to post it.

I am waiting for your real name and address on my email alberto.armandi@gmail.com

My name is

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Telephone : +390781674624

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I am taking your action against me personally, because you clearly have the intent to make me look like a scammer.
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The reasoning is relatively simple, and my conclusions and actions are not all that different from those of people who do respect and take care of the environment.

I believe very strongly that we humans will not be happy, nor even, probably, able to live, on a world without the eco-system we have around us. We need to preserve it, for our survival, our esthetic enjoyment, etc. However, what I believe equally strongly is that all of this comes down, ultimately, to us, and our subjective experience of the world.

There is no intrinsic value to anything outside of the human mind. Man is the measure of all things. As such, any action to preserve the environment must do so while preserving, above all else, human life, freedom, the pursuit of happiness, and other core human values.

I fear that ecologism will grow into a movement that declares nature worth more than other core human values, including human life and freedom. I fear that ecologists will become oppressors, turning society against itself in a bid to "save the world", and thus entirely missing the point of saving the world (which is, to allow us humans to continue enjoying the world).

Is that clearer?
Also, in Milano (Italy) there seems to be one house that houses all Chatroulette users. That's either a really, really freaky place to live, or Geo-IP has a pretty bad coverage of Italy.
The best thing to do when you are learning a new language, would be to start thinking in that language. Trust me, it makes a world of a difference.
If they put their fingers in their ears and go 'LALALALALALALA' the problem might go away.
Something that requires Windows and something that will run on any random device I can pick up at Fry's.
Yeah, I find this to be a problem too. However, since I dont really downvote unless I find a comment that's extremely obnoxious and hasn't reached -4 points yet (which is an extremely rare situation), I just wrote a greasemonkey script to hide the downvote links.
Yea, I don't think there are enough of those ;)
Also a lot of other cloud storage providers encrypt the data so only their clients have access to it: Nasuni does this too.
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I see plenty of beauty and intrinsic value in the natural world.

Don't get me wrong, my actions are not very different from yours. I support the idea (and practices) that we must treat the world better, that we must rein in pollution, that we should preserve existing species and natural habitats, etc.

The only difference is that because I come from a human-centric point of view ("all this only matters because it contributes to the existence and happiness of the human race"), I am strongly opposed to any measures that would oppress human beings to "save nature".

We need to get this balance right, and at the moment it's certainly too far in the "let's pollute everything" side - but that doesn't mean it won't swing equally far in the other direction, and when that happens, people will be oppressed and killed in the name of nature. And I feel that is fundamentally wrong, which is why I argue against blind ecologism, and towards a human-centric form of ecologism.

In other words, "Let's save the world, but for us, not for the world."