skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Arguably the two world wars of the 20th century were a consequence of the expansionist tendencies of capitalist economies, and between them deaths were nigh on 100 million.

Wait, wait, wait, hold up - in what universe are Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan capitalist? Both countries had heavy government ownership, control, and coordination of industry. Hitler's party was the National Socialist German Workers Party - the Third Reich state owned all the chemical production and most of the industrial production in Germany. People loosely in favor of socialism don't like counting Nazi Germany among socialists, but they definitely had worker/state control over industry.

Unless you mean to imply that the United States, England, and France started WWII? I mean, you could make a roundabout Treaty of Versailles argument to do that, but clearly the Axis war economies of WWII were not free enterprise/free market/capitalist.
"Socialism", in simplest terms, means control of the "means of production" by workers or the general public, as opposed to a more limited group of owners.

Note that an otherwise unrestrained free market economy wherein all corporations are required to be employee-owned would, by this definition, be completely socialist.

Soviet-style centralized command economies can be technically called socialist in that the state, as representative of the general public, owns everything; this clearly grossly violates the idea in spirit as a small group of powerful people again end up controlling everything (and typically doing so very poorly).

The term "socialism", like "capitalism", describes a huge range of possible ideas and implementations, and to describe one or the other as broadly good or bad is symptomatic of egregiously lazy thinking.
You almost have a case for WW1, though I find it hilarious that people sniffing about totalitarian communism not being "real" socialism so smoothly conflate mercantilism and capitalism. WW2 flat requires the re-branding of command economies as "capitalist".

Mind, I didn't mention the wars; I actually had in mind the people who died en masse in "peacetime".

"I might reject the argument that the tens of millions of deaths in totalitarian states that described themselves as communist"

You might; I'd be impressed by that as I would be the latest from the Discovery Institute.
It may not be the most efficient method of learning for everyone, but you'll probably learn something there. For a lot of people it's the perfect environment. That being said, I think you should try it out and see if it works out for you. If you're absolutely miserable, consider your options if and only if that happens.
Well, at least they replaced it with a 'metal sculpture resembling the tree', that'll learn the next drunken driver who drives over it on purpose!
The Art of Focused Networking
Collaborative filter + user map.
If there's one regret I have from college, and let it be known I have many, but of them all it's that I didn't join clubs and intramural sports from the beginning. I realized junior year what I was missing out on, and took an active role in the ACM, but I missed out on a whole set of potential experiences and relationships.

It seemed stupid and I couldn't get over myself to go out on a limb and try something completely different and new. Boy was I wrong.
/me quickly searches for ramen.ycombinator.com
Think of university not only as a handful of classes a semester, but instead as your personal research park. All the resources a hacker/entrepreneur needs can be found on a college campus. Explore what it has to offer beyond the track they set you up with each semester, get to know professors, meet your cofounders. There will be lots of students who are just coasting, but there are also plenty of those who are self directed like you.
"""Sorry to get off on a rant. A "body" has shit all nothing to do with "making a better AI"."""

So you're saying Rodney Brooks's (previously head of AI at MIT) behavioural ai is wrong. Also, without 'sensory' data from a 'body' machine learning approaches can't work either.

"""Eventually we will get to a point where we can test an entity for consciousness. Once we can scientifically describe how consciousness works, we can devise tests for neuronal networks of any complexity to say if its actually conscious or not """

Are you sure there is such a thing as conciousness? Even if there is, I'd bet we get to AI before we can test for conciousness.
Think of it as a few years opportunity to teach yourself a bunch of new things. College campuses for various reasons and externalities are a great place to do this in.

However, you must apprentice yourself to learn the trade.
I have the same sentiments. I was going to say this is one of the saddest things I've ever read.
Micro SD Cards Will Be Making Contactless Payments In 2010 - Tyfone
sort of trivial in python with just statements:
i=0
for x in thestring
i+=1
print i
School is a time where you'll have time. You'll have time to code, to explore, and most importantly for some, time to get just a little older. You'll be amazed how much you learn about yourself and your interests, and how much you'll develop yourself and your interests. You don't have to take classes that prepare you for Blub either – take art, math, science, philosophy, or whatever tickles your fancy. All of this will lend some relevancy to whatever self-motivated doings you wind up with down the road.
For someone who knows nothing about NoSQL and decent with MySQL, can someone give a brief Idiot's overview of how NoSQL works? If I add a record in say a table named "news", where is the data stored? If I need to do a search by news id or description, what's the front-end api like and what happens at the backend when the api is called?
subscriptions are available through the direct api (your site) and express api (paypal hop) if using websites payments pro. however, if you offer direct, paypal requires that you offer express as well.

payments standard only supports something similar to express, although it's a totally different beast.
http://m5hosting.com. They're in a solid data center in San Diego. I started with them for two reasons: 1- they knew FreeBSD (I use ubuntu now but wanted someone who could hands on cover me in a pinch with FreeBSD at the time). 2 - I was in Shanghai at the time and needed good bandwidth from the U.S. That data center has better routing than most.

m5hosting is bigger than when I started with them but they are still a "medium-sized" company. They seem to be solid and whenever I have a support request they are on it quickly...about half the time I get a response from the owner.

I generally follow the rule of picking business partners that are "right-sized" for me as a customer. For many services I don't want a company so big that I'm not worth their time after the sale...especially when it comes to server support.

I have never been to the data center and never seen my own server. I bought it on ebay and had it shipped to them ;).
WW2 requires the re-branding of command economies as "capitalist"

Only if you see the rise of Nazism and WW2 as discrete historical events with no causal relationship to the years that immediately preceded them. I've encountered reasonable arguments that the first half of the 20th century was dominated by a single protracted world war with a lapse in explicit hostilities in the 1920s. The rise of any ideology has to be accompanied by conducive political and economic conditions.

You might; I'm as impressed of that as I am by ID.

Apparently your repeated mistake is to confuse the methodologies that lead to sound scientific theory and the methodologies that lead to sound historical theory. I'm attempting to highlight complexity and nuance in the history of the 20th century that you are overlooking. If you refuse to see it then no amount of rational argument will help.
"I am insufficiently motivated to do clearly beneficial things when they require non-trivial amounts of actual work. Please employ me -- you will find me excellent at everything you assign me to do, provided none of it is actual work."

On the contrary; nobody has ever even asked me where I went to school. I do not have a degree.
Thrift has the exact same feature as I discussed in my post.
Have a read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
Edit: Ah, you edited and added more detail that you're more in favor of a peaceful transition. Okay, I'm with you on that - I think the bloody guerella communist takeover is always going to be a real mess. Rest of comment still stands if you're up for discussing, hope it's interesting and informative a bit.

> Just look at what happened after the American Revolution. Oh, wait...

Let me ask, seriously - I've done a lot of looking into it, and I'm at this point firmly convinced that socialism is a bad thing. I have no desire to be under a socialist system, and I'd resist if people tried to put me under one by force. Is there any way I could convince you to abandon socialistic thought? You've made a lot of pro-socialist comments. If it is, I'll be happy to keep discussing.

The main reason the American revolution gave way to good government is that the leaders of the revolution were largely older and more experienced than any other revolution in history. Most revolutionaries are young, and have no idea how to govern once the takeover is complete. Ironically, I'd point to the large mass of successful businessmen, traders, and capitalists as the reason the post-war government was built well in the United States. People like Franklin and Jefferson knew how to build successful organizations. Washington was an actual conventionally trained British military officer, so knew a fair lot more about organization and leadership than the guerrillas like Che, Castro, Kim Sung Il, Mao, Pol Pot, who were largely lost when it came to traditional structures.

So let me ask, if you don't mind - what would it take to convince you either that (1) socialism is largely a bad thing, or (2) you ought to live and let live, and let people want to be part of a collective join, whilst leaving people like me who want to be individuals alone? Because I'll attempt to address those points and criteria you have, and discuss if it's possible to change your mind.
My understanding of why some major players don't do it is because there is considerable overhead in running encryption when you are dealing with millions of connections.
They have a NVP API for subscription payments.

https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c...

I haven't tried it yet though.
Hacking Servers: A Beginner's Guide
Later on in the video they showed some examples of keyboard shortcuts, so there are some in there, but I agree, it's not entirely clear whether or not mouse-free code sessions are possible.

To some extent you'll need mouse-interaction, for dragging things and clearly visual stuff like that (nobody likes to position things with the keyboard, or at least they shouldn't), but they should really do their best to add keyboard hooks to almost everything that they can, definitely.
Purposes of college:

a) having fun, making lifelong friends, getting laid

b) learning from peers and the environment (lectures, events, clubs, etc)

c) building a social network

If end up not liking your college classes,I recommend switching to an easy major that takes no time to do. Then spend your free time either consulting or doing a startup. This is the path I took, with good success, and I know other people who got their first businesses off the ground while in college.

Here's another way to think of it. You might want to do a startup or start working in programming. So why not do that while living at college? It's way more fun than living in an apartment without a social network that you're connected to.
Unless you mean to imply that the United States, England, and France started WWII? I mean, you could make a roundabout Treaty of Versailles argument to do that

That would be a simple version of the argument I have in mind. Basically I don't think WW1 and WW2 were disconnected events, there is a path of historical causation that runs through both.
Is there anything like Authorize.net CIM in Canada? The CIM piece is awesome because you don't store any credit card information on your server, which takes all the PCI hassle out of the equation.
This seems like such a good generalization that I almost can't believe it hasn't been discovered before. (Also nice to see an article where the author wants the material to be understandable instead of trying to impress us with unnecessary complexity)
Pre-tax vs post-tax is only relevant if you have taxable income, which isn't the case for "quitting work to do a startup".

I've got a suspicion that few of you have actually run the numbers, so I'll help.

I'm over 50, male, unmarried, and in San Jose and my reasonably comprehensive plan cost $325/month.

If you're 20-30, you could get the same for significantly less, and you'd be adequately served by a somewhat lesser plan. (I'd have a lesser plan if I was younger.) If you're somewhere else (not SF), or are married or female, you can do better.

Note that $325/month is significantly less than rent.

Health insurance actually isn't a significant obstacle for the vast majority.
Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map
If you're not sure, then go to school.

One big problem with learning on your own is that you'll usually avoid doing the hard boring stuff that seems pointless. For a lot of people, that includes math. But doing that stuff gives you the strength and confidence to attack difficult problems in the future.

I work in an engineering shop where about 25% of people have degrees, and they are miles ahead of the rest. I think what sets them apart is the belief that they will get to the bottom of a problem with logic and hard work, rather than flipping opinions back and forth.
The plan9 folks would disagree quite vehemently. We are used to keyboard operations being more efficient for most tasks, but the keyboard operation for "go to the file over there, the one 3 links over semi-related to this one" may be slower than just clicking.
"Science", in simple terms, is an effort to explain the natural world.

Note that creationist propaganda would, by this definition, be completely scientific.

This, of course, is because I've chosen an absurd definition of science, not because of lazy thinking of the part of evolutionary biologists.
NOT RELEVANT TO DISCUSSION:

Here's something for all you people who run blogs for your app or business or something.

Please LINK to your actual app/business/something so I can click my way there.
that thrill of a challenge is missing

It still sounds to me like you might not be studying the right stuff. If your classes remind you of a tedious treadmill leading toward the Blub Factory you need better classes.

Or a better major. Perhaps you're making the mistake of letting your chosen career dictate your choice of classes. The universal secret to school is: Take the best classes you can find, from the best people, regardless of subject. If the local comp sci offerings remind you of Javaschool, do something else. I have lots and lots of colleagues who can attest that you don't need a major in comp sci, or even a single class, to spend your career working on software.

The best bang for the buck in college is the stuff that you can't get anywhere else. Stuff that requires expensive facilities or hardware, for example. Take lab courses -- unlike programming, these are things that are hard to self-study. Biology, physics, chemistry, electronics, mechanical engineering, even art and design (which I suspect is best done with physical materials and a live teacher). Or be a productive dilettante: As I said above, find the best professors in the university and take their courses, regardless of the field. I discovered linguistics that way, and it turns out that intro-level linguistics is a really nice thing to know if you're going to work with languages all the time.

If I were to go back I'd probably still take a lot of physics and electronics, which is what I did before, but I'd also be all over the biology and biochemistry. Molecular biology is the ultimate machine language. And I wouldn't neglect statistics: Study as much stats as you can stand.

Of course, nontechnical subjects are also important, because they make you write essays. You'd be surprised how useful a skill essay-writing can be. I had a minor in history, and I don't regret it.
In sysadmin-land, all my pain comes from software that was never written with management in mind. Assumptions like 'all TCP ports are open, all the time, between all servers', 'we can put things wherever we want in the filesystem' ...

One good thing about Heroku, though, is that you essentially have to do a lot of these things properly from the beginning because they enforce a shared nothing, tiered architecture. For instance, you can't write to the filesystem, you can't set up some poorly secured e-mail server, you can't have arbitrary daemons running. In general, every process that isn't core to the web stack must be executed in a completely different tier.

Obviously you can still shoot yourself in the foot with poorly written SQL and other things, but a lot of the "sys-admin" type mistakes are avoided by enforcing best practices when you start with Heroku.
we mostly use GoDaddy because it is so cheap, but its a horrible user experience. We use DynDns.com for our DNS hosting and I think they offer certs now, so we may switch to them.
1- College can be good. Patio11 makes some very valuable points and there are plenty of other ways and reasons to make or conclude that it's valuable.

2- Social License - The first paragraph of Patio11s response, subsidy, is incredibly important. For the time and cost of attending college it is possible to take a huge number of alternatives . Buy & run a Jakuzzi installation business, start & run a preschool in a developing country. I have a feeling this is the line of thinking inspiring your question.

The problem is that you (and the vast majority of other people) probably won't do that. That's mostly because of this social license. Only an extremely radical parent would give their child a hard earned $100k and 4 years room & board to go buy a Jacuzzi business that will most likely go bust but amount to a tremendous learning opportunity. Everyone would think that they're nuts. Nevermind financial support, you are unlikely to find moral support. Not from society. Not anywhere near the support you receive for bumming through the most meaningless of University degrees.

I'm not advocating the easiest option. I actually think there is no excuse not to learn a lot at University. I'm also not advocating going where social norms dictate. Far from it. Just pick you battles and be realistic about opportunity costs. Most of the people who don't do the incredible things that you could be doing instead of College aren't not doing them because they went to college instead.
Expenses will always grow to meet income, if you are not careful. Hold on to your healthy principle - but remember to enjoy yourself occasionally too!
Bill Gates has been giving away his money for the last 5 years to charities...
"Only if you see the rise of Nazism and WW2 as discrete historical events with no causal relationship to the years that immediately preceded them."

This is not required.

I'm afraid I have to view the rest of your response, straw-manning arguments I haven't even made, as pure trolling; ta.

EDIT: Been on the net almost 20 years, and I've come to accept that there's always going to be a class of person who'll wander up, recite one side of a script in his head, and declare victory when people realize what he's on to. :)
If I understand correctly, does this application has a set of equations to draw alphabet, and the final output is the multiplication all together with certain x-offset?
I think a great deal of confusion with this issue is the assumption that someone that advocates socialism advocates 100% socialism. I wouldn't want to live in a fully left-libertarian (also called socialistic anarchism) society just like I wouldn't want to live in a fully right-libertarian society.

Hybrid systems are just so much more pragmatic. The US is what, 30% socialist? And Europe is closer to 45% socialist? I think up to about 50% socialism (taxes used to redistribute wealth, not necessarily with welfare payments, but infrastrcture building, etc.) is probably desirable.
Women are people too - they are not just bags of meat that must have babies to be happy.

Don't ever settle, because doing that is always a certain path to endless misery and longing for what you could have had. Yes, life is short, but that's all the more reason to stick to your ideals, and make sure that you choose your ideals carefully (so that you're successful!)

Just think about how settling would ruin your honesty. Imagine what it would be like if you were to see your spouse and think, "I thought I could do better than you, but I gave up trying to find someone decent. You're okay, I guess." Settling requires you to take these thoughts and "set them aside" - evade them - constantly. Doing this does not result in love, or a happy life for anyone (including the children of divorced parents).
In Latin:

() == arcus
[] == quadrum
{} == torquendum

However, this terminology hasn't been used since the Romans first programmed "SalveMundus.for"...
You can try MongoDB and Redis in your browser, with these excellent interactive tutorials:

http://try.mongodb.org/

http://try.redis-db.com/

The above site has been discussed today on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181714
http://www.bigassmessage.com/48755cf5b
> Yeah. All the citizens got full medical care, and they had a strong social safety net that protected their welfare. What a nightmare!

Which way to people vote with their feet?

Yes, Western Europe is better than Eastern Europe is better than Africa/Middle East (except Israel), but that's a low bar.

And the US does it with a population that is far more diverse. (No, French and Italians aren't "diverse".)

Europe is starting to become diverse - I hope that it survives. (Did "the youths" stop burning cars in France or did we just stop hearing about it.)
You're on to something: in my math classes they would often be referred too as a "væltet Turborg". Which means a "fallen down Tuborg" ie. it's turned on the side. The profile can be seen on the roof of this truck: http://www.mc-barskk.dk/images/Tuborg_Julebryg.jpg
My business bank account is with BMO, so I tried to contact their own solution called Moneris. Their sales rep didn't know what I was talking about. They tried to push me to use virtual terminal and other stuff that usually retail uses. In the end, the sales rep said she'd have to talk to the manager to see if they have anything like what I want. So that pretty much failed.
It may not be useful when you're trying to bang out new modules but for me the majority of my debugging is done by looking through the code... not much typing going on.
Why not simply "sidescalator"?
It was indeed discovered before. My goal was, exactly as you said it, to make the material easily understandable.
if (foo!=null && (a = foo.bar()) && a != null && ...

a = foo.bar() will always evaluate to true as the assignment shouldn't ever fail. Of course, in compiled languages I'm sure there will need to be a declaration of 'a' but if there is a possibility to reuse temp variables then could work.

However, if you are coding in C/C++ (and to a similar extent Java, there really is no way around it.

This could be an example of why hybrid functional, imperative, and object oriented languages are becoming popular because the programmer can pick the paradigm that most suits the problem.
I am using paypal, and I would definitely not use them again. They are holding 30% of our order values for 90 days...
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/...
UW has a terrific CS program. You will learn a lot.