skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Show me a student making real money, and that is actually valued by the free market, and I will be impressed."

I think posts like this actually reinforce the article's meta-point, which is that people are impressed by accomplishments that fit with the person's values where it's not obvious how to accomplish them.

You (and many other readers of this site) value success in business. Even if you're currently making real money, you probably weren't at age 17, and probably didn't have much of a clue how to at age 17, and so a 17-year-old making real money is impressive.

The football player here values the skills he learned from football, and knows how difficult it was to balance them with scholastic achievement, and so he's impressed by the guy who captained the football team and yet still managed to take calligraphy and get good grades.

The college admission's officer is tasked with assembling a unique, diverse, interesting class. She obviously would not have taken the job if she didn't value uniqueness. And so when somebody shows up that doesn't fit the profile that she sees all day, and has accomplished something a little out of the ordinary, she's impressed.

Don't mistake the specific examples for the general principle. You may not share the same value system as a college admission's officer. Hell, you may not even value college. But you can still use this to impress people who have things that you want.
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If you believe Steve Jobs, however, one of the ways to hack the PC market very much involved calligraphy.
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If you ignore the C part its pretty much like any other OO class based language. You send messages to objects. The message causes a method to be activated. The method can access / set instance variables and send messages to other objects. Quite similar to Ruby, Python ... etc.

Cocoa is also much simpler than the mess that is building applications using HTML, CSS and the DOM. It was designed specifically for the purpose that is used for, unlike web applications.
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Hello HNers. I am visiting in San Jose for the weekend to visit my brother, and I would love to tour Google during my visit. I've searched a bit and found that they're not too fond of unannounced visitors, so I was hoping you could help. Does anyone either: work at Google and willing to give us a quick tour, or know of a way to visit their headquarters without being too much of a headache for them? I appreciate any help.
The Economist, argued for the legalisation as the way forward in the article (Mar 5th 2009): "How to stop the drug wars, Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution" which is behind the paywall. http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?story...

The final paragraph is:

"A calculated gamble, or another century of failure?
This newspaper first argued for legalisation 20 years ago. Reviewing the evidence again, prohibition seems even more harmful, especially for the poor and weak of the world. Legalisation would not drive gangsters completely out of drugs; as with alcohol and cigarettes, there would be taxes to avoid and rules to subvert. Nor would it automatically cure failed states like Afghanistan. Our solution is a messy one; but a century of manifest failure argues for trying it."
I'd rather the initial animation slide up from the taskbar. and it would really be context sensitive if it could slightly buzz/vibrate/gain users attention in case it 'detects' that the user is stuck. what 'detects' actually is the context and could be configurable by the author based on wait time, scroll up-down, highlights of keywords etc. I can't think of a really fit example for this, but perhaps any web based application that requires specific input for relevant results such as mint.com?
This link is to the first edition. Second edition is available as well:
http://www.amazon.com/Thinkertoys-Handbook-Creative-Thinking...
Very nice. It doesn't work, though, when you open the website inside an iframe. You might be referring to the top window in your code rather than the current window object.
Not at this point, but it's definitely on the todo list.
The title suggests that Tesla was a drunk, this is absolutely not true.
Just make it legal for people do to do whatever they want to themselves. It's simple and easy. Don't add any regulations they just create criminals out of non criminal behavior.
The downside is this: after the so-called war on drugs has Mexico has seen an increase in muggery, abduction and extortion. There is a whole criminal working class whose way of living is crime and have no respect for human life. So, if legalization ends the drug traffic business, this people will have to either learn to work honestly or find more creative ways to profit from crimes.

The truth is: Mexico is screwed.

It's sad because I live here and I love my city and some aspects of México, but I don't want to live here anymore. As soon as I get married I'm going to fly away.
I think he's talking about having to use C for Python's core code.
Facebook's public-by-default behavior towards privacy is one of the main reasons I've deleted my account. It's stupid and malicious, and they only get away with it because most of their users don't know better.
Could this hurt startups? Yes.

Is this a reasonable compromise when considering the entire financial industry? Yes.
Not surprising, Apple can't be pleased that much of the revenue from ad-supported iPhone apps goes to Google via AdMob. I expect shortly after its introduction iAd will be the only permitted advertising mechanism in the app store.
If the VC wants vesting, put in terms. If you are removed by the investor, all stock is immediately vested. Basically, vesting is a way to make sure you're not going to walk away from the deal.
I don't know. Never tried it.

I'm just very happy common things like closing a window(cmd-w), quitting and app(cmd-q) have sane and comfortable short-cuts compared to Windows.
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NoSQL is faster to develop/prototype with also, since you only need to understand json dictionaries.

So your shit ships faster, and scales cheaper.
No. The restrictions are not to prevent scams, but to route them through middle-men who have captured the regulatory system.

Actual scam protection could only be accomplished by licensing adulthood by formal test. The kind of mental child who falls for a Ponzi scheme is doomed to squander their resources if allowed to manage their own affairs.
Pushed new version of Tyrone, and finally deleted Pixii!
To be fair it's not that I was a huge fan of the athletic angle, I'd be equally impressed with anything that was a time waster (and even MORE impressed if the person went out of their way to work hard at their real passion). I was more aiming to contradict the parent poster who was under the impression that track was some easy waste of time, unlike the UN stuff.
Yes, but perhaps tptacek was being funny :)
yeah no but. if you need to move a lot of shit, trains are better.

flame on? maybe you don't understand because your startup doesn't have a lot of traffic?

you even admit that you don't really understand how the nosql dbs even work!
It can be difficult to get a credit card merchant account to do payments aggregation: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/high-risk-mech...

It might be easier to have the buyer's entire payment transferred to the seller and then bill the seller for your cut separately.
Definitely communicate that then!
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Enough with the iThis, iThat already! It doesn't even work here.
dominant strategy is sleeping with alphas and keeping a beta for resources/security. cuckholdry rates being far higher than is generally assumed seems to support this. avoided topic because it makes people uncomfortable.
Yeah! While you're at it, remove all the regulations from alcohol, including regulation on BAC while driving a car. I mean, really, you can do whatever you want to yourself! If driving on public roads at a BAC of 0.35 is criminal, I don't want to be law-abiding!
I thoroughly enjoyed the hypocrisy of this reply.
I agree that reading code is important. It follows from this that writing readable code is important. It is telling, I think, that proofreading is nigh-on ubiquitous with writing in prose, and nowhere near as popular with coding.
"Code doesn’t rust and it doesn’t go off. Just read it, change it and use it."

I don't agree with this at all. In heterogeneous environments edge cases and little used segments of code are often overlooked as other, more frequently used, segments of a project are updated and their staleness is often only discovered long after the actual "rusting" happened.
I don't think it would be all that difficult to learn the language of objective-c, but there is always more to learn the just a language.

JS, HTML, CSS, require a brower, and a text-editor. I don't see many people building iPhone apps outside of xcode. And that stack seems to work well, but when a person who spends a lot of time with the browser model of development, try the xcode way of development, there can be a shock sometimes. Its a metaphore change, that can sometimes be hard to wrap your mind around.

I also think it goes both ways.

I would also argue that your premise that HTML, CSS, and JS were not designed for web applications, is invalid, because we can't just look at technologies for what they were suppose to be used for.

Plenty of stuff has been developed for one thing, but ended up doing another.
This might be a long shot, timing-wise, but the Silicon Valley Google Technology Users Group (like a Google fan club for developers) meets at the Googleplex once-a-month; their information is on meetup.com.
Actually people complain about the lack of decent User eXperience in ads. Decent UX fades into the background, great UX is invisible.

This is a direct challenge to google.
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> In all likelihood, "Steve" isn't as mentally tough as "David"

How can you possibly make this kind of speculative judgment on the basis of no further information? “All likelihood”? Give me a break.

I know football players who are mentally tough. I also know football players who are lazy dipshit assholes. The kids in the band, or the theater, or the debate team, or the math club, are no less “mentally tough” than the kids on the football team (unless by “mentally tough” you really mean “physically bulky and imposing” in which case you’re absolutely right).
"The Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at the GooglePlex in Mountain View."

Thanks anyways. Good to know I could do that some other time.
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Become friends with a Googler, get invited by Googler friend. (At least, they allowed this back in 2005.)
> Why should they trust wikileaks not to sell that information to other nations?

I think in this case they realized the leak is probably from an insider. So the issue for them is not being able to trust their own people. Unfortunately whistle-blower laws and protections don't work for classified material. Whoever leaked this was either an agent working for another country or someone who had a strong moral sense of right and wrong. They most definitely put their job and freedom on the line. I would guess that they were morally motivated. Government agents and even CIA operatives and analysts are still human beings and (luckily) some of them hold basic human rights and moral values above agency's classification levels.

> ... how deeply they have been penetrated, and this scares them.

That is an interesting phrase because it assumes someone from outside penetrated them. I would guess it is just one of their employees. They don't necessarily plan on quitting or getting exposed, but rather they want to keep working but they are seeing this exposure as helping shed light and getting the record straight. With ultimate good results for US and the CIA.

> Their reaction is understandable.

Yes it is -- from their point of view. But I look at understanding their position as one would understand the position of a serial killer. There is some internal logic of course. But it is rather insane and wrong to the rest of the world. Given that US taxpayers are funding both the alleged killings of civilians and the cover-up, they should probably become aware of what's happening.

One way to stay away from such controversies is to simply not commit things that would bring them about.

So we'll supposedly see soon enough what this is all about. If it is just baseless hype from wikileaks, then they will lose all their credibility and will become as believable as a tabloid magazine.
It gives him somewhat more direct insight, having experience with what such students are like. He clearly meant it in that light. What would he possibly get from bragging? (People who go to top schools are a dime a dozen, after all. ;-)
On one hand I have evidence that "David" can force himself to train (which, for track athletes, involves running miles in all kinds of terrible weather, often until they throw up). Alternatively, "Steve" sent some emails, did some networking, and ended up in a couple sweet positions.

What I meant by "All likelihood" is that, given the information provided, I would wager more on David's mental toughness than on Steve.

What is unfair about me making that judgement based on the evidence provided?
> passed 8 AP tests without taking a single AP class

Passing AP tests is impressive? Whoa.
You (and many other readers of this site) value success in business. Even if you're currently making real money, you probably weren't at age 17, and probably didn't have much of a clue how to at age 17, and so a 17-year-old making real money is impressive.

I suspect the parent poster loath people who enjoy rent-seeking, political jockeying, and anything that scream power for power's sake.

He want to make useful products that benefit the world and make a difference. Business success, per se, is not what he's looking for. Business success is only a measure of how much he was able to make a difference in the world and how much he expand the pies for everybody.
You know a lot of high school students with “massively right” unique insights into the world that no one has thought of before? Enough to make up a freshman class at a mid-sized school?
I know people with severe visual disabilities. They have readers or tools to help them read things with far less objectionable layouts and designs than this one.

Saying every site has to avoid all interesting design so that people who are legally blind can—through supreme effort—read your page unassisted seems to be unreasonable at best and disingenuous at worst. Readability and screen readers and accessibility helpers and style removers exist for a reason and people who need them use them.
Man that's sad, but I think you're right. This article is scary. In the US we're naive if we think that's a very tall fence down there.
I bet you’d find worse problem sets just about anywhere else. There are all kinds of reasons why 19-year-olds fuck up on problem sets, not all of them to do with lacking “academic” talent.
That sounds like the definition of any job.

As a janitor, your job is not to mop floors. Your job is to clean messy problems.
On a related note, don't forget to visit the Computer History Museum if you're in the area (might be a good alternative if your Google plans fall through) Hope they still have the difference engine on display.
How would you reorganize education? How would you distribute professors among students? Match students to the same courses? Decide which courses each student could take?

The current system has gigantic problems. But fixing it is not trivial, because such a big network is incredibly complex.
You know a lot of high school students with “massively right” unique insights into the world that no one has thought of before? Enough to make up a freshman class at a mid-sized school?

Just one guy/gal in his lifetime is what a college admission officer would hope for in his entire career.

That's all he need to cause a revolution in a field.

The problem is of course, how to find the genuine article in a pool full of candidates sprouting impressive grades and other distracting signals which are probably incidental or have nothing to do with massively right insights generators.

My guesses and your guesses is probably as good as the college admission officers. The chance of scoring a direct hit because the officer was able to correctly reasoned that this guy is what he's looking for is probably incredibly low.
> Ideally GPA and SAT scores would make the distinction for us.

You think these are good measurements of student ability? For myself, I couldn’t complain about such a system, because (probably like many/most here) I did exceedingly well by such metrics. But to be honest, I think they are absolutely terrible.
As far as I'm concerned, this is the iAd:

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif

Joking aside, I wonder if Apple will ban ad-blocking apps from the app store. I definitely don't want my mobile bandwidth bill to get artificially inflated because I was forced to download ads.
Well, some parts of Twisted. All code added and edited these days has to conform to style-guidelines and go through extensive code-review, so it winds up pretty polished by the time it gets committed. On the other hand, Twisted is a very old project and there's code in there that pre-dates the modern quality requirements; such code is often... idiosyncratic, or at least perplexing.

I'd recommend poking around well-tested things like twisted.internet.defer for starters, then start to explore further afield. :)
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Can you please justify your unsubstantiated ad-hominem attacks on ESR?

Also, show us why ESR doesn't have a clue.
I believe finding a googler to show him around is the precise purpose of this post.
I quite like the way Lehman put it in his Law of Continuing Change: "A program that is used and that as an implementation of its specification reflects some other reality, undergoes continual change or becomes progressively less useful."

Since reality typically changes, and software is typically a model of some part of reality, standing still in absolute terms can be going backwards in real terms.
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11. [...] This can be done in many cases without problem, including to friends and family investors. The problem is that it is riskier to do...

Can this statement be qualified?

Whether a private or public placement, significant risks surely exist. Beyond the specific context of Reg. D, could one be correct in stating that public placements are riskier?

That said, thanks again for your always valuable contributions to this community grellas.
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Just curious: what guided you to use Prototype rather than, say, jQuery?
You have to applaud Coca Cola. Over a mere 70 years they have managed to teach the entire planet to consume a dessert multiple times a day; for some people multiple times in one meal. Imagine trying to convince the entire planet to eat ice cream or chocolate cake with every meal. That is an impressive manipulation of human behavior.
All the down-voters never have read a business plan written by coders. =)
Maybe. In GTD, David Allen said that he met quite a few people who can only work effectively when they multitask. Some procrastinators only work well when they are avoiding another task ;) It's not great in general though.

Also, leaving one task lie while you mull over it can be good.

But I think making yourself feel snowed-under is bad, as is needless context-switching.
Yea the internal IT people know what the ACTUAL requirements are and how the current system REALLY works. The bureaucrats writing the requirements and other documents usually don't understand the nuances of how the systems work in real life and will fail to capture the details and idiosyncrasies accurately.
Brent Simmons (makes NetNewsWire for Mac and iPhone) made a very good post on this topic (well, charging for features, not related to open source specifically) awhile back: http://inessential.com/2009/07/16/dont_offer_50_for_your_fav.... Its well worth reading (as are Daniel Jalkut's thoughts on the conversation, linked to from the blog post).

Basically, the points they make are that the motivator for most developers (on all projects, not just open source ones) is to make something good, with money being a side result of your efforts, but not the goal. Or, to paraphrase Daniel a bit, you want freaking awesome and not to simply be going through motions to pay off bills.
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What I meant is that M&A is not the only way for an "exit".

The article implies that its the only way for VCs to cash out. But the IPO market holds a lot more money and opportunities.
> I have evidence that "David" can force himself to train

From the information given, no you really don’t.

> What I meant by "All likelihood" is that, given the information provided, I would wager more

Okay, glad you clarified. That’s not what “all likelihood” means to anyone else.
FYI: With FF & Safari/4.05 I find that long Help questions expand beyond their containers (in the actual help response). Just a cosmetic issue FWIW.

PS: Do you know whether your pricing model will be 1) Per site? 2) Per traffic? 3) ___________?
If you were the only person using the public roads, I wouldn't see a problem with it; the problem is that other people are using the roads too, and at that point, you're putting those people at risk.
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But it is mostly the money from the monopoly prohibition has granted to that criminal class that perpetuates its existence.

If you replace the criminal drug industry with a legal drug industry, you will encourage the growth of the non-criminal-classes, people working on the drug industry will become law-abiding-tax-paying citizens that will have an interest in the rule of law, instead of criminals with an interest in undermining it by corrupting law enforcement, criminals, and the whole fabric of society.

Here is a great interview with Milton Friedman about the economic and social effects of the War on Drugs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyystXOfDqo
Agree. Sounds like you have leverage. Put in weird clauses that protect you if/when you get fired/replaced.
> I think the intent was to make Linus feel like the child he was

At the time the email was written, Linus was 30.

> Linus is quite patronizing in practically all of his e-mails

Maybe so, but -- for me at least -- Linus has earned more of a right to be patronising than ESR has.
Except that the author of said book is totally full of shit, and his book has been ripped to shreds:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/03/29/10032...
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Apparently the number of posters on this board who are both technically and managerially accomplished escapes you. People are not their labels, someone who codes is not necessarily a coder. Programming is a human activity, and most business people do things that look like programming even if it's only within the confines of their favorite spreadsheet environment.
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This is great !

BUT, as with other 95% of the tools out there. I cannot use it. Because it does not support localization.

Can you allow for changing the text in buttons & captions ? (Moving the box RTL will be great too)
Busted left and right on Opera (10.51 on Win7). I assume you can update it as you please since you host it, so maybe it'd be better to just disable it on untested browsers.
I need this at the office