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Every online community has its biases. For HN, it's being anti-MS and pro-webapps, anti-desktop. Less than reddit, but still noticeable. Upmods are pretty worthless when it comes to these subjects.

Getting all your tech news from places like HN or reddit can be harmful, they distort reality significantly.
'Whole' milk isn't only 3.25-3.5% fat, that's the processed one sold in stores. Milk directly from a cow can contain > 5% of fat (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk), and the taste is quite different from the processed one.
I'm sure they are. what I meant was that '#flotilla' may not be trending as hard as one would normally expect because the majority of twitter's english-speaking users are asleep or just starting work around now. 6-8 hours from now, when most of the US is awake, I imagine it will be far ahead of all other stories.
Looks pretty cool. The other thing you might think about is the fact that some people set up their (outside) bikes in a stationary trainer as a way to use them inside. This doesn't seem compatible with that sort of thing, but it seems like you might be able to modify it for that. (It would have to be easily detachable, since people would want to be able to take their bikes outside without too much trouble)

I'm not sure what the ratio of people is who own an xbox or playstation and also own a home exercise bike versus a stationary trainer for their bike, just in terms of cost (cheaper to use a regular bike you already have, or to buy both pieces rather than a nice home exercise bike) that the market would be bigger for bike+trainer than home exercise bike. I only know of one system, but I've never tried it out: http://www.tacxvr.com/en/products/fortius-multiplayer -it's very different from yours though.

At any rate, it's another pretty big market you may not have considered....
I used to live on the north east side of Edinburgh and commute by bicycle to a location on the south west side of the city (Riccarton campus) - this was great as it was up hill and into the prevailing wind in the morning and down hill and wind behind you at night.
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One of the best things I've heard: Be wary of anything claiming to be the real-world that is not actually in the real-world. Teaching "real-world" computer programming in school is an impossible goal. You only get the real-world experience when you are out in it. CS should prepare you for the real world, and help expose you to the real-world, but it's almost impossible to teach it. What CS does teach you is the bigger things. The bigger concepts that go beyond software engineering, or any particular project in particular. You learn how to think about big things and hard problems. CS at a university is not a prep course for your job per se. It's not a trade school. You're learning things that can be applied in the real-world but transcend the real-world. It's important to realize that there are more important things than just being able to program C# for your job.
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Another italian here, and other than confirming what cesco said i can also add that one of the two CS-oriented degree available in italy also contains the dreaded "Philosophy of Science" referred in the linked post :)
As a computer security nerd these are my recommendations:

If you're in SoCal, go here http://twitter.com/hackerdrinkup . My buddy Eliot runs these. Also, the local Defcon and 2600 groups in your area are a good place to go too. And of course, there are the big hacker cons that happen a few times a year.
Because it used less power.

And thus, in a phone, it's the superior architecture.
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What? Scrape the websites they are linking to and putting their content in the feed? Sounds quite dangerous to me, maybe that’s the reason :)
Never heard of Opa-Locka. What's so dangerous about it?
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And LaTeX makes your text look great thanks to its advanced typography (please note I'm not saying that it's superior to everything).

EDIT: as for the idea, it seems useless to me. Resumes are usually structured, so there is no room for paragraph optimizations implemented in LaTeX. I think you can get a nice CV done using Word, Inkscape or HTML.
I'm really not sure what you mean. I have a CS degree from a ~50th ranked US University. It is not considered a math degree, but instead a CS degree from an engineering department. My education was engineering focused. My degree says I am a graduate from the Engineering school. I can write assembly, program a fpga, write OO programs, OS drivers and System calls. Shoot, I even wrote My own file system. I learned java and C++, in the first 2 weeks of 2 classes, and that was all the programming instruction given. Though I had good experience in MIPS Assembly, Java, C, C++, Scheme, Lisp, ML, Haskell,Prolog, C+ and Fortress.

I designed my own soda machine, calculator and even designed/created a real world solution which companies were interested in, though I cant mention because it would be me not anonymous.

I was not a computer engineer, I was a CS student. My school also had computer engineering, but I was not really interested in the EE stuff.

I took all of the Math that engineers take, and I took the Engineering Chemistry and Engineering Physics.

Due to my CS dept being a subset of the engineering dept, the goals were the same. Everything was problem solving. Every class had its set of rigorous problems, which students had to succeed at or they simply would not pass.

I learned Algorithms, internal Operating systems, Complexity, Computation, fundamentals of Programming languages, distributed systems, organization, Computer Architecture, VSLI/HDL, etc. Im sure you get the point.

I personally think I bring a good bit to the table, as do the other few graduates that survived the curriculum.

You very well may find a more well rounded candidate than myself from the non traditionally educated pool, but they will be few. If you lump all CS graduates in the same pool, you are doing yourself a disservice. While yeah, somebody from a Java school may suck. What do you say to a candidate like myself, who really can bring what you need to the table. Do you just cross me off the list because I have a CS degree. If so, I think its you who may need to recalibrate.

Sure pure engineers and physicists may be good programmers, but do they understand the inner workings of a computer? Do they understand complexity, even the basic data structures. I assume you want efficiency?
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In the US, you can do pretty much anything you want in your house, as long as nobody finds out. ("The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.") Want to burn your eyes out with a laser? Have fun.

If you are putting it into industrial use, you probably have to have things like mechanical interlocks to prevent it from laser-ing off your employees' fingers, and you need to wear anti-laser goggles when using it. Things like that. Being open source or not from a big company shouldn't cause any problems, though.

As for a hacker space... well, how often do you get inspected? Never? Yeah. (I will point my friend at this comment, though, as he actually runs a hacker space. Having been there, I can't imagine there is a ton of regulatory oversight, however.)
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Sadly, the post is just a rant in my opinion. The desire to know, to improve yourself, etc... can't be linked directly only to the fact that you are attending university x pursuing a degree in y. You can have it, you can develop it or you don't have it. The environment can help to improve the development rate, but if you don't have it you can't develop it even if you follow some "humanistic" courses.

While i agree that these "java schools" are nearly useless, even if i don't know deeply the usa scenario, i guess that is still possible to skim out this kind of places and choose a university with a more well-rounded curriculum.

And just looking at communities like HN, everyone can notice that even CS majors can have a multitude of multi-faceted interests.
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Wrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b1pkKR-Acc (If you don't want to watch the video, read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296)
That sounds exactly like the sort of degree I mean. It's not all that common though, in my experience, to find a CS degree with that sort of curriculum.

Do you just cross me off the list because I have a CS degree.

That's silly :) You may have noted from my post that I do hire CS majors.

but do they understand the inner workings of a computer? Do they understand complexity, even the basic data structures.

Yes, usually a lot better than most CS graduates. Because generally speaking in the real world these are engineering problems rather than pure problems.

This is just my observation, but I don't think I am wrong - CS majors are generally worse programmers (and usually more full of themselves, but that's another matter) than CS engineers.

I would consider you (based on your post) an engineer; as you explain, you were part of the engineering dept.

(that's not to say CS majors are all bad - I've met some extremely good ones. The problem is that the majority of CS is taught as a pure subject with a smattering of applied theory. There is a distinct lack of problem solving involved. Traditional disclaimer: YMMV)

Also I should point out that being an engineer does not automatically make you a great programmer. Clearly you need an interest, an amount of aptitude and the ability/willingness to learn the pure subjects (if they were not part of your degree). The last of those isn't all that important - to be a good programmer you only need the amount of pure theory that is required (and you learn to pick it up as you go) - this is a common trait of all engineering.
Even weirder:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23flotilla

Returns a technical error, while any other search succeeds :S
If you mean the C++ Win32 API, then probably ...no. Most will never even touch and won't need it except if it is coding some low level/ funky / or hardware related thing under windows.
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It seems there's a huge number of options out there for publishers now. I'm looking in to the possibilities for placing advertising on my site (which shows a variety of tweets).

Do you have any recommendations, or suggestions on what I should be aware of when looking for an ad provider?
Is Twitter censoring #flotilla?
My title was originally "Accurate map from 1275." Thankfully, some truly meddlesome mod took all meaning from the title and instead used the hackneyed print headline that was no doubt written to fill a certain space in a broadsheet.

I don't know about the rest of HN, but I had no clue what a Portolan Chart was until I read this article. My re-titling was intentional and I would imagine helped get the article to the front page.

Stop meddling or I am going to stop contributing. I understand there are times when a title is misleading or goes against guidelines, but this change is just a mod on a power trip.
I don't think they would do this. Care to explain?
Looks like you need to use the "single page" link instead of the "print" link on the nytimes website: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/books/review/Nicholson-t.h...
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It's worth mentioning that Finland is quite egalitarian, so the difference between the "minimum wage" and a "decent wage" and a "very nice wage" are pretty small.
e2k is quite close to what can be earned as a programmer or engineer at entry level at Big Co., so if a startup pays that it's not too bad.

Also, these are not directly comparable to US salaries, because you get a lot of things almost for free, which you'd have to pay for in US: education, healthcare, transportation, sauna every day, etc.
This is interesting; the person reported here seems very different from how the video was edited and presented.
Personally I'm not that interested in the deep mathematical side of CS. To me the two biggest problems are a poor understanding of abstraction and a lack of style.

Abstraction is so much more than "Apple is a Fruit" style OOP. Objects, processes, ideas, language... a focus on abstraction from the start is one of the reasons I think the SICP videos are worth watching.

Programmers must learn to develop their own sense of style in their code. Practice writing things until they flow and feel natural. Coding is communication, to you, your team and your computer. Try not to stutter.

Keep in mind I studied in NZ and was generally a terrible academic, we are far away from anything like MIT...
HaHaHa. I think this is quite funny: "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean." I wonder if this is humor from google...
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+1 for number 3. I would be so much further along in my career if I had been exposed to the LAMP stack when I entered school instead of when I left.
The search worked fine for me.
Hopefully that means people are taking time to read through the important sequences before commenting much.
I don't want to think they would this too but this is too weird.

The hashtag is about the humanitarian aid to Gaza:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10195838.stm
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He says Yacc and Lex suck, but didn't mention ANTLR which, I'm told, sucks a lot less. Does anyone here have experience enough to compare and contrast?
Also true for the word "İsrail" which is Israel in Turkish.
I attended the University of Central Arkansas (Go Purple Bears!) starting in 1998. This is obviously not a top-tier school by any stretch.

I felt like it was an excellent program. We spent all of a semester on C/C++. My program was heavy on the math (Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Statistics, and a few others I can't bring to mind). We studied algorithms, number systems, analysis, and all sorts of topics.

The amount of time we spent 'learning to program' was minimal. Maybe I was lucky, but I have to imagine it's hardly different for the majority of programs.
It would be great to have the same image but with labels for all the stars. It looks certainly great, but I would really like to click on certain points and get more information. Like what's the difference between a red, blue and green star here.
You're making the assumption that "stupidity" comes from our DNA. Do you have any evidence that even remotely suggests this? Everything I see makes me think "stupid" is a learned behavior (e.g. stupid parents with brilliant kids, brilliant parents with stupid kids, etc.).

I'm a little suprised on this site, of all sites, to see people subscribing to the idea that we are constrained by the intelligence of our parents.

EDIT: Spelling
Is Twitter Actively Censoring and Blocking Searches for #flotilla?
"Aid Flotilla" is trending in the UK.

Screenshot: http://grab.by/4Fiy
Not only for phones ... processing power per watt + the cost of acquisition (ARM is cheaper) is also important in a data-center.
Indeed - both fail for me when searching, typing directly in the URL or when clicking in tweets.
but try clicking on it
That's interesting to hear that because when I have to work with Windows I always find myself struggling with the environment: pop-up balloons that distract me from working, mandatory rebooting for installing software and updates, files that can't be deleted while they are used (really painful for log files), a not user-friendly file explorer, and last but not least: a shell that is barely usable (and using Cygwin makes a poor compensation).
Good blog post!
Maybe now the next iphone os will drop support for the <video> tag!!
So far, technology has solved all problems. What else is there?
I guess that’s another reason why experts, not elected representatives, should work on the details of criminal law.

I really cannot imagine that this will do anything more than making criminal law more complex and arbitrary.
Oh, I see. I thought it was just about how #flotilla wasn't being reported in the trending topics. How odd, indeed!
As far as I know if you're selling things in kit form you're excused from any/all regulations and liability.

The kit airplane industry in the US was a reaction to strict liability laws that made private aircraft manufacture and ownership prohibitively expensive. (My old man has built and sold a few.)

I would guess if you can sell / operate an experimental aircraft without restriction you could do the same with cutting tools.
Doesn't work for me.. I really hope this is a technical issue and not something else.
In Zuck case, I think when you are very good at "Does the CEO know what to do?", you can naturally know how to lead those below you, and those people can then work on that "build a high performance organization" goal.
The Latex resume is an excellent idea.
Thank you for challenging me, because while in my head I thought "million", I wrote down "billion", and I feel like an idiot for doing that.
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Sigh. I wrote billion, but meant million. :(

And when I wrote "Many many" I meant "How many". :(
What is the specific liability you are claiming these companies share? Privacy breaches? Manipulation? What does corrupt dot com look like? I don't know, I'm not sure I've really known of one. Do you know of one? What do they do that is a $1bn+ liability?
If you work with git, mysql etc. having a proper shell - once you learned how to use it - should make your work easier. Installing software should also be easier with the packages.

I suggest you to try the latest Linux Mint distribution, which is a Linux based on Ubuntu 10.4 and compatible with it. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1375033

It's a bit more user-friendly that Ubuntu, which is also a good choice, and comes with Flash, mp3 support etc. out of the box.
This could be either because:

1) Israel is pushing Twitter to censor these terms

2) Someone at Twitter HQ blindly supports Israel

Either way it completely destroys perhaps the most important usage for Twitter: a voice for those in the epicenter of something happening.
Please be a technical error.

They could undo a lot of good will (Iran elections, etc) just by censoring this one thing.
They lacked metallurgy, banking, agricultural technology... The Industrial Revolution was built on hundreds of years of slow progress and access to tons of natural resources. The Aeliopile was a toy that opened doors; it wasn't going to power any steamships.
Do we have the technology? What is identity? What is autonomy? Who runs the democracy? How do you verify/authenticate? How do you stop political DoS? The US government wouldn't in a million years write legal code to implement a p2p network.

Looks to me that we are in our infancy as techocrats.
There are also parser combinator libraries in several languages. Haskell's Parsec is quite a pleasure to work with. Even if the one in your language is quite beta it should be enough for such a toy project.
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I really want to think that this is a technical error.

"Israil" was another term that is broken in the search. It's now showing as trending for me. I'm hoping "flotilla" will follow.
No, they aren't. It works fine for me.
They still are for me (Florida). Where are you located?
Actually, it's still broken. While it shows in the trending topics lists, try actually clicking on "Israil" and you get a technical error page: http://twitter.com/search?q=%C4%B0srail
I hope this is a technical error too. But I'm unable to search for #flotilla at the moment too, but searches for other terms work fine.

One hopes there will be a reasonable explanation.
Testing it from the states (LA) and the middle east (jordan) and it's definitely blocked. And it's not just #flotilla, also israil and other tags related to the topic are being blocked. Israil shows up in the TT list, but the search doesn't work. The rest are completely hidden from TT as well.
It`s trending in Canada: http://imgur.com/XaeuJ.png

But wtf? I click it, and I can't access the search?

edit: I can report that clicking on #flotilla in trending topics is now functional.
Works on my machine too (located in Denmark).
Yeah, the search is still broken. But at least it's showing now? It seems too inconsistent to be active censoring.
searches work for me (europe) but people continue to complain that they aren't working.

Is all this about searches or about trending reports?
Yeah it's always a little depressing to discover someone else has had the same idea as you - and executed on it. Although it is a little surprising you haven't heard of these guys - or at least the product - it's been in the press a fair bit. Hopefully the lack of marker research / market awareness is not indicative of any other issues :)

Generally speaking, there's always room for more than one vendor, for any product or service. Even in the giant-dominated worlds of search and social networking there are plenty of smaller players who do well. If there is a market for something, there'll be room for several suppliers - perhaps many.

So, I wouldn't get disheartened. As others have said it's free market validation for you (assuming they have customers). So look at their customers - who they are, what's the use case for them, what value do they derive from it? How much do they pay? Answers to these and other questions will help you market your version more effectively.

The only issue is: can you deliver? Do you have the technical know-now to build this product (e.g what about the card-reader? security, customer data protection etc etc?). And do you have the resources / sales route to take it to market and get customers?

If you think you can build this and get it market, then great. Go for it. The competition will only force you to better your product, give you ideas and show you where the money is.
Germany: search works, Israil shows up in the TT list. This all seems to be very inconsistent, looks more like a technical problem.
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