skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can these students not have equivelent "Physics 101, or Bio 101, or Chem 101" within a highschool curriculum?
My reaction wasn't "I can't believe it's CGI", it was "there is no way it's CGI, this guy is a fake". Thanks for that, I'm blown away now.
Bargaining For Advantage by G. Richard Shell (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143036971/) and 3D Negotiation by David Lax and James Sebenius (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591397995/) are even better than Getting to Yes, IMO.
As a self-righteous slob, let me be the first to say that clean people don't have a monopoly on smugness.
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It was always clear to me at the time that Twitter's claim to fame was in letting information about Iran events out of the country, when traditional media such as CNN appeared to some a little slow to react -- and this is another debate entirely, a more interesting one but one that the article does not address at all.

Perhaps a few articles implied that Twitter was used for organizing resistance, as this article wants to refute, but that exaggeration, if it was one, does not seem widespread to me. I never encountered this claim before I read the foreignpolicy.com article.
There was an OS X app that does something similar to this called Billable, but they recently renamed the app Profit Train. Not sure if that's something that should be on your radar or not as you move forward.
Especially interesting in light of:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634955
Wait until the computing generation goes to death bed.
To be honest, I didn't study them as much as I would like to, tengo no tiempo amigo. :)

But with the very little bit of reading I did about them, this is the pattern I noticed:

(Obviously what I have put down here is a highly simplified version)

1) Breach the market with a cash cow

2) Keep using that cash to keep acquiring/developing other potential assets - aggressively

3) Keep integrating the acquired/developed assets into the cash generation models as soon as you can
or/and
Keep integrating the acquired/developed assets into the business model to channel or keep channeling as many existing and potential customers to your existing cash cow/s

4) Keep repeating 2 and 3 as much and as often as you can, because the day you stop, you stop growing and the lesser is your ability to defend your turf

5) Keep eating competition before they become a competition. (lot more capital efficient)

But this formula/strategy is something most of us mortals can't even implement successfully even if given. Because this formula/strategy is just half the story of those giants(companies). The other half of the story are those intellectual giants - the people behind these giant companies.

To really implement this strategy to make a company into a giant, i would think this would be a hyper shortened and simplified list of characteristics somebody would need to have:

1) an insatiable hunger for information and knowledge

2) the ability to put that information and knowledge into patterns constantly

3) the ability to see the value of seemingly useless (to others) information

4) the ability to build incredibly complex strategies that are immensely vast in breadth and depth and may reach out to a few years if not decades into the future

5) The ability to keep stable, build or modify those strategies using information that is constantly flowing in.

6) the ability and guts to not follow the crowd when required

7) capability to be hyper-vigilant of the center AND peripheries of the market/technological/strategic boundaries

8) a huge appetite for highly educated massive risks (not at all for the impulsive type)

I am sure these, if at all they do, represent a tiny fraction of the dimensions those intellectual giants operated upon.

Good luck.
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Communism isn't the opposite of capitalism. China's both communist and capitalist. It also, incidentally, has extreme levels of poverty.

The communist countries you visited likely did a good job of hiding the homelessness. It's one of the advantages of having that sort of control over your subjects.
Is this a regional thing? I don't think I've ever seen one of these.
Its just the thoughts of an armchair analyst who likes browsing through history now and then, not an article.
I'd be suprised if windows didn't show such a dialog. The user probably just ignored it because they see such dialogs all the time.
http://twitter.com/jeriellsworth/status/15098921380
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Dukes are appealing to women? Conclusion: YCombinator should start handing out titles of nobility upon acceptance to the program. Problem solved!

"And over here is Duke Smith, Lord of Databases, who rules over over data warehouse, and whose rippling pecs shine like the morning dew..." uh, sorry, got off track there.
Probably a combination of things, but I suspect one reason is, from a relatively young age they make themselves a standard bearer for a belief system and from then on are never allowed the freedom to question it.

They spend their lives attempting to persuade others of the truth of a belief system that many people naturally question as they mature, but priests/ministers have to suppress that tendancy.

It's not until they're on their deathbed do they realize how trapped they were their entire lives, how invested in being trapped they were, and resent it.

Reminds me of the scene at the end of No Coutry For Old Men:

Sheriff Bell: "I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come inta my life somehow.

And he didn't."
I spent three semesters at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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I am not sure how you can generalize from that.

What is the attitude of their parents towards playing with masks etc? What is the attitude of their peers? The environment that you operate in introduces all sort of variables.
What they say about age is true
Credit hours are "points towards graduation".
#3: you don't need $750 for a logo/business cards/letter head...adding those is a piece of cake for designers, you can just request that with your original brief

#8: why do you need to pay to run a survey?

#9: $100 for some sticky notes?

+ he seems to have missed the cost of incorporating
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I'd like to know if people use their iDevices to make purchase online (e.g Amazon, ebay)?

Personally, I have never bought anything on my iphone. Even if I see an item I'd like to purchase I'll wait until I'm on my laptop to purchase it. Is this common or do you use these mobile devices for buying?
Easy solution for iPhone - jailbreakme.com then purchase MyWi through RockApp. For $20 you get a wifi hotspot. You just need to be careful to not go over your AT&T data plan cap.
> The communist countries you visited likely did a good job of hiding the homelessness.

The communist countries I visited I lived in for quite a while, and no, they didn't do a good job of it, it simply didn't exist. I would have definitely noticed. And yes, I did visit the poorer regions. Now they have homeless people though. But they're no longer communist.

Everybody had a job, everybody had a house. Maybe the job was changing the traffic lights or something similarly inefficient but you'd have a job, guaranteed.

And I know it isn't the opposite.
> Who thinks those hours debugging + testing X piece of software in language Y about 10 years ago which is now replaced by code Z wasn't a waste of time? It was fun then though.

Indeed, and things that build your skills and character always have some value.

> "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now." -- Marcus Aurelius

This is one of my favorite quotes from Meditations. It can really be used to hack your mental state anywhere.

Hong Kong, massive crowds and people dart in front of each other, bump into each other, kind of rudely by the standards I was raised. I was getting frustrated. Then I said - ah, let me make this into a game, I will see how quickly I can get through the crowds without being bumped into. I will play like this like a video game.

BAM - frustration gone. It became fun, entertaining, and almost relaxing, actually.
Well there's an idea for historious! Seriously, though, while users might rebel against this in many communities (rewriting their links to make you money sounds bad), I think reddit could easily pull this off, as it's not immoral or in any way reprehensible.

Besides, the community has been very understanding and accommodating time and time again. I don't know about reddit, but this idea sounds like a goldmine for my own sites. Thanks!
You're ignoring the many slow computers that are still out there in the world, but perhaps your market won't encompass those.

I have an old PC. 1.8GHz Celeron. YouTube complained all the time that I should get a "modern" browser. I was using Firefox 2.x -- which was faster for me than the latest Chrome. Also, Fox could play YT videos, while Chrome and even Safari could not. (I'd tried Fox 3.x early on, but it slowed the entire PC to a crawl and I had to rollback to 2.x!)

I forget what frustration I encountered a week ago, but it finally drove me to try Opera. Let me tell you that Opera is sooooo wicked fast on this old PC that it's as if I've had an entire hardware upgrade. I'm not connected with Opera at all, just incredibly happy in using it. Now I can visit sites I had to avoid in the past due to multiple JScript errors (Gizmodo, io9, and the like).

If people are hesitant to switch browsers, suggest they try Opera at least once. As usual, TMMV.
Do you mean to say that the forums rewrite the URLs the users paste in such a way, or that the links on the forum itself (vs. the links in posts) are affiliate marketing?
> Even simpler, looking at the user agent string.

This would catch a lot of false positives. For example, I use Atomic Web Browser on my iPad and iPhone - it lets me change my user agent string because some websites try to redirect you to a slimmed-down mobile version, and I might want to get to the full version of the website. So it is quite often that I actually change my user agent string to show desktop Safari instead of mobile.
The video for the app isn't very informative. It explains the problem, but does little to show how this app is useful and how it solves the problem presented for over 2/3's of the video.
For sciences, I would agree. Science and mathematics are a foreign mindset for everybody, man and woman alike; if any human wishes to pursue them they must bend to it and not vice versa.

For software I'd be less certain. It is well-known that being your own customer can be a powerful thing. It is not inconceivable that on average men and women may approach computing tasks somewhat differently, different goals, different metaphors, different preferred cognitive frameworks. And while I wouldn't necessarily expect them to be night and day different, as Apple shows getting those last tiny details nailed down can make a huge difference in how a product feels. If men even slightly prefer one thing and women slightly prefer another, an interface tuned for one or another slight difference could manifest as a huge impact on the pleasure of using the software.

Unfortunately, we are reduced to hypothesizing here because I am not aware of any amount of study on the topic. All I can say is that it is certainly conceivable and not necessarily unfair.

I would also suspect that if such differences exist they are likely to be as I said above more in the cognitive domain than in the more stereotypical appearance domain. I don't know per se that women will necessarily respond to a more rounded or pink or whatever stereotypical visual thing you might initially come up with, I suspect it'll be something more like men prefer more spatial organization, say for MP3s, whereas women may prefer more word-based and tagging organization, just to give one example. (And as you can see from that example there's going to be substantial overlap no matter what.) I'm not claiming this difference would even hold true, I offer it merely as an example of a cognitive preference.
Can you imagine if they were clean?
And why does the government need to trace money flow?
Be surprised then. This thing happened to me (on windows 7). I'm very wary about what kind of dialog i click on to, and never saw a warning which would seem related to that.
Really really want a good comparison/review between LESS, SASS, Scaffold, xCSS, etc.

Edit: Apparently this is not lesscss but less the css framework. Sorry for the misunderstanding on my part, but I think it should be understandable...
By the amount of spelling errors I've seen in NYT articles, I think hiring a dozen high school-only farm boys would garner better results than paying the university schlubs they've already got doing their proof-reading.

Print Journalism courses have been increasingly irrelevant since Gonzo became increasingly mainstream. Music, sports, etc. all rely more on personal opinion than they ever did. Journalism courses don't teach personal opinion, it's innate.

Major editors in the UK have openly expressed that they aren't interested in journalism graduates, they care more about personal experiences handed to them with an example of good writing with personal experience. Pick up a british tabloid, it isn't Journalism courses teaching writing completely biased completely unobjective articles. I have friends in journalism, I know they're not, and I know they're going to struggle like all hell to get a job.
The main assumption I made is that you were discussing personal bankruptcy rather than corporate bankruptcy (which can be involuntary), due to your statement that it was "too easy to declare people bankrupt".

I suppose under the circumstances you describe, you are correct: a person may lose their job if the corporation they work for goes bankrupt involuntarily. On the other hand, corporate bankruptcy can't touch a person's house/car, unless perhaps that person bet all their personal positions on the success of a corporation.

So I suppose an involuntary corporate bankruptcy may cause the personal bankruptcy of an entrepreneur. I'm still not sure how this rather unusual situation would contribute significantly to the number of homeless.
I imagine the reason he got modded to oblivion was that he made an extraordinary claim "...I think it's important to point out that poverty and homelessness are symptoms of capitalism, which is the real problem" with no attempt at justification.

Besides which, capitalism is not a form of government. So he started from a position of error and then went out on his limb from there.
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Minimum wage was created specifically to stop abuse of large numbers of people. I don't think it is realistic to expect that dropping the minimum wage will have just a beneficial effect on the few homeless people that we're talking about, it will have a huge impact on everybody that now earns minimum wage (and you'd be surprised how many people earn 'just' the minimum wage).

Employers as a rule extract a multiple of value from their employees time, not just a little bit over.

You could make the opposite argument: raise the minimum wage to $30 per hour. Suddenly all the homeless people are worth $7 per hour at a minimum.

Free markets are rarely really free, there usually is someone that benefits from the market being free, and in the case of employer employee relationships there always is someone to be found that will do the job for less. That's why we have minimum wage.
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Yes, exactly that.

Not at all of them do it, but for the motoring section a large number rewrite the eBay ones because the value of a click-through on a high ticket item like a car is enormous (relative to the affiliate fee for a book or CD).

There's only two ways to pull it off: 1) You audience is kinda dumb and doesn't know (wouldn't work on reddit), or 2) You just come clean and say you're going to do it as it is one of the most viable ways in which to make the site fund itself and to produce a profit (which would work on reddit because it's not intrusive and wouldn't change what people are doing already).

In the latter case you need to make sure no-one games it. There is enough click fraud detection to make this the next problem... once you've tapped into a gushing well of money you really need to make sure that the actions of your own community don't turn it off. Which effectively means trying to make sure that no-one is gaming your system (with best intentions to help you) with fake click-throughs.

But even there, a work-around is to provide your own proxy to the click traffic and to run something to detect abnormal traffic... if it looks to be outside of a set of parameters, strip out the affiliate info and redirect as normal. This minimises the risk of losing the revenue stream once it's been acquired.
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What about them? Every last point on that list applies to them, by necessity, because they automatically apply to all networks.
I agree, many people undervalue other's experience.

I think its a treasure trove of information as to what worked and what didn't work, especially if one can cross apply those lessons across knowledge domains/areas of technology.
"Facing facts, I've been sidelined in tech for quite a number of years. No one offers me a place in new startups. When I was younger things were a lot different."

In a previous discussion I mentioned my first (and last) extremely unpleasant interaction with Dave Winer and someone mentioned I was a member of a large club (http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/04/21/whats_your_winer...). That might have more than a little to do with his inability to get offers in new startups.

I'll also note that anyone who says there's no difference between C and an OO language doesn't know what he's talking about. Or in this case C and a language that's largely Scheme semantics with a C style face. And then there's compilation vs. interpretation. Feh.

But the OO part is a big deal (at least to the extent it is used by BrowserScript). Learning a new language is generally fast. Learning a new paradigm like OO or functional programming is generally not.
I don't know -- McDonald's + "relatively decent meal" is a very relative idea. From a nutritional perspective, it may be only marginally better than booze.
My biggest impediment to using screen is emacs key binding conflicts. I never took the time to determine an acceptable solution. Can an emacs guru share their solution...?
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Though they're not mentioned in the article, Cambridge Enterprise generated £10+M for the university. They're the Cambridge equivalent to Imperial Innovations, which is mentioned in the piece, but I think it's still owned by the university.
USB tethering works on the Droid though. Unfortunately, using it first takes you to a Verizon signup page where they make you pay for the privilege.
Wouldn't that just move the problem up the ladder? Commanders less likely to move the female battalions into harm's way?
Personal bankruptcy can be involuntary as well in plenty of places.

Self employed people are private individuals and are with some regularity pushed in to being homeless, either alone or with their families if they have them due to economic downturns.

There now is some nice legislation on the books that will make it impossible to escape credit card debt when you file for voluntary bankruptcy (chapter 7), and it is also much harder to file for that than it was in the past.

Typically an individual that has been declared bankrupt can be evicted from rental property as well because of debt incurred after the stay due to the filing for bankruptcy.

So even on rented property there is no guarantee that filing for personal bankruptcy will protect you from being homeless.
I doubt - that, they would have to pay for rent, utilities, internet, etc.

Getting paid isn't just workers, but is also the other businesses.
As with lots of GPU-accelerated benchmarks unfortunately, they ignore the time to transfer the 1B keys from main memory to the GPU and back.
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So I guess no one has learned anything from the previous discussions on HN.

Reddit has hit critical mass and therefore has a substantial user base - start charging a monthly fee. Even at $1 a month, I'm sure they could be pulling in 6 figures every month.

Or perhaps I'm mistaken and all they need is more ads.
So, you point that out. Downmodding for being wrong is ridiculous.
Interesting. Would love to see some screenshots/tour (nothing fancy) before signing up though. What I understood from the homepage: it's basically a place to upload/version/share your files?
Second this, although the only communist country I knew was Hungary and I got to know it just before the regime change. The Communists built huge housing projects around Budapest specifically to ensure that everybody, no exceptions, had a place to live and a job to work. It might be a stupid, demeaning job - there were no vending machines - but it was work, and a place to call home.

Now, there are tent cities along the Danube and in the corners of the railway easements. Say what you like about the wonders of capitalism and the "fact" that communism just swept the problems under the rug, but anybody who actually witnessed both knows that for the people on the very bottom, communism is far, far better. And for the people in the middle, it was about the same, albeit with fewer electronics. Of course, for people at the top, it's the same; they're just allowed to be honest about their Swiss accounts now.
Well, I can only say that I don't plan to put anything resource intensive to the layout, i'd risk to say that the website should work fast for you, not sure how well it would look on 2.x, but keep in mind that YT uses flash that is main resource hog(especially on linux). I'm pretty confident that it would run fine on your pc with firefox - because my android phone can run it ;-)

That makes me think now i should install fennec on my phone and see how that works.
My experience is that it works as an added bonus, but shot our conversion rate down when we tried it as the only way to login.

Good luck, your going to run into some fun facebook errors.
I've discussed this phenomenon with my Iranian ex-girlfriend. She believes it is caused by two Iran-specific factors and can't really be repeated in the US.

A) Iran has forced labor (in the military) for men from age 18-20. Students are sometimes exempted, but the government makes it difficult for men to become students to prevent "abuse" of this exemption. Further, many men go straight to work after their term of forced labor is up - connections/skills they developed in the military serve a similar purpose to college.

(Israel has a similar phenomenon - due to forced military labor, college is not as strict a requirement. But this does not affect gender balance since Israel has forced labor for women as well.)

B) The country is ruled by, as you note, patriarchal theocrats. Religion is a path to power/money - this creates a brain drain among intelligent men.
I find it interesting that you say "Europe" in this context. As someone who travels around Europe a fair amount, I've researched mobile phone tariffs in various countries, and the differences can be staggering - for example, an order of magnitude difference for the cheapest prepaid data tariff seems pretty common, calls and SMS vary wildly as well. I haven't analysed it in depth, but there aren't any obvious correlations with population density, size, GDP/capita, etc. as you might expect. Not even the number of network operators (=competition) seems relevant.