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You need to raise your standards. History, chemistry, and grammar are all important (to you personally, not just in general), fascinating subjects. If you attempted to learn them, then memorization would be only one of the learning tools that you would use. You wouldn't resent memorization because it would allow you to make connections and truly understand what you are studying.

Why is grammar important?

See these two Youtube videos by Lisa VanDamme of VanDamme Academy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsYMr7VriYE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnI84C_gWo

You can get Rex Barks, which she references in the videos, here: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1889439355/

Why is history important and what's so great about memorization?

See these articles by Scott Powell:

Why History:
http://www.secular-homeschooling.com/004/why_history.html

The Importance of Memorizing History:
http://www.secular-homeschooling.com/008/powell.html
I used to get a £0.20 ($0.31 US) eCPM for 0.33% CTR (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136710), however, after getting a call from a Google account manager who had some extra inventory to shift for June, we've since been seeing (£0.39) $0.61 eCPM.

Tip: if you have some UK or German traffic, consider Adjug (http://www.adjug.com/) you can set a CPM floor (we set £0.40) and your own backfill. We are setup like this:

Premium Ads (via our agent) > £1 guaranteed backfill > £0.40 backfill (Adjug) > Adsense & House Ads

The only problem is slight delay in tags loading is one of the servers is slow.
I understand the concern. All traffic from your computer to AirDropper and from AirDropper to Dropbox is SSLed. We actually don't have full access to your Dropbox account, just a sandboxed folder we create called AirDropper. We don't plan on expanding beyond sandbox access. We don't keep any copies of files you send or receive, though we do technically have access to them as long as their stored in the AirDropper folder in your Dropbox. You can deauthorize the app anytime on Dropbox.com.

As far as who's behind AirDropper, my name is Jesse Lamb and my co-founder is Nick Stamas. I'm a Florida attorney that works with tech companies on business formations, contracts, and intellectual property. I also blog at http://www.notmylawyer.com, which has been on the front page of HN a few times. Nick is a designer/developer who just moved to NYC. We've known each other our whole lives and we've been on various teams together for the past 6 years. The name of our company is Gruntverk, LLC. We don't have a site for the company yet, but our information is on file with Florida's Division of Corporations.

A FAQ is a great idea, and I really appreciate you bringing these issues up.

Thanks!
I know it's not as simple as "the tea party, pro-ignorance, anti-science, pro-middle-ages movement is responsible for this." But there is no doubt in my mind that the rise of anti-vaccine ignorance played a good part.
At $199 a month, most businesses don't need any executive approval. They can buy it right there on the spot with a company credit card.

The entire process changes when you get into a particular range, it varies but for the most part $500 to $2000 seems to be the common upper limit. Anything above that can take days, weeks, sometimes even months of going through the process.

I did some consulting for a large company and it took 4 weeks for them to go through the process of sending me around 2-3 grand. It wasn't even "approval" that took so long, it was just the process of going up the ladder and waiting each step along the way.

If the company is large enough that I will never be able to directly talk to the "decision maker" then I pass on it. I don't have the patience to let them run me around in circles.
Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_ is a good overview. It uses SML, but I've only used OCaml and haven't had any problems following it.

_Essentials of Programming Languages_ (EoPL) is a great book about writing interpreters in Scheme, and the last chapter shows how to turn an interpreter into a continuation-based compiler. (It's in the first edition, I heard it was cut from the second and third as too advanced.)

Some people will recommend the Dragon book (_Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools_ by Aho, et. al), which is great, if you want a dry book about writing a pre-modern language with clunky, old tools.

As a sweeping generalization, compiler books using Lisp, ML, and other languages with good support for symbolic computation get into more interesting material, because compiler books using e.g. C tend to spend a good chunk of the book on parsing and other issues that can be avoided entirely by working directly on trees in Lisp/ML/Prolog/etc.
AFAIK, you can also get async JS performance by storing your javascript in an external file, then creating a <script> DOM node, setting the 'src' attribute, and appending it to the head/body.
Thanks! Let me know if my response to jacobian covers all your questions.
You don't just pay a plumber to fix your pipes; you pay him to leave afterwards.
Original source, and submitted earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588727

Much discussion there.
This is cool, but the limiting factor in all genetic research I've ever done has been I/O - and we're using Isilon drives.
Again, this would be a valid criticism if I had simply said:

'I expect to be downvoted.'

Or if I were trying to game the system or otherwise accumulate points. As odd as it is to imagine though, that's not actually my point. My point, to be direct, is that:

I expect to be downvoted as the signal that I would indicate is not exactly on the same wavelength as most -- and so you'll probably interpret it as noise.

Though I don't mean to be argumentative (esp. by repeating myself). But I mean you raise a good point. However, it's not like I just signed up for HN yesterday. I've been reading this for a year or so, and I recognize what will be downvoted. Maybe I'm doing it on purpose though? Maybe I want you to downvote me and then think about it? What I often get after -- and am always downvoted for -- is that there are large differences within this category of 'trolling', which we assume everyone who isn't being immediately, objectively informative is a part of. There are unhelpful trolls, for sure. But there are also helpful trolls. You could even go so far as to say: people like Socrates -- who arguably contribute more to the difficult, valuable, formative stages of things like science than anyone else. I'm just trying to remind people to not get too complacent about what a good signal looks like.
Is "don't bring me problems..." counter-productive?
Ha, thanks! Yeah, we're hoping to expand so that you can send files too, but we haven't finished thinking through how we can improve that workflow.
I think that places like the AppStore and Android Market are good places to extend an already viable product like The Weather Channel, Twitter, OKCupid, Evernote and Facebook, to name a few off my head. At least for general applications. But due to the quantity of already available free applications, you'll need to aim for high quality applications that offer something unique.

Game developers on the other hand need to understand that the platform has a market with a short attention span. Unless it's a port of an already successful game like Doom or Final Fantasy, you're probably going to have to be pushing out a new app every couple months to stay on top. It is too easy for a consumer to get bored, and with a couple hundred thousand other free games available, you'll quickly lose your users if your game is dull. Games are where high quality unique applications can shine.

In the end, developing me-too rip-off applications will get you no where. It may be a couple thousand a year, but that's not enough to do it full time. There's a lot of hype for developers who wan't to make a lot of money real quick with mobile applications, but it is no different than the shareware/trialware application buzz from some years ago.
I wouldn't recommend the first edition. It says a lot about parsing, not so much about the actually interesting parts of compilers. The second edition is supposed to be better in this respect, though.
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You're right about the Python comment, and I edited it out. However, I would also say that you've provided no discussion of value in your comments. I at least back up my statements with correct supporting arguments, even if I sometimes use overly strong language in making them.
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I see what you're saying and I don't pretend to be an expert (or even very knowledgeable in general) on the subject.

All I meant was that ethics are a very personal thing and what's 'right' to one person may not (and, if you ask me, should not necessarily) be right to another.

Ethical egoism says that you should do what is in your self interest, and that doing so makes you ethical... Rather than that I'm trying to ask: What is 'good' or 'bad'? Different cultures, races, sexes and individuals have (at least) slightly varying opinions on what is right and wrong.
It's both. There's a cluster of "crazy hippy" people in and around Marin who are convinced vaccinations are responsible for every modern ailment. I've met, and tried unsuccessfully to reason with a few of them.

The DTAP booster may be our best shot (haha) at routing around them though. Even if they won't vaccinate their children, if enough adults get regular DTAPs we might be able to get enough herd immunity that whooping cough dies out again.
this is superficial, but that font looks terrible, at least on my screen. honestly, it looks like an amateur's first attempt at making a font. otherwise it's a cool product idea :)
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I just want to highlight this part of the article for people who are about to close their window without reading it:

>The California epidemic has raised plenty of questions about the role of vaccination and the increasing numbers of parents who decide not to vaccinate their children. California’s Department of Public Health cites three schools in the state where 80 percent of parents have signed a “personal belief exemption” to keep their children from being vaccinated.

That just blows my mind.
I've re-read my article several times now, because your comment (particularly its score) has made it clear that I must improve. For that, though, I need more feedback. Do you mean that the logic isn't good, that the language isn't good, or both?

The heart of the article is the expectation that whoever can bring a complete, seamless experience to the mobile platform will be the big winner through the next few years, and that they will probably be a large incumbent.

All the rest is meant to be framing for the conversation. Not tools for prediction, but for explanation.

Please, if you can express what I need to fix to make this article better than "gibberish" or "unintelligible", let me know, because I want to be capable of expressing my thoughts. I want to improve.
Not to mention all the 10-100 W 400-800 THz transmitters they have in all the rooms. Worryingly, there are two structures in children's skulls, near the brain, that are particularly sensitive to these frequencies!

And I expect the average child emits more electromagnetic radiation than a wifi transmitter. Children should obviously be banned from schools then.
I never said I didn't want to learn those. Quite the opposite, I find them all fascinating. I'm just driven insane by the means of teaching them.
Right, european businesses may be requiring degrees for most IT jobs.
This is also a good point that education is less expensive on the other side of the Atlantic, so that could be a possibility. There are many state-financed languages courses out there by the way - and they're really not expensive as they are designed also from people coming from poorer countries than the US.
Also, it's Hacker News here, for advanced web companies using English is absolutely no problem (well probably less in Holland than in Spain, but you get my point...).

Finally I understand that going to a far country is not an easy step, so at the end your choice. I just wanted to show the possibility :)
the significance of the name is that it sounds cool :)
I think I see what he means, but upvoting etc isn't necessarily mechanical. The mechanical conformity he's talking about sounds like social conformity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

That warehousing system sounds like GPS car navigation systems - but this is still amplification (so far), and I doubt it can or will be extended.

I saw a reddit post about how army life can be very appealing, because of the "clear purpose in life": the matter at hand is urgent, so you don't worry about any other problems in your life, and the bigger picture is taken care of by the higher-ups.

aside: I think the ideal life, as organized by a super-brain/demigod (or, from a different point of view, what heaven would be like), would be still have ups an downs (as in the earlier matrixes/ices, people rejecting utopia), but these ups and downs would be more clearly meaningful to the person, like a composed heroic journey, without the meaningless clutter. For people who had grown more, it would include the meaningless clutter, so that part of the "ups and downs" would be to discern the meaning. ie. living in heaven would be indistinguishable from on earth.
I love the idea of tying in comedy somehow. So much of the "funny" content on the internet is pretty lame, and I think there are a lot of amateur comedians who would love to test out new jokes somehow.

So I suggest you do two brainstorming sessions, one sober and one intoxicated, with the aid of a huge whiteboard, and explore the comedy concept (and other comedy concepts) further.

Imagine if you could do a live video stream of a person's comedy act, but make all watchers plug in a mic so that the crowd laughter / applause could be captured and mixed into the experience, both as feedback for the performer and as crowd noise for those watching it.

Comedyroulette? :) It could pair one commedian with a 20 person audience with one way video and n-way audio.
Ask HN: What's a Good Business for a College Student to Run?
I'm going into my second year of college, and I'm looking for any suggestions on what would be a good business to run at school. I'm not necessarily talking about startups with revolutionary technology (I already have something to that effect that I've been slowly working on), but something that can hopefully help pay for school. Something where if I work 5x as hard, although perhaps not 5x as long, I can increase my profits by a similar factor. Any advice or ideas are appreciated!
I certainly agree that learning to type is the most important skill in programming. It saves you a few milliseconds every time you type anything, which adds up over thousands of keystrokes into a clear competitive advantage. And unlike compiler design, learning to touch-type is easy.
At which point another startup will solve the problem of what someone's original identity was.
As an example, the USPS does this for boxes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpS3LeCiCtc
That answer doesn't do much to help the submitter. It reinforces his pessimistic idea that he's stuck in a bad place and there is nothing he can do about it.

His school may suck, but he can still take charge of his own education and discover the value of learning on his own.
Well then, you'll probably like me. I've made $45k to fund my bootstrapping with MY ebook: http://jsrocks.com. And I've just started writing about how to do it on my blog: http://unicornfree.com ;)
So I recently built out an entire marketing program (for free of course) for a local merchant who complained that his business was being wiped out by the internet.

I'm happy to do that again. (I've also done it for a prenatal yoga studio).

It doesn't sound like much but considering it takes me at least 8 hours and companies pay me for it, it strikes me as a good deed.
A-GPS near a cell tower is great, but a WAAS antenna beats it in the backcountry.
How much reflection do you spend on a single-word comment?

Python is not Perl, how can it be Modern Perl?

I know that some people think that Ruby and Python continued the tradition of scripting languages that Perl brought to mainstream, and that they are both modern in some sense, but that doesn't make them Modern Perl in any way.

Would you care to expend the thoughts that you think my introspection should have produced, that let the reply not be troll?
Haha alright, I was curious if it was made up or if it was something from a foreign language or ancient culture or anything like that.

thanks
Well, it's kind of taken anyway though, right?

http://heroku.com/
I'm not sure I'm with you here. A lot of offices have really old computers purchased around the time of Windows XP SP1 and the version of flash shipped on those will leave quite a lot to be desired.

So maybe I should have said it's like saying IE (in those types of settings, anyway) doesn't support new flash games because they don't have the right version of the plugin :)
> Learn to read first before worrying about tact and perspective.

You said "you're full of shit", which I thought lacked tactfulness. You're right, I didn't read the earlier comment carefully enough. I guess it needed to be quite forcefully pointed out that Chinese people don't realize how hard their language is to learn.

> Talking about the lack of perspective, why don't you tell us what is your native language? It won't be news to us if a speaker of a Indo-European language finds another Indo-European language easier to learn than a Sino-Tibetan language.

Well, let's go through what I said again:

Not having tones and no huge obstacle to becoming literate makes English a hell of a lot easier to learn.

I still think that's true. You seem to be saying that people find it easier to learn languages that are more related to their native language than some others, but how is that related to my point about Chinese being quite an undertaking to learn?

You quote some literacy statistics, but that's not really relevant to what I said either, is it? An intentional distraction, perhaps.

Chinese has got a huge alphabet, and most other languages don't. This means that it's much more difficult to attain literacy in Chinese. Whatever amount of characters you want to draw the line at, it'll still be much more than 26.

> I would not stand by idly seeing people slandering the language I love

Oh please. No one has slandered your beloved language. The fact remains though, that the tones and characters are a big burden on someone who wants to learn it.
I've noticed in recent years that parents in North America have been giving their children 'unique' names when compared to the past. If googling your name becomes a problem, perhaps we will see parents giving their children common names so they can't be found.
Nothing is superficial, we always appreciate feedback. Can you tell me what browser you're using? Most of the site is set in Goudy Bookletter 1911, by The League of Moveable Type. Is this what it looks like in your browser? http://bit.ly/2oH1TM
The social stigma of such youthful indiscretions will be reduced once everyone's are documented online.
We wouldn't need to change our legal names if we didn't have to use them in the first place. I'd rather see us move towards a society more accepting of the old hacker way of choosing handles than starting making it common and acceptable to change your "base handle". (Or Truename, if you prefer.)

This isn't a perfect solution, though; people would still need wisdom and foresight to get rip-stinking drunk on one handle and produce their open source projects on another, and their real-life friends have to use the correct handle for each task too. That's not going to happen. So, I'm not claiming this leads to utopia and solves all your problems. I'm just saying it's a better solution.
Now here's my domain name generator
$60/barrel oil would have been considered absurdly expensive a decade ago. Perhaps OPEC has not forgotten that.
Three bad things: threads, garbage collection, and nondeterministic destructrors
Comparing vaccines to DDT seems backwards to me.

Perhaps we're more afraid of DDT than we should be, but DDT is moderately toxic and has a soil half-life of up to 15 years. (Compare this to a few weeks for Malathion or a few months for Glyphosate.) Bed bugs suck, but they never killed anybody.

Compare this to measles or whooping cough where the vaccine is very safe and the diseases can permanently scar or kill victims.
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I seriously can’t understand how these vaccinations aren’t mandated by law without exception. The point of vaccination is to protect public health from devastating communicable diseases, just like the point of fire codes are to protect the community from fires that could easily spread from building to building and destroy an entire city. It’s like being able to sign a ‘personal belief exemption’ saying you don’t believe in fire codes in order to exempt your house from them. I’m largely a libertarian, but I certainly don’t want my neighboring houses to all be firetraps.
Many things in software world are built on abstraction. It's not really possible to know it all and many times it is counter productive to get into any project with a mind set of I have to understand everything here.
The problem with SICP as a compiler book is that it doesn't really doesn't teach you much about compilers. At least beyond Lisp compilers. Even something relatively simple, like stack layout isn't really covered, at least that I recall. Or intermediate representations (unless you simpler consider Lisp your IL), or even how different parsing techniques will interplay with what you can parse (easily at least).

It's like saying that reading CLR's algorithms text will teach you how to build real databases, because it teaches you about trees and hash functions.
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Because Google (and everyone else) will just ignore the obviously-public record of your name change and just not index that?

And why stop at one name change? Why not allow people to create as many identities as they'd like? And why not multiple identities in parallel? Society (outside of the internet) seems to think this is a bad idea, but it's an interesting thought experiment.
IIRC, you can make self-extracting password-protected encrypted archives. That solves the security question.
Curious is there is a transcript or video of the talk you mention...?
I would much rather come to a stage where people aren't going to think ill of someone because of something stupid they did as a child.