skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a famous article from 1993, notable enough to have its own Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Penal...

What I find interesting is that this piece doesn't include the words "crime" or "murder". There are what, one or two (solved) murders per year on an island of 5 million people? Freedom includes bad things not happening to you.

Other freedoms you can enjoy (as far as I know): not having to drive anywhere, being able to hire whoever you want [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1307133
I think you should quit. Just self-teach, sit in on college courses to learn what you want to learn, and forge ahead.

Just be sure to set the bar high on the skills you self-teach, and go out of your way to find others like yourself who are motivated to skip the 6-10 year period of extended adolescence that our culture grants young adults to "find themselves".

Finding some people who you can collaborate with and who are roughly at the same stage as you socially/developmentally will help make life fun and exciting... and I've found that people who are roughly the same age tend to come to trust each other more easily, which is important in many business contexts.

If I had it to do over again I'd strongly consider dropping out of HS and focusing on learning and doing really cool stuff for a few years, possibly including a bit of travel to get a more global perspective, then when you're 18-23ish be sure to head to a college town find some interesting people who are in college and maybe sit in on a few of their classes or even enroll for a term or two as a non-degree / part time student to meet people and get a taste of the college experience.

When I think back to all the mind numbing hours of high school and all the stupid social stuff I don't wish it on anyone. It's way overrated. If you're not a jock you're just learning how to be content being a second class citizen, which is not a skill anyone should learn.
That sounds awesome. :-) I'll email you.
This was my father's view. Based on his negative feelings about having gone through school ahead of his age cohort, he didn't let any of his kids skip grades.
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I had someone email me a few days ago asking for code for an old webring script I'd written in 1998. I was a little amazed that 1. anyone would still want such a thing, and B. someone had found a listing for my 12yr old PHP script and thought it worth using. I haven't had the code in my possession for at least 10 years, and being so old, I'm sure it was full of all kinds of security loopholes. No idea where he came across it, but apparently some resource site somewhere on the internet still lists it.
youfini.sh

imaletyoufini.sh (too bad http://imaletyoufinish.com/ would confuse)
Cool, just did!
Hash the points into large tiles. Only calculate the nearby tiles, then find the items that are in the list of tiles (which is faster, due to being indexed.) Then use Haversine or whatever to filter.
Very cool. I should be able to make it on the 12th.
I'd argue that IBM hasn't really changed at all. If anything, they've reverted. Their acquisition of PwC's consulting arm looked like a diversification, but was really just a further vertical extension of their existing big-hardware business. They got entirely out of microcomputing with the sale to Lenovo. They are a Big Iron company through and through, just like they started.
Is there a similar thing for Sydney?
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I like to refer people to The Road to Lisp Survey Highlight Film (http://wiki.alu.org/rtl_highlight_film). If it's down, Google for the cached version.
Visualization is a key part in understanding the code. IMO if you can't visualize it then you do not have a proper understanding.

Visualization for me is at 1000 feet and i do not see all the details. I try to think and visualize each as objects and abstract out the details. I do not see colors and whenever possible i relate it to realworld object OR Object which we see in screen.

While working on a existing code, the Visualization is not complete. I do not try to visualize all the code in one day, i build it incrementally over a period of time. But before starting with the project/code I get a highlevel overview before getting into details.

I believe it is analogous to a Map, I create a mental map of things in code and use it as a reference, build it, improve it. Map is NOT a terrain, it just gives an overview of things.
I cannot see the content on that page at all without updating my Silverlight (that I just installed last month) to a new version. I love Microsoft.
Challenge the Lee dictatorship and comeback and tell us how little they care.

Yes they do care and yes they will execute you https://duckduckgo.com/?q=singapore+execute+australian even if you are not a king pin, just some dumb kid.

Also don't get stuck there with out health cover/travel insurance or you will regret it, its not malaysia/thailand.
I'm wondering the same. I'm fairly new to Sydney and live on the north shore.
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Well, the story is about what was in the bill as allegedly drafted by the the prison company, not about the watered-down version that ended up passing. As first submitted to the legislature, it would have allowed for much longer sentences.
Paypal being picky is a real issue though. This kickstarter-style compensated donation does seem to get around that, but I expect it's a loophole that will soon be closed. Then again, I don't know of any other setup for doing a pay-what-you-like model with Paypal.
Very interesting example. This is definitely the reality, but perhaps you can teach an old beast new tricks.

1. In the hypothetical situation you provided, it seems that if your CPA is based on trial signups, the cost structure doesn't scale with the demand and value you get from using the SEO charging per trial. If you generate revenue on a conversion, why do you have a CPA based on a trial registration? Doesn't eBay pay per conversion? Perhaps this is a common practice. Can you renegotiate to a more reasonable cost structure, maybe get it right from the start or allow some flexibility if you and the SEO aren't aware of how the costs will play out?

2. If eBay is unhappy about the LTV per CPA, why not agree on a cost structure that more readily scales with varying LTV rather than blame the affiliate for not meeting a particular threshold?

3. There is an opportunity cost with firing an affiliate due to poor traffic quality for a month rather than keeping them consistently there. You might fire your SEO for one month's bad performance in a heavy-handed fashion, but what if Christmas, not just any old Christmas, turns out to be a legendary one. Bingocardcreator is the new hot fad for Christmas family games night and conversion rates are through the roof. If there was a cost structure that hedges odd months like October, (3-month moving average of CPA for example) your SEO would be around consistently, ready for a key opportunity.

I see parallels here to most successful farmers that use futures to hedge their fuel costs and stabilize their revenue in varying weather and environmental conditions. It won't save you from an SEO not being economical, but it will make the costs less uncertain.

4. Helping an SEO affiliate optimize on an aspect that may or may not be under their control may be a big task, but already, providing a conversion table like you did is probably more than what was probably provided by eBay.

5. It is not economical to work with people to optimize their sites to hopefully be sending quality traffic again, since that is hard, non-obvious Sites don't have to do a lot, just be transparent and manage expectations above the bare minimum. Affiliates like everyone else don't like uncertainty mixed into their return on investment. Even if the nature is an uncertain one, you can still manage expectations to keep that fact transparent, and keep a cost structure flexible but clear enough to support.

6. might be against the interests or intentions of the site owner, and consumes resources which would be better spent optimizing the customer's own sites. Brilliant insight, this is probably a factor as well, but I care to believe that eBay still handled this case in a sloppy fashion.
Scorched3D as in Scorch the Earth right? The tank/weapon game?
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hey sorry to burst your bubble but this is pointless.
you could also try http://www.webpagetest.org , it shows you the bottlenecks as well.
If I'm hungry I would say "Hey, give me a Hot Dog".

I wouldn't be drawing diagrams of synapses and how the chemical signals flow when I'm thinking about that Hot Dog.

The issue of language parsing and how Lisp-like it is, it's incredibly irrelevant.
Free tip:

http://www.reddit.com/r/webgames

I don't know how many of these are going to be embeddable, but I drop by there every once in a while when I feel like procrastinating and sort by "top" for this month or whatever.

This is great for you because people are essentially finding games for you and crowd-sourcing a rating. The top games are usually pretty great. A handful have actually blown me away.
Aren't there entire websites and books already dedicated to answering this question?
Looks cool, but I'm in the same situation. Windows is not a deal breaker, but we're a PHP shop. :)

Any intention of adding more languages?
I still don't get it :/ Where did the 'paul' part come from? (Yes, I'm aware of the play-on-words with the name.)
I don't see why you wouldn't be. Just don't order any alcohol, if you go to a bar. I've never seen a place card at the doorway during lunchtime.

You should probably send an email asking as well.

Note: I don't know Sam or the venues he/the team has in mind. This is just based on my own experiences in going to bars for lunch whilst not being 21.
y so serious?

-The last executed price times shares outstanding is market cap. Valuation is dcf or guideline; there's a big difference between capitalization and valuation.

-Sharespost can not be considered liquid as all of its securities are governed purely by regulation D and are by definition on hard to borrow

-Facebook will not continue its current exponential rate of revenue growth for the standard 5 year assumption DCF

(jk, but maybe not)
Its most avid core user base will graduate with their faggy liberal arts degrees, find out they can't earn for shit, advertising revenues will peak and decline, at which point Facebook will file a timely SEC S-1, followed by a record oversubscribed ipo mostly bought by parent(sponsors) of said faggy liberal arts graduates, then get basket shorted down to 50% of offering price. IB, instl. trading desks, and VC will already have gotten rich long before this; everyone else loses. Same deal with carbon/ECX emissions futures.

-NY owns Chicago; Chicago is the guy on the merc floor shouting hundreds of open outcry bids while one trading desk at 200 west st. takes every bet against him using one single macro on Rediplus. (jk, respect to all veteran floor traders)

-I'm sure everyone will decide their bets based on their own risk-reward/due diligence anyways. Nothing we say to each other will have a huge effect; in the end, the bids and offers we provide will do all the talking for us. That's why the market exists so let the games begin.
Last time I was in Portland I followed my friend's Gowalla trip. See it here: http://gowalla.com/trips/15349
Main problem with security is trust.

How can one trust the security app which is offered as a service and believe that it will not do anything malicious?
It is like storing my bank password and all credit card details in another thirdparty site. As a user I do not trust any thirdparty service which offers to store passwords. Similarly as a developer I do not trust any third party service over web for websecurity testing.
Do #2. At this point in your career you need a variety. Since you have 2 years of experience but are still disappointing people in interviews it suggests that you haven't taken on a wide variety of skills. After a few years of #2 (ask them what their turnover is like,) you will see a lot of businesses, learn about a lot of business models and also see a lot of the country. The power that this will give you as a mid-late 20something is FAR superior to being the lowest person on the startup totem pole. Also, if you continue to live with your parents then you should have a massive runway saved up by the time you are ready to drop out of consulting -- then you should also have the experience and capability to start your own thing.

You should not take bad pay and bad options to be a junior dev in a SECOND startup. It sounds like you didn't learn your lesson the first time.

In short: you have done a startup, so you know it is what you ultimately want. What is the best strategy to position you into founding in the future? I contend that it is actually #2.
Absolutely NOT. Take as many AP classes as you can. They are generally college level. You will find it much easier to get into the schools you really want if you actually graduate. Despite what people may say, GED's don't carry the same social weight as diplomas. A high school diploma is itself nothing more than to say that you passed the base level of societal education, but many people consider a GED to mean that you we're not even capable of achieving that low-level rung.

Do what you can to graduate early. THAT looks good. If you can finish in 2 or 2.5 years what takes most of us 4 years, and you can do it with a very high GPA, that's just all gold stars right there.

The other thing to keep in mind about graduating with a diploma is that of grants and scholarships. College is going to be fucking expensive. I'm assuming you're 15-17 years old. So you might not understand what fucking expensive really means in your bones, beyond "that's a lot of money". Don't take this as an insult or anything. I'm 30 years old and it took until I was like 27 to really, really understand how much "fucking expensive" really is. For me it was moving from South Florida where I was making at most $30k to SF where I've been making 2.5-3x that much as a salary.

Anyway, grants and scholarships are free money you don't have to pay back later. And when you're 25 looking to start a career and whatnot, you'll really appreciate not having massive loan payments to pay on a monthly basis.

I'm currently in the middle of my 2nd startup, and since you are here on HN I'll put my argument in those terms. Look at high school as your first startup. The only way its going to succeed is based on how much work and sacrifice you're willing to put into it. If you can make it through that, many other things in your life will be much easier.
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I got to know Singapore really well last year while we were working on the Crunchpad there. It is a great place to start a company.

A lot of this article is outdated, but it is infamous. Singapore is still an autocratic regime, but steadily becoming more progressive. For instance, local bloggers used to be tailed/monitored and harassed, while today they are invited to official government events and given blogger passes (like a press pass) to cover events on behalf of the citizenry.

The city/country is very surreal, especially once you begin to dig under the surface.

I have a blog post about it that has been sitting in my drafts for over a year now with a bunch of observations (I met a lot of entrepreneurs, businesses, the government people etc.). I have a lot of interesting stories about Singapore. Reading about Singapore again today has prompted me to dig it up - I will publish it this weekend.

I love that place so much that I would seriously consider opening an office there, or at least hiring some people there, for my next startup. It is definitely the most 'Silicon Valley' like city in this hemisphere.

If anybody on HN needs some tips or intros re: Singapore, feel free to email me.
But really, there are many ways a diet like his may be harmful. Too much sodium (still high even w/out the spice package), lack of vitamins, protein, fiber, and the list goes on.

You won't feel the pain when you are young, but when you DO feel it (or your brother), the damage will be already done

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nice error:
http://data.mint.com/region/us
>In fact, I was surprised that all phones in Hong Kong are sold unlocked because government regulations require freedom of phone service. Which is where I bought my iPhone. (and it should come as no surprise that Singapore sells them locked.) I would venture to say that [Hong Kong] is poster child of libertarianism

To clear up a common misconception I see (and I have no understanding of where this misunderstanding comes from), 'net neutrality' and everything of that ilk (including regulated phone unlocking) is NOT libertarian. It is the exact opposite.
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> Spoken language sentences do not evaluate each other and none of them are apparently functions

I tried to clarify the proper analogy at the end. LISP is not directly analogous to spoken language (the surface level), LISP is directly analogous to human thought (that interprets language internally). This was really the topic for an article and not a comment rant, sorry.
This is also the first quarter where Apple's revenue was larger than Microsoft's:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/28/apple_beats_mi...

Microsoft is still more profitable, for the moment.
There aren't more than a couple phones that have a vanilla Android ROM floating around for them. Cyanogenmod and similar are far from vanilla AOSP.
Nothing is pointless! Everything is an adventure. :)
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Thanks, that looks great! I used to do stuff like that with weave. It would be interesting to see the speed comparison for weave and cython.
finishthis.ly :)
Well, NeXT had ~540 employees according to Wikipedia, so I'm not sure it would really qualify as a startup. Plus one of those employees was Jobs, who was borderline recruited to come back and takeover Apple, so that is definitely an exceptional case.
Not sure who holds the account password - it might be @nedwin. I actually work at the Melbourne-based YC startup Adioso.com. The cofounders Tom and Fenn led the last one a bit.

These threads are worth viewing for info on previous meetups:

February 2010 – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1091571

October 2009 – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=849668
That Provides some data you wont find anywhere else! For eaxample, i wondered why fremont, ca has the highest avg spending. Looking through the data i realized there is a Frys electronics in the list. No wonder....
My biggest gripe with Galaxy S (at least the I9000) is that it doesn't do OTA firmware upgrade. It also needs Samsung Kies which runs only on Windows and on top of it fails to upgrade the firmware with a "Failed to convert to upgrade mode" message.

Official firmware upgrade is just too much of hassle on this phone.
Java as a language is quite boring. Java as an ecosystem is interesting; its tooling, libraries, and business-centric culture are worthy of respect and some thought, even for us rubyistas. Some of the most generic software has been written in Java. In the flexibility vs expressivity spectrum, many Java libraries pick flexibility and it is neat to see how that is accomplished.
The author mentioned Yale university.
I took a look at the web traffic graph:

http://www.quantcast.com/yale.edu

4 times drop in four years.

Could anyone explain why it happened?
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Too bad they didn't use EC2 to handle the Renderman Farm. They could have made it a bit easier by using Amazon Web Services own version of a sneakernet, http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
Comments like this are what make a binary voting system inefficient. Two thirds of your comment is spot on and pretty much exactly what I came here to say. When I initially viewed your comment it had been down voted and I debated whether or not I should vote it back up. But there are some glaring unfairnesses in your assessment that make me take pause.

Suggesting that Hong Kong is the freest state in the region is kind of ridiculous when you compare it to japan or taiwan (post martial law). Last time I had looked (3 or 4 years ago) both were higher on the UN Human Freedom Index (unfortunately I couldn't find a list online). Also I wouldn't agree that Hong Kong should be held up as an example of a start up state. I love Hong Kong, it is definitely one of the greatest cities in the world. But it produces very little in the way of innovation outside of finance. There isn't a booming start up community in Hong Kong for the same reason there isn't one in Singapore. Because to do business on any worthwhile scale, you have to know which wheels to grease and know the right people to grease them. There was a really great article on this a while ago about why a key reason there weren't any Walmart types in Hong Kong was because it was more profitable to the Triads to keep all the mom and pop shops in business than to work with larger corporations (unfortunately I can't seem to Google anything).

But honestly, those points aren't really what bothered me about your comment as to some extent they are based on perception. What was more perplexing to me was the assertion that Confucianism played a key role in the lack of democracy in Singapore. Certainly Confucianism has played a key role in shaping Singaporean society, but no more than it has in Hong Kong, and almost certainly to a lesser extent than it has in Taiwan. One would be hard pressed to find a nation with a large Chinese population in the subcontinent that doesn't have strong Confucian influences.

Ultimately Hong Kong and Singapore ( and more and more Taipei) are basically the same cities filling the same roles for different populations. The only real difference is Hong Kong is a much more fun city to live in. I agree that Singapore has a glaring issue in the freedoms they allow their people, but really there are a lot of country that do a lot of business that have similar problems (as an American I wouldn't exclude China or the US from that list).
"pop finance books from the 70s like books by Adam Smith"

What?

If by 'the 70s' he meant the 1770s...
Can eBay pay the affiliates based on the realized LTV? i.e. eBay pays 50 cents when you're worth $20, and as you increase your value they keep on paying the affiliates. After all these years, you're worth north of $2000 to eBay, and eBay has paid out a total of $50 to affiliates along the way.

I can see what the practicality might be like, but it seems much simpler and fair than estimating LTV and cutting off affiliates if you were incorrect.
Wait what was it about Clojure that he really liked?
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Even during the fall of even numbered years, I'm neither a D nor an R. That is because I am an Australian.

Edit: and its Spring now, anyway.
I am also in Sydney atm.

If anybody else is Sydney side and would be interested in a meetup, reply here, or upvote, the parent, or something.