skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... Another great thing about UIUC is the diversity ..."

This is the mark of a good learning ecosystem. One that supports diversity. Diversity means less of your "own kind". (by "own kind" I mean, same geo, monetary, political peers, etc) A greater chance to use and view different ideas. This is a real problem with "top" Universities who support and advertise meritocracy, but end up supporting mono-cultural ideals. This might be good if you want to pass school and work the system. It is bad if you want to succeed past school and subvert the system and become not only a good technician, practitioner (I avoid the professional lable) to become an Entrepreneur.
Unusual? Yes.
Practical? Not really.
Hacker News? er... Nevermind. :)

It is nice to see this type of stuff here sometimes, it's interesting and amusing.
You might also consider the University of Toronto. It's a big school, but the CS department is among the best (and you get to learn computational complexity with Stephen Cook and neural nets with Geoff Hinton). Also look into the Engineering Science program, though that is probably as competitive as the very top US schools.
Operator: "911, what is your emergency?"

Caller: "Yes, Twitter is down, and I don't know what to do."
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You have to remember,

A) it's a small school

B) he enjoys teaching

I really didn't like the attitude of the larger schools where they would have an associate professor who teaches CS1 talk to you about computer games. I realize that profs like him are unusual. That's why I chose the school.
This jives with what an acquaintance went through. He ended up ~20k in debt to work at entry level support for Comcast.

I listened to him talk about the program, and I couldn't believe my ears.
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You're right. We have something in the works that will make back and forward refresh only the necessary parts, but that's a feature for a future build. Thanks for the compliments!
What is your unweighted GPA on a 4.0 scale? College Admissions officials unweight GPAs before they even look at the other number. Some schools use a 6.0 scale!

Make sure to fill out a FAFSA as soon as possible and don't not apply to private schools just because they are expensive. Financial aid can be surprisingly generous.
Too bad it's an awful school.
libcairo (the new graphics layer for linux) has some amazingly well written and well maintained code.
This plan makes no sense to me. The whole point of being a free app is that you get viral distribution:

1. Ten users use the app.

2. Ten users each tell ten friends about the neat free app.

3. A hundred users use the app.

4. Repeat over and over

5. ???

6. Profit!

Your proposed plan is more like this:

1. Ten users use the app.

2. Ten users each tell ten friends about the neat free app.

3. One hundred users arrive and find that the app, which they were told was free, actually costs $19.95 now. Eighty of them leave in disappointment. Ten of them sign up anyway. The remaining ten go back to their friends to ask what the deal is, find out about your grandfather clause, and put up angry blog posts about what an evil bait-and-switching moneygrubbing bastard you are. (See: Movable Type, Version 3.0, History of). Then they switch to your competition in a huff.

If you're going to have two tiers, make them different. Give people a choice. Don't try to openly tax people for not being early adopters, or for having last names that don't start with Z, or something. They won't appreciate it.
The honors program at your local state school is probably an extremely good choice. It will be affordable and you will likely get access to the resources of a big university together with a smaller community of students who are motivated to be in college and faculty who are more engaged in teaching.

Paying out of state tuition to a state school quickly becomes as expensive as going to a private college once financial aid it taken into account. There are blocks of states with reciprocity agreements where you can go to another state college for near-in-state tuition. Compare the honors programs and CS curricula of those colleges.

Do the classes and requirements sound interesting and challenging to you? If so, they probably to do other students who are like you. Does the college have a program for getting undergraduate students involved in research? This is another way to surround yourself with other students who are motivated to get a good education. Look at the university's research labs and institutes in other fields as well; There are always professors in other fields who desperately need computer help.
Do you have a particular language in mind?
As a hacker who's always been fascinated with multimedia applications I thought it was a perfect fit.
Do you know if the article ever hit the front page. Currently, I am only looking at the articles that make it to the front page section.

I will look into those validator errors as well as suggestions :).

UPDATE: It is also possible that the article made it to the front page but then left before I reindexed. I am using HN's rss feed to get new content but I don't want to slam the server.
You might want to check out teleflip.com. It's a free sms gateway.
I prefer to think of this differently:

Stories have power. Stories have the ability to convince and teach. Stories can propogate your way of thinking. Stories can take on the chracteristics of the teller. Stories are more memorable than any powerpoint deck.

Stories will make or break your startup.

Learn to tell the right ones and to tell them well.
I never understood why that was. I use https://mail.google.com to login and it sticks with https.
The plural of anecdote is not data. There will always be exceptions to any rule.
We didn't get funding for Scholar360, but we had a pretty standard business model that allowed for incoming revenue to offset further development costs, legal fees etc. Another route is to keep your day job and just work at night or on the evenings. That worked for us too.

We are starting a new company, www.nixty.com, that is more Web 2.0 and less of a tried and true business model. We can do it because we have revenue from our first company. I probably would have sought Angel funding if we didn't have some extra money to invest.
Ahh... I thought you meant that lex and yacc are typically used to implement DSLs.
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I'm going through much the same thought process with my startup. The real question is--when do you need to start making money?

Obviously the easy answer is "as soon as possible", but most startups have a burn time. Our founders have pretty much decided that we can burn until we get popular, and until then we're going to focus on building a great product and pay our expenses out-of-pocket.

The "third option" can be awesome, but finding it depends on what your company does. I can't speak to Mint's revenues, but I do know that I switched banks because Mint found me a better deal. If you can provide value (or money) to your customers, that is pretty much ideal.

Alternatively, the third option could suck. We've bounced around a "third model" internally for some time, and we're not sure if it will actually be valuable or not. We'll probably code it up as we get closer to running out of funding and see if it works. If it doesn't--we'll go a more traditional route.
Why is it that in an age of cheap long-distance rates, discount airlines and the Internet, when we can create community anywhere, we often don’t know the people who live next door?

OP forgot the biggest anti-neighbor invention of them all: air-conditioning.

I knew every single family on the street I grew up on. We all knew each other. In the summer, every single door and window was open; people had screen doors and front porches. If you wanted to know what anyone was up to, all you had to do was go outside. The kids were playing in the street and the adults were visiting on their porches.

Today, on my same street (and every other one it seems), all the doors and windows are closed, the A/C is on, and when people want to go outside, they use the fenced-in backyard instead. What a pity.
Ask someone who doesn't have indoor plumbing. :)

But it's not as if socializing is as hard as I make it sound. It's like riding a bicycle -- if you enumerate all the computational tasks involved it sounds like a monumental feat, but kids do it all the time.
California! You have a TON of options. Stanford (free tuition!) and Berkeley are obviously two of the best in the world. UC San Diego and Caltech also have awesome programs, and I hear nice things about the sciences at UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara. Get yourself a college guide and check these places out!

As far as Berkeley "being an option", you realize you just named a school that most people rank tied for first in the world, right? The "B" in "BSD" stands for "Berkeley".
I am no fan of his, but I don't think that his statement is too off-base if you look at it from Microsoft's perspective. They see a non-.NET platform trying to poach users from them. However, I'm not sure at all that that's the right view, and in fact I suspect you have it pretty much nailed.
We're currently doing a beta program hosted on our server so that we can provide support to the users, as well as make sure they always have the latest version of the NOLOH Kernel for their applications. This will help us communicate with the sandbox users, and get quality feedback from them. This is especially necessary because our documentation is far from perfect, so while we're actively working to create more docs, examples, and videos, we can still get valuable insight and feedback from a small group of serious developers.
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That wasn't so much meant as a suggestion to you as a warning to others. When companies grow, which is one of those "what if's" that should be considered, home grown systems tend to lack features that the organization needs.

When you're setting up processes in a company it's important to realize the resentment that you'll be up against if you change them later.
There are, however, plenty of people out there saying he passed away and "RIP."

I managed to find the bit where he talks about "passing away": http://youtube.com/watch?v=RrvyrxUpibg&feature=related (starting around 4:30).

I feel an impulse to post it in a comment on every blog or article that uses a death euphemism (I did http://searchengineland.com/080623-082447.php already :-)).
Is "discrimination" necessary to explain the sex gap in earnings?
College was the best years of my life. Here are my guidelines.

1. Learn as much as you can from class and people.

2. Build authentic relationships. A lot college friendships usually last a lifetime.

3. Follow your passion. Studying a subject you enjoy learning, and don't force yourself to learn something you don't like for the sake of making more money.

4. It's always good to take a break once in awhile.

5. Don't take college for granted and cherish your friends. When college is over, you're going to miss it.
Stories capture people's attention like nothing else and keep them reading.

Maybe that's why I ended up wasting so much time on this stupid post.
Keep this type of stuff OUT.

Account created 14 minutes ago. Karma: none.

Please, people. Stop.
I'd just like to point out that, if you have any interest in genetic algorithms, Dr. Melanie Mitchell is one of the professors at Portland State University and she pretty much wrote the book on GA's (see here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262631857/qid...).
Just clarifying in case that didn't come through as I thought, that was sarcasm. It wasn't a bad post. :)
BTW, I want to apologize for how slow searches are running! We're going to work on this until it's fixed.

It should probably take about a week to see an improvement -- we don't want to sacrifice recall or precision to improve performance.

So, we're going to try to have our cake and eat it, too.
Nobody is blaming you dude. Just making a general observation.
What it’s like to write a technical book, continued
The business press is where journalists become hacks. Access to executives generally involves so much stroking that
fact-checking, integrity, and good writing are all put aside.

Especially if they're executives at companies that happen to advertise in your magazine/newspaper/website.
"Don't try to openly tax people for not being early adopters"

Putting zero value on loyalty doesn't sound smart to me. The idea is to build some momentum, and then parlay that into some cash flow. Going back to your six-step process, what I suggest is #5.
There is a new breed of user here at HN, and with that, a reaction in the older users.

I find this site seems to be more trafficked than it was previously, but the noise to signal ratio has gone through the roof.
There can also be an emergency backup generator, with pull cord, for Twitter. To be green, the generator's fuel can be animal poop (preferably from birds). Tweet!
It's very therapeutic; perhaps they should market it to art therapists.
My typing skills improved dramatically just by participating in flame wars on Battle.net over StarCraft skirmishes. Those were the days...
Seems like all of the work you did you might want to open source or look for buyers for it. It seems like you made it pretty far.
Valuable old iPhones
This article reminded me of this one about travel writing. Travel is very big business. And who are the advertisers? Sometimes prideful, powerful sovereign nations; advertising does not have to be overt as product-placement but positive product-pronouncement.

"When I was at a major U.S. airline, our inflight ran a feature package, an absolute blowjob on the wonders of a certain Caribbean country. The story included a single mention of a broken-down truck on the side of a road and a hotel with paper-thin walls.

Well, guess what? The country’s Chamber of Commerce or some well-connected business group went apeshit over this perceived insult and their indignant screams went up to the national government level and then to the airline’s executive offices...

It just doesn’t make sense for major corporations to risk offending anyone when hundreds of millions of dollars could be lost because some snarky writer getting paid a buck a word wanted to inject a little local color...

And that’s one of the great misunderstandings about travel. The billions at stake. You and I experience travel in the most personal possible way. But in the larger context, it’s a global industry so massive that it’s net worth can’t even be properly calculated."

[http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/01/17/interview-chuck-t...]
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That's a terrible analogy because Google doesn't have a competitor winning in whatever the digital equivalent of blind taste tests would be. And Coke didn't launch into a new industry, they simply improved their product in response to a competitor's having a better one.

Imagine Powerset's semantic search starts taking off, and one after another blind study is done that shows people find Powerset has more relevant results. Would Google not react?

That's exactly what Coke did. They reacted to what they (probably rightfully) perceived as a huge threat. They saw that Pepsi was preferred by a wide margin. They saw Pepsi Cola eroding their market share. What they didn't know was that the two had nothing to do with each other.

Pepsi was gaining traction because it had merged with Frito-Lay, giving it a distribution network rivaling Coke's, which nobody had previously had, and because it was cheaper.

How was Coke to really know that people don't buy a drink based on taste? This wasn't the sort of thing that anyone really understood at the time. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to take Munger's view.
They had actually switched to corn syrup before New Coke, but not all bottlers were using it yet. All bottlers did use it after. A lot of people (oddly, even in the markets that had already switched to HFCS) thought that Coke Classic was not genuinely the same as the old formula for that reason.
I spent time at BYU and the University of Utah and I thought the U of U had a much more solid CS program. The U has a long history in the field. It is also where I was introduced to lisp, bigO notation, and algorithm analysis. BYU was more Java oriented. Of course that was many years ago so take it for what it's worth.
Thank you for the post, Jonathan. It touched me. Enjoy your vacation, and I wish you the best of luck towards your second act. :-)
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Yeah she was fine. Lost a (baby) tooth, but no pain.

So if your business does take off - you would cease to be an ER nurse? Just interested...

I have a job, and if any business of mine took off, I am still happy to do what I do now (I guess that makes be one of the lucky ones).
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Dealer's choice.
I'm honestly kind of amazed that another startup hasn't emerged to eat Twitter's lunch.

I guess they must have an amazing marketing department, because they are down as much as they are up, and I bet just about nobody can name a competitor.
That's what I was looking for. Thanks.
Reminds me of University of Utah's famous alumni... Adobe, WordPerfect, Pixar co-founders...

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/history/
Making Sense of the Semantic Web
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That's what he means by "forcing it" - if you specifically type https://mail.google.com/ Gmail will encrypt the entire session; if you just go to http://mail.google.com/ or (more commonly) www.gmail.com it uses SSL for authentication, then switches you back to unencrypted HTTP for the rest of your session.
Seems if your GPA is 4.1 with 4.0 being the highest you can take your pick of where you want to go and they'll probably pay for you, too.
It starts out pretty good, but gets kind of bizarre by the last 20 or so results. Pretty cool idea though!
Definitly not ASU. It has a really crappy computer science program. I have yet to get an English-speaking professor for a CS class. It's also obvious that they don't care about anything but money and racial diversity.
The very definition of cloaking is serving different pages to bots then users. So the 'optimized' stuff is essentially cloaking... What prevents googlebot for using a different header to check if the site is cloaked?

Btw, i prefer haXe (haxe.org) as a true unified web language ;-)
High switching costs + nothing compelling enough to move to a competitor for.
Plurk (www.plurk.com) funky UI, so a slightly higher learning curve, but pretty interesting.
It would be quite amazing to see someone who has mastered this tool use it to paint something.
This actually looks interesting.

Any chance you could show the PHP source to the doc viewer page http://www.noloh.com/Docs/#/section=apireference ? I'm assuming that's a NOLOH application which would give everyone a more substancial idea of what it's really like to work with your class hierarchy.
It's my understanding that they don't allow a person to act as a third party between two other people's accounts. That's essentially what a gateway does, so I can see why they don't want n-tier gateways.
This seemed more like just a "website" than a start-up.
I have no real idea how search engines work when they index a page, but I would assume they do not execute any of the Javascript, just grab the text based file from the server and analyze it. (does anyone have any insight into this?)

So I was pretty excited to try it until I realised that if that is the case - this is probably the worst SEOed site I have ever seen, it literally has no SEO.

Its a good idea, but personally after the usability of a site, it being nicely SEOed is really, really important.
Plagiarized article, mod down.
This looks fairly similar to Seaside to me.
Of course, you have the advantage/disadvantage (however you want to see it) of using PHP.
Right, it's a contextual ranking algorithm -- it ranks links based on how "similar" they are to what you typed in.

So, the further down the list you go, the lower the rank is -- the less "similar" the links get.

We actually compute a numerical "similarity score" for each link. Perhaps we should show it?

Thanks for trying it out!
Come to the Sunlight Foundation. SunlightFoundation.com. No jobs are listed on the website, but they're hiring for the right people. Ping them.
NOLOH generates only the content (text, images) for search engines so they won't get any JavaScript or anything extraneous like the styles for their text.
Dan Shafer who has authored books on smalltalk, as well as evangelized seaside for some time has this to say on NOLOH: http://www.danshafer.com/onemind/node/813
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If the business press lacks integrity and skips fact-checking responsibilities, then why is it that journalists at the Wall Street Journal have consistently uncovered and published news of wrongdoing at some of the biggest corporations in the United States, including Bear Stearns, Enron, and HP? I can also think of incidents at computer magazines and online game review sites in the past two years in which writers have refused to go along with advertising- and business-related pressures and left or lost their jobs as a result. How do these incidents fit into your theory about the business press?
Good luck with the dinner! The most successful businessman I know, when he moved into his well-to-do suburban neighborhood immediately organized a block party. He mailed out over 250 invites. 100 neighbors showed up. That was the first year. The second year, even more. Take the lead. Neighbors started scheduling vacations around the annual block party. It's not a coincidence that he is probably also one of the most networked connectors I know (real network, not Facebook). The type of people who lived in that million-dollar+ house neighborhood... He's moved many times and always done that. Makes an impact in the sleepy suburban castle-doms where he lives. It's usually the first block party/large-scale gathering ever in those cul-de-sacs.
We actually plan to open up the entire noloh.com, and noloh developer zone as soon as we finish documenting and adding features. The current developer zone was thrown together in a few minutes.

Throughout this month you'll see it evolve into what we think will be the most easy and intutive developer documentation experience, at which point it will be open for all to see and use.
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I've had a few Harvard and Princeton friends, and we related to each other just fine. They were just normal people that had a good education. They had no problem hitting on bartenders, talking about sports, rubbing elbows for jobs, or doing any of the other things that normal people do.

Methinks the English prof likes to be dramatic.
Yes, cloaking is giving a user and a search engine different pages, but the purpose of cloaking is to decieve search engines, and that's why it's evil. With NOLOH, search engines aren't decieved, they are simply given the content in a way that they can understand since they do not understand JavaScript. They're still given the same content (same text, images, etc...) but they're not told to modify the DOM since they can't. So it is a helping hand to search engines, not a deception in any sense. Why would googlebot use a different header to pretend that it is a user in order to recieve a broken page? That would not benefit any party.

haXe is only unified in the sense that it has support for JS, Flash, and a few other languages. But going through their tutorials (for example, http://www.haxe.org/doc/js/ajax) you still see that you have to write mark-up. So all of the traditional problems that NOLOH is designed to address still persist in haXe. Mark-up is static, error-prone, not intuitive for application development, interpreted by browsers differently, and the list goes on and on...
Time for Genetic Programming?
An alert system's usefulness is proportional to its reach. For an online widely distributed alert system, Twitter's one of the few services that would fit that goal.