skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is horrible for SEO purposes, as I think google ignores most code.
Thoughts can always be profound if they resonate with you and have deep meaning to you-- I find it pretty foolish and close-minded of you to dismiss his thoughts as "crap" just because you can't understand his perspective.

He's clearly formulated his opinions after deep thought, and I find it pretty interesting, personally coming from a rooted Zen and Hindu perspective, how some of his ideas echo the thoughts of great religious thinkers (for example, "All things are subjective" is held as one of the basic axioms in Zen philosophy).

And perhaps he is just simply repeating the ideas of others. At least he appears to understand (or at least is clearly making an effort to) wisdom that has been imparted through the ages and is generally acquired only through deep introspection.

Check your preconceptions at the door-- it's pretty clear that you dismissed his ideas based on your notions of what "these drugs", and the people who use them, must be.
I agree it makes no sense
thanks, i would say go with what dentists recommend for the brush and quiznos for the lunch. mmmm toasty.
Do these rules apply for a gateway like Authorize.net, or just the banks they communicate with? If so, starting up something like that must be a massive undertaking.
before spending $1000, adjust your chair, keyboard, and mouse so that your posture is good, your shoulders are relaxed and your wrists are in a neutral position. You may not be able to do this with a standard keyboard, but a split keyboard is less than $100. if your chair doesn't adjust, get one that does. I personally like a chair that doesn't have armrests, as they sometimes cause me to raise my shoulders or contort my wrists, and I am comfortable resting my arms on my body/legs/
small mice always cause me problems
On A Scale of 1 to 5: Rating and Reputation Systems
none of the links work for me. just briefly says "loading," then nothing happens. NOLOH: Nothing Online Loading Or Happening.
Go ahead and apply to HMC. If you're accepted they may be able to come up with enough financial aid to make it work. I didn't pay the full retail price.
NOLOH programs are automatically optimized for SEO, try http://totheweb.com/tools/spider-test/index.php and type in noloh.com.
C++ is almost universally reviled. But I am grateful to know it. Here's why:

C++ was my first programming language, I picked it up quickly and had fun and still do. I still have fun in C++ despite the fact that it is most certainly a horrifically complicated language, juggling chainsaws and all that.

The only good reason I can think of to learn C++ instead of C or D, is because it will make every other language you are ever exposed to look easy.

That's why I am grateful it was my first language. Who knows, I might not have ever learned it, if I was fluent in one or more other programming languages already.

Also C++ jobs tend to pay well, but that's the wrong reason to go into chainsaw juggling.
The problem is that in the real world if the admissions officers admit people who are smart and didn't merely get good grades, the school's US News & World Report rank drops and the university president has all the admissions officers fired so that the board doesn't fire him.
I think we can all agree the University of Wisconsin si the best. No need to debate, we can shut down the comments now..

No seriously, great people, great town. :)
No kiddin'? I wen to OCC as well! It's a good school... I was pre-med and comp sci back then, the quality of the courses was very high at OCC, it prepared me well for later opportunities.

There is a theory that community/junior colleges offer higher quality of education for the first two years because that is all they do. Certainly at OCC that seemed to hold true.
A completely SEO application is rendered to search engines. NOLOH applications know when a search engine is visiting and when it's a normal user. This is all described in detail in the features section.
http://www.toyota.com/yaris/

http://www.smartusa.com/smart-car-fortwo.aspx

edited to add: most of the older smaller cars, like a used civic, get really good gas mileage. if you want to buy used, those are good choices. you're just sacrificing safety and some of the modern features
When Fandango does not mean Tomfoolery
Making Money Isn't Evil
Ask YC: Help regarding catch 22 situation for choosing startup's revenue model?
There are basically 2 options - one is charging the users/customers (for your product/service) and the second is charging the advertisers.

Its kind of catch 22 situation, if you decide to charge customers then your customer growth will be slow, and if you distribute your product/service for free and depend upon the ad revenue then your customer growth will be faster but the revenue growth will be much slower - because "pay-per-click" ad-revenue may not help you a much.

So how do you decide which model is best for you? and which model does angels and VCs prefer the most? OR is there any 3rd option?
nevermind. seems to be working now...
With JS on in FF3, I see the front page... but nothing that I click brings up anything else... nor do I have the right-click open-in-tab option I prefer.

NOLOH == Not One Link Opens Happily?
If you have JS off you should be directed to an error page. Could you please elaborate on "With JS on, there is nothing displayed". Viewing source on a NOLOH application will not give you anything of interest.
So if I change my User-Agent to 'Googlebot', the links might work for me?
you can do both if your app allows it, by offering a tiered service.

a free plan that restricts functionality and serves ads, and plans that cost money but opens up more of the application and removes (most?) ads.

also worth noting is that google adwords and PPC in general is NOT the be-all-end-all of online ads. you can come up with other options that suit your needs, like a higher quality PPM, referral programs, or special individual sponsorship deals.
while it's possible that mentioning it to your employer may have negative consequences, I think it much more likely that your employer will get you what you need as far as an ergonomic workspace. Unfortunately you need to have some idea of what you need in an ergonomic workspace to ask. So if you have the money, try different things at home. You may also be able to borrow coworkers items to try them. Frequently, someone who has dealt with RSI and found some simple solutions will be excited to share whatever helped them.
Undergraduate CS is like high school, after you pick up a masters you should be able to teach most of the classes.
Changing your browser's font size breaks things in interesting ways as well due to the co-ordinate system being based on pixels.
My grades were rather bad in highschool as well (B minus average). I had great experience with science fairs. (state level science fairs can be a great way to earn money for college) and building robots and such. If your going to not have the best grades, you had better have some pretty amazing results with the free time spent not studying.

I (somehow) got into Rensselear Polytechnic (www.rpi.edu) and loved every second of it. I have always been impressed that they looked beyond my grades.

I had far more hands on experience as an undergrad than my friends who went to MIT, and met like minded people who also wanted to start a company after graduating college. RPI created the first 'incubator' in the US, and are very involved in getting technology from the labs into growing businesses.

When I graduated (1997) I won RPI's $20k business plan contest with a friend of mine, giving RPI a small stake in our company. We then raised more money from small upstate NY VC firms who got their funding from insurance companies who received major tax breaks from New York State to help stimulate the upstate NY economy.

While startups were begging to blow their investment money on crazy rents in SF and San Jose we were in Troy, NY surviving by having an incredibly low run rate. And I can safely say that all of this stemmed from the support we got from RPI.

Find the school that promotes all the companies started by their alumni. Contact some of these graduates who have started companies. Ask them how their experience was. (i.e. if you were looking to get a job, you would ask alumni who graduated how their career service department was)
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Apple sure picked the right strategy at making sure Android is delayed.
I'm currently working on a self funded startup with a few other people. It's not so bad, although legal fees are the majority of our costs. The thing I love so much about the web is that many ideas don't require any initial funding.
UT-Austin is impossible to get into if you're out-of-state. The acceptance rate for out-of-state kids is lower than Harvard's overall acceptance rate.
I should make a web service for aspiring entrepreneurs that just sends them this Wil Shipley quote every week, fifty-two weeks a year:

Don’t announce until it can be downloaded. Don’t let it be downloaded until it can be bought.

Apple, under Steve Jobs, can't always meet this goal (shipping hardware on the dot is hard) but the company always, always tries. They've been schooling people on the effectiveness of this for years, and yet some companies never learn.
Yeah, it should. Also, all navigational elements could've also been made links. We chose not to, but might change that in the future. NOLOH as a platform allows you to create whatever elements you wish and have them do whatever you like. So if you wanted the navigation tabs to be links, you could easily instantiate them as such.
Furthermore, I went to a top univeristy (in Australia), but was one of the 'searchers,' so perhaps you can go to an Ivy league school but obtain the benefits on your own terms.

Well, a top university in Australia is very different to a top university in the US. Not because they aren't good -- Australia's top unis are probably better at least than the Ivy League's worst -- but because they don't have nearly the same sense of elitism. I guess this is mostly because of the way selection is done by course rather than by university -- it's far easier to get into the least selective courses at Sydney or Melbourne than it is to get into the most selective courses at Southern Cross or Charles Sturt.

(Full disclosure: I went to Sydney, and now I work at a not-elite-but-not-bad university in the US)
Both Ruby and Python's approaches are beautiful, just in different ways. The reason I suggest learning Ruby is because in learning to see that you'll see why, and be a better programmer for it.

And that isn't an argument _against_ C. Everyone needs to learn C. Go for it. But I think that Python and Ruby programmers stand at a distance and both look down on each other, and most of that is because of social and not technical reasons. Pythonistas spout crap about readability and Rubyists spout crap about OO-ness. Both have something to teach.

You might get angry reading this comment and say, "That KirinDave is so arrogant! He's implying I'm _not_ a good programmer and that by learning Ruby I will be a better one." But really you're the one who opened that can of worms by saying "a step backwards for someone who knows Python", and talking about "awkwardness." By saying that, you've basically said that thousands and thousands of smart programmers are totally wrong and wasting their time.

And it's not true. The programming language that's so bad it has nothing to teach is a rare bird indeed. Ruby and Python are so instructive because of how similar-yet-different they are.
I would recommend it only if you commit to taking the hard classes over the summer before your frosh year. Otherwise I agree with your analysis.
"... the absolute best way to learn about the efficacy of your product is to have people actually use it."
In your application you can specify the be based on whatever units you prefer. We chose px as the default and use it in most places, however you could easily change the base unit to whatever you wish.
Financial rules apply to any company that does transactions that could reach a high volume (one of the magic numbers is USD $10,000). So, for example, a car dealership that does single transactions of over $10,000 must comply with several regulations already, including checking the OFAC list (google it) for possible matches of people forbidden to do business with US companies (Believe me, you do NOT want to get caught as the inadvertent money laudering agent for a terrorist organization; your ass is going straight to federal prison even if you did not mean to be their money laundering instrument).

You must also check for structured transactions (transfer $20,000 USD in small transactions so they do not go on the radar), etc...

The laws are very strict on this nowadays, and people who make themselves be the middleman in a financial transaction are at great risk of getting into trouble if they do not do what they are required to (by the various goverment regulators, both federal and state). I am talking about criminal charges, not just civil penalties.

The banks must do their own compliance work, but that does not absolve - in any way - the company that is doing the transactions from doing so as well. It is mostly a cover your ass thing, rather than an "as long as someone in the chain reports it" thing.

So yeah, the legal compliance in this business is - vastly - the more complex part of the business. The technology is the easy part.
Northeastern. The CS department is good, but co-op is better. I'm just finishing my first co-op and my marketable skills (the kind of things I'd put on a CV) have exploded. I don't have the time to go into full detail about the virtues of co-op, but I'll say this: it is the single best thing I have EVER done for myself, followed closely by quitting smoking and re-discovering exercising.
Unless you force it over to HTTPS or use an extension, it still uses plain ol' HTTP after authentication.
I want to buy a new desk. What types of wood should I be considering?
American Murder Mystery
Shout out to HN and to the community!! This is awesome!! I'm always encouraged and pumped learning from you all!! I don't think I would be following my passion and dream of hacking a webapp without you guys!!! =)
Nick
> He teaches about half of the upper-level CS courses

Wow, how many upper-level courses were there? Even teaching 2 courses in a semester is considered a lot for most professors'.
I'm noticing some snarky comments, which seems to be a theme now when people post their creations. I don't think HN is the best place for those. Valid, constructive criticism seems a lot more appropriate here.
I've seen a lot of university rankings, and I've never seen one that looked like that. If you had a link it would be useful, but pretty much every ranking I've seen has had Oxford and Cambridge as the two top British universities.

Example: http://www.arwu.org/rank/2007/ARWU2007_Top100.htm with Cambridge 4th, Oxford tenth and Sheffield in place 72, just ahead of the University of Arizona.
FYI, it works in FF2, IE7, and Windows Safari. So it's apparently a Firefox 3 issue.
A YC for world-changers
Not to mention the fact that the legal drinking age in Ontario is 19.
I enjoyed the article as well, very insightful. However, I wish the writer had commented a bit more on the sharp divide between top publics and ivy-type institutions. The differences between a UCLA student and a Yale student are also very stark, but in a way that is different from the distinctions drawn in this article.

As a product of UC's (UC San Diego Math/English major followed by MS in Engineering at Berkeley), I know my experience was utterly different from an Ivy, mainly because I attended Columbia Law school for one semester before dropping out to get the MS in Engineering. I learned that you can absolutely sit on your thumb and get through an elite law school at an Ivy. Berkeley engineering was as brutal and uncaring as Math at UCSD: one mistake, and your ass is out.

I'd say that students at top public universities aren't coddled like Ivy Leaguers, and they're more acutely are aware of the possibility of failure, but still have the opportunity to succeed on the highest level and work with the top researchers in their fields (this isn't just true of Berkeley, it's true of many large, research oriented publics, like Texas, Washington, Michigan, Illinois, as well as UCLA, UCSD, etc...) Check out rankings for PhD programs and you'll see a heavy representation of these schools, especially in Engineering and the Sciences.

Overall, I'd say that the danger isn't an elite education, its a culture of entitlement. Nobody leaves Berkeley feeling entitled to a damn thing, and almost everyone feels like they got knocked around a bit. Part of the reason is the sheer number of undergrads at these publics. Berkeley may have a great faculty, but you have to compete with four-five times the number of undergrads to get there. No wonder Berkeley is a little more willing to grade hard and kick people to the gutter. You just can't coddle 24,000 undergrads. You have to start shedding them.

And there's the problem - Berkeley may be, uh, character building, but does that sound like a fun way to spend years 18-22? You have a better chance of making your Venture Capital connections at Stanford or Harvard. Kinda sucks, but membership does have its privileges, and honestly, doesn't it sound better to go to a school that won't give you a C in physics and deny you entry to the CS major?
Posted Yet? Finding cross posted articles
Inspired by my previous work with Hacker News split view, I decided to explore other ways to change my news browsing experience. This is also my first time using Google App Engine.

http://postedyet.com

Posted Yet helps you find out if a site you are visiting from one news site has been posted to others. I'm currently indexing the popular stories on Digg, Reddit, BoingBoing and Hacker News. Just enter the site's URL into the form or use the Greasemonkey / GreaseKit / bookmarklet scripts below. Clicking on the results will take you to the comments/discussion area for the posting.

Examples of cross posts from recent HN posts.

Video Lectures:
http://postedyet.com/?u=http://linkmingle.com/list/30-plus-List-of-Computer-Science-Video-Lectures-Over-200-Videos-video-lectures

M.I.T. students make huge parabolic mirror:
http://postedyet.com/?u=http://www.dailytech.com/MIT+Students+Develop+Revolutionary+Solar+Dish+That+is+Hot+Enough+to+Melt+Steel/article12153.htm

George Carlin's passing:
http://postedyet.com/?u=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25322638/

Using the bookmarklets or Greasemonkey scripts would allow you to bypass coming back to the homepage.

The site has been tested in Safari 3.1.1 and Firefox 2. If you experience any issues please let us know which browser/OS combination you are using and we will fix it.
Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month
There is a risk such differential-serving will trigger search-engine 'cloaking' penalties.
I like noodle's comment here, so I won't add anything in that direction.

What I will say though is that paying customers give you a better understanding of the actual value you are providing to them with your product. Shelling out for something isn't something most people take lightly.

On the other hand, advertising is much more subjective, and it will rely not only on what you're doing for your users, but what you're doing for the advertisers in terms of profits. It's a much more delicate balance to maintain.

Just food for thought.
Am I the only one who was thinking "Wow, this is stupidly impossible" while reading the story? He was trying to say that our minds make us think its possible, but that point was totally lost on me.
Cool. So, class consciousness is a lot of work. What, exactly, is the benefit?
The search engine gets all the content, at the same url and ip address, but in a way that's optimized for it. There's no redirects, or other cloaking methods involved.
The subway in New York is particularly inviting. For a while lots of trains had the following sign:

"STRANGER! if you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"

From Whitman, I think.

[Plus, I find it easy to start a conversation in NY subway, for some reason still beyond my understanding.]
It does generate PDFs with paths or SVGs. Read their f.a.q. ;)
Ask YC:  Could you point to examples of great and terrible code
I have been a bit isolated and self-taught for my CS education (online at University of Maryland). One of the holes in my education is that I feel like I've missed out by not working with and looking at other people's code. I could use some examples of what people consider to be great code and what's terrible code.

I'd love to see what other people think is great code and/or terrible code. If you have access to code that you think is great or terrible and is freely available online, I'd love to see it.
I spent last week at UIUC and I was very impressed -- nice campus, good facilities, pleasant location, low cost of living, and an awful lot of very good research going on. I'd definitely stick it on the list.
Rochester Institute of Technology

Pros: Lots of things that are brand new, solid CS and engineering departments, academically diverse campus, strong industry partnerships, growing entrepreneurial community, co-op work graduation requirement for most majors.

Cons: No girls, weather, pricey, nerdy
OHHELLNO - JK! Couldn't help it. ;)

Lots of legit sites use cloaking. I believe the penalty is a human check rather than automatic. I don't see this as deceptive because you are basically serving the same content. From webmaster guidelines...

Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."
that's a very good point. I posted earlier that I think the experience of going to Berkeley was very different from Harvard because it's a public, but some of the difference may be attributed to the culture of Engineering. I've met MIT and Stanford engineering grads, and I definitely don't get the same vibe I get from the Ivy-Lawyer types.
Hmm, I work at Davis and I wouldn't say it was particularly good for comp sci -- I think there are better options among the UCs.

I wouldn't personally recommend Davis at the undergrad level for much except agricultural and life sciences.
What Makes a Cloud Computer?
If this is true, I'm not sure how CS is different. One of the CS profs involved in the Turing program told me they make a real effort to bring in out-of-state kids especially because they want it to be a national program. That may also be true of the department in general.
> ... that chase for social status and immeasurable wealth is really downplayed since most good engineers won't get there

I think that this is an excellent observation, but I also think it's worth noting that many good engineers don't care if they get "there". If you're naturally inclined to find reward in problem-solving, then trained in how to solve progressively more complicated (and therefore rewarding) problems, the value comes from that activity, rather than in accumulating wealth.

Many engineers I've known are anything but "grounded," especially when it comes to their opinion of their own technical prowess, but that doesn't necessarily make them money-motivated.
An Unusual Paint Program
YouBorg: Talk to the collective intelligence of the Web
You get to boast to your friends about that one time you went slumming and actually talked to a plumber.
I don't even get what the site is for. Folks, if you are designing a site, make it obvious in 3 seconds what the point is.

This is the greatest failing in 95% of the sites I visit.