skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amen.
Whereas graduate studies in certain disciplines can help advance your career, the basic undergraduate curriculum has become increasingly useless. Work experience is what counts for more than anything. Ideally you would attend a reasonably priced institution with good teachers and be given enough time to explore independent projects - business ideas or artistic pursuits depending on what your interests in life are.
For tech, something like Y Combinator, sponsored by the University perhaps, should be a part of every campus scene and students should be given the time to launch projects on the side. Many will fail, but the lessons learned will still be invaluable in life.
This is how we will remain an economic powerhouse and create the next generation of leaders.
You passed patio11's blog post around before or after it hit HN front page? (If it was distributed inside Google before reaching HN front page, I was wrong.)
I'm not that familiar with lisp, but it looks like he wrote a macro that allows functions to be called in postfix
Twitter + Wikileaks = Thrsti
Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?
I've ready every HN post for the past few years, but have only commented on less than 10. This is also my first submission. I've learned more from the community than I did during my $100,000 MBA from the University of Chicago.

So the question is? How many of you soak up all this knowledge like it's nicotine but don't comment much or post at all?

I suppose if you're really like me, you actually won't comment on this thread at all, LOL. It's a paradoxical enigma, or something like that...
https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/outpu...

"WARNING: CHLLCode::appendTypeIdent: declaring type void as int for param2"

http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=WARNING%3A+CHLLCode%3A...

http://boomerang.sf.net/ is clearly what was used.
You're probably not Mark Zuckerburg, so find your own passion.

And think twice about exhortations to follow in the footsteps of the masses too.
I was just in Shenzen looking at factories and one of the interesting things that I realized was that while they spent time making our product according to our designs, they also have to innovate on how to actually make the product in a factory. There is actual innovation in the production process and it would seem that we don't want to entirely lose that over time.
Hi, Could you elaborate. I'm sure a lot of people would find the information you have useful.

How did you make money?
What tips do you have for people who are about to do this?
How did you deal with the loneliness of solo travel? Or is this just in my head?
Is that really true? If you're right, it would be an obstacle. However, as fluffy as this may sound, I think there is value in the lure of the something you have to work to get. That may supply enough motivation. It's complex, I didn't mean to imply ownership was the only solution...

To continue on your second point. I disagree about "(rightly)", I think it depends. It doesn't have to be hard labor, it just has to be significant. Laying bricks was an extreme example -- you could think of things that are worthwhile to the school that aren't necessarily at quite that level. :-)

Honestly, I think the "rightly" reflects a degree of entitlement (not on your part, just generally) that kids tend to feel about schools (because they're kids), but adults should have grown out of. Enforcing some kind of ownership may help kids grow out of it and help adults to participate in the school rather than demand things like it was fast-food joint.
It does rather depends where you are - there is a fair amount of outrage in the UK because Oxford and Cambridge have said that they may increase their fees to £9000 a year.

[Edit: £9000 is the fee for EU citizens, probably a good bit more for anyone else]
I'm not entirely sure the comparison is valid. Music tends to have a greater cultural influence than video games. Not to mention having real-life idols that proscribe to the 'gangsta' way of life. In fact, I think its people rather than the music that causes the deeper cultural influence.

Admittedly, gangsta rap that describes the ways of inner-city life is an artistic statement. I suspect the parent was talking about the certain sub-genre of gangsta rap that eulogizes and encourages a violent life.

To answer your first question (even thought you asked the parent), I can't believe that music of any form can possibly be the cause of ills among the black community.
I should point out that they did tell people this. They were fairly clear how this was going to be open, that anyone could have a wave server, and how this could be employed.

A good example would be hosting a wave server like people host email servers. So, my domain could have it's own wave server. This would mean my comment here could easily be included on my blog. This would let me blog all my comments. Keep in mind, HN would have to support wave, but then commenting would still work the same way. Anyways, my comment would appear on my blog, and I could see your reply. I wouldn't have to remember to visit HN.

The interface to wave was essentially anything you already used. There are a lot of other really cool things you could do with this. And they told people you could do all this with it.

Unfortunately, they pushed the Wave UI as well, closing it up in a beta with special invites and suddenly people treated it like Gmail++.

So when you see people commenting how they really hope wave survives and eventually takes off, it's because what if does take off, things will get really interesting really fast.
No, but you'd be a much better driver if you did.

And I think that the time is better spent learning to drive. That's just an unfounded opinion, but at least I can see it as such. Do you have any evidence that understanding engines makes drivers "much better"?
Another HP50g user here. My friends disliked the RPN mode for the first few weeks (they couldn't borrow my calculator), but even they got used to it within 10 minutes of button mashing and errors.

Has anyone actually been able to use all of its built-in functions though?
The article on Friday[1] about the ISP director who challenged his NSL mentions in both the Reddit AMA and his 27c3 talk that between about 2004 and 2008, the FBI served about 200,000 NSLs.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208093
This is a good point.

Most programmers are familiar with the common notations for nested structures (e.g.: a dot, or a slash). Mustache's solution requires a programmer to explicitly reference the parent context:
https://github.com/defunkt/mustache/issues/issue/6#issue/6/c...

https://gist.github.com/3c91441597ac650146b9

Maybe this was to keep Mustache "pure", and avoid introducing a dot- or slash- syntax. "Turtles all the way down"?

I agree the syntax is clunky. But it does have some internal logic.

I'd argue that the bigger problem is: most people don't know the feature exists.
JCPenney games Google & does well at that
Practice/Trial and error :-)
I don't want to say neither Microsoft or Nokia can deliver a top-notch smartphone experience. I am, however, highly doubtful they will, for both have been trying to do it for quite some time now and without much success.

The fact is neither has much to show. Why would someone believe that, together, they can pull this off is a mystery to me.
You can always try an NDA. It won't keep anyone from stealing but with a bit of luck you have a bit more meat if you want to take legal actions after someone stole your idea.

In the end, it boils down to "an idea isn't much worth. It's the execution that matters." Just try to be quick.

One thing that we did was, we gave all the people who started our company a small share. With this, everyone involved in the early stages had a good reason to keep quiet about our prototype. Worked for us. May not be the best for every start-up though. Especially if you want to hire people abroad.
Why swim to learn how to swim when you can sit and study swimming?
Science is not stamp collecting. It's hardly about putting in the hours, and all about originality. Many Nobel Prize winners have hobbies in music or art.
I appreciate the sentiment, having grown up as a younger sibling surrounded by machines in various states of undress. I'll always remember the time I broke a corner off a mainboard, and watching my cousin repair it.

I firmly believe in giving children room to explore, and never telling them that something is "too hard". But it's a long leap from "this is how I did it" to "we're doing it wrong".

I also question the idea that only some kids can/should learn how to code. A computer is not a saxophone or a snail. Today, computer illiteracy is a disadvantage; tomorrow it'll be a handicap.

And just like kid-sized pots and pans and screwdrivers, some languages are easier for kids to grasp. Going from DOS to QBASIC to C worked for the author; that was the stuff that happened to be installed. Nothing wrong with laying other "toys" around too.
get a lot of good veg time, exercise, food, sex, sleep and reading

but then that's good even when not on sabbatical
If offering user choice is a bad idea, why is Android doing so well? I believe they're out-gunning apple in market-share now, and there are tons of Android phones to choose between.
Sounds like a pretty sweet gig, actually. Long vacations and no commute.

You're right. Health care is the tough one. Catastrophic Coverage will run an individual about $100/month, which is fine when you're young and healthy. But I don't want to think about what Blue Cross Blue Shield would want for full coverage on a family of 4.

Given how much extra money you bring home consulting vs. salary (roughly 2x), you're fine while you're working. But keeping it all going when you're not might be a bit of an issue.
Doesn't really help dispel the notion that Perl is a dead language, does it?
This is what comes to mind for me, though I have no "advice" as to whether or not you should accept the position:

I lived in the same house from the age of 3 until adulthood. I graduated high school with some of the same folks I went to kindergarten with. I got married at a young age to a man who only wanted to join the army. He did and we moved around for a couple of decades until we divorced.

The transition at the first duty station was quite hard for me. My then husband had grown up as a military brat and hit the ground running. I had no clue how to do that and he was zero help to me with this major adjustment. For that and other reasons (like a pregnancy where I threw up for 8 months out of the 18 months we were there), I was really miserable at that first duty station and it took me years to realize it wasn't the fault of Texas and to "forgive" Texas. I irrationally hated Texas for quite some time.

I wanted out of my home town and I have no regrets, though I resented my then husband's lack of support at the time (and never did feel he did the right thing in that regard). I returned to my home town during the divorce and I have been here about 5 years or so. I intend to leave again someday (basically as soon as I can arrange it, logistically) and I don't think I could be making such plans had I not left to begin with. For me, it was very much a growth experience and I think my life is vastly better for all of it.

But if you do this, I would suggest you be prepared to help the spouse and kids adjust. Maybe they will be fine. Maybe your wife is more resourceful than I was at, oh, age 21. Maybe she will have no problem finding hobbies, friends, and whatever else floats her boat. Maybe your kids will also jump in with both feet, gleefully. But if they do not, odds are good that they will blame you for their misery. Being sensitive to that and willing to assist will most likely go over a lot better than my ex husband's choice to let me just sink or swim on my own.

Good luck with this decision.
I would use WP7. It all depends on how much would Microsoft pay me for it...
I don't know that it is true 'inverse licensing', as nobody has ever disclosed the amount or structure of the deal.

I assumed it was an up-front deal which is more than covering the cost of Nokia getting the OS onto their hardware and maybe covering some cost of x-number of minimum handset licenses. Beyond that amount, I would think that Nokia would be paying microsoft per handset.
Don't "a" and "c" sort of cancel each-other out? If other makers back-off of WP7 because of the way Microsoft got into bed with Nokia, doesn't that mean that Nokia can differentiate just by being the company that produces beautiful devices running Windows Phone?

And even if HTC and LG continue their existing tepid embrace of WP7, Nokia is in a position to make the WP7 experience theirs. So much that if another maker produces a WP7 phone, it may well be seen as their "Nokia Competitor."

The assertion that this makes sense only from Microsoft's POV seems totally off to me. Points c, d, & e would really be the same if they'd gone Android but surely the FUD peddlers wouldn't have made so much hay over that. And to point "c" -- that there is a "glaring omission from Nokia and WP7 strategy -- dude, it was made public like 4 days ago.
"At that time" Microsoft ruled everything except for the browser. The public internet was emerging as a surprisingly powerful force against the desktop and the argument before the courts was that the browser WAS part of the core operating system and could not be removed.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft :

Microsoft stated that the merging of Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer was the result of innovation and competition, that the two were now the same product and were inextricably linked together and that consumers were now getting all the benefits of IE for free.

It doesn't look like much now, but installing IE as the default browser on Mac was a pretty big deal at the time. Microsoft won the 'browser wars' due to this and other key moves.

Today, the 'wars' are in the handheld o/s and default search engines. Microsoft is again making shrewd moves in those battles and their partners are far from guaranteed to die as a result of their alliances.

Somehow, despite their Microsoft partnership, Apple managed to do a bit better than simply scrape by. I'm sure Nokia will see a similar recovery over the next few years.
I propose we have a mustache convention at the end of November (grow a mustache month). Those without mustaches will be shunned and not taken seriously (those unable to grow naturals can wear fake stashes)!
I'd refer you to a book which really helped me out - "Learned Optimism" by Martin Seligman, which will teach you a better way to interpret the events that happen to you, and a quote from Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it."
Please do be blunt! I'm more than willing to have my feelings hurt to learn something that may be helpful here.

That said, I did give a very long and audible sigh when reading your post. It feels like a cop out, but perhaps one day I'll have to accept my own mediocrity.
I found this one (though not Finnish): http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-ceo-left-holding-microsoft-sh...
PRWeek interviews Crowdbooster (YC S10) CEO Ricky Yean
If the total amount of coins that can be generated is limited and if the amount that is generated per time unit is going down, it's only natural that the value of one coin would constantly increase.

Which brings me to two questions the podcast left me with (i'm a developer, not an economy expert, so these might be really dumb questions):

1) is the hard cap really a good idea? Generally, currencies seem to lose value over time. Not to gain it. As the value can only increase, what's the incentive of spending coins now when they could be worth much, much more in two years.

2) being able to anonymously move coins between anonymous peers makes this really interesting for online payment (it's equivalent to paying in cash), but isn't this also the perfect solution for money laundering? Especially when combined with above fact that the value ever increases.

Still: something like this would really help in solving the micropayment problem, which exists to this day.
Thanks mike. i always knew that could be a problem, but was a bit lax cos the results didnt stay on the site.
Have a look now anyways, the google logo doesnt show anymore.
I never understood this argument. You still need to sell yourself for movement into the higher salary range. It ends up being the same system as performance raises.
Definitely agree with "Do More Faster." Great book with excellent advice. I also recommend "Startup Lessons Learned"
The Future of Education is going to be game oriented, getting kids to watch boring videos will be very hard.
Hold on. Nokia does a ridiculous amount of research into cell phone technology. I agree it's a side project now, but do you think they seriously are "abandoning" it? Where have you heard that? I don't think Nokia would completely throw away that much good work...
Yes, SecondMarket specifically provides liquidity for private companies. Again, I can't find a reference, but I believe Thiel has sold over half his original Facebook stock already in this manner.
Lets hope so. While higher education in itself is valuable, the prices most often being asked for it are not exactly worth paying.
Gah! I shared my concern with APAP with me doctor and she prescribed Norco which has a higher hydrocodone to APAP ratio. Not sure it's still Schedule III in the USA, but if so, there ARE alternatives which Gregory House (who should be dead by now) and those concerned with liver failure deaths should know about.
Like many folks, I'd reckon, I've really meant to learn Lisp or Scheme better, but it just seems like -- with the lack of syntax -- it would be tedious to write out every single operation as a function/procedure call.

Is Lisp/Scheme as tedious as I'm assuming? I'm not talking about readability -- surely one can get used to the parens and indenting and read (and write) it just fine -- I'm talking about tedium of everything having to be a procedure call.
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I took the quiz from that book -- boy that was depressing. It showed that I had a habit of explaining all good things as temporary, specific, and external, while bad things as permanent, pervasive, and personal. I'm well aware that this inconsistency defies logic. But that doesn't stop it from disrupting my life :(
I wonder if we could crowd-source a mars mission. I reckon enough intrigue, wonder, funding and credibility can be generated by a global campaign.
Thanks. Funnily, i developed this running linux and a gecko browser. BTW what is your screen size?
Live from 'An Evening With Nokia' at MWC 2011
> It does rather depends where you are

Indeed. If you make decent high school grades in the states, then it's possible to attend a state university on scholarship and owe less (perhaps much less) than $20K in school loans after graduation.
I've always thought the biggest limitation for the start-up environment in Canada is the risk-averse nature of Canadians and particularly Canadian investors.

In the US, angel investors and VCs are more apt to take risks and aim for the huge rewards. In Canada, it seems the investors are looking for singles, and even then, they expect you to already have market traction.

Check-out Basil Peters stuff to get an idea of what I'm referring to. Early Exits, not going for the home-runs.

At the same time, there is a large Canadian contingent in Silicon Valley doing great things. So I don't think its the entrepreneurs, it's the investment market.
I'm really having trouble following your logic. Are you advocating working in a bleak environment just because it's cheaper? The implied contract of a place like this is a desire to interact with other professionals on a daily basis, that's very different from strangers at starbucks.

I would find this valuable if I was self employed. I'm the type of person who currently has the choice to work from home or the office every day, and 95% of the time I choose the office.
What worked for me (although I wasn't really burned out, just wanted a sabatical):

- On day one I was a new person. I suddenly had 8 work hours of extra energy. No need to set aside time for relaxing (it'll quickly get boring).

- Work on a farm. Getting up early, and really sweating for your food is fantastic. There are general applications forms here: http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/work/shortterm/far...

- Travel. Everyone else has already said it, and they say it for a reason. I pretty sure your problems won't follow you. Personally, I prefer travelling with couchsurfing.com or airbnb.com. You meet great people there.

- I travelled to friends around the world. Some of the greatest moments were actually pair-programming with those who wanted to. It extremely fun and social. None of the projects were ever completed, and it doesn't matter. :)

If you ever travel to Norway, let me know, so I can show you around.
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I KNOW for a fact that it's a major cause, if not THE major cause.
The glorification of thug life, drug-dealing, fast-money has mis-guided youth following the wrong foot-steps. I know because I was one of those, and I see them everyday. They don't just listen to the music as a preppy white kid would, they LIVE by the music, and get thrown in jail or murdered.
Totally agree with a lot of the points you brought up. There are pluses to working at large companies, and many people are happy there. I left Google to work for myself and then joined a startup, and couldn't be happier. Wrote a response as well and included your post: http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=247
I've been on here for the past few years as well but more recently started this account and in the past three days (literally speaking) have been trying to make an effort to comment and help out as much as possible to the HN community. I haven't posted anything yet but may soon sometime in the near future when I have something of value to provide. I know a few others that don't even have accounts that just come on here to read. It's not uncommon.
"basic undergraduate curriculum has become increasingly useless"

Why do you think that has happened? From my perspective (I graduated over 20 years ago) things like CS degrees seem to have been tried to become far more directly useful by becoming rather more like vocational training than pure academic subjects.

[NB I'm largely interested because I have a son who is starting to think about what he might do at University].
Done ^_~
Yeah i have thought of that. I think i would go for it.
I registered geekbeach.org (no site there) a few years back with the hope of one day doing this same thing in some random tropical setting.

I wonder how many people (aside from me of course) would be happy to know about a spot on Nusa Lembongan with guaranteed fast internet, reliable power, a nice slice of white sand and a really nice reef break just outside the lagoon.

Would anybody here take the effort to weasel a working holiday to such a place? Any SV startups that would pick up the whole shop and set up on the beach for a month or so?

It's been raining here in the North of England for six months straight. If I get enough love for the idea here, I might just have to book a flight and start scouting locations.
Linkbait headline.

The "long tail" is still very much out there. As slapshot notes, Etsy has opened up a completely new "long tail" that shows no sign of slowing down. As is, say, airBnB...
I like to think of it as they went out and made the opportunity happen for themselves instead of waiting for the opportunity to present itself.
"Throughout the following emails it is revealed that HBGary Federal may have been planning to use Stuxnet for their own purposes"

what does that even mean? nonsensical.
Ask HN: How to switch careers
I currently hold a MS degree in CS and have been working for the last 4.5 yrs as software developer. I would now like to try something different. would going back to school for a MBA or MS finance be a good idea??