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Hat tip on saying comments with karma removed are point-less. ;-)

My experience is the opposite of yours. I find karma as it has become here recently is not a reflection of good counterpoints. I feel it has become a reflection of the popular points. Well argued counter points, if unpopular, are "voted down".

Assuming the thread sorts by karma, you can still read in order, and get what you're looking for, and maybe you'll read things that are less popular, not just the majority-upvoted comments.

Another comment here talked about score, a gaming term. I don't like the term "score". Like you, I value thoughtfulness and interestingness, whichever side of a point it comes from.

In user profiles, karma can work as a gaming feedback mechanism to encourage desired behavior, while in a comment thread, it can work to surface insightful discussion and bury non-contributory content. A display of "score" isn't needed for the second mechanism, just good sorting.

However, it seems that a refinement of seeing your own 'score' on your own comments could be valuable towards the first mechanism: "How was my comment received?"

That dopamine hit is valuable to foster recurring contribution.
> function applications require parens and which don't.

Yes. An understanding of JS is definitely necessary when developing with CoffeeScript. The ambiguity that the parser allows sometimes leads to code generation that isn't at all what you intended. I sometimes find myself going into the JS output to make sure the compiler did what I intended.

Annoying, but at least for me, the benefits of cleanliness and things like list comprehensions and Python-esque list semantics makes it worthwhile.
And most simple applications work fine in wine. Older games, too. But modern games are often trickier.
>Or, in my case, less than $20,000 for a piece of paper, some very valuable formal instruction that I draw on today (and, more importantly, knowledgeable people who at the time could put it into a context I could understand), some great contacts, some great work experience, an environment where I could take the time to build projects to improve what I know about my profession and my craft without worrying about making rent, and the ability to actually spell "piece". Pretty good trade.

This is my experience as well. Admittedly, it was probably closer to $80,000 after everything, but it gave me exactly that environment.

I'm 4 years out of school, and I've made back the cost of my piece of paper.
I expected that new accounts wouldn't be able to submit anything until they have a couple points of karma (from upvoted comments).

The problem is that the main page of the new feed frequently has a max age under an hour (44 min., currently) - if something doesn't get any upvotes by then, it falls off the page and becomes drastically less likely to get any further upvotes. It also can't be resubmitted for several months. Slowing this down would almost certainly be good - quite a few interesting posts get submitted at the wrong time and never get noticed.
I don't fault myself or anyone else. I think it's just something that happens naturally when a large group of people dominate an industry. If this were a hip hop board, we might be talking about how long it took Far East Movement to make it in a predominantly black industry, but this is HN, so we talk about women and black/latino minorities.

That said, just because something happens "naturally" doesn't mean it can't have negative consequences. It's important to be aware of the issues that arise when there is a clear in-group so we can find ways to mitigate their effects.

Also, I shouldn't have said people are more accepting of differences now that I'm older. It's more that people are more willing to see the differences and make a bit more effort to bring that "different" person into the fold. That sensitivity is something that comes with age and affects a variety of industries, not just tech.
Twitter does not, I don't know about flow. Most people are using one of the non-closure libraries that only work with closure's "simple" optimizations, and running one of those through the closure compiler on "simple" doesn't get you much that one of the other minifiers could do, and the other minifiers are easier to use.

I'd like to see a library that is more approachable and internally consistent than the Closure Library, I think something like that coupled with plovr, (a build tool that wraps some of the craziness of the closure compiler in a much nicer package) would be a killer next-gen js framework.

I think that's really where we're headed, all this complaining about whether you should use a big library or build a big custom library is really just a symptom of the tools being sort of crap.
The difference is that Apple's customers are for the most part individual consumers, while Microsoft's are hardware OEMs and Google's are advertising partners. Thus, the interests of Apple's customers align much more with public interest than those of Microsoft or Google.
Locaii - the next great location-based app?
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That wouldn't give you a control group, either, that would give you a new set of students, and would let you answer the question "how successful are students hwo graduate without being crippled by student debt compered with dropouts and a control group of students how received no special assistance and graduated anyway."

I would be very interested in this experiment, but subsidizing a student's education in the US doesn't give you a 'control' group, but a very privileged group.
What are you even talking about? The point of sites like HN is curation.
it took less than a week to 'know' the time in beats. we've use this to coordinate time on our team, spread from Texas to EU to Japan.
I wonder... as more and more kids of all economic groups have smartphones, or even if they can't afford a service plan, an iPod Touch or similar.... it seems inevitable that in the next decade or so almost all kids will have access to some form of "personal" computer from childhood. I can't help but think that would change the representation in the software industry.

Makes me think that getting really good programming games and dev environments on SmartPhones is a great idea.
This niche is currently filled by bitnami and others that provide a native binary, VMware or AMI file.

When I want to roll out a quick new trac/redmine/etc, this is one way I can get it demo-ready without a lot of hassle. However this requires someone to have "done the work" building the respective deployment patterns.

Also sometimes the deployment isn't quite what I want (so I need to install Passenger for example).

If I could do a single click, and start injecting data/config, that'd be more than awesome.
Stuff like this should be made a compulsive reading for hackers.

This solves a very basic problem with hacker-related knowledge - you don't know what to search until you know what to search!

And books like Ed's solve this by compiling it all in one place. Someone here did one for pg's essays and other articles and the result was a 12+MB file good to last you a few days if you're at it.
Does any of this really matter? Since when is an email a legally binding contract in ownership of a company?
A start-up is a painting that the artist "founder" tries to express to his audience. At times he's misunderstood, but there are times when the whole world appreciates and respects the artist's masterpiece....
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What it looks like to me is that you are getting clear and unequivocal evidence that what you posted is not very valuable, yet you are trying to blame it on everybody else, rather than yourself.
I think it's fair to say that in most careers, their exists a culture, and if you aren't apart of that culture, you miss out.

This happens to white people too. I work in the financial industry.

Typical weekend activity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1CKesTyTpI&feature=relat...

My weekend activity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7CtBWhrVAE&feature=relat...

Sucks for me, but I can't find fault with other people for doing what they like. It's not the job of the rest of the world to change to make it convenient for me to network.
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Did anyone download the source code that came from the last bundle? I'm always on the lookout for good game code to examine.
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Yep, you need to register as a foreign entity in the state, because you need a state tax id to get a bank account. Gotta pay the state, baby!

Re: California tax, I have no idea; I'd talk to a CPA about that. Many states don't tax online software sales, though.
We can take any .war file that runs on Tomcat, even jruby apps. Not just spring.
I think the issue is not so much with education but schooling, of course being educated is essential to success but what isn't essential is spending $250K on an Ivy League degree. Peter didn't say 'be ignorant' he said spending $250K on an Ivy League education is a waste of money and that the asset is overpriced.

There is a price where Harvard makes sense, however $250K isn't it.
"Our legal terms have changed since your last visit. By agreeing to the legal terms and requirements, you can continue making contributions to MSDN. Your profile is linked to from all contributions that you make, so others can learn more about you. It also shows your recent social activity and your medals/points."

I have to agree to this to read an article? No thanks.
Carnegie Mellon University offers a Software Engineering minor as part of their Bachelors in CS undergraduate program. As for the Master's degree, they already have one.

I think students have enough freedom to mold their own strengths and passions into the CS program here.
Are you doing anything to filter the non music-related results from youtube?
p.s. I recommend you both be signatories on the bank account with equal privileges.
You could join dribbble http://dribbble.com/site/about
I started out working on a fairly complex dynamic form builder for the research group I work for. They needed a way to build up forms to administer to possible research subjects. The rest of the app was using pieces from jquery-ui so I stuck with that and added backbone.js to handle more of the complex interactive tasks. All of it was written in coffee-script.

Early on this approach worked fine and for simple CRUD stuff it's not too bad but as the researchers wanted more and more options it got difficult to sync everything; dom interactions, model data and server data. I started to investigate SproutCore and thought "This object model with bindings is just what I need!"

So, I'd really like to disagree with your comment, but I can't. The reason is because I can't integrate SproutCore with anything else that's been written for our app. I can't even get access to some of SproutCore's pieces to try and integrate it. The entire view part of our app would have to be re-written using SproutCore to use the features and that isn't viable right now.

As it stands, I'd really like to use SproutCore. There are some great ideas there and I think that some of my projects would really benefit from their projects. But right now, backbone.js + jquery-ui has hit the sweet spot of easy to get up and running and looks good. The researchers are really happy with what I've got done and I'm able to move on to other problems.
With no indication of number of upvotes, though, there is no distinction between a 200-point comment on top versus a 2-point comment that happens to be on top. Sometimes it was easier to skip parts of a thread knowing approximately how many upvotes each post received.
On the iOS you can scroll textareas and iframes using two fingers. I imagine it should be possible on Android too.
Wow! Writing an editor to write a book. You're in good company. Someone else commented to just keep it simple and focus on the writing which is the traditional advice.

Did you find that by creating an editor while writing your book, you were able to stay more engaged that if you had simply used a text editor and pushed off formatting until the content was done?
I agree with you on tablets in general. Which is what makes me sad about tablets taking all the oxygen, even to the point of ChromeOS apparently getting touch functionality (which seems like a bad idea for many reasons). As a CR-48 owner, I'm actually looking forward to ChromeOS notebooks that are just a bit faster and have just a bit more memory.

My biggest abstract concern is that we're giving up so much of our input bandwidth with tablets. To me, the presence of a portion of the hardware dedicated to input says something about a device's purpose, which is to participate in the exchange of ideas. For a tablet, the purpose seems to be to manipulate the device, which it fulfills wonderfully and delightingly, but strikes me as ultimately stifling and restrictive.
I like how they finish strong with zune.net
Well the Metcal tips only slightly more expensive than the Radio Shack sabers and are easily replaced, although I wonder what they'd say if someone called them and asked which tip would be appropriate for boiling water or aromatherapy. :)
None of the code comes from Heroku at all.
UIUC already offers a bunch of graduate level courses in SE as part of the CSE program. If you take the courses, does it matter that the major is something else? :)
1. Higher education is incredibly valuable and most capable people should get one if they can. The intellectual discipline college offers for people who take it seriously is incredibly valuable.

2. We are in a bubble, sort of. It's not like the tulip bubble or a housing bubble where the product can be sold to a "greater fool", unless you consider the bump in hiring a degree provides to be a "sale". The education bubble is something different: panic-buying fueled by parents who are terrified that their kids will end up insignificant, taking orders rather than giving them, if they don't attend the right schools.

It's actually a bidding war over educational cachet and access to limited resources, coupled with much, much higher expectations of the "college experience" (that drive costs up even in the cheaper schools). My grandfather paid $300/year ($4000 today) to go to CMU in the early 1930s. There was also no expectation that it would provide a state-of-the-art, 25000-SF gym, a cafeteria serving better food than most restaurants, and an expensive blow-out concert with free beer every spring.
This is not serious, surely.

It's a simple Python wrapper for gcc. And by simple, I mean, really simple. Meaning the GPL is the biggest file in the source tree.

And it doesn't work:

igcc 0.1
Released under GNU GPL version 2 or later, with NO WARRANTY.
Type ".h" for help.

g++> int i = 0;

g++> printf("%d\n", s);

[Compile error - type .e to see it.]

g++> printf("%d\n", i);

[Compile error - type .e to see it.]

g++>

Yes, it does exactly what you think it does. It runs GCC on all the code you've entered.

I've been to the future, and language development does not progress in this direction. Future languages certainly do not have all the elegance of C++ and all the speed of Python.

Instead, why not write a C REPL on the front end of the LLVM Jit!?

No one seems to have even thought of writing a Scheme REPL for the LLVM Jit. And that would be completely doable. Write it in C, use Boehm's garbage collector and the LLVM Jit.
Do you ask museum curators what point value they assigned the paintings in their exhibits?

The curation still happens without numbers attached.
Thanks, I'll add a FAQ about location, latency, etc. after some sleep.

It's EC2 us-east at this time although we'll probably be evaluating alternatives soon. But moving off EC2 is a big step because so many people are there.
Sometimes, I do have time to read all the comments and evaluate for myself which are good and bad. That's great.

Other times, I don't have that much time and simply want to glean from the best comments on a post.

And then there are the posts in subject areas that are outside or on the edge of my expertise, where I have no business evaluating the comments. I can still benefit from reading them though, and the karma helps me give weight to the good ones and disregard the bad.
It depends on the sport. For example Javier Sotomayor (high jumper) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Sotomayor - made it from 0 to no.5 in 4 years, and there are other examples in this particular sport where people made it in 2 years or so. That's one of the reason I don't appreciate any sport, it depends on lots of factors apart from your mental discipline (golf is more or less only mental discipline OTOH).
Minority should not be absolute. "Underrepresented minority" only makes sense in context.
Is there any way to pull addresses out of the iPhone address book? Or to sync with my google contacts list and pull only the ones whose physical address I have? Either of these would be awesome features.

Great app. Downloaded it and sent myself a post card.
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Totally agree. I think there is this bias in these particular stories because of where these stories are originating. Most people aren't from the bay area, or went to Stanford, an Ivy or even a UC School. Most public/state schools will run $5k a year or so in tuition. An average person can finish in 5 years. In some states with lotteries, like New Mexico, you can go to college for free.

People get so wrapped up in their college's ranking in US News that they don't bother to find out which colleges are good enough. It's kind of a silly rule, but I usually tell people that, as long as their college has a basketball or football team (no matter how horrible they are), it's probably good enough.
Yeah, but he could barely walk at the time. That's pretty raw material right there.
I actually went to the 20 Under 20 selection event (I'm one of the "100+ mentors"), after hearing the director of 20 Under 20 speak at an event at Sunfire.

I think they are "stacking the deck" by picking 40 students (from which they will pick 20) who are going to succeed regardless, and who they can then point at as examples of dropping out being worthwhile.

It's clear that the biggest harm from effectively compulsory higher education is to those on the margin -- high school only students who fail to get a solid education in high school (because it is assumed that college will provide this), and students who either fail to graduate from college, or who are relying upon a degree program to prepare them for a career and who either can't or don't get a degree which leads to a suitable career. (if you're a smart computer person, a degree in philosophy is probably fine, if that is your interest; if you're barely able to make it through college, and want your degree to get you a job after, you should take a degree which directly prepares you for a job). Plus, the crippling debt of anyone in the middle or upper middle class who goes to an expensive school.

20 Under 20 doesn't necessarily solve these directly, but will probably provide a useful but not really applicable example which students, parents, and teachers can use in discussing whether college is appropriate for a marginal student.

What would be more useful is improved K-12 education, improved non-school educational resources (wikipedia, khan, ocw, etc., maybe combined with online study groups or some kind of testing/certification?), non-college schools and training, and not using a degree credential as an artificial employment barrier.
I agree that a college education is undoubtedly important, especially in certain fields such as engineering, but these deans don't seem to pay any importance to the cost of education. It's going up at an unsustainable rate. If an undergrad education at any great school, Ivy league/Stanford or not, were about 40-50K for 4 years, then I doubt even Peter Thiel would argue against it (although I don't know for sure).
But the problem is that the cost of attending such a university are growing at a staggering pace, whereas the cost of starting a software/internet based business in the same time frame has actually been going down at a staggering pace. The risk of failure may remain high, but the costs of failure keep getting lower, so you can't blame students for at least asking the question whether or not they should drop out.
Sure you may argue there is an opportunity cost associated with leaving a university - but that keeps decreasing as the costs of attending that university increase.
What happens when a 4 year education is $400,000?
IBM getting into the HTML5 authoring game with open source Maqetta
It seems, from the article, you are not using apple's in-app billing. How did you get the app approved? I thought it was mandatory these days?
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Maybe I'm just old, but my primary source of information is still RSS. I don't get this whole 'death of the feed' thing, are enough people really just visiting a handful of websites each day?
So why not add more ads to Hulu and make it bring in as much money as traditional channels? I don't mind ads and let those that do mind them pay to skip them.

The issue with normal television is that I may not want to or be able to watch that show at 8pm. And there's no technical reason anymore that I have to. So why not give consumers a legal and profitable for the content owners option to consume shows whenever they want?

I just don't comprehend their thinking.
Well Microsoft is not necessarily breaking, people have special casing in their sites for older browsers that they might want to evaluate based on what browser mix is hitting them.

The list looks quite small though. I was expecting it to be gigantic list in thousands.
When I was there, there was also the Information and Decision Sciences program. It was a little CS, a little economics, a dash of social science, and a pinch of management.

There was a two semester final year course that students had to take. In this course, project teams had to design and implement a software system for a local business or organization. While I had my own concerns about the formal curriculum, I always thought this capstone project was very good experience.
Awesome idea, great looking site, great usability.

The first thing i wanted to do was get a list of cards sorted by highest discount. It's almost like showing me where I can save the most.

I'm not sure how you're deciding on the original set on your homepage, seems quite random. If you showed me the highest savings, it promotes your site as a great way to get deals.

Now, it seems more like a place to get gift-cards with 'some' savings, often less than 10%.
Its a great forum for entrepreneurs to learn. For entrepreneurs to promote things on is a different story.
It currently supports multi-tenant and single tenant, you choose when you set it up.

Currently the multi-tenancy is based on locked down unix users and permissions and other system hardening, pretty much same approach Heroku uses so you judge whether that's multi-tenant or not. We are looking into lightweight containers like lxc and friends for another implementation of the multi-tenancy.
We didn't (this story isn't exactly our use case), but think of how much easier this would be to arbitrate if Ceglia could prove that those emails existed on Feb 4, 2004 instead of this year.

Now it's possible he could have had the foresight to make and hash fake emails that he didn't send just in case, but you've still significantly raised the bar for fraud from just "finding" emails from 2004.
I don't think they are criticising, I think they are making the point that they aren't the only ones who think you can't do hardware acceleration in XP. Whether that statement is true or not is irrelevant.
From a quick glance at Frozenbyte's website, it would appear the forum in question is http://frozenbyte.com/board/viewforum.php?f=19 . A bit barren, but hopefully they check it.
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