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This dip was expected and isn't necessary a problem as long as the "positive effects" outnumber the negative ones. By a move like this, you'll lose visitors and attention because your stories potentially aren't referenced as much anymore, but you might make it up in additional revenue and a more dedicated readership.
How about showing a short list of the key guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) below the comment box whenever someone wants to make a comment?

A quick visual reminder that is "below the fold" - ie below the reply button, so easily ignorable for frequent users, but very visible for new commenters that may not have read the guidelines...

Could have a list of the key guidelines, or show one of the key points at random, or even set it based on what you think is one of the main issues affecting the type of comment on the site.
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Basically everything is Cocoa in Snow Leopard with the glaring exception of iTunes and it's really starting to show, they really need to do a rewrite. Hopefully they don't call it iTunes X like they've done with the Final Cut and Quicktime rewrites.
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I think it's a good experiment. I have no idea how it will turn out. Like with anything, I am sure it has its good points and bad points. The question of most importance: Does it have the desired impact on the culture/comment quality? If so, great. If not, whatever.

Following karma/votes on HN is one of the more harmless ways I have wasted time online. The fact that it has such an appeal when I feel like crap may not be a good sign. :-P
I just don't get what this is useful for. Can someone enlighten me?
I'd be much more excited about Foursquare as a place to work if they did not require a CS degree. It tells me a lot about the culture at 4sq, and what it is telling me is not good. Just a thought.
I got a bit excited and registered straight away, but then I realised that I have no idea where you guys are physically based. Is this a competition that requires physical presence, and if so where is this competition being held?
yes but all those things can just been seen as politicians blustering. Politicians are very good at twisting words to say something while implying another thing. You get a bit of paper from the government saying "You there, you are not entitled to this", is worth way more.
Another algorithm which is much simpler in its recursive form is a flood-fill - paint the screen area with a given color till you hit a "border".
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I think you were seeing what you wanted to see. As an example, I came here because of the great Entrepreneur community, twice as long ago as you came here for the comp sci.
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I have no doubt that inner nature can be learned or at the very least improved. People are complex and the stated reasons are very seldom the real reasons. My friend may just be saying what sounds logical rather than the real reason.

In any case I hope this guy makes it!
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I don't think you can do it. Technically, the lists are available (for a short time if I am not mistaken) for perusal at a tax office; in practice, they are released to the media (e.g. major news outlets), who give you access to search by name plus league tables and aggregated statistics by year of birth, postcode etc.
The Java people have always been very reluctant to add new features because they wanted to keep the language clean and simple, a design choice that personally I think is superior to 'rich' grammars like that of C++, Python, and C#. How many people really know and use 100% of the C++ syntax these days? Many companies actively enforce a strict subset of the language, and who even cares about C++0x? In my humble opinion C# pretty much jumped the shark when they started adding things like partial classes.

There's lots of things wrong with Java, but I think a worthy successor should at least keep that 'less is more' mentality.

If you want a feature-rich Java though, you can always try the KSL: http://openjdk.java.net/groups/compiler/ksl.html

edit: by the way, I'm not saying Java > Python, just that I prefer clean languages. Just wanted to get that out of the way before I get flamed to death :3
Skywing[vL]? I used to hang out on the [vL] forums as $t0rm:][) (aka Banana Fanna Fo Fanna). You were pretty famous back then, dude.
Dropbox can certainly get that information - remember, they can access all accounts.
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Monitor? Aren't people complaining about China's monitoring and stuff like that?
Yes, this is key. Tarsnap and other encrypt-then-dedup services simply cannot comply with such an order.
Which is all well and good, but to say that salary doesn't matter is bupkis.

If you're creating significant value and getting little for it, you're getting the short end of the stick. If you notice you're getting the short end of the stick, you're probably going to feel like crap.

Mind that lots of developers, if working for a company, don't own what they create.

"Our goal as hackers is to create value, millions of dollars worth of value."

Screw that. My goal is to enjoy life, have fun, work on interesting stuff and not feel like I'm getting screwed over in the process.
I always made sure I was really paying attention in class and tried to take care of myself physically (I didn't party in college, made sure I slept enough, etc) so I was able to focus like that. When studying, I would stop and close my eyes and see if I could "repeat back to myself" what the key points were of the last couple of paragraphs or so. If I couldn't, I would re-read it. Before exams, I would review my notes and such but I never "crammed" for a test. I found that making sure I really got it as I went along meant that some review was helpful but cramming was not necessary (and I suspect cramming where you get hopped up on caffeine and hardly sleep and all that is probably counterproductive).

I also was good at taking tests. If you aren't good at that, do some googling. Taking tests is not just about measuring what you know. It's also a skill you can develop, especially tests for something like University where you tend to run into some of the same formats and such over and over.

Best of luck.

PS if you need my advice credentialed: I graduated high school STAR student, National Merit Scholarship Winner, state alternate for the Governor's Honors program and was inducted into Mu Alpha Theta in 11th grade (the earliest you can be inducted). I got other academic awards in college, though I remember them less well and, well, dropped out and went and did other things for a long time because college wasn't my highest priority. (I dropped out in part to go figure out who I was other than an obnoxious brainiac -- being one of the top students at the high school I attended while the rest of my life crashed and burned was not a healthy experience for me.)

I'm kind of a snob who enjoys tearing apart poorly put-together arguments written by folks who have a PHD.* Call it an obnoxious hobby. I try to be less obnoxious than I used to be. I don't dislike PHD's per se. But those folks who are jerks about it and think they are so superior to everyone around them because they have a PHD and think they can then put out any old crappy unsupportable opinion because we are supposed to kowtow to the letters behind their name, yeah, those folks tend to end up not much liking me. (Blame it on my father, a high school drop-out who taught at a college for a time while in the Army and who used to take glee in correcting the spelling, grammar and punctuation of notes sent home by college-educated public school teachers. Right is right, regardless of your credentials or lack thereof.)

* Or other credentials. It's just an example.
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A direct link to the proposed bill if anyones interested:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2010/0119/lat...

I used to work for one of the countries leading ISP's and they have historically been massively against this proposal. They have always been vocal proponents of Net Neutrality and I can't see them simply accepting the conditions of this bill without a fight.
He never said he wants to take on Tiger Woods. The experiment seeks to validate and analyze whether or not 10k hours of practice will get one to expertise. I find it dismissive for all expert golfers (whether pro or not) below Woods (who lies at the extreme top end of the expertise pool).

Here's some perspective: for Woods to have golfed 100,000 hours, he should have done so:
- 8 hours a day every single day since he was born.
or
- 11 hours a day every single day since he was 10.
I hate to be a troll but when i read this headline, all i can think in my head is "Gee thanks captain obvious!"
>To become good at golf does not mean that you can sit on the driving range and hit golf balls every day until your hands bleed.

I disagree with this part. Fighters learn to fight by sparring with each other in very controlled settings. The first time they have a situation where the other person is trying to hurt them in earnest is in the ring. "Ring rust" (the equivalent to actual course play, playing in front of people, etc.) does play a role but it's a vastly smaller role than the actual techniques which can be learned in isolation.

There was a famous pro golfer who said he used to hit golf balls on the course until he got to the green and then take the ball and move on. There was no reason for him to practice the greens because he could do that elsewhere. Isolated training seemed to work for him.

tl;dr I think you're putting way too much value on playing in front of people and putting all the techniques together. Learning the techniques themselves is the hard part in any sport.
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Your example is a tad too simplistic.

Literally everyone would just write z = x + y; inline

Why parameterize needlessly?

If you're saying that list comprehensions are clearer in functional form, I would suggest a more appropriate comparison.

How about:

* drawing some text on a bitmap in lines

* building a list of nodes and doing a Minimal-Spanning-Tree

I don't think they'd be much clearer.
Maybe, but the problem was that "all lexing/parsing/syntax highlighting/analysis of the language is much harder because of this horrible choice". Using quotes doesn't really fix that.
Backwards compatibility was never a technical problem, the JVM can support heterogeneous programs written in multiple languages out of the box. As long as it all compiles down to class files everything can interoperate seamlessly.

Strong-typed alternatives to Java have existed for ages, such as Nice, KSL, and Scala, so if you want you can take your pick in mix it in with Java code right now.

As far as I understand it Sun just didn't want to fork the Java language.
Sometimes it can be difficult to reply to a comment without the possibility of being perceived as being snarky. For example a comment thread that I was involved in about jQuery recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2429832

Fortunately the person I replied to took the comment in the sense it was intended, but I also know that people can be really defensive in this area and can perceive a comment as snarky even though it wasn't meant to be.
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Apply for other jobs while at your current job. When you have an offer that you would like, go to your current employer and say "I have been offered a job for X". That's all.

They'll either decide they want to keep you on at Xish or not.
Yes - but I am also learning a lot. I don't think I would have ended up knowing the things I know somewhere else. I am pretty good at dead-panning through negotiations :). In two years I will have a full suite of financial modelling code that has been tested on billion dollar products.
This goes both ways. The wisest action for the next guy who digs up an exploit is to release it anonymously.
That's true, at some point you grow up and use Java :3
Eeek, only 2 weeks holidays per year? :(
For comparison, I came up with this in C#

Func<int, int, int> sum = (x, y) => x + y;

I had to specify the type explicitly, could not use 'var' type inference; the error is "Cannot assign lambda expression to an implicitly typed local variable". This is because the lambda could mean more than one kind of thing (delegate, expression tree, Func<>). Yeah, it's c# baggage.

Of course, once the type is known, you could do

var sum2 = sum;
Neil, the main article has a link to the "Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs" article by Eliezer_Yudkowsky [1]. Considering your post, I believe you will really enjoy it.

[1]
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From my experience (which was as a developer of a browser game) this is not true. People who complain are people who care. And people who care will stay. People who really want to go will not complain. They will stop contributing and go without much fanfare.

In the end you stay with all the complainers, but none of the non-complainers. This is a real risk for a community. (In the case of the game it was 'simple' to fix this: change the game. It is far harder for something like HN)
Yeah, I think you'd have to track every innovation there ever was. And that could take a whole weekend.
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This is not cryptographically sound. Practically, it's still perfectly possible to check for the presence of a known file and find all associated accounts; formally, the standard definitions don't require that e.g. AES(K, K) is secure ("circular encryption").

More generally, cross-account deduplication always makes it possible to tell if anyone has uploaded a file before - that's the entire point!
Platter drive => SSD

9-to-5 => Gig with flexible scheduling

Strongly typed languages => Weakly typed languages
Votes are a terrible way of getting feedback on comments - I'd genuinely love to know if something I've said is "off topic" for the community but I often feel that some of my worst comments (one liners, or attempts at humor) actually get the most votes.

Perhaps some way of visualizing the way distribution of the karma bands for the people who voted on a comment (both positive and negative) would be good - I would actually go and check this occasionally to see if I was getting too far out of step.

e.g. Something that told me that your comment may have a total score of 30 but the people that have a karma level over 10000 who voted all downvoted etc.
The first study I know of is the 1996 book "The Road to Excellence" http://www.amazon.com/Road-Excellence-Acquisition-Performanc... . I got it after I read Peter Norvig's essay on "Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years." http://norvig.com/21-days.html .

So here are the numbers, in short, for mastery:

It takes about 10k hours of practice.

It takes about 10 years.

That means about 3 hours of practice everyday. Everyday.
Random off the top of my head:

No backup/storage => Dropbox 50gb (paid) <--- !!!!! Probably the best computing upgrade I've ever made.

Same password on every site => Keepass (Also an incredible thing)

No serious exercise => Starting to exercise (gym, started playing a new sport I love, etc.)

Old phone => Smartphone (iPhone 4)
I had a bit of a rocky history in school, and looking back I think I can block out the things that really hurt my performance.

1) Working part-time more than a handful of hours a week.

2) Having a girlfriend.

3) Not exercising and eating well.

Don't do those things, and you'll be off to a much better start.

(Having a s/o can arguably be good for mental stability and relaxation. Just make sure you pick someone low-maintenance.)

P.S. Don't race to the finish. There's no big prize at the end of college, it's not a race. Get everything out of it you can; there's little value in taking as many classes as you can at the same time.
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Could you talk about your conversion to a Home Gym? I'm perhaps interested in following your path, but I'm not sure where to start.
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US => Ireland

.NET => php/python

1 monitor => 2 monitors

Car => No Car
Slightly off-topic: These "gag orders" never cease to amaze me. My (very limited) understanding is that the US is _the_ country fighting for free speech. It's valued higher than most other things (i.e. over here, in Germany, it's restricted: You seem to be far more limited in what you can say without legal consequences).

Yet, I regularly stumble upon rulings like these. Am I missing something? Isn't that exactly the opposite of free speech, with a court nodding gravely and supporting the outcome/helping to enforce this?
Do you want high grades, or do you really want to learn something useful?

If I were you, I'd not worry so much about "getting the most out of of university grades" and join the board of some student organisation instead. Or start an evening startup. You'll learn plenty difficult engineering stuff also if you get average grades. Meanwhile, you'll learn about the real world in a safe environment, without the risk of having no money to buy food if you fail.

That said, if your main worry is to pass the exams at all (or to finish that report, etc), I've learned two tricks: 1) start with the easy parts. Sounds stupid, but it helps motivation tremendously. Especially works with reports etc, but you can do the same with exercises while preparing for exams. 2) Remember why you're doing this. I'll assume it's because you want to get the degree, you want to show yourself that you can take on this difficult program, because you know you can. Or something along those lines.
Over time the readership and topics covered of HN has grown and maybe the quality has gone down. Perhaps one way of solving this problem is to find a way to present a smaller subset of data to different groups so that they can focus on the areas they like?

My favourite kind of posts are big data, web app architecture and functional programming. If my view of HN was skewed by my interests, then my perception of the quality of HN would improve. Chances are that other people would fit into my interest groups and hopefully that would promote tighter, smaller groups and perhaps the quality would increase.

Stackoverflow's tag system seems to work well, but assigning tags would introduce extra burden on people (and another area for disagreement). I like the idea of a machine learning approach where I see articles based on the content on previous articles I enjoyed (via voting). The same could work for comments. Going further, perhaps this could even suggest people with similar interests to yours.
I feel like that every time I use Internet Explorer.

Looked pretty cool though, the frame rate was pretty good on Firefox 4 on my Macbook.
Flip phone => smartphone

Smartphone => iPhone

PC => Mac

Using public wifi => private Internet connection

The biggest one: bike => car.
landline => mobile

blah clamshell cellphone => iPhone

PC/Windows => Mac/OSX

Java => Python

The Man's corporate cubicle => home office => my business office

9-to-5 salary grind => my own schedule, ROWE, contracting/consulting

used cars => new 2010 Hyundai

backpack 4 laptop => padded laptop bag => hard shell reinforced briefcase

SVN => git

laptop's boot filesystem on magnetic platter hard drive => SSD

TV for visual vegging => the Web

living on the 70th floor => living on ground floor

sharing walls & ceilings with neighbors/drummers/blind-elephants => not
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Windows > Linux
CD-R backups > Dropbox
Two monitors > One 30" Dell Monitor (Best purchase ever btw)
Pirating Music > Spotify (I even pay a subscription)
TV > Youtube, BBC iPlayer, other steaming services (and now no TV licence fee)
Crap diet > Learning to cook
Paperwork > iPad
IDE > gEdit
Landline > Mobile

I'm sure there are others. One thing i'd love to do is live totally off the grid, reuse water, generate own electricity, grow own food, live in middle of no where. The only thing i cant figure out how to do is a decent net connection...
Montreal, Qc => Tokyo, Jp.

Never felt more liberated in my life. I can't describe in words how good it felt.
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This doesn't seem suited to HN. It assumes a level of technical ignorance that people on this forum have long got beyond.
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Also, practicing a sport is always good for other reasons. Maybe he can add a year to his life and enjoy living outdoors for six years. Not bad.
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Are you working out?