skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a Noachide law to "Set up courts and bring offenders to justice." This is a biblical law for Jews and Non-Jews alike, and it makes sense: even the most righteous, well-behaved and respected people will have disagreements with each other, and in a society with no government, implanting conflict-resolution, law-giving and judgement institutions would be a very good justification and first step to establishing one.

As long as a legal and judicial system is not abused to the detriment of the society for which it serves, this aspect of government is very useful.
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This is like saying: "I heard from somebody who has never been to Tonga that Tongans are dumb."

Second-hand tales ala "I heard from . . ." rarely relay facts.

(creative downmodding from someone who doesn't post enough to have a downmodding arrow)

p.s. how many points is it these days?
software developer for defense contractor

I'm not an entrepreneur at this stage of the game, I'm just here for the news.
Can anyone explain to me, someone who manages a small (< 10) team of developers with an SVN repository, why I need git?
I'm not sure that's a fair criticism of Hamburger U. Isn't it really just a training facility for McDonald's managers? As far as I know a) it has no pretensions of being a real college and b) McDonald's is a wildly successful global corporation, they must be doing something right.
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Plot thickens...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584076/Felix-Dennis-...
thanks bigbang.
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Ask YC: Feedback on usabilityfeedback.com
Hi YCers,
I've finished putting together a home page for a service I'm starting at http://www.usabilityfeedback.com , and would really appreciate any feedback on it :) Also, if you're interested in the service, please email me and mention YC and I will take 1/3 off the price.

For a couple years now I've been doing usability reviews for people just for fun. Then two and a half weeks ago I was laid off because the startup I was working for is nearly out of funding. I had had the idea for usabilityfeedback.com for awhile and decided to run with it in a way that would be quick to implement, enjoyable, and that could start generating cash immediately.

So far the response has been very positive, with other web developers I know recommending it to their clients. I'm really hoping it will do well enough that I'll be able to do it full time and have time left over to improve and add more services. Or at least stay off the streets.

Thanks!
yes. no problem!
Hi YCers,
I've finished putting together a home page for a service I'm starting at http://www.usabilityfeedback.com , and would really appreciate any feedback on it. (Incidentally, if you're interested in the service, please email me and mention YC and I will take 33% off the price.)

For a couple years now I've been doing usability reviews for people just for fun. Then two and a half weeks ago I was laid off because the startup I was working for is nearly out of funding. I had had the idea for usabilityfeedback.com for awhile and decided to run with it in a way that would be quick to implement, enjoyable, and that could start generating cash immediately.

So far the response has been very positive, with other web developers I know recommending it to their clients. I'm really hoping it will do well enough that I'll be able to do it full time and have time left over to improve and add more services. Or at least stay off the streets.

Thanks!
Better workflow.

There are tons of times I want to try something locally without affecting the main repository. It hurts trying to keep uncommitted experimental changes from messing up local upstream, while still switching back to the old code to fix a bug that affects everybody. With git's local branches, rebasing, and fast branch switching, it's easy to keep your local, not-yet-ready changes in a branch, and fix bugs on master, for example.

Allowing other people to pull your changes directly from your repository for testing, without committing it, is also a big plus. "Hey, I have this fix that I want to test before I commit it. Can you pull tag omg-git-is-awesome from my machine and test it to make sure I didn't mess things up?"

Overall, DVCS just fits better with the way I work. Note, pretty much any DVCS will give you similar advantages. Git's just nice because it feels fast, and I'm just comfortable with it. Plus, stuff like rebase and bisect are sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Watch the entire thing.
I've thought about alternative routes, and my mind continually drifts back to one idea: let capitalists run the education systems on a local scale. The key part that I have not figured out is the motivation for enterprising individuals to start their own schools while maintaining an environment that is cheap enough to allow even the lowest of the low-income groups to send a relatively bright child to the school.
If you define it that way, you're right.

Do you know a ten year old hacker?
School used to start at 7 am for me. And I had to drive around 5 km by bike.
I think it depends where you are. In a lot of places, parents seem to be so worried about the safety of their kids nowadays that they take them to school & pick them up until their mid-teens.

Having grown up in a small town in central Europe, I certainly walked (later cycled) to and from school (~2km), as did most colleagues that lived close enough. (the rest got the bus or train; many kids were picked up on Saturdays though) I haven't been around that school at 8am since I finished 6 years ago, so it's possible the situation has changed.
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I previously worked as a trader for KeyBanc Capital Markets and a broker for Banc of America Investment Services. I have now reentered academia.
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Are these just coding jobs, or are you also looking for people with mathematical finance backgrounds?
Joel would say that, since "incentive pay" comes out of his profit!

The prospect of more money wouldn't convince me to do a job I actively disliked but at the end of the day I'm a professional. I do what I do for money. The company isn't shy about boosting its revenue and making profits, why should I be?
Drexel doesn't belong on here either. They've obviously never actually visited these places, and just copied them from old issues of Princeton Review.

That photo isn't Drexel's campus, the smoke stack isn't even near campus and is just part of an old incinerator in Philadelphia. You can't see it from campus unless you're on a high floor of a high rise dorm/building.

There are hundreds of trees and grassy areas, and the "rape garden" is not even the only garden on campus.

Drexel blends right in with its Ivy League neighbor, University of Pennsylvania; there's no distinction between their campuses, they just run right into eachother.

Drexel is ranked among the top 100 national universities by US News & World, and in the top 10 of their most innovative list. I'm an alumni, who still lives within walking distance of campus, and this just makes me angry.
If you had read the article in question you would see that there is much more depth and analysis and yes ideas for a possible change than your caricature.

As for your "kids in Africa", Illich talks much in this article about the young in Latin America and the damaging effects of compulsory education on those children. Please read.

But in case your too busy, I'll try and summarize:

You take your "kids in Africa", whom probably, as you state, all would "love" to attend American schools and believe the American dream.

Let's not forget that many of them would probably love to eat at MacDonalds every meal too, but that not necessarily the best thing either.

Now, what happens to the those kids that cannot pass 12 years of compulsory education (he only uses 4 in the Latin case, but your talking USA) and are now inside a system that requires passing those 12 years. They are now seen as failures and most will internalize that branding. Not nice.

The point I'm trying to make, is, yea, call many of the comments "not insightful", but unless you read the article in question, your only displaying flippant ignorance to call it out for lacking insight.
Consistency in class definitions (that is, not two "types" of class). Python's packaging is less consistent. Oh, and far better community sites.
I have a full time gig as web developer, plus a blog that gets around 30-40k uniques per day. I'm also working on a charity-focused bodycare line and I have a screenplay under development. My current web project launches in September.
I like it. Simple. Easy. Straight forward.

I currently use a notepad and have around 20 .txt lists lol

A todo list site is just what I need.
One of the most frustrating things about git (as someone who occasionally uses git, mercurial and svn) is that the title here is "20 commands".

For svn my workflow is (checkout once), update, commit. Whereas I feel I'm mucking about in man and googling substantially more in order to do things in git.
interesting but people seem to be using great communities like HN for free, and high quality, advice. and not to mention, coming from more than one person.
I think this is probably an example of using a hammer to crack a very annoying nut. If his usual users are all linux types anyway I suppose it probably isn't hurting much.
They see their own apology.
I see your point, IT schools aren't for everyone. I visited the campus when I was looking for schools and didn't much like it, but it is a great school for engineering. My brother went to NJIT and it also is in a horrible area, but picking a college isn't about how good the gardener is.
Disposable cameras are 'recycled' i.e. refilled. They even announce this on the box.
> A company needs to increase its profits or it will die.

Why? While not exactly popular a company can live off stagnant profits.
Yeah, that is one of my worries. The response I've gotten from other developers / web dev shops has been enthusiastic, though, so I'm still hoping there's room for me in the market. Just doing one review each business day would be enough for me to cover expenses and begin adding services and reviewers.

I'm not sure if just doing a video and giving detailed, easy-to-reference documents is enough to set me apart, but for now it's a place to start. I also think that being a small shop and giving more personalized service could set me apart, but I haven't emphasized that on my site.

If that doesn't work out I've considered trying to start a usability feedback community. In fact I had one for awhile at http://www.hallwaytesting.com (now a defunct blog), but it seemed like most people were interested in just getting feedback and not giving any, or just in advertising their sites. So I'm not sure how to make a community like that work.
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Do you have alternatives?

If you're speaking hypothetically to figure things out, maybe keep the (hypothetical) alternatives all on the investors' side of things.

Something like ''brand name' VCs that don't care vs lower tier VCs that are excited about the technology'.
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I also like the idea; but, again things like Hacker News or even if you wanted the video sites like usertesting.com you could get 21 users for the same price.
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I get better value watching over many people's shoulders (for free or cheap - maybe not always cash) and listening to users.

My only suggestion: if you're not exploring the set of all target users (just the 'git' guy), why not list what kind of applications you're most fit to test? I would hope to know you're not interested in SVN functionality before forking over $450. Exploring Assembla's SVN functionality could have revealed deeper flaws in their Trac integration. At one point, I was asked to re-enter my username and password in an ugly HTTP authentication dialog.

Offtopic, but for anyone interested in a serious look at UX, I recommend Indi Young's 'Mental Models'
Thanks.

Actually browsing around I found this very useful:

http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
For what it's worth, I've heard the same thing from a Mormon who went there and didn't like how some of the other Mormons behaved.
One review each business day? What brings up your costs so much?
Only take a job where you’ll learn something.
One thing I'm wondering is if I should mention usertesting.com and explain how my service is different from theirs. For example, you could indeed get 21 users for the same price, but they you would have to watch something like 210 minutes of video and read 21 feedback forms, a lot of it covering the same ground. As opposed to ~15 minutes of video and a summary document which clearly points out problem areas and gives possible solutions.

Part of me really thinks Usability Feedback could do well if I just market it well. I'm just not sure what I should do differently. A/B testing would probably help.
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* people who get things done
* people who write lists
Thanks for the feedback. It looks like, on the site, I should clarify what actually goes on when you request feedback. For example, with the Assembla site, if they requested that I review their SVN functionality, that's what I would do. We would have a pre-review conversation going over tasks to perform.

Also, did the "usefulness guarantee" not catch your eye? I mention there that you get your money back if the review isn't useful.

(That's funny that you mention "Mental Models" - I just bought that two days ago.)
I have a chronically ill partner, and medication is expensive. I'd like to be able to do this full time, and it would therefore have to cover those expenses.
Ask YC: Payment Processing
I know this has been talked about before many times; but, looking through it still haven't been able to find a good one.

We currently use Paypal which has most of the features we currently want
- no monthly fee
- monthly subscriptions
- not needing a merchant account

The problem is for a lot of business users and some consumers, going to another site Paypal looks a little "un-professional" and doesn't always just let you put in your credit card information.

I've looked at
- Authorize.net, needs merchant account
- Amazon, for the U.S. only
- Paypal's PayFlowPro, for the U.S. only

I've been looking into 2checkout and they seem to look good.

Any other suggestions?
From a post of mine a while back on this topic:

1. I can commit things locally before committing them to the main repository. This allows me to commit something in a manner that separates it from all future changes, but test it for a few more days in future development before I actually push it to the main repository.

2. I can correct past commits. This means I don't have to clutter up the history with "fix typo"; I can just amend the previous commit. Obviously this isn't useful for stuff far back, but if I commit something and 2 minutes later someone points out a typo, I can fix it. A messy history makes development and bugfinding harder; git helps avoid it.

3. Git diff is formatted a bit more nicely than svn diff, IMO.
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Google Checkout?
It caught my eye. I couldn't remember it after watching the video. Thanks for clarifying your workflow.
Great idea, great site but $450 is too much.
If I understand your question -- these aren't hypothetical VCs that we're dealing with -- we're in talks with two different VCs with a couple contacts at each. But deals take a while. I can't say at this point that we'll get a term sheet from either. Statistically, probably not (think of Paul's mantra here: "deals fall through"), but we're trying to think of under what circumstances we would accept investment from these guys or investors we deal with in the future.

We're fortunately in the position of being able to survive for at least a year without investment, but taking investment would allow us to grow faster and specifically to hire a couple of people. Just going with bootstrapping we're probably at least three months out from having revenue enough to hire someone.
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This simple workflow is actually not that much more complicated with git: clone once, update, commit, push.
Also, looked at that; was hoping for something again that I could either keep users on my site or have it look similar to my site. Google Checkout doesn't do any of that.
You can't really trust anybody when it comes to science relating to diet. ANY scientific result would have a party that would potentially benefit from it.
I'm getting down mods, and you're getting ups. But I read it _again_ and I don't see anywhere at all where it says that!

Exactly the opposite: "their wages didn't fall below the legal hourly minimum. Farmer Smith tried to adjust the piece rate each day so that it was always adequate but never generous"

Where are you seeing that he is paying more? All I see is him paying the same, but getting more output via competition.

And again:

"(If the managers made a mistake in their estimate, and the pickers didn't earn minimum wage, Farmer Smith would make up the shortfall"
If this a "serious" project, there shouldn't be a second thought to setting up a proper merchant account (authorize.net). Its a very small investment in the realm of things. Especially if you want to appear as "legit" or "professional". If that not an investment you are willing to make yes, I think you can get away with PayPal for the time being. Take a look at Express checkout, it's a lot prettier then some of the previous PP integrations.
Many people would prefer private critiques over putting their new site out to fry. Myself included.
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In my experience, the problem with Java is typically the code that is written. Average coders generating enormous numbers of classes/interfaces and not really understanding the problem/machine/etc. Java that I have written by myself or in small groups of seasoned engineers had a decent outcome.
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Ask HN: Systems programming laanguage of the future?
Most OSes and systems programming in general is mostly done in C (and C++?).

The language has some clear flaws from what I understand but there aren't really any alternatives are there?

Why is C so fast? Because people make it fast or because it is easy to write fast compilers for it?

Why aren't other languages used for writing OSes? They just don't have the speed?
JAVA is used a lot for server-programming right? But doesn't cut it speedwise for OSes?

As we move to the cloud and the OS becomes less important will C disappear as new systems replace the old ones?

But you will still need some small basic OS right? So will people program in C in 10 years or will compilers have gotten so smart will be writing that in Haskell, Python or JAVA?

Why hasn't anyone created a better systemprogramming langauge?
My friend Richard Brodie did just that. It's called Getting Past OK. Worth a read.
I like http://cdgcommerce.com/

They have very good rates, and customer service is top notch.(look on sites like webhosting talk and everyone raves about them)

+ if you plan to store people's credit card info they have the vault for that.(so you won't have to spend thousands on compliance with the credit card companies)
actually, it is a media harvester - i was hoping to see actual page/element capturing.
True. That is what makes it a great read (I thought it was) & a great experiment. You can easily understand the pieces.

But hopefully, some rules & guidelines might emerge from this type of experimentation. These would (if they are good rules & guidelines) be applicable more widely.

It'd be difficult to work out the laws of mechanics by examining an engine. But playing with a lead ball in a lab can eventually help you build a better engine.
Oh hai Ticketwood sock puppet person, it’s your pal Dan from TicketStumbler. I noticed that Ticketwood has spammed at least five other TicketStumbler articles with the exact same comment. Actually this might be time #11.

Are you guys really this desperate for visitors and attention? How much do spam commenters cost anyways? Love always and forever, your friends at T-Stumbler.

P.S. Maybe instead of spamming our press coverage you should focus on building a good product. kekekeke
Just development positions at the moment.
I was just trying to simplify the comparison for the purpose of valuing a VC's excitement about your technology ( assuming that you are unlikely to be looking at 2 term sheets simultaneously).

Unfortunately, I don't have the experience to offer any useful advice myself.
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If I were you I wouldn't mention competitors and how you differ, as you are then 1) promoting competitors and 2) branding yourself vs. the competition, rather than just defining yourself.

Having said that. my quesion was specifically, how many people are going to be reviewing the site for $450?

Different people take a different view of websites/apps, so having a small group of users is a huge benefit, vs. being reviewed by just one person.
I wouldn't want to watch 210 minutes of video, but for $450 would expect the video (or whatever else you supply) would be shortened to the most important feedback, and maybe have the full video available if a client wants to watch it.

I would have said that I might have been a potential client, but with only one person reviewing the site, I don't see the value being inline with the cost.
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Legacy, of course. Beyond that I would look to the language semantics, not performance.
Is there any detailed information on what Bezos did for Shaw? I had always assumed he was a developer or similar there, too.
Disclaimer: I don't speak for BYU.

I went to BYU. I'm sorry to hear that your friend had that kind of experience. I believe that everyone I went to school with would have considered that very intolerant and rude indeed. I hope that's far from the experience of all students there who aren't LDS.

Some of the points in the blurb about BYU are accurate, but some are misleading and false. BYU is a private religious institution, and it therefore has stricter rules about conduct, appearance, and behavior. These rules, together called the "Honor Code", are accepted by every student before he/she attends. These standards are a big part of the reason for the students' desire to attend BYU. Abstaining from tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs is already part of the LDS belief system. The idea that students are required to abstain from flirting is ludicrous, and reveals that the author(s) must either be ignorant or must have misinterpreted their information. There is no end to flirting at BYU, unless you define flirting to include crudity and lewdness. "Sexual comments" was an interesting addition to the list. As a student at BYU, you are expected to use clean language and adhere to high moral standards, and so I suppose if by "sexual comments" they mean "vulgar or crass sexual comments" then this is true. These are all things that may perhaps be labeled as "intolerant" by some, but which I agree with.

The facial hair rule I think is old-fashioned and unnecessary. I and a lot of others think that blocking YouTube on the campus network is disgusting and verging on communism (I can't stand forced web filtering of any kind). Tunneling worked though, and the CS network didn't block YouTube, so that was nice.
Note that this article appears to be written by a crank who creates Wikipedia articles (that all get deleted) to promote his obscure computer architecture research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiner_Hartenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rainier3