skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yah - definitely. That would be an out of control building. Imagine how fun it would be to do a tour of that building, and go from room to room to see all the interesting things people are working on. With M$ budget they could also provide some incredible facilities.

I used to work at the MS, and it really did seem removed from the world of startups. And, having worked in shared office space with other startups I've really felt the difference it makes to not be working in isolation. They are definitely making good inroads in Seattle to connect with the community, but something more transformational may be needed.
IMO, it would really help if the main page quickly discussed the differences and similarities between chaiscript, python, and C++. I couldn't find that explanation, but I only surfed the page for 30 seconds or so.

Looks cool.
My sentiments :
Good : Java has lot of well-documented libraries. Yay.
Bad : Lots of boilerplate code, you can't add flexibility to the langage (not even with "simple" C macros or closures).
Being within my rights and being petty are 2 different things. They sometimes overlap. This is one such case.

If I didn't trust the check to clear, I'd have no choice, of course. But since I could foreclose on them AGAIN if the check didn't clear, there's no way they are going to make that mistake.

(To be clear, the above is totally hypothetical and I am not involved in this incident at all.)
He being me. Looking at the future is great. Deleting the past isn't necessary.
I doubt that Java open source projects are in the minority. GitHub [1] is far from a representative sample of the whole FOSS activity.

[1] https://github.com/languages
Just to clarify, all that was over a single removed unconstructive comment (not a question or answer) on a meta. Literally. Does it get more trivial than that? The topic of the blog post was about removal of users from the main site, which is a far more serious matter.
This old Knuth quote seems apt:

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Where'd you get the pastebin info from? Most of the people mentioned there were key players in the HBGary hack. I find the idea of Lulzsec as an offshoot of AnonOps far more believable than anything else I've seen.
Here in Uruguay we have lots of Groupon clones, in addition to Groupon itself. Two of them are at least as successful as Groupon right now (local WooW http://www.woow.com.uy/ and Argentinean NoTeLaPierdas http://www.notelapierdas.com/ ).

I guess one of the easy points for them was that acquiring users wasn't that expensive (not sure how they did it, but 90% of the Internet users have one of two Uruguayan email providers, and getting the email databases wasn't that expensive last time I heard about it). They also use Facebook (By the way, I read here that Facebook ads weren't having good conversion rates, but both me and my girlfriend have made purchases based on Facebook ads. By comparison, I never bought anything off a Google ad, surprisingly).
The free, short ebook “On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion” has some insights on the issues of respect, control, authority, and conservatism, especially as it relates to minors. Highly recommended read: http://www.freedomainradio.com/FreeBooks/OnTruthTheTyrannyof...

The authority/truth mismatch is something that (especially) the first chapters of #HPMoR deal with, as well as rational thought and scientific inquiry (which the end of the linked article gets into):

> "You think you have what it takes to be a scientist in your own right, with or without my help? Then let's see how you investigate a confusing phenomenon."

> "I..." Hermione's mind went blank for a moment. She loved being tested but she'd never had a test like this before.

Read it: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...

This article also reminds me of some hurtful moments from my youth. Once, in high school, I was almost kicked out of the house merely for attempting to have a reasonable, rational, calm discussion about a parental rule, despite being told the “conversation” was over. (Perhaps “monologue” fits better.) Then a few short years later, I was told I could no longer come home for Christmas as I no longer shared my mother’s faith. (A lot like this, except for my age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mcOIyf9TOQ) Sure, lots of teens had it worse than I did, but this kind of thing is extremely hurtful, and really put a damper on my relationship with my family.

Kids who spot bullshit, and the adults who get upset about it, indeed.
Ted Nelson (you can look him up on Wikipedia) tells a story where he's explaining hypertext to Robert Heinlein in the 70s, and Heinlein says "So it's like The Source?" (which is an early AOL).
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I do it all the time.

- A single LLC is probably optimal for what you are suggesting, unless one or more of the projects you will be pursuing is something that invites litigation. You would definitely want to have a separate LLC for anything that is extremely risky or that is in a litigious industry (healthcare, etc.) If your first app is just "slightly profitable", I wouldn't worry about it that much. If you add other memmbers/managers in the future you can always restructure the ownership and compensation ratios, etc. - LLCs are amazingly flexible.

- I've used series LLCs several times (in IL and DE), and it was very helpful in a couple of cases and a complete clusterfuck in another. Find a great lawyer if you opt to go that route. You DEFINITELY have to use separate bank accounts and ledgers for every series if you want to get any of the advantages of the Series LLC structure. Just trying to open Series-specific bank accounts can be an issue, surprisingly. I would only use a Series LLC again for VERY specific purposes (mutual fund companies, etc.)
It isn't. It's just that as a general rule of thumb, I believe in openness and transparency as the morally correct thing to do, and I suspect pg agrees with me. Don't you agree with that at least to some extent?

And therein lies my double bind: how does one balance the need for a civil community with the hacker's dislike of things done in the shadows? Are you happy with the idea that users are secretly banned all the time?
The further up the specialization ladder you travel, the more scientist-like the doctors become until you reach the pinnacle where doctors at research hospitals are doing ground-breaking treatments and publishing the results.

The gulf between the average MD doing GP and this pinnacle is huge. Much larger than most people suspect.
Axioms are fine in logic, mathematics, physics, ... so why not elsewhere?

Because those axioms work, and are verifiable independently, and the Bible's axioms don't, except through sheer coincidence.

Hint: If you have to die to find out if you've been lied to all your life, you should consider that a pretty big problem with your faith.
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Lying on your visa application is a punishable offense. It is written right there on the form.
"As for your points in here. Most of them I can respond with "don't do that"."

The problem is if you are writing Java, you are probably working with people who do do that.
Uh, can you elaborate more? Mixins work just fine in Ruby which has no multiple inheritance.

You don't have to "hack mixins by copying" in Javascript.
And what did you mean by the last sentence?
You have packed a lot of misinformation into one post. Cross platform does not matter for open source? People who use Linux also have a disdain for VMs like those that run Erlang, Python, Java, Scala, Clojure, etc?
The JVM is probably the foremost example of a VM that uses JIT-ing really really well to achieve near-native speeds for a VM language.
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Don't forget being able to fire the terrible teachers. The practice of giving lifetime tenure after two years needs to end.
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Not really surprised there. I've worked for both CEOs of SourceForge and Collabnet (the software that I worked with, SourceForge Enterprise Edition was purchased by CollabNet in 2007). CollabNet's CEO seems to think that Subversion will change the world [engineering's had a DVCS integration into SFEE (now teamforge) for the last two years, but product management wouldn't allow it to be included], and SourceForge is nothing more than a media company that's bootstrapped by thinkgeek.net.
College is useful for people who want to make the best of it. My freshman year here I got involved with a research group examining virtualization in high performance computing (supercomputing). By the end of my freshman year I had helped write a big patch for QEMU to virtualize Intel HW instructions and implemented the software compatibility layer for Intel in our own virtual machine monitor. In addition to the invaluable experience this gave me (especially in practical C) I also appeared as a coauthor on the VMM paper in a very prestigious systems conference (IPDPS).

In my sophomore year I was elected President of the Northwestern ACM chapter and tried to get more involved and invested in computer science at Northwestern. At the end of that year I also met Microsoft recruiters at a Northwestern job fair and went to work on SQL server over the summer.

This past year I co-taught my first class in security and network penetration at Northwestern and my co-lecturer and I led our team to 8th/72 in the International Capture the Flag Contest (a worldwide university hacking competition). I also started working on the Racket programming language with Prof. Robby Findler. Later I met Google recruiters at a job fair this year and will be working in the Google Chicago office this summer as a result.

Next year I hope to complete my masters and finish a thesis in programming languages.

If someone doesn't think they want or need college that's perfectly fine with me but I wouldn't give up my college experiences for anything.
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The problem that exists where I live - Finland - is that a society that develops itself to a point where they are a first-world country where even the most unfortunate resident can enjoy a secure (if not good) life provided by the state can easily be taken advantage of by someone from a second world country.

Once you have enough people taking advantage of such a structure, the equation no longer works. Taxpayers resent immigrants taking advantage of the safety net without at least giving the trapeze a shot.
Cool project! I looked over your code very briefly and noticed you don't tend to use destructuring very much. It was something that took me a while to get used to too, but it turns out to be very useful and makes the code much smaller. Take for example this:

(defn stats [requests-state]
"Returns a mapping of RequestsState http states states to counts"
(reduce
(fn [stats request]
(let [r @request
state (:state r)
status (:status r)
statuses (:statuses stats)]
(assoc stats
:total (inc (stats :total 0))
state (inc (stats state 0))
:statuses (assoc statuses status (inc (statuses status 0)))
:progress (if (not= state :untried)
(inc (stats :progress 0))
(stats :progress 0)))))
{:statuses {}}
(flatten (:grid @requests-state))))

Could be written like so:

(defn stats [requests-state]
"Returns a mapping of RequestsState http states states to counts"
(reduce
(fn [{statuses :statuses total :total :as stats} request]
(let [{state :state status :status} @request]
(assoc stats
:total (inc (or total 0))
state (inc (stats state 0))
:statuses (assoc statuses status (inc (statuses status 0)))
:progress (if (not= state :untried)
(inc (stats :progress 0))
(stats :progress 0)))))
{:statuses {}}
(flatten (:grid @requests-state))))
This better not be true. I'd hate for Nvidia to go to Microsoft. Nvidia is too important for the future of ARM chips to be owned by Microsoft.
Both Google and Bing seem to handle it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombi...
Are there some particular cases where you see them screwing up?
Please don't require using another service to log in. I hit "Sign in", saw the Google, Twitter, and Facebook buttons, and immediately looked for the "no, I really want to use a username and password" option.

Also, the Twitter authorization requests permission to read tweets and followers; don't do that.
Ask HN: What's the point of mandatory schooling?
To make sure everyone is on the same page, I'm talking about mandatory schooling from grades 6 through 12 in the United States. I'm also talking about an average school you'll find everywhere in the US, not the special schools they talk about in talks like TED.

For several years in my life, I've been wondering, what was the point of school? Various people throughout my life said that school was for learning. The interesting thing was, I learned 100x more on my own than from school. In fact, a lot of things school taught me was wrong, very very wrong and it took me several years to unlearn it. The worst areas were in history where almost everything I learned was a complete lie.

People also said, don't worry about the education but school should be for socializing. While true in a way, that isn't the whole story. Right now, looking back, the vast majority of kids I went with aren't doing that great. In fact, the most successful ones are the ones who socialized the least in school. If I did socialize with these kids, yes I would have more socializing skills but they would be with people who are A) working at extremely low paying jobs, B) doing massive amounts of drugs and alcohol, C) have kids that they are trying to take of with those low paying jobs, or D) stranded in the military trying to figure out a way to succeed (so far, those guys still haven't made it out). I mean, yes, there are some that came out and are doing great but those are a small minority of my graduating class.

I learned way more from socializing with grown adults and elderly than I did from school socialization. Most my education was self-reading and then finding and talking to adults in the field asking them questions about it while at school, the teachers were trying to continually teach me wrong stuff - and give me an F if I didn't agree with them!

Some say school is for jobs and well, these adults I learned to socialize with as a kid are more than willing to offer me jobs.

So which comes to my question. Early schooling was useful. It taught me how to read and write. But after that, what was the point of mandatory schooling? Why does everyone I know say school is so important even though I don't see that great results coming from the other end of the system? More importantly, why does everyone I see seem to miss it. Especially those in the lowest paying & horrible jobs out there.

From my end, it seems like I wasted (and still wasting trying to unlearn "wrong" material) several years of my life in school.

P.S. Again, the school I'm talking about is the average common school found in the US. Not those special schools you hear about in TED talks.
Apparently those deletionists never met a real historian. I mean, not a history teacher, but a person who does research, either in the field or in the "stacks". You might have thought nothing of the deletion of Geocities when Yahoo killed it, but you can do real history with that stuff :) http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/ for example.
>The fine structure constant is not axiomatic; its value and its contantness are experimentally testable.

Yeah, I plucked a little too randomly perhaps - the point there is not that it is axiomatic (which I didn't claim) but that it is an arbitrary value; indeed it is a complex of arbitrary values that apparently define the physics of our universe somewhat.

Why is it that value, well, er, just because (or some version of the anthropic principle if you swing that way).
OP: > I'm bidding against people who will work for $10/hour or less and do really good work.

Repeated response: > No, you aren't. No programmer does good work for $10/hour or less.

The implication: We are obviously worth more than $10/hour, and the problem is just that employers don't know that or can't find us.

This is a dangerous economic oversimplification. It implies that you just need to keep doing the same thing, but advertise better. That is not the problem here.

Yes, the work you do produces a great deal of actual wealth for your employers, more wealth than is generated by the middle manager they pay $50/hour. Similarly, fresh water is much more valuable to me than an iPhone, yet I can buy hundreds of gallons of water for the price of an iPhone.

We have had several decades during which the vast majority of the worldwide supply of programming talent was excluded from the hiring pool. Even within the U.S., a programmer located in certain states and cities has been able to command a higher wage on that basis. When you have been the beneficiary of artificial scarcity and consequential producer surplus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus], it is easy to proudly and mistakenly relate your economic value with your actual value.

Don't get depressed when you see your work performed for $10/hour. You have not grown less talented or even less unique than you used to be; you had simply overestimated your uniqueness based on confounded experimental data. The great news is that in the meantime there has been someone exactly like you, someone who happened to exist in a different geography, whose wage has now gone up to $10/hour.

The only fix is niche work. Make yourself more unique. This won't work as well as it used to, since non-Americans can learn new skills too, but that is how capitalism works.
Original HN bookmarklet already works that way http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html

However - I don't always want to upvote a post just because I want to check the discussion. Published this with an assumption that I'm not the only one.
Thanks for the tip! That's much better, I'll merge that in later today.
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If this is successful, will you consider running a similar contest for Arc Forum? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620297

Edit: Fixed link to have correct URL. Sorry for the mistake.
I guess I thought we were talking about physicians.
Make sure while you are prototyping to keep production in mind. If you design for production from the start things get a lot easier as you progress through development to production. That was one of the reasons I can go from concept to production in a week, I would always design for mass production from day one.

Tip: also keep your design as flexible (unconstrained) as possible.

I was doing products targeted towards kids, when Mattel had the lead paint problem the government issued new regulations written by the lobbyists for Mattel. Instead of increasing safety in any meaningful way they just limited any competition by small companies by increased compliance and testing costs drastically. Congress is contemplating a number of other laws that will make it even more of a pain in the ass.
That's kind of what it is like to work at amazon.
Any reason for the search to be at the bottom?

PG: Can we please have it at the top, after submit?
I am a Haskell programmer, and aware of the more powerful abstractions available in Agda and similar languages. So I am aware of my Blubness :-)

But I try to keep up to date with regards to PL technologies, so I think I'm closer to the top of the contemporary Blub ladder, but I guess any Blub programmer might think that!
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It would really help language projects like this by having an actual manual of some sort. It would be a bonus if the manual could be downloaded as a pdf or epub file. F-Script has a pretty good manual on their site.
The biggest problem I have with this is the wasted energy by the hellbanned.
I don't think Andrew's being literal. Of course you could START a groupon tomorrow.

What he's saying is that 85 million subscribers at a current acquisition cost of $30 (!) is a helluva moat.
Could these lessons be taught without the negatives here? For example, could Uncle Joe tell the kids about his uncle who said he landed on the moon?
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no its not. you put your 'marked' 100$ in the laundry service and you get 100$ that came from some random dude. Assuming the laundry service doesn't keep logs (very big assumption though) the money that came through such a service can't be used to identify anyone
Double the hash length (use SHA-512 rather than SHA-256) and you're done, no?
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There's also something called "medical students' disease" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students_disease) where people who research medical conditions become convinced that they have those conditions. It's easy to see how a hypochondriac researching their medical problems online would end up developing medical students' disease.
Even more difficult to go to the USA to hear a talk.

You can be invited to give a paper at an international conference and be allowed in no-problem. But is there is a workshop session where somebody is being paid to give the talk you can attend it without a student visa. And you can't get a student visa unless you are attending a school - workshop talks at conference don't apply.

Everyone from overseas who goes to a paid-for session at a conference is breaking the law.
I think so. I try to tell my kids the truth, including when I am not sure of my answers and why.

However, the point resonated with me, mainly due to my memories of what I believed simply because an adult told me so. I'm a little ahead of my kids in understanding the world, but not so far, and probably in the wrong direction. I try to remember that I need to make my position as clear as my answer.
Apple, after providing services (hosting, downloads, overhead, etc.) doesn't make a substantial profit on their App Stores compared to the total earnings:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/23/app-store-1-of-apples...

Apple does things that protect the interests of Apple, their customers (consumers, not IT people), then developers, in that order.

Suggesting that they run it at for free (as this argument could be made, without change, for any overhead percentage) makes no sense.
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Does anyone have any good recommendations for teaching the 'methods of rationality' to a 12 year old?
If I had more time I'd build a custom registration but then I'd have to worry about SSL, a registration form, forgotten passwords etc.

On Twitter, I've set it up as Read-Only. That's the minimum I can use. Sorry.
Yeah the whole transit visa thing in the UK is pretty stupid. Especially when you go through terminal 5 at Heathrow. You can get out without passing an immigration officer. So why do you need a visa? Idiots.
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