skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be careful generalizing the business school at your university.

I went to Purdue. I started as a Physics major and switched to computer science. I had several friends who started as an engineering or science major and then switched to other majors.

The academic standards in the Physics program were significantly higher than in CS, and liberal arts was a joke. There is a reason for this more than just Physics > CS > Liberal Arts:

Let's say you're a quality student who has decided against a private college for whatever reason (e.g. you don't want 6 figures in student debt) in Indiana:

If you want to major in liberal arts, you go to Indiana U.

If you want to major in CS and you don't mind the medium increase in cost, you go to the University of Illinois

If you want to major in Physics, you go to Purdue.

So there is some selection bias here. I don't know much about business schools, so I don't know if your generalization is valid or not. This is just something I've noticed in my own narrow experience.
I agree this is the likely outcoming, but couldn't disagree more about it being the "perfect treatment". What you had with the housing boom was effectively devaluation in a limited sector (along with oil). Inflation causes massive capital misallocations and screwed up pricing signals. Think about how many people who were working in construction and real estate needlessly that could have been working on things people truly need/want. Eventually all those lost man years of effort add up to lost lives in the aggregate.
Does self-control stop us from engaging in bad behaviors?
That seems like an edge case - the first time they trigger the auto-suspension, they'd just need to explain their service and get a 'not a spammer' flag added to their account.
Should you trust your feelings?
The Sun newspaper hacked by LulzSec
Sounds like you have 2 months to build the first feature or two, even just a clickable demo. Where ever you look for a tech co-founder this would put you ahead of 75% of the rest of the "idea" guys!

Love to hear how you get on and feel free to hit me up once you have something(anything) to show :)
It never gets easier, you just go faster. - Greg LeMond.
I generally agree with the sentiment, but it seems like the author never really shed the dependence on having an arbitrary material goal.

I think a more Zen-like direction is to just apply the "friend in a pub" test - if you can describe your motivations and actions to an (intelligent) peer and have them nod in approval, then that's it. And yes, there are many such choices, which is the whole point - it doesn't really matter beyond that threshold!

I remember that moment of epiphany for myself, when I realized that nobody else really gives a shit what specifically I do, as long as it's a reasonably fine decision.

And no, that does not mean slacking/etc. Wasting one's potential is definitely not reasonable.
I think the example to take here is the German education system: They were proponents of the idea that college isn't the only way. They had a second option, which is vocational school. These often have no tuition.

This is the type of school you don't usually go to 5 days a week. Instead, you split that time between school and apprenticeship (i.e. internship). That way, you're forced to see the industry from day 1 and there's no situations where you graduate without being employable (as I often see in CS majors these days).

The result is that you have training as a skilled technician, and can make a good living immediately. The industry also has skilled workers to fill their gaps. It seems like a no brainer to me. You don't need a 4 year university diploma for everything.

Also, it blows my mind that industry bitches and moans about having no workers yet makes no effort in that direction either. My school, WPI, was founded back in the 1860s by industrymen as a "free school for industrial science". Where is this sensibility now? 20 odd companies and approximately 200 citizens helped build the buildings for the school. What happened to this sense of community?

Edit: Now that I think about it, on a slightly unrelated note, why don't universities have mandatory internships anymore? The more, the better.
That would be the national park in Indonesia.

The monkeys are obviously under-aged.
This article seems pretty off-base. It's true that established businesses more rarely need to hire people because technology has eliminated a lot of clerical jobs, but the flip side is that there are lots of smaller companies now as well which only exist because they don't need to hire three secretaries and a file clerk.

More importantly, though, the major problem in unemployment is that only 35% or so of the population have a college education. For them, unemployment is closer to 3% right now. Most of that 9.2% is out of work because demand is weak. People's skills didn't suddenly become obsolete at the stroke of midnight sometime in 2008. They were all formerly employed doing the exact moderately skilled work they'll be doing again when-and-if demand recovers the trend.

They'll be doing it for precisely the same reason that an astrophysics Ph.D. is not in itself all the useful: most jobs are nebulous, ill-defined and require people to obtain new skills as they work. That is, the rest of the economy runs like the picture of the Valley HN likes to paint but with different skill and problem sets (and pay scales). That means an economy with lots of specialized workers, sure, but it also means lots of "office hackers" who just find ways to get things done as they come up.

They'll be employed again, to do ill-defined jobs once demand recovers enough to start needing people who can just make things happen.
Well, even now the DOC¹ has to approve any change in the DNS root zone, so ICANN can't unilaterally do whatever they want. My guess is that the govt would simply cut ICANN out of the loop and implement the policies themselves.

As for who would run it besides ICANN, well, before 1998 IANA² was run by Jon Postel, so it's not absurd to consider they could find someone to manage it. This is purely speculative, though, I really don't know nearly enough to be sure about this.

¹ Department of Commerce
² The organization (nowadays, set of functions in ICANN) which actually manages DNS and such.
With NFL/NBA Lockouts Continuing, Fanvibe Goes On Permanent Strike
I sure hope this gives Igor the time and cycles to implement SPDY now.
I'm confused.. the alternative to child labor is human trafficking?
I'd argue that parolees aren't the best people to be comparing against. Farm work is also seasonal, so it's not clear what that $20/hr translates to in annual salary.
I would've thought the same thing until I wrote substantial async code in JS and Python.

It's not that it doesn't work and you can't do it, it's that the code becomes a mess and their example gets at that. It probably doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you constantly have to pass around callbacks and chain requests together you get this feeling the code could look a lot cleaner than it is. You want asynchronous behavior but with synchronous syntax.

This isn't possible without adding something, and, having seen a lot of the solutions out there, it's nice to see someone take a stab at it by changing the language. The cost is huge (preprocessing, etc.), but, speaking from experience, the simplicity of the code you write might make the change worth it. You get the feeling in 5-10 years this will be a solved problem, but I'm not sure any of the solutions out there yet will be the accepted solution.
Offer HN: Free in-house mobile ad exchange
Hi HN,

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Details: I am starting to release several small ad-supported iPhone apps in which I can run in-house ads to advertise anything I want. So far, I have been using them to cross promote my other apps, and they get a high click-through rate. The problem is, there are not too many, so users end up seeing the same ads over and over. Variety is the spice of life, so I am willing to show in-house ads for your mobile apps in exchange for ads in your apps.

Yes, this is like the banner link exchange systems of the wild-west-web.

Right now I will only consider apps that are native iOS apps, or mobile web apps optimized for iPhone/iPad browsers.

I have no idea what interest in this offer will be like, so I can't promise to accept everyone that wants it, but I will write you an email letting you know either way.

Why am I doing this? Marketing and distribution is the hardest part for app developers (in my experience), and anything that helps spread the word about your apps will help. I'm hoping to rise the tide of other apps as well as my own by making this offer. It's also sort of an experiment, but it can't hurt!

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-Chad
> what do I want to see grow? What do I want to build?

The problem is that in the vast majority of cases, unless you managed to build something successful by the time you die, then your work will die with you and nobody will care.

The article makes the tempting assumption that progress is monotonic, and that the work that you do will eventually find its use. I don't think this is right -- the vast majority of stuff ever created gets thrown away or forgotten. In this sense, you are running out of time: you have only so much time left to accomplish something which will really survive you.

(Note that this applies to intellectual achievements, not so much to building a family and the like.)
That has much more to do with Google and GAE already using Python and not Ruby.
Thanks so much, David!
You forgot step -1> Write a test
Yup, just as I say, I'm sure there are solutions to these things if you know the answers. I did look long and hard at the time though. We were using a version of Django where the auth/user stuff had just changed and there were no good examples of how to extend the user model (frustratingly there were good examples for the previous version).

Regarding the email stuff, my criteria for a framework is that I'd like it to send real emails on live and fake ones on dev. That is, email everything to me on dev along with a little header showing who the email was going to etc. Invaluable for testing.
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Found: nice resource for GIT noob's
Take a look. ===> http://www.gitguys.com/
I'm sure the OP doesn't want to get his start-up acquired, well atleast that is what I'm hoping, to beat the guys in the market he needs to provide some key features that can set him aside from his competitors.

Why won't people go out and create Groupon Clones and sell them to Groupon for millions of dollars?
- Because Groupon has a key acquiring strategy they use, and a lot of other start-ups use. They look at the key features that Groupon doesn't have, then they look at their market and get term sheets ready.
Basically, everybody who we can reasonably expect to pay more in taxes than they get handed out by the government, should be allowed in.
That's very difficult to predict, though! There is some correlation with short-term success, but not that great correlation; there are plenty of people "famous in their day" forgotten 20 years past their death, and a substantial number of people whose work only seemed important in retrospect, or after it was recontextualized by a later writer who somehow dug up some obscure work and took a liking to it. I have a minor personal hobby of translating encyclopedia entries from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, the main German-language biographical encyclopedia of the years 1875-1912, into the English Wikipedia, and it's amazing how the space that the writer of the time saw fit to devote to a person often correlates badly with a 21st-century assessment of the person's importance.

Of course, that doesn't quite tell you what to do about it. I personally tend to lean towards, do something that seems interesting to me, with the caveat that I also need to eat. I'm not as worried about making a name for myself 500 years from now, although "seems interesting to me" probably includes some part of that evaluation in it (things that seem likely to outlast me probably get a boost in my personal evaluation of interestingness).
"... in general, I don't see why it should be more their responsibility than society's."

If a business wants to be successful they should invest in employee training IMO. I'm one of these recent college grads with "no marketable skills".

The company I'm with needs iOS developers. They could conceivably try to find qualified people, but that would be time-consuming, expensive and far from guaranteed that they'd find anyone (as there is little iOS developers where I live). Instead, by allowing me to teach myself to build apps, they have someone who will hopefully be making them money in a few weeks/months at a fraction of the price of an experienced developer (if they could find one). This point ties back into the article's observation that people are graduating with unneeded/bullshit degrees.
Powell's in portland is great.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Powells_Books
It's strange - when Borders came to our town (Corvallis, OR) I was excited. In the end, though, the number of full price books I bought I could probably count on my fingers. The CD listening stations are now no longer needed and the location wasn't convenient enough to stop in for a coffee.

Our independent bookstores are still alive, luckily.
Gnu Hurd tested, with Benchmarks vs Linux
> "So now we need to import more uneducated manual laborers into the country."

Welcome to the history of the United States. This isn't just manual laborers, but applies to skilled/educated labor forces too. The intellectual side of America has always been driven by immigration, and this has never been more true than the post-WW2 era. Look at your local university's academics - how many them are first-generation or second-gen immigrants? NASA is practically built out of foreign scientists. And closer to home, what's the representation of immigrants in the tech industry compared to the population at large?

The locals always underperform compared to people willing to scrabble and fight because they've had a tougher background. So unless you have a plan to make locals competitive (beyond simply "raise the wages!"), this seems an inevitable move.

> "This can be handled with tariffs, like we do with sugar."

Ah, so you hope to fight free market capitalism with tariffs... Okay, so let's go with your plan and raise manual labor wages such that people actually want to be farm hands.

Then we go way out of our way to essentially ban foreign imports, or make them so expensive that everyone must use domestic substitutes. We become an enclosed economy so we don't have to face competitive pressures from outside. You're an economy in a bottle, and you better damn pray you have everything you could ever want within your own borders... because as soon as you leave more competitive countries will eat you for lunch.

What part of that sounds like sound economic policy?

> "you're literally importing an underclass that is ethnically, culturally, and linguistically different from the majority. That never ends well."

Isn't this the crux of your argument? You seem to believe this is a bad thing - I fail to see how this can be the case. If this country eventually just starts speaking Spanish as a first-language, what's wrong with that? So what if burritos eventually replace hamburgers as the national staple... in fact this has already happened in some places to no ill effect.

I used to live in Toronto, Canada, where a whopping 50% of the population is immigrant. Pandemonium has not ensued, and instead the country is a stronger, more interesting, and more diverse place for it. Xenophobia has no place in modern economic policy.

Even looking beyond principles of equality, protectionist laws are just plain bad ideas because you're only staving off the inevitable and making things worse. If there is a coder out there right now who's better than me, wants 10% of my pay, and is willing to bust his ass to do so... come hell or high water there's not a force in the world sufficient to stop him from competing with me.
'Harry Potter' and the Key to Immortality
What annoys me about Putty is problems with numpad. I hope they fixed it in this release.

I also had trouble with putty and EC2 certificates. But it looks like they finally fixed that.
Rails 3.0 was released almost 1 year ago on August 29th, 2010

Django 1.3 was released March 23rd, 2011, about 4 months ago.
It seems like inspecting packets at line-rate on a route to a site popular enough to not be suspect would be prohibitively expensive.
Hulu Owners Offer Bidders 5-Year Show Extension
White House Challenges Developers: Build Apps to Prevent Sexual Assault
view-source:http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html

edit: here's the right pastebin http://pastebin.com/ksu585vM
He was, and was actually upset that Obama was going to raise taxes on wealthy people (250k+ incomes), and actually raised a stink about it. Later on, the media dug into his life and realized that he had a very basic plumbing license, did not actually intend to buy a business he had mentioned he was going to do, and only made about 40k per year (and had a judgement lien against his income for failure to pay taxes).

The same link as above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber#Personal_contro...

The comparison to Obama's tax plan was not off topic, because "Joe the Plumber" was in fact characterized and quoted by the media as someone who was going to have his life changed for the worse due to Obama's tax plan, when in reality, nothing in his life would have changed, but he still argued against the tax plan.
Heh, I'm not bad mouthing south at all. If it didn't exist, I wouldn't use Django at all. Thank god for south.

But I'm using Django DESPITE the fact that I have to use south. Contrast this with Rails, which FORCES you to use migrations (last I checked).
Thanks so much for the great feedback! I'm the founder, built this site in a weekend to start testing the idea. We're working on a rev of the site that will launch in the next two weeks. Love these suggestions.
A Javascript redirect has been added to http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html.

http://pastebin.com/pWQtngDc (Line 8).
I would say this meme is incredibly harmful for various social news sites.

The problem is it seems reasonable enough...it's certainly more reasonable than downvoting someone because you don't like them...

However, it's is absolutely not an appropriate use of downvoting and is harmful to discussion quality.

To begin with, someone being "objectively wrong" is MUCH more rare than you probably think. Purely in terms of mathematical probability, I can pretty much guarantee there was a time you thought someone was wrong on the Internet when in fact you were the one who was wrong. There are many times when LOTS of people thought Joe Shmoe was wrong, but Joe Shmoe was in fact correct and everyone else is wrong.

Many times even though what the person is SAYING is wrong, but there is a mis-communication somewhere. You may be reading it the wrong way, or they may not be expressing themselves clearly.

This brings up the main problem with what you are talking about: it shuts down the conversation....and that is incredibly bad for a community that is supposed to be build on discussion.

Let's say someone's wrong. You downvote them. You've accomplished effectively nothing. Some people might not see this wrong information....but that's neither here nor there.

A MUCH better solution is to reply and explain to them how they are wrong. That way the discussion continues, and they are educated (whether or not they decided to take advantage of it).

More importantly, if one person thought this wrong thing....there are probably many others who also thought it but didn't post it.

If you reply with a correction, those people are also enlightened. This ties in with my earlier point...you may have prevented some people from seeing the wrong information, but there's no reason to believe that it balances with the people you could have educated by responding.

Keep in mind, none of this is even taking into account abuse of such a feature, which would occur.

All around it is by far better for the community to correct wrong information than to censor it....not to mention the latter is impossible to do effectively.
> ...at the current market price for manual farm work, which is low because there are plenty of people from other countries willing to work extremely hard for low pay.

They are only coming, because they earn even less in their old country. Why do you want to keep those people poor?
Here's Mitch Albom's epitath for Border's in the Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/article/20110717/COL01/107170485/Mitch-...
gwern, the reality is actually reverse. Obama/democrats wants a comprehensive immigration reform that includes dealing with the existing illegal immigrants in US. He dont want to deal legal immigration and illegal immigration separately. Thats the reason the recent startup visa was dead on arrival.
Not a physicist. But the fact that they only got post-degree information from 54% worries me, because those who are unemployed are probably less likely to answer a survey like this.
The rate is not that good of a guide, because the US (as it is now) was so sparsely occupied to begin with. In terms of population density, the US is ranked #180 in the world with 32 people/km2 vs. the world (land) average of 51/km2.
From the fake article:

One detective elaborates. "Officers on the scene report a broken glass, a box of vintage wine, and what seems to be a family album strewn across the floor, containing images from days gone by; some containing handpainted portraits of Murdoch in his early days, donning a top hat and monocle."

I've got to give it to them, that's hilarious.
you've got it the other way around.

Sometimes, child labor is the alternative to human trafficking.
Adopt the Egyptians approach, pass it down the generations. "Son, I have this water engine here.." or "Daughter, I have this water rocket here.." etc.
Ogg, not OGG.
It's off-topic for HN, and I imagine lots of people feel bored of the whole foreign journalists illegally accessing foreign voicemail farrago.
I'd guess that the first claim of the patent is also infringed by Twitter when it makes @names and URLs clickable: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/anywhere/welcome#features
A key mental transition to make is from asking the question "am I winning?" to asking the question "am I doing something worthwhile?"
I think you missed the author's point. The article wasn't about gaining more (or infinite) time. It was about maximizing your joy in life by living in such a way that you can be proud of your accomplishments without being overwhelmed by the need to continually out-do yourself or others. How long you live is completely irrelevant to that point. And if you are not enjoying your life because you're feeling so pressed and anxious, then living forever won't change that--that's a mentality problem.

Not to mention the disappointment you might feel if you die before the onset of the much hyped biotech revolution, having placed your hopes for happiness in its arrival.
Heh, tell it to this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777942
Why is this important? I don't see the significance.