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Gold in your possession is less liquid than gold in an exchange approved vault in Manhattan or London…

Um, so why does Hugo Chávez want the gold in his possession then?
Cracks me up that Lisp/Scheme have so many votes/comments when the Tcl entry is getting none.

And nobody's even mentioned Io.
It's an iterated prisoner's dilemma. All you need are a few people to turn in some gold (for any reason, including because they trust Chavez), and then check with the Bank of England that the appropriate sum has been credited to their account with the Bank, and you're done. The cycle has been started - if Chavez really wants the gold physically in Venezuela (as he apparently does if he's seriously considering the various extremely expensive options available), at no point does he have incentive to defect except at the very end, where the reward for defecting is minimal.
Not to put too much weight on these University "rankings" but I would say that the two schools you cited aren't exactly comparable. The University of Toronto consistently ranks top 40 in the world. Again, not to discount other schools and what students are capable of at any institution, but "quality adjusted" I think Canada is a pretty sweet deal.
My school is a city college in NYC, pretty great, and costs roughly $5000 yearly. So yeah, I'm pretty happy with it.
I think the idea is great, would it benefit you to allow a general query of screenshots over X days on say Google to see how the product works, rather than having to force a sign up?
Since the author is Indian, he is most likely Hindu. If he said he was attending Hindu temple worship service (or whatever they call it), some readers may have not know what he was talking about. I think it was simpler to phrase it that way.
As a reference point:

I have an nontraditional CS degree (DigiPen). I learned a lot of math in school, and programmed a ton. There was emphasis on data structures / algorithms, but not as much as you'd find in a traditional CS degree.

Part of my job is to hack around on JSCore in a Webkit port. I do this without much problem. I wouldn't say I understand the whole thing, but if I needed to I could.

In my experience, you learn as you go. As long as you're good at problem solving and using Google/Reading/Asking People Who Know, you'll figure it out. With or without a traditional CS degree.

There's nothing magical about JSCore, or hardcore storage, or spaceship control systems. It's just domain specific knowledge that you pick up if you spend time solving those kinds of problems.
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This is great! I would love to see school districts be able to sign up entire classes and be matched with foreign classes. This feature would be a potential source of revenue. Free for anyone to use, but added features for paying schools: class matching system, teacher moderation, statistics, etc.
Oh that's it: I just finally figured out that this is a VMWare owned project, not a startup. Duh
I have to agree about Math as an alternative. While I was not a great Mathematician ( a few classes I barely managed) but the content is very interesting and often mind boggling. Stictly CS would have been maybe more direct for my choosen job but the cool thing about Math degrees is that since a huge chunk of prereqs for comp sci degrees are math courses, you can probably take most course in the CS dept you want. And you get to learn something just for fun (aka advanced math to me was fun).

Agree that Proofs, logical thinking, creative thinking are all things that can be learned in a Math degree. Those skills are what I use the most at work.
neither could I, but it's there in chrome
"if your parents can't afford it" is, unfortunately, a pretty hard statement to make true, at least from what I've heard from friends.
This was my first thought when they dropped to $99 last week.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2905724

Unfortunately it's impossible to get a TouchPad at that price any more. If you're going to pay $200+ for a tablet, then you might as well get something that's not discontinued and will have an app/support ecosystem going forward.

Right now I am using a Logitech Revue (Google TV) to display my GeckoBoard on a normal LCD display. The Logitech boxes are very low power, are only $99, and will be upgraded to Android 3.0 in late September.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6209/6080298965_6ede3e2cb0_z....
First, half or more of the points apply globally. Second, there are a lot of qualifications beyond domicile.

This type of knee-jerk post is unhelpful and tired.
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As a dutchey, I can say both sources are only talking about links, no DNS mentions at all or anything related to domains...
Anyone who does infosec professionally knows what the CISSP is, but this article is definitely too narrow for HN.
The What Noise?: Steve Jobs: thanks
Depends on the level of risk. Couldn't I just Fedex the gold - insured for its value, of course - to a confederate in Venezuela, and split the 2% commission? Assuming you can trust your partner, the worst case scenario is the gold getting lost (or "lost") in the mail, and having to wait for the insurance payout.
I was alluding to the fact that talking directly to a FB dev to get or give suggestions is extremely valuable. Especially when speaking on non-trivial topics.
I like the idea. Will watch.
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Freaky. People. Guy's a lawyer. Don't mod him down on a legal comment. Jeepers.
Unfortunately it's AGPL licensed so it can't be used for commercial development (without obtaining a commercial license). It looks neat though, and it's great to see people rethinking the normal way of doing things on the web.
I use it to check bus times on my way to and from work. There are two different buslines I can wait for, and no easy way to check which one will be coming first - I have to load each page and compare. Also, loading the site on my android phone almost always results in an error the first time - forcing me to load the page again. I haven't taken the time to debug this yet, but it's always annoying when I'm trying to check the bus times on the go.
The Economist on the iPad: Perfect
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I've been in a few math courses that have not required a graphing calculator, we were required to memorize basic functions to help us solve problems more quickly, and to understand more of the intuition behind the math, and what the graph is actually telling us.
Why should this guy be punished for people downloading stuff from some other website?
Why is Real going after him and not the other website?
How can they know how much traffic this guys sent to the other website?

THIS IS CRAZY!
Brilliant minds wholly obsessed with their work often do not take retirement well, or long.

Or more probably, brilliant minds wholly obsessed with their work only retire when their health forces them to. This most often means the end is near.

I am not saddened by Steve resigning the CEO role at Apple. I am saddened by what I fear the reason for his resignation is.
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It would make more sense to compare it to UC Berkeley which is tied for #1 in CS in the USA (and maybe the world?) It is about $10K a year if you're in state. Half of the 10 best CS schools in the USA are public universities and cost < $12K a year (in state.)
You are particularly exposed when it comes to torts you personally have a hand in, and possibly for contracts where it can be entered in bad faith.

That said: I'd be very surprised to hear a lawyer say that incorporation makes you more exposed. You make a good point, but I'm still pretty sure the default should be "incorporate somehow".
I try not to pay attention to articles about Apple here, because it really does bring out some strong emotions. Logic goes out the window and everything reads like a love sonnet written by a retarded monkey. It's stressful and unfun.

Love the dig, in response to a post lamenting emotional and inciting comments and topics. By the same token, I could say that I avoid the Google posts here for the same reason. Except I don't, because I recognize that it's human nature to defend and glorify the groups you "belong" to, and I don't take it personally.
Ask HN: In web video players, is volume control unnecessary?
It seems that volume can be adjusted in the OS or in hardware on every computer. Why do all web video players include a volume control?
Why is it dumb to do business without incorporating?
Interesting. I see what you are saying, but could you provide an example (or a link to an example) for clarity? Preferably something not easily accomplished in ruby?
Whooo! Thank goodness!!! We needed more YUI URLs!
So is there a market for a super-dumb LCD that can have information pushed to it over WiFi? Forget the touchscreen, forget the storage. Why aren't we hacking photo frames to do this?
Find a place on the internet where discussion of Apple doesn't erupt into controversy. I also disagree with the sentiment that something needs to be done to fix civility on HN. This entire meta-discussion is a self correcting mechanism in action, we'll see a wave of civility for a week and then things will go back to normal.
Why don't computers understand timezones?
Indeed. I refuse to read this. Haskell is probably awesome, but this site is clearly not. Time to get noscript running again...
I think it's necessary - Windows has the (awesome) per-application volume control, OS X doesn't seem to have that which means you're setting the volume on everything.
22% of People Ask “What Will Happen to Apple Inc.?” [Study]
Out of all the comments this one made me the most depressed. 11x12 is something you need to think about?

At my high school we had these expensive graphing calculators that were supposed to last for four years. I of course lost mine in early grade 10. Best thing by far that happened to me.

I was always that the top of my class for mathematics, so I was usually pretty bored with the homework, but all of a sudden I thought of a new challenge: Do all the homework without any calculator whatsoever. Yes, even things like 3^4 + 5^(1/4). At first of course it was painful, but at least I was doing something. I had a much better understanding of actual graphing than anyone else as well, because I would boil the functions down to their key points and play with them until I saw what they did at infinity.

I ended up getting my calculator back in late grade 11 (funny story, I had to sub in for a math teacher at the last minute because there was a wave of sickness at the school, so I was teaching people one year younger than me) and I saw my trusty calculator on the desk in front of me (I had engraved my name with a knife). I picked up and said "hey thanks, I've been looking for this."

Since then I've always been able to do math in my head and it is unbelievably useful. When people say "oh so that is log(800), what is that" and I respond with "roughly 2.9"* they are flabbergasted, but I know how the curves actually work, I haven't outsourced that knowledge to a machine.

Programming is great and we should have graphing calculators in some part of the math curriculum, but students should be able to do this type of math by hand/in their head.

*I checked this after answering it in my head and was mildly amused. Here was my thought process: log(1000) = 3, log(100) = 2 a log graph has a consistently degrading slope, but one that will still take you to infinity, so the last 200 units in the 100-1000 range will be worth less than the first 200 units. And since halfway there is roughly log(300) and we assume a kinda-semi linear path form there (rounding down because 800 is higher on the scale) it comes out to roughly 2.9.
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What surprised me was the human element, I'd expected it to be more data-driven with less human debate.
A decent 10" digital photo frame can easily cost $100. For that price, you can buy a Logitech Revue -- Google TV running Android with Chrome and wifi. Hook it up with a HDMI->DVI adapter (<$1) and it'll drive a 1920x1080 display. Got a spare monitor?
Oh, yeah, I guess that's our Backbone redirect from the initial page to whatever the first "pane" would be. If we weren't using teh Ajax we'd do that, we'd use a 302 and then the browser history wouldn't get confused.

We'll figure out a fix for that. Thanks for the feedback.
About 1: Yes debugging (with a debugger) is more complicated than in strict languages. For most problems, you can however use QuickCheck to test your algorithms and logic. QuickCheck takes some laws about your functions, and gives you the simplest test cases that break those laws (if they are any). Very illuminating.

QuickCheck is not a replacement for a debugger. But it allows you to go further without one.

2. I agree. If you have a space leak because of too much laziness, you have to add strictness annotations until the problem goes away. Some people have better intuition than others for that, but there doesn't seem to be an easy formal way to decide.
Fair point, thank you. I'm not familiar with tuition costs at UC Berkeley. At the same time, this points against the "College is expensive" mentality.
You got it. That's what I was going for.
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Haskell doesn't even really have a stack. It's more like a spaghetti stack.
Only if n is an integer. Real exponentiation is something completely different, because it involves all aspects of real numbers - addition, multiplication, order and continuity, which are all interconnected, and the language of group theory is too weak to describe it. For instance, while 2^pi makes perfect sense in the realm of real numbers, it makes none in Z_3.
Try using http://metrotransit.org/map/ to solve your first problem (click a stop and it will show NexTrip for all the bus routes that stop there). That doesn't solve your second problem though: I have the same problems (and my wife does on her iPhone). I have an Android app started ... maybe I should finish it. Is it worth $0.99 to you? :)
http://www.chumby.com/
Bzzzt. No discontinued hardware.
both of those are there
Maybe because he's paranoid and doesn't understand economics?
Chumby would be my best bet too. I have one running next to me right now, it's very nice. The only downside is the app universe needs to be in Flash, but that's fixable.
> If I gather from the other answers here correctly, the Haskell money feature (for abstraction) is type-classes.

On a more elementary level, lots of languages could benefit from algebraic data types. Most languages only support the `product' part of them well, but the `sum' is equally important.

Where product means in terms of C putting things together in a struct, and a sum is more like union. Only that C's unions are dangerous.
Yes they are necessary. When I plug headphones in my computer the sound is really too strong when I go over about 30-40% of the volume control and each step is way too big. I use youtube and grooveshark's volume control when I have headphones and place it at about 50% so that I can have more control over my volume using the vol up/down keys on my keyboard.
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The two-prong C7 is fairly common in the UK as well. This design patent doesn't have to be innovative as it only protects the look, but still, it's just a standard C7 plug connected to a standard UK plug.

If they've patented this I assume they've patented all the other global plugs that can be attached too.
Some people are. Here's one of many hacks: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=504678

Conceivably with a USB remote you could even control the computer from the wall. I have three iBooks from my last job and a few old Windows laptops that I want to try out when I get a chance.

Ideally I'd like to create a dashboard with a bunch of data points that I'd be interested in so that I can scan it all while I'm eating breakfast or something. At the very least it would make a nice digital wall clock.
FYI even at $400/ticket, Facebook are almost certainly losing money on putting on the event.

$400 is that interesting price range where it will be a 'big waste of money' (as one other commenter put it) to anyone who isn't otherwise directly involved and profiting from the Facebook platform ecosystem.

$400 is simply an economic-based velvet rope.
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For me, it only appears if I click on the 'link' link.
Me too! I was trying to get a router working, and was pinging slashdot to find out if I was routing to the net. No response from slashdot - hmmmm, must have a network problem at my end. A bit later and I realised the net was up, but slashdot was down. It took me another few hours to realise that the reason slashdot was overwhelmed was because a major world-changing event was happening!
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I do not believe "automatically generating client-side Javascript and handling communication and session control", in short: hiding redundancy and complexity, can "make web programming transparent".
IMHO, making something as complex as web programming transparent requires a lot of knowledge transfer. Making web development more easily accessible would be a fitting description. The idea is not new - see Ruby on Rails, even though it takes a different approach.

There is a lot of transparency in web programming if you are willing to learn. Roy Fielding's dissertation comes to mind as well as the book "RESTful Web Services", RFC 2068, RFC 2616 and ECMA-262.
In the end it's "some server stuff" -- HTTP -- "some client stuff" where "some client stuff" is mostly Javascript.

Off topic: Does Blizzard's World of Warcraft client count as web development or is web development limited to the way Joel Spolsky describes it? [1]

PS: This comment is based solely on the introductory paragraph of OPA's home page.

[1] https://plus.google.com/117114202722218150209/posts/KhMRNmgG...
I found an article about return-type polymorphism. See http://vpatryshev.blogspot.com/2010/01/dispatch-by-return-ty...

One thing is impossible, though: defining two methods that differ only in return type, something like

Most important point:

Something like

int i = parse(String source);
long l = parse(String source);
boolean b = parse(String source);

is possible in Haskell, but not in Python, and barely imaginable in Java.
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Thanks. I think I'm asking a bit more meta, though; what you said is valuable and I appreciate it, but it's valuable right now. What I'm trying to find out is are there any outlets to find out what's valuable right now, for all values of "now"?
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"Here are some suggestive observations." With all due respect, those observations are all just non sequiturs. It means nothing. Kudos for the other references though.
Because when you sign any contract with a commitment in it and you're not incorporated, the liability attaches to you personally. This may sound natural but it is not the natural order of things for businesses. You should not be at risk of losing your house simply because you can't pay your bandwidth or office bills.
I didn't initially have much respect for Rand or Atlas Shrugged, having read her years ago and concluded that her ideas didn't account for human nature any better than Communism did... but I have to admit, her stock rises in my sight every time someone feels compelled to mod down a post that so much as mentions the unholy words on Reddit or HN.

Someone who pisses off that many hipsters must have done something right. No one has ever received so much revulsion from the so-called intellectual elite without advocating genocide or other atrocities... and perhaps even then. Dangerous ideas are interesting.
A "Teach for America" friend has recently been tasked with building a small Midwestern charter school's first Spanish program. One of the biggest challenges for her is finding ways to immerse students in the language with a lack of resources and a tight budget. This certainly seems like a quick, inexpensive and appealing way to get students engaged. I'll see if she can provide feedback.
I definitely think that self-directed learning in that area can provide an adequate background. I am very skeptical of any supposition that a traditional university will actually let you learn things quickly; the curriculum and pace is necessarily lessened to the lowest common denominator, and everyone suffers (even the LCD, because he won't constantly be the LCD for every subject).

The biggest advantage a traditional CS path has, imo, is the exposure to university resources, bot social and physical, though predominantly physical. As you noted, if you're doing some massive distributed thing, it helps to have access to a lot of decent computers. However, I fully believe that a determined independent student can gain the same knowledge on a faster schedule than he would if he followed a degree program at a university.
It sounds like he's calling for a philosophical approach to economics.
I'm willing to bet that Fedex will not insure a small package for $680k for anywhere near 2% of the cost.
Except that he _is_ a visionary.
Parent is possibly referring to the blog's horrendous color scheme, not Haskell as a language.
I am impressed with the UI. It's fast. Great work.
What technologies have you used?
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Metafilter charges you $5 to gain the ability to post. It's a little better than Reddit, but ultimately the discussion software is so bad it's hard to tell if this works or not. Threaded comments encourage back-and-forth and nitpicking over details. Sometimes these become flamewars when people start calling other people names. On the other side of the coin, there is flat commenting. That tends to become one-liners and "like!" instead of anything valuable.

The problem with community sites is that communities are not good at enforcing what they want. Stack Overflow is a good example of this: ask a question like "What's your favorite food to eat while programming", and you get a million karma points. Solve someone's super-obscure bug and provide a detailed answer, you get one or two points.

I think my ultimate solution will be to return to blogging, and when I read an interesting article, write a detailed response. Then I will ignore the rest of the discussion.
I think of everything in the form of signals, so I define the integral as "the area under the curve".
How are you able to say that they're losing money at $400/ticket? This is a one-day conference. $400 times maybe 4000 attendees = $1.6 million. That should be plenty to pull off a one-day conference.
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Also (almost forgot), for people looking for straight-up MongoDB integration, EDS should work out of the box: https://github.com/master/eds
Awesome! I didn’t know about those, thanks for telling!
The argument isn't that we can teach mathematics without a firm intellectual foundation. The argument is that arithmetic is not that foundation.

No one would argue that you should know the turn by turn direction to drive from the White House to the Liberty Bell and use that to generalize how to read a map. We don't force kids to memorize Harry Potter and then later expect them to generalize that our into literacy. History courses don't start with Supreme Court cases and wait until students generalize out the Constitution.

By starting with the abstraction and moving toward the concrete, we give the information context and allow the students a good mental framework to build upon as they learn the details. Starting with the concrete and moving towards the abstract is needlessly confusing and robs the students of the firm intellectual foundation that they need to understand the subject.