skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish the Xenobiologist had written more. I went in having never heard the term, and came out with no more information than "this fellow speculates about possible aliens". I'm open to the possibility that this is a legitimate and worthwhile field, but the blurb didn't exactly convince me.
What is to curate, starting from a HBS article
>It might be, but there's no way to tell. But even if it is 'authentic', it's still coming from someone who was likely influenced by the propaganda machine.

News flash: all communication can be cast as propaganda. The right to free speech guarantees that people will try to convince each other of things.

Which is to say, this man could be completely honest and correct and speaking of his own free will, and I would still accept that that counts as propaganda--I just wouldn't get my panties in a bundle over it. Propaganda is neither good nor bad--it is merely someone trying to convince you of a viewpoint.

Perhaps by using an uncited statistic that presumes the real statistic is something worse, that makes an assertion about a culture that the speaker is _not_ part of. You yourself are part of the propaganda machine: as long as you are unaware of it, however, as long as you do not see how your free speech is also society's voice in you, you will just be arguing talking points.

Real dialogue comes from accepting that motivation and bias must necessarily accompany fact, and drawing bounds thereof.
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I disagree with your disagreement of the original disagreement.

Plenty of languages does not mean plenty of innovation; in the web programming there's certainly too less of it. Every new or currently fashioned language evolves to a point where community implements its own Rails in it. I hope you don't call this trend innovation because it's not.

There were some promising trends in web programming like use of delimited continuations, but they didn't make a breakthrough. Today's web dev still is a hack around stateless http protocol, requires you to know at least 3 languages and there are no composable components you could easily reuse. World definitely needs innovation in this area.
The reason we object to it is that in reality it's spam. 99% of the time it's not a great article, it's crap. You're not writing it out of joy, it's to get links and make a computer deep in google think it's relevant. You need to trick google into thinking people like it so you spam wherever you can and pray you get those links.

There aren't 100 great links per day on HN. It's actually extremely difficult to write good content. Yet there are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of companies doing this.

All off-page SEO is grey as you're essentially trying to trick google into thinking your content is better than organic content. But is there any organic content any more?

On the other hand, we have to get off our high horse. Real life is full of spam, TV adverts, radio adverts, billboards, networking events where you have to filter the schmoozers from the interesting.

The web is the same way and if you don't compete to get your content out there, you competitor will. As everyone does it now, you have to do it too.

So I agree with you, but I'm more realistic about the fact that most content produced is going to suck.
Thanks for pointing that out. I've only ever used the ifttt -> Instapaper trick for blogs with infrequent, lengthy posts -- the sort that are much more pleasant to read on a Kindle. But it's good to know that using it for large content dumps is discouraged.
Since there is already a very nice, albeit quirky, dynamically typed langauge for the web, I think there is room for something different. If you want to build robust applications with larger teams - as is increasingly the case with JavaScript - it would be really nice to have features of a statically typed language. Same goes with the performance overhead for processor-intensive apps, which we are also seeing more of with JavaScript. We are learning enough about the potential for powerful browser-based apps that we could conceivably start to come up with something better.

On the other hand, and to your point, nobody wants to reinvent SOAP.
Why does every non-Valley startup article have to read "look out Silicon Valley!" It's cute, I guess, but Accra will never be a SV nor should it be!
Older Internet Explorer and Firefox versions displayed the source that was downloaded, not the one generated/modified by scripts. It makes so much more sense, especially since there was always an option to view the generated source (by using JavaScript for an example) but I don't see how you can access the downloaded source at all if View Source is replaced by View Generated Source. Hm, actually one could use FireBug and watch Net response I suppose, but that's inconvenient.
"I don't disagree that many people will not pursue productive work if they're free from want. In fact I suspect most won't. But I fail to see why that makes a difference."

The problem is that most of the idle people will have an unsustainable amount of children.

I've sometimes thought that only people demonstrably able to support their children should be helped to do so.

I'm not extremist enough to suggest outright prohibition, China-style, but some kind of discouragement and maybe social stigma, plus education (would it be "indoctrination"?).
I don't disagree with that, as a language that is actively maintained should (hopefully) get better over time.

The key thing is to develop new techniques for solving problems - think iterative versus recursive, or functional programming versus logic programming.

A given language is most likely targeted (or has least resistance) towards one style of programming, which means that new abstractions are likely to work better in a new language, one that has been developed with these blocks as starting points rather than added later.

It might be nice to focus development of specific key languages to avoid too much fragmentation by picking best-of-breed, but everyone's got their own itch... and for some that is developing new languages.
Mildly sandy and sticky. After a week or so you get used to the new texture and then it's more about liking a flavor. Vanilla and Orange Ginger are the ones I prefer.
I disable resume for Quicktime Player as well (I find it even more annoying than Preview):

defaults write com.apple.QuicktimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
If you are a parent are you entitled? -- The answer is Yes. You have certain rights, responsibilities and trust vested in you by society for that child. WHEN you give your child up to the school system, you divest those rights, responsibilities and trust to the school system.

And it is true, respect is earned - for people; but not position. I respected very few of my teachers individually. However I respected the office that any one of them held and I gave respect to all of them no matter if I respected them as a person or not. This is both right and wise.
Your arrogance is stunning. Do you also feel justified in telling grocers, physicians, and sports coaches how to do their jobs?

Of course you are free to choose a school for your child. But don't tell me you know my job better than I do.
Link appears dead. Does anyone have it?
True, but I can get my hands on HDMI -> DVI converters. Used small LCDs are unbelievably cheap if you watch for surplus auctions (and are willing to buy a pallet of 25).
Still, those who provide liquidity for creators should not be able to profit from a work any longer than the original creator would have, given the same resources. In other words, copyright should expire after the same fixed amount of time, whether it's owned by a person, an estate, or a corporation.
Selling to AOL - millions of dollars.
Pretending that you care about editorial independence while you invest in startups at the same time - priceless.
9 Steps to integrate a remote HornetQ with Glassfish 3.1
Ever tried to connect your JEE App to a HornetQ server from within Glassfish? For me it was a pain in the ass to find out... But I made it working - and I want to share my (not really optimized) results with you. I also want to start a discussion for finding and defining better ways to set up such an environment....
I spend a lot of time these days wondering if I should home school my children.

All four of my children have always been homeschooled until this week. My oldest is grown up, living on his own on his own dime while he finishes up his college degree program--or perhaps founds a start-up before finishing his degree. (He is an occasional participant here, mostly in threads different from the threads I post in.) My second son began attending our local public high school the day after United States Labor Day. So he is in his third day of classroom school as I type this. He commented last evening "I know it's only been two days, but I already notice that I can learn faster when I homeschooling than at school." He and my wife and I will continue to discuss what trade-offs are most important in making his educational plans. My third son was just driven by my wife this morning across our sprawling metropolitan area for a joint homeschoolers class on physics, taught by a Ph.D. physicist who takes time off from engineering and inventing work at a big corporation to teach the class. There are a lot of very interesting learning opportunities for homeschoolers these days.

After edit: I just saw this response to the submitted article that opened the thread here

http://www.parentatthehelm.com/6666/homeschooling-parent-res...

from a homeschooling parent with even more experience than I have. Her perspective is her own.
> Erm, I think this rather misses the point completely.

I suspect that we have fundamental disconnect between us on the bounds of authority in education. However...

> his authority is not questionable by a child

Sure, a child should behave respectfully towards their teacher, and shouldn't test the bounds of the teacher's authority without reason. But it's a conditional relationship. If the teacher fails on their end, the child is not required to continue to uphold their end.

I agree with a lot of things the article says. He provides a lot of examples of parents doing legitimately stupid things, and entering into an adversarial relationship with a teacher without reason. I just take issue with the one or two bits where he asks that parents automatically take his word. Sending your child the message that you will always trust an arbitrary authority figure without even considering their side of the story? That's dumb.
As I said in a previous Raspberry Pi thread[0], the comparison is supposed to be with high / school school textbooks, not college ones. School textbooks are cheaper than those used at university.

Raspberry Pi is a charity "to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level" and the device is aimed, in part at least, for use in teaching programming to children.[1]

$25 (roughly £15 at current rates) is a good rough price for a school textbook in the UK. A quick Amazon search shows this.[2]

Bear in mind, too, that the product is aimed in part at developing countries, where school textbooks may be cheaper.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949932
[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=2
[2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/school-textbooks-Books/s?ie=UTF8&...
FTA: Beware the VC that has invested in a competitor. ... Even if they’re not going to share the details of your powerpoint

Protip: They're going to share the details of your powerpoint.
Yeah, I think that there is a balance between the two perspectives: helicopter and carte blanche.

I think that teachers need some pushback but I think that the context and the subject are also important. I am not going to fight for grades, but if a teacher is unwilling/unequipped to handle the individual personalities/quirks of kids with professionalism and grace then I will fight back
His post is 100% true though. Mashable has become TMZ, pumping out low quality content every minute to get the traffic they do.
I wouldn't treat a male any differently. It's low class. I don't recall any major CEO's on the front page of tech sites cussing before this. Ever. It shows a poor lack of control. What is said behind doors, not to the press, is something else entirely. That's not even touching on the professionalism of publicly calling out a previous employer. Talk about burning bridges and ruining a reputation.
Totally. But comments in a discussion about an article written about articles written about infighting are fascinating.
"contextual absolutist" - nice oxymoron, Einstein.
My family is from Iraq. You people who know absolutely nothing about the US's role in Iraq or elsewhere, while calling US soldiers baby killers or propagandists, are an absolute disgrace.

Our country is actually functioning with a credible economy, people aren't dying anymore due to a reckless dictator, and we have access to clean water and a rapidly improving infrastructure with the US's help. The US soldiers are helping us keep the streets safe, so we can build businesses and be productive members of society without having to look over our shoulders.

It's such a shame that people like you, with zero knowledge of the situation, can spew such hateful and ignorant rhetoric.
seems to me that other than financials/cost of offering stuff for free -- it's a technical issue with wifi technology. Keeping signals strong/repeated....changing/improving approaches...mesh network ideas etc etc...
> I don't want my child to view their teacher as an authority figure who cannot be questioned and cannot make a mistake.

I have a boss at work who I respect. However, if he throws a mysql query on the board with an error you bet I'll point it out right to his face. It is human to err, and he does it to. But the attitudes of parents described in this article indicates that they do not expect their kids to respect their teachers. This would sort of be like my boss asking me to do something and me saying no. Except in very odd circumstances, this behaviour would be totally inappropriate on my part.

I would expect my children to treat teachers with respect. Of course they may occasionally question the accuracy of a teacher's statements but the teacher is in charge in the classroom; I would expect my child to understand that and I would never demean a teacher's authority in front of my child.
rajeshvaya - it appears itechtalks.blogspot.com likes to repost articles directly copied from other sources without attribution. I find this behavior reprehensible.
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Chrome has an about:crashes as well; but more importantly, both browsers have an about:about, which list all their about pages.
Yes, we have. I admit that I didn't make it visible on the site itself. But the system checks every single user every 5 seconds.

We have two metrics: net value and minimum net value. When NV < MNV, all positions are immediately liquidated. When NV < 2MNV, a warning is visible on trading panel. (Future feature: margin call email)

These metrics are completely transparent, showing in different colors to represent health status. Once you give it a try you will know.
I used an alert as a quick example. You could put any HTML or JS on the page (e.g. links for SEO value, iframes with PDF exploits, a bitcoin miner or a video of Rick Astley) and when someone views the source it looks like there's nothing malicious.

Ctrl/Cmd-u can also be used to view source in Firefox.
Not strictly a webapp, but I love what Balsamiq did with Mockups - gave copies away to anyone who blogged a review. Great for spreading the word and a fantastic way of legitimate link-building.
Have you ever once gotten a warning from disk image verification that saved you enough time to justify all the time you've spent waiting for it?
So the economy is an excuse? If that's the case then, once again, everyone has the same excuse for a lack of professionalism.
Bad news for some restaurants? If you are not Zagat material, Google has a new reason to lower your place in search results.
Probably, yes :)
My point is that they should demonstrate what the potential hardware advantage is before evaluating whether the software development costs are worthwhile. There are a few HPC tasks that are very simple and possibly amenable to specialized hardware. D.E. Shaw's Anton is an extreme example of pursuing dedicated hardware. But the metric needs to involve purchasing and power costs for the hardware. FPGAs can come out looking very good in this metric, but comparing raw run times for different systems without cost normalization is meaningless.
>In certain Asian cultures, children stand up when the teacher or sensei enters the classroom, and his authority is not questionable by a child.

Which is a rather dangerous attitude, I think, to entrench in a child. It is a cultural difference (obviously, as I'm an American) but an important one that I value: free-spirited individuality does not do well when one unquestionably bends.

One of the most admirable traits of the American education system is, in my mind, that it teaches disrespect of authority and the system, even if half the time it is by the accident of incompetence.

I'm imagining someone rebutting with talk of the Pledge of Allegiance in the schools. In my mind that is a perfect example: I don't know about you, but enough talk was given to that _you did not have to say it if you didn't want to_ that it was in fact an abject lesson in _choosing to conform._ Those who pointedly did not faced some amount of ridicule learned how to earn their independence, that it was not free and would not make them popular.

In the end the message I received from the topic of the Pledge was 1) you are free to choose to acknowledge the authority of the flag, and 2) the cost of exercising that freedom is high. These two unrelenting and possibly harsh truths have served me well.

We teach our intellectuals and outsiders how to take the strength of nonconformity for themselves.
>Perhaps by using an uncited statistic

"With almost 50 percent of returning troops eligible to receive some level of disability payment, and more than 600,000 treated so far in veterans' medical facilities, we now estimate that future disability payments and health care costs will total $600 billion to $900 billion. The social costs, reflected in veteran suicides (which have topped 18 per day in recent years) and family breakups, are incalculable."

http://www.slate.com/id/2302949/

"You yourself are part of the propaganda machine"

Really? Where are my millions of dollars? Where is my government-issued sockpuppet management software?

"All communication can be cast as propaganda. The right to free speech guarantees that people will try to convince each other of things."

Again, you are leaving out the part where the government is paying millions of dollars so that soldiers can downvote and drown out any comments that are critical of the military on social news sites like this one. Do you really not see any difference between having a conversation where neither party is paid for their opinion, and a conversation where one side is unpaid and the other side has a billion dollar warchest to drown out any dissent? That's not exactly the same as two neighbors having a chat.
The truth is that the public school system is not designed to cater to the outliers (both above & below average) in any meaningful way. You can blame this on the schools, but it seems to me that it's at least partially the result of practical considerations.

For example, how do you measure the knowledge someone possesses in a cost-effective way? Schools have settled on standardized tests; the worst method, except all the others. And this is hardly unique to schools - consider the typical software job interview questions. Once the end goal (passing tests) is in place, there is incentive for schools is to teach their students content that might show up on the test. If your interests align with this content, great, otherwise you're forced to slog through it anyways.

One solution I've heard is specializing sooner, but for many kids making the decision this early might prematurely lock them into a career they don't actually like or that has poor job prospects. Sure, some will be able to make the correct decision, but how do you decide who is able to do this? Standardized maturity tests?

I think the root problem is that to really make the right decision for each child there has to be constant involvement with the child's development from an individual educator. This kind of attention is not cheap and is the antithesis of the current CYA direction that educational institutions are taking.
I'm not sure what you're saying.

Do you honestly expect every PL researcher to all work on the same magical super-language? No- they're going to work on the problem in their area of expertise and create/modify a language to show off their ideas. Then a language like Scala or Haskell or Clojure can come along and improve on them or combine them.

Every field works this way. That's why there is more than one particle collider, more than one drug for each problem, more than one theory of particle physics, more than one programming language.

Your link talks about radical change over gradual change in computer science. It seems to support the idea of creating new and dramatically programming languages. The idea that "small" changes have large effects discourages the gradual modification of existing paradigms and languages.