skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no, they own a construction company. Its funny cause I asked to build them a website and 'modernize' their business. My uncle then told me about how he hasn't had to bid a job in years because of his reputation.. (a whole nother business lesson)
In my experience, the browser doesn't reliably send the username and password with each request so you get a bunch of re-queries. Cookies don't have that problem, they're always sent.

At least, that's what I saw on the intranet site I built, switched to authenticating with a login page and cookies instead because of it.
Interesting idea, freebie hardware with paid support. Similar to MySql arrangement but for hardware. It's the actual terms that just don't seem attractive. $3k support contract on what is practically an embedded device? I could see paying some money for support on a cluster of these to do something interesting, like distributed data acquisition nodes maybe? But not to the tune of 3,000 per node.
Does the fact that the submitter is the CEO/founder of the named company change your opinion on its spaminess?
It's funny how the price vs. demand curve is often inverted in the education marketplace. Charging higher prices signals customers to think that the education must really be better, and so more students try to get in even when the actual quality of education is no better than at cheaper schools.

Having more data available about the value added by each school would certainly help eliminate this market inefficiency. But if that value add were to be calculated using a standardized test taken by all entering freshmen and graduating seniors that could lead to unintended consequences, such as teaching to the exam rather than providing a liberal education.
This article, the "Norton Antivirus 2009" submitted by the same user, and the "nail fungus" one submitted by a different, also newly created account, seem to be page-rank farming spam.

But anyway, to answer you -- I don't know about Student Universe, but I know someone who worked on the student verification part of the Microsoft Dreamspark site, and it is a lot of work and not simple.

The way things are now, I think a lot more students will be selling those frequent flyer miles on points.com or flyhub.com or craigslist or whatever, and taking Greyhound. It's better to have cash in hand -- not that Greyhound is all that cheap these days, many flights compete with them on cost now.
Totally unclear on whether it's the 3D imaging and information display (doubtful) or the calculation and modeling that drives those displays (likely) that's the real win. This article isn't very credible.

"Scroll the mouse and zoom out. Look at your inventory. Is all your problem due to one manager? Call that guy!" Well, you just described a problem that can be solved just as easily with an Excel spreadsheet.
Quick Version:

1) Charge at least 45/hour. Yes you can charge less, but no it doesn't scale. I might even go higher. You have to make enough so you can pay all the fun taxes and insurance premiums you need -- even if you decide to skip out of them for a while.

2) Have a minimum hour block. Back in the dark ages, I used to have a 3 hour minimum. So if you had a problem and were willing to pay for 3 hours, I would come (to your business) and fix your computer. Now that I'm in management consulting I charge by the day. If you don't block out your time, your clients will make your life hell.

3) Knock on some doors. Best way to make sales. Go downtown and start knocking on doors. Ten bucks says within the first 20 doors you make a sale. Repeat and rinse.

4) Never work for free. That means NEVER. Even for your mom. Word will get out and you'll end up too busy to work your business.

5) Be ready to refund people's money. I used to have one rule: if you're unhappy in any way, you get your money back. Sure -- I got jerks. But I never dealt with them twice.

6) Enjoy the performance. On-site consulting is like one of those plays where the audience gets to participate. Know your stuff and be good at performance art. Remember to the end-user, they have no idea of what anything is worth. Their stuff is broken and you can fix it. So when you do, do a good job. Do extra work. Ham it up a bit. Tell some jokes. Have fun. People will remember you in a happy way, even if their wallet still stings. <-- That's exactly the way you want to be remembered.
are you a script, ionela ?
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I have thought of that idea as well. Just haven't sought out people to do it.
"Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has been predicted ahead of time."

That's pretty significant/awesome.
I think most coders know this by now, particularly since multitasking on a single-core system merely involves some really fast context-switches.

However, there is something that humans can do very well that is similar to multitasking, but it isn't really multitasking. Ask any high performance athelete or martial artist who has hit "the zone". Japanese Zen archers, for example, specifically train for this ability to see everything (using the peripheral vision), see significant details (for example, the weak spot on the target's armor), but done in a way without attaching the focus to the details. The result is the ability to take out the target without becoming so narrow-focused that you lose perception of things going on around you. However, unlike multitasking, you're aimed at just one goal instead of hopping from one goal to the next. You can get a glimpse of this skill if you try to pick out a specific detail out of the corner of your eye (using your peripheral vision).

Finally, the most important part of this skill is being able to focus without attatchment. The sensation is very weird since we're mostly socialized to avoid this state of mind. It is really useful when you need any sort of high performance.

Your target doesn't have to be an physical object. The target can be getting that beta product launch out the door.

If you want to read more about this, check out the book "Art of Learning". There is an entire chapter devoted to developing this skill so that it can be triggered at will.
The problem with dreamIT is the name of the companies it founds, all 2.0 :(

scvngr.mobi
vuzit.com
phrazit.com
beanstockd.com
anthillz.com
trendient.com

* I know you can't just the by their name, but the truth is a lot of people do. (and yes I know about F'ing Google.com)
I think you're missing a key distinction. Certain Bachelor's degrees from certain colleges are not overrated; perhaps that includes your degree. But many, perhaps the majority, have a negative value when you add up the price and opportunity cost. Due to a lack of reliable and relevant data it's often hard for customers (students) and prospective employers to distinguish the good from the worthless.
I think this is entirely true, but as a manager of programmers, you immediately run into a dilemma. Business is boring. There's a ton of prosaic, mind-numbing work that has to be done by someone. Personally when it comes time for me to "hack in where I can" I make an effort to actually choose the most mundane, boring tasks available. But part of the reason I do that is leading by example. So if I'm willing to do the shit work, I expect other people on my team to contribute when the shit is piled highest.

I also think the foosball, xbox 360s, nice chairs, etc are an attempt to make those basic facts more palatable. And its also true that really great programmers can make the "shit" just disappear, if they're given enough freedom. I.e. they can elevate your department or company.
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Smile. Breathe. Think.

Life's Good. Enjoy it.

oh.... LAUNCH THE PRODUCT AS IT IS!!!!

-P
I think you guys are missing the point. The appliance is free and yours to keep forever. You can even keep using the software on it for as long as you want. The support contract gives you much more than that though. Sure, if you have the time & experience to set up and maintain a system like this its not a good deal. But I'd bet that you would spend far more than $3,000 in time, energy and opportunity cost to keep it running.

With us you also get disaster recovery, software updates, & paid support and in my experience that really makes the boss sit up and take notice. The one friction point I always had when trying to "sell" an idea internally was they needed someone to blame if/when things went south. I started KangarooBox to get FOSS out into the world and to let people know that you don't have to pay overinflated prices for crappy software.

If you can set up Redmine on your server and your boss doesn't mind paying you to do it, great! I will be the first one in line to congratulate you and push you forward. If not, then we can help.
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Exactly. It's much like the housing market: government-subsidized financing was supposed to help poor people purchase homes and advance the "ownership society". Instead it mostly just drove up prices.

College education prices have been rising faster than the rate of inflation for years. The only reason they've been able to get away with it is the corresponding increases in financial aid. If the subsidies get cut back they'll have to get some financial discipline. For a start they could quit wasting money on unnecessary gold-plated facilities. You don't need fancy dorms, classrooms, and labs to deliver a solid undergraduate education.
You can make a living writing j2ee apps for the rest of your life, but I'm not sure you'd want to... Here's a couple of things that have recently helped me broaden my programming horizons:

Learning lisp from http://gigamonkeys.com/book/. I still completely suck at lisp, but my eyes are opened to what you can do with functional programming and metaprogramming.

Picking up Ruby and learning RoR. Any dynamic language would be helpful to know... take a look at both python and ruby and learn more about whichever you like better.

I've also gotten heavily into javascript recently because of jquery. I'm pleased with how flexible the framework.

None of these things are something you can go pick up in a one week training course. They're something you have to practice day after day to get better at. The most helpful thing you can do is to get a side project with some new language/framework and get cracking. Best way to learn imo.
I don't think price makes people think it's a better education; I think it's US News rankings and popular hearsay put out by books and movies. I bet that everyone who shops diligently for these things believes that the Cooper Union is great, but that expensive non-famous liberal arts colleges are not.
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i'm not defending the common bachelor's degree or anything, as i mentioned before, i think associates degrees and vocational school are underrated.

however, i'd like to see some proof that a large portion of bachelor's degrees have a negative value. i find that one a toughie to swallow as stated.
Launch... Get feedbacks... Iterate... Launch again... This is a never ending process for a startup with VC-backed.

But, if your company is not VC-backed, then, you have to use this method:

Lauch... Get feedbacks... Iterate.. Bootstrap... Launch again... Get more feedbacks... Iterate more... Bootstrap more... Another never ending process until you are successful... Think of NeXT and Pixar..
Maybe the first half. The second half would be how to write such code.
This article is argued from the assumption that college ought to be like a factory. Comparing dropout rates with the failure rates of manufactured goods is a complete non sequitur.
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This is side work, I have another job.
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It does and it echoes something a friend of mine told me to do. He said the same thing you did which was to get experience working at the Geek Squad or something similar to see how its all done. Thanks for your input.
You've given me some things to think about and I appreciate it.
Poor headline. It might hit Sudanese airspace, but not "Sudan" as in the land forming that country. It might not even high Sudanese airspace, as it'll burn up in the "upper atmosphere."
It's as much as an "impact" with Earth as dropping a sweetner in your coffee is an "impact."
Thanks, you've given me a lot to think about.
I like this post a lot, but I'm going to make the point that while instance_eval DSLs may be on the outs in library code (where they screw up your current variable scope and cause bugs), they can work just fine in programs built around ad hoc DSLs --- where variable scope doesn't matter.

I'm glad he's thinking about ways that the Ruby standard library can help build "safe" DSLs --- and I'm glad he's doing it with library code, rather than advocating a dive down the sanitary-macros rathole --- but I can't help but think that the real problem here is that DSLs are a crappy abstraction for library code.

If you want your app to be built on and around DSLs, build DSLs. But libraries shouldn't dictate them, any more than they should dictate user interface.
Advanced Paternal Age is rare, but Advanced Maternal Age is skyrocketing. This guy is not that impressive, he totally forgot to mention this little fact.
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First Round (www.firstround.com) is the one that comes to mind there. At least based on his online presence Josh (who's around here some too, I think) is one of the investors out there that I have a good deal of respect for.
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I submitted a blog to this blogging website, it was approved same day. Put the RSS feed on Facebook. Works like a dream.
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Old, old, old idea. Even I was writing about this in 2006.

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/04/stateless-web-pages-with-has...

When I wrote that Matt Sergeant posted that this idea had been around since at least 1999.
Find a place like MetaLab.at and go there, often. Its great to have people around you who are Getting Things Done and its highly motivating to have a lot of such activity occurring on a daily basis on the periphery of your view while you hack away. Just don't drink too much Mate!
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bachelor degrees are only overrated because of grade inflation.
us hackers wouldn't get paid much if computers always behaved themselves.
So, like a vocational / trade school?
You're being extremely cynical.

The point is not that you (probably) lost money in last week's market; the point is that you didn't go bust. The guys that Taleb is talking about put it all on the line, discounted the possibility that this sort of thing could happen, and now they're dead.

Like I said: I don't like Taleb's writing, but I don't think the message is particularly bad.
Well, we're talking in different terms here. I happen to be aware how the geography and population density of Sudan looks like. It's a huge country with lots of desert and a very low population density in most of the area. I could drop Switzerland on top of Sudan and only a few goats would blink.

This is an example of miscommunication based on assumed knowledge.
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Try to involve someone with authority. Some angel investor, another co-founder, mentor, advisor...anyone who can hold (both of) you accountable for your efforts and actions (or lack of it).

You should talk to your co-founder about your concerns. You ll need all your efforts after the launch for product improvement.
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You should ask for you money back.
I am a self professed big fan of Taleb and his writings so would be really interesting to read counter points to his philosophy. Know the link to the article?
You are spot on. All these manifestations are the by-products of deleveraging

It's happening everywhere. Housing, equity, bond, commodities etc.

The term "There's always a bull market somewhere" is no longer relevant at this period of time.
I all for it...
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Welcome back. I missed you.
Yeah, but you see the problem with both of those is that they have challenges! How can I build a good UI testing framework? How can I turn this large mass of spaghetti into usable code? These are exactly the sorts of things that are good challenges for a programmer.

To give a real-life example, I was handed a project last week to create a new project - the source code mostly existed, except some glue, but I needed a new build environment. Now, I could have passed a very boring week manually creating makefiles, or I could do what I actually did - create an optimised makefile format, then write a parser for it in Ruby. The actual generation of the build environment ended up taking about half a day, with the parser/semantics analysis taking up the rest of the time. It was fun work, and better yet, the next time someone asks me to do this, I'll just grab the tool that I developed this time, and it'll all be done in half a day. As an added bonus I got to play with a PEG parser generator for the first time in my life (way nicer than your typical yacc-style ambiguous grammar - thanks Chomsky, you bastard!)
You need to learn something else. Java in particular is horrible about getting otherwise competent developers stuck in one kind of mindset about how to do software development. There may be some good practices that you've picked up but you are also being limited by lack of exposure to other ways of developing.
One good reason to ask about downtime is to learn from other people's troubles and about their tools.
The author claims it gives a much better shave and doesn't irritate your skin as much.
Honestly, start looking for a co-founder. Ideally someone you rather like, since they're going to be the only person you see a lot of days.
>But by definition, a random event can't be predicted, so why bother planning against it?

Bang on! This is the typical talk of people who either don't understand what Taleb is talking about or are so adamant that they simply don't care flexing some of their brain muscles. It is analogous to saying that jumping off the cliff, there is a finite probability (however small) that one won't be killed, so why bother not jumping?

I hope you get the point now.
Apparently he didn't want to be great.
I really have this problem, and I think a lot of other people probably do too. Often things seem obvious to me and I assume the same for everyone else. Consequently, people have a hard time understanding what I'm saying.

To fix this, I really try to analytically break down my idea, which bores people to tears.

Anyone solve this satisfactorily, or do you just find yourself a russian lit major?
The server got wedged: it couldn't write to the log file because there were too many files open. Still not sure why there were so many files open. I've never seen that error before. But the program that notices when the server is wedged and kills it didn't catch it in this case, because instead of not responding it would respond but with an empty page.
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or, you can just do like others and learn rails or python.

I suggest learning Ruby, not Rails. Unless you know Ruby, you will not be able to really understand how Rails works. Ruby is way more than just Rails.
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Man, and here I was hoping they would spin off ATI again. It would've been very interesting had AMD and Nvidia actually gotten together.^ AMD just hasn't been the same since they ate the poison apple.

^ Which almost happened, twice: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-nvidia-merger,review-1061.ht...
Ask yourself a very simple question. If you were currently making sufficient income from your product and were on your way to growing the company would you still harbor the same feelings towards your cofounder?
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The future of programming languages
Not really; Java (the platform) can handle circular dependencies.
No it isn't. You just sign the data that's on the client and check the signature when it is returned. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=325551.
Wake me when he signs up for Twitter.
Try using a lot of cultural metaphors. They can convey a lot of information in a small package, plus they're entertaining to the listener.

Not useful for everything, but for 1 or 2 technical ideas very handy.