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I can't wait to read this book. After reading the sample chapter I think it will become required reading for CS nerds who want to explain why they like computer science to their families and friends.
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In general, schools in America have much much lower quality than ones in Russia. Some immigrants families here in Bay Area are quite frustrated because schools here seems to have a goal to be "a safe and pleasant place where you put your kids so you can go to work" instead "place where kids learn stuff".

Basically, schools are made in such way that no real hard work is actually done at schools and that everything needs to be done at home (evenings, weekends, etc.). I believe that is reason schools with Asians and Whites kids are much more successful.

So my theory is that there are no "good" or "bad" schools here in America: all schools are of a equally low quality, there are only "good" and "bad" neighborhoods.
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This is confusing a set of legislative measures, aimed at the destruction of an illegal organization, with the attainment of the said result.
What sprung to my mind was this article from the economist:

http://www.economist.com/node/18652037

The issue is that in India, it's illegal to both accept and give bribes. This prevents bribe givers from 1) blowing the whistle. 2) Admitting to others who want to convict the corrupt official that they gave him bribes.

"Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser to India’s finance ministry, suggests that this may be partly because the law treats both bribe-giving and bribe-taking as crimes. This makes it hard to blow the whistle on corrupt officials, because the bribe-giver has also broken the law. If he complains, he risks prosecution or, more likely, being asked for another bribe by the police. In a provocative paper based on game theory, Mr Basu argues for the legalisation of some kinds of bribe-giving. His proposal has instigated a furious debate in India, with television channels even assembling panels to discuss it."
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Agreed.

Sometimes on HN we get a blog post announcing a new library, or cool hack, or something like that. When that happens, I usually crawl the author's about page and online presence.

I'm looking for embarrassing details that are unrelated to the post being discussed. Then, I usually leave a comment on HN to the effect of "man, this guy's fat and probably has never been touched by a woman."

No hate, only humor. It might sting but it's probably true also. Who cares if it's an irrelevant non-contribution?
People don't seek Harvard for the education only. They seek it or lots of things: access to wealth, access to knowledge and network, increased status, increased reputation.

Otherwise why would there be exceptional demand (and price) for harvard?
The coolest, most helpful people I've met in Silicon Valley make a concerted effort to do just those two things: meet people and get things done.

Meet at least one or two new people every couple of days. And, meeting people online... much different than spending an hour with them over coffee.

After a few years, you'll be amazed at the opportunities that become available.
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To be fair, they're really handling that massive foreigner bicycle-theft problem.
How about Finnish/Norwegian? If the proximity theory holds no water, then I would expect that even though every Norwegian is within something like 200 miles of Sweden, you'd see almost no Norwegians speaking Swedish.
Is the creative class evaporating too?
If you are an interesting person, you have to put yourself in a situation where you can prove it to others. Find a competition, a hackathon, sport activity or even volunteering and build something with strangers. This is how i made most of my find friends and my connections.
I could have sworn this was one of those "solved" problem spaces. :)
> It's also hard to escape the fact that many, if not most of these suburbs were explicitly set up to keep out blacks, latinos, Jews, and other undesirable groups.

Actually, it's pretty easy to escape that "fact" because it simply isn't true.

Yes, there were some covenants like that, but they were relatively rare.

And, most of the housing stock is newer than that, so even if such covenants were somewhat common and were still in force, they'd cover a small fraction of the population.

Since they haven't been in force for decades....

> Canada shares a lot of the basic educational structure as the US, and sadly a good share of the racial baggage as well, but our cities are far more monolithic than most American cities.

More "monolithic" is right. Canada is about as diverse as Minnesota.
For those of you who were not at the bar and don't understand this in-joke, Ogaki's finest have detained me multiple times on suspicion of stealing my own bicycle. Each time, on getting released, I am reminded that either "the foreigners" or "the Brazilians" are unleashing a biblical plague of bike thefts on Ogaki and that I should be careful to double lock it to avoid becoming the latest victim.
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It's the caffeine and its side effects. It can cause sleep disorders, anxiety, and so on. Of course, not everyone encounters these problems with their coffee-drinking. See the Wikipedia entry for caffeine if you want more details though.
Those are really cool! Is there any way to explain what the different symbols and operators are doing? I'm a web developer and have a very vague understanding of a little bit of the code but am also a musician and would love to understand a little more so I could try to make my own (without just randomly typing numbers and symbols).
For example, is there some correlation between adding a ">>" or "%" operator and how that effects the timing? I saw some of the super basic formulas referenced in the blog post, and see that t[asterisk]4 generates a tone, t[asterisk]5 generates a higher tone, etc. -- is there a way, for example, to put those one after the other to compose something (or is that defeating the purpose of this exercise)?

Maybe another way to ask the question, is in your 3-part harmony example, do certain portions of the code correspond to certain parts of the generated tone?

Or is this all just totally random, trial-and-error stuff?

Thanks!
Go read Good Calories, Bad Calories to learn the real science behind nutrition (as opposed to "personal experience").
Amusingly, I'm in the entirely opposite boat. I managed to get an entire Ph.D. in solid state physics without taking an actual course in linear algebra (a procedure that I do not recommend, but everyone is young and foolish once). So I've got some idea of what vector spaces are about geometrically -- otherwise, graduate quantum mechanics would have been impossible to navigate -- but I'm really bad at manipulating the actual symbols.

And, incidentally, I'm planning to attempt most of the problems. I've cherry-picked my way through this subject before, and I was ultimately displeased with the results. They say that the problem with an autodidact is that he has a fool for a teacher, and with linear algebra I learned that the hard way. Fortunately, now they've invented Open Courseware, Amazon.com, and HN, so I'll give the fool another chance.
Linux Mint fits the niche Ubuntu used to hold for me.

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> We haven't sped up the pace of drug development

http://fold.it/portal/info/science

> haven't developed nanomechanical computers

micro:

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2007/LC/b70876...

nano:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/5229

Not that either is going to replace transistors-in-silicon when it comes to density of processing power.

> no Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Incidentally, the story describes a "Wizard of Oz" implementation. The more complex interactions of the primer are handled by a human actor behind the scenes.

> We haven't developed Drexler's universal constructors

Take your pick of DNA synthesis, chemical synthesis, nucleosynthesis, antihydrogen, 3d printing, two-photon fabrication - oh, and the 16 nm semiconductor process. Not quite magic goo, but pretty effective nonetheless.

> we do have see-through zinc oxide

Transparent aluminum:

http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html
Well, really, if she hadn't borrowed money and not paid it back then she wouldn't have a yakuza problem now would she.

I'm half-joking, but then again I'm half-serious. I know it's not PC, but for heaven's sake, she borrowed money from a crime syndicate. Shouldn't she have known what she was getting herself into?
Even going so far as entertaining an offer could screw him in court. He needs an IP lawyer familiar with this ASAP.
Funny, that part resonated with me as well.

Totally confirmed after I followed the link to his book on amazon and saw that it had been blatantly astroturfed with fake 5 star reviews.
That sounds straight out of the novel "The Third Policeman". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Policeman
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I thought I was trying to meet people in the Boston ruby community but I didn't realize how little effort I was putting into it until I contacted two prominent people via railsmentors.org. There are dozens of people that will happily meet with you and make introductions to others. You just can't wait for it to happen. You gotta contact them and plan it. Serendipity is 90% planning.
Confirmed. This is exactly how the most exciting opportunities in my life have come about. It would be awesome to hear from someone who either doesn't get this or disagrees with it. It seems simple enough, but I bet there are quite a few people who don't get what they're doing wrong.
With all of the confusing misinformation out there, there is plenty that we do know, based on sound science. The Harvard School of Public Health is a great resource that distills what scientific research has shown us about nutrition (as opposed to what lobbyists have influenced the USDA to tell us about nutrition).

More info here: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-...

And an overview here:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-p...
Holy crap are the people talking about Silk moronic.

Do you people realise this is nothing new? BlackBerry has been doing this for more than a decade, with poor results. Opera has been doing this for at least 6+ years, with slightly better results.

It's not new, and it's not a good thing. Centralizing all browsing through Amazon? Are you fucking kidding me? What kind of crazy world is this that people are excited by this development?

That, and proxying all browsing for a WiFi-only device with a dual core CPU is beyond disingenuous and absolutely unnecessary.
It is probably relevant to your understanding of this matter that the Japanese equivalent of payday lenders, which are owned by banks roughly similar to CitiBank, have in the past outsourced collections to the yakuza as a matter of policy.

By law and custom the United States has a lot of protections for debtors. Japan... well...
The experience that I have so far in the education system is pretty much that it kills creativity. To me one of the source of the problem is that most evaluation and work we do in school are made to be solved in one and only way. And when you manage to do something creative out of it, nobody notice and it just passes as if it was something normal. It seriously kills your motivation to find more creative solution. After 3 month in CEGEP* in a computer science program, I lost all my motivation to try to do better stuff. I even had final project where my team wanted to do some very interesting and the teacher did pretty much everything he could to make it flat and boring. That was the most discouraging project I ever did of my life.
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The sheer number of unexplained Japanese words in that article made reading it lightly frustrating. Convenient example:

"All yakuza groups have a coat of arms or crest known as a daimon(代紋) that represents the group. The Yamaguchi-gumi daimon is often called hishi-gata because of its shape."

Sure, he romanized that last one, but that really didn't make the sentence understandable.
Speaking as someone who has been historically afraid to invite people, it's so true. People want to be led. That doesn't necessarily mean starting a non-profit but something like getting people together for a dinner or a happy hour or an art crawl.

Planning dinner parties. I've actually started doing this. I find that it seems to be a lot harder to plan/execute/have a small (8-10 person) dinner engagement than it is to send out a broad invite to almost everyone you know for a 30 person party - expectations of the host/guests? I don't know why (yet).

The key for a dinner party is to not to try for a weekend night but a weekday night (e.g. Tuesday or Wednesday) - easier to compete against other events on those days than weekend events (which are usually more important/reserved slots). Having non-shows annoy me (but life happens). Always try to invite some couples - that maximizes the invite/halves the required outreach.

I used to consider myself a fairly shy person but the thing is I have run into people at other friends's events who I already know (and my friends are like - you know them already?) Which makes me realize - that I am not as shy as I claim to be. Actions speak more than your beliefs? I like to try to run in many circles (albeit loosely connected). I have not yet managed to bring disparate social circles together on a regular basis (outside of a big party) but that is my goal. I have had at least two instances of people meeting and dating - so by that metric - I have succeeded.

As I heard once, it is very hard to be the global maximum (e.g. POTUS). Harder to be the regional maximum. But at your own party, at your own event, by definition - you are the local maximum. The host, the one who brought everyone together. That counts for a lot.

Good luck and just get it going. Don't wait for your dinner party/bar crawl to be perfect. All you need is two people with you to not feel like a social pariah. Because you are not one.
Isn't this exactly what BlackBerry did in the early 2000s? Mobile phones sucked, so they processed as much as they could on the server and sent it down compressed and easily parseable to the client?
Ask HN: Advice on what to use as deployment platform for a toy project
Hi HNers,

I'm working on a toy project for an experimental search engine and this time I'm not sure if follow the VPS route, or to try something more "fashionable" like EC2 or Heroku. Previously I've worked with linode and its advantages are great control, but this requires a lot of knowledge, time and patience to finally do a good job.

What is your advice on this? I've read great things about both parties however I'm not sure if, for example EC2 works exactly in the same way that a VPS would work, or if this decision should be relegated until I have a working prototype. What have been your experience on this subject?

I expect to do this on Python, if this skews the response.

Thanks.

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Ah, so she borrowed from a bank and the yakuza came knocking? Yes, if that is the case, that is a different matter.
Visit the site; it's owned by a small family-owned computer retailer, and always has been. It's kinda awesome, really, that they've been able to keep it.
A favorite that hasn't been mentioned yet: TuneIn Radio - seems to have pretty much every radio station.

Surprised more aren't using Google Navigator, easily my favorite droid app.
Because for at least some, a large part of what they sell is social exclusivity. Those dirty little brown (or Jewish, or Irish, or Catholic, or Italian, or German, or in Fremont, CA, white trash ...) children will be kept away from your precious little gems.

Since school, education, economic potential, etc., are so tightly tied to social status, this is hardly surprising. It's also present in other goods: I'm sure you can think of luxury cars, foods, clothes, clubs, etc., whose appeal and cache is largely their exclusivity and the fact that the great unwashed masses can't access them. No, this doesn't apply to all goods, but for a class of them, yes. (That this is also tied to price discrimination behavior on the part of producers also has something to do with this).

What is the term used for the highest ranked colleges in the US? Oh yeah: "highly selective".
There is an interesting trend at top schools where the marginal applicants from less prestigious prep-schools tend to do better. The better your parents help you game the system the lower your average intelligence after admission.

My younger sister went though this process recently. She was Valedictorian, had 5's on something like 12 AP tests, ran her own business, and had enough artistic talent that she was accepted into the top Graphics Art School in the country with an average admissions age of ~20. Now, she was considering a business degree and could have easily gotten a full ride at an Ivy, but the students where 'stressed and boring' so she gave up on that idea really quickly.

Which is an odd trap, where not only are poeple gaming the system to get in, you drive away the types of students you actually want because your student is so focused on checking things off a some list they never really learn to think for themselves.

PS: Continue down this path for long enough and we are going to end up with Japan's higher education system.
Vico basically rocks my planet. It's got shortcomings, but it's scriptable using Nu, and you have access to all of Cocoa when scripting, so there's definitely room for big, awesome improvements. For example, I reimplemented a subset of the zz/zt/zb functionality in just a few lines of Nu (https://github.com/Shadowfiend/vico-fill-in-the-blanks.tmbun...), added the ability to run an external console process and pipe its output to a vico buffer in a few more (https://github.com/Shadowfiend/pointy-haired-boss.tmbundle) and then implemented support for Scala's simple-build-tool on top of that in a few more (https://github.com/Shadowfiend/simple-build-tool.tmbundle). 250 lines of Nu altogether. Epically awesome.

I'm still missing a couple of key functions, especially `` when doing searches, but vico is already awesome and can only become more so with progress.
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I like that analogy - I think I'm going to hold onto it!
No offense, but I think it's kinda strange that you would ask why before you actually looked at the link ...

EDIT: it appears the comment I was replying to was deleted, but it essentially asked Why and was subsequently edited with a remark along the lines of "I should have checked the link"
As I see it, software rots because though maintenance is a permanent and recurrent cost, the ultimate cost for it (codebase abandonment) lies in the distant future.

By the time it is needed to flush the big ball of mud down the toilet, the people responsible would have probably gone on to better things. Or to another big ball of mud project in another company.

I guess it is a case of misaligned incentives.

Personal experience:

In one of my previous positions, as the most senior engineer on board, I was asked to survey our system to determine whether it was suitable to be the basis of yet another deliverable project.

I spent a month doing this, wading through the big ball of mud which came into existence over the course of five years and delivering three projects (barely) using this codebase.

My assessment was pretty honest and I asked for time to attempt paying down this technical debt to a reasonable level before we go on ahead to use the code base on another project.

Management, at the end, did not authorize the "debt-repayment exercise". Perhaps I should have pushed harder but I was told it was "above my pay grade". At the end, they began insinuating that I was responsible for it all. Simply amazing.

Soon, I bid them adios. As I understand it, the code base has been discarded in favour of complete redevelopment. Which will take another two to three years.
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Why was asking Reddit a mistake?

Put yourself in the OP's shoes. You're a college student and you get a notice like this handed to you. It's not like you have an IP lawyer on retainer or cash to run out and hire one instantly.

In fact, one helpful redditor pointed out that his college might have a law school that would be willing to help with his case as a teaching exercise. I bet the OP knew nothing about that, and that's worth the price of visiting reddit alone.
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I think you nailed it.

In a world in which so much routine work has been and continues to be automated, originality is becoming more and more essential for success. But originality can't be taught -- it has to be nurtured.

Yes, in order to do original work, you need mastery of a medium, whether that be lacrosse, tuba, or mathematics (to borrow your examples). But people think that the mastery is the whole point, when it's actually just the toolchest. Without originality to guide the use of those tools, you're just a mechanic -- and we don't need many mechanics anymore.
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I'm not sure if these are the best of examples. Norwegian and Swedish are by and large mutually intelligible, probably on a level comparable to Australian and U.S. English. Norwegians essentially are speaking Swedish, without trying.

Finland has had a large (currently ~5%) Swedish-speaking minority for a long time. While a large amount (~50%) of Finnish-mother-tongue Finns can speak Swedish, this is expected given the Swedish minority, the previously large and prestigious role of Swedish in Finland, the relative populations (~5M vs ~9M for Sweden), and the relative linguistic isolation of Finnish.

I wouldn't claim the proximity theory holds no water - it's just not the entire story.
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I can't be the only one waiting eagerly for sublime text to include transparency/alpha-channel backgrounds right? That was one of the big sticking points for me in TextMate, and also one of the big reasons vim on OSX terminal is my secondary option.

I know it sounds like a silly thing to dwell on, but having my editor slightly transparent helps a lot when dealing with UI work.
Here's my conditional disagreement:

If you live in a social city, you may find yourself in a situation where you're doing more meeting and talking than actually working.

I know a few people that have put such emphasis on the importance of meeting with people and connecting people, that they never get any real work done!

Yes, the OP mentioned this: "(1) Do something" - but the problem is that contacting people and meeting up with them, and attending events, meetups, and even posting on HN - can all feel like you are doing something.

But sometimes you need to ask yourself if you're using all this people-meeting as a distraction from your real work.

Too often, I find meeting people is easy. What's HARD is disconnecting, focusing, staying in, and working through the difficult obstacles to creating something valuable.
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