skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is not clear to me is why people with degrees are always trying to promote that others also get degrees. The exclusivity of the degree is what makes it interesting and valuable.

Not knocking the education component, education is always a good thing (whether it comes from school or some other avenue), but the perception of success you talk about is because it is still somewhat of an exclusive club; probably doubly so in developing nations. However, thanks to the pressure on students to go to college, that gap is continually shrinking and constantly devaluing the value of the degree.

If you buy a Ferrari, you are perceived as more successful than others. You are going to be afforded luxuries that others do not have, just because you are signalling that you are "better". If we did some studies, I bet we would even find that Ferrari ownership, like a degree, pays – through better contacts and opportunities to make money because of the signalling. But I don't see Ferrari owners out there telling everyone that they need to own a Ferrari. They understand the importance of being part of a select few.

If education pays, you would think you would want to keep that under wraps. Given that, it always feels like there are some insecurities at play every time the topic comes up.
Got J.R.R. Tolkien, pleasantly surprised.
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With the continuing popularity of functional programming, it doesn't look like it's ever going away. Here's is an introduction to functional programming in F# written with the object oriented (C#) programmer in mind.
Problem is that these are often far less aggressive than the EFF. The EFF excels in the ability of spotting situations that are so obviously "wrong" that they make great stories.

Most European organizations unfortunately appear to me far less professional organized and more a bunch of activists who are lacking the firepower of EFFs legal and PR team.
David Foster Wallace, whom I have never heard of.

(Looking him up: He died at age 46 and I am age 46...bad omen?)
Are all users listed real? (That is, not generated by Badoo?) It just feels kinda fake when looking through the list of accounts in my city (with a somewhat "small" population of ~50k, 814 Badoo accounts) that there is a lot of users. More than I anticipated for a service which I, as a person very interested in technology, did not even know about. Some of the pictures look very legit (with car-plates matching the country standard etc), as well as descriptions. Any thoughts?
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Maybe, but it is a horrible use case.

Or rather it is too limiting as people now only focus on young males rather than, say, really sexy software for businesses. The 22 year old market is, comparatively, over-saturated.
Arthur Conan Doyle.
> Today nearly a third have college degrees, and a higher percentage of them graduated from nonelite schools.

I wonder how value of degrees from elite schools have eroded (or grown). That might go to explain part of the intensity with which people clamor to get into them.
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>You seem to think it should be difficult to participate, such that only the elite who have busted their chops should be able to do so. //

Wherein "the elite" is anyone with internet access to Wikipedia and "busted their chops" means spent a few hours on Wikipedia reading how the editing and review processes work.
What make me sad about wikipedia is that year after year, they will have to make this 'begging'. And jokes about Jim Wales will appear all over the web, and some more begging, and people complaining about some rich dude who 'only' donate 500 larges.

Well, Wikipedia has to find a sustainable model, they do not want ads or propaganda, but some new model has to be found, books, classes, especial encyclopedias, I don't know. But they need to stop doing this every year.
I don't know much about PHP, what's wrong with it regarding templating?
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OK, I'll bite. I was hoping to learn a little something about myself, but I'm not sure I did. My results:

Blog Entry #1 (advice) - Arthur Clarke

Blog Entry #2 (humor) - Cory Doctorow

Blog Entry #3 (advice) - Stephen King

Blog Entry #4 (autobiographical) - David Foster Wallace

Blog Entry #5 (story) - Kurt Vonnegut

Blog Entry #6 (technical explanation) - Chuck Palahniuk

Blog Entry #7 (technical explanation) - Cory Doctorow

Standup Comedy Bit #1 (parody) - James Joyce

Standup Comedy Bit #2 (satire) - William Shakespeare

Standup Comedy Bit #3 (observational) - James Joyce

Standup Comedy Bit #4 (rant) - William Gibson

Standup Comedy Bit #5 (observational) - Stephen King

Poetry #1 - Chuck Palahniuk

Poetry #2 - Cory Doctorow
That being said, I must say G-Free is practical by design, ie, it can realistically be implemented and used in a production environment, as opposed to many defense solutions (for ROP or other memory corruption attacks) which are just proof of concept.
Sounds great, but on one blog post i got Dan Brown, and on the other James Joyce. Seems a bit flaky :)
Local saying: Daig ang masipag ng maswerteng tamad (a lucky sloth is usually better off than a hard worker). Must be a terrible joke, but ultimately I believe hard work + opportunity = success.
FWIW: I tried twice and got the same result both times. I'm jealous of the Lovecraft result someone else got. I keep getting someone I've never heard of. :-/
I write like David Foster Wallace
"I write like J. D. Salinger"

I don't think I've ever read The Catcher in the Rye, or in fact any of his other books, so I don't know if this is 'good' or 'bad'. It'd be interesting if there was some sort of measure of public opinion on an author to see how I rate (that's my ego talking) and also a comparison in % to how many other people got Salinger.
Impossible to know. FCC Chairman Genachowski is indeed a friend of the president, but this merger faced challenges on a several other fronts (e.g. the FTC and the DOJ).

Also consider that McDowell, the lead Republican on the FCC and a Bush appointee, didn't say much publicly about the merger and what he did say was less than a full throated endorsement.

It's also rather a bad time to approve a deal that--based on any half-way independent analysis--would have resulted in large numbers of layoffs. AT&T claiming otherwise was a total farce.
I tried three different writing samples and got:

David Foster Wallace (excerpt from blog post)
Edgar Allen Poe (introduction to peer-reviewed journal article)
Jonathan Swift (concluding paragraph from ibid)

I also tried:

The first few paragraph's of Wallace's Infinite Jest (he writes like himself)

The first few paragraphs of The Raven (Poe writes like HP Lovecraft), then the whole of The Raven (now Shakespeare), and first three paragraphs of The Masque of the Red Death (now Anne Rice)

The first three paragraphs of Swift's A Modest Proposal (Daniel Defoe).

I don't know much about literature--maybe e.g. Defoe's writing is similar to Swift's--but without seeing the reasons why I write like a particular author, I take these results with a grain of salt.
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Boo-hoo, prices have droped. Guess what? So have the costs of developing and publishing your game!

I understand the price drop is not proportional to the cost decrease, but that's not even important.

The people behind Steam or Humble Bundle are showing great creativity and forward thinking, creating viable businesses (if we can call Humble Bundle a business) by selling 1-2$ games.

What this rant is saying is basically that competition is better and cheaper, it's so unfair.

Saying that indie games used to sell for 10-15$ does not make it better. It was viable 5 years ago, it's not anymore. Period. Prices of blank DVDs have dropped drastically in the past years. You don't hear DVD manufacturers complain about the price-drop or make claims about the 'industry'.

I understand that the author is raising an otherwise rarely discussed issue. I apologize for the harsh tone of my comment, but globally, the message is the same: Stop nagging and do things differently. Your competitors understood that and are moving on!
Despite the down-votes, I think you're actually making a thought-provoking point here. As an EU citizen (Finnish) I, too, get the impression that the EU is an opaque entity making decisions that dispute national sovereignty of its member nations.

That said, I do mostly disagree with you in this particular case. As other commenters have pointed out, judiciary bodies are usually selected rather than elected (at least that is the case here in Finland). And I have not seen a single referendum on national legislation either, nor do I feel particularly satisfied with the level of accountability in the government.

So perhaps the shortcomings you raise are endemic in democracy globally, rather than ailments unique to EU?
Just for fun, I put in the last paragraphs of The Sun Also Rises and got Douglas Adams.
Apparently I write source code like Arthur C. Clarke.
Agreed, this solves a problem I don't have(at least currently).
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When I took archery, someone attributed my skill to "luck". I think "luck" often means "I don't understand what went right or how to replicate that result". I would rather understand what went right, if possible, so I can do it again fairly reliably. Therefore I would rather be good than "lucky" -- good enough that other people accuse me of having "luck".
my point is that this style of writing is pervasive within the scala world, including the official api. and it's not just the list class. look at the base xml class, NodeSeq:

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/rc/scala/xml/NodeSeq.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_versus_environment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_versus_player
..., whom I have never heard of.

This was the most pleasant outcome I got from launching IWL: people wrote that they never heard of some of the authors, or that they heard but never read them, and then told me that they'll go read their works.
Few Americans are going to buy a $600+ phone up front and then pay an inflated monthly service charge that is based on you having to repay a phone subsidy.
I do find it a bit ironic that the article is published on a site with the XHTML Transitional DOCTYPE.

"It’s the Future, Get With It!" ;-)
I got Cory Doctorow as well (from the intro to The Little MongoDB book and a few other posts). We were both school by more or less the same system (Ontario) more or less in the same timeframe (8 year difference).
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Being a programmer myself, this is a bit theoretical but I think if I wasn't and I sat down to read an article names "How I became a Programmer", I would expect a couple of pointers to where to start, what to do and how to do it.

Besides from the point about learning a language rather than a framework, your post mostly says "It took me 12 week to learn programming" and that the way to do it is the obvious: read stuff, try stuff etc.

There is nothing wrong with this of course, but given the headline, especially here on HN, I can see why some might feel that they didn't quite get their money's worth.
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To be accurate, Commanche didn't have a true volumetric renderer, it was just raycasting a heightmap[1]; essentially just as much of a hollow shell as polygon rendering techniques. However, you are correct to point out that this tech is not particularly revolutionary; others such as the Atomontage engine[2] show voxels can be leveraged to create detailed, destructible organic environments.

[1] http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Realtime_Voxel_Landscape_En...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CCZIBDt1uM
So, CRU / the Met Office's data is actually slightly better than originally claimed? Or am I reading that wrong?
I had a lengthy medical crisis, during which time I "didn't get out much" so to speak. I imagine that's a big part of why I hadn't heard of him. I also imagine my future will be richer. Perhaps at some point I will look into reading some of his stuff, though my plate is fairly full at the moment. :-)
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In any competitive environment, like game development, a tiny minority will win. I don't understand why that then gets drawn to "bundle sales aren't good for most...". I was never exposed to indie games until the Humble Bundle, for example.

Competition leaves a majority that does not win. This is true in capitalism, nature, sports, you name it. Whether that is a good or bad thing is separate, but I don't think it needs to be extrapolated to "bundles and Steam aren't good for most". Competition itself is not good for "most".
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Automatic interpolation of variables into string literals is a bad idea IMHO.

Couple that with variable hoisting (function scope) and hilarity can ensue when variables defined further down a function influence the value of another variable that looks like it just contains a string literal.
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the polygon to voxel conversion is just so artists can use existing tools like 3dmax or maya, which work on polygon models. think of the trees in their demo, the models have to come from somewhere. so realtime conversion is not needed.

as far as i can tell their voxel tech is just for non-moving objects like the landscape, buildings, etc. animated and moving actors are still rendered as polygons and blended into the scene (according to the article, this already works to a certain degree, but they weren't able to give a live demo, just a video).
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I would love to agree with you, but anytime I want to search Wkipedia I use Google and "(Subject name) Wikipedia) because Wiki's own search blows.
After submitting some of my longer HN comments, I think the tool is more accurate about what I write than how I write. My comment on the Russian space program (which included the name of their moon probe (Luna) many times) was similar to Joanne K. Rowling (Luna Lovegood), another comment about TCP specifics is apparently similar to Cory Doctorow's writing.

For statistical analysis of writing styles as opposed to content it would be better to ignore all subjects (like Luna, TCP, ...) and only concentrate on the remaining words that are independent of the discussed topic.
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"Seriously worrying that an EU judge thinks he should start making these claims in direct contradiction to an elected body passing laws."

That is very much within the scope of what judges are for in many countries, including the various legal systems of the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review

Checks and balances....
tl;dr: i'm sceptical, this might be snake oil, omgthisisthegreatestthingeverandwillrevolutionizeeverything!

honestly, the article is not of the highest quality.
Also if you're using Ruby 1.9.3, you can run parallel unit tests: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/test/unit/rdoc/T...
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2631019
Compare to Colander: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/colander/en/latest/
I think every Python developer worth their salt implemented a class like this at least once in their career (mine was even called DStruct :-) ). And probably at a certain later point decided it was not that good an idea.

(essentially chosen only because it was "prettier").

That was my reason as well. It is easier/prettier to write a.b.c. instead of ['a']['b']['c']. But that's all.
Those numbers really aren't bad at all. Obviously wages are going to a main expense of a nonprofit that's a giant website.
And IMHO all those items that were removed contained information of some kind.

I imagine the deletionism of wikipedia comes from the fact that it is very hard to pay the bills. But in my opinion, every piece of information (yes, even pages about fictional furry characters which clearly state that they are fictional and their context) should be preserved.

However, I think wikipedia in its current structure falls short to achieve such objective. A "distributed wikipedia" (where everybody can contribute disk space) would be the the natural step IMO.

Three things I will add to the current wikipedia
1. Distributed storage, process.
2. Completely avoid deletionism
3. Use Article rating (there is some rating going on, but no straightforward way to use it [like filtering pages with less than 4 stars).
Headline is a little deceptive. While the article does point out that a college degree by itself is no longer a good predictor of success, it does point out that education, especially technical, is incredibly important. It even concludes by saying most of us "should go to school, learn some skills and prepare for a rocky road."
what happens when luxury becomes comodity?
No irony or sarcasm here but I would love to get some links or directions towards startup hubs in europe.I'm interested in attending conferences for young entrepreneurs or events like this.If they are very few or almost none, then I see myself forced to conclude that europe it's a bit different (than USA at least). Sorry for running off topic.
I think it will be really sad if we end up with a module system that's incompatible with CommonJS, which is the only such system that has gained any real traction.
This is more of a combination of the two, which I feel is most certainly the best pathway to success. People tend to give too little credit to luck (especially if they've worked hard as well), but here's the way I see it: you can have a lot of people who put in the same amount of work and are equally as talented, but the luckier ones are the ones who meet more success.

However, if you had to pick only one, your saying would seem to hint that luck outweighs effort and that's a sentiment that has been pretty common through the years (former Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez - "I'd rather be lucky than good.") I'm interested in seeing which of the two would be more desired if a single choice between the two was presented.
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I will take your comment as your ability to ignore all the comments showing how the article was correctly deleted.
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For anything cited as a shortcoming of the language or dev environment, there's going to be some tooling. There's a search engine for those symbolic "operators" (they're methods, not operators, but that's how most devs think about them

- (Scalex)[http://scalex.org/] search engine should cover most of them. Generally, you know if that "operator" comes from the collections API, scalaz, sbt, akka, or wherever, so it's not that hard to locate the scaladoc and the source.

- (Staircase book, first edition)[http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/book-index.html#indexanchor] covers most the built in and standard lib symbolic operators

- aliases like foldLeft and foldRight are built into List class, for example, for /: and \:

Implicits:

- you can look at them using ":implicits" in the 2.9 REPL and the IDEA plugin and (I think) new eclipse plugins popup bubbles when you cursor over an object or class that has implicits, and shows you the implicit's source

- implicit conversions of method receivers (as opposed to implicit parameters) are useful as typeclasses are used in haskell, or structural typing in other languages. A best practice is to have all implicits declare a return type, and there was a discussion of having the compiler enforce this, or at least issue warnings. [http://scalatips.tumblr.com/post/101578787/add-explicit-retu...]
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19/20 posts I checked from my personal blog, I got Cory Doctorow.

For my professional copywriting and various web service blog posts I got overwhelmingly HP Lovecraft and Cory Doctorow.
The most interesting part to me is the "generator function", which basically allows for cooperative scheduling.

This would put an end to spaghetti callbacks when doing blocking I/O operations. Very similar to EM-Synchrony for EventMachine/Ruby and (I guess) Inline Callbacks in Twisted/Python.

This and the new module would be a blast for Node.JS !
SAAS Class (http://www.saas-class.org/) is from US Berkeley, not Stanford, and is linked alongside all the others in each site's footer.
In England and Wales there is a separate commission made up of judicial, professional and lay members that selects judges - it most certainly not left up to politicians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Appointments_Commissio...
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Let me pre-empty where I know there's going to be some dislike as a lot of the HN crowd just wants the normal non-swipeable web. Most of that frustration comes from a > year old version powering Wordpress.com (which we're upgrading). Would love to hear feedback on this specific version of our platform. Most articles in this version should render well, except those that aren't really news or blog content (ie- direct link to webpages).
True-- but it's frustrating that there's so much resistance to the idea of making the syntax prettier and more concise, which is one of the primary benefits of CoffeeScript.

(Almost?) all of these features can be added to JavaScript with libraries-- that's exactly what CoffeeScript demonstrates. The only thing missing is a contemporary syntax.
All process related activities should be a simple matter of a few clicks, regardless of what that process is.

Making someone jump through hoops (beyond a simple warning page) as a deliberate policy is even worse than organically grown bureaucracy.
... and they want $20 million for our work that they don't want. poor Wikipedia
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I think the crossover point I mentioned earlier will come when GPUs become general-purpose enough to allow massively parallel voxel rendering implementations

Indeed. This is certainly possible with modern GPUs, and has been for a while. Voxels are pretty well-suited to GPU rendering. See the research I linked to in another reply in this thread.

I didn't get around to reading their entire article, but if they call it a CPU-only technique they are behind the curve instead of ahead.
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It's not really that big a deal for them to this every year. It's just something you have to live with like NPR's fundraising drives, except much less grating. I don't hear people irl complain about it. I know it really irritates many of the entrepreneur types on here that one of the biggest sites on the web is asking for money, but it's perfectly fine for them to have fundraising drives every year.
What could your question possibly mean? My claim is that it's meaningless. Maybe this could or could not have happened with another administration. But bad things that happened with this administration could or could not have happened with another.
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Every time I try Ruby, this features seems odd, yet I never see much discussion of it. It feels unnatural to me, coming from a python background, and the only real advantage I can see is the fact that you do not have to type `.format(foo")` after the string, or some similar construct.

What advantages did I miss? I doubt that the creators of ruby did not put any thought into this, and I'd be interested in their justification.