skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real purpose of high school is keeping the roving hordes of teenagers off the street. Teenagers have no judgement (I certainly didn't), and we would like to have some method of keeping them occupied. Unfortunately, where before that method involved actual learning, nowadays schools are basically just low security prisons.

Furthermore, Newt is completely off when he claims that all adolescents want more responsibility. This is simply untrue. A small fraction of adolescents want more responsibility, the rest want to hang out with their friends all day and do nothing. Which is actually pretty close to high school.
Recently pinax added a basic_project in addition to a complete_project.

In the basic project fewer things are provided, like registration with openid support and email validation. In addition there's a structure to create your menus and submenus.

So far I found it a very good starting point for my development and not obtrusive at all.
Thus says the Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/):

teenage
1921, formed from -teen as a separate word + age; derived noun teenager is from 1941 (the earlier word for this was teener, attested in Anmer.Eng. from 1894). Teen-aged (adj.) is from 1952; shortened form teen is from 1951 (though this had been used as a noun to mean "teen-aged person" in 1818). Teeny-bopper is recorded from 1966, from teen but also felt as infl. by teeny. For second element, see bop.

Couldn't find the word "adolescence", unfortunately. Based on this, you could argue that the first "teenagers" showed up as early as 1894 or as late as 1941.
Long story short: My mother in law's friend worked for the DNC, Al Gore was coming to town and as a condition of him coming he demands to be driven around in a hybrid car. My mother in law drives a Prius, so he rode around in her car. But here is the ridiculous part: the Prius pulled up on the tarmac of the airport to pick him up off of his gas guzzling Gulf Stream Jet.

Global Warming: I'll start acting like its an emergency when the people who are telling me its an emergency start acting like its an emergency.
Specialization Risk
I would like to believe that the side effects of the space race couldn't have been easily emulated by just funding projects directly. I think a lot of the technologies that came out of the time period weren't "Oh, let's make a <technology>." Development seems to have been a result of NASA encountering a problem and then inventing something to fix the problem. That new invention then just so happened to have applications to other fields.
Being thrown out of that train is what motivated Gandhi to spend his life defending the rights of the underprivileged, and giving up anything of luxury along the way. I remembered this as the story of someone who finds his vocation. It's weird to see it told as the story of a clever trick for getting into first-class.
I agree with the commenter on the blog who said he's just not holding it right. I hold mine with my index finger wrapped around the right-hand side, so the joint at the base of the index finger is about next to the Home button. It's perfectly stable this way, and my thumb is not being blocked by the 'boot'.

I think this is just one of those cases where the author knows he can get more attention by complaining than by being reasonable.
Why stop there - let's remove individuality altogether. With a proper mix of drugs, children could absorb the lessons at school at a much faster rate, and could take the role they are destined for with near 100% accuracy. Unwanted and misleading desires could be done away with. Imagine the benefits for society if kids were 100% docile and controllable.</irony>
I would like to take you up on that offer and see some maintainable brainfk code.
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Microsoft Pulls Plug On Windows 3.1
Misleading headline.

He's been ordered to stop work until the court makes a decision - not necessarily permanently.

Of course, now he has the Nazgûl to deal with.
They still sell a wide range of servers and a lot of server-related hardware.
Magic of Silicon Valley: Interview with Yogen Dalal
* Who are these proponents?

* What are the numbers? What are they selling?

* What benefits? What would "anything else" be?

* Is there anything to take home from that drawn-out paragraph?

Sounds like a bullshit theory to me.
Lots of people do not live within walking distance of a supermarket.
Can anyone recognise this charting library?
http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2008/11/4/saupload_bullandbearnasdaq1998_2003gif.png

This is the graph generated for the Dot Com crash, quoted by Chris Ciovacco of chrisciovacco.com.

Can anyone tell me which library is being used to generate such charts? As I am pretty sure, its out there floating, because I have seen similar looking designs before.

Is it Chart Director?

I know curiosity and inanity has its own limits. Seems like I am yet to recognise this :)

Soham
One thing that continually throws me is the whole, "more school, especially more college!" idea. The skills that have actually put me in interesting situations, like serious brain machine interface research or a startup doing quantitative methods for human resources, had nothing to do with school. At least for me, I'd have been much better suited for an "apprenticeship" rather than having just having to tolerate classes as a distraction to the lab, where I learned about Kalman filters and intricacies of neuronal tuning in a kind of learn-it-by-yesterday-as-needed setup from the people who were actually writing the papers.

Given the amount of ADD we have as a culture, training hackers with an emphasis on "you as an individual can create things that have the potential to become forces of nature with only a cheap computer and some knowledge" and deep familiarity with the internet (irc? google-fu?) seems to be the best way to graduate world class engineers. You won't get middle American teenagers to sit down and study like Chinese students will; but that's fine. Our hackers will end up just as knowledgeable as theirs, and maybe more creative.

EDIT: One more thing: we need to drill home that "post things to share with your friends for free!" is neither a business model nor a KILLERAPP!!111oneoneone. We need to inspire kids to go after the next big problems, and not just fill them up with hype and dreams, but actually give them the technical abilities to do it.
The Hotmail team are sniffing based on firefox version but if sniffing must be done, it should be done by gecko version instead which will then take the cross section of browsers. It goes to show the kind of uproar and community excluded when sniffing is done wrong.
oh, is that all?
The article is also a little bit of flamebait when it says hotmail is in part run on Linux. All parts of Hotmail run in Windows Server.
They use Akamai for caching static files such as images - as do many Microsoft services. Akamai reports they use Linux though.
Looking to work for a startup?
Not all. Many (actually, the best) are commercial: Gill Sans, Helvetica Neue etc.
Reminds me of Popeye cigarettes...
For most companies performance might as well scale. For example Slashdot uses 4 machines. Now if you are serving up a lot of media that changes things but a single web server can handle a lot of traffic if your app is reasonable.

PS: This is a presentation by Rackspace of course they are going to say write bad software and buy lot's of hardware.
Cash Crunch At New York Times (NYT): $400 Million Due In May
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It wasn't invented out of the blue, but it was an evolved creation of politics. In classic democratic fashion, a lot of factions were pushing their own agenda that ended up making the country as a whole worse off. The education establishment has continually upped the drop out age. Labor unions ( in alliance with wealthy parents) pushed for stricter child labor laws to reduce competition for jobs. Aristocratic progressives wanted an institution to indoctrinate immigrants in the American way of live. The rise of credentialing laws made college a necessity for earning a decent income. Since colleges require a high school diploma, this put teenagers in an eight year holding pattern, waiting for a piece of paper.

The result of this has been every bit as disastrous as Newt claims.
"Who are these proponents?"

Schools, colleges, associated faculty and staff, parents, politicians, employers, etc.

"What are the numbers? What are they selling?"

Degrees, GPA, US News rank, X vs educational attainment (e.g. future earnings potential), etc.

"What benefits?"

The story of school. That is, what it means to be well educated/qualified is having a degree, having gone to a good school, having gotten a good GPA, etc. The social currency these things bring is all tied up with the story of school, or its foundational myth, or whatever you want to call it. By going through the system you earn the right to invoke the story.

"What would "anything else" be?"

Anything else. As it stands the only way to renounce adolescence is to become sanyasi sankalpa, which isn't a very good option.

"Sounds like a bullshit theory to me."

Maybe it's a bullshit theory, maybe it's the most poignant observation about western civ ever made, but you're smart so figure it out for yourself, I'm not here to play Bodhisattva.
Conservapedia WTF: "Obama will likely become the first Muslim to be sworn in as President"
If Newt Gingrich says this, I have to wonder if it is because Republican think tanks have come to the conclusion that the allure of Democratic ideals are too irresistible for school/university inhabiting kids, and they must be converted to tax paying realists much earlier.
the sad part is that conservapedia is not a parody wiki, and many people truly believe this crap
The sad thing is that there is no reason at all for this to be on Hacker News.
It isnt selective trust in the community -- he put it on craigslist!
sure there is, its an example of how you can profit from complete ignorance, you just have to look and find the right segment to exploit
Clicky is 100% programmed by one person
What's the fallacy? Why is it an incorrect strategy?

If your competitors are following it and you don't, aren't you at risk of being bought/losing a price war/losing market dominance?
My wife's a portable furnace and I'm cold-blooded. Incidentally, she also grabs the comforter at night, hooks it under her torso and rolls up in a burrito. I have purchased a second comforter.
You should probably enable JavaScript in your browswer in or der to use application
Please don't worry. I don't want to use your personal information. I just want to know your opinion about my application.
Modern subdivision house construction is basically a moving assembly line.

I don't think prefab makes any sense for a premium modern house. You want to use materials like steel reinforced and chemically sealed concrete, stucco, stone, and perhaps solid hard wood. You can't feasibly transport this stuff from a factory to a building site pre-assembled. Prefab only potentially makes sense for light chintzy crap made out of wood and fiberglass, and even then on-site construction teams are very efficient at nailing together stick-wood houses on a concrete foundation so you're not going to save anything.
Why isn't this man (Newt) president?
> the position of windows

They keep talking about energy efficiency but I don't believe it. With all that glass these houses must get very hot in the sun and very cold at night.
Ignore Early Adopters
You give too much power to politics. I think that the dramatic increase of productivity and the creation of much more wealth in the post-industrial society is the main factor in the emergence of the "adolescent". Suddenly families didn't spend their whole budget on food, housing, and they had a lot more of free time to do something else than satisfying their basic needs. They sent their childs to education because they could afford it, and it made them happy to do so.

You'll notice that it also allowed the society of services to emerge, and we wouldn't have this discussion on Hacker News if we had to work 12 hours a day just to satisfy our basic needs.

Overall, I don't share your opinion that the country is a "whole worse off" now. We only face different challenges because our fathers did their job in their own time.
You really think that looks good? Looks like living in a fish tank to me.

One thing that I don't get about "modernist" home design is all the big multi-use rooms. I hate that. I like separate rooms. Notice how it would be very uncomfortable for two people to live in any of these places. No privacy.

Also, many small rooms is energy efficient. Traditional English homes have a couple small rooms, with basically just enough room for two or three to sit around a very small fireplace or stove. Point being you can very efficiently heat just the small room.

I think these big, open space rooms are trying to evoke traditional Japanese design. But because they don't have ceiling to floor shoji screens they miss the whole point. Shoji are used to break up the space, achieve privacy, and also only heat a small space contained in a box of screens.
Whoever told this guy financial engineering was over was mistaken.

Furthermore, whoever told someone finance was a steady paycheck sort of affair was mistaken. A MSFE, if it is from a decent school, should equip you to at the very least become a profitable day trader.
I agree that jQuery is a perfect tool for JavaScript programming. And I loved JavaScript after I learned this simple and powerful library.
The reason republicans so frequently tout this line is because they fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of education. Newt and company believe that education is essentially career training, and as such cannot fathom why kids need to be learning things like calculus and biology.

The real purpose of education is to turn people into intellectuals. Industry does not want to simply hire people who know exactly how to do the job. Industry wants to hire people who are intellectual, and they do this by hiring college grads.

Now certainly the value of a diploma as a measure of intellectual curiosity has gone down dramatically, but I believe this was the original reason.
http://books.google.com/books?id=n7lwt8FKO7IC&pg=PA49..."bargaining+for+advantage"#PPA50,M1 this link helps even more. Actually, in the previous search, the word "Gandhi" is spelled wrong.
Funnily enough investment is one of the things they teach you about when doing an MBA, so when you finish it you can work out if it was worth it :)
Women have less blood than men (and narrower blood vessels), so they can't keep their extremities warm as effectively.

EDIT: Didn't notice this was an actual link, but that's probably what the article says anyway.
433 Eros, the asteroid NASA investigated contains more gold than ever extracted on Earth. The total amount of gold on Earth is calculated at $3,000,000,000,000 and this is excluding all the stuff held in private collections and any fabled Aztec lost city of gold. However, I think there's enough economic incentive in space if we actually put a little money in to begin with.

If you're wondering just how much 3 trillion dollars is, well that's like the entire cost of the Iraq War there in one rock. Hell, you could buy Alaska and still have like 2.5 trillion to spare.

This is the ridiculousness of the arguments against advancing space exploration and technology, because there's more gold in one rock than in the entire world. That's not to mention, there's predicted to be asteroids containing mostly platinum and even more precious metals. For an asteroid of similar size to 433 Eros containing only 10% of its mass as a rare-precious metal like platinum, well that's when you get the capability to buy out the entire planet.

So I call 100% bullshit on people claiming there's no economic incentive in space exploration. There's more precious metals than anyone has ever dreamed of, there just needs to be a little spending to get it. Once companies like Virgin and all the other ones trying for space flight and then lunar orbits, it isn't going to be long before one of them figures out they can get to a rock like Eros and mine the hell out of it.
Sometimes I wonder if the average person makes these amazing leaps of judgment (i.e. flash website = poor product) when they visit a site in flash.

Aren't you in the business of 3D printing also?
It looks like these things are going to be a lot easier on the Environment. Not as visually disruptive and I don't think they'll be killing many eagles.
No, Muni is the most accessible for in-city commutes otherwise everyone in the area Bicycles around. It's close enough to everything I think a trip to market is 15mins. Otherwise there is the Caltrain to make to YC events in the Southbay.
How Entrepreneurs Can Profit with Obama
Not all MBA's are two-year programs. Here in Europe most MBA programs are just one year long, which makes much more sense.

I'm currently getting my MBA at a really good one-year program, and I'm using it as a testbed and launchpad for my new company. If in the course of a year, with all of the connections and opportunities at the University, I can't get enough traction I'll cut my losses and get a regular (but non-consulting and non-finance) job.

So it's not necessarily one or the other. Doing both is pretty tough, but certainly not impossible.
Ouroboros; it is the vain of our existence.
"Behind every great civilisation lies a financial secret."
Tough Times Strain Colleges Rich and Poor
Which user experience research tools a startup should use, and when
> Now certainly the value of a diploma as a measure of intellectual curiosity has gone down dramatically, but I believe this was the original reason.

I don't think this was ever true. You can read about the European universities centuries ago and even back then they were about getting the children of the rich to socialize and drink a lot. More recently Jefferson said his time at William & Mary was waste of time, mostly drinking and riding and such. In the same period teenagers like Franklin, John Paul Jones, and Thomas Paine self educated to high levels of sophistication while working full time. In the case of John Paul Jones he was a ship hand from age 13 on at sea for months at a time, for crying out loud.

I really think the institutions of higher education have historically boiled down to the library. Books were extremely expensive and it made sense to collect them in one place for common use.

To be usefully educated about anything now is a lifelong process. This idea that there's something special about four years of the much longer process is a bit silly.
As an Indian, I couldn't be more proud... what really excites me is that they are doing it at 77 million usd... There are many dot com companies that get sold for more than that!
and as such cannot fathom why kids need to be learning things like calculus and biology

I'm pretty sure that Gingrich who is a professor, and every other republican who has ever considered the question in any way, recognizes the use and purpose of calculus and biology. But don't let reason get in the way of your mindless contempt.

The real purpose of education is to turn people into intellectuals

No, it isn't, unless you are talking about highly selective liberal arts colleges. And even then, the best you are going to get are 3rd generation photocopies of Susan Sontag.

Industry wants to hire people who are intellectual

No it doesn't. Period. Even the relatively "creative" jobs like software engineering want a fundamental skill set and raw intelligence, not the ability to quote Chomsky.
Everyone has to be chipping away at Nokia, last year they were selling more phones in a day than Apple was for an entire quarter.

Still happy with my N95-8gb though, none of my iPhone friends can take quality 5MP pictures or 640x480 video at 30fps. To me, a "smartphone" is the full package of phone / internet / media, and the iPhone media capabilities suck compared to the competition.
Finance has its very own 'genes', in the sense of certain business practices, and it boasts a potential for spontaneous mutation thanks to technological innovation. There is competition between firms for resources; a mechanism for natural selection, with weaker practices, firms and individuals wiped out; scope for speciation, with the creation of wholly new species of financial institutions a key feature of the past few years; and scope for extinction, with species dying out altogether.

Reminded me of this documentary I've seen once before but can't remember the title. The film's hook was to approach the modern American corporation as a person then psychoanalyze it accordingly. As you may have guessed, by the third act of the film you want most of these companies under question to be sent off to the loony bin.
OK, good details, now it doesn't sound like so much of a bullshit theory to me. You should have included these details in the first place, I think.
I think if going to school will be money-making profession, it will encourage corruption in the system of education.
From what I understand, they're merely a modified version of a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator. They'll use thermocouples to directly produce electricity from the heat emitted from the radioactive decay. Ordinary RTG's are generally more complicated, but that's because they're launched into space and there's no simply switching out the generator if something goes iffy.

I imagine how they'd be installed would be inside a concrete bunker of sorts. The company would build a underground container with connections leading to the outside installed when the concrete is setting like most foundation works and then place a multi-tonne concrete slab on top so that only someone with a back-hoe and crane can even get to them and open the things. They could easily be placed somewhere even more secure like installed on police property in small communities.
Sour grapes I tell you. IMHO the NCA is probably the most unreasonable document an employer can make you sign. Divulging company secrets to a competitor, either during or after your employment, is already illegal, and furthermore enforced by your NDA. Any further restrictions is just the employer overstepping their moral rights, and the only thing it does is restrict employee mobility.
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Because bigger is better, right?
Wow. Despite the title, that's pretty much all doom-and-gloom.

Alternative possibility: move to another country. New Zealand, frinstance, has just elected a new business-friendly government, it has lots of smart, well-educated people and a low cost of living.
so how do I shift profits overseas?
Mixed thoughts on this article. The author raised some points that I thought were good, namely the fact that you don't need to be a direct beneficiary of the new administration's proposed programs to profit from them. If they plan to put money into green tech or education, perhaps you could make money by providing a service to those industries. If after school care centers are about to become flush with government cash, perhaps they'll need some kind of software to help them grow.

The downside to this article is that most of it is based what the Obama administrated has stated it ~wants~ to do. You'd be foolish to actually plan a business around campaign promises. But these are definitely some things to keep in mind.
Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder
Everyone, whether young or old, intelligent or not, should feel that they are contributing something of value

If the average person is not contributing at least the economic value they are consuming, your society is in a death spiral, and it doesn't matter how anyone "feels".
What stories do you use if step 3 is needed?

Also - by "sneak into" concerts you mean that you get yourself into concerts without having to pay or that you get into otherwise sold-out concerts but still pay?