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This article touches on something that I believe the education system in America has lost sight on - "self learning." In most schools and universities, learning is now synonymous with memorizing, and students simply attempt to dish back selected information they were spoon-fed. School should be a resource, not THE source, for information.

Just my $0.02, but then again I'm 100% self-taught and never liked school ;)
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Kind of ironic that this story was right above another TC story.
I don't get it, could you clarify?
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To me it seems like the rojadirecta.es folks, who are doing pirate live sports streaming, will love this.
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What happens when there's insufficient memory to throw an OutOfMemoryError?
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Why the downvotes? What's wrong with liking soccer/football?
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Which implies that disqus is getting hammered too.

Most blogs have disqus comments on each post; every page-view on tumblr is at least one fetch on disqus; many more for index pages.

Very clever strategy for tumblr to make comments someone else's problem ;)
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> Case in point: There is no Comfast Xfinity or Dish style subscription that is online only that doesn't require a cable box or dish as your primary source of reception.

But certain content owners are catering to the internet only crowd. Check out the NHL's Gamecenter Live offering. Sure it's on the pricey side (like most on-demand sporting content), but it actually goes beyond simple streaming and makes use of the richness of the platform with customizable PiP, pause, rewind and a visual break down of the timeline of the game with goals, penalties, other noteworthy events highlighted by a small timeline at the bottom of the viewer. It's pretty slick... when it works (reliability is still an issue) and they went ahead and implemented region based blackouts that really don't translate well to the watch anywhere - anytime pitch of the product.
This reminds me of the spate of hacks on Sony's sites. I wonder how many more MS sites are operated by third parties, and exactly how vulnerable are our personal information?

Let the heads roll.
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Been wanting to update the article for a while.
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You’re talking about “content” sites rather than interactive applications.

It doesn’t make any sense to present a chat client or a multiplayer game or a data driven map or a vector drawing program as a set of hyperlinked pages. Googlebot, archive.org, instapaper, etc. wouldn’t really get much useful from such applications anyway.
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This way no two kernels will map memory the same way, for added protection against many exploits which rely on stock memory mapping.
Yeah, I'm just running Logic, Photoshop and Final Cut Pro for various projects, I mean those use very little memory, so what would I know...
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When I look at the amount of effort that goes into this, I have to wonder if it wouldn't have been better to just write it in C in the first place.
Bitbucket is in many ways a better option than GitHub for code hosting. In particular, Bitbucket gives you the choice of Mercurial or Git, allows private repos on the free plan (so you can start developing in private then switch the access to public when the code is ready), and only charges you for the number of users who can access your private repos vs. number of repos. And Bitbucket is much cheaper than GitHub.

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I realize you're doomed to be downvoted into oblivion, but I have to agree - I had a tough time following someone whose logic is "OS X is pretty dated and ugly looking... it's back to KDE for me".

There are certainly fair points to be made about the inability to customize certain aspects of the window manager -- coming from a long-time linux user's perspective, it was one thing I immediately missed -- but I'm really not sure "ugly design" is one of the criticisms I could make.
The author is absolutely right. People tend to like Macbooks and iPads for irrational reasons. This is what has been described the "reality distortion field". It's all marketing hype and Apple fanboys who make Apple what it is, the technology has nothing to do with it. The obsession with "Think Different" has brainwashed these vulnerable people.

The reality is that as an avid user of Macs since the old days when the Mac was the real "elite machine" back in the PowerPC days I can say that the new Mac OSX based machines are terrible and do not represent Apple's past level of quality. The new machines are consumer toys, not serious machines like they once were. The comment about a "McDonalds version of Linux" is true.

I actually ended up moving to Windows because around 1999-2000 Apple started moving into it's "Walled Garden" software model and they failed to embrace other hardware setups, this made the Apple too expensive and not nearly flexible enough for a real business/engineering user. At first Windows was a bit of a shock, but by the time Windows XP had arrived I forgot all about the Macs. Yes, the blue screens were annoying but Macs also crashed too. Microsoft has hit a home run in terms of how it generously treats Windows developers too!

Then working on a web development project I was forced to use Linux in the server environment. I can tell you, Linux blew me away. There's a real reason that IBM and Oracle are using Linux as their base OS's. Linux is the OS for engineers and now I use it for desktop along with Windows XP. Steve Jobs ripped off Linux and then broke it to make it into a toy device with OSX and iOS, both some of the worst OS's ever made.

My chart is as follows...

Mac OS-X and iOS = toys for consumrs...

Windows XP and 7/8 = serious business tools...

Linux and Unix = engineering tools for scientists...
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Perhaps their point is that HR and recruitment agencies do just filter candidates by "10 years redis experience" and most good candidates never get noticed.

I don't have C# on my resume. I wouldn't shrink from working on a C# codebase though. Would I get an interview though? Unlikely.
Well, if Apple's users aren't the sort to dive into a command line, then most developers aren't Apple users.

Well if you have been to any developer's conference, you'd have deduced that most developers are Apple laptop users.

It's just that they don't bitch about any package that breaks.

Some of us also use a virtual machine like Fusion for an isolated environment if we want to do development with a Linux userland, we don't pile one on top of OS X and its' BSD core, and don't expect a volunteer effort like brew with 2000+ packages all sub 20K people use to work perfectly.

(The guy in the other comments said he manages multiple Macs (a sysadmin guy) and had troubles with installing the same packages to all, etc. Presumably also different OS versions. That's a slightly different problem.)
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Thanks for the article. A lot of okay points but mostly common-sense. I'm actually one of the few who is running two startups at once right now.
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Maybe it was because he went on Millionaire Matchmaker.

Just kidding. Good job Bill!
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I use the vidalia package on my Mac and I wanted to try this. I'm not an expert but I have Xcode & MacPorts already. I tried downloading the code & building it. It asked for one library I didn't have (which I used MacPorts to get) and then it appeared to compile fine.

However, vidalia did not like it when I modified its torrc as the instructions indicate.

I should add that MacPorts did not have everything they list as dependancies so I assumed that because the compiler did not through an error they were on my machine via Xcode.

I run a bridge all the time and I'd be happy to update it for this.
The article points this out at the end, but the reason is clear: because scientists are supposed to be pragmatic, not ideology-driven. Therefore, in a bi-party political world like the US, it would be difficult for them to fit in, in terms of policies. Most of the policies (on either side) are not evidence-based and actually have counter-productive effects in the long run (Charles Murray explained this through several cases, for example, in his book "Losing Ground").

However I am not sure about how relevant it is for the Singaporean examples to have had "scientific background". If you do not work in the actual science field and never used it, your background is worthless. If your everyday occupation is to gather support to get elected, I question the validity of the term "Scientist" in this case.
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A startup is definitely a business, by definition of anyone who runs a startup that actually works. The author might have conveyed his point more astutely by choosing different terms. Saying that you are just building a startup and not a business because you are forcing your hand at growth prematurely seems a little immature because all of the people that have a different understanding of the word startup are going to be shaking their heads a little bit.

Startup are as much about marketing as they are about scaling out.

You have to have both balanced out, and there are many equally important aspects of any business. I think that forcing your business to grow before there are really any sales only works if you have a greater and over-arching sales or marketing plan that this plays into. That is, if you haven't proven your idea with real customer testimonials, or you arent better-solving some other problem that has already been proven to bring in revenue then it's just a mistake.
That you Zuck?

I think he means you got lucky :)
I truly believe that there should be no distinction between the two. A startup is a business.
Eh, I'll be the counter-point here in that I do own a Mac, love it for the hardware which is amazing, but can't stand Gruber or his ilk. I'm not really sure what draws you to him, but I can tell you just cause I like Mac doesn't mean I want to go find superiority in it or read Gruber's nonsense.
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What is the article arguing? Is there even an argument made? Why should Americans elect more scientists? Will it lead to a higher quality of living or more wealth or what?

It mentions China as a pro-scientists country, but why? It's riddled with human rights violations, corruption and environmental pollution. While American politicians decry climate change openly, China just seems to ignore it.

Singapore is a city-state with 5mio citizens, and a high cost of living. Finland also has 5mio citizens, is known for its wealth and the president Tarja Halonen has a degree in law - in fact, the other politicians mentioned on Finlands wikipedia page are missing a scientific degree as well.

I'm not buying it. Just staffing your government with scientists seems pretty irrelevant for the success of a nation.
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But that's the whole point of the article: the whole value of the CrunchFund (and its ilk) is that Arrington (and his ilk) will be a douche on your behalf. If it were just the money, it wouldn't be worth it for the companies they invest in: the amounts are too small. It's an alternative compensation scheme for a PR flack who masquerades as a journalist. There's no ethical way to run the fund, because it would be worthless if it were ethical.
They've been down for about 10 hours now, and are doing a very bad job at updating their status blog with any information. Apparently they've lost a router.
The mere suggestion that this story is true makes me want to just quit IT, go back to college, and go into a more honest industry.

Is this seriously what we're all working at? A complex power play to get yourself rich at the expense of any morals or integrity?

How much is /your/ soul worth?

We have real problems in the world, but instead we have a bunch of boys with computers trying to rule the world through their control of media.

Is the world seriously this disgusting and I just haven't realized it yet?
Eh, every factor involved is implementation detail. The threshold at which binaries are heap-alloc'ed, gc behavior, etc. I really fail to see how this is user error.
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The problem is that reddit mods are self selected from within their communities by the other mods in that community. The quality of the moderators varies wildly and most subreddits are not run very professionally (obvious exceptions like /askscience exist).

Sure reddit has overall mods but they do not usually get involved and communities manage themselves which usually leads to a lack of coherent policy in regards to what is acceptable and not.
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This is an excellent guide, especially since me and my co-founder are moving to SF soon.

Any price range info by chance?
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By way of another example -- Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany) has a doctorate in physical chemistry.
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I think the really big factor here is that scientists don't want to go into politics! Maybe I'm painting the world with an overly broad brush here, but politics and science approach the truth in exactly opposite ways.

I'm not going to say that politics is a game of lies, because it's not, but politicians essentially invent the truth as they go along. It's similar in some ways to law or the humanities, where the truth is very much a matter of interpretation, there's a case to be made for each side, and no one is ever objectively "wrong". Right and wrong are entirely a matter of personal opinion.

On the other hand, science is, in the limit, entirely objective. A physical theory can be objectively shown to be incorrect. Scientists can defend their theories, but fundamentally have to accept it if their theory is disproved, or else they become irrelevant. There was a great link earlier today on HN that talked about how the smartest people are the ones who are most skeptical of their own ideas. That's great in science, but if you don't believe yourself totally in politics, no one else will.

This means that scientists, who presumably study under and work with other scientists for decades, think in this scientific mindset. This makes them totally unsuited for the world of politics (and of course, vice versa). Politicians can't admit they were wrong, because that means that they'll probably be wrong again, and no one will vote for someone who's wrong. Case in point: Mitt Romney and universal healthcare.

I'll also make another point that a lot of people miss: Being a politician is roughly as difficult as being a scientist. If we expect our best politicians to get an advanced degree in something like business or law (things related to the process of running a nation) or to spend a long time working in politics or on social issues, why do we think that scientists with no such training will make good politicians? We certainly don't expect most law school grads to do much more than wash bottles in the lab.
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Singapore is also a very wealthy state, and it has nothing to do with the population size and the costs of living there. You are comparing countries on a single factor, the population - how is that variable relevant? Then why don't you compare with Turkmenistan, also 5 million people, no scientists in charge and a ridden with poverty ? How about Sierra Leone, 5 million people. no scientists, ridden with civil war? One can pick up stupid examples everywhere then, if population is indicative of something.
Very interesting article on the two types. Actually it's probably the only article I've ever seen that really outlines the differences. Up until now I've been operating under the assumption that YC and TS were pretty much the same.
There's a far more fundamental problem in the US: The system and methods of government have degenerated to the point of not producing anything of value. A visitor from another planet would probably laugh hysterically at how ridiculous the whole thing looks like from the outside.

Is this what the Roman Empire looked like?
I wonder how much of this is YC networking and how much is HN networking. Tarsnap isn't a YC company, but some of my largest customers are; I've never asked, but I suspect they're only aware of Tarsnap because of my presence here.
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Nobody who has worked in academia would claim that scientists are somehow "more pragmatic". Capricious, scheming, vindictive... just like the rest of the population :)

Plus the fact that scientists are typically paid by tax payers', in a stable governmental position (at least in Europe), and many never held any real job in their whole lives, only adds to my doubts.
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China is socially repressive and an environmental catastrophe in progress, but it's also one of the fastest-advancing nations in the world. Chinese citizens were starving to death en masse as recently as the 70's. The fact that they've pulled themselves out of that kind of industrial slump is amazing.

Wikipedia says that Singapore is the best trade center in Asia and one of the best in the world. It also has the best credit and the best markets. Socially, it's a bit repressive, but it is apparently doing very well economically.

Of course, without much data the argument is useless. It would be interesting to see a pile of charts comparing scientists and engineers in politics to economic success; with only three or four data points it's a a toss-up.