skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like this configuration would allow the highest density of units to be fabricated per given surface area. Notice that the hexagon is just barely larger than the wing span where they approach each other. Can't do the math now, but it's likely more space efficient to use the hexagon, than a plain rectangle. You'll need to use one of those shapes so you can tessellate without lose. The carbon fiber structure might not have to be continuous, though I suspect that it might play a role in positioning during fabrication.
You're looking for a do-it-all know-it-all walk-and-chew-gum developer for basically free.

Also you're not looking for a developer, you're looking for a technical cofounder.

I'd keep cracking on those Python courses if I were you two.

Pretty hard in the presence of all this seed/angel money to convince someone that capable to not work on their own idea.
correction: metric would make calculations 1 hecto-x easier
Interesting link but you seem to be missing the point.

I agree there may be an argument to be made that in cases, under certain circumstances, provided you can measure certain variables, the best action that results the "most public good" would be reducing university funding. If that's what you want to argue, then you'll need to do the legwork of gathering data that supports this conclusion.

The OP has not done that and is not even attempting to do so. He's made some overly simplistic arguments against university funding that are utterly lacking in depth.

EDIT: Can the downvoters please explain themselves?
There is a pretty clear logical flaw here. Nothing is produced in a vacuum. Your ability to create, to generate wealth, is heavily reliant on the infrastructure and services provided by your society (electricity, defense, roads, education, etc).

In other words, if Bill Gates had been born in Somalia, chances are he wouldn't be nearly as successful.

Taxation is how you repay your debt to the society that enabled your success.
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Pinterest is not exactly a "minimal Facebook integration". It is integrated with Timeline. As such, all your activity (pins, follows) are sent to Facebook for display in news feeds, and for Facebook's ad algorithms. But Nik's point is still very valid - less time spent on Facebook is less time spent looking at Facebook ads, and stream posts of brands you are following. They will have to do something to address this, maybe purchase the likes of Pinterest, or require ads on Connect sites, or something more thoughtful and strategic.
It's unsurprising you mention sxml given that XML and s-exprs have a trivial homomorphism. With that said, I'm also not a big fan for representing relational data in XML (or sexprs).

Having a uniform representation for data isn't a big enough win to trump having data represented in a way that is more natural for me to think about.

With that said, if your brain thinks in XML (or sexprs) maybe Lisp will always work best for you.
Funny, I remember reading similar conspiracy claims about C.
I don't think you can make a normative statement like "better" about this as far as comparing the two goes.

I can say that my productivity as a programmer has traditionally been very bursty and requires long blocks of time and isolation.

This is the traditional (PG APPROVED!) understanding of programmer productivity. That said, I've been getting better at becoming more consistently productive of late.

I think it has more to do with the individual and the task than anything.
Perl still has this with $[ but it's deprecated as of 5.12.
In 1993, the newsgroups were way too much to read even if that is all a person did, so you must mean using a program to scan the groups for URLs; right?
Parsing Apache logs is not the answer. Keeping things in a sensible format is the beginning of the answer.

Parsing a "line like this" is "\"harder than it looks\"".
From what I'd found (also for a young single person), it would have been more like $500/month, but even at $700, that's still cheaper than rent at any apartment I've seen since I was a college student.

And remember the context: this is someone who wants to take a year off with no work at all, and so is voluntarily giving up tens of thousands of dollars, in exchange for his own time. Yes, there are almost certainly cheaper health insurance options, depending on how much effort you want to put into the research, but COBRA is the upper bound, and takes practically no time to sign up for, which, again, was the whole point of the exercise.
Key points:

http://metabolomx.com/ a startup in Mountain View, California, recently completed a clinical trial that shows that its breath test can spot lung cancer with 83 percent accuracy and can also distinguish between several different types of the disease, something that usually requires a biopsy. The accuracy of the test matches what's possible with low-dose computerized tomography imaging of the lungs.

Trained dogs can identify breath samples from patients with lung cancer with 98 percent accuracy.

Rhodes expects a test to cost $75. Also, because it's not specific to a particular group of chemicals, the Metabolomx sensor could, in theory at least, be used to screen for any disease that has a metabolic breath signature—the company is currently exploring tests for other diseases, including tuberculosis. "A breath signature could give a snapshot of overall health," Rhodes says.
> terrible article
> Awfully muddled thinking
> right-wing propaganda
> laughably poor argument
> propagandist rant

All of the above were unnecessary. I'll address the rest of your comment now.

> First, there's an implicit value judgement that "serving the poor" is better than serving the "middle class".

Typically, when cuts are being made, people across the political spectrum prefer to cut services for the middle class before cutting services for the poor. Most people agree that cutting services for the poor is a last resort. I am not arguing here that this is necessarily correct or that you have to agree, but that is the reason for the emphasis on "serving the poor" when discussing cuts to government programs.

> Universities are constantly wasting huge sums of money?

Administration costs, questionable research, credentialing, etc. That huge increase in tuition costs is going somewhere, isn't it?

> And why is the student loan system a criticism of the university rather than the financial aid system currently practiced in the US.

They are part of the same system. The connection between the increase in student loan limits and the increase in student tuition has been noted many times. See elsewhere in this thread.

> Who says people are expected to have degrees before they can do anything of value? Many of the most important innovators of our times do not have college degrees. And certainly nobody is erecting an unnecessary barrier to "individual prosperity".

In addition to what monochrome and yummyfajitas have said, anywhere you look, you can find job listings for relatively simple, entry-level positions that unnecessarily require university degrees. Ever since we started pushing the idea that everyone should go to college, we've seen a signaling arms race where you'd better get a college degree or face being passed over for someone else who did -- whether or not the job really needed someone with a degree. This is the unnecessary barrier. Now you have to spend money and time to get a degree just to keep up. If you can't do that, you're worse off.

Yes, many great innovators do not have college degrees. They help prove my point.

> Granting certifications to a few doesn't improve their prospects at the expense of others.

Of course it does. yummyfajitas has covered this already.

> would've been impossible without all the academic research into computing and networking systems in the last few decades

You're suggesting the only possible way to do this kind of research is through the university system as currently structured. This is an outlandish, unsupported claim, and you denigrate the people who performed this research by claiming they could only have done it within the modern university system.
The examples aren't valid Lisp or Scheme. "read" takes an input port not a string, as someone else mentioned, so you should replace it with "read-from-string" in Common Lisp or something like "(read (string->input-port "(1 (0) 1 (0) 0)"))" in Scheme. The second and third block of code is Scheme, not CL, so it won't work in clisp at all.
True... that would be relevant if the world began and ended on the borders of california...
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Coffee in proximity of sleep-time will keep me up all night because I have a messed up circadian rhythm as it is (28 hours).

I usually "downgrade" to tea later in the day and maintain a consistent melatonin regimen. Melatonin is well-attested in its ability to improve sleep quality:

http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/melatsum.htm

I wouldn't count on the efficacy of melatonin unless you are sleeping 6-8 hours a night and are otherwise healthy and devoid of a sleep disorder.

People like to mention vitamin D, but taking it as a supplement is correlated with worse sleep, not better. As a counter-suggestion to vitamin D supplementation I would avoid artificial light exposure (use Flux if possible) after sunset as well. (This has been shown to produce delayed onset sleep patterns.)

That's the only real factual data I have for this, I would avoid relying on anecdote.

This was not medical advice, just a citation of facts.
It works but it just feels cluttered and confusing.
Is it just me or is this the first time that anyone has even heard of stores on Facebook? I haven't heard of a promotion or anyone encouraging me to go to a store on facebook. I use Facebook pretty regularly also.
This is the parser that stackoverflow uses for Markdown parsing.

BTW: Google won't let me (my IP being from Iran) to access that repository, so maybe someone can make a clone of it on Github.
Yes. Try the Submers and First Narrows albums, in particular. Every track on Submers is named for a famous submersible, so you're coding underwater listening to the plant noise.

If you've ever played Osmos on iOS, you've likely heard "Lucy Dub". It's track 2 on First Narrows.
Google has a fascinating timeline of Usenet news:

(http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html)

Even ignoring binary groups a Usenet feed would have been considerable in 1993.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Usenet_traffic_changes)
Once you're "good enough", your view might change. The world might already change. The companies you'd want to work for may no longer be the one.

I think you have a great start: have a goal and pursuing that goal. Many young people just stay afloat without knowing where to go or what to do.

I used to have a similar desire: to work in a company that people were buzzing about (Microsoft, Google, Twitter, you know who they are). Had a few chances to try one big company and one start-up and decided they were not for me. I definitely do not want to spend most of my time thinking, living, breathing technology, learning every prog. lang. under the sun, have to prove myself against my colleagues (competition always exist)... and work lots of overtime.

I opted for a more stable job where I can exercise good software development practices and have more says on technical decisions. I have "downtime" once in a while where I can hone my skill further or polish the software we develop. The occasional downtimes give me great relief and a chance to clear my mind. When your mind is clear, you suddenly can explore other things: be it researching real-estate, learning how tax works, diversifying my financial portfolio, and basically being normal (socialising, etc). Those activities tend to open my mind to look at things beyond the technology world: other business opportunities outside hi-tech world.

I hope you're successful in achieving your goal though. There's nothing wrong pursuing what you truly want. Once you got it, you might like it, or you'll decide to have another goal (^_^).
We really need to separate certification/credentialing from education.

Agreed. I was giving possibilistic the benefit of the doubt. If some need access to a lab to fully learn a subject, that's something that should be addressed. If not, great.
Wow, such vitriol! Yes, I have.

It's not hard to find names of employers who offer healthcare even for half-time workers, using any "search engine". I'm sure there are also companies who are dropping their health insurance plans, but that doesn't mean that all companies are.
Great to see this happening!

Good on foxconn for responding, and hopefully they keep improving their conditions of work.
I didn't respond to that argument because of multiple reasons.

First, this is the same argument that many creationists, followers of intelligent design and other religious nuts use to discredit evolution. In fact, if you look up the wikipedia page for Expelled: No intelligence allowed, you'll see that the idiots who made that movie used very similar language to the OP and in fact, my instinctive response when I read this bit, thanks to having heard this so many times from creationists was to immediately assume assume the OP was one. I didn't want this to color the rest of my response so I decided to ignore this bit.

Also, it's seems like flamebait to me. I suspect the OP threw it in there to antagonize those who disagreed with that idea while simultaneously enlisting the support of everyone who was once slighted for his/her political views by a professor.

Finally, are you seriously suggesting that because university professors tend to have certain political views we need to fix this by cutting university funding? I must be missing something because this makes no sense.

Also, the OP's made a very broad claim that most university departments are rife with ideology and hostile to conflicting views. You are referring to some instances of ridicule relating to the specific subject of political views, which is a much much weaker claim.

PS. I believe there's research that shows that the political leanings of professors has little effect on the political views of students. And I'm sorry that you were ridiculed and I think this is unacceptable behavior.
Yea, the private rooms at my local library are made almost obsolete by the open study tables and desks there. For one, you don't have to worry about the constant time restrictions, and the extra ventilation doesn't hurt either.
TBH, if you are going to have smart intersections controlling autonomous cars, you might as well try to move to roundabouts as much as possible.

Roundabouts provide continuous flow and probably represent a much more solvable problem since it involves attenuating the speed of approaching vehicles and vehicles currently circling. I imagine throwing stopping into the mix complicates things significantly

I imagine that computers could completely prevent shockwave traffic jams. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M
...I don't see how the author's idea of cutting university funding will improve this situation.

If you reduce subsidies for wasteful signalling, people will do less of it. Employers will then find signal based discrimination more difficult and expensive, and will reduce their dependence on it.
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I believe the examples are in "outlet" the dude's lisp->js compiler (https://github.com/jlongster/outlet)
Parsing Apache logs isn't hard. There's a well-defined spec for them. Of course you have to keep track of stuff like escaping, but that's pretty trivial.
> the idiots who made that movie used very similar language to the OP
> immediately assume assume the OP was one

Come on. This is an obvious case of unwarranted guilt by association. For the record, I've never seen Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, and from briefly looking up what the film is about, I don't think I'd agree with it at all.
It's worth repeating: Facebook have only a very limited aspect of our social experience. Weaker social connections - reading someone's review, tweet, repin, commenting on YC - are a magnitude more numerous than our limited circle of acquaintances.

Facebook does not own the long tail of social.
Because it's hard work using a set of skills they don't have (i.e finding relevant academics to peer review papers, organising reviews, conflict resolution, collecting papers... etc).

Plus they already have to teach like 6 hours or something a week, plus marking, and research. What you expect a 20 hour week from them! Be reasonable! :P
We're all X11 users, now.
People paid to download files from MegaUpload. Apparently a lot of people.

(Instead of posting a comment admitting that you know nothing, maybe next time you could just Google it.)
I do a lot of data-driven development. I'm sure some of the time, 20%?, it'd be nicer if the code/syntax was directly data. But, 80%, it's all much easier to deal with it for me being separate.

I'm willing to give up that 20-25% to enjoy and be happy writing the other 80%.
I'll explain it to you: Where is the bug in..

(defun substitute-in-replacement ($-value replacement)
(cond
((null $-value) replacement)
((null replacement) ())
((eq (car replacement) '$) (cons $-value (cdr replacement)))
(T (cons (car replacement))
(substitute-in-replacement $-value (cdr replacement)))))

From: http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~dmatusze/resources/lisp/lisp-e... with one paren moved.

I remember, when I was taking a class on AI, looking for some sort of style guideline that would help me get through the learning curve, but the FAQ (I want to say it was comp.lang.lisp) just had "coming soon." So this would be the allegro editor in 2001 or 2002. It may be obvious to an experienced hand, and perhaps if there was some sort of best practices when I was learning it I wouldn't have had the same problem, but I just remember the frustration of my mind playing tricks on me and (even with syntax highlighting) trying to match parens that I thought were there.
Your first sentence is spot on. What I think is getting lost in this conversation is that it makes more sense for retailers to incorporate Facebook-enabled functionality on their own website, rather than have an e-commerce store within Facebook.

I founded a company called Snapline (http://www.getsnapline.com) that helps retailers integrate Facebook functionality into their e-commerce site. We've talked to many retailers, and most are still not sure where Facebook comes into play for their business. Small retailers want to engage and increase their Facebook audience, but it's time-consuming to make consistent feed updates and it's impact on sales is pretty murky. Large retailers seeks to gain much more by engaging their Facebook audience, but implementing features on their site that leverage Facebook data is outside their core area of expertise. I think what can go a long way in solving both problems is incorporating functionality within an e-commerce store that doesn't require a lot of manpower and improves the shopping experience.
I love VLC but my buddy swears by Media Player Classic (at least on Windows). Anybody else?
I guess I should clarify that - performance sucks. There are obviously various ways around it, but you just can't write a lot of performance critical python that way and I guess this is one of the reasons why julia exists in the first place.
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I don't know what's better, but I tend to run hot and cold like you.
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No, we can't configure our own. The network settings config is locked out using policy controls.
It's better when "everyone tries to at-least appear to follow the rules" ? Isn't that worse than blatantly not following the rules, because at least you know what they are doing?
Anecdotally: I feel like small amounts of caffeine after about 3pm destroy my sleep.

I practice "sleep hygiene" (UK NHS websites have a lot about this) and if that fails I get a short prescription for one of the Z drugs, usually 7 days of zopiclone, to 'kick' my sleep back into a pattern.

There are considerable problems with use of melatonin: It's not regulated in the US which means you will find it hard to accurately dose and the research suggests it's pretty lousy, unless you have jet lag. I'm in the UK, and melatonin is a prescription only medication, and GPs will usually not prescribe it for sleep disorders.

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001520/melatonin-for-the-pre...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1370957/

http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/melatsum.htm
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Probably because it's not a one sided affair and both sides in a (China/US) confrontation have a lot of leverage over each other so a conflict is not in the interest of either party...
Your ISP sucks.
I don't think it's best to frame the question in terms of rights. If you're asking whether it's morally justified to tax millionaires in order to feed and house the homeless, my answer is yes.
uTorrent allows streams in torrents. Interesting that they haven't made it a bigger feature, this has a large potential if it becomes a bigger part of the torrenting user interface. People complain that this stream download is bad for the peer cloud, but it could work very well if there's a single big server or two backing everything up- at the same time, taking a lot of bandwidth pressure off those servers.
Weak arguement. So rather than form a language around our existing learnings (in Math as you say). We should change all our existing learnings to suit a particular language... then it's more readable... riiiiight, good luck with that. :)
I think what Rothbard and Rand both illustrate is the flaw of letting logical consistency override every other consideration, including basic human decency and moral intuition, when developing one's moral sense.
> Javascript dependency - not relying on the browser-side code to capture a page visit means that the NA can correctly account for clients using NoScript and AdBlock.

> Privacy - capturing the analytics data directly on the web server means not sharing it with other parties. For some people it is not an issue, but for others, me included, it is.

The requirements are very artificial IMO
Some more parts of the equation; deregulation, unemployment pressures, some job degrees aren't helpful, heavy cultural emphasis on degrees to be successful, culture of short-term thinking and lack of financial education.
Actually, at this stage, you are better off hiring someone as a contractor. All those skills you talk off is typically spread over a couple of people at the least. Pro-tip: If you are not a tech guy, do not dictate the language/stack.
When would you use the different git merge strategies?
Have you seriously seen (non-computer) people write simple arithmetic as + 1 3 ?

This feels like a discussion based in fiction...
I love VLC. Just today I was playing around with the streaming feature which I had not realized was so awesome. Plus the fact that it plays anything I have asked it to. Glad to see this open source project going strong! Keep up the good work VLC devs!
The US library system far supposes India's. There would a few library's near me without public funds. But, most of them would shut down so an equivalent private option does not actually exist.

Is it the cheapest way to prevent crime? Is a leading question. Where I live we spend a lot of money on a wide range of things from beat cops to parks and street lights that prevent crime. And library's provide many other services than just crime prevention.

A more realistic question might be; Assume 10% of their useful function to me was crime prevention would reallocating 10% of their funding to something else above and beyond what we already spend on it prevent more crime? And the answer to that question is no.

PS: In theory we might be able to say use subliminal messages to prevent crime more cheaply. But, of the options that are actually being considered Library's are surprisingly cost effective.