skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an impossible goalpost, you are just making a huge generalization and applying it to nearly everyone.

Understand that the market for software developers is HOT. If you are able to program a computer then there is no recession for you right now.

If you had instead focused really hard on becoming an expert in architecture or civil engineering rather than a computer programmer, you would be singing a different tune right now. I know many people in the construction related fields who do engineering work as difficult as computer science who keep finding themselves unemployed. They are unemployed not becuase they were laid off, they are unemployed because the company they worked for literally went bankrupt becuase nobody is building anymore.

Those people would be better off putting in a middling effort as a programmer than killing themselves to be experts in construction. So hard work in their case is not leading to success.

Now 5-10 years ago when they picked construction as their field, it made a whole lot of sense. Are we in the same place as programmers? 10-15 years from now will you look back and say, crap it looked like a good choice in 2012, but I really wish I had focused on X instead?

Time will tell.
Ask : Free equity to celebrity web profiles
It seems getting endorsements from big celebrities on the web goes a long distance in gaining traction for your startup. Does it make sense to provide free equity to them in exchange for them to be our Advisors, be in board of directors?

If so, how to pursue it?

Has anyone done it?

How much equity to provide for say 10 Mil+ valuation?
Totally agree, just want to add that their are different kind of schools and different kind of kids. If your kid really gets bullied, you can still change the school or send them to a fitting school in the first place. Not an ordinary high-school. "Just" have to make sure your kids would tell you.

An besides, even though bullying is unhealthy for the bullied kid, is a great experience to learn how that stops if you bash the right people, how to hack and influence society (maybe not something you want your kid to learn though).
In most places you are responsible for the accuracy of any returns sent to the tax authorities, not your accountant or creator of a software package.
Right, so what this post is saying is that for the most part the evil is in using this default route, leaving open controller actions that should only be accessible as posts. Will have to look more into the docs, but it's good to know that the methods specified in the guide have some caveats.
Indeed. All we need now is bind/callcc and we'd have the ultimate frankenlanguage!

In all seriousness, I'm really happy to see "lower-level" languages adopting these features. Makes so many problems that much easier to solve! I wonder about the implementation details, though - I wouldn't mind reading an analysis of closures in C++ vs. the VM languages.
I'm from Ukraine and I can say that at least in case of one school you are wrong. There was complete pack of school BS - nerds, geeks, alpha's, omega's, dominance games, bullying, etc. etc. And it was a little better than average school in the capital. I wondered at times what it is like in the regional schools...
PS: you don't need to call geek "a geek" to bully him ;)
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So by "Introducing Google Drive" what is really meant here is "there is a DNS entry for drive.google.com" ?

Fucking waste of time.

It could have at least been titled "subdomain and 404 page hint at soon-to-be-launched Google Drive" and not some bait title like this.
Cool. You might want to use less bold text, BTW :)
I think this is the best advice. It's not about avoiding bullying (though that would be nice), it's about being confident despite what other might do or say. Sheltering won't help. Giving them confidence and self esteem (i.e. it's not you that's weird, but them, and you'll find that out once you get out of this town/high school/whatever) however, will.
Always odd to have always realized that the 'cool' kids are popular because they can successfully mimic styles and behaviors pushed on them by corporations and style-makers. Shouldn't they instead be called 'mindless drones'?

Merchants of Cool
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/
Is that a magnet school?

I went to a magnet school and my experience was pretty good. Sure, there were "jocks" - but their "power" is vastly diminished in a school where kids are sad if they don't get A's. As you said, it's like minded people being in the same place.

Unfortunately, not everyone has access to a school like that.
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But you could put blackboard into operation room, write there result of a few rolls of dices after the patient is unconcious, and clear the board before patient wakes up.

Of course people will argue it's wasting time that is important to heal that person, but if we want to get results, we could invest into one additional person, that will perform this function.

Or we could just put monitor there, showing (not pseudo) random numbers when pacient is for sure unconcious, to minimize costs, and risk of infection becouse of additional person.

If NDEs and OBE are so common (a few percent people experienced it) after year we would have our proof, or we would know it's extremely unprobable. Not that I think right now it's true, but if we can check, why predict?
I suppose time we'll tell. We know some of our competitors have started lifting our copy so we're annoying someone.

Thanks we're self thought UI guys, it's our first product. Cause we do all tax returns, the product needs to be migrated to other tax rules. So our next step, which we're working on is the UK. Where you based.
I'm late to the party, but I figured I'd share how I work as a member of our product team to give a quick example of the flex in our schedule. I work 6-6:45AM (usually answering email, including personal email and catching up with what happened overnight on Twitter). It borders on being difficult to call that stretch of time work since it's general communication stuff, but it's a really useful span of time for getting the day ahead of me figured out. At 6:45AM I help my kids get ready and take them to school, and then work 8AM - 5PM with lunch in there at some point. There are usually hugs and conversations with the kids about their day around 3 when they get home from school.

In general on the product team at Treehouse we try to keep any real-time interaction (IM, video conversations on GoToMeeting) in those 9AM - 6PM hours just to help everyone have some predictable time for collaboration, but overall things are super flexible.
Really worked better this time, no?
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Upvoted you both. Thank you for the civil disagreement that (unfortunately) is part of what makes HN special.
This would be an example of where putting significant thought into design and extensibility would be well worthwhile, because the target audience is so massive.

The typical enterprise code will never be reused, it will never be "extended", but there's a decent chance it will have to undergo slight modifications.

Most enterprise programmers, perhaps contrary to their image of themselves and their projects, are not working on the next ROR, are not sending a rocket to the moon, are not building an app that requires google-class scalability.
Fair play to ye, I look forward to trying it out.

> This allows its customers to remove their accountants and reduce their accounting fees, saving them €1,500.

My accounting fees are more around €300, so it depends on context how much you save.

€12/month is around €150/year, which also needs to be taken into account.

One might also want an accountant to check your return and tax credits and that type of stuff, even if using your app. I would be surprised if it removes accounting fees in many cases.

Great work, though, keep it up.
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related, but not as clever function to help with nested counters (with doctest showing usage):

def incr_nestedctr(d, *keys, **kwargs):
"""
>>> a = {}
>>> incr_nestedctr(a, 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd')
{'a': {'b': {'c': {'d': 1}}}}
>>> incr_nestedctr(a, 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd')
{'a': {'b': {'c': {'d': 2}}}}
>>> incr_nestedctr(a, 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', delta = -4)
{'a': {'b': {'c': {'d': -2}}}}
>>> incr_nestedctr({u'1.0': {u'0': 1, '5': 1}}, '1.0', '5', delta = 2)
{u'1.0': {u'0': 1, '5': 3}}
"""
delta = kwargs.get('delta', 1)
thed = d
for k in keys[:-1]:
thed = thed.setdefault(k, {})
thed.setdefault(keys[-1], 0)
thed[keys[-1]] += delta
return d
Pretty interesting stuff. Have you heard of the Isotope jQuery library? It does something similar.

How is the performance on this one?
I was interested, so I looked -- the CMS appears to just be Wordpress.

I'm guessing (without having done much research) that it's Cufon that's pushing the JS requirement. I also saw FB Connect, so I guess it could be that, but I've never seen it do that before (but I've also never looked.)
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Yes, that would work as well, but if you do that, you have to make sure that you leave a wide enough margin (at least 44 points wide) on each side of the controls to allow for touching the background.
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Hey yep we know FreeAgent they're doing a great job and it's great to see they've got funding. They've been around a good number of years now.

Just to point out though - we fully automate all your tax return and provide payroll. With Bullet you don't need an accountant, with FreeAgent you do (unless of course you're comfortable doing your own returns). But the more Bullets and FreeAgents in the world the better. Accounting products are crap at the moment and provide guys like you with an endless pain in the ass.
A number of postdocs come in as J-1...A lot depends on if your home country is willing to waive your need to return for 2 years..
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I think this is the key paragraph:

"Silicon Valley now sits at the pinnacle of this socioeconomic transition, endowed with the potential to establish itself as the new center of the world economy and reignite the flame of inexorable progress. Yet in its current incarnation, it is unfit to do so. Silicon Valley has mastered the art of building high-growth technology companies but iit hasn’t yet developed the moral compass to figure out what companies are worth building. There are simply too many talented entrepreneurs today building meaningless ventures. From advertising products that get people to buy things they don’t need, to social games that are designed to addict people to wasting their time, to “mobile-local-social” products that attempt to leverage the latest technological trends without giving much thought to the importance of the problem being solved. Furthermore, the unquenchable thirst for growth that fuels much of the wealth creation must be carefully watched, for it could easily turn malignant and lead technology entrepreneurs to commit the same kind of economic atrocities as the financial sector."
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That is the best thing I've seen this month.
a related question--how do people generally build up decorated strerror messages? e.g. in some versions of ls, "ls foo" (when foo doesn't exist) will print "ls: stat: foo: No such file or directory". how is that string built up?
Yeah, worst thing is it's not the first article showing this off...
I stand corrected, it does define the integer constant 0 to be promoted to the null pointer. In C11 this is Section 6.3.2.3. To make it even more confusing Section 7.19 Common Definitions <stddef.h> defines NULL to be an implementation depefined null pointer constant.

I was always taught that (void *)0 is a valid definition of NULL, but that 0 was not necessarily.
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It doesn't necessarily help. I speak from experience: I was homeschooled and it was terrible. I didn't learn the 101 little tricks to make interacting with frustrating people that little bit easier, I didn't learn to empathize with people less smart than me and I didn't develop the social intelligence that I believe is vital for long-term success. Any time I had to interact with anyone I felt terrible and awkward and out of place. When I went to college I was as alienated and lonely as everyone else had been in high school and I still didn't have casual friends because I didn't know how to be friends with anyone who didn't already share my interests. I didn't understand letting other people talk in class, or that school was for learning, not achieving things, or that I could make people happy by listening to things I didn't care about (and in the process learn about interesting things I never knew I'd be interested in.)

When I got a job I didn't understand that jobs are for collaboration, not just achieving things myself. Most team jobs work best if members are able and willing to sublimate their egos for the good of the group: I was busy being smart and weird. I assumed that because I was right everyone else would, of course, agree with me, and so none of my ideas ever got adopted because I didn't know how to enlist people as allies. I was still super lonely and still hadn't learn how to have casual friends (close friends I always had, one or two, mostly other homeschooled kids, but they were people who could put up with me just the way I was, which was kind of an arrogant asshole.)

I eventually sat down and compared myself to people who were less lonely than me and figured out what I could do differently. I realized that I'd rather not be an asshole than be right. I developed an understanding of when and how to ask questions, how to work and, yes, fit in with a group while still keeping myself whole. I learned how to be passionate without being overwhelming.

My kids are going to school. I will fight tooth and nail for a safe environment for them with adults who are on their side and not on the side of the bullies, but I want them to grow up knowing that if you tell your friend to fuck off they will stop being your friend because you are an asshole, not because you are weird. If you are not enjoyable to interact with people won't be your friend because friendship isn't an entitlement: it's a collaborative project. It may be that if you find a huge city you can find someone who doesn't mind being told to fuck off, or maybe even who thinks it is cool, but that doesn't mean that prioritizing your weirdness over the comfort of people around you will lead to a fulfilling social life (especially because those people are likely to tell you to fuck off too). Developing friends will probably have as much to do with how we change and grow as it does with leaving suburbia.

Besides, we have the Internet now. There is no reason kids can't both learn to be part of suburbia and experience the wide world outside of it at the same time.
Haha :) +1 I have very poor vocabulary - and use bold to emphasize important points. Thanks for pointing it out - I will extend my vocab.
Thanks. The fee is taken for limited companies. What our thinking is. Don't spend 2k or 1,500 on an accountant to do your book keeping and fill out forms for you. If you're going to spend that kind of money spend it on a tax advisor etc. But there are a lot of business out there that spend 2k on their accountant and see them once a year, and 2k could help a lot of comps at the moment. Thanks again for checking us out.
If you are referring to the research firms (Muddy Waters & Citron) they are already well established in the investment community and probably would no benefit that much from teaming up with people w/in Anon. Citron has been around for almost a decade now (formerly stocklemon.com.)

It's always possible that some small or mid-sized fund could be involved.
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While high school can be a social learning experience (an awkward one), the outcome of it may not be entirely positive.

In high school, I learned how to smoke, drink, fight, cheat and steal. I almost gave up programming as a hobby because it was weird in the eyes of my peers. I narrowly escaped a life of crime by moving to a different city as soon as I was old enough.

Man, I'm happy to be out of that shit and out of that neighborhood. And almost out of school (finishing my masters').
That's the sort of "skillful metaphor" a group of high school kids would put in a Social Studies PowerPoint. It's funny that you think what you gleaned from the circles involved any sort of deep digging: the symbolism is as blatant as it is pointless. It's a stylish flourish that adds an animation to thoughts so simple they needed no illustration.
Currently I have the feeling that successfull companies are mostly using SOA architectures, but startups/individuals are writing their whole apps with Django/Flask/Rails/Play.

What would have to change so that those architectures were the obvious way to write an app in the first place? (One could argue they never are the proper way).

Searching somewhat it seems there aren't many posts describing Rails/Django/PHP <-> Backend Service recipes.
This is also a good approach, but if you do that, you have to remember two things. First, you can only reliably measure the height of the keyboard at runtime, and the keyboard size could change even after it was displayed (if the user touches the globe button to change the language of the keyboard). Second, if your app supports the iPad as well, you have to remember that on the iPad the keyboard is detachable since iOS 5 so make sure you won't have anything ugly (like a big empty black rectangle) where the keyboard would normally be.
The implementation is compiler dependant. Nevertheless, it would appear that the normal implementation is to create something which looks like a normal object with pointers back to the state it closes around. In theory it should be fast and light. The problem (as always with C++) is ensuring that the things to which the pointers point does not go away. Smart pointers help - but they are slow...
I've heard that most VCs/Angels consider a company profitable only if they're making an average of $200K/year per employee.

VCs are looking at their ROI, so their view on profitability is based on what they might have in the company - that shouldn't skew the fact that a company might actually be profitable, and with time and growth they will meet those numbers as well.
Yes. But more often's the case that the fearless fallacy hunter fallaciously finds fallibility by fantasizing formality or finality.

Thereby committing a fallacy himself in the form of a straw man.
Google's free 5 GB will have to compete with established players in this space like Microsoft (free 25 GB), Apple (free 5 GB), and Dropbox (free 2 GB):

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/skydrive/home

http://www.apple.com/icloud/

https://www.dropbox.com/
Even better, lets sit in our manor house on the hill overlooking the world. The kind with the thick iron gates and guard dogs. We can watch all the people outside set the world in a terrible blaze.

It's better to just watch the world burn.

Training your kids to hide from the worlds badness is a net negative in the bigger picture.
#1 'Andromeda strain' I'm sure that scientists will the first to study anything returned from the first mined asteroid.

#2 The asteroid they are returning will weigh less than the ISS and be parked further away. Tackling the control/direction of asteroids is something we want to learn anyway.

#3 We are a long way from strong AI. If strong AI is created, asteroid mining would be the smallest footnote in its capabilities.

#4 There are abundant industrial uses for PGMs so there is a high floor price and continuing demand. Markets have established systems for dealing with periodic resource delivery (futures).
It's about building their confidence from age 0. It's about making and reinforcing a community of respect for difference wherever you are. And it's about being sure that your kids know they're never really out there all by themselves.

Our kids go to public school, are healthily wonky in different (and wonderful) ways, and have friends who are healthily wonky in other different (and wonderful) ways. We live in a community that, among other things, had spirited discussions about bullying years ago. We live there despite a long daily commute for me because we believe that having a good environment is almost as important as being good parents.

They look to you to tell them what's good and bad. Choose carefully the lessons you give, explicit or other.
Look at the man page for err(3) and related functions.
Considering the fact that he speaks fondly of him outside of that line, I assumed he was being facetious and playing off the common social view of furries as loner weirdos. Not that that makes it okay, but I don't think it was meant to be harmful.
I would add that, if you have time to home school, you have time to help your kids build accomplishments that build confidence that carries through other people's crap.

A kid who achieves at sports / art / theater / computers / whatever has reason to _know_ they aren't little. Kids need help to organize themselves to achieve because the links between planning, persisting, studying fundamentals, spotting and handling emotional challenges and the emotional rewards are diffuse. It's hard to build the positive associations that build habits, and that's where parents can help. (Yes, it's hard to find the line between encouraging and demanding.)

Home schooling might be a necessary response to the schooling available. But social deprivation is a downside of any home schooling program, kids must learn to deal with other people. Better to meet frictions by building the kids up, rather than avoiding the frictions in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry

'Bigotry is the state of mind of a "bigot," a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices, especially one who exhibits intolerance or animosity toward members of a group.[1]'

It's contrast, not bigotry. Bigotry is when a jock beats up a furry for being a furry.
The sentiment of the article is great, but a lot of it just doesn't quite ring true.

When the auther starts going on about other people being losers, and him being a winner, because they do things he doesn't personally value, you start to wonder if he is really free from defining himself in contrast to the guys who excluded him years ago. Life isn't a competition like that.

There's a classic transformation you see a lot of high-functioning geeks go through when they leave school, and start earning more money, living more cosmopolitan lifestyles and meeting more interesting people than those they left behind - they flip around and start juding their ex-classmates negatively in just the way their classmates judged them. You see it a lot on places like reddit, and I think it comes through a little in this article.
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