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>Then why are they there?

Because it's a state requirement, more than likely.

> In many cases you can trace this back to some ambition for which calculus is a prerequisite for some reason or other.

Doubtful. Not unless they're a STEM or Finance major.

> But in many cases, they are there because they feel they are "supposed" to be there, or else they feel that a college degree will get them a better job.

Your class isn't all of college. They are in your class because it's a requirement. Nothing more.

Just because they dislike like your class doesn't mean they shouldn't go to college.
Summary stuffed full of verge links and seo tags just like the site they left to "avoid" the "AOL Way".

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Ask HN: Alternatives to Crunchbase. 
I have been using Crunchbase for some time and feel there is a high noise-to-signal ratio. There are too many companies that qualify neither as a startup nor as a product company. There are many dead companies and also there are many duplicate entries.

I was wondering if there are good alternatives to Crunchbase.
Mark Cuban needs to take an college writing class. I thought this was written by an 8th grader.
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You can't have it both ways.

You aren't getting it.

If our level of sexism and sexist behavior is the same as the rest of society, then social skills are irrelevant.

What? That makes no sense.

If lower social skills magnify existing sexism, then either our level of bad behavior should be much higher or our level of sexism would have to be lower.

Depending on your definition, the level of "bad" behavior in the tech industry is much higher than other industries!
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I don't see how hypothes.is has anything to do with this... that project seems to be about annotating any content. (And incidentally, universal annotation systems are paradigmatic chicken and egg problem; people keep trying to do this and it never reaches broad adoption).

Github for law is a much more modest and realizable idea, by comparison.
This was on the front page for half the weekend:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3966774
I'm sure this is hitting very close to home for a lot of creatives out there. Randall Munroe is always so on top of geek culture.
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This one reminds me of Dustin Curtis' controversial kudos effect:
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In practice it gives you more options for a price of keeping more junk on HDD. After a security update, all application hashes are calculated using the new default version of a library. So, once you launch an update you get a fresh package set linked against the latest version of the library. For large applications used by many people you are likely to get a small binary patch from the previous version, but this is just an optimization. So the default is just spending a bit more resources on the same behaviour.

What does change, though, is that you can opt to pass another version of the library to a specific application manually. If update from libA v1 to libA v2 breaks AppX, you can easily build AppX-with-libA-v1. It doesn't make any sense for security updates, but for major interface changes it sometimes provides a smoother migration path.
To add, these types of algorithms have been around for a couple decades in literature. There are reasons they are not commonly used. The concept is fine n the abstract but an implementation that does not break on real-world data sets is very difficult.
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That's a horrible way to look at a college experience. As a student you're paying good money to get an education. If you treat it as a monetary transaction in exchange for a credential then you are unlikely to get your money's worth.
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In Switzerland, which traditionally has seen a low rate in college degrees, and has relied on its apprenticeship system for a long time, we have seen an explosion in new college titles with the bologna reform.

You want to be a janitor? Congratulations, you can now get a master in "facility management". Teaching special needs children? You better get started on that degree! You want to be a librarian? Well, what about getting a degree in "information management"?

You got a degree in communications and have freelanced for a couple of years as a copy writer? What you gonna do? Ah right, you start to teach "corporate PR" at a university. Demand is that high that I could probably start teaching shit like Java, which I don't even know, in a heart beat. Without having any pedagogic qualities whatsoever.

We live in a day and age where everybody wants a slice of that big fat cake. Everyone is entitled to 10k a month. Everybody wants a designer apartment, a BMW. Every year, a new smartphone, vacations in the Maldives. Living the dream. On top of that, costs are rising across the board, mandatory health insurance is killing everyone. Prices are inflating. So what you gonna do? Ah, right, you get a degree, it doesn't even matter which one. Shit, three years ago my mom got a degree (she was a Kindergarten teacher). She is 53 now.

I really don't know how this could last. Maybe it can last for a small country like Switzerland, but I have a very bad feeling. A lot of the people will one day wake up and realize that just because the studied something, they're not going to earn 200k a year, even not 10 years down the road, yet they already live a lifestyle that assumes this to be true.

edit: My girl friend proof reads master theses for people. You wouldn't believe the shit she has to read and correct. Without outside help, many people would fail miserably. If you pay enough you will get your degree in one form or another. And that is precisely what is going on.
I almost spilled my coffee by laughing. Out of curiosity, is there any campaign on Kickstarter that is set up to help setting up another campaign?

Also, given the popularity of Kickstarter; does anyone think political candidates of future will start fundraising from this platform?
One more example why "let's fix the problem by providing cheap money" never actually fixes the problem.
The "cheapness" of the money will just be priced into the goods (houses or education in this case).

(As an aside, the same is true for the tax-deductible interest on mortgages nonsense. People think they actually save money, when in fact that advantage is immediately priced into the houses.)

Where I am from university education is free. Of course seats are limited, so you need to be reasonable smart (but by no means a genius) to get in. Not ideal either, but at least your education is not defined by your wealth or your willingness to go into debt.
Oh neat, thank you.
The aim of Nix is to make function from dependencies to resulting packages a pure function. Nix seems to have achieved it with respect to set of packages installed on a system; the most problematic thing now is that some packages manage to detect CPU version at build time... Fortunately, most of them allow to disable this feature.
Moai supports Chrome...and iOS and Android and Windows and Mac:

http://getmoai.com/

It's cool to see Lua in the browser, yes, but it's been there for a while already.

I also am skeptical about LÖVE (what Aroma's based on) being ready for commercial games. I've asked LÖVE supporters what commercial games were built on that platform, and they came up completely empty. Bringing a game to release quality tends to find all of the corners of a library that are not production-ready.

Moai has a number of serious users, though, including Double Fine.
Made me remember a meta idea I had to apply to YC with: a startup that helps YC candidates apply successfully to YC, act as consultants for creating their video, application, pitch, etc. while keeping the application authentic. With more than 2K applications to YC alone (would help with other incubators, too), you'd have many customers, I think. The pitch would be "We're the Kaplan of incubator applications".

Are there any companies offering this service?
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No, it's you who is completely missing it. Psychopaths listen to reason or threat just fine. What they don't care about is the feelings of others or social approval.

And rationally, the profit in evil is negative in most cases. Criminals get caught most of the time, especially repeat offenders.
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I'm trying to validate a car-pool idea and was hoping to get critical feedback via a short survey. The first page of the survey has a brief intro to the idea, so I'll refrain from repeating it here.
Are you aware of the what the "old boys' club" really is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_boy_network - "social and business connections among former pupils of male-only private schools".

Techcrunch was founded in 2005 (most of those private schools are 100+ years old) and often publishes articles by people who cold email them. Yes, knowing a reporter helps, but all those people are pretty accessible over email and twitter and ultimately tech blogs are pretty much the furthest thing from an "old boy's club".

Yes, it can be frustrating to have to pitch your startup or product and get rejected or just ignored even when you know it in fact is really good, but that is simply the nature of press. This article is trying to help you get more press with less struggle. Give it a try.

Deciding that "it's all bullshit" might make you feel better temporarily but it is not going to get you any closer to your goals.
I appreciate the question. I like your naming better. Will change it.
>the fact of getting into YC is one example of traction

social proof
An eReader might not make you read faster, but it let you read more often. This is especially true if your eReader is part of a general purpose device that you normally carry with you.

Another possibility is that eReader users might consider more books than they would have otherwise, due to the ease of getting sample chapters. If you hear about a potentially interesting book and you don't have an eReader you have to remember to check it out next time you are at the bookstore. It's easy to forget about it, especially if you have several books you intended to check out. If you have an eReader, you can ask for a sample chapter right away.

In effect, having an eReader is sort of like being in a bookstore all the time. I am certain I would read more if I lived inside a bookstore.
In my mind that's not really the same thing.

Universities have requirements you need to cover in order to graduate. So when a job lists a BS CS degree as a requirement, they're saying they expect you to be familiar with the core subjects of the field. Certainly not an expert in any one subject, but at least familiar. (If they want subject area experts they'll usually be advertising for MS/PhD with a focus in [blah]) Obviously this still gives the Universities a great deal of trust, with the implication that in order to receive the degree, you had to demonstrate your capability. That's a sizable question mark, even though it's what University accreditation is supposed to be for...

Sorry, went off on a bit of a tangent there. Anyways, four years of self-directed learning won't necessarily cover the same subject matter they may expect you to be familiar with.
Nix model is that you work with expressions that allow to build packages from source. Binary packages are provided in format "if you performed build described by hash X you would get the contents of this archive".

For proprietary software, you have to consider the binary as-distributed "source" and build a version with proper dynamic linker an library path. Some third party binary wouldn't run as-is on NixOS, but there is a package that sets correct linking settings post-factum.
That poster could have come straight out of Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta".

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That particular element stuck out to me too when I was browsing Curtis' blog a week or two ago. Was it actually controversial?
I tried searching for a reference on google, but given the keywords got sidetracked by, well, you know...
This seems to get posted every few months. I guess people don't notice the search field at the bottom of the page.
The truth can be pretty harsh.
Just wanted to clarify, they are actually using voxels.

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In NixOS it is about all the things on the system - if updated X.org video driver behaves badly I can simply switch to an older configuration and look for a solution when I have time.
I don't think it makes sense to attribute any special amount of quality to Moai; IIRC only one commercial-quality game (Crimson Steam Pirates) has been released in it. DFA will count once it's out, I guess, but that's a ways away.

Having used Moai myself I wouldn't really call it commercial quality. The documentation is poor, the code is cryptic, and it tends to crash or do strange things instead of report errors. It also fails to abstract out hardware limitations or notify you of them (for example, it'll let you use 4Kx4K textures and then when you run on a machine with a 2Kx2K limit, Moai just falls over instead of providing clear error feedback or scaling-down the texture.)
When I "swipe" or click, I don't get anything apart from selecting the text. Ubuntu Chrome 18. Also, wasn't this on HN a few days ago?
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He's thinking of http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/02272218799/uk-gov...

But yeah... we're not banning porn. We're not even actually going to start using an opt-in / opt-out system, either.
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I use it on my notebook and it is the only OS I ever booted on it. Works fine for me, but I do like to do strange things with my system. This means that I do value the ability to revert a problematic change and I am OK with configuring things via low-level configuration files.
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People had healthier lives even until a while back. I agree life expectancies were less. But that is because of wars and epidemics.

People would live in binary conditions. Healthy or dead. Unlike today people are left hanging in between, without total cure, and at the same time without good quality of life after treatment.

Organ transplants in my country(India) and other fatal diseases are worse than death. In fact death is more preferable than miserable conditions where a person is half cured. Its like the body wants to die, but is just chemically alive. Its expensive too.

This is the biggest failure of current day medicine.
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Oh, common now. Who is there left believing that an Olympic city selection process is based on city merits (and not on bribes and kickbacks)?
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Trust me, lots of payment data goes through secure servers at Rackspace.

/Not a rackspace employee, but I know
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Atomic upgrades. Run an update, interrupt it at random time, reboot. With Nix, there is a very limited set of problems you can get due to that. FS corruption if you do a hard reboot, filesystem mounting problems if you changed your partition layout. But you cannot get a problem with a new libc being partially deployed - you either get new version of everything or old version of everything.
The only thing that will make the economy better is if more people try and create businesses and find niche areas that allow them to hire people.

To do this risk taking and courage is needed. Two things you do not learn in the university. We need more people who are ready to challenge their fear of failure than their intellectual score card.
Why is everyone trying to turn webpages into things other than webpages? What was wrong with text, links, and scrollbars?
When I imagined building a framework like this, it was for a touch desktop device (which seem to be on the horizon).
Wow, that sounds like it'll screw up some kickstarter projects' international shipping plans.
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On the one hand, this is pretty cool. On the other hand, I'm not sure the best argument for "look how far JavaScript has come" is to use it to do things that native code was doing 13 years ago. On the third hand, this has been around for like a year now. I'm fairly shocked that Nintendo hasn't come down on him yet for hosting commercial ROMs in this thing, they have a history of non-tolerance of these sorts of things.
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> I want to buy this film.

No, you don't. It is of a very little interest to anyone outside of a Russian demographic circle.
A while back Indian govt barred its state telecom carrier (BSNL) to source equipment from Huawei for similar concerns. I thought they were paranoid at the time. Looks like they had a valid point.
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After having lived in Arizona for four years, I can attest to dropping daylight saving time as being awesome. That twice a year scramble through the house to update clock - unheard of. That terrible day in spring when an hour is taken from your day - non-existent. I can't think of one negative regarding ignoring switching - except that you have to recalibrate to other people's offsets twice a year.
Looks like, that this tool is still baseed on traffic analysis. As a result, Bittorrent, probably, will start forcing clients to use secure connections both - to peers and to trackers. And that will effectively kill any traffic analysis attempt.
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Having worked on actual legislative and regulatory amendments, this would be useful simply for collating input of stakeholders. One example would be regulatory comment periods.
Average life expectancy during those days won't give a good picture of things.

Infant mortality was real high and those lived long, lived real long. A lot of them died in epidemics and wars.
Wow, and I thought this was going to be uplifting. Cool concept nonetheless.
Really cool.

+1 Full landscape, magazine feel is nice.

-1 However I think that the "flip" gesture on non-touch devices is wasted and impractical. Dragging or flipping with a mouse doesn't feel right. Could a flip button be kept for pc users?
First of all, remember that git do branching a heck of a lot better than SVN. Secondly, the general answer to the merge question is that it should be up to the legislative body to add to the production branch of law. That includes the merge commits obviously, just like merge commits is the responsibility of whoever adds something in a production branch of code.
First time I see this thinking JS has come very far.
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AFAIK the main reason is weight. The standard vests are a fabric, like a shirt (sorry for the over simplification). As mentioned in the other response these fabrics slow a bullet down to zero. It can still break your ribs, so. On the other hand, a knife cuts through these fabrics as it will cut through a shirt. A solution is to put "plates" in the vests at critical points, they also offer additional ballistic protection.

Downside is these plates aren't flexible (conformt is an issue if have to wear your vest all day at 30° C in summer) and they become heavier and more bulky.

But again, that's what if been told by some german cops and I'm no expert in that.
Imagination will take you very far, and in this case, very far from the matter at hand. Texas and Finland are real places, not figments of imagination.

> Imagine a layout where cables do not have to follow roads. Imagine a layout where one cable can serve buildings on two roads. Certainly much, much easier when the buildings are dense.

Not very likely in the real world. Easements and rights of way are not available or not readily available among arbitrary paths. In any case, even if you were to cut through peoples back yards, you would still most of the time just be following a parallellish path to the roads.

> Imagine a thousand people living in one building in the center of a thousand square miles, served by one cable. Imagine a thousand people living one per square mile in a thousand square miles. The population densities are the same. The cabling costs are not.

These are real places we are talking about. Have a look at a map.
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The original estimate was a farce anyway. It could never have been delivered for that.