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Thanks for clarifying the question. To learn comp. sci. read Aho and Ullman's excellent C edition of Foundations of Computer Science. (That's Aho as in awk.) What you need for a good grounding all in one place. You can still pick up a paper edition if you want but they've also made it available as PDFs.

http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716782847/mqq-20
http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html
(thats what i can deduct from all these lib to convert whatever into js)
> I am getting tired of arguing with people about this. We will just have to agree to disagree. I am willing to take the risk of failure because I saw this exact developer-centric approach work before.

I hope you didn't mean this, and it was just a reaction to being irritated. Because if you consistently are this defensive, you'll have a hard time engaging the third-party developers.
What would he A/B for? Quality of customer? Part of his point is that "picodollars" are warding off the kinds of customers he doesn't want to deal with.
There is an Epic Level difference between a government agency who is ultimately responsible for their conduct to their citizens, one way or another having a secret assassination program, and a government paying a 3rd party to carry out assassinations.

One particular way in which this is different, is that the CIA can't go out and decide that it (as an organization) wants to freelance for other nations or organizations.

Blackwater, once set up as a paramilitary organization who specializes in covert assassinations... who's to say they're not moonlighting for Zetas or the Russian mob? What's the ethical block stopping them? They're already secretly killing people for money.
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Wow, that viral campaign to sell standing desk begins to get really weird.
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Well, they do invest the surplus of social security taxes in Treasury bonds and other U.S. government securities:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/describeoasi.html

The trouble comes when Social Security stops bringing in a surplus and has to start redeeming the trust fund. Then the Treasury has to start paying back the ~$3 trillion it will have borrowed. We'll see how that goes.
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Ok, why don't we skip the next elections then? Just lobby for your candidate and let the government decide.
Good point. Added a "I wrote it because" paragraph.

Thanks!
Compilation does not have that meaning.
Rather than edit my earlier comment, which some would classify as sneaky, let me paraphrase what I am trying to say: "I get it, this may not work. I have repeatedly admitted this is a crazy plan. If http://join.app.net doesn't reach 100% and thus fails, then we can say we tried. In any event, we will have learned something and no money will actually have changed hands."
The presence of the View Source item in the context menu of all web browsers is where many people first interacted with source code. Long may it remain there.
As an atheist I don't base my use of words around what is believed in religions, I go by dictionaries.
Gold. Good for him, shame on those reporters that never checked their resource
I've a number of things planned re short URLs. In the end I want to build a tool people are willing to pay for, not run an URL shortening service. ;)

Under the hood drpln.gs is using Bitly, BTW.
I find myself flapping between news.ycombinator.org and news.ycombinator.com (also .net), and cookies are not shared. Picking one and redirecting the others to it would be appreciated.
I do not understand why the economic self-interest exercised within the boundary of the law should always trump the sense of guilt. To test the argument think about a statement like "If you own a slave, you should feel bad" made around 1800. It was legal to own a slave in 1800, but it was still wrong.
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There are no absolute statements.

I was just highlighting that while many bad jobs insist on a CS degree, many good ones treat a CS degree with some suspicion.

See also http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
This could've been something much mor expensive and dangerous to use - for example atomic bomb test to check at what elevation when detonated it would affect the ground (just making this up, btw)
Why I am not a warlock, for Domi.
Wikipedia describes a compiler as "a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language".

That certainly seems to describe what's going on here.
The more heavily I rely on a good tool, the less attention I need pay it. E.g., Emacs is quite ugly but that only makes it harder to learn, not harder to use.
No love for engineering grads?
Well said - similar happened in Europe during the 1970s with people being classified as (left-wing) terrorists (and a few might have certainly been) and being "transported" between countries by so-called freelancers - TMK quite a few did not survive the travel and definitely no obituaries in the press.
Yep! In fact, the various Vanguard "Target Retirement" funds are simply different allocations of these three different funds. As the "retirement date" get's closer, it shifts more of the allocation over to Total Bond Market fund and out of Total Stock and Total International
A music theory course would be particularly awesome with some nice online tools. (Something like mitx's interactive lab, but for music).
There will be very nice tools rolling out for Haskell early this fall. :-).

(I can't elaborate much because I'm busy writing theM presently, but stay tuned and I think y'all will like what you'll see when the public release lands)

(one sexy hint though: the value add of these works in progress is enough that I'll be able to hire folks full time to work on it with me starting mid September or October . )
I don't see how being in favor of the Constitutionally protected right to bear arms automatically makes someone "paranoid."

I hope you're wrong about gun control being a necessary part of the answer to this issue, because as far as I can tell, it's simply not a practical possibility in the USA.
https://www.coursera.org or my own personal favorite http://www.udacity.com/

But you have to do the work, all the problem sets, and the exam - just having the youtube video open in a window isn't enough
Feels laggy for something ostensibly so simple.
I've worked at several companies that are more than twice the size of apple. I never knew very much of what was going on. It's not so much that the companies were secretive, but that there was no way I was going to know everything happening in my own division (which had thousands of employees), let alone everything in a dozen other divisions. It would have been easy for someone to keep one product a secret from most of us because most of us wouldn't have even known to ask.

I think many big companies could keep secrets like apple does (look at mergers and acquisitions which are often kept quiet). Most of them don't keep new products secret, though, because they value the constant dribble of press releases rather than the big bang surprises.
Step 6: Realize that, however well-informed you may be in some narrow field, we are all woefully ignorant of so many other things that said knowledge is, in a broader scope, quite trivial, and that separating from society at large is just another symptom of said ignorance;)
Well, we also license drivers and doctors. I don't know what a craft distiller's license actually involves, but hopefully it requires a certain amount of cleanliness and correct separation of the alcohol.
In that case, how would you go about negotiating the purchase of a domain -- in other words, how do you not show interest to keep the domain owner from raising the price? I'm not the OP, but am just curious what a better method would be.
Good point regarding Scandinavian "unions". This distinction sometimes makes it hard to discuss work related situations with Americans unless I take a large detour around what a union up here usually does.
well perhaps, and even chemists ;-)
So far I am not aware of any reason for young people in residential neighborhoods in the United States to have what are called "assault rifles" for legitimate purposes, and I certainly would be glad to know that none are in my (crime-free) neighborhood.

By "assault rifles" do you mean the colloquial definition of black semi-automatic firearms with pistol grips and detachable magazines? Or the technically accurate definition of select-fire automatic weapons, which this alleged killer's ar-15 was allegedly not?

There is very little functional difference between the ar-15 rifle used in this crime and rifles commonly used to hunt, other than hunting rifles for medium and large game are usually larger caliber and therefore usually more lethal.

Hunting laws prohibit use of higher capacity magazines in some situations. However, proper accuracy usually makes reloading time a minor factor in how quickly one can go through 100 or 200 rounds. If you make lunatics like this focus on accuracy rather than letting them think they're all set because they can show up with a drum magazine, more people would probably die or have life-threatening injuries, even if fewer people are hit.

The drum magazine used probably contributed to the shooter's S&W AR-15 jamming, possibly saving lives. They are not the most reliable magazines.

There are owners of assault rifles (in the colloquial sense, and possibly in the true sense) in my relatively safe neighborhood, and it does not concern me in the least.

As far as your reference to "young people", I take it that you want to create yet another age restriction, beyond the 16 years necessary to get a license, 18 necessary to vote and serve in the military, and 21 necessary to drink and buy a handgun from a FFL? 24 year olds are now not trustworthy? What age limit would you propose? 30? 35? Can someone be old enough to serve in the Senate or as President and still not be trusted with a rifle? Anders Breivik was 32.
Good, glad you didn't mean it the way I interpreted it (I could have interpreted it wrongly, too). I liked how you replied in earlier threads. Please save being defensive for rare occasions when it's worth the risk that people might think you aren't open to discussion. You may need to just skip replying to some comments.
Remember all the diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks in 2010? One of them revealed that DynCorp had been spending money on pimps to buy young boys as "entertainment" (prostitution) for Afghanis. The money came from U.S. taxpayers.

How's that for your tax dollars at work?
Pretty ladies.
But how can they justify such a high price? Besides them saying that they believe it's worth that much. There's no Alexa data on the domain and it doesn't have any history of back links or pagerank.
Tried this, don't have enough time to get past step 2.
Following the links in the article, you'll find that they contain editor's notes that are helpfully "corrected" to remove quotations from Ryan Holiday.
Out of curiosity, which currency crashes were these? I would not have my money in the bank if I was in Greece today, but I have most of my savings in stocks anyway, globally distributed...so it doesn't really matter.
What's wrong with calling them compilers? Compilation does not imply an assembly language target.
Half true, not every government and not these kinds of tactics.

The point is that when you move from dirty intelligence work to hiring mercenaries to perform large scale purges and intentionally make them unaccountable in order to shield yourself from war crime prosecution ... that's a level normally reserved for totalitarian states or exceptionally corrupt states.

Since the 70's and 80's these types of organizations have normally been called "death squads", most people have heard that term in connection to the violence in central and south america during that time.

You would have to be exceptionally cynical about the state of US democracy to not be a little shocked by the scale of this.
Judging by WeatherSpark's history and averages for Berlin, the winter temps basically hover around freezing at worst, while summers are very mild. That's a strictly better climate than New York, which has comparable winters, but hot, humid summers.

I live in a city that gets much colder than that in the winters, but still has plenty of bicyclists year round. It's all a matter of perspective.
Re 2) Hiring in Berlin is indeed difficult. There's a great influx of talented developers from southern Europe though, and as long as your employees come from within the EU hiring them is not a problem.

Re 1) Not entirely true for startups - most developers joining startups know what they're at and are not unionized; still you can't fire people at will. Typically this problem is solved by limiting contracts to a couple of months and extending as long as there is money left.
(Sanandaji also excluded immigrants from the German numbers.)
I suppose it's an interesting article on its own, but I don't know that any of its suggested premises are true. The most obvious difference between this thing and a jellyfish is that a jellyfish doesn't need an electrical bath to exist in. There are other differences of course, but if they'd built a more analogous 'jellyfish robot' that at least functioned on its own, perhaps I'd be more receptive to the article's claims.

As it stands, the notion of 'testing heart medicine' on it seem exceedingly optimistic as it's fairly hard to test a heart in isolation. Also, this isn't a heart analogue, it's a jellyfish analogue. Also, a heart doesn't react to external impulses in the same way.

It's neat. There's no taking that away from it, but I just don't see how any of what the inventor claims is actually practical.
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Nothing hurts more than regret. If you are serious about this, go for it. to test yourself, grab a Calculus book - I recommend Stewart's Calculus - and challenge yourself to work though it at a reasonable, but predetermined pace (say 1 chapter per week).
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>What about outlawing firearms for civilian use

Amend the US Constitution?

Probably not going to fly.
That's quite a headline. But the article is mostly about delegations of authority (and that not in any real detail), a story of US contractors conducting assassinations, and one (1) corroborating opinion -- that corroboration in no detail, and almost certainly second-hand.

There's a paragraph about the "terrifying background", in absolutely no detail whatsoever.

This sort of thing has become a subgenre of its own, one where the documentation almost always falls well short of the promise.

People should think about what the cries of "Wolf!" are doing to our ability to spot truly documented and disturbing problems.
i think you should add a moral support button. because right now i wouldn't pledge you $50 but i generally like the idea and i might join if this really takes off (and seems to offer me some unique value that i won't get elsewhere for free). i think showing the number of people that think like me somewhere on your page might encourage more developers to pledge something.
If those classes were canceled for budget reasons, they obviously weren't very effect at teaching successful budgeting.
"But there is no way in hell you can convince me that it’s beneficial for society to not share ideas."

Sorry, but Notch has it backwards. Patents are designed to for sharing - not for preventing sharing. (Patent holder shares information on how they implemented something in exchange for being granted temporary rights to deliver on the method implementation.)

I know I'm being naively simplistic in that statement. Yet so is Notch in his analogy. I've found no one who claims that "it's beneficial for society to not share ideas". Setting up a straw man makes for juicy debate, but not great argument.
Topic dilution:

Ubuntuforum moderators pounce on that in the main support categories. They also like to merge threads on similar technical issues. The tendency is towards long threads about an issue e.g. sound problems on a new release with certain sound cards. You have to trawl through a lot of posts, but you do get all the context. More leeway for opinions in the non-technical categories.

CentOS forum moderators use quite a different approach in the release specific categories. They seem to like a 'post=support ticket' style. They strongly discourage posting a similar problem on the end of an existing issue, they prefer a fresh post. Produces short threads each with a specific issue; clarify the issue, achieve a resolution, then out. You rely on post subject headings to spot a pattern. As CentOS changes less quickly than Ubuntu, this is probably manageable.

Any 'spying' (e.g propaganda against open-source development &c) is hard on these forums. Potential spies would need to clock the different styles.
http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Principles-Computer-Sc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_science

I flipped through the Schaum's guide once - it's very good, I would have benefited a lot from it if I were younger. Wikipedia's outline is a good alternative, just maybe not as compact or tailored to the needs of a student.
This is very close to viewing the stock market as a zero-sum game, or the "baseball card" analogy which was spread around a few years ago. This is a fallacy; stocks do not derive their value from how popular investors find them. Rather, the correlation is in the opposite direction.

When you're buying a stock, you are actually buying part of a company...and assuming a reasonable stock structure and corporate governance, being on equal footing with all the other owners of the company.

These business owners, dividend or not, want to maximize the return they get from the business. Whether the company pays a dividend or not doesn't factor into the equation - part of the company's balance belongs to you, regardless of whether the board decides pay it out in a given year or not. If the board does not follow the interests of the shareholders, a shareholder lawsuits or board changes will result.

Pre-dividend/stock buyback Apple is an excellent example of this, although examples this dramatic and obvious aren't common. The stock price was increasing steadily in lockstep with the company's balance sheet until the board decided they couldn't use the money for anything useful and decided to pay it out to the shareholders.

[Edit: Actually, share prices in the funds I own are historically low relative to common measures of company valuation, price/earnings or price/book value. Earnings to market cap for these companies are something around 8% on average. So either stocks are historically cheap, or earnings are about to drop by more than a factor of 50%. Seems like a better bet than a negative-real return bank account to me].
> It is completely irrelevant how the world would be if everyone did X, since it will never happen.

"And that, my boy, is why your fancy horseless carriage will never succeed."
> We built an animal

No they didn't. They built a sheet of biological material that pulsates when placed in an electrical field. Animals reproduce, and hence adapt and evolve.

It's a neat gadget, but let's not get too carried away.
I find this article interesting in the context of the discussion about the svbtle network. I think this proves all its critics right[1]. This article has absolutely no essence to it.

[]1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268832
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Of course, would never take money that no one couldn't afford to lose
Yeah I agree with you that they haven't really created a jellyfish. It's not much more then a muscle that contracts in the same way as a jellyfish when subjected to an electrical charge.

But if you read it all you'll notice the following paragraph, "Parker’s lab works on creating artificial models of human heart tissues for regenerating organs and testing drugs, and the team built the medusoid as a way of understanding the “fundamental laws of muscular pumps”. It is an engineer’s approach to basic science: prove that you have identified the right principles by building something with them." - This in itself is a very nice feat.
Where in the USA can you hunt rhinos?
I have a Ph.D. in engineering, which entailed a great deal of math. I do a lot of machine learning now. I think you'll find that proofs are the great divide between "real" math, and the more applied stuff you use in ML or CS. I suppose it is kind of obvious, but the math that isn't "applied" will have very little application in any other aspects of your life.

I do get a little queasy about the for-profit schools like SNHU. It is convenient, but I'm not so sure that the quality will be that good. Your peers in these classes are probably not going to be like HN. Are there any regular non-profit schools near you that might offer online classes as well?

If I were paying for online classes out of my pocket, I'd look at something like the Stanford Center for Professional Development.

http://scpd.stanford.edu/public/category/courseCategoryCerti...

They have some interesting Data Mining and ML related stuff.
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I think it's fair to say a solid financial plan could be the difference between comfort and affluence. For it to be the difference between comfort and poverty is inhumane.

That's where I'm coming from: No one who spends their life contributing value to our society should have to live out their final years and die in poverty. It's just not right, and there's no good reason to extend that right only to those individuals who have the ability to manage their own retirement.

Talking about risk and education and so on is misdirection. This is just something a civilized culture should do.
The one glaring hole is in the idea that people with concealed carry will be ready and able to effectively "start shooting back".

Are there objective examples of this? I've seen counter-examples, such as how in the Giffords shooting in Arizona the victims actually brought down the perp through physical force, even though some of them were carrying. Are there similar examples of concealed carry folks bringing down a shooter? It should be noted, I'm pro gun ownership, but I'd still like to see you prove your point rather than just regurgitating what all pro-gun people are saying without any data to actually back it up.