skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 7 is the most common. Some XP, but few Vista ones.
> Is there even a plant out there that has harmful side-effects two decades after you eat it? If we make one, that would be one hell of an achievement.

I understood the post to mean the cumulative effects of eating that plant.

One cigarette is not going to do much, but smoking 40 a day for 30 years is probably going to cause a few problems.
http://thewire-hbo.com/2007/07/22/english-actors-in-the-wire...
My experience with W8 has been like a ping pong match between the two interfaces. If there's a way to disable metro completely, I'd be really happy to hear it.
Apparently I went to the wrong college. Note, I still _am_ in college, but nonetheless part of our learning was independent readiness. In my first non-basic programming class, my professor taught us alongside our Operating System class how he built computer kits and sold them. We were taught legalese in the field, and the power of performance.

My school is very small, and our department is even smaller. We have very few students pass through our department each year (around 3), but we're pushed to be our own innovator in the world. While a lot of our schooling does involve how to work within a company, we learn just as much about being independent.
There is a multitude of two-way DOM data binding add-ons for Backbone.
Now we just need a printed turbopump.
I've raised millions for my startups multiple times. Some of my pursuits have worked out but most have not. I don't regret dropping out but it is definitely held against me. Prepare for many people that needed to goto college to get a foot in the door to pre judge you and you may even miss opportunities to get in front of important people because of that prejudice. I'm lucky I had extraordinary circumstances which helps people psychologically get over their preconceptions of a dropout.
To most that are thinking of dropping out I advise them not to.
Photoshop vs CSS
Most open source licensing requires 0 citation. If I copy your formula or recipe, I don't need to cite a thing - you don't own the copyright to your own formula. I could sell your work if I wanted to do so.

Plagiarism, as it affected my grading, was copying without attribution. Attribution is rarely required for most licensing, except where it is. These sorts of distinctions are lost in the collegiate machine.
Not working at all. http://i.imgur.com/CGhka.png
This is fantastic!! They told me in 2nd grade (1968) that the metric systems was coming in 4 years and we had to learn it. This is great news. Finally I will be able to use those metric socket wrenches I bought. Oh, wait I already do.
Visual.ly - Telling Stories With Data
The litigation is very damaging, it's also true however that research is being doubled/tripled/etc as it's done in private by multiple organisations and kept as trade secrets, which is inefficient when you consider the world as a whole.

It's just that we can't presently see any regulation based solution for that.
This is ridiculous. Going to college certainly shouldn't be taken lightly and if you don't have an interest in broadening your mind and just want to make money, then you'd be better off educating yourself or going to a trade school. But for people that genuinely have a love of learning and want to discipline their mind in ways they haven't thought (not to mention meet interesting and intelligent people inside and outside of their career), college can be a worthy investment.
I find it definitely a nice language proposal, but there are a few issues, I guess. A first one is that many of the distinctions introduced (such as proc,fun,gen) are all optimization issues. I would appreciate if it were possible to do that long after you're done with just making the program work. The language may force the developer way too early in the process to think of things that do not matter at that point. In the best case, it will matter later on, when the program truly works. Another issue I have is that the "simplifications" introduced initially lead to introducing lots and lots of additional symbols such $ and #, just because the simplification was apparently not leading to something simple. So, the language suffers from enforcing a premature optimization mindframe as well as from overly complex administrative simplification.
What a joke. This is a circlejerk for the anti-college crowd.

I'm sorry your college experience was such that one of the biggest things you learned was that 'plagiarism is bad.'

College is a place for exploration. Join a fraternity, join a club, learn a new language, take a class you won't use after graduation. Get drunk and blow off classes because there's nothing better than going to the campus diner at 3am and having conversations with people you'll never meet again. Meet a professor and get coffee with him, and talk with him about everything except the course material. Go to a game. Meet new people. Learn new things.

The list of ten things at the end is laughable. Half of them are standard syllabus material for a BBA (1, 2, 4, 8, 9). And do you really want to learn how to answer "How to move Mount Fuji" in a college course? Do you understand that the whole point of that question is to test someone's critical thinking and approach to problem solving, not because there is a textbook answer?

Maybe all you learned in college was about learning to work for someone else -- that's probably because that's all you did. And that's your fault.
You make a good point. I have no idea what the risks to mutation breeding are.

That said, the fact that it's potentially problematic doesn't make GMOs safe. It just means they're both potentially unsafe. I don't know enough to say.

By incremental gains, I meant that GMO crops will at best add some percentage growth to total food production. This will be partly a wash, as increased food tends to increase birth/survival rates. Our food boom has helped create the population boom.

So on balance, GMOs will provide a benefit, but it is unlikely to be a kind of 'end hunger forever benefit'.

Meanwhile, the system accumulates hidden risk. Once food supplies are created, we become dependent on their persistence. If anything unforeseen and catastrophic happened that lopped a percentage off world food production, we would be ill placed to bear the shock.
Hibernate is useful in one situation: you have a transaction that has to exist across actions taken by multiple disparate services, and you still need the container to manage this for you.

In my opinion, if your in that situation, you either have an application that is an edge case, or you've architected your application poorly.

My rule of thumb:

If it has the word 'enterprise' anywhere in it's name or description. Avoid it like the plague, only use it if its the last available option.
1. Plagiarism is bad

I'm assuming this meant in the sense of "why can't I just copy a binary tree implementation from the internet and turn it in", since every advanced course I took in college encouraged the use of libraries where appropriate (to the point of linking to open source libraries on the course website). The answer to the former question should be painfully obvious... you're learning to be a creator of things, not a user of things. That would be like taking an operating systems course and saying, "See, I downloaded Windows! Where is my A?"

2. Performance Matters

Tell this to Digg (one small example in a sea of them). Kevin Rose has said several times that he regretted hiring so many "get things done" PHP programmers that had no in-depth algorithm knowledge because as soon as the site had to scale none of them had knowledge outside of their PHP sandbox.

As far as the difference between copyright, trademark, and patents, ABET requires a Capstone/'Ethics' course that includes these very topics. I actually did a research report on software patents during my undergrad which included a presentation on how software patents have affected the software industry. As far as planning a product and tracking its development, ABET also requires an 'Intro to Software Engineering' course which is, you guessed it, planning and building a product from first principles.
Can you give me a few examples where this story has not played out with a successful company at the end of it?
"Pedigree Matters" as an untruth: I wish this were the case. Too many entrepreneurs I know are only entrepreneurs because they have the support system of comfortably wealthy families and the professional network gained at elite schools and fellowships.

Would love to hear more about entrepreneurs who live on the edge and try to start a business while also needing to make rent and student loan payments.
Is Rails on JRuby not considered a productive JVM web frameowrk?

Edit: Based on this claim: "Play 2 and Grails 2 are often hyped as the most productive JVM Web Frameworks." Slide 2
Science Fraud Site Owner Suspends Site in Response to Legal Threats
The city of Munich and DoD have so little in common that I do not understand how you could possibly think this was relevant.
School spent £500,000 giving out iPads admits that HALF are now broken
DISA has their list of approved Operating Systems. You can request they approve your configuration if its not already on the list and they will run Retina scans and other checks on it to verify it is secure and then you can use it. Some products like RHEL are pre-vetted so you can just say I am using RHEL and check off that box on the form you must submit to your CTO every now and then. At least that's the way it was where I worked.

I would use more nouns to describe everything and even give you a link to the site, but I think its CaC secured and I left the DoD a few years ago because of these very kinds of issues so I no longer have all this memorized.
One of those articles where a lot of ideas have been put down that aren't exactly "true" so much as it would be convenient if they were, to better justify the path the writer has decided to take in their life.
Patents only offer you protection against detectable infringement. If it's possible for company A to keep their algorithm secret, it's possible for company B to keep their infringement secret.
Hi jrode,

Sorry that the site left a bad impression on you. We were trying to get across that "it's free" applied to the fact that "trying it" (the main action) was free. We'll make this clearer.

By the way, we will have more free courses (there are two which are completely free right now). It's just a matter of time.

Sorry also about not having a way to delete your account -- it was an oversight, and it will be corrected.

Finally, you're right that the "Save your progress to unlock" copy is, in fact, incorrect. We'll make sure to get it right.

Thank you for your feedback!
Android SDK is now proprietary, Replicant to the rescue
By the way, the list of questions you pose are not really questions about Computer Science, they are about entrepreneurship and marketing.

I get the feeling you're just saying you picked the wrong major, it has nothing to do with wether college is right for you.

Anyway to answer your question, I am a recent college graduate and I think I can answer most of those questions and could even if I didn't work at a startup or read HN daily because I have a major in computer science and a minor in entrepreneurship that in my opinion taught me pretty well.
I've heard great things about the Stanford school of business, and the entrepreneurship program specifically, but it was outside my purview and budget.

I'm certain there are outliers to what I wrote, but I feel the majority of schools are just creating employees, and that's....sad.
Technically yes, but that isn't how they mean it to be read, and that isn't how readers will read it.
Which open source licenses are you talking about? The most common that I can think of is GPL, which does not allow you to remove the copyright notice, although you may add yours in addition to it. The next one that comes to mind is the BSD license, which states:

"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the <organization>."

Whew. So maybe the third popular might be The Apache License, but this states:

"You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works that You distribute, all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices from the Source form of the Work, excluding those notices that do not pertain to..."

And so on. I am unaware of, but would be interested in knowing about, licenses that would allow you to verbatim take code and also claim it as your own work.
Seems like you're just trying to get attention with this post. The title is catchy and the content pointless but it did remind me of a good quote from Joichi Ito "Education is what something does to you, learning is what you do to yourself. Education is the worst you can do to someone who wants to be creative"
Given that it's what most people have to do their whole lives, I'd say it's a pretty useful skill.
Like most comments here I would have to say I completely disagree. In fact I learnt very little of the skills needed to work in a corporation. Testing, build automation, source control, working on large projects, working with poorly documented legacy code. All skills necessary to survive in corporate software development that were never touched or only very lightly grazed.

If you want to go to college to learn to be an entrepreneur, get a degree in entrepreneurship. Colleges should teach the core competencies of your degree that can then be applied in any number of ways.

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It's going to get worse before it gets better.

But, it'll be worth it.
You think that all classified work is done with linux? As a 10+ year debian user I wish that was the case.
The copy needs work on the front page. Saying "No Errors" makes people think of errors. You don't want that. Try "Perfect Prose" instead.

Likewise, "worry-free" has the same negative effect. Instead, say "Express Service" or whatever.

One more thing, samples. Have a few samples or examples for people to see.

Overall, pretty good. That's my .02.

P.S. I wish you the best with this!
Because of the way we run our agricultural system. We tend to use monocultures, or 'ogilopolies' of certain plant varieties.

Past plant varieties were more likely to be safe from hidden vulnerabilities due to the process that created them. Even so, some plants were wiped out by a single surprise event, such as during the Irish potato famine.

If, as I argue, GMO crops present more hidden risks, then we are increasing the odds of a catastrophic failure of a staple crop.

Growth in the food supply tends to produce a growth in population. This new population is dependent on food supply staying at least at it's current level. If a staple crop fails, then the consequences will be dire. There is little slack in the system.
There's probably quite a bit of infrastructure still on XP though, which could help explain a move to Win8
Where do you go to learn not to write a rant insulting the "stooges" you presumably hope to one day be hiring yourself?

I would like to add more than just a snarky comment like that, but the post is high on bitterness and low on content. It's a curious flip side to the "college doesn't teach people how to work on a team in a company, it just teaches a bunch of theory nonsense" cliche, though. And I think both of those views are way off the mark with the disregard for theory. I'd rather work with (or start a company with) the guy who knows what his code does, and why it does it, any day over the guy who is more proficient at a certain set of tools, or knows more about the details of starting a business.
As someone who dropped out of college to join a "startup," I can reliably say that I didn't have enough information at the time to make an informed decision about what I did or didn't need to know.

I'm happy with how my career has gone since then, but it would be absolute hubris to declare that it was due to my astounding foresight or careful assessment. I was a) motivated b) lucky and c) relatively free of responsibility.

Maybe I've had a more skewed career than most, but I've spent my career working with complex and busy systems. I never had a "freelance web developer" period. I've never just spat out web app after web app for clients. To take your specific example, I missed out on a chunk of algorithmic complexity in college (which I have since picked up) that sheds light on real world problems that might otherwise seem confusing or unconnected.

I understand your frustration, believe me, but be careful not to mix up the knowledge with the institution, or the message with the messenger, as it were.
> I'm more of an action adventure kind of guy, there's not many good new stuff in that genre either as far as I'm aware.

Take a look at Gaksital (2012). I've not had a chance to watch it yet, but it's got action and is apparently quite good.

Another excellent action K-drama is City Hunter (2011), which is actually based on a late 80s/early 90s anime series, and has a corresponding anime as well that was first released in 1987. City Hunter was probably one of the first K-dramas where the production values and special effects really struck me in the face. Things have only continued to improve since then. Unfortunately, most J-drama producers haven't opted to continually increase production values in the same manner (and the Japanese wonder why K-dramas are so popular in Japan).

Another good K-drama in the last year (which I've seen) was Ghost, which (while it has some action) is more about crime and computers/hacking, but since you're on HN, you might like it. It had a surprisingly realistic portrayal of computers/hacking - not your usual CSI crap. Plus, the lead actress, Lee Yeon Hee, while still rather young/inexperienced in terms of acting, is one of the most beautiful (in a uniquely understated way) I've seen in K-dramaland in quite a while.

I certainly enjoy melodramas as well though, especially the makjang dramas[0] that Korea is famous for. Nice Guy (2012) is a thrilling example of this, and one of the best K-dramas overall from last year. And if you're interested in historical dramas, I hear Arang and the Magistrate is quite nice.

Dramabeans[1] is a good (and surprisingly professional) blog for keeping abreast of K-drama news in general. They have good year-end roundups[2] that allow you to quickly spot the good shows.

> The most recent one I really enjoyed was Steins;Gate which is really quite brilliant!

Yes, Steins;Gate has been a notable exception - I've been meaning to play the visual novel the anime is based on, but that would require me to boot into Windows :/

> Also I'm jealous you're able to read Japanese, I've not had the discipline to really learn it yet.

Learning how to read/write Japanese is all about making it fun. I used the standard RtK/Anki approach, but what really motivated me was using a brush instead of a normal pencil/pen. It really improves your handwriting and makes practicing a lot more fun. Once you've got all the jouyou kanji down, it's just a matter of picking up jukugo in context, which is inherently a lot more fun, if you can find interesting stuff to read and make Anki flashcards out of. I started out with lines from dramas (there are Japanese subtitles available on D-Addicts[3]), and then moved onto websites, before going to actual novels.

0: http://belectricground.com/2011/04/11/korean-language-and-cu...

1: http://www.dramabeans.com/

2: http://www.dramabeans.com/tag/year-in-review/

3: http://d-addicts.com/forum/subtitles.php
Where did you go to college?
How is that? In my experience, the only ways to wind up back in Metro after entering Desktop is the Windows key on your keyboard, and Alt+Tab if you have a Metro app running.
> the implications of Monsanto's Terminator seed technology (DRM for plants)

what do intellectual property laws have to do with being pro or con GMOs?
Instead of advocating for the abolition of college or decrying the value of a traditional education, could you perhaps phrase this as:

"An Alternative, Practical Education"?
I'm glad that my Google Voice number doesn't accept MMS. What a silly invention. If you must use MMS, my email address works more than fine.
> A forger could have randomly changed Charles to "Charley", looked up an appropriate address, edited the metadata, come up with all the Hollywood touches, wrote the whole damn thing (quite an endeavour since relatively little material is borrowed from DN), and put it online.

Most people would have used that pile of circumstantial evidence to close the case. But you can't fool gwern (or L).

The best thing about this analysis is that it reflects the thinking of the one of the main characters in the anime. This seems like how the detective L would solve the same problem. has always been one of my favorite fictional characters because I greatly admire his (fictional) rigor and inductive abilities. Leave it to gwern to apply the same level of super detective skills to answering a question about the movie. It seems like a lot of work for a small point, but we'd all be better off if more people were this thorough in eliminating possibilities.

I saw the japanese movie and it was good, but probably best for people who were already fans of the anime. An americanized version might open up a much broader audience, though they'd have to put a lot of money behind it.
Great story and right on key with my reasoning. Thank you for that insight, I agree completely!
perhaps you know more than me about the company, but from the outside, it seems like there are several customers segments who might pay for traffic data: (1) government agencies looking to maintain and invest in roads and local infrastructure like traffic lights; (2) billboard owners who want to offer audience figures to advertisers; (3) real estate developers who want more accurate data before deciding to invest in property; (4) real estate agents who want to offer traffic data to prospective retail and restaurant leasers; (5) shipping/delivery companies who need traffic patterns to determine optimal routes.

my understanding is google maps generates $1B+ from its APIs. perhaps the waze founders think they can approach similar revenue figures with traffic data. i haven't crunched the numbers to see if this is feasible, but my hunch is they declined the $500M acquisition with good reason and with a (potentially) sustainable revenue model in their hip pocket.