skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experiences of HS/College in the US, I wish someone had told me I could've gotten a GED, taken the SAT/ACTs and gone to college when I was 15.
I feel as though I missed out on advancing my knowledge at a time in my life when I could focus on it with vast amounts of my time and energy. Although I'm not "behind" the average progression of someone at my stage in life, I feel as though I'm behind where I could be, had I known there was the alternate path.
Horizontal, right? Or are you thinking of tablet scrolling?
"...their "holy" books can't rewrite themselves."

I'm shocked. Just shocked. You mean there's no hope that translation errors are going to be fixed? For example in hebrew the same word is used for either "young woman" and "virgin". And some believe that the christian made a translation mistake by transforming the young woman mary into the virgin mary.

I think that if that one is a mistake, it should be fixed ; )
I think this is reflective of a process all founders have to go through. As the needs of your startup evolve, and as your responsibilities shift, you often have to give up entirely roles that used to define you. It can be one of the most difficult challenges entrepreneurs face.
My understanding of modern airlines is that unless your plane is in the process of taking off, landing, or crashing, it's already essentially pilotless.

There's always been too much at stake in the airline industry to allow a lot of room for human error. Combined with the huge leaps that fly-by-wire planes have made in the last few decades, that made for some very powerful incentives on everyone's part (engineers, regulators, and companies) to advance autopilot as far as they possibly could.
I think things changed a lot around 2009? I'm just going by memory... but I think that's when a lot of the ivies drastically changed tuition assistance based on income.
We try to do everything through e-signatures - less chances of PDFs getting lost than bits of paper. And of course at all opportunities I tell founders to use Hellosign :-)

The only document that is wet signed is the 83(b) election that is sent to the IRS since they not sure yet about e-signatures.
Besides the easier embedability (it's plain C with no dependencies and MIT licensed), it's (subjectively) a nicer language than JS and more accessible to the general public than Scheme/Guile, while being just as powerful as both.

And for some reason I can't pin down, it's just fun to hack with.
HN Proposition: 5 first MVPs greenlighted
I get a warning in Chrome (SSL Error)
Yep ... and I feel like we are feeding the trolls.
can only do STEM is he works for an e-verified company, STEM is tougher to get for people running their own business
I find the Principal saying "If I was a good student I would simply do what is asked of me." equally off-putting.

The frustrated tone of the letter suggests he thinks he can get the principal to agree with his position using reason because what other possible reason could there be for the disagreement other then lack of understanding? He's 15, can't fault him for that.
I think we agree. I didn't put it as succinctly. Progressive tax. Regressive distribution. That's an excellent way of looking at it.
For those who missed the story, this is related to:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694
Is applying n times with n different ideas worse than applying n times with the same idea? Or is there not much difference?
To continue the satire from the parent post...

Yes, remotely piloted or autonomous flying drones could never work. There must be 2 pilots flying a bird, that will never change, even the Air Force wouldn't be that crazy.

But honestly, give it twenty years.
He founded a startup with $350K in revenue and his parents will be disappointed? Really?
This guy is not your typical at-risk high school dropout. He's clearly a true entrepreneur and a winner. At this point, he can pretty much write his own ticket in life. He doesn't need the arbitrary rules and stifling structure of high school to be successful.

His parents grew up in a very different world, and they need to understand the world has changed. Education and keeping your head down in a stable corporate job are not the ticket to prosperity anymore.
uneven stock splits between founders (a strong indicator of future founder breakups)

I've heard lots of stories about this issue, but I think you're the first person to actually have a statistically significant amount of data to back up what you're saying.

Can you elaborate on this point a bit? In particular, I'm wondering if it's the uneven stock split which is the problem, or if that and founder breakups are merely both symptoms of an underlying issue -- say, different levels of commitment from the founders, or unequal status levels.

Or put another way: If a team applies to YC and says that they plan on a 67/33 equity split, would you convincing them to change to a 50/50 split improve their chances of success, or are they still at a disadvantage compared to teams which originally planned on a 50/50 split?
So why can't Google get a cert for google.com from a trusted root CA like everybody else?

What economic benefit does it provide that outweighs the reduction in security experienced by users of Safari and countless other non-browser clients by allowing Google to be in possession of a private key that can impersonate the identities of arbitrary TLS servers?
Impressive. He is managing a company earning over a quarter of a million dollars in revenue, and he is 15?

There are valid reasons to complete high school, but frankly, this would be a greater accomplishment on his resume than anything school would offer him.

If he can do this at age 15, and sustain it, he doesn't need school. He's already succeeded.
We are all victims of Bernaysian manipulation of public opinion.

Fortunately for us, there are real journalists who see through the thin veil of Republican & Democrat propaganda. Like the specific and unnamed NYTimes columnist who regurgitates lobbyist talking points almost line for line, many "journalists" and political commentators simply regurgitate the bullshit that is being feed to them. What is embarrassing is that the segment of the population that counts as educated are the ones gobbling it up.

Change will happen through radical transparency. Imagine watching a debate interrupted any time a candidates says something false. Or perhaps a Presidential address rebuffed on demand with clips of things that individual said while campaigning that directly opposed what they are saying now. Accountability does not have to be an option or a convenience.
Correct. I didn't mean slow implementation, I meant slow enough on modern hardware using the fastest implementaiton.
When talking with a friend of mine about me having dropped out of college because I was too bored, he once said: "If you were that smart you would've just finished it next to all your other stuff."

I was pretty much this kid, or close to it, and to this day that statement is still one of the most valuable, harshest truths to me. So just challenge the kid to make it both work, run the company and finish high-school. If the kid is this smart he can do way better than running some VPS hosting company in the long run.

edit: I'm not from the US, but biscarg's comment sounds like it would be pretty good for the kid.
To be honest, I judged Romney by what he actually did when he was governor. Which was basically, "Whatever might get him votes next time."

On the other hand, when I looked at Obama's actions as president...well, I just could not bring myself to vote for him. To push the beloved healthcare bill through (remember, the bill that failed the deliver the one thing everyone really wanted, the public option?), he promised the pharmaceutical industry a stronger crackdown on illegal drugs, and he absolutely followed through on that promises: more paramilitary raids on medical marijuana facilities during just his first two years in office than in all eight Bush years combined. The administration's push for strong copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret laws and trade agreements seem to have been equally motivated by ties to industry. His approach to reforming the student loan system was to focus on interest rates and offer indentured servitude for people who cannot repay their loans.

What candidates say during an election is worthless, even when they pledge to do something. Politicians lie to get votes. Look to their actions, not their words, and look to their ties to industry (at least if you are voting for a major party, which amounts to choosing which set of businesses will get special treatment by the government).
it is futile to search the contents of electronic devices at the border.

Just because you wouldn't store anything incriminating/contraband doesn't mean that nobody else will. Quite a few searches of laptops and digital cameras have led to discovery of child pron, sob obviously not everyone shares your understanding of data security.
Are they audited by GlobalSign, or by an independent third-party (i.e., same as all other CAs)?
Since nobody's mentioned this yet, I thought I'd bring this up:

Code signing.
Neither are interchangeable, they're just equally bad for global citizens who want to make a better world.

The problem with two parties is that they collect votes based on ideology not actions. Technically three isn't enough to avoid this but in general use it implies many third parties, such that governing is no longer one painful voice pushed on everyone, but a consensus of the governed.
Well, assuming the Singularity itself is not a doctrine of religious faith, sometimes it sounds like one.
I find that pretty odd tbh. What size monitor? Do you sit leaning towards the screen or leant back in your chair?

That blog font-size looks great to me. 1600 x 900, laptop, rocking a casual, semi-hunched position.
Try to stay on topic. Not only are your comments rheotircal rather than evidence-based, they have nothing to do with the subject of this thread.
To me Google Docs did reinvent the webapp. It's by far the most advanced webapp I'm using and I'm using it daily: personal finance, tax filings, letters, etc.

What scares me a bit is to read that the Google Docs team is made of 600 people if I understand TFA correctly.

This is setting the bar quite high to anyone startup that'd want to reinvent the Web (not talking about Box here but startups in general). How can you "fight" against 600 geniuses at Google?
I didn't talk to my parents for years. I needed my life to myself to recover for a little while, because I felt that I couldn't trust my parents/anyone and needed freedom to figure myself out. Having zero support and struggling as hard as I did didn't help improve the situation, it made me angry I was abandoned and reenforced the distrust.

The best thing they could have done was given me a place to Do My Thing, food, and electricity, and some warnings about bad habits and explicit and detailed examples of why they are bad.
Instead I struggled and scraped and fell behind (and picked up some bad habits as a response to the harshness) just trying to get a room where I could sit and use my computer to make money, and I hated the world for it.
Because the trust wasn't there and I couldn't express myself, everything they told me was in an angry and authoritative tone and my brain just blocked it out and made me more introverted.

I knew what I wanted to do and I couldn't understand how they didn't know that and support it. (I didn't express myself well and I was too weird and high tech and clever, like I get the impression this kid is.)

Also: At that age a year of school feels like a decade. The people in this thread saying "what's the big deal about another couple years" are possibly (if anything like my situation) sentencing this kid to life in hell in his eyes.

Double addendum: I get along great with my parents now and they support me entirely.
Is there a similar preference for investing in European startups? Do VCs and/or angel investors strongly prefer to invest in e.g. a UK Ltd. instead of a company incorporated in the Netherlands?
The point of Bitcoin is to have a currency that isn't subject to central control, but is easier to trade than gold or other commodities.

We can argue about whether or not that is a good thing, but let's at least be clear about what we're talking about. Using definitions of words that are different from what everyone else uses is not the way to communicate your ideas to other people, let alone convince them that you're right.
As an aside, red and green are poor color choices for things like this where color perception is necessary for discrimination. I'm colorblind and cannot differentiate the "infected" squares from the green ones. Black would be a better choice than red. In fact, everything could be grayscale.
Does anyone know what the specific metric is that they are using to compare Wat son to doctors? What does it mean that doctors make the correct treatment decision 50% of the time? I don't doubt that Watson is better at this task, but it's difficult to have an appreciation of its ability without understanding the test.
Maybe there's a point like this to be made about college but I don't understand how 3 more years of high school would benefit him - what's wrong with a GED? It just seems so much more time efficient.
Is that the new meaning of LOL?
Well, maybe I should just give one a whirl. Maybe I'm missing something.
Surface RT sold out when it was released also. I wouldn't read too much into this.
He's not a squatter. He's owned the domain for well over ten years, he has content on it, there are no ads and no parked page. By all criterion it looks like a personal domain. I suspect he only put up the "here's how much it would cost" because so many people kept pestering him with laughably stupid offers ("we'll give you discounts on our dairy products if you give the domain to us!").

He's using the domain, not holding it for ransom. Quite frankly, I don't think the web will be any poorer for having one less corporate media experience, especially from an industry that everyone already knows about. If they want a big glitzy advertising website, I'm sure Google will index it properly, no matter it's domain name. As for the owner of milk.com? He's put actual content up. Useful things. Interesting things. Things that took time to create and curate. This is not the M.O. of some squatter looking to make a quick buck. Especially with the whole "waiting for more than ten years" part.
Taken!
Pandigital Novel hacks could turn a $38 eReader into a cheap Android tablet
> I value the freedom of hard-working content creators to make money from their labor over the freedom of teenagers to get free copies of popular movies and video games

I appreciate how you twisted this. This reveals that you take an ageist position against teenagers. When I was fifteen I knew everything I needed to know about the world and I was studying higher mathematics full time in college. Teenagers can be just as intelligent and productive as anyone else. Despite this, you value the right of movie companies like Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, Warner bros, and Universal Studios to make a profit over the freedom of our teenagers to share with one another.

> I don't care of those creators are profit-driven mega-corporations or starving artists.

The existing copyright policies are created by profit-driven mega-corporations rather then individual artists because the big corporations have all the political power, so you are implicitly supporting these corporations over individual artists.

Programmers would greatly benefit from living in a society where all software is free because they would never have to use a program that alienates them from the process of software production. Operating systems could be rebuilt to eliminate the user/produce distinction and to drastically increase programmer productivity. However, profit-driven mega-corporations like Microsoft and Apple cannot allow that because that would destroy their profit model.

Similarly, individual artists would benefit from the freedom to use our accumulated artistic knowledge without being alienated from it by the profit-driven corporations. Mega-corporations don't want that, they want what we have now which is copyright that lasts 120 years after creation.

> Thought experiment: in games like World of Warcraft, weapons, armor, etc, are trivially reproducible.

I don't have much of an issue with participating in a virtual commodity economy for fun and not to make a profit. Blizzard makes its money off of WoW from subscription fees rather then game economy itself. However, some free-to-play games like Maple Story run cash shops for profit and I oppose the existence of such cash shops as much as I do all other markets that sell artificially scarce goods for a profit.
The HD 4000's performance in AutoCAD is not far below common discrete cards. Keep in mind, the graph here is showing it against desktop cards, and it comes in slightly under the Radeon HD 7750. That's a $100 budget gaming card. For 2D CAD (still fairly common in architecture, I can't speak to other industries), the benchmark is almost identical across the board.

So no, it can't match the performance of a GTX 680. And I doubt it handles complicated models very well. But it's by no means incapable of light CAD work, especially compared to laptops.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AutoDesk-AutoCAD-2...
A lot of companies file patents to cover their asses against patent trolls, not to enforce them. I would imagine that this is something similar.
Will help to understand how is this different from https://www.postmaster.io
Oh what lengths people will go through to bypass the TSA.
He stands to learn far more by dropping out and trying to grow his business than by taking chemistry classes in high school.

– If his business succeeds, he has a great career ahead of him.

– If his business fails, he will gain practical and useful skills & experiences that cannot be taught in school.

Assuming he is a good self-learner (it appears he is), his skills will make him marketable to a variety of Silicon Valley companies (Facebook, Google, Mozilla, etc.) Worst case, in a year or two, he'll be able to write a great essay for college applications with a reasonable chance of getting into a top notch university.

[I'm a 21yo college dropout & YC alum. Some of the things I worked on succeeded, and others failed.]
For us we require CAs that are not technically constrained to be independently audited to WebTrust for CA requirements, Moving forward thanks to Mozillas new policy the same will be true for all CAs.
It was certainly worse back in the day though ;-) Around 1999-2001 there was an annoying Web design fad of 10px or 11px Verdana or Tahoma (when both were relatively new yet widespread due to Windows 98).
Sorry, but I disagree. A Haskell program emphatically does not have any concept of impurity or statefulness whatsoever, except in the form of `unsafePerformIO`, which circumvents the type system, only comes into play under "extenuating circumstances", and which an ordinary program has no use or need for.

The language itself does not have any notion of sequencing or order of evaluation, nor does it need one. It inhabits a pure, mathematical universe where such things have no meaning. Given an arithmetic expression such as

(1 + 2) * (3 - 4)

it naturally makes no difference which parenthesized expression is evaluated first, because the evaluation of mathematical expressions cannot have side effects. It would be absurd to consider a universe in which such a choice could influence the result of fully evaluating the expression, because such a universe would be wholly unlike our own, to the extent that our intuitive rules of logic and causality would no longer apply.

Likewise, given the Haskell expression

putStrLn "Hello" >> putStrLn "world!"

it makes no difference which of the two IO expressions is evaluated first, because the evaluation of those values cannot have side effects. The second one may be evaluated before the first; it makes no difference. The execution of the resulting action will have side effects and impose sequencing, but there is no way to express execution or cause it to occur in the Haskell language. Execution can only happen "outside" of the context of the program itself, not in the program's abstract and pure universe, but in our own imperative and stateful one, as a side effect of the RTS.

A C program, to extend the metaphor, knocks over each domino one by one as soon as it is placed. In fact, placing the domino and knocking it over are one and the same thing. The programmer has no opportunity to leave the room before the side effects come into play, because imperative languages do not distinguish between evaluation and execution. A purely functional language not only draws that distinction, but eliminates execution from the picture entirely, leaving it to some external entity to actually do the deed that the program constructs from pure components.
Because it's an implementation thing, it has no relevance from a theoretic view on the language. It's like the "compiled/interpreted" label.
Yep, the Hacker News default font size is tiny, period. And I find the 'pro-zoomer croud' pretty odd to be honest. It's more work, and it's tedious. You wouldn't pan around a book.

Personally I use the Hacker Web (web-app) on iOS [1] and Georgify Chrome extension [2] on desktop and couldn't be happier.

[1] http://hackerwebapp.com

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...
Show them how much money they can make if they stick with it. Spending a solid year and maybe a hundred bucks on books to teach yourself how to code can easily get you a higher starting wage than a lot of people with bachelor's degrees and tens of thousands in student loan debt.
I wonder what a programming language would look like if it were intended to be viewed center-aligned. That might be a fun snowstorm/CNY project for any language geeks out there.

Edit: for those of you confused by the red envelopes and fire crackers, happy Lunar New Year (CNY).
Amazing. An article about "Secure Boot" and they transmit...

A MD5 of the file.

The nineties called, they want their MD5 back.
Gonna put this to a test: "Prerequisite: Completed at least middle school". My brother lacks 2 years to finish middle school, and I've been wanting to guess when it is a good time to start teaching him
Understanding Stock Market Investment And How To Spot The Right Stocks
"The amount of damage another Alito or Scalia would have done to the rights of women and sexual minorities by itself blows the idea that their difference was just "superficial" out of the water."

Hm...the damage done to minorities...

Barack Obama ramped up a US government program that has devastated African American communities across America. The War on Drugs has had a vastly disproportionate effect on black people in America, and the Obama administration is a big fan (as part of a deal to bring pharmaceutical companies on board with the healthcare bill).

So while you sit there terrified that one group of right-wing politicians might push against gay marriage or try to repeal Row v. Wade, you seem to have failed to notice that behind the curtain there is another minority that is hard-hit by the administration's right-wing approach and its ties to powerful industries.
I disagree. Amazon has a history of enforcing terrible patents they own - ie the one-click patent.
What's wrong with the ECPA that it's going to land someone in court?
Linux Foundation releases Windows Secure Boot fix
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.10

4.2.1.10. Name Constraints

...

Conforming CAs MUST mark this extension as critical