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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

-- Hamlet, Act III, scene II
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> Guessing only: MS is a software company so they'd want to make it harder for others to copy (like whatever Google supposedly copied from java.)

The guess can be a little more specific: Microsoft saw what the verdict said about Java and was concerned for what it meant for C#. Oracle having less control over Java because languages are not copyrightable means Microsoft has less control over C#.

C# is important to Microsoft, so it's going to make an effort to maintain full control over it.

Which would be bad for all of us should Oracle and Microsoft prevail. Java and C# are widely-used, and the kind of control Oracle and Microsoft want over them is excessive.
People keep saying this, but there's no way that's the outcome.

People review Teslas because there's a market for the reviews. That market has only increased.

Rather than fewer reviews, it's virtually certain there will be more than there would have been otherwise.

Reviewers will, however, be far more careful with the details they report, and that's good for everyone.
Lol, I'm pretty sure that's horse manure.
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I think that Tesla has a legitimate complaint with the NYT for the article. But the very first sentence of this post is a bald falsehood:

> Yesterday, The New York Times reversed its opinion on the review of our Model S and no longer believes that it was an accurate account of what happened.

The public editor is not the New York Times' opinion. She is the newspaper's ombudsman. Her opinions are entirely her own and are independent of the newspaper, and indeed often are at odds with the newspaper's policy or opinion.

This is not just spin, it's a petty and unnecessary lie. Musk has blown a lot of credibility with me.

Edit. This post comes at a curious time: Tesla's potentially make-or-break quarterly earnings report is due the next day.
Would you trust any details Broder reports?

I wouldn't. He's proven to at best be very sloppy with the details.
Why are you making logical, rational statements in the middle of a twitter-hating party?
No, HN is not Reddit
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I believe we are soon moving to where this excuse for carefully considering candidates will no longer hold. More people with college degrees will make that significantly higher.

Also, 15%? Is that accurate, or are you just throwing numbers out there cos you think 85% of job applicants really do not have college degrees?
Spam is a problem, but other sites have even worse things to worry about. As an example, I read a variety of news sources in an attempt to maintain objectivity, and I've noticed that conservative news sites that allow comments are plagued by a bunch of immature, white supremacists. Another example is Reddit. Some of the subreddits are absolutely amazing, but for the majority of the site, comments rarely seem to have anything at all to do with their associated posts.
People prefer short-term gratification when it is available. "Mundane" isn't relevant. Wik Wheaton or Freddie Wu or someone explained that youtube audiences don't have short attention spans, but that they have demanding attention spans, and won't tolerate a 2 minute bit stretched out to 10 minutes.
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To me, it sounds like saying that Elon Musk was God and we worshiped him, and now he made a mistake. So he is not perfect anymore, and people are upset. And won't be buying Teslas anymore.
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Educated people saved the word "ironic" once. "Begs the question" isn't dead yet.
Reddit allows you to establish an account instantly and anonymously.
We're talking past each other; a few points, though :). The content dissemination part of these MOOCs isn't new. You can get short lectures by VHS tape. Most classroom lectures are watered down versions of the textbooks/research monographs. PBS has had objectively fantastic educational content (not saying that all of their ed. content is fantastic, just that some of it is) for decades. It was before my time, but I think that people were initially most excited about the educational possibilities of TV, so, a priori, there's been comparable potential impact before.

What's (probably) new is the ease of entry and the communication & coordination between students and instructors.

The low completion rates aren't necessarily red herrings; these are students that are self-selecting into online classes, so they're probably more comfortable with computers than most other students. They're also choosing classes that are particularly well suited to online instruction. So it goes both ways.

If you have links, data, whatever, please share it. Otherwise it looks like you're giving your anecdotes and opinion some sort of privileged status and I'm sure you don't mean to do that. I still don't know what point you think the article you linked to makes or refutes. And the original editorial makes two recommendations:

"Colleges need to improve online courses before they deploy them widely. Moreover, schools with high numbers of students needing remedial education should consider requiring at least some students to demonstrate success in traditional classes before allowing them to take online courses."

What's wrong with those recommendations?

As I've mentioned elsewhere in these comments, you'd probably consider me to be part of the "vested interests of our current education system" since I teach at a university. I'd bet, though, that the deans and university administrators of the world are short sighted enough to think that they're going to benefit from this direction in education (they like to cut costs). Most faculty are too busy to pay much attention. The only "insiders" that I'm sure are on top of this are the textbook publishers and standardized testing organizations, and they're pretty flexible about their revenue streams.
Article opens with the very thought I left college 10 years ago thinking--this degree is just my new high school diploma. Maybe in another generation or two, we'll see graduate degrees becoming the new BA/BS. Maybe then people will begin to realize this is all a farce.
It's human nature to tool worship. I am no exception. But please, let's worship tools that enable radical innovation. The Linux kernel was that tool--in 1999. It's still improving, but it's not worthy of this much attention. It merely allows existing innovation to work better. It's like celebrating the latest Xeon processor--cool, yes, but not worth this much collective distraction.
Interesting, but I think it's stretching the term 3D printing a bit.
There is a database of deceased people with their SSNs available, it's called SSDI. All banks/credit agency should automatically flag these SSNs.
Unfortunately for us Americans, the Swiss have had at least a couple of hundreds of years longer to evolve discourse in the public eye, depending on how you read your history.

While there have been exceptions, I would imagine that the first real wide-ranging impact of such discourse in public in the States here began in the previous decade.
Yahoo Answers is also STUPID. Full of not-all-that-bright high school and middle school kids trying to get help with their homework. I have written answers for some of those kids on Yahoo Answers, in subject areas where I know a lot. It drives me to despair. The best answers I see on YA are workmanlike.

On Quora most of the questions are reasonably good, most of the names are real, and some of the answers are brilliant.
Thanks for pointing this out! There was an issue with point total calculation that has been fixed, and all users' totals have been updated appropriately.
The changes to nginx appear to be to support HTTP Upgrade in general, nothing specific for websockets. But I can't think of any other upgrade protocols that general purpose web browsers would give your JS code access to.

But for those of us who are writing websockets-enabled web applications and trying to run them in nginx-heavy environments, just being able to share a port is a significant improvement over the status quo!
That's a fine definition, but I don't think it implies that power users cannot be satisfied with OS X window management.
'I'm living in poverty':Inventor of the wind-up radio wants stronger patent laws
Something is wrong with people that that they choose to go to schools that cost $100,000 to get degrees in fashion and/or retail management.
Irrelevant. If you don't defend a "Trademark", any rights you have to it go away. You're required to DEFEND your Trademark to keep ownership -- and even if you have a common-law Trademark (which is what you're claiming CMUCL has on "Python"), if you allow someone else to register a Trademark at the federal level and fail to oppose the registration, you can lose your rights that way.

IANAL, but I've read a lot about Trademark law, and I've talked to more than one IP attorney about it. For reference, see for example [1] and [2]. It's not like patent law where prior art can invalidate a bad patent. It's defend-it-or-lose-it.

[1] http://www.blackweb20.com/2009/11/25/the-consequences-of-not...

[2] http://www.adlilaw.com/importance-of-monitoring-your-tradema...
I really don't understand how people get sucked into these for-profit (scam) schools. Or why the federal government provides student loans for students going to such places.

Presuming Ms. Parker lived in Georgia, in-state tuition at most public universities there would've cost her much less, and provided a better education. (and that's not including things like Georgia's Hope scholarship program)
isometric game template (can use cocos2d). Tiles, etc.
I've actually used 1==2 and 1==1 to basically comment sections out or create an infinite while loop. Only really useful in C-style languages

Dumb mistakes I've seen include commented out error checking because of a reversed greater than sign and a SQL query that deletes the whole table before rebuilding the entire thing every day
Salt development community is more active than Puppet, see this comparison: https://gist.github.com/baijum/4545747
The student loan bubble is nearing a tipping point. As of a few years ago, the total outstanding student loan obligations in the US exceeded the credit card obligations.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a very hard correction very soon (or a massive bailout). At that point, I expect many of the not-so-stellar private colleges (like the Art Institutes) that thrived on easy student loans to shut down.

Disclosure: I've made a significant amount of money last year betting on this by shorting APOL.
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The views expressed in the video are that of the creator. I.e. not mine.
What question would you ask?
That was sort of the point, except that it doesn't stop people from wanting a higher level of discourse/participant on Reddit or more Reddit features on HN.
That's a particularly egregious sample. The Art Institute is a for-profit college, the likes of which are infamous for milking student loan money. See also University of Phoenix, ITT, DeVry, and Everest. It's a huge industry in the USA. Frontline of PBS had a good episode about this called College Inc. and I recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.
Congrats to the codecademy team for continuing to hit home runs with their service.

As a high school teacher, I find it to be an amazing resource for teaching students from age 13 to 17.

So far I've put a few hundred students through the HTML and JS sections and they all love the self directed nature of codecademy.

The badge system also works surprisingly well. It's really great to hear kids one-up each other with their badge count and daily streaks.

Codecademy is one of those amazing tech companies that I'd love to work for. They have great technology, they're changing the world and their execution is fantastic.
What is up with the tooltips on that page? They are almost too distracting for me to read the text. I had to use the fabulous viewtext.org to keep sane.
Pretty decent thread on this previously, with the link to the kickstarter page.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243271
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What are you talking about? Gwern's definitely male.
Hiring degree holders for things like receptionist and file clerk only works if the job market is bad and you don't care about churn.
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How do you start a company without money? It's hard to start any business without a minimum of cash flow. I know my parents couldn't have fronted me the money...
No, I mean the article was too long and it could have been stated in fewer words. I am not trolling.
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Twenty-nine comments and no one has posted the site of the author of the original SkiFree?

http://ski.ihoc.net/

SkiFree was originally written for VAX/VMS on VT100 terminals. Scroll down that page to see a small animated GIF showing where abominable snow monsters come from.
There have been a number of posts about letting Reddit be Reddit and HN be HN, but I think that problems with the level of questions on Reddit is the reason that HN should do them; to provide a more serious place for discussions with these people. It isn't totally uncommon for important people to be on HN already to talk about something they have written, and I think the community has benefited from that.

The point isn't to talk about people, its to talk about ideas with "great minds"
Possibly the best thing ever said on the topic of this essay is from the infamous Dabblers and Blowhards post:

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I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond is the original perpetrator of the "what is a hacker?" essay, in which you quickly begin to understand that a hacker is someone who resembles Eric Raymond.
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The whole genre reminds me of the the wooly business books one comes across at airports ("Management secrets of Gengis Khan", the "Lexus and the Olive Tree") that milk a bad analogy for two hundred pages to arrive at the conclusion that people just like the author are pretty great.
Indeed. The NYT public editor didn't speak of, well, anything, anywhere; she just gave a politician's spin, designed to say the right dog whistles to the right parties and hope someone other than you will take the heat.

And political speeches are like yodeling: the point is to sound really nice, not to convey actual meaning.
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All of these developers prefer git/GitHub. Can anybody offer any reason why (religious wars aside) this beats Hg/Bitbucket?

As far as I can tell, Bitbucket has unlimited free private repos, the same pull-request and team features, and has been around pretty much as long as GitHub.

What am I missing out on?
Why wasn't that used in this performance comparison?

Because then the stupid headline wouldn't be so sensationalist, would it?

// I have no dog in this fight, but hate twisted claims
If I am understanding correctly the suggestion is to have a distributed hash table that any backend can lookup to find the other backend it should forward to. And since the distributed hash table is critically important persistent data I'm assuming that using something like Memcached is not a good idea? What would be advisable instead?
I've been reading HN for years and registered just so that I could vote "no".

My "no" is somewhere between "no megaphone" and "no naval-gazing". The community has always been more interesting for its own commentary than for the topic at hand, and making this a blog platform for others doesn't really fit with that.
you dont get a lot of cashflow if you begin your professional life with a 100.000$ debt.
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Yes. You can make a caricature out of it, but that's how human beings work.
@ BoxWorks this year, Jeff Lawson of Twilio fame touched on APIs and mentioned something along the lines of

"A developer should never trust an API or expect anything of it if he's not paying for it. As long as you're not paying, you're just another developer to the API provider. The moment you fork over any cash, you're a customer."

Mind, this is really crudely paraphrased, but the sentiment remains. This was immediately in the wake of Twitter's API changes last summer.
That's completely the opposite of why games exist. If I didn't want a chance at forgiveness, I would just play real life.
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It's not just "non technology" it's "non technology" AND "non useful startup / business" stuff. To me, those areas, and - most importantly - the intersection of those two areas, are the best part of HN. But articles that veer off into mainstream politics, and some of the vapid "startup lite" entreporn that get posted, seem to be rising in frequency here.

Or maybe it's just that my tastes have changed, but it does seem to me that things are already starting to get somewhat watered down. Given that, I think I should have voted "no" on this poll (I voted "maybe" because I wasn't really sure at first).
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It was significantly faster because as was mentioned above the graph ignores the the 17 HOURS it took for RedShift to import the data.

The comparison is complete and utter joke.
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The schools have excellent marketing campaigns. Their TV commercials run all day, with emphasis on the daytime market. They show up to high school college fairs with slick marketing material and huge promises of careers that appeal to teenagers. Plus, they make signing up for loans as streamlined and easy as possible.
I think the key is having the option to use the mouse, in addition to normal Vim keyboard shortcuts. If I'm switching back and forth between Vim and a browser, for instance, I have my right hand on the mouse already, and I can scroll with the wheel, select a tmux pane, copy and paste things, etc. very easily. If I didn't have that option, I'd have to switch back to the keyboard. If I have both hands on the keyboard already, I'm probably not going to use the mouse.
I think the solution, at least where you create everything, is buses that go non-stop between major hubs. And with traffic lights synchronized to allow them to hit their top speed. And, where possible, set the speeds high.

If every spoke is timed so it takes the same amount of time, you can minimize how long people have to wait. Make everybody get on at one end of the bus and exit at the other and hub stops can be short.

You'd have to walk to the nearest hub and from the one closest to your destination. But you need the exercise anyway.

And charge tolls for passenger cars that vary with demand, something that would work without recreating the roads.
In-state tuition is still rising well ahead of the means for most to pay for it out of pocket. It's not six figures by any means, but I envy the stories of generations past that managed to live at home, work part time year round or full time in the summer, and come out four years later more or less unscathed. It's frustrating to watch prices rise while state funds stay constant or decrease.
Lou Montulli gave us the solution years ago. Perl, Python<blink>,</blink> and Ruby.
I'm not sure it's a farce, or at least that's not the word I would use. I haven't graduated high school yet (3 months to go) but I think it's probably better for people to have more knowledge on a subject. So if we're raising the bar, I don't see how that's a bad thing. Eventually the system will catch up and student loands will get remade into a better system, but until that time you can definitely avoid accumulating $100,000 in debt; state schools are much cheaper, and there are plenty of scholarships and grants available if you look in the right places.
People have been apparently storing 3TB of data in MongoDB.

So I guess it does matter.
Maybe. But I think the school system (K-12 and higher education) are somewhat culpable here.

Starting fairly early, we teach students that there are a bunch of hoops they need to jump through in order to get a good job later in life. For an 18 year old, it is easy to see college as just another (and hopefully last) hoop to jump through.

Colleges (and the for-profit schools are exceptionally bad here) show them a rosy outlook for whatever major they are interested in - I guarantee you every person who is up to their eyeballs in debt got shown something saying "x% of graduates from the <insert not very marketable degree> program were employed 6 months after graduation with average salary of $y" based on questionable information, did the math, and thought it was a reasonable choice.

I don't think high school students are given enough information and enough reality to fully understand the ramifications of their college choices.

I absolutely made some bad choices when picking my major in college, but it took me quite a while to really figure that out - thankfully, I at least didn't get a bunch of debt to go along with it.
Having had a great deal of personal experience with the FBI and the channels and management they're required to use and satisfy, I can verify that it's entirely accurate that everything is down to the individual. It's exactly the same kind of bureaucracy people complain about in large companies, except that the very bare possibility of change we hold on to in large corporate environments is not present.

Working with that organization in particular will teach you very quickly about the kind of immense roadblocks that exist to even the more "moderate" of conspiracy theories. Not only are they beholden to absolutely everyone, they don't have time to make things up or bury facts. Obviously there are exceptions, but this and most other government agencies are just loose conglomerations of individuals doing a never-ending amount of thankless work with the reward of being scrutinized and accused of every possible crime at every possible turn.

I hold government and its agencies in no high regard, because people are people and we all suck in our own way, but suggesting conspiracy at certain levels is just laughable.
Something is wrong with employers who only hire university graduates, creating a market for receptionists with $100,000 art degrees.
I guess they dont understand why they lost in court with Sun and why Google did not with Oracle. And an android legal "takedown" would be very beneficial to MSFT ,since they try to sell phoneOS too.
That's freaking hilarious. Who knew hackers needed sex tips. I had to do a double take on the domain to see if they were identical.
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So redshift took 155 seconds + 17 hours (17 * 3600) = 61355 secs total

vs 1491 Hadoop

Looks like to me Hadoop is about 40 times faster...
You could press up or down while mid-air to have the player flip back and forwards.
They may be equivalent, however, the first version has the freedom to do what they wish, for example, what is represented by array may not be directly iterable or it may be filtered. Precompilation is available in a variety of languages for mustache, including js.

IMOH, handlebars is a lazy version of mustache where the developer using it sacrifices maintainability and encapsulation. Which is probably ok for most apps that don't grow beyond a single developer.
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