skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes it to the front page once every few months
>What high cost? US companies pay more money for advertising than for creating the drug.

Misleading stat that doesn't look at the full cost of bringing a NME to market.

You're looking at a yearly budget for a company while ignoring reality: drug development isn't yearly, it takes about 8-12 years total. To analyze something on an 8 year cycle using 1 years worth of data is at best ignorant and at worst, intentionally dishonest.

They'll spend almost $1,000,000,000 USD to whittle 10,000 drug candidates into what is hopefully a single FDA approved new molecular entity.

>That's how you get the US sucking donkey's balls in infant mortality rates. As if it was some third world country.

Did you hear that loud crack? It was you smashing your head against correlation/causation. You might want to have that fallacy checked out. Looks bad, man.
What about the value of experience seeing how the big boys handle large software projects? Getting the chance to work with and be mentored by more experienced developers? Knowing what the inside of a profitable software business looks like?
...installing TeX, waiting 24 hours for your 16MB 486 to generate all the Metafonts...
I'm having trouble understanding the OP's problem with mt. gox. Is it that the OP wants mt. gox to have somehow prevented him from downloading and running malicious java code from some other third party website? (WTF dude) or is it more specific, that the OP thinks mt. gox should have somehow prevented the OP's credentials from being sniffed by said malicious program?
The Iran-Iraq war caused around a million deaths and a trillion in economic damage in the region. If Iraq went against Saudi Arabia, and started bombing the crude oil transports again, we'd be potentially looking at a Great Depression in the US and globally as it would shut down the massive oil refineries in the US gulf, and associated oil-derivative industries like having massive effects on US shipping.

Personally I don't think my friend should have had to be in a Hummer that got hit by an IED (he's fine, well tinnitus but I got that from a Motorhead concert) because Saddam liked bombing civilians with mustard gas, but given my work is solely dependent on petroleum products I kind of like having a job right now.
Déjà vu.
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While I generally agree with this sentiment, I think there are other good reasons to intern at big companies: getting contacts, learning from more experienced engineers, learning industry practices that you would never pick up through tutorials, and getting active criticism on your code from other professionals. The peril with being self-taught is that you'll pick up a few bad habits along the way.

Money is also an issue. A viable option for students is to try and freelance during one of their summers. You would need to spend some time before the summer trying to drum up a few months worth of work, but this might offer an acceptable compromise: if you're the sole freelancer, you'll have full ownership of the product, you'll learn a tiny bit about being entrepreneurial, and you'll also have spare time to work on your own projects. You might even make more than you would interning (assuming you're a Facebook-caliber intern).

Maybe the best "path" for a student to take is to spend his/her first two summers at a big tech company and a startup, and then spend his/her last summer freelancing and working on personal projects.
Would love a source on the 95% figure.
let me make myself clear that I am ONLY referring to the CS majors who claim to be entrepreneurial at heart.

I know very few CS majors who can decide how entrepreneurial when they are that young. Everyone is pretty much entrepreneurial when you are in college - you want to create the next facebook or send the next rocket to space, but actually having the guts to do that is another story.

When graph search came out, he said he had worked on the Graph Search Project but the specific part that he had worked on was not implemented at all. How disappointing, huh?

Not disappointing at all. He did build something and in the process he most likely learned a myriad of intangible skills (project management, working with people, social skills, communication skills, etc) Those lessons are invaluable to the real business world.

Many of the skills required in today's jobs (not just the bubble of SV we all sit in here at HN) are learned at big companies, doing nothing but working with other people. Communication skills are often misunderstood and often seen as secondary to technical skills. As many experienced will attest to, many of today's software errors aren't a result of poor technical ability but rather poor communication. No offense to the OP, but his writing skills are clearly not great. In the land of startups, I'd be scared as an investor/customer (any stakeholder for that matter) trying to properly communicate with him.

EDIT: Also forgot to add this: "Professional networks were important to the success of their current businesses for 73 percent of the entrepreneurs. In comparison, 62 percent felt the same way about personal networks."[1] That's something you will definitely get in a big company.
[1]http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/the-anatomy-of-a...
I'm pretty sure the author would encourage this:

"Conversely, it’s not regressive to encourage people to take their thoughts into the wider world instead of leaving them at the bottom of a webpage"
This is a neat idea. Before I got into web dev I was majoring in Music Composition. I wish I had been exposed to this when I was studying music, it really does make a lot of sense.
How to write a tokenizer in Java.
Its an interesting thought. What's the upper bound on what a ledger could be worth?

That said, the value of the ledger derives almost entirely from the value of the items transacted in the ledger. Therefore, I'd say that the ledger value is derivative of the market value and thus doesn't itself convey an intrinsic value to the coins.
I do. Light themes hurt my eyes after a couple of hours.
And, if the reader's email correspondance is especially fruitful, you can even update your blog post with his/her thoughts and your new ones.
Yes, I understand the java applet executed the next file. How did the "AdobeUpdate-Setup1.84.exe" executable do the transfer?
i'm sorry, but i'm not embarrassed. please show me where your "mostly obnoxious comment" has anything to do with anyone. the usa does not subsidise world healthcare. get over yourself
Same thing happens on the equity markets, with the difference being pocketed by the exchanges (they'll pay .29 cents per share to liquidity providers and charge .30 to liquidity takers)
Thanks! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts once you've tried it out.
If successful entrepreneurship just required proper spirit, then Mao's policies in 20th century China would have all worked [1].

There's a lot that's good about your advice and intention, but don't forget that large companies tend to be large because they're extremely good at what they do. Interning at a few companies (diversity is good) can teach you what "being good" looks like in a way reading a blog post can not, because you learn by doing and seeing.

[1] (A gross approximation of his message was essentially that with proper Maoist thought, everything else would righteously fall into place.. but then it turns out that enthusiasm alone doesn't give you the skills to make proper steel (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward)).
That's the wavefunction collapsing.
He didn't say it was unrelated to government involvement, he said it's one of many examples of how the US private sector has delivered innovation. See Celera's role in sequencing the human genome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celera_Corporation "Celera's use of the shotgun strategy spurred the public HGP to change its own strategy, leading to a rapid acceleration of the public effort."
ctrl+1/2/3 to switch between open tabs instead changes to different tabs is annoying too
I've seen a lot of good arguments on the value/worthlessness of fiat currency, but I'd never seen fiat currency defended as having the value of not going to jail. That's an amusing and on its face compelling argument.
Objective-Ruby?
Like other posters here, I spent many, many days playing Escape Velocity: Nova. It was the game that made me want to build my own games and inspired me to learn to program. At the time, multiplayer capability was one of the most oft-requested features, to the point where mentioning it elicited exasperation on the forums. It prompted myself and other fans to start work our own multiplayer space RPG which we named Dawn of Infinity. The project didn't progress very far, but helping plan it was a blast.

What always impressed me most though was the community that emerged from Ambrosia's games. The forums and IRC channel were vibrant places to discuss game ideas and politics alike and the developers of EVN had a podcast before podcasts were cool [1]. It was a great place for a teenager on the Internet to hang out. You will be missed Ambrosia.

[1] ATMOS Tonight: http://at.atmos.com.au/
Intren.

You won't be able to do this later in life while time to build you'll have plenty.
So if I send a letter via USPS do I have the right to expect that someone will not intercept and open that letter without getting the correct permission?

Mail theft was a pretty serious crime in USA I am led to believe, regardless of whether it is sent in encrypted form or not...
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I'm all about this sort of openness in the research process, but it seems counter to some disciplines' cultures- aren't eg, medicine and chemistry more competitive / secretive prior publication?
"Luckily I'm not rocking windows so the chance of being hit by a 0-day is a bit lower (correct me if I'm wrong.)"

As far as I know, if you run it, and it's written intelligently enough, you're in trouble no matter what OS you're on.

It doesn't matter if you're on Windows, OSX, Linux or System i V7, if you approve the app to run, it'll run.

Java is a bit dangerous that way, but it's also a bit awesome that way :-)
Having the government fund patent-free drug development is a very interesting approach. Is the idea to do through proposals like Darpa?
this would be great
Agreed with exposure to businesses and domain knowledge and contacts. But I disagree very strongly with the idea that young programmers (college students) can't come up with ideas. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. I have never met a CS student who didn't have at least several ideas bouncing around in their head. And sure, most if not all of those ideas are not billion dollar ideas. Keep in mind that one of the benefits to side projects that the OP mentions is the ability to show employers the projects, in which case the uniqueness matters much less than the actual technical proficiency.
The gold analogy is apt, but I think diamonds are a more apt analogy. Diamonds capture the "value is what people are willing to pay" aspect better than gold does.
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I figured this would happen. In the comments already posted, it is obvious people aren't reading my entire post and missing key details. 'Twas expected, I guess (sigh). I figure since it is my post, I'll address some of the comments below:

"Working for someone else is not all bad, even if building your own thing is your ultimate goal." -Kyllo

I am not saying it's bad at all! It's perfectly fine to work for someone else but if you are entrepreneurial-minded, it's best to intern at either a startup or a completely unrelated field to what you are used to, SO that you may be able to find an area in that industry where software/hardware can optimize it.

"There is a huge difference between that. A good job will have some nice engineers there, that might be willing to help you out and push you to learn how to code correctly." -stevoo

So the main reason to intern is to just become a better coder? Doubtful. Just to be completely blunt, the main reason college students intern is to have a secure job after graduation.

"Interning was a great start for me and helped me meet a ton of people. The difference was I interned at a startup." -blakeshall

Yeah I explicitly say this in my post! Working for a startup is completely reasonable as you will hopefully be able to directly help with the companies' organic idea.

"it's just not very appealing to take risks with your finances" -iansinke

There is very little risk taking with finances in the sense that you really don't have to spend anything to build. What you are losing is the money that COULD be made doing a summer internship. Being an entrepreneur is risky, though, so this risk will have to be taken at some point if you want to exercise that desire, right? Better now in college than after where you really will be taking risks with your finances (living expenses while trying to have a startup).

My Takeaway: This post should be titled differently because it seems that people are just reading the title and not the actual post.

I also may have not taken into account the money aspect as much (I promise I am not a snob)...I guess if money is an issue and you need to work, then interning is fine but at least do it at a company that will help to enhance your entrepreneurial mind! I actually do make explicit mention that working elsewhere IS reasonable.
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I started developing Android apps in 2009, teaching myself gradually by building a GitHub client (as the official app did not exist then). Three years later (2012), I graduated from high school. I was offered a chance to intern for the summer at GitHub, but a few things got in the way of me doing that.

However, nearing the end of July I stumbled into my first contract job after helping out in #android-dev on Freenode. I'm now almost a year out of high school, still indecisive as to whether I'm going to college in the Fall (the same things that prevented me from interning at GitHub prevented me from going to college last year), and I am gradually building up my portfolio. Every recruiter I've talked to over the past few months have made a point to note how filled-out my resume is for someone my age. I guess my point is that I probably would not have been in that chat room at that time had I been interning in California.
Best comment from the thread: "Friends don't let friends use Windows + Bitcoin."
Thanks for the point by point there, but you basically just confirmed my initial opinion that you really have no clue beyond your own media-infused bias of the situation.

I don't think we have to introduce your head to your ass, because I think they're well acquainted with each other.

Boo hoo, US evil, blah blah.
So actually we can say Saudis spend the most money on the most expensive hardware.
You're right about IRC, but totally wrong about Jabber/XMPP. It's much more than a 'cute IRC'.

Edit: Oh, nevermind, I just saw you wrote 'jabbr', not 'Jabber'. See, the confusion already started. Bad product name. :)
No, it's not. According to my dictionary search there are two other words (piece and world) with the same word.

And, as you point out, this means that the function is not bijective. However, I am not claiming that it is, I am illustrating a process of going from one word to another that is easy in one direction and hard in the other.

This blog post is not about collision resistance, but it would make a good follow up topic. Especially since some previously thought to be resistant one way functions (MD5 and SHA1) are now known not to be.
Hallelujah for not having to write unicode-aware parsers in C.
The problem is I needed my summer internships at university to be able to afford to live for the next year.

"Building" over the summer would have been really fun, and the benefits of a 9-5 was that when I got home I worked on some of my projects which I had ignored during the school year.
Once you own 50% can't you create fake transactions to transfer the rest of the BTC to yourself?
To be fair, Emoji are a fairly recent addition to Unicode and they're not really ubiquitous outside of mobile phones (they started as a formal encoding of various pictograms used predominantly by Japanese carriers for SMS). No OS supplies enough fonts to cover 100 % of Unicode out of the box.

That being said, Emoji seem to work at least on Mac OS X (current) and Windows 8. Alas, Chrome doesn't render them within a page (but in the tab/title bar, maybe because the OS' rendering takes over there). Firefox and IE show them both, apparently (presumably because both are DirectWrite-based by now).
Exactly, thank you! And especially entrepreneurial-minded CS students which is the target of my entire post.
Why not? HN sometimes seems to act like there's some ticking clock and you must start a startup right now or die poor.

There's a lot more to entrepreneurship than just starting a company, it's more a way of thinking.
So you can work for a BigCo with ambitions of doing your own thing in the future and learn as much as you can about how BigCo operates. What seems to work, what doesn't, why are they doing X this way?

In fact in most industries , successful entrepreneurs are very often those who have experience in the industry as an employee.
They know how to business works, so they know what to optimise and what mistakes to avoid.
Hm. Thanks for replying; this does sound interesting.

If this had that much of an impact on you, and if this has the potential to encourage others to learn notation, I'd like to see a full study of how hummingbird compares to the regular notation.
I call this "Google Street View Motion Sickness"
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Why not link directly to the new tool?
No Company For Old Programmers
luckily mark zukerberg did not listen to this.
I would say yes, but your remark about getting owned is Oracle specific hence my comment.
Of course they are disappointments. But are they worse than any known alternatives?

Democracy isn't promised to be perfect, just to be better than its predecessors.

Something can be the best-ever-made and still be disappointing.
Yes, I guess you're right. Am I being evil when I think that it would have been great if we could publish security patches for humans? =)
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Mostly those was taken from a talk, but here is the data I could find: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nih): for the total % of funding and where that money come from.
(http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx): For different Categorization.

I would also add a bit old paper about cancer research (http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Disease/NC...), through they include all various stages of
development. They attribute a 31% to industry.
The ones you are seeing come from a font you have installed. There should be a copyright somewhere in there. For those in the Unicode code charts they come from several people and prototype fonts, usually.
What did I learn from this article? I learned that a college junior at the University of Michigan will stop talking to me, and won't be impressed with my resume, if I take a summer internship. Great.

Obviously, a student could learn a lot working on a personal project over a summer. That could be a great way to go.

On the other hand, the initial exposure to the operations of a successful company bombards an intern with valuable information. He or she will discover that some things function extremely well and some things don't quite make sense, learn basic business etiquette, learn how things scale, etc. All of this information can be extremely valuable when you're ready to grow your own company.

I'm sick posts telling young people to "DO this, NOT that, or ELSE!" What works for you might not work for someone else. There isn't one path to success. This an extremely limiting view of the world.
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although in an ideal world this is excellent advice; however many students aren't fortunate enough to have their school bankrolled for them and need to work throughout the summer to pay for their education.

Big companies offer pretty outstanding pay when you're interning, helping you pay for college.

I do agree that building is something which is invaluable; however while in college before you've really been proven and shown off development skills to work at a startup or have funds to work on a new idea you're really forced into a corner for working on side things in your spare time.
I'm aware they show a snapshot of the destination upon arrival, but I'm not aware of any kind of functionality to see video street previews through the upcoming street(s) during any point in the route.
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I wouldn't sweat it, take a trip to Newcastle(north England) and you'll find that you have no idea what they're saying.
Actually those claims are basically true. If you look at the graph from my blog post here:

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2009/02/the-most-im...

What you see is that the data points from all three ability groups are basically overlapping, meaning that the students get sorted into ability groups based on factors like race rather than on actual ability.

That being said, while you might be able to model the bias of teachers and school systems by using an algorithm, I've never heard of schools actually using an algorithm to explicitly sort students based on race, which he implies that they are doing.

However, assuming he doesn't actually mean this, I think the post is actually legit but just poorly written, perhaps purposely to promote his startup.
There's a fascinating potential circularity in what you're saying.

If you invest in bitcoin because you don't trust governments, but bitcoin relies upon the internet, and the internet requires governments to stay up; then there's a sad potential future where a government-skeptic bitcoin investor is exactly right but because of the prerequisites for bitcoin to maintain value ends up with nothing.
I didn't say it wasn't available. I said it wasn't free.

By making parking "free" to the end user, you make it easy for them to make choices around a car. Usually, public transit is cheaper than driving, but adds time. In my case, I can drive 15 minutes and pay $250/mo to park, take a bus for 25-30 minutes for $25/mo, or walk for 45-60 minutes for $0/mo.

Think about NYC and it's famous mass transit system. Why does that exist, where just 200 miles away, Boston is a sprawled out driving disaster? The root answer is that Manhattan is an island, and there is no parking. You cannot just bulldoze a hill to put a 50 acre Wal-Mart parking lot there.
I was going to question you about that, but then I realized I, too, want computers to handle natural language filenames.

Or, "don't be your computer's tool!" -- the operator should accept no arbitrary limitations.
Yes it is 1F63B, to confirm use iconv,xxd and copy+paste the character from the title:

$ iconv --to-code UTF-32BE|xxd
😻
0000000: 0001 f63b 0000 000a ...;....
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Yeah, look how easily Steve Jobs cured himself of cancer with wheatgrass juice.
Nice... I've installed it and also used your alternative icon.
>You only compare them to placebo

I am not an expert, but look at the following study which compares two drugs.

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00364806
Seems like there should be a penalty for evergreening patents like this without some measurable improvement in product quality.

I might have different feelings about it if India just rejected the initial patent, but the reapsearch has been paid for, profits taken...