skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing exclusive with working on a startup and sex / drugs / reading philosophy, etc.

Well, there is, because you won't have all the free time that you have as a student (which, btw, can also be used to start your start-up and acquire all that experience).

It is wrong to say "go to uni to do X" if there is nothing stopping you from doing X outside of university. Also, avoiding the infantilizing effects of university would do lots of people good.

There is also nothing to stop you from doing Y while you're also doing X at uni... So why not do both?

It certainly requires dedicated to learn as an autodidact, but I'd bet many people could get a better applied computer science education in 4 years by trying to become an active developer.

I'll agree with you on CS - I did physics, however, and I certainly wouldn't have learned all that outside of uni. I personally don't advise studying a computing-related subject if you want that to be your career - as you say, you'll self-teach all the useful computing stuff when you need it.
Also note the periodicity of the Firefox and IE curves -- looks like a lot of people use IE6 during the week and Firefox during the weekend.
If Alpha lives up to its hype, I think we'll find incredibly useful (yet non-obvious at the moment) applications for it, and one day we'll wonder how we ever lived without such a service.
This was down voted.

I'm voting it back up.

Not all language flames are useless.

Coding in some languages can be 10x or more productive than coding in other languages.

Picking the right language to give you that 10x speedup is far more important than lots of other hints that give you 5% speed ups.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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Maybe you should have made that clear in your question, then. Start by explaining the research that you did and why you don't think it's the whole picture, or what else you want to know.

If you want a good answer, ask a good question.
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Well both Twitpic and Fbook allow mobile uploads, but my question is more about the digital camera companies. It would be awesome to have a button on my high quality digital camera that says "post to facebook". This would require the cameras having a bit more hardware (internet connect, small key pad, etc.), but if I think I would pay $50 more for the social networking feature on a high quality camera.
A question: Why does AMEX matter? I had a card (for a startup, a long time ago), and I found that most places just didn't take it.

Was I missing something? Did they have other functionality that made them worthwhile?
It might only be $12 but it's also a 150% increase. I think when you're comparing apples and apples (as in two products that have roughly the same features-- not a Rolls Royce and moped even though they share a basic function) there are going to be very few situations where a 150% increase is justified.
Always paying your bill and never being late may not be their idea of a perfect customer. Especially if we're talking about Blue which is just a regular credit card and accrues lucrative interest if you don't pay it in full every month.
If you associate Silicon Valley with IT and enterprise, this is more convincing. As it stands, though, there are lots of emerging technologies that are finding their homes in the Bay Area.

I don't see why the maturation and commoditization of the "IT industry" means the downfall of Silicon Valley.
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If you consider all of the non-affiliate links to Amazon and all of the affiliate links to Amazon, I would hypothesize that more of the former are "genuinely useful" for their audience than the latter.
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Agree 100%. It's not the "search engine" that matters; it's what will (assuming WA delivers) be built on top of it. Google Maps is pretty good on its own, but to fully appreciate its usefulness you have to look at all the stuff built using its API. Ideally, WA will be as useful and powerful a platform, but without a limited domain like maps.
http://www.fsckvps.com/ has similar pricing for OpenVZ based virtual servers.
Let's say Google Maps puts up an old map of some major city in your country with certain neighbourhoods marked 'negro'. How would that go down? I agree that information itself cannot be evil (and I would probably disagree with the reasons this Japanese gentleman is against the maps), but there is an editing involved in choosing which information to publish, and which not. This is poor editing on the part of Google.
It's a flash site cleverly rendered to look like an HTML site. To what end I don't know.

I'm running flash player 10 on Ubuntu BTW. You can get it here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
How are you measuring quality? I can think of:

* Memory

* CPU

* Storage

* Bandwidth

* Service - which is hard to measure, but also a very important metric.
I made one for Tipjoy where I mapped a content ID to short string, and loaded a frame like the Digg Bar where people could donate to the site and view the content. For example: http://tipjoy.com/2w/

Here is the python code I used to "shrink" and unshrink the content ID.

def shrink( id ):
validCharacters = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ._-~"
base = len(validCharacters)
characterArray = ""
d = id
while d > 0:
ind = d % base
characterArray = validCharacters[ind] + characterArray
d = d / base
return characterArray

def unshrink( code ):
validCharacters = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ._-~"
base = len(validCharacters)
val = 0
revCode = code[::-1]
power = 0
for r in revCode:
i = validCharacters.find(r)
if i==-1:
raise
val += i * (base**power)
power += 1
return val

If you think this code is bad for some reason, please tell me in the comments. I spent little time reviewing it when I wrote it about a year ago.
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Nikon and Canon put wifi into a few cameras but they didn't sell very well and were discontinued. EyeFi does what you are talking about.
Because you asked:

http://www.loper-os.org/

Intro for the impatient:

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8
Well, originally, tinyurl just went for sequential short URLs too. But as those were predictable, abuse was afoot: "Early on, the resulting URL aliases of the service were predictable, and were exploited by users to create vulgar associations. The URL aliases dick and cunt were made to redirect to the White House websites of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Second Lady Lynne Cheney." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinyurl#Early_abuses
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Or perhaps parts of a city are notated with a different N-word... Even though it would surely be legal to post this in Google Maps without any context, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Yepp, I made that experience too. But to work out the details took inexpectedly long.
I just saw some pictures of that place. Looks great! Great tip thanks!
The caffeine in tea seems to be absorbed more smoothly than coffee's. An amino acid called theanine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine) helps counteracts some of its negative side effects, especially the nervousness.

You can get theanine on its own as a relatively cheap nutritional supplement. (It tastes distinctly like Japanese green tea, which is often shade grown in a manner that greatly boosts the theanine content.)
I agree wholeheartedly. I remember when I started college I did a quick calculation of how much money I'd have to make for the lifestyle I wanted, and support my potentially future family - which is basically on par with what my parents offered me.

It surprised me how much more I'd have to make compared to my parents in order to afford the same things... almost double really. Most of the difference came due to the fact that the house is now worth three times as much as when they bought it 15 years ago. Housing in general is ridiculously out of whack with reality, and in a selfish way I hope the recession-style home pricing stays for good, it'll allow a lot more young people to buy in and actually afford to live in their own place within their lifetimes.
Wasn't it services like learn.to, beam.to and similar that came first? With the intend to have freely pickable shorthand URLs, where the shortness of them was just a byproduct?

I'm not sure of this, but iirc the learn.to/beam.to etc services were around in the early web already, mid-90s, while tinyurl and friends came later.
Real estate in the UK and especially in London is very complex and unfair. Properties are usually on leasehold for a period within 120 years. It's one of the most unfair systems in the world. Families can't keep their full investment across generations.
Best? Please explain.
Thanks for posting. Carl Page was my undergraduate adviser at Michigan State, and I remember him fondly. It was nice to hear Larry's remembrances of him.
Sometimes you can find a shared room for less, especially in the Haight. Those old houses have huge attics often with 3-4 hipsters in them. Would make it hard to work from home though.
I think you're missing the point. As was indicated in the article, these maps were already available on the web. And presumably you could find them on, well, google.

This is not a censorship issue. This is about being sensitive to the outcome of your actions. Information wants to be free, sure, but some information is hurtful. And as a publisher you have a duty to at least take that into account.

Perhaps this means not adding documents with hurtful slurs in them to Google Maps (especially in a format that can easily be used to aid further discrimination). Or, perhaps a better solution is ADDING information and context to these maps. After all, the remedy to bad speech is more speech.

Obviously Google should have the right to post the maps and line them up with modern-day Japan with no further context, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Interesting... tack that hash on. :) Probably does not need to be a hash actually. A few random base-36 digits would do it. You'd just need to store the random digits with the URL in whatever sort of persistent storage system you're utilizing.
I prefer to take notes in Textile with TextMate. It's not hard to get the extra stuff, and then I can easily turn it in to HTML so it looks somewhat pretty. Then I can share my notes with other people as well. (I have TERRIBLE handwriting)
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I really wouldn't bring your car. There are no places to park, and you'll get parking tickets unless you're really good at getting up at 7:45 am to go drive your car until the street cleaners have passed. There's cheap airfare, amtrak, and craigslist rideshare to get down there.

Also, I generally found while looking for a place on craigslist, that while there are a lot of cheap places listed, they're heavily competed due to rent control. Places with a room for 500-600 will get hundreds and hundreds of responses, and you'll have to do an awkward interview for the room, which is like a combination date/job interview. It will take time to find a room. Nearly everyone I know that has moved to the bay area has crashed on a friend's couch for 2-3 months, or take an expensive, short term sublet.
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Pretending they don't exist isn't the same as adding an easy-to-use tab that lines them up with modern Japan.

This would be a much different situation if, say, Google was being asked to remove links to these maps from their index.
I don't know that we do differ in opinion now. You appear to have given up your earlier claims, and your main assertion here is one that I already agreed with: "I agree that having a hint indicating that Windows needs SMB would be helpful to people who have no idea what they're doing".
Interesting take on it. Presumably even if people are rational within the bounds of their knowledge, they may well gain knowledge at random (over hear a random conversation about X, learn it is a good product then make the rational descision to buy it) such that, overall, people could be modeled as acting randomly.

The question then: what differentiates those above the gas, and how do you get there?
Just to add another sample, I have a Phenom II X4 940 (not OCed right now) and the most taxing one I found was http://www.mattryall.net/demo/atlassian-vis/activity/, which put one core around 70% on average while not touching the others.
So you're the guy who buys the Grateful Dead 420 Bong and only uses it for tobacco. :)
>"Dr Wolfram said he expected that about 1,000 people would be needed to keep its databases updated with the latest discoveries and information."

I'm sure Wolfram could partner with Amazon to crowdsource some of this data gathering through Mechanical Turk. For example, collecting data on celebrities (e.g. height, birth date, family relations). Turk users would fill out forms and cite where they got the data from.
It prevents people from iterating over all URLs in your database. Whether or not you consider that a plus or a minus, is mostly up to you.

It also prevents people from easily seeing how many URLs you've shortened.
You may be in the wrong business :)
I think I can paraphrase:

"Through careful academic research, we've decided what constitutes a smart, well-adjusted individual, but society is not rewarding us, err, I mean them, with material wealth—this unequivocally exposes inequities in the system."
That's between the people who made or refer to the map and the people who were/are discriminated against. You don't deal with unpleasant history by erasing it and pretending it didn't happen. On the more serious issue of actual genocide, the most bitter political feuds are between the people who were hurt by it and those who want to pretend it never happened and needn't be talked about.

I don't think it's poor editing on the part of Google at all. Poor editing would be altering the historical record in order to assuage the feelings of one group who might be made uncomfortable. To run with your example, if you're going to alter the map why not go the whole way and replace 'negro' with 'happy black people live here'?

It's a sad but seemingly universal fact that when one social group oppresses another and later people ask 'why are the conditions of (oppressed group) so awful?', the self-serving response of oppressing group is 'they choose to live that way', ascribing their negative situation to some inherent defect on the part of the oppressed.
So most people in the top 3% have rational, planned investment and management strategies, and most people in the remaining 97% bounce around in a seemingly random fashion based on their talents and interests.

That sounds about right. It's not surprising, if that's the case, that the distance between the top few % and everyone else is increasing so much.

Most people aren't really trying to get rich.
I agree. The underlying issue is the Japanese government's inability to pass any laws protecting human rights. If you refused to hire someone in the US because of their ethnic background, your company would be in serious legal trouble. (I'm pretty sure that even paying someone to check it out would be illegal, actually.) In Japan, this is apparently OK.

Google maps are not the problem, the government is.
And not publishing them (or worse, editing them as suggested above) would make Google complicit in pretending the issue doesn't exist.
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Whats with UK reporting today? First the independent kvelling about wolfram like they hotter than sliced bread, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591015 (ok they have something but will not be displacing google any time soon - if ever) and now the bbc heralding the end of the valley. seriously?

is anyone doing any fact checking over there? tom siebel, bbc's primary (and only) source proclaiming the passing of the valley, has his own startup - first virtual group - headquartered where? the valley of course! http://www.fvgroup.com/about_us.htm
The analogy also holds because money is like energy, in that it has to be conserved. "It's like a fluid that flows in interactions, it's not created or destroyed, only redistributed," says Yakovenko.

Do I misunderstand, or does this model hinge on the assumption that money (wealth, value, etc) can't be created? Assuming that wealth building is a zero sum game seems fundamentally flawed. It might look good in models as snapshots of the current situation, but as net wealth increases I'm sure it would throw things off.
They found that while the income distribution among the super-wealthy - about 3% of the population - does follow Pareto's law, incomes for the remaining 97% fitted a different curve - one that also describes the spread of energies of atoms in a gas (see graphic).

For the record, it's this type of thing that makes me a religious person. I know there are a lot of atheists around here and I respect that. But when I see two completely unrelated processes that seem to follow the same underlying structure it makes me think our world is working off some kind of plan.

I'm not suggesting anyone jump on a religous bandwagon and become a Christian, Jew, Muslim or whatever. I'm simply saying a higher power of some kind is worth consideration when faced with this evidence.
Does anyone know when they say "the rich are getting richer" does that mean between generations of wealthy families, or within the same generation?
Ask HN: Albums or songs?
My uncle has always chided me for consuming music primarily on a per-song basis. He believes the album is a larger, more complex, and more satisfying artistic work, and assured me that as I got older I'd gravitate toward albums.

I am not so sure. I think the album is chiefly a marketing invention. It originated as a way to let record labels charge more than they did for a single, even though marginal value of the "filler" songs was relatively low -- both in terms of cost to the artist, and in terms of enjoyment to the listener.

Do you usually listen to full albums? What do you think is the fundamental unit of creative musical expression?
Chrome briefly had profile support in one of the dev builds but it has since been removed. I hope they add it back soon as I found it very useful for this sort of situation.
Why not compare slicehost with a real provider?

Take the servers at hetzner.de, they don't charge much more than a VPS but you et much more power. The only real advantage of a VPS when you grow is when they offer you tools to automatically deploy new instances (like amazon ec2). Otherwise you should be switching to dedicated servers.
I'd assume he has sometime line where, if he doesn't start getting work within the first couple of weeks, he gives up. The Hostel is just there to give him the chance to get his feet on the ground and try to drum up some connections
I'd bet many people could get a better applied computer science education in 4 years by trying to become an active developer.

I'd say perhaps a better applied programming education. Programming != CS. The things which I learned in my CS education and the things that I learned in real-world hacking have a relatively small overlap, however, having that CS background did open up some possibilities for working on interesting problems.

That's not to say that you have to go through formal education to get a good grounding in the theoretical elements of CS, but it does facilitate it.
To be honest, to compare wealth of a person to another is immaterial ethically wise. It is better to compare how people got their money and decide on that.

For example, a percentage of the poor make their living by stealing, we can conclude that the little wealth they earned is illegimitative.

However, if a rich man make his living by providing excellent services to the poor, we cannot conclude that he is exploiting the poor.

If wealth are forcefully taken away in the name of aiding the poor, it is also illegimiative because you took wealth from somebody who did not consent.

There are many unfair circumstances for which the poor are forced to deal with. However, keep in mind that the poor and rich is relative to time and places. Indeed, the poor working classses are indeed richer than kings in some respect.

The middle class for example, have access to the world's largest media library via cheap broadband connections. It is also very probable that even the poor have TVs.

Part of the reason why they are poor may be lack of education, but it may also be attributed to lack of saving plan. If the poor don't save, than it is not possible to accumlate wealth over generations. If they have money to buy a TV, than it is possible for them to save.

In short, equality in circumstances cannot be considered the basic of an ethical society. We can only hope for equality in the right of men.

So how can we improve our society?

Part of our lives are indeed shaped by memes, ideas, as well concept of what is legimitative. These forces are the limitations which determine how well we struggle against mother nature and our unlimited wants and needs. While unjust insitutions like the government and laws like copyright persists, they only have the power to exists by the masses.

If the masses simply do not believe in them, than no forces of corecision and violence that was previously entrusted to these institution can force them to do otherwise.

By no mean that beliefs shape reality itself but if we do not understand reality itself, than we cannot take the full advantage of our power or use them correctly.
It is inaccurate. The servers are located at the svtix data center [1] in San Jose, CA [2]. That seems like a perfectly sensible place to operate a business to me.

[1] http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-location.html
[2] http://www.svtix.com/locationmap.html
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I use Zotero with Minefield (Firefox). Works fine for me.
Poll: Male or female?
We've had some excellent gender articles on here in the last few days (especially http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm), so I thought it would be interesting to see how the community breaks down.
this is likely what most people want to do when they share files if they aren't in a mac-only environment.

Obviously true, but not a strong argument against placing the option where it is. It is not difficult to find by navigation, and searching for "windows file sharing" in System Preferences or Spotlight takes the user directly to the sheet containing that option.

Why isn't SMB enabled by default?

According to the dialog box and the associated help menu, SMB requires your password to be stored in a less secure way.

Why doesn't the option mention that this is what's needed to interface with windows computers?

I agree, it should.
We have a word for that and it is called spontaneous order.

That's harmony in a seemly chaostic system. The free market can be seen as a perfect example of that. It allocate resources effortlessly using price signals and billion of indiviual decisions on what to buy, sell, and conserve.
It sounds like it hinges on money changing hands randomly. The zero-sum comment does sound like a guaff, but the correction would be (in the simple case) easy to translate into a phyical gas model: just add a heating element.
LOL, no it isn't. I moved here from Europe with half that amount, twice. If you want to have your own apartment and stuff, then you need $1500/mo unless you get really lucky. If you're OK with roommates, you can do it for $1000/mo and have money left over for entertainment/parties/fast times.

Besides, the point of moving to a cool city at the age of 18 is to get into trouble, no? Look after your property, don't be too trusting, practice safe sex and and avoid over-friendly strangers whether on the street or behind a desk etc. etc.. Don't assume that coming to Sf will launch your career or you'll find a pot of money, treat the $3000 as the price of a useful learning experience and if you do luck out regard it as a bonus.