skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I'm pretty sure that's part if what tempts people to grow confused and distort the situation.

It's funny, because it's all just business at the end of the day. Costs are costs. Revenue is revenue. Profit is profit.

And, the one that gets the relative free pass and accolades is the one that has only costs and doesn't even know how it will ever drive revenue, let alone turn a profit.
As far as I know, the only federal mandates they have to accept are the ones in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. These basically just forbid discrimination based on race or sex.
"Teacher's also recognize that charter schools have one ability they do not, unload disruptive and under-performing students before test time."

Actually, there are a fair number of social programs around the country that like these students since they tend to generate more revenue (you get paid more for disabled / problem). It happens a lot in social programs (I remember a lecture by a man from Chicago). I can see this working well for a voucher system if properly done.

"money for vouchers comes out of the public school budget"

Technically, it comes from the taxpayers. If the public school was good, then they get to keep the money.
but if you think that going to one of the "elite" universities doesn't help you tremendously with your chances of being higher up on your career ladder

Depends on how exactly you define "elite", "tremendously" and "career ladder".

Anyway, I'm not arguing that they don't help, I'm arguing that the extent of the difference they make is very possibly overstated, especially for people whose aspirations don't include "being President of the USA" or "being CEO of an S&P 500 company".

In that light, you don't need anything, not a college degree, not a high school degree, because you will always be able to achieve success

Not sure if that was meant to be sarcasm or mean to be taken literally, but I actually believe that very strongly. There are lots of variables that affect what happens to a person in life, of which "what university you attend" or "did you attend university at all" are just two.
Personally, I believe determination, ambition, perseverance, work ethic, attitude, etc., matter more than either of those factors.
It's not ">" as much as "<->", ie. not a statement about quality. I know a lot of people love Exim.

The reason I included Exim is that it's a huge monolithic chunk (at least as I remember it, it's been a while) with a very long history (and lots of legacy quirks), whereas Postfix is designed from the beginning to be modern and modular.
Yeah, it's really hard to get in touch with anybody at Twitter.

My account has been hosed for two weeks, I log in and just get an error message -- once I log in I can't even view the help page. And of course, there's no option on their forms for the problem I'm actually having. I've been thinking about sending a fax to their number for law enforcement queries since somebody might at least see it before they throw it away.
Yeah they say that, but then in that same article look at the advice for cleaning up a broken CFL. If it's no big deal, why do I need to open the windows, wear gloves, etc?

What is the proper way to handle a broken CFL?
Open the windows and let the room air out for 15 to 30 minutes, then remove as much material as possible without a vacuum cleaner. Using disposable gloves, scoop the glass onto a piece of cardboard and wipe the area with a wet paper towel. For smaller pieces of glass and powder, use duct tape to pull up the fragments and wash your hands after cleaning up the debris.
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Said user should then have a system administrator to set up the system. Really, you either read the manual to learn such things or you get someone to do them, expecting a system as complex as a computer to work out-of-the-box is nonsense.
I think the favorite feature should be a private thing, just something to save for later or remember, at least that's what I'm using it for.
Those are extreme examples. A $10k SpaceX is obvious, virtual panhandling with a $1 goal is just as obvious.

I think "gaming" a system implies a reasonably intelligent exploitation.

Something like creating a Kickstarter "for" a sequel to a well-regarded game and setting the actual delivery of that sequel as a top-end stretch goal. The immediate funding goal could only deliver an expansion to the original game. The intermediate goals might be something like a new engine for the not necessarily delivered sequel. Such a project could collect its goal several times over before being asked to deliver what it purports to.

This has been done. It's essentially advertising one thing (the Kickstarter title) and delivering something else in the fine print (the goal structure).

A simple rule restricting the Kickstarter title and promotional blurb to be representative of the immediate funding goal only would go a long way toward addressing this. Restricting the dollar ratio of the initial goal to the top end stretch goal would probably help as well.

I'm sure the review process addresses some things, but how effective can it really be? The breadth of projects types and sizes is too wide and too many will fail (won't provide any return on the cost of a review).
>As good as it is, the notation is still full of '||', '!!', '++', ':'

You think haskell is going to die because it has operators? Seriously?
I don't disagree with your initial frustration, but be balanced and understand that your article applies just as equally to the delusional "technical" entrepreneur who:
1. expects his technical hires to also work for equity at first (because even the technical co-founder is working for free, right?)
2. wants to change the world with his twist on the next great video sharing app that uses the latest and greatest framework he came up with in his garage and expects all his hires to use it
3. wants to get rich in the process.

Ultimately, there is no distinction among delusional "entrepreneurs" regardless if they are technical or not. As a matter of fact, I'll posit the technical co-founders are far worst because they expect all technical hires to work as hard as them without pay. At least with the non-technical co-founder, programmers have a little leverage.
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Dude it's not free if you charge for it.
Javascript-based Cohort Analysis setup in 20lines & 30min using Google Analytics
Why Even Startups Should Practice Content Marketing
Why make any sort of prediction for its success based on your own tastes or issues with privacy? By those standards Facebook should have failed massively already because a lot of people don't like it (I for one) and its obviously handled privacy poorly in a number of well publicized instances.

Google Glass is a tool that augments existing tools and for a lot of people that will probably be fine - and they'll use it occasionally while on vacation or at a party or what have you. For some it'll be a game changer, and those people will use it all the time; but those people already use their cameras, smartphones etc constantly and Glass will just help them create a better workflow.

Some people will like it, some won't; beyond that I don't see how anyone here can make sweeping declarations about how 'society' - whatever / wherever that means - is going to take it.

Finally, why is assumed that everyone who uses it will be recording surreptitiously on a constant basis??? I don't do that with any of the many recording devices I've owned, and I don't know anyone else who does either.

Just because it'll be easier doesn't mean this garish anti-privacy vision will come to pass. And just a heads up: any time you're in public, you're in public - you're not in private and you're likely recorded, looked at, or noticed by someone, or something in any modern society. Get over it.
I couldn't find a link to your startup anywhere, do you have a link?
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Body confirmed to be that of missing Brown U. student
"Microsoft figures customers will be more likely to switch from Android smartphones to Windows 8 phones if it makes it easier to find the same or similar apps for their new phone as were on their old phones."

Are you sure? Either way, you shouldn't downvote somebody because you disagree. I stated a valuable opinion, and personal love for some company doesn't change that. I'm hesitant to comment at all now.
Copying is all fun and games until Disney comes and "copies" your art in their products. (Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513535 ) Then we get out the pitchforks.

I like the idea of sharing, but unless all the ducks are in a row someone is bound to get hurt, and it's not clear to me if the proposed legal statement is sound.
Found this on Reddit. Think this is an interesting trend. I hope more online stores follow suit.
Exactly. There are glaring holes here, money "lost", and people hiding behind lawyers.

And, aside from being completely gossipy and unprofessional, the controller's account doesn't add up (no pun intended).

It amazes me that the normally astute HN crowd isn't digging deeper.
Thanks!
I have another sheet for SaaS.
With SaaS, you'll want to compare MRR and/or Customer Life-Time Revenue instead of single price-point sales revenue.

But nothing is stopping you from using this for services too.
You don't, he just hacked the development server Flask uses, you shouldn't use it in production anyway.

The better and more general approach would be using a WSGI middleware.
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If it uses a phosphor coating, isn't it also prone to the same issue of diminishing lumens over time as the CFLs? These bulbs lose up to 30% luminosity in 6 months (the tri-phospor ones, more expensive, can a last a year begore losing 10%/20%).

If they lose power like CFLs, even though the warranty is 10 years, you may be forced to replace it way before that.
I'm on Sky and can confirm they block thepiratebay.se, I'm not sure about .is, I'll check once I'm home but over SSH it seems to fail.
Learn from other people, let people learn from you. A great way to cultivate a more fulsome understanding of a topic is to try to describe it to others, to share your understanding with others. Mentoring is like writing that way, and like writing, you can't expect to be good at it without practice. I think sharing what you know with people, people who you believe are both less and more knowledgeable than you, is incredibly beneficial to any environment (work, play, whatever). MENTOR EVERYONE!
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Actually, people can use us for free for ever without conditions. They only pay when asking for extra services. We have a few publishers that won't pay as a cent.
Honestly? Don't know, don't care. And yes, we have arguments about the pros and cons of programming languages all the time. I'm guessing that Java started down this road of appearing more "professional", and that went some ways towards people actually wanting to prove it, so things like accountability and reproducibility started getting serious consideration in mainstream programming. And it's not like everything is Java; git, vera, cpplint, valgrind are all not written in Java.

To be honest, the only reason we are using C++ is because it's mandated by the project, and quite frankly, it's what we're good at (we'd probably be working another C++ project if this one wasn't in C++). And yes, we know C++ is a kludge; quite frankly, I wouldn't trust a C++ "expert" who didn't question design decisions of C++.
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I feel that marking a hack is one of the few legitimate uses for comments in code

I'll take that as an offhand comment you didn't give much thought to, because wow, there most certainly are lots of legitimate uses for comments in code.
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That is a great example. Some code just absolutely needs extra documentation around it. IMO, this is mostly true with more complicated or non-obvious algorithms like your example. There aren't really much more intelligible names you can give those variables; the algorithm just needs them.

Still, I find that with 90% of the code I write for work, it's not so difficult to come up with variable and method names that make it pretty clear what's going on. I take the approach that I'll add comments anywhere I think that naming might not be enough, but that very rarely happens.

Granted, I'm not writing low-level, math heavy code. I think it really just depends.
>when looking at a bit of code I can tell what it does without having to know much about the context

How do type classes make that harder? You either need to understand what "foo" does, or you need to understand what "fooForThisType" does. What's hard about the former?
A Taste of Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn't Suck
getting fucking HIRED.

The left has FINALLY tried to pass a bill here to let companies fire people a little. Many yelled, but in soviet france, it has been a real issue, and the right/sarkozy did not manage to change something about it. It's sad, because this is the #1 cause of unemployment here, it's the total opposite of the US. The minimum wage is also a big issue which adds up to the fact companies almost cannot fire people.

That means companies are too much careful and cannot hire without being the employee will not drag everyone down. It boils down to companies hiring only people they trust, e.g. the friends of employees or their relatives.

It's weird, because for some time now, since 2004 or something, I have been so much interested and obsessed into the american culture in general, without really thinking about working there, or going to canada. I love the US and its issues, since the 2008 crisis I've been fascinated by how an economy works.

"best place in the world" oh boy, well I won't argue with this, but when you live a developed country, wherever you go, there's nothing to work on, because of human nature, and you can't say shit about it.

You either wait for some global conflict to make leaders and big owners react to the problem or force them to, which is really stupid to wish a thing like war, or watch terrorism happen and say "not surprising". You can also wait for the older generation to die out to leave room, but in the end it's just biology.
I see your point, I guess its all in how you do your accounting. One way of looking at it is the initial $7 dollars is already sunk costs, and quite literally he probably was using the $7 dollars from Shirt A's sale to purchase Shirt B. I mean he didn't really literally take the $7 dollars from the sale of Shirt A to buy Shirt A so I can see why he thought that way. Does it make sense to run a business with that mindset i don't know...
Quantum Programming in Quipper (Haskell EDSL)
"Radian is currently proprietary. There are some contractual encumbrances that prevent us from open-sourcing it right now, but that may change at some point in the future."

So why would this be interesting for HN readers? The idea isn't that revolutionary, and there is no code and no way for people to do much.
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Its amazing how small changes like these can cause a seachange in power consumption real difference in our collective future. This change alone could be a serious bear market for power companies! This, mixed with generally growing renewable means a greener planet may be closer than we think... most data assume constant consumption/or growth with population.
I agree, it's a social hack of sorts that he's using for advertisement, which is cool, but abuse of it would render favorites meaningless and it would become spam. However, I could see how if @pepsi wanted to favorite a tweet by @averagejoe because it said 'this new pepsi can is awesome!' it would seem legitimate enough and not spammy.
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Check out "The Founder's Dilemmas" by Noam Wasserman. Lots of great tips based on a huge dataset of startups.
Twitter listened.
Introducing the Tweetium Model
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The Need for Realignment to dbSNP
http://blog.avadis-ngs.com/2013/04/the-need-for-realignment-to-dbsnp/
I would take a punt and suggest that the average punter couldn't describe what a desktop is. I'd struggle to define it. But think it includes: application launching, application management, window management, file management and a couple of helper applications: clipboard, network manager, notifications, workspaces and probably some input device management! It's no wonder why people give incoherent responses!
This sounds nice, but the problem is that the author creates value, the downloaders receive value, but no exchange is made. The idea that the author has to create MORE value to MAYBE be able to participate in an exchange is just a weak argument for people who don't want to admit that an exchange should take place right off that bat, and if not, the downloaders should not receive any value from the author (i.e. don't download and read the book).
SSL cert issues (according to chrome for ipad)
Why Agile should focus on Problem Statements instead of User Stories
It's amazing how much devs want to build on top of Twitter. There's got to be an opportunity for Twitter to monetize that instead of fighting it and pissing everyone off. Why can't they just have some reasonable fees for API access?
On the flip-side, I bought those same ones and haven't had them last a year. Same for the CF from Costco. I'm looking forward to long lasting LEDs. $13 is still a bit too high to replace all my lights, but I'll pick up a couple for the most used ones.
Agh, read this after upvoting the article :(
Yes and No? I mean, my bill only goes up $20 in the summer to cool the house, and that's in a 35 year old home in Dallas. That's over 90 straight days of 110F temperatures last year.

It's a new, pretty efficient HVAC unit though. Thankfully. First home I've had that didn't struggle to maintain 76F indoors during the hottest part of the day.

Still, there's not a ton you can do around the house as cheap as replacing the bulbs in the high-traffic areas. Anybody can do that. Replacing your HVAC for something more efficient is going to be a challenge for most.

Then there's high-R-value windows to install. Foam insulation on exterior walls (brick, so that's a lot of dry-wall work). Radiant barriers in the attic space. More ceiling insulation. Tankless water heaters.

Outside of maintaining your weather stripping, I can't think of anything that pays off as much, for as little, than replacing your light bulbs. Maybe getting a Nest thermostat? We've got recessed lighting in the Living Room, which had four big 90W halogen bulbs when we moved in, and are almost always on if somebody's home. Replaced 'em with 17W LED bulbs (http://www.usa.philips.com/c/led-light-bulbs/ambientled-17w-...).

That comes out to about $7/month in savings. (360w vs 68w @ $0.0912 per kw/hr). In the year since I installed them they've paid for themselves. They'll last 22 years according to Phillips. The ROI on LED (for your highest-traffic rooms at least) is stupid cool, and I'll effectively never have to bust out the 8' ladder to replace them. I might be off base, but I think I've typically replaced halogens every couple years or so. So even over 5 years the old bulbs probably would've cost me 10X more.

For our situation at least, that's a no brainer. If I can spend $50 today and avoid paying $5/month indefinitely, that's a big win in my book. I may not be able to afford to buy a car cash, and have to pay the financing penalty, but at least I can break out of the "financing" cycle with my home lighting. ;-)
So if you start a startup, you're totally fine if I take your code, your logo, your copyrights, and your name and create a copycat site and take your customers? You're okay with that?

If so, please send me the details so I can keep an eye on you. Anyone else who's so inclined, reply as well. I'd love to grab a few zero-effort passive income generators.
There is a fourth thing to know as well: Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities, which can sometimes be so large that they make the other 3 reports seem like a joke. (For example, Google 'Netflix off balance sheet liabilities').
Can you suggest a business not dependent on government grants? As far as I can tell, every business in the world is. Any form of property rights is a government granted monopoly. The only natural law is "If I'm bigger than you, I'll take what I want". No matter what business you're in, you're relying on government protection to stop me just smacking you on the head and taking your stuff, whether it's tangible physical goods or IP. They only difference here is that the internet has rendered the head smacking part obsolete for IP, so people can skip straight to taking the stuff.
You might find this 2009 article from WIRED magazine amusing as well then: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-02/ff_killgoogle...

That story doesn't discuss ICOMP, but this 2010 Telegraph article does: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8184065/Dark-forces-gu...
I doesn't. But it actually brought a lot of value for thousands of people.

It's always the same problem, how do you maximize the value for the society while still allowing the author to get a fair compensation for her work ?

Now we can have endless debates over how much we really care adding value to the society and how we actually define "fair"…
I realize a lot has changed so that it wouldn't be possible, but Ubuntu 13.04 would be a lot better for me if it was just Ubuntu 5.04 with the version updates for all the packages. I guess that's kind of what Mint is going for.
> I have to move my laptop screen to see what is an ad
> and what is not.

Do you have a screenshot? When I do a search, even for very ad-heavy queries such as [credit card], the ads are still clearly marked with colored backgrounds and notes like "Ads related to credit card".

> They even turned Shopping in 100% ads, without promptly
> disclosing it (you have to click on a tiny thing on the
> page to read that Google is listing results based on
> payment to Google)

In shopping, at the bottom of the page is a notice that "Google is compensated by these merchants. Payment is one of several factors used to rank these results." It appears to be about the same font size as the body text in ad blocks.
You know why schools teach kids Java/C (the lingua francas of computing) rather than the latest hot 5-min fad? Because it doesn't matter. The kids are taught those languages simply to enable the teaching of computer science theory and software engineering.

This is the way it should be. You will learn new tech as needed your entire career, if you have the right preparation it should be a no brainer. You need to learn the theory once. Outside of the west coast most companies realize this and invest in training as needed.

It is the hipster too cool for school startup kids that have things wrong. They never went to school, they don't realize that picking up their favorite $language is trivial for anyone with the proper background and just a means to an ends, writing useful software.

>>Startups don't hire new grads because they can ramp up faster, they hire them because they don't have families to take up their time, so they don't mind working 80 hours a week for peanuts.

This, although foreign workers can be appealing for some of the same reasons.
Beautiful. Those boundary conditions must suck!