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The ignorance and fear-mongering in this thread is far more terrifying to me. The environmental movement is intellectually disgusting.
We actually pay dearly for what's happening to the so-called Unexotic Underclass.

1. Many of us will join them. Most people who join VC-istan and Wall Street in 2013 aren't going to make any money. By the time they're eligible to sit at the table, the money will be elsewhere. The vicious culture of VC-istan (with extreme deadlines, fast firing, and little investment in doing things right; so you end up not learning not much) comes out of this "get rich before the ball drops" culture, especially prevalent among young people.

2. Real estate. Why's it so expensive to live in the star cities? In large part, because the rest of the country is dying.

We're in 1927 territory. In 1927, there was a deep rural poverty problem (see: Mad Men flashbacks) but urban elites thought there was no way it could reach them. Some of those elites were in New York, which recovered. Some were in places like Buffalo and Detroit and Harrisburg, Pa.

Five years later, that cancer of rural poverty was metastatic throughout the whole economy.

Replace "rural" with "suburbs and small towns" and you see what's going on today, and what the risks are.

VC-istan is actually very top-down, despite its PR, which is why I don't think it's that stable. Most VC-istan companies are more vicious and hierarchical than the archetypal corporate dinosaurs; but also, to get funded, you have to live where the money is.

What's bizarre about all this is that the money often comes from elsewhere. The VCs don't get their money from local sources, and they sure aren't going to put their own money in it until they reach a nine-figure net worth, so the money that's often funding these "anti-problem" startups is from the Iowa public school teacher pension fund. Shouldn't they have, at least, the option to fund local talent and revive their own economies, instead of having it all sent West into an investment vehicle that hasn't earned its keep since the late 1990s?

At any rate, I don't know how to solve this problem, but kudos to the OP for drawing attention to it.
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> Most bullies I know have only gone downwards in their lives, even the rich ones have only gone down with time.

^ this. I was bullied by some kid, took me years later (and processing an experience at his house) to realize he was probably beat up by his mom.

Short straw went to him, imho.
I know many people enjoy screencasts, but they are just not for me.

I can't copy-paste code from a video.

Searching is orders of magnitude slower than just pressing "Page Up"/"Page Down". This is particularly important when I just want to take a glance and figure out if the text/video is of any interest.

I have to adapt myself to the speed of the video, and maybe most importantly, I have to swallow all the non-relevant parts (such as moving windows, launching commands, typing, etc.).

It takes me so much more effort (and patience) to watch a video instead of reading an equivalent text, that I almost never do so (khan academy being the exception).
Its early days for Topcoat (thus the lacking docs) but our reset is separated from aesthetic (and layout) so you can run an optimized build that gives you exactly what you describe.
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P might be NP: A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Hamilton Circuit Problem
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Great job. We need to overcome our fear for charging for our products and services.
Codacademy.com is a good place to start learning Ruby.

For RoR, lynda.com or treehouse tutorials are very good choices.
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Did you provide any reason or evidence that this is, or should be, specifically of interest to the HN crowd?
If PaaS can fit your needs, my best advice is http://www.clever-cloud.com/en/.
Why is it that so many left-wing rants leave me with the unnerving impression that their authors care more about Koalas than humans? You created an impressive list of eco-complaints, but the simple fact is that human life expectancy - my primary concern as a human - has risen dramatically in the same 30 years. Perhaps a little more focus on humans and a little less on sad Koalas will keep us on track toward even higher life expectancy.
If you're already familiar with programming and MVC, I'd recommend rails for zombies (http://railsforzombies.org) it gives you a good overview of both Ruby and Rails.

I came from a PHP / CodeIgniter background, I spent a couple of hours with Rails for zombies, and then just started playing around with rails, using http://guides.rubyonrails.org and http://railscasts.com when ever I could't figure something out. And of course, stackoverflow is a great resource.
I have been using them too for more than a year with no problems.
If you're looking for a VPS I have had many with http://afterburst.com and recommend them as well.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of Two Scoops of Django.

This screencast looks awesome! Okay, now to your questions:

First, the screencast for creating a HN/Reddit clone is a tutorial. It's a good place to start when developing in Django, or as a reinforcement for the existing tutorial.

Second, Two Scoops of Django came out first because we (me and Audrey Roy) wrote it first. Arun Ravindran, who is making this tutorial, is a separate person and completely unaffiliated with us.
I think this shows how powerful mathematical notation really is once you understand the concepts (which i admit is not easy). One formal definition versus pages of explanations. It's the same with other programming concepts like monads. Many have written blog posts explaining monads in Haskell and those are great to learn how to apply them but in the end the formal definitions explain them best.
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I love the idea! I wish there were more paid equivalents of "free" webservices/apps so that users knew the exact transaction cost of signing on. As your data on these websites/apps grows over the years and lock-in sets in, it becomes all the more important to have complete control over your data and trust in the service provider.
Perhaps Emacs could me made to produce ODF.
"Function comments should describe the intent of a function, not the implementation" found at http://stackoverflow.com/a/2357285/98057 is a good start, I guess.
An world wide phenomenon caused by the transfer of responsabilities from the family to the school.
Seems we need more five decades to fix it
You did weightlifting? So you were a pretty big kid? That, probably more than anything else, helped you to not be bullied.
And yet, I'd argue that placing people at different stages of development - smart kids & dumb kids, apprentice and senior developers, etc - is a good thing. Putting kids that show increased intellect will give them a skewed perception of reality, i.e. that the average person is smart, instead of realizing diversity in people and dealing with it.

Primary lesson there: You are not special.
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[0] Actually, I'm only 15% troll. The 85% of my activity that is legit gives a scary credibility to the other 15%.
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To quote the article: "a cultural disregard for intelligence, empathy and respect"

Not to say its impossible. Its just going to have to be very covert. Part of a game of some sort, but not K-12 ridiculously blatant educational game like space invaders where you have to solve an addition problem to fire the anti-missile missile (I think I actually had to play that one in school...) (Edited to add EVE Online is basically a spreadsheet with a 3-d screensaver, at least as of when I played back in '05 or so... this might be the correct direction...)

Another option is it might be easier to sell to superior societies where intelligence is not considered a social disability requiring treatment. For example, Japan is a smaller market than the USA, but still pretty big and profitable. Or lets say it only sells well in Asia and Europe... well that's OK, looking at population figures, (Asia + Europe) >>>> (USA).
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I think the page is seriously broken -- the "article" as currently presented is incoherent. Maybe it is the author's notes?
I don't know why everyone it is so excited about this framework. I've had a quick look over the documentation a few months ago, when there was this hype around this new kid from the block thinking that there must be something really interesting.

I stopped reading the minute I saw they are using a template engine for rendering the views. I simply don't get it. Why would someone use a separate template engine when PHP itself is a very good one to use ? Why to add an extra layer to the app ?

We don't have to recreate anything, the views should be pure PHP, not code written in some <insert template engine name here> that is then translated to PHP.
Rails helps minimize time to market. Any sizeable Rails app that gets market traction is likely to have its hotspots revisited and broken out into services. The services need not use Ruby at all.

Edit: Ruby itself is just a language. If you're not building web apps or server scripts there's no particular reason to prefer it.
In Iceland in particular (and I'm guessing a lot of countries have the same situation) what'll happen is that the Ministry of Education will publish some official recommendation about what formats should be used, or that free/open source software should be "strongly considered".

Then what happens in practice is that everyone just ignores that recommendation and buys proprietary software anyway, feigning compatibility with existing systems, re-training costs etc.

So in practice a government recommendation about ODF can mean absolutely nothing unless you really make it mandatory. So this map on Wikipedia is effectively useless as an indicator for "adoption". It's probably actually a map of what governments have made feel-good press releases about ODF.
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Oh, I understand why it is, but it doesn't stop me complaining :-)

I'm starting to feel some sympathy with the Academie Francaise [1]. At least the US English <--> British English traffic in terms of idioms isn't all one way [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249
Just looking at the abstract:

In this paper, we introduce a so-called Multistage graph Simple Path (MSP)
problem and show that the Hamilton Circuit (HC) problem can be polynomially
reducible to the MSP problem.

That would imply that the MSP is NP-hard. So far, so good.

To solve the MSP problem, we propose a polynomial algorithm ...

That would imply that P=NP, and hence this would be a major result, with potentially wide-reaching consequences.

... and prove its NP-completeness.

Pause. This doesn't make sense. If you have a polynomial algorithm then it's in P. If you've reduced HC to MSP then you've already shown MSP is NP-Hard.

They use the word "its" - to what are they referring? The algorithm? That doesn't make sense, as an algorithm is not something that's NPC. The MSP problem? Earlier claimed results show that it's NP-Hard, now they're showing it's P, so to "prove its NP-completeness" doesn't fit.

However, English is not their first language (I assume) so perhaps I'm over-thinking irrelevant detail.

Our result implies NP=P.

Yes, yes it would.

Now I'm off to see if I, as a non-specialist, can make any sense of it.
One of the most important things a developer need keep in mind is exactly what the software clients can realize and change(improving) their lifes when use the results of developer effort.
Agreed. It's unfortunate that it isn't being developed anymore.
Dutch hackers and entrepreneurs may also be interested in the Startup Weekend in Veenendaal in June:

http://veenendaal.startupweekend.org/

Not trying to hijack -- it's just great to see these events where I live.
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The data in question is date referenced events - they can't be deleted because I need the data for analytics. It grows forever.
> a physically present user (mentioned by the requirement of point 18) can disconnect the boot device in order to prevent Windows from booting.

I believe that would void most warranties.
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Windows 8 installs and runs on machines without Secure Boot enabled, so I don't understand what you're talking about.
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Instead of just emailing your resume, physically post your resume to the company, it'll make a lot of difference. Trust me.
I agree that's a possible outcome, but I think an equally likely outcome is that banks would require parental co-signing of loans, from parents with income and credit ratings sufficient to mitigate the risks.

Which overwhelmingly means that the economically disadvantaged (or those estranged from one or both parents) would be shut out, which would make "college degree required" a proxy for "upper middle class or better".

I agree that it's a different outcome, but I don't agree that it's a better outcome. There are benefits to easy availability of student loans; with those benefits come some risks. You can't eliminate only the risks and leave all the benefits.
I had a Danish friend at University and she asked me how good her English was. I told her it was perfect, but she would never be taken for someone British as there was no sense of "place" or "class" with her accent.

You can normally make assumptions about someone's place or class within a few words or phrases in the UK

EG "fillum" for "film" for people from the North East, "supper" instead of "dinner" for middle/upper class people.
I wish there was a site that listed the most over-done web app and OSS ideas. I'm guessing todo lists apps, distraction free writing apps, css frameworks, weather apps, invoicing apps, etc. would be near the top of the list.
"Mr. Bharara said the exchange’s clientele was largely made up of criminals, but he invited any legitimate users to contact his office to get their money back."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/liberty-reserve-o...

Not sure how that would work, you might just be charged with conspiracy.
Definitely agree with this. I learnt to program with a lot of trial and error.. no screencasts or online workshops.

Also - I haven't actually watched the screencast, but looking at the text the virtualenv setup seems very wrong.
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As an extra note if we manage to make large portions of this planet unlivable then maybe through trying to alter them to be livable again we'll unlock techniques that we could use on other planets to make them livable as well.

The future is going to be awesome and horrifying and exciting. I'm so happy I get to live in this age, even if I do end up dying horribly it will probably be exciting.
The problems I'm having with MongoDB at scale effect everyone at scale - server connection limits, data size, index inefficiencies, driver bugs and so on.

These aren't edge cases specific to my environment. They are very real, very visible issues that are discussed on the mailing lists all the time.
Michaelo Church or Michael O. Church, I don't know who you are, but this is a great comment on the article. Thank you for this perspective. As someone once in VC, I laughed when you said what is true: most VCs are not actually putting their own money behind the investments. Indeed, it's only the 9-figure celebrity ones.

My only quibble was your line about not making money. Your first year associates/analysts are pulling in 6 figures which I think is pretty decent dough, even though it may feel like a middle class wage in the "star cities" you rightly mentioned.
> Apple is not allowing arbitrary OS to run on their system

Microsoft is not allowing arbitrary OSs to run on Dell's, Acer's, Lenovo's and Toshiba's hardware. If Microsoft wants to limit what Microsoft hardware can do, I'm fine with it - I just won't buy from them.
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It also helps that we can transport food over longer distances, have working markets to facilitate this, and crop yields having tripled since the 60s, and if it wasn't for biofuels the US would have been reducing the amount of land for agriculture instead of increasing it.
Add CRMs to that list. There are probably more CRM applications out there than there are companies on this planet :)
How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure?
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Building products for markets you don't understand isn't such a great idea. Yes, I'm sure there's some nice opportunities out there among the underclass, but most developers in Silicon Valley simply don't have the ability to find them, because that's not what they know.

The author would be better off looking for the small subset of potential entrepreneurs that are deeply rooted in the underclass and then encouraging them to take advantage of their cultural knowledge.
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Lots of people seem to be cross at a few of his incidental points (the article is not saying that social class is the root of all bullying) so I'll just emphasise the conclusion:

The problem is that this can lead you to a place where suffering, or persecution, only matters when, or because, the victim is special. This, in turn, can make it hard to see the ways in which violence is not special, but routine — and if you can't understand the violence directed against you, how can you stop it?

The point he's making is that anti-nerd violence is not unique, but part of the wider culture of violence for all sorts of reasons (and in all sorts of directions - up and down the social 'ladders').

I encourage you to read the disqus comments on the article itself, where the author responds to many of the objections raised here.
yeah is copied from tutsplus :-/ the only difference being its distributed for free
Further into the article they state
"This paper persents the full version of our idea to solve this famous problem. We will introduce a so-called 'Multistage graph Simple Path' (MSP) problem and prove its NP-completeness. To solve the MSP problem, we will propose a polynomial algorithm and prove its correctness."
As TFA notes, this may involve repeated resets during boot, added hardware and a whole lot of steps my mother wouldn't take. She'd just be coerced to use Windows.
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Because I want to run more than 100 instances of a webserver per mongos process, but I can't because it causes the connections per server to go over 20K.

Right now my application stack is woefully under utilized due to this completely arbitrary decision on their part not to allow the end user to set the connection limit. They've even admitted that they just picked that number four years ago and haven't looked at it since.

Just like they limit replica sets to 12 members maximum. What if I have higher read requirements than that limitation allows? Well, too bad.

I think this points at a fundamental issue with MongoDB at the design level - they don't allow end users to make any decisions about how to configure the product, even if those decisions might turn out bad.

Every Enterprise-level DB allows end user tuning of parameters, so clearly MongoDB isn't Enterprise-level.
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An Australian longitudinal study was recently linked from HN showing that streaming intelligent kids makes them happier, more successful and better adjusted. Throughout school and afterwards.

There is a difference between an apprenticeship and simply being forced to mix with children who literally don't yet have the same neurological architecture as you.

edit: here's the link -- http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10489.aspx
Probably worth noting that stephen_mcd is the author of Mezzanine.

I really like some aspects of Mezzanine, and I've used it on a couple of projects with success. But I don't like Grappelli much, I prefer django-admintools so for this reason alone I prefer FeinCMS or Ella.
Have people considered that "credentials and connections" are actually a valuable signaling mechanism?

Credentials, yes. There is some signal there, no doubt. There's no question that the average Yale or Harvard student is going to be better than the average X student for almost all values of X. Most people agree with this. The problem is more in society's attempts to enforce a total ordering. How would compare 75th percentile Penn State vs. 50th percentile Harvard? I actually have access to numbers on how strong students are across schools, and the 75th percentile Penn State student is a better bet. (Student quality-- work ethic plus capability-- in the Ivy League seems to be a N(1.70, 0.65) distribution by most measures; at the state flagships it's about N(1.35, 0.75), so you're comparing 1.85 vs. 1.70.)

Or, here's another question. Which has more positive signal? That Tom went to an Ivy League school? Or that Bob majored in math? The latter, actually. This is borne out, for one example, in LSAT performance. The average Ivy Leaguer scores about 160-163. The average math major scores 165-166.

Connections? No, not really meritocratic at all, because there are social connections and then there's Connections. The kind you work for aren't that powerful. The kind you're born with open doors that are closed to almost everyone else (e.g. getting VC funding without having to take risks with personal finances that only 25-year-olds can afford). Connections are powerful in inverse proportion to the amount of work involved in scoring them. That's what you're missing in that analysis.
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The Chromebook is doing it right? Really?

It wipes your hard disk if you enable developer mode(which is a painful process in itself). And then at every single boot you either have to wait thirty seconds to go past a very scary warning or press Ctrl-D. Every single time you boot. If you switch back to ChromeOS, the hard disk is wiped again.

I would love to see HN commenters' reactions if on disabling Secure Boot, the Windows 8 partition is wiped along with any documents and files you saved locally and if you wanted Windows 8 back, it wiped your Linux partition in the name of security.
The real Hacker News in this article is how you've hacked the NYTimes to promote HireArt. I'd love to hear more about how you did it.
> That's a benefit... to Microsoft

That's debatable. For Microsoft, it's preferable you run a pirated Windows (and, hopefully, a pirated Office) than become part of a non-Microsoft ecosystem. Network effects apply and, as soon as too many people switch to non-Microsoft ecosystems, the value of using Microsoft decreases.
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