skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That definition would hold for the kind of teaching where the teacher transfers knowledge and skills to the pupil.

Dijkstra was probably the type of professor that aims to inspire/provoke students into teaching themselves.

I have a degree from a universities in Europe and one from the US and the European one had a much stronger emphasis on asking students to teach themselves (it was a Dutch university, Dijkstra was Dutch so I expect that's where he got the attitude), the US one had more "hand holding" in explaining what you needed to do.

As an aside, the drop out rate at the Dutch university was over 30%, while at the American university I think maybe 2 people dropped out in my year. So while there is some consensus that teaching yourself is better than being taught it's certainly not very efficient.
Loads of sysvinit scripts are distribution specific. With systemd, these are now shipped upstream. No clue what your problem is, but there are loads of benefits to systemd, suggest to try it out (and then recent version, not some old Fedora).
I want make a gift to Facebook 10th Anniversary, but Insta introduced video
Fail of the year.

In January 2013 my friends and I have started to create an app that seemed to us, was to unite people of Facebook and generate buzz on the Internet.

When you have a team, but there is no money involved, it is very difficult to recruit good audience to get financing. To do this, you need to come up with something non-standard, that will give you the users. We did "Instagram for video", which was to bypass the Vine in a very short time. We decided to make the project a "Facebook 10th Anniversary gift."

The idea is that users of Facebook were to join the project, thus becoming part of the massive congratulations in the history of the internet. We did everything as it should. Increased the time to 16 seconds, 16 attached filters, which called moments in the life of Zuckerberg. In mid-June, we saw a very fast product. Even now, looking at Instagram, we understand that the video tape in "Sitcam" fall faster, load faster, played without delay.

We have agreed to an interview with a few techno-blogging and getting ready to launch the product at the end of June as the unexpected happened.

What do you think, is there any chance of the project life?

http://sitc.am/
More interesting (but evil) would be to split the difference and just sell the cycles you're hijacking as a service.

Which is, yes, of course just kind of reinventing a botnet. But I could almost imagine this being part of the cost of using a website (again, evil) in lieu of seeing their advertising. Of course said site would have to be unusable without js.

And of course, sites would just farm your cpu and serve the ads anyway.
Thats a great way to practice user acquisition.
This 'simplicity' changes quickly into hairball of scripts if anything non-trivial is requested.
It's not even using 1% of my CPU. It checks one prime every 100ms, so it doesn't really use a lot of anything.
Reminds me of the recent posting that talked about an employee that got fired from a game company because he added code to the game to mine bitcoins without users' knowledge. Not a good idea.
I'd much rather donate CPU processes to advertisers than donate screenspace to their ads.

Ok, but do the advertisers want you CPU processes or your screenspace?
Digg reader chrome app
The prosecutors specifically argued that child abuse happened in this case[1]:

Prosecutor Richard Mantei argued that instructions for third-degree murder should be included on the premise that Zimmerman committed child abuse when he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin because Martin was underage.

[1] http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2013/07/11/judge-rules-jury-can-co...
That's all well and good, unless you're actually wanting to learn Rails. :)
valid point, I should have said that I'd rather sell CPU cycles to some tech company than sell screen space to advertisers.
The elasticsales link looks interesting. I've heard alot of people have had good results from betali.st

Though i submitted my startup over 2 months ago and havent heard anything back.
How a startup accelerator in Italy can make an impact
Or maybe some of them could have been mentored away from the problems they had? Or maybe someone could have done a better job not hiring them in the first place and not starting a relationship?

I don't agree so much with the implication of "VC meetings aren't job interviews, they're relationships." Jobs are relationships, too. In fact, your employees are often sacrificing more than your investors to be with you. For your investors, it's just money, and they have enough or they wouldn't be risking it in investments. For your employees, it's their livelihood, health insurance (in the US), families, and 8+ hours out of every day--time which is key when in your life, time is really all you ultimately have.

In other words, don't be so non chalant about employees. They're people too.
I interpret "bending over backwards" as compromising the business model, which does have the potential to kill the business. However, I believe pg is alluding to good customer service.
Imagine having 20 tabs opened solving stuff in background. Although modern browsers slow down the JS clock in the inactive tabs, it's still a killer for the CPU. The new equivalent of having adverts playing loud music and render video in 20 tabs (the music will be emitted by your CPU fan).
Facilitating General Solicitation at the Expense of Investors
Just one note on this, as someone with a "Mechanical Engineer" job title: The majority of people (including me personally, all my coworkers, my parents, etc.) working with "engineer" in their title, and presumably calling themselves engineers, don't have the Professional Engineer license required to sign off on bridge designs. I personally don't see any problem with Software Engineer as a title, although I'm occasionally sad that just "Engineer" is so often taken to mean software only in some places.
"We were not out to win over the Lisp
programmers; we were after the C++
programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them
about halfway to Lisp."

- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author

Steele seemed to be trying to encourage those who saw the glass as half empty to see it as being half full. The article makes some valid points but surely, from a high level, clojure can only be seen as a glass that's very nearly full.
I think "stop writing code" is decent advice in principle, but is practically difficult. A few points:

1. If you have no domain experience or expertise, you shouldn't just stop writing code, you should stop what you're doing. A lot of startups fail before any code is written because the founders know little to nothing about the market or industry they're targeting.

2. While it is absolutely possible to sell software before it has been written, unless you're well-connected and have trusted relationships that will deliver customers on tap, to get meaningful conversations started, you will often need to have something to show, even if it's mockups or a basic prototype.

3. A lot of startups write too much code because they try to support use cases that they think are important. Ironically, some of these use cases are actually discovered through conversations with potential customers, which highlights the fact that it's not simply enough to talk to people you hope might become your customers; you need to know how to talk to them.
Ok I see your point regarding the conference, that was a bit annoying for me too.

I'm still confused about your coding standards point, considering that the core framework is pretty consistent, just that those standards are mostly not written down. Also, for future reference, you can copy the Gii templates and edit them for your needs, the default templates are simply meant as reasonably sensible defaults.
Even at the top of the class standards can be pretty low.

Regularly I get the impression that a lot of grading in the US is rank or curve-based, which seems like total bullshit to me.

The best performing student could still very well provide poor quality work.

A good teacher evaluates students individually and tries to take each of their levels and learning-speeds in to account.

Luckily I have mostly had university classes with 15-30 students, which gives the teachers a lot of space to approach students individually.
This one is good, but more Haskell than category theory.
man pkill
I'm a bit confused.

Are you saying that "Monads Made Difficult", is useful to "those who are trying to struggle to see how all these connections play out"?

My position is that it's definitely not. I don't think it's even really useful to experts, because, wait for it ... Haskell Monads really have very little to do with category theoretical monads! If all you want to do is to know how Haskell Monads work than I think that level of generality is unhelpful. If, on the other hand, you want to learn category theory then this is a fine approach :)

(NB I'm not claiming my article is for beginners either)
"...In both these examples – and typically in economics – the information asymmetry is at one level and about one property only, the quality of the goods being exchanged. This property is exogenous, that is it is not changed by the interaction between the buyer and seller."

By recent Snowden leaks, we have evidence of information asymmetry in US trade negotiations with both the EU and South America. You would be a fool to play poker with a 900 pound gorilla who knows your cards. On the other hand, this may be the best windfall for popular outrage against the WTO and fomenting internal distrust among international cartel agreements.
Somehow many of his essays look "the best ever" when they just come out ;) Take for example Startup = Growth which did have an impact back in the day, but already feels somewhat outdated.
"...wore one of those wispy skirts that always make me want to send God a fruit basket for inventing summer."

Kind of negates the whole "I'm not a sexist" take on the situation. If you're going to write about how much of a chivalrous guy you are, you should probably also be more careful with the way you describe the thin skirts that you like so much.

And the "because I'm a writer" stuff doesn't even make sense. Because he's a writer he noticed someone being creepy and intervened? I don't understand that logic at all.

It sounds more like because he's a writer he knew the word "trope" and wanted to jam it into an article.
https://github.com/justinwalsh/daux.io/blob/master/index.php
Seriously. Pick a template engine at least. They're around for quite some time.

PHP & Node? Pick one. Don't make it a pain to even install.
Also, it occurs to me that megapixel spatial light modulators are also the key element in megapixel projector displays, so that might also be already ready for prime time.
Those are in an independent division.
So you'd like to trade one hairball (shell script) for another (systemd).
For anyone interested in using a subreddit to practice acquiring users:

Metareddit lets you track all mentions of keywords or phrases across Reddit. It let me find literally everyone who commented about the LSAT.

http://metareddit.com
awesome! :)
The script was just a proof of concept. A scenario where you could be paid to donate 1% of your CPU time while certain webpages were open will never occur. Here's why:

Let's say there exists a problem where it's worth paying to solve it like this. The most a company could pay you is just below the spot price for buying instances on EC2 or some other cloud/cluster -- or they'd do that instead. So we're talking about nickels and dimes per hour for the equivalent of 100% CPU time on an EC2 instance.

If you donate the equivalent to 1% of that computational power, the most you can earn is hundredths of a penny per hour. You could run the script for a week and make a penny, while spending more than a penny on extra electric. That's no net gain for you, and no meaningful work done for the script author -- so this script would never have been written.
systemd contains a lot of different bits, each with a different task. Much like e.g. coreutils. Coreutils contains a lot of different utilities. If systemd is somehow bad for Linux, coreutils is as well.
I'm saying that just because a bunch of people say they have a new shine thing, I should not be _forced_ to use it. They are free to do whatever they want as long as they don't force me on their bandwagon.

BSD should not have to implement Linux semantics just to start the userland.
I did not read that they were going to drop the port.
This is brilliant, easily a top-10 of PGs.

re: consulting-- one advanced technique is to put the consulting "into a box" i.e. define precisely what the consulting package is, and offer this standard service at a standard price. If investors/etc. give you flak, tell them that your customers need this anyway, and at least your getting paid for the trouble. FYI I'm doing this now: many of our customers are young companies that need advice, and instead of taking an hour+ to give it free, we take a few hours and charge them. The actual work can be delivered by a number of people, so it scales fine.

adam
(6 startups, 3 IPOs - #7 takes this advice to a whole new level and we're winning big, in spite of concern from my friends in tech, who exactly fall into the trap PG is talking about)
Why not use your actual name? Why do people have to give themselves stupid nicknames? It's so incredibly childish. I don't get it. My name is John Son-Carity, so that's my user name.
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The most obvious ones are the "eBay shoes" type of searches, but probably they cost less than "shoes". Still it's a cost. Expect Google, Yahoo and even Bing to fight this tooth and nail, data or no data.
Coaching and feedback within startups
But how many of those were really "initial" launches vs. a big launch after you already did a lot of legwork (while in closed beta, for example) and the planets were already well aligned?starting to wonder
Your definition of sexy is not the same as mine.:) But we can both agree there was serious potential
YouTube SmartSearch hits 2,000,000 video views
I can't even think what this may have to do with racism

Then you aren't thinking very hard.
From someone who's never actually done the startup thing: when you feel like your product is good enough to stand alone, outside of the specific domain you originally targeted for, you likely have to have a second round of "initial" user acquisition, where you cater to, and iterate on, the needs of more general users you recruit.
I suspect even more would use "eluding".
Ah, yeah, sorry, that totally wasn't clear. Perhaps a better word would have been "consistent".
I don't mean to nitpick, but the three parameter form is exactly what you use in day-to-day Haskell programming. You simply let c be the infix (->), and you get (y -> z) -> (x -> y) -> (x -> z). We just tend to think of it as a two parameter form because a lot of the time, you can think of (->) as syntax, as opposed to the type that it is.
Honestly while I understand the obvious concerns, I would like to point out that the writer is doing the job of expressing emotions for all the parties involved. An important question is whether verbal communication really implies anything. What if the other guy was stoic and the fact that he himself was being bothered did not matter. What if he was a bisexual. Its important that writer wants to frame himself as hero. But from a more neutral standpoint three people had a conversation and moved on.
Good example on "way to hell is paved with good intentions".
The biggest threat to the gov is quite possibly that Snowden's courage is contagious and it opens the flood gates on the more secret sides of power, stating with the intelligence and war industry.

It could potentially change how government currently works.

So far the actions of the Obama administration are quite consistent with walking a line between maximum deterrent and just not too much public uproar.
Wait, it's sexist to thank God for the physical qualities of the opposite sex?

Thank God for the physical qualities of the opposite sex. (Or evolution, whatever.)
do_bad.sh

for i in {1..9999};do curl -v --data "n=$RANDOM&result=$RANDOM" http://arcane-sea-9808.herokuapp.com/update/?callback=;done
Yes, if you're runnign rails, you definitely shd learn the first 10 minutes of a wide open VPS config (passwd,ssh, fial2ban, iptables/ufw etc)... sometime But it doesn't have to be the first deploy
I have a good computer and it took a few seconds to test each numbers it said it was testing. They were all three 5 digits even numbers…
Teams are dynamic, not static. You can have new hires, you can lose people and you can get code written by others that you have to maintain (especially the case with CPAN).

I agree this is also a problem with domain knowledge. The second you commit something to your code base the clock starts ticking. The further away from your own code, the harder it is to have context and the more difficult it is to fix problems. If you feel like you can jump back in to your Perl code easily after a prolonged absence, by all means, do it. My point was only that in Perl, it's easy to use many different idioms which not all coders are familiar with. This can make debugging more difficult.
To me the new hairball does seem much cleaner and better thought out. Sysvinit scripts are copy/paste programming at its worst, every one doing a half-assed, buggy reimplementation of an init system copy/pasted from another package and then tweaked until it sort of worked.
I would have given MS a second chance - until I found out about their level of co-operation with the NSA.
What a joke. Claiming that the Veteran's Administration provides better care based on faulty propaganda based studies put out by the VA itself to make itself look good instead of the third world medicine they truly provide.
Hetzner's new server offer: 1 Gbit, 2 x 240GB SSD, 32GB RAM - 59 euros/month
Enlighten me then. If you've got something beyond crying racism - some argument behind it - it's time to put it on the table. Not holding my breath though.
I thought Hask was supposed to be the category of Haskell types with functions between them. My Haskell is pretty rusty... how exactly does (->) resolve to this meaning?

Also, on a more theoretical level, since Haskell types themselves belong to the category Hask, by definition, to what extent can Haskell truly model category theory when the objects of a category are evidently being represented here as Haskell types?
Learn you a Haskell (Monads chapter)
Appreciating clothing that accentuates womens' bodies and being sexist aren't the same thing. But, yes, he is definitely overly enamoured of the word "trope".
I genuinely don't understand why this sentence is considered sexist. As a matter of fact, I am often surprised to see how people perceive sexism on HN. For example, I don't see how the douchebag in this story was sexist apart from the fact that the person he was being rude to was a woman... Is that sufficient to call him sexist? Maybe it's a cultural thing?
The author was saying that the woman was attractive, particularly her skirt. It's not sexist to admit to finding someone attractive.

Give it a second reading if you didn't understand the connection between being a writer and the author's interpretation of the events:

> Others might get it for other reasons, but I got it because I am a writer. I knew the tropes and the cliches and the tired old lines. I was aware of how to create a role reversal in the "typical characters."

His point is that other people might experience the situation as "someone being creepy" and someone else intervening, but that he experienced and interpreted the situation differently: in a literary context, as a reversal of cliche roles.
If the startup scripts are upstreamed and standard then the init system should be standard. Systemd is not standard because it relies on Linux kernel specific semantics.

BSD or any other kernels are left with no updated userland because they don't implement the same semantics.
“Secrets and Lies” Nine Years Later
Really good production quality but you can see the difference between armatures acting and real pros. How is this being funded?
Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
From the website

Please note that there is a very long waiting period for
Entropy Keys at the moment.

Likely more people got this idea.
Free CISSP Class
Both links say LSAT everywhere but I could not find any mention of what the acronym means! I had to check Wikipedia.
You might want to check out vagrant to set up your development environment under windows.

http://www.vagrantup.com/
You should help projects in kickstarter or do ANY R&D on a company or on your own to learn something:

In real life, the time it takes to do something compared with what you planned it is at least triple.

I had experience as the responsible person of a very talented R&D team for years. My parents were also researchers all their lives.

One of the amazing things is that in the end if you persist, you get it, but it is extremely easy to abandon as progress slows down(and it always happens with anything if it is new and nobody has done it before). The main problem with researchers is that they have the tendency to start new projects and finish none.

Steve Jobs learned this early from his mentor Robert Noyce.
If you're willing to do whatever it takes, you can probably round up a group of early users (unless your idea is terrible). I think few founders really doubt their ability to do this. What the founders are really looking for is some validation that the users will eventually grow to a large number. But if the mentality is to compare your early startup with the early version of Pinterest, it will be very hard to find any evidence that yours won't find similar success. A startup is thus an inevitable leap of faith.

In a way, this essay deflates the concept of 'proof' in the lean startup mentality. There is no way to prove that an idea will be a good one (although you can probably filter out particularly bad ones).
It's still easy to mess up this process though, at least, that's how I feel about RepairPal. I got an e-mail from my credit union suggesting them, and it was perfect timing cause I had just bought a used car that needed some repairs. So, I signed up, put in the info, and...nothing. No response whatsoever. But then, their marketing team sent me a semi-personalized e-mail requesting feedback. Awesome, so I wrote about the service not providing me with anything, and stating that I wanted to still use the service, I just hadn't been provided any response. And...again...nothing.

Now, I'll never use RepairPal. They've wasted my time twice. So, if you're going to take the time to reach out to users manually, make sure to actually follow up on the responses you receive.
the history of interest in topics of violence and describing one's fighting prowess is highly relevant when the case is about a fight and who initiated it

Are you arguing that the judge was wrong not to let evidence of Zimmerman's violent past be introduced?