skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you have entrepreneurship in your blood you'll probably ignore this. Because they don't teach how to be "insanely driven" at school. If you have the opportunity to go to college I say go for it, finish and get your degree. But those that don't have the means or opportunity are in no way disqualified from starting a successful business.

I think the takeaway from this shouldn't be that college is necessary, but that you shouldn't drop out just to start a business. But again, you probably won't listen to that either.

My family taught me how to start and run a business long before college entered my mind. It's in my blood. I've started them before, one worked and two others did not. I've helped others start their own and some were successful, others not. And I will start another one eventually. When I choose to do something nothing in the world will stop me. Because that's what I think it takes.
Do you have any monetization plans?
Many of the arguments claiming that Moore's law would end were based on the physical properties of light in lithography and the material characteristics of silicon substrate and gate oxide interactions. These are issues that people thought were physical limitations, but we found ways around them.

Theoretical max efficiency of PV also relies on assumptions about the physical properties of light in absorption and the materials being used. I'm not saying we know how to get around these limitations right now. I'm saying that we can't predict future innovations that will make the impossible possible.
The "for f in `ls * `; do" example is actually not useless. It has the quality that the loop will not run if there are no files, because ls produces no output. Compare:

$ for i in `ls * 2>/dev/null`
do
cat $i
done

$
$ for i in *
do
cat $i
done
cat: *: No such file or directory

Imagine that instead of cat we have a large, complex, expensive loop and don't want to pass a useless '*' to it if we can avoid it.
Of course it's desktop-class! If your desktop was built in 2005....
Speaking of X Games and skateboarding...

Tony Hawk's first 900 was pretty neat. He was getting close to doing it, but couldn't quite nail the landing and it was decided to let him just keep trying until he got it. Even though it was over regulation time and it took him 10 tries they awarded him first place and none of the other competitors protested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/900_(skateboarding)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYTNkAdDD8
What in this article demonstrates that you do or don't need a college education to be an entrepreneur (presumably a successful one)? The evidence as provided seems to be, "Most of Peter Thiel's college-abstainers are failing, and the few successes shouldn't really count." I feel like a lot more work needs to be put into this article before it's fit to be published.

What is the central point of this post? From what I could tell, it's roughly a mix of:

- Kids should stay in college

- Peter Thiel is doing a disservice to the college-aged

- Entrepreneurs who go to college are more successful

- Peter Thiel's program isn't as successful at TechStars (because he exclusively selects college abstainers)

- College dropouts earn less (regardless of career choice) than degree holders

Pick one, and then find data that is relevant. Even better, pick a central point and turn it in to a hypothesis. Gather data and test the hypothesis. Write an article about the findings.

I really expect better from PBS.
What was the negative thing that had LLVM as a side effect?
You seem to be assuming there's something NIST could have done about it. Based on what I've read, that doesn't seem to be the case. It seems like the NSA squeezed everyone else out so that they were the only ones calling the shots.
Google introduces new Chromebooks running Intel's Haswell processors
I am making the point that just because RMS does not use modern browsers does not mean that is is unfamiliar with them.
Johns Hopkins To Research Professor: Remove Blog Post On NSA Encryption Attacks
That's It!
This was well known to be coming.
You don't say how much simpler you want things. That would help people know how much to explain and where to start.

I like John Gribben's book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schrodingers-Kittens-Search-Reality-...) but some people tell me there are some problems with it, and it's old now.
Agreed, but note that in business you tend to die due to confidence issues well before competence ones.

A mistake due to incompetence can almost always be fixed later, especially if you can look critically at it and learn from it--this is how engineering works.

A lack of confidence, though, means that your skillfully laid-out system never makes it into production because you can't bring yourself to flip the switch.

In business, in a startup, the winner is clear.
Does it really do this stuff any more than other brands? Seems to me that it just gets more attention for it sometimes.
You joke, but I've often thought how would one write a traditional recipe in a programming language in such a way that it would make sense. Same for "do it yourself" furniture.

Ultimately, I always fall back on programs not having a good concept of "consuming" or otherwise changing a variable. This is clearly doable, and elsewise it was referenced as linear typing (new to me).
Post-Office Espionage
Well, depends on how they do it. Obviously the Win8 approach of GUI unification is right out, but I could see support for iOS apps in MacOS. Ubuntu's idea of showing the phone-apps in a slide-out sidebar is nifty, for example.
How to Publish Open-Source Code
This would generalize properly beyond two dimensions, right?
Paying way more than $10/mo for the VPS, close to 200 - and hey!! thanks for the ovh.com link - looks very interesting, will certainly try them out soon. Thanks.
But in this case I think they're correct. If the project is abandoned and forks don't ever get merged back in, development is fragmented and you end up having to pick and choose commits from various forks.
I am only knowledgeable of the chef world and aws so my advice reflects that. Get a free opscode, github and aws account. (The aws account is pretty limited at the free tier so I would probably just spin up small instances and kill them after I was done "practicing".) Follow along a chef tutorial such as: https://learnchef.opscode.com/starter-use-cases/wordpress/
or
https://learnchef.opscode.com/starter-use-cases/multi-node-e...

You should definitely have your own servers to play around with. I use digital ocean which is pretty inexpensive but has an API to your account (example: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-insta...).

I would look into using vagrant to spin up virtual machines associated with a particular software project. I find that helped me quite a bit with thinking of the server as being coupled to the application server software.
Wow the worst title in history.
>""He tells the story of a high school teacher whose students confronted him with the same question: "Why do we need to learn this?" The teacher replied, "You don't. You need to learn to ask just one question." The piqued students implored him to tell what that was. His answer: "Would you like fries with that?""

This is deplorable. As someone who didn't go to college, the fact that the author acts like they're right because of the status quo, and because Thiel's first start-ups weren't successful is absolutely laughable.

I love how their main argument relies on the fact that the perception of the degree is what's most important. While this may be true, this is simply a perception, and can easily be changed. It's not a "fact".

Secondly, if Thiel's lack of success from his ventures proves anything, it's that he needs work finding the right people to invest in. Just because a small subset of adventurous young adults failed their first time (understandable) doesn't mean that all young adults need the experience of college before they can fail/succeed in their first venture.

Lastly, let's see if the author is bias. Well, they're an academic, are adjuncts in two colleges... I find it interesting that an Academic intellectual has a problem understanding that people can be didactic learners and learn what they want on their own.

"Would you like fries with that?" - Sure, I'd love to buy some fries with my great job that I got right out of high school because I ACTUALLY worked towards my craft in high school. I doubt you can do that with an English, Psychology, Sociology, or even a regular Science degree. What this really sounds like is that college is important if you want to become an engineer. That's obvious. Most other things? Not so much.
Choosing a random direction uniformly for various varieties of hill-climbing optimization algorithms. The uniformity is necessary for the analysis of termination conditions.
less drugs and STDs.
>> Another question is whether there should exist a "sys lisp" that can form the lisp core of higher level lisps but that itself is not a garbage collected lisp...

You may be interested in Henry Baker has a paper where he
shows a VM where the semantics prevent garbage from being created http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html
So I guess this means you can't use Glow without worrying about them sharing pregnancy progress info with the Feds? Sounds like information that could be used to gain leverage on future moms and dads. Or the IRS reconciling # of dependent deductions? Or the DEA building cases against people using drugs while trying to conceive...
Two Sigma, more than most other companies (financial or otherwise), understands that innovation and success is largely driven by technology. The content of twosigma.com is designed to communicate this, and it's absolutely true. Anything you've heard about how other companies are structured is unlikely to apply here.
>so call in some help.

As is being discussed in the other thread.
You left out the best part:

... until he knows everything about absolutely nothing.
Better is

(->> onions
dice add-pan fry (add-pan kale) fry serve))
In my experience recruiters are always impressed and push you forward. It takes very little of their time to put someone forward (relative to your time and the company's time), and if you happen to impress, they get their commission. If they don't put you forward, it's guaranteed they don't get that additional chance. Every time I've come to the conclusion a certain opportunity wasn't right for me, they've always argued that I should try for it anyway. We (talking developers here) are their product and we are a scarce resource. They're not going to turn anyone away.
LLVM compiles faster than GCC (although the gap has narrowed in the last couple of years). GCC produces faster code than LLVM (although that gap has also narrowed)
Ask HN: How to edit Clojure in vim comfortably?
I want to do more programming in Clojure, but all the current solutions for the REPL don't work well. Vim doesn't facilitate embedded REPLs and frankly I don't want to deal with nailgun + vim, or slimv.

Any ways to comfortably edit lisps without resorting to Emacs + Evil mode?
It looks alright to me, but you'll have to normalise it for it to be a pdf
No good reason in particular, someone recommended I do it.
Ouya: Let’s talk about the Free The Games Fund
Yup, add to the fact that the author is an academic (Adjunct/Research Associate/Vice President). No bias there I assume...
That's a good idea. I'll work on improving the screen shots on the landing page.
It's "bad" because its very difficult to plan for all of the extreme edge cases found on the net. If UA Sniffing was infalliable, there would be a lot more of it.
San Francisco To Test Online Participatory Budgeting
"He paid children $100,000 not to complete their college educations."

No. He paid "children" $100,000 to put off their college educations for two years, and be open-minded about not ever going back. If I recall correctly, some of the thiel fellows had already finished college.
Implicit body element without an explicit tag as used in the page at issue is, IIRC, consistent with WHATWG HTML, not sure about W3C HTML5.
His design is poor, but it does nit logically follow that his design is the product of ignorance of modern browsers.

The much more likely hypothesis is that he simply is not good at design, or he has unconventional tastes in design and doesn't care that some people don't like it (and perhaps even considered it a shit filter...), or that he simply doesn't give a shit at all...
Windows does exactly the same. There's nothing new about it. Has been standard operation for modern operating systems for more than 10 years. Shouldn't really require any site dedicated to it.
The problem with rejecting economics' claim to be a science on the basis its underlying assumptions survive even as models based on them are usually out by a few percentage points (and under certain circumstances give counterintuitive results) is that you'd probably have to throw a lot of natural science with the bathwater. Physics is the exception rather than the rule for the accuracy and robustness of falsifiable predictionswhilst medics - like economists - are left with statistical tests, ad hoc explanations of confounding factors and a raft of exceptions that arguably falsify claims as uncontroversial as "drinking in excess is bad for your health". On the other hand, unlike astrology or homeopathy neither discipline is afraid of testing its assertions against a null hypothesis.
Intel Atom Z3000 "Bay Trail" SoC revealed - the ARM fighter
Running Hadoop on Google Compute Engine
For those who are confused by silverstorm's statement:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_(dinghy)
The proprietary nvidia driver works great on FreeBSD.
Notch has stated that he originally wanted a game like Dwarf Fortress in tone before he stumbled upon Infiniminer[1]. I think you are right in that it's more correct to say Minecraft is a clone and evolution of Infiniminer, but was heavily inspired by Dwarf Fortress.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/09/building-a-hit-one-block-at-a-time-the-creation-of-minecraft/
Or the early 1990s if you were unfortunate enough to have an Indigo. Mid-1990s if you were really unfortunate and had an Indy, or were fortunate enough to have an Indigo2 with decent gfx.

About the same amount of RAM then, too. :-)
Actors are overly nondeterminstic
How to say Youtube in Latin (According to translate.google.com)
For now, we're making our code/queries/optimization take the blame rather than the hardware.
What we need are 'Element Queries' - http://ianstormtaylor.com/media-queries-are-a-hack/
Haha... I forgot about that! Makes it even better.

"Knowing is delusion" - Zen Phrase
Intel-based Chromebooks
Actual impostors already know/don't need this advice. And the actual impostors will always be there. If we want to increase the percentage of effective non-impostors, we need the experts to learn to accept their expert status.

I also think that you are misinterpreting what the advice is. It is not that you should mislead other people about your skill. It's that when someone wants to pay you to do something and they are aware of your expertise, you should take them up on it.

If you've read a lot and written about lean start up methodologies, but have not yet tried to start a business yourself, and someone come to you, aware of your level of experience, and asks to pay you to come and look at their business model and take them through your reactions and feedback, you shouldn't refuse just because you have no direct experience. They know what they're getting, and they want to pay you for it? Do it.

If you've never assisted at a wedding, but have posted some nice pictures from your phone on Instagram, and someone wants to pay you to take photos at their wedding, you should do it. You should make it completely clear to them what your experience level is, and that they probably should hire a professional, but if they still say they want to hire you, do it.

But of course the e-commerce site is a different story. If you actually don't know anything about basic web app security, and somehow you know that you don't know anything about it and that it's important (we are talking about approximately four people worldwide), then no, you shouldn't build an e-commerce site without insisting that they also hire someone with security expertise.

>But IMO too many people are straight-up lying about what they are and what they know.

There are a fair number of those yes, but I suspect that the majority of people who seem to be doing that are really just completely ignorant of their ignorance.
There's an awful lot of hand-waving going on in this article. A Leaf's range just magically doubles in "6-10 years" due to improvements in battery tech. More and faster chargers, despite the fact that Blink has filed for bankruptcy. Battery prices have "plenty of room to fall". There is little to back any of this up, and the solar panel idea just solidifies my thinking the author is engaging in wishful thinking.

Range isn't going to get magically solved. A Macbook Air gets amazing battery life because of advances in getting more computing with fewer electrons, not because batteries are all that much better. In contrast, the energy required to push a car down the road isn't going to be reduced by orders of magnitude. So it's up to battery tech, which has been slow to advance.

We'll see what happens with the charging infrastructure. Blink seems to having a hard time making a go of it, and their rates are pushing up against the cost of gasoline if one charges at the mall.

I know of no reason for battery prices to fall. Maybe they will, but I wouldn't stake my reputation on it.

Yes, electric cars are simple and require little maintenance. You know what else require little maintenance? My 2005 Scion xB. Tires, oil, and filters in 70K miles. The Leaf doesn't need oil and most filters, but to me those two things are trivial. If the Scion is typical of most Toyotas, by the time the Scion needs an engine rebuild, we'll have probably replaced the battery pack in the Leaf at least once.

I love our Leaf, and I'd buy another one (or a Tesla). But to describe EVs as an inevitable future is to ignore or wish away the current limitations.
Place your iPhone 8S next to your Thunderbolt display, and you have full blown OSX appear on the screen, and you use keyboard/mouse as usual.

OSX and iOS will be running concurrently on the same hardware, when it gets fast enough. Of course as soon as you "undock" your phone (which doesn't actually involve a cable, or any physical connection), the OSX "VM" is instantly suspended.

By the way, you could do the same thing with a MacBook Air type device which is nothing more than monitor, keyboard, trackpad, and battery. Phone stays in your pocket. Open the lid, and boom, there your desktop OS is. Except it's actually being served over AirPlay from your "phone". Maybe an early iteration would require connecting the phone to the shell with Thunderbolt.

Although I think it's fundamentally two different OSs, I think the line will blur to the point where it's a meaningless distinction. For example, apps which support both modalities will install with a single click in both places.
Can emotional intelligence be proven to exist?
You can't control me with your threats.
No release date announced, unfortunately...
short summary: Quantum teleportation works by taking advantage of entanglement. To teleport a quantum state, you prepare a source qubit and another pair of entangled qubits. One of the pair is sent to your teleportation destination. You take your source qubit and interact it with the one remaining entangled qubit. (this interaction depends on the paradigm of quantum computing you are using, i.e. apply a Hadamard gate to the photonic system) Once you have performed the interaction, you can measure the destination qubit and its state will inform you of the original state of the source qubit. The destination qubit can be arbitrarily far away, thus "teleportation" has occurred.

This new thing in this study is that they use a "hybrid technique" to increase the efficiency of this transformation over 100x. With older techniques, the teleportation transformation occurred according to a probability distribution such that transport fidelity was not always high. This new technique apparently surpasses that barrier so that the teleportation is correct each time.
Whole fruits can help lower risk of diabetes.
Interesting article, considering I dropped out of school yesterday (literally).

The reason I dropped out isn't because I'm lazy or incompetent; I'm actually 30 credits (two semesters) away from graduation. But as I look at what my class schedule would be, I realize that the bubble they're trying to force me into takes me a different direction than where I really want to go. I don't think I could handle the cognitive dissonance of that realization day after day.

I love technology and mass media, and I want to go into Internet marketing - I've worked in Internet marketing for five years, so I ended up in the communications department, which was perfect. The program was great - we would discuss how media is changing, work on being creative, study design, understand why people do the things they do; it was great. But then, after my 2nd year, it got specific to make sure we could get a job at an advertising agency - to make sure we stay the 2nd best school in the nation for advertising.

And now I look at my class schedule of the classes I have to take to graduate. Advanced account management? A forced internship (when I've been working in Internet marketing for five years)? Writing 150? (I tested out of that with two different AP tests and my ACT score, but it's required in the Commms program no matter what.) What college wants me to do to ensure I get a job just isn't relevant enough to what I want to learn or where I want to end up. Not to mention the fact that the company I'm a co-founder of has investors begging me to drop out of school and go full-time... it's just not a good fit. It just doesn't make sense.

I'm designing my own curriculum around the things that I want to learn. It's difficult to do and will be hard to force myself to do those things, but at least it's relevant to where I want to go.
Will try and post within a few hours. Thanks.
Random thought of the day:

I don't see any mention in this article of "social networks". Even if an entrepreneur can be smart and driven, can learn a wide array of technical skills on his own, if he is literally on his own he is going to be at a serious disadvantage.

Some people acquire a network of cofounders, lawyers, and financiers through their parents' social networks, and some people can acquire them online or off with no help, but maybe, maybe if you're a smart, driven individual with no pre-existing social network, it might be worthwhile to go to college to meet that special someone you could settle down and start a company with?
C++ with references or C with pointers or Fortran with inout variables would accomplish this, just using normal procedural code:

contents = open(&ramen);
add_into( &pot, waterfactory() );
add_into( &pot, contents );
add_heat( &pot );
sleep( RAMENCOOKTIME );
tasty_ramen = open(&pot);
> not making a point about GPLv3 (arguments against which I also view as dumb, FWIW).

Well, that's a viewpoint that welcomes open and reasonable discussion.
More interactions between novices, intermediates and experts make it possible to identify experts. The physics student can only believe in their false expertise until "shown up" by someone who knows and/or does physics for a living; likewise those people need to interact with students to realize that they do know something.

It is easiest if a competent guild, association or governing body can set a permission-to-play standard to govern alongside a peer-review system for publishing and a merit-based system or awards for discoveries -- and all in the field should be encouraged to measure themselves against these systems and be rejected or accepted to learn more about themselves and their field.
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How to compile the C compiler from scratch, then compile Linux from scratch
Banishing GPLv3 from Mac OS.