skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, you are agreeing with me. You are saying that doing calculus was, for you, much easier using the infinitesimal approach. I'm not disagreeing with you. In fact, you'll find that advanced mathematicians think in that way, although they can drop back to epsilon-delta work if they need to (which they often do).

So we are in agreement. My point is that if you teach calculus that way you have immediately ham-strung anyone who might go on and do anything other than engineering or physics. In fact, there are deep theoretical arguments in physics where you need to use the standard approach, and the non-standard approaches are much more difficult.

My point is that if all you want is calculus then it's very likely that the non-standard approach is fine. I'm also arguing that this is limited thinking. Clearly you were never going to go further in these sorts of subjects - does that mean that everyone else should also be taught in a similarly limited way?

I also observe that limiting arguments are essential in anything other than the most direct and practical versions of engineering, so again, the point isn't in the calculus, the point is learning about limits.

Many people don't need any math at all beyond arithmetic, and I know a lot of people who proudly announce that they can't even do that. And to some extent it's true - most people don't need any math at all. Why were you bothering to take calculus? I'm sure you've never needed it.

But let me add that if all you want to do is arithmetic, why bother? Just use a calculator. If all you want to be able to do is differentiate, why bother? Feed it to Wolfram Alpha. If all you want to do is program, why bother? Hire someone to do it.

But yes, if all you want to do is high-school calculus, there are easier ways to learn the processes to jump through the hoops, pass the exam, and get the piece of paper. For most people that's all they care about. We probably agree on that.
Im looking into moving the marketing page to wordpress. The app is most certainly not moving to wordpress. It's staying in rails.
I also believe that Java is where Oracle has the edge over Amazon. Maybe it's foreign to HN community, but lots of enterprises run on J2EE, or some version of it. While it comes with the well known bloatwares, J2EE is a standard that makes it very easy to integrate components/services into your system. It also standardizes build/deployment process, which could be as simple as 'curl --upload-file mygiantwar.war'. Given Oracle's relationship with large/mid enterprises and their sales teams, I think if Larry gets this right, they could become THE enterprise app hosting service.
That's not what HiDPI mode does; rather than rely on the (uniformly crappy) on-board scaling logic on the display, the computer sends a full resolution picture that it has scaled already. And there's no reason to think that this won't be available with this display.
> Some economic interest in getting repeat offenders back into prison.

Interestingly enough, this actually exists in the US. As crazy as it sounds, there are private prisons that are paid on a per-inmate basis. These corporations typically put their political donations behind candidates who are "tough on crime" to fill their jails and line their pockets. It would be terribly interesting to see what kind of impact these companies have had on the justice system in the US.
I have, but I'm the kind of developer who thinks up the big ideas and can build to 95% but I'm not great at grinding away at that last 5% of bugs. We're valuable, but by no means a rare breed.

The rarer breeds are the work-horses that you can throw the results of a QA check to and they work on everything to completion.

In startups, it's the founders that typically have the rights to do the planning and core development that I'm good at and delegate the last bits to subordinates. I don't have founder money and bootstraping "real" startups requires a lot more time than I have available with a family.

Small "4 hour work-week" startups are within reach. Currently my plan is to make 4 or 5 of them and move me and the family somewhere where the cost of living is so low that even a meager income from "side businesses" can be enough to live off of. We're actually flying down with the kids to scout out Antigua, Guatemala for a few weeks in January to see if it's a good fit for us. Also, my first 4-hour work week business (steamloader.com) is making on average 0.4 BTC a day so this seems like a realistic goal.

Ideally we could stay somewhere in the US, but we're being priced out of the Austin, TX area and if we have to move, we would love to move where our money is the most valuable. $50k (what I earn) is not much for a family of 4 to live on in Austin, but in Central America that income could give my kids a quality education and let us live more comfortably.
The Dark Roots Of 'The Nutcracker' And The Man Who Wrote It
Question: did you develop this game on a display with a higher vertical resolution than 768?
NPR at its best.
status quo? Are you talking about your parents' generation? I don't recall such an incident in my experience in the last few decades. Maybe I'm just sheltered or something; make up your own excuse to ignore me. But I think there's a generation who's made real progress. I would think the conversation would change; but I guess its easier to just repeat the same diatribe than draw from your own experiences or statistics or something solid?
They're just using NSLinguisticTagger. Correctly lexing English is harder than lexing a programming language, but that's hardly relevant when there's a pre-existing library to do it for you.
It was a plea bargain. At the time, after 6 months of dealing with an overpowering sense of being crushed by the legal system, I just took the first plea bargain they offered me. It was the exact same deal they gave the person who actually committed the robbery.

The anxiety of not knowing what the future held made it seem to be a relief to just get things concluded. Also, as an 18-year-old, I wasn't thinking about my future 10 or 20 years in the future
I've found emacs-fu useful. http://emacs-fu.blogspot.fi/
UPS just handed my package off to USPS who put a note in my box saying that I could come to a Post Office, wait in a long line, then pick-up my package myself. WTF is this?
another gem from brett terpstra.

-bowerbird
I'm not sure what your point is or how it relates to my questions. Why would anyone use Ubuntu's SDK instead of Firefox's or a cross-platform HTML5 SDK?
You are taking an irrelevant afterthought to my main point and focusing on it. By "fetishing" I mean "treating as extremely important in a way that reality does not justify."

> I'm merely saying that to insist that race not be part of the conversation is a passive approach to maintaining the status quo.

I'm fine conversing about race. But I don't think that you are actually advocating simply for more conversation. I think you are trying to oppose what I am advocating.

I am advocating that as individuals, we should treat other individuals in a colorblind way. I do not think that that would maintain the status quo, I think it would significantly improve the status quo over time.
I'm excited to see Dell trying to break new ground in the high-end. The race to the bottom of the pit of cheap plastic crap is tired and boring, and Apple is really starting to kick the crap out of the competition in the mid-range after having thoroughly dominated the high-end.
> The obvious downside is that prison sticks to you for the rest of your life

What don't you move to Europe? There your US criminal records don't interest anybody - only in security relevant jobs. So just don't apply for jobs with banks, etc.
It depends on who you talk to; I feel like there's a sort of winding spectrum. It's something like:

F A
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E B
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D------C

A = Wealthy people who just want to maximize their own revenue without particular regard for ethics. Some do not support libertarianism at all, some support some aspects of it but turn around as soon as they can benefit from pollution, eminent domain or copyrights/patent privileges.

B = Wealthy people who are actually libertarian to a high extent, caring about some notion of property rights, but have basically no concern for equality, corporate power, etc.

C = Libertarians who also care about reducing corporate power and promoting decentralization. These people love markets and voluntary exchange, but also dislike monopolies. They tend to heavily promote 3D printing, Bitcoin, seasteading, etc.

D = Left-libertarians who are fine with property rights, but seek a less market-oriented basis for society. They might like 3D printing, organic farming, urban agriculture, and perhaps also Bitcoin, though to a smaller extent since it is still money even if it does bypass the banks.

E = Anti-propertarian anarchists. Buy into leftist morality (eg. "exploitation" where you benefit much more than the counterparties from an economic agreement is immoral), and are happy to expropriate capitalists. However, they are also anti-state.

F = State socialists and social democrats.

This experiment seems to be something like B with maybe a touch of C. A proper C-libertarian experiment would also try to provide ways for people to live with very little money (eg. by living in a small closet that would normally be illegal under occupancy limit regulations), and D-libertarian would be a commune.
"Managing" the cofounder creates more work for everyone involved. As the OP is already trying to figure out a way to maximize work output by kicking the cofounder out, you run the risk of creating double work. In a startup, this is highly risky. And, it's business.
i think you're jumping the gun. he means that science is vetted by consensus. and this particular website has a casual tone and the videos look like layman explanations for people who aren't afraid of getting a teeny bit technical.

though, i would agree that citations wouldn't hurt if particular claims are being made, but a lot of the videos look like overviews of generic knowledge
The theory is that people perform worse when a negative stereotype they identify with is presented to them. Saying "oh, but unfortunately there are no successful black entrepreneurs" in an entrepreneurship class to black kids seems to be exactly that.
Waratek is an interesting JVM that does this today.
If you wrap the callbacks in promises or observables, they become a very elegant and side-effect-free model. Reactive programming is starting to get traction, now that it's more well known and being adopted by mainstream libraries.
Keep in mind that sometimes people misperceive each others' real contributions, because of differing competencies and priorities. But, assuming your estimation is correct:

Is an employee agreement and vesting schedule in place?

Who reports to whom? You haven't mentioned formal titles/roles, but unless you're already final-say CEO, you'll probably need the board's support to oust him. You'll definitely want their support and advice, especially if adversarial steps to adjust equity or reorganize are necessary.

Talk to older mentors/lawyers who've seen similar situations.

Look up 'shotgun clause'; even if one doesn't already exist, a 'him-or-me' game of chicken might be resolvable with minimal damage/legal-risk using some sort of similar bidding/step-up-or-leave arrangement.
Wordpress is definitely easy to setup and has a ton of plugins. But in my experience when integrating it with other services/frameworks/etc. it doesn't really save on time; it's more like the time spent will gradually creep up, to the point that it may not have been the right choice to begin with.

What you should note is that most WP plugins that integrate with external services usually just insert code in the the views/themes. Also worth mentioning that there are a lot of features in WP that you will never use or need and a few features that you will integrate but may also need in your rails app(AB testing is the obvious one).

Like I mentioned earlier there are easy workaround's for most features that you would need:

1. Blogging -> I'd go static unless I was doing more than 8-10 posts a month. Other options include Jekyll, Octopress, Ghost or Rails/Sinatara.

2. AB Testing (You may want this for your rails app too) -> a gem[0], web apps[1] and see what other are doing[2][3].

3. Sales -> I am guessing this is mostly going to be lead generation forms and such, depending on what other services you use it is extremely simple to include these via html, js or iframes.

4. Social Media -> For users to share you could use something like www.sharethis.com there are a few alternatives too

5. Comments -> Disqus, take 30 secs to setup and install.

6. Permalinks -> Easy to do with config/routes.rb

[0] https://github.com/andrew/split
[1] https://www.optimizely.com/ | http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
[2] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2977-behind-the-scenes-highri...
[3] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2983-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...
Oracle has got to be struggling to meet internal growth metrics. They've clearly lost out on the low and medium dB market with so many very good and cheap/free (beer and freedom) choices. In the "internet-scale" market they aren't really offering much leaving them flanked into the large corp market.

That's still a very lucrative market, but I would guess that options from both the low and high end are starting to erode new sales opportunities and they might be losing some outright. e.g. it used to be the default in government IT systems to just stamp in "Oracle dB" in high level architecture diagrams and not get fired, but now postgres and other alternatives are being seriously considered and used.

"Oracle dBA" is being replaced with "dBA with experience in X, Y and Z databases" in many job reqs as well.

They still have huge enterprise license agreements, particularly in the fed space, but as budgets get cut those are simply being reconsidered.

This isn't really a move for "today", but for where Oracle will continue to vector if nothing is done over the next 3-5 years.
The Story of the Secret Underground Communications Network of Operation Vula
"when in reality his contributions are near 0 for product development as well as S&M."

What, he won't even hold the whip? ;)

I'm pretty sure that "S&M" above actually refers to "Sales & Marketing", for anybody else who was... confused on a first read.
Wait, principle? How does that have anything to do with whether this happens? Tesla is a public company.

edit: per http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-borrows-150-million... it looks like Musk, holding 65%, would be able to block any hostile acquisition.
Awesome! Are there any articles about this?
treenyc can post his public-key in this thread, edw519 uses it to encrypt his email address and post the result in the thread. treenyc then uses his private-key to decrypt edw519's email.
7 differences between a Professional vs an Amateur
Wow! What a shitty situation. If you can't buy him out you're going to have to get the Board involved so they can act collectively. Get you're shit together and "build your case" against them so it doesn't blow up in your face. Good luck!
* IP and patents
* Actual employees and knowledge capital
* Actual working designs and infrastructure
* Brand recognition
* Amount of businesses that rely on them

All of those things competitors like Microsoft had. There was still room for Google to rise. Microsoft is playing catch up with search and now IE. Google is trying to catch up with social, and even in the social place, there was a hashtag for Twitter overlayed on A Christmas Story yesterday.
That is really terrifying. I apologize for all of the personal questions, but what were you facing if you went to trial? I am fascinated by this. Honestly, it sounds like you were the victim of one-size-fits-all justice...
It's actually BDSM, Business Development, Sales & Marketing.
If you're looking for a user-friendly desktop-install of FreeBSD, you probably want to check out http://www.pcbsd.org/ instead. They have a 10.0-RC2 available for download already, and will probably have a 10.0 released a few weeks after FreeBSD.
I'm sorry to hear about this.

Elad Gil[1] has written about this in depth about 12 months ago: http://blog.eladgil.com/2013/01/how-to-fire-co-founder.html

[1] https://angel.co/eladgil
That's funny. I despised my college calculus courses because they were so informal. Much like the author of this post said, my calculus education focused entirely on boring rote computation and not at all on proofs, the,a tater of which is. The only part I really consider to be mathematics.
It's not a superficial interpretation. It's not an intepretation at all. It's using the word for what its roots mean.

A great many people are genuinely confused about the history of anarchism for the same reason that people would be confused by me if I took a fervently pro-gun stance that I called "pacivism," and I think genuine confusion is also what motivates the re-purposing of the word. Libertarian anarchists genuinely don't understand that "anarchism" is like my "pacivism" example.

I didn't even understand that until recently, and I am pretty well-educated. I was genuinely confused. "How does Noam Chomsky's position ultimately equate to not having government or power?", I kept asking myself. I couldn't follow his logic. Then I realized, oh, he's not making that argument, and none of them are. Some of them pretend or actually think they are (due to their own confusion), which adds to the confusion.

Someday we will probably have the same problem with "progressivism."
"The pattern of under-represented ethnicities can be seen all over, should it be brought up in every conversation?"

In every conversation? No. In a conversation about the under-representation of minorities in tech? Yes.

"Encouraging people to discriminate based on race is the status quo, ignoring it is the exact opposite."

Ignoring oppression is not the opposite. It is the tacit approval of oppression.
I'd imagine that having Amazon Fresh trucks driving around a neighborhood with a local fulfillment center could easily turn into their own solution. Combine this with Amazon Locker and 20 years from now Amazon drone and good bye UPS.
Did Amazon let its warehouse employees take off Christmas day?
If you mean you think this article was the work of a PR firm, no, it wasn't. The reporter emailed me after he saw a tweet of mine about how many different countries the founders in the latest batch were from.
Hey, this is v. helpful! Thanks!
At the time I believe it was called "utility computing". I think they were a few years ahead of the curve, and far too dependent on their own hardware platform, for it to be a viable product.

Amazon hit at the right time: virtualization as a concept was being adopted by developers, storage needs were going through the roof, classic storage systems weren't scaling at reasonable costs.

Amazon's other strength is that they can use the massive revenue they have sitting around for short periods of time to build out their computational infrastructure (turning their operational revenue into capital spending). IaaS took off; SaaS somewhat, and PaaS almost not at all (except in a few well defined areas).

I can't really see what oracle woudl bring to the game. It looks to me like they are just making a play to take their existing customers and move them to their data centers.
Paul Judge is also a very prominent and successful entrepreneur in Atlanta. He's had a number of security related businesses. He's currently working as chairman of Pindrop Security and probably doing other things of top of that. Link:http://www.pindropsecurity.com/about-pindrop-security/
Big Difference between 'principles' and 'capitalism'. Ulitimately if GM or whoever offers enough for Tesla then it will be sold... even if the founder doesnt want to sell for personal reasons publicly traded companies are under some restrictions as far how they respond... even beyond legal restrictions if the offer is good enough the stock holders will revolt
Iron Maiden’s intelligent approach to downloads
Just following the parent's train of thought. I agree.
Thanks for the advice. I might go with this one after holiday ends. The only problem I see here is that he has more rapport with them (since I'm more product oriented and he's money oriented).

It's going to get real messy, especially since he holds all money, bank, passwords info (now I understand why he wanted to take control of those stuff in the beginning). Firing him will be so messy, and the 3 employees we have today respect him a lot especially since he's an expert following those rules in the article I stated in the original post (he's even deceived me lot's of times!)

shit.. Sometimes I think I need a new startup problem to solve to leave the company because this is not letting me sleep at night (and it's no longer the first thought when waking up in the morning).
We actually recommend exactly this to many of our customers. Unless the marketing homepage needs a lot of dynamic app-database driven content we usually recommend installing wordpress on www.domain.com and rails app on domain.com.

when user is not logged-in, domain.com redirects to www.domain.com.

this setup saves a lot of time on static pages management and adds quite a bit of marketing power.
Oracle is stuck in a classic innovator's dilemma.

They can't afford to cannibalize their existing cash cow.
I don't know about an App for minimalistic wallpapers but this site is great for minimalistic wallpapers

http://simpledesktops.com/

Edit : Oh they have a App too

http://simpledesktops.com/app/ios/

http://simpledesktops.com/app/android/
Managers and executives often care about languages. It actually is pretty difficult to find developers who can easily pick up new languages. Most of the places I've worked at, the average number of languages known by individual developers was about 3. By the time I was 20 I had learned 13 (and 3 human languages). That's an exception.

If your programming stack consists of 3-4 different languages, the mental maintenance required by the developers can become considerable. That number of languages is an inflection point. After that point is reached, you'll see resources directed to rewriting things in order to reduce the overhead, or the executives will end up creating new departments with different language requirements and roles.

It's not that people are lazy, complacent or stupid, it's that on average they can't retain multiple representations of the same thing in their head. If you search around, I think you'll find the average number of human languages known by any given person is between 2.5 and 2.8. Programming languages are no different than human languages.
Clear written communication (which is a key aspect of good writing, but not, by itself, enough for good writing) and programming are both largely about clearly analyzing ideas and then expressing them in a symbolic system with defined syntax and semantics.

Software development and public policy are both (largely) about solving problems by designing new systems or improvements to existing systems (while this is more the systems analysis part of development than coding, per se, a good programmer is, of necessity, at least a competent systems analyst, and the problem-solving-with-systems aspect, IME, is what makes programming interesting to lots of people in the field; coding is just the means to the ends.)

So, while I don't think those correlations are all that universal, I don't think its surprising that there should be some degree of correlation between programming and writing skill or between programming and interest in politics (particularly, in public policy).
In geometry it is quite common to define a line as an infinite set of points (namely, those which satisfy a linear equation). Likewise with other figures, like a circle.