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This is the inherent problem I see in the modern "casual" approach to racism. It's "ok" now to be vaguely anti-white/anti-black in an "im not really racist, honest" way. With just the one attitude in the room your probably ok (just get a bit of awkwardness) but with both the divide is doubled and problems appear.

I get frustrated with some of the big "anti-racism" campaigners; they strike me as making the smaller issues big ones and causing divisions all over again.

On the specific issue I think it's not so much because the students are black they have this attitude - just because they are in a minority and have the anti-majority sentiment. I saw a similar problem at my school when girls where let into the all male establishment for the first time. Even though girls tend to do better academically at that age in our school they did worse and had higher rates of no homework completion/detention (as I recall). Im guessing for very similar reasons.

To be honest though I think parents are the main problem; and not just in minority groups now. Even my Aunt who is in her early 40's has no interest in her kids schooling - and they suffer for it. The current parental generation seems full of similar attitudes - my mother is a teacher and she says getting parents to take an interest, encourage learning out of school and other activities is the biggest challenge she faces at the moment.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but here in Sweden there are at least two or three companies in the delivering boxes of organic vegetables to your door once a week business. They basically rely on orders in advance, fixed delivery schedule and certain amount of flexibility in exactly what is delivered which means they don't have to keep much stock.
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Any comments on -ing content?
> Go visit a counter clinic and get exactly what you need ---though I'm sure you know that you have acute viral bronchitis and you only needs some over-the-counter drugs to treat symptoms. Then, you can go reinvest your "shitload" in something more intelligent like car insurance or a new graphics card.

The problem is that in my country you cannot get a prescription without a doctor’s appointment. What happens (at least with me) is that I wait to see if I get better by myself.

> You're right. Health care should be like sex. Free only, illegal otherwise, immoral regardless. There should be laws to enforce this.

Nowhere did I claim that. What I meant was that doctors have a conflict of interest. On the one hand they should care for your health and on the other hand they should make as much money as possible. That causes a lot of doctors to prescribe unnecessary tests and perform unnecessary x-rays. In my country there was a law that allowed doctors to sell medicine (usually a pharmacy had to be owned by a pharmacist). This caused a lot of doctors to give out overly expensive medicine that people do not need.

> Say no.

And the doctor will tell you that it is really necessary. Since most people do not know the field they will believe the doctor with blind trust.

> Also, doctors prescribe generally prescribe what will be most likely to work the fastest because ---if you remember from a century ago--- bacterial infections kill you and then spread to your friends and family to kill them.

They actually do that to make money (see above).

> They don't care that you can save $30 with some similar drug they don't know much about.

Those “similar drugs” are run of the mill anti-biotics that have been on the market for 20+ years.
This is certainly interesting. You should put the 'more subtle' in context: The clues given to the horse were subtle enough to be missed by a lot of humans, including the human giving those clues. This is what I call subtle.
Sex is not always free, and even when it is free, it carries hidden costs, same as software ;)
I hope I don't annoy anybody for doing this.

Quite the contrary. :)
You, my friend, have obviously never paid for sex.
I read that quote as being attributed to Linus Torvalds a number of years ago.

I agree with him, too. Free software is way more fun than the paid sort, at least I find it much more pleasant to work with/on.
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To be fair to ppk he’s not usually so wound up. I think the state of the subject matter has gotten to him.
If you want to belittle Wired or iPhone users or Twitter users (and Lord knows it's trendy to do so), feel free, but do expect to get hit with the occasional bout of sarcasm in response

I've already responded to this. Wired implies that Tweetie is a killer app if you use Twitter with multiple accounts. That's an edge case even among Twitter users, and Twitter is not an enormous web site. It's like saying the Facebook app is a killer app because it's gorgeous and provides near-full site functionality right now. It is, and it does, but say I'm writing an article about an app that I'm claiming "justifies" your entire app purchase. It doesn't help me look serious when I go on to say "Oh, also this one Twitter application is just as justifying. Seriously, accessing Twitter like this is as important as being able to store and read articles offline."

just as I expect that people who believe in the myth of the Wonderful Hacker News Comment Community will downmod all such comments into oblivion

It's not the sarcasm that isn't welcome. It's the sarcasm when dealing with subjects worthy of discussion. You know? Here we're talking about something that's provoking a good deal of debate, so your sarcasm is actively harmful to the discourse. If we were talking about some ridiculous subject, then sarcasm is totes coo'.

As for "discourse", well, I've been active here for a while and lurking for longer, and my first impression was that HN was a site that syndicated TechCrunch articles. Took me a while to realize there was anything other than an echo chamber here, and I'm still not entirely sure about that.

Shit like this isn't even snarking. It's just you being an asshole. Come on. We're all venerable old men here, we can afford some courtesy.
These are actually 18 of the papers that I could find in the "free" web

Let's hunt those two down HNers! But please, do NOT repost from the ACM, IEEE, Elsevier or other pay services.

Email it to me and I will add to the collection.
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What did you think of the 6 points mentioned?

Would they offset the feeling of having a new someone for whom to report?
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You know, I don't like Scribd either and it pissed me off royally when The Geek Atlas appeared on the site for free download.

But this lawsuit seems bogus to me. When my book was up on Scribd they quickly removed it once the publisher complained and it's now gone.

It annoys me greatly when I see people can read my book for free somewhere because I don't get paid. But I ask myself exactly how many of those people would actually have bought the book or the PDF in the first place. I'm guessing that I really don't lose much money from this sort of infringement.

I'm very happy that there are ways to limit it, but the genie is out of the bottle for digital content and the answer is not suing Scribd.

In the lawsuit the plaintiff complains about this process and goes on to claim that Scribd keeping a copy of her book so that they can automatically detect future infringing uploads is itself copyright infringement.

I'm very happy that Scribd has a copy of my book somewhere in their system to automatically detect people uploading it when they shouldn't. The last thing I'd want is for them to remove it and then not know how to stop people uploading it again.

In fact, I'd be willing to sign a copyright assignment form allowing them to hold the text for this specific purpose.
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The only difference is that it takes much longer to iterate a program like YC... on the order of months instead of weeks. It means that more thinking is necessary before you start.
Mostly given up these days tho still messing around with Logic 9 and strumming guitar - heres an old demo track (apologies for the vocals :) http://mindshaft.net/mindshaft-old/electricblue.mp3
Humans in space efforts have nothing to do with research. They are now purely national prestige efforts. And I am extremely pro-space, I just don't think current efforts are doing ANYTHING AT ALL about getting us there permanently.
I find this quote confusing. I can accept that gratis sex is better than paid-for sex, but then it's a pretty banal analogy to make -- in simplistic terms, anything is 'better' if you can get it without paying for it, software or otherwise.

On the other hand, if it's trying to make a case for libre software, then it's must be talking about libre sex. And I'm really not clear on what that entails.
Then don't call it copying.

Anyway, your article is fine, it's just that it seems there is a non-existent audience. Those that are dead set on trying to copy YC will do so anyway and those that were busy on different tracks will find that it does not apply to them.

It's like everything else, reuse the bits that you think are good, drop the rest and try to find good alternatives.

What would be a lot more interesting - at least to me - is how YC stacks up scorewise with the rest of the incubators out there. I haven't seen much proof yet that they do structurally better in the long term.
I'm all for some well-placed swear-words, but this article was so hard to read that I had trouble working out exactly what is wrong with the spec.

Still, I can tell the author's pretty pissed off about it.
The article title is linkbait, the article itself could be summarized in exactly one sentence, and you didn't need to read the article to be able to do that.

In dutch we call that 'kicking in an open door', I don't know what the english equivalent is.

And thanks for coming out :)
Compared to most other possible ventures an iteration time of months is peanuts. Some industries have iteration times of decades!
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With good reason I think. It sort of makes sense to me since I've looked into it previously and been similarly horrified at how dumb it worked. I can't see any sane person using this trash over existing js components.
I'm glad I'm not the only one ripping my hair out over this.

I wouldn't expect much to be done about this however. Of the concerns I listed in my blog post, I chose the absolute most conservative one, which could be added in a completely backwards compatible way such that no existing browser implementation would break, and I was basically told to wait for HTML 6.

For the curious: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatwg@lists.whatwg.org/msg18003...

Here's lookin at 2015.
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> once the publisher complained and it's now gone.

There's something to be said for not having to chase after people to keep them from ripping you off, though.

> I'm very happy that there are ways to limit it, but the genie is out of the bottle for digital content and the answer is not suing Scribd.

I agree with that. Which makes it something of a vexing question.
As long as you wear your MBA badge front and center you will probably continue to be so.

Hot tip: Your education level is a good indicator of what you are capable of, but not the only indicator and probably not even the best indicator.

So, if instead of trying to 'leverage the title' and looking at yourself as an 'MBA', you'd change that into 'serious professional that is out to make a difference' your sensitivity will melt away and you'll realize that those that use their MBA as a means to differentiate themselves are exactly where the problem lies.

I could say the same thing about my self, "I'm sensitive to people being negative about high school dropouts", because I'm a high school drop-out. Instead, I don't care. You can judge me by who I am, what I've done and how well I've done it. Some of my buddies have PhDs, all kinds of fancy degrees, I wouldn't trade with them for any money (or title) in the world.

Be good at what you do, be excellent if you can and if you're not try harder. And don't let your MBA hold you back ;)
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I think coding to to software, what sex is to a relationship... both are over rated.
There's something to be said for not having to chase after people to keep them from ripping you off, though.

Agreed. But The Geek Atlas was ripped off within hours of it becoming available as a PDF and it appeared in a variety of seedy places on the net which would have been near impossible to actually shutdown.

The only real solution is to target the major providers because they'll be the major conduit for bad copies. That's why it was important to go after Scribd quickly.

What can be done is have publishers work with people like Scribd to preemptively upload ways of identifying copyrighted works so that individual authors don't have to police the Internet.

I agree with that. Which makes it something of a vexing question.

I'm not sure it's even a question. People are going to rip off my book and I cannot prevent all infringement. I have to do two things:

1. Concentrate on other streams of revenue around the book (this is vital anyway since I'm not going to make a fortune with it even if there was no infringement at all).

2. Make sure that major infringements are dealt with quickly.

Of course, I hope you'll go out and buy it, or the e-version, or read it on Safari, but there will be some people who decide to download it from some bad site. Now, I wonder what percentage of those people actually read it.
... also often you don't know or even can't estimate how much dollars something can bring in in long term. If you are starting new unique venture you can't really estimate potential gains.

But from history of man kind seems that investing in new things and even exotic research is in the long run extraordinarily beneficial.

Gains from gathering resources and building ITER (or GPS, or orbital power plant) earlier not later can give humanity much greater benefit than it would gain from instantiating 5 mln startups with 1/5mlnth of the used resources.

I'd even say that no value can be created by human activity (by means other than resource exploitation) if it does not involve inventing or applying new technology.
There is a 34 page thesis deliberately answering the question "How to Copy YC" (making the conclusion that he makes in the article).

There is a good lot of that in there.

In the Spreadsheet linked from the article there is listings of lots of funds and their startups. It makes interesting reading; much of it subjective.

For example YC has funded astronomically MORE startups than many other funds. On the other hand very few have exited or obtained more funding - and a large number are completely dead (compared to other funds).

Techstars has a much much lower "dead" rate and a much higher follow on funding rate.

Seedcamp have the "best" success rate (in terms of follow on funding) but fund one of the fewest number of startups.

All of that data though is pretty useless for actually comparing them. For example the Seedcamp follow on funding might be as a result of their manouvering of VC's towards the startups and not much to do with the viability of the product. Or the startups coming through YC might well have a tendancy to fail regularly - but the community of startup operators it creates might be huge; and the connections they all make might ensure their second or third venture DOE succeed with a nice fat exit.

What Im trying to say is comparing the "success" of an incubator is probably an unbelievably tough task.
I find that some things change faster than others. Acclimatising myself to new things can take quite a short period of time, for instance. I switched from drinking flavoured drinks to drinking plain water and it took about 5 days before flavoured drinks started tasting too sweet and water started tasting 'right'.
Maybe parents are right in not being that interested in schooling. I think I wouldn't be. School is mostly about rote learning, fitting in and being a good worker drone.

Sure, it worked in the past, but perhaps in the future other skills will matter more.
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Hm, let's see - is reading through a 22 page pdf about a court case (presumably written in lawyer lingo) good use of hacker time?
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This one threw me: "couldn’t be arsed to specify"

That's an entirely new way of using arse for me, not that as an American, I ever use it much, but...
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YC probably has a comparable success rate in terms of follow-on funding, but it's incredibly difficult to find the information for small angel rounds. (TechStars and Seedcamp helped me make sure my data was accurate, which helped their stats.)

But thank you for the comments; putting some hard data and thinking behind this phenemenom was the whole point of my project! :)
I just hope that when PPK unwinds a bit that he presents the issues he experienced to appropriate W3C feedback channel... written in a more factual style. We really need them to hear this.
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To comment on this, Its not that I don't think Java should probably die, but I don't think Java is going anywhere any time soon. As long as IBM uses Java as one of their core technologies and is writing their own JVM then Java will definitely be around for awhile.
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A year or two ago I explained to my mother, a lawyer of 30 years, how web sites like YouTube work. I explained that some people figured out that a provision in the DMCA implied these practices were ok and case-law seems to uphold this. She was blown away. To be fair, my mom doesn't do email or surf the web, ever, but its amazing how many people don't understand this substantial change in intellectual property law.
Part of it is that the culture surrounding ML is quite academic. Most of what I've found has been written for journals or books (the Appel compilers book above, _Purely Functional Data Structures_ by Okasaki, etc.), not blogs. Also, the ML community is rather small, though FWIW I'm only really familiar with the OCaml side of it.

Here's[1] a post about an OCaml / LLVM article by Jon Harrop, but it's just an intro for an article in his (pay) OCaml Journal.

[1]: http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2008/09/writing-bytecode-compiler-using-llvm.html
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Couldn't be arsed is an old expression.
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one of the gripes about the specification was the fact that you had to turn off default behaviour of some events.

While I agree that this might sound strange at first, if the default behaviour was to allow drag per default, how exactly would you select content in a webpage?

There needs to be some kind of toggle to enable or disable the beginning of a dragging operation. While there is this attribute in Mozilla (and a CSS style in Safari), right now, the formalized way to enable dragging is to disable the default operation (which is starting the text selection process).

I don't think this is such a problem.

Maybe I'll come back later and comment on other parts of this rant.
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I'm a big fan of light boxes -- they let you get you stuff even more copywriting stuff above the fold without burying the signup form beyond a page load. My feeling is that they work better than standard signup forms but I don't have any A/B tests to back that up at the moment. Hmm, must put that on my list...
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