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But if all they are doing is expressing an opinion then let them, for it is not for you to judge who shall have the right opinions in this country.

Allow me to disagree openly with that opinion by posting a reply. :) The KKK opinions are so disrespectful to my fellow citizens, so factually mistaken, and so verified historically as causes of violence and social backwardness that I don't just ignore them. I dispute wrong opinions such as those of the KKK. (And I dispute similar opinions posted here on HN, even at the risk of my comments being downvoted, because it is important to provide refutation of such opinions for onlookers.)

About your legal advice, you are mistaken. The current law on free speech in the United States is precisely designed to allow (and, indeed, encourage) open and continual refutation of mistaken ideas on public policy. That is the whole point of the American experiment in free speech.

About your parenting advice, as the father of four children I call on you to provide references to your sources if you expect to convince me that you have useful advice on parenting. Who did the research, and how?

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Are you a parent yourself? How many child-years of parenting experience do you have?
This is Europe, but: my girlfriend is in this sort of situation, and she has a Master's degree in mathematics. Basically, if you can't enter a job with zero training, you're screwed. Everyone expects you to be 100% productive instantly. The entry-level has become unpaid if you're lucky, or disappeared completely.

A separate problem which compounds this is that European universities have been switching to the Anglo-American Bachelor/Master system from the previous diploma system, and many employers consider these new titles to be worthless.
I don't bother obfuscating either. I do get spam occasionally, but the gmail algorithm learns so once I mark a particular type of spam as spam it never comes up again.
I do want to add that I was disappointed by the end of this article, where one of the founders said "We debated selling and looked at alternative options. After five years of growing this company, we feel like proud parents - last year we turned out 30,000 12-ounce bags of granola a day and watched sales hit $65 million. We've come a long way, but we decided that the largest cereal maker in the world could put Bear Naked in places we could never reach."

I think that was just a PR line given for them selling out. They already proved that they DID "put Bear Naked in places [they] could never reach" by ignoring the status quo of accepting VC money and having hired no talent with connections and experience in distribution. A bit contradictory.

They should have just be honest and said that they felt they wanted to be rewarded for their efforts of raising an amazing company and accomplishing seemingly impossible feats and found the offer honest and fair; and now they want to move on to something else.

(I know I am assuming this is the "real" reason they sold, but to contradict themselves by saying that the largest cereal maker in the world could get their products places they couldn't defies and almost cheapens their hard work to actually get the company to that level.)

Cheers.
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I think that's what everyone tries to do. What your group needs to do is talk to some of the people who have already worked on this.

Then again, there's no reason, a priori, that your group can't build the better mousetrap if they've got the requisite skills and resources.
One possible solution to the problem is to use dynamically generated throw-away email-addresses. You can also encode some kind of signature. Then just hide the monstrously huge address behind a pretty "Please Email me" Link:

mailto:chris-hHz389aASKJkjhqweuiSHADKJweiuqzrq@example.com

If Spam increases (or, say, whenever more than 3 emails have been received at one particular address), you shut down the address.

I once implemented the receiving, hmac/signature checking, part for the exim mail-server and a general address-generator class in python and php. But never actually put it to use.
We suck because we constantly ignore well-established, well-known, empirically proven practices.

And we ignore them because we are in such a hurry to release anything that is "good enough". (But then again, a social website != space shuttle software.)
This is pretty interesting. I don't quite get it yet - even after the video - but it looks similar to EarthClassMail.com
What is their background? If they have none as you say, it is going to be unlikely.

You mentioned reading the stanford course, there are also video lectures:

http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=63480b48-8...

If they decide to proceed, two good NLP books:

1.Speech and Language Processing

2.Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
If it's just an intelligence test, then you won't mind me doing this:

edw519@gmail.com

Which brings up another problem; no matter how often you obfuscate your e-mail address, someone else can always post it in plain text.
Think about how often idiomatic phrases come up in English. Then try to translate those phrases into, say, Chinese. And vice versa. Good luck with that.

"Steel rice bowl" makes no sense in English, and "apple of your eye" makes no sense in Chinese.
Yes yes yes.

Anything more than necessary is too much.
For as long as I can remember kids with college degrees have always felt entitled to a job. And I have never understood why.
I think the reliance on Java has little or nothing to do with Android's overall performance.

I suspect the real difference is that Google has chosen to spend its time and energy in other places (e.g. setting up the open-source project, supporting a wide range of devices, creating flexible and complete developer APIs, etc.) rather than optimizing aggressively for performance from the start. I'd bet all of the interesting bottlenecks (e.g. browser rendering) are native code anyway and the Cyanogen ROMs clearly demonstrate that Google has left plenty of performance on the table so far. Given the pace of Android updates, I expect that to change in the not-too-distant future.
I'm in the same boat as many people here.

I just use Spamassassin with my domain name and I get about 2 spam messages in my inbox per day, but the spam box gets around 1000 per day. I post my email address on websites because I want to have zero barriers when a customer or lead needs to contact me. It's NOT THEIR PROBLEM that I get spam.

So I agree, just get a good spam filter.
Tell HN: After suffering NewMogul withdrawal, I built another. Please stop by.
It is called moniedinterests.com.

NewMogul.com was a community about economics, investing,
entrepreneurship and other similar things started by the prolific Hacker News user nickb.

It was a community that was very much like the early days of Hacker News (then Startup News). It had clever people of every sort. (Hopefully, you all return.)

Both New Mogul and nickb disappeared; he moved on to other things. So, I made moniedinterests.com

Please stop by.

edit: It isn't a HN clone, because I don't know Arc well and want to be able to add new features. I know: that's lame.
Wingdings all the way
Exactly.

The author cannot be bothered to decode such email addresses. If that is the case I probably did not want his email in the first place. Ipso facto, my filter worked.
As I said: Some people care more about the learning than they do about the job. I've got art history major friends. They know there's not much work to be found there, but they're in it anyway, finances be damned, because they love art history and that's what they want to learn.

College isn't about getting jobs. That's how it's used now, and that sorta sucks. College is about learning things you couldn't learn better elsewhere. So they're going to learn art history because they really want to know about art history, not because they're trying to make shitloads of money.
Please explain?

How is not you surrounding the racists with anti-racists not up voting the anti racists?

You're showing more support for the anti-racists, not punishing the racists for holding their opinion. Not directly at least.

We can't punish them directly by means of jailing or criminal prosecution just for holding their views. However you can indirectly suppress them by showing more support for the other side, just as you can still indirectly punish bad comments through up voting everyone else. Up voting everyone else is not only a nicer way but a better way in terms of freedom of speech.
I don't think there is much question that one-on-one tutoring is superior to small classes which are superior to large classes. I agree that, initially, large classes will be the target. But in the longer term, it comes down to economics. Universities keep getting more expensive -- their costs rises faster than inflation. Much of the cost of a university is the salaries of faculty and staff. The only real way to keep the cost down is to teach students in a different, more efficient way. So I wouldn't be surprised if most students end up being taught in ways that don't allow for things like assessing body language. I agree that it's better, but it's expensive.
He's right the number is insignificant. The number just represents the sentiment of the person who gave you it, or the sentiment of the person who who down voted you.

It gets even worse if you're someone who worked hard for karma, only have it taken away by someone for your opinion.
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I know it's not tech news, but this story pulls at the heart strings.

I love determination and commitment, this story delivers that, just not in business.
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I am always disappointed when someone cloaks their ideas in such thick intellectual veneer. I can't do justice to someone else's voice, but a few minutes were all that was necessary to make the first paragraph sound like a person:

(translated from semi-scientific posturing) "One of the things that makes us human is thinking about the big picture. Unfortunately, it's easy to make simple mistakes in the attempt think about the biggest picture: the universe. (Please understand that by 'the universe', I mean to say everything; it makes no sense to me to speak of things that aren't a part of the universe.) I sometimes unthinkingly imagine about the universe as the collection of all the things that exist; and that makes sense, doesn't it?
Maybe not. What about pi? The relationship between a the diameter of a circle and it's circumference appears in all kinds of surprising places --- it seems like it is an inherent part of the universe. Pi doesn't exist on it's own, though; at least, I can't imagine pi, floating in space all by itself. Pi seems to be a part of the fabric in which everything else exists. Any theory of the universe must take that fabric into account as well. As far as anyone can tell, the laws that underly the universe, the fabric, is the same everywhere. The fabric unifies the universe. So if I try to think about the universe sensibly, I can't talk about anything outside of it (a philosopher might say 'use monism instead of dualism'), and I must explain the unified whole (holism rather than reductionism)."

Chris Langan, wherever you are, you can do it! Don't be afraid to show your ideas to the world naked as the moment you thought them. The worst you can do is be wrong, and that's not bad at all.
Go to Berlin. See the room of his paintings. No reproductions do them any justice, no matter how well done.
So what are these kids complaining about? They didn't want to make money, now they're not making money! By their own definition, they've got successful careers already!
The first computer I used. You could see each bit of memory with the naked eye: little metal donuts strung on wire grids.

http://members.optushome.com.au/intaretro/1401Core-9L.jpg

Though the CPU was feeble by present standards, peripheral devices like the card reader and printer were already quite evolved, and were very impressive for mechanical devices. The printer could print letters so fast that the pitch was a high whine.

Computers were not seen then quite the way they are now. It was almost as if the CPU was something that combed the data on its way from card reader to printer. That's why they called what they now call IT "data processing" then.

(IIRC it's had 3 names so far: DP, then MIS, then IT.)
I completely agree, Novell's press release sounds like a whiny child.

The release says "To set the record straight, Novell GroupWise is a world-class product..." Did anyone ask this question? They come across as very defensive, which frankly is unappealing in a vendor.
I'm routinely startled by how little "sunshine" we have even on such high-profile projects.

Even information about the peripheral closures arouses my suspicion, rather than satisfying my curiosity.[1]

[1] I asked why I-80 was closed between 7th and 4th St exits (the latter being the last pre-bridge exit, which I use in my commute) and why the western span is closed at all, expecting a response referencing additional serendipitous work or inspection. Instead, Caltrans's public information officer Bart Nay replied in email "The closures you are referring
to at 7th and 4th Streets are necessary to prevent vehicles from
approaching the closed Bay Bridge." That just made me wonder "and what might we find out if we were allowed to 'approach'?"
There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

Reminds me of:

"If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse" - Henry Ford, 1923
How do you think they'd react to (a) Economics (b) Econometrics? I'm going to guess (a) would be laughed at but that a quasi-statistician can always find work in a field with lots of data.
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Perhaps simple to him just seems complex to you and me, and he simply can't help it.
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I never read The Book, instead learning the language entirely by the spec. It's honestly not that hard.
You should fix this:

Warning: Unknown: write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
Need to look up what "dearth" means.
Related thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=915000
A lot of the newmogul guys have gone over to markenomics.com fyi. Still, congrats on hacking together a solution to the newmogul problem.
Consider: "I'll set this here."

How many different meanings can you find for that? What about the classic: "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana."

Sentence parsing is a huge field with a lot of very good work. If you only have "grammatically correct" (whatever that means) sentences, then the "Link Grammar" approach is very good at parsing in context.

Natural sounding language production is extremely difficult. Almost everything machine produced sounds stilted and non-natural.

On the other hand, everyone has to start somewhere, and a truly new approach may yield better results than anyone else's. Unless you take the time, effort, money and risk, how will you know?
That latter advantage is true, but D's "header" files are currently impractical. Creating them by hand is a major source of pain, greater than with C/C++. The automatic generation on the other hand is troublesome for at least two reasons:

1) It's very sensitive to the contents of .d files. For instance, It leaves the bodies of inline-able functions in, thus if you modify such a function in the .d file, it will again mean a change spill to the .di and modules importing it (directly and indirectly). Similarly if you just reorder the functions in a module or change a private constant. This could partially be mitigated by a sufficiently smart build tool that tracks symbol importing, aliasing and usage in order to infer the modules that need to be recompiled. Sadly, this is quite complex and no current tool does it at the moment.

2) It assumes none of the functions will be used at compile-time (by stripping away function bodies depending on whether they may be inlined), which forces you to stuff them all into compile-time-only modules.
Was the Mac popular among tech entrepreneurs before OS X?
Thanks. I put this up on a shared host because I didn't want to serve my ghetto "my first php application" from my production server that hosts my Python work (and livelihood).

Yeah, shared hosts are ugly. I'm getting on the phone now.

edit: They refuse to acknowledge the problem. They said "you get what you pay for" and tried to upsell me to their dedicated hosting.

So, I will put this on my server later today.
I was just about to mock that quote. But to be honest those who use vi still think the mouse is inferior to keyboard.
I think she lost a lot of credibility with that statement.
Yeah, I just heard about that today. So far it is only like six of them. But, I'm definitely interested in collaborating.
The point the OP was making was: You can't lump together all college students when writing an article like this, because not all college students are going to college to get high-powered jobs. College has never been about merely finding employment. It would therefore be more interesting to look at only business-inclined majors when studying something like this, because art history majors, say, haven't ever had a long tradition of finding employment after college.
Just a tidbit, his wikipedia page says he's a creationist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan#Ideas.2C_aff...

I think his argument is that creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. So he does believe in evolution.
It's been absolutely dead. Probably less than 50% of what the norm is, from just my observances. It's actually quite nice (since I bike around). But, at the same time, it's really wreaking havoc on a lot of people's daily lives.
Somewhere in his work, my father picked up a keychain fob that had some core memory elements as well as a microprocessor embedded in Lexan. I remember as a kid looking at it through the family microscope (having no idea at the time how unusual either the fob or the family microscope were).

I cut my teeth on the PDP's and then Vaxen at his employer that they kindly let me visit on site and dial into from the home terminal. As the article says, you never forget your first love.
This will create a pretty mailto link encrypted with javascript that the bots can't pick up: http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form

I've used it for years with good results. People will even email me thinking that I've exposed my email address to spammers encouraging me to use the blah [at] blah dot com style.
I can't take more than 2 minutes of this guy...

"I am closer to absolute truth than any man before me"

get over yourself.

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak5Lr3qkW0
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I copy/pasted it in because the site was overwhelmed, and people were having a hard time getting to the content. Why was this bad? (Really, I don't understand what the problem is.)
It's essentially trivial in adblock plus. I regularly install it on people computers that I set up, and I've never heard of any complaints, nor seen it not working.
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I love it. Having a car in the bay area is a total pain in the ass. CCS seems to be an unbridled success. The cars are always new and clean. I have never heard of one getting broken into or stolen--I'm sure they all have lojack. Really the total opposite of what this article is describing.
best piece i ve' read all day.
This link

http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/history.html

gives historical background on the persons who form unvalidated high-IQ societies.
Seems like that was a very small cost for Amazon to pay to get your support :)
Indeed. Saying 'QNX is sucks as a desktop OS' is like saying 'Windows 7 sucks because it doesn't run on my toaster'. Well, d'uh!

It's a classical case of wrong expectations. The author criticizes QNX for not automatically installing a SMP kernel. That is actually a good thing as multiprocessor real-time systems are very much different from uniprocessor real-time systems. People building real-time systems should consciously choose to allow SMP; the OS shouldn't do it behind the scenes in a dot update.
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But I doubt the vast majority of Farmville and Mafia Wars read/care about TechCrunch.
I think I would've been a bully rather than a hacker had I met someone this arrogant and pretentious in high school. The only amusing part of that video is when he tells the story of getting chained to a truck and dragged up the street. Clearly, that didn't happen enough times.
Some very smart people use questionable theories to get attention (and perhaps a lot of money too). In a way, it's a logical use of their brainpower.

Is his theory falsifiable in any way?
The iPhone can play MP3s while doing anything else, there are GPS Nav apps for the iPhone, and nobody wants to ssh from a phone anyways.
Oh this is so true. And all I can say is: ha-ha-ha, sucks to be them. I graduated from college this June with a degree in PSYCHOLOGY, and I have a lucrative job. My secret? I started applying for jobs in the October before I graduated. I targeted three metro areas, and posted my resume every few weeks on the respective craigslist; I repeatedly sent in resumes for every position on craigslist/monster that I was remotely qualified for; I networked. And eventually, someone emailed me from one of my craigslist postings and I landed a job.

I don't pity anybody in my graduating class who doesn't have a job. Obviously they aren't smart enough to deserve one.
The mouse is inferior to the keyboard if you are doing nothing but editing text. But for nearly anything else, the mouse is better.
Unpopular opinions can be down voted. And this does happen. While often it doesn't matter that an unpopular opinion is down voted because it may in fact be wrong, there will be certain cases where an unpopular but universally right comment will be down voted. It will be grayed out. But with a system that promotes and allows silencing unpopular comments, such a rare event will almost always result in a down vote will not just marginalize it, but actually suppress it.
Only because everything else is designed for a mouse.
Another anecdote:

In 2006, Nokia discontinued their 7710 touchscreen smartphone and shut down the majority of R&D related to touchscreen interfaces, because market research indicated that people just don't want them.

A year later, they were scrambling to figure out how to compete in the redefined touchscreen phone market.
Our education system is failing =(