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I also got my first job out of school as a junior developer at a local company that promised they would provide great mentorship. I was so excited and asked a lot of questions while there. Unfortunately, I soon realized my team members did not that :D.

In school, professors encourage us to ask questions. In the working world, I guess you are supposed to figure out answers to your questions.
1 year ago: http://imgur.com/2TxgOhr

5 years ago: http://imgur.com/jliGkON
Ah, I see... I know when they've started expanding outside of Japan, they've actually dropped requirements to have a phone number associated with the account, and allowed Facebook account and E-mail address in lieu. Although, the requirement has been in place for Japanese users for a while -- I think it's now universally the same.
Please don't mistake confidently arguing for patronizing.

"The USA is the biggest power" is a form of context. "The speaker is from [country X]" is a form of context (Churchill, definitely not from the USA, once famously said "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.") There was adequate context for the original t-shirt to make it clear what "America" was referring to.

Which makes the "not just the US" argument come across as similar to if you argued that "LeBron isn't the only star, Aldebaran is also a star". Virtually everybody knows there are multiple meanings of the word "America"; we don't need to be told that every time we use it to refer to the US. The appropriate standard for word usage is "the same republican principles as American civil and ecclesiastical constitutions" [Noah Webster], that is, popular usage. And in popular usage, "America" can be used to refer to the US, or to the landmass as a whole; arguing against that is like arguing that we should stop calling famous actors "stars" because they're not luminous spheres of plasma. It's incorrect, and also annoying.
That is an enlightening answer, thanks.
Since there is an obvious political slant to the message, it should be pointed out that it is the finance industry itself that is "printing money". So take that into account while thinking through the political implications, if skylan_q's premise is actually true.
Somewhat unrelated, but AP courses can often be easier for brighter students as they generally keep disruptive clowns out and offer more engaging material instead of boring busywork. The classes are thus more like college classes and less like babysitting sessions.
The mutations themselves are random. Generally it's reasonable to think of mutations as movement across an energetic landscape. And like in physics, nearly anything is possible if you give it enough time/energy. However, if constrained, the shortest path is usually the most likely.

Back to your question - is there an indicator to predict whether a virus will evolve towards or away from its effectiveness. Ideally, you'd put such constraints on the virus in other ways (in addition to the above concept/treatment), that it wouldn't have the energy/time to get to that much more complicated state of binding more proteins. Every additional mechanism a virus uses is a significant penalty against something as compact and efficient as a virus. But in the end there is likely no way to make any treatment perfect and unovercomable. Best we can do is defend.
I know what a Central Bank is and how they are supposed to work. Check this out: Who owns the Federal Reserve? [1]

>As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve derives its authority from the Congress of the United States. It is considered an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by the Congress, and the terms of the members of the Board of Governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
Because they are, very deliberately, not tailoring education to meet their needs.
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> There is absolutely and unequivocally ...

I down-voted you for this and nothing else that further followed.

Because anyone that believes in a) absolute objective truth and b) that they posses that said truth, is a person that will generally be wrong in many ways on whatever follows (or at the least, if this was an out-of-the-character emotional response, it will lack the needed logic and reason based evidence to support the statement).

Also, starting out a discussion with kill terms that accuse and label anyone who does not agree with the given POV, is not cool.
I just picked received the CODE Keyboard with the green switches yesterday and while I was swapping some caps I wondered why they didn't just make the housing clear for the backlighting. This looks cool!
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About prediction #1 - here is micro angularjs demo showing angularjs digest cycle running in separate worker http://glebbahmutov.com/blog/run-angular-digest-cycle-in-web...
(a) minimum karma for posting a Show HN, otherwise the keywords are automatically removed from your title (similar to downvoting priveleges)

(b) keep track of the accounts who get their Show HNs removed for inappropriate use, and if it happens too many times their Show HN privileges are revoked (similar to flagging privileges)

Just brainstorming possibilities.
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I met some education majors in the 70s, when I was in college and grad school, (at McGill, coincidentally). It was clear, even then, that many of them were aiming to become grade school teachers because they could not do math beyond the grade school level. My encounters with my kids' teachers over the years have only reinforced that impression.

Two examples:

1) A 4th grade teacher who gave assignments in which presentation counted for 80%, and content for 20%.

2) A middle school math teacher who claimed the answer to the question "Flipping a coin, what are the odds of getting heads or tails?" was 50%. She really meant to be asking two questions, one about heads and one about tails. She completely missed the significance of the word "or" in questions about statistics.

This article does not surprise me at all.
Oh, please. Your post was downvoted because it accused people of being MS shills - just like this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9074704
The opposite happened when I went through high school. AP classes gave you a .75 bonus to your GPA, Honors classes gave a .5 bonus.

However, many of the AP classes were hard, to the point that the AP exam was laughable. The average grade in AP Biology was a C+, and more than 85% of the class got 5s on the exam. Same thing with calculus, physics, chemistry...

The valedictorian took AP Psychology, Statistics, Environmental Science, and US History, and then went down to the easiest Honors classes he could take. Just a .25 penalty on his GPA bonus... but he was getting 100s in the classes.

The kids who were looking for the hard classes to learn had much lower GPAs.
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Maybe Ive read too many blogs. Maybe its because I watched the class but Im starting to feel like this is the "generic" advice for startups. It doesn't make it any less true or valuable, but everytime I read it I feel somewhat empty; as if there is something critical missing that everyone but me knows but doesn't write down because it feels like common sense. I'm not sure other people feel this way or how to not feel this way. It seems really obvious, almost too obvious that you should work really hard on ideas that other people want. Maybe thats all there is too it; It just feels hollow.
I just watched this the other day and it is amazing how well the movie has held up over the years.
It it contradictory to recommend that a founder a) prefer making something a small number love to making something a large number like but also b) obsess over growth? I took these to be valid for different stages - first a), then b).

Obviously this is all very insightful and has been discussed before as these ideas were developed. Nice to have the 20k ft view in one place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
Just use flexbox. I've recently started doing iOS dev, and I really miss the simple, declarative, consistent web layout tools. In iOS, there's a broken drag and drop editor that can do about 80% of what you need. You then need to go in and call a bunch of arbitrary methods that do various things to different UI modules, with no consistency between modules. Everything is very ad-hoc and one-off and you don't have much choice in what to use. I will say that all the animations are pretty smooth once you call the right combination of weird arbitrary methods to do what you need.

What is this legendary interface system that is better than the web? I'd like to use it.

EDIT: As for tooling, I guess it's just a difference of opinion, but I love the fact that there is none for the web. It forces everything to actually implement elegant and understandable API's. Too many IDE-based systems use the IDE as a crutch allowing them to create inelegant systems that would not be possible to use with it.
I don't think that you've really understood the sort of limits that the previous commenter (and the original article) were trying to describe. To a very good approximation, QM does describe our universe: any "better" theory must necessarily be equivalent in the appropriate limits (to many decimal places of precision, I might add). In the same way, relativity does describe our universe, and any "better" theory must be equivalent in the (different) appropriate limits. As I understand it, that is the level at which those are being assumed in this argument. The whole point of the theorems that these groups are trying to prove is that any "better" theory that matches both of these limits must be equivalent to string theory.
This supposes that you must EITHER accept cluttered, lowest common denominator content OR a monetization scheme from 1930 shoehorned into the internet. My point is that _Finance_ (as opposed to the simple desire to pay rent) has resulted in paywalls on websites. So in essence I'm agreeing with the article all while circumventing their attempts at getting me to pay.
There is also the point that the United States of America was the first state to incorporate "America" in its name. It was an independent state when the rest of the Americas were at least nominally colonized by European powers. Much of the rest of the world got used to calling the USA "America".

For that matter, the official title of Mexico included "United States"--should I apologize when using "United States" or disambiguate in case somebody wants to mention the United Mexican States?
Are you really using all of CSS3? Centering and vertical alignment are trivial with flexbox.

http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/
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>Those are valid points, yet I would still like to see CL become more appealing to programmers from other languages, whose baggage becomes relevant to their intuitions.

I suspect that's the reason for libraries like CL21.

However the specification for the language known as Common Lisp defines a language that is mutable by the user. We don't need to change the specification to experiment with syntactic changes that could benefit new users.

> This Common Lisp reference [1] equates "cdr" with "rest".

That would be a common mistake I've had to overcome when I first started learning Common Lisp. Consider:

(cdr '(1 . 2))

What's the value?

Hint: It's not a list. So why conflate CDR with REST? They're completely different things.

(cddr '(1 . (2 . 3)))

What's the value? Can you guess how that works? Hint... if it's a macro it might expand to:

(cdr (cdr '(1 . (2 . 3))))

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_...

Again, not REST. Not a list. It just so happens that when you have a structure like:

(1 2 3 4)

You can get (2 3 4) by:

(cdr '(1 2 3 4))

But that's because:

(1 2 3 4)

Is the same as:

(1 . (2 . (3 . (4 . nil))))

And that is the only syntactical sugar Lisp has afaik. You could configure your printer to print out the actual cons structure if you'd like but the shorthand is useful because this data structure in particular is so eponymous.
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As someone who respects your work, I would suggest that perhaps the more interesting problem is EFF's structural inability to do anything but apologize for Google policies and practices that clearly and obviously harm user freedom and privacy.
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I actually read [the first third of] the book "The Man Who Quit Money." He only accepts what is freely given as long as there are no strings attached. For example, he doesn't take from soup kitchens because the workers there are required to do it as part of their jobs. I'm not sure what part of that you think he's ignoring. He's not trying to live as if the rest of the world doesn't exist, but to prevent others from controlling him via money and vice versa.
Honest question: Who is the intended audience for all these startup/advice articles? Wouldn't the best founders be too busy building stuff instead of reading articles on the web. Wouldn't the majority of the audience of these articles be procrastinators (like me)? If so, wouldn't the best advice for such people be to stop procrastinating on the web, and to build stuff instead?

PS: The advice by Sam is great. I'm questioning the medium.
In a way this is partly a good thing. If everyone focused on going to space or curing cancer and were unsuccessful for quite some time we'd be in trouble. While there is a place for these endeavors and they are very important we have to be careful not to allocate too much focus to them.
It has also been used to search for unknown chambers in the pyramids [1].

[1] http://www2.lns.mit.edu/fisherp/AlvarezPyramids.pdf
The original commenter asserts the DOM feels slow because we use bloated frameworks rather than pure JS. Sure, you certainly can use pure JS to target a select few modern browsers, but I've yet to see a practical story on how to build apps for the rest of the web at large this way.

Are we saying in order to go fast, we should eschew the progress we've made in compatibility to accomplish it?
I'm a chronic mumbler -- I try not to be, but when I speak, it feels very loud (to me), but comes out quiet and mumbly; when I speak up so friends can hear, it feels like I am yelling.

Definitely not about compression, though.
One can only speculate, but here are some possible factors :

1) Firearms are not widely available, and must be registered. Violent crime usually involves knives rather than firearms.

2) Japan has little in the way of slums or ghettos. Low-income communities are not as prone to problems with crime.

3) Low availability of drugs. With less reliance on drugs, drug trafficking and associated crimes are less prevalent.

4) Homogenous society. There is little in the way of ethnic tension, with only a few notable minorities.

5) Gang culture. Organized criminal groups like the yakuza are more business oriented than violence oriented. They are more likely to go after the crimes that provide more money, including white collar crimes and crimes like extortion. They also prefer to lay low, avoiding violent activity which would draw the attention of the police and politicians.

6) Police culture. The police only move forward with an investigation if there is enough to go on, leading to a high conviction rate.

7) Low unemployment. Most people who want work have it. Otherwise there are usually enough welfare programs to keep others content and out of trouble.
I realize the web has a huge headstart on anything else, but what prevents someone (or us, as a community) form creating application containers that are not web browsers. Why not something like a "Python Box" where you can download and run applications written by developers in Python, and where the UI is rendered asynchronously in just the ways people say they want it (at least in this thread).

I know that on day one there won't be anyone on your "Python Web" or whatever alternative browsing box you make, but if its nice to developers, and if it really does give users a better experience, then eventually we'll see people use it ... just like any good idea takes root in the long term.

I know the web is already here, and it makes a lot of sense to leverage the fast V8 engines we already have pre-installed on all our users' desktops and devices, but I am really surprised that we haven't seen any alternatives in the two decades since we've figured out that Javascript/CSS/HTML really suck for a whole class of applications.

I suppose you could say the JVM was one attempt to do this ... but the JVM was proprietary and it wasn't properly marketed to end users.

The app box I'm talking about should be something that users feel they have to download because it will be an infinite amount of fun.

Security is a huge problem I know. But surely we can figure out something using containers/VMs etc. to airlock all the random code that will be downloaded into the box by users.
When was this added? Very nice, and thanks for the tip.
For Lenovo you can download the SCCM package for the given model. Includes all necessary .inf files and does not install anything itself (designed for use in corporate deployments).
I generally agree, but this is a situation that can be explained by either an embarrassing level of incompetence or a pretty minor amount of malice (or even indifference). So I'll assume malice until I see them own up to that much incompetence.
Here are the stats:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-604-x/2014001/t/tbld.2.1-eng...

Notice how the lower and maximum salaries are not very different, but how it takes much longer in Québec to get a decent salary.

Ex: after 10 years in Québec, you're still at 58,643 $CAD, but in Ontario after 10 years: 75,336 $CAD.

My daughter is in primary school. I find it seriously disturbing how underpaid the teachers are.
A huge part of the problem is where modern finance goes, i.e. what it finances, and why.

The traditional definition of a bank as a middleman between savers and businesses is very, very wrong.

Almost all bank financing is directed at existing assets, mainly real estate, and that financing is unconstrained by deposits.

Therefore it is mainly speculative and parasitic, rather than investment-oriented and productive. It is also self-reinforcing in that finance drives up prices which become collateral for more finance... and so on.

Hence... inequality, stagnation, and the rest.

Adair Turner gives a good overview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVQdeb0EdWA
Chromatic aberration is one reason why you don't see many large/professional telescopes use lenses. Another is that enormous, thick, heavy lenses aren't very practical. This seems to solve both problems.
Ask HN: What do you hate about finding a new job?
I'm trying to learn about a candidate's perspective on recruiting.

+ What do you like and dislike about finding a new job?
+ What do you value when looking for a new job?
+ If you could change one thing about "job search", what would you change?
Yes, and: it's preinstalled on Windows 8, it costs nothing, and it's made by the very same company whose product it tries to protect, so incentives and motivation are clear (an exception to "if you're not paying you're the product").

It's quite a convincing product, quickly becoming an integral part of the OS. And rightfully so.
It's wasted potential. The modern world and all its conveniences and all its resources didn't just come about. It was built up, out of nothing, by people who saw how shitty the world looked then and wanted to live in a better one. A better world is not being built by dumpster divers. It's certainly not being built by dumpster divers managing to convince other people that dumpster diving is somehow noble.

Every age had its dumpster divers, its people who, rather than to throw their weight behind efforts to create better institutions, to better understand the world around them, decided a better world wasn't worth the hassle. That this world, with all these things that all their ancestors spent their lives building, is stupid and should be renounced. These people are absolutely a burden, and should not be listened to.

It made sense in a weird sort of way when the Jains were doing it, religious renunciation is sometimes the only way you can make a political statement without getting killed, but it didn't take long until they had made their point but kept on doing it after it stopped actually being noble.

Yes, there's a lot of crappy things about the world. Roll up your sleeves and help fix them!
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Maybe Google could write a performant DOM in Chrome before it is too late?
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The US finance industry uses self-generated work which generates commissions.

One of the drivers behind this is the tax preference for debt over dividends. There's been a trillion dollars worth of stock buybacks since 2008, an action taken mostly to reduce taxes. That generates work for Wall Street, and wealth for those "near the money", working on various deals.

Then there are "hedge funds". Hedge funds, as a class, underperform the market, partly because of their excessive fees. The traditional hedge fund fee is "2 and 20", or 2% of the amount invested each year plus 20% of gains. This, too, is self-generated activity of Wall Street.

Then there are Exchange Traded Funds. Regular mutual funds are priced once a day, after the market closes. ETFs are constantly traded, generating commissions. ETFs have some tax advantages over regular mutual funds, and are thus another exploit of a flaw in tax policy. They can also be shorted and optioned, which are zero-sum operations which do nothing for the economy.

Then there's high-frequency trading, which is a form of front-running. This skims a tiny percentage off of other transactions.

None of this contributes to capital formation, and most of it was illegal a few decades ago.
My usual response to this complaint of the "decline" of HN is that it is a tactic of older entrenched figures in a community marginalizing the viewpoints of newer members.

The second strain I see tends adheres to the timeless tradition of decrying the degradation of the youth in comparison with previous generations, which is as old as the ancient Athenians. "Times change, and men decay."

Normally I dismiss them, and for a while even kept a running tally of each time these silly arguments were advanced.

However, I can no longer in good conscience attribute the very recent behavior of the front page of HN (over the past ~3 months) with these two explanations: there has been an undeniable degradation of quality, new sources in primarily popular science publications with very click-bait titles, and even anecdotal evidence of undetected voting rings.

To me, the real question, is this some artifact of the evolving website leadership (unlikely given the managment of the transition,) has the fundamental purpose and audience undergone another shift (YC companies forum -> General Startup News -> General Technology News.)

Or has HN's Eternal September simply finally arrived, where new users are arriving too quickly, and thus cannot become acustomed to HN's norms, resulting in a lowering of quality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Fingerprints cannot tell you who a person is related to, or about their likely medical conditions. DNA can. (Though the limited set of markers used in police databases can't. But they also misuse those markers and overestimate the odds of a match. However that is a different and more complicated issue.)
as you said, it's first a and then b. if you build something a small number of users love, you'll find growing is far, far easier than if you don't do that first.
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