I would personally introduce mathematics into a CS curriculum through heavy use of computer graphics. Having an application for the knowledge makes it suddenly relevant.
Hacker News is just a half-baked Reddit clone with less functionality catering to a specific demographic, mainly people who want YC to endorse their start-up.
Edit: Don't just reflexively downmod this. Point out where I'm wrong.
> because everyone is free to do whatever they want.
Citation needed.
> It's rare to find the man who realizes that everything he fails at is ultimately his own fault
Incompatible with the other claim.
If other people are free to do whatever they want, they are free not to cooperate with you. If you fail to get Megan Fox to want to engage in mating behavior with you, it may well be due to circumstances beyond your control, like not being her "type".
We aren't free. We have a lot of built-in unconscious drives that push and pull us in one direction or another. Our decision-making process is wired up through genetic happenstance and upbringing. Our parents, schools, cultures, and religions programmed us to a large degree and then turned us out into the world.
Heavy? They must be going by Facebook's user base, not amount of code (the system is a hybrid of multiple languages) or even actual usage (they just launched it, I doubt everyone has switched over from IM yet, if they ever will).
Being the key word. I think the more likely explanation is night workers eat more junk food since all the normal places are closed. They don't grab a salad, they grab drive-thru or donuts or similar all-night crud.
Day workers do that too, sure, but not exclusively.
A forum for entrepreneurs who largely bypassed college is hardly the place to get snarky about formal education.