skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would expect attacks on high-value targets in espionage etc. cases to be extremely specific and precisely tailored. I'd expect exactly one intended recipient of any given phishing attempt, and no patterns.
It is hard to think straight when one is out of a job and running on fumes for a couple of months - I do believe that most people will not think in terms of "hey this VC is not good, cos he does'nt get it".

Most will think in terms of "how should I rehearse in front of the mirror, so that I knock the VC's socks off".

But yes, the article is good reality check - maybe it is much more relevant on your second startup when, usually, money is relatively easier to come by.
I think the chart is from Morgan Stanley mobile report and decades refer to decades when that "revolution" started, not when winners of the revolution were solved.
A bit off-topic, but as you mentioned it: Did you expect Blu-Ray to be broken any faster/slower than it has been (even if only by SlySoft rather than publically)?

Having PC software players seems like the weak point to me; they'll always be analysed far more quickly than the turnaround time for key revocation/distribution/version updates.
It could be that they intended to redirect ebay.com links and a mistake ended up redirecting everything with ebay.com in it?

From what I've read that seems a possibility.
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Well written, but I was wondering why would anyone still write a "numbered list" after pg's article about lists. Not that I absolutely love everything pg writes without negotiation, but that one was an obvious hit. So, I'd name it a "11 Rules Of Happiness I've come up with so far". Would sound more authoritative.
Guys, shouldn't we be talking about 11th position? Lisp! Remember?
I dont think anyone is claiming Apple invented the model.

Though perhaps they can get it right for once.
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You missed the part where I announced that I quit consulting and am living off the money made from:

1x SaaS web app, 1x self-published ebook, 2x 1-day in-person training workshops, 1x 2-day in-person training workshop (corporate training - yeehaw!

Plus, of course, this course, which is part of a plan. I have three other web apps in various states of completion, as well as the plans for another technical info product.

And I worked with a friend to ship a Mac app, although it's not making either of us any money. The other stuff has made a lot.

I also earned money with a 3-hour teleconference on the lessons I've learned from my "year of hustle"

That, my friend, is why it was called Year of Hustle.

PS -- even if I were still doing client work, that'd be a good thing. Being co-dependent sucks for BOTH parties to a relationship. Everybody wants to date the driven person who does for themselves - and wants to hire them, too.
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Hm, I modify my /etc/hosts all the time and it works as it should.
Ask HN: College without college (idea)
HN'ers, I had an idea about opening up education to everyone.

So if you've been to college, you know some of your profs upload content and documents like presentations, slides, notes, syllabuses, etc. to share with students.

I was wondering, why isn't this available to anyone who wants to see it? Organized/aggregated efficiently and relevantly? Why isn't it available on the web forever? Or for free?

A regular joe who isn't enrolled in university could buy the text book and follow along the lesson plan just like a freshman. They wouldn't get the kind of quality of learning that attending lectures gives, but its valuable content nonetheless.

There could be some sort of publishing platform that lets teachers openly share the lessons they have. Something as simple as a dropbox for every professor/course. Imagine having access to the lectures of some of the smartest professors out there.

Objections I could see to this:

Profs don't want their content publicly shared

Educational institutions are opposed to giving away free content

What other objections would people raise? Do you think theres a market for accessing university course content alone (rather than an immersive educational experience)?

Thanks guys
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"Think about this: you IQ is defined and practically unchangeable by the time you are a young teenager, but your personality continues to develop for many more years after that. So there is no way your personality can affect whether you are smart or not."

I don't know whether the two claims you made are true (the one about IQ may be, the personality one probably is) but "there is no way your personality can affect whether you are smart or not" doesn't follow. It's possible that your personality may often continue to develop after your IQ is mostly set, but only in a highly restricted way dictated by what your personality was before. In fact this seems to me likely to be a common outcome.
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I'm surprised you aren't aware of OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/). It's been around for several years now, and its existence could cause one to read your post as sardonic or tongue in cheek.
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Surely that leaves a two-month window in which weird things can happen?

They could mean twice a month.
I generally associate people who do that ultra firm handshake and staring thing with people who then going to try invite me to play golf (which I have no interest in) and then try and sell me something. At best it is likely to creep me out a bit.

I don't think these kinds of tips work if it is obvious to others that you are following a checklist every time you meet someone.
Thats actually what I was thinking, but on a global scale.

So not just MIT's site, aggregating content from all universities. A lot of the content on MIT's site is from 5 years ago. When you tend to have the content managed by one party, it'll get bogged down and not work as well as it should over time.
I pay thousands of dollars for tuition, and you don't. I earned my right to attend my school, and you didn't. I deserve access to my course material, and you don't. I would be so pissed if I went to MIT, and they just started giving things away like that.
I was in the same situation. Not reading PCL, but Actionscript. Starting the work is harder than the work itself. The best grades I had were when I wasn't distracted by my PC. My mom was starting her company and needed a PC. I gave her mine and relied on the computer labs. The time restrictions because of lab hours meant I had a real deadline to get work done. I went in knowing I had 2 hours to allocate to one project, 2 hours for another, etc. When the lab closed, I left feeling confident that I did what I needed to do and could get some rest, finally.

Whether they are boring or not doesn't matter. They are all boring at some point.
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Interesting point. So you think students would be opposed to having their professors/universities give open access to educational content? I personally wouldn't care. The value in a college education isn't the notes or content alone, its the teacher/student interaction.

Also, other people aren't "attending" your school (taking up class spots), and they certainly aren't graduating with a degree. I have a comment regarding elitism, but I'm not interested in a debate and I appreciate your post.
Ask HN: Tags at Hacker News
One of the few things I'm missing at Hacker News is tags. I mentioned this to a friend yesterday and his first response was "No, it would introduce unneeded complexity and be subject to useless discussions", and I think he was right.

Obviously this doesn't solve my problem, which I believe is boils down to "the ability to see at glance what a link is about", as the titles aren't always as descriptive as they could be. I think the original submitter is most suited to tag the submit and would like to propose it to be done in the following manner: by optionally prepending a single tag in square brackets to the title, quite similar to what's done on mailinglists. Thus "[C++] To auto or not to auto?" for example.

Yes, this optionally introduces an extra bit of complexity for the submitter, but the first word that comes to his or her mind is probably most suited as a tag. By limiting who can edit and add to this I hope to keep the discussions down, the submitter adding a tag is something that should be considered a service to the other readers.

What do you think, is it a viable solution?
Maybe because not everyone read that essay? The real reason I think is because people want traffic, and list posts get traffic. I experimented with that format and even if you write bullshit, you'll get traffic. I'm personally aiming for a combination of both. Last thing is that list posts are easier for the reader, and my goal is to create something for the reader, not for me.
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People who do the recommended security updates shut down their computers quite often. And yes, sleep reliability varies a lot with the hardware (unfortunately).
(Disclaimer: I'm that friend)

I'm pretty conservative about this, since it's hard to completely oversee the influence it has on a community (Slashdot's tag system comes to mind). While the need of categories/tags is already illustrated with the "Ask HN:" in this title, it does raise a few concerns:

- it puts an extra burden on the submitter, do we really want that ?

- is there enough content on HN to justify a category system at all ?

- what if someone submits content in the wrong category, how should we deal with that? should the mods deal with this, thus adding an extra burden on the mods too?

- what if an article belongs to multiple categories?

All in all, doesn't it create more problems than it actually solves?
Random, arbitrary "Rules" that generally have little to do with happiness and more to do with how one should behave in social settings.
I never said unlimited, and I disagree @ "I'd rather I be in control at that point". I'm not a doctor, and I'll leave it to them to decide the best course of action.

The problem I have though is that most Americans seem to think pretty much unlimited socialised military spending is fine.
Well, not to troll, but I downloaded SH5 from a newsgroup to see if this claim is true (not a file sharing site as I don't have any wish to perpetuate the infringement and upload to others) and it's fine, I haven't noticed a single thing missing from the gameplay. I'll be uninstalling shortly and deleting the ISO, but I'm currently about 3 hours in.

Can you give specific info as to exactly what is missing?

It's a great game, I'll definitely be buying it when the DRM is gone despite not really being much of a gamer anymore.

I stress when, because it's the biggest backfire in copy protection history and Ubi know it. After all the development time and resource that has obviously gone into the DRM, I was surprised/amused to see that the hack is pretty much just a cracked exe.
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This type of analysis and visualization is best done in Mathematica, which incidentally also supports both functional (a la Lisp) and declarative (a la Prolog) programming. It costs money, but it's the right tool for the job.
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that's exactly right. it's social because there's a link to twitter. and it's a CRM because you can leave a note. awesome, at least they know how to get PR.
"Hard to believe it, but the OStatus process is underway."

Why is it hard to believe? It seems like four people from StatusNet wrote up a spec and are trying to turn it into an open standard. What was the hard to believe part?
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I am Bulgarian and I find that very hard to read. Much harder than Russian or Serbian. Many of the phonemes could be simplified to be made more universal. It feels very influenced by Polish, though, so I'd probably be easier for Central Europe Slavic countries.
A link to just the image was submitted yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166991

I have to ask - in what sense does this follow the guidelines for "On-Topic"? Quoting:

On-Topic: ... anything that gratifies one's
intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: ... cute animal pictures ...

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My native language is Czech, and all sample texts looks very similar to Croatian or Serbian :-) Not much Polish. And yes, even for me it's very hard to read :-)

(Though, that might be because it has quite different spelling from polish. Spoken, it could be similar. It feels very ancient. :-))
It may well be a viable solution, but I am not convinced that the problem of "the ability to see at glance what a link is about" exists for everyone. Not for me, anyway.

In terms of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", the variety that I find by clicking through a high-rated item with an obscure or mystifying headline is welcome.

A tagging system may help me to pre-filter, but by applying my own filters instead of trusting the HN community filter, I would no doubt lose the surprises and intellectual gratification. Some of my favourite items have come through not knowing what the link is about, but clicking anyway.
I suppose it could only have happened with the first (few) patent(s), but someone should have patented "a method for filing a patent."
I would love to hear some of the number theory gems that have been most useful for you.
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Most cool developments happen in software (and have for the past decade) precisely because we have standardized our hardware.

Look how long it took for multiprocessors to become mainstream. It's no coincidence it only happened after Windows NT displaced Windows 9x as the most common desktop OS. In fact, it only happened when Windows 9x's share became neglectable.
I'm Russian, and I can read and understand about 90% of their sample texts. It reminds me Serbian (though I don't know it or any other Slavic languages, and I've read more Serbian and Macedonian than any other Slavic language, so maybe there's a bias because of this).

BTW, Bulgarian is harder to read for me than Serbian or Macedonian.
Well, SSL is based off of the concept of a web of trust, which means that if you obtain a root SSL cert (like those held by Verisign, etc) you can perform man-in-the-middle attacks on countless sites. So while the requirements for successfully mounting the attack are very high, so are the potential rewards.
Wow, I'm Polish and it looks Czech/Slovakian to me.
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It's kind of fundamental to a moral view of the world to believe that you are no more or less a person than any other person.

It would definitely be weird for one to have free will and everyone else not to, and I am certainly not making that claim. However, if you believe that one can behave morally with respect to dolphins, cockroaches or the environment--and most people would agree that some or all of the members of that set are mere bundles of state and/or lack free will--then it seems that one should be able to act morally with respect to a bundle of state person, too.
My bad that it's already submitted, but ...

Come on, it's Friday, it may not be completely on topic but it certainly adds a lighter note to proceedings. I love Hacker News, have learnt a heck of a lot from it and visit on a daily basis and have done for around 3 years - but is this not a little petty ?!

Anyway - to be fair to the deer it's not so much cute as dead !
There is an external implementation of tags, although most likely it hasn't taken off because no one uses it, and no one uses it because it hasn't taken off.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1069726

PG is talking about having multiple flags for items, but that's about appropriateness, not about the semantics of the content:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006589

The problem is always getting the elvel of complexity right. Allowing free-form tags makes it impossible to search for what you want, and makes it hard to decide what tags to make up and apply. Having a limited collection makes it impossible for some submissions to decide what tags to apply.

It's hard, but not impossible. It would also prevent me from seeing some of the things I've really appreciated. I would tend to skim over things that don't appear relevant, and sometimes those are the very things that have engaged my interest and expanded my horizons.

It's like with these dating agencies, or friend suggesting algorithms. I don't want to meet people with whom I share an interset - I want to meet people who are interesting.

Solve that, execute well, and you'll make a fortune.
That would also be interesting. A couple years back, Movidis has shown a MIPS-based multi-core server that had much better than x86 (at the time) power-per-throughput numbers. It was very Niagara-like.
The documentation on clojure.org is usable and once you're in clojure you can type (doc whatever) to get the documentation for a function.

However, its a known problem (discussed on the clojure group this week) that there are many ways to set up the environment and build tools.
To me the viable solution is to sometimes look at the comments to establish whether I should read it.

Sometimes I know it's of interest so I go to where the link takes me, but I just found that often I get a much better summary by someone here at HN than from the url in question.
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This is pretty silly given that if you teleported any slav living in the range of Gdansk to Podgorica and Ljubljana to Ekaterinburg, it would probably take them a couple of weeks to gain enough proficiency to buy groceries. Hilarious misunderstandings will undoubtedly occur but if you take out the severe outliers like Bulgarian and Macedonian, this is about as useful as another hole in the head.
Russian serves reasonably well as a Slavic lingua franca, in the few marginal cases such a thing is needed to begin with.
This patent shouldn't be allowed. There are lots of prior art. Just ask any patent troll
Yep, totally agree. I'm Russian too and language is completely understandable.
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I'm English and have lived in Poland for the past five months, and I like this! As much as I'm enjoying the challenge that Polish presents, the grammar doesn't half kill my head sometimes. That and I'm still finding my natural inability to roll my Rs embarrassing in public ;)
Ask HN: Please help, I messed up badly - will the IRS go after me?
I visit this site daily but chose to use a new account (just for now).
The problem I have is following.

I live outside of the US and am not a US citizen. I used to sell software via resellers - they pay me 50% of the sales as royalties (something like the app store). Last year I decided to create a C corporation in the US to make the business look more "serious". My friend became the only director & CEO of this business (he does this for free). I also signed a license agreement between me & the company where the company gets a license to the software & basically the company pays everything it gets from the reseller to me as a license fee. I send money from the company account to my personal account oversees, as I see fit.

Basically all the company makes I withraw to my account in my country. I also pay taxes & everything on this - according to the local law. No problems on this side.

Now I am facing the problem that I figured I need to send the federal tax return - the form 1120 - for the corporation (my friend as the ceo will send this) - to the IRS and starting freaking out that it will look very suscipicous if it shows (for instance) net receipts of $111,200 (this is what the company got from the reseller for the products) and expenses (other expenses) will be license fees of $111,200. I started freaking out that what if the license fee can't be deducted as expense? What if it has to be "amortized" etc..? In this case, might I put "consulting fees" in the amount of $111,200 as the sole business expense? What I need is to slash the company's taxble income to 0 and what I need to avoid is the company paying any taxes.

Can I do it like this? If bad things happen, will the IRS go after me in my country?

Please help - this community is a blessing. I know I'm stupid I didn't consult this before with a lawyer etc but maybe you'll have some ideas.
It might have something to do with the blatant warning on the entry page telling you not to use Java due to some mysterious problem with it and their sandbox.
I think this is because we look for properties that are foreign to us, and skip properties that we familiar with when trying to understand the language. So, for example, you didn't notice some things taken from Polish, because you already know them, but you noticed things that look Czech to you, and thingie didn't notice Czech things, but noticed Serbian ones.
I don't know. It could be Czech… but 500 years ago :-)
If we move away from a single binary architecture without compromising a software compatibility layer (that doesn't need to be at the binary executable boundary), we become free to experiment with other technologies that have not been explored for a couple decades now because they would not be compatible with our software.

It's a little embarrassing the coolest processors we have today are more or less binary compatible with processors of the 70's and 80's and that the operating systems they run follow fashion that was conceived at that time.

I have said it before: where are massively-parallel, hardware-assisted garbage-collecting connectionist machines of today? "Nowhere", we say, mostly because they can't run Windows.

What happened to Alan Kay's "if you are serious about software you should build your own hardware" idea?

And just imagine how happy would Intel and AMD's engineers if they could make all the silicon around the execution units of their processors do useful stuff instead of emulating past 8086's 80286's, 80386's, 80486's, and Pentium I, Pro, II, III, 4, MMX, SSE instructions (and quirks) for binary compatibility's sake.
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I speak both Polish and Czech and this is very easy for me! I think I understand it all, but it really feels to me like Croatian/Serbian language :)
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