skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more of a natural diffusion of common sociological binding properties with increases in cohort size than ego.

In small, cohesive groups communication IS simultaneously MORE efficient and MORE intimate.

As the group size grows, the differing mixtures of shared properties amongst its participants grows. There are more total possible channels for signal-based bonding, but also more noise. With choice comes confusion, ambivalence, and even rejection.

In the extreme case, the original cohesive set of properties in the "core culture" can be bifurcated or disappear altogether.

It's no different than what happened on the original Fidonet, The Well, or the infamous AOL-invasion of the academic Internet.

SXSW has simply gotten too big for the original cultural center to hold.
Can you explain why posting a notification to a partisan group about a deletion is considered canvasing? It seems like saying "if there is an issue involving schools, you can't tell the parents of school kids." Am I just reading that wrong? (Just so we're clear, I'm not attacking you. I can see how someone might take it that way so I wanted to clarify before we even go down that road.)
lots of groups switch ideas mid-session and have to start from scratch on day >1. but yes, launching early (more specifically before demo day) is quite an advantage.
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Let's talk! I like where you are going with Webscaled-- maybe we could work together. Shoot me an email me when you get a chance: matt @ datamarketplace.com
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Then please do name "the mail-based virus checkers that kill the checking process if it takes too much time/memory and not deliver the mail".

I spent several years in a company that developed this sort of products and I am not aware of any commercial products that do what you described. I am guessing you are referring to the mail gateways integrated with FOSS virus scanners, and still I doubt the behavior you described is typical even between them. From what I saw the restrictions were implemented in the scanners themselves, and the mail that could not be readily processed was always quarantined, and not simply "not delivered".
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From there, you can get to this piece, which it recommends as a related article:
http://jasonstrachan.com/clients/simpleinvoices/

In essence, this piece suggests you pitch the problem and then only mention your solution once people are interested. Unfortunately, no real examples are given. So I am having trouble wrapping my head around the idea. Any thoughts? Anyone?
Also significant is that cicadas, while numerous, aren't very large. Predator body size tends to be roughly proportional to their prey's body size, and larger animals tend to live longer.

The net result is that the cicada cycle is a bit longer than the expected lifespan of a hypothetical predator, making it even harder for such to evolve.
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Actually, the reason why online game is so popular in China is because it is one of the cheapest entertainment you can have....so you can be brainwashed and stop thinking about the fact that you're making $1/hour. (When Jane McDougal said online users are 'optimistic', I spit out my prune juice.)
And notice that Zynga became real popular after september of 2008 ;)
If users want it-- definitely. We'll need to see how many people contact us with these types of requests.
Sorry to hear that. Would you mind emailing me the CSV file at steve@datamarketplace.com? I'll try and recreate the problem and let you know when it's fixed.
I suspect you didn't watch the talk, where McGonigal talks about taking that placated attitude and turning it towards the real world. She doesn't deny what you're saying, though certainly she has a deeper grasp of this than you seem to.

But no, I was referring to your ludicrous theory of "escaping government".
I don't care about what Stallman thinks, and neither should you.

If you're here, it's probably because you are (or want to) running a startup, and you're doing it to make money. In most instances, Stallman's philosophy is fundamentally against that, or at least indifferent to it. If you pursue his ideas seriously and consistently, you will fail in business.

Do you really want that? If your answer is yes, why are you reading hn?
If you're making $10k/month and feeling pressure to grow, that sounds like a problem worth having.

At that point I don't think it would be hard to find an investor (other than the OP) to help out.
Why didn't he buy a saw with SawStop??

Also, I wonder if he is a professional carpenter. If he is, he would know about SawStop. If he is not, he shouldn't be using this equipment.
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Bernanke wants to eliminate reserve requirements completely for banks
Because the punitive response to default makes even less sense. It doesn't extract much money (most structured BK's fail). It retards entrepreneurship (most new companies fail). It locks debtors into unproductive careers or businesses, which is a net loss for the economy. And, it actually encourages irresponsible lending (greater disincentives to default imply more incentives to lend).

What makes no sense at all is the system of incentives that, over the last 10-15 years, motivated financial institutions to go out of their way to extend credit to people with no discernable way to pay it off. Those incentives had almost nothing to do with consumer responsibility. They appear instead to have been a byproduct of the deliberate mispricing of debt.
I watched an internal demo :) Where they scraped a table off an MLB site, live, using their GUI and prettified the data a bit. If you check the blog there's some demonstrations, and the Village Voice gave it a test drive: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/pazz_jo...
The radio news down here in Austin is saying the so-called "hacker" is a car salesman that was fired from one of the many used car dealerships down here.

They are also saying he took home (stole) a peice of special hardware used to call over the phone lines and disable cars for people who fail to make their payments. Something the finance manager would use from time to time.

No much hacking, just a theft and several phone calls over his home phone land line.
Very clever. I don't get text msgs and would love to use a web-monitoring service use this to notify me if a server goes down.
I look forward to the day when someone with FU money buys a few hundred 10TB hard drives (prerequisite: someone develops 10TB hard drives), sets up a RAID array, and extracts 42.zip completely, just for fun.
I don't believe it's that ludicrous. I can either work 40 hours, and get taxed 50-70% on that, or I can work 20 hours, make enough to survive, and play video games for 20 hours which I enjoy. The government loses that 20 hours tax income.
There's nothing like cycling every day through a cloud of cicadas for a couple of weeks, as I did in Virginia in 2004. Not only are they noisy before mating, but they make a very loud thwack when hitting a bicycle helmet.
Unpaid software internships are for suckers.

* If an intern is providing value for the company, they should be paid.

* The barrier to someone providing value as a programmer is extremely low. A bright, hard-working sophomore CS major should be getting paid as an intern.

* Students are often at an information disadvantage, in that they are not aware of how valuable they are.

* The idea that internships at Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, etc don't offer the ability to write production code is ignorant of these programs.

* Companies which are willing to take advantage of an information disparity to underpay interns are also likely to underpay their other full time employees.
If you want to able to design and develop good products you need to be vigilant with your money. What good is all that enthusiasm if you have no money to do all the developing and designing?

So thinking that Apple would spend money in a random and irrational manner even if this statement is completely true and the mantra every Apple employee says to herself or himself every morning is probably a bad assumption.

(I think that Apple’s frontpage doesn’t make them all that much money. I bet that if those who decided on doing this today were teleported to similar positions of responsibility within amazon they wouldn’t have done it. It still is a nice thing to do. You don’t even have to be all cynical about that, I certainly don’t want to. Apple is just the kind of company which – and that’s indeed pretty unique – can do stuff like that. They probably consciously made themselves into that kind of company.)
It simply isn't true that $120k/year is the average programmer's salary in SF. That's near the high end of programmer salaries, especially if you're young (programmers in their 20s rarely get >$90k).
I would love for CloudKick to integrate with Notifo :)
Not mentioned in the title. Perelman proved that the Poincare Conjecture is true.

Imagine a sphere (in our 3 dimensions). If you drip a bit of water on it, the water will run down to a particular point.
It goes down to the same point no matter where you drip the water.
If you rotate it, the water will still all drip down to a particular point (just not the same one as before).

The above is true for some shapes (eggs, lima beans) and not true for others (Lego bricks)

So the question is: what about a 4 dimensional sphere? If you could somehow drip water on it... would the drips all converge to a particular point?

The answer is "yes"
You are an edge case and will continue to be so. Most of us actually like the real world more than we like video games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canvassing

I don't really see anything in WP:CANVAS that would frown on informing a specific subgroup. If anyone's capable of demonstrating notability, it's likely to be those who are most familiar with the subject at hand, yeah? I'd actually encourage going directly to the associated community and asking for assistance in determining notability.

That being said, evidence does need to be put forth that meets WP:NOTE: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article." There are many subsections and clarifications, but that's really the core of it.

My experience in notability largely revolves around webcomics. There's a very low bar for entry and a fair amount of pride in one's creation, which I can well understand. However, things started getting to the point where an article was being created for each and every webcomic out there. In some cases, the fan community was quite helpful in demonstrating notability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

If you disagree with notion of notability in general, we can discuss that separately (so long as you put forth an argument that my cat McMuttonchops can have an article in Wikipedia).
I bet that if those who decided on doing this today were teleported to similar positions of responsibility within amazon they wouldn’t have done it.

Then you don't know Apple all that well.

You're conflating money with opportunity cost. Apple operates with blatant disregard for incremental opportunity cost, because they believe that the greatest opportunity cost is the cost of doing something you don't believe in...
This is every grad student researcher's dream... data finding and cleaning is such a major hassle. If only I had this a couple years ago...

This is going to be great especially when the new Census comes out. Lots of data to be sifted through and organized in unique ways that the government never does for us.
I'm tempted to upvote this post just so the other people can see the comments. Specifically the burritos link and the explanation by barrkel.
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This week, at the unveiling of a new study for the International Chamber of Commerce which argued that 1.2 million jobs could be lost in Europe as a result of copyright infringement by 2015, the head of the International Actors' Federation lamented the term.

"1.2 million jobs lost" seems like it's a loaded term. Is this going to push the unemployment rate higher? Is it a permanent loss? Will these people get jobs elsewhere? What would the people do in these jobs if this industry never existed? People have been saying that copyright infringement is going to hurt employment for years, and yet the industries continue to exist and people continue to find work.
* I know 7 languages. (5 of them I speak perfect)

* Everyday I read 300 pages (book & articles) of writings, and scan (eye scanning) 300-400 articles online. Pro day.

* Now I study my second university. First was 6 years medicine, second is also medicine, I am in 4th semester and I am 23 now.

* I went 5 years to piano school.

* I went 2 years to painting school.

* While I study medicine, I learned graphic design and it's already 5 years that I work as a graphic designer in a very big design firm.

* While studying medicine I've learned myself - Marketing

* I was born in USSR and now I found myself in Germany.

* In 2003 I became a muslim.

* After 3 month I am planning to start a startup.

I saw that HN people are so SMART! so great brains in one place. wow.
And maybe have relevant emails disclosed during discovery.
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+1 for new relic as well!
Those interested in further examination of psychology of this subject should look in Canadian scientist Bob Altermeyer's work on authoritarian personality traits.
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Why did this make the cut, the answer seemed obvious.
I'll disagree on the notion that Google's hiring practices don't allow a small error to derail the entire process. Basically, within Google we haven't noticed any of the problems around our hiring practices enough to solve them.

The problems are clear; unfocused interview loops leading to poor feedback, much too long process between phone screen and receiving approval from MTV, a focus on hiring those good at interviewing and not those good at engineering (hiring scores do not correlate with performance scores), and ignoring experience by offering salaries or positions significantly below candidate's current levels in the industry.

We end up being a place which is great for college hires and those getting their first chance, e.g. moving from test to dev, but not for experienced hires. And the effect is larger in some groups than others, but the senior engineers on my floor are mainly those without motivation to advance their careers and move on, even to internal projects.
The topic reminds me of a family anecdote:

When I was a little girl, my dad worked for a time for a small company. He apparently talked the owner into letting him take over the dead accounts as part of his duties on the condition that he get a cut. The owner expected them to be uncollectable, so he figured there was nothing to lose.

My dad would go personally see these people, learn where they lived, learn what day of the month they got their check (often, a welfare check). On that day, he would show up with enough money to cash their check and take out a small payment on the debt they owed. (He swore that if you went even one day later, you weren't going to get a dime.) He was very friendly about it and offered to cash it for their "convenience". He made it an offer they could not refuse.

My dad supposedly collected on upwards of 90% of what the business was owed by these dead accounts, taking his cut, of course.
The process is long and slow, hence frustrating. Particularly if (like me) you're approved by the hiring committee and then a hiring freeze puts your application in limbo for the better part of a year.

However I didn't see the insulting bit of it. I really didn't.

When I think hard about it I do note that they ask some basic CS questions that many people forget the answers to. And people tend to avoid cognitive dissonance by finding excuses for their failings. So certainly some people walk away (as the grandparent poster did) upset that they are asked questions which are "below" them. Someone who has done this may become insulted at being asked questions.

But focus on the critical facts. The questions are asked because they are relevant to Google. When you operate at Google's scale, having people with good gut instincts about scalability matters. Most software developers don't develop that. Therefore is it really an insult to try to find out whether someone has that knowledge?
Since it seems that those who have commented on this thus far are focusing on the wrong aspects (or at least it seems so to me), heres some important context.

1) The reason why most table saw manufacturers did not adopt the "sawstop" skin contact detection technology when it first came out (easily more than 5 years ago i believe, possibly even earlier) has to do with that change being possibly legally considered an admission of liability which was previously not there, which would open the avenue for many more lawsuits

2) Accordingly, the reason why this case is a big deal is not because it opens up the window more for old injuries, but because now the manufacturers will be in the situation of needing to consider the tradeoff between cost of liability for past injuries since the introduction of sawstop, and the cost of liability for all new injuries (presumably by having all new saws have the option of the sawstop style tech, they would have no more future liability).

in otherwords, this legal ruling broke a shitty nash equilibrium
I agree. Although I care deeply about this issue and agree with some of his views, Stallman seems to me like a classic case of someone who who makes the perfect into the enemy of th good. Every time I read his output I am beset by the urge to respond by blatantly plagiarizing him.
I guarantee you the person who decided to do this was Steve Jobs.
The prime numbers have nothing to do with predators. Predators require regular feeding from live prey. A prey species that hides for even one year causes significant starvation in predators that could otherwise come to depend on it. This effect is maximized after only a handful of years of hiding. No lizard or bird could survive on stored fat for more than one or two years.

The prime numbers come from competition between strains of cicadas. First consider that genetic timers are not perfect: most cicadas may emerge after N years, but a fraction will emerge in N-1, N+1, or even farther years due to randomness in genetics and the environment. By blind chance, occasionally an early group will become plentiful, causing a predator population boom that smashes the population of the "correct" year. It's like a badly-made gear that occasionally jumps one tooth forward.

Second consider what such jumping does to strains that are not relatively prime, such as 6 and 12 year cicadas. Eventually the random chance effect will synchronize them so that they emerge in the same year. Because these year skipping cicadas all evolved from the same parent species, they will be closely related. This creates a cross-mating problem if they emerge at the same time, causing matings to either produce no offspring, or to produce hybrids that are synchronized with neither period. There may also be problems with excess damage to the host plants. Therefore evolution favors strains that synchronize as infrequently as possible. That means prime numbers.

IIRC a few years back some scientists created a simulation with plausible numbers for fertility and hybrids, and the result was spontaneous emergence of the prime number periods for the observed strains of cicadas.

Edited for clarity.
I know 7 languages. (5 of them I speak perfect)

Which languages do you know? (When I was a kid, I wanted to learn 6 languages but it didn't work out. It bothers me less now that I know a little CSS, HTML and XHTML.)
The iPad doesn't really feel like it's developed for me as a tech savvy person (no multitasking, no side-loading, etc.), but I think that's the point.

However, the developer side of me is pumped to be able to leverage the unique hardware and create an experience that would have been impossible otherwise.
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New password-stealing virus targets Facebook
Good article but the date it was published: 2008-04-29
This looks really awesome. I like push notifications as an idea, but I'm not wild about Apple's implementation, especially since there's nowhere you can go to get a list of notifications you've gotten, so if you get one, then you get another before seeing the first one, it's just gone. (A few of Apple's decisions, like not putting a simple "Notifications" listing app, baffle me.)

One thing about the app/site: the workflow for getting started sucks. I have to go to your website, make an account, and then go to the app to put that info in. To add to the effect, the only signup link on the homepage is all the way at the bottom, and creating my account doesn't automatically log me in.

Plenty of apps give you the option to register an account right in the app, and yours should be one of them. Make the start as frictionless as possible.
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To do noble and good things while following your business' charter: this is appropriate and an attractive goal for us businesspeople, if you ask me.
There are plenty of programmers right out of college making low six figures. Of course, there are plenty of programmers in SF and SV; these are just the good ones.
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That isn't the Poincare Conjecture at all... you're asking, essentially, whether a smooth, connected, finite surface has a single local minimum that's also an absolute minimum. That's not a hard question.

The Poincare Conjecture postulates that if any loop on a "nice" surface can be shrunk to a point, it's topologically equivalent to a sphere. ("Nice" here means connected, finite, and without a boundary -- like a sphere or pyramid, but not a disk or infinite plane.) For instance, if the conjecture is true, a cube is topologically equivalent to a sphere, because if you draw a loop on it you can always shrink it down to a point; but a torus (donut) isn't, because a loop around a vertical cross-section can't be shrunk.

Perelman proved the conjecture for three-dimensional surfaces (which are the boundaries of four-dimensional objects).
In most instances, Stallman's philosophy is fundamentally against that, or at least indifferent to it. If you pursue his ideas seriously and consistently, you will fail in business.

Any software license that discriminate against business users is against the free software philosophy.

That being said, an anti-copyright business model has not worked against me so far in the two years I been operating a open content website.

The economic knowledge that I accumulated over years, has convinced me that a "public domain", not a "free software" approach to software and media is one of the most dangerous ideas that a capitalist would hold.

I welcome the day when someone finally took that idea and implement it ruthlessly in its full glory. It would be the most beautiful chaos that I would ever witness in my lifetime.

It would be creative destruction at its finest. It is to destroy a fundamental belief that is pervasive in the heart and minds of the masses and showing people that what they thought was their security, was their downfall. Thousand of engineers, artists, and all kind of entrepreneurs thrown into the street left to fend for themselves overnight.

I guess the threat isn't credible, because it come from the rambling mouth of a high schooler who probably want free musics. Oh well.
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Philip Zimbardo described this principle in depth:

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/459

He discusses Milgram, and Guantanamo. How seemingly well adjusted good citizens can rapidly and without notice turn into little lucifers at the drop of a hat with the right social engineering.