skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chess is a beautiful game, but poker is much more lucrative. A lot of professional chess players have switched to playing poker because of the money.

One bad thing about chess is that computers are way better than humans, so no matter how good you get, you'll still suck compared to the computers.

The book that helped me most with learning chess is "My System" by Aron Nimzowitsch.
Sure the best bet for palm, but not for RIM.

I think people are missing the point with RIM. Their existing operating system has a very solid foundation. Everything low level is very optimized for two things important on mobile: battery life and efficient use of networks. The devices work very well. Most importantly: they work very well in big business.

Their GUI isn't flashy. Their venture into touchscreen went poorly. But neither of those seem like a reason to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Have to agree, there looks to be very little innovation in Symbian^3. The only interesting thing I saw, as a developer, was the unified Qt SDK letting you target Maemo, Symbian^3 and future releases, and S60 devices all in one go.

I still wouldn't write apps for it, though.
He does say that they have declined to purchase information in the past, which lends credibility to his claim.
Homophobia and misogyny are very strongly linked. The worst homophobes are usually misogynists as well. They believe that sexual desire is intractably imbued with domination and humiliation. On some level, they want to control and subjugate (and rape) women because of the immature and disturbing way they've processed their powerful sexual desires.

The thought that a man might have such desire toward them terrifies them. Essentially, they're scared that a man might do to them (or want to do to them) what they want to be able to do to women.

Obviously, this is ridiculous and irrational-- there's no epidemic of gay men raping other men, and straight men are overwhelmingly more likely to be raped by otherwise straight men than by gays-- but I think that's what is behind this rather absurd fear some men have of homosexuality.
I was excited about Posterous, tried it out, and switched back to Tumblr.

Posterous did a good job with their email integration but to be honest I don't think most people want to update their blog with their email client.

Posterous really needs a UI/UX person. They are focusing too much on features. The basic flow of the site is confusing and IMO, the design is ugly.

Tumblr gets the evolution of blogs better than anyone out there. Most people want something in between wordpress and twitter. The "longform" blogs are starting to devolve into a weird ecosystem of stay at home moms and marketers who are trying to make money gaming google ads. I guess someone needs to serve this space, but it seems pretty 2nd rate and Wordpress already has it covered.

Short quotes, clips and photos are fun and where it's at. I'd be gunning for Tumblr before Wordpress. They do as good of a job for longer posts as anyone, anyway...
It's only their business interest because they've chosen so. They could have reached an agreement with large telecom providers if they wanted to that would have effectively made it impossible for a startup to ever challenge them.
Prices are information. The best guarantee that we don't have food shortages is to use prices to communicate our desire for food, and insurance to guarantee it. That should both encourage food production and inventive ways of securing that production (e.g. diversification in crop, geography, diversity, etc.).

But policies do not communicate information very well. They don't respond as fast as markets do, to changes in demand or supply. They are liable to political interference, as different sectors of the economy capture policy-making bodies and extract rents: the people who know most about an industry come from the industry, so there tends to be a two-way door between policy-makers and the industry, warping incentives.

So I would argue that to secure more certainty for food supplies, we would be better off looking at insurance-based mechanisms, rather than direct government involvement in food production, subsidization, etc.
Terabytes on demand? Cloud storage options
Google Believed To Pay Up To $25MM For LabPixies To Flood The Web With Apps
It bothers me that Google did not throw a publication date on this page. While it is certainly still applicable, this letter has been up for at least a few years. (I believe I found it when researching for a paper in late 2006. )
I hope you realize that you likely have coworkers reading this, and able to determine who you are based on timing and location (since others have already figured out who you work for).

I don't think there is anything in here that you need to worried about, but I figured I should point it out. Their HR department might complain anyway, if they ever see it.
U.S. says protecting IP rights a top trade priority
At-will employment: Deal with it or sign an employment contract. This applies to both parties. End of story.

Update:

Jason in October of 2008: "We’ve laid off a just under 10% of our full-time staff, cut our overhead by doing smart things like renting desks (we have six offices in Santa Monica fyi), and reorganized our editorial department to focus on freelance positions over in-house editors."

Freelance positions, huh? You can't have it both ways, Calacanis. As an experienced businessman you should know this.
Nice touching quoting "The inventor of the World Wide Web". People might not know who Berners-Lee or Cerf are but it's hard to argue with the inventor of the Web.
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It completely depends on the US state. It is unenforceable in California, but usually enforceable in say, Massachusetts
Indeed - they're a major contributory factor to poverty in the third world, along with aid. Yes, aid causes poverty: it warps economies and cultures them to be dependent on outside help; food aid depresses local food prices, drives farmers out of business, etc.
I haven't seen the app but if it is just another way to read this guys articles I would have to agree with Apple on this.
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Chess is very interesting. But it seems like a big investment on time. In my case there are bunch of other things that I rather learn. Right now it is bjj (which believe it or not is kind of similar to chess) It would have been cool to learn chess when I was 12 and had lots of free time; too bad, I didn't a partner to practice with and computers were way too expensive.
I for one say 37signals is one of most inspiring companies at the moment, for me at least.
What they are doing is amazing, they were able to gain profit without almost none marketing or funding. simple because they have contacted the right people and because their product simple works. Now, i'm not a fan of basecamp or any of their apps, but the fact is, this guys make you believe that you can get a profitable company without any VC funding or making millions a year.
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> I've had terrible experiences trying to use ANTLR in practice, which kind of puts me off buying the book.

Yes, but it explains the parsing techniques used by ANTLR, and for learning stuff it's quite OK. It uses ANTLR as a teaching tool, but you don't have to keep using it afterwards.

For writing simple parsers you don't even need to read a book ... just use a parser combinator based on PEGs, like http://wiki.github.com/sirthias/parboiled/ and you'll be fine.

If you want a general purpose language however, even if you use a tool like Parboiled, you'll need to know how its guts work. It is also a good idea for a compiler to be self-hosting, because it's more portable that way and the compiler's code itself is a good test for your language ... so you'll need to know how to implement a parser by hand.

Of course, after the parser is done you'll need to have an AST, and maybe you'll want to optimize it ... this book is thin on such details, but it's better to start somewhere and books like the Red Dragon are quite heavy and can put you off the target before writing a single line of code.
There's another common mistake I notice a lot, but I don't have a snappy name for it.

Maybe "Basing a conclusion on too little information."

As an example, I recently read an article (possibly on Hacker News?) in which a guy was working on his free-throw. He tried adding more backspin to his shot and made 4/4. He then tried 400 free throws using his old and new technique and found that in comparison, his old shot was better.
It may be their business interests, but it should also be important to everyone else that enjoys the freedoms of the internet. If Cable/ISP's get the ability to favor certain content over others, we'll end up similar to the way that cable tv is setup now. "want access to foxnews.com, nbc.com, bloomberg.com then buy the news and business package.. ohh you also want facebook, myspace and twitter.. then youll also need to buy the social media package".
It would be a disaster and the end of the internet as we know it, McCain tried to pass something similar a while ago called the "internet freedom act", which basically would have taken all the "freedoms" away from the consumers and given them to the ISPs and media companies. Net Neutrality is what gives the internet its power, and the ability to grant freedom of speech.
Have you seen CSI?

Okay, that isn't at all like how police actually work. For most cases, police don't bother sending most of the evidence to the lab, because they won't get anything back except the one or two pieces that are absolutely essential to convict.

In that environment, I'm not at all surprised it takes a month to copy hard drives.
Calc's are funny.

Try 12345679 * 9x (where x < 10)
MSG still gets you the sodium you need so it's not worthless from that angle.
I would phrase it that he's taking an aggregate after applying a mapping which is (effectively) de-weighting the higher/positive returns.

If he did the mapping (took the IRR) after doing the aggregate, it would be fine and would be what my intuition said which is that mean return doesn't depend on number of deals.

You want to do the mapping to figure out how it compares to other alternatives that work on different time scales. But to do the mapping first warps the results and makes it seem like angel investing is a losing proposition without volume. Its not, its just a high variance proposition.
"Sorry, this user already has too many friends."
I talk with other vim users?

Even in unix shops, lots of the people end up trying to use stuff like kDevelop and stuff. Those of us who instead vim, we talk.
A more appropriate title would have been "A Note on Net Neutrality to Google Users in the United States," but I'm happy to see this nonetheless. Hopefully this will make its rounds and sway public opinion.
It's an effect of "-webkit-transform: rotateY(-180deg);"
They have a nice flip effect for WebKit browsers: see it in action by clicking "See all new features".
As already mentioned, you tried diplomacy and it failed.

Do you trust this guys? I mean, do they act like they do because of malice or stupidity?

In case it is not much additional work, give them the demo without access to the source. This way you are still in the game and they are under pressure to work _with_ you in case the investor likes your stuff.
I agree with you but I think the "prestige" of chess is largely confined to Russia and a few eastern european countries, and people originally from those areas. Most other cultures don't have the same history with the game.
Strange, I read the title as presented by HN as "The side effect of drugs include health and financial freedom for many elderly", which they do. Without them many of them would be much less healthy or dead, and in many cases drugs are a lot cheaper than the alternatives.
That's the background on my desktop.
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"Let me just grab the edge of this window OH HELLO THERE MISTER DOCK! Glad you decided to pop up right where I was clicking, now we can enjoy the wait while OpenOffice loads!"
From what you say, a "little chat" before you signed the contract suggested that it was fine to keep your start-up.

A "little chat" afterwards has suggested that it is not.

Both of these little chats are beside the point - it is the contract that matters. So the question is, does your start-up compete with your employer. That's not compete as in "compete for time in the same way that eating a sandwich would compete for time" that's compete as in "compete commercially".

If not then your are not breaking the terms of the contract. If they would like to renegotiate the contract that is something they need to talk to you about.

I see that Pawn is a Ltd. company, so I guess that you are based in the UK in which case I suspect an industrial tribuneral would find in your favour and award you compensation if your employer tried to fire you for this. You might wan to have a chat to a nice lawyer.
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While the trick is quite nice, I personally just press the "PI" button...
Really? This sounds pretty weak reasoning to buy a company for a half-decent OS.

a) Performance is never bad on blackberries - what are you talking about? Always far better performance than my iphone.

b) You are complaining about a 3rd party app's security settings?

c) You can't install to a microSD card but is that a problem? There is good reason to not allow app installations on a hotswappable card obviously. They provide plenty of room for app installs on the internal memory.

d) Use a 2000 era device and then use a new bold 9700. You cannot be serious claiming the devices themselves haven't evolved.

Blackberries are amazing devices, it just seems like a small group of people love to hate on them for unknown reasons. Just like a different group loves to hate on iPhones.

What you are saying here is like saying Apple should buy Palm because their OS is garbage because it doesn't support multiple applications and you can only sync through itunes.
I've been beta testing this for a few months now, and I have to say it's just a joy to use. Beautifully designed and unbelievably functional.
I'm confused. Is this a current debate or it is here just as an interesting (historical) note?
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I wouldn't say that I am only limiting my search to college students, but in a college town that is probably one of the only options.

I sent an email to the graphics design department asking if they had any students that might be interested, but they were very unhelpful.
I read it... it really isn't much of an article, more like a list of specs.

Anyway, if a wireless video dongle for a TV is the primary video output it is going to fail as a portable device.

Also, if the built in screen is not for primary use... what exactly is it for? it seems to have a bunch of icons on it which I would assume are applications?
That was the first call I ever made to my congressman.
Electronic Arts is like that.

I was interviewing with them few years ago, and when I asked if they are OK with me writing side projects, and they said "Why would you want to do that? Besides you are going to be busy coding for your work projects... even when you are at home."
"Success is satisfying paying customers over and over again."

Providing value.

I'll be honest. I never understand why people get so excited when a company announces it's looking for funding. To me, if you are looking for funding after a product has launched, it just seems backwards. After all, if your product was good, it wouldn't need funding after it launched.

I guess the idea with this is you need to spend a lot to bring it to a point where it's profitable. Google is an example where profit really couldn't exist until it grew large enough, and it couldn't really grow large enough without money, etc. Facebook is the same way. Twitter, too (Okay, does Twitter actually make money? Is it in the black?). But all these things focus on making money via advertising.

Anyways, enough of my useless questions. It was a good read.
I'm not sure I was prepared to actually talk to someone.
My co-founder took my company and my girlfriend
Hah, guilty. :P
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Also, the article doesn't consider the extremely unlikely long-tail results. I.e the Facebooks and Googles it is trying to explain. In addition to the 1% 20 times return, there is the opportunity for a .1% 100 or greater fold return. If the initial 500k investment in Google Peter Thiel made diluted to even .01% of current Google stock that would be worth about $170million in current market cap. A return of 340 times initial investment in around 10 years. Obviously these exits are extremely rare, but the long tail possibilities of a distribution can be very important in calculating expected value(like when they predict colossal mortgage failures).
Doing things that are offensive to Muslims to make the point that we should have the right to do things they find offensive is... something I'm not sure about.

It's utterly ridiculous that people would riot over a cartoon, and the South Park debacle is upsetting (especially given that the show has always used kid gloves with Mohammed and Islam). I don't think it's possible to feel anything other than contempt for the conduct of Revolution Islam. That said, making fun of Islam for the point of making fun of Islam just seems like something that (although it's not intended this way) would be interpreted by many as very mean-spirited.

Of course, there are legitimate and severe problems with "the Muslim world" with respect to human rights, and nothing should stand in the way of criticizing this, just as we aren't afraid to criticize the governments of China or the US for their human rights violations.
Android Passes iPhone Web Traffic In U.S.
My conclusion is that the iPad is cool (as well as any other tablet device), but the netbook is more productive: Get Both. Each device has its' own uses. Both can be useful and fun.

I have a netbook, but I don't feel comfortable taking it everywhere, the keywords is also annoying when you are in bed and you just want to read or watch. So if you have money, buy a netbook, if you still have, buy an iPad. If you don't have money, work and make money or just read and watch people using those gadgets. (Back to work, so I can save money for the next Sony Rocket ;)
Doesn't look like it, a quick Google search reveals discussion on it from 2008.
The reason that grep doesn't always have directory tree walking built in is because find already existed. Rather than implementing tree walking in each command-line utility, that functionality was factored out into its own program.

That said, many greps have -r.
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Chess has lost a lot of its prestige since the end of the Cold War.

Poker, on the other hand, has grown in prestige since tournaments have offered much more lucrative payouts [1], been televised more widely and had lots of amateurs enter the field.

[1] Even if "more money" doesn't give an event more prestige in your eyes there's a large number of people out there who are impressed by money.
Because in this day and age we value our gadgets more than our freedom. If <big business name> isn't happy, then no one is happy.
I have found using a screen capture program to capture your presentation while your rehearsing is very useful, there are lots of free and open source ones out there. You have your power point and you basically go through the slides, presenting to your screen capture program. after you can review the video and make changes accordingly. I have also noticed that the real presentation ends up being ~1 1/2 to 2 times as long as your rehearsed version.. this is probably because when i present i force myself to go slow and I always ask the audience to interrupt me when they have questions, therefore you get immediate feedback and you can change things up on the fly
4. The plural of "fireman" is "firemen" (or, even better, "firefighters").
Why do gay parents need to prove their parenting abilities when no one else does? Where are your empirical studies on straight parents being good parents, or "better" than gay parents? What is your definition of a good parent, anyway? What is your definition of "natural" (as in "naturally good parents")?

We shouldn't do either of those options, they are both total horseshit. It's not a matter of what rule we should adopt, it's a matter of should we adopt a rule at all. And no, we shouldn't.
We want indeed the software to be usable as a high-performance key/value storage system, which is why we think about security.
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See what patio11 writes on his blog. If you manage to bring your interesting stuff to half of the level his Bingo Cards business is, you'll have your traction, proven bussiness or whatever you feel you don't have.
2007 paper on angel ROI [pdf]
"He did it and got away with it" isn't a defense for breaking the law.
You're right, doesn't work for everyone. Does seem to work to transfer the binary from someone else though.

Edit: Cnet reportedly has the new version: http://download.cnet.com/Spotify/3000-2141_4-10912348.html?t...
My philosophy is to not include the huge upside tail events that are of minuscule probability, but do include the huge downside events of minuscule probability.

If you include miniscule probability but huge payoff upside events, you can chase some ridiculous things. My favorite is when the powerball jackpots is over $300MM or something like that. Even after taxes (with lump sum payment) its positive expected value and pays off in days if you win. That would suggest you should take all your money and buy lottery tickets.
So what will happen? (tried on all my calc's and they gave the same result as http://www.google.com/search?q=12345679+*+92, which I think it's correct).
Dumping PTX kernels from modern CUDA applications
As a resident of Tel Aviv let me add few details:

The investments in this company where around 1 million dollars. The company's income so far stands for "several millions dollars".

Given the fact there are only 10 employees in the company, I assume it was a profitable one.
FWIW, a large chunk of the dragon book is about lexers and parsers, but from an automata theory perspective, where rather than creating a compiler, you're creating a compiler compiler, like lex for DFAs creating token streams from character streams, and yacc for PDAs creating trees from token streams.

But such detailed info isn't necessary even to write a compiler front end. It's good that the treatment exists, and that it's in the dragon book, but it's not what you need, even for parsing.
-r will grep over a lot of files you don't want it to.

A lot of times if my dir structure is not very complicated, I'll grep like this:

grep smth [star].{cpp,h} [star]/[star].{cpp,h} [star]/[star]/[star].{cpp,h}

but these stars get annoying very quickly.
Not to mention artists can make money from other things besides streaming. They can sell merch, play shows, etc.
It also would have really helped to include a bill number.
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> Imagine having no Farm Policy and we end up having food shortages, there would be a revolution.

Please check when the British had their last famine, and when the times they used farm policies.