skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. How disingenuous of me to point out the part of the comment I was replying to. I give up.
Right, weight loss supplements are OK because hypertension and cardiomyopathy (along with the occasional sudden death) are no problem? At the end of the day, the FDA needs to carefully regulate the market not because dumb people need them to, but because smart people such as most HNers do.
For loops help - comp.lang.c
Be okay with dying.
...find a companion with whom I will spend the rest of my life.
Now, even though there may be people out there willing to sell you the shares at 100,000, these programs can find out your top price, and they will but the shares at $26.10, and sell them to you at $26.39, thus making a profit of the difference.

I don't think this can possibly be right, though, unless I'm not understanding the claim, exactly - any limit orders in the queue at any price between $26.10 and $26.38 would be matched against the $26.40 limit order before an order at $26.40 or $26.45 would be, so how the hell could the HFT algo even probe your top price if the market is "full" in-between?

I think it more applies to situations where other liquidity providers would step in offering more shares somewhere near $26.10 if they had a chance to react, but the HFT algo beats them to the punch, buying up every share under $26.39 and then selling it to the big buyer at that price before anyone else can add liquidity.

Again, though, I have no idea how they could possibly figure out that demand cuts off at $26.40 with a full book under that price...I suspect there's something off with the explanation this article offered, it doesn't quite make sense to me except in highly illiquid markets.
The point is, without the FDA there would be no way to tell the difference between actually effective medicines and snake oil. Since snake oil is a lot cheaper to research and make, economics would dictate that it would come to dominate the market. And ordinary people, left to their own devices, are spectacularly bad at differentiating between the two. This is clearly demonstrated by the contemporary anti-vax movement (with its attendent "alternative" cures) and the alternative medicine movement, which is almost entirely snake oil.
And in what way does this link gratify anyone's _intellectual_ curiosity?
It's alright. I'm on what you might call my 'second startup' at 23, but the main reason why my first one wasn't successful was that I didn't give it enough time to grow up and become it's own thing.

A startup is a serious commitment. At that age, I didn't understand that it was going to take time to actually grow the thing. I think it's something that a lot of people don't grasp. Instead we have 'startups' over the weekend, 'startups' that get abandoned when the next shiny idea comes along, and 'three startups before 18'.

I don't know that there's a way to have that many failures that young if you actually made an honest go of all of them.

Here's an entry out of my personal journal that I think applies here:

'Something Untrue'

When I was nineteen, I had my shiny idea I was working on. I’d written some software that proxied the iTunes Music Store, displaying third party content via the iTunes Music Store interface. You had to download and install the software, it required root privileges to install, there was no clear reason why looking at something in the iTMS was better than looking at it in a browser, it was hard to explain to non-technical people, there was no clear way other than advertising to make money out of it, etc. In other words, though it was a cool hack, it was a bad product.

I launched it, made a little splash, got a few news articles, and silently faded away. A few months later I just shut the whole thing down. Didn’t even bother to renew the domain name.

The biggest thing that’s stuck with me from the experience is how it wasn’t an overnight success. I wasn’t prepared to spend the couple of years on it that it would have taken to build up a really vibrant community and product. I wasn’t ready to iterate a few dozen times until I had something that really was worth taking the time to install and use.

I can’t help but wonder if this comes from our schooling where we work for weeks on a project, hand it in, and then get our A+ or our F back in one definitive stroke of a red pen. There’s no building upon previous work. You get the idea that a work, once presented to an audience, is immutable and complete.

And that’s just not true.
Yeah, this sounds more like AIG or Goldman Sachs.
"Know half of you half as well as I should like, and like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

And deliver that line straight-faced, without errors, at conversational speed.
If anyone is curious, these security holes were found in dynamically generated javascript that included a GET parameter that was neither encoded nor run through magic_quotes. They were easy to find to the point where an automated scanning tool could almost certainly identify them.
How OSX executes applications (2006)
...go back in time.
When you use the gateway to store the CC data, then with most gateways you are stuck doing all future subscription billing on that card through that gateway. For many businesses, that is an unacceptable restriction.
> BTW, bribing a government official will usually result in one or both of you doing time in a federal (not a country club) prison.

If bribed with cash, maybe, unless it can fall under "campaign finance". Sports tickets, dinners, and gifts are generally accepted though.
The Co-Founder Complement
Related: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/26.06.html#subj12
Its interesting to note the differences between the USA and India.

People from the USA have much bigger aspirations such as to travel, run companies and dance on Broadway.

People from India want to go to school or own a shop / car.

Note: I know this is a generalisation but from a 5 minutes on each this is the general feel I get.

EDIT: Actually on further examination the wishes of the people from different regions in India vary massively.
Before putting on your ring and leaving them forever, of course.
link to original webcomic:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/websites_stop
There is nothing more annoying that when you are learning to program, and you get some error due to the examples.

You check everything, recheck names, and it still crashes.

You try to find out if you are using the compiler right, if you have the correct version, still crashes.

So you try to type it in another editor, maybe the editor is adding CRLF from dos, and the compiler is expecting Unix EOL, nope, still crashing.

Maybe there is a problem with the machine, so try a different machine, nope, still crashing.

It is enough to turn anyone off of computer science. When you are first starting out, there are so many things that already can go wrong, and so much to learn. This is just bad!
How open data saved $3.2 billion
A Close Look at Alexander McQueen Masterpieces
Not at all; you got it.

Others here, though, seem to have either no idea, or worse, a deeply misguided idea of what the Semantic Web is. I find I'm not arguing for the Semantic Web but against a lot of deeply ingrained misconceptions.
This is interesting to me, especially when combined with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying

(Rationalizing my pain.)
So, have you noticed that a large number of people on this site say they want to go to X country/place before they die. I imagine they pick this as a goal, because it is actually really easy to achieve and you can't really fail at it if you actually try. All you need to do is get on a plane...

People seem really scared to set goals for themselves they may not be able to achieve (to bad those are all the really valuable goals).
This is completely tangential from the actual conversation, but I just had to pop in. I actually built a very similar proxy for the iTMS, in late 2005. I was hired on at an indie music store, with the original goal of showing their store inside of iTunes, then it was sidetracked into supporting podcasts natively (something like 2 weeks before Apple launched their support for it), then finally syncing to non-iPod devices from within iTunes. Was an interesting ride while it lasted. Just found it odd that someone else here had also done such a hack; quite cool.
Care that Facebook is killing privacy? You might be an old fogey
As a young founder myself, I have to disagree with you on there being stigma of being an older founder. If anything, I've found myself surrounded by far older founders at networking events. My youth in no way is increasing my credibility.

Don't forget that older founders have little incentive to go to YC.

Of course I'm doing a B2B, so YMMV.
Yes, examples and docs are a bit buried, but there is a huge amount of info to be found.

Example outputs - http://lilypond.org/switch/tour

Example syntax - http://lilypond.org/switch/howto
Mercurial (hg) with Dropbox
I get the sense Herb hasn't moved with the times, and is pretty much stuck in the ways that served him before the internet, hence the lack of improvement.

How bad do you have to be to not continuously improve what you did before? Also, his examples to me scream that he hasn't or doesn't really write code for a living, or if he does, it's with a community of other fossils like him.

I can't respect any programming book writer who doesn't have some kind of automation in place to ensure all his code samples (1) compile, and (2) work as expected.

Basic stuff nowadays.

And even me, with not very much C cred, can see his C code is clearly not idiomatic for C these days, if you compare it to some well-written OSS C.
The company asks survey participants: “If you’ve heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, was it positive or negative?”

That's an incredibly subjective question to ask if you're out to show correlation between age and reverence of personal privacy.
Also the inmates have basically an unlimited amount of time to think things over. They have all the time in the world to go back over past events and plan for the future interactions. The guard may not think twice about a particular conversation while the inmate may spend the next 24 hours going over it in their head and figuring out an angle.

If they're not switched on and maybe a bit paranoid the guard may not realize that what they think is a conversation is actually a science experiment with them as the subject.

Working with people who can spend every waking moment figuring out how to get into your head could be frightening.
Sure. But this site isn't being introduced to HN as a startup. Usually there's a 'Please review my site', or 'Check out this new concept'. This just seems to be a regular link to a site, so I assume the content itself is what is deemed 'interesting'. I too am confused as to why this is HN material.
It seems like the Slashdot and Hacker News comments have missed perhaps a key point. If any of you know of other search engines that meet these two criteria, please let me know:

1. Queries are passed as x-www-form-urlencoded via HTTP POST not as plain text strings via HTTP GET
e.g. www.example.com/?q=heres+my+query+for+you+to+look+at
vs www.example.com/cgi-bin/do.cgi

2. Queries of numerous diverse users at numerous diverse IP's are aggregated through a small set of IP's (Scroogle's), and Scroogle's servers are not scattered across the globe.

While this may not offer "privacy", it certainly makes it more difficult for a server to filter and/or redirect based on query string and approximated geolocation. Scroogle is obviously not catering to the common marketing platform. Otherwise they would be more interested to know what people are searching for, and where they are are searching from.

Scroogle's design makes it difficult for Google to serve up "personalised" and/or "localised" ads and results. (Even if they did not go through the trouble to scrub the ads and dump all cookies this would still be true.)

Some users may appreciate such relatively "raw" results.
I found Peter van der Linden's Expert C Programming to be excellent, and, as a bonus, fun to read (which you can't really say of K&R).
In response to d_r words: "Will I get downvoted if I squeak out that this isn't Reddit or Digg -- that posts like these ruin HN? I found HackerNews just a few months ago with excitement that I can read about entrepreneurs, startups, VC drama, latest frameworks, math problems, and all other goodness. I devoured each link with the thrill of learning something new, in short breaks from coding. I didn't feel like I was wasting productive time.
Now I feel guilty looking at the front page.
(By the way, this is not meant in any way to put down the amazing project depicted here.)"

"and all other goodness" is what this is. It is an art to exist as a whole and actually live. Hacker news is more than "vc drama," and "startups," it is about taking control of your universe because it is all you have and all you make it.

Take my advice when the inevitable awakening hits you and take longer breaks and look, really look. The world is way more fun than "feeling like you are wasting productive time."

What do you want to _____ before you die?

I am doing it.
Me too! I'm so close!
It is expected that one who has something would want more or nothing, and one who has nothing would want something.

What I found interesting was the level of how achievable most of the yearnings were.
Calling an elected politician a government official does not fall within the common use of the term.
All Nokia Mobiles Flash Files Download and Enjoy..
Gah it is more annoying that getting invited to the apps! At least the apps are annoyingly viral for a reason!
Sounds good, but it's not really an 'assault' to play catchup on features.
Somewhat off topic: I have a beautiful Polaroid Spectra E camera (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbao/4513815836/) which came with an empty film canister (but the dry cell battery inside still worked! http://vimeo.com/10859532). Anyone know where to find film? I know The Impossible Project has a bunch of them since their takeover of the Polaroid factory in the Netherlands, but they're $22 a pop (for 10 exposures.)
funny... though that was easier to read and less obfuscated and hideous than code i've encountered in real life.
It should be no surprise that Google's API's will never let users use the HTTP POST method. Those HTTP GET query strings are "valuable data"; Google is a business, not a charity. Hence Scroogle is doing something unique (AFAIK) by letting users use HTTP POST.
Very insightful comment. No need to apologize.
Stop bashing MBAs
World hottest news: David Cameron's coalition government sets to work
That's just cruel. Very clever, though.
Hi, I am the author of that. Would you say the depiction in the article is more-or-less accurate? I am asking as I wrote this purely from an outside/theoretical perspective.
It's not quite that obvious. Compared to desktop/server where almost any jit is a win, there's substantial pressure on memory usage and battery life. An interpreter can do better on whole-system performance for both of those, without special care for when to run the jit, and how it's implemented.

I'm looking forward to seeing Bill Buzbee's talk on the JIT at I/O (of the most excellent http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ incidentally! :)
The company was doing some pretty cool stuff and the team/pay/benefits were on the high-end for the valley, so that was not really a problem, it was mostly a lot of competition for a small pool of people worth having.

any good programmer or intern/recent college grad who wishes to become a good programmer should always be willing to learn a new language on the company's tab. If they aren't, that probably says more about them than the language

Would you learn COBOL on the company's tab? I wouldn't waste my time. Right or wrong, the impression that most people under 30 have of perl is that it is crufty write-once-read-never-again code used back when cgi scripts ruled the world; a dead-end skill that won't improve their long-term prospects.
That's not true. Much of the UI toolkit is in Java and normal interaction frame rate suffers without a lot of care and fiddly caching tricks.
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It is when you are already better as measured by a large number of heavy email users and the primary hold outs point to small, mostly moot, feature holes.
Must use Chrome? Doesn't sound like it uses open web standards. Will other browsers need a plugin (eg. Gears) to make this work?
I don't know if it's the case but if you paid a higher rate of commission/fees on flash orders then it might be the case that the general market is getting slightly worse prices but at the advantage of lower fees. Which could make it beneficial for general market participants. As I say though, I don't know if this is the case.
You are allowed pay just a penny, no one is stopping you, but don't you think it is a bit... not-nice? The payment services will take that penny in charges (maybe even more? Don't know who gets stuck with negative, but you are possibly causing indie devs and charities to LOSE money.), plus you are going to cost Wolfire some bandwidth on top of that.
Shipwrecked boat at Black Sea
A walk on the Black Sea shore can sometimes offer you interesting photo-subjects. This shipwreck was meant to offer tours on the Black Sea but now it turned out to be a rusty photo-subject.
your existence is very much dependent on the lives of people who do not earn six digit incomes. take a good look at 99% of the objects you depend on. take a good look at 99% of the labour you depend on.
A better excerpt of the "king of speed" story from Sled Driver stuffed into the middle of that article is here:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.stories/browse_t...
Greece public debt: 122.6% of GDP

England public debt: 59.9% of GDP

New Zealand public debt: 29.3% of GDP

United States public debt: 86.3% of GDP
Nice idea, but I'm running the latest Chrome, and when I drag an image on, it shows the "Drag Files Here" part in GMail OK but then when I let the click go, Chrome changes URL to the file:// URL of the local image. D'oh..
I don't get it. The explanation is confusing to me, on the one side they say they don't rely on the browser as they used to : and the browser takes care of letting the user edit that text and yet they talk about the new GDocs entirely in JavaScript. JavaScript runs on the browser.

Can someone explain how the new GDocs is different technically speaking ?
Two things come to my mind:

- I would be a terrible correctional officer; and

- it is certainly a whole another world where people learn to apply their obviously available intelligence and emotions first in a false way and secondly, then being able to pull the plug and turn against the "duck" with these extortions.

Anecdotally, if I was imprisoned and I started to befriend an officer, my loyalty to him would grow as well as his loyalty to me. I wouldn't be able to pull such a stunt that would potentially get him fired and mess up his life if he didn't bring me pot.
Don't you think the burden of proof is the other way around? We see selection effects all the time. Shouldn't you expect super programmers to get more done because they're simply better programmers?

It's a strawman argument to say that, "well, Lisp is more powerful than assembly." Of course. But is it more powerful than C#? Maybe, but the Lisp advocate should be the one asked for proof.
Before I die I want to convince the rest of you to die with me.
The "POSIX spec" makes for a completely unusable UNIX, so I'm not sure why anyone would care what it says.
Well, they gradually gained the public trust in the financial sector. Then they proceeded to threaten the country with financial and economic ruin if massive amounts of publics funds weren't transferred to them.
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?rakudo_star

[..] original release plan was for late April 2010 [family crisis for lead developer]. The release date [..] sometime in the second quarter of 2010.
I really didn't find it that egregious. I liked the article (as it's summarizing a book that I'd be interested in purchasing anyway) and I really can't begrudge the guy an Amazon commission if I eventually buy it from there.
Word (although I find K&R a pleasant read). My copy is at the office; I often take a quick glance through it when I need to poke at some C code and usually end up spotting latent bugs.
Ryan Carson on his new webapp: UX, pricing, payment, wireframing and testing
Exactly. This isn't a new or even particularly cunning trick, and -- contrary to lots of comments in this thread -- it won't die off if people leave Facebook, because it's not something you have any control over. If someone else has the address, they can give it out, and if it's the only address they have for you and they're using something which scans an address book or lets you look up potential contacts by email address, well, that's that.

The only way to avoid this is not to have an email address in the first place.
Well, at least they had to try to find a hole. I've had the pleasure of maintaining a "typical PHP project" - written by someone with no clue about xss, csrf or anything else. It had an admin interface that simply returned the Location: / header to an unauthorized user without exiting. In a publicly accessible /admin folder no less. The owner only wisened up when Yahoo's spider crawled in and followed all the "delete news item" links. Yes, GET links for delete, and DB storing passwords in plain text, isn't that nice.
I work for Facebook and am naturally biased, but even in my cap as a longtime HN reader, I was disappointed at the difference between the reception to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1339248 versus the other Facebook-related posts here.
Now I'm just waiting for someone to post a Perl version shaped like a camel.
I always find watching US tv bizarre because of that. You have all the usual crap car/cellphone/food ads and then all of a sudden they're diving into surreal craziness about cholesterol levels and brain chemistry that I suspect 99%+ of viewers can't possibly critically evaluate.
I find it interesting that it is Verizon who is working with Google on this. As if whoever making the hardware really doesn't matter. Why wouldn't it be HTC or Dell or someone who is working with Google on this? Does any other carrier take such an active hand in making devices?
They launched without a printing service??
Ask PG: Can we get a highlight for the OP replies?
Is there any way you could add a highlight or change the color of the OP when they reply to their post? Sometimes on Ask HNs, it's hard to find their replies buried deep within the many threads. BTW, reddit does this :)
Mostly deobfuscated:

int putchar ( int ) ;

int main ( void )
{
int z ;
for (z = 0; z < 90; z++)
{
putchar (
z % 9 + z / 9 > 3 &&
z % 9 + z / 9 < 14 &&
z / 9 < z % 9 + 6 &&
z / 9 > z % 9 - 5 ? '*' : ' ' );

if (!(z % 9 - 9 + 1))
putchar ( '\n' );
};
putchar ( '\n' ) ;
return 0;
}

It's too late at night for me to try to simplify that big expression in the middle...
I still can't help feeling that the initial underpowered Android devices also did a lot of damage; I read so many reports of slow/jerky/unresponsive UI, and now have heard complaints from friends who bought recent (up to and including the HTC Incredible) Android phones about basic stuff like the phone app having performance issues, that the whole brand's a bit tainted at this point.

What Android needs, more than anything else, is a year or so of rock-solid performance from the popular devices, or else that bad reputation's really going to stick.
I guess no one ever told you that the worst thing you can possibly do to an American is to trick them into reading a book.
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Or it means you left in search of a better place. I guess it's the New World/Old World thing.