skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can explain in under 200 words how to bring a lot more bright people into technology startups.

The following program, sponsored by VCs: VC firm takes you on as a protege. You don't know anything; you're not expected to. There's no guarantee of funding, although the door is open, and you draw a meager stipend (if needed) rather than a salary. You work for startups for the next 7+ years, possibly in the VC firm's portfolio companies, possibly elsewhere. At the end of the 7-year period, you choose between (1) partnership in the firm as a businessman, (2) the same but as EIR, or (3) to remain in startups as a serial entrepreneur. You spend a day per month at the VC firm, shadowing senior partners, but most of your time you spend with your head down coding.

I would have loved to have had such an opportunity coming out of school, and would have easily been one of the few most qualified applicants in the country... but this program didn't exist when I was 23 and, as far as I know, still doesn't.

VC firms out there need to make this happen for the next generation of young people.
Walk up to the bus driver of a greyhound and smack him in the head on the interstate.
I don't know about the US, but here in Moscow/Russia terrorism seems much more organized. We don't have amateur school shootings, we mainly get train/subway/plane bombings. In the past we used to have whole buildings demolished by bombs.

Apart from funding justification, it often seems like "Don't push on us here in Caucasus, or else we bring terror closer to you" message from terrorists to the government.
I agree. As much as I want to leave Facebook I keep my account around so I can easily keep tabs on people I don't see very often. Ah, if only Facebook would let me take my data and connections with me... I can always dream.
The terrorist attacks tend to happen when the governments need to shift a public attention from their deep troubles. And this tendency is not limited to the third world like Russia.

So, it's just not an appropriate time.
That is one really cool idea, i wish there was more visualizations like that. reminds me of the guerrilla projector art that some people have been doing.
Yet, right now, you can go to technet.oracle.com and download Oracle's flagship product for free, and it's always been thus.
That's the best way to achieve much more than merely defeating terrorism.
"For a month now" is it enough? NO
Me too. I really don't like Java the language, but the JVM is a really cool platform to host your code on.
Ignoring the high cost of moving off Facebook, the simple friend/foe privacy model fails when your mother wants to be your FB friend and you can't hide last weekend's drunken debauchery from her (You're a college undergrad, remember?).

"So don't post that there" is the last thing you want as the site operator, because you want your users generating meaningful (to them) content. Which leads to slightly less straight-forward privacy model if you still want users to post pics, or less content if you keep the straight-forwards privacy. Arguably, there's more to be found on FB, but I'd rate seeing "pics of that party you missed" as an easy way to drive sign-ups in the college crowd.
The first plot you linked illustrates my point: they were able to get people into the UK easily, but failed because intelligence knew they were linked to known terrorists in Pakistan. One of the plotters was already under police surveillance, so the plan was doomed from the start.

I don't know why terrorists don't use guns for mass killings, but I suspect it has something to do with the psychological impact. You don't want the attack to be psychologically attributed to individual people who are captured or killed after the attack. It decreases the terror factor. You want the attack to be attributed to a group or a cause, which is much scarier because the force behind the attack is still out there operating. In a suicide attack, the perpetrators are seen as whatever force inspired and controlled the attackers, so there is a continued threat.
Thank insert-your-favorite-deity-here i don't pick my financial providers that way.
The issue with ignoring dvorak is that any web browser (heck, nearly any application) will handle it just fine. Flash apparently doesn't, or makes doing simple things (like capturing +/- keystrokes) hard enough that people don't do them in a generic way.

Given that Flash is primarily used in the web browser, and most of the world doesn't use QWERTY, it's rather shameful.

A quick test on my end shows that the Flash example indeed does not respect dvorak, while a Javascript key event captures the same code regardless of layout. Including Japanese. How's Flash handle that?
No. Terrorism is the deliberate murder of civilians (or threats thereto), in order to advance a political objective.

It's not actually all that hard to define, some people just try to deliberately muddy the waters.

- The Columbine shootings were not terrorism since they had no political motive.

- The assassination of JFK was not terrorism since the President is not, for the purposes of this discussion, a "civilian" (I might need to work on the definition of "civillian")

- If a warplane drops a bomb aimed at a tank and it hits an orphanage by accident, that's not terrorism since the civilians weren't the actual target. (Note: that doesn't necessarily mean it was excusable).

- The Fort Hood massacre and the many attacks by Al Qaeda against US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are not, strictly speaking, terrorism, since the targets are military rather than civilian (again this just a semantic distinction I'm making here, not a moral one).

Any other border cases we'd like to discuss? Note that by this definition terrorist attacks were commonly used by both sides in World War 2.
Alternative keyboard layouts work for pretty much everything. Almost all applications rely on the OS to translate key mappings, so there's virtually no incompatibility to worry about. I don't think I've ever come across an application that didn't work just as well in Dvorak as Qwerty.
I shared the YT link directly, and it went to the wall.
OpenTable's $150 Million Mobile App
Yeah, your right - where are these notebooks with the interchangeable parts? Thinking about it, it still seems strange to me that we don't have something like that in the mainstream. I guess space / heat issues kill the possibility.
I have pointed several people to the book 'Code' by Charles Petzold. It starts from nothing and eventually leads you to a CPU.

I have also heard about but not read 'From NAND to Tetris in 12 steps'
the mushrooms are good

And they are easy to make: http://www.annathered.com/2009/06/21/how-to-make-a-radish-mu...
Parature brings a customer support tab to Facebook pages
Ah, yes, the old "nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded" argument.
Wow, what a terrible article.

Yes, there is a premium on used macs. This is because the people willing to buy a used but working and well maintained mac is much higher than the supply of people selling them. Macs have resale value. This would be like complaining that its Honda's fault that their cars only lose about $1k/year in value, while a GM Chevy car will be be something like 1/5th its value.

Also, someone should tell this journalist that just because you're all buying from the same (apple) store doesn't mean you have to have lunch with all rabid fanboys. You can just buy a mac and use it.

Oh, and complaining about Apple not supporting your crap phone? Why not bitch about Microsoft creating proprietary protocols (like Exchange) in the first place. Apple has gone a long way to sync with a lot of phones, and helped standardize the process. That Microsoft doesn't/didn't play ball with everyone else says more about how behind that company is in the mobile space than anything. (Or use Entourage for the Mac, seriously).
Google Rolls Out Flashified, Turbo-Charged Version of Chrome
I can see it now, if this ends up working we will have tons of these: http://www.treehugger.com/20090514-algae-bioreactor.jpg
i guess its time for me to complete myself an old turbo diesel benz.
I appreciate Bruce's attempts, but as usual, I'm skeptical about his presumed knowledge about every area of security merely because he's an accomplished cryptographer.

Security is a mish-mash of scattered fields related only by the concern that someone is going to do something undesirable. I have strong doubts that being a cryptographer qualifies you, automatically, as an expert in physical security.

We need to face the fact the reason there aren't more terrorist attacks is simply because there are not that many people in the world are genuinely willing to commit suicide while taking other lives. Schneier's not entirely wrong, but I think his reasons are peripheral.
Some good-looking (cherry-picked) numbers in the piece, and also some good comments at the site.

I agree with one of the takes there: this may not get into, or make sense for, actual cellphone SoCs; on the other hand, it might help stem the rising ARM & co tide into the tablet (netbook, etc.) market.
Why would it save newspapers? I see it as a further mechanism to kill them.
Headline: Women Navigate More Efficiently Than Men

Intro: Women Navigate More Efficiently Than Men IN SOME CASES

Real story: Women expend less energy than men while picking mushrooms says a study of a Mexican village

If nothing else this is a lesson in marketing
So let's take a look at some of his points then:

*Private Wealth = "illth".
*Social/economic inequality is evil by definition.
*There should only exist "good jobs that nobody is ashamed to do".
*Having well defined national borders are evil.
*We should forcefully turn private property into public property.
*Owning your own car makes you a blight to humanity and the planet and
*we should all use public transportation instead.

I think you're right it's not Communism, it's a mental disorder.
I guess I don't understand how that quote relates back to what I said. Are you saying that terrorists should be prepared to lay down suppressing fire, and thus shouldn't settle for the semi-auto weapons they can easily purchase at most fine sporting goods stores?
Yeah, that's a good point. I guess I forgot how dumb they were.
A shorter way to do Math.floor – A little known trick
Well, at least this confirms that facebook does have the ability to filter out blacklisted URLS to the public friend feed.
Thank to HN, I've now got a bunch of design sites I visit several times a week. I've always been surprised by the number of ads they have as well as the annoying way they're done. Very odd to have design sites doing something so tasteless and obnoxious.
NY bomb suspect 'nearly escaped US' on Dubai flight
Jclouds Clojure support
Steve Jobs Email: Safari To Have Full HTML5 Support "Soon"
I couldn't find the original at the CSM. Has anyone found it?
In some countries the government pays the universities money to educate students. The universities only get money for students that complete the education.
I couldn't find the sentence you were referring to in either article. In particular I searched for "secret" and "the secret".

The essay from the OP seems to be what you are talking about wrt innovation. The FiveThirtyEight link provided in the immediately parent post to yours doesn't mention innovation.
But part of the reason they were caught is that they were purportedly targeting airplanes, which are closely watched.

If they had 18 people willing to act as suicide bombers, why not cruise ships or trains, where security is much lighter?
Open in Chrome, right-click the page and choose Inspect Element. Click Resources at the top.
Secrets of Successful Consultants Revealed
It might interest the HN community to know that Sage, the author of Ceph, is one of the founders of DreamHost. After DH became successful he went back to school and got his Ph.D. in distributed storage and built Ceph.
WordPress exploit explained
It's not so uncommon in paranoid jurisdictions. I don't know the situation now, but when I was in Italy a few years ago you couldn't even use an internet cafe without showing ID.
Having Fun When Homeschooling
Most of the article, I think he is trying to connect something that isnt there. But he is unto something with the STEM students going into Professional Vocation.

Face it, it's just as much hardship to do these profession but the return is greater.
In situations like these, how is it that the rest of management doesn't see how toxic "Peter" is? Can everyone really be that blind?
M means 1,000. So MM is one thousand 1,000s or 1,000 X 1,000... which is 1,000,000.
Actually it is if it's priced by an efficient market.
Thank you for pointing that out. I went back and re-read the blue comment and there is more there than meets the eye.

Although Peter is painted to be a sociopath in the article, not every whiz-kid is pushed out because of one.
Another factor: the big finance and management consulting firms like to vastly overvalue Ivy League degrees. A kid leaving an Ivy League school has been told for years that he's special for going to that school, so he'll be much more comfortable in an environment where that illusion is maintained.
This is how I read this:

Yadda yadda blah blah blah -- real income growth curve used to be 3% (mostly true)

blah blah blah -- New income curve is 2%. Changed in 1970s (think so. So far so good)

yadda yadda yadda -- wise president Carter warned us of this but nationalistic Reagan glossed it over and it became anathema

WTF? Is this a politics article or something about the economy?

blah blah blah -- This is what it means to fall off a growth curve. (a bit extreme of an extreme judgment, at the least)

blah blah blah I will be poorer than my father

Okay. You get a couple of WTFs for any article. But we're done here. The growth curve, presumably from sticking along so far, is now 2%, not 3%. I poked around a bit, and I didn't see where you said we were on a negative growth curve. Plus any reasonable person can see that even at a negative growth, our kids are going to have a tremendously better life than we did. The very poor today are much better than the richest of rich from 70 BCE

I did not finish. From the pattern so far, I would expect lots more exaggerations and oversimplifications in order to make some quasi political point. I'm just guessing though. Sorry if I missed a good read. I thought it was important to show how these things are read.

Remember -- if you are going to put in a WTF, either do it at the beginning and then support it, or build up to it and hit it as a climax. But don't sprinkle them throughout the essay. Readers would like you to tell a story that has some conclusion, even if they disagree. But if you fail to establish common ground, we're out of here.
Tips for startups for dealing with customer resistance to change
It comes from banking. In that context, $6MM stands for the Latin "6 mille mille," or "6 thousand thousands". $6M seems natural for those used to SI units (6 megadollars), but I have heard that in some financial circles that may be taken to mean "6 mille" (what we would call 6k).

It's all probably moot, the average person uses and understands them as interchangeable, I'd imagine.
Elect or not?
Prodding people to think about why they vote for who they vote for (in the run up to the UK elections) while also gathering data for a halo effect experiment.
If the effect of the little green button is to fill your screen with the window, complain to the application developer. It's supposed to go to a useful size. (Finder and Safari are examples of good implementations, though Safari's is slightly glitchy.)
Google Includes Powerful AdWords Reporting In Google Analytics
...and a willingness to censor within their walled garden. Maybe they had already shown that, but now I know.
It appears he gets access to not only their chat, but friend requests, notifications, and messages too. When he switches to Sian from Hayley, notice how all the indicators light up.

Spying on PMs is even worse than live chat, in my opinion.
Newspapers seem to think it's a chance to save them, hence the monthly charge to use apps to view their content or even an app per issue (not a newspaper but I believe I heard popular mechanics is going this route).
Sounds like advertisers are getting screwed too:

Facebook sometimes creates a Connection when you post to your wall. If you use the name of a Connection in a post on your wall, it may show up on the Connection Page, without you even knowing it. (For example, if you use the word "FBI" in a post).

Let's say you put "xbox" on your wall. Now you're connected to Xbox. Does an advertiser get the distinction between "this person has visited the xbox website and said they liked it (a good candidate to sell a video game) vs. this person just happened to type xbox on their wall (probably not as good of a candidate).
I would clone my RFID tag a few time and hide it everywhere on campus.
A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis
The problem is that there's no consensus on how certain features work and their syntaxes/properties.

What -css3- property would we have for gradients if we have -moz-linear-gradient[1] and -webkit-gradient(linear, [...])[2]

Of course, I think the syntax issues are trivial, compared to implementation issues. If we go by the mantra that CSS should be simple, I side with Mozilla and their gradients syntax.

The bigger issue is _how_ certain properties operate. For example, how border-radius and the box model play together, which is also different in my experience in webkit and mozilla (specially as far as padding is involved)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-linear-gradient

[2] http://webkit.org/blog/175/introducing-css-gradients/
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=abennett
Qi-make is a "link-smart" make alternative for c/c++
Keep in mind that there was definitely a real estate bubble.

Maybe he'll be able to afford his Dad's house soon.
IE 9 developer preview build is available
One thing's for sure though; they ain't new-fangled!
from the highlighted comment: After that experience I never hired a Bobbie again. I would conveniently overlook them. I still believe that I am doing them a favor.

So the commentator is sparing the 'wiz kids' from the shitty organization because he knows their enthusiasm and talent will be wasted.
Certainly seems to be fixed for me now though. The interesting question is how long has this "bug" been present - how long has my account been compromised for?
Nvidia introduced a standard called MXM a while back for notebook graphics cards. However, hardly anyone actually uses it. As you said, space/power/thermal issues still exist, and notebook manufacturers would rather have a custom board which they can fit in to a sexy case.
>>an entire generation of high-school graduates went to college and learned to loathe industry. They learned that working in the factories, in the design houses, in the drawing rooms — they learned that type of work was beneath them.

>>And so innovation died, ... the brilliant minds that would have otherwise gone into industry ... went into the legal profession or the medical field or investment banking.

This seems like a hell of a non sequitur.
I wrote this because I don't like any build tools out there (including make). Comments and suggestions are welcome.
(requires python2.6 - http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html#itertools.prod... )
Almost inevitably the classes which required attendance(or granted some sort of bonus) were the boring ones(bad lecturer, outdated concepts, unused concepts, etc).

The interesting lecturers never had required attendance.
It wasn't. It was a US soldier attacking a US military base. Treason in time of war. Entirely different problem.
lol: No I was just thinking of someone trying to '[shoot] up [my] local mall' and as a licensed concealed carrier I remembered what the Dalai Lama said.

Sorry.

"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them." -- Walter Mondale
How do you know they are broke? I'm interested to know where you're reading this...
The key graph: "But despite his enthusiasm, Chandrasekher refused to say which smartphone vendors have climbed aboard Intel's new smartphone bandwagon:".

"You can't fool Mother Nature", and until and unless Intel gets some design wins we won't have any idea if they're going to be competitive in this space. I seriously wonder about their contention that they haven't missed the boat, the ARM ecosystem is so big and so healthy it's likely Intel will need the standard factor of 10 advantage to get anywhere ... and I don't sense they've got that.

And as someone else has pointed out in another ARM vs. Atom thread, with ARM you have a zillion vendors to choose from, with Intel only one.

As ableal says, more likely a play to fend off competition in the tablet and notebook markets. Dislodging ARM in smartphones will be nearly impossible, but if viewed as a disruptive technology ARM just might eat a lot of Intel's lunch over the long term absent Intel getting serious about low power.
Why does everyone insist on defining wealth in terms of housing?

Today, virtually everyone has air conditioning. When I was a kid, this was quite rare.

Today , everyone has at least one telephone. I can remember families sharing party lines, or even having no phone at all.

Today, most infections can be readily cured (yes, even for people without insurance!). For my grandparents this was unthinkable.

Today I can store food for a long time, and enjoy a cold drink whenever I want. A century ago, who could have that?

Today we have so much food available to us that the overriding health concern is obesity.

Today I can listen to virtually any piece of music, or view any piece of art, on the slightest whim, in the comfort of my favorite chair. That was unthinkable when I was a child.

All these things are within the economic reach of virtually everyone, at least if he's got the most basic job. Yet even a century ago they could be enjoyed only by kings, if that.
I really, really think that the answer is the ability to do micropayments (if not sub-cent, at least sub-dollar without losing most of it). Which basically means it's our current bank's / credit card's systems which are preventing such a change, because they charge so much per transaction. I've seen a few attempts, but they seem to be failing due to not reaching critical mass (probably because they're not advertising worth a damn).
Education would be my fist guess. When people become aware of stupidity, they are at least free to try not being stupid.
Serious question: why are RevRal and I being down voted? Is it because the comments are not additive? (I am trying to get a hang of HN.)
Consulting firms actually generally pay relatively poorly for people fresh out of college. I-Banks give you a relatively low salary as well, but of course there is potential for huge bonuses.
Video Games - Too Big and Too Hard
Top tip for annoying an academic: refer to the "real world" in a way that implies that they don't belong to it.

The professor I used to work for used become incandescent with rage when someone did this. :-)
Well, that was precisely one of his points. There aren't all that many terrorists out there.
Academia is not Broken.  We are.
As the old saying goes: "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story".
The 24 hour news cycle craves content, to use an anthropomorphism.
How will memristors change everything?
I shared the link on my wall and it works just fine, appears on my feed and my wife's feed, at least.
Yes, I was thinking about it in broader terms of the total bandwidth consumed on the web by these things. Say, for sake of argument, it's 10% of the total traffic. Now what does that traffic cost, and how much more money could the companies who have inefficient sites make if they were optimised properly and therefore running faster. That figure is probably a lot of money. My thought was there might be some way of tackling that large problem as a whole in some nice automated way and take a cut of the money somehow. A green business idea. Probably silly.