skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true - it requires you have a product that is not intrinsically linked to the country you're developing it in. I would imagine something like Groupon.com or foursquare may be hard to get going in NZ. Where in NZ are you thinking of moving? Like squidsoup said, there seems to be quite the community in Wellington.
No. It's always fungible. Crude oil is crude oil is crude oil.

Well that’s what everyone thought up until the 1970’s, when America’s oil fields went into rapid decline. Here’s how it went down:

US> Hello, Saudi Arabia? We would like oil.

SAUDI> No.

US> That's ok! As Jacko says, oil is fungible! Hello, UAE? Oil please.

UAE> No.

US> That's ok! As Jacko says, oil is fungible! Hello, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait?

> No.

US> Fungible! It's fungible! Hello, Libya, Qatar, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia?

> No.

And suddenly, there was oil panic. Because while oil is fungible, that's an attribute of market dynamics. You have 18 suppliers? Great. Oil is fungible. If one won't sell there are 17 more. But what happens if all 18 won't sell?

Without oil, some countries, like America and its military, can't function. That makes it also strategic.

According your logic, the 1973 crisis wouldn't have happened. Yet it did. And it could again. Oil is fungible until it's strategic. End of sentence.
Innovation is not a rich man’s proprietary
And yet my greatest fear is that my life will just be boring all the time.
Old computer magazines
I use FF on desktop, but Opera on my Ideapad S10 netbook (on ubuntu). Opera is definitely faster on limited resources than FF and way more complete solution than FF (turbo mode, opera sync, etc)
Yea I will do - I've been meaning to start one up but at the moment I don't have enough spare time as it is (working 12 hour days and spending all my spare time learning). When I've got something worth writing about I'll let you know.
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Not a good analysis, I think.

E.g. none of those new wonder weapons can hit a CVN without knowing where it is or will be after launch for the slower ones.

His off-hand dismissal of ABM capability is not credible and in the case of the USNavy is for now (well, prior to the systems being used in anger) falsified by the many successes of the AEGIS SM-3 ABM system, which is being rolled out fleet wide and beyond (2 out of 3 successful intercepts by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships to date, with the Royal Netherlands Navy slated to join the fun).

I think his dismissal of our nuclear submarine force is also mistaken. Even if lose some of our surface fleet or some areas become no-go zones, those unequaled boats should still be able to do a lot of damage and most likely be able to prevent an adversary from gaining the command of the seas (at least regionally).

And finally his dismissal of CVNs for the current types of wars we're fighting is not credible. The utility of a floating airbase that can be off shore within a short period of time is pretty immense. No messing with getting approval from foreign nations for basing, no slow startup getting a remote base set up, more manageable security, etc. Supercarriers have proven their worth in a lot of small "dirty" wars and incidents.

In terms of soft power they're great for natural disasters. They carry lots of stuff, have a bunch of helicopters and can probably support more, can distill a lot of fresh water, etc. etc. etc.
Why are you asking, do you have test anxiety? Have you had problems studying? Why do you consider these tests so important (not saying they are not, I just do not know if/why they are)?

The short answer is to ensure you have studied well in advance, not worry about it and just go take your exams. Further detail may change the answer.
Facebook is for cheap-ass squares. They will get the biggest bang for the non-existent buck with FB.

It is only the deviant evil bastards such as myself who steer clear of the site: the atheist in a sea of believers, the swinger in an ocean of conventional marrieds, the Libertarian government critic in a swirl of FBI and CIA FB meddling, the gay-rights supporter in a community of homophobes... Damn, and this is just the beginning.

Free isn't necessarily freedom which is why I tend to be doubly-cautious around it.
Two quotes:

"Do not worry about what others have done for there will always be both greater and lesser people than you"

"It takes years to build an overnight success"
From experience, it's not as good as a tailormade search like searchyc.com, they store a lot of meta data about stuff on the site and that helps narrowing down your searches considerably.
Sam Harris' hoped-for theory of well-being is incoherent on its own terms
Ask HN: Red Gate giving away iPad to developers who show up for interviews
http://jobs.red-gate.com/templates/redgate/jobdetail_pdf/183.aspx/Jobs/Software%20Engineer

I'm a bit puzzled by this. If Red gate is so desperate to get new workforce, why to they still insist on "valid UK work permit"?

I'm from Croatia and would kill to work at Red gate in UK, ipad or no ipad giveaway :)

I'd really like to hear other HN'ers thought on this one.
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You can use old design here http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all
You're right, of course. It's all about operating at a suitable level of abstraction; any technique can be misapplied.
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I doubt that is much of a problem for indies: most of the open source game engines run on both direct x and opengl, so all you need is mac to test on.
What's really nice about these old magazines is, usually, the publisher (usually a small outfit now moved onto other markets) lets people put them up on the Web.
You could probably build that pretty easily on Opera Unite.
"They often spend more on launch advertising than on actual development-- for example, Modern Warfare 2 spent $50 million on development, and $150 million on launch advertising"

i wish it would have been the other way around...
Is anybody else having problems reading that in full screen? Under Firefox 3.6 and Windows 7 it consistently locks up my browser after scrolling 4 or 5 pages.
Genceymen42
I don't think that Mahmuds' point was about the ranking algorithm, it was about the submissions themselves. As I pointed out in that other thread the fact that he didn't vote for those stories was his whole point, to quote his voting record back in public to chew him out is imo really below the belt and was - at least to me - totally unexpected.
I too have noticed a large increase in volume recently, but I'm not sure that's the problem. Rather, I'd say the site needs less churn - top articles should stay on the front page for at least a day. That just means a different ranking, maybe something like log(votes)*weight, where weight decays over time but gets bumped at each upvote.

If that's not enough churn for some people, I'd prefer a filter that lets them temporarily hide some stories. And ten there's /newest

I know there's also the /best section, but it's not linked to and I don't know how it's ranked.

A reddit-like url filter would help a little in catching reposts, but I'm not sure this is a big problem yet.
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When fashion touches the mother earth in Indian traditional way we call it a Sabyasachi Collection. Sabyasachi the fashion icon of India stands apart for his uniqueness in creating a magic with his ideas of styling and stitching.
Ask HN: How did you quit procrastinating?
Hey,

I am just a lazy boy, I know. But there was a time when there was a limit to my laziness. It turned into procrastinating somewhere between my first college assignment and my last internal assessment. I am just unable to complete my studies or anything I uninteresting in the short run. I have been working upon it (diagnosis, as they say, is the first step of curing), but with no luck. Now the problem is, I have finals on 20th and have done very less studies till date. Everytime I want to just get down and study my mind seems to have a knee jerk reaction and I find something else to do.

Have you ever coped up with such a situation? Please give your suggestions on how you solved it.
i am a professional classical violinist and I second the comment about rest. In all my years preparing for competitions and concerts, resting a lot the day of, and napping before the big event works the best.
There are hundreds of thousands of wikipedia and other CC-licensed spam books being sold on Amazon. It's seriously annoying as a consumer, and even more so if you happen to be a dev at a comparison shopping site ;)
No, but I have had blackouts from time to time during university exams (the environment and the people just make me nervous). However I wasn't well prepared, so the blackout isn't the only reason I didn't perform well.

I haven't had any problems studying, I just want to make sure to have this part of the test taking covered.
They are important to me because I don't want to repeat a whole year because I was nervous.
This great book about time management by Lakein, suggests sitting in a chair and do _nothing_ ... no activity, no fidgeting... just sit there. After a several minutes, it's so unbearable, that you get inspired to go and tackle that task.

Pretty cool trick...
I listened to upbeat dance music that I loved on the mornings I had my quals. Along with a few snippets of transcendental classical (justifies-the-existence-of-the-human-race kind of music). At the end of the day, whatever happened, I'd still have that music. It shrunk the stress down to human scale for sure.

And second the good night's sleep tip.
It was fairly lame when posted the first time, digg is probably the better place for that link.
GNU Emacs 23.2 released
Ha, by the time the movie hits theaters it is almost always leaked onto net sites.

This won't do much, and I keep wondering why they spend so much money trying to protect their movies rather than trying to make them cheaper to produce, something which they do have control over.
A. Facebook has made it clear during the big "everyone" push that hiding your friends on your profile page is not the same thing as hiding it from public access; it is still considered public information by Facebook and can be accessed as such.

B. Much of your personal data is still publicly available through Facebook Graph, regardless of how much you try to lock down your profile. It's only a matter of time before people start scraping this information and publishing it in a way that it's clearly accessible from Google, and Facebook won't be able to do anything about it.
thank you, that's a great set of examples. It would have saved me quite a bit of time when starting out.

keep this handy too while learning clojure:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033503
The real political nerds
Thanks for the heads up, I missed that one.
As a Linux user, I don't like to buy commercial games for Linux. I did participate in the recent Humble Bundle, but I'd known about and decided against buying at least three of the bundled games previously.

If I buy a book or a CD or a DVD that I like, I can be pretty sure that in five or ten years if I want to experience it again, or share it with a friend. If I acquire a Free Software game that I like, the same applies - I can enjoy it for years to come. Even if they're not Free, games that are written to a VM can last if there's a Free runtime for them, such as ScummVM or the various text-adventure interpreters. Some games are written for hardware that's simple and standard enough to be a de-facto VM, such as older game consoles (NES, SNES) and PCs (Apple II, Commodore 64). Some games are popular enough that people have written sufficiently-similar re-implementations (FreeCiv, Neverball, Lockjaw).

Most commercial games probably won't be around, though. Linux has never been particularly good about binary ocmpatibility, and even when it's possible, the odds that then-modern systems will be set up to handle old software is slim. Of the two Humble Bundle games I've played with so far, neither has working sound and one actually hangs on exit in the sound code - and those games are comparatively recent!

Compared to other forms of entertainment available to me, commercial games seem to have a much, much shorter shelf-life, and hence seem to be a worse use of my entertainment dollar.
Because attention is a finite resource. I can only spend attention on minor problems by taking it away from major ones.

I think you've just identified one of the best ways to "break out of the box", or dare I say, make a paradigm shift.

The issue isn't whether attention (or anything else) is finite; it's "how to make it infinite", at least for the time being.

Example: I need to add horizontal scrolling (a critical user need) to my Report Writer. I would also like to add F-Key View Toggling (a nice to have) to my Form Look-ups. As a single founder, I am constantly asking myself, "How can I have it all, even with limited resources?" I have found that the trick is not to focus on what's limited, but on how to embrace my constraints and use them to get clever out of necessity. In this case, I wrote a single program that used the same routines to do both.

This doesn't work all the time, but it's surprising how often it does. You never know until you try. You never try until you have to. You never have to until you realize how limited your resources really are.
I actually liked it. I watched for an hour straight. I think the comments are a tad biased because the folks who liked it probably didn't come back to comment immediately. I am pretty happy with the variety of stuff nowmov showed me. The recommendation algo could use a bit of work. Keep at it.
The Communication essay
If you are careful with your thought processes and the words that follow, you can ensure that your communication essay is a very good one. We can certainly help you write it.
I was up at the Cambridge university computing department the other day, and it became clear that this offer is really targeting the students there (it's advertised directly on their notice boards, for example).

The average quality of their graduates is pretty high, and as Red Gate are already in Cambridge, they need just a little kick to get the best people to come talk to them, rather than one of the investment banks (at the moment, only about half of the CS grads actually go and work in IT). It's not intended to get people to travel the globe to work for them, nor do they really want that hassle.
Smoking while coding sucks, there is no good way to do it without drying out your eyeballs. I'm so glad I stopped smoking regularly.

But I still smoke for social reasons. Gives me something to do with my hands, allows me to punctuate points with drags of the cigarette, gives me an excuse to carry an awesome lighter, and introduces me to people.
Don't get the fuss ... live by this rule -- DON"T PUT SENSITIVE INFO ON THE INTERNET. Simple. Be smart. Know what it is and isn't. Even if FBook had more enforced rules, then hackers would be the issue. As for FBook using the info you give it ... well, that's just good business.
What's not clear is how deep the water is up until the point they fall in. It's pretty obvious from the fact that they always get the same distance before falling that "something" is different up until that point. Either the water up until that point disobeys the laws of physics, or there is a walkway just under the surface of the water that they're running on.
concurrent structures:

http://github.com/candera/clojure-concurrency/blob/ae2731d09...

http://raphscallion.com/blog/entries/2009/10/12/concurrency....

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more cheats:

http://clojure.org/reader

http://bc.tech.coop/blog/docs/clojure-docs.html

http://langstroth.net/clojurepedia/cheatsheet.html

http://lifeofaprogrammergeek.blogspot.com/2009/03/learning-c...

http://hyperpolyglot.wikidot.com/lisp
This is possibly one of the best sites ever made.
The easiest way to bookmark HN articles is to leave a comment.
What facebook is for anyways? Why should anyone care? I find it becoming more and more boring, useless - and, from my experience, people tend to go there less and less.

- Photos here and there

- Random links/videos scooped around the net

- Rants/statuses nobody cares about

- Passive activism where people "join a group"/like something and do nothing about it

- Farmville

It is boring, really. I found twitter, recently, of immense use in two fields. First, around the industry bunch of professionals connected themselves even without knowing each other beforehand and openly discussing stuff and sharing ideas. (notably game dev). Also, have you seen stocktwits? If they can find a system to filter out the noise... excellent! I have an idea though, if they could somehow pool calls from regular users and "analysts" and compare them to a weighted random generator and post stats next to each user that would be great.
What a disgusting story, big corporations act like this all the time simply because they don't expect the 'little guy' to step up and bite back.

The gall to do this sort of is incredible, what bugs me is how people that come up with this sort of thing sleep at night. Corporate accountability is really rare.
1) Someone tagged me in a photo and it leaked their IP address.

2) Someone who is not even my friend commented on someone's status, and I got a notification because I made a comment before her. It leaked her IP address to me.

These situations are not comparable to e-mail, and I seriously doubt these people reasonably expected their IP address to be sent to me based on these actions.
Coming from the I mental preparation for athletes area I found the book "In Pursuit of Excellence" ( http://books.google.com/books?id=VtzYIGXuo-gC&lpg=PP1... ) very good.

"The Mental Athlete" ( http://books.google.com/books?id=OVqMC9Zs3cAC&lpg=PP1... ) though seems to be closer to your intentions (I can't recommend it though as I haven't read it yet, but FWIW all books I read from this publisher turned out to be excellent and superficial skimming of it's google books page seems to confirm that).
Here's the page for the "Legos" interest:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Legos/110234219005966?ref=t...

Take a look at the "Related Global Posts" list below. You'll see lots of stuff from people who don't list lego in their interests fields.

The question I have is whether posts still show up if your status updates are hidden to people who are not friends or friends of friends.
While a non-programmer might think "geez, it should have stopped, it was going to hit that truck!", I can only think how complex the system must be to detect an oncoming collision and brake only when necessary. I'm sure they could tune it to be more sensitive to oncoming objects, but I'd rather defer to the drive in those circumstances..
The scene graph? I think that is what they call it - but that is probably about all (that and the tools that go with it)
What would have happened if the collision avoidance system malfunctioned and slammed on the brakes while you were driving fast on the highway, causing an accident?

I am kind of scared to give software control of critical aspects of my car. Do they test this stuff as well as the space shuttle software?
Senator Al Franken Facebook privacy settings
Can We All Be Friends?
Thank you, but I think you need to be more explicit at stage 7.

As I understood you, algorithms notice someone dumping stock and they pick it up. Then they hope you were selling for cheaper than market value because you were in a hurry, not because you thought said stock was overvalued, and they try to pass off the stock later on.

Is this what "providing liquidity" means? It seems like a good thing, iff people generally do high-frequency trading far more than actual investment. What's providing that confidence? Experience?
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I've also wondered if the needed hardware for H.264 was a form of dongle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle#Copy_protection for youngsters who don't remember this early form of DRM) but have concluded it's just because they come from the hollywood and hardware world rather than being internet and software guys.

Also note that Microsoft only got to fast-track OOXML as an ISO standard because it had already been passed as a standard by ECMA, not because of anything inherent in OOXML (which wasn't even a de facto standard, the binary .doc was).
Beanstalkd is a workqueue service not a message queue service. It's use case is some what more in tune with CRON rather than pymq.
Mercedes had a crash during a demonstration of Distronic a few years back as well: http://www.mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/128286-distronic-demo...

I interned at Mercedes's advanced vehicle group in college. The culture was very safety conscious and the bias in developing driver aids was "Minimize the chance that your system will cause or increase the severity of collisions as compared to if your system wasn't there."
I don't want my friends to know how much I suck at RTS...
Tell HN: In case you missed it, the history is fixed
For a long time the length of the history lists in HN was limited to 10 pages, then it became even less (7 I believe was the lowest). Now it seems we have infinite history lists again. Great! Thanks!
Interesting question, but given the context, anybody that answers you probably hasn't quit yet.

I sure can relate to your problems, only fortunately I'm no longer in school so the impact is limited, but it is a real problem.

When I really have to do stuff I resort to endless lists. Stuff only gets put on the list if it is useful, and I don't allow myself to do anything that is not on the list.

It's brutal but it seems to work.
A question about PC gaming. It can be irritating to have to keep the game disc inserted in order to play, even after the install. One reason is that children frequently empty the drive trays and discs can quickly get scratched. Is there a way around this or am I being hopelessly naive?
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Facebook itself used to have this level of privacy protection. You could join a group and post on the wall and in the forums for that group privately. If your privacy settings were to disallow non-friends from seeing your profile, then it would just show your first name and a generic placeholder as your photo. Your name would be unclickable and therefore untraceable to you unless you had a unique first name.

Ironically, right before the big push to erode users' privacy, it seemed that they might have taken it a step further and replaced your name with "facebook user", removing even your first name (I was never sure if this was intentional or a bug, but in any case it didn't last long as the big privacy changes came soon after).
Wow, this comment really resonates with me. Just figuring this stuff out for myself.
A thousand times yes. I just made the same comment not 2 days ago on reddit. The next social networks are an extension of our mobile network which already exist. My only concern is that I don't trust carriers any more than facebook. And I don't want to pay per message. So an open system is paramount ... And doing it before a Closed business gains the most marketshare in that space.
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I am glad to see this guy fighting back, I hope he wins. Trial by jury is a nice touch, nobody likes big corp screwing the little guy.
If no new revenue streams where developed and no new customers bought, how long will it be until your operating capital runs out.

second, how man rounds of funding are planned? Are those rounds delusional (this is only important if your are receiving equity)?
Ah, all those long nights typing in countless lines of hex in DATA lines :)