skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apollo 13 - Great story on the following

1) Overcome obstacles - So many times people get discouraged after a setback and never get back on their feet. When the astronauts knew that they could not reach the moon, did they throw their hands up in the air in despair?

2) Communication - The team in Houston had to work together and communicate amongst themselves to resolve the problems faced by the astronauts. The ultimate demonstration of great communication was when Houston and Apollo 13 communicated well with each other to deliver the products. So many offshore projects fail despite being on planet Earth shows how important good communication is.

3) Ingenuity - Making do with what the astronauts brought to fix the carbon dioxide poisoning shows ingenuity. So many times, people lament about not being able to deliver because of lack of resources, lack of manpower etc etc.

4) Teamwork - The team in Houston brought together the finest mind to bring solutions to the table. Not forgetting that they needed a great team on Apollo 13 to deliver it. How many companies fail because of a lack of good team

5) Working well under stress - What could be more stressful than working under a tight deadline, where you know that when the deadline is over, people will literally be dead

6) Inspiring leader - Someone was commenting something to the effect that this is a tragedy for NASA, when the leader commented "On the contrary, this has been our finest hour". How many companies have leaders who cannot inspire their followers and failed?

7) Faith that it will ultimately work out - Ultimately, there is only so much we can do and rely on faith. Most notably, the re-entry of the rocket

Faith in yourself and your team - To achieve the common objective, they have to have faith in everyone in the team. This really helped them through the periods when they kept having setbacks

8) Perseverance - They faced problems after problems, yet everyone peservered on. How many people have that kind of perserverance?

9) Working towards a common goal - They all worked as a team towards the common goal of bringing the astronauts back alive. How many projects fail because people were more interested in their own agendas and have different goals from the companies

10) Ability to change their "business plan" - Though the original plan was to get to the moon, ultimately their business plan had to change to "saving the lives of the astronauts". Though this wasn't really a choice for them, but to businesses, it does demonstrate that you might need to change your business plan if it is necessary for your survival.

11) No finger pointing - Not once during the crisis did anyone said "It wasn't my fault, it was his". This is something which is common in corporate world.

12) It is based on real life. Nuff said
I'm not sure I buy the binary approach to this, nor his experience with "extroverts."

One, I'm not really one or the other; 23andme quizzes claims I'm extroverted, Meyer Briggs claims I'm introverted. I actually went around and asked people in my high school what they thought I was, and all the teachers thought I was an extrovert and all the students thought I was an introvert. Apparently it's situational.

And like the author, I often get tired of talking to people. But usually it's a result of conversing with someone who is extremely talkative. Sure, those people don't seem to get that you are not into talking... but not because they're extroverts. It's because they're socially disabled. Only someone who can't read facial cues will keep chattering away at you. Most people can see I'm getting weary and will stop.

I think this guy met one to many people who basically can't tell that you're just not interested in speaking with them, and confused them with "extroverts."
The scrypt key derivation function, defined: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
According to one of my profs, something like 80% of programmers are INTJ in the Meyer's Briggs scheme.

I hope your professor is aware that the Myers-Briggs scheme

http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0684830914/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0743243560/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Cri...

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7450/1244

has never been validated.

http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7450/1244

Moreover, I would ask for a citation to show that anyone has gathered data from a properly representative sample of "programmers" (how was that group defined?) to show the personality characteristics found in the sample on a validated instrument. Statements of this kind are often based on inadequately small samples and may also suffer from ascertainment bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
People who've commented so far all don't understand 4chan. 4channers are not moot's followers any more than Boston residents are John Cotton's followers. Moot was simply the first who took the trouble to translate the software that runs 2chan (the most popular site in Japan) into English and put it up on a server. He inevitably became part of 4chan's vast culture, but so did the gentleman known as "cockmongler". You don't see him getting funding.

Maybe there is room for business in imageboard culture, but moot really is a sysadmin, whose previous attempts at being anything more (e.g. intrusive advertising) have all failed. There are many other nearly identical imageboards, with sizeable communities around them, and all it takes to switch is remembering a new URL.

I haven't been to 4chan in a long time, but I think most 4channers help moot's exposure in order to get lulz out of the investors and the public, just as the investors and the public are using moot to tame and monetize 4chan. Trolls trolling each other.
It’s never been easier to be a Soviet propaganda minister
..yes, why put adsense on a personal blog? Surely you can't make much money off of it unless you have tons of traffic and it hurts the user experience of the site.

I don't use adblock so I have to sift through ads designed to look like your content to find what your trying to write. No thanks.
"Who (or what) would you suggest as an intermediary between the public and the scientists?"

It's not a matter of having an intermediary, it's a matter of listening to scientists who are trying to educate rather than promote their own theories to a public that doesn't have any hope of understanding them. It's like if you saw Steve Jobs stand in front of an audience of eight-year-olds and tell them they should grow up to learn Obj-C instead of Flash.

The public has an absurd fetish for shiny, new science while the theories of a hundred years ago would keep them scratching their heads for years. Older science is better not only because it's a necessary foundation for understanding modern science, but because it's more likely to be true. Somehow we've turned the reliability of our sources into an embarrassing flaw, and we get all our information from the dark corners that science isn't sure about yet.
Don't worry, You are normal.

I am an introvert, who loves me time, but also would love to be able to socialize more without feeling like I am forcing myself to be more outgoing. I wish it was more natural.
Ask HN: What do you think about Cringely's TV show on startups?
Link: http://startups.cringely.com/
Wondering why some peoples choice of movie is being downvoted. Someone asked a question, other people answered it. Just because you don't like the choice of movie, doesn't mean you should bury their opinion.
So agreed. Yes.
Are you using HTTPS for the requests? (It didn't say on the website). Leaking the API key seems quite a risk if that's is all you need to query the database of a wordpress installation.

Do you query the database of the installed wordpress or are the stats stored centrally?
Here, here.

Cable management is essential for a data center where multiple sets of maintenance hands, multiple owners, SLAs, fire codes, and cooling/venting needs demand organized layouts.

Cable management is also important for tight spaces (inside walls) and extremely low-duty-cycle, but mission-critical wiring such as a home's breaker-box.

Is it necessary for the typical modern desktop with a few AC Power, networking, and USB cords?

Um, NO.
Take note that if each man had been on the telephone, later recalling what was said, or perhaps taking notes during the conversation, Lam would have been in just as much trouble if all those things were said. The only difference putting it in writing makes is improving the indisputability of the evidence. A finder of fact at trial could still believe Jobs over Lam even if nothing were put in writing.
My state follows the federal rule that EITHER party to a telephone conversation may record the entire conversation. What is admissible in court as evidence may not be as broad (in a particular case) as what evidence can be gathered by either party, but as I just mentioned in a comment I posted elsewhere in this thread, a conversation like that between Lam and Jobs can blow up in Lam's face even if the only evidence offered is courtroom testimony by Jobs regarding what Lam spoke, from Jobs's recollection of the conversation.
I query central database. I have not found before that wordpress.com api support https - but now I see it does (there are no docs for stats). In next version WP Stats will query over https (now it is http).

BTW even if someone would get your api key they can do nothing more than check your traffic.
They're worthless except insofar as they let you get the encryption benefit out of SSL without paying the cost necessary to get the authentication benefit.
Maybe the N1 was just an experiment for google , to learn about the mobile phone market,and to be ready in the time when unsubsidized phones are available in a reasonable price.
Excuse my ignorance, but does that mean I cannot setup this solution without getting certified before?

Could you explain what's required for a startup to use this solution?
Congratulations! I have serious respect for anyone who dives into a new environment like that and sticks to it. Did you know Java already or learned it "on the fly" too?
Tip: pack up all your stuff and move somewhere smaller. In the new place, unpack as you need/want things. In 2 months, throw out all the boxes left over.
Hey if I can participate at home and don't have to talk to people I'm in!
I knew very very basics. I have tried a few times to learn it but never had a real reason too. But now I really wanted to go into mobile software development and had to learn it better.
Primer.

It's about some engineers who burn the midnight oil on their side-project, a start-up, and sort of accidentally discover something amazing.

"If you ditch work this afternoon, and promise to do the few small things I ask you; I will in return show you the most important thing that any living organism has ever witnessed."
I am independent developer and do not go to full time job - so every cent is important to me. Sorry if it is a problem that I make free apps and need to make some money for a living...
La vita è bella (or in English: Life is beautiful). The main character and his son are taken to a concentration camp and still manage to have fun. It shows how we can use our mind to make even the worst situations a little less worse, very inspiring.
All I want to know is if this brings us closer or further away to an anti-gravity device.
To understand it all.. Just try starting a project yourself, and learn to google. :) Start with something simple like writing a blog where people can log in and post comments.
I would love to hear how you were introduced to this opportunity and what was exciting and what were your concerns as you considered it.
Office Space.

Motivates me never to work at that kind of company again. I've had good luck with companies in general, but a couple had strong resonances with Initech.
Genetically Engineered Distortions
related story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1140670

In the article, the writer mentioned a Russian who went around buying typewriters, stereos, and all sort of car parts. He couldn't believed that these things were so cheap but he brought it anyway. In Russia, every one of these part are extremely valuable. All of which are simply junk to the author. So the Russian guy didn't quite adjust his value system yet.

Now, the author himself is faced with the fact that he is doing the same thing as the Russian guy did years ago. A whole lot of things are completely digitalized, such as video, musics, scholarly journals, and all these thing. He throw 200 pounds worth of information into the dumpster as soon as he realize that there are no more values in such papers, which are already digitalized.
Does somebody know how long it takes to send a message to Voyager 2? I calculated roughly 12 hours...
Spot on, man, spot on. This should find its way to more mainstream media someday.
Tin is intended for use by programmers who have legitimate need for manipulating font binaries.

Legitimate need? What does that even mean?

All joking aside, this is absolutely fantastic - I tried to write a font manipulation library once and the amount of detail you have to keep track of (or, conversely, it is possible to do wrong) is colossal. An open-source project with Adobe behind it - while the cognitive dissonance is hurting my brain a little - is just tremendous.

I feel like I should send Steve Jobs a little thank-you present for this. Do you think he'd prefer flowers or something more like a Barnes and Noble gift card?
The efficient social power-up hack for this as taught to me by someone who can engage anyone (and is not always on):

If you are on the way to a party or some other venue where it pays to be social, park the car far away and on the way over greet everyone you cross paths with with a warm "Hello!". If you do this right (and park far away enough/walk enough), by the time you get to the venue you will be lit up and locked and loaded. Bear in mind, the first hello will suck. Maybe even the next five. Ok, the first twenty.

But if you can get to twenty one or thirty, the energy will shift from why am I doing this to I love doing this.

Part of this is because you are warmed up but more importantly you will start to get people responding to you. Gets you over your fear of rejection because you're just being a social guy or gal. As always, use your best judgement, but this technique is platinum. For bonus points, increase your range - target people across the street by putting your hand up and waving and "HI!"

The abbreviated technique is to greet, pause, and shake hands and/or touch on upper arm with everyone once you enter a venue - immediately. If you ever want to watch this technique at work, go to a political fundraiser and observe (unconscious competence for most).
And in Haskell it is the list concatenation operator by default. (You can of course define it to mean something else.)
groans...yet another special group.
Introversion and extraversion are preferences, not skills. People who are introverted can do all the things that an extravert can, they just don't want to.

It's also possible to develop one even though your preference is for another. You may just be a well-rounded person in terms of social skills.

To make a long story short, phrasing things in terms of a strict dichotomy is an oversimplification, but I think it's one that makes this author's point clearer. It's difficult to discuss all of the ins and outs without making a piece like this overly complex.
An good grasp of numbers doesn't equate to a mind that is flexible and broad.
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I think this goes beyond just being introverted. I'd highly recommend picking up "please understand me" by David Keirsey. It's a pretty good breakdown of the different personality type and the axes on which personality is measured.
He has a pretty proven track record with building/fostering a massive online community (and not an ordinary one at that). So I think he'd be a jockey worth betting on.
I question the value of most sentimental stuff. I'm moving next week and have been looking at my boxes of sentimental stuff. I realize I only look at it when I'm moving.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not throwing it out--because I'm human and I can't.
I don't get tired by being with people so much as ... feel as if I've lost grounding - and most of my friends say that I'm extroverted and friendly and nice to be around with. So I don't know. After a couple of days of going out with friends I tend to want to come home because I feel too many things are going on, and I can't think.

Does that make sense? Am I the only one who feels this?
"...while expecting me to simultaneously navigating to our destination."

I guess he was doing something else when he wrote that.

"It is generally agreed that playing soccer is a good crossover skill for playing tennis, because of the footwork."

Generally agreed? I've never heard this before.
Well, I upvoted them back to normal :)

Anyway here's my list:

Even if you don't watch this movie called Any Given Sunday, you can find Al Pacino's 5-min inch-by-inch speech. That's the best I've seen. You can look it up on youtube. Worthy 5min :) It sort of dopes you with inspiration.

My favourites (may mostly include lesser known movies):

"The World's Fastest Indian" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/) It's based on the real story of Burt Munro, an old hobby biker, from New Zealand who sets the world's fastest land speed record on his Indian motorcycle beating all odds like an unfit, aging body (with prostrate and a ticking heart) and very little money to spare. It's not known that much. But Anthony Hopkins is good in that movie.

This movie is a bit different, there are no bad guys and it's really awesome to watch. Gives you a very different perspective of the world ("everybody is good" sorta thing). It left me in tears after he breaks the world record in the end.

Others: Dead Poet's Society ("Carpe Diem - seize the day"), Walk The Line and a 1990 movie called Chaplin (for which Robert Downey won an Oscar for playing Charlie Chaplin) and ofcourse Forrest Gump ("life is like a box of chocolates you'll never know what you get")

Also Mongol (Story of the rise of Gengiz Khan told from a different perspective). Some other language. But you'll get sub-titles.

And if you like Bollywood (Hindi) movies, try "Lagaan" and "3 Idiots" (this is a must watch).

After reading a lot abt Chariots of Fire, I'm going to watch it this weekend.

EDIT: if you like watching action cartoons, you should try watching Transformers - Cybertron series. Although gets a bit repetitive after a few episodes (loop: "beat villian. he returns again"), the "we are a team" quote echoes thru-out.

P.S: If you notice closely in Forrest Gump, when Tom Hanks is narrating that his friend put his money in a fruit company and it seems like he's looking at a letter for shareholders, you'll notice that the letter contains Apple's old 'colorful apple' logo :D
I can see it helping in tennis because being on the balls of your feet (split-stepping) is key to being able to change direction. And soccer is all about feints and changing directions.

Soccer is one of those sports where I'd like to get better but lack the patience to build skills consistently.

If you want to learn how to dribble a soccer ball, do it in the edge of the surf beachside. The water resistance makes it extremely difficult. Get a small soccer ball called a skills ball. Soccer or (football) is one of the sports where footwork can make you a valuable team player. Speaking of which, less than one month to World Cup 2010!! (June 11th)
google view of the pdf "Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager" http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://benhorowitz.files.wo...

- "Good product managers decompose problems. Bad product managers combine all problems into one."

- "Good
product
managers
err
on
the
side
of
clarity
vs.
explaining
the
obvious."
You mean 'TPS Reports' I presume?
this might be a little off topic, but what sort of programming languages, and other skill requirements are most popular at these sort of events?

As a programmer who wants to work for (and perhaps start) a startup in the future, I'm interested in what technologies, skills etc are most common. I do ASP.NET at the moment, but this is more enterprise than startup I believe.

If this is totally the wrong spot let me know, but I'd imagine if I rocked up to this event, and everyone was doing Rails I'd be useless to most?
Microsoft too:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/15/announcing...

http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx
That Bright, Dying Star, the American WASP
I always refer to the Apple/NeXT acquisition as "the time NeXT bought Apple for negative $429 million."
Rules to Startup By
Google grabs personal info off of Wi-Fi networks
I'm just waiting for my Sony PRS-600 to arrive. I hope it allows me to get rid of a bunch of my fiction books too.
Everyone can be an extrovert on the Internet
Ask HN: What tools/webapps/software would you use to create a paperless office ?
I'm looking to create an entirely paperless office. From my current research, it seems like the ScanScap is the way to go on the hardware side. Do you have any suggestions on the software side of things?
Oh come on, give me a little bit of credit here. Where is the scrypt key function defined? What is its signature? Are there any initialization functions that need to be called before calling scrypt?

Yes, I can figure all this out by reverse engineering the code. But is that really what you intend people to do? Even just a couple of sentences of documentation would save a lot of people a lot of head-scratching, e.g.:

"The scrypt key generation function itself is called crypt_scrypt. Its signature is in lib/crypto/crypto_script.h. The reference implementation is in crypo_script-ref.h. There are two optimized implementations, one for CPUs that have SSE support, and another for ones that don't. You don't have to call any initialization functions before calling crypto_scrypt."

Or something like that. If your goal is really for people to use this I think you'd see a pretty large ROI from the effort it would take you to write a paragraph like that and stick it in a README file in the distro.

Just a suggestion.
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China is choking the Internet
I've been in China for just under a year, and in that time have found ever larger portions of the free internet cut off. At first it wasn't too hard to get around, using Google's cache, some web proxies and then Tor.

But the state is cracking down, cutting off more of these avenues. Google cache is now blocked, deep packet inspection is analysing traffic that comes from web based proxies and blocking anything... that's normally blocked. And finally Tor is being effectively tackled.

It's public list of access points to the Tor network is blocked, and now Tor bridges are being blocked hours and minutes after them being made available. Tor is being defeated.

Top this off with an ever growing list of useful websites and services being cut off; half of anything Google does, Dropbox, and now Zoho.com's services.

Just as I begin a small web development company based in China, we get our first customer in the U.S. and are about to start using Zoho to manage the project only to find that it's blocked (it was working yesterday dammit!).

What kind of damage is this doing to China's startups? I mean I can't be the only one that this is affecting?

I'm on a shoes-string budget and even if I had the cash I don't have a credit card that can make payments in $US to buy VPN access.

Sorry for the rant but first Dropbox and now this, it's getting ridiculous. Any ideas on dealing with this?
Is anyone using Evernote to do this?