skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a pretty hardcore FPS gamer in high school (n.b. I graduated in '97). I continued a bit into college, becoming enamored with racing simulations. It was killing my grades and sucking up time I'd rather be hacking.

I shook the habit in 1999 or so, and rarely return to gaming. I can play for about an hour or two at a time if I limit myself to one day per week. If I start to play more often than that, I seem to go down the rabbit hole and get obsessed with something again. OpenArena and Portal are pretty good examples of things that almost consumed me again.

I am not a developer. I'm a security nerd who occasionally programs tools for myself or my peers. I spend a lot of my time researching, breaking, fixing and streamlining things.

As for hobbies that don't involve hacking, I have chosen bicycling, writing, photography and backpacking. I've managed to cram all four into a single adventure quite a few times :D - Load a bunch of cargo on my bike, ride 30-50 miles to a remote area, set up camp, take lots of pictures, come back home, and write about it.
This passed the NY Senate and is now in the Assembly. I wrote to my senator (he co-sponsored the bill and obviously voted for it) and they called me (which was nice). Apparently there is supposed to be an exemption if the owner/renter is present.
Encourages seems a little strong. I'd say the legal system doesn't encourage this behavior, but rather allows it.
"rather than caching the compiled version of a function's code, you cache just the output of the function for particular inputs."

Think of the function as the compiler and the inputs as your C files. The kinds of things the two are doing are very similar, but incPy's job is much harder.
Producing Peeraround: Lessons from Startup Weekend NYC 2010
I completely agree with you here. Lot of comments on this thread say "Money is not a good motivator" vs "Money is the only motivator". But as you said, things are somewhere in-between.
I'm still frustrated that WikiLeaks sent out a call for programming help months ago, lots of HN folks emailed offering to volunteer, and nobody even received an email reply:

http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=xEWMLiUYxu
Slightly misleading headline. The CEO of one of the world's largest electronics companies is being harassed by a crazy Internet person and keeping an extremely level head. Jobs clearly isn't getting "heated".
Good point. I updated the blog post title.
Ebert likes to present himself as an enlightened liberal who keeps his mind open to facts as opposed to blind belief - but what he's doing here is proudly choosing willful ignorance because he's too lazy/stubborn to collect his own facts. Sad.
It must have been some time after 1963.

"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism....It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism...It is hard to say which is the more outrageous injustice: the claim of Southern racists that a Negro genius should be treated as inferior because his race has "produced" some brutes -- or the claim of a German brute to the status of a superior because his race has "produced" Goethe, Schiller and Brahms." - Ayn Rand, 1963

http://freedomkeys.com/ar-racism.htm
Agree. And all the replies to this post about the specifics of medicine or law seem to me to be missing the point. There are fields other than programming where "workers" have more domain-specific knowledge than "managers". Mikemainguy was responding to the perceived assertion that programming is the only occupation where this is true. He is offering counterexamples to the statement that "programming is really the first discipline where the primary determinant of the "factor's" productivity is not the manager's skill but actually the intelligence of each individual"
An outside person has no "skin in the game," thereby creating a skewed incentive structure. Paid by the hour, the incentive is to process as few resumes as possible. Paid by the resume, the incentive is to reduce th effor per resume.

Personally, I this kind of work terribly tedious, at best. One would have to pay me at least double my normal rate.

The traditional model might call this role an "in house" conteract recruiter, and I doubt the good ones get paid what a good programmer or sysadmin do, thoug perhaps they should.
http://ccache.samba.org/ is a much more well used version of the same thing.
Somebody suggested that it could be turned into an overnight hotel / bus combination.
Unlikely, according to this (posted to HN eariler today)

http://mashable.com/2010/06/29/leaked-iphone-4-docs/
Ideally you should of had 10 customers lined up before you even started building anything. Draw upon friends and family -- you'll need close relationships with your few first customers to know where you went wrong and get continuous feedback.

Direct email/direct mail/paid search are all going to get you a high bounce rate and very few customers. Save yourself some money and network with people who might be interested in your service.
I've heard enough "cannot reproduce" reports to suspect it's a minority of devices, still that's a lot of people affected. My suspicion is that there is a coating process that is failing in some cases, which would mean it could probably be resolved for future production runs.
Looks like there are a wide array of opinions about what causes inflation (let alone deliberate inflation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Causes
Display google maps inside emacs
Jobs: "Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it."
"Ask HN: Review my startup" :)
I dig it. More signal, less noise.

I read hacker news, techstartu.ps, and proggit for the unknown unknowns, the things that may be useful that I wouldn't think to search for. Add UseTheSource to that list.

For the known unknowns (language, type, author, etc), I'll Google/DDG/SO it.

That's not to say that tagging wouldn't be useful on UseTheSource, though.
You're understanding of the site is correct, at least from the user perspective (non app developer).

How far would the rates need to be raised for you to be interested? The reasoning behind my current price structure is that I often find myself aimlessly wandering the app store and eventually download a few free apps and usually get suckered into a paid app. My site (assuming it grows) would provide a way to aimlessly get exposure to apps and either get paid a small sum for trying out a free app, or get a paid app for free.

All in all though I think your idea of MTurk has merits and will certainly be checking into this option.
Odd choice of comparison. I think linux has owned ms and apple on the server side. mysql is the dominant db for web apps, etc.

If your metric of success is a company that makes money you are ignoring a large part of the world.
Thanks for the link! Good to see supporting evidence.
> But you can pull this trick once only.

Nope. You can pull it again and again. Some folks will notice but they'll be ignored because folks really want to believe.

As the song goes "And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again" but you know how that ended....

For example, the last time immigration was a hot topic in the US, we passed an amnesty together with a promise to secure the borders so there wouldn't be an explosion of illegal immigration. The result was an amnesty and no change in enforcement, so there was an explosion in illegal immigration because the "huddled masses yearning to mow lawns" rightly figured out that there'd be calls for another amnesty. And yes, the amnesty advocates are promising enforcement this time too. (The more honest are saying that they won't offer enforcement first because they can't get amnesty if enforcement works.)
1) It's open-source - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mathtran/ - so you can run it yourself

2) It actually uses TeX, and so supports a bit more math (they're working on full LaTeX)

3) The editor is interactive - you can watch it being typeset as you type
The money supply is inflated when people make loans.

Well, when people loan more than they have, which banks in the US are allowed to do. Loans in and of themselves promote deflation, since people get loans to build wealth, and wealth increase in a static money supply is deflation.
I dislike hype and fashion because it is not rational, promotes strong emotions over judgement and it is costly for us as a society.

You could almost feel this guy's soul tear while writing this. For what, a phone? A corporation?

When the market slams Nokia in the face, they will feel it, not when a fanboy jumps ship. And Nokia is getting slammed pretty badly right now.

They need to control the Os less they become a comodity producer like Htc and Moto already are. Sony didn't go full-android, but they're a shadow of themselves. We'll see...

Nokia have their hopes set on Qt and MeeGo and that looks fine to me, even if I don't know whether they will ultimately succeed or fail.
At the risk of the getting into that "biggest waste of time" confusing medium with the artwork seem to be core cause of this particular debate.
I wonder how the computer industry would have changed had somebody been able to patent the AND gate instead of having the expired patent in place.
Finally: free tool to figure out who's calling you: Cell Revealer
Not associated with the company at all - just found this to be a useful tool...
Also don't forget the famous email virus!
Linguists call them real-word errors. They're very common in writing and spell checkers do nothing to protect against them.

I work on a free browser extension called After the Deadline. It picks a lot of this stuff up. It didn't pick up this particular example, next time I deploy an update to our service it will.

You may want to check it out, it works here on HN too:
http://www.afterthedeadline.com

(as a note, I tend to make the same types of errors)
Hi, thanks for the excellent feedback. Pics and vids are next up, via oEmbed. I agree there is much to be done about the layout. The noisy items in the right hand column are going at the bottom of the channel.

As for the selection of channels, we are seeing a lot of interesting channels set up by users, over 200 new channels only today!

Again, thanks! We'll try out different ways to increase sign up rate. A video or the possibility to create channels without signing up are great suggestions.
"I may be wrong. but if 'm not willing to play a video game to find that out, I should say so."

"It is quite possible a game could someday be great Art."

I can't fathom how one could come away from that article thinking that Ebert believes it is impossible that he is wrong. He still believes that games aren't Art according to some definition he admittedly can't articulate, but he also repeatedly admits that he isn't capable of proving that belief.

I agree the grisly screenshots are pretty underhanded (it would be equally easy to show repulsive frames from movies), and constantly mentioning that he refuses to play games sort of makes it sound like he would be able to prove games aren't art if only he were willing to lower himself to actually playing them.

Overall I thought this post demonstrated more respect for the other side of a debate than I see in the vast majority of posts that make the front page of hn.
Voyager 2 Soft Error
I returned 6 opened, activated iPhone 4s to the Apple Store the day after buying them and Apple did not charge a restocking fee.

I also called AT&T to ensure the service was cancelled and to find out whether there would be any fees and they said there would not be. We'll see what happens if/when they send me a billing statement.
This seems to be part of my problem. In order to get the ball rolling I need some iPhone app developers to buy into the service. My family network doesn't have any developers, although I know 1 or 2 friends who might be interested. I definitely plan to leverage my friends/family network to get users; however, this seems to be after the stage of getting the first 10 dev customers.
I've only been able to reproduce it in areas where the signal was awful to begin with. In areas where my 3gs drops calls weekly, using other people's 4's I can reproduce a dropped call with some regularity. My guess is that it's so hard to reproduce because even by attenuating the signal by holding it wrong, a lot of users are in an area where the signal is strong enough that it doesn't matter.
Games are more or less essentially static. Sure there is a little more freedom of motion than in a movie but I would say it is a similar progression still to motion picture, motion picture to motion picture with slight control. You can't get something out of a video game that wasn't put in in the first place. Trust me people who make video games consider and craft the experience the player is having.

Rather than compare them to movies I would compare them to theater, where the player is an actor in the play. The lines and locations are the same every time, but every performance is slightly different.
I like the atom construct in Clojure - see a functional implementation of memoization, instead of one based on macrology: http://clojure.org/atoms
So your audience is people who are willing to fill out forms and try random crappy apps for 20 cents / hour... and who have iPhones.

Good luck!
This was posted a couple of days ago... can't find the link though.

Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1471123
You are right of course. The trick is to move the incentives to get the desired result. If the system is fundamentally chaotic, a simple tweak would result in all claims being denied. Or 90% of all patents being denied would probably not be a bad thing. If OTOH, the system is quasi-stable, correcting the incentives would remove the aberrations. Incentives tend to push the results to conform to incentives. But I also believe that it a fallacy to expect predictable results from a social system, thereby contradicting my above assertion.
I haven't although I plan to do some direct e-mail later tonight. Has this been effective for you?
Based on actual usage and consumption, comic books and movies are for porn.

Video games aren't so much.

Maybe that's the definition of "art" - how well can it be used for porn. (Music seems to be an exception to this definition but we all know why Eric Clapton learned the guitar.)
I'm convinced all this noise being made over the iPhone 4 "defects" is a very sophisticated PR push by Apple's competitors. My iPhone 4 hasn't dropped any more calls than my 3GS did. Maybe it's just me.
"One obvious difference between art and games is that you can win a game."

Yes, and you can live in a cathedral. People get so dogmatic about separating form from function. I prefer Scott McCloud's far more inclusive definition (http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-M...)
Customer Acquisition - This time it will be different
There is a list of sources about 3/4 of the way down.
Microsoft InstaLoad: battery direction no longer matters
From what I've seen, you're not the minority. I don't know of anyone that actually is experiencing this problem other than the people complaining online. Also, all reviews I've read have not had this issue, but do mention that a good number of people are experiencing it.
>>>male university students were found to masturbate to ejaculation about every 72 hours

If that stat alone had been widespread a few decades ago, it would have prevented so much angst for so many.
Yes, that is too much to ask for, but a lawsuit is also completely overkill. If the thing doesn't work, take it back for a refund. Done.
The Roots of Bioinformatics
Most new laws are in fact not so new at all. Adding a word here to the statute, removing a word there.

On the surface this seems like a poll for general housekeeping, but I suspect it's just an attempt to do away with tax laws.
Our take on 37Signals Draft product page [Taskforce]
Either that or HTC, Motorola, Samsung, etc fork Android and the development diverges and the fragmentation gets worse. (As far as I know, those companies are just putting their own interfaces on top of Android right now, not full out forking the code, right?)
How Moore's Law drove Intel into the arms of anthropologists
The idea is that by the time you scroll to the bottom of the page, you should have a pretty clear idea about the product and how it's useful to you.
If you think that is bad then have a read of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upshot-Knothole_Harry

Not to mention some of the alarming Soviet tests, such as:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
As the spouse of a former Canadian nurse, and friend of others, I think you might be stretching the definition of cushy. Average salary for an RN in Canada a couple of years ago was about $32/hour. You probably would clear $80K if you were a full time nurse, because of all the mandatory overtime.

If being an RN was cushy, I think there'd be less of a shortage of working nurses in Canada.
Learn How Google Works: in Gory Detail
hahaha certainly seems a little ridiculous put this way :)

In all seriousness though .20 cents an hour is quite low. While free apps certainly don't pay out much getting a paid app for essentially nothing is a sweet deal (at least in my mind perhaps I'm wrong).

Developers putting their apps onto users devices and users (who might not normally download apps) trying out new and exciting technologies while making a little spare change doesn't seem to hurt anyone, in fact I'm banking on the fact that people will find value in the service.
I think you should reach out to iPhone and apps bloggers.

Improving your landingpage will also lead to more signups I think. Use some images to communicate in a visual way what adsreloaded does. The text is also not very clear. To me it is all much more a testing environment for app developers than a new way to advertise apps.
Lol. Zimbabwean proportions. That's a good one. I have to remember to use it sometime.
Ask HN: Why is the browser battle so important? 
Why is the browser battle so important? Why are Google, Apple, Mozilla, Opera and Microsoft investing so much into it? It is offered as a free product.
Outstanding video analysis. The composite view of all pitches (then broken down by cutter vs. fastball or what hand the batter was) is overwhelming - which is I guess how batters facing him feel.

The one thing lacking: an explantaion of why he shatters so many more bats than any other pitcher I've ever seen. (It can't be just velocity.)
To ensure the fragmentation is smooth, this is what I would do. The 2.x branch can be used for the low-end android phones while the 3.x and above branch works on high-end phones. But for that to happen, touchscreen and accelerometer would have to become cheaper or should have cheaper variants like the one in HTC Tatoo. And the high-quality stuff like SuperAMOLED screen and whatever comes later would have too be saved for the high-end phones.

It now solely depends on the unity of manufacturers. They'll have to work together to set some standards to differentiate between low-end (2.x) and high-end devices(3.x and above). Google does define in the minimum hardware compatibility spec that all android devices have a touchscreen and an accelerometer. But it requires co-operation among the manufacturers so that no moronic manufacturer would release a low-end android phone with 3.x or higher just to boast of a better firmware than it's other low-end competitors.

Then they have slowly phase out 2.x and start making 3.x low-end phones while the hardware tech would have improved by then (i assume so), so all the high-end phones would have higher minimum requirements to run android 4.x or 5.x or whatever is the greatest during that time.

In the meantime the android market would have to allow uploading different version of applications. Else apps that want to support low end phones but want to make use of the features of the high end phones would have considerably high binary file size and (maybe) processing overhead due to the code included to check feature support in the phone/os.

P.S: I can guess what HTC is going to do when it comes to updating Desire and Evo to Froyo. I don't think they will. They might just fast-forward to 3.x like what they did to Hero (skipped 1.6 coz 2.x was released by the time they released firmware so fast-forwarded to 2.1)
I don't think you're the minority. All of my friends that have gotten the phone haven't had any problems with the antenna and when I actually ask others, they report no antenna issues either. People that are displeased with something will (almost) always be louder than those that aren't.
Order takers vs order makers
This is a sales blog I occasionally read but I thought it's an interesting perspective for anyone engaged in online sales.
Tron Lightcycles for Auction - Only 5 Being Built
Looks like this is it:
http://graphicpeel.com/cssiosicons
RailsConf 2010: Interview with Fabio Akita
Very interesting thoughts on Ruby and Rails community.
Anyone else notice that the law firm is using Wordpress for their blog, and also using the Wordpress "W" in Dante font for their own logo?
"Wikileaks’ head Julian Assange declined to comment."

I find this interesting considering Wikileaks was so quick to comment via their Twitter feed.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks
Give them time, I liked Labour in '97. Now I would happily see Blair shipped off to the ICC.
I can't imagine how, since "vacation" just means being paid for not working.

Buying vacation would just mean not being paid for that time.

Here in California, vacation/PTO is treated just like wages for regulatory purposes, including final paycheck.

What I can imagine being hard to buy is company holidays, but I'd rather have the "vacation" (read: cash) instead.
HP Confirms webOS Tablets Are in the Works [mashable]
That's true.

If anything, although the Droid might not get an official 3.0 release I'm sure someone will release an unofficial rom or something.
An ironic twist of fate haha

1) Agreed... I probably should try and sound like I'm 8 feet tall while still an infant.

2) The design slants it as a testimonial... but seeing as the service just launched I don't particularly have those yet. This will probably be changed soon

Edit: fantastic idea... sending e-mail to inquiry about ads now :)
This is pretty problematic. The government and legal system don't seem to view taking responsibility for your own health as a legal right. I don't care that some people would do stupid things. A big "you shouldn't do this without a doctor's supervision" note is really all that should be required.
> That's not arrogant; thats a human right.

He's certainly allowed to have his opinion, and you're right; he doesn't _have_ to apologize.

I'm also not required to not think he's a bit arrogant when he disparages something that millions of people enjoy, and uses his cultural position to damage their reputation. Without ever having partaken himself.
One of the biggest problem with Symbian development is strings. I mean what the @@@@, do the C++ programmers have less string types to deal with that they introduced six of their own? That scared me, only reason why I asked my boss to switch me to other non-Symbian project. It was a complete nightmare.
An alternative approach might be to give out a raffle ticket instead of .20c and put an iPad or something as a price. This might also make it a bit fun.
Brilliant marketing tools
Licensing and legal saving
Influence
I never said the US broadband industry isn't regulated, I was just correcting an economic misconception of his. It is entirely true that if the broadband industry were left completely unregulated, there would be a few dominant players in the industry, and their dominance would be a result of the high barriers to entry, and not because of their inherent superiority.
Compojure 0.4.0 released
I live in Portland, so I'm questioning your premise off the bat. :) I'd say freedom of movement and the ability to reasonably exercise that freedom is the right, which governments legally support by creating/maintaining/policing the roads.
I don't understand - why do some schools block encrypted search?