skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the number of people who would attempt to hack it is that vanishingly small.

The number of people that will try to hack it is vanishingly small, but it only takes one.

Once that one person gets their hack working, the number of people that have no idea what they're doing but will still install a hack developed by someone else is surprisingly large.

... "Therefore bricking hacked phones is a good thing" at the end

Therefor, bricking hacked phones is their prerogative, it truly doesn't matter to me or 99.99% of the people buying their devices, and if someone does care, they should buy a device from someone interested in serving the tinkerer market, rather than trying to jury-rig a product from a company that clearly has no interested in supporting your endeavor.
This is stuff that's usually taught in a course called "Discrete Mathematics". As far as textbooks go for this type of material, which do you all like? I own Rosen's famous book ( https://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Applications-Ken... ), but it's the "James Stewart's Calculus" of Discrete Mathematics books. I purchased some really old books too, but I haven't yet found one that I like a lot (I settled for a Dover text that's mostly passable).

For the specific topic of set theory, though, I haven't found one I like better than Paul Halmos: https://www.amazon.com/Naive-Theory-Undergraduate-Texts-Math...

If I could only find a number theory text that I like as much.
Interesting thoughts. I had an acquaintance years ago who did a type of HFT. He built and ran a team of people for 5 years or so before 'retiring' with his FU money and traveling the world.

With respect to your news about a CEO, what he told me is that any stocks that had news or upcoming news were simply pulled off the table from trading. I always thought that there could be some value in parsing and understanding news, but from his standpoint it simply took too long. His other point is why deal with other variables when you don't have to. Find low news stocks and you find something that is more easily predictable.

That leads me to the next point he made, time. I asked him about using exotic analysis techniques and again he said most of their algos were variations of regression testing. Now, he didn't go into how they figured out the variables in their regressions, but he said the reason they stuck with those variations is because they were fast and they allowed them make decisions quickly before the window of profit closed.

Last I heard he retired at 30 traveled the world with his wife got bored and now runs a hedge fund. I don't know if how he was doing it 10 years ago would apply to today.
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I've taken quite a lot of university math courses. Not much is helpful for what I do in my development.

In fact, not even the algorithms courses I've taken are all that helpful since most of the hard stuff is already done for you in libraries/frameworks.
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I am a big fan of gnome-shell. I'll be an even bigger fan when it plays nicely with VirtualBox. Or is it VirtualBox that has to play nicely with gnome-shell?
This logic would also apply to other tech blog and generally tech sites with tech-savvy users. Most of them, including Wired, Ars, Digg, slashdot are doing just fine.

Digg has their own marketing/advertising team, unlike reddit. I think this makes the difference.
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I remember some reports on Twitter saying a backup-and-restore helped with 3G slowness on iOS4. Worth a shot?
I often wish I was on commission for Aeropress, such is my apparent ability to sell the things.

They are excellent though - practically sell themselves.
Yeah, in general I find the code not all that readable, despite that being the point.. This is a pretty bold, maybe even snarky, bit to pull.. and if you're going to pull it off it better be Beautiful Code.
Kudos for moving past the "let's just try to look like XP" design stage to thinking about how to improve usability.
I am not trying to be smart, but the irony did strike me.

From Blank's "Lessons Learned", no.1:
"Advice that’s more than 5 years old is obsolete."

The blurb under his "Posts from an Entrepreneurial Career:
"Steve Blank's 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice."

So, does that mean that 83% of his book is obsolete?
I don't see anything revolutionary or extremely interesting and useful here. (a + b) is the same as (b + a). Anyone remembers this link when someone made a prototype of a desktop interface that you could manipulate by all of your 10 fingers? That was truly awesome.
But can it tile windows yet? :-)

I know, I should use a "real" window manager if I need my windows to be tiled, but I feel that tiling is a real feature with a legitimate need that should be built into Gnome.
Ugh. I hate to criticize this guy some more, but that's one wordy resume. In my experience it'll at best get a quick glance. To the point resumes are much more effective.
A couple references:

http://www.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpopmethod.php

http://coffeegeek.com/guides/popperroasting

I'm thinking of trying this out; it sounds really easy.
The best Seattle roast, IMHO, is Vita from Vivace. I just grabbed a bag and it is in the french press now. Absolutely amazing:

http://www.espressovivace.com/intro.html
There are certain contracts you can make where you agree to work for X company for Y years if they pay for your education, or you have to pay them back for the cost. The U.S. Armed Forces does this with ROTC and the military academies. Several corporations will pay for an MBA if you come back to work for them afterwards, but you have to pony up the cash yourself if you choose not to work for them.

In all these cases, the choice is always "Work for us or pay us back" - I don't think you can structure a contract so that they must work for you without running afoul of the 13th amendment.
I often pace while thinking. An ongoing frustration for me has been having to sit down or otherwise stop to record what I'm thinking about. If you can't relate to that at all, then the treadmill desk might not be a good fit for you, or at least not for the same reasons it is for me.
duplicate from two weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465001

I usually do a quick google search of HN before posting, e.g.:

"site:news.ycombinator.com common misconceptions"
Not a window, by the bathroom in my old house had a freaking ENOURMOUS mirror in it that I would use as a whiteboard all the time.
And then the real question is why does anyone pay attention to these numbers, especially if very few people know their methods?
579.3 MB download to make a small software fix to:

Improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display

Really? Seems like a bit of a waste. I can only hope there is more to this update.
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Coding while walking works fine for me. As far as the mechanics, it's not hard to walk and type at the same time. 2 mph isn't very fast. I can't draw with the mouse while walking, so the occasional graphics work has to be done standing.

Mentally, the consistent motion sometimes helps with flow, sometimes not. It's hard to tell, but switching between walking and standing seems to be enough for me to support the various required mental states. I've been doing this for about two months now, and while I have no hard data, I've done what I consider to be some of my best and most creative work ever in the last two weeks, so worst-case the walking isn't too great an obstacle to my coding.

And this is indeed a huge improvement for my back over both sitting and standing.
And he should stick to one font in his real CV, it looks very amateur.
Yeah, he learned the hard way that you can't expect to compete in the pros without pro level access. The thing is though that the pros are dealing with ms or seconds when he should have been looking at things outside their range like minutes or hours or possibly even days.

The currency market is even more cut throat (hey, insider trading is encouraged! :) ), but I have a friend who works with a single other guy managing about 10M leveraged out close to 100M. All they do is trade currency. On a typical day they make 1-2 trades for their clients and the rest of the time play golf and hang out. Pretty much the ideal job :)

They got started years ago while in grad school by writing an algo to analyze currencies. After showing it worked they rounded up a bit of funding and have gone on from there. Ever since then they have just honed and tweaked the algorithm and both make a good living off the commissions from working a couple hours/day.
Yes but this only works if the question is tagged. For instance, to take your example, there are more result for "zerg" than for "starcraft" which is illogical in my opinion :p

You are right that tag gives huge flexibility.. however, maybe a little bit less flexibility with more static section would be easier for gamers. I.e. tagging zerg,rush in the section StarCraft or something like that.
this looks perfect. Though, it is a bit pricey for us. Ideally the code review tool would be integrated with Github, Pivotal tracker or lighthouse.
By two decades these guys anticipated mashups and the Rickroll.

No. The people who bought the single in 1987 were responding to the song very differently from the people who turned it into an internet meme 20 years later. The passage you quote describes the former; it doesn't predict the latter.
Before enumerate, the standard idiom for this was:

for i in range(len(a)):
print i, a[i]
Sadly, I have no MMU-equipped 68K Mac. A/UX required one. :-/
The closest record of his current predictions would presumably be the YC roster.
i think everyone already knows that...well at least in the site owner community...the shock is that they suck that much even for a top 300 site
Have you taken a look at Campfire? http://campfirenow.com/
"singing logarithms" - just like Anathem!
Perhaps I'm missing something, I don't why this chart is supposed to be useful.
i fixed it...but i figured most people on here already knew that those stat services give wrong info

reddit numbers on the other hand is something new.
Actually I agree. As much as I think Zuck is a tool, this appears to me to be an old-media smearjob on social networks and the Internet in general. Not so much an indictment of Zuck. Who the hell outside of SV cares about Zuck? But to use him as a lightning rod to try and make the whole Internet look creepy and evil -- ingenious. I don't think it will work, but it's smart.
Gnome never looked anything like XP or MS Windows for that matter. I think you are confusing it with KDE. If anything, Gnome has some similarities with OSX.
Yeah, you're so completely missing the point of his code that I have to question the intelligence of both yourself and everyone who's upvoted your message. Is this stupid night on Hacker News, or what's going on here?

(And yes, I'm 100% serious. Your reply is the dumbest thing I've ever seen on this site.)
I think he's onto something. I've felt for some time that rating filters on social sites (karma, +/-, buddy/ignore etc.) lose utility by being siloed, and are more properly managed from userland - but also public, such that they can be cross-weighted. Not because this would give a more objective measure of quality, but because it would enable extreme outliers to be easily tuned in or out as preferred.

I'm not explaining it very well, but I would really like to see where this could go.
(As the author of the first comment), I said friendly in the sens beginner-friendly. Where they are a tons of documentation (online and books) available, tons of libraries, tons of person actually using it, lots of job opportunities, easy to learn, etc.

I know some authors recommend learning lisp as a first language because there are not a lot of syntax and you can focus on the important problems. However, from my experience, my university colleague hated lisp and prolog, preferred C++ and really liked C# and Java. Lots of them were pretty beginners or bad programmers, but still, you can't start somewhere and be already an expert.

So, hope it clarified what I mean by Java being friendly. And then, Clojure might be less friendly than java.. but still, in this mentality, might be more friendly than scheme .
I really don't hope that is the future of the desktop. I mean really? Is that what we have to look forward to?

In my world there can be no talk about the future of the desktop unless:

The desktop metaphor and the current filesystem disappears.

My machine starts to monitor what I do and actually use this (The Ghost Protocol)

The machine starts to connect everything I do and build contextual maps automatically. For instance, I receive a picture in my mail and throw it into photoshop. When I then want to retrieve it I can not only look for name.psd but also for the context (Phil send it to me by mail)

Then we can talk about a the future of the desktop.
Kind of like how you add an application to the Gnome Start Menu.
You can see a list of some of Janrain's customers at http://www.janrain.com/customers/customer-showcase
Now… About those Megapixels…
to what I do in my development.

What I pointed out above is that there are people who do this stuff in their development. (-:

It seems like we're caught in this cycle where every 2 or 3 years, a new framework comes out that everybody rushes to embrace. Someone is writing the code to build these frameworks, and I guarantee you someone had to worry about what made their algorithm O(n^2) instead of O(log(n))

I think the reason you're being downvoted though, isn't because you simply pointed out that some people don't need to know this stuff, because (although somewhat pointless to state), that's true. Rather, I think the problem was when you said

Mathematics gets way more attention than it deserves in computing

Because you made no attempt to back it up, producing only evidence of your particular situation.
As an FYI: Gnome 3 is on the feature list[1] for Fedora 14, scheduled for release near the end of October[2].

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList

[2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14
The difference between a live prototype and a quirky working product is very fuzzy. Intelligent people can easily disagree. What's a good self-test?

How is quitting a very high paying, very stable, job for a much lower salary at a company that might not make it not taking a big risk?

A VC telling someone to use their savings? Why would someone pay for salaries and servers and then go to a VC later? The whole point of VCs is for them to take on the major financial risk in exchange for a large chunk of the company.
The linked resume is even worse. That would be straight in the rejected pile, sadly.
Yikes. Awesome.

I absolutely mentioned the SAT to prove I was smart, because, frankly, it's all I've got to prove it. Just saying I was kicked out of school says a lot, but it doesn't tell the entire story. It was to prove I'm smart enough to do something, not so smart that I don't have to do anything.

I've worked at several startups in the past and loved all of them. But in each case I was only looking for summer work at the time, so it didn't go anywhere.

And as for the "build something NOW" advice, I hear you.

Thanks for the kick in the pants. The Internet is nice in that people feel entirely free to tell you the truth.
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The sky is falling on the venture capital rainmakers. Over the past 10 years their quarterly internal rate of return (IRR)—the primary measure of VC success—was dismal, hovering in the single percentage points and sometimes dipping into negative territory.
The OLPC's Activity metaphor is basically taking over and, having always loathed desktops and never understood why my computer must simulate a desktop (with all the clutter that implies), I like it.

It's not just GNOME: iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are at their heart the same as activities (the Android API even uses com.android.Activity as the base class for Android apps).
"This desktop will change the way people view, work with, and think of the desktop."

I don't want to be a hater, and especially I don't want to disrespect the developers and designers who have put heart and soul in this and probably created some awesome stuff. But hyperbole like this example, and sprinkled elsewhere in the article, really gets my hackles up. I start looking at the pictures skeptically and my inner troll starts growling.
Yeah, these are definitely cheaper. I remember seeing these and similar ones before. I think they may be below satisfactory for professional use, though.

The range is a bit limited (29-39 inches - too tall for short people sitting and too short for tall people standing, but fine for the mid-range of body heights).

Also, these things look a bit flimsy (no information on load capacity) and a bit awkward to adjust (seems like you have to loosen grips on both legs and then move up/down.

I didn't include them on my site, because I really wanted to present desks that can satisfy serious desk workers (like most geeks).

The DIY one looks like fun, I've built my own furniture before. I'll add it to my future DIY section.

The one with the plan is an interesting idea, but unless building hardware is your hobby, probably not so feasible.

I agree that the prices seem really high. I've looked around a lot for any DIY height adjustment mechanisms to retrofit a regular desk, but finding "desk grade" pneumatic cylinders in retail is pretty difficult.
I heard a lot of good things about it, but it doesn't have the ability to work on remote files via SSH or (S)FTP. I might try it with an extra program, but it feels like a hassle.
>but i figured most people on here already knew that those stat services give wrong info

I wish this was true. The people that matters, don't know this.
Chris was a jerk this entire interview. Over and over again he was ranting and shouting Matt down.
Matt was superb throughout; calm, patient, and prepared. He had one blurt-out, while Pearson frantically dug his own grave. Totally agreed.
> I don't know if that is still in effect, but it is ridiculous, and more men than women will go to ridiculous lengths.

It isn't ridiculous, it's the whole basis of the program. I did the program last winter, convinced that I could do it just as well from home. I'm now convinced of the opposite: doing a successful startup (excepting side-project type startups, which are valid but different) requires being in the valley.

It may be ridiculous in the sense that it is a hardship, and if you think men will go through this hardship more than women, then I think we know why the numbers are so skewed.
now he's commented on his own blog to confirm he's going to sue thesis: http://ma.tt/2010/07/syn-thesis-1/#comment-481725
Makes it more likely that Matt/WP would prevail on what?

That Thesis infringes on WP copyright by using some GPL code, or that add-ons like themes are truly derivative works?

The article seems to confirm the former, but not the latter.
I wish more people sent me resumes like yours. Good work.
I sure will give it a try. The author is right when he said people stopped to find gnome innovating.. and this is a genius move from the gnome team.

I hope there will be an easy shell command to use the activity "find". For instance, activity firefox would start it and activity test.py could show me the activity view with all my files named test.py, etc.
Yeah, the compass in the 3GS has never worked right. It's just a cheesy gimmick as far as I can tell.
I like what I see and have a real soft spot for Gnome, but it seems fairly conservative, yet. More at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/#rnlookingf...
"Nope. We track that too. We've a (roughly) 25-30% adblock rate."

at http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/cq1lf/why_do_experts_m...
If the margin of error is somewhat consistent, the numbers are still good for comparison between two sites.
Really? I don't find that at all. I find that being a connoisseur can improve your ability to enjoy simple things, you just may need to work a bit harder to find those things that you enjoy.

I enjoy a good cup of coffee. And while many people drink horribly complicated flavored venti mocha crap that's massively overpriced and has more calories than a Big Mac, I can enjoy a simple cup of black french-press coffee made with good fresh beans. Now, it's true that I can't find that on every street corner like I can a Starbucks, but once I've found a good place for a cup of coffee, I get a lot more enjoyment out of just the bean itself rather than all the milk, flavorings, and sweeteners they add to it.

It took a little while for me to develop a taste for good coffee, but now that I have it, I can get something I enjoy quite a bit cheaply and simply.
It's not just IPOs that have had a lost decade. All major US stock indices have not increased in value (inflation adjusted) since 2000. As an equities investor in the last decade, chance are you haven't made any money at all.

In 2000 some warned about a Japan-style slump, people said it coudn't happen. They still say that today, not realising, that, for 10 years, it's already true. Sure, there was a runup from about 03-07, but unless you got out at the top, you're back to where you started. And it's not just stock indices, it's also real estate and the number of jobs.
Until you're system is crippled by a bug as a result of not using them.
Your point about the system watching what you do and doing something useful with that information reminded me of some work a few years back by Nat Friedman on "Dashboard" that had me pretty excited at the time: http://nat.org/dashboard/

It was a shame to not actually see that go anywhere other than the prototype stage.
I am a Gnome user and I am not at all impressed, I liked Gnome because there was 1 way to do a certain task, now they gone the windows way of being able to do the task at many places, that is confusing and complicated. Gnome was simple but complete, but I guess fashion is more important than satisfied users, just like windows and OSX. I am not looking forward to the next fad.

Anybody knows a simple and consistant and complete desktop that I can use when Gnome got screwed?

B.T.W. I expect negative mod points for being viewed as nagger, but it is how I feel about this Gnome route.
Not in this case, but Yoda conditions can be useful. The most common case is preventing accidental assignment when you are trying to check for the equality of values.

Say that you mean to do:

if (something == 2)

If you forget an equal sign, the resulting code can lead to subtile bugs:

if (something = 2) // Not what we meant

If you are using a Yoda condition and forget an equal sign, you'll get an error right away (so that you can correct it):

if (2 = something) // Error

There are other use cases, particularly related to nil values, but this should show you the gist of it.
> I suspect that the vast majority of Redditors use Ad-block or equivalent.

I seriously doubt that.
I associate game mechanics with sites that are supposed to be more "fun". For example, I can totally groove with seeing Newgrounds using "experience points" in order to encourage participation, but if I see "Achievement Unlocked!" at the bottom of the timesheet app I use I risk punching the monitor.
I was under the distinct impression that this was only a test to gather data, and even if things go well, the cap is coming back off in 48 hours or less.
So the market must think it's very risky then. I wonder if there are any other risks.
Ya, I read that as well. But even if they changed their mind (which is extremely unlikely. Google always seems willing to compete), it wouldn't be the end of all those sites, though it would be a major setback.
I hope this thing doesn't get settled and goes to a judgment.

This would reduce the amount of rhetoric, since we'll finally get an idea of where a US court stands on parts of the GPL. Settlements don't provide any clarification.

It would be interesting to see if more projects go with GPL or switch to other licenses like the MIT or Apache license.