skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Celebrities who Switched Careers
Sometimes a celebrity hits a wall in their career, or gets bored, or just doesn’t want to do it anymore.
Maybe we should all post some Erlang articles instead of feel-good business articles and light reading.
861 days and I'd like to have a rocking chair and a cane to shake at people who are complaining. Which, I suppose, is a complaint in itself. I suppose that if the cane's short enough, I could shake it at myself. But then it would be rather useless for walking with..

Nonetheless, flagged.
Interesting. The two first players all followed the same linear move order:
player 1 : scissor -> rock -> paper -> scissor -> rock
player 2 : paper -> scissor -> rock -> paper -> scissor
player 3 : scissor
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I may well be on this - approx Amazon prices.

Win 7 is from about £75 (home/student); Mac OS X 10.6 is from about £25.

With Windows you get all the upgrades free until the next major release. With Mac OS X you pay for point releases and that is the price we see here? I note that Amazon (UK) has OS X 10.5 priced at c.£110.

From Apple Computer's website, http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1338:

Reference releases; update vs. upgrade

Mac OS X v10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 themselves are not downloadable updates, they are reference releases, also called upgrades. This means, for example, you can't upgrade from Mac OS X v10.3 to Mac OS X v10.5 via a downloadable installer. Reference releases are available from the Apple Store online, Apple Retail Stores, and Apple Authorized Distributors (AAD).
Number 4 makes absolutely no sense. Even if the authors presumption is correct (i.e., that the opponent will not throw a rock), countering with a rock still gives you only a 50% chance of winning and 50% chance of loss. If the presumption were correct, it would be better to counter with scissors. Then you get 50% chance of winning and 50%chance of tie.
>Hastings’ question is clear even if you know nothing about the book. [...] Poirot’s questions, on the other hand, only makes sense if you know something about the story.
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You can right now buy MacBook Pro 15" with 1680x1050 display or MBP 17" with 1920x1080 display. The pixel size on those displays is pretty darn tiny; I doubt higher pixel density makes sense on laptop due to further viewing distance (compared to iPhone).

About new products: I would love to see 15" version of MacBook Air, or slimmed down MacBook 15" without optical drive, brand it whatever. Dear Steve, get rid of optical drives, please.
For my mileage HN is better than digg, reddit, delicious.com/popular and anything in my news reader.
The technical community seems to have these virulent
quality assumption: Everything test driven, inside out,
full stack, behaviour drive. This is great and a must if
you have a clear product requirement and/or a clear
vision.

I think it might be an infliction particularly common among those of us who started our own thing after (too many?) years of "Enterprise" (and other larger-scale) programming.

After being burned by having to support/maintain/develop upon someone else's huge, less-than-optimally-thought-out code base you grow afraid of quick hacks, even tho those are sometimes exactly you need.
IIRC, /classic will only count the votes of people who have been registered on HN for over a year.
An irrelevant degree takes some years that you could invest into a working experience, and more importantly, it delays maturity. But it can give you a valuable knowledge (of course, if you earn grades for real things, not for imitating some nonsense). This is hard to learn in everyday life.

I program in Python and earlier was a DB developer, but have an economics masters degree. The most useful thing of this degree was maths and games theory that surprisingly comes to conclusions on things like morale, honesty and dignity, and shows that they're not relative as the classic economics implies.
Not sure to what extent HN is bother you, but maybe slashdot.org is more what you're asking for. Other than that, I believe that today's news about Flipboard (flipboard.com) is the future. So, maybe it's time to filter stories through multiple Twitter accounts accordingly...
Second the motion as well as upvote.
I hope you could set it straight.
I remain a fan of Sam Walton and Ron Howard's family.

Sam Walton was a multi-billionaire. Drove around in an old pickup truck and bought his clothes at Wal-Mart. When he realized he needed some kind of plane to get to all his stores more effectively, he bought a used Piper. Treated it like a big station wagon (not an advisable thing to do). He used to fly slow and low to wherever he was going, looking for Wal-Marts along the way. If he saw one that didn't have a lot of cars in the parking lot? He would land at the nearest airport or grass strip and go over to see what was up. He had lots of money yet the money didn't have him.

Ron Howard was one of the most famous child actors from the 60s. Did his parents get him his own sitcom, tutors, and trips overseas? Nope. The Howards lived in a suburb in a modest home. Ron was expected to go to regular school like everyone else. Shooting on the Andy Griffith show was adjusted to make sure that the kid had a normal life. Sometimes his dad found work on the set doing odds and ends. All of his money was put in the bank until he got out of college.
Indian hacker's bras? [curse my poor English language education]

I guess there's a website for everything.
and sometimes it takes a while to understand the true nature of a bug.

and sometimes the "right way" to fix something is unclear.

and sometimes the fix straddles multiple components, managed by different teams.

and sometimes "that guy" who knows the subsystem is off at Disneyland for two weeks.

60 days can pass very quickly, especially as the project and vulnerability complexity grows. It's a short enough window to put the vendor under time pressures from day one.
Maybe only allow commenting to those accounts older than say, 50 days? I know I lurked here a long time before I made an account and started commenting.

It would keep the trolls out and select for those users who truly value the community.
In the classic page the ranking is based on the votes from accounts older than 1 year.
The colors are quite painful to my eyes, although this looks interesting!
Even for the 2gb data plan they will be expecting a certain level of breakage (use under 2gb, which is charged but never used).

The same is true of minute bundles. Users which go a lot over (and pay per minute) are fine, users which are a lot under (and still pay for the bundle) are fine. Users who are averaging use of 80-120% will probably be costing the provider more than they pay.
Yes, that was the joke.

Apparently it was either not funny enough or not obvious enough.
Energy, sustainability, and public understanding of climate
Yep, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271
Web of Stories
Filtering comments by people who joined after time X would have resulted in people not seeing your own comment, you being only 49 days hn-old.
China and the Year of the GNU/Linux Desktop
Adventures in Very Recent Evolution
Some of the source code was missing too - so I had to decompile great chunks of stuff and wade through the resulting code to find out what was going on.

Imagine my delight when I found multiple jar files, all with the same name but with different contents, all included in the classpath for WebSphere.

Something like 98% of the code did nothing useful.
I'm assuming there are some minimum equipment and power generation requirements to communicate with cell phones on earth that go above and beyond what a single $8k satellite can offer.

But it's possible that it's just so new that noone has started using them like that.
Is that why Conde Nast instructed them to demand donations for nothing but a badge to start with and then later decided to add features. A sort of price differentiation, catching those who will donate first and then offering incentives to those who wouldn't donate with no return.
Adam's videos have a rare combination of sincerity, great writing, and excellent production values. I don't know what he charges to make these, but I'd love to hire him to promote our app. His work is great.
I remember reading an article a while back about some World Championship of Rock Paper Scissors. The winner back then said that most players with a "strategy" eventually failed. The only thing he did was think of a random sequence before playing and then stick to it.
If the board of Conde Nast decide they want to have their cars washed in cristal again at next years board meeting instead of letting reddit have enough to pay for an extra engineer then it's sure to come along.
Why Cancer Can't Be Cured
Personally, I was a philosophy major.

As was I, along with Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Physics.

Philosophy was by far my most important and relevant major. It taught me how to think and express myself logically and to identify specious reasoning - two things which are invaluable in life.

In fact, I know of at least one Philosophy major that Apple hired as an iPhone engineer.

They should really teach Philosophy in high school - it's a much better way to learn to read and write than English class, and the payoff is you learn to think for yourself and not simply quote authors like Shakespeare.
At most Universities you can do a double major. If you know what you want early on, this usually won't add much length to the time it takes to get your degree.

If the double major doesn't work out, consider minoring in Music. My real passion is history, so I did a major in Computer Science and a minor in History.
Tips to Protect Your Computer
There is no question about the fact that the security of the computer and data is the most important thing for an individual and for a company. There could be huge loss if confidential and personal information of an individual or company secrets are revealed.
Flashbulb memories
Facebook Credits to Challenge US Dollar
Wardriving shows Wireless Networks still Wide Open
NB: although the browser is 64 bit, the Flash plugin is still 32 bit.
I think the author doesn't realize how much money prop trading firms make off you even if you "just invest in the S&P 500". Between changes in index makeup, differences between underlying and derived instruments, and the need for the ETF to keep the required balance of actuals, there's quite a bit of movement to make money off of.

And it's not exactly hidden knowledge when which large pension/mutual funds make their adjustments.
I didn't read the book, but the article is good. I tend to ignore the differences between Shia and Sunni muslims when thinking about Islam, but thanks to articles like this one can realize that they often hate each other more than western countries.
Even though the thought expressed in the post is interesting and makes sense, but calling advisors as co-founders is stretching it. Co-founder, if any, will have more executive responsibilities than just making connections which is not the case with advisors. Whether involved more than once a month or not, advisors, in strict definition of advisor, do not provide any execution support.
The future of movie downloads is ultraviolet
success: no
errormessage: flipboard is over capacity
Important point there.

Frameworks are not to be avoided, but generic frameworks are very dangerous, so usually a custom framework, built with generic libraries, is the better choice.
Ask HN: I may have been spun. Is there anything I can do about it?
So in the shadier parts of the SEO world there's this concept called "spinning" where one takes a single article and programatically creates hundreds of small variations of it, largely by substituting words and phrases with synonymous terms. This is meant to work around Google's duplicate content detection algorithm). It isn't hard for a person to notice the similarities between the documents, but it is subtle enough (or computationally difficult enough) that search engines seem to be fooled.

I think that one of my competitors has taken some article content from my site, "spun" it (possibly by hand) and reposted it on one of those post-your-content-with-backlinks sites you sometimes find in search results. (Except they posted it with backlinks to their site, of course.)

If this was a direct, verbatim copy I'd contact the hosting site to notify them of the copyright violation.

But that's not what this is, it's more like a section by section, sentence by sentence paraphrasing of my content, with some other slight modifications (which is why I think it may have been done by hand, but I'm not familiar enough with spinning to know what's normal and what's not). I'm pretty sure that my content was the source document for this, since there are some unusual phrases that carried over to the new document, and the structure of many of the sections, paragraphs and sentences of the new document are identical to some on my site.

Both the site on which this content was posted and the site to which it is linking are legitimate business that I assume would respond to something like a DMCA take-down notice.

I'm well aware of the degree, nature and much of the mechanics of plagiarism on the web, and while I'm annoyed (possibly flattered) that it seems a competitor more or less plagiarized content from my site, but my bigger concern is this is the tip of the iceberg and I'm about to see dozens of close copies of my content floating around the web.

Is there anything I can or should do about this?
I have absolutely no idea why anyone would want this. I can already do all of those things...
Americans Have developed Needle Free Patch to Reduce Injection Phobia Chances
Ask HN: Need UI Expert
We are building SaaS based service and looking for UI expert to help us to finalize design. Please mail me singh.mahesh@gmail.com
Online mba in Entrepreneurship
MBA in Entrepreneurship is one of the newer and more innovative type of MBA courses which has distinguishing features of entrepreneurial opportunity. It deals with the challenges virtually all business students encounter in some form, whether as entrepreneurs, consultants
Abolishment of the death penalty is very recent development (last executions: France 1977, UK 1964, Germany 1949 – arguably a special case) and public opinion is not fundamentally different between Europe and the US.

There is a interesting (but expensive) book about this topic [1], from the blurb:
Movements to abolish the death penalty cannot be understood without a grasp of the dynamics of public opinion on capital punishment, which is driven not by rational consideration but by what cognitive psychologists call 'social intuitions,' deeply rooted attitudes which are resistant to change. European death-penalty abolitionists quickly realized the futility of trying to change public opinion on a mass scale, and instead devised strategies to accomplish abolition despite lingering public support for the death penalty. Pointing to the importance of political structures that allowed European abolitionists to bypass public opinion, this study assesses the prospects of the 'European model' of abolition in global perspective.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0230231985?tag=gerjoy-21&camp...;
I studied the course linked to below at University of Sussex, which is a combination of Computer Science, AI and classical Music.

http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/courses/music-informatics/overvie...
Took me five minutes to figure out what you were talking about. The submission is off the front page, already.

Consider: editors sleep. I've noticed a tendency for less-topical stuff to appear on the front page on weekends and at, say, 9am UTC, when the entire USA is asleep, and when it is 2am in Silicon Valley. From this I conclude that a sizable fraction of hardcore HN vets, including the team with Super Moderator Powers, lives and works in the USA, particularly in CA. This, of course, is no surprise at all.

So, try reading HN at the better times. Or, recruit more English-speaking, tasteful HN readers in Central Asia, India, China, Australia.

Or you might just try to laugh off the occasional stupid story.

Or, launch your own. An HN rival launches every week. Sometimes one even grows large enough to be noticed.
I suggest watching the movie The Final Cut with Robin Williams. It considers a world where parents pay to have organic PVRs implanted into their unborn children's brains. Every waking moment or dream is recorded, and the children are told when they reach 21 years old. The ostensible purpose of the implants is for video eulogies.
As long as there are people like pg, patio11, gruseom, grellas, cperciva, tptacek, edw519, jacquesm, vaksel, swombat, mechanical_fish, jgrahamc, raganwald, DanielBMarkham, mahmud and many more participating and engaging in awesome disucssions, HN is the place to be.
German startup news portal launches English version
Let's Face It: PaaS is Just SOA for Platforms without the Baggage
The Happy Company (on Tony Hsieh and Zappos)
Two years for one iteration? It sounds like you're in the same boat as me as being potentially a non-technical founder of a software related business. I've made that mistake before and in some sense continue to make it today, but iterations need to be made in smaller steps than that.

May I ask what the project is?
A link that works: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_hi_te/eu_italy_dri...
Which won't happen in the next 5 years.

(just so someone can come back and quote at one of us in 6 months...)
Now seems like a reasonable time looking at the fundamentals and ignoring the antenna issue.
What BP Could Have Bought With All the Money They Lost
I double majored in the two most irrelevant degrees, philosophy and mathematics. The main skill this has imparted upon me is superhuman-like bullshit detection. While useful, this has proven to be rather depressing, as bullshit is in no short supply.

If I could do it over again, I would have majored in music.
I worked with some of the same guys earlier in my career. However, it really was simple serendipity - they happened to be working down the street from where I was living and I ran into them.
Developing for Windows Phone 7 vs Android
The $8,000 satellites are put into low-earth orbit (160–1,200 km), where as these would require a geosynchronous orbit (35,786 km). The increased mass and orbit requires a lot more lift, i.e. fuel, i.e. money.
large market? or vocal market?

Tech journalists like to make out that everyone is sitting in their home tweeting. It's just not the reality though.
I have no idea how wall st and retail banking got mixed up in everybody's minds. Stegall only allowed the two to be run under the same roof...

Why keep money in a mattress when the FDIC and its insurance is backed by the full faith of the USGovt? If you buy a share of stock well, that is different.

When you buy a share of stock, what does that mean? How is the value derived (of the share)? How does the system that tells you that value work? Most people can't answer these questions and yet invest money anyways.

The banking/financial system provides plenty of valuable services. That it also participates in value-destroying activities is always partially the fault of the consumers who want these activities to exist in the first place.
I love reading posts like this. As a long time PHPer, I've pretty much exhausted my learning with the language. I rather enjoy it, and I'll probably always develop in it, but this post makes me seriously want to consider investigating Erlang.

I'm happy they've released it as Open Source (http://code.google.com/p/zotonic/downloads/list) it looks like a great project to get started with.
New version [of ICC] is still crippling Intel's competitors
I'm not as convinced. You can use this thing as a Twitter client, can you not? I've been expecting Twitter clients to evolve into this; this is a nice stab at it.

I miss the linearity. Twitter is linear; it has a timeline. This would seem to be a nonessential feature, perhaps even a limitation, and yet I miss it when I do not see it. I feel disoriented. Though maybe if I use this Flipbook app for a while I will find it is still there, just slightly obscured.

I might prefer to read some twitter feeds as tweets, and others through an app like this. Time for multiple Twitter accounts, perhaps.

A very interesting experiment.
I didn't read this. I don't want to do too many things, but, even if I had to, I would rather start doing those things instead of reading a blog post about how to do too many things.
A derived work is just as much protected by copyright as the original is. If you translate a book, you cannot distribute that translation without the original author's consent. So the circumstance that they didn't republish your article verbatim, but in a modified way, is of little relevance. So you can do the same things you would if it was a verbatim copy.
Eliminating Errors with Little Languages
I agree that this is not a real HN browser. But it does suggest a great design direction for a real HN browser.

Damn, I need a second set of working hours to spend learning Cocoa and/or HTML5!
Pretty dodgy economics going on. Wouldn't BPs expenses on cleanup so far already have been taken out of the stock price (re statement at the end of the graphic)?

I expected it to be about the value of the oil lost... that's probably a lot less than 100b.
> If this was a direct, verbatim copy I'd contact the hosting site to notify them of the copyright violation.

From your description it is a derivative work. This is still a copyright violation. I can't comment on what you should do, though.
I'd love to help - but I honestly can't code for beans. (Probably very odd for someone perusing HN.)
Mind you don't get "Oxbridge syndrome"... Oops, too late.
You just need to give a new mobileprovision file every three months, no need to update the app unless necessary.

I've always found it to be quite weird that the App Store is so closed, but a person with a developer certificate and MobileProvision can install whatever he wants and can do whatever he wants so long as the apps are codesigned. $99/yr is less than a couple coffees a month (or a good sushi plate) and way less than your phone bill, and is quite worth it for the bored hacker who wants to keep the warranty.
As an amateur onlooker, it'd be useful to see both pages for comparison, although I can't say I know anything about 'spinning'. I'm curious what the result looks like, though.
Solving the IT Turnover Crisis
Join the military.

Sorry...just a knee-jerk reaction.

Maybe you could see a psychiatrist or doctor? This may be a sign of a problem best treated with medication.
I think you don't understand the Haskell runtime.

let x = [1..]
in do print (x !! 1000000)
print (x !! 1000000)

Element #1000000 (counting from zero) of the list "x" is printed out twice. The first time, "x" is a thunk. That thunk is evaluated, and the runtime stores the resulting value back into "x". The second time, "x" is a constructor, so it does not need to be evaluated. You'll see the memory usage spike after the first "print" to account for the million cons cells allocated.

This is no different than the interface provided by the memoization function. What distinguishes pure from impure is not memory access -- memory MUST always be modified in order to perform calculation. I recommend reading the Haskell report section on semantics.
Guardian pulling the plug?
I was just curious if you did or not. No need to be sensitive about it.
If there's going to be a camera in my car, it's going to be under my control, not remotely accessible by a third party who may or may not be police on a legitimate investigation.
By that you mean, not getting into bed with the US govt's darlings Halliburton?
Hybrid 2007 Hindi Dubbed Movie Watch Online