skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In response to the first footnote: I know it by the name intellectus, which apparently comes from Thomist Josef Pieper in his book "Leisure: The Basis of Culture". In it he says:

The middle Ages drew a distinction between the understanding as ratio and the understanding as intellectus. Ratio is the power of discursive, logical thought, of searching and of examination, of abstraction, of definition and drawing conclusions. Intellectus, on the other hand, is the name for the understanding insofar as it is the capacity of simplex intuitus, of that simple vision to which truth offers itself like a landscape to the eye. The faculty of mind, man's knowledge, is both these things in one, according to antiquity and the Middle Ages, simultaneously ratio and intellectus; and the process of knowing is the action of the two together. The mode of discursive thought is accompanied and impregnated by an effortless awareness, the contemplative vision of the intellectus, which is not active but passive, or rather receptive, the activity of the soul in which it conceives that which it sees.
Do you see many of these? I don't...seems like it's only worth it if the in infringing party has money.
I can only imagine this number increasing with their new Adaptive Accounts API. It will allow developers to create PayPal accounts for users/online customers as part of the shopping experience.

So rather than sending people away to create a PayPal account, you can keep them in your app, send the info to PayPal and (only at the very end) redirect to PayPal to verify and setup sensitive info.

You can read more here: https://www.x.com/community/ppx/adaptive_accounts
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This isn't true - I use a proxy tunnel frequently, and Flash works fine.
Hey - what are you skills? We are looking for a CTO!
Upon searching Wikipedia and not finding it, I realized the actual source is the movie Amadeus...

Just as good, right?
Computer Science graduates - over educated and under qualified?
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Can optometrists be made cool?
I've had these same thoughts myself while walking to the laundry mat in my apartments. I know that Ning exists, maybe it's too general? Maybe a social network for apartments would get more usage? You'd have the problem of verifying that someone lives in the apartments (facebook used to verify you went to school.edu by your school.edu email address).
Every company "believe['s] they know what is best for you and me."
The entire point of a company is to create stuff that's best for the customer.
i do it every day, works out easier for the IT dept then configing the network for ppl like me... but if you are not on good terms with the IT dept its a good way to lose your job, tread carefully.
Patents work very well in more traditional arts, for example mechanical devices. They're not perfect, but they're good enough at stimulating innovation that most countries have a patent system and they actively encourage their citizens to use it. They're also time tested: the US framers thought so much of patents that they wrote the patent system into our tiny Constitution.
Wow, that's an inspirational read. Thanks. Maybe I won't try to fix my "problem" :)

Hamming's Questions ("What are the most important problems in your field? Are you working on one of them? Why not?") are great, but somewhat daunting. Maybe the blow can be softened by loading those problems into ambient thought mode instead of pounding against them systematically. That was one of Feynmann's methods: keep a few hard problems in the back of your head all the time and wait to stumble on something that helps.
Also, while this is true on some level, on another, its not a bad thing for society to support a few people whose sole purpose is to uphold a link to the past (in any of it's incarnations).

Sure they may not provide a lot of utility in terms of increasing production, but they do have a lot of perspective to offer to students.
They do. Many institutional angel investors have their own job boards, especially since they hold dozens of companies in their portfolios:

http://www.ventureloop.com/foundersfund/
http://www.felicisvc.com/jobs.aspx

Smaller individual angel investors have more ad-hoc operations and haven't bothered with streamlining hiring for their investments. This may change.
Android's ascent in China might not elevate Google
If you use a full frame sensor, you get the full effect of vignetting from the plastic lens. ... Essentially, the lens is right-sized for 35MM or a crop sensor while it's generally used with 6cm medium format negatives.

I'm not sure I follow. As you say, a normal Holga lens is used on 6x6 which is almost four times the surface area of 35mm film.

So you're not going to get the same lens vignetting as you get on a 6x6 frame without shrinking the lens proportionally.

There's also detail. Large film area is one of the reasons why you still get some clarity in your picture, even though the lens distorts the light.

So if you drop to 35mm equivalent or smaller then your lens has to become proportionally less crummy as well as smaller, in order to get the same result. If that's your goal, anyhow.
> What I didn't get though how it measures exposure? or you are supposed to have a light meter with you?

Since it's a digital semi-replica of a holga, I'm pretty sure you're supposed to eyeball it.
I don't care if you invent words, if you call your function zork that's fine, it's still a pronounceable word. When I say real word, I mean it has consonants and vowels and is speakable. It's abbreviations that annoy me.
Not my intention.
As others have mentioned, it allows you to use a remote box as a SOCKS proxy, so your browsing traffic originates from there and is encrypted on the local network.

This is useful when the local network is untrusted, or to bypass things like url blocklists or IP filtering.

The arguments are as follows:

ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 your-user@example.com

C2: request compression, at level 2 (1 is least)

q: quite mode

T: Disable pseudo-tty allocation. I don't know why you would want this. I suspect since you are only using it for a proxy you don't really need a tty, but seems a little unnecessary to me.

n: redirect stdin from /dev/null. Again, not sure why this is needed, but I suspect it is related to the "T" option.

N: Do not execute a remote command. You are only using port forwarding so no commands are needed.

-D 8080: the local port to forward

your-user@example.com: Username/host of remote machine.

This is a pretty optimized example. The simplest working version is just
ssh -D 8080 your-user@example.com. Personally, I'd use the -C2 argument as well, but leave the rest out.
Just as good, right?

Probably not:

Mozart's drinking runs as a sub-theme throughout the plot in Amadeus. But in reality, it seems that he rarely drank to excess, though in his last year or two his drinking did appear to have increased. During the summer of 1791 when Constanze was in Baden, "he used to drink champagne with Schikaneder all morning, and punch all night." But this report stems from Ignaz Ernst Ferdinand Karl Arnold, who was without firsthand knowledge. While alcoholic writers are legion, the condition seems rare among composers; it is possible that great music was composed under the influence, but not with such consistency or productivity.

http://www.mozartproject.org/essays/brown.html

Not trying to bust you. Just trying to discern the truth and a quick google turns up no real agreement with the movie version. As for other remarks here about Mozart being poor, that may not be accurate either:

Mozart never went out of style, he never was broke, fallen out of favor, etc., and the bit about being buried in a Pauper's grave?
Well, everyone who was not royalty at that time was buried in mass graves. If you were notable, but not royalty, you got a plaque on the wall of the cemetery, which he did.

The fact is, Mozart was pretty well off for most of his adult life, compared to the average Venetian. He had a billiards table, an apartment with several rooms, and even his own carriage, which was very unusual for even the middle class.
When he died, an audit was performed for death taxes, and it was done by a fellow Mason, who listed the value of his stuff at WAAAAYYYY lower than it actually was worth - as a favor to his widow.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080512155619AA...
No exploitation is necessary if it just so happens you have a common interest. There's a lot of people who want to do a startup but don't know how: How do you make deals? How do you raise money? How do you hire?

One way to learn is to go off and do it. The other is to join an early-enough startup that is still learning all these things and learn with them without the risks. When you're ready, go off and do your own thing.

The people you want to surround yourself with are the ones more interested in helping each other than exploiting each other. I honestly don't have much belief in the taking-it-for-the-team guilt trip approach. If the job is not in everyone's interest then it's time to re-work the incentives (equity?).
I'm going to guess that there are very few patent trolls that target small independent entrepreneurs. Not out of the goodness of their heart, but simply because that isn't where the money is.
One problem with Chrome is that its proxy config interface really is just interfacing with the GNOME desktop-wide proxy settings. So it's impossible to have Chrome use multiple proxies or to only have one instance of Chrome use a proxy, but another instance not -- even if both instances have completely separate user data directories -- and all proxy changes are instantaneous across all Chrome instances. (At least for Chromium 5.0.391.0 on Linux)
Sedentary Kids Become Gamers While Active Kids Become Hackers
Unfortunately the terms "cheap" and "digital back" don't seem to go together. :(

You could mod a 10 year old old Hasselblad/Mamiya/? 6x6 back onto a Holga but even those backs are still worth plenty of $ I think. Enough that you'd want a Hasselblad or a Mamiya to go with them. Lot of trouble when 'Hipstamatic' is $5 or so. ;).

That said, I'd love to build a digital rangefinder camera from a 70s era rangefinder. If anyone has links to any successful frankencameras of this kind, I'd love to see them.
Direct would suggest something like a Twitter client or email.

Or a mention in a newspaper, magazine, or on TV. Even mentions in backwater publications or channels can have a big effect traffic wise.
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I don't think the author of this article disputes that tenured experienced professors contribute something to the system. They do. The problem is their huge and disproportionate cost.
I guess this guarantees that the install base will be > 503.

As someone who lives in Seattle and knows a lot of people at Microsoft it'll be interesting to see if they give up their iPhones so easily.
In science and math there are often times when developing a new contribution takes several years. Research is inherently a risky and long process requiring intellectual courage, adding economic worries to a researchers life will have a chilling effect on the research. Industry does a great job at engineering and exploring solutions around established theories. However most significant scientific theories come from academia. In short without tenure I fear that 10-20 year timescale problems and pie in the sky ideas will go largely unaddressed and unexplored.
Well, as the essay suggests, "working and getting paid" will become your top-thought and "working on your own projects" will start to slip away.

If I focused on getting paid, I think I would start to rationalize putting short-term gains ahead of long-term gains. I would tell myself that by working I'm learning X, Y or Z while avoiding thoughts like, "...but those things are easy."

I am recently out of college, yes. Or rather I dropped out (about five years ago). I'm living off of savings -- about $5000 a year. You can stretch a little bit of money a long way like that.

And yeah, completely isolating oneself is probably a bad idea.
ssh tunnels work great for hulu and netflix when travelling abroad. Or so I've heard :)
What is a hacker house? I even visited that site http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com and googled it, but not much explanation.
Five things that could topple Facebook's empire
A little more info would be helpfull. I would provide the following info in your post to help filter people to the right match:

Are you guys funded?
If not are you guys looking for someone with funding?
If so what is your burn rate until implosion? (this lets people know worst case scenario)
When do your expect to hit profitable.
Is salary involved or is this a, when we get funded you get paid gig?
Where are you guys located?
Are you cool with someone remote for now?
What is your current technical platform?
Who built it, an internal person or outsourced entity?
Who is already involved, what do they do, what do they bring to the table?

As well just food for thought, but there are quite a few on this board and elsewhere that hate rock star and ninja as a description. It has become manager speak for "we are trying to be cool but we are out of touch with the tech type". Not saying you are, but those descriptions set off flags for some.
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FUD!

Who do you think wrote cliki.net, planet.lisp.org, paste.lisp.org, ASDF, ASDF-Install, XCVB, CLBUILD, runs common-lisp.net, wrote www.cl-user.net, organizes the International Lisp Conference, organizes European Lisp meetings, organizes various local user groups, wrote the software libraries listed here http://www.cliki.net/Library ??????????? Edi Weitz did not provide his starter pack??? He did not publish his regex engine, his webserver, his...

There are no libraries in LibCL? http://libcl.com/libcl-current/index.html

Check out the list of ASDF-Installable libraries here: http://www.cliki.net/ASDF-Install

Even Franz Inc., a commercial Lisp vendor publishes their stuff under a free license on Github: http://github.com/franzinc

It's not that things can't be improved, but saying that CL users are against sharing and reusing code is the biggest bullshit I heard for a long time.

Before you had any ideas Lisp existed, Symbolics users were collecting user contributions and publishing tapes - when no networks and other distribution media were widely available.

Before software repositories were common, Common Lisp user Mark Kantrowitz was collecting every available library:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/0.html

Just see under areas http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/... and lang/lisp/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/l...

Many of these people currently contributing you will find on #lisp .
The biggest problem with the current situation :

"Tenure can easily be used to entrench the ideological or scholarly commitments of a department's powerful members, reducing diversity rather than enhancing it."
How have you not thought through this? Black people must have been incredibly powerful in the Jim Crow-era south.

It's not cool when people find it socially acceptable to say something venomous about a group of people.
Wow...I've never seen so many typos in a patent before. From the claims:

A method of obtaining context information about
a sender of an electronic message using a mail
processing comprising the steps of

Someone accidentally a word there.

scanning the message, usinig the mail processine
program

I suspect none of the defendants are "usinig" any "processine" program.

context is information about the sender or the
message that is usefiul to the recipient

The defendants probably aren't looking for "usefiul" information.

I know people make mistakes occasionally. Heck, on a patent I was co-inventor on and so had many occasions to read the application, I missed that the title was "Program Lunch Acceleration" rather than the desired "Program Launch Acceleration". The other inventor also missed it, as did our patent attorney, and the patent examiner. We only caught it after the patent issued, and had to do some paperwork to get it fixed.

But at least that's a typo that won't be caught by a spell checker, so we had a (lame) excuse. I don't see how "usinig" or "processine" or "usefiul" would get past the patent attorney's word processor.

I recognize the name of the patent attorney--he was an undergraduate at Caltech at the same time I was, graduating about 15 years before this patent was filed. So, it isn't the case that the inventors had some elderly patent attorney who still did everything on legal pads or typewriters and wouldn't have had a spell checker.
'This usually leads to screenfuls of error messages and users praying that in this megabyte of binary garbage no valid shell commands occur'
hit a nerve.
Ask HN: Surprising sales skills
PG mentioned somewhere (I don't know which essay) that he was surprised that he turned out to be a good salesman.

I'm wondering if anyone else could shed any light on similar experiences, if you come from a technical background and discover things that others might benefit from.

thanks.
I actually think what the author is saying is that the huge and disproportionate cost is what some of the best and brightest have to go through in order to get a job in academia and that the purported advantages of tenure come too late for those that could best make use of them.

I was responding to the author's dig at liberal arts fields above. That while they may seem like expensive hobbies, they are expensive hobbies that are important for society to have.
Isn't something like ning.com perfect for this functionality? Also, a Facebook group could work fairly well.
My read of this article is that it's not the problem that some teachers get this perk. Instead, it's the fact that the system that results from this culls out huge amounts of talent,

(a) because few people will risk 15 years of their life on a career that is more likely to unceremoniusly eject than to reward them,

and (b) because there will never be nearly enough openings for tenured professors to make use of all the talent vying for those roles.

As always, it's not that the perk is bad, it's that it comes at cost disproportionate to its value.
Haha, indeed! (Don't click this if you care about your history) http://kurtly.tumblr.com/sticky-history
Though perhaps not at the scale subsidized by academia today.
The phone pitch: Should you make the call?
You are so right about this.

The thing is, I actually also do believe Apple is evil, as is almost every business on our planet. Apple wants to protect it's assets by keeping a very tight control over the ecosystem around it's products. Pharmacy companies pay politicians to get their drugs approved. The tobacco industry has a great interest that it's products get smuggled. Insurance companies... don't get me started on them.

I am guessing what Mr Wilson meant was: "Apple believes to know what is best for me and gets it right more often than not. And after everyone bought their somehow superior product they only allow me to enter the market they created, if I play after their rules. And I don't like that. I want the freedom to sell any kind of software to people without someone babysitting me."

Well I don't know if he really meant that by saying "Apple is evil", but I do know that if one calls Apple evil, there has to be a new adjective invented for insurance companies, weapon producers and the pharma industry.
Er, it's just exponentiation with a (possibly negative) integer exponent. High-school-level arithmetic, maybe junior high.

If your peers don't know this, you're in trouble.
Yeah, I got it to work now, thanks to google. Hadn't realized that it needs a) a new session and b) an environment variable set.

function remotebrowse() {
export SOCKS_SERVER=localhost:5432
ssh -fNTD 5432 remote
google-chrome --user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome $1 &
}

I get some error messages, but it seems to work.
It's important to encrypt your private key with a passphrase. Use ssh-agent to store the un-encrypted key in memory on login. On OSX 10.5 or greater, this is really easy: http://bit.ly/alDMhp. Make sure to add 'ForwardAgent Yes' to your ssh config, and then never have to type your ssh password again.
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Hey Jacob,

SF-HH here. We're full up, but you're welcome to crash for a few days while you're looking for a place. My email's in the profile.
Of all the speculation on what could kill Facebook, did anyone ever imagine it might be a "wood fuel salesman" from New York? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
The original post on VentureBeat includes a comment from Fred Wilson himself. He was speaking at an event and was being a bit controversial on purpose.
My father was fond of doing cryptic cross word puzzles. He told me that sometimes there'd be a particular clue that he just couldn't wrap his head around, but if he slept on it, the answer would often pop into his mind the next morning.
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My uncle is a chemist, and he wanted to see what sort of salary he would have made if he was a tenured chemistry professor, instead of staying in industry. It turns out a tenured chemistry professor at the University of Minnesota makes $190,000. The top paid professors were economics and b-school profs, who made $300K+. In contrast, the highest paid tenured humanities prof made about $90K; most made around $60-$70K. Of course, the highest paid people at the university were administrators ($400K) and sports coaches ($1M+).

We looked up Wisconsin and the pay scales were similar.

I believe every state has a database of state funded university professor salaries, it's pretty eye opening.
My driver plays obscene songs as his caller tune and I pay the bill..
Nonsense.

The problem that tenure solves is that politics is the enemy of truth. In any organization without some form of tenure, an individual is going to have to be very political to stay employed, advance, etc. (When I say politics, I don't mean left or right or democrats or republicans. I mean the process whereby humans jockey for position in a social hierarchy.)

Tenure is an (imperfect) way to remove people from the political game, thus enabling them to tell the truth and think honestly. It's not perfect or complete, but it works better than nothing and it's simple.

Tell me another simple way to enable people to be honest or tell the truth.

Edit: there's another related reason, and it came to mind when I was thinking about Paul Graham's latest startup essay about keeping your most important idea in mind...

Political maneuvering is hard. Political maneuvering with honesty and integrity is even harder, since lying and deception are often quick and easy shortcuts in political games. (This is why so many salesmen lie so often. Lying is the lazy solution.)

What you want academics to be thinking about is their field of inquiry, not politics. But without tenure, politics will get in the way and distract people from doing their real job. Not only that, but those that lie and cheat will find themselves with more free time than those that try to play the political game honestly. Are those the folks that you want as intellectual leaders?
This is really really good news :D

Are patents old hat to software startups?

Uh, they were always old hat. No one has ever liked them except for larger companies that can use them to mess up the competition.
It sounds to me that FB should settle for a nice wad of cash, and make this all go away. Given a decent offer, my advice to Ceglia would be to take it. That said, a lot of people invested in FB in good faith, so perhaps any payments should come from Zuckerberg himself? I am usually not so interested in legal proceedings, but this may get interesting.
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