skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distressingly, it turns out that antisocial punishment can evolve as easily as social punishment, and has done so in many societies: http://www.iaa.unisg.ch/org/few/web.nsf/SysWebRessources/Pub...

This is something of a hot topic in the economics/psychology are now - several new papers are out along the same lines, but most of them are still paywalled. I have a hunch that predispositions to act one way or the other will turn out to be strongly correlated with a person's perceptions of social mobility.

A large-scale (albeit stereotypical) example of what the OP is talking about is in the economics of labor relations, where an individual 'eager beaver' attitude and the collective goals of a union are somewhat at odds.
There are also videos in the wild easy to track down via google-fu, so this is far beyond vapour;

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/08/video-7-inch-samsung-galax...
This OP is 3.5 years old.
Hulu Plus is still in preview but I got an invite recently. (though I haven't used it yet) I suggest you sign up here for the waiting list: http://www.hulu.com/plus I received mine 3 weeks ago and had signed up a couple of weeks after the announcement.
I always liked the question "what's your secret dream job?" as a get to know icebreaker. cause (almost) everyone has one, and most people aren't doing it as their day job.
Could it be, could it really be, that bad 3-D movies arent going to do any better than bad 2-D movies?
I personally have internet only for $40/month (out the door) with AT&T for their 6Mbps offer.
Theres also grails, but even that is a bit clunky at times. I was ready to jump ship to Ruby land and then I discovered Play framework (www.playframework.org). It goes against many Java conventions but thats a good thing! Development time definitely lot faster! The only downside is that the community around it isn't quite as big as the other frameworks (hopefully that will change!).
Ask HN: Studying Computer Science
I'm not sure if HN is the best place to ask this, but I don't know any better place to ask this.

Some time ago I decided that programming is something I enjoy doing. A few years and night school calculus courses later I got into a university computer science program on the second year of which I am now.

I found the software engineering and general computer science courses rather easy, including those that taught Python, Java and the intro C/UNIX course. What I found a bit more difficult to cue into were the more `academic' courses, e.g. those dealing with proofs of correctness, state machines, some low-level hardware courses (although putting together logic circuits was quite fun indeed), and university-level calculus. While the latter most struggle with, the computer science courses I know there should have no problems tackling, but it's almost as if a switch in my mind needs flipping, and it's too dark in the room to find it. A few of my friends have zero problems with the more rigorous courses, but are completely useless when it comes to even the most basic object-oriented design and even version control, which took a surprising amount of effort to explain.

When I first came to see the university counsellor, we parted ways with him saying "we will turn you from a coder into a computer scientist", which is precisely what I'd like to take away from post-secondary education. Is there any advice or resources you could point towards to learn about the stumbling block could be?

Thanks in advance!
I know I'm going to be downmodded, but I don't care, I want to share my feelings.

Java is one of my least favorite things in the world. Yeah, I know, starving children, war, genocide, that stuff is bad too. But Java is what I hate most.

So it makes me ... gleeful ... to see that Oracle is doing such an amazing job killing it. People want to keep using it, they want new features, they want to improve the ecosystem, they want to pay Oracle lots of money for the privilege of using it. But instead, Oracle sues its users, fires the innovators that made it, and does everything in their power to kill it. And now we have a "dead language"(which, as a Perl programmer, is a term I really like to throw around and mean).

Anyway, good work, Oracle.
Yes, it's almost identical. One minor difference is that in C# you can't have two different types in the same using statement. So you would have to nest two using statements. In practice, this is rarely an issue.
This is actually really cool. It's like location based IRC... just waiting for some new cool rooms.
The numbers from when I've been on HN is similar to yours. Traffic itself isn't super important to me, though; mostly I'm just happy knowing the people coming in from Hacker News might end up following me on Twitter, following me on GitHub, or just generally retweet and reblog my stuff. It's a great crew.

Hacker News may not generate as many clicks as Digg would, but visitors from here are way more interesting to me.
There is a gamecomp mailing list that sends out announcements of the LD contests. It is extremely low-traffic, basically only compo announcements (thrice yearly):

visit this to subscribe.
http://www.gamecompo.com/mailing-list/

The TIGSource "Competitions" forum is a great resource.
http://forums.tigsource.com/

They host the occasional compo there, and they usually have a thread mentioning most other compos before or as they occur.

ps. I participate in some of these under the name 'jovoc'.
I don't think 1 to 5% is bad at all considering how long you've been live with that and that it is not backlinked from HN in any other way than the announcement.

Probably referrer logs are one of your main sources of new visitors.
I received my invite about two weeks ago and signed up immediately. I do not have cable (or a tv), but I'm not sure if I will keep subscribing.

I don't spend enough time watching it on my iPad, and there's far too many shows that are still restricted to the last x (5 normally) episodes.

If you're caught up on the shows you watch, there's no need to subscribe unless you want it on other devices as well. But if you want to watch the whole series of a show, $10 is much cheaper than buying or renting elsewhere.
Yahoo is actually pretty popular with regular users in regards to news, mail, and other such things.
Those of us who work with the JVM (in spite of Java) feel otherwise.
Not to go off topic on this, but I'm quite excited about the state of the gaming industry today. There is a growing number of excellent games that as stunning visually as the most Hollywood flicks of much higher budgets movies, and are many times more immersive and addictive than any story on celluloid could ever be.
I feel like you're making the excuse. You don't have to go to Thailand, there's plenty of different cultures/destinations near the US (Europe, Southern Americas and possibly even Japan). Instead of comparing Berlin to Thailand with NYC to Thailand, try NYC to Berlin.

This is coming from someone living in Perth, who has to travel forever to get anywhere, including having to go through Sydney or Singapore to get anywhere distant.
Okay, now this is just an awesome Ponzi scam.
That price seems very low for an incredible brand franchise and IP rights to Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein, Rage -- only $105mm? An article I picked up on it indicates they had 105 developers at the time of acquisition.

I would bet that rumor is false, or that there was some sort of extreme extenuating circumstances that we're not privy to.
If these were written in Ruby, please consider contributing back any patches to http://github.com/iterationlabs/ruby-readability
Hashing for linear functions
Aside: This is why capital letters for every word in a title shouldn't be done, simple statements become hard to parse.

I'm also curious if demo days are continually growing or they vary from session to session. But other than that I haven't seen a lot of these ideas on hacker news (maybe I'm just not on enough) but this is a cool aggregation of links for that.
What did you implement your Readability algorithm in?
WePay could be a good solution depending on your needs. They are great for groups, clubs, charities, etc that need to collect money. http://wepay.com
Understanding JavaScript's 'undefined'
If people actually want Internet-only TV subscriptions, the market will force Comcast to lower their prices.

Perhaps yes, eventually, but it could be years. The market for high-speed internet connections in most locations is, at best, a duopoly, due to the high fixed cost of installing infrastructure.

By analogy, think of what unreasonableness the electrical company could get away with if they weren't regulated. The market for high-speed internet connectivity isn't that bad, but it's certainly not a free market in the same sense that pizza delivery is.
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Same. After lots of awkward silences from "I'm a software developer", I just say "I'm in IT" and then judge from the person's reaction if there's any point elaborating.

Some people switch off immediately, so you know you need to find something else to talk about. People who are techy, or work in IT themselves, will ask a follow-up question and that's when you can unleash all the details. :)
...which, for those who might be interested, is on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/118169/the-corporation
C#, yes... probably not so popular around here :)
Python, Java, intro to C/UNIX aren't computer science in my opinion. Dijkstra said, "Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes." I'm in Dijkstra's camp when it comes to defining what computer science is.

Computer science is applied mathematics. Math comes easily to few people. It's going to take time; you're going to have to study. I have a similar problem; the math of computer science doesn't come easily to me, either... but I think this is where the magic is. When studying math, I have a lot of "aha" moments - I won't understand a concept for hours, but finally some explanation will make sense and the entire thing will gel in my mind. Don't be afraid to ask for help! Go to study groups. Go to office hours.

In my opinion, some of the more important computer science classes are classes on algorithms and classes on compilers. Make sure you take those.

Industrially, you have an advantage - understanding OO design, VCS, et cetera are important for actual work, but they aren't computer science... they're development tools. If you can arm yourself with the deeper magic of the math behind the constructs we use in development, you'll be ahead of the game.

As a footnote, related questions have been asked a lot on HN. Try searchyc.com to find them.
The problem is that it's more like the old telephone game. The CFO might not have explicitly told anyone else that he/she is being told that they're being groomed for the COO, but by the time it gets around the grapevine that could very well be what comes out.
Actually your model doesn't really match the economics. First I'm taking Netflix/Movies off the table for my response, totally different business model.

Most people don't understand how networks make money. The networks make money by one of 2 methods.

1. Ads.
2. Carriage Fees. Carriage fees are a portion of your cable bill that goes to the networks. These fees are MASSIVE. ESPN makes $3-$4 per subscriber (all subscribers - not just ones who watch ESPN) They make a billion dollars a year this way. Most networks make under a buck but still multiply $.50 (what Food Network gets on Cablevision - as an example [1] ) * 80,000,000 (estimated cable households in the US * 12 (months). And you end up with $480,000,000

So can you deliver content via the internet in a better way then over cable - maybe. But you also need to replace the revenues they're paying to the networks and nobody has figured that out. The cable companies and networks are tied together so tightly in this model that an OTT model doesn't make sense.

There's no way that $10 (per viewer) a month split between each of the shows comes anywhere near what the big networks are making in carriage fees. The bigger Hulu gets the more dangerous it gets to existing models and the less likely that it will get top tier shows.

As the producer of Modern Family said "Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2Bil. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox."

If you're only watching 2.5 hours of TV regularly then you should cut the cord. But most people are watching that much a day [2]. Thats 17 hours a week (or close to 1.5 seasons of a one hour show a week). Even if seasons were $12 you end up paying over $60 a month. (and you need to know what you're watching).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/scripps-wins-in-fight-against...

[2] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm
I can't believe it would be that low, unless they were in some trouble, lots of debts. But they are a software house, so that should not happen.
The [guaranteed] stress and [potential] rewards are directly proportional to how much risk you're taking. The best time to join depends on your personal appetite and financial/family situation.
I've been trying to see if I can fairly-accurately match the number of visitors I had with some type of mathematical expression. As I pointed out in the article, the decay looks exponential.

I've gotten closer with f(x) = 2658e^(-0.94)+30, but as x approaches infinity (or even 5) it starts to full apart. Any one good with the maths who wants to take a look?

I decided with this one to throw out the first datapoint (the day my site launched) since it was likely still growing during this period of (overall) decay. How significant is this?

The actual numbers: [2688, 1065, 452, 206, 138, 105]
My function's numbers: [2688, 1068, 436, 188, 91, 54]

For easy playing: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=table[+2658e^%28-0.94x%...]
More numbers: On IRC, zack said he figured 2 minutes/call, which is one hour/customer each month. Skype appears to cost less than 2¢/minute (that's PAYG, presumably he has a contract), which is $1.20/customer/month. That leaves $8.80 for wages and profit.
It really depends where you live. I'm in South Florida... $42 AT&T DSL doesn't even stay connect all the time and maxes out at 400kb/s.

Whereas $62.50 comcast internet stays connected a little more reliably and maxes out between 200kb/s and 1mb/s depending on their whims.

Its ridiculous that aside from moving or paying multiple hundreds of dollars per month I can't get quality internet service
Ask HN: Best sites to find a startup job in Europe?
37signals, joel, and github occasionally have postings for companies in Europe - are there any other sites that have a larger number of job postings for Europe based startups?

Any HNers in Europe looking for a web developer?
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which is what I fear will happen here

I have little doubt that it will. Will Motorola ever care as much about their platform as Apple does?
If there are many superior tools that don't get the attention they deserve, it doesn't help the situation to hide them behind vague terms like "cool development tools."

I stand by what I said: Merely stating that there are "other cool tools" is empty. Somebody else may as well respond, "Nah, other tools suck." Since we're not talking about anything in reality, nobody will be right or wrong, and nobody benefits from reading any of it.

I really don't know of any comparable tools that are on par with Cappuccino. There's SproutCore, but at least last time I checked, it seemed to be the lesser in every way except not being dependent on that beast called Objective-J.
We used to think that the performance gap between people was completely accounted for by their innate intelligence. Now, we know that working hard is often even more important. Do you think there's an innate ability to process information that some people are superior at?

It would make sense that if some people could practice their craft more (without hitting the wall of diminishing returns) they would be better at what they do.
There are plenty of other awesome tools out there. The valley has a tendency to idolize certain people unnecessarily, this leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

No offense dude, but I've tried using both noloh and Atlas, and you really can't compare the two.
Is it really that bad if a few terrible cable channels die off?
Who wants to help better society?
I have developed a concept to "embellish society." It has to do with people being rewarded for favors. I need someone to code a website for the concept. Although the idea is not meant to reap in massive profits, if the idea takes off, sponsors would definitely provide funding for the operation.
Agree or disagree with the author's methods, I like anyone who pushes the boundaries of their current existence.

Call it "Getting out of your comfort zone", "Thinking outside the box", or any other bullshit buzzphrase - Pushing beyond previous experience is the only thing that matters in life.
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30% per week is an insane growth rate (thefridge.com)!
Hmm. Interesting, I'd like to point out though 50K isn't a really comfortable salary in a major US metro anymore after federal/state tax, social security, healthcare/misc. deduction. Add on top of 401(k) contribution and also monthly rent of 1K+ for rent in downtown (actually on the cheaper end of a 1BR apartment in NYC/Boston), you are down to literally peanuts. Boozing and eating out will literally have you living from month to month.

I heard that this is the case in China nowadays too. Boozing and going out to bars in China is dollar-by-dollar as expensive as the States. Real estate is sky-rocketing.

I looked into moving to China as well, your salary range looks comparable to the numbers I was told. But I'm not sure it 25K is even sustainable in Shenzhen. Perhaps cost of living there is lower than Shanghai, but my guess is that it's not that much lower as it's located in the Pearl River Delta.
Scientific theories aren't so different from explanations of any other sort. None of them (whether science or otherwise) are descriptions of "reality"; they are all models. But anyway that seems off to the side of what you were asking for, which is an explanation (i.e. reasons or causes), not direct correspondence to reality, which is a different issue.

Scientific theories, like other theories, do have "explanations", in the sense of broader or more general theories. It's true that there are some scientific theories (arguably including gravity) that do not yet have good explanations, but I'd guess that in all such cases, people are still looking.
Interestingly relevant to BSD-style vs. GPL-style licensing:

> The vision of freedom that most of the big corporate interests had was the ability to make their platform sticky: to destroy interoperability so that (for example) Java software developed on Microsoft platforms could only run on Microsoft platforms. They wanted the freedom to capture developers. ... "Freedom" is a freakishly relative word. The freedom of the large software companies is directly at odds with the freedom of developers.
As "The Father of Java" and an author of one of the patents in question he's probably resigned to getting roped into this (although not necessarily as a witness, maybe only depositions).
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This is what happens when people aren't given UNWIND-PROTECT and DEFMACRO: a cottage industry of pundits and legislators will form to discuss any itches you might have, and whether to scratch them.

Watching Java programmers is like having a tribal shaman for a next-door neighbor. You know it's none of your business, and you respect his beliefs, but it's still unsettling to see him do one of those "hot knife in nose" and "pull stubborn goat with nipple fish-hook" rituals.

Come to think of it, that last trick must be what Guy Steele did to drag C++ programmers "halfway to Lisp".
Is it true that there are companies that demoed today but haven't launched - and that attendees had to sign an NDA to keep them 'off the record'?

(source: the tc.com post on this thread + twitter noise)
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Events based chat + location makes a lot of sense. Reminds me a bit of Meetro from back in the day (though that was IM).
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Wouldn't that be 'oops'?
Correct, you can't compare the two. NOLOH is a development platform, Atlas is an IDE. If you're comparing NOLOH to Cappuccino, that's a different story.

Furthermore, I don't recall ever interacting with you in our IRC room, or through support, thus I'm a little suspect as to your development claim, I also don't see you as ever signing up for a sandbox or a download.

NOLOH has received significant praise from developers, and non-developers alike. We've had people with no programming background create complex applications with little help.

In any event, nowhere in my post was I promoting NOLOH, I was simply suggesting that there are in fact other tools, aside from NOLOH, that are pretty awesome. As a developer of one, we make it our business to see what else is out there.

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That's a curious statement, can't you tell from the logs?

In raw numbers, yes. But I don't know how much traffic HN gets, so the raw numbers don't tell me much.
That of course depends on how many people are signing up each week.
Ah, a load of shit.

Canadians are proud to be Canadian. Traveling around has shown me that people often don't know much about Canada, but they recognize the people are nice. That alone is enough to be proud of.

The whole 'Canada identity crisis' is because Canadians are too concerned with their international appearance and place. We need to just embrace the core identity we already have instead of looking for a new one.

The Olympics was an example of Canada trying too hard on the international scene. The closing ceremonies had this horrid 'comedy' portion designed to show that we don't take ourselves too seriously. That in itself was just trying too hard - you don't need an intentionally lame comedy sketch to show that.

Anyways Daniel - I recommend you travel more. The further I get from Canada the more I realize it is only a few Canadians and Americans that see it as a US vs Canada issue - we already have our own distinct identity.
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