skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be helpful to have certain information-breakdown made public.

From what I have seen,those with karma of 1000+,have been active on HN for more than a year.

I am curious to know the number of people with karma 1000+ - (or any breakdown of people/karma ranges).

It would be helpful to have :
a)A graph of number of stories submitted vs Karma level.
b)A graph of number of downvotes vs Karma levels

This might give a better picture of the dynamics of HN. While that would not be directly indicative of the quality of discussions, it would atleast show:
a) Rate of infusion of number of people into higher karma levels
b) A closed, and strongly opinionated group of higher karma levels

..which should be healthy for HN, as such.
as much as I hate to quote previous comment:

"Anybody with a screwdriver can take the hard drive out, pop it into another box, and bypass whatever (BIOS/EFI) password you've set up."

if you really don't wan't somebody to have access to your system you need full disk encryption.
That's brilliant, nice one mortenjorck and sahillavingia.

sahillavingia, I'd love to help, I'm sending you an email now.
Yes, they do. Just a few sites I can think of: elance.com, getafreelancer.com, etc
Thank you Ryan. This will explain to all my script-kiddie-friends why I hate shells with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
Can't wait to go to The Pirate Bay for upgrades to my hardware.
THE KING OF TROPICAL FRUITS
So... when will we see Tylenol-resistant snakes emerge? If some of the snakes on the island are already resistant, they're just selecting for them with this air-drop.
> Last week, I committed to giving 10% of my income to charity henceforth forever.

I've been doing this for about 3 years now and not once have I found myself regretting it or unable to afford anything that I want.

I was originally inspired by some Muslim co-workers who told me about the compulsory charity that Islam prescribes for them, and the voluntary charity that they then make on top of it. 2.5% is compulsory for all Muslims, and then most top up to 10% as the voluntary portion is their way to give what God gave to them and by doing so show appreciation for what they have. This happens regardless of how much or little people earn.

Now, I am not religious by any definition, but I was embarrassed and ashamed at how most of my friends and especially myself were not really giving much at all. And I also felt that I could also appreciate what I have by giving some of it away.

Somewhere in an Orwell book I recall reading a bit where Orwell tried to tip a taxi driver a large amount. The taxi driver refused, "I will still be poor tomorrow". That 10%, I don't need it... that alone isn't the definition of rich that I use. Even a bonus once a year won't make me as happy as just working on things I am interested in. So it seems clear to me that I have more to gain by helping others less fortunate with those things than I do.
The work which uses it:

Improved User Authentication in Off-The-Record Messaging

Chris Alexander, Ian Goldberg

http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/impauth.pdf
Since that "I Like" button campaign, Facebook's target is clear: Google. The mobile sector is not yet fully taken. So it seems logical to hit in that direction, if you have the power and user base like Facebook has.
> You have to hit space to advance to the next slide.

BRILLIANT design.

/sarcasm
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/
Take a look at vOICe for Android (http://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0lmSYP7OcM) - sounds very similar to what you're describing.
I've put off reading Tintin again, I liked it way too much as a kid.

I don't want to discover Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus suck :P
Building a tech company, from a non builder.
The original Hardy Boys books were what got me started reading really, when I was probably 6 or 7. My dad had a whole box of them from when he was a kid, and once I discovered them, I had my nose in them all the time. From there, I discovered the Tom Swift Jr. books, another Stratemeyer creation. I still think those books were responsible for 90% of my attraction to tech that ultimately led me here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_Jr
Laptop insurance can often cover accidental damage on top of theft and other things that can happen to a laptop. In very limited cases, other insurance policies may offer limited coverage as well. They're all capped with limitations, but for the one time that something disastrous happens, it may be worth it to some for the peace of mind.
Created things can aim to inspire and challege (art) or they can seek to comfort and warm (pop art). That Hardy Boys was great pop art. The books didn't challenge or inspire, however they did make you feel comforted, safe, and protected. The mystery got solved, all the threads got tied up in the end. Nice. Neat. Comforting.
Generally correct. Insurance only makes sense for losses you absolutely can not afford. For most people this would mean a phone is definitely not worth insuring, a laptop probably not worth insuring, but a house definitely worth insuring. For the super rich it's probably not even worth insuring a house.
Er, what? Becoming an actuary is not exactly easy and that seems like the only thing guaranteeing 6 figures quickly once you get through the door in an insurance company. Or am I wildly misinterpreting you?
The global education race
everyone you/I know = 0.00000001% of Facebook's users.
Norvig's pet peeve: 'Programmers and product managers who can't think about their product from the user's point of view. As Alan Cooper puts it, "The inmates are running the asylum."'

Indeed.
Anyone whose "guilty response" is to offer to buy you a 160GB hard drive either (i) has enough money to buy a laptop that hasn't been stolen or (ii) is trying to extort you for more money, which you'll most likely never see again
"Climate Calamity" Rejected In Favor Of "Climate Disruption"
Being driven and capable of independence doesn't mean you don't want to work for someone else.

I have been programming pet projects for myself since 4th grade, but I'd much rather work for an employer than run my own business. I'm happy to have them do the things I don't care for, like collecting money and training. I get to do the coding and things that I like. Sure, I probably don't make as much money, but again... I do what I like and (for the most part) not what I don't.
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I quite often write out a whole comment pointing out the error of someone's thinking, or just lashing out in general, then realize that I'm not actually adding anything, the person won't listen anyhow, and I'm just wasting my time, others' time, and being negative.

So I click 'back' on my browser and it goes away.

Since I learned to do that, my time on sites like HN has been much more rewarding.
He missed an apostrophe that you didn't catch: "important person's cat", i.e. a cat owned by someone who would be vocally unhappy their pet was killed.

This assumes that the dosage of aspirin is fatal to cats, which is not something I'm sure of (or care about enough to research).
When I try to drag existing images, I get an error that (long string of characters) is not a valid image.
AFAIK this is how Demand Media (eHow) works. Hundreds of freelancers at low rates manufacture articles that are needed.
Haha - Yea, the search engine formerly known as Clusty is from Pittsburgh's own Vivisimo. They recently sold it off to some Republican group because it was really just a demo of their corporate search engine that makes the real money. I believe it's a family friendly search a la conservatism.
Existing discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1705091
Every company attempts to expand until it can sell mobile phones. It really seems like a modern variant on Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, having displaced the dying medium of email.
I don't know where you got that from, do you have any sources? The 2009 edition ITRS concluded that there's no significant remaining roadblocks for 22nm processes. They listed some challenges for 16nm but they do expect to overcome all these obstacles in time to keep Moore's law going for at least another 5 years. No manufacturer that I know of have said that 22nm is going to be a limit. In fact Taiwanese researchers have already produced a 16nm SRAM chip in Dec 2009:

http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xitem=87144&CtNode=416
Effects on cats were discussed in a USDA risk assessment of a similar program in 2002 (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/nwrc/publications/...) -- basically, it looks like cats are likely to die if they eat the poisoned mice, but cats didn't seem interested in them.

Also, if I'm reading the report correctly, then (at least in the 2002 program), the baits were prepared by inserting (somehow) acetaminophen tablets into mouse carcasses. I think a cat that began to eat one of these mice would be likely not to swallow the pills (just based on the fact that I've never managed to get a cat to take a pill hidden in cat food).
BlackBerry contacts and tasks.
Not in the least.

No matter how good your promise is:

a) I'm not likely to know you and have any trust that you will follow your policies.

b) If your company goes bust (which on general principles is unfortunately the way to bet), you can't keep that information (an asset) out of the hands of whomever ends up with the remains (there's been quite a bit of discussion of this issue).

c) You can't offer protection from governments.

I've already decided not to use such a service, Wowd, a rather neat distributed search engine, because I was a very early alpha or beta user, early enough that I realized my personal browsing was having significant and noticeable effect on their results. And I know and absolutely trust one of their engineering VPs....
"People get out of balance when they see their value as being able to respond quickly. If I see myself as a machine for answering email, then my work life would never stop because my email never stops. If instead I see my value as separating the important from the unimportant and making good decisions on the important..."

Good stuff...
I can't remember the last time I called someone via their number. What a ridiculous statement!£
I haven't got the new twitter yet, but I'd like to know what I must do so that if somebody tweets a URL to my site (video) that the video will show in the right panel. Facebook has a form where you submit your page and they approve you. Will you be providing something similar?
Electronic Arts ready to embrace Android, but wishes it had an App Store
Except the only reason the Kindle succeeds as a single-use device is that an e-ink screen is a significant feature for e-reading (i.e. the hardware is the seller).
Doesn't bother me much, but it might be helpful for people who can remember reading an article on this topic a few years back, but assumed this might be another take on the same topic?
Indeed. When I started to read such fiction, I had 2 or a few more volumes of the novels and one of them was a pre-1959 edition. By comparison the newer ones were very thin gruel, and not having any way to procure the older ones and knowing science was my calling I concentrated on getting what Tom Swift Jr. books I could manage.

One funny thing happened with my 5th grade teacher sometime later: we realized we were both fans of Tom Swift and started reeling off titles, none of which the other recognized. He had of course read the original series about the (future) father, I was reading the 2nd focused on his son (Jr.).
Twitter.com is not a protocol, it is a service. I think it is also important to note that it isn't a public utility either.
right now it is dangerous to place all your eggs in a single basket. When you only have one service provider you lose control of things such as dependability, namespace, access, etc. These are things that most may be willing to let someone else provide for them, but some may want to control these and other aspects of microblogging. A federated design with multiple independent service providers would go a long way to help fix these shortcomings.
It is probably based on Android if this is true. I remember seeing @joehewitt working on Android. See for example: http://twitter.com/joehewitt/status/20691624768
>It's still their hardware.

No, they lease them from their bank. :-)

But yes, there is still an attack vector there, and I agree that the best solution is one where the business owner gives me payment details, I complete the transaction using my own hardware, and they verify it using theirs.

I have a hard time seeing a solution built on smartphones gaining widespread adoption though.
Ask the police permission to send him a virus by email..
'Maybe' is just a cowards way of saying 'No'.
OK, but why not ask the author to fix this?
Watch out for copycats that can steal your business idea
True, sometimes silence becomes too noisy. I believe it has to do with flatting out of the spectrum in a coffee shop.

Your comment brought one idea, I know there are white/brown noise samples, and nature sounds that make the atmosphere more ambient. Does anyone know sound samples taken in coffee shops?
Also of note: textbroker.com : content creation as a service, with an API. Used them for several hundred pages of content for a client. (If an enterprising HNer wants to do same with better API and more upmarket writers, I would use it.)
During the 70s when all this was happening, we had Maoists come into our high school and praise Mao as the future of the world, when in fact he actually was the most successful criminal of all time.
I'd like to see read only access on older browsers and the iPad.
I think a script to auto-submit Gene Weingarten articles on HN would be a karma-winner.
Ask HN:  Is Justin.tv Down?
If so... any reason what happened here?
i do not exist
This reminded me of the following comment from Steve Jobs:

"You know, I've been thinking about it. How many people are going to be using the Macintosh? A million? No, more than that. In a few years, I bet five million people will be booting up their Macintoshes at least once a day."

"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...:
This particular articles pops up every couple of months. Sure, it's quite interesting, but it's time-saving if you know that it's older and you don't have to reread it.
I have been (and am) a single founder and also have been a co-founder in the past.

From my perspective the positives of having a co-founder include the motivation at the early stages, when there's just a couple of you. Tasks can be handed off easily, based on skill-set and it can help to accelerate the start-up. In my own experience, the negatives can be a vision/goal that is different to what you thought it was at the start (despite a lot of talking about it) and also sometimes the partners (ie girlfriends/wives) can have a direct impact on relationships. Its also easier I think to start with a co-founder as you feel you have someone to 'share' decisions with, though in my experience this can sometimes slow down decisions. As a single founder you make a decision quickly and move on.

Now that I've had a few businesses over the last 15 years I much prefer to be a single founder. I hire in the talent that I don't have and this means that I can be more agile with what I do.

There is NO right or wrong answer here. It's whatever is the best fit for you as a person and for the business.
PostgreSQL 9.0 Is Now Available
Why Bricks and Clicks Don’t Always Mix
Python Logging Functionality - Facts vs. Myths
Oh, you mean like Aurora was going to use? That's Netscape Aurora, in 1998 http://xml.coverpages.org/revengeXML.html

The format was RDF, any any day now it's going to take over the web with all this nicely formed, semantic data!!
Wow. I used to love those books. I've always been wary of picking one up to read because I was sure that it couldn't now match the high pedestal On which they are perched in my memories.
I would imagine he does have more than 0.05 friends (based on 500 million users)
How about going to the address bar and typing #1?
One-off scripts never are. You reuse them and tweak them for slightly different scenarios, then figure, I'll make it a parameter. Then something goes wrong and you add some error checking. Then you show it to someone else or put it in a cron job or whatever and you write some documentation.

Before you know it, your little script is no only a permanent fixture, but other people are relying on it, or its output, or reusing one of its functions. I've seen 10-line file mungers end up as 1000-line batch jobs.

Don Stewart at Galois even advocates using Haskell for what was traditionally done with shell scripts http://www.scribd.com/doc/36045849/Practical-Haskell-Program...
Practical Haskell Programming: scripting with types
Because it's ironic that he's being a stickler for standards when his own site is broken.
I just met a guy who has ghostwritten a few of the newer Hardy Boys books. He says that he's given a picture of what the cover will look like and it's his job to write the entire story based on that.
(define (perfect-numbers integers)
(stream-filter perfect?
(stream-cdr integers)))

(define (perfect? n)
(= n (sum-stream (stream-filter (lambda (x) (zero? (remainder n x)))
(stream-range 1 (+ (/ n 2) 1)))))))

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I'm sure there are lots of people that have built complex and worthy stuff that make their money with silly and transient stuff that feel the same way about their code.
Young people with a natural affinity for an in-demand skill often are. A hundred years ago you could have written this about pilots. 500 years about painters (apprentices to the great masters in the Renaissance were notorious for it).

As an aside, for every genuine Aspbergers case, there are 10 who simply think they have a god-given right to act like dicks. It's like dyslexics, you can always tell the real ones because they're quietly getting on with it, not making a huge attention-getting fuss.
Is it a no-no thing on HN? (kinda newb here)
having a 5ft. cable to the exchange trading server vs. a 7ft. cable is a competitive advantage. The same case is with slowing your opponents' message processing rate down by 5ms.

I get your point, but 5ft vs 7 ft cable isn't going to make any[1] difference.

[1] light travels 2 ft in 2.033 × 10-9 seconds. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_latency, A memory seek on DDR3-1600 takes 0.6 x 10-9, but reading one word takes around 10 x 10-9. Given the amount of processing needed to process a single packet, I cannot see anyway 2ft of network cable is significant.
Nothing wrong with AMD at the moment, they have a 12 core chip out!
There is nothing ironic in the fact that people cannot afford to test their websites on every single device Apple releases. FYI, I just opened that website on my iPhone and it works great. Perhaps, the viewport meta tag was added here with iPhone in mind, before iPad was released.

Edit: indeed, this is a bug: there are different CSS styles for devices with < 480px screen width and > 480px (via @media CSS rules). Desktop browsers pick the latter style and ignore "viewport" meta tag. iPhone picks the former style and takes into account viewport. iPad picks the desktop style and takes into account viewport, which disables zoom (intended for the iPhone style version).

Now that I debugged the problem, can we instead report bugs to website designers instead of commenting here on HN?
Provably optimal greedy algorithms for NP-hard problems
Surprised that the former lead of the Chrome OS project isn't barred from working on another OS project for a potential competitor by any sort of non-compete agreement.
wondering, when the facebook chat will stop sucking ?
Hyphenate This
DEC used to do this with their hardware, they would cripple an otherwise perfectly functional machine to a cheaper model in order to segment the market.

Of course DEC field engineers did not feel like waiting for the diagnostics to complete so they usually temporarily upgraded the machine to full spec to run their tools, then revert the changes before they left.

This was a funny little dance because some of their customers had clued in to the trick and would do the same thing after the engineers have left, upgrading the machine, only to downgrade it just before a field engineer would arrive.

On the plus side, if this is a software thing I fully expect it to be hacked.
So yes, for all intents and purposes, i either do not exist at all, or exist in only the most microscopic of terms, virtually indistinguishable from nothingness. But I still own my choices, and from that comes joy.

Sorry, the Buddha beat you there.
We're trying to figure out if the article has a point at all. Saying "you missed the point" is not helpful.
Haha, should've known someone will apply that arbitrarily typed bit.
Pearls Before Breakfast
I have no idea what you're talking about, or why it's getting upvotes. Naked shorts are "gambling", but it's with your own money, not other peoples. Also, LCTM was not a brokerage. I have a feeling you're wrong about more things, but I'm not confident I can parse your last sentence with 100% accuracy.
Maybe "Building a mobile phone" is the new "Jump the Shark" for tech companies? And yes I'm giving a shout out Jon Hein.
GTD tip - don't make it (GTD) a hobby.
Using a game console is smart. The VIC-20 and C-64 used to drop you at a programming prompt. START CODING! Using a PC is just work now. You have to apply Windows Updates, protect it from virus attacks, don't click on popup ads, yada. It's not fun, just annoying.

Getting back to the fun of using abstract logic to solve a problem, which is the fun part of programming, at least to me, will get more kids interested.
I really wish they'd just fix their own software first...
There are 4 different ways of accessing FB on my Android (app, touch, mobile full website), each and every one of them suck and in a different way. If I want to check my events - I have to use one, if want to delete a rushed post - has to use another.....
annoying doesn't even start to describe it.
This seem to happen with mice [animals] too:

Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20100918/2064/gene-limits-l...