skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then we must agree to disagree.

For analogies sake, let's talk about Google. Google hires the best geeks, provides free food, doesn't hire PHBs, have a large impact on the world in some ways etc etc. Its hiring best geeks works as a magnet pulling other geeks. Not hiring PHBs means programmers are comfortable working here. Work being done at Google having a large impact gives people a sense of accomplishment and validation. Working with like-minded people lowers the stress level compared to working with idiots who accidentally became programmers and who have no respect for the trade.

In comparison, a bodyshop doesn't do any of it and still does fine financially(I know; I worked for one). Both Google and bodyshop have the same motives with different paths. It's all fine but that doesn't mean Google can claim "We don't want money. We do it for the programmers. See how much we do for them. Checkout the bodyshop which doesn't do anything for the employees and makes a ton of money. Since we do a lot more compared to the bodyshop, it proves we aren't after money and we are working towards higher calling."

Ron Conway is doing just that. Substitute Google with Ron Conway and bodyshop with traditional VCs above.

By claiming he isn't there for money but is just helping people, he is being a hypocrite. Compared to traditional VCs, he might be working more towards the welfare of founders but that doesn't change the fact that it's business and he too is working towards ROI. There is no higher calling; it's just simple, plain business.
I agree, the page is atrocious!
PICing on JavaScript for fun and profit
That's the main problem with American foreign policy. Win-Lose proposition is not scalable in globalized internet world.
Ask HN: In which country our privacy is above the Big Brother's curiosity
I have an idea, actually, I already have a well working prototype of a software.

It is a very simple idea and implementation which will make lawful interception impossible!

When application is published, it will grab the attention and flames overnight (and if it will be released as non free, say $3-5), it will probably generate millions of dollars within several weeks.

Point is, our government (US), as well as the EU would not like it, and would surely do anything to shutdown the business, block the software, and freeze the bank accounts.

Given that, I have come up with two strategies, each of which have it advantages and disadvantages.

One is to release the app in a light version, let us call it an extensible engine, that later on everyone would be able to write extension/modules using a simple XML structure.

In this way, the engine itself will not be a threat, as it does nothing `illegal[1]` or inappropriate yet, it will take more time for the application to catch.

The other way is to setup a company in a "liberal" country where governments cannot override human rights automatically and operate from there.

I do not wish to have terrorists used this, but I am sure they would consider using it just the same as anyone of us, simple, ordinary people would.

[1] The app will not perform any illegal operation in any case, but will build a stronger wall around our privacy.
There's not anything there that is specific to quant work, it's just a reading list for C++.

As an ex-quant, I very much agree with the comment made by Karan (on the site). Our modelling was developed on statistical software such as SAS and SPS. The actual production code was simply Powerbuilder or C++.
Mustache is a great choice, and works in PHP, Javascript, and Python (as well as a bunch of other places). http://mustache.github.com/
A lot, I bet. Not sure if you're referring to web ads, or ads in general - but either way, you'll be effected by them more than you'd care to believe. Whilst you might not be clicking on ads, they will, subconsciously, be creating brand-awareness.

Have you ever watched Derren Brown's show? The human mind is incredibly susceptible to suggestion. The purchasing decisions you make in just about all aspects of your life will to some extent be determined by the advertising you have been exposed to. Ads create mind-share. When you next need a product or service, the provider that is likely to be the first you think of is likely to be the one to whom's ads you have recently been exposed - knowingly or otherwise.

Edit: we are, as Douglas Adams parodied with his Electric Monk, believing machines.
I keep a huge bash_profile with lots of aliases in dropbox and then load it on the real .bash_profile of my computers with: ". ~/Dropbox/Configs/bash_profile"
I would just skip it and take a nap instead. What are they going to do, fire you?
Which makes me think of a debate that was going on around 1994. It was Gopher versus the World Wide Web. The two are complementary it was said.

I think email and traditional letters are not complementary. The overlap is almost 100%. The only thing that keeps the paper letter alive is the lack of ubiquitous and legally binding electronic identity and signature. It's not alive because it is more convenient or a different mode of communication.

Package delivery is obviously a very different case because it's not information that is transferred.
The Groups of Fans Who Just Don’t Get It
We live in a world defined by the movies. The movies tell us how to act, how to feel, how to think,...
"Firewall Revenge of the Titans so it can’t ever contact Puppygames and get your totally free full game"

Using DRM at all in such a setup looks quite pointless to me.
Accepting the consequences of a life without quick-saves
This isn't all that surprising if we don't look at the market share in terms of "number of units" but rather in "amount of US$"?

While Apple might be selling less units, each unit she sells represents a much greater US$ value. Therefor from an economic point of view it completely reasonable that Apple gets more attention in the economic section.

For tech news it's all about innovation, again an area where Apple dominates. Naturally then that Apple gets much more attention from the tech news.
This is what the "flag" link is for. Saying "admin, please delete" accomplishes nothing.
I hope that they get a handsome reward (in $$) from the university for that.
Well first off, it needs an about section that tells me in clear, concise terms what it does. I'm not going to sign up for something if I don't understand what I'm getting into. Especially if that something asks me for my mobile phone number.

From the front page, as best I can make out, the only way this could work would be if I text some number an expense every time I incur one. That's going to cost me money (or a text from my plan) and if I can do that, then I can just make a note for myself and enter it into a spreadsheet later. But I can't do that, I'm usually too busy to make a note of what I just spent. Much less text it to somewhere.

That said, it's sort of a neat idea. And I'm sure it could be useful for some people - people more conscious about money and less absent minded than me. Get that about page up with a clear description of what it is and how it works. I would test it, but I'm in Thailand and don't have a phone right now.
An email sent to 10 public figures in the process of entering a media shit-storm? Personal?

You have a strange definition of the word "personal".
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DH4? http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

I am not sure of what the slightly different argument you are arguing against is. Did you think that the article said that meta-contrarians are bad? I'm pretty sure the author, Yvain, thinks meta-contrarians are good, for certain definitions of the word good.

This article doesn't claim to be some sort of definitive theory of human behavior. It's an entertaining essay on hipsters. Sometimes a blog post is just a blog post.
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I read it the day he announced it (on USENET) and I was pretty sure I was going to see it happen .. a few years later, however, I'd given it up for dead .. well, I suppose having my own MIPS Magnum pizzabox led to a bit of disinterest .. but I was very, very happy to be on the minix-list the day Linus announced his "little kernel" .. :)

These were the days when everyone said "Unix is dead" .. and now look at us: Unix is everywhere ..
This DRM doesn't do anything; it just seems like extra code to maintain for no reason.
I would have gone for the first option, as well as making it all free and open source, and searching for a better and safer ways to generate money.
If I build an application using pure javascript and server-side data apis, does anyone have a feel for how well google is able to index the content?

Do I need to provide "static" html versions of the data at the appropriate urls? e.g. #/data ==> /data or can google follow the js-only links to get at it?
Letters are still useful for certain kinds of communication. Romantic love emails just don't cut it, for example.

I'll grant you that there is some overlap between email and written letters, though. However, the postal service carries all sorts of things, not just letters.
Thanks That looks interesting and I'll feedback on here about what I find out
Thimbl - Decentralized Microblogging with SSH + finger
I think politicians think in priorities and not right or wrong.
Well,a couple of interesting companies:

a)FastSoft - These guys do TCP acceleration
Founders were PhD's from Caltech
b)Rethinkdb - This is YC funded startup, MySql storage engine for
One founder is a PhD Stony Brook on leave.
The reason this logic doesn't convince many is because the very rich are so proficient at tax evasion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interactive/2009/feb/02/t...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
I'm brazillian and can't speak (but can read) spanish. The translations of bolaño to english I've glanced over read really bad, when compared to the original (or the translations to portuguese). I think terseness is an issue here.
Videoconferencing with iPhone is the latest trend in India.
DH5 - I qutoed the author regarding counter-signaling, then provided an example of why his premise not only did not hold but was counter-productive. I could go on at lengths with counter-examples if you'd like. Instead I found such list-making pedantic, and moved to the generalization of my refutation.

But you need to decide which tack you are taking. Are you saying it's frivolous and I am taking it too seriously? Or that it's a serious article and I didn't refute it well enough?

The article, oddly enough, wasn't about meta-contrarians. It was about counter-signaling. The meta-contrarian part was added as a shell.

Seems like there are a lot of fans here. I'm sure I'll be downvoted into oblivion, so it doesn't matter that much. I'm outta here.
The primary goal initially is just to allow people to seriously alter some provided templates or to create their own, so I had not planned on having a marketplace/library (although hopefully this would come out of it). I have a lot of respect for what people have done with the Shopify templates, but I am cautious about rolling our own on the basis that it requires someone to learn it. I was looking for something that might be more widely adopted and used by a few apps (Mustache mentioned in here looks interesting and I'll check it out).

In terms of customiztion with colours, logo etc - we have this already based on CSS. People can pick different colors through a color picker etc and that works well, but I want to two-tier it (as you have suggested) and allow power-users the flexibility to create their own

Thanks for the reply though. Really appreciate it
Microsoft Promises You’ll Use Your Phone Less With Windows Phone 7
ERIK SANDBERG-DIMENT's pretty good at predictions as noted in this article http://technologizer.com/2009/11/23/windows-laptops-theyll-n...

December 25, 1984

"Windows failed, a doom I preannounce for the yet to be released Microsoft version"

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/25/science/value-of-windowing...

December 8, 1985

"But the real future of the laptop computer will remain in the specialized niche markets. Because no matter how inexpensive the machines become, and no matter how sophisticated their software, I still can't imagine the average user taking one along when going fishing."

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/08/business/the-executive-com...

I'm not sure if it makes me want to buy his book or not :

They All Laughed When I Sat Down at the Computer: And Other True Tales of One Man's Struggle With Personal Computing

http://www.amazon.com/They-Laughed-When-Down-Computer/dp/013...
> > Bolivia or Burma or Afghanistan

> Intel makes chips in many such countries, like costa rica and Malaysia.

many "such" countries... there is a _HUGE_ difference in freedom, social economic development and stability between these two sets of countries.

i dont reckon the infrastructure in the first set of countries would be sufficient for intel to consider it.
IStreamer: A Unique, Timeline-based App For Watching The Social Stream
Well, I've been researching this for 2 days now also, so once I've completed this and see what everyone suggests on here I'll post my findings for everyone to see
Where is the article that references a biblical tale regarding how to reach a compromise between uneven parties ?
One basic problem is extending a specific case to all general cases. but that doesn't mean deciding Mersenne primes are an unhelpful concept because the number 15 exists is a good thing.
I'm genuinely interested: is there anything I don't spot or which is not yet rolled out to my account about Google Contacts? If I remember correctly it is a standalone site for quite some time now. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-contacts.htm...
In Case You Missed It: JSConf.eu 2010
I'm not sure scare-quoting "meta-contrarian" counts as quoting the author.

Which is to say, if you can't even grasp your own writing, how can we expect you to grasp someone else's? It may all be "obvious" to you, but there's plenty of margin here.
The Pepsi Challenge of any DRM scheme is this: Will I end up regretting that I didn't just pirate it instead? (ie: Did the purchase experience leave me with anything less than warm fuzzies, and/or did the product
end up being crippled in some way?)

Though hardly bulletproof, or optimal, this particular mechanism clearly passes that test, and should be lauded.
Still, there will be a groupt analogyous to the people in the top tax brackets.
And day two: http://palagpat-coding.blogspot.com/2010/09/in-case-you-miss...
Milo Felipe -- Thoughts from the Man Who Started a One-Man Software Company
This is Pres Obama's experience with health care... what would you be doing to fix health care?

"I remember my mother. She was 52 years old when she died of ovarian cancer, and you know what she was thinking about in the last months of her life? She wasn’t thinking about getting well. She wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality. She had been diagnosed just as she was transitioning between jobs. And she wasn’t sure whether insurance was going to cover the medical expenses because they might consider this a preexisting condition. I remember just being heartbroken, seeing her struggle through the paperwork and the medical bills and the insurance forms. So, I have seen what it's like when somebody you love is suffering because of a broken health care system. And it's wrong. It's not who we are as a people." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham
"If the founders are the top managers in the company, then the typical "non founder employee ownership" will tend to be between 10% and 20%."

Does this mean that all the "non founder employees" would split the 10-20% of the equity?
Nobody assumes that humans are any kind of pinnacle of evolution. I never said that, the submission never said that. There is a difference between “most life out there is probably microbes” and “all life except for life on Earth is microbes”.

It’s a wild guess (astrophysicists would take exception, however, with the assertion that they got the age of the universe wrong) but it’s also the best we have. And there is nothing wrong with that and it is not arrogance.
Not endless. I'm brazillian, and more than once when translating a good, terse, phrase in english to portuguese I felt the need to "pad it up" with rethorical and discourse markers that have no meaning in themselves; conversely, when translating from portuguese to english most of a sentence becomes unnecessary and the final result is a lot terser. I can give you examples if you want.
Note that the submitted link is to part 2 of a three part (at least so far) series of reading lists. That particular part seems pretty useless for the HN crowd, as it is just a list of resources for learning C++. That's something most HN readers could easily find themselves, on the off chance they don't already have such resources already in the libraries.

I'd have though part 1 (reading list for financial and math background) or part 3 (reading list for numerical methods) would have been much better submissions.

The site is organized a little sub-optimally for navigation, as the parts do not seem to link to each other. To find parts 1 and 2, click the "articles" link on the left. That takes you to a list of all articles, but it is a small list so the reading lists are easy to pick out.
Don’t Ever Make Your Woman Angry
While I admire their attempt at a different view of the DRM model, how many here have downloaded the game to either play or to at least test their DRM? I for one have, and if that is enough to get me to buy a copy of any of their games, I'd say the DRM (or at least the blog post) is a success.
From the article it seems that this was one remarkable and generous man, which makes the accident even more tragic.

On the technical side of things I wonder what the consequences for the Segway brand will be. It always seemed to me as if the iBot was a Good Idea (tm) which lead to a mere novelty toy for polo games.
If this accident leads to accusations concerning the safety of these rides (quite probable imo, being a media cynic) this probably has the potential to hurt quite a bit.
Truly putting the micro in microblogging - or am I not supposed to be getting a totally blank page for http://www.thimbl.net/about ?
And infrastructure in the second set of countries might not be sufficient for these companies forever without them paying something for it's support:

It is ironic, of course, that the very tax exemptions granted to Intel and other TNCs under the
rules of the Zona Franca, means that these companies do not directly contribute to an increase in
the tax revenue needed for significant improvements in infrastructure and education that they
benefit from. It is unfortunate that these companies do not appreciate the need to contribute to the
generation of the country specific assets they are looking for. But it is even more unfortunate that
the government does not recognize the need for such a contribution either. The tax reform
attempts that have been sent to the congress only timidly open up the possibility of taxes on
TNCs, and with the fear that perhaps these firms will decide to leave the country, in search for
more favorable treatment in other developing countries. Of course, these fears are well grounded
as firms (like the comments by Intel above) have made it very clear that they do not want to be
taxed.

http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/DP13Paus_CorderoApr08.pdf

as the article continues:

Stopping the tax rate race to the bottom among developing countries ultimately requires the
imposition of tax floors at a global level, a formidable challenge.
A license code, are you going yo try and monetize this?

It's a tough market because you have things like sprinkle [1] that does exactly the same.

1 http://github.com/crafterm/sprinkle
I'm reading the Harry Potter series to my 5 year old at a somwhat slow pace; slow, as we typically only have time for half a chapter per night and he seems to ask questions every odd sentence! I think he's managing to follow the story though - he just requires a bit of processing time and the odd query to keep it in order.

You can never go wrong with Roald Dahl of course - my son loved the BFG and Fantastic Mr. Fox.
I know very well from trying to hire decent comp-sci graduates in the UK that it's very difficult right now. They're either very poor candidates, or they're being snapped up on very high salaries. If you're a good comp-sci graduate right now I would say that things are looking great.
Yeah, this happened to me regarding Starcraft 2. I ended up regretting buying it after it took me half a dozen tries just to play single-player with my not-so-good mobile internet connection.
I think Where the Red Fern Grows was the first book I read as a kid that had any genuine emotional impact - I distinctly remember ending up in tears. I hope my son will get as much out of it when he's a bit older.
Note that he addresses that concern in a footnote on the linked website.
See also:

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ajgtbbdpw978_327dxhv...
The old money might have started off not buying flashy things for pragmatic reasons - they didn't need to, so why waste the money? But if F. Scott Fitzgerald is to be believed, the old money actively cultivated an air of superiority to the nouveau riche and their conspicuous consumption; not buying flashy objects becomes a matter of principle. This makes sense: the nouveau riche need to differentiate themselves from the poor, but the old money need to differentiate themselves from the nouveau riche.

Ignoring the throwaway at the beginning, the rich may become and stay rich because of a strange thing called frugality, which in many societies is considered a virtue.

A total loser might come up to a woman without a hint of romance, promise her nothing, and demand sex. A more sophisticated man might buy roses for a woman, write her love poetry, hover on her every wish, et cetera; this signifies that he is not a total loser. But the most desirable men may deliberately avoid doing nice things for women in an attempt to signal they are so high status that they don't need to. The average man tries to differentiate himself from the total loser by being nice; the extremely attractive man tries to differentiate himself from the average man by not being especially nice.

See the dozens of human sexuality articles -- most of them posted here -- on why men do things (or not) to attract women. Much of the consensus is that both the ignoring and providing things of ephemeral value are social signalling devices, not counter-signals. In other words, what the author thinks of as signalling (and perhaps many men do as well) is actually not signalling. It's not that there's one thing and then another on the opposite side, it's that the signalling mechanism itself is poorly understood.

So my hypothesis is that if a certain side of an issue has very obvious points in support of it, and the other side of an issue relies on much more subtle points that the average person might not be expected to grasp, then adopting the second side of the issue will become a signal for intelligence, even if that side of the argument is wrong.

If your hypothesis is that people adopt intellectual positions as a signal of intelligence, then the positions themselves do not matter. One could pick any absurd topic -- death in this case -- and find those coming out in support of it simply for signaling purposes.

The error here is subtle yet pernicious: there may in fact be very good reasons for thinking death is a good thing. I don't know. Beats me. But I do know that once I start thinking of other positions in terms of signalling, I'm no longer thinking of the benefit or drawbacks of the argument. [Insert long discussion here on the definition and uses of the ad hominem] This was the author's self-identified thesis. And it is a logical fallacy. (to restate: people take "wrong" positions purely for reasons of signalling)

That enough for you?