skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm,

Is $40m valuation company different than a $40 company ten years ago? Given inflation, I think it would have to be.

The argument has been going around that $1m is no longer "F-you money" anymore, that is, it's not enough to make a person set for life. $1m dollars good for either 15 years of a middle class life style or money for investment and work hard to keep making money for you.

I think that makes cashing out at $40m different than ten years ago, though I'm far away enough from that I couldn't say exactly how different. Of course, it also depends on how many people cash out.

-- Your "riding a wave" comment is awesome though...
> Any banking website that simply accepts a username and password would scare the hell out of me.

That's still most of them, I think. Halifax used to be username+pw+one security question. Now it's username+pw+3 letters out of a second pw (called "memorable information"). And to attempt to stop keylogging (or at least I presume this is why), the select boxes for the 3 letters don't let me hit the letter, I have to use arrow keys or the mouse. Which, frankly, makes me want to club somebody to death with a baby seal, even if it -is- theoretically more secure.
ADS-B is an automatic broadcast of an airplane's position and velocity, intended for making management of the airspace easer, among other things. It is not encrypted, and you can set up the hardware to receive the signal with a modest amount of effort. There is apparently a website somewhere where these hobbyists are aggregating this data.
It will drive Apple nuts if Android ends up with an obviously superior typing experience than the iPhone. This could be a turning point in their patent war.
Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus Trilogy", "Prometheus Rising".

Aleister Crowley's "Book of lies"
It's a single bipartite graph -- the requirement for a bipartite graph is that every vertex can be separated into two non-adjacent disjoint sets. Since the names of the sets are arbitrary I just named them "red" and "black." The color of the vertex represents the membership of its set.
I hadn't heard of FizzBuzz, but tried it out a moment ago.

How is possible for someone with a rudimentary understanding of programming to be unable to solve this in a couple of minutes?
If I were to write a program on the spot to do this, I would integrate the video function with my program to isolate objects in the field of view, calculate relative size based on known data of airplanes which would give me distance to the object. I could then use that with my known elevation from GPS to calculate altitude. If I had to I would make the picture need a horizon and use some simple trigonometry to get altitude. I could then use some beautiful math to plot the general course of the airplane with a few samples of the objects motion in my camera's field of view. With all this data, I could cross it with scheduled flights from all airlines to get the rest of the data needed to get me the flight number and actual course. And that's off the top of my head. Don't really know how it works.
Ask HN: What do you do when you lose motivation?
I'm not sure if you've been in this situation before but I'm going through it right. I'm building a product in my spare time while working on a full-time job, it's been very exciting when we started and things were great until I hit a tech problem few weeks ago, Its not all that difficult but some how I seem to have lost motivation, every time I want to work on it, I hit the wall and loose motivation. I want to know if any of you have been in this situation before and what you've done to break out of it.
I'm working on a very scalable idea for consumer financial services - a bit similar to Mint but in a different category. I'm a marketing/biz dev type with a technical background, but I'm looking for a pure tech partner who can help with the build. Already shown the idea to a few angels - have strong interest, now need to build a team.

I'm in Boston - hit me at droskill at g mail dot com if you have any interest.
Why do we need that in real-time?
White America has lost its mind
You may be thinking about GEL?
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/salman-khan-speaks-at-gel--...
It's not.

The problem with the world of professional programming is that there are a lot of people claiming to be programmers that aren't.

The reason why people can code-monkey their PHP scripts but not solve FizzBuzz is because of an iterative process. When you are hacking some web page, you just change stuff until it works. You try again and again and again and eventually you're right.

With FizzBuzz, you have to think about a couple things before you answer. It's so simple that you have to get it right the first time; you're supposed to think, then program. But most people are not in the habit of thinking, and just skip right to the press buttons while staring at the blinky cursor stage. Then they fail the FizzBuzz interview.
The thing that I find really strange is that development is becoming more about putting the pieces together and writing code to make small changes than it is about really writing much code. Between the many available jars, gems, plugins, etc. out there, many things we need have been written. While I know some semblance of a programmer will be needed to get things done for some years to come. But at some point, instead of craftsmen, we're going to have more "McDonald's" programmers that are following the book, throwing the code into a microwave, and bagging it.
I am behind crop of cache-coherent designs. Why scaling is an issue?
I agree with the analysis and have come to the same conclusions over the years. Still, there's one huge exception: the spreadsheet. That's the one UI that has been massively successful at letting non-programmers program without knowing they're doing it.
The one I was referring to (and apparently others, though they 'solved' it) didn't know about modulo. Which would certainly make it harder, though it's ridiculously fundamental. They worked for about 20 minutes writing out something to do with a 101-element array and decimal arithmetic to initialize it (without using ceil / floor to compare, thus mimicking a mod function) before they admitted they were stuck.

This applicant was a graduate of some fairly high ranked university, though I don't know which one. They can come from anywhere.
Curious if you had a music background or if, like the rest of us here, you're an engineer of some type (not sound engineer though) who got into music in spare time?

Just wondering because I'm a programmer who doesn't know anything about musical production or theory but has always entertained the idea of making ambient-style electronic music.
Wireless USB 1.1 Specification Revealed With Lower Power Requirements
This man is quite possibly the greatest hacker/hustler alive.

Seriously? You really think so?

And the woman is one of the most evil people in the world.

Ok. Hmm. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe not. But just remember that there are two sides to every story and just because the reporter, in this case, sided with the man, doesn't mean that this version is the closest to reality.

All we know is what the guy has told us (as translated through a reporter). It's hardly uncommon for one partner to demonize the other. I've learned to be skeptical about what people say about their ex.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say If you define all panics as asset bubbles, then pretty soon you need a new term to mean what "asset bubble" used to mean. "Asset bubble" must always be followed by "panic" by definition, otherwise you're actually seeing an increase that could be called "fairly priced" instead of "inflated." Look at the five year chart on AAPL, is it experiencing a bubble at a P/E of around 21, or is the stock somewhere close to a fair valuation? What about AMZN trading at a P/E of around 63? As far as I'm concerned, there's no way to be certain of the answer to this question until the future happens: if the stock crashes, then it was a bubble, otherwise it was fairly priced. If you have a better answer to this question than that, then you are either a wealthy (or soon to be wealthy) portfolio manager, or you should seriously consider that as an occupation if making a lot of money is your goal.
Alternate explanation: he was asked to help because she thought he'd be the most willing to assist her, the tantalizing but remote possibility of sex hanging over his head...
Come on, how the hell is this getting posted on HN? Isn't the system supposed to flag duplicate submissions?

And really people, if you are posting things more than 24 hours after it's happened, then the probability that it's already here is REALLY high.

Please stop polluting the rss feed!
This is certainly a trend. But it will never take over the entire programming world, and there will always be a supply of more challenging and interesting work for those of us who crave it. In my optimistic moments, I think maybe this trend is a solution for the fundamental problem of the software industry, that the demand for programmers has always by an order of magnitude exceeded the demographic supply of people who can really do it.
Agreed, thats a miniscule share of the equity. i know people who have joined companies with 20+ employees and gotten that much or more
If you take into account bone structure and facial recognition, he/she might be more approachable by women for having a friendlier face.
Maybe the back and forth in this particular sub-thread validates that there's there's an opportunity for souped up dev tools for the *nix community?
I hope people don't start referring to Facebook as "The Social Network". It's the name of a movie and there's really no reason to use it instead of just saying "Facebook".
Not just Firefox and Chrome, but Safari as well! Imagine, better OS support in a browser from a direct competitor…
Actually, it was the banks lending money to whoever was investing in the overvalued asset du jour and then not getting that money back that actually caused the panic. In the days before the FDIC, any significant question that was raised as to a bank's solvency was a death sentence because depositors had to be among the first at door to get their money out or it was all lost.
That experience probably also has to do with context. I'm willing to bet the female-male ratio at a community college generates difference experiences & expectations as opposed to the experiences a lot of us nerds live in heavily-male technical programs & professions.
You're not in a position to be able to judge the difference - because you've never been a woman. We don't notice the things which have always been true.
Right... so why are the sets disjoint? Why are some vertices in the red set and others in the black set?
Anti-piracy lawyers caught pirating each other’s work
This concept works great for custom 500 and 404 pages. Put an Adsense for Search box and make money when you're not able to serve something else.
At that early age I wonder how much CS specific training is going to be given. Also with IBM's current focus on not just being a tech company anymore I would dream that the education is a bit diversified.

Maybe having a specific goal to drive for will make it easier students and teachers to focus on a certain goal but I don't think that it'll make the students less able to switch tracks if needed.
But then, I think gender stereotypes and social expectations shape the the way all men function.

I'd imagine that in this particular circumstance, without testosterone, being accepted as a man would be far more difficult for the author - because the physical changes wouldn't have occurred.
I've done this since the 90's (I mean, not continuously). Your ATM card works anywhere; as long as you can keep everything at your bank at home working online or through the mail, travel on a tourist visa and work as you go. Pay your taxes at home.

There's nothing like it. You can't really understand a place in less than a year.
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Ask HN: So what's new in the world of A.I.?
AI research and related topics and startups rarely make news. Is it really such a dead field? There's never any breakthroughs announced, and there's no grandiose research projects underway that I know of. I read every day how mobile social network platforms are being funded en masse in Silicon Valley while an entire branch of computing appears to be whithering away in the grips of academia.

Are there any websites that try to track the different AI projects going on? Which books should someone fascinated in this field be reading to try stay up to date?
I worked at a place where the original investors got royally screwed over time due to dilution. Basically, as was learned in the early 2000's, don't take a job for the options. And as an investor, assume that you might not always have the control and input you start off with when you make that major investment. It is fine to invest your time and energy into a company (and your money if you want to go that route), but know that any company is a gamble, and it is business, not personal. It's fine to be enthusiastic and love your work and your job, in fact that's the goal, but you'll eventually get burned if you think the people you work for really think of you as family, even if they tell that to you (unless they really are family).
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This hacker is too busy with too many projects to have time to get bored on weekends.

I am only bored when I am stuck somewhere with nothing to do - a doctor's office, a bus stop, an airport, etc. Upgrading my phone has helped a lot with this.
From reading this post, it sounds like Facebook missed out on a hire it probably should have made. Commitment, motivation, intelligence, and learning skills are usually more important predictors of how someone will perform in a job than their pre-existing knowledge base. Of course, those things are very hard to measure through a standard application and interview process. At the same time, I am a bit surprised that questions about threads and interprocess communication were challenging for a senior systems engineer with ten years experience. Still, I think if I was in Facebook HR, after reading this blog post, I might decide to give the guy a call back and give him another chance, assuming it really was just his lack of knowledge about some technical issues that resulted in his rejection.
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Could you recommend some expat forums, actually?
I was thinking the same thing, but at a 20k a month clip, the interviewer expects a lot of the people he takes time to talk to. I do web development and I feel that I can know if the interview is over after a few simple questions.
Sorry, not necessarily in real-time but I believe the ones that were posted here offered near-to-real-time.
I read the piece - twice, actually, because I was looking for a clear thesis. I still find it strange that you want students to do as you did in grad school at an event focused on startups. If you want to find oranges, don't look in an apple orchard.
Just because your own unique experience of life, doesn't match up to someone else's, it doesn't mean that person's experience is bullshit.

It's just an expression of arrogance to expect otherwise.
I always say "Computer Scientist", I also think the term engineer is alright. I hate any phrasing that uses the word "programmer" because that is generally used to describe jobs involving wrangling Excel spreadsheets programming Word macros and other low rent IT jobs.

Of course I've read before that by time you get around to the topic of what you do for a living you should have so captured your audiences attention that you could say janitor and they wouldn't care.
Students will be chosen to attend using the standard New York City lottery system--one third of selected students will be below grade level, one third will be at grade level, and one third will be above.

I want to thank flipp, Fast Company, and IBM for saving me $10: I don't need to go see "Waiting For Superman" now because it's all in this sentence. Why wouldn't they just start with the most qualified applicants and fill slots until there are none left?
FYI, the correct pronoun to use here would be "he," as Mr. Forrister identifies as male, not female.
This is really useful - as a non Flash developer I love it when people release neat, unobtrusive scripts that make Flash-only capabilities available through JavaScript.

It's not clear how this would work in older browsers that don't support canvas though.

Anyone seen anything like this but for audio instead? I'd love a way to record audio from JavaScript and stream it to a server.
Too busy to get bored!
I tend to agree. If he was invited I'm guessing he would reluctantly agree (hard to say no to the exposure), but would feel a little hesitant stepping into that crowd.

TED started off great but seems like it has gotten a little weird over the last few years. Not sure how to explain it - maybe it's because most of the talks feel like mental masturbation at this point - they make people feel good, but don't result in action. Or it could be the liberal slant (the subtext of some of the talks seems to be "this is why we deserve more government funding").

From listening to a few of Sal's videos on finance, he seems to be more of a free market capitalist guy which may not mesh well with that crowd. A lot of this is speculation though, so I could be wrong.
You can't believe it but it's true. Have you seen straight biological women around transgender people? Women exaggerate their observance of gender roles around transgender people; they treat butch lesbians like they're Arnold Schwartzenneger, and shemales/trannies like they're some kind of Marilyn Monroe.

Some men do that too, buy trannies free drinks in clubs and kissing their hands (yeah, like they do that with biological women) while female to male transgender guys just get away with being rude and confrontational.

I hope this doesn't offend anyone.
Can you advice a good place to check health insurance in serious detail? I would appreciate that.
Despite recent busts, ZeuS Trojan will be around awhile
Ask HN: Am I making too much?
Hi HN, posting this anonymously as my regular account contains my name.

I have been working as a developer for well over 10 years, have worked in both small companies as well as large agencies. I keep up to date with various technologies and attempt to learn best practices and methodologies. I do not have a college degree and so far that hasn't been much of an issue with jobs in NYC.

I am currently making $110k, and have consistently increased in salary year after year as well as from job to job - but I am concerned I am slowly starting to reach my upper limit on how much I will be able to earn as simply a developer - am I wrong in assuming this? Are my possible salary expectations for future positions (I am currently employed, however open to new opportunities and have recently had a few interviews that I am waiting to hear back on) too high?

Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Better quality photos with descriptions available at the original source, the Boston Globe's Big Picture: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/human_landscapes_in...
Wow. Well, thanks for the FizzBuzz discussion. This self-taught programmer feels just a little less like a bozo. There's hope for me yet!
I'm doing this right now with my new wife, although our online business (lanyrd.com) isn't exactly profitable yet.

We're UK citizens, and we've made sure our company has a registered address in the UK (with our accountant). We'll pay all taxes in the UK - as far as the world is concerned, we're working on our UK business while travelling. We're doing everything on tourist visas since we're not performing any work for foreign companies etc.

Our accountant advised us that paying tax in the UK would be a great deal easier than trying to figure out how to pay it in foreign countries. Get a good accountant!

We've been travelling for 106 days now, through France, Spain, Morocco and now Egypt. Every single place we have stayed has had WiFi, though occasionally a little flakey. Working and travelling actually go very well together - we'll work in the morning, explore in the afternoon, then maybe work more in the evening. Makes it much less likely you'll over-work and burn yourself out as well.
cooking up ideas, solutions, plans, trying to figure out the answer to some question that pops in my mind or trying to figure out the reason behind some obscure thing or pattern that may have caught my attention, reading articles or watching some good videos online.

(Talking about videos, whoever put up that link to Randy Pausch's Last Lecture Video on HN, just completed watching it- THANK YOU VERY MUCH, tried, but its been tough to trace back to the original posting)

Driving, lots of driving on the country side, love the changing scenery, that's one thing where I can continue the thinking while doing something relaxing.

(edit: about the driving, its big time fun, to go into some obscure parts of a city or new neighborhoods (obviously when the traffic is real low - like late in nights), or some new places in the country side, figure out new routes to the same places, its like a jig-saw puzzle. Another thing I am addicted to - I like seeing the same places in different circumstances, seeing the same neighborhoods in the day, evenings and night, or some remote places in the country side in different seasons - its great fun/relaxing and somehow I feel my mind getting stimulated at the same time)
The clarification is appreciated.
Bubble sort? You just got your ass kicked.
I like this alot but the technology is still not there to be able to stream video and audio without flash. I wrote the site http://www.squarechat.com and try to use as much javascript as I can and only flash where it is necessary but I would love to be able to ditch flash and have video and audio streaming support.
I'm sorry but I simply do not agree and I doubt this is the place to delve any further.
The first time I thought it, a few decades ago[HS or college], I thought it was original. I just Googled it, and the earliest attribution I found was to John Keats. (Interestingly enough, this thread has made it to the second page of the results). The quote seems to have its own Facebook page.
I'm not saying they did a good job, implementation wise. But isn't it a shame that I have to thank Microsoft for helping out designers instead of the browser standards people?
Interesting.

So is The Employee Retirement Income Security Act invalid then? It is federally mandated employee benefit legislation, no?

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