skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 chapters left, and i highly recommend "halting state". it's a fun book that flips back and forth between the realverse and an online metaverse. the book mostly deals with the unraveling mystery behind a crime that happens in that metaverse.

i hope it get's optioned as a movie, it would make a great cyberpunk film.
Arrington supposedly said it's around $10 million revenue.

http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-techcrunch-price-25-milli...

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/the-way-i-work-michael-...
...pious and sinful...

You cannot be serious, are you?
This would be a problem at every big company I've worked for that didn't already have something. Obviously it isn't a problem everywhere but knowing what I do about big companies I would say it's more likely than not.

And I wouldn't call it dysfunctional to not make it easy for people to be downloading all kinds of software for production systems.
Is that common, though? When I think of companies that shaped the tech industry in a huge way, very few are companies founded by people who had already had a big exit and were on to their second or third company after already becoming millionaires. Impact on the scale of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sun, nVidia, Oracle, etc., seems to involve founders who stay with their companies and guide them over a period of decades. Jobs did try the second-company route via NeXT, which had some impact, but he eventually had to return to Apple to get the kind of impact he wanted, which he wasn't able to do via NeXT (though he brought a good part of it back with him).
Anathem was absolutely fantastic. It's the only book I have re-read in the past 15 years.
A former employer (and this is one of the many reasons I don't work there any more) was well aware of this and took advantage of it all the time. Just to give one example, their 404 error was a page of ads...
Privacy is almost non-existant. When you can be video/audiorecorded anywhere and that information posted up on Youtube without question to share with the world, how is there privacy? When all of your bank's data, your government records, and eventually your health records can be accessed by more and more people, where is the privacy? If your friends and family post pictures of you up on Facebook and tell of your latest deeds without your permission, when they would certainly not call all of your friends and family on the phone to tell them those things, where is the privacy?

The question I think that is more relevant is how we should try to protect ourselves and what we should try to protect in the coming years.

It would be one thing if all data were raw and public, but people can take all of that data and alter it or put a spin on it to fabricate a reality much more convincing and much more easily year-by-year as we share more data and technology advances.

So the answer can't be that their should be no attempt at privacy, but at the same time, we all have to embrace the fact that we basically have no true protection anymore. We are wide open and the only way to keep from getting hurt is to live outside of that world, something I'm not sure is possible anymore.
Currently we are only looking for local or willing to relocate. I'll send ya a mail though.
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I've had "The Princeton Companion to Mathematics" sitting in my Amazon wish list for quite a while now, more or less for this purpose - I think on a HN recommendation.

Any thoughts on this book?
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Amazing book on the meaning of life from the founder of logotherapy (therapy based on helping clients to find meaning in their life) who is also a holocaust survivor.

The first 2/3 of the book is an autobiography about his experiences in the concentration camps and the psychological mindset of the prisoners. The last 1/3 takes his experiences and outlines the basis for which logotherapy lies. Reading it was a profound experience. It's the kind of book that you will think back to a few times a month for the rest of your life.
This article is pretty interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aejc4/i_work_through_a...

"I started freelancing in LAMP development 7 years ago. 4 years ago I started taking camping trips around my own country (Australia) & working via Wifi/3G. I soon started making little overseas trips, which got bigger & bigger.
In November 2008 I sold my stuff & 'left'; I haven't been home since. I usually work 1 hour/day thanks to the weaker currencies of most places I visit. In richer countries, I work 2-3 hours. 3G modems & hotel WiFi keep me connected, an Australian SkypeIn # forwards to the mobile of whatever country I'm in at the time, Skype lets me call clients when necessary.
I'm currently in Nepal having just got out of Tibet. I'm trying to get from Singapore to London without any planes (southern route --> SE-Asia->China->(Tibet)->Nepal->India->Pakistan->Iran->Turkey->Europe). AMA."
App developer here. Is an application which turns in a small profit, so I don't look too much at it. On the other hand, Postfix wasn't running on that machine (I had been doing some testing three weeks ago and forgot to enable it again), so the emails generated by the cronjobs didn't get forwarded to my main email account.
Tired of academia, gonna work for Google
The other fundamental difference is that Thompson was driven by actually trying to express the truth of the situation as he saw it, by piecing together things that by themselves wouldn't add up to "journalistic integrity" as defined at georgetown cocktail parties.

He once wrote a lengthy, 15-page feature piece for Rolling Stone about how the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 72, Muskie I believe, was addicted to an obscure stimulant found in an African root. The whole tale was entirely fabricated, and he never let on that he was joking. I'm pretty sure it would have qualified as libel. But in the process of telling the (deprave) story he managed to pinpoint everything wrong with Muskie's campaign at the time. Muskie sank to those very weaknesses (basically being a weakling/faker who was led around by his staff, in HST's estimation), and lost the sure thing nomination to a nobody named McGovern.

HST also once shaved his head before a debate while running for Sheriff of some county out in Colorado. He then spent the whole debate referring to the Republican in the race, clean-cut guy with a crew cut, as "my long-haired opponent". That one's not as profound, but it's hilarious. And says something about the media as well.
> This is why there are many websites that split their 20 paragraph articles over 10 pages

For this reason and because some of them are paid on a CPM basis, so the more pageviews the merrier.
after reading the comments, it seems that the notion of interestingness is tightly coupled with this technology.

how would one filter video for important or interesting moments? socially in public? or privately with an algorithm, agent, or ai?

i think as data becomes essentially free and infinite, the need for non-human help to filter through it becomes necessary.

infinite in the star trek sense, meaning it's not actually infinite, but supply easily out strips consumption. st is not a resource limited economy
What exactly does this prove? Oh man, you used AJAX to call an API and pull up a result from it.

Let me know when it scales to millions of people hitting your page every hour, with it still returning the results in a fraction of a second, and with it hitting your own site's and server's API every time. That's what was technically impressive about Google's Instant Search, not the simple javascript behind it.
Please don't fee the trolls. Evo, you know that.
Never noticed before that Hanoi states are homomorphic to Sierpinski triangles. That's gorgeous. :-)
Check out expat forums--there are a whole host of countries (largely Latin American) where you can live there on a tourist visa; every 90 days you take a weekend trip to a neighboring country and get a new tourist visa. Since you have an online business you won't be working in the local economy so work authorizations and the like won't be a problem.

Also, these countries tend to be really cheap. I know a woman who lived off of blog revenue in Costa Rica; mostly affiliate links to online gambling, which isn't feasible ever since the US government outlawed online gambling.
You had to use eyes to find girls? Why, in my day, we hadn't evolved optical receptors, we all had to track girls by scent.
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"From an actuarial standpoint, I only have 4000 days left..."

What mindset to get your priorities together. I only have about 20,500 days left. Gosh.It's longer than Buffet, but it still makes me want to get cracking, and spend (just a little) less time on HN :)
The one big question that comes to mind is, privacy issues are worse with bigger companies. I am more worried about Google or Facebook using my data then any smaller company and at the same time they provide such great services 'free' that I just can't help using them.
Eleanor Roosevelt didn't say that. From Wikiquote, which is slowly approaching authoritativeness on quotes online:

This has been quoted without citation as a statement of Eleanor Roosevelt. It is usually attributed to Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, but though Rickover quoted this, he did not claim to be the author of it; in "The World of the Uneducated" in The Saturday Evening Post (28 November 1959), he prefaces it with "As the unknown sage puts it..."
It's a silly thesis. For one thing it confuses cause and effect.

For another, compare the per capita GDP of Norway, which is higher than the US's and Norwegian health outcomes, which are also better.

I'm left wondering; what about the current situation so appeals to the blogger that they attempt to make it an inevitable outcome of being a really rich country.
> Vim to me seems like an ever expanding series of configuration files and keyboard tricks to get something remotely powerful.

I used to feel this way but I hated Eclipse enough to push through and get past it. Once you get over the barrier of learning how .vimrc works, vim documentation and a few choice plugins, it becomes extremely hard to even begin to consider using other tools. Some IDE-like things I can do with vim and its various plugins that aren't normally quoted:

- jump to a file in a codebase by typing in a smattering of chars in its filepath and hitting enter (using CommandT)
- jump to a method definition from a call to it (using ctags).
- Rsync a directory up to a remote server on save (`using autocmd BufPostWrite :!rsync blah` in .vimrc)

Its taken me a couple of years of use and a lot of time figuring out vim, but at the end of I have a lightning fast dev environment with similar features to the big IDE's customized to work _exactly_ how I want it to.

If you'd prefer something that has all of that turned on by default and doesn't require as much effort to get up and running with, you're probably better off figuring out how to speed up your existing tools than moving to something else wholesale. A lot of rails developers like TextMate as an editor with a nice gui and some IDE bells and whistles, but I've never tried it.

As a side note, I sincerely believe that emacs is a comparably awesome environment to work with, but I don't think I will ever try it. I've got things so cushy in vim that its more or less a solved problem for me.
Wikipedia is destined to be renamed "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" at this rate. Someone should add "mostly harmless" to that page.
Scout for likeminded people nearby on Twitter. That's what I did when I moved to Vienna, not knowing hardly anyone here. Go to any sort of meetup where you might meet interesting people.
Sorry about that. It should work fine (but a bit slowly) now. I had to stop all the other services on that machine to keep up with the traffic. My blog is in a virtual machine inside a low powered HTPC and this link is #1 here on HN and top10 in reddit frontpage so I'm getting a lot of hits.
That makes more sense. Sort of a "targeted energy" style of working.
I can't recommend any book. Lately when I am reading a book I need a way of elaborating my thoughts other than reading in a linear way.

I find so many ideas and branching points that I want to explore while reading that I can't follow the author path.

Perhaps in the future books with be self-developing, that is you don't go from one page to the next one, you can ask a question and the book develop a new chapter, so the book for the future will be more about communication and less about a monologue.

Could HN be like a book? is there a central point from which all derive, a source to construct knowledge and get information?
This article startled me into checking its publication date. The claim is so clearly obvious for the outlined applications (camera purchases, vacation bookings, movie grosses), it seems unreasonable to think nobody was doing this.

Here's an essay on "trendspotting", suggesting the concept came into vogue in the late '90s:

http://www.radosh.net/writing/trends.html

And here's an article citing analysis of AltaVista query logs in 1998 (and other query studies since):

http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=224

Perhaps because that was so hot at the time, folks I worked with in e-commerce in the mid to late 90's assumed this is what search engines were doing with their data -- data-mining it and selling the intelligence. Our reasoning was: "Well, if the grocery stores can predict what to stock on the shelves and what coupons to mail, surely the search engines can predict macro/economic/consumer trends, and that data must be incredibly valuable. That must be where they're getting their real revenue..."

But maybe they weren't. A month ago, PG suggested Yahoo was making too much money from ads to bother improving commerce related results with "Revenue Loop".

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

Perhaps that held true of all the search engines? At least the idea was out there before this Yahoo research coverage.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2003-01-02-web-mon...

http://www.pagetrafficblog.com/google-predicts-what-searcher...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17050-innovation-how-y...

Hmm. Maybe Google is just a long-term ruse to collect data for a hedge fund management AI.
Other factors can also come into play, e.g. you could be sitting on an IP subnet where someone else has been scraping Google, or a worm has been sending automated queries to Google.
good thing, since it means long term you'll get breathing room against any new people who decide to enter your space.
You will find course material from MIT OCW mathematics to be very useful:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/
Thanks for the post, chegra!
Why not use amazon mechanical turk?
Walter Rudin's book is a masterpiece. I read this book 35 years ago for my comps, and remember it as one of the best. Bear in mind there's no easy way to learn mathematics - it's going to be hard no matter what approach you take because that's the nature of the subject. My advice to undergrads is to skip computing completely because it's much easier to learn when you need it (unlike mathematics). You'll build your first computer program long before you prove your first theorem.
I highly recommend this book for Real Analysis
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Analysis-Maxwell-Rosenlic...

We used it at the University of Texas at Austin for the first semester in Real Analysis. I found it very clear and easy to follow.
If Web 1.0’s Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind
LTS versions have stable patch-level releases every 6 months while they're supported (e.g. 10.04.1 was released in July, and there will probably be a 10.04.2 in January), so they're able to add drivers to the installer when they become available.
The problem with the Mint example is that the acquisition price was really quite high. Patzer's personal stake was $40 million(!). That's in the same ballpark as he might make in an IPO 5 years later, after being diluted to hell. It's FU money 4-6 times over.

I think cashing out a couple million only works when a) the founders are obsessed with the company's mission above all else b) the acquisition offer is small enough that VCs can give the founders ~20% of their would-be cash now.
I stopped logging into Mint for exactly this reason — the auto-labeling it does is abysmal, and the UI for correcting it is even worse.

I have no idea what people are talking about when they fawn over Mint's user experience.
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Forgot to add something about those reviews. I guess you looked at the reviews for US App Store which (definitely, those aren't from Spain - there 800 review scores for this app in there), obviously, are going to be terrible for an app which doesn't show information about gas stations in the US.
Yes. In the page source you'll find UTF-8 octets as HTML entities.
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There's a saying that "you are married to your business" (or something like that). So I normally go beyond the tangible things to pick ideas (or spouse)...

I pick the one that I keep dreaming of and can't stop thinking about every seconds of the day.

And it works alright so far (both idea and spouse).
I have read more articles to understand exactly what it does:

Standard: User clicks "like" --> _______ likes ________

Infected Page: User views friend's page without clicking anything, an iframe exploit makes them automatically "like" a page.

Yes, I use Facebook.
thanks for making the notes :)
Hack: Milling machine playing MacGyver theme
What's different from this "version" than what you've heard elsewhere?

I've searched and found no mentions of NDAs/non-competes. The only contract ever mentioned is an oral contract, which means they told him the idea, and then I he agreed to work on it. In addition, Zuck's subsequent deceiving emails to ConnectU are well-documented.

My point is not to challenge the facts about what occurred and when. My point is that the concept of "oral contract" is hugely vague: clearly Zuckerberg didn't believe he had a legal obligation to complete their website. And in this case, the ramifications ($65 million) of breaking such a vague agreement were much too high.
Congrats Kostas and Panos! Enjoy life at the Googleplex!
I think that children at school should be given some money and learn to manage their education and hire their teachers, that should be a unique experience. They would learn to govern themselves and the value of honesty. That would be a great revolution.

The more you are able to control your surroundings the more you realize that your action is a crucial factor in your life. Errors are one way to learn, that is the lesson to remember.
+1 on this.

One of the most concise arguments for a secular humanism based on shared suffering and the human condition. Fundamentally important.
I find myself using fX (find character X) often, where X is a character at the position I want to start editing.

When I'm editing string parameters of a function I'm calling, I use di' / di" a lot (moves to first ' / ", deletes inside content, and drops to insert mode).
Yeah, I set up disk encryption for all my partitions except for /boot which If I remember from the install (6.06 LTS) wasn't a standard option at the time, upgrading to 8.04 caused me a whole load of grief.

I know I should rebuild it and it'll probably be fine, but if I was going to rebuild I think I'd use Arch instead (just a personal choice).

But the VMs of Ubuntu that I use of newer versions, yeah they're great.
Let's talk again when you're dealing with a codebase with >1000 classes, 5 different programmers of varying ability that you don't have direct control over, a build process that takes 5 minutes to complete as it works its way through a dozen different complex tasks with dependencies on just as many external tools and servers, and you need to do one of these simple "rename" factorings right now because a colleague made a spelling error in a widely used internal method that's about to be promoted to a part of a public API. I guarantee you'll start to question whether change/compile/fix is the right approach to these things...
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uggh! The term "permanent" means "timeless," so a "timeless work" is the same as a work with "permanent impact."

As for me, I can do genus quality work, and occasionally I can even do species quality work. ;)
I learned linear algebra from axler and real analysis from bartle and sherbert too. :) Great books.
Well, they're not related in that they are not the same problem, but they are related in that you can solve both using the properties of bipartite graphs.

I think I was correct in the post—I never actually stated that domino-covering is equivalent to the Hamiltonian path problem. The entire point of the post was really that we can use graph theory to generalize certain properties and solve a number of different unrelated problems, not to equate all problems.

I did mistakenly imply that the domino covering was a path (which you're right, it's not) at one point. I have edited the post for clarity.
That's intriguing - I thought one of their privacy promises was that they don't hold on to the login information for your various accounts, that it lived with Yodlee.

Seems like to do a transition they'd have to break that promise.
I think that's well enough, but I also think that wrapped up somewhere in that blog post is the assumption—which is now terribly widespread but still strange to me—that the decision to blog comes before the decision on what to blog about. It seems like nearly all the writing about blogging (like this article), and nearly all the blogs themselves, are the product of either an individual or a company saying, 'I/we should definitely have a blog.' Only then is the next step occupied by a discussion about what to put in it.

Call me simplistic but I feel like there was indeed a time when a much greater proportion of blogs were the direct result of someone having something to say. When a blog is the means by which somebody expresses themselves, or communicates with others, it tends to be good. But I think that a great deal of blogging culture, by now, tends to consist of bloggers who started websites to fulfill some business plan, and who need to rustle up things to say.

Even I have a new blog that I started (you can see it at zdsmith.com, but:) that has absolutely no content in it. Because I haven't had anything to say yet. Frankly, it's not therefore apparent that I need it at all. Part of this is because my writing has migrated to more socially direct venues, like HN, or twitter, or message boards. But nevertheless one has the sense that if one has a popular blog, that there's much more prestige and exposure and professional value in it. So you start a blog, and then you have to find a quote to begin a discussion about what to blog about. If I had a lot to say (and it was most suited to the rather these-days relatively long form of the blog), wouldn't guidelines like that be kind of superfluous?
Actually, it's meant as "brilliant" or "brilliantly white", since candidates during the elections to public offices in Rome walked around with their different levels of entourage wearing togas that had been whitened to the extreme with chalk.
If it's for Windows only WPF/Silverlight in C# is probably the most productive platform.
I second that. It is mature technology, can be easily integrated with spam and virus filters and its configuration is quite logical.

It should handle 40000 emails a day on an old machine easily (it is about twice a second on average).