skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't and won't say anything about Google, but I will say that your implication that we Facebook employees are greedy, un-hacker-like and unable to get into Google is inaccurate and unfair.

I can't argue on any objective basis on the financial motivation point. (How would I measure that? How did -you- measure that?) I will say that in my experience my coworkers are primarily motivated by the ability to have a outsized impact and the ability to work with great independence.

Facebook has a crazy-passionate hacker culture. Tons of engineers have really neat side projects, and plenty of these ship. Every six weeks or so we have (voluntary) all night hackathons, where there is plenty of food and drink, and the agreed task is simply to build something cool not related to our usual work.

Finally, P(Could work at Google | Works at Facebook) is really high. As evidenced by a recent news article, hundreds of Facebook people are actually Google alumni. I know many of my coworkers turned down Google offers to come here, and it's practically routine for new grad hires to have a Google offer as leverage in coming to FB.
A couple of concerns with usability, malware, and vandalism, but otherwise an AWESOME idea!

What about doing the same thing but attaching it outside your car instead? Then it's your property and it's mobile.
I think the CNN report showed 6 grams making a big dent in steel twice as thick as an airliner fuselage.
Check out their "Stop Whole Body Imaging" page as well:

http://www.stopdigitalstripsearches.org/
Do you have any idea why there are 2 different Unicode characters when on paper you would use the Greek Omega letter?
I'm dyslexic, I cannot write with a pen and even though my discrete math is good I struggled throughout my school life and computer science degree with calculus and differentials etc.

In my second year in university one of my teachers suggested to me I might be dyslexic and later I found a professor in an university hospital who deals with ADD and dyslexia in younger patients. She suggested to me Ritalin and then concerta which I didn't want to use then, after school when I really needed the 6-7 hour coding marathons for the projects I'm working on I strated using concerta and ritalin here is my experience.

1. My concentration is longer and more productive, the urge to continuously get up and do something else is gone.
2. As far as 3 years go I had no noticeable side effects, I asked my doctor about it and he told me methylfenidaat hydroclorine which is the active ingredient in both drugs is considered to safe and no long term effect are observed to date(about 20 years or so)
3. The drugs do not cause addiction because I had periods without the drugs one 6 months one three months just to prove myself I can do without them so far both were uneventful Except I went back to my old self.
4. My IQ or creativity seems unaffected by the drug I'm always the same.
5. I was forgetting little things my keys wallet phone back then after the drugs I don't.
6. If I forget to take the drug my wife or colleagues ask me If I forgot to take my pills today, so the difference is noticeable from the outside.
7. Both drugs are strictly controlled substances in Turkey so I have to struggle with bureaucracy every month for refills, renewals.

Thanks for reading If you have any question I'll try to check the comments later.
Mexico has decriminalized possession of drugs for personal use[1]. The most noted country to do so is Portugal. But this alone does not address the drug trade.

Touché in regards to the commend on moonshine. But it is well document that The Netherlands, who have a long standing liberal view on prostitution, are a leading destination of human traffic[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_liberalization
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands...
Many have already said it better and more in detail, so I'll keep it brief: not all is gloom and doom. You will (re)discover your strength. Talk with someone you trust or a professional. Take care!
Something unique enough to be memorable.

If you have something unique to mention, then absolutely do it. But be realistic about how exceptional your accomplishments are -- in my experience there's little a candidate can do which is more irritating than being the 20th person in a row to talk about a few hours of volunteering at the local hospital as if it qualifies them for sainthood.
SVN repositories are not distributed anywhere. Dispersed, perhaps?
> I started wondering why all software, without exception, isn’t written this way by default.

This is a very interesting question. I'm pretty sure it's pure "technical debt"; we're still so conditioned by extremely slow storage devices (the floppy is still the canonical "save" icon, remember?) that nobody questioned this sad state of affairs.

It became suddenly obvious that all and every application should continuously save its state, so that you would need to name your files only to better find them. A whole new paradigm waiting to be implemented, fully orthogonal persistence ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_%28computer_science... ).
Why is this considered new(s)? iTeleport and several other apps have supported iDevice Remote Desktop-ing for quite a while.
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That's a pretty awesome SVG; the titles are links to distro sites, it's attractive and readable, and SVG makes it easy to Ctrl+F. I am happy to the author of that file. Thanks for sharing it here.
Thrill of a start-up but with the "security" of some serious investment and traction. It's the wild-west and they encourage experimenting by hiring the smartest people they can find. 15-20 years ago you might have asked the same thing about Microsoft.
Rules for content licenses are covered by a different section of the App Store EULA: USE OF PURCHASED OR RENTED CONTENT.
Ask HN:  Malicious USB devices
Hack-a-day has had two interesting posts this week concerning publicly available USB devices.

http://hackaday.com/2010/10/29/tiny-usb-business-card/

http://hackaday.com/2010/10/30/this-is-a-peer-to-peer-filesharing-network/

Comments were riddled with "Beware of malicious USB devices".

This got me thinking. There could be a lot of cool applications of public USB devices if there wasn't such a security issue. USB is great because it's so cheap to implement. What alternatives can you think of? What interesting applications can you think of?
Why not just tell us the truth to begin with: It has very little medical benefit and the only reason you want it legal is to get high.

Because that's not true... It has _tons_ of well documented medicinal benefits, and many people enjoy it recreationally.
10 Most Poisonous Animals of the Earth
I moved to England, which essentially made the decision for me:

- TV license costs about $300/yr, which gets you...
- something like 3 channels, which will show you...
- one reality show
- one popular soap opera
- one admittedly good show about cars
- lots of documentaries about cheese. in Welsh.

TV is essentially not an option here.

Still, though, I get angry letters from the TV Licensing people several times per week. Different ones each time, with new creative threats about what will happen to me if I don't disclose the hidden TV they know I must have and pay up. If they'd simply put the people writing that stuff to work making television programs, they might be able to come up with something worth watching, thus prompting me to buy a TV and pay them money.
Please note, I am not the author of the mentioned article. In fact, I never took Modafinil. I just remembered there was a decent discussion here at HN of the first part of the article, then I Googled and found there is follow up. So I decided to post it here.
If it's your property I think you could be liable of what people put on it.
Dude, start drinking. You will get over your inhibitions and meet people. You will have the best and worst experiences of your life. And sometime after it is all said and done you will find yourself.
Pursuing a Path of Self Manipulation
I don't think it's a big deal for people running linux!
You're answer is in the true form of your question. You say "your efforts seem the opposite of marketing triumph" so you view a HN review as a marketing exercise. I don't believe that asking the HN community to review your site is a good marketing ploy. It is asking for a review. Reviews should be honest. Good sites/ideas will be praised. Bad ones will be ripped. And some sites will just not be understood.

In any case, when you ask for a review you better expect a mix bag.
I thoroughly recommend "Drumming" by Steve Reich.
It is a bad idea to plug untrusted hardware into your computer. Many Windows users have autorun enabled, so could be infected with malware as soon as they plug it in. This has been exploited by people pretending to run promotions and handing out infected USB drives in front of targeted businesses.

Worse than autorun, there have been buffer overflows against USB drivers and proof-of-concept exploits that allowed Firewire devices to read arbitrary physical memory through DMA access. I haven't seen this used in practice, but the risk is there. Bruce Schneier wrote about these attacks a few years ago:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/hacking_comput...

If you want to go down the Ken Thompson "Trusting Trust" hardware security rabbit hole, think about who manufactured your computer.
Just for reference in your screen font: β and ß
A surprisingly large part of computing is about

while not (user clicked 'close') do
something
done
Don't make external goals. Only make internal goals. Judge yourself based on that.
ah yeah, I may be wrong, but I swear it started as 5 repos, then they changed it to users.

Anyway, for some reason one of my free accounts has unlimited users right now. Not sure how that happened but I think it might be because I had more than 5 users on a repo before they made the upgrade? Pretty awesome regardless.
Sorry to reply to self, but as many others have pointed out, one may not want to type a large subset of code in unicode, but real example from tcllib aycock parser where this ability is nice is for mathematic symbols:

lset newrhs $position ${sym}\{Ø}

which lets one's code read like the printed algorithms in a book.
throw999, Some serious advice that I'm willing to get downvoted for: try taking a medium to large dose of a psychedelic (psilocybin perhaps). Make it an introspective journey, follow the best practices, have a sitter (closest friend is good), be in a comfortable, safe place, etc.
I haven't looked into Sencha but I have seen things like Appcelerator and Mono Touch. I personally have no problem with people who want to use some other framework to write iOS apps. It's good to know other languages (something I'm personally way behind on; I have a beginner's knowledge of Ruby and thats about it right now) and if Apple will let you build and sell apps written in other languages, I say go for it.
there is a cost to maintaining features - ten years ago making java a first class desktop citizen was a good thing. today circumstances have changed and it's not worth the effort. so you could say that they have broken a promise - but do you expect that promise to be for evermore? or for as long as is reasonable (for some definition of reasonable)?

apple has always been that way, making life harder for developers if it suits what they perceive the consumer's needs to be.
I cancelled my landline when ADT offered to upgrade my security system to GSM for free. I cancelled my Verizon TV once I got Roku HD / Netflix. Now all I have is a FiOS internet connection and I'm very happy. Finally, I'm at a point where I no longer rely on any of the traditional media/communication technologies.

I listen to music on my iDevices using Zumocast (streamed over 3G/Wifi from my home PC). I have unlimited Netflix on my TV/iDevices and so does my wife. I don't have to sync my music or videos anywhere. I drove from Florida to Utah and back this past fortnight and I was able to stream my media almost everywhere (except Chaco Canyon, NM). I took a 3 mile trail down the Grand Canyon and was streaming music from my home PC. Technology is finally where I want it to be. And hopefully, things will continue to get better.
http://github.com/oneblackbear/phrocco
I always hear stuff about how nanotech is going to do crazy stuff. What will a nanotech factory look like (if that's even an accurate description of how things will be made)?
First, please stop labeling yourself as an introvert/failure/whatever. It will do you good.

Being an introvert is first and foremost the ability to extract energy from what you're doing rather than needing an audience to survive. It does not mean, however, that you should not talk to people just because you don't feel like talking. Everyone needs at least a couple friends to talk to. By only talking to yourself, it's very easy to get depressed.

So talk to people, get _new_ friends. Find another context where you'll be meeting new people – take up some hobby for example. Programming, wood carving, whatever. Go to and organize some meetups with them.

Forget your past. It's all gone. Every single person on Earth has a shitload of missed opportunities. That's ok. It's never late to start doing what you want. Start reading http://diveintopython.org/ or whatever else you'll find right today. You'll be doing great stuff in no time.

Also, a girlfriend is immensely valuable but she's not a substitute for other friends, remember that.

PS I was once such a terrible introvert that I barely talked at all and was afraid to even call people, so I got a part-time job with a lot of calling and now people are not a problem for me.

Cheer up and good luck! You can do it.
Yes. It's not a black and white area. In principle, every method that works is just discovered, just like a theorem is.
No. Sports. Tivo ameliorates having to use the cableco's godawful services. If I could get the EPL, UEFA and FIFA games over the 'net (as I currently do for MLB), I'd cut the cord immediately.
China's Tianhe-1A Is Now Worlds Fastest SuperComputer
I ran it with silverlight. A couple of points:

I was using my thinkpad and could not zoom in/out (a problem with some sites) using the scroll (nib+middle button).

Could this not be done with HTML5? Canvas? I was thinking while this is kind of inefficient on my laptop it would be pretty cool on an iPad or large format touch device.
Show HN: Cool Halloween MailChimp Login
Neat idea. Obvious security concerns apply, but probably people who are nerdy enough to whip out their laptop and plug it into the wall are smart enough not to have autorun switched on when doing this.

Would also make a neat Kickstarter project.
Ditto. I've previously had to go through the US many time on my way from Canada to Australia.

The next time I make that trip I will be paying extra to ensure a direct flight from Toronto to Australia.

I will also be avoiding any other sort of travel to the US. It's not much in terms of a protest, but it's better than nothing...
> I think one of the epistemological problem with economics is that it's almost impossible to run experiments[...]

It's also true of cosmology, though cosmological errors won't ruin people lives :) If you haven't read "the shock doctrine", it states that actually there was many economic experiments, in Chile and other countries, usually for the worse... Well USSR made some large scale experiments too, from 1917 to 1921, then 1921 to 1927.
My last big code session was with ACDC playing. That was a "I've got 2 hours to implement these features" session.
There's no denying that incentives matter, but the key difference between the regulations they tried and the financial incentive they finally adopted is accountability. It was easy to hold the captain of a ship accountable for the number of prisoners who walked off a ship in good health, and impossible to enforce regulations about what should happen on the ship itself. The fact that they tied that accountability to a financial incentive is a red herring. They could have just as easily tied it to a regulatory penalty, with similar results.

It's depressing that a professor is using such sophistry to justify his existence to his students.
It makes me a tiny bit sad that for the purposes of these stats I'm counted as someone with cable. However, I never watch it; I only keep it because the $8/month basic cable subscription gets me a $15/month discount on my cable internet...

Makes me wonder if there are others in my situation and what real numbers might look like.
Unicode is a superset of numerous other encodings, usually the national standards of the countries whose written languages they want to encode. For example, the sections for the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets have identical layouts to existing Greek-only and Russian-only encodings.

The exceptions to this policy are usually writing systems that didn't have standardized encodings at the time they were incorporated into Unicode. Also, the rather notorious CJK unification project resulted in several new overlapping layouts as Unicode policy changed over time with respect to Chinese characters.
Just because you join a company pre-IPO doesn't mean that you automatically get rich. If Google employees are really jumping ship for Facebook IPO riches, then I sincerely hope they've been given truckloads of stock units, because joining as employee 1200-whatever at Facebook means that there isn't much upside left in the share values.

In particular, if you start at Facebook today, the stock units you get are being sold on secondary public exchanges at frothy values. The stock is as close to fully and fairly valued as it's going to get short of an IPO.
You think incorrectly and having that assumption, you're exposing yourself to more risk. To assume Linux USB drivers, file systems and file managers don't contain vulnerabilities is to assume wrong.
"Except for some points of information, biomedical, and materials technology, it's not clear that our standard of living is as high now."

This is probably the most uninformed, illogical, and inept points I've ever read on HN. Third-world children are now texting their friends on mobile phones, instead of dying of hunger. You have no idea what it was like growing up in the 50s. Do you even know what "economic growth" even means? Do you understand how many consecutive periods of growth our economy has had?

Unbelievable.
Though now I feel extremely foolish for not realizing (and obviously not reading correctly) that submitter was interviewing for college admissions - thanks though ;)
An acquaintance used to work for a doctor's office where they used billing software designed to find the best treatment codes to use when preparing a bill. The goal was to select codes for those things that were covered by Medicare or insurance.

Every so often someone would call up and ask about some odd item on their bill, and it would end up being some bullshit charge for something they didn't get, or a carefully selected charge that was similar to, but not really, they service that was actually provided.

But since most of the time the costs were covered by some other party most people didn't bother inspecting their bills or statements, or bother looking closely at what was charged.
Why on earth? That's not the best or safest way to get positive emotions, and in long terms leads nowhere.
These news are like a month old. What is this, Slashdot?
Meditation can help

The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness

http://books.google.com/books?id=uE-HjrA2yJIC&printsec=f...
By the way are there any other security implications of cracking LM hash than recovery of passwords from already compromised machine?
True but to be driver with fedex or ups you must have a clean driving record in the trucks. I think it's a two or three strike policy on any accident.
Is it to me or is there a risk of breaking the USB port of your laptop?
I suspect sarcasm is never lost on you.
This was the first and only thing I thought about when reading the article.

The idea is "neat" but completely impractical and extremely dangerous.
I used to feel the same way about college. The thing is, the majority of undergraduate courses are not interesting and for an intelligent person a lot of the time spent in them is wasted. I view them as hoops that you need to jump through to get your college degree, which I believe is worth it. I don't think there's a way to make them interesting - you just have to get through them.

To improve your college experience, figure out what you want to do with your time outside of class. Specifically, I would look at what professors are doing, whether inside your department or not. Smart, successful professors solve interesting problems, and those problems may or may not be interesting to you if you take a shot at them. See if you can sign on as a part time employee - professors that are doing well often have grant money that can support something like this. Programming knowledge really helps, especially in departments where programming knowledge isn't common.

If you spend some time in a research group and find it dreadful, it's easy to duck out and try another. Try and find people who will pay you something and give you a degree of independence, and give it a month or two - see if it's something you can see continuing to work on.

I view this - not what classes you take or your grades, but what you do - as the important part of college. If you can keep up decent, 3.0+ grades, but have worked on interesting things, it looks much better to future employers/grad school admission committees/coworkers than if you get that 4.0.
I don't get this "ask friends and family" approach. Unless your friends and family are on the bleeding edge of tech I fail to see how much understanding and enthusiasm they could give you. Friends will often be supportive no matter the idea. Family will often shrug and say "interesting" without having any idea what you're talking about. Not every idea has mass appeal. You likely got the same kind of answers when explaining any number of successful start-ups. Imagine if the Farmville folk had "tested" their idea on friends and family. Yeah! A virtual farm! Forget about FPS or puzzle games... now you can virtually plant peas! (My mum would say "why don't people go plant real peas or have a real farm?").

What it really sounds like is that you have too many ideas and not enough focus. Sounds like you need to pick one and stick to it. Even a failure is a completion and that is a success.
is this film worth going to the cinema for?
I've got a Samsung Galaxy S, only takes a couple of seconds after I hit the power off item to power down.
Please criticise our startup: Compare the Universities
Choosing a university is a big decision with many things to consider. There doesn't seem to be anywhere to get all information you could want, presented cleanly in one place.

comparetheuniversities.com is just starting up at Edinburgh's #launch48 this weekend and intends to make it easy to choose a university. It will match people to courses based on their preferences and grades. We are combining information from league tables, student surveys and local information to help people choose.

Ultimately we aim to take things beyond course search to aspirational search, e.g. "I want to be a rocket scientist, what should I study and where?"

What do you think?
You get to tell your friends you work at Facebook and they get to be like oh sweet and they say what are you working on and you get to say oh the billing platform for virtual goods and they get to say like whoa that is so exciting!!
Why the hacktivists are winning
1995: More characters were made available on SAIL and later
on the Lisp machines. Alas, the world went back to inferior
character sets again—though not as far back as when this
paper was written in early 1959.

Footnote from John McCarthy's Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.pdf