skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More seriously, if you consider that the series 10^0, 10^1, 10^2, 10^3, etc. in modulo 7 runs as 1, 3, 2, -1, -3, -2, (loop with period 6), the remainder upon dividing a decimal number FEDCBA by 7 = the remainder on dividing (A-D) + 3(B-E) + 2(C-F) by 7.

Ex: 23456 mod 7 = 3+9+8 mod 7 = 6
Well, even staying within the bounds of economics, there are problems: are you talking about homo economicus, or behavioural economics? The latter brings in portions of the other systems into the economic model in order to better reflect the workings of the real world organism.

Economics is about the study of choice; but we can split that up into at least two broad categories, the most efficient choices, and the actual choices made by people. You can stay strictly within a so-called rational model for the first - and you must, in order to justify the inputs to your utility function - but the second is experimental, and relies on observed inputs necessarily defined by disciplines other than economics.

The insight of behavioural economics is that it's not so much rational maximization of gains that drives us, but rather imperfect mechanisms implemented in the organism, whose outcomes have been tuned by evolution to approach rational maximization. Leaving out the behavioural aspect means your model won't correspond as well with the real world, the only thing worth talking about. And I'm asserting that seeking a certain amount of risk is just one of those mechanisms.
I've been to that McDonalds. It's on Khoa San Road in Bangkok.
Awesome dude. I've been going full-time for 2 years on my startups as a single founder: 2 failed, the 3rd one I've now got a co-founder.

Good to hear that there's others out there who never give in.
You've very obviously never been strip-searched.
They're hella profitable

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/03/facebook-revenue-2010/
One less lawyer.
MeeGo vs Android
Yelp's mrJob now open source
This was all based on my experience with the DRM in the iPhone. The iPhone is sort of a gadget, so it's ok. But my main development machine? The place where I do my real work? No way!!
SMO over SEO?
The "Apple is closed, and in the 90's they tried the same thing and it failed" meme is quite a common thing to hear.

But "winning" a market rarely has a single reason. One could easily argue that Microsoft in the 90's was similar to Apple in that they went it alone, abandoning OS/2, whilst Apple tried to build alliances like Taligent (with IBM). Or perhaps that Apple's practices in controlling the AppStore are similar to Microsoft's use of market power to build the Windows monopoly.

One thing is for sure: Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt (ex-Novell) etc all remember the 90's pretty well, and they are all spending every waking hour making sure they don't end up losing again.

History's echoes can be distracting enough to make one forget that it never repeats itself.
Well said. The important things that most Americans I meet don't get are these two:

- Travel is cheap

Americans tend to think of Travel in terms of the Caribbean Cruise. A cruise lasts seven days and costs $5,000. Therefore, traveling costs $5,000 per week. Therefore I must have spent about $250k on my last trip. "How do you afford that?"

No, travel costs $500-$1000 per month unless you go out of your way to make it cost more.

- They're not actually going to kill you for being American

I went through Syria in 2003, and everybody back home thought I was nuts. I had the time of my life. In general, if you want to get killed by crazy middle-eastern terrorists, you're better off staying out of crazy middle-eastern countries. They just don't have the infrastructure for it over there, since the few people who care about that stuff are all in places where westerners actually go.

Even in the "dangerous" places, the odds are generally in your favor. Most days, nobody shows up at the Valley of the Kings with guns. Once every 10 years they do, but still your odds are better than 50/50. I was at that club in Bali a year before it blew up. I was handling chickens in Asia during the Bird Flu scare, having lunch with the dreaded Thai Muslim Separatists, and all of this during Tsunami Season.

If you look at the odds, it's like being afraid to go to Nebraska because of the lightning storms. Relax, and go see some cool stuff!
It's almost hard to believe we went so long without a site like StackOverflow. Not surprising they've grown so fast considering how much better they are than everyone else.

Congrats & thank you to Jeff & Joel & the rest of the SO team. You guys truly make the Internet a better place for all programmers!
I wonder what the numbers are for all the new sites, and whether they're started gaining serious traction outside of the SO regulars.
Wow, this place really does not like sarcasm.

There's nothing for me to get over. I can't stop people from using drugs.

However, oversimplified statements made to dazzle, like yours, really tick me. There are many kinds and definitions of a drug, depending on whether you're a pharmacologist, a lawyer, a government, an addict, or just your average simpleton. There's not a single precise definition. I've already stated elsewhere in this thread that people need to jump off the legalization/damnation bandwagons and have some concrete fucking clue about what they're talking about.

Creating safe markets for all drugs? We haven't even been able to do that for pharmaceuticals! How do you suggest we proceed with recreational drugs? Where are consumers supposed to buy it from? What about existing supply-chains? Who oversees them all? What about derivatives? How will you figure out what is actually dangerous? Take a second and read Steve Yegge [1]; I'm sure you already have the answers but maybe he has a better chance of making you think.

I don't know where you come from, but where I live drug users can both make an informed decision before using (being critical thinking beings and all that shit), as well as get guidance and support after actually being addicted. It doesn't help. Sure, educating people about recreational drugs is key, but we don't even know half of what drugs are capable of when it comes to psychotropics. We are missing fundamental links between substance and behaviour, what are we supposed to tell our kids?

Anyway, I might have to put sarcasm tags in the last post, because being humorous or sarcastic really doesn't reach people here. I believe that comments have in fact degraded into YouTube comments, where there is no limit to how idiotic a statement will be taken seriously. And here's me, falling victim to that same behaviour.

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
Makes sense since Apple has been working with Intel on light peak which would replace USB3. Apple is just thinking a few steps ahead.
"Really complicated" is possibly related to having to decrypt/reencrypt to HTTP at every hop. Otherwise all but the last node are basic pipes.
looks like cash from AOL has really inspired Mike to advocate being pirate:) just kidding :)
This method is useful and calculator is completely useless when you solve a problem in number theory -- for instance, you may want to prove that for every natural number, some P(n) implies some Q(n), and it may be easier to prove that P(n) implies divisibility by 7, which in turns implies Q(n). You cannot enter n into a calculator, you know.
There is a this american life story about pitching TV shows - can't find it right now though
Play Sugar Power Program online at Y3 Games - Play flash games online - Y3
Help the girl reach to greater height by jumping onto the rock.
Silly? Some people do math for a living.
Extreme Sports?
Utility from the risk itself is the whole point of Base Jumping.
Think about the demographics of people who seek out and install the Quantcast/Compete/Alexa toolbar. Now look at the demographics of their respective Top N lists.

Now imagine a knitting community site that gets twice the traffic of StackOverflow. Would it appear in the Quantcast/Compete/Alexa Top 500?
I somewhat agree, but you're neglecting the more interesting point: Anonymous posting makes trolling easier, yes, but it also allows for a highly fascinating form of discussion - one that is merit-blind[1].

Right now, certain posters carry a lot of weight around here, mainly because we know what they have achieved in their careers. Inevitably, there will be lots of up-voting, lots of agreement, lots of influence regardless of what they actually say. Introducing real names would exacerbate this effect. I enjoy the fact that sometimes, you'll find a renowned Silicon Valley person arguing with an enthusiastic college freshman about a technical/ethical/... topic. I suspect that's only possible if they're called "johnny32" and "jimmy21".

Display their real names, and the college kid will think twice before he/she answers. Anonymity encourages trolling, yes. It also liberates discussion.

[1] Of course, I'm talking about "external merit." The karma system is wonderful, maybe even essential. But I don't think that non-HN-related achievements should directly affect how your comment is received. Postings need to be effective on their own, not in virtue of who wrote them. (Obviously, if you're head of engineering at Facebook and talk about scaling, please say so! This does affect how your comment is and should be received. But as a default? No.)
I think it's the only method to ensure that all the ladders are of perfect quality. If you outsource the production to the lowest-bidder, then you get lowest-bidder quality.

It's a way different thing to build a ladder that your colleagues (and friends) are going to climb, than to build something on an constantly more restrained time schedule for somebody you don't even know the name of. The latter encourages shortcuts, the former encourages avoiding them.
Science and Art
What you're talking about is the primacy of emotional alignment vs intellectual improvement. That is, identifying with the emotional content (like you said - "RIGHT ON!" or "NO WAY!") vs reading content that causes emotions.

The former is, of course, the Twinkie of human growth. HN is becoming Twinkie-ville. Reddit is Twinkie-ville already, but it's Twinkie-ville with a sparkling sense of humor, which HN lacks (cultural difference).

Granted, we're all emotional creatures first and foremost -- false impressions of reason aside -- but… there's something that's dramatically changed in the last two months. Don't you think?

Even the non-emotional-alignment stuff is more boring. Boring things stay on the front page longer. Articles that would normally have captured the HN spirit languish.

What's going on?

I almost miss the "What makes an entrepreneur?" pr0n.
Remember how Steve Jobs said that they would never build a netbook--and now there is the 11" Air.

What he actually said was: "We don't know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk."[1] Notice also how the Air is not in the same price bracket as netbooks, does not have the same performance profile as netbooks, and not referred to by the manufacturer as a netbook.

[1]:http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_47/b41560003...
From things I've read on Steve Jobs, he seems equally interested in the industrial of building the products he designs[1]. I've also heard their lead designer Jonathon Ives talk a lot about materials and how to use them, which I think underscores the fact that he is an industrial designer, meaning he doesn't just design an end product, but also designs the process, or at least designs the product with process holding equal weight with the actual aesthetic.

I've also read that they require all parts to be doubly sourced, so that if one source fails, they have a backup. I don't know how common this is, but seems like an interesting point in their process.

[1] He doesn't design them himself, but I couldn't think of a better word.
Flattr does not work on smallish blogs
And that's exactly where the much hated patents (software or otherwise) would have a role, in my opinion; protecting hard-earned innovation. That's what they're supposed achieve, but due to the completely broken patent system, they're only good for "patent trolling".
This data would only be available to pg, afaik.
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StackOverflow is a Quantcast Quantified site. This means it's traffic is directly measured with a tracking pixel on each of Stackoverflow's pages.
Auto Transport Rochester
It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. If everyone else in the industry, including Apple, was to support USB3 then Intel would probably have to support it too.

Anyway, it's sad to see Intel holding back on standards because it doesn't fit their own agenda.
I agree with you on the assumption that most likely all parts of the income distribution are better of today compared to the 50's -- on absolute terms. But _relative_ wealth becomes an important metric as soon as basic needs -- food, shelter etc. -- are satisfied.
Build a compiler using Scheme
That's funny but doesn't really make sense unless you manage to confuse consciousness with conscience.
If you want to go to Kahneman & Tversky, yes different heuristics people may use for estimating risk and reward are probably biased estimators (although I hope all pirate-entrepreneurs are using a little math and obtaining feedback ). That certainly does not mean risk, independent of gains, becomes intrinsic utility for the non-masochistic.
This would kill HN almost instantly. Knowing that there is a very real chance that I'm in a rather boring and mundane segment of the community, solely due to being user #232 instead of user #231, would make me think twice about joining and participating.
Are we using the same Pivotal Tracker? :-)

I love the UI. It's got just what you need for an agile project - similar to 37signals design philosophy of less is less.

History is most definitely tracked - and is incredibly granular. Click on any story, then the View History button. Every change is recorded there.

Why fluid crashes? Well - I doubt it's Pivotal's fault as such. I've used Chrome, Firefox, Opera on it without issue. Clients use IE and apart from when they were using IE6 (support wasn't brilliant - but then again that browser is the bane of my life) they seem to get along with Pivotal just fine.

So it might possibly be just you. I definitely prefer pivotal to JIRA - but you may get better mileage?
If only we knew how much it cost Apple to make each Air.
Flat sharing would be quite easy to arrange for that amount of time. I had a mate who lived and worked in London while staying at a hostel for an entire year.
From what I've read on their blog they seem to get along fine with a moderately expensive SQL server and some chap application servers hosted in a data center. No fancy NOSQL stuff or cloud instances involved.
Exactly. and Apple wants to have a single video out, so HDMI (which is limits in resolution) won't do.
Python IRC bot, with l33t translation, Karma System,Google and more
* l33t translation
* Google I'm feeling lucky search
* Karma system
* XCKD random images
* Flipping a coin, throwing the dice
I'm tired of spam by bettercodes...
Well, most home schoolers start with the landmark 1911 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica because it's very good and now public domain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_El...

If the above doesn't provide adequate versions I know of one that's available on CDs for installing on your computer(s).

This one does however I gather violate the "no access to 'learning how to blow up the world'" or at least yourself requirement. And of course it doesn't cover anything since then.
Base jumping doesn't seem related to the article at hand.
I see it a bit differently.

For me, the risk-taking comes partly from a confidence (that could sometimes be characterized as over-optimism) and partly from the feeling that my gains from the risk are worth it.

I like adventure, but I don't fall into the category of "They don’t need to be rewarded for risk, because they actually get utility out of risk itself." people.

Taking a risk (e.g. quitting my (Principal Dev manager) job at Microsoft and creating a startup) is rewarding in itself (regardless of how well the company does financially). However, for me, the primary reward is not the risk. The reward is what I get from taking the risk (e.g. work on more interesting stuff)
Database drivers (Redis, MySQL, Tokyo Tyrant etc.) and a bad query/overheated database server can easily take over 1 sec execution, which would basically stall your servers each time such a query is run. File handling and system calls are blocking in Python. E.g. if your system call is expensive - say you are processing an image via imagemagick, very common for most web applications, then it will block your server.
I think you're too wedded to one way of viewing things to open your mind, so it's pointless to continue the conversation.
Like the other said.

If you build it from right type of wood prepared the right way - those things are incredible. They are insulators - helping with electricity AND heat. They are predictable...

Wood is an awesome material - but it takes time and expertise to do it right - thus making it expensive. But nevertheless the highest quality and style items are still made of wood - it just ain't cheap. Think: furniture, insulation, windows, doors, floors, stairs... Hell wooden shingle roofs can and do last over hundred years if prepared properly.
this is a bit of a dumb comment I think; it's a bit like saying you've known people who've headed a soccer ball repeatedly every weekend for years, so you find it hard to believe that heading a cement block could be harmful. It's a different chemical, with different effects. The best way to determine those effects is through properly controlled trials.
I studied cognitive psychology not economics ;) I'm familiar with the topics your bringing up and agree they're interesting but also think they are irrelevant to the issue of correlation vs causation and the red herring of "risk" when looking at what motivates entrepreneurs.
It's related to the utility of risk.
I've told him before that spamming your website isn't good for the website's reputation, but he just doesn't seem to understand.
What if the device is rigged to explode when the phone loses signal?
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Have you considered charging for write access? Allow the site to be publicly readable but charge people a yearly fee to submit stories and posts. They would be much less likely to act abusive if they are paying and their access could be revoked. Several membership levels and tiers of forums could be provided, including private and invite only.
Secret to Success: 5 Min video with mantra about succeeding in startups
Truly one of the best videos that tells you what you and your team need to go through in order to succeed in the startup environment.
At $30 a ticket, Gold Class Cinemas seems reasonable for both Teens and Parents to enjoy a movie that they want to see in a theater.

I get what you're saying: Teens use theaters as a social meeting point and I agree. However, I look at the number of people seeding The Social Network and I compare that against the Saturday night attendance at my local theater and it's not hard to forecast the winner.
One of my most effective colleagues had a fundamentally different intuition for software design problems. And we were both pretty opinionated. :-) Some of our best work was the result of extremely heated design discussions, where we hammered our intuitive ideas about a problem into alignment.

It was exhausting, and probably even harder on him than me (I can be difficult about design stuff), but it was hard to argue about the quality of the results.
Not necessarily.

If they succeed blowing up enough cargo planes, this would create a non-trivial economic pressure to deal with whatever demands they have. If they manage to blow up one with debris falling on a big city, more points to them.
While they are the same, in Unicode, the codepoint U+2211 is summation, U+03A3 is capital letter sigma.
Let's just be clear here, pirates were thieves, not the swashbuckling heroes we see in movies today.
That's of course an interesting point, but I don't think it would significantly change the way the discussions are currently held. That's because most people would not go clicking through every account before answering. See for example the cpercival putnam thread.

And when in fact, the credentials of the person are know, it would only raise the bar for the discussion. If, for example, some famous lawyer makes a long comment about the various legal aspects of a particular incident, and most people know it's a famous lawyer, then replies that diagree will be by people who are qualified to disagree, thus raising the bar. If johnny12 makes the same statement, a lot of people with very little knowledge would argue, and it would lead to a poorer and longer discussion.

Discussion can indeed be liberated by making comments anonymous, but this does not scale. You are going to lose either way - either you lose by making the society increasingly more formal, or you lose by making the society less formal. The second comes automatically as it grows. Working towards making it formal will only work against the informality, maintaining an equilibrium, in my opinion.

The problem of big names dominating the discussion is a different problem, but it's a better problem than that of nobodies shouting down everyone else.
1024^3 = 1073741824
2048^3 = 8589934592 / 1024^3 = 8.

It depends on the implementation. Some implementations are more computationally expensive than others.

See: http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2010/09/1...

Average of 5x reduction in transactions per second when moving from 1024 bit to 2048 bit keys.
According to very unreliable BOM analysis (http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?ne...), $718

It's unclear whether that's total cost to manufacture or only the price for the parts. It's also unclear how they estimate things like the unibody shell.

In any case, that strikes out any chance of "sub-500" as it's very likely an under-estimate.
Agreed. I placed my comment after reading waterhouse's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852464) which on first read seemed like a lot of effort.
> its pretty hard to get your bombs set to blow up at the exact right time.

You can use GPS tracking and a program running on the phone. With this setup, you can guess when the plane will pass over a major city and blow it up according to population density.

I would assume someone would already have sent the phones with their programs to acquire more information on signal strength, cell towers and all the data to make something like this work before attaching explosives to the devices.

Someone probably is right now going over other packages sent by similar routes, possibly by associates of this guy and those who picked them up at the destination. I am quite sure this was not his first attempt.
Those people don't get paid by the hour, so they use a calculator :)
Only accounts older than 2 (or more) months should be able to comment. Make sure you can't register more than 1 account in x days/weeks. The majority of spammers who'll use proxies to register tons of accounts will probably forget they even had the accounts after 2 months. Problem partially solved.
Cube, not square. Also, implementation matters.

2^3, or 8 times more expensive.
It's an amazing team. Not just Ives but Cook, Mansfield and others too. I've seen teams with similar complementary personalities and skills in industry before, and provided they have project control and/or are in high-level positions they tend to do extremely well.