skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the sentiment, but I'm not sure they're going about it in the right way. Of course any attention and funding is better than none, but instead of getting McKinsey to advise someone or open a few offices in East London I would much rather:

* UK GOV creates a stupidly attractive tax and investment climate so that VCs are practically falling over themselves to invest in UK companies. The EIS scheme and VCT schemes are ok, but they could make these 10x more attractive.
* Create jaw-dropping incentives for startups who deliver on what the UK GOV want, basically exporting services or creating jobs. Those kinds of companies should be afforded amazing incentives such as little to no tax for x years, no crazy 12% benefits to pay employees and how about little to no paperwork.
* Perhaps some type of matched-investment scheme, where UK GOV will match investment from private angels or VC's
* I am extremely encouraged to see that the gov is thinking about opening up procurement to small businesses. I fear that this won't happen in a timely manner and will face extreme hurdles. It is virtually impossible to get on the supplier list of the gov now, and even if you as a small hosted startup managed to pull of such a feat the first thing the local IT bod would ask for is SAS70 Type II compliance because that is government mandated. It seems crazy to us, being a UK startup, that one of the least likely customers would be our own government. You'd think they should be mandated to buy from small British companies in the spirit of helping your own economy.

It is really difficult to create a climate of risk taking that is evident in the valley which is fairly critical to this whole endeavor, I don't know how one manages to do that. But I sincerely hope someone manages to find out.

There just isn't the same tolerance for risk here in the UK and so the only mechanism I can see to break this scenario is to offer out of order incentives.
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Which means you are in an excellent position of having too much time and not enough to do. Don't waste this opportunity!

It takes a very long time to become awesome at something, so I'd suggest you start now while you have plenty of spare time.
Even if Github's implementation was misconfigured at first the right thing would be to inform them, wait for the fix and _then_ blog about how to do it successfully.

Posting zero day exploits is not big or clever. Github's public transition to SSL should have encouraged people to not use Firesheep to try and snoop on their users' traffic. While a false sense of security doesn't help anyone, this kind of blogging remains more actively destructive than helpful.
1) How has he/she benefited the company over the course of the year.

2) How has the company benefited him/her over the course of the year.

3) Has he/she been able to expand their knowledge set because of, or for the sake of the company of employment.

4) Does the current compensation package (not just salary but also vacation days and other perks) feel fair compared to the last year of employment.

5) How he/she can improve further over the course of the next year and set various goals to meet.
Indeed, it's not really MapReduce (as in Hadoop or Google's MapReduce), but Yahoo Labs did call it "Real-Time MapReduce."

http://labs.yahoo.com/event/99
To be honest, that's probably #2 most important thing. #1 being, of course, that people want your data.
Actually, we already kinda did that. Attorney General Ashcroft made voter fraud a top priority for the Department of Justice. Yet there were very few convictions nationwide, and nearly all of them were for honest mistakes.
Ridiculous. There is no imaginable basis for suing Apple for not supporting one's existing hardware with new iOS releases.

3G owners would have grumbled a bit if they'd been denied iOS 4, but they'd have gotten over it.
It bears mentioning that the long view of GE's history is becoming increasingly unkind to Jack Welch. He's starting to look pretty bad and short sighted in many respects. His legend has already been cemented, though, so I doubt anyone will care.
Not for the buttons in the bottom-right, though?
How about building partially underwater coastline? Though, it could be an issue if there is a crack in the window.

Instead of trying to stop global warming, maybe we should try living with it.
In the UK it's also likely that the students are living away from home for the first time, which takes a bit of getting used to for some.

It's difficult to strike a balance between not boring the brightest and losing the less bright completely.
The problem with any sort of ranking sysyem is that skill sets, jobs, projects, and roles are not freely fungible or normalizable. You're forced to make some totally absurd comparisons for the sake of fitting whatever the mold may be. We're not talking apples to oranges here; we're talking apples to watermelons.
I'll admit, I upgraded my 3G to the 4 because of how uselessly slow it was. I wonder if I can get a piece of the class action?
Yeah, but a lot of software, some of it MVP, is extremely coarse.
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Plug your phone in and iTunes will prompt you to upgrade. Doesn't quite work that way with Windows :)
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> In a way, what Leck has created is a pro-active search engine: it answers twitter users who aren't even aware of their own ignorance.

On the one hand the idea of a reverse search engine is somewhat appealing, on the other hand; it's Clippy for the internet.

"""
I see you're trying to deny global warming. Would you like to:

1. research the available facts and science?

2. Have an authority figure you trust tell you, you're wrong?

3. Meet other like-minded singles?

"""
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Ultimately this comes down to 'it depends' (on your personality and skills and such).

Personally, I'd 'invest' in your own business first - give that a shot. There's obviously a lot of operational stuff you may need to get involved in, but if you've got the money, outsource that. Hire people to do it, but retain the control to direct them as you see fit. This would be similar to investing in another company, you just likely won't have as much control over that other company as you would your own.

On the other hand, investing in someone else's passion may be a better fit for you. I'm not at the stage where I would take that approach - I prefer to have too much control over things, and not sure I'd have that control investing in someone else's business.

What sorts of businesses are you looking at?
It's (mostly) a tradeoff of time, investment size, and risk/type of risk. Your investment strategy also determines your lifestyle to some extent. If you're completely hands-off with your money, you may get bored very quickly.

If you're very distant from a company(e.g. a publicly traded stock) you are only required to put money in a portfolio and start clicking "buy" and "sell." All time apart from that is in the research and due diligence that will make buy/sell actions profitable. This is simple enough if you're working with a portfolio of large-cap, heavily traded companies.

But if you try to achieve a return similar to an early-stage startup on the markets, you generally have to look at tiny companies with low information and regulatory scrutiny; and the market for a penny stock is rarely fair and orderly, it's more likely to become an explosive, melodramatic war involving some combination of institutional manipulators(hedge funds and colluding market-makers), a corrupt company CEO, paid promoters and bashers on message boards, and stock flippers that rush in trying for the quick money. i.e. it's great if you enjoy theatrics with your gambling, or wish to learn the feeling of being a bag-holder.

(I excluded day-trading from this analysis; it's both so difficult to learn that most people dismiss it out of hand, and - once you do have a system, and emotions are out of the way - it's also kind of boring as a way to grow your investment. But if you approach it extremely patiently and systematically, it can work very well.)

So then, if you want a better chance of early-stage returns, you can probably do well as an angel. To do so means giving up a lot more time to meet the company leadership and work out a deal and monitor them, and it means having the funds available to have accredited investor status(which you presumably do). I'm not one to comment further on this, since I'm not in a position to be an angel. But I've tried everything else.

If you want the most direct control over your financial destiny, want to learn _all_ aspects of business, and want to continue doing some kind of work, you'd do best starting your own company. It doesn't have to be a web startup. It doesn't have to use a lot of initial capital either. You just need to be focused enough to create the all-important "something people will want" and not stray away into a hobby project or pure research. This can be as simple as buying up a form of property(physical, IP, etc.) that you think will gain value, and then working or paying some money to perform the actual developments/improvements; done well, this could be a lot less risky than betting on an idea and some founders.

The best part about the start-a-company option is that your risk is more incremental. You can try lots of things, as long as you don't spend too much on any one of them, and the whole time you are going to make money, learn something, or both, which is a great feeling. And you can pair up a business-building strategy with investments in public markets fairly easily, since money in the market is generally pretty liquid.
Is inflation a good or bad thing? Why do governments want some inflation?
I think this is largely true. I've lost a lot of weight in the last eighteen months, and started exercising, and I find that my concentration and ability to handle abstraction are significantly better when I'm working out than not. Healthy body, healthy mind and all that.
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I downloaded it from the app store this morning (PST) for $2.99. I was able to watch the Avatar trailor on Tim Ferris's blog. I also got a "Flashplayer 10+ Required" on another video there. Neither Hulu nor Vimeo would work saying they weren't providing video for mobiles. A couple of other sites didn't even acknowledge they had Flash videos to the Skyfire browser although they did. The Avatar trailor played great though. Skyfire has taken the app out of the app store while they retool for the high demand. Now it's unavailable on the app store.
I don't believe nerds are becoming any less stereotypical, I just believe more and more people are becoming nerdy.

As more generations are born, technology becomes more ingrained. I'm in my 20's, we grew up with technology. I was navigating DOS at 4. My wife remembers using Amigas. I don't have to ask anyone my age if they know how to use '...' because they do, it's innate. You give your average 50 year old a new piece of technology and they're lost.

Simply take video games. The amount of people who play are now astounding. I know girls that play CoD, who WoW, who're making levels on LBP, who were excited when SC2 came out.

For my generation I expect a lot of nerds will be dating attractive female nerds.
I might be more willing to argue with a bot than some people, since the bot ain't going to track me down an shoot me.
Even though the rules about one sale per week were relaxed, it seems like each day could only have one club making a sale, and there was still a queue for those days. He was saying that since his group had a 'precedent' of 'needing money' they still got priority in that queue. There is no guarantee that other groups were or weren't missing out on money. There is just isn't enough information to make that statement.
I don't think that is a fair comparison. Going out of your way to buy a new version of Windows (which has clear hardware requirements) and slapping it on old hardware is much different than syncing your phone and following directions for a standard upgrade.
Please post entries either to HN or send me an email. My address is in my profile.

I can also give more details about rules and conditions, if needed.

P.S. Might as well make it 100 GBP for the first challenge. I am really interested to see whether there's a solution that does it in O(1), like zippers do. (Or alternatively a proof that O(1) to move from node to node is not possible.)
I don't know the Firesheep guys personally to determine their motivation behind not informing us prior to releasing the extension, but I'm very surprised Netcraft acted this way.

People seem to be jumping on this issue with zero regard for what I think is just common courtesy to site owners.
So give it all the prohibitions that both booze and tobacco have (despite the fact that proximity is actually more of a threat with cigarettes), plus make it illegal to do within nine feet of a child. Problem solved. This is a very trivial objection.
Those are specially styled. A regular 'button' call would give you a native one.

https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/blob/master/app/u...
I agree with what you're saying 100%, but I think the stereotype is still re-enforced in some ways.

I have noticed that the "Management Types" Card is describing still treat their employees as lesser beings, not because they're hackers, but because they're employees. And they have the same outdated ideas, like "Pay them a bit more" or "give them a family fun day!", and other stuff that programmers are a bit more cynical about
I'd prefer a room with a door, personally, for the partitioning you speak of. Even in cubicle situations, you still have a lot of spillover from adjoining areas. That said, for the control over environment, cubes are a step in the right direction if you're concerned about focus (imo). "Open floor" plans are generally championed by people who don't have to work in them.

Now... having an open collaboration space where team members can work on something, then go off to private cubes/offices to work separately - having both options - would rock, but I've seen desperately few places that offer that sort of setup (none personally).
There's also this thing called OpenBTS, but a search for it only lists about 17.000 results
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=openbts&#...
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Like I said, I appreciate that you took the time. I was just being J. Random Internet Asshole.

(But I really do hate slide decks.)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau. It's public domain, so you can get it free. I challenge anyone here to read the first page and not immediately want to read the whole thing.
I was wondering about that too - would the two opposing bots slug it out until the end of time (or the end of Twitter at least)?

It really is bizarre to think of two machines sat arguing with each other.
I've often thought about that. I think it would be a worthwhile experiment.
I just ordered a copy, and for what it's worth, I'll gladly buy either a "Learn R The Hard Way", or "Learn C The Hard Way".
It merely helped in my situation. If 3.1.3 ran at 100%, 4.0 ran at 40-50% and 4.1 bumped it back up to 60-70% at best (in my experience).
That's not true. I think the traditional management systems do a good job of not setting bad incentives for tech leads.
The best open floor plan offices I have seen seem to cluster the workstations to three of the walls (or windows). When people need to collaborate, they wheel their chairs into the center of the room where there is a big table and a big whiteboard on the fourth wall.
You might not be forced to upgrade to iOS 4 but you are then left with an old unpatched OS that let things like jailbreakme happen. Also if you try to get any help from Apple they refuse to do it without your device being fully upgraded, at least that has been how it has been for me.
No. My usage is perhaps a new use of the word, but it fits with the metaphor of a man of straw.

Is there another word already in existence, that describes what I wanted to say? "A ficitonal interloculor to whom one attributes one's own's arguments in order to make them sound more profound."
The slide deck was part of a blog post. It's not my fault that news.ycombinator.com only linked to the slide deck and did not provide context: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/10/facebook-and-google.html
I imagine it has to do with political correctness, but it seems there is an undercurrent on HN of treating all opinions as equally valid?

Even if both sides of the argument are incorrect, if the second opinion was formed through rigorous scientific investigation and represents and the best understanding that we currently have, why should we treat it equally with the opinion that was not developed through any sort of discourse and research?*

* Assuming that methodology described in the article is sound, "...searches twitter for several hundred set phrases that tend to correspond to any of the usual tired arguments ..."
Deja vu. I remembered seeing this same discussion four days ago, and coincidentally it turns out it was with Rick888 too. This might provide useful context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1850067
Er, you didn't understand it correctly.

The bot provides citations.

Suppose that human-caused global warming is false. It would still be possible (and common) to make erroneous arguments about how humans aren't causing global warming.

Skepticism is great, but most people's pro-X or anti-X nonsense isn't thoughtful skepticism. It's noise.

This is a way of injecting signal back into the noise.
It might not be that clever, but it is able to considerably reduce the running time of the algorithm (even if the speedup in a 9x9 puzzle is not perceived).

In fact, if you ask people not from a CS background to explain the steps they would take to solve a puzzle, they probably wouldn't be able to think of a DFS, but they would state that they should rule out from each cell the numbers already present in its respective column, line and block. And for a Sudoku solver I don't think you really need more constraint propagation than that.

Anyway, I think you approached the problem the right away, I just think that you were so close to succeed in that test and it wasn't something that difficult to add to your solution.

EDIT: wrote the above before your edit. It's still appropriate though.
you lose ad revenue if you do that. the longer it takes the ad to show up on the page, the less likely people are to click on it.
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It's much clearer in the original article - this one is really just a rehash/mix and match.

http://datasyndrome.com/post/1375987697/analytic-product-tea...
Isn't this the case in Neal Stephenson's Anathem where truth on the net is hard to come by because programs keep pumping out plausible nonsense?
The massages aren't free. They're subsidized at $20/hour.
I was using my 3G until 2 weeks ago running iOS 4. Not the best experience early on with 4.0 but it got quite a bit better with subsequent releases.
I suppose it boils down to not really believing that he's changed his mind. His expressed views on academia are quite consistent over the past 25 years. He wrote frequently against academia while he was getting degrees, but continued to stay there and finish two degrees anyway. Take a look at late-80s and early-90s issues of the Stanford Review, the right-wing newspaper he co-founded.

His main beef with academia is that he feels it's one major impediment to libertarian politics, so he wants as few people as possible to be exposed to it. Perhaps he also now genuinely believes that finishing his two degrees was a mistake, and it's actually in kids' own best interests to drop out of school. But I'm skeptical that that, rather than politics, is the real reason, as I usually am when someone's professed beliefs: 1) don't match their own actions; yet 2) conveniently match their politics.
I happen to believe the Global warming and pollution is such an important issue, it forgives the pollution of twitter feeds with unimportant messages, which lets be honest, is a drop in the ocean.
Why this won't work: You can't build a startup cluster to "renew an area".

It doesn't work like that. Old Street works because the location is decent (safe and well connected), it's cheap and the other companies there. The area has to attract people who want to work there and you can't artificially build that.

The location they're proposing put this new tech area goes through the area known as "murder mile". Yes it's cheap, but it's high crime rate means startups aren't going to locate there. It would be like trying to build a startup cluster in the Bronx because it's near the NY startup community.
Put nginx in front of apache and allow it to buffer responses. That way apache can move on to rendering the next request while nginix empties the buffer. Each apache process still uses just as much memory, but they can get more work done, because they aren't tying up memory while they push the buffered response out.
Makes me suspicious if anyone on the net would pass the Voigt-Kampff test.
And this is why the ignorant mob always wins, in the end.

People who make arguments that can be refuted in 5 mins are not contributing to "vital dialogue". They're noise-makers.

People who won't change their opinions when confronted with evidence aren't playing the same game you're playing.
Just finished reading "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" - one of the best reads ever!
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This article is really just a rehash of a tiny part of O'Reilly's roundup: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/strata-week-building-data-s...

You're much better off reading the originals, which I think have already been posted on HN anyway:

http://datasyndrome.com/post/1375987697/analytic-product-tea...

and

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/10/how-to-t...
I just want to give a nod to the work and writing that Dan Meyer makes available on his blog. If you want to get a glimpse of the future of secondary math education, this is the place to look.
What type of position? Software engineering or something else?
That does sound like a good approach.
Very true, and the added context is really helpful. Thanks for responding civilly to my not-very-civil bitchery.
I have understood that Thiel thought college is the right option for million of kids. It's in the article.
It's even worse than lowered productivity for me. I just start getting straight-up depressed; just absolutely terrible feeling. No energy, no drive, no light. And then I realize that somewhere in the last two weeks I stopped my regular exercise regiment for some reason or another and pick it back up - cured instantly.

It's easy to fool yourself into thinking that the funk caused the stop in exercise but that's nearly never the case.

EVERYBODY, hacker or not, should be getting regular exercise. Please. You won't regret it.
I tried Zendesk a while ago. To me, Zendesk seemed to be overkill and I found it hard to work with.
I know several Apple and ex-Apple engineers. Let's just say that the environment isn't even comparable. Google wins hands down. One of my friends at Apple had to file for an information request so that she could debug a problem that spanned multiple layers of abstraction. A Google engineer faced with that kind of inanity would just quit.