skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol thats kind of a funny question, I still have a large majority of the money from my exit both in liquid and in assets.

However it has become apparent to me that after you have an exit and therefore more money significantly more people want to invest in you. when I was just a kid with a dream and no money noone was offering.

In regards to the second part of that question, in no way is $1M a "ton" of money, I have invested well and bought things that hold value etc. but it certainly is not the number some people seem to think it is.
How does Hackers not even make the list?

It's a while since I've seen it, but if I remember correctly Takedown (about Kevin Mitnick) wasn't too bad when it came to the hacking scenes.
His games pushed them limits and set the standards for what was possible with a computer game in the early 80's.

He literally wrote the book on how to write games for the Atari 800
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Re_Atari

I don't think he stopped -- he tried to pull the industry in a direction he wanted to see it go and has not (yet) been successful.

When Java first started appearing on cell phones in the early 00's I tracked him down and sent him an email asking if he was interested in porting some of his old hits to a phone as they were about as powerful as a 80's PC. He responded with the source code of one I said I enjoyed, Eastern Front 1942, and said go for it. I spent a couple hours trying to make sense of the 6502 Assembly code and quit.
Nuclear magnetic resonance, as used to make MRI scans, is pretty damn impressive if you ask me.
I heard those body scanners can cause cancer
Well you can almost get there (completely if you're not changing schemas):

mysqldump --single-transaction

This option sends a START TRANSACTION SQL statement to the server before dumping data. It is useful only with transactional tables such as InnoDB, because then it dumps the consistent state of the database at the time when BEGIN was issued without blocking any applications.
Nice, but I've had consistently bad experiences with calls on Skype. Over the years (including at the current time) I constantly get situations where Skype's connection freezes or drops or the audio becomes unacceptable.

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/if-only-skype-worked.html
I wish they would work on their linux client too
But we really need to go one step further and only vote on the issues and then hold candidates accountable for how well they addressed those issues. Otherwise, it remains as a popularity contest for liars.
In Praise of Copying
You publish a benchmark that says how inefficient this makes MySQL, and then that "feature" goes away.
If only they would solve the CPU hog problem... I open one Skype video chat and the MBP gets hot, fans start to work at full speed, etc. That doesn't happen on my Windows laptops.
From my point of view, this war is thrilling but at a cost of ignoring the nearly 1 billion users' feelings, what I am sure at this point is this must be the worst example of competitions between IT companies ever!
> HTML5 is like AJAX

Yes, but we're talking about W3C documents using W3C terminology, not colloquial misnomers.

> InnerHTML wasn't in the spec originally, but everyone used/had it anyway because it was a good idea.

I was mistaken about Geolocation. It hasn't been removed (as many other similar features were), this one been developed as separate spec from the beginning.

Separation of HTML5 and other HTML5-ish specs is decided by way W3C works, internal politics, HTML group charter, and inter-dependencies between the feature and rest of HTML. It doesn't mean that something was or wasn't a good idea.

> It was dropped only from Firefox, just like h.264, but that didn't stop anybody from using it.

That's not related. W3C test suite covers W3C HTML5, not Firefox (and H.264 vs Firefox is a completely different problem).

WebSQL suffers from very real problem — it has only one DB implementation, which is SQLite. This means that sites will end up denending on that particular SQL dialect with all its quirks (e.g. sqlite storage is weakly, dynamically typed) and in long-term will require to be bug-compatible with SQLite.

I encourage everyone not to use it, even if it's available now, because we'll miss last chance to remove it.

(I love SQLite in my apps, but API for the web needs to be much smaller and tighter than that to withstand decades of people copying & pasting code they don't understand).
How does this method out perform a plaintext task list including projects? It seems that having so many notes staring me in the face all the time would make it exceedingly difficult to focus on the actual task in front of me. A notebook or text file doesn't have that problem.
Is this really an hour long audio recording? Anyone got a transcript?
I made $37.91 from frontpaging HN; what now?
Independence Day is not that ridiculous of a hacking scene, as apparently there was a deleted scene that explained that all of our computing technology came from the alien spaceship that crash-landed.

It still makes it incredibly unlikely, but not as ridiculous.
I'm not so much concerned with the Kinect hardware for gaming, but what it's potential might be for robotics sensing. This confirms my suspicions that this sort of active sensing technology doesn't work well with natural lighting, although anecdotally I have heard people say that this sort of system can be made to work outdoors if you pump out enough energy.
Gender doesn't necessarily determine sexual orientation; the machines are required to have facilities to store and transmit images; and besides, the mere power of forcefully suggesting someone submit to a strip search is titillation in itself, quite apart from viewing any resulting imagery.
I hate to keep making a point of this, but it has happened in the past and the solution wasn't pretty. Wikipedia says:

The Troubles' impact on the ordinary people of Northern Ireland produced such psychological trauma that the city of Belfast had been compared to London during the Blitz. [104] The stress resulting from bomb attacks, street disturbances, security checkpoints, and the constant military presence had the strongest effect on children and young adults. [105] In addition to the violence and intimidation, there was chronic unemployment and a severe housing shortage. Vandalism was also a major problem. In the 1970s there were 10,000 vandalised empty houses in Belfast alone. Most of the vandals were aged between eight and thirteen. [106] Activities for young people were limited, with pubs fortified and cinemas closed. Just to go shopping in the city centre required passing through security gates and being subjected to body searches.

In addition, some statistics from the same page:

Injuries	47,541

Shootings	36,923

Armed robberies	22,539

People charged with paramilitary offences	19,605

Bombings and attempted bombings	16,209

Arson	2,225 [citation needed]

I'm constantly amazed that after surviving the Troubles we over-react so massively to a couple of nutjobs lighting their crotches. Al Qaeda are incompetent morons. PIRA were fucking scary.
[cross-commented from jgc's blog]

I think John is exactly right about this. I gave a talk[1] about this back in September, trying to argue that, especially with climate science, where methodologies are evolving constantly, the key assurance to quality is transparency. My company, Brighter Planet[2], does real-time carbon calculations via web services, so this is an ongoing concern for us. The steps we've taken so far:

* We release all of our carbon models[3] as open-source code under the AGPL.

* We provide custom-generated methodology documentation like this [4] for every one of our calculations.

* We're using Rocco[5] to do literate-style documentation of our methodologies, with specific focus on compliance with standard carbon accounting protocols.

The sad truth is that if you enter the same input data into each of the hundreds of carbon calculation software packages available now, you're going to get a different answer each time. To be fair, all science is uncertain, so this is somewhat to be expected. But with transparency--especially documentation and open-source code--at least we'll know why.

[1] http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2010/10/05/learning-from-c...
[2] http://brighterplanet.com/
[3] http://carbon.brighterplanet.com/science
[4] http://carbon.brighterplanet.com/flights?origin_airport%5Bia...
[5] http://rtomayko.github.com/rocco/
This is a product space/market that many have attempted in the past and failed. I have probably used a dozen different feed readers in the past 10+ years, and this is the first time that I have signed up for a new product in this space and been genuinely excited.

Great work. Content publishers will also like this because you aren't scraping, and you are preserving the original format of their content.

(Bug report - are you auto-detecting feed urls? I put in the domain for my own site and it didn't find the feed, although it is referenced as a rel. You also don't have Sydney as a timezone)
I'd negotiated licenses between $200 and $500 for their old basic offering (depending on volume). I've been punting on a switch to Postgres for the last few months, but they've forced my hand now.
While that may be true, if I recall correctly he was unemployed for over 2 years. I have a feeling the reverse application didn't take up all of his time.
Probably, me and my training partners made fun of the recent movies riding the MMA hype train, but: horse racing scenes still have a jockey riding a horse around a track competing against other jockeys on horses. But tigers don't leap onto the track. The bad fighting movies still have guys hitting each other, even if their techniques are terrible, they never show any bruises and take a half dozen shots to the chin and barely wince. But the fighters don't literally fly at each other or perform super-human acts of strength. (Unless, of course, it is a fantasy movie.)

Hacking in most movies is basically magic. Yes, there are people in front of computers, but the visualizations and narrations of what's going on bear so little resemblance to reality that they might as well be invoking magic missile.

It's really just a difference of scale, not kind: the details of technology in general and hacking in particular are so foreign to most people that they're willing to accept much wider aberrations than in other areas.
There are several MySQL forks, have been for years. Most notably: Drizzle, MariaDB, Percona MySQL. There are many others.

I don't see anyone rushing to abandon mainline MySQL for the forks.
He hacked this terribly inefficient system we call the "jobs market." I think that's impressive.

To everyone who still thinks he's arrogant, or narcissistic, or whatever... Meh.
Scientists reveal material for 'invisibility cloak'
Without political parties people would still self identify as "conservative" or "liberal". It's human nature. These groups/labels form people's view of self.

What we really want to eliminate is the divisive nature of political discourse that pits "us against them." That's what makes government inefficient. Destroying political parties wouldn't change that, I'm afraid.
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The "gun shyness" aspect is unfortunate.

At first glance, it makes it sound like "grumble grumble good, now HN comments will be less like Reddit grumble grumble". But, in reality, people will be discouraged from participating in less popular discussion threads that either aren't "hot" or fill an interests niche, of which there's been many.

Or at worst, it will encourage my friends to mindlessly upvote my comment in order to help me keep my karma average going.

Aside from that, I appreciate pg's experiments, or rather, the data results of his experiments!
I don't think it's sarcasm (well, I'm not too sure about the colors part). Pretty much every non-alphanumeric symbol has more than one meaning in a language like C++, which (IMHO) makes reading code slower than it could be. For instance, I would really like to have a proper arrow operator instead of "->" for C++ which wouldn't match visually with a "<" placed before in the same line.
Oracle Drops InnoDB from MySQL Classic Edition
Strange. I figured that Facebook handled this by default. If I make a comment on Friend A's status or post, and Friend B is my friend but not a friend of A, I assumed that Friend B could see neither A's post or my comment. That's a pretty big hole...
SICP and The Selfish Gene (R. Dawkins).
Your map ranking
NASA EPOXI - Hartley 2 Close up imagery
Based on your comment I assume the hot new FF/Chrome plug-in for 2011 will sandbox personal information between sites.
You never "become a super aggressive driver"... Everyone else starts driving slower!

I was recently in Atlanta, and got the distinct impression that my diving was no longer "normal".
> I was using a Scitex imaging workstation before Photoshop 1.0

Oh wow. That takes me back... It's probably been 18 years or so since I've heard that term.

I reckon I'll be wondering around in nostalgia for the rest of the day now. Remembering the good ol' days of my IIci with it's Radius Rocket.
It's like a peanut of ice! http://epoxi.umd.edu/3gallery/ENCOUNTER/IINMVUAXF_6000002_00...
Sneakers.

the actual "scene" is line feed barf turning into a picture of air traffic, which is basically nonsense. but the logic behind it: a just discovered crypto attack (complete with lots of linear algebra even) hardwired into a device allowing them to read/crack anything based on current gen crypto is about as close as I've ever seen to a correct computer macguffin in film (hell in fiction).
What's your citation for that? I've never heard of this and there's no mention of it on the TSA website.
The system from Jurassic park actually exists. It's the 3D File System Navigator made by SGI for IRIX.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
Putting a finite number of beads in a jar to represent your mortality seems like one of the most harmful psychological priming effects you could undertake. Short of hiring an assassin, I don't know of a better way to ensure that you'll die within a month of some specified date.

If someone recommended that you prepare yourself for your failures by repeating to yourself 50 times a day "I am certain to horrendously screw up everything that I undertake", would that seem like sage advice? All I can say is "don't be surprised when you're right".

Terrible idea.
Wow. The guy creates an entertaining, creative, and novel approach to finding a job, succeeds, shares his story for the benefit of others, and is apparently still getting beat up.

I'm just going to say thanks and congratulations.
> http://www.amazon.com/Procrastination-Why-You-What-About/dp/...

Yeah that looks really great. I've bookmarked it. I'll check it out soon. Maybe tomorrow ...
This article seems to have three goals.

1. Spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) about the scientific results used to create evidence for global warming.

2. Observe that the training and skills of scientists processing data, building models, and drawing conclusions from data need to be improved.

3. Promote a very limited view of the scientific method where "replicating a result" means "accessing another scientist's data and computer programs and duplicating the processing that was performed". Independent verification usually means that a totally independent experiment is run to test the same hypothesis, new data is gathered and processed and a result produced which is compared with previous results (and those predicted by current theories). Verification means that the same phenomenon is observed at the same level modulo the statistics of measurement.
I have curtailed my domestic flying personally or with my family due to these asinine security theater exhibitions. In all it amounts to about $5000.00 in lost revenue to the airline industry every year. So if enough people do this then hopefully that will send a message to these people.

Now there may be a time when I or my family have to fly and for sure I will be opting out my entire family. When they go to feel-up my children I will ask the person doing it if he/she has a history of child molestation...since they are getting all personal with me and my children I plan on getting personal with them.

I will try and remember to report back when with the results...
In my group, we had two guys (me and another) who had a strong CS background, so we could advise on such issues.

So, in general, the professor's strategy could be to simply make sure he always has such a person (Phd or postdoc) as part of his team, who advises on coding standards, versioning, cross platform issues, etc.
Taleb + 3.5 years
Yeah, +1 for Sneakers; should definitely have made it on my list of honorable mentions.
"by 7 pm the stress of the day makes that beer (and couch time with the wife) so much more appealing."

a) As soon as you get off work exercise. hit the driving range, swim, go to gym, run. Hire a trainer and pay in advance for 3 months so there's a penalty for not doing it. Exercise is the worst enemy of stress and alcohol.

b) Wake up early to work on your start-up projects, and flip your addiction to two cups of good coffee in the AM. It's much easier to be unproductive come evening, the old "Idle Hands Are The Devil's Tools" is especially true. Get up at 5am - you're not going to drink before work, and you're going to pass your ass out about 9 - 9:30 each night.

Neither sounds easy, but both are rewarding when you get over the preliminary hump of getting into a routine.
I think the solution is to get up earlier and be creative before you go to work. Alcohol is not the problem, 8 hours of work is.
Steal this book: The loan arranger
But then money is a huge problem (at least here in Spain). At most, you can have a mathematician who knows about this and can help, and it is pretty hard (I could on a basic level, but I know only two other people in our department using version control, for example).
What crap.

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Google has been rated the #1 place to work for graduating MBA's for the past 5 years.... Yet, people seem in a rush to get out of there.

I think you've answered your own question there. Once the MBA culture takes over, engineers want out.
Maybe they save the pictures and share later?
I'm not sure fall backs work that well in law. In some cases the fact you failed to make one argument undermines your overall position. I think generally you're better off focusing on what you can prove.
Moral-less, maybe, but at least they contribute open drivers to Linux.
The traditional bidet has a variety of severe UX problems as evidenced by the universal confusion over a number of issues on first use.

The old style european type is designed such that you should be facing the controls. Which is only reasonable when you think about but requires a non-intuitive posture.

There are now electronic ones which integrate with a toilet and provide a control pad.

Don't indulge yourself with a bidet as they can be habit forming.
Warning: excessive whitespace abounds.
Sydney has been added.

'Australia/Adelaide': '(GMT+09:30) Adelaide',
'Australia/Darwin': '(GMT+09:30) Darwin',
'Australia/Brisbane': '(GMT+10:00) Brisbane',
'Australia/Sydney': '(GMT+10:00) Sydney, Hobart'

As for the feed url, i'm not sure why it missed your rel'ed RSS. Email the site to me and I'll get cracking on it.
Windows: 5.0, Mac: 5.0, Linux: 2.1

I understand putting Mac and Windows versions before Linux versions, but a 3 version difference is starting to get ridiculous. Skype for Linux 2.1 is perfectly usable (apart from sometimes forgetting all settings), but getting it up to the level of it's cross-platform brothers would be nice. Skype has been teasing "something" for Linux for like a year now, so I wonder what happened to that.
and the reality is I am just another 23 year old college drop out from a private liberal arts college with a big dream

...and a $1M exit from a previous venture. Which is more than almost anyone in this business can say.
Well give the Matrix (Reloaded) some credit, in the scene with trinity hacking the power grid, she used nmap to attack a known ssh exploit: http://nmap.org/movies.html
There's nothing saying it can't flag responses from its interlocuter that don't match a response in its database, to give you the opportunity for learning. I think that feature would make this a complete system suitable for educating newbies, discouraging talking-point idealogues, and letting everyone spend more time in the debate areas of greatest marginal benefit.
So that's pretty amazing.
You could use a Facebook Disconnect[1] to block all Facebook connect iframes from websites.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnamb...
Incredibly informative presentation. It helped visualize and conceptualize things I was already doing, like occasionally restricting my status updates to certain people: e.g. when I complain about my living situation and don't want those I'm living with to see it or when I hesitate to post a crude joke because I don't want my mom to see it.

I would suspect that to build something that comes close to matching our offline social networks you would have to start from the ground up, but I also think Facebook is in a position to offer some of the benefits.

One thing I would love to see? When I write a status update, post a photo or note, share a link, etc - I would like Facebook to tell me how many can see it. Just as LinkedIN can tell me how many people are in my network, Facebook could easily tell me that this photo marked "friends only" will be visible to my 128 "friends", but this status update marked "friends of friends" will be visible by ~15,000 people. Similarly, in Debbie's case, when viewing other people's photos, Facebook could tell her: your friends can see this photo and offer her tools to disallow that. Just because the Gay Bar employees allowed "friends of friends" to see their photos and I'm friend, doesn't immediately mean I want my friends to see them or see that I commented on them. I think Facebook could tackle these scenarios given the structure they already have.
What You Didn't Know About Apple's Design Culture
Actually cocos2d-iphone, one of the THE premiere 2d game iOS toolkits added a Mac target a couple months back.

If you wrote your iOS game in that, you can pretty easily port it to the mac.
It wasn't a question of not-optimizing for non-Intel compilers, the compiler detected AMD chips and deliberately slowed down the code.

They had previously got caught detecting a particular set of benchmark code and generating pre-calculated results.
I recently added JSONP support to http://api.ihackernews.com (Hacker News API). Works great for making widgets only using front-end code.
I liked the "Advice From An Old Programmer" at the end:

"Which programming language you learn and use does not matter. Do not get sucked into the religion surrounding
programing languages as that will only blind you to their true purpose of being your tool for doing interesting things"

"Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. ...You are much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession.

People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines."
If you can't make your friends and family realize there's a good chance they'll lose all their money by investing in you, and the amount of money they'd be investing is a nontrivial fraction of their assets, you can't ethically take their money.

You have an obligation to look out for the best interests of your friends and family -- i.e., to take care of them -- whereas your only obligation to professional investors is to honor your contracts.