skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an avid college football fan and the BYU athletic director's response doesn't seem right.

Roster depth is very important to a team for various reasons such as having players who can step in for injured players (important given the nature of football), allowing players to learn the system/schemes before playing (despite what many think of football it is complex and being able to "reload" rather than "rebuild" is key to the perennial powerhouses), giving players time to develop and grow before seeing game time (most are a mere 18 years old when starting college), being able to field scout teams for the starters to practice against, etc.

USC football is currently facing sanctions and lost 10 football scholarships per year for three years. Read any sports analyses on the sanctions and they'll tell you that the scholarship loss hurts USC not because so much because top recruits will be making something of themselves elsewhere but because it hurts USC's roster depth.
It definitely is a small world! I work as a software developer for a UK software consultancy, but dabble in my spare time on personal projects.

Techcrunch / HN / Reddit has been on my daily reading list for years. It's definitely been interesting seeing your story unfold.

If I'm ever over in Silicon Valley, I'll have to drop you a message as it'd be great to have a catch up and laugh about the old BGS times.

Congratulations again!
I find it a great idea. I hit the purchase button, but what? Shipping for $9 to North Africa? Are you sure it's $9. How does that ship that cheap?
Sure, or use SelfControl (for the Mac) or its equivalent, and turn off all the distracting sites for N hours at a time. Very helpful when your will is feeling weak.
Not many prototype elements to make it a special product. Several prints of an empty browser's window and a few bucks worth of white post-it notes seem to do the same trick.
I think we all know how this will end: a joint-licensing agreement that allows Oracle to go after or threaten the next VM vendor.
Oh wow, there you are.

I just wanted to say that I absolutely love this series of Harry Potter stories. Awesome. Brilliant. Genius. This is as someone who does read a lot as well. It's really, really, really excellent. It's the only mostly static website on the web which I go and manually check every couple of days, excited at the thought that maybe there's a new chapter up. It's like having a child's Christmas every few days. I love it.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
1) Take fewer classes, even if it means being part time, and obtain a grade of A or A+ in each one. A killer transcript should be a huge goal.

2) Take a semester off to travel. Seeing the third world up close was totally mind-bending for me.

3) Get serious about exercise and nutrition. You'll feel and look better, get smarter, and just overall be more of a "winner" that others respect.

4) Do small projects as "warmups". Don't let your current weaknesses stop you from jumping in and doing a startup or starting a side project. Learning by doing is fun.

5) Avoid credit cards and debt like the plague. It seems like it will be trivial to pay off $20K or $40K (or much more) of debt after graduation, but it's not. Debt will cramp your style a lot and make you far, far too risk-averse at a young age.

6) Consider getting a job that simply pays you to study. There are jobs like this which at first seem boring and devoid of learning, but in fact they are the secret to successful employment while in college, and will help you snag those A+ grades while earning some extra money.

7) Realize that as a young, motivated person you have the power. Don't let any older person intimidate you or make you feel less powerful. All they have is swagger and cynicism. They are scared of you.

8) If a class stinks in the first few meetings, trust your gut and drop it immediately. Be picky about how you spend your academic time/money.

9) Find good mentors. This applies to people of any age.
But perhaps it is J. K. Rowling who should get credit for doing the acknowledging. If you write "students are given time machines so they can attend more classes" and no one in-universe points this out as odd, that's Harry Potter. If a fanfiction has someone notice how odd this is, that may bear a greater stylistic resemblance to Terry Pratchett, but the core silliness was still J. K. Rowling's idea to start with...
Finally, a multitouch prototyping tool.
Yep, Facebook Takes Control Of Fb.com Ahead Of Mail Launch
The old saying "hungry dog hunts best" sums it up as was already pointed out in another comment. The hungrier I get the sharper my focus becomes, whether it is writing code or hunting, it works!
BTW, don't confuse hashes with authentication protocols. There is no such thing as an "NTLMv2 hash". NTLMv2 is an authentication protocol, and NTLM and LM are authentication protocos too. There is the LM hash and the LM authentication protocol dependent on it, of which both is insecure, but are two different things.
Creating and benefitting from positive externalities. Good strategy to keep in mind.
They seem to have called it "Football", i.e. lumped in with American Football.
Good info, indeed.

Personally, these kinds of articles always crack me up. New Yorkers know this. Transplants from CT, NJ or whatever cul-de-sac in Wisconsin you people are coming from lately, frankly you deserve whatever crap treatment you get from cabbies.

And don't complain to 311, you transplants complain to much as it is. Just hash it out in a nice little argument with the cabbie. It'll be cathartic and maybe it'll get you down enough to not buy that V-neck.
Don't worry about it. Obviously generated some fresh interest today.
By AGW, I mean Anti-Global Warming, in the context that they claim that Global Warming, even if it does happen (which they claim it doesn't), is not human caused.
Looks like http://ycombinator.com/people.html doesn't list Paul Buchheit yet.
Allegedly in the 80s software vendors sometimes advertised that their products were programmable/extensible in plain English. By which they meant BASIC.
This looks fun, I'll probably attend. Please mention in this thread if you are going to attend so we can meet each other.
I don't believe I communicated clearly enough in the creation of this project.

This is not ``Yay, I don't ever have to worry about any other computer because I can simulate anything.''

This is me sitting next to my QA guy (who really understands what I did better than I do so far) and having him say, ``Why don't you just make it fast for the first ten minutes, then slow down socket operations briefly, then switch a pattern of speedup and slowdown on disk reads?''

I want to do more fault injection stuff. I'm being asked to do stuff like manipulate the data (sometimes), or lie about the results of certain operations.
Now that's something to put on your resume/t-shirt: "I was verified to be human by PokerStars.net"
Actually, it happens to be true that all eleven-year-olds attending wizarding school read preprints of theoretical computer science papers.
AutoIt and others don't actually click the button though. So they are not the same behavior.

Poker sites can tell if the keyboard interrupt came from which usb id so that isn't really an option. Moving the mouse is much more likely not to have a way to see if the hardware caused it. Hence why it is used more often.
I can't get behind this, especially when it comes to kids. I really hope that someone finds proof they do store images and sues the US government/TSA for child pornography or something similar. While I doubt this opt-out day will gain serious traction to make a decision, I agree that the best thing to do is continue to call media attention to and scrutinize it.
Can't be done. At all. I've spent many hours trying.
"Thanks," he said in the small, awkward voice of someone who'd never quite figured out how to take a compliment like that gracefully.
IMO, you're right about the romanticism, but it'll be hard to tell anything from this survey because of the tendency for nerds to overthink!

Tell you what: I tried to go with my gut feeling on every question. I am very risk-averse, but the idea of gaining money doesn't mean that much to me. Winning $100 vs $1000 isn't that emotional for me. Oh, sure, I'd like $1000 but I don't even care about $100. I thought about scaling the numbers up til they mattered to me, and decided I'd almost always take the sure thing because I could turn that money into a higher amount thru investing it in expanding my product.

But I would gladly pay $250 instead of even a slight risk of losing $1000. (Or whatever the numbers were I've forgotten already!) IRL, I've bought a new car because I'd rather pay a couple grand more than have the uncertainty of potential repair bills, etc. Clearly I hate negative unknowns.

That risk aversion has clearly influenced the type of "startup life" I've chosen. My products are "boring," but quite profitable. No funding, no 80 hour weeks, no sleeping under the desk, and no potential to be gobbled up by Google, either.

Nevertheless, I find this far less risky than having a job, because nobody can fire me from my own company! Plus, I'm not miserable because people are always screwing with my work.

That said, I think part of the special startup mindset is similar to the people who will bet more on dice they've rolled than dice rolled by someone else... whether a startup is acquired feels like something they can control, however irrationally.

Maybe you could ask what people believe is the average chance of acquisition for a startup in general, and what they believe their chance is?
"Get fired, it’s a great learning experience"
Contact your Congress critters: have their families do the TSA grope experience
Google: Oracle doctored that 'copied Java code'
But what are the download caps? For example a mere 2GB/month download cap here in the UK starts at £10 (~16USD), and you won't get unlimited downloads without having an LLU connection which most of the population does not have access to, so basing a broadband league table on speed tells only part of the story.
Well, I'll be flying that day, but I would probably opt out without the designated day.
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I've read the comments, and the point still stands. There's a reason that I had never heard of a "weirdtopian" novel before. If something is outside of the scope of what humans are capable of, it's very jarring to one's suspension of disbelief. Just because it fits with his desire to make it weirdtopian doesn't mean I like it any better.
Maximizing Iterations
http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html#techniques

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/download/detection...

Now, if you have a browser which supports both HTML5 video and Flash, it's arguable which a player should default to. However, at the moment there seems to be an assumption on many sites that:

- "desktop" browser => has Flash

- mobile browser => doesn't have Flash

which gets pretty annoying for those of us who prefer not to install Flash.
Well, they don't. That XP users are likely to have something installed that has dragged in .NET doesn't change that fact.
"The Goldman Sachs trader was observed issuing upwards of 60,000 false bids on 1000 different securities each, entirely within a 1 second timeframe, and was able to lift his hands from the console and hold a conversation with our SEC representative while working his many 'tables'..."
Looks great. The homepage is dead on: simple explanation of what it does, a live example, and a prominent signup button.

One issue to think through: companies would likely want to integrate the user management with their existing apps. That is, if a user is signed up for my web app, I'd like for them to have the same identity when on kroud. Sort of a federated authentication scheme. Likely not easy to do, but that'd be the major point preventing me from adopting kroud instead of hosting something ourselves.

Who did the design? I really like the simple and clean look.
Why would Mac kill their own development platform?

Answered in several other places in the thread.

Owning your own development platform is highly overrated.
Just be careful not to use the private APIs which are peppered through the book.
In general, I'm inclined to agree with you, certainly with any other company, and probably with Google..

But Page and Brin probably have the muscle to make a bad business decision and fight out the patent if they think they can win, and it's far reaching enough that they might go for it.
If you are an analyst working for a bank, then your job is to do financial analysis to inform trading decisions. That is what your title is, that is the result you are expected to produce, that is what you will see yourself as. But to actually do that, you might be writing F# 40 hrs a week. You wouldn't consider yourself a programmer tho'. The program is not a product in and of itself; it's just a tool you use that you happen to also make yourself 'cos it's easier than writing a spec document and waiting for "a programmer" to do it.

Similarly if you are an engineer working for Ericcson on switches for telcos then you job is to design and implement switches. The result you are expected to produce is a switch that is better than the current one. You will probably see yourself as an electronic engineer - but you might actually be writing Erlang 40 hrs a week. The code isn't a product either - it's just the means by which you tell your switch hardware how to behave.

Whereas if you are a "PHP programmer" someone has already decided that PHP is what we're doing and your role is to do PHP and your end product is a website built with PHP. Which is not a bad thing mind - but it is why you see "PHP jobs" and you don't see so many "F# jobs".
There are a lot of statistics about guns and survival, and it's not 100% conclusive. Most "bad" firearms related deaths which happen to firearms owners are suicides, followed by children and stupid accidents, followed by domestic violence with guns. I'm unlikely to suffer from any of these.

Carrying a concealed weapon (where legal) has a lower benefit than carrying a cellphone and first aid/trauma kit (which I also carry, and will try to get to EMT-I certification again, if not paramedic), but I still think it's a net improvement in your personal safety, assuming you're trained and competent.

The biggest disadvantage is that in some states you can't go into a restaurant where alcohol is served (even if you're going for a meal and don't drink), and of course the fashion compromise of a 1-4 pound hunk of metal/plastic/wood.

I think most gun owners disbelieve "invincibility" even more than non-gun owners when it comes to guns -- handguns especially are fairly non-lethal (at 3', I'd rather have a knife), and give an advantage to he who initiates violence. I'd be very happy to trade a firearm for a Dune-style shield or something.

I think another factor is that a responsible gun owner who is carrying is probably more likely to avoid places where an incident might happen -- aside from bars, I'd also be a lot more likely to be less confrontational in traffic or other situations if I realized there was a potential it could escalate to shooting. I've never been involved in any kind of scuffle or anything while carrying a firearm, and while I actively avoid "bad areas" to the extent possible no matter what, it's another factor. Although I am willing to stop to render aid to stranded motorists when armed, whereas unless it's a very clearcut situation, just drive on (and optionally call 911) otherwise.
Not yet. Waiting for Sunday to arrive!
Except for video API's, those changed in 3.2 quite a bit.
You can make your own: http://fanfictionloader.appspot.com/
I've published a couple of multiplatform Python executables (dowser.sf.net, archivd) and setting those up (+ installers) sucked weeks of my time. It's pretty terrible.
Perhaps one of his best quotes -

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." -Major General Smedley Butler (1935)
How does Sony expect PS3 devs to create their games? Even though you can't plug a couple of monitors and a keyboard into a PS3 and run emacs and GCC on them, there are still plenty of "apps" for game consoles.
I've been on 2+2 for the better part of a decade and can tell you the online poker community has far more pressing concerns than 'bots' that hope to eek out a few dollars an hour playing a large amount of tables. [1]

It's certainly an impressive feat to be able to play 120 tables at a time, but naturally the more tables you play the less attention you are able to give to what's going on. As online poker sites give you a time bank of around 30 seconds, if you are playing more than 20 or so tables you don't really have time to consider more than your hole cards, the board, and the effective chip stack (whichever person has the lower amount of chips, applicable in "no limit" games). To play 120 tables and make a profit is only possible at the absolute lowest levels, when you're making decisions in less than a few seconds, and only considering the cards in your own hand. Even then, I can't imagine doing this successfully.

A common criticism in the poker community about people who play a lot of tables (anywhere from 6-12 tables is pretty standard for most professional online players, less than 6 shows a pretty remarkable discipline actually, excluding those who play heads up poker in which 2-4 tables is more common) is that these people don't have time to consider their decisions, and therefore won't improve. If they have a set decision they do in every type of situation, they won't get any better by failing to explore the value of each of their options. Further, the nature of online poker is such that the games have been getting increasingly tough each year, and failing to improve will likely turn you into a break even player.

The problem is that almost every competitive online poker player signs up for what is called "rakeback" from sites like http://rakemonkey.com and http://raketherake.com. In short, these types of sites have deals with the poker sites that allow players to get a percentage (usually 27%-30%) of their rake back (the few dollars from each pot that the site takes as profit). So playing 16 tables at a time becomes very appealing to the guy trying to grind out a living playing the $1/$2 no limit games, as he can easily make $5,000 from rakeback alone.

My theory is that as a player's poker career progresses (and he ages) he becomes more risk averse, and so rakeback becomes that much more appealing. By the time I turned 18 I was playing some of the larger stakes games online as the money meant little to me (purely out of ignorance to the value of a dollar) so I wasn't afraid to try to climb the limits as far as I could. As little as 18 months later I had dropped down limits after a number of high stakes shots ended badly, and afterwards while grinding the mid-stakes games, I loved my rakeback.

[1] http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/ultim...
Its now frequently a third pitch (in addition to the "normal" fastballs mixed usually with a change-up or curve ball and sometimes a slider). Generally a higher risk/reward pitch than any of the aforementioned due to challenges in controlling its motion.
Cranium founder Richard Tait's tips for entrepreneurial success
Yup, has happened to me. They wouldn't go too far out of Manhattan, midtown exactly, because they're getting ready to clock out and leave midtown. Was supremely annoying, in the rain. And I was only going uptown about 20 blocks. After three refusals, I wasn't so open about my destination when I just got into the next one. I was thinking to myself, "what a crock of sh*t, I can't get a cab between 4:00 and 4:30?! In Manhattan?!"
The TSA has asserted that the machines cannot store pictures, but security personnel at a courthouse in Florida were found to not only have saved images but shared them among colleagues in order to humiliate one of their coworkers.
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Pointed out in the comments: Why not use fb.me, which they already owned? fb.me is shorter and easier to remember ("facebook me" being a colloquialism these days, joe.smith@fb.me doesn't sound bad at all). And it subtly encourages people to go back and use the Facebook website instead of sticking with raw email, which I guarantee will be an underpinning to whatever secret email "project" they are finishing up.
The TSA is now calling National Opt-Out Day "irresponsible."

John Pistole, TSA Administrator: "On the eve of a major national holiday and less than one year after al Qaida's failed attack last Christmas Day, it is irresponsible for a group to suggest travelers opt out of the very screening that could prevent an attack using non-metallic explosives."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/11/12/131275949/protest...

That, to me, doesn't jive with their stance that body scanners aren't a big deal because you can opt out. To me, it confirms that opt-out "enhanced pat-downs" were introduced to intimidate people into being scanned.
I can't believe I have to say this, but this isn't a spoof, nor is it a silly idea.

Paper prototyping is a widely used technique in UX design.

There is a well known book about it (http://www.paperprototyping.com/), an article on A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/paperprototyping/), and one by (gasp) Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030414.html). The Nielsen Norman Group uses it (http://www.nngroup.com/reports/prototyping/video_stills.html), and it's taught in many (most?) UX design courses.

No matter how comfortable you are with your digital tool of choice, nothing is quite as immediate as moving bits of paper around, especially in a collaborative environment. Plus it has the added advantage that you can test paper prototypes with users without them mistaking it for the final thing.

As for the kit itself, I think the idea is cute, and the price is reasonable. It's not much more than the cost of the paper itself.
Ugh, it makes me sad to see everyone blaming these people for "holding up the line." No, it's the TSA, who decided to treat every passenger as a criminal suspect, who are holding up the line!
In the Grip of the New Monopolists
Too few people will even give the scanners a second thought. Unfortunately, most people are satiated enough to watch their freedom gradually erode without realizing what's happening. I don't know how far this call to opt-out will spread, but if enough people opt-out to draw the attention of those who haven't paid attention yet, things might change.

It takes a lot of effort to match government sponsored indoctrination. If this works at all, it might lead to a lot more people waking up and saying 'no' to the bullshit constantly being shoved down their throats.
"New Yorkers know this. Transplants from CT, NJ or whatever cul-de-sac in Wisconsin you people are coming from lately, frankly you deserve whatever crap treatment you get from cabbies."

Really? Guess what? Everyone in NYC is a transplant, at some point. And everyone has to learn just how things work, in detail, over time. It's a process, not a badge to brag about. Natives are the worst...