skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably don't need a university degree to do most stuff. I think there's quite alot in the signalling theory of education: http://is.gd/ihEWy.

That said, if you're going to rely on any technical disciplines in your plans - I'm thinking maths based subjects - I bet you'll reap rewards from the content as well as from having the badge.

Depends too how confident you are that you aren't going to need the badge.
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I had two favorites - Inception and The Social Network. Excellent plots, superb direction and great acting.
Who's the enemy? The people? Any serious enemy already has this information.
Ah, despite the different URLs they end up in the same place.
You are mistaken. Market salary is clearly defined, right here: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/

Fail to respect the conventions outlined in this website, and your application will be denied.
This article is about being sure that (Firefox) traffic is being tunneled when you are on an unprotected WLAN, but I agree that taking extra measures such as using TLS/SSL where possible is also a good addition. However, because not all sites have support for TLS/SSL (e.g. HN), I think it is wise to tunnel all traffic since while the tunnel doesn't add much security to the already encrypted traffic, it still protects the otherwise unsecured traffic from being sniffed by someone else on the unprotected WLAN.

As for TOR, I have found it to generally be painfully slow but I must admit that I haven't tested it at all that much. Also, with clients such as Pidgin and Thunderbird, you can use a SOCKS5 proxy for chat and mail respectively.

Lastly, both Firefox and Thunderbird can be configured to do their DNS lookups through the SOCKS5 proxy.
I always respond to these things too late, but I'll say just two things.

1) What are the chances that out of everything you could do with your life, you are currently doing the only thing that is fun/fulfilling/enriching/the right thing etc? Don't fear change. The same skills, curiosity and drive that got you this far can do it again, possibly faster and better the next time around.

2) It's great that you feel responsible for your engineers, but your first and foremost responsible is towards yourself. If you've tried your best to create the kind of team/culture/department you wanted too and it wasn't possible, try again somewhere else before it nags away at you. I assume everyone that works there is an adult, and they can make their own decisions about where they want to work too.

And one more thing: Don't try and be the guy with the money, be the guy smart enough to know how to make the money.
I wonder if this correctly calculates what tweets I get to see (replying to someone I also follow). Also, would be nice if it also showed retweets in the table.
I imagine the argument is that it's harder and they need time and it's not a critical component so it's better to bootstrap their business first. You know, entrepreneurship.
Dear God! Hacker news has really gone to the dogs (or is that cubs?)
Someone who auto-follows me based on a keyword search and posts only links is a spammer trying to raise the number of follow-backs they have and possibly promote their own site/content.

They don't add any meaningful value to Twitter - even the OP's 'curated links' aren't much value given that sites like HN exist and the actual real people I follow on Twitter will post interesting links themselves.
Wow. That is...a really terrible article.

Debka (IIRC) is probably akin to a cross between the Onion and Fox :)
SSI Open Water Diver. Not because the book is particularly (or at all) well written, but because it was my entry into an amazing hobby -- SCUBA diving. It's an enjoyable activity on its own, and the training model for SCUBA is actually a good way to teach a lot of things to consumers (a VC friend who just picked up diving too believes this as well).

For actual book as book, probably "First In; How Seven CIA Officers Opened the War on Terror in Afghanistan" by Gary Schroen. They basically went in with $30mm or so and an old helicopter, 2 SF ODAs, and accomplished most of the good accomplished to date in Afghanistan within 2 months.

For fiction, I'd love to say Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, but it's just too fucking long. He needs an editor; I'm on book 3. For unexpectedly awesome, Suarez's Daemon and Freedom.
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And, Diamond Age, which I actually prefer to all Stephenson's other novels. Suarez rocks too.
I'm guessing that "missing some kind of social proof" really means that Pluggio's "View Testimonial Source" links are broken. Your post (and web service) is definitely the sort of thing that HN needs. I'm sure you'll have great success with Pluggio.
How long until they start regulating the ads in my podcast?
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And neither does Amazon. And yet they claim to.
Ideally I look for problems instead of solutions.
>According to the idealized free-market theory

Calling this a "theory" is giving it more credit than is warranted. It's largely an experienced opinion and the only kind of falsification you can do on it is see if implementing parts of it cause society to implode.
This is a good idea. I have been on 2.6.32 forever in Debian unstable, and it's starting to get old. Yes, I could compile my own newer kernel, but then udev breaks, and then I've wasted 5 hours :)
German keyboards don't have an apostrophe?
The author of the New Scientist article posted a link to his:
http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/dn19809/1-you-too-...
The same argument would apply to optometrists with the advent of laser eye surgery. It would be interesting to see if it has made a dent in their incomes, and if contact lens sales are down, for example.
It's more likely that higher rates of tooth decay started when humans began grinding grains finely enough to make such things as refined flour, and refined sugars. The paleolithic diet did not include such things, which easily become food for bacteria that lives in the mouth and causes tooth decay.
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What will we do when they learn how to operate door handles?
"And I point it out because even SIMD can have conditional branching (using the CPU's branch predictor.)"

This doesn't sound correct to me, but perhaps I'm missing something? I can't see how the branch predictor is relevant here. Can you explain in more detail?

"That's an understatement. It complicates the implementation significantly. Parallel-oriented (?) programming is quite hard by itself without all this."

How does this complicate it? You don't have to implement it yourself. If you're coding in CUDA, OpenCL or any of the common shading languages, then you write if-statements just as you would in C and it does the right thing. Honestly, the only concern is the performance degradation you get.

"That phrasing can carry an implied personal attack"

There was none intended. I was hoping that would make it sound helpful but I guess it didn't work. Text can be a tricky medium. Sorry.
Sorry, but this is exactly the kind of behaviour that will get me to unfollow you very quickly (or more likely avoid following you in the first place).

I read Hacker News and a bunch of other tech websites via RSS already. I have an RSS reader on my PC and my phone which I use to keep track of articles I find interesting. I really don't need yet another twitter user selecting their favourites and reposting them for me.

I like to follow people who actually create or add their own value rather than just duplicating a bunch of content that in all likely hood I've already seen.

Sure, the occasional "hey this cool [link]" tweet is fine, but 10 a day is just spam to me.
Shortest job finishes first. Big things will have big debates, big compromises, filibusters, on and on. In that time thousands of "little things" could have made it through.

Personally, I would try both. Get big things in the pipeline but get as many quick wins as possible. To do as you suggest leaves you in a position of having accomplished literally nothing after years in office.
Gandhi & Churchill: the epic rivalry that destroyed an empire and forged our age

http://books.google.com/books?id=tquxD6dk914C&printsec=f...

From a HN perspective, this book is inspiring because it documents the tenacity of both of these men in the face of grinding failure.

http://books.google.com/books?id=tquxD6dk914C&pg=PA214#v...

From a personal perspective, it was eye-opening, because I have always lionized Gandhi and despised Churchill, and the rather clinical look this book takes at their lives shows both their warts and blemishes.
His visualization reminds me A LOT about gapminder (http://www.gapminder.org/world/), if anyone wants to play with this kind of data with this kind of visualization.
Religious fundamentalists with paramilitary inclinations, I may not be a fan of the US, but I am even less a fan of this bloc.
This book got me started on "The Baroque Cycle". Now I am doomed to think of Newton as a wizard alchemist.
Yeah I did, thanks for picking that one up.
I'm imaging myself around 20 and missing out of a couple of decades of great reading:

the Aubrey/Maturin canon - Patrick O'Brian

any book in the Discworld series - Terry Pratchett

anything by Iain M. Banks (although, strangely, I don't find his non-SF as compelling; perhaps it is too dark for my tastes).

and something to stimulate me to learn Lisp then instead of now.
Funny, I've heard the opposite; from managers, of course :)
Now that IS interesting. Thanks for the links!
Maybe I just haven't got the update yet, but this looks the same behavior as always...
- You need to be off grains. Permanently. Forever. Sorry, but they are toxic. That means no bread, no pasta, no oatmeal, etc.

- No legumes, with the exception of white rice.

- No milk forever

- But do take other supplements.

So just the crazy pills then?
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One, relatively obscure person, can scare whole world [for good].
"Rep. Anna Eshoo's (D-CA) bill will require commercials to be at the same decibel levels as programs during which they play."

I'm not sure if this will solve things. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Marke...
When you've got a problem that is destroying your business, -any- time that you're forced to wait for them to contact you back is costing you money.

I don't blame him for reaching out to every available outlet while he waits.

In this case, he's already got at least 1 post that gives him someone else to contact in the company and get noticed.

And there's probably someone that works there that reads HN, so that's another thing in his favor.
Look around for who is selling what.
How would you improve the ranking system?
I chalked that up to the billionaire supergenius creator, which also hurts the plausibility a bit.
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I'd worry about the consequences of an enzyme inhibitor being digested. I mean they're saying that it's so close to alpha-amylase that's present in our mouth and pancreas. However, they don't mention its effects on beta-amylase that is known to be present in bacteria in animals digestive tracts, but we don't know how necessary beta-amylase is to our digestion.

I doubt we'll even see the inhibitor in anything for at least a decade after it's found due to its profound implications. I'm not worried about it one day causing cancer, I'm worried about it causing people to die of starvation or something bizarre after using the inhibitor.
The Google Charts API was updated with SSL support only a week ago:

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/11/29/charthttps.html

I hope this is part of a concerted effort to add SSL capability to their various APIs.
As others have been saying, you don't need school. There have been plenty of successful business people who dropped out of school, or just never went to college in the first place.

I would suggest going to school, however. Not only is it insanely fun, but you obviously learn a lot. Also, the networking potential of college is probably unmatched.
It works! I get it as first Google result from Italy.
http://213.251.145.96/mirrors.html has current mirrors.
I think it will be expensive for Google to provide SSL on all its APIs unless clients are willing to pay.
$0.50 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month

$0.25 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month

bleh.
I don't know of a complete fix, but a start would be to rank based on upvotes in the past hour (or 2 hours, or whatever works best) instead of since submission. This would allow links submitted days ago to end up on the front page if they were recently upvoted a lot. The new algorithm could be put on an alternate front page (similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/classic) until it was tweaked to get the desired result.

Since detection of duplicates and content mirrors is currently done best by humans, I think another aspect of the solution is cultural. If we want to stop this sort of thing, people need to point out mirroring/linking and flag submissions. If we do it enough, the incentives will change to discourage this behavior.
I'm still worried about the cottage industry loomists that are being driven out of business by these great big watermill looms.
It is all about solving problems that people have. One great resource for this in my opinion is to go to ehow.com and check out the thousands of articles there in just about any topic. Each of them is an answer to someones question or problem and could get your thoughts flowing.

It's also a really good place to start for people that are interested in creating information products.
I prefer solo programming, but to me it means something different from programming without input from other people. I will ask as many questions as I can in order to get the job done. I will describe my design to key team members so it gets criticized and improved. I will ask people to review my code. But when I actually sit down to write code, I don't want anyone looking over my shoulder (with a few exceptions, such as bug hunting or prototyping).
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"King and Clark can lay a fair claim to helping start the coupon movement over half a decade ago."

This is the money quote for me. It just shows the sheer speed at which the internet works, or maybe it is just me getting old...
Oh, I see.

Either way, the list could be just as easily compiled by Chinese self as it was by the U.S. missions, most of it is based on public knowledge and open sources.

It's not that I suggest leaking it made any practical sense, but IMO the dangers of it are greatly exaggerated.
The 4 colleagues I mention in my writeup had both -- IQ + EQ. They were kind, humble, and patient people. But you're right, that combo is rare.
My copy arrived late last week. Can't wait to start reading it.
I don't buy it. They provide support for the "SPF" record type, but not "RRSIG". They would be equally simple to implement, yet DNSSEC would be hugely more beneficial.

I've never come across anyone using the SPF record type. nearly everyone just uses TXT for that.

I think DNSSEC was just an oversight on Amazons behalf. A mistake that they will hopefully fix in the not too distant future.
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I haven't done much pair programming, but when I've been the co-pilot, I watch what is being written and think about what else needs to be done. If some critical thing gets missed, or I think the code isn't going to do what it's supposed to, I speak up. (That includes syntax, but also logic.) I sometimes (rarely) make suggestions about refactoring or tests that need to be done.

I will admit, though, that for a while we jokingly called it 'peer programming' because you were just peering over someone's shoulder. We had a cowboy coder that taught us a LOT of stuff in the short time he was here and 'peer programming' was a large part of that. His time here was disruptive, but I think the whole team is a lot more productive thanks to his short employment. (And his disruptions were mostly him trying to convince everyone to do things a better way.)
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I've taken the liberty of removing the inconsequential from that article, but it seems to have left me with only the word 'monospaced'.
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The article references some great modules for those actually writing perl code.

For those that never learn to write full apps in perl, there are still a few gem 1-liners that are worth tucking away. For instance,

perl -pi.bak -e 's/something/something_else/g' *.erl

would act as a global substitution with backups (any file changed would have an original x.erl.bak).

A list of some other useful 1-liners can be found here:
http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/05/top-10-perl-one-liner-tricks...
Not true according to Google:

If there's one point that we want to communicate to the world, it's that SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more. Ten years ago it might have been true, but it's just not the case any more. You too can afford to enable HTTPS for your users.

source: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht...
As a hacker I'm of course biased, but still I've heard the statement above from a manager in a moment of truth :)
I've been using jsMath for a while, I'm glad these sorts of libraries exist. It chips at my heart a little every time I see ascii sigmas and the like.
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While I surely see the value of SSL, it also brings me a bad user experience, full of redirects, and maybe for some people slowdowns and mixed content warnings. But worst of all is that Safari does not remember secures sites at all. So forget about auto-completion.
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As I've noted before, the issue with HTTPS is not one of server cost any more. However, I am aware of several Google services that are not available over HTTPS. Maps and AdSense are the ones which I'm familiar with and, if people are having issues with others, please let me know.

Google is a large company and I can't speak for the Maps nor AdSense teams. They have their own developer relations folks who know far more about their systems than I ever will, but I have chatted with them previously and they are aware of the issue.

In general, Google supports the use of HTTPS [1] and I hope that we can get to the point where it's more widespread.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-...
viemu just makes the VS editor act like vim. It doesn't replace much, if any, existing functionality.

Both viemu and vsvim have the problem of vim key commands and VS key commands clashing quite a bit.
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That is what I thought too.But it could be a good thing adding it to the toothpaste, provided that you don't swallow it.
As someone who made very decent money writing code at 18, and consequently did the 7 year plan for undergrad (several "I make big money, why be in school?" moments), I'd wholeheartedly recommend finishing a degree. It's absolutely not necessary for success, but circumstances change and not having one is severely limiting. Not only do startups have to make pivots, often a person's individual career must as well (be it to another type of career, moving to a more bureaucratic organization, etc.), and a degree is well worth it when/if that time comes.
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Does anyone know of a decent tool to graph search results' external links? There is so much content farming these days that I often wish for such a thing.
Hmmm I found it a little bit distracting at first.
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Ev has it. It was a low-point for the discourse here.
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>so you might want to signup for my newsletter at www.jasonnation.com

I bet we should totally buy your book too.

Speak for yourself here or submit the link. That's how this place works. This isn't a blogroll subscribe-fest between a bunch of aspiring "SEOs".

I don't require that people subscribe to my [blog/newsletter/cult newsgroup] in order to hear my opinion on the subject at hand and you don't merit special treatment either.

Do you read what you write?
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Meditate. Be passionate. Think for yourself. Read fundamental books. By fundamental I mean "important", not "full of religious bigotry".
I got a lot of ideas from Frank Herbert's "Dune", for example.
Do things. I mean dont just use your lizard brain to constantly look for new input, dont follow what other people are doing. Start your own pet project.
No matter how small. Find the smallest problem you can solve. Ideally a global one. But a local one works too.
Anything to get you working. Then the creative juices will flow.
Im sorry I think the note got cut.

It looks like they've implemented a project mentioned on hacker news a while back called Github File Finder.

Its still up and can be found here,
http://sr3d.github.com/GithubFinder/?utm_source=bml&user...

The movement and so seems a bit distracting but its definitely faster than a full page refresh
"helping start the coupon movement over half a decade ago"

Whoa, that's incorrect.

Coupon sites aren't a new development and go back to at least the late 90s. One example is FlamingoWorld, started in 1998 and by 2001 was reportedly earning its owner over a million dollars annually. And it was hardly the first such site.

Edit: I should add that RMN was innovative in its design--it was like "Coupons 2.0" and I'm sure this helped a lot in growing its user base.
Bush was already under pressure from the Army to return to the previous standards, but Obama has not articulated a clear and government wide "no-torture" policy; nor has he brought the US into compliance with it's obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

And "trying to close Guantanamo"? Please. Do or do not, there is no try.