skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My ideal is to not have investors. That way I'm always driving the bus. It may be a short bus. It may be a bus with nobody else in it. But it's my bus, I'm driving, there's no drama and no risk of losing control or getting screwed out of ownership.

My ideal anyway. But I'm pragmatic so if there comes a situation that "fits" and where the positives massively outweigh negatives, so be it. Large enough amounts of money could get me to say, "Where do I sign?"
"Consider teaching your child one of the many ancient techniques for redistributing sexual energy"

My new age bullshit detector is beeping.
Unless you're a CFO type then don't do it yourself. One of the best things I ever did was get a bookkeeper. They know the rules, prepare everything for your accountant to sign off and will make you more money in tax savings than they usually cost.

Doing the accounts might seem like a monthly thing, but realistically the amount of stuff you have to learn, understand and keep up with takes your time away from working on your business. If you can afford it, don't do it.
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Probably something to do with the level of exposure. It seems most Indians know English pretty well, but not as many have taken that last step from "know" to "fluent". It's difficult and probably not strictly necessary.

Also, en_IN and en_SG are just different from en_US and en_UK. Apparently in southeast asia, "do the needful" is a perfectly cromulent phrase. (My main complaint is the seeming lack of consistency when using "the". Sometimes they use it, but most of the time, they don't. This makes emails very hard to read. Just when you were enjoying the literary experience, a "the" is missing and it jars you back to reality. But I digress.)
The entire concept of 'like' and 'share' via the open graph has been badly misread.

What OG gives Facebook is the ability to classify and index (not sure if they are doing this) 'active' pages on the internet. Look at it as a cheaper and more efficient way of classifying pages on the web that are being accessed by users. The OG metadata identifies the page content in a structured manner, thus offloading a lot of the classification pains to the content publishers.

It is a smart way of attacking the subset of active pages, but it can't compare to the indexing and classification of a larger web - which is what Google does.
My company makes Doorkeeper (http://doorkeeper.jp/), which is being used by the event. I'll probably be helping out at the front, at least towards the beginning. This event is more international in focus, so it will be made up of mostly non-Japanese and Japanese who can speak English.
Remember your eyes degrade with age regardless of surgery and at some point you will need glasses again. The nearer you are to your mid 40s the less time you will have free of specs.

The procedure is a cosmetic one and the potential downside is devastating. I have never found that risk worth undertaking, but then my eyesight is moderate myopia.
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Biff?
You can also set a maximum cost-per-day. People can email you a document that would cost $329874 to convert, but $329874 is greater than what you've set, it will be rejected.

I have never had a problem with Kindle spam.
"In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan.
My younger self wouldn't have been interested in the books that interest me now. Instead I'd have to settle for some good fiction.

Going back in time to around 12-16, I'd send one of:

* Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

* 1984 - George Orwell

* To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

* Catch 22 - Joe Heller

* Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

* Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

* Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

* The Call of Ctulhu - H.P. Lovecraft

* Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Some of those I actually read in school and loved (but wish I read earlier), others I didn't. I think any of those books would've interested me at the time. There's plenty of time for Rich Dad, Poor Dad, SPIN Selling and all the business books later in life.
Pair programming sounds interesting, but I very much doubt I would be able to code at the same time I spend time talking. Maybe it is just too many years spend coding in solitude.
How does the system like it if you actually have ~200 million entries in that file? Or make it just one million for a start.
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I'm specially appalled by learning the fact that all magazine maps are officially rubber-stamped to inform the reader about the usage of the map !

More on this subject : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/foreign-magazine-map-is-st...
It's not an OSX or iOS device, but Apple recently removed the hard drive from the Apple TV.
> but I think our page is fairly optimized at this point

I took a quick look via Firebug/Networking on your site:

31 sub requests, of which 5 form a chain so they can't load in parallel. The server at www.facecash.com waits 2.5 seconds before it sends back the content (this is not DNS waiting time!). On s.facecash.com which you use for the other page components, those are just 0.2 seconds.

The page has 409 KB in total, of which 97 KB are JavaScript code and 135 KB are the main picture (home1.jpg). This big picture changes on each request, smashing the browser caching and ensuring subsequent page reloads will be slow, too.

WTF?!

You should really overcome your ego and to make use of the offer given to you.

> I think any delay may be DNS-related

Here in Germany, your domain resolves within a few milliseconds. However, your whole site takes 12-13 seconds to load. (FWIW, I have a 16 MBit internet connection)

You'll have to learn a lot about basic things like: how to compress images properly, how to decrease web server latency, how to get JS code out of the critical path, how to ensure proper cache use on client side, etc.

Don't get me wrong: It is perfectly okay if a young company's system isn't fully optimized. That's fine, nobody expects this. But if you claim to be "quick like a fox" and to be "fairly optimized at this point", you're saying that you think you are fast enough, so customers can't hope you'll be willing to improve your speed much in the future. And that is a problem, unless you were really optimized, which you aren't.
> down-voting is supposed to express a lack of value, not
> disagreement with content

Let's face it: we mostly upvote posts we agree with. Then the trouble is, that for the symmetrical acction we must have symmetrical meaning. If I press on the gas and it makes a car to go faster I expect it to go slower when pressing less. If I click up-arrow to express agreement, I expect that down-arrow will express disagreemet.

I wish people will continue to vote down to express disagreement and use "flag" to express lack of the value or inapropriate content.
Sarbanes Oxley had very little to do with the web bubble but everything with fraud.

A bubble is related to valuing stocks for more than they're worth due to irrational expectations by the buyers of stocks, not necessarily fraud at the companies invested in.

In other words, you can have fraud without a bubble and vice-versa, SOX is mostly about good accounting practices, and corporate oversight and should probably be seen in the light of reducing the chances of companies overstating their revenues by 'creative' accounting practices without being caught at an earlier stage.

The internet bubble would have happened regardless of these rules and regulations being implemented at an earlier date, it might have collapsed later or slower once the investors realized that the internet wasn't going to be some kind of magical solution to all the worlds problems. Typically in a bubble you'll see prices go up and up and investors with little or no idea of what they're doing are lining up to buy stocks that have very little intrinsic value at prices higher than seems reasonable / responsible.

If the companies that they invest in commit fraud then that's going to make matter worse but a bubble can happen without any action on the part of the companies invested in, it is mostly an investor issue, fraud is mostly a corporate issue.
Ok, any other stumbling blocks to think of?

Also, where are your key strengths and weaknesses?

Finally do you want to create something to test the water or improve your skills or would you prefer to try and come up with a business model?
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Jason and Paul from Make Leaps (http://www.makeleaps.com/) have been organizing the previous HN meetups, so you could try and get in touch with them.
Another vote for Atlas Shrugged. And like you, I found it put a lot of things I already felt, properly, albeit at times rather verbosely.

Along with this, I would insist on The Law, by Frederic Bastiat. Written in 1850, this book still wows me.
I am from India. I noticed it too, and I do it reasonably frequently as well. Some reasons I can think of,

* Hindi (and AFAIK, most other Indian languages) dont have a concept of capitalization.

* Many Indians you meet maybe programmers who use CamelCase, Microsoft_Case, CONSTANTS, and it Might be Hard TO switch context.

* In my case, I am learning German, and all nouns are capitalised, so sometimes things like that can come in play.
Sure, but it wasn't a native client app. What good is an app if it doesn't take up storage space? The once newfangled Internet with it's lightweight footprint, and on-demand access to content only when you need it is clearly outdated. I'm afraid it's the revenge of the fat clients.
For me, it spends about 1 second getting the page, then it spends about 1-2 seconds each re-downloading the js files: jquery, jquery-watermark, shared, and shared-jquery. They're all loaded sequentially. The rest of the assets seem to be properly cached.
I'm 16 and picked that book up just before my 15th birthday. Well worth the read, and would recommend it to anyone. Going to give it a reread now, thanks for the reminder!
"A Transition to Advanced Mathematics" (0-534-38214-2) at the end of my 6th grade school year, just as summer was starting.

I would give this book to myself because it's a bridge between finishing the final class in high school math and learning how to read proofs on arXiv. The world would be a better place today if I'd known how to manipulate mathematical proofs a decade ago.

During fourth grade and fifth grade, i walked across the street to the other school for my math classes. To this day, people i never knew recognize me on sight as "that kid from math class". When sixth grade ended at age 12, the school ran out of math to teach me (at pre-calculus). I was offered a choice: bus to the high school miles away for math classes, or take music instead. I worried that the bus would ostracize me further from my peers. I would be someone else today if i had chosen the bus. Fluent in math, certainly!

In the years since, I've harbored a desire for a textbook that will teach advanced mathematics to someone with my experience. I've had this dream of understanding how to consider and construct equations with Hilbert spaces. I know it sounds arcane and weird, but it's just a few steps away from cosines and bitwise operators. You can reach into an equation and "flip" things over into this weird space with dimensionality that is not constant, enabling solutions that cannot be had simply from high school algebra alone.

Two months ago, while surfing a used bookstore's Math section, I came across a textbook with the singularly direct title "A Transition To Advanced Mathematics". It is amazing. I am reading sections, doing the exercises, checking against the teacher's guide, redoing until I get a right answer or at least "get it". So far, I can handle one section a week, which means I will complete the book in 39 weeks. (Coincidentally, 39 weeks is precisely 75% of a year, just like American school years.)
This has been an issue for many software companies as well. The Windows 95 launch was delayed because of this,

"Although this was a minor oversight on the part of the product group, which used United Nations maps not officially recognized by India, the Indian government was extremely upset that the region had been omitted and demanded that the problem be fixed before Windows 95 could be distributed in India."
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/Dec00/12-06...
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Are you in London, UK? If so, email me and we could have you in for a quick interview this week. Email me, the address is on my profile.
My mom did it for about 10 years and had generally good results. I tried it and found the lenses too uncomfortable to wear. Soft contacts don't bother me; just rigid ones.

Give it a shot! The worst possible outcome would be no change.
I had a whole lot of ideas when I was younger. I made a lot of mental plans for world domination.

I think something by someone like Brian Tracy, on getting started, would have been good. Start something. Start today. Fail. Fail often. Much better than the 'wait till you have planned yourself to death' advice I got when I was a kid.
I should note, and I make this comment most of the time that someone mentions encrypted BitTorrent, that "encrypted" BitTorrent is not really encrypted. As you mentioned, attempts are made to fudge the protocol and make it hard to recognize that the BitTorrent protocol is being used.

It does not, however, provide any encryption or anonymity for your traffic. All packets are sent in the clear, your real IP address is still shown to all connected peers, etc.; do not rely on an "encrypted" BitTorrent connection to save you from a packet-sniffing fiend because the content you're downloading is not given any extra encryption by an encrypted BT connection, because the connection is not really encrypted in the classical sense, it's just obfuscated so that ISPs can't automatically detect BT traffic and disconnect/throttle/filter. "Encryption" was a bad thing to call BT encryption.
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dude i am with you on this one not only teachers but stage presentation in general
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Hacker News Munich Meetup
Hacker News Munich Meetup

You are invited to join an informal Hacker News Meetup in Munich on Wednesday 8th December!

We plan on drinking a beer or two, talking about what we are working on and sharing interesting ideas about what could be...

If you would like to attend drop a comment below.

Venue:
Cafe Ringlnatz (http://goo.gl/maps/xr3l)
Haimhauserstr. 8
U-Bahn: Münchner Freiheit
(we have reserved the back room where it’s quiet and easy to talk)

Time: Wed., December 8th, 19:30 onwards.
I think I'm going to be at the biggest tech party ever.. the plancast page is at http://plancast.com/p/2v19
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The page says registration is closed, but I'm welcome at the door. Does this mean I'll be able to get in?
You're called flyRuby, but are only hiring Lisp and PHP programmers?
Video shows how to build a telegraph using only raw materials.
I don't know about the author of the article, but I've had wetware for the past 25 years.

(The wetware is your brain.)
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> The rest of the assets seem to be properly cached.

I don't think so. See my other comment. In short:

The main picture changes on each request so it can't be cached properly.

The cache parameters of the assets force the browser to reload them on each request, although the server then just responds with a "304 Not Modified". This can still be improved by making the browser not reloading them in the first place.

Finally, a first time visitor doesn't have anything in the cache, so the assets should be small and well-compressed, which they aren't.
Very neat. It would be interesting to know if there is a only-software way to use the available lights on every laptop (battery, wifi indicators) as email notifiers. Do you think that this would be possible?
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Yes they do. I just got a h1b job. This is my blog post on that - http://sans-voir.livejournal.com/9189.html.
Sorry, misunderstood the question.
Looking forward to this. Cafe Ringlnatz is a nice place to meet.
For someone who doesn't know about how the PS3 works at all, could someone explain what the "Master Key" is and what finding it means?
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I think my father tried this exact experiment with me. He gave me a copy of Atlas Shrugged when I was twelve and asked me to read it and tell him what I thought.

Neither of us were (or are) objectivists, but it's one of those books that poke your buttons. Either you agree[1], you disagree[2], or you think it's insipid[3]. :-)

[1] Yeah, screw those looters who aren't as smart as I am! I mean, he is!

[2] Jeez, I hope someone drops a rock on these anti-social bastards. And what a floozy!

[3] You needed 80 pages for that speech? Weren't you reading this book while you wrote it?
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There is hard data[1] that points to pair programming being much more productive than programming alone. This seems a little counter intuitive but if you dig a little deeper it starts to make sense.

First, programming isn't menial work. You have to think. Thinking is the hard part, typing just a realization of our thoughts. Removing one pair of hands from a keyboard doesn't reduce capacity by half. For teams that gel, it can improve capacity!

It also produces far less bugs. Another set of eyes on the screen is helpful. If you consider the fact that costs rise exponentially with regards to the lifetime of a bug, it makes sense to catch as many bugs as early as possible.

It seems to make developers happier. If that's not a goal in and of itself (I think it is.. but that's me), developer happiness surely affects the long term health and buy in of your employees (or co-workers).

There are several other reasons that come into play that are mostly discussed in [1] but also around the net. Just take a quick glance and you'll see everything you need :)

Now, granted, not everyone works well together and for some people it seems that they just cannot get along with someone standing over their shoulder. There are some ways to simulate pair programming but still be on your own. You can start "rubber ducking" your code. You can decrease time between writing code and getting feedback on the correctness of that code. You can act as your own reviewer by reviewing the code you wrote yesterday.

But, in my opinion, there is no better tool in my toolbox to get through a hairy refactor or complex domain logic than another like-minded developer sitting next to me.

[1] http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia.P...
Sure, I just thought it was a funny coincidence.
I had PRK instead of lasik. Good results.
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Also, the somewhat-related RabbitMQ in Action is half off today, with code n3050. (After reading the first chapter, it puts zeromq in perspective, if you search HN discussions about it.)
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Also, why the discoverer would choose not to publicise it? (Is he planning to sell it??)
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/05/iran.nuclear/index...
There seems to be a lot of high-fiving and back slapping in that thread but I'm also flummoxed as to what this actually means.

I'm going to naively presume it's something to do with being able to run unsigned code on the PS3?
If you are interested in, or have questions about federated social networking (Diaspora, OneSocialWeb or buddycloud), I'm keen to find out where you see it going and what is important in a post-Facebook platform.
I currenty own a consulting web agency that also has its own revenue websites (what's the correct name for those? lot of smallish site that have revenues with either ads, subscription or e-commerce).
Just as Google nowadays doesn't have a single idea but rather a lot of projects I believe this is a model that can work in a company that's doing 1/2 consulting and 1/2 its own smallish projects.
There's just 4 of us now but we're always looking for people, especially if they recognize themselves in a document like this one.
My partner and I have been based in Chicago, and we've recently started activity in Japan. I'm bilingual so if anyone needs help mingling I'd be happy to be part of the conversation.

And if anyone is interested in meeting up somewhere, I'm interested in doing that.
Well the answer to that is on the page. Apparently last time it came out a bunch of people commercialised it by making dongles and selling them, and the scene wants to avoid that happening again before an open source thing is released.

PSGrade (as mentioned in the post) is open source: http://www.ps3exploits.com/2010/11/open-source-downgrade-on-...
The coolest thing was that the doctor purposely over-
corrected my vision, so for the first several months I
could see clearly at a ridiculous range.

This is a bit more marketing than straight up truth.

Optical systems don't work like that. You can't "over-correct", since obviously, that would be the ideal point of focus. You're still limited by the ultimate physical resolution of your retina, and it sounds like, for a while, you were operating at that limit. Vision much better than 20/20 isn't terribly uncommon, and it sounds like you're one of those people.

That is, if there wasn't any cognitive biases at work. Perceived visual acuity is like some kind of platonic ideal of something that would be very vulnerable to confirmation bias. Were you experimentally tested to be something like 20/10, then tested later to be 20/15?
Someday, robots will grow food for you on your roof and exterior walls. They'll give plants individual attention, keep bugs away without chemicals and pick things at exactly the right time.
A few months ago someone started selling some USB devices that would allow you to install third-party software on the PS3 bypassing the security measures behind sony OS. In short, you could rip games and play them from the hard drive without the disk. Later on, similar open source code was able to achieve the same without buying any special usb device: you could in fact use almost any ARM processor, including an android phone or an arduino. Google psgroove.

Sony of course immediately fought back, first banning the altered OS from the game network and then releasing updates that were not compatible with the loophole. OS on the PS3 cannot be downgraded.

Then, the hackerz fought back and again sold a PSdowngrade device that would allow you to go back to a previous version of the Operative system. Same path, an open source version is released called PSgrade (it's on github) but to work it needs a key associated to your own device or.... a master key.
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Can Sony change the master key by pushing a software update? Can they use a different key in newly manufactured units while maintaining backward compatibility?
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He's not beating on a straw man. The problem is you're conflating child abuse with certain patterns of bits floating around on the Internet.

I've also heard pedophiles claim that looking at child porn sates their desire to act out those fantasies, so perhaps fewer children are being harmed? That sounds plausible to me since 'normal porn' works, to some degree, as substitute for sex for many non-pedophiles.
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the holy bible i mean all de answers are there in black and white for questions like how 2 run a sucessfully enterprise to personal stuff