skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their bigget mistake was sitting flat on their asses for 4 years after shipping hammer (original athlon 64). Then I said to myself - it can't get any worse for them. But the've proven me wrong when they finally shipped their "true" quad-core Barcelona and it turned it to be a Vista - a day late and a dollar short.
In the long-term, we will get out of this funk with technological leverage. Firing bits over the wire costs zero. Inflation hits us by oil and food, but costs only continue to decrease on the tech end.

I'm sure firms are going to start making investments in green tech, but I'm not worried that those of us that enjoy the business of hacking are going to be employeed for a very, very long time.
Start here:

http://www.bogleheads.org/ (long-term investing)

http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=5033 (day & macro trading)

http://wilmott.com/categories.cfm?catid=11 (quant finance & algorithmic trading)

The single most important rule in investing or trading: don't lose money:

http://infraredpress.com/

http://www.rule1investor.com/

http://safari.oreilly.com/9780132213080

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/2008/03/pump-pump-pump-up...

Some additional sources:

http://fooledbyrandomness.com/

http://finmath.com/

Finally, 90% of finance books you can read at Borders or Barnes & Noble and not need to buy and keep as a reference. Do that, rather than spend hundreds on them, and buy only the ones you think you'll want to reread or keep on hand for reference.
Folks dreams are constantly muddled by the daily grind. It's easier to focus on how much you hate your boss than how sure you are that you are going to get a killer job at the start-up everyone is talking about.
This isn't the 1970s. The doctors will probably see a maximum of $40,000 from that operation, split between them. The rest of the money goes to hospital overhead.
Bigger text box (pretty please)
I just can't write a decent post in this tiny box!

I could probably hack it with style sheet. But then everyone else would still be stuck with this tiny box! Five lines just are not enough! NMR EOP
Once again HN proves that its community is not only made of smart individuals, but caring and thoughtful individuals. I am glad I am here.
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Why do you assume that every country is a little copy of US?

Ukraine uses old soviet-era state-sponsored medical system free for all citizens, i.e. you don't need an insurance.

Even if he's got some kind of supplementary private insurance for private clinics, it obviously won't cover procedures in other countries, just like most American insurance companies.
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I'm going to second this. I started working on my laptop exclusively about a month ago, now my left wrist has a throbbing pain whenever I type...
Ask HN: Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup?
College is interesting, but creating stuff is more interesting (now), making college work frustratingly difficult to do. What's the argument(s) against just dropping out now and starting something up?

It's a very scary notion to "put my best foot forward", but I think I'm ready. A lot of my friends here are saying "no don't do it", though, so I thought I'd ask a crowd that might give me an answer I like more. (Admittedly, asking college students about dropping out of college is a little backwards.)
Let's also take a closer look at the two groups being asked to write the opposing opinions.

On the dissenting side, we have Christopher Monckton. Mr. Monckton is not a scientist by trade; he is, first and foremost, a politician, and a businessman next. He has recommended that the AIDS epidemic be dealt with by forcefully quarantining all individuals in the U.S. and U.K. who are infected. His policies and positions are similar to those of the current U.S. neo-conservative; you might imagine that Dick Cheney wrote an article critical of anthropogenic climate change, and you wouldn't be far off the mark.

On the supporting side, we have David Hafemeister (I didn't bother Googling "Peter Schwartz"). David holds a PhD in physics from the University of Illinois, and is currently employed at CalPoly. He has authored or coauthored a ... well, shall we say, "respectable" number of books, and an even larger quantity of papers. Peer-reviewed papers, no less. The next time you're feeling lazy, you might want to read his c.v. [http://www.calpoly.edu/~dhafemei/dh_cv_1107.pdf].

Disclaimer: I am not a fan of arguing by appeal to authority, and I do happen to think that some aspects of human impact on global climate have been politicized and blown out of proportion -- somewhat. I have always advocated the approach that we should try to live as efficiently as possible, leaving as small of a footprint on the planet as possible, even while continuing to understand all of the mechanisms involved in global climate patterns. That said, I think it's just silly to lend any credence whatsoever to the dissenting opinion in this case, and it's certainly ridiculous to claim that the "myth" of global warming has been "blown wide open".
Then why did he have to pay them money? I'm sure he would have taken a stake for free.
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I submitted this to Reddit. Vote up:
http://www.reddit.com/info/6sclv/comments
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nickb != pg; that little bit of confusion stems entirely from a silly April Fool's Day joke this year [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152464].

Unless you really think pg would have gone to the trouble of accessing his sock puppet account to congratulate himself and Jessica on their wedding day [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205946].
Why do you need to focus on personalities? Is it because the arguments are too persuasive to discuss?
I live in Germany, for the record. But more of my point is that his company seems willing to ask for donations on his behalf, but not actually help.
Serious question: why should I donate for this cause when I can donate for vaccines or famine relief and literally save orders of magnitude more people?
I quite agree with this. People will be nasty with or without blockquoting.

But with blockquoting you'll sometimes have very detailed line by line replies/discussions. And compared to what's usually on reddit that's a big improvement.

I assume the same will happen here. (Although you're starting with a better base, so either you'll get a better result, or you'll revert to the median, i.e. make it worse. No way to find out but to try.)
Anyone get any good .me's? All the ones I could think of were taken :-/
Yes, I admit I had the same thought. I would imagine if I was the CEO, I would maybe just pay the bill. But who knows what other things there are, maybe that kind of approach is not feasible.
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Great stuff, I was lucky enough to have Riesbeck as my college advisor and AI professor... Too bad Lisp isn't a more predominant language in their undergrad curriculum, so sad that I spent so many late nights drowning in C when I could've been swimming in Python or Lisp.
I'm tempted to not even reply to this, but most of your previous comments aren't so trollish.

Did you completely skip over the first part of my last paragraph? "I am not a fan of arguing by appeal to authority." So, yes, naturally the relative backgrounds of the authors in question should be completely ignored.

In principle, it's wrong to attack a person's reputation in a debate, but I'm not entering the global warming "debate" here. I am instead criticizing the stupid tone of both the article and the headline posted here on News.YC.

Furthermore, even though in principle either ad hominem or appeal to authority fallacies shouldn't be used in debate, there are practical reasons for doing so. For one, I could devote every waking moment of the rest of my life to analyzing global climate patterns and the vast array of variables that influence them, and I still would not understand the field perfectly. Therefore, given two dissenting opinions, I will be more inclined to lend more credence to the opinion coming from the person that has spent that kind of time on analyzing the system.

I'd prefer not to fall into the tarpit of debating Darwinism with a creationist, nor social responsibility (or human rights, or liberty, or ... well, pretty much any sociological subject) with pretty much any current member of the U.S. Congress, nor global warming with Christopher Monckton.

And, finally, in case you missed it the first time: this is coming from someone who takes a stance very far away from what passes for environmentalism in the U.S.
If you are right, it could be the single most important comment on the thread. Somehow the message should be brought to those people in need.

And I also wondered about the price tag.
I'm guessing that it's probably because the arguments are too involved to go into in a blog post...
I don't understand; are you implying that there will simply be too many stories for editors to kill them all? The particular defense HN has against people voting up mind-candy is that editors can (and do) kill those stories. What makes you think this strategy won't work?
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Serious counter-question: Do you donate to those causes? If you do, are you donating as much as you possibly can?

In any case, it's natural to look out first for those in your own community (although admittedly you have to have an extremely broad definition of "community" for that to apply here). Yeah, we could get into philosophical debates about how it would actually be better to save more people by looking outside of your community, but this discussion is strictly academic if we aren't already donating as much as we feasibly can. We shouldn't critique steps in the right direction (helping others more) just because they are imperfect.
Does it really take one year to get two topless chicks into a Ferrari? Then again, others work their whole life for it.
They way they write is actually a protocol like html. Many on the words used are magic and have special meaning in a legal context.

That being said, the legal system most likely has grown purposely obtuse over the years. They do, in fact, collect some of the highest rates per hour of nearly any profession to argue about what the definition of "is" is.
I think this has always been the key. Its like the mom/pop store versus the Walmart super stores. They need (digg/reddit) to be popular to be a viable acquisition target or business whereas hacker news is just a place where we try to find like minded people trying to share information and grow learn together.
Totally agree about the work. My theory on CS work was that as long as I was learning something on a computer it didn't matter if it was for class or not. That ended up being a good theory that's served me well.

When I was at Odeo we did a survey of the office to see who had degrees. I'm pretty sure it was just me and the other middle manager. That's pretty sad, since the fun part of a startup is either being the decider or the doer. Of course both of us went on to start companies, so maybe it doesn't really matter.

Yeah, that's what I want to say. It doesn't matter in a general sense. What does matter, and I've found this to be very true as a founder, is to do things your way. There's no one set of magic advice so you just have to figure out the things that work for you. If school doesn't work for you and startup success is more important than the college social life, then drop out and go for it. If you're more methodical (like me) then graduate, join a startup, learn some lessons, then found your own company.
Any and all nerds, geeks, and IT professionals:

Channel Intelligence, its directors, high ranking employees and investors are at this time placed on the Information Technology No Fly List. Please do not sell this company or these individuals any form of information technology service.

This includes web hosting, network support, system administration, and even PC repair.

I also urge taxi drivers to drive right by them in the rain and small children to make faces at them in public.
My karma's 4700 and I can't downvote stories.
> the conclusions we come to about the world around us are the largest factor

Also known as "the blank slate theory." Or mostly-blank, if you want to be pedantic.
science is still mainly about the money. don't blame scientists, blame the people writing the checks.
The bulk of your first post still reads like a character attack, regardless of the disclaimers you've put in.

A nazi can do perfectly good rocket science, an oil company researcher can produce perfectly valid climate studies. Discussing character of your opponent in a debate in any form is off topic, unless you are on the Oprah show.

P.S.
Sorry for the Godwin's.
I sure hope he returns to Leichtenstein and convinces them to lock him in the securest jail they have, because by now I'd imagine the Mafia (and worse, the Russian Mafia) have a price on his head.
Donate where you feel inspired to donate; applaud those donating to good causes that don't inspire you. It's not an optimization problem.
I'm no fan of Zuckerberg, but this guy's envy of him is a little conspicuous.
Does anyone in the industry not already know about the very first wiki?
As someone else on this site said once, getting into college in the first place is actually more influential on the rest of your life than graduating. You can always go back.

Then again, college is to a certain extent what you make of it. You have opportunities there that you're unlikely to get again. Another option you should consider is changing majors. Astronomy or Egyptology or something that's just interesting with little or no direct practical application. After all, you've already got the skills you need to earn a living.
No, that's a tool for making GTK applications in various scripting languages.
Climate change - "for" or "against" - is not hacker news and that should be pointed out any time someone posts something about it.
Why would it have to replace the existing drawing model? I'm thinking of a way for an app to ask the server if it can render a particular set of high level primitives, if the server responds that it can, the apps sends those instead.

That would allow existing apps and existing display servers, new apps and older display server, and old apps and newer display servers to work fine.

If both the app (at the toolkit level) and the display server are recent, however, remoting is massively sped up.
How many shares of said company will several birthday beverages of your choice buy me, payable in full this Saturday night?
Having done what you're thinking about doing, I could probably write pages on the pros and cons, but I'll boil it down to probably the most important reason:

It's hard to go at it alone.

I say that if you don't have a solid cofounder who has your back, an idea and implementation that you're willing to bet your career on, or an extraordinary opportunity that won't be there when you graduate, you should get your degree first and hack in your spare time until then. If you don't have connections, a job with your name on it, significant coding experience, a compelling product, or funding, you're going to have a hard time finding work or even in convincing people to work with you.

That said, programming jobs and startups are much more forgiving in the education category than just about any other job. If you've got the skills and have something to back it up, then you've definitely got a shot.

It's not impossible to succeed, but if you don't have a way to support yourself, it's that much harder. Just know what you're getting yourself into. While you will learn a lot if you drop out and do a start up, know the opportunity costs of what you are going to do.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned collaborative filtering.

Simple collective voting and new/hot/controversial are very unsophisticated measures of how much any particular user will like something.

For an example of how powerful collaborative filtering is, check out movielens.org

The key is to take each user's votes and use them to figure out based on other peoples' votes what stories and comments to display. Then the community doesn't really "grow". Sure you may get some niche communities that grow, such as people who all tend to upvote cat pictures, but the "thinking person" doesn't have to worry, b/c as long as there is a weak (or negative) correlation between cat pictures and your upvotes, the system will never recommend any to you.

Imagine rather than one massive community, an infinite number of beautifully overlapping ones. I think the ideal system would consider votes for stories and comments, and show each person mostly content that had a high probability of being enjoyed.

The "new" tab might show things with less of a strict filter to prevent false negatives.

The research group that built Movielens has some papers on the web and the math isn't that tough. With a properly design collaborative filtering system there simply will not be the digg/reddit degradation where the site gets so big and noisy and low quality. Sure there may be stories that are hugely popular, but as long as the algorithm gets enough quality input (votes) on a variety of things, no user would get too many duds.

Ironically Reddit's redesign only increases noise by tending people away from the subreddit niche communities that had existed -- I would more likely click on a weak title if in a quality subreddit than if it's the #4 item on the screen.

At the rate it's going, news.yc will surely become the next reddit, and eventually the next Digg. As others have pointed out, we'll all have probably moved on by then to the next site (or hopefully one that implements CF!).

It seems odd to me that nobody has implemented a site like this with CF... As with most of my posts, if anyone wants to collaborate to do an experimental site like this just let me know. There are some cool ruby libraries out there and of course gsl.
You can have my macbook
I will trade my MacBook with an equivalent (Dell/IBM) laptop.

Equivalent == RAM, CPU and HDD - not price!

I am a Linux guy and just can't get no satisfaction from this machine.

Spec:
CPU: 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
HDD: 148.73 GB

Color: Black
why not?

i think the OP wasn't stating a fact, but rather making an emphatic plea to the community.
Actually, slashdot manages pretty well. Considering the number of users they have. Their moderation system has matured over time. And the typical WTF, 'funny pics' and youtube crap that ruins other sites is isolated on http://idle.slashdot.org/ where it can harm no-one.
I think it starts with comment moderation ( http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml ). It's hard to get karma on /. by just fooling around, and you have to be a dedicated user to even get to moderate other comments.
Contrary to digg where a sensible comment about X can be downmodded into oblivion by an army of 13 year old fanboys.
FWIW, Larry Wall calls it the Spaceship Operator in "Programming Perl".
Aw crap, I've only got 1GB ram but everything else matches perfectly. But I'm on a Dell Latitude D530 with Ubuntu 8.04 and everything runs like f'n clockwork, right down to Compiz.
You could put Ubuntu on it, no?
Do people deny climate change? I don't think so.
People are however very skeptical that it's all down to us humans. I'd say that's a sane viewpoint.
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His name is on some MySQL bug reports.(http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32930)

There's also an address for postal mail, and info for wire transfers (http://www.theopenforce.com/2008/07/andrii-nikitin.html)

I agree, they should perhaps add this information to the main MySQL site.
what are you talking about man? how does that matter at all?
Writing strace for Windows.

This series is more interesting for the information and method on subverting what you might thing is a secure system than for the poker part of it. Using poker as the backdrop is a good way to drum up interest though.
I guess this is relevant enough to not flag it as !HN, but... huffington post == politics, and they probably have a vested interest (getting Obama elected) in the doom&gloom type of stories painting the current economy badly. Not to say that it's all "roses and flowers" as they say in Italian, but extra grains of salt are required for articles like that, IMO.
It's a large disconnect between the culture of MySQL and Sun.
Ok. Your in college. In theory, you have more time now than later, when you might need a real job, to start a business.

Don't drop out until you have an income from your new business. If you are truly passionate about starting something, and it's obsessing you, you shouldn't need to 'drop out' to get it going.

And even then, when you have INCOME from this endeavor, you'd just be taking a break. It's insurance, really. A degree, however not worth it's weight in paper, will open doors for you.

But so would a hit startup. You could have the next facebook in you. So make it happen, but try, as long as you can, to hold on to the most unique time in your life, the experience of undergrad.

Cherish it and respect it. Leave it when your new venture makes it so clear it's no longer a question you would ask a group.

Leave it when it's obvious.
You could help a lot if you just called or emailed Sun and told them.

There are a lot of email addresses and phone numbers for Sun PR people here, I'm sure they would like to know about this story. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/contacts/index.jsp
Hmmm, let's leave global warming aside for a few moments and consider the other reasons to stop polluting:

* We're running out of oil.

* Oil costs too much.

* The oil we do have comes from unstable parts of the world with political regimes we might prefer to avoid providing money to.

* We face increased competition for fuel from developing nations like India and China.

* There are other environmental effects of pollution in addition to global warming.

* Our current reliance on "dirty fuels" is (quite probably) leading to an increase in respiratory diseases like asthma in developed countries.

* Our activities in general are leading to species and habitat loss at an unprecedented rate -- effectively, we are an extinction event.

I think too many "global warming sceptics" are motivated either by a desire to carry on as normal, or (as Homer Simpson put it) not letting "the environmentalists win". But clearly, we need to find alternative energy sources regardless of global warming, and we need to do it now.
How long have you had it for?
Have you tried the Terminal in Leopard? It's much better then the Terminal was in Tiger. Also, iTerm hasn't been updated in awhile and has a few performance issues.
Yeah, he's really vague in answering questions, and didn't say anything of substance throughout the whole article. I can't figure out what Sprint didn't like about it.
I find Ubuntu much slower than OSX, Have you found this also?
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