skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
gasp women like alpha males? WTF?!?!?!?!
on a less sarcastic note, notice that the traits mentioned are all leadership traits. Leaders generally have to be somewhat narcissistic, otherwise they wouldn't believe they are worthy to be leader. They have to be risk takers to upset the status quo. And they have to be Machiavellian to govern efficiently.
ETHZ (Swiss federal institute of technology, at Zurich) has a great CS program - home of Niklaus Wirth.
would have been funnier without the sarcasm tag.
Yeah, you're right about my example - several of those you listed would have been better. Hell, basic conservation of energy would be a good start.
So by your reasoning there can only be one alpha-male at Microsoft at a time?
Lets see, PhD in AIDS research, founding 2 startups
True, part of the speed comes from it's (configurable) heuristics.

But, it's faster even when doing the same thing. For example, see the benchmark at http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2008/05/06/index.html.

Then end result is that, on the same search, ack is approximately 5 times faster than grep. I ran a few test cases myself and got similar results.

But the real reason I like it is the perl compatible regexes. The differences between perl regexes and gnu regexes are just big enough to be an annoyance.
Hello randomhack,

Have you heard of Stackless Python? That might be what you are looking for. http://www.stackless.com/
Basecamp was made in 37signals' part time. If you have an idea or the willpower, you don't have to wait to graduate from college.
At 1900 words this is too long for a post about "minimal".
1. It's Ruby. Go write the exploit. If you think it's the patch to bignum (where the offset you're looking at only controls a load, not a store), write the testcase and prove it.

Why should he? He doesn't care, he doesn't use Ruby anymore. You can rest assured that someone else has already written the exploit, but is keeping it to himself. So you can either fix the bug, or hope that the person with the exploit doesn't use it on you.

Also, you should write correct code regardless of whether or not you think it's exploitable. Right!?
should raise questions about the rest of the codebase (i.e. the defects which are yet to be found)

It has.
OTOH: this is my personal take on it.
fuck you evolution and your maximized expected reproductive utility. I'd rather be happy. Happiness is probably selected against since satisfied, content people don't run around trying desperately to mate as much as possible.
It doesn't use "perl compatible regexes", it uses Perl.
This reminds me of pg's "Why Are Nerds Unpopular?". Obviously these "negative"-- and innate [directly or emerging from other innate behavioral] dispositions, are present and purposefully developed and honed extensively by individuals who prioritize the game of attracting mates, and gaining access to higher quality/quantity of mates. Or maybe these universal traits just emerge from the practical requirements of achieving their goals. In either case, being that type of person requires an enormous time commitment. Social hierarchy climbing is their one ambition in life, and sex is their reward.

It's a lot more compatible with being a politician or power-seeker in business, than it is with being a geek. The geek seeks to create/understand. So their creations and discoveries are their reward. The geek may want what the alpha male has, even want it strongly, but values the primary geek rewards more strongly, and will never prioritize the alpha male reward enough to be that other person. And it's good that many of us are not that person, because I couldn't see much value in a world without ambition to do actually worthwhile things.
I have read a bit about stackless. Neat implementation but it still suffers from GIL? You can launch thousands of microthreads but apparently they still run on single core?
I couldn't find one listing of a gallons per mile in the article.

http://www.google.com/search?q=20+mpg+in+gallons+per+mile

Is that correct for what they are looking for? My car gets .05 gallons per mile! Wait the structure on that sentence is wrong isn't it?
I used US gallons.
I second the University of Edinburgh. Every time I've researched CS subjects (usually in AI or near it) I end up at one of that university's sites. They have so many outstanding people, I believe I would have difficulty picking an area in which to concentrate.
Do we have here a solution looking for a problem?
If he took time to login, he would have seen real numbers. Duh
I believe Ryan Carson outsourced at least some of his product dev... http://carsonified.com/

He's not wildly successful (from a product POV) but I think he's making a few bucks.
Whether they are tolerated or not, encouraging them lowers the signal to noise. I come to HN for tightly focused stuff--and I come here often, so repeated old stories are just noise.

Purely selfish, but I'd rather folks do a quick search to be sure older stories haven't already been submitted. This one was on the front page here and at Reddit. It's a good story, but it's been covered.
because this is the new reddit?

/*
This story could be hacker news if the discussion were focused on:

1. how countervailing strategies can be successful for some niches

2. what this tells us about human motivation

3. some other aspect that tells us something about what it is to be human.

but since the discussion seems to have started at the level of rhetorical oneupsmanship and be sinking rapidly into resentful misogyny; it is neither news, nor for hackers.
*/
I'm all for content, but it isn't all about content.

If design weren't important, we would all drive glorified golf carts and live in shipping containers.
General aviation is not airline travel. You do not have miniscule odds of crashing a prop plane.
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My point was that Zed doesn't seem to know what he's talking about. I'm not sure you just said anything at all.
If this kind of thing interests you, do some research into the "seduction" community.

I've been very impressed with their psychological "experiments" with women and how they have evolved systems that allow normal guys to get hot girls.

Doubleyourdating.com is a good starting point.
It's a commodity business-- very low margins.

It's a marketing driven business... How good are you at lead generation?

It's support intensive. You're essentially losing money every time you talk to your customers.

It's a utility business. You will never hear from your customers unless something is broken, and they'll be enraged that their site isn't up 24x7. If they botch their HTML, they'll blame you. If the have an old version of WordPress and it gets exploited, they'll blame you.

It's LOUSY hours. Stuff breaks at weird times. All upgrades have to happen at weird times.

(I ran a hosting biz for a while as part of my consulting biz. We bought a hosting company, ran it for 2 years, and then sold it-- for a tidy profit. But I would never touch that business again).
Bill Gates surrendering Microsoft helm
"You could see Microsoft struggling after Bill Gates stepped out of day-to-day roles," Enderle said.

"A founder takes such a larger-than-life role and directs a company in very subtle ways that are often forgotten when a founder leaves. That gap, for a lot of companies, has been almost terminal."
Wow, impressive homepage from a marketing angle. You hackerheads would do well to print out this website and hang it on your wall.

Note the use of: quick, clear description; testimonials; subscribe box so you can keep in touch with the project; a top-ten list; and no-frills detailed information.
Very yes.
"The group singled out online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows entries to be logged or updated by anyone and is not verified by researchers, as the main source of information"

The irony in this is that if the group had done their research they would know this claim is false, and that Wikipedia essentially IS an entire community editors working around the clock to find inaccurate and even ambiguous details about anything posted to the site.

Over the past century, academia has been reduced to this: pump out work for students to do, give them stringent guidelines, then be fully prepared to set expectations and standards without first making sure those standards are even attainable, if logically reasonable. Students will either fail to meet the obscene criteria, or break under pressure further lowering statistics of "success".

Then you go on to realize some of the greatest scientific and technological contributions came from people who distanced themselves from academia, and you'll see how asinine the problem is.
Haven't you heard about JF's talk at PH-Neutral and the memory corruption vulns they found in Python and Perl? Not a good idea to use those for anything serious either. I guess we're all stuck with Erlang.
By who? Cite someone who matters.
Which do humans use more for communication and reasoning - words or visuals? Considering that we have developed elaborate languages but done relatively little in the way of visual non-word communication, I would deduce that words and symbols are generally a superior medium. The graphs just seemed a bit cluttered towards the end I think. Interesting though.

I do still have a fondness of flow-based programming, as is used in Kamaelia, twisted flow, or graphical VHDL environments though.
Yes. Everyone else: find a large C codebase that has shipped without an integer overflow. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
one of which has a well-known history as another company

I noticed this too; "Architext" was the original name of Excite.
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Java, especially if you get into the OOP patterns fun, can present a million ways of doing things. Java is terrible about this.
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Tell that to the people running this performance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible
I have used and been involved with a number of incarnations of what we can call loosely, the "decision table" or "rules" metaphor.

This way of working has a lot of appeal, and it is extremely powerful. The main thing I find good about it is that the tables can usually be given over to subject-matter experts to maintain, which means systems programmers like me don't have to mess with any of that dreadful application stuff. Nice.

However, what the mind of man can conceive, the hand of man can screw up. I have seen big projects go down at the bow with all hands lost in industries where the decision to use decision tables could not have been more right - like the insurance industry. It should have been a no-brainer. But the classical problems of poor project management, poor design, overwhelming complexity, poor team leadership, lack of technical skills in the team etc. still conspired against us.

Look, my take on all of the projects I've seen where this is involved...? There is still no substitute for a single, over-arching, godlike human intelligence that can encompass all of this complexity and think beyond the patterns. Somebody who knows what they are doing must be in charge and must be allowed to lead. Decision tables are great, but they are just another tool in the arsenal of the professional software developer.

In the right hands, such a tool will make a good outcome great. But in the wrong hands, the added weight of yet another piece of poorly understood technology may be just enough to send the project to the bottom. If you are working with people who are over-awed with technology, who can't think even three consequences ahead, and who can't do much more than cut and paste code they scrounge off the web, you're already dead, and Decision Tables, or IDE's for that matter can't save you.

At the end of the day, software is an extension of mind. It can never be better than the mind that created it, though it can be far far worse. So if you want good software, hire the finest minds you can find, let them select their own tools, and allow them to do the job you pay them to do.
It is kind of sad to see Bill Gates leave Microsoft even though I've essentially stopped using all Microsoft products.

He is a true genius, though, so I think devoting his time and problem solving skills to the world will end up solving a lot of problems.
I suspect that if this happened as described, it was a combination of rare factors and/or happened long ago.

The Alexa robot obeys robots.txt, for one. AFAIK, it doesn't POST form data or visit HTTPS URLs. It might GET any plain HTTP URL it discovers or appears popular from toolbar reports.

Some web sites can be disrupted by otherwise well-behaved crawlers. They might have a buggy robots.txt. They might use logins that put credentials on a GET query-string -- and that URL could thus be reported elsewhere by toolbars, or back-linked by referred-to sites. They might perform destructive operations via GET. So elements of the story are plausible, with enough other assumptions about the fragility of the admin pages in question.
Tamara Munzner was doing this with hyperbolic trees back in the mid-90s at Stanford. I remember this because I always thought it was the most sensible interface for big graphs.
the point at which there is nothing left to take away is the point at which there is nothing left, period.

I stopped reading after this punishingly fatuous little gem.

At that moment, I realized that the author did not want to understand functional minimalism (aka elegance) and instead preferred to argue semantics. A quick skim confirmed this.
'As for saying that lex and yacc "implement DSLs", that is a huge simplification of what they do.'

The DSLs I'm referring to are the lex input format and the yacc input format, both of which are specific languages for the domains of lexical analysis and parser generation respectively.
I wasn't expecting a child with that headgear, so i just passed by noticing a blond chick and was like "nice..."
:-)
another incomprehensible blog post by steve gillmor. if you could write a 1 line summary of this post, what would it be?
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that's pretty neat.

DrScheme has similar functionality built-in, which I always found impressive. See http://docs.plt-scheme.org/drscheme/Graphical_Syntax.html for some details - it may provide some inspiration for new features.
Ask YC: Silicon Valley vs. the world?
Hi,

I was just wondering what do you think are the advantages of starting a web startup in Silicon Valley rather than somewhere else?

Thanks!
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"I'm really, really insecure about my intellect."
Let's not do this again, please.

http://searchyc.com/why+silicon+valley

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208068

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174298

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182746

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174298

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116600

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...

And that's just what I found in a couple of minutes. There have been at least twice that many.
If you don't read anything else:

"Well, here is my experiment: a very simple setup for fast design and art direction around content. I’m approaching this is much the same way one would approach the design of a magazine: a system for the way content gets handled, but every layout and story can take on a look of their own within that system. I’ve established a visual language for the site: a basic eight column grid, a few typefaces, and more static branded elements like the masthead and utility information. Beyond that, the system allows me to adapt the design to suit the content. Typefaces, colors, images, background, columns and layout, can all easily be manipulated to whatever the art direction calls for."

I've been a fan of Jason Santa Maria's work ever since I started looking for inspiration in web design. I think it'll be interesting to see what develops from this site as a result of this concept in the near future.
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This isn't a reply to this comment, this is a reply in general to any comment that says [deleted]:

Being deleted only makes me want know what the comment was. It's like censoring books: it only makes them more popular.
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"It is true that you should expect to be hired at a slightly lower position than you would at another company with the same level of experience."

That is not actually true because every company says this. Google is just conforming to an industry norm here (whether you realize it or not). All companies also say "a year here is worth x years anywhere else" and a bunch of other stuff too.
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Because GDP isn't that useful a measure in this situation. He's not buying things in dollars at US prices, he's buying local goods and services at local prices. He's interested in his purchasing power in whatever economy he happens to be in, so regardless of the dollar amount, he's wealthy in Bulgaria but would be only average in Dublin.
Now that it's absolutely trivial to distribute, developers can count on the same code base everywhere. Kind of like how everyone can count on GCC.

I don't write much Java now but at one time I supported a database library on runtimes from sun, ibm, apple, microsoft and the blackdown guys. It was crazy. Java and Python have been around for about the same amount of time. Python has about 5 different VM implementations. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines Java has 10 times that number.
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Don't assign this article much credibility. He doesn't know 'Lycos' was taken from the name of a spider, nor that 'Architext' was the original name of Excite.

I'd agree Brightmail, PayPal, and IronPort are great names. But Lycos and Xobni are pretty good names, too. His case against them is weak -- and his criticism of Xobni is actually its strength: now that he knows it's 'inbox' backwards, will he ever forget it? (Vidoop may have issues, but it depends on their market.)

And the novel suggestions he makes -- PermaPage and ArchWeb -- are literal and clunky.

If you need outside advice on naming your company, demand some stronger linguistic/naming reasoning and experience.
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Hardware engineer at a day job. Software hack wannabe by night.
Crop Circle depicts the first 10 digits of pi
No, that would be a synchropter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchropter
I'm bad at coding if that helps.
killer robots?
Want some help? Don't bother with qmail. Daniel J. Bernstein managed to ship a version of qmail with an integer overflow.

(That's the only vulnerability ever found in qmail, and it wasn't exploitable --- Postfix has had much worse).
If any of you think to start being bad, you should think twice. Its very hard to be just the right amount of bad. I'm talking from experience, i tried to be bad and girls just think im creepy. :)

Anyway check http://www.highstatusmale.com and check the book "without embarrassment" its good not only if you want more girls, but if you only want a little more understanding of the way humans communicate, entrepreneurs might find it interesting to find how they can be the wright amount of bad to be able to talk to people and BE THE ALPHA MALE in the conversation. I had bad luck with girls, but didn't have low self-esteem and didn't knew where the problem was. I read the book and i found out that i was doing almost everything right. So i started thinking why? And then i realized i was sabotaging myself. Most girls i knew were boring people, so my subconscious decided to sabotage me so that i wouldn't hang out with boring people and after i realized that i still don't like boring(hot) girls. So some of us have a problem with girls not because of low self-esteem, but because of too high self-esteem(how i wish i wasn't so picky :D).
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I'll grant that many schools (and workplaces) are run by people who take that attitude towards creativity and I think the general lack of parental involvement is the biggest cause. I know one teacher who quit the profession when not a single parent cared about attending her second grade class conference.

However there are some good schools out there that do value creativity. It's unfortunate that parents can't or won't insist there be more of them.
Reminds me of something similar that was in Seed magazine a while ago:
http://seedmagazine.com/news/2007/03/scientific_method_relat...
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If people don't manage their chronic diseases with medication, where do they end up? The ER.

If a diabetic doesn't take insulin or their anti-high-blood-sugar pills, where do they end up? The ER in a diabetic coma. A daily dose of insulin is like $1 a day. An ER visit/ICU hospitalization for a diabetic coma is around $20-50k depending on the severity.

If an asthmatic doesn't manage their chronic condition with the appropriate inhalers, where do they end up? The ER. IF they let it go too long, they end up on life support in the ICU.

Pneumonia used to be a leading cause of death, now it's not. Why? Antibiotics and oxygen therapy. People used to get polio all the time. I haven't seen an active case of polio every in my 15 year nursing career. Why? The polio vaccine.

The incidence of tetanus has dropped from 600,000 deaths in '92 to less than 150,000 deaths world wide. Why? The tetanus vaccine. Ref: http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic574.htm

Please, stop saying the pharmacology doesn't work. It does. It saves lives. Are there problems with the system? Sure. But please stop spreading FUD about "Big Pharma".