skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of begs the question: if your main drive in life is money, what use is it to you really? It just becomes points in a meaningless game.

Someone driven to change the world or build for the sake of building, on the other hand, is going to make something out of their money, even if they aren't as skilled or single-minded in acquiring it. Money means a lot more when it serves a purpose other than piling on top of itself and buying superfluous stuff.

I'm sure there's a role for people with this approach in most companies, but I tend to avoid them--mostly because they bore me to tears. Someone with ideas and goals that supersede wealth accumulation is a lot more interesting to me, and I'd much prefer to spend my time around such people and scrape by than live in a mansion and listen to a bunch of polo shirt clones yammer on about their real estate investments all day.
Interview with Eric Schmidt on the future of computing
This is a really nice talk if you want to understand the work that's been going in trying optimize dynamic languages like Python.

Watched the entire video.
alnayyir is kinda like an anomaly. I think he says stuff so that you extremely outrage by it or you are ardent supporter of his point.

I estimate there are 10x[10 is a guess but there are significantly more] more people with upvote power than downvoting.

These two points combine to make it difficult to downvote him to hell. That is why flagging is appropriate, don't just downvote, flag.
"Is there anything other than business that you've risen to the top in? Hobby, sport, etc."

Start there. If there's nothing, they probably don't have the drive. If there's something then I think there's at least a chance that they'll work hard and be good. The second part is they have to want to be good at business and selling. Being truly good at anything is hard, you have to want it.

Money isn't a good indicator, I find. Unfortunately. Personality is, but is very difficult to discern between those who will try hard and win, and those who won't.
will there be recordings?
That rough area of maths is one area well covered, after military and astrophyiscs I would say.
While I agree that getting an idea off the ground takes a lot of what's in this blog post - it's important to draw lines...and I think you develop those lines only with experience. A lot of times the quick buck (even if substantial) hurts you later. Sometimes the quickest way to start building skyscrapers is to learn to weld.
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Are you arguing that it shouldn't have been an infographic, or that the infographic should have been better?

Other than the list of tools, I thought it was well done and showed she had an eye for aesthetics, which most developers either lack or actively shun.

Which is not to say that some people don't absorb the information better in different ways. That's probably why there's a "Plaintext" link at the top.
What does it matter if some parts of our culture are better in "easily measurable ways?" If one is making the case whether or not these people should be exposed to the Western world, one must keep in mind the net utility that would be added to their lives. It could very well be negative. At that point, higher life expectancy and education would be irrelevant.
So much better than the typical spelling/grammar correction ;-)
You don't buy what I sell - you're unethical.

You don't think like I do - you're a terrorist.
Incidentally, another HackerNews link is exactly what I'm referring to.... http://andrewchenblog.com/2011/02/05/stanford-cs-major-seeks...
Is this really a prevalent feature these days? I must be completely out of the loop.

That must be the most useless "feature" I've ever heard of. What possible reason is there for doing this?!
In fact what you really want is not to use nc but ssh's -W option:

ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p <gateway_machine
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If getting talked about is all you need, just put a naked photo of yourself holding bacon on the resume and submit it to Reddit. Being much talked about is only inherently good if you aspire to be Paris Hilton.
I don't think that it's meant to discourage serious counterfeiters. It's meant as a barrier to casual counterfeiters. Now that tools are powerful as Photoshop are at the fingertips of the masses, this seems like it is meant as a way to prevent people that otherwise wouldn't know the first thing about counterfeiting from just firing up Photoshop and trying to make fake money. (I'm not commenting on it's efficacy though)
I don't really think this counts as a 'minimum viable product' -- this is some speculation of square footage and location for a small farm. A greenhouse (which is what the author is essentially designing) requires a lot of interlocking systems to work properly (most natural greenhouses rely on the sun/environment to handle these but I believe the author wants a self-contained system running entirely on electricity). How will harvesting, watering, seeding, pest maintenance, airflow, environmental regulation work? How will deviations from optimal conditions be detected? It would be interesting to see a 'farm in a shipping container,' especially once a realistic cost estimate comes out. I highly doubt this would be cheaper than factory farming but it might stabilize things with respect to fuel/transportation costs.
Stack Overflow may focus on people who program, but through Stack Exchange they are trying to diversify into Q&A for any topic. It seems inevitable there will be some overlap with Quora, and right now it looks like they're in a land-grabbing phase.
Drawing Charts in HP webOS apps using HTML Canvas
From the original post:

To prevent noise and friction, your change must be more than 6 characters

So, unfortunately, some of those infuriating typos will not be possible to fix. Reducing noise has benefits, but it also seems like these trivial errors are perfect for casual users to spot and fix. And it's possible that noise will actually be increased by people making spurious changes to cross the 6 character threshold.
> So vuala
So voila

Sorry I am french I had to point that out :)
Could you explain what causes RSA keys to "not scale linearly"? I don't seem to recall any part of the protocol being non-linear in the key length.
Man I wish I could upvote this a thousand times. I still don't quite understand people who see nothing but green paper - numbers after a dollar sign - in their future.

I'm not going to lie. My goal right now is definitely to make money. But it isn't my goal in life. That's for sure.

My drive to make money is fueled by my desire to live freely, without financial chains (as my parents and a lot of my family have)... and to have fun and live a good life with those around me. If I have wealth to share and to help makes the lives of others easier, you bet I'm gonna spread it around. I don't have a wife or kids but being able to provide for them when that time comes and give them good lives is my main concern.
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I've found that for these type of folks it has absolutely NOTHING to do with money. It has everything to do with competition. I don't know Judd Weiss, but I'll promise you that he's intensely competitive. Money is just how he keeps score.
The quintessential problem: Its a long article, I'll read it later...
Welcome to Hacker News. I see this is your first comment since you've registered four hours ago.

I advise you to read over the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and the FAQ (http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Also, take a read over the Unoffical HN FAQ (http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ) and http://resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/

Just to warn you, comments like "FIRST POST."
while enthusiastic, in general will be downvoted since they don't contribute anything of value to the discussion. I'm sure you can contribute something more thoughtful than "FIRST POST."
A comment by antirez here [1] really led me to consider that procrastination is a signal rather than an issue: the best I can do is be aware of that and listen to it.

Now I often realize that when I feel procrastination coming, it's because:

- something needs to be clarified (a situation)

- there is a risk that hasn't been assessed

- I'm hungry

- I'm tired (physically or mentally)

- I'm hurting myself (RSI)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190700
Slightly strange - I made an "anonymous edit" - well answered a question - mid way through last week after wandering over to Stack Overflow to take a look at what was going on there after reading the post here related to someone complaining that the site was somehow working against new users.

As I was able to make a contribution without even joining I just concluded that the complaining poster had somehow got it all wrong. I even got some sort of SO karma. There was no "moderation" in place either - my response (well two of them as I went back with some detailed and related info later) went straight onto the question "page".
Or you could use code reviews. At work, every few weeks, I'm obliged to start a code review and have others take a stab at my code. Of course I want that code to be nice, concise, readable, understandable, well documented, well tested, etc, because they will all be looking at it very closely. It has worked wonders for the overall quality of my code.
Why do programmers write apps and then make them free
I really don't want to start pulling you guys toward "feature-creep", but maybe you could run a couple of "code dojos." Different pathways to Nirvana, as it were. (I'll elaborate)

I started learning from scratch a couple of weeks ago. I'm using this book http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-Hours-ebook/dp/B00... to help me learn Java. I chose Java because at the outset, I'm going to be working in the Android universe. Maybe some people want to cut their teeth on some Python, PHP or Ruby.

I know that resources are limited, but it's an idea. Anyhoo - I think the best thing about this is the potential for community-building. Kind of a "kiddie-pool" version of Stack Overflow where a n00b can be a n00b.
There's countersignaling at play too. A woman has very little information about your true "value" at first blush. If you buy drinks for her, that indicates that you think she must be a good catch, i.e. she's out of your league. Knowing nothing about you other than that you think she's out of your league, why should she go out with you?

So guys "play it cool" as a way of signaling that their true social value is well above the woman's, and they don't need to play her with gifts for them to be worth paying attention to. It's a way of saying "I'm so cool that I don't need to buy you drinks to make you pay attention to me."

That's why dating is usually described as push/pull. You want to signal your interest and commitment to a woman. However, if you signal too hard, then the impression she gets is that you have nothing to offer other than your undying love (hence "coming on too strong"). But if you signal too little, it's indistinguishable from someone who doesn't care about her at all.
I'm not even out of college, and I've already dropped the high school bit from my resume entirely. Does anyone really care what a potential hire did in high school once they've had a real job or graduated from college (save someone being an extreme outlier that completed most of their college degree in HS or what have you)?
The complaint was, as far as I understand it, that new users can not comment on an answer, they can only add a new answer.

It was also from somebody whose goal was apparently not so much to help as to get more reputation and the most highly-rated answer.
He actually commented, and the substance of his comment was exactly what you're saying here — money is to him what a trophy is to an athlete or a degree is for a student.
poems are extremely expensive in terms of time. only those with the sharpest mind can afford to create them.
Or worse, a poem-digger. You don't want to be that guy who wakes up one day and realizes that she was only in it for the anapests...
What to do if we find extraterrestrial life
Biz monkeys, there's hope
I believe there's some discussion around Andrew Chen's post going on, on hacker news - wanted to share my thoughts over there...couldn't find it, so putting it up separately here.
Shouldn't the headline be "Bing explicitly allowing some results pages to showing up in other search engines".

The wap.bing.com/robots.txt blocks all /search/ and then explicitly allows a few. What ever the reason is for that.

Very weak article, IMHO.
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Why play monopoly? Or play Call Of Duty? After you pass a certain income, you realise you don't really need what comes after that. But you're just enjoying the game. You're enjoying the winning.

Games are not meaningless, they are fun. That's why we play them.
Hell, the iPhone doesn't even have the concept of 'files'.
That's why it helps to believe in your product. PG once described his approach to selling as "Make your product the best on the market, and then tell the truth."
Yes, I acknowledged that - but I think that most people would do well to at least consider the other aspects of writing a book as well.
* for low values of anything
If the deal isn't worth it for you, and you don't have any contractual obligations already, negotiating doesn't mean you have to make a deal. But there are several reasons why someone might make an insultingly low offer, and it may still be possible to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement.

They may simply be trying a hard-ball negotiation strategy, while being able to afford to go a lot higher.

The best thing you can do is to explain that their offer is worse than nothing for you and there is no way you can go ahead with it (but don't tell them your break-even point), and collect more information about their situation - understand why they want to do business with you, try to understand it from their point of view: how much revenue can they make from what you have, and what their costs and revenues for substitute options. If they won't get as much revenue from the deal as what your costs will be, then it is not possible for you both to make a profit and you can part amicably without doing a deal.

If they would bring in a lot of revenue because of the deal compared to their next best option, you can offer them a price which splits the profit for mutual benefit.

Collecting the information needed to see it from their point of view is hard and takes tact, but it is the most important part of negotiating.
It was more in terms of comparison with security strength vs key length. For example, 3072 bit RSA keys are equivalent in security strength to 128-bit symmetric keys. To reach 256-bit security strength equivalence, you need 15360-bit RSA keys. [1](Page 63)

1. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57-P...
No, the quintessential problem is: Cool, I'll try that next week...
I would guess some politicians asked for way to stop people counterfeiting money with image manipulation tools or scanners. This solution satisfied them and made them feel good.
heh, it is a really helpful app though. I've tried pomodoro and such and it's a nice, if not novel and typically over-prescriptive concept. Freedom just works - it eliminates the key point of distraction.
Boy oh boy - have you guys missed the point!

There's a sensible discussion about how safe Sukey users are over here: http://visionon.tv/forum/-/message_boards/view_message/45043
> In middle school, science fair projects are typically still required — and, teachers lament, all too often completed by parents. And some high schools funnel their best students into elite science competitions that require years of work and lengthy research papers: a few thousand students enter such contests each year.

Making them required makes them dull; the types of projects available to students without the "elite" (in my opinion, potentially worthy) status are also pretty dull. For my forced science project I tried to get away with doing something with potatoes and electricity, but the teacher said I should do something in programming instead so I did something or another about various benchmarks and controlling for caching... useless, but got me a grade and didn't consume my time.

Do parents still really do projects? I thought the "chili volcano done by Dad" has been consigned to sitcoms.

> But what has been lost, proponents of local science fairs say, is the potential to expose a much broader swath of American teenagers to the scientific process: to test an idea, evaluate evidence, ask a question about how the world works — and perhaps discover how difficult it can be to find an answer.

There's another set of classes that can do this far more effectively than a science project where most entries are BS and uninteresting (I have nothing against the interesting ones, a guy at my high school did some work with MEMS which was pretty cool, he had the best project of the whole district at least). That set of classes is programming. Every time you run the program, you're testing your hypothesis that it works. Errors give you evidence of what is causing the problem, which leads you to question how the computer works and how to get your program to work. More focus on everyone having a "Basic Programming Literacy" seems a lot more useful than funding the multitudes of BS science fair projects.

A quick comment on why I think so many science fair projects are BS... If it's not worth trying to independently replicate results later, it's not useful science. And in the same vein, if it's been replicated a hundred times, it's probably better to look at something else. (No more potatoes-generate-electricity or chili-volcano projects!)

The solar powered car they showed Obama examining looked pretty cool, I'm all for more projects of that sort (unless it's just a reimplementation of a solved engineering class project). Instead of trying to prop up the current faulty system of science fairs, we should create a new system dedicated to producing useful science (where a three-panel poster board isn't required).
So what if she just happens to be a mediocre developer designer hybrid? This exposure is very likely going to be a stepping stone to a better job than she'd get without it.

Your example is about a stunt unrelated to showing qualifications. This actually shows some. It shows some history, and shows what skills were used where.

Is she a perfect ubergod? Nope. Does she smile and perfect ruby fall from the sky? Probably not. Does she probably have a good enough knowledge of rails and photoshop to do many a task? I'm guessing she could do all of 4 gigs I know of at the moment using skills she has. Are they the epitome of grand rails design, nope, but they likely fit her skillset.

Hacker News people have this very odd elitism thing going on expecting everyone to be functionally speaking manga cum laud from Stanford.
Apple Terminal Pro. That's how long I dragged myself through. Sorry Jamie.
The complaint was also that established users could post a quick reply to a question and then go back and edit that initial (highly placed) response to add detail to gain karma. I was able to post a response, go back and edit it with more detail and then return with a related response - all without joining. Perhaps that was evidence of some initial trials that have resulted in the announcement in the headline post.
Well, the great thing about money is that (as long as you don't cheat people) it is not only an excellent barometer of accomplishment, it is extraordinarily useful and even fun.

In a macro sense I believe the pursuit of money is very healthy, contrary to some popular beliefs, it actually encourages a society of people each working very hard to contribute.

In a micro sense I believe this pursuit of money is also very healthy, it gears your mind to focus on a standard of what legitimately is or is not worth doing. It is our goals that give us purpose and serve as a powerful way to bring out our power and productivity. I think it is wrong to condemn that.
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Упражненията повишават настроението и подобряват качеството на съня. Честите упражнения укрепват костите, а също и сърцето и белите дробове, което предотвратява появата на различни заболявания.
I just do not have time and interest.
I have Livejournal account but I wrote in it several years ago.

HN and one anonimous forum - is all I can do.
When you buy Photoshop, does it say on the box or in the specs that it will choose which images it will allow you to process and refuse ones it deems unsuitable?

Just wondering.
Ask HN: What to look for in a NON-technical cofounder
There is a lot of talk on HN about what to look for in a technical cofounder but I'm wondering what we should look for in a non-technical cofounder. Is there even a need for this person in a small startup? I recall reading that 37 signals doesn't hire anyone who doesn't have a strong technical skill set; no one whose only role is to manage others.

What should a non-technical cofounder bring to the table?
I get this, and I have nothing against games, but I guess my response is that striving to accumulate more and more money seems like a shallow and tedious form of competition to me in comparison to all the other 'games' out there to choose from. It's similar to how I'd view someone who spends every waking moment trying to optimize their fantasy football team or something. I think people are free to get their kicks however they see fit if they aren't hurting anyone, but I also think that person would get more from life if they tried to expand their horizons.
His one-liner was "ideas are worthless", and "great ideas are worth their weight in gold". I interpreted the latter as "great ideas are worth zero".

So unless I misinterpreted the last part, his comment was the first with witty put downs.

Good ideas are valuble and worthwhile. And it may take many years of hard work to come up with them. This is why the patent system was created: to allow people who come up with these ideas to have them valued as worthwhile, and compensated as such.

I understand there are some people who just have an idea that is shallow, and then do nothing with it. But the original comment said all ideas were worthless.
Well, the great thing about money is that (as long as you don't cheat people) it is not only an excellent barometer of accomplishment, it is extraordinarily useful and even fun.

In a macro sense I believe the pursuit of money is very healthy, contrary to some popular beliefs, it actually encourages a society of people each working very hard to contribute.

In a micro sense I believe this pursuit of money is also very healthy, it gears your mind to focus on a standard of what legitimately is or is not worth doing. It is our goals that give us purpose and serve as a powerful way to bring out our power and productivity. I think it is wrong to condemn that.

Sure there's lots of things very much worth pursuing that money can't buy, but that doesn't make money any less worth pursuing.
I am one of the worst cases of procrastination you can ever find. I always find something else to do instead of doing what I am supposed to do.

Personally, I have experienced that there is only one way to get things done:

1. I try to minimize distractions(I say try because distractions will always be there; there is not a way around most of the time).

2. I make a (mental)TODO list, before going to sleep.

3. And finally nothing beats getting of my butt and actually start working.

Just my thoughts.