skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that they have no motivation to earn the right to study at the school in the first place.

And parents would (rightly) object to schools that either threw their children out or forced them to do labor to stay in school.
Indeed, Chatterous are now A Thinking Ape and I believe making revenue in the millions. I think they have one of the highest grossing iphone apps of all time. http://www.techvibes.com/blog/a-thinking-ape-settles-into-va...
Any experienced campfire users around that have tried convore? Can you compare?
to the best of my knowledge, the approach JCP (or their agency) took was to to create a background/shadow site full of pages behind the main site. these pages are promoted via links and cross linked to be used as doorway pages.

jcp's server/hostname strategy seems broken, but if you look at the robots.txt and the site index they promote, it's really confusing compared to the UI and links they expose to traffic entering their site on the homepage.

also see some similar patterns (but not exact) on other big name retailers that might share the same agency.
So, his reasoning is based on the idea that Microsoft depends on Nokia as much as Nokia depends on Microsoft. When WP7 fails completely, life will go on for Redmond, but will be over for Nokia.

You have leverage when your partner needs the partnership more than you do. In this case, Microsoft has as much of it as it wants. As soon as Nokia is committed to WP7, Microsoft can do whatever it wants with them and they'll just put up with it, because they need the "partnership".

Elop is not dumb. He is screwing Nokia for Microsoft.
Don't know about famous, but this guy seems like a one-man-army-programmer. http://www.losethos.com/
i can see you fall under the same category
In Diamond Age it was interesting how the control of the printing material ("the source"), and designs was used for a new form of colonialism.

The former can easily be controlled in reality as well, but I wonder whether the open source ethos will be able to keep designs free.
Hackers hit 'at least five oil and gas firms'
Links, please. Even Google translated ones.
It has nothing to do with nuclear reactors, that is correct.

It has to do with production of fissile material for nuclear bombs being developed by a psychotic islamic fundamentalist state run by a madman.

If someone is writing viruses to destroy clean energy from modern nuclear reactors, that is a bad virus.

But if they are writing viruses to stop radical fundamentalists from building The Bomb, well that is OK by me.
"... I recall an analysis of Stuxnet describing it as a conventional virus and it became visible specifically because like other viruses, it spread through a variety of systems. ..."

I read another open source report, NYT "Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay" (Broad, Markoff & Sanger) ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet... detailing how Stuxnet was a very specifically designed piece of code targeted for the Siemens made controller called a "P.C.S.-7" and a configuration for specific number of machines. A tailored cyber attack, the work of a trained marksmen not a random shooter.
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"It was clear to me from the beginning that he didn't mean the government literally had a campaign to poison the elderly,"

Well if that was his intent, then why did he write the literal opposite? It's quite easy to see why: it was to evoke an emotional response, to use grandiose sensationalist claims to either get people to read his comments or to back up or reaffirm his radical ideological standpoints. That's not the sort of thing I come to this site hoping to read. The point is that some policy decision have adverse effect; that fine, and exposing the exact mechanics is often enlightening. Phrasing it as 'oh we're being oppressed! We're living in the Maxtrix/1984!' is plain stupid.
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Kudos to NYT. I wonder if they've seen their last dollar of advertising from JCP though...
Early colonists to new lands on Earth would already be self-sufficient the moment they arrived

Simply not true: 1) Antarctica 2) Any sort of colonization of the sea bed (it's land!).
My favorite was always Fubini's theorem in 3D calculus the result of which is basically "meh, it doesn't matter which order you integrate"
There's not much to creating an account if you use OpenID. Two clicks from the login page, IIRC.
How do startups find good and cheap programmers in the Valley?
I will hopefully move to the valley soon to found a startup with my bro! The thing is that we are aiming at something big and will need a lot of programmers!

At this early stage, programmers are everything! So how do I found them at the valley? Any suggestions? Are there websites?

By the way, can you hire them for a couple months? How much could that be? I heard that salaries in the valley are crazy, so how can I handle that!! I mean we could hire programmers that work from home in Berlin or Madrid for this early age where we won't have much money, but what would be the advantage of moving to the valley?

How do startup deal with this paradox?

Thanks in advanced!

PS: Any suggestions and link are very welcome

At this early stage, programmers are everything! So how do I found them at the valley? Any suggestion? Are there websites?

By the way, can you hire them for a couple months? How much would the damage be? I heard that salaries are crazy in the valley, so would it be a good idea to hire programmers in Berlin or Madrid for this early age where we won't have much time?

Thanks in advanced!
Why the "scripting" qualifier? Arguably if you are writing code with the intent that it will ever actually be executed, that's not CS, in the same way that designing a car is not physics. So what, though? What something is called ought to have little to no bearing on whether it's deemed useful, or worthy of being taught.
Apparently, this blog author has been ousted as "bribed by Microsoft for secret advertising disguised in posts"

There has been a lot "google search sucks" submission from Techcrunch lately. This was starting to feel a little weird. So I googled "Michael Arrington Microsoft" and got this :

http://techrights.org/2010/02/07/michael-arrington-microsoft...

Are people aware of this ? is it old news ? Is HN being spammed ?
A study on post-partum pain from the 1980s?

Try this one, a meta-analysis from 2000 on post-op pain:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10796810

Acetaminophen is effective. Most professional guidelines on analgesia recommend the use of acetaminophen in addition to opioid analgesia.

The useful and perhaps unique thing about acetaminophen among pain killers is that it is well tolerated. Almost everybody from little kids to the very elderly can down acetaminophen without too many problems. This is certainly not the case with opioids. Dizziness, lightheadedness, feeling spaced out, nausea, vomiting, constipation, allergic reactions are not uncommon with these compounds, not to mention variability in effectiveness.

It is true that the majority of acetaminophen overdoses are accidental, which suggests that there is a major problem with how we distribute and use this drug. However most health professionals would take issue with describing it as a hepatotoxin. The large number of ER visits etc reflects the widespread use and easy availability of paracetamol. For example, where I work, there are at least as many presentations due to alcohol abuse (which is also available 'over the counter') as there are for paracetamol.

The funny thing about the article that triggered this thread is that your well-educated person with post-op pain is probably the ideal group to be using acetaminophen and opioid combinations.
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In what sense? What he mean was 'G&A did the same computer vandalism that has cost the world $bb since then'. Which, even if a bit dramatic and un-nuanced, is not really wrong.
Actually it rocks so hard that I see the risk of sucking up one's remaining productivity time slots that exist between HN visits ;)
Alas, the better of the OS was rejected.
If we're talking about the parents of gang-member children who need metal detectors and locked windows to stop them taking weapons into school, locked toilets to stop them beating each other in there, who can't be trusted not to steal school property, then I'm not at all convinced that they would have both the willingness and the parenting skills to provide the sort of help that you seem to think they would.
I think you need to qualify your argument somewhat; almost all companies across the globe profit from their employees hard work. If they didn't the company would quickly cease to exist.
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Several posters elsewhere in the comments seem to think it's the source code.

Regardless, this is precisely the sort of headline that a fear slinging, technophobic, "series of tubes" politician will latch on to. Doubly so in this case, what with HBGary's political connections...
It's big-O notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation
It somewhat saddens me there is usually a Microsoft way of doing things in complete opposition to just the best way.
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I finished a more complete writeup and sent it to you. There's probably nothing you couldn't figure out from that spam-filled search alone, but maybe it'll save you guys some time.
I saw the XMas sales for 23andme and I thought the money at that time was well worth the knowledge.

If and when they offer the service for a complete sequence, I'll probably pay the money again, just to have a complete record.
Early colonists to new lands on Earth would already be self-sufficient the moment they arrived, whereas Mars colonists would be dependent on Earth for decades to come.

If there was concerted research on self sufficiency, perhaps not. A big difference between Mars and the Moon and LEO, is that Mars has a lot of the same resources Earth has.

I think it's rather foolish to pursue planetary colonization before at least Earth's orbit has become economically accessible and habitable

I rather think that being perched at the top of a ballistic trajectory is a poor place to try self sufficiency, especially compared to a site on the ground with water and readily extractable resources. We know Mars has these.

EDIT: Zubrin in "The Case for Mars" has already outlined a whole industrial program based on the sophomore-year chemistry of Sabatier reactors, which could get you up to plastics and steel production, starting with only hydrogen feedstock imported from Earth. Since Mars appears to have abundant water, the hydrogen can be acquired locally.
Erjang is using Kilim (http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim/) which does bytecode rewriting to support coroutines (kind of green threads) on top of JVM. With Java 8, we're rumored to get coroutines in the JVM.
I thought they found that the ability to delay gratitude is largely genetic? That's still a long way from identifying the particular gene responsible (or even knowing that there is a particular gene, and it's not a combination of a large number of unrelated genes), but it does make it plausible that this will be possible one day.
No, you are wrong about the timeline and what happened when. It is explained pretty clearly in the NYT article: "True, JCPenney.com’s showing in Google searches had declined slightly by Feb. 8, as the algorithm change began to take effect. In "comforter sets," Penney went from No. 1 to No. 7. In "sweater dresses," from No. 1 to No. 10." That happened the day before Google took manual action. BTW, going from #1 to #7 and #10 is not just a "slight decline."
On the other hand, giving the president an internet kill switch will drastically increase the development speed and popularity of systems such as the mesh network or something similar.
I will go with a real-life example. A person that I know of.

Ishaan Chattopadhyaya IMO, not many outsiders know of him but he single-handedly rewrote MapQuest Search.
Sometimes, when the difference between "best way" and "standard way of doing things" is not so great -- it is better to go with standard practice. Reduces time to learn for others, and avoids surprises when interacting with other systems (POLA).
OK, another attempt from Microsoft for killing the Web.
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Gojomo, really good stuff, many thanks. Well, we have pre-set the times at time slots which are best for most people. Anyone can easily change these times though. Nope, chrome is not a "have to" thing, you can if you wish. You can be sleeping in your bed and the tweets will fire! :)
This has interesting implications, I think, in the business of search.

It's almost like a negative network effect. The more people that use a search engine, the more people try to game it, and the less useful it becomes for finding what you want. This seems like it'd make things much easier for new competitors like duck-duck-go to bring a superior product... at least until they gained enough market share to be worth SEO time gaming.
The full article is over at Make magazine.

Link: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/why-the-arduino-won...
Did you find anything interesting? Ailments or ancestry?
Heh, I remember when the recommended practice for <script> tags was to put the contents inside an HTML comment <!-- --> so that it was hidden from browsers that didn't recognize the <script> tag. I believe it was even special-cased in the JavaScript parser so that it wouldn't cause a JS error. I wonder if that's still the case...
Any predictions of when sequencing the whole genome might cost around $200?
see the BRCA1/2 (myriad) debacle. horrible mess.
The service saves everything that's been said -- like Wave, only Convore exists

Seems TR is like news, only without fact checking. I was playing with Wave just the other day.

EDIT: TR, not TC. Thanks, internet!
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Youtube users: 'UserGroupsatGoogle' and 'GoogleTechTalks' post some epic content for the more advanced programmer.

Continuous Integration with Hudson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k0S4O2PnTc

Cryptography Theory and practice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDnShu5V99s
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1. As I see it, the main advantage of being in a high-tech area is networking opportunities. There are also more good programmers and cofounders available, but the former is expensive.

2. Many startups don't need that many programmers early on. I prototyped my latest project by myself in under two weeks.
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I'm sure he's not worried about Facebook privacy.
And? It is a computer. Why is this news/interesting?
"The Public Domain" by James Boyle is also a good book, looking at copyright, also available for free:

http://www.thepublicdomain.org/
Try http://grabbox.devsoft.no/
I don't consider centralized services "thing x if it was invented today", if thing x can be distributed. The UI looks nice, and they did a great job. But anyone can host IRC servers, only convore can host convore.
Ask HN: What startups have you witnessed from its inception to going big?
I remember the time when Drew Houston announced his little project called Dropbox at Reddit / HN and now it seems destined for success. I wonder what other startup's ascent have the HN community been witness to? And how it did affect you?
If we're going to support government monopolies for drugs, why not just fund them directly from taxes? At least then we can direct them not to waste their energy creating minor variations on drugs as they fall out of patent protection, or chasing lucrative pill-per-day treatments for lifestyle diseases of the rich and instead focus on curing illnesses that blight large numbers of people across the globe.
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If you move here, your options are

1. start lean:

Only hire founders who will work for nothing. You can also hire new people and train, but that's /very slow/ and not really recommended if you are a "startup" rather than a lifestyle business.

or

2. get funded. take the money (and the publicity. 1% of a funded company is going to be perceived as more valuable by most people than 50% of the same company before it's funded) and hire good people.

For both 1 and 2, the valley is great. It's a great place to meet people who have the technical skills (and the financial acumen) to become a co-founder. It's also a great place to find people who might fund you, and it's a wonderful place to find people you'd want to hire if you had a lot of money.

The thing of it is, people get paid more around here, but standards are higher, too. A mediocre SysAdmin in silicon valley, if you move him to, say, the Sacramento area, will be like a minor god.

This isn't to say that you can't find good people outside of silicon valley, but the average here is higher. I'd say high enough higher to justify our inflated wages. If you are paying market rate for market skill, even though you are paying more here, I'd say you are at least getting as much skill per dollar as you would elsewhere, and maybe more.

Hang out at the hacker dojo, go to various meetups, meet people. It's pretty great. Personally, I think it's worth the extra cost just for the social life. I feels pretty great to be surrounded by all these smart people who are interested in the same sorts of things you are interested in.

But really, if you want to hire people on the cheap, this is not the place to do it. You would be better off almost anywhere else in the world. Hiring foreigners (or Midwesterners) and having them work remote is one way to do it. Moving to Texas is another popular option.
But I don't want to live in another walled garden where I can be spied on or herded as a cash cow. What's needed are open protocols, like IRC or Wave.
Other way around here in Finland: in mid-90s, on joining the EU, their free market regulations dictated lethal denaturation agents could no longer be banned by national regulations, and deaths of destitute alcoholics spiked.

(reference in finnish medical journal, google translate might work: http://tinyurl.com/6h5gf5o)
...only it's not TC.
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This is great. I'd read some of the pieces on jwz.org (including this one), but watching Code Rush and then reading this again really helps me relate to the stuff him and the rest of the team must've been going through.

(The key phrase that links the two together for me is "my one and only youth"; he both writes that in a diary entry and speaks it during a video interview in Rush.)
As someone who's never used Lisp before, what's the difference between Lisp and Haskell? I keep hearing old stories about the virtues of Lisp, but it doesn't seem like anyone uses it anymore. Has it just been replaced by newer functional languages?
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Didn't they have to reduce the penalties for certain crimes because once you're already facing a certain death penalty you've no reason to not kill (more) people if that helps you escape identification/capture/arrest? That is, a law designed to incentivize you to not kill people, had the opposite effect in some circumstances. Googling doesn't turn up anything for me, but it's a closer analogy anyway.
Since Nokia's dropped the ball, Google should poach Nokia employees and go for an end-run around Apple, Microsoft, and the rest of the competition in the 3rd world.

Find a way to deliver rich services and develop a healthy developer ecosystem on dumb phones. (feature phones) Right now, people in developing countries are using services like banking over SMS the way we now use web apps and smartphone apps. This tells me there's latent demand.

By blurring the line between smart phones and feature phones, you can entirely undercut the smart phones. Get in there first, with less capable but cheaper phones people can actually afford, with services delivered more comfortably than SMS and with more cultural sensitivity than the usual outside company. As Moore's law continues to make processing power cheaper, the line between smart phones and dumb ones will blur, while at the same time, the citizens of the developing nations will become more affluent. Such a "blur phone" product and ecosystem will have already undercut the smartphones before they're even as real as a pipe dream and will have entrenched power of a network effect.
Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, and then only used it in it's weak form to create vaccines that didn't actually work, though he still sold them and made good money from them. He actively discouraged his students from following it up or improving it and it was only later when government funding was made available to create an effective antibiotic that his research was resurrected and perfected.
Arrington was paid to appear in a Microsoft ad. Journalists usually don’t endorse companies or appear in their ads, especially if the also write about said companies.

That’s ethically questionable behavior but certainly not bribery. It has also no relation to the submitted article.

(I like how the author of the article you are linking to describes an interview with Ballmer as “spoke to Ballmer 4 months ago” which sounds much more suspect, especially considering the context. He certainly has a way with words.)
The Antarctic coast and particularly the western peninsula would be able to sustain small human communities, even without modern technology (like Greenland or Northern Canada can). The interior is more forbidding, but nothing like Mars.

As for the sea and seabed, the logistics of sending supplies are not even comparable. It's actually a counter-example. If living on the sea or on the seabed has not been viable, what would make outer space viable? For a few 10x millions you can probably get a floating greenhouse and subsurface habitat in place. Mining the sea bottom is not yet valuable, despite many more mineral resources available.
Which is odd because starting from the blog you get the author's take on it AND a link to the code. It's not like you just get one or the other. I would think HN would (should?) be more interested in the whole story and not just a link to a codebase whenever possible.
I'd count among my favourites:

* the Schroeder-Bernstein theorem in set theory

* the fact that the axiom of choice is equivalent to the statement that every set is well-ordered: how can something so intuitively correct and something so intuitively wrong be equivalent?

* the general notion of dualism in category theory. Two for the price of one!

* the ways fixpoints can be used in TCS: the Y combinator (heh), and the Kleene and Knaster-Tarski theorems. The best part is that they're all intuitively the same.