skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve Blank says "Founders are artists." (go to 4:17 in video)
John McCain & WSJ Should Not Determine the Future of the Internet
San Francisco to require ID scans, photos of everyone who goes to a venue
Given that they do chunks of updates, rather than the whole file, presumably they check multiple hashes to ensure this doesn't happen. I could be wrong, though.
Ahh, but weirdness tends to result in creativity. "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

I have added this link to my list of blog entries about the YC Interview experience, bringing the total number of entries to 8 ( http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php ). If you have an interview lined up, I would read all of those upfront, study all of the known companies and founders that YC has already funded ( http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies.php ) and use all that information to your advantage.
Ideology != consumer software.

Tribalism/racism, cash for votes or "everyone gets a pony" are all pretty easy to sell. Does that make them right? Maybe, if you define "success" as "inflicted on the greatest number of people". In that case, contemporary Chinese fascism is the most successful ideology in the world, and yes, Thiel's brand of libertarianism fails.
My take-away is this:

"What this means, is that from the comfort of their desks, law enforcement agencies or copyright trolls can upload contraband files to Dropbox, watch the amount of bandwidth consumed, and then obtain a court order if the amount of data transferred is smaller than the size of the file."

This, I think is significant, especially if Dropbox is advertising security, privacy and encryption. As the author mentions, the ToS are being updated to reflect the above possibility ("if Dropbox receives a warrant, it has the ability to remove its own encryption to provide data to law enforcement").
Do you simply mail out the promo codes, or allow users to opt in on an app by app basis? I wouldn't want people receiving codes and letting them rot in their mailbox.
"Of course engineering school deans are going to think dropping out is a bad idea."

This is an ad hominem, dressed up nicely. And from the article that I just read (maybe we're being A/B tested for ideology?), nearly all of the deans made clear exceptions for exceptional students. What a bunch of higher-education zealots.

You also got the "arguments" wrong. All of them. None of the deans made an argument for greater success due to social connections (Wadwha makes fun of this idea at the top of the article!), none claimed that Zuckerberg was successful "because" of his time at Harvard (one made the argument that he "needed it for vetting", which is a different argument entirely), and none made the argument that "most" entrepreneurs are college grads (...or anything at all, for that matter; except for the rather uncontroversial argument that "most entrepreneurs fail", very few generalizations were made).

The most important arguments were the ones that you ignored:

1) Thiel's "experiment" isn't actually an experiment. It's a vanity exercise that will prove nothing, because it has no controls.

2) Most entrepreneurs fail, but you can easily point to the exceptions to make (fallacious) arguments about the value of education.

3) An engineering degree improves the average outcome for students, even if it doesn't help the exceptional cases.

4) At the companies founded by famous college dropouts, you'd be incredibly hard-pressed to get a job without a college degree.
Or, in my case, less than $25,000 for a piece of paper, some very valuable formal instruction that I draw on today (and, more importantly, knowledgeable people who at the time could put it into a context I could understand), some great contacts, some great work experience, an environment where I could take the time to build projects to improve what I know about my profession and my craft without worrying about making rent, and the ability to actually spell "piece". Pretty good trade.

If you spend $200,000 on undergrad, you're making a mistake. That does not make college a bad idea; it makes spending insane private-school money on college a bad idea.
I have been playing golf since I was 6 years old (I am now 25, running a YC company and whiteyboard). I've played competitively, going all over the country and even got a full scholarship to a NCAA Division 1 university for the sport.

I can honestly say that this guy does not stand a chance, and here is why.

1. Golf, especially when it comes to playing professionally, is more of a mental sport than physical (both strength and muscle memory). Even if this guy can learn to hit the ball 300 yards, it will take him at least 10 years if not longer to get the mental comfort required to play effectively in front of thousands of people and successfully place or win an event.

2. The 10,000 hour rule is best applied to things like coding or langauge learning, in other words, low pressure learning environments that have structured guidelines to success. Golf, beyond mental and physical, requires great feel. To be able to know that in 15 mile an hour wind, with your ball half buried by sand, and water in front of the green, how would one hit that shot? There are millions of variations of what you could end up with on the golf course, none that could be figured out in 10,000 hours. We haven't even talked about the putting green yet. Yikes

3. I've seen this before, over a dozen times. Guy gets tired of his job, has some talent and decides to take a ton of golf lessons and practice hard to go for the tour. At least the guys Im referring to played college golf. This guy didn't so much as do that.

4. Golf is seriously hard and the difference between the best players and the mediocre pro players most of the time is just an average difference of a few shots. To shave off those few shots is next to impossible once you've reached your peak potential.

Golf is not for everyone. This guy is wasting his time.

Update ( I forgot something):

Here is another reason why this is a pointless ambition.

5. 10,000 hours of golf is a lot different than 10,000 of something like...learning a language (we'll use this again). To become good at golf does not mean that you can sit on the driving range and hit golf balls every day until your hands bleed. To become a great player, one must get great at playing the golf course. To play one round of golf takes between 3-5 hours (depending on where you play), and there is no guarantee that those 5 hours spent on the course are in any way productive to your progress. That is not a good use of time spent in his quest for 10,000 hours. Someone could certainly guarantee that in 5 focused hours of a spanish tutoring session that they have progresses. With golf, a bad round could send you right back to the drawing board.
not a golfer?
It was started in 2000. I wouldn't say it was a 'steaming pile', but obviously I'm a bit biased. MVC structure, user mgt, automatic login/registration, database abstraction, a rudimentary ORM (very rudimentary), user groups, permissioning from a control panel that was able to be hooked in to from administrative modules. The closest thing around with any degree of flexibility at the time was phpnuke when lc was started.

It hasn't been worked on since 2003 - one of the original people behind it started cognifty.com several years ago.
Do they check filesize too? What are the odds of a hash collision + identical filesize? We might need Carl Sagan to answer that one.
Some people were watching TV online before, now lots of people are watching TV online. Hulu has played a big part in that. I suspect the number of people watching Hulu every week dwarfs the number of people who were "illegally" watching content online before, at least in the US market. Most of the rest of the world is still forced to find extra-legal methods to obtain the same content.
The university I went to covered Java and x86 assembly in first year. Haskell, Prolog, MIPS assembly and more Java (for algorithms and data structures) in second year. C++(C with classes really) and yet more Java in third. Fourth year languages depended on optional courses, I did some SR[1] for concurrent programming course and matlab for DSP.

Besides x86 and Java, the other languages we covered weren't in terribly high detail, but enough to get a taster for whats out there. I would have liked more focus on a pure functional language, Haskell in our case, but overall we covered quite a lot of great material.

Most people (besides a handful of people like me who like non-mainstream languages) didn't really care much for anything but Java though, sadly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_(programming_language)
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www.glassdoor.com, www.indeed.com/salary
I've only played Trine of the games in this bundle, and it's a decently well-polished game. It's basically a puzzle-platformer. I've only spent about an hour on it, so I can't really comment on the difficulty.

I doubt it's as intellectually hard as some of the later Braid levels. Solving those were so satisfying.
The dean of the Stanford engineering school has a very good point. Peter Thiel's dropout scholarhips are very much a rigged experiment.

First he is going to select the brightest kids in the best schools. These kids already have higher than usual chance of success. Then he is going to give them 100k each. That will also increase their chances of success. Then he is going help them with advice and networking as much as he can which will also increase their chances of success.

This is all good and well. I have no problem with Peter Thiel helping a bunch of kids with money advice and networking.

But THEN he is going to say "look, my dropouts succeeded therefore education sucks therefore you are better off dropping out." A lot of kids will drop out when they are not the best in the class, when they do not have the help of Peter Thiel, and they will be fucked.

Thus, as a social experiment Peter Thiel's dropout scholarships are worthless. They do not show anything unless Mr. Thiel creates a control group by investing in kids that do stay in school or investing in kids that just graduated college.

Again this is usually not a problem (not all charity needs to be a social experiment) except for the fact that Peter Thiel obviously wants to use his scholarships as a social experiment. He wants to use them as something to criticize colleges and education with.

Peter Thiel is a very smart person (and ironically also very well educated) so he knows very well this is a rigged experiment. He designed it this way. He has an agenda, and this is to bring out some kind of libertarian utopia to the US. He thinks that academia stands in the way of this political goal and he wants to attack and destroy academia by destroying academic institutions. None of this is a conspiracy theory, he is actually pretty open about all of the above.

And again, I do not have a problem with that in general, any American has a right to be politically active, and to work to bring about what he believes are positive political changes to his/her country.

But again he is using a rigged social experiment in his fight against academia. As bystanders we should be very well aware that this experiment means absolutely nothing and resist his urges to conclude that it means that education is worthless.
One more person really missing the karma numbers.

My algorithm was to read the first several high rated karma comments than the article if interesting. I usually got the picture from the peoples perspective quickly and it also eliminated lot of the repetition and noise.

Too bad, my hope and wish is that the karma on comments is coming back.
Another reason: Linux users tend to be more passionate and idealistic than others. It's no surprise considering virtually no one can buy a machine with Linux pre-installed. This means we're almost all volounteers, especially people who play games. This passion carries over to games.

In Linux circles, "I use Linux, and Windows in dual boot just for games" is a common phrase. Many Linux users want their Windows partition gone, and games is the only thing that really keeps them from doing so. All other programs have decent substitutes, some are arguably better. If OpenOffice or GIMP doesn't work for you, it's mostly likely some business requirement, compatibility with enterprise software, etc.

By the way, I was among people who paid more for Linux version.
I don't miss the karma at all. If you don't have time to read the comments and evaluate for yourself which ones are good or bad, why are you even here?
Same goes for words like hustle or pigheadedness.
I think grit maybe an even better way to state it. Stubbornness and tenacity can work for or against an entrepreneur or business.
(comment inspired by reading http://andymckenzie.blogspot.com/2011/04/when-can-we-measure...)
Depends on the novice, right?

After all, Tiger Woods was once a novice.
As far as I can make out so far it is not designed to be multitenant. Each client gets an instance for their apps which can consist of multiple VMs. Based on interpreting the install guide here https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap
Microsoft is breaking your site in IE9
Go to 4:17 in the video to hear why Steve Blank thinks founders are artists.
Even a public school education (at in-state rates) will run you 40-50k minimum these days.
"I have recently met with a couple of upperclassmen here at Harvard that are planning to launch a site very similar ours. If we don't make a move soon, I think we will lose the advantage if we released before them. I've stalled them for the time being..."

pretty interesting quote from zuckerberg. couldn't this have implications regarding the winklevoss case?
"They were worried about getting girls to like them and annoyed at the athletes who seemed to get all of them. I was usually dating those same athletes."

Brilliant strategy to build camaraderie with your collaborators.
Do you have thoughts on some automated algorithms enterprising folk could implement?
Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears the good is still bubbling to the top, simply the metric has been removed.

I find that I often instinctively head to upvote a comment that has hit its critical mass in terms of karma votes regardless of its content. I have to take a second, back off from my instinctual action, and evaluate. Often I end up upvoting it anyway upon reading it, but at least then I have taken the time to evaluate it myself.

Not having the points present makes this problem go away because there is no implicit "lots of people like this, I probably will to" reaction. The jury is still out on whether or not I think things are ultimately helped or hurt by the move but I believe it is worthwhile for the sake of experiment if nothing else.
I frequently link to the HN story rather than my blog posts directly due to the additional value HN comments provide.
Layman Code Reviews
Isn't the reason for the vendor tags that the features aren't part of the official spec? I'd guess the answer would be once they become official or you start generating your CSS. Doesn't even have to be that fancy, just something to run over a css file and duplicate a declaration a few times in all the different formats.

Probably something you should look into, I don't expect there to come a point where vendors stop adding new proprietary properties, at least not this decade.
I have some questions about the significance of this claim. If I'm reading this correctly, the attack is that someone hosting a malicious Tor exit node (and we assume that all exit nodes are compromised -- just common sense) can correlate tracker requests over the Tor network to chunks being sent to the non-anonymous IP not over Tor.

In other words, this isn't really groundbreaking at all -- if you're requesting data to be sent not over Tor, and instead only proxying your tracker requests, of course that data can be correlated. You're anonymously asking for chunk 5429817, but telling the tracker to send it to your real IP address. An interesting issue, to be sure, but it's certainly not "breaking" the Tor network.

A lot of people are complaining about how one shouldn't BitTorrent over Tor anyway, for courtesy of the network--and I agree--however, this is just the tracker data being proxied. That is, if you were actually sending the BitTorrent data over Tor (which would slow the network), then you're protected from this kind of attack because your unprotected IP would not request data from the honeypot.

From the article:

When one of the malicious exit nodes sees an attempted connection to a BitTorrent tracker, it intercepts the response and adds the IP address of one of the honeypot clients under researcher control. The user's BitTorrent client then attempts to make a data connection directly to the honeypot without using Tor, thus revealing the user's IP address to the honeypot.

The article goes on to mention that users who do tunnel their traffic through Tor are still vulnerable if they use DHT, because DHT works over UDP while Tor only proxies TCP traffic.
That's a good point. I'm building up the mailing list before making it available to developers for self-serve, but when I get to that point I'll have an expiration date of 24 hours on each code and the user will need to claim it before then -- if unclaimed after 24 hours, it will be re-raffled to another user. A user can also "decline" immediately if uninterested.
SHA256, which Dropbox uses, has around 10^77 possible hashes. That's 100 trillion quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion possible values. So I wouldn't worry about hash collisions if I were you. If a hash collision happened easily in SHA256, that would be very big news for the security community, and much more serious services than Dropbox would be affected.
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Just FYI, the inconsistency is deliberate. The UI guidelines have a lengthy section on when clickthrough is appropriate and when it isn't.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserEx...
I see that I'm replying to a rather old thread, so apologies in advance if I'm doing it "wrong". (It doesn't appear that is specifically outlawed in the welcome page but that doesn't mean it's kosher.)

This is similar to an idea I was toying with a while back but never got around to nailing down. Upvoting or downvoting an item should result in a change on the personal account, but rather than it changing the account's "score" up or down, the system records the vote based on the "type" of item. If a series of items are categorized as "Gossip" and I vote them down, the system learns that I don't like "Gossip" items. An item could be in multiple categories ("Gossip" and "IT") and my past voting would determine whether or not I would see the item on the page (super-roughly "the item was categorized 50/50 Gossip/IT, dpk's Gossip score is -11 and IT score is 10, result is -1, don't show"). In effect, users would themselves be group-able by their votes, so if someone in your "group" posted an item, it would get an automatic bonus. If someone in your "anti-group" (someone nearly diametrically opposed to you) posted something it would get a negative bonus.

Categorization would need to be put to the community, and would be done while the item is on what is currently termed the "new" page. Once the item is categorized the various display scores (as loosely described above) will be computed and the result could be shown to the users.

One side-effect of this is that it allows users to "shun" spammers in to their own "group". They could spam all they want but nobody would see it unless they were really excited about seeing spam.

The idea has (at least) one major serious problem: It encourages group-isolation. This could be partially resolved by always showing a "best of group" block of links somewhere on the home page, which could encourage users to branch out a bit.

As I said, this idea is not fully fleshed out, hence the overuse of quotes and its nebulous, hand-wavy nature. It's a less punitive, more categorical system. It may not scale at all.
Overtraining is different from people's tendency to plateau.

Overtraining is what happens when an athlete's training frequency is greater than their body's ability to recover. That is, by the time the next training sessions comes around, they haven't yet recovered from the last one. This can harm overall performance for obvious reasons.

That may lead to a plateau, but I think plateau's happen more often when the athlete ceases to learn from training sessions. And that happens when they're just doing the same thing, over and over.

All practiced activities show diminishing returns. If you practice 5 days a week (assuming your body can handle it), the benefit of practicing 6 days a week (assuming your body can handle it) is not going to be the same as going from 1 to 2 days. But if your body can handle it, you probably will still improve.
Deduping with hash and filesize in bytes should make a collision unlikely enough.
I think that most of it is due to the fact tech is mostly a meritocracy (at its best). You're either good or you're not. You aren't judged on how well you can socialize with your superiors, co-workers, clients nor does playing politics wildly affect your performance/compensation. It does but I would say less than other fields.

Also eastern culture places more of an emphasis on introspection paired with their particular upbring which typically revolves around a lot of studying, a solitary activity, I think its natural for that segment of the population to find tech to be a desirable career.

Personally if I were a woman, I'd jump into tech. I'm sure being competent and of a different gender would yield significant advantages albeit maybe soft advantages.
Cisco to close Flip video camera business, cut 550 jobs
i know im new here, and i know this is important - civil liberties and all that - but why is it specific to hacker news? can someone explain what stuff is on-topic? ive read the guidelines, but this seems like it doesnt fit.

thx
Updated the FAQ. Thanks for the tip!
I'm liking the introduction of the flag link and coloring newbies green. I'm 50/50 on the comment points. I like seeing the points, but at the same time I no longer feel they're necessary. To me, the flag and coloring are more important changes that I hope stick around.
Have you applied for a real job at Facebook? Internship is not the same as hiring you as a real employee.
Thanks random42 and williamdix, I needed to know that, I guess for me it was how I viewed the title and the ending sentence.
Am I understanding 'Balance Checker' functionality right?
Currently, it shows me the same results as finding discounted gift cards.
I read that Viaweb spent $20k on national press.
I've noticed that I'm actually getting more out of the hidden-karma comments because I am not able to skim as easily. I'm also not forming preconceived notions of a comment's quality before I read it, which is activating the critical-thinking bits of my brain more than usual.

Yet because the comments are still sorted somewhat intelligently, I'm not really being drowned in the cruft like one would expect.
I think some of both is good for both sides of the coin: Why not just split them into separate specializations?
For people who want more information about what particular elements/attributes mean, there's http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699485(v=vs.85).as...

There are also steps on that page for getting your site off of the compatibility list.