skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started www.niblink.com a couple years ago. Failed to get traction / pursued a new venture. The golf industry can be fun. Best of luck.
The best thing it could do security-wise is ditching PHP.
Warren Buffet is a one case, for the most part.
Me on the importance of not guiding your business thinking with buzz phrases. Apple's business is much more complicated than this saying 'no' bit (they and Dell built incredible supply chains).

As a counterpoint, there are tons of businesses who've said "yes" lots and have had great success: SalesForce, Oracle, IBM, GE, Microsoft, Google, Nike (yes, even if they though what Jobs said was smart).

I appreciate the article's highlighting of a particular management orientation, but this particular orientation is far from unique or broadly suitable. Know your product, know your market, know your team, know your capabilities and think deeply about how to compose all of those things into an ongoing, growing business concern. Then in 20 years, you'll be giving an interview about how you did it by focusing on the important of telling jokes or something.
Google Quick, Sick and Dead - Reader is ailing, but there's been a turnaround
That this series has been published so close to WWDC makes me wonder if we're being prepared for some announcement.

Edit: although it's more likely that Lattner is just bracing himself for the onslaught of questions he'll have to field and hoping to be able to refer people to these articles.
> If a kid gets a 5 in AP comp-sci, the college will still make him take the intro base CS courses.

That's not true (at my university, anyway). You can skip the first two semesters of the CS curriculum with a 5 on the AP CS AB exam.

I personally chose not to use most of my AP credit to give myself a relatively easy first year during which I instead developed lifestyle/social skills. One of the best decisions I ever made.
My wife and I made this same decision about 5 years ago when we were expecting our first child, for pretty much the same reasons you cited. We were extremely fortunate to have found a niche for which we could build a product, and find paying clients relatively quickly.

It took us about 18 months to reach a level of stability - literally, our business grew alongside our first child. But, even during this phase we were able to spend quality time with our child. Although, as one of the other posters indicated a lifestyle business doesn't automatically mean tons of free time and no stress. It's just that relative to a traditional startup life (which I experienced as a principal when I was still single), it's still night and day.

My wife and I are extremely grateful for the time and freedom our business afforded us. We were able to spend more time with our children during those precious first few months and years than we would have even working for a big company, let alone a startup. There were still stressful times, especially finding clients, or when servers went down in the middle of the night (funny how that always happened just as soon as you go back to sleep after walking a crying child to sleep :), but it was all worth it.

I wish you best luck in your path.
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the rf stuff is pretty complex from what I understand. I think the iphone has around 7 antennas in it (wifi, edge, 3g, gsm, etc). I somehow doubt 'just adding' another antenna is a trivial matter, an expert would probably be able to tell you better what it takes to balance quality/interference with so many radios in close proximity. From what I know about how they work, I'm guessing they've tried out all kinds of stuff including putting in a radio, and probably decided to cut it.
Pretty sure I read Zuckerberg still rides a bicycle to work everday, and rents an apartment among other things.
I'm surprised the spammers actually sent something.
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There's already a laptop shell that you can jack your phone into. That future is looking really interesting, and is probably why Microsoft is doing Windows 8 for ARM chips - just imagine a 15" or 17", high resolution laptop that weighs as much as an Air and has a multi-day battery!

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/motorola-atrix-4gs-webtop...
I agree. I think this blog's target audience (myself included) would unanimously agree that math is important, but the video itself seems to speak to people who already agree with it's assertions. When a struggling high schooler from an inner city school hears a mathematical theorist proclaim "Math is fun!", I believe they're going to be weary of everything else this video is trying to say. Math is not fun for everyone. The individuals presented in this video are not relatable enough for the average math student. With this in mind, an emotional approach to the argument that "math is useful" is ineffective. The argument should be strictly fact based in my opinion. I think computers and the internet are proof enough that math is essential to everyday life.
LinkedIn IPO
Hence the quotes. Like someone else mentioned its the 'right' level of abstractions for most. Heck even the assembly isin't zero abstractions.
The most interesting thing about the article was that the advice was not just for the rich, but general investment advice for anyone.

It seemed as though this sample suggested passive investment with an emphasis on diversification of speculative tech stocks. This would be especially important to paper millionaires who "have the money" who now need to safely and wisely get it to cash.

Not a problem for most of us yet, but I'd imagine I'd hit the books if I legally obtained access to millions like some of these founders have.

I'd also imagine experienced founders who have seen checks for millions before would already know what to do.
You're definitly not in the I group of people. I was also a bit irritated by the pseudo-scientific introduction, but reading it all, at the end, I came to the conclusion that this is strong and valuable wisdom. I even consider it a valuable scientific work equivalent to the work of early taxonomists. It is a theory which allows to infer and deduce things that where not obvious in the first place.
This is a good point. Of course - for a banker it is not an opinion it is a full time job and at 7% they are very well compensated for it.
So that all the RIAA has to do is provide a sample mp3 and then DropBox can see who has AES(F, H(F)) stored. Only the files with user generated unknown content can remain mysterious to DropBox, widely used files cannot.

No, Dropbox does not know who has what hash. The list of files you have is encrypted by your own key. I realize the scheme is not fixed and there are ideas, since no one exactly published a paper on this.

Also, how would this scheme interact with DropBox's differential upload and revision tracking feature?

Yes, unfortunately there is always a trade-off between security and usability. Things like encrypted volumes are not very friendly and intuitive but provide security. Similarly, lots of neat tricks that Dropbox uses might become void. But at least dedup that was one of their strong features still works.
Is Gnome becoming a new OS? see the comments section
I am currently working on (and will be all summer):

- MIDI Controller-related stuff (just finished a hardware project, moving on to some new and advanced firmware mods for the Midifighter).

- 2D SciFi viking game, using a custom C++/Lua engine, using OpenGL 3 for graphics, Intel Threading Building Blocks for multicore, SDL 1.3 for windowing and input, GLM for math, Bullet for physics. Component entity system based. No audio yet.

- Backend web development for money.

- Tinkering with various bits and pieces: a Qt-based mini-dwarf-fortress type thing; programming language concepts; bitcoin related stuff...

Amount of time spent on each is roughly in the above order, from most time to least time.
So, yes, your intro class should be for kids with no former compsci exposure, just like every other major your college offers.

I think his point is that no other major starts from scratch. The standard first-year math course is calculus, which builds on algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. First-year English and history classes are very much like high school English and history classes. First year classes in most subjects actually provide a misleading degree of continuity, with second or third year classes suddenly taking a college-level turn: proving theorems, writing seminar papers, etc.

To make an analogy with math, imagine if a student's prior exposure to math was just basic arithmetic to calculate change, scale recipes, and figure out how many weeks until their birthday. Then they go to college and take an "intro" course that covers all of high school algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. They're floundering because of the pace of the class, and they look around and see that about 20% of the kids are utterly bored and itching to get to trigonometry, because they already learned algebra and geometry in their spare time in high school.

That's the situation college CS programs find themselves in. How in the world do you take someone with no prior exposure to one of the fundamental skills of the field and, in four years, turn them into someone to whom it would be appropriate to give a college degree in computer science? Programmer isn't just a neat and useful skill. It's the skill by which computer science is traditionally explored and learned -- we don't know any other way except mathematical theory -- and it's the skill to which computer science knowledge must be wedded for a computer science graduate to make themselves useful. (Not every computer science graduate needs to be a programmer, but they all need to program, unless they also have a degree in another field or plan on going to graduate school.)
What you said intuitively appears true, but it's actually not the case in real life. Helping others is not limited by time or money - you can help others in large or small ways. And the OP is absolutely correct, if you are not already helping others in some way, having more money won't change your behaviour.

On a related note, I was talking to an university alumni director in Australia (where philanthropy is not culturally ingrained like in the US) and she was telling me the statistics on donations. If a student did not make a donation to the university within 5 years of leaving, 96% of them would never make a donation. However, if they made a donation within 5 years, a very large percentage of them would continue to make donations (regular or irregular) over their lifetime. How much they initially donated was irrelevant - it was the initial act of donating that determined the probability of them continuing to donate.

Similarly, if you are not prepared to donate a few dollars when on a 'low' income, you are unlikely to change your behaviour when you are on a 'high' income.
> I hope that answered your question.

It did, thank you.
Ask HN: What Internal Knowledge Management tools are used in your company?
My company uses:
- Local Newsgroups (nntp)
- E-Mail
- Wikis
- Chat (Jabber)
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I agree, and I really like it because it works on a lot of levels. Like music, a "computer science" curriculum covers a huge range of things on the "practical everyday usage" <--> "theory" scale, and in order to be valuable you have to have knowledge all along that spectrum.
This video would be a lot stronger if they had only 1 or 2 academics out of the dozen or so people, rather than the opposite ratio.
For some reason it just doesn't feel the same ;) :

http://i.imgur.com/3u1Rb.png

I wish we didn't have to rely on a 3rd party.
And all are deeply influenced by The Crazy.
He just bought a $7million dollar house, so....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/05/mark-zuckerberg-hou...
Mark Gorton also bicycles to work, though from somewhere fancy in New York. Biking to work isn't a financial decision for a lot of people though.
Is graphene a miracle material?
Although I'm undiagnosed I do have symptoms and a family history of the disorder. The number one thing I did in my adult life to stabilize myself is this combo: no coffee, no cigarettes, no alcohol, moderate exercise, regular sleep and lots of fruits and veggies.

If you think that path might work for you, take it slowly. Quit the coffee (and cigarettes if you smoke). That will help you get back to a normal sleep schedule. Cut your drinking way down after that. I'm talking 1 - 2 drinks a week. After you've done that for a couple months try adding in some exercise.

You should also see a professional, but in my experience (via my family) they tend to focus on medicating you. That may or may not be necessary for you, but the above will definitely help you out.
energy is solved.
http://www.energyfromthorium.com/history.html

potable water is solved as a side effect of thorium reactors.

food was solved by the Bosch-Haber process, it's a matter of distribution now.
Of course you enjoy it. It makes you feel smart.
Almost. There's the little trick of getting establishment buy-in.
Being rich means that you have mastered how to turn time into money. Great. So you've got the hang of half of the game - which is no time to sit back and rest on your laurels.

Now you have to master turning money into time.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/02/what-is-wealth.ph...

We all go through engineering our cycles of property and time; how can we best optimize time to generate property that can be used to make our time more effective? We do this in small ways and large, but everyone does it. Some people do it so effectively they launch themselves into property escape velocity, exponentially increasing the effectiveness of their time and exploring the outer limits of what it means to maintain ownership of a great deal of property.

Interestingly, despite the grand importance of time as the absolute foundation of wealth, very little progress has been made in the most obvious optimization of all: creating property that can create more time. More heartbeats, more health, more time spent alive and active. Rejuvenation medicine, capable of repairing the damage of aging. Tissue engineering to generate replacements for worn organs. The cure for cancer. If you could do all that, then the much more productive form of escape velocity becomes possible - longevity escape velocity. Why strive to maintain an empire of property that will crumble to dust when the degenerations of age catch up with you when you could be that fit-looking guy having a blast swimming in the breakers every other Sunday for as long as you like?

Wealth is exactly time, and here we are, bordering the era of biotechnology for the repair of aging. Planning ahead for the best possible personal future starts with investment now. Think about it.
No, Dropbox does not know who has what hash.

They don't need to - you upload AES(F, H(F)), so if the RIAA give DropBox a sample "Beyonce: Pop Song #7.mp3" file, DropBox can do H(F), then do AES(F, H(F)), then say "do we have this? Yes. Who uploaded it? Accounts adambloggs1, beatricebloggs2, carltonbloggs3, delaneybloggs4".

They couldn't trawl for the RIAA by filename only, or by file hash only, but they could trawl from an example file.

The safe stuff would be your accounts - since there is nobody to provide an example file for them to hash/encrypt. (Except it wouldn't be totally safe since they could weaken the local database encryption or pass themselves the key to it, and you'd never know).

We can agree that they might be able to do it and keep DeDupe, though.
https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream
The power of wording...
Agreed. Maybe it just takes a certain amount of chutzpah to buck the system like that. Or, maybe some of the VCs are in bed with the investment bankers.

It surprises me, though, considering that Google has blazed the trail, that others wouldn't be eager to follow, if only to encourage people to think of them as "the next Google".
$500? that's what, a half-day bill rate for most mid range USian computer professionals? If you believe you are deriving much productivity benefit from caffeine at all, that doesn't seem like a very good deal.

I'm just saying, the fact that someone won't give up a drug they perceive to enhance productivity for a small amount of money is not evidence that it is addictive; it could also be a rational decision (e.g. I believe I am giving up more than $500 worth of additional productivity if I don't use caffeine)

I would be really interested in the results of (and even willing to participate in) a properly controlled study that measured the effects of caffeine on productivity. But measuring actual productivity is /very hard/ which is why I've gotta keep using words like 'perceived productivity'
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From now on, I personally stop upvoting or downvoting anything at all. It will not be noticed by anyone, it just feels the right thing to do.
Earthquake Watch (or "The end of the world seems awfully quiet")
Now they call it Ritalin.
How do you reconcile this with the common claim that programmers are painfully difficult to recruit? If they can't find people who can pass the FizzBuzz test, why would they narrow the applicant pool even further?
ING Direct offers this option.
https://home.ingdirect.com/products/products.asp?s=ElectricO...
Yet another foursquare client
I was, but none of those methods even came close to working; you could "circumvent" them just by putting the CD into a computer running an unexpected operating system, because they all had to be compatible with existing CD players.
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Google (AdWords)
If you don't mind, would you explain that a bit more?
I agree with everything you said, but I don't think it contradicts what I was saying.
aside: is there a linkedin specifically for programmers yet?
How God is managing the 2011 Rapture
Manifesto vs. empirics:

"The corporate culture of hidden champions is distinctive. Their values are conservative: hard work, strict selection, intolerance of underperformance, low sickness rates and high employee loyalty — and most are based in smaller towns.

Leadership style is authoritarian on strategic issues but participative on operations level. The leaders identify themselves with the company, are focussed on their products, and stay for a long time, much longer than is normal in large public corporations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Champions#Hidden_Champio...

Yes, this is not necessarily the best model for hackers, but one should keep in mind that these hidden champions are successful tech companies.
I think everyone who keeps saying that LinkedIn is evidence of a tech bubble should just stop complaining and take a short position. Put your money where your mouth is.
Toronto! =)
If you think about it, "harder to consume quickly," as annoying as it is, is exactly what was needed to fix "the decline of HN."

I have to disagree. I used the comment scores exactly for this, to "consume quickly". Well, yes, there's only so much time I can spend on HN and being able to figure out which posts seem to be highly valued was helpful.

Most of the time I would read the discussion of the article before the article itself. Sometimes from the discusson I could see that the article would not interest me. Sometimes the discussion was so thorough that there would be no need to read the article at all.

Now I generally read the top comment and decide on that. It's good, because it saves even more time. It's bad, because I'm most likely missing on a lot of content.

Maybe eventually I'll get to the point when I open HN once in a few days for a few minutes and close again. That will save time, but a lot of interesting content will be missed.
Learning Python, Django, and JavaScript for a project; goal is to have a prototype by the beginning of July.

Stuff to learn: numerical linear algebra, dictionary learning, Judea Pearl's Causality

Research: diffusion geometry for databases (?)
I'm selling an ebook on math -- more details about the process here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870015
Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, is said to still fly by coach and be cheap in general. This might just be the public image he's presenting though.
Why is google talk listed as dead?
It's one of the services I use every day for chat and VoIP (V as in Voice and Video) because of their excellent cross-platform support (life sometimes ain't easy on linux).

Also the addition of AIM integration indicates it's very actively being worked on, unfortunately I don't know anybody still using that network.

Of course there is still the mysterious lack of VoIP on android, but does that make the whole service useless?
Report: Multiplatform TV to Revolutionise TV Viewing?
Still practically none of (web) cloud apps have the level of usability available in desktop apps. Even though HTML has come a long way, I doubt it will ever catch up. Imho the next trend will be native apps with integrated interfaces to cloud services. These kind of applications have existed for a long time, but they were not widespread. Now however with the advent of app stores it's becoming mainstream. Pretty much every serious cloud service already has a native mobile application. Why not do the same for the desktop?
Even if it's a black market of counterfeit items there is still the need for repeat customers or referrals.
the parallels between Google and Microsoft go further in that prior to their own IPO, the Google founders granted an interview to Playboy that was not supposed to be published until after the IPO:

http://www.google-watch.org/playboy.html

It was published prior to the IPO (because of magazine lead times, etc.) and caused them a lot of problems - they were close to having to cancel the IPO

I am trying to find other IPO quiet period tech interviews to put them all together in a blog post - so if you know of any others, let me know
Bad comments are still grey.

Well, I would only want "good" comments to have some colour too. Say, those with score over 20 or some other arbitrary number should have a different colour. Maybe even more than one gradation - change of colour at score of 20, another at 50, maybe one more at 100. That would make me a relatively happy user.
Wow! Thank you very much for taking the time to provide such in-depth feedback. This is why I love this community so much.
He was forced to be his shareholders, actually, because wasting time in coach was reducing shareholder value.
Show HN: TOTransit.ca - Toronto Streetcars Live On a Map (Weekend Project)
Link: http://totransit.ca

I made this on a weekend back in April. My motivation was to create something I would find useful, and to utilize data provided by Toronto Open Data (http://toronto.ca/open).

The app uses the NextBus API to get live data on streetcar positions. A small PHP script converts the XML to JSON format, but the bulk of the app is Javascript. Thanks to the Google Maps API, the app works nicely on both desktop browsers and mobile.

I find that a map view works well for many different data sets, so I have started an effort to create a generic "on a map" boilerplate. This is a stripped down version of the TO Transit code, and includes the code to make it web app friendly on smartphones. It's still pretty rough, but here's a link: https://github.com/nomatteus/onamap