skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I go to a new place, it takes about a year to really understand the true "costs" of living there. (The benefits are usually obvious on the first day or two.)

I have a friend who lived in Singapore for many years. The biggest "cost" for her in living there was that it is not fully subscribed to the principals of the Enlightenment.

I know this is like saying, "Yes your new girlfriend is cute and smart, but you should know she's also occasionally batshit crazy." You won't believe me and you'll be more inclined to shoot the messenger, but I thought you should know.
There are few startups in Dublin compared to say San Francisco but with that in mind you might try...

App development company
http://tapadoo.com

General Tech Jobs in Dublin
http://www.prosperity.ie/category_job_search_19/it_jobs.html

Good Luck and provisionally Welcome to Dublin.
try looking here
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607052
My biggest prediction at this point is a revamped notification system, given that they've hired Peter Hajas.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/06/03/apple_hires_ip...
for more flexibility, like taking arbitrary ranges of elements, it is possible to use partial qsort, that is pretty easy to implement (just don't recurse for ranges that are outside the range you want to sort).
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I think the point is you don't have to switch, even if you're doing some kind of realtime webapp you can still piece it together using php and redis (though I'm not sure whether there's a good comet/websocket framework for php). But it's sure going to be a hack.
Also, using Akka or OTP you get a lot of stuff for free: supervisor hierarchies, lightweight processes (not everyone must be an OS thread), pattern matching. So I would agree that pitching these technologies to garden variety web and mobile apps on the value proposition that it's better at dealing with multi-cores is disingenuous. As you said, it has its benefits there. But maybe some of the proponents are just using multi-cores to illustrate a general trend, and maybe less of a singular value proposition.
Good Point. There's nothing specifically in Dublin on the list but there are a lot of companies looking for remote workers.
Here is a solution in C++. It reads K and then N numbers from stdin and then prints K largest.

The complexity of nth_element is O(N).

#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std;

int main() {
int K;
cin >> K;
vector<int> numbers((istream_iterator<int>(cin)),
istream_iterator<int>());
nth_element(numbers.begin(), numbers.begin() + K, numbers.end(),
greater<int>());
for (int i = 0; i < K; ++i) {
cout << numbers[i] << ' ';
}
cout << '\n';
}

Input:

5
1 9 1 3 7 8 2 11 2 5 5 9 1 7

Output:

7 9 9 11 8

Note: the output is not sorted.
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Jesus of Nazareth makes good use of parables to get more points of moral and spiritual but we can not say the same of his supporters in the film community that continues to make films for the US.
Your comment made me think of the film "The Thirteenth Floor"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
Secure vs who? With what budget? Are you content with achieving 'security' by shredding the server or do you plan to hook it up to a network?
There are also quite a lot more Windows machines than OSX machines. Hacking Windows has a higher expected rate of return (whether it's information extraction, phishing, botnet creation, etc.)
Remember that in Australia, the constitution isn't as foundational as it is in the USA. Just because it's not in the constitution doesn't mean that it's not enshrined in the consciousness of the people.

I come from New Zealand, and although there's a lot of rivalry between Australia and New Zealand, I nevertheless consider Australia to be a second home -- even though I've only been there twice.
Decent start; I've read twelve of them, and none of the biographies. I'm a geek, I guess.

The absence of the Jargon File / Hacker Dictionary must be noted, and ideally, corrected.

Gödel, Escher, Bach would seem to belong as well.
US house price fall 'beats Great Depression slide'
I think most of the web startups prefer scripting languages in which their founders/developers are comfortable. It could be Php, Java, Ruby, Python or any other language. I would prefer Perl as I m good with it and can get things done quickly :)
This is a dangerous line of reasoning. Sure, you can't absolutely guarantee that a talented, experienced, and determine group of hackers won't be able to gain access to your system, regardless of how much effort you put into it. But that's no excuse for slap dash security measures.

The fact that breaches of Sony's systems have led to leakage of plain-text passwords and credit card data is a failure that absolutely can be prevented with a modicum of effort and every single iota of shame that has been visited on Sony for failing to put forth even that degree of effort is honestly earned and deserved.
With icloud, I'm really hoping for shared saves on games between devices. Ie I play a game on my iPad; then when I grab my iPhone I can pick up the same game where I left off.
This thread gives the impression that the US is rather different and intrusive. "To go to the US" is as easy as flying there from a Visa Waver country. "To live in the US" is a different thing.

FWIW, a similar story can be constructed for Canada - in order to be landed immigrants, we had to go through selection by a province (submission of over an inch of paperwork, interview, months of waiting), selection by Canada (similar pile of paperwork, waiting), pay hundreds of dollars for medical exams and single-handedly support the local "passport photo" and fingerprint establishments. There were checks done by the police and both provincial and federal levels of both countries involved.

I suspect this process isn't unique to any one country. Oh and the whole process cost a few thousand dollars in government fees.
> The flip side of this is that if you suddenly use one more field in a tuple, way down the line in some unrelated portion of the code, you might trigger a very expensive computation. This is unacceptable in many large apps written by multiple people; you shouldn't have to worry that a tiny field reference can bloat the program's memory consumption by orders of magnitude.

No matter what language you use if you want to use the results you're going to pay the calculation/resource fee. All Haskell (via lazy calculation) is doing is giving you a speed increase when it can tell you aren't using certain results.
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>mostly by people I've never heard of

well they make sense :)
Building with Xcode 4 on my mac is slow enough as it is. I can't imagine how bad it would be on iPad.
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Singapore is a fine city.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Singapore+is+a+fine+city&...
That's the really contentious part of the claim. There's evidence that these games may make you better at performing certain tasks - but there's very little that video games make you generally smarter.

Nicholas Carr has written a nice piece on this http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2011/04/grand_theft_att.ph...
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Unless you live in a country with lower tax rates than the US, the annual cost of such taxation is paper, toner and postage. The advantage is that you can enter/leave without having to resolve your holdings with the IRS (at least as a citizen, no idea whether this applies to green card holders).
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Rambling anecdote, bear with me: In the 1920's my grandmother and her sister were sent from Scotland to study in Berlin. The requirement to have a passports was very new then. My great grandfather thought they were a ridiculous idea and sent his teenage daughters off on their own to travel across Europe without them. Much to his surprise and horror, they were arrested and jailed for a week in Germany until the whole thing was eventually sorted out. Before WW1 there were no real passport or immigration controls in Europe, the free exchange of people and ideas around Europe was probably pretty key to the industrial revolution. Just think, if Britain had turned away Brunel's family, his engineering innovations would have happened elsewhere, if at all.
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When I click the link, with javascript disabled by NoScript, I get:

>JavaScript for Mobile Safari is currently turned off.

Eh? I'm running Firefox 4 on Windows XP...
I would argue you thus fit in nowhere, and that that can be okay too.
My friends Dad, travelling in the US, had the police order him off the street at gun point because he was jaywalking.

I'm sure that is not the typical experience of most people, but I thought it an interesting anecdote after seeing the parents post...
Help Me HN: Can't think of new ideas I am interested on working on
I've been both a business founder as well as a technical founder, so I've got strong working knowledge on both ends of the spectrum. I have solid design and marketing skills as well. I've sold my last startup so I know what I'm doing and at this point in time have the funds and skill set to pretty much pursue any idea.

The problem? I can't seem to think of any idea I would want to work on. I don't have any obvious or immediate itch to personally scratch and I've had several people approach me pitching their ideas, but none of them are very exciting to me. I only want to chase ideas I am genuinely passionate about or excited about. I've literally spent the past few months day after day exploring countless ideas, markets, etc... and just can't seem to get excited enough about anything. Sure ideas are a dime a dozen but many are just junk or uninteresting.

Within a few hours to maybe a few days, I've always found something wrong with the ideas I've thought of or come up with, or any initial excitement about an idea quickly fades. To be fair, many of the ideas probably have solid potential so its not like they're all duds. They're just not exciting to work on. I've never really had this problem before as I've always been previously excited about what I was working on and have always found it easy to stumble onto ideas or think of ideas I wanted to work on in the past. Sometimes more than I can keep up with and most ends up being ignored.

One reasoning (although I don't know if this is really it) that I have considered is that when I was inexperienced, not knowing what I don't know, everything seemed more exciting and I just wanted to do things for the sake of doing them. In hindsight, it seems as though experience is both good and bad in that it now leads to me find so many flaws in ideas I probably would have otherwise wanted to explore if it was the past me. By all means, I don't think I know all that much and compare to many people out there and even people on HN, I'm probably have even less figured out. But I am guessing to some extent maybe in some unconscious way, it's making me less excited about most ideas these days.

I find ideas like Square extremely exciting and disruptive. Unfortunately I don't have anything like that brewing in my head. Does anyone else ever feel stuck? I know there certainly are a lot of people who have more ideas than they can execute on but right now, I'm stuck on finding anything I can be passionate about.

TL;DR - Can't think of an idea I like enough to be motivated to do anything even though I can execute.

PS I know I mentioned Square above but hopefully no one suggests I join another company or even work for Square. I really like starting new projects or ideas from scratch. Square was just a random example of something I would be excited about.

PPS I guess I'm just wanting to have a discussion with others who feel the same way. I don't think there is anything specific anyone can help with in this case (at least directly).
Thank you, your advice is very much appreciated.
There's one thing that annoys me that you missed. People who ask for advice, then disregard any advice that is given.
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placebo paradoxon ...

if you read this research http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17893311

which decision is more rationale?

A: choose conventional therapy because acupuncture is no more than a placebo ( verum or sham was almost similar effectiveness)

B: choose acupuncture because effectiveness of acupuncture, either verum or sham, was almost twice that of conventional therapy

Which do you prefer?
Science Based Medicine vs. Effectiveness ?
As he says towards the beginning of his post, Python 2.4 even adds a new kind of comprehension based on generators; unless you actually need a list, you should use generator expressions as they use less memory (namely, as generators, individual items are lazy-loaded; in lists they are all loaded into memory)[1][2].

(That said, he also says towards the end: Don't email me asking for me to optimize your code for you, [...] that's what the Python profiler is for.)

[1] http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#generator-...
[2] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0289/
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Same point as in universal healthcare - the ones who think they don't need/want it are the ones who might not be able to afford it when they need it. You need to be taught general skills so you have the chance to find something you like and are good at (though you generally throw away each idea after a few more years at school).

If you learnt more from adult socializing than with people of your age, and you found school boring and overly broad you sound kind of autistic. I am, and I suppose luckily I like learning wide swaths of information. Nearly all of your Asks also suggest you're autistic.
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Idea: sudo goggles (pam module)
Prevent sleepy fingers from breaking production.

blah@core $ sudo \rm -rf .*

110 - 55: 55

4 * 23: 92

41 - 59: -23

Sorry, you need either a pillow or a calculator.

Connection to core.internal closed.

laptop:~ blah$
Ultimately, I think the loss is that a lot of people who were considering buying PS3's in the future now won't, and both existing and new users will think twice about buying Sony products in future.

Compared to the financial havoc that kind of reputational damage could reap, the cost of allowing Linux is pretty small.
Having lived in Africa (Cape Town) I I'd say that I saw more horses than zebras there.

Though sometimes, in the bush, it was zebras.
I think it all comes down to how effectively branding and marketing have destroyed the EMH. Airplane tickets are fungible they're easy to compare on price. They're also expensive enough that people take the time to shop around. However because of the regulators no brand of airline is unsafe.

Buying an expensive branded cereal is probably not a completely rational action IF you could identify equally good no-brand cereals you'd save money. But certainly in the west the cost is such a small part of most peoples spending that they don't bother.
That is funny - deluded by MS mediocres trying to delude other mediocres.. ^_^
'other social networks will complain to us saying, ‘why not us?’' - Because it's realism. Someone said that macbook in that show must be paid product placement, I said it was just realistic, this character was a reasonably-well-off journalist. Even tv shows with poor people like Two Pints mention facebook in realistic terms.
"The same argument applies to any company with large amounts of cash in the bank: Google, Apple, Oracle. If we're not asking why Apple doesn't do that"

Well, Google IS doing that.

It is not only the google summer of code when they could know about young and fresh people they can hire for cheap if they are good(with a proven real case).

It is about companies like now "google earth" that later become "google maps", "google docs","gmail", "blogger", "google voice", the company then "panoramio" and know the photos is gearth and so and so. Those companies were in the millions(in son cases tens of) for acquisition cost.
Doesn't work in Opera 11.11. Really good idea though.
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Franklin.
If we're talking about the path, then clojure is 11 probsbly, being kind of the thing with which the universe is crafted.
A simple edge case:

10000000000...0000000000
10000000000...0000000000
10000000000...0000000000
10000000000...0000000001
19999999999...9999999999

Only 5 numbers, but you need all digits even to compute the first digit of the sum. There are many less obvious edge cases; any set of numbers that adds up to

60000000000...0000000000

with at least one carry from the last column will do.
I was not aware that nobody uses PoF, seems pretty popular to me. I am in Canada (Montreal) though, and this is the first time I've heard that Canada is a PoF niche, so I guess that explains it.

For those who say PoF is an inferior product: with dating sites, it all boils down to 1) number of local users, 2) easy results filtering, 3) easy communication. For me PoF had all three.

I met my wife on PoF, by the way, so: Thanks!
How is pornography related to free speech?
laptop:~ blah$ sudo
I've played footsie with moving to Singapore if I get a startup bubbling. Here's why:

* Low regulation

* Low company tax

* No income tax paid on dividends

* No capital gains

It's also a market capital for Asia. Singapore and Hong Kong are the New York and London of the Asia-Pacific region. Very deep pools of capital.

Plus it's 3.5 hours from my home town and about 5 hours from where my parents live.
Show HN: fast niche forum, active 24 hours after inception
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Reverse Ender's Game.
For those of us who grew up with QBasic: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92
Companies looking for their first customers
Consciousness or not, it's not enshrined in law.

What is enshrined in law, however, is that certain types of speech are a criminal offence. Further, there is no constitutional impediment to Parliament passing legislation which criminalises other forms of speech.
Going the more open route with Kinect seems to have done wonders for Microsoft and "shareholder value". At first they wanted to crack down on "hackers", too, but then they quickly learned that all those hacks are getting them a lot of free press in the big blogs, which in turn made it more popular with early adopters and tech influencers.
He's a community member telling us not just about a big change in his life, but about two new projects he's starting. As a weekend post, it's pretty good. At least much better than the current top item (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621132), which screams "video of pratfall!"

Too bad the main discussion here has turned out to be a low-quality back-and-forth about the political system and macroeconomic factors, just like the Indian reverse braindrain thread last week (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601240)
This is all very well, but how come they still don't have an API for Internet Radios?
Finding How Many People Checked the Whois On Your Godaddy Domains
I've just started a company with one of my friends and now we are working on getting our first customers. I read a lot of articles about the topic and it seems everyone faces the same challenges. So I was thinking of creating a place where startups could post their upcoming or newly released products and early adopters could happily be their first customers.

I had some time yesterday so I created a site for it: http://bemyfirstcustomer.com/

You essentially just add your product and some sort of discount or offer and people will register their interest. Then you can just contact those people. It's pretty informal, not like those coupon sites that cost money but hopefully it will help people generate leads (if enough people use it).

What does everyone think? Does this already exist somewhere else?
Funding seed-stage startups is broken. The ratio of accredited investors to startup is so skewed that most startups don't stand a chance of getting funding. As the LinkedIn IPO shows, average people are extremely excited about getting involved, but they are locked out in the US due to strong regulatory laws.

Disruptive startups can't get funding and there are many people who would like to fund them with small investments of, say, $50.

Here's a solution. Part One: Companies register as public companies on Malta, which is EU, on the cheap (relatively). They aren't listed on any exchange but can privately accept bids for shares from anyone. E.g. 10 shares for $50.

Part Two: A site which offers any company/group/idea the possibility to list (ala Crunchbase) but then for those companies that incorporate publicly in Malta, there's a pre-built mechanism for them to field and accepts bids for equity. There's a very small transaction fee for this.

I've registered the domain OpenStarts.com but it's yours along with the business plan if you want it. Just email me. A quick deck is here: http://c25571.r71.cf1.rackcdn.com/OpenStarts.ppsx
> Infants who can barely see already knows things like inertia and persistence of invisible objects

No, they do not. Object permanence is a good example of how even fundamental principles about reality are learned. In this case, it happens when a child is about a year old:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence

It's quite possible that if you dropped a newborn into a simulated reality that has completely different rules from our world, this child would learn the "fake" rules without knowing the difference.
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What is not science is either art, philosophy or marketing.
Suggestions for Introduction to CS?
I teach at a big research university. Next year I am teaching for the first time Intro to CS and I am very excited about it. The course right now is conventional and stale. Any suggestions for topics or teaching techniques to make it more interesting or relevant? Or, to rephrase: what/how would you have liked to study in an Intro to CS course?

One clarification: This is not Intro to Programming, that is a separate course. This is Intro to CS.
That's a great read, silverstorm. Thanks!
The Australian constitution kind of claims New Zealand.
This was in the late 90's and it was an ADA compiler so you are probably correct there.
At the moment, the only part of the internet in Australia that is censored by law are some usenet groups.
Ireland. It's called www.boardsdeals.ie and it is run by the largest message board in Ireland: www.boards.ie

There is another one that I haven't used yet too:
www.dealrush.ie

I think I remember seeing a few others too actually.
this seems quite interesting, i'll keep an eye on this.

Basically the only thing you ask for is an email where i can be contacted to submit some feedback correct?

Does the company get my email or use an form that you provide?

I'm asking this because i always try to know where my email is going.