skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are all trolls, so who cares.

I say bait you idiots with randomly spewed nonsense so that you spend all your time commenting on the internet.

Go cry more!
It now has X86 and ARM backends.
I'm sure this is very good but I'd much rather have a formula for the main artifacts - the actual radial spikes, instead of the minor horizontal pattern.
"It's like facebook... but with hookers and blow! You know.. Social."
> Does it completely prevent this? No

But, of course, it's only a part of a larger system. Along with hellbans, we have downvotes, flags, comments from high-karma users showing up higher on the page, algorithms to detect voting rings and sockpuppets, and so on.

All of these things combine to make it very difficult to be an effective troll on HN. Trollish comments normally end up with poor visibility and therefore low engagement from other users, which essentially starves the trolls.
Good stuff. I'm not sure if this is an improvement, but it's a nice piece of trivia... your status range checks can be reduced a bit:

(and (>= status 200) (< status 300))

becomes:

(<= 200 status 299)

Go Clojure.
Oh look, yet another far-more-hype-than-substance article from conceivablytech.
Rumor: Microsoft Unveiling Xbox Subscription TV Service at E3
I don't think Wall Street needs to break any laws when Congress and the Federal Reserve are telling them "Here's a pile of money, please exploit it for your own personal gain. And be sure to send us any unpaid bills."
For those who don't know: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

A list from tptacek is worth a look.

Hmm. Although this is listed in his profile (link-shortened). I never noticed it, though, so seems worth the mention.
am I missing something? Other than Tantek's work (which is in no way shown on this link), why is a single disenting sentence on HN?
Could you explain further? This sounds interesting.
The domain name is quite apt for this post. (The trip turned out to be a no-op. http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/n/no-op.html)
Fair enough. You were a bit of an asshole around the time you were hellbanned, but you had a fair number of decent contributions afterwards.
I'd love to know a bit about what's running this. At this point I'm almost convinced it's a time machine.
what is your contact info, I would like to contact you.
anyone looking for a coding buddy to do something or ideas? i have some free time atm
I just completed a job search and can say the market really is in your favor.

Stop using Craiglist. If you're going to use a service, use Indeed, Authentic Jobs, the 37 Signals job board or something else. "Inside Startups" is a great newsletter that lists jobs weekly.

Ideally, though, you want to meet people in person. There are multiple parties, events, and meetups every week.

To start, go to any of the tech meetups listed on Meetup.com. Garysguide.org has a lot of events listed as well. (Those Meetup groups have email lists, watch them for job postings.) Get business cards and follow up with people.

You're going to get offers faster than you expect. Decide what you want (big company, small company, front-end, back-end, python, ruby, etc), and learn to say "no". Before saying "yes", ask other nerds about them (at the Meetups, for example).
I agree with most of what you said, but it's not highly suspect to want to keep something as vital as churn rate secret from your competitors.
It would definitely make sense (the more you can hold in memory at one time, the faster you could learn stuff), but I don't think they've actually concluded that's how it works. They are clearly related though.

Another hypothesis is that working memory and fluid intelligence both utilize the same neural paths/network, so an increase in one benefits the other.

The study itself is linked in my article above if you're interested in reading it. It's pretty interesting stuff.
Sure. On an individual contributor level:

Right out of college, I tended to prefer building things on my own, rather than using existing patterns or frameworks. I did this partly because I wanted to learn the "fundamentals", and partly because I was arrogant (or stupid, some probably said).

One day, a senior developer gave me a book on design patterns. I was floored. I started applying them and found the quality (and maintainability, reusability, etc) of my code increase tremendously.

Over time, others have given me more tips on improving my efficiency. From something as simple as learning keyboard shortcuts and customizing an IDE's UI, to unit testing and handy shell scripts, I found myself saving a lot of time.

Of course, you may be doing all of these things already, in which case, you may already have a pretty optimized work technique already.

On a managerial level:

I'm a believer that if you put the right team together, 1+1=3. So my value has shifted from being an individual software developer to someone who can put together teams of developers insanely smarter than I am, then remove all the roadblocks out of their way so they can build great things. I still write some code, but while my value as a developer has dropped tremendously, my value in managing a team of developers means our overall output is greater than the sum of our parts.

In other words, I increased my "value" by becoming a manager. Of course, that kind of a role change is not for everyone, but that's what I did.

Another example is one of prioritization. Sometimes it's only realistically possible to do X units of work a day (let's say 10 units), and sometimes a person is asked to do Y units of work a day (let's say 30). That means 20 units aren't going to get done; it's just not possible. Trying to squeeze in more would result in a lack of quality (due to lack of sleep, exhaustion, etc). So what can one do? Do the most important 10 units first. It sounds pretty obvious, but in the heat of the moment, I sometimes found myself wanting to do the 10 easiest units first, not the 10 most important. Proper prioritization made a big increase in the quality of my output as well.
Argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or "appeal to ignorance", is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not been proven false (or vice versa). This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that there is insufficient investigation and therefore insufficient information to satisfactorily prove the proposition to be either true or false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
> Follow the channel for little time before asking anything.

Related: an IRC stream is always conversation of sorts and, for humans, there is only enough bandwidth for a few voices at a time to be heard. If three people have just asked questions or there are multiple ongoing discussions, it might be wise to wait until things quiet down a bit.
The really interesting bit is in the graph: it looks like there's a fair percentage of users - 3%, roughly - who, every seven days or so, on the weekend, switch from IE to one of the other three major browsers, mostly Chrome.
I think Slashdot allows high karma users to disable advertising actually.
A little note for you Experts out there. Don’t take
yourself too seriously; We are all here to learn and
grow. Coddle the dumb ones and challenge the smart ones.

If you consider the ratio of expertise to ignorant questions you'll see that this is really bad advice. Experts, even when they dabble in Q&A, are not by definition tutors. It's unfair to expect that whole category of people to waste their own time and the time of people with smart questions by 'coddling' those who fail to grasp this fact. When dealing with people who are clearly overreaching their current capabilities, or who ask 'how' questions without any interest in the 'why', giving them the cold shoulder and an invitation to gather more background knowledge from published resources is often the best service that can be done.

Another factor in support fatigue among open source software experts is the (often inept) commercial application of the software, which is commonly associated with a lack of respect for the software itself and for those who have deep knowledge of it. Then* you get questions paired with criticism like 'I know exactly how to do this in Y, why can't stupid X behave the way I want?' or insistent pleading like 'I need to get this working ASAP! Please halp!'. When the intent behind the question is not to learn but to make money faster, volunteers support 'staff' are not obliged to step up.

Anyway, advising experts in general to change the way they volunteer time and information is pointless. They know what works for them and there are no levers on IRC to make them change their habits.

PS, config help on #apache? What network is that? :)

* I know, not only then.
Perhaps having an easy way to link up, or display, the comments from a previous post of the same link would be helpful. I myself find it really interesting to read old comments from a previous post.
At least send them home when they start smelling bad after a 3 day stint. I wish I was in my early twenties again I could use that time far better then what I did.
It depends what the conference is about. Some people in the security industry have had problems, as have political dissidents.
Great product and spaghetti code works for a while. They will buy you for market position but you will lose two years development down the line to bring the code into corporate standards. It will take to engineering managers to make it happen. From experience.
How are group entries supposed to share the prize? Refund for dinero?
+1 to Carter'd thoughts.

Some other resources are these:

- FindAHacker.com (mostly NYC focused, email list of opportunities)

- HireLite.com (video chat speed dating for hiring)

- InsideStartups.org (email list of job opportunities)

There are many places looking, so things are certainly in your favor in NYC. Plus the city is awesome!
> There are two versions. The entry level FUNcube Dongle gives access to the satellite frequency band that FUNcube and some other satellites use. The Pro version gives unlimited access to the frequency range 64 to 1,700MHz[1].

> It’s also all-mode: this means that it’s not just limited to narrow band FM reception. As well as data, the FUNcube Dongle will also recieve many other narrow band signals including AM, FM and SSB. It will even receive TV sound channels!

[1] 96Khz bandwidth.
could someone please explain what he means?
Google doesn't offer to buy Ponzi schemes for six billion dollars.
Why you should earn revenue from user #7
I can't reproduce the Firefox steps you mention. I click on the favicon in the browser's search box and I don't get a chance to select "Add HNSearch," but rather a message saying "This website does not supply identity information."
While forbin is cagey, my bet is it's a single linux box running some python code, as well as shelling out to various programs (BASIC, etc).

OTOH, I could be very wrong.. it does seem to have a CPU, with opcodes, that I can disassemble.. Truth or clever fiction? Half the fun.
I fully agree with this. I didn't do a good job articulating it. I think the 'heaviness' of the tools, and even having to go through any of those programs (apply etc.) is enough of a deterrent to stop people who are looking to just get something up quickly.
Simple answer: one weekend in Las Vegas.

Honest rationale: if you accept a $10,000 grant for your "startup" but don't know how to spend it, you're clearly gambling your time away. You might as well gamble the money away.
The site somehow let me submit a duplicate of an active thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619641
I shall copy and paste for your enlightenment

#schemaorg spits in the eyes of every person and company that worked on open vocabularies like vCard, iCalendar, etc

#schemaorg much worse than just a Google+MS duopoly reinvention of open vocabularies, they're actually forking #HTML5.

#schemaorg #HTML5 fork smoke: http://schema.org/EventVenue openingHours extends <time> datetime with durations.

#schemaorg problem not about #HTML5 #microformats #RDFa. It's about open standards communities and subversion thereof.

A link to cory doctorow from 2001:
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm#2.1

quite a decent essay from @manusporny that debunks a lot about #schemaorg: http://manu.sporny.org/2011/false-choice/
Did you happen to write/blog anywhere about the scenario and the reasons for the move from PHP to Java? It would be an interesting case study.
When it comes to daily deals, I doubt consumers will chose Groupon over a better deal, just because of the Groupon name.

On this count, it's worth remembering that extreme bargain hunters have very low loyalty to vendors. It's what allows them to take advantage of the best deals. Which is why I think a lot of businesses have been disappointed in the results from Groupon deals, and why the moat around Groupon is pretty shallow, given how much they've spent.
I can see that. You know, if I squint. :)
Imagine how hard it would be to manage 8500 independent business.

Why would they need to manage 8500 businesses? That's probably the last thing they or the startups want. Give the startup the resources and let them do the rest.

So the question is: if they invested in 8500 startups, would Skype be one of them? If not, they still would have to buy Skype.

Microsoft has spent billions on acquisitions and marketing that turned out to be a complete failure. Betting on some startups is probably a better gamble. Microsoft can concentrate that bet on a single business for a huge sum (like Skype) or they can spread it out among thousands of businesses with smaller amounts of capital. Realistically, given the money that they have, Microsoft can probably do both.
I mean, why didn't Bill Gates just spend 8.5 billion on curing AIDS, hunger and poverty? Oh, wait...
It's the favicon in the search box, not the location bar.
This is also infuriating when it comes to medical knowledge and dealing with doctors.

A really good site about the trade-offs involved in judgment under uncertainty in medical diagnosis is Science-Based Medicine,

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/

a group blog with bloggers of varying professional credentials that occasionally has truly excellent articles on human cognitive illusions and how they influence medical diagnosis and treatment.
Based on anecdotal evidence from my friends and my own renting experience:

Salaries: between 60 and ~100k for 0-2 years out of college (those are my friend's age ranges).

Rent: Highly dependent on where you live. Assuming you want to live decently in Manhattan, expect to pay anywhere from $1k (in Washington Heights) to $2k/mo (in, e.g. UWS) to unlimited for other areas for a 1-bedroom apartment (or equivalent). Obviously, this can be cheaper or more expensive depending on if you want roommates, location, quality of building and quality of apartment.

Living expenses: Obviously depends on how you live. Take what you pay right now and add 30-40%.
I think it may be a little too late to be looking for summer internships in June. I'm based here in the Bay Area and have talked to people who recommend getting started with internship searches November/December or early January/February. There are a ton of opportunities here in the valley, though, so people may be able to snatch some last minute internships if they try hard enough.
The truth of a statement can be determined by two things:

1. If the person is an authority or expert on the topic being discussed. In this case, the person has credibility and it is smart to give them a level of trust.

2. If the person is providing a reference to some objective, public evidence that can be independently evaluated to determine if the statements are valuable.

The post in question did not provide either #1 or #2.

Steve Pavlina is popular because he's a good writer, not because his ideas are supported by evidence or because he has credibility or legitimate authority.

With the general public, all it takes to be influential is good writing. e.g. Jesus Christ is popular.

Hacker News should aim for a higher level of discourse: discourse based on verifiable facts, or based on credible authority. Not sophistry by well-spoken demagogues.
I personally loath meta answers like "why are you doing X and asking Y" instead of wasting the equivalent typing of explaining why X and Y is a bad idea.

With that said, I usually find the most serious experts just quietly ignoring silly questions or trying to pry out the root of the problem through a constructive dialog. Why superior douchebags get satisfaction of showing of their superiority by bashing beginners has always been beyond me.

That said you really need a tough skin on IRC on some channels, and always take the topic to the letter. That usually indicates what type of people hang there and what type of messages are accepted.
Yeah sorry, I realize Google and Bing have fixed those issues but for the longest time, even Google didn't do it!
Parking your car so that it blocks the alley is a terrible thing to do. Eating all the skin off a bucket of fried chicken is a terrible thing to do (as is buying a bucket of fried chicken). Serving warm beer is a terrible thing to do.

Failing to welcome the comments, well intentioned or otherwise, of someone who had to be explicitly driven out of a community is not a terrible thing to do.

Not all of those [dead] comments are actually from hellbanned users, are they?
The authors argument was that it would be in the vein of Microsoft Research. The existing Microsoft Research works on very diversified research activities that don't necessarily integrate vertically in their existing product pipeline. Some of those activities get spun out into product teams, but many don't. I'll wager that the process of doing that research (even absent a formal product at the end) makes them better as a company.
I'm finding myself not having trouble with wasting the time of people who previously sunk their time into deliberately wasting everyone else's time.
Check out CrowdTap... Hot startup hiring in NYC.
Yup - but their management would only have to be minimal. More than anything, the mindshare, and the developers that they would have using their tools, and thinking about Microsoft technology more frequently could be worth it even if they don't get quite the billion dollar returns they're looking for.
It's not a business, it's the publishing arm of the National Academy of Science, which was chartered to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science" by the US Congress and signed into law by President Lincoln in 1863. The idea was the government needed an academy of experts to advise law makers on matters of science.

http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/whoweare.html
Everybody Chill The Nvidia-Microsoft Pact Is Actually 11 Years Old
You are not allowed to do any sort of work for your company including programming, business development, marketing etc. You can only be an inactive partner in the company.

But practically speaking, you could get away with it while two of you develop the software from your apartment. USCIS is not going to monitor what you have been doing on your computer at home.

It would be difficult when your business grows and have employees & customers. Make sure that you are able to transfer H1-B to your company by then.

I guess founders of few YC and TechStars companies come to US on Visa Waiver Program or Visitor visa for few months and work on their startup.
I suspect Google was looking at the possibility of modifying it to fit in with their advertising business. I can envision several ways that could have worked out.
Google research got to the same conclusion: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/03/google_paper_on_cplu...
I would try, to the greatest extent possible, to avoid taking investment from a client.

There is a fundamental conflict of interest between customers, who want to pay you as little as possible in each transaction, and investors, who want you to earn as much as possible in each transaction.

If a person or entity is willing to pay your Saas business for something that will reduce their opex, that's great, but they're fundamentally a customer rather than an investor, and I wouldn't give them any equity.
Thanks for your reply.
I spell out in no uncertain terms how the comment proves what I'm claiming, and you think I'm getting creative? At what point do you think I got creative? How well do you score in reading comprehension? I have a feeling we would get along just fine if we were communicating on the same level, or as native speakers of the same language.
Andi's other comments don't show anything of the sort, and are irrelevant, you can point it out as much as you want - you won't get any marks for it. I think you've typecast Andi as a crazy luddite very unfairly. You are putting quite a lot of extra words into his mouth.

Andi did not argue against all technical progress, he argues against ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for future generations.

One more time: there is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations. Do you agree with this statement or not?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
I can get a lot more references, more recent but that just about sums it up!
I too feel a little sad on this one, but I did like the extend version of the comic posted in the forum http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=55907&sta...
The Virality Experiment – My Word Cloud
Sony’s problem is memes, not security
Your comments weren't nonsensical. They just had a bad habit of calling people names.
Something like this would be more interesting if it only kicked in above a certain salary, say, 80k here in the US. Then it would actually be more like an investment, with actual potential losses to the investor, in turn for less financial burden on graduates in their early years.

Otherwise, it's not effectively any different than a standard student loan, at least for students.
Since Steve Pavlina makes something like a million dollars per year on his magical blog, he has credibility when it comes to making money.

The real question to ask about Steve Pavlina though is whether his blog posts are designed to help YOU make money, or to help HIM make money. He typically doesn't provide objective evidence indicating you will be helped. And if he wanted to, he COULD get this evidence.

So for instance he claims that using various magical powers you can make money. He could invest $50,000 in running scientific trials of these methods and objectively prove to his readers that it works.

THAT would be worthy of Hacker News.

But if Steve Pavlina is fair game to be quoted on HN, I am gonna start quoting Jesus. Cause they have about the same level of credibility.
The artist as a liar?
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proxies

Proxies, which are only supported currently in Firefox but should see support in other browsers eventually, will allow you to intercept all types of property access/manipulation on objects. This will allow generalized multiple inheritance and dynamic mixins; I wrote basically that using node-proxy for Node.js.
One thing I missed the first time reading the paper is that those were the only bugs they could find in the compiler. After reporting them and getting fixes, several CPU-years more of random programs haven turned up another failure.

All the other compilers pick up tens of failing cases a night, which they skim off and report as their previously reported tests are fixed (the LLVM and GCC teams are quite responsive, others less so).

This kind of differential testing also provides some evidence that the formalization isn't too far off - each "passing" case means that almost all the compilers produced exactly the same results for the program.

Both projects are awesome, especially if you like reliable compilers.