skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You really should let this go. People have already made up their minds about facebook, and who created it, and where the ideas came from.

Even if those people are wrong, it doesn't matter. They've already decided."

Is it just me or is this the completely wrong attitude to take towards history?
I think your answer is within your question. Do what the charity water guy did. Go volunteer abroad. Maybe 1 month or 2 months to start with. If you dont like it then at least you've helped out for 2months and you'll know your not meant to volunteer fulltime.

As you see how these people live and their problems you'll come up with a solution because your a software engineer - thats what we do.
This is an odd article, because the conclusion is much more positive on the Plan-B options than the headline and lead-in:

> And with the exception of Ms. Vibert, everyone interviewed said that despite the unforeseen bumps, they would not trade their new lives for their old jobs.

> “I no longer walk with a slight depressed hunch,” said Ms. Herrington, the wedding planner, who is now enjoying steady work and glowing write-ups in wedding blogs like 100 Layer Cake. Her friends, she added, said they noticed an instant improvement in her appearance, too. “I no longer see chunks of hair falling out due to stress.”

> “Before, I never wanted to talk about work, other than to complain,” she added. “Now I like talking about my work so much that my husband has to actually ask me not to talk about it all the time.”

> Ms. Economou, the Greek baker, says she feels spiritually transformed. “I’m coming up on my one-year anniversary, and I love it,” she said. “I love being a part of the neighborhood. I didn’t realize how you become friends with your customers.”

Now these are just some arbitrarily chosen anecdotes rather than real data, but if we're going to accept the article portraying them as representing a trend, it seems like a positive trend: contrary to the headline, almost everyone they interviewed considered their Plan-B move a significant improvement in quality of life, even if it was sometimes frazzling, and only one person wanted to take the Plan-C option of going back to a regular job.
(I have been trying to agree the whole time, such as to "clarify and strengthen" your statement...)
I'm pretty sure it use to have Smalltalk on there when I last looked. Its been updated a bit so must of got removed :(
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The original is here:

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From the article by Robert Sapolsky (COPYRIGHT 2002 Natural History Magazine, Inc.) -- seems relevant to the Jonathan's Card experiment:

Think about how weird this is. If people were willing to be spontaneously cooperative even if it meant a cost to themselves, this would catapult us into a system of stable cooperation in which everyone profits. Think peace, harmony, Lennon's "Imagine" playing as the credits roll. But people aren't willing to do this. Establish instead a setting in which people can incur costs to themselves by punishing cheaters, in which the punishing doesn't bring them any direct benefit or lead to any direct civic good--and they jump at the chance. And then, indirectly, an atmosphere of stable cooperation just happens to emerge from a rather negative emotion: desire for revenge. And this finding is particularly interesting, given how many of our societal unpleasantries--perpetrated by the jerk who cuts you off in traffic on the crowded freeway, the geek who concocts the next fifteen-minutes-of-fame computer virus--are one-shot, perfect-stranger interactions.
You could be a contributor then ;)
The problem is the person was offered early retirement to reduce costs.

If you hire someone outside the system you are reducing unemployment in a helpful way. The retired person is already doing just fine with benefits and medical coverage, give the outsider a help up.
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In this fifth episode death is as pervasive as ever and is set loose after a premonition of a man saves a group of colleagues in the terrible bridge collapse.
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How many startups have a long term plan to take over the world from the very beginning? If you interviewed Bill Gates back when Micro-Soft was making BASIC interpreters, would you get the slightest sense of what Microsoft is today? Or Steve Jobs when Apple was selling the Apple II? How about Larry and Sergey when Google was just a search engine? I think they would seem a little more concerned with where their business was at the time and a little oblivious of what it would grow into.
Actually overall, in vivo animal testing on vaccines, antivirals, and antibiotics are typically quite predictive from animals to humans. These types of tests are not historically very predictive when moving from in vitro to in vivo animal studies, however. This is typically because the treatments and vaccines are structural and/or expression-based (exploit a bacterial surface protein and poke holes in the cell, use a virus to get into T-cells and inject genetic material to let them identify and kill polio, etc). (yes, oversimplified). But moving from cell culture to a living organism This doesnt always work out. If it does, then it's relatively easy to confirm the effect if it works in animals to humans (virus is gone/never infects, etc). So more antibiotics and vaccines fail from in vitro to in vivo than from animal to human data.

In treating diseases of inflammation, rheumatic disease, pain, etc., it is generally quite predictive when moving from in vitro to in vivo animal studies (e.g. is it down-regulating inflammatory transcription factor NF-kB, or not?). But it becomes much less predictive translating endpoints from animals to humans. That's, very generally, because it is difficult to assess disease measures of improvement in inflammation in animals and translate that to humans (pain, discomfort, edema, these processes may present much differently in rats versus humans, for example). Great animal data may not mean you'll get such a strong effect in human subjects, and thus the failure rate for these drugs in clinical studies is quite high compared to vaccine and antibiotic human trials, because those vaccines were shown to be ineffective earlier in development.
This was a very general explanation, to be sure, and I'll dig through my archives for some papers on this and try to add links later.
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Actually, most of his criticism does not apply to the Kindle, as someone pointed up a couple of threads above.
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Towards history? I'm talking about this one very specific situation.

You're also taking those lines out of context. I'm saying that he is hurting his reputation because things like comments in a hn thread aren't going to change peoples' minds.
Ask HN: What are the technologies used by Anonymous & Lulzsec?
I do not know much about the technical side of these movements but am interested in how they do what they do. Anonymously sharing large data sets, internal and external communications, and how they cover their tracks.

(This is a throw away account by an interested web dev.)
How is it not clear? The first sentence in the first section is:

"I happily dove into Quake World source code."
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I always thought that they should do home pick up & delivery 3 days per week but adjoining regions would have different days. So region A would get mail M,W,F and region B would get mail on T,Thurs., Sat. The mail carrier would alternate between regions A and B. It seems like you could almost halve the number of mail carriers this way.
> 9. Has a robots.txt

> You may have a lot of things you do not want the world to know about. (Eg user uploaded media). Use robots.txt to hide them from search engines.

That's not what a robots.txt file is for. It doesn't hide files, if anything it makes files that you don't want the world to know about easier to find.
I highly reccomend you read, "Localized type inference of atomic types in python" by Brett Cannon (2005), it shines a light on just how much this doesn't work.
"I forgot to mention in my comment that the order I listed the languages would be good way to learn them."

Ah. I kind of agree with you now. I personally might still shy away from PHP, but I have nothing against it (I didn't mean to imply that it's useless). It would depend on the conversation I'd have with the hypothetical student, but by that time (after learning Python), the student could probably decide for themselves.

EDIT: changed parenthesized comment from "after learning a more general language like Python" to "after learning Python"
Then people wonder why Apple is suing companies for copying them
That is not a type annotation. Python is simply strongly typed that has nothing to do with whether or not the language is dynamically or statically typed.
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Ask HN: Is freelance statistics/machine-learning consulting viable?
I'd love to hear from anyone who's making a living as a freelance statistics/machine-learning consultant, as I'm thinking of going this way myself and wondering whether it makes sense. I prefer to do Bayesian data analysis, but I'll turn to whatever tool seems to fit the job at hand. I have a lot of experience in scientific programming, not so much with industrial-scale software development (though I've read Code Complete and try to follow its main principles to the extent that they make sense for my relatively simple programs.) I have a comfortable job in academia (not tenured) but for a variety of reasons I see hard times just over the horizon for the field of research I specialize in, and I'm looking around for what's going to come next. I'm finding it surprisingly easy to interview for statistics/machine-learning type jobs at technology startups and I was thinking, these guys really want my skills, so why hitch my wagon to just one company when I could sell my services directly? One thing I love about my current job is the autonomy and independence, and it would be great to preserve that. And I don't really want to start a startup at this stage, because I don't want to have to do all the other work associated with that. A consultancy seems like a nice balance, at least for now. I know it will involve marketing, networking and collections, but that seems manageable.

So I am looking for evidence that this is a feasible approach. Are companies interested in bringing in outside consultants to help solve statistics or machine-learning problems? It's a complete guess, but the main problem I forsee is that ideal solutions usually come from a fairly close examination of the patterns in the target data, and if that data is sensitive there might be barriers to sharing it with outsiders. I'm also curious about terms of the consulting gigs: how do you decide on the price and the criteria by which you'll be judged to have successfully completed the project? Also, it would be interesting to know the extent to which customers accept remote collaboration, as I don't live in a major metropolitan area, and kind of like it that way, though I would be happy to travel in order to set up the deals.
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True, what I want to say is.

If you have a ton of user uploaded media (and such), you probably want to not want SE to index everything. (For example to save bandwidth).

I should probably re-word that line, but I dont want to get too technical.
The US doesn't want an Internet kill switch for nothing.

Quite OT, but this sentence makes me cringe. There's a common misconception that the proposed "Internet kill switch" would allow the executive to order ISPs to turn off access in exceptional circumstances. This is false. What is proposed is an authority given to the executive to preemptively pardon any ISP (or other service) that chooses to disable service, and excuse them from liability for whatever damages. This would allow ISPs to react more forcefully to major cyberattacks.

The idea is still of arguable merit, but the proposed mechanism doesn't do the government any good unless ISPs have their own reasons for wanting to turn off service. The idea is to remove unwanted disincentives for them to do so, not to force them to do so.

(Everything else you said is quite true.)
Are you saying Sega is a model for success? The same Sega that was so bankrupt after going software only that it was bought by a pachinko machine company (Sammy) that eventually gutted the game development teams to right the sinking ship? That Sega? I can't tell if your comment is meant to be sarcastic.

Nintendo needs to be an Apple (which it arguably already is), not a Sega. Keep the hardware software vertical integration. It's Nintendo's most valuable asset.

This is a Michael Dell "sell Apple and return the money to the investors" moment. Nintendo isn't the most profitable company in the world for a quarter and it's time to give up and start share cropping? Ridiculous.
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I completely agree with Sam's analysis here. People were not interested in the experiment qua experiment, but were attached to one particular outcome. The most interesting part, for me, was reading people's angry reactions afterwards, phrased in the flowerly language of altriusm and community -- about a card that lets rich people buy overpriced coffee for other rich people! (And let's be completely clear, if you are in the position either to use Jonathan's card or have it used for you, you are almost certainly quite well-off.)

Jonathan's Card was only succeeding temporarily because it was novel. People behave differently around novel things. If these things worked long-term, then there would be more of them around.

Edit: Downvotes without comments? Pretty uninspiring, HN.
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It is definitely matter.

The whole point of the article that we're commenting on is that it might not be matter. The root problem is that the observed doesn't line up with the expected. Is the problem with the observed or with the expected? We don't know. You're assuming the problem is with the observed. This article is saying we can modify our expected values with a tweak to the model.

We should name the phenomenon after the problem, not after one of the not-yet-proved-but-expected-to-be solutions.
They cover their tracks with p2p, tor, Virtual Private Networks.

They use denial of service attacks and some of them have bot nets to do that.

Most of their hacks are SQL injections, though they probably have some more advanced hackers available.
All I could think about while watching this was the coffee experiment and how Sam Odio took the nutrients from all the trees for his own purposes.

We could learn a lot from these trees and how they are so selfless for the preservation and happiness of the future!
As a business owner concerned about cash flow, I can tell you that paying for anything in advance is always a pain. Reasonable or not, setting aside enough cash to fund the retirement needs of all their workers for 75 years and generating that cash from revenue sounds like a huge pain.
> If we didn't have those cosmological problems that need explaining, no one would be suggesting dark matter.

The thing is, the dark matter hypothesis explains more than just certain cosmological problems. It also explains the rotation curves of galaxies, gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters, and the velocity dispersions of galaxies, galaxy groups, and galaxy clusters.

Dark matter is not an ad hoc hypothesis to solve a single problem; rather, it's an ad hoc hypothesis (though still more plausible than any alternative) that explains a large number of observed phenomena over many different length scales.
I'm surprised at the comments here stating "Cry me a river, these yuppies got what they deserved."

Are you the same people saying, "Way to go! Good luck!" whenever someone posts here on HN that they're quitting their job to do a startup? What's the difference between a kid who quits college to make the next social network and a lawyer who quits the firm to open an ice cream shop? The aspirations may be different, but both are just trying to follow a dream.

I'm actually glad that the NYT is posting a somewhat realistic article for once. They usually just print dreck about some guy with an idea who makes an iPhone app over the weekend and wakes up to millions.
I can't take this website seriously. Full of ads in the middle of the page.

This appears to be the real paper which the page apparently does not bother to cite. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.3333
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The quiz is wrong about #4. The quiz thinks that Dispose() is never called, but in fact, the Close() method calls Dispose(). According to the documentation anyway: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.stream.clo...

The supposed answers are at: http://newtechusa.com/csharp-dotnet-quiz-answers.htm
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It is matter, in that it behaves gravitationally the same way that ordinary matter does. (Unlike dark energy, which does not behave the same way ordinary matter does; dark energy is actually poorly named because it does not behave like ordinary energy.) Basically, the dark matter hypothesis can successfully explain a wide variety of unexplained phenomena if there exists a substantial number of weakly-interacting, but otherwise ordinary particles.
> If you have a ton of user uploaded media (and such), you probably want to not want SE to index everything. (For example to save bandwidth).

Bandwidth is cheap. Ranking poorly in search engines is not.

If you've got a ton of user uploaded media, you've potentially got a ton of content for Google to pick up on and rank you for.
Businesses still pay many bills with paper checks sent via mail. I wonder when we will no longer need the USPS for that.
"Towards history? I'm talking one this one very specific situation."

Have you ever read a (U.S.) high school history textbook? They bring a similarly simplifying tone to the thousands of singular specific situations in the past and it does everyone a disservice.

"You're also taking those lines out of context."

I'm guilty of this, yes. I suppose what it comes down to is that I do not share your line of reasoning; Aaron's reputation is not hurt in my eyes.
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It looks so similar, I was expecting it to be a cheap Chinese knockoff, instead of a product from a "reputable" company like LG.
pingdom store passwords in plaintext: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865206
True. Very few thinking jobs don't require desk time, and based on the little we've read, thinking is one thing we can infer from the original post.

Some programmers migrate to Sales and other field support jobs, but it's a bigger stretch on skills. Or more precisely - they require certain skills at a high level that aren't as required in programming.

Anything other than superficial "Check out this field" will take more than a couple high level posts. Shoot an email address, and I'm happy to discuss more in depth.
If you're an aspiring computer science researcher looking at these articles, I cannot recommend enough Hamming's speach "You and Your Research." (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html)

He talks about the little optimizations you can do in your life to take your research to world-class level.
But wait, it gets even more trippy. One of the biggest reasons why the trees need to do this is because when a tree gets attacked by a disease in the spring or early summer, it ends up losing most of its leaves before the fall. Because of this it hasn't yet stored up enough energy to survive the winter, so the tree is likely to either die or else be seriously weakened, and it will definitely die if the same thing happens the next year. The mycorrhizal networks can warn of advance attacks, transmit enough energy to get the tree through the winter if a tree has already succumbed, and maybe even transmit some sort of antibodies as well. The kicker? Most of these tree diseases are other funguses. So the whole thing is really some kind of slow motion LOTR-style epic battle.
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By far the best to start is: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

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Not that there's anything wrong with copying, in this context.
Maybe not. Start calling them and see if they'll budge. You'll never know until you try! :D
Yeah well, when repeating exercises you're becoming good at... the exercises! ;) But not much more.. (OK, I'm simplifying a bit, you do a favor to your body and that will benefit you; but I'd aim for a broader point of view).

By working at the building site, for example, you train your body and your mind to respond in constantly changing situations. I don't know if something like "muscle memory" has a proper scientific background, but I strongly believe there's something in it. You have to focus, you have to be careful, do things in the right moment, be aware what's going on around, have some introspection of your strength - what you can do and what can't. Whether it is laying concrete or making a wooden roof, the kind of awareness needed is pretty much similar. Plus you spend a lots of time in the fresh air inevitably (at the building site there's no building yet, right? :) which is IMO crucial.

From what I saw the most rewarding physical job I can imagine is to help someone with the carpentry, esp. making roofs. The wood is so beautiful.

There's also one feature of physical work I'm personally very fond of: you usually see direct effects of what you've done very quickly. This is in a big contrast to modern coding, where there are so many layers of abstraction and inter-dependency, we sometimes build stuff months and to the very end we don't know if it really succeeded or not. I have a private theory that instant feedback is very good for psyche.
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The green revolution , in agriculture , which saved an estimated billion files , was made by a non-profit.

Paul pollack , and his non-profit IDE, got 20 million people out poverty by offering radically affordable irrigation technology and building private markets for such products.

There have been new kinds of non-profits that combine a non-profit goal + financial sustainability. They appear to work better in some cases.

For those who are interested in sucssesful non-profit business models and organizations, nextbillion.net is a good site.
As someone else pointed out, the USPS has a monopoly on non-urgent mail.

As for spam, you must be fortunate that you have not managed to wind up on spammers' lists. If you donate to charity that's an easy way to get on the lists, and some of the spam is just unnecessary garbage sent by business I use b/c sending it to everyone (via the USPS) is cheaper than implementing an opt-out policy.