skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternately, try reading All You Zombies by Robert A Heinlein http://www.polvoestelar.com.mx/babilonia/Libros/Robert%20A.%...
Kenjistu Samurai Sword technique. I thought it happened only in anime
From the top of the page: "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein"

How exactly are acquisitions inhumane? Any time I've heard of someone getting acquired by Google, they were happy about it.
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No man page. No help entry. Seems to be broken. Where's the docs?
Really cool to see a company implement such open policies! Have you by any chance read Maverick or The seven day weekend by Ricardo Semler? Lots of similar ideas in there, and well worth the read!

http://www.amazon.com/Ricardo-Semler/e/B000APW260/
I thought the whole HN mantra (and one echoed in this article) was that ideas are worth less than the paper they're written on, and that execution is everything? It's still a dick move to blatantly rip-off a peer like that, but still. He took a good idea and did well with it.
Ask HN: hacking a non-computer system (YC application question)?
I'm struggling with the following question for my YC application:

'Please tell us about the time you, dirkdeman, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.'

It must be the language barrier, but I have no grasp of the meaning of 'hacking a non-computer system'. What does this mean? A 'system' like taxes, governement, school or a company you work for? Or is it something more trivial, like making a beer cooler out of Lego? Does anyone has an example of this to put me in the right direction?
About time.

The policy of forcing a decision for laid off people between 1) sitting around doing nothing (i.e. "looking for a job") and being eligible for free money vs. 2) trying to start something which could have an an impact in not only getting that person back into a paying position but also on the economy as a whole (and thereby being ineligible for money) needed to end
Three things we have to teach in schools
Good advice. However, I noticed that the danger of getting too accustomed to the 'status quo' tools is that you forget what bothered you about them in the first place, and what you wanted to improve. Your first experiences are very important in this, as it will be the same thing that other new people encounter. So write them down...

(For example, some tool that initially seems extremely slow, after months of using it you may be used to the delays and take them for granted, even though productivity could be greatly improved if it was faster. Suddenly you're used to all the quirks of the old tool, making it harder to get fresh ideas)
Microsoft's upcoming week - most pivotal in its history
A interesting picture"I was too short to pee"
I would have named it "Hook.io - write clouds of programs using Node.JS".

It's a small yet powerful framework for making your programs discuss together damn easily, nearly the same way you have done it in one program using event emitters, but distributed across programs.

It's very easy to hack your first own Hook, to make something something smart by creating an express app for managing what you do, then sending the work to background independent hooks and get some magical stuff happen damn easily.

After a proof of concept we just have drop 150 work days (~ middle of the project) of Java/Apache Camel/Spring/OSGI to go Node.JS/Hook.io despite it was not perfect (and despite we had a lot less tooling for NodeJS than Java), because it was able to do the same thing, and even more, in a far easier way, in a more understandable way, and in a more flexible way. We also kept the deadline, and after 60 more work days, we can tell we will be ok for the deadline.
Dell Loses Orders as Facebook Do-It-Yourself Servers Gain: Tech - Businessweek
This lil' app really has some legs on it...

For the (historical) record, it was originally introduced by Nick Fitzgerald in this commit:

https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/pull/29

... and then later styled up by Jérôme Gravel-Niquet.
indeed. this: http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/... cites research that shows that people work waaay less hard on something when monetary reward is offered, than when it's just for free.
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Very nice.

It should have a radio mode, where it stops downloading video, and continues playing music, when it is not on the screen. On computers a lot of video won't ever be watched, but the 'channels' seem like nice radio stations/playlists to be listened to in the background.
MJD's Stream module from HOP can be found here: https://metacpan.org/module/HOP::Stream
This is exactly how I'm building my current apps. Before automating anything, I manually help people solve their problem with all the different tools they use, to identify the most annoying gaps in the market.
By that definition everything is nothing. Matter holds states in variable conditions. Bricks are in a state to allow houses to be built. Everything is nothing. It's all states on a timeline. :)
I found the link for a list of unrelated things 2 paragraphs in quite jarring.
This isn't a grant. It's a modification of the rules for unemployment insurance. It's a good change.

It allows you to use unemployment insurance to pursue your own business for about half a year. Of course, for you to be eligible for unemployment insurance, you had to have been employed at some point and gotten fired. It's also a paltry sum. But, again, any movement in the right direction is a plus.
It's about gaming the system, or using the rules to your advantage in a way that they weren't intended for.

For example - you might collect Air Miles and, having worked out that a particular promotion at the supermarket was worth more in miles than the product cost, got a first class round-the-world flight for less than an economy ticket to the next town.
I wonder how much this was directly inspired by Madoff?
Exactly. If you want a laugh, try going back to magazines in 1998 and see who they were putting their money on back then.
Neither; I used to use SCSS, but have moved on to LESS (http://lesscss.org/).

One thing that always annoyed me with SCSS is having to explicitly tag classes with the `@mixin` keyword before being able to use them elsewhere as a mixin. LESS doesn't make you do that.
Economic growth is part of the problem, we need sustainability
What it takes to power Google
Ooyala Now Allows Publishers To Sell And Rent Premium Video On Facebook
Italy July Industrial Production Declines
One of the most amazing programmers I've ever worked with was Vadim Zeitlin, a core contributor to the wxWidgets project and resident of Paris. We hired him to port Quake 2 to run on top of the wxWidgets, and it took him 3.5 days. His work helped save a multi-million dollar project. Now, his daily rate wasn't cheap, but we were delighted to pay it.

If you want to earn more than average, here are some suggestions:

1) Contribute heavily to an open source project, preferably one used by people with lots of money. This demonstrates your talent and drive more clearly than a few interview questions.

2) Learn how to market your skills and how to negotiate. For the former, study patio11's career. For the latter, try reading "Getting to Yes" from the Harvard Negotiation Project.
Many would say the same thing about the software industry.
I have a similar theory, of which the idea is,
INF ... multiverse ... universe ... earth ... atom .. electron ... multiverse ... repeat ... INF
Denver Post Dumps Righthaven, New CEO Calls Cooperation 'Dumb Idea'
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Which holy book did God say He wrote Himself?
Pixel Qi receives major investment from 3M
Although I haven't read it, Albert Brooks' new novel seems to be about this very thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2030_%28novel%29

Cancer has been cured and the younger generations increasingly feel resentment towards the "olds" that they have to support. He really isn't that far off considering how large the Baby Boomer generation is that are retiring everyday.

Since the beginning of the United States, every next generation has lived more comfortably than the last, until now. And the young people are realizing this.
Best way to learn kids to code is Scratch imho. My 4 year old daughter loves it http://scratch.mit.edu/
Sometimes I do it to practice the new implementation and add/improve unit testing.
I've done some projects on Mechanical Turk (spent enough to get an account rep!) and I can definitely say that offers of money will bring in people who will (1) rip you off or (2) do the minimum work required to get paid.

The type (1)'s are easy to deal with because there are ways to check people's work. They just don't get paid. The type (2)'s are harder -- there's a population of Turks that I call Superturks that spend a lot of time Turking. If you make a histogram of how many HITs everybody did, they'll be the people who did the most.

The trouble with Superturks is that the quality of the work they do is worse than average, usually just good enough that you wouldn't feel comfortable rejecting their work. I know I could get better quality if I banned them, but I find it hard to do.
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genius. who needs voluntary transactions live venture capital or angels, what have they ever done? instead lets take money from everyone (if they don't like it we can lock them in a cage) and then give it to others who we decide are worthy.
So they got around 1 trillion ISK, or around $21K worth of game-time cards (30 days each). For comparison, it costs around 80 billion isk to build the largest ship in the game. For that money they can pay for a large-ish military campaign lasting 30 days or so.

This ISK would be hard to launder back into real money, as CCP does not allow the conversion of ingame -> real (though the opposite route is allowed).
Can't you exchange ISK for dollars? How is that not fraud, in the real world?
No, the story of the Nuclear Cloud is wrong.

Pierre Pellerin ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Pellerin ) won a trial against media that were saying this children story about him saying a Nuclear cloud stopped at the frontier.
Badgeville ups it's game with Social fabric analysis
RESS: Responsive Design + Server Side Components
Okay, they have some real estate holdings. But they've also provided significant relief for every major disaster in the past century. In addition, they offer job search assistance, food assistance, etc., through a network of farms, canneries and thrift stores. And all of this is funded by member donations in addition to the 10% mentioned by the GP.

But none of that's the point. The GP was pointing out that a not insignificant portion of the population donates more than 10% of their income on a regular basis. In light of that, 5% isn't much, particularly for someone with a great deal of income.
You should rather be communicating what "value" is being provided with help of XYZ feature. E.g., "Add meaningful and interesting information on top of your pics" with our Annotation feature.

Value = sum of benefits/sum of costs.
A ball will not roll uphill, even when time is reversed. Gravity really is time-reversal invariant. But when you reverse time, you do have to invert all velocities. So the inverse of your experiment of a ball rolling down an incline is a ball starting at the bottom of the incline with a certain velocity pointing upwards, that'll roll upwards until it comes to a stop, just as it would do in normal time.
The "DigitalColor Meter" program with the developer tools actually used to include hex values. I actually hadn't noticed the hex values are gone, so thanks lancashire for making me notice. I may need this app now.
This isn't real life, it's all in a game.

Basically Eve Online is a popular 'intellectual' space MMO also known as spreadsheets online.

It's a sandbox game and CCP, who run the game, declared that scamming was OK and a game feature, buyer beware. CCP are also unfortunately notorious for bringing out half finished features, the very broken 'corporation' mechanics being one of them, and then never fixing them.

The very basic scam that's always running in the trade hub in game is 'I'm leaving the game, send me game currency and I'll send you 10x back'.

Some people love it, dedicating months on elaborate scams, less for the ISK, more for the rage that it elicits.
Sorry to say, but I don't buy this thing.

Deadlines and goals are fatal to the success of any software project today. And that is so for a very simple reason, you have to always drive towards something under well defined clear timelines.

This is very essential for two reasons. The first being measurement and continuous improvement. The second being you must decide what is a acceptable time for something to get done, and stick to it and adjust pace accordingly(The definition of a deadline). Else all it leads to overly delayed projects.

I have worked in a similar set up you described for a year or so. Have never seen such clueless roaming about in my whole life. Last time I heard they are still developing. I have done more work in a month than what they have done in say half year.

The reason is simple, pace again has a metric - Its, how fast?
3M Invests in Pixel Qi
That doesn't surprise me at all. What would surprise me would be if he copied the actual text provided for him by a PR firm, as the OP suggested Lohr had done.

Like every other daily newspaper, the Times produces some rushed, lazy journalism (as well as some very good journalism). But there are certain lines they don't typically cross, and literally taking dictation from PR is one of them. You might argue that the difference isn't meaningful, and that rules like "Don't just copy out someone else's text" are a fig-leaf to hide bigger problems. I'd have a lot of sympathy for that argument. But if we're going to criticize the Times we should criticize them accurately, for the things they're actually doing wrong, rather than accusing them of doing things they haven't done.
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No, he's saying that if you "reverse the movie" of the ball accelerating down the inclined plane, then it will appear to decelerate as it rolls up the plane; looking at a ball slowing down as it rolls up a plane you can't tell if time is going forwards or backwards.
BostonGlobe.com: The largest newspaper website made with responsive design 
Try resizing the page and/or view it on multiple devices. Let us know what you think.

And yes, to click on an article or go past the main page, you need to sign-up. But still -- this is the largest major newspaper website to design a site completely using responsive design.
When it comes to compensation (for tech workers), fair is not equal and equal is not fair.

I know that you didn't make the claim that they were, but it's a logical half-step to "unequal is definitionally inequitable".

My best colleagues made/make more than my average colleagues, at every place that I've worked, and that's exactly as it should be, IMO.
37 Signal's moment of remorse or slap in the face?
No, you can only do the opposite, and even that's in an indirect way, you can buy more game time/hats for other people who pay you in game currency for game time/hats. Or monocles.
The ignorance displayed in the comments on that article is scary. It's quite obvious a lot of people have never been in the position to actually need this sort of aid before, so it's easy to knock everyone using it as "an illegal" or "lazy."

Of course people will abuse this, too, just like they abuse the unemployment insurance we have now. But to me, the net positives that come out of this will outweigh the (probably minor) fraud that will happen. Adding benchmarks (e.g., you have to legally register a business, you have to prove some sort of business activity to a case worker, and so on) will keep a lot of the fraud out, even if they're token requirements.
Would you also suggest Monopoly players be indicted for operating unlicensed banks?
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Then, if you become successful, you can be labeled as one of the hated rich and they'll put you out of business with crushing regulation and taxes.

Excellent.
Ironically, I've found that trying to realize dreams and side-projects in my spare time doesn't help at ALL with long-term happiness, especially the sort that would be apparent to a casual observer. I get short-term highs and satisfaction from completing bits and pieces but unless I complete a project that can be shared, sold, or used personally it winds up being a drain on my life. Yet another unfinished ambition to add to the pile, like the accumulation of smelly worn out clothes in my closet that I keep meaning to sort out.
Seems rather pointless. To provide a legitimate service for 8 months and then abscond with the money because there are no legal consequences isn't much of a challenge, experiment or lesson to anyone.

The only surprise is that they waited 8 months instead of 8 weeks to do it. (I would have rewarded a few points if they waited 8 years.)
This has been done many times before in game.

The note worthiness of it is the amount and that they've explained how they played the system without being immediately accused of running a scam.
There wouldn't be any real interaction between such cells, would there? From the perspective of ourselves, in our observable Universe, perhaps the detail of such other cells can't ever be measured in the same way scales smaller than the Planck distance and time can't be measured. That is, quantum effects occur at the largest scale as well as the smallest.
What is there to predict when the whole game is fixed? The article seems to acknowledge that the game is fixed but then continues on like it is not.
Is there a good way to look for just those people? I feel like there are a lot of jobs out there that aren't specialized, but could really benefit from having really smart (in a general sense) people.
Would You Fire Someone Over a $1.39-Bag of Chips?
Outside of Silicon Valley (and a few other hot spots maybe) "voluntary transactions" aren't happening, so the government feels the need to step in.
There seem to be quite a few sites where you can sell ISK - though after quick research (not familiar, since I have never played the game myself) I see that the forums explain that it is not allowed by EVE, yet people still do it.

The "market rate" seems to be approx 0.40 USD per 1M EVE ISK, but it fluctuates on various sites with some being up to 0.65 USD.

Sources:

http://www.gameusd.com/eve-isk.htm

http://www.virdeal.com/sell-EVE-online-isk.php

http://www.mmopawn.com/sell-24.html

http://www.selleveisk.com/sell-eve-isk.html
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I generally agree, but our program is hosted on a lot of file sites and gets a lot of downloads from them. They download it, open it up and are completely lost as they are presented with the bare interface. We definitely need something.
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Ah, right, the system as in 'THE SYSTEM'. Thanks for clarifying and the example!
Pointless? They got 1 trillion ISK.
This is horoscope writing. A less fashionable, but equally true example might be:
80% of People are Secretly Satisfied with Their Lives
Contextual Advertising - What is the Contextual Advertising
Contextual advertising is the form of the advertising which is used when some of the advertisements need to be put over the website and at times it is used as a promotional activity too. The contextua
> The policy of forcing a decision for laid off people between 1) sitting around doing nothing (i.e. "looking for a job") and being eligible for free money vs. 2) trying to start something

There was no such policy - there was no such "decision".

The standards for "looking for a job" are/were low enough that one could be trying to start something at the same time. (I know - that's what I did.)

While we like to talk about starting companies, ie we like startup porn, the vast majority of the long term unemployed won't start anything. More to the point, the folks who would are unaffected by this proposal, so there won't be any benefits received for the costs incurred.

How do I know this? The folks who would start do start and are doing so already. (Yes, I read the SEA stats.)
I worked at a company that was acquired. All of the engineers had to interview, and the interviewers weren't aware that it was an acquisition situation.
And here's a video that discusses the decisions made behind going full-responsive design on the site: http://bo.st/bglvideo
"It always disappoints me when I hear that point number two is such a successful tactic. I have read quite a few books from people in influential positions, and even today it's mostly not "what you know" but "who you know"

Networking has been fundamental to jobs because humans are mostly social animals. People always complain about this, but with the Internet, you can network with more people than you ever could in the past, making it easier to get your foot in the door.

I didn't have a network when I got out of college, so I made one. I now have friends and acquaintances that I can call if I'm ever out of a job. I won't get the job immediately, but it will at least help me an interview.

It's not difficult to do this, you just need to be friendly and social with people in your industry.
> If so, it's highly likely it's true for the general population.

I'm like me, therefore everybody is like me?

If true, that should scare the bejesus out of all of you.
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reminds me of http://youtify.com/
On german Ebay, you get 1,000mio isk for 25€ so it sums up to 25,000€ which is according to google something like 34,000 US$. but yes, it is not legal.
Yes, govt feels the need to step in. The relevant question is whether said "step in" makes any sense.

If there really are such wonderful opportunities, why aren't you funding them?
I'm curious if you benchmarked Haskell implementations against any C or C++ implementations (especially for market connectivity). Any hint about magnitude of difference?
In exchange for 8 months of at least moderate effort. Two people couldn't have come up with $21,000 in earnings over 8 months? (The $21,000 figure taken from the comment above me.) And they could have made that money in non-virtual currency that they could have used outside the game.

If this was to run an experiment about greed or investor naivety that would be another thing, but that doesn't seem to have been the case here.
Thanks.
I am creating a component-based GUI lib right now which is written in pure Javascript and which is all painted on a HTML5 Canvas. (it is intended as a Flash/Flex killer) (5200 lines is ready currently) I've implemented all the styling, dynamic layout and painting from scratch. I will open source it, so even if it will not be successful as a startup, I hope at least it will be good to convince clients/employers that I can design/program nontrivial things.
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While I prefer Ruby to Python, Ruby has horrible documentation and therefore is quite painful to learn. You pretty much need to buy a couple of books.
I'll do somethng about that. Thanks.
God omnipresence fits in the 'single electron' theory only if God is an electron, an electron being a subatomic particle with a negative charge.

I suppose that is fine if that's what you mean by God, but none of the usual connotations or implications of God-hood would apply. The God-electron would have omnipresence, but no omnipotence or indeed any other of the qualities usually ascribed to gods (other than the obvious, the negative energy those ideas tend to bring with them).
Finally! True serializability! Never let anyone (including the docs for older postgres versions) tell you that predicate locking is too hard to implement.