skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few companies hire autistics, which is why the article notes they have similar employment prospects to people who are both blind and deaf.

Some aspies get hired, if they happen to be savants, or have rare and marketable skills they have developed, but savants are quite rare.

Generally, people with autism are not seen as team players, and don't really thrive in chaotic workplaces. I've worked with a guy I'm pretty sure was ASD in a uni project, and it wasn't too hard - he just needed an extra 5 minutes of explanations every now and then, but was otherwise pretty good. His complete lack of eye contact was creepy, but you could say the same about people with prosthetics, and it's wrong to treat them differently. But "People skills" is more universally required than eyesight, because it's not seen as unfair to discriminate against people with unusual mannerisms, while people with obvious physical handicaps get more recognition, as their handicaps are more obvious, and aren't seen as intrinsic as personality defects.

Diseases with external causes get a lot more sympathy than those that are seen as an integral part of the victim.
Brian Utley (not Meg Whitman) for HP Interim CEO
Useless? Really? I used facebook last night. And it seemed to get the job done. Are you sure you’re not being overly dramatic?
Gmail Mobile Gets Multiple Sign-in and More
This isn't technically correct. Photons always travel the same speed but in certain materials they are absorbed and emitted by atoms, causing their apparent speed to slow down.

A photon's instantaneous speed is always the speed of light.
Yep. And I wish there was a way to capture everything in my life in this Timeline-like fashion, without any extra effort from me.

The one condition I have, though, is that I don't share it with anyone except someone I explicitly want to share it with. With everything being absolutely private and in my control to carry with me, by default, it would be killer. But this could well be opposite to Facebook's own direction.

All-in-all, this is a rehash of the news feed with a few more controls. But the presentation is really nice.
this is not an example of validating your hypothesis. the question you should be asking is, "Do people want this service?" The people who want this service are the people in the 21-40 range. The people who don't know are not the people who need your service--they don't know because they don't care.
This is really smart.

Those years of updates and photos on the timeline are data that only Facebook has. It's a unique asset and they're putting it front and center.

If people like the timeline a lot it will be an enormous barrier to entry for competing social networks.
Namerick - Remember names
How to Manage Contests and Giveaways in Style
tl;dr: Think Different. Fluff.
I'd choose Todd Bradley over Meg Whitman

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/company-information/executive-team/...

Executive Vice President, Personal Systems Group

He's had success running HP’s Personal Systems Group, he's a proven leader, he knows the company, he's technology-oriented, etc.

Under Bradley’s leadership, PSG has firmly established HP as the No. 1 PC vendor in the world. During his six-year tenure, the business has added more than $10 billion in revenues and increased profitability threefold.

Prior to joining HP, Bradley was the chief executive officer of Palm. Before that, Bradley was executive vice president of global operations for Gateway.
It wouldn't break current theory for photons to have nonzero rest mass?
>>Photons speed up and slow down routinely, depending on what medium they're traveling through

Do they really? As far as I know their speed is always constant in any medium. They just seem to slow down because they get absorbed and re-transmited. That is where the lost of velocity comes from. When traveling between one atom and another, which is a vacuum, they are always traveling at the speed of light.
I read a lot of older blog articles... when they are presented in a fashion that makes them accessible. Generally they are not, unless you are searching for keywords.
Hmmm. I did actually look at using wkhtmltopdf for another project so I'm sort of familiar with it at least.

I do definitely see the concerns here, but I've not been able to think of a good way of handling them. I'm not sure how user friendly a pdf download would be. Chromium at least doesn't display them inline, so you'd have to view the email, get prompted to save it to disk, and then open it up using a pdf viewer...

Do you think stripping out all the JS tags from the email before rendering it would be a safe enough solution?
It should be impossible to accelerate a neutrino to 100% of the speed of light. It would take an infinite amount of energy. So getting it to go even faster is really impressive :)
This is the main reason I use Spotify as well. MOG, Rhapsody, Rdio, and others all have this problem.

It's not so much integration with iTunes as it is the ability to import and manage non-Spotify music.
Whatever happened, there is one thing we can be sure about: No laws of nature were violated in this experiment.
Facebook Music sharing requires friends use the same music partner
>I am not “the writer” of this book. I own the copyright of the manuscript, which was written by Andrew O’Hagan. By publishing this draft against my wishes Canongate has acted in breach of contract, in breach of confidence, in breach of my creative rights and in breach of personal assurances. The US publisher, Knopf, withdrew from the deal when it learned of Canongate’s intentions to publish without my consent. This book was meant to be about my life’s struggle for justice through access to knowledge. It has turned into something else. The events surrounding its unauthorised publication by Canongate are not about freedom of information — they are about old-fashioned opportunism and duplicity—screwing people over to make a buck.

Not to repeat "what's good for the goose is good for the gander"...but this complaint:

>This book was meant to be about my life’s struggle for justice through access to knowledge. It has turned into something else.

Stolen creative property aside, this a complaint that can be made by anyone who has ever been the subject of a story. Or who has ever has had their embarrassing secrets leaked.
I was going to write a longer post, but it can be summarized as this: They're Fucked.

Nothing against Meg, but she has never been a visionary of any sort. HP is so terribly lost that they need the reincarnation of Hewlett + Packard + Jobs in a single person that can work 80 hour days for about 10 years.

HP has fallen to the "used to be great" category and now we are going to watch the corpse slowly rot.
Scientists Use Google Earth to Understand Mysterious Giant Wheels
Maybe Microsoft can get her to buy Skype.
>>The speed of light is not constant

I think this is wrong. Regardless of the medium the speed of light is always constant. It seems to slow down because the photons are getting absorbed and re-transmited by atoms. But the speed of light is always the same regardless.
Color.com pivots to live broadcasting from your phone
Key takeaway: "if Facebook friends want to become 'friends with (musical) benefits,' they'll both need to subscribe to the same music service... The way Facebook has set up music sharing will encourage a single winner to emerge among the existing music subscriptions. And that winner will be whichever music service first gains critical mass among Facebook users as the way to share music."

Talk about a land rush. This should be interesting.
A New Class of Facebook Apps
I think a lot of mom's are going to enjoy this. Younger people may like it too, especially girls, but mother's are going to have a field day creating a scrapbook like this with Facebook.
I believe you did calculate correctly as I got .0024619%
Nuclear pulse propulsion is actually invented, we just didn't build it yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Via_faster-than-lig...

If we can send information even a little to the past, we can then send it a little more to the past, and by induction we can send information anywhere in time.

So we have infinite power computers. Singularity starts here.
"...the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner..."

I am impressed that their measuring instruments have a precision that is (statistically significant-ly) smaller than a billionth of a second.
For extra points they should have ended the timeline with Andy Sparks in a coffin.
Reading the comments to hist first post totally made my afternoon. People ridiculing his choice of Whitman as the new CEO? And totally clueless ones stating that Apotheker was the right person to take HP out of trouble.
What DenisM is describing is not the result of a systemic error. It is not an error at all. 'Something' is travelling faster than light in that experiment. The problem is that the 'something' isn't a physical object.

The common example is the beam of a lighthouse. Suppose a lighthouse revolves once per minute. At one lightyear distance from the lighthouse, the angular velocity of the beam is 2*Pi lightyears per minute, which is much faster than the speed of light. However, this is not a problem: the beam is not a physical entity. There is no single particle actually travelling faster than the speed of light. It's just some construct in our minds to which we assign that velocity.

Something similar is happening in the experiment described by your parent and possibly in the experiment in the linked article.
Impressive prediction. This was in February, way before the bungled Touchpad and WebOS strategy, followed by announcements that totally diminish the Hardware division, which remains a large portion of HP's value proposition. Cringely has made wild predictions that don't pan out, but this is one that was right on target.
I did exactly the same, except to get a contract outfit off the ground. I paid off about $60k in total (in GBP) over 10 years. I worked out that in total I made about 20% more than salaried people over the time. It definitely wasn't worth it.
I agree with your comments about the 'bench', unfortunately, in many companies, the great people you have on the bench get snatched up by competitors, particularly if you are unable to inspire them with a coherent vision. Tim Cook was lured too Apple from Compaq, and though he was only at Compaq for 6 months, I suspect he was not engaged by HPs strategy there (I'm not positive that this was post-merger, but I think it was).

Theoretically, some companies are better able to keep bench warmers happy waiting for their time to shine. Obviously Apple has done a very good job at maintaining their top people. I think Microsoft has done a decent job as well, though loosing Ray Ozzie I think was a tough one.

Of course, not everybody has the capability of being a great CEO either. Particularly of coming in and operating somebody else's company. So some of the people who are sitting on the bench hoping to get called up have unrealistic expectations.

Bartz was far from genius, but nobody else has come up with a brilliant strategy for the troubled Yahoo! either. Apotheker had a strategy in mind, did a VERY poor job of selling it to the public. We'll never know if it was a flawed strategy or not, though it definitely seems so at this point. I think he is partially being made a scapegoat here as well. The board was sold on the vision and gave him the go-ahead, and now that Wall Street is showing its doubts, the board is getting rid of the CEO. The board needs to take some responsibility here, and from the history, it is obvious the HP board has some serious issues.

HP is in a slightly better position that Yahoo!, but they desperately need to find their next growth opportunity.
They thought they'd rule the world with WebOS, but their execution was so flawed that they blew it. I have a touchpad (got the $99 deal), and you'd have to be incompetent to think that device could compete with the iPad at the same price.

So the problem is two-fold. First off, there doesn't seem to be capable internal leadership to pull from, and external expectations are high for a new leader who will drive change similar to the return of Steve Jobs to Apple. But there was nothing to loose at Apple. The company was almost gone if I recall correctly. Either it would completely fail anyway, or it could come back a success. HP doesn't have the luxury of throwing everything out. They are a successful company, but investors want to see new growth in a very competitive market (both hardware and IT services). So the job isn't a simple one.

Do these CEOs earn their huge salaries? I don't think so. I'd like to see more CEOs put their money where their mouth is and take the majority of their salary in options, and I think the board should require that.

Please don't refer to yourself as 'a dumb developer'. I think your question is completely valid, and I wish I could provide a better answer. Hopefully this gets you part way there.
Facebook used to be more of a social network for finding people you don't know, and now it's a social network for the people you know.

I really miss searching through profiles. I made a lot of friends randomly that way at my school. I'd click on a band name, a movie, a person or anything, find all the people that liked that band, find out a person was really awesome, hang out with them, etc... Then you could find people at other schools, people that went to your high school, etc... which was also really nice because I went to 8 different schools over 5 years and lost touch with a lot of people. I became better friends with people who used to be just acquaintances. I probably added 2/3 of my friends now on facebook within

Myspace didn't have anything close to that, just name search, and facebook has sort of regressed into that largely in the name of privacy I'm sure.
It is usually assumed that if you are discussing something on Lambda the Ultimate, that you already understand the jargon and by using it, you are using a language that everybody (the target audience - in this case, language lawyers and language enthusiasts, I guess) understands and is well defined.

Sure, they could use terms that are easier to understand to the uninitiated, but then you risk having to explain your terms every time because people use different ways to refer to the same thing. Jargon evolves precisely to solve that problem, at the cost of making it harder for somebody new to understand.

Obviously when learning these things, you need a clear and easy to understand description of the terms, but as others have stated, a book usually does this, while blogs and research papers probably assume you already know whats what.
The reason a particle would have infinite energy as it approaches the speed of light is because its mass (relativistic mass) would also approach infinite. Thus the understood reason a particle could not attain the speed of light is because most of the energy added into a particle going near the speed of light turns into relativistic mass instead of velocity.

If these neutrinos are indeed going faster than light, they clearly did not become infinitely massive.
Emerging trends of Collaborative Consumption
A lot of models are starting up on this concept.

Collaborative Consumption is predicted as one of the most upcoming trends in 2011. A new era of sharing, bartering, lending, renting, gifting and swapping of products, time, resources and services. Even food too. Airbnb, TaskRabbit(give your time for getting your work done) and many others in this space.
I always had these unanswered questions in my mind about collaborative consumption. I think it is best answered geographically. More to do with the mindset(developed over time in that region). I Live in India, and most people in this part of the world don't like sharing their cars or put up their house listed in Airbnb).
Conservative and paranoid Mindset. This doesn't work for Collaborative Consumption.

I would love to see HN users discuss Social Behaviors in their region - (Spending, mindset etc). Also on -

1. Is this a viable long term model applicable to your region?
2. Is this is a Social Behavior only problem?
3. If Collaborative Consumption works on the long run, this must bring the middle and upper classes together or bridge the gap in some way right? That's a reform in our society. Applause. It brings less differences.
Why doesn't your wife let you be the person you are?

I don't think you should take a condescending tone toward another man's wife in order to prove your bizarre point of principle.
Thanks for answering my question, pg.

I'm still left wondering where your preferences lie in the post-AirBnB era.

And I'd also like to thank you for your collection of essays. That is, in my books, the single largest contribution anyone has made to the startup community.
> Their acquisition of Skype made no sense.

For what it's worth: eBay paid $2.6B for Skype in 2005, sold 65% of it for $2B in 2009, and then made an additional $2.5B selling its remaining stake to Microsoft in 2010. So it turned out to net almost $2B over five years. I'm not an accountant, but I could live with those numbers.

(disclosure: eBay owns the company that bought the company where I work)
The opportunity cost involved in "hiding" might make this a bad deal though. The author was involved in doing above-board consulting work and planning his next startup.

I would expect that taking legal employment under your own name makes you relatively findable. Worse, recruiting investors for a startup is likely to be much more difficult if they perform due diligence on you and discover that you have a history of running away from creditors.

Of course, even worse than that is that the author planned his moves carefully in advance. While running off when you owe too much money isn't the best move, planning to run away from your debts might well be prosecuted as fraud.
Dependency Injection Is Not The Same As The Dependency Inversion Principle
OK, either that or it violates relativity.
Agree and I probably wasn't clear in my original post. This does seem like a neatish feature, but (at least) some of the comments seem to make it sound like it's going to totally revive Facebook, which I can't see.

Any new feature has to be a good thing though, I didn't express that clearly (at all?) in my original comment.
I can't help but think of bitrot.

You spend an afternoon "scrapbooking" in real life, and you get something that your grand-grandsons might, one day, inherit and read in awe.

You spend an afternoon scrapbooking on FB, and in ten years FB goes bust or whatever (Geocities, anyone?), and you've got nothing.

I guess the real test will be my wife -- she loves scrapbooking.

(this, and the first time I went through the presentation my brain was screaming MYSPACE really, really loud.)
Wow, Sussman's slides look great but will take a while to absorb the content. I must try to get to the strange loop conference next year!
I'd like some actual empirical evidence that saying "this is tricky" or "this is difficult" actually de-motivates ("turns off") students. It might, but I can also plausibly imagine the reverse. What if you say "oh, this will be easy and fun!" and then they have trouble with it? IMHO, that might send the message that they're just dumb. At least when you say "it's tricky" and they struggle they may not think it's their fault and might be willing to keep trying.

I think you could spin a lot of plausible pedagogical theories, but I'd be more interested in seeing some actual evidence.
There are so many different ways of executing script. Just stripping out script tags isn't really enough. Here's another example which I've just tested with your service and works:

<img src="#" onerror="alert('XSS')">

It's also possible to use SVG images with embedded javascript.

You could generate a PNG from the PDF and display that inline in the page. You could then have a "(PDF Version with Clickable links)" link next to it?
Ask HN for fun and profit: Saying "Its Done"
If you were my unconcious brain trying despirately to find a way to say "Its Done" in a really really obfuscated and convoluted way... What would you recommend? :P

As we all know, this is only step one of a three step profit strategy.
How do you think gigabit ethernet works?
Is it going to show that time you had a huge argument with a friend, then un-friended them? Will it show awkward pictures of you two bumping into each other at a third friend's party?

This just seems like more self-selecting (only the people consistently uploading 'interesting' things will want to participate) social media masturbation which causes normal people to question their own validity.
I have a comment about this. C, as is used in general relativity, is involved in a lot more than just the speed that light travels. It is also relevant to a lot of other equations, like time dilation in a gravitational field. Now, if this experiment resulted in changing our concept of c as the "speed of light" to the "speed of neutrinos", then your probably right. But I have to imagine that c has been verified experimentally in non-light related experiments.

For example, there is a certain speed where if you exceed it you are able to violate causal time relationships. I can't think of any experiments that would validate this. However, there is also the fact that theoretically, if you attempt to accelerate matter to the speed of light it's mass will increase infinitely. So if you accelerate it a little bit it's mass should increase a little bit, and you should be able to confirm the speed of light through an experiment where you measure infinitesimal increases in mass during large acceleration.

So my comment is that if he just broke the speed at which light travels, then everything is fine. But if he broke the speed at which you are able to violate causality, or the speed at which the mass of an object is infinite, then our entire understanding of physics is likely to be invalid.

Related reading - tachyon pistols

http://sheol.org/throopw/tachyon-pistols.html
FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers
Every Dollar Spent At A Startup Should Yield A Return
Your intro clip mentions that the intelligent routing will send foreign payments to foreign merchant accounts - I take it that that part is more of a 'coming soon' portion?
Is it Bbc's policy not to capitalize acronyms? It's CERN, not Cern, and they did it multiple times.
I think that is a gross generalization, and I think in large corporations like the ones we are referring to, their is room for MBAs. Better there then in start-ups ;)

There is no rule that an MBA can't 'get' technology.

It isn't about building technology either, it's about proving something people need and want, and getting them to pay for it. Technology is only a component of that.
Very, very good point. I don't know why I didn't think of this. Thanks!
One thing worth considering in future is to have a separate IP address for sending out signup emails so it's not subject to the same reputation problems. If you grow, and people use your forwarding feature, they will start clicking the "Report as Spam" feature on forwarded email, in things like GMail.
F8: A New Class of Apps
Facebook Platform and the Open Graph
Indeed. Compare that with the other article about this currently on the first page of HN: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BREAKING_LIGHT_SPE...

Which is less cautious and more of the standard fare of not-very-well-reported science.

sigh
Thanks, but Airbnb had no effect on our preferences. We've never said all the founders have to be hackers, just that at least one should be.
The sampling theorem explained with numpy
The post explains the sampling theorem trough a python script. The script shows the aliasing effect with a graph.
The site is such a 90s throwback. I love getting emails to pay my ebay bill with instructions like "visit the site, login here, click there, then click here, and finally click here." Err, is generating a URL straight to payment such a problem?