skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternative viewpoint on how dated "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is from http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n

Buy an old copy from the 1940s or 50s instead of the current edition, which has been rewritten to suit present fashions. The original edition contained a few unPC ideas, but it's always better to read an original book, bearing in mind that it's a book from a past era, than to read a new version sanitized for your protection.
That is a very dangerous attitude. The moment you think you are too big to fail you are more at risk than at any stage before then.

Dropbox could still fail overnight. It would have to be a bad set of circumstances but they're definitely not out of the woods yet.

Remember Blockbuster?
You could run the contest locally and have the bot incrementally improve itself.
Getting What You Want Without Formal Credentials
Funny Infograpphic on Social Lerning. 
Are you a Social Learning Contributor?
I find it weird that people think there are a million ways in which Windows is insecure when in reality there's exactly one: it's popular. Pretty much all of the others are properties shared with every usable OS on the planet.
Texas agency censors scientific report to remove references to climate changes
Demonstration of the effect on data safety when removing Ruby/Python GIL
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The Free Business Plan Template
lol, however cutting slits in a condom packaging would cause it to dry out, and more importantly you could end up ripping the condom itself... but couldn't someone do a perforated version?
There's plenty of (good) advice here on how to work on yourself to fit into a team environment. That's a very good idea.

You may also want to consider that it is possible you're not meant to fit in quite like that. Being an introvert is a weakness if you want to fit in to an extroverted team environment, or a strength if you want to work remotely on self-directed projects.

Introversion isn't worse than extroversion; it just means you recharge your batteries by being alone with your thoughts, and have to use your batteries to participate in group activities (the reverse is true for extroverts). Perhaps part of your frustration is trying to fit yourself, a square peg, into the round hole of a corporate team environment.

I'm assuming you're looking for CS gigs, and that you have entrepreneurial aspirations. Maybe you should hit some freelance websites to fill your coffers & stay afloat, while working on an idea of your own on the side. If you're interested/open to travel, you can significantly reduce your overhead while still making decent wages by finding a place to work from that will lower your cost of living.

I'm not saying this is the right way to go - I know nothing else about you - but it's worth considering that maybe the rest of the world is wrong, not you.
I don't think people will pay for tools to protect their privacy because people have the choice to register a facebook account, and this choice makes most people feel like their privacy isn't at any risk.
I’m a Lawyer. Why Should I Care About Typography?
HN London Meetup Videos: StickyGram - September 2011
Steve's absence started showing up?
I no like this design/layout - http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
^^ Thanks - coming from the "wilds of Fayetteville, Arkansas"
There probably is some general statistical explanation of why you can get worse accuracy from combining multiple sources than each source by itself, but it seems irrelevant.

In actual receiver implementation you really get worse accuracy for simpler reason: most of the hardware resources (ie. receiver channels) are same between GPS and GLONASS, so using GLONASS ties up resources for GPS and vice versa.
thanks for the support! :D
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NoScript now available for Android
The Jump Start Program for Startups - Free Software for 1 year
Another suggestion to consider. Try not to use "but" because it is a flag that you are about to discount what you just said. Here's an alternative to the above, where you simply replace "but" with "and". (Also note saying why you like something really helps too.)

"Yes, I like that because it would help with X, and have you have you considered the cost?"

Usually "but" can be replaced with "and" fairly smoothly. However, if not, you can do something like:

"Yes, I like that because it would help with X. I wonder how much it would cost, both for the licenses and for the effort?"
I can imagine a world where Rubinius never gets 1.9 encoding support, and declares it a non-goal. It's not that outlandish.
The point is that you can utilize user analytics without cross-correlating every damn aspect of my life and buying habits.
This is a pretty poor list. What is "less" crappy apps? What is "better" in user interface and battery life? Can you quantify or even qualify these?
Wonder how feasible it would be to have a single GPS+GLONASS+Galileo chip that automatically feeds you the service(s) with the best signal; without murdering your battery?
Would you like to learn how to  trade forex?
Forgive me if this sounds like a rant, though it may be one.

Politics aside, though I may agree, I share the same sentiments as Honan. As an X'er, I've grown quite annoyed with the baby-boomer generation and their unending selfishness and gluttony. If the WWII generation was the greatest generation, as Brokaw put it, then the baby-boomers are the worst since the Dark Ages. For all their high-minded idealism they've created a society, at least in US, that is more divisive than it's ever been.

I'm not saying that good things were not accomplished and I'm not saying that they didn't push the world forward in some ways. They have. They've also managed to destroy the world's economy and leave it in debt for at least another two generations.

Regarding Millenials, I'm starting to get the same feelings. I'm reminded of the hilarious segment of Louis C.K. on Conan regarding technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LkusicUL2s
From my reading of the results, efficacy is only 35-55%. Does that seem low? Or is that good at this stage of a trial?
Sure, lots of easy things are illegal. But people and corporations have incentives to keep legal even when it would be very easy to commit the crime anyways. Enforcement has the job of catching people that are committing easy crimes, and discouraging them from doing so in the first place.
Or, these "rings" have been imposed on history by the human race's psychological compulsion to impose an understandable narrative structure onto the chaotic, senseless, meaningless mess that is life.

If we can't make sense of the past, how can we reasonably believe we have a chance of making sense of our own lives?

Of course in actuality, we can do neither of these things. The problem is if everyone sincerely believed this, we wouldn't get anything done. This is a big part of why religion continues to be so popular.
How Google's Human Search Quality Raters Assign a URL Rating
Hahaha, way to take the Recurly form and use it with Stripe. I did the same thing. I'm not too familiar with following the stock market, but good luck to you guys and the product looks great!
Son didn't elaborate on which product Jobs discussed with Cook, but given this new information, the speculation that next year's iPhone 5 will be Jobs' final master stroke of product innovation now seems far more credible. You can check out the video here.

Hardly. The incredible company that Jobs built can handle the iPhones 5, 6 and 7 just fine. The iPhone 5 is probably already being tested on the Cupertino campus, and doesn't need any of the last 24 hours of Steve Jobs' attention.

The "next product" is more likely to be a new product category, like the iPad, iPhone and iPod were when first announced. Based on current rumours, that could be the "iTV" or something altogether different... What Steve Jobs was almost certainly not fretting about on the day before he died was the iPhone 5.

As a unique visionary, I'm sure Steve Jobs was very well aware that Apple's future for the next few years is assured, but what isn't is its future in 10, 20 years. My guess is that phone call was about a product that we'll first hear about in a decade.
> HTWFAIP is barely 50 years old and still a classic.

It's coming up on 80 years.

Also, literature tend not to lose it's status as "classic" with age :) I think you mean "relevant"?
That would take even longer for serious production to switch to Rubinius. Especially when people have invested a lot in terms of learning how to boost MRI performance to the last drop.
Soooooo Cool! Never participated in one of these before. Looks like tons of fun.
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It seems like you would make more money keeping this technology secret and using it yourself or convincing a single investor to use it and share the proceeds. Why are you trying to market it?
Nice job - congrats. Is it difficult to prevent gaming the results? I'm curious about "pump and dump" approaches that exploit the social media data stream.
What? Both the Python and PHP samples output the same thing (bar one line) - images don't show because the pages contain relative paths (which only work if you have the images stored locally).

(development)ross@debian:~/hntest$ python download.py > download.py.html
(development)ross@debian:~/hntest$ php download.php > download.php.html
(development)ross@debian:~/hntest$ diff download.py.html download.php.html
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Isn't it far more likely that the meeting was about jobs' health, and the least suspicious story to tell a business partner to avoid speculation would be to say it is a meeting about the next iPhone?
oops, listen to F_J_H! The improv phrase is "yes, and" not "yes, but".
What is your technology stack? I am particularly interested in the graphing library.
Ours insisted on backwards compatibility
I've read the book, and I believe that one of the most important things with its techniques is that you have to be sincere and honest when applying them, otherwise it will seem (and be) fake for the people you are approaching.
Ash HN: How you avoid butt-dialing?
I just dialed a friend 3 times in a row by accident in the period of 10 minutes. What is your way to avoid butt-dialing, and how well does it work?

Suggestions I've read about are "just lock your phone", for Android: unlock pattern, Call Confirm app, Tiny Call Confirm + app, iPhone and others: pin lock.

I still think having a clamshell phone was the best way to avoid butt-dialing, though.
I agree that even this book is good enough. The main thing is try thinking of what others get from you, and curiously thinking of what you thinking of yourself.

I can recommend the "59 seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot" by Richard Wiseman, where he also explains what to tell at interviews and how to present your strengths and weaknesses.

Another thing I did and it was very useful was a psychological workshop lead by an actor with higher education in theater. That woman could decipher any our messages and explain what others get from them, that the way you communicate is often more important and tells more than the message itself.

So, my advice would be go get some knowledge, try in real life, then again knowledge and reflection, and so on. If you do it consistently, it doesn't make you the world's most nice person, but you'll definitely be more competent than many people around.
Japanese engineer crunches pi to 10 trillion digits
Are you in the top 1%?
Ok, but the reasons to prefer Linux still hold today, right?
Ok, it sounds like you have a lot to work on, personally speaking. That's not unusual; most smart people in their 20s do have serious issues to work through. I don't know you, so I can't comment on that. You probably have a better sense of what you need to fix about yourself than I do.

Three job-ending personality conflicts in less than 3 years is worse than average, but not the worst I've seen. But do take the hint that you might be doing a few things wrong. You don't need to be a popular-jock type, but please do yourself a favor and bring your social skills at least up to the 35th percentile. Read books like How to Win Friends and Influence People and read them seriously. (Just don't get into that sleazy PUA shit.)

Personal change is the hard part. Regarding career repair, that's much easier. Find a good recruiter and she'll help you with a lot of that. First, don't put months on your CV, just years. If you worked at a place from Nov. 2008 to Jan. 2009, put 2008-2009. If your tenure was 6/2010 to 8/2010, just put 2010 unless it was an internship (then put a season, e.g. "summer 2010"). Second, never say you were fired. Say you left of your own volition; no one can legally contradict you. If previous employers say something different, have your attorney send a C&D letter. Make sure your departure reflects positively on your ambition but not negatively on the company. Third, check your references. Use a professional reference-checking service like Allison and Taylor instead of trying to do it yourself. Find out what people are saying. If the references are damaging, bring on the C&D's. Fourth, most people with "damaged track records" are people who give away the store on their ex-employers. The "permanent record" exists, but only in your mind. If you can just learn to shut the fuck up occasionally (I'm speaking from personal experience and past mistakes, so I know how hard this can be) about the injustices you've faced it will do you favors. You can do much more damage to your enemies (if that's what you want; most people stop caring about their enemies once they're successful) by succeeding and getting into an important role later in life than you can by smearing their reputations in 20 unsuccessful (you can't throw shit without some sticking to you) interviews.

When you interview, keep the conversation technical and focus on what you worked on. The politics and personality conflicts you should gloss over entirely. And learn a few stock evasive answers if you get questions related to these matters. When interviewers probe you for political dirty laundry on past employers, they're not doing it because they "value" your opinion; it's either (a) a test, or (b) scouting against competitors, and neither benefits you personally.
The first part of this article is all about apps doing unnecessarily large network requests. The lack of gzip, optimized images, and redundant requests are more a sign of developers having not enough time or knowledge in the area of bandwidth optimization.

The second half of the article is much more interesting with a discussion of the horrible security practices in apps (or lack thereof). It is an indichtment of Facebook, flurry, and any other app that is leaking data (including passwords) without the user's permission.
^^ Thanks a ton! Ya, I have nothing but positive things to say about Stripe.
Yes, it would not be a painless change. But neither has the switch from 1.8 to 1.9 been pain-free. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
haha we are definitely trading on it ourselves, but as entrepreneurs we don't have nearly enough capital to make the profits meaningful. Also we're really excited to be making affordable information tools for independent traders and have a lot more in the pipeline! :)
Supreme Court of Canada: No Liability for Linking
sizeof(char) is always 1, because the number that it returns is not in bytes but in chars. What you mean is CHAR_BIT in limits.h.

This seems to be common state of things on almost anything, that is designed to be fast first and "C-compatible" second.
I'd love to see a CoffeeScript compiler implemented in OMeta -- please post it to the GitHub Issues if you come up with something neat.
At the end of the blog post is a timeline of the investigation and correspondence with the vendor. This is how to do disclosure.
You must demonstrate your ability to get along with people. Your client, your boss, your co-worker, your employee. You must be civil and decent to any and all of those people.

Your track record, as has been described, doesn't say you can do that, it says you can't.

I'd suggest a two-pronged approach: find a position where they aren't too choosy- i.e., a volunteer program, and also as you are working there, reflect on your behavior and consciously reflect on your habits with an eye towards tact and civility towards all, even in difficult circumstances.

It helps me a good deal to consider two things when dealing with people I disagree with. First, treat others as I want to be treated. Second, figure out where they are coming from and why they want the things they want.
Try freelancing. In my experience it tends to be a lot less bureaucratic. For example on Jobserve many gigs contain the line "if you are interested, call xyz" - no sending in a CV and waiting weeks for a response, just call (that was a few years ago, but I assume it is still like that).

Also it is normal if freelance gigs last less than a year. You don't have to write "I was fired" on your CV. I just have a section with "recent projects" and don't even specify if I was employed or freelancing.

I wasn't asked for references from previous jobs very often, either.
We were taught in school that you're supposed to squeeze the tip (of the condom) as you put it on, to allow room for the semen. Apparently this reduces chance of breakage.

I dont see any tip squeezing in this new application method.. thats a worry.
Assisted GPS

Digital compass

Wi-Fi

Cellular

I did a CTRL-F on GLONASS and no match is found. I said I did this in my edit... I'd take a screenshot, but I'm at work.
As the article points out, Wikipedia really needs lots of its information in standard forms. Lots of things are done manually that ought to be able to be automated.

I think the citation one is huge. Even the same article often has a "Notes" (for footnotes) section and a "References" section that is a bibliography unlinked to the text. They often both contain citations in different formats. If this is hard even within an article, how is it going to happen across all of Wikipedia? I hope someone takes it on, though.
Here's an article from the Daily Mail saying Facebook Gives You Cancer: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-...

It's the blanket "all newspapers good, all blogs bad" simplistic idea that I think is nonsense.
I'm guessing they took this in low light, so the phone opened up the aperture to compensate. (This also explains why one of the camera shots had ridiculous ISO.) I don't actually know for sure if the iPhone has an asjustable aperture, but I would assume so.
Why Ice Cream Sandwich Might Make Things Worse
That is fantastic advice for any beginner up to someone relatively advanced. At the professional end it does make a difference, recent high-end Nikons have been truly excellent cameras and have had much better noise reduction and autofocus than the Canons. It still makes much less difference than the skill of the photographer, though. It's like Windows/Mac, Emacs/Vim etc etc - they each have their advantages that will probably only matter to a very small percentage of users.
I was surprised when I saw GLONASS support appear in recent Garmin devices. http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2011/09/garmin-etrex-and-g... Now it starts to really make sense.
Ask HN: My startup is suing a company and I need help
We've spoken with multiple lawyers and have a very solid case. We'll likely be duking it out in the US court system. We've exhausted all other options.

This will be my first real experience dealing with the law & order and I admit I'm pretty green to the subject. If you have any resources, books or advice which you believe would aid us in learning more about the system I know we'd be grateful.

A little background:

My startup of 9 months was recently stonewalled by a partnering company who provides various datasets for licensing. In short: they've "stolen" our idea and are now preventing us from licensing their data because it's going to compete with a project they're working on.
The incredible company that Jobs built can handle the iPhones 5, 6 and 7 just fine. The iPhone 5 is probably already being tested on the Cupertino campus, and doesn't need any of the last 24 hours of Steve Jobs' attention.

You underestimate Steve Jobs. He was involved in all sorts of product and marketing detail, and certainly wouldn't have wanted to fixate on his own death when there was work to do.
Viajes de aventura a lugares y rincones espectaculares del mundo
Unlikely that Steve would have wanted to sit around and kvetch about his health. He probably did want to talk about the iPhone 5.
>20 years ago, we had the energy, the initiative, and - most importantly - the attitude, to grab the world by the balls and really shake things up.

We did not have the power. At that point it was in the hands of the boomers. I'm not someone to pass the buck but I consider the blame to be laid squarely on the shoulders of the boomers.

>We should all be wearing a f%!#ng albatross around our necks in the real world, to symbolize the metaphorical albatross we all wear for killing the dreams we had 2 decades ago. Yay us.

From my perspective, there was no idealism. That's what made us X'ers. I, as well as others, became totally disillusioned and apathetic to what society had to offer.

I disagree with music. There is great music being made though we have to search for it now as the Millenials are now dominating the scene with some of the worst pop music I've ever heard. Pretty soon there will be an awakening similar to 1992.
It's funny- when I was young (I'm Generation Y I guess) I watched "Reality Bites" and read Coupland's "Generation X" and thought "how can they be so complacent and moody? Isn't there more to life?" Maybe it's because of the internet but there's just so much to do and learn now that I'm never bored of everything like those characters were. Things were certainly dire in the Bush years, but even then I didn't feel like the cliche Xer.

I think for the most part these Generation ___ binnings are arbitrary, but there's something to be said about how the Baby Boomers generation has shaped the U.S. since the 60s and will for decades to come as they retire and put a strain on the social security and healthcare systems.
Indeed. I've heard the adage "when you're on your death bed, are you going to wish that you spent more time in the office?" and I tend to agree with it.

It's not easy to find a job (or purpose) so great that we wish to stay on this earth a little bit longer because of it.
Facebook's New Ad Units are Essentially Mini Fan Pages
Should really be 'Report:'.
Original Source:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002256.html
Just hackin' away with PHP, jquery, and MySQL ^^ The graphing libraries can be found here http://www.highcharts.com/ They've been uber easy to integrate
shorter version: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip
MacRuby also already comes with OS X - though it's currently still a private framework. By the time MRI 2.0 is ready to be released, the world will be a different place, MacRuby could by that time be the default Ruby on OS X.

I understand there are good reasons to keep MRI around, but the idea of making Rubinius the future of core Ruby development is not an outlandish idea.
The last one started September 10th and ended November 27th.