skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If those three conditions are not met, please ignore the rest of this post, you have already made some bad decisions and the question of staying in or dropping out is the least of your problems."

I could be mistaken, but I'm convinced that over 80% of people in college would not qualify.

If I'm mistaken, then I am saddened even more due to the existence of so many that could put forth so little effort for something they truly wanted to do. When I attended college I would not have qualified.
>"You build a company that will still stand for something a generation or two from now. That’s what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel"

One could say the same thing applies to Bill Gates.
After the delicious fiasco, I am not in a mood to try any such service. Instead, I'm keeping my bookmarks to my Firefox with all the tags. So what if the Firefox bookmarks manager's UI is not any advance, at least I don't have to worry about moving anywhere when the service shuts down or goes freemium. The only disadvantage is that I can't use my bookmarks if I'm on library's computer or something.
We Come To Learn
We're a creator, developer, and designer of visually beautiful and instructionally sound early education applications and games designed with young children and their parents and teachers in mind.
This is really cool man. I've sent you an e-mail too
That explains why lack of detection of correlation does not imply lack of causation. But all of the possible failures that it outlines are failures in detection, not an actual lack of correlation. It's a subtle distinction, but I think it's an important one.
Google Chrome 15 released with a bunch of new features
Yes, just like with backscatter radiation, shoe examinations and 3oz liquids at airports. They generated media heat, but didn't lead to any attention or oversight. Everyone is used to them now, I'm generally the only person in line to request the grope-down.
WebGL Gun Bros in Chrome Webstore
Import blocked sites from your Chrome extension into Google
B.R.I.C.K. my new robot flying aircraft can fly with no power.

(as long as it's only downwards)
What might "Pure Music" on your radio mean for radio?
I am actually Canadian complaining of how cold Melbourne was when I lived there. And I was there during the record breaking 47C day and the Victoria fires.

The problem with Melbourne is a combination of no humidity to retain the heat a wind chill from Antarctica. The combination of these means that 27C, on a sunny afternoon, requires a light jacket and the evenings/nights are never warm. I am used to 80-90% humidity and going out at 3am in shorts and a t-shirt in the summer. Melbourne rarely has this.

Granted, there are two months were the weather is very nice (january, february), but that is about it. Yes, it never gets to -40C, so cold is very relative here, but for a city that you would expect to be comparable to Sydney, Perth or Miami, it is cold.
How is Windows 7 more locked down?
"They did not want to hear that, but it made things clear: we had to build a better product. There was no other way out. No window, no hole, no escape hatch, no backdoor."

This is simply known as "not resting on your laurels".

Or as Andy Grove would say "Only the paranoid survive," ... "Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction," ... "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure."

(And all of the above also leads to missed opportunity.)
We've only experimented with converting over to AF, but the experience has been fairly pleasant. In particular, Mattt has been very receptive to talking a few things out with me and even sent me a follow up this morning when one of my complaints was fixed. Interacting with the community is important for this sort of project, and Mattt has a good start on that.
Export linux VMs out of EC2
There are a couple of ways to export Windows VMs out of Amazon EC2.

Is there any way to export linux VMs out of Amazon EC2 ? Want to move them into my laptop or home server(VMware)
But yet they pirate the games anyway. My guess is that you'll find that a large percentage of "gamers" in non-English speaking countries speak English well enough to understand most games and don't want to wait the 6+ months required to translate the game to their local tongue when they could be playing online against US players.

This was especially true a few years back, when some publishers wouldn't release games in the UK until the "European" translation was finished!
The main thrust of the article is that CLIs are expressive, and GUIs are not. I came up with a counter example QED.

He pushes this topic by talking about Unboundedness vs Boundedness and Internalization vs externalization. What he seems to fail to realize is that internalization and unboundness are not properties inherent to CLIs nor is externalization and Boundedness inherent to GUIs. Those properties are a function of how you designed your application and user interaction not the medium by which it is accomplished.
That's useful as a tool for a manual search, but you can't trust it by itself, since sites can tag any image as CC. In fact, you can find very well known -and definitively not CC licensed- photos on that search, like World Press Photo winners or Leibovitz's.
While some German jets did have ejection seats in WWII, they weren't terribly common.
> And yet I note you haven't actually challenged my point

That's because, as I pointed out, you didn't actually express a point to challenge. You blathered some vague description and an accusation.

Now that I can see what you were trying to say, the error is clear.

The "food investor" spends his money, not mine. If he's wrong, he loses his money. Moreover, the food investor doesn't stop someone else providing food. Govts do that all the time.

Moreover, govts tend to go all-in on their decisions - so the amount lost when they get it wrong is much larger. Investors aren't monolithic - some get it right, some get it wrong.

Yes, you need food, but unless govt gets involved, you have considerable choice about how to aquire it.

> Except that in the real world, if you don't buy food you die

Speak for yourself. The "square foot" folks have shown that it's possible to grow an amazing amount in a very small area. And yes, poor people have the time.

> when one group of people who know they will never be hungry have the power to raise food prices across the board

Govts are the only group with that power. If I don't like the prices from ADM, I can buy elsewhere. If I don't like the food prices set by govt, there is no "elsewhere".
RWW also picked up on this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3155766
I know nothing about node, but I had to add coffee-script as a dependency to my package.json file. Will I not have to do that cause of this fix?
Was Steve Jobs a genius? Is this granted? I feel like he was a great salesman, and knew how to identify and manipulate smart people in order to attain a goal (with the intention of cashing in on it himself). He also had a strong vision of what he wanted, was willing to be bullheaded about it, and managed to accumulate the credibility from early successes to keep people working on his vision and not deviating (although I feel like often his vision happens to be something he liked that someone else came up with, but the origin of the idea is not the point here). His cultural interests probably made it easier for some people to think he had some special insight.

But... genius? Unless we're talking genius manipulator (the best con men are almost magical in their abilities), for me the jury is still out.

EDIT: Actually, the comments on the site itself bring up a lot of great points along the lines of what I wrote.

EDIT2: Thanks for interesting discussions, was certainly worth the karma-risk.
Heard this story when it originally aired. Myhrvold makes a good point - what he does should, IN THEORY, provide a way for inventors to monetize their IP should they lack other means. But that's NOT what IV does. They don't bring anything to market, and they have no intention of using any of the patents they own outside of the legal system. They simply shake other down others, sometimes small-time inventors, down for money.
I don't mind arrogant co-workers so long as they know their shit better than anyone else in the building.
Depends on how good the idea is. So many ideas aren't worth pursuing any further, but still cloud your focus.

Ideas are so common that I most likely wouldn't do anything else with it. Though I have a couple that I have turned into simple iPhone apps.
I have a feeling that is not what the OP was referencing, but if it is, it is disabled with about 3 clicks.

Also, I am glad they implemented it. It gives people who just click things, like my girlfriend, pause. It makes them double check what is happening.
That's an argumentum ad populum. Just because everyone and their mother uses it is no justification for law enforcement to use it as well

Yes there is; if private citizens have access routine to technology that law enforcement is barred from using, then you'll have situations where there is photographic evidence of criminality that police are unable to act on (a popular example lately: webcams on laptops being used to ID thieves). If the police can't or won't act on it, while the recognition technology is freely available to web service users, then you're quickly heading for vigilantism and a lack of confidence in law enforcement.

Vigilantism has a poor record in dispensing justice as it has no procedural safeguards or judicial review whatsoever. Historical records show that prior to the establishment of professional police forces, rates of murder and other violent crimes were considerably higher. State-run police forces are what we got after market solutions had failed.

David D Friedman has studied libertarian approaches to law enforcement in some depth, and points out various shortcomings as well as some apparent benefits: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/England_18thc./Englan...
There's nothing in the docs to explain how to configure IRC server address/password etc?
awesome love the concept, but breaks if you use £ instead of $ :(
Current L1 caches are 32k. There's an awful lot of data that would like to be in there -- If you're going to talk about micro-optimization, it's something to keep an eye on.
I don't see your point. I absolutely agree that sometimes you have to piss people off to be the boss. But wouldn't you agree that this is offset by the number of times you have to empathize with people and be their friend? After all, a complete asshole gets neither respect nor friendship. And a lot of the people who work for the asshole boss will probably take your advice and quit. What good is a boss without workers?

Other bosses probably make good bosses for other personality types.

I disagree. If an organization is a round hole, the only person who benefits is the round peg who built it (if anyone benefits). The key is building a hole that can accommodate as many pegs as possible, even if some pegs require a bit more "accommodation" than others.
Seven is faster and more efficient than Vista. I have it running (with Aero off) on a 6 year old Thinkpad. It workss great, just as well as XP.

I also used Vista for 3 years, and recently moved to 7. It boots much quicker and uses less resources on a consistent basis.

Of course I realize that the plural of anecdote is not data but I haven't heard anyone contradict what I said.
At Caltech, the usual rule was 2 hours of study per hour of class. Sometimes it was a lot more than that :-)
I've never been a huge fan of Jobs, but I don't doubt he was a genius. His genius may have been sales/showmanship/leadership as opposed to traditional technical genius, but it was genius just the same.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT - THE IMPORTANCE OF IT IN Your CAREER
Sure, number of potential installs isn't the only relevant metric. I was just questioning the assertion that it wasn't a relevant metric at all.
Lorenz cipher
Amazon's Profit Plunges 73%
I'm not sure what it's like in the states but here in the UK, recruiters are nothing more than glorified salespeople.

The problem also lies in the fact that many recruitment agents get paid a woeful base salary, the rest being topped up by commission payments based on successful candidates they pass on. So it's in their interest to ring as many people as possible and put forward as many people as they can because there's a good chance they'll get a "bite" somewhere down the line
Ignoring the silly con man remark,

"but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"
You can do that sometimes...as long as your key isn't bound to a user account (Battle.net), and as long as you have the patience to get it working (mail the cds, give them your steam account password, find them a crack, etc). Some of those restrictions are reasonable and some aren't.

My point is that good DRM can protect rights of both parties , but never does. Instead, if often restricts the consumer's rights in favor of the publisher. Steam comes closest to balancing interests, but falls short as well.
Who said anything about commenting?
I often enjoy a tl;dr because a tl;dr will, with more accuracy than the title, tell me whether the article is worth reading.

And yes, I almost always check the comments before reading the article (but I always read the article before commenting).
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your ideas?
I've never found a solution that I like for tracking and then later revisiting ideas. I have Google Docs, spreadsheets, folders, and scraps of paper. Are there web apps for idea tracking that you guys trust, and that hopefully allow both public and private ideas? I'm also starting a Twitter feed for random ideas that I have: http://twitter.com/ideaperdiem
Showmanship, yes. His presentations were memorable, when computer tech presentations are usually quite forgettable.
It sounds like they are including third party app stores, presumably including Amazon's:

Being a free platform has expanded the Android device install base, which in turn has driven growth in the number of third party multi-platform and mobile operator app stores
why do no bookmarking services leverage collective intelligence to recommend urls/sites you're probably interested in based on your bookmarking history? You could turn a bookmarking site into an intelligent content discovery system
Make Huge Savings on Cheap International Calls to Pakistan
Seems like it's done by env variables, same way it's setup for Campfire:

https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/src/hubot/irc.co...
Jobs was a genius in the way P.T. Barnum was, not in the way that Woz or even Bill Gates are.
I'm thinking about adding a follow feature and a map based directory to http://mightycv.com soon. It might make the service a bit more useful for those looking for good hackers to work with and hopefully help put a nail in the coffin of traditional recruiters - at least the bad ones anyway. I'm hoping that if MightyCV becomes a popular place for hackers to create and home their resumes then it might allow people to bypass recruiters completely on occasion.

It's early days, but if you're interested in what a MightyCV looks like then take a look at mine:

http://robeastham.mightycv.com

Hope you like the look of it, if so then feel free to sign up for the private beta on the main homepage.
Why is Bing the default search when first Installed?
Find flights and hotels that fit into your (Google Calendar) schedule
Why do you even need to classify genius?

Have you even met any? The reason I'm asking is that to know genius one has to see one in person. And the work of a genius cannot even come to be without the persona. It is always the personality that fascinates and then as if trying to find the essence for themselves, people go around looking at the work and life of a genius, pondering what it is that makes them so.

And its passion. Pure single minded passion. The dark side of the force, all the way. Thats what genius is.

Another thing they have in common is that they simply cannot be classified in concise terms without calling them genius.
If anyone is interested in another alternative, check out my node-smores framework. https://github.com/jonursenbach/node-smores

Shameless plug, but I could use some help fleshing out useful plugins.
I didn't mean to imply Jobs was a con man. But I don't get why your comment applies, especially since it credit a large group which I would be entirely willing to accept contained numerous geniuses. It would be equivalent to praising Apple as a whole, which I would definitely be fine with. Lots of excellent work from very talented people going on there no doubt.
KnockoutJS - Binds Javascript Objects to DOM Elements
Hmm...I have a feeling that his statement wasn't really directed at serial, game-changing entrepreneurs like Elon Musk (and himself, as you point out). But there are some people who start companies with the express intent of selling them and aren't necessary worried about them lasting for generations. Whether that makes them not true entrepreneurs, I don't know; I guess Steve Jobs would have said not. But I think they are a different breed than Musk et al.
Is it possible to parse page content when bookmarking and automatically assign it an appropriate category or pre-populate a few tags? I would find this highly useful, but I don't know how practical it would be to develop.
The Incomprehensible Jargon of Science
thanks. we're currently using fandango. lamp backend
Groupon Groupons its IPO
Interesting marketing technique by runningshoes.com...
Ideas are very important. Sometimes too important to digitize. I bought a black covered, blank, hardbound book that I use to write and draw out my ideas. And I lock it in a safe.
Running Windows 8 in a Virtual Machine
I'm not so sure. You'd be surprised how much energy we already consume compared to the solar energy received by the earth. At some point the waste heat will become a problem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2985303
Leonardo DiCaprio Invests in Social Start-Up Mobli - Entertainment & Stars
i never keep track of my ideas. i only have a few that really stand out and those i never forget. if your ideas don't come back to you over and over again, then those aren't good ideas. also, i try to be proactive about finding out whether they're good ideas by talking to people - anyone - old bosses, old friends, new friends, guys who hit on me at coffee shop, etc.

Why do ideas have to be private? if you have an idea, you can be sure that you are probably not the only one who came up with them, so feel free to discuss openly.

there's nothing worse than being paranoid about keeping your ideas to yourself.
You can just link to the image on the original site. No distribution means no copyright infringement. Rude yes, illegal no.
10 Scary Halloween Decoration Ideas for Your Garden
We switched it from £ to $ just before we posted onto Hacker News. The text area breaks very easily right now, which we'll be fixing in the coming days. Thanks for the catch.
Leonardo DiCaprio Dives Into the Startup Scene
you sure it wasn't related to the fact that you restarted your browser? Have you been running Chrome 14 in one instance for a long time?
I use GQueues, project management loosely integrated with your gmail account.
They would be able to. But that's not what I asked. The question was - would they choose to?

As I've mentioned, few if any PC laptop manufacturers choose to, so is there any reason to think that Apple would?
Hopefully more women reduces the amount of misogyny that have to see people pull all the time on the internet.
This whole article seems based entirely on conjecture
Retina iPhone.
Is there any way to change the New Tab page without the help of extensions? I prefered it blank which you can't do now.
Amidst the various hagiographies and anti-hagiographies circulating, I can't help wishing someone could pull it all together into a cohesive whole and act as Speaker for the Dead.

Does anyone know if the new biography attempts this?
Does anyone here actually use Chrome apps? I personally don't really get the appeal, but maybe someone can explain it.
Of course. From games to music to movies, when you limit the utility of a legitimately purchased product you will only serve to make the pirated version that much more appealing. Case in point: I can buy a movie from a Hollywood studio in Japan, but I play it on my US DVD player. If I were to pirate that same movie - I can save $20 and watch it anywhere! Localization and DRM = terrible concepts.
TouchBase: A scheduling app that’s more helpful than Siri?
I wish we could, but the problem is there will always be new forms of criminals that need to be imprisoned and wars that need to be fought.

What I want to know is why we need to have rapists, murderers, and criminals? Can't we do better as a species?
They should use a Facebook api to power their facial recognition search with the social information behind each face. Wouldn't that be powerful?
Agreed, I should have clarified. We don't just use IRC, but IRC along with other tools to handle pasting text and file uploads. I think what has always bothered me about Campfire (which I'm sure can be solved) is that it's not easy to do thing from the command line. I want to be able to pipe the output of git diff to my pastebin, or upload a log file from a remote machine.
Sidebar on the page I read:

90’s Internet: Nobody knows you’re a dog.

2011 Facebook Timeline: Everyone knows you’re a dog.
I agree his talents did not lie in the technical areas. But given how much he stole credit for ideas, I'm naturally suspicious about the source of the brilliance attached to him. And I'm not willing to concede that a combination of stubbornness, single-minded vision, and eccentricity can necessarily be called genius. What if those are simply personality traits that happen to drive other people to work hard to achieve something or fork over money? Genius implies a true insight. So did he truly understand people enough to manipulate them like he did (both business partners and customers)? I guess that's the question I ask myself. Or was it a happy accident of his style, desire, and stubbornness that just happened to work.
Deditor
F* A Distributed Programming Language with Value-Dependent Types
Overstock.com (o.co) suit vs Goldman Sachs/Merrill Lynch set for trial
It's not just a one time state that shows this. Millennial has been posting these reports every quarter or so, and I do remember at least a few of them when iOS was ahead. It's probably not completely accurate, but it does show a trend, from iOS dominating their stats a year or so ago, and now Android dominating them.
On the topic of polygot programs, fear this beauty in COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, C, PostScript, sh, Perl 5 and even x86 MACHINE CODE (not assembly): http://ideology.com.au/polyglot/polyglot.txt
Japan Develops Spherical Flying Machine [video]
I'm not a very smart guy. I see things like this and IronPython (which I assume is ALMOST the same idea, but not quite) but I don't understand their purpose.

Could someone explain in some easy terms why you (from my understanding) re-implement languages like this?