skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add one very useful hint which was not mentioned in Paul's videos:
place the word "debugger" (without quotes) anywhere in your script to set a breakpoint.
I don't think the problem is what do they actually do with all those data, but what could happen with it. You can't be sure that in few years, they will use data for something else that ads, something that you're not agree, but meanwhile data are collected. You can't be sure what could happen with Google's data in 5 or 10 years. Sold ? After all, Google is a company, here to make money. Or even some weird law, allow government accessing those data, to track terrorism profile. Ok, maybe it's unlikely, but you can't be sure. What I'm sure of is that loads of data worths loads of money.
Ah, to be young and naïve again.
The Accidental Business Consultant, or Not
Why Github is startup's graveyard (and why it's a good thing)
HandleOpenURL
Fascinating read. The end bit with the "binning" reminds me of WOW when you would sometimes proc and get a pristine cut in Jewel Crafting.
Similar story for me, except after BASIC it was Forth and 6809 assembly (and I had a TRS-80 Color Computer) and after a while I grew obsessed with data compression algorithms. Man, I used to love browsing old copies of Byte.
I've disabled 3rd party cookies and opted out of web history. So it has nothing to show.
i suspect quite a few people do browse this way.. i do much of the same things (minus last pass, i still use keepass copy/paste).
‘Kissenger’ allows you to kiss your partner long distance, explore robot love
I only recently made the effort to switch to a tool like 1Password and it's great for creating on-the-fly secure passwords that I don't need to bother remembering.

I believe there's quite a few products that do a similar job.
Rarely have I seen a question that would cause me to leave an interview unfinished. This one would do that.
You may be interested in http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071010132314.ht...

tl;dr - infrequently-used irregular verbs get "regularized", frequently-used irregular verbs, e.g., "be", "think", will likely stay irregular forever.

(I remember reading about changes to the English language that happened to be underway about the time the printing press arrived, and how the press "froze" that process, leaving us with the mess of pronunciation, spelling, and verb endings we have today, but I've been unable to find an appropriate reference, so I offer the article about the Lieberman study in its place.)
Game DVD.. not movies..
How is that beneficial for anything other than your ego?

Last time I checked, if there was no internet in the year 2012 you could invent that too. I don't really see it existing as a hindrance to your potential creativity though.
Let's play Half-Life 2: A Call for Communication
totally agreed. I've been listening to di.fm and Armin Van Buuren week shows for 5 years.
Most of the time when you don't like the food, if you talk to the manager you will get offered another entree, a discount, or a refund depending on what the problem was (e.g. just didn't care for it vs. it was burnt vs. there was a dead cockroach in it, etc.)
The age of communication techniques | Materi Ilmu komunikasi
So, he hates Google knowing what he likes, but he doesn't mind that they have his phone #?
No, "Literature" is the label for works of middle-class introspection, whereas "Genre" fictions are books that are about any other subject matter.

If you move from actually having a subject to making your subject a metaphor for middle-class internal conflicts, you have made the move from Genre to Lit.
Sounds like there's an ego issue here. Not ego as in "I'm so great, look at me" but ego as a self identity that wasn't there before.

You're writing through a filter now (a personality you've constructed) whereas before you were writing in a selfless zen state.

So relax. Stop thinking so much and start training your mind through meditation. Read the teachings of Buddha. You will be alright. In fact, you'll be better than alright. This is just a bump in the road.
very educational. i knew where Si came from but never really knew how circuitry was created. i'd love to see the machinery behind the actual design/production of chips. superb submit
This reminds me of the experiment the German town Bohmte ran getting rid of the majority of their road signs and lights. Forcing people to remain attentive to their surroundings resulted in a substantial drop in serious traffic incidents.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1821731...
http://www.drive.com.au/editorial/articledetail.aspx?Article...
I'm using it, the workflow isn't so bad. In fact it is similar to the way kernel patches are iterated and reviewed, except centralised instead of e-mail based.
How this should have gone:

Boss: we have a problem in production. Can you take a look at it right now?

Ed: What's the ticket number?

Boss: Sue entered it; I'll get it from her.

[Boss gets ticket number; in the meantime Ed does something else productive.]

Ed: Thanks Boss; I'll call Sue if I can't figure this out from the ticket. By when do you need an update?

Boss: I'm concerned that pending changes could hold up a fix for this. If that's the case I'll need clearance from Steering before we can patch it. Let me know if this needs a code change, and what else could be affected.

Ed: Right-o. [taptaptap]
There's a nice 1952 novel on this subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Animaux_d%C3%A9natur%C3%A9s
Include in /etc/pam.d/sshd:
account requisite pam_succeed_if.so shell != /sbin/nologin
I would look at Henry Miller's 11 commandments of writing. Online here http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/01/henry-millers-11-commandm...
All of Reddit is pissed off at Woody Harrelson
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وريال سوسيداد 4-2-2012 Barcelona vs Real Sociedad
I wonder if these memristor computers could be attached to our brain, increasing memory capacity, processing power, creating a HUD-like overlay without the need for external displays (just tap into the part of the brain that we use to visualize objects) - now that would be really impressive. Damn, I hope I get to use at least a memristor-based computer in my lifetime :-)...
The market is inefficient because of the information problem - precisely as you say, everyone is unique. That harms your appeal to the market as a pricing mechanism.

Anyone making an offer for an unknown potential employee logically and necessarily discounts the offered salary by a certain amount to take account of the unknown. So the market price for a developer is lower than what that developer should be making once they are a known quantity for the most profitable position for them in the market.

And companies should give raises based on this - not on the market price, but on the known quantity, such that the only way that an offer exceeding the salary could be made is either (a) a position that creates more value (in which case the employee really should move, should money be their motivation) or (b) an irrational company.
Insightful post. The title did, however, threw me off. A graveyard implies death, which we generally associate with grief sadness, nothingness, etc. But but placing projects on GitHub, startups are contributing to our collective knowledge, helping others, engaging in an act of kindness, etc. So maybe a more relevant analogy would be museum, library or (art) gallery? [pedant]
How hard is it to securely sandbox untrusted latex code?
I'd say that the main advantage of Linux here is that it helps get you started; it's really easy to make a quick CLI tool, usually in the form of a shell, perl or python script, that is useful -- scratching an itch.
This applies quite well to Mac OS, of course, but to run Mac OS you'll need a Mac...
Writing 100mb to disk should take around 4 seconds on a HDD and less on a SSD.
> average salary of a college graduate in the US is 5000$

Median personal income for a US person age 25+ with a BS degree or higher is $49303 per year. If you only consider those with a full-time job, it's $56078.
Tooth types and composition ~ Of Dentistry
So much more easy to read ths on an iPad safari in reader mode :-)
Google know exactly what I like, I'm sat in Gmail all day and have G+ open. And I own domains, everyone already has my name, email, number and address.

What I disliked were:

* Websites automatically changing state based on a cookie (forums that reset what it believes you've read)

* To be on site B and have what I viewed on site A appear (adverts over-personalising kept creeping me out thinking there was a relationship between disconnected sites)

* My searches being personalised (in the same way that Amazon recommended gets skewed by Christmas shopping, so my searches get skewed when my girl says "Can you just look this up for me", I also want to see other opinions so don't want opposing views filtered out)

But I didn't dislike those things enough to do anything about them. They're just small papercuts.

This browsing style evolved from using incognito and private browsing to assist web development, I continue to use it because it prevents all of the papercuts above.
Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients For Success
i've been on counter offer side of things a few times..
at first, it was nerve wrecking.. having to resign and admitting to have been "cheating" on your employer by secretly interviewing.. it feels horrible. but indeed, it was always well received (or maybe i was lucky in having rational bosses) in a do-what-is-best-for-your-career manner. and some of the counter offers were crazy good, but it would feel weird to stay based on that.. after all, while resigning i always listed other things that propelled me to do that (like being skipped for a promotion for 2 years because promotions were limited (to 1 per year) and other employees demanded them outright while i stayed quiet).

taking another offer is a big risk. you're leaving the cozy confines of your current job, where you know everyone and all the systems you've so carefully crafted over the years. Last time, the company i left for ended up laying off 60% of dev staff (myself included) 5 months after switching. But i am still glad i did it. i learned lots in those 6 months i wouldn't have if i stayed, and interestingly enough, when my old boss found out i was laid off he generously offered my old job back.

i have a friend, that outright tells his boss that once a year he'll be interviewing just to see what the market worth for his job is. This seems insane to me, but his boss is totally fine with that. My friend has a great job with amazing perks (sales) that would be very hard to beat elsewhere. This move does let his management know that he isn't going to stick around unless his growth at current place continues.
As an FYI, parts of this article have been taken without any attribution from:

http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/chipmaking/Making_o...

http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/chipmaking/pdfs/Sand...

An example being the sentence "Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing." which seems to have been copied almost word for word.

Other parts of the article appear to have been simply rewritten from other - more reputable/original - sources too.

So to sum up, this source shouldn't be upvoted, IMO.

Also as an FYI, I love how Google rank this on page 1 for [How a CPU is made]... (indeed, above the original sources)
What I hate most when looking for an Internship.
Hey, thanks for trying it out. I'm glad you like it.

The slider acts a bit funny on touch devices, so yeah I need to fix that. For now, you can get around that by editing the price fields directly by typing into them.

I'm updating the laptops dataset now, so if you check back on Monday, it will have many more new options. If you don't mind, I'd like to get a bit more feedback from you. Please email me at hrishi@giniji.com or let me know your email.
Burning Desire - A painting that salutes the hacker spirit
Thanks. Agreed. Gallery sounds like a good analogy, but in this post I was trying to use the term "graveyard" as a good thing. Guess I couldn't overcome the terms' connotation. Modified the title to point out that it's a good thing :)
Bram Cohen on the Go language
> The notion that this growth is unsustainable is scare mongering.

No. It's stating a very basic and obvious fact to anyone who understands math.

> 1.5% growth per year is sustainable indefinitely to colonize the galaxy, if we can just keep the resources needed to support that growth flowing.

Exponential growth - you don't understand what it means. Dyson spheres are chickenshit when you're trying to sustain exponential growth indefinitely in a three-dimensional universe.
console.dir is really useful. It give you variable structure in console.
> And here’s something no one has stopped to consider: Maybe making movies is too damn expensive. Or rather, far more expensive than it needs to be.

Hmm. I went to the theatre (first time since a long time as the experience feels antiquated and overpriced) with friends to see Sherlock Holmes, and the opening scene perfectly exemplifies the point: for about ten second you see a shot of the cathedral of Strasbourg. Half of it consists of a CGI explosion. I live there, and to produce this shot, they locked this part of the city for one week.

Ten seconds. One week. A whole team plus equipment. To the other side of the world. Seriously.

When seeing the scene I found that downright shocking, especially given the 10€ hole burning my pocket.

By comparison it takes Turn10 Studios three days[0] locally to gather enough information on a track to subsequently work on for one year. That's a full-length, five kilometer track.

I know this is not the same, and various other things come into play, but I just can't help but have an alarm bell ringing when I see movie production costs. See for yourself (budget in $):

- 2001 and Star Wars: 10 million each
- Independence Day: 75 million
- Transformers: 150 million
- Kill Bill 1+2: 50 million
- Jurassic Park: 65 million
- King Kong: 200 million
- Blues Brothers: 30 million
- Fast & Furious: 90 million
- The Fellowship of the Ring: 100 million
- Harry Potter: ~150 million each
- Full Metal Jacket: 15 million
- Jarhead: 72 million
- Apocalypse Now: 30 million
- Black Hawk Down: 90 million
- Terminator: 6 million
- The Matrix: 60 million
- Terminator 2: 100 million
- Casino Royale: 100 million
- Quantum of Solace: 230 million
- Sherlock Holmes: 125 million
- The Godfather: 6.5 million

I know those $ do not mean the same across time, but still, you can see going from simple to double produces crap (CS vs QoS), or produces twice the length at arguably the same 'quality' (whatever that means) for a significantly smaller cost (LotR vs HP). I don't see either why F&F costs thrice as much as BB, and almost twice as much as KB.

Bottom line: MAFIAA, please produce non-crap and control your costs instead of blaming piracy.

[0] http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/underthehood4/
but what's he doing about the government mind rays? I have 14 different hats. I mainly use aluminium foil, but when entering passwords or other sensitive information I like to switch to pure tin, as that of course is most difficult to penetrate with mind rays.
Btw, never take compliments like "brilliant" and "ingenious" too seriously. These words get bandied about much too often, and it's hardly ever appropriate.
I guess people just can't comprehend the sheer size of the Earth and the massive amount of resources it still has. Just check this graph out: http://www.landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127

That's the surface area we need to power EVERYTHING with solar power (which is VERY ineffective at the moment). Add to that wind power (lower in the article), and we're golden for another hundred years.

We don't even need to go to other solar systems (which seems impossible at the moment) - just start colonizing and mining the nearby planets/asteroid field (it's very very hard, but not impossible). Nuclear submarines are a good example of relatively self-sufficient bases/colonies. With time, it's possible to slooowly build something like that in space...
Are you having any health issues?
For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is Way of Life
I don't see how Facebook's build needs to be kept secret. It's a purely internal process and while they might lose something by giving details they can also gain if someone suggests improvements. That said, there are plenty of tings they need to keep secret. EX: Letting anyone export FB's full social graph would be really stupid.
I'm always surprised more people don't know this. I haven't seen it any books and only occasionally in tutorials.

I use it dozens of times a day -- it's critical for writing and understanding JS.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Ingredients For Success
It works splendidly with any algebra I throw at it, but it's not very much intended to handle expressions in logical calculus, is it?

Case in point: http://i.imgur.com/tnuxs.png
I read it as "capable of subsisting on polyurethane only" in the lab.
I think programmers have achieved harder tasks than detecting which protocol the server speaks and speaking its language, starting with the most optimal protocol and falling back to simpler and more common ones.
I've known people who could do high-output context-switching like that; what they taught me was that context-switching is a skill, and one gets better with practice. (Just like power-napping!)
How can someone down vote this comment? Too many trolls in HN lately...
Aren't they sort of equal these days?
I'd love to know where that sand comes from. A professor in college once told us that not just any sand works for this process, and many wars have been fueled by the need to secure sources of that particular sand in Africa. Couldn't find any references, though...
"If command is specified, it is executed on the remote host instead of a login shell." (man 1 ssh)

Isn't this a greater problem than port forwards? Eg you could say ssh example.com sh to get a shell even if your login shell is set to /bin/false?
I endorse your view. Its puzzling to see how in a very silly manner, so many people just want to be "fashionable" when it comes to use of tech.

The FB engineer in his interview (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3527419) says it just about right that "Technology is a great servant but a terrible master"!
For a bug report like this, you might want to explain exactly what LaTeX you expect that to turn into.
Ask HN: Linux power issues solved yet?
My Ubuntu 11.10 installation drains out a lot of battery; same for Sabayon. The problem persists even after upgrading kernel to 3.2.

When are these problems going to get fixed? Do you guys happen to have any idea?
Thanks for the concern, I don't think I suffer from any health issues. Are there any notable health problems that you know of which have such psychological effects?
You can also write python and powershell scripts in windows.
For the last 6 months I've been using eclipse+chrome plugin to debug my node.js app. It works well and in combination with nodeunit it's been very productive.

Here's the link that I used to get started:

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Using-Eclipse-as-Node-Ap...
Ask HN: Hosting options for Java application
Hi All,

I am working on a small personal consumer web project (I am not sure what to call my initiative, when ventures like Dropbox are still called startups). Currently, I am working on a minimum viable product (MVP) version. I am not a developer, but I use to be years ago (backend, in Java). For my initiative, instead of waiting for a technical co-founder, I have re-learned programming and have put together a working application (front-end is pathetic, but backend is in decent shape, I guess) and am ready to host it somewhere.

I never thought hosting the application is going to be one of my biggest problems. Apparently there aren't many hosting services for Java/Tomcat, and the ones I found aren't satisfactory (for e.g. GoDaddy takes 24 hours to implement your changes). Amazon is another viable option, but it seems too technical for me (setting up EC2, installing and configuring Tomcat and then installing and configuring MySQL - do not want to use Amazon database services for now). Currently, I am using CloudBees for testing (free) and am thinking about going live with the MVP using their database and RUN service (4-app cell and 512MB ram), but it seems a bit expensive. It is a great PaaS, very easy to work with, but seems like it can turn out to be a bit heavy on my pockets.

Can someone please suggest on the best way forward for me? I am not too fanatic about cloud for now and can live with a decent managed hosting service as well. Do you have any vendors / services / guides I can use or refer?

Cheers,
Deepak
I knew it would happen anyway :) Probably the only comment I've made on HN where I knew beforehand that mentioning WOW would instantly attract the down-vote hammer. (I don't even play it any more, but knew if I mentioned that tidbit of information as well, I would get downvoted by people who don't play WOW, and people who play WOW now. ha).
I'm looking forward to this course! For people who want to get their feet wet, check out David Singleton's awesome blog post:
http://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar

After reading that post, I made one of my own using Lego:
http://slowping.com/2012/self-driving-lego-mindstorms-robot/

There is also a Nova documentary called "Great Robot Race" on the DARPA challenge to get the inspiration going:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/
I wouldn't contest that, and thanks for your advice.

But could you elaborate more on what you mean by a 'filter' as opposed to a 'selfless zen state'?
Tell HN: I will build a functioning prototype of your idea
Hey I am doing this offer again as I have been getting good results so far.

I have been doing ruby on rails for about 1.5+ years and I am looking to expand my portfolio with some projects and I currently have some time to do freelance work.

This could be your minimum viable product(MVP). This could be what you link to in incubator applications. Just a web application that closely matches your basic vision.

I would be able to do very basic design based on mockups you give me.(Mockups, sketches and any graphics and copy text you want me to include)

I am willing to work 1-2 weeks per project so that I can build out your basic idea/prototype.

Let me know if you have any questions/ideas or just message me @ hnprototype[at]gmail.com

Price range for projects $800 - $1500
Do you think adapting git to use, say, LevelDB and letting that do its job with incremental updates and maintaining a secondary index by path could help?

And that might dovetail nicely with an inotify daemon?
The same people were convinced in 2008 that housing prices would still go up. Not that they're necessarily wrong this time, but I would maintain skepticism.
Comments that don't add anything (extra information, or point out a problem with the article) tend to get voted down. "I liked this" is not considered a valid comment on HN.
dojox.mobile - it should be added to the pool
IMO, this humorous comment on HN sums it up best.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3292806
No offense to the author, but I was expecting more of an in-depth process article rather than an overview. Every "How I Learned to Program" article is fluff filled and really only inspiring rather than action orientated. I've never read a truly step-by-step guide on how someone has learned to program. Maybe I'll write it.
I'm looking for a coder to help me get a non profit up and running.
It'd be really cool if you could drop me a note if you'd like to help out.
Think Different (as long as enough people will like or retweet it)
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I don't browse incognito and I'm always logged in to google.
It plays into the caricature of Apple customers being holier-than-thou cultists. I can tell you it bothered me as an iPhone user since v1.