skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just added my thoughts, i'd be interested to hear how you're looking to approach this differently from other lead generation companies - I regularly get mails from companies offering to hook me up with businesses who require xyz, but have always thought that the only thing they've really qualified is the budget, not the amount of work required.
It's survival of the fittest, except you looking for the most stupid of the herd.
I agree. When thinking (or talking with people fluent in both languages) I constantly switch between polish and english, as quite often one language captures intended meaning much better than the other. There are words and phrases that just cannot be translated without loosing some parts of their meaning.
It's not nonsense

Of course, you can block/scatter visible light that way, but it's awfully difficult (since the holes would be tiny)
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Ask HN: Anyone for Java / JSF web apps
I regularly see new guys to want to learn programming on HN and HN shows takes them to Ruby / Python. PHP is a de-facto choice for many but they may not be too open for it considering the language purity. I also do PHP a lot though tilted towards Java.
Java for me is a long standing language but (just like linux) has a host of contenders and choice it all the more confusing.
Here, I would like to ask how is learning java / JSF help in web development and how to go about it in the simplest possible way. I am trying to write a Twitter clone. I know there is a ready-made example in running a Twitter-like app in ROR.
Rather if the startup has a viable product or service, it should be making money selling it to people who has a need for this product.

- I guess this is only applicable at early stage of the startup. Scaling a startup is very different.
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It's like all those stupid adverts you see on TV for mega-extreme-fitness-workout or call-meet-super-sexy-local-girl. Always wondered who would actually but this rubbish or call those stupid premium rate numbers, but the very fact there are so many of them must mean someone does!
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A tipping point for Quora?
Other countries ripping the technology off is part of the plan, as far as I understood it.

We can talk them into using less fossil fuels (probably won't work), or use incentives (which would again cost money), or we can create a by then cheap technology for getting Co2-free energy which will be stolen by everyone.

Comparing costs from climate change adaption and avoidance shows that avoidance is far cheaper - and in both cases the developed countries will have to carry the majority. (Just imagine the situation if half of Asia and Africa's harvests fail.)

The investment here is not just an economic one, it goes much further.
That was my experience in my 2 months of using it. Then I had to format (bought a new SSD), and came back to seven. But I have to admit that I was a little worried at first about the changes. And some weren't of my liking. But in my day to day there was no difference with seven.
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Can better hiring method avoid the need to fire staff? Could you create a culture that retains the right people and forces wrong people to leave?

No. It assumes that the "wrong" people now were the "wrong" people from the start. Your business changes. People change. The combination of those two factors mean that sometimes you have no choice but to fire somebody.
Ask HN: Do you unit test?
Microsoft's new tab, Surface, freezes during the presentation [video]
I would recommend ASP.NET and C#. The .NET framework is fantastic, Visual Studio is a fantastic IDE and C# is a great language to learn and use.

If you don't wish to use ASP.NET then I would highly recommend Python and Django as a platform. It can be a huge pain to install if you're a beginner, but it's a fantastic language and framework.
Has Quora reached a tipping point and became just another site for teen-advice on the internets (I'm looking at you, Yahoo Answers!) ?
Is this a natural progression for any site with a user-generated content? And how to keep things relevant?
I wonder what you think :)
Do you have a normal German house, with shutters and thick stone walls? Normally they're good for at least a week when it gets hot - only open up at night and during the day close the shutters and don't open the windows. And heat waves that last longer than a week are very rare. All of Europe lives like this, even in the southern countries.
There are some places where this doesn't work though, like the flat directly underneath the roof..
Another model which already exists today is the 'Hollywood model'. People will get together, create a movie and then disband once the movie is done.

In 'the nature of the firm'[0] Donald Coase asked himself why there are businesses with employees at all when an entrepreneur could instead contract the work, a la Hollywood model. The ultimate answer is that the transaction cost of having to go to a market every time you need to get something done outweighs the inefficiencies of having employees. He got the Nobel prize for that.

I got acquainted of those notions trough the book 'Here 'Comes Everybody' [1]. It talks about the way the internet reduce transaction costs and allow new forms of sharing and collaboration that weren't possible before.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase#The_Nature_of_the_...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Everybody
Apple, Android and The Decline of the Euro
Higgs Boson Found?
Mozilla working on iPad mobile browser to challenge Safari
Show HN: AIR, Unity3D, HTML5 web sockets = Wii-like experience on mobile phones
Yes, select sessions will be live streamed. Just like last year. Source: https://developers.google.com/events/io/
Wouldn't work.

If malicious types didn't find a way to circumvent your code such that they could use you as a relay for their junk, they would at least be able to use your auto-responder to try DoS or joe-job someone else (potentially leaving you with a large bandwidth bill and a collection of explaining/apologising to do).
You are right with the explorer thing. Even the large toolbar buttons in windows xp's explorer where nicer for touch I believe. Luckily, that new ribbon can be hidden.
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I'm disappointed that Godwin's Law appeared so soon, the circumstances are not even remotely comparable.

As I said above, this isn't about morality or whether Israel is right or wrong to occupy the West Bank, because that is not a real factor in this particular geopolitical strategic situation. This is purely about relative strategic postures and their implications for the Middle East.

There is no cognitive dissonance in holding the views that Israel is a defensive nuclear power posing no threat to its neighbours, but its treatment of the Palestinians is wrong, and Iran should not acquire nuclear weapons. In fact that's the view held by many EU member states.

It can be argued that the Palestinian situation contributes to instability and should be fairly resolved for that reason alone, but that does not and should not factor into an objective assessment of Iran's nuclear program. Iran seeks nuclear weapons because it wants to become the dominant power in the region and assume hegemony over its Arab neighbours, not because it worries about Palestinians.

The fact that most of the Arab powers in the region are more afraid of Iran's nuclear program than they are of Israel's existing arsenal should be evidence enough of how those who live in the region, want stability in the region and have something to lose are willing to trust Israel's nuclear posture.
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At least there are some encouraging trends with some manufacturers who are starting to be more interested in deploying laptops with Linux/Ubuntu:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Dell-to-bring-Ubuntu-...

As Microsoft start selling hardware and compete with their own partners without even telling them, this trend will probably accelerate:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/19/us-microsoft-windo...
How FaceBook Polices Itself
Complete nonsense.

They only need a sufficient number of people to like it. Even if not a single grandmother in the world likes it, they'll probably be fine.

> a singular experience that can be all things to all people

You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Grandma's ARM tablet is going to use Metro, and Joe Accountant is going to spend all day in the classic desktop environment. The only thing Joe is going to notice is a new start menu, and that's not exactly going to be a deal breaker for anyone.

Regardless of whether you like the new Metro interface and the new start screen or not, it's simply idiotic to say that if not everyone in the world loves it then the company will collapse.
"Time zones are an integer number of hours away from UTC"

As someone living in +0930, programmers get this wrong way too often - Crittercism gets this wrong, so I don't know when bugs happened in my apps.
There's also a geopolitical advantage to producing it at home. Doing so provides less reason to interfere in the internal politics of foreign producer states.
I can think of three reasons universities would do this.

First: Universities do not generally take pride in having a commercial "business model" approach. They almost all say education, rather than profit, is their aim. They say they don't charge $x because they want to extract the maximum rent from the market, they charge $x because that's what it costs to provide the course.

What better way to prove this commitment to education than to charge much less for a course that costs much less to run?

Second: Sony chariman Akito Morito reportedly once said "My job is to make our products obsolete before our competitors do."

If online learning is the next big thing, you want to be at the cutting edge of it. You don't want to end up a local bookstore in the age of Amazon, you want to be Amazon.

Third: 120,000 people signed up for the first MITx course (only 7,000 people went on to get a passing grade) and the system handled them OK. You can accept much less profit per student when you've got a thousand times as many students. Of course, there are more experiments needed to determine whether they can provide useful credentials people will get their wallets out to pay for - but people are used to paying a lot for university courses. If they made just $10 to $100 per student per course they could be looking at some serious money.
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I'm disappointed that Godwin's Law appeared so soon, the circumstances are not even remotely comparable.

Well, I beg you to see it from the perspective of the men, women and children who are currently imprisoned in the worlds largest open-air concentration camp. And frankly, that you cannot see the similarities belies a lot about your bias in this argument.

As I said above, this isn't about morality or whether Israel is right or wrong to occupy the West Bank, because that is not a real factor in this particular geopolitical strategic situation. This is purely about relative strategic postures and their implications for the Middle East.

Israel could solve all of its foreign policy problems if it let the populations in the West Bank have access to fresh, clean water. If they stopped encouraging the criminal settlers from encroaching on the lebensraum of the populations who were there before them (i.e. gave back the homes stolen). There is a lot more that could be done by Israel to settle tempers in the Mid East, besides writing viruses and attacking other, peaceful nations, rights to clean nuclear power.
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So basically, Clippy could be helpful here? Bring him back! A bing-powered Clippy! lol, Ok, just kidding.
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Anyone learning OpenGL from code as young as 5 years old (i.e., all fixed-pipeline code) is getting shafted because what they learn is so out of touch with the state of the art in graphics technology. Just like for the Nehe tutorials that whole generations have been brought up on. That's the whole point here, 3d graphics has moved on, and everybody working in it should, too; of course, as with anything, there are always grumpy greybeards who feel that their way of doing things is Good Enough For Them, and therefore should be supported indefinitely.

The arguments on why fixed-pipeline OpenGL should be deprecated have been re-hashed several times convincingly in this thread, I don't have to repeat them here. I don't quite see why the state of the art in graphics should be held back because some people want to see spinning teapots on their iPads without having to learn something new. You seem to be implying that programs written in the past can't be made to work on new platforms; while it's true that it would need changes to the code, please show me the decades-old program in Objective C or Java you mention that you'd like to see working on your iPad without having to change the code.
Ask HN: Which technology\language you find most difficult to learn?
My answer is COM, whats yours ?
We do have quite a couple of taxes and regulations aimed at improving energy efficiency, so the subsidies for renewable energies are a more of a complement for those. We have tax breaks for cars that use less fuel, we do have extra tax for fuel consumption, we do have support for energy efficient housing, ... All in all we're doing pretty fine on that side. Primary energy usage in Germany has been dropping since the eighties and is now close to what we consumed in 1970 (309 mio toe in 1970 vs 319 mio toe in 2010) while the USA have been rising pretty steadily with a small drop-off since 2008 (1627 mio toe in 1970 vs 2285 mio toe in 2010). [1] There's a limit where the ROI in reducing energy consumption is lower than the ROI in producing renewable energy and after that we're still going to need energy, so I think while reduction should be the first priority, we still need to invest into second and third priorities pretty much right now. And that's what we're doing.

The different subsidies are explained by the fact that the subsidies are intended to support the uptake of those technologies. Solar energy just needed more of a push to achieve critical mass and so does offshore wind. Now that solar panels are cheaper and more efficient, the subsidies get lower and lower each year. There are still a plethora of problems surrounding this approach, but I must admit that I don't see how other approaches would have less problems.

[1] see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Staaten_mit_dem_h%C3...
Are multi-currency payments an issue when selling abroad? I'm totally new to receiving online payments and am genuinely curious about the issues surrounding accepting only a single currency.

As an Australian consumer I'm used to paying in USD and simply seeing a slightly different amount show up on my transaction history (AUD being generally at parity with USD)

Is having multi-currency support important? Does it impact sales? Is using something like money.js to give a close estimate of actual cost good enough?
"I wrote this because you are all idiots."

Speaking as an idiot, why do I want to run a screensaver on my iPhone?
I'd love to have Electrogig 3DGO on my iPad.
I think you are the minority. Ribbon is much better.
quoting Feynman from "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
"What is Poland like? My strongest impression — and the one which gives me such a surprise — is that it is almost exactly as I pictured it (except for one detail) — not only in how it looks, but also in the people, how they feel, what they say and think about the government, etc. Apparently we are well informed in the US and magazines such as Time and Atlas are not so bad. The detail is that I had forgotten how completely destroyed Warsaw was during the war and therefore that, with few exceptions (which are easily identified by the bullet holes all over them), all the buildings are built since the war. In fact it is a rather considerable accomplishment — there are very many new buildings: Warsaw is a big city, all rebuilt."
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"Oh, I mentioned that one building in Warsaw is interesting to look at. It is the largest building in Poland: the “Palace of Culture and Science” given as a gift by the Soviet Union, It was designed by Soviet architects. Darling, it is unbelievable! I cannot even begin to describe it. It is the craziest monstrosity on land!"
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while i definitely prefer sexy prime numbers to sexy prime lenses. your comment is on top! a shame it got downvoted.
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Matz, the creator of Ruby talks about why languages matter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix2DeCzuckc

The basic idea is that the structure of the language determines how you think about the problem and influences what you create.
A couple of days ago on reddit this was posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKC6j7pW6T0

It's kind of similar and really interesting. The precision, speed and strength of this robots always amazed me.
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That seems like more evidence of some kind of clumsy political agenda on the board's part, since there's no way actually looking at the budget could give you a picture where Classics and German studies, of all things, are responsible for unsustainable spending increases; they're among the cheapest programs to operate. I suspect it's just some hedge-fund types who don't like the humanities and are looking for excuses to gut them.

If the goal was really to keep costs in line, then the first thing to do would be to assess where the cost increases have come. Which programs have seen the biggest cost increases? And, in which of those are the cost increases worth the quality the program brings to the university? Rank the programs by both expense and quality, and cut the programs which have the highest expense relative to their quality.
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> Are so many people identifying as haters of fans because these things are genuinely emotionally engaging

I think they are genuinely emotionally engaging. Many of us spend 50% or more of our waking lives in front of computers and smartphones. If you are used to a PC or Mac, and you sit down at the other one, it can be infuriating trying to do what you think should be a simple task.

I also think that the reasons for people loving or hating particular brands/products are many and varied. But there is clearly a bandwagon effect with some people - and this happens with everything. You can see it in these comments very clearly - people attacking Windows 8 who clearly haven't even used it, or even taken the time to understand how it works.
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Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Romanosky_WEIS2012.pd...

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Is Patient Data Better Protected in Competitive Healthcare Markets?

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Gaynor_WEIS2012.pdf

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The Privacy Economics of Voluntary Over-disclosure in Web Forms

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Preibusch_WEIS2012.pd...

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Security Resources, Capabilities and Cultural Values: Links to Security Performance and Compliance

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Kwon_WEIS2012.doc

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Software Security Economics: Theory, in Practice

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Neuhaus_WEIS2012.pdf

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Sectoral and Regional Interdependency of Japanese Firms under the Influence of Information Security Risks

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Jenjarrussakul_WEIS20...

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Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Herley_WEIS2012.pdf

HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136016

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Analysis of eCrime in Crowd-sourced Labor Markets: Mechanical Turk vs. Freelancer

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Garg_WEIS2012.pdf

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Can We Afford Integrity by Proof-of-Work? Scenarios Inspired by the Bitcoin Currency

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2041492

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Measuring the Cost of Cybercrime

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Anderson_WEIS2012.pdf

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A Closer Look at Information Security Costs

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Brecht_WEIS2012.pdf

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IT Security Investment and Gordon-Loeb’s 1/e Rule

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Baryshnikov_WEIS2012....

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Who Sometimes Violates the Rule of the Organizations? An Empirical Study on Information Security Behaviors and Awareness

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Takemura_WEIS2012.pdf

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To Invest or Not to Invest? Assessing the Economic Viability of a Policy and Security Configuration Management Tool

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Demetz_WEIS2012.pdf

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Online Promiscuity: Prophylactic Patching and the Spread of Computer Transmitted Infections

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Kelley_WEIS2012.pdf

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Contagion in Cybersecurity Attacks

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Baldwin_WEIS2012.pdf

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The Effect of Fraud Investigation Cost on Pay-Per-Click Advertising

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Chen_WEIS2012.pdf

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Ad-blocking Games: Monetizing Online Content Under the Threat of Ad Avoidance

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Vratonjic_WEIS2012.pd...

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Choice Architecture and Smartphone Privacy: There’s a Price for That

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Egelman_WEIS2012.pdf

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Would You Sell Your Mother’s Data? Personal Data Disclosure in a Simulated Credit Card Application

http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/papers/Malheiros_WEIS2012.pd...
Work, Life And Side Projects
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I have often thought the same logic applies to why display ads work better on low-brow, pedestrian websites. If your website caters to smart people, good luck getting clicks. If you are pof.com then you are already attracting the kind of person who is not discriminating in their internet browsing experience, and they may click on the ads.
I read a book on the history of Burma. It was very common to move the capital, due to the humidity, wood gets old. The emporer's court would rather not have to deal with reconstruction so the solution: start a new palace in a new location, when ready move the population of the city. And they were doing this for hundreds of years.