skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soundalikes are quite important in Chinese language. Perhaps 小 sounds like another character meaning "rifle". Or perhaps, as you suggest, the reporter got it slightly wrong... 小(small) often means "half", e.g. 小时= "little two-hour-period", and 米 also means "meter". So 小米 could mean "half a meter", the length of a rifle, which could've colloquial speech in revolutionary China.
I'd say you're confusing interest in your work and work ethic with ambition. They aren't the same thing.

Without ambition driving you, it's pretty difficult to motivate yourself past the point where the project you're working on stops being interesting, and just seems like a lot of work. That said, some people do seem to be able to make this initial phase last long enough to crank out impressive projects. Outside of that though, if you're happy with your life right now, you might just be running a little short on the motivation necessary to "build businesses all day long".
My email address is longer then 30 characters so I had to use javascript to input it. Still doesn't look like it worked though not sure if your no longer accepting new users or if my hack didnt work.
We fixed that. Thanks for letting us know!
I'm a game developer. I dream about the day the gaming industry could move forward these silly slap-fights and actually work together on reusable assets for everyone, free of IP. (in fact, that's one of the motivations behind my startup)

While I don't like that Armed Heroes used other's copyrighted work without permission. It's sad that these assets were not released under Creative Commons in the first place. Armed Heroes should've taken the "high road" and released their own assets under CC instead of using other's. IMHO, those who are hypocrite on this subject are simply missing the bigger picture.
Those books were like the MacGuyver TV series for me - loved them as a kid, but upon revisiiting them as an adult wondered what the hell I was thinking. Oh well, I guess he knew his audience. RIP.
Wow, you're kind of on a roll here.

> their outlook on these matters is striking and confused

Specifically are you referring to the outlook of politicians, the media, or some other entity? I know you started with 'the British' but surely you're not making sweeping generalisations about the 60 million people who live in the UK. That would be a wee bit racist don't you think?
If still within the window, you could just add an "edited:" to your comment including that information.
How to build an 18W, 4 terabyte, commodity x86 Linux server
Thanks for the feedback! I think you might be right. I'd never really considered the site itself to be the problem.

I'm not sure how much adding a code snippet would help. But i will give it a try!
OP: Wrong.

Anecdote: Wrong.

incongruity: Two wrongs make a right!
I loved those books. Sorry to hear about his passing. RIP.
The Go team: why gofmt uses tabs vs. spaces
They haven't done anything innovative since they were acquired by eBay. Well, unless you consider freezing accounts and confiscating funds an innovative activity.
Donald Sobol is probably, apart from my parents, a big reason I have a mind that works. R.I.P. Encyclopedia Brown. Your 25¢ per day + expenses brought justice to those who had little other hope. And bravo for expensing an occasional sundae to the adults, too.

And of course how could they call it the FIRST Battle of Bull Run when there hadn't been a SECOND ONE YET?
I don't see where the insight is. twin primes must be of the form (6k-1, 6k+1). So of course there will be a 2,3 at least.

Smaller numbers have multiples that are more densely distributed among the integers.
Generally speaking, it's a good practice for interviewers to turn whatever problem they are working on into a simplified interview question and give it to the interviewee. This way they'll know if the candidate can solve problems that they'll actually face if they get the job.

Interview questions related to finding shortest path, min/mix of whatever, finding x numbers that sum to y etc.. will only tell the interviewer if the candidate has prepared academically for the interview.

In the end, the interviewer will probably end up hiring the wrong person. A person who has done his/her homework but cannot solve the simplest scalability problem.
I managed to snag one from there earlier today. I guess they ran out fast.
Certainly not the first. I remembered there's Loopt acquiring GraffitiGeo but I'm sure there's more: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/20/mobile-social-network-wars-...
This reminds me of startup asking me verbatim quote from memory " what does python's lambda return?" Apparently he was trying to figure out whether i knew, it used the 'C' function pointer implementation. And the answer was function pointer.
My annoyance with this is that, i was explaining my experience/past projects in python. This question is one level of abstraction lower than the context. I knew it used 'C' function pointer. I hardly got the question. I was answering, it depends on what statements you write within it. :-).
Edit: And oh, i had a list lying in my drafts page and published now. http://www.blog.anandjeyahar.in/?p=1272
Developer is using platform A. Platform A is generating buzz/hype. Therefore, developer is too susceptible to buzz/hype?

similarly:

Developer is using Platform B. Platform B is not well-known. Therefore developer is passionate?

right.
It's not a "roadblock for Opera", it's a nag bar that appears for every browser with low market share.

They don't say it doesn't work, they just say they don't support it, so that people won't assume that being broken on Opera means it's broken on every browser. And don't claim that "if they code to standard it'll work" because this very story proves that's not always true.

I do think Opera deserves being supported, and Google shouldn't be pushing Chrome like that. But calling it a "roadblock for Opera" is misleading.
Reputation is only a part of it. At her level there several other motivators at work -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs
Keep working on that killer name. Some suggestions off the top of my head and with zero product knowledge:

* Twitchr: according to Wikipedia 'twitching' means "the pursuit of a previously-located rare bird.", which seems like an apt metaphor. It also reminds me of Twitter.

* Socnocular: social + binoculars.

* Catadio: from 'catadioptric system', "Catadioptric combinations are used in focusing systems such as search lights, headlamps, early lighthouse focusing systems, optical telescopes, microscopes, and telephoto lenses. Other optical systems that use lenses and mirrors are also referred to as "catadioptric" such as surveillance catadioptric sensors." (Wikipedia)

* Catoptr: from 'Catoptrics', "Catoptrics deals with the phenomena of reflected light and image-forming optical systems using mirrors. From the Greek κατοπτρικός (specular)" (Wikipedia). Too hard to pronounce?

* Hall Monitor: obvious metaphor for North Americans. Not particularly unique, though.

* Scryer: from 'scrying', "Scrying (also called seeing or peeping) is a magic practice that involves seeing things psychically in a medium, usually for purposes of obtaining spiritual visions and less often for purposes of divination or fortune-telling." (Wikipedia).
I think rdl made that point well when he posted 4 hours before you did. You are both correct- my memory was faulty. But the main point about Hotmail running on a non-MS OS still stands.
> The only thing added is a rudimentary voting system.

I feel obligated to take issue with your characterization of Likes as voting of ... any kind. Or were you referring to something else? I'm not an FB expert.
Let say that 5 out of 10 000 users triggered this. Then say that 2 out of those 5 would have bought a full copy but read/heard/noticed this method of getting a cheaper copy. Is that then a problem?

My guess is that the time this guy spent on this info box and coupon code far exceed the money from one license.
Please make the signup form[1] transmit passwords, emails and names over SSL.

It appears you're using Heroku, check out the docs for how to do this here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl

[1] http://www.scoutzie.com/signup
I just got out of the pool, otherwise Id be bigger than LinkedIn
I wasn't talking about the law, but about customs; and the letter of the law doesn't mean much anyways -- what matters is how it's enforced.

But according to the letter of the law you appear to be mistaken: article 222-13 of the Penal Code says the exact opposite of what you make it say.

Article 222-11 says that acts of violence resulting in more than 8 days of "ITT" (incapacité totale de travail) carry a penalty of up to 3 years in jail.

Article 222-13 says that acts of violence resulting in less than 8 days of ITT carry the same penalty if and only if they satisfy one of 18 special cases.

This means that acts of violence that

1/ result in up to 7 days of ITT (total work inability)

2/ do not satisfy any of the 18 special cases

don't carry any penalty AT ALL.

http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticle...

In plain English: if two adults fight and the fight doesn't result in one of them being unable to work for more than a week, then no one can be charged with anything.
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Arduino hack: Rock'em Sock'em Robots
Why dont you stop coding until you surf the net each day
$35 is just the headline price, there is shipping on top of that (taxes?). MK802 shipped @ $60[1]. So is +$20 worth that? (plus, the wait was 12 weeks when i checked a us retailer for pi)

1. http://ipadalternative.com/101-mini-pocket-pc-android-linux-... no doubt elsewhere + ebay, too.

E: sorry, i quoted the 512MB ram version's price, can't edit earlier post. still twice rPi.
The UX is so constrained that you had no choice other than to straight up copy: a) a control to hide the table of contents with a semi-transparent strip hover; b) a table of contents with a near-identical layout; c) a "next page" bumper with opacity-on-hover; d) an annotation stream in a third, right-handed column; d) a cute octopus mascot; etc. etc.

That's not to mention the store.

I mean...imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but I draw a line at copying Otto the Octopus.
They dont. I was suggesting that Google haven't objected to other Big Table implementations, such as HBase, so why would they start now?

Oracle NoSQL is now a product. http://www.oracle.com/NoSQLDatabase
Factors in finding your startup idea (for smaller startups)
(I noticed that this was posted by Sean)

Congrats to Sean! For people that aren't aware, for a long time, Sean was the lone product manager on Google App Engine, and he played a significant role in helping that product scale.
And of course, it turns out that the English "pattern" is derived from French, "patron", from the sense of "a model to be imitated".

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=pattern
That was sad to read, I read these stories and loved them. I agree that they had the ability to make you think about what had to be true in order to 'solve' the particular case. An excellent critical thinking tutorial.
I've seen quite a few instances of string resources like "I need this money to feed my family," or more humorous "so you think you're leet, do you?"-type phrases placed near easily-defeated serial validation code in binaries.

A lot of the funnier strings convinced me to give money to the authors of software I'd never have purchased or used to start with (I used to download a lot of shareware just to explore its copy protection).

Famously, Mac OS X also contains the "Don't Steal Mac OS X" poem mapped into virtual address space by DSMOS.kext.

The people cracking/pirating software are just as human as the authors - any kind of communication at a personal level increases the chance of a sale IMO.
Odd. I've had to stop logging in as frequently because I keep finding new stuff to read there. And I keep having to mute posts I've commented on because the discussion moves too fast while I'm busy working.
The timing was different back then some, granted - I'm comparing 14 years ago to today - the pace of change and info distribution has changed. I'll still maintain that I'm wary of people with shiny-latest-buzzwords on a resume.

Doesn't mean I don't want someone to grow and adopt new ideas, but I see a lot of people adopting and promoting new tool X, then 6-12 months later, they've abandoned it (but the previous projects they worked on are effectively lumbered with it for a long time afterwards).

I'm probably exposed to this crowd a bit more by dint of going to local and regional meetups and conferences and such.

But...

"Developer is using platform A. Platform A is generating buzz/hype. Therefore, developer is too susceptible to buzz/hype?"

If platform A is less than a year old, and developer A is promoting it for production use to everyone they talk to, then yes, I say they may be a bit susceptible to hype (and I've been there myself).
Likely Oracle. They have a NoSQL product now http://www.oracle.com/NoSQLDatabase and would probably push that onto their clients if they can't push Oracle DB.

The real cashcow is their hyper-expensive Oracle DB and Application Server products. They'd use political lobbying to protect the marketshare and billions in revenue.
So, which is it? Do you, or don't you, want to be like him?
Survey: Majority of people think Marissa Mayer will turn Yahoo around
According to a survey of people familiar with Marissa Mayer, 54% think she can turn Yahoo around.

http://goo.gl/M8xtO

Respondents thought that Marissa should focus on creating great products over hiring new talent or selling off existing assets.

http://goo.gl/qHQ8U

The great majority of respondents (75.6% +/- 6.0%) thought Marissa’s announced pregnancy will have no effect on her performance as the new CEO

http://goo.gl/QPX5e
I agree. Also, if they're really good ideas you'll get people contacting you, asking to help.
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Mac Computers Are No longer Safe - Mac Removes "It Doesn't Get Viruses"
> When is the last time you had to write your own array sorting function or function that performs search in an array?

About a month ago I wrote a merge sort routine in JavaScript where the comparison function is a person. There is no library function for this, because the response is asynchronous.

> There is always a function for that in a high-level languages like Ruby (index), JavaScript (indexOf) or Python (index).

These functions don't do what your interviewers asked. Python's index won't give you duplicates, and it's at least equally non-trivial to use JavaScript's indexOf with two arguments in a loop as it is to use a hash, and the algorithmic complexity of the former is much worse, so why would you do it?

> Another sad thing, which I gladly didn’t see that much (but there still were a few interviewers) in the Bay Area compared to the East Coast, is asking terms, function names, definitions, slang, etc. Expecting people to remember functions’ syntax is a sin in itself!

On this point, I agree.
I think many might not be aware of the incident, I haven't seen it get a huge amount of coverage.

The original report:

http://eyetap.blogspot.fi/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdona...
JS pseudo-protocol is bad practice
I ordered mine in March and got it last week. So yeah, sit tight. It sounds like wait times are speeding up a bit though.
Ask HN: Submit bugs/requests as a user story/problems statement?
Do other developers/product folks like or dislike when users submit bugs/requests as user stories or problem statements instead of just writing in the typical conversational style?
I had a slightly different experience. I loved the Einstein Anderson books as a kid, but could never get into the Encyclopedia Brown stories, since I could never understand the ending explanations. Coming back as an adult, I felt unnecessary vindication in finding how many of the ending explanation simply didn't make sense.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConvictionByCount...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConvictionByContr...

Still, I also recognize that the books were a great introduction to mysteries and deduction for a lot of students and his passing does sadden me.
Tried this on Crunchbang Linux with Chromium, seems to be working fine.
I have to wonder what "moral considerations aside" even means.

In the US, at least, if something is not illegal and will make money, then corporations are legally required to take that path - morals and ethics simply don't come into play.

As our ever increasing need for profit increases, I can only see this trend continuing more and more. The reality is if I'm not willing to make such a site on "moral" grounds, someone else will, and they'll get all the money for doing it.
Summary of the article:

Stephen Convey Taught Me Not to Be Like Him, but screw that, I still want to.
Adding the fact that:
perfect(x) -> abundant(nx) | n>=2

gives a proof why.
VMware 'Replaces CEO' On Flight To The Clouds
Nobody will be notified of my edit.
Seems more like a pivot into an ad supported revenue stream.
Assassination Attempt of Hillary Clinton in Israel
Here's life after a Michael Arrington retweet on Twitter
From YC's first class, Reddit either acquired or merged with infogami (depending on who you read it from). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20239
This is awesome, I love seeing news like this. Well, let me clarify -- the shootings aren't awesome but the way that the guy pieced it together on Reddit is super cool. Amazing.
Here's another example: http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/posterous-acquires-fellow-y...
That said, Apple can do whatever they like with their platform, and show little compunction about doing so.

You were defending Apple for not taking down the offending material say that they don't have to because the DMCA gives them safe harbor, and that's completely untrue. Apple is complicit in the infringement until they take it down 'expeditiously'.
Majority of people surveyed who are familiar with Mayer think she will turn Yahoo around: https://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=...
How about everybody that criticizes these questions, post their alternatives for determining candidates. It seems like everyday there are posts on HN criticizing these hiring techniques, but rarely does anybody post any alternatives.
Show HN: Twitter Time Machine
Would anyone happen to know if the bootloader is unlocked on these?

EDIT: For what it's worth, here's a review that Engadget did of the phone back in September 2011: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/27/xiaomi-phone-review/
Since being acquired by eBay they:

* Lowered transaction fees for volume merchants from 2.2% to 1.9%

* Partnered with many of the largest payment gateways to add PayPal to their services

* Introduced PayPal mobile and NFC phone-to-phone payments

* Introduced micropayments

* Introduced two-factor authentication

* Got their European Union banking license and expanded to 100+ countries

* Began offering PayPal Buyer Credit (transactional lines of credit)

* Moved into retail stores, accepting PayPal at credit card terminals in-store

* Began offering a mobile card reader to accept payments into a PayPal account

* Introduced student accounts with parental controls

* Opened their API for development of peer-to-peer payment services

* Introduced virtual, one-time-use credit card numbers

* Began offering merchant gift certificates

* Introduced a "storefront widget" that could be embedded in websites

* Began offering SMS-based authentication

* Began offering a virtual terminal for manually keying in offline/phone orders

* Introduced PayPal Pro and the ability to store payment authorizations you can charge against in the future (i.e. a payment vault with permission controlled by the customer).
This is super cool. One of the things I find myself doing all the team is getting users chatting with me on Olark but then need to switch to Skype because screen sharing is needed for support.

Putting something like /support/video on our site could make it way easier to do this.
It's funny PandoDaily was just talking about the demise of PayPal too. http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/14/exactly-how-screwed-is-payp...

PayPal's payment volume grew 24% y/o/y to $34 billion' as well.. http://seekingalpha.com/article/513741-ebay-poised-for-paypa.... I hate to admit it, but PayPal is not going anywhere
I do and will do. How bad is it?
Space X Dragon Highlights Video
Great to see them doing well. I first heard about the company while exploring different Android ROMs, and the MIUI rom by XiaoMi was the best I've seen overall in terms of stability and usability which cyanogen lacked. Their native apps felt really intuitive to use and it adds a lot of functionality that you normally get from apps and more. e.g. a toggle to turn things on and off in the notification area is an app in the app store, but the quality just isn't good enough and I hate going through a bunch of crappy quality widget apps just to find one that I might like. Cyanogen has most of the features that xiami offers and more, but they're not as well designed nor as stable.
Good luck finding a lawyer who has the skills to perform an international tort offense who charges less than six figures for it. Only a company like Microsoft has the cash to pull that off.
Yes, that may be true, but there is a BIG difference between promoting a brand-new platform for production to everyone they talk to, and mentioning that they have experience with node.js (which is a few years old now) on their resume, that's all.
RelayRides car-sharing service expands to 6M OnStar subscribers
I am going to write a blog post about this one day. You are not the first person suggesting this, but once you start digging into what's involved, the variability is huge.
This is probably true. I will try and get that name out of my head.
Like many other people here, I absolutely loved the series and would rush to the school library to get the next book in the series. It taught me at a young age to be very logical and think through problems.

Bugs Meany and Sally, you will be missed.
George E.P. Box is quoted as saying: "All models are wrong, but some are useful."

I would adapt that and say that all anecdotes are wrong, but some are useful.
I'm not going to argue with you--we have a better service. Would you mind sending me a URL to an image of your octopus? He seems to be in hiding.
I was unfamiliar with this. I googled it, and found this discussion: http://howardowens.com/2011/09/18/lede-vs-lead/
You know what is old? Sexism.

When people in IT stop being sexist, we'll stop talking about it.
Thank you, I will. These are interesting suggestions, I've been hyper focused on "social", "analytics" and "metrics" so far. I should broaden my perspective.
My problem is that I already have (many) of those relationships, but because of these difficulty issues, I'm stuck in those relationships.
Would be great to see actual screenshots as opposed to blurred photos of hands holding iPhones showing screenshots.
No, it means my example is the exception, not the rule. Nice try.
"By definition" is a poor justification. I almost referenced the exact link you've given here. It gives poor justification for primality of one - resting on authority and lacking justification. The closest it comes (not very) is, "If 1 were admitted as a prime, these two presentations would be considered different factorizations of 15 into prime numbers, so the statement of that theorem would have to be modified." So what?
Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo