skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point to remember is that a security system is only as strong as its weakest link, in the comic the human storing the password.

But there are many other weak spots available to people who want to decode an encrypted system, keyloggers, social engineering etc.
Einstein explicitly stated to believe in God (but not in the christian or hebrew one), and he explicitly derived this from the supreme intelligence which he found in natural laws.

And philosophy is science, but it's no natural science. And Flews book "There is a God" seems written in a really intelligent way, no signs of "brain damage".

Many many good scientists convert from atheism to some kind of deism. Yes, they convert, because it's a radical change of the very base of our thinking.
I write for Mashable

Do you ever blog about startups/sites/apps based on recommendations from your friends? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462326
Your education costs a lot more than you might think.

Lets say the average teacher has 30 students per year for 30 years, and the average student has 15 years of school. Your .1% would end up as ~6% of 100k/year. (In high school you have more teachers but they have more students, so the math still works out the same.)
w4w I meant.
25 Years Ago, Apple Launched Their 1st Macintosh Commercial During the Super Bowl
Interesting as it introduces the emotional side into it and re-inforces that the person believes the relationship to be something of value. I often find that the people who owe me money are the closest to me - they ignore the small charges that I had passed to them, or they forget them. I don't think its malicious, but there must be something in peoples psyche that makes them think you've done a favour. What I have now are set rates where I might discount slightly for friends, but not substantially. I also try not to take on jobs that are too small now.

I've also always found that lawyers can often exacerbate a situation. Take divorce for example - I know a few people who seemed to be having a relatively amicable divorce until the lawyers were brought in. I myself used to be quite litigious but these days I feel that I should have been more careful at the start and often put things down to experience and move on.
The best medium for debt collection is the telephone, not the computer.
Macro Patterns (Lisp)
Does anyone have a link for any further details?
Is there an equivalent utility for Windows?
Ask HN: Business and programming?
Hello everyone, I would like to have your advice on an issue which is bothering me for a while right now. I know there are already some "how to learn to program" threads on HN but I feel like they are not helping with my decision. I'm a 25 years old business student from Germany and I will graduate this year. I already have an MBA degree from an American university. However, my big passion is the Internet and Internet startups. I'm also the co-founder (<10%) of a startup in Germany where I'm responsible for business development. I'm really enjoying what I'm doing and I'm planning to start my own Internet startup after I graduate. However, I'm not happy with my lack of skills in coding/web development.

Sure, there is always the possibility of hiring programmers or getting a programmer as a co-founder for a startup, but I would really prefer to be able to test my ideas myself and not just to be the "business guy" who's crunching the numbers. However, I know that it's a long road to learn coding and I've already made the decision in life to be a business guy. Usually my attitude is that it's never too late to learn something, but I'm not sure whether learning to program is the right choice for me. It would take years before I would be a decent coder and somehow I feel like doubting the path I've chosen (--> business).

I would really like to have your opinion on this. Should I just focus on business or should I just do it and learn to program?

Thanks,
Malte

P.S.: Even though I've studied in the United States, my English is far from being perfect. So please ignore typos etc if possible. ;)
No, they're not. Someone swears on TV and it's still a huge fine. Do you think the Europeans run live events on a tape delay just because someone might accidentally swear near a live mic? When's the last time you saw a nipple on broadcast TV (and remember what happened then?) or on the street? Walk down the streets of London, you will. They have full nudity in fashion and perfume ads in general interest magazines.

Our broadcast standards may be a little looser than they were 20 years ago, but it's really not much. Our society as a whole has become more socially conservative over the last 40 years too.
I think simply the fact that if a friend mentions it, we're going to be aware gets you a step ahead. Most bloggers don't have a giant flood, and they're receptive to covering ideas. Making them aware by any means helps.

You still have to have a compelling product or pitch in the end, though. No way around that.
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agreed...if you could get away with putting up a crappy design in this day and age, pg would have made that a point for the YC startups.
Einstein explicitly stated to believe in God

Source? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Religious_views

In 1929, Einstein told Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." In a 1950 letter to M. Berkowitz, Einstein stated that "My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment." Einstein also stated: "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth." [...] Einstein clarified his religious views in a letter he wrote in response to those who claimed that he worshipped a Judeo-Christian god: "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
i started reading this in the hopes of getting some insight into why the gil is there, philosophies for working around it, or else why it's not really a problem, etc.

if there's anything like that in here, i'll never know. this article is way too long. it rehashes a bunch of stuff about threads that most programmers should already know. even after skimming for several pages' worth of material, i still didn't see anything worth reading.

i guess i should mention that i'm not a python programmer, but someday, i might be. so whoever this article was aimed at, it wasn't me.
Peldi has some good advice on this,
(Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studio) http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=198
I read quite a lot of business biographies, and I have noticed that a lot of really successful entrepreneurs go on trust and handshakes. If they're burned they will remember and never do business with you again, but if they meet someone that believes in them at an early stage they will go through a lot to keep doing business with them.

I just read a biography of a guy that started a chain of stores 30 years ago, and has a huge empire of more than 500 stores today. He still has the same small bank that he did 30 years ago because they were the only ones that believed in him at the time. He recently invested in the bank since they needed to become bigger to keep his growing business.

It's all about trust for these people.
On the same note, 68 results for "government caused 9/11". People blogging doesn't make something a reality.
Also discussed:

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=262502

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458077

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458568
Can't override procrastination settings anymore
For anyone who was also surprised, PG has made good on removing the override switch on the no-procast settings.

Now I can't undermine myself. As much.
I flagged it, but I felt bad doing it.

The video is PURE TRASH, and I know that because I was raised by economists.

But I strongly suspect it is not at all obviously pure trash to a lay person.

That's what's so worrying about articles like that, they are not obviously crap to a majority of people.
There is a compelling long-term reason to colonize the moon: to solve the issues we need to solve to expand to other solar systems.

If we don't, it seems totally possible that at some point a large-scale disaster on Earth could wipe out all human life.
A lot of arguments can be avoided by delving into the scary but true, raw but honest emotional side. I learned this from a great consultation.

Take this example interaction:

Husband: "There's $500 missing from our checking account."

Husband (unemotionally-oriented, bad): "What did you spend it on?"

Husband (Good): "I'm worried about where the $500 went."

Always tell people how you feel. Human beings have emotions. Constantly tell people how you feel. Human beings have emotions. That is how people connect with each other. For example, for guys talking about sports, it really is sharing emotions - hope, frustration, anger, etc. Talking about that new trade may really be about hope/optimism/reflection.
Wouldn't windows have to have a usable shell first?
Probably, and this is exactly the data that those "social ads" in the sidebar are able to use to target you right now. Age, gender, preference, location, even keywords you put in your profile. That data can be pretty darn effective when combined with the right offer.

The problem for advertisers is getting someone to pay for a service they found while browsing a social networking site.
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IT needs to get over its cloud denial, or management will get over IT
Here you go:

http://www.patents.com/Generating-paralinguistic-phenomena-v...

But that said, it mostly just sounds like a way to insert a bunch of annoying "umms" and "ahs" into artificial conversation.
what does that say about your assumptions about phpBB?
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> The English spelling system doesn't sound like that much of a pain compared to Chinese

English spelling is only mildly complicated compared to the romance languages or arabic. All ideographic writing systems are a horrible mistake. They are much harder. In an ideal world the Chinese and Japanese systems could be completely scrapped and replaced with purely phonetic systems. This gets tossed around every now and then, and was seriously considered during the cultural revolution, but it would obviously be close to impossible to pull off.
I'm not sure why the number of years of school matters. Are you assuming that the student gives up 0.1% total or 0.1% for each year of teaching? In the latter case, it works out about perfectly:

30 students * 30 = 900 students
900 students * 100000 dollars / student * 0.001 = 90000 dollars

The student would be giving up a still reasonable 1.5% or so of income (and only in the years between when the teacher retires and dies).
Microsoft, HP try to avoid Intel's "netbook" moniker
"Nothing grows geometrically forever."

No, not in the empirical sense but the universe is large and, as far as we know, ours for the taking.

By "'stopped' being clearly applicable", you mean completely irrelevant and flat out wrong.

Also, >200 years of data is flimsy? In a scientific sense maybe, but economics isn't a science -- you can't really perform controlled experiments on the entire economy. Also, if some of the third-world countries do indeed start to grow in economic terms, I am certain that their food production capabilities will catch up. India can feed its 1 billion population and I am pretty sure that 50 years ago, that would have been considered impossible.
Underwater is much hard than seasteading. I wouldn't call them equally doomed at all.

The free state project mentioned is an indication that this is actually viable. They want thousands of people to move to New Hampshire to change the state to be more libertarian. 700 already have.

I think that means you can get a few hundred people to move to a man made island, if the conditions on the island were acceptable.

The best outcome would be a confederation of city states that only interact via trading and mutual defense. There is essentially zero competition in government, and this would change that.
blogging doesn't make something a reality.

That implication was not intended. The search links were intended as food for thought.
A short list of what I like and use:

the command 'tee': let's you see what is happening at an intermediate stage of a pipeline (I originally thought your blog post would be about tee)

the -S flag to objdump: If you're trying to learn how compilers work or assembly, the '-S' flag to objdumb is absolutely beautiful. If you compile a binary with debugging symbols (-g in gcc), 'objdump -S binary' will intersperse the assembly with the original code, letting you see what each line compiled into.

I use 'pushd' and 'popd' bash builtins. It lets you remember current directories and have a stack of locations that you've been. Very valuable when you're jumping around a large source tree.

Even though not a command, I usually follow ls by "-ltr". That arranges it such that the most recently modified file is on the bottom. Very easy to see what files were modified.

"du -sk * | sort -rn" for a nice listing of directory sizes.

Pressing "esc, ." (That's the Esc key, followed by a period. Not together) in bash would insert the previous command's argument.
i.e.:

bash# ls /some/really/long/path/to/a/huge/file.c
bash# vi [esc, .] # <-- that would insert the path
bash# vi $_ # <-- same effect

'tree' is nice to picture a directory hierarchy.
The two are not mutually exclusive. You can do business while learning programming. Programming /will/ help you in business because with programming you can find answers easier.

The first thing I would do if I were you and I know what I know now, I would investigate Platforms as a Service. These services allow you to get up and running with a database driven application very quickly and they reduce the amount of "stuff" you have to learn to build systems. Your goal as a business person is not to be the person everyone goes to to get code done, but they'll come to you for answers in the form of reports, charts, and analysis. Today, you can get very far in that direction without programming. My opinion is that web based Platforms as a Service (PaaS) are the future of systems development. Many will disagree.

Lots of people will also disagree with me when I say this, but I would suggest if you are going to learn programming, start with SQL. It's not /that/ difficult, but it is very very powerful. What you want to do as a business person is get complex answers out of a database of numbers. If you sit at the top of a company, you want to be able to drill into any piece of data, any aggregate you want and get the answer you need. These are the kinds of answers you will find yourself relying on a computer guy to get for you.

Why do I say SQL? Because nearly every system you will ever use will use SQL. It'll use SQL to create, read, update, and delete data in those massive databases you use. Even if the SQL isn't exposed, you can use SQL to mine your own datasets outside applications. Export them, then import them into your personal database and go to town. You'll be amazed at the answers you can dig out with SQL that you can't get any other way.

The first thing you will have to do is install a database server, which you'll need for nearly any kind of business programming anyway. Go with Microsoft SQL Server Express, or MySQL. It depends on your work environment and what most people around you know. Use whatever most people around you use. You can choose something else later.

Now, once you learn SQL, you will naturally want to display the results you find on a web page. At that point, you'll learn JavaScript and HTML, plus a connector language like .NET, PHP, or Java (unless you go with a Platform as a Service).

If you want to skip SQL, I say learn JavaScript. It's very powerful and used in the browser, so nearly every website uses it. There are tons of tutorials and examples on the web. You can use it on the Pre. It's nearly ubiquitous anymore and all you need to get started is a text editor and a web browser. Most other languages require a lot of setup, installation, and configuration of development environments.

That's my $0.02. Ask programmers you know in the real world. They'll be invaluable when you run into problems installing the database, connecting it up and getting something working at all. Once you have that, the sky is the limit.

P.S. Your english is totally fine.
Nope. Look more carefully at the video (it gets most things wrong but not this). If you look in the second part, for any deposit, the bank can lend 90% of it.
Doubt it will standardize on the "mininotebook" name. It's long, not catchy, and "netbook" is already pretty entrenched.

What Intel and Microsoft want to do is to give it a different appellation so that what they are attempting to sell doesn't languish in the sub-$200 price range where they make no money on them -- especially Microsoft, which will no longer be able to charge egregious licensing fees.
But the OP made a general statement which is clearly simplistic.
Um, I don't, like, want that, er, in my, you know, like, conversations with robots.
In a system in which learners could shop for the most suitable schools, the best teachers would make much more than $100K, while other current teachers would change careers, all to the good of learners.

http://learninfreedom.org/school_state.html
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Agreed. Even powershell is so slow. And needlessly complex.
The point isn't that India can't feed its 1 billion. The point is Indians have close to the same standard of living and quality of diet as when they were feeding half that. They're running in place. That's the malthusian trap.
The numbers were not meant to be significant. What I meant was that people would have some combination of a flat fee (like they do now) and a fraction of future income (which they don't now). It would be a good signaling device -- a teacher confident in his ability to educate students well might accept less cash for more future income -- which would signal to parents and students that the teacher was, e.g. likely to add 5% to the average student's future income, at which point the Equity Equation applies (http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html).
Can I ask for an option to yes override myself? Otherwise I'm going to have to turn it on and off every day, or on weekends.

I use it as a reminder, not as a force.

And you can't even get to your profile to change it once it locks you out!

I don't like it. What if I post something, and I need to edit it? 90% of the time I override, it's for that.
Downmodded because 100k is quite a stretch. 30$/hr in your spare time != 100k. And most college graduates aren't even making that much.
The bureaucracy needed to enforce it would be stifling. Think about the number of teachers one is going to have from elementary school to college graduation. Even if the portion was really small, you'd be talking about having well over a dozen people who are owed money for each person. Enforcing this, and tracking it (I'm sure the IRS will want their share, after all) will require a lot of government involvement. I do think the idea has some merit in principle, but I can't think of a way that it could be implemented without causing a ton more harm than good.
Because clearly these banks made the government take on more debt!!!

Be a little more careful when it comes to agency. It makes a big difference. Also, with the level of regulation that banks have, they are not really private entities any-more and after the round of share buying done by the US govt., they are effectively public utilities, something that I think is going to haunt us a few years down the road.
I think it's best to focus on one site/blogger that you really really want to get a review from and then create a campaign to get some coverage.

This takes weeks or months, not days.

Start by commenting as much as you can. It's best to be one of the very first commenters and make thoughtful comments. Always make sure to link to a page that might be most helpful to the people who visit your site.

After you've spent some time being a contributor to the site, it's time to concentrate on getting attention from a writer/editor/blogger. Target one of the writers and provide some information that might be helpful to him/her but not about your product/service. Example: "I saw this new feature running on gmail" etc. Also, you might want to target a less prominent writer at the publication. Mike Arrington is swamped with stuff but Serkan Toto probably has less in his inbox.

If you still have trouble getting to them, follow them on twitter and figure out when they're in front of the computers. Sometimes it's easiest to reach busy people late at night or early in the morning.

Finally when you 'pitch' your product, make it one paragraph description.

Also potentially offer to demo your software to them in person at their office or near their home, etc. Make it stupid simple.

Good luck.
This sounds useful but I don't like the fact that it's named "pv". I've always associated "pv" with physical volume and lvm... might be a little confusing.
It does, it's called cygwin and it's the first thing you install after getting windows to boot.
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I actually don't like the home key cluster in those keyboards. The one I use doesn't have a space between the up cursor and "end", so there's less stretching required.

And messing with the arrow key cluster would be commendable if you put them all in one row like hjkl.
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Google-owned sites generated $3.81B while partner sites generated $1.69B.

I think the act of comparing the amount Google makes from AdWords to AdSense is moot -- Both of these channels are very successful. Both of these numbers end with a capital "B".

So question: Do I become an ad broker and take on Google or simply utilize Google to display ads on my property and make some coin?

At this point, I don't care how much Google is making off of me as a percentage, but I do care how much money I actually do put in my own pocket.
I feel bad for the guy but I do think there's a lesson here...or at least a sad reality. We aren't in a world where you can be fiercely loyal to a company anymore.

Surely you should still do your job and do it as well as you can. But in today's market you really need to squash that inclination to become attached to one company

Even if you have to replace that inclination with loyalty to something else. I find dedication to the industry and to making the world better through the use of technology acts as a good replacement for me. But even if it's just dedication to your own self interest it's an improvement over company loyalty.
and only in the years between when the teacher retires and dies

Actually, it would probably be transferable. It's worth more if teachers can sell it -- if a student starts working, that stake represents a fraction of the next forty years worth of earnings, but the teacher might expect to spend it over the next ten (and since it is equity, rather than fixed income, it might not be an appropriate thing to own for retirement). So making it something the teacher can sell to invest the proceeds in bonds would be fine -- although they could just sell and invest in the future income of a public school teacher, which apparently has the stability of a T-Bill and the growth rate of Google.