skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting comparison but failed at making a substantial argument.
- Library has limited copies. If the library has only 10 copies, only 10 people have access to it. On Pirate Bay, 1 million people can instantly download and have access to it.
- Time period to access an item. Even when 10 people have access to it, they will probably borrow it for 2 weeks. This limits circulation.

However, it does bring up an interesting thought experiment. What if the library has 1 million copies of an item, and 1 million people can instantly borrow it? Essentially, what happens when a library is very effective?

This comes down to whats the mission of the library. For NY library: "The mission of The New York Public Library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities."

This quickly becomes a very philosophical debate.
Quite true, but what your post doesn't do enough to recognize is how much this type of thinking has pervaded our culture, and the damage it is doing. The current generation of up-and-coming workers (25 or so and below) have been taught their entire lives that they were special, they were smart, and interesting, and likeable, and that the only thing that was standing in their way was going out and trying. If they did, they'd prevail...regardless of whether they actually had the talent, not to mention the work ethic to put in the hours of sweat and toil to develop that talent into actual skills and learn to put them to good use. I'm a college student now, and the level of assumption about what the world is going to do for us in the future, not us for it, it for us, and the amount of entitlement is absolutely ridiculous. It would be bad enough if these people thought willpower would be enough. They don't even think they need that.

I worked for years in high school as a salesman at my local bike shop, and for a while as well at a television production company, and I've seen multiple people my age come and go from those jobs because they couldn't learn to alter their perspective on how things should work (to no-experience them) to fit with the way things do work.
They are people who gave me useful information at a time when doctors were saying nothing could be done. Their credentials may not be anything you respect, but they knew what they were talking about.
BBC's "Masters of Money": Keynes, Hayek, Marx
Loud Bicycle: Car horns for cyclists
As I've already said (in this thread) just arresting people is probably pointless, and offering people treatment for addiction, and treatment or support for mental ill health is probably a lot cheaper and more effective than just the criminal justice system.

Having said that, did you read the pinterest page? There are some rapists there; and some rapists of children; and some other sex offenders too.
Jun Fukuyama's P≠NP Page
a new serious proof claim on P!=NP has been put forward by a Phd mathematician/computer scientist Jun Fukuyama last July 1 and has received very little public attention since then.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/junichiro-fukuyama/36/2b9/88b

rumor is that its been submitted to a journal. it uses a known plausible approach based on monotone circuit theory for which there are some long established existing proofs of circuit lower bounds (dating to a celebrated 1985 proof by Razborov). Fukuyama has published several papers in computer science. it would be great if the online community could give this some attention as with the Deolalikar proof from 2.5yrs ago.
How many of us that keep an ideas notebook have similar ideas to these?

I add to my idea notebook a couple of times a week without judgment of the idea itself. I do this as a bit of melon training, encouraging creative thinking. The fun part is reviewing these ideas. Finding an idea you had that resonates in someone else's successful startup is cool. More than anything else it reminds me that implementation is key, the idea is the catalyst.
I would guess pg tweaked the expiration coefficient instead. Last week many of the stories on the front page were 24+ hours old.
Hi Jason, I looked over his site but that really tells me nothing about him. It's laced with lines like,

"I signed up for a life a little bit off the mainstream path, so maybe I've got some interesting things for you. Writing on here is geared for those who want to cultivate their enterprising spirit, to build results, to become more creative, to gain a greater self-mastery, to get more perspective, to build more, to do more, to live more."

Yeah okay, but what's your day job and what have you done.
Woo 2011 Williams CS. Ok, that's my one comment on HN for the year.
Uses your data to target ads, using the term sells your data is a bit strong for what they do.
I think you missed my point: phones can be stolen. If you watch me type in my passcode by looking over my shoulder on the train (knowledge factor is now compromised), then steal the thing and run off as the train is departing, then you have full access.

Go ahead and steal my RSA token, and see what good it does you on its own. None, right? Not unless you bludgeoned my password out of me first.

All of the "have" factors that I've seen are, fundamentally, just a big number that's hard to get at or copy (with the exception of a physical, metal key). There's some math done on that number to generate a one-time-use code and do it in such a way that you still can't access the big number, but if an attacker were to compromise the number, then yes, that factor is broken. The theory is that the device cannot leak the number, and therefore it will only ever be known by the authenticating party. Or, more accurately, that the knowledge contained within should only ever be able to exist in two physical places (one each with the party being authenticated and the party performing the authentication).

I'm guessing we're talking about slightly different things and use-cases, but it's impractical to know that without a lot of diagramming and back-and-forth.
You missed the part where I said I got a job, producing code which made someone else money, after only a semester of C having never done any programming before.

The other examples were there to give credence to the fact that you can learn vast amounts in a semester.

Also you missed the bit where I trained people in 4 weeks who had never programmed before how to hand write SQL queries on the linux command line.

There were 2 out of a class of 16 whom I would be comfortable recommending as junior DBA or reporting type folks.

"Too early" depends on the industry. In neurosurgery you need an undergrad degree, then a postgrad degree in medicine, then 4 years as an intern, and blah blah (it's been a while since I watched "Scrubs" :) but for programming, particularly writing web based C.R.U.D apps, deploying Wordpress sites, maintaining existing projects, or writing internal tools for business automation, you can basically start as soon as you understand the basics of programming.

Not every company in the world is a 4 person startup looking for "full stack unicorns" - there is a huge industry out there that can make use of people with a solid grounding in the principles of programming to product "merchantable" work with real value.
If governments don't want companies to do this, then make it illegal.
Ah, very cool - did not know that existed. Thanks!
> Of course, you could ask, "Does it matter what his credentials are?"

It definitely does. Credentials are how I block the reality distortion field put up by a lot of enterprising individuals.
> You will never get to run Quake on Arduino.

Probably shouldn't say never. Someone has already managed to get Linux running on the 8-bit micro. Though getting it to run with acceptable performance is a another matter.
Because HN is moving away from being a an admin dominated board for promotion to being a community driven site for curiosity. I noticed the admins kind of gave up about 2-3 months ago. Chances are they're using a private site for internal news of interest.
Write highly detailed commit messages.

Email the owner to discuss what you're adding and why, especially if it's a big thing.

Keep your commits small--nothing worse than a mega-commit which fixes 3 different bugs and updates the formatting for 10 files.

Make sure to follow the project's formatting and naming conventions.
I still disagree. There are a shitload of very technical skills you can learn in 10 weeks proficiently enough to produce valuable work.

Risk management is up to the employer.
I like it!

Can you make a version for startup ideas, instead of websites? Keep everything else exactly the same. Then add leaderboards, scores, etc.

So many discussions here about startups, I feel like we have enough aggregate brainpower to create a great peer-reviewed top 50 ideas list. Then all we need to do is create teams and crack on!
My grandmother used to say, just keep track of the millions and the billions will take care of themselves.
Don't forget to send me your resumes, everyone: dewitt@google.com. : )
That discussion is well worth reading.
Stemming the Rise of a Sea of Noise
REST API simplified
Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum
What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap
It's a nice sentiment, but I must quibble with one assertion: "Everyone knows how to behave in a library."

I can say from experience in many libraries that not everyone understands library rules. There's an old stereotype about black people not shutting up in a movie theater. There's a lot of truth to it, but it's not just black people, and it's not just in movie theaters.

And then there are the libraries, growing in number over time, that have simply abandoned the ideal of silence. Most libraries still ban loud talking, cell phone use, music, etc. but now some of them tolerate it and some even encourage it. Some of these noisy libraries designate a quiet area, but it tends to feel like an anachronistic throwback, designed to mollify the people who aren't coming to the library just to hang out.

I think in the future the phrase "library rules" will not mean what you might think, if it still means anything at all.
> I have to assume all of these downvotes [...]

HN has an international audience. Assuming that $THING defaults to $US_VERSION_OF_THING is suboptimal. It's silly to do it here, it's silly to do it with dates; it's silly to do it with anything.

If you'd said that explicit declaration of nationality is better because it makes things clearer and easier to grok then you'd have got upvotes. But because you assumed US police and attacked the title as link baity you got downvotes.
In the US companies generally arrange to pay their shareholders with capital gains through a combination of share buy backs and stock splits.

This enables investors to take income when they want to in a very tax concessional way.
Celebrity Reflection Ship Review
This is probably the most valuable post I've seen on HN in about six months, as it does a good job of communicating, in a way that I can appreciate, how someone else might feel about noise.

I go to the office for the noise - In fact, just before a long weekend, or thanksgiving, when my area of the office starts to get a bit quieter, I go absolute batshit, and either have to leave the office and go somewhere where there are people, or start yelling out at random to people to make some noise. The silence is deafening.

Some of my most productive coding, documenting, or troubleshooting sessions have been done in coffee shops, where there is a lot of background chatter and activity.

I much prefer Open Cube cultures, where you can see and hear people talking. I don't think I would last very long in a "Library Quiet" culture.
Very helpful feedback; a couple people have told me they'd like to see a higher-tier plan with the option of more servers, and more frequent checks. I'm definitely considering this, but need to do more testing on my end to make sure I can scale well while adding on these kinds of features.

My #1 goal is to only have the features necessary to make the service great for most individuals/small developers. I think a better plan would work well with that.
There are numerous attempts to measure marginal propensity to spend.

They agree that people on lower incomes have a high marginal propensity to spend, and a lower marginal propensity to save.
I was hoping for more meat here. These tips seem so vague and generic, its hard to see how they affected you at all.

For the hiring tip, you say "don't hire friends" and then immediately after "in some cases it worked out great". Perhaps could use an example of how this was #1 on your list of 3 worst mistakes.

#2, don't raise money too early. And then you say you actually backed out of the deal and didn't raise money after all. So this #2 greatest mistake didn't happen to you but almost did?

I guess things are going so great you are having trouble finding some things that went wrong?
This is really cool. I've read a lot about ideal working environments, and it seems the general consensus is that working alone, isolated, and for long periods of time is the best. This might be true for heavy thinking tasks, but I've realized that its very, very nice to go work at a pub or a coffee shop on campus. Especially on campus there is a good chance of encountering someone who is doing the same.
I have the same problem. Music is too interesting to not be distracting when I'm working on things that require my full attention.
I can't think of an instance that I've had an app that is ad supported that doesn't have a "pro" version that often does nothing more than removes the ads.
You can access deleted iMessages using iOS search
We noticed if you use the search functionality on an iOS device you can still access old deleted iMessages.

In order to reproduce, delete an iMessage. Then go to the search screen by tapping home button twice (you should make the search from the general search screen, not using the search section in the Messages app). Search a word in that deleted iMessage. You will see the message in the search results.
Yeah, it's fair to say the unlock passcode on your phone is more vulnerable than a specific authentication password used during a web login. But other than length and how frequently it's exposed, it's not fundamentally different from shoulder-surfing that password and then stealing your keyfob. In both cases you can try to deactivate the account before the next login.

Biometrics are probably the best way to prove identity and control of your phone, locally. They already have a high-quality CCD. Biometrics are unpopular as something sent to remote devices for a variety of reasons, but should be much more palatable if they remain local-only.
Guys, I'm here or on the blog to answer any your questions!
This looks amazing, looking forward to trying the new integration out.
Newbies: Tired of people busting on your programming questions? Try Bountify.co
Jason: the link "how habits affect willpower" at the bottom of the post is broken. Here's the diff:

- h<a href="lifehacker.com/...">ow habits...</a>
+ <a href="http://lifehacker.com/...">how habits...</a>
I tried outlook.com for a while after the launch, but I just can't go back to the folder system. Tag & archive is now a requirement for any future email service I'll use.
Wow, I saw the onion article but not the real story... that's crazy!
Relevant XCKD: http://xkcd.com/1102/

Agreed - then it becomes easy to get worked up about a growth rate "slowing down" and misinterpret that as a plateau, even if the sheer numbers would indicate otherwise.
I didn't realize Hacker News was a front-end for http://bugreport.apple.com.
The problem is that it violates the basic REST principle. Google REST vs RPC differences.
Editorial: If Barrett Brown's Guilty, Then So Am I
I've been really busy the last several months. The project definitely isn't dead. I check it every day for pull requests and bugs. Just haven't had the time to extend it myself.

The most recent documentation is here: http://jstat.github.com/

Mailing list is here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/jstat-dis...
Actually a lot of their licensed point-and-click adventures were quite good (showing my age). I recall the Death Gate game (based on the series by Weis and Hickman) being quite good. They also made the Legend of Kyrandia games, which weren't licensed that I know of, but also stick out in my memory as some of the best games in the point-and-click genre that I played as a child.

Licensed didn't mean "bad" when it came to Westwood back in the day.
That isn't much better though. With very few exceptions, it looks like regardless of major people tend to enter various fields in very similar proportions. If the data were displayed in a table, I have a feeling the numbers would tell a much different story.
Microsoft to Developers: Windows Outsells Android, iOS, OS X Combined
Guys, it's very cool!
I agree with you about law - this is a kind of "doubling down" on the "no math career path".

However, top humanities and arts students with very good grades and LSAT scores can still dramatically improve their earning prospects by attending an elite law school. I suspect that quite a few Williams students fit that description.

MBAs are a harder option, because while they don't strictly require any one major, it can be harder to gain the experience MBA programs value with a very unmarketable major.

This is a harsh but kind of funny dilbert...

http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Journalism%20Major
Taxing it would mean they had less of it to spend. They might spend it depending on tax breaks, but that might skew incentives in terms of forcing companies to spend the money on something for themselves rather than see it disappear in taxes. That something might not be the best investment though.
Asus make a whole line of various boards that support HDMI. Google mobile ITX
The example of Firefox doesn't really apply here. It succeeded because Microsoft dropped the ball and there weren't many viable alternatives. Does anybody think Apple and Google will make the same mistake?
Yeah, from what I heard about of the Melbourne startup weekend it made more sense for a team to do so mockups and work on a business plan an pitch than to write my code. In terms of winning at least.

I am a big fan of the global games jam held at 100s of venues across the world in January. Games are great because the results are mainly about the execution on the weekend and unlike building a web app and getting customers there isn't really any ongoing commitment unless you really want to continue with it.
Is it too much to ask everyone to get used to it? I used to think that "this is just the way I am" and "I can't change" until I was forced to be adaptable, so here are some of my personal experiences:

I used to not be able to sleep if there was any light at all. Even regular curtains were not good enough, they had to be the ones that blocked out all light from outside. I sometimes would wake up just because someone turned on the light in the hallway, because it leaked under my door. I also had to turn my computer off, because the whirring of the fans would keep me wide awake.

And then I entered college.

People here are up 24 hours a day. Even I, during some weeks, am nocturnal due to homework. I never had a roommate, but I would wake up due to my neighbors roommates. I HAD to adapt, or else I wouldn't be able to survive. With this mentality, I was able to adjust myself so that I could sleep wherever, whenever. (reminds me of the "Everything is my fault" article from yesterday")

I feel like this situation is similar. If you find yourself not to be able to concentrate in a certain environment, find something you must do and do it in that environment. Train yourself so that you can concentrate any time and any where. Give less excuses for yourself to procrastinate, and feel awesome at the same time for being so productive.
Economics is scientific in nature. It is just hard to model and predict the behavior of humans. That doesn't mean that economics can't tell us anything conclusive.

Even though capital expenditures are tax deductible, the returns from capital expenditure are being taxed at a higher rate. This makes consumption relatively more attractive to shareholders which is bad for economic growth. It's not about the money available to invest, it's about the incentives to invest that money.
The article seems to suggest that YttP is no longer using one sequence of poses, but will still offer hot yoga:

"But Yoga to the People’s founder, Greg Gumucio, said on
Monday that he was not getting out of the hot-yoga
business: Yoga to the People is working on a new sequence
that will also be offered in a super-heated room and
incorporate some poses from the sequence popularized by
Bikram’s founder, Bikram Choudhury, but will also include
other poses."
Also make sure you update and add relevant tests and documentation.
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)
+1 we rocked it
I have also gotten expired link errors, too, and it's kind of jarring. I don't know of any other site that does its paging in this way, and I'm not sure of the advantage of doing it this way. All I experience is a reading session that can't be left alone for some arbitrary amount of time lest I lose my place.
In my (limited) experience, it is not that popular, compared to the use of semantics not available elsewhere (is char signed? Can you cast a void* to int and back without data loss? What happens when you right shift a signed int? etc) and to the extreme use of third party libraries (why the #%$! do I need that GUI library in this json parser? Half an hour later: oh, so it is only for these three typedefs, a few macros, and this convenience debugging function), but it surely does happen.

I also think programmers do regret the decision. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to change, as the programmers regretting the decision almost always are not the ones who wrote the software. It is way rarer for a code base to move compilers within a project/team than for a team wanting to incorporate a third party library into their codebase/compiler.
Seems it defaults to 1 star if you don't remember to rate a website? If so, that will drag down the ratings. I already forgot to rate a couple.

Nice work!
So the American and Belgian and Russian Jews will not give equal rights to the Palestinians and you won't even give them a state on the tiny 18-20% of their original land. That is precisely what my problem is with the Israeli apartheid regime and it should be the problem of any half decent human being to stop the apartheid.

in case you had not realised, this will not last. The US (and its client states such as Canada and some tiny Pacific islands) cannot keep your status as superior and keep giving you shielding despite bombings, home demolitions and new Jewish-only settlements. Either you have to give at least nominally equal rights to Palestinians or you have to prepare for the Algerian solution (French settlers had to pack up and leave). Until that, your apartheid state should be boycotted monetarily, diplomatically and culturally.
It says it does represent double majors, but probably not in any useful capacity that you were looking for: "Those with double-majors have two arcs on the left (one from each of their majors, each arc of 1/2 thickness) that combine into one resulting career choice."
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design" - not Hari Seldon