skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The negative reaction is more to do with the old community being invaded by these new types of posts - a lot of which focus on money (how I made $x in y days doing z), some sort of secret to being wealthy (top x tips on quitting your job and making your first million) or some sort of life shortcut.

There are many sub communities within the broader startups and entrepreneurial fields, but what HN used to be was a group of people who were hackers first with interests in stories about other startups, new technology, implementing technology etc.

There is an entire other subculture around working from home, the 4 hour work week, SEO, affiliate marketing, how to ship product online, how to write an ebook that can sell for $40 in 24 hours, the micro-ISV space etc.

That later group, who would prefer to talk about how they sold $50k worth of software or ebooks, is much larger than the group of hacker entrepreneurs who would much rather read about the latest Javascript library, security exploit or scientific breakthrough.

Business of Software, the forum that Joel Spolsky ran for micro-ISV's shut down and it seems everybody came flooding over to HN (or were coming over steadily over the past few years). This means more of that type of content.

There can't be more than a few thousand technical (or want to be technical) entrepreneurs, while the group who are interested in breaking away from their career and becoming an ebook affiliate likely numbers in the millions.

A lot of those negative comments are, I feel, from frustrated hacker entrepreneurs who know you can make $100k a year online and who don't want to hear that story again. I didn't click on any of those links when I saw the headlines (no offense to the authors, but it just doesn't interest me) and the only reason I clicked on this thread is because I couldn't believe that another thread that mentions an amount of money in the title had again made it to the top of HN.

I have gone from clicking on 60-80% of HN headlines to now hitting 10%, on a good day. I bet that if I did click on one of those headlines, that I too would have left a smart-ass cynical comment as well, but i'm passed that stage of protesting submissions that I feel don't belong here and now just move on (except this thread).

edit: I realize that I made some sweeping generalizations, I don't mean that people interested in SEO aren't hacker entrepreneurs, I just needed a way to define what are different groups of people in the audience here.
It doesn't, you're simply wrong. See my other comments.
I bet Blackhat Vulnerability Program would've payed lot more.
I think this map highlights some fundamental flaw with wikipedia or what we highlight in history or something similar to this.

Or possibly it's a perfect example of what is wrong with summarising a complicated entity. I hope in the future that people will move away from the Top Ten things about X or the 5 things you need to know about Y.

This map is ignorance presenting as a summary.

(Yes I know it's meant to be a cute map)
TTS on a Raspberry Pi (sort of).
Baseball Players Do Not Because They Cannot. You?
Some providers give you the choice, and let you choose if you want unfiltered access or firewalled, just by changing APN. For some services, like a backup link to your internal network, it's immensely useful.
A more interesting set of commandline utilities to know - http://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/best-terminal-applicati...
The pogdesign TV calendar is amazing. It does have a next airing page, which you can filter if you sign up. It also lets you specify your time zone, which is very useful for me (in the UK).
Think of it like this:

What is the probability that two coins come up with the same face value? 0.5

If we use the guessing scheme where each player guesses his own guess as the result of the other player's coin, then players A and B win if their coins are the same. Their coins are the same with probability 0.5.

Thus, Expectation[game] = Expectation[Game|A & B Win] * P(A & B win) + Expectation[Game|A & B Lose] * P(A & B Lose) = 1 * .5 + -2 * .5 = -1, so C should not play.

If the players guessed randomly then the expectation of the game would be as you say it is.
>Why does using your own result improve the odds of winning the game!?

I find the result very confusing as well. I suspect the source of this counterintuitiveness is that I over simplified the puzzle when I first read it.

I simplified the puzzle to "A attempts to guess B's coin, and B attempts to guess A's coin", whereas in fact the true puzzle is "A and B together try to guess the total set of results".

When A and B guess randomly, they attempt to guess the total set without using the information they have available to them. When A and B both guess the results of their own coin, they use the information they have regarding the set of results (i.e. the results of their own coin) to reduce the problem space and increase their chances of success. Clearly, if you have heads, you know the chances of the set of results being heads-heads are much higher than choosing a random set of results.

In other words, the proposition for A is not "What are the odds of B having heads given that you have heads?" but rather "What are the odds of the set of results being heads-heads given that you have heads?"
tl;dr: A lot of people have Android devices.
This is offensive. The entry for Eritrea labels it Ethiopia, the country that has attempted to occupy it for centuries.
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I would bet that if you did this same things with many history books, similar words would come up, but I do not think that it is a fair summary.

It would be more interesting to see the most searched Google queries coming from these countries (assuming that many use Google). Finland is Ilta Sanomat (The Evening News), for example: http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world

Unfortunately, Antarctica is not represented in Google Zeitgeist, nor are many others, but perhaps you could contact Google for that data.
Before or after tax? In The Netherlands a good developer can earn between 3000 and 6000 per month before tax.

Tax is high, mainly thanks to the massive subsidies given to house owners - mortgage interest payments are subtracted from pre-tax wage before the tax is calculated. As you can guess, it's normal here for people to max their loans and go for interest-only repayments..
It'd probably be better if it used a better measure than raw term frequency in the articles. For example, most of Europe is "War". If it used something like inverse document frequency (tf-idf) to rank the terms, it might get more distinct words for each country.
New enhanced version of Ember.js guides.
Are you familiar with perl's -n and -p switches?

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun.html#*-n*

Those "flt" lines could be written

perl -lpe 's|\s+| |gsi' file.txt
find . | perl -ne 'if (-f) { print -s }'

(-l chomps the incoming newlines, and puts them back on the output)

Of course, "perl -ne" is longer than "flt", and I appreciate all this implicit use of $_ is not to everyone's tastes.
Why do people hate on arts students? I graduated at a college with many arts students. Admittedly, a top tier college (Merton, Oxford), but they were still doing these arts degrees which people hate on so much.

I got a great job after I graduated, at Google, but it's nothing compared to what many of my arts student peers did after they graduated.

My roommate studied classics. HN would laugh at that - what an idiot! He's now leading a team in a private intelligence agency that provides intelligence to companies working in places like Africa or China. He's done amazing stuff. He worked on the ground in Somalia, he's lived in Russia, France, China.

Another friend of mine studied Ancient English. What a moron, hey! He's now a Captain in the British Army. He's served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He's currently on secondment to the Pentagon.

Another friend did French Literature. Didn't he know he'd never get a job? Actually he's a top investment banker in London. He earns six times what I do at Google. What an idiot hey!

Another guy, didn't know him really but he was in my college, is now an MP - equivalent of the US house of representatives. He studied History. Didn't he know it would't lead anywhere.

I feel like an idiot for doing CS. Many of those companies wouldn't have hired me as I look like a geek with no social skills. Now I'm at a top job for my field at Google, and I learn less than most of my peers who did arts.

People who get STEM degrees become workers. Some of them found great companies, but not many. My arts students peers became leaders, politicians, managers at the top of massively important companies and agencies.
Your sign-up form shouldn't accept "test@example.com" as a valid address: No valid MX DNS RR.
Author here. Trust me — I completely understand where you're coming from. With Planscope (my SaaS product) I'm getting to engineer a really rewarding product with Backbone.js and Ruby.

However, because I'm bootstrapped, things like SEO and marketing are pretty important if I want to be able to keep making my house payments, so they interest me.

I think marketing and engineering are completely complimentary. You can't have one without the other in this space. I need to know how to make money selling software or whatever else if I want to keep going, but I also am curious about the latest JS lib or whatever else to help build a sellable product.

My goal with this and other posts has been to always show "hackers" that building software and running a business aren't mutually exclusive. Stories and inspiration from others helped me get to where I am today; and I hope that my story can help others. That's all :-)
Ditto for Kuwait's label of 'Iraq'
Whenever people teaching others about security mention XSS, I've always wondered does it really even happen in the real world? I'm sure everybody escapes their input.

Turns out there's a reason XSS is so often mentioned. Even Dropbox and Facebook fell prey to it (although in this case the input wasn't from the web, but rather from their desktop application/service partner).
In the graph, there is a sudden change in 2005, where (I guess) mobile devices were added. What I don't get is how Apple jumps to 21%, given that the iPhone was not introduced before 2007.

Edit: from the linked Seattle Times article:

I asked Goldman Sachs about what happened in the 2004-2005 time frame -- as seen in the above chart -- that made Apple's vendor share jump, Microsoft's share plummet and the "other" category to go from zero to 29 percent. Goldman Sachs replied that it has to do with more mainstream adoption of non-PC consumer computing devices but declined to elaborate beyond that.

Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/microsoftpri0/2019853243_goldma...
It is an excuse for brevity that could be mistaken for abruptness.
I think the only "secure" way to erase the contents of a hard drive is to repeatedly overwrite the disk surface with a mix of random/patterened data (like Darik's Boot & Nuke does).

Also, for those wondering about the blocking of /dev/random, it will restrict the number of bits you can copy using dd, but this won't be apparent unless you attempt to copy more bits from the entropy pools than there are available for random number generation. For more information, see this question on Super User:
http://superuser.com/questions/520601/why-does-dd-only-copy-...
>"do things like deliberate starvation."

So putting pressure on international bodies to enforce crippling sanctions should count, right?

>my rule of thumb is, when you're feeling morally conflicted about who 'should have' won the Normandy invasion in 1944, your morality is a bit off-kilter.

My rule of thumb is: when you assume that all "our" killing is for "good" and "their's" is for "evil" your morality (as well as your knowledge of history) is off-kilter.
Kudos! To clarify, you still have the consultancy but someone else runs it? Because that should be every consultant's goal. Read the E-Myth.
It is only two or three days since I first heard about the "evil maid" attack. While this could be a preoccupation for some kind of environment, and most probably very few, it is very easy to come with a scheme that both protects against that and allows other operating systems to be installed.

Given that this has not been done, and given the small number of people this scenario interests, given that thoses people are unlikely to be interested by Windows 8 to begin with, and even less by Windows RT, Secure Boot has not been designed by MS to prevent that, but really to prevent the installation of other operating systems. The FSF just fight Secure Boot for the real reason it has been created; if you create and alternate security feature for the "evil maid" scenario that preserve user freedom, that would be a completely different subject and you want angry the FSF with it. The FSF's attitude towards new technologies is not reactionary. They fight for user's freedom, as always.
Or you could take Caltrain.
Of course it would. That's the idea of blackhat.
You raise a valid point. Communities change and that change can be hard for those who feel like they have deep roots. However if you restrict the change, you run in to trouble cf. digg. One alternative is to allow the community itself to subdivide cf. reddit. However the beauty of HN is its simplicity. In my mind HN works because of its resistance to change this simplicity.
Correct. We're no longer as large as we once were, but I've taken myself out of operations and get a phone call once a week with a status update.
That sounds like a great idea. I hope the original poster picks up on your idea. Although that may still leave some of the offensive terms listed elsewhere in the comments (Kuwait <- Iraq, Ethiopia <- Eritrea)
- Continue on the path of graduating cum laude.

- Publish three academic papers.

- Get a job.

- Start a side project which actually has a chance of making some money.

- Find the woman of my dreams.
It might be easier to deceive someone else, but not yourself, you just know too much.

Ohh, you're right.. maybe I don't actually disagree with the "article" (it's not really much, and I didn't read or listen to the whole thing yet) then.. because yes, exploring truth certainly makes it easier to lie as well. Being able to be honest to yourself doesn't really translate into being so all the time, and much less into being honest to others necessarily (though I like to think it can help, too ^^).

If you dove around in certain swamp a lot, you can also much more easily walk among some patches of grass on the surface, pretending there is no swamp to an onlooker; precisely because you spent some time in it.

But I still would like to think real mastery of anything worth mastering comes out at a point where you prefer even mediocre truths to grand lies, so I don't want to completely retract my first knee-jerk comment either :)
Get some editing help on the copy - it's got some seriously awkward phrasing. Also, I've read it three times, and I'm still not sure what it is that your company will do aside from "reinventing the world of coupons". If your value proposition is that users won't have to "pay for a coupon to receive a discount", you need some more explaining - I don't know what that means, but I'm pretty sure I haven't done it (and hence wouldn't be motivated to sign up).

Vaguely related: how should I be pronouncing the name? Is it two words ("vou-share"), or a creative spelling of voucher to put the word "share" in there?
Here's a writeup by the author about it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/omnitarian/8288065763/sizes/o/i...
Access to the hardware via OtherOS was afaik severely limited, and more comparable to having Linux on a virtual machine than running it on the actual hardware. iirc eg the GPU was not accessible in OtherOS which limited the usefulness quite much.
Reminder for Microsoft employees: if you are going to support that, you should has well quit (maybe after having done a donation :p )
The entry for Eritrea shows that the word "Ethiopia" comes up a lot in the wikipedia article "History of Eritrea". Given the history of the two countries, that's to be expected. What exactly are you taking offence at?
Read the explanation at the bottom http://hugepic.io/d2012641f/4.00/9.75/104.24
Nicely broken down!
Write your own OS? How about writing software at all? The future will be a world where "consumer" computers will not be allowed to run software that was not approved by some corporation, and where programmers will have to pay an annual fee just to have the ability to program (which could be lost without notice and without any refund).

"Back in my day, we learned to program by just programming! I used to practice my programming skills on whatever computer I could get my hands on when I was your age...you kids will never understand how much the world has changed..."
Any type of comment!
Great feedback, I can use anything at the moment, since I really wan't to learn the language and the process of building something with it :)
And I had also recently started using HN, so I wanted to share it with others.
As chpwn, are you still involved in the jailbreak community?

(btw sent from the news:yc app).
I recently got the book Million Dollar Consulting and it takes a somewhat different approach to it, starting with "charge weekly for business value delivered, not by the hour." Weiss puts a strong emphasis on having plenty of free time, and is skeptical of hiring employees at all.

Probably doesn't work for all types of consultancy though.
Well, not really. The label "Hungary" does not represent Hungary but Slovakia — a neighbouring country.
Before the keys were reverse engineered the exploits were limited to running userland code only afaik, ie you couldn't replace the firmware/os with those.
Another related problem is called "golden handcuffs". Many work in jobs that provide great salary and/or benefits and would like to leave, but they think that they will sacrifice their family's well-being by leaving. I was like that for years and recently switched to a new job that is a lot better for me. It is still far from perfect: I am more stressed-out, and I work more hours. But, the pay and benefits are better, and my skills and marketability are improving. I want a job that I love, and I'm still working on finding that, but if you have "golden handcuffs", don't fall into the trap that you can't do better. If you are aren't struggling and learning and you are unhappy and spreading unhappiness, you are a drag on yourself and everyone else. You can't always be unhappy, in fact you may continue to be unhappy (I am, or at least I tell myself that I am), but if you find yourself making others unhappy and feeling that they should realize that they are unhappy as you, that is not a good situation, and you need to change. There are plenty of other opportunities out there, but you won't find them unless you are looking for them. Just decide what you want, and do your best to make it happen. Don't buy into the self-help books either. They make promises they can't keep.
Currently I use OneNote to manage projects and such. I've yet to find a really good cross-platform tool that works as well. Plans for 2013, more OSS, less MS. More coding, less managing.
2013 Plans
beign right about the fact that creativity requires fuller (crystal clear) understanding (generally, imaginative visuallisation and some level of abstraction) of whatever you are creating i see no relationship btwn interpendency and creativity.
"We are reinventing the world of coupons."

Whoa, that's two of my "literary" pet peeves right there :(

"world of" when it doesn't even apply and should be left out (it's just like "nothing short of", such stuff can be chained forever without adding one iota of meaning to a sentence)

"reinvent" when you actually mean "improve".

Since that's all the info you're really given, this doesn't work for me, at all.
I thought OS X and iOS were derived from BSD. Is the graph supposed to be generic Unix/Unix like OSs or should Apple not be included in this? Or am I just wrong?
>I don't know what that means, but I'm pretty sure I haven't done it

I suspect it's a daily deals site that doesn't charge. Groupon that's free for consumers.

I completely agree with your remarks on the copy, it doesn't read like it was written by a native English speaker. Should be an easy fix.
It flooded my browser history with 1000+ entries.
That might be so if your goal is to hilight what sets the countries apart.

The author of the map chose for 'history of __' as the topic. And when doing that with countries it is not surprising to find that countries are defined by war, nobility, imperialism and rivalry.

We like to think countries are formed because of their people, and their culture, but in reality countries are formed because of their resources, defendability and their interested parties.

If there is one thing that defines borders in europe, it is war, and this map shows that quite laconically :)
Maybe this should be called 'Humanity represented by a few words'?
Although it's technically running the Linux kernel, I personally would not consider it a free (libre) operating system as sold on most of those devices. I'm sure Linus is proud, but this seems like more of a win for Google than for the Linux community or free software in general.
Why I love RubyMine
Your analysis is incorrect because A and B are allowed to decide on a strategy ahead of time - and there are two simple and similar strategies that allow A and B to guess correctly, together, half the time.

The first is described by: 'If I get heads, I will guess you got heads, otherwise I will guess you got tails'
The second: 'If I get heads, I will guess you got tails, otherwise I will guess you got heads'

These are functionally identical, in that in half of the cases they get the same result (first strategy wins these) and in the other half they get opposite results (second strategy wins these) - they get 2$ for winning and give 1$ when they lose, since they win half the time under either strategy C should not play this game.
A friend grew up there. Also, have you been to the Gower Peninsula? It's beatiful!
Xfce or KDE?
2012 Review
It's funny that apart from a few regions...

* Bessarabia (an old name for the region where current day Moldova is)

* Moravia (an important region in Czech republic)

* Transsylvania (central Romania)

...most of those with country names are actually not in the countries themselves:

* Hungary in Slovakia

* Iraq in Kuwait

* India in Pakistan

* Ethiopia in Eritrea

* Albanian in Kosovo

* And of course British, Frech, Portuguese, Spanish and Soviet all over the place.

Also interesting is Sweden, though our history certainly was defined by war we are only two years away from reaching 200 years of no war.