skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would take a lot of work. I imagine that you'd implement a link to your sites checksums in the code, which the installer would reference during installation. As long as that link is protected within code, it should maintain the validity of any checksums that the installer is referencing.
Einstein and Newton 'had autism' (2003)
It may be difficult to teach, but it's not hard to learn.

1) Hang around other creative people

2) Do stuff. Just try to build something, don't be afraid of failing. Some people get together for "bad art nights"

3) I am always inspired when I visit museums, galleries, etc. It just makes me want to do something
You are correct of course that the usual questions about any published research result apply.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Maybe this result will not be replicated, as many first results are not. But the question presented by this paper is not so much what the mechanism of the problem is, but whether or not the intervention is helpful to the learners. The place of first publication being Science,

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5925/400

the most selective journal of all, is a good sign, and it certainly looks to me like this issue is worthy of further investigation, especially as it is consistent with other recent findings in positive psychology and possibly generalizable to how hackers running start-ups can maintain their relentless resourcefulness.
"I support copyright in what I see as its primary role of policing "passing-off" type activity - ie, trying to sell something you have no right to sell - but restricting private citizen A sending $whatever to private citizen B? No way. And TPB facilitates the latter, not the former."

So if you wrote a piece of software you wouldn't have a problem with me taking that piece of software and not paying you for it. Right?

Your only concern would be if someone started trying to sell your software and make money from it. Right?

In both cases someone enjoyed the fruits of your labor without compensating you for it.
From the comments: "Haven't they ever heard of a CD key?"
Maybe. It'd be some sort of planner, and while it's still early days wrt problems at this scale, there are some that can hold knowledge just like a human does, to escape the exponential explosion of the naive method.
That's just an argument to not get in too far over your head.

Start where you can grow and then do so.
CNN, Kutcher, 4Chan. The race to be the biggest twit.
I'm not sure, but I think it's too fast. Some worthwhile topics could be easily missed if one stays off HN for just half a day. (Even with AutoPager, after 2-3 days, most topics go off the first few pages entirely.)

Perhaps there should be some sort of 'classic' or 'long-term' article tab that people can check out.

The quality of those articles/discussions would likely be higher as well.
I tend to skim the front page and then hit the new section for the majority of my time, and I don't think we're running much faster than we have been. This is obviously unscientific and I have no data to back it, but from my perspective I haven't seen that many new stories.

Perhaps its an influx of new involved members who are actively voting?
pretty typical coding horror post

misunderstands TDD, and make a correct and vital, but fairly obvious point
I got bitten by this when I worked at an Investment Bank in London. It made me realise how much I valued my freedom to choose what and where I browse. Sad really, as IT staff in big mega-corps could probably do with an injection of entrepreneurial spirit.
Even the early assembly coders of the 60s would be hard pressed to imagine the life of a modern coder working in an IDE.

That has nothing to do with changes in the task of coding. It has to do with changes in the relative popularity of various programming styles. As witnessed by this sentence of yours:

Many of these notions also seem to fit comfortably in LISP

That's probably true, but you're talking about a language which was invented in 1958 and implemented in the early 1960s. The Lisp hackers had the equivalent of IDEs and modern programming environments in the 1970s, if not before. They are not especially impressed by our modern programming tools. (And many of us actually prefer to do our programming using tools descended from theirs, like emacs.)

Even the old Lisp hands who helped invent (e.g.) Java are not particularly impressed. As Guy Steele, co-author of the Java spec and former author of the Common Lisp spec, famously said of Java:

"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

The outer surface of programming has changed a lot over the last fifty years, and Moore's Law, the buildout of our infrastructure, the increasing sophistication of computer users, and the general growth in the population of programmers has changed the nature of the problem space many times, but the essence of the task hasn't really changed all that much. You can learn surprisingly relevant things by reading papers and books from the 1960s.
I think this is relatively to their total financial income.
Anyone read the wired article on this?...
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/pirateverdict.html

Apparently, the prosecution cited a case from 1963 wherein a man was convicted of a crime for holding his friend's coat while the friend was in a fist-fight.

Amazing that such a case happened, and amazing that it was cited as relevant to this case.
Actually I do and just can't think of them. But I know this is not that unusual.
Wouldn't even get a second look at Bay to Breakers: http://images.google.com/images?q=bay+to+breakers
I might have missed your point here but am I right in thinking your sayign that many people cant afford to pay legit for all the material they download?

To which I say: so what right do they have to download it for free? Never spend beyond your means :)

I believe I have missed your point though: the use of the word relatively threw me (the ly is confusing and changes the context of the sentence :))
Installing GeoDjango with PostgreSQL and zc.buildout
Why? If you're setting up your website right, you should be serving 1 HTML file + 1 JS file + 1 CSS file + 1 image for each request, and the latter 3 should all be cached indefinitely. (At least for static chrome - if you've got thumbnails, videos, or flash games you can't exactly sprite those.) His test file was 146K, which seems on the high side for HTML only, but I'd imagine serving 1 small file is faster than serving 1 large file.
Todays typesetter is the sysadmin not the programmer. As the authors improve software to lower maintenance and hardware is moved to the cloud one sysadmin will do more than the IT dept could ever do. Help desk function will also shrink as users become more savvy, workstations more secure, and recovery automation ubiquitous. But remember type setters had a good run in the west, 1450 - 1960's.
Well I am not a Facebook employee but whenever the company compiles statistics for applications they include the native ones and make it apparent. They may be calculating the number differently this time. I assume that they still count native apps though.
> Programming doesn't end, it just changes and become harder and harder.

I'd say the programming becomes easier, but then there are always harder problems than the ones that are currently within reach (eg. AI is still out of reach), but I think this is what you meant.

For me the best example of this was writing some PHP after learning Scheme and Haskell: This problem would be so much easier with a lambda keyword.
I'm a system administrator and SilverLight has repeatedly failed to install successfully for me. I'm tired of trying to diagnose a problem when no usable errors are found.

However, the crux of my problem is that they are requiring Flash for Mozilla and SilverLight for IE. My advice for them is to pick one and do it "right."

But, it's their site, not mine.
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The article is correct in that as time goes on and technology (along with application design) evolves, program types that were once written "by hand" in a textural programming language are later created using higher-level tools (not higher as in superior, but working at a higher level of abstraction from the hardware).

However this only happens in known, established domains and it happens gradually. What Ruby on rails has done for the CRUD web app is a perfect example.

"New" software will always be written in the native tongue of the hardware, which to this day remains assembler. This in turn builds languages, which can then lead to more "automated" tools, but until the fundamental nature of the hardware changes, how can the method of programming it?
But there are still A LOT of hardware engineers, and compiler developers. And I'm pretty sure writing drivers requires knowledge of assembly.
FTA:
"The defense put it to the judge that he had folded under intense political pressure. The judge denied this stating that the court made its decision based on the case presented.

At one point the judge was asked if he was concerned for his personal safety after handing down this decision. The judge said he hadn’t received any harassment and was quite surprised at the question."

Classy.

Edit: Oeh, this part is also good:
"Rasmus Fleischer, one of the founders of Piratbyrån commented, “The sentence has no formal consequence and no juridical value. We chose to treat the trial as a theater play and as such it’s been far better than we ever could have believed.”"
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The first thing a well written trojan does is to disable things like this.
I wonder if its a true STAR schema (not that they are doing data warehouse-type queries, just curious)
Time Warner Cable just shut down that plan due to all the customers calling in about it and saying they hated it. I think if it is going to be metered, better chance doing it at like 10 cents a gigabyte.
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Most of those hundreds of thousands of youngsters would not be purchasing those products, anyway. Most just don't have the money.

As I look at it, most piracy is free publicity. Notice how movie receipts haven't gone down as piracy has ramped up?

Sure, CDs have sold less, but that's a bit different beast.
It's' encouraging to see a major media outlet acknowledge this connection however I get the impression that it is not meant in as constructive a light as I would have hoped.

I imagine that if Superman were to emerge in today's society he would be considered "syndromic".
As usual, Smalltalk has already had this for years. (Both incremental and generational could run concurrently, configurable by the programmer. And no one cared. It was no big deal. Java gets it, it's news. Like about 100 other things. Word to the wise: Smalltalk is a bellweather for Java!)
You are right, i changed it. Tnx for looking.
But he uses such a captivating picture!
no one attacks his [Flynn's] scientific objectivity

Yes, because he has demonstrated his scientific objectivity by changing his point of view from time to time, digging up new evidence when scientists say his previously offered evidence is inadequate, and scrupulously honoring his most ardent opponents with credit when their counterarguments prompt him to reconsider his previous publications. What Flynn writes in the early twenty-first century about IQ is much better quality research than what he wrote in the 1970s. (It's important to point out that already by the 1980s he was being published in Psychological Bulletin, the most prestigious journal in psychology, because his articles were meeting a high standard of scholarship.) Take a look at which psychologists and sociologists praise Flynn, his research in general, or his latest book on the Amazon.com page for his latest book:

Ian Deary, Edinburgh University

Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute & co-author of The Bell Curve

Sir Michael Rutter, Kings College London

N. J. Mackintosh, University of Cambridge

Richard Restak, American Scholar

S. J. Ceci, Cornell University

Robert J. Sternberg, PsycCRITIQUES

and others.
I think it just became much easier to get frontpaged. I see a ton of stories getting front paged with 2, 3 upvotes.
I've stopped now (due to lack of time) but by subscribing to the feed you should be able to catch everything that comes on the front page.
Happened at my work too, I emailed the person in charge of the filter to allow access, next day it was unblocked.
I've encountered this as well - is it dependant on number of upvotes in a set time period?
Hey, i asked for feedback so insults are not an issue.:) The thing is that i already had the idea to not animate the letters. That might do the trick in lowering the annoyance level.
One way may be to get stupid.

"Thinking outside of the box" is tough when you're used to living in the box. Maybe it's easier to just get away from things you're familiar with to see creativity expressed.

For instance, take your average boring chemistry student out of a lab, and tell them they've got to make 20 loaves of bread every day next week for the local bakery.. but don't tell them how, let them look it up, or give them the standard equipment. Just give them the ingredients -- maybe even throw in more than is necessary including some that aren't normally used.

I bet you'd get some creative work out of people that weren't considered very creative in their normal work.
"I have seen blatant scaremongering and misinformation in the past when it comes to Macs"

Not just Macs, anti-virus and security professionals are experts in all computer FUD (regardless of platform)
If you're subscribed in Google Reader, you can view details about the feed and it does show a steady incline in "items posted" over the last 30 days.
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"They sometimes lack social skills, are obsessed with complex topics and can have problems communicating."

Everyone reading this probably fits this description.
I don't think $10 will save you if the situation is serious, this will complicate the situation more.If they want to find, they'll contact the host and if you paid via a Verified (Real) Credit Card and they have your credentials, then you can say "Good Bye" as (I think) you'll be penalized more..
Not only that but they are only four people of a much larger swarm maintaining the pirate bay. Even if they go to jail it wouldn't mean anything to the site being up or not.
> Most of those hundreds of thousands of youngsters would not be purchasing those products, anyway. Most just don't have the money.

Is that an excuse to allow them to pirate stuff. How is a culture of "well just pay for what you can afford and take the rest for free" allowable?
Boston's "social media scene" is kinda lame. Too many talkers, not enough builders.
Get happy and optimistic. Creativity comes to me when I'm feeling good about life and my future. Pessimism and slacking creeps in when I'm down and feeling negative about past/future events.
frankly I think if you want to focus this much on being green, your actual name should be green. So I would spin off as a separate site greenmailcentral.com and link to that from your original site.

And on the greenmailcentral.com site, I would let users pick some enviro related domains to use as their emails.
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I would expand that advice to all artistic pursuits.
Also: http://news.ycombinator.org
Oh, ok i get it now. We have thought about something like that. The problem is indeed as Amarcus says. We currently work only with certified companies who already print for banks and insurance companies etc. Also we print on Xerox Igen3 or HP indigo printers. Both high end digital printers. A small/cheap printer would not deliver that quality. (Unless there is a printer i'm not aware of). We even tested the ink folding crease resistance!
"Professor Baron-Cohen said the findings suggested that people with the syndrome can excel if they find their niche in life."

Did he realize this when his son Sacha found his calling?...j/k
I can't help but wonder, if all these things are inappropriate, what does the author think Twitter should be used for?

Personally I think Twitter is just a convenient RPC mechanism, but I'm a Mad Computer Scientist…MUHAHAHAHAHA!
Anyone actually going? I'm not normally a fan of these things (and this one is particularly lame) but our startup is in the building...
No, not an excuse to allow them to pirate stuff. The fact is, they are pirating stuff. That is not going to go away. It's just observing a fact.

Criminalizing a whole generation is more morally wrong, to me, than bemoaning lost profits that are not even really lost (movie receipts are way up, for instance).
> A good example of that would be WoW - some people have cracked it to run on homebrew servers, but they're by far the minority.

I don't know what the global numbers are, but it's the opposite in my vicinity: there's a number of local WoW servers and most local networks have clients with patches for them. Only a few players ever tried the official server, majority uses the local ones.

Same thing with Lineage, Ultima and others.

This doesn't however invalidates your main point: those players are not likely to pay for the official server, even if there would be no local ones (I blame bandwidth costs and difficulties in money transactions).

Anyway, the fact remains: there's a lot of people playing the local servers.
i'm afraid this become like "Digg". In past, the time between stories that hit front page (in digg) is 1 to 2 hours, now it's less than 10 minutes and a new story hit it.

That's why I rarely upvote stories in HN, if we all upvote a little only Worthwhile topics that we can increase the quality.
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To quote Heather Champ of Flickr, "i am so done with social media marketers. y'all are peeing in the pool."

http://twitter.com/hchamp/status/1318999408
This book was just recommended to me by a software consultant who has a new start-up business. I mention it because there was just another HN thread that asked if creativity can be developed, which is what this author thinks.
Was the email address one on a custom or little used domain?

Or on a "major" provider address (e.g. Yahoom, Gmail etc.).

I have set up MSN and Yahoo addresses in readiness for future use and started getting spam to them within the space of a week :)

EDIT: what Im saying is a you making a big accusation. Something like that can damage eMusic for good. If it's true then good - but there are other explanations too.. which we should conasider first.
they currently have 2.7 million users, they should have no trouble raising the cash...provided they need it

And if they can't, they still have all those people signed up for their VPN service, so should be able to cover the rest nicely.
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I had a similar experience at the company where I write my Diplomarbeit (thesis). My Ubuntu could not update libpcsclite1, because the proxy did not allow to fetch the package. Playing a bit with the URL a bit revealed that libpcsclite1 includes 'clit'. I had to fire up tor to get around that prude proxy.

[I was able to install Ubuntu in the first place, because I work at a department that does software development for rolling stock scheduling optimization. We are nearly the only ones in the company with computer that are not locked up.]
It's kind of the nature of the beast. If you make forking and merging simple, people will do it on a whim.

An indicator for the original code would maybe be useful, but it would lead to confusion when, for example, the original maintainers fade away and another repo becomes the pseudo-canonical tree.
Cousin, not son, if I remember correctly. They are definitely related.

Yes, cousin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen#Personal_life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen#Family
DePaul University has the largest online CS programs. Illinois Institute of Technology has a decent program too.
Because people want to see the stuff right now. Southpark example, they don't upload the latest episodes right away
This link was posted up on YC recently: http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/

While it does not directly address "creativity", I have found that the "juxtapositional thinking" state it describes as a required state for creative thinking. Look on the second article for the precise neuroscience.

In summary, the pre-frontal cortex has (at least) two different mode: focused attention, and juxtapositional thinking. The first works well when you have predictable task order. You know precisely what steps you need to do something in. However, it also shuts down any chance you have to be "inspired" or "creative". It is the precise reason when you try to be creative, you stop being creative.

The site lists some easy ways to encourage juxtapositional thinking in people. There are other methods I have found help trigger this.

I do want to point out though, the juxtapositional state will not automatically make you more creative, though it is a pre-condition that needs to be fulfilled before you creative insight pops up in your head.

However, this precondition does show why creativity is difficult to teach. It is something you learn, not something you teach. It requires a state of mind that you have to access yourself, you cannot be simply be told "be creative".

Whatever the case may be, creativity is not a genetic or an edge case.
I find it curious that the tech-savvy world of Hacker News, which should be comfortable with the idea of specialization in modern capitalist economies, seems to pine for a return to a "cottage" music industry, where the musician is to perform all of the afore-mentioned roles himself.

That would be tantamount to a programmer founding a company.
In my book [1] (yes, I know that's a blatant plug), I cover a number of interesting places in Silicon Valley that are not covered in this article including the original homes of Fairchild and Shockley Semiconductor.

It's a pity that he mentioned the Tech Museum in San Jose though, it's really very poor IMHO.

[1] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523206/