skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Atlas Shrugged, she presented a world on the brink of full-on economic collapse as a result of increasing governmental controls and favors, while the politicians and the people kept blaming the problem on the supposed "free market" and ultra-rich industrialists.

While there are many people who suggest that the current recession is the result of the free market, Rand's supporters (of which I am), suggest that the recession is the result of governmental controls and intervention in the economy, and that our form of government hasn't gotten even remotely close to Laissez Faire, at least not for over a century.

The short and skinny is that many see the events of Atlas Shrugged playing out in real life.

Of course, no one's really going to read this, since the link is dead.
I don't get it. I went to a public school, and it was nothing like this - sure, we had our little tribes, and our little dramas, but most people belonged to several of them - I took lots of business and marketing classes and was a programmer nerd. Many other programmer nerds were actors, in marching band, and in the choir. The class president and swim team captain took AP CompSci, wasn't too bad of a programmer himself, and an exceptionally nice guy, to absolutely everyone. Sure, there were dicks, but who cares about them?
How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll
I also use headsets without music when I don't want to be disturbed.
It may be different now, but when I was in high school, geeks and nerds got shit on by every group -- the jocks, the actors and actresses. Everyone.

Everyone's mileage varies. I went to a decent public school in the suburbs, and most people in my social circle belonged to a couple of others tribes as well - I was pretty active in the business competitions (as well as programming). Most other "nerd elites" were in marching band, actors, singers, swimmers, fencers, jugglers, etc. Sure, there were plain old jerks, but they were a certain a minority, and easy to ignore.
ESPN.com gets cornified
at the age 12 there are very few girls tinkering with computers. Later in life this translates to much less girls going to CS. not everyone doing CS started at 12, but if you start with more, you end up with more...
I took a look, but ... um all I see from the brochureware site is a cartoony interface with low information density, no history or trending (surely that's interesting for your egotistical users?).

Without installing it, it looks like all the other poorly-designed apps out there.
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This blog is purely dedicated to you and our relationship.It's been a year we've been together and it feels so beautiful so pure, I couldn't have expressed that in better words Neha.
Join a start-up in Bangalore, India.

It'll be a good experience for you. Since everybody speaks/understands English, you'll not feel out of place.
Judging by the rest of Mr. Marinich's content, I'd be surprised if you're very far off the mark. Here's what I found particularly ironic: most of the online stuff of his I read (well, skimmed) was pretty negative, hostile and generally involved lashing out at people.

After about five minutes I couldn't help but think of Maddox.
I don't think the number of CPUs matters. The interesting question is whether machine intelligence can do things we humans cannot do with pen and paper, either individually or as a group. You may be right about the internet and the postal service, but there's no doubt in my mind that some of the things algorithms do with data is impossible to do for humans due to cognitive limits.

Sure, you could try to split the work into many parts and have many people work on it, but given enough data and sufficiently complex patterns, coordinating all those people to find patterns that are not local to one such part would overwhelm the organisation.

I don't think it's important, but even a single machine can find patterns in large amounts of data that I cannot find with pen and paper no matter how much time I have. What machines cannot do today is make a judgement about the relevance of the patterns found.
[Due Disclosure - I am Indian and live in Bangalore and have friends who work in Infosys]

Mr Murthy started a body shopping company. Entrepreneur? certainly, by definition of the word.

But not along the lines of the startup founders discussed here on HN. At best the analogy would be to someone who starts a consulting company.

PS: I say "body shop" Infosys says it "provides a complete range of services by leveraging our domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers"

;-)
This is what made it click for me: http://nex-3.com/posts/43-fun-with-the-y-combinator-in-ruby
definitely sensationalist, that's why i googled for another source but found nothing at the time
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Four years?
The stress test is a joke, pure propaganda. It was carefully constructed so that all the big banks could "pass" and put off dealing with their balance sheet problems a little longer.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/04/leaking-a...
I have always been told that recall is worst for that you only hear, better for that you read, gets better if you write it down, and best if you teach it. (Funny enough, I never bothered to look it up until now, and I cant find a good reference by googling.)

My take away on this is that I never bothered reading my lecture notes, I took notes only to write down what I heard to improve my recall of it.

Also, I often tried to hold a mini lecture or summary when I was studying with my friends to see if what I understood was transferable to them, and if not, what I was missing to make it so. Often it was me lacking understanding in some area, but unconciously denying it.
Where did he claim he was different?

The whole point of the article is that his philosophy degree made him different. (Note that the sibling comment to yours takes this for granted.)

Is it wrong for someone to criticize an industry they were a part of?

No, but it's shallow not to address the incongruence.

Is the appearance of hypocrisy the foremost evil to be avoided at all costs?

One of them! Plus it makes for better writing.
EFF & Wiki Operator Sues Apple Over Bogus Legal Threats
The World's Fastest Computer
Having just come from there (it made for an interesting experience on my end), I can say that his article is indeed very well written.
Microsoft to begin public test of Twitter-like notification service (aka Vine)
The computer science part of my brain says "hmm, that's neat" (admittedly, it's likely that it's not fully clicking for me yet).

The engineering part of my brain says "OK, so what does that let me build that is much harder without it?"
One of your older comments might be worth adding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=62993

Most of his speeches (and Nandan Nilekani's for that matter) are ghost written, by a small team of smart MBA s from local elite schools like IIMs(Indian Institute Of Management). One of my school buddies is on that team that's how I know.
While I don't doubt that TIME's poll security team (if it existed) was more than overmatched, how could a website defend the integrity of their online poll against such an attack?

Or is running an effective online poll truly hopeless?
Thats a very immature point of view.

Consulting/Body shop sounds a very easy business on paper but, its a huge challenge to scale it up. Look at their financial statements - Its a very well managed business with high growth rates and very strong margin numbers...

Its easier said than done.
I think his problem is with the people who label themselves as nerds and programmers. The author should go by a person's _work_ to decide how good one is. Not by the air, debates and the talks!
It seems to be different depending on where you are. The geeks at my high school (myself included) are, at least respected, and in the cases of many of my friends actually have a social life. (I'm too busy with the internet for that.) On the other hand, I know some people from other places who've had terrible experiences, so it's really hard to generalize.
Rails is (still) a Ghetto
The value of Big Design up Front
New Sydney(AU) hackerspace planning/proposal.
And let's have none of this Newtonian nonsense, let's all use GR in our everyday lives. Newtonian physics is clearly wrong, so if we want people to have a better model, let's make it the right one.

All models are wrong, some models are useful. The model that the Sun goes around the Earth is perfectly adequate for most people.

I'm not saying this is good, or that people shouldn't learn about things, but realising that other people have different priorities from mine was a big step in my life. For many people, their model is good enough.
well apparently it's going to be archived forever now...
Tom Stoppard is always a joy, but there are often points to be picked apart. Wittgenstein's friend's answer was simply wrong. The reason is that they both look the same, and the Earth feels stationary. By that observation people choose the model that feels more correct and relevant.
Come to Australia. =) From my experience (before recession & before my startups), it's not hard to find an IT job as long as you know your stuff. Most employers are willing to support you for permanent residency.
Implementing JavaScript worker threads
This bit is particularly appropriate:

Hell, programmers argue over web browsers. There is an elitist and closed-off system among hardcore coders that says certain things are better than others, usually for no reason, often for bad reasons.
It was done so that nick007 could use / once again plug his url shortner - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580764
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You're technically correct in regards to Mach, but in the context of Mac OS X a very large percentage of the kernel is composed of BSD-derived code.

Unfortunately, none of this is particularly relevant to clang, as the kernel design (in respect to Mach or BSD) really has little bearing on its compiliability.

[Edit]

I'm very surprised that this was downvoted to 0. The discussion was in context of Mac OS X, and the technical veracity is easily confirmed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xnu
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/bsd/?v=xnu-1228
Guido's final word on Tail Calls
It's not as though you were getting anything statistically valid out of a self-selected sample anyway.

Of course, if you were only polling existing users, you could limit voting to those users who were there before you started the poll.
Whoever downvoted me, would you please also do me the courtesy of responding to my post? Because I think I said something true and pertinent.
" sounds a very easy business on paper"

I never said this, so I don't feel the need to refute it. My opinion was not about the absolute difficulty of bodyshopping,(iow I didn't say it was a very easy/easy/difficult/very difficult thing to do).

My comment said that Mr Murthy was not an entrepreneur "along the lines of the startup founders on HN". The qualifier is important.

That said, to address your point, imo, starting a body shop and running it successfully may indeed be difficult, but I would imagine conceiving, building, and sustaining a software product is at least an order of magnitude harder.
defend the integrity of their online poll

I'm coming up with all sorts of similes but they all sound snarky, and I don't want to be snarky, so I'll just say it straight: there is no "integrity" in an online poll.

The results are always stunningly, catastrophically, inarguably invalid for any sort of rigorous use. The only thing that makes this particular poll more obviously flawed than the Ron Paul surges which were more obviously flawed then the garden variety online poll is that the latent vulnerability was exploited to an extent approaching parody.

(Note you don't have to have an adversary at all to make an online poll invalid. They're always the result of self-selection on the part of the participants anyhow.)
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That's better than us. We're currently in the sub-dime range :( Do you have any tips?
Actually, online voting may have some integrity if you find the voters, instead of letting the voters find you. If you had some kind of reliably random population, you can simply select X members to vote, thus ensuring that the stats are relatively bias-free (you get bias from people who abstain).

But you're right - in any case where the voters find you, your results will be trash.
The Stack Is An Implementation Detail
Sure, but the whole concept of "online", as people understand it, is "clients wander around doing to servers whatever they damn-well please." If you're pulling in voters, there's no difference between doing it online and doing it, say, over-the-phone or by-mail or door-to-door—so you drop the distinguishing "online" when explaining it.
> they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence [...]; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;

Somewhat OT, but this seems to apply very well to the effect of Google on many of us too. While this originally referred simply to the 'availability' of knowledge in external sources, with Google (and the Internet as a whole) it becomes 'easy accessibility', which is perhaps even more dangerous. Dangerous unless we make conscious effort to avoid this phenomenon and use the technology for our enrichment.
I just signed up and it says I'm #10 on the developer rank... WTF?
In the end it's really only about what you have a passion for. If your passion are startups and creating something you can call your own, that's great. If your passion is sales then more power to you. It's different for everyone.
Night owls have more staying power
the signup process gives me a blank page, is it working for you?
As a user I'm sick of Facebook applications requiring access to more information than they need. If anything there should be greater control for users to limit what information is accessible by applications on a global level. Secondly, applications should be forced to stop this viral spam crap (including spamming notifications to friends/getting spammed from friends). The report a spam feature doesn't work because people are happy with the apps and the spam feature is pretty hidden. For a quiz app to need access to your friends is ridiculous.
Just because I know the gap is explainable through cultural differences doesn't mean that I implied I understood why there is no phylogenetic divergence with respect to genes for mathematical reasoning.

Here is your argument

genetics/evolution => In this world, there is some sexual behavioral dimorphism.
&&
2009 sat => In America, there is a specific type of sexual behavioral dimorphism.

Here is my argument

math tests => female performance at mathematics varies culturally => genetics does not determine everything and we have to take environment into account

And let me be absolutely clear that I am not suggesting that mathematical ability is not heritable. See this study for evidence that it is indeed:

[1] www.atypon-link.com/AAP/doi/pdf/10.1375/twin.8.6.585

P.S. I believe religion is a social phenomenon that makes much sense (as to why it exists, and, as you probably care, why it came into existence!) with a valid psychological perspective. And I am willing to elaborate on my logic if you are curious.
Did/Will you make your patches open source?
Rule out the EU & Switzerland if you have US citizenship. It's nearly impossible to get something in Europe if you're not an EU citizen.

I would say, depending on your finances, travel and look. Find the country/culture that matches your personality best and start asking around there.
Personally I have no problem with porn images in a presentation, but they are a bit distracting.

Nevertheless, professionally I would never pull a stunt like this, or even consider it because of the risk of offending someone. What makes it worse though is that the offender will not apologize or even try to see the other side of it, which is then magnified by the core team members backing him up on it.
Ted, Tim, and Mark are probably some of the nicest, GOOD, and smart people you'll find. Facebook has known to be a playground of people playing dirty for years and these guys never have.

I am sure anyone who takes the job will love working alongside them.
I used Perl::Critic a few years ago on a contract to demonstrate the code I had written was over 90% "Perl-Critic" compliant.

For the few non compliant programs I then documented why and what could be done next (in nearly all cases these programs hadn't been refactored yet).

The client was extremely pleased. So much so he asked me to perform a program audit on the complete Perl codebase he had ;-)
The quote "Knowledge, by its very nature, must be intelligible, not obscure" is wonderful (as pointed out in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581597).

Management ideas seem to be like skin products, if you dont understand how they work, it is likely that it is just high priced mud. (Also, they wont solve all your beauty issues, sometimes you just need to be beautiful to start with.)
Pretty old article. It's from Feb
Facebook recommending Branded Public Profiles
Stars such as Britney Spears and Sarah Lacy saw a spike in their fan base. Sarah Lacy jumped from 1,119 fans to 4,286 fans within 48 hours, according to Sarah Lacy's public profile statistics. Even non celebrity entities such as Charlene Li are experiencing a flurry of growth. Facebook public profiles are not as prolific as Twitter accounts but will be taken more seriously as some users start receiving hundreds of thousands of followers.
thras, I'm sorry, and I wish I could retract the ad hominem. That being said, I revise my post to conclude:

I wish these erroneous mindsets were less common because they further the cultural divide, which is inefficient for society.
I admire this guy's intensity, but I can't help but think he would do better to hunt down and train clones of himself instead of trying to be the primary sales guy in his company. The sales board showed something like $80,000 in sales he did, but most of that is recurring business. He just gets credit for it (meaning that if he stopped actively selling, the company wouldn't necessarily lose those sales). If he split those sales up among his team and spent his time coaching his staff and finding motivated sellers for his team, I think he could do a lot better (and hit the $100mm mark that he's striving for).
This phenomenon is not unique to China. At the University of Waterloo here in Canada, we've been building out "hot majors" exactly as the article describes: hot-button buzzword-of-the-year degree programs that attract hopeful students and then kick them into the pit of unemployability.

Case in point: the new nanotechnology program, which has a dismal employment rate, and most of the employed students are cannibalizing existing chemical engineering jobs.

And it continues this year with the introduction of "management engineering", a concept that is still ill-defined and nebulous, and seems more like a grab at tuition dollars than a genuine academic affair.

Disclaimer: I am in neither of these programs, I'm just sick of this university and its profiteering ways, and how it has been run like a private business as of late. Maybe we should try expanding the campus instead of selling out our government-granted land to build a new office park (oh hey, the article covered that too), or trying to out-buzzword ourselves by building a campus in Dubai. Ugh.

This sort of academic gross mismanagement is global.
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I'd like to argue against that. Many people jump straight into charge-backs without contacting the business first. That's really uncool, because it doesn't even give the business a chance to correct the situation, but immediately applies the harshest possible punishment to said business.

Chargebacks are pretty uncool from a small business point of view. There's pretty much no appeal (there's an appeal procedures but CC companies always side with their customers, unless you're really big), and they result in:

1) deduction of the charge itself

2) an additional $35 fee

3) bumping you up on the chargeback statistics

If 1% of your transactions or 1% of the amount of your transactions is chargebacks, merchant banks will often just close your account at short notice. 1% is not all that much, particularly when you're starting out. Hell, at the beginning, you may only have a 100 transactions a month. If 1 or 2 of them do a chargeback rather than talking to you, they can take out your business before it's even had a chance to take off.

Because of this, if you threaten a chargeback, most businesses will bend over backwards for you. So, don't actually do a chargeback - give them a chance.

Of course, if the business doesn't respond at all, do go for the chargeback... just give them a chance first.
http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/hlint/
I'm always slightly skeptical when people try and apply the lean process to software development. On the surface, there seems to be some nice analogies and you can kind of pretend that a unit test in software is the same as a unit test in manufacturing but the analogy quickly breaks down if you look at it more closely.

The correct analogy is not manufacturing == programming, it's design == programming && manufacturing == compiling. Lean manufacturing, as applied literally to software is to ensure that the output of your compiler contains no errant bits and 100% of software companies are in full compliance with lean. Software is probably the closest industry to achieving an actual six sigma defect rate.

However, applying lean principles to software development makes about as much sense as applying it to research & development. Nothing is ever consistent, nothing ever remains the same. Every compilation is the result of some change.

Are the general suggestions given in this video sensible advice? Sure, for the most part. But it seems more crammed to fit into a lean framework post-hoc than derived from genuinely lean principles.
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Have been working on this for the past year, it pays my bills right now. :)
I feel that it is more a crack than a hack. :-)
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The thing with sparklines is that, while curves seem to hold a certain fascination with a lot of people, I just don't see all that much utility in them, certainly not in my iPhone usage. For stock prices I consider curves less than useful, since it's natural but generally foolish to want to extrapolate from them. For temperature, I may want the highs and lows and perhaps a general trend (derivative), but a sparkline offers only a very low-fidelity version of that information.
Collabfinder is a great site. But, alas, it is not getting much traffic at present. If it could get the footfall, so to speak, it would be brilliant.
hey i wrote the article. this is only measuring a single client -- NOT the normal use case for memcached. i think that's why it was so slow.
this is not the normal use case for memcached -- single client here.
Hmm .. something's not right.

Why didn't Time blacklist the "devoters" by their IPs (or respective small subnets) ? They couldn't be that incompetent. So it's reasonable to assume that the blacklisting wasn't working, which means the hack must've been mounted in a distributed fashion, which in turn implies it was ran over a botnet of some kind. Hmm ..
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