skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chopping off the fingers has all kinds of barriers.

First, it takes a much larger empathy gap to physically hurt someone in such a visceral fashion versus simply threatening them with violence in order to mug them.

Second, the owner has to be involved in order to chop off their fingers. That means simply stealing it while it is unattended or even pick-pocketing it while the owner is distracted aren't options. My impression is that those are much more common cases than muggings.
"It was highly over-valued at IPO"

Actually, the current stock price suggests that the IPO valuation was just about right and that other factors contributed to the initial tanking.
Apple updates OS X to 10.8.5
People who read no further than headlines will have trouble regardless. The solution to that is not "release fewer press releases so that people have fewer opportunities to be confused".
The expectation and reality should both be "they can view the mail at certain stages but if they get caught they're getting the book thrown at them, and the incentives are aligned that breaches will be reported".
You can get a cheap little plastic thing called a "Tick Twister" at the pet store, and it is awesome. I've had to remove plenty of ticks from my dog, and a few from people and this tool is invaluable.
"They're rather specialized, and there are lots of other jumpers that don't have them, so there must be some kind of advantage."

Not necessarily. Evolution has a lot to do with path dependence and in no way guarantees the best of all possible adaptations.
Scientific method
Searching this thread, nobody is mentioning the total beatdown of Peter Thiel.

Say what you will about the importance of college but the growing evidence on the Thiel Fellowship doesn't seem promising.
So the fraudsters in Vietnam are trying to time it for 2am to 4am in the local market of the site they're defrauding?
Aptly named or not, a google search for sigil shows the epub editor as the first result. The project has been around a long time:
https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
You might be able to find a nearby willing Debian developer https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers#US

If you're near a university or work somewhere in tech you'll probably be able to find a DD within a degree or two in your network.
Java 8 lambdas might shorten their approach too.
After Twitter IPOs they could buy Foursquare - or will Yahoo fight for it?
I'm not saying to hold him up as an idol. I'm just saying, if you aren't happy and you are "successful" then you may have to rethink your approach. Happiness is hard and a lot of work, and I know a lot of people never figure it out. If you're trying what consumer culture is offering and you're miserable, then maybe try something else?

I would highly debate it's few. There's a reason AdBusters struck such a nerve.
" I'm saying that the very definition of a conference is that it has a different goal. ... the goal of the conference taking slight precedence."

So long as you realize that this sentence is just a statement your own personal opinion, not some sort of universal truth about conferences, then I don't think we have any issue. The goal, or purpose, of a conference is something for organizers and participants to decide for themselves.

(The answer to "You think maybe I should write a long-winded self-aggrandizing blog post about this culture of exclusion?" is "No you should not jlgreco, because that would make you (even more of) an insufferable cock.")
Bigger issue isn't college vs. no college. It's the fallacy that you can artificially generate success via specialized incubator. Everyone loves to point to Jobs and Gates-like examples. Had Steve Jobs been in a Thiel-like program, would he have created Apple, or caffeine spray?
> TSLA 8.2x above IPO

Last year around the FB IPO I thought about what stock to buy. Either FB or Tesla.

It boiled down to a company that is revolutionizing transportation with real world products VS. a company that enables people to click on virtual pixel cows without a real business model.

The choice was easy.
I thought this was about the epub editor...

https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
"Humans are social creatures, so why is leaving what we need/depend upon heroic?"
He challenged that idea. Isnt that heroic? To let go of whole society. Everything and Everyone.

Please, at least agree with me that what he did was daring. So damn daring that makes him a hero to me.
My thesis is to try not to be an asshole and to hope that somehow not being an asshole leads to returns good enough that I can keep investing.

I don't think that's enough of a manifesto to inspire systemic change, though.
That's a very biased argument.

Just as people searching for a washer on Google are more likely to click on a washer ad, people looking at the #Astronomer stream are more likely to buy a telescope.

That's not the perfect comparison, but Twitter definitely classifies it's users into ad related categories.
They have a slow metabolism, this requires less energy for survival but also generates less heat.
Attacking apple is still dwarfed by drivel praising apple. It also goes with the territory for any successful entity.

I have been annoyed by people complaining about Microsoft since the 90s. Close to 2 decades of criticising. Turns out they were right.
Twitter's IPO
Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing the stock. Simply pointing out that after IPO it tanked. But congrats on the gains!
Better stay in your manufactured suburban home and eat plastic wrapped pastries like everyone else.
Secondary to intent, but still pretty valuable, is interest. With Twitter, interest is VERY clear. If you want to target web developers, or fashion lovers, or car enthusiasts, you just have to look at who they follow to figure it out.
1. Even with any impending crackdown, waiting tables is still a really good paying job if work anywhere but the cheapest greasy spoons (small tabs = small tips).

2. It's articles like this (squeeze the little guy instead of the millionaires/billionaires) that make me scratch my head as to why the Republicans continue to hate Obama so much. He's been great for the rich, and bad for the poor--just like W, but W was expected to be that way.
I'm really, really hoping its TWIT...
Ask HN: What features will the ideal photo app or camera have?
I know there are loads of photo buffs here on hacker news so I just wanted to find out what features their ideal photo apps or cameras would have. What can make them better and why would you want another one in the sea of all the photo apps and cameras out there.
I wonder why similar posts sticks or not. Is it theguardian.com domain/time? I am really interested in this news.

My past submissions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376364

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6373609
Revenue must be <$1b/year to qualify for the filing technique they used. No indication of profit, but if you know the cap on their revenue and estimate their costs based on the number of employees and what has been disclosed about their datacenters...
Dropbox used to use Crocodoc which was just acquired by Box... And now Dropbox doesn't use Crocodoc. And now we learn about LibreOffice...

Coincidence?

Just pointing it out...
A professional photographer's take on the iPhone 5s camera
This is one of those topics where the topic of college being required creates such emotional noise that they completely miss the point. As I said in another comment, you can't manufacture success. All Thiel is doing is cargo-culting around dropping out of college.
Still plenty of opportunities http://goo.gl/sJnTmQ
If your line is out, and you take up slack and the fishing pole starts to bow, the loops are indeed functioning as pulleys.
There are two things to keep in mind:

1) The electronics on board Voyager (and all spacecraft we've launched) are pretty well shielded.

2) The density of the plasma in interplanetary (now interstellar) space is very, very low. What Voyager is measuring is not the direct particles, but the oscillations of them. (Radio waves)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_receiver

Don Gurnett @ the U. of Iowa has been a part of many of these missions - plasma receivers have been on nearly every major mission since Voyager. (Esp. Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn.)

Here's a link to the research group at the U. of Iowa (the same group that published today's paper in Science) - there are some good introductory articles on the instruments and the physics behind them:

http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu
Perhaps because there haven't been any wide scale clinical trials that prove it's effectiveness? Of the papers I read through at the given link, most seem to come to conclusion that Gendicide p53 is safe to give to humans and don't comment on whether or not it's an effective therapy, or if it's more effective than existing treatments.
I thought this article would actually be about the reason why companies founded by college dropouts don't hire other college dropouts. Seems "Why Thiel's idea sucked" would be a better title.
You're missing the point.

You can classify all you want, but my central point was:

If I'm about to buy a washing machine, I would go search on google. I would not go on twitter and tweet "OMGLOLPOP! Gonna buy a washing machine what does every1 (including advertisers) recommend #confused"

So Google get me at the crucial time I'm about to buy something. Twitter don't.
Show HN: Calculate the chance of a parking ticket anywhere in San Francisco
But but but... They saaaay they will be nice. https://pay.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1m926j/we_are_the_out...
HoneyDocs: Create documents that buzz back home
I suspect it's not ADD, it's reactionary decisions made from lack of or improperly interpreted data.
This is a repost of another article that was here yesterday or the day before, just on LinkedIn instead of a blog and with a new title.
Per the updated article, we at least know revenues are sub $1B, as this is a requirement for being allowed to file confidentially
Looks like there is exactly one in my state. I will reach out to him. Thanks.
One of these companies(FB, twitter, YELP, Goog, etc) is going to rethink and reinvent advertising. All these companies use old models on the web(playing an ad before a video like tv, banner ads are like magazine or classifieds ads).

That's kind of the name of the game. "How can we show people ads in a new way that integrates seamlessly with their experience?"

What if Twitter found a way to do it? Facebook seems to be getting the hang of it with their newsfeed ads.
"can you sit your ass down consistently, day after day, week after week, year after year and become proficient in subject matters you don't find remotely interesting at first"

No.

May I now return to programming which I love?
I guess the investors are looking for a bigger idiot to buy them out.
He actually never says that.

>> "The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope..."

>> From the outset, Russia has advocated peaceful dialogue enabling Syrians to develop a compromise plan for their own future. We are not protecting the Syrian government, but international law.

Right there they mention that they are for peaceful dialog because they are trying to protect international law. If they were really concerned with international law, why would they veto? Obviously, because they don't want it to happen, not this nonsense about them being all of a sudden concerned about international law.
Agreed. However, in my personal opinion, debt enforced by the law is more important in that case than oath.

Don't remember the exact date or edict name, but when in the Roman Empire a law was introduced banning debtors from moving too far from their creditors - that's when according to many historians Middle Ages have started.
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(in reply to emilsedgh)
Because he was trying to find meaning and purpose in his life.

What struck me most powerfully was that he did actually discover the meaning of life (or at least one aspect of it) when he says "happiness only real when shared". So it appears that he did actually figure out how to have a meaningful life, but unfortunately never actually got to put it into practice. That is the saddest part of the whole story for me.
There are places out there that need exactly what you have to bring. You'll find one eventually.
John Doerr On Zynga
And, just to fill in the backtronym gap:

PLONK = Person With Little Or No Knowledge

Coming this weekend: "college dropouts should always hire college dropouts" answerpost.
SolusOS (Linux distribution)
This is the video that put TED talks on the map
The problem with comparing the Thiel Fellowship recipients with Zuckerberg or even with YC & TechStars startups is that the fellows are selected for being talented and having ambitious ideas, whereas the startups that make it into accelerators tend to already have a product (I know at one point this was not necessarily the case, but today first time entrepreneurs need to have a product to get funded and/or make it into an accelerator not just an idea).
> if we were
designed by something, why would the
designer not use the optimal leg
designs for all the jumping bugs?

Because:

- the designer is not that clever,

- the designer likes to play with its creatures,

- the designer is not alone,

- the designer forgot to update its creations,

- or simply because she does not care.
But the good thing about it, unlike its superior rival George Dickel, is that JD is not owned by Diageo. It's a pity that I have to boycott Dickel because of that, but I'm not giving my money to those assholes.

EDIT: and yeah, rayiner's wife is awesome :)
The verdict on the Thiel Fellows will be written in fifty years; it does not hinge on the success or failure of their first venture.

Even if they return to finish their Bachelors, there's a strong case that Thiel Fellows will get much more out of college with the entrepreneurial experience under their belt. I certainly would have.
You're not buying anything during the super bowl either and it costs millions to run a 30s ad -- branding.
What you are describing is direct response advertising.

There is another type of advertising called branding. Budweiser doesn’t spend $25 million per year advertising during the Super Bowl because they expect you to see the advertisement and immediately order a beer at the bar. Instead, Budweiser is trying to tell you a story about their brand to evoke an emotional response that will be stored deep in your amygdala such that every time you go to buy beer in the future you will reflexively choose Budweiser.

Google is better for direct response advertising; Twitter is better for branding.

PS: There is more money in brand advertising.
Or:

- he really doesn't use his PGP key all that often, had the same one for 16 years on god knows how many computers, and decided that if he's going to generate a new one, he might as well send a message with it.
> "How can we show people ads in a new way that integrates seamlessly with their experience?"

Imho Google does this pretty well with Adwords (those that you see in the search results).
Do you have any source for this? While logic suggests that they should (but perhaps only very slightly) I think InnoDD has got a lot of more optimization work than any other engine.

A benchmark from Oracle shows InnoDB as being much faster on a read-only workload.

http://www.oracle.com/partners/en/knowledge-zone/mysql-5-5-i...

EDIT: By the way the locks are table level in MyISAM and Memory.
Amazing how they paint EAS as a better protocol than the "older" IMAP. EAS is a beast of a protocol. Just go to the protocol page at Microsoft[1] to get scared. The list of sub protocols and data formats is terrifying! This, compared to a protocol for which the basic session can be taught in five minutes tells a lot about the quality of both protocols.

Simplicity follows good engineering. EAS is way more complex than necessary.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc425499%28v=EXCHG.%...
So you chose facebook right?
My main feedback based on playing one game is that "End turn" shouldn't be visible, even faded, if it's not my turn. I found myself clicking that a lot during my first game because I wasn't sure if I'd passed control to the opponent or not.
Absolutely, in the technical sense, though I would hesitate to actually describe it that way. It seems strange.

Alternatively, shoelace eyelets are pulleys ('block and tackle' in fact) , but describing them that way seems odd.
I think you're guilty of chicken and egg there though. They put a ton of money on the line based on what they were seeing?
Twitter says files confidentially for IPO
> You can blame the patrons, not the owners. The owners are behaving rationally, sadly.

I understand what you're saying but if what you're describing is correct, you can blame the owners for not complying with federal law.
Its cheap/cost effective is I guess why its used. Its also a demonstrable CYA. People are incredulous that a person can FUBAR shit with an degree from XYZ.
Extra complexity. I imagine if there is a presumably existing secret key, that it's generated at run time by properties of the environment combined with the logic in the update to have known results for each chip, then matching logic is presumably part of an operation where the math is dependent on the key matching or "fitting". Thus you can get (some of) the security of an arbitrary length key without explicitly recording what that key exactly is.

You could spread out the mechanisms and various individual incremental tests of the "lock" throughout the update operation code so that an attacker would have to completely understand the entire codebase just to understand the locking mechanism instead of the locking mechanism being self contained function with a pass/fail output.
I guess it's a good filter when justifying your decision to your boss (unless you are the boss).

e.g. hey boss, they are all MIT graduates
This is sadly true. I currently live in Houston, and I've seen it first-hand. Bouncers will more-or-less throw out anyone who isn't white. (I avoid those places, but I live near several of them (midtown) and I've seen it happen several times.)

It's not limited to Houston, however. Tuscaloosa (Alabama) had several bars with similar policies. There it was a "dress code" (basically business casual--in a college-targeted bar) that was only enforced if you weren't white.

The rest of the country has plenty of racism as well, but it's much more blatant in the south.
I think this also shows a somewhat limited understanding of Twitter and solely puts it in the "passive" mode. I'll actively search on Twitter for topics of interest to me to see what people are saying on topics.
I don't buy that. On the web, there is far more money in direct response advertising.
Branding is far more prominent in old media.
Nobody wants to know if the stock is worth something, they want to know if it is worth the IPO price.
My girlfriend just parked on a nearby street and she had a spot right next to her, but had to move in 2 hours. So we took the chance and moved the car, but it was still close, so she could get a ticket.

If I had known about this, we would have used it! And oh, look at that. 1% chance of a ticket. awesome.
'The Ultimate Fighter 18' episode No. 2 discussion thread
How's the FB short working out for you?
You could still stay at the edge of the flock and follow a zillion people who've "gone back to nature" ... but the nature of post-hunter-gatherer agriculture. Stick to growing plants and raising animals we're on very solid grounds WRT short term toxicity vs. "This wild stuff doesn't seem to be deadly" and then accidentally find out the conditions and dosages in which it turns out to be.

The flock itself has value; you don't have live with someone else, but as jusben1369 points out, if he'd so much as broken his leg falling down the steps of the bus he'd have ended up just as dead. Regular contact with a neighbor would have saved him, but he had no reserves and no margin for error.
"Confidentially" meaning they submitted all the paperwork via Snapchat, of course.
So that intelligence would be able to feel proud of something? That's a very human concept.
>"That still doesn't explain why, on average, those who sign up in the no-trial scenerio are more active than those who sign up after trying the product..."

Couldn't it though? If people were so convinced that they didn't need a trial, could it mean they felt themselves to be a better fit for the product. Kind of like an "I've been waiting for something just like this...don't need to try it...I know I want it".

Whereas a trial might reflect some ambivalence by definition: "Not so sure. But, maybe I'll give it a try."
Perhaps "children" is a bit derisive, but I'd argue that someone who hasn't really accomplished anything outside of the protective cocoon of their parents' home(s) and income is less than an adult.
Is # an acceptable character?
Another attempt at clearing Surface stock
I heard $14 bil (on twitter)
Thank you. I've contacted @support twice in the last two weeks, but the issue still persists.
Pedantically, it would have to be finite, because there is a size limit. Cancer couldn't transform your genome into a piece of DNA the size of the sun.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleological_argument

What I was looking for but didn't find in the article was an explanation (or even a hypothesis) for how this mechanism evolved. One of the things I find most fascinating about evolution is how seemingly irreducible complexity in nature always turns out to have a some path of mutations and adaptations that led to the current state. For instance, the canonical example of 18th century teleology, the eye, was touted as being so unimaginably complex that there's the only conceivable explanation for its existence was design, yet today we have a clear picture of how that organ arose from simple photorecptive cells. My guess in this instance? The friction plates that their ancestors have and the other species have got bumpy, then they got more bumpy, then they interleaved.
Entertaining. Now will the blue bird fare better than the blue chips ?
The Transformers evolved from naturally occurring gears. It says so in Issue 1 of the comic series.
History makes that clear? No, history's lessons are largely moot in this brave new world. If we are bitten, it will be by entirely different things, and probably by human foibles. Like FUD about GMO etc. Not logical, but we will have to deal with it.
So, what's going on in Syria?
...and it shows.
So why not have team members work shifts? Get 24 hour coverage in the office without having frazzled people making poor decisions. Besides, the people making the decisions aren't these banking interns nor the junior associates. The more junior guys and gals are, from what I understand, mostly just doing grunt work.
Scotland has 100 distilleries in 5 major whiskey-producing regions with their own traditions. There is really no such thing as "scotch", they are all different, so this generalization is wrong.
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Six months ago eMarketer estimated that Twitter's 2013 revenue will be about $582 million and 2014 revenue about $1 billion (http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Twitter-Forecast-Up-After-S...).

Facebook's market cap as I write this is $109 billion, and 2014 revenue estimates are ~$11 billion (sorry, I don't have the source for that handy), so it trades at about 10x 2014 revenue. Using this metric would value Twitter at $10 billion.

But I expect that Twitter has more room to grow than Facebook since they haven't monetized as heavily yet. I'm guessing Twitter goes out at $15 billion to $20 billion.

Disclaimer: I own some Twitter shares, so I'm not objective.