skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Graham uses the word "smart," essentially, to mean someone who "works smart" rather than simply "working hard." In other words, it's someone who won't build a 12-foot fence if a 6-foot fence is sufficient. And it's someone who's capable of realizing as much in the first place.

This isn't "common sense," per se. It's more like uncommon sense. Most people follow an effort in -> result out paradigm, believing the two are perfectly correlated. A "smart" person, in PG's view, attempts to min effort and max result. (I've also heard this sort of hacker described as "lazy," in a positive and non-derogatory sense. A "lazy" person finds the most efficient and effective ways to do things, minimizing man-hours and resources.)

The relationship between "smart"/"lazy" and IQ hasn't been studied all that well, but it seems plausible that there is some sort of relationship. Perhaps it's a strong one, and perhaps it's not. Either way, I don't believe an IQ test as a single-factor qualification gate will filter effectively for "smart"/"lazy."
(And I say this without any knowledge of Stanford's ratio of grants and scholarships to loans).

oh, well, don't let that stop you from chiming in!
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>"I'm much more worried about what happens when an unethical outfit manages to start getting major clients and start controlling articles that our average reader assumes are not written by corporate flaks."

Or worse, if Wikipedia's trustworthiness is tarnished beyond repair. I remember when I was in high school 5 or 6 years back Wikipedia was kind of seen as a joke by my peers. Now it's taken as near fact. Although I think skepticism of anything read on the Internet or elsewhere is healthy, I would hate to see it revert to the first state because of greedy "PR" firms.
Yes please, that'd be great.
If he wont listen to you effectively nothing.
I know this is not the answer you want to hear but you can only help people who help themselves.
He sounds like he is in nowhere near the shape required for any kind of sport but an hour or two walking a day would be excellent workout.
If the diet is failing then quality of food is probably an issue,high quality vegetables and meat/fish cooked simply (no sauces ),no vegetable oils,minimal milk and bread products.The more boring and tasteless the better.

You can consider a low carb diet as well(provided its clean),humans are normally perfectly adapted to eat carbohydrates but he might find it easier if he has problems with insulin regulation.
And he should stop working already,time for health related retirement.
Fraleigh's abstract algebra text [1]. Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation [2] is also excellent, and possibly of special interest to HN.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/First-Course-Abstract-Algebra-Edition/...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michae...
"Seems," and, "feels," are not enough.
I don't see anything new in here. Which slides are new?
Makes one wonder if you could ship things to other people cheaply by selling them to yourself through FBA with the other person's address as the shipping destination.
That's a bit sketchy - I'd posit that experience is especially important for a CFO role. Too often are interesting ideas brought down by bad financial management.
Why won't it protect all sites regardless of content? Isn't that the point of free speech?
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While trying Not to multitask, I find it really pleasant to do only one thing at a time. First, you learn how to do several things at once, and after you master the skill –here you go –you start really appreciating ability to concentrate only on one thing. Reading papares on pros and cons of multitasking only proves this experience.
>When rent is not paid on a storage locker for three months in California, the contents can be sold by an auctioneer as a single lot of items in the form of a cash-only auction[0]

No, as you will gain nothing from it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Wars
Fair. I don't know what the legality is in every jurisdiction and it may very well be legal everywhere so I'll clarify. It is highly frowned upon, and potentially unethical, for doctors to treat their family or prescribe medication for themselves or their family. This most certainly extends to non-family members if a conflict of interest exists. It would be unethical if you prescribed medication to your bookie.

Anyway, my point stands regardless. The fact that there may be no strict illegality in a school or faculty investing in student project, does not mean there are no ethical issues that have to be resolved. Furthermore, the faculty or school may be opening itself up to liability. Frequently these kinds of issues are not judged (in civil court at least) strictly on their legality but rather on the 'smell test'. I can imagine a scenario in which a student may sue the school alleging some negative repercussions in his school life given that the investment fell through (maybe sue the school for tuition fees he paid prior to being 'pressured' to quit school). The case may be merit-less, but the school could be punished for putting themselves in a position in which a conflict of interest exists. When a business blows-up there are a lot of hurt feelings and a lot of anger and bitterness.
Invisible duplicate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6587190
As a never-time Blackberry user, I cannot think of one single reason I would want to install this on my iPhone.
Yeah--it looks like it does it about as well as a third-party tool can. But it's the sort of thing it seems like could hugely benefit from being in the core--then hopefully folks would be more inclined to write libs for B-trees or whatever on top of it.

Mostly irrelevant, but to put a finer point on the wish for something to show up in the core: I totally sympathize with the Gophers' decision to ship 1.0 without generics (or polymorphic functions or whatever); there are workarounds for not having 'em, and there's plenty else to keep the core team busy, like writing an awesome stdlib. Other languages that now have generics also lacked them at first. But it sort of grates to hear it waved off as simply unimportant that you can't deploy a set or B-tree or whatever of a new type without either cut-and-pasting (by hand or w/a third-party tool) or taking the runtime hit of dynamic typing. That's a solvable, useful-to-solve, and repeatedly solved problem, and seems eventually worth solving in the Go core, even if it's not the highest priority. Most of Go's omissions/quirks I either actively like or just shrug at, but that's one on my wishlist. End rant. :)
Came here to say this - it could have been something like WhatsApp if it was done early enough.
I wish I could ship everything in my attic to Amazon and they would photograph, catalog and store the stuff privately.

Then for some kind of low annual fee I could ship things in and out as needed.

This service would include pre-scheduled shipments of holiday decoration.

The problem I have is that I forget what is in my attic. On a few occasions I've purchased something only to find out I already own one. It was just buried in the attic and I forgot about it. If I try to buy something on Amazon, this service would remind me that I already own it and ship it to me.

Besides the attic stuff, I also have small random, rarely-used things that I know I'll need in the future, but don't know where to store them so I'll find them in the future.

Someone once suggested that I just keep a running list of items near the attic door. I tried it, but didn't keep up with it.

It would be nice to set some kind of expiration of my stuff as well. If I don't request an item from Amazon Attic in 18 months, it can be sold. Maybe that's a way to offset my fees.

Another idea... This could have a social aspect (what doesn't these days!?). I could give select friends access to my personal Amazon Attic catalog and they can borrow something, again for a low shipping fee. Amazon will send them a friendly email to return it and then charge them eventually if they don't.

(YC, here I come.)
I have to strongly disagree on that point. I'm certainly not an expert (I hadn't done any meaningful programming in 10 years prior to reading it), and I found Real World Haskell immensely helpful in building a production system that receives and processes security events.

In fact, the chapter on building a Syslog server was incredibly useful, as the first piece of the system I'm building processes events which look a lot like Syslog (with some JSON embedded in the messages).

I will say that I had a hard time getting through the book as my only Haskell book. I ended up using Hutton's "Programming in Haskell" as a supplemental resource (selected mostly because it's a very small book).
Is it unethical for, say, a company's "media guy" to update Wikipedia if his company releases a major new project? "On October 1, 2013, Initech released version 2.0 of its flagship product IniIDE Pro(tm)" I think there's a line to draw between adding some pertinent information to keep the page from being outdated, vs. fighting to keep all negative information off the page.
Blackberry once again produces too little too late.
At this point I don't know why they even bother releasing new products that are doomed to fail. Releasing products that are DOA will only cause their stock price/company value to plummet even further and ultimately make the company less attractive to potential buyers while eroding the potential sale price of the company at the shareholders's expense.
Wasn't intending to argue with you, I was just using your comment as a springboard for a comment. I agree with all your points!

I'm not inclined towards a pure conflict against the state without a currently-unfathomable communist process behind the insurrection that topples the state. Look at Egypt: pure conflict that toppled the state, but no great force underlying the conflict to sustain the necessary life outside the state. So you get the Muslim Brotherhood and the military quickly occupying the same state space. I'm interested in conflict, for sure, but only conflict supported by (communist, decentralized, anti-authoritarian, anti-statist) organization capable of sustaining beautiful lives amidst state collapse.
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This is a great example of somebody closing a broken feedback loop.

One of the worst things about web-based businesses is that the people working on them are cut off from a vast amount of data about their users. It's a giant broken feedback loop, and I'm glad that user-centered approaches like this are getting developers to realize that great benefits come from reconnecting with their users.
IANAL, and I'm just taking a stab in the dark here... But might it have to do with the work contract not being made in good faith?

That is in my basic understanding of contracts it is assumed as part of the contract that there is good will between both parties to fulfill what is set out in the contract. Practices such as these would indicate that the company has no actual intention of hiring the employee and is using the hire as an additional filter.

I suppose if the contract stipulated that there was a trial period or some such it might be a way to wiggle out of it. From a quick google search it seems you can either sue for Fraud (they advertised a permanent position and that wasn't the case, or they didn't make it explicit that the position was temporary) or Breach of Contract if they didn't specify that you were in a trial period.

Would love to hear from someone with better grasp of the situation.
According to Glenn [1], there is some new stuff in there. It could be that it's just a less-redacted set of slides, but he seems to imply that at least one slide is new. I've personally never seen pages 4, 7, and especially 8 but that's just me.

[1] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/392265323119792129
Nor the US or countries inside the EU can be considered police states as of today.

The problem is our direction ... We are heading towards a police state. Not there yet, but that's where we will end up if you don't stop ever increasing mass surveillance and more rights/power for the police and the police like authorities we recently created.

IMHO privacy is very important for a functional society and democracy - once you are aware that someone is listening you don't express yourself as freely any more, most people will begin to self censor .... and freedom of speech is lost to a certain degree.

A search warrant needs reasonable suspicion and a second opinion by a judge. I think it's fair that we protect our privacy by the same means.

After all, last time I checked the risk of getting killed by a terrorist was about the same as the chance of being killed by a meteor.
You have some unwarranted hostility and defensiveness about this, when everyone has openly stated that this is all guessing.

Yet the empirical evidence is that on the same hardware, with the same capacity to preserve battery, and on similar workloads, Windows yields a much worse battery life. Which has to come down to the operating system not sleeping when it should sleep, and doing more when it could do less. Anyone who has ever programmed ever knows that the primary cause of such work is polling.
Well that's certainly possible, but I didn't read it that way.

I imagined it more like having the child trust the doctor because its a friend of his parents, as opposed to a 'stranger'.
18 USC Sec. 1030(a)(4), presuming, of course, that the positive public exposure that they are selling to their clients is "anything of value", which the fact that they are selling it to their clients for money pretty clearly indicates it is.
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This is generally old news but it is beginning to be relayed to the public. Aviation and medical records should be discussed as well.
Thank you for letting me know your opinion.

If you're not interested in engaging the community except in terms of price, why participate?

I was interested in sharing information, did, was evidently appreciated for sharing the information, but also still criticized for how I did so. Fine. But I will go on sharing information here in a manner that fits my work schedule and other personal responsibilities. If all I dislike about somebody's comment is the MANNER in which it was written, when the content is accurate and helpful, my own style is not to complain about that.
I think you're correct. The title confused met with the content. It's all about transferring money from one place to another and a way to cash it out and use it. It's actually still "black" money because it's not laundered yet.

Laundering is when I can justify to the IRS that my fund are earned legitimated eg. no criminal activity AND I paid my taxes on it.
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I'm fascinated by this. Part of me loves food too much but being a busy person I could see the appeal of this food once in a while. The idea of something bland worries me though.
Maybe Bezos' WashPo will find a way.
Though they did that by adding an additional battery.
My co-founder posted this yesterday but the site went down with peak traffic issues, but people on HN asked us to repost, so we're doing that now.

Thanks!
Loops have their place: in imperative languages, they allow you to very naturally express a series of instructions, which are of course what imperative languages are meant to express in the first place. By the same token, loops aren't really of much use in functional languages, if they're supported at all, unless the language also supports destructive update (and therefore has imperative features). One can debate the merits of imperative vs. functional programming, but there's no reason to avoid for-loops as a natural expression within the imperative paradigm.

One thing I like about python loops, which CoffeeScript and Ruby, and apparently Nimrod, have adopted as well, is that they make you iterate over a data structure, rather than the C-style of providing start, finish, and step. Iterating over a data structure provides a better guarantee that the loop will terminate without errors (whereas, in Java for example, you could fall off the end of a linked list or an array if you're not careful about your ending test or update step). This ends up being conceptually similar to a map, which is how Ruby's each method works anyway.
Of all the nuances of design to ponder in life or in your profession, this seems trivial.

Also, according to Marissa Meyer, never use straight lines as they don't exist in nature (just like Black!).
http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/60336044815/geeking-out-o...

You can create great, readable design or a logotype using 100% (digital) black or even straight lines.
Another "everything Java does is evil" rant. No wonder HN is all over it. This is tiresome.

If you want 64 bit precision - use doubles. That's not hard, is it?
How do you know the students didn't choose to go to Stanford with the dream of founding a startup and dropping out? Hint: "I'm biding my time here until I meet the right co-founder" has been the attitude of at least a few students, going back years.
>Sensationalist hogwash

Actually it isn't. The author raises some good points.
Sure. I'm happy if it makes it easy to build the stuff I want, even if it's not fundamentally that new or interesting.
The trailing slash is missing in this one, so they got counted as separate submissions.
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Apparently the lack of a trailing slash was enough to slip under the dupe checker’s radar.
Downloaded, installed, and opened App hoping to see a modern Blackberry. And here's what I got:

Due to the incredible demand there is a line-up to start using BBM.

Incredible demand? You just launched it and there's not even a review on App Store yet. Not sure if this is part of their marketing or something, but now I feel bothered and not expecting at all. Btw, the UI of the "line-up" screen really needs some refinement IMHO.
It's hard to know if you're getting representative results. To get a reliable answer, one would need to look at the site admin stats.
being asked to drop out

Are they? Or are they choosing to drop out? Did somebody force Bill Gates out of Harvard in order to go found Microsoft?
Yes, but my point is that Facebook's ascendancy extended well into the period after Facebook lost it's "coolness," so concerns over FB's decline are overblown.
If you try this out, please share how it works out. I remember interning there I had access to very cheap shipping (~30% FedEx/UPS rates). This seems like a neat way to get access to the same benefit.
Amazon needs to open new fullfillment facility to handle stuff in my basement + garage :)
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Kinda hand-wavy on what the actually problem is.
I can't provide any specific laws, but the general objection is that they were hired in bad faith. If I hire 15 people with the intention of firing 5 of them (and don't tell them that), that's a dick move. I misrepresented their opportunity at my company.
I think you and nick are using different interpretations of the term "financial aid." If you replaced what nick said with "financial aid grants," it would hold equally true.
they are soo late! Sorry BB!
Of course there is! If statistics didn't work, casinos wouldn't work. If our basic scientific machinery didn't work, computers wouldn't work.

If cost-benefit analyses didn't work, government projects would often go massively over budget producing nothing, while other areas that were underfunded would occasionally have startling breakthroughs....
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I'd be interested to hear what US lawyers would say, but using a computer without permission is pretty much the definition used worldwide in hacking laws.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informat...

> Hacking is breaking into computer systems, frequently with intentions to alter or modify existing settings. Sometimes malicious in nature, these break-ins may cause damage or disruption to computer systems or networks. People with malevolent intent are often referred to as "crackers"--as in "cracking" into computers.

> "Unauthorized access" entails approaching, trespassing within, communicating with, storing data in, retrieving data from, or otherwise intercepting and changing computer resources without consent. These laws relate to either or both, or any other actions that interfere with computers, systems, programs or networks.
Before I spent any time signing up I'd want to know what kind of pricing I'm going to expect. I've used both pingdom and nodeping... nodeping is more up my price alley.
> Of course they are; this bill feeds them a guaranteed customer base. This is the largest issue I have with ObamaCare. The sole job of an insurance company is to assess risk. With a government mandated customer base there is no longer any risk to asses.

I'm no fan of insurance companies, but this statement does not compute. Of course there's still risk involved - the risk that the patient's costs will exceed premiums. If you set the premium too high, the customer will flee to a competitor. You also can't raise your premiums too high, because you have the 80% medical loss ratio - you can no longer just eat the rest as profit [1].

Totally agree that government should be the single payer or even the sole provider of healthcare (though that model isn't as widely implemented (UK NHS, US Veterans Admin) and has it's challenges as well).

[1] http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Forms-Reports-and-Other-R...
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The ones which made it a felony to violate a website's terms of use. AKA: the same ones that the US Attorney threatened Aaron Swartz with.
Fair warning - I just got pinged from corporate security that this site triggered an alert on our IDS: "the IDS reported the machine accessed a site containing a JavaScript known to contain hidden iFrames and malware redirects". He said it was named "tongji.js". Can't investigate further as I'm still on said network and don't want to re-ping it...
Err, I meant 8.1. I forgot what they did, but I think it gives you an extra day now instead of just 15 minutes.
Hurray! Now I can send a message via BBM to my one friend (soon to be buying an iPhone) with a Blackberry!
As much as the Android people hate the Apple people, Android is doing the same thing Windows and Apple have been doing for years - trying to shoe horn people into THEIR walled in garden.

This is the future of smartphones. You pick a phone and by doing so, you pick the walled garden you're going to most comfortable playing in, pure and simple.
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I'm gonna download this and try to use it on my iOS device. Not because I care about BlackBerry, but because I highly support the fact it's available on iOS, Android, and BlackBerry.

I really really want iMessage to be available on other platforms too, so I can use it to contact people without iOS.

So I'm doing this to send a message and show my support.
For anything other than trivial queries ScalaQuery/Slick generates very bad SQL. I'd like to use it but generating deeply nested sub-queries when simple joins would suffice is totally unacceptable.

The PostgreSQL query optimizer can fix them in the simple cases but the MySQL and Oracle optimizers can't and it causes performance to drop off a cliff. HaskellDB suffers from a similar problem.
Great advice, Ayo! I'm glad that you focus on the company rather than writing the application.
Attended a lecture by a grad who implemented this back in 2006. Code resided on the southbridge. Never got commercialized as the penalty of waking/sleeping the chip was not worth the few watts saved. Plus, most servers used all their ram, or near it, all the time.
Why don't they (potential competitors) write an open source app based on openstreetmap? Their mapping data is usually on par, often even superior to that of Google. Plus, its free (in both senses of the word).