skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$AU 25,000, before I realized that employing other people who were more experienced as web developers was harder than learning web development myself (I have a hardcore Linux background, with no experience of the web until the last two years).

Fortunately I have a decent job and paid off the debt. I've integrated Python into my day job and get to spend most of my time coding. Interestingly, the quality of my work as an IT architect has gone up - I've been playing with SOAP, XLWT (Excel API), PyOFC, Django, etc. for a variety of networking, reporting and automation tools for customers.
Reducing payment friction and user buy-in to the economy increases conversion. FB gets a legit way to profit off the apps on their platform and the apps benefit as well. Is there a downside I'm not seeing?
We have evolved in a time that, by the time you could hunt, you were old enough to mate.

Our society is much more complex than our biology expects.
because i think the point of this post is that location doesn't actually matter. the "blue zones" are places where culture and/or circumstances have forced all of the people in the area to live a healthier lifestyle. makes it impossible to live there and not be healthy, so the area's statistics improve.
Arrington has a breaking story about Twitter planning to colonize Mars?

Actually, that would be Google and Virgin :)

http://www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/misc/google-and-virgi...
I believe it's customary to tag old articles with the year (e.g., "(2006)").
This mockup look's decent. What happened to the home button?
but mortally afraid of GPL code tainting any of their proprietary code bases causing them to need to give up the source to Windows or Office.

how could that possibly happen? microsoft is still the copyright owner on the code, they can use it however they want. they can release it again under a different license or use it in their own products under no license at all.

the worst that could happen in this case is the gpl proves to not be legally binding and someone else is able to use microsoft's gpl code in their own product without releasing the code.
I don't know about really apple moving them to adapt in this case. It seems to me that this is a response to the popularity of linux in server environments. They want their virtualization software to support linux. This doesn't detract that both parties benefit from it though.
I don't think there would be much point, hah - JS will definitely be slower than optimized C. It's the crowdsourcing aspect that gives us a chance - it is very easy for anyone to just pull up the web page.
Best for what or whom? All the first world countries are below replacement rate, except for the United States. We're at replacement rate only because we have fairly heavy immigration.
I do have to wonder if children were brought up socially rather than parentally. I find it hard to imagine a 14 year old being an adequate hunter.
For tiny teams (2 people) FogBugz on Demand is free. It kicks ass, I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find the new version. We're currently using both FogBugz and Redmine (two separate projects). FogBugz makes a lot more sense to me: it is polished, frictionless, has great time tracking features and killer graphs (for evidence based scheduling).
I love DF, and this is a decent piece, but John doesn't cite a lot of much more developed thought on the subject. If you care, start with Jay Rosen (http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ ; http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu ) and Clay Shirky (http://shirky.com ; http://twitter.com/cshirky).
I'm not sure TPM is a useful model for much of the old media. I don't think anyone is worried about the viability of Washington-based quasi-partisan editorials. The costs are low, and there are political rewards in investigating opponents. But TPM doesn't have an Iraq bureau, and the real question is if their model could even support one.
have contributed 50k hashes now, will let it run through the night :)

good luck!
For unrelated reasons I recently did some benchmarking of SHA-1 in JavaScript vs Java. That particular benchmark was about 20x slower in the browser (both Chrome and Firefox 3.5) than on the JVM.
Somehow a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=332278
The funny thing is that given the space allocated to cover all those scenarios, the applicant ends up in a situation very similar to game theory (a post yesterday on HN pops to mind).

You, as the applicant, have to figure out what PG will consider non-obvious so you cover those, but keeping in mind that if there is anything obvious that PG would have thought you should cover, then you should cover those as well, but don't cover stuff that PG considers truly obvious and not worth covering...

Just like game theory implies, winning at this game pretty much means that both you and PG are on the same wavelength (from a though-process point of view).

Which sounds kind of obvious(), once I reach that conclusion.

() extra credit will be given to people who cover the question of whether this post was useful from a game-theory standpoint. Was this post obvious in a useful way, or just plain obvious, or...?
OpenSSH (5.2 and below) zero day exploit being released to Full-Disclosure
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Clear thinking is neccessary for clear writing. For stylistic help, read "On Writing Well" or "The Elements of Style." The best advice in there is to simplify, which is the opposite strategy of the dreaded "business-speak" style.

It also helps to have some personality and humor. You get that by reading funny writers, laughing, and loosening up.
There seems to be a trend of introducing new cars at the low end vs. high end. Few people want to buy the same car as last time if it's slightly more cramped. But paying a little extra in a few years for a slight upgrade probably seems like a great idea.

I think the other interesting trend would be looking at the Accord, Civic, and Fit in their first model years.
One thing that's confused me about the "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." question is the parenthesis. My guess is that they're included because you'll accept either a computer, or non-computer related example.

If it's confused me, chances are it may confuse others as well.
Just want to add that there is trick to make this incredibly easy to run in parallel - just open the page in a new tab!
On average I would expect increased mother and child birth fatalities for younger births and less ability to care for the children.

Teenagers having babies is not the solution to birth rates.
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Ask HN: What was the latest book you read? 
Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

The last book I "seriously" read was The world is Flat.
This idea is a really well thought and implemented. This may be a new way of cloud sourcing. Have you considered making a facebook app? It would definitely attract many more people than this. Of course you shou ld offer some carrots for users that do not have any idea what's going on.
FYI this was posted earlier and killed not long ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=714479 (the consensus is FUD)
It's going to be a lot slower, particularly with the goal of not slowing down a person's browser. By default, at least for me, their page is doing 1 hash per 200ms, or 5/second.

On the other hand, a quick Haskell implementation using Data.Digest.Pure.SHA is doing about 6,000 hashes per second (might have been 8000, I forget now) per core on an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz

So you're looking at 1000 people to equal one core of a decent desktop. It's certainly an interesting approach, and has a lot of potential. I'm just not sure the marketing is there with the "help us win" motivation.
Definitely launch, if it's what you'd do otherwise.
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I agree that it take lots of time to make a "professional" looking pitch, but based on the instructions, it looks like pg wants as much spontaneity as is practical.
I bought one for home, and another for my machine @ work.

Firstly, it's a pretty fantastic keyboard in general. Second, it's even better if you're a pretty heavy emacs user. Third, the keyboard remapping means that Caps Lock = Control, no matter what program or what OS you're using.

The thumb-locations of page up/down and home/end are brilliant. The keyswitches are satisfying, and overall, the keyboard is far more comfortable than your normal $70 off-the-shelf ergo.

Highly recommended. A hacker's hands are pretty important, and it's not something you want to mess around with. Also, the keyboard is very comfortable and really helps my typing rate -- I'm faster on this thing than on any other keyboard I've ever used -- and the programmability means I don't have to fiddle with keymapping hacks on Windows, Mac OS, or X11.
I can see both actually. The dual icons in the top right started with Chrome, and then showed up in Safari. It's much better than the original poorly-implemented IE 7/8 top right icon bar.

In the second shot there are two icons that use stars, and neither is immediately apparent what they are. I'm assuming its for bookmarks, but they're both too far from the URL. I don't know why they're using separate buttons for Stop/Refresh either. Safari ditched the two buttons a long time ago, IE 8 has them (again poorly implemented) and Chrome has a single button. Two buttons may help learnability, but not day-to-day usability.

Lastly, too many dropshadows.
Sending legal threats like this, whose validity depends entirely on the context, with no idea of the context, is grossly irresponsible.

He did not sink to their level. If he sent them and their ISP baseless legal threats that might result in a temporary loss of internet access, that would be sinking to their level. If he tried to trick their domain registrar into transferring their domain to him, that would be sinking to their level. If he tracked down the families of the legal staff and threatened them in their homes, that would be sinking to their level. All he did was write some bad words in his blog.
I would have preferred they released both, just so people could be sure nothing got lost in translation (e.g. they added a null accidentally or something).
I don't get it. How is paying a writer for sole distribution rights cheaper than a staff writer? Keep in mind you've got to compete with other organizations shopping for the same story. Isn't there going to be a very small time frame for finding content worthy of an exclusive deal? When you have writers on staff you're usually aware of what they have in the pipeline and can plan accordingly. You may not necessarily have that kind of access to a freelance writer who could potentially be selling stories to your competitors.

I also don't understand the part about a staff writer inevitably missing some big stories. Can't a freelance writer potentially miss out on the same stories? Again, there's also the problem of being in position to buy the story with your plan. I would imagine in that scenario the odds are much higher that stories will be missed.

There are a lot of holes in this plan. If it was that easy I don't think old media would be in so much trouble. I don't think they're ignorant. I think they're well aware they have a problem, but haven't been able to come up with an acceptable solution.
As a point of reference, Safari and Chrome have no Home button by default. This seems heavily inspired by those two.
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It should be even less work than that. We don't care about the pitch in the video. That's already in the application. We just want to see what the founders are like as people.

Trying too hard to pitch in the video is actually a mistake, because it makes the video stilted.
Well on my dual core, opening a new tab could not fire up the other core. Opening opera side by the firefox did the trick.
"This single statement, apparently written by some sub-contractor they had outsourced admin interface programming to, cost them millions of NOK in lost sales."

The company didn't intend to block opera. Also, it's shortsighted to take a vindictive approach to negotiations if you intend to gain market share.

Opera is a nice browser, but they're deluding themselves if they think they can get offended when something isn't supported. They have the dubious honor of being big enough to be known, and small enough to be ignored due to compatibility issues. (There probably wasn't a check for Konqueror or IceWeasel).

Opera could have used this as a chance to improve their market share and image (so less admins get the impression that Opera is an also-ran browser that nobody needs to support). But losing the contract, especially for an outsourced component, makes them appear petty.
I have to give this site some props for that sweet little graph they have of throughput. I want to use it to profile various browsers and operating systems, which has the nice side effect of helping them out.
14 year olds can be very mature if they are expected to be. Having to hunt to survive can make you learn to do it well very quickly.

Also, clearly you have never lived in the Midwest. Even in some parts of modern day society 14 year old boys are adequate hunters :).
A good demo helps a lot, especially in the final stages.
Teenagers having babies is not the solution to birth rates.

Agreed, but I would go further and say falling birth rates aren't a problem at all (unless you can think of something that requires more than 6 billion people to accomplish).
Part of the problem is that the products are not completely interchangeable. I used to buy the NYT or WSJ 3-4 times a week -- but my use case was either reading the paper at lunch or on the bus ride home. Online versions don't work as well for that. (The Kindle would, probably, but I don't own one, and won't buy one for that purpose.) OTOH, I use online news sources when I want to read a story or scan for headlines, things I seldom if ever did with physical papers.
Mind Magic (by Marc Lemezma) - Im trying to improve my mentalism skills (and though that book is really basic it is a good refresher on ideas).

Last serious book was a 620 page tome entitled "Writing Security Tools and Exploits". A book with potentially the largest "great title" to "boring content" ratio ever :( (stuck at it though in principle :P)
This was one of my first ideas when I saw the contest, but I think it will not work unless you have a very large site you can open a more or less background popup, a lot of javascripts engines running at the same time are needed in order to compete even with just a single GPU of a good nvidia card...
Off the top of my head, I'd say 10-20% of groups have someone who's a pure business person, in the sense of not being able to program. More commonly there's one programmer who's more outgoing than the rest, and he or she does sales initially.
You're right, except that some of those desires are what drive me to excel in certain areas. If I take those desires away, I won't even want to do those things anymore.

Coding, for example, comes from my desire to create and mold ideas. If I no longer have that desire, something I cherish very much will be gone.

It seems to unfeeling for me. Basically I understand that desires are wasteful but I don't care. I like them.

I'd rather have the highs and the lows.
I'd rather see the net kill the ISP's themselves, or to put it another way, I would rather see more choice when it comes to ISP's.
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I was thinking mostly about the Page drop down - but now you mention it I can see Cocoa too.
I've got two tabs in Chrome using two CPU cores.
Yes, of course. All application processes are. But we're working hard to improve it. We tweak the process in some way almost every cycle.

The idea of having everyone look at one another's application sounds like a minefield, though. Plus I don't want to clutter up HN with YC stuff. Only a minority of the users of this site are even interested in startups.
Can't speak for the OP, but if you have a choice between having one full-time person looking for stories vs. 100 writers and bloggers pitching you stuff, maybe the odds of you finding a scoop are better in scenario #2. And maybe the competition to get picked up will drive prices down so the stories themselves are cheaper to buy a la carte rather than as prix fixe.
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they released an example in the original problem statement. calibrate with that.
As far as I can tell, we aren't losing technology leadership to countries that have shorter workweeks than ours. If anything, the opposite appears to be true to me (India, China, nations from the former USSR).
If you cook me up a simple tag that does the work in the background without any visual distractions I'll give you a couple of thousand hosts :)
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"A People's History of the United Sates" by Howard Zinn. A decent history book, not exactly uplifting.

Reading currently: "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert Caro. Absolutely loving it.

That, and my usual climbing books.
For a good example of a succesful online news pay site, check out Stratfor.com.

They've picked out a good niche area (international political, military, and economic news), and have a team of writers who scan and filter down news sources from around the world.

While it's pretty clear that tradtional newspapers are being challenged, nobody really knows what form the news business will take in the future.

It's up to entrepreneurial people to make it happen: "the best way to predict the future is to invent it"
First of all, I'm not denying the positive effect of technological advance.

The problem with that is, like much Eastern spiritual
thought, it doesn't scale. Sure, we could all be Zen
practitioners, but we'd have no fast computers, cool
phones, or footprints on the Moon to show for it.

Are we really feeling better because of these modern comforts?

Faking it, as the Zen school of thought advocates, isn't going to cut it.

Ok, there're different ways to feel better. But which one is a fake? Is there any fake? Or is it just cultural habit?
Check out "The Art of Software Security Assessment" if you're into that.
It's less of a risk in this case and more of a risk of a GPL library ending up in an executable (Linux kernel source in NT, libreadline in cmd.exe, etc). It's something MS is very conscientious and deliberate about in every case, even when the risks are slight.
Try recording yourself doing a one minute pitch. You'll be amazed at how short (to explain what you're doing) and how long (to not blow it) a one minute pitch can be. Now try coordinating 2-3 people doing that.

We're doing a little 1-2 minute video explaining our stuff at the moment and staying rather lo-fi and plan at least 10 hours of work on it.
Current: The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Last: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.

The best recent: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamon.
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Actually there is a standard for non-obviousness: what's not obvious to your competitors. We have a question specifically about that.

What do you understand about your business
that other companies in it just don't get?

The amusing thing is, this question turned out to be an instance of itself. Many of the YC clones who copied our application form cut this one, because its purpose wasn't obvious.
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -R. Buckminster Fuller
This JavaScript version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=715014 (which doesn't do any throttling) is doing ~1500 hashes per second in one Chrome tab on my fairly old (2.8 GHz Pentium D) desktop. I'm curious how fast it would be on your Core 2 Duo in two Chrome tabs.
Virtually the same material was presented on "How to Live to 101" episode of a BBC show called "Horizon" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband...

One notable difference was that the whole part about Sardinia revolved around a group of people roasting whole lamb and then washing it down with copious amounts of wine. "Low on meat" diet, right :-)

As far as I remember their conclusions were (a) eat less (b) stay active (c) keep an interest in life. With (c) being the most important part.
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The reason for "(non-computer)" is that we wanted to distinguish between hacking in the sense of programming, and hacking in the sense of beating the system.
Have you ever read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?" You have to embrace the (slightly hilarious) seventies-ness of it to really enjoy the book, but I believe that computer programs are specifically mentioned as a place to "find the buddha."
six tabs in safari. knew those eight cores would come in handy.
On average, people produce more than they consume. More people is therefore a good for existing people, on the average, because we all get wealthier due to them. (Not to say I'm in favor of teens having babies as a rule, by the way).
The headline really doesn't hint at the nuances of this.

Microsoft released code to help Linux run in Microsoft's HyperV virtualization system. Linux would run, just slower, without these drivers.

Releasing these drivers is likely a crucial step in getting HyperV adopted outside of windows-only shops. Linux is a popular server OS. It is crucial that they appeal to a large demographic, as they are competing with other established virtualization vendors like VMWare.
I'm not actively working on a startup, but I've always had a very strong desire to start a business and be my own boss. Also, I've been programming for several years, and find that the "hacker mindset" is something that comes naturally to me. As such, the reason I appreciate HN is that it's a community full of people who are very similar to me, where people have intelligent discussions. That's a mix I don't see very often!
Fantastic concept. Good luck!
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do they have special genes? ... the answer is no

That's not true. In Sardinia and Okinawa studies have shown that genetics play a significant factor in longevity. For example, Sardinians have historically tended to reproduce later in life. This has favoured genes that contribute to longevity, or at least it has selected against those that contribute to early mortality.

A healthy lifestyle will contribute to a longer life, but it's misleading to imagine that everyone could achieve 100 if they just made the effort.
They host the document on AWS.
I like how PG coralled applicants. They shouldn't puff up their idea as they are the actual investment, but they shouldn't directly puff up themselves because that they should assume the investors will do it. All that is left to do is make an objective, consise description of their idea, its flaws, and their actions.

Simple thoughts.
Strictly speaking this is true. However, if it were to be that Linux code ended up in NT, you might expect that the damages would be disastrous to the company. Perhaps enough so that the only practical remedy would be to release the kernel as GPL to avoid the damages that would be awarded. This is the concern.
True. I didn't intend to minimize that, just pointing out that it does seem to be a trend.
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Nice nice, they removed the menu bar, it's a great thing (for the screen estate freaks like me).

I'm not sure how well it's received by the non technical people, Microsoft already did that with IE7 but I haven't read anything revelent about it. Speaking of them, a print button is going to be missing : they just love to print stuff.
Agreed. running it on my computer with the slider set to max. Hope you win!
Ask HN: Would the Internet pass the Turing test?
Just wondering a) if this question makes sense and b) would it pass?