skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe strongly in higher education (I'm getting my PhD afterall), but sometimes it needs to be said that college is not the only place you can get all these experiences. You will build your own social networks regardless of wherever you go and whatever you do, and your connections from your various businesses are surely just as strong, if not stronger than what you'll find in college. And of course, if you're such a self-starter as you seem to be, you'll take the time to learn the subjects on your own regardless if you go to college or not.

Please realize that there are many different paths through life. We are lucky to be in the top 1% to take advantage of these educational opportunities. But we're also just as lucky to have the freedom to choose how we want to live our life in a way that brings us the most joy.
erm ... sorry if i'm a little behind, but google chrome on a mac ? where did you get that from?
Have you seen Mike Sperber's papers on stage lighting using functional programming? http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/pape... (I haven't read them, you just reminded me of their existence.)
Lifetime, Xbox lost money. Their bet is that Project Natal will crush Wii. MS lost on the first years, they're making a profit since Halo 3 launch (yearly, at least until 2008 fiscal quarter)

The Xbox 360 has been a success for MS, it displaced Sony. But they made the mistake of focusing on replacing the number one, and forgot the whole, which Nintendo acquired.

If the market was a cake, 360's won a slice, but Nintendo baked more.
For those of us (such as myself) who browse HN at work where IE6 is mandated.

... just as an example.
DIGNITY VILLAGE - A Paradise after retirement
Dignity Village is a project conceived by Rural Development Foundation, a trust & Promoted by NSA (INDIA) Private Limited both the organization dedicated to develop rural India. This Village Project is for active and productive living for the Senior Citizens in a village near to Chennai City.
The project spreads over 25 acres of land located just 60 kms from Chennai, 10 km from Chengalpat and 12Km to Mahindra city, close to NH45 well connected to city by road and rail.
Dignity Village is committed to enriching the lives of senior citizens, and enabling them to live in a Kibbutz style of community living with their protected privacy and independent living in a pollution free atmosphere.
Dignity Village offers senior citizens opportunities to lead an active life, both mentally and physically. It provides social and moral support to senior people whose families have failed or could not to provide them with primary care due to many reasons.
It runs active programmes that motivate and inspire senior citizens, and help them achieve fulfillment in life, despite their age. To make them feel worth while again, making an active contribution to society. Above all, instilling in them a sense of pride and self-esteem, so they can live their life with dignity.
Old age homes are meant for senior citizens who are unable to stay with their families or are destitute. These old age homes have special medical facilities for senior citizens such as mobile health care systems, ambulances, nurses and provision of well-balanced meals.
The founders of Rural Development Foundation - Dignity Village is Mrs Sujatha Natarajan & Mr. Natarajan both actively involved in community development programmes in rural India. Mrs. Natarajan is an Elected President of Family Planning Association of India, has been a social entrepreneur working with community development for the past two decades.
http://280atlas.com/ - You've probably seen this by now.

http://narwhaljs.org/ + http://jackjs.org/ + https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS

- Attempting to make JavaScript more usable on the server and other non-browser contexts. Bringing it up to par with Ruby, Python, etc. Includes a standard library, package manager, etc.
The Man Who Crashed the World
Text messages are totally a scam because of the markup factor... but Swoopo also has the lottery factor. That is the vast majority of people get NOTHING for their $10, $100, $1000. I don't understand why people are trying to defend it on a technicality. Yes, technically it may be legal, however it's ripping stupid people off left and right.
How would you change Office 2010 and Vista 7 (ignore Azure) and not alienating their users.

NOTE: Some people that yell loudly in "Teh Internet" doesn't necessarily translate to MS biggest users.
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac
I am very sorry to have heard about your accident. As has already been pointed out, your job / startup combination would be difficult to sustain anywhere. As for the work environment in SF Bay Area, while I do not live there, I have heard that work-related demands can be higher there than other parts of the country. But much depends on one's circumstances. If you are a founder of a startup or owner of a small business, you generally should expect to work long hours, regardless of where you may be located.
I'm fresh out from college, having an Msc in information engineering. I have a job, working as a researcher trainee. In my free time I'm working on a game with pygame, and collaborating in an open source project, a software which helps localization.
Calorie restrictive eating for longer life? The story we didn’t hear in the news
In most cultures throughout most of human history, a 14 year old would be to all intents and purposes an adult.
Well, has anybody thought that both decisions are right?

I mean, sometimes you _really_ are alone, with nobody shoulder surfing, and password masking is damned annoying. So, why not a check-box to turn masking off? And for the paranoid/security conscious, we can default mask on.

Think: "Middle Path".
Night owls have more mental stamina than those who awaken at the crack of dawn
Classic work - the paper is well worth reading. A couple of highlights:

Using a fitness metric of 'distance travelled by CG', one solution was simply to build a very tall tower, and wait for it to fall over.

The evolved solutions would exploit bugs in the physical modelling - exploding the maths by moving two blocks very close together.
A new approach to the relational database. Relationships are handled differently allowing them to change on the fly. And the query language is straight-forward; no joins, etc.

We should reach private alpha by the end of August. It's a start-up in Prague, Czech Republic, but strangely all four of us are American.
So, every time I type my password I should check that nobody is behind me? Look to the right, look to the left, look behind, type one key. Look to the right, look to the left, look behind, type one key. Look to the right, look to the left, look behind, type one key.

"Mask-on by default" means no regular user will ever uncheck. I think you greatly overstimate people's security knowledge, not to mention UI.
Not even the PR implications, but just the security/technical. How does an OS vendor block access to a website? Deny it in the hosts file? Add a default firewall rule? Code a special case in IE?

Any such incident would cause irrevocable damage with any government/enterprise and push them to abandon the platform entirely. As you say, it's just absurd.
I am developing a web wiki with a WYSIWYG user interface. It has an in-place editor instead of forms and textareas (stole some ideas from Zim desktop wiki).

I am also creating a new programming language for the wiki - a mixture of many ideas from lisp, python and other. The language can be expressed by HTML lists.

Working from home in Vilnius, Lithuania. Currently on child-care vacation paid by the state.

I will opensource my work, but haven't found out yet how to make it support my further development after my vacation ends and I have to return to my bank job.

If you have ideas how to make some money from yet another wiki/cms -- I would be very thankful for them.
Peer-To-Patent Quietly Shuts Down
Easy repair - home rug solution and even more
Because science is boring. There are too little interesting opportunities out there. For every "dream" "fun" science job, there are millions of monotone, low paying, grinding positions that suck the life out of you.
Logo on Steroids: video game 'Kodu' teaches programming, is fun
If you have absolutely no proof but only a suspicion: 'your honour, their search results are so good, they must be infringing on pagerank' then it really isn't going to fly. You have to have more than just a suspicion before you can go in to discovery.

Knowing about a patent (because it has been published) is not enough.

Google could sue every other search engine right this second for infringement of pagerank and the judge would (upon a motion by the defendants lawyers) toss them right out without any kind of substantiation.

A declaration of a disgruntled employee, leaked source, a statement by a prominent member of the board of the competitor, all those would be grounds to let the trial proceed, but nothing would get you tossed out.

The operative word in your argument is 'complete'.

You will not get to read your opponents code on a hunch.
One of the best computing/educational games I played as a child was called "Rocky's Boots", where you used real AND/OR/NOT gates, with sensors and delays, to 'kick' the right objects out of a parade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots
Probably not a problem with record associations or copyright laws, but just a bureacratic misstep.

Of course the Deep Purple has a right to play Deep Purple's song, but did you reminded to fill form H14 from secratariate Office of Culture five days prior the concert?
Tips for choosing a co-founder
I am currently working on what is turning out to be a somewhat funky graph-database in Erlang that will be used to power the semantic recommendation engine for a news/questions/info site targeted at a professionals and industry people in a particular market.
An actual, controlled study using the classic "cold-pressor" test (hand in icy water):

"When swearing, the 67 student volunteers reported less pain and on average endured about 40 seconds longer."

As to the "why"/mechanisms... just the authors' speculations at this point.
The smart phone market is pretty far from "mature" right now.

I'd say it probably just crossed the chasm with the iPhone, and the bulk of the mainstream has yet to be converted.
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Then perhaps you need to re-read what I said.

By default, the masking would be enabled. All you see are "*".

If however, you have some nasty password and you are in a safe location, you can do_action and turn off stars to "12345".
Nothing about real implications about how you build URLs in an app. Just a pre-(web dev 101)-level or 1st-paragraph-of-wikipedia intro to "http://www.example.com
"After 10 hours of being awake, the early birds showed reduced activity in brain areas linked to attention span, compared with the night owls."

Yah fine... but this study says nothing about the quality or intensity of the early birds vs. night owls.

10 hours is a pretty long period of time to stay focused. Instead they should compare the mental efficiency of the two groups over a two hour period of focused work.
whew! done.. can sleep peacefully now... hehehe
No regular user would ever turn the masking off. They simply don't click on these additional options. Heck, they don't even understand why it's there. Can you explain what's the checkbox's purpose? Why and when should it be turned off?

As a security expert, you should provide what's more secure, even if that means recognizing the users are too dumb to follow your rules.
Javascript pseudo protocol is evil
Recently I helped one of my friends to debug a very funny problem. He told me that his inline event handler doen’t work, because he could not pass this object to his function.
You probably wonder what did I find ?
was I still using SVN, I would totally agree with you here, but git was designed to help with issues as the ones that are in the patch:

Git diff is awfully useful in displaying things like inconsistent newlines, inconsistent whitespace and it helps you keeping whitespace and code changes separate.

And then there's "git add -i" which makes it very easy to go through a file change by change and commit parts of the changes. This feels dangerous, but to keep whitespace changes separate from functional changes, it's very powerful and not dangerous at all.

Fixing a commit like this takes maybe 20 seconds more than just committing it and considering the amount of time you save when you try to fix the bug in that commit (of course there is one), it's totally worth the hassle.

Note that this relies on git features. If you don't have git, I totally agree with your point. But my comment was about a commit made with git.

To make a point: Have a look at the last change in the commit. How are these <th> tags related to the HTML5 conversion?

Now when they go back to the changes in a few weeks, wouldn't they be glad to see these changes in its own commit with its own message?
Indeed please hit me up at m.utku.k__AT__gmail.com to include yourself in the early closed beta process in a month or so. Would be much appreciated.
C# Byte Iteration Teaser
This one is a great c# interview question – short and simple, but tricky.
Is this what you were looking for?

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/change_your_business_model_and...

This post offers some excellent advice.
C# Rectangle Packing
Sometimes, you’re faced with the problem to cramp as many smaller textures as possible onto a larger texture. Typical cases are lightmaps, which are very small textures with dimensions that usually are not powers of two, or bitmap fonts where you want to try and fit the entire ascii character set onto a texture without wasting much space.
The vast majority of Google searches are, of course, done on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. It is not in Google’s real interest to displace these products, which have facilitated so much of its success.

I call bullshit. This suggests that if Windows and Internet Explorer were replaced by some other browser or OS, then people would search less on Google, which is ridiculous. As long as the number of people using the replacement products remain the same, the number of searches performed on Google should remain the same, all else remaining equal. It's not like Google searches run especially fast on Windows and IE.
The OP was attempting to dismiss the 14 year olds responsibility of action based on his development. We really should expect more of our adolescents.

Your observation that some adults appear to never mature is irrelevant. Society makes its rules known through common sense and law, and any 14 year old that is capable of hacking a tram is intelligent enough to have picked up on society's general distaste for human death and destruction of property. That is, it hardly matters if a specific person is capable of understanding why something is illegal, it is still illegal. What's more, if he was aware enough to study and record the tram system then he was aware of the danger. If he had taken a city bus for a drive no one would be excusing him.

The only misunderstanding of social phenomena I can imagine is difficulty interacting with people. Maybe frustration getting attention for his ability due to age. So lets not overlook him, lets not say "well you're just 14, what could we expect". The kid messed up, he should be liable. What he did was pretty cool, stupid, and since no one died, hopefully it won't mess up the rest of his life.

(Didn't it used to be part of hacker culture that people should be given credit for their actions regardless of age, sex, or race? Well, this is that, going the opposite direction.)
I would limit yourself to 3-4 months for a beta at the outside. I don't know about you, but I have trouble working on something for longer than that without getting some real feedback. That doesn't mean you have to do something small. The first version of Google could have been done in 3-4 months.

I think it's better to decide what you think will be most successful, and then figure out how to release a version of that in a few months. I don't think it's wise to shy away from hard problems. Better to figure out how to solve them intelligently, so they're not so painful.
After the economy recovers and [Toyota] starts selling its [Prius] to Americans by the container ship again

I would not so casually assume that this will happen. The current downturn is in many respects unprecedented, and all of the long-term trend lines are bad.

People tend to look at a limited set of examples that show the US recovering first and leading the world out of the bust. But this is a bit like flipping a coin, seeing four heads in a row, and calling a 'trend.'

The government spending problems in the US are catastrophically bad, getting worse, and there is zero political will to meaningfully address them at the federal level. Demographics is working against us, and we no longer live in that post-WWII world where the US wins by default -- that is to say, for at least a couple of decades after 1950, much of the rest of the world was still 1) recovering from being bombed back into the stone age, 2) had never really gotten out of the stone age to begin with, or 3) was crawling slowly back towards the stone age by virtue of Soviet-style communism.

If the US is going to rise above this time, we're going to have to do it fair and square. We'll need to actually work to be the best place in the world to invest long-term capital.

(That is, unless the rest of the world decides it wants to continue shipping us stuff for free indefinitely. If foreign governments double-down on America, then all (short-term) bets are off.)
SpeedTrace – .NET Profiler and Tracer
It is very important to be able to dynamically control the behavior of .NET applications and to keep track of some of the aspects of the application (i.e. how the application is performing, what errors are produced during runtime, how the application performs at peak times, how to dynamically alter the behavior of the application, etc).
C# The “double” trouble
Forget for a second about .NET.
If someone asks you how much is 1.000025 – 0.000025 your answer will probably be “1″ and correct. An easy question, right ?
C# Increment operator (++) question
Well, this is a nice one. We all familiar with incremental operators, but from what i saw yesterday… well, there is no need to give a developer some tricky assignment so he could find a way to make some bugs.
Motorola Moto ROKR E8 Black NAVY 
The touch-sensitive keypad on the Motorola MotoRokr E8 reacts to the slightest touch and the slim design won't be obtrusive when you carry it around. The design is attractive without being overbearing and there are numerous highlights scattered throughout to offset the black frame.
SQL 2005 – Return query rows as one delimited column
Once in a while we need to return data from SQL as delimited string of values and not as rows. There are several ways to do that, but personally i like the next one.
[ Note: this is not about DoS attacks, but bots trying to scrape/work solution off a site.

The bad news: the "best" answer was: to use a CAPTCHA.

Really sad that this is state-of-art for the issue.
C# string.Empty vs “”
As we know we have two ways to set a variable value to an empty string.
We can just set it to empty quotes “” or set it to string.Empty, but what is the difference and is there one at all ?
C# Protected Internal
I’ve noticed that most of the c# developers i’am talking to, know exactly what “public”, “private”, “protected” and “internal” access modifiers mean and how to use them, but when it comes to “protected internal” they start guessing the answer and it’s never the right one.
I definitely agree on that point. Even thinking past your current startup seems like bad juju to me. I think it's better to assume you'll work on nothing else for the next 4+ years. If you're not prepared to dig in you have little chance.
C# Inheritance Question [ Teaser ]
Do you really understand C# inheritance ??? Check yourself again...
IETester – Multiple Internet Explorer versions on the same PC
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
Controlling Your Diabetes
Dsdbookstore.com provides diabetes diet guidebook that helps controlling your diabetes and covers critical topics like Diabetes, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol, and more.
If you can get 5% of your users to convert you are doing absolutely stellar.

Acceptable is anything over 1:2000, 5% is two orders of magnitude above that and I have yet to come across a company that uses the freemium model that has that kind of conversion rate.

Do you have an example ?
Scanning tunneling microscopes are relatively easy, scanning electron microscopes (with an electron beam) are a lot harder (if you want any kind of serious magnification).

Getting some results appears to be doable but before you get the resolution and repeat accuracy of a commercial model I think you'll be spending the same amount of money. But you'll learn a ton :)

An STM uses a needle that is only a few atoms across to scan the object under inspection, an SEM uses an electron beam to do the same in a high vacuum chamber.

An STM you can build under $100, an SEM would at a minimum cost you several thousand (and much more if you can not do your own machining).
Are there any plugins for Diakonos?
How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 1
You're basing your opinion on no data, I presume? I'd bet that some users absolutely would turn off the masking, if you made it easy/clear enough.
Thanks for starting that one: really opened my eyes to a new set of CMS possibilities.
This is really interesting. I am running Mugasha.com. Electronic dance music service. Essentially making it really easy to listen to long dj sets. We should all talk more.
Idea Paint
Would be a very cool exercise to re-create at www.almost.at , though in fairness to prevent modern-day noise (Tweet:"OMG - Brad got mooned at the Apollo!!!!") it might need to be faked, which would override the very cool purpose of that very cool site.
No regular user would ever turn the masking off

So what is the harm there? Even if a user could not figure out (oddly) what the checkbox does, he'll continue to get the password field to behave in the way he is accustomed to.

Surely, people will have trouble figure out the purpose of the checkbox in the beginning. But that's how things tend to be when you run into something for the first time. It takes some time before a style becomes standard.
I've used them before when teaching; not bad, but the surrounding walls may become filthy if your erasers are not spotless.
Why should adverse possession apply? One use for it is to establish who the de facto owner is, but that is of course unnecessary here. Another is to provide more security for property owners -- does the most powerful corporation in the history of the world need that from us? Third, since adverse possession is based on the doctrine of laches, if it applies here doesn't England have a stronger claim to ownership?

Also, if we are applying common law principles, I contend that USG has in the past engaged in massive fraud by pretending it is not the actual owner, and continues to do so today. When we also consider the violent means it has used to acquire and maintain ownership, we have force and fraud -- enough to disqualify USG as a legitimate title holder.

> If USG is not the legitimate title holder of middle-North America, who is?

I admit, the answer is unclear, but it does seem clear that USG is not it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems your reasoning is at least slightly different from MM's, then -- I don't think MM has much of an interest in this question or much of an answer to it, since he has criticized the "Rebellion" but now accepts USG's ownership.
Great, glad it's working! Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements. Good luck with your hunt!