skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now a cracked OS allows cheating since they have an approved 'test mode" to prevent access to stored files.

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/homePage/ns...

So blinking the led without any access blocking will be an early task for the subversive TI hacker.
Oldie but a goodie. What's impressive is that '?' often works itself out.
I've got my money on a publicity stunt to announce a new Carmen Sandiego movie.
Cue the next round of profits for TI, after all, now everybody will have to buy a new and more secure model.
It doesn't take much to become immortal does it?
I can definitely relate to "GNU". As a long-time Linux user, I remember the first time I sat down at an OS X machine and wanted to blow away a directory tree. "rm * -rf", I typed. "rm: -rf: No such file or directory", it replied.

I then learned how to build and install the GNU utilities.
I have a theory, it may be way off, but are you an American?
1) Fast turnover of stories
2) the 250ish limit means I can actually run out of reading and get back to working
"Compare the number of those early adopters to the tremendous increase in the number of people becoming interested in computing in the 1980s -- an increase that just kept growing."

Not true. There was a bubble in CS enrollment in the mid 80s, and another starting in the late 90s. CS enrollment was down in between, and has been declining recently as well:

http://www.cra.org/info/education/us/bs.html

http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=139

If we assume that those 1980s CS grads were 22 when they graduated (let's say in 1985), they'd be 46 years old today -- just below the 95th percentile of the survey results. Effectively, we're saying that the oldest programmers started in the mid-1980s (which was well into the personal computing era). Computer science has been around for a lot longer than that.

In any case, if programming has longevity as a career, we'd expect to see echos of this dual-bubble demographic trend -- a bunch of people who started in the 80s (who are around 50 today), and a bunch who started after the 90s (who are as old as 30-something today). Instead, we see distributions like this one:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9822/age-distributio...

Maybe StackOverflow is a biased sample (old programmers don't need to ask questions?), but these results aren't out of line with any other statistics I've seen, or my own experience. By age 30, you're already on the wrong side of the programmer demographic curve. No matter how you look at it, that's very young.
it's basically a scam, isn't it?
Try "software hacker." Why go to the effort of making up a new word when there are two already established that will do just fine?
YC requires that because they have a whole program that is designed around educating entrepreneurs. They all have to be in that location so they can meet the local VC community, attend the get togethers, etc... I don't think everyone being together has all that much to do with it (though I obviously could be wrong)

The bottom line is there's nothing you can do in person that you can't do with a Skype connection and a whiteboard program. Moreover as someone whose both worked with local programmers and worked with long distance ones I didn't find much of a difference. I'd almost always IM anyway regardless of whether the person was up the hall or in Prague
Yes, definitely.

Incidentally, I have some recent US coins that say, "Live free or die," but it doesn't seem socially acceptable to have that attitude anymore.

"Live in constant fear of the government and live" doesn't have the same ring...
Brain starts declining at 27
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/17/148217
Just like any other word hacker reflects the concepts that YOU assign to it.

So, if you just simply use it consistently with its true meaning as perceived by you then you are part of reclaiming that word from abuses.

On another note, it is not a problem for a word to have multiple meanings, most people are more than smart enough to figure out which is the one that you intend to use.

Context is everything.

To continue your analogy inventing a new word for hacker is retreating!
Propel ICT looks like a good way to get in touch with other entrepreneurs in New Brunswick. http://propelict.com/

Dan Martell, an angel investor out here in the Valley, also is from New Brunswick and he's a phenomenal resource too.
What about starting smaller? Arrange an informal meetup in a bar or a cafe or something? At least that gives you an opportunity to gauge interest without needing any particular financial outlay. If there is sufficient interest in that event, perhaps you can then proceed to something requiring a larger investment of time and money.

Also, having made some contacts through an informal gathering, you might meet people willing to help organise a larger event, and people willing to help you attract sponsorship for such an event.
I think he's talking about the gates that handle flights to/from Schengen countries being in a different part of the airport, before passport control. The assumption is that once you're in Schengen the border guards at the first entry point should have ensured you're allowed to be there.

However, in every airport where I've seen that, I've certainly been able to get as far as the gate without ID (particularly if I've a pre-printed boarding pass), but I've always needed either a passport or EU member state ID card to actually get on the plane.

If you can get on without your ID, however, there are generally no checks at all at the far end.
I find it depends very much on the people. With some people it works great, with others it really doesn't work.

And for plenty of situations there is a middle ground somewhere where you work 'apart' for a while and then meet up for a bit and so on on some periodic schedule.
PowerShell isn't too bad, but the standard Windows cmd application+language is just horrible
Well the article was published on Thursday, July 17, 2008 so I think that's unlikely.
"You are a product of your environment." --Clement Stone

We do not have similar environment now.
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Not to be rude or anything, but you asked for advice.

if you wanted better advice you should have provided more background, 'californiaguy' may not have been politically correct but that does not detract from the fact that he spent some time answering you.

If you have finished or built things academically or professionally you could point to them, which would give a more solid base for this whole discussion.

You are asking for inference, some of that inference is going to be on the spot, some of it will be wildly off the mark, if you supply more information you can guide the bandwidth of the results you will receive.

The last line of his post pretty clearly indicates that he realizes that he may be off in his estimate because he feels like coming across as an asshole. (I won't debate that point...).

Advice - any advice - is worth what you paid for it.
Most interesting approach I've seen was Mobile Industry Review: http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-mobile-indsutry-review-...

A free blog that turned into a private research firm for companies.
Ehh, memories… I have yet to finish that book.

Dirac said, “follow mathematical idea wherever it leads”. When I first opened ths book years ago, unpublished draft then, I just skimmed the ToC, checked a few problems and then to my horror encountered that interesting approach to restricted three–body problem (nicely wrapped as the “Jupiter” problem in the book). I was horrified because I had a lead on that too… and there – it's all in textbooks. That situation allowed no relaxed wackiness in my thinking about it anymore, I had to formulate my thoughts. ‘I need more math’, I thought. When I finally digged out of that rabbit hole I found myself learned in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, harmonic analysis, spectral theory, operator algebras, homology, algebraic topology, and constructive renormalization, and in numerical methods, symbolic dynamics, symbolic algebra, Grobner bases and group cohomology and applied algebraic geometry, and then Hopf algebra of Connes–Kreimer computable renormalization and, uh, followed Connes the way up to motivic integration… (ok. ok. I'm done enumerating now) at which point I lost all interest in physics and turned mathematician.

All that not to mention intersection of algebra and topology of statistical mechanics with coding theory and infromation theory which led me to machine learning (which is just statistics btw).

I'm unsure what the moral is. That was not healthy. (OTOH, mathematicians have high life expectancy, routinely living up to 90, gauging from AMS Notices obituareis).
Ouch. That really sucks. I'm glad you figured it out.

I wonder what you could have done to find the bug before it was a serious problem? Most server side errors are easy because you can configure alert emails. Subtle data corruption or client side bugs are much harder to pin point as they manifest much further down the pipe in unintuitive ways.

Subtle data corruption bugs aside, is there someway to handle client side bugs? I'm no Javascript expert, but I'd imagine there has got to be a way to register a global on-error handler and post bug reports to the server? Any expert insight here?
More from another old guy (44 as well).

As to staying sharp: I used to think I used to learn really easily.

But then I did some digging and found that in general it took me always at least 3 tries to master some new subject.

The first a brush up, look at and small understanding.

The second when having to do something in or with it and a slightly deeper understanding.

The third when the coin finally drops and I felt that I had mastered the subject.

Between the three phases there can be arbitrarily long breaks.

When I was young and had few responsibilities it would not take long to get through these three phases because I simply had little else to do.

Now that I'm older and have a fair bit of other stuff on my plate I find that the 'breaks' in between last longer. But the actual learning does not, in fact if anything it goes faster.

So all this may simply be due to an illusion, where 'wall time' vs 'process time' are further apart than they used to be and you're measuring by 'wall time'.

You're probably every bit as sharp if not sharper than you used to be, but you perceive it to be otherwise.
Yeah, I never saw the point of the TI-83.

The TI-89 is nice, but there is no point in having your CAS running on a handheld device anymore. Might as well give everyone a computer with Mathematica.
> So forgive me for being smarmy and offensive, but I have no interest in being a ‘web guy’. And there are two reasons for this. First, it’s not a challenging medium for me. And second, because the vast majority of Internet companies are filled with bad engineers – precisely because you don’t need to know complicated things to be a web developer. As far as I’m concerned, the Internet is responsible for a collective dumbing down of our intelligence. You just don’t have to be that smart to throw up a webpage.

Sighhhhh. The entire tone of this article suggests somebody who has never done a lot of web programming, and is making a classic "I-haven't-done-it-so-it-must-be-easy" kind of judgement, with a very idealised view of the glamour of his own sub-discipline of software development.

Sure, there is a huge amount of very mundane web programming in the world. But there is a proportionally larger of amount of very mundane non-web programming in the world, too. 95% of the programming that goes on the world is not "challenging" to a good developer.

Taking a very reductionist viewpoint, web programming is just the same as non-web programming, but with a demand that the output from your program is structured in particular ways. I'm sure anyone can think of hundreds of examples of technically challenging and innovate programming that is best suited to delivery in a web environment?

I get as annoyed with really bad web programmers as the next guy, but that's only because the web permits users to inflict their work on others much earlier in the development process than most mediums. Back in the days when I was first learning BASIC, the commercial internet was not so well-developed that I could easily inflict my software on a large group of people. Even if I did, my "death valley" clone would probably have had limited appeal.

With the web, pretty much anybody learning a language like PHP or ASP or whatever can basically do some copy-and-paste programming and have something up on the web ready for public consumption before they have even finished figuring out how programming works.
Does this predate the Slashdot meme?
There's a startup idea there you know :P
A GC API that would be convenient
As funny and cleverly satirical as South Park is, I don't think this belongs on HN.
Geek Weekend Day 2: The Brunel Museum
Ask HN: Is sed an insult to "human readbility" ?
1!G;h;$!d

What does the above line of sed program do? It is supposed to reverse the order of lines in a file. By the same logic I can say
#f;8|33^&! is the complete bible.

Okay! real question is why is Sed (the so called stream editor) is so concise in its operators? Is there some hidden gem of wisdom that I dont know yet?
Of course, it is time magazine.
hmmm HN looks like is susceptible to Code injection! Work on it guys
I was about to chime in "I feel for you, something really similar happened to me" and then realized you had already cited that exact bug in your blog post. I don't know whether this makes me happy or sad.

The great thing about losing potential revenue is that there is an infinite amount of it out there. I know that is cold comfort but it helps me sleep soundly at night, in the face of some bugs which have been fairly costly.

I caught a subtle one last night which would have been a real, real doozy. I was busy writing additional documentation for my A/B testing framework and then wondered, hey, why does this thing I'm recommending sound very different than what I remember actually implementing?

Then I thought "No, wait, that's preposterous. If I had actually implemented that, I would have gotten subtly incorrect garbage data which would have... passed... all my... tests... until deployed live... oh dear."

On the plus side, this time it only cost me a weekend full of analytics data rather than $10,000, but if I had started "improving" my site based on the borked data shudder.
If you like failblog you may like dontevenreply.com, which is the only other site that produces similar responses in my experience :)
OK, at least I know it's not just me, even if it is trivial.

Good points all around. I still think that some things are not for casual touching (camera lenses, laptop screens, TV screens, eyeglasses, mirrors, etc) but I get that the smudges don't bother some people at all, so it's not that they are being rude, just they aren't aligned with my personal peeves.

My laptop is an important personal item, not that it has a pet name, just that it's something I use all day every day and chose carefully. Maybe like a bicycle couriers bike, or something. I make my living with it. Treat it with respect, please.

Anyway, I find the smudges distracting. In the end, that's the thing.

Obviously clients, prospects, and vice presidents get to touch it with impunity. Colleagues with pizza fingers will get cschep's prefix.
Just found - The $675,000 Mixtape - while reading the background to this thread.

There is something definitely amusing about their 'two fingers up' to authority attitude.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090814/the-pirate-bay-stil...

Having lived through the 70's punk scene, (although it must be agreed that on the whole it was a pretty contrived marketing plan) and appreciated the youthful, anarchic energy of it, I sort of wonder why most young people (here in the UK) seem so incredibly conservative. Are they really Thatchers children, more concerned about brand identity and affiliation that turning the world on it's head?

The Pirate Bay team seem to be 21st c. punks to me, even though I'm sure they see the $$$ at the end of the tunnel.
The Inventor Gene
You're right: journalists will determine the future of journalism. I think the more relevant question is whether journalism is where we will get the news in a few years.

At the moment, it seems to me like we're finding new, social (in the W2.0 sense) methods of distributing information that are "good enough" to destroy the business model for news. "Good enough" doesn't mean their information is equal or better compared to the information that journalism yielded. Of course, most of this social news is still based off "MSM" news, but I believe that, as their availability decreases, their necessity as a base will aswell.

I think that sometimes there is a tragic logical error in some of the 'future of journalism' discussion: "The News business model is done. User's won't pay for the news any more. Ads don't scale. The hurricanes themselves won't pay, either. Thus, we have to find a new business model."

This last statement is always there, especially in the RFS and the entrepreneur's discussions following it here. But it is not a necessity. I guess it is a part of a healthy capitalistic mindset to see every industries downfall as an opportunity, but I get the feeling that some of the internets peer production developments escape this pattern: Wikipedia will not produce business opportunities for encyclopedia business, OpenStreetMap will not help NAVTEQ.

Of course each of these examples produces a periphery of new businesses, consulting opportunities and the usual post-processing stuff, but in their core they have de-economized industries.

So I get wary when I hear people talk on how to monetize post-news news. You really won't. Go write a blog post about some of your local communities problems instead.
I'll just pretend I didn't see that, HN is a large enough timesink as it is.
Considerably so, yes.
Similarly, how did Yahoo Answers and AnswerBag successfully launch their question/answer sites?

This is why I explicitly brought up answer sites. Your idea doesn't get the benefits of those kinds of sites, because publishing the expertise limits your ability to sell it (and makes it into another answers site). If you don't publish it the site does not become incrementally more valuable every time a question is answered, as Stack Overflow or Yahoo Answers does. It always remains a place where someone can buy expertise from someone they don't know, with qualifications that may or may not be accurate, for a price that cannot be compared.

My point is that your proposal seems like it would have all of the negatives of starting a new answers site, but none of the long term benefits. Answers sites start off with these problems, but may eventually overcome them as more and more questions get answered and the pool of regular readers and submitters grows, but yours would have these problems forever. Your site doesn't get bigger, stickier, and more powerful, when you sign on new users and new experts.

I'm not saying you can't do it, or that it won't be successful. I don't know. As Paul Buccheit says:

Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization = Advice

I simply don't see how you (or even Google, who have retired their own Google Answers) could overcome those barriers and reach a self-sustaining business.

As someone that connects industry specific knowledge to people that need knowledge, and perhaps has tools that make that task easier, you could very well have a lucrative consulting gig. But, I don't know that you'd have a startup.

But, what do I know? I build systems management software.
Phones have been able to recieve SMSes longer than 140 characters for about a decade now.

Limiting a service on the internet because 0.1% of the users want SMS notification on decade old phones is stupid and backwards.
Stealing a beach is bush-grade, barely above common purse snatching. Carmen Sandiego would have stolen the ocean.
If you want more than just the link in your RSS feed there was http://nirmalpatel.com/fcgi/hn_feed.fcgi

It looks like it is now just a redirect to http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A... which if you de-construct the url leads to a more generic solution.

The content from there can also be fed into Yahoo Pipes for any filtering you want to do. Given the plethora of HN related pipes it seems like everybody just creates their own. Having said that if you want somewhere to start I use http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=c0d729843a9b9e8de...
In visible cases, yes, it often does, but that's because they already have mindshare and often users who are invested in the service. However, this ignores the other 99% of startups with no business model, who silently fail.
You will understand why Sed is concise the first time you write a lexer in C by hand. To lex a single character token you don't need any FSMs; the input character = the lookahead = all you need to recognize that token. You can use getc and ungetc to move forth and back in the input stream; the whole thing can be done with one tidy switch statement.

Lex and Yacc where non-existent, or at least a luxury at one point. Volumes where devoted to tweaking grammars so the internal data structures used by lexers and parsers didn't exceed the minimum core available at the time.
Innovation Principles at Apple
For the 21st century punks go to London or Berlin, the punk scene is alive and well.
I was about to make a post about how I wanted twitter dead to end all this useless noise about URL shorteners.

Then I realized that the reason there is noise here is that some people actually seem to think they have something to offer the world which the real URL wouldn't do.

Can someone who are actually willing to defend these things explain to me why you consider a short URL more useful than the original? What motivation you have for adding third parties to what could be a standard hyperlink?
I think that you don't realize how easy it is to move and how easy it is to still enjoy the benefits you describe by coming back for visits. A 6K population gives you absolutely no help with advancing anything significant in your life. It may be heaven on earth, but unless you're already established and can work on the net exclusively, this will be the biggest constraint on you. It will very likely mean that for your entire life you'll compromise on doing something you can rather something you love.

My advice: move. Get out of this place as soon as humanly possible, and promise yourself that once you've established a good way to do something you love, you'll come back for visits as often as possible, maybe even once a week or for long stretches of time every now and then. If you become wealthy enough, you may even be able to have a second home there.
I reworked this script to show your branch name in green if the branch is clean and red if the branch is dirty. Personal preference but I prefer the visual color distinction denoting branch state.

http://gist.github.com/120804
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_Mouse_Prize

I wish I were a mouse ;-)
I think that means there's something wrong with your computer. It could be serious. Is your mouse also missing two buttons?
The only thing that always strikes me about news and people reading it is that feed readers are more and more popular..

This is a problem (because your not getting "bums on seats" all the time).

My approach would be to create something that had a good revenue model even with feed readers being used.

EDIT: micro content and things like edited news Aggregators also come to mind.