skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise, the age distribution is going to be slanted towards youth in any nation that is a relative newcomer to the industry in question. It's quite likely that the reason there's few firmware engineers from Pakistan with more than 20 years of experience is simply that there were many fewer jobs in Pakistan engineering firmware 20 years ago.
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Shark encounter caught on video  
Two fishermen, Dan Plunkett and Adam Cloete, have captured amazing video of a great white shark circling and nudging their boat off the coast of Western Australia.
Among other theories, an article in SP Times [the first reference in the wikipedia article, en: http://www.sptimes.ru/story/25093] suggests a possibility of avalanche. Combined with the guess that the radioactive contamination could have been caused by an overturned lantern, it sounds like a pretty good explanation.

(I will not judge how relevant it is to HN.)
Well, it is just one letter added to my real name. So probably someone fucking up data entry, not someone misusing my identity.
Video of Kara Swisher's visit to ICHC HQ
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090803/kara-visits-lolcats-i-ca...
"I'm upvoting it, because I think it's important to discuss issues such as this." -- Agree!
Interesting feature. I know there is a jQuery plugin that uses flash for copy/paste. Anyone can figure how it is done on this page? (They have a combination of traditional javascript and jQuery on the page).
A nice set of guidelines. I'm glad he goes over the difference between a language and an implementation. Remember, kids, languages are not slow or fast, implementations are. However, languages can be easy or difficult to implement such that the implementation is performant.
but is rather a direct though somewhat atrophied consequence of a very successful 20th century business model.

I am curious to know more about this? Can you please provide a few links or talk a little bit more about this? thanks!
A man has just become immortal. TI scene will never be the same again; the TI-83 calculator turns to an open platform today (The 83 is mandatory in U.S. education and sometimes distributed for free, all American High Schoolers use it, and did so for at least the last 10 years.) Bonafide 3rd party OSes can be loaded on it now, no more shells.

Help crack the rest of the keys (Win32 and Linux clients; linux version requires X I just found out):

http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/

Some fun statistics:

- The factorization took, in total, about 1745 hours, or a bit less than 73 days, of computation. (I've actually been working on this since early March; I had a couple of false starts and haven't been able to run the software continously.)

- My CPU, for reference, is a dual-core Athlon64 at 1900 MHz.

- The sieving database was 4.9 gigabytes and contained just over 51 million relations.

- During the "filtering" phase, Msieve was using about 2.5 gigabytes of RAM.

- The final processing involved finding the null space of a 5.4 million x 5.4 million matrix.
It's based on Dragon's Den (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_Den) and the foreign versions are a bit more believable. The US one is pretty annoying, everything from the people they got to show up to the narratives to the sharks themselves.
Thanks for the information, will post it on Launchly and Usefultoos. Posting the links directly on HN seemed a bit spamming and wanted to stay away from it.
We had keyboards like that in one of my classes last semester. It was really annoying, but it didn't matter too much since the software we used didn't use CTRL-C, CTRL-X, or CTRL-V anyway.
i have a funny variant thats a combo of :

1)ideas have textures that denote elegance, bs, too complicated, wrong

2)when i understand a topic well enough (eg some subset of math) and i'm not stressed, all i need to do is translate a problem into the way i visualize stuff, see if i can fill in the details of the shape, and then figure out how to translate that detailed shape into normal written proof notation.

the (2) bit is tricky and while on one hand it lets me come up with some simple proofs/code, on the other hand it can to be too slow for the pacing needed to get several problem sets done at a reasonable pace

edit: in fact, the idea -> texture bit is so strong that its essentially how I choose research at a certain level, though that requires sifting through enough ideas
People like to use the word "citizen" for some reason, even when it is not accurate. The protections of the US Constitution apply to all "people", not all "citizens". The word "citizen" mostly occurs when referring to voting and running for office (both which do require citizenship).

Everyone gets a jury trial, free speech, etc.
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I don't have an [X] button in the top right corner. I do have 3 brightly coloured pill buttons in the top left though.
You can use this "trick" successfully for any form of writing.

As the rule goes: tell'em what you're going to tell'em, tell'em, and then tell'em what you told'em.
For that matter, I think touching a car is widely seen as legitimately annoying to anyone who wants to keep it shiny.

Doubly so for the windshield.
What's it mean when you fit into several of these?
Text Algorithms Book [pdf]
M. Crochemore and W. Rytter, Text Algorithms, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994, 412 pages. ISBN 0-19-508609-0.
But you are correct that rant-ish reports posted on sketchy web sites that make broad assertions of constitutional law are generally good sources of entertainment, but not legal advice.

Honestly, I think these folks have a better idea of what the intent of the Constitution was than many of the justices on the Supreme Court. Like anything, the Supreme Court is mostly about politics these days, rather than protecting anyone's rights. (Sometimes both interests are aligned, of course, but many times they are not; especially with respect to ID.)
zsh does a much better job (with its right prompts and formatting)
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2101/zsh1.png - this actually shows a git repository imported from svn

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3738/zsh2.png - this shows a regular svn repo

This is what you need in your zshrc

# precmd is called just before the prompt is printed
function precmd() {
title “zsh” “$USER@%m” “%55<…<%~”
psvar=()
vcs_info
[[ -n $vcs_info_msg_0_ ]] && psvar[1]=”$vcs_info_msg_0_”
}

vcs_info
export RPS1=”${YELLOW}%1v${NORM}”
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Holy Cthulhu, you can crack 512-bit RSA in 73 days on a single computer these days?
I agree with you, but couldn't someone from a non-Schengen country claim that they are from Schengen?
Yeah, this is what pisses me off about people who suggest radical simplifications of the tax code - reminds me of Steve Yegge's Shit's Easy Syndrome.

Taxation is difficult. There are a lot of weird things you can do with your money, and a whole industry out of making more of them - dealing with all that requires complexity.

Even more so, as you mention, tax policy is a manifestation of social and economic policy - it's the way you implement those two, and if you're going to do it right, it's going to be complex.

For a small small view of this, consider that as of now, you get a tax deduction for charitable donations. If you simply paid X% of your income, as many suggest, this would remove that deduction - and what do you think that would do to charitable giving in this county, and to the people that depend on the programs of those charities to survive?
Should I use MEF for my general IoC needs?
how true. the only thing common among entrepreneurs is their determination.
Care to elaborate a little? Is it a mobile app? A niche site?
Autopager: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925

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I think we can reduce bad submissions by prohibting new users and users with a karma less than 500 for example.

We can calculate a score based on user oldness and his score, so he can submit or not and the time between his submissions.
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Feel free to post your understanding once it clicks, I still don't get it completely myself. REST definitely has something to do with Kay's objects. Wave does some neat things with diffs/merging REST doesn't, though.
They'll have to learn to search for this, once it falls off the homepage.
I think the problem with telling most people not to touch your screen is that often they don't see an alternative. So I always make sure I have a pen with me. If someone touches my screen, I usually just hand them my pen and say "Here, point with this".

Not only do you avoid the finger-oil issues, but it's also more accurate.
I used to clip a telescoping pointer on the edge of my CRT. Nowadays I just break your finger at the knuckle and say, <Moe>What's the matter with yooouu</Moe>.
People are social animals, and go crazy when left alone. There are two ways not to go crazy:

1. Have a cofounder or two

2. Talk with customers all the time

Either is fine to preserve sanity, but beyond that one gives you more muscle power and the other gives you better direction. Your pick.
It's as simple as that: Hire People; since the website makes a lot of money, you can hire coders and designers and they'll do the work. Contact me, (find email in profile) I can be helpful.

BTW: If you wrote down the URL of the website, you would get more help
Some initial feedback:

- When I look at your site, I don't know what it does. As a result, I'll just go back to Google. I gather there are some special commands (which I see from clicking through the manage link, but when I do my first look and search, I don't know what any of them are. I would have a summarized version of :ls on your front page

- On that note, ls is a geek term. People here will recognize it, but "normal" people won't. Maybe replace with something more friendly like :commands

- I'm still not sure what makes your service different and special - why is it better than things like Yubnub? I'm not even 100% sure what I can do with it: maybe have some examples on the front page, with the command and what it will do for me. I know you're going for a Google-esque aesthetic, but they have huge recognition and do one thing only. You have no recognition, and do many things - hence tell me how to do some of them so that I get hooked.

- What the hell are all these icons up top in the search results? I've never seen most of them, and don't know what clicking them will do.

- Some of your Back behaviour is busted. Click on the first link on http://fefoo.com/help/commands.html about how big the earth is, and when the results have loaded, click your Back button. Why is the result window white?

- Your documentation is intimidating. There's much too much of it being thrown at me at once and with little organization, and the writing is somewhat awkward. You need someone who's a good writer to redo and edit most of your copy, and you need to do some thinking about ways to reduce the mental load on someone reading it for the first time.

- What's your monetization strategy?
Yep, that is an example Nasim Taleb uses in Fooled by Randomness
sure it is, simply make it your brain that we describe and it will be you seeing red. the brain being described doesn't experience itself as a brain...so what?
Speaks to the danger of building your business on an API that can change at someone else's whim. Also, the importance of being very thorough in your testing.

Still, I'm glad you were able to catch it in time and reverse the trend.
a birdie told me that one of the companies from one of the YC clones may just appear on an episode soon- stay tuned!
I agree that programming is a young man's game. But is this true of more traditional branches of engineering, such as Civil, Chemical, Materials Engineering?

In Electrical and Software Engineering, Moore's Law means the technology really does change very quickly, and with it the surface skills required. Oddly, though, it seems that the same concepts are often reinvented, just with incompatible surfaces. For example, OO languages and XML are popular today... and two decades ago, OODBMS and SGML were popular (though in a narrower domain).

My personal solution is to try to learn universal skills that will always be needed: communication skills, mathematics skills, business skills, investment skills, project management skills, general problem-solving skills etc. Within that set, I try to choose those skills that I like and value, and for which I have some aptitude.

But of course, you can't get anything done without surface skills.
You're looking at a webserver side technology to implement RBAC-style fine grained access control over the feed and use something lie OAuth to authorize users, as many of them as you want.

We implemented something like that, but instead of a feed you have medical records. RBAC might be overkill for your purposes, however, unless you want to give your followers specific permissions on what stories in your feed they can view (i.e. you can use tags/keywords to exclude certain viewers; "sex", "boyfriend" or "one night stand" would block your parents and family members from seeing that particular story, etc.)

About a day's work if you have done it once.

[Correction: this is just for one feed, one you control yourself. For every possible CMS, blog engine or host, you would need the same as well. You would also need to setup a central OAuth authorization service for all the consumers.]
I really enjoyed Isaacson's "Einstein: His Life and Universe".
I shouldn't. I will say that it's not just one application or site or product.

I didn't see anything like it in the "YCRFS 1" thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=766796).

I think the difference is that we didn't set out to do a journalism app or a publishing site; we set out to solve "the problem" of journalism and publishing, and in the process put an industry on its ear.
What I find massively fascinating about synesthesia is the high coappearance with creativity...
You've described a Sky Hook. It's a great idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook

You're right that you don't want to accelerate it too much when caught.

One of the coolest applications of sky hooks is _landing_ when there is no atmosphere.

You extend or contract the tether to decrease or increase the angular momentum, and balance it with the decreasing potential energy of landing. You can land softly without rockets.
Solo is fine. You don't need a co-founder. Yes in many cases a good co-founder will help your company succeed.. but in many other cases a bad co-founder will most certainly help it fail.

If you haven't already identified one then you can forget about it. The question is moot. You don't want one anyway. That's obvious. What you want is someone who will work for you at a discount, a coder who likes the product and the tech you're using and likes to get his/her hands dirty. A lot of people are just happy to have good work and some input into what they think will be a good product.. that would free you up to focus more on the marketing business side of things which is just as if not more important than that product itself.
It was a mistake on my part, the API itself didn't change in any unreasonable way (I shouldn't assume that array prototypes have no extra members). A lot of revenue was lost, but my feeling about it now is mostly relief, as I wasn't sure if I'd ever find the cause.
You are right, in the sense that great education is not only derived from a post-secondary institutions and that via everyday experiences, attained while raising a start up, is very educational.

Though, I must agree with wheels [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=767367] based on the fact that the knowledge derived from either experience is very hard to compare; one being often thought as theoretical and the other, very practical. The challenge, then of course, is to decide what type of education suits your life's goals appropriately.
That's gotta suck to know your thing is exponentially decreasing
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I would go as far as to say that the FT would lose readership if it went gratis. In China, I bought 2 day old copies of it for friends just so they can have it on their desk as an status symbol.
I think you're over estimating a lot of journalists. I know several of them (who work for the 2nd largest paper in the world no-less) who can barely operate Word much less set up a Wordpress account.

Other than that I'd agree with you. It is Journalist's job to do the actual reinventing and they're no where close now. I just don't think they're capable enough to take the current generation of tools and build what they need to do it. Essentially they need "web journalism for dummies" and it needs to be 10 times easier to use than Wordpress.
I see. Sounds interesting. When are you guys planning to launch?
I enjoyed all of Asimov's autobiographical books: In Memory Yet Green and In Joy Still Felt, and the posthumous memoir, I. Asimov. I'm a huge fan of Asimov's non-style literary style (clarity over all), and it works well in autobiography. If you like scifi, at all, Asimov was an eye witness to nearly its entire history from golden age onward, and thus worth reading. He's also perhaps one of the few truly credible witnesses to that history; a number of other genre favorites and stalwarts had psychological issues (Dick), personal feuds and vendettas (Ellison), an aversion to the community (Lem), or were just batshit crazy (Hubbard), and thus their accounts can't generally be taken without large grains of salt.
> According to your definition, pure untested intuition would then be "scientific". As it happens of course, intuition isn't very effective. The point is that all kinds of crazy methods might turn out to be effective, but we wouldn't therefore want to call them scientific.

Maybe I'm just using circular logic here, but the only way we know whether a method is effective is by testing it. Nevertheless, I don't think there's a working scientist out there who wouldn't want to trust a colleague's intuition (that we've already established as reliable) to try to do things we don't quite rationally understand yet. I think the key thing to remember is that ultimately, it has to be an effective means, and the way scientists figure out what is or isn't effective is by experiment.
Maxime Crochemore has been at it for a while; we wrote another two books on string processing as well.

But for this book, don't forget the table of contents; PDF above starts at page 3.

http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~mac/REC/B1.html#toc
Philosophy, as it is taught and developed in academia today, is in no way "essential in the further understanding of the nature of humanity and the cosmos."

Science and philosophy were once one. Aristotle, and Descartes where all hailed as both great scientists and great philosophers. But during the renaissance, critical thinking, creativity, and logic separated and became science. Everything that was left retained the name of philosophy.

To look at it another way, science has lead directly to a downfall in philosophy, in that it has provided a way for one to test theories and build upon ideas. In contrast to the progress of science, one sees that philosophy has developed into a useless branch of linguistic games ("What time is it on the sun?") and esoteric navel gazing ("Essence in this its self-movement is reflection"). Anything that can be tested or verified has been removed from the field called philosophy by the philosophers, who have today reverted to Platonists by abanding experimentation in lieu of problems of "pure" thought.

Consider any philosopher of the period since Descartes. Lets say Immanuel Kant. Now what is Kant's philosophy? What of Kant's philosphy has been accepted as true by the community. What of Kant's philosophical theory has been rejected as false by the community. How has the community settled these question of Kant's philosophy?

The answer is that there is no philosophical community. There are only philosophical camps. The only thing relating each camp to another is that they all at war with each other in a grand popularity contest. The community that gets the most air time is in the lead. There is no progress in philosophy, only novel ideas which supplantt the old due to the boredom inherent in parroting nonsense.
Yikes, I dunno. We started talking seriously about it a few months ago, following up on a conversation from over a year before. Development has just barely begun on two aspects of it. If we apply for Winter 2010, we're gonna have to push hard.

I'm currently writing some documents to finalize the business model and development roadmap.

Launch to alpha would be not less than 6 months if we busted our asses.
FWIW, the new version of #5 allows you to apply arbitrary styles to each item, rather than just hiding them.

I put a blue background on all the Ask threads for instance.

To do so, the 'banlist' is now a textbox. Each line is in the format:

*regex*->*style*

The default style is to hide anything that matches. Both titles and urls are matched. So:

valleywag.com
Ask HN->background-color:red;

Would hide anything from valleywag.com and put red backgrounds on all the Ask threads. The styling is pretty rough, so not sure what else works beside background colors... feel free to complain if something needs fixed. ;)
WTF is an MEF or an IoC?
To get italics, use asterisks (*).
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It's also interesting to note that it's not a major problem, even after fourty years. Sure, we're registered in more databases than we can count, but the amount of data is also a sort of defense against abuse; it's like a school of fish using their numbers to "hide" from predators.
The arguments about why it wouldn't work to shoot a projectile into orbit sound convincing, so I suspect they're right. But what actually happens as you launch a projectile at a 45% angle with increasing velocities?
There don't seem to be any rules against using a dummy account with no followers to retweet it.

edit: actually it does say "you must retweet from your own Twitter account" but how is someone's canonical Twitter account determined?
Well, it is controversial whether rev="canonical" is the right thing to be used. Furthermore the rev attribute has been removed from HTML5.

See http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/04/rev-canonical for some details.
While I guess the folks who registered this name have nothing but legitimate intent, this is pretty much text book man-in-the-middle attack technique. It would take one change to the DNS record and a simple sniffing proxy, and every user to use that address would be compromised.

As long as it is not owned by pg and rtm, I would strongly suggest you use news.ycombinator.com

Actually looking at the registration data, I'm extremely suspicious of this name. If I had ever used it, I would be changing my authentication details.

whois for hackerne.ws:

1234567
lemesos, lemesos 12345
Cyprus

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: HACKERNE.WS
Created on: 27-Nov-07
Expires on: 27-Nov-09
Last Updated on: 28-Nov-08

Administrative Contact:
man, europe iloveinternetalot@gmail.com
none
1234567
lemesos, lemesos 12345
Cyprus
35799123456

Technical Contact:
man, europe iloveinternetalot@gmail.com
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1234567
lemesos, lemesos 12345
Cyprus
35799123456
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