skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or if they do back out, you can stab them in the face across the internet. Provided you can get them to put a knife the robot hand first.

http://www.bash.org/?4281
If your idea is so easy to steal, copy, reproduce that there mere act of telling someone about it is a threat, then

1) Your idea (like all ideas) has minimal value.
2) Someone else probably has/is/will come up with it independently.
3) When you do reveal/launch it and it's worth anything someone with more money/laywers/customers/clout/power/marketing than you will take it anyway.

Ideas are nothing. Implementations of ideas maybe something. Good/successful implementations are hard to reproduce/steal. The article points are about helping you achieve that good implementation. Something which secrecy hinders.

Also note, that currently for most the world, people with money/power can generally make ideas not worth stealing via various patent/copyright laws and the general high cost of litigation.
Maybe he should follow the style himself when writing the article about it. The punchline should almost stand alone by itself. It shouldn't say, "Hey, audience, now you have to listen to the rest of this to understand what I meant." "The bull is dead," is a very provocative clause that leaves the audience scrambling for (irrelevant) context.
"What would you do with a Class C IP block?"

"I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man."
I'd like to know why you think this isn't close to reality. There are tons of startups out there with no path to independent viability. Why wouldn't potential acquirers simply wait until the founders run out of what little money they have on hand then snap it up for a pittance? Or simply hire the developer?

If someone can get something to market in three months the first try, it's going to be much quicker on the second try, especially if they don't have to deal with all that "other" stuff (marketing, business dev, launch plans etc).
Sad to see another entrepreneur leave Boston.
Your operating system distribution doesn't come with one of these? One you can search?
> soldiers for Jesus' or whatever it is they do in the 'Jesus Camps.'

I have seen that on TV but never in real life. Those people exist somewhere, likely in Texas and I almost forgot, Pentecostal churches are like that. People have different needs I suppose, I find that sort of thing a little too intense.

> $DIETY's followers are there to help pick you up and tell you that $DIETY is the meaning of life while they help you out.

That was my expectation. In real life people just want the items you are giving out (from doing food programs, etc)

Religion (whichever it might be) is something you have to live as a core-set of values that make up yourself (I do a bad job myself) and when you do well, other people are interested, and when not, not so much.

People who go on TV, tell everyone what they shouldn't be doing, then end up doing the exact things they said people shouldn't be doing, were not living it. You will never find the people living it on tv because they are far too busy. People on TV are out for self-glorification but people have free will.

I am more of a Methodist liking person, it is boring (and as such draws a more senior crowd but) Wikipedia sums it up well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley)

"Under Wesley's direction, Methodists became leaders in many social justice issues of the day, including the prison reform and abolitionism movements."

Imagine there are 20,000 Churches in the United States. Here are some of the outside items the church I go to does, http://www.foothillsumc.org/Ministries/Outreach/default.aspx, just times that by 20,000. Now magically erase all sorts of religions. Now try to replace that with government workers. It can't be done. Everything serves a purpose, just because you don't like it doesn't automatically mean it's all bad.
This is a cool idea.

Along the same car lines: I'd like a small computer in my car that would record all of it's vital information. Fuel trims, coolant temperature, air flow, plus things like speed and rpms. The computer would track trends to let you know of any problems that may come up or to make sure you are getting the best performance. The computer would also sync up wirelessly, either Wifi or a 3G network.

It might also be interesting to have a website that compared your stats to others of the same make/model.

I'm not sure the technical requirements for such a thing, but obviously the car companies would have to be in on it.
They're like a real world parody of South Park with fewer taboos.
I went the Microsoft direction and learned a ton. These large companies don't make billions by accident. Clearly they aren't as agile as some companies are but the scope of what they do is tremendous. You get the chance to see how software is made for millions and then actually see millions use it. It's a wonderful thing, trust me.

In reading the other comments I was surprised at how many people would choose the masters degree. In the end it is just an expensive piece of paper. It only means something if the next people in line think it does. Let me be honest and say a startup will likely not care that you have it. A large company would give you a level jump and with it a 5% raise. And academia would care the most, but that doesn't sound like the direction you want to go.

Now don't get me wrong, college is a great ride and I can see the temptation to hang on just for that. For me, in hindsight, I can say honestly that the job route was right for me. I learned about the business of software -- my chosen profession. I paid off my not-so-small loans. And I saved up and started a company. This was my path and it was a good one. It worked. It fit me. I suppose it might fit you as well..
Number 2 would be awesome.

I've been wishing there was a CompactFlash to hard drive adapter for a while now.
I think this should be enough evidence to let people know he is physically alright so let's leave it at that. He'll be back in some form or another in a few months or a year at most. But maybe not if he get's e-stalked to the point he decides the only way out is to join an amish community.
Any ideas on what a "non-imaging photodetector" actually is? There's very little in Google that's not connected to this video, and all of those references simply use the term without going into it.
I think that's the same as "does programming in anything higher-level than C++/C/assembly/FPGAs make you stupid?" - the answer is usually that kids today are learning just as much, but about different topics and at higher levels of abstraction. Understanding the different JavaScript event models of IE and Firefox is probably just as arcane as understanding both Z80 and 6502 assembly back in the day, and far more useful to their everyday (hobbyist developer) lives.
Sort of. The way I was taught, a progression is called arithmetic because each term is the arithmetic mean of its predecessor and successor, i.e. if A comes before a term X and B comes after a term X in an arithmetic sequence, then X = (A+B)/2. Similarly, a geometric progression uses the geometric mean, i.e. X = (AB)^(1/2).
I would use one for my personal use and take the remaining 254 and offer reverse dns services.
Search based on content type, content language, with/without keywords, author. Honestly, if Google just put out #5 and charged for it, it'd be worth $10 a month to me.
Sort of... I'm not sure what I'd do with 256 IP addresses without 256 public-facing servers...

I'd much rather have a few hundred servers and 1 IP address.
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I'd like to know why you think this isn't close to reality.

Because I was there in person when reality took place.
OuterEmpire MMO - Browser version requires no flash. All JS.
You wouldn't know it from the shoddy copy-pasting, but this garden was actually displayed at the 2003 Chelsea Flower Show [1,2], thus stretching the definition of the phrase "this year" to include six years ago.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3311041/The-Wrong-Garde...

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3046791.stm
Why is this completely necessary? What would be an acceptable proof to you of this statement?
It's sad that so much work had to be done by Google to get these standards available to IE users.

Good point, it's things like this that make me wonder where anyone gets the idea that Microsoft will ever be able to be a serious, long term contender to Google in Internet related tech, search included -- right now, Bing is a (perceived) contender merely because of Microsoft's size compared to Google. Google is able to keep their main product, search, going while actively working to improve other companies' deficient and ancient products. Admittedly, Google has an interest in getting people to use the Internet more and this kind of tech is part of that goal, but these kinds of releases somehow show that Google doesn't really consider Microsoft to be a (serious) competitor, whereas Microsoft does.
This man speaks very much in the same patterns and of the very same things that poker coaches do. Considering that both are risk-based (and math-based) actvities, I'm not terribly surprised.
Sadly I can't remember. I was browsing somewhere in the Games section and saw an app with a suspiciously high number of reviews then saw what was going on.
PIN photodiode, phototransistor, LED, photoresistor.
> Since the iphone is not advanced enough to support background processes

To be pedantic, the OS fully supports this. Apple simply doesn't allow third-party processes to do so (yet). Might be doable using push notifications, though.
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If you're interested in the early days of TV, you might check out this piece by Tom Murphy of Capital Cities, who got into the TV business when it was unprofitable, but clearly going to make money some day.

http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/pdf/tommurphy.pdf
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I've occasionally obtained a coworker's password (If I see the keyboard and their fingers, I can see the password). However, in my case I've always taken the "Fly on the Wall" approach. It's like people watching at the mall, but you discover the unseen. Like the 29 year-old marketing girl is a sexual deviant and nympho maniac, but still loves her husband of 9 years and their 7 year-old son. The CEO is a 44 year-old man child suffering a mid-life crisis and his wife got pregnant again because she was afraid he would divorce her for someone younger like his friends have done. Secretly he fears his wife will discover the reason he hired the marketing girl was because she reminded him of a younger version of her. And my 31 year-old coworker is a bigger geek than I ever could imagine and absolutely clueless all this and more is going on around him.

We live in a matrix, not the Wachowski ripoff matrix, but the one that hides the real world with fake smiles and shallow conversations. This isn't news to most people. I get my kicks on looking at it from time to time. That said, I would never go to the level of logging in anonymously at a public wi-fi and vandalizing someone's life.

My favorite password to figure out was an old boss's: 8675309

It's one thing when they make sense alphabetically or an alphanumeric with a few numeric permutations, it's another when it's an 80's song older than you with 5,040 permutations :) Coincidently, Tommy Heath became a computer analyst and moved to Portland, Oregon after the band broke up.
But they didn't take those pictures, or kill the woman. They didn't even know them, or much about them probably. They found a picture on the internet, and they posted that same picture to another part of the internet. Truly moral outrage should ensue.

Since you are a sci-fi fan, here is a sci-fi reference.

Neo takes the blue pill. He finds out what the 'real' reality is, behind the bullshit fabricated reality. The stuff about the dead lady? That actually happened. Stuff far worse happens every day. If that makes you uncomfortable, or outraged, or whatever negative emotion you are expressing, you are just angry at reality. Don't blame 4chan.
The question was interesting. But I was hoping for some kind of answer.
Give it back. If you can't use it, you don't need it.
We (2 of us) have a Ruby on Rails app in the online classifieds space that is in an "Alpha" stage.

We have an exciting opportunity to be in front of lots of important people in the very near future, and we're looking to round out our team with someone who possesses the technical chops we lack.

We have lots of plans and we're looking for someone who wants to really dig in with us, get involved, and contribute. Get in touch, let me know if you have any questions. Looking forward to telling you all about it! Thanks! gb5150 [at] gmail [dot] com
A tablet-like touchscreen computer designed specifically for use in the kitchen, designed to mount on a fridge or cabinet. Inventories fridge and pantry, possibly with the aid of a barcode reader or camera to read UPCs. Connects via Wi-Fi to a recipe database, and attempts to find recipes based on fridge inventory, with full health statistics for each meal. (Oh, and a media player wouldn't hurt either.)

If the UI/UX was polished right, I think it could go very mainstream.
Hrm, I've found it rather easy to obtain IP space from ARIN so this article seems a little humorous to me.
It's fabulous to have someone around who takes the noise away from projects so that I can focus on writing code, and since that's what I love to do I'll happily do it for 60 hours a week. I'm near the end of a three week holiday, and the two most relaxing days were the ones where I just sat down and hacked away on personal projects, without having to try and steer colleagues to good practice or deal with customers or deal with management or write project plans.
Man-made organisms will be here in four months
Where are the lessons?
Whoa, where is submitter from? Interesting dialect of English where "what" works like "that".
My point was more that the article itself gave absolutely no evidence besides pointing out that a thing was happening and that there is a website called 4chan that does things like this.

I personally do not browse 4chan but the evidence in that article was kind of shaky.
I live in Canada where we typically get both mpg and liter/100 km. I've found that, almost universally, my friends that report mpg have less fuel efficient cars than the ones that quote liters per 100 km when asked about a vehicle's fuel efficiency.

I tend to think that one of the reasons that Americans tend to have less fuel efficient cars is that when they are evaluating alternatives 9 mpg and 10 mpg are "closer" or more equivalent than 47 mpg and 50 mpg. For example, if I go out and buy a Truck in Canada I could either compare

Ford F150: 15.7 liters/100km (15 mpg) city, 11.2 liters/100km (21 mpg) highway.

GMC Sierra 2500 4WD: 14.7 liters/100km (16 mpg) city, 11.76 liters/100km (20 mpg) highway.

With the Sierra, you are using a full liter less of gas during city driving at the cost of only half a liter of highway driving, so unless I'm doing more than 66% of my driving on highway like conditions, I should go with the Sierra, but that information does not come across to gas conscious buyers that use mpg.
Human beings are a clannish people. Acting badly towards an unpopular group is seldom frowned upon. If the victims were some popular group, I am sure there would be outrage rather than lulz.

Two millenia later, Christians are the new Christians.
I'm reasonably sure you are the person closest to being outraged about anything in this discussion, heh. He was being funny, not raving about how 4chan is the root cause of all evil. And in any case, the fact that actively evil people exist independent of 4chan is orthogonal to whether the site is legitimately "a hive of scum and villainy."
Ask HN: Who runs News.YCombinator.net and hackerne.ws?
These sites seem to be exact mirrors of this site. I got distracted during a google search and logged onto one thinking it was this site. I quickly freaked out and changed my password but I would like to know their relationship with this site. A phishing scam, or something innocent?

http://news.ycombinator.net/
http://hackerne.ws/
"Make something people want" applies to writing just as much as startups.
I think you're basically right, but I wonder about the details.

For example, my own driving is not money-limited-- gas could double in price and I would drive just as much, because I drive so little already. Whether I pay $200/year or $400/year for gas doesn't make a difference.

I suspect that the vast majority of miles driven are driven by people who would find cheaper alternatives, like buses or bicycles or email, if prices went up even 20%. But that's just speculation. Empirically, when gas costs doubled briefly last year, it seemed to me that traffic was still almost as bad.

So, I mostly agree with you, but I'm not 100% convinced.
Oh man, this is going to be useful this sept... bless you for this service :)
If you are going to throuw around an opinoin of what religous people believe at least pretend that you aren't totally ignorant about what it is that they actually believe. Christian beliefs about the afterlife and what it takes to get a good one are varied and range from and there are some which definitely would 'dock them some Heaven Points.'

I think the real point is that Christians, like muslims, Jews, Budhists, Atheists and every other person in the world, don't like to be slandered in front of their friends, family, associates, prospective employers, etc... and you're characterizing their attitudes doesn't justifiy it.
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He is just saying that the Free Market isn't always good in and of itself, some kind of regulation is always needed, though in an inflammatory tone !

Anyways, what is the proportion of doctored/fake reviews with respect to all the 5-star reviews of these apps, did anyone get that info ?
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Thanks. Glad to see some actual info on the attack, as the real article and most comments in this thread are devoid of any.
Two things: data parallel code is best, and you need to have a large enough amount of data to amortize the high cost of transferring data to the GPU. "Large enough" depends on your data access patterns.

A good place to start: http://gpgpu.org/developer
Cool. Also, gets my vote for most blatantly unnecessary use of JavaScript (from 6 places???) ever.
Well, I am just starting with YC and I just came up with a product. None of us, are programmers. At first, I wasn't looking for funding meant for software. Our product doesn't have to be software. I started to count myself out of the YC. But then I realized that my product can be in the form of software. So I am designing the software, but I am going to contract someone to write it. But it's a little more complicated that CS, so I have to contract everything technical. I don't feel bad about it. If I want to I can learn it, if need be. I don't have a degree, but my potential co- founders have a PHD and Masters, but they say I'm the genius.

I have taught myself everything online. HTML website design and a little flash and I play with digital 3D animation. I design every site I own. People pay me to design websites and I didn't finish school. Even in school my major was Mass Communications and Journalism, later Music Theater.

So, you are and economics major. That's awesome and very important after the product is finished. You will know how to market it to the economy, among other things you know.

You feel left out with the CS crew? I use to feel left out to every educated friend I have. But my abilities exceed paper and yours really exceeds your degree.

Keep your head up.
I didn't expect for anyone to post this yet. I'm going through old emails and working on some posts, I should have the first one up by this Monday or Tuesday.
From what I've seen, OpenCL is meant more to be a compiler target than something people program. CUDA, while tied to GPUs, has more abstractions that OpenCL.
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I don't know, South Park doesn't annoy me the way this shit does.
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yc.net seems to be registered by PG and pointing to the same server, though hackerne.ws is a godaddy domain hosted on godaddy servers, which seems a lot sketchier.
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I'm sure he has his reasons for wanting some privacy. We all get that way sometimes.

Please, HN, do the right thing and leave them alone.
Persi Diaconis - magician-turned-mathematician (2004)
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You can do a DNS lookup on the domains:

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=ne...

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=ha...

Compare it with the real HN domain (news.ycombinator.com):
http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=ne...

I dunno about hackerne.ws, but the ycombinator.com and .net domains look like they've got the same information. Perhaps someone with more DNS experience can do a little more digging.

EDIT: Here's the WHOIS info for the contact email (dns@jomax.net) for hackerne.ws:
http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=JOMAX.NET
Nothing nefarious going on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470
I think it was a Christmas present to the HN community at some time.
now that the topic root has been snatched; i think you should serialize your findings and post each "lesson" along with your reflections on it in a separate article.

If you didn't start this I would have had to contact you personally, directly, to pick your brains on a few things.

One thing I want to know about is your methodology for contacting and landing corporate clients. Aside from the super Web 2.0 savvy dotcoms, Real World companies, specially conglomerates and large holdings have a distributed teams with sometimes overlapping responsibilities and I am finding it hard to navigate through their directories to discover which department could use my service (advertising) vs which department is responsible for cutting the checks. For every hour of development 4 hours go into sales calls and being on hold (on metered Skype for international calls; waiting has never been more fun at $0.25/minute, btw)

Assuming you want to divulge this.
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I agree with mburney. Rand? Machiavelli? Moto Maintenance? How about Art of the Start? What about The Big Moo? The are countless others that have emerged in recent history. Hasn't the landscape changed so significantly. Has human nature?
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"Your competitors can probably get a home equity loan at 6 percent on their McMansions. How much cheaper can your cost of capital possibly be?"

Oh sweet blast from the past.
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It was likely unintentional here, but that dialect is Middle English; it sounds like "what" to our modern ears (so it's eggcorned into it a bit), but the word is really "wot." As far as I can search, wot is just defined as "know", but it seems to get used in place of "that" fairly often despite that definition, even by Shakespeare, so it's not like it's an unofficial use.

A clear example of the eggcorned form is the title of the fifth chapter of the Poignant Guide: "Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream."
Great read!

At a friend's suggestion, he bought himself a copy of William Feller's textbook An Introduction to Probability and Its Applications but couldn't read it because he didn't know calculus. He was 18 at the time.

..

At 24, Diaconis began taking evening math classes at the City College of New York. He performed magic tricks during the day to pay his way through school.

..

Martin Gardner makes an interesting cameo appearance in this man's life as well.
0.015 milligrams of LSD.

I'm not an expert, but I believe that's enough to intoxicate the entire world's population of elephants.