skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget that the legal system started updating itself and now has laws on the books more akin to being charged with terrorism. Another thing to consider is people getting threatened with bogus associations to organized crime.

People keep a low profile and things are more implicitly communicated when out in the open. A good hacker is creative, so a creative individual can just as easily imagine the "alternate" possibilities of a particular technology.

Are you interested in Setec Astronomy? :D
the movie "hackers". that was some good shit. good times, good times.
What happened to the Sekai Camera from Tonchidot? Just vaporware?
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Yeah just as a complete aside, and not a judgement on the band or its fans, but I feel like I no matter how many times I've heard songs from "Ok, Computer" I couldn't pick it from elevator music.
How do you judge misflags? Do you compare against yourself and the other editors kills? Or, do you compare to popular opinion? Which might could be wrong if the community grew too fast. ...Does it help to flag dead articles?
I'm serious, a TV with an integrated web browser so you can watch Internet TV on a TV w/o a hassle.
Far, far too long coming.
"The class action suit alleges the Louisana suit will consist of at least 10,000 individuals"
Enjoy your $.10 settlement and watch AT&T continue as they were.
Don't you know that asking for re-reviews is frowned upon at HN? That's the whole reason I created launchly afterall! Launchly does iterative feedback for web startups. Check it out at http://www.launchly.com
So what no gov't? No taxes? Every year we just let everyone pay what they think roads/school/defense deserves?

What do you do with large populations of kids can't go to school because their parents don't want to pay for it.

Or people die because of lack of food and drug regulation

Or when kids break their legs without health insurance.

Or when our parents and grandparents don't have a retirement fund because they saved foolishly.

I fail to see how having a gov't spending our money makes the potential damage worse.

The list goes on.
I'd probably argue that it was "bad shit," good times ;)

I know hackers is basically a bad movie, but it does have a special place in my heart. I'm not exactly sure why....
It's rare I see a class action suit with merit, and this is one of them. If it was just Apple advertising it, it wouldn't be as big a problem (since it does work with other carriers elsewhere), but a carrier clearly advertising something they don't support is just ludicrous.
Tell HN: Rochester, NY Hackers - Unite!
Or people die because of lack of food and drug regulation?

This happens every day.

Or people die because of lack of food and drug regulation?

This also happens every day.

Or when our parents and grandparents don't have a retirement fund because they saved foolishly?

So does this.
Screenshots just tell absolutelly nothing about a linux distro.
When designing API checkout "The Little Manual of API Design by Jasmin Blanchette’s" http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf I can't recommend it enough.
Well, it's a combination of that and of the amount of content respective groups generate - hackers don't have self-indulgent blogs, facebook pages, or youtube channels, and they never did. All that might have changed are the population and diversity if the internet population.
Hi everyone, I was cruising around looking for a hacker oriented club or group in Rochester, NY or Western NY and didn't find anything... so I made a meetup group. We'll be tentatively meeting on either the RIT campus (if I can swing it) or the Penfield Panera (Panorama Plaza). I've got a Scala presentation/workshop planned, but I'm more than open to anything else anyone would want to share. Thanks for getting the word out.
For anyone who hasn't used NX it's very comparable in terms of features and performance to Microsoft/Citrix's remote desktop protocol. Good enough that you can easily forget you're using a network display. So in other words the opposite of VNC.
Not exactly the first - Zagat released one a couple months ago:
http://www.zagat.com/Discuss/ForumPosts.aspx?SNP=NFZE&TI...

Albeit a slightly different variety of AR (using the compass and GPS, but no camera. Still fun). Perhaps there are others?
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A really great initiative, maybe another startup incubator( or hatchery) will be born from this.

I can't wait to move out to the bay area.
Me too. Here's the one I like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssWkw26YQF0

Anyway, singles bare no comparison to albums. A good album is 1000 times better than a good single. Imagine any single track off DSOTM versus any particular song off of it.
ah, i ca never tell on the internet exactly what people are trying to say.

my solution still stands. coercion is wrong, profiting from coercion is wrong, akin to selling torture implements.
I set 52 national records, tied a world record and won a category at the nationals in model aircraft competitions when I was 15. Two of the records were set at a contest on a sat and I won the nationals at another contest on sunday.. the two contests were 1000 miles apart.
Why not just reboot and live another interesting sequence of experiences every thousand years or so?
Great post - i loved the analogies. I grew up on BBS's and VB. In my 20's, I moved into the wild-wild-web. PHP was my first inkling of becoming a programmer, but I soon learned to appreciate the history - teaching myself C/C++, learning design principles, etc., etc., because I needed to know more about the craft.

Now I've gone 'corporate' and my job entails a lot of what you've described aptly as the new new thing. For me hacking has always been about putting the many pieces together. The challenges, more than ever, are still there - it's the nature of them that have changed. Because of the many levels of abstraction, as you've noted, today's hacker needs a broader view and wider skill-set to find those big, big challenges. That's why I still love what I do.
Dealing with supply chain issues is difficult. Especially when you throw in to the mix the HUGE problem of counterfeit parts in the electronics industry. I know there are some startups working in the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) space. Feel free to get in touch over email if you want to talk more about this.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and I have respect for yours. That being said, the idea of anyone not being able to enjoy radiohead makes me sad. Give them another try! :)
i also uploaded a version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeuL94w1G8E
I really don't think that hacking has actually jumped the shark so to say. More like the community has diversified from purely academic hackers and crackers to more corporate hackers and entrepreneurs.
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Công ty ACS Machines được thành lập vào tháng 05 năm 2008, là đối tác khu vực của hãng Hangzhou Caiba Technology Co,.Ltd … ACS Machines tự hào là một trong những nhà tiên phong khi mang đến cho thị trường Việt Nam các giải pháp và sản phẩm ngành in theo công nghệ tiên tiến, hiện đại của thế giới.
Với đội ngũ nhân viên trẻ, vững chuyên môn và không ngừng học hỏi sáng tạo, ACS Machines tự tin khi đưa ra các giải pháp thực tiễn hoàn hảo nhất nhằm thỏa mãn hầu hết các yêu cầu của khách hàng.
It is not about restaurants. Imagine this scenario:

When you are walking on a street, you pull out our app and look around you. Now, you know everything about that street.

It is a totally different experience if you are trying to find this kind of information on a 2d map. It is like google street view vs google map.
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Công ty ACS Machines được thành lập vào tháng 05 năm 2008, là đối tác khu vực của hãng Hangzhou Caiba Technology Co,.Ltd … ACS Machines tự hào là một trong những nhà tiên phong khi mang đến cho thị trường Việt Nam các giải pháp và sản phẩm ngành in theo công nghệ tiên tiến, hiện đại của thế giới.
Với đội ngũ nhân viên trẻ, vững chuyên môn và không ngừng học hỏi sáng tạo, ACS Machines tự tin khi đưa ra các giải pháp thực tiễn hoàn hảo nhất nhằm thỏa mãn hầu hết các yêu cầu của khách hàng.
You have to realize: the hackers before us lamented our arrival. And the Real Programmers lamented theirs. If anything, it's only right and proper to steal the term and make it suck in a new way. The point is, it doesn't matter: the real ones walk like ducks, quack like ducks.
Honestly, pick a proper open source license like apache to protect yourself (no-warranty clause) and your users (explicit patent and copyright grant).

Also, as you are latvian, under Wipo, you are essentially unable to give something away without a license due to the moral rights clause. I mean you can, but no one has a right to use it unless you explicitly grant it. You cannot disclaim rights and place it into the true public domain.

Also, scraping is bad, m'kay.
Most important page on the wiki: http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/JoinTheDojo

We currently have 40 members, but we need an additional 40 members to consistently cover costs (rent, power, internet access, improvements to the space, etc).

If you're curious about Hacker Dojo, join the mailing list [1] and stop by the open-house scheduled for next Sunday (Aug 23, one day after DevHouse 34 [2]).

Any questions?

[1]: http://groups.google.com/group/hackerdojo

[2]: http://shdh.org/
Um, not only is it insanely trivial easy to game, but it would have also been easy to "TweetRank" by counting the number of @-mentions of an account.
As naz pointed out, you can use sleep(1.0 - time_spent) to accomplish this.

The downside is that while the solution given in the OP will use a constant amount of time, that constant amount of time itself is not fixed. When over the years processors get faster, the code can execute faster, but in the above case it cannot.
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Absolutely. The smartest hackers I know don't even have something as self-indulgent as a public web site.

In my experience, hackers have always been the quiet type. Now some loud ones have changed what it means to be a hacker through popularity.
Music seems like it could sell itself. Personally I don't really care about the artist behind it (unless she's attractive) so long as the music sounds good. So maybe the record companies make artists attractive looking? Is that what marketing is?
Beats bending over for it. How do I get my $.10 ?
A hacker's easy dinner: Vegetarian Tacos
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It is useful writing one-shot programs on the command line. Perl's idioms can allow very powerful programs to be written very quickly in very small spaces.

But any code that is saved to a file and run more than once should lean a bit more toward clarity of expression. Three rules the pathological counterexample breaks: put parens around your function calls if they might otherwise be ambiguous; put =~ before a regexp if its identity might otherwise be unclear, and for heaven's sake put your line breaks in sensible places. This snippet exists to be pathological, and would quickly lose its ambiguity if written by anyone with reasonable habits of self-expression.

I am glad perl allows the balance between ruthless speed for programmer-efficiency and expressive clarity for maintainer-efficiency, for sometimes I write short one-shots and sometimes I write bulletproof modules, and I write many things in between.

But don't use habits suited to the former in the latter case. If you do that, perl will shoot you repeatedly until you either improve or shoot yourself. And if you survive, then you will have to deal with the folks who inherit your code.
There is clearly a subset of hackers that is intelligent, thoughtful, logical, motivated, resourceful, and creative. If you go to TechCrunch and read the articles and comments, that subset is either diluted or non-existant. On the other hand, Hacker News is filled with that subset. It's amazing. So while the hacker culture as you describe it may indeed be dying out, I think that the real hacker is thriving, as evidenced through the community here. Let that old hacker culture die out. Let us build a new hacker culture that emphasizes that way of thought. And hope that this way of thought becomes mainstream.

Honestly, for me, increasing the number of Americans (and people elsewhere too) who can think more intelligently would be the holy grail of hacking problems. Can we create more hackers from modern society?
You're really arguing not about whether topics should be included in the encyclopedia, but how their articles should be organized. Your argument is placated by reorganizing The Wire into one big article with all the detail from every episode. But the article was broken up not because of some separate notability for each episode (though some of them clearly are, ahem, notably notable), but because it makes WP's coverage of The Wire easier to read.
Very interesting stuff!
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Spend some time patrolling AfD, and I bet you will lose that opinion quickly. You may not become a deletionist, but you will stop believing topics are worthwhile simply because "someone took the time to create an article". The sheer volume of dross people pump into WP every day is staggering.
Nice comment. I wouldn't have read the whole article otherwise, but I went back and read it and it's a great read. Thanks.
The subjectivity of notability is, I think, a canard, and it's been tackled upthread from here. One thing I think you can't accuse WP of is of being vague about what "Notability" means.
92 was the first Dream Team. Before that, no pros could play, it was all college players.
"We believe that it's possible for a group of unrelated uncompensated volunteers, acting together, accepting all comers, and embracing anonymity, to create an enyclopedia that will not only rival but possibly exceed the work of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and that it's possible to do that without creating at the same time a galactically monstrous hairball of cruft, misinformation, advertising, and vanity pages."

Some "factionalizations" are more interesting than others.
Sure, but some (Ubuntu, for example) are just undesirable as a distro to run on an old hardware. Some don't even support old hardware, say the 586 archtecture (Pentium).

More important so, distros have different goals and mentalities. I don't think it would make sense, for example, to strip Ubuntu, for example, to make it run on a very old hardware. So, it's not _any_ distribution that you _can_ or _should_ run on older hardware. Some just don't suit.
In this way you can attach just one function to the event. Other way allows for more flexibility.

Alright. To me it sounded a bit like onmouseover was used only by bad programmers.
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If you're flagging because of inappropriate titles, you're doing it wrong.
Why was this downvoted? It's a natural question IMO.
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Hackers have never been visible.

They still aren't. A ton of fantastic hackers just do what they love: hack. They don't write about it or have a blog. I know a bunch of hackers, and none of them flaunt it.
Putting aside the security aspect, I think that the terms hacker and programmer as still disparate. They're separated by structure.

If you still through and design something you're programming - putting a fair amount of thought and structure in it before you hit the editor. Just coding and coding is probably closer to hacking to me - it's a messy art but capable of brilliance.

On the security side of things there seems to be a split between 'white hat' security professionals which includes a few blowhards by all accounts, and 'black hats' who have changed from just mischief to working for nefarious types for money. Supposedly there are still quite a few 'grey hats' who are just about playing around and finding out interesting new things while ignoring the black and white side of things.
This result fills me with visceral glee, for it is very much the way of perl.
It's the mythos - breaking out hackers as something 'cool' - despite all the dumb hollywood stuff in the movie.
True, but it's not just grid computing they're running automatically.

They also make it difficult to disable the grid computing (It's under "Support Digsby"), and they try to get the user to install six different pieces of crapware.

They do this under the guise of being ad free, but in reality they're advertising by sending out Announcements, which seems pretty shady to me.
Sxsw is an awesome conference full of startup founders. People who make things.
"[Brian Knutson] has consistently found that the pictures inside our skulls show that the possibility of a payoff is much more stimulating than actually getting one."

There's evolutionary motivation to stop and smell the roses. Who knew?
(Or at least to walk a little slower past them.)
A short case for fusion.
Probably by making and selling add-on tools for Microsoft products: http://www.red-gate.com/

My guess is that they have some office space and cash to spare (it's probably not all that expensive to run such a program). Plus, they're going to get a lot of positive PR as a result.
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Thank you and your liberal arts sensibilities for capturing one perspective of this moment in time - the zeitgeist, if you will. It is good to remember where we came from, better still to know where we are.

The real hackers are still out there and because of the prevalence of the tools of the trade and the complexity of systems compared to 20 years ago, there are 10 times as many of them. Unless you travel to their places and learn their language you won't know they're there. They (generally) don't have blogs.
Great viral marketing: Porsche Shooting Brake hoax from Top Gear US
If you take this perspective, hacking has progressively been dying since 1940. So choosing the prototypical 1990s hacker is quite arbitrary. In the 40s Turing had to make his own electro-mechanical computers from scratch and invent his own statistical techniques. In the 1990s, assembling computers was already vastly simplified. Whereas today you might buy a motherboard with integrated video, audio, and I/O, back then you had separate cards for everything and perhaps a choice of upgrading to 512 kB of L2 cache with a COAST module. In the 1990s you had to worry about IRQs and perhaps roll your own autoexec.bat and config.sys files to make sure you had enough conventional RAM to run your favourite game. This knowledge was much less technical than what our predecessors had to know and I'm sure they were saying the same things about us back then.

The thing is, most of the hackers that lament a bygone era have simply had the tasks they knew well made obsolete. They are upset because they learned tasks and not skills. Nobody cares today if you can roll a kick-ass DOS boot disk unless you were skilled enough to translate that knowledge into, say, fitting OS X Leopard onto a 1 GB USB memory stick.
Great tips, I have gone through most of the issues you name, and only after long months of hard work, difficult sales and negotiations, we've been fortunate enough to survive and learn similar stuff to the article's tips. I just wished I had read this before (about a year earlier!).
This is probably the best option, but the FSF-approved WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License) may be clearer.

[Previously discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652183]
It is the hackers who embrace technology a long time before it goes mainstream. Why should I sit in a dark room, with a dialup connection to a BBS (where I can talk to other hackers) when I can access a site like HN and do the same thing, while also not being limited by the inherent capabilities of a BBS???

Also, why should I not have a snazzy job title??? You make it sound as though hackers should be recluses from the society. Also, you seem to be talking of hackers only in the sense that 'hackers are people who break into computers and modify computer programs' - which is just total BS.

A hacker is an extremely curios person. In the 90's buffer overflows and credit card number generators piqued the interest of hackers. Now there are other stuff which do. Besides wouldn't it be really stupid if hackers were stuck in the the 90's??? Who would lead innovation then???
I often like to add a little note to my RT to say what I think about it, hopefully the API is just a flag and I can still do this and be compatible with the system.
There's nothing wrong with thinking of the real numbers as infinite decimals. But you probably already do. Learning to think of them as the limits of cauchy sequences is good exercise for learning to think like a mathematician.
Cool demo but again. Will people adopt this technology? Who knows.
Upvotes mean "yes", and also "Please move this up the page a bit".
Downvotes mean "no", and also "Please remove this from the page".

Interpret as you see fit. Agreement is a perfectly good reason to say "yes" to something.
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That would be fine, but there are some 'deletionists' out there that wouldn't be happy with that.

Some deletionists aren't happy with just reverting edits; they insist on actually deleting articles completely and forcing contributors to start over. I've seen this happen and it's like they actually enjoy destroying information more than creating it.

It's one thing to obsess over the quality of an article, but there are people who obsess not only over that, but also about what's in an article's edit history, and don't hesitate to call for total deletion of an article -- about as close to a book-burning as you can get, really -- in order to wipe out something they feel isn't important or just plain don't like.

It's sad, really, because Wikipedia always struck me as having a lot of potential. I still use it to look things up, but I'll be damned if I'm going to spend any time contributing, just to have my work deleted out of hand.
Not a strictly "hacker" recipe, but hard to beat for simplicity: Hainan Chicken Rice

Boil a really big pot of water.

Put a chicken in it. Add a few slices of ginger and some scallions.

Keep the heat on low and poach until the chicken is cooked (about 30 mins).

Take the chicken out (if you're ambitious you can douse it in an ice bath), saving the broth.

Measure N cups of broth and N/2 cups of rice (rinse the rice until the water runs clear). Stick it in your rice cooker.

Serve chicken over the rice. The leftover broth goes in the freezer to start the broth next time. Over time it will intensify.