skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be lying in bed motionless. It would be sitting in the cave talking quietly instead of sleeping. Or whatever.

I don't think that being asleep is safer than being awake, even in the exact same place. Why do you think someone always stays awake to guard the camp?

Oh well, not like I know what the hell I'm talking about. I just thought Siegel's explanations were too cute by half. Of course we evolved to sleep, there's nothing about us that didn't evolve. But the idea that the state of being asleep makes us safer from predators, and that's the reason for the selection? Doesn't pass the smell test IMO. Could be wrong. Been wrong before.
Please do not create a no-signal-noise-only-persona.

There is a reason why "consultant barbie", "the joke explainer" and "mr i tell you why i upvote" are not here but on reddit.
You could view SCM systems as dropboxes for code. When you write code you want to go back and make edits like you said. These tools allow you to do this and keep track of the life of your program and to learn the basics you would only really need to learn how to get the version you want, put back your changes and how to add/remove artifacts from your project.

Git or SVN would be ideal for what you want, a dropbox is less than ideal.
100,000 Synthetic Trees Could Help Combat Climate Change
They should try to measure it the way Ptolemy did! Or the distance to Sun...
I absolutely agree that the risk of false positives is enough reason. I can't understand how people think that can be acceptable under any circumstances. I'm just not sure that the death penalty is not a deterrent.
This is a great article on the mindset of people who play lottery.

http://www.gurujeff.com/?p=132

But what's most striking to me is how much of a rip-off the government-run lotteries are. It's very unethical. It's so unethical that even when the mafia was running it back in the day they were more honest.

From the article:

Statistically over several hundred turns, if you play a decent game of blackjack or craps, you put up one dollar and get back 95-97% of your money.

Due to the fluctuations of probability, it will appear as though you’re either winning or losing larger amounts.

Roulette, slots, sports games and horse races are geared to take 5-25% of every dollar wagered - and to most knowledgeable gamblers, 25% is too much.

Even the mafia, when they ran numbers, would take no more than 33 cents on the dollar.

State lotteries are just an out right plain as day rip off taking over half the money you put in.

What about the Super Jackpot Lotteries?

The “Power Ball” or 6/49 games - whatever they’re called in different parts of the country - are all run the same.

You buy a ticket for a dollar; less than 40 cents goes back into the prize pool.
I used it in a website for a customer.
The paste form Word feature is still woefully poor. The only editor I know that does this well is XStandard, which is a browser plugin and not free.

Anyone know if this is something the CKEditor team are working on?
The hacker in me wants to cry, "Don't overlook 'Color Functionality in Marketing'".

red and yellow - most easily seen from a moving car

Any coincidence these are the primary colors of McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's?
> The United Nations estimates that by the middle of the century there will be more than a million Japanese who are over 100 years old.

Wow!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7612363.stm
I got so upset after B) I skipped C), which I was confident I could tackle. My first version of A) worked without issue and I ended up timing out on A.2 because I had overlooked the fact that I couldn't cut and paste the whole result from my terminal.

B) I could solve the sample and the B.1 test case 'looked' like they could have been right but I kept getting incorrect answer on it. It wasn't anything with the dimensions of the map (something I ran into and fixed) so I still can't imagine how you can solve the examples and not solve the test cases.

Kinda fun though...
Even though we're supposed to say 'ten', I'd wager that they plucked the most iconic glyph from the word "NeXT" as a subtle nod to the preceding brand.
I think if anything a VCS could make you faster because it frees you from worrying about whether you're going to make a change or delete something you can never undo.

With version control you're always safe in the knowledge that whatever you do, you can always 'revert' to the last version that worked.
Also

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com
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Regarding:

A) If you're in a language with a good regular expression library, there is a very fast cheesy way ;)

B) I'm equally mystified, I'm satisfied that my solution was correct, but it took 80 lines and multiple passes through the array. I'm impressed that the top tier polished it off in around ten minutes. There must be a fairly simple way.

C) I agree that this one just depends on how quickly you can figure out an algorithm. It's entirely plausible to me that someone with algorithm competition experience has almost literally seen this problem before.
I was going to point out my favourite bits, but this article is full of good insights and very well-written.

One of the best things I have read in a long time. Totally worth the 5 minutes.
Ask HN: What would be the ultimate YC mash-up? Dropbox + Posterous ?
So I can't help but be blown away by all of the innovative start ups that YC births and it got me thinking... what would the ultimate YC mash-up be if you could combine a bunch of their sites together?

Dropbox + Posterous = Automated blogging via dragging textile documents into a Blog folder?

What's your suggestion... be creative!
Yes.

Yes.

Yes.
Most people savvy enough to make international investments have setup structures that ensure they don't pay any tax at all. Forcing the issue and making everyone pay where the value is generated would be a win for each country. The U.S. has lost massive potential tax revenue by not collecting on foreign investment gains in U.S. entities. China does not need to make such a move as they already have in place a much larger protection deal going: your gains in China for the most part, get locked up in RMB and can't easily be moved out of China. So although your foreign invested capital gains are not taxed directly, your gains mostly have to get reinvested in other China interests. Now that is a sweet racket!! Its t least on par with the petrodollar scheme.
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I thought this editor looked familiar, my University (IU & IUPUI) has been using the same 'FCKEditor' for 5+ years now; nevertheless, it serves as our WYSIWYG editor for sending messages back and forth via our University's version of Sakai's (http://sakaiproject.org/portal) messaging system, I couldn't tell you how many times my session has timed out costing me a couple paragraphs of my time o_O

Sloppily implemented (http://imgur.com/uarQy.jpg), <french-accent>No</french-accent>?
first it will download any necessary software updates that have come out since the disc was pressed

(from http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/28/murphy)

Does anyone know if this covers Flash?
The problems aren't problems per se, the insurance business has those pretty well figured out (you hedge the risk on a reinsurance market like Lloyds of London). Only question is if you can get some rates/terms that clients would accept.

If *AA got such a list and started suing using is as a base, well, at least you'd have a well-funded entity fighting on you side.
I am speculating here, but I suspect it gives them a metric that is in some ways more reliable than just measuring unique IP addresses.

Most likely it is that metric they really want, but if you want to be cynical, they could be selling those addresses without ever sending a single message themselves.
Surprisingly http://www.tankafritt.nu/uk/ seem to be doing that, the main site is in Swedish so I'm not sure what the actual deal is.
Interesting thought, and you have good points. A 25 line script probably isn't worth the hassle of version control.

The thing is that learning version control is well worth the hassle of version control for someone trying to become a programmer.
Can playing Tetris actually make you more intelligent?
This variation on the "foldable" bike is clever but it seems to be quite long to assemble and disassemble. It also requires a carrying case.
His point is that the sum total of all the things they do to you when you do a "serious crime" is less than the sum of the things they do to you if you pirate music. This doesn't seem like a common sense notion of justice. Even if you don't like the details of his treatment of the subject, his basic point stands.

(Of course, it might be rational to deliberately punish music pirates more than murderers, if there's a very low chance of catching a pirate and a good chance of catching a murderer, but this doesn't square with most people's sense of justice.)
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Life insurance is a tool too and I have no idea how to redeem a policy.
Shame is essential, but you can get out of it
What does your workspace look like?
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Start with svn or mercurial to get a feel for what it's all about. You can always step up to git when they don't cut it anymore.

exactly - if he starts out with something like git, he's probably going to burn out and have a bad impression of source control, which doesn't help anybody.
Don't Shop Your Term Sheet
Yes, you're right. This article doesn't make any sense. Any one of the actions it contrasts with file sharing could easily get you sued in civil court for seven figures, after you paid fines and did prison time.
Wow, you run an online community for mothers in India? Very interesting stuff. Didn't expect such a thing to exist. How's the site coming along?
Werkzeug (Tool), less than a framework, a flexible base for any WSGI application
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In U.S. patent law, it already is a crime to file a patent whereby you know you are not the inventor or know there is prior art.

I have not heard of a case where such a violation was punished. Any legal experts on here no of one? Probably for good reason. Its a nice gesture that we ask the inventors to be honest. But I don't see how well it could be enforced.
Climate change is a normal earth cycle of warming and cooling trends. So don't believe the hype. However I would never say no to more trees.
Brilliant! So, instead of going bankrupt, you arrange to have the RIAA paid the full amount of their judgement. Just like with professional liability insurance, the RIAA now has more incentive to sue, which creates more incentive to buy insurance. Pretty soon, almost everyone's paying a little bit of money every month to download music.

You sure showed those RIAA guys! And they thought they had this whole thing worked out.
The NFL has proven very resilient. It absorbed the All-American Conference about 1950, the AFL in the 1960s. The USFL sort of hung on in the 1980s until Donald Trump decided to go head-to-head with a fall schedule.
Apparently, i just posted this yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801605
You still have the problem where crime X (let's say stealing a car) and crime Y (maybe shooting someone in the leg) result in the same prison term, when normal people would say that one of the crimes is a lot worse. Prison plus fine is barely multidimensional, and converting prison to money reduces it to one dimension again.

In a study like the one you propose, they should also see what effect the crime causing the prison term has on the valuations - will time in prison for rape cost more or less than time in prison for murder?
Ask YC Archive: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
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You can start by looking up the word "elucidate".
Looking at the slideshow, I would say this man is much less an entrepreneur, and much more an artist. He is taking discarded, un-appreciated things, and transforming them and arranging them into something beautiful. That the end result is functional housing for low income people enhances the aesthetic value even more, I think. True, this kind of art does not "scale," but with art that is not necessarily the point.

I would also say that much of what he does certainly qualifies as a hack in the sense of ‘an appropriate application of ingenuity.’ And scalable or not, that should certainly be appreciated here.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
And if you use ExpressionEngine (a very popular CMS), there's a new plugin for it: http://brandon-kelly.com/wygwam
The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2)
collateral damage — Unintentional or incidental injury or damage to persons or objects that would not be lawful military targets in the circumstances ruling at the time.

DoD manual: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf

Civilian families aren't lawful military targets.
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I think while this research is very interesting, it is not complete. Humans taste in music is cultural. People like different kinds of music according to what they have been exposed and are used to. For example, I am pretty much indifferent to classical music, but I really like and "respond" to RnB and Latin music. I wasn't born with these preferences, but I learned them.

It would be interesting to see if monkeys could learn to like music, just like we do. I remember my older brother used to listen to some music really loud, and at first I didn't like the music at all, but after a while I started enjoying it, and I still enjoy it because I have an emotional attachment to that music.

It would also be really interesting to see if monkeys respond to some very primitive form of human music, like just drums or making sound beating sticks together or something like that.
Definitely learn to use version control of some sort (I'm still stuck on Subversion) as early as you possibly can. Indeed, it'll be great to track your progress as you build up code on more complex stuff. Also, you'll definitely be great in a team environment and it'll foster a somewhat safer team environment, too. Teaching a developer now at my job (who was in place before I was) how to use SVN because now we're officially a team and I stay nervous about accidentally hosing anything he does or vice versa.

And yes, being able to rollback bugs or things your users don't like in a systematic, traceable way is absolutely the best. Undo only works up to a point lol.

Check out The Pragmatic Programmer for more nice ideas about being a developer. http://www.pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer
Sorry, webtrendmap.com is only compatible with Firefox and Safari.

Too bad.
Sorry for the stupid suggestion but Have you checked in your spam box?
I have not tried github, but I find bitbucket (Mercurial hosting) to address your issues properly. Everything else with that site is also right :)
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It's hard to judge the merits of the arguments posed by TC's guest authors, as they are invariably "what you'd expect," given the authors' profession -- i.e., always in their own best interest.

This obvious conflict-of-interest, combined with the discussion of semi-technical stuff (such as this particular article on legal terms), makes these posts impossible to evaluate on their own merits, and thus useless.
How does one win the lottery without buying a ticket? Do you mean by finding a discarded winning ticket?
I already foresee a bug in the trees firmware that will make them release all the accumulated CO2 all at once killing all life forms on earth!

BTW where does all the CO2 go?
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> If you like to give cash to charities, give some money to charities.

Yes, and if someone wants to play the lottery, they should be allowed to play the lottery.

In general, most people most of the time can act in their own interests better than the state can on their behalf, so that in general, laws that attempt to prevent people from making bad decisions usually decrease overall utility.
What Is The Best way To Invest Money?
As a historical note -- git and hg didn't become popular and trivial to use until the past couple of years. When YouTube was written, free DVCSes were tricky to use, documentation was shakier and the best alternative, SVN, is a pain to set up for sharing over the internet. We're living in enlightened times now.
Where is HackCo? - A startup idea that leverages the part-time hacker community
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In my opinion the justice system should aim to convert criminals into productive members of society, and protect the rest of society from said criminals until they're fit for society again.

Since it's not a simple problem to solve, I don't have a better solution than "use common sense and take as many aspects as possible into consideration, and dont' forget to look at the big picture". Saying that money is the only thing that we can measure and so it has to be the basis of any decision is to pretend that it's a simple problem.
No; it's not scalable because most people wouldn't gain any enjoyment from it and it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to train them to do it so you can pay them. How much they "value their time" has little to do with it.
Note to self: Ignore Chris Dixon.

A small number of VC’s have a real value add. I would not shop Sequoia's term sheet, but a second tier VC has little to leverage other than cash.
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I don't know anything about VCs and funding, that being said how are you supposed to get competitive bidding going if you can't shop term sheets, or verbal offers as this article suggests?

What are you supposed to say, "I have a very good feeling VC X might offer me 4, so you are going to have to offer 5." You can't haggle unless you have concrete alternatives to push the price up.
Many working poor have an effectively zero probability of dramatically improving their financial situation. The odds of winning the lottery are higher than zero. Therefore, there is a sort of rationality to playing if you have correctly self assessed that you're stuck in near poverty.

That said, it's deplorable government is running these programs. Only 40 years ago this was the illegal domain of mobsters and sleazeballs. Now the state has muscled in on the action is legitimizing the moral message that you can get something for nothing.
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It used to be called FCKEditor, which is used on a lot of big sites such as pbworks.com (which was also formerly known as pbwiki)
puhleeze. If your startup is hot, shop the fuck out of it. VC's are lemmings; once they decide with their collective hive mind that you're the hizzy, it's basically impossible to piss them off enough to kill the deal.

OTOH, if you're not hot, they will use any lame excuse to walk, and you won't have anything to 'shop' in the first place, other than warm fuzzy talk at the end of an expensive lunch.
Serious question: how do trees, which exchange CO2 for O2, help climate change? More specifically, isn't the problem that too much CO2 is way up there? How do trees down here help that?
Well I'm sure glad that's settled.
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I get mail from them but it is really quite infrequent. Perhaps it ends up in your spam folder?
Just to clarify, the ban only applies 90 minutes before a game, through the game and ends after the official post-game media time.

And this will last. Remember this is a league that mandates players stay in hotels and have a curfew the night before games, even for home games...
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It is the ten traits that came to me on a 15 minute subway ride

Are you serious? Sounds like that post is a lot of BS to get attention. Better go read a good book based on actual _research_ like "Good to Great" or "Built to Last", both by Jim Collins.
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I'm sorry, but these "Synthetic Trees" seem to be incredibly stupid. Trees (real ones) serve several funtions, the ones most important to this being: They remove CO2, and the turn it into oxygen. All that these Synthetic trees do is take CO2 out of the air, and shove it underground to store. This may just be me, but this sounds like the kind of thing that will have massive ramifications a century or so down the line.
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I don't know what shitty "football fans" you've been hanging out with, but you need to find some better ones.
All replies are good.

I was more interested in historical archive of HN though.
"Pretty soon, almost everyone's paying a little bit of money every month to download music."

I.e. cheap licencing, which is what they should have don in the first place.
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For really accurate measurements check out http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/apollo.html
By bouncing a laser off several reflectors that were left on the moon, they are able to get accuracies of one millimeter.
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Damn lottery. Too expensive. Not the ticket price, but all the mental overhead that's associated with buying a ticket, thinking about it, hoping for the win, getting the almost inevitable disappointment when you lose... All this draining precious brain juice that you could use to take matters in your own hands to make a better future for yourself with a very much higher chance of success and higher edification.
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He is makeing a living doing this. The housing is cheep to create, because the materials and land are donated pluss he is not trying to fit a generic mold. At the same time I think he is selling them for less than they are worth.
> People have their opinions on what sort of life is worse than death, so I won't argue with you.

You misunderstand - I'm not saying anything about quality of life.

I'm pointing out that innocent people on death row are far more likely to be released than innocent people sentenced to life without parole.

In fact, even less than life sentences are frequently fatal.

Prison life is very deadly.

FWIW, death row is safer and has better quality of life in many respects.
As i am reading into this whole "raising money" topic recently, this is what i came across in Venture Hacks.

My understanding is, shop around, but, don't say it as "shop around". Use other languages or excuses.

http://venturehacks.com/articles/shop-around

This is the summary:

Summary: A deal is only as good as its best alternative. Keep improving your alternatives until you have a signed term sheet. And keep developing your current offers or they will die. Finally, don’t say "shopping around", it puts investors off their stroke.
So what do you do when you are fresh out of university with a great idea and a great team with no cash. All you need is £15K to cover 3 months living expenses and roll out a first version of your app. You manage to convince some friends / family / fools to part with just enough to get you going.

The deal breaker is that everyone involved wants something on paper that they can trust covers their best interests. What goes on that piece of paper when there is no cash available to pay for a lawyer?
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There is a mirror of the article at: http://anirudhsasikumar.net/examples/readefine/

The actual tool is at: http://readefine.anirudhsasikumar.net/
"One member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys described Baylis’s comments about criminalising patent violations as 'barking mad'".

Luckily someone was available to put this in perspective.