skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the basic assumption of neurons working as binary units is likely wrong. The next best guess is qubits, but that will take another generation, at least, to even begin to understand the implications let alone test. With two possible states for every neuron the exponential capacity to explain is ridiculous. The problem is that the basic assumption of neurons working as binary units is likely wrong. The next best guess is qubits, but that will take another generation, at least, to even begin to test let alone understand. With two states the exponential capacity to explain is ridiculous. The range of possibilities to decode gets absurd, if not infinite, with an additional supposition of the two. Godspeed to those trying!
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Sweet. Thanks for the info. Goes to show you you're almost never the first to think of something.
I really doubt this will have much of an impact on domain tasting at all. At worst, they will make slightly less money because they'll have to use an ad service that won't target ads as well as Google.

Domain tasting will be alive and well until ICANN puts a stop to it.
Actually, being sloppy on that detail probably saved her from a lifetime of debt slavery, or worse.
Also handy for your .zshrc or .bashrc:

mkcd () {
mkdir -p $1
cd $1
}

Also, moving a tarball before unpacking it is indeed brain-damaged, but,

cd /target/directory
tar xzvf /source/dir/sourcefile.tar.gz

works for me. I don't know why you would need -C, though it saves five keystrokes ("cd -") if you didn't want to end up in the target directory for some reason.

Listing 6 looks like a bad idea; it either goes to or makes a directory, depending on whether it existed. I realize he's just illustrating the use of "||", but don't copy the command. Usually you would want pwd to be an invariant. It looks like he really wanted to write:

[ -d tmp/a/b/c ] || mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c

GNU mkdir -p will not complain if the target directory already existed, so you could just run

mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c

but then that doesn't illustrate the use of "||".

Overuse of 'cat' is a hard habit to break for some reason, especially since it's so harmless. I found it useful as an intermediate step that Z shell is more flexible than other shells about where to put redirection, so:

< foo.txt | wc -l

works in zsh instead of cat foo.txt (to get line count without a filename, which is useful in shell scripts and long one-liners), and seeing that, I would see more obviously that the pipeline is unnecessary.
1. Ego
2. I relish the idea of creating something new
3. I love the idea of serving a unique niche and helping promote startups and entrepreneurs
4. Ego
5. Working out of coffee shops, drinking decaf mochas all day long is my idea of LIVING it up
6. Because I never want to have to say "I wish I had!"
Could you elaborate on why you didn't like the
gaming industry?

What title(s) did you work on?

I just switched to the gaming industry so I hope
the same doesn't happen to me.

So far though, I've just been stoked having an xbox360
on my desk...
OK, I was lying before...but seriously, my girlfriend really says this!
Your work has come a long way. Congratulations.
I enjoy making computers better.
Are photographer a wrip off?
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Where do you think it came from?
Exactly even if no ad network works on non permanent domains they'll still try to gauge domain value by number of visitors in the five day period.

The solution isn't even to abolish it, just make sure even a test domain costs something, even a few cents, much like the economy of SPAM you don't need to fight it by identifying SPAM just make every email you send cost a tenth of a cent.
Java doesn't scale? Really? A lot of work has been put into java since the beginning to make it fast. Jruby for example is faster than C Ruby. Java might not be adequate for web development (I never liked the initial model and by the time better frameworks came out I had given up) but there are many applications where it really shines.
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Heh, I saw "DIY: Small $200 lunch box" and I was a bit surprised.
This is a very confusing site for something that seems like it should be simple.

The center column names look like they should be clickable, but they're not. The republican candidates look like they're disabled because their background has a different color not used anywhere on the site, whereas the democrats' names' background is about the same color and brightness as the tweets' background.

The "candidate popularity" banner presumably refers to the center column, but really I don't know. For a second I thought the whole site was about "candidate popularity", but again, I don't really know.

I don't know what the purpose of this site is. I don't have a clear idea of how it works, so I don't know what to expect. Does it just display all tweets which mention a candidate's name?

I do like the aesthetics though.
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Yes, I think you are stupid.

Not because you use rails or ruby, but because you even care about such trivial bullshit. I use PHP everyday, but do you see me crying about the insane amount of whipping it takes on my blog? Well, I don't have a blog because I'm too busy building shit, but you get my drift.

Yes I think you are stupid because you are polarized on the issue to the point that you can't see any validity in an opinion outside your own. You are religious about something where agnoticism gets you paid better and more frequently.

Christian vs Muslim vs Jew == Java vs Ruby vs PHP vs ... I think the smarter people are the ones who can set aside differences and gleam usefulness from all things.

Sorry on a 2 day code bender so I'm a little disjointed in my thought process, but this is pretty close to how I feel about it. Apologies for the cursing.
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Jesus... "Java is faster than C" argument again. Inferiority complex aside, I did not mean scaling in a technical way. Java did not scale out as a general purpose programming language - it remained foreign and inadequate on all major platforms and, as a result, no software (in comparison to C family) has been done in it, with a notable exception of zoo-like server environments. Go into Debian packages repository and see for yourself. Or, for Windows users, into your C:\Program Files folder.

I hope nobody will be stupid enough to start listing (one by one, literally) Java software projects, like Eclipse, Lucene, etc.
Thanks, and thanks for your feedback way-back-when.
The (short) article didn't indicate that the files being recoverable effected her criminal case at all, but I suppose that there's civil litigation as well.
Not quite: the other one is 'pen1s'.
Most research into brain function and AI employs models that are at the lowest level atomic (i.e., basic chemistry). In ignoring quantum mechanical effects, we are like physicists who approximate a function with a Taylor's series and then truncate the series' higher-order terms. They shouldn't be significant but there's that nagging thought that sometimes they are.

In the book "Tending Adam's Garden : Evolving the Cognitive Immune Self" Irun Cohen discusses (among other things) how evolutionary processes may set up shop in any available ecological niche, regardless of how inefficient or convoluted the process may be. More nagging thoughts.

Degrees of freedom involving quantum mechanical operations are available; there's no reason they wouldn't be used. And as others have stated here, evidence is accumulating that they are used in biological systems. Hard evidence that the brain uses such processes would be revolutionary.

Many models of atomic and electromagnetic theory lie strewn by the roadside as science moves forward: ">Maxwell's molecular-vortex model of electromagnetism ( http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/victorianweb/science/ma... ) and William Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) vortex model of the atom come to mind. I hope we're not as far off the correct path with current theories of intelligence and the mind.
Isn't that basically the same argument, except with the words "mysterious and complex" replaced with the words "probably not computable"?
Thanks for your feedback, we are working to eliminate a lot of what you have pointed out. The real key here is making the public twitter stream of information legible, separate the signal(s) from the noise.
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See this post from a couple weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96057

Business idea? Selling smart crawlers to YCNews readers? There seems to be recurring interest :)
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Bruce, I like your style. Create something valuable to you, then help others reap that same value. Kudos!
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"You're equating using case statement syntax to good programming?"

No. I'd prefer something a little closer to:

Months = ['January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December'];

MonthDesc = Months[MonthNbr - 1];

"That's the best example you have of a mess?"

No. Just what came to mind.

"That makes me suspect that you don't think about programming at a very high level"

You suspect wrong. Don't suspect. Ask and find out.

"you like making largely arbitrary changes to code for (unacknowledged) ego-driven reasons"

If only I had the time, that would be my dream come true!
Very cool study.

One more thing to fuel the AI-assisted investing strategies for all of us. Mechanical Turk, here I come.

You all do have AI-assisted investing strategies, right?
You can build a generic crawler that pulls pages from sites quickly and then process the pages offline with whatever lnguage you'd like. It's better to have a distributed way of doing things. Plus, there are standards that you need to comply with when crawling someone's website., like not crawl them too fast, or to check their robots.txt file to make sure that you're crawling "allowable" pages. Then once you've pulled their data off, you process it offline and do whatever you need to do with the data. It's not a simple procedure, but it's do-able if you want to spend some time doing it properly.
Also, there should be some way of getting MSLP (?) data from a service via RSS or something somewhere - which is a TON nicer than crawling several peoples' webpages.
MLS. :)
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Ouch, billed at $100/hr and got paid $20/hr? You got the shaft.

I agree completely with what you're saying. This is what is driving me away from my job at a software consulting firm at the moment.
<post>

* THIS IS MY POST *

* DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT OR YOU'LL DIE!!! *

exit 1

(you'll die anyway)

</post>
Array indexing is just another way of getting it done. Often a case statement is going to be faster. 90% of the time, it just doesn't matter. If you're getting paid for doing such useless code changes, you might as well get paid for surfing Y Combinator news.

Perhaps that's why the original programmer is a successful founder, and you're fixing the code.

> You suspect wrong. Don't suspect. Ask and find out.

Don't have to ask. You actually think minutiae at this level is interesting discussion. That's evidence against you.
Thanks, after reading that I no longer resent her beauty.
Me thinks there's too much self love in the ruby community. Build more great stuff and you'll have done a better job of convincing me then with these weak arguments I keep on reading.
Startups- Launch Early but Launch Small?
In what universe has Rails eclipsed PHP? It sure isn't this one.
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This guy is a doer not a talker, son.
If you are into java then I will suggest webharvest...if you want something broader(read generic) and brave enough then you can even try nutch.
Perhaps I'm more selfish than the rest of you, but I am starting my company because I want to Win. I want to make a better product than you, have my users love my product more than yours, make more money off it than you, and get more positive press than you. I want to Win, and unlike most people, I really believe I can Win.
MyTym, a Time Tracking django application. Source available as GPL. [Day 3, 7days7apps]
Source is available at http://7days7apps.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/timetrack0.01/

If you wanna check this, and not register, You can login as demo/demo or demo2/demo2.
Speaking in front of people is a skill you lose if you don't practice. I recommend toastmasters:

http://www.toastmasters.org/

I'm secretary for a lunchtime club in Boston:

http://ourdoings.com/oratory-authority/
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I've created groups for Atlanta hacking/startup fans and founders on Facebook & LinkedIn.

Facebook:
Atlanta YC Hacker News fans

LI:
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You Could Help Find and Track "Dirty Bombs" by Simply Carrying a Cell Phone With GPS
A group of researchers from Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would utilize global positioning system (GPS) enabled mobile phones to detect and track nuclear weapons like "dirty bombs."
I currently work for a startup where I'm not the founder. The company's success is important to me for multiple reasons but I don't have nearly as much at stake as the founders do. Their opinion is that there are lots of things we have to "own" and so I currently spend a lot of time creating new technical things. I don't think this is the best way but I don't question it too seriously. Right now I'm more motivated by flexibility.

That said, when I get around to doing my own startup I plan to create as few new technical things as I possibly can until it is safely out of the startup phase. To me creating new technology is more often than not a huge risk which you only want to do when you know the reward is worthwhile.
qubits are not the next best guess. making quantum computers is really hard and delicate. a hot, wet, mushy place like the brain is no good.
he thinks consciousness is not computable, but is quantum computable?

umm, all quantum computers do is run code in many universes, then the output can draw from on the total results. it doesn't really change what kinds of things are computable, besides letting some new things run fast enough to be practical.
I actually think cutting 12 lines of code down to 2 is worthwhile.

He could have posted an example of 600 lines of code that should have been 50, but I'm glad he didn't.
If you think that is bad. The ladyfriend gets billed out at $250/hour by Ernst & Young but she is paid out on salary. She's estimated that she is making about $13/hour with all of the overtime.
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What's it going to be like when there are over 1000 alums?
Rant: Seven Things I Hate About Agile Literature
> Some straight men are celibate. They still get called "heterosexual", though. Straight men who are not celibate are not called "men who have sex with women" (MSW?).

In fact, they are. Straight men who _are_ celibate would not be called MSW, and would not be at risk of contracting an STD. Did you bother to think this through before popping off about the use of what turns out to be the correct terminology?
Do you really think "faster" is what's most important?

In any of these cases, we're in core, where measurements are made in nanoseconds. So it just doesn't matter. Anyone trying to squeeze a few nanoseconds out of anything is wasting their time.

Now let me tell you what DOES matter. Ready?

My back of the envelope solution is 15% as much code as the original. To do the same thing. THAT is a big frickin' deal.

If you've ever spent time building, deploying, enhancing, and maintaining anything of substance, then you already know that, right?

Never said the original programmer was a successful founder. I said he was a retired millionaire. Not hard to do after 40 years in this industry. Or in his case, 1 year's experience 40 times.

I'm fixing bad code because there is a stunning demand to do so now. Because of guys like the original programmer. Which is great. Because it demonstrates the demand for the startup I'm developing.

By the way, I don't decide what is interesting discussion here. The whole group does. Apparently, someone other than you thinks that what I have to say is interesting.
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I don't generally keep scripts like that around where people can run them and if I must I change #!/bin/ksh to something else like #!/bin/cat.

If I actually had to worry about working with someone like the guy in the article, I'd go further and create my own "shell" that would pretend to run the commands but would otherwise syslog/page me whenever someone actually ran it.
Didn't this happen last year? Almost all the students I know in the UK used TV-Links so it was a shame to lose the site.
I hope you do.

And here's the dirty little secret that makes programming startups the best "sport" of all: we all can.
I don't know exactly what the article means when it says Google is going to "stop monetizing" domains, but I hope it means they do something serious like automatically pushing the domain to the very end of any search result unless a special "advanced" search option is given. Who wants a page which isn't likely to exist a week from now to appear in their search results anyways.
"a credit card company which records a higher rate of interest ends up getting a bigger slice of the pie"

That's fascinating. So there's a clear financial incentive to drive the rates up quickly as soon as there's a sign of trouble

Would it make sense to remove that incentive? For example, slice the pie based on principal rather than principal+interest? Or to add in some consistent rate of interest across all creditors?
I clicked on a random link there and got sent to a page of Christian spam. Don't waste your time here.
I liked your post. It reminded me of "anyone can cook" in the movie Ratatouille.
Perhaps so - like I said, I'm not absolutely sure Lisp is the way to go. But if it is, this isn't just a crisp $20 nobody has bothered to pick up, it's the mother lode.

But I do disagree just a bit with your statement that managers look for the fastest and cheapest way to a product. THey look for the fastest and cheapest way available to them as managers. Those three guys probably aren't willing to work for a management type. You could throw money at them, but then you become an investor, not a boss. Which is probably a better deal for you, too.

This is another recurrent theme in PGs essays. The boss/employee relationship doesn't really work. But the investor/founder relationship works brilliantly.
nice, but the question is, what can i do more with OS X that I can't do already with Windows and Linux?
Eh, maybe. If the Lisp programmers are truly talented, and this is truly a contrarian play, then you might have to let go of the comparable project/team requirement.

As for hiring people to develop and maintain... well, this is probably why it doesn't work for the usual boss/employee relationship. The employee may quit a job. But if the employee is a founder or has tons and tons of equity, he'd be quitting on himself. He will go to the mat to save the company. He will bust a vessel in his eye before he'll let it fail.

Yes, he may end up sprawled out on the mat with a broken eye vessel, but that's the price of freedom, right? ;)
Ask YC: What do you think of our site, bug.gd?
http://bug.gd

The idea is simple: you search for an error message on bug.gd. If the solution is there, you win. If not, then we'll ask you (48 hours later) how you figured it out. Your answer is saved to help the next lost soul.

Our latest news is our launch of a Firefox extension that lets you skip the email reminder aspect, saves some keystrokes (auto-paste), and tracks your unsolved errors.

The vision is to get to the point where silly things like computer errors and crashes never need to be solved twice. If someone solves a problem, everyone gets benefit of the answer. We've been asked why users would use the service over searching Google, but we see that as saying you prefer throwing things in the trash over recycling. Some people are like that, but there are many of us that don't want our work to be wasted. As a bonus, since all the solutions submitted are indexed by major search engines, you're helping even those who don't use the site.

Back in October we prepopulated the database with 65,000 Microsoft KB article error messages and it's been growing ever since. Let us know what you think, if you have a moment.

(And, yeah, the logo is intentionally and subtly buggy. We'll get over our silliness eventually.)
Optimal frequency of blog posts
Quick links to save some pasting:

* Site: http://bug.gd

* FireFox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6138

Thanks again for any feedback you guys have.
Judging by the source I give you a +1 for django/python coding style.

Very well done overall.

One thing I might suggest since you are open sourcing this - some documentation as to why you make certain decisions.
Quickly skimming the source, I am left wondering why you went that route in todidlist.dynaforms.

If you want to move the conversation to another venue, my email is in my profile.
The things he doesn't like:

- "It's all new"

- Waterfall is bad

- Bogus Quotes and References

- Command-and-Control

- If it usually works like this, it must be wrong

- Non-Responsive Answers

- Interchanging the Document and the Process
Here's an OSX tool I like that does something similar: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=89078
Tech toys were funny-looking in 1998
Just one decade ago, the price of gas was less than $1.25, cell phones were clunky and technophiles got a new toy: the MP3 player.
I work for http://streeteasy.com . We are experts in this area - especially in real estate ;) Feel free to contact me at ch AT streeteasy.com. It is not an easy task to build what you are looking for. We've been building and improving our system for two years now (ruby on rails.) Scraping the data is just one part of the problem. Validating the data is also a big issue. These sites often have incorrect or stale information. MLS's are good, but they may have restrictions on what you can do with the data, or (as in NYC) they may not even exist.
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Although the fact that I'm reading YC articles may make it hard to convince people I have better things to do with my time, there is simply no way I'm going to bother even trying a silly thing like this when their Terms of Service page is 100 times longer than the signup form.
bayareaguy: What link, please? I'll remove it immediately. Just post it here or send me an email from the site.

thorax: Thanks for the submission and compliment.
it is all about the money, and doing something fun at the same time.

If you do something you like, at home, it is a hobby.
If you do something you like, and try to get rich, than it is a startup.
If you do something you don't like, just b/c to get rich, you will either fail, or be miserable and quit.
Try it and see. At least this way you'll be able to see if there is anything or if the OS works for you personally
Yeah, I can't wait to get rich and retire so I can finally work more (on projects unconstrained by financial considerations)!
The one in the CSS section labeled "Airtight Corners" leads to http://www.airtightov.com/lab/airtight_corners.html

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Ok.. I just tried a few others which seem to be ligitimate. Sorry for the quick reaction. I guess I just got "lucky" the first time.
If the author really meant "do not ever run this script", he should have deleted it. Instead, he added a comment. When comments disagree with code, code wins. Rather than taking responsibility and learning this, he blames the stupidity of a newbie.