skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mutopia's got what you want:

http://www.mutopiaproject.org/

Of course the catalog is only a fraction of IMSLP's (typesetting is much harder than scanning).
I've been involved in a couple of "please participate in some interactive feedback on my app" wave discussions with some friends.

People had to email me to make me aware of the waves. I'm not normally signed in to google. So there's a participation/discovery speed bump for people like me.

However, there was no speed bump in getting that initial message to me via email.

Removing that hard to see speed bump, and other things like it, might benefit wave more than feature fixing.
And how many people are hired based on online reputation?

My last two paid jobs I got through someone I met online, and in my last employment process, it sounded like blog & homepage were a pretty big factor in the decision to hire me.
They wouldn't be publicly denouncing or blocking it, but they would be clandestinely seeking to destroy it.
This is one of those things where the size of the result set let's you easily over fit data. Take 50 people born in 1970 and you could make a fairly simple model based on their birth day to predict if they were living or dead because you only need 50 bits of information and 10 of them can be wrong. There is even a strong bias where most people born in that year are still alive.

Edit: As a simple rule of thumb compare the complexity of the formula with the number of accurate bits in your output compared to the most simple model possible. If the formula is anywhere near as complex as your results it’s probably over fitting the data.
I find that about 1/2 of the objections in this post have todo with cultural, not technical issues.
6.788E52 % daily value of calories.
The summary is grossly misleading. For instance, it characterizes the mention that China, et al. block or could disrupt Wikileaks as "justification" for a "plan", but it is in fact listed as background information about Wikileaks.
> In fact, I remember reading some Feynman lecture in which he specifically mentions how bad this is... anyone got a citation for me?

It's interesting that we still long for citations of some authority figure --- even when we all agree. (And I, too, would like to see what Feynman said.)
Yes, it was a side project that ended up becoming the only project.
I'm surprised he didn't use other resampling (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resampling_%28statistics%29) techniques to validate the models. Not that resampling is a perfect answer, but...
Ok, I didn't look up the numbers. The inflation in January 1997 alone was 380%. This means the stores (the ones that are still open) write new price tags during the day.

I know this is inconceivable to most people, pretty much in the way falling real estate prices were inconceivable. You don't really understand it until you see it.
"Please advise" is one of my pet peeves. It's almost always a passive-aggressive code word.
Very informative, I had learned this long ago but had forgotten what "ides" really meant.
50,000 $1 scratch-offs.
I wish they'd stop posting about people leaving/joining a company. I can see if it's someone important....but they dedicate posts to nobodies. "A janitor at Facebook has decided to move to Google...does this spell doom for Facebook?"

I realize they gotta put out a lot of crap to get pageviews but this is ridiculous.
Interesting idea (act.ly), not entirely sure if it's necessary, though it could be useful to help create a mass movement.

However, please sort out the theme... the red is way too violent. It almost hurts my eyes to look at this page.
Only 481 for the literal "dead simple" match:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22dead+simple%22+s...

Still a lot, but not nearly as much.
Huh, I do this as well. It bothers me a lot if the "wrong" UI element has focus.
i'm building www.easycalapp.com for self-employed people who take appointments. it's in early beta right now but we'll be rolling it out to a wider group in the next month.
It seems like there is a lot of contradiction in how the Fed/Gov are trying to restore the Banking system. On the one side they are telling banks to keep more cash in reserve. (This is a worldwide phenomena). On the other side they are asking them to ease credit a complete contradiction to keeping more reserve. At the moment, banks are building up stock with cheap money from the Fed (at least that what I think they are doing) and credit should ease once they do so (as I believe it is doing currently). Inflation in this scheme would not be a factor because the money is being soaked up by banks as reserve.

At least this is what I'm getting from all the CNBC/Bloomberg watching ;p
(I didn't apply this round) but things like that might give you some insight. Mostly on whether it's worth applying again. If they say there #1 reason is 'no cofounder' you'll get one and apply again later. if there #1 reason is 'not our kinda product' then you won't apply again. There reason could even be "I don't get it" and you realize your pitch may be the reason to blame.

No feedback is not really helpful to anyone. All anyone knows is they were rejected for potentially arbitrary reasons.
video version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFKgbgIGpBU
http://www.secondmarket.com for private company stock that you expect to go public within a year or two. I haven't tried it.
what are you saying? To plan for US/UK ratings loss, "diversify into firearms and canned goods?"
Why not build one..

* Within a few minutes,

* Online,

* Over Google App Engine and

* Without Python/Java coding.

Check out :
http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/03/building-simple-bug-t...
Quickbooks. Best feature: my accountant knows it.
Thanks. Appreciate your input.
Perhaps also add an activity gif in there so everybody knows it's busy (e.g. "Looking for tweets in the area")
So, they pressure China to revalue its currency. And what does that do to the prices of the all of the goods manufactured over there and imported here? I don't think an iPad, to take a prominent example, would go down in price after that. Price hikes like that would be a bigger drag on the world economy than the present situation.
Here's something you can do even with small dollars and without being an accredited investor: find some public firms with lots of "toxic assets" on their books, e.g. mortgage REITs. See if you can find some that most people are afraid to touch, yet you think they'll pull through. Buy their stock.

I have a lot more research to do before I pull the trigger, but I'm planning to throw a couple grand in this direction myself.
I find I can get more of the last kind of emails when I'm working with one or two folks who appreciate knowing how to get their issues solved. i.e. I train the folks I work with on how to help me help them. It takes time and there are usually only a handful of people who will do this, the rest will continue to do what they always do. But every little bit helps. My biggest satisfaction comes when new employees learn from my favorite few without me having to teach them. :)
By Zimbabwean standards we are all rich I guess.

Bartering (or even trade in a foreign currency) adds so much friction that all but the most necessary and unsophisticated transaction simply don't happen.
That sounds like slavery.
By the logic of the report, the New York Times should have been shut down or marginalized when Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

Maybe a better response by the government to Wikileaks would be to ignore it as a specific source of leaks, and instead:

a) Ensure that what the government does is legal and moral, and if the government cannot always be forthcoming with the public it is at least not lying.

b) Assuming a), tighten up control of classified information.

c) Be a strong enough government that it can withstand the occasional leak.

d) Stay the heck out of my internets.

Edit: added "by the government" in intro to bullet list.
For #1 You can beat those odds by going to Vagas. It's not hard to get a 1 in 10 chance of 9.5x return or a 1 in 100 chance of a 95x return. What you want is a 1 in 3 chance of a 30x return within 5 years.

PS: This is also why most VC funds make so little money for the investors.
That's actually a common effect of a recession. People with halfway decent jobs are much more likely to stay put, because they don't want to take the risk of switching to a new company and having it fail soon after.
Or what about the:

"My brother/brother in law/uncle is a plumber/chiropractor/architect and all the software they have sucks! How about they tell you what they want, you build it, and we can cut you in for 20%"
Get achievements for using git.
We can make TechCrunch even geekier by moving to the "undead simple" scale. Is the app usable by a Zombie or animated skeleton? Or would one need to be as smart as a vampire? This would have the side-effect of converting TC into /. Desirability of that varies greatly depending on whom you ask.
I'm a sys-admin, not a programmer...for me, the "OMFG THE COMPUTERS ARE ON FUCKING FIRE!!!!!!!" emails, which are always CC'd to at least 10 people, end up being something stupid like

"Reset your password...that box, the one that keeps popping up telling you that you need to reset your password, what it generally means is that your password has expired and that YOU NEED TO RESET IT!"

My favorite is when a printer runs out of toner and I get an email saying "Help!" (which I loathe) "we're all 'down' over here and can't get anything! HELP! SORRY FOR BUGGING YOU!"

This drives me insane because:

A) Stop using "help", you're not 6 years old, you haven't fallen down a well

B) You know how to change the toner, there is a stack of toners sitting right next to your printer.

C) You're not "down", "everyone" is not "down"...you specifically cannot print, the printer is telling you that you can't print, and it's even telling you how to fix the problem, just LOOK AT IT!

D) Saying "sorry for bugging you" has got to be one of the most obnoxious things you could even possibly say. Stop. If you need something, just ask for it.

Comic related: http://newslily.com/comics/17

Also, in some ways this: http://newslily.com/comics/24
Windows Phone 7 Developer Experience [code + walkthrough]
> Is there anyone who really thinks that by reading any number of books on a topic you could consider yourself an expert?

Math may be the one of the few areas, where this is true. If you can read (and understand!) a math book, you have already gone pretty far. But that's much closer to reading source code (or poetry) than your average book.
Hunger Makes For a Healthy Culture
New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android
The letter is good. The sales message at the end? Not so much.
The iPhone's web browser supports open standards. I'm not too upset it doesn't support a closed (if popular) format.

Not only that but I'd say the iPhone/iPad will give the biggest boost to HTML5 video, due to increased demand.
just because your data can be stolen in other ways does not mean you should do nothing about it. you could address all those issues.
1. Excluding angel investing: If I were you, with 50,000 and unlimited risk tolerance, I'd buy a foreclosure. If you take some time, do your homework, and make the right investment then the payoff could be quite good.

2. I understand your frustration. There's just nothing out there for the beginning angel. As you can tell from most of the answers here-- there really isn't a good answer. You're too rich to have the money sitting in a bond fund, and too poor to be Paul Graham. You're stuck in the middle, and the investments market (right now) doesn't have a home for you. You're also a prime target for some get rich quick investment schemes, so you ought to be careful.
No to long time ago I wrote this post about Simple and Easy in the tech world http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/03/simple-and-easy-as-terms-ar...
OK, so I'll break the rules and go all meta...

The one-line summary which started this little sub-thread was accurate and contained basically all the salient details. Most of the rest of the linked blog post is Tim explaining why he thinks Android's better than iPhone (and/or why he thinks Google is better than Apple). None of that material is new or noteworthy, none of it is new coming from Tim (he's expressed opinions on the subject before) and none of it will be unfamiliar to anyone who frequents any geek-oriented forum.

As I write this there are 48 comments in the thread here on HN. 40 of those 48 comments are the same Android vs. iPhone arguments everyone here has seen more times than they can count. Of the other 8, 3 are related to the process of how Tim got his new job. So that's a whopping 45 out of 48 comments which have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual bit of news announced in the linked article.

Which raises a couple questions:

* Is that really what you want from HN?

* Is a one-line summary of the article, minus the flamewar fuel, more or less useful than the actual article?

* Gee, Brain, what are we doing to do tonight? (Answer: The same thing we do every night, Pinky: argue about Android versus iPhone!)

(and for completeness' sake, yes, I flagged this link)
Impatience was my reaction. It's actually not too bad, it was just twice as long as it needed to be; probably too much adlibbing.
Developers Who Complain iPhone is Closed AND Think HTML5 is the Future
Groupon founders start $100M Chicago based seed fund
Actually, if what he says is true (and I'm reading it correctly), then the Fed can print lots of money, lend it to the US Government so that they can pay off the national debt... but then the US Government owes the Fed, and we're kind of right where we started, except with a good deal more money in circulation.
1. 1 Year.
2. No.
3. I've never applied for funding.
4. http://serverpulsehq.com
Invest it in something that will directly and non-financially benefit at least one other person, not including yourself. I guarantee that it will give you the greatest ROI. You already sound much better off that 99% of the population. Good luck with your investment!
I just found this one:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+licks+to+get+t...
I imagine that becoming an angel is difficult.

1. You need to be situationally positioned well to get decent dealflow.

2. You need to invest in many deals; I have been told that profitable angels do 10+ deals a year.

3. Low-end slices are typically $25k and up. It's a lot of work for companies to wrangle a large number of investors so minimizing that number is to their advantage.

4. It can take YEARS to return anything at all. I've invested in 24 startups since 2007; one exited so far.
Sounds like somebody was watching 60 Minutes last night.

Here's a full article about one of the guys they profiled:
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/04/wall-str...
An open letter to Netflix from the authors of the de-anonymization paper
This is how we handle those emails:

Reply to The Vague Email option A: This might be one of the 8 reported errors in your version, does any of the following apply to your situation (link-to-bug-tickets)? Please check if upgrading to version+1 beta (link) fixes the problem. If not, please if possible provide an exact step-by-step reproduction recipe, as described on http://somewhere/how-to-report-errors.

Reply to The Vague Email option B: This is not a known error, and XYZ works for me. Please if possible provide an exact step-by-step reproduction recipe, as described on http://somewhere/how-to-report-errors.

Reply to The End of the World Email: None. This is always more political than technical, so the department leader gets to handle these ... people.

Reply to The Red Herring Email: Yes, it is working. Can you please give details as described on as described on http://somewhere/how-to-report-errors ?

Reply to The Ideal Email: Thank you for the detailed report. We will start working on this issue immediately/next tuesday/next month. You can try workaround ZYX or download version+1 beta in the meantime. If the problem becomes urgent, please let us know.
" Is there anyone who really thinks that by reading any number of books on a topic you could consider yourself an expert?"

Depends on what exactly "reading" encompasses. If you can work through a good book (say SICP) doing all the exercises etc and writing a lot of code, I'd be very surprised if you don't "level up" very fast. If you've worked completely through "C Interfaces and Implementations" by David Hanson, you should be a pretty good C programmer at the end.

Working through a series of great books will amplify this effect.

so yes you can achieve a lot through proper use of books but 21 days, no way.
The iPhone has more viruses than Android.
This just dances around the edges of the key point: the gap between rich and poor. It's not that there isn't ENOUGH money, it's WHERE the money is. Of course printing new money, and redistributing actual physical units of money are kind of similar things to do (they both equate to wealth redistribution), so while I agree with a lot of what Aaron says, he's only CLOSE to the issue at hand, not actually hitting it on the head.

If you want a TLDR version of the economic crisis, like Aaron attempts here, you really want to just look at the increasing divide between rich and poor in the country (aka the unbalanced distribution of resources = unbalanced distribution of power = system susceptible to corruption, greed etc = incentives lined up to benefit small portions of society not large = economic failure.)
I am quite fond of "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours" (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...). But I guess it is only the very brave who will use it to learn Haskell and Scheme.
QA with Canonical's Matt Asay: Why Linux Beats Apple
I don't know about his country, but this is done also in my country, Switzerland. There isn't much growth, but unemployment is usually lower than 4% I think.

I think they don't try to shorten recessions, but they intervene in case of crashes and bursting bubbles in order to keep the financial markets functioning.

I'm not sure there is much evidence that lowering interest rates help the economy to come out of a recession. I studied economics almost 20 years ago and then the prevailing opinion of economists was that you can't know when a recession will end, so lowering interest rates to spur growth is likely to just cause inflation after the recession ends.

Anyway, if the central bank targets inflation, it also has lower interest rates in a slow economy that doesn't risk overheating.
You're right, the location the function/method lives is slightly different. When I said it wasn't really OO, it is because there's no data encapsulation going on. Just running methods on the output of another method. The line of code could belong in an OO system, but is not in itself OO.
board experience is a super big plus.
Sorry, I automatically skipped that part. Here is a clean link: http://www.carlosslim.com/carta_ing.html

Can a moderator replace the link for me? Thanks.
This is probably the best version of online booking I've seen or had to use. The problems with most of these sites is the fact that they require you to send customers to a third party. If tungle.me could run embedded in the clients site, and integrate in any meaningful way with existing client databases it would be a home run. As it is my own clients will continue to request the very basic booking system that I have built simply because the customer never has to leave their site and it will take advantage of their existing customer database and billing systems.
No, slavery would be forcing someone to work for you (rather like what the government does when it forces people to pay an income tax.) Contracting with someone for a percentage of their income is rather like investing in their startup with the agreement that they will work for the startup for a long time.
I was/am in a similar situation. The rule of thumb financial advisors tend to use (and you should take any advice from them with a few grains of salt...) is to put around 10% of your portfolio into high-risk investments.

The 'typical' route you'll be steered toward are real estate investments. There's a whole world of exotic financial instruments I had never heard of before coming into money, but real estate is probably the most popular, since it seems so familiar to most people. This is what we did. In 2007. Yeah... =) It paid off in the end, surprisingly, but it was a close thing.

The best advice I can give you is to invest in things you understand. If you have enough experience with startups to judge them critically, angel investing may be your best option. Putting your money into something you don't understand is little better than gambling.
Dynamic/Interactive Periodic Table
"Dead simple" it a common and pretty old (60's/70's?) term originating from North of the UK. There's probably a Brit there with an infectious turn of phrase. When I'm working with people in the US for an extended length of time, they inherit a LOT of my colloquialisms.
I agree, the "assigned bully" method works marvelously.
I can't believe I'm reading this here of all places.

http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html
Please expand on why you feel this way. That sentence is essentially meaningless.

OK, I disagree: our HR people are excellent first line filters and save us wasting our time. If a candidate doesn't make it through HR it's because they either lied on their resume/cover letter, give off really bad vibes (we've found that every time the HR person ignores this, we turn the candidate down for the same reason), or is fundamentally unsuited to working on a team.

I'd much rather have HR not schedule a tech interview if there's already a good reason to pass. And, yes, non-technical reasons are excellent reasons to pass on an otherwise good candidate. Do you really want to work with a smart person who drains everyone's morale?
That very observation is included in the "Key Judgements" section.

"The Wikileaks.org Web site could be used to post fabricated information, misinformation, disinformation, or propaganda and could be used in perception management and influence operations to convey a positive or negative message to specific target audiences that view or retrieve information from the Web site."
I understand that legally this is the way it's supposed to be, but do you really expect us to believe that Bernanke doesn't understand what's in his portfolio? Come on...

You're also dismissing the social wins aspect of this: you definitely can't argue that Bernanke doesn't know the way his friends are betting, even if he's "blind" to his own portfolio. Bernanke doesn't have to win directly off this for there still to be a possibility of him making corrupt decisions that help both him and his social network.
Uh, it's 25 and 32 THOUSAND % each!
Not surprising to me. Much of the activity you'd see in this experiment would be related to more mundane cognitive activity like language processing, semantic recall (remembering facts like what's in the middle of our solar system), metamemory (e.g, where did I learn that?), guessing the intent of the question, and thinking about what's for lunch.

Any activity related to theology could easily blend right in with this background activity. They're making the assumption that because theology is a "big issue" that it should stick out like a sore thumb on an fMRI. That's not necessary true. The average church-going Christian adult has probably heard about Jesus's life thousands of times in their life. They could easy answer a question about him without even considering the theological implications of the question. It's just another semantic detail to them.

Edit: Added second paragraph.
Please TechCrunch, publish whatever (legal) you want to. That's what got you where you are today. If I stop liking what you write, I just won't read your site any more. Yours, Not A Whiner.
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Link, please.