skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, other than the "you're young and finally out of your parents' house, yippee!" aspect, most college experiences seem to come down to external validation.

In theory, if you're lucky, you'll be exposed to a whole new world of intellectual possibilities and meet many wonderful people who'll join you on your journey to maturity, transforming into friendships for life, but that seems to be more the exception than the rule.

I've paid maybe $4,000 over the past year for "professional development" courses (writing, business, marketing, etc.) and every single one was totally worth it.

I wish I could say the same about the thousands I sunk into college classes before I dropped out.
* a useful credential for getting jobs
I'm going to have to disagree with your second part. Yes the reason that healthcare is a mess is because the government is involved, but not because they need to be more involved.

1. Tax structure that makes a market place for insurance impossible.
2. Medicare reimbursement system, it's method of calculating costs is seriously flawed.
3. The inability to buy insurance across state lines.
4. The inability to sign a contract with your doctor, i.e. waive/limit liability.
5. Massive amounts of regulation and red tape that must be complied with.
6. The strangle hold the AMA has on the production of doctors, granted by the government.

and those are just a few of the major problems.

What we have today and these future proposals are all forms of regulatory capture -- i.e. influencing and controlling those who make the rules. Every time you see a new standard or regulation it can probably be assumed that it's being proposed to cement the position of vested interests.
Alternatively, you could just write a shell function:

cp() { pv < $1 > $2; }

(Or name the function something else if you want regular cp still available.)
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I'm sorry that you browse on a screen smaller than 620x480.
Since when does talking about money all the time imply ambition? Usually the people who spend the most time talking about something are the least likely to go out and do something toward it.
Ask HN: Has anyone used the Yelp API?
I am in the process of building a local restaurant guide and was hoping to use the Yelp API to help augment the information I already have. It would seem that the terms of use (http://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/api_terms) restricts you from doing anything interesting with their data. I had hoped to aggregate their ratings with other review sites, including my own, and also to cache these ratings locally as I am not shooting for "real-time" results. Does anyone know how aggressively Yelp polices the usage of their API? Has anyone made anything useful with this API and the restrictions in place?
"The Clash totally like, spoke to me, man."
"My new chair rail really brings the room together!"

vs

"My life has been completely transformed from the inside out and PS, I don't hate it any more"

Don't seem the same to me.
From any reasonable ethical standpoint, how is it a "solution", rather than a severe indignity, to accept a regime that requires people to buy insurance policies on their own bodies? That's fucking morbid.

I'm having a hard time seeing the outrage. We "require" people to buy food and shelter and clothes for their own bodies, all of which are even more necessary than health care.
I think you've never done translation.

I do about 4000 words in a nominal working day, and by the standards of the industry I am hell on wheels, to the point that when I need backup on a job because of scheduling difficulties I can't find it because I literally don't know anybody else in the world that works as fast as I do.

2000 words a day is not lounging, and it's not 5.5 hours of work; that would be 363 words an hour, a pace most people can't sustain. For most translators, 2000 words is a hard day's work.

This is because translation is harder than just typing whatever comes into your head; in case you haven't understood this point, the idea is to take text that's already been written in another language, and express it in yours. And ideally, you have to express it well, as though it had already been written in your language to start with. Since you are doubtlessly monolingual, I will just note here that this is a hell of a lot harder than it sounds. I translate well over a million words a year, and I still sometimes come out with unbelievable Germanisms.
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Data from any one weather station can neither prove nor disprove – well – I would guess pretty much anything climate related.

The author doesn’t claim any such thing and the article is actually a quite nice read. The headline here stretches the hyperbole of the original headline quite a bit too much, though.
There's also the scheduling problem: One of the reasons going by car is attractive, is the flexibility of leaving exactly when you're ready, not a second sooner or later. If you're picking someone up, you have a certain pressure to do it somewhat close to the agreed time. Also, there's the risk of your passenger running late. Very few people will be ruthless enough to just take off without waiting for a while.

Finally, there's insurance and taxi boards. The first can be handled (e.g. as a part of the booking process you buy a second policy covering the passenger or something like that), the second can't, and will kill this idea dead.
If you are a mugger, you need to mug on a regular basis to eat. If a victim resists, it's not worth the risk to stay and fight, even if they don't know what they're doing they could still get in a lucky punch, and screw up your livelihood.

Not that someone stumbling drunk is necessarily going to run through that calculation.
Xubuntu is actually pretty bloated in slow, in some tests even worse than the standard Ubuntu install. (see <http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7520/1.html>; ).

Lubuntu, which is the "official" Ubuntu sub-distro for light fast iso for small-spec computers runs on LXDE instead of XFCE and is purportedly much better on resources and faster. I think the real reason why Xubuntu is so bad is because all the other junk from Ubuntu Gnome got packaged in with Xfce and got called Xubuntu.
Ask HN: Submitted startup looking for feedback
Twistori didn't give me creative freedom and, as I said, it earned me no money directly. (Despite the fact that, nearly 3 years after launch, in the last 90 days people spent an accumulated 57 years on the site.)

I describe what it really did for me, which LED to the creative freedom.

If you want your projects to do something for you financially, and they're not, then you should tackle that as a project in and of itself.
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Probably you want a chord wearable keyboard like this: http://www.handykey.com/

(needs some training to type).
I agree that it is bad to preannounce specific features, but you've misread the article. What the article advises is to share is a one page "product vision or roadmap". I'd imagine that this one-page lays out what the problem space is, and generally what the approach is.
Funny how we object to companies selling to these bad countries - while we are happy to prop up the same bad countries by buying their oil/gas.
Hey guys. We've just submitted (as some of you here) the last edition of our YC application form. On quarket.com you'll find a demo video describing our project. Any opinions, advice, questions are welcome.

By the way, PG is allegedly reading all posts here, so hopefully he'll have a look too.
2 or 3 seconds at most? You're describing a kung-fu movie series of moves where you execute this complicated dance and the other dude just goes with it, cause he's a sparring partner.

Sounds like you've been through some training, you can probably take a glancing punch without having it stun you too bad, but you think getting nicked by a knife in the process is gonna leave you good odds of recovering and winning the fight? In real world fights, the first serious hit usually wins, you don't have training at fighting while stabbed, your body will react on it's own and the guy will probably stab you again.

As some people said upthread, even if you think you have 90% odds, it's stupid to fight someone with a knife.
I think you misunderstand the story.

1. John Galt convinces the "rich", though quite a few weren't, that continuing their work would lead to their destruction so in order to survive they would need to go on strike. Perhaps the better analogy is the man who invents a new weapon and then is killed by someone else using it.

2. The problem was that as the bosses left others with corrupt ideologies were taking their place.

3. Nothing in the book has to do with the rich needing luxuries, in fact they all move out to Galt's gulch and do manual labor and leave the life of luxury behind. In fact her stories are all about being true to yourself and living your life the way that you want to.

I'm not a fan of everything she's written, but I think you really missed the point of the book.
Ask HN: MixcloudAds, if we white-label it would you use it?
Screencast: http://vimeo.com/9690050

Once we started running ads on the site, we very quickly realised the whole process of selling the ad, receiving the banner, invoicing the advertiser, receiving the money, trafficking the ad and reporting the progress back to the advertiser is very time consuming.

Therefore we set out to solve this problem by building a self-serve direct ad server – an entirely tech driven solution that enables any advertiser – large or small – to set up and serve an ad on Mixcloud within minutes. Sweet!

Since going Live 3 days ago, we are now selling a very significant % of our inventory through the new system, this could be a honeymoon period, could be a serious revenue source.

The good news is we built the system on Google AppEngine independent from our main code base, and with white-labeling in mind from day one. If we were to release this as a white-label product, would any of you actually use it? We would probably use PayPal Adaptive Payments and take a % of ad sales, so no win no fee kind of model.

Mat
After reading about the climatology controversies, and not knowing who to believe, I did my own investigation of the climate data using the GHCN data, which was the most comprehensive publicly available set I could find.

http://code.google.com/p/tempgraph/

This is written in C++, and you can plot the data in numerous different ways, including individual weather stations if you wish.
Nothing against amateur scientists. However, it says "At Armagh Observatory", so it is hardly global warming - it's probably Armagh warming? Haven't read all the details, so I can't say. But there seem to be other data sets out there that show rising temperature? So why should this one data point be more significant than others?
The social problems are the same with AirBnB, and yet it seems to be doing pretty well. Having someone in your house is even more dramatic than having them sit next to you for a few hours on a drive. I think it's part of the appeal for many people; while it's not really safe to hitch-hike, it's a pretty cool way to see the country and meet new people.

I enjoyed using AirBnB (as a host), though I was extremely selective about who stayed and when. Now that I live in an RV and travel all the time, I'd probably be down with having a co-pilot every once in a while during drives.
Democrats did not exactly try to prevent people from buying homes they couldn't afford--or to prevent the government from spending money they didn't have.

Fair point. Both parties had a hand in the subprime mess. For the record, I'm not a fan of the Democratic party at all.

On the other hand, it's Republicans (and some spineless Democrats who followed them) who led the way in passing tax cuts for the rich while getting us into an extremely expensive, unnecessary, immoral and arguably illegal war.

Private health insurance is still very exciting to, e.g., Canadian politicians. A health care system in which costs are not paid by a) the physician, or b) the patient, is necessarily going to have high prices, shortages, or both.

That's why Canada pays the largest percentage of GDP on healthcare expenses, has 6- to 12-hour ER waits as a matter of course, 3-month waits to see specialists in most of the country, so much bureaucracy that most medical practices have to hire someone full time to deal with it, and has life expectancy, infant mortality, and preventable death rates that are terrible by OECD standards. Oh wait... sorry, I got that wrong; that's us.
I like the idea of in-memory change detection... there's a definite use there. I don't agree with the idea of storing all files in memory (especially given their complaint that Git is slow on 20GB of files...), though I admit grepping that is fast.

But what if it were simplified to just a live ls-diff based on when a command was last run / a timestamp? If Git / Make would hook into something like that it'd be really useful.
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Is a cold disk unrealistic? I can't imagine the entire source tree for mozilla staying in cache - that's a lot of stat() entries.

regardless, even if it's not 21 minutes, my experience building mozilla with make was definitely slow.
I believe it only stores files in RAM for search, not builds.
Mad max references aside, I wonder if anyone has seriously considered just processing the waste into something useful. If they prevented some of of the careless inorganic stuff from getting in there (batteries, wtf?) couldn't this be an excellent source of fuel & fertilizer?
I own menumunchies.com - at one time it was making $, had good traffic. People still use it, but I have no time to run it. At this point in time, I'll consider it a piece from my portfolio.

I also have a bunch of domains for side projects - those I usually hold on to, just in case I have time. Granted, there's always sedo.com as a good placeholder.
Contrary to popular belief in close quarter combat a knife is far more dangerous than a gun. A gun requires action on the part of the assailant while a knife can be dangerous with only reactionary movement. For example one of the key tenants of close quarter combat is explosive violence, basically when you go you go off. When you do the assailant has a small window of time to chose an action e.g. aim and pull the trigger. With a gun the slightest movement moves you out of trajectory which require a new action on the part of the assailant these calculations are not as fast as reaction time. Conversely with a knife it can be wielded in a reactionary fashion e.g I go to grab it the assailant flinches back and I get slashed. The weapon can be used without the assailant consciously choosing to do so.

Unfortunately the best (read safest) method for dealing with a knife telegraphs your intention and throws explosive violence out the window because the most assured way is to either pick up a longer instrument (bat, tire iron) or to take off an item of clothing to act as the item to trap the arm either of which let the assailant know what the score is.

Knowing this and reading that the gentleman still opted to use the element of surprise, gives some insight as to how confident this individual was with his abilities. The fact that he first used his feet to disarm the knife says that he analyzed the situation and decided that the element of surprise was more valuable than opting for a telegraphed safer method.
After reading the top page of yearofhustle.com, I am still far too uncertain about what you're offering to commit $500 to it. I think you need to make the course description more precise.
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Thank you, sir!

I believe that the best sales material is educational and practically stands alone. Hasn't steered me wrong yet.
" With different mobile phones and different resolutions, you would need to write different Flash applications to be really usable on different resolution phones"

Flash Application scale very easily on different screen resolution... what he is talking about?
ibb, at it's core, is just an in memory tree of the filesystem metadata. Search is implemented as a plugin that stores the file contents in memory.

And ibb is proof of concept, showing that O(1) is possible, desirable and useful. Having said that, I've been using it daily, because we have > 200MB of PHP/JS/CSS/HTML at IMVU.
I actually implemented a shakespeare interpreter exactly cause I found it neat so here's an upmod :)
Personally, I'm sitting on:

* MeetTheDress.com
* tweetfrag/fragtweet.com
* hackmyjob.com

If anyone wants to pick one of those projects up and run with it, I'd be happy to part with them.

That last domain has put me through at least 3 or 4 ideas, and nothing has really jumped out at me. That's probably the only one I'd hate to lose, but at this point I'm not sure what I'd do with it.
Well, thanks, but that's just as childish. Oh, they'll be replaced by the impure -- what a silly premise, only these few supermen are worthy of doing high-end industrial jobs, and if they don't do it then it'll be done in an ideologically impure manner... who's pure?

Gimme a break. If anything, the way things work in the corporate world the bosses are some of the least likely people to have consistent morals in the face of expedient solutions.

There's a million people waiting to replace them and, with a little time to get used to a job, there's no fateful reason why the previous person doing it is the only person who possibly could.

The thing about that story is that the adherents claim to be all wise and worldly, oh, you'll get it once you're making money -- I'm making money, I think it's BS and nobody actually succeeds with such a childish, self-gratifying attitude.
This is definitely me, though I'm sure I'm not the only one. My laziness didn't come from simply being intelligent, but from everyone always telling me how smart I was. As a result, I was terrified to fail and disappoint. Straight A's were effortless, but I never tried anything 'risky'.

This all changed when I started doing start-ups. I learned to fail many, many times, but instead of quitting, I just kept trying again and again. I actually kicked my 20-something year old habit of being lazy, because the reward that comes with doing all the hard work is much greater than the fear of failure.
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Thanks for the feedback.

The actual sales part is really tailored to the audience I already have, many of whom have seen the educational stuff I create (the book, the cheat sheets, the blog posts). I figure the course will be at least 85%+ made up of them. I've already sold 25/50 seats.

If you have any specific info I could provide that would clarify it for your fresh pair of eyes, I'd appreciate it!
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A typical desktop is 4GB, stuff stays in cache for weeks on my laptop. Yes, I'd say it's unrealistic. Especially since the use case here is a "minimally changed build" for a developer. You build it once, then change something, then build again. You don't reboot in the middle.
I'm the author.

Yes, there are other suggested improvements to the patent office, such as rejecting obvious patents. Except you can't easily fix that, whereas substituting 20 by 7 is something that can be done by your average lawmaker.

Regarding China: you must have misinterpreted what I was saying. I pointed to China as an example of what would happen if we dropped patent protection completely. Indeed, China doesn't care much about patents currently, and it's not a world I want to live in.
Slightly off-topic: Why are you using the ticker-symbol?
If the service actually is able to integrate with all the shopping abilities the demo shows off, it's a very nice concept.

Two things I'd suggest for the iPad version:
* Make it very clear when I'm purchasing something. On set top boxes, there's usually a special red button that says buy, for example. Maybe have a standardized interface so that I feel comfortable I won't accidentally purchase 12 tickets to Miley Cyrus 3D, and later hassle you or your partners for a refund.

* Dump the windows! I understand you want to keep people oriented to the map/search interface, but having widgets on widgets looked odd on the iPad, and will probably look even more cluttered on the phone versions.

Overall, great looking app.
[Smart people] focus on things they can't fail on, and ignore the other important things.
19. The power of desktop machines is a magnet that will reverse today's "everything onto the Web!" trend. Desktop power will inevitably drag information out of remote servers onto desktops.

20. If a million people use a Web site simultaneously, doesn't that mean that we must have a heavy-duty remote server to keep them all happy? No; we could move the site onto a million desktops and use the internet for coordination. The "site" is like a military unit in the field, the general moving with his troops (or like a hockey team in constant swarming motion). (We used essentially this technique to build the first tuple space implementations. They seemed to depend on a shared server, but the server was an illusion; there was no server, just a swarm of clients.) Could Amazon.com be an itinerant horde instead of a fixed Central Command Post? Yes.

Now the network 'edge' is physically the the carrier owned physical location nearest the end user. This suggests that edge will be moved to the physical location of the end user. Financially this makes sense since it would move some of the carrier hardware and compute costs to the customer thus lowering the service costs as well as decreasing latency. It could be the next step in development of the compute cloud.
If you're confronted by guys with knives you're going to run away? It's generally safer to give them what they want and be done with it.
I've noticed that new things they've indexed perform extremely well for a day or two, then fall like a rock if they're not from an authoritative source.

After the couple days that fresh results are towards the top, Google seems to put more relevance on good incoming links. In order to have those links, the content has probably been there a while. That's probably why results are a bit stale.
Not sure I catch your drift... the similarity to OOP pertains to Rand's description of concept formation within the human mind. A concept is like a sub-class, and a unit is like an object; a concept inherits all the properties of its parent-concept but adds some differentiating properties of its own; an instance encapsulates ALL of these properties, not just the differentiating/essential ones (which is what other philosophies fail to acknowledge). The good thing about Objectivist epistemology is that it provides means to extrapolate all the way up/down the conceptual hierarchy, from the simplest data on which microbes can operate, to the most complex abstractions of politics and economics and science. One could argue that O'ism is the one philosophy which DOES account for the complexity of existence, in a comprehensive manner (instead of making unjustified leaps of logic/intuition). Bottom-line on Objectivism in the social context is identify men for what they are - rational creatures - and treat them accordingly (ie. by trade, not by force).

Interesting that you know 'so many' Objectivists... I've never actually met any myself (I live in the UK).
Also worth point out is the ability to modify the MSBuild file to use parallel build paths - assuming the dependency tree is fairly flat.
Gotcha, thanks. That known, I quite like the idea. Any way a makefile could be twonked to use it? (haven't looked at all, don't really know where to start)
Very good article and awesome mention of OSSEC. Good to see it gaining some attention.
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Yes, possibly, depending what advertisers you attract and how much control they and I (the publisher) get about what ads get shown where, and what kind of inventory it can serve.
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