skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To code on both, do something you care about as your startup. _really_ care about. Also, there is lots to do. Do whatever seems most fun to you at the time. By the time you are forced to do things for clients, you'll have enough code and good habits formed to manage it.

To stay sane, set strict rules about time off. For me, Friday night and Saturday (all day and night) are family time. Sunday is totally Gridspy time. If I start to feel tired, admit it and remind yourself that you can ship one month later and take a few days off here and there.
Thanks.

Honestly, what Gridspy needs is more of Me. I don't see myself paying other people to do work until I am running full-time because I am more dedicated (it _is_ my startup) and also I know the code better.

Interesting situation to be in, working elsewhere while your start-up employs others. I'd be jealous of my employees in that situation.
Seems like a good idea for a few cafes to do, especially for PR purposes. I doubt this is going to be a trend though; people shouldn't take it too seriously.
Check Hacker News, email, etc. Remind myself that I'm going to be a huge startup soon. Choose what excites me the most and bite of a tiny chunk.

If I'm having real trouble, I'll promise myself to do 30 minutes and stop if I'm not making headway. Most nights I continue after that for some time.
Killing quicksort
I think the OP was pointing out that you can now use CoffeeScript in <script> tags.

I did something like this for Objective-J awhile back, but it's not particularly useful (http://github.com/tlrobinson/cappuccino-experiments/blob/mas...)
Yeah. Unfortunately I'd be a husk if I stayed up as late as I'd like and still had to get up for the kids in the morning.
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Pimping my own projects here, but have a look at http://jsclass.jcoglan.com/packages.html and http://he.jcoglan.com
Yeah. Don't bother until you have an idea that really fires you up. However, you might want to spend the time actively searching for that great idea (research into unautomated industries, say).
Ask HN: I can't login anymore with Clickpass?
Here's what I do:

Click Login -> Click Clickpass -> Get taken to a page with a "create a hacker news account", Click "I already have an account" -> Enter user name and password -> Get taken to "news.ycombinator.com/openid_merge", see the message "unknown."

That's it. Nothing else happens. Wtf?
http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges is a must read. Especially ``The South'' at the end of the book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficciones
Amazon SimpleDB Introduces Consistent Reads and Conditional Puts & Deletes
Binary translation for Java: Company anything with GCC, convert to Java bytecode
Is this whole article contrived just so Benioff can pimp his company's new product?

I'm trying to imagine what Facebook or Twitter-like enterprise software would be like, and all I can see is a lot of dropped balls.
Darpa to Take on Major New Robotics Initiative
Interesting to see a Google representative claiming the video format of HTML5 will be OGG.
Has your new home been inspected for ghosts?
India Meteorological Department? http://www.imd.gov.in/

Netwings? http://www.netwingsinfotech.com/weather-data-services.html
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C++, Java, C#, even common lisp programmers are socialists then? And hey, JavaScript is a standard too. Does this mean JavaScript is the tool of socialists?

I personally consider it actually funny how the notions of socialism and capitalism are used by some posters on this website as if we still had 1970 or something. How old are you?
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* location of the tumor
* Bone cancer Grade
* General health
* Medical history of the patients.
* Patients age.
>...but who somehow feel that they do know enough to try and falsify a theory?

You don't have to try to falsify a theory not to believe it. Agnostic is also a valid position (so long as you're not trying to influence others one way or another).

Also, your comment smacks of "you aren't qualified to do anything but agree". Personally, when I hear someone say that one would need years upon years of training before being qualified to even have an opinion I wonder what controls are in place to ensure this qualification process isn't tainting their thinking.

For example, long time programmers of some awful programming language will report that it "works just how I think", but in fact long repetition has programmed them to work and think this way.

>Quoth the OP

Ah, but you've misunderstood me. I'm not saying science is a religion itself, rather that some people put blind faith into it. I've seen plenty of people ridiculing others for not believing in some theory, but when engaged they don't really know anything more than "most people believe this".

I once saw a self-proclaimed Christian ridiculing a non-Christian about some moral issue. When I asked how many times he had read through the bible he admitted he had never read the whole thing. I don't see much difference between this and what I see from some laymen "champions of science" I've encountered.
Won't this just bloat the browser and cause 1) compatibility issues, and 2) a new level of update hell?
"...WeatherBug manages and operates the world's largest proprietary weather network with over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras strategically placed..."
http://weather.weatherbug.com/about-us.html

I'm not sure where foreca gets its data from.

There are a few weather APIs on programmableweb
As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, July 1945. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

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

"As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare."

The Computers of Tomorrow, Martin Greenberger, May 1964. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/greenbf...

"By achieving reliability along with capability, computers have won broad commercial acceptance. But what of the future? What can we expect as computers enter their third decade? Some conservatives have been predicting a deceleration of computer growth for at least five years now. Is there a plateau just over the horizon?

"Not if a recent turn in computer research is as significant as many of us believe it to be. General economic and political conditions permitting, this work will nourish a new wave of computer expansion. Computing services and establishments will begin to spread throughout every sector of American life, reaching into homes, offices, classrooms, laboratories, factories, and businesses of all kinds."

An essay about essays: http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html
A common example with such people is how Newton's theory was "wrong" and Einstein's theory "corrected" it, clearly showing there's no absolute truth.

Mild epiphany on reading these (and surrounding) words: In the scientific method, there are truths, and truer truths.
There was a recent VentureBeat article by the authors of Total Engagement: http://games.venturebeat.com/2010/01/15/the-lesson-of-gaming...

We're working with several companies to implement game mechanics for both training and job performance: http://www.bunchball.com
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Reminds me of a line from Revenge of the Nerds:

"Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex. "
Jason seems to be a pretty competent guy, met him after the socialmedian aquisition here in germany. And this is not his first startup, I can't really imagine that he pulled off samething shady, so all the fault to citi.
So there is this absurd rumor, see, and it is totally unsubstantiated, so it is probably true right? I mean, what is more likely, that citibank is breaking federal law and has lots of rules in place that will basically send all their depositors running for the hills for no reason, and which are on their face totally absurd... or this idiot blogger has the story which he admit is based entirely on unsubstantiated rumors wrong?

Epic Hacker News Fail.
Never ever, ever, ever seen the core developer for a project being an alpha male. The biggest douchebag ... ah, that's usually the alpha male.
From my own experience (and why I upvoted), pointing out a word of advice to young HNs - entrepreneurship when it goes, goes up fast and along with it comes parties, alcohol, "social meetings", etc. Easy to get lost. Not 100% relevant to the story, but relevant to members of the board.
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Huge collection of Linux group tests covering all types of software.
While josh33's point about politics was pretty inane, there is indeed danger in picking one framework as the "standard". Imagine if C++ adopted Qt as the standard, leaving WxWidgets, Ultimate++ and others in the lurch. I think this would be the proper analogy to the proposal of pulling jQuery into the JavaScript standard.
You could play games like Jade Dynasty, which has botting integrated into the game. So you could do work while the game runs in the background.
Most anything from Noam Chomsky should be good.
And what if your friend puts content they want to express as input for the AI? Did the content disappear simply because it's gone through a computer?
In my post I link to JSAN, which is exactly that: http://openjsan.org

It has its own module system.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

Hunter S. Thompson
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The whole thing is so ridiculous that I expect something else is behind it. Given Italy's track record with corruption, could it be that Google is being punished for refusing to pay up?
Francis Bacon - Of Studies. Then read Samuel Johnson essay of the same name.

Edit: haha - wanted to flick you a link and discover about.com says more or less the same thing: http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/studiesessay.htm
I'm pondering a truecrypt'd system... unless they weed through the virtual-RAM to find the decrypting key, or they install a keylogger (likely against their end of the hosting agreement (though I haven't read any)), it'd essentially be secure against even them.
What I like about rails is that I don't have to build my own frankenstack of ORM, templating system etc. It's all in there, and the things work perfectly together. If I have special needs for components I don't use Rails, I (mostly) use compojure instead.

I'm looking forward to the changes in Rails 3, but I'm sure I'm going to like using the default components that are most likely to work happy together.
I'm doing this now, but don't have a wife or kids to worry about. It's still HARD. Pacing only solves the burnout problem, but fails to solve the satisfaction problem. Only working 15 to 20 hours each week leaves a lot of gaps where we simply lose track of our short term goals and spend a lot of time re-orienting ourselves. When we actually have a productive day, it creates frustrating contrast to the unproductive ones. You constantly think "if only we had another 25 hours each week, we'd be so much further along".
I second you on the gaming argument. Before I got into business, I reminded myself about how much free time to work in if I stopped playing games and watching as much TV.
Hear hear! I have exactly that problem. Also, Full-time Sunday (for me) is a bittersweet taste of what that would be like.
If you speak of Mercurial's changesets and revisions, they are clearly not trivially computed from one another, being that a revision is clone-specific, and a changeset is a hash computed on a single file by looking at all it's ancestors' states. REPO1 and REPO2 can both have 5 revisions and only one is common to both — a merge is possible, but the changesets considered will be very different.

If you're comparing SVN's revisions with Hg's changesets, still no dice, for the same reason: changesets are unique for a file, given that file's history, and the hash trail allows for a clear way to figure out where changes happened, and merge from that point. A SVN revision just tells you how many commits have happened up to that point.
My favorite talk from TED2010 was by Jane McGonical and her theory was that kids around the world spend enormous amounts of time and effort playing games. They should not be considered losers for gaming so much, everyone else is the loser for not knowing how to tap their energy.

Her idea is not so much applying game dynamics to real life, but changing existing games slightly so that people solve more important problems (think ending world hunger by leveling up).

You can find several games she created on http://www.avantgame.com/

The talk is not yet online, but I"ll post it on HN when it comes out.
Are non-smokers smarter than smokers?
There are many approaches to concurrency (“stuff like threads and IO”). It’s not at all clear to me that a one-size-fits-all approach is appropriate, and so while few might opposed the idea of having a standard, I posit that whatever standard you actually proposed would be vehemently opposed by those who prefer a different approach.
"Computing Machinery and Intelligence", A.M. Turing, 1950. This is where the Turing Test comes from. Technically a journal paper, but reads more like an essay.

If you're into computers at all, this is a must read. Alan Turing not only gave us modern computer science, he also kicked off the field of Artificial Intelligence with this groundbreaking paper. He opens it with the question "Can machines think?", and then proceeds to examine it from every conceivable angle. Not only does he predict strong AI, but Turing also provides methods of development and a robust framework for testing it.

This paper's massively important, but it's also a pretty good read. It's about 20 pages long, written in reasonably accessible style, and requires no serious mathematical background. Turing was an amazingly clear thinker, and that really comes through. There's also a lot of sly humor embedded in there. If you're looking for brain candy, this one's a gem.

There's a copy at
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
I found that envisioning myself as a 'huge startup soon', or very successful in the near future is damaging. It's far more productive to focus on solving the most important problems, and not on the prize.
I'm not really sure why anyone would want to bother drawing Feynman diagrams if they didn't need to calculate the amplitudes associated with them. There are very few physical effects that can be explained through Feynman diagrams without understanding a lot more than this article offers about the math that these diagrams involve.

Typically Feynman diagrams are offered as a way to simplify the accounting involved in doing quantum field theory calculations. To treat them as a view of what is "really happening" is a bit misleading, especially to an audience that is not intimately familiar with the oddities of quantum mechanics. I'm not saying everyone needs to understand path integrals to "get" the basics of QFT, but it would be a real mistake to think that you could understand anything nontrivial about the theory by looking at mere Feynman diagrams - QFT's magic is in how you calculate the amplitudes from diagrams, not in the construction of the diagrams themselves.

And at the very least, some justification for ignoring the higher level Feynman diagrams needs to be offered, especially since in certain quantum field theories we can't pull the same kind of crap that we can get away with in QED, and it doesn't make any sense to ignore the more complicated diagrams.
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I'm inspired. I don't have a family yet, so if you can do it, I can do it... Good luck!
YouTube - Bloom Energy's CEO talks technology, efficiency
The big question in my mind is can they make this small & portable enough to put into my next car? That would be game changing to me.
Setting up and learning drupal is something one can learn almost overnight. It's probably a very competitive market and will only help you find a new job if you have past experience.

A better strategy to finding a job would be to specialise in rarer/more unique skills, which people can't put on their resume, and learn overnight if they get accepted for an interview.
I totally agree, taking a break to read Twitter, NH and others clears my head, I go back to a problem feeling less buried, and I might have learnt something new too.

Ok, sure, often I only learnt that someone's cat just jumped in a box, but it works for me.
Except in that story, the kid isn't giving his own stuff away for free, he is stealing, and this sounds similar to "from those according to their ability to those according to their need."
If a NH moderator deletes a news post for any reason (spam for example) does it also get removed from your Twitter feed?

It's not a criticism, I just wondered.
Even better: http://idlerpg.net
Tell HN: want to make a movie, but got no script (metaphorically)
I've created an anonymous account to post this.

I'm kinda stuck with my life, my professional career and my entrepreneur ambitions. I was hoping that some people on HN have gone through this successfully and could give me a few practical advices.

My problem is that I'm only excited working for myself. No amount of money can get me excited and motivated enough to work on someone else's project, no matter how cool or challenging it is. The reason is that I see no future in it. I want to make a lot of money and be wealthy, while working for someone else always has the limit. The problem is not that I don't have the money to make a living while working on my own project - I could come up with something or I would even combine working for someone and my startup. The problem is that I don't have any idea I personally believe in. Last year I've implemented a few (didn't take off) and filtered over 50 ideas, I guess, and this has just left me really empty. What I learned is that you need to have enough motivation to get through the toughest times. I don't mind working really hard, but I couldn't come up with any idea that I loved enough to make such a commitment.

As a result, I'm not actually that skilled, because I don't have enough practice. I'm not excited by the code itself, I'm excited by the promise of selling the product or the project, by the promise of welfare and respect. Only when I have this promise, I become excited writing the actual code and solving difficult problems.

To summ this up, it feels like I want to make a movie whatever it takes and I'm trying to shoot the scenes having no script at all.

Additionally I live outside US which makes it harder to do something for US market (not excited with the local one). On the other hand, moving to US to work for some company also makes no sense to me, because H-1B visas are basically a temporary ticket for you and most companies won't help you settle in US and apply for a Green Card. And then again, you work for someone with no promise of getting a reward that you really want.

Having said all this, to me it feels like a really complicated puzzle. I'm not whining, really. I'm just slightly depressed, but still very willing to solve it. So I would love to hear your thoughts, specifically, what would you do?
" When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." - Edmund Burke
I actually see "Huge startup" as "3-6 months runway, 3 employees." I use that to justify short term sacrifices, but I find the work itself the best motivator.
But are you really going to be able to walk away from a comfortable life and good salary some years down the road to try something risky? The longer you get used to having disposable income and the freedom to do whatever you want outside of 9-5 knowing you'll have a job to go back to tomorrow, the less likely you'll be willing to take the plunge.

I landed a good job right out of school. I soon after (i.e. a few months) left that job to pursue my entrepreneurial dreams because it would have been many times more difficult to leave after being comfortably employed for a few years and fully out of debt.

I'm not saying this scenario never happens, because clearly it does. But there's a reason the stereotypical startup founder is a 20 something fresh out of school or a drop out living on Ramen.

EDIT: grammar
Both of these services have over 2K stations in India. IMD doesnt seem to have more than 300 of them.
Thanks for the clarification, that makes more sense.
Yes, but here's the problem. I am using JavaScript outside of the browser on a project at the moment. I want to use your library, but your library directly loads a dependency, by trying to load a webpage. My JavaScript motor doesn't know how to load webpages, so now I can't use your library. On the other hand, if we had a standard call for loading libraries, each implementation could do as it needs - web browsers could try to load the code from a known repository on the current page's server. Embedded JavaScript and server-side JavaScript could load from a known repository, or from a repository specified at the launch of the JavaScript session. And we could all specify our dependencies in a clean manner that would be transportable.
I guess you can't understand difference between hundred thousand games and a hundred games.
It seems someone needs to read Joel's article on metrics: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20020715.html . Relevant quote:

Software organizations tend to reward programmers who (a) write lots of code and (b) fix lots of bugs. The best way to get ahead in an organization like this is to check in lots of buggy code and fix it all, rather than taking the extra time to get it right in the first place. When you try to fix this problem by penalizing programmers for creating bugs, you create a perverse incentive for them to hide their bugs or not tell the testers about new code they wrote in hopes that fewer bugs will be found. You can't win.
Many reasons:

Look at the sales of PC games and console games. It's clear that PC games are going down. Many companies don't even release PC versions any more.

PC gaming is more expensive, you got keep your hardware up to date and that's truly expensive. A good graphic card's price is more expensive than an XBOX 360.

Piracy is a big issue in gaming and piracy rate in console is much lower (none in PS3, although potentially next year we'll see PS3 as well).

Developing games for a fixed hardware is much easier unlike developing games for a platform such as PC or God forbid, Linux.

PC is going to a be only niche players complex MMORPGs, indie game developers, some RTSs.
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I suppose this is why C++ uses introsort, which is basically a quicksort that churns for no more than O(n log n) steps before "bailing out" to a guaranteed O(n log n) algorithm like heapsort. That lets it get quicksort's in-practice-fast speeds on almost all inputs, while falling back to no worse than O(n log n) in the rare cases where quicksort would go quadratic (though it'll be worse in those rare cases, by a constant factor, than just running heapsort originally would've been).

edit: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~musser/gp/introsort.ps