skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Then there is the period (pun not intended) between conception and delivery, in which a lot can change."

In the roughly three years between when I was conceived and shortly after my sister was born, my parents went from having 2 jobs and no kids to having no jobs and 2 kids. 1981-82 was a harsh recession.
Get up and running and making money as fast as possible without being too stupid.

This might mean using a NoSQL database. MongoDB seems easy to try out, it could be something you'd use for some component.

But most projects fail before they ever reach some minimally useful state, not because they don't scale. Plan ahead for scaling where appropriate, but the main focus should be getting it out there in a useful state.
JQuery Templates and Data Linking (and Microsoft contributing to jQuery)
Jeff Jarvis on Why Facebook's Latest Moves Really Make Us So Mad
Get a nice laptop. An iPad will not be enough for CS/EE degree. I would argue it's not enough for any degree, but that's off topic. Get an iPad later if you want to simply because it's a cool device that seems like a good ereader/entertainment system.

My rationale is this. In undergrad and then graduate school many times I would sit with my laptop with the professor going over various problems. Impossible to do with an iPad. Many classes required X that wouldn't work on an iPad. For example, embedded systems required usb connection to the external HW device and then software support. Linux was required for many classes since the code is available to learn from.

In the end my optimal solution was a 17" MBP with linux and windows VMs.
I tested very highly in grade school and was invited to take part in a gifted student program. I didn't have a chance to enroll however, as my family moved that summer. After that I started doing very poorly in school, mostly because I just stopped doing any of the work which I considered pointless busy work. I was both bored and lazy.

In high school I started skipping classes and found refuge in the back of the school library. Later I became bold enough to leave campus all together. I would take the bus to the local university where I would pretend to be a student. I mostly hung out in an isolated area of the 'terminal room' where I would log in to my various hacked student accounts and work on programming projects. I dropped out of high school my sophomore year. I spent some time at same university studying computer science as a non-matriculated student before leaving to join the tech industry where I've been ever since.

While I feel I've been reasonably successful in life, I am an academic failure. My high school GPA was I believe 0.62. I have never bothered to earn a GED.
You're more right than you know. BMI and GI have exactly the same problem: they aren't used because they measure the right things very well but because they are easy to calculate.
the largest reason why I don't think I'd fit is that everyone there seems to think that google always does the right things, or at least, acts for the right reasons. The degree to which everyone who works there seems to say that it's perfect implies that there is little tolerance for recognising the bad parts of the company, which I think is quite dangerous to the company (and it would be stressful for me as an employee.) Hell, I say bad things about the company I own. I think examining the downside of the choices you've made in the past and the choices you are making now is extremely important; and I think if you believe that you always do the right thing, you are deceiving yourself.
Practicing Focused Thought
It's commonsense that motivation comes before action; but in reality, action comes before motivation (where motivation is the feeling of wanting to do it; you can decide to do something whether you feel like it or not).

Some argue that this applies to other feelings, even to love; that if you act as if you love something, then the feeling of love will follow: love is a verb. Here's a striking clip from Paris Je T'aime that demonstrates it (though not, of course, proves it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIa0454xfyI
Can you elaborate? Sounds interesting.
This sounds all too much like Craigslist's free section. Where's the differentiation? Emailing stuff in is nice, but the market is really dominated by CL (plus CL is completely free for stuff like this), so honestly I'm not sure how this idea would work.
There are a lot of data points on the web for these costs, here's one example: http://journal.bookfinder.com/2009/03/breakdown-of-book-cost...

So, for a mass-market hardback book, printing costs represent about 10% of the list price, less than just about any other component. Certainly, eliminating the printing costs alone would not knock a dramatic amount off of the consumer price of the book, assuming, that is, that book pricing is based on a "cost-plus" model, which it clearly is not.
OS X has the "FileVault" system which encrypts the contents of your home folder. This should include things like SSH keys in ~/.ssh, and so forth. (This is not particularly useful if someone steals your computer while it's on and logged in, of course.)
I am in college. The people who bring laptops browse Facebook. The people who take notes use pencil and paper. An iPad is a cool gadget but I think it will only be a distraction in class, not to mention I don't see why the iPad will be particularly good for a EE/CS major. Better to get a crappy old tablet so you can play with the innards.
When you focus on a flawed measurement you get distorted results, proportionate to the amount of flaw. GI is only moderately correlated with "good foods". I predict focusing on it will end up causing more harm than good. When you can pour oil onto a food to improve it's rating, that's an easy rating to game.
After physical security, you should secure your data. Tips for Mac users:

1. Using 1Password for random passwords encrypted with a master password

2. Enable FileVault, if the password is entered wrong too many times it will wipe the drive.

3. Password protect your iPhone, set it to remove personal data after too many bad attempts.

4. Never use open WiFi.
I pulled up my resume to figure this out, since I kind of suck at anything time-related.

17 (almost 18): data processing department, starting in 1996; 20: Florida, in Summer 1999; quit almost exactly a year later, at 21; got my first computer job again at 25, in 2004. So it was actually a 4-year gap (!).

I left the computer industry just months before the big dot-com crash, but I was really burned out by then, and predicted the crash anyway. (IPOs had gotten completely out of control.)

And no, I don't have a college degree or much in the way of a college education at all, unfortunately. I'm really not proud of that, but I haven't been disciplined enough for college until more recently, and now I'm too busy and have other goals. I would never brag to anyone that "I've gotten this far without a college degree"; I'm not fond of that trend these days, and I do think that having at least some college education is very important.
Ah. That'd be nice to have, but our CS labs (also running Linux) tend to be full of people who don't like to talk to each other, unless they're in a group together. Guess it depends on the people working there.
Going to Podunk University has little to do with challenging yourself. Most people (including "smart" people) would likely be better off taking a free ride at Podunk U than an $80K+ degree at a "prestigious" private school.
It's certainly better than inorganic orange juice ;)
SpeedBit Search
Not quite, yeah. I'm looking for something more along the lines of http://status.twitter.com/, specifically for the FB platform. thanks!

Btw, pity you folks aren't looking for PMs in Seattle right now. I'd love to apply :)
You mean human beings that program in C and C-influenced languages. Just because the world is this way doesn't mean that it should be.
And get a sensual massage.
A Single Molecule Computes Thousands of Times Faster than Your PC
Alternate explanation:

We suck at telling who is actually gifted from early performance.

See ch. 5 of Nurtureshock: "The Search For Intelligent Life in Kindergarten"
New nominee to United States Supreme Court
That's a very moving fragment, I'll have to go see the rest of the movie now. Thanks!
My only request is that Zed offer a proper API. The number one reason I hate dealing with craiglist is that there is no easy way to get results in json format.
Ask HN (India): If you are not from IIT/IIM how do you achieve credibility? 
While meeting investors in India a lot of time our business plan faces the same questions, as none of the founders/co-founders are from the IIT or IIM. Its hard for us to get funding inspite of a good idea.

Any suggestions?
While correct in some details, yours is an incorrect description of the bigger picture of glucose catabolism. Pyruvate is consumed the TCA (Krebs) cycle, so to say that you only need a "little" is like saying you only need a "little" gas to run your car. Your car runs on gas, consuming it. The Krebs cycle runs on pyruvate, consuming it.

Glucose gets broken down into pyruvate via glycolysis, which is by far the primary way in which you generate pyruvate. This process generates a bit of energy, but the vast majority of ATP is generated during the Krebs cycle, which is where glucose metabolites (namely, pyruvate) get oxidized into CO2 and H20.

To respond more directly to your point: if 80% of glucose is immediately metabolized to CO2 and H20 (I don't recall but I'll take your word), that means that 80% of glucose enters the body, undergoes glycolysis, and then enters the TCA cycle. This means that 80% of the glucose in your body is quickly converted into fructose (yes, F6P). You could easily make this into a pure fructose molecule with a phosphatase (though this doesn't happen in vivo). The upside is that phosphorylated sugars cannot be transported by facilitated diffusion, so F6P will remain intracellular.
I have "the same" though Google too, except it's not remotely the same. The contact sync is limited, calendar sync doesn't cut it either without a third party app like BusySync (which I use), IMAP isn't push for real time email, etc.

Also, it's not free through Google, it's ad supported or $50 per year per user.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end_product

fructose is a sugar with a propensity for glycation
That doesn't justify a pie chart (3D pie chart, no less!) with amounts in percentages that add up to 193%
Funny, because my first thought was "wow, awesome domain name. How was that not taken?"
Certainly wouldn't advise anyone to take less than they were comfortable with and my message is actually about refining the quality and usefulness of your possessions over the quantity.
How about a rock and a chisel? A computer is the tool of choice for a EE or CS major. If you're a EE, you will need a computer quite often for doing SPICE simulations, code development, matlab homework problems, schematic capture, pcb layout etc.

The computer for a EE or CS student is a third arm. Learn to use it as efficiently as possible. Computers are amazing tools!
I think the problem is not that you can back more than one candidate but simply that a pie chart is not really the appropriate vehicle to present the data.

I've never seen a pie with more than 100% pie in it...
Either 9 or 0... doesn't matter so much as long as you're consistent, really. 0.999... == 1.000...
You mean the one which doesn't allow US-based accounts to receive payments?
Weston Price was a prominent dentist and nutritional researcher in the 20s and 30s.

He went on a tour around the world, studying isolated groups of people, their diet (including mineral content) and checking their dental health, using it as a proxy for resistance to infection and proof that dietary needs are being met.

From studying groups as diverse as a remote Swiss village, windswept Scottish fishing town, African tribes, Pacific Islanders, and Inuit, he came to a series of conclusions which are at least somewhat in agreement with this.

A secondary point was also that poor nutrition of the mother, could be seen in children due to crowding of the tooth and other maladies.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html

The book is a little archaic and I am sure that some of the text sounds odd to modern-day ears, however if you can read past that you can find some interesting information.

I am aware of the skepticism some have about Weston Price, but recommend at least skimming his own words rather than reading only choice tidbits presented by those who disagree with him or would debunk his views as junk science.
I, for one, am ridiculously excited by the idea of an entirely new computing paradigm. I know some at HN abhor anything that isn't practical this very second, but I think they just lack imagination. I'd be interested in any articles submitted in the vein of non-traditional computing.
writers hiring free-lance editors and marketing on a performance basis?

This idea is a common trap for newbie writers. A very very common trap. To the point that there are an absolute plethora of scam artists lying in wait to "accept" your manuscript in exchange for a fee, "edit" it in exchange for another fee, send it to Lulu.com for you in exchange for a fee, get it listed by Amazon for a fee, and "market" it for a fee.

The non-solution of self-publishing was discussed at length during the "amazonfail" incident a few months back. Here's a novelist on the subject:

http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/563086.html
I don't think I'm correctly understanding your argument. To me, it seems that you are saying that ignorance of the effect that a food has on your blood glucose levels is superior to knowledge of that effect. That seems silly to me, so I assume I must be interpreting your position uncharitably. Can you help me understand your stance on this information a little better?
Well, if it's after brains, hopefully it interprets its own failure as evidence of a lack thereof on earth and drifts off into space in search of a feed.

Edit: It would be wrong, of course - lots of brainpower in this technology. It could always chase that brain evidence toward earth and burn up in a rapid re-entry?
Bloom Won’t Micromanage Data So Apps Can Scale
Build a widget with it I can buy, or ship a piece of software written in/with it, and I think there will be much more interest it.
I'm guessing it'll be in October. That's when it was last year, and they've been having one a year since they started.
4.29 Mbps average, in melbourne, significantly higher than all the other rates (including my ISP, iinet). It bursts up to 8 Mbps.
It's probably because I'm very close to the exchange (I checked before I moved).

FWIW, it has made no impact on my life satisfaction whatsoever. People rave about highspeed internet, esp in Japan; it sounds cool, but the applications aren't there yet (not for me, anyway). I'd appreciate lower latency, though, for games.
My point exactly ... i was channeling Paul only a few hours before his post. Want your data private? Simple: DON'T PUT IT ON FACEBOOK!!! Reminds me of an overweight person complaining about fad-diets not working ... simple again: stop eating you fat b@sterd. Get a grip ... facebook owes you nothing. Give it what you want.
Yeah, I chose not to go there. I probably would have liked it a lot better.
Plenty of people here are very interested in 'non conventional computing', in fact I've learned more about this from the people here than from any other source on the web.

Here are some searches that you could try:

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

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

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

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+f...
Question: why don't I see sites like "99 trivial, first-week-of-class problems solved in C?" If I have to stop and think about how to do the things on that page, or consult a web page to find out how to express them, then the language I'm working in is simply broken.

What problem(s) do software developers typically have that are solved by working in functional languages?
C code cannot be easily read by normal human beings unless they have had extensive training with C (which would probably make them abnormal). Haskell seems to me, as one who has little experience with either, much more readable than C code.
My channeling was on the Wired article .. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1333502.
Go ahead, vote me down again alarmists with sense of entitlement
There is an interesting meta-discussion going on here, over whether content curators add value. Most of the hackers that I've met tend to believe that they would prefer to latch onto a raw content stream, then filter and format it to their liking. No surprise -- that is the way of hackers, after all.

However, I do think that it's a conceptual mistake to assume that the public at large would like to filter their own content. Even music sales, which are pretty far down the road towards an openly accessible market, are still driven by the major and minor labels. For books, I see an even stronger incentive to keep paying others to filter our content. Reading is a big investment, time-wise -- when people curl up with a book, e- or paper, they want to know that it's going to be worth their time. And, yes, they probably want it to be nicely typeset and proofread as well.
FarmVille Juggernaut Zynga Might Leave Facebook Soon
Actually, depends what you pay. For example:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AMLRU4

$69.42 / 20GB / 12 months = $0.29/GB

Note: You can buy up to 100GB.
If there was ever a submission that epitomizes "should not be on HN" I think this might be it. If the person who submitted this is reading the comments I'd ask them to please tell me what justification they were using in their head for this.
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Might autobanning such urls be an idea? And maybe even autoban the account that posted the link if it the account is sufficiently new?
I looked at the list, and now I'm more confused. Can you explain how ground pork can go from the bottom of the list to the top just by breading it? (0 to 95). How does adding <10% bread (by weight) do that?

Pork, ground or patty, cooked	0.0
Pork, ground or patty, breaded, cooked	95.0
Are you saying that Haskell is unreadable? I've found Haskell to be very readable. Complicated code is much easier to understand in Haskell due to the limited side effects. Maybe people who know C find Haskell harder to understand, but I've talked to people who can't program and they've usually understood the Haskell code better.
I've always had an apprehensiveness towards classes or jobs that require you to memorize things before you've actually encountered the necessity to do so. If you're paying attention while you're working through math problems, programming assignments, etc., patterns emerge and you quickly realize what constants are important, which programming methods you should remember the argument order to (or keyword/symbol names), etc.

I guess I understand (begrudgingly) the necessity to memorize something for a high school math test where you don't have the resources at your disposal to actually find the answers yourself, but in the "real world" where finding the information you're looking for is so quick and inexpensive, it seems like a waste to invest in something that might not be necessary. (Also, for some people who don't have the skills to think through solving those problems on their own, it could be a pretty big disservice.)

I can't even begin to remember how many constants, dates, formulas, names, etc. that I've memorized for a test and then promptly forgot.
I wonder why is that...
If it comes from a factory, factory farm or a lengthy cooking process, the food is optimized for low cost and nice appearance. It may be disastrous for you healthwise.

If a food is found in nature and humans evolved with it and like eating it, its more likely to be good for you if eaten with the sort of variety of foods you'd find in nature.

The fact that we like it is itself information about how healthy a food is, provided technology isn't fooling our brains somehow.
> Also, some people create one-time accounts to detach certain posts from their well-known pseudonyms (whistleblowing, asking advice about projects under NDAs without giving identifiable details, etc.).

And that already seems to be problematic enough:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1324825
There, I upvoted; don't haunt me!
Another interesting Android tablet with integrated 3G, WiFi and GPS
http://chinable.net
so flag it
We already have a "taste" of that game with Mugen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP23QugkbHI
It depends on whether government gets behind a bad idea or not. Bureaucracy doesn't like diversity of thought and tends to reinforce current thinking. Look at how long its taken for alternative medicine to get blessed.
In 2006 I purchased from Amazon the special edition of Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", an Adobe eBook (the only way this special edition was available). Last year, when I went to have another look at the eBook on my latest computer (not the one I originally purchased the book on), I found that it no longer worked: I could not enable the book on my new computer because Amazon's license server for Adobe eBooks no longer worked. It took me several back-and-forth emails with Amazon's customer support to get someone to admit that once Amazon moved over to the Kindle, support for the Adobe ebooks went away (most of them didn't even seem to be aware that there were eBooks prior to the Kindle). I'd have settled for them replacing my eBook with the Kindle equivalent, but I don't own a Kindle. At the time there was no Kindle eBook reader for OS X. I eventually got a refund, but it took a lot of work to get them to even recognize that there was a problem. Additionally, I didn't want a refund, I wanted to read the special content in this special version of the book, one that is not available in paper. Given that experience, I'm a bit reluctant to purchase the Kindle version, even though there is apparently an OS X reader now.

I think the thing that most disturbs me about this whole incident is not just that a book I bought stopped working it is that I had no indication that it had become unavailable to me until the instant I went to re-read it. It had probably been inaccessible for months if not years without me knowing, with me thinking that I had the book ready for me to go read whenever I felt like, but when I went to check on something, it just didn't work. My shelves of paper books don't present me with that kind of problem.
The Duck is genius.
Hard math is the hardest thing that I can think of. One can learn most other things with enough effort (ie, repetition), but hard math takes immense thought.

On the other hand, it is also rarely necessary.
Leaders make a connection
"You then get an email address that buyers use to talk with you. None of that email tag like with craigslist."

Having trouble understanding this point. The CL anonymizer forwards to my normal email account. How does that add a step for either party? Or I should say, how does providing a different email address remove steps?
Great question. I can't say for sure. I can try to back-of-the-envelope it, though. Normal glucose is below 100mg/dL, and you have 5L of blood. This means you only have ~5g of glucose in your blood at any given time, so a very small amount of glucose absorbed as a bolus could conceivably have a strong effect. This is/should be fairly tightly regulated by insulin, so I can't say for sure that this isn't simply a lab error, but it does seem plausible.
A bit like the music industry then, the people that 'nail' fresh meat arriving in Nashville.
If I had known that, I would have actually tried in highschool.