skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The building in Allston (a neighborhood of Boston) I work in has cellphone towers on the roof. A few a weeks ago, Sprint contractors working on the building told me they were putting in 4G equipment, so 'we' should be getting 4G soon.

My experience with 4G in Las Vegas was mixed. I did manage to get speeds just under the 3 megabit quoted in the article, however that during trade show setup. After the show opened, due to network congestion or wireless interference, throughput dropped to be closer to 30 kilobit. Ping times also skyrocketed to 10s of seconds. Sprint 3G wasn't much better, but AT&T's 3G service actually stayed usable.
B&N Nook app for the iPad
For as long as I can remember I've always been able to control my dreams. Whenever I've told people this they've looked at me as if I'm making it all up.

Nice to know I might not have been imagining it.
second, except invest in OUR startup :)
"We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting."

This does have some interesting implications for society as a whole. But, it seems that individuals who are able to maintain sustained, focused attention will have quite an advantage.
That logo needs to be in png format. That's me, looking for the details all the time.
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Three things:

1) Take your time. Put it in a low-interest, save place and research.

2) ONLY take advice from an advisor that you pay. Investment advice from a bank or anyone who is selling you products (or takes a cut on them) will be flawed. So pay someone.

3) Be very, very, very careful with taxes and pay a tax accountant as well for advice.
MS missed the chance to marginally extend Windows relevance by making Visual Studio more accessible and relevant. The "architect" and "testing" versions of the IDE are ludicrously expensive. And even though they claim VS2010 is better for JScript development (the MS name for javascript), it's still an inadequate IDE for javascript.

I would think the point of VS is to sell copies of the OS, office, SQL Server, Exchange, etc. Not to be a profit center on its own.

It's too late to attract independent and small web developers, but perhaps they could extend their life with corporate development by making all versions of VS free, even open sourcing it, and fix the editor so you can collapse down javascript code by curly bracket pairs now, don't wait for VS2012.

A real shame. The .NET Framework, C#, Linq, and from what I gather F# were all conceived and carried out very well.
Fred Wilson is a VC -- I'm pretty sure he doesn't need any money derived from this post. He's just posting observations as this market forms.
No, that is categorically not true.

Physical access to the machine means the attacker has root if they want it. Physical access to the machine means you can physically steal it, which is sort of problematic for most of my ex-clients. Physical access to the machine also means you can steal the hard drive and, since you won't leave a note saying "I didn't actually get access to this", the user has to treat the data as compromised anyway, and that means (among other things) that the university and their IT contractors (i.e. my employers) are front page news the following day.
are you this arrogant in real life?
To be fair, it's not much better on a Mac
It's different. I don't think it's particularly better or worse overall.

It suffers from the same issues of forcing commentators to stop and think about something utterly unrelated to the comment they are trying to make, and of being easily defeated by third world workers paid a pittance or first world porn addicts.
Wow, this is weird. Yesterday, on my work - home commute, I was thinking exactly this. I realized that the massive usage of Internet has led me to have more difficulties in concentrating and studying, and in general keeping focus on a given task, while at the same time has given me an edge over less intensive web users I know when it comes to extrapolate a more or less superficial meaning from a resource like an article such as this, or a discussion, or even a picture. I wonder if these two aspects could somehow 'live together', that is, have the brain 'switch' to a certain mode when doing a certain task.

edit: and I'm kinda worried about this.
1. LinkedIn tries to do to much, and the resume page makes it difficult to actually see anything the user has done, as well as makes it impossible to contact the user without signing up. While LinkedIn's focus is on professional contacts more than online resumes.

2. I agree. The idea behind this is changing the perception. You are always in need of a better job. This is also my biggest concern: is this too far out of people's way of thinking? After all, even I didn't create an online resume until I needed it.

Thanks for the input though. =) This isn't the only idea I putting around. Just wanted to get some other thoughts on it.
When can startups be called successful, e.g. reddit, dropbox?
Yeah no kidding, I'm sure people are clamoring to get on a social network with thousands of sweaty nerds and 10 women. They may as well just release a MUD.
I don't know.

If I had a windfall like that I'd keep it quiet too, or at least not directly associated with my online identity, so if I would ask for advise about it online I'd do it just like the OP did.
take a 6 month break and just travel the world work with some NGO for some time. When I was a kid I wanted to be so many things with time all of those things died off.

If I get some lump sum to take care of my needs for some time, I think I just want to be a kid again.
Yes, but why use it, when you can do a logarithm?
Wow - that's cool - what was it / what did you do?
I can't stres enough how important your comment is. This is exactly the advice I got from a few of the very successful entrepreneurs that I've met.

you can discover much bigger problems and opportunities from working on anything as opposed to nothing

That turns out to be so true. Once you start working on something and talking with potential customers there will be plenty of opportunity to adjust or scale your idea or even to jump to something totally different that you never would have known about if you hadn't just got started in the first place.

Obviously given the choice most people would prefer a world beater idea. One that has the potential for a lot of money and self actualization but you could wait forever for that idea to materialize.

Since you can't make the perfect idea happen you're way better off picking the best idea available and just starting.
As someone with a blackberry that's been looking for something like this for a while, I vote mobile site since blackberry is usually the last one to get an app :)

But seriously, if you're not looking to spend a lot of time on it I'd go with the mobile site option. It works for everyone right away, is going to be the easiest to implement (basics only, of course) short term, and you can gauge what the demand is like for mobile use.
Read every article you can find on professional athletes and lottery winners that squandered millions.
While certainly candid, I think that these examples fall down flat as they don't stimulate discussion. I think if you want to be memorable, just write a short section called "Ask Me About" at the end of your (1 sided!) resume. For example, 1. I submitted a patent application for a consumer electronics product that was rejected. or 2. I am very curious about new webapps and keenly participate in beta programmes. Either of these are very easy for an interviewer to ask about and I find much more useful than "President of University Chess Society" type info.
I didn't have a lawyer or financial advisor when I was 20, but I also hadn't closed a $5M sale, either. And when I did so (at a more advanced age), I certainly did.

It strains credulity to imagine that anyone, of any age, would be able to close such a deal without a lawyer or a banker being involved. (And believe me, when you show up at the bank with a $5M deposit, you get introduced to financial advisors, like, fast.)

Seriously: just the practical mechanics involved in the sale of a corporation requires a small team of professionals. No one hands a check for $5M to a "guy in a basement" without some due diligence, and that involves accountants, auditors, lawyers and bankers.
He's posting from a throwaway account, why would he reveal what the company was called and undo that ?

Also, he may very well have agreed not to reveal the sales price of the company to 3rd parties, keeping it anonymous is skirting that line.
Have you ever considered investing in an organization that specializes in micro-finance? The potential to do good and impact impoverished people with even a small portion of your recent earnings (congrats, by the way!) is incredible.

A high-level summary of micro-finance is the issuing of small loans (often just $100-$200) to small groups of 3-4 extremely poor people. The borrower then uses that previously unattainable capital to purchase supplies and equipment to open their own business.

A classic example would be a poor woman in rural Mexico. Her husband works in the fields and they make just barely enough to get by and feed their kids, there's no capital left over even in a good season, and therefore no way to get ahead. If someone were to offer her the opportunity for a micro-loan, she would have a chance to overcome that barrier of extreme poverty.

The lender of the micro-loan would have the woman find another two or three of her friends, and they would form a borrowing group. The borrowing group puts together their aggregate financial needs, and a loan is issued to the group. The purpose of the group is accountability and camaraderie, and receiving additional loans is contingent on every member paying back their loan on time The group will meet together once a week with the lender and pay back a small portion of their loan plus interest over the course of 6 to 8 months.

Upon receiving the loan, the woman would buy a large pot, supplies, ingredients, and a table, and begin making and selling tamales out of the front of her house. She'd make enough to cover her own living expenses and pay off the weekly loan repayment amounts, while improving her own quality of life and gaining confidence.

This extends credit to people who would have never qualified under the existing banking system, and I have story upon story of people's lives who were absolutely changed by what we would consider an absolutely trivial amount.

I don't do this for a living, but I firmly believe in it, and will be putting that belief into practice within the next year.

Some micro-finance organizations include:
1. Grameen Bank - http://www.grameen-info.org/
2. Kiva - http://kiva.org (started by PayPal alums)
3. MicroPlace - http://www.microplace.com/ (backed by PayPal)

For further reading, see (Microfinance) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfinance and (Banker to the Poor) http://www.amazon.com/Banker-Poor-Micro-Lending-Against-Pove...

Go do some good. :)
Look handy - thanks! I'll check these out.
And this gets downvoted?
Except the typical startup founder, he now have something to lose.
Thanks, we saw Tender - but they don't have a way of disabling the other parts of the system (forum etc) apparently.
I think it is actually simpler.

And the fizz-buzz problem has two structurally different solutions.
Thanks for the comment biggitybones! I agree!

I will definitely post it here when the mobile version is up!
Not to say that the GP was particularly insightful, but:

I suspect he derives money indirectly from his blog - for example, by securing himself as an authority on tech investing in an industry where reputation is quite important.
>My wife and I decided that for our anniversary this year we'd
>both get $100 to spend on whatever we want.

No offense, but do you have to wait for a year to get to spend 100$ for whatever you want ?
Man, you make me feel bad.
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Dude, we need to know your story. All of it!! Obviously nothing that gives away your privacy or puts you in harm's way.
That's very well possible, but it is also possible that it really was a simple problem.

As for my arrogance: http://jacquesmattheij.com/Mistakes+I%27ve+made,+and+what+yo...
Prisoner's dilemma meets Turing test
"Simple products can do pretty darn well if you get the commercial side right."

What's your definition of "really well"?

Patrick, the bingo card guy has been hanging around the joelonsoftware forums for 5+ years and selling his product for equally as long.

Last I heard, he was making roughly $35,000/year. Even in the mid-west, this is barely enough to survive (for one person..let alone an entire company). I would hardly call this a commercial success.
Why not? The web is full of blogs about self-learning languages like mandarin or japanese and as for english, you'll find plenty of free material to enhance your learning experience. Also the average quality of today self-learning material seems to me to have improved a lot.

I see the age thing as something that should ease the process of learning a new language, a well educated adult should have the right mindset needed to try to optimize his learning experience leveraging available material and new techniques. I don't see why someone younger should have a easiest way while studying a new language... AFAIK the myth of languages being learned faster by kids has been debunked a decade ago.

And btw, if you are into mandarin, take a look into Michel Thomas audio-only course.
The quote is 1% inspiration, 90% perspiration. (or 99%?).
Some people tried to get together somewhere at the beginning of the year. Don't know if this went through though. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998352.
Please can I make a request:

If you want to try this you're welcome, but I ask:

* Please no HTML emails - it's easier to extract from plain text

* Please remember the anti-spam measure - more than one person has been caught in the spam trap.

* Please put BEGIN before and END after you code so I can auto-extract it.

I've had 20 submissions in the last few hours, so these will help a lot.

Thanks.

========================================================

EDIT: And another 10 in the last 12 minutes. Thank you to those doing as I ask - it's making things easier. I'm going off to do some work now - I'm a little concerned about what I'll come back to ... although it is interesting. As I said earlier, I'll collect submissions until there's a 48 hour gap, then I'll start processing them.
Teenage Engineering OP-1 is breaking new grounds
We just love it when developers move away from old truths and rules and do things in new ways? Let us present to you, Teenage Engineering! The company behind the hyped OP-1 synthesizer. This is not released yet but the world is waiting impatiently for it. We (IHaveSynth.com) managed to meet up with Teenage Engineering in Stockholm to get an interview about the OP-1. We also got a demo showing some neat features that never have been shown before. Especially regarding the user interface of the OP-1 synthesizer.

Teenage Engineering have really done some innovative thinking when it comes to the user interface for the OP-1. The interface is really what makes the OP-1 special, and I really like their approach to it. They have asked themselves a lot of questions about usability and how they would like everything to work. The interface uses color-coding and direct visual response to everything you do. The goal is to make the OP-1 accessible and easy to understand without compromising the high amount of functionality that the OP-1 offers. A lot of thought put into one good looking little package.
Teenage Engineering are steering away from the "staring at the waveform-sickness" which they describe as a common syndrome when you work with a computer. The symptom is that you just look at a sound instead of listening to it. With the OP-1 interface, Teenage Engineering wants to bring back more of the listening part to making music, and a lot more usability.

Check out this exclusive demo of the OP-1 showing the user interface and some really interesting features that has never been revealed before

http://www.ihavesynth.com/blog/teenage-engineering-op-1-synthesizer-exclusive-demo-and-interview

We hope you like it!

Best,

The IHaveSynth team
www.ihavesynth.com
Another reminder why using is the best way to understand what a product is about.
Also note that libc string functions generally seg-fault when passed invalid addresses (including NULL). Implicitly expecting more sophisticated error handling in this scenario is silly.
In the case of being a startup founder, you're risking little to potentially gain a lot. In the case of investing your newly earned fortune, you're risking a lot to gain a little (as a percentage).

The fact that the HN readership seems to be aggressive in the former case and conservative in the latter is not necessarily a contradiction (or, to be honest, even surprising).
Go to http://www.daveramsey.com to learn how to manage it.
I concur. I have the Wifi with a mobile hotspot. I fly a lot and it's much better on the plane. No wifi in flight most of the time, but I can download content easily enough. Much more comfortable and usable than the Macbook in the plane seat.
It's getting increasingly common to want to hook up a PC to a television at an event. Here's a quick how-to. Lose the projector; use a big-screen tv!
Foreign learners shouldn't worry about proper English the way native speakers do.

The average native speaker regularly makes this mistake, so I wouldn't say it's a big deal at all.
Colombia set to elect the world's first Green head of state
OP does have some point in that Wilson's experience is hardly a common one - first, buying an iPad just to see if he'd like it, second, having email/browsing so important to him that he's even considering a 2nd iPad just to make the experience slightly better.

Basically, the early adopters have now bought their iPads and are sitting in the terrace with a glass of wine reading emails. It's fun, but it's not "this changes everything", it's "this gadget is so cool".
Travel to Las Vegas and play roulette. Place one million dollars on number 17 and create a memory you'll never forget.
This is a powerful endorsement of the iPad. To me the message is you can't really judge the iPad based on the features it has or the list of things it can or can't do but instead it has to be experienced.
2 chicks at the same time.
I'd have a problem with being interviewed like that because the question is so simple I'd think they're pulling a joke or something.

First thing I'd ask is where is the camera :)

I can see how for a junior coding position this might be an appropriate question, say people fresh out of school, and then 1 to 10 minutes might be acceptable.

But 4 modulo statements (or 3, if you think about the problem a bit longer) and a loop ?

10 minutes ?

That's pretty slow. I understand there is a lot more to programming than coding up a simple solution like this but as problems come it is really a very simple one and if someone would take 10 minutes to put this together I'd be a bit worried about throughput, and probably about experience as well.
I agree -- using the ipad over my laptop allows for a much more casual experience. i find myself picking it up/putting it down MUCH more than i did using my laptop (pre-ipad) .. using my laptop was/is a much more focused experience for me. I readily admit that using my laptop is generally faster/more efficient for most typing-intensive tasks, but i am really enjoying how the ipad's (re?)introduced casual computing to my life.
In the context of population growth, the logistic function means that something has made it stop. He dealt with this is the second video - he says we'll get zero population growth one way or another, because exponential growth forever is impossible.

Around minute 7 of the second video (did you actually watch it?) he points out that many of the checks on population growth are generally considered bad things - war, famine, disease (the alternative being birth control). This is hardly a reason not to freak out.
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To summarize, they went from 7 seconds to 2.5 seconds (still way too long); mainly by putting the 40-ish images that they have on the page on a CDN.
The key aspect of the ipad/tablet experience is being able to use it in new contexts (on the kitchen counter, making guacamole). Opportunities abound for savvy developers who are able to recognize some of ways in which tablets will fit naturally into our daily lives.
If I ever ran into that much, I would probably get into a sort of low amount angel investment with a small slice of it. (After putting the bulk of it in the more sensible forms of investment.)

I don't have enough fingers to count how many low key projects I have tried to start that have never achieved fruition because of my lack of other skills that I would need to pay someone to do, but didn't have enough money to pay for it. (Stuff like art, or audio work).

I'm not talking that stuff like million dollar angelling that those guys do in California, I'm talking $5k to $10k or less. With the project I am on now, I'm trying to get the $10k minimum from the Intel App-Up program so that I can pay an artist to make some art, a voice person to do some speaking, and a "blank" to do some "blanking" (saying this would give away my idea for an app missing from it). I would pull a loan, but I'm already $30k in the downside from a previous side business that was more physical product heavy that failed and is going to take me a few years to pay off.

But if I ever hit my dream of making it to not having to work for someone elses dream as day job. That would be what I would do with my money.
I'm not afraid, or proud, to admit I couldn't get past the n^2 solution until I talked it out with a friend. Guess it's time to go back and read my K&R...
The other brk seems like a pretty decent idea if brk's advice regarding buying large CDs is incorrect:

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:BRK.A
You can configure cookie-based sessions to be persistent.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Session/...

For rails 3 in config/initializers/session_store.rb

Rails.application.config.session_store :cookie_store, :key => '_session', :expire_after => 2.weeks
First, do some math. Assuming no inflation, you have 138 years worth of money. Come on, you'll splurge some, have a friend that needs help, give to charity, have some unexpected bills, and have inflation. So it's not really more than you can ever spend. In your shoes, I'd think about what I wanted out of life, and use the cash to subsidize getting there. Don't try to make it last forever-- just try to obtain your goals.
This was one of the first things to tackle, we’ve noticed that our Time to First Byte is the biggest crucial factor in your website “appearing” to be responsive.

This is contrary to received wisdom, and I love hearing contrary takes, but the graphs shown in this post do not suggest that it is true. The post then spends a whole lot of time explaining hard things to do which might theoretically improve this, and very little time explaining the easy things -- on-page factors like covered in the YSlow presentations -- which were apparently left uncompleted. That is a shame -- for the amount of work required to even start thinking about caching you can have spriting done, and that would have knocked off much, much more than the 25ms that was successfully knocked off the time to first byte.

You can test this pretty easily: add a 250 ms sleep to the page. I'm guessing that it does not add much to the user perceptible delay.
It's replaced our kitchen computer on our kitchen countertop.

Wait, what?
Mick Jagger on the economics of music