skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you can combine both approaches - I think you should approach a university professor and ask them if you can "sponsor" a startup for class credit.

This has a couple benefits - you can churn out a basic prototype, and live "the journey" as you want. You can work hands-on, directly with top students, and go through the learning process with them. You can learn from them, they can learn from you - it'll be more relaxed that starting a company from the get-go.

This might also have practical advantages later on. If you decide to go for VC funding later on, you'll know both the software and hardware sides more intimately, and you may even get a higher valuation for having a legitimate product rather than a paper product.

You may even be able to talk the professor into letting you audit a few classes that you might need. Maybe you'll even take classes with the students helping you!
Keeping a lid on help keep the temperature more consistent, as there is much less heat escape and evap into the atmosphere.
No, but something big and important is happening.

One could recast his argument into the disruptive and sustaining innovation approach, with PCs clearly being the former and Web 2.5 being the latter.

But I myself put the Internet as something more than simply a disruptive technology. It's a general purpose technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_purpose_technology) in ways that PCs, a "merely" new form of computer, weren't. The computer was also a GPT.
Citations are good. Web analytics are good. Personalized service is good. This service doesn't bother me at all -- if you plan not to give attribution to your source ("you bad bad dog"), just remove the link they add. If you have difficulty copying something because of their JavaScript, just open the source and copy/paste from there.

Why is this even a top link on HN? It's a stupid complaint. Gruber should surf those sites on his iPad to get rid of the right-click hooks... Or use an older version of iPhone that doesn't offer copy/paste...
It should be a browser feature/plug-in, or not be there at all.
I loved Primer.

But The man from Earth was just boring, I don't get why so many people liked it.

Bad actors, the hero claims are either dull or ridiculous (I laughed a lot when he pretended to be J.), and most important of all, not surprising.
I knew what the movie was about before I saw it, and if it can't show me more than I can imagine myself, it just sucks.

I'll be happy to get some downvotes so that some of you could save 2 hours by not viewing this movie.
Investors Tap Into 401(k) Money Tax-Free for Startups
Here’s how it typically works: An investor sets up a corporation, establishes a new
401(k) plan there, rolls over his or her existing 401(k) or Individual Retirement
Account, and then uses part or all of the plan’s assets to buy shares of the new
company. This funds the new business, while keeping the tax- advantages of the
retirement plan.

Brilliant
New in Sphinx 1.0: Domains
clickable link:
http://ReadMeLater.com
One thing I'm doing, is NOT pursuing a degree program. This enables me to do lots more "a la carte" class-picking.

I've had mixed response from the schools I've talked to about this. The admin folks seem mildly confused/insulted, but the profs are cool usually. It does take more overhead to explain your situation, meet w/profs to get out of prereqs, but it's pretty do-able.
I agree with that. As somebody with a science background, I feel self-study is great if I want to understand something, but for anything relating to manipulating a physical object, I find it much, much faster to have it demonstrated first, and to try it in front of a critical (in a nice way) person.

For example I prefer to understand quantum mechanics from a book, but I would rather somebody showed me how to truss a chicken.

EPID and all that, but I think there is a huge shortcut to be had by spending a little time with somebody who has the tools and skills you are trying to pick up. The rest you can figure out for yourself.
It depends on his skills. You say "building presentations, and managing teams", those are not really skills a startup needs (ie. they wouldn't hire someone just for those).

I get the feeling his quantitative analysis skills won't suffice either.

I would make a better list of skills that those startups may need, as in "I could help Banksimple do X or Y". Something very practical. Once he has those, get in touch with them and talk to them. Like, really, what could he have helped, say, Mint with, practically?

It's just that consulting and stuff isn't really a good preparation for the startup world; consulting is not truly (often) about getting things done, startups are.
"Two years later, I got laid off due to economic factors. This led to getting a job in the Bay Area. I had multiple phone interviews and a short programming test before getting the job, but I didn't have to fly over to California once."

Personally, I'd be wary of a company wanting to hire me without having to meet me in person. Inversely, if I'm running a company, I won't hire somebody I haven't even met.
Thanks. This is what I suspected and was trying to provoke from my question - your target audience for this point might not fully be the audience here.
AppleVersusGoogle.com (HN for all Google and Apple News)
Don't pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Quick! Just pass it on, pass it on, pass it on... Thanks again, Douglas.
Even if it's true, stating it in an interview like this just comes off as trying to sound cool.
I landed a job in Dubai while living in Vancouver. I landed a job in Vegas while living in Dubai. Then I landed another job in Dubai while living in Vegas. If you are willing to go the distance (even on your own $) there are no borders.
This is merely the Web2.0 version of the old image-protection script that pops up an indignant message from the webmaster upon right-click. It too will die out.
A large contingent, not a majority, of my peers view studying engineering or science as the necessary prepration before entering finance.

A surprising amount of those who have their head around making things have done the thinking and the math to find that, hey, the risk/reward ratio of a startup might be worth it, particularly at a young age.
I don't think the point of this library is to provide a best fit layout as Masonry tries to. Instead this is a layout manager in which you could encode any number of layout algorithms including the Masonry algorithm.

This layout manager design pattern, while likely always less efficient than native browser mechanisms, is something we'll probably see more of as the browser takes on a greater role as an application host. Without programmatic layout to complement or override the browser's native layout system we won't get the sorts of visual UI building systems and application layouts you're starting to see in frameworks like Cappuccino and Sproutcore.
Old post from September 12, 2009. I'd like to read more about it, but there doesn't seem to be much recent information about these new features.
I have a 150 GB Seagate external drive that has performed just fine. I held them in good regard and considered them a first choice, until recent incidents such as "the click of death" accumulated to cause me concern.

I'd really be tempted by this new line of hybrid notebook drives, particularly to extend the effective lifespan of some older notebooks I and friends and family have. But I would like to know that they've taken good measures to eliminate the underlying conditions that allowed for some of the recent problems to enter into and persist in shipping products.

I take your point with regard to the particular situation you describe. I have similar "relationships" with a few companies; they may be "sliced bread" these days, but they screwed me, once, and I'm still voting with my feet.

I'm not a zealot. I had some unfortunate experiences with Ford products, but I still drive one (the best option at the time of purchase) and would pick Ford over the other U.S. brands. (Still, if I ever find the engineers and/or quality control who allowed unground, sharp metal edges on my driver's seat frame to destroy the seat's foam and support, for example...)
I figured it was a Monty Python reference, to the part in Holy Grail where he systematically dismembers the black knight, and then faces the Knights Who Say Ni, who ask him to chop down the tallest tree in the forest with a herring.
For those who want to learn more:

http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk
Me too. After one escalation I got a super pleasant guy on the phone who spent 10 minutes helping me find the problem (which, btw, was my own fault).
How do you find market opportunities, other than by merely stumbling through them in the course of your own life (e.g. "I used to do X and found out that Y sucked so I set out to build a better Y") As a developer, the number of domains (X) I've worked in are small, so I find it difficult to look for opportunities in non-development domains.
I feel the same but without the rooting part -- there are enough dogs in the race.
1080 lines sounds quite sleek, but then I suspect it just sources almost everything out to other packages.

Could someone who has used it comment on how it compares to Django?
I don't understand why people are complaining. Not only are these websites giving you free content (beggars can't be choosers), but this problem is ridiculously easy to fix; just add the EasyPrivacy filter to your AdBlock Plus installation from here: http://easylist.adblockplus.org/

Here's a direct link to subscribe:
abp:subscribe?location=https%3A%2F%2Feasylist-downloads.adblockplus.org%2Feasyprivacy.txt&title=EasyPrivacy
This is interesting. It reminds me of manhacks from half life 2 though which scares me somewhat but thats probably intensional since its so aggressive.
Spouses bare a significant amount of the risks and emotional hardships of founders. They can be up late, discussing ideas into dawn, making food, or educating/entertaining their five children as one digs in. Being married to a founder could represent a moral weight that's probably equivalent to that of the earliest early employees -- if they truly do support it.
Funny, it made me think it was a tablet for walkers.
Do you have showdead on? Do you scroll to the bottom of every post? It seems like every third post has garnered a squadron of useless flip replies that sit at -4 or dead. A troll post of this variety is almost on the level of effort of the one word "yes" and "no" posts that show up when the headline is a question.
Oddly enough, the HTML5 doctype actually keeps most browsers in standards mode, including FF 3.x and IE 7+ - http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ (also includes info on why you shouldn't use XHTML).
This has been here here before (perhaps with milder tones) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491003

A relative comment is that this service is not for the "technically inclined".

Personally - I'm used to highlighting all the text I read (not sure why). I would prefer an opt-out option to remember my choices across tynt-enabled websites.
That is what they need us (ie, programmers) for. Layers of programming jobs for a militarized swarm of these things. From twitch decisions to overall unit formation and attach plans. These would also be useful as bomb delivery devices. Think about it flying straight down, either reversed propeller spin or (more likely) upside down flight to avoid AA fire then sneaking through a window with plastic/gel explosives to take out a general hiding in an otherwise public building. Could be used for micro biological/poison attacks, like anthrax to take out key targets, or as cheap satellites for the 3rd world to spy on their people.

Of course civilian uses are vast as well, but harder to find really high priced jobs in the private industry.
Diaspora needs to be the Dropbox for Facebook (plus any other social network). They need to launch as the diaspora facebook app. P2P with just your friends. The abundance of legitimate uses provides a legal shield that will allow all kinds of files to be traded freely and you're carving out a niche that facebook can't compete with.
It's also worth noting that many trusted members of the site have vetted the story, and the members involved. Part of that trust is evident in the willingness of folks to let Fake stay at their place, sight unseen, as he drove from WY to CA. And I'll actually be meeting up with one of those hosts this Sunday for brunch.

So there's a little more context behind the members involved than in a normal interweb forum. Imagine if epi0Bauqu had a friend in a weird situation, patio11 stepped in to help out, and pg was frequently posting updates and coordinating communications. Meanwhile, cperciva and a number of other major names were also doing what they could to mobilize aid. And now imagine if a large portion of the site's posters had some sort of real-world connection to at least someone involved.
With Crohn's that's not an easy possibility. It would, in fact be miserable with surroundings, food, and weather changes. Please don't do that.
If anyone's looking for a EPUB version for their iPad/ebook reader, here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133571/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_...

Converted via http://fanfictionloader.appspot.com/
His ex, Justine Musk, says in her post 'golddigging'

http://moschus.livejournal.com/140610.html

"For those who want to know the extent of my golddigging, this is what I asked for, from my ex-husband and the father of my five children Elon Musk, who is a billionaire* and utterly brilliant.

* albeit with cash/liquidity issues, which I would work with him to work around"
The Most Unusual Metro In The World
Another easy way to block it if you're running NoScript is to disallow scripts from Tynt.
The taste of tiny: Putting nanofoods on the menu
Patent trolls, er, NPEs, share their secrets in panel discussion - Corp. Counsel
Reading his responses, he doesn't come off as the money-hungry psychopath that he was claimed to be. Either he knows how to hide his agenda very well, or, well, he's just your usual young founder.
My copy buffer is my copy buffer, and a fundamental aspect of computer interaction. It does not belong to The New Yorker or Techcrunch.
Here's a list of open online courses from over the world:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html

Missing/Better versions from the list are:
http://see.stanford.edu/
http://education.jimmyr.com/
http://itunes.extension.harvard.edu/
Actually I largely agree with what you say. Here are some rules that I think they should have taught in college, but never did:

1) A good percentage of your time will be spent understanding how a library or framework works. When I was in school the only real library I made much use of was the CRT. This may have changed recently though, as its been a long time since I was in college.

2) You will actually ship a product with known bugs. Triage shocked me when I first joined industry. I was like, "Wait... you're not going to fix that bug? I can fix it, just give me a day!!"

3) Being a great ACM contest programmer doesn't translate to being a great SW engineer. I recall one of my first code reviews where the architect was asking why I didn't use a set of patterns to solve a given problem. I was generally like "The who pattern?"... "Inversion of where?" On teams people like to see patterns for problems they're familiar with. Not my new homebrewed cool method that I just came up with as I typed.

4) People seem to respect how fast you can fix bugs more than the absence of bugs. This is a weird one, but it seems to be something I've seen across multiple places I've worked. People are impressed by people who can fix a lot of bugs. But those people who write fewer bugs to begin with seem to get less praise.

5) Being a debugger whiz is often the difference between fixing a bug in an hour vs a few days. I used GDB in school, and even then, not often. Largely printfs. I can't imagine ever going back to that. I guess this is really "a craftsman knows her tools".
One thing going for Pylons: Great documentation. If you're using TurboGears 2.0, you'll do far better going straight to Pylons docs than most of the stuff on turbogears.org.

Still though, it seems that most people tend to go for the full-stack frameworks. Anyone here using Pylons?
Don't forget toilet paper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper

Must be the most innovative discovery of all times
How is that quote unfortunate?
There were sub-500 notebooks, mostly in the 15-inch range, but those were not the precursors of the netbook.

There is a huge difference between a netbook and a 15-inch low-end notebook.
William Davidow's (of Intel) definition is as true as ever:

"Marketing must invent complete products and drive them to commanding positions in defendable market segments"

If you subscribe to this vision, things like advertising, promotions and product development become easy to align.
Gee, I'm 34 and I'm planning to go back to school for a Masters in robotics next year (I'm a Mech Eng graduate).

I sure wish I'll run into someone like you when I'm done with my Masters.

For now, may I suggest you check out the Springer Handbook of Robotics for an excellent wide overview of the field, both in theory and applications. Maybe seeing it laid out like that will help you decide where you want to go with it.
I never thought I'd see a fanfiction.net link on Hacker News. ;-)
Ask HN: Really simple display ad network software?
Hey everyone, a friend of mine in Miami is looking to do an ad network with an international focus. He basically wants something like fusion ads (display ads, simple tracking, no payment integration needed either). Is there anything out there similar to openx?
Well I saw it here for the first time, and the link title said "parody", so I didn't expect it to be serious. It was silly but somehow not funny.
Being able to see the future isn't enough for a financial bet. You have to be able to see the future before other people with money. If something is sufficiently obvious, it will already be priced into the market.

In other words, a financial trade isn't a bet on your insight. It's a bet that your insight is sharper than the person on the other side of the trade.
This article doesn't even mention the biggest problem with Tynt: copying and pasting code snippets. I hate it when Tynt is installed on a website that has code snippets or tutorials. When I copy the code I have to delete the Tynt message. It wouldn't be so bad if it was smart enough to detect the coding language and insert the attribution within comments.

I suggested that feature months ago when I first discovered Tynt, but they never implemented it or even responded.
Top thing would be to be the subject matter expert and own product and customer needs for something he is an absolute expert in.
Japan followed the same story line initially.

Camera manufacture started as either junk, or as cheaper copies of German (Leica) bodies and lenses.

Car manufacture was in one case initially intertwined with licensed designs from the UK.

In both these cases, Japan grew to become the leader in cameras and amongst the leaders in automobiles.

The interesting thing is whether China can do the same thing with computers, but as software has such a cultural dependence, I highly doubt it. Aside from Matz, has Japan even produced any really notable software or operating systems?
Can you give more info on the electronics depots in the San Jose/Santa Clara area please?
Ubuntu 10.04 brings Linux closer to the mainstream
BOOM!

I have to echo what Peter says, having worked in Consulting and Investment Banking I would say the skills gleaned would be more suited to say a VC role? From there he would get more relevant experience and could ultimately move to one of their portfolio companies (If that's his aim).
Yes, there's less heat escaping. But the water is pretty close to 100 C throughout. Go ahead and try it out :)
The post's author was implying that they may have grown up in an environment where they really did know what to expect, and I'd agree that it is a possibility, as uncomfortable as that may be to ponder. Who knows what these particular 18-year-olds were expecting; just because you may have been naive about the world's seedy underbelly at 18 doesn't mean everyone else must have been. It's easy for us to fall into a cultural narrative specific to our community, and believe that it must be the same for everyone else.
If you don't understand why people are complaining, you may want to take a moment to understand why.

You have shown how to block it, but there is a larger discussion of why or why not it's bad, how it breaks copy/paste, attribution problems, and so on. You might do well to look outside the narrow technical bounds of fixing a specific technical problem to think about the greater issue.
OK...but I think 'limiting risk at all cost' is a bit of stereotype; doctors (and attorneys) do take difficult or even dangerous decisions which require them to weigh risk as a matter of course, which is why members of both professions carry malpractice insurance. Also, many board decisions do not require unanimity.

I question the idea above because it echoes a good deal of what I've heard about the pre-crash standing of risk managers at banks; during the bull market they got sidelined as party poopers and now many of the same banks are risk-averse to the point of paralysis. Surely there's room for a happy medium; growth-at-all-costs is no healthier than safety-at-all-costs, and we often read of reckless corporate decisions which end up costing shareholders far more than than they saved in the short term. Look at that recent Home Depot lawsuit for example - a $4m 'saving' turned into a $21m loss.

Further, 'external signs of success...choice of profession exposes what their priorities are' suggests that somehow members of these professions get ahead by charging fat fees for obvious common-sense advice; doing well by simply having a phobia of mistakes and accumulating their reputations by default. But 'making it look easy' is one of the things that distinguishes skilled from mediocre people in every profession. By that yardstick, programmers are just glorified button-pushers, capitalists are mere rentiers, emergency workers are all adrenalin junkies, and civil servants do nothing but push paper.

It's true you can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs, and eggs that aren't cooked within a certain time will go bad. On the other hand, turning the heat all the way up ensures your omelet will be inedible.
Why is 37Signals always the counter-example?
After making a gesture to prove that he's a nice charitable guy who's interested in seeing Diaspora succeed, he likens it to a project deemed illegal by the CEO of his company.
Expand one's musical life on the web.. How?
If you have a boss like this, your work will be more rewarding than twice the pay for a jerk.