skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having read ahead a bit, it looks like the course is based mostly around assignments that actually involve designing games (or pieces of them). That's definitely the case for the "textbook", which is basically a short introduction to a topic followed by 5 micro-projects to do.
Podcast with Brendan Eich (the creator of Javascript)
I'm left-handed, and have never made that typo.
It is hard to outsource your passion. Outsource sparingly until you can define what tasks you are willing to accept substandard results...
Friendship in an Age of Economics
Do a consistency check. Neanderthals might lack modern human cognition, but we lack the ability to increase their cognitive abilities for much the same reasons we can't reanimate a severed head. Further, if we did bring them back there would be educational opportunities available. Also, life in a shanty town is not worse than death; only extreme suffering is worse than death.
Ya, I would never get anywhere near that. But it seems to me that trying to make 9000 (or 30) people really happy is a completely different goal than trying to get 3m page views.
Maybe you should check this out?
http://download.iomega.com/digital-home/index_en.html

or

http://go.iomega.com/en/products/network-storage-desktop/hom... ?
Ask HN: Is this really an Ask HN, or an attempt to disguise a garden-variety blog post as an Ask HN just because Ask HNs tend to get upvoted a lot?

One could easily rename any submission "X" as "Ask HN: Do You Want to Learn About X?" but it'd be a pretty cheap trick.
I was 2/3 through this before I realized that the point of the post is that the author's new venture is a better deal for founders than the traditional VC firm.

I spent most of the post thinking along the lines of "former founder offers free advice to other founders".
Natural ability and probably practice, practice, practice :)
AKA the common man's server?
I really intended this as an "Ask HN". The only reason that I didn't reference HN in the post is that there are other communities that I extended the same invitation to.
"Still on" and intend to stay on.
I have the same problem with Americans thinking my accent is English, and vice versa. My accent was originally South African, but it has changed into some sort of weird hybrid.
Very happy to see a 4 steps like book aimed specifically towards startup founders, I learnt a lot from 4 steps but it always had its feet in the enterprise sales side of the line.

Will also be nice to have a well finished / properly printed book, Blanks insight and advice is amazing, but the microsoft word diagrams left something to be desired.
Advise for equity.
You can dust off an old computer you don't use and set up a VPN/web server. Tack on everything on your check list and there you go.
Probably because after a decade of Windows/IE lock, their very idea of internet is a blue "e" on their desktop.

After this long, I bet most South Koreans think we, non-IE users, are nothing but an eccentric bunch.
Most SOHO nas devices (qnapp, tekus...) are quite close to this.
Ah hehe, yes that was it.
Viva la passive voice :)
You don't need to be an accredited investor to invest in startups. I did a lot of research back in 2007 when I started BlueStone Investments, a high-frequency ago trading firm. Basically the SEC requirements don't even apply unless you have a group of more than 10-15 investors (i.e., hedge fund).

Thus, if you want to be independent or start a small angel fund, you don't have to worry about being accredited, you just have to worry about sharpe ratios of the investments you're pursuing (whether securities or businesses).

I'm in the process of starting a few companies and need a bit more cash than I can liquidate at the moment, so we are looking for an angel investor around the $100k level for a year to fund leasing short codes (SMS) and marketing. We're not changing any user behavior but extending the functionality of a communication medium used by every mobile phone in the world.

You can find my email in my profile if you're interested in chatting.
Science is not absolute!

He is making science (and many times his personal opinion, that is: his personal theories) an absolute fact.

It doesn't matter how many real science he's providing: if you take 90% of truth, and mix in 10% of lies, then the result can't be true...

He claims that evolution (a statistically impossible theory) has to be taken as a fact, "forgetting" that one of his colleagues, and many others, already have proven it wrong.

It's not important what I think now, or what you think now, future will show! The current science might be blind -- remember, it's not absolute -- as it already happened many times in history...
I am afraid the company I work for is falling into meeting culture. When do you guys draw the line. We (developers) have started to loose our Monday and sometimes Wednesday mornings because of this and I'm thinking of talking to some people to change the situation.
If you understand PHP and not Perl or Ruby, then I suppose you don't master regular expressions.
WDTVlive works fairly well for media-related stuff, not so much for other server functions.
It just feels like the last 10%. The first 90% was actually the first 50%. It just felt like 90% because it came in big chunks.
This is incorrect, and as a counter-example I point the fact that millions of dollars every year are "invested" towards perpetual motion machines.

There are three large organizations with enough funding to construct, say, a super-collider; government, church, and corporations in order of influence and funding. So since the pot is bigger, it is simpler for someone to apply to NSF for funding than petition MegaCorp. But yet many large corporations fund ongoing basic research. New directions are been explored in networking theory, mineral exploration, and medicine every day.

Perhaps the main difference is that governments spend significantly towards weapons development, and as a corollary protection from new weapons. This has produced innovations such as nuclear power, biological engineering, ARPANET, and rocketry. Corporations are generally excluded from weapons research unless granted specific permission from a government, and hence were excluded from first developing these innovations.
Pandora is allowed to license and stream music based on a contract and DRM restrictions built into Flash. If this gets at all large it may be shut down by the music industry. Right now I can go into the source, find the URL of the mp3 file and just download it to my hard drive. I'm not sure if streaming rights have been given by the authors and if they know that their music can be downloaded.
Yes!

It's been a long time since I've learned something not involving mathematics. Game balance, game optimization, game physics etc. all involves mathematics. Whereas game design probably has some mathematics laying around, I would suspect it would be much easier to grab than other mathematics in the area.
Substituting that in...

Summary: Hardware's progressed linearly; software, no where near as much.
There's also Windows Home Server, which does everything you're looking for I believe.

Here's a list of features from the wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server):

<list removed because formatting made it unreadable. see Wikipedia entry for details>
My motivation for posting this was to share a neat idea for a product. If someone could get into this market, and fast, I'd bet they'd have a solid business.

Let me know when you launch—I'll be your first customer!
hugh3 was referring to the fact that "Ask HN:" titles are typically used for local discussion, by simple convention. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+Ask+HN...
They seem fine to me.

Do you want to see “bad” stack traces? Try Erlang. There is a language with truly obtuse stack traces.
cdr could return an array "object" where it references the entire array, and a pointer where it should start indexing. Instead of using linked-lists as the fundamental datatype, it could use array subsets.
Actually I'm not, I just think that most of the scenarios where someone does wake me up are scenarios in which they don't have my best interests at heart.

Far more likely they never wake me up, either because (a) the technology never gets developed or (b) the technology gets developed but my body is too far gone to be revived or (c) the technology gets developed and my body could be revived but nobody ever chooses to do so, for whatever reason.

Everybody acknowledges the possibilities (a) and (b), but I do want to bring attention to possibilities (c) and "slave", since I think too many people have too much faith that the people of the far future will consider reviving the frozen heads of long-dead cryonics geeks to be a good use of their presumably-still-not-infinite resources.
The work they've done combining Raphael's SVG and Flot's plotting is ace. Will be using!
Pressure-Sensitive Drawing on iPad
IMHO, pales in comparison to the address of his Steveness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
Yeah, you can view it as an optimization: you can build defstruct & co on top of lists with macros. However, using ca(d)*r by hand is not advisable in any case...

Usually it goes the other way around: you implement lists on top of defstruct.
Me too, which is why I investigated this.
Next time, just pay the extra $10 dollars for insurance and if they fuck it up make them pay for it. Oh, I also have an old G5 laying around if you're interested. Contact in my profile.
That was my first reaction, too. Once you add enough features (streaming video, web interface) it stops being a "storage device" and quickly becomes a general purpose computer, which have existed for a while now. It's not a sleek and trendy answer, but it would sure do the trick. And it would be a lot more customizable for whatever additional crazy plans he dreams up for it, while any gadget equivalents quickly fade into obsolescence.
Call them what you want. First/car & rest/cdr are the classic tool for writing code that iterates across datasets.
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You and me both, still fighting the good fight \n/
This is just a countdown clock, with no email templates actually available yet. Nice clock though.
Looks cool. I read a Theory of Fun and it was really insightful. I probably won't follow along with this class due to lack of time right now, though.

I see you're organizing the class mostly through your blog. If you find that to be cumbersome, I've created a collaborative learning website that is designed for this kind of group learning. It can add some structure around the class, help people track their progress, and send out emails to students when new stuff happens. It's called Curious Reef http://curiousreef.com/ and it's free to create and take classes.
HN I need help from one of you (Details inside)
My Problem:

I need your help. I am in severe cash crunch and I am looking for someone to loan me $5000. This will help me survive the immediate few months as I get my financial health in order. I am not asking for individual small donations, I am asking for loan from a single person.

How will I pay you back:

I will pay you back in 6 months with interest, in a single payment (hopefully, reasonable interest rate). You will have my Full Name, my Home Address, my Phone number. I will email you twice a week (not automated) and call you once a week to keep you on the loop. I live in NY.

If there is anything else that I can do to make you trust me more, let me know. I will try my best. I have made some wrong choices in my life that put me in to this position. But I know I can get out of it if someone offers me a helping hand. I always had this problem of asking help from others (probably something to do with my ego), so this post itself is a big step for me.

Thanks for reading.
I've known about this for awhile, but I didn't realize it had flags. -F is awesome!

However, I can't kill it will ctrl-c even when I set the -e flag. Is that supposed to be part of the joke?
It seems that in the past 3-4 months interest in becoming an angel investor has been popping up everywhere, kind of like a few years ago right before the real estate bubble popped and everybody wanted to become a real estate investor.
You're free to invest in anything you want - short of a court order or some specific law about where your money is spent (i.e. no helping those on certain bad-boy lists of the US government), no one can stop you. The difference is that those seeking investment are limited in how they may approach non-accredited investors, ostensibly for the protection of the "little people", to use a phrase recently in the news.

Much of this is driven by a (valid) concern for liability. I've personally been a part of a company that had accepted investments from non-accredited investors in its early days. One of those investors decided he wanted out early, before the stock had become liquid (i.e it was still privately held). He took the approach of arguing that he'd been taken advantage of in his ignorance of risk, and the company took the probably wise step of finding a way to undo his investment.

Accreditation is not strictly a net-worth evaluation. If you are very knowledgeable person in a given area of expertise, a company may be comfortable with accepting your investment even with your lower net worth/

Your net worth is not strictly your cash in hand - if a reasonable person would value your forthcoming payout as worth $1 MM, then the corporate attorney for whomever you're interested in would likely be comfortable enough to advise his client to accept your money.
I took a slightly more conservative approach: I wandered from cafe to cafe in SF for a year, coworking with other entrepreneurs, working on my own ideas while advising theirs, and eventually starting my own business.

Additionally, I started a DIY-MBA group of about 6 entrepreneurs that invites successful business people to brunch to pick their brain.

I've spent way less than $120k, and now I have a pretty solid business, and an even more solid network.
I believe you can become accredited if you are director in the company you are investing in. If you are investing a significant amount of money it is probably a good idea to get on the board anyway, regardless of whether you need it to become accredited.

By the way, this is not legal advice as I do not know the specifics of your situation, please consult a securities lawyer; he/she will be able to give you better advice for your situation.
They're not always used to kill people. There are many uses for that kind of massive power and its multiple effects.

They're a tool. The "mass murder" thing is a human decision.
Checking with a native speaker is not something everyone has access to on an every-moment basis. Without that, if you're a non-native speaker, how can you tell that something you don't know is incorrect is incorrect?

It's just a link title with an extra s and 'are' instead of 'is'. Not a big f'ing deal.

Interesting to see the see-saw of downvotes from people who agreed with me, to people who apparently agree more with you though.
Online dating Fail
Americans often don't realise how diverse the UK is simply because they're not used to this sort of diversity from their own country.

Hahahahahaha. Oh, good one.
I'm right-handed, and I make the typo all the time, to the point that I've aliased it. I think it's that I type it so quickly (both keys are in the "home row") that each key goes down at about the same time.
If it only has a touch screen and I am blind how do I use it? What if I am color blind or partially blind or have some other disability? If the new atm is outside and it is winter how do I press the screen when I am wearing gloves? There is a reason ATM's have eight physical buttons.
yeah, a lot of people like his talks. Something about his style is abrasive to me.

I really liked him on the stack overflow podcast though.
Some of CDixon arguments:
For non cash intensive startups going after VC it's a distraction especially if they are not Top Tier VCs:
* VCs are extractors not builders
* they are on the board and are going to give their "opinions" and often they never were tech founders themselves
* best advice comes from having gone through the same thing as the founders: building a company vs sitting in (board) meetings
* if you raised with a VC at seed level and that VC does not follow up, you are dead (negative signaling)
* VCs want to "put a lot of money at work" to justify their work. The bigger their fund the more they have to justify their management fees and the less company they fund the easier the job even if risky.
* it is their job not a hobby: pressure to succeed or pretend. More at stake than for Angels or angels agregate in seedfunds. Angels most of the time already made their money and built their reputation. They consider more it play money and more ready to lose it.
* It takes more time to raise with them than with angels or seed funds
* VCs by default take prefered stocks vs common for founders & employees and can add many death pill clauses, vs more standard (even open source) less agressive legal documents in the case of seed funds, angels.
Jason - Thanks for your thoughts on newsletters.

Do you think there is room for something targeting the entrepreneurial demographic? (if there is such a thing) I'm not talking just startups but small biz types of which there are many. The problem is that the group is heterogeneous but would seem to be valuable to advertisers if there was content the group valued.

On another note, I've heard newsletters by some big established media outlets, Forbes, Fast Company, etc charge $250 per thousand subscribers. Seems absurd but what we were quoted once for an ad placement in of their newsletters.
Amusingly, this hold equally true for Québec French, of which pronunciation remains closer to 17th century French than contemporary France's French.
hehe, a lesson for the kids, all constants scale the same.
That's how media in general works: columnists and special correspondents are mini-celebrities, so everyone expects a statement about where they 'stand' on the issue, and of course such statements are largely tailored to the prevailing views among the audience. I think this trend is a bit more pronounced in the US, but not by much.

It's a terrible paradigm. I want information and really am not interested in the views or artificial pieties of the person who is delivering it. One reason I look forward to the Economist every week is the lack of bylines - one does become familiar with the voices of particular writers, but as they're anonymous they have no incentive to honor readers' shibboleths.
The Databox (description of a desired home storage appliance from 2006)
>A nuclear bomb is a weapon of mass destruction, designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible.

Nuclear weapons have a few niche civilian uses. Sealing an underwater oil leak is one such use that is particularly relevant today.

See: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6611RF20100702

Also: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/yourfriendatom/
simplicity in exchange for choice, imo .. is not really that compelling (I really don't find pandora that complicated to start with). I would like to judge this service a year from now, to see how compelling the use case is.
I would look at a Myth TV box for this. I wonder if someone will build a good business around creating and selling Myth Boxes.
A friend of mine made this - not sure it covers everything but maybe a partial answer:

http://www.my-ditto.com/home.html
Ask HN Researchers: What do you use for organizing your notes?
Right now I use simple latex and text files and let OS and Dropbox help me organize these scattered Notes ; but is there a good layer that would let me organize them?

Features that I would like:

1. Tag Notes and not deal with categories (folders and subfolder).

2. Search Notes and within the notes.

3. Back up the entire library of notes that I have taken.

4. Batch Rename notes.

5. Sort the notes of certain tags in preferred order. I hate renaming files starting with numbers(1.File 2. File) to force order in the file system.

5. If there were an abstraction of Workspace that would be awesome. So that I could save my session or revert to a previous state of notes. Or I could share a particular snapshot of my research notes. But not really necessary.

Almost like the Lightroom for my research documents. I wouldn't mind using an inbuilt text editor.
So . . . The iATM?
Don't do that for Lisp. You will be stuck with the dynamic scoping that Lisp used to be plagued with in the beginning.

Go far a modern Lisp like Scheme. (You can ignore the syntax you don't want to deal with, yet.)
The problem is: if you bow out of meetings individually, it harms your career at the company. So once meetings are called, it's in the best interest of each person to be in them. Not being in a meeting implies that one is not sufficiently important. The only way to control meeting fever is for the person on top to rein them in.
I think you really want this to be 2 pieces: something "in the cloud" and a local cache.

When you're accessing from your phone (at least when not on your home WiFi) or a computer that's not at your house, it would access the one in the cloud, which would make it faster and not rely on your home Internet working.

Most importantly, if your house burns down, you're not totally fucked.

So the local device interfaces with TVs and such and keeps you from having to wait for anything to download because it's all cached on there. The cloud piece keeps your data safe and makes it a lot less likely that you won't be able to access your data because your Internet is down.

It's possible that you could use Dropbox as the cloud piece and sync mechanism and put together a special server that can do all of the TV/remote control/stereo integration he wants.

One issue is that even 100GB may not be enough for everyone.
Small-medium sized business owners are worth a lot of money. I think there's a ton of room there. I've thought about that demo as well. You'd really have to keep it tight.
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Big let down. The 2nd biggest issue with banking is too many slots on an ATM!?! Ummm no.

USAA and Chase's iPhone app is a much better look at the future.
This is a really important point. There seems to be this joy people are having from shedding their schema since they can just get stuff done and not have it get in the way. This should be just as much scary as liberating. You're basically flying on manual now, and there's nothing protecting your data integrity anymore.
Why are you taking his advice literally? His advice is to a hypothetical startup. The point the author is making that a startup that would make what you describe into a zeroconf plug-it-in-it-works solution would be very successful.
Years later, YouTube and Viacom battle on...
This was featured on This Week in Startups which may fit the bill: http://tonido.com/
Ah, that's why my memory was fuzzy. I downloaded PHP and as of 5.3, the SPL does come with a double linked list, and a userland and C implementation are both in the tarball. Why is there a PHP version also?
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Flagged for utter nonsense.

Please learn at least the very basics about carrying out an i/o benchmark before spreading FUD...
And please integrate with facebook/google/twitter so I can download/stream movies from my friend's devices.