skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That said, the most successful startup I worked at raised money in an almost mechanical manner, with little or no beer drinking, or even much contact with the investors. YMMV."

That would make an excellent how-to blog post or other elaboration. :)
My dentist has told me that in the long run an implant is cheaper than a root canal, as most root canals will eventually fail and need the implant anyway (I have an implant because I was just genetically missing a tooth and I absolutely love it - I'm a bit jealous of the guy with nothing but implants, I've thought to myself many times how great it would be to do just that, but I didn't know it was a realistic option).
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tl; dr

The focus seemed : How do I optimise my learning, such that I am capable of actually building a great product the moment I'm out of Uni?

to which I have to say..... write code. Lots of code. Endless amounts of code, debug it, fix it, test it, write it.

There's no reason you can't write a great app right now. Pick a language and get to it.
There are even worse stories.

My parents divorced two years ago. I was paying my mother's attorney bills because she had no money and hadn't had a job in 35 years.

After the first bill from my mother's attorney, for $15,000, I asked the firm to cap expenses at $5,000. I explained that I was just a kid and didn't have $15k per month to spend. They agreed, in writing.

Then they didn't invoice for 4 months, and at the end of that 4 month period (when nothing really happened in the divorce), they invoiced for $175,000.

Yes, $175,000.

It's currently in arbitration with the Virginia State Bar, two years later. Hopefully we'll prevail, but it's not looking good.

Divorce attorneys are the lowest, most predatory "profession" on the planet. Exorbitant divorce fees are not just a plight of the wealthy.

I have no solutions, and hope Grellas can weigh in on this thread.
I suggest signing up for the Challenge (formerly the 30-day challenge). It's just starting now and runs through the end of october.. you'll learn everything you need to know. The right way.

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This is for my business education course / consulting business:

Slicehost (website hosting)
Aweber (autoresponder/broadcast e-mail)
Amazon S3/Cloudfront (media server)
Google Apps (e-mail)
Skype (international calling)
Dropbox (backup)
Chartbeat (analytics)
Powerpay (merchant account)
Backpack (reference / reminders)
Evernote (database)

I'm seriously considering Ruby Receptionists (callruby.com) for in-bound call handling - I'm on the phone a lot, and it'd be much better than letting incoming calls go to voicemail. (I use Google Voice currently.)
CoffeeScript does many things at the language level, but modules is not one of them.
many would consider it unethical

many would say that just because one is involved in a business activity does not exempt one from being ethical. regardless of what some piece of paper says.
I've been thinking of a similar project for project management but wasn't sure if there was a market/interest for it.

In short, a project management app with an MMORPG-ish twist. Completing a task gives you XP (as set by another member of the team, or maybe random) and a chance at items, milestones being similar to quests, etc. You could party with your coworkers/collaborators (multiple people being assigned to one task, for example) or fight each other in an arena (has nothing to do with project management).

I've already started working on it for use at my current job to bring some fun and competition to the boring stuff (making craigslist templates). If anyone here has any interest in it let me know, would love to release it at one point.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/
DDG can learn from diaspora. DDG is doing the same thing to google what diaspora is doing to facebook yet diaspora has earned so much attention before actually releasing anything. Having said that, I would never switch away from Google until something actually good comes out, but I would switch away from facebook more easily.
Try poking around Etsy a bit. A quick search for "coffee mug" gets over 1400 hits, many of those being handmade, one-of-a-kind pieces. Quality and style varies a lot, but you're likely to find a few that pique your interest if you spend some time paging through the results.

http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=coffee+m...
It's terrible luck, for me, that nanowrimo is always November, which is always end-of-semester crunch time for me.
Going Googly
Being the original submitter, I'm just glad to see it got the attention it deserves. :)
Curdbee.com

dropbox

Skype
Slightly off-topic, but...

The University of California study finds that the average student at a four-year college in 1961 studied about 24 hours a week. Today’s average student hits the books for just 14 hours.

As I was nearing the end of high school, everyone was telling me that in college, I would probably have to do two hours of studying for every one hour of class. 12 hours of class (one for each two of the 24 hours spent studying) seems like an unusually light course load to me (and it was the minimum for maintaining full-time status), so I'm inclined to doubt that that ratio was the norm then. Where did this two-per-one norm come from?
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Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL
Why not? CPU and RAM are cheap enough and we even would see NIO2 implementation some day.
"And there are your modules, compatible with every browser instantaneously, without having to wait for IE12 to implement any JS dialects."

Maybe I misunderstood your point but.. IE12 needs to implement macro for this to work.. no?
I just read that last week.. great book! The end is absolutely riveting.
vs instead of X would be more clear imho, but very nice.

It just goes to show you that money can't buy you competence at the top.
Ask HN: Who do you colocate with?
Having read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1497215 on advantages and disadvantages of colocation, and having three cloud servers (newservers, slicehost and serverpronto), i'm curious where people colocate and what they're paying.
Dunno if this holds up for others, but Bing is substantially faster than Google's homepage to load, even with all of the crazy graphics... Impressive.
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Ozone near the earth's surface (which this road surface attacks) is a health risk, and contributes to smog. Ozone higher up in the atmosphere (of the famous "hole") blocks UV radiation.

http://www.policyalmanac.org/environment/archive/ozone.shtml
What? Lua isn't a scripting language? Can you flesh that out a bit?

(So is TCL, but I don't think it has a module system.)
How is HTML5 addressing accessibility?
This video just made my day!
Evernote, dropbox, slichost, google apps, basecamp, lessacounting
Did these studies ever show a decline in grades?

If grades stayed (relatively) the same, or even increased, then the lack of studying shouldn't be a problem. Either kids are smarter, or the courses aren't forcing them to study as much. In this latter case, it is the professors to blame, not the kids.

Granted, all these only come out if the grades did not decline significantly.
I might be in the minority here but I have a hard time understanding why the Dunning-Kruger effect is interesting in the first place. The only real value I can see is to give bloggers a bit of pop psychology to throw into their articles.
btw, did anyone have a look at node's sources? It is terrible mess.

Actually, using something like nginx-pr (a-la apache's apr) would be much better solution than this bunch of hacks.

But people never listen. ^_^
as set by another member of the team, or maybe random

Try going for some sort of consensus among team members rather than random selection -- it gives everyone some ability to reward work on tasks that are important or that nobody wants to do.
This is confounded somewhat by the problem of grade inflation.

I suppose another way to measure would be figuring out if we're getting more useful graduates but I can't think of how to measure that (apart from perhaps average increase in wages).
NONE of those theories are the reason. And frankly, I find it worrisome none of these guys can even come close. Studying methods becoming more efficient? C'mon, dude.

There's a great scene in the movie Orange County (Colin Hanks, Jack Black, others) where the main character, a high school senior, is arguing with his mother, who's worried about the prospect of him leaving home. Shaun: "But I have to go to college." His mother: "Why?!" Shaun: "BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU DO AFTER HIGH SCHOOL."

These days, most of us are not going to college to learn anything. We're going because that's what you do after high school.
I get what you're saying. Even this exchange we're having is not productive in the truer sense of the word.

But I do think titles of articles here are for the most part honest and direct, and that should provide some decent filter for avoiding tech gossip. Like, "Correcting the Record from my Divorce" on Huffington Post will pretty clearly not link to an article that is edifying in the way that you want.

Funny about the PG article... I've been coworking a bit and some of the guys have put up multiple barriers to accessing Hacker News. I'm moving towards that, too. The illusion that I'm getting things done by reading tech related articles a couple hours a day is, er, being disillusioned.
in the non-english nanny state you really wonder how HACKER news got b& when most americans conflate hacker/cracker?

I think you'll hit a wall pretty quick. Some bureaucrat saw hacker or maybe even realized there IS disruptive info here and ban it went.
i just messaged you on the githubs.
Check out the book Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurnce G. Boldt. I just finished reading it and it's really inspiring/helpful in that regard.
Due to the distribution of servers, and the way data is routed about the internet, i would imagine it would be different for everyone.
How many people do you talk to?
It can take hundreds of attempted contacts to hit one winner.

>without much I can do to change this.

Dude, you're fit. Many, many women will be down with this. If you're not extremely ugly, it's behavioral so this just means it's time for introspection.

You don't have to play the game, you have to avoid obviously offensive things, contact a lot of people and be VERY selective about who you waste your time on. You could spend your whole life trying to chat up 18-22 yo 8-10 looks girls or with lots of correspondence to someone you don't really like, that doesn't mean it's a solid idea (or that you are doing this, just an example)
If it's based on iOS, it will probably have an App Store. People will want to make games for it, but infrared remote control input will make for frustrating controls. Is that what this thing is for? http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/07/apples-magic-trackpad-rev...
nnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooo

mixing lying and sex is a horrible idea that is the cause of much unhappiness in our society.

As a 6'3 / 180lbs fellow? They might not say to you they care, but I've sure heard a lot of "pfew, thank god you weren't lying"
In a way, it actually reminds me of the game concept suggested in this presentation:

http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Bo...
Summer: learn prereq material including functional programming and basic ai for an ai course that I want to take in the fall.

Life 1: live with less (stuff)

Life 2: meet a girl

As far as progress... I've started on Summer's, but I'm not as far as I hoped. Currently working on SICP. Life 1 is actually progressing, as very often I find things that I can get rid of and not miss. Life 2... not yet..
that would not surprise me, because based on many of the software patents they've granted they certainly don't seem to worry about whether something is novel or non-trivial
Geek Empathy.

Geek empathy, unlike classical celebrity gossip, does not travel through word of mouth or through paper tabloids, but rather is propagated via digital electronic pulses, and is registered via upward pointing triangle receptors (▲).
Unfortunately complex but boring tasks are often remarkably hard to measure so probably fall through the cracks as far as this is concerned.
apparently the examiner tested the patent's claims and it resulted in only teleporting part of the examiner's body. he was not amused, and rejected it. before bleeding to death.
I believe the divorce proceedings have affected his companies.
This is your government
What politician wants to be "anti-marriage?" So, it's politically infeasible to discontinue marriage (or more specifically the government's involvement in marriage).

Reforming marriage laws to apply equally regardless of sexual orientation or to simplify divorce, on the other hand, do seem more like near-term achievable goals.
Reduce my earthly possessions to what I could feasibly bring with me on an airline flight, not counting furniture and kitchen supplies and not

Roadblocks: Most books don't exist in ebook form, I don't have an ebook reader, printed books cannot be ripped to disk as easily as CD's and DVD's. I have sentimental attachments to too many items. It seems wasteful to throw away valuable items, but selling them is a hassle.
One reason to battle the NOx at the road surface is that the concentrations there are higher, near where vehicles emit it. Thus you don't have to scrub as large a volume of air in order to get the same effect.

One HN-oriented analogy is conditioning heat out of a data center. If you wait till the heat coming off your servers mixes uniformly throughout the entire room, you have to process a lot of air. If on the other hand you catch the air just as it comes off the servers, you have to process less air in order to remove the same energy.

Pushing the analogy further-- at normal temperatures (for data centers and for the ultimate place they reject heat to, the outdoors), processing a small amount of air that starts at a high temperature can be done more cheaply than a large amount of air that starts very close to the temperature you want to maintain. By analogy, it's probably true that scrubbing a fixed amount of NOx is easier when you start at a high concentration, than when you have a greater volume at lower concentration.
My online banking doesn't let me do anything except transfer money between accounts.
That's a usability issue, not an aesthetic one.
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Can someone tldr this? Basically meat is bad, but whey is ok, and soy isn't quite as good as once thought?
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But there is a reason for the informal intros over coffee. It's understood that it is coming before a pitch. By the time you're pitching, it's good to have at least a baseline of a relationship going. Good VC's understand this, and won't be left wondering why some guy wants to have coffee.

There's a big difference between two VC's getting together "for no reason" and an entrepreneur introducing himself to an investor before they are ready to take money.
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To be honest, my primary goal in life is to be a saint. Second to that is helping others with the same.

Roadblocks: Human nature. But grace overcomes that.
I learned exactly how f'd up our legal divorce process is, and it reinforced the notion that we need a better solution for legal disputes.
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Or the reverse: RPG and FORTRAN had it, so in what way is significant white space a marker of modernity?
I've done quite a bit of online dating. It is very difficult to figure out someone's personality from profiles on dating sites. However, I can figure out personality VERY well (and hence whether we'd click) from someone's Facebook profile, if they are an active user.

It's things like -- what kind of people do they hang out with? Who posts on their wall and what do they say? How do they talk with their friends? What type of profile pictures do they post? What do they do with friends? etc. Some people say that Facebook is TMI for dating (or that it's too much personal info to give out before meeting), but it has helped me avoid many awkward first dates!
Steve Pavlina has a couple of interesting blog posts about this kind of thing, possibly worth a read if you haven't seen them already:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/09/how-to-go-from-intr...

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/09/a-question-for-intr...

[EDIT] The second link is more something for you to think about than useful information
"[T]o bear" means "to give birth" in common parlance.

So lesbians can certainly bear children by themselves, but men, the vast majority of which have no wombs, cannot.

Citation: #3 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bear

And while you may consider yourself witty, I feel I must point out that in the context in which I was using it, "to carry" a child refers to the state of being pregnant with it. Citation: #6 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/carry Yet again, something the wombless may have trouble with.
Lessons of A Golden Gut
I've got news for you, you aren't building a printing press no matter how much you think that you are.

That's why nobody heeds the diagram; everyone is so sure they have the world's first printing press.
I grew up in Illinois and live in Los Angeles now, so I miss fireflies badly.

Would you be willing to give up the complexity of the original organism for the function you enjoy? Basically they hover there and emit a soft pulse. To get this functionality we might not need all of the extra crap in firefly anatomy, just a rough approximation.

"All we need" is to create some hovering device (a tiny helicopter) affixed to a tiny LED with an oscillating dimmer. We can make a big one first affixed to a wire and then start miniaturizing it.

If you want to try this out I'm down to help out. I miss fireflies so bad :/ Side note: I know jack shit about robotics but this sounds like a fun way to learn.
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SuperGenPass is a bookmarklet which seems really nice - it has a different password for each website and 1 password that you use to create the different passwords.
well outside of a ask hn to review your site.. i would consider this spam. It depends on how you are submitting it.
This is an argument for marriages as contracts, but no more. I don't read an argument in what you say in favour of a government involvement in defining what a marriage is. Contract law should be sufficient.
Unfortunately, that energy is pretty low-grade and not very usable. Thus that heat absorption mainly just contributes to the "heat island" effect, which among other things increases air-conditioning costs. Better is to turn roads and roofs into reflecting surfaces, which generally improves the quality of urban areas.

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

http://www.epa.gov/heatisld/
computer history museum has a mug w/ an image of the babbage difference engine on it!
Because it can lead you to make arbitrary choices. People usually disagree vehemently on matters of aesthetics. I didn't say it shouldn't play any role, it just shouldn't be an important one. Focus too much on syntax over semantics and you're bikeshedding.
Within (1) there are options, as presented by Haskell (the offside rule) and Haml (you must indent exactly to _here_, no more, no less). The latter is nuts ("significant dementation", one might say. :) ).

Plus some languages, such as Haskell, allow for both braces and significant indentation, with the language culture encouraging responsible usage.
Why would you consider it spam? Have you read the articles on the site?
http://stackoverflow.com/ is a better place for questions like this, IMO.
> I don't think that applies with chores; if you grind ironing for five hours straight you're unlikely to enjoy any benefits apart from pressed shirts.

Well, you will get better/faster at ironing, though that's not terribly exciting, either.

But that's just as well. The economy would go haywire if you could grab a knife or something and kill the inexhaustible supply of local wildlife for gold pieces.
That's what I was thinking...so HN just completely blocks URLs based upon keywords in them? I wonder what other quality content gets blocked? What if iwillteachyoutoberich.com were blocked?
> Do you enjoy any sort of recreation, horsing around, pulling pranks, play acting, telling stories, fantasizing, scheming, etc?

Yes all of that, in a way that isn't appealing to women. The kind of humour I enjoy includes dry self deprecation and obscure and nerdy tech jokes, and I literally am part of the reason why women don't get into computer science jobs. You can actually see the repulsive magnetic fields lines as they form patterns at a distance from me at parties, not quite knowing why they need to move but doing so anyhow. And you know what? I have the personality of leader, and I'm going to develop myself into more of one, and women can just go to guys like you when they want to tingle and shit.

> Do you have other interests besides programming - travel, books, movies, anything?

No, a little (and I recognize where your usernane is from), yes if I'm sitting with a girl, and some other things that vary over time, including most that are stereotypically male interests. (E.g. I love watching UFC with friends at a bar.)

But anyway, I apologize if it appears like I'm playing a version of Eric Berne's game "Why don't you...? yes but...", or ressentiment or glorifying my own powerlessness or whatever. I'm really not after help, though I recognize you and others would sincerely like to provide it.

I'm just pointing out that online dating really isn't the best path for everyone, especially for someone like me. I really am likable to some, but I just take a long time to get to know, and it has to be in person over time, and it can't be the sort of whiny entitled women online who are smart enough to understand the economics of scarcity:) My own best strategy will be a two-pronged attack - make a ton more money and get a lot more power (in my view, this is more honest than clowning my way through some speed seduction value elicitation NLP bullshit that revolts me). And along with it get off the internet more and do some things where there is continual interaction with women. Sometimes, I know from experience, even though such things aren't that enjoyable at first, they can take on a life of their own... E.g. the idea that supposedly Sartre got into philosophy to pick up girls.
Start now.

Theory means so much more when you have experience to apply it to, especially the experience of doing it wrong. Building things will keep you grounded and give you leads for more theory to learn. I don't think either are very relevant on their own.

Learning technology is also a skill and something that comes with practice. As new things are generally an evolution of old things, the more exposure you have the easier learning will be.

Front end (CSS, JS, HTML...) is a deep rabbit hole. It sounds like you are really more interested in data, maths and algorithmic problems so I would play there as much as possible. Things like Clojure are more likely to keep your interest and excite you.

Don't wait!
That was awkward on so many levels. It makes me think that when people are driving these things, they'll be just as annoying as they are online.
Get out your decoder ring; but don't get excited