skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you define a level of bureaucracy that would be acceptable to you? 10%? 20%? 30%? While many charities are woefully inefficient, so are many businesses. And charities don't live in some kind of vacuum: inefficient charities fail just like inefficient businesses.
Interesting; I've never heard that before. Do you mean that there is peripheral inflammation and the cytokines pass through the blood-brain-barrier, or do you mean that there are actually inflammatory cells that enter the brain and cause depression? Also, can you cite something more specific than a Google search? Most of those are for-profit or interest group websites.

Edit: I found an NIH reference: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2009/key-molecule-in-in...

Of the two options I mentioned, it's the former (peripheral inflammation with release of cytokines). Thanks for sharing.
they AREN'T open. That's the problem. The underlying OS might be mostly open. But the hardware you buy is as closed as it gets.

You as the paying customer are at the mercy of your carriers ideas about how they can increase their revenue.

That's what we get from that crazy model of handsets being subsidized by carriers. If people didn't expect a (mostly) free phone every year or two, with some likelihood, this would stop as people would want to demand to get what they pay for.
MySpace Updates User Profile Designs and UI Elements
APIs can't be copyrighted, at least in the US -- this is why projects like Wine are legal. Software which calls a GPL'd library's API is not considered a derivative work of the library. Otherwise, releasing X11/BSD/etc code which calls GPL libraries wouldn't be legal.
Thanks. It all started in some October when I had some sort of bad reaction to something (maybe food) that caused a massive headache/vomiting all day for me. I got pretty worried about the cause. The headaches nagged everyday on through winter and into March (when I finally went to California).

I went to specialist after specialist.. had blood tests, MRIs, etc. The actual headaches were real and not just in my head, as it were -- the search for something that wasn't there was really what brought me down.

And ps- symptom checking online is the worst thing I did to myself (can't stress this enough).
There are many things fundamentally different between men and women. Sure, some women have traits similar to men and the converse holds as well.

Personally, I don't think there is anything actually stopping women from being successful entrepreneurs beyond their own utility functions. Granted, those utility functions are in part a product of the culture in which they develop, but that does not mean something needs to change in the entrepreneur/investor community.
Looks like HN killed HackerNewsers. Anyone else having trouble getting to the site?

You might look at a beefier server and adding a proxy in front of Apache.
Yeah, I think it was Quick BASIC. But, ironically, that too perfectly fits my example :)
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That's happened to me as well. Up 'til a few years ago I couldn't stand whiskey of any kind. Then, a friend poured me some Johnny Walker Blue Label and explained how to drink it. After that, I started enjoying other blends and single malts, and eventually even bourbon.
After iPhone 4: How Apple Could Really Dominate the Mobile Market
There is currently some controversy over this. See http://www.droid-life.com/2010/07/15/enough-with-the-efuse-t... .

I think the thing is that the hardware is _not_ meant to brick the phone, but there's still a dubious bootloader that kills itself when it sees a custom ROM. The good side to that is that if you can figure out how to fix the bootloader, things should work OK. I don't know, that's just what I get from that article, it's kind of hard to follow the whole thing here.
I once knew a guy that sold big iron mainframes for a living before walking away to be a tile contractor/installer.

After telling him about some new system I was working on he responded by saying, "Yeah, that's great. But that's all they'll ever do is get smaller and faster. Where's the satisfaction in that?"

I'm told he did pretty well during the housing boom.
Yes. We created the first version of Freckle in <260 man hours and it earned $2k+ a mo with no real promotion.

What il said - do something that serves people who make money off it. That's the way business is done.
Wow, one manufacturer put a dubious bootloader on one of its phones! A true failure for open platforms.

Just avoid the troublesome phones and let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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It is not unethical. These people who listed themselves in the other directories were looking to connect with the HN community. Having more opportunities to accomplish this would be appreciated. The trick with your site is to make sure it doesn't lose momentum and die off. Could you possibly support organizing meetups with your site? Seems to be a common request for PG to add to this site.
Why _i_ wouldn't use Symfony for a new project: http://lithify.me
How To Make Sure People Will Remember Your Ideas
Bit of a subjective question: why would I use the entity framework over something like NHibernate?
I can answer that last question... there were not many girls in engineering. There were a few (and they were cute and I worked with some getting their Masters) but the Arts and soft sciences were loaded with girls. That's why I got a BA rather than a BS. I still learned how to code, sat on engineering committees, participated in defenses, did Military funded research on embedded devices, etc., but I had fun with the opposite sex too. You need some balance in life.
is it still down for you? seems to be running quite quickly here considering
I wiped my G1 without really even using the default install. Was totally rad.
A designer who reads HN will probably be a good fit for us. I'd appreciate any references / referrals you could give me too.
You mean in court?

Of course, not! That's the point of a chilling strategy, you know?
Google won't do phone retailing. (Honestly? No wonder, they are exceptionaly bad at it).

That does not mean that there will be no developer phone. N1 was actually third developer phone (after ADP1 and ADP2). There surely will be fourth.
She didn't say that people dismissed her remarks, once she actually started speaking, or that they treated her unkindly after they realized she was a developer. The way I read it was that people assumed - before she opened her mouth - that she was a girlfriend/wife who came with.

That's not offensive. That's just statistics.
And what is wrong with that?
Damn, you started out strong and then things fell apart a bit. That's what I get for voting without reading all the way through.

This whole article smacks of the idea that there is something fundamentally different about men and women and their capabilities at different points in their adult life

Men and women are fundamentally different, and research from a wide variety of fields continues to support that. I find it ridiculous to believe that even though evolution has so completely obviously shaped our bodies differently, the male and female minds are the same, despite mounds of evidence to the contrary, both scientific and experiential. A researcher would be mocked for making the claim that men and women have the exact same body, but since the mind is murkier and not as well understood, it's fine to claim that they're the same. This seems analogous to religious claims of miraculous healing, which always seem to affect something like cancer or headaches or something we can't see or touch. They never restore lost limbs or raise the dead. It's always in intangible areas we don't fully understand, and it seems for now that the belief that men and women aren't fundamentally different in their mental and psychological processes can enjoy the same safe haven.

Sorry for the rant, but it's always just struck me as the perfect example of starting with your conclusion (driven by political correctness), and then trying in vain to make the evidence fit the theory. I don't see how any honest researcher could just follow the evidence and determine that men and women are "fundamentally" the same.

Now, I agree that the eradication of gender inequality (in the sense of value) as a social norm is a worthy goal, but starting from the foundation of falsehood is the wrong approach.
Use Chrome like a pro
I mean public as in an api that other code can call. Hmmmm, I see that now but that still does not make my code a derivative according to the legal definition. As a theme author I am not taking the GPL'd code and doing anything with it. I am not copying it. I am not modifying it. I am using an api that you created to hook into and that is all. I don't think a court is going to see that simple hook as "derivative".
Why is it when I search for "gordon ramsay" I keep getting 500 Errors but "beef" produces fine results?

Quick feedback:

+ I see no thumbnails, yet this is a video search engine. Plus, as a person looking for food recipes, I want to see pictures. People are very visual when looking for food especially.

+ I notice some encoding errors on some searches, "black pepper" first result.

+ Could use some more colour/flare?

Otherwise, a great index to start. Look forward to seeing improvements
The std::string example given by Zed shows that he didn't hack around C++/STL much.

There is a whole entry in Exceptional C++ Style (or another Herb's book) that says how much std::string sucks and how you can write an equivalent extremely quickly.

Anyway, don't like std::string ? You can use std::vector in place very easily, that's a well known trick (thanks to the guarantee that &v[0] returns a pointer to the data if v is a vector).

He talks about references but he seems to ignore the capability of C++ to offer perfect forwarding which enables you to greatly increase performance and memory usage and that's very difficult to mimic in pure C.

There's a lot to write about inaccuracies in this post actually, but what the point? People who hate C++ will discard them and people who love it already know it.

I tire of reading posts from people who didn't like a language for whatever reason and try to rationalize it.
I don't think so. Viewing one's site in terms of game mechanics is a fun idea and has some basis in game theory. However, all I really have to do is offer a winning value proposition. If you are a hiring manager and are rated fairly low on the managerial aspects, you might disagree with that evaluation of your skills. Any prudent person would not base their decision on one data point. Rather, the intelligent hiring manager would evaluate applicants based upon the site's relative ranking of that person compared to other members of his or her team.

While the perception of a 1 to infinity scale reduces the immediate negativity of being obviously below average... that illusion only works for a short period of time. When you start playing WoW 10 gold coins is a lot of money, you can delude yourself and harbor odd ideas about your worth. However, once you compare yourself to _anyone_ else, it becomes immediately apparent that 10 gold coins is practically worthless. As far as the "misdirection" is concerned, perhaps I ought to note some aspects of the UI.

Unlike LinkedIn or Facebook, the site doesn't revolve around the user. As such, when you visit the site or login, you are not presented with your profile. Rather, the site is devoted to finding and comparing applicants. As such, the main page is a search page and most users will likely spend much of their time sorting through candidates. In fact, the only way a user could see their own data is to search for themselves. My guess is that that'll be a fairly common practice. My hope is that people will identify their weaknesses and either improve them or re-evaluate their career goals.

I know it seems harsh. But, the hiring practice is harsh. I sit people in a little, unfamiliar, echo chamber and send in a string of people to scrutinize and judge them. I'm not trying to get everyone hired on at obscene salaries and stroke everyone's ego. My goal is not to paint the world with a rainbow facade of unicorns and fairies. I want to enable Harvard, Yale, MIT, IBM, Microsoft, Google, et cetera to have a tool which quickly and accurately separates the wheat from the chaff. If an individual's skills are average or worse, they're not likely to be working at a company which receives so many applications that so sort of automated elimination is requisite. Rather, they're probably looking for average people for average work at an average company. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Here on HN, there are a lot of startups with a different sort of problem. No applications, but strong desires/needs for well-qualified employees. In that case, this tool would also be useful. If a startup wants to rely on friends from college and guys met at HN meetups, that's fine.

Again, I appreciate any and all feedback and am aware of the cold start and related problems. I have a few solutions that I'm not interested in discussing here and now; but, I understand that this is a major concern and certainly appreciate people pointing it out.
> So I would think that death rate from accidents, broadly speaking, is not independent from level of healthcare.

There are two numbers - the accident rate, which is independent of healthcare, and the "how good was treatment for accident victims" number, which does depend on healthcare. Their product is the death rate from accidents.

Here are two populations that demonstrate these effects.

In population 1, everyone has an accident each year and 90% survive. That's 10% deaths due to accidents.

In population 2, 10% of the population has an accident, and only 50% of accident victims survive. That's 5% deaths due to accidents.

If the accidents are the same, it's silly to argue that population 2 has better "accident healthcare" even though its death rate due to accidents is half of population 1's.

If the accidents are different, it's impossible to say which population has better accident healthcare without more information.

Here's another way to look at it. The death rate for automobile accidents in 2000 in the US was significantly higher than the death rate for automobile accidents in 1850. Does that imply that 1850 accident healthcare was better?
If 7 female founder is reflective of the Y Combinator applicant pool, and the only thing YC is doing to structurally to "keep women out" is to favor founders who have coding skills, then the issue appears to be that there aren't enough competent female coders.

Rather than a band-aid solution (e.g., creating a separate model of startup incubator that plays the types of jobs women currently do), if we want true gender equality in the tech space we should hit at the root: getting more women interested in tech. So instead of "XX Combinator," how about more programs designed to get young girls interested in science, math, coding, and entrepreneurism -- the supposed ingredients of a successful YC applicant.

That is, it seems to me that funding a whole bunch of startups run by people who may not be technically qualified to succeed simply because they're women isn't a great idea. Instead, the better solution is to devise ways to get more women interested in the things necessary to succeed (in this case coding and design skills+) and help them develop those skills.

+If you believe the apparent YC philosophy that technically adept founders are better positioned to succeed.
Or the original one that started it all; it has the most comprehensive coverage to date, with almost 300 entries ;)

http://cofoundergoogledocs.com/

"Do you need a co-founder?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950

I'm actually not sure why there is interest in duplicating Google Doc spreadsheets. Either people forgot, or wasn't aware that there's already one :/
Well you'll learn if typedef is supported pretty quickly, when you hit enter after your compile command.

As for the malloc's and various memory allocators, learn malloc and free, the rest are convenience methods, which you can live without.
I really hope so. I don't see myself ever getting one of these void-your-warranty-to-make-them-bearable phones.
Buying a phone shouldn't be a minefield. People get iPhones because they know that they're solid, simple and stress free (putting aside the signal issue for now). These things are as important as the shininess and cool factor.

Google should have enough clout to tell the carriers and manufacturers where to stick their crapware and dodgy interfaces if they want a Google branded phone. I really hope someone's paying attention.
Don’t get brainwashed by modern society
Ok, maybe ‘brainwashed’ is too strong a term. But it is more or less true. In our modern society, we men are constantly bombarded by commercials which suggest that we need to buy a certain car or deodorant in order to get the girl.
Eventually. At a time when pros were already routinely shooting with expensive digital gear that looked and worked a lot like the analog ancestor.
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The original Nexus One from Google is still the only Android device I would buy. I worry what comes next, since Google doesn't seem to plan doing that kind of thing anymore :-(
Ask HN: Surprised by your revenue? Easier than you thought?
I'm slowly hacking away at a niche B2B SaaS product after work and on weekends.

I'm looking forward to the prospect of some extra monthly cash. I get a kick out of thinking, "At $30/mo, I only need 200 users to bring in a cool $6000 a month!" (gross, of course)

...but wait. Will I get even 200 subscribers? Maybe I'll struggle to reach 10. What if I'm underestimating my market here - what if I get 2,000?

I bounce ideas around in my head: "Of course I'll get 200 subscribers. 1.3 million people live in New Hampshire alone, and we're just one small state in the USA!" Even though my product is for a niche market, my local Yellow Pages confirms there are a dozen likely candidates for my application. I sometimes think I could secure 200 subscribers from just New York City alone, never mind the rest of the country, world.

I'm genuinely interested in the product I'm working on and the experience developing and marketing it is invaluable. I'm excited to see how my projections line up with actual revenue, good or bad.

What revenue goals did you have when launching and did you hit them? Were your pre-launch market analysis/projections correct or way off?

(Patrick, writing about BingoCardCreator on his blog, said that his initial goal was $200/mo. His very next sentence? "The business has been successful beyond my wildest expectations and has made it possible to quit my day job at the end of this month." Makes me smile every time I read it!)
Ask HN: How do you automate your life?
Use any tools/tips/tricks to handle every day tasks?
I don't know what specific chip is used on Droid, but I remember that on Qualcomm chipsets you cannot change primary program loader at all (it is in the chip ROM) and after the fuse is blown in handset factory, the primary program loader checks, whether the secondary program loader is signed and refuses to load it, when the check fails.

So it really depends on SPL, what it allows to load and run. If it is strict in what it does, case is closed, buy something else.
I really don't think that equality in genders means that 50% of YC applicants (or any particular career choice) should be women (or men).

"I want a Y Combinator for women" is an incredibly ignorant comment. First, it suggests that YC somehow is not suited to women which is insulting to both parties. Secondly it is suggesting that a woman only YC is a step forward - I see it as a leap backwards.

And then she goes to speak for women everywhere with statements like

"Y Combinator participants are for the most part very young — in their early 20’s. This is not when women would be most inclined. Women who start businesses like to know what they’re doing, and be trained and experienced in it.".

That is so ridiculous I feel ignorant for responding to this post.
Cool idea. One little thing I just noticed: when I click on an autocomplete term in the search field, it doesn't initiate the search. I have to hit the search button. Just a small user experience thing.

One slightly bigger thing: While it's a cool idea, it leaves me wondering why I should use this instead of googling "[specific dish/recipe] videos." Google gives me a lot more videos than this site does right now.

But if you can crack that and offer something new in the area of cooking instruction videos, you'll definitely have something, since cooking videos are really popular.
How could I have karma of 443 without submitting anything!

From your comments?

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jv2222
This will get me downvoted in flames but...

... yes, it's a hardship. It's a hardship that is, in a sense, one way to ingrain into you certain beliefs, by taking away your familiar surroundings and making you part of the lifestyle / surrounded by people doing the same thing.

Just like the military. And religious orders. And cults.

The idea that I proposed to pg at startup school could have been a real business, that earned real money. I didn't have to be in the valley. I looked at my life and realized that it would be asinine to pick up and move on the argument of somebody who if I moved, I could succeed.

And, lo and behold, look at where lots of successful web-based businesses come from: Georgia, Brooklyn, Chicago...

Yes, if you want to climb the suicidal face of the mountain, if you want to grow big and get bought, maybe you need connections more than great ideas, great understanding of people, or great chops.

But then again, maybe you don't.

And yet again, if you want to create a business that charges real money, it doesn't matter where you are - and anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
People could know _any_ phone was solid and stress-free, you just have to teach them. Do you think there is something inherent in the iPhone that makes it intuitively obvious that they are "solid and stress-free"? People think that about one model of phone because they were taught to think that. People could be taught to think the same about the Droid or the G1 or whatever else; just tell your friends "Get an EVO" instead of "Get an iPhone", and the problem is solved, right?
This is an excellent letter written by a doctor who clearly cares and who offers several pieces of actionable advice. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I will get downvoted into oblivion, but someone please tell me why I'm seeing this on my Hacker News homepage, only a few hours after I just saw it on Reddit?

Now that HN and Reddit are starting to become the same thing, I'm wondering where one needs to go to get true 'hacker' news.

Let the downvoting commence.
Of course - which is why I would see it makes sense for differentiating between people with children.

It is somehow of more consequence that a mother misses 3 months of a child's life than a father?
This looks like a bunch of FUD to me. Here's what efuse is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFUSE

From wikipedia:
If certain sub-systems fail, or are taking too long to respond, or are consuming too much power, the chip can instantly change its behavior by 'blowing' an eFUSE.

Compare with mydroidworld:
If the eFuse failes to verify this information then the eFuse receives a command to "blow the fuse" or "trip the fuse". This results in the booting process becoming corrupted and resulting in a permanent bricking of the Phone. This FailSafe is activated anytime the bootloader is tampered with or any of the above three parts of the phone has been tampered with.

The second quote makes it sound like efuse was meant to be a security measure against tampering. I say, "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity". No, it did not come with "hardware that bricks the phone if you try to root it". I think if they wanted that, they could have came up with a much cheaper solution that this sophisticated technology.
It's amazing how much that library looks exactly like the one at Johns Hopkins.