skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seeking protection from unforeseen changes is a prudent thing to do.

Since it is unlikely that unless there is a huge benefit to signing a prenuptial agreement a woman isn't likely going to an alternative is to trick her by getting married in a state with laws that are beneficial to the income earner and not the spouse. You promise a nice wedding at a country club in xyz state, she thinks it is sooo romantic and that you are awsome.

In reality when you dump her for a newer skinnier model she finds out that she has spent the last xx years with you for nothing because the state laws don't provide for an equal split of the assets. Out of kindness you buy her a used cheap RV so she isn't homeless and give her $200 so she can eat for a little bit while she signs up for welfare.
I spent a week in middle school at a barbershop quartet camp. For several days afterwards I heard dominant seventh chords whenever I heard white noise. I especially remember listening to the air coming in through the crack in the car door on the ride home and hearing chord progressions for the entire two hour trip.
Also on the 4am thing there is this:

Which is true if you include "off and on" 10 minute coding periods

Showing that not only does he not understand how programming is done, but he also lacks basic knowledge of how to use quotation marks.
The games are designed to be addictive, not fun in the long term.

Sorry, but I think you're pulling that out of your ass. All (good) games are addictive to some degree, precisely because they're fun, and I bet if you surveyed all the people who play Farmville, virtually all of them would say they enjoy it and are having fun.

Don't confuse "I don't enjoy it" with "No one enjoys it."
Relative sense.

While I'm at a somewhat decent level at my current position, I don't see growth opportunities, at least in the way I want to grow. I'm wondering if starting again at a lower rung, but hopefully, in the right path, would be worth the "demotion" so to speak.

I hope you're right about the "find that they're not overqualified at all once" bit.
when i was doing the application late fall, early winter, it was acrobat pdf based, which sadly is broken on macs with a case sensitive file system
I used to work for a company that produces a well known encyclopedia as well dictionaries and thesauri and other reference works and I can tell you this practice makes for a lot of fun. These sort of textual watermarks make it easy to track who's copying whom across relevant sites.

You can play the same game with false information, whether inserted accidentally or by design.

The interesting bit is that made up dictionary terms can actually become perfectly cromulent if enough people fall for the gag.
Seems awfully presumptuous to say that tens of millions of people aren't actually enjoying themselves and that you know better than they do what's "fun" for them. Would you call knitting merely addictive repetition? In a sense it is, but who cares: many people need and want things to enjoy and help them pass the time.
The Creativity Crisis
That's exactly how I'm looking at it. I'm pretty optimistic of growing rapidly within the company if/once I take up the offer, but then again, who knows how internal company dynamics actually work!
None can be attributed in Canada... it still uses sugar here.
I would say that making a game addictive is the holy grail of gaming, no?
A couple of points. Some deployments do query from replicas already, but we can make this a bit better in the vbucket world. A second point is that moxi actually has functionality to non-coherently cache some items locally. Moving the cache closer to the application is always the best thing to do if you're willing to relax consistency. This is better than having it elsewhere in the cluster. The fastest network read is the one you don't actually have to do.

moxi does this with a key prefix and a timeout per item (even 1 second makes a big difference for hot data), then fetching it from the authoritative server.

We've not really exploited this moxi functionality in membase deployments yet, but it's been there in moxi for a year now and could be easily turned on if we had a deployment which needed it.

Having said all of that, with membase (as with memcached) the limit you'll hit first for an item you're fetching is network throughput. It's not that common to be fetching a few items so much that you overrun network. Even if you do, then the answer is simple: add a few more nodes.
By the very late 80s type writers had both backspace and various types of typographic emphasis (I distinctly recall bold, italic and underline, you could also type in red and black.)

I used to use my mom's electric typewriter to fit more text into a postcard ;-)
We take PDFs and convert them to XML, CSV or put them in a DB and provide an access API. Can anyone think of a use case for this type of system?
DING DING DING DING DING!

The keyword is "Discipline". This is the very fundamental principal for anyone in the IT industry.
Read the article. Feels like Republican propaganda, even though it is not. The reason why scientists cannot find jobs is the lack of industry in USA. Industry is often employer for scientists (on-site chemists, physicists and so on).
Interesting idea but I don't think you have to trick a girl into anything.

Since it is unlikely that unless there is a huge benefit to signing a prenuptial agreement a woman isn't likely going to

Then you don't marry her. Really, if someone isn't willing to sign a fair agreement for your (and her) protection before the relationship then you don't want to be with them.

she finds out that she has spent the last xx years with you for nothing

Apart from the enjoyment, the love, the emotional support and all of the other things that long term relationships are supposed to provide. If she's staying with you because she thinks there's going to be some financial payoff then there's something gravely wrong with the relationship.
> So is this supposed to be shocking? This is actually one of the reasons I've always had significantly less respect for the 5-year masters programs.

I don't think it's supposed to be shocking. Both the title and comments sound pretty positive. <Freud> Perhaps you wish it were shocking because it would confirm your negative impression of modern research? </Freud>

My own experience is that there are "relax labs", where students (perhaps interested in research but not as a full academic career) grab a diploma before going on to employment, and "serious labs", where students go to become a professor or really develop an expertise. The first kind isn't necessarily unproductive in research, but they tend to work on more applied stuff - cool gadgets motivate these students more than deep theoretical work.
Why is this important?
Is this a gossip magazine?
I'm not sure you read my comment. I'm not saying that charity requests don't work. I'm saying that you can't (effectively) mix charity and selling services.
I thought this was an excellent article with some solid advice on how to succeed in the field. At the very least it's an honest description, up front, of what's expected so people can decide whether a career in the sciences is worth it.

That said, I'm also struck by the notion that unless you were particularly passionate about the idea of doing scientific research the best thing an intelligent person could do would be to pursue a career in a field where the rewards were higher or the sacrifices demanded lower.
That's unfortunately not an option because all requests would have to go through that single threaded bottleneck to get to the parallelized C code, which is only acceptable for long running operations. For a request/response type of scenario like Cassandra, Lucene or the kind of analytics systems I'm working on it would make the whole parallelization pointless.

The realistic option is to use a separate C based process behind the usual multi-process mod_python setup. That works but is more complicated and error prone than an in-process solution. So I think that's why so many new projects that have these kinds of scenarios (NoSQL for instance) go with Java in spite of its flaws.
Willfulness is the determination to implement my will, while willingness is the faith to base my actions on possibility.

As I've taken definite steps towards entrepreneurship, I've been having an emotional experience that feels like falling. Falling requires faith, but it is much better than standing. When I'm on the ground I know what I've got, and known outcomes are not compelling, but when I'm falling I don't know what might be, and the sense of discovery keeps pulling me forward.
I didn't see the function composition operator in there, I saw a lot of use of the pipe operator (|>), F# does have backwards function composition but it is the << operator. Function composition is >>. You can also define new operators or redefine operators in F#.

The annoying upshot of this is that bitwise operations in F# use three character operators &&&, |||, ^^^, <<<, >>> which is weird coming from an imperative background.

They use this feature for dynamic invocation on the DLR (.NET 4.0), so to invoke foo() dynamically on bar you'd write bar?foo instead of bar.foo

Speaking of regexes and operators, if you're a fan of perl or ruby you can do the following:

let (=~) text pattern = Regex.IsMatch(text,pattern)

or for maximum F# goodness

let (=~) text pattern = Regex.Matches(text,pattern) |> (fun matches -> match matches.Length with 0 -> None | _ -> Some(matches))
Similar: Rubik's cube official world record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzGjbjUPVUo&feature=fvw
In a nutshell, one can divide Wittgenstein into two phases. In his first phase (Tractatus Logico Philosophicus), Wittgenstein contends that since language seems to capture every facet of reality (try thinking a thought that can't be expressed in language) that language and reality must share the same logical structure. Thus what cannot be expressed in logic cannot be said to describe reality in a sensible way.

The second phase (Philosophical Investigations) does away with logic as a necessary underpinning to reality and establishes ordinary language as the main constructor of reality. Thus expressions only make sense insofar as they are useful and conform to publicly agreed upon norms. Thus, for example, since we roughly agree upon usage cases for the word blue, there can be no separate meaning of blue that refers to a "private" perception of blue, which does away with a question such as "do we share the same blue?"
Sure, please do comment! Or how should I reach you.
After Wireless, the Computer Mouse Turns Invisible
I sat in on Yehuda's breakout session about this at jQueryCon... really exciting stuff! Awesome use of the localStorage.
Ask HN: Any free way to file a patent?
The patent process requires some patent fee. Does anybody know of an open alternative? If not patent, atleast something that can prove that the idea was originated by somebody on some particular date and time.
Again the reason why creativity goes down - nowhere to apply it. There is no industry left in USA - the only way you can apply your creativity is by creating something, but your creations are not going to be competitive - chinese workforce cheaper, small shops you can sell through your staff all gone and replaced by targets/best buys/evilmarts and so on. Only things that are produced in USA is food and lo-tech wooden/metalwork.
This appears to be an instance of: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
any relevant sources?
As for oracle side of things, you might want oc check out OraceEnhanced adapter (blog.rayapps.com). It is developed by a very smart guy (oracle developer of the year 2009), and we use it in several production apps - works great.
UCI lectures on scalable data management
Top cloud computing predictions
And I like to think they'd respond,

"Look Jun8, in 12 years we've built a company worth upwards of 150 billion dollars, and you've amassed roughly 844 karma points."
Didn't twitter move to Scala for their website ?
She gets points for cajoling a fluff self-promotion piece out of the nytimes. That's not easy.
As an American who has spent significant time in Europe, I'll agree with you that it's quite possible to get good food in the US. However, the average quality of what the average person eats is indubitably lower and includes more processed crap.

I do think that things are changing for the better, however. On my most recent trip back home, I went to a supermarket that had large areas dedicated to speciality/high quality/non-cheezit-whiz stuff, something that you wouldn't have seen 20 years ago.
The best way by far is wkhtmltopdf, because it uses webkit to render the page. Most other open source projects use a toy HTML renderer, which is not going to work for in-the-wild webpages.
I will be your first customer

Are you sure? Really? It's "doable" and I'll charge $100,000 for it.

I mean why do you need such an API?
I'm curious as to what you might use this for. To my understanding, most of the time people use a proxy, it is to access information they think they should be able to anyway, and I tend to agree with them. I'd love to be able to access something like BBC iPlayer without a proxy, as I know many non-US users would sit through hulu ads if they were given the chance. Any use for this other than restricting access?
Interesting that both this article and Elon Musk's piece recently (also on HN) suggest that lawyers encourage creating conflict to serve their own interests.
As much as I agree to the premise, I don't like the tone. It seems like in the next 10 years this guy is going to post an article titled "Ditch that body and upload your brains you morons" (or something like that, I am not good with titles).

Granted these things are old, agreed they are very very obsolete (there have been third or fourth generation advancements to technologies like telegram. Telegram->telephone->mobiles->voip), but there is still a amusement while using them. I know these are just ruses of old people (or young ones like me who missed that era) but who is he to crucify us?
I think the backspace on those typewriters only put a strike through on each alphabet. Not exactly same as the electronic backspace.
this idea as a web app is probably MORE viable if you could add in some other conversion services... but it is all kind of muddy waters
Me too. There is a surprising amount of new vinyl released every year.
Before you build it, you might be interested to know that Scribd (and Docstoc, and others) have long had API's that offer this as a free service. We have seen pretty good usage at Scribd, but never enough to think that we could charge for it.

On the other hand, API's for document sharing sites are more complex and offer a lot of other functionality - this may scare off users who just want the transformation. I could see a market opportunity for a Twilio style API that was very targeted at this functionality. I still don't think you'd make a great deal of money charging for it, but I could see it getting some use.
Get your idea down on paper, seal it, and mail it to yourself. This will of course prevent no one from infringing on your idea, but if all you are looking to do is prove someone came up with something before a certain date, this should do the job. Also, IANAL, so I don't know exactly what legal uses this would have.
This is true for most things. There is a reason specific wines have specific glasses, as does beer and whisky.

Taste is overwhelmingly defendant on smell, so drinking it out of a bottle where your nose is not in much contact with the aroma, and drinking it out of a glass where your nose is almost next to the drink, are two entirely different sensation.

For example budweiser in a bottle/can, is very bad; almost gasoline-y like bud light, natty ice. Out of a proper glass though its much smoother and lighter tasting, not bad at all.
no. they use scala for some of their services, like message queues.
And very effective, I was stunned how much sales a mention in the NYT can bring. Wish I could repeat that for my next startup.
No way? Explain?
If female and male profiles are 50-50, then the website is slanted towards women. Male take up a huge portion of the technology space.
You will probably appreciate it more if you know of the terrain that the train runs on. Laying down tracks that work in siberia is far far difficult than doing it on say continental US soil
the social networking site if I'm not mistaken is www.yaari.com (targeted towards indians) -- as someone who's closely followed the indian startup scene, i seriously doubt if they had anywhere close to 2 million users. besides, think about it - if you have close to 2 mill users, why would you just abandon it ?
Did anybody else see title link and have the same reaction:

"Technologies that should be extinct (but aren't) (msn.com)"

no fair giving the answer at the very end like that!
Simplistic. Often in the real world both I will and will I are found together at different parts of the activity.
The NYT Preoccupations column isn't about technology. It's about trends in the workplace/ jobs.
How can such a long argument go on and nobody is simply making a post with a series of numbers showing search engine marketshare from 2001?
i wouldn't deny intravenous drug users enjoy their highs
When Doves Whine
That's exactly my point. Google isn't making any effort to make Android an 'experience', but if they do, they can't just copy Apple.

Note that I said nothing about being able to install Linux on your phone, or about the open development platform.

If Google grows a marketing brain and decides to create an experience, they need to do one based around their core strength -- finding stuff. Which is where leveraging their voice-search technology would be a good start.

Especially because vocal interfaces are socially inclusive. If I want to find a Thai restaurant on an iPhone, I usually sit there in silence and poke at it a bit. If I want to do it on a Droid, I can just ask it. Which one of these fits more naturally into a social setting without breaking the flow?

That's not all, obviously, but it's a good start towards framing Google/Android as the 'personal robot butler' to Apple's 'computer for the rest of us'.
> if it really adds value to the company

In the eyes of potential acquirers - yes, it certainly does. Even if it's just a pending patent application. In fact, pending application is what you want if the patent is to contain sensitive information (as applications are not publicly accessible, at least not in US/Canada).
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." -- Einstein
I was looking for one and didn't find a simple enough one. So ended up installing unoconv on my server. Does the job.
I... I have to reply to this ridiculous article. First, i want to point this guy out. This guy is called Don Rainey and he works for Grotech Ventures http://www.grotech.com/ which like to show how many CEOs they have.

Straight up, grotech ventures doesn't know how to properly render websites, see here, http://www.procrastinatorstangent.com/rd/hacker_news/grotech...

so tweak that, Don.

no - but seriously, I came here to write something important, and here it is: I don't know if Don is managing _right now_, but judging by this article, i'm going to assume he is (even though this is probably a list of things not to say when doing a pitch to him). Now Don has been managing peeps like most us at HN for 30 years. That's crazy.

can you imagine doing something for 30 years? I can barely imagine doing the same something for 5, but he's done this for 30. That means he has experience.

Now, I don't know Don, but today, on this cool sunday, Don has summed up 30 years of experience to me into 8 rude complaints. He has pointed out flaws he has seen over and over again without pointing out any solutions or constructive criticisms or proper examples to look up to. And that to me is like a child complaining.

dev - "it's modular, so we ca-"
don - "no."

what? what kind of conversation is _that_? can you not think of 1 modular application ever built? By the comments here, some people clearly have. Off the top of my head, here is one modular project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrlicht_Engine and here is one of its modules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGRE3D, here are some of ITS modules: http://www.ogre3d.org/addonforums/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGUI

Now these and other examples versus his points could be argued as exceptions, and from Don's point of view, as a VC, then yeah - probably few and far apart. But what does that say about what he is talking about? what does that say about VC pitching? and promise offerings? and the fucking nerve racking experience that must be to have to face off a Negative Nancy like him for money.

Don Rainey comes off as the kind of guy who "knows when it's not right" but has no direction into how to achieve something that is satisfactory even for himself.

http://clientsfromhell.net/post/697519797/me-lets-talk-about...

http://clientsfromhell.net/post/742771834/me-could-you-pleas...

http://clientsfromhell.net/post/789388118/while-developing-a...
He didn't say it in the best possible way but in essence I think the point is that if you want to guarantee to you don't go through divorce hell, simply never get married. Or married with rock-solid prenup, plus be very careful about what state you're living in law-wise. Easy? No. But probably easier than trying to single-handlely change laws and change lawyer culture.
Lack Of Food Copyright Helps Restaurant Innovation Thrive
Oh please. This attitude is at least 20 years out of date. The US has a number of excellent, world class cheeses which are becoming more and more accessible every day. I can now walk into my local safeway and be confronted with an entire display case full of artisinal, high quality cheese.

True, certain things like raw milk cheese are unavailable but it's certainly not true that US cheeses universally taste like plastic.
Is it possible to buy 7-11 coffee with points from zynga games?
Oh now I remember who the entrepreneur actually is. She started one social networking site in India called http://yaari.com which was absolutely spammy. Mailed tons of spam endlessly - probably that's why it didn't work out and now that site simply shows her personal blog.
I remember the internet before it became a corporate whorehouse and it was fine. Back when the newspapers didn't take it seriously and every little mom and pop shop didn't have a website. Before people felt the need to tweet every time they take a dump. Back when it was just people talking to people.

I say hey - if you can't make a buck and that's the only reason you're trying to communicate then just go away. I'm not logging on to spend money... go get a real job.
Some Thoughts On The Three Amigos
> "If she's staying with you because she thinks there's going to be some financial payoff then there's something gravely wrong with the relationship."

exactly. instead, just leave the cash on a bureau top or bedside table where she can find it easily. the exchange is still implied on both parts, and you both still win because she gets her money reward earlier and the man doesn't have to worry about being destroyed financially 10 years down the line.

(tongue somewhat in cheek)
Thanks for that link. Right now I'm doing something similar using a modified version of webkit2png.py that outputs into PDF instead. I'll have to check this out.
It's been heart breaking after putting so much effort myself into working on python3 stuff to see the Django people, and the other big slow python framework... zope/plone ignore it.

Boo to Django.
I'm quite willing to believe this. But then, I played Animal Crossing for a while and that involved mooing, as well (... if I recall correctly). I'm willing to believe a game can be made out of mooing, however I would assert that a Japanese game about mooing is almost certainly better than one owned by shady Russian investors, or whatever Zynga is.