skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can this be used to implement continuations?
Thanks lowkey! Solid mix...what company are you with?
In my experience, those chain letter emails almost always came from my mum. ;-) At least until I asked her to stop forwarding them to me.

Seriously though, I haven't had one of those for what must be years. Are they still going strong and I just happen to be spared? Or is all of this stuff happening on Facebook, etc. these days? (By the time Facebook was open for me to register, its appeal was gone, so I never did. There's a story there but I'll leave that for another day.)
Noah's blog lists them sometimes...www.okdork.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html

"Young women in New York and several of the nation’s other largest cities who work full time have forged ahead of men in wages, according to an analysis of recent census data."
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Just because it's in international waters doesn't mean it has to be in the middle of the ocean. If they're willing to accept being outside the territorial waters of any country but still in the Exclusive Economic Zone of one, then they can sit 24 miles off the coast from a port, and do weekly grocery runs with an ordinary vessel.

If they can't stomach being in somebody's exclusive economic zone (not that it makes much practical difference) then they'd have to be 200 miles offshore, making grocery runs a bit more of a pain but still possible. A reasonably fast ship will get you there and back in a day.
AfriGadget: African DIY ingenuity (ex helicopter from scrap metal + crashed Boeing 747 parts)
Well... yes and no. If you get "lucky" with network effects, it means that something that's pretty simply technology wise, like reddit, can suddenly become very valuable, all out of proportion to the technology behind it. It's a gamble, but so are startups in general, so creating something that goes exponential is a good proposition in some ways, rather than something that just adds one user after another, slowly.
"Real intelligence

Just as we assign personalities to domestic pets despite their lack of consciousness, so we can attribute these qualities to the increasingly sophisticated robots that will soon be available in work and home settings."

eh domestic pet == a real dog?

they dont have consiousness?
I've never read the book, but taking the title literally was the authors first mistake.

From what I've seen in reviews and when I skimmed the book it's not about working 4 hours a week, it's about working less on mundane tasks and doing what you love in your free time (traveling, golfing, whatever)
After living in the SV area for a while, how would you now compare it to Austin? I'm considering the exact move soon myself. I love Austin, but dont think the atmosphere is as conducive for young hackers trying to start a business. Its a bit hard to stay motivated when people around you dont take what you are doing very seriously.
If you're close to the beach, where property and rent is ridiculously expensive, yes, the weather is pretty nice.

East County, though (El Cajon, Santee, etc.) lack nearly everything that is good about San Diego. No biotech startups, no weather, no college kids, no nothing.
What if they're locked up for a safe breeding of more of a threatened or endangered species, or for the purpose of education and awareness of the threats facing wildlife around the world?

I've been to some zoos that just make you want to cry, and I've been to other ones where the animals seems happy, well taken-care-of, and had enough activities/entertainment to keep them from getting bored, and where there was a huge amount of focus on education around what species are threatened, why, and what you can do about it. How to co-exist with wild animals locally, and how to support efforts around the world.

It's a lot easier to feel sympathy/empathy and DO something when you see a real live cute endangered animal, than if you read a paragraph in your paper.

It's definitely a mixed bag, but overall, I'm pro good-zoos.
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I tried to get through this, despite the piss poor writing ("Let's begin at the beginning...") and the arrogant tone. I skimmed the beginnings of every chapter, and realized that this book could be written in 5 pages. Then I read the part about him cheating to win a kickboxing tournament. That's when I chucked the book aside, and picked up Warren Buffett's biography instead. Talk about contrast. Buffett is insanely talented, works hard AND smart and has incredible depth. Ironically, Ferriss himself recommended the Buffett bio at a talk he did. My prediction? Ferriss is going to do talks to plug his book at smaller and smaller venues, whoring himself out to everything but the local Elk's club, following in the crap footsteps of Andrew Keen's book tour. Then, as he realizes the ship has lost all momentum, he'll admit that this book is just another corner-cutting, outsourced, unoriginal, first-draft, lazy piece of work in a long line of shams that he's pulled.
they say it with such disdain that they might as well be talking about becoming a drone

Not without good cause. Startups aside, the vast majority of programmers and engineers spend their careers implementing other people's ideas. Outliers that start their own companies are very rare. In law and medicine, it seems that running a startup (your own pratice) is the expected progression of a successful career. They are groomed to expect it. The typical tech/science track seems to be tailored to produce....drones. Judge them by their fruits.
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Last Sunday I walked through San Jose, about five or six miles.

I got sunburned.
Asking the Crowd to Spread the News
I'm going to try it with a different account on my mac, using parental controls to limit the web access and applications I would use in work mode.
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Two reasons: FUD and the fact that women are more rational (as someone said "more sensible"). Purely statistically speaking, you are more likely to do work that's both interesting and well paid if you go into medicine versus software engineering.

Medicine takes much longer and steeper learning curve, but once you climb that an average job requiring an MD is more interesting than an average job requiring a BS in CS and pays better (while if you fail to get an MD, an average job requiring a BS/MS in Bio-Chemistry is at least as interesting and still decently paying).

The FUD part is pretty self explanatory: introversion doesn't mean lack of social skills (the latter are learned and eventually most geeks do end up learning them one way or another) and given the amount of team work involved in any real engineering projects there are plenty opportunities for extroverts to re-charge.

The way to encourage women to go into these fields is to provide dual degree programs (no opportunity cost for seeking a CS degree and applying to engineering jobs as an undergraduate) and combating the FUD.
You all ought to move to New Orleans. No strip malls, the best food in the world, and plenty of fun. It's just as good as anywhere for coding....
Well said. Even in academic science, the presumption is that you will one day lead your own research group (however unlikely that may be)...and academia is not known for progressive organizational thinking.

Closer to your example: my dentist is in his mid-20s, and already owns a half share in two established practices. How many programmers own a half share in their own business at 25?
I think a lot of people here are actually Gen Y.
Smart choice, ladies. Should have listened to you.
I kind of agree with the end results of your thoughts, but I think for very different reasons.

You mention "trust", "steal", "juiciest parts (of ideas)". You seem to imply that ideas (without execution) have a huge value and so must be protected somehow like a treasure. I think this is the fear that a hacker might listen, secretly record the conversation and swiftly run home to implement your idea before you. This is unlikely to happen. Chances are that if your idea is so good to get a hacker inspired to do something about it, a truly brilliant hacker might actually ask you if he can join you instead of going on his own. If he decides to "steal" it, chances are that he is not such a great hacker after all.

But anyway. An idea without execution is close to nothing. I don't think you have anything to fear to talk about it with anyone: non-tech people might help you to think outside-the-box and provide a different perspective; your peers might become interested, give implementation advice, or even join you. And you might as well talk about your idea at least to understand it's not shit.

If you keep your idea to yourself, it's just you and your brilliant, closed, lonely idea. :)
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or perhaps bashing in a very wasteful lifestyle, narrowminded way of thinking, and unsutainable in the long run, when your choices to build strip malls, and drive everywhere with big trucks, contribute to global warming, geopolitical instability for the securing of oil, which affects people in the city as well.

Ah, and let's not mention all the money wasted in health care b/c of people in the suburbs, that move only by car, are more likeley to be living a sedentary life style, *being fat, and all the health problems that come with it.

Remember, Europeans live mostly in nice cities, they spend half of the gas, and create about 1/3rd of the trash of americans do, but yet they have pretty good lifestyles (and if measured by longivity, or healthiness, probably better lifestyles).
Brilliant. I've been playing with a dataset of programming language influences but getting disappointing results from graphviz. With a few lines of code I was exploring the graph in 3d. (Screenshot: http://www.paulbutler.org/ubigraph.png ) I haven't figured out directional edges yet (only had a few minutes), but that will be interesting as well.
You probably want to look at Amazon S3 for scalable media hosting, you only pay for what you use, and its dirt cheap.
"New" Mountain View on Castro Street is OK. It's not SF, but there are now decent restaurants, two bookstores (the used bookstore is fantastic), and acceptable (not good) independent cafes. It's also near the train station.
Mozilla phancies doing a Phorm
the article's title is misleading. it's not about reasoning of whether an API is needed or not. it's about getting around the lack of an API if you program in Ruby.
Wow, Webmonkey was how I learned HTML. I hope the relaunched site is as good as it used to be-- concise, easy-to-follow tutorials.
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I'm not sure what's worse.

1. That I get these emails

or

2. That the gooberment spent probably $3million for this "research"
I live near San Jose, and I agree with jwz - the South Bay isn't exactly a shining testament to beauty. There are pockets of habitability (I'd like to think I live in one, but of course I'm biased), but that's about it.
unfortunately you have to pay to read the article. Too bad.
Considering only GDP:

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-re...
This is like if they relaunched the original nintendo...not sure if I'd use it much, but the nostalgia gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling
How many programmers own a half share in their own business at 25?
None.

I swear if none of my startups work out I will count my engineering degrees a complete waste of time. I found only 2 or three classes moderately interesting, and from a moneymaking standpoint, the brainpower required to make it through the curriculum versus the salary is a joke. I studied EE and use next to none of it.

I could have learned to code on my own, and even studied electronics in my own time like I did as a kid, and still ended up in cubicle land, or earned a professional degree to fall back on (medicine, law) probably having a better time in the process. Sometimes you have to separate business and pleasure.
Wow is he wrong about Sushi. It's quite easy to screw it up, and I have a few friends with hospital trips to prove it.
Official Google Blog: A peek into our search factory
also PC market has plenty of options below 1000, and with Apple that is not the case
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Terry Semel: A Man Of Few Words (On Yahoo)
Pockets of nice is exactly the way to put it. There are a lot of nice bits of Palo Alto. It was a college town before it was engulfed in the wave of suburbia spreading down the peninsula in the 1950s and 60s. There are some nice bits of Mountain View too.
Provincial? Many people move to SJ from other places, so I doubt that word applies.

An environment's 'boring quotient' isn't necessarily related to it's physical attributes. I think that who you are surrounded by is more important than what your are surrounded by.
Has anyone seen a blog post where someone applied the information from "Four Hour Workweek" and it worked well for them? (Excluding Tim Ferriss, of course)
Why should you care if some people judge you by your car? That's their problem, not yours.

Every place has people who will judge you based on some physical attribute. Ignore them. Don't let them sour you on the cool stuff because then you lose.
Ballmer attacked with eggs in Hungary!
Wow! Developers, developers, developers, developers, eggs, eggs, eggs!
You have to give Tim credit, he came up with an excellent controversy. Of course, you all must realize that Tim doesn't follow his own advice. He admits that it took a lot more than 4 hours a week to write the book. He spends more than 40 hours a week promoting the book (even now). Get it? He doesn't believe his own thesis. Sure, it is possible, but for how many people? for how long? Not very many and not very long.
Lot of Santana Row hating here. I liked the place. Some people just like nice things and convenience, and Santana Row has plenty of both. It doesn't necessarily make you "fake" or materialistic.

I personally enjoyed having a Brooks Brothers, a Diesel, a Cole Haan, and a Tommy Bahama store all next to each other. Mix in some decent (though overpriced) restaurants, and it's altogether a nice place. I did have to be sure to route my wife around the Donald J. Pliner shop though.

I guess maybe it's just due to the inordinate amount of time I spent in Las Vegas, but I find it fairly easy to coexist peacefully with the materialist mindset, and simply take advantage of the perks while opting out of the pseudo-religion. You can like nice stuff without that defining you.
Tolls are a bad thing? God forbid people pay for the roads they drive on. Free highways are a huge cause of the Bay Area's sprawl.
Palo Alto is nice. Los Gatos is a little nicer to me - I like the hills.

Downtown Campbell is also nice (with a great farmers market).
This article is brilliant. Lies play an enormous role in this culture. I could go on and on about the topic, but I think one quote from A Language Older than Words by Derrick Jensen says it best:

"In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must, in a broad sense, tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It is not necessary that the lies be particularly believable. The lies act as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities."
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I'm curious how different the numbers are for computers over $1000 purchased online. My intuition leads me to believe they would he similar. The vast majority of folks buy computers under $1000 so I wouldn't be surprised if Apple accounts for the majority of "expensive" computers purchased regardless of channel.

The most common reason I hear for people not buying Macs is not having over $1000 to spend on a computer.
I found this confusing. At one point the author talks about exponential decay (in which something gets smaller more and more slowly), but at another point he describes something that sounds more like an auto-catalytic process (where something reaches a tipping-point and then explodes, or in this case implodes).
It would be neat to see some demographics to verify that.
If you are a PC manufacturer, regardless of the fact that this figure does not include all PCs sold, I think that it is still a very important trend that bears attention.

The high end share for Apple is growing rapidly, especially in the consumer market. Considering that the business market is arguably even more price sensitive (no citations, but I believe I've read this various places, citations to the contrary welcome), Apple is siphoning off the most profitable segment of customers, leaving HP, Dell, and the other PC players to fight over the segments with razor thin margins.

I'd rather be holding AAPL, which I am :). Just a few remaining shares, but I'm not going to swap them for Dell or HP anytime soon.
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If Your Brilliant Web App Fails, What Would Be The Reason?
Why do you insist on verifying email address? Are you afraid that a bot will join your site and will find other bots with similar interests? :-)

Seriously, what is the threat you are protecting against which makes it worth it doubling your bounce rate?
One reason they might not be similar: Apple really is marketed to people with little computer skills- they are VERY user friendly as well as trendy. Presumably, an average person buying online would be [at least a little] more computer savvy than the average person buying in store.
That XKCD comic was actually funny. I now have to rethink everything I thought I knew about the world.
Validation of e-mails removed :)
it's much harder to get the birth certificate. The utility bill is only used to establish address, and making sure that everyone's address is up to date is not easy or worth too much effort.
The downtown Mountain View area feels like a much smaller, much less cool, version of the downtown Austin area...The houses were built around the same time as those found just past the river on South Congress, I think (though there are some Hyde Park/Travis Heights era houses around as well, the 50's and 60's is when Mountain View boomed and most houses in the downtown area were built). The restaurants and shops on Castro street are, as on Congress and 4th-6th streets in Austin, independently owned and of uniformly high quality. Not as quirky or as diverse, but perfectly acceptable, unless you want a decent dive bar or rock and roll club (of which Austin is the capital of the world), as neither is well-represented in Mountain View.

There is nothing like the river and Lake Travis, and the parks that surround it, in Mountain View proper...but one is compensated by being less than two hours from some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Big Sur is an easy weekend road trip away.

There is no music scene, of course, though San Francisco has a pretty good one and it's only 45 minutes away by car or train.

Mountain View is not nearly as dog-friendly as Austin, though I've been told it is more dog-friendly than most places in the region, and folks are shocked when I seem put out by the unfriendliness of the city to my dog. Finding a place to live if you have a dog (I mean a proper dog...one that gets into the jeep or the boat under its own power rather than being lifted or by riding around in a handbag) can be a challenge. Even if an apartment allows dogs, there's usually a 25-35 pound limit.

I was also disappointed to find that dogs are banned from downtown during any of the many street festivals. Not only does this make the festival less enjoyable (dogs are funny and a great ice breaker), it also means I can't have a proper walk with my dog on the weekends when they have the festivals. Folks don't often understand the meaning of "dog-friendly" until they've spent some time in Austin.

It's more expensive to live here--housing in modest areas is about 50% more expensive than the best areas of Austin. And there is no HEB or Central Market. Whole Foods has made it out, though, and there is an amazingly great little produce and cheese market called the Milk Pail.

Overall, I enjoy living here. I miss some things about Austin, and will probably retire there. But, living in the valley has been good for our business in dramatic ways.
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Just out of curiosity, what did you do while you were there? I've always fantasized about taking off to some distant Asian country to hack away on code while learning the language and experiencing the culture (while also enjoying the minimal living expenses), but I'd love to hear experiences from someone who's actually been there and done that.
The sales channel representation is one thing - what about the over $1000 part? Maybe Mercedes/BMW also have a pretty nifty % of market share for cars over $35K (say) - that doesn't mean much because there are a ton of choices under that amount. You're still going to see more Fords and Hondas on the road.
Yes! It's official, the ".com" phenomena is back!
if you're arguing that communism is a bad idea I fully agree. But if you're arguing that communist governments should not fix the price of food and this would magically solve the shortage of food you must not be too familiar with communism.

The usual reason for a shortage of food was rampant lying at all levels of the government about how much food was produced in the country. Due to high levels of exports (based on the fictional supply) there was little food to serve the population. Letting the price fluctuate with the market would do nothing unless food could be imported, but imports were also highly regulated at the national level (and the currency had no official exchange rate). I'm speaking here of Romania under communism.
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I'm so glad this was posted on YC. Thank you! I'm glad this place is featuring the exact same links as reddit, digg, slashdot, etc. Woohoo copycats!