skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

"We have a wonderful ability here to choose the right tool for the job. We have components that are written in Java, in C++, in Python, and Ruby and Perl. [Python is] definitely viewed internally here by some of the best computer scientists in the world, people from MITs AI [artificial intelligence] and CS [computer science] labs, as enterprise worthy," he said.

No indication that they're replacing any of the hard core algorithmic stuff that's discussed here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html
These aren't new. When something's new it usually get announced on the blog and there is some sort of red new link in the upper right.
As in my other reply, I'm not going to be quite "done" but a simple, working n-back test is here: http://cognitivefun.net/test/4
SELECT * FROM bar WHERE taste LIKE '%Guinness%';
Hey thanks, it's probably real easy for you to implement, but if you don't feel like writing your own, here's the one I was working on: http://cognitivefun.net/test/4

I submitted it here but it didn't last and I don't want to spam :)
I can't give you a good answer to this, because it's the only productive rhythm I've known.
Upmodded, and also, pretty sure parent commenter is high. ;)
I subscribe to a few newsletters put out by the Motley Fool with the general targets being smaller, lesser known, less covered companies that have great long-term prospects currently priced at a discount to their computed intrinsic value. My target allocation is 100% equities. What you need more than anything else is the willingness and discipline to apply your investment strategy when the market is acting irrationally.
Silicon Insider: Applying 'Grand Theft Auto' to Business
The key is that once you stop coding you start getting rusty.

An effective way is for the architect to code the proof of concept. Once most of the issues are understood he can start bringing more engineers to the team.
I'm just wondering if there is going to be a big drop the second the news is announced, even if it is unwarranted.
If you've managed your career, when you get a pink slip, you should be less than two months away from restoring or even enhancing your income.

If you're committed to startups, and your current startup craters, you could be 9-18 months from revenue.

It's just a fact: for any reasonable definition of "wealthy", more people reliably become wealthy by carefully saving and investing the income from a well-managed career than by any get-rich-quick scheme.

Don't do it for the money. You're not going to make any.
There's few things in life that feels as good as signing your own checks.
When are they going to add a To-Do list? Either in gmail or calendar. This would be really helpful.
Umm... duh?
Many of the killed comments seem innocuous on the surface, so these examples do make me wonder what criteria were used. (Is something other than the comment a factor, such as evidence of contemporaneous voting manipulation or sockpuppet accounts?)

Still, I wonder why you started so coy with specifics. (Examples only came 5-replies-deep.) Why not just ask politely, as the original commenter, "excuse me, I don't understand, why was this comment killed?"

The editors may still decline to comment but at least then you wouldn't seem kind of shifty and potentially the same person as other spam/crank posters.
Sun Micro Records $34 Million Loss
Earlier this week, I put a lot of my money into two ETF's, EWZ (Brazil), and FXI (China). They have great technical setups if you are believe in that as well. Good time to buy.
For 30 years now, you've been getting spam
Volvo Promises An Injury-Proof Car by 2020
Just don't drive if you're going to do that. Drinking everything they have that tastes like Guinness might make you a bit tipsy...
Google: helping high school students avoid reading books
I was just looking through the archive and saw this. What I meant was that the idea of steroids as an illegal substance was idiotic. The dangers of steroids are overstated with the newer generation of steroids in moderate doses (IE - below ronnie coleman levels.) Controlling insulin levels personally scares me, but I don't consider that as something to make illegal either.

My perspective is that people should have the right to use these chemicals on their bodies as they see fit. Now, if a private company wants to limit those working for their companies from ingesting such chemicals, I agree that it should be their option. (The NFL should be allow to test for steroids, for example.) I also agree that these chemicals should be limited to those whose bodies have matured.

However, I think it's idiotic to control what an adult does with his or her body if it doesn't affect another individual.
Enclojure - an environment for the Clojure programming language
True and it's good if people understand it better that way. Nonetheless, I'd advice on introducing a correct grammar as soon as possible.
we should build a Paul Graham generator.
The Engadget Mobile Interview: Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun
Why hasn't technology improved customer service?
Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo try to work it out
I want to post something, since I seem to be more optimistic about facebook plugins than anyone else posting here so far, but the only things I came up with was lame stuff like "too soon to tell" or "just wait and see"

so here goes:
just wait and see
to avoid meetings with pointy-haired managers.
Isn't reviewboard (http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/) a very similar tool and supports more version control systems? Both tools also use django/python as well.
RescueTime has the data to prove it-- someday we'll publish some interesting stats)

I see what you did there ;-)

Your business model makes a lot more sense now.
I wish I can edit attachments via Google Docs and send it back out again.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=OTC%3AUWKI

You, too, can own a slice of fail!
The cold water is harsh, but not necessarily a "bad thing" as it weeds out the weaker ones.

The point is, "Do we want to spoon feed sciences?" Looking at what we, western society, boil into pablum to get people to pretend to comprehend, in my opinion, causes more problems than helps. It gives a false sense of understanding, like the solar system model of the atom.

Having said that I concede that there is no reason to purposefully obfuscate sciences and higher level math.
Upmod for having the audacity to call this a mini-post.
For a far, far more entertaining take on the topic I recommend Bruce Sterling's "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole", available from this page:

http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
Wow, it's a good thing that Xobni couldn't integrate with GMail or Yahoo! Mail and play off the monstrous business interests against each other.

Also, it's a good thing that the information they mine from the social structure of your contacts is useless. (Moreso, the joint distributions of contact networks among multiple employees in a large organization, or the temporal patterns therein... nothing to see here, move along now)

But most of all, it's a good thing that everyone commenting on the deal knows all there is to know about the product, its futures, and their value to Microsoft and other companies, due no doubt to vast, deep expertise in the field.

Because if the above were not true, well, then it would be just a windbag yelling into an echo chamber, and that simply would not do!

Yes, it's a great thing that everything has already been invented, cannot be improved, and is already maximally efficient. We're done now, let's go get a low-paying service job (or, worse, program Java for a big company)
SELECT * FROM bar WHERE taste LIKE '%Guinness%' LIMIT 3;
Yeah, that's a good point. I definitely believe in having rigor when needed.

Concepts like calculus, unfortunately, wait until high school or college, so it's being thrown in the river without ever having swum. Sure, some people survive, but most people end up having an aversion to math/science which leads to innumeracy and a host of other problems.

Kids could be taught the basic ideas (like the circle -> triangle) just as a way to get thinking. Later, they can cover them more rigorously, but they've had experience doing integrals on their own.

Even the solar-system model is "ok" to start with, and later you explain about probability distributions etc. You don't want to jump into quantum mechanics without covering Netwonian Physics (which, technically speaking, is "incorrect but useful").
I had no idea that Berkshire was so involved in the life insurance industry, rather than reinsurance! He's very modest about it in their annual reports, apparently.
Rarely do math and science instructors teach material the way it is discovered. Also, math and science courses are typically taught the way history or English is taught--you have some topics, you have things to memorize, you're given questions that are very similar to those you've seen in school or on your homework. I can imagine that only top schools teach this material in terms of tools and knowledge, versus learning and writing down the right equations on a test.
I'll upmod a crappy article if the discussion it generates is high-quality.
Same answer to the question, "Why take LSD?" If you have to ask, you don't understand.
That's exactly it. We show math as this complete and perfect system, whereas it was discovered, often times, through trial-and-error. Retracing the steps can help show why certain decisions were made.

For example, why does C have a separate short and long data types, but javascript just has "var"? Because when C was made, memory was at a premium. When javascript was invented, everything could be a 4-byte value.
As far as my experience with uWink goes, I've never seen anyone have so many problems in a single visit. I've been there around 15-20 times total, usually with large groups, and its never been that bad.

It's true, occasionally you'll experience some hiccups, but I've never seen this many in one visit.
Must have been frustrating to build something cool and not be able to open source it.
It is very hard to flawlessly copy a memory or concept into a child's brain. This might be easier if we wrote the software and designed the hardware.
Xobni’s Secret Project: Merge Outlook With Yahoo Mail

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/28/xobnis-secret-project-m...
This looks like a huge deal, and I'm surprised this isn't already in the Debian/Ubuntu repositories. Especially since it's GPL (not clear from sagemath.org, took some digging to confirm) and most of the base packages are in Debian. I did find this:
http://wiki.sagemath.org/DebianSAGE

Still, I'm shocked that this has gone under the radar for so long. Is this par for the course for academics -- creating something impressive and waiting years before publicizing it? Regardless, I will certainly make a point of evangelizing Sage when I go back to school this fall.
Dallas meetup tonight
Frankly, good customer service needs to be provided by knowledgeable human beings. So, one could argue why hasn't mankind improved customer service? In general, at least with tech support over the phone, it's usually lame. "Let me transfer you to another department," echo echo echo.
I don’t think Office will become the next Netscape at least not in the revenue side of things. Microsoft can still build its own online version of office, they have the name and customer base, I personally don’t think Google can do them any harm there.

I will make a point here since this article refers to one great tool death.

Google should get busy building product they can sell and expand their revenue base. The rule of all trends is that, time and evolution always takes over. Microsoft remains powerful for all these years because the revenue source is extremely diversified. Once Microsoft takes over Yahoo they will have the strength to give Google a real hard time on their turf; mo matter how cool Google is, they make money because people LIKE them. What happen when people stop liking them? Remember all great Tools, Musicians, Politicians fade over time. It’s just a matter of time before people like another search engine.

I think Google should look at apple with iTunes, iPod, iPhone a range of products that actually brings in money.
It would be interesting to see stats for HN regarding that. It seems like afternoons are quite dead around here.

Then again, I'd rather that data not be public, because it only leads to people trying to game the system for more karma, and I prefer this site the way it is.
They announced that it was a DB problem yesterday.

http://twitter.com/twitter_status
You would have eliminated Newton with this kind of thinking. The author's point was math is supposed to be exciting, mind-blowing, and gosh darn it, even fun. And the way they teach it at school is neither of these three. Extremely smart people love things that are exciting, mind-blowing, and fun, and what a horrible atrocity to scare these people away from math!
You think the input format will be easier for AI? I don't know. We have evolved knowledge of the input format for children. Meanwhile the majority of our knowledge is inexplicit, and we are bad at turning that into vague English, let alone into something as precise as code.

Back to children, we're so good at teaching them that we manage to teach them many inexplicit ideas without ever having much understanding of those ideas.
Very nice... How did you do the clustering? Did you use an open source tool or build the algorithms yourself? I like the niche you picked - science news! Good luck.
I agree. Some of the arguments are even wrong. Specially: "Godel’s Theorem shows that no computer, or mathematical system, can match human reasoning." This is plainly false, in many ways. Gödel't Theorem says nothing about computers (thanks to Turing we know we can't have an algorithm that solves theorems, that was not Gödel's work and Gödel's work still allowed for that possibility to exist), and in any case, we aren't sure our brains are just Turing machines or not, so we can't say neither Gödel nor Turing proved anything about the relative power of computers and human reasoning.
Clustering is a 2 part process - calculate scores, then cluster. For the second part we used an open source perl API to a C library (very fast) for hierarchical clustering : http://search.cpan.org/~mdehoon/Algorithm-Cluster-1.38/

I picked this niche because Im a scientist, mainly ;) I built the now #1 biology news website on the web (biologynews.net - #1 according to search engines) 3 years ago - Eureka Science News is the logical continuation of this effort.
If they replace the reader with good computer vision technology which scans documents from cameras watching your desk, this could go really far...
Ask YC:  3D displays without glasses are possible, so why not corrective vision displays also?
Imagine using a laptop without having to wear corrective eyeglasses. This seems more compelling to me than 3D and might be possible using the same technology.
http://finance.google.com/group/google.finance.717053/browse...
I think curiosity should be satisfied over practical security-by-obscurity of not knowing... I think it would be interesting to make a graph of news.YC score based on the time during the week that it was posted... Maybe a circular kernel distribution of sorts?

PG! Could you release your server logs? Pretty please?
VC Funding Spelled Backwards
Is this an aggregator of press releases? If so, it's hardly science news: there is no critical thinking reviewing the results. It's more like science spin. At best, it's will be a good source of story tips for bloggers. I'm talking from experience as a science blogger. Please correct me if I'm wrong about your sources - I don't mean to offend.

Also, your name is very similar to an existing science "news" service from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (the AAAS). They call theirs EurekAlert ( http://www.eurekalert.org/ ), and the title of their home page is "EurekAlert - Science News". Because of this, you'll have a tough time ranking in the search engines since eurekalert.org is such an established site.
sounds like an opportunity for an efficient startup...
That's what I was thinking - it looked excited to get a new toy, then frustrated by the packaging. We've all been there.

It's also an interesting reminder that something we take for granted as simple - opening a cardboard box - can be ridiculously complex for something that's not human... even if it's remotely controlled, let alone autonomous.
To confirm your explanation, I never could understand the appeal of jottit until I attended a meeting where I was able to put up a site of what was being discussed before the end of the meeting using jottit.
Fish-bicycle problems
Your Client Wants Samples?  Give him code instead
I hate this shit. It's like the self help shit that always gets posted here. Just a complete waste of time for all you aspiring entrepreneurs. This linkbait crap is to truth about entrepreneurship as Brittany Spears scabby anal warts are to beauty.

To someone knowledgeable on Asperger's syndrome (not knowledgeable in a saw it on slashdot and in Wired once way and think I'm an expert way, but knowledgeable in a could diagnose it accurately and debate the merits of the different diagnostic methods way), the different shit that ends up on all these different lists are all obviously related to Asperger's, in that they are positive aspects of the syndrome. Further, most or all of the people on PG's list of hero's clearly have strong elements of Asperger's or High Functioning Autism in their biography. Being a risk taking perfectionist with little to no desire for close family relations and an obsessive attention to small details, along with hyperlexia and extraordinary memory, is both the profile of an entrepreneur and aspergers syndrome. Further, one of the unique cognitive capacities of certain Asperger's people is an ability to synthesize original insights from diverse sources of seemingly unrelated information.

The character trait that Melissa describes is good to have. But, it's better and more fully understood as the atheoretic oreintation certain philosophically inclined people with Asperger's tend to demonstrate, than as a trait that can be considered in isolation.

If I was running a VC shop or a start-up hub, I would make damn sure to ignore shit like this, and instead read the book called The Genesis of Artistic Creativity. I'd make all the employees read it too, and then find ways to recruit people with desirable constellations of those traits, which are what people are actually but blindly talking about (without getting to the heart of it) with these psychologically unsophisticated linkbait analysis. In fact, everyone who takes links like this seriously should stop and read that book instead.

http://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Artistic-Creativity-Aspergers-...
I think economics is great content for a community of smart commenters.
Not for the money?

People seem to confuse small-scale financial success with google-style massive money. Even if your company doesn't take off, if you can secure a round of funding you can pay yourself fairly well.

And consider that it's a long-term investment in your career as well. A former startup founder is probably worth more than another similarly skilled person for a given task, even a given engineering task. It's like a college degree in that it implies a certain level of dedication that is difficult to gauge otherwise.
It's indeed targeted at non-scientific people; bloggers, highschool students, etc. It`s a press release aggregator, but it also cluster news from other sites, giving more sources for each story.

However, the big plus is that it ranks stories in order of importance.

And as for search engine ranking, Eurekalert is a public non profit service, so they dont market much. Science daily use their press releases and is #1 for 'science news', even if its horrible in usability / design. Of course, we intend to change that ;) But we know the competition is fierce in this niche.
Berkshire Net Off 64 Percent on Derivatives
But when does Monty get a chariot?

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=757

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=758
Normally I would love to discuss this kind of thing for hours. But we should probably keep yc free of religion and politics, lest we end up like all the other social news sites.
The author of this article is completely wrong.

Providing a "hands-on" product or service does not limit your income. If you are a masseuse with a 10,000 person waiting list, your problem is very easy to solve.

Raise your price.

That will simultaneously reduce your waiting list and increase your income. The only limit on what you can make with a "hands-on" skill is the amount people are willing to pay.
The author needs a basic understanding of supply and demand relationships.
Actually, the vast majority of the feedback is very positive.

What I've noticed that is that a lot of the stories getting voted up here are just bashing something popular, such as Twitter, or Facebook.
Have you seen PostGenomic and BPR3.org? They're doing something very interesting.
Aware of PostGenomic (great initiative!), gonna check out BPR3 thanks for the link :)
Actually, the reason was more that C was designed for systems programming, and that sort of code often has to interface with hardware devices through memory-mapped registers. To do this, you need to be able to write code that uses variables of the correct width. This is why C has all the various sized variables in signed and unsigned variants.
Our Tip to Mr. Ballmer: Forget Yahoo, Buy AOL
Luke asks:
Shoe - in your opinion, whats the best resource (other than shoemoney, of course) for affiliate noobies to learn how to get started and what are the best offers to get started with (sorry, that’s sort of 2 questions in one)?

Thanks!

ShoeMoney: I really dunno any site including this one that will teach people that much how to make money. They need to dive in and learn. Its so simple and costs nothing to start that people need to stop being lazy. No website will replace experience.

jim asks:
Do you have a mentor? If so, who is it? If not, who would you love to be mentored by?

Thanks Jeremy!

ShoeMoney: I don’t have a mentor but there are a lot of people I have taken pieces from… seth godin, malcom gladwell, guy kawasaki. I am not a big fan of “mentoring”. I think more people need to do things for themselves and learn from there own experiences and not from the experiences of others.
BIG Changes At The Internet Wonders eZine. Come Check Them Out
Hi, Cory here. How do you like the NEW look? If you’ve been a reader of The Internet Wonders eZine for some time I hope you like it. And if your NEW to this site then your in for some real treats. Come check it out.
If it was 1928 year now, would this portfolio have survived Great Depression? Almost all positions are paper actives. What do happen with the paper actives in case of huge world economical slowdown and depression? I prefer something more reliable than paper (gold, land, real estate, cash flow from the business)
It's the Cognitive Age: Skills Revolution Dwarfs Globalization
How about $5K for 2 years experience PHP developer in Dnepr, Ukraine. I work for this now and my motivation is lost completely. May be I will try to relocate. Now i see even in Dnepropetrovsk salary for html coder for $10K and php dev $14K, but they require strong knowledge of all what can imagine, even speaking english. My bad, need better education.
You're not the only one. A colon and bracket text smiley means a very different thing to a big yellow smiling face as far as I'm concerned.
That link is showing up for me right now on gmail, probably explains why this got posted.
Unfortunately, this is what my ex-husband still believes. Not that he's started a business or anything, mind you.

That said, let's make the wild assumption that some women might be entrepreneurs, and rephrase this as: Isn't it the responsibility of the spouse to bring in a steady income?
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Some of the discussion is reminiscent of the "A Mathematician's Lament" essay:

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html