skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How To Set Up SSH With Public-Key Authentication On Debian Etch
for the benefit of YC community, can u pls provide the names of these lawyers or website to sign-up for such workshops ... thanks
Oh god. I bought an iphone and my landline went off for two weeks. I started getting a 'numb' head and my head 'tingled' from its use. I have tried to limit it and have also started to put back in Ethernet rather than the 3 wifi routers I currently have. This might sound stupid, but what scan would you need from the hospital to detect if you have a tumour?
Ask YC: Where to start with creating a distributed crawler
Hi there. We're just starting out and want to create a crawler that will sit on EC2. Any advice appreciated. Here's what we're thinking of:

1. Using Beautiful Soup for the actual parsing of pages

2. we're not sure what to use for the crawl itself :( We use Python and love it, but don't know if we need to create our own crawler or what the best route would be. Any advice on this would be good

3. I'd like to create a distributed crawler where we can replicate the crawler over EC2 instances, but not sure how to do this

Apologies if I should ask this elsewhere. I love this community and have passively read many of the articles and comments on here for a couple of months now

Any help or pointing in the right direction would be appreciated

John
Google hopes Apps will help against Microsoft
why lose time? you are not going to learn programming in 1 day anyways, neither in 1 month...except if thats the only thing you are doing...

it's better that you find an idea in your knowledge domain (economics that is), find someone to do the hacking for you, (learn a few programming stuff while starting up) and contribute to the company your knowledge...
It's hard to quantify, but there have been changes on HN over the past year. I do suspect that's going to be as hard to change as it is to quantify, however.

I think that this is partly, because a lot of the truly great content has already been posted. Hacker and geek culture is really a small town once you get over the big learning curve. There are only so many PG essays, Greenspun essays, Spolsky articles, Jargon file content, The Cathedral and the Bazzar, In the Beginning Was the Command Line, PMarca blogs etc.. that can be posted. After the bulk of these got posted, the early adopters started having to work harder to find content that was as good. As they say, the low hanging fruit is easiest to pick.

I know that this has been true for myself, at least. I put a lot of hard work into finding great content and posting it on Hacker News. But, the well for me is running dry. It's harder to come across articles/essays/posts that are as good , because there are only so many great, game changing articles about hacking and startup life that have been written.

So, I've changed my focus from trying to post great articles, to trying to improve the quality of comments that I can post. And, I'm spending more time getting through school so I can get to work on my startup instead of just reading about them.
I was thinking the other day that there must be some ideal homogeneity level of a social news site. If homogeneity was zero, then there would be nothing separating news.yc from every other community in existence: 4chan, or the catholic church, or rec.food.drink.tea, etc. But if the homogeneity was one, that is if the community were perfectly homogeneous, then clearly no one would get any value out of that either.

The only reason I mention it is that you can actually kind of measure this. If news.yc was perfectly homogeneous, then the new page and the front page would be exactly the same. So you can measure the percent homogeneity by dividing 25 by the number of new submissions since the oldest item on the front page. I would bet that there is some ideal number.
I'm waiting for laser projectors:
http://www.colorvision-lasers.com/displays.aspx#

Yes - I may be waiting a while.
Why Original Blog Thought is So Difficult
Whoa. Is this a good thing... or a really bad one? Not sure. C++ is complicated enough. Then again, CL is pretty complicated too, yet it's what I would qualify as a beautiful language.

I personally feel that C++ is a language that doesn't truly belong anywhere - it isn't pure, clean, and low-level, like C, and it isn't completely high-level. Somehow, I don't think that you can easily 'mix' these two. I'm mildly surprised that they haven't added an optional GC yet - I seem to remember reading somewhere that even Bjarne Stourstrop advocated one.

Maybe, instead of making "C++0x", they should just make D an ISO standard... From what I've seen, D is basically C++ cleaned up, and every time I look at it, I want to use it instead even more. Check it out if you haven't already. And it deals flawlessly with legacy C++ and C code, too, so there's really not many reasons to avoid it.

Oh, and C++ templates are just ugly. I'm reminded of them whenever I see Java generics too, and let's just say those aren't too nice on the eyes either. Maybe they should add programmatic macros too. And a pinch of Perl's default variables!
When you put a device that transmits energy right next to your head, you're taking a risk that the transmitted energy interacts with the matter in your head/brain. The longer and more often you put the device up to your head, the more opportunities there are for the interaction.

Everything else is just a mathematical probability.
By that logic, listing any book as a favorite would mean that you have a limited intellectual horizon, after all, you only care for the intellectual stimulation provided by that book.
Other than the diet advice, it all leads to one grand conclusion... start a startup! Actually, though, it IS interesting how much of this is discussed on HN anyway. And the 'talk with smart people' part of it is, AFAIC, the whole point oh HN.
Point one:

A question for everyone criticizing Brandon for being a "Drama Queen" (my choice of words, not yours). Which one of Paul's "levels of disagreement" applies?

Point two:

You can make the argument that his "suicide note" is contributing to the problem, but unless he has a flotilla of sock-puppets voting it up, his note is on the front page because the people here--on aggregate--vote things like this up.

Which means that he's right! If the community does not want to read this kind of thing and discuss this kind of thing, it would be voted into oblivion.

You can hardly blame him for 27 of the 28 points it currently has.
I have an Iphone too, and it seems to be the least shielded device I've ever had (as much as I can't live without it). It is the only device I have that interferes with all my electronics within a few feet whenever it interacts with a cell tower. (I hear a buzz on all my computer speakers).
CAT scan or MRI.
I guess it's time to start wearing my tinfoil hat: http://tesladownunder.com/TeslaPoolTinHat.jpg
There are two types of scans they could do.

The first is CAT, or Cancer Assisted Tomography. They can shoot high energy cancer rays (a particular type of radiation) through your skull and measure what comes out the other side. Tumors sometimes absorb more cancer rays (also called x-rays) than other tissue, basically creating a shadow they can see. This doesn't work all that great, also the cancer rays are also millions of times more likely to cause cancer than your iphone.

The other type of scan is nuclear magnetic resonance imaging or NMRI. In NMRI, they stick your head into a big magnet. Then they take a big cell phone transmitter, point it at your brain and turn it on (i.e., sending radiation into your brain). This (combined with the magnet) basically turns your brain into a nuclear powered cell phone transmitter. Then an RF coil inside the Nuclear MRI machine picks up the calls your brain makes, and they get a picture out.

Did I use the words nuclear and radiation frequently enough to make you afraid?
I don't get this comment. explain, anyone?
The Importance of Mathematics [video]
There are all sorts of ways to keep depression at arm's length. Participating in dangerous hobbies, taking drugs (prescribed or otherwise), working all the time, psychotherapy/good friends, creating disturbing art, etc.

I don't think these issues are ever pretty to the ones who experience them, but perhaps coping in any way is better than death.

I sure hope science comes up with a way to fix psychiatric illnesses.
Great. Thanks for this. You've.... erm.... really helped.
That's good point, there is so much talent and so much economic activity in the BRIC countries that it is surprising that YC doesn't operate in those places.
There is strong scientific evidence that pretty much all "Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity" is just incorrectly attributed anxiety and stress.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4072
If you want DH5-DH6, my advice is: stay away from metaphors! People will react to your metaphor first ("so-and-so is dead", "so-and-so is a lion in a cage" etc) instead of your main thesis. Metaphors aren't "isomorphisms", sorry. They make things more colorful but can't be refuted rationally.
Dupe.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143735
Or a job at a liquor store.

Anything with inelastic demand.
Interesting article. Still, I do yoga and meditate so don't feel too stressed. I think I'd feel happier if I get myself checked out. Going to look into it though being in the UK I'll probably have to pay if I want someone to take me seriously
I would love to see YC in Australia! Even just meetups and nothing too formal!
After so many enthusiastic articles about image recognition technology, it is funny how they have changed the attitude: "A trail of failed startups have tried to tackle the problem... Google has effectively thrown in the towel..." For a longer list of "failed startups" see here: http://www.inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image_search#Visu....
Winning Venture Capital Pitches
Makes sense when you consider what they're using the money for. Most Prosper borrowers seem to be trying to pay off credit card loans - anyone who's willing to pay 30% interest to pay off their 20% interest credit cards either isn't very bright or has no intention of paying off their Prosper loan anyway.

I'd like to see the numbers broken down into people who're using the money for business or education vs. people who're using it to pay off existing loans. It seems like someone who's hoping to invest in additional capital has both more ability and more incentive to pay back a loan.
Look at Harvestman. Quite useful
The best medical evidence is always published "exclusively in the Independent on Sunday".
If that's 10%, i'd have thought their be way more employees google or otherwise. less recently i heard they'll balloon to about 700, but that's just second hand info.
The Acrid Stench of Polysemy
good link bait, clueless article.

"Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos"

I am surprised by the ease of spreading panic. Really bad taste of them.

There is not even a link to a a url of the research. the quality of YC submitted stories are in downhill.

If everybody has a mobile phone, then it's impossible to limit the cause for their health failure to a mobile phone, so no study can proove anything...

for every study that "proofs" the negative effects of a mobile phone there is another that does the opposite.

Until there is one that proofs the problem either use a hands free or limit the use...
Scheme's "false".
I think the exact same thing about GPL software. When I secretly embed it in my products, I'm using code that nobody was going to make money on anyways. But by putting a shiny UI on top of it, I can! Nobody loses, and I win.
"disk is the new RAM"
Marc Benioff's journey from Apple to Salesforce.com (14 min video)
FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability
'Surprising'? I think pg has his hands full with the companies that he already helps, in a country where he knows how things work. Why would they go to some country where they don't speak the language, know the laws, or have many contacts? It would be insane, in my opinion.
Well, it was out of beta for a while now... what do you all think of the new UI? I think it's better, but still needs work and is confusing for non-technical people (i.e. writers)
The simplest version of the web available, transforming the lives of villagers in rural India
DH1
This would only work for famous people. How would you handle naming everyone else?
I don't disagree with this at all. There are lots of ways to learn, and everyone's style is different. That's why I ended up offering two distinct styles of advice, separated by the magic dotted line (-----). I use a mixture of the two... one which is actually skewed pretty heavily in your "hack away on the app and solve problems" approach.

Some of us like learning from books (as well as by practicing). Other people like learning by practice, as well as from books. Some people actually go to school and get degrees in comp sci. I skipped that part: After far too many years studying science, I got bored with formal lectures, because they move at a pace that isn't my pace (i.e. "usually too slow, except when they're too fast"). OTOH, other people thrive on the camaraderie and the formal structure of a class.

I think your answer is wise to emphasize that building stuff, and learning via experience, is the only real path to becoming a hacker. Some book learning will help, but it's not the essence of the matter.
I have nothing against these legendary power tools. I just make it a policy not to recommend things that I don't understand at all. ;)
Check out Nutch, not sure if its exactly what you want though. It's in Java not Python, but it works with Hadoop quite nicely
Or, equally useful would be if YC and clones could help smooth candidates' entry into the US. Has YC ever considered signing off on the founders' visas as their employer? Or providing the services of a good immigration lawyer for free?

Perhaps this should be the task of some of the overseas YC "clones" to come to SV, setup shop and perform the above, given the location's well known advantages?
I think being truly entrepreneurial would be having someone do it for you at little or no cost.
I would not say that this is a clueless article.

The doctors website and the article in question:
http://www.brain-surgery.us/mobilephone.html

The doctor appears competent to me, but I haven't actually performed any brain surgery so cannot rate his work, but at least he claims "success".

http://www.brain-surgery.net.au/c_a.html

Another similar article:
http://www.brain-surgery.net.au/media/MobilephoneCT27-3-08.p...
I use C++. Garbage collection is nice, but slow. The language is not suitable for web development, or for GUI development, but it's great for backend enterprise software/libraries that need to be fast and stable and compile across most architectures out there.
Of Fly Eyes And Newspaper Revenues
Peter Norvig's solution is more elegant (he just brute forces it), it works on all puzzles and is just 100 lines of Python

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
C++0x ? This must be an April Fool.

Edit: No, the truth is stranger than fiction. Gads!
Any idea why there are no efforts of starting a YC-like organization in other parts of the world? The only attempt I remember was yc-europe but I think they are gone. Isn't there any bunch of angels or VC's that are interested in doing this?
We're not starting this now, are we? At least use the primary source, not Graham's superficial rehash:

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
Ask YC:  If someone releases something as public domain, how can you trust him/her?
I'm especially suspicious of something like a public domain scrabble word list. This takes enormous effort to put together. If you are told that it's public domain, then how do you know that this is true and that it would be safe to use it in your code for commercial purposes?

I'm interested in using this word list from http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/software.html:

"Updated millennial edition of ENABLE (ENABLE2K): The Enhanced North American Benchmark LEexicon package provides a 173,000+ word standardized tournament-level master list, more carefully researched than "official" and proprietary lists. It is not restricted to words of an arbitrary length and it features all "official" updates. The ENABLE list has been placed in the Public Domain and is both free and freely distributable. This is the list used by the WORDY word study system, above, and by various online Scrabble® servers and software developers (at least two commercial word games use it as its dictionary). It is highly recommended that the (updated) ENABLE SUPPLEMENT [785K], and the ABLE SUPPLEMENT [559K], additional lists and documentation packages for ENABLE be obtained. Freeware."
The biggest problem that I have noticed most recently has been all the complaining about quality reduction.
If there is any reason to leave it seems like posts like this always on the front page. I think the karma system will work things out in the end and all of this just makes the 'problem' worse.
Perhaps, but the Independent has a long history of posting spurious health and environment articles (e.g., "Mobile phone threat to honeybees", which was a massive press misunderstanding because CCD was such a headline-grabber at the time). Guilt by association is a real and valid reason to dismiss a news article about a complex scientific subject. Even the article itself mentions the general line:

> Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".

People talk about the dangers of radiation, but electromagnetic radiation isn't the same kind of radiation we generally worry about. Anything that uses electricity and wires creates this kind of radiant energy, including pacemakers and implantable defibrillators.

That doesn't mean there is no potential for health risks, but thus far the science suggests no significant increase in risk. What's more, the mechanism for such health risks is likewise unclear as the wavelengths for cellphone radiation are quite long. It's also unclear why cellphones would cause problems but people living near radio transmitters wouldn't (and we'd have probably seen these effects by now, radio isn't exactly new).

Unfortunately, it takes a lot of work and a lot of time to build up long term clinical studies. In the meantime, all we can do is wait.
if the article is ready to spread panic then it is their responsibility to include the url.
[numbers needed]

To say that an activity is "taking a risk" with total disregard as to the magnitude of the risk is misleading to put it nicely.

How does this compare to the exposure from other electromagnetic signals? Should I immediately rip out the power lines going through the wall that I'm sitting next to? Destroy my tv?
How do we save things now though?
You should look at the studies done on electromagnetic hypersensitivity. A very small segment of the population can "hear" radio waves at certain frequencies (they experience it as a subjective tone very high up in the 15khz range, even if they can't normally hear that high up).

But most people who are placed in controlled and blinded experiments to see if they can detect EMF find that they cannot. There is no good evidence that EMF hypersensitivity is anything more than stress, and seeing a psychiatrist would be of more help to you in this scenario.

Alternatively, I hear homeopathic practitioners are still getting state funding in the UK. Why not use a fake medicine to cure a subjective problem? At least you can be sure there will be no medicinal side effects! ;)
Being a successful surgeon does not necessarily mean he's an authority on brain cancer and tissue interaction with EMF over prolonged periods.
If you only could cut a deal with Amazon to access their customer profiles...
I think the interesting part about this is how simple it is. It's easy enough to call someone out on a bad argument, but having this implies that we could simply point people to a reference number, thus saving intelligent people from being forced to reexplain logical errors made over and over again.
C++ here reminds me of Perl, the postmodern language. There are tradeoffs between legibility and power, but never for the sake of safety or artificial consistency.

"How does Perl [C++] put the focus onto the creativity of the programmer? Very simple. Perl [C++] is humble. It doesn't try to tell the programmer how to program. It lets the programmer decide what rules today, and what sucks. It doesn't have any theoretical axes to grind. And where it has theoretical axes, it doesn't grind them. Perl [C++] doesn't have any agenda at all, other than to be maximally useful to the maximal number of people.

...

Many modern computer languages aspire to be minimalistic. They either succeed in being minimalistic, in which case they're relatively useless, or they don't succeed in being truly minimalistic, in which case you can actually solve real problems with them. A number of languages give lip service to the idea of minimalism, but merely sweep the complexity of the problem under the carpet of the programmer. C is a minimalistic language, but only if you don't count all the libraries that are necessary to use it usefully. C++ is obviously not trying to be minimalistic. Unix is considered by some to be a minimalistic operating system, but the fact of the matter is that if you think of Unix as a programming language, it's far richer than even Perl. Perl is, by and large, a digested and simplified version of Unix. Perl is the Cliff Notes of Unix."

http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
Only other one I know of is,

http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio

and you may have seen this,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_music_databases
Aggregate those loans and sell them in bigger packages! It worked for the mortgages.
I don't think people are taking 30% loans to pay of 20% credit cards.

First, browsed through a decent number of Prosper listings, but don't recall seeing people asking for rates of 30% of seeing too many listings close at that high of a rate.

Second, a lot of people will actually list their current credit cards that they are trying to consolodate along with their rates. So as a LENDER, if you'financing such a loan, you aren't particularly bright youself.

If you're smart about what loans you pick and aren't throwing money at E grades with high DTI's simply because you think you can get 20% interest, then I'm sure you're not going to see a 20% default rate in your personal portfolio and can still get a decent rate of return.
Here I thought it had something to do with learning to ask the right questions. Turns out I just needed Omega-3, a PDA, and some random Jack Handey thoughts.
Currently, Freeconomics is just FREE service. Nothing less.Nothing more.
Roovno is Freeconomics + Some revenue. That is, services are Freeconomics plus additional revenue.
For example,a new webmail service [say,roovnomail.com] with revenue generation capabilities for its users will definitely have an edge over current mail giants...
Fame Experiment- Using the Internet to Achieve Real Fame
Given the way that Google is heading ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149894 ), you should have started at least six months ago. Regardless:

1. 10 years ago, at least 99% of web pages failed validation. Nowadays, the majority still fail. You could validate and then fall through to tag soup processing.

2. 10 years ago, the conventional wisdom ( http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/30/OnSearchTO... ) was to use a compiled language, such as C, for spidering ( http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/12/03/Robots ). Given that memory increases faster than processing power which increases faster than bandwidth, this may not be the case nowadays.

3. That's the meta problem. Solve that and you may find that a search engine is easier.