skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the fact that Web forums don't require readers is what contributes to their popularity. They have a low learning curve.

That said, the fact that they tend to have a government of sorts, can be a big advantage. A forum can potentially do away with trolls and encourage intelligent conversation in a way the Usenet cannot.
No, even if I was Super-fast it would do no good, as I run a Hamiltonian cycle.
"Two, because the evidence of mastery is the ability to explain, not simply to perform."

So true. I learn more by writing about things than by reading about them (of course, the former includes a lot of the latter, but it's so much more productive when you're reading towards a specific goal...and if the goal is explaining the subject clearly and entertainingly you really have to have a firm grasp of the subject). It just seems to activate my brain in ways that merely reading never quite does. Doing the exercises overcomes the passivity of reading to some degree, but writing down what you learned takes it up another notch.
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First hit on google for "recipe sharing": http://www.bakespace.com/

"BakeSpace combines the functionality of a traditional online recipe database, utility of an online food forum/blog and the fun of an online social network with a unique "recipe swap" platform."
> if you were actually a non-native speaker

That's an excellent point. Oops!

I thought however that it was pretty clear from context that I understood the stereotype of wanting to pop out babies right away and was objecting to that as being factually inaccurate. "Workforce, not nests".

> Did you have a response to the content of the comment, though?

My objection was to the sexist and incorrect nature of the original statement. You appeared to be in support of it, but your arguments were actually separate.
I know it isn't social, but I like cookingforengineers.com
This is a funny property of the US film scene though. Low budget in the US is a whole lot higher than for instance here in Germany. There are a lot of films produced here that make it into festivals that are produced on grants of under €20k. If it were done in connection with a rethinking of the way that films are distributed and was done all digital rather than using real film stock, I think you could produce some interesting results for relatively cheap.
I've been planning to do the same with several of the courses from AdUni.org (mainly the areas where I'm weakest--math and algorithms, in particular, but more Scheme/Lisp doesn't hurt and systems knowledge is always useful). I ordered the DVDs a couple of years ago and acquired all of the recommended texts (the ones that aren't available for free online, anyway), but only got through a few of the early SICP classes before getting sidetracked by other projects. This has inspired me to dig back in. I'll copy a few of them over to my lappy and head out to the park or a coffee shop--I'll enjoy the gorgeous weather and get some studying done.
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I've been casually studying along with this:

http://aduni.org/courses/discrete/

The recommended text is Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, by Rosen, which is a mixed bag according to reviews but the consensus is generally good. AdUni provides a full series of video lectures and quite a bit of course material. Nearly all of the AdUni.org stuff is awesome (though the ancient Abelson and Sussman lectures are far better than the Yanco lectures at AdUni.org) and a great supplement to self-study. It's mostly taught by MIT grad students (which is what you'd get if you were taking the courses at MIT, so not a bad deal).
TechCruncher streams his entire web history using WebMynd (YC winter 08)
I lost 10-15 pounds since I started biking five miles to work and back. I have no patience for exercise for the sake of exercise, so it is the only thing I can consistently do to get my heart rate up.
Nice people can be idiots and assholes can be wise. Sometimes it pays to listen to those you dislike.

It's a shame Ben Stein turns his brain off when his faith is questioned, but if blind belief in the sky elf is enough to turn you off someone's writing you'll miss out on a lot of good stuff.
You make good points.

My internal calibration might be off. It's probably been biased downward because of things like CraigsList (no outside investment) and micro-investments.
"Documentation is comprehensive, available, and always maintained"

Really? I've found Django's documentation to be ok, but often outdated and non-comprehensive. The development team is still making changes that break backwards compatibility (example: the changes to how to enable the admin interface for a model), and these changes are not always reflected in the documentation.

Django's as the potential to be a great framework, but it's still very immature. The fact that large parts of the framework get rewritten makes me think Django's not ready for someone to be the ranch on.
Loved this article!
WebMynd is private by default, but as an experiment, we did a custom plug-in to automatically publish web history.

Get in touch if you would like to try out publishing your own stream (founders at webmynd).
+1, it's a global forum, YC is in America, and I think we should talk in dollars and gallons to keep things in context.

Though, even though I was interested in the article, I don't think it's too much "hacker news".

btw, nice to see that some other brazilian hackers hanging around. take care.
The only music I listen to is music from my brain. May sound crazy but its true. Any music distracts me.
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I love the Dilbert where Dogbert becomes a consultant when he figures out that it means you con the customer and insult him.
http://friendfeedfeed.com/ - Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds!
Problem is, I doubt he would have blogged this if the better algorithm had beaten the larger dataset.

As it happens, I broadly agree with his conclusion (data trumps algorithms), but cherrypicking data-points doesn't provide any evidence for it.
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I gained 40 pounds over the course of 3 years working at a startup. I lost this weight in three months by hiring a personal trainer. She helped me design a diet and exercise plan.

The exercise plan involved a lot of balance, stretching and unconventional weight training. For instance, rather than just pumping iron, the trainer had me do things like stand on a wobbly platform and lift "kettlebells."

Prior to getting fat, I was relatively athletic and went to the gym regularly. I would use the treadmill and lift weights. The new training methods my trainer introduced were much more effective than what I was doing on my own, and I'm now much stronger and more flexible than I ever have been in the past.

I highly recommend this approach if you are serious about getting into shape. Look for a trainer who is into balance, flexibility, "core fitness" and who knows something about nutrition. Most hackers I know are very DIY-independent and are skeptical about hiring someone to help them achieve goals. I am this way, but I found that having a trainer really helped me much more than I was able to achieve on my own.
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What a superb post. The follow-up by James Robertson (link at bottom) is also good and addresses one of the reasons the Smalltalk vendors originally screwed themselves.
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They seem to be legit, actually. After reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167497 I got paranoid and grepped in the logs for the IP address. This is from genuine founders.
They've done this with previous groups of founders.

Luckily, the choice right now isn't too hard. TechStars hasn't yet proven they can provide significantly better outcomes for their startups...they might, but they haven't done it yet. YC has definitely proven they provide better outcomes, and Silicon Valley and Boston are both better places to start a tech company than Colorado (though Boulder is lovely--too cold for me, but many folks like it). Of course, having neither backing you is probably an even worse likely outcome...so maybe it's not such an easy choice, after all.

But, if you make it to the interview with YC your odds of getting in are quite high (greater than 30%, certainly, and probably closer to 50%).
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Strangely, I only have a problem with lyrics when I'm not singing them. That, of course, doesn't take into account to possibility that while singing, others might have a problem with me. ;-)
mark mcgranaghan defines the word transparency. however, as soon as he leaves his desk we're going to hijack his browser and make interesting google searches.
i like neither (assume e-book = pdf)

paper: non-searchable, heavy, takes space
pdf: DRM ridden, not grep-able

i like html (and text-file) tho
it's open source, grep-able, zoom-able, text-resizeable, view source + css + js + creativity (can highlight, do fancy things)

basically a very mallable media :D love it
of i forgot, you can change .html to paper format by technology called printer
"The conclusions were pretty simple: the vast majority of users and potential users of Quicken simply wanted to know where their money was going."

Mint/Buxfer
For a long time I was powered by radiohead.
Sadly, I don't.
For that conclusion, we need more data.
This must be true. However, once I've heard a song 20-30 times, it no longer causes distractions. Then again, when I work on a problem that takes 100% of my thinking power and concentration, I have to press pause, shut the door, and close my eyes.
Oops, sorry. I didn't see an easy way to check for duplicate entries.
I've been using a treadmill desk for about 8 months now:
http://rura.org/blog/2007/11/14/the-treadmill-desk-exercise-...

Once I knew I'd be using the treadmill long-term, I bought a Nordic Track A2350 treadmill online, along with a 4-year extended warranty (added to the year that's already included). There is little chance the treadmill will actually last through 5 years of 5-8h daily usage, so I expect to get my value out of the extended warranty. The whole thing cost about $950 delivered. Far less than a treadmill that's actually built to tolerate this sort of long-term usage.
What does the perfect funding source look like?
anyone who deserves this community will have enough in the way of intuition/connections to find you.
what i meant by mallable + css + js is that you can use firebug to fix the document you want to read

say you don't like pg's essay format
open the url to his essay
run firebug
click html tab
change <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="410">
width=410 to width=800
simple change, powerful

can you do that in both paper and ebook format?
"Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you."

That's exactly what it does
this is pretty awesome
run4yourlives - I agree with you. Everyone has a plan until they get into the ring. It is always best to preserve dry powder for the real fight. Being constructive and making allowance for other people's opinion go a long way in this business.
I'm not familiar with this guy's site so I'm not sure if he means something more nuanced, but "more data beats better algorithms" is too vague a claim to test by picking any number of datapoints. 100 datapoints will of course beat 1,000 datapoints if the former is selected via a random sampling that uses a uniform distribution across the entire population with no response bias and the latter is selected by asking the first 1,000 people you happen to see.
The article spends more time extolling the virtues of virality than actually speaking to what Ning does.
Yes, I have. It is pretty simple. Exercise regularly and eat a healthy balanced diet. Repeat forever.
Did pcollison make this?
I think there is a "equity of 1st offering" here, which ever selected you first should have at least a small advantage over the other; simply because they 'believed first'.
It's not diagnosis that concerns me per say (although it does in kids). The problem is over medication. I was on ritalin for so long as a kind my body became resistant. And now I've been told I may have been mis-diagnosed.

I don't think I had a problem other than school was boring, and I was always ahead of the curve. I wasn't like the rest so I had a problem and they had to try making me conform.

It's this need for us all to be more or less like everyone else that is the problem.

There has been some speculation by people that public school (and probably even non public) exists but to drain the individuality, creativeness, independantness, etc, from us to make use perfect obedient corporate drones. When school fails they push prescriptions.
I live in OKC too - please email me if any setup happens, richardbowles 005 (at) gmail.com
Let There Be Change!
Too many choices -- good or bad -- can be mentally exhausting
I should say I agree with the sound thing though. I almost always need my brain processing multiple things at once. Be it conscious or subconscious to avoid being distracted.
Ynews! isn't a job board.
I've been participating in triathlons/5ks/10ks since I was in high school. To keep in shape, I have a pretty simple regiment that I do 5/6 days a week. Each one of those days, I run, bike, or swim, depending on what I feel like doing. I go for how ever long I feel appropriate - long enough that I feel tired but not absolutely exhausted. I also go to the gym for half an hour to an hour each of those days. I do a lot of olympic type lifting (snatches, lifts, presses, rows, squats) and resistance training (pushups, situps, pullups, dips). Every now and then I throw something else in just to keep things exciting (like rowing, rock climbing, kayaking, skiing in the winter). I don't consider anything I do very strenuous, definitely something everyone is capable of. It winds up only being about an hour or two every day, which isn't much considering you're awake for about 16.
"pg makes the same recommendation (go into enterprise) for those who do not think they are smart or driven enough to build consumer web applications."
what makes u think that enterprise stuff doesnt need smartness? vmware? oracle?
fwiw, ppl go where the money is and/or where the barrier is low, not where its smarter.
for enterprise barrier is too high to get customers or even your customers are evry limited and you have to spend lots of time building your product unlike in web where there are lots of "platforms" like ror,adsense etc etc.
one trick to avoid exhaustion from too many choices: short circuit when you get a satisfactory outcome, even if it's not optimal. e.g., ordering food at a restaurant or watching tv, if i find a menu item or a program that's good enough and the outcome is not too important to me (those are the cases you should invest extra mental energy to find optimal solutions), i stop scanning there.

the general notion is that your mental energy is valuable currency and should be invested in ways that give you good return.
http://tastyplanner.com/

Created at the Rails Rumble 2007

[Edit - I see they won http://railsrumble.com/]
Obviously, having a lawyer who you have worked with and trust is essential in negotiating term sheets (and, even more obviously, actual funding agreements), because each one of them is different and because you are negotiating with another party who can and will try to insert provisions that you may not understand but which are severely disadvantageous to you. I also agree with Founders Agreements, since these will matter most when things go worst.

But legal incorporation docs? Employee agreements? I honestly see no reason not to recycle the same ones that we used for my previous venture. Of course, if you already have a lawyer on board than they should be reviewing all your legal agreements, but if you've just started out and want to incorporate before you've found a good lawyer, can anyone explain why you should wait?
There is more good writing than there is time to read, so I have the luxury of choosing not to listen to people like him.
I think it's pretty simple - eat right to the point where you're not full but not hungry and go to the gym as often as you can. I find that a balanced schedule leads to a balanced mind.

In terms of workouts, try hard intervals for both cardio and weights. It's the ideal way to both lose weight and keep your muscle toned.
I've been eagerly monitoring Mark's stream to see what's the worst thing a TechCruncher would look at, but it seems you guys are just all talk...
Remember what Henry Ford said,
"If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse."
Oops, I thought YCnews was the JOB! Explains why they're so late in mailing my paycheck.
While I haven't looked in depth at either post I find this to be an awfully bold claim and appears to be based on the results of a small number of example problems. There are probably hundreds of papers available where the opposite is shown to be true.

In fact, many come to the conclusion that more data approaches an asymptote for performance of a given algorithm, where implementation of a new algorithm or using an ensemble classifier may substantially increase performance.
I prefer reading long texts on an old black and white Palm M500. I actually find newer screens harder on the eyes.
Digital day of rest
The blog author isn't try to say that more data beats a better algorithm in general! That isn't even really what the headline is saying.

The useful thing is that someone with an enormous amount of data is able to predict Google's earnings very accurately. Bookmark their page and check it before the next Google earnings reports come out, you can make some good money by trading the stock.
whoa cool
This is really cool !!
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A couple of times while I was in that state, the "pre sleep state" I was convinced that I discovered a way to fly while flapping my arms, it felt so real and was 100% convinced it would work. I was so happy... the next day I couldn't remember the "arm flapping formula". yes, it felt that real at the time.
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"Build your own mobile web in 5 minutes."

This tagline makes it hard to understand what you do. It's hard just glancing at the front page to tell what problem this is solving. Something like "turn web pages into mobile pages in 5 minutes" might be more descriptive.
That you do, but you're missing out on some pretty sound financial and business advice when you pass his columns by.
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When's the API coming out so we can build FriendFeedCube?
Just out of curiosity, which one of PG's essay recommends that (going enterprise)?
None. Listening to music just distracts me.
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I'm beginning to think I'm the only one who doesn't. Songs with lyrics are better for me than pure instrumental songs... I code best to europop and hip hop.

[edit: and by "hip hop" I mean gangsta rap, not stuff like Digable Planets.]
Extreme sports is very useful here. A couple of hours ride around the city on in-line skates usually solves all my emotional problems. If that does not help, I switch skates to my SUV and go to mountains for snowboarding :-).
Differences between spammer and dropper
There is some sloppy English in multiple places, which (to me) makes the site seem less professional.
erm...that's exactly what he's saying.

Readers of this blog will be familiar with my belief that more data usually beats better algorithms

He may not mean what he says, but we can't guess nuances that aren't in his post.
I still think Zombo is better. It has a brighter future...
www.zombo.com

hehe...
Barry Schwartz claims that choice makes us feel miserable. A very interesting TED talk, see:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/93
Splay tree are the moment when you should stop reading your theoretical data structures book, for all practical purposes.
umm.. This has nothing to do with more data. This is someone finding 2 random numbers that, when combined, come out to another random number.

Their claim is the same as this: "Temperatures rose 2% last year. I ate 1% more potatoes and 1% fewer salmon. Therefore, since 1%+1%=2%, adding the %more potatoes and % fewer salmon will predict the change in temperature"

The blog author is, in fact, using only 2 data points to predict a 3rd. He's not using more data, he's using basically no data.
SUN, MySQL is not Sleepy Cat, be bold!
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Well here's the scoop: Derek was challenged by a frustrated blog reader to "put his money where his mouth is" about how to make money on the internet and prove it's possible to build a niche website from scratch in one week or less.
Cats don't make choices. I wish I was a cat. Then I'd be happy.
its cool to link to things that might lead to jobs; but not to directly link to a job listing with no other cool information.
IBM rips a company off? Well there's a surprise!
I swear to god, this actually made me laugh out loud.

:)
Ask YC: Should I open source my product or not? (did you?)
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You don't. Seriously, I strongly recommend against it. I tried. After about 18 mo. I finally broke down and brought in someone I really liked as the CEO and it's a world of difference.

I would never again try to do a startup the sole founder.
I think this metacognition is starting to bleed over into my dreams:( or :)

Also, I don't think it is just nonsense. These strange thoughts seem to have two levels to them. The more syntactic level, i.e. being part of a video game and fighting giants doesn't make any sense. But, it is the intuitive meaning behind these images that does make sense.

So, my theory is that I'm not necessarily thinking nonsense, but thinking on a different level. A level switch causes that meta-cognition of "nonsense" to occur.

This is similar to reading good literature. Often, great books make use of complex imagery that doesn't make much literal sense. But, focussing on the intuitive impressions that the images bring seems to convey some kind of deeper meaning.
The less sleep I have the more narrow minded I become.
I'll wait for a few more of these to come out and I'll make friendfeedfeedfeed.com.
I agree. I always used to play fight with my friends when younger, and I've always enjoyed combative sports like wrestling and martial arts. I like having a fighting spirit!
One large difference between American and European diets is portion size. One study into why the French don't have an obesity problem like a lot of other western nations had the simple conclusion that they simply ate less.
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Ha! I was going to do the exact same thing. Maybe I'll do it for TAOCP instead if I ever get around to it.
Oh. OK. In that case, his broader point is best ignored in favor of the more interesting prediction about Google's earnings.
Ning worth half a billion dollars
For most people, it's pretty easy to cut 400-500 kCals out and barely notice.

Just cut back on soda. Eat half a burrito instead of guzzling the whole thing. Eat proper meals instead of snacking on candy bars.

Just the basics.

I've never dieted, but I'm down at 177 pounds from 189, since I thought I was getting a bit heavy, just through using the techniques above.

I suspect the largest contribution is from not eating an entire Chipotle burrito every couple of days, but instead eating just half, which is still a pretty good meal.