skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be more specific, looks like it goes:

Windows: Delphi
Linux: C++
OS X: Objective-C

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2124396
Every other industrialized country has national healthcare of one form or another, and they all beat the crap out of us on cost while competing on quality. This isn't a theory, this is a fact.

No matter how many times you yell "socialism", that will still be true. The only question is how much money we waste before we finally switch over.
I know him well enough to know that he's not taking this angle, but thanks for your concern.

In terms of partnering, I feel the equity split is the real reflection of the commitment of the relationship.

One more data point: he'd be financing the thing until we raised money.
Ask HN: Effort prior to agreement
The product that I've been working on (off/on partime for more than a year) is almost there.

I'm still in confusion on what agreement should I make with my friend (idea owner and potential partner).

He's consulted an accountant and the following were his suggestions:

a) $K my work in development to be taken out of the equation (structured as loan from me to the company).

b) Service-agreement/contract to be signed between the company and myself.

c) Based on the value that I bring to the table, my shares would be determined.

While taking the dev work amount out of the equation reduces my risk. It treats all the time I spent into mere $ value.

Does this sound common? If so - should I negotiate based on an assumed CTO role, VP (this would still be parttime effort)?

Background:

a) Idea originally his, I was initially contracted for execution then I proposed a partnership.

b) My friend has very good lead channels (VPs).

c) First client would be the Company he's working for.

EDIT: formatting lists
What misleading statement do you feel I made? Would it be the statement where I explicitly gave market share for the #1 and #2 companies, cited a source, and asked if you considered that an oligopoly?

Also, a market can be highly competitive even if it supports an oligopoly. It may simply be the case that the oligopoly is outcompeting smaller players. See, for example, DRAM, PC's, cars (ignoring their recent bailout), big box retail stores.
Integer factorization is also in BQP due to Shor, no?
do you think twitter integration might work for you?
Poll - How many of you who have written comments have 1 or more employees?
True. I was referring to the cumulative effort since Reid proved that the upper bound of Kociemba's algorithm is 29 moves. I apologize for any misunderstandings, but I cannot edit that post now.
Chronophiliac
Kirk grew up in an era with neither holodecks nor replicators, on starships or anywhere else.
How about that they are a government contractor and have to comply with federal regulations regarding work schedule? Uncle Sam wants to see asses in seats for at least 40 hours/week, according to some fixed schedule, which schedule must be approved by a certain government agency. If you are such a contractor, your options are to require that all employees be in the office between X o'clock and Y o'clock, or lose the contract.
Turing Award, too.
I believe YYYY-MM-DD is the international standard date notation (ISO 8601)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

One point which makes me love this one is that it's "easily sortable and comparable", which is great when you have tons of files in a folder.
Unlike healthcare, these have been successfully commoditized.
I do everything YYYY-MM-DD because it always sorts correctly and is consistent with ISO8601.

MM/DD/YYYY is a most miserable convention.
I'm not sure why people feel any type of carb is bad for regular weight loss. There is no significant evidence that refined or unrefined carbs are bad for your weight loss (assuming you are not diabetic). Carbs can be bad because carb-rich foods tend to be surprisingly high in calories, but that's about it from a weight loss perspective.

Also, 1,200kcal/day diets are brutal. Caloric restriction diets have overwhelming scientific evidence of being an ineffective strategy in the long term. Even if you have some elaborate food system with rest days, it doesn't matter. They fail for the overwhelming majority of people. They lose weight, fail to maintain the difficult diet, then pop back up.

Your body doesn't defy thermodynamics, but your metabolism is a clever thing. The best way to achieve permanent, long term body-fat loss is to reduce your diet to something reasonable and exercise (both aerobic and weight) regularly. I know hackers desperately want the clever solution, but as it stands there is no evidence-based way to get results that is as reliable as the "eat-less-workout-more" approach.
Wipe it, tell him you've done so, apologize for the inconvenience, and refer him to Paypal's help page - or maybe there is some euro competitor to Paypal that might be easier to use. If you try and complete the transaction from your end it's likely to be flagged as unauthorized use; you might just get rejected, but he might have his card frozen. Of course, there is also the possibility that he's trying to run a scam on you and is unable to use Paypal for the good reason that he's using an invalid card.
Don't call it "interactive" (yet)? Also, I would have been happier with 3 PDF's anchored to their respective cities on the country map.
Great idea, and this is definitely something i could see myself using.

I'm wondering though, what's the big advantage over me just posting on Facebook 'anyone want to see inception tonight?'? Does it just help me to manage the responses?
I'd be interested to hear more about this though.
Anything is good for version 1.0. Start working on what matters because Ugly sites do make millions

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/ugly-websites/?utm_source=wptwit...
Or said government contractor could be forbidden from using any kind of telecommuting technology because employees are not allowed to remove sensitive data from the premises.
I'm a devotee of mexicoke; in San Francisco's Mission district where I live it is in every store, but even elsewhere in SF it can be hard to find.
Unfortunately, I think this is one of those lessons you only really learn after you've built a product no one wants. Until it happens to you, you'll always think your idea is the exception.
> Edit: "I wanted to stop having to answer emails about this. To me, that’s easily worth the possibility of paying $200k."

I guess a guy may be as outrageous or egomaniac as he wants on his own blog, but how does that make it hacker news, or news at all? I don't care if he's an expert at the subject, there's no content at all about the proof in that post.
Ask HN: Is www. deprecated?
Really, why does (nearly) every website start with www. instead of allowing access directly through their main domain? Wouldn't it be time to call the death of the www subdomain? What is HN's opinion on the matter?
>Should the government also be providing even more necessary items like food

I guess you've never heard of farm subsidies. Our food prices are almost completely controlled by the government, which is precisely why it is so cheap. No one goes hungry in America, because famine costs about 2 dollars a person at the corner store or McDonald's to completely eliminate. And, for those that can't afford that, we have WIC and food banks/pantries or church-run soup kitchens (also indirectly subsidized due to non-profit or church tax status).

You'd basically have to try really hard to starve in this country.
I specifically cut out foods containing High Fructose Corn Syrup, which is an artificial additive created by doing messily chemical things to maize. Natural sources of fructose I'm not so bothered with.
Nice job on losing the weight and good luck on gaining mass. It's pretty incredible how fast our body's can shed pounds when eating correctly.
This seems like the sticky bit:

Fifth, we want the broadband infrastructure to be a platform for innovation. Therefore, our proposal would allow broadband providers to offer additional, differentiated online services, in addition to the Internet access and video services (such as Verizon's FIOS TV) offered today. This means that broadband providers can work with other players to develop new services. It is too soon to predict how these new services will develop, but examples might include health care monitoring, the smart grid, advanced educational services, or new entertainment and gaming options. Our proposal also includes safeguards to ensure that such online services must be distinguishable from traditional broadband Internet access services and are not designed to circumvent the rules. The FCC would also monitor the development of these services to make sure they don’t interfere with the continued development of Internet access services.

It seems reasonable, but this is a subtle distinction. Prioritizing internet traffic isn't allowed, but selling services that might get priority over internet traffic is, so long as they aren't called "internet." I guess the hope is that the internet will always be important enough that they'll never throttle the whole thing or risk losing business, hence the FCC monitoring bit at the end.
Sorry if this sounds blunt, but

a) Why did you join in the first place?

b) Why didn't you find another job before getting fired?
It's easier to port a shell than a shell script
Best Tips For Folder Printing
If you are in need of pocket folder, then you should immediately get connected with printing blue online. It would surely provide you the best folder printing service.
Side topic, but can anyone suggest a diet (vegetarian, ideally) for putting on muscle?

I've been hitting the gym regularly (2-4x/week) for the past year, lifting weights consistently each time, and haven't made any major gains.
The origins of abc
thanks! glad you like it. jummpp.in is somewhere between facebook events and facebook statuses. Right now it has a little extra features over facebook statuses (hashtag, so you can quickly find all the #lunch events, for example).

as I develop the app more, I'd build more features to help solidify a suggestion. For example, multiple choices of dates, so people can vote on which date works the best.
Her discretionary income, despite the pay raise, will only dwindle if her health care costs remain fixed. But the whole point of moving to a single-payer system (or at least more government-provided coverage) is that those costs go down. If they go down by more than the 25% (or whatever) that Sally is losing, everybody wins: she makes more take-home pay, her company makes more profit, and health care costs less for everyone.

There's a lot of assumptions built into that outcome, but I take it that's the idea, if the numbers work out.
Your baby is not ugly!

The site I'm currently working on and discussions I've had with friends, a few have asked me to build exactly what you've got.

Others didn't want me to abandon the original idea, so I'm sticking to my guns, figuring somebody would nail the space you're going after (plancast is trying, but haven't seemed to capture the ad-hoc-iness that you've got).

I like your nice clean design and the simplicity of adding events, though I didn't get any sort of pop-up to post to my facebook page, so I can't really inform my friends about it (I used one of my old fb test accounts).

I see you linked in to your cirque list, which I think is really great, to get intros to other people who are looking to do similar things.

I'm going to be in Vancouver in the next week (I'm from Whistler) let me know if you want to meet-up for coffee and I can tell you about the suggestions I've had from my friends and my thoughts related to your project.

I can be reached at pete / hearwhere.com
Probably by not eating all the time :D
Yes, as of August 14, 2003. (Of course opinions may vary.)

http://no-www.org/
which machine learning algorithms is causata shipping to customers? i could not find this (nor the fact you were shipping) from the causata website.

you wrote:

Alas, the Haystack web site has zero technical details.

the causata web site appears to be equally placed.
Google-Verizon Statement: Net Neutrality is "Platform for Innovation"
Good question.

You can use the tool to drive traffic to any page, doesn't have to be a product page. In keeping with our bottoms-up approach (as opposed to the top-down, Google-centric approach of every other SEM tool on the market), we thought looking at individual product pages would be most useful for e-commerce sites, which is why we focus our demo on that.

But again, there's no reason to limit use to there. In fact, in v2.0 (which should ship in the coming days) you can tag arbitrary pages, and look at aggregate stats for that tagged group (e.g., a category of products like 'women's shoes' or the like).
I find this would not be a fair approach, even if you do not really collect any data from the form.

Would you tell them "This product is no longer available for sale" when it never was? In fact it doesn't even exist.

Would it be fair to make people spend their time filling a form that won't result in anything?

Who can guarantee you did not collect the data submitted by the form?
Edit: then perhaps you should look past your own political biases (and mine) and look and what I've contributed in technical, business, and marketing discussions.
Recipients not the only victims of spammers
Innovation is Not Creativity
Kids mimic you. You smoke, guess what your kids will think (the same thing I thought) "wow, everyone seems to be enjoying it, I wonder what the fuss is about".

With my sister, I grew up telling her about what smoking feels like and the addiction. Guess why she does not smoke... Its not a big curiosity anymore for her, she just knows nothing good will come of it. She also tried (unsuccessfully) to get my mom to quit smoking. She understand addiction and why its bad to start.

Once you realize just how much they mimic its incredible the things you can realize. When I saw my daughter standing idly doing the same little motions with her feet as I do when I stand Idly, I realized: Nothing too little will go unnoticed with the child, the child will pick up on everything I do and thus if I want her not to do it, I must MODEL the right way for her.
Appropriate pricing strategies are key here. We were able to get 10 'charter members' who paid $500 for a lifetime membership when our idea was just notes on 2 pieces of paper. Currently we're offering a beta, which is 2 years for the price of one and shortly we'll reach critical mass and change it again.
Rails 3 screencasts
Nice write-up Paul. As a fellow GT grad I think I gained 15 pounds because of the Varsity.

One tip - lose the metal spatula on the non-stick pan.
cool! ya i'd be very interested to hear your experience. i'll drop you an e-mail.
You just need to eat a lot more calories. You might be doing the wrong weightlifting routine. If you can do egg whites, those work pretty well. I went from 150 to 180 in college on a "hard gainer" program. My diet back then was: egg whites, brown rice, vegetables. Now I'm trying to get back down to about 165, so be careful what you wish for...
Actually it seems to me that they are already putting the hands forward to make sure Google TV is not covered.

Is this possible? Anyone remembers exactly how the Google TV pitch was?
Wrong: Arguing from one example.

Yes, they had sharashkas up until 1953. There is no excuse for that, but implying that all engineering was done there is just ridiculuous. It is like saying everyone was stupid and any work that was done was just because someone put a gun to their head. That kind of a message is disingenuous at best and smells like propaganda at worse.

Nevermind the fact that Typhoon was commissioned 30 years later after sharashkas were closed. So it doesn't even apply to the article at hand.

However, if you are implying some kind of American moral superiority then look at how Americans used Nazi rocket engineers. Also, they appropriated and used most of the research done by the Japanese at Unit 731 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731. There were no Nuremberg trials for those (except some trials in Russia) and some of those working there ended up as heads of big pharma in Japan after the war.
Have you tried taking protein powder along with your diet? Depending on how much you want to gain and the type of shake you get, you'd probably want to drink one within 20 mins of a weightlifting session and one a day in the morning.
Yeah I got a softer one a few months later. I had a metal one in that pic because my dog chewed up my plastic one...
NAT is really a no brainer if you have a UPnP router

Skype does much better than that. AFAIK they can traverse NATs and firewalls that don't support UPnP; they can fall back to TCP if UDP doesn't work; if all else fails they have a network of supernodes to relay traffic.
you won't build muscle on a vegetarian diet. You need protein to build muscle, so you'll want eggs and meat. Alternatively you can try some of those protein shakes...but they aren't as fulfilling
Nice writeup Paul. One thing I'd point out is that your dietary needs will evolve as your body and metabolism does. Once your body adapts to its new state and you start gaining muscle mass, you'll actually start needing more calories and you can relax on the little thing like egg yolks, etc.

Another thing that you might want to consider if you're not the hardcore gym type is adding some less traditional forms of exercise. A lot of people really get into martial arts despite not liking to "workout"; I know you like driving, so I'd recommend seeing if there are any good karting options in SF. Karting is crazy amounts of fun, and its a great all-around workout: http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=46561&PO=4656...
Gilad Bracha presenting Newspeak at Google (video)
any calorie deficit of more than 500 cals a day doesn't really help as you'd be putting those pounds again after you return to your regular diet.

A healthy deficit of 500 cals and working out 3-5 times a week should be the best approach as far as the long run goes as it's just not about losing weight but maintaining it as well in a healthy manner.
I would note: "statistical mechanics" is not technique but a subfield of mathematics and physics within which a number of techniques are used.

"Model theory" might be closer to "a" technique or at least a somewhat distinct set of techniques.

And other have noted, there's reason that a proof from statistical mechanics would relativize.
Paul Bucheit said something similar on Startup School 2008 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxP0i9ah8E): "You should aim for 100 happy users". And he mentions that being happy is quite hard to accomplish, as happy users will not put up with any unevenness they see. I find this more useful for startups that are still looking for a business model (mostly consumer oriented startups).
> It can be done. Maybe it is more challenging [...]

The only thing that's challenging about it is that you have to take some time to meet in person so people get a feeling for each others sense of humor, etc. We do this 3-4 times a year--rent a vacation home for a week and work in person for a while just to gel the team. Once you have a team that knows each other it works great.
http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/ enough said.
I wish Google would turn on all it's dark fiber <http://news.cnet.com/Google-wants-dark-fiber/2100-1034_3-553.... I'm tired of charter, the service is terrible...
Twitter Hires Sales Force From Yelp, Facebook
Whatever you do, I wouldn't buy the Realspace Pro/Quantum from Office Depot. They may have since fixed the design, but for my current version:

The design for attaching the seatback to the base is poor - all that is holding it up is two metal plates attached to eachother at (about) a 60 degree angle with 2 screws. There is a "slot" one goes into but it is just plastic. Due to this the screws holding up the back have a tendency to snap in half.

Both of my screws broke after 1 month, causing me to go crashing onto the floor. They had a "recall" and distributed a repair kit with new screws but one new screw has already snapped for me. To really fix this chair they would have to do much more than distribute a new pair of screws. Hopefully they have in newer chairs, but I wouldn't risk $250 on it.

This may have to do with weight and height - I'm 6'4 and 190 lbs, so I would place much more stress on the screws than someone shorter. I still wouldn't risk it though.

See:
http://www.quantumchair.com/recall/cpsc.html
HP CEO's exit will be rather costly for shareholders
Neither I nor my parents smoke. My sister says that her peer group doesn't smoke and that, when she first started, she hid it from them. It was something she did by and for herself to cope with the anxiety of exams at college.

She was anxious and depressed, and cigarettes helped.

Just presenting a data point in favor of the assertion that the great-grandparent post dismissed.
Is it possible to test a "revolutionary product" before prototyping?
The above is false (par for Wikipedia). While RSA is based on the difficulty of factoring, DES (and 3DES) are not. The DES cipher is based on substitution/permutation and not number theory.

Also, factoring is known to be subexponential (e.g., GNFS). While there is no known polynomial time factoring algorithm, this may give some evidence that the integer factorization problem might be in P. Factoring is known to not be NP-complete and we hope it is not in P. While a proof that P=NP would be disastrous for RSA, a proof that P!=NP does not mean factorization is guaranteed to be safe against future advances in algorithms.

In other words, proof that P!=NP would be an amazing result but someone could still improve factoring algorithms.
Amazon Web Services ~5 Minute .NET Quick Start « Composite Code
This is the beginning of a series of blog posts I’m putting together on building out a website on Amazon’s Web Services. This is a quick start on where to find the .NET SDK, what templates are installed in Visual Studio 2010, and what you get when starting a new Web Application Project with the A...
Caching With Apache's mod_cache On Debian Lenny
All of the above is the most evil thing I have heard being said about the internet!

Uh, why?
"I went thru the same crunch a couple of years ago and dropped bread, dairy, coffee etc and it made a world of difference."

What's the compelling reason to drop coffee? Coffee is nothing but brown caffeine water and caffeine is a safe, cheap appetite suppressant.
Indeed. But, fortunately, this is seldom a problem in math.

I mean, often people discover problems in proofs --- but if the result was beautiful enough, they are usually able to repair the proofs. It's like debugging. (And I mean it, thanks to the Curry-Howard isomorphism.)
I object to the down-mod. Stammy suggests eating anything you want, one day a week.

Sorry if you don't have a sense of humour, but my comment was topical.
What do you need a fully-fledged web server on the edge nodes for? Wouldn't it be better for varnish to proxy everything to the back end dynamic server directly, except for requests that need to use the local edge node nginx?

The post describes a setup with two cacheing layers on each edge node, varnish cache in front of ngingx cache, which has got to be sub-optimal.
It would be nice to just see this as an HTML bulleted list, so users don't need to scroll around. I'm not sure how the spatial relationship is important after you click on a startup hub in the first map -- a multi-level list would be easier to navigate. (My screen resolution is 1400x900 so I'm scrolling in all directions after a click).
I am OK with it. He put his money where his mouth is, instead of just putting his mouth somewhere.
One comment I do have is that author shold run spell check on the atricle and correct some of the grammer

"grammer" -> "grammar"

"everyday" -> "every day"

". Which" -> ", which"

(just to name a few)