skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Help for Your Of Mice and Men Coursework
Of Mice and Men is a novel by Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbock. For high school students this is a common topic for their English Language assignments. If you find it difficult to read the whole book and write the essay here are some tips for writing the essay.
A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb
Ah ok, I'm sorry I thought the '15 hour load' referred to the number of hours per day.
I've never met Alexis in person but I E-mailed him for startup advice several times over the years (including the tough months that he mentions in this post).

He always responded with a chipper E-mail and very helpful advice on everything from accounting to licensing agreements to acquisitions.
Masters project on using bandit algorithms for optimising CTRs on website content. Also involves some search engine / text mining / dimensionality reduction stuff.

A little bit of messing around with Android SDK too...
> if you had a nasty dictator propped up by the US

Be careful. The US had a lot to do with Latin-American right-wing dictators, but a lot of what is said these days is propaganda from left-wing larval dictators trying to create a patriotic response to an external "threat". Chávez in particular, seems to be considering delaying the upcoming elections by declaring war.
FWIW, that slogan wasn't quite ever used (thankfully, because it was for if the Nazis invaded Britain): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On

That iconic photo of the London library after a Blitz attack was a postcard I bought many years ago while studying abroad in the UK. I don't recall why I bought it, but I've kept it on the wall at my desk everywhere I've gone. There's something so wonderfully powerful about seeing these men calmly perusing the library stacks amidst ruins from what was then a fairly routine bombing run at a time when it was far from clear that "the good guys" would win.

It's such a splendid 'fuck you' to the Nazis (or whomever your 'enemy' may be) to carry on living your life just as you were planning -- or better yet, enjoying it even more than you'd planned because it's in spite of the circumstances.

I've never been bombed, nor will I probably ever be, so it's always pretty easy to realize what kinda of life lottery ticket I've ended up with.
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XML isn't the best perhaps. But it's not a road-block either. New config files are always new.

And who cares what it's implemented in as long as it doesn't fall over? I mean, ideally sure. C FTW on resource utilization, but honestly, if the choice is between something that's a bit of a pig, eating up 100MB of RAM vs what...? Really simply put: There is no competition that checks the same boxes that I'm aware of.

I'd be genuinely grateful if you can show me an alternative, especially for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, but most of the alternatives are new early-phase projects with grand goals that may never materialize, or unmaintained.

So sure, SMF isn't perfect. What's better?
> Is this how people in South America see the war? Rich people killing poor people?
> Is bin Laden the new Che in South America?

No way. And, BTW, only angry teens wear Che t-shirts these days.
I took a look at the Makefile, and I'm not entirely comfortable using it while not knowing exactly what it's doing. I normally don't require to know and have control over everything, but with Latex, the less unknowns I have, the better I feel.

This is what I've been using, inherited from a colleague/committee member/friend:

PAPER = paper_name
SECTIONS = $(PAPER) abstract introduction design results conclusions

default: $(PAPER).pdf

$(PAPER).bbl: $(PAPER).bib
pdflatex $(PAPER).tex
bibtex $(PAPER)

$(PAPER).pdf: $(PAPER).bbl $(foreach SECTION,$(SECTIONS),$(SECTION).tex)
pdflatex $(PAPER).tex
pdflatex $(PAPER).tex
pdflatex $(PAPER).tex

clean:
-rm -f *~
-rm -f $(PAPER).aux $(PAPER).log $(PAPER).out $(PAPER).bbl $(PAPER).blg
-rm -f $(PAPER).idx $(PAPER).ilg $(PAPER).ind $(PAPER).dvi $(PAPER).toc
-rm -f $(PAPER).pdf
I'd love to be able to modify my protocol. I don't eat carbohydrates, but protocol number 2 pretty closely matches the pattern of how I eat (though there's usually two more snacks in there that I eat).
I've been working on some Chicken Scheme stuff lately. Also playing with epoll and libevent some more. I'd like to eventually get scheme and mongrel2 working together rather than writing my own web server.
Alexis is a brave person. Many people would have probably given up but it is amazing how he kept working all along. A lot of respect for this person.
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Will Illumos Bring OpenSolaris Back To Life?
we're working on this right now, actually. We're going to support making arbitrary meal portions. Right now it's hard-coded to only 4.
Homoglyph attacks: How to create an internet hoax
Tag as [video], please.
The recommendation engine takes into account the choices made prior to the current meal before making a new recommendation. You are seeing the "Looks like you selected a combo" message because someone else made a selection using the hacker account and the app will not let you select multiple meals in the same time period. This will not happen if you created an account for yourself.

There is a FAQ link in the app that addresses some of the issue you brought up and we are working on incorporating the rest. As of now the only way to go back to the home page is to hit the log out button.
I created this poll here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571592 to find out are iPhone users really more inclined to buy over Android users?

Appreciate u taking the poll.
Overloading basic operators is the road to hell. Yes, you can do wonderful and elegant things but when it goes wrong your whole mechanism for analysing what you look it is screwed up because the more experience you have in a language the more you tend to be on autopilot for stuff like that.

'test your assumptions' suddenly expands to include checking if basic language operators still do what you expect them to do.

and

v2 = vec_add(v1,v3);

really isn't that much better than

v2 = v1 + v3;

I know this is not a popular opinion but that's how I've always felt about it and those that complain about how difficult languages like c++ care usually painted themselves in a corner by excessive use of such features.
Infineon does not produce application processors for the mobile market -- except perhaps based on ARM technology. They do make baseband and RF chips that are used in cell phones.

Intel definitely wants to get into the mobile / cellular business and have made a similar attempt before (search for DSP/C -- now owned by Marvell).

In fact, Intel was even making ARM based application processors in the past (called Xscale and derived from DEC's StrongArm design). Eventually they sold the entire division.

They would love to have a version of Atom powering mobile phones. Right now ARM is the de-facto standard.
Steps to disillusion a young scholar
This would really defeat the purpose of personalized recommendations. The test account was for a quick look at what we offer, not as a long-term solution.
Ask HN: Review our site - WorkingPoint
http://www.workingpoint.com

I am trying to figure out what I can do to promote our bookkeeping/accounting software.

Our customers love us, and CPC advertising is doing great, but we are struggling with organic traffic.

Does anyone here have suggestions on what things I can try to promote our site?

Specifically, what do you guys think would be an easy market to target? Any specific industries?

Should we do referrals? pump out an API? Mobile Apps?

Some people in our space include outright, freshbooks, indinero, etc... and they are all doing a kick ass job with SEO, PR, and what not, but we have always struggled with this.

Also, hiring outside SEO consulting has not done much for us...

All suggestions and comments are appreciated.

Disclaimer: This post may seem a bit self-serving and spammy, but it's really not. I am genuinely interested in how other startup approach "traditional marketing", because as an engineer, analyzing CPC, CPM is much easier for me. Unfortunately that is not a viable solution.
I only ever interacted with Alexis on a pre-reddit gaming forum and we didn't get along at all. All I've seen of reddit-founder Alexis suggests he's a standup guy though.

I may have been a little too self-righteous back then. Sorry!
Only you never listened to me when I advised you to give me 51% of the equity in fleaf[l]icker!

But seriously, that's the magic of email, right? I'm just glad I was helpful. I only wish I had little elves who could help me get through my email faster...

*edited to sound less naughty auf Deutsch
Meh.

Am I the only one who wishes all this personal stuff had nothing to do with the business?

Is it some new rule these days that startup founders have to prove they are 'real people' by sharing all the details of their lives? I mean, sure .. its sad to have to go through all that, but that stuff is personal.

This story really has very little to do with reddit, other than to serve as a social means of establishing 'personality' behind the scenes of the service.

Downvote me into oblivion, but I really have to say - fair enough, dude. You had a rough time. But that is life, you know? Need the whole world know you are suffering the normal, perfectly mundane, plain ol' human condition?

I suppose in these techno-fuelled racey days of million-dollar teenagers it helps to have a little soap opera, to keep the balance, eh ..
They inevitably conspire to fuck you up, somehow.
Wha?! Clan Nocturnal?
there's a simple reason for attack on Danish Embassy and you must be perfectly aware of it.

I was in a moderate islamic country when the cartoons were published and shall I say it was not a comfortable feeling when communicating with locals.
Both. Although slightly tipped towards diamond!hard.
We should all strive for it, but the reality is that most people who don't have an 'active healthy lifestyle' arrived at that condition before they were adults. People who learn unhealthy habits in their childhood or adolescence have a tremendously hard time breaking those habits or even recognizing that they are unhealthy.

I speak as someone who, despite my parents best intentions, was not raised to approach life in a 'healthy active' manner, and have only arrived at that point after leaving my parents' well-meaning clutches.

So, the people who this would most help are generally not that way by choice or even responsibility, so to talk of their right to not drink lithium water seems off the mark. I'd love to give people the right not to have incapable parents, because that would do a whole lot more for this cause than anything else.
A Mafia game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)) webapp that allows real time games between strangers.

Because there just isn't enough shady intrigue on the web!
My "counterargument": women who complain about sexism in technology are just fatties and uglies who wish they could find a real man instead of getting pump and dumped by the occasional desperate loser.

We can try to lower the status of people we disagree with, or we could actually have a rational discussion which might teach us something.

(Oh, very clever! You've preemptively applied the "loser" label to people who aspire to rationality. I guess I lose the status competition.)
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It's also a re-run -- this article only highlights exactly what lead the mac into almost 15 years of marginal market share and an ad campaign based on poor grammar. :)
and you can be extra nice and accept either a list or positional arguments...
The "I'm ultra logical and uber rational" posture is part and parcel of it.

Heh, true. And to the extent that we fail to achieve our goals with women and relationships, we're not being rational. http://lesswrong.com/lw/7i/rationality_is_systematized_winni...

You want rationality, look at pickup artists. They have (questionable at best) goals, and they do whatever it takes to achieve them with maximum effectiveness.
If someone has a link on a transcript, please post in the comments.
My "problems" look minuscule in comparison. I am inspired to look past them and try harder. Thanks for sharing.
Speaking as a grad student who has been reading a lot of papers/theses lately, we can tell if you used LaTeX or Word, and if you used Word we mock you for your ugly fonts and amateurish layout.
Hmm. You've done a good job promoting it now, I'm looking into it :P. Any chance you guys integrate with shopping carts (magento, etc)?

I work a lot with organic SEO, not so much with Social Media. Let me know if you all need a little help, I'm close with some excellent social media types as well. ryandavies@gmail.com
You should make it clearer in the commentary that you're holding the static languages to a higher standard.
> Our canine teeth are quite pathetic compared to true carnivores: 4, not very big

You know that people can use tools, right?
You can make it without any 'weaknesses' in Python:

collection = Transaction.search(
order_id__starts_with='a2d',
customer_website__ends_with='.com',
billing__first_name__exact='John',
status__in=[
Transaction.Status.Authorized,
Transaction.Status.Settled
],
amount__between=("10.00", "20.00")
)

the implementation could look like this:

def search(**kwargs):
for arg, value in kwargs.items():
action = arg.split('__')
attr = getattr(self, action[0])
if len(action) == 2:
method = getattr(attr, action[1])
method(value)
etc.
.....

EDIT: removed unneeded quotes, thanks for correction, postfuturist
Alexis you bastard, making me cry at work!

I thought you were exaggerating. You were not. Thanks for sharing this Alexis, I'm in rather similar position right now, except only my dog died. Girlfriend's mom has MS and is paralyzed from neck down for the last two and a half years and recession hit so hard I can barely pay bills. I'll keep calm and carry on.
Indeed! I was a grouchy forum mod who took the whole thing too seriously.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960465637
The ratings are currently personalized to each users nutritional profile that is created at the end of the sign up process. Our detailed sign-up process resembles a health risk assessment in which a user has to answer questions about past and existing diet related chronic diseases like diabetes and coronary artery disease.

The ratings also depend on prior choices made by the user. This means that the same meal may have a different ratings for lunch and dinner.
1) The students who are currently being misled into believing $125k in debt and a piece of paper are a sure ticket to financial freedom.

2) Startups who want students to eschew school for lower salaries at the startups because they don't have the credentials to get into the Fortune 500.

3) Bitter students who are now $125k in debt with no chance of bankruptcy to alleviate that debt and no job to pay it off, but want an outlet for their frustration and evidence of a community with a common predicament.

4) Community colleges that are cheaper and often provide a better more focused education with smaller class sizes, less elitist student populations, and shorter times to degrees.

5) Students who are well served by attending colleges that aren't filled to the rafters by rich kids who need 4 more years of baby sitting or who go, because well, you are supposed to, meh.

6) A society that is better served by a real focus on the quality of education provided for its citizens who benefit from the products of a well educated work force which is increasingly diverging from useful and practical skills into a grade inflated joy ride through 4 years of drunken debauchery.
Yes, we are aware that adopting version control is well overdue. Thanks for the links!
At least Apple is consistent about choosing bad horses, eh?
(G4, G5, AT&T)...
back-to-the-land is probably what it says - "back-to-the-land"

localism is probably communitarianism
Yes there is a conflict. It doesn't matter who is first. Thats worth nothing in itself.

It matters who is the best at pulling the levers that get exults.

VWO obviously failed at that. Optimizely, at least in this case, won. Play to your strengths, realize the world isn't fair, and move on with it already.

If I were an LP in YC and they held back because of a post on HN I'd (rightly) be pissed as hell. Who expected them to behave differently?

Btw, I'd bet this "scandal" has no effect on either HN or YCs reputation. I also think people are overestimating ghe values of a mention on TechCrunch.
What do you mean by merging two accounts? One common inbox for both? There's an existing convoluted way to do that: forward all emails from account B to account A, add account B as a possible "From" address on account A and you're good to go.
For me, it also matters a lot how difficult it is to write an app that runs well and looks good on every device, irrespective of screen size and resolution, hardware buttons, etc.

Having done plenty of web design, and a little Mobile Java, the pain of getting things right for a sensibly large proportion of browsers/devices is something that I love that iPhone development lacks.

I haven't tried any Android development, but I can't help but believe the situation must be somewhat worse.
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The cold war is certainly a factor, as is the quick economic recovery of (West) Germany. I have rather big doubts, though, that US occupation caused West Germany (and France) to become a champion of European integration.

I also don’t think that Europe has yet to handle a serious problem. The fall of the Soviet Union is kind of the biggie here. And, sure, the cold war played a large role during the recovery of western Europe after WWII, but, looking back at the disastrous recovery of Europe after WWI and comparing it to the stellar recovery after WWII tells me that this is also quite a big problem which Europe sort of solved. With help, but help can only get you so far.
Feature request: dietary options would be nice.

I'm vegetarian, but I got no suggestions without meat.
For a remedy to the "sucky side" if you have a mac + TextMate, it all _just works_. You do everything you would normally do, and then hit cmd + R which will run the typesetter.

My buddy during my undergrad used LaTeX, at the time the thought of debugging my documents seemed insane (though he could do some amazing ninja stuff like rebuilding his graphs in matlab and importing them on build). Since starting my masters, I've taken it up, and yes it is awesome.
I didn't write it for pity and I hope it didn't come across that way. I left reddit nearly a year ago now. And I thought the one thing missing from the multitude of 'reasons to start a startup' posts was that it could actually be an incredibly beneficial personal decision - especially in times of dealing with the "normal, perfectly mundane, plain ol' human condition" that affects us all.

I also don't think I'd have done nearly as many of those alien doodles or invested nearly as many hours as I did in reddit and the community had it not been an outlet for everything else. In that regard, I think it has a lot to do with reddit.

Starting a startup with Steve was one of the best decisions I could've made, just for a very unexpected reason. I hope it convinces a few others that it's worth taking the plunge.
everything at bigthink is a video.
The Prime That Wasn't
It's not on the Reddit blog, it's on his personal website.
The answer really comes down to what I think is a very under-discussed issue in development: Proficiency with the tools you know can in many cases be better than switching to the "right tool".

You see all this talk about choosing the right tool for the job, which then gets twisted to mean everyone needs to have exposure to 20 different languages such that you can make the "best" decision. When in many cases, whatever tools you're the most proficient with is the "right tool" (for you).
A concise overview of the tax treatment of stock options
Or to put it succinctly: The Greatest Generation has given way to The Laziest Generation.
I'm pretty sure I remember a Y Combinator Weebly blog. Also there was the Infogami PG blog, but I suppose that was you, not your company.
ParenScript is an Acceptable Lisp
I have a feeling it was mostly accidental. Having a bunch of awesome people increases the likelihood of it happening, but I don't think that is a very repeatable lesson.
Wow! Stroker Ace - nice to see you again. Yes, I did have an internetargument (tm) with quite a few folks on that board :-/ I feel like it was political? (2000 election maybe?) but I still remember when Paul (sgt!oink) and I started the original Nocturnal clan for Half-life. No hard feelings.
If you read a little further, you will discover that there is some discussion of his 'data'.
Not knowing anything about your problems, please don't consider my one story as a litmus test for 'life problems.' Everyone has them and mine look petty in the light of most people's (thinking on a global scale here). Just know that having something/someone you can invest your time & energy into can be incredibly fulfilling (and distracting, when you need it).
The new healthcare reform bill makes it mandatory for many more restaurant to publicly disclose their nutritional information. More can be found here http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/03/22/menu-measure-health...

It is also interesting to note that while the law will not likely go into effect for another 3-4 years, many restaurant chains are "getting out in front" of the legislation, and are beginning to offer nutritional content info on their websites even before they are required to do so.

As of now we work with local restaurants here in Atlanta and do a statistical nutritional analysis for them. Tin Drum in our featured restaurants is an example of that. In fact we are about to deploy a kiosk / ipad version of our app in the Tin Drum premises where it will be used as a health-based digital menu.
I don't want the fastest possible language or the most powerful possible language. I want the simplest language that is fast enough and powerful enough. The Benchmarks game is a lot of fun, but if I were making a language (especially one not designed for speed), I probably wouldn't put it up there. It encourages contributors to think "oh crap, if we optimized our X better, we'd be like 4 higher in the listings!" instead of "What sort of useful code can I write?".
Off continent backups
some people may not know that or notice the site being linked to, etc...
I realize that, I probably should have mentioned that the govt would randomly audit college expenses, and their books would have to be made public. If they get caught playing stupid games, no more subsidies.

(We could also create incentives for student whistleblowers too; if the college is caught cheating, they must refund all the students they overcharged.)
Chef and the Opscode platform explained [video]
Resolution-independent UI. They've postponed it for years.
Sadly, some publishers actually expect Word documents. The same publishers then have all kinds of problems where they need considerable help from the authors to get the layout right.
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.
Any downvotes were probably from people taking you seriously. Sarcasm doesn't translate well into text. At least, I'm assuming that you meant to be sarcastic, given your edit.