skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try to play basketball as often as I can, even though it's not my best sport. I grew up playing contact sports like football and rugby, which require far less precision and eye-hand coordination than basketball does.

I also have nerves of glass, and nothing is worse for a basketball shot than being nervous and unconfident. When I play bball with friends and people I'm comfortable with I do quite well, but when I play with strangers who are better than I am, I completely fall apart - dribbling the ball off my foot, throwing up air-balls and missing easy layups, etc.

There's something extremely unnerving about having control of the ball because everyone on the court is acutely focusing on you. Not to mention every time I miss a shot it means I'll be less likely to get passed to the next time which makes it more nerv-wracking to shoot, so it's a vicious cycle.

But despite making a fool of myself more often than not, I keep coming back for more. I'm determined to learn how to control my nerves and adrenaline rushes and try to become more confident in something I don't naturally excel at.

So to answer your final question, it hasn't quite resulted in a positive outcome yet (other than the exercise and a break from hacking, I suppose), but I hope to become a competent, confident BBall player in any environment someday.
>But there is still racism in this country and it overwhelmingly is against minorities.

The only racism I have ever experienced in the US has been from "minorities" (i.e. non-white people), usually directed toward white people.
I'm afraid I'm with him. There's too much anger in this, I see that as a waste of energy. None of us is really free, I can't wake up tomorrow and decide to be an NBA player or the president. We have certain options for today, this week, this month, this year... Pick the best path forward, review it occasionally and pour all that energy into doing.
Ask HN: Feedback needed - Gourmaide
It's still an early prototype but as a part of a school project, we started thinking about how we could make the process of cooking a recipe simpler. Please take a look at our screencast or play with our demo. Thanks HN!
Those two things aren't contradictory. The first is about answering a well-defined technical question. The second is about deciding what program to write.
I think you're dead right. I use Ubuntu on the desktop, and I would specify it for any server installation. Not because I dislike Red Hat, I'd just rather use something I'm familiar with.
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Ah, well said!
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other than me using 'ce' instead of 'cw', it isn't any different. this stuff is very muscle memory-ish. the location of the keys is not really a factor except for finger collisions such as 'cw'... which is the only such collision i remember noticing

hjkl is kind of a red herring in this case. those keys happen to be bunched together in qwerty, but that's an irrelevant accident of history, and those keys are not used very commonly to begin with. at least, they shouldn't be used very commonly. much better and faster keys are: 'w', 'b', 'I', 'A', '{', '}', 't', '/' etc.
That is not an accurate characterization of how the institutions themselves see poor whites. You may find some outspoken idiot students who hold these beliefs, but you'll find outspoken idiots who think lots of foolish things.
I concur with Dave's points. I'm very happy with my Kindle DX.
I love to read and I love that it is focused so well on that activity.
1. Regular expressions cannot match recursive patterns.

2. No, they cannot! extended regexps are a nice hack, but not really met formal regular expression definition.

3. man grep
Picked up running in March. I had never been a runner growing up, and I actually had asthma. 3 months later, I ran a half-marathon (13.1 miles). Felt great and I'm still running!
The thing is, there is a substantial bias that aids poor people in general, not in the admission process, but in the process of actually going to school.

Even though the private colleges have price tags up in the $40k+ range, the average middle-class family will end up paying around $20k, and truly poor people generally pay as much if not less than they would for a state school.

The admission process is a crapshoot, and I don't really see any reason to whine about arbitrary stuff like this. They have to rule some people out, it's mostly random once you get past a certain point, and even if it isn't, I don't think it's particularly harmful. Not everyone can get in.
I'm interested in the nook for following reasons:

- Access to public library books using Overdrive

- Being able to 'lend' books purchased from B&N store for 2 weeks to other nook owners.

I like B&N's focus on more customer friendly features.
This too shall pass.

Works for everything in life, which is both a blessing and a curse.
A overview of the permit costs and regulation on SF food trucks.
Zach Klein started a jobs list here: http://jobs.zachklein.com/
> That's true for anyone doing anything more complicated than "a website".

You may be right. However, a very large proportion of servers are webservers.
Unless it's this 4H club: http://www.air4h.org/about/
I don't believe America's "elite" really ever had any "respect" for poor whites, per se. My family has a Scandinavian background and I went to a college which emphasized this cultural history, so we had to take a history classes about things like the plight of Norwegian immigrants in the 1860s. The elite english corporatists who employed poor scandinavian whites to build railroads and whatnot mostly viewed them as stupid but hard working laborers who chewed tobacco, drank too much and spoke a hilarious sing-song germanic language. I actually think this stereotype still exists a bit in places where there are still vestiges of WASP culture. When I lived in Boston my employers, who were local Brahmins always called me "hard working" which was a euphemism for "stupid, but gets the job done." (In contrast, they called their Harvard educated employees "clever")

When it comes to receiving the hillbilly quota scholarship, my grandparents happened to be poor and living in the middle of nowhere but also had advanced degrees in mathematics and religion and were employed as schoolteachers.
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Can someone post numbers on the amount of subsidies that are given by the German government? The Belgian system of paying out for each 1000 kW produced is gradually being phased out; For those installed in 2008 and 2009 you got 450 euros, this year 350 and over the next few years this will decrease to 150 I think. Plus you can deduct a mortgage used to buy solar panels from your income. I modeled this fairly extensively a few years ago and it turn out that yields of 7% on the investment are expected. My parents are making more than that because of lots of sunshine over the last few years and higher energy costs so more savings. It's an awesome investment, and unparalleled in its risk class.
You can already do this using Rhino, but it isn't a huge win without idiomatic library wrappers that make the Android Java APIs a little less Java-ish.
Gutenberg has all their books in Mobipocket as well, which the Kindle supports natively.
Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
First off, I'm sincerely grateful to this community. You blow me away with your generosity and honesty. I don't remember how I stumbled on HN but my life is better off because of it, and certainly my business.

I've been working on a web app for over a year now. It's more than a web app, it's a business I truly believe in, and have given all my heart and effort into. I've lived off our savings, and I've been procrastinating launching trying to get things perfect.

That's over now. I'm committing to launch in 30 days no matter what.

And I'm telling you this because I know that it will help keep me accountable.

Thanks for reading!

Edit: I guess we just launched. I was looking for a kick in the ass and I got it. Thanks!
Here it is: http://rm.bettermeans.com/
Loopt is expanding in almost all areas. http://about.loopt.com/jobs/

Feel free to contact me directly if you want to discuss candidly.
That's because you are not a minority, and of course you don't see it on a daily basis. Out of curiosity, what sort of racism have you experienced?
Palo Alto, CA

Think is hiring LAMP and JavaScript developers to work on FaceCash, a mobile payment system. http://www.facecash.com
I have such a calendar in my binder but I only do a few weeks at a time. I use the stopwatch feature on my watch to count hours worked and mark that down daily.
calibre also comes with an "ebook-convert" CLI program.

It works as advertised.

$ ebook-convert book.epub book.mobi
...
$ cp book.mobi /media/Kindle/documents/
Or they can just install their panels in another country and pay someone a bit for the use of that land.
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Probably this: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/06/the-manage...

The submitter left off a trailing "4883/".
> If you doubt, for a nanosecond, that Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization, then you’re either an unapologetic Ubuntu fanboy or you’re not paying attention.

Call it what you will Ubuntu's success has everything to do with the default install being quite usable by end users. So what should we call that? Neither marketing engineering sounds right.
If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged
That was my thought too - and I'd be curious to see something like SimCity's police station coverage map overlaid on this.

It amuses me to imagine the mayor's desk with a selection of these maps, plus a little R/C/I readout.
My best ideas come from playing and tinkering and being engaged in the fields that interest me. That way, complete product concepts and prototypes form, not just ideas.

Also nothing wrong with small web apps. A solid one-person app can pay your bills and get you the freedom to build more products on your own terms.

I mean, Tweetie was built by one guy. No revolutionary concept, just a great product. And he got picked up by Twitter.
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Well said. Though even platitudes from Dr Phil's alternative-universe Nietzschean counterpart have their place.

Now I'm tempted to write a self-help book called "The Courage Wolf Approach to Happiness"
we're always hiring. lots of projects lots of impact. shipping code to a half billion people on your first week.

http://www.facebook.com/careers/
This article is just more of a sign that its not what you know, but who you know that will at least get you in the front door. I really hope you don't have to get an employee referral to be considered for an interview.
Ask HN: How can I start making my own music?
Every time I ask my friends about learning music they hammer me with lots of steps and ambiguity. So I did my own googling and found great instruments and lots of texts (either for the instruments or music theory).

It's a big mess. What's a good approach?

P.S. The accordion is awesome, but they also told me that it's "hard" too.
You've missed the point. The "fairly obvious point" would be that ALL whites are disadvantaged by providing a certain quota or advantage to non-white applicants, but that's not the point here.

The significance of the recent research is that low-income, rural, red-state whites face discrimination relative to high-income, urban, blue-state whites. That is, given two white students of equal merit, the admission is more likely to go to the one born in Manhattan than the one born in Iowa.

The tragic thing is that apparently this is new information to some people, when everyone in the midwest has known this for years. I was valedictorian of my high school, had very high standardized test scores and a dozen extra-curricular activities with leadership roles.... but I didn't even both to apply for any Ivy/prestigious schools because I knew being from a small town in the midwest I had no chance. How's that for institutionalized discrimination (or bias inherent in the system)?
As has been pointed out this study is filled with a lot of stats and little methodology. They assume that solar tech is getting cheaper and cheaper $/KwH (quite valid), however they seemingly think that nuclear is frozen and the tech costs are rising.

I think it could be argued that the lobbies subsidizing both sides are causing each trend. Westinghouse wants subsidies so more plants are sold, however that also increases the tendency to over-build. A friend of mine in their nuke dept. said this very true. Compare western to foreign nuke prices.

Also, the green movement has every interest to encourage increasingly strict nuclear regs that make it difficult to make new ones while they support solar subsidies.

All of this leads to nuclear power going up in price while the tech remains underutilized. This report shows these price trends, but does little to elucidate the underlying causation in them.
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bit.ly is hiring at all levels of the stack.

http://bit.ly/jobs
10k for just the labor? Nah. It takes 2 persons 1 day to install PV panels on a 'regular' house, including the carpentering, electrical installation etc.. That's 1000$ or so in semi-skilled labor.
I'll email you on August 28th and if you aren't launching that weekend, I'll be very diappointed!
Recruiters work when the most suitable candidates don't know who you are (or wouldn't consider applying for any jobs you might have)

Otherwise any value they might bring to the screening process is limited by their desire to send the number of possibly suitable candidates that maximises their chances of getting paid (which unless they really know their stuff or know they're a preferred supplier means lots).
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Lolapps is hiring engineers! If you like or want to learn python or actionscript, we should talk. Check us out: http://www.lolapps.com .

We're based in SF and will happily help you relocate.
Does someone know such a nice breakup of code used to explain the Linux Kernel?

Or maybe I just have to look through the diffs, albeit without explanations.
Now that you got our attention, why don't you tell us about your product?
The interview you mean? It was awesome, lots of fun!
The one in Pike's Place is to the west of Post Alley; it's not really on 1st. There's only one on 1st between Showbox and Cherry, which is the one on Columbia just up from the ferry terminal.

I agree, though, that there are an inordinate number of SBUX-owned coffee shops downtown, especially once you factor in the SBCs.
I put my cheat sheet in a folder called ~/bin, which is in my path.
NetApp is hiring: http://www.netapp.com/us/careers/
Does anyone know if Bing Maps has started sending out teams to collect street view images? AFAIK they only have parts of Seattle and San Francisco and that is several years old. I have not installed Silverlight so perhaps it's already there and I just can't see it.

StreetSlide IS very neat but they're going to need Google-scale street image coverage to make it useful.

http://preview.local.live.com/
That's some attitude, and yet I looked at the profile of the user in question and for a man who could be doing anything he sure does seem to spend a lot of time commenting on reddit.

Yes I know, glass houses and all, but I'm not the one making the braggadocious comment. My real point is not to point and laugh at this guy, but to point out that such things are easily said and not so easily done.
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Can you even buy a 32-bit box anymore?
I know of people who do push patches back to upstream. (I used to spend a lot of time doing it.) But, last I checked, this wasn't really standard operating procedure.

Am I wrong? I sure hope so.

But I can't help but notice the Utnubu [1] project still exists. And still isn't Canonical supported.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Utnubu
I've done some consulting in the area but don't have any hard numbers at hand right now. But basically, it's lots of money. If the subsidies are taken away then the market collapses. Germany isn't the sunniest country in the world yet was (is?) the largest market. Spain had a recent boom, which was followed by a bust when the subsidies were removed.

France has been playing catchup in this area and they were proposing subsidies that would reduce each year to better match reductions the cost basis of PV. They were predicting ~20 years for solar to reach grid parity.

A more interesting debate is whether governments should be interfering in free market forces to push some technologies over others.
There is no "endgame". Things just go on and on. That's a given. The question is - each of these side projects - useful? needed? makes things better?

Lack of single-minded focus is NOT Google's problem. They have others.

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The thing is, you can achieve that functionality whether or not you use Vim/Emacs. The difference is that it won't be so visual, but it turns out that visual clutter gets in the way anyway. So yes, it's harder to get up and running, but it's really efficient once you've settled into an IDE-like environment in Vim/Emacs.

Also, because you've put the glue in place yourself (by hooking up GDB, creating separate windows, running SQL commands as subprocesses, etc.) you've really tailored your environment to your needs. And trust me, once you get to that point, no other IDE will compare.
And why the heck would a kid in band go to Harvard? He should be getting in a van and going on tour. And why would a kid in the chess club go to Yale? He should be playing chess. And why would a kid on the baseball team...

The typical over-achieving student is going to be in dozens of activities, none of which necessarily correlate with their future career. Agriculture might seem really weird or foreign to you, but for much of America being in FFA/4H/Eagle Scouts/whatever is just as normal as band, chess or sports.
This isn't new, and has little to do with diversity programs. Frankly, it's not the unqualified poor minority students keeping you out, it's the unqualified wealthy legacy students. That group is almost certain to gain admittance to a prestigious school, while the minority group member has to fight just as hard as you did.
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Can you launch any sooner? How about tomorrow?
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We're looking for people who can code, with a passionate interest in how technology works under the hood, the lower-level the better. C/C++ fluency gets our attention quickly, as does any real-world experience with application security, but if you can code, you really can't waste my time; we love working with people from Hacker News.

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Laugh, and more importantly, learn.
it might be worth noting why you should stretch.

When muscles aren't used, they contract.
When you sit down a lot, some of the muscles that attach to your spine are probably contracted. This leads to lower backaches and worse.
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If the aircraft carrier suddenly notices a large island right in front of it then it might should consider a sharp turn anyway, even if a few F-14s get dinged up a bit.
Do you have an email address I could contact you at?

My is bradleyt (dot) marsh (at) gmail

Thanks,

Brad
I'm a YCombinator/Google alum currently working at a quantitative hedge fund in Greenwich, CT. We do a lot of cool, challenging Python work and are looking to hire great Python programmers. We basically build all the infrastructure and tools for trading/research. The job is a nice blend of math+programming and you get to work side by side with researchers and portfolio managers. Email me at petgra7@gmail.com if you're interested!
for similar reasons it's nicer to start with a bells-and-whistles emacs variant like aquamacs, and ease your way into (menu-bar-mode -1) etc.
looks like it searches history for a match and puts that command in
Generating (any kind of) ideas is the easiest and most important part of doing a startup. If you can't do that, you shouldn't go further, but rather first learn to generate ideas yourself. Business ideas are no different than programming ideas, you just have to look for them. Talk to people, go somewhere. Start with easiest ideas - identify problems that need solutions, then think of solutions.
Do I agree that recruiters are usually ineffective? Of course. But that doesn't necessarily make them a drain.
I'm not sure of the value of metaphorical platitudes that aren't actually true in the real world. Find me an actual prisoner who's in love with his actual chains and we can talk.
Also W/m^2
Just do it, basically.
4H is trying to become more relevant to urban and suburban kids. But it is overwhelmingly still agriculturally focused. If you are President of the 4H Robotics Club I doubt the dean of Engineering at Harvard is going to hold it against you. If you are president of a traditional 4H club the admissions folks at Harvard probably should wonder why you want to come there. If the rest of your application shows an interest and aptitude for math and engineering, you are probably fine. IMO, the authors of the article failed to show widespread discrimination against poor whites, and failed miserably with their chosen example of 4H and FFA. You might say they showed a certain elitist bigotry themselves, which is ironic given the point they are trying to make.
It's not just shinier: in general people find it somewhat easier to read, as these blog posts with references to research suggest[1][2]. I know the halation effect mentioned in the second post completely ruines white-on-black for me, in most incarnations. My Gnome terminal is white-on-black, but that only works with a sufficiently large monospace font and the fact that terminal data is, well, different from a novel or blogpost.

[1] http://www.joedolson.com/articles/2006/08/on-the-readability...

[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/code-colorizing-and...
" Dvorak
" Normally, < ^ v > == h k j l
" Here, < ^ v > == h t n s, d remains delete
noremap t k
noremap k t

noremap n j
noremap j n

noremap s l
noremap l s

(And for those accustomed to vim, there is no error in the layout.)
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