skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General idea is that you post the original source, not tracking URLs. I've not heard of items being killed before because of it, but I imagine someone might.
Well, anyone who lends stuff to their friends, which is everyone. Normal that is. I'm not being that helpful.
Picky, but 2 phones. You can still get a 3GS from AT&T.
I started in 5th grade in the late 70's. We learned binary arithmetic and punched cards to program the school system's only computer. Learning computers varies in the US. As I understand it, high schools today in the US teach basic computer skills like using a word processor, spreadsheet, browser, etc. to the general populace and may have more advanced classes for people identified as having more ability.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oct/31/usnews

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What does it look like when a nation becomes insolvient? How does it affect its citizens? Its public services?
For those who want a direct link to his letter:

http://givingpledge.org/#warren_buffett
> The thing I love about New York is the inherent challenge. You're among some of the most competitive people in the world who love nothing more than to squash your idea. And if you manage to convince those people or rise from their negativity, you know you're onto something.

So you're saying that if you have the ability to make it there, the probability of making it in other locations is high?
The first link mentions Conway's 2008 talk. In... 2001, IIRC, he spoke at YAPC in Montréal where he introduced programming in Klingon (via Perl). He pointed out that this was certainly imperative programming.
There's a reason why San Jose is considered Man Jose.
There is no content in that story, I don't think you even opened that link.
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Maybe so. This is the first-ever time I've used a bit.ly link, and everything else was the same. That's the only thing that makes sense.

But killing the whole thing? Seems a little extreme, unless it was just a rule in the system. I was hoping perhaps it had been discussed before.

EDIT: Perhaps the person who down-voted me is also one of those who killed it. If so, an explanation or acknowledgement would be more useful to other readers and submitters than a simple down-vote. I'm still not sure whether it's a people thing or a system thing.
George Soros seems to do really well in shorting dollars, yen, and euro in the last 3 years or so. Timing is key there, though, so if you can't you shouldn't.

He's lately had his chips all-in on Asia, particularly stock exchanges in India and buying up yuan and sgd. Of course, because of these times of uncertainty, he's also long on gold bullion.
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Ask HN: Any startups in news space?
Have heard about cool startups in many areas.. but seems like there's nothing much happened (at least to me) on the news front except news aggregators... people are still reading long news articles the plain old way..

Any idea about happenings there?
I'll buy that, if you'll also agree that this ruling is liberal bullshit. Even if it conforms to the letter of the law, it is definitely not the intent of the law.

Please note I'm not asking anyone to be less liberal or care less about the ADA; I'm simply observing this is a violation of the intent of the law and of common sense. The fault here is the government's, I'm not pinning this on liberalism in general.

This sort of thing is actually dangerous; it generates anti-ADA sentiment in the public at large. Which would be unfortunate, as the ADA is broadly a good idea. (There are corners I can quibble about, but that's because I'm the contentious sort. It's mostly good.)

Also, even as a little-l libertarian, I would observe that much of the reason the market was "solving" this before the government clumsily stepped in is that the market was well aware that this requirement was coming as a result of the already-existing ADA law. They probably just thought that maybe the government would let them run a test project before they tried to put it into production, at which point they would dot their is and cross their ts, something I find a rather reasonable assumption. Markets are very, very good at serving the majority, and they are very, very good at serving niches with resources proportional to the size of the niche, but if you want the entire market to serve a niche for social reasons you will need government intervention to do it.
> Given the lifestyle in the City, products are much closer to the pavement and are a solution to a real-world problem from Day 1. Not some social network plaything.

Humorous considering it's hosted by Tumblr, a social plaything based out of NYC. Foursquare is another that comes into mind as a questionably "real-world problem" solver social network plaything that came out of NYC.
Nursing is not a "benefit," it is normal. Forced weaning causes harm (for both mother and child). Not just strictly nutritionally, nursing is very much about physical contact and social relationships too. There's plenty of info if you type a couple words into google. A half century of formula advertising has created a lot of ignorance as fewer people have experience with nursing.

http://www.kellymom.com/bf/bfextended/ebf-benefits.html
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I was adopted at 3 months old, and I have many friends who were also adopted in their infancy.

I remember my friends mother recounting a story in which she was feeding my infant compadre in a shopping center, and a woman came up out of nowhere and pretty much berated her for not breast feeding. It is such a war between these women, and its ridiculous, since most mothers who don't really and honestly can't.

And quite frankly, as part of an army of formula fed humanoids, I'd like to think we all turned out just fine.
That's right. Associated, not causal. The problem is that mothers who are health-conscious, affluent, educated, etc are more likely to choose to breast-feed, as that is the recommended option by health providers. So, you can't say that the breast milk is the cause, simply that it correlates. Not a scientific proof, I'm afraid.
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Of course "bottle-fed with breast-milk" is equivalent to breast-fed.

I think people are judgmental when a mother chooses to not breastfeed for no "good" reason, or no reason at all. Reasonable people would be fine with someone not breastfeeding if they absolutely couldn't or it was extremely difficult.

My wife breastfed and it was quite difficult at the beginning and then got easier and easier. She wanted to quit a few times, but pressed on. It's hard for her (and most people in the same situation) not to get judgmental when she hears of some mom having a rough day in the first week of the baby's life and throwing in the towel and switching to formula.
Kind if makes me want to start smoking meth. Imagine how much code I could write.
That's awesome!What did you use for your microcontroller?
Oh, that's right. Two phones, it's just that one is a lot crappier than the other.

(Also in the article :)
If your users are moving their data over to another service, then a) it's their prerogative to do so, and b) maybe it says something about your service.

No one has suggested otherwise, but you're under no requirement to help your competitors.
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Amazon and Google (with Android) and other tech newcomers are not going to think about accessibility unless there is a stronger force than "the market" pushing them to.

You are overly cynical. There is a group of developers sitting just a few feet from me whose whole job is making Google's products more accessible.

That said there are a lot of people at Google doing a lot of different things, and most don't think about accessibility until they have to. But, as a company, Google seems to take it seriously. And there is enough idealism built in to the culture that I don't think we need external people telling us we need to do it.
Also: "Early cessation of breastfeeding or not breastfeeding was associated with an increased risk of maternal postpartum depression."

That's what I am talking about as well - mothers can be made to feel irresponsible and guilty when they fail to breastfeed for whatever reason, which cannot be good for postpartum depression.
Especially considering on the other end your email comes out as plain text (it's not a requirement to send to other BB devices). Perhaps their messager service works completely encrypted, but as far as emails go that's surely not the case.
I agree with the (title of the) post very much, but one major point I would like to make is: Mountain View != San Francisco! I find it very misleading when people talk about San Francisco (usually in a negative light) and what they are really talking about are the suburbs of SF. Please stop doing that. That would be like saying NYC is boring because you are actually talking about Yonkers.
I have been playing around with doing something like this, but on deploy rather then commit, just to get some audible recognition of a successful deploy or failure.
That's a good idea, I'll throw a bunch of samples up there. Now, I need to figure out how I should display a tag list or cloud on the homepage to navigate. Probably should make a little "syntax help" link when creating madlib stories too.

Weird, I can't reproduce that inquiry error and Hoptoad didn't catch anything. Let me know if you run into that again.

Thanks for your feedback and contribution!
Not every time, but much of the time, I try to talk about what I do with a New Yorker (most East Coasters, actually), they start by bringing a lot of stop energy[0]. They'll say something like "Why are you doing that when there's already X?"[1], "That'll never work because of Y"[2], "Why did you quit your job at Z?", "Why don't you go work at ABC Investments, Hedge Funds, and Worldwide Arbitrage, Inc?"[3], etc.

It's frustrating and tiring to have to run through a huge body of what should be background knowledge just to have a conversation with someone about what I'm doing.

In the Bay Area, I generally don't have to deal with:

- Huge amounts of stop energy.

- Myopic views about which industries/products/companies/places[4] matter.

- Support of entrenched monopolies or ideas.

- Excessive amounts of negativism.

For example, when the iPhone came out, people in Silicon Valley were really excited. Meanwhile, talking to people in New York, it was almost a non-event; all I heard from them was why it would never matter because the Blackberry was so freaking awesome.

[0] http://www.userland.com/whatIsStopEnergy

[1] Why are you going to work for Apple? Nobody uses Macs and Microsoft is a much bigger tech company.

[2] Nobody here uses iPhones, you'd better get yourself a Blackberry!

[3] The future is bundling mortgage securities!

[4] If you can't find it in Manhattan, it can't be found! Best city in the world!
Thanks for the comments, guys. I'm definitely interested in exploring co-founder relationships further. Seems to me that bringing on a "good friend" as a co-founder is a treacherous path (either take off or crash and burn), but most husband/wife, brother/sister, and very very best friends co-founder relationships seem to work out. Perhaps the extreme closeness allows the parties to communicate more openly, be more committed, or better understand and accommodate each others' weaknesses.
The word "market" appears in the article exactly 3 times. Although it is clear the author is making at least one argument that market forces are more efficient than government regulation, it is hardly the only point of the piece.

During the first half of the article, for example, he notes that the Kindle programs did not violate the ADA because they did not force any student to use a Kindle, and allowed them access to alternative materials, including (presumably) more accessible media.

I'd hardly call that "libertarian bullshit". (Indeed, I suspect the author would be less offended by your characterization of his writing as "bullshit" so much as he would "libertarian": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_York)

My chief problem with the article has less to do with York's premise (which seems to be that this was an example of horrifically inane government overreach) and more with York's overt sensationalism-- he himself points out that Amazon has already produced a fully-accessible Kindle-- why then the breathless article? Isn't the overt stupidity of the CRD fairly moot at this point?

Moreover, who wants to read a textbook on a Kindle?
My version:

#!/bin/bash

SOUNDPATH=${HOME}/.play-random/sounds

if [ ! -d ${SOUNDPATH} ]; then
echo "Create and populate '${SOUNDPATH}' directory"
exit 1;
fi

SOUNDS=($(ls "${SOUNDPATH}"))
NUM_SOUNDS=${#SOUNDS[*]}

if [ ${NUM_SOUNDS} -eq 0 ]; then
echo "No sound files found in '${SOUNDPATH}' directory"
exit 1;
fi

# select which sound to play
SOUND="${SOUNDPATH}/${SOUNDS[$((RANDOM%NUM_SOUNDS))]}"
echo ${SOUND}

/usr/bin/aplay ${SOUND}

code at: http://aeminium.org/slug/software/shell/#play.random.sh

There's a way of removing that ls ${DIR} and use an echo ${DIR}/* at the expense of making it a bit uglier to detect when there's no sound files.
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I would also suggest that very few mothers choose not to breast-feed solely for convenience.

Are you a recent parent or are you otherwise directly experienced in witnessing the choices mothers make? I ask not only because the statement is little more than random opinion if you are not, and because I'm surprised that someone who is experienced would come to such a conclusion. It isn't the obvious path in a country where women return to work 6 weeks after giving birth.

the studies are not as conclusive as I would accept as fact.

Then you are self-selecting to support your own bias. The other link you provided in this thread made pretty clear assertions regarding this topic.

The research is pretty strong. Stronger than most other areas. While that doesn't mean it is perfect, it does mean that all signs point to the fact that formula is not an equal replacement in certain key ways.
Good for her for pressing on, it's such an achievement...

When our baby switched to 1 feed per day I took take her out for a nice dinner to celebrate and to thank her for all her hard work.
I got this to work in Windows using msysgit. I downloaded sndrec32.exe (which used to come with Windows but no longer does, stand alone exe that can play wavs at the command line) and added this to my post-commit

/path/to/sndrec32.exe -play -close -embedding /path/to/happykids.wav
almost 2am in japan - waiting till the morning.
You're asking about countries that suffered from hyperinflation (US had a hyperinflation before also during the civil war)

here's a popular blog from a citizen currently living in Argentina http://ferfal.blogspot.com/
The benefit then is the feeling of self-actualization and pride at having done something good for other people.
I actually had a similar experience. Spent most of my life in SF but lived for about 6 months in Manhattan. It was far, far easier to meet women. In fact, a guy can even be a bit of a wallflower and still meet women in Manhattan, because they will take the initiative. Funny, up to that point, I thought SF was a pretty good place to meet women, because my only point of comparison was San Diego, which is a pretty rough dating scene for men. I actually still think SF is ok, because it has a greater concentration of jobs that appeal to women, as opposed to the valley. But it's no manhattan (I suspect that nowhere else in the world really compares).
You know, this is actually one of the benefits of being in a city where tech isn't the main industry. New York is a far bigger center than SF for fashion, publishing, advertising, and so forth - fields that attract more women than men.
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> Of course "bottle-fed with breast-milk" is equivalent to breast-fed.

I thought that too, but I was told off by a passing lactation consultant.
...which would be counter to your original post.
The market of connectivity/website monitoring is very saturated at the moment, and it has been in this state for at least a couple of years. I spent several weeks on the market research for a very similar service and here is a snapshot of my bookmarks from that time:

http://i37.tinypic.com/2n6651g.png

This is just a subset of existing services, all of these are functional and useful. They target different users and have different pricing levels, but quite a few are actually free and there was two free services with over than 50 sensor points each. Some are simple, some are very (overly) comprehensive. Some are very aggressive marketed (Pingdom), some are low profile, but still sit at the top of respective Google searches.

So, in short :) - this makes sense as a hobby project, but trying to carve out a non-trivial market segment for it is going to be the challenge. The technical and design merit alone is not enough, it will come down to marketing, sales, support and knowing how exactly you want to position the service ("the bigger view"). Make sure you can justify the effort before committing to it. I know I couldn't.
"San Francisco is fun, dont get me wrong. Compared to New York, its boring. I have trouble even thinking about living in an apartment in Mountain View, Cupertino or Palo Alto. Those places are socially dead."

Last time I looked, none of those cities are San Francisco.
Nobody weeps for the pentium 60, my friend.

You should consider if your hobby isn't some kind of OCD or hoarding disorder.
Ask HN: Four months since launch: how are you finding the iPad?
I'm curious as to what people's thoughts on the iPad now that the dust has settled.

I use mine almost exclusively for reading blogs in the evening. My girlfriend enjoys just browsing about on it. That's about it - no photos, no videos, no audio. Minimal gaming. I also use Goodreader for technical PDFs.

Aside: It's been four months and there's not really a sniff of a competing product yet.
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Pure advertisement/spam.
How did AT&T go "all in" on the iPhone? I guess they probably marketed it in their stores, I never visited one, but they weren't allowed to sell the phone in their own commercials at all. By contrast, Verizon is the force entire behind "Droid" and have marketed it so well that most people seem to call all Android phones by that name.
"And quite frankly, as part of an army of formula fed humanoids, I'd like to think we all turned out just fine."

The woman you describe was rude, and I'm sure you did turn out fine. But the impetus for the debate is scientific evidence on what, statistically, is best for babies. "This isn't best" is not a personal slam to you or your mom, and "I turned out fine" isn't a counter-argument.
This would seem to be a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
To me the essential point was:

Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however, would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

Nothing to say on top of that.
Ever think that maybe you didn't understand it?

Apple had a personal computer OS before Microsoft did. Did they try to lock Microsoft out of the personal computer OS business? No.

Apple had a graphic operating system before Microsoft. That time they did try to lock them out, but it was half-hearted and didn't even begin to work (and that wasn't Jobs anyway).

Not sure what to call the iPhone, what category it is, but did they erect any barriers to keep Google out of it? When Google entered did they do anything to try to take the market Google was going after? (They would have had to license their OS to do that.) No. They didn't care. As long as they control their own platform they're happy.

You guys ought to think a little. When you hear something that strikes you as totally wrong, consider the possibility that you're not looking at it from the right angler, as you did in this case.
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Sorry, are you now suggesting that someone being overly judgmental and perhaps not minding their business is a cause of postpartum depression?

That, my friend, is going to require a fuck of a lot of citations. You've managed at the same time to deny all of the science behind breastmilk benefits and significantly downplay a known medical condition as nothing more than feeling embarrassed.
I think he was suggesting that you find the ATR on real-world production webservers, which has nothing to do with your test and would not confound it. Maybe in practice nobody sees an ATR > 30%, in which case your test, if correct, is irrelevant. What sort of loads produce an ATR > 60%? How common are they?

One problem with getting such numbers is that real world, the load is given, not the ATR, and the ATR for a given load may depend on implementation choices. Total connections is a function of server latency, and on a loaded system, latency can be a function of polling method. So switching methods may change your ATR.

On the other hand maybe ATR for a given load doesn't change significantly depending on implementation. Your test found what is best for a given ATR, but not necessarily for a given load, or how ATR depends on load for a given implementation. Depending on the results, you may want to add some hysteresis to superpoll.
"If the individuals on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans pledged half their net worth to charity, that would amount to $600 billion"

Perspective: The US national debt is increasing by over $4b per day. If the $600b was used just to keep the debt from increasing it would last less then 5 months.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
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Thanks for correcting my thinking and helping me see the light. :)
Surely statistics can be used to correct for this - compare affluent, educated, health-conscious women in both categories, for example?
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I wonder what the optimal similarity/difference threshold is for successful co-founder relationships. You'll want to be different enough so that you can merge your expertise and cover more ground, but then if education / background / philosophies / life stage are too divergent, as in the case with you being in uni and your co-founder running a family, you're likely to disagree on major issues or have different levels of commitment/skill.
Choosing where it goes is a cool benefit. It's like you can pay a smaller percent and they will choose, or you can pay a bigger percent but you get to choose where it goes? It's very possible that I'm totally misunderstanding the rules.
You're right, I didn't catch that.

It strikes me as a very impossible-to-discover feature.
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The camera was for hg, not git. :)
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