skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi again,

You asked what it was that you had said that made people think you wanted a programmer, and I answered. I agree with you entirely that "partner" is not synonymous with "programmer", but the context of your writing gave that impression. From other comments it seems clear that I wasn't the only one who thought you must have meant "partner who is a programmer."

You keep telling people to "learn to read," but multiple people have come to the same conclusions as each other which were clearly not the conclusions you intended. Maybe, then, it's not their fault.

Perhaps you should learn how to write so as to be misunderstood less often. It's not easy, I know, but it might repay your efforts.

So whatever your fantastic idea might be, good luck with finding a partner, programming or otherwise, to discuss it. I have to say that your comments here make me believe in unlikely you'll have a productive exchange, but I've been wrong before.
This is LinkedIn's business model - search for InMail on their site.
A business plan is an exercise to both familiarize yourself with your market and explore your vision. It helps ensure that what you are doing is grounded in reality and provides you with a well thought out initial trajectory. It is not set in stone and is something you use as a loose guide to direct your company. You can and will carefully pivot based on ongoing analysis of the dynamics of the situation in the trenches. Although it is of more benefit to you and your company than to anyone else, it certainly helps show that you are on top of your game.
Really? It works for me with http://geosay.com/#!wikipediastreetview=http://en.wikipedia....

Rural Algeria is probably our default location (30,0) as that is what makes some sense when the map is zoomed out - you should only get that if we can't locate you in any way, but it also sounds like the wikipedia thing is not working. Can you post browser/ OS, etc please?
More here: http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/
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At the risk of sounding incredibly patronising... re: "I will make up something." If this means you'll hack together some kind of bullsh_t business plan just to keep people happy, I'd be very careful who I actually showed it to. They'll be taking that plan as what your genuine intentions, expectations and forecasts are, which may well not match the reality of what you are actually doing. If money's at all linked to a BS business plan, you're in for a world of hurt.
Researchers discover how to conduct first test of ‘untestable’ string theory
Potential sex
it also talks about - 4. Qubit (quantum bit) entanglement
There is one website working on these lines
http://www.NanoInfoline.com/
>>I've decided not to use the term "problem solving" because I believe this term is often misused to include solving problems

Best line of the whole article.
I'm having some difficulty understanding your English, though it is probably better than my ability to speak your language.

It sounds like your client wants you to invest in his company and do freelancing work, and later he will pay you for your freelancing work, netting you some share in his company for your labor. Am I reading this right? If so, everything about this transaction seems abnormal to me. If I were you, I would run fast.
I stand corrected and apologise - I genuinely mis-spoke (mis-typed?) myself. I do know that a byte is not (historically) necessarily 8-bits - indeed, I regularly used to program machines on which the basic memory unit was 12 bits.

The other reply to my comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1666345) gets this right.

Again, apologies.
So being against huge corporations is a left wing thing now? Was Adam Smith left wing?
Would it be possible to have some sort of way of highlighting user comments within an item? For example, if I wanted to read all of PG's comments on this page, I could do something like:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363&user=pg

This would give you some signification a comment was from pg; either a highlight or a box?
Thanks for your answer. I believe you understood clearly the deal.

Thanks for your kindness, I'm French. May I should try to make smaller sentences.
Does Entrepreneurship Education Make People Better Entrepreneurs?
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Having studied entrepreneurship as a master-degree, I learned that business-plans are important for the entrepreneur to verbalise what he is doing. If he can't do that in a plan, can he do it to outsiders, specifically his customers? However, running a startup for a year now, I find the act of writing a business-plan always comes second after doing what needs to be done to keep the business alive. Still, writing offers some reprieve from the day-to-day stress and I'm much better versed than my co-workers on the grander vision and how to get there.

Will a business-plan get you funded? It did in our case, from a governmental institution, but all the real investors I met preferred two things: a working product ready to launch and a clear financial overview of the potential return on their investment.
Ask HN: Would you consider buying a Macbook Pro and replacing OSX with Linux?
I'm in search of a new laptop, and am considering the Macbook Pro. Thing is, I need my primary OS to be Ubuntu, so dual booting or using virtualization isn't really an efficient option.

So why the MBP? Good hardware, excellent build quality and great battery life.

I've done some minor research into Linux compatibility on the MBP. It works but requires tweaks, and there are some reported issues related to the keyboard, EFI boot, power management, over heating and more...

I'm not sure it's worth the effort, or the premium price. None-the-less, I'd be interested in your opinions, and experience if you have any.

If you wouldn't recommend the MBP, what would you recommend?
Things to consider: Linux support, 15", 8GB RAM, SSD.
Surely if they did, they'd be widely referenced and be irrefutable?

My point is, evolution is a theory, which cannot be proved even by its most hardened supporters. There is more gray here than you would seem to admit.
Get a Dell, and get the premium care options. It's probably still cheaper than the MB, and you will get a new one if you drop it or break it or whatever, and if you pick and choose, you can get fairly good hardware, and also purchase it without Windows, saving a bit of money.

I have a Latitude E6500, and it's working out well so far.
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel the Feature Request is Broken?
Does anyone else feel that the feature request is broken, or at least not efficient? I think the way comments are ranked normally are awesome, but for this page, it does not aid in the process of getting new features.

I know it is out of our hands, but how do you think we could better the feature request process here on Hacker News?
> The reason tar doesn't have an index is so that tarballs can be concatenated.

I'm curious, what's the use-case for this? Offhand, the only use for that ability I can think of is if I forgot a file in a tarball and have already deleted the originals; I can tar the missing file and cat the two tarballs.
I have no idea what the laws are in the various US states, but up here in Ontario prostitution is perfectly legal. I'm shaky on this, but I believe that the chauvinist porker argument used to be that the law is unable to distinguish a prostitute from a mistress.

While the act of exchanging services for compensation is legal in Ontario, there are laws that criminalize various aspects of running a prostitution business: Solicitation, living off the avails of prostitution, keeping a common bawdy house, and so forth.

We have our own similar debate: Various printed "free" papers include big sections of erotic services classifieds, and there has been much argument as to whether the laws against solicitation really apply to advertising.

One argument is that the laws against solicitation were written up to prevent streetwalking, and classifieds help take prostitutes off the street, so they are actually a public good.

Again, this is my understanding of the situation in Ontario, and I present the argument in favour of classifieds purely for the sake of promoting discussion.
Do all your projects get 100% branch coverage? If not you'll probably want the compiler to help you where ever it can.
This depends on which direction your windows are facing.

I've slept in rooms with East-facing windows where I would always wake up around 6:30-7. I've also slept in rooms with West-facing windows, where I could very easily sleep till 11.
I was going to point out that it's legal in RI, too, but I guess it just got outlawed last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Rhode_Island
Speaking as a designer I don't mind, but it's a terrible way to actually get an identity of any quality or cohesiveness for anything.
English is forever going to be the main language of the world
Can you top this design?
I am putting alpha.beepl.com to sleep, looking to improve it but mainly to do this differently. If you think you can top this design, get in touch @jparicka

All feedback on the above is highly appreciated (clearly I am doing something wrong here).

Thank you!
Please review my app: iWebNotes Online ERP/CRM. Comments welcome
You might want to investigate what portion of the great battery life is because it has a honking great battery and what portion is because it's running OS X and has software/hardware written together.

I'd guess you can do better and/or cheaper, but the aesthetics may outweigh any other issues for you.
You are not getting my point, so I'll try from another angle. My final post on the matter. Open source software is not information. It's software. It's a product. Red Hat get paid for delivering a product, the value is in their expertise and promise to deliver something. Maybe we disagree as to what constitutes what information is - fine - but all of my statements are to do with information, not software. To me information is what goes into the database, not what it runs on.
Some pretty impressive demos there and I like the HTML5 buzz too, but, as much as I dislike Flash, its still a bazillion times faster on most browsers at the moment. It'll get there in time though.
Don't think files, think tapes. Tar stands for Tape ARchive and was originally primarily used for backing up to tapes. When working with tapes where deleteing and re-writing archives is basically impossible, concating an archive to the end of an already backed up archive to create a new, updated archive is very useful.
Good point on the battery life. Reports running Linux I've seen are 2.5 hours (which is really poor), as well as 6-7 hours (possibly due to power consumption tweaks). The aesthetics are nice to have, not the deciding factor.
It's not just a U.S. thing. I'm a UK father of 3 small boys, and it's a given over here that you should be very wary of interation with any child unless you have some kind of relationship with their parent. It's somewhat relaxed where parents feel more comfortable; a zoo might qualify for that.
Personally if I was not going to run OSX I would get a Sager. As high quality as the MBP for the PC world. That being said, OSX is a really good desktop os (I feel dumber for stating something so obvious). Anyway, I would really consider a BootCamp dual boot with OSX and Ubuntu. Hard drive capacity is pretty cheap so there is really no draw back to this arraignment other than spending a few more bucks on a higher capacity hard drive.
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When I was younger, reading in bed often caused me to stay up way too late but now it helps me fall asleep. I think the difference is that these days I only read non-fiction in bed. If I don't bond with characters and get fascinated with a plot, its a lot easier to fall asleep.
To be honest, I am not at the top of my game in that sense and no one should expect me to be at this stage. Enough data doesn't exist to make good guesses now. Generating it is exactly why I am approaching an angel and trying to get to demo and beta.
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Tl;DR

"I suspect white Americans are against European-style government services because they're racists."
How to shrink a city
Not really. When you're camping, the primary illumination is the sun rather than lights under your control. Especially if you're camping in a tent without a rainfly. Plus, around dawn lots of noisy animals decide to wake up as well. On my recent camping trip to Yosemite, I found that the birds were often what woke me up.
> Now that's intriguing; if an untrained person could achieve full activation (say in a moment of dire need) they could more than triple their strength...

That one can and does happen. There are recorded instances of seemingly heroic strength where, for example, parents have lifted a car to rescue a child who was trapped underneath.
DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
For those who did not read the article:

Difference between using usual 22 and "unusual" 24 port, 18000 attempts vs. 5 attempts over one weekend.

Seems to weed out script kiddies quite quickly.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with having 3 locks on the door:

ACl
port knocking
nonstandard port

Another analogy would be one bouncer, one secret knock, and one nonstandard keyhole.

Of course, one still wants to have a difficult to pick key after all that.
I'm not in the valley, but Steve Blank is, and he suggests "business models" instead of business plans. They are a set of questions that your business needs to find answers to as it goes along: http://steveblank.com/2010/05/17/no-one-wins-in-business-pla...

also, plans are useless but planning is invaluable; that helps with actual success, not so sure about getting funded.
i have no problem with all caps. what really annoys me is when people don't use proper capitalization at the beginning of a sentence. what really makes me angry is when people defend this style with the "e. e. cummings used to do it" excuse. i can't parse paragraphs like these.
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What a shitty headline and article itself.

The much better idea to consider is that people are re-creating (re-constructing) their traumatic memories again and again, unable (or unwilling in some part) to let them go. So, what they get is a recollection stored on top of recollection and so on. When we re-construct the memory we re-create it and then store (alter) the result.

I think I can remember my own childhood traumas (I had many) but what I actually can fetch from my memory is the reconstruction I used to have.

The cognitive therapy is working exactly because I can alter (re-frame) my memories, by reconstructing them, altering them and storing back. In particular I can reduce the intensity of the emotional "color" attached to my reconstruction. I had such and such crap. Ok, no problem. It's done and it's gone.

In Buddhist terms it sound as "the karma is already applied" - your past personality was already changed by those events, but since then you got a lot of another changes. Actually, any thought alters you, and that is why Buddhist people says that thought and deeds are the same. Your thought actually is a your deed.
But is he yet, or still, right? Do formal methods really matter? Are they even possible for realistic problems?
If you allow that kind of thing I can make some excellent games in a few bytes of Javascript!
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Economic mobility != Social mobility
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Relax, just go to about:plugins and disable whatever plugin bothers you.

Chrome isn't some experiment on how to make the most tiny browser or the most pure (ie. W3C). It's a browser for everybody and that means, of course, that Flash must be included.
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Cool, so a) it works and b) at least some people are already used to it.
The problem with Dell's is that their keyboards suck. The keys actually fall off. You also don't get a backlit keyboard like you do on a MBP.
The Unraveling of the Internet?
Business plans can be extremely useful, or not useful at all, depending on how you use them.

The biggest questions they should answer are: "What are we doing, how will we make money from it, and how much money will we make?"

(It should also answer the question of "What do we do if everything fails?").

I found Guy Kawasaki's ten-part outline ( http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/the_zen_of_busi.html#axz... ) to be pretty reasonable. I followed it for both of the business plans I wrote (freelancing), which both achieved their purpose, and will follow it again for future business plans I write.

Depending on who your potential angel(s) is/are, you may have to be more "optimistic" than you would for others, as far as your financial projections go.

That said, the real purpose of the business plan is to give potential investors some solid numbers such that they can decide the odds of them getting their investment back, and also to force you to sit down and clarify your plans so that you don't get sidetracked with nonsense.
I disagree with Dijkstra on the big picture, but it's amazing how many nuggets of wisdom this essay contains.

For instance, this passage gets across the main idea of Joel's leaky abstractions essay in just one short paragraph, almost two decades before Joel wrote his essay

It is possible, and even tempting, to view a program as an abstract mechanism, as a device of some sort. To do so, however, is highly dangerous: the analogy is too shallow because a program is, as a mechanism, totally different from all the familiar analogue devices we grew up with. Like all digitally encoded information, it has unavoidably the uncomfortable property that the smallest possible perturbations —i.e. changes of a single bit— can have the most drastic consequences. In the discrete world of computing, there is no meaningful metric in which "small" changes and "small" effects go hand in hand, and there never will be.
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That is probably because the fibers are handing off work to each other like a baton race, "I'm pooped, take over for me". You might get triple strength - at the cost of sudden collapse a few seconds later when the whole muscle runs out of resources at once.

Edit: in this context, consider the muscle prostration of a person who has been tazed (which forces total contraction electrochemically).
I run Debian in VirtualBox on my MBP and it seems efficient enough, and it works perfectly, with the VBoxAdditions installed. Why would you even want to worry about "tweaks", that's fine if you're just a hobbyist but for Real Work(tm) you need something solid.
Fear is just a virus - unwanted process which consuming your oxygen and utilizing your nervous system. Of course, it is here for a purpose, so the trick is to accept it, analyze the situation (why it arisen?) and just stay calm and awake.
Wow! Just wow! I guess I need a windows box to use it.
It still does not prevent the possibility of coming across an unfamiliar word that ends up being a person or place's name.
I'm sure I've seen Dell laptops with backlit keyboards.
So is brainfuck.
Then figure out, in terms of expenses and whatnot, what you'll need to get to demo and beta and beyond (should this prove feasible).

From there, it gets trickier, but if you've built a good product that relieves some need without causing too much additional pain, you'll (possibly/probably) be fine.

Shouldn't data exist in the form of direct competitors? If there aren't any, then does this market exist? (It's entirely possible that it does, and no one but you sees it yet).

Data should also exist in the form of knowing roughly how many people could benefit from your product (and who might consider it a step up). If you're basing this on a market need, then that population should be at least a somewhat knowable quantity.
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Hi alimoeeny, et al., I'm the community liaison for Mendeley and would like to make myself available for any questions you may have if you decide to start building with the Mendeley API. You can indeed get citation information from it, as well as tags for finding related research, readership, and article metadata. The developers portal is http://dev.mendeley.com.

Additionally, on article pages on the main site, for example, http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/#0/abstract:r... you can see a "more like this" link which finds related research.

The combination of article recommendations and collaborative filtering improves discovery, so if you want to build something, I would of course suggest that Mendeley is a good place to start.
our volume qualifies us for lower processing fees - the reality is that Paypal is pretty competitive when you add it all up.
There is a good movie called "The Network". It is about a news corporation, and what they will sacrifice in order to get ratings. It is a bit old but the message of the movie is timeless.

One of the many great quotes:

Diana Christensen: I watched your 6 o'clock news today; it's straight tabloid. You had a minute and a half of that lady riding a bike naked in Central Park; on the other hand, you had less than a minute of hard national and international news. It was all sex, scandal, brutal crime, sports, children with incurable diseases, and lost puppies. So, I don't think I'll listen to any protestations of high standards of journalism when you're right down on the streets soliciting audiences like the rest of us. Look, all I'm saying is if you're going to hustle, at least do it right.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/
Ask HN: 24 Hour Open Source Projects?
I've been in a creative mood lately, and usually that means giving myself a menial programming task to accomplish over a day or two. However, I don't really have anything I need to make right now. I figure somebody must have some small programming jobs they haven't had time to complete, and if anything it gives me an opportunity to pick up some new technology or framework. I know Perl, C, Python, SQL and various scripting/markup languages. My requirements are no payment and that the result be open source licensed, and the time needed to complete be no longer than a weekend.
The problem with MVC
It's not quite fully working. Either that, or I just can't figure out how to castle. Even so, it's very impressive.
You're right. The Studio 16 XPS comes with a backlit keyboard (optional).
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I have to agree with this. I have never seen the Swiss-Army knife servies work well, they lead to confusion and create an extremely complicated API. It is hard to make them comply with a REST architecture and they kill re-usability because different services will most likely require that data + some new data that is not available in the service because it did not exist at the time.

You would be better served to make the services small and specific and then really analyze the data in the services for caching and use the caching mechanism of the browser to limit data request to only those things that change frequently. This will give you the best of both worlds. Specific data points with less frequent requests.

With large aggregated data calls it is hard to cache because of the disparate uses of the data they contain.

As well, If you back end is done correctly and you build your services with no run-time interdependency, it is easy to scale you application for more request. Scaling at the infrastructure level is always easier than custom code written to avoid resource utilization.
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Deflation is good for people who are not in debt, and bad for banks and goverment; at least that is how I would phrase it.