skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you experienced is completely normal in violent situations. If you want to read a very good book on reactions and consequences of violent situations you should read this:

http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Violence-Comparison-Martia...

Even if you've never been in a violent encounter, this book will help you understand how you will react. Keep in mind, you don't choose when you become part of a violent situation, violence chooses you.
I imagine the economy will goes overdrive in drilling for oils and raw materials(to supply the printers), building really big things and things that are bigger than individual production size, as well as "novelty" projects like space exploration. This is because the economy will need less large scale factories dedicated to producing what can already be printed and easily designed and improved and instead allocate resource to challenges that are impressively hard and interesting.
Hilarious interview with Jason Mendelson on Entrepreneurs & Venture
That can only be a downfall if the FB "Open Graph" becomes the key to Facebook's long-term success, - it isn't, yet.
I'm with you. I always thought it was a cost issue and saved you time since you didn't have to fill in the skin tone with ink.
I am not a fan of the iPhone because of its dependency on iTunes. iTunes is an overweight bloated piece of junk and I won't go back to Windows just to run it.

I am not a fan of Android because each individual maker gets to decide if you can have an update or not. That would be like buying a Dell PC and then having to go through Dell, not Microsoft, for Windows Updates.

So for now, I will keep going with my non-smart phone. At least until things change.
Be sure to check out the competitors in this field. I'm confused how this would be different than Yelp or urbanspoon which offer "things within X miles." Also check out campusfood.com. They offer a similar service and allow you to order online.
It is a wonderful logo! Let's adopt it and make it our new banner to carry into the world.
Just went through a recruiter screen myself. Contrary to what I've always heard, they said they don't care that I don't have a relevant degree given enough years of experience, though I'm intimidated by the prospect of what kind of grilling I'm going to get from the actual interview.
HFCS also hits you much faster than normal sugar. All the HFCS hits you at once, the sucrose does actually take a small amount of time.

While this may be difference between drinking a pint of 100 proof alcohol vs a cup of 200 proof (i.e. not much), it may prove signifigant.

To me, people should have the labeling required to tell if this substance is in their food. I personally don't totally avoid it, nor do I look for it, but I feel people should have that ability.
Fashion... It could be uncool, people could just become bored with it or something better comes up.

Look at what happened to myspace
No, I think the consumer electronics companies made a lot of money off of this. That Big Content mandated it was even better for them.

Selling a 50 cent piece of wire for $80 is a much better business model than making a movie and getting people to buy it, after all.
You can not buy ideas or talent
Yes; as far as the U.S. is concerned, you're a citizen, with the same rights and responsibilities as any other. If there's a draft, you'll be called upon.

If that were to happen, there would definitely be an upside to renunciation. ;-)
As a narcissistic Gen-Yer (jk...but seriously) I mostly just want to point out that we adapted to a system setup by Gen-Xers, who are largely in charge at this point, and still find themselves complaining. We should be responsible for our own actions, but how are we supposed to know better? We learn by example. Your generations leaders are the same: we live in a system that greatly rewards sociopathic (or narcissistic if you want) behavior, and it's absolutely not right for us to carry it on, but we CERTAINLY didn't make it like this. If Gen-Xers stopped rewarding Gen-Yers who acted like this while they were still had the power to do so they could create societal change. Instead their leadership has made America the extraordinarily successful sociopath whom everyone hates on the world stage, much like the Big 5 consulting companies continue to make these people rich.

Also, it started in 1980 with Reagan. Just throwing that out there.
Actually all HFCS is HFCS-90 mixed with pure glucose corn syrup, I'd prefer they just listed them as separate ingredients (as they do with "Milk Chocolate" and the like).
Hmm that makes me wonder what the funnel analysis is between each of those steps...
And yet, assuming the mice on table sugar weren't more hyped up than those on HCFS, we still perpetuate the leaky abstraction of calories in, calories out.
I think this article has a good summary of cutbacks that are happening due to the recession. However, the article makes no attempt to tease apart what effects might be due to the recession, and what effects might be permanent. The long series of stories about local governments is interesting - I'm intrigued by what people cut back on when they run out of money. There is no question that this is the most serious recession in living memory, in the US. As such, the recession deserves a lot of attention. But it is a leap to go from "Some town in Ohio had to layoff several police officiers" to "This means the US is finished forever." (I am making up exaggerated quotes, which I think summarize the gist of the article.)

It is possible that the US is finished forever, but there is nothing in this article that convinces me.
Can you find a link to the full article? I don't want to sign up for anything.
This is one very recent very controversial rat study which relies on the group's previous observation that rats whose diets are supplemented with sucrose solution eat less to compensate for the sucrose, but don't eat less to compensate for HFCS.

Look, to avoid a rathole argument that neither of us are really qualified to have, let's just stipulate: HFCS is evil. I completely agree. Regardless of any distinctive biochemical affects, it is clearly a tool used by the food industry to amp up palatability (and thus consumption and thus profit margin) in processed foods. But if we fixate on HFCS, we're just going to be victimized by the whatever sugar the industry replaces HFCS with.
It's a good strategy. Interestingly Blackwater changed their name to Xe to try and shake off the bad image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Worldwide

Still a nasty organization, name change or not.
Jobs: Eco-Fashion Internship in NYC
This posting is intended for young hackers in NYC. The internship is unpaid, but you can learn a new skillset in a pretty fun environment. Most technical workers have a hard time figuring out how to market with emotions, and a fashion company is the best place to learn.

My company is an eco-fashion start-up in NYC, reco jeans (www.recojeans.com). We're hugely busy and working on a bunch of projects, and we're looking for an intern with technical skills.

Not major coding skills required (I know most hackers don't really consider HTML coding), but here's what we're looking for:

1) HTML skills.

2) Experience in PHP, Java, Flash, or other form of multimedia would be
great.

3) Experience with a content management system would also be killer.

4) Experience with photoshop and dreamweaver would be nice.

Here's some of the benefits of working with us;

1) Flexible hours (work from home sometimes, sometimes work with our web dev)

2) Great and funny team

3) Round out your skills in way most coders don't - Pick up on how to
promote a luxury item, understand marketing to a non technical audience,
and use emotion to build rapport with an audience

4) Half the people working here started as unpaid interns and moved up.

5) Travel stipend

6) College credit if you need it

7) Obviously it will increase your coding skills in all sorts of
situations

8) Feel good for working for a green company ;)

If you're interested, just shoot me a message at kevin at recojeans.com. I'm part of the marketing team and also do SEO for reco. Thanks for reading.
Just like distinguishing baking soda from baking powder.
Get Satisfaction Raises $6 Million, revamps site
I wonder how many of the logo's he gets his kid sister to make and then keeps the beer money.
While I'm also interested in the leakiness of "cals in cals out", the study in question isn't that inconsistent with the model; HFCS was obesogenic in rats, but that's a fuzzy term that in this case seems to mean in part "when fed HFCS, rats ate more."
http://twitter.com/moonpolysoft/status/24405372639
Not everyone avoids HFCS because of health reasons; some of us avoid it because it tastes like shit.
Intel chipset 'to revolutionise PC market'
I assume that each device should have it's own keypair, but it is only my assumption. I recall that HDCP somehow "does not work as intended" (whatever that means) when both devices have same key. And as for the ~50 number, that seems likely, I vaguely recollect that the required number was 40 (probably for 50% chance of success), but I don't remember the exact details and assumptions for this attack, so I take "at most thousands" as safe overestimation. Also I expect that time complexity of this attack (which is probably not exactly fast, as it entails solving pretty large system of equations) decreases with more known keys.
Sugar alcohols create a cooling sensation on the tongue, so they aren't appropriate for everything. They've also got somewhat of a stigma from causing digestive problems. Erythritol, which doesn't cause digestive problems, is starting to gain popularity though.
HFT firm fined for market manipulation
I went through the naturalization process, most likely the same process that Linus Torvalds went through. When you take your Oath of Allegiance, you swear to renounce all foreign affiliations. However, the US government does not check that you actually go through with that formally. Since many countries do not revoke your citizenship upon you acquiring another, most naturalized people do hold dual citizenships.

As far as I know, Uncle Sam only gets pissed when you acquire another citizenship after you are already an American (either by birth or by naturalization). Even so, there are provisions in the law that account for the situation when a second citizenship is bestowed upon you without you actively requesting it (some countries do that automatically when you marry one of their citizens)
Completely agree on the Mexican Coke.
I can really see Twilio becoming a blockbuster startup.
> The point is: if Google hadn't done that, the carriers may very well not have supported it.

I don't buy this argument. This is one of those slippery slope arguments that are used to justify everything. Let's say you're a Cisco and you want to sell routers and network gear to the Chinese. You can either give their government back doors to spy on traffic and make it easy for them, guaranteeing the business will go to you, or you can take the moral high ground and refuse to build these features into your products. Too often big companies like Cisco, Google, and Microsoft take the approach that money trumps all morality concerns, and we end up with a big brother police state enabled by the very technology companies that were supposed to save us from this future.

Google should do what Apple did and stick to their guns - refuse to let carriers mess with Android.
Compiz actually had all the Windows 7 effects before Windows 7 even came out.
They still get a lot of false positives.

However, the real problem is the amount of bias they introduce into the process. Few Google products have a lot of polish and they really don't get the social networking side of the web. Conceder how much effort it would take for a standalone version of gmail that could easily replace outlook everywhere and make Google a ridicules amount of money.
The HFCS in processed food is also "only" 50% (45-55% depending) fructose.

I've managed to position myself as the HFCS defender in this thread, and I'm anything but. HFCS is evil. But it's misleading to blame the "High Fructose" part of the acronym for the evil. Demonizing HFCS gives cover to every other food processor that adds sugars to increase palatability to earn extra sales at the expense of our health.
The easiest weakness of awesomenessreminders you could attack, but failed to do so? Site design.
I think Steve Jobs is our new hypnotoad: http://www.mostlymaths.net/2010/02/all-hail-steve-jobs-and-h...
Maybe they didn't have people readily available to interview you on topics more relevant to your position.

Or maybe they care more about IQ and the sort of interview you got is better at estimating IQ.
I have seen people be chronically late to meetings when they just have to walk from one room to another within a building. That I have no patience for.

With uncertain travel, you have a point. Still if you're a sales person who is supposed to pitch me, be on time or don't bother showing up. Sure, being on time is more expensive for you. But it is less expensive than a wasted trip, so don't make it a wasted trip. If the relationship is more even, then I understand travel delays but expect to see a reasonable attempt. If you're late half the time and early half the time, I'll be OK with it. If I have to consistently wait for you being late, that's going to be a problem.
AppNation: Are the other app platforms dead?
Re: language choice, pick the one you're most comfortable working with (if you don't know, just start playing around with each). Cake, Rails and Django are all web frameworks for PHP, Ruby and Python respectively and may be appropriate for what you need.

As for the project, you've already done some of the right first steps with the feature list and paper mockups. Building it comes next.

Pick a couple of features to build out and maybe select a single university/town to focus on initially and build out functionality and content for that first.
Wow. That could use some editing.
How To Make Your Company Scale:  Data Synergy
I think you're correct, but the ends don't justify the means. If someone wants to avoid eating HFCS, even for the most ignorant and misguided reasons in the world, it is still unethical to change how HCFS is listed in the product ingredients in order to trick them into eating it.
The Game Design of Cities
I'd have to check for exact numbers, but for a large % of searches I'm removing links from those APIs.
Google makes £1.25 billion/year in the UK but doesn't pay any tax because it's HQ is in Ireland, in Australia it makes a loss on $1Bn sales because it's all charged back to Dublin.

MSFT, Dell and HP both apparently lose money on all sales in Europe except those in Ireland.
Better anti-weapon defenses for sure.
I think the answer falls into two categories:

#1) Startups that don't apply 'cause they just don't want to

#2) Startups that don't think YC would accept them

#1 is fine - if you don't want to do something, don't do it

#2 is silly - let YC reject you; don't reject yourself (regardless of location, stage you're at, one co-founder can't make it, idea, etc.)
> if you cannot name at least 5 things you dislike about the tools and languages you use you're either in the honeymoon period, or irrational

And I'm sure you arrived at that number in a completely rational process.
Information Is Beautiful
False positives are way worse for most companies than false negatives. Interviews processes are generally designed around this principle.
He's not the only one. Every time I see that it morphs in my head to Und so weiter.
What's unethical is the promotion of the idea that sweetened food is healthful if it contains natural sugars. The more HFCS is conflated with "natural" sugar, to my mind, the better off we are.
Making the URL bar useful again: Where the Breadcrumb should have been all along
Why do you think that's the easiest to attack? i think your point is wrong. i acknowledge that i plainly copied the design but that's not an important issue. Their site design is not one of their weaknesses.
Eh, I don't see how candidness and an eagerness to question his own model by Schmidt changes the value proposition at all. Almost all of the time, an ad click is creating value (or a fractional expected value) where there wasn't some before, unless you have a 0% conversion rate.

Meanwhile, a huge chunk of Goldman's activity as I understand it is simply taking the "dumb money" on Wall St. Nibbling the edges, taking pieces of trades by less sophisticated investors. That's not necessarily value creation, and much of the time it can be straight extraction from the rest of the economy.

Not that ads won't get there of course - they're well on their way already with various exchanges. But presently, they have to actually be creating other economic value via conversions in order to exist.
How many of these cutbacks SHOULD have been done before hand and are now forced to happen because of the recession.

Laying off police officers.. Good idea - They probably don't provide enough to be worth their pay over a certain point.

Maybe being forced to fill less pot holes will encourage us to come up with cheaper ways to do the job.

Perhaps if we cut back on teachers and educational spending we'll be able to do more with less... Money isn't the problem in education... if it was then we wouldn't have this data mashup: http://www.datamasher.org/mash-ups/spent-student-and-sat-sco... - It looks like spending more money per student isn't working.

Thinking that cutting back = massive failure is why most American's have massive amounts of personal debt that they will never get out of.
Apple created real smartphone competition in the form of high quality UI linked to an unlimited data plan. They only needed to get AT&T to move a little before competition forced Verizon etc to keep up.
What's the big deal? If people are being "hurt" by HFCS or "Corn Sugar" or whatever you want to call it, then they can avoid eating it - it says right on the label what's in the food. If you drank 10 beers a day it'd probably be harmful as well. We shouldn't be focusing on the "evil" companies, we should be focusing on ourselves and our own diets. We allowed these "evil" companies to grow this big in the first place by willingly and eagerly buying their HFCS saturated products.

(Not that HuffPost said companies are "evil" but that's the commonly held belief among HuffPost readers)
We didn't get any formal offer, it stopped when the recruiter was testing the waters.

I won't discuss my personal story as I'm not anonymous here.

For my friend everything was very sweet until he mentioned that taking the job would require his wife to drop hers resulting in an income loss and he was concerned about this. Maybe he wasn't very subtle about it, but the minute he told that to the recruiter everything went black (got a "thank you mail" the next morning).

That being said the recruitment experience was very nice and I got a lot of good interview questions out of it.
That's true - should have said sarcasm, but I can't change it because of the guns = irony joke. Now that's ironic.
You are assuming all trades are determined by priority, which is false.

If GS got there first, but Citi cuts in line by offering a better price, the customer also wins.
This is nice to hear. I am currently putting something together using Twilio to make it super simple to get local or tool free numbers to use as tracking numbers for print, web and SEM. The numbers forward on to whatever normal business number you would use, but the call information is all tracked and logged. It can also ping Google Analytics for you or ping your own custom page on your server. This way you can know exactly how many calls resulted from a print campaign, or from your website, etc.
Certainly, but assuming it can't be zero-sum leads to absurdity as well.

What about high frequency trading? Most of it is zero sum, first one to arb the difference wins. The economy doesn't derive any higher value from it if the difference would've been corrected within a couple seconds (or a few minutes) anyways. It's not the same as buying a burger.
One of the great things about analog technology is it fucks up correctly
That explains the black outfits.
Thanks for the condescension.

The author states in the last paragraph that he is referring to the Americans who make that argument. Perhaps that was not clear to you, but it was clear to me.
It could be a number of things.

Right now, there's a danger that people start thinking of Facebook as the company that's good for status updates and photos. That might prove to be a long term facet of our lives, but it could also prove to be fleeting. Another example of this could be users thinking of Google as that search company and ignoring the company's attempts at other products. There's lots of ways to take social software, but there's a potential that people will popularly think of Facebook as the status message and friend-tagged photo company.

Facebook's barrier to entry (its closed social graph) is both its strongest asset and its greatest weakness. A barrier to entry like this means that most of your competition is gone. You can get used to having very limited, if any, competition because if someone's 20% or 50% better than you are, the barrier to entry slaps them down and maybe you even buy them and incorporate them into you on the cheap. But then someone comes along who is a genius and changes things and shoots the moon. A bit of a comparison here could be Microsoft. Apple was weak for a long time. The Win32 API was a huge barrier to entry. Then a lot of forces conspired to really break Microsoft. The rise of the platform-independent web (with Google, Apple, Mozilla, open-source, and others), Apple's resurgence (where they took Microsoft by surprise on handhelds and might have even sent Windows Mobile to the annals of history), and just the changing landscape. I mean, I remember a time when I thought my Mac would always feel like an also-ran platform unless Microsoft was forced to open up the Win32 API. Nowadays, I don't think any of us Mac users feel like we're on an also-ran platform (at least not in the way it felt years ago).

People's tastes might change. Right now, people want a connected, low-privacy social graph. In 10 years, we might feel different. People's preferences change.

Facebook might become generationally limited. A lot of us got on Facebook in college. I remember when you could list your courses and find people in your classes. Some non-Facebook company might hit critical mass in a different generation of users who might see Facebook as lame because their parents are on it.

Those are a few that came to my mind. I'm not saying that Facebook can't rise to the challenges. They've shown themselves to be quite an adept company. However, it's hard to predict the future and social networking is something that everyone seems to be gunning for. Others are trying to out-maneuver Facebook and users can be fickle.
If you know and can speak about enough to do a blog post on this, could you consider it? I'd love to hear more about the different systems capabilities and how that affected the different big houses' ability to trade effectively in a storm.
To say it's disturbing is a bit of a stretch. "Disappointing" is what I would call it.
Keep in mind you're comparing a brand new, state of the art Android phone with a 2 year old iPhone. Technology has improved quite a bit on both platforms. You should probably check out an iPhone 4 and compare it with the Galaxy S instead of the iPhone 3G.
> For instancen we can keep our number when switching carriers

This has also been possible in the U.S. for as long as cell phones have been widespread. Presumably there is a regulatory reason because I can't imagine a strong reason a carrier would implement it otherwise.