skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the day progressed, I expected someone to come out and say it. It was their masterpiece, after all. But ...love won out. He was always so patient and giving and eventually I was able to get over all these issues and really be in a position where I could love somebody...and I basically woke up one morning and realized that I was in love with him, and he was the man I would marry. So, I took him to the pier we launched canoes from, and told him how I had overcome all these issues and wasn't scared to let him in anymore and that I was so glad he failed in all his initial plans after college, because it meant we were together in Silicon Valley.
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A good dissertation proposal will clearly define the area of study being focused on. Therefore, if you wish for your dissertation proposal to be approved, it is imperative that the proposal be written in the proper manner. This will make the difference between approval and rejection.
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If you do this in an email, I hate you.
The rating system is defacto government censorship. It was created in response to congress's threat to pass laws censoring movies. A better strategy might have been to let congress pass those laws, so fewer americans would be under the illusion that government doesn't control the media.

But the only proper response, I think, is to say FoRK THE MPAA!

Watching "This movie is not yet rated" is a good way to spend an evening--- streaming on netflix last I looked.
Browser based Super Mario Brothers :)
A recruiter contacted me via email looking for a developer "at the Jedi level". Interestingly, though she said she'd read my resume, she was looking for a Java developer in Maryland (I am a Ruby developer in Chicago). I asked her to clarify what skills the Jedi level entailed (I couldn't help myself). She wrote back and said that it meant they wanted "a rock star"

Recursive Super-Hero Bingo for the win!
The comment about C requiring functions to be able to be called without a prototype in scope is not true, in the case of variadic functions. Calling a variadic function without a correct prototype in scope is undefined behaviour - so it's open to an ABI to specify a different calling convention for them.

(The relevant part of C99 is §6.5.2.2 Function Calls, p6).
I can understand adjusting for socio-economic class, but why bring in kids that are working below grade level? Why not place them in a remedial program instead?
Very nice, it would be cool to sort by topic.

also I would want to change the order of the sources.
This could be especially interesting as a record if you start archiving by day or perhaps week. Imagine jumping back to a Shared Words page just about this time two years ago...

Also, I see you have "Seattle;" are you toying with the idea of adding regional groupings of sources?
"specifically, and more or less exclusively, men who want to have sex with women, who usually won't let them unless they're rich or row crew"

In most of the country, rowing crew counts against you.
Um, but that's just seeing the Bay Area. Sure, that's worthwhile, but what about that makes it the Silicon Valley? The mountains, the houses, the downtowns -- those have very little to do with what Silicon Valley is.
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... there's been no shortage of oblivious feminista blogger-types dying to tell you how offended they were by...(what are actually) figments of their own imagination/ the selection errors of their own narrow perception.

...and they do a disservice to humanists and women everywhere. I can find no more appropriate analogy than the "boy who cried wolf". When all people see are logically unsound articles based on the forced, manufactured "offense" of the author, the more likely people will be to dismiss genuine issues of gender discrimination. Everybody loses except those that make their careers drumming up "discrimination" where none exists.
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Diego, thanks for the much necessary clarification.

Besides the monetary policy that you mention, Cardoso also implemented a stricter fiscal policy. There's no way they could have defeated hyperinflation without cutting government spending. He also continued the trend -- started by the previous administration -- of opening the economy (slashing the tariffs, etc) and privatizing state companies.
You would have to invert the mask so that the black was the content you wanted to keep and the white was the content you wanted transparent to get it to work with CSS masks, instead of the other way around as in this demo.
Try Sleep Cycle if you have an iPhone. It's $.99 and works surprisingly well.
Ask HN: What feedreader app (desktop / web) do you like the most?
I use Feedly but I was wondering if there's anything better. I wish there was something like Feedly + Safari Reader add-on.
Define "slightly-more-corporate".
I know we like to keep Hacker News non-political, but I can't help this. Get a load of Fox. Could they be any more blatant? I mean, seriously! Compare their five most shared headlines with all the other news sites. You read those and you think the world's going to end. Then you read the other headlines and its like wait, the world's not ending?
I will, thanks. Currently I'm way more busy than I'd like, which tells me I need to raise my rates. I might even end up making more...
Because that still doesn't get rid of homophones or hard-to-spell words. But he does seem to use a list of common-ish words. I haven't seen fungible, pulchritudinous, or similar words that the average person may not know.
Reputation Systems for Open Collaboration (Google)
Facebook, Youtube, Gmail (I don't get any important emails on weekends.), Reddit
Yep, it looks like it... Prices go down the larger the project is, but I have a tendency to cut them 30% for more than a few hours... Maybe I should keep them high and see what happens, thanks...

Do you mind if I ask what you did, roughly? I mean, what was the object of your work?
I bought this book as a "Rough Cut" a few months ago. If you want a very high-level introduction to the field of DSLs this book may be for you but don't expect to be able to do much useful after reading it. It really is just the 50,000 ft view.

I was disappointed because I wanted to get my hands dirty and so I got The Definitive ANTLR Reference a day or two later. While it has nothing like the breadth of Fowler's DSLs it has enough depth to be very useful.

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tpantlr/the-definitive-antlr-...
Yep, good advice. I don't even think #2 is necessary, really...
Not to be nitpicky, but there are some insanely expensive apps (medical, etc.) in the store, but probably most are under $1 — so for distributions like that, the median is much more useful a statistic than mean.
Awesome, looking forward to meeting you. What company are you with?
Ask HN: Building a business and supporting an Open-Source Library
Hey Guys,

This has been playing around in my head for sometime now, and it's not something I can come up with a clear answer to one way or another.

Basically, I've built an Open-Source HTML5 mapping library (http://tile5.org/) and it's gotten some good exposure on Twitter recently which has been great. I never really intended on trying to build a business around an Open-Source product, but it's kind of the way things have just turned out. I did intend to start a software development company (which has been going pretty well) but I'm now wondering if I have to change my focus.

So the question is, if I do decide to change focus what are the best ways to go about doing that, i.e. professional services developing solutions based on the library, training for the library, engaging sponsors?

In terms of things that are important to me the following must be true:

- licensing of Tile5 should remain liberal (i.e. MIT or similar) to ensure that developers with more tenacity than cash can create commercial apps. Not a fan of dual licensing models...

- Community should be adequately supported with either people working for me or somewhere else engaging developers on building solution for no - low cost. Similar to the way Google have developer relations people. Funding for this area of the business comes from Robin Hood like revenue generation.

- I need to be able to feed and house my family, in a similar fashion to what I did working for a larger company. No flash cars required, just food and shelter.

So with all that in mind, I'd love some feedback, advice, etc. Other than of course, that there is no future in building an open-source HTML5 mapping library ;)
A friend regarding Hacker Dojo not being mentioned:

well, he hasn't visited it.... ever, right? heh
i mean, i guess you can't blame him
it's a really long way from yc to the dojo

[Google Maps has it at 5 minutes away walking distance]
Ask HN: Wireless ECG advice?
I'm working on a wireless ECG system for my senior capstone design project and I'm not sure what direction to take when it comes to software. The idea is to read the ECG signal from the patient, and transmit it wirelessly in real-time to a host computer (laptop for now, Android device/iPhone eventually) for post-processing and visualization. Does anyone have experience with ECG software? Is a web app too slow for this vs. a native desktop app? Any language recommendations?
Malcolm Gladwell Gets It Wrong – Again
Where are all the alpha geeks and what are they doing?
I've gone to the gym an average of over 200 times a year for the last seven years, and I have yet to see a woman demeaned in some kind of prison-esque situation. The plural of anecdote isn't data, but thats a lot of anecdotes from lots of people and places. In fact, the only awkward gender situation I've encountered was a time when a woman asked me to stop using the leg press I was using, and remove the weight, so she could use it. On it's face this seems simple enough, but I had 600lbs on the machine at the time, and taking it off and getting it back on is a workout in itself. I started moving the weights after I explained that I only had one more set, when a trainer came over and told me to finish up, and explained to her it was too much to move, just impractical when I would be done in a minute. I'm sure she views that as some kind of demeaning situation, but the trainer and I both saw it as her being unreasonably demanding, probably without realizing it herself.
+1 for not being keen on the font. Or, more accurately, the typography. Goudy isn't a horrible font but it doesn't work well at the sizes used, the source titles don't line up with the stories, the leading is bad in the "logo", and so on.

Even just diving to Georgia (or Helvetica) with default leading and getting the layout grid right would make a massive difference to this page.
how to get Mint to tabulate spending by category over time?
I've lived on mountains. Other than having to worry about your soccer balls going into snowball mode it isn't bad at all.
I would probably make an website that specifically markets your iPhone app and then send that URL out.
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They better draw up plans to invade Houston then.
Tough question. My anecdotal observation is that the business model you described appears to have limited success. If it were me I would pursue high-end consulting opportunities as a tile5 specialist + use the exposure from a successful open-source project to generate other opportunities.
People who live with filth can be super clean to compensate.
Doc here. If you want a trace, then a web app is way to slow. In theory it should be plenty fast, but in practice, the connection is neither reliable, nor fast. Have you asked the guys at Polar? I worked with a Mech E team on a bicycle wheel design; they got the DuPont engineer who designed the original trifoil wheel to help. It would be worth asking. Look up "holter monitor". I'd think there must be some C libraries for this.
Your timing is terrible. Best time to post something on HN is 8:30 eastern time, that way you get the best chance of being noticed. Evening is almost certainly going to miss the majority of the visitors to the site and by morning your post will be gone.

What didn't help is that you posted it as 'self post', so one without a link (those are penalized).

Better to wait until 8:30 tomorrow morning, post it as a linked article and put your explanatory text in the first comment.

Good luck!
Google Reader. I think it has the cleanest interface, good keyboard shortcuts, I never need to sign on (since I'm signed onto Gmail all the time), great mobile (iPhone) interface.
Really interesting that pg didn't really cover San Francisco that much.

Is it just me or does it seem that SF (besides SOMA and Mission) is becoming less startup-y? Or has this trend been going on for a while?
No, IMAP is pretty essential. POP is passable, but people really want IMAP or exchange for most business email. Especially since companies and universities often forbid you forwarding company email to third parties like gmail.
Do you know MySQL and AJAX also? How long have you worked on PHP?

If you are looking for prospects, I did be interested in seeing if your profile matches what I am looking for. email id on profile.

good luck.
Uses more requests, though.
One thing that always disappoints me about email clients is that so few support GPG encryption. It really should be a default feature in most clients.
One thing that hasn't been addressed is the cost of making the second image request. There is probably a break even point for this technique where it becomes useful, but the added complexity greatly limits its utility.
The party was had, the hangover must be endured. Bad investments were made, they must be liquidated and written off, and these are deflationary.

True inflation (not the manipulated government statistics) is really a measure of the market. To say that inflation is at the wrong value is to say the market is wrong. The Fed has been striking matches for a while now trying to get inflation to catch on and stand by with the wet blankets when it starts to get out of control. The banks are stuffed full of cash but don't want to lend. If they throw any more fuel onto the fire it might catch and spread faster than they can deal with. Then it's the 1970's all over again and your lifetime savings are decimated in the space of a few years.

People believe that more inflation is needed, then you believe the market is wrong and more intervention by central powers is right. It's ok to believe that, but I'll never agree. High inflation punishes the savers, lenders and investors, and rewards the speculators and borrowers.

I'll admit, my investment strategy is biased towards a breakout of inflation. But that's because I believe the central banks are so wedded to the idea they won't let it go, not because I agree with them. You can't double the money supply in under 2 years without a flow-on effect, even if it's not immediate.
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The terminology bothered me too, when I first came here:

http://carlos.bueno.org/images/valley-geography.jpg
And apparently their rental distrbution follows Zipf's law
(http://www.quora.com/Netflix/Does-Netflix-rental-data-distri...)
I think that may well be the reality of things too, although I would like to see more happen. Unfortunately when it comes to opensource software most successful libraries (take jQuery for example) survive and thrive through having a large organisation believe in, champion and ultimately absorb it into their machinery.

Either that or dual-licensing models are used to generate revenue streams from projects commercializing their software. Completely fair, but limits the adoption in the early phases. It would be nice to see an OS licence that basically said, if you have money you really should pay for this but if you don't then well don't sweat it, just do whatever you want with it...
The only question I have is why Barack Obama is not a technocratic moderate. I would even go so far and call him a technocratic (and very moderate) conservative, at least by European standards.
The biggest surprise to me was the golden spike. I go to Stanford and no one's mentioned that a major piece of American history is on display at Cantor.
Was highly anticipating this for many months when it was announced. But it lost me after a few minutes when A) I had to do a lot of thinking and reading for B) a lack of any sense of "fun" in return. It isn't so much a game as a learning simulation. Very dissapointed, as I felt it had some great potential to be a "smarter" Sim City type game, but just overloaded me with informational decisions straight off the bat.
Ask HN: How do you go about finding good mentors?
How do you go about finding good mentors in life. career or business?

Any advice on how to find and develop relationships with them?
I have recently finished reading Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations." I highly recommend it. At over 1200 pages it is not a quick read, however all of it was worth it.

I recommend setting it beside your computer, and every evening reading a few pages and then looking up on wikipedia all the names and other terms.
I take it he means an 8-bit alpha channel, not a 24-bit alpha channel?

Anyway, here's the JPEG FAQ explaining why using JPEG for alpha wouldn't be a good idea even if it was supported: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-12.html
I visited for a month in the summer. While it was more bustling than Boston, it wasn't the startup mecca I expected.
You're just getting old. I'm pleased to say that geekdom is not aging with you as you posit in this article. I know people who are doing all of the above and more.

But the real pioneers aren't doing any of those things. They're doing things that aren't on our radar yet. That no one else has imagined or even can imagine yet. They'll show up when you least expect them to, with something that has you scratching your head at first.

Then they'll take over the world.
I thought these were some interesting additions, although it seems like for almost half of them, it's "this company's headquarters are really cool, you have to see it...but you won't be let inside."
They don't seem that much worse to me. "School Children 'Blown Up' for Not Fighting Climate Change in Controversial Ad" is actually remarkably factual.

Even the BBC has the headline "US gave syphilis to mentally ill", which omits the minor detail that the event happened 60 years ago.
It's amusing that even in a piece ostensibly about places to see in Silicon Valley you should see, Scoble can't help but to brag about places you can't really get into yet he got to visit.
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Yup. The involvement of the military or other arms of the Government has spurred latter penetration of those technologies or sciences into the civilian market in so many cases.

Arpanet, lasers, operations research, low weight ceramics and materials, robotics, aviation..... I guess its probably a never ending list, if one digs deep enough.

(Edit: I am really excited in seeing what technologies will get commercialized in the future, because of this. We so badly need to move forward on the energy sector, if we need to save ourselves)
Bachelor of Science?
I've never had it screw up any of my email. Thankfully, no matter what the errors ended up being, it really gracefully handled leaving IMAP/Maildir in a stable, non-corrupted state. The major pain comes from keeping it going.

If it dies on a "Can't call X on NoneType object" exception, then just running it again is fine (though it's really annoying that 'production-level' consistently code dies with these types of exceptions). But protecting against offlineimap freezing when the laptop suspended in the middle of a sync (or because it hit some infinite-loop that wants to eat 99% of my CPU) is another thing altogether. It's hard to write a simple shell script to protect against those things, and I don't think that I should need to create some convoluted system of parallel processes that monitor each other just to keep offlineimap running.
This is a great list. I do write web apps and am working on my 1st "startup" so this will be great.

I would like to expand this, how would one who is opening an online store for example get coverage besides the normal press? I mean yes it is a startup but not, we make everything ourselves, so it's not reselling someone else's stuff, but at the same time doesn't fit the startup mold.
Anonymous functions in Python are what immediately popped into my mind. I do embedded work and mostly use C, but a lot of the problems with C actually make since when you have less than 1 kB of RAM. I'd prefer to use Lua for building test applications and the like, but I keep going back to Python because the library support is tremendous in comparison.

In any event, I think the question of what problems you have with your favorite language is at least a good conversation starter. It would be nice to know that those kinds of conversations are easy and interesting to a candidate. Although, that isn't necessarily a requirement.
There's a big difference between inflation and hyper-inflation.

An inflation rate of between 1% and 3% is generally seen as a sign of a healthy economy (There is sufficient demand for products that some prices can naturally rise, without causing economic disruption. It also implies a low unemployment rate, in that the economy is sufficiently close to full employment to be able to tolerate some price movements)

Some central banks even go so far as to formally announce a inflation target, which gives the markets a more predictable way to forecast interest rates. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_targeting

OTOH, hyper-inflation implies a lack of confidence in the currency and economy.

In a lot of ways this is similar to unemployment. Generally, low unemployment is good for the economy (and presumably society) until it reaches a point where businesses are unable to grow because of a lack of labor. When economists talk about "full employment" they usually mean this point - where labor constrains the economy - rather than an actual 0% unemployment rate. (While this sounds quite harsh, there are good reasons why any economy will have an unemployment rate greater than 0%. For example, often the centers of population do not coincide with the places jobs are)
I won't repeat what others have already said (Towle_, jcnnghm) but I had a long discussion about an article that made a similar argument over at Daily Beast this morning. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-03/th...

What I found most interesting about both of these critical pieces is how they are so divorced from any sort of appropriate context (see below for more on that). For the last couple of months there has been an interesting, important debate about women in tech/Silicon Valley, in particular at TC, and other spots. I don't see how you can come out with a piece like this one or the Beast one w/o talking about that...especially when you are bringing up COO Sheryl Sandberg's role in FB's current success (which is irrelevant to the movie).

Perhaps this is the only context that matters to them - the writer at Jezebel and the writer at Daily Beast both were students at Harvard in 2003.
Yeah. It used to have the outlets exposed, but people like me would arrive around 10am and camp out for most of the day :) At one point my startup referred to DSRC as "the other conference room." Red Rock had this problem for a while and then acquired the second floor and this has kept the day campers from getting in the way of traffic to/from the counter.
About time. Wonder why it took them this long? Fuel supply caravans have been a weak point since the internal combustion engine became important to warfare!
Citing Gödel's incompleteness and Turing's incomputability, Gregory Chaitin says (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/cordoba.html) that "mathematics is different from physics, but maybe not as different as most people think".

Perhaps CS is a math, but investigating CS sometimes necessarily employs science.

As you say: not worth arguing much.