skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is somewhat tangential to what you're looking for, but I often get a lot of questions in classes about why I'm never, ever taking notes. It's firstly not quite true and secondly something sometimes difficult for people to understand.

I think what people often use notes for is as a surrogate memory. There's a desire to search through them for that one gem which will trigger you to remember all that you once knew. Or worse, it's a search for that part where you can just relive whatever experience you thought should have taught you it the first time, but didn't. To this end we have organizers and smart pens and the like. I might be jaded but they all seem like so many fancy gadgets that all seek to solve a very orthogonal problem.

I disagree with the "note taking habit" greatly because I think it's in your best interest to learn instead of memorize. By which I mean that if you're truly studying something, the goal must be to enact some sort of change in parts of your life far beyond just what you can regurgitate. It's starkly contradictory to a lot of what everyone seems to practice in education, and my adherence to it has cost me in graded performance, but it's also placed me far above a lot of my peers in both comprehension and success.

My goal when learning is building my own, real mind maps. Every thing I ingest has to be processed, extended, applied, and connected to other things. You have to act, not just listen and listen more than notate.

In classes that translates to a lot of questions that go beyond the scope of the material and great conversations with professors (in our own time). In information consumption, it translates to a much slower rate of consumption (helped by a lot of filtration) where action items are not just stored up but actively performed while things are still fresh and exciting.

In short, I try to maintain a distaste for what you might call "consumption mode flow". Learning is atomic and it takes effort to decompartmentalize the things you read into real effects in your life. That decompartmentalization is the best notation method possible, though. If you want to remember something important, make sure it rubs up against everything you do every day. If it's not so important, why write it down?

(Also, for voting purposes, pen and paper is best. I find this style of thought is aided by not being able to erase.)
Defining Public and Private clouds
My own expectation is that China will become a Singapore with 1 billion people. The west stands no chance.
Part one (defining the cloud): http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/private-versus-public...
Twilio is hiring for roles in San Francisco, California

* Business Ops Associate
* SIP Software Engineer
* DevOps Engineer
* Junior and Senior Software Engineers
* Developer Interns (paid)
* Product Manager
* Front-end/Website Developer

Job descriptions and more info here:
http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs
In democracy, the job of the "average voter" is to represent himself. Expecting the "average voter" to have an understanding of issues at the level of the person running for office is a misinterpretation of their role.

What a jerk I would be if I said: "The best argument against industrialization is a five-minute conversation with the average construction worker" or something similar.
Especially in console shooters. It's frowned upon in PC games somewhat.
Your idea doesn't need to be novel in order to develop yourself further as a developer. Do the flickr mashup if you want the experience.

A "Startup Idea" involves not just a feature, but something that is compelling enough to be a business. You should be in a position where you have more ideas than you can possibly do (this is my position- I get a new business idea every day, at least and a good one every week.)

So, I may not be able to relate to not being able to come up with ideas, but I would suggest if you're having trouble to think about the things that you see online and in the world, where there are problems, or inefficiencies that you can improve on. Great ideas are ones where it is a no-brainer to your customers and where what you're supplying them can be supplied at a very low cost relative to the value they are willing to pay for. Do try to look for things that are worth paying for- this sets the bar high enough, and means that you have something that can grow by itself without outside investment. IF you do get outside investment, a profitable business, is going to get better terms than one that bears higher risk.

Possibly more experience with engineering will help because it will help you identify areas where software can make peoples lives better.....

But do read a lot. Read entrepreneur books and blogs and understand that it will take awhile before you find the right idea and that it will take a lot of thinking about the possibilities of various ideas to understand what makes a good business for you to do. (Every entrepreneur is different and so their businesses will be different...find one that plays to your unique makeup.)
I am not sure referendums are the answer. If you look at the California example, lobbyists still have a huge impact and the state is even more non functioning than the federal government. I am not sure more referendums would be a good thing.
How to find iPhone devs?
How to find iPhone devs (freelancers) in the particular areas of US (ex. DC Metro area). Forums, etc?

Thanks!
I hope someone makes software that can bookmark all the interesting/active moments in the video for me. Going back through the video looking for highlights doesn't seem like a great use of time.
True, Microsoft is trying to combine the advantages of iPhone (OS updates straight from OS writer) with the advantages of Android (multiple hardware choices from various companies, carriers).

It's just unbelievable that Sony is launching phones running Android 1.6 now which can't be updated by Google directly like it can the Nexus One.
Isn't that what the article is saying? "Don't forget the planes that didn't return", which is silent evidence because there's no evidence of its absence
It's remarkable that this quote shows up on nearly every thread where somebody criticizes democracy on a non-specialist website. It's like the creationist assertion that life is too complex to arise by chance. The phrase short-circuits all discussion and protects the wielder from any doubt or any need to reconsider his beliefs.

Many people in history have thought their current way of doing things was pretty nifty and everything that came before was barbarism and idiocy. We have to be a little more open-minded than that to get at true or useful ideas. There is certainly something suboptimal about a government that can't pass a bill smaller than the size of a dictionary, or that in theory and practice protects concentrated interests at the expense of the broader good. I have my doubts that the American state is in a sustainable equilibrium given the astounding irrationality and paralysis of the legislative process.

On specialist websites, people might be familiar with the existence of an entire sub-discipline of economics dedicated to explaining the incentives facing voters and governments (Public Choice) and the historical lessons of hundreds of different governing forms in human history, so the discussion thankfully extends beyond Churchill's quote.
Hewlett Packard names former SAP boss Apotheker CEO: The Léo Way
What does "change up" mean in the context of "Change up your office/work environment"?
Not really a BitTorrent app though, is it?

It's just an interface to an Imageshack torrent client/cloud storage space.
Jeff Jarvis on Why the Rutgers Suicide Can't Be Blamed on the Internet
You could try Suicide Machine. They essentially do what you just described (Delete all your friends, and posts, etc.

Also, that removes the temptation/ or means to go back to your old profile for which you will manually have to re-add all your friends.

http://suicidemachine.org/
I've always found that my best ideas come with an open mind and by "doing" something. It doesn't really matter if there is existing competition - you just need to do it 50% better to be a success. Who knows, you might be part way into the project and realize that there is a truly killer idea for a new audience. Keep an open mind and do something.

Here's a good idea as an example:

http://www.lifesta.com/

The folks who created this site were likely impressed with Groupon and asked themselves, "what happens if I don't use this coupon that I'm going to impulse buy?" Open to ideas while using the service, they created a marketplace not just for Groupons, but that could be used across all of the groupon clones. With some good press and improved functionality / polish, a good idea will go to great.

Beyond erroneously telling you to "do" things with an open mind, here are 2 things that I do when I'm looking for new ideas:

1) I disconnect completely from technology, change my scenery and think without distraction. Getting into a pattern is the key for this to work. I usually book off Tuesday and Thursday afternoons when I'm in idea mode and no matter what else is going on, I disconnect, go for a hike and relax while brainstorming. Often, I'll toss a digital audio recorder in my pocket so that I can spit out ideas without writing - but nothing else.

2) When I'm trying to think of ideas, I talk to people. Go to local geek meetups / conferences and use the room as a sounding board. While it's not incredibly honest, I find that confidently telling people that I'm already the CEO of my new project idea, judging their reaction and listening to their feedback / questions is a lot more valuable then a conversation based around the sentence "what do you think about this idea".

I hope that these things help you out.
They don't just solve dependencies they encourage dependencies

This is a good thing. Developers' attitude toward dependencies gets very lax when it's too much work to declare them or too much work for the user to satisfy them. Then you get into situations where you install a piece of software and 90% of the functionality is broken, because the developer was "considerate" enough not to "force" a bunch of dependencies on you, so you resort to Google to find the real dependencies, which of course aren't available for your distro. Apt gives developers a flexible way to declare different kinds of dependencies, and the Debian and Ubuntu distro repositories give them confidence that the dependencies will install smoothly for users.

I had much more difficulty with undeclared dependencies back in the day than I have with excessive dependencies now. It's just wrong for software to easily install in a mostly broken state. If you want broken, partly-working software, you should have to do extra work to achieve that, not the other way around.
That's actually not what he's saying at all. He's saying only do the things you feel the urge to do. He says that for himself it's usually blogging.
this is dumb advice.

the crux of his post is that you should follow your passions and do what you love, which is good advice, but that in no way should be an excuse for not having a disciplined, focused long-term plan to get there.

imagine a startup/business saying: "screw goals/plans and holding ourselves accountable, we'll eventually find product/market fit and achieve scale just by doing what we feel is right at the moment." very similar to personal decisions in life.

long-term goals are incredibly important because they keep you treading on the journey. of course, there's randomness in the path (unexpected events/obstacles, crazy learning curve, etc), but maintaining a long-term focus improves your odds of getting over those hurdles and getting to your destination.

now that i'm thinking about this, good re-read of pg's old post on deterimination and discipline: http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
A lot of people comment how the Tenderloin area is bad. I frequent the area and have friends who live there and overall if you can put up with the numerous bums, crackheads, and general craziness it is doable.

The area near Geary and Larkin or O'Farrell and Larkin isn't too bad. It is super busy at all times of the night. I do see a lot of car breakins in this area though.
You could try the Web 2.0 suicide machine. It automates what you are trying to..

http://www.suicidemachine.org
That is when it works and is up...
Learning to love computer codes
As is the pivot.
It's actually easier than that. Just turn off Instant Personalization in your Privacy Settings.
Condoms don't prevent the spread of all STIs, nor are they 100% reliable for the ones they do protect against.
I didn't realize "blogspam" was allowed on HN.
http://ninite.com is getting close to apt-get for Windows. We're working on a Mac version too.

Things are better on Linux, but not all rosy. Installing Dropbox, for example, is a surprisingly crappy experience (windows popping up, separate proprietary daemon download, etc). That, and way more user requests than you'd imagine, is why we have http://ninite.com/linux now too.
If they can get the power of the CPU down low enough, they could probably bolt on a DRAM layer, right on top of the CPU die, and connect them with through-silicon vias. Your L3 cache could have the same die size as the CPU, and the connection to the CPU could be very fast, both in bandwidth and in latency.

Actually, these "low-end PCs and netbooks" are sounding like speed demons, the more I think about them.
Yet there are still too many roaches out there.
I kind of agree with this. The article is not really about Ubuntu, it is about Linux distros in general. I have been using Mandrake/Mandriva for at least eight years. I tried Ubuntu a while ago to see if the buzz was justified. I was unconvinced. The "user-friendliness" was lower than Mandriva. But it seems Mandriva does not have the mind share that Ubuntu seems to have captured.

On the other hand, Ubuntu's success is success for Linux in general, so I have nothing against it. It just surprises me.
I guess it is good that I had done that too -- I assumed you actually had to "connect" to Facebook because I visited the Scribd page as described in the article, and I didn't see any fancy Facebook stuff happening (although I did see my browser hit Facebook).

I had forgotten that I had turned off instant personalization (likely due to some TC article or something). So this works without even logging into the site? Jesus, it is worse than I thought!
Financial lobbying should be outlawed. It's very equivalent to the ability to buying votes and we know that buying power is very unequally spread across the country. I find it shocking that anyone would doubt that. BTW, financial lobbying is outlawed in most other democracies.

What I find more interesting is Schmidt's new interpretation of the Google motto "Don't be evil":

"The end of the interview turned to the future of technology. When Bennet asked about the possibility of a Google "implant," Schmidt invoked what the company calls the "creepy line."

"Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it," he said. Google implants, he added, probably crosses that line.

At the same time, Schmidt envisions a future where we embrace a larger role for machines and technology. "With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches," he said. "We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less now what you're thinking about."
I bought the Looxcie, and reviewed it here:

http://igargoyle.com/archives/2010/09/looxcie_review.html

Overall, it's a compelling product, but the Android app to connect to the camera feels like a beta.
Ask HN: How did you learn marketing?
Specifically:

1. Which books on the subject would you recommend?

2. How did you determine the effectiveness of a particular marketing technique?
No, the whole point of the thing is that you can feel it (or at least they claim you can).
No, the OP's model has two different kinds of players. I'm not the OP; the OP wrote a simulation in Python following the bimodal distribution you described; I wrote a completely different simulation in Ruby following a uniform distribution several months ago when I first read the story in question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1749324

My model does have a number of flaws (a uniform distribution is still not very good; there's no gender distinction; the transmission rate per encounter is artificially high; people only stay with their partners for a random-yet-uniform amount of time) but I'm not sure to what extent these matter.
Intel has a larger problem: they have OpenMP, OpenCL, TBB, ABB, and Cilk. In what situation should I use which tool?
"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that this mentality is a better balance between having no plans and singlemindedly following a plan. Being flexible and willing to change your goals is an important ability.
Facebook movie and ethical dilution of partners 
In The Social Network, Eduardo signs a document that somehow allows the board to dilute his ownership to almost nothing. What is that document? Does he just lose his board seat? Maybe some sort of veto right? Maybe the Articles of Incorporation specifically allow this?

Issuing shares solely for the purpose of diluting one partner would generally be a violation of ethical and legal standards, as I understand it. How would one protect himself from this without owning a majority? How often does this happen?

I've heard of VCs "cleaning the cap table." This sometimes seems justified, but who decides and how can it be done legally and ethically?

If the cap table is just temporary, and can be changed by the board through dilution, what meaning does it have? However, if it can not be changed and there is a deadbeat partner, some sort of action like this may be necessary. In facebook's case, as show in the film, I'm guessing they did this damn-the-consequences figuring they would pay Eduardo off some day, rightfully presuming it would be cheaper than leaving him with a huge stake.
Ubuntu's strategy to not let you upgrade some packages without upgrading the OS itself is insane.

You can; it's called "pinning:" https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto

If I want Python 2 and 3 on the same system I can't have a package manager tell me that's not supposed to be when I know full well that it's no problem.

Let me check; here on Jaunty I can separately install python2.4, python2.5, python2.6, python3.0, & python3.1.

I don't doubt that you've had problems with the package managers, but, um, I think you're doing it wrong.
Quite true. I think people should stop reading those "lifehacking" blogs. They just prevent you from doing things and thus keep you from gaining worthwhile insights on your own which are way more useful.(I can't stress this enough)

I have to confess that I, too, spend too much time on those websites. My conclusion is: I was a better "lifehacker" when I was 16 (quite some years ago).
Indeed, the statement is contingent, not necessarily true. The leaders of the autocracies need to be benevolent and think long term.

It all comes down to respect of property rights. Democracies respect property rights to a limited but non-zero extent. Chinese leaders now respect private property more than most Western democracies.
I think assuming that the only value you derive from voting being tax rate is the major flaw here.

Altruistic value is usually very high in the issues that people seem to vote based on: gay marriage, government health care, military operations, etc. Many people do value these things much higher than their tax rate.

The problem arises when we treat dollars as the unit of value. Value is not possible to practically quantify, and using money as the common denominator pushes things that actually are money to the fore, and fails to expose the things that do matter to people.
If you have complete discretion about how to spend it, yes. On the other hand a low interest loan from an institution which can only be spent on tuition and fees, generates additional revenue for the institution in the form of interest or sale of the debt.

The homebuilding industry figured that out a long time ago.
No a lot of substance in the article.. mostly abstract words and feelings with nothing to back it up..
Did you not see the paper being moved?
You could also play it online via flash. But that's free.
My friends already had my contact info. They're my friends, after all.

So I just told them all I was leaving, deleted every post and picture, and removed every friend-link.

It isn't really that hard.
That may be the case, but I bet Office can handle those documents just fine. The non-techy user doesn't care why something doesn't work. They just care that it doesn't work.
there is a great company based in Los Angeles that helps people find app developers. check out their website at www.appsnminded.com - its run by two stay at home mom's who have had a great deal of success developing and marketing iphone apps.
Who cares if fb has "crested?" If you have some reason of privacy, I can understand, however just deleting your account because it's not the cool thing anymore seems rather petty. Clearly if it's how your friends find you, it still serves a function in your life. Delete your friendster account, yes. I don't understand this compulsion to leave facebook.
I think that's right. Plus it goes against the spirit of the article to rush to judge the owner. It's only because he cared enough about Neil Smith that the rest of us ever heard of him. And condemning him based only on his class position is pretty much what the original comments did to Neil.
Instant Personalization or not, this is why i login to sites using my twitter account and not my facebook account. The twitter account is more detachable for me when it comes to day-to-day life, Facebook on the other hand is a lot more involved ...
I recommend the book "Parasite Rex" by Carl Zimmer for those who are fascinated by this sort of thing. The book discusses several interesting and creepy parasites.
Same here. I applied, but no email on way or the other. Is there a way to check acceptance status on the web?
XMonad also works fine.
It is just the onboard graphics that used to come with intel boards. I used the i810 driver with it as far as I can remember.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who actually likes features like this.

As long as I'm given more relevant content, feel free to use my publicly posted information.
and I'm not suggesting that California as a model.

California does not have referendums required to approve legislative action.

California doesn't allow you to leave a municipality to join or create another.

California does not have proportional representation.
I "parked" my profile for a month and it really helped break my manic feelings of checking it all the time, then stopping for three days out of guilt, etc.

Ultimately those are the feelings I'm trying to rid myself of, but there are pros to having it around. After a month off, I barely cared to login, but I'm glad it still exists for the random PM or funny news feed. I'm back to checking it every couple of days and I'm happy I didn't delete all my friends, etc.

Your experience may vary though, I doubt most people noticed I was gone.
I don't use Facebook as much, but I follow a similar strategy for other things, like GMail. Instead of a different browser, I set up a 'site-specific-browser', like Fluid[1], for each such website.

Aside from the benefit of not staying logged in to your email/FB/Twitter when browsing random websites[2], this also lets you treat constantly open web-sites as legitimate apps in your switcher, frees up those permanent tabs on your browser, and provides for features like an unread count badge on the application icon when you switch apps.

[1] http://fluidapp.com/

[2] Obviously, this means that features that rely on you being constantly logged in to FB/Twitter (those Like and Tweet buttons) won't work.