skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it does, in the context of the story.

1) Hank Reardon wouldn't tolerate a life of (self) deception; knowing Dagny wanted Galt, and accepting that truth, was the only internally consistent course available.

2) Hank Reardon loved and respected Galt. If he had to give up Dagny to be able to continue to be a part of Galt/D'Ancona/Dagny's life, then his rational response was to do that.

3) Hank Reardon embodied the self-confidence that allowed him to see Dagny's preference for Galt was not a rejection of Hank, nor did that diminish Hank Reardon (e.g. your value isn't shaped by others).
Yes, this is helpful, and the direction I've decided to try and push his position to -- it's really a biz-dev position; compared to normal sales, the cycles are longer, unfortunately. In the end, though, the value will either be there or not. That said, it might take another six+ months to determine that, so I'm trying to find my own equilibrium as to how I can live with waiting that out.
I agree with one of the comments, you just have to have a partner to bounce ideas and energy.
Learn more about beer & how to brew it.
I used X4HKFEH74XYK, thanks!

(It took me 6 tries to find one that wasn't used, it's good to leave a note with the one you used)
Yeah, I didn't mean to say that I was questioning TDD in general— rather that it was obvious that this dev's insistence on solving the smallest part of the problem first was blinding him to the fact that the problem as a whole is quite small.

And wow— that Sudoku epic is terrifying.
So this AI tries to micromanage for you. But I could not get the game play here. You build a building and put it into a "build unit for me" mode. But what about the "attack mode?" why should AI decide where and when to attack? Doesn't this make game play just some sort of child play or a "logistics" game? I supply buildings and units, and AI decides the real strategy?
Numenta (http://www.numenta.com) is working on simulating how the brain (the neocortex in particular) recognizes patterns. It's an exciting recent field of research, and has little to do with neural networks, or other supposedly brain-inspired methods that don't actually bear much resemblance to neural processes.

This TED talk by co-founder Jeff Hawkins (of Palm fame) gives an overview of what they are doing.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_w...
just for clarification, the data is emailed to me in a .csv based on how frequently i instruct it to?
Are you aware of Daytum? It's a web app by Nicholas Feltron, the guy who does "personal annual reports", infographics about his life. http://feltron.com/ http://daytum.com/

You might be interested in contacting him. At the very least, I thought you should know about the similarity in applications and names.
I'll demonstrate my wisdom by taking this feedback with good grace: you're right, this situation has really gotten my goat. I can't explain all the details without revealing too much about the company, but I am finding it this unusually challenging in comparison to many of the other difficulties I've faced and overcome in business.

Re: my fitness for my positions, I think I provide good quality on those other two fronts, but in the end, both those are going to be judged by peers and customers, so I guess I'll have to wait and see..

Re: results, poor in some areas, (probably) fine in others -- I'm focusing on getting his job redirected to the 'fine' areas as a start.
I'm sorry, what? it is illegal for many entrepreneurs to marry. Am I missing something?
Thanks brudgers, I'll be calling you again when I need more advice. This is short and sweet, and I appreciate it. : ).
Fetishizing p-Values
It does say "By An Anonymous Sys Admin" on the top.
Maybe I'm more curmudgeonly than most, but I have no idea why I'd either want a tiny picture of my face in a book or a copy of the book itself on my coffee table.

I suppose you could use it to clear out unwanted house guests "Alright everybody, lets look through One Million People together!"
The Technology-Driven Consumption Trap
> (4) This might seem strange, but I've been dreaming about coming to Silicon Valley ever since I was a kid. I've been to SF once (loved it), but didn't make it to SV. Anything I should not miss in SV while I'm there? I just looked, and it seems most of the Computer History Museum is closed for renovations.

Go to Stanford and sit in on an interesting-to-you class. If it's a really small class, introduce yourself before to the instructor.

I recommend EE380, http://ee380.stanford.edu , if you can make it on a wednesday afternoon (because I help run it). There are dozens of comparable lecture series.
I'm in. Username is "unorchestrated" :)
It is, and the HP-12C is allowed for the CFA exams.

That said, it's a very short list of what calculators are allowed.
There are two options. You can choose to email yourself the .csv of a specific data log when you want (in the Data Options screen).

Or, you can specify a daily, weekly, monthly, or never export in the Settings panel. This will prompt you with an email when it's time (just hit send and you should be good to go). This export contains data from all of your logs.
I'll contact him ASAP, thanks.

EDIT: contacted him. Hope he likes it :)
It might not be how it was intended to work but it seems much closer to how it works today than what you describe.

In practice the constitution in the US is interpreted by the elite, and a sufficiently dissenting view will earn you time in prison.
Digitizing the Personal Library
I use them, but there are plenty of libraries out there.

http://compbio.cs.huji.ac.il/FastInf/fastInf/FastInf_Homepag...

http://robotics.stanford.edu/~sgould/svl/

http://code.google.com/p/factorie/

http://people.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/jorism/libDAI/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/in...

BTW, factor graphs are generally more popular than Bayes Nets these days, at least in research circles. (Bayesian networks can be seen as a special case of factor graph.)
They're all gone now except 6XR63PL4FEWR, which is supposedly not valid.
Note that almost all of the amendments either entrench fundamental rights - placing certain areas of federal policy-making out of bounds - or tweak the structure of the federal government's institutions. In other words, the amendments are (usually) aligned with the intention of the constitution itself, that is, to define the structure and powers of government.

Attempts to entrench particular social policies as constitutional amendments create an enormous amount of contention, are often considered an abuse of the amendment process, and usually fail, as the case of the 18th amendment demonstrates.

The amendment process is by design complex and time-consuming; the constitution has only been amended 28 times in 222 years, and the first ten were immediately upon its adoption. The most recent amendment - the 27th - was ratified in 1992; it was originally proposed as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791, and took almost 202 years to make it into the constitution.

The reality of is the constitution is surrounded by a well-developed body of law which is applied vigorously by the courts, who routinely strike down legislation determined to be unconstitutional; the rare attempts to use the amendment process to circumvent judicial review almost always fail.

In fact, apart from the 18th amendment, I can't think of a single instance in which a constitutional amendment was successfully enacted in order to create social policy that would otherwise be ruled unconstitutional by the courts - even FDR couldn't manage it.
Based on the picture at the top of the article, my interpretation is that the putative computer-room woman perceived him as the type of dorky, non-manly man ("herb") who is easily manipulable by feminine wiles.
Gauss invented least squares. Before 1800 IIRC. Also, I had no idea svm predated em. Cool.

As for the gpus... I'm dubious. Most optimization problems I'm aware of are poorly suited for gpu style parallelism. More's the pity.
Hey, I don't have a lot of answers to your thoughts, but I appreciate them.

I agree with comments made above that becoming the problem in this situation will cause concerns re: my ability to work with any future senior management; I think that's a key point. I myself have questions about this as I'm not experienced working with execs as a peer; most of my experience in the last 10+ years has been making the hiring decision, then having someone like him report to me. Probably all the more reason to execute well on this.

I have plenty of personal protection built into the shareholder agreement, contracts and daily methodologies of the corporation; not to say I would never get booted, but it would be a slow and easy-to-spot process.

Regarding sinking the ship, I generally agree with this perspective. I'm not sure if this particular situation is time critical or not, I still have some thinking to do about it.
Neat visualization of download ratios for ebook formats offered by O'Reilly
Regardless of your ability, there will obviously be fewer and fewer jobs at higher and higher salaries - which is one of the angles behind the salary ceiling.

One way to circumvent this is to simply take more equity, assuming you are working for a venture-backed startup or company. In start-up land (ie Series A funding or below) you might find it hard to find anyone earning more than $150k but you could simply take more equity.

Of course you have to assume the equity is worth something but if you are that good then presumably your involvement will have a noticeable and demonstrable difference on the overall success of the company.
Aw, I would never really try to hack cakesy!

For whatever reason, I just found the statement "drop cake" hilarious. Nevermind it's not valid sql.
But what would be the basis in law for the court to make such a ruling?
Ask HN: Clever Recruiting Techniques?
For me, the biggest surprise about running a startup has been how difficult it is to recruit top-notch engineers. It is shockingly, bewilderingly, impossibly difficult to find qualified web developers. Granted, my notion of "qualified" is discriminating, but it's been surprisingly difficult nonetheless.

I've tried all the traditional channels for finding developers: job boards, networking events, and my own personal network. It's time to get more creative. I'd love to hear about any clever techniques or tactics others have used to identify promising web developer candidates.
I want to hear more stories of entrepreneurs managing the lifestyle with children. I think it can be done but I'm still trying to noodle out HOW.

I have 2 kids (2 yr old/6 month old). It's getting harder for my 36 year old self to stay up all hours of the night hacking on code and such. I've got myself on a decent schedule but it tends to catch up with me by the end of the week:

- Up at 7 with the kids, drop of at day sitters and at the office by 9.
- Leave office at 5PM, dinner, bathtime and kids in bed by 8:30PM.
- Sleep in older son's room until about 12:30 or 1AM.
- Get up, check in on wife and other sleeping child and work on code till about 3:30 or so.
- Back to bed and do it all over again.

My wife asked when I was going to get back on a normal schedule but when I explained to her that the late night stuff is contributing to our future, she's okay with it but she rightly worries about the long-term health impact.

Not only that but I'm a right prick when I don't get enough sleep ;)

I swear if/when I ever make the bank to do so, I'm going to sponsor people in my same shoes.
Ahh the monumental difference between talking about doing and doing.
LinkedIn Targets College Students With Career Path Data Visualizations
The way I understand it is if you come back for residency in less than two years, CRA may have some questions.
Looking for a Co-Founder (Hardware Experience preferred)
Ok so I realize the title is rather vague, but I will elaborate more after seeing the people/qualifications of the responses I get. This involves a tablet-like hardware with a software platform that should not be terribly complicated. will be monetized easily and very customizable, most likely using a Linux framework. Targets a specific market that exists in every city on a world wide scale. Could change the way this industry works for a long time to come. Looking to apply to YC that is due by OCT 19 so I would like to find a definite co-founder by then.

Thanks
Zach
how bout amazon's recommendation systems? or ad placements? or google search? google what did you mean? ocr? algorithmic trading?

what field are they in if not AI? sure, the techniques are heterogeneous and there seems to be no one unifying theory but the field is a bit like that.
There might not be any Hamiltonian libertarians, but that doesn't necessarily mean that libertarians are all Jeffersonians either.

What would you call a someone who sees the balance between federal and state governments to be beneficial to liberty and political stability? (An 'Adamsian', perhaps?)

I would personally agree that the balance of power is currently far too tilted toward the federal government, but I wouldn't oppose the re-incorporation of substantive due process under the 14th amendment as with Lochner any more that I object to the applicability to the states of the first, second, fourth or fifth amendments via the 14th.
Don't trust anyone to predict the future of technology 15 years ahead, especially when they use a cliche like VR.
The valley is a bit of a high salary zone. What would a typical developer make in portland for example?
The scenario you describe is what is generally referred to as "judicial activism" - judges creating law from the bench rather than simply applying the law as written.

It happens rather often in the US, and is strongly criticized (in some quarters) when it does.
Toasted skin syndrome - laptops on laps considered harmful
Can I crash at your place for Startup School?
Greetings fellow HN'ers (HNites?)

I will happily be heading from my home in Washington, DC to the bay area for Startup School in 2 weeks. While I would normally just check out AirBnB or couchsurfing, I thought I might check in with the community to see if there was someone who would be willing to put a vagabond up for a few days. I'd really like the opportunity to meet some west coast HN folk and figure whats a better way then to crash with one for a few days.

I also thought that I might not be alone in wanting to do this, so others can utilize this thread for posting similar request. If it's not down voted into oblivion.

Anyone interested in putting me up can reply in thread or email me at failquicker @ gmail.com. I'll be happy to vet and provide references that prove I'm not an axe murderer
jdietrich is saying that DM's content is most relevant for particular long-tail search terms; if you edit your query to an apparently equivalent search term, you can find more relevant content. Presumably, as Google's query re-writing gets better, DM's niche (queries that are failing to return good content) will get squeezed out.
Are you talking about ERISA, which was enacted in the 70s, or Social Security?
Sort of works. I start typing "guests of the ayatollah" and the books appear and vanish and appear and vanish and finally vanish, but by then I've entered the full book name (why isn't it auto-completing? look at how Chrome's auto-complete works for the correct behavior) and it's not letting me add the book.

When I hit enter it says "no books returned, please try another search."

So...totally unusable for me.

I'm on Mac + Chrome, if that helps.
Thanks - that is the video I saw. The format is so similar to TED, though, that I wonder if he'd have anything substantially different to say in a TED talk.
"Mark’s biggest fear continues to be that Facebook will not get the chance to change the world."

Ugh, what marketing fluff. Don't worry Mark, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Or wait, is that what he's afraid of?
I've interviewed a lot of people, but I've never seen one that didn't BS just a little bit.

What annoys me is outright lying, like saying on your resume that you worked on some cool-sounding project, but your role was to get coffee for the people doing the actual work. What annoys me more is that when you do the same thing, but with something that doesn't even sound cool, like "converted a database to a CSV file". (I am not making this up. I saw this on someone's resume and thought, "hey, at least they're honest... maybe we can guide them towards being useful". Nope. The candidate had clearly never even typed code into a computer before.)

Interview questions I find relevant:

* reverse a C string
* what do you hate the most about your favorite language
* if you could spend a week trying something new, what would it be
* what projects are you working on in your own time right now

It is amazing how poorly people do at the middle two. Getting the first one wrong, I can understand -- you have to know how to program, and most companies will hire bad programmers if they can BS a little. The last one, fine, you have a three hour commute and eight kids, and you don't even like programming or making things.

But really... you can't think of anything you hate about your favorite language. Do you ever write any code? Nothing? Not one single, solitary thing? Nothing annoys you in the slightest, tiniest bit? LIES.

And... you can't come up with some BS about what you want to learn? You have no ambition in your life? You care so little about your field that if we gave you money to learn something, you wouldn't do it? You're not curious about "Web stuff"? You have no interested in Scala? Really? Really?

Programmers, I've found, are very, very rare.
Woo, 30 year olds unite! :-)
That's a standard byline for an op-ed. It was most likely inserted by whoever runs the website or the editor of the article, rather than the author himself.
Million Dollar Homepage worked because it was clever and original.

Putting your picture in a virtual book with other people is neither clever or original.
I find it odd that Facebook solicited an application from the OP and then proceeded to run him through the usual interview process. Maybe that was a result of some FB script seeking more qualified applicants.

Either way, it seems that FB missed out on an opportunity. Scientists don't already know all of the answers to novel problems. And, someone can make a Phd look like an idiot if you quiz them on topics not related to their specific field of study.

Why are established computer scientists forced to take a week to study up for trivia-like interviews? I would expect trivia-like interviews for young professionals straight out of college. But, for more established professionals, it would seem that a "tell me about your achievements" discussion would be more applicable.

Hiring decisions are best weighted on the person as a whole, and less on the testing scores.

Edit: typo fix
Are you going to contest that?
Absurdity. The Supreme Court does not amend the Constitution when it rules, it interprets it in order to establish whether legislation is in conflict with it, or which state should prevail in an interstate dispute, and so forth. It most certainly does matter what the Supreme Court says about such matters, because the judicial power of the United States is vested in it and extends to all cases arising under the Constitution.

Your view that the lack of any explicit mention of employment means that any federal laws regulating it are unconstitutional is widespread but self-contradictory. For one thing, employment is a fundamental part of commerce.
I'm a learn by doing kind of person, i cant read a book and remember things, i have to do the thing i'm learning. Obviously this goes along well with programming or even stuff like DIY, mechanics etc, but wouldnt go well with theoretical or academic things.

I pick a goal i want to accomplish using the discipline i want to learn, and start messing around while looking at tutorials that take you step by step through the thing you're doing in front of you, occasionally using a manual or google to lookup things i dont understand.
Consumption is not the key to economic wellbeing. Deferring consumption is. When you defer consumption and instead invest your resources into enhancing your ability to produce, you wind up producing more.

Consumption beyond subsistence is only possible because of such investments. And its as true for countries as it is for individuals. High levels of consumption are made possible by economic wellbeing, not the other way around.

If everybody decides to defer personal consumption at once, they save more and borrow less. That means more savings and lower interest rates. More capital is then available to invest in new businesses, education and other things that create wealth.

Of course, that's how it works when government isn't distorting the cost of money and subsidizing consumption. Things are so distorted now, no one can tell which banks are sound or whether housing will rise or fall even more.

And all of these uncertainties are a much bigger factor than Facebook.
Didn't quite understand Signature Experience (and I didn't want to install silverlight). Does anyone here use it?

Completely off topic and half-joking; but was it a joke to call it "window-steam-blog" or should I only see "windows-team-blog"?
OK, someone just give me the answer: is this designed as an example of what one should do, or is it a parable of what not to do?

I started reading it earlier today, and gave up once I hit the sexist tone. Then seeing the comments here, I realized that it was just parodying Heinlein. Cuz it's not really sexist if you're quoting, right? Anyway, given all the upvotes I thought there must be something to the article.

In the same way, at the start I thought that ridiculously verbose ad-hoc testing functions were also a parody. Surely his point was going to be that your time is better spent writing a testing framework that reads from a text file rather than writing a 95% duplicate function for each test?

But then I got to the end, and I lost my faith. Is he mocking Heinlein or just channeling some unrepentant 60's SciFi sexism? And is he really suggesting that this is really a good way to write software?
There's still a matter of status. When everything mass produced is cheap, the wealthy will demand hand produced goods.

Entertainment will not all go free -- it will still cost goods and services to create more elaborate entertainment. (How do you stage an 18th century show? Perhaps CGI will be advanced enough to cover the material cost, but how do you organize 150 people doing CGI without paying them? After all, nobody wants to do the grunt work for free...)

The problem, instead, looks to be that we won't have enough for unskilled labor to do. We used to be able to throw them at manufacturing -- even that is going away.
I liked this post for the comprehensive list of internals - before reading I only knew v8 and libev were part of node.js.
You don't know how right you are. Google Web Toolkit has the most impressive support for Arabic, but it's ASCII only out of the box, even though it runs on Java, a thorough-bred Unicode language.
Facebook is not the end of the web's evolution!

More alarming is the fact that America's education system and Facebook are jointly producing a mediocre generation that is not prepared for the great changes that lie ahead over the course of this century and defines itself by how much stuff they own and how much attention they get, a worldview that centers around a "Wall" is blind to the universal picture that concerns all humanity and organisms of Earth. If homo sapiens has any chance of even surviving ecologic-economic collapse that is due within a few centuries with our current understanding and application of science, we need more than social networking, we need compassion networking.

Call me crazy but I am building such a network and will be applying to YC this fall.