skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At 8 months a baby can sign "mother" (if they've been taught) and you can avoid having to guess whether they're babbling or attempting to say a proper word.
In case you were wondering where our company name "280 North" came from, see #9.
I personally recommend CLEAR, which works great and has 4G coverage in places that the website doesn't even say!
SF is primarily a hub of Web-based companies - consumer applications. Though there are many big players down in Palo Alto/Mountain View. Also, startup doesn't mean only web-based startup. There are thousands of hardware and enterprise software companies down in San Jose/Santa Clara.

Here is the stack geographically, that works quite well with stack of software.

San Fran: Web based apps

Palo Alto/Mountain View/Cupertino: Web based + Desktop based software

Santa Clara: Enterprise + Desktop based software + EDA software + Hardware

San Jose: Hardware
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Also, you might benefit from reading this paper:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.25.2...

The original block-structure implementation in Algol is still accessible in Pascal and Oberon literature.
I've given SproutCore at least 3 chances over the last year. I like it better than Cappuccino, but it's just so buggy. UKI for life, though. It's not quite the same, but it's makin my day, day after day. http://ukijs.org/
Why would "Sandbox" functionality need to be first-class implemented in any Ruby? Perhaps a version of Ruby that will run on the iPhone where some carrier's rules could include "No free apps can use cellular internet access". Let AT&T dig their own grave.
Lawyers might not make the best neighbors for your business
The list sounds more Palo Alto than Silicon Valley. I personally think there is much more to SV than the 9 items.
But I agree on the weather, it is nearly perfect.
It's not just "mama", its "mama" and "papa" (sometimes baba... basically the same thing).

And then Georgian does it "backwards". "mama" is father, and "papa" is mother.
it's a close enough approximation. isn't it?
The Benefits of Raising Capital With a List of Angel Investors
I found it a bit depressing that they were using a phone to tire the baby to sleep; that the child is being taught to ignore the person that is with them and instead interact with a gadget.

Perhaps I'm just a fuddy-duddy relying instead on talking (stories) and singing lullabies, making sleep sounds, rocking and cuddling.
Wow, thanks. Currently using Highrise to plan ours but will give this a shot. If we have feedback for you what's the best way to contact you?
A Browser Parsing Quirk and a #NewTwitter XSS
Angel Investors Duke It Out Over Women In Tech
Quantum computers - Successes at entangling three-circuit systems
(unless upvotes by the OP are filtered out? but I can't imagine why that would be)

AFAIK they are. For instance, if I were to upvote your comment it would have no effect.

This definitely happens if you comment and then upvote. Not sure about the reverse order.
Meet The Management: Twitter Clarifies Just Who Exactly Is Running The Joint Now
Maximum Heart Rate Calculations Implemented (Ruby and R)
I love the honesty here:

"What are the benefits?

Right now? Almost nothing, except knowing that you are supporting the Instapaper service’s operation and future feature development."
What are the implications of this for startups?

Has a startup ever benefited from using a fake currency? In what ways?
I can tell you it was a really remarkable time.

The only minor inaccuracy is that we only impeached one president.
It only works the first time you try it.

Afterward, everyone with a stake in the country's direction realizes that having a technocrat who shares your views and has personal access to the administration is a great way to influence policy. The money spigot opens, and pretty soon having the 'right' opinion is far better for your career than independence. Survivor bias eventually ensures that the technocracy is dominated by people with the 'right' opinion.

And that's when you'll know that your country has achieved parity with the United States.
What are you talking about? The recognized governments of the world are the sole powers of the areas of land they control, in the same manner that I might be recognized as being the master of my domain; in fact more so!

The difference is that while it's relatively easy for you to make a decision and then act upon it, in a democratic country it's quite rare for the population to be so unified that the government of the day engages in completely unilateral actions. Not only is the government constrained by disagreements among the governed which affect its capacity for unitary policymaking, it's also usually constrained by constitutional matters which may prevent it from acting in certain ways despite the clear wishes of a legitimate majority.

That's why I suggested that scaling up the behavior of a householder to the size of a country is going to give you a monarchy of some kind. North Korea is governed by someone who seems to believe that the nation's security is best served by sealing off the whole country from its neighbors, but I rather doubt you want to live there.

When and if we actually do establish it with trade

Well this is quite close to what we have now. If you or I decide to start importing stuff from China, the customs people don't give two hoots about which particular things are imported in most cases. Nobody, for example, is going to call you up and say 'we halted your furniture shipment because we don't like tables with built-in drawers, what the economy needs right now is a greater supply of chairs.'
> I always thought HTML emails are for newsletters anyway?

They are for hyperlinked text, that is: whenever you want to embed a link in your mail. Many people are not computer literate enough to copy and paste an URL, more so when it gets splitted in pieces by your mail client.
Giving away facts, good for business (IMDB, Prices, etc)
Giving away subjective content, not good for business (Reviews)
I am an engineer. I frequently do such approximations ;-)

For most uses, like prices of eggs, it's close enough.
I don't think I've ever seen this API used in a legitimate way. I frequently see "product review" sites that are nothing more then ads and amazon reviews. Seems like by removing it, they will effectively clean up a large amount of review spam, which is fine with me.
Yeah, I'll be damned if I let my business fall over. There have been plenty of really hellacious tough times already, but I refuse to give up on it. I have a little trouble understanding how anyone else can build something from scratch and then walk away from it.
The best coffee in the South Bay is at Barefoot in Santa Clara.
i think these guys will be OK.

Sol Lipman just sold another startup, RallyUp (http://www.getupandrally.com/), to AOL, and David Beach took a position at eBay.

source: http://mashable.com/2010/10/04/12seconds-shutdown/
A friend of mine who lived in Peru around this time told me that when he got paid he would literally run as fast as he could to change the money to US$ because the longer he took to change it, the less it was worth.
> we had to divide by 1000 all values in databases

Those were the days!

It's absolutely impossible for me to say how much I paid for my first car. I know it were 4000 monetary units, but I cannot recall its name nor how much it cost. That's weird.
My Amazon links make about 1/1000th of that my Google links make; my Google links pay enough to cover costs on my blog and buy me a meal out a couple of times a year.

Admittedly ad placement is part of this but I've used Amazon book links where there are large amounts of people coming to a site with a particular interest - I've researched and picked out good books for that interest but nearly nobody bites (or Amazon aff links are not working?!).
I always figured Google Catalog Search would do something like this. I guess I should have called up Larry or Sergey and suggested it before they closed it down :)
It's a very interesting story of out-of-the-box thinking at country-scales. Most impressive indeed.

It's about gaming the market. It really drives the idea that the market is only a shared somewhat consensual hallucination.
H.264 and VP8 for still image coding? Skeptical analysis of WebP
Have you used HAML? Not hideous at all - in fact, less work and more elegance than straight-up HTML (not that that ought to be hard!)
You can email me at alexle at marrily.com or give me a call (my number is on the top of the app page). I'm also on IRC #startups with the same nick as well.
In all fairness, there are individuals of that calibre that can accomplish an enormous amount of progress - even on the 1/5 ratio that you reference.

But I would venture to say that you never find that kind of person from a job posting. A "5/1 ratio" person certainly only lands his next gig through word of mouth.
Alcohol does not kill brain cells but: "alcohol ends up damaging dendrites, which are the things at the ends of neurons"
- and - "[...]causes a vitamin B1 deficiency[...]. This, in turn, causes neuron death".

I'm glad that's cleared up.
It won't degrade gracefully for those who turn off javascript or don't have it. Putting more and more things into javascript may be in vogue but it doesn't seem any better than the solutions we already have.
It depends on if you want recurring (subscription) billing, and what countries you need to support.

Checkout by Amazon and Google Checkout both support you not having a merchant account. I've also used 2CheckOut in the past.
When I read the headline, I assumed the article would be about a late actor. :/
Great story! Why'd you move away?
I live in Santa Cruz. It's hardly wilderness but I walk through a forest to get to my research lab and then am greeted with a view of the ocean when I leave campus.

When we decide to fuck off for the day and go surfing it's a 10 minute drive. Counting the beach traffic. It's 40 minutes over the hill into Silicon Valley, counting the people from the valley who don't know how to drive CA-17.

I think that's as in-between as you can get.
i hope to see sunfire offices on this list some day. it's one of the most underrated places in mountain view to find other smart, driven hackers. their mixers are on the level of yc's dinners--i've learned some really interesting and contrarian advice from the founders of companies who attend those mixers, a few of them were yc-funded (one in particular that stood out was ngmoco's methods of generating revenue from free apps). i've also heard some bizarre ideas, like when the seasteading institute's founder came to speak. salman khan was at the last mixer i believe.
Nothing even comes close to Lifehacker, assuming your product is a good fit. It should be #1 on every start-up's list.
Signage Requirements for Commercial Dump Trucks 
In this article, examples of different signage that may be found on commercial dump trucks are given to explain what is encompassed in these signs. It is important to note that the specific requirements for the signs may change dependent upon the materials being carried. These warning signs are the typical ones that are posted on the rear of the truck.
Southern California is a desert. The north-to-middle areas have several non-desert areas that are defined by distance from the coast.

The northern coast is more like a milder version of Oregon. Redwood tree habitat continues all the way down to around Monterey along the coast. Foothills separate the coast from the Central Valley, which is ideal agricultural land but tends toward extremes of weather. Go farther east and you hit the Sierra foothills - the center of the Gold Rush. It becomes forested again and you'll see a fair number of one-street towns and two-lane highways. And then going over the mountains gets you to Nevada.
Laptop Risk: Toasted Skin Syndrome
Man Drowns After GPS Guides Him Into a Lake
Twitter Co-Founder Stepping Aside
OnLive eliminates monthly fees for games-on-demand service
"Rock Star" is the 2000's version of the 1990's intra-office Nerf fight. Bait for idiots to apply at bad companies.
YUI has a fairly exhaustive set of components available in its core offering, while jQuery has a strong core on which many fantastic plugins are built.

I think it really comes down to personal preference; I prefer jQuery... but to each his own.
They should rename it Windows Undead...I can't see how they are ever going to kill it off.
That's not the case. As a matter of law, actions undertaken for religious reasons are more protected than actions undertaken for mere personal preference. You may disagree with this approach, but that's a different question.
It's not. In my calculus classes we weren't even allowed to use graphing calculators.
I think you need to listen to the audio podcast version before you disparage the style of exposition they use.

The Planet Money folk unashamedly try and explain economic current affairs and stories as simply as possible. It's essentially their self professed raison d'être and they do a good job of it.

Quibbling about the the accuracy of their simplified examples is missing the trees and the forest.
Why Twitter's New CEO Is A Win For Everyone
Yeah, that's the problem. There's no reason to believe the screen is where you set your signature, let alone double-clicking would result in anything.

http://skitch.com/lewisham/d346d/preferences
Great news. Working for these guys would be amazing.
Plus I always feel a bit of excitement driving the parts of the roads you can see on the icon for the maps app on the iPhone.
Ask HN: Hackathons
I am interested in going to a hackathon. Is there somewhere I could find a schedule or list of a few? Are there other notable ones besides the TC Disrupt? Ideally in the midwest area, but right now I just am curious to what kind of options exist.
How many hackers here have been to one? Would you do it again, or do you prefer to give your products a less rushed attempt? Feel free to share any and all info, I'm just scoping the market here.
HTML Instant - Real-time HTML Editor
To me it means I'm going to have to keep a large supply of cocaine and cheap whisky around the office.
Noticed the same thing about scrolling. Getting the impression that the author has created his own views, which is breaking normal scrolling. Not sure it was worth it.
Social Networks: Controlling Epidemics and the World (Part I)
I'm surprised you say it is slow, the first version of pure.js was built with "pure:..." attributes, and it was as fast as the current version.
According to http://www.irs.gov/publications/p969/ar02.html#en_US_publink... , there is currently no statutory limit on FSA (Flex Spending Accounts) contributions although every plan must impose a limit.

In other words, your plan can impose a $1M limit today.

I'm still trying to track down how Obamacare changes that.
Social Networks: Controlling Epidemics and the World (Part II)
Off to a great start so far. Here are my suggestions:

-- Undo needs to allow you to undelete the last deleted message and allow you to undo a send for X seconds.

-- GMail address book browser. I need to be able to easily browse and edit my contacts as well as add a new contact from the currently active message.

-- Labels (yes, I know it's in the roadmap already). Especially and interface to rapidly add and remove labels like on Quora.

-- Plain-text emails

-- Mouseover/hover states for the menu buttons.

-- Double-clicking for account preferences is not intuitive enough.

-- Greater visual separation between read and unread messages. A little blue dot isn't sufficient.

-- Ability to set how often is checks for new messages. Setting for 30 minutes helps eliminate distractions.

-- It can be kept minimalist by only permitting certain actions via keyboard shortcuts. For example, there is no reason that bold and italics can't be made available via just CMD-B and CMD-I.

Question: When I delete does it delete just that message or the whole thread like in web-based GMail? If it deletes the whole thread, how can I delete single messages out of a thread instead of the whole thread?

If this progresses as I think it will, it looks like it will be worth buying. How much do you plan on charging for it? $19.99 is the sweet spot for me. You might want to use the Van Westendorp method to determine how to price it.
The iPhone app also has some value to it that makes it worth the $4.99, e.g., 250 article capacity, iPad compatible, and it remembers your position.

The only benefit subscribing gives to you right now is being able to hide ads, which people can already do for free, and the warm, fuzzy feeling you get from supporting Instapaper's development.
It's a matter of governement control (assuming your are not connected to the outside world/Internet and don't have, therefore, a real-time currency update).

Let's assume gov. X, printed an additional $3bn. Will prices increase? No, they won't. The gov. can use this money, to do things, like building roads, schools... These expenses has to be considered as investments; if roads are built, industry will benefit and exports will increase lowering the inflation that the gov. had already made.

So the gov. can print as much papers as they want. It's paper in the end. But the ROI of the money they spent/printed, is going to decide if inflation will happen or not (in the future).

If inflation is spiking, it means the gov. lost control over the banking sector and a new currency needs to be made to return confidence to people and companies.
I am going to have to steal that line about the trees and the forest.
It's really Tweetie inspired. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I think the complexity of mail versus Twitter has led to some bad decisions when taken to another level. I'm not a great fan of the non-raised buttons nor the non-native views and tooltips (the tooltips are supposed to be the same as you see in the Dock, but they're obviously non-native and I don't think it's a good idea to emulate them anyway).

I think it's just going to take a bit of getting used to, and a bit more spit and polish from the author.
Yeah, here's a paper on that topic:

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/where_do_mama2...
Does anyone have advice for getting in and seeing offices at startups/companies in the valley for people that are coming in for startup school, tours and whatnot?

I found the info for the Airbnb party on their blog (http://blog.airbnb.com/), that should be cool.
Wasn't a rant against your implementation, just that every one I've seen is a mirror image of the others, with only one variable: whether your pointer determines an edge of the circle - thereby making it harder to determine where it'll jump to - or it determines the center of the circle - making it harder to aim. There's gotta be a better way, because the concept is excellent.
.NET - The Truth About Value Types
I also enjoyed this one: "The buildings are all more or less the same, their exteriors express very little, and they are arranged in a confusing maze... These buildings are a pretty accurate reflection of the VC business."
How to Be a Speed Reader
Happens reliably for me, with other odd behaviors on other sites (not all). Safari 5.0.2 on an up-to-date OSX 10.6. I could record a screencast, if you'd like, though I'll try cleaning things up first. An extension / the fact that I haven't shut down Safari in 4 days could be messing something up.
Holt sh!t I read it all. Do I get a cookie?

On a more serious note, seeing that the author is not exceptionally trustworthy (apparently), how much of it is real and how much isn't? Seems plausible to me at least, but I wouldn't know for what to look out.
One way of seeing the Google offices is to keep an eye out for hacker events hosted there. I was able to get in by attending an OpenSocial hackathon, and met some people who were habitual visitors to their different events.
Beyond Foursquare: The Next Generation of Customer Loyalty
It all depends on your needs really. I think jquery is most popular toolkit, but YUI or dojo - these ship the infrastructure to build all kinds of widgets, + widgets themselves - which is NOT same jqueryui project.

You get a lot more in terms of widgets with dojo and YUI - also they are maintained and tested by their teams, so you dont have to worry about compatibility with future releases - like with 3rd party jquery ones.

Personally I suggest you give a try to dojo - it's equally fast as jquery if that is important, I used all 3 of them, and evey framework has it's strengths and weaknesses. I'm most happy with dojo, and YUI comes 2nd.

Also if you are Zend Framework or Django user, there is Zend_Dojo and Dojango that allow you to integrate smoothly if you are into this kind of solutions.
Are there any nerd bars where you can talk about jQuery, AdWords campaigns, etc?
Yup. Partially finished code - the main use cases covered, the fun and satisfaction drained out of the project. Now that I hire, I wouldn't ask for a rock star since it doesn't actually convey any of the qualities that we're looking for.
80% per month sounds crazy, but it is not even close to top 6:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Worst_Hyperinfla...
Thanks for this, very useful info. I've been gunshy about Google, because I want everything on my page to be something I endorse, and I don't want Scientology or activist groups or make money online scams getting onto my site when I talk about religion or government or wealth.

But yes, Amazon hasn't performed for me, and I've tried to make it work. Short, snappy posts with Amazon link - nothing. Extremely long, detailed posts with obscure but really good books - nothing. For a while, I thought I'd be patient with it, but it's almost to the point where it's not worth the screen real estate.

Anyway, thanks for the insight. I wanted to drop you a line but no info in your profile - email me?
Good call. We are a startup so everything is a work in progress. Appreciate the feedback.
Bizarre Tongue-Eating Parasite
Yes, it's the full version. We tried to be super clear about what you get with each...
It's cakeql:

SELECT BOWL FROM CABINET FULL JOIN EGGS ON COUNTER WITH MIXER, FULL JOIN FLOUR ON COUNTER WITH MIXER, FULL JOIN SUGAR ON COUNTER WITH MIXER WHERE CHEF IS NOT NULL; UPDATE OVEN SET TEMP = F(450); INSERT INTO OVEN VALUES CAKE AFTER REMOVE FREAKIN_TRAY FROM OVEN WITH MITT; BAKE CAKE; REMOVE CAKE WHERE CAKE = BAKED; DROP CAKE; REMOVE CAKE WHERE CAKE ON FLOOR WHERE FIVE_SECOND_RULE = TRUE; CROSS APPLY ICING(RED) AS DECORATION; CUT CAKE; SELECT SLICE(LARGE) AS "PIECE" FROM CAKE AND EAT("PIECE");
Phil if you have any questions please let me know...
Really! That goes strongly against what I think I know about mores and history. Do you happen to have details or documentation for that claim?
I don't know if they are still considered a startup but http://www.redfin.com is a prominent player.
Yes, it has been; so broadly in fact as to render the constraint meaningless. Do you think that the Framers really intended such a broad meaning?

I think it is more likely that it has been intentionally broadened from its original scope in order that the Federal Government be able to exercise a wider range of powers than intended by the Framers.
Heh. I always assumed that the name of the currency, real, has the meaning "royal". Instead, it's literally the same as the English word. What an interesting story.

Have any other governments suffering from high inflation tried this?

Instead of calling it a fictional unit, they could also just use an existing currency like the euro for the transitional period, then switch to a new national currency that has an initial exchange rate of 1:1 against the euro. (I'm picking the euro because it has a fairly neutral image, with over 20 countries using it already.)