skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently living in Thailand (remote programmer) and it's a great country to do these kinds of things from. When it comes to the visa situation here it's kind of difficult, I have a Thai wife which kind of takes care of that for me, otherwise your best option is probably getting a student visa. The internet connection is not the fastest (max 100k/s to the EU/US) but it's very stable even out here in the jungle.
I'm a sophomore in college and I agree. Emphasis on making mindless web apps has made my peers (and me, sadly) into consumers of SDKs and frameworks, rather than producers of technology.

To add to the confusion, every VC with a blog is writing about how CS education is irrelevant and that it's worth dropping out. But I doubt that the core tech behind Google or the erstwhile Sun could have been made if their founders hadn't learned proper computer science.
If you want people that speak a certain language, you could try looking at some translation communities, such as ProZ.com.

http://www.proz.com/
The word you probably want is "truthiness".

If there's a fundamental difference between the weaselly narratives constructed by Fox News and the psychedelic screeds Thompson put out, it's that most reporters aren't making it explicit that their stories are fully personal, opinionated interpretations of true events -- they record some isolated facts, sample a few quotes and make vague references to public sentiment to back up any narrative they need. But they present all of this as objective information. This was happening well before H.S.T. (see "yellow journalism") and happens outside the U.S. too (see Daily Mail).

Thompson's approach was (1) a veil of entertaining literary showmanship over (2) complete, self-accountable interpretations of the events being covered. He was clear that his stories were subjective, and that freed him to explain exactly why he felt the way he did about Nixon, drug laws, Southern culture, etc.
The title of the article is "Why Many Americans Will Never Retire" which the article does a really poor job of answering. The first paragraph points out lower home values and a drop in people's retirement accounts. That is it?!?! The article then goes on to throw out these percentages based on survey responses but it doesn't appear the survey asked anyone WHY they won't retire. Personally, I will never retire! Why would I want to?? I love my job, it's NOT work at all and I could do it 24/7/365. I never feel like I'm working... I have no reason to stop doing what I'm doing unless, like many survey respondents said, am no longer able to work for health reasons. Nothing to do with the economy, housing market, etc etc has a factor for me. If I saw a survey of American small business owners that said they don't plan to retire, my first assumption would be they're like me.. they love what they're doing and they see no reason to stop.
Probably the server is overloaded. Here is the cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac...
You are asking the wrong people. Ask Larry Ellison.

http://www.google.com/search?q=larry+ellison+toys
I'm a Vim user and here are my 2 cents on the matter. Vim has a lot of keyboard tricks because there's a keyboard shortcut for almost everything. Don't worry about those right now. Here's how I would suggest you learn Vim:
You already know the basics you can get into and out of insert mode you can save a file you can open a file. You now have a "complete" editor in the same way a Turing machine is Turing complete.
The problem is it's inefficient. So figure out exactly what you're wasting time on and one at a time (or you could do a few at a time) look up the commands to automate these things. Make yourself use the commands every time they come up if you forget take the time to look it up again.
You're going to notice a very steady rise in your efficiency.
This url will get you the entire article including the 12 points mentioned.
http://venturesocially.tumblr.com/tagged/elevator_pitch
but what is it?

Its not clear what it is on the webpage, is it a browserplugin, service or what? It should be more prominent, you have to try downloading to find out.
Facebook not fan of movie: 'Social Network' fiction
http://khanacademy.org/people.jsp
Perhaps the key to genius quality work is to aim for the timeless work alluded to at the end of the piece. It may come down to the fact that if you set the bar of all your work to be genius/timeless, you won't product average work, or you won't let yourself release it.

This could lead to paralysis via analysis though. It's probably in the middle/gray areas that produces consistent "genius" work. Just like everything else, I guess.
Rebooting Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Your ecosystem
Thanks!

You have some good thoughts on it, and your plan to get input is great. But, I think you need to continue thinking outside of the box on this.

What you are saying you want it to do is the cliche of existing sites out there that do social link promotion or link/news aggregation (regardless of whether there is a great logic to how you are pulling those stories, etc.). There is no value add significant enough in anything you are listing there to make me want to visit the site at all, much less with any frequency.

You need something significantly new or niche about the site. If you are looking for a challenge, surprise me (and everyone else) and come up with an idea that I'd be interested in that I've not heard before. I know this sounds harsh, but better now than later.
(This is Marc from Wesabe.)

I definitely, and intentionally, left out a lot of the detail about why we decided to turn the site off. My post was already huge and that final decision wasn't what I was writing about; I was writing about the competition between the companies and how people perceived it. Also, some parts of that decision are personal and I didn't want to write about them. Of course, though, we didn't just try one thing and then give up. We tried everything we could think of to keep it going.

That said, I addressed some of the reasons for the decision to shut down in the post announcing our closure:

http://blog.wesabe.com/2010/06/30/wesabe-is-discontinuing-it...
I'm using ContemporaryVa and am very happy with it.
I would also add "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach.
Its a simple and inspiring story about a bird who tries to question the very simple facts and norms of life established by generations before.
For real analysis, I suggest Bartle's "Introduction...". I had a horrible teacher (well, I loved him, but he never prepped for class), and was able to learn everything by working through the proofs in the text. Bartle has a multi-dimensional version too.

For linear algebra, I was suggest Strang's "Linear Algebra with applications", 3rd edition. Then "Linear Algebra Done Right".

While you are at it, get Hungerfords "Abstract Algebra: An Introduction"; you will need an easy reference to fields and groups and polynomials.

All these books require an hour per page, but they lay it all out for you if you work for it. These are definitely undergrad books, but that is their beauty.

Bartle also has "Elements of integration and lebesgue measure" -- I bet it is great, but I haven't used it.

And if you find a good probability book, please post the title ;)
Nah, I uninstall crashy apps. And I, for one, never plan on buying anything they produce: how can you not notice 10 days of your application failing to work, and only notice because you checked ad revenue? Sorta implies where their focus is, neh?

edit: Maybe this is part of the reason. Ratings from the iStore for the application in question:

*****: 0
**** : 0
*** : 1
** : 5
* : 9

Several other applications have similarly-weighted ratings, reports of crashing, etc, though a couple are higher. Color me disinterested.
It also seems a bit like a Gates/Ballmer relationship as well: sharp hacker and a sharp MBA.
He's local to me (at least when he's at Duke) and was a guest speaker at one of my systems engineering classes at NCSU (a class on knowledge dynamics and learning organizations). The professor had sent us two of his previous posts on Techcrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/27/can-entrepreneurs-be-made/ and http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/06/replicators-innovators-and-...).

I had sent some critical comments back but it seemed the rest of the class, which didn't have any real-world experience whatsoever, took all of Wadhwa's essays as gospel.
The font on that blog makes me want to gauge my eyes out.
That's easily one of the best biographies I've read. It's up there with Martin Gilbert's biography of Churchill.
This is how Jim Coudal selects projetcs.

1. Am I going to make money from this?

2. Is this going to be something I’m proud of when it’s done? Am I going to want to show this to my friends?

3. Am I going to learn something from doing it?

Source: http://lifeinperpetualbeta.com/blog/bloggers/field-testing-c...
The funny thing is, I definitely would have typed "C-h k" in emacs. The hard part is trying to translate from muscle memory back into a string I can write down on HN.
Gauge your eyes out?

I think you mean gouge.
The theme of positivism in this book inspires me.
If we're discussing (arche|stereo)types, then women like to talk more then men (i.e., face-to-face interaction). Therefore, they aren't as likely to spend time on a glorified Internet chat board like HN.
Don't tell Google, Facebook or Twitter, Instant Search Hacked In 2+ Hrs
Rube Goldberg and the Irreducible Strangeness of Electricity
What's $1000 adjusted for cost of living in India? No doubt it's still cheaper than US after that, but I would believe the gap narrows considerably.
No, it's set to UTF-8. (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1)
>The font on that blog makes me want to gauge my eyes out.

Looks like they're somewhere between a 6 and a B gauge. Or up to 4, if you're European.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_(bore_diameter)#Conversio...
The chessboard-domino problem isn't related to hamiltonian paths in bipartite graphs. For a minimal counter-example, the path of length 2 is bipartite and has a hamiltonian path, but has an odd number of vertices so there is clearly no way to cover it with dominoes. You can also find counter-examples in the other direction (bipartite, domino-coverable, not hamiltonian), but they take a bit more effort to describe.

The generalized chessboard problem is to find a perfect matching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_matching) in a graph: that is, a set of edges that cover each vertex, but don't touch any other edge in the set. This problem is a lot easier than finding a hamiltonian path, which is NP-complete.
I try to do a lot of stuff with my hands, it gets me out of this chair and in to the world, and it teaches me useful skills.

Over the years I've found that if I just do online stuff I find it hard to keep a sense of accomplishment, moving bits around on a harddisk somewhere does not seem to be enough all by itself (for me).
Tomatoes and Election Season
Allowed myself to humbly add Bjarne Stroustrups "The C++ Programming Language" to this otherwise very interesting list.
Agreed - had a great experience using FastSpring; hope to use them again once another idea comes up :)
Most languages are easy to parse.

The argument I've heard many times before is that you must use an IDE with Java because Java is overly verbose.

I'm effective in Java in that I achieve what I want to achieve. The bottleneck has never been speed of typing/refactoring etc.
I agree with you: it's completely nonsense to sell a company for anything less than 5x annual revenue. However, I'm not so sure about the TC annual revenues you refer to (>7.5MM/year). The only source I could find is a Wired article back from 2007 (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/ff_arring...), where Arrington says revenues are about 200k/month = 2.4MM/year.
Upvoted for suggesting Linear Algebra Done Right.

To get a sense of the approach, read his earlier article Down with Determinants at http://www.axler.net/DwD.html. That article was the first time I felt I really understood a lot of the material I had already theoretically learned and done well at.

On the real analysis side, I learned from Royden and liked it. But my mind definitely heads the analysis way, and what I find easy someone else might not.
Do make space for Alvin Toffler - starting with "Future Shock" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
It's in Chapter 27 of Stephen Mitchell's translation. It's by far the most prominent recent English Dao. I like Mitchell's translations, but when he strays into editorializing he makes me cringe. (Also - an irrelevant pet peeve - he or his publishers came up with one of the most obnoxiously hubristic titles I've ever seen in "The Gospel According to Jesus").

I agree with your main point. Not only has much come West, much of value has come West. For example, I consider the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching to be a masterpiece. Our civilization -- heck, my life -- has improved immeasurably by exposure to the Sanskrit and Chinese classics.

On the narrower point of California Buddhism and similar spiritual trends, these do seem to me to be all about rebellion against Western religion, so they're tied up (often unconsciously) in issues that have nothing to do with the models they seek to emulate. In fact both of the two great spiritual trends going on right now -- the other being aggressive atheism -- seem like attempts to fill the same void. Presumably these will give way to other trends over time. My guess (could be totally wrong) is that people will eventually rediscover their own traditions.

Someone who worked at one of the big Zen institutes in San Francisco told me that they were visited by a highly regarded Japanese teacher who walked in on a large room full of silent meditators, hung out for a while, then angrily yelled "You're all looking for God" and stormed out.
This is why there are many websites that split their 20 paragraph articles over 10 pages, the lower the actual content on a page the bigger the chance of a click on an ad, and the bigger the total ad inventory.

Conversely, if your content is too compelling nobody will ever click on an ad.
Agreed. I love good tools, and I hate bad tools, just like everybody else. But if the tech value index (= time gained by using tool / time spent talking about the tool) < 1, then the tool starts to smell bad.
I've heard good things about https://getfriday.com/
Visa processing made easy at http://www.visanow.com/resources/visadirectory/Visa_Director...
Here's a few I've really liked that have a broader subject matter than only what you asked for. I figure that if you like to read you'd like these books.

--- NON-FICTION ---

Darkness Visible

A Mathemematician's Apology

Omnivore's Dilemma

Fermat's Enigma

The Code Book

Born to Run

Judgement of Paris

Siddhartha

Killing Pablo

The Victorian Internet

Lone Survivor

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman

Papillon

Into Thin Air

Born on a Blue Day

Touching the Void

Got Fight

The Conquest of Happiness

--- FICTION ---

Switch Bitch

Lost Horizon

The Cuckoo's Egg

The Simlarillion

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Alchemist

The Count of Monte Cristo

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Neverwhere

My Uncle Oswald

Stories of Your Life and Others

Invisible Cities

Life of Pi

Atlas Shrugged

--- WALL STREET / FINANCE ---

When Genius Failed

Liar's Poker

Buffett (Lowenstein)

Bull!

Black-Scholes and Beyond (textbook)

Fixed Income Securities (textbook)

The Road to Serfdom

The Smartest Guys in the Room

Fortune's Formula

The Fourth Turning

Inside the House of Money

--- ENTREPRENEURSHIP / COMPUTERS (non-textbook) ---

Masters of Doom

It's Not About the Bike

Dot. Bomb

Founders at Work

The PayPal Wars

Coders at Work

The Mousedriver Chronicles

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

The Soul of a New Machine

Startup

The Hypomanic Edge

Small Giants

Small is the New Big

Four Hour Work Week

The Boy who Harnessed the Wind

Four Steps to the Epiphany

Pour your Heart into it

Beyond Software Architecture

Setting the Table

--- DESIGN / UX ---

On Writing

The Design of Everyday Things

Understanding Comics

The Elements of Typographic Style

Don't Make me Think!

A Pattern Language

--- PROGRAMMING ---

Programming Pearls

Effective Java

The Algorithm Design Manual

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

The Pragmatic Programmer

Refactoring

Java Concurrency in Practice

Java Puzzlers

Expert C Programming

--- COOKING ---

The Secrets of Cooking Revealed

Cooking for Geeks

The Bread Baker's Apprentice

The Brewmaster's Table

--- MISC ---

Robot Building for Beginners

Mountaineering - The Freedom of the Hills

A First Course in Coding Theory

The Computational Beauty of Nature

Total Control

The Ashley Book of Knots

Make: Electronics
The OS Doesn’t Matter…
So we have 2010's version of the immemorial text editor wars^Wdiscussions?

Yawn.

Pick whatever editor^WIDE works best for you, and for the task at hand.

Don't expect to convince anybody else.

Don't expect to have one universal solution.

And please do us all a favor, and keep the evangelism to a minimum.
Strongly agree with #5: hiring sucks for startups, we'd all love to meet some entusiastic candidates.

Shameless plug: GazeHawk is looking for our first hires. http://gazehawk.com/jobs/
Not necessarily - monodevelop is an excellent IDE for use with C#/mono.
I had the same impression. Nothing can educate like a good teacher who coaches you directly. Looks like many americans (or britons) are not getting this individual attention in their schools and colleges.

Some professors are able to teach you complex things in such simple terms that it damn well blows you away. I remember being tought van der walls equation's proof using some very basic concepts and the taylor series. I can't find that simple a proof on wikipedia now, and unfortunately I have forgotten much of physics. SICP is also a good example of a good teacher making complex problems simple.
Should we push for much more limited copyright terms, so that any sold publication or data after 20 years would become public property?

It just keeps getting longer and longer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_term
> how can you not notice 10 days of your application failing
> to work, and only notice because you checked ad revenue

Sounds like the cronjob is broken if he wasn't being spammed due to import errors...
Non-fiction

- 'The Selfish Gene' - Richard Dawkins

Grokking the concept changed the way I thought about life forever.

- 'Quantum Reality' - Nick Herbert

One of the best introductory level books on quantum physics mysteries. No nonsense.

- Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

The book that introduced me to Kant, Hume and philosophy of science. Just for that, I'm forever indebted to it.

Some favorite fiction books -

- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Loved 'Snowcrash' too.

- 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' - Robert Heinlein

- Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, Somerset Maugham
2 Thumbs Up to JetBlue Social Media Account Managers
Though a lot of geniuses leave massive quantities of both public and private work that's unremarkable - probably the price for their true contributions. I would think genius quality work doesn't mean you don't publish, etc. but that you're persistent in striving to make real contributions.
Unfortunately you won't find the answer here. In part the problem is we are comparing ourselves to Europe, which is still very similar to us.

The real answer is that we are extraordinarily unhealthy. We now assume that we are supposed to have an assortment of health problems that must be alleviated by drugs or costly medical interventions.

One remarkable example to demonstrate this point is that we assume humans are required to have dentists and orthodontists pull and shape their teeth for them to come in correctly. Of course, that is not the case- such a creature could not survive in the wild and there is ample evidence to the contrary: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/price8.html
Evan Davis meets Warren Buffett - 1 of 6
One comment I would have on this is that theory is often not framed by many professors in the context of practice or application. The converse is also true.

Math theory is a beautiful thing, but if no context is provided (this can be merely history, or a story of how it was applied, rather than actual applied homework itself) would go a long way with students. Otherwise you're just teaching people the notation and rote plugging and chugging of theory, rather than true understanding of the theory.
I think you mis the most important part of what the Khan Acedemy is all about, it is open 24x7 365 days per year and it is 100% free.

He doesn't have to be 'outstanding' or even 'great' to have an enormous impact on the world.
The price of crossing Steve Jobs
Peter Sunde: The Pirate Bay should die
The best thing you can do is start turning up to developer meetups. There are no doubt some in your area, if you're in any sort of medium or large city. If you've already spent 10 years learning to program you're probably better than you think. Make friends in that community and soon enough (think 6-12 months) one of them will probably emerge looking like a good potential cofounder.

For any kind of real startup, outsourcing your development is a really bad idea, fyi. Also, just so you know, your ideas are completely worthless. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're worthless as a cofounder. Hopefully you can bring more than an idea to the table.
Ask HN: How do you see privacy on Internet ?
Can internet privacy be ever achieved? It looks to me as only a small subset of people actually care about their data online. In future people are going to be more concerned about privacy or they would never ? I would like to know views of fellow HNers about privacy.
Though this is slightly unrelated, I wish I could send this article to every software company who makes the tools I need, but only makes them windows compatible. I'm all unix on my end, but I'm having to scrape together emergency funds for a windows box that can run ESRI and other GIS systems (my systems are just old enough to prevent a feasible dual boot as well). It's not huge issue, but definitely an inconvenience.
I remember hearing that China's one-child policy only applies in the cities, not in the country. If China's rural population urbanizes they won't have a demographic problem--in fact, the one-child policy explicitly makes room for the rural population to urbanize, which is a big component of development and industrialization.
I didn't love Stranger, but I blame Heinlein's stroke on that. Mid-way through writing it, he had a stroke – and you can tell because there's this huge break in the direction of the narrative.

Moon feels much more cohesive and internally consistent. It's my favorite work of Heinlein's. Citizen of the Galaxy is also outstanding, even though it was written for the "juvenile" market.

The neatest thing about Bryson is that he's a travel writer. It works out really well for a science book, though, because he takes nothing for granted and describes everything with such loving flourish. It's a travelogue through the history of science and it's funny, and fun, while still respecting the subject matter.
I believe your claims but is there any evidence to back it up (and is that possible on fuzzy metrics such as palpable sense of disconnect)?

From your other comments I understand you are from the US and I guess its a wholly different matter across the pond, but I for one cannot reproduce these effects here in Germany. Sure, most -- rough estimate: all -- of my contacts do have accounts on various social networks (me included) but we have never critically relied on it. It never gained quite as much traction as I always hear from Facebook.