skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer id rather give up 3 percent of equity, of something worth nothing at the time, than pay $9.99 per month. Key to any start-up without investors is to keep regular costs down.

foundrs.com is not the end all of incorporation, it seems to have nothing for "assets". Who owns the code? Author or Company. Who owns the domain? Registrar or Company?
I had a boss a few decades back that used to give me another task or two every time we passed in the halls. Being already overloaded, I wasn't very appreciative.

I started saving all of my questions for him until these pass-by's. I started giving him so much more stuff, that he began seeing me coming and would jokingly say "Oh, piss off!"

I later heard of another colleague who would answer an additional job request with the question "Okay, what DON'T you want me to do?"
I doubt it, large part of what made Ramanujan great was his independent thought, which would have been squashed pretty quickly at uni.
Fewer Industry-Funded Studies after Requirement for Independent Stat Analysis
Even if the smallest wouldn't complete in the lifespan of the universe, and a slightly bigger one would take 5 minutes?
The book about that group, The Eudaemonic Pie, is a great read:

http://www.amazon.com/Eudaemonic-Pie-Thomas-Bass/dp/05951423...

Recently I ran across another book about the same group,
"The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street"
Jeff Jarvis on Wikileaks
So you believe there should be no government? We have many examples of this throughout modern history. They were all shit holes. Every country on this planet that is a decent place to live has a strong central government. QED
Oh absolutely, many times I've wrongly downvoted people, specially while using the iPad.

I wish HN had a reddit like voting system, where you can downvote, oops, corrected, upvote without fear.
I'm a fan and contributor to Lucy, which is mentioned briefly in the header: http://incubator.apache.org/lucy/

While Lucy did start out as a C port of Lucene (hence the name), it's since broken any attempts at Lucene compatibility. Instead, it's aiming to be a fast and flexible standalone C core with bindings to higher level languages. Since it's growing out of Kinosearch, it's best developed bindings are in Perl, but support for all the usual suspects (Python, Ruby, etc.) is planned.

Technically, the main difference from Lucene is that it gets cozier with the machine: the OS is our VM. It's mostly mmap() IO, and we're very conscious of paging and cache issues. While we're trying to maintain 32-bit back compatibility, we take full advantage of 64-bit solutions when they offer themselves. The scripted bindings are also very cool --- you can do things like make callbacks to scoring methods in your script language to truly customize your results.

If for some reason you're not finding what you need in Lucene and Solr, check it out. We just became a full Apache incubator project, and are eager to get more developers involved. You'll find clean C code, decent documentation, and a low traffic but very responsive list. If you're using Perl, C or C++, you'll get a great product from the start. If you're using anything else, you'll have to help a lot on the bindings, but I think you'll be quite pleased with the end result.
Not quite. As you were her bf, you have the same right as her. This is perhaps one of the benefits of being in the EU that in some cases you have more rights living in another country, that is spain, than in the UK, for a Uk citizen, especially in situations where a relationship with a person outside of the EU is involved.
> It's nonsensical that a single die roll takes 2.58 bits, but it's perfectly believable that 100 die rolls could fit in 258 bits.

It takes 3 bits to code for six values, but that is clearly a loose bound, since 2^3 = 8. But by taking the base-2 logarithm, you can get the exact number of bits required. That's how I rationalize it. The 258-bits-in-100-die-rolls is a nice trick though.

This is why the logarithm is my favorite mathematical function -- it's not just an operation on a number, but it also describes various properties of the number itself. Depending on how you use the log, it can describe the number of digits the input has, or how much "information" can be contained in the input, and so forth.
I believe you're not trolling, so here's an attempt to explain. First, even if you're right, it's discordant to spoil a beautiful story of individual goodness. Second, even if you're right about Boeing, the connection you're drawing to this one guy is facile. If he's evil for working at Boeing, by that standard we're all so drenched in evil the difference is negligible. Your reference to being a "100% good person" is foolish; anyone who would even entertain the concept of such a thing being possible in this world has a lot of limbering up to do. Finally, your favored ideology is not one of the, let's say, two or three ideologies most in favor here. In general, when speaking in a community with very different basic beliefs, you need to make fewer assumptions - probably a good idea in any case.

Also, please (re-)read the HN guidelines.
Can you explain your infrastructure a bit (or is it a trade secret)? Even though I sorely need a service like that, I don't like black boxes...

That said, I'd love to join the beta.
From what I've read so far, Apple has got rules about what kind of programs go into the app store, for example they have to be packaged with Xcode (correct me if I'm wrong).

I doubt they'll have the unix-based utilities most people use Homebrew for.
This would be for non-technical people, not script writers.
On C Library Implementation
Eating Mostly Whole Grains, Few Refined Grains Linked to Lower Body Fat
If I only need to get one question right it doesn't take many questions before (3/4)^n is smaller than the chance the professor, for whatever reason, avoided C.
That would also make those sites unusable.
The engineers don't decide to go to war. The military gives them a spec for a weapon system, and they build it. Outside of the Manhattan project, I can think of very few instances where the actual engineers involved are in any way irreplacable. So if you don't do it, someone else will anyway. Once the government decides it wants to buy a weapon system, it is going to get it if it is technically and financially feasible.

So don't point your finger at this guy, if you have a problem with fighter jets then you need to change the country itself. That is through politics and the military. To me he is just an aerospace engineer that works on the F-22, I see no problem with that.

Especially considering the F-22 is barely used and is mostly a weapon to deal with other jets that don't even exist yet. If you are working on biological, nuclear, or chemical weaopns than I'd have problems with it, but something like a missile or a rifle or a tank isn't that ethically bad because we already have plenty of weapons just like them. The advances in technology just allows the military to do things more precisely. If you have a choice between a guided missile to hit a house, or an artillery barrage to level a block, which would you rather have? Engineers enabled the former.
Which version of Django is Django-nonrel? Did they only change the backend? I've browsed their site a bit but they don't answer the important questions...
I used to be a researcher, so I wrote a lot of grant proposals. I started to get tired of having to speculate about what I might be able to deliver so I spent a year or two under-promising on my proposals and eventually got a year ahead of my proposals. So what I wrote up in my proposals was something that I had already done the year before but not yet published. So I'd get my grant, work on something completely new, then deliver the previous year's work, and then write up a new proposal to do whatever I had actually done most recently. I got a reputation for consistently delivering on my promises.

Then one year I had a proposal rejected on the grounds that what I was proposing was impossible to do on the budget I had allocated. That's when I decided to quit and do something else.
What programming language to use for microcontrollers
What programming language would you use for a microcontroller with very limited processor and memory resources. Would you write in assembler? in FORTH? or what? What microcontroller would you use?
Not that I'm aware of. In practice we leave /usr/bin/python untouched (on 2.4) and install ActivePython in /opt. That makes the estate slightly less manageable because now Red Hat isn't doing all the integration and maintenance for us (and RH costs a fortune, as in more than Windows) but what can you do? People want to use 2.6 features at the very minimum.
Yeah, you're right. A bit of algebra reveals that your delta-V per MASS of fuel (which is a frame-independent quantity) goes as the (propellant specific chemical energy)^.5.

However, it is also true that if you calculate the delta-V per unit propellant ENERGY used, it decreases with the propellant specific energy.

Since you don't really care about how much energy you carry but only about how much fuel you need to use per delta-V, it's always better to have higher exhaust energy. (As long as you are using a chemical propellant, i.e. the mass carrying the energy and the reaction mass are the same.)

The statement in the article about "propulsive efficiency" is total bogus. First: the relative kinetic energy of the rocket and the exhaust IS a frame-dependent quantity, so it's meaningless. Second, any reasonable measure of efficiency, like the delta-V per fuel energy, reveals that the "optimal" value is an exhaust velocity of zero. (Optimal in the sense that it's more energy efficient, but only because the delta-V goes to zero slower than the energy. It's still a useless optimum, because it results in no delta-V at all...)
An hour a day? Honest question, is it really that hard?

I learned to type with all 8 fingers in about 30 minutes a day for about 2 weeks. I think I just used GNU Typist. Most efficient time investment of my entire life. Is my experience different from others?
Once upon a time I was a linecook. At the end of every night the manager would inspect your station for cleanliness. Most managers felt that they should at least find one more thing for you to do before you leave, or they weren't doing a good job. It was really arbitrary and there was always a risk that it would be something time consuming.

I started a practice of messing my station with something really easy to finish up before inpection. Maybe a blob of mayo on the counter. Worked like a charm.

I've also applied this concept to software for clueless clients. I've only recently learned that it's called a Duck[0].

[0] http://goo.gl/yDgC (stack overflow)
My friend, fraud has been illegal for centuries. Stiglitz is asking for something new to be considered a form of fraud. Please take a moment and think about this clearly. If Stiglitz was simply saying "Fraud should be illegal" then this wouldn't be much of a story, since fraud is already illegal. But Stiglitz is saying "Gambling recklessly with credit should be considered a form of fraud." He wants to take a formerly non-criminal behavior and treat it as a form of criminal behavior.
They are in the process of releasing a 512 core server togheter with quanta , in Q4 2010 targeted for the LAMP stack. they claim great saving in power and space, and strong performance.

it would be interesting to know the lifetime cost(including power, cooling and space) relative to the x86.
I got that part, but why would you have to give bribes to African airport officials?
Startup School 2010 - the recap, highlights & lessons
Thank you PG for organizing an awesome day! It was very educational and inspiring. The open day (following day) was also great and I got to meet some wonderful people inc ycombinator alumni.

Here are a bunch of photos, videos and take away notes / learnings I got from Startup School 2010:
http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/technology-scene/startup-school-2010-lessons/

Ernest
Several comments mention the upcoming intersection as if crossing traffic were likely. It is actually a classic cloverleaf. Search google maps for Renton Washington and look for highway 167, where the incident occurred, and its intersection with I-405. I haven't been over there for several months, so I'm not sure how up-to-date the satellite view is, but it looks right to me.
Creepy guys will find a reason to awkwardly approach girls with or without Foursquare.
Six months ago I decided to quit my day time job and move to Austin. I worked in Finance and there is no way the banks let you work remotely. I had been in my position for three years and in the last one year, almost all my managers left the group. I was the only one which had knowledge about all the critical processes.

I told my boss at that time that I am moving to Austin and if you really want me which you do, let me work remotely. They could not give me a contract and thus decided to keep on my same salary. I worked less and less hours every month until last month, when they decided they did not need me. I worked on my startup while getting paid and working barely 1-2 hours a week.
I think being an efficient typist is a vast improvement.

- You don't get constantly interrupted looking for a key. Seriously, remember what this was like before you could type. Being able to type without thinking about it must free up a lot of mental energy and allow you to concentrate.

- If typing is easy, you tend to write more. You don't care if you have to rewrite a function. You don't mind using longer, more self-documenting variable names that make your code clearer.
Free airport long-term parking hack. Upon returning from your trip, walk through the long-term parking gate and grab a new ticket from the machine. As you are leaving the lot, hand the attendant the new ticket. Tada, free parking.
Ultimately it depends upon whether parts of the autobiography were published after 1923. Those parts that were not published after 1923 would be in the public domain. And those that were published after 1980 would be as well (he died in 1910 + 70).

That said, publishers slap copyright notices all the time on works in the public domain. They cover things like the foreward, introduction, cover, etc.

See this complex chart if you'd like, uh, more clarity: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

But this is once again one of those "copyright law is a mess" scenarios.
Your complains sound more about dynamic languages in general than Python.
Yes, that's what I said. There are many, many changes that could be made to the system that would change the incentives that motivate the people in the financial industry, and by changing the incentives we could expect that their behavior would alter. None of which requires jail. Larger fines should be enough to greatly change the incentives.
I'm actually even quite positive I remember hearing Mitnick wasn't allowed to use the phone in prison for some time because they were concerned he could initiate some sort of military attack by whistling into the phone.

I heard this around the age of 14 though- so it's possible my memory is foggy.
The Real Privacy Scandal On Social Networks
Fully agree. It's been getting worse. It's a lot worse in certain verticals, too, like health and travel. Finding useful information is becoming a needle-in-haystack thing again.
This feature is similar: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22google+****+barc... One star will fill in any number of words. If you use two or more stars, the number of stars is the number of words Google will fill in.
Steve Yegge on Scalable Programming Language Analysis (Video)
I am sure that they thought that it would be a great PR moment. Not that it should detract from their actions. Now I can place all of their ads and commercials in the context of their response to this incident.
Khan Academy is really great to learn the basics from. I remember watching it, because my college and curriculum did a poor job of explaining it.
I don't understand how this worked. If Pace's foot was still on the accelerator, wouldn't it be difficult to get his truck to slow down?
In my dorm the extra run had to go from the ceiling above the dean's office, room to room above the drop ceiling tiles, through the built-in closets' top cabinets, and through cinderblock between every other room.

Students were not allowed to have TVs, so the other part of the hack was to be in a video production class to be allowed to have a monitor, but open it up and splice a tuner to a BNC input then use a coax to BNC coupler, so the monitor looked absolutely normal from the outside.

Awfully complicated to end up watching USA's "Up All Night" B movies hosted by Gilbert Gottfried.
I've always been skeeved out by the location sharing services; why do I want everybody to know where I am and what I'm doing? Perhaps this is generational (I'm almost 40) as almost everybody I know younger than myself happily checks in via Foursquare or Facebook, but the comment I had upon seeing the initial Loopt demo ("so now my boss can follow me around wherever I go?") retains.

It could be generational, or it could be incipient crazy-person behavior (always a possibility with me). I'm not going to try and unpack that myself; until it causes me drama, I'll just steer clear of anything that broadcasts my location.
Good homepage design?
A few weeks ago, when you'd land on my website, www.faceflow.com, you would immediately see a flash application, with not much explanation of what FaceFlow is about.
I decided to create some static pages for SEO purpose and to let people understand better what my website is about.
- Take only a few seconds to check my homepage, then comment back and try to tell me what my website is about.

Thank you!
Iphone web app development, from the trenches
Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues
I would want to hear what a lawyer said about these agreements before using them. Misincorporating yourself can be disastrously hard to fix, and this could have the same problems. It's better to sign nothing than to sign the wrong thing.
From what little you know of me, do I strike you as someone who is driven insane by the fact that I can't transcribe my thoughts as quickly as I can imagine them?

And if I was driven insane by the impediment of a keyboard, do you think I would suffer it gladly?

Which is my way of saying, I haven't been driven insane by it and I don't perceive that my ideas are suffering in a traffic jam trying to get out of my brain and into the computer.
Yes. Impossible? No. The force that your car is capable of exerting on your tires is far less than the engine is capable of producing. You can see this in performance stats, where 100 to 0 braking always takes much less time than 0 to 100 acceleration. We don't generally quote braking power for cars, but given the increasing attention to safety it is much higher now than it has been historically.

Of course, this would not work well if the other vehicle was substantially heavier (best indicated by the number and size of tires). You would have a difficult time stopping a tractor trailer with a minivan, possibly causing your brakes to fail or your tires to melt.
Agreed. Self-doubt has gotten me nowhere.
I believe mobile internet would have been an excellent opportunity to ship IPv6-only devices to a mass market

Some carriers (e.g. T-Mobile) are discussing going IPv6-only with NAT64+DNS64 to access IPv4 servers, but there are a few cases where this is worse than IPv4-only with NAT44 and very few cases where it is better. So you're basically proposing to make phones worse.

and that in turn would have resulted in a widespread adoption effect.

I don't see why.
that article makes it sound like immediately distributing equity is super important. having a rough idea of the pie sizes is probably a good idea, but 1 month vesting like the site says? no way! honestly, at this point i wouldn't start anything without a one year cliff for all cofounders (including me) anymore.

if there's a net positive return on kicking you within the first year, you're either not pulling your weight or your cofounders are acting irrational and will kill the company anyway.
Ancient Romans Recycled Glass
A friend of mine is from Ireland and went to a Scandinavian country. Same story there: people would switch to English as soon as they found out that she's from Ireland. Her trick: "Sorry, I come from the Gaeltacht. My first language is Gaeilge."
I think he meant the posts like "YCS09" etc. from companies that have completed or a part of YC.
Nice! Just add a 'Deal' button so it deals some random cards as you press it.

Sometimes I want to guess what the odds would be of any random game.
Until I read your last sentence I was going to add: the joke was on you.
At a previous company the software engineers also had to answer the tech support line for our product. This was not a popular activity so all calls had to be logged and if your numbers were too far below the average you got chewed out at the end of the month.

Now some calls were really easy to handle, like if there was a deadlock in the database, you'd just pull up the db manager and pick one of the processes to kill. Now the database didn't have enough information to detect when a deadlock occured, because technically the deadlock was in the java code it was just easiest to clear it up by killing one of the db processes.

I modified how we created our db processes, giving them a name which contained enough information to detect a deadlock automatically, add in an eclipse plugin that polled the db every few seconds and I became the king of tech support. The light would go red and my hand would hover over the phone just waiting for a call.

I was kind enough to give my boss a copy of the software when I left the company.
Depends on the microcontroller and the task. Most microcotnrollers these days support C, so unless there is a specific requirement that cannot be solved in C (for example, if it is not fast or small enough), then assembly.

If the microcontroller does not have a C compiler or has other high level languages, then obviously you would want to evaluate them to see what the best option is for your project. The same goes for the decision of which microcontroller to use. It depends on what you need: unit cost, performance, power consumption, available development tools/compilers/languages/documentation, available I/O pines etc etc.

As for what microcontroller I'd use - if I wanted to do somehting simple as inexpensively as possible and don't require high performance or many I/O pins, I would use a PIC [1] microcontroller, as they are well known (therefore are reliable, have tools and documentation), extremely cheap and low power.

If I need something more powerful, need more I/O pins, need 32bit integer support (or generally can deal witht he fact that they cost maybe 15x the amount of a PIC), I would use a Parallax Propeller [2] microcontroller. Its a great architecture, is easy to program (in its own interpreted high level language, Spin, in assembly, in C and in Forth - possibly other languages too now), has good documentation, sample code and an active community and is quite powerful. Its funky 8 core interrupt-free architecture is interesting too.

If I needed something even more powerful than a microcontroller, I'd use an ARM Cortex A8 [3] based processor.

If you need support for peripherals or otherwise want a more complete package than a microcontroller or processor, I'd use either a Propeller-based Chameleon [4] or a Cortex A8 based BeagleBoard [5].

[1] PIC - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller

[2] Parallax Propeller - http://www.parallax.com/propeller/

[3] ARM Cortex A8 - http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a8.ph...

[4] Chameleon - two models, 16bit PIC & Propeller: http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=52 and 8bit AVR & Propeller: http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=51

[5] BeagleBoard - http://beagleboard.org/