skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking to raise angel money you should absolutely watch this video.
Leaving Harvard Business Review to Write for Yourself
That pisses off the other Sachin a lot more than it bothers me. :)
Man you must treat your MBP pretty delicately. My MPB looks like it got in a fight with a baseball bat and an angle grinder, and I carried it around in a padded laptop backpack for only a year.

Thank goodness I almost never put disks in the drive the case around the opening is so bent I don't think I can anything in or out of there.

(The screen still looks pretty good even if I can't ever seem to get the brightness to where I want it).
The new Airs are nice but I still don't fully get the appeal. I still have to rave about my Sony Vaio VGN-TZ390 for the ultimate portable workhorse.

Core 2 Duo U7700 @ 1.33Ghz, 1366x768 11.1" WXGA LCD, 128 Gig SSD, 2 Gig RAM, 2 USB, a/b/g/n WiFi, Sprint Mobile Broadband, BlueTooth, DVD±RW DL, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Firewire, V.90 Modem, VGA out, ExpressCard, Memory Stick, and SD slots, 1.3Mp Camera, Fingerprint reader, 10+ hours actual use on medium size battery, carbon fiber body, less than 1 inch thick and 2.7 pounds. Also has 'instant on' to watch DVDs, music, or photos without booting the OS.

It may be 2 years old but is still only 0.4 pounds heavier than the Mini-Air and 0.13 inches thicker. And it offers a LOT more features wise.
Absolutely, as I described in the "what's next" section :)
Paul mentions these origins in his essay on Taste:

http://paulgraham.com/taste.html

After "Why Nerds Are Unpopular", it's one of my favorite things he's written.

"At an art school where I once studied, the students wanted most of all to develop a personal style. But if you just try to make good things, you'll inevitably do it in a distinctive way, just as each person walks in a distinctive way. Michelangelo was not trying to paint like Michelangelo. He was just trying to paint well; he couldn't help painting like Michelangelo."
That's not really fair, though. /r/atheism is the atheist equivalent of Christian fundamentalists. If atheism is a religion like "not collecting stamps" is a hobby, /r/atheism wants everybody to stop collecting stamps.

Everyone who has been on reddit for a while knows to unsubscribe from /r/politics, /r/atheism and maybe /r/worldnews.
I can definitely see why you'd need a profile picture when you're about to randomly video chat with someone's face.

Sometimes simplicity is a virtue. It's supposed to be anarchic.
Looks like the users are mostly fake or don't respond.
Congratulations Apple! You've finally put a netbook on the market and figured out how to charge 3x for it by removing all of the USB ports and putting a better screen in it!
Announcing the Oxymoron CSS Framework
There is so much I could write, but this sounds exactly like many lottery winner stories. The 30k blown in Vegas part, especially.

My personal philosophy is that you've got to get yourself correctly life-balanced. Adding money just amplifies your current habits. So if you're working 24x7 with no life balance, adding a lot of money will just amplify that out-of-control nature.

What's sad to me is that there was nobody in this guys life who could act as a mentor and provide advice.
That's retarded thinking. School is cool, are you telling me that you would have been better off without any schooling? Think of all the habitual class cutters, and delinquents in your class in high school, (I'm sure there were plenty in all schools.) Sure, they may have jobs, but working at fast-food or cleaning places when you are 30yrs, 40yrs or 50yrs old isn't very attractive. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with working at these places if you have no choice. My parents worked at these places, because they were new to this country, and their options were truly limited. I know for a fact they would be hurt/disappointed if I didn't learn from their situations.

Sending you to school was not bad advice. Are you saying that you wouldn't tell that to your kids? What would you say to your kids? How do you want to approach this? At some point, you need to take responsibility for your actions. I'm not happy where I am now, but I don't blame anyone else for it. I made choices, and I will continue to improve myself, because after all what is the alternative? Give up?
They had their own server farm. The issue they had was that most 'mainstream' companies don't want to have anything to do with them.
There is a lot of knowledge (to which I count in particular all proven facts) that has no value at all for me.

For example, take every kind tabloid press. Well, at least the true part of it. Even then, I simply don't care whether some people who I don't even know cheat their spouse, had cosmetic surgery or whatever.

Another example are sports statistics. At least for me, those are absolutely uninteresting. Okay, memorizing them is a nice exercise for the brain, but so is memorizing hundreds of digits of pi, too. (which is also useless, BTW, because we need at most 35 digits of pi for any practical calculation)
I really like the low barrier of entry (ie, no verification). It could be cool to see a more "legitimate" take on all this, but for this quick proof of concept I love how brain-dead simple it turned out. I mean, you're randomly video chatting with strangers, how stringent do you need to make it? :)
I've been thoroughly impressed watching web.go come together. It's now the top Go project on Github in every category they track: http://github.com/languages/Go

Personally I'm of the opinion that language expressiveness matters more than real world performance, but only to a limit. Go is definitely carving out a nice niche for performant systems-related apps.

And the fact that Smart Twitter serves 90k concurrent users from a VPS without breaking a sweat is freaking amazing. I suspect this is the reason the service can remain free.

(edit: err, for the "watched" categories)
"As a linguistics major, you're no stranger to the idea that a person is only capable of having thoughts and ideas that can be expressed in their language."

I am sorry but this is bullshit, I am glad I no longer visit this crappy forum filled with linguist turned Ruby Dev masquerading as Software Engineers and Computer Scientists.

If you have an idea and if you can make it run on a machine, then it means you can convert it into the machine code, which is what everything gets finally converted into. Also if this guy knew math it is called as Turing Principle and as long as the language is Turing complete it makes no difference.
Actually, the app store for ipad is pretty damn clunky (steam isn't great, but I like it better). Honestly, I dont think they have anything to fear... They are, after all, cross platform. Game Center is a pile of schlock at the moment... I suspect, at least for AAA titles... steam will remain top dog.
How did you manage to do that?!?! ;)

I put mine in my messenger bag and have ridden to work every for a year with it and the only thing with any signs of wear are the feet.
> There's no such thing as useless information

I disagree completely with that. I just summarized some examples of useless knowledge in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1813796
Think Like a Designer
Do I have to have FaceTime running to get an invite?
Well, also: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1360555436/on-second-thought-pe...
moconnor: did you keep a journal while you were building this app?

I'm thinking to myself as I am reading this that there's no way you could have gotten from A-Z, then only after that started filling in the blanks accurately about what you did on day #X. (Heck, I can't remember what I ate yesterday!)

Motivational, good stuff, thanks for sharing.

Now I'm thinking of an app for HN'ers who just need a little help getting something like this off the ground: An app that lets you chronicle every day a short paragraph of what you did to move the ball forward.

Plus, there will be a nagging^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeer-accountability feature built-in. Your progress is public and other HN'ers can "tap" you on the shoulder if there's a lack of progress and say "what's up with this?"
Huh? The MBAs have 2 USB ports, one on each side.

That's one more than they had in the past. ;-)
Microsoft’s New Windows Phone 7: Novel But Lacking
Nope; Apple must have something running in the background listening for incoming connections. FaceTime.app will open with the Accept/Reject box when someone calls.
> However: free account.

Indeed, you get what for pay for.
Community colleges not preparing California's future workforce
That's pretty baller.
Google places policed by locksmith police.
Google places is killing brick and mortal biz's. Not with competition, but with fraud, unverified addresses. The Yellow Pages would never be allowed to get away with this deceit.
Relevant: http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
He is not only the Valley Disruptor, he will change how smart kids pursue their education, career ,,,,
People are looking ahead to html 5, when real apps can be implemented entirely in a browser.
I think it's time for you to move on to a place where your dedication to the job is more valued.
Personally, I keep a timesheet on when I started and finished working on something, for instance

Tue 19/10/2010 | 15:40:00 | 17:10:06 | 1:30:06 | Looking at admin interface for sensor daetails. Trying to fix None issue, seems to be related to subclassed models. Adding code to twisted for CT settings

Turns out that one of my Django models is breaking the Django admin interface, and also that I have to have calibration details for the Current Transformer sensors we use (http://gridspy.co.nz)

Another one

18/10/2010 | 8:50:00 | 9:56:36 | 1:06:36 | Server maintaince, removed orbited, checked memory usage. Killed backup scripts, installed python 2.7

Naturally it is all in an Excel spreadsheet. :)
same problem.
AppEngine is amazing. It's free web-hosting, that also happens to include everything you need to make webapps.

The man who never made a mistake never made anything
Script to create YouTube playlists from iTunes playlists (OSX/Python)
How to use PowerShell Security? | ICA : Indian Cyber Army
Wedoist, from the creator of Todoist
http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
Well...33% fewer then.

I mean really, didn't Jobs explicitly say that they would not release a device in this form factor? If this isn't Apple's take on a netbook I don't know what is.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358514,00.asp

At least do something cool with it like let me flip the screen around and use it as a tablet or put a micro projector on it or something for that money.
UDFy-38135539 Is Most Distant Galaxy Ever Measured
I had a very similar experience, although it ended up being that the only reason I didn't reconnect my PC's DVD drive is that I ended up using my macbook pro for ripping DVDs. If you live within the apple world (itunes) this becomes even less of a problem, but I still find having a DVD drive handy. Not to mention it was the only way I found to install the OS X version of diff.
This is a fascinating post.

Some systems already have two parallel ways of looking up data built in -- an SQL backend such as MySQl and a fast key-value store cache such as memcached. Such a system might be able to be modified to treat the fast direct InnoDB lookup as the cache level, without modifying too much code.
Couldn't agree more. But then that's the problem with the concept of fluid intelligence.
Ask HN: How did you convert a million users to your service?
Did you do anything illegal or unethical?
Advertising?
Hacks?

Assuming there are HN/YC'ers with million+ users.
I wish I knew. I do know when the drive got wrecked, it was after sitting in my carry on after a 16 hour plane ride overseas. I don't even take it out anymore I'm so scared about the fragility of it. I have to say this, overall it looks better after a year of hard use than most of my Dells.

My other notebooks look terrible too, but I attribute that to cheap plastic. Little pieces broken off on the corners, battery that won't stay in place, etc.

I use computers hard if you can't tell.
Would like to see examples of successful AngelList applications. Applied recently and wasn't about to get any intros out of it.
>Reddit changes its logo site-wide to celebrate same-sex marriage victories.

That and the porno thing are way more about age than ideology. Old democrats are against same-sex marriage and young republicans are more likely to be for it than most other deviations from the party line. Look at a graph of opinion on that issue over age sometime.

I suppose ideology is in there a little as far as secularism (!= atheism), but hey, it's the internet.
Probably best way to do it is pick a programming language or framework and start building your app.

Rails has this: http://railstutorial.org/book (If you need a kick to choose.)

If you don't already know HTML and CSS you should probably learn that first, http://www.w3schools.com/ is a good starting point. (Not really a lot to learn but very valuable.)

And javascript will be useful but you could probably do without it for making a simple app.
Yup, college undergrads are the perfect research subjects - easily available and inexpensive.

That said, wouldn't Popper care more about replication and falsification then with sample design?
Letter in Nature with technical details:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7318/full/nature0...
Perfect Score for Americans in World Math Tourney (1994)
I still have not figured out what is the actual legal situation of ZFS. Who can use it and at what conditions? Also is now Oracle the "owner"? So confused. I'll dig.
The 11" MBA has a screen solution of 1366x768, wider than the 13" MBP at 1280x800.
What does this have to do with integrity? It wouldn't be evil if Steve Jobs / Apple decided to make OSX more iOS like. We may not like it, but it's not evil.

Today OSX users are very fortunate that they don't have to deal with viruses or spyware, but the good times will change eventually and Apple will lose the marketing advantage of being able to brag about being worry-free. If they felt that their market would be interested in some kind of Apple version of Microsoft Bob then why wouldn't they pursue that?

You clearly seem to be a fan of Apple's products, help me understand how speculating on the possibility of Apple converging its operating systems is even remotely FUD?
The inverse is actually true... the deeper your mathematical training is, the more you realize how unimportant it is in most programming. The people who espouse otherwise either haven't studied enough math, or more usually, haven't done that much programming.
Why did they remove the keyboard light? That is an essential feature for me. I guess I'm gonna cling to my current MBA until it dies instead of upgrading for better hardware :(
At least one veteran from the 1994 United States "dream team" at the International Mathematical Olympiad appears to write software (a programming language), but what are they all doing now?
Here's what I gleaned from fellow programmers: Python, Google Apps, NoSQL

This is a really subjective area of web development. There really is not and probably will not ever be an agreement on the best technology stack for the web.

For me personally, I do not use server side web frameworks. I write web apps and I use pure HTML / CSS / and JavaScript for the frontend and a REST lib to expose REST services for the back end. I use Java quite a bit to build my REST services because it is entrenched in the enterprise and that is an overwhelming percentage of my clientele.

I also do REST services in Python, Ruby, C# and am teaching myself node.js for that purpose as well. It depends on the client's tech stack as to what I use. I find that the way I develop is an advantage to what I do because I use common front-end technologies no matter what stack my client is using.

I don't have to keep up with the latest Struts, ASP.NET, Rails, Django or any other api intensive web framework. My UI is detached from the technical implementation of the back end and for me that is an advantage. There are a growing number of developers that build web apps this way, and yet there are others that believe that it is the spawn of Satan.

Anyway, I would say to just start, don't worry to much about what stack as it is more important to understand how the web is bolted together then as you gain knowledge you can make adjustments as necessary to perfect your web-fu. You cant go wrong with Python, Google Apps is great to know the only one I would caution on is the NoSQL.

Not that it does not have advantages and vice-verse disadvantage, but as a newcomer you want to make your transition as easy as possible and I think a relational database would help achieve that goal. There is more documentation and users of the stack you select that know how to work with relational databases, if you get stuck as you will from time to time, you will find it much easier to find info on how to work your way out of a DB issue rather than a NoSQL issue. Even if it is just do your first project with a Relational DB and then make the transition it will help to isolate your learning's to web specific nuances first.

Finally, learn JavaScript it is the only universal web language and it's use is growing. No matter which stack you chose, you will eventually have to write JavaScript.
Thinking of adding Windows support next after fixing a few issues. Feedback welcome!
It's similar to how FriendFeed uses (used?) MySQL:

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
Re: 1: No, Jobs was clear that there you'll still be able to install software on your mac as you can now.

2: It could, depending on how Apple implements and pushes their App Store.
i agree fully. It previews universal consciousness. I wish the HN community was into this kind of art as much as code. It's all expression of one kind or another.
GameBuilder Studio Moving to the Valley
GameBuilder Studio is Moving to the Valley hoping to get into YCombinator's Winter program. We hope we make the cut :)

-Lavon
Who is getting rid of the Terminal here, exactly?
Hey Matthew, I don't see your pitch. Is the company name Stormpulse? Hit me up at nivi@venturehacks.com. Gracias.
In our office we use any old jabber client for text chat, telephones for audio & conference calls, and only resort to Skype for video calls.
And while everything you say may be true, I still don't think most people care

Just because most people don't care doesn't mean it's not important.
I put mine in a panier on the way to San Diego, and a loose screw drilled a hole in the aluminum lid. I put a github sticker over the hole, and things still work great.
Ask HN: What music do you listen to when coding?
and makes you get deep into the flow
The notice shows up prominently at the top of any Groups page that would be affected. It's pretty hard to miss.
You know how Apple has been gobbling up share in the the university market over the last few years? I have a feeling the Air is going accelerate that growth and become the notebook of choice on college campuses.
I bet you'd enjoy some of the podcasts here: http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/. There are a few Alex Grey ones, but I'd bet HN folks would also appreciate the ones by Bruce Damer and Terence McKenna.
Http://myemail.constantcontact.com/3-New-Investments--Boston-s-Super-Angels
I am liking this F# thing. Thanks! :-)
'animals' - pink floyd
Yes. As a mathematician colleague of mine used to say, "It is not the job of a mathematician to perform basic arithmetic. It is the job of an accountant." Usually in response to screwing up some basic arithmetic, as I recall ;)
I laughed that he included my name as someone who helped him, I did nothing.
"...is expecting the sky to rain diamonds."

Lovely analogy! :)

It does happen, though: http://geology.com/nasa/diamonds-in-space.shtml

...not that anyone should expect it. ;)
on my thinkpad x301, i have a second battery installed in place if the dvd drive.
Facelette - Easiest way to harvest emails for people who own "i" products! http://facelette.com/queue
Yeah I used that optibay to put a second ssd in and raid it with my other ssd in my 17inch mbp. definitely worth it
One of the functions of fiction is to hold a mirror up to reality. To allow the user to imagine themselves in a novel, or impossible situation, to inform their emotional perceptions. To live through a scenario in play rather than to face it for the first time in reality.
The other cause of deforestation is for paper and lumber.

It uses a lot of trees. Visit Washington or Oregon sometime and drive through the mountains; the earth looks scarred.
DBIYF World Tour Retrospective (with numbers)
Mornings nature sounds; afternoon trance.
Iron carbide phase diagram
Which does nothing to answer the above question. My wife and I have two computers we share interchangeably. We each have an iPhone, share an iPad, and have an AppleTV (not the latest). If I had to go by the past, the App Store on the Mac is going to have abysmal support for multi-user environments. Hopefully this is not the case. Hopefully the apps I buy work on both accounts on both devices.
I cringed about twice every sentence; his writing style is terrible.

Which isn't to say the message isn't useful to people (although I nearly spit out my soda upon seeing him go on about The Secret).

It sounds like he has a good sense for churning out websites which are useful to people though, so kudos to him (and hopefully he can pull another one out and actually hold onto the money this time).
I think for m balls and N floors, the number of steps is O(N^(1/m)).

Almost right. It's O(m N^(1/m)).
They could call it Multifinder.
Do you find that it helps? The closest thing I got that looks like what you got above there are my git log messages!
"Jobs mistakenly said that the new 13” Air had more pixels than the 15”. That’s wrong: the 15” is the same by default, at 1440x900, and has a $100 option to raise it to 1680x1050. For reference, 1680x1050 is similar to many standalone 20” LCDs. ↩"

I think here that Jobs was referring to pixel density.
When you're arguing about the definition of a word, in a natural language like English, what people care about actually is kind of important.
Did you read the transcript of the event? Touchscreen laptops were specifically called out as a bad idea in the current form, because your arm gets tired touching a vertical surface.
Interesting Tool
The Disruptor In The Valley (about Y Combinator)
So is reddit intentionally trying to alienate potential older users? I see no reason to celebrate or mourn the success or failure of a given political issue site-wide like that. It just emphasizes the idea that reddit has a commonly-accepted set of political ideals and that if you don't agree, you shouldn't be there.

And redditors will definitely treat you that way. They usually don't care if your objection is well-reasoned or articulately expressed, they just instantly destroy anything vaguely pro-religion, pro-life, pro-traditional-marriage, etc.
Mental training, highly recommend his book: "How to Develop a Perfect Memory" - I practice his system and it works
Lion looks lackluster. As an app developer, I'm excited for the Mac App Store (and eventual Apple TV App Store) but the rest of the OS does not seem like a major leap, as they are claiming it to be.

Snow Leopard offered more than this coming from Leopard.
Can't get it to work whatsoever.
"Most Android hardware is carrier locked, has proprietary firmware, or has proprietary services loaded on top and therefore is closed for users."

Does Android mandate this or can you go and create a phone that has none of the carrier restrictions you noted? I think you can.
Christmas Gift Bags
DVD to Video Ripper
The math question just depends on the type of programming you do, and on your definition of math.

Programming is such a wide field. There are web designers who fit rectangles together all day long, and then there are the people who write Mathematica.