skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense. Albuquerque's west side is full of a bunch of whiney Luke types "I wish we were cool like the main city" :)
A rubric that might help:

Examine the "typical" paths to finding a cofounder and draw some conclusions about why those things work. I would say that connections like having gone to the same college are about finding the proverbial "third space" where people can just be people and relate as human beings, which is a natural means for stumbling across deep compatibility.

If you compare this to dating, my view is that dating doesn't work terribly well because both parties are trying to convince the other party they are desirable and thus they are prone to putting on a facade, while at the same time trying to poke holes in the facade the other person is putting forth. My observation has been that the best marriages tend to come from folks who knew each other socially -- through school or work or family or friends -- before it became intimate. Find ways to put yourself in social settings where you can just be you while talking to people about business/work stuff and be open to having something click.

A metaphor I use for love, which might apply here: An open palm holds more water than a closed fist. Putting yourself in the right places and being open to what may be might pay off. Desperately grasping at straws probably won't.

Good luck with this.
I am curious how far you want to go with the idea that a stick is more effective than a carrot. Do you feel that economies where the bulk of economic activity is organized via free actors engage in voluntary exchange tend to be more dynamic than economies where the government plays the major role in organizing economic activity? If not, on what basis would you justify allowing the existence of non-governmental economic activity?
It definitely send me a chill down my spine.

So I donated.
I agree with you on Google's intent, but intent is only half the issue here. They didn't just happen to get a peek. They deliberately searched for private information and recorded everything they saw. Perhaps I'm being naive or living in the past, but it seems reasonable to expect that I won't be spied on in my home even if I'm somewhat lax in my security protocols.
I think you're grasping, here. Apple is deprecating poor user experiences on their platform.
No one knows exactly what is going on at the Plank scale, That is partly what the guy says in the article.

“People trying to tie reality together don’t have any data, just a lot of beautiful math,” said Hogan. “The hope is that this gives them something to work with.”

Theories vary widely on what happens to the universe at that scale. This kind of experimental data might be the thing that transforms string theory from "Not even wrong" to actually wrong, or maybe even partly right.
can't you use a comet connection with something like orbited instead of polling? i wouldn't trust polling via HTTP GET with "real-time accurately synchronized countdown" -- a couple of small delays can skew your entire countdown, and delays are easy to come by across the internet. especially with creating multiple connections.

as much as i dislike like it, i doubt the problem has much of anything to do with php. a simple fastcgi server hooked into lighttpd would have probably had the same outcome of better performance, or even apache with mod_php.
Don’t Repeat Yourself is context dependent
Please consider this other article just posted to Hacker News:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1821278

The state of Texas has hit Amazon with a big fine, and Amazon is contesting it. If Amazon loses the case, and is therefore proven in a court of law to have been in the wrong, then should Jeff Bezos go to jail? If not, why not?

How far do you want to go toward criminalizing business activity? How much jail time do you want to give out?
"We had to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before any further information could be disclosed."

Proof that wikileaks is a self-serving political organization.

The irony of forcing them to sign an NDA on data that is about to be leaked onto wikileaks is probably lost on all of them.
I work with Tornado daily, and while I don't have the traffic you guys do, I can say that Tornado's a lot more pleasant to program in than Twisted. asyncronous, for the end user, is implemented as a decorator you add to the URL handler's get() method. You then have an 'on_new_messges' method on the URL that's the callback to run when you've got something to push.

Best of all, there's about eight sample projects that are included in the source code. Ie, they're maintained, always work, and you always have a 'certified' example of how to do something. It's neat, and the community are friendly to boot.
Eight Lesser-Known SEO Techniques to Optimize Landing Pages
But that's after the point at which anything can be done educationally. My point wasn't helpful and friendly, illiterate people aren't any less helpful or friendly than literates.
How about MSN Messenger and Facebook? (Don't have my mbp with me at the moment to check)
The fact that people's lives will be in danger after releasing the information is even more reason to not engage in that behavior in the first place

WTF is wrong with you? Would you feel differently if YOUR name was on the list?
F. Waaaaaaaaait a second. Why would the author write a book of which he can only sell 1 copy? There is no book.
Facebook Now Allows Orkut Profile Linking
Couldn’t have said it any better. Thanks for the perspective!
Darwin is a decent UNIX-like operating system underpinning OS X. The inclusion of standard open source packages like the ones you mentioned increase the utility of the system for the extremely valuable minority of OS X users who happen to be programmers with barely any far-reaching implications for the vast majority who never touch them.
The SODA stuff will easily advance computing by a few decades.
and that includes disclosing names of civilians who are helping US Forces?
After reading some of the Guardian articles on this, and not wanting to continue reading through the grotesque catalogue of abuses, I can only conclude that the Iraq war was an illegal, immoral and (for Geneva conventions signatories) criminal enterprise.
This is the same sort of reasoning used by those who claim that America is responsible for September 11, 2001 because they spent the last 60 years dicking around in the Middle East. The second claim is true, and America bears responsibility for said dicking around. The first part is not - the blame falls on those who hijacked the planes and crashed them into things.

People are not dying because Wikileaks releases stuff. People are dying because other people are shooting them or blowing them up. Responsibility for an action rests with those who carry out that action.
Exactly, just give me the gist of the illegal or highly suspicious activities amongst an otherwise perfectly legal invasion.
You're right about the webserver being overload. Threads would be less expensive than processes.

I would use Go for this service myself. Defending against abuse is hard whichever way one goes.
Just search "single founder".

There were tons of threads on that.

http://searchyc.com/single+founder
Name a civilian whose name was disclosed by Wikileaks who has since been killed by enemy combatants. Surely to god some journalist somewhere has looked this information up and written an article about it.
I don't want to speak for GP, but if their thinking is anything like mine, it would be:

My name isn't and never would be on that list.
But what about when that person is taking pictures of everyone's houses and posting those pictures online? They may not have been intending to invade your privacy, just show a picture of all the houses in the neighborhood.

There is a difference between the the million of little pieces of private information we leak every day and the collection and preservation of that data. Google is doing the right thing here and is going to delete this data and make sure they don't collect it again, but I think you are wrong to dismiss the collection of private data as unserious.
Prediction recorded: http://predictionbook.com/predictions/1861

Hope you're still around in 2 years; it can be interesting to ponder a falsified prediction and wonder, why did I believe that?
Interview with Markus Frind, founder and sole-developer of Plentyoffish.com
I enquired the other day about Rails 3 support - he's working on it and expects to release it in the next few weeks.
Car Alarms
Yeah, I don't know why it doesn't work. I use the location and region to give results instead of something country specific like zipcode. I guess if google local doesn't have anything in that area it kind of ruins it. :(
"WTF is wrong with you?" Try refraining from personal attacks on HN.

And to respond to your statement, you seem to be missing the bigger picture: How many soldiers have been put in harms way and died BECAUSE the truth was hidden from the public? How many more soldiers will die because of that?

There is absolutely no justification for the armed forces to engage in unethical behavior.
Viper Alarms
Composing Data Product Teams
What If Google Does It?
Can you clarify the 'heavily subsidized' part? I don't know a whole lot about this area, but I was under the impression that relatively speaking, the US higher education system was significantly less subsidized than in many comparably developed countries. And anecdotally, I'm sure we all know students and families that struggle with tuition costs. Are the subsidies you're talking about Pell grants? or tax breaks for funding education? People in this conversation make is sound like getting a full ride from public funds is the norm, but that seems really off.
Honestly, if you want my opinion- tell him you'll give him the files, and take your $150. Then walk away and never speak to him again.

Benefits: you free up time, you get him off your back, and if he wants to take you to small claim court for $150, he can (but he won't). It's just not worth it.
Well yeah, I think that pretty much goes without saying. Nobody should ever take a single "here's why I like stock X" article too seriously. But this one does provide some pretty good food for thought for anyone thinking of investing in computer/internet stocks right now.

I think I'd avoid GOOG and AAPL personally, too overpriced. Mind you, I've been saying that about GOOG since the float, so I'm frequently wrong.
It bothers me that there is no https version for frid.ge. Even when you log in your credentials are sent unencrypted.

Compare to Facebook. On Facebook you can get a complete https experience by visiting https://www.facebook.com/ but even if you don't, the login still goes over https.

I'd take frid.ge more seriously with regards to privacy and security of my data if they simply forced all traffic over https and installed an EV SSL cert. Non SSL shouldn't even be an option. Otherwise my friends looking at my data are leaking my data. With an EV SSL cert and forced https, they could even use it as a marketing gimmick. Something along the lines of, "Frid.ge. We take the security of your personal data as seriously as your bank does"
Please elaborate. Solving linear equations with software is nothing new, this algorithm just does it faster. So I'd like to see prior art for what you're describing here, sounds interesting. How exactly would one apply linear algebra to solving the first and third questions for example?
You should be evaluating whether things are worth supporting on their own merits. Why would you trust anyone else to do your thinking for you?
>Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days...

Only once? People won't enjoy that.
If you write the equations describing the flows in a mass-conserving system, you can end up with a symmetric diagonally-dominant system.

As you might expect, there's a physical interpretation.

Diagonal dominance basically means that the diagonal entry of each row of the matrix is at least as big (in magnitude) as the sum of the off-diagonal entries.

Suppose the diagonal entry gives the rate of change of flow (say of a fluid, or of electric charge) into some physical location as you change some other property of that location (like its pressure, or voltage). Then the off-diagonals in the same column reflect the rates of change of flows to other locations as you change its pressure. And the off-diagonals on the same row reflect the rates of change of flows out of that location as you change the pressures in other locations.

If the flows are driven by pressure or voltage differences-- which is often the case, especially when you've linearized the system mathematically-- you get symmetry (because adding 1 volt to node A has the same effect on the A-to-B flow as subtracting 1 volt from node B).

If the system conserves mass (or electric charge or whatever), then the diagonals must at least add up to off-diagonals (in magnitude).

So then all you need is a connection to an outside node of known pressure or voltage (like ground), that doesn't change and hence doesn't contribute to the off-diagonals. That kicks one node over into having a diagonal entry greater than its off-diagonals, and then you have a nonsingular matrix and you can apply the algorithm.

Disclaimer-- it's been a while since I worked on this, so I probably messed up at least one of the directions or row-wise vs. column-wise relationships.
I might be interested in such a service, but I can't find your contact information. Could you provide an email address or drop me a line: abiczo at gmail com Thanks.
Gruber has good sources ;)
Good example!

Things like "stat cache" and "memory leaks" are what I watch out for when I write command line scripts in PHP. Also, I do not run my scripts as a daemon and I make sure that they do not run for more than a set maximum execution time.

So yeah, it may not be the most perfect choice but, it beats : having to learn another language when I know what to look out for when I write a command line script in PHP.
You do have a point there.

I've read that the last Universal mathematicians we've had were Chebyshev and Poincare, who could claim to know "all of math", and who were active in research in nearly every sub-field. It's been over 50 years since their time, and much like the fabled Renaissance Man, that frontier is now closed.
And maybe live in it too. :)
"On the math and verbal SAT (a 400-1600 scale), the least socioeconomically disadvantaged student is expected to score 399 points lower than the most advantaged."

Many people that are successful have a successful mindset as well. Did they also look at the disadvantaged student's home life? Do they have two parents at home encouraging them to succeed?

I would also be interested to see what their education was like. If they want to a terrible public school, they will most likely score less on the SAT.
Yeah, I have an Android phone and love the notification system, which is why I'm so astonished by the way iOS handles it. I frequently leave notifications to be dealt with later, so the idea that you have to either deal with or ignore a notification as soon as it's received seems absurd. Even my old Razr showed a notification for new SMSes rather than requiring me to immediately deal with it.
You could simply ask applications for their HN username.

Or would many of your applicants be hesitant to share this information with a potential employer?
No it's not. Stop repeating this unjustified phrase. Innocent people are dying because this material is unavailable and God knows what the Pentagon has been up to.
I don't qualify any languages as OO, their creators do. You can do OO in any language, with varying degrees of difficulty and success. The language merely tries to provide mechanisms for encouraging object oriented design (or not).

You appear to need some strict boundaries between different classes of languages. Those boundaries rarely exist. Languages and the people that define them are influenced by what they've already learned. There's nothing to stop language designers from trying to combine elements from various different types of languages, nor should there be.

Languages evolve. Philosophies evolve. Terminology evolves. Expecting to find a rigid definition within so much change is naive. Your definition will be obsolete before you get it written down.

As for religious flame wars, whatever. Ideas don't cause flame wars, people do. The tone of your post is certainly slanted toward starting one, so I'm leaving before it happens.

I hope I've been of some assistance and I hope you find what you're looking for. I fear you'll be disappointed.
Personally, I prefer a more pragmatic than academic approach to software development.
CoverPad For The iPad Makes Your Blog Feel Like Flipboard
I also can’t add words, so the only way to get iOS to remember an unknown word is to add it to the address book

That is false, and this should be a good tip if you were unaware of the technique. Just add the words in Settings : General : Keyboard : Edit User Dictionary… No need to add them to the address book.
If you become successful at <random common, unimportant thing>, you can leverage that to pursue <really great idea>. One example that comes to mind is Andrew Mason's Groupon talk at Startup School. Before Groupon, the Groupon guys ran "The Point", which tried to organize people to solve societal problems, including such ambitious, world changing ideas like building a climate dome over Chicago to avoid the brutal winters there. Obviously, the climate dome was never built, and "The Point" pivoted into Groupon. Although I don't think Andrew Mason has enough leverage/money/etc. to build that climate dome, he's certainly a lot closer today with Groupon's success than he was previously.
Some answers here are striking coming from users of a site called "Hacker News".

"We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. "
I still feel uneasy when I see a Prof and a PhD student listed as discovering something as you never know what the Prof contributed with the current state of the academy

On the other hand, quite frequently the whole thing is the professor's idea, and the grad student does the drudge work of coding it up and verifying it and writing the paper, and they co-publish.

Of course if you're going to lament "the current state of the academy" you should be aware that the current state of the academy is far more likely than any previous state to give credit to the junior researchers. And in Europe this kind of thing still goes on, with professors butting in to take primary authorship on papers where their students have done 90% of the work.
I came to say this.

The reality is your programmers should instead have a low-level understanding of what their code does, and how it performs. They should then be using profilers and monitoring tools to ensure it's behaving inline with their expectations. One of my strengths is always being able to give a rough estimate as to how long a task should take before I've written it. The only surprise usually is if I find ways to make it even faster than I assumed was possible, by finding clever techniques to use.
Really? Only 6 years after the war was started, when it clear from months before military engagements occurred that it was only empty accusations and justifications?
Who cares what Sean Parker thinks, what's Shawn Fanning up to?
What if Bob would be even happier if you bought him a new sports car instead of paying for higher education?
Wait, seriously? You seriously just exposed my email for easier spam harvesting?

You took my email address, which I wrote as joseph at metaoptimize dot com, and then you converted it into something that spammers can much more easily grep for and harvest? http://www.hackernewsjobs.com/apply/contractor-at-metaoptimi...

This is not a good way to get the community on board.

p.s. You also spelled the name of my company wrong, but I appreciate the Britishism.
How would you find out? Information coming out of Afghanistan is sketchy, there are very few journalists on the ground, we don't have lists of every civilian who gets killed.
I don't know why you are silencing me. I am telling the truth. The guys from wikileaks have freely admitted that they don't care about the innocent lives that may or may not be lost from this information (and even further through their actions). If you look at the past HN articles about this, many of the supporting comments were along the same lines.
Well, that's it - assuming the likely scenario that nobody Wikileaks has named has come to harm, you don't really have a story.

Even if you had a story, it still doesn't stop the FUD if it suits the news outlet's agenda. That much is obvious from casual analysis of most stories among different news sources.

Defenders never win in the media.
Wikileaks Iraq War Diaries
> This can be done by friends/relatives who are interested in supporting you without having the technical skills or free time to actually be co-founders with you.

Sure, but it is much more effective when someone is in the venture with you, and their success is tied to yours. Your friends and family are much more likely to just say "yeah, that's a good idea". No risk on their part.
Wouldn't that be ironic if it takes a wikileaks release to find out if there were casualties caused by earlier wikileaks releases.
I think it's important for you to not go trolling.
A middle class family paying a thousand dollars for one complete stranger to go to school is ridiculous sum of money, which is exactly why nobody pays that much money. Please, in the future, use figures which are more closely based in reality.

However, the fact remains that middle class families do pay for part of the tuition of certain people (people who go to public school, and those who get federal loans). It is important to question why from time to time, so I will address your argument, and I will assume a number more realistic (I don't know what a more realistic number would be, and I'm not going to do your work for you).

I think it is very important for middle class families to partially pay for part of student's college tuitions. For one, there is the very likely possibility that one of these students will go on to be a future Proust, and I think it is very important to have the resources available for such a person, even though much of that money will be 'wasted' on people who will go on to be waiters.

Secondly, we live in a mostly democratic society, for better or for worse the opinions of the public can very much shape important political and economic decisions made by our leaders. It is therefore extremely important that the public be educated enough to understand arguments made by our leaders, and to be able to parse evidence presented by experts. Obviously I don't expect the public to understand all of the details of everything, but they need to be able to listen, and to know when they don't know anything at all and shut the fuck up.
We as a society can't move forward without understanding what happened in our past, what we've done right, and what we've done wrong. Right now, high school is very good about telling us certain things, while college is very good helping us understand things. For better or for worse, at some point we have learn how to analyze, and that is something that is not done very well in high school. So, you can either ask your middle class families to pay up to reform high schools, or you can ask middle class families to continue to pay for some individual's college tuitions.
>> First, know what the types actually mean (char >= 8-bit, short/int >= 16-bit, long => 32-bit) ... You might then want to put typedefs on top of these types to give them a bit more meaning.

Even better, use stdint.h:

uint8_t, int16_t, etc. Completely unambiguous to anyone.