skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then they should seek the advice of a professional before signing a very large contract in the form of a mortgage. Executives shouldn't be held responsible for people who don't read fine print or who fail to understand how mortgages work.
I think people often pre-judge others on their typing ability like some judge the intelligence of someone they meet based on proper grammar, accents and speech differences. For example someone with a slow southern draw to their speech, relative to the listener, is often assumed less intelligent.
I imagine you won't see this now, but just in case - the first version is now up, at http://dambr.com
Steve Jobs First iPod Keynote (2001)
Nah, who needs another search engine?
Nah, who needs another groupon clone?
Nah, who needs another social networking site?
Nah, who needs another virtual currency based game?

Seems like there's always room for innovation, if you're willing to ignore the nay-sayers.
I wonder how much things have changed. pg and co. now have 4 years of experience funding hundreds and interviewing probably 10s of thousands of startups, I assume they're much better at it.
AMD Aims to Deliver “Perfect Graphics Cards” for Gamers
Next-generation graphics cards introduce unprecedented levels of game performance, best-in-class energy efficiency, and an unmatched feature set starting at $179
I've had to break into a ridiculous amount of vehicles for friends that have locked their keys in. Pretty much every car window will give you at least an inch or two of room with enough wiggling/pushing. And then at that point you just need to move it a bit to get your wrist in and a stick to flick up the lock.

Though you're screwed if there's no 'lip' on the lock to get something under to flip it up.
No, of course not.

I am, however, under the impression that if what you want to do (as here) is to minimize the probability that you get completely shafted by having had the test-setter choose answers complementary to yours, you should choose yours in a way that makes that probability low. Random choices are a very effective way of achieving that. [EDITED to add: not because "a random key fits a random lock" but rather the reverse: with non-negligible probability[1] the test-setter is not choosing at random but in some relatively low-Kolmogorov-complexity way, and you want to keep away from those parts of the outcome space.] Of course, having a really good model of the test-setter's decision process would be even better, but if you had that you'd just use it to ace the test.

[1] I initially missed out the word "probability". I edited it in. Sorry.
Side note. I think this speech by Damien Katz is one of the most inspiring I've ever heard.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/katz-couchdb-and-me
The college library had dollar changers for use with the photocopy machines. I had a friend who made the discovery that if he copied both sides of a dollar bill and glued them together with some rubber cement that there were older machines that would give him change. So in exchange for two nickels investment he'd get back four quarters.

He literally lived on this hack for an entire year. Course this was 40 years ago and those 'older' change machines were probably some of the first ever built and not very sophisticated.

Why it took the college a year to upgrade the machines I will never know. He wouldn't have been that hard for the police to find. All the local bartenders knew as the quarters guy ;<).
Gperf - Perfect Hash Function Generator
I had a YC interview in 2008, and the experience was the same. We kept trying to give a demo, and they kept sidetracking us. I think they do it on purpose to see how you handle the situation. I didn't handle it well. I basically turned into an argument :)
I'm pretty burnt out on trying to help people. It really goes over very poorly and I get lambasted for it and, so far, there has really been no money in it. :-/ But when I start that webcomic I keep swearing I will start, it might be good material. :-D
Could anyone share some experiences working and liking in South America?

Many thanks.
I was referring to the parent post of buying a mouse and then swapping out for a cheaper version, on which s/he claimed the cost back - it has subsequently been deleted. Not the grandparent post!
Ask HN: I have no use for these domains.. you can have em, if you want them.
I have a few domains I planned on using for various projects but I changed focus and really don't need them anymore.

They aren't horrible names (IMHO) so I thought I'd ask on here, in case anyone wanted them. Otherwise, I'll just let them expire.

They are:

smartforces.com|.net|.org|.info
wickedforces.com|.net|.org|.info
songcrush.com|.net|.org|.info

email me if you're interested: kinimat at gmail.com
Honestly, I think that's the minority case here. I've rarely seen comments go to 0 or lower unless they were "objectively" bad, e.g. weren't interesting, were insulting, etc.
iBooks? It is an app and requires downloading.
The new king of Apple analysts
I tend to run red traffic lights when cycling. Does that count?
Ask HN: Django Deploy Recommendations
I have an app that uses Django Python and Postgresql.

Right now is running under Linux/Apache/mod_wsgi, how ever have read about Nginx and Gunicorn (also uwsgi and others) as a better option...

I would like to read your recommendations (advantages and disadvantages) about deploying django.

PS: I am mainly developer so I lack a lot of knowledge about sysadmin.
www.faceflow.com - Mix of desktop programs like Skype and online website like ChatRoulette. Still some bugs to fix right now and improvements coming.
Mozilla Firefox-startpagina
Counterfeiting is on the wrong side of the line between naughty and evil.
I really like this site! Good job.
Make little applications in the form of websites, and people can use it safely as long as the web browser does not have a security hole.

In practice this means: "Make little applications in the form of websites, and people cannot use it safely."
Kindle and a tuner (of the instrument variety) are the only two apps I use that aren't standard.
Do you often think about those "what if"?
wr1472:
Ah, sorry. These things are difficult to follow when pertinent points get deleted.
The article doesn't make the statement you're negating. The article points out (and as far as I understand, it's quite right) that a process run in a particular user's context generally has full control of all files associated with that user's context.
I once had a boss who refused to upgrade our machines from 486s to Pentiums because of this exact reason. What we later found out was that if we compiled the code on a 486, none of the newer SIMD instructions were used, so the performance difference was actually more pronounced than we first realized. We eventually had a special build environment, but the target market was newer processors anyway, so there was no reason, other than lack of funds, to not upgrade the engineers' machines.
The trick is balancing this against knowing when to change direction.
On OS X, Safari has access to all my documents, iTunes library, Mail.app inbox and Adium chat history. If Safari were compromised, it would have access to all of my important data.
About ten years ago, I went to my father's work one Saturday afternoon. He worked at [big software company]. Throughout the entire building there were doors that were locked, and to open them, you'd put your badge next to the scanner and the door would open. These doors were everywhere. The doors had to be able to be opened from the other side without a badge, though. In case there was ever an emergency, people would need to be able to get out without a badge.

I noticed this when we let the building for lunch: the door was automatically opened as we walked towards it. When we got back from lunch, being the curious ten year old I was, I tried to figure out how it worked. It turns out they had a motion detector pointing in front of the door, and whenever it detected motion, the magnetic locks on the door would open.

So, I asked my father for a stack of paper, went to the elevator room on the locked side of one of these doors, and for thirty minutes made paper airplanes and threw them through the crack in the middle of the double doors until I found out how to make a plane which would expand enough to trip the motion detector. After another half hour of practice, it would only take one or two throws to trip the detector.

The next time I visited his work, and after a few emails to the building security, the cracks in all the doors were sealed.

I've been interested in security ever since then.
IMHO, for success, the cofounders have to work as a team, which can only be achieved if there is friendship. You can either have this friendship relationship before you start (you start a venture with a friend who becomes a cofounder), or you can try to develop it later on (you find a cofounder who later on becomes a friend). The problem with the friendship-later model is that with these matching websites, there is no guarantee that you will get along with the co-founder to the extent that you develop a friendship relationship.

Besides respect, friendship gives you trust and commitment. Ideas of venture do change along the way. A friend is committed to you before the idea of a venture came along, hence, he will be flexible with the change in the idea, the company, the profits, etc. On the other hand, a co-founder (who was not your friend) joined you based on the idea (or the money), hence, he will be less flexible when things change (if no friendship develops along the way).
He's a party dude at college that everybody knows. Eccentric and likable. Impulsive, yet benign (I don't want to say simple on purpose).
That's awesome -- I want access to that tool.
Reminds me of a friend's story.

He had just moved to New York from a Texas border town in the 70s. Being a starving grad student, he was a white guy living in Spanish Harlem, a pretty sketchy neighborhood at the time.

When walking home at night, he'd avoid the sidewalks and walk in the street so that he was less of a target and could see people coming.

One night he was walking home and saw three tough looking guys notice him and veer off the sidewalk to follow him. They were walking behind him and gaining fast.

Instead of running, he turned, and, in flawless Spanish (learned from his days growing up on the US-Mexico border) greeted them, told them he was lost, and asked them for help finding his way.

He said the guys looked slightly confused before one offered help, and the three guys ended up walking him to his door to make sure he got home safely.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet what I regard as the key reason decorators are useful: they maintain the property that you can always find the definition of a function named "foo" by textually searching for "def foo". Lots of alternate syntaxes break that.
Extremely arrogant to me. I didn't knew this face, I would despise having a boss like him.
Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. is normally regarded as the definitive answer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_....
There is actually a debate as to whether photographs of paintings in the public domain can be copyrighted. The current consensus in the US appears to be no. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_....

If it was a print of the painting, it would depend upon whether a court would construe that it had sufficient originality to be a derivative work. But that wouldn't stop Getty from trying to assert copyright.
"The fact that the penalty for underperformance was essentially a raise was something they had never even considered."

Just .... wow...

Given how often the bigger companies are so focused on 'bottom line numbers', it's really a bit surprising that no one ever looked at that.

"you're expected to want to get off that bad status and back into "good worker" mode as quickly as possible".

THAT I can totally understand.
By the way, the site is written in php.
Paul Virilio on the future: speed & disaster
Thank You HN
If HN has really helped you at any point just Thanks HN and people behind HN and/or share your how? story.
Yeah I wasn't really trying to get eyes on the site itself at this point. It used to have a landing page and value proposition and the usual stuff (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1306313), but lately I've optimized it more for employers and coworkers to see what I built, and for the two of us return users, and for me the sole developer and maintainer. No more metrics, traffic acquisition, funnel analytics.

To answer your question: it's a place to come for an infinite stream of stuff to read after you've exhausted your usual haunts and are still bored. When you vote up a story it's more likely to show you stuff from that site. When you vote down it's less likely. Basically a feedreader for people who don't understand feedreaders. There's smarts to show the full text, that works most of the time (try clicking the green arrow at the bottom of some stories). When you get to the bottom of the page it'll autoload more stories.

There isn't that much more to see if you register. We repeat users don't like the scrolling so it shows just one story at a time. There's keyboard shortcuts. That's about it. I pruned everything that didn't work. Thanks for checking it out.
Here's what I've found that helps tremendously:

-Keep your software in a DVCS of some sort. I find Git and Mercurial to be great.

-Use virtualenv to abstract away from your current environment's Python distribution. Start clean and download the packages you need.

-Create a requirements file listing the packages that you need for you program. Put it in the same format that the 'pip freeze' command outputs, so that installing a new environment is quick and easy.

-Set up a local configuration file (not managed by version control) and a base configuration file with all the settings that are immutable. Import the local config file within settings.py so as to avoid local setting conflicts.

-In production, set up an nginx frontend to serve static files, and route all the Django urls to an Apache backend (or Tornado, or whichever App server you may want to use).

-I haven't tried anything else, but WSGI is super intuitive and easy to use.

-If you need it, try using Django-South for versioning database schemas. Do take into account that it has a bit of a learning curve.

-You don't need to put your python files in /var/www, any directory will do.
You wouldn't get to give a slick presentation even if you had one. We had a few bullet points on a piece of paper that we wanted to hit and I think we maybe hit one of five (and were accepted). We actually had a bunch of supporting materials that we never used. The starting point generally seems to be the demo and then your ability to talk about it. We did have various demo-y things on my laptop loaded up and ready to go, so when there was a question of, "Can you do..." I could just pull it up immediately.

But he's right that you should pitch lots of people. That gets you used to talking about what you're doing. It's really easy when you've been too close to an idea for a while to assume what you're saying makes sense, when it often doesn't without the right context.

I wrote some about our interview here:

http://blog.directededge.com/2009/11/05/the-interview-with-y...
To be fair articles about startups founded but other non-YCers HNers get a similar boost, although they don't have the advantage of an easy tag to distinguish them from other articles.
I pretty much agree with you that a company needs to have customers to attract. (Although I bet there are examples where the product didn't have that many customers, and the company was bought for the idea or the people on the team.)

What I'm suggesting is that, like the developer of my apartment complex, if the company isn't in it for the long haul, they may not pay attention to improvements or feedback customers are suggesting. The company may figure they're going to get acquired soon, so if some of the customers just stop using the product, they can still be claimed as users...
Search engine optimization basics: The words you use
the smartforces one would be good for an intelligent crowdsourcing venture...something like Mechanical Turk but with higher-level, vetted workers.
The Flock Comedies
Wear layered clothing. When you get out of the home you should be feeling cold but not freezing; in 10 minutes of biking your body will warm and you might start sweating.

Spend a few bucks on a comfortable backpack, or use a mountain bike with a rear rack to carry your stuff.

Wear something in your neck for very cold weather. You can feel pretty dreadful afterwards if you expose it under cold weather.

Wear sunglasses, not so much for the sunlight as for the fact that there's a lot of debris in the air, and getting random leaves of branches in your face can be a danger.

Carry a spare for your tires. Bumps on the road can damage your tires quickly.

Keep a towel and deodorant at work. Of course everything depends on how much you sweat, but it's something to take into account.

If you'll be going through streets with lots of traffic, be sure to wash your face thoroughly after getting to work. I commute in the city and I get a thin layer of black smog over my face that needs to be cleaned to keep the skin healthy.
"Creativity is just connecting things."
Have you ever driven a car with a manual transmission and tried to set off with the handbrake pulled? Brakes can bring a car to standstill even fighting the engine.

The brakes in the SUV in front are dimensioned for that SUV and I assume those brakes are not worse than the ones in the truck behind it.
You need both (or one person who has both characteristics).
I'm talking about showing people that it is possible and in best interest of both parties to divorce without fight and lawyers. Of course not in every case.

Showing not by talking, writing to each one of potentially interested one by one. Showing in ebook. And sell it. Not cheaply. This kind of information has its worth.

To help some people to save stress, time and money and earn money by yourself.

Hmm, poor lawyers. :)
Thanks! I just had too much on my plate at the time, and the hobby project got cut first. If you'd like to help with it, all the source is here: http://github.com/cloudchamber/Distributed-Observatory/
Wow thanks. Wufoo changed the link URL because I edited the title of the form.
"I think they do it on purpose to see how you handle the situation."

We do so many interviews a day that we don't have the energy to be tricky. The reason we keep asking questions is simply that we have questions.
Very true comment. I did CPR on a guy in the street a few days ago. I'm sure it wasn't perfect, but I'm now told that the guy didn't die.

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/you-never-think-youll-have-to-do...

In the OP the guy used the information he had to make a fast decision. The toughest thing in the situation I encountered was the moment I realized his heart had stopped and needed to decide right then to take action.
Assange is a real scumbag for risking people's lives. He claims his real purpose is to protect against threats against democracy. Isn't it interesting how he behaves when he gets a little bit of power - autocratic, capricious, and meglomaniacal? I wonder what sort of behavior that he could rationalize in the name of the greater good.
You can get a lot of good clothing in bike shops that you can wear over your normal clothes (shoes, trousers).
Very good gloves, since your hands will freeze first.

A backpack to store the clothes when the weather changes. (best if your laptop can fit into it if you need to take it with you.) I have a backpack with a kind of raincoat, that can be pulled over it. Saved my laptop several times. Take a few plastic bags with you, when it rains heavily you can protect your equipment.)

good lighting equipment and reflectors are important if you bike in rain or darkness.
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Thanks for sharing my post!

The bigger message I got from Randy's book and also from a recent conversation I had with him was that a commitment not to ROI or even to specific solution, but to a particular impact on a particular group, where the connection to both the problem being solved and the group being served, is really powerful fuel to power through the hard times come, which we all know will come.
You really should use nginx to serve static files and route everything else to apache. The setup is dead simple.
There's quite a few airports around the world where you'll run into this sort of scam. In Guadalajara, I've had to pay a "fee" to board a flight that I already had a seat on. In Bangalore I had to pay another fee so that my luggage would not go missing or be damaged.
I totally agree. I took one typing class in high school for a quarter or so. It taught me the general idea, but I still looked at my hands and did a lot of hunting and pecking, just with more than two fingers.

It was when I started college my freshman year and started to spend a lot of time on AIM talking to old high school friends that I really learned to touch type. There's nothing like having to keep up in a conversation to make you type more quickly.

Seriously, just putting your hands on the keyboard correctly and then continuing with a hunt and peck method, if you're typing a lot for your job, will certainly lead to being a good typist within a few months. It doesn't even take conscious effort.
So you neglect that lives that might be saved by building the F22, because they might also be used to kill people. I can kill someone with my car, so by definition Lexus is an evil company and you'd be wrong to work with them? A gun might save your life someday... I'm pretty sure my neighbor agrees with me on that one with the bunch of thieves he has brought to justice (not killed).
7 Reasons Why Your (Blender) Render Isn't Working
We would have funded that company. Our problem with the company we saw in 2006 was that Damien didn't have any cofounders.
Huh, you're right. Disappointing that the BBC didn't get that. Unfortunately, it looks like I can't edit the submission title anymore.

At least that bodes better for the app market, anyway.
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Likewise, that's some of the best advice on speaking I've gotten too. I always picked five people - front right, front middle, front left, back mid-left, and back mid-right, and just cycle through them. If you know one of the people personally, all the better - they're more likely to give you a little nod or otherwise encourage.

Definitely move around.

Also, people forget - first and foremost, you've got be entertaining. If you're informing but not entertaining, people will tune out. Energy levels higher than normal. It's hard to have too high energy so long as you're not out of control. It's very easy to have too low of energy. Rarely has a speech been bad because the talker was too enthusiastic (I know there's memorable counterexamples, but they're really truly the exception).
Doesn't work at the airports where the ticket machine only gives tickets when there's weight of the car on the sensors beneath the roadway.
The use of satire to influence political change can have quite an impact. See the effect that the Superman radio show had on the KKK... http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.02.98/comics-9826...

If Jon is able to shape the minds of his viewers, I do hope he succeeds. At the very least, creating a healthy disrespect for the use of hyperbole in political discussions would go a long way to bringing some 'sanity' back into what has become a bitter political divide.
No, never, honestly.

Life is a sequence of half chances. You make your choices, and you make them for good reasons at the time.

Looking at the past doesn't mean that the present would be as it is if you'd made different choices. That's a theme used in almost every time-travel movie.