skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only paper I've read on this (and I unfortunately can't find it) suggested that students who go to pre-school, as opposed to those who go straight to kindergarten, have a higher rate of behavioral problems. Of course, that's for ALL pre-schools.

The only other information I have is that a lot of these nurseries use tests (like "put the block in the right hole") as part of their admittance exams, and high performance those tests show absolutely no correlation with later success. (Obviously kids who do very poorly might have other issues) That's from NutureShock.

And finally, in New York City these "top" nursery schools are considered feeder schools to the "top" elementary schools, and so on, so regardless of whether the kids in them have been better educated, they might gain an admission advantage to private high schools and consequently university. See the movie "Nursery University." (That's not actually a recommendation, it was completely painful.)
exactly. to a cynic, of which there are many in the younger population that tends not to vote in the US, "mostly works" can mean "doesn't work" (...so why bother?)

if you KNEW the system was perfect, that alone might be reason to participate.
Quality of website aside, this just highlights to me the great divide between the youth of today (digital natives) and the 'older' generation (non-digital natives).

The owner of the Auto shop should have been able to do up a similar website if he had bothered to look around the web for solutions (wordpress, blogger etc). But I guess he wasn't comfortable enough with the internet to do so.

Whereas the digital natives fearlessly jumped into the fray and started hacking up a website with little knowledge of the intricacies involved.

This gives me great hope for the next generation. Computers in the hands of an entire generation that is not afraid to harness its power (or to muck around with it). I can't wait to see what these digital natives are capable of when they grow up.
Subtle but important differences make the situations incomparable to each other.

Partnership dissolved in bad faith vs partnership dissolved through legally binding agreement.
Works beautifully, I'll be using this. Thanks
If my team and I did not have a email address in the email field yesterday, Nov 2nd, will we not be notified at all to being accepted or not? I updated the email field in the profile to include our email, but not til this morning, Nov 3rd.
"I'm not a photographer."

That much is apparent.

There are a couple of reasons the Instagram affects appeal to me, and I'm sure this applies to more people.

Nostalgia is fun. Memories have a way of distilling events down to their better parts. It's a natural adaptation. No one wants to remember the fight they had with their family on vacation. They want to remember the time that mom was startled by the bear that walked in to camp and went screaming in to the camper flailing the grilling instruments over her head. Mom, not the bear :)

Not everyone looks good in photographs. Maybe I don't want my likeness archived in high fidelity. When I recall fond memories, I don't remember my pale complexion and baggy eyes. I remember where I was, who I was with, and the good time we were having. This much is apparent by everyone's expression. And here's the cool thing, humans don't require a high-fidelity photograph to guess the disposition of the person in a photograph. We require very little detail. That's the great thing about our brains. It fills in the blanks very well. Personally, I prefer to fill in the blanks a little bit.

Cameras -- even film ones, and even big view cameras -- can't reproduce the full spectrum of color and dynamic range that the human eye can see. The result is that photographs often look "flat" in contrast to our memory of an event. When you look at photos taken by these old, vintage cameras, they have a certain warmth and color palette that doesn't match reality, but feels more interesting than a flat photo in some cases.
At least you could before 9/11. Pre-9/11 I would have flown anywhere that was more than 3 hours away. Now I would drive up to 10 hours to avoid flying.

I read this all the time on HN, but I fly relatively frequently I have never had a problem flying post 9/11. Flying out Denver I can get through security in 10-15 minutes tops. The biggest domestic problems I have had have either been delays at the giant airports (ATL for example) or a single long security line at small airports in BFE.

I've been stopped twice for forgetting to leave my money clip in the car (it has a small knife on it). The TSA guy was polite and simply asked if I wanted to throw it away or mail it back to myself. Both times I paid the $10 to mail it back since it was a gift and is engraved. After filling out the paperwork they then put me through the express line so I wouldn't be delayed any further. For a mistake that was clearly on my part they were beyond reasonable.

The biggest issue I've had in the last 10 years was getting shaken down by customs in Jamaica. Third world countries, fun stuff.

I'm sure there are people who have issues while trying to fly, but I don't think it's as widespread as people like to believe. I recently spoke to a friend of mine who happens to be an executive who travels 3 weeks of each month. She has had zero problems from a security standpoint, with delays from weather being her biggest complaint.
That doesn't control for wealth.
Right, and I'm disagreeing. Both tv and magazines require token payments that don't even cover distribution.
This is akin to saying "I can download music for free so record labels should give theirs away on iTunes."
This is a great point. The difference in bankruptcy law between the US and e.g. France or Germany creates an incentive for US entrepreneurs to take more risk since if things don't work out (and they usually don't) they can dust themselves off and try, try again without crippling long-term debts or too much of a social stigma.

On the other hand, relaxed bankruptcy laws can be taken too far as in the housing crisis since homeowners took in huge profits by flipping houses during the housing bubble but can just walk away from their mortgages if they're underwater which means the loss is eaten by the banks/taxpayer.
Great. Now as a developer who wants to write software for your system, I have some questions. Are you running KDE or Gnome? Are you using apt or rpm? What version of Python are you running? What's your kernel version?
The fix for the margins is to open the PDF in something like Preview.app and crop it so there are no fat margins.

The kindle will honor the crop box. So the margins can go away, and the text can be rendered larger.

That helps on the DX. But the small kindle is just too small. The kindle 3 offers contrast adjustment on PDFs, which also helps with the small fonts.
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Yes, exactly. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next 3-5yrs if salary inflation doesn't slow down or reverse and external investment is similarly reduced.
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Heinlein is one of the masters of scify. I think Asimov is like a child, Heinlein imagination is overwhelming.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
Sorry for being vague. I haven't been much of reader (until recently). That also makes it difficult for me to describe my preferences (or predict what I'll like).

Point taken, though, that it is difficult to suggest books in a scenario such as this.
You might like CJ Cherryh's science fiction. Her Merchanter books are really good, and although there is some weird alien stuff, in general the space travel and combat, as well as economic issues in space, are handled quite well. I'd start with Downbelow Station.
Or think back to the last time you fiddled with a monitor's settings for more than a few seconds, via the bezel buttons and on-screen display.
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They do address this later: "With a market share of 28% and estimates of as much as 50% of mobile browsing going through iPhone, it makes sense that developers make special accommodations for the mobile giant."
The market is getting really tough to find people. I new this was coming when the .com bust happened and the outsourcing craze was at it's peak. I remember I had went back to school at the time of the .com bust and it was literally one day a full class and the next it was me and two other guys. When the quick bucks where gone, the classrooms emptied. I remember thinking then 5-10 years from now it is going to be very interesting. It is looking more and more like those days have come, with the giants sucking up all of the talent whether directly or by proxy through contracting outfits, guys like Overstocked are left to fight for shelf space on the recruiting isle.
I don't think that's the conclusion anyone is drawing.

From the article: Mondays, as if they weren't bad enough, are the most likely day to break up.

I was referring specifically to the shoddy article and its crap conclusions, not to the original data. The original data was interesting and potentially insightful.
I find a little childish the phrase: Take you to lunch, it sound very passive, like taking a dog for a walk.

It would be better something like: How to meet P.G. for discussing about your startup. Simple and effective.
That sentence could also be used to describe why not to start a startup:)

I'd venture that most startup founders experience all of those things. I know I have:)
You don't only lack the evidence, I think it is fair to say that the evidence contradicts your opinion. If you look at people like Judit Polgár, it seems like practice is far more important than any kind of intrinsic ability.
SciPy, NumPy, Matplotlib, Cython, Sphinx, PIL.
The article should've also mentioned NLTK.

IMHO, languages matter less than the available libraries, and in my experience only Java matches the depth of the Python ecosystem.

That Python is a nice language to work with, that's just a bonus.
I'm in the same boat and it seems like several others as well. I'm fine moving to Python for the moment, but I wonder how the Ruby community will ever know if there's enough of a demand for scientific tools to merit their development?
Good idea. He is volunteering to act as a spam filter. Human spam filters are the best kind.
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As others have said, with just foundation and hhgg as guiding points, it is not that easy to give good recommendations. Stephenson has fun ideas, geek themes, and interesting scope. Pratchett is enormously entertaining, and very easy to read.

One book series that I really love is The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It is a speculative fiction in a (hopefully alternative) far future. They are not too long, but incredibly packed with interesting stuff which makes them a bit of a slow (but rewarding) read. The first time I read the books I was blown away, and my immediate reaction was "Wow, that was cool. I have to read them again right now". Once I was hooked, I had to read all of Gene Wolfe's other stuff as well :)
Google in 'significant breach' of UK data laws
Crackers not hackers.
It's the same for French AZERTY keyboards. If you are programming, just remap you keyboard to normal QWERTY, that way easier then.
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>> one person driving a car with four seats is an insult to the nature.)

> The obvious alternative is not to have several different cars, but to live closer to where you work, shop and play.

Reread the complaint - driving less doesn't solve it.

> but to live closer to where you work, shop and play.

Those are three (or more) places. You may not be able to live close to all of them. For example, I work in Sunnyvale, my wife works in SF, and we play in Monterey. At times, we've worked other places between PA and SJ.

Where can we live that would be close enough to satisfy you?

> This is how buses and trains work.

Buses and trains don't necessarily go where I want when I want.

Consider 101. It looks like a lot of people going to/from SF until you look at the individuals in those cars. There aren't a small number of end-points. And many of those folks will make side trips that trains/buses don't acomodate.

I've ridden Cal Train (I was on the first baby-bullet and that wasn't my first commute). It's great for some things but it isn't a general solution. That's why it doesn't have much ridership.
.NET has various things in this space, but I think a lot are commercial products. .NET is not used as much in academia, so most things are targeted at professionals. With that said, you can probably get free/cheap licenses for many/most of commercial products.

But I think Python probably has the most active community as its been used as glue for a long time in this space.
When I use certain tools, I just want them to be popular enough and couldn't care less about the "canonical" way of doing things.
Besides the moral support, there is just too much to do.
I wasn't aware of pep8 when I started, most science people arrive at python from a different path. What I mean is, for a long time I knew much more about numpy than about python itself.

there are some things in pep8 that are bad for science, the spaces around operations, and also the 80 chars to a line... scientific expressions are often long and complicated, yes you can do it while adhering to pep8, but its kind of a PITA
Because researchers have never heard of pep8, and in general don't give a shit about domain specific politics unless it's their domain.
Because this is what drives traffic to blogs. He's hacking here, just not code. It's also a little game theory, as Arrington's willingness to publish anything anyone does to screw him probably also makes people think twice about doing so.

Also, it's not unimportant to startups. Jason is an angel investor. If this is even half true, I'd avoid having Jason invest in my startup. You can divorce your wife more easily than you can divorce your investors.
I'm about 1/2 way through it. The chapters are short so they generally don't go into too much detail. Often times there will be a interesting sentence that I wish was blown into it's own chapter.

To answer your question: Most HN regulars will probably already be familiar with the topics.
We build code. They build drama. Both are means to an end.
Sounds like a steady setup. How packagable is it? With AppEngine, you could make this an easier transfer by consuming a short list of URLs in a textarea (homepage, resume, blogA, blogB, profileA, profileB) and simply spawn a clone.

Seen anything alse like it? I sort of asked here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1827294
Like it or not, these are the people you will encounter on your startups way to glory. TechCrunch and its brethren are going to give you some of your first notice in their quest for ad revenue. You probably should look at these articles as warnings / data points.

So, this story may no make me a better hacker, but it might actually save me some trouble in promoting a product.
It's not all bad: The California proposition to legalize marijuana was defeated in yesterday's election, which should help maintain demand for BC Gold dope.
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Sounds like someone could make a killing running a testing business that stocks every Android phone model.
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I remember reading an article during the Dot-Com era about hiring kids, and one company would pay in video games (and similar) because giving him cash was illegal.
Simple Input Validation
The author isn't recommending that they give anything away for free. He is talking about how to determine a fair price. Your analogy does not apply.
Much of the technology of the internet dates to the late sixties. Assuming that there aren't "digital natives" from the "older" generation is ageist. In fact you could assume that many people in their 40s, 50s and 60s are more "native" than youth, because they've been living with technology for longer.
plus everybody in his town will check out his website and perhaps buy something... win-win situation.
Did somebody just try to buy the British government?
Not too long ago I heard stories from my friends that China started to buy natural resources based company around the world. Some target: Mining companies in Australia, Wood/Lumbers companies in BC. etc

However, I couldn't find the stories.
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I've heard that, especially with a traditional hard drive in OSX, you should make sure you have a decent part of the drive free to it can keep itself defraged.
Well, right now we're not public or open and are extremely frugal with letting people in. So yeah, we don't want too many users yet, just great first ones. :)
Both, to-and-from. They don't expire.
OP here, I'm looking for others advice/input on this library. This simple library does 90% of what I need for input vaildation, but I wanted to ask others what else they might add without getting overly complex. Input validation is a research interest of mine. Thanks for looking.
You have to give kids more credit. Maybe if we stopped locking them up in compulsory age-based schools all day long and let them do more of what they enjoyed, we'd see how capable they can be when given real experiences at an early age.

I've actually felt, when sitting in a cube farm building CRUD software, that a 10-year-old could do my job.
I have been collecting RMS type posts for my weekly Hacker Newsletter and I have seen exactly what PG is referring to. The numbers have been increasing and the quality of the bottom half of posts are questionable. I've done some pruning as I curate them and was planning on raising the bar more. Seems like a great idea for everyone.
Could be done with Dropbox, except there's no need for a software install, and it's faster. Also, the updated UI (pending!) is going to explain the difference a lot more.
A recent HN post which may be helpful for you:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752139
> Also, for airlines the biggest expense is the plane itself. labor is such a minuscule part of the operating budget that if they are in trouble cutting there is just laughable excercise. The pilots, the flight crew, and the ground crew know this. A declining airline will, in this order, cut routes, crew, and then aircraft. With the aircraft being the 800lb gorilla in the room.

Is it expense or what's fixed vs variable?

When you cut routes, you save gas and possibly landing fees. Over time, you save variable labor costs as well. When you layoff people, you save their fixed costs.

When you park a plane, you still owe payments to GE capital. You still have to do a lot of the maintenance. You probably have to pay for parking.
I seem to recall at least one episode where they showed the image of the person being communicated with in the communicator. Am I just imagining this? Or was it in one of the movie versions…?
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Forming the LLC got that all sorted out. We're friends, but we're not stupid to disregard that stuff, as annoying as it may be.

And thanks, appreciated!
I don't buy it. I think that's hearsay.

You pick a paper and more or less stick with it. I've seen plenty of people sub 30 read The Times. It's the paper you used to read if you wanted to be "serious" (pre-Murdoch).

Your paper of choice is typically picked when you first start working around the ages of 18-24 or even before then.

I find it bizarre to imagine someone hitting 30+ and then changing their paper of choice. I don't think people work like that.
Python is good, you could also consider Maxima.

A single example:

f(x):= x^2+3x+7;

Maxima provides: Symbolic computation, blas and laplack integration for numeric algebra, 500 pages manual in several languages, a complete library for statistics, differential equation, calculus, series. Graphics with matplotllib. Also maxima language is not much complicate that python:

for i in range(10):print ii versus
for i:0 thru 9 do print ii;

[i2 for i in range(10)] versus makelist(i*2,i,0,9)

But Matlab libraries are greater than python and maxima.
1k page views in the first 12 hours.
I just finished building(http://www.theratemydate.com) and am amazed to find that people are already posting stories, over night the site has hit almost 1k page views and is still going up. It's not fully functional yet, however it's a start. I would appreciate any feedback on the site or even the principle behind the site.

I guess this is RateMyDate asking for a RMS

Thanks, GDH
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I would have expected pg in there somewhere, honestly. Both for founding YC, which has been huge, but also for Viaweb, the first webapp ever created.

The article did mention Robert Morris, but only for the worm.
Now if a browser had <device> support, we could really start hacking!

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/#...
That would be cool. I think some thought would need to go into the API there, as the provider market fragments pretty quickly over how and what they offer.
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I'm a Matlab user myself, but I try to use Ruby whenever possible if for nothing else but to just get away from all the god damned matrices. I didn't realize Python had similar capabilities, I look forward to trying it out. But does Python have "Index exceeds matrix dimensions." errors? I just can't imagine life without seeing a few of those every day. That said, the workspace is really handy, is there some equivalent GUI in Python?
Little Brother has a special place in my heart, but mostly because I started reading it a few weeks after being chased around by riot police at the Pittsburgh G20, which made the effect that much more real.

Little Brother is a subversive nerd's porn.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/ for those unfamiliar with SMBC.
This is a great resource. Thanks for posting it.

I tried to fill this same void with my micro-site hn-books.com

The problem is -- and I still struggle with this -- on one end you have this huge list of resources: books, blogs, news articles, personal advice, essays, etc. On the other end you have a person with a specific question, like "How do I find an idea?" or "Where's the best place to find a cofounder?", or "How do I get started?"

Very rarely does the person's question match up with the title of the resource. And there are multiple answers to many questions found in multiple types of resources. Many, many times, I'd much rather read multiple answers to a single question than somebody's essay on it. When I read multiple answers, it gives me context that reading a single author does not.

I have thought for a long time that HN should be automatically mined into some kind of startup wiki-like format. I know there is already a wiki out there, but the problem is that it can't be a regular wiki -- too many folks continue to provide answers to questions in various formats and venues. Nobody is going to exclusively use it. Somehow it needs to autogen.

Sorry for the thinking aloud, just hoping to provide impetus for somebody else to take a stab at this. We have a tremendous amount of talent and knowledge here on HN, but I think we could do a better job of connecting it to folks. Not sure how exactly, though.

Thanks for the link.
"Agin' it" is a regionalism... in what region? South Park?
I'm glad you don't live in CA.