skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, very infrequently does anyone ask anyone else who they're voting for. In fact, talking about politics can very quickly turn into a nasty argument.

You're also correct about generally being able to tell someone's political leaning.

Another thing is that the 2 parties (republican and democrat) are very clearly opposed and distinct. And every republican I know very strongly identifies with being a republican (and my guess is that they vote republican unquestioningly straight across the ballot). Surmise from that what you will.
Excellent. Can you show use one of your subdomains?
... and I'm back out again. I have a day job contracting and a side project, & it's looking like I'm not going to be finished until _late_ tonight.
My computer (an iPhone) totally failed to render both sides of the game.
I can relate. I am 33 and married, no kids. The only difference for me before and after (getting married) is the amount of time you have available for your startup before you need to spend time with your wife or kids. Age is not a factor, the amount of time you have is the factor. But having someone supportive, wife or gf, is really a big plus. And it really helps a lot when you use them as a listener to pitch your idea to. They come up with amazing questions.
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I love books for more than just reading. However I have no problem reading on my Kindle, if anything I find it more convenient as I don't have to hassle with bookmarks (although I have to get into the habit of exiting my ebook when done as the kindle has a habit of restarting on power up and losing the last read).
> and increases the risk

Not necessarily true. When you marry (or settle in for the long-term) with the right partner, you help each other develop.

For example my wife and I have very complementary aptitudes. We've helped each other to grow and to become more competent people. Alone, we're pretty good, but together, we're awesome.
Couldn't he have just rigged the algorithms to put this post at the top? That would be the backdoor equivalent of the "sticky" post.

It would actually be more interesting to me if pg had some quantitative way of knowing that this post would reach the top (some function of the # of YC applicants now nervously refreshing), but if I had to guess, I'd say he just knew from experience or something.
California to censor video games? (CNN)
I don't think that's the conclusion anyone is drawing. Most other articles use the phrase "announced on Monday". The journalist in the TED talk scraped status updates for "break up" or "broken up". This isn't supposed to be taken as hard evidence of anything.
Archive emails in Mail.app, there's an app for that.
Why would they want to bring attention to something negative? What motivation do they have to make an announcement prior to fixing it unless the issue gets mainstream attention?
> By definition, if start-up x has an advantage over y, y is disadvantaged relative to x

Yes, it is a tautology. Why state it? To what end?

My guess is that GP is a reaction to the implication that you are begrudging YC companies their success...
Ah, so Ymacs stays true to its roots in being stuck with its own stack.
I've worked in tech since I was very young and I have always had nothing but respect for the older guys. Where do you think I learned from?

We are judged on our skills and not our age. If that wasn't the case I would immediately submit a YC app to start an IT outsourcing shop that hired only people over forty. I'd take all those hungry underutilized experts and crush the competition!

I think the real issue here is precisely that we aren't judging people by their age. In <generic industry> the number of years of experience are the predominate method of determining skill/compensation and that's not necessarily true in tech. So people look at the difference and scream ageism!
I'm going to opt out because I object to these lawyers claiming they're acting on my behalf in suing Google without my consent. I understand that this is considered legally acceptable for class actions in the United States, but I don't think it is reasonable or ethical. You should need explicit authorization to claim to represent any competent adult.

And for what it's worth, I never got my feathers too ruffled by the Buzz thing anyway.

EDIT: And the notice document says you'll need to snail mail all of the following to our intrepid lawyers in order to opt out: "your full name, address, reason why you want out of the Settlement" -- best of all, a nebulous "proof that you used Gmail at some point after February 9, 2010" -- plus "your signature, and the date." What exactly will be accepted as proof? Convenient how they don't bother to tell us. I'm assuming they won't accept OAuth tokens...
These are the types of things I have learnt in high school programming classes.. I'm in my third year and taking AP Computer Science next year. I'm kind of wondering how someone could get through a college program without knowing the basics.
(def check-usernames (u)
(or (nil? u)
(and
(has-email? (user (car u)))
(check-usernames (cdr u)))))

or something
No many of them know nothing of Visual Studio. They know how to operate Google.
head-start in IT is a great thing to do for your kids, but more importantly is providing him a great living environment that cultivates creativity. Let him decide what he wants to be based on his own interest. I know alot of kids grew up learning musical instruments, and developed great skills, won competitions and etc, but never followed up that career after they came out of college.
> The members of the New Elite may love America, but, increasingly, they are not of it.

So, why exactly is Football more American than Yoga; "Left Behind" more American than "Mad Men"; Branson, MO more American than NY, NY? It seems like he has a very narrow and dated view of what America is.

> They are merely isolated and ignorant.

Wait, people who read Left Behind are less ignorant and isolated than MIT grads? What planet does this guy live on?
Just a speculation. Look at drop.io as a recent example. Large enterprises tend not to allow their service to be used as "loose" tools. Instead, they would rather keep the tool as something that plays well with their own services.

I could be wrong, but I have a hard time seeing something like Notifo survive in the state it's in under the banner of a company like Microsoft or Google.
"When people ditched their CDs, they lost album art and liner notes, but those were never a part of the actual listening experience. The music bursting from headphone and speakers was still music, was the same whether it came from a disc or a download. When the liner notes vanished, the songs remained the same."

and all the people who are hardcore about audio cringe at the notion that music sounds the same regardless of origin or equipment used to reproduce it... these also happen to be the same people who cherished the album, who saw insights into the music from the artwork on the cover, and read the lyrics over and over.

I'm a geek. I owned a Kindle and read books regularly on my iPad and iPhone. I love the technology.

However, it drives me crazy when people make say that the details in the "antiquated" and analog versions aren't/weren't important. There is truly much being lost.
Other boardgames, say Euro style board and card games, are also fun and teach basic math, getting along with others, optimizing interaction within a framework of rules, creativity. They are also fun. Your child has to be a bit older for most games, though. Around 5 you can start with the easier games, if they youngsters are bright enough (and have enough patience).

You may be able to start with Go earlier, since the rules are so easy. Just be sure to start with a very small board.
Ask HN: For Thiel Fellowship, what if I'm under 20, but my co-founder isnt?
I couldn't find anywhere on their rules page that addresses this concern directly.<p>It says you can apply as a team up to 4 individuals, but can I apply by myself and bring/support my co-founder with me with the fellowship's pay IF I get it?<p>Well, first off, do I still qualify to get the Fellowship if I'm under 20, but my co-founder JUST turned 20 last week?
Facebook developers exiled for selling user IDs to brokers
CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer
This is a seriously necessary project.

I recently used this: http://github.com/simplegeo/python-fpys2

Perhaps you would be interested in merging it? I have some additional example documentation the author emailed to me as well.
Sounds good. Look at boardgamegeek for some inspiration for the board and card games. (And don't bother with Monopoly, it's a game played for nostalgia value only. If at all.)

Games are also good for bartering and other social skills, besides math and logic. Settlers of Catan may be the obvious example in the English speaking world. Though Bohnanza is probably better.

Of course there are also lots of games you can play outdoors. Including just running around with your friends.
I have heard of The Nerdery, but was completely unaware of this. My sincere condolences to you. The hacker community lost someone who was so accomplished.

I hope his family finds solace, and strength. My heart goes out to them.

Thank you for posting, and sharing this tragic piece of news. I know everyone at HN will appreciate it.
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ANOVA agrees with you:

Source Sum Sq. d.f. Mean Sq. F Prob>F
-------------------------------------------------------
Loan Type 9.6665 2 4.8333 16.47 0.001
Browser 0 1 0 0 1
Error 5.8700 20 0.2935
Total 15.5365 23
It's interesting that you chose to show Skype as a good home page. I happened to visit it today because I had to install Skype on a new computer. They make you jump through a lot of hoops to download the software and I actually pointed it out to a coworker.

Any thoughts on that?
No, it's not. It's more like the Kelly strategy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

Be ready to seize opportune times, but never risk disaster. The world's greatest entrepreneurs and investors didn't get to where they are today with diversification strategies.

They did it by concentrating the bets they made in life.
I'm not making a circular definition at all. I'm just saying that bad politicians can be elected by good people (who are naive or deceived), but they can also be elected by bad people (who agree with the bad politician's bad aims, for instance).
Just don't do a GC, while you have dangling commits.
Alright Apple, how in the hell are you going to get out of this one? You were awarded a trademark for "There's an app for that" ( http://mashable.com/2010/10/11/apple-trademark/ ). But, this is Sesame Street. However, Sesame Street will be selling this episode one day, in which case they will be making money off of a product with your trademark without compensating you. But if you force them to pull this skit, they would have to remove the whole episode (because otherwise it would be too short to show later), unless they replaced it with something or overdubbed with something else, which I'm sure they'd rather not do. But if you touch this at all, the public and media will be all over it. However, if you don't, then any other company can use Sesame Street as an example of fair use, if you claim it to be so, so... I believe that one of your lawyers is now having an aneurysm.

Lesson learned: Trademark your witty memorable lines from marketing material prior to or as soon as possible after release; if you don't, then don't trademark them at all, or you might risk the "Sesame Street Catch-22".
Why and How you should partake in 'Movember'
A short article about why you should grow out that sweet 'stache you've been saving for a rainy year.
Symptoms of the Ocular Migraine
Am I correct in assuming this only works on h.264 encoded "Flash Video". Then there is no conversion going on - but a very smart solution that should make some money on what would be a relatively straightforward app to make.
Very interesting. Looking forward to the post!
It seems to on average get about half the faces.
http://liuliu.me/detect/detect.html#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alexrei...
http://liuliu.me/detect/detect.html#http%3A%2F%2Fkk.org%2Fct...
It recognizes upside down faces though, which is impressive.
http://liuliu.me/detect/detect.html#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scifun....
Overall, a great demo.
Much smaller regular expression to test divisibility by 7
one of the best uses of the crunchbase api i've seen... something related & useful you could offer is a daily digest of TC articles minus 15+ per day related to Foursquare, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, Google & Facebook...
Ok count me in :) I already released one. hopefully another one will be done by end of Nov

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popn-learn-abc/id400222528?mt...
OpenOffice.org exodus begins
Compatible with grep -Ex

See also http://github.com/matthiasgoergens/Div7 for the program that created it.
You don't think it's a bit d$*chey to compare these guys spare time project to DHH picking his nose?
I was debugging a database on site and started feeling emotionally wrung out. I realized that the radio someone was playing nearby was playing songs from my teenage years and each one was evoking the emotions of those years and taking me on a roller coaster ride subconsciously.
Sure:

http://zipcar.ihiredjeffclark.com/

[user and pass are both zipcar]
Do you have a plan to certify the gateway code?
YC W2011 applicants chat back online
8pen reminded me about Dasher which I used to use a few years ago.

By coincidence Dasher for Android just hit the market: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.htm...
Ask HN: Experience with pen names or aliases?
I've just been discharged from a government job, however my problem is within the terms of the contract I am not allowed to have any online presence using my real name for the next five years (I was working in digital intelligence, it's complicated).
So I am now online using a pen name of sorts and am looking to start my own company, my only issue is I don't want a split identity I don't want to have to be one person offline and one person online. I want to start the company now as I need to sustain an income.
Does anyone have any experience trading under a pen name, how do you introduce yourself etc and what do you do when it comes to invoicing etc.

I realise this is a bit of an odd question but you guys seem to be one of the more rational sources on the internet that could help me out with this predicament.
Paying extra virtually guarantees it will go through, which makes your perception of the message's delivery equivalent to a regular email.

But the other person doesn't know that you know that they know, while you simply know that they know. This is as explicitly as I can articulate it.

What you're avoiding is them knowing you know they know. Make sense?
Oooh nice, a payment system not encumbered with a framework.

What would be really awesome is for this to turn into something like the standard database api spec PEP249 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/) but for payment gateways!
Dasher for Android just became available.
Internet Explorer: Commoners.

Firefox: Geeks, Biological relatives of geeks, IT people.

Chrome: Programmers, basement dwellers, hipsters.
*with spam control
Fingers still crossed! Probably sleep with them crossed as well.
It seems the OP likes his Vim, Git and Ruby. I have found Org-Mode to be very useful when writing articles. With support for rich text, hyper-links as well the ability to export to HTML (with a TOC, and the ability to pull in your custom CSS/JS files) it makes for a very nice editor. If you are doing Ruby code snippets, Org-Babel works pretty well too.

Again, not picking on the OP's tool-kit. Figured I would throw out another alternative.
When they say stuff like that they just want to you write that you used it.

They way a lawyer uses the word "proof" is not remotely related to the way a scientist uses it.
hey, where is the chatroom? I had lost the link to it
From tabtrick's home:

"It will be simple and easily to do."

You might want to fix that -- typos on the front page aren't flattering!
For me this story has all the ingredients for a great 'mainstream news' piece without having any real viability as an actual thing anyone would use.

It's a cute idea, but it's success/interest is a media concoction and nothing more.
With my 8 years old boy I covered Logo and MIT's Scratch. Now we're getting a pimped up arduino starter kit for us. Oops, I mean, for HIM! ;)

We're also fiddling a bit with Google's App Inventor, which uses http://education.mit.edu/drupal/openblocks jut like Scratch.
Pentadactyl is an improved fork of Vimperator
We're mostly assuming pg would admit it right away ("I added 100 upvotes so people would see this"), not that he'd try to do it behind our backs :p
I was trying really hard to understand his argument. I can buy that the various social and economic forces of our time are creating a new type of caste, an "elite."

If the guy spent less time insulting and more time with real numbers (not the circumstantial evidence he did give), I might agree. This whole article is just divisive and useless though: the people who already agree will be validated and the people who didn't will feel insulted.
1. Apart from the fake populism, I was struck in the print edition by the Southernization of America--I'm supposed to car about stock car racing and and country music? Back in the day those were amusements that started south of the Ohio.

2."Why is football more American than yoga?" I guess you could ask the guys who advertise beer, tires, and pharmaceuticals for the ills of the baby boomers.
Nobody is above psychology, although it affects people differently. However, as a member of HN I would expect that you would be above psychological hacks (as in, you can think beyond them, and make decisions based on your own reasoning, rather than relying on them as a crutch).
Love that picture!
What is a larger privacy violation, Google Buzz or opting out of the class action lawsuit?
A number of people has been saying that the US has not been leading technologically. So if not the US, which country is doing better technologically?

Japan? Even if it's Japan, its economy isn't doing that well either.
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It depends.

Do you have a solid resume? Do you know your stuff backwards and forwards? Are you willing to relocate pretty much anywhere for the right job? If so, pick the companies you'd _most_ like to work for (even if you think you'd never get hired there), and apply directly. If the company has a job listing on their website that matches well with your skill set, then all the better ( ex. http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/new-york/swe/... )

If you're just starting out, or have a weak/varied work history, then your goal should be to end up somewhere where you can grow your skills, or where you can work your way into managing some larger projects. Even if the pay isn't great, or the commute sucks, a job can be worth if it fills some otherwise lacking spot in your resume.

Also, try to think outside the box. Do you have other bits of expertise in your background that might make you particularly attractive to a particular niche industry? i.e., if you know a bit about cars, then try to find a company that does something related to cars, and see if they have an internal development team. Often, domain-specific knowledge can make all the difference.
Totally agree. The 5-slide presentation only works if you have the right backup. I wrote this blog post on how to make those appendix slides the best http://altgate.com/blog/2008/09/vc-pitch-deck-a.html
T9 was incredible; it's one of my favorite pieces of technology. That said, I had a Palm Treo for a long time and that is my all-time favorite typing experience on a mobile device. The slightly rounded keys allowed great accuracy and tactile feedback (both for the "click" and for sensing where the correct keys were without looking).

I have now had an iPhone since the first generation and I still suck at typing on one (on the 3GS now). Auto-correct seems to hurt me more than help even after earnest efforts to trust it and stop hitting backspace.
Hah, I wouldn't say you're wrong.
The place for this would probably be ratemystartup.com (yes, it exists, no it's not my site)
Superstitious Beliefs Getting More Common
Job boards and craigslist suck just as much for employers as employees. Because the cost of applying is 0, people send their resume to every single job they can find. Its a chore to separate the wheat from the overwhelming amount of chaff.

So many companies recruit people directly instead. They'll use LinkedIn and github to identify people they want, and make direct offers. Sure, they might be overpaying for each employee, but its far more important that you hire great people than how much you pay them.

What I'm saying is don't expect much from job boards. You might find something to pay the bills for now, but you're much better off spending your time putting code out into the wild and meeting like minded people. When you've done that, you'll be turning down job offers you didn't ask for. (BTW, "I can't market myself" is a cop out - we're all programmers, just show us some friggin' code).

Finally, where do you live? If you're in Raleigh or NYC, a good friend of mine is looking for top-notch developers with your skillset. Feel free to email me if interested.
I don't think that HR/recruitment industry is fundamentally broken. It isn't optimal, but definitely not broken. Also, show me what industry where dealing with people is the core business is doing better?

I got all my best jobs through recruiters. Actually I even like dealing with them in general, they provide with tons of valuable info which you wouldn't know otherwise. As an added bonus they often amuse me when talking in a top-down way like 'get really prepared', ' this is a really good position for you', etc.

EDIT: I should have said that recruiters start talking to you nicely only after a certain point in your career. Till then, I guess, it can be a terrible experience and is better avoided by the means described in this thread
What do you expect when the subject of the paranormal has for the past few years been in reality shows (Ghost Hunters, etc.) and History Channel documentaries (UFO documentaries with well known hosts, etc.)?
Important Information about Google Buzz Class Action Settlement
Because it's largely inaccurate and Australia is packed with self-righteous pricks, they're just self-righteous about things other than the author originally implied.
you can always leave your cell phone at home, but for many the cellphone is an integral part of going somewhere. planning en route, picking alternative an rendezvous etc.
An effective Fix-It Day based on Cyclomatic Complexity
This is completely meaningless. The final regular expression is a complete black box and I dare people to try to decipher it.
This is awesome.

Do you have support for recurring charges built in?
I'm a mac user and I use excel a lot, help
Hi!

I have to use excel a lot for work and for school, the only problem is that I'm a mac user!
Numbers ( the excel version for mac) lacks of formulas, microsoft office for mac sucks big time, i had 2003 and 2008 and both of them suck! and yesterday I read 33 developers left openoffice.

I guess microsoft won and I will have to get a netbook with windows just to use excel only, or what would you do?
They've been sending them out progressively. (I've received 3 over the past 5 hours.)
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If you're going to try it, note that it requires iTunes 10.1 if you want to be able to use your iPad again.
I'll definitely read that & look into using in future iterations.
twistd -n web --path .

for evented goodness.
> Why would you marry at all?

If you are lucky, one day you can answer this for yourself.
Can you please explain what you mean by "certify"?