skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure I agree... I think you're saying that it would be fallacious to attribute california's strong private sector by association alone. (ie., california has a strong private sector, therefore, california's government must not be harming the private sector is fallacious).

It's an open question. California's private sector may actually enable bad government. Some of this is just geography - california has some huge advantages (quality of life) that means people will put up with a lot to live here.

As for government... well, one thing the state gov't did a long time ago was fund an extremely strong system of public universities, a move that continues to pay huge dividends, both in terms of educating large numbers of native-born californians as well as drawing in highly productive people from the rest of the world. I think that to some extent, california is coasting on past investments here, since the amount the state contributes to UC has been declining.

But it would take a lot to wrest high tech away from a region that has stanford, berkeley, and UCSF. So to some extent, you could say california gets away with some very bad decisions because it also made some very good decisions.
New Enterprise Associates Poised to Score Big on Groupon Thanks to Old Ties
I know nothing about design. Is that photoshop he is using? Are there standard/automated ways to go from photoshop to html/css? A cursory google search reveals little but paid services.
Does this mean I should stop working on www.craigsmatchsquaretravelocifund.com?
I've done a "soft launch" to begin driving traffic to ScheduleHQ:

http://www.schedulehq.com/

The goal is to grow organically as I build it out.
A Look at Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP)
Why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes
Badges on Orkut Can You Collect Them All?
EU probes allegations of antitrust violations by Google (press release)
What Not to Say to a Depressed Person
The criteria for depression, as stated in the Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM), must either have a depressed mood or a loss of interest of pleasure in daily activities consistently for at least a two week period. This mood must represent a change from the person’s normal mood; social, occupational, educational or other important functioning must also be negatively impaired by the change in mood. Depression, which is in fact a disorder, is characterized by the presence of the majority of these symptoms:

* Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report or observation made my others.
* Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day
* Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day
* Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day
* Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day
* Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day
* Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt nearly every day
* Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day
* Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal consideration without a specific plan or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.

An estimated 19 million American adults live with major depression. Living with one who is depressed can be difficult. It can be daunting when they won’t get out of bed, sleep all the time, and are simply a downer. PsychCentral recently released an article of what not to say to a depressed person.

1. Snap out of it! It may be tempting to tell someone who’s depressed to get over it, or snap out of it, but depression is a disease. It is not a feeling, but generated by brain chemicals. Someone who is depressed is unable to just “snap out of it”. A better way to go about this would be to just inform them that you are there for them to help in any way you can.
2. What do you have to be depressed about? Someone with depression is not experiencing this feeling as a result of an action. Saying this will just magnify any feelings of shame surrounding this illness.
3. Why don’t you go for a nice walk? Exercise has been shown to elevate moods and aleve depression. However, depression is not a state of mind, and exercise will not be a quick fix. Depression hinders those suffering from engaging in everyday activities. A suggestion would be to show support by offering to do something, for example, “I know you don’t feel like going out, but let’s go together.”
4. It’s all in your head. Depression is a real illness. Perhaps expressing that you understand this can help the one suffering that acknowledge their illness.
5. Seeing a therapist is probably a good idea. Someone suffering from depression could benefit from speaking to a mental professional, so this would be a constructive way to encourage them.
Life is very, very short. Given the choice between not building anything at all and building a "Craigslist killer" that no one will use, I absolutely agree - go for it!

Given the choice between building a cliche project and something a bit more off the beaten path - you may as well put a few extra days of thought into a project before you start, and come up with something unique (as long as you don't spend all your time thinking and none of your time doing).

The problem with the ideas listed is that they're obvious - both myself and my friends have talked about/wanted to approach almost every single one - but it's not obvious how to actually build a better mouse trap for each of them. It's useful to realize when you're trying to attack a generic problem (that has already been solved) with an equally generic strategy.
18/19 can't believe I missed BASIC! Should have been process of elimination of programming languages I've heard of at that point.

Most I got from the creators, managed to narrow down the others based on the year.
WikiLeaks Switches to Amazon After Distributed Hacker Attack
>Those "meetings" you seem to disdain aren't just for people to bitch.

As Cory Doctorow put it in For The Win, [1] meetings, and everything that go with them are the price of being superhuman. (Where "superhuman" is defined as "not just sitting in a tree eating berries".)

[1] http://craphound.com/ftw/Cory_Doctorow_-_For_the_Win.htm
GNU source code repository hacked (for gcc, binutils, etc)
Yup, that seems familiar.
I spotted one site I know very well (I used to maintain it), which was the distinctive Xero.com homepage and sub pages.

I don't think it was copy and pasting, but "inspiration" ... This is how most designers work, I think.
Yeah, there are tons of social networking sites that protect privacy. My question is, I know people aren't satisfied with Facebook's news feed, but with the introduction of Facebook Groups are people still complaining? Isn't it easier to make a few groups and manage some privacy settings than set up an account on Frid.ge or Diaspora and convince your friends to join?
Direct link: http://savannah.gnu.org/
anybody else put 'emacs' for Guy Steele?
Verizon Wireless Set to Launch 4G Network Tomorrow
There was a star trek original series episode about this. Two planets who had evolved warfare to the point that it was completely carried out in simulations, and casualties were executed by each respective side.

I believe kirk ended the show with destroying their computers and giving them a moral lecture on the horrors of war...

Anyway, your post reminded me of it.
Just one advice: mod_python is more or less dead (Last Release in 2007) you should probably switch to mod_wsgi.
mine appears to have found a local maxima which produces unicycles :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L39u6dMSkLA
We keep seeing that error, and are guessing it has to do with the Twitter API. We need to create some better error handling. Thanks for sharing.

By the way, just refresh a couple of times and you should see your results.
Try doing a fast zoom out from the smallest to the largest.
If you do it at just the right speed, it will give you serious goosebumps.
Kijiji and Gumtree have also succeeded in this space (albeit in different countries).

What's killing Craigslist/gumtree/etc in practice is their generality, they're no longer the dominant player in their most profitable markets (jobs, dating, housing) all of which are being carved away by specialist sites.
It's worth noting that some humans are shifted into the evening. Morning-persons and night-owls seem to have held different advantages to our species once we domesticated dogs. Morning folks catch the first rays of light for the day's labor, night folks tend the watch fires and keep intruders away while the bulk of the humans sleep.
Well, MeeGo6 is really Maemo + Harmattan, at least for N9 if I remember the gossip correctly.

I'm happy as long as they don't take away the Maemo core(i.e. being deb based). Also the article reeks with FUD.
Retail vs Steam Distribution
That's the point of parent's post: that everyone on the old "stupid repeat ideas" list has now been successfully executed.
FaceBook on TechCrunch - 2005
15/19, missed Groovy (also no regrets), BASIC, COBOL and Ada Lovelace (put Babbage)
I have no doubt that all your examples can be improved upon. The problem is that you then need people to use your new and improved twitter/foursquare/facebook/mysqpace/digg, and the market is already saturated. So, to get the users you need to improve on the idea so much that you disrupt the market. Don't get me wrong, it's all in good fun, but there is a difference between a weekend pet project and a funded startup: the funded startup needs to think about where the final product will end up.
Yes it is Photoshop CS3. There is no automated way to go to HTML/CSS. You have to do it manually hence all the paid services.
Amazing - that's the same argument people make regarding higher level abstractions in programming languages. For the first time, I've seen the connection between how we have been evolving expressing computations for computers and how we have evolved expressing computation for our own minds.

Of course, I have known for a long time that math is a language unto itself, and that, say, the Arabic numeral system is superior in most ways to the Roman numeral system. But I never before saw that relationship on the same spectrum as programming languages.
Which is often "just like game X, but more complicated."

I think that's the route of most startup pipe-dreams: Take a successful site or product, and make it more complicated.
Second this. I wouldn't say I'm a RoR expert, but I've used both Hpricot and Nokogiri. I found Hpricot was a little easier to get going but Nokogiri ended up working out better for me. They work very in very similar fashions and are fairly straightforward.
Ask HN: Does anyone have experience w/ E3 Visa for Aussie Nationals?
Looks like an E3 might be easier than an H1-B. Anyone have experience with it?

Here's a URL I found on it: http://www.visabureau.com/america/e3-visa.aspx

Related question: Can anyone tell me:

- Do you have a great immigration attorney I could talk to? If so, I'd love an intro Daniel.Odio at AppMakr dot com

- What countries are easiest to hire from? I.e., is hiring from Great Britain, Israel, Australia, Canada easier than Brazil or other countries, or is it all the same?

- Does the job candidate need a certain degree to be able for us to bring him/her into the US?

Thanks a ton in advance.
Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart)
Interesting subject, but I felt like the suggestions lacked substance--cutting down discretionary expenses as generic as "eating out" ties into the question of willpower and the battle of "trying to save on everything". If willpower really is unlimited like the study jiganti referenced, how does one transfer the concept of something like Flow (which the Stanford article inadvertently focuses on) into financial willpower (which is more of a day-day decision-making process)?

Also, small typo in 8th paragraph - I think you meant to say "extraordinarily".
Maybe all war will condense to genocide.
I'm confused. Why would you use BitTorrent? A DHT sure, but the whole BitTorrent protocol? Seems silly for transferring less than 100 bytes of data.
I strongly disagree with the blog's author opinion.

Before basing your opinion on MeeGo on a biased article, read Arstechnica's article too: ( http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/11/meego-confer... )

P.S. "At one point, after a long explanation that failed to answer the question of why MeeGo didn't yet have a framework for developers to sell their apps, a developer from Norway shouted out: "We don't care about openness, we need to be able to make a living.""

What is Qt then? http://qt.nokia.com/products/platform/meego/
Come on...
I can't help to think that if the US people, media and government hadn't been so busy "fighting terrorism", then events like hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, subprime mortgage crisis and the following recession could, if not have been avoided, at least been handled a lot better.
Yes, but I think that since the wholesale bandwidth market is more competitive it won't be as much of a problem.
Winning is the point of warfare. Inflicting enemy causalities just happens to be part of winning.

Ok, so rather than 'winning' it's achieving the desired change through application of force. If the point of warfare was inflicting enemy casualties, than we would have already won in Iraq and Afghanistan... and Vietnam. We've been moving away from the whole 'kill as much people as possible' method of warfare for quite a while.

Omelets require breaking eggs, but the point of omelets isn't to break eggs.
Add to that a coffee shop around thinking/debating... It's on my friends' lists.
... While we were all sleeping.
Just write yourself a Ruby script that downloads a webpage. Then parse the downloaded content with Ruby's equivalent of BeautifulSoup (a forgiving HTML parsing library).

That's pretty much all there is to it. You'll want to manually inspect the HTML from the page you're scraping to find patterns. For example all courses are in <li> tags, etc.

Let me know if you need more help. But I think as a first step write a program to download a web page.
Are Those Yahoo Layoffs Starting To Roll Out Today?
TL:DR

Find code here: https://github.com/rynop/CakePlate
17/19. Missed Erlang and Groovy.

The ones which came to me quickest upon seeing the name(s) were Python, Lisp, C, Java, C++ and Go (because of the year). The one which was the hardest to recall was Scala.

And the bonus was quick to memory, too.
I prefer my version, but I think you might have the edge.
I suspect the problem is not that most people do not know the proper notation, but that they are unfamiliar with the concepts behind big omega and big theta.
You could even argue that is what Amazon.com did with their recommendations. And the main reason I signed up for netflix was after working on the netflix prize. And I have been rewarded by buying things I wouldn't have otherwise and watching movies I had never heard about, but loved. There is $$$ in recommendations and selling solutions.
Goodbye SOAP - Welcome JSON REST
Google has killed their SOAP API. XML+SOAP was a good milestone in the history of integration but it is now time to look at the next milestone and that next milestone is JSON+REST
Thanks for your reply. I know you mean well. I could argue that it is the history of California, and it is important just because of the relevance of California to the world.
How To Calculate the ROI of Enterprise 2.0
If they are distributing via the BT protocol, then each block will have a SHA-1 hash.
GitHub Jobs on The Changelog Podcast - GitHub
"The new homepage took two weeks to get to a final design, but only 4.5 hours of actual work. Why the discrepancy? If you stare at the same design for extended periods of time things will start to blend together. Sleeping on a design for a day or two will allow for a fresh look."

Good to hear, because I find the same thing with regard to app design--long periods of mental churning followed by brief glimmers of clarity and insight.
I think it's a mistake to lump all terrorists into one group. Different terrorist groups have very differing goals, moral systems, and levels of sanity.

The IRA, for instance, while an evil bunch of fuckers, would never attempt to kill thousands of people in a single attack, because they had clear and fairly realistic political goals and a strategy for pursuing them.

Islamic terrorists, on the other hand, for the most part appear to just like killing -- it's not too much of an exaggeration to say that their goal is more or less the genocide of every non-Muslim on the planet, and individually their goal is to die for Allah. This gives them a very different set of priorities to old-school terrorist groups like the IRA or ETA.

To summarize: the IRA wants to terrorise you to achieve a goal, but Al Qaeda pretty much just wants to kill you.
Can't this be achieved just using ssh instead of setting up a process that listens to the network?

from remote machine:

ssh me@macbook pbcopy < foo.txt
It boils down to the cliche "if you think you are unique, you are probably an asshole". The mere fact that you manage to find a co-founder in your own country/city is enough to prove that there are lot of other people in ROW going in the same direction where you are headed. It's not about doing things uniquely, its about doing things in a better way or at least trying to do it in a better way. So, I should get back to work now.
It looks like they've been working with the community to try and clear a lot of that stuff up, I really enjoy using CI myself so I've been interested. http://codeigniter.com/news/the_official_codeigniter_communi...
Qt is a very nice cross platform gui framework - it's not an app store
" didn't yet have a framework for developers to sell their apps" - this sentence doesn't make any sense to me, either the author did not read it twice before posting his blog, or he's not a programmer.

There is a framework as you stated (the excellent Qt), I don't know about the AppStore thought.
This would have been better with at least a little explanation for why each idea wouldn't work (other than a Nerd thought it up).
Same, missed basic, cobol, scheme and JS. :(
Marilyn Manson used the voice on certain tracks on Antichrist Superstar.

According to Wikipedia:

The song "Man That You Fear" by Marilyn Manson ends with the MacInTalk voices repeating, "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed". Also, during live performances of "Antichrist Superstar", the MacInTalk voices repeat "You might as well kill yourself - you're already dead" at the end of the song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk
Great 15 minute video I encourage you all to watch.
isn't hunch an example of #2?

as an outsider, with many west coast friends, it appears that both start-ups and investors move in herds. for example, six months ago it was location-based check-in services?
http://www.barcadebrooklyn.com/
Denton Explains Gawker's Next Moves
They have about 16 million users of broadband asymmetric access. I doubt any IP transit sold would balance that. It'd be nice to see real numbers instead of conjectures.
Ramit,
I noticed a pattern in HN: people who are trying to make it share their work (articles, webapps, ideas), self-promote, and ask for help. While people, such as yourself, who already enjoy significant success, come to HN to help, mentor, offer jobs, etc.
So I am wondering... How is it that most of your contributions here are about you and how well you are doing? You figure at this point, if the community was interested in your work, someone else would be posting it. I am mainly curious to know HN policy on self promoting and spamming, because I see it as detrimental to the quality of the site.
Robots Don't Need Us Anymore
well... it's a big University... the largest in the country actually, so there are thousands and thousands of classes. I think copying/pasting may be time prohibitive.

Is it possible to setup a crawler that would iterate through what could be hundreds of pages, with the same HTML structure, and download/parse the page?
More thoughts on Apple's second gen iPad and Retina display
I find it full of awesome that you're sharing the source. Nice work.
Probably because if they had, wouldn't have been the fastest in all tests, or at least not by much.
Review My Site - eBay app
Kick me in the face with your feedback - good and bad.

http://www.auctiontrafficdriver.com

Is this useful?
14/19, missed BASIC, C#, Groovy, Scala, and Ada Lovelace.
I feel like I cheated on BASIC: I didn't know the creators, but it was the only big one from that era I didn't have yet.
I've never written anything like this... Is there a function like CURL that downloads the page as a string from a URL?
> A drag and drop interface that lets you make any program you want...totally code-free!

This is an idea that was hot way back the 80's and early 90's in the era of CASE tools. There was some limited success but only in very limited domains such as signal processing and to a lesser extent building data-driven, object-oriented systems.
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Pretty darn cool. Nice work guys.
Texas State University endorses concealed handguns for students on campus
If:
1) macbook has ssh turned on
2) macbook's IP is routable (or forwarded via NAT),
3) server is able to log in to macbook (has private key, or you supply password, etc)
4) the pastboarde is available without a GUI (not sure that sshing to a macbook and issuing pbcopy will adjust the pasteboard of the user at the terminal)

For me, #1, #2, and #3 are false. #4 is unknown.
A VPN would make 1,2,3 easier, though.

S
Vanity Rocks Network
Vanity Rocks Network is a real-time deal marketplace for beauty, health and wellness services. Think "Travelocity for the beauty industry".

Consumers can search for great deals on beauty services at salons and spas. Schedule and buy the appointment online, save a ton of money and getting the convenience of booking online.
Well an app store isn't a framework either :)
The author's sentence then doesn't make sense. Either-ways, my point was MeeGo has a great platform for developing applications, Qt is great, and QtCreator is an excellent IDE.
Thanks for the advice, I'll try that instead :)
12/19. Oh well, at least I had Ada Lovelace. :)
I'm pretty sure that "Better Search Engine" was on the list when Google, Cuil, Bing, and DuckDuckGo were founded. SOmetimes you win, sometimes not so much.

Let's get empirical for a moment. If we are sifting through applications for funding, do you think that there is a significant correlation between whether a business is on this list or not and its eventual success or failure?

If the other factors driving outcomes--founder quality and so forth--have higher confidence levels, this kind of list isn't very useful.
18/19 groovy was out of my radar.
"NOT doing this is like a running coach advising their runners not to waste their time jogging around their neighborhood because they're really not going anywhere anyway."

That, sir, is a brilliant summary. I have the feeling that I've been running around the neighborhood a lot recently, but I can also detect my legs getting stronger, so to speak.
What the author is really saying: "Build a business, not a slide deck".
Very interesting. Will have to try this for some of my projects.
I'm not sure there is enough room in the high end market for anyone other than Apple. I don't think the new tablet market is going to be nearly as tolerant of fragmentation as the phone market.
I think it's worth highlighting that none of these are new and unique ideas. If you honestly believe that you have a fresh approach or a new innovation to apply to any of these fields, then by all means go for it. But if you have one of these ideas, and you think that that idea in and of itself is going to get you somewhere, you need a wake-up call.