skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah... there are tons of things you can do in NYC! Besides the normal gym routines, here are a few things I recommend:

- There are excellent bike trails all around Manhattan. You can bike along both East River and the Hudson on the west side, there are also excellent bike trails in Central Park

- You can run along the bike trails, too, of course

- There are always pick up soccer games in Central Park, especially when the weather is nice -- very common in the summer time

- Great place to play basketball is Stuyvesant Town (14th and 1st, they have 5 outdoor courts, lots of people playing)

- ZogSports runs sports leagues all year around, from basketball to dodgeball. It costs money but keeps you committed, they also have happy hour after each match :)

- Diet is important of course, I would subscribe to Men's Health, one of my favorite magazines. Great exercise routines, and also tell you various ways to eat healthy for cheap.

- Oh, NYC also has a ton of events throughout the year. Look into the 5 boros bike tour (just passed, but def do it next year), the JPMorgan 5k Corporate Challenge, etc. Look into them!
Nightly visit to the gym. At first it was tough to get into a routine, but it got easier when I started bringing my iPod loaded with podcasts. And of course, the podcasts are usually about hacking with Cocoa, Django, or Rails.

Quitting soda helps a lot too.
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What do the colors represent?
I had rhino book but things got better when I read

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Wro...
Gates to step down from Microsoft
http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/which-tennisplayer-beat-a...

"Sorry, there were no results for your query: which tennisplayer beat andre agassi"
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Well, it _does_ help to have sociopathic tendencies. BTW did he ever acknowledge that the child he fathered was indeed his daughter? From the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" I got the idea he wouldn't even _acknowledge_ his child for years.

Must be great to have a dad like that.
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I don't know. Who is "We all?" I think people who know have been saying Bill Gates is smart for ages. I really do truly hate Microsoft, from the bottom of my heart, because how bad and ugly most of their stuff is weighs deeply on my sensitive aesthetic sense. Just knowing I have to share a planet and 99.9% of my genome with people who are happy with that crap causes me deep existential anxiety. So there aren't many people who hate Microsoft more then me. But, I always thought Bill Gates was really smart. As much as I hate Microsoft, that kind of evil is a smart evil.

The problem is, first of all, that all this evaluation doesn't mean shit if you don't fire the people responsible for your crap sucking, and second of all, that no one is really responsible for things not sucking. The problem with MS is the MBA's, and that anyone with a strong enough vision to make stuff not suck will have to bump heads with very powerful institutional forces that pull MS towards suckage.

The problem isn't quite someone at microsoft as the fact there is no one there with power AND taste who can make a big difference. (there are maybe a few at low levels, there are some of microsoft things that don't suck, and that even evidence taste, but it's the rare exception not the rule.)
try tennis player:
http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/which-tennis-player-beat-...

that is pretty awful and funny though. it can do all that but not see that tennis player and tennisplayer is the same thing :)
My personal favorite comes from designer Philippe Starck:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197

Very inspiration for designers and engineers alike.
On one hand, I'd rather read Gruber then the seattle PI.

On the other hand, I read his blog daily.
Heh. There was no answer, per se...just some scowling (Also, I didn't get the job, but that might not have been related).

To be fair, there were some cool people in the group who knew the time of day -- one (very senior) fellow asked me point blank to enumerate the problems in Microsoft's online products, and was very intent on making sure that I defended my criticisms. We ended up having a really nice, long conversation about things like the shutdown of the IE team, and other blunders (such as the choice of "live.com" branding).

I think the closest thing I got to an answer, was that the decision came down from on high. There's something like 11 levels of management at Microsoft today; based on what I've seen and heard, the politics of that structure can overwhelm good taste.
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Who's to say that your personal criticism couldn't be compared to the same criticism many companies began receiving in the 90's when they moved the sale of their products to the internet? Remember that the internet is still so young, and it's important to keep an open mind to each step of change.
The Fall, by Camus. Sometime after a friend of mine killed himself, I went to the library and picked this up basically by accident. I read it in the space of an afternoon. It was the beginning of my thoughts about the meaning of death.

A Spell for Chameleon, by Piers Anthony. It was the first of my mom and dad's sf books that I chose to read for myself. It started a lifelong love affair. I outgrew the Xanth, but not the sf.

Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy. An unassailable Mount Everest in the peaks of high literature. It's a spiritual journey I've taken repeatedly over the years.

The Mind of the Maker, by Dorothy L Sayers. A meditation on the intersection between art, creativity, free will, and the Trinity. My copy is getting worn out.

The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism, by David Tracy. This book was the cap to my spiritual journey in college. It is about finding authentic experience in classics, whether they are from your own tradition or not. It is a synthesis of modern Christian (also Catholic) thought, but also about how Christianity should be mediated through lived beliefs and culture, and how people should be open to real experiences from a culture not their own.
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Don't think so. They're still king of ads. Remember?
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Cut back on sweets (limited to one oatmeal cookie per day) and work out 2 hours 6 days a week. Nothing else works.

Good news:
I'm stronger than ever - on a moment's notice I can help someone move a piano or push a car down the street; I can work all day and not hurt the next, I don't get hurt, and my old back injuries don't bother me anymore.

Bad news:
Less time. So I read while on the treadmill or recumbent bike.

Luckily my wife works out with me.
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197 million pounds? That's one heavy lab.
Picking a list is like favoring a child.
I'd much rather play Nintendo than play outdoors, and I think most of their fans would agree. So I doubt this matters to them.
Ask HN : How do I delete my account? Is HN evil?
I dont see a "delete my account" button anywhere. If such an option does exist, shouldnt the link be more upfront? If it doesnt exist .. why not?
Did you write whatever generated this yourself, or is it open source?
I think this kind of bullshit is the new conventional wisdom. It all depends the idea. Ideas are valubale in exactly those cases where the idea is an elegant solution to a big problem.

There was a point where the Polio vaccine was just an idea. Would you rather of funded the polio vaccine or some crap web app that has a missing vowel in it's name with half a million users?

The thinking that an undeveloped idea is not valuable is symptomatic of the lack of vision in the tech world. People interested in elegantly solving big problems know a solid idea is way more important than a little traction. This thinking is wrong for a class of ideas that is essential for solving the big problems in the world that represent the best business opportunities. Silicon Valley and it's associated culture has become the new tired conventional wisdom. This is why silicon valley no longer solves big problems.
This is pretty, and pretty cool. The palette is very nice.
Your story sounds inspiring. I'm just about to pull in some money from an angel kind of like you are. We are in a very similar boat. My start up in not software related though.

In the spirit of helping you to make your business better, I was much less inspired by your name. officezilla? Really? Maybe one problem of working by yourself is that there is no one to tell you when you are making a huge mistake you are blind too. Officezilla? You are pouring your life into something you are calling officezilla? You want that on your tombstone? The thing that was your life's work is officezilla? You can't find a better name for what will be your customers primary way of mentally representing you? This will have more of an impact on what people think of your product initially than almost anything else you do. I would suggest you use a little bit of the money to find a good person to help you pick a better identity for yourself. This is just an unacceptable name. I'm sorry, thats what I think. It's not the same skillset as the work you do for a website. But it's important enough you should change it, before your next round, in consultation with an expert, even if it's a really big pain in your ass to do.

Good luck with your funding and your business. You sound like the type who will be successful. I hope you change the name though. It is really bad. I'm sorry for being so harsh, but it really is an epic fail, and you really should recognize your limits and hire someone talented to help you change it. Good luck.
The colors, unfortunately, don't represent anything - they're generated by the applet to easily differentiate between words
Start going to gym or running or "insert activity here" regularly. One of these things has to be something you like or will like when you get good at it. Personally, I find the gym boring and...vain.

It will suck at first, but eventually you will reach a point where you feel guilty not going to the gym or running or "insert activity here". This has worked well for me in San Diego (running my second half-Ironman in a week).
Neither, unfortunately. It's a website that generates beautiful word clouds, so I decided to make one of pg's essays.
Is Powerset anything more than a proof of concept? Not one of the results for my search "which team has the most NBA championship wins?" had anything about the Boston celtics. MSFT has major challenges ahead to successfully apply Powerset over the entire www.

On the plus side, this could one day answer the question "What's Live really better than Google at?"
I'd like to see one of Hacker news.
I like how prominent the words in the Grahamism "make something people want" are - it really shows his commitment to that philosophy.
> solving the big problems

If you have a good presentation and can make a case that your solving a big problem will be financially successful I don't see why you couldn't get funding for it.

I am not solving the worlds problems and have nothing totally unique, so a little traction is more important in my case but maybe not yours.
Ask HN: Brainstrom on a IMDB killer
I'm sure someone can build a 10x improvement to IMDB.com. Is anyone already building it?

Just a few ideas:
1) No pop up ads over the search box
2) Cleaner interface, too much clutter
2.5) Compress movie info page, I'll click if I want to see more.
3) Ok, social networking features. What your friends watched, what they liked, didn't like, ugh.
Interesting. I've never seen a washlet with the buttons translated into English before.
I own the domain "sharecircle.com" as well. I have been buying domains that fit for specific verticals like RealtyGoLive.com, etc.

I am also not hoping to have a tombstone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freejack
I won't put words in his mouth, but maybe he means worthless as in their products and technology are becoming more and more merely laughingstocks. M$ was a lucky lottery winner, leveraged their winnings via unethical business practices, and now is imploding.
$1Mil Netflix contest = free labor
Too little, too late. This won't change Reddit. They might as well sell themselves to Digg and be done with it.
I play soccer a lot(who came up with this stupid name for football anyway) And basketball and sometimes volleyball, when there is nobody to play with i run, jump, climb and stuff. Its called parkour and if you are careful and concentrated it beats gym and its more fun too, and it requires creativity. I eat a lot of unhealthy food, i think that if my body slows down when i get older, i will get really fat, now im just skinny and stringy.
Based on this, what companies have you shortlisted where you could work -- curious to know :-)
That's a start. The next step is to not present officezilla to anyone you want to think positively of your project. You look like you are doing very good work and are going to get a good shot at making it. It'd be a shame to have it unfairly tainted by that bad name. This matters a lot to how people perceive you.

sharecircle is much better, BTW. Like a million or billion or million million or million billion or even billion billion times better.
I hear Halliburton's hiring.
LOL, the direction in which this conversation turned is funny.
Just ask me.
I wasn't talking about your case in particular. These cases are different. I'm just saying that the popular (wrong) "wisdom" is that ideas are worthless, and that's an example of a pre-post fallacy.

I'm talking about the guy above you who said "I'm stunned by the # of people who are in the "I have a brilliant idea and a couple of powerpoint slides!" phase who expect to get funding." I may have replied to the wrong person! I think I was more with the guy I replied to. Sorry!

The very best business ideas will come from people with only an idea and a presentation because elegantly solving a big problem is both the best business proposition and the type of thing that requires only a well reasoned idea that simplifies complexity.
Moore's law and general improvements to the software mean that even if our algorithm is as expensive as people think it is, we'd be fine.

That said, scaling it isn't trivial and I don't want to sound overly dismissive. :)

I firmly believe that we can search the whole web this way, but Powerset doesn't have the hardware assets at the time I write this post to do the whole web (or we would have done it).
Yeah, I don't see that as editorializing. That would be "Im In Like With You Raises $1.5 million funding and I still have no idea what that site does."
Yeah, his is one of my favorites too: "ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble... and that is why I design toothbrushes."
The bookmarks are already indexed. The pages that are bookmarked have a edge against pagerank for that specific user.
I'd hope that you dont base your entire perception of a person on a movie.
So I could buy www.paypal and set up www.paypal/com? Nice. This is a great idea, ICANN.
My favorite is http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_dem...

Photosynth is pretty amazing
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It's Wordle - here's a link to the create page:
http://wordle.net/create
Why do you want to delete your account?
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Ok, so why?
The author's name is pretty inconspicuous (randomhack), but if it was like mine, it would be tied to a bunch of other online websites with the same name/identity. Maybe he doesn't want that to be indexed on Google. There could be a variety of reasons. Anyways, IMHO deletion of one's account should be possible for every service for any reason.
I have had a chance to listen to Aubrey de Grey for a few years and see him speak in person. Everything he talks about is backed up by research and findings that have been making enormous strides. Quite exciting and inspiring.
The image looks wacky in Safari if you roll your mouse up and down. It does partial rendering of it, but what renders first varies. Firefox is boring and doesn't do partial rendering. I uploaded to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dStWA3oHbhg
Is there anyone who reads this that has a valid argument in dissent of gerontology? I'm curious, as I know several people (all religious) who take offense at things like this because it's "unnatural." I haven't heard any solid argument, yet, though.

EDIT: Also, I think it is unfair to label people like de Grey or Kurzweil as simply "afraid to die." They just see it as a necessity for reaching the boundaries of human exploratory possibilities. Although it is true that new minds produce new insights, it is undoubtedly also true that if a single person could live for two centuries instead of one in a healthy state of mind, he could probably do more research in his field than two separate people in those centuries, since he would have both the advantage of more overall knowledge and passing on that greater collective to his colleagues and students (who in turn will likely benefit more than from a 50-year-old professor that has had less experience in the field).
damn good for 19 years old

I'm 27 years old, actually...

there aren't groundbreaking works

Ouch. I'd say that my shared caches side channel attack work was groundbreaking (although Shamir and his graduate students were only a few months behind me). I'd say that my projective algorithm for matching with mismatches is groundbreaking. The sqrt(5) \epsilon error bound on complex floating-point multiplication shouldn't have been groundbreaking, but apparently was -- I've never seen numerical analysts get so excited about a ~30% reduction in an error bound.
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no you can't. Paypal is trademarked, and belong to a company, so you will never be able to buy it. If you do, you will probably going to get sued, if the name is such that users can confuse it with the current company.
Unless it is something like paypalsucks, which is totally legal.
In between being called "MSN" and "Live", it was "Windows Live". The idea was that MSN was a brand more oriented toward being an ISP or a portal (back when it looked like the internet companies to beat were AOL and Yahoo), and this re-branding would distance themselves from being either of those, and also help them leverage the Windows brand.

I don't know why they dropped the "Windows" part from the name though.
I actually like this, as the .com has been running out of any good names in a long time. And getting any decent name, requires paying lots of money, to the domain squatters. Even 2-5k is too much for a small startup, or for a small personal project.

Also, they seem that they are closing the "domain tasting" party. Basically you can only return back for a full refund few domains, then you can't get a refund back.

So, those "domain tasters" that horde thousands of domains a day, and keep the legitimate users to find a good one, will have to find a new job.
Not sure why you said none of the results for your search had anything about the Celtics. The third result's snippet basically answers the query - "The Boston Celtics have won the most championships, with 16 NBA Finals wins"

screenshot http://img.skitch.com/20080627-xwau72gij1yse6t6fy1rp3us3j.pn...
Forget about wild terrorist threats.

The important thing is that self updating features are a bad idea for any product, hardware or software, that might someday be the target of litigation.

I met the Slingbox founders at an EFF event once, and one of them told me that they deliberately left a self-updating capability out of the Slingbox, on the advice of an EFF lawyer.
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Is it worth it? Powerset has not displayed any really good improvement and many of the queries return irrelevant results currently. Maybe in the future it might be much better.

But at this point, is it worth 100 mil?
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Ok, I will take a stab to explain it.

There are comparing the current universe, to light. Light is both a particle and a wave, that means that photons exhibit both properties, and it all depends on how you observe it.
The other interesting part of light, as it always chooses the path that takes the "shortest time". Not the shortest path, but shortest time.

Eg. If you shot a laser beam thru ice, the laser beam will reflect to a certain angle, b/c it is the quicker angle to get away from that material. Why does light choooses this path? In quantum theory, it seems that light explores ALL paths possible, (wave property), and we observe it in the shortest path (as a particle), as it is the most likely to occur.

So, basically the are claiming the Universe is like light, a big giant wave, with no beginning, and unlimited posibilities/paths, but we are observing only one, the most likeley one.

When a particle travels, from point a, to b. It has a distinct begining, you can pin-point it. That's the bing bang, if you thing of our universe as a particle.

But if something both wave/particle properties, there is no distinct beginning, as it is all around. You can observe it at certain points, but it also can be in other points simultanosly, but you just observe one at a time, but you can't pin-point it exactly.

...

One interesting experiment, about the wave/particle property, is the double slit experiment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

Take mark of the last phrase: "Merely observing the particle, the observer collapse the wave function, and made the particle act as solid". So, we are the observers, the universe is the giant wave/particle thing, and by us existing and observing it, we are collapsing to a concrete thing (to us at least).

...

"At first, they found that the most probable history of the cosmos had only undergone "a little bit of inflation at the beginning, contradicting the observations," said Prof Hertog. Now, after a correction to take account of how the data we have on inflation is based on only a view of a limited volume of the universe, they find that the wave function does indeed predict a long period of inflation."

In other word, let's fudge some math here, some there, and re-arrange some stuff there, to have the data to support our hypothesis. Unfortunately it is hard to know if this is right, b/c it is just one of the so many theories.
While I agree, it seems if this goes through, ICANN will be checking every application, you could never get it.

I hate this idea,it is causing more of a problem than its trying to fix!

At my calculations (likely wrong), if the maximum domain somebody would want to make (20chars), you could make 280million domains per TLD (mostly nonsense). So .com can have 280mil, .fr can have 280mil, etc. Wouldn't opening up the TLD system make things worse? (assuming not all TLD buyers allow people to freely register domains at a reasonable price)

At the current time, ICANN can open a new TLD every once in a while and allow all the domains to be taken. And they can do this thousands of times at least until things get silly with 5 letter+ TLDs.

I really hope this doesn't happen!
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