skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found that these were actually a bit tricky to convert to PDF, with even (normally) reliable tools like Calibre outputting PDFs with really small text... I stumbled across mobi2html, part of mobiperl (https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl).

Apart from a couple of character encoding bugs, it seems to do a good job. I've uploaded the eBooks as html here:

http://alexpeattie.com/stackoverflow/html/

I've then been using FF/Chrome and a print-to-PDF driver to make PDFs (again, the only method that worked for me) which I'm uploading here:

http://alexpeattie.com/stackoverflow/

PDFs are taking a while to generate, esp. the larger ones. If anyone can find a faster method to convert the html files, let me know!
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It annoys me when FLOSS software sites have the 'News' as the front page (like this project). If I go to your site many times i probably know where to get the news, or get it another way (IRC, web forum, mailing list, etc.). However if it's my first time all I see is "please see the about section".
I've been going back and forth trying different types of contact lenses for about a year now. The best I've had so far can only be described as a minor improvement.
Ebert's a bit of a crotchety Luddite clinging to the old ways. This rant, coupled with his diatribe last year about how "video games can never be art"...

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_neve...

...should be interpreted with a grain of salt.
Note: Some in the American Left Wing want a political war to convert everyone to liberalism. Also some extremist Star Trek fans want every TV station and movie theatre to broadcast Star Trek non-stop until everyone is converted. Also some Harry Potter fans want to make a realistic Quiddich match.

Just claiming "some" is moronic. With us approaching 7 billion people on this planet there's a chance "some" people have had every absurd idea in the book. I'm sure there's "some" out there who would want to be bioengineered to be a furry and I'm sure there's "some" out there who would want to date a futa. I'm sure there's "some" out there who want to be chimera'd to be a centaur. I'm sure there's "some" out there who want to make a human centipede.
I believe we can crack it, but regulations are a worry.
True. It comes up as #2 and #3 if you google for "adder lisp", though.
Tell HN:Wouldn't it be a nice idea if Y Combinator particularly listed
Wouldn't it be a nice idea if Y Combinator particularly listed in a section of its website all the companies funded so far according to operating industry and their milestones?
I think it might lend a great direction to all startup techies and investors when they visit on target.
As much as I hate the recent spate of 3D movies, I don't think it has anything to do with the technology, but more about how poorly it is applied. I say this because Avatar, at least for me, was simply mind-blowing; it was easily the most immersive film I've ever watched, but mainly because the 3D was done tastefully, subtly, and with care. You can give me as much hand-waving sudo-science to try to convince me I'm not supposed to have liked it, but it won't change my mind; Avatar in 3D literally brought tears to my eyes.
> That's not to say it may not be effective, on average, in limiting losses. But effectiveness is something distinct from fairness.

As long as businesses will be required to eat the losses caused by attempts to be 'fair' I predict this situation will continue.
when the first steam powered trains were introduced in the late 19th century, many passengers became sick as well - because they nor any generation before has ever travelled so fast before. nowadays everybody rides the trains.

if your brain is frequently exposed to 3d films, couldnt it get used to processing that kind of imagery? so as time passes by more and more people go to the movies without a headache?
And for those charges not covered with paypal protection (for whatever that is worth) either a merchant or a foreign buyer would be at a loss.
If you install via RVM, you don't need a system ruby or anything else installed for bootstrapping.

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/deployment/system-wide/
Not a lie. He actually did buy the company which responded.

True, but he didn't want to buy 20 companies. Do you think it's reasonable for a man to ask 20 women to marry him, based on the premise of "19 of them will probably say no"?

For more than it received from the former bidder.

Only if you accept his completely fictitious stock valuation.

Most of the purchases are made without the hard cash in the bank.

Sure, but I'd hope there's usually a fairly clear path to obtaining the cash -- clearer than turning around and selling (part of) the company you just bought.
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Isn't Woz still on the Payroll? He is the only one remotely close to being as iconic as Jobs. I would love to see Apple go more in the hacker-friendly direction that Woz would take it in.

I can so see it coming out of leftfield like that too, boom, meet the new CEO, Woz!

Fingers crossed.
Can you please help, HN? Have an idea but don't know if it is useful.
I've been subscribed to his youtube channel for a while (http://www.youtube.com/user/daito) and it's very entertaining to see some of his projects come up, decontextualised: electric stimulation to people's faces (usually his own), drawing on photosensitive liquids with a laser, recreating a photograph using a sheet of cardboard and a nailgun.

Given that history I'm inclined to see this more as an interesting piece of art than a stupid fashion trend.
Documentation and examples are steadily building up on GitHub's Wiki system, I may move it from there at some point, but it works for now
Hey guys. Does HN Tokyo Meetup have a regular page that you use to organize your events? Is it at http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/. If you do have a regular place that you announce your meetups, do you mind posting a link here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmQExXr67OcTdDBZZl9...

On top of organizing Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley, and keeping in occasional contact with our 8 other Hackers and Founders chapters, I'm trying to keep track of all the HN meetups that are occurring all over the world.

At some point, I'll be posting this on the new version of the Hackers and Founders website.
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I think the obvious exaggeration helps to portray the manic environment at the time.
Do those places not have McDonalds or Starbuxi? You may be coming from a perspective where particular items you are accustomed to are considered mandatory. I strongly suspect there are people making do without them.

Most relevantly to the "how" question, single Japanese thirty year olds on average consume much less housing than most HNers would tolerate. Many, particularly unmarried women, live with their folks. Others might be in e.g. a one-room rokujo (six tatami mats in area) apartment costing $600 a month, which would not be atypical in Nagoya.

Three million yen is sufficient for a comfortably middle class life for a single man in my town. Trust me.
I meant to downvote but misclicked, so I'll just comment ars's comment above is to the best of my knowledge much more accurate than yours.
Is it just me or does this article have a pretentious tone to it? Also if you follow the line of thinking in the last paragraph to it's logical conclusion then a lot of people were "screwed" out of their millions of dollars.
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I think Murch/Ebert are implicitly drawing a distinction between 3D being something people can watch without having a physical response and 3D as a viable technique for making movies. I understood the argument to be twofold. Firstly, even if you don't get headaches, your brain is still working overtime, which makes your movie-watching experience less pleasurable than it would be if you were watching a true holographic movie. Secondly, because of the way the brain processes images and the illusion created by 3D movies, the technique limits the genre because one cannot use edits that are very rapid or have shots with a lot of horizontal movement.

Whether that amounts to "not working" is perhaps up for discussion, but I think they have a point that the problems with 3D extend far beyond the fact that some people have adverse physiological reactions while watching.
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This article could have done without all the pumping up of the authority that Roger was appealing to. Just make your case, big guy.

Having said that, I agree, with one catch. Here's the thing: we currently don't have 3-D movies.

We have this fake 2-plane deal put on with funky glasses. That's why the cineamtographers can screw around with your eyes so much like the letter writer explains.

I want 3-D. True 3-D. Not some hacked up fake 3-D. True 3-D would consist of a large, rotating drum in the middle of my living room, approximately 6 or 7 feet tall, and several feet wide. Images would display as three-dimensional objects, viewable from all angles.

Big? Cumbersome? Impractical? Probably. But at least it's a true 3-D experience. When a couple of actors appeared and started talking, it would literally appear as if they were in the same room as you. Directors couldn't have arrows poke out at your eyes or any of that other silly nonsense that they seem to not be able to refrain from doing with the current tech.

The current hacky stuff that passes for 3-D is broken and won't be fixed, this much is true. It remains to be seen whether or not this tech finds a niche in games or specialty cinema, though. It's also an open question as to the future of real 3-D. I'm not so crazy about having the terms all mixed up, because the really cool stuff is coming later.
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> Calling yourself a rationalist means, basically, that you're a virtue-ethicist who considers rationality to be a virtue

What? No! Yudkowsky, at least, follows utilitarian ethics and argues for _instrumental_ rationality. The utilitarianism sets the goals, and the rationality is about finding the strategy to fulfill them.
Ask HN:  PLease update this list with any HN meetups you know of in your area
I run Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley, and I'm going to devoting a lot more time to it in the coming months. So, among other things, we're building an actual website for the group, and one of the things that we want to do is keep track of all the HN and H&F meetups around the globe.

So, if you know of an HN meetup in your area can you post contact information on this Google doc?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmQExXr67OcTdDBZZl93MXZwaE4tWlQwTENVMnVQalE&hl=en
They said the same thing about "Talkies", and I'll quote from wikipedia:

"....the new development was treated with suspicion by many filmmakers and critics, who worried that a focus on dialogue would subvert the unique aesthetic virtues of soundless cinema."
clickable: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmQExXr67OcTdDBZZl9...
Scotland? Jungle Creative mentions Koh Phangan, near Thailand, as their location. Did Earth change while I wasn't looking?
Very true and Facebook didn't pioneer the use of real names, either. Not by a long shot. Come to think of it, I can't think of a single feature Facebook truly, actually pioneered -- I can think of a great many they popularized.
In agreement with the author when he says ''Dark, rain and cold, makes it harder.''

I think a seasonal schedule would be best (something like 5am in summers transitioning to 7am in winters), but that's hard to do with our clock-dominated world. And certainly it depends on one's local climate.
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I would guess that at least some of the early employees make it into the Officers and Executives club.
I was under the impression that credit companies relied on the insanely big number of possible combinations in order to protect them selves. You can surely create a billion "valid" credit card numbers but the probability of a portion of them being in-use is very low.
No never
And they say what is going on right now is a bubble?
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May I point out that the headline does say "screwed".
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What problems or issues have you encountered specific to Scala and Lift with Foursquare ?
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I'm pretty sure the name and expiration date if not the security code on the reverse side come into play as well.
1. Go to google scholar

2. type the name of the paper

3. click the all x versions-link

4. get the PDF
I watched Toy Story in 3D (with the kids! :) ) and I kept forgetting it was in 3D... I just kinda tuned it out to it, I don't know how to explain it. The 3D aspect was a complete waste after about 5/10 minutes of novelty. Like Murch says, make the atmosphere involving and don't worry about adding frills - if it's good enough, and we'll immerse ourselves without any tech help.
the higher up the tree you climb the smaller the market and the larger the premium due to a lack of economies of scale.
At this point of complexity, it might be easier for them to get a valid cert and mitm everything.
Dude, this is Hacker News.

Please avoid comments like "The guys working on it are basically drunks and stoners and guys who follow jam bands around. "

Not cool, and not helpful to the level of discourse.
Your brain will be exposed to the real 3D for much longer though.
But the upgrade to LED grills would be LED teeth, which always take root.
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The way a product cycle works at Apple is that first Jobs comes up with an idea (or approves a one, doesn't matter), designers draw it, engineers build it and Cook is responsible for the supply-side (he optimizes the production to keep the costs minimal and supply stable).

Now if we were to take Jobs out of the cycle, the designers would still have the ideas and engineers could build them. This is great and I'm sure they could still come up with excellent products like a new macbook pro with improved battery life. Jobs is responsible for the vision (direction of the company), if it weren't for him nobody would have dared to invest such vast amounts of resources and time into building something like an iPad.

It's in my opinion that Cook can do excellent work in the short-term making the company grow on paper by optimizing the supply side, but in the long-term he lacks the vision to conquer new fronts.
The original was posted a few days ago, http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/credit-card-code-01202011/ this article really doesn't add anything.
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>Another argument I heard against 3D movies is that apparently our brains use all sorts of cues (about 20, I think) other than differences between what the eyes see, in order to make us see things as 3D... 3D movies provide only one of those cues, and so naturally causes a strange feeling because the other 19 cues are missing.

A big one is atmospheric haze, which is easy to reproduce to be fair. It is also the reason for a lot of the perceived inconsistencies in apollo moon photography: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#background...
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From my experience, the big advantage of waking up early to hack on a side project vs. staying up late is that I'm way more focused in the morning. If I manage to drag myself out of bed early, I don't waste the time with mindless surfing.

YMMV, but it is worth giving it a try.
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I applaud you for "sudo-science".
Another approach : have kids. You can forget about ever waking up late again :-)
"Math textbooks are not cheap."

Actually, they are free. I am a graduate student in Mathematics and there is no book, on any level of mathematics that I have been unable to find for free download.

Places like www.avaxhome.ws and old.pdfchm.net are chock-full of math textbooks not to mention the torrents which can be found on isohunt.com and thepiratebay.org that consist of collections of thousands upon thousands of graduate level mainstream and esoteric mathematics texts, all high quality scans.

In total, I have many thousands of dollars worth of mathematics books, all of which I have obtained for free (and I feel justified; there's simply no cost-effective way to obtain those books on my side of the planet).
I felt the same way, but I interpreted it as the writer's subtle mockery of his earlier "hotshot" self. Towards the end he notes that he made no money off the deal, and that he deserved to make none.
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I've been waking up at 0546 for a long time (at least a year, maybe two?), and I tend to get more "maker work" done between 0600 and 0800 than any other part of the day. (and yes, my alarm clock is a pager sound). It's especially free of online distractions when you're on the east coast of the US or in Europe.
How long did you work on this project? What is it worth to you? Do you want to sell it? You're in fact the best person to determine its price.
Don't know, everybody seems to bash 3D these days. When I watched Avatar I thought it was pretty awesome and didn't get any headaches either. Maybe it's no good having a 3D TV at home and expose ourselves constantly to fake 3D every day, but watching a movie every now and then in the cinema can't be that bad.

Edit: Also, all these people are just speculating, there's no science backing up any pro or anti 3D claims. I would be careful giving Nintendo 3DS's to small children, that are still developing vision, but as I said I don't think watching a 3D movie every now and then is a bad thing if you enjoy doing so.
I wonder how much of the benefit is specifically from waking up at the specific time 5am, and how much is simply waking up, then using the morning time to be productive in a way that isn't hurried or scheduled.
Contact the Attorney General of your state (or the equivalent if you're outside US) and describe the scam. Then wait a few months and see your client escorted to federal prison.

You could also get yourself fired rather than fire the client. I wonder what would happen, if the quality of your work started to suffer for some reason? Or if you would suddenly become unresponsive to the client?

There's also the "Italian Strike": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
Thank you for your diagram, This is a lovely way/checklist to consider the possibilities of working for free.
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Some good points, I know where you're coming from, but when I read this:

This sounds like typical OO. It is, but in practice, it's little more than plain old procedural programming with syntactic sugar.

...it makes me think that syntactic sugar is undervalued, or maybe that some very useful and important procedural programming practices are now placed under the OO label.
games and porn, not movies, will drive real 3d.
i also think it's much more likely to be in the style of augmented reality (glasses or contacts) than a stationary projector.
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Hey, Mark. Congrats on your recent sale.

re: NYC startup scene

I'm pretty sure that you've been to Hackers and Founders NYC, but if not, they organize via http://twitter.com/hackersfounders . They get together the third Thursday of every month. Also, I've just found out that NYU has a Hackers and Founders door floor. :) If your interested, I can forward the contact info to you.

re: In other words, is college something I'm sticking with long-term? Or is time of the essence and the need (and my parents' need) for a degree less vital?

I'm sure you're going to be in the startup game for the long term. So, thinking about where you're going to want to be in 10 to 15 years, will taking 3 years off for a degree hurt you or help you?

Also think about location. Degrees really don't matter much in Silicon Valley. I'm not so sure about NYC or Boston, however. The culture was very much more "degree centric" out East when I lived outside of Boston.

There is a ton of BS in college. And, frankly, you, in particular don't need college to be an entrepreneur. You might pick up a good bit more about algorithms or data mining or NLP than you would if you're a self taught programmer. But you are going to do very well as an entrepreneur with or without a degree.

But, even with all the BS, I completely enjoyed the time I spent taking fun classes. I always took a huge number of classes that I didn't need, simply because I was curious and wanted to learn. So, I took a ton of philosophy, comparative religions, sociology, psychology, literature, art history, and design classes. Because of that I was exposed to a bunch of ideas that I wouldn't have been exposed to otherwise. And, I think that's made me a much more well rounded person than I would have been otherwise.

But, then, I've been going to college on and off for 17 years, and I still don't have my Bachelor's. I'm sure that your parents wouldn't approve. Mom still reminds me every month that I don't have my bachelor's yet. As the T-shirt said, "I never let University get in the way of a good education"
I wonder does he drink at all/much. I find that a beer or two at the end of the day makes me considerably more groggy the next morning (the length of sleep being equal). I think if I were to start waking up at 5 I'd have to eliminate drinking entirely. Probably a good idea but unlikely to happen.
I don't think it has anything to do with the specific timing but instead that he made it a habit and stuck with it. If he were truly a night owl and made a habit to stay up and work from 10:00 PM - 1:00 AM on personal projects and wake up at 8:00 AM, he would accomplish the same thing.
Except it doesn't apply in this case. He is saying that true 3D, some sort of holographic display would work fine, but the current fake 3D has a lot of problems. It places constraints on the cinematography, and it doesn't always enhance the end result.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/21/the-crunchies-awards-livest...
Created by notorious troll and viral video creator Athene. I wasn't really sure what to think before watching this, but I have to say that this isn't a joke. It might not be as accurate as everyone would want, but it is enlightening and mirrors some of my personal thoughts on science and how we have lost 'something' in modern science.

You should check it out, it might be a large time investment, but the quality of the visuals/editing and sound are well worth it.

Here is some background to Athene and the video:
http://www.labspaces.net/blog/1135/Athene_s__Theory_of_Every...
On the other hand, the NPCs would probably agree that the PCs rampaging through their world are pretty ganglike.
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I think Mark Suster and Both Sides of The Table is Really good