skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is different for people who remember a world without Lemmings? I remember buying a copy of Lemmings for the Amiga... so that 20 yrs makes me feel super old. :-)
You still have regional concerns. Some are purchased from the BBC (like some episode of Horizon or Imagine) or are co-funded (like the Earth series). Those contracts will only allow viewing in the US.
I was more irritated than surprised but yeah - I have thought about this point more than once during my early days in the US.

When I first landed - it was almost frightening to drive -the flashy noisy cop cars, the humongous, wide, structured yet confusing mingling of roads. Then you go drive to another state and few surprises get thrown at you!

Oh and Stop signs really absolutely terminally mean STOP - that took a little while to get used to. I failed driving test due to this - the seriousness of driving tests, that was yet another "O'RLY, FOR REAL?" moment!

I get it all now after several years, but it was fun living through the cross state road trips.

--Another Michigander.
Thanks for your feedback. email does work.

>>and it's not apparent to me what added value a page would have for this.

the need I imagine is for groups and serious list building. suppose you want to build a list of media people for your company so everyone can use them, this would be a way to consolidate all of them.

>>A simple process to create a page probably has potential for a bunch of applications, but I don't think improving your Twitter list is much of a burning need for anyone.

I agree. one of the other applications is books, music even. I am on my way creating an instance for each actually. Anyways, Thanks a lot for the comment.
The phone test -- we talked about this as well. Dash, hyphen, and minus sign are all bad descriptors for lay-people.
Look for a job in Sales and Trading. Bulge bracket banks love programmers and quant types for trading. It's hard to get an interview by just applying on a website, so you'll want to reach out into your network and see if you can get someone to pass your resume to HR.

A couple of websites that are helpful (though geared mostly towards undergrads):
http://wallstreetoasis.com
http://mergersandinquisitions.com
As a 28-year Michigander (Flint/Detroit area), I don't think the left turning mechanism is responsible for any neighborhood divides...you could say that the divided highway contributes to this, but I am more inclined to blame "White Flight" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight).
Hey Chris,

Good luck! I know where you are coming from. Normally I'd suggest you read my book on the topic (LFF - free on www.hunterdavis.com), but it sounds like you're already over the first hump (saving for the startup). I'm 29, and last June along with a co-founder quit my 9-5 to start www.discursivelabs.com. We've got some upcoming products and some sites in active beta. The best three pieces of advice I would give you:

1. Be open to contracts when they come up. Seriously, just being open to the possibility of contract work and attending appropriate trade shows can get you through the lean times.
2. Betas. Always beta, beta often. Don't rush to go public with your beta. We've gotten so much valuable insight into our product from our beta testers It's staggering the difference in quality feedback between 100 motivated private beta testers and 10000 mediocre public ones.
3. Build your word of mouth with useful information and verify it exists with site analytics. I was lucky in that I had a fairly active community of programmers and hackers reading my personal website, but I had a fairly good number of folks email after a good StackExchange reply I posted. People appreciate useful information, and it's a good chance to mention your product.
You're assuming he has more than two names.
http://bitemyapp.com:8000/ there's a test build of it,

https://github.com/bitemyapp/thodol

and there's the github. It's nowhere near done, and while history is being saved, I need to make a differential front-end to it.

Let me know if you want an account on the test deployment.

If people show an interest, I'll start taking suggestions on features and implement them.

I could probably get it rest of the way to 80% done in one more weekend. This was just two days of fiddling so far.
ARGH - I HATE those. Couple those with poor signage and out-of-towners will be lost for, well, if not hours, certainly tens of minutes. :/ (cherry hill ... lost several times in that area and no ways to turn around for miles).
Expected this to use the osmocomBB open source GSM stack. Disappointed.

http://bb.osmocom.org
Hey gary, any quick tips for us on how you manage notification about you/your brand? Ie how do you find threads about you and reply so quickly? Google alerts seems ok but not as real-time as I'd like.
SICP Chapter 4.5 - Art of the Propagator
Space opening up in SF Hacker House
Hacker House in San Francisco has a room available for a month, beginning March 1st and ending March 31st. It's a little small, but comfortably fits a desk, bed, and other furniture, and costs $700/month. You'll be living with three guys who either run or work at tech startups in San Francisco (ZeroCater and Justin.tv) You'll also have the opportunity to continue living in the house if you'd like, but you'll have to sign a year-long lease.
Email jane.x.huang at gmail.com to set up a time to come see the place.

Features:

- Hardwood floors

- Gigantic windows and lots of sunlight

- Rooftop access with excellent view of the city

- Shared common room to put desks and computers (though the room you'd be renting has room too)

- High speed wireless internet access (12Mbps DSL)

- Located in the Lower Haight, with tons of bars, cafes and restaurants within walking distance

- Washer and dryer
The other part about "no ego" is being willing to learn from rejection rather than either blindly going through or avoiding all situations where you may be rejected.

I suggest working your way through the lower division mathematics requirement that a college CS major might experience. Course material is one way (just make sure to actually do the homework), taking courses at a local university (or even a good community college e.g., in Silicon Valley De Anza and Foothill Colleges) is another (make sure to find an excellent instructor for Calculus and to take a discrete mathematics course).

The other part to keep in mind is that there's different types of software engineering roles and different kinds of mathematics. Some (e.g., machine learning and data mining) are very mathematically intensive (to understand some papers, you'll need to do integration by parts), others (e.g., graph theory) are more about discrete rather than continuous mathematics, yet others (systems programming, application development) are least mathematics heavy (and where they are, again, the math is mostly discrete rather than continuous).
Another sign is placing too much value on things that aren't necessarily related to performance; the quintessential example is the ass-in-seat mentality.

Displaying favoritism is another sign of a bad boss; it kills morale (perhaps more than a boss who yells at everyone equally).
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Steamrollers, even bigger ones don't learn from their mistakes. Watson does. For example, in one of the auditions they did for the Jeopardy producers, the questions in the category each referred to two holidays which occurred in the same calendar month, and the question was supposed to ask what is that month.

Watson did not get it. it was finding sensible answers, but answers that did not fit the category. It got a couple wrong, then stopped buzzing on that category. After it saw the correct answers from the other contestants for a few, it started buzzing again, with the correct answers.
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They said in the end of the episode that they started feeding him the correct questions once they are known (Thus in the example learning that all of the questions are names of months), but they didn't mention the categories that I saw.
The divided boulevard divides neighborhoods, not the Michigan Left. Left Turn lanes would actually make it harder to cross 8 mile.

I'm not a fan of Michigan zoning whatsoever, but in this case, the damage is done with or without the Michigan Left.
What is most surprising is the claim on the Alice discussion that Ph.D theses are not reviewed.
Ahem... Let me rephrase my above comment. Anything Chris can do, you can do. Perhaps rather than complaining about who "should" clean it up, you can actually do it yourself?
Oh, come on, now. It's just that the wiki paradigm is used throughout. Talk pages, for example, are basically no differently editable from their respective articles; Talk:Transport_in_Nagpur is just a plain ol' wiki page that's been created at that name. Hanlon's razor, et cetera, et cetera.
More links:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/apple-said-to-work-...

http://mashable.com/2011/02/10/iphone-nano/
Активни и Здрави - Заедно да върнем спорта в живота на нашите деца
ПМГ „Проф. Емануил Иванов“ в гр. Кюстендил с обновен и оборудван басейн, финансиран по програма „Активни и здрави“
Учениците на няколко училища в България вече активно могат да спортуват в обектите, финансирани по програма „Активни и здрави“ на „Данон Сердика“ и Фондация „Димитър Бербатов“.
The Apple doctrine
Twitter’s Dick Costolo Says Twitter Will Be Everywhere, On Every Device
How about those left turn passing lanes on two-lane roads in Maryland? Feels dangerous, but keeps traffic moving.
That is a really good suggestion - we'll see how we can incorporate it! Thanks again for your feedback!
Thanks a lot for the answer. I already looked a bit into healthcare and taxes. The former should by now be covered (was a bit of a hassle exactly _because_ even my employer didn't know if they need to take care of my healthcare, plus I'm getting married in the next weeks and need to take care of my SO then). The latter are lower, but actually not that much (much to my dismay..).

Socializing: Both my future wife and I plan to learn the language (if possible..). The culture is mostly friendly, depending on the place you're at in that country. And it's about as far away from a conservative Muslim country as possible. ;-) Now how's that for a spoiler?

I think what I'm worried about most are the small everyday things. Working all day and still socializing (not only with your coworkers, please). Finding a sweet spot to chill on weekends, if you cannot read signs and don't speak the language..
In fact, Don Norman is among the world's most qualified to say this kind of thing: he was founding Chair of UC San Diego's Cognitive Science department, where (among other theses) the notion of distributed cognition was developed (during Norman's time as Chair).
Submitted and discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215784
@dawson I can't speak to isocket, as I've never used or talked to anyone who has used the software. What i can offer you about BSA are a few things:

- You’re not locked in to fixed 30-day rate pricing; publishers at BSA can also sell ads on a CPM basis.

- I'm not sure what type of site you have, but if you look around our directory (http://buysellads.com/buy) you will see many sites that have sold a ton of ads.

- It's true; we charge a 25% commission (includes payment fees, BTW). As such, we're incentivized to actually sell ads for you.

- For many people, the commission comes down to either a) selling ads commission free and keeping 100% (minus payment fees), or b) selling more ads, and likely making more money, with someone whose goals are aligned with yours… it's one of those 100% of a pie that's worth $100 or 75% of a pie that's worth $200 scenarios.

- If you were looking for a commission free ad-selling tool, I'd recommend using something free like OIO Publisher.

- There are dozens of publishers at BSA who would likely sell plenty of ads directly to advertisers without us; however, with BSA in the mix managing their sales they sell a ton more.

There’s also a bunch of non-biased reviews of what BSA has done for other publishers here: http://www.google.com/search?q=buysellads

(Disclosure: I founded BSA and my blood, sweat, and tears are in the BSA software… so I might be a little biased)
I agree, but some of our advisors like the dash name better than the four syllable one. Mainly because the four syllable one isn't actionable and starts with an 'O'. They said you want to either have your name at the top or bottom of any alphabetical list.

On my iphone I have to flip to another keyboard just to find the dash. It took me 2 seconds to find it. This is just another step a user has to take to get to our destination.
Good luck to you! I previously worked at Booz as well. You may be surprised but your experience (and connections) in consulting will help down the road. A friend of mine (Booz alum) is also transitioning from software development at a consulting firm to the start up world - he is in b-school at the moment.
It is a lot better than collisions at lights. A NJ DOT friend says the jughandles are a lot safer-- the principle is keeping stopped and turning cars away from moving traffic.
I would have to disagree. Every bit of information helps. I was even surprised that they didn't implement a voice to text system so that he could learn what the other contestable guessed incorrectly and utilize that information if only to not guess the same thing on his turn.
Even once we get a printer that's easy enough for 'normal' people to use (hard) and a way for them to design the prints that go in the machine (hard)

People won't be designing things themselves, they'll be downloading files and then pressing 'print' on their computer. It's like how people share funny pictures, links get sent around and viewed.
Worse than any other road that size? It's an eight-lane road and that, by itself, is a big socio/economic dividing force, regardless of the type of intersection.
What I think is funny: this guy seems to point to a problem with the internet and Wikipedia. But the actual problem is that he is not a programmer (obviously) so he has a skewed view of what is notable when it comes to programming language. In other words, he has no clue what he is talking about.

He then blames 'the internet' for calling him out. That is the problem with the internet: this newbie comes into the scene and has no idea why his actions are annoying and detrimental. He says he's looking for 'policies' but he's just a newbie.

Hopefully in 5-10 years these dramas will end when we all collectively grow up a bit and stop with the ignorant drama queen games.

Good to see that some aren't letting him rest until he acknowledges that he was deleting articles he had no business deleting. Ignorant editor is no excuse.
Ask HN: Review my startup, neighborrow.com" 
Specifically- what do you think of the new landing page (http://groups.neighborrow.com/ah.html) and the strategy behind it.
How much disk space was reclaimed by the deletion

None, articles can be restored. Disk space is actually consumed by deletion overhead.
What about consumer responsibility? caveat empetor and all. Capitalism only works when we the consumer are willing to buy what is out there instead of holding out for better offers.
I blame Michigan's anti-business labor and tax law.
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I love that this hit the HN RSS. However, I prefer the Pittsburg Left: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Left
Are we seeing "The Rise Of the Solo Founder"? Being solo myself, I wonder if we, solo founders, should build a league? "The League of the Solo Founders".

As a solo founder, I feel like an "only child", there is always that suspicion that something might be wrong...
It would be one thing if it was a book review. This is a product pitch page for $99/month SEO monitoring software.

A post I would like to see is how a minimal amount of search engine knowledge + Google analytics can help you more than a $1188/year on an SEO app.
Did anyone else read this as "the state of Michigan has left wikipedia". Pleasantly surprised at what I found on the link though. I love ideas like this, though I fear majority of drives in the states would have trouble adjusting to this style. They have enough trouble parallel parking and making right's on red, lets not confuse them anymore!
Do you know of any hard data that has been collected on how hyphens in domain names affect traffic or user engagement and adoption?
Nice logo design. :)

Neeraj Agarwal
This is called Product differentiation. Every company is doing it. And if not, they will likely lose to their competitors.

This is Marketing base knowledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_differentiation
Clickable: http://groups.neighborrow.com/ah.html
A Warning to LCDs - Watch Your Back, AMOLEDs are Coming
>Don't be quick to dismiss or disparage "greed and profit" as there has been no greater catalyst for human advancement.

war. While war and its related technological advances are frequently connected to "greed and profit", it is still a driver of its own. For example, Manhattan project and its people weren't driven by "greed and profit".
Yep, of course, but often that is enough.
These are not related.
Also, let me preface this by saying the people that like the hyphen are the same people that would give us money.
What about video clues? I assume there is a transcript, but sometimes there's a visual reference. Perhaps some sort of integration to Tineye.com or advanced video recognition? :-)
Unfortunately, there are legal/tax/etc. reasons beyond my control in this case :)
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having a standard test bed for devices is such a massive annoying failure in electronics

This is a very well phrased description of a problem I've seen for a long time. I'm not an Arduino user: I prefer to use "raw" AVR devices in my own circuits. But something like the Arduino, like the BASIC Stamp before it, provides a sort of "language" to explain how to do things that was missing before.

In the days of PC's with printer ports, someone asking how to blink an LED under computer control could be given a simple answer that would have them up and running quickly. Now we need to find out if it has a printer port, or maybe a serial port to use one of the control lines, or otherwise suggest purchasing a USB device to use instead...

But with something like the Arduino available, the answer can be as simple as "buy this device (Arduino) from this vendor and run this code and your LED will blink." From the very beginning, the people involved are using a common vocabulary: the same development platform. And that has benefits that cannot be ignored.
Missing a turn in New Jersey is a unique kind of frustration. The frustrating thing is that these are not highways, but simple routes that in most states would have normal intersections.

The system is clearly more efficient if you know exactly where you are going - it's an expert system. Which also implies it's unforgiving to people unfamiliar with it. (As in, me.)
I don't see this feature as a way to fight spam, but to make it easier to label incoming mail by using the sufixes. As you said, it's easy to bypass it with some simple find and replace.
also, they are apparently safer than 'normal' left turns: http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wmshummersuperstreets/
In Addition to all the great comment-links:
http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

(foreign languages)
http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons
"Moving here will help you find a cofounder, meet lots of other entrepreneurs who can help you, and build relationships with investors." Can you share some specific experiences (how you met them, how they helped you, outcomes,etc)?
Don't fret; you can still tune in after another decade or so for a machine to beat us at GO. Given IBM's trending business interest in corporate AI I would not be surprised if it were another IBM sponsored team that finally builds the successful bot.
I've played a PSP version, and it had a really neat fast-forward static effect (and seemed pretty true to the original).

A modern version with more mechanics (time travel?) would be much appreciated.
That's the quote I was looking for, you have a better memory that I :)
I blame people who blame everything on "unions and taxes" regardless of how little or how much they know about an actual problem.
The video lectures at the Khan Academy are terrible.
Slow, not to the point, lecturer repeating himself because it was taking an age to actually write anything on the ridiculous blackboard they're using, and he's trying to fill dead air.

No, they're great, and the very things Ducker criticizes are what makes them great. Most people that need help working problems find Kahn's "ridiculous blackboard" very helpful (myself included). His repetition is also useful if you're not an expert. And the pace? It's perfect if you're seeing the material for the first time.

Not everyone is Andrew Ducker. What's obvious to him is not necessarily obvious to someone else.
Thank you for this detailed report. I hope I don't offend by interpreting here: So you "moved along" initially to the place where your husband was assigned for duty? The reason I ask is that I'm going to marry before the relocation (and in less than a month..) and obviously we're moving together. One of the biggest problems to date is: How can I make sure that she's happy over there? She's an outgoing person (unlike me) and probably can make contacts soonish enough, but without a plan of some sorts about the purpose in that new environment I'm afraid that she'll regret the whole thing after a while. For me it's easier: While I don't have connections over there, I do know most of my coworkers already and have a job during the day that gives me a purpose and (hopefully) the feeling of belonging there.

Can you tell me what you liked/disliked? Still assuming (maybe utterly wrong) that you were in the same situation, having at first no job/position/plan what to do.
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Am I the only one who had trouble following this? I read the article and still have no idea what "Tatemae" and "Honne" actually mean. Is it like "Fine"?

Also, is it really a news flash that spoken words aren't strictly meant to be taken at face value at all times?

The "I'm fine" "Great" is mostly just a handshake to give the other person a chance to talk first anyway (for whatever reason). I think there is a great deal of nuance and interesting parts of the exchange, and this article covers just about none of them. (And honesty has almost nothing to do with it)
How about a convore private group to start with ? Interested?
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I had people write www.hotmail.com in the email field in the past.
Much, but not all, I suspect. A common complaint about British "computer science" courses today, when compared to their US counterparts, is that they're too focused on specific technologies and software engineering in general (rather than math and computational theory). This is one of the complaints D had of the US courses in the 70s. But perhaps things are different in his country.
I just quit my job too, but I did it to join an existing startup. I've started many little projects on the side before. I feel watching someone else do it first, learning from them before doing it myself is far safer. Good luck.
Amazing how recommending one of your competitors (even for only certain use cases) makes my impression of your brand that much higher. Thank you!
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Very cool project. Wiki for Vim (running in the console), written in Ruby. Will keep an eye on it.
Wouldn't removing all the zeros be a bit dishonest? An average price certainly includes all those that opted to pay $0, otherwise you don't have an accurate and honest representation of the data.