skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/off/2202446793.html

Around $3/sf
"Gtk+ isn't as fun as Qt, but being forced to use C++ is plain out painful."

just curious, have you considered qt jambi (now open source) or qt4dotnet?
Dropbox is cash flow positive; their last funding round was for $6MM in 2008. All of those $20 a month memberships add up, let alone corporate contracts. They also receive tons of free publicity. It seems as if Lifehacker and Gizmodo both have an "ode to Dropbox" article on a weekly basis.
Cloud Accounting: Are Accountants Ready to Embrace the Cloud?
Also in regards to the non-technical people. It takes time and effort to create something good looking and presentable, especially when applying for a job to stand out. So many people do not have the time, skills, etc to make it.

If you have something central where you can always store all your data, change resume designs in a matter of one click, why now use it?!
I would say Bin Laden is more in the position of giving out "grant money", so to speak, if I understand it correctly. He is more of a financial backer than a "thought leader", and I am certain he is not alone in that position.
As long as the feelings are mutual and are able to grow beyond the initial smitten stage then nothing wrong with falling head over heels in love.

I've done it, and come through the other side with the love of my life. ^_^
Tips to win Mario games for players
I'm not even sure what most of the important people in tech look like

I'm pretty sure you can make an educated guess.

Not knowing isn't some sort of trump card to a systemic problem. No more than ignoring your book keeping is a solution to bankruptcy.
Yet ... many many minority kids grow up with that mindset, and just telling them they're wrong is not going to get them to change their mindset ... in fact it will only make them more defensive and angry at you.

You know what could be productive? Acknowledging that there are more things stacked against them than the average white kid, for example, but that life is kind of like that.

So since nobody rises to low expectations ... they need to set high standards for themselves and fight like hell to achieve those expectations because even though the odds aren't in their favor ... what used to be a 20 foot concrete wall now is nowadays only a little hurdle ... they just have to actually jump
Wish i could find it, but there's an HN'er who bootstrapped a business and during the same timeframe met someone and got married, and wrote a nice blog post about it recently. He seemed to pull it off just fine.
Happened to me too, girl wasn't worth the time though. Dev is now at full pace...my personal belief is that no love life is a better startup life. Others have pulled it off though!
In my experience, money is much easier to find than limerence. Also, limerence is generally relatively short-lived. For the sake of living life, I recommend to young people that they take a 'gap year' of sorts, and that they pursue limerence or 'love'.
"...but the project seems to be on the right track again, slowly building momentum"

Enjoy it! Looks to me like it's helping.
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> Even the dumb, biased people with money have to compete with smart investors that leave no stone, black or white, unturned in their search for opportunity

You might be surprised at how untrue that turns out to be. Investors are focused on winning ... and to do that they'll usually go with what fits the prototype of a winner ... much the same way NFL teams pick quarterbacks (right height, right throwing motion, etc)

People aren't just going to throw thousands of dollars after minorities just because there might be a Google there somewhere ... they're going to go where the hits are coming ... MIT, San Francisco, Harvard ... places that many minorities are not.
And here we see the AI paradox..

As soon as AI succeeds at something, it is simple.
Ask Patio11: How exactly did...
..you get appointment reminder to the #1 spot when I search google for "appointment reminder"?
BIOS Updating steps for Asus A7N8X Driver
Besides other Asus motherboard drivers, Asus A7N8X Driver seems something special because of its multiple compatibility features with many of the processors. The driver supports AMD as well as Athlon processors.
He was both, but now he has no funds. Or, at least, no means to get at those funds. Read "The Looming Tower" by
Lawrence Wright.
Ideally, you should not be in this situation where you have to compile large amounts of code to go through the code-test-debug cycle.

Even in a large project, there should be subysystems that a developer owns and works on that can be partitioned or isolated from the rest, and execute within a test harness on a dev machine -- a harness that feeds the subsystem inputs and records outputs.

Successful projects either begin with or evolve to a state where they have the architecture, the toolset, the process and the culture to allow devs to enjoy a fast code/debug cycle.
As a college senior, my experience with career fairs has been sub-par. In fact I stopped going two years ago. My main qualm is the type of companies that set up booths. They are always Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Haliburton and other extremely large companies. I think getting, smaller, local companies involved would be a great idea. I did get a summer job at Qualcomm from one of these career fairs, but honestly it sucked and has turned me off from working at a Fortune 500 company as a new grad.
Stand-alone where the keycode is unique to a point in time with no knowledge of the connection.
The time you've invested in building the relationship will come back as support in the form of a partner telling you to keep pushing even though everyone else thinks you're crazy. No matter how much discipline and confidence you have, it's always great to have the person you love tell you they believe in you.
I think they really cleaned this up in the Qt3 -> Qt4 transition - your Qt Designer forms are still turned into code, but not in a generated file that you're supposed to edit. Instead it's a standalone class that you inherit in your own class.

So uic and moc are still there, but they may as well be generating object code - you never have to read the C++ that they spit out.
I found this site very interesting and simple. Site color choice and layout is good for a startup which is still in beta, and can be improved. Page Loading time is wonderful. I haven't come across any cold fusion site in recent years, but this sounds like a nice work by hirednext.com.

I like the idea of adding you own 'css'(custom), so that you can create your own customized resume. Video pitch feature is great and the link for that is placed at an appropriate place.

Overall I think this has a potential of joining the likes of linkedin.com. So all the best hirednext.
Gaming Could Be Apple TV’s Killer App
RIM to craft PlayBook to run Android apps but fears Oracle lawsuit
I believe he is referring to the exponential increase in computations per dollar which has been ongoing for almost half a century. Furthermore, he refers to the massive industries which have sprung from this growth in computation (personal computing, telecom, entertainment, social networking, etc.).

This being said, there is a large divergence between exponential increase in computation and macroeconomic growth. The gains from computation have been highly consolidated (to a small number of extremely talented entrepreneurs not unlike our own HN community), whereas other major industries have stagnated or declined (housing, finance, manufacturing). I believe Tyler Cowen and his "Great Stagnation" sums it up nicely in that the net loss in those industries has been larger and more relevant macroeconomically than the relatively concentrated gains in Silicon Valley.

tl;dr: computation is fueling rapid new industries which create wealth, but that wealth is highly consolidated as it does not require labor to grow (labor required is replaced by computation). This causes economic stagnation for the great majority of the population (+/- 2 std dev of mean or 95%) who are unable to capitalize on the computational opportunities.
The level of differentiation seems to be very small on Android indeed. It looks like almost every week there is the "new hot Android superphone" that reigns supreme, only to be surpassed a week later when the next phone comes out from another Asian manufacturer packing in yet another processor core.
Sure they will ... the problem is they typically don't think the average black/latino kid is going to make them that million, if he isn't playing professional sports
wow, awesome review, thank you!
It does no such thing, it is very likely that AI will be made up of a bunch of specialized interacting subsystems. As for No Free Lunch Theorem. See: Coevolutionary Free Lunch. Which by the way, is actually more akin to biological evolution than coevolution. http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/images/1/15/Wolpert-Coevolutio...
The problem of multiple mobile operating systems comes from the focus on native apps. I don't use that many, instead doing almost everything over the web. This is great, as it frees me to work across my MeeGo, iOS, Maemo and Ubuntu devices as I see fit, without being stuck with any of them.
Research Examines How Students Assess Credibility of Wikipedia
Hard to get past a title that doesn't know your from you're. And when you do, there's not much there.
This is not so much a possibility as an inevitability. Chances are you will fall in love and it will disrupt your life whether you're starting up or doing something else entirely. If you're fortunate, you're new significant other will be a disruptive, yet motivating force. Moving you towards new heights that you had not imagined. But, it's more likely to be a struggle to balance your life's goals with your desire for this new person. Ultimately, you're startup hopes might be replaced by new goals: a family and all that entails.

These things are not mutually exclusive. If you take an all or nothing view, you're being naive. You can have some percentage of a solid relationship and career (whether a startup or something else).

Life is messy. You'll have to decide if your relationship allows you enough time to meet your personal goals and if that even matters. Only you can make this determination.

As for me, I've been with my wife for over 10 years (most of it dating), and... honestly? I think this relationship has had an adverse effect on my goals. I, kind of, think I'd be much more rich and successful had I never met my wife. On the other hand, when she's gone for a weekend, I always think, "I'll get so much done when she's gone"... but, I often end up mired in the "blahs" until she returns. And, honestly...

I think I've slowed down a lot as I've gotten older. I think back on things I accomplished in 3 week coding marathons when I was in college and, while I think I'm a better programmer now... well, I don't repeat those accomplishments. I get more done in less time, but I'm not able to sustain a marathon for multiple weeks. You may be different, or that might be part of getting older.

Ultimately, I've been moderately successful (my business represents the bulk of our income), but not wildly successful. I've come to think less is more... and, I'm happy with that. I doubt I'd be happier single with a larger business and more money.

But that's me...
Google invented hashbangs (or at least for that utility) http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...
There are many different actual tasks that technically are PASCAL challenges, but when people say "PASCAL VOC challenge" (Visual Object Classes), they typically mean either the _classification_ or _detection_ challenge:

Classification: For each of the twenty classes, predicting presence/absence of an example of that class in the test image.

Detection: Predicting the bounding box and label of each object from the twenty target classes in the test image.

Neither uses the full ImageNet data set. Instead, it's images from 20 classes of object, like shown here:
http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2010/exam...
This is a good counterpoint to the steady stream of articles touting the benefits of new technologies developed to serve massive-scale sites spanning thousands of servers. Very few startups will ever need to deal with that kind of scale, although it is nice to imagine having those kind of problems.
Interesting note is that WebOS internals are not that different from MeeGo: http://opensource.palm.com/2.0.0/index.html
Twitter is charging. Just indirectly through Gnip. I think their reasoning is more to keep the API from going down then trying to save money and bandwidth.
he does not mention that there are many indians and persians in the startup scene. just look at yelp.

i find the article is by itself very racist. i dont think that startups look only for white people to hire. if you look into the startup scene in europe you dont find such a situation but even if i ignore the black in france, england and germany who dont have any worse or better education than their peers, nobody would even bring it up because the divide is not as huge as in america. it's the cultural divide in america with a huge color based unequality of money.
blacks are poor, so are asiens and mexicans. thats the stereotype and sadly its mostly true and because america has a terrible school system this leads to a poorer education. on top comes the struggle for money even if you made it to a good college. rich parents pay for their kids education, poor parents cant and the kid has to work on the side. of course that means he has no time to be creative and therefore chances of creating a startup are non existant.

american tech start ups dont look like america because they are in america.
IcedRobot: Android API on the desktop
It's pretty well known that Github like to hire people that have impressed them with projects that they have worked on, so I'd say it's pretty safe to say that for the most part they probably approach people to join the team that they feel will be a good fit. This would also help them, considering that they have such free work environment with no policing days off and work schedules etc, to make sure that they find people who fit into their company well.
friendfeed was built in 08, before amazon had released EBS as a feature. there is no way in hell the instance-store disk i/o would have kept up with friendfeeds mysql demands (you may remember the post Bret himself wrote on their nifty approach to mysql: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql ) Frankly, even EBS probably wouldn't have. Plus, back in 08 the larger ec2 instances were still pretty low on ram compared to what you could cheaply cram in a colo'd server, putting even more pressure on the disk i/o.

I think Bret's really wishing what almost everyone is, that these problems would just go away and you could pay a reasonable premium for that, but we're not there yet and certainly weren't in 2008. I don't think he really checked his numbers on this one.

edit: however there is a happy medium. managed service providers will gladly charge you ec2 prices (250/month for a low end server, 500/month for a beefy one) while handling all midnight colo trips for you.
I'm not Patrick but I'll still reply since you posted it here on HN and I've used similar techniques to rank my software programs.

1) Exact Match Domain bonus: When your domain is a non-hyphnenated .com, .net, and .org, Google gives it a bonus as the domain is often highly relevant to the given keyword. This is why you often see undeveloped domains sell for such high prices.

2) Targeted Anchor Text: Since his product is called "Appointment Reminder", people will use that phrase in the link.

3) Quality, relevant links: Checking out Open Site Explorer (http://www.opensiteexplorer.org), you can see that he has some quality and relevant links.

4) Modest search volume: According to the Google AdWords Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal), there are about 720 searches a month for the exact term "appointment reminder" and 6,600 searches using the phrase.
My strongly preferred solution to this problem is to search for the desired media by using a keyword, like "!images cat".

I'm not aware of a way to do this from within google, which creates an odd situation: setting my default search to duckduckgo increases google's usability.
So you're saying intimidation, harassment and restricting speech is morally OK as long as it's loosely tied to an issue that you personally agree with?
Plastic Web Boxes
As a woman who sees these young entrepreneurs in their twenties who routinely put work before relationships, I am sometimes dismayed. I've wondered more than once if their growth as men is being stunted. I suspect the stories of sacrificing love on the altar of your startup and the pain involved in doing so are just the stories you don't hear.

New love and startups have about the same failure rate. No?
That's the point of the fix. The header is custom per user now. Before, the presence of the "X-Requested-With: XmlHttpRequest" header was enough to let Rails assume the request was legit. Since Flash doesn't respect the victim's crossdomain.xml, this is no longer a valid assumption, and you have to use a unique header per session.

This means writing this unique value out into the page somewhere, to be included with any AJAX requests, which means that you cannot cache these pages as you might before, since AJAX calls would fail for everyone except the person who populated the cache.
The Importance of Workers
One interesting quirk of Pinboard is a complete absence of unit tests. I used to be a die-hard believer in testing, but in Pinboard tried a different approach, as an experiment. Instead of writng tests I try to be extremely careful in coding, and keep the code size small so I continue to understand it.

I've found my defect rate to be pretty comparable to earlier projects that included extensive test suites and fixtures, but I am much more productive on Pinboard

Its great that this approach is working for him, but this may not work in a decent sized project with multiple people working on it. I prefer a safety net of test cases in such cases.

EDIT : Formatting
I see it in the second result from Google!
Clickable link: http://hirednext.com
A peek into the best PHP based Content Management Systems
Content is one the most important aspects of a website and plays a significant role in its success. For this only reason, the basic question that comes to the mind of website owners is management of content.
Is Numenta's approach really that informed by findings regarding actual brain function? It's been a while and I don't remember most of Hawkins' model, but I don't feel that one needs to consult any actual neuroscientific results to use the general concepts of hierarchical design or top-down processing, which seem to capture the basic idea of his work.

This whole neuro-A.I. fad began with artificial neural networks, which had nothing to do with brains, and still hasn't died.
Until some very smart people get together and restart tandem, buying hardware will be a poor decision. Designing for a fail-by-design architecture will be the right thing to do. and if you have fail by design, why not just ship the executable to whoever's the cheapest virtual hosting at the moment.

PS: To very smart people: Please get together and start Tandem: the sequel. Pretty, pretty please. With sugar on top.
Additionally, outliers aside, talent density outside of the top five or ten schools is pretty dismal. It's kind of a rough deal for the handful of talented people at smaller schools, but you can't expect a company with limited resources to bother going after them.
Gotta love sensationalist headlines...

Should read: Facebook CTO says purchasing servers for a separate startup prior to Facebook might have been unnecessary

The idea that Facebook wouldn't need its own data centers is pretty ridiculous, and that's what the title implies

EDIT: looks like "while at FriendFeed" was added for clarity ... Further edit: The title is changed now, but the original said "Facebook CTO says purchasing servers was his biggest mistake" or something of the like
Vicarious Systems Says Its Artificial Intelligence Is the Real Deal
Change Is Good, But It’s Also Really Hard
The biggest problem I have with the Turing test is that many humans can fail it.

The best bots can already carry on conversations better than a low-intelligence human who isn't concentrating on the task.

It's generally possible to distinguish bots by asking more probing questions. The problem with that is as the Watson project shows it is quite possible to build a computer system that can do well on hard questions too.

That leaves emotional-response type questions, but many of those a culturally specific, and so can really only identify something as being either a bot OR a person from a different culture.

My view is that the Turing test is much closer to being passed than people think, if you specify a Turing test that all humans can pass.
Should be known before Hire Web Development Company
I've been watching the blendtuts videos. My game only uses basic models since I want to support older generation handsets, so I'm not making use of any of the advanced blender features. But, it has been well worth the effort learning Blender. Its really a great tool.
As a guy with ADD, i would never be able to work at a place like that! I mean do actual work. I would just be too distracted by all the fun things to do. I think many more developers are the same?

Well, cool office though. I am a dropbox user myself and love the service!
Yes, but when you succeed your start-up takes you to the bank, while your wife takes you to the cleaners ;)
In this article, it says that the majority of founders in SV are immigrants:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/28/west.immigration/index...
I/O isn't awful on virtualized infrastructure, I/O is awful on EC2.
Another one based on the logic that Google's users are more "tech savvy" (which I believe they, on average, are):

* A larger percentage of Bing users are doing "time-saving" searches, such as "hotmail" and "facebook", where they know the first result is what they want even before they search.

And extending that logic - a tech savvy audience will be more likely to have more complex results. It's not hard to give searchers want they want when they're looking for "superbowl results" or "justin bieber".
Isn't the Walmart population in the US roughly stable at this point? I would imagine that if WalMart could identify a location where a store would be obviously profitable then they would open it immediately.
Are newspapers content farms
Are newspapers content farms. An analysis of one of the best British newspapers shows it largely is.
"computation is fueling rapid new industries which create wealth"

I generally agree with your definition of my terms and your points. I would note that "Wealth" itself is a poorly defined term even compared other fuzzy economic terms. Micro-level technology is giving many people more range of actions than ever before but it's impact on measured economic wealth has been obscure.

A much larger portion of homeless people have cellphones today than ten years ago. But larger portion of people are homeless today than ten years ago - at least if you believe this is a recession.

If tomorrow, a chemical was released into the atmosphere which doubled the lifespan of everyone on earth, most would agree life would be improved. Yet no one would have a cent more money and it is actually hard to say what its impact on the economic system would be.
Well, I'm not in the business of telling minority kids they are wrong.

I'm just advocating that we don't reinforce the idea that achievement requires that you must be approved of by the mainstream. It does not. Dozens of other things are more important. Let us focus on those.
A good relationship will help you through the stress of a startup.

A bad one will make it much, much worse.

Either way, it's out of your control. If you're in love, you're in love. Make the most of it.