skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Job/Tech related: When starting a new project try to think of something new, something you wish to achieve. Like "I'll switch to VIM for this project in stead of TextMate" or "I'll use CoffeeScript here in stead of Javascript". This way you develop yourself further every project and it won't feel as much like you are doing the same thing all over again every time.

2) Start your own company / start as a freelancer. Come on, you can do it ;) It's not for everyone but ever since I've started doing this I haven't had any regret for doing it. You will have lots of extra time and freedom to try new stuff; And once you have the right clients you only need a couple of hours a week to get the same amount of money you now get working your ass off fulltime. Only do this if you know you are good at what you do. Make sure you've worked in the same field before so you know what to expect and be aware of.

3) Not going to work for yourself? Switch jobs once you get bored. I've seen people work at the same job for so long they go into auto pilot and they don't develop any further. In the last 5 years I've had 4 different full-time jobs, at every switch you will learn some new stuff, either tech or business related. No one ever questioned my loyalty and I've had I nice raise every time I started something new.

4) Some big buildings with lots of companies in it have a private parking lot with some guy in a booth checking out if you can park there (most of the time this is for suppliers or people with some kind of access card). Just approach the barrier, smile at the guy in the booth, and raise your hand. Most of the time they will just let you through. If they don't they will ask you why you are there. Just say you are delivering a package for Company X, they will let you through, no further questions asked.
A startup weekend is just about startup ideas. There is more and more "startup ideas" competition but "startup" is about long term execution.
Best startup hiring post I have seen on HN in years.
Yes, I should have also said "accept jealousy" as a possibly superior option.
Minimizing the effect of embarrassment on your psyche reduces a lot of friction in life.
I always find it interesting when people say
"music is just like math!"

It could be a lot more like maths, but for some unfortunate historical decisions.

The scale is frustrating in music. Musicians think about it with the starting number being one, , whereas in maths we think of the starting number as zero.

When you're talking about different arrangements of a triad (example, major chor C-E-G) you can have three positions - root position (C-E-G), first inversion (E-G-C) and second inversion (G-C-E).

Anyone with a math/cs background would wish to express these as 0-2-4, 0-2-5 and 0-3-5 respectively. It would be easier to think about music and maths concurrently theory were it so. But the guys who built the rules of music didn't think like that, so instead it's 1-3-5, 1-3-6, 1-4-6. As a result, it's harder to reuse knowledge.

Timings are the same. First beat in a bar is 1, but it would be better if it were zero. As a result you have to get practiced at doing maths thinking offset by one. It's like having a C for-loop constantly on your back.

Could be a fun geek book geeks - to answer the question, if we redesigned the rules of music based on what we know now, what would we do differently? Interval expression would be top of the list.

Worth considering, I'd be tempted to express the scale as an expression of twelve (including half-tones) rather than what they do at the moment, an expression of 8. Because it gives you better fractions, and avoids conditioning.

I think the western tradition did do an awesome job of the important stuff. For example - the number of notes in the scale. Why twelve notes instead of 15 or 32? The reason is because you get a nice toolbox of frequencies (more than were available in strict pentatonic system, or the cool pentatonic-with-bending), without it getting too complicated. The basics of harmony theory are based around fractions of a halves and (fractional) thirds, which are easy to play with mentally, but give lots of scope for messing around.

I'd be interested from hearing from any Indians or other traditions what they think about the respective compromises. I notice in India that mainstream music has embraced the western scale.

Something like Jazz would be harder in other traditions becaues the internal maths would be harder. But there's still room for hacks like blues.

On youtube there's a great series of music videos by Howard Goodall on music theory. Coventry Carol is one of many Christmas songs that give us a link to the past and times before modern harmony. Say goodby to your Sunday :)

Another thing I've been thinking - there's room for a lot of development in music now that we can have direct manipulation of the waveform. This is a new power - something that has literally only been available for a few decades. Imagine if computer programming had started with high-level languages, and we had only recently discovered assembly language.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
> native evented I/O API provided by operating system

I know it's just semantics but I recently learned that some people actually believe that synchronous I/O API provided by OS is actually… well synchronous I/O. Obviously there cannot be any synchronous I/O going on in any modern operating system.
The golden ratio is not bullshit at all. It's just not scientific as such. But it works.
I've worked in Marketing for a few years, and I can 100% confirm: the best trick to remembering someone's name is to say it.

Just figure out 2-3 ways to repeat the person's name in conversation and the name will stick to the face.
Conversely, you can take my approach: give up wearing matching socks. :)
You can't "bypass" it, you can only redirect it. Natural selection always applies, you merely get to influence the environment in which it happens a bit (and in practice, almost always forget to account for second-order effects).
try it, then talk
For what it's worth I also don't believe in morality in enough of a way for you to reasonably get offended. I don't believe in the existence of a responsibility but I believe people often act as if they have such responsibilities anyways. My beliefs are way more meta than my comment indicated which was simplified given the short amount of time I spent writing it and a perceived possible lowest common denominator audience.

Pretend I said "something like a moral responsibility" or "an important intuitive one sense that one action is better than another action". There is no such thing as a moral responsibility.
Is this the Future of Travel?
I've seen tickets checked in Melbourne (Australia) in the Qantas terminal.
I love when people tell me that they have the "next big idea," but that they can't disclose it. I lose interest the second someone tells me that, because if it were truly a great idea, they would instead be implementing it. If you have a 'great idea' that you don't know how to implement, it's probably not that great of an idea, because you inherently lack the skills to discover its weaknesses.
Congrats. Are you sure that any possible additional competition because of this post won't matter to you, though? I am involved with some successful and already well-established websites and the last thing I would do is share how much they make on here.
I try to attend every PyWeb-IL meeting ;)
Third picture from the bottom, a new building magically appears in the after picture
Yes it is medication,

I dont see any thing the matter with medication. Just like a diabetic person can not make insulin from their pancreas. An ADD person does not make enough dopamine in their brains to carry signals.

Medication of course needs to be prescribed my a medical Doctor and you should never take other peoples drugs.

There are a lot of variables, dosage, type of ADD, diet, lifestyle, history.

Medication is not the only treatment for ADD.

Here is an interesting clip http://wellnesshour.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Item...
It doesn't have to be amazing to learn something
"There is secondary containment with a huge heat sink down there"

Can I ask an uncomfortable question? If that secondary containment is enough to hold the molten core, why didn't they build the first containment that way?

Oh.. right..
Don't know why this got downvoted. It is.

Edit: It has obviously been upvoted now. Now i'm getting down voted? lol. HN, i don't get you sometimes.
Can you elaborate?

Are you in effect creating a playlist with the "best" parts of songs.

Exactly what hardware are you using for this? "Classic" iPod with a custom firmware like Rockbox? Or iPhone/iPodTouch?
The neverending rebuttal of "a great idea is enough".

It seems to me that having a great idea would help... but I wonder if even that is necessary... I've been reading Christensen, on "disruption", and there's the concepts of:

- targeting non-consumption (or non-consuming contexts - e.g. users of phones, but not while mobile)

- asymmetric motivation, where low income or low margins or small markets etc. look great to (poor) you, but a rounding-error to (rich) incumbents. So they don't fight you.

- independent value networks, where you don't tap into any part of the way the incumbents do business. You don't use their suppliers; you don't use their sales channels, you don't target their customers. To use a value network, you have to fit in with it, you have to integrate with; you have to work with it - these means that you must constrain your business in some way. This has two effects: 1. if it's their network, your business will be more similar to theirs, and therefore easier for them to adapt to it, to attack you on your home ground, and co-opt the new market you created; 2. being constrained by some pre-existing way of doing business makes you less adaptable to whatever this new market needs, what the customers need, what the business idea needs. You are hampered from serving it.

- asymmetric skills, which is just the experience you get in making your particular business work. It's the accumulation of engineering problems you solve each day and gradually adapting your approach to suit them and having insights about how to reorganize to deal with them best; it's the accumulation of knowledge about your customers, what they want, how to reach them, what matters to them, what doesn't, along with repeatedly getting that to work. And so on - it's every part of making the business work. The more adapted you are to your customers and needs (and assuming this is different from what your competitors do - see the previous point), the greater a barrier to entry it is. That is, you become the incumbent in this new market, and you have the strengths that come along with that.

So, you might have an idea of a new market, that meets the above characteristics, and it seems that that idea would be valuable: a great idea.

However... I'm starting to think that instead of all that careful reasoning, perhaps you could just say "here's my idea" (meaning an original idea, not a copy), and start doing what a business needs to do: find customers, serve them, improve your product, etc.

Wouldn't all the above points follow automatically, provided you just "did it your way"? And isn't that how so many of today's great companies started?

If this is true (is it? I don't know), then the idea doesn't matter at all, so long as it's yours (original and motivating). Any thoughts on this, esp if you've read Christensen?
One Third of Americans Watching TV Content on Alternative Platforms
A simple one for OSX:

while true; do screencapture `date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%I'`.png; sleep 30; done
Dude, get a designer on board.
http://www.rescuetime.com/ will give you analytics for free
Not exactly a YC-reject in the usual sense, if you just missed the application deadline...
When writing code, use Literate Programming. Not JavaDocs-style API documentation, but actually explain what your code is doing and why inside the code itself. When explaining stuff you will be able to catch bugs before even running the code.

And as bonus, you'll have documentation that isn't a burden to maintain.

Docco or Noweb are good tools for this. Here is one of my Docco examples:
http://bergie.github.com/VIE/
thanks - found it was also yacc at one time: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2646312/language-parsers/...

Here's the spec itself: https://github.com/Ruby/Ruby/blob/trunk/parse.y
If the only thing keeping you in the game is the fact that your potential competition doesn't know you're profitable I think you've got bigger problems to address.
Do open mics, whether it's comedy, poetry, or music. Put yourself in front of a crowd. You might bomb and embarrass yourself. But afterwards, you'll still be alive. You'll walk back to your same life, but stronger.

I totally agree with the business suit. There's nothing like wearing a suit. (I wonder what it would be like for a woman to get fake tits? Is that the equivalent? I'm not being sexist just making a joke)

Keep track of what you eat. Before you eat something, remember everything you've eaten that day. Keep it up and you'll be surprised how much your eating habits will change.

Bike everywhere.

Go with your gut. I think a lot of us love analyzing things to death because we love flexing our brains. Use the gut.
One of the best thoughts on this subject is Derek Sivers' "Ideas are just a multiplier of execution" post.

http://sivers.org/multiply
Did anyone else accidentally parse (= more fun) as a strange prefix notation way of saying "more relationships = fun?"

If not, I apologize in advance for my insanity. ;)
Isn't that exactly what this article is about? In other cultures "Did you touch each other?" might get a "no" response even after a kiss. In others, people who look at each other longer or more often than is the norm are forced to marry or will be tried for adultery (or be attacked for showing insufficient respect)
Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors
I've worked in Dubai. I found the article pretty accurate. So much, that I was surprised to read on it the same analogies I've been doing myself to describe the country to my friends (an adult Disneyland, a soul-less country, a spoiled generation of young locals).
Think about the secondary containment as the graveyard. The primary containment allows production of energy and the system to actually run, while the secondary doesn't. It's hole in the ground to catch the collapsed thing.
Ive tried the repeat someones name trick, but it's always felt forced and made me feel like a car salesman. Have you ever gotten a negative reaction?
I could be spatially challenged enough to not really see it, as the imagery is lacking perspective, but these pictures aren't much after seeing the video footage of the waves rolling in. That was a much starker (re-)realization of their power, similar to 2004.

Perhaps images from a helicopter or high ground would be more evocative.
TechAmerica and INSA Form Cloud Advisory Groups
And in Edinburgh, which is an hours drive away, it's not really the done thing.
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Nothing really specific to Django you can do. I guess you can disable USE_I18N and USE_I18N settings if you're not using them and disable middleware and context processors you're not using.

Other then that:

- Cache everything you can. (orm/query cache, template cache, proxy cache)

- Optimize queries you can't cache. (use django-debug-toolbar, django-devserver, or enable slow query logging in mysql to view them)

- If you have lots of joins, denormalize your model fields.

- Use queues and cron jobs for long running processes.

- Offload media to another server like s3.

- Add ram.
I signed plenty of NDA's only to hear a really crappy idea. And even if the idea was nice, it would be nearly impossible to execute. Like having some original-ish idea like square is nice, but takes millions to execute. If you don't have the means to get to those millions, you can have the idea but it doesn't really matter. Someone who does have that access will win.
Earthquake impact on electric power generation in Japan
Could someone point out the difference between slides 67 and 68 for me?
Some apps must die, so that others may live
I'm from the UK, but if a guy went up to me and put his arm around me while talking to me then that's what I consider it to be, too. There are a couple of guys that try to do this sometimes, and I've never quite been sure what the correct response is.
I recently came across a quote that I really liked: "As if you can kill time without injuring eternity"
Except for the pointless new logo, how much did they spend on that? If its about branching about beyond coffee shops I could've saved them millions, just delete the word "coffee" from the existing logo.
Act like you're meant to be there.
Why do so many people only care about the worst case scenario? You should always consider the expected outcomes when arguing for or against a technology.

Sure, in the worst case a nuclear reactor can kill thousands and make large areas no longer habitable, but this event has only a tiny probability. On the other hand conventional fossil fuel plants don't have such a dramatic worst case but they produce a constant stream of greenhouse gases and other toxic fumes. How many people died because of smog? How much land will become unusable due to global warming?

It's the expected harm we should be worried about, not the worst case scenarios.
"The rejection email came on November 2nd" He was rejected. The email to pg was sent after he released his app, hoping for a second chance.
congrats man, I'm so happy for you. your attitude is great, finally someone who dreams real big! go ahead and thumbs up
If the black box material is enough to survive a plane crash, why didn't they they build the whole plane with blackbox material?
You can't build reactors on high ground because they need a very high coolant flow. The (elderly) Fukushima BWRs pumped 480Mw into the grid while they were running -- but that's at the far end of a lossy thermodynamic chain (steam is used to spin turbines which drive dynamos); the thermal power output is probably something like three times that. So you need a heat sink into which you can continuously dump about 1.5Gw of heat. Water fits the bill, but you need a lot of it -- either a big river, or an ocean.

Which is why civil nuclear reactors are almost always built close to the coastline.
For the same reason your server has a UPS although it also has regular power.
"Anecdotal evidence suggests that the dual n-back task also enhances focus and attention and may help improve the symptoms of ADHD/ADD."

http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/
Is there a GPGPU API available on typical Tegra2 devices? OpenCL, CUDA? Without that, using the GPU for number crunching basically isn't going to happen.
stable means "doesn't change very often". It does not mean "less buggy".

In my experience, Debian "stable" packages tend to be literally covered in bugs and security holes due to being years old. Only a few of the most popular packages get fixes backported.
I was under the impression that quite a bit of the waste can be dealt with through reprocessing (which also makes money, as you get useful stuff out of it), except of course reprocessing of waste is illegal in the US...
Good engineering prepares for worst-case scenarios. Fact of life and the only reason why good engineering is trustworthy.
Nokia themes 5300 Blue Digital
I use almost exactly the same system, and it works well.

The major problem I have with it is convincing myself it's OK to stop if I finish my three tasks early.
I'm posting this because it's the most coherent description of the issues and events that I've read (and I've read a few). I also learned a lot about BWR nuclear plants.

Some people here in Tokyo are starting to get very nervous and mostly that comes because nuclear power is so damn confusing. Understanding it can help you keep your wits.
Is it possible in javascript to make a customisable auto-complete for the address bar? Similar to the way browsers use auto-complete based on your history, this would use auto-complete based on the site's hierarchy. It's different to this site because the input events (user controls) are not triggered when typing in the address bar.

For example, a user wanting to find the elephants page on this web site would be typing http://coolstuff.com/things/elep (and it would suggest) hants by having hants appear after elep as selected text.

Or is there a good reason why address bar events are not part of the dom?
This is not a solid business that might get acquired in the end so they are not interested in 1 hit wonders.
I second that - one client of mine has been using the free version for years to host a couple of rails app and are very happy with it.

For Rails work these days though, I'm using passenger with either nginx or apache.
Sure you can't expect everything not to break when the mother of all earthquakes hits, though surely you'd expect a nuclear reactor to be failsafe in a self-sufficient manner.

Like surely they could generate the energy they need to keep the core cool from the heat it is still producing. It sounds like they are trying to do just this (not sure what the battery issue is), though if it were actually designed for this, there'd be much less of an issue.
From: "Do more faster" ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046H9BBM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... )

> We often talk about the Number One startup killer at TechStars—making a product for which there is no interesting market. TechStars accepts just 10 of more than 600 startups that apply and presumably they are among the best. But still, we find that at least one-third of those startups are attempting to build a product that they want, or that no one wants, instead of what the market wants.

So, no, the idea alone doesn't make you rich, but having a good idea is worth something, given how many bad ones there are.
Strange... I didn't see this story on the new page and submitted after you and it posted a new version instead of auto-voting for yours. I didn't think HN would do that. Going to go delete that version now…

This is the most coherent description of the issues and events that I've read (and I've read a few). I learned a lot about BWR nuclear plants.

Some people here in Tokyo are starting to get very nervous and mostly that comes because nuclear power is so damn confusing. Understanding it can help you keep your wits. They are showing documentaries on Japanese TV about the cause of the tsunami right now but I think they should be showing "Nuclear Power 101" instead.

Edit: Another thing that is causing a lot of confusion is that there are two power plants that were affected (daiichi and daini) and each plant has multiple reactors. They were both operated by TEPCO as well so the press releases are coming from the same place. Keeping track of all of them is a bit confusing. This article is mostly about the most serious problem which is reactor one at daiichi.
If you have to make an important proposal, get it on really nice paper. Go to the print shop and ask what they can do - it's amazing what $15 gets you in terms of wow factor.
In the other cities of Turkey -especially the ones in central anatolia-, young groups have very different culture and their own way to get drunk. My favorite one is to play card games till midnight in a cafe and continue the night in a slowly moving car with a group of people drinking beer, listening anatolian rock&folk music (popular ones; cem karaca, yeni turku, fikret kizilok). We used to have a football match also before starting to drink (then we're parking somewhere far away from the city and drinking outdoor because of heavy amount of perspiration), twice a week. Even though the city I grew up in is a little bit strict&religious, people hugs, kisses each other with no sexual thought. But flirting protocol is not that short/low cost, it requires to do some research FOA, signal revisions, pre-relationship consultancy, tracing, messaging traffic etc