skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys, I'm cofounder of Project Skyway.

Ownership is a sacred thing -- we don't tinker with that at all. The dev team takes no equity. After all, you're running the company, not us. We just help with the resources and motivation. The dev team in India (which my cofounder Cem has worked with for years) are merely a perk we provide to our companies. It's one benefit of many.

If there's already a CTO in the company then great, he can focus on what's core and have the offshore team work on secondary stuff.

If it's a team of 3 business guys who have the right approach and the right knowledge then here's their chance to get the prototype figured out and raise that first bit of money to plow into a full time developer.

Make sense?
Which just goes to to prove that technical or scientific knowledge is not a good indicator of political effectiveness. Carter's presidency was a disaster.
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I like the irony of this being #7: FastestFox - Browse Faster: 31% slower...
The table of contents is impressive. Looks like a good pick even for moderately experienced developers, interested in taking Sinatra to the next level. Has anyone built working apps using this guide?
Tyler Cowen's essay was mentioned here before and I think it's a pretty good way to frame your thinking about the subject. The reason the prestige of science and engineering declined is because the direct and visible impact on every day life of those professions has also declined. A lot of technical areas have matured since the 1950's and are offering mostly incremental improvements.

Not to say that the 'actual' impact has declined, but people in the United States are no longer impressed by a greener plastic or a slightly newer satellite being lofted into space. Compare that to places like China or even India that are somewhat behind in bringing industrialization to the entire population and you have engineers make visible impact to every day life and therefore rationally have more importance and thereby prestige. I'm sure that in a few decades once they start catching up, engineering will also start declining as a prestigious profession.

There are lots of other intellectually demanding professions such as law, medicine and even finance that have droves of bright students signing up. I think that while they attract students, and are useful at all stages of development, they really come up to the top once you have a stable political system, and a relatively wealthy population. Once technical change stops being radical you enter a maintenance phase. If you have basic health needs met you start trying to squeeze out more and more advances in medicine to prolong the life of a relatively healthy population. Once new products become mostly enhancements of old ideas, trying to compete using the law can be more efficient in terms of effort expanded to results achieved.

I think that trying to use marketing or propaganda to try and raise the prestige of scientists can only go so far. Technology needs to offer radical and easily visible everyday impact to outshine the other intellectual professions.
Smoke less weed.
Interesting, from the second pic it looks like reactor building 4 was crushed inward at the top by the blast wave from the building 3 explosion, crushing even the concrete structural beams and columns.

You can also see a 60 ft diameter hole in the turbine building from something lofted by the explosion, possibly the top of the secondary containment structure.
> the Firefox process reading through the entire cache as it shuts down

Seems like a bug really, unless they throw out outdated pages this way. Have you tried reporting it, if it's actually reading the entire cache?
INDIA WINS WORLD CUP 2011..CONGRATS INDIA..WE HAD DONE IT..
Agreed! We thought the coasts were getting a little too cocky, hence, we knew we had to break out Project Skyway...http://j.mp/acceleratormap
Painfully.

I remember working on sites back then that might be considered web apps, and I don't think you could even count on cookies at that time. One experiment I did involved passing data along (part of the URL in a GET, or a continuous set of pages generated via POST requests). Everything done on the server side (even Java applets were problematic: http://www.conman.org/people/spc/refs/search/search.hp1.html).

Web apps at the time were more ... um ... document centric than now. But still, despite the lack of cookies, AJAX and Javascript, databases still existed back then, and CGI programs could be written in any langauge (Perl was popular back then). So it wasn't completely hopeless, but the apps were simpler though.
Sony boss reportedly reveals Apple's plans for 8MP iPhone 5 camera
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter#Naval_career
Are there any definitive resources to understand how Rails uses metaprogramming? I once failed in an attempt to understand the scope of metaprogramming in Ruby by searching for information in the pickaxe book (but gave up way too soon to be fair).
I read more Economist and The Nation than TechCrunch, so I'm not going to address your qualms. However, I was curious about this: "All insider info from pals." -- How else would you get exclusive information?
People online don't make thousands of copies. The most I have ever made is about 5. The most most people make is around 1 or 2. I have never seen a non-seeder with a ratio of 1000. (To upload 1000 copies of a DVD on 768kbps DSL would take over a year!)

In addition, the lawsuits are based on sending a few bytes of the file to someone who has a legal right to those bytes (the company that released the movie).

Bittorrent is like making a copy of a DVD, smashing it into a thousand pieces, and giving each pies to a random passerby. When you get sued, it's because one of those passerbys is a laweyer for the company that released the movie. And the reason you are being sued for $millions is because he now has that shattered fragment of a DVD.

Pretty shaky.
Call me skeptical, but I've never trusted Compete's numbers.
Their service gives stats without citing sources, so I don't know what kind of magic or data interpolation they use.
The problem is that the intent of a user, when they see in a form, is to fill in that form. Adding a glowing background distracts them from their task, hence bad usability.

It's much like Google's homepage fade, which was originally added to draw attention to the search box (the primary focus of the page) and remove the distractions of the other links. The problem was that it fired almost all the time, and whenever there's an animation going on, your attention is drawn to the animation and away from whatever it is that you were doing. It ends up being counterproductive to animate parts of the page in order to highlight other, static parts of the page.
You wrote"

"However, that is different from claiming that hard instances don't exist."

but I didn't claim that there were no hard instances. Again, even showing P = NP does not guarantee to provide a fast algorithm for "hard instances" in NP. Net. the question P versus NP is a bit far from practice.

Again, a big example is the simplex algorithm: In practice, the algorithm finds optimal solutions in about 3m iterations where m is the number of rows, and we get to forget about the number of columns. So in practice simplex is terrific as a 'polynomial' algorithm: It's faster than a degree 1 polynomial since we get to ignore the number of columns. But, simplex, worst case, is exponential. So, there are polynomial algorithms to replace simplex, but they are all far too slow: If simplex takes too long, then the polynomial algorithms take still longer.

Linear programming is one of the best examples we have for where we had an exponential algorithm and found a polynomial one. The result: The polynomial algorithm sucked.

You wrote:

"find the minimal size circuit that explains this big set of observations".

I tried to skip over that part of the paper to keep my response simple.

First it is not clear what he means by "explains", but I fear that I do know. Basically he wants a 'fit', but this is dangerous. In practice, a good approach to finding such fits is classification and regression trees (CART) complete with a book by L. Breiman and others.

But for a 'fit', commonly that's easy: For some positive integer n and, for i = 1, 2, ..., n, we are given real numbers x(i) and y(i). The x(i) are distinct. Now we want a polynomial p of degree n - 1 so that p(x(i)) = y(i). Okay, how to find p? Easy. I leave it as an exercise. Problem is, p doesn't provide much as 'explanation'.

Generally, 'explanation' is tough to get at in part because it tries to get at causality which, just from data, as in the paper, is super tough to get at.

I mentioned C-PLEX for optimization problems. Not all problems in NP are optimization problems. But, curiously, integer linear programming bites off a lot of NP, and C-PLEX with associated techniques is one of the best approaches to integer linear programming.
link is wrong.
Do you have to use the offshore dev team?
Email is not unproductive.
Just need to have a discipli e here. I can't aford shuting down the mail client from my laptop. I often need to respond to clients all day long. As i've been so responsive to clients all those year (i usualy respond quickly to my clients emquiriea) that's mean now if i dont respond to an email for say 4 hours....
Oh, right, forgot about San Jose. Guess that shows how much time I spent there. But I definitely meant the MV/PA area; Santa Clara is 5-10 minutes from Mountain View, if that.
Evernote vs Yojimbo, what's better?
Evernote vs Yojimbo, what's better?
how bout this refinement - wouldn't pass the turing test if tested by me.
From a perspective of the general types of apps sold on mobile phones to similar mostly one-function apps and games, I think the comparison to Windows vs. Mac holds through. On Windows, most of the smaller utilities and games are generally free and it is hard to sell them to the average consumer, whereas on Mac it is much more common to find small-scale projects that are commercial. This divide is only going to be more accelerated with new easier ways of payment for applications such as the app store.
How do they deal with the "call-girl effect" (perceived value of services rendered declines rapidly after the fact)?
Skype opens competition for community redesign of Mac client
So why say you can't read it when you can read it as well as the rest of us? Overstating your case just makes you look... well, not smart.
Now that the Tevatron is being decommissioned, perhaps we can reuse it as a "tech accelerator". One stream will be VCs at 512GeV, and the other stream will be people with ideas for Facebook clones. Then we just aim them at each other, and suddenly the HN frontpage will have 1TeV less annoyance.

What I meant to say is: "tech accelerator" is a dumb name.
I thought this was a play on the recently released transcendent man. I would love a Feynman documentary so much.
If they're finally throwing out Flash, that could really improve the internet. We'll take our HTML5 video now, please.
Has anyone actually run in to this problem or is it speculative?
Starting from zero, I found Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial to be excellent. YMMV.
All the advice you read is bullshit and none of it will help. The truth is, your brain has found your optimum employment.

The 'problem' lays with your belief that you should fulfill a different station in life. "My peers are all starting important companies or laboring under acts of creative genius and I should be too" you tell yourself.

However, the things that actually interest you tell a different story.

Why bemoan that existence? If you find something else more important, you won't be able to help yourself but to pursue it. Until then, peruse, read, laugh, and realize that not all men are destined to be famous or important to society at large. And realize that most people who strive for similar ends compromise with infamy for their position.
Yay! Back in the time I gave a seminar presentation on the LineDrive stuff. Pretty good combination of usability (show the user what he/she actually wants to know) and algorithmic stuff (automatic layout)...

More to the point, I always get lost with my own hand-drawn maps (when I'm too lazy to print one) and finally got better at finding places when I got myself a smartphone with GPS and OpenStreetMaps display.
We called Microsoft and they said, "yeah, don't use managed C++ in this version of VS."
The memory problem is pretty serious. I've been using the Memory Restart addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/memory-restar...), which shows memory use in the bottom corner and lets you click to restart when it goes over a certain amount.
I run a small forum that's been around for nearly 10 years now and I've found that over the years when we do get someone that's absolutely insane or trollish the best thing to do isn't to outright ban them, but to give them an area away from the rest of the group where they can spout off. This is similar to the advice in the article, I suppose.

The implementation of which was creating a 'Purgatory' forum where there was absolutely no censorship and if people crossed the line too often they were restricted to that forum (though anybody else who wanted to actually engage them could also post). It pissed them off, but in almost all cases, instead of registering new accounts and flooding the main forum with posts (as often happens with banned trolls), they just spout off for a couple days at most, and then either calm down or fuck off of their own accord.
It does not look like number of job postings on CraigsList grew much.
Number of job postings overall on all web sites in the last grew more than on CraigsList (due to recovering economy).
Converting a Ruby hash to an array and back again
//Independently discovering all music and movie under

//a Tera-byte of data

for(int i=0; i < 2^(1099511627776x8); i++){

Node *binary = convert_to_binary(i);

write_raw(binary);

send_email_to_friends("I own number: %d".i);

}

Implicitly, they are claiming they own a number.
Expect to lose all assets owned by the corporation, including any code.

How does this process work?
Speaking personally, the biggest challenge with multiple projects is the ease with which you can switch from one to the other and still feel productive. Encounter something unpleasant that needs to get done? Switch and work on the other project. I've done this in the past and the results are (a) everything moves slower, (b) I have less motivation to tackle the stuff I want to put off, and (c) there is a very high switching cost (in terms of time) that I pay.

Multiple projects are good (and critical for me personally) but they definitely come at a cost. I think I'd prefer a plate spinning analogy to juggling. Focus on keeping one plate spinning and only divert your attention when another plate is about to fall. If you try and touch every ball frequently (with the juggling analogy) its hard to make substantail progress.
No. Heck, we might not have any of our companies interested in going that route. But the option's there and we'll have a BA at their disposal. How many business minded entrepreneurs do you know that couldn't manage a contract developer if his life depended on it? We teach them how.

The bigger point here is that for the first time ever guys who are non-coders but have domain expertise and the ability to take the product to market now have an option. Every other accelerator will slam their door in your face.

We're pretty pumped about this. Having a tech cofounder is massively helpful, but we don't feel the lack of one discounts your value to zero.
This entire post is basically making the point that Github is awesome. Seriously? Where have you been? Hey, ever hear about JSON? How this made it to HN is beyond me.
Mozilla developer here - If you have steps to reproduce, I'd love to hear them and I'll get them forwarded to the proper people.
When you're actually wasted and don't get anything done because of it, staying up late and trying to get work done will not fix it.

In those cases, it's pretty much the opposite. Stop procrastinating and get a nap or some real sleep. Of course, most places reward busywork more than napping, but if you can determine it yourself, you should value productivity over looking productive.

One positive effect of the stay-up-late-until-you-get-it-done part is that it will make you not care and implement the simple solution that you thought wouldn't work. (In many cases, it actually does).
Most of the posts here focus on not doing the stuff you shouldn't be doing, but I've found it's much more effective on doing the things you should. The biggest help I've found was:

Break down your productive tasks into smaller ones that can be accomplished in an hour or two of concentrated work.

The big reason I procrastinate is because my real projects seem unmanageable. They're big, or they're scary, or they'll just take too much time to be worth investing in now. The solution to that is to make them smaller, less scary, and easily completed with the time you have now. That means doing more of them, but at least you'll be able to make forward progress.

I took on a 20% project at work with the express goal of teaching myself how to break down a large, self-motivated project into one that I can actually motivate myself to complete. It's a library that'll probably be 10-15k lines of code when completed, based on similar projects. Most commits are no larger than 200 lines of code. I can bang out 200 lines of code in an afternoon; that makes each individual piece seem quite reasonable.
Awesome. I actually started to write a script based on cp'ing different hostfiles, but I think I like this way better. Thanks!
That would indeed be a bug. Filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647479
I found this to be pretty surprising as well. It also made me wonder what Firefox feels like with no addons installed. I pretty much automatically add my 'essential' addons whenever dealing with a clean version of Firefox and this list includes 2 of the top 10 slow performers (Firebug and Xmarks). Now I kind of want to strip it down to bare FF just to get a good baseline.
Great post, this mirrors almost exactly my prep for getting down to work. Smoking (not recommended) definitely helps my focus but if you're using caffeine and smoking remember that nicotine catalyzes the break down of caffiene meaning you'll need to consume more frequently. Also, recommend instead of coffee, tea which contains L-Theanine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine which also helps with focus and cognition.

I think also there is a balance to be had with browsing, often times I'll use ideas or projects I've heard of by looking through HN and other sites. If you factor in how much code you'd have to write if you didn't know about this project I think that a moderate amount of browsing improves productivity.
> [...] such laws, as the author of the subject article accurately points out, would never fly in the non-internet realm.

The logical conclusion is that the non-internet realm is actually enough to make copyright unenforcible.Suppose the internet has been shut down. I can still hand my neighbor a USB stick. I can still snail-mail my buddy an external drive.

The intellectual "property" lobby knows that. That's why they wanted to push something as ridiculous as the SSSCA. For those too young to remember, here's the gist of it: "It is unlawful to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies" More here: http://xenon.stanford.edu/~ruchika/dmca/theFairyTaleGetsWors...
Every time I need to get shit done, I go out and buy a pack of Redbull and drink it. I always thought it's the Redbull that keeps me awake, turn out it's just to set the mood so that I can get shit done.

Just bought another pack 2 mins ago.
Great idea! Should be mixed with crontab that disable "play mode" every 30 minutes forcing you to manually copy the play host file.
My router allows me to blacklist sites during working hours.
Although not dubstep I really like Soma.fm, especially Mission Control. I'd recommend Hype Machine for finding new artists. I've really been digging Boadecia by Mason which I found on Hype Machine.
LOL....I've known Github is awesome for a long time man.

Not everyone is in the echo chamber. The goal of API Evangelist is to reach out beyond the chamber...and share the tools that we use to be successful.

I don't see Github used in very many API areas, and think its "awesomeness" should spread.
Love the dubstep suggestion. I too do my best coding when I feel like a boss
> Zimbabwe and consequently it's the only place in Africa you can see a full wilderbeest migration.

The biggest problem is space (for wildebeest migration for example). You need large places - in many countries it is not possible.

Some private game farms can get quite big (easily over 20,000 hectares). And yeah, it may be small when compared to large parks but it still fulfills quite a few functions.

One example is ensuring genetic diversity - more space for animals, more genetic diversity.

Another is breeding programmes - a good example is breeding of buffalo that is free of Bovine TB (Bovine TB is dangerous for humans, spreads to domestic cattle and threaten buffalo populations.
Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into reality using Kinect
I voted for it.

I had reported feedback to "support" - http://support.mozilla.com/my/questions/802844 - but it seems a bit of a black hole. I've had occasion to measure it more precisely since, it really is on the order of 10 rather than 5 minutes.
>> Veil-piercing isn't about "transacting business on behalf of the company in a role that doesn't legally exist."

That's what I thought, because it doesn't make sense. But I wanted to give him a chance to defend his statement.
Of course, if you're any kind of business guy, you have to write up your business canvas strategies on an ipad. :)
that might be true, but you could also say it for every other internet application.. facebook (share with friends) etc
I used Windows Live Family Safety to block all non-work related sites. Someone else controls the filter. It blocked my Internet addiction, but I found other ways to waste time.
I am a "business guy" who was proficient in PHP. Here's what I did:

- Bought a beginning Ruby book and gave it a quick perusal to get a handle on the fundamentals

- Went through Michael Hartl's amazing Rails Tutorial (I skipped over some of the detailed sections on testing with the intention of returning at a later point.)

- Finally, and most importantly, I converted an old PHP app into Rails. This helped me to see how what I wrote previously would fit into the Rails way of doing things.
Flash is a Firefox plugin made by Adobe, not Mozilla. It's not installed by default, it's added when you install Flash on your computer. If you want it off, just uninstall Flash from your computer or type "about:addons" into your address bar and disable the Flash plugin yourself.

This article is about extensions, not plugins. The names are confusing, but they're not the same thing. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Plugins
I just can't see how Tesla can win this case in court. As anyone who has ever watched Jeremy Clarkson will tell you, you know he would rather resign from Top Gear than apologise for this.
I noticed that when you push blades out, some stay in locked position longer than the others. Start from 8 o'clock and keep going clockwise, very, very fast.