skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where's some source code for this?

There are related papers here, http://ccrg.cs.memphis.edu/papers.html, but I'd like to see some code.

This is reminiscent of Funk2, http://www.funk2.org/about/, it would be interesting to compare and contrast these approaches.
with so much bio-engineering to be done, i was under impression that there is a shortage of trained people. With vast public datasets, cheap computing and sequencing resources, and with people doing bio-engineering as hobby and school projects, one can only wonder what stops us in that path.
Thanks for the response.

30M - wow! Well, at least shared runtimes are possible per their release/roadmap document. Hopefully future runtimes will be backward compatible so that it can 'update over' instead of install side-by-side.
I have an even more reductionist angle: if you look at the success rates of these sorts of IT projects, total failures are somewhat less than 50% but general failures, the latter plus systems that lack significant functions that were part of the requirements are well over 50%.

So you might say that doing this sort of IT is akin to cargo cults: these organizations aren't really doing it, they're just pretending to themselves that they are.

So, if you're going to fail, why not fail as cheaply as possible?
The direct equivalent for iphone http://monotouch.net/ is not free either.
legally binding actually.
The moment you start focusing on protecting market share instead of improving your product or giving your customers more for their $$$ you're doomed.
I think it comes down to the fact that, considering the work involved and that the majority of startups fail, it's never an economically rational decision to work on a startup. Realistic to most people means in the "real world" you follow a safe familiar progression from school to entry level job to management to retirement. There are guide rails and evaluations along the way to make sure you're on track.

You found a startup because you wouldn't be happy doing anything else.

I can't imagine getting a real job. Ever. For me, the set of things I could be doing with my life is {startup}.

I remember seeing a quote from some very successful founder saying that the only reason he went into entrepreneurship is because he was completely unemployable.
I went too Montessori and I am sitting behind a damn desk administering systems...looks like I missed the awewsomness bus
Work: Making www.iegallery.com more functional.

Personal project: Tinkering with the Emotiv headset & emokit's hack. ( https://github.com/daeken/Emokit )
(If there are any other emotiv hobbyists here, email me!)
You know, this is a nice idea I hadn't previously thought of. Naturally, Google never delivered on their "search trends" API. I have issued a suitably whiny tweet to Marissa Mayer.
> But if Markus decides to include RPG-like elements some day, we're in big trouble.

You're probably looking for Wurm Online, then. More advanced than Minecraft, with the same sandbox multiplayer environment and RPG like elements such as skills and mobs.

I listened to an interview with the lead Wurm Online developer a month or so ago on the Massively podcast, and he mentioned that he was originally with the Minecraft dev team, but split off some years back for wanting to do something more involved.
Why doesn't Twitter buy TweetDeck? TweetDeck appears to be a better user experience than anything that Twitter have come up with themselves so far. If Twitter does want to own the client experience on their platform then what better way of doing so?
Unrealistic implies that it's not going to actually take place. It is taking place. We've been running like this for years. We've had very little turn-over and remain good friends with people who left. So it seems to be working out excellently for people presently and formerly employed by 37signals.

The buck always stops somewhere. Whether you're two people or three people. At 37signals, the buck stops with Jason and me. Now it happens to be that when you employ smart craftsmen and women who care about what they do, there's very few loose bucks to stop.
That's kinda like the old AI canard: once it's obvious how it works, it's no longer considered AI.
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“The one area where slavery is legal in America is when one company buys another company...”

Scary quote. Quit anyway.
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Kudos for that! I wish the designers at my company had more curiosity about the code.
I really enjoyed it when my EE professors would simply erase components of a circuit diagram if they didn't matter and they made things complicated. I think that had an impact on my approach to solving problems.
Is $10/month disposable income? I spend more than that on coffee.
What happens if you're inspired to branch out in another direction? Would your plan be to form a new company that also stays small and nimble? What would you see as the benefits to separate small organizations v. a larger one with smaller divisions?
some one should a/b test different cup sizes and different shirt colors. a/b test, cup sizes?! ha I kill me. There's a doctoral thesis in there somewhere.
Plausible. Or it could be 30-40 arbitrary pairings with no variable used twice.

ggplot: came for the Tufte-type aethestic, stayed for the graph grammars. I have a lot more experience with ggplot than base&lattice since I switched so early but wiser heads tell me that they are similar in capability. I just find ggplot easier to work with and look at.
A market without competitors is not necessarily a blessing! There might be a good reason.

Despite the colorful name, "Marketing Warfare" (Al Ries and Jack Trout, 1986) is a classic (and concise!) book about product positioning: defining your product in relation to your competition. They describe the unique strategies that smaller competitors can use to "own" a position in your customers' mind. Dropbox vs GDrive/Skydrive would be a perfect case study.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Marketing_war...
Reading the docs, you'd see there's support for a non blocking option. I've created the sample code for you from the JS Console at developer.linkedinlabs.com: http://bit.ly/hkIlKk
Pi ~ 3, but we also often need Pi^2, which is better approximated as 10. (I actually got into an argument about rounding Pi^2 to 10 once with a person who liked to round Pi to 3 ...)
Ironically the add-on fastest fox slows down firefox by 33%.
I got exactly the same lesson in almost similar situation, but from a guy who was not even close to (someone who is close to) a Nobel's prize. He did a sum of a problem from the test using a small constants reference book and his head. Despite the numerous simplifications in the calculation, error of his result was less then 5%.
You need to go through this link (http://www.montessori-science.org/montessori_science_journal...) and click "see article full text" to get access to the study linked above.
I think that creativity in adults is often stifled because they don't
want to "get it wrong". People are afraid of trying their hand at a
new skill or taking a risk on a new idea because they are "realistic"
about their chances of success.

There is a fantastic TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson on this exact subject. By far one of my favorites.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_...
Podcast from 2007. You could hear the Myspace's being totally clueless.
* A robot that does gymnastics. http://fairlypre.posterous.com/robot-gymnastics
It's a final project for a class on computational control of nonlinear underactuated dynamical systems.

* A system that automatically finds features in fly embryos and spatially aligns them. Once they are spatially aligned, one can build a model of how they develop, and map those dynamics back to the properties of the genome that caused them.
I think the C7 browser is Webkit-based...
Any restrictions in the promise? Does it cover all of Mono or just some parts? Does it cover all of .NET or just a subset? Does it impose any restrictions on what you do with the technology, what products you can build with it?
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The problem is that the original Knight keyboards and first coupla generations of LispM keyboards were made with full mechanical Hall-effect switches by Microswitch, a Honeywell subsidiary. There were never more wonderful keys crafted by the hand of men.

Sadly, once Microswitch stopped making these, even on a custom basis (they lived on for a long time as ATM keys, etc., since they were certified for millions of up/down cycles), that particular silken feel has been lost.

I still have my 3rd generation LLNL Microswitch keyboard, commissioned by the MIT/Stanford folks working on the S1 supercomputer.

Even this 3rd generation can't match the original Knight keyboard feel.

Sigh.
Have you talked with anyone of the companies on your site about whether the problem your site solves is in fact a problem for them?

If not, and you are still committed to finding product-market fit, perhaps their feedback would be helpful as you refocus on a different problem.
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If you don't care about being detected, why not just use a boat?
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I remember using Pi^2 to be approximately g (the acceleration due to gravity near the earth's surface). This comes in real handy when simplifying the time period of a pendulum.
I have also built for the LinkedIn API. The TOS is very unnerving and I personally wouldn't build any kind of business on it. LinkedIn has a lot of good data but they own it, and developers have to come to terms with that. I think LinkedIn rests on a gold mine of business intelligence data that they are using much too lightly.
Some random other country doesn't owe you a thing and so they get to be selective about who they let in. In Canada you have to show you won't place "excessive demand" on their services, and it's defined as:

"Requirements for medical or social services of such a level as to threaten the sustainability of Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system, or deny or delay access to Canadians that would prevent the admission of an applicant to Canada."

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/dmp-hand...

Some random web link says that Excessive Demand was calculated to be $24,030 of health or social services over a five-year period. There's lots of stories of families with a mildly autistic child being denied residence in Canada, for example.

http://www.canadianimmigrant.ca/health/healthinsurancecovera...

It's not in the best interests of a country to let an older person in who wont pay much tax and then try to collect social security and use health services as they get older.

Australia, for example, has a specific visa to enable retirees to live in Australia for a period of time. Note, however, that you need a lot of assets, a substantial income and proof of health insurance for the duration of the stay.

http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/retirement/405/
I'll just add that lot of iOS libraries out there have instructions like "copy the files into your project" in order to use the library. It might be difficult to use those projects in mono based iOS projects.
I've long felt that NoSQL does not jive with a certain type of mindset many computer professionals have.

There is this sterile perfect world mindset many computer professionals idealize.

Transactions and traditional RDBMSes make this sort of person really happy. They love to see everything always working out. That when it doesn't, everything is taken care of for them, etc. I do not know if you're this type of person, but your comment sounds like the type of sentiment that type often expresses when they see NoSQL in real world apps

This is not a work around of a messy system. This is adding more consistency on a system which is designed to be fast a scalable more than consistant.

Fast and scalable is more important with something like netflix. It's going to bother someone a hell of a lot more if they get fits and starts with their streaming, if it takes forever to get a pageview, etc, than if something occasionally get's misordered in a queue.

If they went with a system that demanded consistency over speed/scalability, then what they MIGHT get is a backend database that never went out of sync, but the UI of the website would show that queue items had moved, but the write conflicts would cause the transaction caused by the UI to unroll, and thus the user would still experience inconsistency. Or the website could wait for a confirmation for every step and offer a horrendously slow user experience during peak times.

I think this sort of NoSql data garden with automated gardeners running through all the time will be a fairly typical path from now on for many types of systems. I think financial apps may even adopt it eventually!
Thanks - we've called it visual search because it basically allows you to go cherry picking by selecting skills or other attributes you're interested in (e.g. active job seeker) from profiles or search results.

Say you're looking for an Ajax developer - you'd start by looking for "ajax" only, then keep clicking on tags until you've found the perfect match - a bit similar to browsing a supermarket's shelves and adding stuff to your basket (that's where the term "visual search" originates from :)

About the link - I'm not sure I can make it clickable...
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This is not entirely a joke for some very serious emacs users.
Even if they were disproportionately represented, it wouldn't prove much -- only that parents of smart children are more likely to send them to a Montessori school.
Are all of the examples male? Do Montessori schools help females too?
>Control rod insertion is designed to be an entirely passive operation, effectively making the default state one where the fission reaction is not active.

well, the rods stuck at 1/3 while being dropped into Chernobyl core as the things had already started going wrong.
Perhaps creative minded people fit in better in Montessori schools and therefore credit the school with love of learning. Where's the proof that the Montessori method created the effect?
I don't like the answer summaries at all. Just when you found an interesting question and you're going to check who said what, the summary comes in and displays everything crammed up, according to the OP preferences.
(I think Google won't mind.) It doesn't really show in the screenshots but it does feel a little different from the Gmail/Google style when you actually use it. But your comment is fair enough, it is quite close.
wow my head just exploded at the thought of that :)

if you wanna write a blog post speculating on that, i'd gladly post it to HN
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This response is late that I doubt will even be read by the poster, but I will throw this out there anyway.

I was (am?) a self-taught programmer, I guess I am transitioning away of that label. I am a bit less than halfway through the MSCS program at the moment. I really cannot recommend it enough.

I think I was a pretty good software engineer prior to getting some formal education, but I cannot tell you how often in class the light from heaven just shines right down.. "oh so that's why x is y". If you enjoy the work, its a real pleasure (albeit a painful amount of work at times).

So finally I get to the point. I can see that you have already received a lot of good recommendations. I think most of them are quite good. However, I have a couple of observations about specific books.

Intro to Algorithms - Cormen etc.
If you feel you need a discrete math course, then this book is probably not a good place to start with algorithms. It is a rigorous treatment of the subject. However, if you lack mathematical sophistication, this book can be tough. I aced my discrete course prior to taking an algorithms course taught with this book, and I struggled mightily to get an A-. I found the proofs in the book difficult to understand on many occasions.

Modern Operating Systems - Tannenbaum
This book is very easy to understand and provided me with so many "A HA!" moments. A real pleasure. I am not sure what your current work is, but the only pre-req on this book is a modest amount of C/C++ programming. The reason I say this is because I found that having that, this book allowed me to finally understand what is happening from compile time down to the CPU at runtime. A really rewarding journey.
There's still AIR / Flash on Android with some great tools like http://flashdevelop.org/ available you can build with, and of course JavaScript which is pretty ubiquitous amongst devs these days.
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This is idiotic, you have no idea what you're talking about.
This is the most ridiculous post I've ever read on Hacker News.
It only covers Novell and its customers, IIRC.
I think in general, programs written in "Python" will perform better in PyPy then CPython, but the current submissions are hyper-optimised for the implementation details of CPython.
I agree with "Founders At Work"

It really gives you an insight into the ups and downs and events that lead to the beginning of some well known companies.
Please re-read my comment. I only spoke about the quality of the professors, which I maintain is better at IITs. Quality professors do not need to graduate from IIT.

FWIW, I myself chose not to join IIT since I couldn't get into CompSci there. At my college, which is considered among the next top engineering colleges after IIT, most of the CS faculty didn't even have a PhD in terms of qualifications, nor were they good in any other way (to be fair, other departments weren't so bad).

I taught myself CS and coding, because I really enjoyed them. But after I came to the US for grad school, I realized how much difference a good professor can make.
The correlation != causation problem was addressed in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2416781 .
The link is broken. This is the working link: http://www.gnome.org/press/2011/04/gnome-3-0-released-better...
It's Java and OpenGL, you'd have to do some work to make it /not/ run in other OSes.
To help fuel a (I hope helpful) discussion (but seriously, I'm looking for advice/opinions here):

I think it's unenforceable. Ultimately LinkedIn can shut off your access, but that's really the only recourse they've got if they don't like what you're doing, unless you're breaking some other more well respected rule (like copyright, trademark...)

I also suspect that they're extremely unlikely to try anything else since it's irritating for them to do anything else.

That said, if you're a startup and you (in LinkedIn's eyes which is the only thing that matters) violate their TOS, and they do decide to go after you under section 1.8, you have to cave, how could you fight it?

But IANAL.
Let me help you there: http://interstateapp.com

It looks great and I can't wait it to try it out myself (hint).
No. As the writer points out a more nuanced approach is necessary. IMHO one of the reasons that the 'it's all about execution' meme has become so dominant, particularly in SV, is that VCs won't sign NDAs (for good reason). Hence it is absolutely in their interest to inflate the importance of execution and play down the significance of ideas. This has assumed the status of conventional wisdom but such a one sided position is just crass.
All good points one I would add though is pitch a tech co-founder just as you would a VC. You want them to invest their time and you need to show them why your venture is better than their own ideas. If you are not telling them who you are, what you bring to the table, what you want them to invest in, and how you will make it successful you are going about it all wrong.

By far the worst mistake you can make is: you the non-technical person dictating the platform in your ad for a tech co-founder. If you are non-technical you have no business deciding the pro's or con's of a particular platform doing so shows what constraints you are going to put the technical co-founder under and says to them we are not equal, I just can't do it, but I am going to dictate how we do it.
I fully agree. The startup community is exploding here. We have serious companies coming out of the city, a seriously diverse culture (Tech, Business, Fashion, Art, Music), leaders and mentors speaking at meetups, co-working spaces, conferences and colleges daily, and tons of VCs and Angels. So glad I moved to NYC.
I find it more of a roller coaster. I get into it for a few weeks, then stop playing for a while. Then it repeats once I try the new updates or play with my friends on multiplayer.
If you can use IronPython to build these apps this may be the first complete Python environment for Android, and that's huge.
Not sure but something gives me the impression that the cursor keys are at the far right (thumb up/down and finger pointing left/right).
Thanks! You should see paid-for features later this year. Everything that you see today should remain completely free.
This is really true, and something we are experiencing now in the company I am working for. Traditionally we've been a company with ~12 employees, small project teams of 1-4 people. Now the company has expanded to over 40 employees over two offices, with team sizes becoming larger than 10 people.

We have experienced the exact difficulties you have described, and have been slowly adjusting to create just enough structure to organize and motivate people. I would add that an additional area that becomes more important as a company grows is communication. Once the company gets past the size where the CEO/Director is getting around and talking with each employee on a weekly basis, and physical walls start to grow between teams, communication becomes much more difficult in both a vertical and horizontal sense (a side effect of added hierarchical structure i suppose?).
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The problem is that a university degree has more prestige that a technical school. So employers use it as a measure of the ability of the people they are hiring, and then complain that their new hires don't have enough practical skills. So the technical schools become universities and start offering degrees in tourism, IT management, and financial planning.
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