skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideas have no value, on the other hand execution and management team mean everything. From an investor's perspective: If you can't prototype or demo your idea then you aren't invested in it yourself. The only exception I've seen to this is if you already have a successful track record behind you (and even then my guess is that with the experience you'd want to prototype what you want to do).
Ask HN: What do you think of 'Inside Job'?
I just finished watching Inside Job [1], an award-winning documentary analyzing the financial crisis of 2008, and the financial sector behavior over the past 40 years.

I am curious as to the reception to the film in the startup industry, as one of the leaders of the creative sector.

What did you think about the film, and the issues it discusses?

[1] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/
There are various ways to get the thing to work, for example check here:
http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7
and here
http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15
Of course, I advise you to forget about doing all that yourself and hand it over to the guy who wrote the Lisp keyboards article (hi!).
How was it funny? It seems like a sound reasoning, depending on whatever alpha represents.
I had a similar but more generic idea. People could share routes and rate them for what they are good for (ie motorcycles, seeing autumn foliage, straightaways good for speeding, etc). Glad to see someone doing this and would love to see you expand it further.

My advice: Don't give people a search box and return an error if you are going limit them to certain areas. You should either:

Remove the search box and showcase the limited content that you do have with a message which areas are coming next

or

Leave the search box open to any input and then prompt users to add their own routes in regions you do not currently have content for.

I'd also recommend a subscribe feature, so I can be alerted when new routes are added for cities that I am interested in.

EDIT: I'd also think about adding a feature that showcases key interest points along routes (The view at this point is amazing or try the peach cobbler at so and so diner).

Good luck
Grooveshark booted from Google's App Market; still easy to install...
"and even when a buddy is riding near you"

Holy crap that sounds scary! Is it safe to receive push notifications while you're riding a motorcycle? I would assume it's more dangerous than driving a car so...

"Income will be generated through marketing tools businesses can use to reach riders in their area"

Sounds like a pretty solid idea! Do you have a particular in with these companies or something? The chicken/egg problem could be rough if you don't have a short runway.
It's that "as if" that is a little bit hand-wavy. Fitting/overfitting is insidious in that it corrupts both the procedure and the data.

I'm not saying that's exactly what happened here, but I am saying that it's a _hunch_ that human brains are following the same steps. It might be a good hunch, but it's still _not_ a scientific statement with the weight of statistical backing.
I don't think they can, unless you submit both to Google Webmasters Tools and then select a default domain to show.

Besides, why bother risking it when it's a 5 minute job?
Hey llouydarmbrust!

I understand what you are saying, please understand that when trying to get a picture of each high tech hub back from Europe we tend to view only things that sign, which may or may not be gold in the end.

My perception as to what Austin is, was SxSW and Gowalla. Compared to the cities mentioned these two alone where not adequate enough to put Austin in my radar... I never heard (up to today) of a great VC-er/blogger, a great accelerator program or something cool starting out from Austin...

Don't get me wrong, Austin may be great, may be awesome, it just lacks a few points in the communication dept...
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Anti-piracy/COICA hearing turns into a Google bashing hearing
But, since Android is open (for certain values of "open"), the app's still perfectly easy to install...
The cited study found improvements, not latent billionaireism. The broader claim is wild speculation.
That's really awesome. Who would've guessed MSDN magazine printed articles that out there? Might have to give it a try.
Hi.

For old Zope2 (and quixote) dev, looks promising and way easier than Django to get started on a project (and fun).

Could you maybe extend the tutorial with using tornado's template inheritance for basic page template. Like for repeating html, header, footer and perhaps navigation block. Tornado's documentation for that is in the template module so that kinda slows down the learning process.

I'll try this for my next project.
Almost everyone. 2^n/1000 is still far slower than n^2 for n >= 19.
missed a few:

mixedcase urls (on a windows server),
ending slash vs no ending slash,
double slashes in url,
too much border (nav, footer, right hand side) html on pages with otherwise minor content,
indexed ip address urls,
additional url (i.e.: tracking parameters),
.... and these are just on top of my head
No it doesn't. It suggests the fact that one component of racial gaps in education may be immutable, and that when we identify the extent of that immutable genetic gap, we may be able to avoid wasting effort trying to eliminate it directly.

I don't accept for a moment the notion that "blacks" are "less intelligent" than "whites", or even that we can with any useful precision define what these terms are, but the way you've summarized the points seems to illustrate well the reason people have such a hard time discussing this issue.
There is even a mixture between the two. It was called "Berufsakademie" and recently renamed to "Duale Hochschule".
It's basically a 50/50 split between studying at a college and working at a company. The company usually pays the study fees and public transport ticket as well as a somewhat limited but ok salary. The split is usually divided into 'sprints' of ?5? weeks of work followed by ?5? weeks of university.

Here's some of their marketing material:

DHBW possesses the unique characteristic of consistently and deliberately
combining academic study with applied learning in the professional
world. With this strategy, DHBW provides a route to sought-after academic
qualifications while enabling students to gain extensive practical
experience. This foundation equips DHBW students and graduates to
take on challenging tasks early in their professional careers, helping to
launch them on successful career paths.
While I completely agree that flat vs a vertical hierarchy should be assessed from organization to organization, I tend to prefer flat structures mainly because they allow for the culture to mold perception of progression over an existing structure itself. What I mean by this is that if you have a structured way for internal progression (usually vertical) people mold their perceptions around that ladder no matter how much you try convincing them otherwise.

You can clearly see this being played out within the big 4 accounting firms (I recruited for them and from them). Within the firms its extremely vertical in that progression is dictated largely by how long you stayed until you hit partnership where its strictly vacancy. Thus, you're basically looking at steady yearly promotions until you reach being a senior manager after 6-8 years within the firm.

This is where I was able to take the most senior people usually in a seasonal manner pretty easily. This is because after being a senior manager you really have only two trajectories within the firm, associate partner or partner. The AP is basically a position they created to please senior managers who sounded too old and weren't good enough to be partners. So what you generally see is 3-4 hotshot senior managers all vying for the 1 partnership position that will be available that season/year. Inevitably I'll have 3/4 partner potential senior managers leaving because they know they're better off leaving the firm and going to an industry position or worse a competitive firm. They already know the stigma of being an AP.

Thus, you don't simply see attrition at the top level, but the attrition of the very best at the top level and the rest being APs. What's worse is those guys who are the best usually have a loyal following within the firm. Well guess who gives me a call after placing that senior manager as a hiring manager where they're building a team? Now you see an attrition of even better people who you were probably underpaying at junior positions leaving the firm for better pay and better hours. The only guiding light there is you're hoping that senior manager becomes their client in the future.

Thus, you see a system where the highly vertical nature of the structure led to a culture where attrition was the norm. While it might be naive to think so, I think being a flat structure might give a better chance for the culture to shape that perception of the promotion and have them "feel" it rather than perceive it.
One-of-a-kind Tron light cycle board game? Yessir
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I down voted you and the reason why is that I think your thought is a fair thought to have but you're not adding anything to the conversation. Please expand on why you missed the awesome bus, or tell us more about your experiences so we can be better informed about Montessori.
Maria Montessori lived in Italy a 100 years ago, and no doubt she was a reformist. She was the first woman doctor, she worked with children with mental disabilities when children was not considered humans, and she noticed that, her approach is applicable to all children. She invented very useful methods and tools for teaching preschoolers. She made wonderful toys which are now called "Montessori Materials". Her method is spread to US, and "adapted".

Montessori teachers are certified largely by two centers in the world, in Italy (http://www.montessori-ami.org/), and in US (http://www.amshq.org/). As far as I know AMI sees itself as the "original" Montessori, rejects others, and more strict in many ways, like they don't allow any toys in classrooms, they don't have any books (just lapbooks produced by teachers or children).

I have real problems with strict, spiritual Montessori. Why would we be against to toys? Maria Montessori crafted wonderful toys for her students, and now they are called "Montessori Materials". What's wrong with Lego's? I think if Maria Montessori had Lego, she would use them.

Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, all have different methods to inspire for raising kids and even for start-ups (http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...). But, none is magic.
I certainly agree with you, and I didn't imply that their target market is casual indie developers. Surely they are targeting enterprise here. But I am guessing that indie developers itself is a huge market and say if they went with a single developer license costing somewhere like 30$, they would surely be boosting sales.
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Just released a new version of beets, an open-source CLI music management tool for nerds:
http://beets.radbox.org/

It's supposed to be an extensible and fast alternative to iTunes, MusicBrainz Picard, and other tools. It's getting there.
Now Symbian is not open source. Do you care? Who cares?
1) Haha! Actually, the idea is your friend would schedule a ride, say a couple days from today. You would be notified he's riding in a few days, at which point you can decide to join him. Three Rides would send a new ride to both of you, with a convenient place to meet before hitting the good parts.

2) Yup. I have a couple advisors with 30 years of experience in the mid-atlantic region. Next week I'll be going with one of them while they travel around their territory, talking to dealerships as well go.

And yeah, I have no idea how to get them onboard with no customers yet (and to be frank, no substantial product).
You definitely want to have a proper shareholder agreement and make sure any amateur investors understand the terms of it before going ahead.

Some potential problems: investors not understanding what kind of shares they have (probably non-voting) and expecting a say in where the company goes, investors expecting to be able to pull their money out or sell the shares when they feel like it, investors expecting dividends from your company when you want to retain all the profits. It's mostly about expectations, which can be managed if you're prepared up front.
I just added the sleep to simulate "work". It's not really needed.
Show HN: NationBuilder, my startup just launched
Do the happy dance. ;)
Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Definitely worth a visit. Probably find a lot more ideas while there.
I totally disagree, Habari's code base is far superior to wordpress in every regard it simply needs a larger user base. Try it if you are looking for a new blogging platform you'll be pleasantly surprised. http://habariproject.org
Pimpin!
Many different forces for sure, but I doubt that acceleration through the atmosphere causes a uniform pressure over the entire craft.

In fact, would you get the opposote effect along the sides of the craft, where air is moving fast but parallel to the surface?
> I can't think of a variable in quantum mechanics we "don't know to within 2 orders of magnitude".

Maybe the neutrino masses differences? In my intro QM class, we did a problem where we calculated the distance it took for one neutrino flavor to mix into another, which depends on the mass differences. You wouldn't want to take a square root of eV, though.

Or it could be it's one of the CKM angles. The latter are known to 1 part in 10^4, but only because of the relatively recent BaBar and BELLE experiments. Maybe back when this guy was an undergrad they only know them to 1 part in 100. Seems kinda advanced for 3rd semester of QM...
That's a cool idea. Accelerometer support for JS was added to iOS 4.2 [1], so it should be possible to modify the CSS transformations based on the DeviceOrientation [2].

[1] http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios-accelerometer-webs...

[2] http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation.html
Do you know if new plants are generally built with containments that work without cooling?
For the most part yes but, what about ideas that are extremely simple but not so obvious? As in, some competitor with the resources can shell out a feature in maybe a few months, but a team of 2 would take about a year. Is that valid grounds for stealth or is stealth still dumb?
US (E2) Visa: Worth getting an immigration lawyer/London recommendations?
For those who know/have been through the process..my business partner and I are considering relocating to the US upon receipt of $300k in angel seed capital.

1) We're both EU Nationals (Treaty countries), long-term resident in the UK.

2) Most likely, we would be aiming for E-2 Visas.

Qs -

1) Is it worth getting help from professional immigration lawyers?

2) Any particular recommendations for London-based, or focused on the London Embassy (which seems to hold a special status?), lawyers?

The experience I've had when doing some primary research so far has not been encouraging - most seemed more concerned with ripping me off on introductory meeting fees etc.

Many thanks.
My guess is that when the kids' faces were right up to the light, their subconscious mind was actually doing the triggering because the light change was noticed in their peripheral vision. At my kung fu school, we train ourselves to avoid focusing our vision on the person we're fighting because acute vision is translated/filtered by the conscious mind; the tiny delays caused by the conscious mind are enough to get you killed. Acute->Conscious reaction times are far slower than Peripheral->SubConscious reactions.

You'd probably see similar results in your experiment if you had the kids stand close to the light but focus their vision just outside the perimeter of the light.
As an avid biker I can tell you this is an awesome idea!

There are already a lot of ride-outs happening, most of them are organized through forums - this makes things difficult and not 'realtime'. An site/app like this would really hit the spot.

If you ever need feedback from a biker, I would be happy to lend a hand.

One thought - you should allow users to give their email to get an update when their city is supported (Im in London, UK).
I got the IP address URLs - those are usually staging servers, I also was going to mention tracking parameters with Google Analytics as an example, but it really isn't that common.

Definitely should have added the slash vs no slash one though, will add later, feel free to add them yourself if you like ;)
Oh, right. It's another one of those broken geographic domain-switching sites. It automatically redirects people in Australia to www.popsci.com.au, which doesn't have the relevant article.

Apologies for the flag, OP.
2.3.3 drivers for crespo (i.e. Nexus S).
Yep, Joel wrote about this here:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080901/how-hard-could-it-be-ho...

...and was inspired by this Fast Company Article about some GE division that had no middle management...
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/ge.html?page=0%2C0
Geez, you're right. I went all the way through the Wikipedia article on cryptographic hash functions looking for something similar to what I'd just described, but there was no link to THIS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_chain

The resemblence is actually spooky. I swear I've never read that article before now.
Primarily self taught. Started in sales. Since becoming a programmer I have received training from various companies that I've work for. I am working on my own projects and have been employed as a developer for just over a decade. So far, I've survived a few layoffs and the "all software will be developed off-short" panic. If I had to do it over again though, I'd probably be a CS major just to have had the earlier exposure to my peer group that has since gone on to do some pretty cool stuff. I live in the Bay Area, so I'm spoiled in that I have proximity exposure to some of the most active minds in software is often readily available through meetups and other venues.
May be the word "fact" would be better to describe these kind of numbers.
I don't feel safe. I feel violated, humiliated, and angry.
I don't know about exotic conjectures by Erdos (nice one, btw), but in elementary school I distinctly remember in second grade my dad ripped my He-Man comic books because I failed a test in my math class. After that, two things happened: 1) I studied really hard for my final end-of-year exam and remember that we were dealing with simple algebra with variables (e.g. x - 5 = 3, find x), and 2) I never read comic books since (sad, I know).

I was really lucky to have a good math teacher in middle school who introduced us to logic and induction in seventh grade (in hindsight, he prepared me for linear algebra in college, and I haven't even heard the words "modus ponens" since middle school until I got to college, second or third year).

Unfortunately, in high school I decided to coast a little bit on my previous knowledge, so I didn't get good grades, but I didn't read comic books anymore anyway, and my dad couldn't just rip the computer apart because he is a techie too :)

Edit: the seventh grade teacher is in the US, he taught "magnet" (gifted) classes. So, not all hope is lost in the US. Good teachers and good classes exist even in public schools, we just need to bring up the standard.
You're right. I should have a sign-up form for people outside of the given area. Good idea.
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My kids (4 & 7) just moved from a traditional school to a Montessori school last summer because we moved house. I wasn't completely sold on the philosophy yet but my kids LIKE going to school a lot more now and it seems to work really well. Happy kids, learning a lot.

But it is very counterintuitive for the engineer in me who wants to measure progress by how much of the alphabet they know. It takes a lot of trust in the somewhat nebulous and touchy feely Montessori philosophy, if you read the wikipedia page about it you'll see that even the educators can't agree on what it is exactly. (Montessori did use scientific methods to arrive at her recommendations, but interpretations differ). There's things the type of educators in such schools do that makes us rational people cringe (kids are not allowed artificial flavoring in their lunch food...). But, well, it works (for my kids at least).

Since I am too rational to give up on measuring I conclude we are probably not measuring progress the right way by testing how much letters in the alphabet they know.
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DO full time homeschooling; my parents tried it with me and the results were great.

Two can play this game. :)
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The important thing is that, as a parent, it's easy to fall into the trap of comparing milestones. There isn't the evidence that e.g. knowing the alphabet early means being a better reader later in life. Just like early walking milestones don't lead to 'better walking'.
why do you think google never launched a gdrive?
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Rather than "stealth mode", "low profile mode" is best for companies in a market that might attract a lot of attention. The most important thing is to balance the need for attention to fuel growth against the risk of inspiring competitors.

In other words, don't hype your startup if it will do more harm than good. Patience is a virtue for a reason.
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Is anybody still looking for Python jobs? CACI has openings in Washington, DC.
It's surprisingly liberating to work with a software ecosystem like that. I thought it would just be frustrating, but it's actually fun.

The easy forking of small, simple-to-hack, almost-adequate libraries on GitHub really, really helps.
> In my experience, barring truly mentally challenged children, most children classified as 'dullards' by the education system just don't understand how to cope with the traditional model of teaching.

A classic example is dyslexia. One of the smartest women I know says she was classified as a special-needs student until her dyslexia was diagnosed. Since then she has become an accomplished lawyer, Oxford/Edinburgh masters student and an award-winning novelist.
You are misunderstanding. P=NP is a theoretical, in some ways even a philosophical question about the limits of logic and knowledge. Many problems that are NP complete have algorithms to find almost perfect answers in polynomial time. P=NP is about knowing if you can find perfect answers.

Then, there are many problems out there which are not NP complete for which we are nowhere near to finding fast, accurate solutions. The problem is not that logic prevents us, but that we're simply not clever enough yet.

What I'm trying to say in a roundabout way is that spinning up many cores will not help you find a perfect, fast solution to an NP complete problem. And just because you have 10,000 cores that is not an indicator of it being difficult or hard to solve a given problem, regardless of its complexity class.
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