skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I have a 3 month old and are both trying to work from home part-time and take care of him (I also go to school part-time so that get's me out of the house a bit).

Obviously a 3 month old is much different than an 18 month old, but our experience so far is telling us that we cannot take care of the baby and get work done without finding some extra help for at least a few hours a week.

Currently I try to work from 8-10 a.m. while my wife and the baby are asleep. Then I watch the baby for about four hours and my wife tries to get work done. The problem is that there are so many small interruptions everyday (diapers, crying, feeding, happy alert time, etc.) that we both struggle to find time when we can really concentrate and get things done.

A friend of ours is a nursing student and is going on summer break this week. She's planning on trying to babysit for 3-4hrs a day 2-3 days a week. Maybe you could find a similar solution.

Good luck! I really hope you figure out something that works.
Selfdriving indoor RC Car using Kinect (with Source)
I'm currently finishing up my CS undergrad while working fulltime.

Always remember those times when you would spend 3 days straight coding with very minimal sleep in order to finish a project and still were able to get to class at 8am the next day. When you're at work remind yourself, "it can always be worse. I could be writing a parser in ANTLR that's due tomorrow and still barely understand the syntax"
Funny. though I'm just scared to imagine what amount of nuclear flak would a 'symmetric' article take.

Just imagine the title "Girls love to shop, could this be you in the video?". so much for gender equality.
I actually get allergic reactions to shopping malls. I'm not kidding; dry eyes, headache and joint pains slowly start to show up if I spend more than 30 minutes inside one.

Consequently, I tend shop for clothes almost as if it was a military maneuver. Deploy in shop, locate any pair of pants that fit predetermined criteria, pay, leave.
I think this explains very well why in my situation with my co-founder, I don't feel like anything but 50/50 would work, but yet I still agree that such a split is inherently risky.

While my co-founder and I have the benefit of knowing each other well and working together for twelve years, the strength of that relationship would make it impossible for one of us to have an overruling power.

We do have sectional overrules, however, where as "CEO" I have certain areas that are "mine", and as "CTO" there are areas that are up to him. But neither of us can overrule on the bigger questions like selling, shutting down, moving to the Bay Area, etc. It's not the 50/50 that prevents that, it's the pre-existing relationship. No differing equity split would remove the damage that unilateralism would cause.

So I don't think we ever had an option on how to split. But that's not the same for everybody.
Ahhh, I see now. Thank you!

In addition, publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app.
That's the case only when the clients are not NAT'ed. When they are, Skype uses supernodes (other clients who are not NAT'ed and have good connections). Other technologies have different names for this, but basically need a 3rd party with public interfaces (e.g. in SIP applications, you often have media relay servers).
NYC guys edit your titles for you? Because I didn't strip off the "hint don't"?

I don't believe it was editorializing in any serious degree. My point stands and I do believe he looks to feel that way. I tried to capture the gist of the article in a title. For fun I'd love to hear some alternative titles.
> From about 7 I was out all day on my bike

That's what you recall... I have a 9 and 6 yo. The have bikes and friends and are out for hours on end. But trust me, not all day. And you have no idea how many times you came back in for this or that.
Google picks Arduino for Android Open Accessory “kit”
I absolutely do not understand what he means by p2p using more bandwidth. I think he is lying. Google will not get the thing it most covets - data. So it cannot sell ads on skype as all data will be shuttled through peer systems instead of Google servers.
You can only get rid of red lights if you don't care about pedestrians. I hope automated cars don't lead us to exacerbate the car-centric city problem we've built for ourselves.
If you want to match a regexp in Python, you can just say:

m = re.match("some_regexp", my_str)

You don't need to compile regexps before use but you get better performance if you do when matching the same thing multiple times (no idea if there's a Perl equivalent). Also match() and search() have different semantics and you don't use them at the same time. So it's one statement in Python per match.

Also how do you propose to get an equivalent of (non-mandatory) exception handling in Perl code without extra statements?
All-client-side JS stuff is really exciting and now that we have URL control in the browser and performant JS engines in browsers, it's only going to get better. This site is a great example of where things are headed.
How Google Is Secretly Building Its Facebook Killer
I couldn't care any less whether my plaid shirts are considered cool. I learned a long time ago that if you fall into the trap of letting girlfriends, wives or GQ Magazine tell you how to dress, you just end up with a closet full of clothes you're uncomfortable wearing. Be happy, be comfortable, wear what you want to.

"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas." -PG

http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html
In some industries being a middleman could be innovative. I don't see how ebook publishing is one of them.
I think you are wrong - even though there are true, unprovable statements, they're unusual and to the best of my knowledge, not the subject of extensive study. More like curiosities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_undecidable_...). Even if that were not the case, there is no alternate approach to studying them.

I'm not really sure that you mean about the "formal specification" for math vs. the "that thing we're studying". An informal (ie, not expressed in ZFC + 1rst order predicate calculus) proof of something non-trivial can go on for dozens, if not hundreds of dense pages of symbols. If I recall correctly, Whitehead's Principae Mathematica derived arithmetic from ZCF and predicate calculus, and it took the whole book.

I did a little reading to refresh myself on the subject, and this stood out as a good summary of the topic:

"In a sense, the crisis has not been resolved, but faded away: most mathematicians either do not work from axiomatic systems, or if they do, do not doubt the consistency of ZFC, generally their preferred axiomatic system. In most of mathematics as it is practiced, the various logical paradoxes never played a role anyway, and in those branches in which they do (such as logic and category theory), they may be avoided."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics#Foun...)
I work at home. We have 4 kids from 4 to 13. My office is the dining room, so it is central. To add extra excitement we also home educate.

Our kids have never been in a daycare or a school. I'm not a fan of either. That equated to many years of financial "hardship" and being down one income even when the other income was relatively small. We've since been able to "bootstrap" our ability to work and earn and having both of us at home is really a great experience overall.

I wouldn't trade it.
Alcoa says it can build a smog-eating high-rise
"Gobble" Helps You Order Take-Out From Your Neighbors' Kitchens
Splitting founder equity is about checking your ego at the door
'loanword' is a calque, and 'calque' is a loanword

That's a great line! I never heard it before.
It's a classic 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' situation. Steve Levy wants to make his 'In The Plex' book worth buying, Wes Chan presumably wants some positive exposure - so Wes Chan gives Steve Levy interesting information for the book that also happens to make him look good.

I doubt this sort of trade-off even has to be voiced - it's just implicitly understood. Although in this case, I think the anecdote backfired - Chan seems really smart, but also somewhat manipulative.
Possible game changer: Instead of guessing at the cross hairs of price to volume, vendors can actually hear the consumer's opinion real time (not after a month of testing). Instead of running a/b testing, they can begin to see outliers and future trends. They can learn consumer behavior by responding to back channel offers from consumers and then roll out appropriately with sales according to offers received. The nice thing is the control instead of turning over your inventory to a third party liquidation specialist that is going to make a margin on all the down channel overstock. It allows all vendors to have a certain outlet/flash possibility and increases engagement and page views. This isn't a site though, it's a button or meebo like bar that you can send data back when you're on the product page to the vendor letting them know you'll buy at $x price. The key would be the right amount of engagement and feedback from the vendor. If nothing happens after the offer is made (ie counter offers, other similar offers, something) then I think users don't engage.
Gizmo5: http://www.google.com/gizmo5/
Did you get any responses from the companies? It would be interesting to see their reaction to people asking for coupons.
My wardrobe consists mostly of geeky T-shirts, from cons or the Internet. I hate shopping in malls. I'll be thrilled if this service works as advertised!
Twenty Questions about Mathematical Reasoning
Tell HN: Santiago (Chile) Meetup
A small group of us are planning to meet for lunch this Friday (currently the idea is to go to Lomits in Providencia). If anyone else feel like coming along, please do so (drop me an email for more info - andrew@acooke.org).

[Hope this is OK - I can't work out any other way of doing a "Tell HN" post than simply submitting from the usual place]
I have triplets and I'm a dad. The only possible way I can get any work done is by doing it after they go to bed, but then I must balance any work with truly quality time with the wife.

You've got to make serious sacrifices and rethink things, but your kid is worth it.

PS: I didn't have a problem with female in your title. I'm a pretty participatory parent, but it's definitely a different situation between mom and dad roles.
You're right. Governments have gained the power they have because they offered people a better alternative. I read somewhere that Napoleon was welcomed as a conquerer into parts of Italy because his government was a lot better than the local government. The problem with governments, though, is that they are fairly easy to establish, but, because they claim a monopoly on coercion, they are hard to replace when a better alternative appears.

For example, all of a city's private garbage collectors may do a poor job, so a very capable mayor may convince residents to allow the city to do the collecting. Years later, when situation is reversed and the city is doing a poor job in comparison with private collectors, it will be a lot harder to replace the government collectors with private ones. The correct response to poor private-sector service is not to bring in the government, but to bring in more private competition.
Yet another non-female here, but I did stay at home one summer and watched our 18 mo and 4 yo while trying to do some consulting work. It was a nightmare. If you can get in home care, that might, might help. But you would still be better off in a separate building. If you have a cottage, unattached garage, barn, etc, that might help. For me, I had to wait until my wife got home and go to a coffee shop. Then it took 45 minutes for my brain to spin down from its hypervigilant state. I developed tinnitus during those months, and still have it five years later.

The central problem is that you can't load big problems into your head. Something will always bring them crashing down. You won't spend half your time watching the kiddo and get half as much done. You'll get 1% as much done.
> I don't know if that's really why

The words 'trash', 'junk', 'refuse', 'waste' all carry different connotations. Be forewarned, my information is largely relative to Wisconsin. Other regions of the US may use the words differently.

If applied to a person: trash usually refers to someone that's disreputable in some grievous way, waste would refer to some that squandered some talent or resources. Junk wouldn't usually apply to a person but junkie means a drug addict. Applying refuse to a person would be silly, but probably be .

If applied to stuff that's thrown out: Trash is a generic term for anything that's thrown away. Waste is usually consider excess like banana peels. (waste and trash are largely interchangeable in conversation, the distinction isn't usually important) Junk would refer to material possessions that are no longer wanted like an old couch. No one would call banana peels junk. Refuse is a pretentious/higher class term for trash used by rich old ladies.

I don't believe refuse is in the common usage any more. I've never heard it used outside of Star Trek 6 and some older movies. It's meaning is similar to "trash" but it can also refer a place where trash is stored.

Most of english is this way. Words are extremely flexible and can be used in a variety of ways with many meanings. Context is extremely important. I'm not sure how other languages work, I only speak english.
Your photos? Not so according to many popular photo-sharing apps
Why is the rate so much higher in the US?
I heard someone use the phrase "marketing as a moral imperative." You need to let people know what you can do so they can use your skills (without being a jerk about it).
I agree with you but I'm not sure this type of conspiracies are possible to detect when so many senior managers and people close to the founder are in on it. Larry and Serge are completely dependent on the people who surround them and if they start questioning every single initiative, Google would risk becoming draconian and have a distrustful atmosphere.
NASA spinoffs - side benefits of the space program
"He also said that there's no mechanism to compensate for the absence of duck typing. In Haskell, at least, there are type classes which allow you to make your types as duck as you would wish, maybe slightly less."

I think that type classes are the way to go.

Duck typing is mostly popular because multiple inheritance sucks, and
because inherting a class to only overload a method sucks.

Languages like Ruby, Python or Perl are so popular because they are less
verbose than Java or C++, with the disadvantage, that the compiler
can't help you that much.

Haskell is a language that combines the advantages, less verbosity with
a helping compiler, and a static type system that rocks.
Vancouver's SkyTrain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver) ) is driverless and very smooth. I have a feeling the unpleasantness of the ride of the LDLR has more to do with characteristics of the track or technology, rather than the driver's actions.
I like the book Programming Challenges[1] for this.

[1] http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=index
PressPausePlay - Docu on fear, hope and digital culture.
Compactness is not a very good reason to deviate from the standard style, particularly since in Go, the standard style can in some cases have an impact on the syntax of the code.
Wow, if men weren't the target here, there might be accusations that it's sexist.

Anyway, you know what? I don't like to shop. That's why I buy my groceries online and my local store delivers them the next day. I spend five minutes to do it and someone else goes to the store and brings it to my kitchen, so I can avoid the driving, the parking, the lines, the kids, the checkouts, the bringing the groceries in. Same for as many other things as I can buy online instead of in person. Including (as much as possible) clothes.

See, I'm a male. I don't particularly care if I'm wearing the latest fashion or if I've adopted the Bieber haircut. It doesn't matter to me. I buy clothing that doesn't have logos or advertise anything on it. I like black clothing. I also don't like to waste time with hairstyles. I shave my head and have for over a decade. It saves me time and looks fine. Just like pants or slacks and a black shirt looks fine. Because, again, I don't build my entire life and self-esteem around what I look like.

As long as I look like I showered and didn't sleep in a gutter overnight, I'm fine. And, believe it or not, I've never had a woman give a damn about my shoes or the label on my clothing or whether my hair was feathered. They always want to know what I do for a living and what kind of car I drive and whether I own my own home and what part of town I live in and what school I went to and (in roundabout ways of asking) how much money I make. None have ever given a god damn about my clothing. And if they have, I didn't know about it and didn't care. And still don't.

Now, who's going to write the follow-up article about how Women Shouldn't Shop, because they don't know what they're doing when they're buying a new stereo or computer or television or car or other (insert stereotype).
It is less about equity than it is about tired, damaging stereotyping.
Microsoft’s Ballmer $7.7-Billion Skype Blunder
Interesting idea. On the other hand, we're not as risk averse as plants wanting to avoid physical injury. Sometimes you can greatly reduce costs by tolerating a little higher risk of failure. But you need to be deliberate about it.
The Motorola Droid x2 Official Features
The Motorola Droid x 2 Android phone is the successor of the Motorola Droid X, one of Android phone has sold best.
What color are your bits? An interesting perspective on copyright and IP law
"Be happy, be comfortable, wear what you want to."

That's the key. I think it's better that a guy develops his own style than try to mimic another.

That being said, I don't think getting inspiration from magazines (GQ) or websites is a bad idea as long as you make the choice based the or your own rationale rather than blind agreement.
Depending on age a youth hostel might not be an option. The ones I stayed in when I was in Europe wouldn't let anybody over 30(25 in some cases) stay.
From Linus, that's practically a shining endorsement.
We already have cars that parallel park themselves. I just saw an SUV do it in a commercial last night. I think it was a Ford Exploder. We also have adaptive cruise control on a lot of cars. You combine those technologies, plus with something that keeps you in a lane, you got a car that can drive itself. Autopilot.

That "keeps you in your lane" technology is the last piece of the puzzle, and shouldn't be a tremendous legal hurdle if the other two pieces are already legal.
Android Market gets "Users who installed this app also installed these"
The cheapest ARM chips are still total overkill for most retail embedded electronic devices and many times more expensive per unit.

The cheapest ATTiny AVR chip is $0.60/ea bulk. The cheapest ARM chip like an AT91 is about $4.00/ea bulk. Ship a few million units and suddenly the cost difference between developing in C and Go is pittance.
No, my direct suggestion is the following:

a) A game has no issues. It's life cycle is short.

a.a) A long-term product/service strategy can't rely on one platform as they are under the whim of the owner.

b) Don't build exclusively for one platform. Thats right, develop for android, webos, etc. The point is that one choice is to be fucked in the ass by a company at their discretization, the other choice is to have protection vs that.

You can't complain "waa waa waa apple chaned their rules" too bad. It's apple's proprietary tightly controlled market. You want to make money? Bend over backwards for them. Otherwise piss off. It happened to twitter clients, its happening to facebook clients, its happening to apple clients. Learn from history.

Windows applications have been lucky. MS has been pretty nice over the years with what they allow. However if MS says "30% surcharge on any application selling something running on windows" then guess what, same cries will happen. Boo freakety hoo. This is what people were saying about being careful with apple's tight control. This is why I support android. But some didn't listen so they get fucked in the end.
Sony Revealed two Android 3.0 Tablets, S1 and S2
I think it could probably still be considered p2p. Skype only falls back to using a supernode if two clients cannot form a connection on their own: http://saikat.guha.cc/pub/iptps06-skype/
There are a few things you can take away from having some C experience that I think are related to building scalable systems:

* Managing your own memory. If you want to build a distributed system, being able to fit more instances of your program onto a single box is going to save you a lot of money/headaches. Removing unused objects from memory is a valid optimization in most languages.

* Avoiding dynamic memory allocations. In languages like Python all memory allocation is dynamic. However, unloading/loading the same object over and over is something I've seen a lot of.

* Understanding pointer arithmetic and pointer passing usually leads to better understanding of how other languages pass data around. This leads to avoiding doing lots of copying of data structures in memory.

* More of a systems programming thing, but understanding temporary file systems, RAM disks, OS file caching and when to implement your own caching system.

* Better understanding of low-level concurrency implementations and its limitations. Most scripting languages have little support for concurrency (PHP has none, Perl and Python are pretty limited).

* Understanding of the stack and how expensive it is to make even a trivial call vs inlining code.

* Better understanding of network protocols, when to use TCP/IP vs UNIX sockets, how to arrange for connection pooling, etc.

* A general mindset of minimalism when it comes to allocating resources.
Boulder is for Startups
Twitter is Not Facebook (Thank God)
Second tier cities (Atlanta, Austin) do pay less, but cost of living is much much less, and you can hire staff here.

Even if you end up paying them 1/2 your takehome: You triple your free time, the most valuable resource you have.
Coalition governments are brilliant.

See also the Open Government License[1] - it might not seem much to Americans, but compared to Crown Copyright it is a revelation.

[1] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licen...
I'm curious as to the rationale about "not letting people walk all over you." Is that an ego thing? Because, businesswise, it is just as easy to say "We ALWAYS give refunds when asked" as it is to say "We NEVER give refunds when asked", and it costs vanishingly little more money to say the first than the second. Your pathological customers know a variety of ways to get their money back anyhow (cough mention "chargeback" in a thirty second call to their bank cough). You might as well take the opportunity to give your good customers a feeling that you're not risky to do business with. Heck, make it a sales point: we don't want your money if you're not ridiculously happy with the service. (A/B test this if you don't believe me, but I think it is probably a clear win.)

I've done this for almost five years with BCC, offering a published policy of no-questions-asked refunds for 30 days (and the actual practice is that I will literally send you a check 4 years later -- I did it once). My refunds over the interim run under 3% of sales. In the last year, off the top of my head, it is closer to 1.2% (switching to the online version prevents all sorts of problems).

Otherwise I rather like the advice, although if you're not marketing to techy people like web designers I would suggest getting a great deal more comfortable with SEO than this would suggest because Google is the Internet.