skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, let's check that off my to-do list. Now quick! Someone create a site to share Greasemonkey hooks into websites, and let people combine these two!

Emacs and Firefox, sitting in a tree...
NZ immigration policy is points based like Australia. There aren't any tests that I know of except English language tests, which are waived for native english speakers.
Chris and Tom are prolific hackers. I'm always amazed by the volume of quality code they produce. They definitely deserve all of the success they've achieved.
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I don't think they need to game the system. The lukewarm or negative reviews on RottenTomatoes are being bombarded with genuine fanboy vitriol. (Many of the commenters, at least on the first page of comments, have joining dates that suggest they have been on RT for a while)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_knight/?critic=crea...
It is quite amusing in a sad way actually, seeing them trash the likes of David Denby and Joe Morgenstern.
Not really news. Not even accurate.
For more interesting information about a hardware startup and their experiences building a product, check out the following:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=7
Nothing startup related... but I just started reading Mastering Regular Expressions and am through the fourth chapter. It's such an amazing read and I'm punishing myself for never starting it earlier. For what the content is worth, the reading is not dry and makes the topic enjoyable.

You might want to read or reread Mythical Man Month, if you're looking for startup books. While not a startup book per se, its usefulness in the aspects of the programming environment is tenfold.
I agree. I had brain surgery recently (small tumor), and all I could do for the week after is pretty much stare into space and think. I came upon a series of epiphanies/hasty generalizations along those lines that seem pretty correct to me now:

1. Most people don't like what they do enough to do it when nobody's asking them to do it.

2. Most people can't singlehandedly start projects that require a lot of work and have uncertain reward.

3. Among those who enthusiastically do, very few can complete those projects.

4. Institutions like schools and corporations are quite reasonably based around this assumption, and work very well for most people. They set up worthwhile hoops for people to jump through.

5. In most institutions, the way to judge someone's worth is "What nifty, pre-existing hoops that I know about did you opt to jump through?" If it's something weird like getting a book published or starting a software business, it doesn't count. The judge can't use this sort of thing in comparing one candidate to another because there are few other candidates who have done the same OR because the judge is possibly someone for whom the generalization in 1-2 applies and just doesn't get it.

I don't know a lot of other people my age who have real passion about what they do and can pull through on significant projects that they start themselves.

Thinking I was going to die for a few days before I learned of my prognosis made me realize that rather than feeling weird and timid about this distinction, I should see it as kind of a superpower and go more gung-ho on some of my more successful endeavors.

What's also cool is that there are companies and individuals that can't afford to judge people according to the criteria in #5. And that isn't to say that it's not occasionally worth jumping through other people's hoops when it's not hurting anything :)
Here we go again...

http://searchyc.com/books

http://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator....
I'd recommend "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll. And of course, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman." And...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85840
Thats not like going to a play and turning your back, thats like taking your children to an amusement park, and being happy watching them do the fun stuff and enjoy themselves.

My actions can be interpreted as insulting when infact they are not. This is why I am offering an explanation. Thats how people live in harmony: they intend no harm, and they explain when they are mis-understood.
Personally, it seems that increasing the number of displayed words allows me to process the text much faster. For instance, I can comfortably read and (mostly) comprehend at ~400 wpm when 30 words are displayed on screen at a time, while with only 1 word-per-frame I'm struggling to read and have zero comprehension.

Comprehension-wise, at the 30 wpf setting, the trouble seems to be when the app splits at sentence boundaries.

It's very interesting that this simple tool gives me personal insight into how I visually process texts.
I thought so to at first. If you put it at something more like normal reading speed (600 maybe?) it flows a bit better. I'm not quite sure what it's supposedly improving though.
>> (or perhaps only hidden until after you vote but I don't see why they need to be there period)

That's an interesting point--why does every site need to quantify for the user the particular score of a comment? Why not indicate popularity by simply ordering the comments?

Is it a trust issue?
Perhaps a really fast scroll would make more sense, so you could see a few words to the left and right for context.
very simple.
Why not if it says so in the ToS? Or it doesn't?
I wonder if Cuil really intended to attract this much attention so early.

Everyone and their mother was talking about it. Kevin Rose twittered it, it was all over FF, and it made the front page of HN, Digg, reddit, TC, etc. They even had a story posted on drudge. That is a pretty ridiculous amount of traffic.

I also tried 'Cuiling' myself and the results were pretty bad as well. It didn't even find the domain name of my site which shares my full name.

http://viewzi.com is overlooked in this space imo.
How much does one search cost?
so a system that has worked fine for over a decade should be completely scrapped because of one unprecedented event?
The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar

I'd say it's a must read for any aspiring entrepreneur. It gives you a lot of perspective and a decent introductory exposure to the process.
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Kevin Rose calls to non-rebut rumors about Digg and Google acquisition talks
You're pretty spot on, with a solid argument and reputation to back it up.

Language snobs is one way to look at it. Another is people who enjoy learning languages/features for the "coolness" of it, whatever that means... building stuff is kind of cool, but not as cool as learning stuff. Language snobs will start building stuff when we've learned everything there is to learn ;)
There is something very suspicious about this article that I can't quite put my finger on. Everyone is looking forward to the Montevina chipset because it uses 30% less power, so when a rumor like this is leaked without the official story it creates fear and uncertainty that the new MBs and MBPs won't come with these benefits. Perhaps a competitor is hoaxing the rumor sites to spread FUD?
Chase is fine. You can link all your accounts and Chase credit cards in one login, set up automatic payments and transfers between accounts, and get all your statements as PDFs. The main screen is a bit confusing and poorly-designed especially when you have lots of accounts, but otherwise it is pretty functional.
Good point reit. Just eliminating the double taxation thing could be huge.
Karma -> karma whoring -> pageviews -> profit?

Slashdot no longer displays numeric karma and you can disable display of comment scores.
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Just for others that may need it: http://livepipe.net/extra/hotkey (MIT License)
You can do this pretty easily in PrototypeJS though!
http://www.prototypejs.org/api/event

I actually use this frequently in a project I'm working on, but I think it'd be beneficial to almost any project for accessibility.
This reads particularly well to me. Are his sources valid? Can anyone with more knowledge on the subject suggest whether this guy's talking sense?
And just to expand on this, Deming's theories are based on the pyschological theory "Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs" which says that the ultimate motivation is "self-actualization" - that once you have satisfied more base needs (survival, procreation, money) this is what drives most people to achieve.
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Cuban included in his "proposal" the restriction that this should be allowed only for individuals and only for one business. If you do it right, there won't be any Exxons taking advantage of it.
I worked for a contract manufacturing/engineering company for a while.

Here is what I would recommend based on my experiences:

1. Interview employees at the CM. Talk to the people that will be building your product. Talk to the bosses and their bosses. Talk to the people in the warehouse. Talk to the accountants. Talk to their suppliers. You need to find out how things are run. Try to see if you can shadow people in key departments at the CM.

2. Talk to their customers. Get a current and past customer list. Talk to the customers that walked away and find out why. Lots of good info here.

3. Find out when building starts. Show up unannounced and see how things are going. I recommend this throughout the relationship till you are confident that things are how you want them to be. This keeps the CM honest.
Ask YC: what is your most important idea?
Two hundred years from now, what piece of work would you like to be remembered for most?

If you had one year to devote to working on one project, after which you could never code again, what would you make?
I think a scroll would be a lot more tiring, if your eyes have to track moving information all the time.
Also, to the parent, what book did you publish? I can't tell from your profile.
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Hey, question for you: can you say approximately where are you in Mexico? I started looking at the Baja, like Cabo, but got very quickly turned off by many stories of violence/robberies against Americans.
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I agree with your statements of going with the large CM and one with extensive "new product introduction" (called NPI in the biz) experience.

I will re-iterate the points from my previous post. Extensive due diligence is a must. You need to make sure their goals are exactly in line with yours. It is very difficult to move a CM in a direction they aren't already going.
I haven't read all of his books, but I agree that I liked this one the least. His other books: "A Deepness in the Sky," "Marooned in Realtime" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" are AWESOME. Vinge is the smartest sci-fi writer I've read. I wish he'd write some more Pham Nuwen stories.
Engineering your start-up, Swanson and Baird
http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Your-Start-Up-High-Tech-En...

Old school, published when 'startup' was still 2 words. Good book to read and provides a guide in many situations one may encounter in a startup.
The download page has the whole codebase in its entirety, GPL licensed: http://luminotes.com/download

The link to this page is at the bottom of the front page. It used to be more prominent, but I found people got confused about whether they had to download the software in order to just make a wiki.

You can browse the Mercurial repository online as well.

And as for your question about keeping the software in the "cloud".. The software actually does have some sharing/collaboration features. (Whether they're useful for your specific needs is another matter.)

I'd like to make a desktop version of Luminotes at some point, but I have no concrete plans for it now.
That last thing you stated is what I consider to be the ultimate check in capitalism, the thing that makes the system work. You can't set up a corrupt entity that lasts beyond a point, because things evolve too quickly.

Also, along the lines of 2 and 3, I think that's what explains why young people tend to have such uncommon successes of such magnitude. It's not because of drive per se: people of all ages have drive. But it's because the fact that there's such an imbalance in the system that makes people move forward.

I had an epiphany recently that, next to yours, seems pretty stupid and shallow, but it's an epiphany that moved me nonetheless. It was the realization that, despite all the stuff that I'd tried to do, all the stuff I thought I could do, there were still some pretty basic social things I would be incapable of, if I kept along the route I was going. And I didn't like that. So I've started working out, eating more healthily, trying to normalize a bit in preparation for college. And what I've found is that while I'm doing that stuff, I find getting work done to be far easier, too. The two go hand-in-hand. And it's at young ages that trying to show off in shallow ways really stays a priority.

It's like the article about Zuckerberg that was on here a week ago. When he was in high school, he wasn't a typical coder: he was an active fencer in the top levels of the USFA, and he was in quite a few social clubs, too. This isn't a case of somebody who's a brilliant coder going off and writing code. That doesn't happen often at all, not even when you look at success stories in Silicon Valley. Rather, he was a very bright person who dabbled in a lot of things, who had an idea and who did whatever he could to bring that idea to fruition. I think the part of that story that fascinated me the most was the part describing how he began Facebook because his girlfriend snubbed him. What an absolutely honest start to a site: something about that story felt absolutely real to me.
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An honest self-assessment is essential for hiring into your weakness. Unfortunately, most people are unable or unwilling to do that.
Don't know why you're being downmodded. Personally, I think that's hilarious.
Some of my favorite books:

- Moneyball. A really engaging story about how game changing startups can turn a centuries-old industry on it's head....er...it's actually about baseball, but the other part is true too.

- Crossing the Chasm. It's a roadmap for introducing a new product. Gives a framework for thinking about the "who" and "why" of a new market.

- Sales Learning Curve by Mark Leslie. It's actually not a book but rather a short paper. Shows how the sales learning curve is similar to the manufacturing learning curve.

- Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds. Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s and real estate bubble of the past few years are peculiarly aberrations of our time, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits.

- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. The title pretty much says it all, huh? Oh, this book was first published in 1931...

- Hiring Smart. It's a book that takes about an hour to read and provides practical tips on how to interview someone (as opposed to the other way around).

- Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki. Good read with some nice tidbits (particularly on fundraising).

- Patton on Leadership (as in General George S. Patton). It's pretty cool...nothing too touchy-feely.

- Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
http://www.mirrorplacement.com/ - They do rails placement only, but if that is your route...
This is perfect I was thinking about trying to build something similar to try and learn python but have not found a quality resource to suit my needs. I am planning on taking these principles and just changing the language to fit python (that is unless any of you have a better resource).
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Will Cuil dent Google’s might?
Just throwing this out there: I wrote a web spider a while ago in Erlang. You can find it at http://github.com/a-priori/spider
An open collaborative platform for education. Something along the lines of OpenCourseWare. I feel like that should be the future if it isn't already in sight. I'm of the school of thought that puts educating people as a top concern, and the more readily available and collaborative it is, the better it can be for everyone.
Men fall to the extremes of every pursuit. Even dressmaking, cooking, and interior design. Both testosterone and a greater likelihood of psychosis would account for this.
My company has the same problem currently and we have not been able to resolve it. We have taken seemingly every step I am aware of to fix the issue, but they continue to block. One possibility is the IP you are sending from is flagged, which is more common than you might think.
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Larry Summers was effectively forced to step down by a large body of highly educated academics at Harvard that reacted emotionally to statistically accurate statements. The media didn't help though.
A couple of things I noticed:

- No check on JS being blocked. Trivial but the site just gives a blank stare.

- When loading the first time the RH Google adverts advertise competitors before your app.

- Why are you flashing 1 word at a time?

The first 2 are trivial, the third I'm not so sure about. In any speed reading that I've read about or tried the emphasis is on being able to increase the chunk of text the eye/brain can input and comprehend at once. When I added some text to read I (surprisingly) could comprehend the text at default speed. The speed however was not fast enough. And I got the distinct impression the reading flow was broken up by word instead of sentence. So I then tried a quick experiment using the tool
to read the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading entry.

Surprisingly it worked pretty well. I got through the article pretty well. I even read on the pro's and con's of "centre-based" text vs whole word chunking and agree this one works well after you get used to it. One thing I did notice was large words can be missed if shown infrequently. I also tried to move the text to left justification. It did not seem to solve this. It would be interesting if you had some training tests to calibrate your speed and check your comprehension. Read a 1800 word essay, answer some questions to see if you are reading at your optimum.

All in all, the app works for me.
That would completely change how I vote. I vote by comparing a post's score to the amount I would give it if I could pick a value. If they're significantly different, I vote accordingly.
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"... You read a TEXT. A text is not just an array of words but an array of words linked to each other in context. So you don't get information out of your text very well if you see one word after each other. ..."

That was my first reaction as well. The difference is I tried a quick experiment to see if what I thought was what was actually happening. While individual words read out do appear chunked maybe gains in reading can be made by pre-parsing the text. I noticed it was much like reading a piece of text out aloud and the only stumbling blocks long words.
John Walker from AutoCad chose Switzerland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_%28programmer%29

Any other famous ex-pats? I figure that if immigration doesn't go up, taxes will (or services go to hell)... and that will lead to more ex-pats.
Timothy B. Lee is a little off in his analysis. He refers to the Supreme Court not allowing algorithms to be patented. This is true. He is right here. But his next line about the Federal Circuits is off.

"Unfortunately, the Federal Circuit has ruled that merely loading an algorithm onto a general-purpose computer and executing it transforms it into a patentable invention."

That is also true, and furthermore, which Lee doesn't point out, is that the Supreme Court has affirmed this. See Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981).

The often cited landmark case that affirmed this is State Street Bank. See State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, 149 F.3d 1368 (Mass. 1998).

That decision ruled that an algorithm that is calculated by a computer meets the statutory subject matter of patentable inventions. The Federal Circuit in Massachusetts decided that case. The Supreme Court declined to review the decision because at that time the SCOTUS thought the Federal Court got it right.

I am still reviewing Lee's other analysis. There is lots of stuff there. It will take some more time.
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Javascript, The Good Parts.

One of the most clear, logical, well-written programming books I've ever read. Douglas Crockford covers more ground in 153 pages than I ever thought was possible in a tech book. An absolute gem.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748/
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I think, actually, that HN users need some of these reminders the least. This is more-or-less a productive community. But I thought some people might enjoy this article anyway.
I just read Richard Branson's autobiography, Losing My Virginity, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
This reminds me of the recent articles about the netflix optimization challenge. Voting systems like imdb might be improved with some simple heuristics that take into account the absurdity of some people's votes.

If a user makes votes that are < 2.0 for a movie that the entire community for years has rated above 9.0, then probably that user's votes should all be ignored, because they are totally uninformed.
"... and yet, many people prepare for important discussions and negotiations as though the other side is going to be a passive listener to everything you have to say and then simply accept or reject your demands. As a result, most people walk into negotiations with a reasonable sense of what they want and a list of reasons or arguments for why the other side should agree. Then the conversation begins. And guess what? The other side starts asking some really tough questions or pointing out some flaws in your argument. And you’re caught off guard. Really effective negotiators, as part of their preparation, take the time to imagine how things might go wrong. ..."

Good point.

Successful negotiation with third parties requires an understanding of "Theory of Mind" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind Since hackers spend less time being popular this is one skill that probably needs polishing.
I'm reading K&R 2nd ed and thoroughly enjoying it.
I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road recently. I found it compelling and disturbing at the same time. Definitely recommend it.
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It's also on Amazon; I tried publishing with Lulu and CreateSpace and CreateSpace produced a much higher-quality product by far. I think it's very good - you might like it - but my goal was to actually finish a product of great magnitude, not to worry about production or sales. So I wrote the thing, designed the pages and the cover, and after that I mentioned that I did it, I bring it up, but now I'm focused on other things.
We open sourced a higher-level framework for keyboard shortcuts:
http://www.acunote.com/open-source/javascript-keyboard-short...
This lets you setup (optionally multi-key) keymaps, similar to Emacs, and basically is all you need to get Gmail-like keyboard accessibility.
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My interpretation of the story is that Apple will use something better than Montevina (perhaps a chipset which runs on RDF instead of electricity). I consider that extremely unlikely.