skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely should be clarified in the article, though. I had no clue what as converted meant despite some casual research into common terms. I doubt people totally new to term sheets would have a clue about participation based on what's there now.
There's a nice demo of the classifier API at about 40 minutes into this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keXW_5-llD0
The only examples given here are those of liberal arts degrees. Does this happen as much in engineering or the sciences?
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Holy blundering errors, Batman:

"At 38, Agassi is the youngest invitee. Just after the dotcom boom, SAP, the world's largest maker of enterprise software, paid $400 million for a small-business software company he started with his father; now he's SAP's head of products and widely presumed to be the next CEO."

He left SAP a year and a half ago after a massive power-struggle on the executive board where it was clear that he wouldn't be the next CEO. That's why he founded the "not" company that is the topic of this article. Except, well, that it's a VC backed company.
Yes, but one nice thing about InstaPaper being a web app is you can use it from a number of devices: desktop, laptop, iPhone, etc are all automatically synced since they use the same account.
Wouldn't your success push the price up?
I hope it's back soon. I have inane jokes to make and trolls to dispute.
Yes. Also www.laterloop.com is good for that.
I find it funny that a PhD (modern European History) considers a 3 month consulting gig earning 12K "lucrative." That's only ~48K/year ... after taking inflation into account, I was making more without a bachelors.

Oddly, most of my friends pursuing graduate degrees in the hard sciences aren't too worried about job prospects. From what I understand, it's almost impossible for them to get a tenure track position at a decent university. But most do have the option of working in their field in industry or just becoming quants/traders in finance world.
I bet I could dispute 100 trolls.
But that's stuff that people like Calacanis and Loic Lemeur HAVE TO DO.

They aren't engineers, or designers, so spreading the word on the product, and establishing contacts, it's pretty much the best they can do to help their startup instead of sitting around all day watching others work.

Nonetheless, social skills, or the simple ability to stand out fast, do play as much as big a factor in the success of an endeavour as engineering.
I was always taught by my father to seek joy not happiness. Joy is something you can aim for, it comes in bursts and it's very rewarding and cheap to work towards. Happiness exists at the cost of other emotions which are essential to colour your life. Of course when I was ten I thought he was a grumpy old git but now at 30+ I'm starting to get it :)
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My most productive time is when the rest of the world is asleep.
most libertarians assume that if you get rid of government everything will be better

Except that that's not what Rand advocated. The role of government is to resolve contractual disputes and to prevent the initiation of use of force. She was quite clear that government is necessary.
Hablo - that guy habla just fine.

In any case, Aussie rules football is way more entertaining than the American variety: much more running around and action. Plus the "goal" thing that the referees do with their arms pointed out from the waist is cool.
Oh if you register even these guys do. http://readitlaterlist.com/

That is why the highlight around firefox plugin. Rest they are very similar.

Any user account based system becomes an unnecessary overhead for something so transient. If you really like the post you would post it to your delicious account anyway.

The one you just want to check out a browser based cache is good enough. Most would be discarded anyway.
Continue reading, the article mentions that afterwards.
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Ultimately the domain doesn't determine success. It's still really nice to have a .com -- I'd say you should try and find a .com that is available and don't pay squatting fees. It's just not worth it. You definitely don't want a -.

.net really isn't great, but it won't make or break your site. I'd rather have a .net domain than one with a -. Here's some domains I found on instantdomainsearch that were available.

kingedout.com
kingedup.com
kingedoff.com
checkeredking.com
kingscheck.com
checkerking.net
kingsrow.net
checkermate.net
checkersmate.com

kingme.com is an awesome domain name though -- if you have the money and it's around $500... go for it. $10k is not worth spending your own money.
Guy behind the camera should speak less and give the people talking points beforehand. And please don't laugh when you're behind the camera, it's very loud. And don't talk about yourself, guy behind camera.
Such a world will never be allowed to come to exist as long as there are powerful men who want to cheat on their wives.
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When I'm on-site consulting I'm a 8PM sleeper. I've found that early to work gives me good productive time to "boot up" and be as perky as possible for the clients. I'm usually up by 4 and on-site by 6ish. If working on a startup, I code for an hour or so in the morning and 3-4 in the evenings (after working 10-11 hours)

When I'm off-contract and working solely on my start-up? Then it's a lot tougher. I've found even as an old fart that I easily push myself into the wee hours of the morning. In fact, I find I'm more productive if I structure my coding -- actually making myself NOT code while I do other things like hit the gym or sleep. But it's a tough haul to do so.
organisations with an 's' is a fine spelling for organizations, it's not the Americanized version but they're based in London as I recall.
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From my experience, the "PhD or not" depends entirely on the field being studied. In chemistry, the PhD is the union card that allows you to enter industry at a higher level and allows advancement if one's lucky/good to quite high levels. The BS/MS folks enters with lower ranks and face a ceiling about the point where PhD's enter. Similarly, the MD has all sorts of advantages to those who have studied medical-type fields at lower levels.

Conversely, nobody hired CS PhD's outside of think tanks or academia as far as I can tell. Similarly, engineering PhD's seem tracked to academia.
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I was thinking the same thing. Wikipedia tells us that a flame is visible at 525 °C (977 °F). (I don't know if this is relevant as they talk about a 'plasma' and not a flame.) This might sound too hot to be safe but it only has to be that temperature for a very short time so presumably the energy density doesn't have to be very high.
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That graduate school is increasingly viewed as training for a professorial or teaching position is the greatest failing of the system. The noble pursuit of knowledge, which I think is the ideal of graduate study, has been supplanted by the stark economic realities, ie. you don't get paid to do research without producing anything. But research can sometimes yield nothing of significance for years.

So now academia has been reduced to an industry that produces mountains of useless, trifling research to justify the academics' own positions. The technocrats at the top of the system put unit prices on conference and journal papers, but they're not judged on quality, just the amount that can be eked out. To get more funding, you need to produce. I remember reading essentially the same paper 10 times from different conference proceedings, as the author managed to squeeze out one trivial variation on the same theme after another. Hell, my supervisor was a prime culprit (and I an accessory).

Any graduate student will tell you that the first (and most important) skill to learn is how to wade through all the bullshit papers and find things of value.

In some ways it's great that post-doctoral work (if you can get it) has become a middle class profession, spawning an industry that employs people, but the dilution of academic work has made research much more time consuming.

I never finished my PhD program, dumping my scholarship after a year for an engineering career in oil and gas. 7 years on, and I'm actually thinking of going back part-time. I like research... just at my own pace. Without being saddled with the constraints of money (which is every poor graduate student's dilemma), there's no pressure to produce. Now that's what I call the ideal research environment!
you don't have to register to use Instapaper. You can use it right away and then "ask for a password" to access it from any device you want. And there is no community here. People can't see your bookmarks.
If the table is on enough of a slope for the iPhone to detect rotation (yaw) it would work... But maybe I'm just hoping it does because the idea of headtracking for 3d is so fun (check out http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ for a similar experiment with the Wii if anyone missed it)
As a society we massively overproduce people with "high" (e.g. theoretical or abstract) skills. Whether it's astrophysics PhDs or even just Bachelors of Engineering, there simply isn't the work that needs doing to justify the investment in educating them (us!).

Meanwhile, try getting a plumber or a plasterer. The UK govt. has the objective of getting 50% of school leavers into university. Formal education beyond a certain point is suboptimal both for the individual and for society as a whole in probably most cases. The great irony is that this is a Labour government, you'd think if anyone realized the value of traditional trademen, it would be them...
It's good to hear that Nikola Tesla found a job with a new company, after losing that Westinghouse contract.
I do not think that word means what you think it means
You can still do it.
I didn't say they're not testable, just that the article does not explain how to test for them (apart from the instinct, but that test is a little flakey, I reckon).

By the way, the method you propose only allows you to hire engineers who are similar to you, and only if you are an engineer yourself. A better test would also allow you to recognise people who are significantly better than you - again, that's theoretically possible but I haven't found such a test - at least not in a form that is practically explainable to someone who's not themselves an alpha geek.

I came up with a set of "symptoms" that indicate a good programmer in my article here:

http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good...

But those are not testable per se, they're just things you can look out for if you don't have anything else to go by. The aim was to help business guys recognise potentially good programmers.

At the end of the day, if you're an alpha geek yourself, then selecting people to hire shouldn't be a problem... you can sniff out people who are like you quite easily. The difficulty arises when a non-geek (or a non-alpha geek) has to attempt to hire someone better than them. I don't think this article helps much with that.
Usually until 4 am, but once i stayed until 6 am, went jogging and went to sleep in 8 am, woke up at 8 pm and 2 weeks i've been fixing my sleep schedule because of that.
Something to keep in mind is that we are building a page specifically for the iPhone or iTouch.

I don't know about you guys, but when I make a website I actually make a website and want it to work in any browser. If you need a custom, alternative or lighter layout for mobile devices, this is what you have CSS and the media-attribute for.

Ignoring this for a second, the linked article also seems to have no way of handling future iPhones, iPods or alternate mobile devices with higher resolution. It consistently uses fixed-size images for layout and doesn't leave the browser any way to work beyond that.

So even if you are making a site targeting the iPod or iPhone specifically or just want a Appleish theme, this thing is as far from future-proof and flexible as you can get.

If I could downvote articles on hacker news, I would downvote this one in an instant.
I kept thinking of that scene in Star Wars too!

Instead of a raster or vector approach how about an array of lasers all with fixed focal lengths that project into a predetermined 3D viewing space? Kind of like a 3D LCD setup. Tbh they've probably already thought of these ideas. As Obi-Wan says: "Patience".
Seriously. Read the entire article before you post comments like that.
Thanks for the correction. It was late, I skimmed the first part of the article, then found myself being more interested further down.
nullptr vs NULL

I'm not sure if the author knows this, but the fact that nullptr is even needed is a design flaw of C++. That is,

int foo = NULL;

is illegal C, but legal C++. So much for C++ being more typesafe!
Another, famous example that maybe sums it up nicely:

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages." - Adam Smith

In other words, I expect the baker to not poison the bread he sells me not because it would be immoral to poison the bread, but because it would have bad consequences for him. That is why I think economics trumps ethics. Ethics are really just rules for "stupid" agents who don't understand why the rules make sense or what implications they have. Take the rule to not eat pig's meat - it made sense in the hot desert back in the day, when pigs were competing for the scarce food with humans and were transmitting their diseases. Probably some smart people figured that out and made up the rule (and were in the position to enforce it), that now billions of people are senselessly stuck with.

I think a society based on selfishness would be much superior to a society based on morals. With morals, there will always people who don't comply and mess everything up, who feel unsatisfied and create revolutions and upheavals. In a selfish society, things should be clear. For example, I don't think we should help the poor because we are morally obliged to do so. We should help them because otherwise they will end up lingering on our doorstep and trying to rob us (or also simply because it is a kind of insurance system, in case we become poor ourselves). In our current system, there is constant bickering about giving away too much money for social causes. In a selfish view, there would be no discussion - there would be a desired outcome (no robberies and beggars) and a means to achieve it. The only discussion left would be the best way to achieve the outcome (welfare systems? death penalty for throwing chewing gum on the floor? legalized abortions?...), and how much investment it would be worth to the individual. But those would not be philosophical discussions, they would be technical discussions.

Incidentally, it is one of the achievements of economics to show that selfishness can benefit everyone. There was actually an artificial life researcher who committed suicide when he learned of that, because he wanted to believe in true altruism. Such a shame.
Make an independent university. That's what Moscow mathematicians did in the 1990s, when it became clear that the new democratic Russia no longer cared about fundamental science. http://www.mccme.ru/ium/english/index.html . I studied there for a couple years, fantastic place.
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Apart from being cool as, what will wireless power do for us? As long as traditional methods remain more widespread and efficient at the moment I can't see what will make this technology take off. Perhaps recharging embedded medical devices? What else? There must be loads of interesting applications.
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I'm no expert on this either; I just studied this section of the book pretty thoroughly :)

What you say is correct, but about SWS ("Slow Wave Sleep", or stages 3 and 4 -- stage 1 being when REM occurs). These are the main recouperative stages.

Eliminating REM sleep (e.g. by waking someone up at the start of a REM cycle then letting them go back to sleep when the cycle would have ended) has little or no effect on alertness the next day, but doing the same for SWS cycles results in symptoms of sleep deprivation.

It has been hypothesized that REM sleep plays a role in strengthening memories, but evidence for this is spotty.

Regardless of how many hours you're asleep, reducing the amount of time spent asleep reduces the amount of REM sleep, but not NREM sleep, making you a "more efficient" sleeper.

The main evidence for long-term sleep reducton comes from studies by Friedman et al. (1977) and Mullaney et al. (1977). In these studies, which covered eight subjects over a period of several months, two reduced their sleep down to 5.5 hours, four down to 5 hours and the remaining two down to 4.5 hours. Below about 6 hours, the subjects reported daytime sleepiness, which increased as sleep was futher reduced. A follow-up study a year later showed that the subjects were sleeping 7-18 hours less per week. With only eight subjects, I'm a bit concerned about the generalizability of this study, but I think it's good enough for my purposes.
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I think that's a good idea, but wow too expensive! Why not have a laser for each voxel in 1000x1000x1000 space? :-) Seriously, that may be the kind of breakthrough needed for this research to be commercially viable.
I thought the "star" in the url field of FF 3 already does that?
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"A few months later, when his boss broke the news that he wouldn't be getting the top job at SAP anytime soon, Agassi shocked just about everyone in the tech world by quitting."
There are some companies that hire CS PhDs , or at least have divisions that do.

Google, of course. Xerox. A bunch of big DoD contractors have R&D departments. Video game companies have been known to pick up graphics focused Phds. Pixar.
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There are lots of engineering PhD's in industry, but you have to pick the right industry. For example, there are many other electrical engineering PhD's at my current workplace (a microprocessor design company), but PhD's were very thin on the ground at my previous job (a software startup).

It's actually quite hard to move from industry back to academia as an engineering PhD. According to some academic friends, unless you've been publishing tons of papers while in industry, you're looking at an adjunct faculty position at best.
This could really work in Hawaii. Cut a deal with Hertz, Alamo, etc., and you have an instant user base. Oahu is so small, you could probably get away with just 20 or so swapping stations. Plus if anyone ever runs out of juice, it's pretty easy to drive out to them and swap the battery out in the field, since nothing's ever more than an island's length away.

My one thought is that he shouldn't be making the car and the battery. He needs to just design the battery stands and whatnot and license the technology to "real" car companies.
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Ask HN: What does Ruby have that Python doesn't?
About 6 months ago I decided to learn either Python or Ruby because I wanted a language to write webapps and simple computergames fast.

I kind of tried both for a while and Python gave the better impression in every way, readability, ease of use, libraries, documentation, expressiveness etc.

But there are so many really enthusiastic posts about Ruby and while Python has a lot of users and is very popular and successful I rarely see anyone rave about it. But maybe that just means it has gotten mainstream.

But anyway I like the Python philosophy that there should preferrably be one obvious way to do things.
While similar in most ways, there the languages differ.

So, what do you Rubyists like so much about Ruby? Especially what do you think Pythion lacks?
To put this in a historical perspective, Adam Smith's bitter comments on the fate of the academic still make sense today:

"But the usual reward of the eminent teacher bears no proportion to that of the lawyer or physician; because the trade of the one is crowded with indigent people who have been brought up to it at the public expence; whereas those of the other two are incumbered with very few who have not been educated at their own."

There's more at http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/Smith/smWN4.html
I have a bachelor's degree in finance. I am currently working on a bachelor's degree in mathematics in preparation for a PhD in applied mathematics at, hopefully, either Princeton or MIT. My ultimate goal is to get a quant job. For certain types of PhD's, the job prospects continue to look very lucrative; financial mathematics is one of those areas.
I don't think Python lacks much, if anything. It's a very fine language, with a great community. Over the years though, I just lost interest in it, and have come to prefer Ruby after having rediscovered it because of Rails. It's pretty much a matter of taste: I like the syntax and convenience more.

One (fairly minor) real world case where the syntax makes a difference is in web templates: you can use Ruby pretty much straight up to do templating, but Python requires more hoops and hacking, due in part to the whitespace issue. I like the fact that Ruby is flexible enough to be used as-is for templates as well as other code. BTW, it also needs to be said that that is the only place I've ever noticed the whitespace issue being any kind of problem: it's not the big deal that some python detractors make it out to be.

In short: if you're happy with Python...great! Keep using it, you made a good choice. If you want to learn another language, pick something a bit further from it... say, Erlang, Tcl, Java, or C, depending on what your needs are.
Yeah, my bad. I can see how it was supposed to work in context now, but usually I don't bother to continue reading an article when I get through the first third and there are things that have stopped jiving with reality.
I responded to you, but the sentiment I mention is here on HN in a bunch of places.
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For the curious, the issue is apparently that IE will count matches in the 'name' attribute of a tag, so that for example getElementById("description") will match a 'meta name="description"' tag. Weird, I didn't know that.
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I got the impression that he wasn't making the car.. (ie - it was Renault / Nissan who were making the first batch of cars for them..
Thank you, ardit33, for your scientifically based sarcasm. It made me laugh this morning. I find it hilarious that so many people think the HLC will cause the end of mankind.
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I know that I'm biased (I grew up and live in Melbourne), but I have never seen a team sport I prefer watching to Aussie Rules.

And my day job (big 3 letter IT company) uses this website to run our office footy tips competition.. And it works pretty well! (And my tipping skills are terrible). But as a user - I think the site is great - it's always worked well, solves it's problem nicely, and does something people want.