skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the comments - this was my first HN post. I hope you didn't see it as being pessimistic - As someone who has started companies in the past and wants to do it again, I am trying to understand this new movement.

I love the thought of building a self-running business. Is that realistic? Is that realistic statistically? $12,000 profit per month after taxes is not livable in the US, and probably not Canada. Continuing to grow past $1000/month doesn't mean you are going to win; it could mean you win for a little bit and then lose all at once when something goes wrong, or someone else decides your idea is good and scoops it up. Maybe, maybe not. Again, I don't know. I do know that you can live frugally and without a cushion for only so long if your dream involves a family.

Pulling out of a phd program may be the right choice, but you are giving up on a tangible asset before you cross the finish line. Education isn't the be-all end all, but it still means something to a lot of people and that's a nice back up if your company doesn't work out.

I noticed you live in Thailand now which was apparently your dream. That lowers your costs significantly. Congratulations on that and the success you've had!

For me, living in a first world country changes the calculus. I'm not promoting the "big vc" route and I don't think YC invests in companies so the founders can make $20k/month and take vacations when they want. Your final point I'll assume wasn't trying to rub my face into the fact that you have this freedom that perhaps I don't have.

Again, congratulations on your success, and I think I'm going to try out your web meeting product.

cheers.
This is designed to be used by experts most efficiently. This is already minimalist. Single function (non-modal) buttons are the fastest, most fail-proof way of controlling state. Peek into the cockpit next time you get into a plane. I was actually a bit surprised that there is a "Multifunctional Rotary Switch" which appears to be modal.

Don't confuse visual minimalism with actual simplicity. I believe BMW did that with their iDrive system.
The Halo effect is a well-known cognitive bias that almost everyone applies instinctively to some degree. You can try to avoid it, but chances are that you'll automatically rate someone who comes to your attention in a positive way (by writing great code, by being a pleasant conversationalist, or simply beautiful) as generally more competent and even morally superior to some degree.
Farm town chess team beats amazing odds, wins CA state title
Please add a candidate delete function. I sent an email with candidate with multiple attachments and Recruiterbox created multiple candidates by mistake.
Summary: SICP is a great book but it has little concern for the program design process and so is not a good introductory text. Our text, HtDP, is a much better introduction to programming.

A background link: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message4223.html

(note the link discusses the conference paper, not the full journal paper).
This article is mostly good, especially the second half. But their goals are wrong.

>The primary goal of a computing curriculum is to produce programmers and software engineers. After all, most of its graduates accept industry positions and produce software. Many will stay involved with software production for a long times, even if only as managers, and therefore also need to learn to adapt to the everevolving nature of the ﬁeld.

In fact, a lot of software in the industry is developed by crappy methods for historical reasons. A computer science curriculum should be teaching you the best ways to think about software and algorithms, not the stuff that people have to do for backwards compatibility. There's plenty of time to warp your thinking later.
So how do I add my project/idea? I didn't see a big flashing 'got a project?' button.

I really like the idea and can't wait to see how it plays out.
When I was a kid, my local town had a 'leisure library'. It was a small-ish facility (10m x 10m) filled with teenage-books, videos, a few computers (back in 1994!) and consoles. The librarian operated a shop where you could buy coke, pepsi, juice and snacks and there was a back-room filled with about 50 different board games, with a table that you could book to play on. There was even an alcove with a projector and a video-player and a couple of sofas. The librarian was a trained social worker who could offer all sorts of advice to teenagers who had no other adult to ask.

I met a lot of new friends there, discovered a whole bunch of books and authors, learned a lot about games and computers and had a great time. The local authority closed it down after 5 years because it was unprofitable and turned it into office space.

There's no way that the internet has the same possibility of offering a social/learning/entertainment centre. This community-centre/lending-centre/advice-centre model is the perfect thing for libraries to transition towards - but it requires a lot of creativity from local authorities.
Willpower is a different subject though. No reason not to go for both.
More than half of all software spend over next 5 years will be open source
The documentary "Beyond the Gates of Splendor" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337868/ is quite good. You can stream it from Netflix. Although I'm not religious, I must admit it demonstrates the value of the Christian ideal of forgiveness. The movie has lots of old footage, including his father's inventive method of delivering supplies from his airplane to the natives via a tethered bucket
But it's a PDF...

Twenty years ago Abelson and Sussman’s Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs radically changed the intellectual landscape of introductory computing courses. Instead of teaching some currently fashionable programming language, it employed Scheme and functional programming to teach important ideas. Introductory courses based on the book showed up around the world and made Scheme and functional programming popular. Unfortunately, these courses quickly disappeared again due to shortcomings of the book and the whimsies of Scheme. Worse, the experiment left people with a bad impression of Scheme and functional programming in general.
In this pearl, we propose an alternative role for functional programming in the first-year curriculum. Specifically, we present a framework for discussing the first-year curriculum and, based on it, the design rationale for our book and course, dubbed How to Design Programs. The approach emphasizes the systematic design of programs. Experience shows that it works extremely well as a preparation for a course on object-oriented programming.
There are common cases where the moral, ethical, and role model paradigms do, in fact, all apply because of what those persons represent (e.g. teachers and peace officers). Ethics of course has a much broader application as a fundamental part of what it means to be a skilled practitioner (e.g. the in fields of law, healthcare, finance, and civil service). Even in normal business transactions ethics and morals plays an important part in coloring our opinions from how we feel about Nintendo's right to brick one's hardware to our willingness to hire a crackhead as a janitor.
F1 cars tend to go round a few different types of corner as well ;-)
We could turn this question from the individual as themselves to the individual within an institution: for example an executive at Sony or a government official.

Given the harassment Anonymous has given to Sony execs, its not surprising that there's a certain invisible wall between the rest of the world and those in privileged positions. I guess anonymity of everyday activitists is a one way to redress that.
Related: http://mediaqueri.es/

It's "a collection of responsive designs".
Some great examples in there.

Also: http://www.angrycreative.se/projekt/less-framework/
Another nice media query framework, though a bit more complicated.
There are relatively few technical limitations for access to books via the Internet. The bigger problem is a business/copyright law issue. The library model of lending a physical book has a firm, 200+ year tradition in the US. Until there is something similar for e-books, I would be hesitant to say that the Internet is your savior.
Intel rewrites 'inadequate' roadmap, 'reinvents' PC
Mine too. Worked in the Oil industry as a buyer during college and Octopart was pretty useful at finding things I had in my RFQ's.
Once you have a great map of the structure and chemical process at one given state, how do you intend to map out the processes that take place? Or is that way beyond the scope of your project?
War is peace, censorship is freedom.
In French the fields known as Computer Science and Information Technology are called Informatique, a portmanteau between information and automatique.

I think it captures the goal of the field pretty well: automate the boring stuff to let humans focus on the interesting side of problems.
You can do the same thing in Android too. You have an application specific uri that you register in your manifest.
Argh. Lot's of signups. Dreamhost only allow for 100 mails an hour. Will work on expanding the quota and rest assured you will receive a signup mail soon.
Bristol Palin: Did She or Didn't She?
Ideas for Expanding Your Web Design Business
Right, I see how it makes sense in terms of filtering relevant information. Thanks.
Apple inks deals with 2 music labels, 2 more set to sign
Yeah, also why didn't he put screenshots of the pages in instead of link to Flickr pages which you need to be logged in to view?
And F1 drivers need a special button so they don't speed on pit road. What's your point? They're different types of racing.
Data Recovery Texas
Data recovery in texas by intelinet systems. Best data recovery service in texas region for your data recovery requirements.
Sony CEO Warns of 'Bad New World'
The physical connecter may be a slip ring.

This place has pretty graphics of slip rings:
http://www.rotarysystems-sr.com/
(un)Safe browsing report for Google.com
Noticias online 24 horas de España y del mundo
Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"
It must be noted that what Chomsky is famous for, his deep grammar, has never been shown to be anything more than a particularly elegant theory, not representative of actual real linguistics - and that is what he is good at, assembling beautiful arguments ultimately based on nothing. He's an extremely skillful rhetoritician and orator - but the acid test is, does this work?
Multitasking Impossible? Pretty girl plays Violin & DDR at the same time.
Why surprising? Because he's Russian?
Without libraries, there is also the loss of public librarians, who have traditionally been strong advocates for freedoms related to access to materials, etc. I guess online their role is replaced by the EFF or similar.

If all tax dollars were collected by the municipalities and then a portion of that passed up to state and federal budgets (instead of the municipalities getting very little directly and needing to request money back from state and federal budgets) would the same situation have emerged?
A Week on Foursquare: Data visualization and analysis
Looks like they have guides for multiple operating systems:

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides...
What is this 'considered harmful' meme lately? The way it's used, it applies to everything and thus fails to mean anything. It's now one of my watch phrases for FUD.
Free Proxy List 8080
Proxy server creates connection at computer port 8080. The 8080 proxy server
is powerful proxy server. You can set proxy server to your computer or only
for the particular browser to surf the websites. 8080 Proxy, proxy port
8080, free proxy list 8080, free proxy servers list, free proxy, proxy
surfing, proxy list, alias proxy, proxy programs, free web proxy
Have you priced out what your projects would likely cost on AWS or other services?
And as long as they are properly trained. None of us would be able to simply get into an F1 car and figure out what even half of these buttons do.
More 'privacy' laws proposed with unintended consequences
Doesn't seem to use chording.
Gartner says 428M mobiles sold in first quarter
"It looks like a hoax" is not a useful comment and has no research to back it up. The poster apparently did not even read the text under the linked video, which says "[T]he FAA has also issued the Maverick a S-LSA aircraft airworthiness certificate."

It is highly unlikely the FAA would issue a S-LSA[1] aircraft airworthiness certificate to a hoax.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-sport_aircraft

http://www.sportpilot.org/learn/aircraft_index.html
1.) 84000 US$

2.) By Oshkosh 2011, which is end of july this year

http://mavericklsa.com/FAQ.html
Gift Ideas, Online Gift Finder, Gift Suggestions For Her / Him
Find gift ideas for him/ her from Askdouglas.com, an online gift finder & gift suggestions tool for gift ideas. Find unique wedding, birthday & valentine gift ideas for men, women & brothers.
I'm not informed enough about linguistics to be able to determine whether what you say is true or not, but it is certainly irrelevant to what we're actually discussing - Chomsky does supply evidence to back up his political claims.
Ikea has pretty good guides about how to choose a mattress in their shops. (ie. it depends a lot on your body weight, etc.)
Yep, just like the Patriot Act wasn't to be used for anything but terrorism suspects, but it's being used for everything now. In 2008, 3 of 763 were terrorism related. More:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/patriot-act-provision-used-fo...

It will be the same with this.
You can't get into any car and drive if you have not been properly trained.
Looks like a vi to me :)
Much more likely that in 10 years Eric Schmidt runs than pg....
Warning though: laying on a mattress for a few minutes in a shop != sleeping well on it all night for months.
As Tony Montana ( Scarface) said:

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

In a start up context ,it means that
first get some traction -- customer registrations or signups or revenues
then you get your brand recognition -- people will start talking about you or your product
then you get your investors.

This is what I am doing with my bootstrap.

(and much apologies for quoting a violent mobster)
I assume that maybe Jeff Bezos would be reading HN !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin
I don't get it. Why not just make a helicopter with wheels?

(Also, how do we know it can transition back to ground mode? :) )
Google analytics is not bad, actually.
Thanks for sharing the problem here. I've just signed up and was wondering why I haven't received the e-mail.
I'm amazed by the "It'll never work" attitudes of people sometimes.

I suppose there's a good feeling that comes from pointing out perceived flaws and problems in things, or from treating emerging inventions as though they were fully commercialized products.

I can only imagine what erstwhile tech forums would have read like if they'd been around when Edison was churning out ideas at Menlo Park, or if there had been internet commenters looking over Marconi's shoulder, or Bell's.
Get the opinion of your whole team. Whatever all of you would agree upon (and I am sure that everyone would have the team's betterment in perspective), then you decide.
Probably because they're not mass-produced. For some enterprise-level prototype printers at Lexmark, it costs around 40-50k to produce one, but once they reach production, the consumer only pays a few thousand for one.
Where in the World is Les Chandelles (Candles) made famous by DSK?
Is Apple winning or losing the patent game?
tl;dr

1) Opportunity Can Be Manufactured
2) Creativity is a renewable resource
3) In order to succeed spectacularly, you must be ready to fail spectacularly
4) There is compound interest in altruism
Guys, don't downvote self professed newbies without explaining why you are doing so.
I just see it as shorthand for "I know this the norm but I'm about to explain why I think it's bad".

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

http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
The author of the article is actually promoting the concept of "use it or lose it" with this point. Labor-saving can become excessive if it robs you of any opportunity to exercise your body or mind. She's really suggesting that you don't always reach for the calculator for simple math problems or hop in the car for short trips.
Honestly, Why does everyone and their brother STILL recommend Kernighan & Ritchie in all those "Getting Started" articles in this day and age?

I am not trying to diminish the significance of their work in any way shape or form but first we should learn Ruby and Python and THEN "C Programming Language" to "get paid"...?

Why not recommend diving into modern C++ and some of the absolutely fantastic libraries out there (Boost etc..) or more modern books on C instead? I am sure this would get you much further and keep you up to speed with current advancements since a hell of a lot has changed, even newer standards in C, since 1988. (referring to 2nd edition)

And while good intentions were surely behind it, it really went downhill here:
"Drinking Heavily" and "Teh Womenz"

You do not NEED to become an alcoholic or fsck "teh womenz" to be or work as a successful "hacker". You do absolutely need soft skills, friends, some networking and you NEED to socialize and yes, a partner (or partners) can be a wonderful thing in your life and booze does work wonders as a social "lubricant" but these are far from being the only forms of social interaction or positive recreational activities you should invest your time in and, quite frankly, we tend to overrate getting hammer and getting laid.
"Lately"? :-)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/considered-harmful.html
Microsoft Back To School Deal is a Free Xbox 360. What's Apple's?
You're not an idiot for talking about your idea, you're an idiot for not executing better/faster. At some point you have to launch, they could still out-execute you after that. First mover advantage is mostly a myth on the web.
Future of Music - interview with Drew Larner, CEO Rdio
Agree, I have two kids in public elementary school and have no complaints about what and how they learn math. I think the problem in the US is the huge difference between schools. I happen to live close to a very good school but not everyone is as privileged. From what I've heard the difference in school quality goes up in the higher grades, which I can easily believe.
Modern Indiana Jones' arsenal of gadgets: Gradiometer, resistance meter, ...
Remember that they're fighting for hundreds, sometimes thousands of a second, in laps that usually take 90-100 seconds. Anything that can be done to improve things ever slightly, even if it means having to do extra work for some of the corners, is worth it.

During the race, when they have the video from above the cockpit you can clearly see the drivers changing configuration all the time during the race.
Good point. Do you have any insight on how much I should be giving him? Obviously I plan to retain 51% and leave the rest for funding. I obviously cant offer him much, is there a standard?
The subtitle for this piece is '5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential'.

Shouldn't that be -realize- your cognitive potential, or maximize the utilization of your cognitive potential or some such? What good does it do to maximize my potential?
"starting with both Python and Ruby is a bit strange idea"

This suggestion is precisely interesting, because while we might consider them close they solve problems differently in many cases. The one hacker lesson to learn of this (besides the fact that programming can be enjoyable by gazillion orders of magnitudes than with "corporate" languages) is that while bad solutions do exist, there might also be competing but perfectly valid solutions and that one being good does not mean that everything else is bad.
Mmm yes, like I say, he's very good at being convincing and selective use of references is a part of that, but his conclusions are reheated anarcho-syndicalism, a system that was tried and failed in the 1930s. It doesn't matter how elegant your theories are - what matters is what actually happens when the rubber hits the road.

Just like a good (in the sense of skill) salesman can sell you a product you don't actually want by producing all the evidence you need...
SICP Support for Racket
Plus, the CACM was the first to use it, so I'd say that they are entitled.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Farmville for many reasons, though the most obvious is that you are actually raising real food. If I understood the point of the site correctly, it is essentially a coop farm with the ability to sign up on the internet.
I beg to differ on this...
Everyone loses. The only way to win that game is if nobody plays.
Why not just create it as a Google group?

Edit: seriously, unless you plan to somehow monetize it, having Google do your sysadmin work, pay for your hosting, and present a well tuned web/email interface at no cost is a no-brainer. It's early enough in the project you could ask people to switch over.
If uploading is so hard, then why is Dropbox so successful? I'm on the max plan and I don't have any problems syncing. Sure, it takes a looooong time, but I expect it so I'm ok with it. Make the uploading automatic & out of sight and most people will have no trouble at all.
Great idea. Because gaming is such an important part of academic life ;-)

Besides, why add Apple to the title of the post? Karma bait?
There's really not much here.

Could we see some code or a demo?
I did the same thing, actually, the value was pre-propagated with 'your@email.com', so that is the email we signed up with.
They didn't include a ground penetrating radar system (see here for prices: http://www.accuratelocators.com/oko_pricelist.html)

The only one I can afford is the compass, $37.99 at Amazon. (http://www.amazon.com/Suunto-SS004239001-MC-2DLIN-Compass/dp...)
I like the humor but I disagree.

Its called an abstract and I'm glad that you can't publish any peer reviewed science paper without it. You can only read a mind blogging tiny fraction of all the information out there. Even in a narrow field of specialization its hard to read everything relevant.

Whats better? Reading 10 articles in depth or reading 9 articles in depth and 10 abstracts? I'm pretty sure, the latter is better for point 4.

I really wish, abstracts where standard for longer online posts. Maybe, there should be a field for abstracts in the HN submission form.
At least one flash controller, the SandForce SF-1200, was by default doing block-level deduplication of data written to it.
...
Based on discussions with Kirk McKusick and the ZFS team, the following is a detailed explanation of why this is a problem for ZFS. For critical metadata (and optionally for user data) ZFS stores up to three copies of each block.

rut-roh.
This is typically the case in most types of auto racing. In some cases (the WRC comes to mind), it was pushing manufacturers out of the sport because they couldn't keep up with the costs.
> TermKit has failed in being a comprehensive tool.

As it should. Unix disdains comprehensive tools in favor of the pipeline and, generally, picking the right tool for the job.
My ability to spell actually improved with auto-spell checkers. In school I was very bad at languages, after writing few years with instant feedback of spell checkers I make less errors now and I think it's because of instant feedback of spell checkers.
So while I think that the article is good it has some points I don't agree with.
Questions for Entrepreneurs [video]
This is a great little project!

Somewhat related: http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile
Gun nut eh. I say, the right tool for the right job. I use a chain saw to cut fallen trees into logs. Therefore I am a chain saw nut.

Incidentally, the author of that article may or may not be guilty of crimes in Sweden.
Haha, did you pick your nickname just so you can post stuff like that?