skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also a bit wary of the results as well. Because it's a very trivial event, the recollection isn't important.

Did I eat popcorn last week? Dunno, don't care.
So you have two infinite families - the generality is what I originally missed.

There are more ...
You're right, it's very difficult to market the 'make money' type of ebooks and it seems that offering a money back guarantee is not enough. I am a nobody on the Internet but my business is solid and I just need to figure out how to convince people that I have a real proven way of making money.
60 Minutes had a special on companies that refuse to hire smokers, eventually some of the examples like police departments had to give it up as they weren't able to hire the best employees. In 44 states you can be fired without reason/cause.
Solo Diners Tip More When Waitresses Stand Close
Reviews Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Black Swan author)
You can divide it into eight isoceles (pi/4, pi/2, pi/4) triangles, by quartering up/down and then quartering diagonally.
Well, my little LLC provides a nice little hedge against that problem, doesn't it?
Sure. In no particular order:

I colour code my diary and contextualise it a month in advance. Today was a Blue- Sales day, so every sales opportunity this month has been offered today as an option- none of my clients (Blue- Delivery day) had it as an option

My pockets are consistent- phone lhs side, money clip rhs, keys to the rear- To check I haven't forgotten/lost anything I just touch 3 pockets

At shopping centres I always park in the same section- replaced standing still remembering my park with automatic 'walking to section' while remembering

When I get a plate of food I generally plan which order to eat it in then exexute, rather than thinking with each mouthful. That may be bordering on ocd but at least I don't do it in alphabetical order!

Laundry is always washed and hung in the same order, linked to where clothes go when clean- ironing pile, top drawer etc. Ditto washing dishes.

I always round up time for calculating travel legs. I don't like being late, and don't mind being 30mins early

I clear my inbox by person not date- allows me to address many emails dealing with the same or related (Tracey- training; Darryl- IP development) discussions at once

For 6 years we have been once a month cookers- 6 meals x 4 portions (roughly chicken, beef, pork, lamb, fish, vegetarian) which are frozen and reheated based on the calendar I draw up

We have holidays drafted from now until November and try to book up our weekends 3-4 weeks ahead, to balance our social life and prevent waking up and wasting a day wondering what to do

And lest all of this seem boring, I applied this mindset most recently to completing the Monopoly Pub Crawl in order- 26 pubs over 13 hours. One definitely needs a system for that.

If I blogged more about any topic specifically, which ones would interest you?

[As for what doesn't work for me- anything linking tasks like 'I will do x then y then z'. One interruption to x means nothing gets achieved.]
One of the most rewarding ways I've found to contribute to open source is to connect communities and developers. Like if someone posts a fork on github, put the original developer in contact with them and make sure there's an effort to collaborate rather than differentiate.

It seems trivial and obvious, but for the dozens of times that I've been able to make a connection it really seems to pay off. As other commenters have noted, it isn't until you're developing that you realize that other developers are just like you - the same goes with assumptions of the original project creators. "He works at Facebook, he'd never respond to me" or "She is from Germany, surely there's a language barrier", etc. are all excuses that cause forking.

As we all know, it is easier to download the source, fix your bug, and not submit a bugfix - as open source projects continue to increase exponentially, I think we'll see more of the successful projects being the ones that have people actively creating & seeking collaboration rather than assuming it will occur in the wild.
That's one solution. There are more ...
Very interesting experiment and I'm curious to see what comes out of it but I motivation for going to college isn't all about making money (which is what starting a business is all about).

Aside from education, College/University changes people in immeasurable ways. Usually it's where you meet friends you have for life, find the person you want to marry, discover your political and philosophical self, explore vastly different parts of your intellect from incredibly smart/talented people (anything from quantum physics to 18th century english literature), and, most importantly, mature.

These are things that you can't put a price on but will stay with you the rest of your life. Of course, one doesn't necessarily need college to mature but it's a great environment to do it in. I can't imagine trying to do that in a corporate environment.
One thing not mentioned here is that exact matches will have a higher quality score than broad matches, so don't just rely on broad match keywords - include some exact match keywords for common variations.
Anyone notice that a few of these kids already went and graduated from some formal education? Hell one of them is dropping out of a Ph.D program.
I would like to see an engineer run Microsoft.
Personally, I believe that kid will be eager to go on vacation a few months down the line, when he has money in his pocket. If the guy who went on vacation for two years wants to get back on the game, most likely won't experience any burn out.

Of course it all depends on the context, but nothing is so simple in this situation, I guess.
Yes, what you said. /facepalm
True. To people living in Boston, that still implies the climate has changed, though. It just means it's a stretch to infer anything about the world from it (not that this would be a good idea even in the absence of the heat island effect.)
I'm a committed 6x10 user. 6x13 wouldn't give me enough lines on the screen.
This alone makes my android device feel 100x safer and now I can finally start trying more apps. Google should implement this in the core asap (as well as a firewall).

Some apps have some crazy requests that need explaining!

Does the iphone have any such granularity control for permissions? (official or unofficial)
I am a little confused on where the lines are drawn, and hopefully someone can clear this up for me. Let's keep focused on copyright law; TOS covers some of these other issues, but I am curious where things like DMCA can apply.

I am extending this question as this: I write program A. I compile program A into binary/executable A'. I copyright A and A'. (Is this a bad premise?)

Here are my questions, for which the question is always "Does this violate copyright?"

(1) Somebody translates A to B by renaming identifiers and reformatting whitespace.

(2) Somebody translates A to B by refactoring one function in the code.

(3) Somebody translates A to B by refactoring a huge majority of the functions in the code. (When is it no longer the same? This is similar to the N bars-of-music issue.)

(4) Somebody translates A to B by treating it like a black box and reverse engineering on observation; they replicate most or all the behaviors in a language of their choice and release their code. (This covers some linux game conversion projects.)

(5) Somebody translates A' to B', enabling the project to run on a different chipset.

(6) Somebody translates A' to B, a reverse engineering that leaves it in the same programming language as the original language.

(7) Somebody translates A' to B, a reverse engineering that leaves it in a different programming language from the original language.

(8) Somebody runs A' twice on their own machine (two copies of the running image in memory).

(9) Somebody runs A' one or multiple times on their own machine and provides VNC access to others to play with A'.

(10) Somebody runs A' on their own machine, and the process is forked in a distributed fashion, allowing outsiders to run the process natively on their own client.
No. It was default.asp.
I switched to PragmataPro[1] two months ago and love it. (Anti-aliasing turned off in iTerm2, with Vim and the Solarized colour scheme.[2])

When you stare at code all day, it's worth spending the time
to make it as pleasant and legible an experience as you can.

[1]: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm
[2]: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
He's dedicated to the cause of eliminating death and aging. That's good enough for me.

In order to eliminate aging and death, you must have an educated and ambitious populace who can mobilize resources to wage war on mortality.

Yes, he's a techno-libertarian, but like all great techno-libertarians he's interested in killing what kill human beings and crystallizing human potential. Aubrey de Grey even mention libertarians as one of the group that is most supportive of his work.

Why libertarianism and anti-aging/anti-death and technology in general goes together? I have no idea.
PG mentioned that future geo-location would be very powerful. This is totally possible :)

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/2433619/p...
Isn't there this setting that says "wipe my iPhone after ten failed attempts"? I imagine that would be quite an effective solution.
Unfortunately I was rejected from lijit
good, He should go to jail for running an unlicensed cab service
The idea is actually so simple, it would be difficult to turn it into a franchise or a quasi employment opportunity. The secret behind the business is What type of balloons to sell and which businesses to sell them to.
Here you go:

http://www.easilydoable.com
We're talking about unemployed, not somebody who has the money to burn on traveling to Asia for 6 months.
The kind of people who are inclined to think across disciplines are the same kind of people that are inclined to look at education an think, "this is bullshit." They may not know why they think this, because it takes some real experience and perspective to understand why, but they can smell the stench from miles away. Training a mind to see patterns across disparate fields also gives it an intuition for seeing what is fundamental, central and essential to a thing. This intuition leads to the realization that grades, awards, scholarships and the like are but the mere artifice of achievement.

The kind of person that deserves a Rhodes scholarship according to the author's definition of what one should be is the kind of person who would be unlikely to play the game necessary to qualify for one.
As an expat Swede, I was disappointed with last years' snowfall. I had high hopes for cross country skiing, but that didn't work well at all. This winter was better, but still pretty weak. Maybe I should move to New Hampshire... ;-)
What would be really neat if the same company had both rules (one rule at HR level and one at say management level)
Ask HN: What do you want out of a datacenter?
All,

I am exploring different datacenter models and as the HN community is effectively the DC target market, I'd like to find out what you would want out of a datacenter.

Obviously, many startups are heavily reliant on hosted I/PaaS offerings, so for arguments sake - lets leave out comparisons to AWS for the moment.

I am exploring a new full datacenter build out in San Francisco - and would like to find out what the community would most value:

There are effectively three data center models;

Colocation - where you get rack/floor space and you bring in your own equipment and rack it into the DC provided space.

Hosting - Where you timeslice/rent dedicated hardware or resources.

Modular - which can be a combination of the other two, and also offer an option to bring in your own modules. These are more rare as there are few modular datacenters at this point.

I am developing a hybrid model for DC design though, where I try to employ a number of design innovations which would integrate/incorporate things like modular containers with certain aspects of ideas found in the Open Compute platform.

The issues with purpose built systems such as Facebook's open compute platform, is that it is beneficial at scale, but difficult to leverage in a shared hosting model.

I am interested in deploying open compute style systems (racks, UPS, mobo-slot machines, integrated cabling) into container modules.

This would be sold as hosting - or you could choose to buy a number of nodes and have your own cluster. The benefit is ideally that you have a great PUE for a set number of nodes.

Additionally, the site may have traditional colo space as well - either in a separate building - or as rack space in containers.

My question to the HN community, assuming you're buying hosting and not simply leveraging AWS - what model is your preference.

If you could buy open compute-style nodes/infrastructure - would you? Or do you want to buy fully enclosed machines and rack them up in a more traditional fashion?

Any feedback would be appreciated.
I don't think there are necessarily enough firms who are intelligent enough to gain a competitive advantage by hiring the unemployed. Some sort of blanket government protection might be useful.
I'll forgive you... this time...

=P
Don't think I could justify spending €170 on a font though, especially if it's not billable to a client.
It really depends of the size of the project really. For one client we have for instance ~5 facts and around 12 dimensions. For that kind of requirement the cost is much lower in term of development/maintenance, and free of licenses was a plus in that case (we're using activewarehouse-etl and an "Excel on top of ODBC" front-end).
What if a hundred million people paid US$ 1 to help James Cameron make Avatar? Would you pay US$ 10 to help making a sequel to Tron with the creative freedom a Disney movie would never be able to enjoy? Just plug Kickstarter into Facebook and you have the tools to do it.

Without Disney overhead, I doubt it would cost US$ 170 million.
Should be fixed now if you want to have another go...
Perhaps I'm extrapolating too much but if the guy is asking you specifically, "Do you think it's a good idea?" then either he's very early in his idea, he hasn't thought through why HE thinks it's a good idea or he doesn't have the confidence that his idea is good.

If it's the first two options, then he needs to put more time into developing the idea to gain the confidence that it's a good idea. If it's the final one, then perhaps it's not worth pursuing the idea or he's not in the right position (confidence) to do so.

Of course, it's always smart to solicit advice on an idea such as the potential challenges, risks, strategies etc.
and this is significant, why?
How's indenting/tabbing handled? "x spaces" or a tab? I'm wondering if you have any funny indenting/tabbing behaviour.
China Surpasses 900 Million Mobile Phone User Milestone
That makes me wonder: what is your favorite OLAP open-source solution ?
I'm all about automating the stuff I find unimportant but necessary.

Any place I go regularly, I have a set range to park in. I never lose my car and I don't have to think about it, I leave and go to my car.

Keys and wallet have a set place in my house. If I'm in my house, they are there, if I'm not, they're in my pocket.

For a long time, I would just go to lunch at Subway just so I wouldn't have to think about it.

Hell, I even have a set way I start and stop my vehicle to ensure I don't leave my lights on, etc.

Everything goes swimmingly when I stick to the routines. It's when for some reason the routine breaks that I find myself missing things.
On top of that, a lot of companies have the requirement that once you hook up your corporate exchange to your iPhone, you have to have a >4 digit password (as in the iPhone forces you to change to a longer password)
He was a 19-year-old 4th-year neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University (Andrew Hsu)

Does that mean he'd get his PhD as a 19 or 20 year old? That sounds like a record to me. That's crazy, in a good way.
I rather like CG Mono as a pixel font.
FixedSys is not on the list, what a shame.
Is there a way to copy the data on an iphone bit for bit before trying to guess the passcode?

If it gets wiped, just reimage and start where you left off.
It would be interesting to add logging shims to the APIs along with a GUI by which semi-technical users could audit apps' behaviors. Why does Game XYZ need to access the internet? To download new levels or for some evil purpose? A listing of domains it hit would be a telling sign.
Parts of the defenses implement the ESAPI project. But some address very different attacks and/or application scenarios.
Copyright law doesn’t really care about what you do with copyrighted works as long as you don’t make what you did public.

Au contraire. The only reason you can rip a CD and put it on your computer is because of the doctrine of fair use. Without it, copyright law most definitely says you are not allowed to make unauthorized copies, period. What you do with them is not relevant.
Gah! Person #6 mentioned peeking at prices. Sounds similar to another TC Disrupt battlefield company called SneakPeeq - link: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/sneaqpeeq-is-the-social-sho...
I coded in SAS for a long time and I can say unequivocally that their support was absolutely worth it. I have had techs work practically around the clock to find fixes and offer suggestions. MathWorks is about the only other company that I've dealt with that had that level of responsive support.
Which MBA? Danger in the Valley
The four suites mentioned in the article are:

- http://www.spagoworld.org/

- http://www.pentaho.com/

- http://www.jaspersoft.com/

- http://www.actuate.com/
I'm a little bit confused - it seems obvious to me that Uber is running an unlicensed dispatch service. What's their argument here?

http://search.municode.com/html/14143/level2/DIVII_ART1100RE...
Trendy short hair cuts
Short trendy hairstyles are again invading the fashion trend and many celebrities have rediscovered how appealing these hairstyles can be. Women of all age group are inclined towards these hairstyles because they are easily manageable and give a younger look.
That they're being disruptive and they're hip so they should be allowed to do it.
I think you're mostly being downvoted for your second sentence:

- It's ironically hypocritical in that you're implying mtogo shouldn't tell someone how to comment while simultaneously doing it yourself.

- It's misplaced because mtogo's comment was informative and neutral while yours was opinion-based and snarky.

Aside from those issues, you're a new member weighing in on proper HN etiquette. Does that seem sensible?
Another great way is to find a project you use, look at the bug reports, and start fixing them. Go after the small ones, or the fun ones, whatever seems appealing. Odds are that if the bug is still open but not critical, you'll be the first one to submit the fix and start to become loved by the community!
OK... keep going...?
Not actually true; you can play it in terminal/ncurses mode.
I switched over to antialiased fonts a while ago, but every so often I feel the urge to go retro and switch back to Terminus for a few weeks.
Last week, well before these comments there was a Microsoft info session at the University of Waterloo. The recruiter curiously said "the next version of Windows, which is going to be released next year." I assumed she misspoke, but I guess this was the target that MS employees knew (and some believed was going happen)
The UI for Civ 4 is in python. You can modify it to your hearts' content. (I hacked it to communicate with Dragon NaturallySpeaking so the UI would be voice accessible.)
It's unfortunate that people are voting you down just because they disagree with your opinion.

It's a totally fair point. What's the difference between downloading a free app and blocking the ads versus pirating an app outright?
You'll be freed from worrying about structure so much. Why is it painful to see HTML in a proportional font? Your indentation levels will remain the same; are you relying on mono-spaced fonts to lay out tables by hand?

That said, I'm not against using a nice mono font like Anonymous Pro; I used that font in Acme to write the code and thesis for my Master's.
OO vs Functional
Ask HN:  Please Review My Site
Hello Hackers! I'm new to the HN community and the startup world and just about to launch my site and v1.0 of an HTML5 application I call Taank It! I did a pre-release marketing campaign through Sonicbids.com and I have a few hundred artists interested in signing up. As the only (non-technical) member of my team I could use a little outside perspective before I started my marketing campaign.

http://fishtaank.com

Fishtaank.com and the Taank IT! application were designed to help bands and fans distribute and discover music utilizing the web and mobile technology. As a website, Fishtaank.com is a cross between myspace and facebook. As an application, the Taank IT! technology provides a tool that allows users to collect and view media found across the web ( similar in nature to watchlater.com and radbox.com but designed for music) Basic Fishtaank accounts are free. Bands, blogs and record labels can add a Taank It! button to their site if they Go Pro.

I'm currently using the Soundcloud API to stream music so no streaming on any Apple device. In time I will add music uploads and an API for Fishtaank but for now this will work.

There are a few other known bugs but I'm really interested in some feedback on the overall concept, general presentation and any initial impressions one gets when they first visit the site.

The Taank It! feature was just added and requires older accounts to enable this feature. The Beerfarmer and fishtaank profiles are my test accounts so they work.

http://fishtaank.com/profile/Beerfarmer
http://fishtaank.com/profile/fishtaank

Visit this page to install Taank it! Also, as a listener, you do not need to create a fishtaank account to use the Taank It! application:

http://fishtaank.com/page/view/about-us#features

Any suggestions and/or feedback would be much appreciated.

Next up: Starting Development of Mobile Application for Taank It!

Dave
I agree that blocking ads means less money for developers who hope to monetize their apps that way. What I strongly disagree with is calling it "piracy". I find that statement to be borderline trolling.

There's a reason why even you, in your comment, used the word "monetize" instead of outright "sell". Mind that I'm not arguing about the dictionary definition of the word, but about the intent behind its usage.

If I went into your application and disabled or circumvented some sort of mandatory payment mechanism, I would be pirating it. If, however, I decide that I do not want to give your application permission to access Internet and your application does not object to this, then I'm just exercising my rights.

Likewise, web browser ad blockers are just my way of exercising my rights to filter the content I don't want to see, which is analogous to restricting access to certain sites on my kid's computer or, heck, changing the channel briefly while the ads are on TV.
Among the many reasons not to try implementing this is the fact that secure public key encryption is randomized.
http://fishtaank.com
Zawodny: Lessons Learned Migrating 2+ Billion Documents at Craigslist
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Yay. Exchange policies + toddlers = fun times

This is why I don't sync my phone to my work email. It's just not worth it.