skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Reader. Obviously easily integrates with the rest of the Google services, the emailing and sharing of articles couldn't be easier. I'm not sure if anything could ever make me change.

I ported my Instapaper articles as a RSS feed, so if I want to read something later I'll do that through GReader. So if you could find a way to take out that step, although it isn't really a big deal.

Also on my phone I've accidentally hit "mark all as read" a few times, which is really frustrating when I've lost hundreds of items that I wanted to read. There's way to undo that, which is depressing.

Frankly I'm a little surprised that not everyone on here is using a RSS reader. It just seems like such an efficient way to get new content. So much of what I read now comes through it instead of typing in nytimes.com or something or using a bookmark, especially since I find myself on a lot of different computers.

I really hope RSS feeds never go away as they are so essential to me. But it's a thing that never really seemed to catch on with the non-geek public, even though it so obviously makes sense for everyone to use.
Forget all the fuss about 3D this is much better way to see movies
"Do what you love, but be responsible" might be more reasonable for this guy.

I'm sure that hanging out on the beach and devoting your days to sex, reading and other entertaining things is appealing to many, but unless you're a trust fund baby, it's unlikely to work out. And even then, you'll get sick of it.
Why Business Schools Struggle to Teach Entrepreneurship
He should have added "dopamine release is an aim in itself"
"Russian Internet holding company, Digital Sky, grabbed 1.96% of Facebook stock in May of 2009 when it spent $200 million at a $10 billion valuation. Digital Sky, which is largely backed by a wealthy Russian oligarch, is the owner of Facebook clone VKontakte, the largest social network in Russia."

And remember an "oligarch" mean essentially a criminal who used his connections to loot the wealth of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. What is primary goal of such a criminal? Sound investing ... or any investment that gets his money out of Russia?
I love the NYT, totally agree with you. I just couldn't deal with the $240/year price to read it on my iPad and Browser, so I subscribed to the WSJ instead @$100/year.

Also, and I don't know if they ever fixed it, the NYT wouldn't include their business graphics/charts on their iPad edition. Very Lame. WSJ is good about including all their content on their (in my opinion) much more elegant iPad App.
We're talking about two different things.

I think we are talking about two different things only I would frame it as "I'm talking about assumption of guilt (and how rampant and problematic that is) vs actual proof" and you seem to be talking about probability. Given how this conversation has gone so far, there is probably no point in trying to further clarify my intent or meaning on that point.

Peace.
Having moved to the Bay Area from Boston when I started doing startups, I can say that the problem is more of a structural issue than just "not letting the next big one get away."

Whenever we talked to East Coast VCs, they wanted our startup (pre-revenue and basically pre-product) to have a clearly defined business model and revenue strategy. In doing that, they do somewhat reduce the downside, but they also eliminate the very top of the bell curve.

West Coast VCs seem to have much more of a shoot for the moon mentality. While the latter does lead to a lot of flops, it seems like it also yields some huge winners that the more conservative approach may miss.
The resolution of data and units the data is expressed in are orthogonal. You can still use X/second units but report 10 samples per second. Changing the units is confusing. I don't have an immediate frame of reference for how fast Mb/half-second is without doing a conversion in my head.
This is a pretty terrible argument for a guy whose main passion in life is philosophy.
have you tried looking at Craigslist for any 'gigs' or any of the freelance programming sites?
Do SEC rules prohibit you from hedging?
Recently I was looking into how to implement trees in MongoDB. Apparently there are several ways achieving this depending on querying needs.

Could you share your experience building trees for comments in your project Exipe?
The degree to which the premise of this story (which has been printed elsewhere) is absolutely ridiculous, is pretty astounding.

The premise, of course, is that Mark somehow "got away" from Boston and was always destined to be more "successful" [your definition here] than any other founder. So there are really two main points: that this proves Boston needs to catch up with the Valley, and that there's another Mark lurking out there somewhere that must have been missed.

Let's start with the first part. Boston has needed to catch up with the Valley since the decline of Digital Equipment Corporation, if not before. That was, if I've got my facts straight, in 1992. So it's been nineteen years that Boston's tech scene has been dying. When I was at Harvard trying to get undergraduates excited about technology entrepreneurship in 2003, the club ended up electing me President because only eight people showed up and half of them were my friends. Apparently things have gotten better since then, but I'm still on the Harvard entrepreneurs mailing list and there's not much going on.

As for Mark, I've said plenty in the past. The key points are A) that people like Mark don't innovate; they copy; and B) if as much money was poured into another company as has been poured into Facebook, then we'd all be talking about that company and founder instead. (Twitter, anyone?)

If VCs are just looking to fund copycats, that explains an awful lot, but they should just admit it and stop pretending that they exist to support entrepreneurs. In the meantime, their returns will continue to decline as they ignore people who actually do come up with novel approaches to problem solving in favor of the coy and disingenuous who can convince millions to waste their time in a uniform manner.

There are a lot of bad ideas in Silicon Valley and a lot of bad ideas in Boston. But there are definitely some good ones, too. If VCs can't distinguish between them, they should either just fund everything in the hope that they'll just get lucky, or step aside and get out of the way.
I get confused when I come across things like "Do what you love."

I believe that there is always a degree of serependity when it comes to discovering what you love doing. You enjoy doing something, you do it more - eventually you "love" it.

I was not a fan of my job (I am a developer) at first. But it paid the bills and it presented an intellectual challenge. I worked at it, became familiar with tools and patterns of the profession, and now I "love" it.

So did doing something that I did not love destroy me (when I was first staring out). No. Does doing something that I love (my job now) destroy me? No. Clearly if you do something that is not sustainable given your means, you will be in trouble. I do not see how "loving" the thing in question comes into play.

EDIT: spelling
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I have squeezed everything from San Diego craigslist. no luck so far. its tough with jobs here, at least for me.
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Cool project!

Did you consider just compiling the C implementation into JavaScript? If so, I'm curious why you didn't go that route.
The fact is that, in a lot of cases, the news that the NYT creates is not commoditized. Often, they are one of the only, if not the only, organization covering a particular story. The problem is that now there are a lot of derivative news sites like HuffPo that leech off of their original content.

So, yeah, there are probably a lot of other places that you could get the same story, but in a lot of cases those other stories are just piggybacking on the NYT's original reporting.

Here's an example from a while ago:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/12/nytimes2...
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (new online book)
Wow, great win. Katamari Damacy has to be one of the greatest games of all time.
I can't seem to find under what license is this released?
Thanks for the inputs. I will keep that in mind. Targeting the right audience will be a sort of challenge for me because the idea is still untested.
first off needs

libstdc++.so.6 or something similar

on windows its in visual studio 2008, mac its xcode 4.x

other than that stuff i don't worry too much about detail and focus on making great programs that make me $
Project ShapeOko: a $300 complete CNC machine
> The key point is that people like Mark don't innovate.

James and Orville Wright didn't invent the airplane.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile.
Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb.
Ray Croc didn't "invent" McDonald's.
James Walton didn't invent EDI or data-driven retailing.
etc.

But as an investor, you sure wouldn't go broke investing in them. That's the kind of person you want to set up shop in your town if you care about the economic benefits, not necessarily another PhD developing technology years before its time. ("MIT graduates develop technology. Harvard graduates hire MIT graduates and build businesses." was the old saying.)

I think Boston's non-life-sciences tech scene is doomed for a variety of reasons, but thinking everyone needs to invent one amazing new scientific advance ("idea") to build a world-changing business, vs. lots of correct, incremental decisions along the way ("execution"), is a major reason.
I canceled the project: A success story of talking to your potential customers
Sure, but with a system that is active (like HN), there would be enough votes coming in frequently enough to handle the ranking updates and account for time increases without needing to hit the system every 5 minutes.
you say that like dopamine is a bad thing
I am following this site since its launch. They are doing a great job. Most of the ideas coming from there are typical startup ideas. I am trying to target slightly different group.

Thanks for the inputs. :)
I am a pragmatist; people ought to take jobs that pay their bills, take majors that will let them pay their bills.

If what you love doesn't pay the bills: sorry bub, pay yer bills.
Re: Haven't followed the linux distros close enough.

Yes, that is my point. I'm not challenging the fact that SL is a credible, (possibly much more so) alternative to RHEL than CentOS - I'm just trying to point out that if _I_ didn't know that SL was a goto distribution for people who needed a rebuild of RHEL, then I'm fairly certain 95% of the IT population doesn't either - and that's why _they_ go to CentOS - it's a name they know and trust (for better or worse)

BTW - in my defense, I just hopped onto my SliceHost/Linode Dashboard, and, of the 56 version/distros they offer, Scientific Linux is nowhere to be found.
Show stopper for me is that it breaks the convention of disabling clicking with alerts and confirms.
$8 Bucks, 4 Hobos, and A City Block
I had $8 dollars to divide between 4 homeless people I met. This is the story.
I would like to see a documentary about Justin.TV, like govWorks.com or kozmo.com.

Not really into a fictionalized drama. Justin seems too nice to create any drama like that.

The Kozmo.com documentary was eDreams: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001EQIFQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

The govWorks.com documentary was Startup.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005N5QV/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Noted, however, I'd also like to defeat Alzheimer's by growing sub components of the brain one at a time and then swapping them out one at a time every few months. So over a few years I would have a new mind as well as a new body, as long as the spark of who I am can somehow leap from the old and dying components and migrate into the newer components, who I am, that spark that makes me ME will live on, in some way.

Sure, I technically wouldn't be "me" anymore, but technically I'm not me I was 10years ago, life is in constant flux. The technology in this article is the best chance I have at immortality. People, please devote more energy to this, it's important to me. I want to be around to see the human race become a space faring civilization, I want to see how we will deal with the 2nd law of thermodynamics where the energy of the universe runs down to zero.
What will you do when, in a few months, someone does the exact same thing you thought about and becomes a billionaire?
I didn't say "invent." I said "innovate." All of the people you have listed at least created products of unambiguous value to society.
Couldn't you have written 6-month PUT options?
When saying "nested functions" in 2011, people expect you to mean lexically scoped nested functions.

Pascal's nested functions really just scoped the name of the function differently, but they were equivalent to a function definition on the outer-most level.
Hey asshole, look at this. What a jerk
Destroyed yourself? Sounds like you recovered. Plus:

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
I believe the following clearly describes an aberration - an exception - to the normal course of events. In the normal course, those who use language more provocative than intended quietly revert it. In the incident under discussion (quoting from the original referenced article):

"She, not being a native English-speaker, had accepted on trust a foreign-language name for her library. According to Holden, the revelation - and the attention to her unknowing complicity - brought about with the name was so uncomfortable for her that she quit working in open source altogether."

Then, later

"Smit [a collaborator with the original author] re-named Pantyshot/Upskirt after a Japanese name. Not just any name, but popularly belonging to an Anime (adult comics) character whose superpower is electricity, and is controversial due to notorious upskirt shots of the character - most especially as she is depicted as being 11 years old."

As for my adjective "playful", I applied it to the situation because of this quote attributed to the original author:

"I did know the sexual and voyeurism connotations of the word “upskirt” and I was very hesitant to actually use it. For the record, my limited grasp of slang English means that I genuinely had no idea where it lied on the offensiveness scale, and whether it could be covered up as something more harmless (and have it be more of an innuendo than of a basic offensive word)."
Billion dollar companies spend money to buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses, because promising 100% binary compatibility with RHEL isn't as good as being RHEL. If CentOS is even an option, Scientific Linux should be as well.
The Noows - Just the news, nothing else
Google accounts > data liberation

You can export all of your google+ et al data and import it elsewhere (including your social graph).
Two years ago, I would have agreed with you about the angel situation - it was pretty dorky and very clumsy. But something big has changed here very recently and the energy is unlike anything you saw when you lived in Cambridge, Paul. I assure you, there is a substantive tangible energy in the air around town these days.

Whether that translates into anything big still remains to be seen.
Interesting. I'd like to see something similar for shapes. For me, shapes feel like they're more like sounds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Of course then you have to design some kind of shape-o-matic interface.
I have a degree in philosophy. I spent my undergraduate learning complex rules of logic, heuristics, semiotics, and language. It fit directly into being a better programmer and a better entrepreneur.

The ability to read dry treatises on moral or political theory is a good indicator that one is capable of dealing with the more complex aspects of development. (though I tended to ignore iterative structures initially thinking through the code far too much)

In reading the op's account, I think he did not really love philosophy. He is a sophist. He loves exactly the idea of his idea of being a philosopher.

Some great people in business are philosophers (training in philosophy). One example is Soros. So clearly, it is not philosophy that is keeping him down.

But true philosophers have a love of ideas, not particularly a better life. The idea of a screwed up life but a vivid intellectual one is clearly the norm. Though, true philosophers and poets do tend to be rich (showing that once needs are met, one has time to turn to richer thoughts).
So you want to write a fast Python?
Reproducible blogging: Sweave R code with markdown text
Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables face recall over licensing issues
Since when is forking open source code 'stealing' it?

According to the FSF? Usually when you do something with it that RMS doesn't like. GPLv3 anyone? (Sorry I couldn't resist.)
How to Install Sopcast for free live TV in Ubuntu
I dunno? What do _you_ do when it happens :-)

Seriously though, probably just buy their app and congratulate them on a job well done. There are way more good ideas under the sun, than there is time to develop them. If somebody else can make a good go of this one, then good luck to them.
Personally, I'm not surprised the name came from IRC...
I think calling it evolutionary is a guess, however, I do see a link between procrastination and being uncertain how to proceed. In my case, I am very determined when I have a sound plan and tend to procrastinate when parts of my plan are questionable. Good read.
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Yeah, that is the most amazing part!
Normally I don't comment on meta issues like downvotes, but as someone who writes attractive Java software, could someone please explain why my comment addressing a common misconception is receiving multiple downvotes?

I also neglected to mention that people are making attractive apps using Java on Android.
Yeah, IIRC, a lot of the apparent loss in brain function is really just cardiovascular.
Legality of a crowd funded investment platform?
I'm attempting to determine the legal parameters of a crowd funded investment platform; however, its been tough going reading through the legalese of the US and Canadian securities acts.

Anyone care to offer their input?
As always, much appreciated!
Ask HN: Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison - who would you be
A man before him time, Tesla was an engineering genius. He discovered A/C current. Edison, on the other hand, remains a legend for inventing things people want, like the lightbulb.

Tesla worked on things he wanted to work on without regard for how it would be received; without a care for if there was a market for his inventions.

Edison focused his efforts exclusively on building things people want. Though technically brilliant, he was a business genius.

Who would you rather be like, Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison?

ps: today is Tesla's birthday.
I usually use vim+screen+make(gdb, gcc...). Plus a really hairy .screenrc that does some magic to put running command lines in the status line (so i can see which screen has vim foo.c running). But the key is to not have 10+ files open at once. You're using vim so opening and closing vim instances is no big deal. I usually only have two or three source files open at a time that way i know exactly where each one is. This limits my screen tabs to only 4-5 which is pretty manageable.
Clojures macro system is essentially hygienic - In the good sense
I have been looking for rrd/cacti like graphing tools that work with millisecond sampling. Any ideas?
We had a similar idea at http://www.appnowgo.com. Our focus is to make it even less technical and easier to use. We're giving out a lot of beta invites and would love some feedback.
M5 Hosting does offer Scientific Linux for dedicated servers: http://www.m5hosting.com/scientific-linux-dedicated-server.p... But you are correct, it is hard to find. Some dedicated server hosts will install it if you ask, but larger hosts and VPS providers might not be so eager to depart from their standard images/platforms.
Sounds like you're in the same boat as everyone else in your round, right? It's simply a function of the timing of the deal (less than a year since you invested, apparently) and the deal structure (cash vs. stock).

Stock inherently requires the acquired company to share the risk of the deal.

If the stock goes down further, you should be able to claim the loss on your taxes when you sell, which should mean you would need more than a 52% total decline to go in the red on the deal.

Are you an accredited investor? If not, you may have some legal outs to demand your money back, but you'd need to chat with a lawyer. If you were to pursue that route, though, you'd likely ruin any credibility to make future investments in other companies.

Kinda stinks that there's the gap between tax law and SEC regs timing, though. Good luck with the investment!
you could use the color, translate it to mood, and graph it.

i've fiddled with the graphing from mysql to a 3d(css3, html5) cube with points. link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7727742/playlistsite6/index5.html

use it with this as a template for mapping the emotion:
http://www.mir.uncc.edu/docs/goal_Emotions.htm

I just kind of hit a road-block with getting access to music people wanted to listen to. if you can hack something up with what I've fiddled with, or take any inspiration from it, that would be awesome.
The SDHN guys meet up quite regularly, http://goo.gl/l5MYb.

Unfortunately, I don't live in SD anymore, or I'd let you crash on my couch while you got settled. I was in a similar position last year, and it can get a bit tough. It's an expensive town. I suggest to ditch the bike, and get a Compass Card. You can get those at the ticket vending machines next to bus/trolley stops. You'll be able to travel longer distances, and it's much, much cheaper(about $80 per month).

Best of luck, and don't give up!
I said this before in another post, but this article that I read in the New Yorker really hit home for me:

The philosopher Mark Kingwell puts it in existential terms: “Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”

In that sense, it might be useful to think about two kinds of procrastination: the kind that is genuinely akratic and the kind that’s telling you that what you’re supposed to be doing has, deep down, no real point.

And when you are in school often you are given tasks which seem to have no discernible purpose or meaning other than perhaps to take you off your parent's hands while they go make a living.

From: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/10/11/10101....
This is by no means the first case of adult stem cells being used in a treatment.
tspiteri 3 hours ago | link

The BBC site has a more detailed article from three days ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14047670
It says that the organ was made of glass in London, and then flown to Sweden and soaked for two days in a solution of the patient's stem cells.
Exactly! Nothing captures this structural difference like this search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=silicon+valley+failure

edit: you can't invest in "the next big one" without investing in 90 failures and 9 small or medium ones.
"How many coders do you know love philosophy?"

several... I don't think that's as uncommon as the author thinks
That is what I took away from the article as well.
This warms my heart. The one I 3-D printed just now.
No, he's saying that upgrading PHP 5.2 to 5.3 might break the PHP apps running on the server.