skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that I dislike about cancer reporting (and don't get me wrong I'm all for improving ones lifestyle through better nutrition, exercise and social engagement) is that cancer is fundamentally different from a disease like the flu. If 40% of all flu cases were caused my lifestyle then it would be reasonable to say that you could change your lifestyle and dramatically cut down on the number of flu cases. But cancer is a disease of old age. Basically all of us are going to die and the long you live the more likely it is that you'll die of cancer, if not of the esophagus, then of the stomach, if not of the stomach then brain cancer, or pancreas cancer. So a healthy life style on average will delay the onset of cancer, but will by no means reduce the like-hood that you'll get cancer in your lifetime by 40%. Actually it probably has the perverse effect of making you much more resistant to cardiovascular decease, and therefor MORE likely to die of cancer, albeit at a more advanced age than you would have otherwise.
Well, the PADD designers there had little concern for function and a lot more interest in making the tech distinctive. I mean, you want Cardassian tech to look Cardassian. So minimalism wasn't what they were aiming for most of the time.

Even so, a few of the PADDs shown were more practical. In particular, take a look at these two PADDs:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Sarah_Sisko_reconstruct...

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:PADD_stylus_interface.j...

Between the two of them, they give you almost every design element except being black, depending on whether you think those things are buttons or that LCARS is clluttered or whatever.
Bastion on NaCl
Somehow,

"Bill, would you consider returning to lead Microsoft?"

"No."

Became a 1000 word article. Amazing.

The "HN Dream" has always seemed to be:

1) Make a startup

2) Strike it rich

3) Acquire millions (billions? I forget which is "cool")

4) With [bm]illions, change the world

Gates personifies that. Why on Earth would he backtrack to step 1 again?
For example the Idea of Social Networking goes wayyy back, friendster then came orkut and then Facebook. Right?
You had to swipe upwards to transport someone. I think they used two fingers to move that energy bar or whatever it was up to the top.
I found this article on Less Wrong to be extremely useful: "How to Beat Procrastination": <http://lesswrong.com/lw/3w3/how_to_beat_procrastination/>.... The article establishes The Procrastination Equation and outlines some scientifically suggested techniques for increasing Motivation:

Expectancy x Value
Motivation = -----------------------
Impulsiveness x Delay

My notes on the article:

Increase your expectancy of success.
Increase the task's value (make it more pleasant and rewarding).
Decrease your impulsiveness.

Success Spirals: small successes one after the other
Vicarious Victory: watch inspirational things, read books
Mental Contrasting: imagine where you could be vs. where you are now

Flow: match the difficult of the task to your ability
Meaning: think about what you're doing and make it mean something
Energy: sleep, drink water, caffeine, exercise, cold water, music, de-clutter
Rewards: reward yourself for success
Passion: increase the value of the task

Commit Now: commit in advance (tie yourself to the mast)
Set Goals: break the ice, then daily goals
Set Routines: for instance, exercise every day
Considering the way I drive my bike, a transporter would properly be more likely to save my life.

On the other hand, can't we have both. I mean, my phone is almost a tricorder...
I don't mean to come off as a dick, but switch projects. I procrastinated for a month straight on something, as soon as I dropped the project the code flowed.
Database error occurred. I guess it's not currently generating revenue.
Kyan - Quite possibly the best-designed design agency website I've seen
It's a reference to the beginning of The Matrix.
As a former military NOC watch officer I agree. We hardly ever used the video wall, it was mostly for higher-ups that came in and would glance at it. Everything else was on my desktop or was alerted to me by other people that had stuff on their desktops.
Awesome news and well done HP. Atleast there will be someone to take it and build it as an alternative to the android. I believe all manufactures should give an option to install WebOs on their devices if the consumer chooses to.
Actually finding smart nerds isn't so difficult. It takes a little bit of work, but you can at least see what they have built.

On the other hand, you can't do that with a business person and finding a good non-technical cofounder is a very different problem.
The USG has always been a big follower of the "do as we say, not as we do" paradigm.
I'm in the same kind of boat, though to a lesser degree. It's going in the wrong direction however. Perhaps we can try to help sort things out together. If you're interested, my email is in my profile.
Finally we've answered the question "How big do you have to be before writing a custom VM isn't over-engineering?"

Facebook Big.
I think the author doesn't go far enough in his post.

Yes, ideas are worthless. But finding "smart nerds" is an almost fruitless endeavor as well. It's not that they don't exist, but they are so sought after, and are doing so many projects many times, that unless they are a great friend of yours, they will politely listen to your idea and then say they don't have time for you.

Also, "Smart Nerds", unless they are completely oblivious, can instantly disseminate what value you bring to the project. Did you just think up the idea, yet want an equal split of the company with the "smart nerd" who will actually bring the idea into fruition? Fat chance, they will do their own thing and become big their own way.

The best strategy is to learn to become your own "smart nerd". You may not be as good as those around you, but you have to show that you are committed to the project, and that you actually have some technical sense of what it will take to do what you dream.

I'll be much more likely to work with someone if they show me they have thought about user interface, technology, done some mockups, etc, than someone who comes to me with something they thought up while drinking.

Finally, it helps to actually give a shit about the person, rather than imagine them as some "resource" to be "had". I know one guy who would spam aspiring programmers walls with reasons why they should work for his company, including adding a bullet point listing himself as a selling point ("Work with the 2011 entrepreneur of the year!" He said, failing to mention that he himself, was that entrepreneur). Stop being so egotistical and fucking treat people with respect. If they have their own ideas, listen to them, and if one sounds interesting, help them out in any way you can. It will be a huge shift than what their used to, people being actively interested in their ideas and wanting to work with them on it.
Paul McKellar Becomes Founder In Residence At SV Angel
The Galaxy Tab has two buttons on the side and no buttons on the front, just a tiny camera lens. One button is power, the other is a volume button (it's a single button that you can push on two different sides).

Maybe you're talking about a different product, but the Samsung tablet does not copy the iPad in that respect. I have one right in front of me right now.
> In all my years writing C, I have never seen a C/C++ header which does not include the other headers it needs in order to compile cleanly.

> He's right; nested includes are a modern C idiom.

No doubt they are found a lot. The request was for counterexamples. Fashion/style vs engineering practice assertions may be passing like ships on a nighttime C here.

>...for projects ranging from MongoDB to Ruby and Python...

Python....why, even Tim Peters asserts that "Flat is better than nested"...wink...

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

/irrelevant quote
The Scarlet Plague
> the license may be more restrictive than Android.

Not necessarily. The WebOS name is trademarked and they can just prohibit its use unless the software adheres to a certain quality goal.
This is the kind of things that make me want to work in a company like Facebook.
To echo what some others have already said, I don't see how coming back to Microsoft could be more personally satisfying for Gates than what he's doing now. Sure, it would probably feel pretty nice if he could right the ship and get lauded in the same way Jobs has been as of late.

Let's be honest though: the stuff Gates is doing today is way more important than any of the things Jobs did over the last decade. We can argue about the relative merits of disrupting the cell phone handset industry and tablet computing, long-tail effects thereof and the like, but at the end of the day the best you can argue is that it will have trickle-down effects for the poor and disadvantaged.

Gates, on the other hand, is working on goals to directly improve the lives of people. And the people his foundation is trying to help tends to be the folks who need help the most, not people who can afford expensive mobile phones and even more expensive mobile phone rate plans. Gates is no saint by any means, but I can't see how after working on such big-picture issues, he'd want to come back and run a business.
> Because they could not? The only way they could was to buy it from HP, and that costs money.

The money saved on software licensing isn't enough to make the difference if these companies were "desperate" for an alternative. As you pointed out HTC is making Windows Mobile handsets right now and it costs money.

(Though again my point on HTC was they'd be pushing WP if they were desperate to get away from Android and they aren't)

> B&N customizes Android by cutting down on features to pare it down to a tablet, the requirements are... lower.

What features has B&N paired down in the Nook? They've restricted the use of some features but they haven't removed anything that I know of. Meaning what they have done is add a shell on top of Android just as any other manufacturer could do.

Even if you buy the argument that it would be harder for Samsung and HTC to adopt webOS feature into a shell you can't argue that it would be harder than switching to an entirely new OS and putting the marketing budget into it to attract development.

If that were easy HP would have done it.
If you just think you will probably die tomorrow it won't really work because secretly you don't believe that. It didn't work for me until I was talking to myself the moment is _all_ my life. If it's not all your life you'll feel fine wasting it because you always have more.

As for external motivations, I guess everyone is different. I sweat on external pressures and I avoid doing them at the last moment then I procrastinate because I feel worse and worse missing the deadline. I guess everyone works differently :)
Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam
>iPad have a single physical home button which those don't have and that's something that several manufactures coped. They could use 2 buttons on the same side or mirror the bottom button

sounds like why 1-click is patentable scheme of thinking.
It's a bit hard to copy rumors isn't it?
Announcing the Startup America Policy Challenge
"Steve Jobs […] comments on how he believes the"

Steve was lots of things, but I think few would say he was an expert in medicine. For another data point with more or less the same weight: If I had to guess, I would blame his stay in India, in particular the hepatitis he reportedly got there. I know that is an unverifiable statement, and am willing to change position once a fact presents itself, though.

"there seems to be a higher ratio of cancer sufferers in high pressured environments like financial trading"

Believes aren' worth anything here. Show me the numbers. For what it is worth (zero), I would guess on lower incidence, due to higher risks of heart attacks and of accidents with fast cars, all others being equal.

Summary: nothing to worry about, there, except for your own worries.
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As a geek who's now trying to start my own company I can say that conversely, just being a geek who knows how to build things does not make success easy either; other skills matter too. I have gained a much greater appreciation for product management, UI / UX and sales. The hard thing to figure out is whether that guy with an idea who approaches you at a meetup has these other skills; it's a lot easier to B.S a track record.
what's about this large iPad behind the regular one?
all on white
Non-Technical trying to gain mathematical foundation for programming; tips?
Hey guys,

I've always been a non-technical guy, but am looking to move towards a more programming oriented role. I'm interested in getting in to more "deep" programming then the "fluffy" stuff.

I feel like I should get a good foundation in math before I delve in to these problems. Can anyone recommend books or resources to learn the types of math I would encounter in programming? I've looked through Khan Academy, but want more.

If this helps, I took AP math classes in High School, but did relatively poorly due to lack of effort. I'm not a genius, but I can get stuff if I put my mind to it.
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Google+ Santa's WebGL Global Route (fun meets technical)
Part of the problem is not just the cost of things like full body scans but the interpretation of the results. From what I understand, these scans tend to turn up all sorts of things that may or may not be anything serious; but all of which, once found, requires follow up.

This is exacerbated by malpractice lawsuits "But there was a spot on the scan 12 months ago, why didn't you do anything!". It wouldn't surprise me if doctors would be willing to use such technology even if it became cost feasible.
This is the foundation of my primary complaint with Apple's interfaces: by constantly assuming that you don't know how to use a computer, they make it impossible to learn. We here are all fine with our OSX boxes, because we already know how to use computers, but there are millions of people out there that started knowing nothing and have ended up knowing nothing.
Best Buy simply would have had to match Amazon in order for me to buy it in their store.

Because I didn't need the backpack immediately, I'd rather save $20. The backpack was $80 at Best Buy and $60 on Amazon, so it was a pretty good saving.
if you tell somebody something while slapping them in the face, don't be surprised if the only thing they remember from the interaction is the slap.

on the other hand, sometimes people need a good kick in the ass, so who the hell knows!
Yup, living only in the current moment without worrying about the past or upcoming moments solves this too. Easier to get into work flow, and much more fun when skiing!
I don't get why stories like this make it to the first page of HN. Seriously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".
Speaks well to why money won't ever get out of politics: it's not in the interest of the politicians.
Dutch Railway Commuters Slide to catch their trains.
Great! I can really see webOs taking over Android on the tablet market imo. it's a much better experience than Android.
The Unheavenly City by Edward Banfield:
PDF: http://www.kevinrkosar.com/Edward-C-Banfield/Edward-C-Banfie...

Review: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92789.html

His time preference classes explains so much of people regardless of race, religion, nationality, etc.

Rise of the Fourth Reich: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fourth-Reich-Societies-Threaten/d...

This is where I learned about Konrad Zuse creating a digital computer and programming language miles away from Bletchley Park in the early 40s.

Dealers of Lightning: http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/...

It's about XEROX PARC. Unfortunately, they did not talk about how PARC made the OS and apps obsolete by using objects communicating over a network. I had to learn about that from an Alan Kay video. It did show how PARC contributed to the Internet by creating an internet before ARPANET.

Last and best of all: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php

The latest report, "Steps Toward Expressive Programming Systems", describes a computer system without an OS. They seem to be refining what PARC did back in the late 1970s.
I can see that being good practical advice for getting things done, but I'm less sure it's good (or at least universal) life advice, especially to follow all the time. My model for a good day spent is a lot of intermingled puttering around, reading, thinking, relaxing, working, to make unexpected connections between things, find new angles on problems, and generally understand how everything fits together better. Like the way a Douglas Hofstadter book "flows". I really, really dislike the "work-hard / play-hard" lifestyle; just doesn't work for me at all.
Ah, I see, so you can take the trademarked name of any open source project and modify and distribute the software under that name, for profit, and everyone will be okay with it. Otherwise some people will think the vendor looks foolish. I see.
Relevant: http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/job-fails-monday...
You should probably clarify if you want to know the last X we read in general, fiction/non-fiction/both/specific topics, the last X great books, whether books or else (e.g. graphic novels, comics).
Since monday my home internet hasn't been working. Was told by tech support to call them if it didn't work two hours after rebooting it.

My internet is important to me (and using an iPad with 3g wasn't a great solution). The tech call wouldn't have taken more than 15 minutes. I had the time.

Yet I procrastinated making the call. I might have made it, but the connection started working today so I didn't.

The plan was simple. Pick up the phone. Dial the number.

Yet I didn't.

Not really sure why.

Heck I don't have any clean socks. I could easily pick the used one up from my bed, put them in my laundry bag and put them in the machine. Yet I don't. It is not like I don't know how or that I like not wearing socks.

So yeah the plan of attack is one thing, maybe it helps somebody, but it is far from enough.
Something that helps when acknowledging I´m procrastinating is to fast forward to the future and think: How will I feel after I´ve wasted a perfectly good day doing nothing, when the day before I told myself I was so going to do all of those things?

Getting myself out of the present, in a nutshell.
Obama Announces $2B Fund for Startups
Are they at any risk for VM patent issues?
Start a topic on HN asking for smart nerds who can put up a website in 5 minutes and that also have time for a new venture and it will probably be one of the top postings. The problem is that we have an abundance of smart nerds putting up stupid ass useless websites without thinking it through and with no direction. Way too many stupid ideas.
I have less stress. But have I done my client a service? No! I've helped enable the flawed behavior that led them to engage me in the first place!

Are you a consultant because you want to earn a big paycheck without much stress or because you want to make teams better? For me, the latter comes first.

I even go so far as to tell the client when I believe that I can no longer add value equivalent to my cost: when they no longer need me. My job is, ultimately, to become superfluous: to make them better then get out of the way.

Now if I was engaged because of that delusional thinking, that's another problem...
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335217
As author of the Original Post I think you need a balance team where everybody brings something unique and important to the table. It's not enough to just come up with the "idea". You have to know how that idea will morph into other things. You have to know how you can extend that idea. You have to know how competition will force you to iterate. Etc.

I don't agree that you should become your own smart nerd. I shudder at anyone with no technical background picking up a programming book at just trying to learn to code. I'm not saying it isn't valuable to learn new things, but it would be a better use of time honing the things that make you unique and finding a person with the talents you lack to compliment yourself.
Have you contacted this company:

"?S? SYSTEMS, [llc|inc|llp|corp]"

(located in a state with skiing).

I've redacted but you should be able to verify..

Of the companies that didn't respond did you take any further steps?
Almost all of these are directly related to running my business, but here we go: Shopify, Zendesk, Mailchimp, Highrise, KISSmetrics, Recurly.

Other "stuff" I pay for that's not quite SaaS: Linode, Twilio, ThemeForest.
Corruption versus human development
None of the groups mentioned control the definition of "open source." I cannot control what looks foolish to you, but the phrase "open source" is tossed around a lot more casually on this site than you seem to believe.
Thanks for the kind words (I'm the author). My main, ever-evolving goal when writing tutorials is to try to write what I'd like to see:

1) Explain the underlying concept

2) Show variations

3) Explain how to do it yourself

4) Show how to verify you did it correctly

5) Meta: be as concise as possible, maximize bang for the buck
I think this process would work pretty well for educational games as each game was a self contained thing.

As a teacher myself I do often incorporate a game (computer based or actual paper, dice, pieces), an interactive Web site, a video or other objects into a lesson. I also direct students to Web based interactive content as part of homework along with 'traditional' work.

In effect, my lesson planning is the 'interface' between the (no doubt well coded and engagingly designed) objects your team designed.

I suspect, from my own interactions with the business applications used in the largish educational institutions that I work in, that it might be harder to use this model when the interactions between the individual activities get complex...
>The UI is done in Adobe AIR

I don't think that's true. Adobe AIR is supported for apps but the actual UI is native.
Work together on a small project first.
(only mildly related)

God, I wish there was a widely-supported standard for animated PNGs. Those GIFs look like they're straight out of the 90s.

Yesyesyes, animated GIFs are the devil, but they're shockingly useful for certain tasks such as loading spinners.
I think you are learning what a lot of developers end up learning. There is a big difference between having an idea and actually having the skill to do Product Management. I think you can determine relatively quickly in a meetup who actually has these skills by questioning them deeply about their idea. Have they actually thought about the implementation. Do they understand the limitations that technology may impose? What problems do they anticipate? etc.
Its very interesting to read about non technical co-founders find it really hard to find a CTO for their startup. In our case me and my buddy/partner are both technical and our knowledge set covers from frontend UI to backup DB tuning and performance but what we lacked in business skills made us shelve our first project.
We also realized that ideas not always extrapolate into an useful product. Ideas that seemed world changing stopped making sense over time.
I don't think accidents happen because pilots don't realize crashing is a bad thing, they happen because pilots do the wrong thing. You probably want pilots that have trained on dealing with lots of different failures and can do the right thing as correctly and quickly as possible, not pilots who get stressed and upset recalling the electric shocks they got during training.
When I read your comment, I believe I called you stupid, out loud. I restrained from replying. But it turns out I'm the stupid one...
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/409754/lawmakers_release...