skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with that name? In all seriousness, the people who would be turned off by that name are also people who would be turned off by the command-line interface.

Yeah, and, about that...
It's funny, these are exactly the same lessons I posted on my blog from my experience at Atlanta Startup Weekend 2:
http://sarpcentel.com/wp/10/lessons-learned-at-atlanta-start...

Don't choose an idea, choose a team!
It is. (btw, impressive effort)
hey unalone, i take it THIS is the site you were referring to on reddit earlier today ;)
If Starbucks wants to increase sales they can start by making the pastries less disgusting. The banana chip muffin has flavor notes reminiscent of acetone.
Yessir. I didn't exactly know this would be happening when I mentioned it, though.
April '07.
Is the multiverse theory falsifiable? I can't tell.
Algorithms + "Smart People Police" make me feel safer. Nice one, unalone!
Because it undergoes various chemical reactions between being corn and being cow.
Furthermore, correlation does not imply causation. There are many factors at play, including the correlation that many teenage mothers are also single mothers.
Don't waste too much time writing a formal business plan, worrying about the state of the market, worrying about potential competitors

Don't worry != don't think.
39% up from what % of market? Hmmm.
You're right, except there are even more accounts. I killed them all. I don't know what made the guy go on a trolling rampage after all this time, but it's stopped now.

You should just send me an email when you suspect things like this; I can verify it a lot faster.
Fast Food Nation is also an interesting read. They can make practically anything taste well, like anything.
Remember when language runtimes were composed of a few libraries that didn't interfere with the rest of the stuff installed on your system?
If they win, no barrier to FSM monuments in every park. Ramen.
If the non-US Apple stores are authorized re-sellers, my experience has been that they have to honor your warranty (it is applicable worldwide).

I'm currently in the Philippines and have had my share of needed fixes.
I wasn't entirely sure what your email address was, to be honest. I guessed when I wrote that one.
So what is a co-founder? Kevin came up with the concept and paid Owen to implement it. Owen may have been there since the beginning and undoubtedly had an influence in its direction, but a "founder"? Dunno seems to be a gray area.
Loved the book. And it actually says that everything in American diets is corn & _petroleum_ based. Corn & Oil, yummy.
I think you make some VERY good points, but I'm unsure if you and the creator of tarsnap are on the same page regarding the audience / customer base for this service. I like the name because it makes sense to me and it's easy to understand. Of course the management at Big Co. probably have no idea what "tarsnap" means just by looking at it. That could matter, or not, depending on the author's target audience.

Also, from your example, I've crafted the perfect position statement: For summer camps that need surface mount soldering, Colin Percival offers tarsnap. Unlike carbonite, tarsnap provides puppy mincing that allows users to make better tacos

After reading that, I'm buying tomorrow.
> I've never seen something like it on Hacker News

You may want to try and deduce the list of puppets used by Michael Arington (of TechCrunch blog). Something tells me it's going to be more impressive than this one.
Perhaps- but if in situation 2, you pledged your house as collateral, the creditor can still come after it. Generally, if your business is new and unproven, the bank will require you to sign a personal guarantee- or even to put up your house as collateral. Which means that they can still come after it!

If your business gets the loan, with no collateral, and no personal guarantee, then if the business goes bankrupt, the creditors can't come after personal assets! If you are lucky enough to find a bank willing to lend you 100,000 with no collateral, then go for it!
We are discussing prediction of success. Noticing one or two characteristics thought to be shared by the successful is really quite useless; most people with those characteristics do not succeed.

Most tall people suck at basketball. Some elite basketball players are short. The fact that most elite basketball players are tall does not really help us write our basketball-success-prediction algorithm. People dedicate their careers to solving this problem. It is very hard.

Since this is hard and likely to yield garbage results anyway, and most likely only leads to worry, time-wasting and excuse-making don't bother with these thoughts. Instead, erase every doubt from your mind, get in the long boat, row west and find Valhalla. (Given Google somehow came up I had no choice but to bring Valhalla into the discussion.)
>Critics say it doesn’t even qualify as a scientific theory because the existence of other universes cannot be proved or disproved. Advocates argue that, like it or not, the multiverse may well be the only viable non­religious explanation for what is often called the “fine-tuning problem”—the baffling observation that the laws of the universe seem custom-tailored to favor the emergence of life.
well, i'll be the contrary one and just throw out there that i've been doing some form of martial arts for about 15 years now and don't consider myself particularly exceptional.

i'm quite good, but having seen exceptional, i know i'm not there.
I met a guy one time who did what he loved for most of his life--he played the piano. Despite practicing for 8 hours a day for years, he still wasn't good enough to be a professional performer. (His situation is not uncommon, apparently). Now he's close to middle age, broke and bitter.

So yeah, let those chips fall where they may, unless they end up turning your life into shit.

PG's advice comes co mind: "Stay upwind". Playing basketball or the piano is not upwind, so it might be wise to forgo those things even if you love them.
Interesting- in Missouri, an LLC can choose to be taxed as a Proprietorship or a Corporation. I don't know how other states do it.
Just added both. The icon nothing special, but its better nothing. If anyone has anything better, let me know :)
This is, of course, anecdotal, but my roommate had his Dell break down a while ago. Spent about 5 hours on the phone arguing with one support rep or another before they agreed to send a tech out the next day to look at it. His computer was hunky dory the next day (better than Apple, who took 4 days round-trip from time of call to time laptop was returned), but IMHO the aggravation required for it just isn't worth it.

Also, FWIW, you don't ever have to ship your laptop in (unless you are doing a full replacement like me). Plenty of service providers will look at your machine without taking it away from you for extended periods. They won't come to your house though.
If you could build something that would produce fab-ready shapefiles just by looking at pictures of a target object...

you could be very popular.
The bug was a big one, but until someone exploited it massively it doesn't compare to other bugs in the past.
I know this is way off on a tangent, but as a guy who keeps trying to pick up emacs and ends up going back to Vim; I really wish there was a place out there where people had their .emacs posted with comments so I could see some ways that people are configuring their emacs.

I have copied full .emacs files previously, but it'd be cool to see some snippets somewhere.
Gates was brilliant because of his business decisions in which m$ partner up with IBM and dominated the PC operating system market. He was also brilliant in taking the risk in dropping out of Harvard and starting a business with Paul Allen. Gates is not famous for his coding skills. His coding ability is just one part of the foundation that led to his success.
Bayesian search theory
Ask HN: How Much Can I Scrape?
I am working on a financial software project. I have written code in Python to get all of the historical price data for each stock in the S&P 500. I have tested the code using an input file of five ticker symbols and the code runs perfectly. I would like to get data for all 500 stocks in the S&P 500, however, I don't know if collecting this much data would go well with Yahoo. I have implemented my program so that it only sends out one request per minute, but I am still worried about turning my system loose.

Has anyone else done something similar? For the people who own their own sites, how do you view scraping? Should I contact someone at Yahoo first?
I make it a point to pick up an incoming sales call and make sure I know the product as well as I think I do, of course I'm usually developing ways and methods of selling that product.
"making the animal as fat as possible as fast as possible"

Who says it doesn't?
Tiny Geo-coder
1 request per a minute I don't think yahoo would even notice.
Watch My Own Worst Enemy online
1. Go out and talk to a stranger. Write down your interaction later. Take notes of your body language. You goal is to have them ask for your number or email before the conversation ends.

2. Learn something you have never learned before and device a way to practice it every day. (You don't have to do it of course.) This is practicing your meta-practice skills.

3. Teach/explain something you know very well to someone who doesn't know anything about it.

4. Pick something randomly (daily utilities or routines), and make it better, or at least think about how you would do it. (You want to focus on a specific quality for at least a week. e.g. this week is user-friendly week, next week is durability.)

5. Find something (or concept, habit) you don't need and get rid of it.

6. Grab a friend/stranger, ask about something he want to change about his life. Analyze it and find the root cause. (of course, solution will be even better)

7. Grab a friend, tell them about something your want to change. Analyze it and find the root cause.

8. Meditation (the sitting kind, but also try to be aware of your thoughts at all time of the day.)

9. Make 10 people laugh.

10. Pick a newspaper/blog article and rewrite it.

11. Smile at everyone you see, and find something about them that you like.

I can keep going with the list.

The principle here is what you already know, which is putting in 10,000 hours.

However, I think it's far important to focus on the specific and push yourself just a little bit every day.

You don't get better at playing chess by playing in the same rank for 10,000 hours. You get better by playing with someone who's better than you until you can beat him consistently, then play with someone who's even better until you can beat him.

This works because your brain is design to adapt to harder and harder tasks. Hence the old saying, "if it's not hard, you're not learning."
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I got blocked during RailsRumble for pulling too much from Y! Finance. We did not have the time to throttle it.

You should at least try to email them and see if your restrictions can be loosened.
What I find more insidious is the way accessor methods naturally encourage you to treat them as if they are performance-equivalent with member variables. People will reference them in loops, blithely unaware that they're building and rebuilding the same data structures in accessors that are only superficially similar to member variables.
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It is very interesting that companies out of U.S. are doing sth totally different from now in the beginning. IBM, HP, Motorola and only one Japanese company Canon on the track of "naturally" evolving. Why no American companies on the list jumped to a totally irrelevant area?
In short, practice is necessary but not sufficient for awesomeness.

In particular, this implies: "If you have not practiced, then you are not awesome."

So to be awesome at X, you need:

1) some natural talent for X, varies based on the field

2) a love for X that will allow you to practice for 10,000 hours
I am more excited for this movie than any other in recent memory. If you haven't read The Watchmen go get a copy and read it before March '09.

Another one:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/ozymandias.html

and another:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watchmen-Gets-Another-Teaser-...
I don't think the idea that the universe is finely tuned for life(not necessarily life as we know it) is that unreasonable. I dislike the idea of a creator for the obvious reason that you run into an infinite regression. What created the creator, etc... So how do we get around this? Could it be possible that the universe created itself? In the void, there are infinite possibilities. If there existed a pattern which sustained itself, somehow propagated itself in perpetuity, would it then exist? Then the fact that the universe seems finely tuned for life would be an obvious consequence. Something like us would be needed to tend the light, we would be a necessary component of this pattern. Anyway, I like it better than the idea of a huge number of "dead" universes, although I doubt we'll ever know the Truth of the matter.
There's a pretty well recognized trap in the security software space; call it the "IDA Pro Effect". IDA is the industry standard disassembler, easily the most popular commercial reverse engineering tool, certainly licensed by every major security research team. It costs ~$500.

This is a problem: successfully cornering the market for disassemblers and selling to ever security research team wins Hex-Rays literally thousands of dollars!

If you're going to craft a product pitch that appeals to the very high end of the market --- those comfortable with per-host command-line backup who care very intensely about security --- you may need to price way higher than where Colin is today. Of course, then he'll find himself in competition with homebrew PGP+S3 scripts, just like IDA would quickly be replaced by a web UI on "objdump" if Ilfak jacked the price up to $20,000 (which is kind of where it belongs, value-wise).

I'm also wary of the history of "premium" command-line backup tools; remember Bru?
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Despite the fact that Fast Food nation has a section devoted to "fast food", I found it to be a "The Jungle" for the 90s. The real muckraking was its expose of the meatpacking industry of the midwest and its terrible labor practices. I could care less if they can make something smell like a cheeseburger. I care a lot about how we get our meat. I think this is an issue that is as important or more than fast food troubles.
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1 request per second would be still be pretty slow. Computers think in nanoseconds. The internet thinks in milliseconds.
http://bountii.com/pricehunts.php
I don't disagree one bit. I'm not entirely convinced it will be successful, considering it is a pretty niche product as far as backup products go and the security value-add isn't really priced according to what very security-conscious people/organizations would spend on the solution. All I was really pointing out is that Colin and you may have different ideas of who the audience here is, in which case some of your advice isn't relevant (yet, anyway); if it's going to be marketed to people who <3 cli then tarsnap is a perfectly good name. Otherwise, something awesome like "Fort Knox Backup Vault 2008" may be more appropriate ;)
I'm giving emacs a valuation right now. I mostly code very short numerics things up that don't really take much keyboard-fu, but i've always thought a lot about the editor I use. I used to use Vim, but I figured I'd give emacs a try and see if I like it. I get pretty annoyed with the weirdness of the different keyboard shortcut combos, but I'm getting used to them slowly but surely. I kinda miss Vim though..i've been thinking of jumping ship back to Vim and spend some more time making it really customized for myself.
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Good on the Aussies!!! Makes me proud!

Though I must add that this is one in a million, this is not the case in most cases
you can have this one if you like:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6992/icombinatortc2.jpg

looking at their logo on the main site, perhaps this should be a little more svelter: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7205/icombinator2nj1.jpg

also this one: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3392/icombinator3vo8.jpg
I appreciate your prompt reply! However, I can't parse your post because I can't come up with a word for "it", as used in your sentence. I've tried "meat", but it doesn't work.

Could you please elaborate on what you are trying to say?

Are you trying to write that chemicals are put into meat before it leaves the factory to cancel out all the other hormones, drugs, and other chemicals that have been part of the cow's entire life? I've heard of many studies where that is not the case at all. In fact, the use of hormones in poultry is banned--is it because hormones don't transfer to humans, or because they do? Though meat from cows doesn't need to be hormone-free... does it mean it's organic, and that the cow was fed the way it would be normally? I don't think so.

In your case, what about the possibility that since corn is almost exclusively used to feed cows even though it's not their normal food, shows that it must provide some benefit to the owners, one of which may be that the cows grow fatter from the same amount of corn versus the same amount of another plant? That would be one example of a situation where a bad trait can be developed for those who eat corn and for carnivores who eat that meat, without chemicals. Thanks!
If you're really concerned about it you can go through an anonymizing proxy service. But, as has been said, if you have the time, spacing out your requests should work fine too.
Hate to be obvious, but reading their API terms of service might be a good place to start...
I wonder if the person that threw them away didn't know what they were or knew what they were, but didn't comprehend the value of the photographs.
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I've never been clear on that myself. So I'll suggest a simple test - let's look at another company from the same keiretsu - pownce.com. Leah Culver has been a salaried employee since the beginning, and is described as a "founder."

What's the difference? What makes a "founder?" Significant equity? I pass. At some point in time others in the enterprise thought of you as a "founder?" I pass. At some point later on people decided you weren't a founder? I fail on that one.
The article makes it clear that he didn't mean to throw them away, and did indeed understand their significance.
Its amusing that some are so adamant against the unprovable concept of a creator that they go to such lengths as believing in something else equally unprovable.

I like the multiverse concept. Its cool. Maybe a creator created this ;)
Also, check whether you're applying the color scheme in .vimrc or .gvimrc, and check where you're turning on syntax highlighting. Remember some color schemes just look different depending whether you're in the terminal or the full GUI.
Used to be that both Japanese and Koreans preferred their products with complex feature sets - Apple are notable for what they leave out - perhaps this signals a change of heart for Japanese consumers?
I can see why you'd ask that, considering that two incidents could so rationally be considered a representative sampling. I don't know, do people really pose such stupid questions?

I've had a MBP since 2006 and the only time it had to be repaired was after a drunk guy poured a litre of Sprite into it. I've also owned a Mac Pro since February that has given me no issues. Provided this clearly superior anecdotal evidence, I must wonder, "Are all macs really this good?"
OpenCandy inserts recommendations when you install software
The other tactic is emphasizing container sizes that haven't been high-volume products in the past. For example, vending machines that sell canned drinks are an increasingly rare species - most of the new models are designed to sell larger plastic bottles, presumably since consumers have less specific ideas of what they should cost. Chocolate bars are now frequently sold in small 100-gram packages and larger double-bar packages.
Challenge to Michael Nierenberg, Medical Director of Navigenics
Sandbridge promises a revolution with the Holy Grail of wireless chips
For the record: I'm very bullish on Colin's idea; I just don't think he has the positioning and packaging worked out.

Unless he's not out to make money. Some people aren't. He's a FreeBSD dev, after all. Sucker. :P
Indie band turns itself into company instead of signing record deal
I would pray every day if I had someone to pray to for a corn famine. Some insect, weather pattern or bacteria or something that just wrecks the entire crop for a few years.

It would be painful for a lot of people, but corn, like oil, is so cheap and easy that we won't let it go until we're absolute forced to. Our dependence on it is killing us slowly and surely. Our corn monoculture forms the base of an unsteady food economy and an unhealthy, overprocessed diet. We've traded costs at the dinner table for costs in the hospital, and we've come out way behind.
List of states of matter
Sell a product to a government or school and you'll find out ... usually about 3 months after they contact you to buy.
By it he meant the cow's diet I think. Hormones might show up, but just as you can't chemically tell the difference between an organic vegetable and one raised solely on Miracle grow, you probably can't distinguish the meat of a free-range cow from one that ate nothing but corn.

I don't know that corn makes cows fatter, it's just a cheaper source of food. I'm pretty sure it allows you to grow significantly more cattle on a given amount of land. I could be wrong though. Given that I can hear them mooing every morning when I step outside you'd think I would know more, but I don't.
How far back? EOData (http://eoddata.com/) has 15 years of pricing information for $20 for a number of exchanges, which would certainly save time and isn't horribly expensive for what you get.
Are you a hot young blonde girl? I think that's the litmus test.
3) the discipline to make 10,000 hours of your practice deliberate
If I read the article correctly it pretty much says that you can distinguish the meat of a free-range cow from one that ate nothing but corn.
I like the simulation hypothesis. I love how it "explains" some of the constants we see & quantum physics.

I don't see how belief in "the multiverse" is any different than belief in a god or the simulation hypothesis. They all have zero evidence and can't be tested. The obvious question in all three is: what was there before? So they all have the same problems.
That will learn me to only look at the pictures...
The average height of an NBA basketball players is over 6' 6''. This helps us with our predictors of success. Sure there are other variables, but knowing this is very helpful especially if you had never watched an NBA game before.

Source: http://www.nba.com/news/survey_height_2006.html
I hate to repeat what's been said already, but I think this is a different case: I applaud the effort of users like you who are preventing HN from becoming a cesspool, but this is beyond the average call of the good samaritan. Bravo. I am going to start paying much more attention to the comments here to try to weed out this kind of nonsense; sadly, I did not notice this guy at all.

Thank you.

I have to ask: how much research went into this?
cool. maybe people will overeat less.
I wish it was easier to comment. I don't so much want to read the news as I want to interact with it.

Still, I love this. Every news site should offer this kind of iphone option.
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