skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having said this, Windows Update does find a new bloody error code every single time I run it and it never has a clue what the error code means.

So, perhaps, something better than that.

On the plus side, XP SP3 removes the option to have the IE address bar in the taskbar "for legal reasons" and the whole point of free software is to get away from that kind of junk. So maybe it's not all bad the apt-get your-hands-off-my-config-files way.
We'll get the $100 laptop and it won't come from OLPC. Profit makes the world go 'round.
The Big Bang Theory
Episode 6 will be aired on Nov. 3rd 08, this means that there will be no Big Bang Theory Episode this monday. Episode 6 has a very interesting plot, a young grad is attracted to Sheldon. One and all are surprised about it including Sheldon. It would be interesting to see how Sheldon handles this situation. After having a look at the pics it seems that Sheldon is enjoying the company of a new friend.
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In pictures ( e.g. http://tinyurl.com/6dnntv ) you seem far too rotundily enhanced to be one who practises caloric restriction, yet this seems a much more likely way to extend both your life and useful life than cryonics, which you heartily recommend. How come?

(A quick search on this finds no writing of yours addressing this matter).

(Not at all on topic, I know).
Ask YC: What are you being for halloween?
We can have fun here, right? :-) I'm a ninja, no not a PHP ninja. At least not tonight.
i am being a hacker, as in, i'm lame and sitting here working on projects tonight because i can't go out.

:(
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It can do anything in the same way that any other Turing complete programming language can, but that's not really enough.

As a shell, it's stuck in the same old Windows command line window that command prompt has always been, with all the problems that entails - no real resizing or decent mouse selection/copy and paste and so on.

As a shell, you want terse and concise hacking, it should be optimised for finger friendliness and oneliners that you aren't going to come back to. Powershell is not. It's wordy and verbose, C# style. It makes things complex because it's not easy to find what you're looking for. Object piping might be nice, but not when you have to get all files and pipe them into a get-modified-date thing and pipe the date objects into a date-to-text object instead of ls -...

As a programming language, it's seriously ugly. It could have been VBScript slid towards Python, instead it's C# slid towards Perl. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/10/18/emit-xml... from the official powershell blog from the main man behind powershell. $Ugh -*!

See also this discussion from November last year: "What's MS thinking with Powershell?" at Arstechnica:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/12009443/...
"Jonathon Keats?" Kind of a poetic name.
heh... that makes two of us. Damn bug!
three now.
MyHeritage Adds Nine New Languages, Supports More Than Any Other Family Web Site
United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland (Press Release) October 31, 2008 -- MyHeritage, one of the world’s most popular family Web sites, today announced the launch of nine additional languages on its website, bringing the total to 34. The new languages include Danish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Malay, Arabic and Persian.

Families everywhere want to learn about their history and stay in touch with relatives who may be spread around the world, said Gilad Japhet, founder and CEO of MyHeritage.We are committed to making MyHeritage the most inclusive online destination for families, regardless of their location or language.

MyHeritage helps more than 26 million people around the world connect and communicate with their extended family network and easily research family history. Its impressive growth is based on an increasing desire of families to stay closely connected, learn more about each other and regularly share photos and news online. MyHeritage can be accessed through the Web site (www.myheritage.com) or by downloading a simple piece of software for free. MyHeritage also offers new technology that automatically recognizes and labels faces in digital photos, making it even easier and faster to organize, search for, and share pictures with your family and friends.

About MyHeritage
MyHeritage is one of the world’s leading online networks for families, and the second largest family history website. MyHeritage is available in 34 languages and home to more than 26 million family members and 280 million profiles. The company recently acquired family social network Kindo.com, and is based in Bnei Atarot, near Tel Aviv, Israel and London, UK. For more information, visit www.myheritage.com.
We're still waiting for our "big break"; our product is great but no one seems to notice us. Outside funding is not really in the cards so YC is not really an option. But then again, we won't get turned down. :)

Wait a minute ... maybe getting turned down is the key! Hey, YC! Can you look at my stuff and turn me down right away, please?

Thanx!
Richard
I went out as the man with the yellow hat. My kids were a cat, Darth Vader, and a giraffe.
dude, im gonna get disappointed with downtown palo alto tonight and get back into this f'n flash 10 bug on uploading files.
A fat loser who stays at home or work all the time, plays warcraft nonstop and pines after girls he knew in high school 15 years ago.
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Because, I assume, he, like me, wanted the new hotness. I cheaped out and bought the macbook, but I could've gotten a faster matte MBP.

I haven't minded the glossy yet. Its waaay brighter than my old matte screen and I usually forget its there. I still feel a bit torn about it though...lotsa pluses and minuses. Matte screens don't have such noticeable minuses unless you switch back.
If I didn't have to work tonight, I'd dress like a Ruby programmer going to a job interview:

http://incredimazing.com/static/media/2008/03/24/6fee530ffd1...
If you're interested in JavaScript data visualization libraries you should check out the JavaScript Infovis Toolkit hosted at http://thejit.org. It was based on five papers regarding different infovis techniques, from Treemaps to Hyperbolic Trees.
dude, i was almost a ninja rockstar. then i realized id be a bad job posting...
That always sounds strange to me... why would you lend you stock so somebody else can make money out of it?
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i see at least a little ajax in that job posting.
I have seen that question ("How do we keep our community from collapsing into mediocrity?") asked tens of times, and the answer has been the same every time: " ".

There doesn't appear to be a way, or at least no large community seems to have ever found it on the scale of multiple years.

(I don't mean to advocate that one give up when I say that. What I'd really like to see is some real thought put into it. My real point is all the obvious solutions have been tried, and tried, and tried, and..... if anything's going to work it's not going to be the obvious.)
This must be like in the Princess Bride, where they each pretend to be left-handed, so the other will underestimate them.
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Hey, thanks for that! I don't have any CD-R's handy (and won't be able to get any till next week), so this was perfect. Once I figured out that the USB drive has to be formated as FAT32, I was solid.
A grammar nazi, complaining about your using "being" as an action verb.
You have to pay to borrow. If you're a small shareholder, your shares are available for your broker to lend if you borrow money against them; a large institution is usually able to negotiate rates at which it will lend its shares.
It's always been interesting to hear people's responses to "how long do you think it would take to duplicate Facebook?" In general, the more experience/knowledge the person has, the longer they think it would take...
Or simply mounting the print head on a long, jointed mechanical arm...
I wish the united states would have competitions for its coinage. I've seen mind-blowing designs from both the netherlands and the UK that are just amazing, while we get boring coins and bills (some of which have HUGE text set in the wrong typeface - $20, i'm looking at you)
Humm... as a sort of hedging against the stock going down?
Regardless of the cause: whether behavioral choices are a result of a person's essence or a person's circumstance, it's prudent to take John Edward Emerich Dalberg, Lord Acton's advice to "judge talent at its best and character at its worst."

http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&...
s/misleading/inspired/ title. Fooled me, I'll admit it.
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I was a gorilla, my 4-month old daughter was a monkey, and my wife was the zookeeper.

...Except we didn't get a single trick-or-treater, so I spent my time downing a bottle of two buck chuck and installing Ubuntu 8.10. :)
They need to hire Paul Bucheit. Hell, he came up with adwords for google, he can do it again.
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Get real. Hedge fund managers were taking insane salaries out of their companies, in the most extreme case, $3.7 billion (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0Of...). Perhaps now its not the most attractive job niche, but Top Ramen isn't in the picture.

So its important to remember, Porsche wasn't fleecing hedge-fund managers, but hedge-fund clients.
I dressed up as a bar code.

Or, put another way: My 2006 Google SoC t-shirt was at the top of the pile when I woke up today. :-)
It's a solved problem.

http://www.google.com/search?q=word+cleaner+html
excellent. You must be Japanese ;-)

I am lucky enough to have a boss who takes the time to recognize the members in our group as individuals that have our own set of limitations and talents, and judges our successes or failures based on them.
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R. R. Furman, 93, Dies; Led Manhattan Project Spy Program
It's not really a hedge. A hedge would be something with an inverse correlation -- so when the stock went down, your borrowing income would go up. In general, the opposite is the case: if the stock goes down, but the borrowing cost is the same in percentage terms, your borrowing income goes down. The exception is if the stock goes down and demand for shorting goes up so fast that the interest rate on borrowed stock goes up. Even then, it will almost certainly be a small cushion (losing 49% instead of 50%) not a hedge.

That said, it's still income you wouldn't otherwise have.
Maybe not.... inflation alone could make that psychologically important 100$ mark impossible to reach if they don't get to it soon.
I wonder if OLEDs break down more or less independent of usage anyways like how a lithium ion battery can wear out faster from use, but is still wearing out even if you don't use it.
2004 Ohio voting data routed through Bush Administration servers
FFI for Ruby Now Available
I used to use my own domain email for more than a decade and now I use gmail exclusively. Why? First of all they have the best spam filtering system I've ever been exposed to. Second, they archive all my email and each account has a limit of more than 7 GB. Third, I can use my regular email client to receive my mail via pop3. Fourth, they allow me to send email via their smtp server. Fifth, it is simpler to use than my own domain email account.

Yes I know it is 'nice' to have your own domain-based email accounts, especially when trying to advertise your domain, but all the advantages of gmail encouraged me to switch and I've never been happier.
I'm not joking. :(
Sounds interesting, please keep me informed if you can, I'm at owkaye (at) gmail (dot) com, thanks!
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Why should the Porsche managers go to jail? How exactly was what they did immoral?

Anyone who speculates by unhedged shorting has to expect to go bust occasionally. That's just part of the game.
Singularity Summit Asks 'Are You A Believer'?
Me too. If we're rejected, a rejection letter would be most appreciated.
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Thanks for that.

The only other question is why hedges decided to short VW's stock. But the article kind of explains that: Porsche's previous buying up for VW stock pushed VW's stock too high for VW's profitability.

It startles me, if it's true, that 1) Porsche knew they had pushed VW's stock too high, 2) Porsche knew the hedges would know this, and try to short them, and 3) the hedges would lose huge amounts when it transpires that Porsche actually had most of VW's stock anyway, leaving only a small fraction of available stock, which all the hedges would scramble to buy back, hence fill Porsche's pockets, to fulfill their short contracts.

I guess i'd only be illegal if the German courts can prove Porsche misled (manipulated) the market into believing their was more stock available than there actually was.
Picturing of Life
Facebook is what you make of it. I have an account there and largely use it for gaming. Outside of that, I check it a couple times a week. It's been pretty nice for connecting with people (even facilitated our class reunion) but what I like best about it is that I don't really care if I ever check up on it.
Get Rid Of That Old Boiler
An efficient central heating system is essential to keep any home warm throughout those bitterly cold winters in the UK. Over recent years, heating systems have evolved dramatically and there’s now a bewildering array of options to choose from when it comes to keeping our families warm. Many people love to have a blazing fire going in the living room hearth as a focal point and it’s usually not a problem to toss a log or two in before you go to bed just to keep some warmth going through the night.o.
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Better question is why you would sell short stock in a company that someone is known to want to buy?
I don't mean to deny anything that works for you. My experience has been that the straightforward strategies stop working after a while and that at that point the game becomes one of integration.
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"My point is not a self-pity fest, but to say that, from personal experience, I've learned there are physical factors that can limit one's effort. I think that some people who have not experienced this, don't realize nor understand it."

The physical factors you refer to limit ability, not effort. At the point where one is frustrated by limited ability, the person ideally refocusses their effort on resolving the problem: waiting for the proverbial storm to pass, requesting assistance of some kind, restructuring the problem to yield a workaround, or ultimately resolving to move in another direction.

When your health issues are ascendant, do you not wait until they have passed before resuming work? Effort, in the larger sense, is as much about working smart as it is about working hard. Equating effort with exertion is simply folly.

"It is part of what makes community essential to achievement."

Communities naturally form around the implicit understanding that the community will work for the greater self-interest of the individual. If the community can't enable future effort from an individual through communal effort, the community will cut off that individual. People help people who help themselves.

Communities have a greater capacity for achievement, but sorely lack the tolerance and insight of the individual. In fact, it is often through the "self-made man", through massive individual effort guiding communal effort, that great things are achieved. A community is unlikely to achieve such things purely under its own auspices.

"The bootstraps are necessary, but they are no longer sufficient."

In the short-term, bootstraps are sufficient, but none of us operates in a vacuum. In the long-term, neither individual nor community alone is sufficient. However, communities are incapable of adapting to rapid change. Families split, friends depart, empires crumble; the individual endures. If great things are to be achieved, it will be on the strength and agility of the individual guiding the community, not the other way round.
You always say stuff like this, Eliezer. :-)

I would agree with the statement "people are oddly consistent"

I agree, too, for sufficient values of "consistent". It's just that when this statement is followed by "Cheaters cheat whenever it suits them" it smacks of the FAE.
A pirate - fighting various ninjas that appeared. Some friends brought food and candy that I looted.
Bought my nephew (13) the eepc 900 in August, in late September it failed suddenly, they're sending it back under warranty. Hope it works better when it comes back...it's a nice little computer though.
What's the next step after getting covered by TechCrunch?
Finish college? Alex Schliker is clearly enormously blessed with talent and intelligence but even a wunderkind like Ben Casnocha didn't skip college. I worry YC's siren call may be luring some college students onto the rocks.
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It has yet to create the same market that g-mail invites did when they first came out. I guess I should jump in while supply is low. :)
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Phil Hellmuth is a sore loser. Watch the best five blow-up videos where he blames everybody but himself.
Every great thing we do is for the women we pine after. I believe that's been proven scientifically.
My parents have this virus on their computer! Need to fix it in the morning :\
I have noticed Google already using this in its own websites.
The moment I saw the headline, I guessed it would be a Lamborghini Diablo VT. But I was half right. It's a Gallardo. But its an easy guess that the Italian police now have to recruit specialised guys into the force to use these cars to their fullest speed or else it would be better to buy some old Ford Gran Torino and save some money.

Thieves, your next escape route is thru jets or water.

Episode-2 Green-Friends: Lots of speed and lots of fuel and lots of pollution... leads to lots of protests by green-friends. Police, start hiring a good lawyer who can fight environmental suits.

One comment on that page that caught my eye:

The headline should read: "Lambocop stalks Italian women"
Not necessarily; ever put together one of those Saga electric guitar kits? I've spent maybe 5-10% (out of maybe 15-20 total build time) tweaking and adjusting, finding they didn't drill all the holes in the right places, etc.
Cool...still, I couldn't help but think that having to cut a large hole in the foundation to get it out showed something of a lack of planning and foresight. :-(
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I have a security clearance and have worked in the DefCon industry for about 3 years. Every secure room area I've had has had an area for you to lock up electronic devices you might use outside of a secure area, such as cameras, flash drives, and cell phones.

Other contractors I know in the west coast just leave their cell phone in their car when they go on base. It just sounds like your friends are using the old "I have a security clearance" excuse to not have a cell phone, which, if its the case, more power to them. :)
according to this http://www.gizmag.com/go/6555/ the Brabus cop car is faster + unlike the Lambo the thing has a back seat to put crooks in
Free sms providers and advertisments
my web app has an sms functionality, since i dont have any users yet, i was thinking of using a free sms provider (would not mind them insering adverts into the free sms) until i become profitable and then use paid sms services. Any help on good free sms providers?
Stop me if I'm wrong, but Apple actually got AT&T to develop features on the backend of their network to get visual voicemail working.

Android was also a bid from Google to have the newly opened bit of spectrum be a "utility" band, where any device that gets FCC certified can plug into that network -- regardless of carrier or manufacturer. That didn't fly.

I would wager that's a more telling indication of who's going to come out on top of the scrap heap. The wireless handheld market is not beholden to perfect competition. Especially not within the US of A.
Correction: Android had more downloads of its SDKs in its first year. Which isn't surprising, since anyone could download it, and it only required Java knowledge. Apple's SDK required permission to download, a signed NDA, and to really be productive, you'd need to know both Objective-C and Cocoa.

I'm guessing the number of Obj-C/Cocoa developers < Java Developers. So Android getting more downloads is no surprise there.

But real artists ship. And the Apple iPhone App Store has been up and running and selling Apps. I can't even buy the G1 in my area.
Monthly active users, what level do you need to reach to meet your revenue goals, if you have any. You don't have to answer, I'm more interested to know how you've thought about it.
I use it, but only because it mails me notifications about events. If my non-technical friends understood mailing lists, and enough of them were on the same one, that would easily beat facebook for it's primary usecase (at least in my situation)
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these were pretty good
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211853

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224324

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295674
User-based Website Directories with Nginx
I put on a fedora and went as the guy with a hat from XKCD.
I wore my fencing gear, but I was fencing so I'm not sure if that qualifies as a costume per se. If I weren't broke I'd have worked my épée into a musketeer costume.
A grammar nazi would actually be a hilarious costume if you could hang out with a crowd that wasn't too easily offended.
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Patent Trolls: >1

By a lot.
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Oh, I don't really know. It's too soon to tell what expenses will be like for it, but they should be pretty low, and I think that if the game becomes popular we can monetize fairly well. I've heard some revenue numbers typical for a game that make me think 100k of them would be pretty profitable.
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I think a more accurate title would have been "9 Random Products I found While Trawling Through Amazon's Best Seller Lists This Morning Instead of Working"
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interesting, very interesting indeed, but are you really surprised? Given the unthinkably fast pace of Japanese work culture such a burnout was bound to happen..
Oddly, most regular "web based forms" look just like paper based forms. You don't fill your taxes out on a form that looks like:

Hi, my name is _____ and I'm a _______ who made $___,_____ last year. I already paid $___,____ through my employer and I have ___ children and will be taking _____, ______, _____, _____, and _____ as deductions. I had capital gains of $__,____. Also, I would like to donate ___ dollars to farmers and ____ dollars to political campaigns, and I am aware that any donations do not affect my tax obligations at all. This was filled out on the ___ day of the ___ month in the year of our _____, 20__.