skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really a substitute for a shorter commute, but you might try this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Guide-Building-Classical-Collectio...

Caveats:
- Published in 1999 so I don't know how available the albums are.
- Classical is really sensitive to dynamics, and cheap car stereos suck at same. You turn up the volume to hear the quiet parts, then get blasted by the loud ones. I don't have a good car stereo, don't know how much it would help. Earphones are much better, but I don't know about driving with them.
I think the mobile landscape is going to look pretty barren in a few more years. Just like the desktops, we seem to near the consolidation of mobile OS market with weaker sides getting eliminated rapidly.
Ok, this is cool stuff. Room temperature quantum computing, very very cool.

But for me the migration from Silicon to Carbon. This is the trend to keep an eye on. In the lab all of the things that we use silicon for we can use carbon for, and carbon is better in every way, it switches faster, it dissipates heat better, and it has lower resistance.

What I find amusing is that our machine-alien invaders might also consider themselves a carbon based life form :-) (ok its a stretch)
Show HN: iCloud Indicator, or My First Open Source Project
I open sourced a UI element that I built for my first recently launched iPhone game. It can be used to show that there is a game in the iCloud that can be resumed and supports user interaction for resuming and removing the game. The actual logic to do that is not part of this UI element.

I think more game developers could leverage the power of iCloud. It would allow them to offer a better experience to their players, where their progress in the game is shared between all their devices. I wanted to do that for my game and now want to encourage fellow developers by sharing my modest contribution.

A video demo of the iCloud Indicator can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDcUqfnWOM.
I'm pretty sure they are practically equivalent phrases. Having the phone would imply being a user of the phone, and vice versa.
Intelligent Ruby: Getting Started with Machine Learning
There is, it's called nominative use (in the US, but similar must exist overseas). Otherwise no-one would ever be able to refer to a trademark without being open to a lawsuit. That's how books about technologies with trademarked names can exist, for instance.
And what is your own time worth?
Indeed - people consistently overestimate the number of hours they work, particularly if they work more than 40.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/06/art3full.pdf
Was that video image mixed&cut from the videos of his previous performances? Or was it computer generated?
The song that the MPAA do not want you to hear
When we inevitably balls it up, it'll be called the "Woe-lympics" or something similarly stupid by the press anyway, as is the way of the British press ;-) We might as well start from that.
good point. StackOverflow used physical boxes not virtual servers and that certainly makes scaling a database easier. On the other hand I currently host HireFlo on a single Rackspace cloudserver. I have 3 web apps, a SQL server instance, and 2 processors hosted on the same VS and it's working well so far. I'll definitely move SQL Server off to it's own box at some point though.
Ah yes, this is why while the UK has rule of parliament the US has a non-elected ruling council of 9 wise elders.
For most middle-class Americans, sexual misconduct among youngsters is a more pressing issue than violent misconduct. Kids having sex and getting pregnant is fairly common while kids going on shooting sprees is very uncommon.

I can tell you though, that back in the 90's when there was a string of shooting crimes by middle class kids, there was a big outcry against violent cinema. Tarantino films, which were seen to glorify violence and some of the kids imitated to some degree, took an especially big backlash. For the most part though, that was just a passing panic.
Congrats, it looks great.

Any plans to remunerate teachers? How much of a time commitment would this be for a potential volunteer?

What corporate structure have you taken?
Check out the kickstarter page for the product: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper... . It's very clear about Bluetooth being the method of communication.
There are huge network effects at play with youtube. People discover new content (related videos) as they browse the site.

With Dropbox, it seems, to me, like there are much fewer network effects at play. I don't know what percentage of activity on Dropbox involves sharing between Dropbox customers, but I'd guess its low?

I also think its a big deal that I already sign into my Google account on every computer I use; if my files are just going to be there, with my docs, mail and calendar, I'm probably not going to use another service.
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I get here and was doing 40 hours and then told they need "more hours out of us" and "it would be different if there wasn't a backup of work" (which as far as I could tell there wasn't any, just one of the devs constantly changing stuff).

Call me radical (and more than a little bit reckless) but I find the appropriate response to that to be some combination of:

"Then hire more people"

and/or

"I quit"

Of course, I am single with no wife/kids/etc., and not a lot of responsibilities except to myself, so I can afford to be a bit cavalier. I understand that not everybody can, but in that case, I would use the situation as motivation to go with the adage "If I can't find the job I want, I'll create the job I want" and start a startup. Yeah, you wind up working even more hours then, but - at least for me - it's justified because the goal is to create a better situation for yourself in the end.

But again, I acknowledge that my path isn't for everybody and that everyone's story and constraints are different. So please don't take this response as being judgmental or anything. Just offering another perspective...
It would be humorous if sometimes when you opened your file in your Gdrive it was a media appropriate file containing an advertisement. Open it in a text editor get a text file ad, open it in an mp3 player get an audio ad, open it in a video viewer get a video ad. Not all the time of course, just now and then.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#V_sign_as_an_insult
Storytelling that inspires and delivers vision: Lessons from Google Glass
> Should I worry about my privacy if I use this "free" service

You should always worry about your privacy. Paid service or not.

Google makes its money building a profile about what it knows about you. In the light of placing files there, make of that what you will.
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Who Is Programming Your Brain?
Ask HN: Would you hire me out of college? Willing to live in the office
My goal after I graduate in a year is to work for a start up, preferably one in Silicon Valley. Before I ask you if a start up would hire a college graduate, let me tell me a bit about myself and you can judge for yourself if I am worthy.

I am current pursuing my degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in math. I have a 4.0 GPA(all around), 2 (soon 3) years of research in DNA matching and parallel programming for protein folding. I just finished working for a local start up for about 7 months (while doing a 7 class work load), I did the entire back end (code, server setup, server/db admin, etc...). I am interning with Intel this summer. My senior year I will be doing research in porting MPI to a new architecture we are exploring at my university.

I know all the usual languages a college kid would know (C/C++, Python, php5, mysql, shell scripting).

I am teaching myself Erlang and plan on learning Scala/Clojure next. I am already familiar with Nvidia CUDA, and understand which way technology is going. And yes I know the difference between concurrency and parallelism :)

I constantly read about start ups, and I am willing to work very hard for whomever hires me out of college. I know start ups require a high capability/person ratio, and I am ready to bring it.

I also read a ton of books on software development, practices, and all that good stuff. I constantly try to improve myself and I am an incredibly hard worker, motivated by success.

I recently started a blog, it is not done yet, but the purpose of it is to have a sort of online resume. Feel free to check it out, and contact me to book me before graduation :P

www.khawajakorp.com
I think the fact that strides have been made in the general area of dynamicizing certain actions (like simultaneously rendering mouth movements with spoken language in games) are steps toward that grand goal of games having AI that not only acts smart, but even has dynamic scripting, based on "observances" and other environmental stimuli. Also, hinted/dynamic animation is pretty unbelievable now. Just see how real it looks when a character is tackled in a Madden game.

I'm confident even the "hard" problems will be solved in the very near future.
I've been wanting to add metrics to a small side project of mine for a while and was looking at Metricfire and Mixpanel.

This announcement actually is pushing me away from Metricfire. The project I am working on now will generate less than 100 data points per day, so paying $30 a month is really high.

For someone who will take advantage of it, the $30 looks like a great plan, but when they say it is for small projects, that just seems like too much for the very small projects like mine.
> and if you want participation from a community you should abide the community's standards, even if they are irrational.

I don't think he's going to get much participation from the lisp community, but then again, everybody else is a much bigger community. So who knows, maybe the power of lisp combined with a non-lispy syntax is a balloon that can fly.
Maybe I live a sheltered life, but it's very uncommon nowadays compared to the single finger, no? At least, it seemed far more common back pre-2000.
Although Google launching Google Drive shows that they see value in a dropbox type system, what is that value? I can understand Youtube because video is a huge part of the internet and advertising, but what value is there in hosting peoples files? I can't work out where Dropbox would fit with Google.
[...] I'll bow out and sign the site over to someone more suitable. I want the show, not the glory - but I'll take the risk and get the ball rolling.

Love that you genuinely want to simply make this happen. You've got my ears.

Other podcasts I've found so far to fill the void:

* This Developer's Life - http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/this-developers-life/id38...

* Pragmatic Programmers - http://pragprog.com/podcasts

* Stack Overflow - http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/

* Teach Me to Code - http://teachmetocode.com/podcast/

* SO request for podcasts - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2149537/recommendations-f...
> bad taste that even the American recording industry wouldn't go near it

What in hell makes you believes the recording industry has good taste?
You know, for all that I hear people complain about "corporations buying our government", I sure don't hear a lot of the same people complaining in this case where they have actually explicitly bought off the government.

All for the glory of Visa, Proctor and Gamble, McDonalds, Acer, Samsung, Panasonic, General Electric, and Dow Chemical.
I don't know, that's one of the biggest benefits of Dropbox, I tell someone I'll add a shared drive and 9 times out of ten they already have a Dropbox account (in my tech world bubble at least)
Fix MeeGo? They failed at it, that's why they had to switch. There was no way that the Symbian sales could be replaced.

Android? HTCs profit's are falling at an alarming clip, Motorola was in losses and got taken over inspite of the flagship Droid, LG reported a loss of $250 million for 2011.

Nokia isn't going anywhere, it was expected that the transition would be very tough, if things get really dire, expect a bailout/takeover from Microsoft.
Yes, I was joking. Perhaps this is not the thread for sarcasm ;)

Incidentally both Gates and Jobs started their companies sans YCombinator.

Anything's possible (you could add mark z to that list). It's about validation, resource allocation and probability.

Getting accepted to yc (or even interviewed) is indication that at least a few capable people think you and what you're doing are worth something and that you're headed in a good direction.

There is a limited amount of capital, public exposure (press) and face-time with angels/VCs/worthy advisors to go around. With YC, you get a leg up in getting access to these resources.

A YC company (historically, and for the above reasons) is significantly more likely to at least get to the next stage of funding and growth (actually employing people). Since everything involves luck, anything that improves your chances is a big deal.
You need to watch this:

http://thewebivore.com/go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk
Hi folks, OP from the reddit thread here. I'll answer questions. disclaimer:
This is my first time posting here.

Disclaimer #2: I'm no expert.

Disclaimer #3: See Disclaimer #2 again. I just tried something and it took off. Will it work long term I have no idea. Where I am now is just the reality of where I am now. Have I made mistakes, you bet your life on that! Okay, I'll scroll through and try to respond to anything I can.
OK, so now when they suspend your Google account you also get to experience loosing whatever you had in Google Drive.

Just for this I am converting my Dropbox account into one of their paid packages to do my part in ensuring they stick around.

One would hope that at one point Google might start to realize that the way they are handling accounts could work against their own interests. I --and I am sure others-- have exactly zero interest in touching any Google product other than Analytics because it can all go "poof" overnight if an algorithm doesn't like something you did somewhere...and you'll never know why and never have real recourse to attempt to fix it.

Just to be clear: I love just about everything Google has done and what they generally stand for. The one thing I hate viscerally is their approach to customer-no-service and how that relates to accounts. This aspect of what they do and how they behave is nothing less than moronic and possibly evil.
Plenty of Fish also store(d?) passwords in plaintext[1]. I wouldn’t particularly trust their technical decisions.

http://grumomedia.com/why-plenty-of-fish-stores-passwords-in...
"Bizspark is proof that Microsoft loves programmers and startups"

No, it isn't. Not anymore than MS giving away free licenses for Office, VS and Windows to college students is proof that they love college kids. Not anymore than giving poor schools in Africa free licenses for Office and Windows means they love African schoolchildren. And not anymore than the junky giving free dope samples to kids means that he loves kids.

It's just business.
>I think this was the plan from the start and I said so from the moment Elop was hired

Who's plan? Care to elaborate?
Video, like social networks, seems to be a market that lends itself to a single winner taking the most marketshare. (It's a virtuous cycle: YouTube has the most viewers, which means it's the best place to put content, which leads to more viewers.)

I'm not sure the file sharing market has such features. I could easily have both Google Drive and Dropbox on my machine. I'd probably end up using the cheaper one more. In the end, I think the consumer will win; capitalism at work. :)
I'm not sure if you're making that argument yourself, but it's thoroughly wrong.

First, there's no "the parser". There are a lot of parsers, some of which don't yet exist.

Second, that means there's no way to distinguish between bugs and features. If the language is defined by parser behavior, then any parser bug is now part of the language.

Third, you've eliminated the white space needed for future growth. If you look at any standard that has evolved well over a period of years, you can see in the early days there was a lot left undefined. If the implementation is the spec, then nothing can be treated as open for change.
<OP is excited now, but I have a feeling that in about a year or so, he'll be feeling a lot like Uncle A.

you could be right my man. I'm not looking at this through rose colored glasses at all. I'm a realistic ^ 2. Thanks.
Setting Up Redis Cluster
Office 15 welcome video leaks onto the web, explains how cloud syncing works
In Britain two fingers (with the palm facing the person making the gesture) is basically synonymous to the single finger. Two fingers the other way around means victory.

There is plenty of argument as to the etymology behind that, so I won't paste specific links trying to explain one theory over the other.
The first part of the process (making it to the interview) is by email so you should get one between 8PM-9PM Central. If you pass the interview you'll get a call from them the same day you interview (if you pass) or an email (if you're rejected).
Can you explain how they can cut down lots of repetitive stuff?

Not to knock you down but my experience with Java is that libraries typically help a lot as opposed to syntax.
Do you know what sort of startup you would want to work at? I am guessing you will want to find a startup working on a problem that you are passionate about so some info about what you want to work on would be useful.
I agree with that and definitely want(ed) to do that but my situation wasn't the best for that doing that:
- no CS degree and no professional dev experience
- saving for a wedding that is happening this October
- quit a job that paid decent (for an Economics major ;) ) to do this.

I'm planning to leave around my 1 year mark so I can find a better place to work (oh did I mention they offer 0 days off for the first year, turns out it is a much bigger deal than I thought it would be for me). So in my free time I work on my blog, post some code and keep on taking my MS classes.
If this thing works properly on Android, I'm dropping Dropbox in a heartbeat.
Yep. See the work of cassetteboy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2pFYYEiko (NSFW language)

All they use is soundforge, and it's trivial. You can achieve perfect results with modern software and algorithmic assistance.
>Isn't the real message here that we shouldn't forget that many of us startup geeks can completely out-design and -SEO virtually any local service provider out there and that there might just be big money in doing so?

THAT'S IT! I don't think what I did was that difficult (I had luck along the way, and went over the top in some ways,yes) but at the end of the day, I think this is the main takeaway from this experiment.
Times they already have a Google account: 10/10
That's a pretty dramatized way of framing it, don't you think? I think the take-away is as simple as this: JavaScript is a dumpster-fire, and we should probably fix it so we can avoid more of this noise. Framing it as a soap opera conflict instead of a teachable moment makes it more productivity-draining than it already is.
Some thoughts on Airtime
I wrote some speculations about the upcoming start up
"Airtime" founded by Sean Parker and Shawn.
With your profile, I think you would fit what Matterport is looking for: http://matterport.com/jobs.html

I don't know how well you code, but from your description, you're a very bright kid. Talk to them to inquire about opportunities.

One final tip: if you've gotten some time, try to spend some time and money doing work at coffee shops, if you're visiting the Silicon Valley. Try to attend valuable conferences as well (it's much easier for students to get freebie entrances, or at massive discounts). You could gain a lot of relevant network that would help you down the road.
They're quick... fixed the link XD
Incremental Mapreduce for Analytics with R
I'm genuinely sick of seeing todo apps being implemented, and in this case, compared, in various languages.
It's simply not a complex enough app (ie: no authentication/login system) and serves only to give the highest level of an overview about a framework.

Actually getting down into the nitty gritty side of things (which includes everything from authentication, validation, and templating, to routing, persistence (both sql and no-sql), and XHR/we sockets) is crucial, in my eyes, for us to really see how a system can grow from an intro-to-framework-X into the next-big-thing.

Obviously, there's a requirement to actually learn the language/framework that you end up choosing, and therefore there's no real benefit to having a copy/paste sample app that includes the kitchen sink, but damn, I'm sick of recreating the wheel.
eh. 5Gb? Skydrive has like 25
Yeah we'll see. I don't even know if I want to scale at all. Seriously if I could double current earnings within this year, quit my job, help my family, (use some extra money to diversify a bit) I'm good.
Every video started out as a file somewhere. Dropbox could do an end-run around all of this with file viewers, including video. And spreadsheets and so on. It could easily end up bigger than youtube, even if the take-off is a lot slower.

They're doing the right thing by keeping it simple as long as they can but I'm fairly sure they're savvy enough to have brainstormed each and every bit that they could add / leave out and their decisions so far have been to keep it lean.

It's smart because that way the bandwidth bill on the free tier is still within bounds, as soon as they pull out all the stops they can go head to head with any content store on the net based on the files they already have in their inventory.

I'm in no way privy to anything going on at dropbox and I have no stake in the outcome but if I were running a service and a formidable competitor announced their entry into my little empire I'd be gearing up for war.
a lot of that is because msft says it's a certain way and we all have to deal w/ it. not necessarily better.
I will, this week. Luckily if I have to fix this I don't need to go that far back, I'm only in a couple months.
Twitter buys exclusively YC alumnis or what?
The Promise Of The Web
I have a full time job.
The start ups that really interest me are those that are catering to the tech world in general, for example, medera cloud (spelling?) that came out the other day, or something like heroku, I really want to build things that are HUGE and scale really well.
I'm going to guess something like C - (r)oach - (f)ella.
Or you could realize that you're talking about a hobby that has likely achieved his objective of getting some people to take notice of his work. What he's done is better than nothing, which is the default. Is it the best use of his time? Maybe, maybe not. But consider the alternative- he could have spent three weeks wondering what the best way to redesign a page would be and produced nothing. I tend to think this was better.