skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. Passion and business don't often go hand in hand. But you will have at least a better chance of sticking with it if you care about it.

Not every idea is a good one, but at least parse through the ones you have and look for a personal angle that you can get excited about.

The other angle is not so much building on your passion, but building on your pain. If there is a pain point in something you do that is really a problem for you, then maybe you can solve it and stay energized because you are solving your own problem.
The author of that comment summarized it himself:

- Assange is not charged (yet) and the High Court is wrong
on that point

- Assange has a fundamental right clearly recognized by
the ECHR not to surrender to Swedish police before
appearing in front of the Swedish prosecutor

- The Swedish Prosecution Service has consistently refused
to promise that Assange wouldn't be extradited to the US
once in Swedish custody; this type of promise is common
in extradition cases and within the power of the Swedish
prosecution service

- The Swedish Prosecution Service has refused the
opportunity to question Assange through videoconference,
while insisting on Assange's surrender to Swedish
custody; this is a clear and known violation of the ECHR
that the Swedish prosecutors can't ignore.

There's only one possible conclusion:
the Swedish prosecutors are acting in bad faith here.
It's very easy (and cheap) to say that after the idea has been born.

The idea of someone profiting from the trademark or patent of an idea because they 'thought of it first' may be abhorrent to you, but it's the way this patent system works. I think it's also important to distinguish between companies that think of ideas, then implement them, thus innovating in product; and companies who simply patent the ideas and use them to sue. We call those "patent trolls".
I don't know. IE's logo certainly doesn't have an arrow above it.
Trying hard is important, and trying hard over many years is also important. But for someone like me, the window is permanently shut as far as what ever biology I have been born with compared to people who excel in ways I simply cannot.

It's not just about trying -- it's about your emotional state while you're trying. If you approach hard problems with fear and dread, your mind will be full of the noise that comes with anxiety, and your cognitive functions will be reduced because your dopamine and serotonin levels will be lower than when you're doing something you love.

Furthermore, if hard problems put you in a state of anxiety and fear, you'll probably be inclined to avoid them more than someone who gets excited at the thought of tackling them. But if you can get to a point where you love them, then the whole complexion of things changes.

This has parallels in working out and exercising. One of the best ways to get back in shape is to get to a point where you love working out. When you first start out it's often a chore, but if you can get over that initial hump to the point where you can't wait to get to the gym, then you're golden. If you take two equally out-of-shape people and start them on an exercise program at the same time, and one reaches the point where they love working out and the other still dreads it, which one do you think is going to make the most progress?

Alan Kay's comment about "a change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points" isn't meant to be precisely verified, it's meant to emphasize that mindset/perspective can be as important or more important than raw IQ horsepower. This study is one example of why that's true.
If it was, I think it would just be finding someone with similar views. It's interesting that different groups have different success rates.
Interesting information point to add: Chumby designed a product for Best Buy (the Insignia Infocast). Not sure how successful it was, but I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of details that we are not privy to.
He's also a little bit fond of personal attacks.
When handling options, I quite like this pattern:

var settings = $.extend({
dragable: true,
clickable: true,
ontext: 'ON',
offtext: 'OFF',
on: true,
animtime: 300
}, opts);

The $.extend method still returns a suitable object even if `opts` is undefined.

You also might want to `return this.each` so calls can be chained.

All of this is covered here: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring
The reason varnish uses autotools is that I delegated the build/release infrastructure to somebody else.

From my own time as FreeBSD release engineer I know that task must come with freedom to pick tools and methods, and therefore it does.

That doesn't mean I have to like the choice, but I have respect it, (or take over the build/release responsibility myself.)
You'll always have to deal with hairlines, so we won't stop caring about device pixels just yet.
This comment thread is a bit depressing, but ignoring that.

One of the bits about the piece that has me scratching my head a bit is whether the mess that is dependency management in OSS operating systems (and generally OSS software distribution models) matters _enough_. While I very much share the author's reaction of "can't we do better?", it also feels that optimizing that mess isn't just a design exercise as much as a social one, because OSS isn't really a bazaar but a constellation of connected more-or-less-cathedralish bazaars. And I don't know that this mess is deeply problematic (although the author does find some egregious issues).

Design happens at a specific scale, and some scales reward investment in design more than others. Designing a chair that can be mass-produced is more effective than designing a room, which can't. One could argue that designing a self-contained piece of software (e.g. the Python runtime) matters more than designing a deliberately open system (e.g. the ecosystem of Python libraries), and that the alternative (random competition, forking, etc.) is Good Enough.

[for carbon dating: had my first IT job in the early 80s, as a teenager]
If you find anything be sure to post it. I've been hunting for a nice time/datetime picker also.
It's disappointing that Apple didn't include some obvious retina friendly system preferences. System font size, ui scaling, true native retina resolution, etc.

That said I think the sky is falling impression here is overblown:

"It means my Retina display, while being 125% sharper than my the HD display on my Sony, has 44% less screen space!"

Isn't this only true if 100% of your screen is taken up by ui elements from non-updated applications? Isn't this the sort of problem that's common with early adoption?

"What it does is render the whole screen at a different resolution, say 1920×1200, and then scale it up, using the graphics hardware, to 2880×1800!
This means everything gets blurred. I.e. I get less crispness than a native 1920×1200 display would give me."

There are third party apps that will display at true 2880 x 1800:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/18/3-ways-to-run-a-retina-macboo...
I hope that you don't take the same line of thought into conversations that have other purposes though

If I'm in a situation where the demographics of Greece actually matter to an important decision, then chances are I knew I'd be in this situation beforehand and have spent plenty of time collecting, verifying and correlating every nugget of demographic fact and statistic I could lay my hand on.

But obviously sometimes haste if of the essence and then Google is great, but if I'm hanging out the pub with my mates, haste is almost never of the essence.
I don't think you even came close to answer his question.
Personally I don't think it'll catch on.
On the map I linked to, Finland and Ecuador are only different by two.
HN has templates for submissions now? Both titles read exactly like this:

Show HN: $MYAPP - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

(that was not a critic to either submission)
It tells me how uReach is different from a technical standpoint, and I realize that matters with respect to how their service (Profig) may evolve over time.
Thanks.
Are you a Markov chain? The state of the art has advanced a long way if so. Nevertheless I don't understand the point you're trying to make, except that you seem to doubt that what Tim Berners-Lee (not 'Berner') did was actually innovative.

Important innovation often comes from someone making a trivial-seeming connection between two existant but separate concepts. For better or worse, the person who makes the minor leap often gets the major credit, with little acknowledgement for those who did all the groundwork on the separate bits (but lacked the spark to join them together.) It's the creation of something novel - the linkage - that's innovative. It can be obvious in hindsight; it usually is, in fact, but it takes a certain brain to see the connection in the first place.

The world needs people who can contribute flashes of novelty, just as it needs people willing to toil for years refining, strengthening and otherwise enhancing the foundations that those flashes can dance across. In their lives, people do both all the time to various degrees. A very few, like TBL, start something truly enormous through accident of circumstance.

In 1991, hypertext wasn't new, the internet wasn't new, and network file servers weren't new; but the combination of the three to create a user-navigable web of documents independent of the underlying network was most assuredly new. In such leaps and connections the world advances.
The author of the reddit comment says something about that:

Assange is only sought by Sweden for questioning and has
not been formally charged. While the British High Court
has decided that the current advancement of the Swedish
procedure is equivalent to being charged in the UK, I
consider this ruling to be an aberration; the common-law
steeped High Court failed to understand a finer point of
the civil-law influenced Swedish penal procedure.
An enormously complex rendering and JavaScript engine. Some laughably irrelevant, trivial comments. Quite a solid proof you have there.
You should come to the escalator in the Seattle Public Library.

and/or watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbZ7jrMe4t4

this too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&...
I assume you mean the existing option pool. Try changing the pool update to "post" (the radio button at the bottom) and you will see the outcomes change.

Hypothetically, you could own 100% of your company and have an option pool of x% and never allocate it to anyone, leaving you with full ownership of the company.
I started like you but pushed the abstract idea further down to reality. I'm not good and my drawings have a mechanical aspect, or at best a crafted/regular organic style. Later I read the Loomis book, which is filled with delicious drawings of human figures, used the same principles. Use abstract references, refine, analyse.

That said, the idea of abstracting away from abstraction/interpretation is a great one that I never considered
Beware... from working on Wikitravel I can tell you that you need to be careful because most region labels do not have a precise definition.

For example, Silicon Valley is a prestigious label. There is tendency for surrounding communities to try to relabel themselves into it. Fremont, Redwood City, and Menlo Park were excluded from the original definition, but now the definition has been stretched to places as far afield as Aptos and Pleasanton.

The labels "South Bay" and "East Bay" precede the existence of Fremont. Depending on the definition used, Fremont can be slotted into either category.

Wikitravel eventually did what Craigslist does: give up and redefine the terms to mean a specific set of counties. For example, on Craigslist the term "East Bay" is defined as Alameda and Contra Costa counties. It may not be perfect, but it lets you assign the specific boundaries so that you can move on to real work instead of spending all day fussing with the boundaries.

Good luck finding what you are looking for. Just keep in mind the flaws in the result.
oh, cool. sorry, i didn't know that.
This is probably completely apparent to anyone who's had to learn an ancient language (4 years Jesuit high school Latin can I get a qui qui?!) --- to understand ancient Latin you need to learn the idiom, not because the Romans were overly fond of cliche, but because they were speaking in a different historical context in which their audience could be expected to understand that "nut" was synonymous with "toy", or Greeks could be expected not to track dates on calendars.

So just as reading the simply Yacc grammar for MRI Ruby is not a particularly great plan for mastering Ruby, learning the rules of grammar and memorizing individual vocabulary words isn't going to give you convincing conversational mastery of a spoken language.
That is, unfortunately, rather the point. Microsoft is one of the best current examples of the cathedral. The extent that FreeBSD is not-Microsoft is the exact extent that it is more bazaar-like.
Yes. I think the Swedes want to extradite Assange to face rape charges. Also, the Swedes are not Swiss. Europe is tricky, I know.
>maybe you’ll need a small pen

Actually, a fatter pen works better for writing really small, you have better control over the point. You might try this with a lot of other things, too. Many of our everyday instruments are built smaller than they really should be for optimum functionality, apparently for stylistic reasons.

I use three common sizes and shapes of notebooks or pads, all of them top opening. A credit card sized pad intended for a micro-organizer that fits easily in my wallet, just in case I don't have anything else available, also handy for shopping since I am certain not to forget it.

I use a 4x6 top opening sketchpad for a pocket notebook, it fits, barely, in my hip pocket and is big enough and stiff enough for fairly extensive note-taking when I am walking around. And I use stenographer's notebooks that just fit in my shoulder bag (a Tourist Guide bag from REI) for when I expect to be doing even more extensive note-taking.

Having to do more elaborate work to get a pad, like the OP discusses, strikes me as a bad bargain. It costs you more for less convenient note-taking. You really need something that you can and will take notes with, lots of notes, since you don't know until later usually which ones are important, so the more you write, the better. And note-taking is a skill, the more you do it, the better you will get at it.
I think it would be interesting to see the same concept applied in the reverse; i.e. have a programming requirement for math classes.

At my university, there's always an embarrassing number of Algebra 1 sections under the math dept every semester (I'd even say that just the Algebra 1 & 2 offerings make up about 30-40% of their total sessions some semesters). And if I hadn't seen some of my friends tutoring student's in those classes, I wouldn't have really believed there was a necessity for so many sections, but now I do.

People just seem to have a really hard time extracting the concept of 'thinking mathematically', from the act of doing math itself, and I'd say it's because it is so abstract; once you go past basic money/counting scenarios, the real life analogs start to break down for most people, and all they see is numbers, symbols, and mysterious rules.

Programming on the other hand, while still pretty tough to grasp if you're new to that way of thinking, seems like it might be a gentler intro to me. Not only does it tend to have a culture of more intuitive naming schemes than math, and have a faster feedback mechanism (i.e. a REPL/compiler checks your code as opposed to a math teacher), it also makes modeling more real world systems really easy early on (so people won't feel bounded to just money or whatever as their anchor back to reality), especially if the course goes into OOP at all before it's over.
New Op Ed in the NY Times:

But the confusion in London has, in fact, little if anything to do with Ecuadorean-British relations and everything to do with regional and local politics in the Western Hemisphere. And it has little to do with protecting Mr. Assange’s right to a fair trial or freedom of the press — which Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, has trampled upon at home.

Instead, it is an attempt by Mr. Correa to settle old scores with the United States, display his political prowess in the run-up to Ecuadorean presidential elections next year and make a power play for a leadership role on the Latin American left.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/opinion/why-correa-lets-as...
The morning mail is my enemy
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The OP should Google "@viewport" so his site can be accessible to mobile devices.
When they got rid of Networks. As they moved outside of schools, the natural grouping of everyone in the system around your college (and later by company) was lost. The Groups feature never really re-captured this kind of dynamic because the new groups are inherently smaller and not forced.

Another big factor was the introduction of the news feed. Now people are doing the same thing as ads (though, on a smaller scale) by posting updates and having them read through the news feeds of their friends. The old 2004 ads were the only way to communicate between users without posting on their wall.
1) Carriers want to squeeze as much profitability out of their legacy 2G and 3G networks as possible. An organization of any size (including scrappy startups) would try to extract maximum usability out of their existing resources.

2) So when patio111 and other knowledgeable HNers tell worthy and experienced developers to raise their rates and revise their pricing structures upwards it's OK, but when BDCs do it, it's not?

3) Shopping as a personal consumer, I hate it when I break down the amount that I'm paying for voice and data on a per MB basis on existing incumbents. But the eternal flame of hope continues that there will be competitors and new entrants that will eventually figure out how to disrupt and change pricing structures to take advantage of the general angst that some consumer segments feel.

At least in the past couple of years we're seeing some different pricing and access models (e.g. Republic Wireless w/ wifi offload, or Karma with capped 1GB for $14) trying to surface, but it's a tough (and probably long) slog until they can make a big enough dent that larger carriers respond in a large-scale manner.
I'm not saying the press freedom situation is comparable... Reporters Without Borders is. Maybe their index is total nonsense. I would readily believe that. However, in the absence of better data, I'll take the word of an organization dedicated to the issue, over your opinion.
Yes, I mean existing option pool.

If it doesn't do anything, why include it? Maybe change it to distributed existing stock?

All that really matters is the option pool created/allocated during the series A.
An interesting idea. If it's viable at all, though, shouldn't it be viable independently of whether a big-box chain does it?

It almost sounds like you're describing what Radio Shack should have been.
It seems that way.

I am enjoying it. I will see how far I can go.
Why would someone need a "formal" education to do this?
Those comments are trivial and irrelevant?

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. I hope I never get stuck cleaning up your messes, but chances are that someone as intellectually lazy as you -- if not you -- will leave me an uncommented code base to maintain.

The fact that you actively advocate intellectual laziness is distressing.
To answer your question about the article itself, some of its points are good. Point one ("the charges would not be rape under UK law") and point four ("Sweden could try Assange in London") seem both good and relevant. But like I said, they don't seem to have a lot of influence on the heart of the matter in this case. And I don't think it makes sense to discuss the other points without looking at the whole picture.

To bring up two concrete misgivings I have with the article:

Sweden should guarantee that there be no extradition to USA

Extradition cases are almost always a political issue, subject to treaties that are often negotiated outside of the normal legislative authorities. So there is definitely something to the objections people have to this point, and this article doesn't give justice to the objections.

By giving Assange asylum, Ecuador is protecting freedom of the press

Maybe not freedom of the press. But Equador did offer Assange political asylum. The reason is up to debate. If you take it at face value, they believe that Assange is the victim of political persecution. Otherwise you'll have to say they're trying to piss off the US, or maybe somehow protect their own interests. But they offered him asylum for a reason, and this is very relevant to discuss. In fact, it's very strange that we have a world where a former banana republic offers political asylum to a guy who's wanted in the West.
Survata (YC S12) replaces paywalls with "surveywalls"
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The subject of math reminds me of a recent encounter with a client. We had a business requirement meeting. It's not software development related, not even technically related. It's purely for me to understand their business, processes, and business rules.

One of the important business rules came up in discussion and they were arguing among themselves what's right or just trying to convince each other what the complicate rule really is. I was like, it's just a simple set of formulas if the problem was decomposed into smaller steps. After I told them about it, they were like, oh yeah, it's that simple.

The resulting math were very simple but the process to derive those was greatly benefited from higher level math training.
This absolutely accords with my experience.
Terrific website design, congratulations on the launch! I'm really just going to repeat and perhaps clarify sentiments of two other commenters below:

First, what you are offering as a product is simply too abstract for somebody to click "Purchase" without seeing an example/demo of some kind. I suggest releasing slightly out of data reports (maybe from three months ago, followed up with a quick note on how accurate it turned out to be) as free, one click PDF downloads from the home page.

Second, even with a demo I suspect you will see little traction. I think your only real hope of revenue is to continue to release data for free, get a lot of attention/users and then introduce a pricing tier. Keep it relatively modest and communicate early on that if traction picks up you will need to charge sooner or later and you should be fine.

Good luck!
Fakes are only a problem if they're falsely advertised. If something says "Rolex" but it is not, then that's a major problem. This is why trademark laws exist. But if something looks like a Rolex but says something other than "Rolex" on it, that's fine.

Samsung has never done anything remotely like appropriating Apple's trademarks, so it's all rather silly. There's huge difference between a knock-off and an outright fake.
well now I have a very strong urge to throw my cell phone
Anybody else keep getting 502 Bad Gateway errors or is it just me?
This reminds me of one of my favorite Tom Waits' quotes:

"Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now."

A lot of people I know argue against this line of thinking but they're usually missing the point. The "problem" isn't that information is readily available ("that's fine," he says) but that the exercise of wondering is often worthwhile and under-appreciated. There's value in not knowing and wondering why.
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