skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i try to live by the motto 'no regrets.'

instead of wishing you weren't a meth head, use the experience to your advantage. help other meth heads get clean, since you can relate with them more than someone who has never been there.

wishing you didn't do something rarely helps.

life shouldn't be measured by success or failure. life just is. if you ever get a chance read siddhartha by herman hesse, a brilliant story of self-discovery.
Original author here: I backed the book and have been eagerly following along. Really cool stuff.
Thanks, I have no idea how I didn't find that.
Live your life in phases. Work hard when you're working. Take solid blocks of time off when you can. Make each startup you try in a different industry.

Think back on a vacation you took a few years ago. Now try to remember other weeks that year. It's variety that builds memories and leads to creativity.

The more your life is a big homogenous block, the less you will have to look back on. "The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime".

Create some memories, but create them with people. Memories you can share are so much richer than memories alone. This is one important reason to preserve relationships.
I believe the author got it backwards. I don't think most artists follow the Golden Ratio (at least not consciously, or since this appeared in literature), as much as this ratio has a tendency to creep up over and over on people's works.

I have a theory about this, and it has relation to ocular dominance [1]. People who photograph or shoot firearms might know about this: our brains tend to favor one of our eyes (just like left/right hand dominance), so we have a kind of overlap where the image we see is not 50/50 between each eye. That might point to a mental bias to find slightly unbalanced compositions (that approach the GR) more pleasant than completely balanced ones.

The last sentence - that we find unbalanced compositions actually more balanced - is empirical, not just speculation from my part. Any artist knows that intuitively too.

I don't know if there are papers about that, if you know please comment!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance
K-means clustering explained and visualized with d3
I have a million idea. I have no idea if they're worth anything.

Here's one idea:

Something that does most of what Calibre does, but without being the awful experience that is calibre. Some GUI that can convert ebooks between different formats is one part. A gui to standardise file names would be something else. A catalogue so you know what you have would be a third part. But not all in one ugly weird god-awful gui mess like calibre.
It's going to be interesting to see how future generations' memories now that everything is being documented in such detail with the internet.
> We are a nation ruled by laws, not people.

That's the Civics class version. The real version is more about realpolitik. People make the laws, and use violence (or the threat of it) to carry them out. And these laws will predictably reflect distributions of power in society.

When we had slavery, those laws deserved to be broken without hesitation. Repeatedly. Virtually no one believes all laws, in each country, should be followed. In fact, direct action basically means you will not Do As You're Told, and thereby disobey someone's law.

(What does the US goverment do in places like the Middle East and South America? Try to remove governments which make laws they don't like, and install ones which do.)

So back to your example, yeah, no one sheds a tear if someone returns paintings to their rightful possessors, having taken them back from thieving Nazis (and their shady beneficiaries). Same goes for the British Museum and anything they stole via colonialism.
Pretty sure crowdtilt (www.crowdtilt.com) allows you to do this already. (Full disclosure - I'm friends with the founders)
hmm I am most creatively intelligent in a state between sleeping and waking. Everything just flows. But sadly, it only lasts not more than a minute. Then I am awake and wistful about the sudden drop in what feels like 10-15 IQ points.
But what do journals do? I know what they did: they were clearinghouses of current scientific knowledge. Now, in the days of the ArXiv, what do they do?

The only answer I can come up with is: help academics gain tenure and promotion. Except for a few flagships (Science, Nature, Cell, etc) most journals are not current, and are not read. Issues are not received with bated breath by people rushing to find out what the cutting edge is. Instead, everyone who cares has gotten the preprints, and everyone else doesn't care.

Arguing about the profitability of journals feels like arguing about the business models of buggy whip manufacturers.
Yes (well, employer was/is a paying customer).

If they're shutting it down because it isn't sustainable, that's fine, I don't expect them to run the service as a charity (we have freenode for that!) - but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Carter was leading Reagan in polling in September 1980. There has been a lot written about the survey methods, but given what some of the 2012 primaries have shown about polling, I think listening to pollsters in this election will be just as off.
so this brilliant kid, is allowed a different set of rules from the rest of the populace? he committed a crime with the very intention of stealing and was caught. as a modern society we have rules to curb this behavior - obviously, Aaron, by your post, is above this and needs his own set of rules.
Ask HN: Am I too late with my startup idea?
My friend and I have been working on an idea that we believe has great potential. This was somewhat validated by hearing yesterday that a competitor is releasing their product at the end of the month which is very similar to ours. However, we've only been working on it for about 2 months and need maybe another 2-4 months to release.

One thing that's similar between both of our products is that users build up their profile with ranking/awards as they interact with the site, and since we're targeting the same group of users, we're worried that since we are going to be beat to the market, those users won't be interested in signing up with our product and building up their profile again.

What should we ask ourselves to see if we should abandon our project, or continue? Any other insight?
Like a cocktail party but online.
What's I'd like to see is a library that can extract multi-column text into a readable format. From looking at the source of the HTML here, they're doing it with absolute positioning. Nothing wrong with that for display purposes, but I'd like to have a library that can extract text meaningfully from a multi-column PDF.
This looks good. It seems like just the right time for this, and I like the collection of topics.
Thanks! could you please point to the link of 4HWW and could you please upvote, so that it gets more eye balls.
I just used the title from the article itself, to do anything else is just as likely to get it changed by the mods. I've ceased trying to provide better, more informative titles, they just get changed and my efforts are wasted.
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Good tool, i would suggest to place and index.html in /uploads/ so i cant view other peoples uploads.
HN is not homogenous.
Hit play
It was mentioned in the blog post, but probably not everyone will read it. There's a legal defense fund for Aaron Swartz:
https://free.aaronsw.com/
> That being said, if LinkedIn enabled folks to follow without connecting, that could be very interesting indeed.

I thought that was the purpose of the groups.
Why is Dart keeping certain cruft from other languages?
Continue. Your only competitor is "nobody cares you exist" and the same goes for the other dudes. You'll both have beaten the odds if you reach the point where people are actually choosing between your products.
I don't recall ESR ever writing about fuck you money, and Google doesn't turn up anything.
I guess I'll be that guy: is there a downloadable sample available somewhere?
Software and Algorithms: Damerau-Levenshtein Edit Distance
That's a nice way to put it. That's exactly why these inventions are so interesting: they seem give insight in to problems of another order of magnitude.
What about that book he is selling?
Is that any good? Have some of you even read it yet?
Because they are the rules we've adopted to make society, the markets, contested access to scarce resources, drug safety, or what- have- you work. Sometimes there's more than one set of workable rules, but we have to pick one.
I'm not a developer or a founder but I hope I can help.

My advice would be to look at the positive side of this. Watch carefully what works and what doesn't work in your competitors product.

See what problems they face and fix them through your own service. That way, when you release your product, even if it's a few months after, you're going to have all the problems they have fixed.

Long story short, you could use their product as your own "alpha testing" so you can make your own better than theirs. Hope it helps. Good luck!
Will you be able to stay ahead of the competition in the long run? Do you feel that you have a longer term vision than them?

Our startup is in a very similar spot where around our launch date 5 other competitors launched; now there are over 40.

Most of our competitors though are stuck in the niche that for us was just the most obvious place to start. We're starting to expand to a much broader market and have a multi-year roadmap of features and functionality to add; which means that we're by no means out of the race yet.

In general, it's always a marathon. There are always others and there always will be. The real question is if you will be able to last longer and get farther than they will.
I actually left that browsable on purpose, i thought browsing other peoples favicons would be something quite interesting. Its not something i feel needed protecting.
Contract or FTE?
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Spammy rewrite:

http://gigaom.com/video/netflix-canada-caps-human-rights-vio...
Woah, that did not exist yet when I made my comment. Thanks.
I never had experience interviewing someone with your background, but I will try to give my thoughts.

They are two steps here, first to get the on-site interview and then to pass the interview. You talked about problems in both of them.

First, how to get the interview. For me, the trick is to get a reference and apply to the right position. You have specific background in some languages and environment. It is hard for the companies to decide where to put you. If possible, start with networking with people in your target companies. Get to them to know you first, they will help you on finding the right position to apply to.

About the Twitter manager who didn't reply. Try again, with other methods. Find a direct reference instead of simply email him. Or you can hang out with some other Twitter engineers first and they may help you out.

Second, for the interview part, there is little description here so I am not sure if you did anything wrong. Generally, solve the problem by working and discussing with the interviewer; showing your passion; and relate yourself to the company. It is hard for the interviewer to see the value of your project and weigh them during the interview, solving the problems they give is more important.

Also, there might be a bias since you have the major bank background. I cannot elaborate or back that up though.
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I'm a tech lead working on the feed backend at LinkedIn. I work both on storage and feed relevance. Happy to answer any questions if I can. I will say we're always looking for passionate engineers, especially those with a background in machine learning or information retrieval.
Why do you want to work at a startup?
Submitting this primarily for my non-technical YC batchmates - Colin is a good friend of mine who was very supportive as I became a software developer. These are great resources from a tough but awesome teacher. Yes, this is on @Referly so Colin will earn money if you buy through his links.
Speaking as a sound engineer, that's a bit like saying you can paint a masterpiece for the price of some brushes, tubes of paint, and a bit of canvas. It takes a large investment of time (which has a significant opportunity cost) to become skilled in this area. Many excellent musicians are poor or mediocre engineers, and vice versa. The cheaper and more ubiquitous recorded music is, the higher consumer expectations are: a late-night jam recorded in a hotel room or a rough-edged recording of a live show won't get the time of day from most people. The shortest route to a breakthrough these days is to be pretty and make a Youtube video, but that too is easier said than done.
You'll get tired quickly from standing

Agree. Not to be overlooked. Standing ~8 hrs non-stop requires athletic fitness and good posture. One would be surprised. Your shoes, etc. need to be supportive. Any lack of support or posture will make itself known. =D

For those who type have you had issues with your posture standing? I've never used a standing desk but would be concerned that putting weight forward and looking down would be tiresome or fatiguing?

For long periods, it's usually chest out shoulders back and head level (like the army). As off balance element in the spinal column requires a lot of energy to keep upright, otherwise.
I'd suggest going through a reference rather than to push your way in the front door. If someone is told by someone they already trust that you can deliver that's going to be a lot more effective than you telling them yourself.
Have you tried http://hackerjobs.co.uk/ -- it's ran by a HN user.
Wrong. "The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done." -- Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88 (1935)

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5318644154387676...
First thing that comes to mind is maybe you're underselling your successes in your resume. In particular, if you've been working a long time in the banking sector and you don't mention sufficiently prominently that you have experience outside of that domain, then you could get pigeonholed.

Second would be that there is something about your non-technical skill-set that is sending up red flags. What feedback did google UK give you after the rejection? Was it a bad fit technically or culturally?
So do you ever wish to use your a2dp headset with both your desktop and your tablet and your phone? Took me forever to find one that could do two pairings, have yet to find three.

I'd love a keyboard I could pair to all three as well, but don't know how that would work either (maybe a selector for which device it should send to)

When I see this sort of thing I think "KVM switch without the switch" (monitor connected to multiple machines, keyboard, mouse, and speakers similarly, if only where I have a desktop and a place to put my laptop (2 machines) but that isn't the use case these guys have in their head, its put your laptop down and 'dock' which is great for that case but I'd love them to put enough hooks in that I can meet my perhaps unusual use case as well.
Just got back into node.js this past week and I think its a great change up from RoR(day job). I'm using the socket.io module and seeing as this guy's responsible for that... I figured I'd support him and order a copy, plus I like reading other perspectives on programming topics. Thanks!
I was expecting to find this item in the list before I opened it, more so was I disappointed when it wasn't there. I only keep a very small amount of (mostly) "healthy" food, such as grapes, a pepper, a tomato, an apple or a lemon, for refreshment.
I really wish there was a ruby motion demo. I'd be fine with all kinds of restrictions (no iPad, simulator-only, whatever), I'd just really like to try it out before I take the leap.

Background: I wrote an iPhone app back in the dark days (2.0 beta, in the store on launch day), so I'm familiar with old iOS stuff. I'd like to pick it back up, but I'd be interested in trying out rubymotion along with modern (ARC, blocks etc.) obj-c.
Really, we should be using double square brackets. We're not aiming for POSIX compliance and double square solves a lot of problems.
A guide to CG animations from 1964
Pro tip(and something that patio11 excels at): Talk to people who aren't engineers or otherwise in the software industry. They make notoriously difficult customers.
If anyone is interested in the historical development of these practices (as Gates mentioned), they are known (in Latin) as ars memoria. They were extremely common in ancient Greece, but (ostensibly) came under attack the the development of writing (Plato complained bitterly about it). They were revivified in the Renaissance, and were connected to a whole host of linguistic studies, including the development of "universal" or "artificial" languages, and, interestingly, cryptography.
About 20 or so, but their responses have been much more scattered. It's harder for them to pinpoint their problems, so we've decided to shift focus to doctors for the time being.
The Literate Geek: Seriously, Amazon, WTF?
OP applied to Google and Facebook. He's not looking for work at a startup. He's desperate for a place of work, and that's it.
Bat swarms and game AI aside, what are the real world applications of something like this? It strikes me as significantly less useful than say a neural net.
http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Workweek-Anywhere-Expanded/...

http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/

http://thisweekinstartups.com/

hope this helps!
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While that's certainly true, I'd hesitate against thinking you know a lot about the market even if you consider yourself part of it. Your market might be a lot more fragmented and diverse then you think -- it's still worth assuming that you'll have to learn everything about it.
I had several clients on DreamHost and all of them have had some kind of problem, whether it's unacceptable downtime or MySQL DBs crashing and not being restored for 3+ days. I've spent a lot of time and effort moving clients off of DreamHost, so I don't know how I feel about this.
Thanks for the advice. I think I have less trouble passing the interview (Google — I hope — is the case where false negative has happened) compared to getting there. On the HN I read a lot about smaller companies looking for all-rounders and I try to position myself as such when I apply. The trouble here is that I see very little positions of that sort being advertised. Startups seem to like RoR and Django juniors the most. I guess, networking is the answer here, as you point out.

Finance industry in London is very insulated (i.e. people never leave banks except for other banks because of the huge salary difference banks able to offer), so networking is a hard thing to crack quickly. I'm working on it though, so at least this I do right.
The Wiley page has some:

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119962595...
A comparison would be nice...
nonfiction books rarely become "classics", that doesn't mean they're not important or worth reading.
In vivo, IIRC, there's a neighboring effect. If you take too lump of cells separated by a small space, they will grow and fill the gap will functioning specialized cells similar to the one in the lump. It only works for small distances. The scaffold might act as a structural guidance.
There are many benefits to projects like this.
I would argue that this thread is the biggest benefit - people are sharing knowledge on shell scripting, and I'll bet you one hamburger that at least 5 people learn something new as a result.

That makes it worth it :-)

It also gets people thinking, being creative and doing something "fun". Sometimes you just have to do fun things and see where they lead.
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Notifications were the only feature that made me think "wow, that's cool". Phone LED notifications are great, but sometimes my phone isn't visible.
Iraq apparently has a thriving market for folks who hack IEDs (looking at the creativity in their design is a testament to that). I probably get one or two inquiries a month from folks who are looking to make a "garage door opener that is hard to interfere with" from folks with IPs in that area (Libyia/Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia). I'm sure there is a huge garage door opening problem but I cannot in good conscience respond as effectively as I might like to someone who is really curious about wireless controls.

Part of the hacking ethic for me, and granted mine arose more from curiosity than some external motive of profit or 'lulz', is something along the Hippocratic oath of not doing harm. I would hope such a hackerspace in Iraq would have that as a pre-requisite for using the facilities, but I realize that one person's terrorism is another person's overthrow of oppression. I try to step out when it gets to debating the greater good.
Thanks egiva!
Work on your network. Your _social_ network. Most companies hire based on the following priority:

1) Can we hire someone internally?
2) Can we hire someone we know via a connection?
3) Who has the best resume?

9 times out of 10, someone is found in the first two options. So, the first step should be getting on the radar of companies you'd like to work at, then let the resume be the ammo to help seal the deal.
Their own statement at the time said:

> “The criminal investigation and today’s indictment of Mr. Swartz has been directed by the United States Attorney’s Office,” said a statement released by JSTOR on July 19. “It was the government’s decision whether to prosecute, not JSTOR’s. As noted previously, our interest was in securing the content. Once this was achieved, we had no interest in this becoming an ongoing legal matter.”

http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N30/swartz.html

unfortunately, the full statement link on their site is no longer live.