skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the middle of the Tirolean Alps and don't speak the local language. HN has been my outlet for 'geek talk'. Hopefully when we're back in Italy (next week! yay!) I'll have a bit more contact with various friends and contacts.
Why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11?
It's not that the chances are bigger. Consumers want you to win but lottery companies don't. You can apply more work to enhance the result in consumers' world than in lotteries' world because you will work together with consumers unlike loterry companies.
From what I understand, these scientists are merely saying that there is not enough evidence yet to instantiate the hypothesis of man-made global warming into fact. And by evidence, these guys are looking accurately descriptions of several known phenomena that affect our climate that are not yet well understood.

The scientists bring up 2 good points for science's sake - first is that scientific models need to be 'tuned' because its impossible to deal with all of the complexities of nature - this makes them susceptible to selective tuning to make them support the hypothesis. They also imply that this hypothesis is unscoped, meaning that solar, aerosel, or other factors haven't been adequately taken into account. If you want to prove the link between carbon and temperature change, prove that that observed effect isn't caused by anything else.

I also think this title is completely link-bait, because they aren't suggesting that Global warming isn't man-made. They are merely saying that the scientific evidence is not conclusive, and won't hold up in a scientific forum if there was no humanitarian agenda attached. I think its healthy for the scientific community, frankly.
This might be a silly question, but could anyone recommend a solid resource on case studies of fairly recent startups?

...wait a second, a stupid detector is going off in my head, let me check something real quick... (googles "founders at work")... well that's the one -- curiously I hadn't read it's synopsis before...

I would still be interested in further reading suggestions though if other books come to mind.?
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=435850
Totally agree with your last bit. "sometimes you have to iterate at a higher level of abstraction".

I think, anyone who wants to start a business should look at things on higher level. They shouldn't limit themselves on idea-level. Instead, they should look at business and life as one. That way, probably the advice of "never give up" sounds more relevant.

If having your own business is one of the goals in life, then, probably the only time you are pronounced failed (and should give up) is when you die (end of your runway). Otherwise, running out of cash, work on failed idea and things like that, for me, is just a temporary obstacles and you still have chances to keep playing with the knobs.
Probably this link below illustrate the point better.
http://tinyurl.com/bjh8wd

When we start looking at things in this high-level, i think the case of FamSpam to GitHub sounds more like another dial on the knob.

Just my 2c. :)
I heard though word of mouth (i.e., kind of unreliable, so I won't mention any names) that a certain company I had respected "almost died a few months after launching, because craigslist figured out how to stop us from spamming them for a couple of weeks, until we got around it".
Descartes was accustomed to working in bed until noon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes
This is my favorite HN comment ever- rushed to the kitchen and moved my coffemaker into the bedroom as soon as I read it. Can't wait to wake tomorrow and have coffee within reach!
Here's an interesting list of alarm clocks that might help:

http://www.uberreview.com/2006/03/top-ten-most-annoying-alar...
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Ask HN: Why do I always want to use an ordered dictionary?
I routinely find myself yearning for this data structure in almost every project, but I've scoured the web, and inevitably I just find forum postings saying something along the lines of "dictionaries are unordered, idiot". I usually end up just making a list and dictionary, but it strikes me as inelegant. And, if it were truly a common problem, I can't believe someone hasn't made this data structure before. So I must be doing something wrong in the way I'm thinking about these problems. Any idea what it is?
Ask HNC; Can you suggest an alternative to Gmail?
Gmail down again and I've got some emailing to do, I'm thinking of setting up an extra non-Google account. What service is a good alternative? (must be free) Thank you!
I'd been kicking around the idea of doing something like this in Javascript for a while. My working title was 'TimeWriter', but I never got beyond some notes on delta formats and UI, and discussions with friends.

There's lots more potential in the graphical dimension: sliders, text color/weight that varies with age/volatility; timelines of activity (gross keystrokes or net adds/deletes) that go by either keystroke-time or clock-time.

Also an interesting thing to think about: how to build an efficient text index that can find any word or phrase that was ever present, even momentarily (or as the prefix of another word mid-typing) -- and plot its positions and lifespans.

Of course with smallish works just replaying every tick and grepping every frame could work. However, my initial inspiration for the TimeWriter idea was hosting an indefinitely lengthy personal journal. Each day, you could edit with abandon, knowing that instant search could find any fragmentary thought (and surrounding context) you'd ever jotted. The freedom of a clean sheet of paper, whenever necessary, with the confidence of perpetual perfect recall, when desired.
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Samurai were encouraged to meditate on their deaths and to think, "If today were my last day, would it have been a worthy one to be my last?" When I've taken this practice I've found myself working on more important things, spending time with people I care about more, and generally being happier. Highly recommended, quick further reading:

The Budoshoshinshu at Google Books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gzFsCPYJhqEC&printsec=f...
You are right, I don't know why you were modded down.
Interesting that I can access my Gmail account from Android but not the laptop...
Gained a base ability to discuss some interesting subjects I had no familiarity with before. Picked up a number of various tips, tricks, and best practices. Some really intelligent commentators that consistently offered interesting thinking points - pg, unalone, and patio11 are 3 of my favorites.

But if I'm to be really, truly honest with myself - Hacker News is entertainment for me, masquerading as productive time. When I focus and read a novel or a piece of nonfiction or a scientific paper, I get a hell of a lot more long term, practical gain than I do reading HN. For quite a while, I thought HN was a great use of time. It is - but it's cooldown/relaxation time, and I won't be fooled into thinking otherwise again.
Wow, this is a really poorly written article. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be "news" or "opinion", but either way, there is not much substance... and the writing isn't that great either.

It seems like the author thinks Skype helps terrorism by allowing terrorists to communicate securely. This is true, it probably does. But by that logic, Wikipedia aids terrorism by letting terrorists get encyclopedia articles for free. We shouldn't let the "terrorism" boogeyman take our right to privacy away. There is plenty of reason for ordinary people to want secure VoIP. Maybe you don't want your boss listening in on conversations with your family. Maybe you don't want a casual eavesdropper to listen in on your conversation and take something the wrong way.

Anyway, if Skype sells out to the governments of the world, it's trivial for the terrorists to use something else. I could probably write an encrypted VoIP app in an evening. So if you want to eliminate secure communication to aid the fight on terrorism, you are just giving up your own rights. You won't have secure phone calls, but you can bet the terrotists will.
Thanks Kqr2, this looks great!
Let's replace "VoIP" with "paper" -

We have heard a lot of stories about how paper has been used by terrorist and criminals for illegal activities. The recent Mumbai attack on Indian soil makes it more compelling for paper to support Lawful intercept requirements. So what makes this kind of communication more attractive to illegal activities. Hard to read the conversation. The regular PSTN and wireless communication standards have very good wiretapping capabilities and most of the vendors support Lawful Intercept features, using which, voice or text conversation can be wiretapped by Law enforcement agencies. Though the FCC has been pushing for Lawful Intercept requirement for reading and writing, very few vendors are really compliant with the requirement
Does it matter if he came up with it? I think brilliance isn't always in coming up with the idea. Often it is the ability to see one idea of many, the one that appears ordinary to everyone else, and zero in on it.
Now it's even
How can I have a part-time job so I have time for my startup?
I've been freelancing but I realized that I need to put so much time and effort in my freelancing venture than in my startup (finding clients, paperwork, etc.). So it's finally becoming a distraction.

As said in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142239) it seems impossible to find a part-time programming job. I've been thinking even about working part-time on a retail store or a restaurant, but I would prefer a job where I can exercise my programming skills.

Is it a better option to get a full time job for a year saving money, and then quitting and working full time on my startup?

Thanks.
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I will always give The Harvard Crimson and the press at large more credit than Mark for spreading Facebook.
I can confirm the Italian one. "Per me e` tutto arabo", which also makes sense in the context of their thesis that the "incomprehensible" language is one with which the speakers have some contact. The former Republic of Venice had a lot of contact with the "levant", and whereas Greek didn't seem to be problematic (the Venetian dialect incorporates, supposedly, a number of Greek loan words such as 'piron' for fork), I guess Arab was, and thus became the incomprehensible language.
I've learned there are a lot of people out there that think the same way I do. For example, I agree with most of the comments on this thread. I've also learned to get off my ass and start making frequent posts to my own blog and not being afraid of sharing it with the community.
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I never get these registration hassles people mention. Does the NYT not ask for registration coming from, say, the UK?
Wow. Maybe karma needs to be more meaningful...perhaps a reflection of who voted for you and what percentage of page views voted for you. It's not that I want to see social stratification edified on HN; but if your comment is voted for by users who have earned more karma through their own comments, shouldn't that predict that your contribution is more meaningful to the community? It might be easier to just say 'a sort of collaborative filter for karma weighting.' Even something as simple as a Pearson correlation might be fun to play with.
In the USA, you can use (TM) without any filing as long as no one else has a claim to your mark. You need to pay and do the filing process for a Registered Trademark, which carries a bit extra weight and allows you to use (R). (TM) is probably fine, and in my opinion - more recognizable. The (R) is good if you're a bit smaller and competitors might consider for gunning for you/misrepresenting.

For instance, Salesforce.com has the (R) going on:
http://salesforce.com

Gmail is doing the (TM):
http://mail.google.com

My rough intuition is that the bigger you are, the better slapping (TM) on works, even if you're registered. Both (R) and (TM) add credibility, but I think the (R) works better as deterrent to somewhat savvy competitors, whereas the (TM) might be more recognized by consumers. Most people know that TM is trademark, and don't know what (R) means.
What every web startup ought to know about public data sets ?
Gimme a hot startup idea? and I asked him to look at Amazon AWS and Public data sets.
Here's a library for it in Python: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html
There is also bus scheme:

http://www.rubyinside.com/busscheme-ruby-scheme-interpreter-...
I tend to frequently restart sentences as well. I have found that pushing myself to quickly get an extremely rough draft down makes me more efficient. This rough draft helps me focus my thoughts in the beginning on what I want to say. I can come back later and change how I say it.

If I don't do this--and I frequently don't--I find my output grinds to a halt with my brain both creating and editing sentences at the same time.

What are your thoughts on this?
I have these other links for interfacing openCV with python:

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/PythonInterface

http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~gb/wp/blog/2007/02/04/python-opencv-...

http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home5/pham0004/pycv/ "A Computer Vision Package for Python Incorporating Fast Training of Face Detection"

http://www.instructables.com/id/Using-openCV-1.0-with-python...
Good for Etherpad. Features that enable narcissism often do very well. :)

However, I have to admit that I think such playback would make me a better writer.
Cute use of a Lisp comment as a temporary placeholder towards the end.
Meh. It was a bad joke on my behalf and didn't add anything of value, so I deserved the down vote beating.

I enjoy making bad jokes though so it'll probably happen again. I'll just have to even them out with the occasional thoughtful comment.

In fact this mini thread really isn't meaningful to anyone reviewing the submission anyways, and you should downvote me again.
I don't know about other people, but I have always heard what I'm writing in my head before I type it out. Sometimes, especially if I'm a little distracted, this produces misspelled words that would be pronounced correctly or homonyms like "hear" instead of "here".

On the chance that it might help, I think the funnel is something like:

-ideas/shapes which are always moving around->selecting the appropriate/better/good enough one out of these by focusing on it more. this always feels kind of like a sorter appraising different things bubbling up and sinking on the surface of a pool.

-this selected one at the fore gets structured to be said probably more precisely that feeling right before you actually say something. if this is going well, little is lost between the thought and what comes out of the structuring, but sometimes the thoughts are much worse from the process.

-this structured thing gets more concrete as I touch type it and somehow grammar and punctuation get in there.

-this gets a look over as it is coming out for errors. is it gibberish or not, is the grammar correct, do I like it.

Depending on what I'm concerned with different amounts of effort are going into those different sections. I think the error gets put in pretty close to when it gets typed out.
I usually want that when what I really need is ordering but for some reason I want key-based/random access to the values.

I think Ruby added this recently. I'm not using it yet. A crappy hack can just dump the next/prev key into the value, plus a pointer to the first, and drop them all in a hash. It's not really pretty, but would give you ordering if you want it. Another hack is to store just the keys in a sorted list and keep the values in the hash (but this is equally inelegant to the list+hash hack and it has the same maintenance overhead).

I think most of the ordered-hashes are implemented with something like list pointers between the hash keys, but then again I haven't looked too closely under that kimono.

Edit: trees are also a good compromise.
I didn't realize that inflation was that high.

I also have an anecdotal reference point. A friend of mine who worked at the same company I do in the dot com years made over 80k in an entry level position. I make significantly less than 80k right now, albeit in a different field.
YouTube probably doesn't deserve to be lumped with Twitter, Tumblr, or Flickr, but you're right -- Facebook has been a part of my every day fabric for a few years now, and it's only growing.

My parents, cousins, aunts, and uncles all use it, for goodness' sake.

Sites I'm in contact with every day: Facebook, Google (search, mail, reader), YouTube, Twitter, and HN.

As an aside, I honestly think Twitter will become very mainstream. I'm already seeing more pop-culture references every day, and have friends I never would have expected to see on it following me. It's certainly busted out of the Silicon Valley bubble, which honestly surprised me a lot. A year ago I thought of Twitter as the quintessential by-the-Valley-for-the-Valley startup.
I learned there is a place where I can find smart and insightful articles mostly about computer science but also humanity in general, whereas most of the Internet is about silly stuff (yes digg I'm talking to you !)
heard of couch surfing, but this sounds way cooler!
At the risk of freaking you out, wormholes also play in space dimension, not in time :)
There are two dilemmas with part-time programming. 1) I suspect that most employers prefer to attempt to extract all possible programming productivity from their employees, and ask/expect them to work more than full-time (SV startup bias,) so a part-time employee is really like a quarter or a third -- in management's eyes -- of a "fully dedicated" employee, and may not be worth 2) the worse overhead/productivity ratio of part-time programming. Unfortunately, many organizations have high process overhead for the task of programming. This may be comprised of meetings, email and so on. A part-timer still has to be "kept in the loop", and the effort to do so does not scale back linearly with the scaling back of time worked.

Have you minimized your expenses?
I have found that I am dead in the morning after a really hard day of rock climbing. Maybe it is because I am usually sore all over my body.
Actually this is pretty good advice. I can pretty much sleep anywhere, floors included. When I wake up in bed, the warmth and comfort prevents me from leaving. When I wake up from sleeping on the floor however, I want to leave because it isn't very comfortable.
I like the bit about Managing Your Boss where the workplace now is more of a symbiotic relationship. Interesting realization when mentioned.
#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import braces
These predication markets are garbage. Future expectation of a commodity price can be expressed using futures and this is the generally the way in which a trader (or collectively, the market) expresses a view on the future price of the commodity.

And, combine that with arbitrage pricing of futures and you'll see that the current price of your commodity, in this case, the Dow index, includes these future expectations in its current price.
My workout guarantees I am perpetually sore. It sucks for a couple weeks, but after a few months you get used to it and you actually do have more energy... though paradoxically require more sleep to recharge. As long as I hit the minimum number of hours, though, I feel like a million bucks.
Buy a total market index fund. That is literally everything you need to know about asset selection if you start an IRA in your twenties.
what file format(s) do you use for configuration files?

YAML.

directoriesToBackup:
/media/programming:
exclude:
- /media/programming/log_files
- /media/programming/temp_files
/media/documents:
exclude:
- /media/documents/archive
I have learnt that there are a lot of bootstrappers and its not that hard to make a profitable business :)
Honestly, though, xml is a perfectly valid format for storing such configuration.

Not when a human has to touch it without tool support.
I don't work for Opera or any browser company. I am merely an Opera user. The problem is that the marketing is dishonest. Generally people take offense to that alone but in addition, they are shedding negatively light on other browsers (chrome, opera, firefox, even ie) that have had the features and functionality they are claiming to have pioneered.
My goal was not to draw in Opera users with the post. My goal was to bring the truth to light.
Java has TreeMap for that purpose.
I am in the process of doing this right now but I can't tell you my secret. I can, however, sell you my secret to making $30,000 for a low price of $500.
The action is to document the lies that Apple is spreading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fearphage/sandbox/Deceptiv...
Matt Welsh could also claim some credit for making Linux popular. He wrote most of the user oriented documentation back when Linux was new, and founded the Linux Documentation Project.
Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author?

Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.
As others have mentioned - a great experience to watch PG writing essays. However, I was put off by the speed. Is this because PG was typing so fast or is it the player? Is it possible to control the speed (other than the Prev/Next link at the top)?
Chrome passes fully (100/100 and speed) and came out before Safari 4. This would make them at the least 2nd place and definitely not the only.
Why would you allow the rendering engine to be used interchangeably with the browser?

Even if you allow for this bending of the facts, it would mean CHROME was first in a lot of things (Acid3 for instance) and not Safari. They are both based on the webkit engine.
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These horoscopes are actually faked by you, sent to your friends anonymously. That's the difference...
"There are a number of trends that are starting to pull in the opposite direction. From concerns about privacy and security"

Ironically I think it's the tech crowd/geeks (us) who are most resistant to webapps. We can see the privacy,security,reliability issues. The average users however, cannot. They're already embracing webapps.
I've learned who hackers are and what they do/like. There is often a misconception about what great programmers do and this site helps a lot to know and eventually join the hackers community (if it can be called like this).
I told the dean of the college of engineering at my ol' university that alumni such as myself should be tapped for writing articles to the current students with info "we wish we knew back then." More "real world" stuff about the job market in the valley, etc.

He said it was interesting but never acted on it :(
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The low tech version that was supposedly used by native americans was to drink a lot of water the night before. I agree with "comatose_kid" though - young children are a great way to get up early - my alarm goes off at 7:15, but our daughter usually goes off about 20 minutes before hand.
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