skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your question is lacking a lot of additional detail that would make it easier to make a suggestion.

My first question is, why do you think you're going to just "walk in" to a job at these companies? It would seem that if you can just get a job at the companies you listed you should also have sufficient connections to raise some money for your startup on agreeable terms.

So, I'm not sure that your options as listed are realistic.

Regarding any patent you've filed on work that you've already done, these should be no issue to any new employer. You would want to ensure they are aware of this beforehand to make sure any patent-grant clauses in an employment agreement have proper exceptions, just to eliminate potential future confusion.
Right, here's the parent comment to that one, which is also relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693779

Here's one "theoretical" justification of the idea. Just to establish notation, Bayes tells us to maximize:

P(W|A) = P(A|W) P(W) / P(A) \propto P(A|W) P(W)

where we drop the last factor because we only want to vary W, so we don't care about factors depending on only A. (\propto is "is proportional to")

But instead of religiously following the Reverend's advice, we choose to maximize:

f(W|A) = P(A|W) P(W)^a

for some a > 0. Taking logs, this is equivalent to maximizing

g(W|A) = log P(A|W) + a log P(W)

What are these terms doing? The first is the likelihood which measures agreement of data A to hypothesis W. The second is the prior which measures chance of the hypothesis W.

You can look at the generalization (a != 1) as introducing a lagrange multiplier into the maximization. With the lagrange multiplier, the procedure becomes to "maximize agreement of hypothesis to data subject to the constraint that the hypothesis must be this likely". You then choose the lagrange multiplier to mediate the tradeoff between these two desirable goals ("agrees with data" vs. "likely to happen a priori").

Note that since we're just maximizing, it does not matter which term we weight with the constant. Weighting the first term with 1/a is the same as weighting the second with a.

For reasons like this, it is common for a prior to have a leading factor of some sort (in the exponent of the distribution).
Nice article, but an unfortunate title. It should be "taught how to fail." The point is that students aren't taught how to deal with failure, how to turn it to their advantage.
Please apologize for not posting the results, as I did not really mean them to be important in themselves.
The point was not the price/quality of coffee, but the fact that we can ask a question and get 40 replies in matter of hours from all over the world, for free.
Here's the results anyway
https://www.facebook.com/tripluca/posts/10151133967508483?co...

maybe somebody can come up with something more meaningful/interesting/valuable than the coffee price.
Journalled softupdates is much better than mere journalling.

I don't know what the current state of ZFS on Linux is, but last time I looked it was done with a very fragile FUSE setup.

I remember hearing rants from FreeBSD VM people about how Linux did superpages wrong, but I don't know any of the details there.
I started their iOS book without any objective c knowledge and I'm doing fine. If you are an experienced programmer and want to dive right into iOS, I say go for it. If you like to learn conservatively, read the obj c book first.
hahah funny
If you see $10 on the street, won't you pick it up?
Don't forget kqueue/libdispatch. Yes, with epoll and friends you can essentially reproduce kqueue's functionality, but there are some really interesting things you can do when all that functionality is available in one place and you have a library like libdispatch written on top of it.
i covered this and many other questions on technical diligence in my blog: http://blog.pasker.net/2007/08/28/a-high-tech-entrepreneurs-...
The real test if it's actually doing anything is to set "LTE only" and see if you still have a connection.
well, this is an interesting point. Google can pick up and organize information only when it's been digitalized.
With this experiment I was able to generate it.
None of the people who wrote was planning to write down the price and quality of coffee in the next days.
Right, libdispatch is a OSXism which I've never used because I like to write portable code. -- but if you know that your code is always going to run on systems which support it, it's definitely something which can be useful.
Facebook app UI through the years
Did they consider changing the wording to say "support our product, donate $10"? In other words set the anchoring point to something other than $0. It'd be interesting to see if that helps.
lower resolution

Not so. The only laptop with more pixels than a Nexus 10 is Apple's 15" Retina Macbook Pro. The 13" has the same WQXGA resolution as the Nexus, and every other laptop on the market is lower. For a short time, the iPad 3 was actually the highest resolution portable computer on the market, though a few obsolete mobile workstations matched its resolution.

Laptop makers ought to get off their collective asses and do something about this.
Gigaom are missing the point. It's unlikely that Facebook targeted ads on third party sites are going to convert at a substantially better basis than Google Ads where Google has a huge depth of expertise and data on optimising for site content.

The biggest problem in ad networks isn't cost-per-click, it's fraud. And that's where Facebook has a huge advantage, Facebook has a much deeper level of expertise of telling a real user from a fake user. And that's Facebook's edge if they decide to roll out an ad network.
"Actually, if you compare to that age group specifically, it would seem to make the number even "better". In America, suicides in the age group of 15 to 24 are the third leading cause of death, with 4000 suicides in 2004 [1] (whereas if you compare to the general population here it is the 11th leading cause of death)."

Not necessarily. The #10 cause for the general population may be deadlier than the #1 cause for 15-24 year olds. That Here are some made up numbers:

15-24 year olds: 0.1% deaths/year, of which 10% due to suicide

general population: 1% deaths per year, of which 5% due to suicide

That would have 0.01% of all 15-24 commit suicide each year, but 0.05% of the general population.

As I said, I made up the numbers. However, I do not think they are completely out of range. 1% deaths in a stable population gives a life expectancy of 100 years, but the US population is growing and hence relatively young. Also, looking at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf, Figure 3, I think 1% is a reasonable guess at that figure.

The x% due to suicide numbers likely are exaggerations (a Zipf curve will have trouble getting to 5% in rank 10)
Last year, I bought quite a few Christmas gifts that I found via Facebook ads. I don't think I've ever clicked on a Google ad intentionally, but I've clicked dozens of Facebook ads. Pretty impressive, really.
Solving the chicken-egg marketplace problem with liquidity hacks
Why would they care? From their perspective, a click is good - no matter where it comes from.
I'm surprised to see so much complaining about the length of the name. Do you guys not have auto-complete?
This article is more alarmist about this than is really justified (IMHO). What they're talking about is Facebook creating a display advertising business, a move so natural (IMHO) that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

I'm just this will rattle the tinfoil hate brigade but this certainly isn't "selling your data" as such. Publishers would make a call to FB Ad servers that based on whatever algorithm they choose, would then serve you ads, just like every other display business.

Facebook, in addition to knowing what you do, what you've liked and who you're connected to on Facebook, also has a history of pretty much every Website you've visited since they introduced the "Like" button. The comparisons to Google's intent-based advertising on Google search is somewhat misleading as this business would be closer to, say, Google's DoubleClick, a much smaller business that operates on CPM rather than a CPC basis. If Facebook operated a display business on a CPC basis, that would be noteworthy.

I agree with the revenue estimate of adding as much as $5 billion a year. I came up with the same figure myself at Facebook's IPO to give myself a price target of $12-15 (assuming a gross margin of, say, 20%). That estimate might be low but it's not that far off the (current) mark.

Personally I view these two data sources as:

1. What you say: behaviour on Facebook; and

2. What you do: the sites you visit.

(2) is what display advertising has been built on to this point and (IMHO) can present a very accurate picture of what your interests, etc for ad targeting.

(1) is the big unknown. My personal opinion is that the value of this data is a lot less than many predict. Actions speak louder than words. My own experience with Facebook is that it presents a narrow view of yourself (in most cases), presents the world how you think you're perceived or how you'd like to be perceived or both.

The problem is that so few people are data producers. Most are data consumers. It's the whole review problem with local: your audience is so small that getting any reviews is hard and no matter what you do (IMHO) the majority of people just aren't going to go around recommending or "Liking" their local plumber.

So time will tell on the value of social signals. I for one am moderately bearish.

Disclaimer: I work for Google in display advertising. All of the views expressed are my own and do not represent the views of Google.
I've been using vimwiki for a while now and had no idea about this. Thank you so much!

(Now if only I could figure out how to get Vim Touch on Android to correctly format vimwiki pages...)
Chrome can get away with being 32-bit-only because it uses multiple processes for rendering, which means that it can make use of many times more RAM than a single 32-bit process ever could. It'll quite happily use 64 gigabytes of RAM or more if you have enough tabs open. Firefox can't do this.
Ask HN: Algorithms to plan out your day?
Hi, I was wondering if people knew of algorithms and the associated input method to plan out tasks for your day. A little background, I'm a molecular biologists who genetically modifies bacteria everyday. Most of the time, this consists of laborious wetlab tasks that look like: "move liquid from tube A to tube B, mix with other liquid, wait 30 minutes, move to tube C." Now, the standard day has many of these tasks in parallel, so the question is what's the most optimal way to combine/overlay these different types of tasks? If my brief explanation was unclear, just imagine that I'm a chef and I have to cook 10 dishes in parallel.

I imagine the solution would involve some sort of dependency graph, and based on some google searching, genetic algorithms seem to be popular for scheduling factory tasks. Would be interested in hearing what HN has to say.
As an energy economist would you mind commenting on Elon Musk's assertion that the best case with a perfect plant for making biofuel, the efficiency per unit of land used is still 2 orders of magnitude less than capturing energy with solar cells?

He also claimed that for most nuclear power plants, if you covered them and their exclusion zones with solar cells, you'd generate more energy than the plant itself generates.

(Both assertions seem pretty strong. Both were made during the interview at Oxford that was put online yesterday.)
Take a look at Pineapple (link below). I've actually put a huge amount of time creating an app which I feel is 'missing'... basically a database of tutorials and places to learn from (as well as resources and assets).

Furthermore, my goal (and my meta description actually), is web tutorials and resources that don't suck. Check it out, I've spent a lot of time ensuring everything is of quality, and currently there are 1300+ resources and growing daily

http://pineapple.io
> His solution is simply that the real world is broken and needs fixing, which it sorely does.

That's not a solution, that's a problem.
it's a ubiquitous pattern in ruby. this blog post uses a file open/close lifecycle manager as an example: http://yehudakatz.com/2012/01/10/javascript-needs-blocks/
Great job, KA! You guys are doing marvelous work, seriously. I can't remember the last time I saw an organization be so well-received by... well everyone. Salman is a top-notch guy.
Until someone comes out with proof that Google is sitting on warehouses full of unsold phones, I'll accept that it is a true scarcity.
Correction to editing error in parent. The resulting directory would be called /home/cturner/saga/20121124.myhostname.myusername.ac.python.pattern.socket.client

(thanks kartik)
Sunlight is free. But efficiency with respect to sunlight translates to efficiency with respect to land use. And land use is emphatically not free.

According to Elon Musk, even if you assume perfectly ideal biofuel production through photosynthesis (which no existing plant is), the amount of land that you'd need to devote to biofuel production to meet current energy needs is similar to what is currently devoted to human agriculture.
Because click fraud means higher customer acquisition cost for advertisers, which means advertisers stop advertising.

It also drains advertising dollars away from legitimate content producers to fraudsters meaning that they switch away to other ad platforms.

To maintain a two-sided market you need to ensure both sides of the market are healthy, click-fraud damages both sides of the market and so is very dangerous.
Walled Gardens ARE a problem for some parties. I care about this because problems are the source of ideas for startups.

Book publishers, the ecosystem I'm lived in for the past five years, have a huge problem with Walled Gardens which means Amazon. Right now the Revenue split for eBooks is 70/30 publisher/Amazon.
The Audiobook market has one player Audible.com owned by Amazon that also runs the audiobook section of the ITunes store. They have 90%+ Marketshare. Audible gives everyone a different deal but publishers get about 1/3 of the revenue and the free product they use to attract people to the platform comes out of publisher revenue.

Book publishers are deathly afraid that Amazon will take it's 75% eBook marketshare and beat down the revenue split. Only time will tell if Book publishers concerns are valid.
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/ref=mkt_bl...

"official version" sold by Centos.org
My question: "What do they call turkeys in Turkey? #hmmm"

(You have 30 seconds to answer.)
What's this "radio" thing you speak of? I'm 40, and I haven't listened to the radio in years. My kids (14 and 17) have hardly ever utilized the radio and have no problem keeping up with pop music.
I like that when you "view source" they have their logo in ascii art with the following "work at everlane - bmFuQGV2ZXJsYW5lLmNvbQ==" ... if you base64 decode the string you get someone's email address
It's revenue (as evidenced by your register tape) plus a loss. Negative cash flow, positive revenue.
Black Friday in Brazil: sites blackouts, makeup prices [automated translation]
My biggest complaint are the stock templates. They're a huge mess of strange indentation and tables for layout. The strange glitches with WP_DEBUG set to true were a bit frustrating as well for a plugin that should have these kinks worked out by now. This was last week.

We're moving to WooCommerce.
Purchased!

Kudos to PragProg for putting this collection together, I'm a huge fan. Likewise, my book's on sale as well, as a loving ode to Turkey! For those applying to YC, the book's based on conversations I've had with startup founders here on Hacker News. Ice Cream Startups: How to pick your best idea and run with it. http://bit.ly/TTWUqz
>Sorry if I came off as hostile, it was a miscommunication.

Story of the internet, really. I get down-voted a lot on Reddit because people confuse my directness for hostility. I've tried couching my arguments with a more passive voice but sometimes it becomes too much of a hassle.
Thanks for reply. Will be agree to fill in your CC data to mobile phone payment app or connect it directly with your bank account?
You're clearly not the only one, but I've never seen an ad on Facebook for anything I was even remotely interested in. Mind you, that's mostly my fault, because I refuse to Like anything unless I can control the publicity that Like generates. I don't mind letting Facebook know I Like <X>, but I don't always want all my friends to know that.
There's no possibly way they screwed it up. Both companies are large enough to have competent production forecasting and supply chain management teams that this must be fully intentional. They decided exactly how many of the phones to make.

That's not to say that the limited number of phones must have been for marketing purposes. The decision could also have been balanced against other manufacturing commitments or other reasons.
That submission got demoted from the first page. http://hnrankings.info/4823941/

I suppose it rose too fast...
The largest e-commerce websites in Brazil were flooded -- shopping carts didn't work, customers couldn't buy. These sites, owned by huge corporations, couldn't deal with the traffic. This will certainly make a good case for cloud computing when salesmen from Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and others visit these customers next Monday.

On related news, Brazilians are calling the localized version of Black Friday "Black Fraud" or "everything for half the double" because of the fake discounts.
I hesitate to use the words "stupid" or "insane", but she literally believes that a piece of plastic with some microchips is the work of an evil magical being who wants to wait until she dies and then torment her, based on something that sounds like a mistranslated mushroom trip.
This is amazing. Kudos to you kind sir.
No. We had left it open ended and that didnt work at all!
Ask HN: numerical source code worth studying
I'm looking for an example to implement a clear source code specific to numerical analysis, analogous to this question http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879101.
A concise one would be preferable, since I think something like e.g. GSL (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/) would be too large.
Is anybody wondering when there are going to be new exercises added to khanacademy's math program?

I already completed 95% of all their math exercises(362 concepts out of 380 to be exact) and is waiting for higher levels concepts to master or lower level exercises to reinforce my knowledge.
Correct. Hence the analogy to airline seats. This is not really name your price. Kickstarters approach is mainly to segment the donors by commitments
What you're describing isn't a walled garden or an ecosystem. Amazon is selling a product but there's no consumer lock-in. I can buy music, movies, or ebooks on Amazon and put them on an iPad, a Kindle, or my computer using common software. They may have a dangerous hold on the market because of their size but that's more like a monopoly than a walled garden.
Direct Link to the contents: http://www.cores2.com/3D_Tutorial/
Numpy, Scipy, Octave, Quantlib
Groxx you make a great point. We had the donate button only in the registration page when the API key was generated. Not in the documentation page not did we do a time lapsed reminder. May be the outcome would have been different.
SiblantJS: Javascript with a lisp
The first item on the list of related articles: Freiburg to switch back to MS Office (3 days ago)

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Freiburg-to-switch-ba...
The Nexus 4 and the iPhone 5 have similar battery life if you disable LTE on the iPhone. The faster you can finish loading your data, the sooner you can turn off the LTE chip and start saving power again.
Anyone else feel this read like a paraphrasing of The Oatmeal's most recent comic?
Any thoughts on the boundaries of A/B testing pricing? It can be construed as very sketchy if you show one set of visitors a certain price and some other another price point.
Sometimes I feel that people don't seem to want to peel potatoes anymore. Everyone wants to have the highest paying position, but few are willing to put in the hours learning how to do it. People sometimes ask me why, as a freelancer, I take some jobs that others don't want to do. Things like working with old clunky code, technical documentation, and boring CRUD apps. I do it because thats the way for me to keep getting better. My skills don't improve by working with perfect code. They improve by working with stinky code that no one will touch. I learn how stuff works by writing documentation for it. So far, I've managed to write some pretty nice manuals for some pretty ugly code. Every time I've come out with a better understanding of desgin patterns. One thing is to read about good design patterns, another is to work with bad design patterns and see how bad the code turns out to be. This helps me recognize when I'm applying such bad patterns to my own code and keeps my work nicer overall.

As someone who really interviews horribly, peeling potatoes would have been something I would had happily done at any company. Hell, you want me to test how your HTML renders in all browsers? No problem. A lot of the programmers I talk to would be insulted (!) by such thing. Seems their precious skills are not to be wasted doing such menial work. But they dont realize one thing: If the UI that represents your perfect code does not render correctly, then all of the beautiful models and abstractions that you built on your nice Mac Air wont be worth shit. The end user will not be able to use the application. No matter how nice your code might be. I had to stop interviewing and start getting freelance contracts due to how nervous interviews make me. Though Im not complaining, people appreciate a hard worker. Plus they got potatoes to peel, and I got a sharp potato peeler.

One of my latest projects was built using Joomla. I had never used it much, but knew it was a huge ball of PHP spaghetti. I struggled and strugled for about 2 weeks, until I finally saw the light. Then all just made sense. I went from what the !@$# to this is not so bad. Sure, Joomla is still not the best written project ever, but I learned a lot from it. The project had gone through the hands of some other programmers, none of which could figure it out (or maybe they didn't want to). To me, they didn't want to peel the Joomla potato. But I shipped that thing, and its now live. What an incredible feeling. Like peeling a potato with my own hands, cutting it into pieces, frying the pieces and giving them to a person to eat as part of their hard earned lunch. I don't know if I will ever stop peeling potatoes. But if that never happens, I will happily go from kitchen to kitchen peeling potatoes. There is no shame in honest work. Whether its being the CEO of $Megacorp or the guy who makes sure all the HTML renders correctly.

tl;dr: Will peel potatoes. Email in profile. :)
Either rose too fast or someone flagged it for some reason...
Bug or Feature? The Instagram vs Foursquare case
Which is a nice theory, but there's apparently already a huge amount of click fraud in Facebook advertising and Facebook haven't done anything about it so far.
BC Government wants Uber to "not detract from existing businesses"
Personally, I like the contrast: Freiburg will get to experience Windows 8 and update us on that, while Munich will update us on how much money they saved. That's what this article is about: how much money they saved.