skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm posting this first, will give a review of the product as a 2nd comment:

1. The dropdowns for registering birthdate are very unusable since I can't type in them. Trying to search for the year I was born by scrolling is hard. Can you use a standard HTML dropdown?

2. After registering I got redirected to:
http://www.listnerd.com/error/404

but I had filled out a title to a list I wanted to create, I thought it would create that list once I was registered.

3. When I clicked "Create List" from the 404 page, it redirected me to the login page. I just registered so I assumed I would be logged in.

4. After I tried to login I get redirected to:
http://www.listnerd.com/?login=nserror

but since its a modal dialog I can barely read the error which shows up below it.

So it seems you may not have the non-social login/register side stuff completed but for obvious reasons I don't connect my networks to random sites :)
Once upon a time, I found a software product I really liked. I emailed the (very small) company and asked if I could intern, and they said yes.

A year later, I did it again, with a different company.

I only tried this twice, and it worked both times. In both cases, I was paid enough to cover expenses, and the second company offered me a job. You could probably start by doing the same, but be clear "remote only".
What you really need is a new category not a market.
Do you really believe that though? It seems like a nice just-so story that has a nice sociological tie-in with "frontier ism." I don't think that's genetic at all; I think it's just hand-wavy. Somewhere around half of people in this country believe the world is about 6,000 years old, think people can live to be 900 years and so on; I don't know if that is "mavericky." I think the race to find genes for every kind of behavior is a bit misguided and simplistic. I don't think Europe was trying to get rid of any genes during the times of pilgrims and so forth. The pilgrims were a dreadful lot that many were happy to see go but I don't think it was as you describe; it may fit in nicely with this explanation, but I think it is too simplistic.
Dell doesn't design hardware, it assembles it. Mobile phones are more about hardware design than assembly. Thus, it doesn't play to what Dell does at all.
> Blackberry's were perfect for the business person on the go -- constant access to needed email. But they never really offered anything for the non-business user.

This is not true. The chat/SMS experience was excellent, BBM or otherwise.
FWIW I have terrible handwriting and have only used it when forced to in high school. For everything else, I type. That was certainly not true of most others in my age group (I'm 27 now), but I think you're correct. It will be soon.
> relative to just writing the code in the order you want things to happen in an imperative language

When you write them in the order you want, you're implicitly chaining them with a primitive chain operator that's built-into the language.

In Haskell, this is exactly what "do" notation does. So in what sense is it "overcomplicated"?

Example, Python:

def func(x, y, z):
foo(x())
otherFunc(lambda : y.hello(z))

Haskell:

func x y z = do
foo =<< x
otherFunc (hello y z)

The syntax is slightly more verbose for chaining actions as arguments (foo), but more concise when passing around first-class actions (hello).
Riiiight... Mark Zuckerberg researched the worldwide market before starting Facebook. Kevin Rose researched the market before starting Digg. And all the other successful entrepreneurs are known for this.

"Research the market" approach is good if you want to build a regular bootstrapped business. If you're building a startup, you should actually build an MVP and "Test the market".

Please don't get me wrong, but I still believe that building a couple of duds and failing is the better way to go. If you're building something truly innovative and disruptive, most people you ask during "research" won't even know that they need it.
I don't know what implications it has for Facebook but lying under oath is perjury, which is a felony in California. Convicting someone of perjury is notoriously difficult though.
they were selling streak mobiles with android in china - with baidu mods

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Streak
I love this idea, just a few screenshots with an explanatory caption. Very easy to post and interesting to read. Did you design the theme yourself? I was going to ask how, but I noticed it's only a patterned background and images. Still, very beautifully minimal.
In order for that to happen you would have to travel faster than light.

Huh? The light ray and you are moving towards each other. Why would you have to travel faster than light to reach it?
This is also a bit simplistic I think. I don't think most abortions are because of a physical defect or deformity, or at least, many abortions are not. As well, in many cultures that selected mates for their children, it usually did not exactly involve phenotype checking, but usually other kinds of economic and cultural reasons. Also, the fact that "bad" genes still exist does not mean they confer some benefit, that's a very panglossian view.
Hi - you say startups, but have you considered going a bit larger? I work for a large mobile (~800 employees, NASDAQ listed) technology company whose co-founders were Greek, and our largest engineering team is in Athens. I know some of our products are Ruby based (not my department, I deal with native mobile apps).

If you want to get in touch with me I can forward your CV to the right people. Just checked and we're recruiting Athens based interns right now (and they're paid). Plus you'll get to do a lot of work with our offices in SF and London. Send me a DM on Twitter (@objclxt) and I'll ping you my e-mail.
You seem to be under the impression that being difficult to understand is a sign that you're working on difficult stuff. I disagree. It more often means that you've got so much jargon and such poor expository skills that you're not understandable

It's absolutely false to say that the Poincaré Conjecture or the CoFSG are hard because of esoteric jargon. The statements of both of these theorems are relatively simple, accessible to every mathematician. But the Poincaré conjecture resisted proof for a hundred years, and the CoFG for at least fifty, depending on how you count.

Your article, I think, supports my point. One of the ways a "poorer mathematician" (to use Dijkstra's dickish term) may make an original contribution is to hyperfocus on an esoteric field, where the unsolved problems are easier simply because nobody has cared enough to solve them yet. Programming is different: an average programmer may still make an original and useful program. This illustrates that creating an original and useful program is a lot easier than creating original and useful mathematics.

The Linux kernel is bigger, involved more people, and we have more assurance that it actually works.

Absolutely, because it's far easier. Most of the Linux contributors could create a program comparable to Linux, given enough time: there is nothing in it so difficult that a good programmer might spend their lifetime working at it fruitlessly. But I am certain that I could devote my life to finding an alternative proof of the Poincaré conjecture, with little to show.
It would be nice if we had the linguistic tools to be able to talk about developments like this without using words like "race". Race, IMO, has little to do with it - it's all about culture, and asians, especially first and second generation immigrants, tend to have a far stronger academic achievement/science study cultural expectation than other common cultures. There are exceptions, of course, on either side, but I don't think anyone could argue with the general trend.

And so the numbers play out exactly as one would expect. I'm not in San Fran but I can tell you the situation is essentially the same here in Sydney. I have been to meetings with startups where everyone but me is asian! The idea of working in high-tech, especially in startups, as a career seems to have been legitimised in the "asian consciousness" over the last decade and, well, here they are.

I think it's great. More meat for the grinder, and if the alpha Chinese are showing up it means that computer programming can finally be considered a prestigious career in the popular reckoning. How far we nerds have come.
If you were not in a complete free fall you'd be smooshed (I'm guessing W = m · g is nasty at black hole gravities)

If you are trying to "hover" at a constant altitude above the black hole's horizon, then yes, the acceleration you would feel increases without bound the closer to the horizon you try to hover. But if you're falling into the hole you clearly aren't "hovering"; it is perfectly possible to fall in while feeling only 1 g by adjusting your rocket power properly.

The tidal gravity at the horizon might be very large, or very small, depending on the mass of the hole. If it's large enough, yes, tidal forces would tear you apart by the time you reached the horizon. But that would happen even if your center of mass was in free fall.

I guess my question is how fast you'd be traveling by the time you got near/in the event horizon.

Relative to what? There is no absolute answer to "how fast" you are going; velocity is relative.
I think there's an inherent tension between the properties of a language that make it seem approachable to novices and those that make it suitable for large, complex programs. A good example is the way that novice languages try to gloss over the differences between the various common representations of numbers: integers, floating point numbers, and numeric strings.

Compounding this problem is the fact that the people who feel naturally most motivated to create languages for novices are often those who are not too far removed from their own experience of learning to program. They are thus not as well informed about language design problems and solutions as we might wish. On the other hand, computer scientists who have that background tend to be more concerned with writing and maintaining large, complex programs, since that's the problem they're faced with all the time, and to have forgotten the difficulty of first learning to program -- or if they haven't forgotten it, they at least realize that that was the easy part.

We've seen this pattern enough times now, where languages get widely used despite their designs being excoriated by the cognoscenti, that I think it can't be written off to accidents of history. Cobol, Basic (in multiple incarnations), Fortran, and now PHP and JavaScript -- I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Anyway, the point is, there has to be some reason this keeps happening.

If I'm right, then the only way we'll get beyond it is if enough kids learn some programming in elementary school, more or less, and do a fair amount of programming in high school, so that by the time they hit college they're past the initial hump and are ready to start learning about software engineering, which is fundamentally the management of complexity. It's very difficult to appreciate the need for "bondage and discipline" until you've worked on a codebase where things that should have been simple turned out to be difficult or impossible.
I don't think the military is exactly enamored by the thought of sociopathic killers, they tend to not follow orders very well. Come on, that's a bit much!
The highly expensive care (that is only available in developed countries) only adds a few months, in general. That's why the health cost graphs of most people show a spike in the last year of life. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be provided. That's a really tough call to make. I am saying that it won't have a huge impact on life expectancy.

All that said, people in developing countries "just deal" with a lot of seriously unpleasant (and economically costly) health problems that we'd fix in the U.S. So there are quality-of-life benefits that don't show up in the raw numbers.

Finally, a 50% reduction in across-the-board death rates only buys eight years in life expectancy, because per-year death rates go up exponentially. Another way to look at this is that "only" one year in life expectancy difference actually represents being 9% better at keeping people alive.

For example, life expectancy of people who didn't die violently and survived the first 2 years was about 50 in ancient times. (Including those factors, it was 20-25.) Now it's about 80. That may not seem like a world-changing increase compared to the other improvements, but it actually means that we're 12-16 times better at keeping people alive.
Second Higgs possibility pops up in CERN data
Building and Testing Yelp Mobile
their is hope in the near future for a better and safe anti-depressant drug see this - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-drug-hard-to-treat-dep...
I've recently discovered the delights of <algorithm>... now if I could just figure out how to bind member functions in my build environment (Solaris) I'd be a very happy man.
Bill O’Reilly Fan Shares Paradigm Shift After Watching Climate Change Doc
Great thanks!!

Update: Well I checked out your employer's intern opportunities and they are only employing state-funded internship positions in Athens (and I am overeducated to be eligible for a state-funded job, they are only for high-term unemployed with lower education). On the contrary they offer real intern opportunities in London. This is a great example of how twisted intern opportunities (and jobs in general) can be in Greece, unfortunately.
If there are offers for university students, and they just are not on display on the website, please let me know :)
Ask HN: Competition -  market validation or reason not to execute on an idea? 
I've got an idea for an app in the recipe/grocery list/meal planning space that I've been prototyping as a side project. Right now I see two main competitors as ven.io and eMeals in the space, but I think there's still a lot of room for the market to grow with the right execution, but I don't have any factual data to back up that hunch.

What metrics do you guys look at to decide whether or not existing competition is validation of the problem or whether the market is saturated with competition and to pursue another idea?
> If my site goes offline, I don't want to know in 5 minutes. I want to know right now.

Sure- this isn't exactly the usual case, though, and if you require that, maybe you shouldn't use the free gmail account to get it. Most people just call when there are actual emergencies.
> There's just you, interacting with this strange reality that is both insubstantial and more clever than you could ever conceive of.

Beautiful, raw words. You have touched something bigger than yourself, that could swallow you whole but doesn't. You have perhaps touched the face of God.
No one-click unsubscribe? It's spam.
Your marking emails might not have a one-click unsubscribe link but Gmail certainly has a one click spam button.

Two ways you can keep me as a subscriber:

1. Remind me what the hell it is your company does/sells in the first sentence. Between my signup and now, chances are about 95% that I forgot what I even signed up for.

2. Make it easy to unsubscribe. That means a very visible one-click link. Unsubscribing doesn't mean I'm no longer interested in your product. But making it difficult to unsubscribe says a lot about how I will be treated as your customer.

<extra> Go easy on the HTML / CSS / Images. </credit>
What is weird to me as a Chinese-American is that I've been in Silicon Valley for over 10 years, and somehow managed to avoid all the other Asians.

When I worked at EA I was the only Asian on my team. Everyone was white American or European (no South Asians either). And at Google I spent 5 years on my first 2 teams, everybody was white, except for one Chinese guy on the first team and one Korean guy on the second (neither were Asian-American). This feels like roughly a 95/5 ratio, not 50/50. On my current team there are more Asians from abroad, but few Asian-Americans.

Possibly I think there are more Asians in San Jose in tech (the article is from a San Jose paper) than Asians in SF in tech (although of course there are many Asians in SF).

Also I will generalize blatantly and say that Asians don't work on games, open source, and systems programming as much.
It's all about changing lives
Is anyone else using scriptogr.am? I love the idea of a static blog, but I don't want to mess with installing and running the software.
I would not use "... for Go!" in the description due to the other programming language named "Go!" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)].
The problem with what you're saying here is that many people TODAY, myself included, are appalled and what people naively share on Facebook today, and most probably this too will change in time.

I think this is more of a boyish fantasy or the landscape of a sci-fi novel, which by the end people will inevitably reject. It's not like this is some thing that will be instituted in a vacuum.
If your mania does not reach the point of psychosis, and your depressive episodes aren't debilitating or suicidal, good for you. Many sufferers of bipolar disorder are not so fortunate. To say that "it is only a negative thing if you allow it to be" is flippant and naive.
Linked pairs of pie charts are a remarkably uninformative way of showing time-series information.
> So you are postulating a world where more people compete for a fixed set of goods and services?

Is that what I said? I thought I said there's a delay between an increase in demand and an increase in supply, which results in an increase in the price level. In a world of constantly increasing demand you have a constantly increasing price level. In other words, real inflation.

In a world of stagnating population growth, you'll have stagflation at best, and deflation at worst. Guess what's happening in Japan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#In_Japan
I guess so, but it was the "communications skills" thing that rang the bias alarm bell. Communications skills are extraordinarily valuable to a Ph.D.: you have to be able to write, to present, to defend a thesis, and so on. Absolutely everyone knows this. And yet multiple schools told him communications skills were a negative?
Facebook hasn't really gotten its (profit) legs yet, and Kevin Rose (Digg for that matter) is about the worst possible example you could've chosen.

Kevin Rose is the horse of choice for the Riders of the Startupocalypse proclaiming the end is near.

I'd say there is an argument to be made in both directions. Clearly there are a lot of startups that didn't arise from market analysis, but there's also a lot to be said for not panhandling for VC money without understanding your addressable market.

I'd rather not see those arguments unintentionally strawmanned by somebody who is apparently unaware of the current state of Facebook's stock or what exactly became of Digg and why. Or how Rose is widely reviled for throwing his engineers under the bus for what were ultimately product decisions made high up.
Doesn't this sound like a bunch of semantic nonsense? For years the web has been a shifting continuum of html/css/javascript and flash, supported by a standardized communication protocol, http.

Some of the processing is done on the client machine via "web browsers" and associated plugins and some is done on the server. Bottom line, at some point already passed years ago, advances in networking enabled computers to talk to each other, and various protocols were agreed upon to standardize this.

As computers didn't have much to say, scientists/engineers developed interfaces for people to use these protocols to communicate without having to understand them personally.

As it became clear that in addition to hackers, "regular" folks could benefit from the same communication channels, these interfaces (call them "apps" or "pages") continued to improve to what we see today.

It's clearly an evolutionary process rather than a revolutionary one.
Which would already be English, I assume google translate works a lot better from and to English than other language combinations.
Node2Blog - A Simple blog engine made in Node.js
It actually depends of how long your internship should be.
For 5-6 months it won't be that hard to find a startup which will pay you enough to cover your living and travelling expenses
Good for you. Sounds like you don't need this program. Since you're aware that there are people who treat "Downloads" and "Desktop" like a flat filesystem, presumably you can understand why this would be useful to them and others.
Websocket with flask and gevent
Google Gets Ten Times As Many Takedown Requests As It Did Six Months Ago
Really? Hmm I should do a weekend project for code battles...
Has Google Finally Found Its Mobile Design Chops?
I understand what you're saying but I think you're being a little too pedantic. Automatic, semi-automatic, whatever. Within a minute, one can fire many, many rounds with only a few pounds of pressure.
If you are in the US, you can call 211 and they will give you a local/state hotline to call. Consider using this if you need to talk and therapist is not available.
Hi there,

That is optional for the winner(s) :)

However, our company actually does have some of the foremost information security experts as investors (Founders / CTOs / CEOs of PGP Corp, Internet Security Systems, CipherTrust, PureWire, NitroSecurity among others).

We also work closely with some of the leading researchers at the leading engineering universities in the area of cyber security.

Always open to suggestion regarding the structure of the overall process for an event such as this!

Thank you.
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Right sorry - missed that.
May I ask, i felt the same way but I myself am not much of a facebooker who likes t share his life, post on twitter or post on pinterest.

Maybe its just me but all those ideas are the same arn't they ? They just need enough people to participate and it becomes fun, meaning its enough for people to come back. If people all left facebook there would be no reason to post status updates anymore, same goes for twitter. They dont actually have the kind of value that people are willing to open their wallets for (and people dont, im sure if facebook started to charge for their accounts many people would leave). In the case of listnerd isnt it the same. If the marketing efforts are good enough then why couldn't it follow the same trajectory as the other social sharing apps?

Personally I have always wondered why people want to share their life online and hence why I personally dont have an interest in social sharing apps but many people do. Now people are more open online then with their own families and this is just another different way to share so my question is what makes this different then any of the other social (post what im interested in) sites that have been so successful over the last couple of years ?