skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you apply for jobs, you might get one and take months to discover the bad

That has little to do with finding a published job. He could accept the first job via a referral and take months to discover its bad, for example.

The small projects idea is a good one. I am sure there are folks on HN from Europe that may have projects for him. The potential trap with small-project route is that a company with small projects may not necessarily have a permanent position.
I wanted to post this last night but the internet went down in Vientiane (again) so I just went to sleep.

Having spent the last couple of months connecting from various parts of SE Asia, I'm happy to see this getting the attention it deserves. You don't realize how utterly painful or unusable much of the web is until you experience a network that is not only incredibly slow (by US standards) but also incredibly unreliable and prone to 5-20 minute outages many times per hour or day depending on where you are.

Before today, I hadn't clicked on a youtube video in months. The site was unusable.

Most evenings in smaller cities (not villages, that's a different story entirely) the broadband will be OK with downloads averaging around 3-15KB/sec. This allows you to access most sites or check gmail (usually I still opt for HTML mode). However, it's the frequent and intermittent outages that cause the most headaches. In many places I've visited they happen a couple of times per day and in other places, they happen many times per hour. These outages are a larger problem for AJAX heavy sites where clicking a button doesn't give a page saying "This webpage is not available" instead, the site just sits there, waiting for the request to complete, giving the user no indication that the rest of the internet is unreachable.

I have no idea what causes these outages (it's not the local network) but they lead to an awful experience on some sites. Hacker News, Wikipedia and other places do a great job of providing useful info that can be retrieved in a reasonable amount of time, countless others are so fat I've stopped visiting them entirely.

Think about the people and parts of the world you'd like to reach and design your site to have an enjoyable experience in those areas. I'm grateful for features like gmail's HTML only mode. I only wish other heavy sites had an equivalent feature.
Ask HN: Do late YC apps get a response?
I know YCW2013 accepts late applications, but do all late applications receive a response? Or does there come a time when the YC Partners have to stop reviewing the late applications?

For example I applied late (12/3/12)and to date I have not received any response. If I have not heard one way or the other by 1/1/13, I do not think I should expect to. Maybe there is a link to an article PG or another Partner wrote on this topic that I have missed, thanks to any responses.
I'd say 700€-100€. Here you can find some examples http://www.wg-gesucht.de/en/wohnungen-in-Berlin.8.2.0.0.html...
Contrary to the other commenter, I think this sounds reasonable, even if you aren't relocating...
Ask HN: Do you need help with appointment cancellations?
I am a physician and self taught "hacker." (I use the term loosely because I like to think I am one).

I have been working (or "hacking")on this project on the side and hoping to get some useful feedback. Linke is below along with a really low budget video (sometimes those are the best kind).

Basic idea is that clinics do not have an easy way to manage cancellations. It actually dawned upone me when I was a patient myself and the clinic could not work me in. I asked them to put me on their wiatlist but told them I could only do late afternoon. Over the next week I got calls about all sorts of appointments but none of them for the time I requested. Frustrated, I just found another clinic. It was only then I realized there should be something better. We doctors often assume how things work and how patietns feel but you only really understand it once you are a patient. The funny thing about this is that every clinic expriences cancellations and if they happpen within 72 hours they don't get filled. That means the next time a clinic tells you they are busy and can't work you in, try again.

I would really appreciate any feedback. This has been thus far just a fun project for me but would love to see if it maybe useful for others. By the way, this could of course be used by any appointment based business.

http://bit.ly/schedfullvideo
http://www.schedfull.com

Enjoy!
I always felt that the "there is no such thing as truth" argument was easily dispatched with the following logic:

1 - There is no such thing as truth

2 - If [1] is correct it follows that it is internally inconsistent. Something cannot be true if truth has no meaning.

3 - Therefore [1] is not correct.
Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer
I used to see the "spinning beachball of death" scenario every now and then, but on Lion and a 2011 Macbook Air I haven't once. Occasionally third party applications will exit and there will be a "____ has quit unexpectedly" message with an option to relaunch.

Details are available in logfiles; anyone who has a use for those details most likely knows where to find them. The end user can't do anything with memory addresses, etc. so it makes sense that they don't seem them.
No such thing because we experience reality differently (or only through our 5 senses) and cannot determine 'actual truth'?

That's the most interesting part of the question for me - our own inescapable biases.
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I'm the same way, but then I figured that I won't be regretting it for long.
Yeah, and it's even in their name - the Federal Bureau of Investigations, so of course they investigate.
I have heard about a dozen music startup ideas in the last year, they all sounded stupid. This one has potential.

good mission

good name

you avoid the licensing pitfalls, by dealing straight with early musicians

tricky part is the business model, getting listeners, and staffing up to support other cities. i wish u luck!
AFAIK a lot of it is due to issues as simple as Linux having more device drivers than Hurd.
You mean Americans stopped killing people around the world for resources? At what point did the US not kill people in the last 50 years? Or the last 100 years?
Philippines early 1900s, that was called the first Vietnam. Close to 1 million killed.
Korea: 2 million killed.
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos: 4 million killed.
Iraq from 1991 to 1995 alone: 0.5 million infants killed by sanctions that denied life-saving drugs to kids who didn't even know they were Iraqis. And the Clinton administration Secy of State said that the cost was "worth it."
Iraq from 2003 to date: 1 million+ killed, many more maimed and traumatized, many more displaced.

That you call "deliver on its promises"...? Or do you not count it when the victims are non-American and the promise was for Americans only?
SandCastle, A Better Sandbox for Node.js
Few predictions about the future of technology and economy until 2050
It's great in theory, until the player lobbies the scorekeeper to throw out the other players.
Being forced to come up with a different domain name can be more valuable than 100K. It could help you rethink your entire approach to the problem you are solving.
Well, kind of but not really. Xen isn't really bare metal in any sense of the phrase. It's just at a similar (but different) level of abstraction. In an embedded system you will need to have device drivers, respond to hardware interrupts, etc. On Xen you make hypercalls.

So eLua and these projects are similar in, say, the same way that a typical RTOS is similar to running Linux on AWS. They both have kernels, but the environments are vastly different.
We'll try. We haven't finished looking at them yet.
The Google Wallet flow they describe is not correct. All you need to do is have the screen on (not unlocked) and hold the phone near the NFC reader. If you're not recently-authenticated, you need to type your PIN. That's it.

You do not need to unlock your phone or navigate to the Wallet app, and you don't need to select the credit card to use at payment time. Also worth noting is that tap-and-pay works even without a data connection.

The real lessons to learn from this are: people are paranoid about paying for things ("how will my phone know to make a payment if I'm not in the app?"), and people don't read documentation (the first few times you use Wallet, it's explained exactly how you make a payment).

One last thing to think about: creepiness. As a society, we have the technology to predict exactly what you are going to buy and when, and we can use cameras to recognize your face. So if you usually buy a latte every morning, the coffee shop could just make it in advance, and you could walk into the store and pick it up. The security tape would see your face picking up your coffee, and automatically deduct the money from your account. But I'm guessing that the HN crowd, despite their desire for convenience and technology, would hate that for privacy concerns. Do you really want your coffee shop tracking your every move? Who will they share that information with?

(Why is the complete lack of an interface creepy? Because nothing else we do is completely lacking in interface; usually you do something to get a result -- doing nothing to get the same result is weird.)
How did you conclude the information technology age requires you to be on your a-game as much as possible? There can be advantages to being on your c-game.
I think that's a fair question, though I disagree that microkernels are somehow inherently less modular and isolated than hypervisors.

I should say, first of all, that when I said "that implements all of POSIX" I didn't mean that POSIX should be its native or only API, but just one API that is offered for compatibility with the incredible amount of existing code that targets it. I agree with your implied argument that POSIX is by no means the be-all, end-all user-space API.

But that said, I don't think that multiple OS's running under a hypervisor is the ideal way of promoting choice and diversity of APIs. First of all, there's a lot more software involved: a hypervisor, a dom0 OS, and a guest OS, just to run anything at all. Sure it works, but there's a lot to be said for a smaller and simpler base system.

When you take the hypervisor approach, every guest OS has to implement very tedious and hardware-dependent basic functionality like booting, context-switching, paging, interrupt handling, etc. instead of being able to use an API that provides these things. This is all not to mention drivers, which is one of Linux's biggest advantages over all competitors.

I see that Xen has a paravirtualization interface that can solve some of these problems, and indeed the more that the Xen<->GuestOS interface becomes like an API/ABI and less like hardware emulation, the more Xen starts to look like a microkernel. I don't know the details of how Xen's paravirtualization interface works (and couldn't find good docs on in in a quick search) so can't comment on the specifics of it.

Maybe Xen's paravirtualization will morph into what I have in mind. One litmus test would be: do I have to statically configure the amount of RAM that each guest OS is allocated? There's no need to do this for multiple processes under a single OS, but any approach that is based on hardware emulation has to decide up front how much RAM the "hardware" has available.
Just look at the US tax code to figure out why most of the money in the hands of old white people. The tax benefits of IRA/401K accounts really favor people who have the guts to cut back on consumption and save over the years.That is all money that didn't get spent. Some say it increased the savings rate but did the increased savings really help the country?
The password which can be expressed is not the true password.
Au contrare it is C which is handicapped.

How handicapped is C++ considering it subsumes C, can use C right at the source level, has an inline FFI, and yet C++ libraries can't be called by C because C++ provides type-safe linkage.

Advanced languages are advanced because they improve on C and this inevitably means they must go beyond C. This is why such languages require setting up an environment, usually by providing main().

Even if you could set up an environment with a C function call, which is trivially achieved by replacing main with mymain(), you would simply be starting a foreign environment, not providing a library of functions which could be individually called by C.

My system Felix (http://felix-lang.org) is specifically designed to live with the compromises of C/C++ compatibility, but you still cannot put arbitrary Felix code in C callable functions because Felix provides an advanced environment supporting, for example, fibres with channels. Fibres are scheduled by returning control to a scheduler so they cannot be nested inside a function which puts its return address on the machine stack.

If you Felix write code without using features requiring advanced support that code can be made into a C callable library (both static and dynamic linking is supported).

Felix is probably better at C/C++ integration than any other language except C++.
well, that sucks. I can't even get it to run on my Mint install, but I think my problem was my graphic card driver,
The most telling sentence of the whole article:

"The trickle of shopping bags leaving the store with merchandise was nothing like the steady stream at a bustling Apple store upstairs."

Well, DUH. Apple is deeply rooted in several younger generations. MS is trying to crack this same market and get people to switch to their newly created walled garden. Kind of tough to do when you're fighting uphill against an existing, entrenched market.

Not surprisingly, the sales have been slow.
Do "correct" and "true" identical meanings?
"In perhaps the biggest surprise, Armor's studies found that black elementary students who go to magnet schools (which have the highest percentages of whites) score no better on standardized tests than do blacks who go to all-black nonmagnet schools.(97) In short, Armor found that, contrary to the notion on which the whole desegregation plan was founded--that going to school with middle-class whites would increase blacks' achievement--the Kansas City experiment showed that "integration has no effect."(98)"

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298.html
Totally besides the point, but why $49? I thought the point of ending prices with 9 was to make them look lower. You wanted the opposite, so perhaps $50 would have worked better?
What you are stating is, crudely, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödels_incompleteness_theorem...

Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that establish inherent limitations of all but the most trivial axiomatic systems capable of doing arithmetic.

Essentially, any system of axioms will have an inconsistency of essentially the form you described. But this only says that all models will be incomplete. Eliezer is questioning -- or perhaps reminding his readers -- the relationship between models of reality and reality itself.

In other words, the only thing you "know" is that you cannot model consistently a system where truth is non-existent. You don't know that, therefore, truth exists.

And more precisely, you are only pointing out a flaw in logical truth, and logic is merely one model.
It's not illegal to work after age 65, and Social Security is barely a pittance so it's even encouraged.
I'm confused. In your second paragraph you say the airline page won't let your gf book the flight, but in your third paragraph you blame it on Google.

Sounds to me that the airline webpage has additional (read: useless?) security features that Expedia doesn't have.
I'm feeling positively stupid - I read through the whole thing and the only point I got from it is that author paints one of the characters as some kind of very dumb postmodernist philosopher and then kills him. But in service of which point and how the point is being proven? And why after declaring that it's "too simple" author proceeds with 6000+ word parable the point of which is not exactly crystal clear?
Anybody could give me a TLDR version (I actually did read, but that didn't help) of the point of it?
News Corp. Reports $2.1 Billion Loss From Publishing Arm
Have you watched Community?

I personally can't stand shows with laugh tracks.
I spent two hours today trying to buy Nexus 7 at a popular mall with many electronic stores. Not possible. Not even close.

There were about 30 different Windows 8 computers I could have bought instead, with lots of stock. But no thank you!
Thanks! It started as a side project, and someday may evolve into a startup. Most importantly, it's something that everyone on our team wants to use. At least 4 users :)

I'm leery of selling anything to local artists (we're usually broke), but there might be some creative things we could do with ticketing. I've been thinking a bit about doing a kickstarter-esque model for shows, sort of pre-selling tickets. I'm sure there's more good ideas about.

Thanks for your feedback!
Sorry for the late response! I don't really sell anything among my friends, but I may be able to find some beta testers!

And the student groups link: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-refocuses...

Sorry for the crappy article, it's what Google brought up!
Stealth Mode: "Quip" May Be Name Of Ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor’s Next Project?
Perhaps one of the reasons there is so little gun-related violence by Israelis upon Israelis is that they all have a common external enemy to focus their fears on.

It's much easier to be friendly with your Nickelback-loving neighbour when you both have someone to focus your anger on. In a more polite society one might have to come to blows or shots to sort out the differences in musical tastes.

So who gets to play "Palestine" to the USA's "Israel"?

I don't mean to diminish the focus on mental health, but you could have used a better example than Israel as a model of a peaceful gun-toting society.
Agreed. First thing I thought of: Isn't this how places like half priced books and the paperback exchange work? I'm pretty sure neither is paying publisher rights to resell the books people bring in.
It sounds like somebody could complain equally about it working the other way. I don't think this guy's opinion is really a valid metric here.
I don't know if Windows 8 induced PC sales can be compared to previous versions. The upgrade from 98/2000/ME/(whatever) to XP seemed, at least to the consumer, like a monumental shift. People expected the same for Vista, and 7 was definitely a revolutionary improvement.

But that's it. Windows 7 is a great product, and I don't think anyone is approaching Windows 8 with the mindset that it's going to fix anything with Windows 7. If you buy it, you're probably buying it for the features or the hype. Add that to the hardware stagnation, and there's not much incentive to buy a new machine.

Lastly, we have more electronics than we did several years ago, so we've artificially extended the useful life of each machine. Naturally, we're going to renew our PCs less. So, the article got one thing right: tablets, just like phones, are going to play a big part in future sales.
The higher the average price you pay, the fewer deals you can afford to be in

That's only true if you have to get a certain amount of stock, which is the case for VCs doing series A rounds, but not for angels or VCs doing seed rounds of the type Chris wrote about. How many deals an angel or seed investing VC can afford to be in is a function of the average amount invested, not the average valuation.
"There is probably no such thing as truth."

Problem solved!
Hmm... "You could quit now and run from savings for about 1 year (16 months)"
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For those curious about the role the NSA played in this framework:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112TtjuH&#...;
Snapshots of the Instagram Debate, Through the Lens of Professionals
True. I downloaded it yesterday and bought it today, but the point is -- the first time someone hears about something, it is in the best interest of the creator to make sure that person can pay the creator legally, otherwise that customer may simply not remember and never buy it when it is available.
On the other hand, who wants their drawing software to track their every movement?
The core bit is:

>“The sheep interact with things that interact with pebbles…” I search for an analogy. “Suppose you look down at your shoelaces. A photon leaves the Sun; then travels down through Earth’s atmosphere; then bounces off your shoelaces; then passes through the pupil of your eye; then strikes the retina; then is absorbed by a rod or a cone. The photon’s energy makes the attached neuron fire, which causes other neurons to fire. A neural activation pattern in your visual cortex can interact with your beliefs about your shoelaces, since beliefs about shoelaces also exist in neural substrate. If you can understand that, you should be able to see how a passing sheep causes a pebble to enter the bucket.”

I think the main thrust of the article is about quantum reality. (Note also the part about 'private universes').
It's not even just that. Apple Stores have the unique draw of being the only retail outlet you can buy Apple's full selection of products. Given the popularity of those products, it's no wonder they have lots of foot traffic.

Microsoft Store has no such unique draw to get people in the door, or to get them to buy anything once they're there. It's a showcase of products you can buy in other stores you've known much longer, and hundreds of websites. Even the unpopular Surface RT is no longer a MS store exclusive with Best Buy carrying it along with the full range of accessories.
The attribution text (partially visible) suggests the source to be CarAdvice.com. Interestingly, the image on attributed caradvice.com article has same image as the one in the linked article. CarAdvice in turn seems to have taken image from another blog[1] (as linked in the article) and added the attribution.

[1]http://blog.miragestudio7.com/affordable-mass-housing-in-ind...
it's really fun :) hey, here's an idea, make a sublime plugin that makes the clickety-click sounds!
Mayan temple damaged in tourist 'apocalypse' frenzy
what other respectable platforms do you know of that offer this service?
If you start off treating ATS like an ML variant interfacing with C without using any of the type annotations for safety you can go far. Then you can tighten the types up for safety as you get more experienced or find you need it.

You could write tests as needed and when a test fails write types that make that failure as close to compile time as possible.

Another approach is to just write C code, either embedded in ATS files or in C files that are linked into ATS. Then slowly convert C to ATS as you feel comfortable.
I've had good success with clients in letting them see the application come to life. I'll release a working something on week 1 ('something' can be very, very minimal) on a staging site and push updates to it a few times a week.

If you can do this, it takes a world of anxiety off the client. Their biggest fear is that despite everything you are saying, their project isn't really making progress. Such a high percentage of software projects fail; fear of investing money and the project not being delivered on time and on budget will be in the back of their head.

The way I am able to push out regular, small updates (and not push crashes to staging) is by using BDD on each new feature so that I can pile up new feature development without getting majorly sidetracked by regressions or getting majorly delayed by diving into writing some major application code that's not directly solving the present feature.
I'd like to commend them for an awesome interactive tutorial.
Not sure why Lanier's opinion is relevant. Like Kurzweil, seems like he did his best work in the past and is mostly coasting on past cred these days.