skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a parent, it is likely you have more and varied business connections than your son/daughter. Do you know anyone you could introduce them to who might be able to help them along both monetarily, as a seed or angel investor, and/or as an advisor if (a-d) were to happen to you?

That's the primary reason I am here on HN. (Well, actually the primary reason I signed up for a user account is that I lurked into some very interesting discussions here over several months, repeatedly following the link here from Paul Graham's essays, but what I claim I'm learning is entrepreneurial skills I can use for myself and impart to the next generation of my family.)

Agreed that sometimes parental connections are WAY more valuable than parental money. I know some spectacular examples from my own generation, as I know (as a professional school classmate) the child of a Vice President of the United States. Most of my personal connections are not closely related to the career interests of my oldest son, but it only takes one person who knows one other person and so on if all the relationships are friendly and pro-active.
Start another programming project that interests me, but without monetization considerations in mind this time.
Combinatorial Explosion Within Software Development
"Within software development combinatorial explosion occurs when the total number of combination associated with a problem becomes so great that testing that problems becomes almost unmanageable.

This problem is typically within software testing and ensuring that a program operates correctly (or fails correctly)."

....

"Beyond testing software, combinatorial explosion in the process of making software decisions in an interesting problem. Similar to the paradox of choice, choosing from all the options like development framework, language, database, web server, architecture design, it’s amazing that anything happens at all. For better or worse, our boundaries are based on skill sets available."
The challenge is prioritization.

The uniqueness of an MBA is that it teaches how to think strategically about a business.

While I can not articulate exactly 'what' it teaches, I do know that often times in the face of new circumstances and rapidly changing conditions it has enabled me to ask the right questions and create the right framework to make a decision.

What I love about startups is they require this type of thinking. It has helped me tremendously in scaling technology companies.
The best sushi I've ever had is at a little hole in the wall in my small Japanese town. It probably tastes different than the $400 a plate stuff, but it would be wasted on me anyhow. Why do I keep going back? Because the sushi chef is a great guy, and chats with me for the whole meal. Favorite topic of conversation: Ultima Online.

His proudest UO accomplishment: GMing in cooking. On fish steaks, naturally.
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Congrats. GaTech is a great school with really smart students. But what's most important is what YOU do at GT. I hope you will take full advantage of this great opportunity, enjoy learning, and keep an open mind and an open heart. Don't worry about whether or not others think you are "cool." Have the confidence to love yourself and to be a beacon of loving-kindness toward others. Congrats!
Should overuse of the Internet be classed 'Internet Addiction'?
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Thermal paper faxes is still very much in use. Thermal paper is also replacing dot-matrix printers in cash registers.
And with the bicycle included, the car is about 170 years old. Technically.
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"I do know that often times in the face of new circumstances and rapidly changing conditions it has enabled me to ask the right questions and create the right framework to make a decision."

If you acquired this by doing an MBA this is certainly a definite value add :-).
Yeah, to me the fact that you can write stuff like "Hello, my name is Jerry and I'm 28 years old. I'd like to create a project. Could you do it for me Timmy?" is only useful to attract new users. Like you say in your conclusion, once they lose their fear of having to "learn commands", they become more comfortable and eventually they will try to use the product in the most efficient way possible (e.g. by using shortcuts).
> would have meant that Bush was not completely inactive on the issue.

Actually, he wasn't. He didn't do what you want, but that's a very different than nothing. Are you going with ignorance or "I was trying to emphasize my point"?

> I realize I phrased that poorly, and I'm sorry for that, but my point still stands: compared to what we spend on killing each other, the money that is being asked to save our whole way of life is chump change

The mainstream folks who want money for climate change disagree. They want hundreds of billions of dollars.

If they're wrong, that's a huge deal. Let's see some details supporting your "chump change" estimate.
Are they wrong?

> Moreover, the issue of climate change runs much deeper than economics alone. Talking about rates of return and deferred action neglect the potential for catastrophe if we simply continue to do nothing.

Catastrophe is short-hand for "very expensive", so you're merely making a "numbers-free" economic argument.

The AGW folks have predicted the costs of "catastrophe" and "measures to avoid". (The latter are surely low because they don't significantly affect the predicted climate change.)

Once again, if they're wrong, that's a big deal.

Let's see the details.
a) Trip around the world to go race on every famous race track. Pretty much covers a lot of Europe + Asia.

b) Setup a "Hey everyone, I got some money, and want to be an angel investor...send me your ideas." page. Invest into a couple of promising startups.

c) Start thinking of something new to do. And then do another startup.
Apple bashing + techcrunch = no credibility at all
Interesting. I know that there is lots of activity in certain sectors of PC gaming based on a subscription model where piracy is also basically impossible. (World of Warcraft, for example).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23800152/
Apple selling 8GB memory upgrade kits for 15" MacBook Pros
There is no "best" editor. It depends on your preferences and workflow.

All editors will let you type HTML (obviously), but some have more bells and whistles - Dreamweaver has autocompletion turned on by default, and a WYSIWYG mode, which helps when drawing image maps, for example (the downside is that editors with more features usually have longer startp-up times).

The toolsets can also be quite different (e.g. switching from Linux to Windows line breaks is a breeze in Notepad++, DW has facilities to integrate with other Adobe products, VS comes with a js debugger).

Just pick an editor from one of the comments and try it (even the commercial ones have free trials).
Considering that most users of Twitter, and the creators of Twitter, still have no idea "how to use the social networking website Twitter", I think this is extremely premature.

Perhaps it would be wiser to wait until people actually figure out how the hell to use the damn thing before appointing people who likely haven't even heard of it to teach it to children.

Chances are the average kid will know more about Twitter than the average school teacher soon enough, anyway.
I have no particular intentions of exit-via-selling. Rather, I'm more of a mind to "hack capitalism": fit a job around what I want to do in life (find a nice young lady, spend more time with my family, feel the grass under my feet once in a while) rather than fitting life around mostly inflexible work obligations.

I like work, don't get me wrong. There's a certain dignity to it, and I'd go bonkers if I wasn't solving problems for somebody. I just don't feel the need to do the traditional 9 to 5 thing. Or the 8:30 to zomg o'clock thing, which is slightly more traditional for Japanese salarymen.
Big consulting firms focus on "deliverables"
Norvig had a great response to that wired article: http://norvig.com/fact-check.html
Excellent list.
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I don't have data available right now, but I have done quite a bit of research on server push technologies for one of my projects. It just comes down to bandwidth: regular polling consumes bandwidth (and the related client and server resources) even when there's no actual data being sent.
Enterprise IT: Open source deadbeats
"Not Hacker News," but I love this article, and it's been in my bookmarks list for a long time. I still haven't been able to spare the $700 for a meal at Masa... but it's on my bucket list.
"Don't start a company unless it's an obsession. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession."
Could you elaborate on how moving from (motor)bikes into cars would improve quality of life (if air quality is a component of that) ? Don't cars emit more exhaust gas?
And my point was that with the transformations I generate, I don't just say '{' + code + '}'. I'm applying transformations to existing code, not generating all of my own code from scratch.

Again, I see no point in making efforts to generate clean looking code when utilities like indent exist.
Please put newlines in the above, or don't put the two spaces in.
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I got out of programming as a necessity and in to doing things for the love of it. Teaching, evangelizing, helping people out, mostly. For me, programming was/is a means to an end, not something I enjoyed doing.. but helping other people to learn and enjoy programming is something I enjoy. (As an aside, I can now sympathize with those professors who teach subjects without having any commercial experience of them. It helps, but I don't think it's a prerequisite to being a good educator.)
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I thought it was pretty interesting, and felt was inline with the spirit of the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
A lot of the motorbikes used in countries like India and the Philippines are two-stroke engines, which pollute far more than the more modern four-stroke engine used in the Nano and most other cars and newer motorcycles.
Not sure about Twitter (I love it, but I don't think its necessarily useful to students), but I'm glad they're rethinking computers in schools. You shouldn't leave school at 16 with pretty advanced knowledge on maths and physics, but not how to use a computer further than powerpoint…not in this day and age!
Blogs are red, huge web sites are blue . . .
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Really depends on what it sells for, but I have a much riskier and expensive startup which I would fund from the sale of the first one.
> two million kilograms of seafood Tsukiji handles every day ... The Fulton Fish Market, in New York City, the second-largest fish market in the world, moves only 115 tons a year, an average of less than half a ton each working day.

These numbers don't make sense to me.

Certainly Tsukiji is bigger than Fulton, but I'm expected to believe that Fulton moves 115 tons per year ... or, what, 500 lbs of fish per day?

I imagine that Fulton moves 115 tons PER DAY, and Tsukiji moves 2,000 tons PER DAY.

Fulton doing 6% of Tsukiji is plausible. Fulton doing 0.02% is not.
Absolutely! I doubt that if we don't get accepted it'll be because we didn't tweak our application enough. At the same time, it doesn't hurt, and on occasion I do find things that really could be done better. (As it turns out, I added a good deal to one question that I'd breezed over the first time.)
How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer
An introduction to Usenet binaries
Nothing new here. I've been following these guidelines and others for years as a telecommuter. Each person works differently, some do well starting early and others staying up late. I think that consistency is the real key -- stick with a schedule even when you hit the 80% blahs.
<aside> is in HTML5.

<abbr> would be incorrect for this usage. You could, perhaps, stretch the use case of the "i" element (not "em"), though a simple span would probably be the way to go.
What an utterly, utterly useless fluff piece. So Apple threw in the newest chips and made a few minor updates and all of a sudden the mac is reborn and writers can get away with stuff like "This is the sort of forward-looking, longevity-focused engineering invested in very high end systems" and "In the new Mac Pro, Apple also created a computing platform that satisfies a combination of criteria that buyers only dream of demanding: Toxin-free, recyclable, quiet, low power, rugged, transportable, field-repairable, upgradable without tools, broadly configurable, internally and externally expandable, and the kicker, affordable.". I'm sorry, but wtf is he comparing that computer to? A freaking Pentium 166 dell from the 90s? Give me a break.
proving that P != NP
Another inaccuracy: the rel attribute can only be used with A and LINK, not with any element.
"acronym should never be used - it is superseded by abbr, and only kept for backward-compatibility reasons."

Wrong. I really wonder where you got that "fact" from. Better use primary sources:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-ACRONYM

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-ABBR
It obviously didn't help her. Strange that she can't form a good paragraph, stretches ideas out across sentences, misuses semicolons, constructs sentence fragments, and avoids using beautiful language.

Copyblogger is a waste.
I'm full time as-of next Wednesday, so I clicked 'Full Time' - is that cheating?

It's arguable anyway - the only reason I've been doing consulting for the last 2 years was to raise enough money to get the business going and have some reasonable runway to focus full-time.

I'd be interested to know if that's a common practice? I guess the option is really only available to me because I'm a bit older and experienced - hard for grads to do consulting.
Interesting viewpoint. The one I've heard is: if you DON'T have an exit strategy, it's just a hobby.
Play golf. I thought that was the whole point of starting and then selling your own company. Plus, country clubs offer socialization opportunities. Even if the people are a bit snooty.
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Water triggers high temperature superconductivity
wbr is not part of any standard.
That came across my Twitter stream yesterday, seems it's from Mark Cuban after Googling:

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/03/09/my-rules-for-startups/

To me personally, thinking too much about exit strategies in an early phase startup seems like premature optimization. Thinking about what you're going to be doing after you sell a company that's just getting off the ground is bordering on mental autoerotica. It's like debating what you're going to do after you win a gold metal in the olympics when you've just started training. There's so much ground to cover between here and there that it'd be better to focus on making sure you qualify.
Why would you use a daisy wheel and not an inkjet or laserjet?

I used to have a daisy-wheel back in the day, and the thing sounded like a machine-gun. I can't say I miss it (although the print quality was nice.)
Back to the mantra of Strunk and White: OMIT NEEDLESS WORDS.
Prove the Riemann hypothesis.
These recent problems with Google Docs highlight a bigger problem with keeping your data 'in the cloud', you are trading security for ease of use and even if you have the best development team in the world behind the app there are still going to be leaks.

If your docs are inside your organization's firewall you have some assurance that leaks can be discovered before everyone in the world has access. With services like Google Docs all bets are off.
I'd love to hear more about your move to Europe. Did you move for a job and have an employer help out with the red tape, or did you work out another path? Having spent about a year in Europe backpacking during my college days (on $10k, no less), finding a means to make it a full-time experience would be great.

EDIT: I assumed you are/were a citizen of the US and shouldn't have.
Start my next one. I have ideas that scale - more grand and higher risk.

I'd also work less when "not at work", and focus on my family.
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Find nearest Cafe to you..
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I see the problem with the process crashing. Why do you need to implement the semaphores in assembly? Threads can pre-empt the same way as processes, no? If it works there, why would it not work across processes?
Oh blah, blah, blah. The first two aren't major privacy blunders, they're definitely not good but they already violate two long existing recommendations. First, never upload a picture that you care if other people see, so basically no compromising pictures. Second, if you're conducting secret/illegal business, use a fucking pen and paper! The third isn't even valid because he provides no proof.

> "If that last claim turns out to be valid, I’m leaving Google Docs and never coming back."

Ugh, there goes my respect for yet another TC writer. I really can't stand how TC seems to have gone down the drain so fast, they used to be respectable but now it seems like bogus semi-fraudulant article after another.
The purported savings are comparable to what you would save by switching to tankless water heaters:
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/water_heatin...

The tankless heater also doesn't have the energy cost of building this grey-water heat exchange device. It does have the energy cost of being built itself, but that's probably comparable to the cost of building a standard heater with a tank.

Your best bet energy-wise would probably be to go with a tankless heater as near as possible to the shower, maybe combined with a hypothetical system like the one in the article, except it would warm the water going into the tankless heater. Or you could not drain your bathtub until the water cools, if you need to heat your house anyway.
In other news, the pope is catholic OMGZ!!!!
Ask HN: Do you know this business angel?
I stumbled upon this person while reading some "following" profile page (she replied to him). He say he is a business angel trying to "create dozens of YCombinator worldwide." -- do you know him or have any feedback on him? Here's his twitter account: http://twitter.com/jeancarl
Overcoming a fear of writing
Does anyone know one of these graphs for ruby on rails?
i have a feeling it should be really huge
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The Asian export cliff
Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
Unfortunately, this only shows one side of the equation. Namely, the internet behemoth side.

If you're Google, Yahoo! or one of their friends, you can get away with relying just on correlations extracted directly from data. After all, you have all the data you could possibly want, and if you don't have, you can easily measure it in a straightforward way.

Everybody else, however, has to do a much better job of developing the right algorithms and insights to get the upper hand. The best way to do this of course, is to use whatever data you manage to scrape together.

Luckily, they also seem to recognize that sometimes data just isn't enough and ask for help. You've seen this in the Netflix prize, the AOL search log debacle and more recently in Microsoft's release of search logs for WSCD09.
Enough of techcrunch mudslinging propaganda already!

What is HN becoming?
Golden quote from Norvig's talk at Startup School:

Q: What's your opinion about semantic web?

A: Semantic web. Future of the web. And it always will be.

Also:

If I assigned engineers to (semantic web) formats based on the percentage of pages that had those formats, then the correct number of engineers for semantic web was zero.
I'm not sure why your comment is down-voted. The article isn't written well.
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It is when you use nested ternary operators and are too lazy to write parentheses. I've seen code like

a ? b ? c ? d : e : f ? g : h : i

Or something like that. That's not funny.
Because there are no POSIX APIs for bare atomic reference counting. Presumably pthreads implementations do implement atomic reference counting in assembly, it's just not exposed through the API. For more on Linux see:

man futex
Marketing techniques to have your company on the buzz is to post a couple of odd articles per week, but this is just ridiculous. Facebook does it, craigslist does it. This is not news, this is pay per post!
Certainly read this: http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/
I suspect the addition of twitter to the proposal was purely to ensure it recieved the attention it's now getting.

Also, primary school is equivalent to elementary school is in the states, so this doesn't mean that pupils will never be taught about some of things that have been made non-compulsory. In particular, as the article points out, the second world war is covered extensively during secondary school (i.e. high school). And it's also worth mentioning that this probably only applies to the english curriculum.
Hopefully IBM will be a better steward of java & the jvm than sun.
A quick check round the interweb shows that he is involved in many projects. I could not find a list of companies that he has actually invested in, nor the name of the hedge fund he used to work for. Many pages talking about many great things that are just around the corner. Improbably broad claims of expertise in "web/telecom" as well as all areas of renewable energy.

His English has a distinctive style so I think it's just him.

http://shagyacapital.weebly.com/renewable-energy.html

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancarl

http://www.capitalbooster.com/blog/
"Y Combinator gets the Sequoia, so what?"
Maybe that's where memcached comes in to further complicate the situation :D
"at the gym, everybody is always in better shape than you, no matter what shape you're in"

Yes! It's hilarious. I learned this on the running trail near my house. Only a narcissist (which I doubt you really are) naturally compares himself or herself to weaker people. Most of us only see the people who are better than us. It feels exactly as it would if the others weren't there at all. Even when I consciously look at a fatter guy and tell myself I'm better off than him, my reaction is emotionally blank: "So?" But when I see a buffer, faster guy, the fact that I'm less fit than him seems extremely important.
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Forwarding DMCA notices is rather different from "working with" the RIAA. I'm no lawyer, but wouldn't the ISPs be breaking the law by not forwarding the notices?
I'd stay at home and watch mind rotting daytime TV in my pants. Lots of fatty, unhealthy food and perhaps a sprinkling of masturbation. Bit like the weekends really.