skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... It's great to see the widget market getting so hot! I was in early with my blogging toolkit, now everybody's in the game. I wonder if some of these are true "widgets" (plug in anywhere with simple script a novice can use, interactive, live updating, multi-user, etc) or are just glorified links back to Amazon ..."

Do you think this is Amazons way of getting more people to consume their data (or users own data). They have API access for developers are widgets really just a consumable tool to do the same thing for non programmers?
You can't blame Raytheon for making a product that is incredibly in demand. I blame capitalism. And human nature.
'Canadian dollar outvalues American' was a much more eye-grabbing title. This is the tidbit people care about. The intraday high was US$1.0008. By anyone's measure, actually Wall Street's, which is the only one that matters, the Canadian dollar outvalued the American. Since this is a news headline, we use the present tense to indicate something that occurred in the past.

Tomorrow when the CAD falls below the dollar are we going to re-edit the title to say 'Canadian dollar well below American'?
agreed. Who let them in.
I took a class titled "Entrepreneurship" when I was in college about 10 years ago. Every other week a different entrepreneur spoke. The founder of Jolt Cola came in and told us "we love water [as a market]--it comes out of the tap, and you can sell it for a dollar a bottle." He also showed us one of their big-sellers: Americola--sold ONLY in Japan, with a picture of the Statue of Liberty on the can. That was the moment I realized how twisted marketing can be.
It was wrapped up together with Waves, Optics, and Thermal Physics at my college (and then I think they redid the curriculum the year after I passed through and pulled it out). The parts that I saw definitely seemed worth learning - you learn that pop-science concepts like entropy and temperature actually have precise mathematical definitions in terms of the states of the individual particles. You also learn a bunch of nifty mathematical tricks for dealing with Really Big Numbers.

Actually, I'd probably recommend it more for someone planning to go into finance, economics or history (!!) rather than someone going into physics or CS, unless you're going into a subfield directly related to stat mech. Most of my physics coursework has been basically useless for my computer programming; yeah, it's nifty to know your vectors and rotation matrices (particularly if you go into graphics), but I've never had to solve a volume integral or contract a tensor since dropping my physics major.
Intel's next-gen iPhone mockup
OK here's the suggestion.

Do one foolish thing every day.

I am serious. Start small if you have to. Work up to it.
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I blame human nature too. What else can be attributed when large, potentially violent groups amass against trigger happy security forces?

Thankfully, no one needs to die now.
The US sells lots of weapons to a lot of people. Many times we "black box" technology so they can't see how it works or limit it's capabilities. It's only natural that even our closest allies circumvent these measures. So good for the Aussies! At least we can trust them not to sell the secrets to the Russians or Chinese. Not so for the Israelis though...
Isn't it solidly against the interests of the Israelis to sell secrets to the Russians or Chinese?
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Many people seem to make the assumption that getting cancer is a terrible thing that we should do everything in our power to prevent from happening. I'm not saying I want cancer, but in many ways, Randy Pausch is better off than a lot of us. He has a very real time limit as motivation in life. I'm sure he pursues his biggest goals with all his strength each day because of it.

...Half as long, but twice as bright.
Rice cooker IS optional if you have a microwave. Take a glass bowl - a largish one. Make sure that it has 3n the volume of the rice and water that you put in. Rice will expand 2n. Just to be safe have a 3n bowl. Add water like you regularly add. Put it in the microwave for 25-30 minutes depending on your rice. I live on rice and beans and this is how I make mine. This is a lot less messier than a rice cooker. But I am not sure about the energy considerations. How long on a rice cooker ?
It's here now (via plugins, development versions, etc.), the real barrier is adoption. If you can dictate your user's browsers, you can use SVG. Problem is that for something to be useful on the web, it really needs to be present without needing plugin installation on the vast majority of browsers. I see that as taking a couple of years.
Depends. Here is a case where it wasn't:

-Israelis recruit a DOD employee(Jonathan Pollard) to spy for them during the Cold War.

-He tells them how to crack our naval codes.

-They sell the codes to the Russians in exchange for Jewish Ukrainian refugees.

Israel is a democracy and the Arabs in Israel are reproducing faster than the Jews in Israel. So if they want to continue to be "The Jewish State" they need immigrants to keep the majority. So in that case is was in their interest.

Great story from the New Yorker about it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/576453/posts
If I had one recommendation, it would be to keep practicing any math you learn while in college. If you're like me, you basically had math classes every semester from when you were 6 years old until the end of college, and you take for granted how much you will be able to forget in 5 years without practice.

The classes I got the most out of aren't the ones I'd necessarily recommend. Whether I got a lot out of a class depended on lot on what the rest of my schedule looked like at the time (besides variables like professor and class makeup). If I was taking 12 credits, I'd tend to get a lot out of all of them. If I was taking 18 plus being a treasurer of a singing group and planning a trip to Europe, I wouldn't learn as much.

Sometimes, I'd get a lot of knowledge out of a class, but the perspective and wisdom wouldn't come until later. I learned how to write a fugue in '18th century counterpoint.' Like the Zelda one on this page:

http://www.goladus.com/music/musicpage.php

But it wasn't until I'd been out of college a few years that I figured out how to write a coherent piece that was longer than a minute or so (not counting fugues, which I could still write if I wanted to).

Here's some more: http://www.myspace.com/gadolus

As you can see I really have no idea how to promote music. That might be something I'd recommend a music major learn about.

Others, like Theory of Computation, I loved but because I didn't find any use for it in the first few years after college, I forgot a lot. I still get the basic concepts of nondeterminism and context-free grammars and such, but I'm having to basically relearn all the useful stuff.
Operating systems and compilers/compiler optimization.

Computer graphics, but that's not necessarily interesting/useful to everyone.

U of T has a 4th year course called "Computer Architecture" which brought together concepts from almost all the other computer courses and which I enjoyed immensely.
Note that you can throw all sorts of things in a rice cooker with the rice and they'll turn out great. Spinach, pine nuts, ginger, cherry tomatoes, and some spices are all good.

Get a good one, and it will have a steam chamber for veggies.

You can assemble a whole meal, throw it in, and come back when it's done.
I really don't think it's a public vs. private issue, because I've been on Air New Zealand and the service is way, way better than any carrier in the U.S. My sister has said the same about Qantas.

Really, I think it has to do with communicating a sense of purpose to all employees, at all levels. If a state airline does that, you have a good state airline. If a private airline does that, you have a good private airline. In theory, a strong private sector ensures that firms that don't do this are replaced by firms that do, but frictional costs in the aviation business are so large that this often takes decades.
Forget the class, find the best teacher. (Just reiterating what people are saying here) My best class was Entrepreneurship II, just because the teacher was great and taught from personal experiences.
Senior project, of course.

Most all of the undergraduate courses focused on analysis. I hated that! Let me design stuff already!
I have yet to see an original idea from any facebook app. They are all rehashing old ideas.

My app is pretty solid. It's not intended to replace over take Google apps but rather to target the people that do not use/know about Googles office products.

Google audience tends to be tech savvy, which is a direct contrast to facebooks members.
I dont think so personally. This device is a revolutionary technical breakthrough which could have serious future implications. As someone who appreciates technology, I find it very interesting.
"enterprise software HAS to work"

That's where the author (and myself) disagree, I guess. Enterprise software SHOULD work, but there's no reason to believe that it does any better than other software.

The moral of the story for me is to test everything before it gets put in production (wasn't Groovy brand-new in 2004?) There's no reason to assume open-source software works, and there's no reason to assume enterprise software works. Even if it's used by hundreds of thousands of businesses with no problems, there might still be a problem with your specific setup, whether it's open-source or enterprise.
Hasn't this been available for months?
First Facebook App Up For Sale On Ebay
Ask YC: How could this be useful?
Over the last week I built a digg/reddit social news app while evaluating django. The app ended up coming out really good, but I'm not sure what to with it. Ideas so far are to open-source it, maybe write a django tutorial based on it, or just host it and target it at some group that doesn't have a social news site yet and could use one (I can't think of any, can you?)

What should I do? Ideas?
When a meeting becomes a wrestling event
How about export to PDF, and being able to define new functionality with Python? OpenOffice is even usable from a script, so it can be used to do things like programmatic document conversion. None of the others mentioned do that.
Ask whomever: who gives away free money?
I know lots of people here want to do the whole startup thing so they get the whole working thing out of the way and do what they really want. But, we're such a rich nation that surely someone would sponsor worthy individuals in their pursuits. Who are these people and how do I get in contact with them?

As for my pursuit - I'm very interested in ID and figuring out what God is up to. ID based science will be the next revolution.
Startup idea: Facebook as a trusted distributed computing service
A startup group could create an app where companies bid on user's processors. Users only can lose by not participating, so companies would have a huge pool of willing participants.

Facebook provides the accountability, allowing a trusted distributed computing community to form.
Crock pot + tortellini + spaghetti sauce + meat
You're probably right, but "jap" is a racial slur these days.
Rockin Soup:
3 cups of water
one chopped onion
1tblspn garlic powder
1 stick of pepperoni
1 large rock

boil, eat
A classical education instead of GE: intense reading of the classics, 6-9 hours of intense discussion/debate with your peers, & a thesis every semester.
The comment/submit buttons needs to be hidden in the source, like the down vote button was, so only hackers can figure out how to use the site.
I thoroughly enjoyed Business Law, Microeconomics, and an intro to Psychology course. Everyone should probably take psych and an economics class in order to understand people and the world in which we live. B law was great for critical thinking and I learned a good bit about the law as well.
the problem seems to be that so many entrepreneurs are already dead set on an idea.

unless you find the exact entrepreneur looking to do the exact same thing, you're screwed.

i've tried hackrmatchr, etc. it's all guys who have a startup already and want you to work on it... not guys who are open to coming up with something together.
Yeah, exactly. All these mediums are just waiting to be integrated. Just think how similar chat and email are.
For me the best way to learn has been to do projects in the subject. Not a class. Never. If it is new math, I need to work out some interesting problems using it. Everything that I know I learnt on my own. Some interesting teachers helped put the spark. But thats all teachers can do. Spark you. You have to do the burning, for which you basically have to like learning.Just don't care about if it is useful later or not. Thats not how knowledge is structured. Go with the fun. If stat mech is fun, why not.
So, for both of you, those numbers don't mean much to the rest of us.

How many credit hours is considered a full time load at your schools?
Interesting idea, but why would I (as a user) willingly want to give up my CPU cycles for another company? Simply put: What is my incentive?

With distributed computing services like Folding@Home or SETI@Home the incentive is usually to help out with the pursuit of science.
On a hacker site, why not make all the important tools only accessible to hackers?
Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments (not hoaxes, as the URL suggests)
Do you need special permission to land something on the moon? A summary of space law.
Okay, fruit and veggies for snacking. That's good advice -- I thought you were suggesting that someone should eat that instead of daytime meals. Clearly I was mistaken. :)
A good place to start is "The ArsTechnica Cookbook of Bachelor Chow" released a few years ago. Recipes submitted by forum members.

http://ars.flyingember.com/
Compilers; Programming Language Principles; Database Implementation.
At CMU OS is actually a 36 unit course, which can be converted to 12 credits at most USA schools, where 12 credits is full time, 15 credits is normal, and 18 credits is the max.

So the CMU OS course is equivalent to four normal classes.
Forgot one really important one:

The discovery of planets outside our solar system.
I too was afflicted by 1000s of spam messages resultant from this.

You know, maybe I need to brush up on my SEC regulatory knowledge, but it seems like sending billions of emails pumping up worthless penny stocks would be...seriously illegal. With so many offenses would it really be so hard for the FBI to see who's buying this crap before the spam goes out? You know...crunch the numbers and then maybe raid their computers? Just a thought.
Jotts leaked to other users
Shree does well and apologizes by calling the affected users. What do you all think of his response?
I completely agree that having that mindset is more motivating and those with it will go further than if they did not.

I wonder however if its true, that the brain is like a muscle and can be significantly improved upon use.

Its easy to test and see that its difficult but possible to go from very overweight to great shape in a few short years. But how easy and common is it to go from really dumb to really smart?
The companies pay them. Companies bid to have users increase their process' priority, or promise to pay a percentage of the earnings. Plus, most people barely use their CPU at all most of the time. If the system was secure with enforceable contracts, I don't see why this wouldn't work out.
Assuming a material origin implies reality is orderly and understandable?
I would make one targeted at women, maybe of specific age groups.

Women make up over 50% of the internet use now and in my opinion seem not to be represented well on digg/reddit or many of their clones.

With django its easy to setup multiple sites, you could run several instances of the app to target different niche users and see which ones stick.
Consider a pressure cooker too, especially for the beans.
What would you have done had this happened to your existing / future business?
Advanced Microprocessor Interfacing and Communication (AKA Robotics!)
I use a cast iron wok, and for oils, i use peanut, corn, vegetable in that order of preference.
How great programmers learned their craft (interview)
At the same time, I think it's astounding how often k-nearest neighbors (a method considerably simpler than SVMs) is either the best or second-best classifier for a dataset. I'm not trying to pit SVMs vs. neural networks...rather I'm saying most methods of machine learning (neural nets, SVMs, gaussian mixture, kNN, what have you) can be effective and none stand out above the rest.
Children playing with stacks of worthless currency, Germany 1923:
http://sablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/weimar2.jpg

I'm not saying it'll happen in the US, but anything's possible (especially to degrees, see current subprime crisis), especially with a reckless leader at the helm who doesn't understand that we need to, you know, actually pay back all this debt we're accumulating as a country one day.

Great article on the subject:
http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/5955/
You can't blame Raytheon when they're dependent upon taking requirements from government dictate. I blame command economics. And bureaucratic whim.
I think part of the reason neuro-imaging is so preoccupied with midbrain structures at the moment is because their activity is simpler and easier to correlate to the brain's inputs or outputs. With the huge boost in both spatial and temporal resolution EROS provides we can put more focus where the cognitive action is (the cortex).
I would suggest going yearly, with a monthly subscription there is something more that the client has to think about and they will see bill after bill. Paying up front it is a one time decision.

It might seem that the intial lower cost of being monthly is a good idea, but after 3 months if the customer hasn't setup there site, they will cancel. Paying yearly they will make sure to get the most out of it. It costs the same amount of money to signup someone for a year as it does for a month (in my experience and I have done several similar applications).
Shhh... be very very quiet.
There are all kinds of difficult situations in the world that deserve the drive and intelligence that gets devoted to startups, including: HIV/AIDS, human rights (my background), global warming and the list goes on.

In the US, many of the most problematic and disruptive issues are economic (just ask all the people whose homes are going to be facing foreclosure over the next 2 years). Because of this, the startup I'm with has decided to do something to help consumers make sure they are on track for a secure and meaningful retirement (as one of the financial planners we're working with points out, you can't eat your house and retirement is the only thing you can't borrow for). There are all kinds of stories about retirements that have been derailed and we're working to make sure that everyone with less than $1 million will have access to unbiased, personalized and affordable advice.

PBS's Frontline did an excellent series that covered some of the unfortunate Americans who are struggling to make ends meet in retirement or saw their pension plans raided:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement/stories/

The stress that results in financial difficulty can be enormous and having enough money for retirement is the #1 concern for consumers in their 40s and 50s. What will happen if this issue doesn't get solved?

It's hard to say what measures will be successful, but I know that everyone involved with Boulevard R feels that if we can give consumers an online process to prepare for retirement, make the interface engaging, track their progress and deliver customized content then we are really providing a social service.

I love to talk about social ventures so feel free to get in touch. Here's a great company that's creating LEDs people in developing countries:

dlightdesign.com
My AP Eng. teacher had a one-one talk with me on day 2 of class about her expectations--and how much I had slacked on the first homework assignment. For once a teacher that didn't rubberstamp everything you turned in. I went from hating English to loving that class.
If intelligent design was true there would already be a scientific revolution. The science just isn't their. If you want "truth" focus on the philosophical ideas.Get right wing fundamentalists that want to evangelize religion rather than finding actual scientific truth to fund you if you want to research id. If you want to research the early universe study astronomy or astrophysics.
Not a specific class, but I've really enjoyed taking the various speaker series. These are one credit classes where we just get a different speaker each week. This semester I'm actually taking Women & Entrepreneurship. It's basically 60 women and me. They like having me around though so it works out.
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You're arguing that opposing viewpoints are noise and shouldn't be allowed? Sorry, but I don't want to live in that type of world/community.
Theory of Computation - this was really a grab bag of discrete math. We covered a little of automata theory, complexity, graph theory, and even abstract algebra. The problem sets were really hard, it felt like weight-lifting for my brain.

Molecular Biology - the material itself was a bit dry, but taken as a whole it completely changed my understanding of life as a dynamic process.
oil painting. taught me to look at the world in a whole different way. and inspired me to change my major.

(i'm not saying this to win points with PG. i actually find hacking pretty different from painting.)

more generally, stretch out into different disciplines. these days, most of the interesting stuff happens at the intersections. plus, you'll meet a lot of interesting folks whose paths would never cross with yours otherwise.
well if people keep insulting everyone with broad brush strokes, nothing will change.
oh, of course! i just assumed that 'love your family and be nice to others around you' goes without saying. =)
I have to fiercely disagree with that point. Tomorrow is never ever promised, as this story about the CMU professor shows. It's impossible to bank time, when you may never have a chance to withdraw it. The original post quote does a good job of keeping life in perspective.

Chase dreams. Take risks. Fail often. But love the whole process as it unfolds.
>It's not "software". It's "software porn".

Its not that interesting ;)

I think VB is replaced by C# and ruby (if the rails enthusiasts succeed in getting it into the enterprise).
Don't underestimate the amount of cobol still running though.
Rant rant rant!! Rant.
I wouldn't just be focussed on ID, I have wide ranging interests. That's why I was wondering if anyone would just generically fund me to do whatever.

Regardless of my interests, isn't this something you'd want? Why go through all the effort of a start up if there's a quicker way to get independence?
1) Technical Writing
2) Project Management

A tie for most useful... Both courses have been far more practical than my actual technical capabilities. The first one taught me how to effectively tailor my ideas to my audience, and the second taught me how to take an idea from start to finish.
David Heinemeier Hansson listens to Jewel?!
I'm sure you like having them around more :)
It's the only sensible strategy to compete with the likes of Facebook and the Google social network (whenever they finish building it and tying it together via RSS). People only have time/interest in being a part of so many social networks before they won't bother even if "the application built on the new one is really cool."
The site has gotten a "facelift" for those of you who hated the previous color scheme