skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did. Then I moved onto her head. From there, to the picture as a whole. I'm now working on reducing the latency between willing for the shift, and actually having the shift happen.
Looks ok,

It needs a facebook application BADLY. Users need to be able to post polls on their facebook profile, anonymous/logged in profile viewers should be able to vote, and users should be able to compete for 'points' using their facebook picture/user.

I don't really even like facebook applications that much, but if you want gatherama to take off it really really needs one.
Nice.

Rocky's Boots for the Apple ][ taught me pretty much everything I needed to know to pass my first digital electronics course.
Ask News.YC: What would you do if you were a billionaire?
Let's say someone gave you $1 billion tomorrow. After 2 - 3 years of being rich, what do you see yourself doing on a day-to-day basis?
You might consider giving it away to charities and keeping just enough for your financial independence (5 million say). You might be able to preserve your privacy that way.
Fund scientific research at a laboratory I direct with my business partner Josh. I think we could knock off a few major diseases like AIDS, or maybe get bacteria effectively generating energy.

To cure HIV (idea is Josh's): Start with some adult stem cells from the HIV patient to be treated, specifically the stem cells that produce T cells. Introduce the 32 base pair deletion in the CCR5 gene and grow the cells in culture. These can then be "transplanted" back into the patient. These transplanted stem cells will create HIV immune T cells. Once there are enough immune T cells, the patient will probably still have HIV, but it will not develop into AIDS. There will be no chance of rejection since they are the patient's own cells. Furthermore, since the body does produce antibodies to HIV, these modified T cells may even be able to fight off the HIV.

To test this, we would get a mouse line, which are genetically very similar to each other from inbreeding so we won't have to worry about rejection of the transplants, and introduce the human CCR5 receptor into them. This, in theory, will allow the mice to be infected with HIV since HIV attaches to the CCR 5 receptor to enter and infect the cell. If this works, we can then try the technique of taking some of their stem cells, introducing the mutation, transplanting them back in, and see if their T cell count increases or if the levels of HIV decrease. It could also be used as a preventative therapy, which we can also easily test on the mice.
Electrical Engineering is useless? Assuming you majored in it, I find it almost impossible to imagine believing this statement.

Not only is electrical engineering possibly the hardest engineering degree offered, it is probably also the most important. I mean, honestly, pretty much every advancement in computer technology is a direct result of EE. The rest is mostly physics. And honestly, at the high end of EE, there's very little difference.
Rackspace had a big power outtage today which knocked us offline today for 2 hours. Looks like they were effected by the same problem.

---

In a completely unrelated incident to this weekend's power problems in DFW, a traffic accident caused damage to a power transformer which provides utility power to our DFW data center. Here is the current sequence of events:

* At approximately 6:00 p.m. CST utility power was lost to the DFW data center
* Power automatically switched over to backup generators without disrupting service for any customers
* When generator power was established two chillers within the data center failed to start back up
* Utility power was re-established through a secondary utility source
* As a result of temporary data center temperature increases, we proactively shutdown a number of customer servers to protect them from overheating
I'd head straight to the Wendy's value menu.
http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/18-rackspace-trouble-knock...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033
Grr. Idiots. Keep linux on the server side. The billions of dollars that ma, pa, uncle sam, and MegaCorp spend on windows is beneficial to all of us. Replace Windows with a zero-dollar system and you're going to have 10,000+ MSFT programmers dumped on the labor market.

It's not that simple, of course, but the irrational hatred of Microsoft seems to prevent its critics from putting one and two together.
What payment gateway do you use?
For anyone out there (especially those of you riding the rails), what payment processing gateway have you/do you use? Would you recommend it to someone else?

Thanks.
""Or really bored with the work assigned." == lack of commitment to work."

Ever read The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus? If not, you should Google it.
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I'm pretty sure they aren't mutually exclusive, look at Feynman. If you have to ask if award ceremonies are parties...
Starting another company. It's about the thrill of the chase.
What can I say. The coherence of a degree depends entirely on the set of classes you elect to take. Personally, I took a pretty wide variety, and enjoyed learning a lot of different things.

I got a masters degree in Electrical Engineering, mostly digital systems work. I learned to build a large number of highly interesting things. In fact, built a lot more in EE than I ever did in CS. Despite the fact that I now work writing web software, my degree is still highly applicable.
"the people that will need to judge you quickly by little pieces of information are very likely to skip over you. That is unless you have some amazing thing on your resume."

Exactly, so we should be telling people that college is the backup option. Try to do some impressive and interesting stuff, and if you succeed, you've got a free ticket out of college. If not, you can always just do the safe thing and go to college.

I admit this wasn't my plan, and that dropping out of college was an act of desperation in response to the pain it caused me. I just happened to have enough stuff with which to fill out my resume since I had been interested in CS and programming for a long time.
For the unenlightened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
It sucks.

(totally kidding!)
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If the film-maker is serious about the time he spent on this project... this is pretty mind-blowing. I've never, ever heard of someone this passionate about anything.
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Hope that guy has a fucking good backup policy.
http://valleywag.com/tech/breakdowns/truck-driver-in-texas-k...
lack of commitment to work

It is impossible to commit to work when you see something more interesting that could be worked on that would teach you much more. The existing work becomes tedious and dissatisfying. You begin to resent the existing work because it cuts into your time.

Example: I'd like to learn all about Scheme and Common Lisp. The courses I'm taking teach Perl, PHP, and C++. Can you spot the difference?
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(I think/hope you meant looking for the "blue plane", unless the reason for looking for the pink one is to see what it is we're trying to transcend.)

I'm curious; who are these people? What are they working on? Can I help?
Starting up: Registering a company
We are trying to startup and now we are on the stage when we'll need to have our legal company.

Any advice will be helpful and appreciated - I do have a lot of questions, cause I never did that myself before.

1) When it is smart and necessary to create a company? -- we are about to launch and provide paid services. I know we can still act as a private person, but then all the legal actions (if any :-) will be against private person, and it will be persons' responsibility. Companies like "protect" people against that, right?

2) Which type is preferable - C-Corp or S-Corp? We will be looking for funding - angel or VC, so need to think ahead not to have this as a problem to get funds.

3) How to register company easier? I found a bunch of sites, but which one is better? Any experience?

4) We are living in California, and company needs to be in California or in Delaware (I heard that last one is easier with the taxes questions, etc.?) What happens if we'll relocate eventually to different state?

5) Do we need to have an office address? Or some specific P.O. Box? We are living in apartments, so we definitely will move, so all the addresses are kind of "temporary" ;-)

6) Where can I find information on which tax forms do we need to fill and when? For the company? We do not suppose to have a lot of going on there for now, so I hope to be able to do that myself, but need some guides...

7) Any rules or guides on how we need to log our investments into this company? I.e. my partner invested 5k and me invested 6k, so do we need to put this legally somehow? We trust each other, so we don't really need that, but may be it's legally required?

8) Do we need business account (checking, credit)? Probably we don't need it, but may be it will be smart to open small business credit line from the very beginning to grow eventually?

...and anything else you can add. Thanks!
As other people have mentioned, doing well in college is more about learning a lot and doing research than getting good grades. With this in mind, I think doing well in college can be important for a couple of reasons:

1) You should try to learn as much as you can.

2) Grad school. If you decide you want to go to grad school, it's important to have good grades and more importantly research experience.

3) Employment. Grades / research experience may not matter for a startup, but I think it does help with getting your foot in the door with big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, etc.

Only 1) matters as far as start ups are concerned, but it's good to keep options open. Your interests may change (I'm only 23, and my interests have changed a few times already).
Your college years should have two practical benefits. You should be learning a lot, and you should prove to your future employer ( or investor) that you can get stuff done.

The default way to do this is to get great grades, which covers both bases. But other paths are often much more worthwhile. You can start an organization or become the leader of one. You can do a startup. You can film your documentary, produce an album, or write for newspaper - the imagination is the limit.

Make sure that you finish the project. Otherwise, you can't prove to others and yourself that you can actually bear down and gut something out.

I got a 3.2 GPA because I wouldn't do school work I didn't thought was necessary. If I didn't need to do problem sets to learn the material and ace the tests, I would just skip them and take the hit to my grades. Instead I spent time working on software projects that actually launched. This proved that I could get things done and resulted in great job offers.
Authorize.NET (gateway) -> Paymentech (processor)

Riding the rails for http://www.revzilla.com

Yes, I would recommend it. Use the handy ActiveMerchant plugin. Do you have any special requirements? What is your expected transaction volume?
I think most of you lack the vision to see how power a tool this really is. yes, there are a thousand ways this could fail. However if it does pan out like google plans, it will change the way we think about cell phones/mobile devices. The mobile device market is a huge untapped market that has yet to realize the true power of privately developed apps. If carriers adopt fully adopt android, the possibilities are endless.
But would you trust math olympiad performance over good grades in graduate level math courses? What about publications in respected math journals? If by the time you graduate from college your math olympiad scores are the best things you have going for you, you've got a problem.
Doing things that test and develop my positive personal traits, and then sharing that journey and those discoveries with others.
Charities often give less than 5% to the end recipients and then bank or invest the rest.
So you'd rather be using an inferior OS that has no competition and costs $400? Either that or you have a lot of MSFT stock.

The market will take care of itself. Windows is severely overpriced, and at least the low end PC market will most likely be taken over by Linux in the near future. An average OEM Windows license costs $40 I believe. That $40 (or less) may be the entire profit margin in a $200 PC. Microsoft's free ride on OEMs is finally coming to an end.

For the record I use all of the Big Three: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), and Mac. My personal opinion is that Mac OS X beats the other two hands down as a consumer desktop OS.
Even if the film turns out to suck, you can't help but admire this guy's dedication. I wish I had this sort of work ethic / commitment...
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I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man. Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.

All office space quoting aside, if my startup IPOs I'm buying a winery in Napa, preferably Stags Leap district, and a house in the hills of St. Helena with enough land to let my dogs run free and terrorize the neighbors.

And I'll probably jump into the restaurant industry.
For me: Travel a lot and get good at photography, buy a Ferrari and get into amateur racing, start a venture capital firm to fund social entrepreneurs (don't know if this is possible yet), own and run a cool new restaurant, be a director/writer for some independent films, do something to make in-class education more fun for high school students (possibly using software).
Ever heard of Windows Mobile? Symbian? etc. etc.
He was the lead animator on Matrix Reloaded. And, of course, he has this film to show.
This will probably get down modded for potentially inciting a flame-war, but I feel some duty to stomp out ignorance. Saying there is no self-determination in Christianity is as inaccurate as saying there is no self-determination in education. Both institutions have consequences for your actions instilled by higher authority, but that in no way implies that every action is a result of that incentive.

Are you saying the only incentive for students to spend hundreds of hours in the research lab is just to get a letter of recommendation from the professor and land a job? As a student, I find that ridiculous. Are you saying the only incentive for Catholics to pray the rosary is to rack up points in the afterlife? As a Catholic, I find that objectionable.

However, I'm not even sure the context of your statement that High School and College don't "matter". Matter for what?

Landing a job? I doubt you meant this, but that's certainly not true.
For an education? You could possibly make an argument for this, however I would still disagree simply because of the amount of resources available in a school.
Do they serve no purpose at all? High School and College are fun, so that can't be true.

It seems the only case where school potentially doesn't "matter" is in the context of start-ups. But what happens when all your startups have failed and you're 40?
Nothing special. Eventually, it will be a relatively high transaction volume--in the hundreds of thousands of transactions per year, hopefully breaking 1M at some point.

Nicely designed site, btw.
What is Gatherama?
Submitted and voted continuously by citizens like you, Gatherama is an instant reflection of the world's opinion on current events that are happening.

Huh?
I don't think it will be a very accurate predictor of ability but it might send the message that you are not a standard company to work for, and make your company stand out in the applicants memory.
I'd only consider doing it if game playing is part of your company's ethos, for example as a way to relive tension.
As a predictor nothing beats having the applicant write or tinker with a small program.
A Bayesian filter for stupidity
Addendum: I'm especially interested in hearing arguments for why I should finish my degree. I try not to be dogmatic about any views and am continually open to new data/ideas to refine my thoughts, so if you know of some compelling reasons, I'm all ears.
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The preview is awesome! Hats off to your dedication!
"they just don't seem well refined..."

I'm not sure if you're talking about all degrees, or just CS... However, speaking specifically about CS, I believe that my lack of refinement comes not from lack of Computer Science courses, but from lack of Math.

There is not much that an undergrad CS education teaches that I have not learned on my own over the past few years. However, I find that when I'm delving into deeper magic, my lack of math comes into sharp perspective. Most recently, this came up while I was hacking together a recommendation engine.

Sure, I can read a few articles and throw something together that works. But, when it comes to fine tuning it... I'm lost.

By the way, I'm a 22 year old hacker who did not go to college (yet). And I'm taking a Linear Algebra class right now to alleviate some of this problem anyway... heh.
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Two possibilities:

a.) Physics. Always found it interesting, but not into academia as a way to pay the bills.

b.) Feeling poor compared to those bastards with 11 figure net worths.
>Are you saying the only incentive for students to spend hundreds of hours in the research lab is just to get a letter of recommendation from the professor and land a job? As a student, I find that ridiculous. Are you saying the only incentive for Catholics to pray the rosary is to rack up points in the afterlife? As a Catholic, I find that objectionable.

In this context, the reason to pray the rosary or spend a lot of time learning in college is for self-fulfillment. If you find it fulfilling, great. If not, your time is probably better spent doing something else, if the afterlife points or letter of recommendation don't matter to you.
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You are an inspiration!
Notification is not very interesting, as it doesn't help you withstand the spike, there is little you can do once the spike started to help. But something that will help you withstand the spike now thats an interesting question, there are tons of tool to help you withstand the traffic better but none that I know of are plug & play or leverage your capacity beyond what can be provided by your existing hardware.
Maybe a distributed offsite cache application, maybe even a p2p approach i.e. a 1000 blogs subscribe to the service and the load of spikes is distributed among them.
Both of these could be the basis of a good business model actually... Too bad the Winter 2008 deadline for YC applications passed.

But a well crafted website should be able to withstand a ton of traffic without any outside help, check out plentyoffish.
Georgia's HOPE scholarship requires that you keep a 3.0 GPA in order to receive free tuition.

My final GPA was 3.1. It is not a coincidence.
If that actually works it's a shame that it depends on you becoming a billionaire first. Can it not work the other way around?
I'd finally create the fgPhone. You may now speculate about how it will purge the world of all phone carriers and generally redefine telecommunication as we know it. How it works? Well, I'd make the ISO, the W3C and the JCP join forces to create the mother of all committees...
And I thought that 54 hours was hard...

(http://atlanta.startupweekend.com)
I don't mind the Java that much, but I would have preferred Python. The one thing that really bothered me was all the XML intertwined and spangled all over...
Old but important to read.
It could, but we still need the money to hire teams of PhDs. It's unfortunately not the kind of thing we can do in someone's basement.
Which company best nurtures upstart acquisitions: Yahoo or Google?
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1) http://novcrequired.com/2007/should-you-incorporate-your-con...

2) C-Corp if you plan on getting any investors. (S-Corps are easier to deal with come tax time, but have significant limitations concerning investors.)

3) Nolo (http://www.nolo.com/) has been suggested

4) Delaware is usually advised.

5) I always use my parents' address. They haven't moved in 20 years. I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure your real operating address doesn't have to be the same as what your incorporation papers say.

6) I have yet to find a good resource for this.

7) Set a valuation of the company, and divide it by how many shares are outstanding. That is the share price. You can buy shares at that price. After that, issue paper stock certificates and record it in your general ledger (most general ledger software (IE QuickBooks) has a whole section for "Owner's Equity"). Going forward, don't forget to issue stock for "sweat equity" on a vesting schedule. (I always get confused about the differences in shares declared vs outstanding vs issued. But I think this is right)

8) I always open a business checking account and a business credit account with American Express. Be careful with credit (depending on how careful you are and what contract you sign, you may be personally liable for the debt), but it is usually cheaper than equity.
Pay off all my family members debt.
Setup a trust to provide my family members with reasonable salaries. Just enough to let them do what they want, but not enough that they don't have to work.
Buy a giant piece of land and move my parent's and their families on to the same property, if they want too...
Go to university.
Setup a decent course in South Africa to teach kids about programming.
Get that silver Porsche 911 that I've always wanted.
Go to my old work, in my new Porsche, and show it to my ex-boss.
Fund something to fight crime in South Africa.
I've used many different payment processors both for my own ventures and for my day jobs.

Recommended: Google Payments

Tepid: Paypal, FirePay

Not Recommended: Authorize.NET, TotalTrans, 2Checkout.com

Paypal was the only one I'd done using Rails (the rest with PHP). It was a pain in the ass, but it was also 2005 and Rails was at version 0.13. There is probably a gem or plugin for it now (I implemented it by posting and parsing raw POST requests).
Anyone using a functional programming style in their Javascript?
On the 'two chicks' thing, there's no need to be a billionaire for that. There are plenty of countries where prostitution is legal and you could do two chicks.

John.
Well I'm posting on YC right now, so I guess that's one.

I'd give it away creatively, always wanted to throw money to the wind in a crowded city street.

That and fund domestic programs to help encourage the success of our next generation of kids.
HTTP.

It's much more than just a means to push bits from server to client. It can be a very subtle way to get entire networks of computers to cooperate in wonderfully scalable and flexible ways.
i think he meant data backup
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What's the scale on the grades you people are giving? From F to A, 0 to 4, I guess?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_North_Ameri...

I had an average of 4.3 (on a scale from 1 to 5). I worked somewhat hard on the interesting courses and did quite well. I got my Masters degree "with distinction", as I also got a 5 for my thesis.
Thanks. I told the right person about it.

John.
It's as useful as a six hour start up would be, too.
What an appropriate name..
Fuck giving it away to charity. Just start your own.
Step One: Construct a giant concrete sarcophagus similar to the contraption they used to seal off Chernobyl.

Step Two: Hire a reliable private investigator to ascertain the location of the target: Creed's rehearsal space.

Step Three: Fill the sarcophagus with alligators, poop, and diseased ferrets.

Step Four: Rent several hundred industrial-grade helicopters and lower the sarcophagus onto the target.

Step Five: Construct a monument honoring the heroism of the alligators and diseased ferrets.
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