skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" Simply horrible food."

I find it good enough for various circumstances. Maybe I'm dopey.

Besides, people go to restaurants for all sorts of reasons, food being but one.
One is easier to measure.
I've got a Hackintosh tower - the first PC I've ever built (and I learned a LOT doing it!). I threw a Core 2 Quad, a Velociraptor drive, and 4GB memory in there. This is attached to a 30-inch monitor and a split, ergonomic keyboard, upon which I type in Dvorak.

Considering how much time I spend in front of this machine (e. g., most of it), I don't mind investing a little more in my setup to make the experience as comfortable as possible.

I've got a refurbished Rev. A MacBook Air to carry around with me when I'm out and about. I'm thinking of buying a wireless card or a MiFi to have Internet access everywhere.

I synchronize all important files over Dropbox and use The Cloud for everything else. My brain goes into Evernote. Bookmarks are synchronized across my browsers with Xmarks.

I use Spaces heavily and Expose a little. I use Launchbar and mouse gestures through xGestures to get around the computer.

My code is synced up using git.
if you happen to choose the Microsoft way, you'll have Visual Web Developer (and it's very Advanced) and ASP.net MVC (powerful for AJAX Application). Also you can integrate with it, Microsoft Expression to design your site when working with VWD!! You'll have also MS SQL Server which is very powerful and customizable. (and a big set of tools you can use).

Drawbacks: The tools are very expensive (VWD pro to Expression to SQL will cost), the Windows hosting is also very expensive. If you have sufficient money then it's the best choice, look at the performance of stackoverflow.com

another drawback is there's a little "veryyy little" Open Source code (try codeplex.com) but still enough to make your own
Physical whiteboard is a very good idea. I think I'll be taking that from you.
I've struggled with hackintosh for freakin' ages. Please share info.

Big problemo was usually the 9800GT 512mb.
I love learning new languages. I'm trying to pick up (on average) one per a year. The problem is that I become knowledgeable about a bunch of languages but not really an expert in any of them! Granted, I know there are some underlying similarities between all languages.

I want to get the job done quickly, but I'm not opposed to spending a number of months working on it. I just want the application to run really well and be easy to maintain and grow.

I just keep vacillating between that crux that you mentioned. I kinda wish there was an easy way to create a web application with Matlab, since its easy and powerful (and I know it pretty well). But I also keep getting pulled back into the "well, maybe I should pick up a more 'popular' language because that's what seems most web apps are constructed with these days"
thanks a lot for your insight. will look into fixing those in future releases
On iTunes, Yale (and I assume others) already distribute a free PDF with most of their educational lectures. The system is there, not sure if anyone has thought to sell just the pdf though...
Twitter support is unusable [for me]. Adium adds everyone you follow to the contact list. I follow 357 people. That's a pretty big contact list.

It is OK for using direct messages as IM, but it won't replace your Twitter client.
Yes, but it's not just living expenses -- I was thinking along the lines of can your parents float you $25K for startup costs such as equipment and working capital? How about $100K? Is it a big deal if they don't get it back, ie is this their retirement, or is just kind of a bummer? And so forth...

The startup I was thinking of needed the money in order to establish business relationships -- the business they are in requires quite a bit of working capital. The founder's parents basically gave him $150K and they aren't so rich that they wouldn't notice, but if he had lost the money, it wouldn't have been a particularly big deal. (Sorry, I'm not trying to play coy, so if anybody is interested, email me and I'm happy to give names, but I just don't want this account to be googleable.)

Edit since I can't reply and want to go to sleep -- yes, this makes your parents angels, but getting angel investment suffers from who you know -- how many people grow up knowing angels? So your parents offer three major advantages:

1 - you know them already

2 - you know them already

3 - they are probably more willing to take a chance on you... and you know them already
How much do they pay for that? It's like they owned the NYT.

Also, you know you're doing something right when people click replay to rewatch your ad.
Yes, your right. I've got enough experience with C#/.Net to really really appreciate VWD. But alas, cost.

Also, porting Matlab scripts to .Net works quite well.

If I can find something like VWD but for something like PHP instead, then I'd be sold.
Can I add another route?
5 Using an existing profitable business to incubate a startup within.

The consulting business I run funds the development of a number of skunkworks projects, and it looks like two of them will see light in their own right.
I travel a lot so I keep everyhthing I need for hackery on my Dell XPS m1530 with a lot of VMWare images.

Currently this gets synchronised with a Debian server, due to be replaced with a Mac Mini in a week or two.
There's not, aside from the general misgiving I have about the black-box nature of .Net stuff. Sometimes I feel like I'm not really hacking. :)
I think when you get into the "parents give you $150k" range, the parents in question fall more into the category of angel investors than anything else.
I've dumbed myself down before, to the point where people didn't notice I was smart. Was nice going under the radar. Tried for a while to knock down my intelligence with heavy amounts of drug and alcohol abuse, reading crap and not remotely pushing myself.

I developed a crazy hippy persona which allowed me to talk about crazy topics and get away with it. Was regular on the rave scene getting the nickname of the raving hippy.

When I'm out I won't talk about computers at all (the first rule of computer club is you don't talk about computer club), if someone asks me what I do I'll give a very general response. I often find myself talking about stuff I saw on ted.com or fringe science or other crazy ideas. I actively avoid the normal topics and try to switch the topic to something more interesting.

I like to be a social chameleon, bantering well with lots of different people.

I'm lucky with my friends and house mates, I live with A.I. programmer, a dude with a photographic memory and a fitness instructor, it's a nice balance. Friends wise know a lot of good people from my uni days who like to snowboard and/or travel and are also rather smart.

Though despite being able to hold my own socially, I'm happiest when sat at my desk, pissing around with pcs, code and learning crazy stuff from the net. I've also stopped dumbing myself down now and I'm working on creating the best version of myself that I can.

Guess in your situ would be tempted by a work break for 6months - 1 year. Go find your place in the world =]

Sorry bit of a ramble =]
Agreed. I have a personal account and a professional Gmail account. My professional Gmail account isn't mapped to my URL; it's just my full name @ gmail.com; the personal is this username at Gmail. Not quite as informal, but still not business appropriate.
Linux as desktop OS for trashware?
Is Linux is ready to serve as OS on trashware-computers for second generation usage?
A similar looking project, Vbootkit 2.0, is now open source:

http://www.nvlabs.in/archives/8-Vbootkit-2.0-is-now-open-sou...

Only works in 64 bit version of Windows 7 at present.
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How is this really related to the article though? Are you trying to say that the people moving to Portland/etc are burning through cash too quickly because they aren't living cheap enough?
Why We Spend Coins Faster Than Bills
Really? I always found a good combination between a farmer's market and Trader Joes worked out best...atleast when I was in California.

When I moved to Florida, we have a local joint called Wards which is incredible. It's pretty much a farmer's market but open all week. Dirt cheap too. Two weeks worth of groceries cost me about $40.00
I have a MacBookPro running Ubuntu 9.04. It boots to Gnome with StumpWM which has three groups (virtual desktops):

- emacs and terminal (fullscreen, I'll just swap between those two)
- mail, irc, and cplay (screen split between alpine / ssh+irssi, with a horizontal pane for terminal running cplay)
- browser (split vertically about 1:4, with nautilus on the left in the smaller pane and Shiretoko in the larger pane, usually in one window). I also watch movies, view pictures, PDFs etc. in this larger browsing pane.

I've settled for three virtual desktops that wrap around: this way I can always move to any of the desktops with just one move command, either left or right.
Try http://www.wingware.com/doc/howtos/django
Two thinkpads, one running XP and the other running slackware. LispWorks and emacs/slime/sbcl on the win32 box, tested there first, and when I need to implement Unix FFIs I have two putty terminals to the linux box. I have been using linux since 1996, and I don't think I ever ran a full Unix desktop for more than a year (FreeBSD and xfce then)

Stuff get passed around between the XP and the linux box until I am happy with them, then they're sent to 2 slackware VPSes and a Solaris box elsewhere.

More important than code is my Skype phone. Half my work is done walking around with a phone glued to my ear.

Essentials include, a yahoo currency converter bookmarklet, a timezone time calculator, various inhouse tools for lead management and tracking (I have a mailer I wrote in Lisp that I paste email text to and rewrites all URLs as mysite.com/redir?url=FOOBAR; I use this to track who read my emails, when and how. Couldn't live without it.)

OpenOffice and Unipad for funny Arabic text handling. Copernic Desktop Search for the massive library of documents that I have and need to share.

2-3 notepad windows open at all times. An emacs org-mode buffer that contains my life's work.

A separate Firefox installation that has the annoying but very essential SEO-Quake plugin for doing stuff.

GNU GPG integrated with Thunderbird. 20+ email accounts in thunderbird, Pidgin, Chatzilla and a twitter window open at all times.

Paint.NET for the necessary graphics editing. MS Paint for quickly resizing images. Mingw and MSYS to make Windows habitable.

Various Lisp implementations to check my sanity when something doesn't work with SBCL.

Opera, left running at all times with the home page set to the Common Lisp hyperspec, the hunchentoot manual in another tab.

Skype running at all times, but goes to my cellphone when I have a call.

Various powershell and bash scripts to make life easier.

Firefux plugin to remember passwords for 100+ social networking websites that I submit press releases and other stuff to.

Mozart/Oz, Ocateve and R for prototyping "stuff"

[Edit: I wouldn't use a laptop other than a Thinkpad if it was given to me for free. I am a proud owner of 4 Thinkpads at the moment, about 10 of them in the last 10 years.]
There's a difference between someone who becomes rich by making things and someone who does it with "derivatives". One creates wealth. One just "makes money".

I respectfully disagree. Bashing derivatives used to be a fad. Now it's the norm. Not all derivatives were created equal. And, contrary to popular belief, some derivatives actually do create wealth.

For instance, suppose I am a corn farmer in Iowa. Derivatives allow me to buy the option of selling X bushels of corn at a specified price Y, on day Z. Hence, I have a guaranteed revenue at some point in the future. If for some reason, the demand for corn is really low this year, I don't care because the counterparty will have to buy my corn at the specified price. Derivatives provide me insurance against price fluctuations. Thus, I can allocate my capital more efficiently because uncertanty has been reduced. Wealth is created.

Of course, some will parrot that "Buffett said that derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction" even though they don't really understand what that means. Buffett is not a derivatives trader. Period. Derivatives have existed since ancient times (the Greeks and the Phoenicians used them already). If some financial products survive over 2000 years, it's because they have some value.

Services create wealth too. Derivatives provide insurance, and that is a valuable service.
The article is quite interesting.

But it has two different parts to it. One part is how dubious and unreliable much of medical science is. The other part is a plausible argument for the causes of "life style diseases". Both arguments are interesting but they are somewhat at odds with each other.

If there is so much uncertainty in medical research and medical advice, then shouldn't we have something like a call to step and spend some time just evaluating our methods and figuring how to increase the objectivity of the process rather than jumping to yet another not yet full substantiated approach - not that the approach itself sound particular bad or dubious but the juxtaposition of the two arguments gives me pause.
My guess is by the point that sort of thing would have been a desirable remedy in their minds, property values had declined enough (especially in an area where housing was particularly inflated) that selling wasn't an option without owing money.
BTW there is also a NewTech meetup every 1st Tuesday of the month at Palo Alto on the DLA Piper Buildings(near 101).

Typically it consists of 3 or 4 demos of products(pretty much Web based applications). I saw Evernote, FluidApp, Retrevo to name a few in these meetups. It's then followed by Networking where you can look for fellow founders or even hire developers etc etc ...
Woe unto you, HN reader, who decides to go through and read the article anyway.

Let me excerpt the Ubuntu bit: "Nearly five years after its release, Ubuntu remains popular amongst Linux users, but has yet to really pick up any sort of real momentum in the greater desktop OS market."

That's the main point of seven paragraphs, and the closest they ever come to identifying any problems with Ubuntu. Believe me, they exist -- I just switched from Vista while recovering from a hard drive failure, and I could talk your ear off despite it being a very solid OS.

The rest is self-absorbed content-free filler. (I do not need to know what you ate for lunch when reading the article. No really, that is not a joke, they go out of their way to tell you.)
VWD and SQL (Express) are free, you can start with them, I'm starting with them. Go step by step (slowly), also there's a lot of work for asp.net developers (.net in general) the market is very demanding
Ask HN : Open source hardware rising up What do you think?
Just written this article http://harkopen.com/open-source-hardware, there are a lot of very interesting projects lately in this direction, you can see some in here http://harkopen.com/projects

What do you think? Can be open source hardware viable same as the big brother software?
You mean like this? http://corsair.cs.iupui.edu:20181/prospect.php

I wrote this last semester, nothing fancy, but it does what the assignment required, which is very similar to what I think you're trying to do.
Absolutely.

http://www.xubuntu.org/

For Kids: http://www.qimo4kids.com
The office:
White enamel, 92" Oval Ikea table
24" Dell monitor on articulating arm
Macbook Pro
Speakers on Airport express

The rest of the house:
Old Macbook Pro connected to 42" LCD TV, mounted on the wall running Bittorrent with RSS subscriptions / iTunes
Logitech 5500 connected to MBP + speakers built into the wall
About 700GB NAS

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wehriam/369719626/in/set-181528... (Slightly old photo)
See also (some conflicting views), the Hacker's Diet : http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html
which password plugin?
twitter is the "me too" feature, I guess.
The article cites a hypothesis that boils down to "all of these things are bad because they make you produce more insulin." The proposed solution is to do less of all of those things. Why not, instead, modulate insulin? Then, if the cited hypothesis is right, we could eat however we wanted and be perfectly healthy and thin. I'm curious as to the correlations between diabetes or hypoglycemia and the diseases mentioned in the article.
Good points all around. I've found developers at newspaper orgs often have better solutions to the problems in the industry then the 'media veterans' themselves.

Which paper do you work for? Would love to get in touch (alex at newscred dot com).
A few different desks:

http://www.deskography.org/people/gs/

Current setup includes:

- Aluminum MacBook

- Apple Cinema Display (24")

- Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse

- Apple Wired Aluminum Keyboard (recently switched from wireless)

- A functional IKEA desk.

- A not-so-great IKEA chair (we're getting new chairs!)

- vim (and MacVim)

- mutt

- Python (automate tedious tasks)

- CS4 Suite

Total revamp as soon as we've found the office of our dreams.
The problem with these threads is that skill is largely in how you use these tools. It's very hard to communicate techniques with just a list of tools. I have no solution.
Currently working on a startup part time
I am a huge fan of such tools and have been using various different ones for a long time. Supercollider is one of the best...but like Max and Pd, it really needs a graphic makeover. It is possible to do this without compromising flexibility, as proved by Reaktor and even more impressively, by SynthMaker, which manages to provide (relatively) quick audio gratification from an engineering standpoint but is also hacker friendly (just add a code module and hack away inside your own scope).

SC is for certain the most open and extensible of all these systems, though, and is certainly more fun to get to grips with than CSound. However, I wonder to what extent the code-first audio environment is really useful for learning, teaching, or hacking about with audio synthesis. Certainly one wants quick access to the code level if one is serious about DSP; on the other hand, these kinds of environments are not such a good way to get a feel for audio, since th code level puts a big layer of abstraction between you and the sound. The 'knobs, switches, and modulation cords' approach used by most commercial products may seem quaintly nostalgic for the days of big analog modulars, but it's actually very efficient.

There's also ChucK, which I haven't got around to playing with but really like the look of its clean code, and Impromptu (ditto) which looks awesome but is evil because it only runs on Mac and I'm a PC. By the way, Ableton's Live (a very very capable audio workstation package) will be getting Max/MSP integration later this year, which is a Big Deal if you like low-level synthesis.

Sorry for the long post, this used to be my professional area but I could never figure out how to make money out of my love of producing quirky and interesting sounds :-/
This is true. But the traditional understanding of derivatives and what went down in the past decade might be whole different animals. (The math and logic used to turn subprime loan bundles into AAA's is still somewhat opaque to me.)

The argument might be broadened to include the traditional "financial grease" that the markets provided. As you said, bashing derivatives has become the norm, but even Henry had to raise capital.

It will be extremely difficult to recover from the damage done in public opinion to financial instruments in general. "Yes, Ma'am, I know you lost all of your money on those investments, but these are good derivatives. Scouts Honor! "
Funny, I'm running a 9800 GTS 512mb, with no issues.

My secret was using the iDeneb 10.5.5 distro, that thing works wonders on my system. I'm running an Asus P5E-Delux motherboard, with is also a well-supported system. Everything I did is textbook from insanelymac.com
Well, considering these are videos; you're right probably not that many people "read" them. But to your general nature, look at the title bar up there ^^^^ some of us actually like computer science. Just a thought.
And:

http://www.deskography.org/people/oPi254rbd/desks/197/photos...

:)
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I think this is funnier if you don't speak german.
Maybe you could try IronPython. You can use it with the ASP.net MVC framework. Then later on if you decide to rather go with Django you already know Python.
I'm inclined to suggest that the right abstraction be implemented well so it's not so hard to debug.

Proper macros provide a nice way to blend the advantages of each. There are even some new languages that have them without looking like Lisp (Plot and Ioke come to mind).
My question is; how many people of the people working on startups are of the type that will "change the world", vs. simply build useful and scalable products (e.g. enterprise software or indie games)?
Working on a startup full-time. Any non-hackers looking for a startup, please send me an email.
Of course. It excels at it. Try these distros:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/

http://www.puppylinux.org/
You code to execute vision, just as you step up a marketing campaign to execute a vision/strategy. If you're growing so fast that the coding can't catch up with the pace that your vision needs to be executed, give up coding and delegate it to someone else.

You feel you're not accomplishing anything because of "muscle memory"; your mind is used to feel accomplished when a build is complete and a test suite passes with flying colors. Your role has changed, and now you need to get your high from somewhere else. Feel free to go over what the team is doing a few times a day, but ultimately you will need to give up.

If you're feeling bored you probably are not doing all you could. Business responsibility is a hell of a burden and you should be able to visualize months into the future while your team is still at square one. It's not the same thing as a hack-mode, where you can shake off by scratching that itch and writing a toy app or a library.

Look harder into your market and competition and you will find something that you might have missed before that will keep you awake. 2/3, or 3/3 of the time left for management will feel like peanuts :-)
I agree. I would like to say that I honestly believe that the way the masses perceive the markets is completely and deeply flawed.

For instance, if you build a new super high-tech cruise ship which ends up sinking during its inaugural voyage, then people will perceive that failure as a design problem, and they will blame the naval engineers who designed and built the ship. Only a crackpot would claim that one should ban all ships because they're dangerous.

If you create a new market and that markets fails, people will claim that it's a dangerous market and that it should be banned. No one will think that the market might have been poorly designed. When it comes to markets, moral issues such as "right" and "wrong" trump everything else. Emotion defeats reason. That's intriguing, isn't it?
There's a "Show people I follow in the contact list" option you can disable. Or just hide that group when you're not trying to find someone to DM.
Amazon EC2 gets statistics, auto scaling and elastic load balancing
> It's satire, not politics.

I hope you didn't meant to imply that the two are mutually exclusive.
Check the boot sector. If I need to spoon feed you, then you shouldn't be running code you don't understand, noob.