skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Send 3 guys, a Django hacker, a reporter and a business guy to that town. Get credentialed.

Hacker sets up a blog and a GiantBomb.com-style structured wiki of every person, place, thing, story and issue in town. They now have the speed advantage and own local search. He also cooks up a self-serve, stupid-simple advertising system that works just like Facebook's original Flyer program. $15 bucks to run a flyer for the day. $50 for the week.

Reporter covers local meetings and businesses and recruits citizens to contribute to a town hall blog. The goal is not so much to get pageviews off the citizen blog, but to show the community that the cool people are all on board.

Business guy meets every small business owner in town, organizes weekly reader meetups, handles sponsorship sales.

In three months, they could position themselves as THE web site for the community. Then it's a matter of selling monthly sponsorships at $300/month to local businesses and professionals who want a seat at the town's front page. You sell 40 of those and you're making $160,000/year. Add on another $20-30k in flyer sales.

Meanwhile, the biz-dev guy cuts a deal with a few regional outlets to syndicate their content to them and with a few local businesses to host sponsored blogs for them.

And 1-2 times a year they throw a must-attend event and make a profit off ticket sales.

There's probably a bit of a ceiling to an approach like this, but the right three guys could more or less call the shots in their community once they get up and running.
FbFund Finalist, Live Music Discovery Site Seeks Technical Cofounder
fbFund Finalist, Live Music Discovery Site Seeks Technical Cofounder

About us:

- We're fbFund 2009 finalists.
- We graduated from Stanford University in an entrepreneurship focused
Master's program that spanned coursework from the Graduate School of
Business, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, and Stanford HCI.
- We're well connected to the music industry, from music startup veterans to
the major ticket distributors.
- We're passionate about live music, and hungry to attack the $4.2B primary
ticketing market.
- Above all, we're here to build great products and user experiences.

About you:

- You're as opinionated about software as you are about music.
- You rock out every morning to the tune of your own calling, even if that
morning begins at noon.
- You do it because you love it.
- Code is your calling—music, your muse.

We're artists, creators, coders, and shakers of music on the web.
Our mission is to connect people to live music experiences—and the artists
behind them—with affection.
Help us revolutionize the way people discover new shows.
Let's talk music.

Contact johnny at damntheradio.com.

Reqs:

-Experience developing, launching, and scaling web applications
-Experience leading and managing technical teams
-User-focused product creator with pointers to projects you've accomplished
-Expertise in JavaScript, HTTP, HTML/DOM, CSS, and Flash
-Command of programming on a web server: Python, Ruby, Java, C++, etc.
-Proficiency with Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.
-Knowledgeable foundation in interaction design principles
-Great written communication and documentation abilities
I wish I could also become a "Rockstar" or a "comedian" or something else reading things titled "How To Become A ..."

Hmm, can't see the word "open" written there, doing/contributing to open source projects would definitely give a person, true feel of what if feels like writing software in large groups of people.
I'm not sure I understand. Do you need both a dedicated graphics card and an to use ExpressCard to qualify? Is someone that uses a FireWire audio interface not a "true power user"? What about programmers that don't need either?
Now I'm confused. I am on the same build (3.0.183.1) and no bookmarklets are working for me at all, despite multiple reboots and upgrade checks. I'll post if I find a cause, but please disregard my original (edit timer expired already).
Obviously pthread support won't be removed; pthread programs just won't play as nice with each other as Grand Central programs.
//designer !(!=) hacker;
I've always gotten the flip up SD cards for this reason-- it works works every place an SD card works, then you flip it and it works like a USB stick.

Of course the proliferation of mini and micro SD cards has lessened the effectiveness of this plan...
Not sure, and the path remains a untested hypothetical. If they're really trying to charge other 3G->3GS upgrades $400, there might be additional roadblocks thrown up.

I thought all purchased apps were linked to the ITunes account, rather than carrier account... so I would again expect there's a way to carry them forward, but I may be overly optimistic.
Who is to say we wouldn't also include two or more other great composers in that list if there hadn't been a 21 year statute. Sometimes a set of factors just seem to line up perfectly to generate amazing ideas in the right people - it's why people independently come to the same conclusion or invent the same invention at the same moment in time. Copyright law minimises the benefits of these "golden ages". With longer periods of copyright law (in excess of lifetimes/generations) copyright law can simply destroy the potential value of society.
Marshall Mcluhan devotes a whole chapter to this topic in his book Understanding Media: http://books.google.com/books?id=R2bqSaC5TlkC&printsec=f...

"Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extensions of themselves in any material other than themselves"

It's sad that this writer doesn't appear to have read it.
A tower extending 100 Km up would be a great point for scientific observation. But to be a space elevator replacement you would need a tower that could bear load up to geosynchronous orbit.

That's not easy.

I have read about using a series of balloons for lifting - a more rugged one for low atmosphere, then switching the cargo to a lighter one designed to operate in the high atmosphere and then propelling the cargo with something like an ion engine to orbital speeds and increasing heights where the balloon would give less and less lift (and offer less and less drag).

Looks like an interesting idea.
While this is true in general, it is still possible to eat a balanced, healthy diet for very little money. That said, it requires a lot of discipline and a somewhat sophisticated understanding of nutrition. Still, my wife and I managed to get by on $20-30/week for combined groceries for about a year (we're in AZ, and being vegetarian helps keep costs down), but still managed to eat well.
More information about the implementation of blocks here:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2008-August/00267...
It's just laziness, rice and beans are still cheap and work fine for huge parts of the world. Being poor in America is no excuse to be fat.
I want one so bad. But isn't the service still like $60 a month? That adds up in a hurry, plus I'm locked in with Verizon right now.
Not that you are wrong (convenience always wins) but if a desktop client gave the only or the best experience I would imagine you'd pick it.
Unless the rep I spoke to an hour ago was hiding something, the cancel-early fee is only $125. Then, you're free to get a new-contract-subsidized phone from AT&T or anyone else.

That makes the righteousness of a $400 differential for existing 3G contractholders a little incongruous.

Update: According to MobileCrunch, the 'early upgrade' prices for 3G owners are just +$200, not +$400, over the fully-subsidized prices. That make a lot more sense -- both compared to the early-cancellation penalties and a pro-rata accounting for the previous subsidy. See:

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/06/08/want-to-upgrade-to-an...
I'm not sure why this never gets said, but a degree in computer science helps. No, its not always required and a lot of people in unrelated fields have ended up going into software engineering, but we might was well be upfront and honest about what a lot of people would like to see for a first time employee.
Radio communication fail? Weird electrical/magnetic phenomena? Meteor? These are just some of the more plausible ideas than "covert terrorism".
I live in a very walkable city -- in fact, finding parking is quite inconvenient. It's actually much easier (and healthier) for me to walk a mile to wherever I need to go. In this situation (as I'm sure is true with any downtown area), it is not hard to imagine that the conclusions of the study are sound. Of course, causality is always impossible to establish in sociological studies like this.
My current laptop (Fujitsu T2010 tablet) doesn't have one. The only time I missed it was for installing Linux - I had to borrow a USB drive from a friend.

Next time I'll probably just figure out how to put the installer on a USB key.
I thought they only talked like that in the movies.
I dunno, seems overly dramatic and kind of fake to me.
I wish I could upvote this more for "bung" - makes me think of Jay (of Jay of Silent Bob fame) from the Kevin Smith film, Dogma.
A few semi-questions. Structures that become relatively fixed after five? This seems suspect. There are two major prunings of overgrowth of neurons: once soon after birth (where your case stands), once in puberty (where your case falls). I'm not the best at sources but without evidence in my face my guess would put post-puberty for the "relatively fixed" threshold, and common sense confirms this: "identity formation" = puberty. And identity formation basically means habits, which are also manifested in parenthood. As for executive functions, we're probably talking about white matter growth, which is mostly genetic. There could be swing cases, but if your white matter puts you firmly above or below your peers, there's no way in hell you will not perceive it and act on this knowledge -- unless there is some crazy conscious brainwashing going on, which doesn't apply in this case.

Amount of father time vs mother time, and type of father time vs mother time is unaddressed in your post but potentially a critical difference. Role models are important in gender role formation (and, no, we aren't all equal): a negligent father would imply less play-ball, a negligent mother would imply no breastfeeding... for whereever those lead. (I recall breadfed children grow to be less anxious)

Finally, I see a chicken and egg here -- what is your opinion about that? Suppose a borderline autist has a child. They turn out to be an aloof parent. Their child ends up being aloof as well, etc. Okay, that was a convenient example -- but really, how convenient? The kid with a submissive employee for a parent imbibes submissiveness through how they are reared; is this a learned and transferred behavior, or a preexisting tendency, a phenotype observed externally and possibly mistakenly over-credited to the environment?

/i make no reservations in stating my affinity to nature > nurture and determinism > free will

But, I totally agree that good parenting is important, overlooked, and underestimated.
Quite a dramatic reaction for someone complaining about dramatic reactions. And for what? To claim superiority over a 14 year old girl? To shake your fist at a younger generation for being inscrutable? It isn't clear.

For many people, making a connection between a story being told and a personal experience from their own life is something that opens their minds. For you it seems to have shut it tight.
Is there even enough commercially-available helium in the whole world to support this structure, much less a 100+ km tall version?
This was my question too. But I think stalls in large airliners are a very different thing than in GA aircraft. I'm pretty sure full stalls are still part of the test regimen, but I don't think normal pilots ever do a full stall. It may also be other factors playing in at high altitude, and of course in severe turbulence a recovery might be even more difficult.
What do you guys across the globe want?

-money (to buy time -be it time alone, time with friends or a rolex), and

-gorgeous womEn (intelligence comes second to beauty for most males).
That's a really bizarre list. Where are you from?
Can you please explain the difference?
I am from Russia, living in US for 1.5 years.
Flying lower = flying slower. You can already do that, just pick a plane that flies lower, like a commuter jet...

But in general, when flying it's safer to be higher and faster. By far the most dangerous thing you might encounter when flying is the ground...
And...scene.
Better ad rates on paper?
the skills you learn today will be irrelevant in less than a decade

O RLY?

http://www.indeed.com/q-fortran-jobs.html - Jobs 1 to 10 of 1,231

http://www.indeed.com/q-cobol-jobs.html - Jobs 1 to 10 of 3,022

http://www.indeed.com/q-ruby-jobs.html - Jobs 1 to 10 of 4,208
They like entrepreneurs and software developers at a surprisingly increasing rate. But maybe we should ask the american girls that come here.
Agree. "Bing", "bung", I call shenanigans.
In my vast ignorance, I've always wondered why buoyancy isn't a popular principle of personal air transportation, when it seems to work really well for water.
Forgive me for tooting my own horn: http://20bits.com/articles/decisions-without-data/

I like the fact that Jakob took it one extra step and included data that shows making decisions with data is (empirically) better than making decisions without data.

Very meta. :)
I was thinking there's a pretty good Stephenson novella here.
Laziness? Is that based on opinion or data? This is an unbiased question. I am further interested in how widespread this sentiment is.

I heard a story about a McDonald's closing in a poor area. There are at least two effects of this, the second of which was quite surprising: 1. McD, a source of high-fat food, leaves the area, and subsequently people need to find alternative food; 2. McD, a source of cheap food, leaves the area, and subsequently people have trouble affording food.

Apparently McD's distribution chain is so efficient, that their presence resulted in wider access to food. I say nothing about nutrition, jobs, or anything else. Just food that fills your stomach. It seems like nothing is that simple enough to summarize in a single sentence. Doing so is likely overestimating of your grasp of the situation. But perhaps it is indeed just laziness.

Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=643999
They're ways to solve two different problems. The goal of application development is to make a user happy (for some value of happy), and the goal of software engineering is make a good system (for some value of good).
This sounds backwards to me. Newspapers are dying because news is commoditized. Having an inferior product will NOT help these people compete with the free guys.
"There is no right answer ... and always a better way."

I prefer, "There are many right answers, some better than others."

"Show and discuss your code, without emotional attachment."

Not my experience. I have always had emotional attachment to my code. My love for my code is what has enabled me to grow. Passion is half the battle.

"People who learn one hot language just to get a job mostly find themselves ten or more years later as one-trick ponies on outdated software platforms."

If a programmer has delivered 100 great projects with the only language he knows, does that make him a "one-trick pony". Just because there is a new favorite language du jour doesn't mean that all other software ceases to exist. There are plenty of COBOL and BASIC programmers still doing very well.

"Since they have no real interest in learning anything else,"

Since when does "not learning more languages" = "not learning anything else"? I know plenty of people who have used basically the same technology for 20 years and have learned plenty of others things. OP discounts domain knowledge, deep industry knowledge, and business saavy. Believe me, you can solve lots of diverse real world problems with a very small technology footprint.

OP's advice scares me a little bit because he equates "learning" with "learning technology". If you're not careful, the next thing you know, you will have learned a lot but insulated yourself into an ivory tower.

I prefer much simpler advice. Keep finding customers (internal or external) and help them solve their problems. Lifelong learning will be a byproduct that will take care of itself.
Is location important? If so, what is your location?
(I'm assuming SFO or thereabouts, but I figure it is worth asking.)
I can't tell if my comment was disagreeable or weak. It looks rational to me.
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The premise of this article is rather superficial. You could just as easily argue that firms with older partners know the best investments because they have been around longer. To reduce the success of a firm down to age seems rather dumb.
Yeah, the documentation site is a Drupal install, with a few modules, some color changes and a new logo. The main Doculicious.com is all custom, but for the doco I didn't want to have to worry about building the site ... just wanted to get some content up there.

Thank you both for your comments too, I appreciate it.
So, what's the motivation for me the author of a book or software to actually write a book or software. Believe me that monetary gain is part of the motivation.

Of course it is.

There are a bunch of ways to make money without copyright, as I'm sure you're aware (and having "artists have benefactors" is one of them, but far from the only one). The problem you see is that you think that you won't make as much money, or that you have a lower probability of making money. Frankly, if you can't figure out how to make money in the free market from your writing, it's not up to us to enact laws to provide you with an income (or a higher probability of an income), even indirectly through copyright.
I just created the wiki for you in less than an hour:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648223
The study is linked to in the second paragraph. It appeared in what seems to be a reputable, peer-reviewed journal and controls for socioeconomic status.

I see this all the time online: a study is published, and a chorus of commenters echo "correlation isn't causation" without actually reading the study and seeing that these other factors have been accounted for.

There are plenty of things wrong with science reporting, but when many readers are apparently too lazy to exert the minimal effort to verify that their misgivings were indeed addressed by the researchers, one can't exclusively fault the media.
Self-regulation game predicts kindergarten achievement
Copyright law gives ownership rights to a work's creator. What (s)he does with those rights (keep it, license it, sell it, or trade it) is his/her choice. Just because they have made the choice to sell or bequeath the copyright doesn't mean they didn't benefit from its existence.

Your point akin to saying that startup founders aren't rewarded for innovating because a public company's stock is rarely owned by the company's original founders.
Plant-based, low-carb diet may promote weight loss & improve cholesterol levels
I recently learned the great utility of beans and I asked why they aren't pouring over the streets. Apparently: culture, agriculture, and subsidies. A culmination of broken links.
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I'd say no, I followed the link back to his site and started watching a whole bunch of episodes from last year.

If his boss had watched even half of the stuff I just saw scotty get up too (some of it plain funny, especially the answering of viewer mail during staff meetings), I'd say the reaction could be considered not fake...
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Can anyone explain what is happening here?

The guy got fired for something to do with videos?
I don't know of a study that makes the claim, but I can go to the grocery store and buy really cheap food that's not bad for me. It takes more work to prepare than hitting a preset on the microwave or going to a drive-thru, but it's cheap and will keep you healthy.

(I say this as I'm about to re-heat some left over spanish rice that I made last night. It cost almost nothing to make.)
If somebody was that desperate, they could probably transfer the number to a month-to-month plan and then back to preserve the number.
There is a negative feedback loop in crowded cities. It is polluted outside so walking is actually bad for your health, and then, you want to spend as little time as possible outside so you use whatever is fastest.

Thought experiment: suppose you are dictator, what would you do?

I might first propose a walk-only zones in certain times of week (a la hokousha tengoku).
> To claim superiority over a 14 year old girl?

Not at all. To claim that the WRITER was trying to make too big a deal out of something.
Agreed. Cell phones don't usually encourage creativity.
http://laughingsquid.com/scotty-got-an-office-job-a-video-se...

has some sample videos.
> It's not the kid being dramatic, it's the author

100% agreed; I wasn't trying to suggest otherwise.
Yeah, I used my cdrom drive on my macbook pro about 3 times. Now I need it and it's broken. But I have .ISO's and I can just mount those as a drive, so really the drives are obsolete already.

I'd rather see that space dedicated to horsepower.
Doubtful, I don't see a link any place where you can download the actual SDK.
Well technically this is in the movies.
If you had bothered to click on the link to the original study, you would have seen this in the second paragraph (the "Methods" section):

"Linear regressions of BMI and logistic regressions of overweight and obesity include controls for individual-level age and neighborhood-level racial/ethnic composition, median age of residents, and median family income."
I don't care if it's fake. "Bung" is too funny.
I assume so, but I really wonder how they expect to sell this to their customers (apart from a few emigres with intense ties to their place of origin). That their online subscriber visits have dropped by 66% even before the paywall goes live isn't encouraging.
Having just watched the videos... this is what I can gleam of the situation.

Scotty Iseri got an office job after freelancing for 7 years.

Scotty decided to film himself goofing off at work. Scotty made 2 seasons of episodic content about it... there is some pretty funny stuff in there (answering viewer mail covertly during staff meetings would be personal favourites)

Scotty's videos got posted to Laughing Squid, his boss found out - he was fired.
If you add the line then transfer the number to the new phone and cancel the original line it might work.
I'd like to see a study exploring the net health effect of exercising outside in a polluted city.

Also, if it's polluted outside, isn't it polluted inside too? Do these cities all have buildings with air purifiers?
Don't be fooled: I accidentally upvoted him because his retort felt sensible, but then I read his post, which rang of blatant trolling.
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