skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally, I would think so. Not so much from the perspective of "risk taking" as other commenter mentioned but more so from administrative effort and business cost / break even analysis.

"Risk taking" is, in my opinion, relatively independent of cost or administrative overhead. Some people would simply not start up any company even when the break even analysis is good. Whereas others would jump on a given opportunity, taking the risk that he / she can do better than the break even analysis.
Populations (apparently) decline until they stop declining: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/abs/nature08...

Edit: Link to Nature not a press release.
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Work on you. Go to the gym. Eat healthy. Catch up sleep. Organize for next week. Drink water. Meditate. Journal.
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How did sign language get on there? It's like learning any other foreign language AND it's harder to find materials to study alone AND there's an entire shift in mindset from expressing things in sound to expressing things by position and movement. Pretty sure this is a task for more like 200 weekends.
I would not use "monarchies" as the contrast. There have been republics in the past, too.
Why can’t everyone just agree to a family-friendly, 40-hour workweek? Because then anyone who chose to work a 90-hour week would clean our clocks.

Well, if you look at a fair chunk of Europe, everyone has agreed to work reasonable hours, largely, and the nutters like myself who work their socks off are few and far between. Of course, you could say that the rest of the world is about to clean Europe's clocks, but that's by no means certain.
jQuery, and/or "Javascript: The Good Parts".

Alternatively: Pick a power editor (I recommend emacs) and practice with that.
This looks like a terrific resource. I was just setting up an A/B test the other day with Google Website Optimizer ... I just wanted to test a single word change. To go through GWO, I had to set up a multivariate test, with multiple js snippets going in multiple places on multiple pages.

I haven't installed A/Bingo on any live sites, but I'm looking forward to kicking the tires. Thanks for releasing it.

Since it's open source, have you thought about setting it up at Github? Since that's becoming such a standard resource, it'd make looking through it easier.
Two economists are walking down the street when they see a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk in front of them. The first economist goes to pick up the money but his colleague stops him and tells him not to bother.

"Why not?"

"If it were a real twenty dollar bill, someone would have picked it up already."
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Someone forgot Afghanistan!
because speed is of the essence for the op and djanjo gets you there quicker for a full featured backend crud admin.
I was actually pleasantly surprised by the hosts. Was expecting them to come off as complete morons (having watched some of Fox Biz) but they did a decent job.
What's interesting about this is seeing how something that we know a lot about is conveyed to the general public in a few brief clips. It must be difficult to choose exactly what to say.
Schiller. Marketing. Funny.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shill
> San Francisco's BART is a lot better, to be fair, although it's still not better than the trains I've been on in a handful of other countries (Canada, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea).

Trains in mainland China is cheap and fast. In Beijing it is just 2 Yuan to get anywhere by subway! I doubt that any other country has trains that are so cheap.
I was considering doing something like this for a site I made one weekend for myself and my friends: limited spots. 5$ a spot per year, 1000 spots only. In the end I couldn't be bothered setting up the payments because it was not really worth it for small change, so now I just host it on our internal network.

Pinboards pricing strategy might have worked better - great idea!
Direct link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/25897600/funding...
So what we actually get, with the sibling post to yours, is that a programmer can make a web app with the help of a web design firm ... who would have thought it possible.

Nice story, great looking site, but not quite the in-at-the-deep-end story it appears.
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Try morning jogs outside. Start slow. It does wonders for my energy level and clarity of thought for the rest of the day.
Thieves.

The war on terror was an excuse to funnel billions to the pockets of handpicked contractors in Iraq.

Then the stimulus, billions upon billions went to the hands of corporate thugs who got fat checks to continue spending more and more without compromise.

Politics is the greatest robbery of all times and propaganda its greatest weapon.

As long as they feed us manipulated news and keep us on the verge of mental collapse, they will do whatever they want with us, and our money.

First, terrorism that wasn't, then the recession that didn't. I know they are planning the next alarmist event to steal more and more from us.
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This is a very interesting development, there was an article here a while ago about multiple cursors & keyboards in use on a single display using a hacked X server.
Here's an article written before the current debate

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/540199

...After all the consequences are accounted for, very few services of any kind save more money than the cost incurred. Childhood vaccines are among the rare examples that actually are cost-saving...

Of course, there's more to universal health care than just saving money. Once you politicize it, it's more about doing and saying things to keep those votes coming in.
I strongly recommend anything by Edward R. Tufte if you really want to understand the fundamentals and the correct way of thinking.
On the other hand, if this strategy is widely known. People won't look any more if they invest again or not.
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Hasn't this already been on the frontpage?
> [...] there was an article here a while ago about multiple
cursors & keyboards in use on a single display using a hacked X server.

do you have the link perhaps?
Fail like you mean it
What's the minimum effect size you consider worthwhile?
Although this guy is young, he's been at it several times. He is likely one of the most experienced among contestants.

I think it is a good example of 'practice makes perfect' and '10,000-hour rule' for world-class expertise building. (If you count all the hours with math training as well--though I don't know how much time he spent on math & com sci together.)
I can see this becoming a reality TV. :)
If there are no absolute coordinates then there is an arbitrary choice of coordinate system and you are welcome to choose your jumping off point as fixed.

When I jump I push the entire universe down by about 30cm.

Makes the maths a reall bugger to work out though.
Looking at the country list of gold medalists in the bottom-right box, there seems to be high correlation between the nurturing and availability of very top talents and the rate of economic development of a nation.
let me go find it for you...

edit: here you go: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/omnimedia/papers/multicursor.pdf
Something not computer related? Read a book? Plant something?
If computer related... Play with html 5 canvas, its so en vogue at the moment.
excellent point, I should have left that one out because of the time constraint.

It is a very useful skill though! (but then again plenty of things are).
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Ask HN: Confronting impossible people (In life and business)
I have recently moved into a shared accommodation set-up in a 6 bedroom house. No person is in anyway more in charge or has more rights than the others as all things house related are dealt with by the real-estate agent and the man who owns the building.

Things are fine except for that one guy, the odd shut in that seems to think he embodies all that is righteous in the house. I just this morning found out how to operate the ducted heating and was enjoying my first warm night since I moved in. Then it got cold, and I felt a breeze coming in under my door. The front door was open, so I shut it. Five minutes later it was open again, I swore loud enough for anyone to hear, then shut it again. Every time I came out of my room the damned door was open again (like maybe 3 more times). I'd had enough so I closed the door one last time with one slight difference, I stood outside it and waited for whoever was opening it to strike again. Should have seen his face.

I asked him what on earth he was doing, and he tells me some stupid story about how the others leave the door open in the morning so that his room gets cold, so he does it at night to get them back. I just couldn't seem get through to him how it was effecting me as well, let alone the fact it made the house totally open to anyone with the slightest inclination of stealing all our stuff that's not locked in our rooms. I casually told him "whatever, I'm freezing my ass off" and went back to my room, but not before I heard him propping the door open again. So I am sitting here thinking about what to do about this and decided to tap into the wisdom of HN.

I think a discussion about being assertive and dealing with these kinds of people could be of benefit to anyone who has ever come across them in life and in business.
So that's the downside: the Big VC will make a Series A harder if they are the first to reject you when shopping for that Series A.

Solution: don't approach the seed VC for a follow-on, skip it or postpone it until last resort, in which case the new alternatives can used as 'Stalking Horses' on the seed VC anyway if playing hardball.

Big VC seed money is a good endorsement and help for a company, and the upside is the chance of an easy follow-on from them because they have the pockets: but wait for them to come calling first, or have some Stalking Horses ready if you sense being played. Otherwise just skip them altogether on a Series A.
Hackers are (almost) always male and don't get laid that much, so a reality TV with a bunch of guys and no sex is not going to attract a lot of viewers...
These are some very serious numbers you mention here. Just take a look at this TED talk - just $8 billion to halve the number of people without access to drinking water.

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_f...

Imagine what can be achieved with hundreds of billions, if used constructively.

$100 billion on contractors? wow

Why can't the US military increase the pay for the soldiers, hire more soldiers and reduce the number of contractors? These contractors are in it just for the money, don't have any respect for laws/human life as blackwater has repeatedly demonstrated.

They should really think twice, thrice before starting any war, and especially an unnecessary one.
I took one of Patrick Winston's classes last semester, and I've never known someone to dispense so much invaluable advice about, well, everything. I have a notebook full of his quotes on topics like how to interview well, how to become a professor at a top university, the proper way to do A.I. research, how to write well, how to threaten people, how to get people to change their minds, etc etc. Brilliant guy.
I didn't realize it until I watched, but with a single word, pg tells you the answer to the question posed by one of my favorite books, "The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want," by Mike Hernacki.
Smile. Be kind and polite. Remember that he probably thinks the same of you or even worse. Try to figure out his motivations. Be friendly, talk to him about things he's interested in. Try to see the world through his eyes. Once you managed to hit a common voice with him, it's much easier to find solutions for your differences.
I think a 'barrier to entry' sounds a very good plan. I guess you could somehow filter the 'new' page for submissions by people > 25 karma and see if it cuts the spam.
Have you ever seen The Ultimate Fighter?
So have them put it on SpikeTV or G4 then.
I don't understand the value of this being a 2D representation. Wouldn't the data be easier to understand in a bar graph?

Also, why is it called The Billion Dollar Gram?
Co-founder Founder of www.radaptive.com an Asset Management and Ticketing solution(running in Ebay/paypal/danger-now Microsoft! and ask.com. Role: I handle all things technical.
we could also show how many users are online at any given time, like in forums.
Last question was good - and the answer. Must admit to learning stuff in the interview as an unlikely yc-applicant.
I don't know the best way to deal with this situation, but fighting passive-aggressiveness with itself will not solve anything.

The fact that you waited for him shows you're not afraid of a little confrontation, but I think you may have wasted a good opportunity by getting frustrated and leaving instead of telling him directly that he was being rude and childish. People who are oblivious to others rarely pick up on polite hints.
I have not, but that's a good point. Well, hackers tend to enjoy intellectual fights more than physical ones. The average viewer wants entertainment, not intellectual stimulation...
Read HN all day looking at all the interesting ideas people are posting! C'mon you know this is what you're going to do anyway. Just kidding. But, hopefully we don't see you back here till Monday w/ some more wisdom and knowledge to drop on us all.

Just to add to the mix. How about TED Lectures, youtube around for old Feynman or Steve Jobs videos, check out OpenCourseWare or any of those online learning sites and make a dent in an interesting course. Catch up w/ friends on the phone.

I also second the jQuery, Python, Django, Google App Engine, and Processing crews.

Hope your ankle gets better soon!
yep, the fault doesn't lie with django.
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Good point, you're right, I missed it.
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The only way to save the App store is to kill it's monopoly.
Alot of the other videos on that website are NSFW! :P
PG for president!
he is posh haha
Pinax is a monstrous pain in the ass to install and use for the following reasons:

1) Bad documentation.
2) Bad installer (installer??? Django apps should be installed with cp and tar.)
3) They attempt to bundle everything with their cheeseball installation package yet I still spent 3 hours compiling external dependencies (not just PIL) which was a major pain in the ass.
4) Not compatible with Python 2.4, the default on a huge number of servers and this is not stated anywhere in the docs.

I haven't deployed the code to a production web server with mod python or WSGI but I'm betting it's going to be a major pain in the ass, too.

The Django apps that I've written from scratch, every single one of them, could be tarred and dropped into a working Django 1.0/WSGI environment with zero effort other than setting up the base environment - I know because I've done it many times. In my opinion they should really rethink this concept of an "installer". It's a red herring for productivity and doesn't even do what it says it does because there are external dependencies to compile and a bunch of undocumented details to sweat over.
Then why not remove the warning saying "this article is likely to be merged or deleted"?

"Does not meet notability guidelines, please help fix" is not the same as "Does not meet notability guidelines, help fix or this article gets deleted." The latter frames the issue as content not permitted, the former frames the issue as content yet to come. The difference is significant.
thank you:-) [I tried to find it, but my google-fu seems a bit rusty today...]

I just finished skimming the paper - interesting how many different approaches there are for collaboration - e.g. the server in the paper is very general (works for all X apps) but aimed at control rooms (low latency) - while specialized collaborative editing systems (which work by synching n copies) often can deal with higher latency while not sacrificing ease of use.

I wonder if it is possible to unite generality and latency-tolerance...
That recent finding still shows decline.
Reminds me of this article:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_34/b41440368...

People applying known technology in new variations, but not pushing any boundaries or really knowing more than a very narrow slice of a discipline.

Somehow the script kiddies annoy me most because they are non-productive. Entrepreneurs at least contribute to the wellbeing of all, albeit obliquely; however, I agree there's too much groupthink there.

If you're ever in Houston, come visit us at 2600:

http://www.hou2600.org/

A lot of people there would agree with you.
It wasn't that I had become too frustrated to keep talking to him, it was that I saw there were not going to be any breakthroughs then and there tonight so I played one last card, the guilt trip, which failed miserably. I am thinking of confronting him more sternly tomorrow when this inevitably happens again.

Should I think about bringing the real estate agents into this, or even trying to get him and the others together in a room and telling them all what I think?

Anyway, this Ask HN wasn't just meant to be about my situation here, more about tips, philosophies and reading materials to help others deal with similar situations, especially in the business world.

(Oh and thanks for the reply!)
The speed of light in a vacuum being [constantly and universally] constant is an axiom (ie assumption, belief) of special relativity so it applies to inertial frames of reference.

So, strictly it is not "regardless of your frame of reference". Accelerating frames, eg rotating or accelerating (eg under gravity where General relativity applies) require special treatments.
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I found the contents of "Getting Past Now" by William Ury helpful when negotiating with difficult people.
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Past-No-William-Ury/dp/0553371...
All things considered I'm actually surprised how little it seems to happen here (compared to other sites like HN).

My understanding is that a big part of the reason for this is human moderators who remove inappropriate content. Identifying spam posts is only difficult if you do it algorithmically.
Large law firms are going to be a difficult target.

1. They would be concerned that disclosing to the RECAP people exactly what research they've been doing on PACER could violate client confidence. (They might be wrong, but someone somewhere is going to raise this as a legal risk sufficient to tank the whole idea).

2. The idea of giving away for free something that cost them money is just not part of the DNA.

3. Windows and Internet Explorer dominate, so a Firefox extension is just not going to work.
This is a competition for school students, so the fact that he's 14 isn't very surprising.
My initial reaction on hearing that would probably have been to scream "are you fucking stupid?" at him. But I have a very low tolerance for that kind of behavior and luckily have learned to suppress that type of response :-)

Besides, if people really are leaving the door open in the morning, that won't solve anything. Talk to him and find out who's leaving the door open and you can all three sit down and figure out what leads to that happening.

Most things domestic have simple solutions once the underlying problem is discovered.

As far as dealing with passive-aggressive behavior in general, I find that being polite, but firm generally gets the behavior to stop. What you don't want to do is yell at them like I said above, since that just causes them to shut down temporarily then go back to doing the same thing.
You download to the dedicated users home directory, and then you make your main user part of the same group as the firefox-user. I didn't get the last part of your question? Why wouldn't you want to download that file?
I was surprised that the hosts actually let Paul speak for more than seven un-interrupted seconds. When the interview first started, the game of "I'm going to say some stuff that I think you might say and ask you if that's what you want to say" seemed to have begun, but the hosts thankfully scaled back to occasional yapping.
The only way to deal with people like that is to move out. Why are you structuring your happiness in life around his actions?
I'm afraid I just signed a 6 month lease and I'm in no financial situation to move anywhere else. I wish one of the others had told me about all this before I moved in.
There's also the MPX project from the University of South Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Pointer_X
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on thing that wasn't mentioned was using higher level information to infer cursor position. ie: instead of just saying text disappeared here, text appeared here, say a cut operation was performed here and a paste operation was performed here.
So you did not learn it, but you were learning it. Maybe you could not write a good working program in C, but you became aware of a number of concepts that you could build on later when learning other languages and when learning C the second time.
You're welcome. Google is not always good at finding stuff that you know exists if you don't use the right keywords, also, your queries could have the result but only on page 85 or so...

I think the latency issues can be solved, after all when you use X over a network or when you use something like VNC to have access to a remote machine you are the one to decide to do so, the latency is something you take for granted (and with a good dsl setup it is quite amazing how responsive a remove session can be).

I think this is mostly a transitional issue that will solve itself in due course, after all, networks get faster all the time and latency is fairly steadily going down.

RTT from where I'm sitting to Amsterdam is 21 ms, to the US eastcoast it is about 90. That's not so bad, it would have to be a pretty critical application if that sort of latency would give trouble.

And if the application is 'aware' of its circumstances (such as a web based collaboration tool) then I'm sure you could tune it to the situation to achieve even better performance by masking some of the effects the latency causes.

Every multi-player networked game effectively implements strategies like that in order to mask the fact that the players are not sharing the same environment.
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Make it an option, most of the people that keep the 'new' page clean help by flagging. That way those that want to do that can continue to see them.
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