skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that the "radiation" from cell phones is non-ionizing -- very different.
Using virtual reality to treat PTSD
It's not a grey area. Buying a book and skimming the boring parts is not illegal.
This is wrong. Distributing that stripped-down version (or a non-stripped-down version) would be illegal. But writing a program that lets you do it for personal use is perfectly legal.

Consider ripping your CDs so you can play them on your MP3 player. Legal. Selling those MP3s? Not legal.
Some advice:

Don't begin with "Hey, what do you do?"

Get to know the person first before asking about what they're working on.
Hopefully he'll get there. Anyway, it's a good place to start a series - essentially, how to start.

Maybe it's not a typical symptom in the HN community as much, but in general, I really hear a lot of people working on startups from the outside in: high concept, powerpoints, spreadsheets, raising money, legal nonsense, THEN finding someone to build their idea.

It's good to be reminded occasionally to just build the product when you're getting started.
Bollocks. If someone gives you a businesscard with their phone number on it it is an open invitation to call at a later date. That's what it's for, it's not a collectible.

Otherwise keep two sets of cards, one with your phone number on it and one set that has just email or IM information on it.

It is really bordering on the arrogant to assume that someone is reading your blogposts in order to figure out what they can or can not do with the contact information that you gave them.

If you think you are too important to be bothered by 'mere mortals' you might as well stop handing out business cards.

And god forbid someone actually wants to talk to you. Just imagine, where do these people get the guts to do that.
Most people do answer the phone when they don't recognize the number. And if you don't want people calling you, don't put your phone number on the business card you give to random people.
http://hea.dphon.es
reaktor / kontakt
Please don't call people monkeys; it's somewhat rude.
Looking for hacker roommate in Palo Alto
We're looking for a 4th roommate for our hacker-filled house in midtown Palo Alto. We are three male engineers aged 23-25: one works for Facebook, the other two are co-founders of a small web consultancy doing e-commerce, live video stuff, and analytics. We're into web stuff, cycling, running, good food, and building fun toys. We'd love to find another entrepreneurial work hard/play hard type.

It's not really a "hacker house" in that we don't work at home, and we're not looking for people who are only working there. However, you're welcome (and encouraged) to move in if you want to work at home.

See photos here:
http://bit.ly/3b8wir

The house is very expansive (~3500 sq feet) and comfortable with lots of goodies: pool, sauna, deck, grill, 60" hdtv, many couches, space for guests, fireplace, washer/dryer, hardwood floors, great landlord, and plenty of garage and closet space for storage/bikes. The location is convenient to Facebook, Google, Stanford, California Ave, and the San Antonio caltrain, and great for biking to all of those places. Rent is $1050/mo plus $1250 security deposit.

Email deactivated [at] gmail.com if you're interested.
Projects: be open or die
"I'll call you next wednesday to hear how it went"

this attitude is not appropriate because creating actionable steps is presumptuous if you're the one approaching. why do you think its okay for you to set some kind of schedule for someone that will be doing you a favor?

too many people in this world either have a sense of entitlement or think that by being pushy they can get whatever they want. please try to earn people's respect.
This all comes down to good preparation. If you know you're going to be running in to someone simply set up a meeting before you go.

And inquire if they'll have some time. If they say no you know where you stand.

Approaching people 'cold' is a hard to master art anyway, most people are busy and most of them are too busy right now for you. But if you give them a chance to work you in to the schedule most of them will give you a bit of their time.

I personally avoid tradeshows and such like the plague, hardly any business of any significance gets conducted there. Everybody in the know already has a fair idea of what will happen, and otherwise you'll get it in the press or on the web the next day.

For internet companies to host 'events' is a little weird, the real action is on the web, and your press contacts should be well prepared long before any physical meeting, and even then it is probably better to have them one-by-one than all in one go.

The panel discussions are slightly different, it is a format that translates badly to the web, and it sometimes can give some insight in the personalities of the people behind the names.

But you're clearly not open to approaching them on a personal level in that setting, it's 'many-to-many'. Better to save that for another time.
mahmud: There hasn't been pork eaten anywhere in Egypt for the last 1500 years or so.
mahmud: Fact: pork is something the urban poor just resorted to recently, never part of their heritage or long-term diet.

So which is the fact? That pork hasn't been eaten in Egypt for 1500 years or that it has only been eaten their recently.

You know what water hasn't been drunk in Egypt since the time of the pharoahs - go on prove me wrong find a Egyptician recipe for water ...

The recipe for pork is this. Take pig, cook over heat, eat. Also people who survive on garbage don't use recipe books.

Here you go - http://bit.ly/porkpork - Islam Online's (very clearly biased) article reporting a priest to have advised Egyptian Christians to stop eating pork. It's from 2007. It doesn't strictly say that people do, but does say they shouldn't - it could have been an entirely unnecessary edict but for any sane person it's sufficient to show pork was being eaten in large enough quantities for prelates to comment on and for Islamic news groups to report.
Being the assistant manager at Olive Garden does not mean you can open your own restaurant. I think that experience at IBM might help in some instances, but it probably didn't translate well to the startup mentality.
When I would study for exams, I found the process of writing notes would be almost more useful than the process of reviewing them. The process of writing notes made me boil the concepts down into more discrete forms, and the physical action of writing helped with the memorization. A few days before an exam, I would often find myself re-reading my old notes and condensing them down into briefer notes, eliminating full explanations of concepts in favor of keywords or mental links to the full note sets.

The net result was that when I was in my exams, I would find myself mentally looking at my notes, and finding a formula or something would just be a matter of 'reading' them.
For more information on this, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox (and its references and external links, especially the Cornell University one). I want one. :)
http://dptv.co.uk/weasleboy-tearmeup.mp3

Old school tape recorder
Yeah. Tossing in another axis for lifespan would be good.
Fair enough style guidelines, even if they were only proposed. Wouldn't mind seeing a more formal guide like this for the entire ruby community.
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Simpler, more cynical, explanation: it looks complicated and contains all sorts of fancy math in LaTeX, so people heuristically figure "this must be really important and deep".

Not saying all of the upvotes are due to that, but some significant fraction.
Planet Django
Here's a reminder of issues to check in any news report about a scientific study,

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

from Google's director of research, Peter Norvig.
Piano & pencil.
Spend too much time on the 'net?
Iter8r can help you get
Money for your time
Won't that be divine
When you vote up and then get a check?
You had me at "Tasmanian scientists"
>Getting fired is not something you should avoid.

In the long-term, you are right. However, you are much better off sucking it up for a couple of months while looking for your next job. You avoid the been-fired stigma, and you have much better negotiating power with your next employer.
Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Serial_Visual_Presentatio...
http://www.zapreader.com/
Its design is brilliant—I am similarly a fan, though I don't Twitter—but my point was that "killer app" means something that "the best twitter client I've ever used" does not.
David Braben, co-creator of Elite (which is 25 this month) on the games business
I've been playing with Hadoop for the past couple months, and recently have been using it quite extensively. It's an amazing piece of software and I hope to start contributing to it.

If anyone wants to talk start-up ideas involving large data-processing, my e-mail is in my profile.
Most memorable flight neighbor: "I'm a professional project manager. I get paid to worry." Now, obvious. But then, not.
Tiny doses of things that are otherwise toxic -- including not just raditiation but many chemicals -- often seem to be protective.

A theoretical mechanism is that small stresses activate but do not overwhelm beneficial protective/repair mechanisms.
This, incidentally, reads like a business how-not-to.
http://www.youtube.com/guitarsoloservice

Garageband.
Working in a corporate environment in any capacity I think really takes away from understanding what it takes to start a company.

I've built many trading systems but getting my own thing off the ground has been really really hard. I'm getting there slowly but looking back I think I'd have been more sucessful if I had tried to start a company right from college.

In corporate america, all you do is take care of your own small corner of the business. Namely either sales, business or coding. Building a business means knowing all three.

Working in M&A at a bank would basically mean that he created word documents containing lies of how great an acquistion a certain company is for potential buyers. I have 3 friends who do this for a living. I would bet 0 of them would have a clue how to start their own business.

In his case he (ie working for the aquicuirer) would be reading these documents and trying to decide if they make sense and which company to buy. BS because mostly your say really doesnt matter.
I found an Egyptian pork recipe http://bit.ly/porkrecipe

also an account of a group called the Boheyreh who eat pork and dog http://bit.ly/2uYIY .

http://www.touregypt.net/food.htm from 1996 says pork is widely available.

But I'm sure it's all just a conspiracy of lies ;0)>
I recall reading at some point that the most-searched term on Yahoo was "Google" and the most-searched term on Google was "Yahoo", for exactly that reason.
Thats basically what I thought. Perhaps I should have said "Where you think this is this a grey area."
MySQL, Alter Table, and How to Observe Progress
thanks. i've noticed a greater number of artists using thesixtyone to test/iterate on demos...one is even financing his entire canadian tour from tips on t61 (bankai).

i suspect basic track analytics on t61 would create a lot of value for artists -- this is why we're hiring.

http://www.thesixtyone.com/static/jobs/
I'm not sure what's ambiguous. Certainly I'm generalizing ("anyone") from an anecdote; I'm not trying to make a rock-solid historical claim.

I think most of her factory work was making shells. She was born in 1921; this would presumably been in 1943-45 or so.
We've been keeping quiet for the last few months while we brought in our new singer, but are about to start performing again... Moment of Inertia (http://www.moirocks.net)

We record in a studio which uses Logic Pro.
Just look to all of our modern operating systems to see what they try to do to provide "liquid" service. Even on a single processor, tasks are switched frequently to give pseudo parallelism, so that all the tasks can stay responsive (especially important for user interfaces).
Getting users: the most important part of any startup that most founders like to ignore because it is one aspect they can't control.

Hyper-focus, have patience and persistence, and constantly keep improving the service. There is no other way. TechCrunch only helps you for a day. But after that day is over, you are back to the same problems again.
Anyone have real world experience to share with HBase or Hypertable? Or Cassandra, for that matter. None of these projects strike me as "mature" software but I'd love to learn otherwise.
When do we get to work?
I use Cubase SX3 and the occasional Reason on Windows. I focus more on melodies and progressions than the actual "radio-readiness" of my productions. Nevertheless, someone might like the stuff.

Here is my most recent short instrumental piece: http://www.tshaddox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/the-point... . Here are two full-blown songs with lyrics, they are both light-hearted and sort of geeky: http://www.tshaddox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/falling-f... and http://www.tshaddox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/science.m... . All of my compositions are be found here (along with the ability to stream the MP3's): http://www.tshaddox.com/?cat=10
These theories have been around for decades:

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

Needless to say, they don't have a lot of mainstream acceptance.
I keep saying this with every Wave article: Wave is HARD! It's not the XMPP server-to-server stuff, it's the server-to-client Javascripting that is a giant pain in the ass. You literally have to have a HUGE textarea or designMode parser or just flatout write your own input methods.
You meant mix of standard and imperial units? :)
All today I have been obsessing over Map-Reduce on GPUs. Here is a link (http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~lefohn/work/dissertation/lef...) to get things started. Still not sure if Java is a good front end to openCL. (Would appreciate thoughtful responses.)
Any other Acid Pro users? Here's my equipment/software list:

Acid Pro
ZynAddSubFX
Loads of VST plugins
Lexicon PCM81
BSS BLU-160 (this is an installed sound processor that I cajole into doing bizarre and unintended things)
Some AKG mics
Wurlitzer epiano
Ensoniq SQ-80
MicroKORG
A couple other keyboards

Here are some old tracks from when I used to use myspace: http://myspace.com/n2a
Very true. At least in the valley, VCs count on angels to bring them deal flow.
Aggregators are fun. Here's one I made for Drupal:

http://drupalfire.com/

I've found that people visit the site once, subscribe to the RSS, and don't come back.
Elite with multiple online players (MMORPG?) would rule!
Radiation hormesis (i.e. low level radiation being beneficial) is considered very controversial, but the data about how low levels of radiation affects humans is very bad. Most data that people work with is from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb survivors. On the low end of the scale the models usually just have a question mark. One of the models proposed is radiation hormesis. There is some other (controversial) data that people who are exposed to chronic radon exposure have lower levels of lung cancer.

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

The plot on this page shows some of the current guesses about low-level radiation response:

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/osradtraining/biologicale...

Hormesis would dip below the axis, indicating a less than zero risk.
I'm always kind of surprised with the sort of things my dog picks up on from time to time.

She will follow a pointed finger to go get a toy that she can't see, and apparently recognizes the names of her different toys ("go get your rope" will get you a rope from her bucket, and "go get your ball" will get you her ball). These weren't things she was ever trained to do, but she seemed to just pick them up over time.

She's almost 12 years old now, and I would estimate that her level of "knowledge" of the world around her (though obviously not with the same ability to learn) is about on a par with a human toddler.
Caffeine Hacking: Roast Coffee with a Popcorn Popper
Twitter is a great platform for these spammers:

* Can reach a large amount of users by mentioning popular events (like trying to get high page ranks on google for spam pages).
* Users expect short (and not fully descriptive) messages with a link.
* The link is shortened to obfuscate where you are really going.
* No spam filtering yet (Is there even enough data given in 140 characters to make effective spam filtering?).
+1 for Presonus Firepod. It's precisely what I use. Your stuff sounds good. http://www.tshaddox.com/?cat=10 if you're interested.
Yes! I'm actually working on transitioning in the next year to a technomad/touring lifestyle so I can focus on music more.

I'm at http://thesixtyone.com/johnnybroadway or http://www.johnnybroadway.com/
Hmm, interesting, well, has anyone repeated the results in lab animals in a controlled environment?
I couldn't agree more, which is exactly why in my spare time I've been making Traction, an interview series on this very subject: http://traction.blip.tv.

However, I still find the OP useful. I can't tell you how many aspiring entrepreneurs I've met who need a reality check. This post provides it succinctly and understandably. Granted, this crowd (HN) is pretty much already on the next step, but a lot of people are stuck on that first one.
Impressed more with their ability to get the word out about the stunt than the stunt itself.
Wave is an immature and new technology. And the Wave client does not speak XMPP; it's not an XMPP client.

Federated Wave servers, potentially owned by different parties, need a standardized way to open a persistent socket and send messages back and forth, with security, authentication, etc. XMPP is used as a transport layer for that.
I don't like jazz, funk, or hip hop, yet I really liked your music. Good job.
I admit my tone was flippant, but there was a point underneath. The hallmark of a troll is to mischaracterize what you're saying. You never even reach the point of disputing the matter at hand; instead you argue about what you said.

I was fooled by trolls the first couple times I encountered them, because I couldn't imagine why anyone would want to waste their time that way. From experience I learned a test for recognizing them: when I kept having to say "No, what I said was..." Now when I find myself about to say that, I just stop participating.

My point with Mr. Weaver was simply that it was remarkable how quickly he'd independently reproduced the defining quality of trolls. It was funnier without all this explanation.
Or when the government instructs you that your illness is a mysterious growth, not "cancer".
The idea of ideas as viruses is old. They can infect you, then can breed with other ideas, they spread, etc.

Religion world wide does seem to follow a pattern of more complicated and more energy demanding religions being replaced by religions which require less effort. One god instead of many, and lately that god doesn't even want sacrifices, oh and peace is better then war... most of the time.

Obviously it not that simple, religion can spread through war, some religions make themselves extinct by demanding life long celibacy from everyone. And there's been some studies which found the us vs them pattern common in religious groups can decrease and/or slow the spread of disease.

There's one particular thing about Christianity though. Well OK, a couple of things, one it's kind of a modern less complex flavor of Judaism, no offense meant to any Hebrews reading this.

But the other thing is Christ's rather extreme love your enemies, turn the other cheek message. You have to see that in the context of the Roman empire and Roman culture at the time.

Rome was EXTREMELY pro war, violence and punishment. Think crucifixion, gladiators, pax romana etc. But even more then that, Roman culture saw mercy as a dirty animalistic emotion, to be surprised like all animalsitic and primitive urges should be. Reason was human, emotions, especially mercy were disgusting instincts not to be trusted, but to be fought against, with reason.

In short it was an extreme culture, that must have put some unique psychological pressures on those living there. Think how people in Japan who remember the end of WWII describe how the emperor announcing Japan's surrender felt like a bow breaking and huge pressure being relieved.

Christianity is like the perfect counter culture to the old Roman culture. No wonder it successfully spread throughout the empire. And from Rome to all of Europe, to the new world.

The other parts of the old world, have not turned Christian, and it's not for lack of trying by well funded Christian missionaries, suggesting there really was something unique about Rome and early Christianity.

Modern American Christianity is often quite, shall we say unique, why with the pro Gun, pro war thing.
right, this is exactly what's happening. and also why youtube is beating out facebook
The relationship of consultants to clients
an entrepreneur is "a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit."

so your definition of entrepreneur is probably a bit narrower than the usual definition... :-)
That's quite a gamble to make when you have an interesting offer in hand. Some will turn you away simply because you've demonstrated that they aren't your first choice, others will keep holding interviews and get a dozen chances to find a more excited candidate. Every offer I've ever had gave me just a day to decide, though I've never tried to negotiate more time.
There is also http://www.djangoproject.com/community/ , the official aggregator.
You're thinking too defensively. Start by trying to get the jobs/internships you're really interested in. When it gets down to only a few months before you'll need a job, then begin to consider settling.

Lining up a job in October that's not going to start until more than six months later seems like it would have risks of its own. Company priorities, finances, and even ownership can all change in that time, possibly affecting your offer.
I completely agree that you shouldn't be handing out business cards with your phone number if you don't want calls, but regardless, I stand by the belief that phone calls should be reserved for people you actually know want to be called, and I don't think a business card with a phone number gives you that knowledge.

I don't think this is arrogance, it's just a social norm that I personally think is pretty well established at this point. An actual phone call has a level of formality/familiarity to it at this point, and I think it's just rude to presume you can unilaterally breach that. Everyone's time is valuable, and it's kind of a dick move to try to take that time from someone (regardless of who they are) just because you want to give your pitch to a stranger.
the only problem i have reading on the ipod touch is my arm kinda gets tired quickly because of the weight (and its awkward to hold it with 2 hands when reading). if only the zune hd had a similar app to instapaper i'm sure it's the next thing i would buy.
http://myspace.com/yaybuffet Weird sample manipulation / ableton live / reaktor / occasional vocoder
Designing for Interesting Moments
with regards to becoming an entrepreneur for simple need, I've seen this happen a lot in my country (specially in my region, which is quite poor): a lot of people doing business simply because there aren't really any other options. Same happens in the countryside (many people don't see agricultural activity as 'entrepreneurship' though).

Also, the number of startups tends to rise during recessions could be interpreted the same way: the more people lose their regular jobs, the more entrepeneurs enter the rig. Talented or not, willingly or not... [1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/n...