skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I passed this on to someone who was looking for a small office in the Dallas area.

However, isn't it a bit steep ? Down here in Austin you can get office space around $1 / sqft or less, depending on what length of lease you are willing to sign, and the location. And those are relatively nice places, with kitchen break rooms and free coffee and conference rooms you can use, etc. Such as: http://parkwestcc.com/
Right. I use ten fingers to type. Sometimes I don't even use all ten. If I feel like being lazy, I'll type with one hand. Sometimes I scroll my trackball with a single finger while taking a drink of coffee. I don't want all ten of my fingers on an interface at all times.
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I'm not entirely convinced they showed such a benefit. I can already use multiple fingers to move windows by clicking anywhere on them... two of those fingers are just on buttons. Not to mention, I still only have two eyes. I can't be looking at 4 things on the screen at the same time anyway.
Actually, right in the opening of The Jetsons, aren't there a few hitherto-unknown pet-related problems?
Progress can only be measured in reference to a destination, which you don't discuss here. Is your goal to revolutionize some part of CS or some part of society or just to make enough to not have to work?

As an aside, I followed the opposite path - math and CS in undergrad and grad, jobs to explore the parts of CS I missed and now I am into practical software development. I'm not particularly interested in methodologies etc. but I find myself here for practical reasons.
Exactly. That's the problem with security exploits. They are typically edge cases, but whereas the typical edge case affects only a tiny subset of users who accidentally run into it, a security exploit edge case is purposely sought out by malicious users and can potentially affect your company and every other user very negatively. It's the difference between a gas-powered range that has a slightly uneven heat across the burners and a gas-powered range that can be re-programmed through the internet to fill your house with gas that is then set on fire.
I think the US airlines have this sorted out. When my flight is canceled, I usually get an automated phone call saying that I'm booked on the next flight. (This is on AA, but I imagine it's the same for everyone else.)

When this doesn't happen, and I'm at the airport, I find it's easier to call Reservations from my cell phone and have them rebook me than to wait in line to speak with the gate agent. This is faster, saves waiting in line, saves listening to the people in front of you whine about how it's critical that they were there yesterday (yeah, they're going to uncancel the flight if you really need to see your mom...), etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coandă_effect
If it's weeks-old news, doesn't that only make it worse that Apple still hasn't bothered to fix it?
I wonder if you can get a CPU cooler out of this? An extremely sexy, very high priced one, of course.
The Five Phases of Losing a Job (by Paul W. Smith)
Right, it isn't good business practice to start out a new potential contract with dishonesty on your part.
He says he regrets the inclusion of the double-slash "//" after "http:", chalking it up as a programming convention at the time.

What was that convention, and where and why was it used, anyone know?
Perhaps you haven't watched the less internet-experienced people surf the web.

People do search for sites that they have already visited.
While this is very unfortunate for SideKick users I suddenly feel pretty good about my own backup solution. Redundancy, rsync weekly to a live volume, multiple offline backups including one off-site (although it's a few months out of date right now. The important data exists on at least half a dozen sources at any given time. I am of course referring to my personal MP3 collection.
Yes, pingus is/was quite fun.
It was almost Microsofts story at the beginning.
Sounds much less painless than what I experienced. They didn't even announce that you could call reservations and have them sort it out.
"I'm CEO...bitch!"
I'm starting to see why I don't use intrinsically unsafe languages like C and C++.
Keep in mind that this device still has a fan in it. He just calls it an "impeller" and hides it in the base. Its still a blower with blades. The fancy wing shape circle is just a duct to direct the blower's air stream out the top.
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One of the lessons I've learned in the few years I've been in business is this: sometimes you do everybody a favor by charging them. While I'm not necessarily in favor of this practice for angel investors, I'm not going to condemn it either. If I was going to "pay-to-pitch" I would make sure 1) the concept is marketable (investigate competitors, keep my ear to street, etc) 2) that I had a damn good pitch. Unfortunately, some startups don't take the time to due these things or even think about the investors time. The fact is they do feel entitled. By charging a fee you eliminate the half-hearted and at least ensure that the start-ups pitching understand the importance of the situation. The companies named apparently provide a service that these entrepreneurs can not provide for themselves. They bring in the money. Therefore, they should get paid. Does anyone know if the angel investors get any of this money? Look if it's a scam it should be stopped, but if it's bad business it will stop itself.
This is dealt with in the FAQ - but the short answer is that Gemcutter mirrors all gems from RubyForge. If you want to push directly to Gemcutter instead of letting Gemcutter mirror it, you need to go through a migration process to verify you are the owner.

So no, you can't just upload a gem titled "rails" to Gemcutter and have it override the Rails team's gems.
Surely his next step on this path is the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube
It doesn't have to be high priced - it's just a loop with a slot in it for air to blow through.
There's nothing at all fancy about an air mover like this. You can make one on a lathe in about 20 minutes with a few bits of roundstock scrap. You do still need an air source to use it. In this dyson thing, there's just a hidden blower in the base. In a computer, it would allow you to use a much larger, separate source to cool your cpu, which could be useful. It would rock even more to use a vortex cooler...

Edit: Doh! Cited above while I was typing! Great minds and all that yap...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube
Is there a consumer fan application of this already as well?

edit: hmm, it has a fan as noonespecial says. So I guess that is almost a non-question
You see teacher, I have two dogs...
I apologize for the double post. I found this reply by Exec regarding his startup history.

"Yes. Here's my startup track record.

I started one that was a success and ran as intended.

I started another that was a failure. Mistake: bad market timing.

I joined another that was poorly run and I left after others refused to change. Later it failed as expected.

I joined another that is on track to do well. I'm still at it.

I'm involved in another that is on track to do well. I'm consulting.

I evaluate other startups for myself and various investment groups routinely."
For the most part, the only thing angel investors have is cash. They have nothing you should pay them for. Fred Wilson's support for Jason Calcanis' position is particularly telling, given that Union Square provides a great deal more than cash (I've seen them in action). If you have to pay to get a potential investor to listen to your plan, you either need a new plan or a new investor.

Paying angel investors for access is only one step removed from wiring money to Nigeria in a 419 scam.
Interesting, would be cool to see worked up with one of thse
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22358/

(I saw Ken Perlin of the nyu media lab give a presentation on that earlier in the year and it was incredible, high resolution and cheap to make)
Install this as a doggy-door, cat leaves and can't get back inside?
"In mac os x, - how to show the desktop with a keyboard shortcut ?"

F11

"- how to maximize/minimize/restore a window with a keyboard shortcut (on windows you can press Alt+spacebar, and then x/n/r) ?"

There is no such thing as maximize in OS X. Minimize is command + m. I'm not sure how to restore with the keyboard.

"- how to efficiently copy/move files in finder with a keyboard shortcut ?"

Command + c is copy and command + v is paste. Command + x is cut, but there are rules governing when one can cut that I don't understand.
wow if it actually has a blower in it then it's pretty much pure gimmick! Thanks for outing this!

edit: I should qualify my skepticism by saying that the vacuum cleaners are amazing and if I had carpets I'd own one.
Is it wise to use Yahoo! Pipes for anything crucial in your app? (considering they've turned search over to MS and have been the subject of acquisition rumors)

Has Yahoo! committed to keeping it running long term?
Since this story has been around for a while I'm a bit skeptical of a Windows news site making a big deal out of it the day after the Microsoft SideKick incident. Luckily it's a rarely used feature in OSX which is how a bug like this can exist without much fanfare. I'm more concerned about the Finder file-copy-no-merge issue which is dangerous design by choice; not a bug. At least once a week I almost get burnt by it so I imagine normal users who aren't so careful are constantly destroying data due to badly worded dialog boxes.
Wow... which means that dust will accumulate in the impeller.
Do we still need to worry about particle buildup becoming kindling?
You have to wonder, sometime around when you typed the word "menstruation" into a comment on Hacker News about job interviews, did any kind of warning light go on in your head saying "maybe I'm off in the weeds here"?

I have a really neat-o idea. How about we interview people based on their ability to actually perform a task, and then set, oh, I don't know, a 5-10 day limit to the number of allowable personal days in a year? We don't even have to give the women more of those days, despite their children and special times of the month. Hell, if we're worried that they're going to exploit their personal days to take care of sick children, we can just reduce the number of days.

Then we never have to talk about this issue in interviews or, god willing, on Hacker News again. I think that's a win. What do you think?
As they should. Since there is no way to verify the remote server then the connection is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. In that situation an attacker can simply pretend to be the server and decrypt your traffic.
Don't forget: BitTorrent is a business that Bram Cohen built. Their goal is to sell their product, in this case, uses of BitTorrent the protocol to companies. They can hardly do this if BitTorrent is being blocked everywhere.

If they have special BitTorrent client to BitTorrent client information, it could be for use in their custom software that companies would use within their own product, not necessarily for public downloading usage (ex: WoW's software updates using BitTorrent).

I don't know if this is actually the case. But why couldn't it be a possibility?
Where you can't reach it with a duster.
Yes, I am. Thank you very much for your reply.
But is that also true for previously github-hosted gems? Can I push a gem called 'why-hpricot' for example?
Paths:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29
Is cannibalism while stranded in life boat ok? No defense. It's murder
I always wanted to be a revolutionary in tech / science (but I don't little formal studies that allow me to do that from academia, I'm rather self taught), not to be rich. I think with time and focus I could have become rich by keeping my work on the old startup I left. But I felt that I was not being true to myself by doing that, and I was not liking it enough to keep pushing it further.

Thank you for your reply.
Dune.
The Soul of a New Machine.
Awesome case study. Totally what we did with our new pivot
(same market B2C Customers - Saas), that is now in the works (didn't do this first time around, and paid for it). Only difference, we told the customer that these were just high fidelity screen mockups for the product we will eventually be building.

Get your screens in front of customers before you ever code. It is mind BLOWING!

Wonder how well this would work for consumer web... thoughts?
I remember this article from when it first came out - in 2003 - and have used the newspaper / picture story as an example countless times.

If you don't believe you create the reality you experience, think again. Blaming external factors, like luck, just absolves us of our own responsibility to ourselves.
Well, lucky people could just be more naturally observant. It seems that would be a useful trait.
This model of care is called "Direct Primary Care," and IMO it's a big part of the real answer to high medical costs.

You can find more doctors like this at http://dpcare.org/practices

They've got listings for practices in quite a few states, and more info on the model.
Heh, if you think that is wild and crazy, a long time ago the 'script/plugin' command in Rails pulled its' svn sources from a public wiki that anyone could edit.
It's impossible for anyone to really answer that question for you. However, I think you are ahead of most college students in that you asked the question at all.

You might look for ways to either better your school experience, or avoid the either/or choice. Perhaps find or start a club that meets regularly to discuss business ideas. If you do leave school, at least make a visit to the registrar's office and file a leave of absense, claiming economic hardship or whatever, so you can easily return in a year or two if necessary. Perhaps you can come up with a business project you can work on while taking the minimum necessary number of hours.

I have heard that grades and completing college do not correlate well with various measures of life success (apparently high school grades and completion do). I have also heard that dropping out with straight A's is one of the best predictors of future success. That makes sense to me, although I can't say which way the causal relationship goes; but I would not neglect the grades even if you plan to leave.

You might put some energy and effort into finding classes you think will be worthwhile. Often various bureaucratic requirements of being in a certain major or pre-requisites can be waived by petition or lobbying the professor.

If you truely feel you are wasting your time, leave in an organized, purposeful fashion. Let the school know, preserve the ability to come back if that is easy, preserve your fraternal network and other friends by letting them know and maintaining contact. As you begin to tell professors and friends that you feel you are wasting your time and are leaving, you may find opportunities at school open up, or that you get tips to interesting places to work.
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Multi-touch is right. A roommate once told me about a guy he knew who rigged up foot-pedal modifier keys to increase his Emacs productivity. And this was in the PS2 heyday! (No flames. I was an avid Emacs user in College & grad school.)
High temperature superconductor created
See also: shake to undo typing
I would like a keyboard like the small Apple aluminum one, but with a multi-touch pad on the side. Also make the pad a small display like the iPhone. Have it switch modes depending on the Application. It would still be great for application switching and contextual menu selection as in the 10Gui video. One could also have a 10-key mode. Widgets could also appear there.
waidpid() ???
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Thoughts in Prose and Sun Tzu's Art of War are great. To tell you the truth, I rarely read much these days, but back in my prime I would literally stay up for days on end and go years with my nose stuck in a book at every possible chance.
completely free = high taxes doesn't it? That's what it is in my country
I think you're onto something. OS interaction/application switching should be simple, and the individual app interaction should be more complex. I think 4 app selection modes are almost too much. 3 is perfect.

Prediction: I suspect that Apple is taking Exposé in exactly this direction.
> I bet people will find billions worth of waste.

One man's waste is another man's income....
Is there any reason you can't post a gem called why-hpricot to RubyForge and have it override GitHub?

This doesn't seem like a new problem to me. If this concerns you, just edit the sources list of your .gemrc file manually and make sure RubyForge is at the top and Gemutter is at the bottom.
Their Brains are Wired Differently
Development of the codebase might not have been but development of the product clearly was.

The hair-splitting begins. The phrase "software development" in my book, and I suspect in most people's, implies code. If you just mean any old development, well, sure, the customer development was proceeding quite nicely. Maybe that was what they meant?

Try a simple thought experiment. If the customers learned that there was no code and the product consisted of nothing more than the printed "screenshots" they'd been shown, would they care? I'd guess that one's answer to that is pretty correlated with whether or not one thinks deception was involved here. My answer - not about these particular customers, but in general - is yes, they would care. As a customer, I certainly would. (Not, of course, because of any objection to paper prototyping as such, but because a critical piece of the situation had been hidden from me.)
Don't take luck personally; there isn't enough luck out there for everyone to be as lucky as Bill Gates.

There are a lot of things out there that guarantee success. Low risk, and time consuming. Most people are too scared of high risk endeavors to attempt anything high risk more than a few times in their entire lives.
Welcome to the rest of the world.

English is not my mother tongue, however I've been watching foreign films using English subtitles for quite a while. English subtitles likely provide the most utility, at least in internet land.

I also sometimes use English subtitles on English-speaking films. It used to be a must when I was still learning English, but it's still useful for noisy films or films with British/Irish/Scottish people (living in the UK for a considerable period of time didn't help at all).

Anyway, opensubtitles.org was horrible last time I checked. Some better options:

http://addic7ed.com/

http://subscene.com/

http://www.podnapisi.net/

http://forom.com/
I respectfully disagree that Tiger Airways, and others of their ilk (same stripes?) around the world, need to care about your problem.

(The respectfully is because I would like these companies to do so. The disagree is because I don't think they should have to or that customers are entitled to act indignantly when it doesn't happen.)

Tiger are clearly positioned in the marketplace around lowest cost. That's almost certainly why wakeless and everyone else on this flight booked with them, as opposed to Qantas, Virgin etc - Tiger was cheaper. Qantas (I believe) would have paid for accommodation due to a cancellation (and possibly avoided the cancellation to prevent the expense of that policy) - but when you chose to pay $100 less for a flight, you waived that entitlement.

Why are Tiger cheaper? Because they have stricter policies and fewer, perhaps less-trained or experienced staff, and they build a business model on those factors, not around caring for you. If you want somebody to care, be prepared to pay for it.

Obvious exceptions to this rule apply when a business engages in misleading conduct. And I reiterate that I would like to see more companies caring.

But if I buy the cheapest shoes, drive the cheapest second-hand car, and fly the cheapest airline, I'm not in a position to complain about cheap customer service.

Edit: None of this means wakeless shouldn't have complained in the way he did, or even cried blue murder at the airport. By all means push for change, just don't expect it.
The big Stargate-esque ring is sexy in a particular way that screams, "sell tons to the gotta-be-first crowd!"
Well, the blower is hidden in the base. At least that means you don't have to see the dusty fan blades. (Add a filter, so that you can sell consumables.)
It is interesting to observe how people abuse words, to the points they become distraction. "Java stack", "Erlang stack", "Everything stack"; "by means", "using" became "via". Modern articles are "massively leveraged via stacks" it seems like.
I've seen more than a couple subtitle sites disappear, mostly because of copyright issues.
That's not my point. My point is that once the flight was cancelled they handled it from that point badly. I just booked my flight with Jetstar, waited in line for ages to apply for the refund and then went on my merry way. The problem was that they could have saved the 100 or so people a lot of time by being far more upfront about what they were going to provide and how to get that.
It isn't too hard to hide the body. . . .
I agree. W/ B2B sales you need to iterate on your pitch as much if not more than your product.
Good question. I use Pipes at the moment, it is very useful and an integral part of some of my apps. It would mess me up majorly if they changed this, 2 or 3 weeks work. Lets hope they give us plenty of warning.

Also, I find the docs for pipes rubbish, lots of references to old versions.
It's very easy to "convert" a prospect to an LOI, because it doesn't cost anything for the prospect to do so. Once so converted, you have license to go dark for many weeks to build a first cut product, and the LOI-bearers are all going to light right back up again when you reach out, because you secured an agreement that they would.

It's a pretty smart play.
They do cover 80-90% of the visits you'd normally pull out your insurance card for; including perhaps 1/2 of your emergency room visits, as they're available 24/7 for urgent care.

And considering that dealing with insurance paperwork causes a major overhead expense (estimated to be 1/2 of primary care dollars http://dpcare.org/dpc), dispensing with that cost can result in much cheaper care.
It's not logical to suggest, as JacobAldridge does, that the cost of a flight = a lack of basic customer service. Sure you might have to pay for your meals on flights now, but an airline should still ensure its customer service standards to deal with these cancellations.
If anything budget airlines should be trying harder to maintain customer loyalty.
As Wakeless says, he's not too bothered by the flight was cancelled (it happens to everyone) it's how it was dealt with.
You shouldn't expect more cancellations of flights just because the average flight cost is generally cheaper than full-service airlines.
Otherwise the argument would run that you should expect more crashes, and not complain, because you bought a cheaper flight ticket.
I'm with mst. It's not lying when you fail to point out the flaws in your own pitch. If the prospect asks, "do these screen shots actually exist in code" and you say "yes", you're a liar; if they don't ask at all, they don't care.

I got a little skeeved out at "development is coming along nicely", just like you, but the solution to that is just to choose better words. They could simply have said "design is coming along nicely", nobody would have cared, and they'd have the exact same outcome. So while you're right that those were unfortunate words, it's hard for me to get too bent out of shape about them.
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