skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been a few people who have created Yahoo pipes which do just that; this is the only link I can seem to come up with, but should do what you want:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/andrewducker/hackernews
I would like invites too,

[username]@gmail.com
See also: http://www.gertler.com/nat/abusedimages.html
wajiw.casey at gmail.com THANKS :-D
I would think what would be better would be to video conference and record that. It would include both of you and practically be the same as if you were just sitting next to each other minus the actual physical proximity.
You are confusing the standard deviation of the sample mean with the standard deviation of the sample.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
I've been reading through this bit by bit the last few days, mostly to get a handle on how to implement MCMC for Bayesian posteriors, and I have to say its fantastically written. I wouldn't call it comprehensive or unbiased, but it sets up the infrastructure of interrelatedness between noisy channels, information theory, statistics, and machine learning pretty much as effortlessly as possible.

Note: I'm buying it entirely because it has wide margins. Many of the calculations he outlines deserve to be worked out in full. Wide margins are absolutely the most important publishing concern for a math/science/engineering-based text.
why are so many innocent seeming requesters getting downvoted?

and yes, pls consider me if you have an invite to spare: hardik84 at gmail
kevinkaske at gmail.com

Please! Thanks!
There are several common serializations of images which can be saved to disk and transferred to your web server as needed. If you need pristine dynamic font rendering, OS X is equipped with networking functions that allow you to send commands to the machine and receive the results back on your web server with latency that is low enough for most purposes.

(I apologize for the facetiousness, but it was too fun to write for me to go back and edit it now.)
Can someone send me an invite please. Thanks

joshi.nus [at] gmail.com
Yes, I consider myself successful. As a corollary to what I have said correlating success with people is a better metric than correlating with money. The article blurbed something about exercise and a strong body. Well are you going to be successful at 70 based on this?

Putting people first in your life will give you a more enjoyable life, would help you get through during your life's failures and no-one will say I am glad this motherfckr kicked the bucket.

> Are you more successful...

As soon as you put the more or less words before successful you lost the game. You measuring success against materialistic targets. Anyway if that's your cup of tea is ok by me!
I too would like one please.

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I had an elderly lady who got a new computer, then called me about a week later because it was broken and wouldn't turn on. When I went over to check it I pushed the power button and it came on just fine.

"How did you do that?" she asked.

"I just pushed the power button. This button down here turns the computer on and off."

"But I always just pushed a button on the keyboard and it turned on."

And then I realized that she had never turned her computer off, only put it to sleep, for five years.
"I couldn't care less" is the literal way to state the sentiment, but it sounds weak and petulant compared to the idiom. There are multiple intonations that could potentially achieve the sarcastic effect, but the common one is just a flat dismissive delivery.

I agree with your observation of that common mechanism for mangling English, though. The mis-quote you mention is particularly embarrassing to behold.
Please don't use URL shorteners on HN. It masks the domain making it difficult to gauge the context of a link (in this case theglobeandmail.com).
When we filmed our video, Dave and I were in Chicago but Andy was in California. We got Andy on video chat (Google Talk) and then subtitled what he said (since the microphone didn't pick it up well). Not sure if anyone else did this... :)
Out of curiosity, what language/framework did you use for the site?
Well... it is:

http://www.roadandtravel.com/safetyandsecurity/highwayfatali...

Note that nationwide statistics are not available that far back, but consider this report from Washington State:

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/planning/wtp/datalibrary/Safety/MVFa...
One word: ugly.
My bad, the activation email was just slow to arrive. (I point out that there was no mention of "your account will not be active until you click the link in the email".)
Your peers. I always thought that had a huge effect on your happiness and perception of your status.
Time for a coup!
Well, the entire YC program is structured around the two three-month events of the year. YC isn't just a "congrats, you got accepted to one of the most prestigious seed groups ever—here's a bunch of cash at an insulting valuation" but it's also about the mentoring and demo days, which I would argue are worth more than the "live-on" money.

Regular seed funding groups can work that way, sure. But they're for different purposes.
I think it does, and it theory that might be wrong in practice I haven't seen anybody succeed without a clear goal.
That's fine if you don't buy it, but it still seems to be an accepted idiom.
That's a great analogy. I like it. I've been using the short-term memory analogy, but this fits a lot better. I know that we don't entirely understand our brain, but everyone understands books and a table.

Too bad memory is divided into "pages" and not "books".
Yes, thank you. Details about the trade-offs involved would be better. My objection is that collectively dealing with them as "the NoSQL databases" tends to obscure that e.g. the key/value stores have very different design and performance trade-offs than CouchDB does, for example. Redis runs entirely in memory, which has big implications for both speed and data set size. And so on.

I should have said "trade-offs" to begin with...that was the heart of what I was getting at when I said "strengths".
> They're also afraid that, were an issue to arise, they wouldn't be able to settle it as a business matter as they would with a large corporation like Adobe or Opera.

You might remind them that not all proprietary software comes from large corporations and many of the smaller guys might be more willing to pursue the legal 'issues' to the fullest extent of the law.

> The positions I've taken -- the workload, the fact that the registry doesn't adequately protect us from the surreptitious introduction of copyleft code snippets, etc. have all fallen on deaf ears. I'm trying to figure out what other arguments I might be able to bring to the table.

I would point them in the direction of people that have purposely included open source code in proprietary projects (e.g. the recent ScummVM on Wii issue) to try and instill the fact that registering all open source tools that are being used will not protect them from a developer that is trying to 'cut corners.'

If I have Firefox installed on my computer that DOES NOT mean that I have the source code 'at my fingertips' as well. The same could be said of Vim or Emacs. And unless your employer is building developer tools, I doubt that any of your developers is going to try and include code from the Vim or Emacs codebase. It just doesn't make sense.
I will read the bits again, and again.
We tried the free version for a week. During one of our presentations, we were given a call-in number that was already in use. We stayed on the line for a minute to figure out what was going on before realizing this other company was discussing very private financial information. Apparently, they did not even realized we had joined in on their call. Needless to say, we lost that sale. And DimDim lost a customer for life. (We emailed DimDim and never even got an apology or explanation.)
Steve Blank's Customer Development Model
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Perhaps we should get the browser makers to make double-clicking links do something else, then; as it is, no amount of IT whinging will teach people to stop doing something that works anyway, just because it's technically non-optimal.
You think ABS, traction control, and power steering and brakes haven't made things better than '59?
* Even TechCrunch shoots out an email so they can say that they asked the company what their side is. *

Yeah, and they wait all of twenty minutes before posting the article anyway with a "XXX could not be reached for comment". Class act, that.
I can't tell if this is genuine or sarcastic.
Not working in Safari either for me. I hear the sound but see nothing.
This series of posts kicks ass when it comes to genuine truthiness of startups, venture capital, and the way businesses work.
Great stuff by Steve Blank as usual.
Exactly. I suggest run4yourlives and others with this peeve simply read it with an implied "as if" beforehand:

As if I could care less.

Words that have opposite meanings depending on context, intonation, and tradition aren't that uncommon -- even single words, such as contronyms.

Writers, remember: you can't put too much effort into precise language.
The author looked for relationships to primarily get her:
1) Money
2) Someone who was perfect in the 'Disney' sense of never causing you any trouble.

She then concludes that relationships are a distraction from life's real goal of making money.

Given those two goals, I can't fault her for deciding that relationships are worthless, because they are only very, very rarely a good way to get your hands on money, and people of Disney level flawlessness just don't exist.

But those are really shitty, really selfish reasons to get into a relationship. If you are exclusively interested in only your own needs, of course your relationships will fail. There's no relating going on. It's only about you, and maybe money.

If you are, on the other hand, interested in being with and getting to know another human being, it is possible to have very fulfilling relationships. I would much rather my life be about that, than about pursuing a 15k per year raise.
But that hasn't necessarily come from car safety although I'm sure that's a large contributor.

It can also be attributed to better education, more cracking down on drunk drivers, etc.
Thanks for your clarity writing.
I'm pretty sure they did this just for the sake of the name.
#9: "I’ve saved my files on the office computer; how can I get them on the laptop?"

I instantly thought of Dropbox - and they mentioned it two paragraphs later as a way to magically solve this problem.

I seriously can't praise Dropbox enough for its awesomeness.
30 Images that make the Earth seem like an alien planet
A hack for fixing knockout tournaments. The discussion on soccer yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850202) reminded me of this piece I wanted to write.
From what I recall, the old Ma.gnolia did have backups. They just weren't tested, and thus, it turned out that they weren't functional. It was a failure of method, rather than an outright failure to try.
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There are some regions with average male height up to 190 cm.

"In the late nineteenth century, the Netherlands was a land renowned for its short population, but today it has the second tallest average in the world, with young men averaging 183 cm (6'0 ft) tall and in Europe are only shorter than the peoples of the Dinaric Alps (a section largely within the former Yugoslavia), where males average 185.6 cm (6 ft 1.1 in) tall. The Dinarians and Dutch are now well known in Europe for extreme tallness. In Africa, the Maasai, Dinka and Tutsi populations are known for their tallness, with some reports indicating an average male height of up to 190 cm (almost 6 ft 3)."

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

Author's surname suggest Dutch origin.
Oh yeah, back when you had to use the invisible IFRAME trick.

I used to think JS was a retarded language too, before I realized that "dynamic" languages are just as powerful and often far easier to work with than "static" ones. The browser environments in which JS is usually found don't make it easy to see the merits of the language itself, and the language itself has some annoying quirks, so I can understand why people would be reluctant to like it. But more and more I find myself wishing that I could use JavaScript as a general purpose scripting language like I tend to use Perl or Python today.
The Wisdom of College Janitors
SimplePie is ceasing development
what a diplomat (seriously) - thanks for your analysis I can now see the other side a bit easier.
+1 for me, thanks!
denniscliu [AT] gmail.com
We've tried various deployments over the years with various levels of success.

Our 1.9 deployment is Nginx -> HaProxy -> Thin

I had trouble getting Mongrel to work in 1.9 (it was my favorite in 1.8) although apparently you can do it. Thin just worked(tm) so I switched to it painlessly.
Don't agree. I don't know if you have actually driven any of the boats of the 60-80s but they handle very very badly even if they are rwd. I am talking about large old fashioned american cars, like ford crown victorias chevy caprices, etc. They have very bad steering response shake like crazy on the slightest turn tires squeel with slightest provocation etc. Those cars were built to drive in a straight line.

I think any modern fwd sedan will do better. For example I used to drive a 90s crown victoria and then switched to a later model ford contour. The contour handled sooo much better even if it was fwd.
Org-mode 6.31 released, now programmable with multiple languages
jeremias.kangas [at] gmail.com

thanks!
because most startups dont know anything, they have an idea that was shaped from their experience and assumptions about how the market will react to it.

Once you appreciate that these things arent much more than educated guesses, you can be a lot more focussed actually determining how people react to your product, as opposed to going off and coding what noone wants.
Any spare would be awesome!
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I ran Passenger for a while in the past but I really didn't like how it would pause every rails process briefly when spinning up a new instance. Maybe that's been fixed now.

Monit may be harder to set up, but it works very well once it's running.
I'm assuming that since the demo had example listing urls from 37s and workingwithrails, it's probably RoR
Check le headers.

Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) Phusion_Passenger/2.0.3
X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack) 2.0.3

Ruby on Rails.

(BTW guys, time to upgrade to Passenger 2.2.5!)
I don't point this out to people for the reason stated. It does irk me, but I keep my peace, even when it's my own brother.

That being said, this is a forum that is detailed and critical by nature, I don't feel it's smug to voice a subjective opinion on the matter.

Still, you're right, it can be(and most likely is in most situations), a very rude and smug thing to do, but it all depends on the person as well. Do they receive critical comments well? Will they be enlightened because of it?
"Personal success" is similar to playing The Game. If you aren't aware of it, you're already succeeding, because you haven't defined it otherwise.

Personally, I wish to stay happy moment-to-moment. I want to be 100% engaged in any thing that I do, even in the most mundane of tasks like putting on clothes, eating, shaving. I don't want my mind to leap ahead to fantasies of the next thing, as it doesn't improve my future enjoyment, and it rarely gives me any useful insight. And I don't want to burden myself with abstract thoughts of "is my life as good as it could be?" as that leads me to beat myself up for no reason.

This does not conflict at all with the more material goals in life; rather, it puts them into proper perspective.
I get the sense that most modern web apps don't use sIFR or Cufon for custom typography; they use images, just like in '01. The only thing that I see changing is that it's become fashionable to use browser type in places where it wasn't before.

That being the case, this is just a presentation on how to do a better job generating type images, and it is pretty cool that he put so much effort into doing a better job than Photoshop does.
As a community, I hope we could sanction comments like this.
Content-free snark. You need OSX to generate the images. You obviously don't need OSX or Rails to use them.
Great, now I have to worry about making thoughtful comments on here.
R (http://www.r-project.org/) draws really nice graphs - in case you want something scripted that is better looking than Gnuplot, and less hideous than Excel.
I totally agree with you.that is just very close to the human nature
I think seeing the top comment, rather than the first x characters of an article, would be far more descriptive of an article.

* Bias articles

* Link bait

* Blog spam

* Click-able links

etc.
Why not just build your user base and work to make sure your feature set is competitive or better? They'll come to you eventually.
An alternative revenue stream is affiliate programs some of the big job boards offer. Most pay on a per applicant basis.
In fact, starting now I think I'm going to start using "I could care less" liberally to communicate its literal meaning. Frinstance:

"My car broke down, and I could care less!"

"I broke my finger, and I could care less!"

"My girlfriend left me for being so goddamn pedantic all the time, and I could care less!"
I'd like to have one http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Z_AvJvYpwNvGZxTR-zMYBg==...
thx
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Thank you!
andrew@ducker.org.uk

Thank you!
Why would entrepreneurs lose their motivation? Entrepreneurs are working for themselves, not for some chunk of change someone else will give them if they perform as well as some random person wants them to.

If we get rid of teachers after 6 years, what would that teacher do? How would this work exactly?
Um... Try again :D
It was completely genuine. I try to avoid sarcasm on the internet as much as possible, unless it's stupendously obvious, simply for reasons like this.

These days, it seems like people are increasingly uncomfortable disagreeing with each other: "I disagree" is often meant or interpreted as "You're wrong, and you should never have spoken up in the first place, you foolish whelp."

That's why I was really delighted to see a pair of contradictory opinions sharing the top of an HN comment list: it meant, cursorily, that every person who upvoted one did not automatically downvote the other, but also that the community as a whole values the disagreement itself. I know I'm making a mountain out of a molehill now, but only for the purpose of explaining why I wasn't being sarcastic.
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can we stop using IT to mean "desktop support"? It's sort of like the Visual Basic of programming. What I mean is, it's quite similar to the debate over job titles "programmer" versus "software engineer". But I guess I'm going against the grain on this one.

Or maybe it all starts here and will snowball and take over.
Check what other domains that person has registered. Or possibly even what other domains point to the same IP (unless it's a generic GoDaddy page or something)
He COULD care less. But instead he cared just enough to go on for several paragraphs.

I could care less that this irks you (but I care enough to hit reply).
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Well, I'm not sure why I was down-modded. However, I hope I didn't offend anyone. Race/religion can be touchy subjects.
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A few weeks ago, I took about 4 hours to think up a domain not taken, and bought it for 5 years. Much cheaper (on an hourly rate) than paying a squatter, for example, $2000!
From my distant view, it appears Wave mostly uses the 'buddy list' model -- you are only messaged by declared friends, or friends-of-friends (referrals via various invite/add-participant operations).

The only opportunity for spam is unwanted invitations to become a friend -- which can be a problem, but is a smaller problem than an open inbox that accepts messages from any principal.

Am I way wrong?
gonsas (at) gmail (dot) com

Thanks a bunch!
Unless you are willing to cut the squatter's brake lines and kidnap his wife and daughter, the odds are not in your favor. Even then, you can count on the squatter having a mere fraction of a soul.

Squatters live in a 1999 dreamworld where a useless, pissant .com domain is worth five grand (if you can even reach them). And it only goes up from there. So good luck with the kidnapping, or failing that, good luck with coming up with a new name for your pet project.
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

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The only issue that I take with people that don't understand that the monitor is not the computer: What do they think that the box under the desk is for?

It's pretty easy to set up 'rules' for this:

* If there is a box attached to the monitor (under the desk or otherwise) then the box is the computer.

* If everything is plugged directly into the monitor, then the monitor is the computer.

It's pretty simple, but people either just don't care or have it stuck in their heads that 'this' is the way the world is... and some people's opinions don't turn on a dime.
... which is relevant since Chris seems to have removed the original from his webserver
Is that the "permafrost" Stevey wrote about?
"Richard Feynman, [Murray] Gell-Mann's chief competitor for the title of the World's Smartest Man but a stranger to pretension, once encountered Gell-Mann in the hall outside their offices at Caltech and asked him where he had been on a recent trip; 'Moon-TRAY-ALGH!' Gell-Mann responded in a French accent so thick that he sounded as if he were strangling. Feynman - who, like Gell-Mann, was born in New York City - had no idea what he was talking about. 'Don't you think,' he asked Gell-Mann, when at length he had ascertained that Gell-Mann was saying 'Montreal,' 'that the purpose of language is communication?'"
It seems from the post that the primary reason you got into YC the second time around was because Paul recognized your username. Obviously there were other reasons involved, which PG has stated above. However, the overall feel is that getting into YC has a lot to do with PG's initial impression of who you are and how active you are on hacker news than the actual idea itself, considering that you said the idea remained unchanged, it was just the pitch that was different.

Basically, I feel like I have to contribute something worthy on this site now in order to be considered for YC. While I feel that being an active community member is important, I don't think it should be given the weight that it seems to carry for YC applications.
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http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/161233418/analysis-paralys... addresses this very question.
I'm not sure I understand your first paragraph; are you suggesting North Americans are in general -- (a) awake longer; or (b) on-their-feet more -- than UK residents?

(And aren't 'sleep problems' on trips back to GMT sufficiently explained by jetlag?)
I think it is thriving because is simple and transparent. Users dont have to learn how to use a new application if they don't need the advanced features. They just drop files into folders like they always have.

It was perfect solution for integrating version control for my diverse team of designers(macs), developers(linux) and everyone else(windows).
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Should Facebook remove subject lines from messaging system?
Seriously. I've had similar experiences with squatters. If their business is selling these domains, it's just good business to keep WHOIS records up to date.
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I thank the kind donor in advance very much.