skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you kidding? You have definitely missed out if you haven't found some good food! Start off at the CalTrain station near SCU. Drive down El Camino. In one direction (North?) you'll pass by some amazing Indian, Thai, and Vietnamese restaurants. You'll also probably pass by my favorite sushi hole-in-the wall (Hana sushi). Sushi-o-sushi is also good. In the other direction, you'll head towards San Jose. First you'll pass by some great cafe's. Keep heading down and you'll find the ultimate Mexican eatery La Victoria. Actually, anything Mexican in San Jose is bound to be great. If you go to La Poloma (El Camino North) you can find an incredible happy hour--free enchiladas and nachos and $2.00 house margaritas. Around the corner from La Victoria though you'll find Sonoma Chicken Coop. You'll be amazed that you can get a full, moderately healthy meal for under $7.00 and served to you in about 5 minutes. There's also a New Orleans style restaurant near the HP center which is delicious. If you're going fancy there's Il Fornario Italian or Birk's Steakhouse. Outside Santa Clara but a short drive away there's some great restaurants in Santana Row. There's a great Egyptian restaurant near here too, but I can't think of the name of it. The best breakfast places in town are Hobies and Stacks without a doubt.
Same here. Pretty big bug. Had to load up Safari.

Someone report the bug, I'm too lazy.
Misses laziness, which is arguably the most confusing part.
Focusing on just a few things is a great idea.

However, in his case study he doesn't list any outcomes. He describes what he's going to do.

I think it would have worked better if he'd implemented it, then posted this in a months time and said "I purged all these tasks, focused on these two projects, and enjoyed $quantifiable_performance_improvement".
> MySQL roll out for our Python software is a complete pain

Really? How so?
Cligs is shutting down
Also works fine with 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 9.04.
not sure why this is here, it's not really worth reading yet.
A matter of precision
Don't kick yourself while you're down, Tom... I know Dan was certainly more on the business side of it and this could mean that things may not continue as planned but there may be good things you can do with what you do have left. Even if that means starting or doing something else (I hope not because of all that's been invested thus far) but by no means are you the shorter end of some stick, dude.

You are a talented mother fucker, is what you are.
How staunch is too staunch when it comes to free and open source software?
Yeah, I also keep a copy of OOo for that particular case. Logically, there must be some people who actually use office suites to create documents though...
On Programming and Learning a Foreign (spoken) language
San Francisco is a terrible place to have children unless you're either (a) very rich or (b) very poor.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
Maybe you are being downvoted for spelling cheap as cheep or maybe some programmers feel offended by your "cheap programmers" that sounds degrading. "Less affluent programmers can buy cheaper PC's" sounds better.
Also does not tackle monads.
Ask HN: Why do loopt have agreements with network carriers
Why do location dependent systems such as loopt have agreements with network carriers? Is it to support location or to pre-install the apps before sold?
Only one million? Cheaper than I thought!

Actually I do see a few houses in the $1 million range on that page, but none of them seem to have yards. With no backyard and no reasonable parks in the neighbourhood, where would your children play?
Yeah, definitely not the short end of the stick (other than height) ;-)
If this paid out more that the total in entry fees, with the sponsors making an additional contribution to the prize pool (which they internally justify as a publicity and lead-acquisition expense), then I could squint and strain to make a not-totally-laughable case for it.

Disregarding the time and distraction, this hypothetical alternate competition could have a slightly-positive expected return in cash for credible entrants. The feedback and publicity could be worth the trouble. And the whole process could be seen as a helpful winnowing process, siphoning money towards more-likely-to-succeed ventures.

But as structured, not only does Revolutionary Angels want their 40% overhead fee, but also equity in the winner. ("Here. let us buy some of your company with all of your entry fees.") That's double-dipping when even the 40% single-dip is excessive.

And gven how generous they've already been to themselves, I would be highly suspicious of the judging process as well -- they might triple-dip by awarding the prizes to cronies.
Revolutionary Angels' new business plan: competition
Apple's been doing these ads for months elsewhere. They did it on the first day of Pitchfork's redesign, which had the effect of completely overshadowing a really good redesign.
Sorry for not being clear the first time. Proper processing is what I'm after. The reading has to be accompanied by parsing. The file is divided into sections, and each section will have its own parsing / user-actions / processing / output.
"safest big American city I've been in."

As a life-long Chicagoan I still find it incredibly strange that people believe Chicago is safe. It has a very high crime rate, double NYC in every category.
Ask HN: sample size estimator
Does online tools or other for calculating the sample size neccessarry for determining significance?
The Openfund - First Round of Applications Concluded
Just taking a guess, but:

mysql client must be installed on every machine

mysql python bindings must be compiled and deployed on every machine.

I imagine it's not uncommon among Python web apps for the mysql library to be the only thing that requires gcc to compile from source. Having a library entirely in python, for which you presumably already have a deployment process, would definitely simplify things.
A failed project and Seth Godin on "thrashing"
$50 is questionable, $5k is laughable.
This forum isn't your personal advertising network, Lowtax.
On a related note this is my favourite fact about Einstein:

In 1905 when he published his 4 extraordinary papers he was still "Mr Einstein". The 5th was his PHD paper.
Like I tell everyone who cares, if you want to start with Smalltalk and can't stand Squeak, give Dolphin a go if you are on Windows. There's a free version. (You might still want to come back to Squeak or Pharo later).
Oakland is really lacking in a few ways though. Aside from the fact that you can't walk for more than a mile without seeing something really depressing, the thing that really creeps me out about Oakland (and I'm an East Bay resident) is the lack of shops. How can there be a city of half a million people with no malls and no department stores? Heck, there's hardly even any supermarkets.

Restaurantwise, there's a few good ones, but not really enough to satisfy your every whim. Barwise, once you've removed all the really unsafe ones you've got just a handful left, scattered among Oakland's three or four safe neighbourhoods and separated by miles of "don't go here at night".

The weather is better (slightly) and the rent is cheaper (much) though.
Thread from 2 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=858022
Create and Share a Web Page Instantly from EMail
Nokia integrates recently acquired dopplr features into maps
This is interesting, but somewhat light on details. Based on what I read though it sounds very similar to the US based WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) which supplements signals from the GPS constellation with ground based repeater stations, improving accuracy from about 5-15 meters to under 3 meters (according to Garmin).

Of course, WAAS is only available in North America, so Europe building a similar network makes sense. I assume one would need a new receiver to use this setup though.
Three Americans Share Nobel Prize for Medicine
Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform
shmucks...
Sorry, they don't make it clear what's behind or in front of the paywall. Let me know if this link works:
http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=...
The MySQL client/server protocol is extremely simple:
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_ClientServer_Pro...

I'd be surprised if there were any performance loss compared to the amount of time required to marshal Python data for calls via the C library.
I don't believe tutorials are the right way to figure out monads. For one thing, they aren't as extremely important as they're made out to be, people have just latched on to the name.
If you really want to understand monads you have to actually try to write code using them, and struggle through it.
Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online
I imagine that legal (and police) pressure was brought to bear, given the quoted content of some of the emails sent to customers.
That piece of text should be made required reading to own a hotel outside of the UK :P
Drupy: "Drupal" in Python
Honey, I Shrunk the Startups, Part II (Jason Fried / Dave McClure response)
I wonder if he gets a wave invite instead?
Why Tech Mergers May End Up Hurting the Web
I don't know if it's considered a third world country (I don't). But $200 is not expensive in cities there.
Finding a U.S. Manufacturer to Make Your Product Idea
G++ implementation of std::deque
Who better than Einstein? Tesla!

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/11/your_friday_dose_o...
I agree. Even when I had just started Pascal after early childhood years of ZX-Spectrum basic, even when I wrote a game that consisted of one huge block of code and the only reason I had to split it in 2 procedures called Dog1 and Dog2 is because Pascal compiler started to complain about main code block being to large - even then I was never puzzled by my own code.

Sadly I have lost the source now. I'm sure it's an epic and hilarious mess.
Quite fortuitously, there was an article Friday in BusinessWeek on the subject: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/oct2009/sb20091...
Being part of the matrix
(I wrote this in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=861747. That article was killed, but I felt like there are some positive ideas here that folks might find useful. So I reposted.)

The news about Dan has had this question kicking through my head for a day and night, primarily because I've never considered suicide, though I suspect I've been through a depressive bout when my life took an unexpected turn for much worse.

The primary consideration I've identified is that when both my professional personal lives suddenly fell apart, I had a young son to take care of. Hopping in a car and driving across the country wasn't an option, much less something more permanent. I had a serious, nontransferable responsibility that kept me grounded and kept things in perspective.

The destruction of my life was exacerbated by the fact that much of my sense of self, purpose, and self worth was tied up in the company I was working for. My days were there, my evenings often involved colleagues who'd grown into friends and my brain's idle cycles were spent working on making it successful.

I also had a responsibility to my company and the people that I worked with. It was clear to me that leaving -- in any sense -- could result in the majority of the talented technical staff leaving. And after that the company would collapse. The people had families, mortgages, kids in college. Leaving and causing them that unwarranted pain, stress and upheaval wasn't something I wanted on my conscience.

I ended up staying, finishing building and selling the product I'd started, and leaving just as it took off. Last year (several years after I left), it represented 70% of the revenues of the firm. I left with my head held high.
My conclusion is that having these ties to the individuals in the firm and to my kid allowed me to consider my life in a larger matrix: entwined and linked to others. The thought of ripping myself out of that matrix by ending my life was anathema.

I wonder if the focus of the startup world on young, unattached, "unencumbered" founders is a mistake. These people may be most susceptible to not being part of a larger matrix and most at risk because they don't have the perspective that time can provide.

Note that I'm not suggesting that the young/unencumbered/unattached may not be successful, just that they may not be the best equipped to handle some of the rigors of this life.
I guess you're blind or wearing black glasses. Focus on the content. I can read very well.
Some people write a LOT of code. I wouldn't think it possible to remember every piece of code written over, say, an 8 hour work day.
How about a title like "Google asks Jon Skeet not to sign an NDA with a competitor?"
"how long it can take for new entrepreneurs to win their first meeting with an angel or venture group" - has anyone had trouble getting meetings with angels or venture groups? In my experience this is the only easy part of running a startup.
Can you discriminate true randomness from computer-generated imitators?
Princeton University research survey..$200 prize for the winner.
Orkut - Search
Oh cut the dramatics. Sure it isn't the traditional way, it isn't even a good way, but they aren't stealing money from people. Its $2k for some "advisors" to go over your business plan and introduce you, and a $3k entry into a 1 in 50 lotto.

Show me a fake participant that they deem to be the winner, and I will agree with you. Until then, they are just wandering capitalists, just like everyone else.

EDIT: You guys need to take a deep breath and realize that the world is a complicated place. If you don't agree with someone, its often better to ignore them than to demonize them.
Their plan seems to be, give stuff away for free, charge for more storage. I would have been surprised if they charged for the iPhone application..
Anyone else finding it increasingly hard to care?
You'd have to be very desperate and foolish to fall for this.
The Many Flavors of Platform Services for Cloud Computing
Don't be a Coder, Engineer, or Developer ...
Enhance Firefox with SmarterFox
The dollar-bill one? I'm curious as to why that post is the one that killed it for you -- I thought it was kind of cute. There have been a couple of posts that have prompted me to wonder why I bother reading SvN, but that one seemed harmless.
It's an interesting list, but I do have a problem with:

"7. We would replace PR-speak and certain Orwellian words and expressions with more neutral, precise language. If someone we interview misused language, we would paraphrase instead of using direct quotations."

This encourages the possibility of the reporter introducing their own biases. Would someone who is against abortion consider "pro choice" as a misuse of language and replace it with "pro abortion"? Would someone who supports legalized abortion replace "pro life" with "anti abortion rights".

I think it would be far better to keep the speaker's quotation as is, and explain separately (in a side bar for instance) why the words used may be misleading.
I have no idea what a MVP is.
Consistent Hashing for Scaling Out
It'd also be nice if the scroll-position was saved when you close the application.. When you reopen the file, it's always back to page 1..
Wonderful for any number of things. I use SnagIt for this when I'm on windows.

One other great use is recording webexes or other screensharings of products you want to perform more detailed analysis of later.
A reverse tolerance, as is commonly associated with marijuana? My experience has been different. I used to be addicted to caffeine. I wasn't measuring my intake, but at times it was probably near a gram a day. Since breaking my addiction, I have caffeine on occasion. A single cup of black tea now has a pretty strong effect on me, where previously it was barely noticeable.
Twitter CEO on the future of twitter
I use office programs for anything where pagination is important (ruling out HTML, at least without complication) and formatting or embedding of pictures/charts is desired (ruling out text files).

Text files also fall short when displaying non-trivial equations.
I think that 'Dumb' in this case is more likely to represent the fact that the cards themselves don't do anything. They're 'Dumb' in the sense that they're much more inert by themselves than say a video game is.

I think games like this encourage imagination as basically a prerequisite to play, whereas video games are almost the opposite.
I think the term "hacker" is synonymous with polymath in many significant ways. I personally find myself inexplicably divided between many fields, all of which I am passionate about. My hacker philosophy has lead me to be well-read in political science, literature, philosophy, and of course computing and maths!

As hackers we are driven by our insatiable curiosity. For me at least this curiosity is not often applied in the same direction.
Non-subscription link to NY Times article (the article is free when you click from Google):
http://www.google.com/search?q=Three+Americans+Share+Nobel+P...
or theory of patches...?
The really odd thing is that they will find people willing to pay to be in this competition.
Very cool. Can't get CLM to build under sbcl, however, checking.
Very very interesting. We've been fighting our daughter's fascination with Webkins, but it's quite similar when I look at it from the perspective of Pokemon cards in the article.
Well, the main thing would be to operate in a store-nothing kind of way. There has to be a fixed amount of storage required no matter what the length of the input is. You'll need to keep aggregate totals and compute over each row, as opposed to storing any data.

The parsing should be simple. Lex and/or Yacc should handle very large files. If not, you can always write something by hand, once again sticking to the store-nothing principle.

I would think about it as a fold operation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_%28higher-order_function%2...) over the lines in the file, where the parser state and any aggregate calculated values are stored in the accumulator, and each new line is considered in conjunction with the current state and the previous calculated values.
Sorry to hear about the apathy of the people around you when you got robbed. Unfortunately, I think this is more of a problem with our society in general, rather than this city in particular.... people are scared to get involved, and especially scared of gang members.

I saw a similar incident in Noe Valley, 8:30PM, people everywhere. Someone ran past me chasing someone and yelling "Call the Police!." I ran after them, calling on my cell phone. (Unfortunately it wasn't until it was after I started running that he added "He f-ing pulled a gun on me!")

We ended up making a statement to the police, and IDing them, and they got the assholes.

The crappy thing is, at least 15 other people were standing around at the time, and no one else responded but me.

It is shitty, but I don't know if it would be different in any other city.
These are actually just wrong. Computers are dirt cheap, for instance, and most programmers who aren't working on games don't need one that costs more than $1,000 for any reason at all. In fact they shouldn't want a cutting edge one, they'd rather see how the software runs on the computers that will typically host it.

The overhead costs of starting the next Google are significantly lower than the overhead costs of starting a McDonalds.
Tool of the Day: Passpack-An Online Safe Deposit Box For Your Passwords
I am so sick of Dan Gillmor. He was a former working hack who knew the web pretty well. He tried out his ideas in a startup which crashed and burned (Bayosphere), but that wasn't enough to convince the world that he's not the future of journalism. So now he sits in an ivory tower, eating brie paid for with foundation money, and tells the world how journalism should be. Please, please someone make him stop.
I think they are schooling entrepreneurs in their own art...of making money:)
"Cascade is a itty-bitty side project of Howard M. Lewis Ship, who should be spending more time on Tapestry."

Hahah that's how it always starts.

Our lead developer has just spent the last month porting our product to Tapestry 5, and we were joking the whole time about how long it would be before hlship would go through another focus change resulting in another period in the wilderness.

I've been trying to win traction to clojure - fabulous.

(Tapestry developer since 3.0)
Poll: Do you read the HN comments before the article?
There was comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=861448) about reading the comments first and whether or not it biased you. I was curious how people use HN.
I read the HN comments before reading the article
I read the article before the comments
I'm more likely to read an article with many comments
I read articles based on how it sounds, not the number of comments
I'm unlikely to read an article with no comments, or I check back later
And here I was expecting a link to http://isolatr.com/
Shoppers’ Shifting Priorities: What we're not buying
Packing heat gets you shot, say profs
So let me get this straight, you're comparing pottery to iPods and from that drawing a conclusion?

Hand made goods are almost never cheaper, even in Mexico. A handmade pot would cost more than a machine produced one. It's just that the cheap labor makes the production equipment an unjustifiable investment because the ROI is less. It's less cheaper, but still cheaper. In general of course.
OpenBeta 3 / 24-Hour Pitch - Online Startups in OKC
Almost all my office suite use involves interacting with project sponsors. This runs from writing proposals (internal finance people want Excel spreadsheets, and sponsors often require Word format) to presenting results at review meetings (PowerPoint is the norm).

The consistent theme here is that MS formats are implicitly required. For that, I tried OpenOffice for a while, but just ran into too many minor glitches.

For more formal writeups of results, I get to use LaTeX.

Note we almost never produce plots using Excel; we tend to use R, and embed a resulting PDF in the Word or PowerPoint document.
Unfortunately, calling yourself a "Software Artisan", "Computer Artiste" or anything like that WILL make you sound like a pretentious douchebag.

Give your ego the middle-finger and just call yourself a software developer. It'll make everyone's lives easier.
I understand monads just fine. I would like to see a readable explanation of the exact syntactic transformation of the 'do' notation to the actual function that the monad is to logically return the wrapped application of.
Simplicity is not a bug
As he says in the first part, feel free to discuss what parts of Haskell are confusing to _you_, and then it can be made by the community, rather than just by him.
I had thought about this. Some problems that might have solutions:

1. Short selling works for commodities because both sides of the deal agree on the equivalence of entities (a stock, gold brick, whatever). However, what are the specs that make another alpaca equivalent? Some negotiation would be involved.

2. Trust. The seller has to trust me to return an alpaca. To them, someone approaching with such a deal might as well be Bernie Madoff. Ironic given that they themselves have already opted into a bubble of equal proportion.

Anybody have any ideas? The effective value of these animals will approach zero. It's just a matter of when.
I want data from a 3rd party API _not_ code. If I call Google's search API I want to get back an array of search results, but they can run arbitrary code on my page if they feel like it.

I want them to call back my supplied function with the data. That I have to allow them to execute arbitrary code they supply to do that is a flaw.

Having said that, using CSS as the delivery mechanism seems pretty exotic, so I'm not advocating this as the solution, but there is a problem out there.