skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, 4 years ago pg said, in one of his articles:

"Some angel groups charge you money to pitch your idea to them. Needless to say, you should never do this."

from http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

So there you go.
You've got it upside down. For whatever definition of X:

Like attracts like means that because you already are X, then you begin to attract other people who are also X. Conversely if you want to be X, you can't become one by merely hanging out with people who are X.
There are cases when you don't need a huge audience to feel pain when unclear.

'An old blacksmith realized he was soon going to quit working so hard. He picked out a strong young man to become his apprentice. The old fellow was crabby and exacting. "Don't ask me a lot of questions," he told the boy. "Just do whatever I tell you to do." One day the old blacksmith took an iron out of the forge and laid it on the anvil. "Get the hammer over there," he said. "When I nod my head, hit it real good and hard." Now the town is looking for a new blacksmith.'
But if they were interviewing the women; and one that was starting work again after looking after the kids for a few years?

I agree with what your saying - but the firm in the example seem to have asked a reasonable question! There is, surely, nothing wrong in asking about something which may affect a potential employee :) it's if they discriminate or stereotype that it becomes a problem surely!
The CSS2 spec even explictly equates table-header-group with the THEAD element: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#table-display

In Firefox, at least, thead elements do default to display: table-header-group. Perhaps this is a quirk of IE or Safari to do with rendering legacy content?
Thanks for sharing. I'm not sure how you feel about it, but that sounds terrible to me.
To replace `if(x instanceof a)`, you don't need type polymorphism (way too heavy). You need algebraic datatypes. With pattern matching (a glorified `switch`), you have the best of both worlds: the compiler make sure you cover all cases (and warn you if you don't), and the code is still local (you don't have to fetch several files to assess its behaviour). If you want to add one case, you still have to modify several snippets, but again, the compiler will warn you if you forget one.

Of course, if their language don't have algebraic datatypes, I strongly suggest they learn one that have it.
That's extremely interesting, though the "article" doesn't do a great job of presenting it to people who don't already know it.

The reason high-temperature superconductors are important is because they allow very strong magnetic fields, such as the kind used in MRI scanners in hospitals. Currently those need to be cooled with liquid nitrogen, which is obviously very expensive. At the temperatures described in this article, you could have a a superconductor cooled by a simple freezer unit. This is a lot cheaper and would make MRI much more accessible.

And then, of course, there's a dozen other applications of strong magnetic fields that we don't know about because it's too expensive.

And then, to add onto that, if we can manufacture circuits out of superconductors, we may well find increased efficiencies in running a computer. Superconductors have zero resistance and so they don't heat up when current goes through them. They require less current and less cooling than normal systems. I'm sure Google is looking into ways to use this sort of thing for their data centres.
1.7 mega-pickles
This is not what it says on the box. What it says on the box is pay to pitch. Pay for a chance to be funded. If it said "getting an idea to market" training and people bought it, no one would be complaining.
If my calculations are correct, women with clown makeup are the most attractive.
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Reminds me of http://www.aduni.org/
When you say you got his point, did you mean you get how his point is related to charging people to pitch? I am completely willing to grant that such people exist and are unpleasant, but what relevance does that have here?
Actually I think the question on many people's lips is not whether whether some "mostly competent guy" will be scapegoated, but whether VP of Mobile Experiences Roz Ho will manage to keep her job. First we had the leaked details of the dire status of Microsoft's Pink project, and now this. Sure wouldn't like to be in her shoes right now.
First Microsoft/Danger/Sidekick, then Apple, now this. We need a computing paradigm that does not suffer from single points of failiure, or at least fails more gracefully.
"Absolutely nothing...say it again!"

(bad joke, but also an article summary)
I've had a similar idea but more like a "startup farm" or house, but finding an entire small village suitable for this - I say go for it!

This is actually an idea of the kind where I think "I could do this for the rest of my life". Considering I'm the kind of person with tonnes of ideas and too little time to make them happen, that says a lot.

Even renting out a small office space in the middle of nowhere like a "get-things-done"-facility would probably work. I'm thinking of the HN story some time ago where the entire development department of a company went to Brazil, rented a cheap place and worked day and night to Get Things Done - and they did.

Sort of like an anti-spa. :)

Could be an extra income if nothing else.
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Sounds more like a hive
And this goes both ways. You should take excess care when writing to someone in a language in which they are not completely fluent.
I'm assuming you didn't read the article then.

"those who are chosen to move forward get weeks of free coaching and mentorship on their pitches before they’re asked to pay. Also, entrepreneurs don’t have to pay — they can drop out if they want."
If I understand correctly, Time Machine takes a binary snapshot (similar to rsync). With MySQL (and InnoDB specifically) the stuff on disk is not guaranteed to be in a consistent state while the server is running. The safest way to back up mysql is mysqldump.
The problem is you're using C/C++ and dealing with pointers directly. What do I win?
are you pregnant, do you want children, do you have children

But they don't appear to have asked those questions :) (see my other comment)

Personally I do think it is reasonable, though, to ask whether a women plans to have children in the immediate future (say, the next 18 months). It's unavoidable that pregnancy does result in requiring time off (I've heard it argued that a women planning to have children soon and applying for a job is possibly defrauding her employer.... I don't agree with that but it is an interesting way to consider it). They're not going to be missing a few days in the office during a pregnancy - that is long term time off (usually). That's a scientific and genetic fact; asking the question is, surely, fine (and it can be refused to be answered etc.). Discriminating because of it is wrong; but the employer may wish to know so they are aware they will have to find a temporary replacement in the near future :)

I also am not sure why, if your faced with 2 candidates of equal ability you cant choose the one (male or female) who is NOT actively planning to bear children in the next year or so without being marked discriminatory etc.
This highlights a very reasonable fear that people and corporations have about the cloud.

It might even kill off some of the smaller cloud-based players...
I liked this comment on their status page

"shabooty Says:
I wonder if this site is hosted at media temple?"

epic
Application switching - what's the equivalent of alt-tab?
Including resizing Restoring a minimizing application.

-- Selecting an arbitrary menu item
Arrowing through a menu is key for me. I'm writing from memory but last I recall working on a mac, the menus were strictly mouse only.

-- What's the equivalent of the start button, giving a list of available I can select with the keyboard? I remember not being able to navigate the launch bar with the keyboard, only the mouse. And at that time, I Googled for a while for help on this.
Re-read the article. The people who considered themselves "lucky" turned out to be more observant, and therefore would encounter unexpected opportunities. The people who considered themselves "unlucky" would miss glaring opportunities that should have been staring them in the face. If opportunities keep on dropping in your lap but not in others, after a while you're likely to feel lucky. If opportunities keep on not dropping in your lap while they do in others, after a while you're likely to feel unlucky. Objectively you just don't understand the source of your consistent fortune. But that is how it will feel.

It isn't about risks or risk-taking at all. It is about better observation leading to noticing and taking advantage of opportunities. What is the risk in being given an offer to easily make 250 British pounds? The unlucky people didn't even see it! (The lucky people presumably would have noticed that, but didn't because they noticed that the second page gave them the answer they were looking for so they didn't read the rest of the paper.)

He then figured out some of the factors that lead to the improved observation rate, and found that he could teach "luckiness" as a skill. Of course you aren't going to actually be lucky if you learn that skill. But if you have it you'll have more opportunities to take advantage of. And that's pretty worthwhile.
Yep, pretty much.

Just because preying on ignorance is easy and lucrative does not make it okay.
Internet and Fast Food in North Korea
Ask HN: Health Effects of Night Owl
As a child (< 18), I found that I worked best at night (when the sun was not visible).

During college, I couldn't quite pull this off due to classes during the day.

Now that I'm in graduate school, I have this freedom again, to organize my day as I wish.

I was just wondering -- does anyone know of negative health side effects of being a night owl? Somehow when it's completely dark outside, and all I can see are the artificial lights of my computer screen and flouresecent lights, I find concentrating effortless.
What time does the whole event end?
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The only thing that works against spam is to destroy its economic utility. Perhaps, instead of a free-net, what's needed is a for-a-nominal-charge-net?

Sounds like you want hashcash (http://hashcash.org).
That is easily an artifact of verification bias.

There was no effort in trying to introduce events that would be negative if aggressively pursued such as a Nigerian 411 or lottery scam. You certainly aren't lucky if you noticed one of these and decided it was a nice opportunity.
What's amazing about them? Consumer Reports never rates them that highly.
Wow, that sucks. At least you've been able to see the truth about what's actually happened and why.
Tunnel vision is caused by stress. It also represents the worldview that all-you-see is all-there-is. It's a kind of solipsism. What makes what you see so significant? Literally, it is true that you can only observe from your point of view; and that you are always at the center of your horizons. So it's an understandable mistake to make.

But to appreciate the unknown requires humility - it's not just that you don't know the answers, but that you do not know the question; cannot even conceive of the question. It's a door being unlocked, where you didn't even know there was a doorway.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. It's not that the teacher arrives, but that we are surrounded by teachers at all times, and we can only see them when we are ready. That's when they appear.
You did not acknowledge your change until I mentioned it.

Google cache proves I acknowledged it long before you mentioned it: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom...

It bothers me how you do not assume good faith on this site.
The perception is definitely verification bias. However there was an effort to train "unlucky" people to be more "lucky", and there was evidence that this really improved their lives. So while there are cases that it will cause them to fall for scams, on the whole it seems to be a good change.
I haven't found any bad effects on my end yet. I make sure to work out daily though, minimum 30 mins.

I sleep from 5am until 10am, and then get back to it. Seems to work well for me.
The Dyson Airblade hand dryer is the thing I really like (http://www.dysonairblade.com/homepage.asp). I used it in an airport and it worked great.
Not if alternatives achieve unsubsidized competitiveness, which is precisely what some are trying to achieve.

The internet is a chaotic system if you choose packets as your unit of granularity, and yet this message still came over the wire intact. The wiring inside a bomb impacted by an outside force is a chaotic system with plenty of uncertainty as to what's inside, but you would still be unwise to kick it. Gas flow in jet engines is a highly turbulent and chaotic system with measured temperature variation from the best models exceeding in many cases 20%, and yet jets will still fly.

You don't need a perfect model to arrive at an accurate prediction, you don't need a terribly accurate prediction in order to arrive at a general appraisal of a situation, and you don't even need a general appraisal of a situation to ascertain risk worthy of action.

Frankly, it should be probably be enough to say "we know that most of the energy the Earth receives is from the sun, and we know that most of the energy is dissipates is through infrared. We also know that the Earth is an extremely complex, strongly coupled, and chaotic system, in which the details of every component can never be known, and being able to predict with a high level of confidence what the effects of any major change would be is unlikely. Maybe we should probably stop fucking with the Earth's primary means of cooling?"

There is nothing wrong with skepticism, per se. Skepticism is a positive, and it is a very worthy thing to root out the bs from the science. But it must be weighed against two things: the need to come to some decisions in a limited timeframe, and the fact that people often managed to justify to themselves, using any means at their disposal, their continued action or inaction. Too often 'climate change skeptics' claim that due to unacceptable uncertainty, they're going to continue doing what they're doing -- or -- that it isn't happening at all -- or -- that it's just part of the natural variation, when simple physics tells us that if you significantly modify a primary means of forcing a system then at least something about it must change.
That does not prove anything. That was already your 3rd or so edit.
Dyson Airblade Hand Dryer
Hey, it's not just internet and fast food --- they've even got outsourcing (run by a Dutch company)!
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/nk-uploads/nosotek-pricelist.pdf

Of course, there's a 40 to 60 euro per DAY markup if you'd like a programmer who is actually connected to the internet (by implication, someone who is "politically reliable" in North Korean terms).
I look forward to learning and exchanging ideas.
British Press Banned from Reporting Parliament. Seriously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_Airblade
New York helps tomorrow's employers
You must be a troll. Either that or your incapable of having a logical thought. The cache shows an acknowledgment of my removal of white male before you mentioned my edit. Your either too oblivious to have a conversation with or you are deliberately trying to provoke me. Either way I wont be responding to you anymore.
Shit happens. Even Google has outages (Gmail, anyone?). Life goes on.
Off the top of my head:

alt-tab == ⌘-tab

Restore == Ctl-F3, arrow key to window in Dock, return

Arbitrary menu item, depends:

Application Menu (left-handside text menus) == Ctl-F2, type enough unique letters to identify the menu (or use arrow keys), return, type enough unique letters to identify the item... repeat till you get to the item you want. If this annoys you, you can implement your own keyboard shortcuts in any native application.

Status Menu (right-handside icon menus) == Ctl-F8, arrows, return.

Equivalent of the start button? Not quite sure what you mean - activate Spotlight ⌘-[Space], type app name perhaps?

I assume you mean Dock when you say launch which is activated by Ctl-F3.

The only one I don't know how to do is fine-grain resizing of a window. If you use OS X though, you'll realise the UI paradigm isn't focused on fine-grained window control though.
>> 1. The good advice is obvious, the rest doesn’t work.

Not really. The rest also works, or used to work in the past.

>> Occasionally a darkside SEO master may find some loophole in the Google algorithm to exploit, which might actually lead to an increase in traffic. But that ill-gotten traffic gain won’t last long. <<

That's true, but sometimes it last for several years. In some specific cases, it lasts only a few days, but brings so much revenue that it is still worth doing it.

>> Remember this: It’s not your job to create content for Google.

:-) This is laughable. Everyone can create content, no matter how spammy it might look, that's just a freedom of expression. It's Google problem that they index it.

But of course, there are shady practices like automatically spamming blog comments, and that's evil. I think SEO is ok, it made some people very rich by exploiting search engine holes, which then allowed Google to fix them and make the engine better.
Is this ripping the author off? It looks like a knock-off to me.
I think it's a mistake to sell this as free. People don't value things that are free.

Maybe you could make the rent non-free, and then pay them (or call it a stipend/scholarship/grant) the same amount of money as the rent/broadband/food etc while they met some condition? As soon as they stopped meeting the condition they stop getting paid, and they have to pay the costs themselves or get evicted.
No, I mentioned it in my comment and removed it when you put it back in. Your original comment above mine was a snide 1 liner that said something like:

"That's dumb, you are suggesting college accepting only white males."

Which you then deleted after people started downvoting you, so you replaced it with that longer 4 line comment that had no trace of the original line.

I think its you who is being needless inflammatory by calling me an "idiot" and down voting every comment here that even remotely opposed your views.
Not sure which came first, but they've had the Mitsubishi Jet Towel in Japan for years: http://jettowel.mitsubishielectric.co.uk/main.htm
From the article: “The use of modems inherently introduces cyber security vulnerabilities to the systems to which they are attached.”

I disagree. In a modem-to-modem connection, the system is as secure as the underlying physical infrastructure. If those phone lines are secure, so is the data being transmitted on them. And the government does have guaranteed secure phone lines between strategic bases.

The minute you move from analog-based communication to digital, it is then that you "inherently introduce" vulnerabilities to the system. Between the undetected buffer overflows, the sheer pervasiveness of digital interception/intrusion tools, and the dificulties in keeping data confined in a digital network; I'd say VPN systems are at least an order of magnitude more likely to be cracked than a modem-modem connection over secure phone lines.
Now I know downtime is normal for a host. Yes, even Google.

But when you visit the homepage of their status-blog[1], don't you think that's a bit too many updates a little too frequently?

Or should we commend Dreamhost on being super-transparent in their network/uptime issues?

[1] http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
It's worth you finding out why all that industry left the area in the first place, in case you fail for the same reason. Seems to me the close shop system doesn't help among other things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt#History
It was kind of clear that these songs were modeled off of specific previously written songs. The Bach sounded a lot like Invention 8, Beethoven's and his Sonata, Joplin and Maple leaf rag.
If it's of any concern, Dreamhost is also the host for two of my websites.
Good question. I personally would not rather pay. I chose to not watch it.
Good point. I am honestly surprised that the US has any 3G networks at all.

Maybe some day I will be able to buy a data plan that lets me use more than 5G a month.
Assuming Jobs influenced the current "Apple Store environment," this is probably a good move by Disney. Apple's stores are always the most crowded at the mall.
As I understand it, for MRI (and other devices which need high fields, such as magnetic confinement fusion), the biggest limiting factor is not cooling, which is not terribly expensive relative to the cost of all the other equipment (liquid nitrogen is actually cheaper than milk), but the so called critical magnetic field strength, at which the material no longer can maintain its superconductivity. There's been similar progress along these lines as well, but it is not as glamorous -- as the critical field increases, so too may your magnetic fields.

By contrast, room temperature superconductors, if they're cheap enough, are way better than even slightly lower Tc superconductors, because they can be used in situations where cooling would induce a prohibitive efficiency loss and expense. Hence the glamor. :-) It could revolutionize instrumentation, power transmission, generator, transformers, power quality, signal transmission, on and on and on... :-)
I agree. I used it in a restaurant.
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Guess you can start with "Discover and Share Great Places" and then test it out with some folks to whom you have not explained what the site is about
The "training" wasn't actually luck, it was a training of attitude.

Sure it may have improved their lives, but attributing this to luck is as much of a mistake as saying that learning to prospect for gold is increasing my luck at getting rich.
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Ask HN: What's your dream career?
I always wanted to manage a hotel resort even though it has little to do with my specific passions.
Tweetie 2 is one of the few apps with reasonably robust settings exposed to turn off or selectively use auto rotation.
New device API for Firefox 3.6: orientation
If it's that much at issue, you can configure Mac OS X for full keyboard control as well.
I worry that I only like the night because of the isolation it enduces.
They should use a muon based communication system. I hear they get 100 bits per second or something. Security by infeasibility.
Well that is part of what I was trying to get at... legally it might be less of a hassle to get rid of people if they were merely guests in your house rather than tenants. Then again, IANAL... I've only heard horror stories from friends that are landlords.
There is nothing wrong with C-like C++ code. Nothing at all.

On the other hand, recognising that C and C++ treat 'unsigned' differently, and that certain C code may be wrong C++ code... A C/C++ coder who does not recognise that C++/C have different behaviour in certain cases is not much of a coder. (Hm, I believe that's actually one of the rare occasions when saying C/C++ is correct.)

I assume that's the bug in this code - it's neither idiomatic C++, nor is it C, but written in a manner that brings out the neatfreak in me.

Chris and Thomas: something like coverity should catch this particular bug without trouble. Have you guys verified this?
Semi-unrelated but if you're curious about BGP, this 2004 talk—although absurdly long—talks about some of the issues with BGP (an many other issues with hosting content on the Internet). The speaker is Tom Leighton, one of the founders of Akamai.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/199 (BGP at ~10 minutes in)
Or just make the rent sufficiently cheap.