skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we're being pedantic assholes:

I was with him until he said, "I could care less."

Couldn't, dammit, COULD NOT. This irks me to no end.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=damnit

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dammit
This are differences in definition.

For some, success is a destination. For others, it is a path.

(Also, as an aside: is it just me, or do us nerd types spend more than half our communication bandwidth arguing over terms and who is right?)
Thank you for the link, this is great stuff.

The longest the AbioCor heart functioned in clinical trials was 18 months, while continuous flow devices are being designed to operate for 10 or more years.

Frazier also says continuous flow pumps are better able to respond to the body's changing needs for blood. "If you're walking, more blood is pumped back to the heart and the heart will automatically pump more," he says. If pressure on one side of the pump increases, flow through the device automatically increases, allowing the pump to respond like a native heart, Frazier says.

Here's hoping all of Frazier's predictions are true, including the one about the 2050 Olympics.
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thanks!
Personally I think there's a fairly large cultural disconnect between shops running open-source stacks and shops running Oracle...

Quite possibly. Our company does use a lot of open source in the Java & Perl layers, but we're pretty tightly locked in to Oracle on the backend. I think it may be true that the sheer vastness of Oracle tempts you into believing you can solve every problem the Oracle way, which is why IOTs came to mind. I'd love to experiment with other options, myself, but its difficult once everything you do is predicated on it.
I've tried for PDR tools . com (hopefully the spaces will save from this in the search results) ...

- the squatter was

NOKTA INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
2887 College Ave. 3
Berkeley
CA

I have contacted them - but they want $30k , I think they are counting on PDR standing for physicians desk reference not - Paintless dent repair .... (our industry isn't as wealthy as the doctors) .. the squatter couldn't even reason out their value - although I reasoned them our offer (10k).

- but yeah its frustrating ...

- I did have some success recently buying Hail.org from a individual... but hail.com (currently a not updated in 10 years) website about hail technology... he seemed intent on teaching me a lesson about something, (just a pissed off out dated old computer nerd..the kind that hate the 'new blood')
Google Wave Invites for Sale on eBay
Chakra Alpha 3 released
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_linguistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescriptive_linguistics

For the record, I generally lament the "flattening" of language. However, I still find myself pulled by the current. Examples: I no longer care to avoid splitting infinitives; I say "could have went" now and then.

Ultimately, we might suppose one need only concern oneself with two goals: (1) communicating what one intends to communicate, and (2) making a satisfactory impression upon others on account of one's speech/writing.

Use "common" language to achieve the former; use "correct" language to achieve both.
"Being a dick is a clever strategy if you want attention."

Imma let you finish, but BEYONCE HAD THE BEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME.
One thing that works in Wave's favor is that waves are stored on the server that sent them, not the server that received them. This means that when a server (or user on a server) is disconnected for spamming, the waves they originated disappear from everyone's inbox.

How individual servers deal with malicious users and the disconnection/deletion process remains to be seen.

Also to be determined is what happens when spam content is added to a legitimate public wave. Presumably anyone else with access to that wave would have the ability to remove it (thus affecting everyone else on the wave as well) - this could be done by a bot.
For all-in-one systems, though, the confusion can't exist. :)
You don't. Consider this: In W07, there were ~12 teams accepted IIRC. We didn't have videos or HN.

There are now > 20 teams selected. Without being active on HN, you still have the same chance as before, but those that are posting intelligently to HN are getting a boost.
> correlating success with people is a better metric than correlating with money

Sure, I agree. I did that

> The article blurbed something about exercise and a strong body

You mis-understood or I did not communicate properly my sentance I said "Exercise myself to the highest potential". I meant exercise in the sense or work to my fullest potential. "blurbed" seems like a bit of an unnecessarily argumentative phrase.

> As soon as you put the more or less words before successful you lost the game

Hmm, I think you view a lack of success is a negative thing, where as I view degrees of success as a way of something to achieve. If you just think you are success and have nothing to achieve then that is fine. It personally drives me. None of my metrics were particularly materialistic

Any way this is just my opinion, I am not trying to impose it on you
Anything is better than the restful authentication plugin! I haven't looked at clearance enough to be able to fairly compare/contrast it to authlogic (my current favorite), but it certainly looks promising.

The restful authentication plug, on the other hand, is nasty. When you hear people talk about the evils of code generation, restful auth is the kind of thing they're talking about.

What do I mean by that? The generators that come with Rails are (IMHO) good. They generate a very minimalistic skeletal structure. What they generate is small, easily understood, and easy added to/replaced by your own code as you go. All the complex gnarly pieces are in the Rails libraries, where they belong, not in the generated code. The built in Rails generators are basically the command-line equivalent of the "new class" type wizards that come with most IDE's

Restful authentication, on the other hand, comes with generators that spew out massive amounts of generated code. It's not scaffolding, it's a mass one way dump of autogenerated code.

Functionality that should be in a nice library where it can be easily upgrade with each new version of the framework is instead spewed out in generated model and controller code. You will then have to modify this generated code for all but the most trivial uses of restful auth, thereby ensuring you'll never have a clean way of upgrading your app to a new version of restful auth. Meaning that if there are security fixes in a newer version of restful auth, you're gonna have to be responsible to merge them into your code manually.
It all depends if its a professional squatter or not.

A domain I wanted was once held by an amateur squatter. I made a decent offer, she counter-offered way too high, I declined. Thinking nobody would buy it if I wouldn't, she let it expire. I snatched it up for $10.
Making Healthcare more Efficient Simply Leads to Lower Revenues
Thanks for asking for clarification; it seems many have totally missed the point of this.

For okcupid to employ such a method, they must then be making assumption #4. However, people do not know what they want generally - and this ignorance covers what type of person would be an ideal mate for themselves. So answering questions posed about how you would want your ideal mate to answer a question, is as I pointed out, as foolhardy an exercise as asking one to construct the mind of their ideal mate neuron by neuron.

Furthermore, the people who use dating sites are just as ignorant as the rest of us about what their ideal mate might be like, or they have rejected the notion of an "ideal mate" altogether due to frustrating past experiences.
I'm afraid they have. There are lots of people, especially older people, who have managed to gain just exactly the knowledge they need to do their jobs with a computer - at least, when nothing unexpected happens.
The “Girth-Wealth” Gradient: the poorer you are the fatter you're likely to be
This is my new favorite method for bookmarking

174.132.255.106 hn

Now I just have to write a start that runs at boot to convert a "www.google.com g" file into "64.233.169.147 g"

Neat
Well played. He was one of the examples I had in mind.
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Looking for a partner
Hey All.

A few months ago I set out to build fisie.com. It is a job board similar to an elance.com, but strictly for people looking for higher end graphic design needs. It was created for a few reasons, but most importantly being that I found the bigger job board sites overwhelmed by programming shops or pump and dump graphic designers.

That being said - when I started the project my situation was different and I had a lot more time on my hands. At this point I don't and I am looking for a partner who can come and take what I have built and run with it. I am 100 percent not trying to shoot for the moon, but feel with a striving community it could be a nice little site.

If anyone is in a position or looking for a fun project, shoot me an email at parkernewman@gmail.com.

Thanks all.
I think a good rule of thumb is to do what feels natural rather than forced. For example, I comment on HN just as I've always done on TechCrunch. My team plans to submit an application because it seems a natural step for us. In fact, we feel our project fills a natural need, and would be going full steam ahead with or without YC.
We get it, you're the smartest person in the room, you know the definition of irony, you are not Alanis Morissette.
Yeah, instead of the content rendering in the user's browser, it will render in the user's browser.

Wait, what?
Evaluating sales reps: results vs effort
For some time it was floppy disk drive.
Notice that nobody has given you feedback on anything important, only on the extremely traditional color scheme.

Never post code-related articles when the Mac users are awake.

(BTW, I do have one actual comment -- why not delete the rxvt-unicode code that you are not using? libev, for example.)
How so. In most schema-free db's the missing alter table feature is not needed. maybe you meant the quotes to be in a different place? missing "alter table problem" perhaps?
Entrepreneurs work harder because they believe it will get them more money. But if you dislike that example, consider traders, lawyers or salespeople (all of whom work for "some chunk of change someone else will give them"). Do incentives fail with those professions after a few years?

As for "what will teachers do" after 6 years, they can either continue to perform well or find a new job (just like a trader or salesman). The purpose of school is education, not jobs for liberal arts grads.
The underlying problem is really a money shortage. Pu-238 is a man-made isotope, and we have the capability to make more - just not the budget in the near future.
Probably for the same reason that seatbelts had delayed adoption by motor companies. Money. Also, I don't think that they knew how to make cars that had different crumple zones.
So far it sounds more as if someone came to you with "newly-discovered" bubblesort algorithm, you said "uh nice" and proceeded using quciksort, then got sued.
I was in the same situation and then I watched the video, which explains Wave quite well. Seriously, watch the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pgxLaDdQw
Zipcar iPhone App Makes Car-Sharing Better (If You Don't Abuse Remote Honking)
I use that analogy also. It really helps users to understand how memory and hard drive space are two different things.

I can't tell you how many times I've had users tell me that they got some variety of out of memory error, then immediately start describing how they tried to delete stuff from their hard drive to fix it. :-)
Yep I used Rails with jQuery on the front end. Linode + rails + phusion passenger = sweet sweet deployment. I might move to heroku though, which also has sweet sweet deployment and would be free.
You'd be surprised at the number of small-scale acquisitions that occur after a casual mention or demonstration of a site.
Several other people have commented on resume functionality, but what I'd like to see is a targeted resume builder -- one where you can list the sum total of all your skills and experience, tag each line item with specific job categories, and then use that to build targeted resumes aimed at specific markets.

I've never seen a site with that feature.
Don't get me wrong - this is really cool, and looks great. But...

The problem I think is that this stagnates Hacker News in many ways. I don't see an easy way from that page to upvote something.

One thing I note is the lack of a downvote makes me actually think about giving a bump to something. But if I am required to click through something 3 or 4 times I'm not going to bother doing so.

Without a clear way for people to upvote articles, but with a simpler interface to see articles, you're going to change the dynamics of articles moving up and down on the actual feed. Which is probably not what you're aiming for...
In this case your "set goal" is to match/surpass your peers.
Wanted - Home Computers to Join in Research on Artificial Life
I've had a squatter insist that a domain was worth $10,500 just because it's "search terms" yielded a paltry 65,000 results....
Thanks for the clarification! Most people have learned that sarcasm doesn't work in print, hence the <sarcasm> tag, so I assumed it was genuine. It was just such a striking comment - contradictory opinions showing faith in humanity.
That's something we're definitely considering. One idea that we've been noodling on is to add a downloadable app that managed all your storage and had a simple http rest api. Then in the extension, you could optionally point to that instead of the internal storage mechanism.

That would provide some internal benefits of being able to use a beefier storage backend decoupled from the browser. Users then could run the app locally on their computer, or on their own server somewhere, or potentially as part of a cloud storage service.
That was my understanding as well; that it would effectively work just like GChat (where spam certainly exists, but is a trivial problem).

TFAuthor dismissed that as a non-option, because it would make Wave unsuitable for collecting unsolicited feedback and sales contacts.

But it seems to me that a single Wave account that auto-whitelisted contact attempts would solve that problem at the cost of reintroducing some capacity to spam, but at a vastly reduced level.

Simply applying existing tools and leveraging the other benefits of Wave over SMTP would seem to seriously marginalize spam as a concern.
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Sure it can. Where's my computer? All I can find is the monitor, but I know the computer is here somewhere because I can see my programs on the monitor.
Is Google using that 9x% market share (in search engines) to decimate competition in other markets based solely on the tying occurring in the original market (i.e., what Microsoft was actually convicted of doing)? No.
You're not alone. I scan the list of top stories, open new tabs in my browser alternating between source and comments, as many as 10 at a time. I always scan the source first for context but, like others here, generally find that the comments are more interesting.
The splitting of infinitives admonition was created, artificially, by a prescriptivist who had studied too much Latin and thought that languages ought to reflect their heritage. It wasn't a prevalent conception until the 1800s; Shakespeare even split infinitives (once.)
uggh. That's a bug. We'll fix it in the next update. We don't change the default throbber; not sure what might be going on with that but I'll take a look.
From what I can infer, PG is much more interested in the person/team than the idea; the implementation is the hard part. Given that PG has implied in the past that Hacker News was written to help YC, this doesn't seem an unreasonable approach since they're honest about the matter.
Thanks!

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On the off chance that someone sees this:
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It would be very appreciated!
Oops, just restarted the server. Incidentally, the server will be down at some point in the coming few days because I'm moving.
Developers were still in high demand after the year 2000.
One good example of that would be Pandora. I only found out few months ago through amazing venture voice podcast that the idea was conceived about a decade ago.
please :)
collintmiller@gmail.com
thank you
"Rocky Mountain Bank, working with Google (through court order), confirmed on Thursday of last week that the e-mail containing client information was never opened and has now been permanently destroyed by Google's system," Tina Martinez, general counsel for Rocky Mountain Capital, wrote in an e-mail response to questions.
"As a result, no customer data of any sort has been viewed or used by any inappropriate user during this data lapse," Martinez wrote

So basically they got unbelievably lucky. It doesn't change the fact that Google was prepared to bust down this guy's virtual door because someone said they accidentally slipped some data in his mail-slot.

It's still all very troubling.
Google Wave Invites Are Still Coming … In a Few Hours
that's leaky and calls for:

ServerSignature Off

ServerTokens Prod
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Do not do this. I tried this route and still got rejected. All it resulted in was me wasting time trying to find articles to submit and/or comment on. Better to just work on your idea and assume you'll get rejected either way.

Absolutely do not waste time in order to support your YC application. Work on your startup instead.
Does it bother you that it's not optimal? It doesn't bother the people who do it. I think breaking things on purpose just to stop a behavior that's not harmful is unwise.
Please send me an invite. Thank you!

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I think they make a great point on not starting a startup for the sake of Y Combinator.

To be honest I almost fell into that pitfall. But from my perspective it's also hard to not focus on the application so much. Because I'm a college student, I haven't had a job, I don't have much money, and I'll be forced to balance school with the project if I don't get into something like Y Combinator.

So putting effort into the application now can mean more time to focus on the product later if I'm accepted. So while Y Combinator can be an accelerator, I think it can also be a great initiator too in that it can give someone like me the first opportunity in my life to work full time on a passionate project without any other priorities.
From a "squatter-like" perspective:

I have domains that I don't use. People have contacted me, made a decent offer, and I've sold the domain to them. So, if it looks like the domain is held by someone who just isn't using it (like me), then you may be able to make a reasonable offer.
Beware the temptation to do anything just to look smart for your YC application, (or life). As beneficial as I think YC is, it's not magic pixie dust, and you're in just as bad of shape if you get in on false pretenses.

The reason why some people succeed, even when everyone tells them they're wrong, is they do something they believe in. Everything else is secondary.
I work for a very large bank, we secure our sensitive communications with PGP. Part of my job involves communicating sensitive information with other very large banks which also take encryption seriously. I suspect that the bank in the article is the exception, rather than the rule.
This Wikipedia article says there is only one case of Shakespeare splitting an infinitive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive#Modern_English

The same article seems to suggest that it has both come into and gone out of fashion over the last few centuries. I feel consoled by the examples given where avoiding the split would introduce potentially different meanings than the one originally intended.
Though I hate social engineering taxes, the easy way to fix the regressive nature of the fat tax would be to cut a cheque to every person legally living in the country. While the poor now have to pay, say, $1000 more per year they are also cut a cheque worth $1100, giving them real choice between healthy and nonheathly.
Micro-Build Systems and the Death of a Prominent DSL
I'd say it was a humorous (if a bit sarcastic) one-line summary of a post to save people time. Cheers!
Basically, I feel like I have to...

Geez, I can't imagine a worse way for an aspiring achiever start any sentence. Get one thing straight: you don't have to do anything. The prizes (whatever they are) go to those with positive mental attitude and fierce determination. I imagine that for yc, like most other things worth doing, that's half the battle.

FWIW, this may be the best community on the internet for passionate hackers. If you feel like you have to contribute, please don't. If, OTOH, you want to be a part of something that can help you (and others) in ways you can't even imagine right now, welcome aboard.
Link is just a Times landing page; here's the real article: http://www.slate.com/id/2229523/pagenum/all/
It was worth it just for the discovery of this legal principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry
Careful writers teach readers to read carefully. Careless writers teach readers to read carelessly. If your writing is full of confusing constructions which, on examination, prove to be sloppy prose, then your readers will start to error-correct everything they read to match their expectations of what you're trying to say. If you say anything interesting, clever, or unexpected, they're likely to skim right over it and miss your meaning.
Please send me a google wave invite.

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Thank you!!!
Her focus on earning money definitely detracts from the overall call to strive for the life one desires independently and to encourage development of oneself beyond relationships, but I am grateful for her bluntness in addressing these issues.
It's almost certainly more return on less effort to just find a new employer.

Or perhaps it just feels that way to me, because I really detest environments where one must start paperwork fights with bureaucrats just to get things done.
p.s. thanks once more but I hope you won't need to use the site again
What do they think that the box under the desk is for?

What do you think the thing hanging down the back of your throat is for?
Great, I would love an invite.
Many thanks and thanks for sharing:

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Ask HN: How do you keep track of progress?
I have a couple of products in the works, multiple pilots with customers, and 2 or 3 research projects happening at the same time all with about 6 people. I am wondering how you keep track of progress of your efforts and where they are?
I guess I'll join the mob.
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Thanks to those that are willing to share.
Please send me one!

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What I cannot understand at all is why I'm able to install any kind of software on my mackbook and why I can't do this on my iPhone. It's just absurd.
How does this compare to using a Spread based solution, if you've had a chance to play with alternatives?
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Italy 2006, Brazil 2002, France 1998, Brazil 1994, Germany 1990, Argentina 1986....

The end results do seem to favor the best teams.

The only people who don't recognize that are England fans, who routinely overestimate their team anyway.
LoseThos Operating System V5.14 Released
But this is their problem. I should be able to use any kind of software in my iPhone.
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Although a core part of Gmail's business case is the context-sensitive ads - they really do read every mail you receive and send.