skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She could have avoided all of this by spending more than $1/day in business expenses, thus earning no income from her blogging 'business'.
Your inter-process service broker is called "MySQL".

This may not be the best architecture.
Michael Arrington, Anne Wojcicki, Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin. All were business co-founders.

You see business guy founder's companies regularly on techcrunch, how often do you bother to look into the background of founders on news stories ?
If you have to ask a bunch of strangers if it's worth your time, then chances are that it is.

[Edit to add some clarification]

There aren't many cases where getting a college degree isn't advantageous. Those few cases are if you already have a strong idea of what you want / need to do, and have the drive to get there. If you don't have either of those things driving you away from college, then going to college is likely going to be the most advantageous route for you.
That is an awesome idea. I'm going to start doing that.
There is a pretty decent program out there to teach you to copy Morse Code quickly. I can't remember the name of it but it was DOS based so very light-weight. I had to learn to copy 20WPM with 96% accuracy back-to-back. The highest I'd been able to accurately get was 32.
I had intended to delete it, not edit it.

Not too long ago, I had an unpleasant situation in which I was locked from editing my own comment. That's why I don't have much confidence in the edit feature. I hadn't realized how the delete feature also sucked until this thread.
You seem to be talking about XCode and the interface designer, not Objective-C; as far as I can tell, there's no reason they couldn't have nice tools and use another language besides Objective-C (I'm not advocating for that, just stating a point).
There are several iPhone apps linked to twitter that notify users that they are about to tweet such and such. If you do this, make it easy to decline and continue to play. You will lose some of the viral aspect, but you will satisfy the HN crowd.

To gain back virality let players gain points or money or whatever on a per tweet basis. I'm sure you already do this.

Which brings me to my next point..I don't know if you do this, because I signed up and tried to play and I had no idea what to do. Granted, I'm probably not your target audience, because I've never played these types of games (Mob Wars, Youville, etc.)

Basically, you've got to boil it down either on the splash page, or the initial load (maybe with a modal popup), if you want inexperienced users, who don't have hours to investigate, to play.
Public benefits discourage work, film at eleven. The shocker for me is that New York City will pay you unemployment benefits to move to St. Louis and take the bar exam for Missouri.
The best writing advice I've ever heard can be summed up more or less by the following:

Just do it. Don't worry about creating that perfect sentence or finding that word that perfectly expresses what you're feeling or setting up the perfect introduction. Just start putting the words to paper, even if it's complete gibberish. Don't labor under enormous expectations, don't worry about the end result, don't think about whether it sucks or not, just keep letting one word flow after the other. You can go back and correct the hell out of it later, purge everything except that one perfect paragraph, but before you get there you need to write and write and write. Preferably every day. They say every writer has 1 million bad words in them, and you have to get them all out before you can write anything worthwhile. So just write write write, and worry about the other stuff later.
If you put your email and what you're looking for in your profile, some of those people might come to you. HN is a good filter.
Certain crimes of passion don't occur, or don't cause as much damage when no weapons are readily accessible.
I'd mention jabber in contrast to the email :D
I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis.

Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings.

http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja...
Amen. The most annoying 'feature' on my iPhone is auto-rotate. I'll be driving along in my car with my iPhone being used as my iPod, and every time I lay the device down it goes into landscape and I need to put it back when I want to change a song.
Yeah, I understand that. But I don't have any of the problems you're describing above, with my Debian + GNOME setup. I know others aren't so fortunate, though, so it depends on what hardware you're running it on. And to be fair, the system definitely did take a little more low-level initial configuration, like compiling the binary nVidia drivers manually.
What you get out will be based on what you put in. If your coursework isn't working for you, find different courses or find a faculty member to advise you on independent projects or research (for credit or not). Audit upper-level or graduate courses. Talk to professors and grad students outside of class to learn about their research. Attend talks and conferences. This is more work for you, but it sounds like it's what you want.

College is also a great place to do programming or business projects in your free time, and to find other people to do them with. You may never have as easy a time meeting new people or spending time on personal projects as you do right now. It might cut into your partying and fraternity activities, but dropping out to join the workforce would do that too.

Opportunities will be hard to find at first, and you have to expect some amount of rejection. Keep in mind that your coursework will become more self-directed and interesting with each new year of school. Some opportunities that are closed to you now will be open later if you make sure you're aware and ready for them.

As long as you're not planning to go to grad school, and not in danger of failing, ignore your grades and instead optimize your learning. For the first time in your life, GPA might not matter ever again. Grades can be useful feedback for you, but remember that in ten years no one will care if you got a C- in freshman chemistry. (Some job applications do ask for your GPA, but in the startup world this is rare.) Regardless of how it affects your grades, spend more time on the lectures/homework/reading/activities that actually teach you things and less on busywork or stuff you already know. It's your responsibility to decide whether it's better to skip lecture and learn the material on your own.
The numbers matter. The issue here is this: everybody isn't equal, we're all unique. Some people work hard, are more intelligent, and contribute more to society. Some people are of higher value, depending on your metrics. So a murderer (who takes from society) has less worth than a scientist whose research creates new technologies that aid society. Everyone should have equal 'rights', but everyone is not equal however.

The problem here is that you cannot know the value of this one individual vs the five. People aren't a set of bricks, all manufactured to be the same size and from the same material. Saving five people vs one is a guess -- you can be wrong and save a group of people who contribute nothing and kill the man who does. But the numbers still apply because one man cannot be worth more than thousands for example -- and I think part of this experiment was to find out what your threshold for this was.
CSSEdit is a Godsend. Also, using Compass = pure win. I use it for all of my projects nowadays.
your time is as valuable as you make it. why aren't you following your passion by getting your degree in it? if you are and you just think the classes are boring, its probably because they are. the first year or two tend to be filter classes to pull out the people who don't really want or deserve to be there.

college isn't necessarily just a place to learn about things and party/drink. there are other things you can do that will do more than just expand your knowledge and liver. try new things and use your time to grow yourself as a person. college turned me into a different person.

will a degree or two benefit you? yes, definitely. but not as much as is typically advertised, and not in the standard ways people tend to think.

beyond that, why can't you continue to pursue your passion of technology and business while getting your degree? there are a ton of people who've used the free time they have in college to start companies and do interesting things.
Unemployment benefits 'pay' you to look for work. That is all. Also, they are payed by the state you worked in, not the city.
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Actually I know amazingly well what I'm doing with CSS. I've been wrangling CSS since IE4/NS4. The reason we have so much CSS is because the site was not originally designed by a web designer. It was designed page by page by a graphic designer. We have 125 controllers and over 300 templates, plus several dozen static pages. Many of these pages have custom layouts and typography.

The reason we have 5000 lines of well-organized CSS instead of 10000 lines of poorly-organized CSS is thanks to some heavy refactoring that we have done after most of the pages had been built. Don't underestimate the cost of building a unique brand. We can't all get by on 37signals style.
Heck, I think most programmers misunderstand SSL. The other day, a senior developer I work with asked me which HTTP header the SSL certificate is sent through...
College is a great chance to network. Get to know people with similar goals as your own. Get to know your classmates, this is where you will meet your future co-founders. You will get out of college what you put into it, if you want to party and have fun pledge a fraternity and party all of the time. If you want to get more out of the experience, you can. It's what you put into it, you choose where to spend your time and who to spend it with. Take classes that interest you, not just easy classes to complete the requirements. Then, get involved in extra-curricular activities, there must be clubs that focus on business or entrepreneurship. Get in them, or found them if they do not exist. Push yourself, this is a once in a lifetime chance to grow without the different expectations and responsibilities that life puts on you as you get older.

If having a startup is your dream, then now is your best opportunity to find your co-founders. Get to work!
I always like seeing this attitude:

Before commercialization is possible, a refinement method will need to be developed to increase the VF.... This discovery is being released into the public domain without patent protection in order to encourage additional research.
Do people cite journals anymore or is that too 20th-century?

Who did this work, where, and how? The tendency to use the passive voice has always been a bit annoying, but here's it's criminal:

This discovery is being released into the public domain without patent protection in order to encourage additional research.

Released by whom? By one E. Joe Eck, working alone in his basement with no funding, no students, no assistants, no institutional support, and exactly one reference to earlier literature? Citations please.
Deadweight: http://github.com/aanand/deadweight/ might be what you're looking for.
Thanks. Actually this technology is revolutionary, I have been following it for sometime. I think you got a very good investment, but some patience will be needed as well. The team at nabsys looks impressive.
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I've been juggling for a few years now and find it both useful for zoning out and thinking about tough problems, and intrinsically satisfying - it's a great feeling to nail a new trick for the first time.

For anyone interested in learning I found this video site extremely helpful:

http://homepage.mac.com/abramr/juggling/tutorial/category/in...

Takes you from complete beginner to covering loads of 3 ball tricks, and onto 4 and 5 ball if you are so inclined. Has side by side full speed and slow motion videos.

The mathematical structure behind juggling patterns is quite interesting - various notations have been developed including siteswap:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap
Great, 18M pixels, but how are you going to get enough photons per second through the tiny cell phone lens to keep the signal to noise ratio up?

Maybe we will have to carry phone tripods and use 5 second shutter times, or we could use giant pans of flash powder to make really bright flashes.
In my experience, the trickiness mostly comes down to disagreements over definitions.
Lots of times the overnight success doesn't really understand why he succeeded and is tempted to toss out platitudes he's hears somewhere else.

Someone who has failed once has probably spent years analyzing why.and can save people faced with same decisions from making a fatal mistake.
"Don't underestimate the cost of building a unique brand. We can't all get by on 37signals style."

WTH does this mean in this context? Not being snarky; I can't figure it out for the life of me.
Really? I'd have said Johnstone was the last person to turn improv into "rules and analysis". In fact, that's the opposite of what he's known for.

The book is as much about life in general as it is about theatre. But it's really just the first half that's great. The second half, about trance and maskwork, seems like it ought to be more interesting than it is.
I use sass/compass everyday, changed the way I write CSS.
I work on a giant Rails site that has over well over 5,000 lines of CSS – when you are working on custom promotions, dozens of dynamic pages, and accounting for user generated content the CSS files get long.
Which Agile Methodology Do You Use?
What if you don't hate anyone?

Edit: Oh wait, I hate the Fox News staff, I forgot. Never mind..
I don't know. I just see $120 - $180 men's pants as too high to shake up the market or even be on zappo's level. I dig what these guys are doing, but I feel "niche online retailer" is their ultimate evolution.
Just because you say so doesn't make it true. Not all crimes with weapons are premeditated a day in advance. If someone brings a knife to school every day, they'll almost definitely have that knife available when a fight arises, whereas if they don't habitually bring a knife, they may not.

Also, I suspect that such zero-tolerance policies are popular among the majority of parents, to whom the other kid is generally the frightening one, and whose own wouldn't hurt a fly.
I still don't get the point of storing everything on the cloud. Yeah, storing a full copy just in case you lose your phone or get a new one, that's a great idea. But storing everything, even photos, that's kinda stupid. Nobody told them to use the cloud responsibly? It's not like having "thin clients", but having "in-mobility" clients.
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Did you think it was unclear?

I found it very clear.
Easily millions. If you said > 1 billion, I think you'd still be in the clear.

We're working on middle-size end user software and we have millions of C++ lines of code. So I can only imagine how many lines of code Apple has riding on Objective-C.
I haven't, though I haven't had the need for one either. But if they exist and they're decent, you don't think I would find them if I researched for a git host?

I don't argue with you that freemium works in the short and probably medium term, and it's great advertising. You have a great service going, and I think in your case, you build a lot of good will among developers hosting public code for free. But in the long run, in the general case, and assuming no network effects, I think there's a way to undercut such business models by focusing 100% on the paying customers.
Starf Leet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QyqAglaojY (second clip)
What if Microsoft and Danger #Cloudfail turns out to be a #SANfail?
You're right, it's almost enough to push one into jailbreaking. But I think I'd prefer to run a supported configuration. Computers shouldn't be unnecessarily exciting.
An interesting article (and blog) but I'm amused by the fact that their https certificate is invalid :)
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That's not simple at all. One man's spam is another man's ham. In games where these things are asked for specifically before playing, many people leave them on.

In our game you can turn them off on the options page. We don't make that clear enough, and there's one Tweet that cannot be prevented. We're fixing that.
As Ben Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
Yeah, we're fixing that.
this industry is embronic and more innovation will occur. I love the cloud market very compelling and important for entrepreneurs and big businesses.

We will all be renting computing and storage in the short future.
Its just hard because I have to do 2 years of general education classes. I would love to enroll in upper division classes but there are so many limitations going against me that it looks like it is impossible. Also the fact that were in a budget crisis makes it even harder for me to enroll in any of the classes that I would like to take.

I will try my hand at a couple projects in the near future. I am surrounded by my peers, and some of the smartest people that can complement my skill set and I plan to take full advantage of that. I haven't been here long but I am also going to go out in search of clubs and organizations with interests the same as my own. Who knows maybe I'll even found my own.

It looks like it comes down to time. I have to give it time to start taking classes that relate to my career. Right now it feels like a continuation of high school, but I can see that further down the line that will change. I guess its just frustrating going through this mundane cycle of freshman college life. Maybe its the perfect time to start my side project.
The nanny state in action. What a waste of time and resources.
NYC has extremely generous benefits for people it classifies as "in poverty"; subsidized housing (section 8 vouchers, projects) and various other forms of public assistance. A person earning $26137 probably has a far higher income if you count all this.
This reads like a new brand of pants you can only buy online, not an online pants warehouse of massive selection.
To be fair, serious violence in most American schools is rare, too. There's a study linked from the article commissioned by the US Department of Justice: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/iscs08.htm

One telling statistic that it provides is that during the '05-'06 school year, there was an average of one "serious violent crime" experienced per 1000 public school students (defined as "rape or attempted rape, sexual battery other than rape, physical attack or fight with a weapon, threat of physical attack with a weapon, and robbery with or without a weapon." -- and you can bet that "threat of physical attack" and "physical attack or fight" is fairly loosely defined.)

1 in 1000 per year is satisfactory, if you ask me. I don't think you can do much better than that among the population as a whole without sacrificing a ton more privacy and freedom.
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Not so much a defense, just the rationale behind it. It seems like most people who play Twitter games don't mind, and thus don't consider it spam.

But a better approach (that we'll probably have live within the hour) would be to have it able to be opted out of beforehand. That way people like yourself who might consider it spam can simply not have it, but still play the game.
It annoys me to no end when the SSL/TLS connection is hidden behind a click. Joe user is asked -- taught -- to trust an http page without knowing what protocol the resulting request will use nor whether the recipient is verified.

I set the browser to notify when transitioning from https to http. Then I try to force a site to give me an https connection before I start entering sensitive data. If the browser pops a protocol transition warning, I back out.

It also annoys me when an https delivered page in turn pulls in http content. This breaks the security of the entire rendered page. Having the user check for the https protocol in the address bar is not sufficient.

It seems to me that the basic concepts involved are not that difficult (leaving out the math). Don't start communicating until you know the "channel" is secure and the other endpoint is verified. Verification is accomplished through a chain of trust. Pages are composed of multiple pieces. If any piece/participant in the channel comes from an unsecured or unverified source, you must treat the channel as compromised.

But no browser presents them in a clear and meaningful fashion, with enough context to describe plainly to the average user what is going on.
It's not that hard to see foreign films in the US (at least if you lie in a major city, or use Netflix), but I'm happy about the open subtitling because this job normally falls to the distributor of a film and subtitling is an expensive process, usually adding $10,000 or so to the cost of release.
This is precisely why I haven't left feedback for a lot of sites using this service. When I go to leave feedback, I almost consider it a favor to the company (time is money, right?) but as soon as I hit that login/create an account form I bounce.
It's certainly easier to ask forgiveness than permission, but as the lady in the story is a lawyer, any failure to do so could result in her disbarment if it emerged later.
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I don't think MacRuby is really a second thought. I mean, I haven't personally done anything with it, as I like Objective C as well as Ruby, but I've only heard that the integration is absolutely stellar.
Multithreading is never easy. Even in Erlang, you have race conditions.
Your office: At home, in a tent, or something more formal
Correct. They make their own pants.
Well, either he's got a Nobel in Physics coming his way or he's going to look pretty silly.

Not much standing room in between there.
Holding out great hope! Still learning Objective-C and Cocoa for iPhone development, however as soon as MacRuby surfaces, I'll be switching to it in a heartbeat :-)
There's a slight problem with the "google the problem, find a patch and apply it": if you can't read and understand the patch, you're in no better (and probably worse) shape than you were before, security-wise.

In some ways having a late patch from a trusted source is better than a quick one from some random place on the net. The best would be quick, trusted patches, of course. A GPG-style web of trust validation of patches, maybe?
I also think 120$ for pants is a bit steep.
Especially when you consider the other 10$ you have to spend for hemming.

Men hate shopping yes. But Men hate being measured by a tailor more than shopping and driving to the tailor, then driving back in 2 weeks for pants.
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Mozilla's metrics guru, Ken Kovash and Steven ("Freakonomics") Levitt compile statistics and explore minimax play in Football and Baseball showing interesting correlations in choices that can cost teams wins.
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