skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used vim to edit a config file here or there for four years of college. I always hated it. I just couldn't wrap my head around command vs insert mode. Since I never edited more than a few lines at a time, I never really learned it. I thought it was just a stupid idea. Then, about 9 months ago, it clicked. I started loving it. Now, you couldn't pry it from my cold, dead, Python editing fingers. (Although, I still contest that IDEA/Resharper are far superior for Java/C#)
Here you are:
http://www.ece.cornell.edu/ugradhndbk/#CommonCurriculum
http://www.ee.duke.edu/undergrad-education
http://www.ele.uri.edu/ugprog/computer/curriculum/

Computer Engineering (CE) also sometimes at some institutions goes by the name of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). My hunch is they are the one and the same.
I'm having trouble discerning what the meaning of "launching" is when most people talk about it. Is it as simple as deploying something to a production server? Or trying to get one more feature in that initial release? Either way, there is no excuse for soft launching now if you have any working code.
I can tell you as a hirer I would most likely not seriously consider your resume. You might think that is unwise, but you clearly don't know what it's like to wade through a pile of crap from people who are obviously just spamming every job opening they can find, trying to find the few people who are actually reasonable candidates, before even trying to figure out which ones might be any good. Even using a recruiter is of limited use -- you can give them criteria, but they often just don't know to tell the difference between a real programmer and someone who has put "programmer" on a piece of paper.

Three pages, with skills on the third page, is roughly as rude as walking into my office and unplugging my computer.
Yes, you can use calculus/derivatives to value many financial derivatives. However, you can also use calculus to model how much water is in a bathtub that drains a different amount of water depending on how much water is in the bathtub. My point was that financial derivatives weren't named after math derivatives.

Also, to elaborate, if you buy a call and sell a put, you will be betting precisely on the change in the price [of the underlying] because you have created a synthetic stock position (because of Put-Call parity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put%E2%80%93call_parity).
I agree with pretty much everyone else - design is KEY.

Hiring someone like MetaLab seems unrealistic to bootstrapper's - doing it yourself usually leaves a lack confidence (at least for me).

But I don't think you should let design hold you back, if it's useful, people will use it, THEN you can invest your real time / effort / money into making it look better.
You could have deployed code using SCP with Passenger, which is basically Ruby deployed PHP-style and is basically the emerging standard for how Rails apps are deployed. So immediacy seems like a weird reason to take such a step back on languages.

But I mean, do whatever makes sense for you. PHP apps are good for business for us. =)
As an iPhone developer, I desperately want it:

1) It forces Apple to compete for developer mindshare, improving our lot.

2) It provides an open platform that we can begin to support (and possibly migrate most of our mobile development to).

The OS and APIs aren't as nice, but being able to use most JVM-compatible languages is a big win. I've been holding my breath for a while, hoping that Android would gain traction and we could alleviate some of our reliance on Apple's draconian platform. It sounds like this is now happening.
Put in the least amounts of skills that will still land you an interview.

Writing "basic knowledge of Java" adds a lot of credence to "expert in C++".
When I worked in a web design agency, we offered a subscription model where clients paid a yearly or monthly rate to get, say, 2-5 hours per month of minor updates and maintenance work. It was a nice source of recurring revenue for us, and seemed to work well for our clients too.
+1 for non-monetary/intangible benefits. Even my ancient (early 90s) 3 series is an amazing drive, and well worth the disintegrating door panels and various other problems. I've driven a variety of cars, old and new, and this is my favorite so far.

There are some products that, because of attention to detail or other design features, are a pleasure to use, even if their performance on paper is worse.
The one thing all players in the tech industry have in common:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Wr5BYu9ZI&feature=relat...

Nice post! But on HN's behalf, I think there's alot of doers out there on the forum. That's why this is the only forum I truly enjoy.
I was up voted more than I thought. I just wrote a blog post follow up.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=904018
See the footnote. I mentioned passenger.
(tl;dr Science can explain these experiences, but people just don't find the explanations satisfying.)

Many folks, religious or not, believe that many powerful experiences (like love or religion) aren't scientifically explainable. However, I think it's because such explanations aren't emotionally satisfying. Such explanations are usually either proximate (i.e. mechanistic) or ultimate (evolutionary.) and people just don't like that.

To use love as an example:

Proximate explanation: When two individuals have different MHC profiles, they are more likely to smell good and be attracted to each other. This attraction can sometimes lead to sex. After orgasm, the hormone vasopressin is released which causes a warm fuzzing feeling in both partners. After repeated instances of sex, there is a learned association of this nice feeling and being with the other person leading them to hang out with each other a lot.

Ultimate explanation: individuals which pair bond, resulting in biparental care, produce offspring which are more likely to survive to the next generation than those which do not.

But no one likes to think about that when they're snuggling up to their mate.

"Religiosity" isn't so cut and dry as love. The proximate explanation of spirituality is fairly well established by science i.e. religious experiences can be induced artificially with drugs (psychobilin) or electrical stimulation of the brain. The ultimate explanation I think is less convincing than for love. Most evolutionary psychologists consider religion a byproduct of adaptive psychological traits, such as superstitiousness (associating negative events with some cause- it's more costly to fail to learn what causes negative events than to associate unrelated events) and agency (a similar explanation- it's adaptive to assume that most things are caused be agents, i.e. a rustle in the leaves is a hungry predator, not the wind. If we assume it's the wind and it isn't, we're in trouble, but not if it's the other way around.)
Many new motherboards do come with wake-on-usb, and it works great.
You can generally wake up most PCs via a USB human interface device (HID), and there certainly are IR receivers that act as HIDs. Not that I've tried it.
Also, the HP doesn't indicate panel type - which would suggest it's a TN panel.
I'd speculate that they have good reasons for not making the client too smart. For example, they might not have control over all the clients...
Here's a link to the video if you haven't seen it yet:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-paul-buc...

I couldn't find it on justin.tv

Edit: Oops that's not the full video. Does anyone have the full video?
Founders share their do's and don'ts
"that nobody is impressed with much"

Have you been following the news at all? I know many non-technical people (and technical people also) who are absolutely ecstatic about getting a MacBook with the new body. People care about this shit - in fact I'd say it's the minority that does not.

By the way, don't knock the unibody till you use one. My unibody MacBook Pro has got to be the most solid machine I've ever used - handily beats any other laptop on the market, including the venerable classic ThinkPads.
I buy the existence of religious emotions, for instance a sense of wonder and awe when confronted with astronomy or a newborn child.

My problem isn't with religious education (I didn't get one).

My problem is belief in any ideology. Political or religious.

That is, people having certain opinions about how the world is built from internal emotional experiences. Especially when they know that lots of other people have internal emotional experiences which says they are wrong.
Bear in mind that the iMac uses almost exclusively laptop parts, which are more expensive (but have better thermal profiles, and are of course smaller).

The only thing in an iMac that is desktop-sized is I believe the HDD (and maybe the RAM? I'm not sure).
It seems that there may be a use for an ldd-like utility that doesn't actually load the binary, for use by security researchers. Now that I know it makes perfect sense, but intuitively I would have expected ldd to just read the data from the binary directly instead of relying on the system loader.
I can tell you that in Europe, €0.20-0.25/kWh (about US$ 0.30-0.37, ZAR 2.20-2.80) is typical for residential customers.
Where is the wasted energy lost to? If it is lost to heat and you have electric heating in your house, would that lead to a correspondingly lowered heating bill?
There seem to have been some adaptations including central nervous system genes, which may have increased fitness in a hierarchical agricultural society.

For example new versions of serotonin transporters in both Europe and east Asia (such as SLC6A4). There are other neurotransmitter-related changes, also changes in genes that affect brain development. East Asians have a new version of DAB1, a gene involved in the development of the layers of the cerebral cortex, while there is a fairly common new version of NKX2-2 (a brain homeobox gene) in Europeans.

http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-docume...

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
I think this is really key, that people take a step forward together as a group, the first person stumbles and from that point on, you're all running to keep from falling. It's about the momentum you build and also the perception of that momentum that keeps the group's morale up and everyone moving forward.
What about all those paycuts for bankers though? I can't imagine those happening under Bush or McCain. Or are they just cosmetic (I'm not American and not overly familiar
with the details)?
And if you want to automate it, Backupify.com can do regular backups to S3 from Google Docs and other online services. (Note: I have no affiliation except as a customer.)
It's more that I don't feel it's the government's place to tell people that they must wear a seat belt. It's their place to hold car manufacturers to safety standards that make sure their seat belts are effective and safe. It's their place to make it publicly known that wearing a seat belt greatly reduces your risk of injury or death in a collision. Beyond that, I feel very strongly that it is personal responsibility and choice.

When I realized that allowing this freedom could possibly encroach on my freedoms, it became a different issue. And I changed my mind.
Also, the 2007 paper by Hawks et al indicated that evolution had accelerated over the past 10,000 years.

Dec. 10, 2007 - Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up - and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought - indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly different.

"We used a new genomic technology to show that humans are evolving rapidly, and that the pace of change has accelerated a lot in the last 40,000 years, especially since the end of the Ice Age roughly 10,000 years ago," says research team leader Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Utah.

Harpending says there are provocative implications from the study, published online Monday, Dec. 10 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:

"We aren't the same as people even 1,000 or 2,000 years ago," he says, which may explain, for example, part of the difference between Viking invaders and their peaceful Swedish descendants. "The dogma has been these are cultural fluctuations, but almost any Temperament trait you look at is under strong genetic influence."

http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=120607-1
There are too many other factors to consider when looking at the final bill. Next time, use an in-line power use monitor and tell us about it.
I do believe you are correct (I remember the same thing). People use what they have, but being dead from a knife is still dead. I find the rate of various crimes important as opposed to the tools used. Tools can be substituted.
I spend a lot of time modeling and have used genetic algorithms and similar paradigms in the past. They are great -- if you can somewhat narrow down the relevant parameters. If you can't, the search space is insanely large.
The Media Center remotes will wake/sleep your system. Windows Media Center does a fantastic job with sleep, actually. It'll wake up to record, then go back to sleep. If you hit "sleep" while it's recording, it will shut off the video output, then sleep when it's done.
That link is actually the current one on my Debian testing/Squeeze system. Its part of at least reasonably current glibc releases.
Yes, it is statistically significant. But it can't tell the difference between educated people being more often exposed to the ideas of atheism, and being more likely to find them convincing.
Trivia note: "wonk" is a fairly new word, having been coined in the last decade or two if I remember correctly.

It used to stand for WithOut Normal Knowledge, meaning people who had a lot of ideas but not much practical experience. I think lately the definition has broadened to mean just intricately technical.
I wonder how many of these are purchased by hotels, restaurants and other commercial outlets that shouldn't even count directly
Geocities pages going down one by one
Some sites are still up, many are going down.
he could have used that concept for the post text :)
Blogging as a Full Time Career? 
Should catch on, particularly as a home office enterprise.
My guess is something Atom-based, like the EEE Box, would save even more in electricity.
In general I can't disagree. If it makes sense, use it. What always struck me as odd though is the heavy focus on application code deployment.

I mostly work on larger projects, so application updates are usually simply a pull from the repository. It is usually a bigger hassle to get a smooth transition of the database schema, file-system storage or anything else that holds data.
I agree with your second thought. delicious' general search and multi-tag search (http://delicious.com/tag/term1+term2+term3) is so much more useful because it's essentially edited by humans.
That makes more sense :)
Saving on power in the datacenter is one of the worst ways to try to save money, in my experience.

It varies greatly, but $10 million dollars worth of servers, network gear, and storage might cost $25k/mo in power. Shaving 5% or 10% off that bill is practically meaningless. You can save a lot more money in other ways.

Obviously at massive scale (think Google) it's a different story, but for the average small-medium company it's not even worth thinking about until you've gone after everything else.
I don't know what your startup is, but how can having something out there be worse than having nothing out there?
You forgot LiveJournal.
Brian's Brain in Common Lisp with OpenGL viz
In fact, I recently only realised this myself this courtesy of this article (a tutorial on writing obfuscated C :)):

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=38102

It makes perfect sense when you consider the semantics of [], but I never would have thought to try it myself!
Contraptor - open source DIY hardware prototyping
Thanks for this. I didn't have any data other than what I experienced.

With coffee I just feel energized but that energy isn't directed. With good tea (the loose leaf kind) I feel both energized and focused. I could never explain it but the article above might be the reason.
Ask HN: Email for Startups?
We are setting up our Linode as a required step for launch; the DNS A records are propagating now, but I'm staring at the MX records thinking "crap...I don't want to manage a mail server."

I could use GMail For Business (or whatever they call it), but my experience with that is poor. As per standard, they use headers like this:

From: joe@company-name.com\nSender: joe@gmail.com

Unfortunately, the most common email client on the planet, Outlook, will display the Sender field in preference to the From field, so you look pretty unprofessional to Outlook users.

Are there particular hosted providers that people recommend? Or are we really stuck dealing with it ourselves?
I sometimes found myself going to 37signals.com to access my basecamp project, and couldn't find a clear login box anywhere and felt lost and frustrated.
Would you mind pasting the link of one of the blogs? I am interested to see how they are framing the promotion.
The one that gives you the biggest return on invest
per time of the constraint.

ie.

Sales price Raw Materials Margin
Product A 1000 us 200 usd 800
Product B 2000 us 200 usd 1800

so seems like product B is a no brainer right?

But if we consider the time it takes to implement:

Margin Time to Develop Margin / hrs
Product A 800 100 hrs 8 usd / hr
Product B 1800 300 hrs 6 usd / hr

So product A is in fact a better use of your time.

This analysis method is called Throughput Accounting.
From a management philosophy called: Theory of Constraints

Note: This is the same as the my previous comment just used the correct spaces.
beagle board + ssd = really silent.
That may be true. I have not seen what Cake offers in that respect.

For the few rails projects I developed, I used capistrano but for small projects this felt unrewarding. Tangentially (to git pulls), I did notice that PHP developers favor SVN to git, which I don't like as much.
Young entrepreneurs get tips from Facebook-Twitter at Y Combinator
I understand the point here, but I think the quality would go down. I actively want to share great articles on here. If I were limited to only 1 thing a day, there are a lot of things that just would never end up here. You may be able to say: "oh, but someone else will find it." For really obscure articles, this probably isn't true.

Apply this to those under a certain Karma threshold and you might be on to something.
That is the max. it actually slurps about 35W under load

edit: and then you need a display of some kind ;)
I'm looking for it too. That part seems to be missing from justin.tv.
More generally, I think that we don't have a good mental model of how Google is searching. It used to be straightforward, almost like Git, which won't make any "clever" merges. Google, as a tool, is on the decline because it's not comprehensible (even to us advanced users!).
Pretty brilliant, really. Google doesn't want to be the gatekeeper, but they don't want anyone else to be the gatekeeper either.
As much as i would like to say its this little defect, that minor defect or "i need to do abit more market research", its pretty much what tawheed said, fear that what i built isnt good enough, there are things that i didnt think of that will make it crash, people wont like it.Im over it now though, we are at our final week and regardless we gonna launch real soon
Google seems to be applying that strategy across several of its more-puzzling projects. E.g. Android, Chrome, Chrome OS
Like bemmu says, I don't remember where to log. If it's well-known site, I can live with it. If it's a new application that I just want to try, I just know that I will forget where to go.
> The internet is a natural monopoly, a very critical one, and just like water / sewer, gas, electric, etc. it must have some regulation to prevent negative externalities to society.

I've heard this argument before. Personally, I'm terrified of the internet being run as well as the local electric or gas company.
You Can Tell Who Will Succeed Based on Their Speed of Implementation
Originally, a Google search for some Linux-related terminology would lead to an LKML post or white paper where that technology was explained. Now, most of my searches lead to dozens of user-oriented self-help forums where the questions are never answered. Finding information on actual development now requires knowing which sites/lists to search (like LKML, alsa-devel, kernel subsystem maintainer sites, etc.).
"Sign up" is two words.

After three sites, I was told I needed to upgrade. Clicking said link did nothing. But can still add sites by going to http://nimbu.net/addresses/new; an error is presented, but the site is added anyway.

Calling redirects failed is problematic; for example, try monitoring http://www.google.com/ The non-US pingers will always fail due to country redirects. And http://www.google.com/ncr won't work either, because it always redirects.
That's good news :) Good luck.
Simple for me. I am not done yet...

Sorry if that was too inappropriate for a serious topic.

What stopped me in the past was always the design/look of the site.
Have you considered medical research?
My cofounder is Canadian, how do I get him into the US?
My cofounder is a Canadian citizen and he lacks US permanent residency. What's the easiest way to get him here? Can startups sponsor foreign nationals?
Being concerned that "the post makes me sound like a douche" by definition places you outside the douche set.
One feature I use a lot from google is the cache, just to avoid websense at work.
Please change your title, because it comes off douchey and someone who wanted to go, IS building something, and didn't get in may take it the wrong way. PG+ co know why people didn't get in, so making assumptions about it isn't a good thing.

Those who attended are either doers/want to do something. The audience included a lot of people who want to do startups, not just those who have done it before. The purpose of SUS according to the website/general vibe seemed to be: "If you're thinking about a startup, then starting doing it".
While I agree that for those numbers, 5% to 10% savings isn't worth the effort, this isn't a good reason to dismiss saving by reducing data center power. Nissan recently starting rolling out virtualization solutions for some of their datacenters, resulting in 34% energy savings. For the kind of numbers you list, that would end up being over $100k of savings a year.
i can only hope this post doesn't degrade into a troll war about why ruby is better than php or vice versa... i've used both, they both work, they're both fine. can't we leave it at that? =]
I pay $0.085 per Kw/H. That's lower than most of the US though. I can power my 1400 sqft house with a macbook pro running 24x6 for about $90/month.
Another annoying snag is that if you search for "A B", google will also search for "AB" (eliminating the space). This affects a lot of searches with acronyms and technical terms. For example, if you're looking for info on MIT's RAs, the top search results for "ra mit" or "mit ra" are related to "ramit" or "mitra".

This seems to be an optimization for their average user, but is really inconvenient for people searching for system errors, mathematical/cs theory terms, or other queries where acronyms are common.
Cosmetic in that they only affect a handful of banks, and none of the major profit-winners such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, etc.
Some of his writings is how I'm getting my introduction to neuroscience. Also, following stuff like the brain science podcast and reading any popular science books dedicated to it. I'd love to get more in depth, but currently lack direction.