skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved considerably closer to work and positioned myself nicely in relation to the public transit infrastructure. 20-30 minutes driving, 45 minutes if I ride my bicycle to an express bus stop a few miles away, 1 hour by bus using the closest bus stop to my home and 1 hour if I go by bicycle.

This is awesome, because I have so many options available. If there's a huge thunderstorm or a blizzard, I can walk a block to a bus stop and get picked up by this horribly slow bus that takes all side-streets and stops at practically every major intersection to pick people up or drop people off. But it beats driving, and I can read, or crack open my laptop and do whatever.

If I want a good workout, I have a 14.5 mile bike ride to work, and I can pull it off in about an hour, which is great cardio. In the summer time, I can get 2 hours of cardio, save money on gas and parking fees, and spend only an hour more on my commute than if I drove to the office. I essentially get a two-hour workout in one hour.

Then, in cold or rainy weather that's not terrible, I can ride my bike to the express bus stop and get downtown in time to hang out with some friends over a cup of coffee before work.

Moving closer to the office is probably the best thing I ever did for myself.
Posting on here will get you more coverage than an actual press release.

Could of course always submit to techcrunch but they lurk here as welll.
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What if they move house? what if its a big house? or several flats? an internet cafe? a business? a university?
What language would you (or others) recommend?

I'm just curious, as I'm doing Ruby (for the obvious RoR), but python also seems smart.

Or would recommend people start more basic, like with Scheme or something? Scheme was my true first language in school way back when, but I think others could benefit from a comment that dealt with some advise on recommendations about languages that I'm not qualified to give.
Looks like a very handy bunch of code, but I can't say I like the "_" part of it.

One of the neatest things about jQuery is the way all of the jQuery functionality lives in the "jQuery" namespace, with $ just set up as a convenient shortcut. If you don't want the $ in your global namespace (but still want it in your own code) you can do this:

jQuery.noConflict();
jQuery(function($) {
// Code that uses the $ shortcut
}

Feature request for underscore: something similar. If I'm already using the _ for something I'd like to still be able to use the underscore library, but bound to a different symbol.

Underscore.noConflict();
Underscore(function(_) {
// My code that uses _
}
Or if you're into MooTools checkout http://github.com/ShiftSpace/functools for decorators, pre & postconditions, memoize, arrays and hashes as functions, currying any function parameter, function composition, arity dispatch, etc.

Check out http://github.com/ShiftSpace/promises for bringing functional sanity to AJAX requests as well support for lazy values:

function example() {
var remotes = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'];
var result = "";
while(remotev = remotes.shift()) {
result = add(result, get(remotev)); // get is an async request! ;)
}
show(result); // -> console.logs "abcdef"
}

No callbacks, your code looks like (and _is_) regular javascript even though this triggers 6 requests. AJAX callback code is the new spaghetti and this is an antidote.

And finally a http://github.com/ShiftSpace/set for a Set datastructure :)
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Really? I just laugh when I hear someone talk about Socialism in the US. We have been Socialist for years. Ever drive a car on the road? Did you buy the road? Did you pay a company for a subscription to the road network?

No, it's all paid for by the government. That, my friend, is Socialism. And it's a good thing.

(Actually, it's a bad thing; if people had to pay the full cost of using the road network, it would be a lot easier to get people to take public transportation. But I am just saying it's clear that Americans have nothing against Free Stuff From The Government, even if that Free Stuff is paid for with tax dollars.)
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real time search is useful and probably monetizeable, but extremely niche. i have heard plenty of examples, like some described above, where i've felt "yeah, ok, i could see that." but those times when it might be useful might occur twice a year, maybe 3 times a year? so the market is incredibly small. it is most certainly not a threat to google, in my opinion. i am shocked that oneriot has raised $27M and only have a few hundred thousand hits a month. i think real time search is way overvalued in terms of growth potential, and will probably find equilibrium as an occasionally useful niche utility.
> This article doesn't really seem to acknowledge the fact that many executives have, and continue to be, compensated incredibly well for very incredibly poor performance.

Think of it like being the coach of the St. Louis Rams. Your team performs poorly, and you get paid well. Ultimately, if it's your fault, firing makes more sense than a pay cut.

> The argument the argument makes that companies need to pay so much money to maintain top talent seems like an argument in favor of regulation.

If there's a salary cap, then they might lose some top talent to startups (or the legal profession, or ...).

Devil's advocate.
Wow, reading the title of this just made me realize that most implementations of "push" web content are actually browsers asking a server for content that doesn't exist yet. I guess that's what comes after the real-time web: content from the future! :)
Market Market Market...Sell Sell Sell. Even, if your product is not ready yet, start building relationship with your customers and other helpful people.
Chrome OS beta is available for download
Ares I-X blasts off at second attempt
Good morning, good luck collecting.
When used in a functional context, these come to:

>> _.map(listOfLists, _.first)

vs.

>> _.map(listOfLists, function(array) { return array[0]; })

for example.
It's also worth noting that a lot of the verbosity and over-complication come not with OWL, but with its RDF serialization in XML. If you use another RDF serialization like Turtle or n3, it's not very verbose at all.
I simply said that the title carries more weight if it's used by someone that's already considered to be in the crowd. There's obviously a kind-of non-pejorative definition of the word "hacker" as well, which can be used to generally define hackers as those who constantly seek to understand intimate details of a given system. That's easy to see from outside the sphere. To truly judge how well one understands a system, though, the judge must understand it at least as well as the person being judged. This is why it means more to be called "brilliant" or "hacker" by someone who is themself brilliant, or someone who is a hacker.
Spencer,

As a very technical, yet non programming, individual who is interested in start-ups and entrepreneurship, I really appreciate this list. As I work on my MBA and dream of one day starting my own company, I often wonder if I should relearn programming or focus on other skills. The more I think about it, the more I realize that my time would be better spent actually running a company and letting others program. Your list is a fantastic resource for the things I need to be thinking about and learning in order to be better prepared!
Check these 2 people out: they are pretty good at what they do:

http://www.imalwagner.com

http://www.publicityhound.com

Whatever you do - don't go for a cookie cutter plan where all they do is write a press release and submit it out and then offer tracking services. Make the publicist sit down with you and create a customized plan.
Ostensibly, this is good as it means cheap office space.

There's a catch though... have any of you folks actually seen these buildings? They're not exactly in nice neighborhoods (I actually used to work next to one of these). Most of them are over the 101 which means it'll be a 15-20 minute drive to downtown for food. While it's true that Google is also past the 101, they can also afford to hire their own chefs. An apartment off of San Antonio/University/MenloAve/Castro/etc. seems preferable.

The other bit of trouble is that they're all large office buildings. Are they set up so that they can be rented out by a small shop? I'm pointing at the Yahoo campus buildings in particular.
I messed up your 164 with an upvote :)

It was a little depressing to read that list b/c I have to do all that stuff and code, and I'm doing it part time. Very jealous of the people working full time.
I would second that, and add a recommendation for "Chapter Zero" which is a book targetted at the high school/early college level which provides an introduction to those fundamentals that are often skipped in the rush towards calculus.
Q-see security cameras
Affordable Home Electronics provides an incredible selection of high quality digital technology products for you to choose from.
Your argument follows the same form as the one that says a world without a god is full of evil.

You overextrapolate from an overstated initial cause, and offer no evidence whatsoever for any of your bald assertions.
The predictive semantic web, clearly. Type a few words, like "cat food obese" and it'll order you a bag of healthy cat food, a treadmill, and, six months later, a small wooden box and a new cat.

I'll be over here drafting patents.
Encryption will make this moot very soon.
In fact routine encryption will confound many attempts to post-fit content control into the existing internet. For instance, deep-sniffing routers that prefer ATT traffic over Vonage, or prefer one ISP's subscribers' traffic over another because of the rate they pay.
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The problem with VC motivation
I think always having a network connection is sort of the point of developing this application for Android. Their address lookups are sent to Google's servers and the guy in that demo video is constantly mentioning "the cloud." I don't imagine this would work without a network connection since their intention is not to develop a standalone GPS device.
Eventually consistent, and even then only temporarily so.
I'm a technical founder and 1) I certainly don't WANT to all of the above listed things and 2) I know I certainly wouldn't do these task as well as someone who specializes in them. A lot of these jobs are very important and should be done right. They shouldn't be done by a programmer who sees them as an inconvenience.

If the scope of business and the size of the startup justifies it a business minded founder can certainly be a good thing.
It's a concern, but any amount dilution is better than infinite dilution (i.e. turning off the lights).
Could somebody point me to a tutorial/article on how to code up OO-ish (think Prototype-like) classes in jQuery? I need to build out some client-side models but can't quite wrap my head around how to do that in jQuery.
Not sure about the mobile maps API, but in the professional version of the gMaps API, you can download all the map tiles and not have the need for a network connection to browse the maps.

If you just DL the tiles for the areas of interest, I'm sure it could be done on a phone. DL'ing the whole US might cause a storage issue for phones though (though I hesitate to say this since many phones now have rather large storage capacity and SD cards, etc.)

EDIT:
From the article:

Google Maps Navigation was built from the ground up to take advantage of your phone's Internet connection.
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> I would personally assume that any government-managed utility would have well-defined regulations disallowing that sort of practice.

You clearly don't have much experience with govt.

> The local power station, for instance, can't say that you're only allowed to charge your cellphone during off-peak hours, or that you have to pay extra for every kWh used by your bigscreen TV.

CA does it the other way - they ban devices with certain energy characteristics.
According to the people I've spoken to working in finance, they routinely use moderately advanced math. By advanced math, I mean PDEs, numerical problems requiring cleverness and more probability than most engineers learn [1].

They also do it at a speed and level of distraction that many good techies can't handle. By this I mean a trader has the absolute right to yell at you at any time and make you drop everything debug the program he is using.

As for "barriers of entry need not be so high", college is different than a job. Your college still collected tuition from the students up until they dropped out. Goldman Sachs has to pay the bad techies they recruit until they fire them (and this may also be legally problematic [2]).

[1] It's usually not as deep as, e.g., a PhD in math or theoretical physics.

[2] If they did as you suggest, and women or minorities disproportionately couldn't handle the job, they are inviting a disparate impact lawsuit.
This will go great with jQuery. I've missed some of these helpers when moving to jQuery from Prototype. I felt much better about not polluting globals after the switch, but this look like it's a nice half-way solution between Prototype's style and nothing at all.
The idea that file-sharing should be illegal is objectionable.
homological algebra? toric geometry? representation theory? random matrix theory? If you scroll farther down the list, very very hardcore math is there for those who seek it
Speaking as somebody on satellite, and not happy about it, there are two parts to this problem.

Part one is connecting fiber to every house back to some centralized switching station. This part can, and should, be financed and regulated by government in much the same way power lines are.

Part two is what happens at the switching stations -- who controls the service and bandwidth to the homes. This part should be as free and open as possible, and each home should have at least three available services competing for its business.

We seem to lump all of these problems together when we talk about the problem of internet connectivity. I don't know why. Maybe it's just easier that way. But it obfuscates certain parts of the discussion.

For instance, in this story things got very interesting once two suppliers were competing to connect fiber. Why? Because whoever connected the fiber would run the service, ie, have the business. It shows that as things stand, you physically have to be willing and able to take the fiber right into the house to make the current monopolistic providers increase their service.
This whole thing smells wrong. Check out the fine print at the bottom of the page:

Chrome OS is not related to Google. Service provided by SUSE Studio. See the license.
"Ostensibly, this is good as it means cheap office space."

Cheap office space in a dying empire that smart people are increasingly leaving because its citizens are too shortsighted to realize their economy will collapse if they don't pay for what they've purchased, too racist to let in the next generation of innovators, too stupid to educate their own kids, and too apathetic to fix the problem.

Cap-and-trade is probably the last chance to fix the economy of the valley, and frankly it's not looking good right now.
To me a persistant connection is a deal breaker. My Internet is incredibly expensive.
Nice Catch. I agree, this could easily be a stripped down Open Suse with Chrom(ium?) running and no Window Manager. Any takers to download this thing and see what it is?
They could also get a lot of third-party revenue by wiping out all of the native apps and letting other people sell them. At some point you have to worry about the value of your platform and now they have Android to compete with.

I think Apple's recent acquisition of Placebase, a mapping company, might indicate that they're willing to compete with Google on a navigation app.
If Wall Street executives are truly overpaid for the profit they produce, you don't have to complain -- you can just profit from it! Simply short Goldman Sachs (which pays its employees far more than anyone else) and buy shares of a smaller bank.

That way, instead of feeling like the world is unjust, you can feel like there are popular misconceptions which you can simultaneously profit from (when Goldman's price drops because it's overpaying employees) and alleviate (Goldman drops when you short it; the bank whose shares you buy goes up).

And of course, you get a boost to your argument. It's going to sound less like "I resent people who can make more money than me," and more like "I think there's an economic inefficiency here -- and I'm prepared to stake money on whether or not I'm right."
This Chapter Zero,

http://www.amazon.com/Chapter-Zero-Fundamental-Abstract-Math...

right? I have not read this particular book, but in general most students who desire to study math should take a look at a "transitions course" textbook or two, to fill in the gaps left by studying only in the fast lane to calculus.

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Proof/lm/R3LUNI80ZOUYK4/

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-logic-and-foundations/lm/...

http://www.amazon.com/How-solve-prove-books-useful/lm/31B4QV...
Smarter than Genius
Podcasts. Lots of them. Get a wide variety (I have documentaries, language lessons, venture voice, this american life, word of the day, historical, social science, comedy etc.). If you're worried about iPod/iPhone space, set it to just sync only the last 10 of each podcast. That way you always have something available, no matter what your mood.

I take it you are driving, but for people that get public transport I would plead Do Not Read Newspapers - they will only make you feel anxious, depressed or angry at the start of the day. It's more enjoyable and effective to read a book on a subject you want to learn about or something fictional for escapism.
The display is just for quick glances to make sure the software rendered a For-loop template instead of "fruit loops". Otherwise, I would have recommended a bigger display.

IMO, you can get good enough at this that the amount of distraction is pretty small. Equivalent, perhaps, to the amount of distraction involved in changing radio stations. But, you would need some self-discipline to achieve this.

Also, I am not really talking about creating compileable code. You would use this to mockup a solution. Like pseudo-code, only a bit more fleshed-out.

Edit: I didn't address the main point of your reply...

"I don't understand how one can share one's attention between driving and a screen without increasing the risk to get into an accident."

Yes, using this idea you might be increasing your risk of an accident.
Probably vastly more, but AFAIK most large storage tanks are required to be inspected for structural weakness every so often.

The big concern for urban centres today are LPG storage tanks as they can BLEVE. It doesn't usually require any structural failure, just plain bad luck.

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__1Ym_F94CE&feature=relat...

This was in north Toronto last year. IIRC a tanker caught fire at a propane refuelling facility, you can actually see the shockwave caused by the BLEVE, which was quickly followed by the massive fireball (not all BLEVE's explode, it can happen with any heated liquid from superheated water in a boiler to liquid nitrogen warming to room temperature in an enclosed vessel).

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-JgyQA7u0&feature=relat...

This is a demo video, with a decent explanation for anyone who doesn't know what a BLEVE is. It sometimes seems like the safety mechanism doesn't help, but it really does by controlling the release of energy. Fire fighters usually try to cool the tank rather than put out the fire (usually in these cases it's too dangerous to get close enough to actually try to fight the preliminary fire) as the longer the tank stays intact, the less dangerous the explosion will be. If it doesn't vent at all, you eventually get this supersized and with authentic flames:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGWmONHipVo&feature=fvw
I already saw this around a couple of weeks before.
Why the deceptive title?
Matt Cutts debunked it the first time this site made the rounds:

Matt Cutts 23 days ago
Sorry, but this is a fake version of Chrome OS: http://bit.ly/K97Ew I know folks are eager for Chrome OS, but this isn't it.
This sounds totally nausea inducing. I get a little ill just thinking about it. Blech..
Awesome stuff but binding your library to _ (underscore) is unfortunate. That character is traditionally reserved for the gettext / i18n / gimme-a-string-in-human-language-X function.

<h1>_('WELCOME_USER', user.firstName)</h1>
<p>_('WELCOME_INTRO_TEXT')</p>

etc...
Statistics is a very interesting subject, and it is a distinct subject from mathematics proper. Here (in what is becoming a FAQ post for HN) are two favorite recommendations for free Web-based resources on what statistics is as a discipline, both of which recommend good textbooks for follow-up study:

"Advice to Mathematics Teachers on Evaluating Introductory Statistics Textbooks" by Robert W. Hayden

http://statland.org/MyPapers/MAAFIXED.PDF

"The Introductory Statistics Course: A Ptolemaic Curriculum?" by George W. Cobb

http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...

Both are excellent introductions to what statistics is as a discipline and how it is related to, but distinct from, mathematics.

A very good list of statistics textbooks appears here:

http://web.mac.com/mrmathman/MrMathMan/New_Teacher_Resources...
Not to be too literal, but to answer the kid's question, "What are games good for?" Raph Koster's A Theory of Fun for Game Design sets out to answer just this. Essentially his argument boils down to that games are made to teach us things, that they can be used for amusement, and that they allow us to have experiences that paintings, film, or music don't have the capacity to deliver.
I wasn't there for the briefing but some of the articles about this seem to indicate that Google is already working with Apple to integrate this with the iPhone's native Maps app.

Google and Apple have a weird relationship as far as mobile goes. Apple can do really lame shit like blocking Google Voice and Latitude, but when it comes down to it Google will still force a smile and continue working with them because they want all the mobile search revenue.
> The argument the argument makes that companies need to pay so much money to maintain top talent seems like an argument in favor of regulation.

Oh really? How is the US govt going to regulate what a Chinese bank pays?

You clearly believe that bankers could be paid less and deliver comparable results. Great! Set up a bank and prove it. If you're correct, you'll get rich, which will let you do other good, and you'll drive stupid banks out of biz.
Text to speech is surprisingly not-too-bad on the K2. I recently was reading a book, and pretty seamlessly moved it over to speech while I did some laundry, then picked up where I left off.

If you played with speech synthesis in the 80s or 90s, you'll still hear that faint Swedish? accent, but really, it's totally usable in my opinion.