skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he is demanding a specific type of evidence and automatically discounts cohort based research.

Anyway, to prevent another 1918 flu pandemic and 50+ million deaths you need to see if your treatment protects vs cytokine storm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm not the standard symptoms. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic) H1N1 is far from this deadly but doing nothing is playing with fire.

PS: You can't compare the results of two studies without looking at their methodology 60% fewer deaths in group A, vs 50% after some adjustments.
High-frequency trading is a game of speed/efficiency, not of information/analysis.
HN: Everyone meetup (post startup school)
Sunday, October 25th, from 1PM till we get bored of each other

Location: Japan Town in SF by the pagoda (at the intersection of Post and Buchannon)

We wanted to get more people together post-startup school (in one place!) for some lunch and winding down from an amazing, packed, and busy weekend. The area has a bunch of nice little lunch and coffee places for people to break up into little groups, hang out, and chat. Basically, there's "something for everyone".

Help spread the word - it would be awesome to get a good group of startup folks to continue to great conversations we've been having so far.
We sail on little Lake Harriet. The community is really active there, and from what I'm told it's a little more interesting than Calhoun as the winds are much more variable. That's due to all the obstructions and variation around the lake. The band shell in particular creates a deadspot or sweetspot on some days.

I joined the Twin Cities Sailing Club in August, I'm a newb ;), know just enough to be dangerous:

http://tcsailing.com/tcsc/

The people in this club are seriously cool people, a great group. Everyone is very generous in terms of teaching less experienced sailors, I've seen nothing but generosity when it comes to tiller time.

I think we have about a dozen boats or so, a mix of scows and daysailers. There are club days twice a week where you can crew up with a skipper and hit the lake. Once you pass your skipper tests, you can take the boats out anytime you please. Annual dues are $200 or so I think.

Oh and we are having our annual banquet November 7th:

http://www.socializr.com/event/830239512/1867039201

If you are not quite ready for putting down $200 and just want to try things out, definitely hit me up in May and I'd be more than happy to take you out!
Can you tell us a little more about yourself?
Starting with where you are based and what you (or your friends) use location networks for?
When is the proper video from the event being released?
Sorry, I'm new to this. By self-employed I meant "not unemployed", ie I'm not looking for work. Just living off savings, trying to do something by myself. Thanks for the suggestions.
What a stupid idea. How does WSJ publish this crap?
The speed serves only to gain an informational advantage. That's what the speed is for.
Dedicated to software that sucks less
If you aren't vaccinated, then nothing that happens to you says anything about the effectiveness or the lack thereof of the vaccine.
Thanks, looking at all the answers here I think I need to steer clear of managed companies. That explains all the discrepancies in my experience.

Unfortunately it's hard to find a cheap studio from a private landlord. So that leaves only finding roommates. Except I live with my girlfriend. After convincing her it was important to downsize I hate to put her through another level of inconvenience.
Thanks for those tips.

The one major structural obstacle is that cheap studios rarely come from private landlords, so we have to look one step up at 1-bedrooms.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have a girlfriend, but maybe we have to go this route.
Well, if wikipedia says so, it must be true.
I viewed these slides three times. Click the Notes tab
Homoiconic Example In Many Programming Languages
Where’s the Value in Tech Recruiting?
octal?
Are Seattle Entrepreneurs Wimps?
3250 Memory Card Corrupted MMC Problem
Real Time Web Considered Harmful...Or Not
Earlier today, TechCrunch posted (http://tinyurl.com/yh6kzqx) an article about how "the real time web" is a bad thing because people are constantly posting photos and tweeting about where they are / what they're doing instead of actually being in the moment. Examples: photo-blogging from a concert (instead of enjoying the show), tweeting at a conference (instead of learning something), or tweeting in the jury box at a trial (no, that's not a joke).<p>Now, the point that the author is making is that this is a transformative phenomenon--this is the early wave of the future, and there is no stopping it. The whole tone is mournful and surprised: "oh, look at this horrible thing I've discovered." Throughout it, I kept thinking "why is this a problem? Just put your phone down." It left me with a feeling of cognitive dissonance because I have not the slightest interest in real-time blogging and don't understand the appeal.<p>So here are the scenarios I see:<p>1) I'm an outsider. This is a real phenomenon, this is the direction that the future is going, but by virtue of age (38), location (NYC), friends group, or whatever, I don't happen to be part of the group that is already inside the shaded area.<p>2) I'm an outlier. This is a real phenomenon and I <i>am</i> in the shaded-area demographic, but I personally am a statistical abnormality.<p>3) This is NOT a real phenomenon, it's a fad followed mostly by teenagers and a small percentage of compulsively hypertasking adults. Most of the teenagers who are doing it now will stop doing it as they get older.<p>What does Hacker News think?
That Apple has not yet done so is unexplained.

My explanation is that filesystem performance on desktop and laptop systems is not that big a deal; while on larger servers like what ZFS is targeted for, filesystem performance in all facets is very important.
But you may learn what's out there. Not all learning has to be in-depth learning. Getting an overview of a field is important too. Reading Hacker News won't teach you anything in-depth either but you choose to do it for the same reason.
But all other things are not equal. When I drank coffee I had to constantly manage my addiction or I'd get headaches. Now that I have no addiction I get fewer headaches.
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6 words in and there were so many errors that I couldn't continue to read. What is it with the PHP community and the inability to use English correctly?
if you can't beat them, join them
http://lesswrong.com/lw/hq/universal_fire/
Thanks! It was exhausting, but a blast to host

(<--podium setup guy with black CSUA t-shirt/black open hack hoodie)

EDIT: Major props go to all the speakers, guests, Jessica, Dwight Crow (who was the main organizer on the Berkeley side), Eli Chait, Corey Reese, and everyone else from the CSUA and Startups@Berkeley and YC who made this possible, and of course everyone I forgot to mention.
For me the best by far was Paul Buchheit, because he was not only honest in a general sense (all the others seemed so as well), but also intellectually honest.

There's no one way to do things, what works for one won't work for another. His talk acknowledged that right off the bat, stayed true to that philosophy, and still managed to impart lots of wisdom (some implicitly)... while being very engaging. (Humor is underrated.)

Thanks Paul, and thanks to all the other speakers as well! This was my second startup school (my first was Fall 2005 in Cambridge - jeez, was it really that long ago??) and both times I've come away inspired and fired up.
Yeah, you're right, but it's an interesting one to ponder.
Twitter will die when we come up with a more efficient form of telepathy.

Or, the novelty of being continually flooded with pointless and trivial information wears off.
I'm running ext4 on my laptop. It is significantly faster than ext3. Cold Boot time is awesome. (Sorry HN - I should really test/validate/quantify this, If I get some spare time - I'll try it out and post it here)

Don't forget stuff like time machine is tied into some of Apple's FS hooks.

And of course the fact that the high end (apples market) is undergoing a pretty major shift in hard drive technology at the moment (SSD's).
More problematic are the "C" traders. People with access to inside information who therefore believe that they'll get news of things that will shift prices before anyone else. These people are then able to take risks and time more aggressively, trusting that they'll be able to jump ship at need. These people therefore avoid revealing inside information until the last possible moment.

But the real trouble is the "D" traders. People with no access to inside information who have no interest in providing excess rents to traders A, B or C. When this group of people gets the impressions that the real gains in stocks go to insiders, and outsiders get the shaft, they stay away in droves. In fact the desire to encourage this group to invest is one of the primary reasons for the insider trading laws in the first place.
He's from Belgium, though I don't know where he learned English.
I think one gem was overlooked...

Paul Graham: In order to have a liquidity event, you need to have a liquidity event.

...priceless.
When Cal Events encodes it. I believe the place it will be put up is http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events.php but I am not an authority on the matter as I wasn't the one who arranged for Cal Events to record.
Adding premium content means more ads for it and upselling which will make visiting the site less and less pleasant for "free" content.

But they will never have competitors as they are the only one that owns the rights to display virtually all of their content online, so they pretty much can do whatever they want, it's a monopoly.
I recently decided I wanted to learn assembly language. So far I haven't started but I spent an hour or two perusing books on assembly language on Amazon, reading product descriptions and users' reviews, and I decided to start from this one: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Assembly-Language-Program...

The reasons I chose it are

(1) It's introductory, i.e., a good first book for a complete noob.
(2) It's very Linux-centric. Most good books on assembly language assume you use Windows or even DOS it seems.
(3) One of the reviews says, "you will get a good workout using the gdb debugger." Sounds like fun.
Yeah, I couldn't watch the stop-and-go live stream last night, even though I stayed up til 5AM for it.
While it is in the long run interest of every inside trader for all other inside traders to restrain themselves, it is in their very direct personal interest to extract maximum value from their knowledge. Furthermore it is difficult if not impossible to for anyone else to know that the inside trader was acting on inside information. Therefore you can't get them to cooperate for their general good.

For much more on why groups fail to act in their self-interest I highly recommend The Logic of Collective Action by Mancur Olson. You can read some of the main points at http://economics.about.com/cs/macroeconomics/a/logic_of_acti....
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ZFS is several years old now. I'd think someone could implement a filesystem that borrows many of ZFS's best concepts and adds significant improvement. I haven't kept a very close eye on btrfs but I hope it meets this since it seems poised to take over as the new default filesystem in the next few years.
Flu shots aren’t good science
Mark Zuckerberg yelling "yeah" from the audience when Mark Pincus said you should control your board.
Uh, what? At worst, that's indicative of nothing, not affirmation of the negative hypothesis.

Think of it this way: if you are healthy, you are more likely to get the flu vaccine and less likely to die of any reason. If you are unhealthy, you are less likely to get the flu vaccine and more likely to die of any reason. Notice that neither of these statements say the following, "Patients who receive the flu vaccine are [more/less] likely to die of the flu then they would have been." Instead, it simply makes the statement that you cannot treat statistics as affirmation of flu effectiveness.
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HN Poll: What bug tracking software do you use?
I am thinking of a project idea related to bug tracking software, and I am trying to get a rough sense as to what are the most popular bug tracking systems. Which of the following do you use in your job/start-up:

- FogBugz
- Bugzilla
- Mantis
- Jira
- Trac
- Redmine
- Other (please provide name)

Also, if you could provide the rough number of users that use your particular bug tracking system installation that would be helpful.

Thanks!

PS: If someone with sufficient karma can kindly re-submit this as a proper poll, that would be great.
Zappos core value 10: be humble. Egotistic engineers ruin startup cultures.

Control your destiny, control your board. -Zynga
Less fun, but it meant computers went from being a novelty to the core of the vast majority of businesses. This was not a coincidence.
When I stopped drinking caffeinated coffee, I lost my taste for coffee, but developed a great interest in tea.
There is HAMMER filesystem by DragonFlyBSD team http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

just take it and improve it :)
The idea that you may need your cash for something besides rent is exactly the landlord's concern.
Looking forward to a video of the talk.
Fever requires you to create a server from which to run it, pretty shabby for a service you pay for to not have dedicated servers.
Lots of sites listed so far, but not more than one vote for any. Doesn't inspire much :\

You're certainly not alone; too many of us suffer from this problem. Maybe it's time for you to invent something?
rehmat

"Thank You" in Uyghurche :-)
According to the article, the researcher who "knows the flu-vaccine literature better than anyone else on the planet" calls the vast majority of studies "deeply flawed" and "rubbish." Only four studies were properly designed to pin down the effectiveness of flu vaccine, he says, and two of those showed that it might be effective in certain groups of patients, such as school-age children with no underlying health issues like asthma; the other two showed equivocal results or no benefit.
An Aeropress is awesome, too. Cheap ($25), easy to clean, makes fantastic coffee.
It's not free, you have to pay in you telephone bill.
Try brushing your tongue.
You may not be "unemployed" for the purposes of govt unemployment statistics, but you are unemployed; you're not employed. More relevant to a potential landlord, you don't have an income that will pay the rent. Ie, your runway is not indefinite, and presumably you can't show that it is "long enough".
Startup School 09 Speakers: PG, Jason Fried, Paul Buchiet, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.
Links to uploaded videos?
Many of these comments make assumptions about "insider trading" that aren't true. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading

For example, it looks like Google can trade Rackspace stock based on its private knowledge of pending deals with Rackspace, such as whether it is going to sign one. Google's employees can't.
Why is Africa flat-shaded? Or are you trying to show timezones?
Flattered to see these on here, but the slides won't tell you much without the accompanying talk. The video will be up on DZone before too long, along with the rest of the great talks at Strange Loop 2009.
I love that you are supportive of random languages! I feel bad for you because you will never find a job working in any of those languages.

Kidding, 1/100 jobs will be working with one of these languages.

Let's discuss why
If you say you went to Harvard, people's attitudes and interactions often immediately shift, in ways that sometimes can be overtly uncomfortable (other times the changes are subtler). The subsequent conversation often then feels less genuine: some sort of odd barrier has been erected; everything you say is filtered through "oh, so that's how Harvard students think" etc.

I don't think it requires any cynicism to understand why people prefer quiet indirection, and it's really less about "being polite" and more about "trying to relate as people unfiltered by prejudice". Not sure that's quite coherent, but maybe it helps in some way?
The best paper there is: http://www.ysaito.com/survey.pdf
Based on the comments, it sounds like Yogi Berra would have been a hit at this event
@projectileboy: your analogy (Paul Buchheit channeling Bob Newhart) is perfect.
Mark Zukerberg: "It's ok to make mistakes."
Google Reader now has 'sort by magic'. It sorta does what you describe.
You can't necessarily separate those two elements.

Further, there have been a number of articles here describing exactly how High-frequency trading gains an information edge - among other strategies, by "tasting" orders, the machines can discover demand without making investments and then front-run the demand.
Apparently, his inbox is filled with questions on biz dev and financing.He doesn't tell us what those questions are or why the people who email him represent "Seattle entrepreneurs"
Early internal feedback on Gmail: "I would like it to search my email, not just yours" — Paul Buchheit's talk

"It's like we're married, but we're not fucking." — Some startup founder who went through Y Combinator quoted in PG's talk
"Can anyone here tell me how to sell stuff for free? You can't. You can only sell stuff for money." - Jason Fried

"So when your friend performs the most intimate human act of love by giving you a dollar bill..." - Chris Anderson

"Hey, I'd like to be able to search my mail, not just your mail." - Paul Buchheit

Apparently I went looking for a good laugh.

Those are all paraphrases, by the way.
I feel bad saying this, but also try learning Visual Basic for Applications with Excel.

This is actually a great suggestion for anyone who works with Excel a lot. Knowing VBA (VB for Apps) can save you (or your assistant) hours of repetitive work. Here's a good way to learn:

1. Notice some annoying task that you do regularly in Excel (e.g., importing a data file, preforming a calculation on a data set, or laying out data in a visually pleasing way).

2. Find the Record Macro command, then do the task again.

3. Excel automatically creates source code for the macro. You can open up VBA from some Excel menu; that will show you the code.

4. Edit the code to do what you really want. Often the generated code isn't perfect, or there are other features that you'd like.

I will warn you though - VBA is kind of a horrible, poorly documented language. It's not unusable, though - you just don't want to use it for large projects.
I had a fantastic time as well. thanks to everyone!

My favorite moments were outside the hall, just mingling with you guys. I said I would talk to at least 20 people, and I did. Nice to meet you all, and thanks for the beer.
+1 on the Paul Bucheit paraphrase.
If you have steady income, use your tax documents and bank records to prove your income.

If you don't have income, can you afford the rent through the termination of the lease? If you may not be able to, then you might need to room with someone else or get a cosigner for your lease. If you can then find out whether you can place a deposit or pay in advance (e.g. last months, last 2 months, etc.)
Cappuccino: the jake branch
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That wasn't an ad hominem. The commenter called the idea naive, not the writer. The point does need more support though.
FTA: "Adobe may not spring to mind when you think of open source"

Damn straight. Lets move along.
I upvoted the topic, since it was already highly scored.
hfs+ bears the marks of some decisions that made sense in the eighties, when macos was barely capable of running a single program at a time, but are limiting today. pretty much everything requires locking the volume catalog, which makes disk access almost single-threaded. add to this the fact that apple is not afraid to throw out old stuff and bring in new -- they chucked the entire operating system nine years ago -- and the fact that they are still using hfs+ seems very strange indeed.

the only thing i can figure is that they were grooming zfs as a successor, but it was taking longer than expected. now i guess they have to go back to the drawing board and think of something else.
But there's a high correlation between companies which trust their programmers to use the right tool for the job and companies which "get it" (it being how to develop and maintain technology).

Will that eliminate 99/100 companies? Probably not that many but it will eliminate a lot, and you should be glad.

After my first job, I learned to always ask what a company is doing for source and configuration control. If they have no answer or a bad one (Visual Source Safe), that will tell you a lot about the environment.

Same thing if it's an MS shop that refuses F# or a java shop which refuses Clojure a priori.
Ok, I wasn't there, but here's a bit from my somewhat silly imagination:

When PG descended on the stage with his jetpack, and the enthralled crowd prostrated themselves in his direction with one flowing movement while chanting PEE GEE PEE GEE PEE GEE.
How many languages do you know?
this is supposed to be a fantastic first programming book: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Introduction-Comput...

and this looks promising (and the author posts here on HN) and should fit your "laidback" requirement: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593272006/ref...
The trick is using university/college off-campus housing listing pages. You'll find great deals. Here's the one from SFSU:
http://sfstate.och101.com/
"Spacious Studio in Nagley Mansion" $850.00
Also check UofSF, UCSF.

I wouldn't be discouraged by that offer. Like in business, some landlords prefer to wait for that A+ tenant and take a premium, whereas other deals in bulk or have cashflow problems so they need to fill the place sooner. There are HUGE price differences. In Toronto, my friends once rented a whole house in an upper class area (the Annex) for the price of a 1-bedroom apartment.
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...

He landed in a Harrier... jetpacks are for kids.

(Seriously though, why so negative?)
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It's not negative, it's just kind of a random bit from my head. I wouldn't have spent so much time on this site if I didn't have a great deal of respect for pg and what he's done with YC. I thought it was over the top enough to make other people smile at the image too, rather than think it was in some way nasty.
"... First of all, we don't need to learn survival. We know it. Nobody needs any course, any kit, any book. It's completely nonsense. We know survival very well, that's what we know best. ..."

There are 2 reasons this statement could be wrong. The first is this survivor bias, we dont read the stories of non survivors. The second from the transcript...

"... Well, the obvious reason was I finished my military service. ..."

Basic includes lots of handy tips for survival. Untrained beginner he aint.