skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the best bit on that page was in the comments:

“I’d be very careful not to underestimate kids. If you don’t tell them something is supposed to be hard, they will astound you.”

Yes! The first step to achieving something, is believing it is possible. Seeing good motivational examples can help with that, so I agree: suggest widely-used languages to kids.
Still waiting for an e-book torrent site.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just clarifying that the "official data" conflicts with your original comment. You're welcome to take that data as you wish, but it's better than the citations, or lack thereof, that you've provided.

Also, how did you get from "I'm not sure of this..." to "The fact remains..."?
btw guys this was pretty much off the cuff(I was actually planning on making this post after christmas, after I got the comments fixed), so if you have any ideas about what else I should talk about in the post, let me know
I don't usually upvote comments like these on HackerNews, but that genuinely made me laugh-out-loud.
Hmm, I thought Dr. Pepper was a Coke property.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Pepper

Wiki seems to indicate that Coke manufactures it, but only does so in Europe.
Exactly. I wish i could upvote this again. I'm assuming that, with a name like Max Klein, the parent is not a lower class Chinese citizen. You're lucky.
I'm just saying that all the author is observing is that the students with the most to lose, work the hardest. Foreign students obviously have a lot to lose since they're coming overseas for an education. On the other hand, the American students she interacts with are likely wealthy and don't necessarily need stellar grades to move on to a professional degree program e.g. medical school.
I don't really see any good from him speaking, at worst he will pull off a giant troll and his whole speech will be a flop, and at best he will be talking about 4chan's culture.
It might be because each eye only sees every other frame in the 3D version (assuming this is on a single projecter with an alternating polarizer and not two projectors with different film and different polarization).
you didn't know this is an older post .... until I started reading it. I don't always recognize these posts by their title.
Not sure if the author's comment form will eat my reply or not, but you should already be able to use the existing LINK header, as the idea of a canonical URL was created using a LINK element.

The spec for the LINK header is still a draft (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-link-header...), but it's been around since before HTTP/1.1.

e.g. the current page is the canonical URL:

Link: <>; rel=canonical

e.g. some other page is the canonical URL:

Link: <http://foo.example/bar>; rel="canonical"
In all fairness, as much as you may not be a Bill Gates fan, it's pretty difficult to suggest that he's as unimpressive as the founder of 4chan. All the 4chan guy did was make an unmoderated message board.
Facebook used to have a really useful (and inexpensive) Polls feature that allowed you to get something like 1000 or 5000 responses from your demographic to a multiple choice question. They pulled it for some reason though.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...
We can't afford a single skyscraper collapse, but we can usually afford to use bad software.

The article sounds like Dijkstra in 1988. My bet is another 22 years won't change anything.
here is a question...was 4chan the first image board, or did it just use the main image board script?
The Downsides of Large Syndicates
> ... I would never reach a judgment on what a place is really like based on a brief visit, especially not a country as large as the US or China.

Indeed. Personally I find the recitation of anecdotal evidence for how "free" a country is to be bollocks. Alright, so the country "feels" freer sometimes, but that's not a sound argument for its actual freedom.
>* Not only can women take off their shirts without being arrested, both men and women can legally be completely naked in public.

Have you tried this outside of a college campus? Pretty sure you can't.
Oral argument for the Bilski appeal was heard last month - perhaps something will come of that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilski

Personally, I think patent law needs a massive overhaul; but I also think that the lone inventor should be protected - or why would anyone bother doing deep useful work? We would then only get the deep work (of academics) and the user-driven hill-climbing (of open source/big corporations).

I guess startups like Appjet (etherpad) are an exception... but, according to their early webpage, they had a software patent. Which Google may have wanted when it acquired them. I expect that Dropbox, which also has some cool proprietary technology, also sought to patent it, given pg's position http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html

While a startup can protect itself by growing and innovating fast, I have a soft spot for the deep technical innovator. I appreciate those incremental hill-climbing innovations; the cool stuff in the labs that never actually becomes usable; and the clever identification of markets and exploitation thereof. But the revolutionary stuff is what I love.

I'm always surprised that so many developers, who I would think are creative types, don't think deep innovation deserves the encouragement and reward of protection.

Note that Xerox PARC was funded by patents (on xerography); and Bell Labs' origin can be traced to a patent (on telephony).
Why so negative?

First off thanks for taking the time to share it with us. I read the whole post. Good to see your incremental progress. Which brings me to the header of my comment. I don't see in any way how your launch was a "failure". You have "fail" and "sucked" peppered throughout your post. Why!

I wasn’t too surprised or worried by the results, since that was more or less what I expected.

2 problems here: Why expect failure? And secondly, can't call it a waste of time then since you knew beforehand what you were getting into - your choice.

Not trying to shoot you down more - quite the opposite! I don't see how your launch was a failure at all. You have more data than 100% of people with "ideas" and 100% of people in "stealth mode". And how is you gaining traffic an epic fail? Even if its one user! I see a positive slope in that graph damnit!

Personally I have erased the concept of "failing" from existence. Simply because if all things are trials, then you benefit from data received back. It doesn't matter whether that data is "good" or "bad", data is data. And one does trials so one can get better at doing those trials! So you fail when you die, till then don't recognize its existence.

Be happy man.

My graphs have a scale of 1-10 (yes im serious). so when i start to see the 1-100 (like yours) I will be ass-happy.

=) Congratulations!
He's spoken before at a conference at Harvard, and at least had some things interesting to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E_bYRZT5-E (part 1)

Don't ask him how to make money though
"Microsoft has said that it and the public will both suffer if Word goes off the market while the company devises a workaround."

I am touched by Microsoft's concern for public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#Background
"Police are generally friendly and there is no fear of being unjustly tazed or beaten."

You are reading reddit and digg too much.
>Also, how did you get from "I'm not sure of this..." to "The fact remains..."?

My bad. I kinda assumed, since nobody was actually contradicting it. I'll edit it now.
Essentially, he claims that open source code is high quality code, except Google's own closed source search and ad products, where opening it will reduce its quality. But isn't that the point of "open source" in the first place?
I tend to agree, but I'm also concerned that the more often patents are held up in court, the harder it's going to be to get rid of them.

I remain hopeful though that Congress will get lobbied to legislate an end to patents, and the Supreme Court is facing some very interesting cases and seem in favor of the Open crowd.
He already did. Released misquotes into the audience while talking about malaria: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html
> * I'm not accustomed to seeing police carrying anything more than a holstered service pistol.

More to the point, you've been trained think that is normal, in countries where guns aren't legal, the very sight of a gun would strike fear into people.

> * Not only can women take off their shirts without being arrested, both men and women can legally be completely naked in public.

I don't know where you live, but public nudity will get you in trouble just about anywhere in the U.S. You just can't stroll through a mall naked, you will be forcibly removed and you will meet some police.

> I've never seen anyone "treated like a criminal" for being drunk, so long as they aren't violent or otherwise harming other people.

Same as above, stroll though a mall falling over drunk and you'll meet some police very quickly. Public drunkenness will get you in trouble in most public places that aren't a bar.
While this is technically true, we're indirectly responsible for much, much more than the emissions listed in that table. Back-of-the-napkin calculation: if their manufacturing industry accounts for a third of their emissions [1], and they export 25% of their production to the US (wild guess), we're indirectly responsible for another half-billion metric tons of emissions, which pushes us over them, even without considering our indirect emissions effects on other countries.

[1] http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/industry-CO2-emissi...
I know a number of foreign students who came to the US as undergrads and essentially threw a dart at a map of the US.

For some reason I have met a number of Japanese students that spent 4 years at schools I had never heard of (like X+State+University+Branch Campus in a tiny town). And they usually were very good students who went on to good grad programs, employment, etc.

The point being that the quality/reputation of the school will not be proportional in the same way to the quality of the domestic students versus the quality of foreign students.

A final anecdote, when I was at a university in Germany, I saw a cheesy poster advertising a scholarship to study in the UK, sort of "Apply Now! Come to England!". The scholarship: The Rhodes. I asked a few Germans and none of them had heard of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is probably the most prestigious scholarship in the English speaking world.
There is no prohibition on the sale of alcohol or cigarettes to minors.

Is it some kind of sarcasm or is it considered a great freedom when the kids can poison themselves all they want?
I'm ok with an adult drinking himself into an early grave, but a 10 year old kid might not clearly understand the consequences of drinking/smoking.
Too true, too true.
I understand that. However, these employees want to get the work done on time, and see it as important, but couldn't get it done in the time estimate. The attitude I notice is more of an indifference to the deadline.
Quickly loading up Google Analytics shows me that visitors to my site have used 9 browsers (excluding version #), 6 OSes, and 41 screen resolutions in the past month. The time it takes to cover that matrix of viewing combinations simply isn't worth the investment and hence a reset sheet should save you a lot of time.
Very good post but that logo has to go - it' 5.8kb and so compressed it looks like #!@#.
Haha, misquotes is a funny misspelling, given the context.
I believe you mean 'mosquitos'.
Did Yelp's Star Banker George Boutros Just Screw Up The Google Deal?
You can in Oregon. Our courts have ruled that our state constitution's guarantee of freedom of expression includes public nudity. (There are some minor quibbles over the exact extent of this but there are several large scale naked events in Portland every year, as well as some well-known naked people who show up regularly around town. There's also been cases like people mowing their lawns naked, which the police can't do anything about even in the face of neighbors' complaints.)
I guess I'll be the first to speak up in defense of m♡♡tles speaking at TED.

It's clear that he's relevant to the HN community, given that 4chan is a startup begun from his mom's basement when he was just 15 years old. Despite misinformation about 4chan being run for a loss, he does make money and can afford to run the site without ads from time to time.

He took some available code (2chan's), which was initially very simple, and grew it into a profitable site that is ranked in the Top 1000 on Alexa and that has an outsized influence on internet culture. That's an extremely rare phenomenon, and one that most people here would ostensibly like to repeat.

I'm sure that even if his TED talk features inside jokes it has the potential to be really interesting, and certainly doesn't warrant the prima facie dismissiveness from the other commenters here.
Better question- How does 4chan keep itself from getting raided for the endless amount of CP that gets posted there?
OK, just in case you are Australian, I will use Australian numbers for both carbon emissions and growth rates in carbon emissions per capita. This is because, I agree with the idea, in general, that climate data is so widely variant from source to source as to be extremely suspect. And given recent events, ie-'climategate', I think we should all be careful about using numbers generated by nation A, to illustrate an environmental point with respect to nation B.

Having mentioned all of that, the numbers from CSIRO in Australia can be found in the following report:

http://csiro.au/news/GlobalCarbonProject-PNAS.html

Lead by Dr Mike Raupach

EDIT:

Not really sure if the above was too technical. Just realized you quoted wikipedia. Anyway, what follows are some news stories on Australian carbon emissions. A little less techy.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2745751.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/02/2079513.htm

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e57087d4-3862-11de-9211-00144feabdc0...

Note that even though the Financial Times is a conservative paper, it concedes that Australia has decided to 'delay' setting any carbon emissions limits. I put in links to ABC, to balance FT with a somewhat more liberal perspective.

END EDIT:

In my opinion, the report, puts Australia in a very good light, and even they concede that Australia emits at 4.5 TIMES the global rate. A lot of other little nuggets are in the full report if you care to read it. If not, the link above contains a good summary.

I can share more research with you, if you are working in this field, and would like the information.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to state that I currently do a great deal of research analyzing companies, technologies, and markets for VC investment. One of the fields that a large number of clients are interested in is 'green tech'. The research I have been doing the past couple of years, particularly on markets, has really opened my eyes.

In answer to your other question, I am an American. Extremely so I admit. So by 'we' I meant the US. I will endeavor to speak more precisely in the future.
The GPL is infectious; any code that uses a GPL library automatically becomes GPL as well. This is why the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License, which was developed for libraries) exists; the LGPL is just like the GPL except it doesn't infect linked code.

In short, using a GPL'd PHP library in your application mandates that significant swaths of your application be released under the GPL as well. That's not a problem if you wanted to release under the GPL to start with, but it's a problem for anyone else on either side of the spectrum; if you wanted to be All Rights Reserved, you couldn't, and if you wanted to be freer and license under LGPL, MIT or even public domain, you couldn't do that either.

For this reason, developers have to be quite careful about how they use GPL'd software to make sure that it doesn't impose unwanted licensing restrictions.
WePay (YC S09) founders put down roots in Palo Alto, raise $1.6 million
One way I get around the box model problem is to add a .padding div to the inside of an object and apply any padding to that. It adds an extra div which some people don't like, but I don't mind and it beats dealing with box model weirdness.

html:

<div class="300pixelbox">
<div class="padding">
This is 300 pixels wide and has 10px padding.
</div>
</div>

style:

.300pixelbox
{
width: 300px;
}

.300pixelbox .padding
{
padding: 10px;
}
Lets test your hypothesis. I put your written communication skills in the bottom 50%. Did you earn good marks in English?
Pretty impressive. Does it also have a PDF version or its just plain HTML version?
Are You Making Grilled Cheese Sandwiches or Viagra?
Australia has big reserves of Uranium in the ground, but no nuclear power stations. Currently in Australia, it is politically impossible to even talk about the need to look at nuclear power for the future.
A Job Prize Inspired by the MIT Darpa Network (Balloon) Challenge Solution
This is a prize that I put together over the past couple of days. It is inspired by the Network Challenge that DARPA hosted, and that MIT won in such a cool fashion. I am very poor at pursuing jobs in traditional ways, and often times get discouraged scouring Craigslist and other sites. So after seeing the success of the MIT solution, I thought a similar solution might work to find me a job.<p>The site was written in about three days in Ruby on Rails. I'd like to make it look better to reflect my design talent, but I realized that if I wasn't embarrassed by my first release, then I would have waited too long.<p>Even if this doesn't find me a job, it will have at least been an interesting experiment. Thank you.
Starting an Incanter Swank server with Leiningen
hehe too negative? I guess I was trying to show a different side of the coin compared to Paul's post. If it was a standalone post, I'd probably make it more optimistic. "on launch day we hit an unprecedented 500 users in a single day".

But yeah overall it's been a very good month.

Thanks :)

I agree on the failure part, I think the key concept to take away, is that this is a marathon, not a sprint. Don't expect instant gratification
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This is a prize that I put together over the past couple of days. It is inspired by the Network Challenge that DARPA hosted, and that MIT won in such a cool fashion. I am very poor at pursuing jobs in traditional ways, and often times get discouraged scouring Craigslist and other sites. So after seeing the success of the MIT solution, I thought a similar solution might work to find me a job.

The site was written in about three days in Ruby on Rails. I'd like to make it look better to reflect my design talent, but I realized that if I wasn't embarrassed by my first release, then I would have waited too long.

Even if this doesn't find me a job, it will have at least been an interesting experiment. Thank you.
Ask HN: Review my webapp (vertical search engine for scholarships)
Site: http://aidscholar.com/

Hi everyone.

I built this site because I was annoyed with how bad FastWeb is for finding scholarships. At FastWeb you have to register before you can look for any scholarships - most of the time the results are not relevant and I keep getting marketing emails from them.

So I kept it simple and tried to provide a good easy to use interface.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the app, thanks.
Clickable: http://aidscholar.com/
Great post, I'd also mention...

It take a certain to 'laziness' to solve a problem elegantly rather than through grinding effort.

This kind of laziness, the kind of laziness that great programmers laud, can require a bit of effort. It's the kind of effort mathematicians go through when they look at problem for five minutes before saying "it's trivial".

The America that built Silicone Valley sometimes had this right balance between effort and "laziness". Present America certainly seems to have taken a wrong turn.
I'm not sure that this is a WordPress/Automattic release. I couldn't find any indication of who actually is behind this, and the annoying hover ads are a weird touch.
feedback/suggestions appreciated!
Ask HN: Productivity Is Lacking
So, there was recently an article about 'stop trying to be productive, just chill out'.

I agree with that type of sentiment, but I've been doing a lot of work lately and have finished it all. Now, I will soon be on my yearly 'Christmas vacation', and I'll have lots of time to get things done. But, the thing is, it seems like I don't want to start anything and just end up browsing news and youtube.

I know that I really enjoy programming, learning new styles of dance (jumpstyle? shuffle? tango?), and foreign languages, and a number of other things - but instead, I might just waste away my break on the internet.

Does anyone else have this... problem, so to speak? Any thoughts on it? What do you do about it?

I don't want to be a productivity guru on this, because after all, it's my vacation, but I'm just curious as to what your thoughts on this are.
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That was my experience growing in the US too. But that was 30+ years ago. About when did you graduate?
At that point I'd rather that regular old desktop Mac OS X got an app store of sorts and a bunch of conventions so that awesome games could be quickly developed for computers that already have better speakers, better input devices, and what not. Gaming on OS X sucks and it's a shame Apple seems to focus solely on the iPhone in that regard.
It's an interesting variation on slashdot/reddit/HN that allows a submitter to specify and curate a sequence of websites to be visited. Part of the Xerox Trails project. Venkatesh Rao of http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ is the product manager.
I've been in many scenarios (a lan party comes to mind) where there were multiple people who had either large bills or no cash at all, and yet we needed to buy things like beer or pizza.

This makes it very easy for people to transact small amounts of money (ideally free through paypal) using this technology. People may forget their cash, but they never forget their phone. Neat.

Brian
> More to the point, you've been trained think that is normal, in countries where guns aren't legal, the very sight of a gun would strike fear into people.

I suppose that might be true in some places, but I've lived in Europe
and spent a fair amount of time in Mexico, and my observations in both
were that the police carried much more serious weaponry under normal
circumstances than you see in the US.

> I don't know where you live, but public nudity will get you in trouble just about anywhere in the U.S.

I live in Oregon, where we have a constitutional right to be naked in
public.

> You just can't stroll through a mall naked, you will be forcibly removed and you will meet some police.

Malls are private property, not public property. The owners of the
mall have every bit as much right to exclude someone being naked on
their property as I do on my property.

> Same as above, stroll though a mall falling over drunk and you'll meet some police very quickly. Public drunkenness will get you in trouble in most public places that aren't a bar.

Again, malls are private property. And, I suppose I can’t argue with
whatever your experiences were, but I see lots of drunk people
wandering about on a typical Friday or Saturday and the only ones who
have problems with the police are the ones who try to start fights, or
who won’t leave private property when asked.
See response to @ryanwaggoner, who, in all fairness, asked first.
Another vote for Linode.