skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the account, not the person. Sorry for the ambiguity.
Silicon Valley became a tech hub because it's near San Francisco, which is the biggest financial center on the west coast, going back to the days of the gold rush. Leland Stanford was a director of the Pacific Union Railroad company, Wells Fargo, and became governor of CA as well as one of the state's US Senators. Stanford university used to be a farm property he owned, and the university was created as a charitable act after his own son died young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford
I used searchyc to get earliest comment ids.
I've seen Settlers of Catan at my local puzzle store, where they promote its popularity. Any personal experiences here about whether this is worth buying it and introducing it to friends to play (especially over options like Risk, Cashflow, or even Monopoly which has less of a 'I don't know this game' resistance)?
We now get around 40k unique ips and 500k pageviews on week days. Here's the traffic as of last night:

http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-16dec09.png

The reason pageviews peaked in Aug is that we got better then at shutting down over-aggressive crawlers. The big spike in uniques was when the HN thread about _why became the de facto condolence page for the whole web.
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Well, theoretically this could result in destruction by less-plausible method number eight: "Destroyed by God".

(Of course, so could anything else, what with the ways of God being impenetrable to Man and so forth, so it's probably safest to just keep doing whatever it was you were already doing since apparently He was cool with that.)
There is a less extreme formulation that is pretty well accepted in academia - namely that the purpose of a business is to "satisfy all stakeholders."
>theorem proving is mechanical

I have to disagree. As theorems become more complicated, proving them becomes anything but mechanical: one must choose between an infinite variety of approaches, many of which are equally valid.
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Rackspace cloudfiles will give you Limelight for a pretty reasonable price too.
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scribd is a YC company so I doubt that is going to happen.
One simple and easy way to run meaningful performance tests is to take a snapshot of your production data (minus any personal/private information of course)

That's the real trick isn't it? You need to sanitize personal data, but maintain similar cardinality on all the indexes.
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Would just like to point out that drunk cycling is very good fun.
Couldn't any mass planet be going any speed at any distance around a star? I'm not sure why these factors would depend on mass.
Link to original article in Nature: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08679 (for those who have access)
Is there a technology solution to governments censoring the Internet?
Governments around the world are censoring the Internet. The Australian government is the latest to do so. How do we solve this from a technology perspective? How about web sites start to server HTTP on multiple ports - maybe even hundreds of ports? Can anyone think of any solution to stop these out of control governments?
This can be obtained by looking at the red/blue-shift of the star as it wobbles back and forth due to the planet's motion. Combine this with the mass of the star, and you can figure out the mass of the planet.

I forget how you get the mass of the star, but I think it can be pretty well established from its brightness.
This is a great idea, it is always refreshing to see people challenging the standard way of selling ads.
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The atmos in the Bay Area is part of the reason SV is where it is.

I would say it's more to do with money than atmosphere.

The Bay area is uber-rich because of a) gold and b) highly favorable geography. The natural harbor created by the bay made San Francisco the major port on the west coast until the early 20th century. At the time that the US wrested California from Mexico, SF was effectively the capital city in the state. Add to that the beneficial agricultural conditions stretching down from the Sacremento Delta (where the city's water still comes from) and it's the kind of perfect setup you read about in books like Guns, Germs and Steel.
From their account, it didn't seem like that people were merely tricked into criticizing the state.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rightist_Movement#Origins :

The Anti-Rightist Movement was a reaction against the Hundred Flowers Campaign, which had promoted pluralism of expression and criticism of the government. It is not clear whether the Hundred Flowers Campaign was a deliberate tactic to smoke out "rightists", or whether Mao simply decided that it had gone too far.

My father-in-law spent time in prison with Wang Ruowang, noted dissident mentioned here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Ruowang
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Linear algebra matters since we always prefer linearity to any other forms because of its simplicity. If something isn't linear, we should transform it into a linear form for further examination. That's what calculus does. That's what analysis does. That's the way how we think.
Internet explorer use erodes - but still quite dominant. . .
I really wish he would have added GZip as a feature. It's a pretty big problem that Rackspace doesn't currently support it and it makes the speed / response time far less meaningful if other providers happen to (well, for certain uses anyway).
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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Risk and Monopoly have player elimination which is anti-social. Settlers also packs in way more fun per minute of time spent playing.

The rules are no more complicated, either. Just make sure you're getting them right so that balance isn't thrown off, which can make the game not fun. Play a few games online at http://games.asobrain.com/ where the program will teach you the correct rules.
Yes. Board game design has come a long way in the past 15 years-- sort of a silent Renaissance.

I'd also recommend Tigris and Euphrates, Ra, Puerto Rico, and a host of other "German-style" games.
Steven Levitt wrote an article 2 days ago addressing readers that are critiquing this exact argument: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/what-bother...
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yeah, but would someone like Rackspace want to take the risk if he didn't have YC backing him?
I'm currently working on a Google Chrome extension that communicates with a Web Service to do some data saving and loading. Since I'm targeting Chrome, Web Sockets seem compelling vs AJAX, however I have no idea on where to start implementing this server side.

I'm using (puts on flame suit) IIS7. Are there any good tools or articles on getting Web Sockets running in IIS7. I'm a somewhat competent .NET developer, but I'm not a low level guy so something slightly above "For Dummies" would probably work best.
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Not just that - Google.com stats..
They would have to be some of the most valuable stats in terms of getting an unbiased sample of the general population.
But there is something to be said for player elimination. Sometimes I like to have a graceful way to quit a game I'm certainly going to lose!
Out of all the games that we've played, none have been funner than Munchkin.

The diplomacy aspects of this simple card game don't become apparent until you start playing.
Like it! Great tool for testing UI and scrollbars.
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Good analysis.
I think they should qualify it by content. A non-ad-driven site like "donate" should have the button on the top and the supporting argument below. A ad-driven site like the file sharing sites should have the button on the bottom so ads
are at least scanned on your way to ther bottom.
I like to think of it as Hofstadter suggests; theorem proving is mechanical

Does he really say that? If so, he must not have proven any. Few things require more imagination.
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How will the Internet evolve as "digital natives" become the majority?
Right now, the success of the internet relies on people who are not technologically adept.

How do you think the industry will be affected as "digital natives" ages to become the majority of the population?
Shouldn't 100% of your customers be disappointed if your product went away? Otherwise, why are they customers in the first place?
Do you swear in your commits?
I find that when committing to non-workplace git/svn/tfs/etc, I swear a LOT in my commit messages. My working theory so far is that it's the testosterone from fixing x or putting the finishing touches on y, etc.

Do you find yourself doing the same thing?
those numbers are pretty good, although the ratio is lower than I expected. 12 page views per user, per month? I view more than that while I eat my breakfast.
Right, but at that point you're just doing all the work a browser extension can do for you.
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Those numbers are per day, not per month.
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scroll bars, touch area for fingers, tray applications, IME bars, pop-ups, desktop gadgets, notification boxes

I think every web designer should have known that, not every corner of the screen is free.
Odd, it's running on all my servers for months straight. Could be a million possibilities, check the collectd log. If nothing, run it in non-daemon mode and have it write everything to a file manually.
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You can't use item numbers as an index of activity.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87846
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I didn't forget ubisoft, actually. Younoodle, however, I apparently missed.
And the copy on the Munchkin cards is absolutely hilarious!
If that's true that the purpose of a business is to make its employees happy, then my employer is an abject failure. I don't think I've ever heard one of my co-workers say they like their job.

On the other hand, the company does make money hand-over-fist though, so I don't expect anything to change anytime soon. Sigh.....
Not really, you just need to resize it to the minimum width of your site. It's easy to see.

Presumably you (the developer) have a screen much wider than your site.
3.7 HN years. Probably after this post a little bit more.
And a bunch of people with a higher than 1400px width monitors see the overlay image... all over again.

Not to mention, it totally screws up with centered content.

And the mentioned irregular lines that look like it was drawn in Paint.

Disappointing...
I've always designed my sites to be about 1000 pixels wide so almost every computer user can see everything across the site in the horizontal direction. What is more interesting is seeing how much of the screen can be seen in the vertical direction.
As a hobby and a valuable tool for my "business" of custom builds. A Newegg partnership/acquisition/sponsorship would be nice though.
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Wow. I didn't see that. That is almost exactly what I want. It doesn't seem to do computer components specifically but it could definitely be adapted into one or have the capability added later.
The diplomacy is what game fans call "petty diplomacy;" that is, you have to smack somebody and there's no compelling in-game reason to smack anyone in particular, so you default to smacking the guy who smacked you last, or the guy who's ahead. This can be fun, but it isn't exactly the game itself that brought that fun to the table.

As for the humor on the cards, you'll have seen it all in two plays (especially since the game drags on for a while). This explains the healthy market for expansion sets.
Risk and Monopoly take so long to finish that player elimination is a necessity. Games of Settlers where one player has no hope of winning aren't common, as long as players are of relatively equal skill.
Settlers isn't very good. The game is largely all due to luck after the initial placement of pieces; get that part wrong and you'll be spending 45 to 90 minutes repeatedly asking anyone if they can trade you that one resource nobody can get, and repeatedly hearing "no." (The 45-to-90 is conservative; if your game contains one of those knobs who drags trading out into elaborate haggling over resources-to-be-named-later, God help you.)

Of course, the luck in Settlers is actually why it appeals to people. Nobody likes feeling like they lost because they played poorly or because somebody else is better than they are. That said, there are games like Carcassonne and Ticket To Ride that actually balance luck and skill, and so help to provide that social insurance against feeling pathetic while still making the time spent making decisions actually feel like it was worth something.
I agree with these recommendations, but if you're trying to introduce boardgames to friends, start with one of the 'gateway games': Settlers of Catan, Ticket To Ride, or Carcassonne. T&E and PR should be saved for later.
I played Munchkin for the first time this summer. By far the most fun I've had playing a game in a long, long time.
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Not much. More people are lexically adept - that is, literate - than ever before by historical standards and yet look at how bad the media is. On an interface level, design is all about presenting information and options to the user in a way that's easy to navigate. But the fundamentals of that are relatively simple - look at newspaper and magazine advertising from today, 30-40 years ago, and from the 19th century. The artwork and proportional ratios of different elements have changed considerably, but it's the same basic mechanism of hook, development, call to action.
If more people would ask ‘why is that so?’
I think defining an artform is populist. Therefore, you have to start somewhere. The emergence of "Programming Appreciation" courses would be a tipping point.
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Only some trolls think Nickb is dead. The best solid evidence for him not being dead is that even if he doesn't answer his cell phone, he seems to be paying the bill. Though I suppose that's not very good evidence with automatic payment being so common.
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Did you read the same article and view the same video?

There were absolutely no mentions of "acquisition speed", nor precision of said sight picture relative to that speed, nor any trade-offs associated between these two critical variables in sight performance. A good sight tries to achieve the right balance between these values for the given application.

As a competitive shooter, I'm sure that Mr. Kraft has made these conscious trade-offs in his design, but none of these fundamentals are mentioned in the article nor in the accompanying video.

"No one has re-thought the basic principles of a pistol sight for a hundred years"

Really? 3-Dot? L.E.D illuminated? Fiber Optic blade? Is even a basic Wikipedia search beyond this author's reach?

http://tinyurl.com/y8p2sc6

IF the literal headline for an article is "New technology makes for more accurate guns", you had best back-up that claim with some credible evidence.

No evidence was offered or were ANY comparisons made against alternative sight designs--either on a qualitative nor quantitative basis.

This article was not authored. It is mere video stenography.

Before you judge the merits of the insult, I urge to to examine other works by Mr. Matyszczyk.

Is this the sort of journalistic standard to which a technology-centric site such as CNET wishes to give its imprimatur? Sadly, it appears so.
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I'll play Diplomacy with people once I make it out to the west coast.
There's a few users currently abusing my company's site via Yahoo Pipes (in the form of a few hundred thousand malformed requests per week). We're a decently-ranked startup (top 2k alexa) and the requests don't really hurt us, but they're screwing with our error reporting and stats.

It's possible to "block" them by looking for a special HTTP header and conditionally matching their Yahoo Pipes user ID, but it'd be nice if the Pipes team actually took abuse seriously. They essentially told us they couldn't do anything when we submitted an abuse complaint. :(
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not sure if it's appropriate for HN, but i upvoted it anyway. Iron Man has always been my favorite superhero because it's something we can relate with pretty closely. Engineer Entrepreneur becomes billionaire at an early age. No crazy super powers, but uses technology he builds with his own two hands to save the world.
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Can you elaborate on the manufacturing process? Do you outsource the files to a printer? I would think it's just getting a blank case made (not too hard to find someone to make an unbranded one, right?) and then sending it to a printer for fulfillment.
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For kicks, play a game of Settlers with a New Zealander and ask them if they have wood for sheep. ;)
Having slogged through the 3 volumes of the 3rd Edition of TAOCP, I came away with 2 impressions: 1) How did Knuth work art into the title? 2) Disappointment that he took so long coming out with subsequent volumes. So long, that I no longer care about reading the subsequent volumes.
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The thing is, Craigslist's model is not out to screw people. Craiglist is in no way an abusive monopoly. It's exactly the opposite. It is abusing monopolies, murdering monopolies, sending monopolies to their graves, almost literally. It's million dollar site that has destroyed multi-billion dollar industries.

Yes, craigslist makes it hard to create a craigslist mashup. But craigslist exactly as it is, no modification, is accessible to nearly everyone for nothing and to everyone for nearly nothing. It makes perfect sense to guard that situation jealously.
But you should also consider that not everyone is surfing full screen. Sure, the screen may be 1000 pixel wide, but the browser may only be 500 pixel wide.

For me this doesn’t mean that you should cram everything into something 500 pixel wide or less – sites that are 1000 pixel wide are fine. It’s just that sites shouldn’t break if you shrink the browser window (mind the margins) and the content part of the site (body text, videos, images) shouldn’t be much wider than 500 pixel. All the navigational stuff doesn’t have to be visible all the time, but the site should remain usable. (Since there shouldn’t be many more than 100 or so characters per line, having text no more than 500 pixel wide is certainly appropriate.)

(Luckily horizontal scrolling is a breeze on any current Mac which also happen to be running the OS on which running a browser not full screen is pretty likely.)
Anyone tried this? In the 1980s, the Coral Common Lisp system (precursor to Macintosh Common Lisp, which this IDE is derived from) was a gift from heaven. It was so good that after I ported the ISI Grapher to CCL, I immediately gave my old Lisp Machine to someone else at SAIC who wanted it.

I'm downloading MCLIDE now, but it would be good to hear some reviews before I take the time to set it up. For me the issue is that Emacs + either SLIME or the Scheme minor mode is very good for development.
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Well, we saw the Dot.com boom/bust/enthusiasm. We see/saw the Web 2.0 enthusiasm. And everyone is asking what is Web 3.0? I'd say there is no Web 3.0 ... there is only the network, and our aim for the next decade is to keep the network as open, ad democratic, and as filter free as possible. See net neutrality, see governments who want to put filters in places, who censor search results.

Thus the next big thing on the network is the internet of things which will expand/and hover around your experience of the internet.

Think of the refrigerator who know what milk you drink, how much you drink, when to order new milk. Your cabined which knows what ingredients you have in the kitchen, and pulls up the recipe off the thousands of content sites, the right meal for you as vegetarian.

And it know it takes only 30 minutes to cook and choose it deliberately because you have a doctors appointment at 5 (it knows because it is in the network, connected to your calendar & Google Health).

The house know when you have a party and who is at your party because of the security cameras and face recognition. And tweets it out who is there, or crosses off the RSVP list and sends a tweet to all those who said they are there but aren't. So the network informs them, hey blabla is here, your bff, why aren't you here, you said you come.

Or your electric car updates your Facebook status that you are driving you kids to school.

The internet of things is the next big thing to happen, they will be part of our social graph, because they are part of our life. The car, the phone, the refrigorator, the microwave, the oven, the flatscreen (blabla is watching this and this), ... yes flatscreen. because TV will be (or is for us) boring and uninteresting.

I should blog about it. The network of things. The next big thing next to renewable energy, democracy, higher taxes, inflation and persistent high unemployment. Well, the last two things are sill a puzzle.

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vertical and horizontal scrolling to read an article?
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I play Settlers with friends in Japan on a semi-regular basis. My experience is that it is fun, ladies and non-gamers appreciate it more than many other things we inflict on them, it rewards skill but is friendly to people playing their first game, requests for a rematch are absurdly common, and it is much friendlier to a mixed language group than Scrabble is.

My one pain point is that people who are indecisive about trading make me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon, since play slows... to... a... crawl.
Yeah, I find the article humorous because of that. It's not a great game (well, maybe great compared to traditional North American board games). I get the impression that these guys are trying to be cool by playing and the WSJ thinks they are hip by covering it. Maybe that's too harsh but that's the vibe I get.

There are lots of great board games out there, check out http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame. I like Puerto Rico myself although I would say it's too tactical to be a good simulation of running a business.

Update: I haven't played it yet but "Power Grid" is on my purchase list and probably would be good for the entrepreneurial types. There is a "Board games with Scott" video on it (with the designer, cool).
It's Dustin - I think the quality of his past articles allows him to try new shit on new articles.
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Only 30,000? I would have guessed much more.
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The vertical scrolling is not likely to be deliberate. The horizontal most certainly is.
We see that in practice our scheme appears to obtain a better depth of decryption circuit than theory predicts, although still not deep enough to enable fully homomorphic encryption; at least at practical key sizes.