skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yaw, certainly most of us have the luxury (or wisdom, at least!) of saying no to destructive/unscrupulous investors.

And yeah, I think most 20 year old folks would be terrible at investing (I'm pretty sure I would've been at 20-- hell, maybe now!). We have a 24 year old investor, FWIW.

But I think there is this (largely incorrect) notion that your investors are going to be working for you. For the most part, they aren't. Oh, they'll keep their eyes peeled for opportunities for you. And if you are on fire, they might smell the win and start pouring on some effort. But for the most part, they are filthy rich, have tons of investments, and tons of interests. They are stretched SUPER thin and their time is way more scarce than their money.

My favorite quote from a YC dinner (names redacted):

Q: "How to you make sure you get investors who bring more than money to the table?"

A: Famous Internet Entrepreneur: "What? Investors don't bring anything to the table other than money. Wait. Scratch that. One time [famous web 2.0 investor] carried a few servers up a flight of stairs for us."

(that's paraphrased, but that exchange actually happened)
The article has some points here and there, but the personal attack on pg was a bit of sensationalism, without which it would have been HN-worthy.
Here is my list of favorite games:

Dominion

Puerto Rico

Settlers of Catan

Carcasonne

Ticket to Ride

Agricola (can be slow and hard to grasp)

Power Grid (just ok)

Go (this is actually my favorite, though most don't care for it)
While his approach is unlikely to be close to the true ink efficiency I give it points for a being a creative way of representing the relation.
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If debt is your only criteria, then Oman is your best bet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_deb...
Pretty sure Paul reads Hacker news, as I've been told I'm wrong wrong wrong a couple times :)
Some interesting points. But I think there are some specific reasons why some ebooks succeed... And why following the same model for news/publishing won't.

I notice the author doesn't have any specific advice how music publishers or news organizations can follow the ebook model and make gazillions. PG is talking about mainstream content/media. Pointing out a few scenarios where sad saps will buy quick-fix content doesn't really help.

This is a linkbait title with a straw man argument and a little ad hominem sauce drizzled on top. But the story will get tons of upvotes and comments. Boo, internet.
Ditto on Settlers, Ticket to Ride and Power Grid.

Pandemic and Taluva are awesome as well (particularly Taluva)
Very nice. How about language-level support for asynchronous operations (like the async monad in F#)

async update_table:q =>
r1,err = xhr('http://somewhere?q='+q)
if err then
$('error').innerHTML = err
return.
r2,err = xhr('http://somewhere-else?q='+r1)

if err then
$('error').innerHTML = err
return.

$('result').innerHTML = r2
.

could be the equivalent of something like:

function update_table(q) {
var on_error = function(err) { $('error').innerHTML = err; }

doXHR('http://somewhere?q='+q
,function(r1){
doXHR('http://somewhere-else?q='+r1,function(r2){
$('result').innerHTML = r2;
},err));
},err);
);

}
It also drastically lowers the amount of processing overhead per page served, after all, there's no dynamic code to process nor are there any database queries to execute.
I got more ram, pocky, a gift card to amazon.com, and money.

Also lots of bdsm gear from my SO, including some really nice suspension cuffs. (Is this TMI?)
Business internet is far worse. Qwest DSL is $55.50/mo for 1.5 Mbps down.
This was originally part of a longer article, which I believe was itself posted to HN. The author merely extracted it in order to reference information in it more succinctly.
One with very little return on your investment.
Hmm yeah, my stuff doesn't use a database either (it uses XPath and DOM/XML doc). Is it standard for CDNs to run anything beyond a naked apache instance (like mod_php)?
That’d be interesting to clarify in actual usage testing – unless you already have such data to support your claim.

I regard »righty tighty lefty loosy« as an established standard for opening revolving things. But due to the mnemonic existing in the first place, that probably needs some testing as well.
No, but I missed the "bdsm" and just went for an interesting Christmas jaunt on Google.

On second thought probably so?
The humane society has a much better fur recycling program, I think. Also, they aren't PETA

http://www.hsus.org/furfree/campaigns/c4c/
Since it goes straight to your destination,
Google cannot store data on your behavior.

I think this is a very cool idea and does provide some level of privacy, but it shouldn't be overstated. Google still has your search history (arguably more sensitive than the actual search result clicked), and in many cases can back into your click behavior via Google Analytics/Adsense code which is embedded on many, many sites (unless you're scrubbing referrer data as well).
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I'd argue that Agricola isn't deterministic. The cards dealt out at the beginning are done so randomly and often lead to asymmetry. Beyond that, I don't recall any chance.

One feature of Agricola I don't like much is that it's difficult to assess another player's score at a glance. In Caylus, for example, it's quite clear how well another player is doing.

Environmental attributes in board games: http://www.cognitivesandbox.com/posts/board-games/
Is this some young geeks joke that old geeks don't get?

No, I'm an old geek, by the standards around here.

And it wasn't intended as a joke. The bank bailout bills included 0% loans to banks, funded by taxpayers...my understanding was that these 0% loans were intended to encourage consumer and small business lending. But, in my recent experience, banks are simply not lending, even to people (me, in this case) with really good credit.

To put it into perspective, five years ago, I was able to get a similar-sized auto loan, and with really good rates, and my credit back then was awful and there was much less of it, and I was self-employed back then, too (technically, I'm not self-employed now, but because my employer has only existed for three years, they're considering me self-employed). So, by all measures, I'm a much better risk today than I was back then, but my ability to get a loan is nil.

So, not joking, just ranting because I'm grouchy about not getting a loan, since I didn't expect to have any trouble with the loan process and it's thrown my schedule off a bit, since I was shopping for an RV that I could put 25-35% down on, and get a loan to cover the rest. Now I have to go through the process again, except shopping for only RVs I can pay cash for.
I think he means "raises the question."
It seems like a giant can of worms to introduce mod_php. Do you allow sessions? Replication? How do you handle caching? These are non-trivial problems at CDN-level loads.

Offering 100% availability is crazy difficult once you add dynamic content into the mix. If you could do it, I bet you could make a million bucks.
My beef isn't really with their tracking of my links, but it's annoying to me to do a search and not be able to "right click > Copy link location" on a search result. After installing your (otherwise great) plugin, I still get the google-infested link if I right click on it. Worse, the link stays google-infested even if I left-click on it afterwards. If you could fix this, this plugin would become as essential to me as AdBlock.
I'll admit to not having data to support my claim, other than my personal behavior (and the guy above). I'm not sure how you would do the testing since I think everyone has used faucets, and they almost always go the way I described (or at least that's my best recollection).
Go play with an online MODTRAN simulator: http://geoflop.uchicago.edu/forecast/docs/Projects/modtran.o... (If you want to know the simulated temperature change, adjust "Ground T offset" to restore "Iout" to its original value.)

You are referring to Beer's law, which describes radiation transmission at a single wavelength. However consider its meaning for the broad absorption band of CO2, whose graph is the shape of a wide lump with low shoulders. For parts of the band above some threshold, exponential absorption will have eliminated almost all the radiation, and further increase in concentration will not change this: you cannot go below zero. Parts of the band below that threshold will absorb very little radiation, and increasing the concentration will change this very little: double almost zero is still almost zero. Concentration change only makes a practical difference at the edges of the band, and the CO2 band's shoulders are so steep that even drastic concentration changes only make for small growth in the width of the total absorption band.

P.S. MODTRAN assumes a nonmoving atmosphere, so its temperature predictions are not to be believed. The actual atmosphere experiences stronger vertical convection as ground temperature rises, which in turn produces secondary effects on vegetation, evaporation, and clouds that affects temperature. Predicting the net effect on temperature requires an accurate biological/meteorological simulation. And those are mighty thin on the ground.

P.P.S. Convection effects are why greenhouses actually get hot: the glass obstructs natural convection from cooling the ground. Calling radiation effects the "greenhouse effect" is scientific fraud.
"For the faucets to be consistent, they need to behave like every water bottle, "

I meant consistent with each other, if there are multiple faucets. The house I'm renting has two bathrooms with a total of three sinks. I think each sink had a different faucet pattern, until I changed them.

For some reason hotels like to experiment with new ways to control water. Each time I use a different shower it sees to have some new variation on how to control as many functions with as few knobs as possible, and I don't understand why.

Was there some key design failure in having two obvious knobs to independently control the flow of hot and cold water? Now I feel like I'm taking an IQ test whenever I want to get clean.
Shaddi, Could you help me understand? The original google links are gone if you have this installed. That means that if you do a 'copy link location' on a sponsored link, you will get ONLY the sanitized URL. I tried it out, and do not see the behavior you are reporting.. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying?
All the big words hurt my head. Well, my finger from going back and forth from dictionary.com.

From the petition he links (http://www.oism.org/pproject/) signed by "thirty-one thousand scientists":

> The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment

Maybe it wouldn't help, but how would limiting greenhouse emissions harm the environment?
There is generally a lot of duplication in the open source software world, it's just the nature of the beast.
Do you remember how long it took to move a compressed Apple ][ disk over the lines with ASCII Express? Hours! And that disk was only 140K!
Mostly it takes you from thinking 50 requests per second is pretty good to being annoyed that you are only pushing 10,000 per second. It also tends to fail a whole lot less.
Heres to hoping this gets implemented into Lift soon! If I was more adept at Scala I'd give a go at it..
> If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format?

No matter what they tell you, all they are ever selling is convenience. Buy the ebook version of the book, you are paying for the rights to get it digitally, which may or may not offer certain conveniences. Tetris is free on the internet, but paid on the iPhone, because there is a certain convenience to getting it on your iPhone that they are offering that you're willing to pay for.

The trend, what with the internet and wikipedia, is for information to be more easily acquired. Thus the convenience is becoming harder and harder to sell.
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Ask HN: Previous employers, blogging and anonymity.
I'm dying to start a blog to write about coding, projects, occasional unrelated observations. I'm at grad school (finishing this summer) and will likely try and start something myself afterwards. It seems a good time to begin writing.

As a small part of this, I'd like to relate my time as a typical drone at a medium sized software company and how my current decisions are shaped by that period. Maybe it's boring but it feels important to me. My concerns are:

* Anything I write will obviously be about Initrode (let's call it) as this has been my only 'real' job (not counting vacation work).

* Friends/bosses/colleagues at Initrode are almost certainly going to find and read it, and I'm still in touch with a number of people from there.

* That my experiences include: Numerous common programming abominations (the big ball of mud!), obsession with processes, highly paid employees who simply existed to forward emails to other employees. The slow strangling of all that was good in the firm. Great material for writing.

I admire people who can be so blunt about their former workplaces, eg: Joel Spolsky writes about Viacom, Zed Shaw in his CUSEC '08 talk (I know he's maybe an extreme case, but still his talk really rings true), Steve Blank's recent article "The Elves Leave Middle Earth". All these people, however, are far more important/successful/senior than me (mid 20s). Even keeping things quite mild I'd be worried about burning my bridges, and damaging future prospects.

Should I worry? Will this even help with the 'right' kind of companies? Should I write anonymously (I'd prefer not to)?

Thanks, and Merry Christmas.
2010 scion tC... Totally sweet ride, korman book, and much needed socks
He was commenting on his score in the Harvard Implicit Association Tests, IIRC.
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Yes, that's what I'm describing. Here are my steps to repro:

1) Search something on google.com (for example: unc)

2) Mouseover on a link shows actual address (for instance, http://www.unc.edu); clicking on the link goes directly to page.

3) Right click, copy link location. Paste that link:

- Expected result: http://www.unc.edu

- My example result: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&.... (clipped for brevity)

4) Mouseover on same link or click on it.

- Expected result: http://www.unc.edu (as before)

- My result: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&.... (etc)

If it helps, I'm running FF 3.5.6 on Win7; I can try on Linux and OSX later tonight if that would be useful.

p.s. -- add some contact info to your profile; I'd prefer to email directly rather than pollute this thread with bug reports.
When a specific "incorrect" usage of a phrase becomes--and stays--way more common than the "correct" usage, it stops being "incorrect." Analogously, we can correctly use the token "assert" as an identifier in Java 1.0, but not in Java 1.5.
Herzog Zwei is excellent. Congrats on getting that.
Wait, what use is it if you're sitting there cherishing it? Especially if you don't particularly like it?
Does this then allow you to click on the ads at right without the advertisers paying for the click?

If so, advertisers will be pleased, Google will be pissed.
Ask HN: Building price comparison website
I'm building a very simple price comparison website for textbooks. Does anyone who has built a price comparison site have tips for the implementation? At the moment, it seems like I will have to query the four textbook vendors' website each time a user does an ISBN search on my site. I'm not sure if that is sustainable or the best way to go about it. The alternate is a couple vendors offer their inventory data updated nightly but there are also a couple that don't. Appreciate any pointers!
equals(Object o) has a very tricky contract to implement, when you add subclassing to the mix. Auto-generated code won't make those problems go away.

See http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/equality.html
At our ultrasound in October, we asked the sonographer to write the baby's sex in a sealed envelope. Instead of exchanging presents, my wife and I opened the envelope this morning.

It's a girl.
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

-- Max Planck
Obviously you don't want to reveal what company X is, but just out of curiosity, how big a company is it? Taking on the visa process for a "possible" hire seems like something only a large-ish company could afford to do.
Possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana in Ann Arbor, Michigan is a civil infraction with a $25 fine, like a parking ticket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_laws_in_Ann_Arbor,_Mic...
Almost all robots doing work today look nothing like humans. The neat thing about humanoidness is that it provides a benchmark for robotic technology that any technically-minded person can understand.
Ask HN: I've got Programmer's Block
I'm a programmer. Maybe not a professional one (yet), but it's safe to say I can write programs in codespeak. I started with Ruby, looking at Erlang and Haskell. Picked up a few C++ and Java books, but I can't stand them. It's like trying to read the lyrics to any 50 Cent song. I'm still working on them though.

My problem is that I can't seem to get my ideas to follow up. I think my problem is that I've picked far too big/complex projects and then hitting a brick wall.

What do you (HN) do to get past Programmer's Block? Also, what do you do to keep yourself from getting fed up with programming?
The foundations of the computing systems we use are built of ossified crud, and this is a genuine crime against the human mind.

This guy has no good words for anything that anyone actually uses. Check out his other posts. He attacks Clojure (it makes him "sick") and only praises is Lisp in its purest incarnations and his own embryonic Loper OS.

I think it's clear that one of the fundamental principles driving successful open-source software is a healthy respect for the real and the possible, as well as a drive to solve real problems within a realistic timeframe.

If everything about using computers these days "sucks" and you insist on attacking those, like Rich Hickey of Clojure fame, who put in hard work to make it better, what's the point of being a hacker? It's a bit sad.
Speaking in magic unicorn fantasy land terms:

If this were true and Microsoft made that a default feature on IE, what would happen? Assume that Google does not find a way around the issue (like I said, magic unicorn fantast land scenario).
I have added my email address to my profile. Let's take it offline.
I have tried to reproduce what you are saying (firefox 3.5.6 on Win 7) and failed. I do not see how what you are saying is possible. If you are going to the actual URL directly, a right click has to result in the same link being copied. That is the behavior I am seeing.
umm.. yes. You are right.
But this is not too different from adblock, which gets rid of the entire frame. I assume google is not too fond of that either
Anecdotally, I've observed that Android has a relatively high share of the system administrator market. So this doesn't surprise me at all.
After comparing nanoc and webgen a few years ago, I came away liking nanoc better because I found it more intuitive to extend.

Seeing that it's still being actively developed makes me want to take another look at it to see what's been going on.
Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety
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While I do understand what you're trying to do, I think this might do more harm than good for the advertisers who are paying for these ads. It will probably make it hard for them to track how well their different SEM campaigns are converting and ruin all of the analytics collected by both adwords and programs like google analytics. If the 'google-infested' link (as one person put it) somehow has the campaign tracking query parameters in it (I haven't really looked into it yet) It might be a good idea to keep it as part of the sanitized url so as not to mess with any of the hard work that the advertisers put into their campaigns.
print http://www.fastcompany.com/node/641124/print
"As the chief proponent of Java at SGI told me: 'Alex, you have to go where the money is.' But I do not particularly want to go where the money is - it usually does not smell nice there."

I really love this quote
OPA: Unified language for web development based on Ocaml.
Though the overall point may be correct, it weakens philg's argument to claim that a non-US pilot may become "Captain at Major Airline" after just 20 hours of pilot-in-command time: that's just not true for any jurisdiction I'm aware of (the article claims it's "typical"), and I'd love to know of even one such case. (I'm an occasional pilot, with both US and "foreign" licenses.)
The main problem I had with M:TG is that I needed to keep buying new cards to keep up. I don't like games where the person who spends the most money is more likely to win since that reduces the strategy level of the game.

Contrast that to settlers (or any other board game) where you just buy the game and everyone is on equal footing with respect to resources (give or take the random aspect). The expansion pack just makes the game bigger.

Which kind is Dominion?
Dominion is more akin to Settlers... the whole game costs 30-50 dollars, depending on where you get it. And like Settlers, it has expansions.
What I took away from the article is that the "little guy" can make money selling content. Even though a lot of newspapers and content providers are suffering because of the internet, there are a lot of people making a lot of money selling content. So if my goal is to make a comfortable income (up to 5 figures per month), it's definitely possible to do this -- other people are doing it too.
I'm not even sure I know what my dream job is yet. Right now I'm drifting between eventually (or soon) doing a startup and something totally unrelated.

I'm curious, at what age did other HNers feel that they had figured out what they wanted to do job-wise (even if they weren't doing it yet)?
I got an Arduino last year and just finished a medium scale project. I hooked it up to a http://hexbug.com for remote control over a network with XMPP. If you want to take a look all of the code is at http://github.com/bnmrrs/HexBugNc
It's a bit hard to believe that training programs can be split into US and foreign. There are many countries in the second category and it's very probable that most of them have their own requirements. I'm not an expert, I may be wrong. But every sentence comparing country X to "the rest of the world" activates my BS detector.

And this "Unless the country is very large, there won't be any regional airlines." seems silly. I haven't heard of any European country with no regional airline. Even Iceland has their own with only 2 "real cities".

There's a lot of hand-waving in the post. I'd really like to stick some [citation needed] in there.
People often link to the print view because the normal view is paginated. Readability won't solve pagination.
You don't need to exaggerate the article by calling it a 'debunking,' it posits another theory and lays out some facts. It's very even-handed and a good read.