skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think it's mostly because Linux still requires a high degree of techyness, and the product and hardware support isn't great unless you really know what your doing.

It's still a pain to get flash or java on ubuntu, openoffice won't deal with docx formats, powerpoint isn't available, printers are a pain to set up, even modem support is complicated and bad out of the box -- I had to setup a virtualization layer just to get my wireless working.

It really shouldn't be any wonder it's not getting widespread adoption; there are confounding factors, but I don't think we need to posit price signaling to make sense of this.
If you read their description, you can sense that this simple capability is beyond their grasp. They are falling back on reification and complex syntax. They even promise more notes soon LOL!

Here is an example I would like to see Semantic Web people treat. No references to W3C documents, just show us the solution. It's trivial in SQL.

Supplier(supplierId, name,country)

Part(partId, name,price)

Customer(custId,name,country)

Supplies(supplierId,partId,custId)

"Give the American suppliers who supply parts under 10$ to customers in Japan".

I won't bore you with the SQL solution. Now let's see it in OWL! Good luck!
About face JavaScript or a new approach?
I've wondered about that too - what motivates people to vote something up or down? Is voting up more a measure of interest, agreement, surprise, appreciation...? Would you vote down because you don't agree with a comment or because you think it's irrelevant, self-serving, unoriginal, or poorly-stated? (I didn't see anything I thought worthy of downvote on the parent comment either; I vote it up as thought-provoking even though I didn't quite get the point of the thing he linked to.)
Good point. The product may be a success, while the company as a whole is a dog. If their product works as well as it should, they should be able to use it in reverse to tweak startups according to what the box says will increase their chances.

Hmm. I see a world where VCs and other investors use "the box" to pick the companies they invest in. I also see a world where startups use "the box" to adjust their companies "box score" to present to investors. In the end, "the box" may be a self-fulfilling AI system.
Booty call: Music has-beens line up to sue The Pirate Bay
HD-DVD is dead
He didn't just transpose them to different keys. He sped them up and slowed them down, transposed the keys, and did a lot of other work on the sounds. It's clever and still creative, though I was hoping for unaltered sounds.

I still downloaded the file just for the catchy tune.
Sounds very bogus.
OK, I can see that this post suggests a "solution" that solves some of the problems faced by the main development team although I suspect that it does not really solve the issue of having to meet the needs of a specific corporate customer at a specfied date - it just translates feature requests into API enhancement requests.

Plus almost nothing solves the problem of long term complexity where new enhancements (or bug fixes) break existing functionality that is effectively unknown to the development team. If you don't know what your customers are dong with your software then you can't protect their subset of the software functionality.
I think they made a social network for startups and investors that has this clever hook about predicting success.
This looks like a social network for entrepreneurs, many of which lack programming ability and are seeking junior people who can implement the technical details of their vision.

Coders: don't be fleeced of your valuable skills. If these people had good connections, foresight, understood technology or valued programming then they wouldn't "Need someone with coding skills" ( http://www.younoodle.com/profile.php?id=989 ), be "on the lookout for web design jobs" ( http://www.younoodle.com/profile.php?id=16 ) or "have leet skillz" ( http://www.younoodle.com/profile.php?id=4 ). That's just the founders' alumni ( http://www.younoodle.com/group.php?id=2 ).
Most of the websites I access don't ask for my email address and they don't spam me either.
Of course not. Craigslist has an amazing masterpiece of an interface and uses no icons/pictures at all.
Get your own login. NYT is free & doesn't spam you.
Well, I'm just saying it's a very easy way to climb in karma quickly. Maybe it's to do with nickb giving out karma so freely. That, plus lots of submissions, would have the same effect.
hmm, if this was true then why do you see members like http://www.younoodle.com/profile.php?id=288 (Founder of HotorNot)
http://www.younoodle.com/profile.php?id=557 (Partner in Founders Fund)
http://www.younoodle.com/profile.php?id=11 (CTO of Yelp)
http://www.younoodle.com/profile.php?id=455 (CTO of Mochi Media & contributor to pylons)

Do these guys fall under the 'entrepreneurs, who lack programming ability who are seeking..."?
user: RasberryIce
pass: abcdefgh

for future reference: bugmenot.com
It may be possible to retreive the data without openning a drive. I can think of two methods for achieving this objective. Firstly, I've seen reference to SCSI commands to retrieve "unbaked" sectors from CDROMs. Support for this functionality varies but it may be possible that some harddisks have undocumented functionality. You may wish to check the widespread implementation of DRM in harddisks for circumstantial evidence of such functionality. Alternatively, it may be possible to replace harddisk firmware which allows retrieval of magnetic traces. Again, I've seen reference to "low-level formatting" which wipes harddisk firmware. If the firmware is accessible in this manner then retreival is possible for almost all harddisks without openning them. It would also demonstrate that data recovery services are doing a shoddy job of imaging disks, running some standard recovery tools, and maybe performing some sector edits.

This test raises the bar because you have three days and writing to the disk is not allowed. That would leave you with three days to reverse engineer the existing firmware.
... and with this post i register.
Its as bogus (or not) as you believe statistical machine learning is.
seocontest2008
ok
If all properties are emergent, then with the same material construction you'll have the same properties emerge. However, the two consciousnesses, as you point out, have to be different. Therefore, they cannot be emergent.
How To Go Slow. Do You Write Efficient Code?
Summary: Computers make life easier because they're so fast, right? Well, yes and no. Do you write efficient code? The author reveals some disconcerting inefficiencies lurking in commonly used software and development practices.
The easy explanation is to say atheists are smarter. However, this ignores the societal implications of atheism and religiousness.

I think atheism is more the philosophy of the self sufficient than the non self sufficient. So, people who would be atheists if they had the means end up not being atheists when they do not (at least in the general case). However, the converse is not true of being religious. Therefore, the religious label can encompass a wider range of people.
Students fight back against gossip site
Gatsby’s Green Light Beckons a New Generation of Strivers
I have a hard time seeing how you can be both at once. The materialist model has no need of properties to explain causality, except as syntactic sugar for us.
“Give us some information, and we’ll give you some idea of what the company will be worth in five years”

Which makes me think have they run the software on their own company? But it makes for interesting reading. A quick look around it appears to be positioning itself as doing all things to all parties:

- dating site for startups & engineers

- business reporting (analysts) for VC's

- euro-style-facebook for engineers & entrepreneurs

"... We provide business competition, event, networking and mailing list functionality for real-world groups that support startup communities. For investors, we're building technology to help inform their decisions. ..." [0]

Interesting to see Harj [1] there (with a low id) and ycombinator listed as a Startup but not a direct competitor. [1] Is uNoodle trying to do too much at once? There is another problem with this approach. Startups make new things using Ideas so new that historical data points are no real predictors of success. So how predict such Startups are going to succeed?

Make no mistake, though. The real target for these guys is to set themselves up as middle men for VCs. Mini-blood suckers.

[0] http://younoodle.com/about.php

[1] Not very surprising due to the number of Oxford & Entrepreneur alumni ~ http://younoodle.com/profile.php?id=23

[2] http://younoodle.com/group.php?id=74
gmail caches everything like crazy. when the page loads, just start caching everything that the user might want to click on, and you can avoid the web 2.0 version of dancing frogs.
Yes, I agree with the end point. I think morals are properly posed in teleological terms. So, moral philosophy has to do with determining the end. What are our goals aiming at?
Why Children Play
links here are nofollow and never pass pagerank
Of All the Hurdles to [*the*] Merger, View on Technology Is the Highest
yeah, typically any user-gen links are nofollow
Hey! Quote fairly. "many of which lack programming ability".
nice little bit of hacking, one thing I would of done is left pg out, I think he is messing your data up. Fans being fans his karma is off the chart.
Creating a Community for your Startup
We've been at it a few months, so decided to write a post on our experiences about building a community. Short answer, its hard, but doable.
Gmail's Humble Beginning
FabWorld: Where Chips Become Reality
Yeah his approval rating is ridiculous, above 13 points per post on his last 180 posts. But that's just one of many things messing up the statistics. It's only good if you want to have a general idea.
If someone is copying then they don't understand the philosophy, the assumptions or the discarded options. The chance of being overtaken by an outright imitator is possible but small.
There are plenty of things that are not bogus at all, but are very bogus for given applications.
Occasionally, just very occasionally, great things happen on IRC. Unfortunately, it happens so infrequently. You'd get more success by concentrating effort elsewhere.
Currently Alexa ranks

1. Yahoo

2. YouTube

3. MSN Live

4. Google

This seems more than a bit fishy to me. Either Alexa is wrong or all of us are living in a bubble.

http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
Amazon.com seeks increased revenue promoting competitors' prices in ads
I have been wondering about these claims that it is better to invest in an index fund than in an actively manged one. Certainly, the statistics show that on average, actively managed funds come out behind index funds. But the best actively manged funds have been able to beat their indexes for at least ten years, even in periods with negative growth.

Anyone else have any thoughts about this? It could, of course, just be that the best funds happen to get lucky every year for a decade. But that seems a bit simple to me, are there really statistical anomalies that are that big? It seems to me that if you are going to pick an actively manged fund, you better pick one which has a proven track record. Aren't most of these funds managed by businesses not preaching too loudly about their past performance?
Correct. :)

No, seriously, all the reasons you present a perfectly legitimate reasons for up/downvoting and are reasons that I have considered at various times.
There seems to be some disagreement over what we mean by 'user interface' and 'user experience'. Those who downmodded you probably thought 'I like using YC news just fine thanks.'

When I hit the little ycn button on my dash, i'm immediately greeted with a list of interesting articles, flanked by comments that are worth reading. That's the most important part of the user experience for us, so here we stay.
I think that portfolio's of software get messy in exactly the same way that joint research papers get messy: how do you figure out who did the work?

That said, I think you're right that in a large body of work you see the little eddies in the programmers mind, and thats an evaluative tool without comparison.
That's true. But it's becoming less true. Consider how long the anti-vietnam-war movement took to get started. Now consider that Iran is one of the first countries where there is popular preemptive dissent against conflict in the USA. Things may be bad, but one some dimensions, they're getting better.
IMO Brita filtered water tastes worse than the water out of the tap. My parents bemoan unfiltered water, I'm the opposite. For the life of me I can't drink filtered water because I don't find it refreshing as it taste clinically sterile.
Well I'm going to do my part to save the environment. I'll cycle to work; thus eating more food and respiring less efficiently and producing more CO2. I'll also eat more healthily, get more greens in me and protein; thus producing more methane which is 25 times worse than CO2 emissions.

Also, for when I do need to drive, I'll switch to a hybrid. However, that requires a large amount of lead and acids that are extremely harmful to the environment and it also takes more energy to produce an hybrid car than is actually saved in the average use of the car.

I will personally help destroy the environment by doing EVERYTHING I've been told should SAVE IT. I fucking love irony!
This is a topic that used to bother me before I graduated and left academia behind. When I attended a private middle and lower school, parents would call my mother and ask her how she completed the current project. The level of penetration of this practice was such that it was assumed that the parents would do their children's work. And this was for students younger than 14.

Did any of that work actually matter? Probably not, but the parents felt strongly enough about it to spend hours writing 4th grade reports on Gettysburg or the Cherokee Indian tribe.

With parents willing to go that far, I don't think its surprising that they're shelling out so much money for admissions editors or are writing the essays for their children.

Really, though, I think its just symbolic of how far the American education system has strayed from its imagined mandate to educate. Children don't learn how to write or research when they are thusly coddled, and they don't learn how to deal with new and challenging situations when their parents go along for their first job interviews and browbeat the interviewers.

I think that these misguided parents are elongating childhood in a society where childhood already lasts longer than it ever has before, and are stunting their children in their efforts to give them a foothold above their peers. These parents won't be thwarted by reason, and will find some other mechanism to 'help' their kids advance. I don't think trying to neutralize them will ever be a good investment of one's time.
CO2 is irrelevant, even if production is switched to biodegradeable plant-based oils and shipping is done over short distance with a renewable energy source, people will still complain about bottled water.

They complained before global warming was even thought about, and they're just using fantasy CO2 statistics to bolster their claims. In fact, in some areas with low access to water, governments spend millions merely pumping water up elevations. I know where I live they have to do it, and we're only slightly up hill from the supplier. I wonder how much CO2 they're putting into the atmosphere by using vast quantities of power to pump water up a gradient, which is less efficient than merely moving it.
Yellow Pages, Anyone?
Agreed.

Let's say you post an amazingly funny technology joke and picture each day, and a friend posts an amazing, in-depth discussion of something that most of the readers would want to consume.

Who do you think is going to score all the points? Certainly not your friend with the in-depth articles.

So does that mean the the community is more represented by people who post quick, funny barbs? Are we a group of late-night technology comedians?

I understand the joke analogy is at the extreme, but you can make the same observation comparing, say, 3-paragraph gossipy blog entries with 50-paragraph in-depth articles. Same principle applies.
This is not some competition to show the wrongness of the other side. These are questions for action.

I'm having trouble seeing how one could design a pumping system so poor that it's cheaper to ship water via truck in miniature plastic bottles produced in industrial parks on average thousands of miles away. Even an Archimedes screw is close to optimal energy efficiency if you have a gear system.
lingq, italki, polyglot etc, like the livemocha service blurbed in article, lever unprecedented web communication between peoples of different language cultures.. twext and synxi video text may also be useful in these exchanges.. especially if focused on popular music culture, which would be delyric.. an interesting example of media rich language exchange may start with the best language learners on earth, here: http://laptop.org/en/languages.shtml
Very cool. Was fun trying to find my username on your charts (although I wish it could have been a bit higher up the points per post axis!).
Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux
Running Linux apps on Windows using andLinux
YouNoodle Thinks AI Can Predict Startup Success
There are many things you can say about Emacs...
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/163 "We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we've come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says modern society has a little less to feel guilty about.".. i'd bet better communication between peoples does reduce violence.
Why don't more people use Lua for developing web apps?
You need to keep in mind that past performance does not always equal future performance. This isn't just true of the stock market, but also in every aspect of life.

I do agree that if you pick an actively managed fund picking one with good past performance is safer than one with poor past performance.

My money will still be heading into index funds.
Multicore puts screws to parallel-programming models
Emacs for Dummies
I dont know if we are "world class" - but at www.ShiftedPixels.com , we work with a number of early stage technology/web startups and deliver measurable, profitable results in both Traditional and Online PR.

We are startup people ourselves and know the pains in dealing with PR and Marketing jerks. They shirk accountability, they don't get the web and they avoid emerging trends. And worst of all - they still think a 50k+ launch party will make your startup great.

Let us know if you have any questions, we would be happy to have a friendly chat about how shifted pixels online pr can help your startup.

Nick - www.ShiftedPixels.com
Fantastic! A digitally generated picture is worth 2^10 words!

You've certainly embodied the philosophy of Edward Tufte:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-8193666-1218533?url...

There must be many cofactors that are hard to capture in an analysis like this. There's the "binaryness" of making it to the front page. There's also "time of day". A very interesting submission posted at a time when those who would be interested are not online may never gain enough traction to make it to the first page. A time-of-day analysis would certainly be interesting.
This kind of topic worries me because from my experience when a community starts worrying about "cohesion", "trolls" and like, this is usually the first sign of it's fall down.

The real problem is what most of us would call a fall down today, that will be called tommorow (and interpreted as) a rise up from other people (thus the extreme difficulty to create efficient moderating systems based on quantitative data). You know your community is irreversibly "corrupted" when this kind of people becomes the majority, and this usually happen surprisingly quickly with the faster growth of visitors.

For some reason I have some hope for HN because of PG being behind it, he kinda knows what he wants and certainly knows what he doesn't want. Still, this might be one of the thoughest challenge he'll be faced with if HN keeps growing. I've known no community that escaped this syndrom yet.
Google behind Photoshop's new Linux compatibility
It's potable as well
if this worked why make it public and not use it for them selves?

doesn't everyone know failure feed success? So them problem is more how to increase your chance of success, not tell you Yes, No if you will succeed
So I'm curious--the screenshot you've taken has ~20k less results than mine, and the result-set is wildly different--
A Silicon Valley start-up says it can predict others' fate
How to get a startup to take off
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118017
I want to try this, but the download won't start for me. I'm skeptical about running a distro that can't even put up a good server!
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