skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the feeling that all of Google's products were invented for Google to help streamline the way it does things. Gmail, Wave, GChat, Reader ... all of these things have the feel of "we didn't like what was existing in the ecosystem, so we made our own the way we like it."

... and that's a good thing.
(Empirically) statistically, though, the 50+ age group is significantly less up-to-date with internet fads than the below-50 group. Yes, there are exceptions, but a quick glance will inform anyone of the same comparison.

That said, early-20s here, and I'm turning off Buzz. I'm also out of FB. Which makes me one of the oddballs for my age group.
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For example people searching for "747 seating plan" will click on an ad with the title "wedding seating plan".
I always wondered what self-driven means. I always thought that it was HR-speak for "enjoys doing slave labor for very little money while making somebody else more rich".

Although I have stayed up all night coding for the benefit of someone else, I have long since grown and learned that it was a stupid thing to do.
Mind = Tools, dynamic and static typing
I could just as well do this with Gist, no?
This is an effort to force myself to learn more about the tradeoff of static & dynamic typed programming languages
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Will the mainstream adopt more than one social network?
Depends on the field of study. There are, for instance, many sites with many thousands of whitepapers each for computer algorithms, genetics, and many other subjects (I've looked into those two, otherwise I'd list more). A single site can eclipse several large libraries for that kind of information.

Or, in a more specific case, try looking for 3D rendering techniques. Info on the internet easily encompasses and eclipses all printed info on the subject, and it's significantly more up-to-date in many cases.

In a more general case though, yes, I agree that many studies would fall short if done exclusively online.
That definitely is a difficult position for Google to be in, hence they need not to rush with such important decisions as privacy inside the email application.
This guy is making a name for himself and he's in his early 20s. What have you done?

Maybe arrogance is underrated.
That sounded like Dilbert's PHB.
<i>The censorship is not a new thing</i>

When Amazon first launched some friends of mine were thrilled at how easy it was to order books that were on the banned books list. Four or so of them ordered PIHKAL.

They all got delivered, except for one. The last guy had a knock on his door and the rest of his order hand delivered by a customs/federal police officer/similar who advised that it probably wasn't smart to be ordering banned books from overseas. He wasn't prosecuted - it was a "we know where you live, bucko" kinda visit.
Do people get skin cancer in countries other than the U.S.?
I doubt that Google ever had the problem "how do we best show ads to internal email users". GMail was marketware from the start. That's neither good nor bad in and of itself, but let's be honest about why Google does anything.
I'm not sure he actually said he looked it up on Wikipedia. Just that he always had to look it up. (I'd have to re-watch it to be sure.)

The interviewer was the one who said he had read the definition on Wikipedia. Unless pg was also implying that.
Well, you do still need to click the "start" button. There is a "no thanks" link right on the Buzz intro page. Technically that's an opt-in system. They've just made opting in ridiculously simple.
Does anybody get CONNECTION_RESET errors when trying to get to HN ? 
It's weird. I've been getting:

Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.

When trying to get to HN using Chrome browser.
Gmail was not marketware from the start. It was an internal tool to which ads were added later.
Here is what happened in more detail.

Greece borrowed a bunch of dollars and yen. They need to make interest payments on the money they borrowed, but this exposes them to foreign exchange risk: if the dollar or yen goes up, all of a sudden the interest payments cost considerably more euros.

Meanwhile, somewhere in America/Japan, there were people who borrowed Euros and were exposed to the opposite foreign exchange risk: if the yen goes down, their interest payments go up.

Enter a cross-currency swap: the japanese guy and the greek guy swap interest payments. Goldman's role is to mediate this trade and absorb some counterparty risk (if the japanese guy goes bankrupt, Goldman is still on the hook).

So far so good. But apparently what Greece did was to structure the swap so as to push some of their payments into the future. I.e., use the swaps as a loan.

Now, these would be on the balance sheet for any corporation - swap payments are treated as any other payment. Apparently EU government accounting rules are different, and only track interest payments (not the swap payments).

Also, it's worth noting that this hid debt of about 1 billion euro. Greece owes 270 billion euro. Among other things, Greece has also used their hospital system and military to hide debt.
Ah, but Wordpress has dependencies on PHP and MySQL, neither of which I intend to install on the server in question. And Wordpress has CPU overhead for every request, since it needs to run code and query the database to display the requested content.

Blogger's killer feature (until next month) is the fact that it will deploy your blog as a set of static HTML files to any web server via FTP. I'm sure that there are other blogging platforms that offer the same thing, and it's one of those that I'm looking for.

Since Blogger is alienating thousands of people here, I'm hoping that one of them has already done the research, and can point the rest of us in the right direction.
Research libraries need books for a very obvious reason: Authors before the 90s did not write their content to be easily indexed by a search engine. That's what the keyword card index was for! I agree that the internet is the best first step for researching, but as articles age, they will become harder and harder to find.

When I wrote research papers in college, I always located the hard copy of articles I found online. I would yank the whole year of publication off of the shelf and spend some time digging for buried treasure. Sometimes it was a waste, but other times it paid off!
"Whenever I see a brilliant kid decide to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google, I think to myself: a startup just died, and as a result our world is a little less wealthy, innovative, and interesting."

Or, a future founder just began the process of gaining experience and perspective.
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They tend to zero, they don't actually go there. No-one does anything for a $0 profit margin. Scarcity of resources doesn't do anything to the profit margin, since the cost of the resource is an expense to the seller. What you can make money on is refining, and there the same rules apply (drilling and pumping oil out of the ground is a form of refining). Also, obviously, speculating.

Adam Smith was in no way a free market fundamentalist (Burke, ironically, was much more fundamentalist, even though he's considered the father of Conservatism). His legacy is the idea that "by pursuing his own interest, [the individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he intends to promote it."
Population of China: 1,325,639,982

GDP of China: $4.33 Trillion

Population of Australia: 21,374,000

GDP of Australia: $1.02 Trillion

As unfair as China's censorship is, they can have it because they have a large enough market. Is Australia really large enough for Google to be that concerned about?

It's not fair. But then again, business isn't fair either.
A great way to cook a steak if you have good ventilation is to use a cast iron skillet and heat the skillet in an oven to 500 degrees. Brush the steak with olive oil ahead of time, and make sure it is room temperature (not fridge temperature). Pull the skillet out of the oven, put it on the stove. Turn the burner up on the stove, and cook the steak for 30 seconds on each side, then put the entire skillet back in the oven for 2 minutes on each side.

The steak will be tender and juicy, since searing it at such a hot temperature locks in most of the juices, similar to the way a wound is cauterized.

I only recommend you do this if you have a VERY well ventilated kitchen, as the amount of smoke generated will surely set off any smoke alarms in your house otherwise.

Sidenote: Why is it that a lot of modern kitchens don't have properly ventilated hoods that actually vent outside? It seems ridiculous that most of the hoods over stoves nowadays just recirculate the air back inside. When I want to cook, I want to cook, damn it!
Yeah. It is really nice.

It will deploy your blog as a set of HTML files to anywhere you want. No server overhead per request, and no installing a bunch of extra software on the server just to host the blog.

Blogger's hosted service requires you to use a subdomain, such as blog.mysite.com. Since that's actually worse for SEO than mysite.com/blog, and since I'm doing it the other way already and don't want to 301 everything across just to support Blogger's whim, I need to find an alternative that still supports FTP deploy.
Kind of sad how they get in a consultant and then won't listen to what he had to say.

Apart from that: How could you protect yourself from not being mislead from the first sales through people personally known to the founders? They might tell their friends etc., when could you assume that they buy it not through a certain personal link?
Here's a lovely example of the US declining to make things reciprocal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003

It annoys a lot of people that the US can extradite someone from the UK without providing any evidence, yet the US never got around to ratifying it so the UK can extradite someone from the US without providing any evidence.

Of course, it may just be that the UK government is a bunch of idiots who think it's a good idea to give foreign legal systems this much power over their citizens, and the US has more sense.
There are very few level design resources out there in general.

As a side note, the designer responsible for Fort Frolic in Bioshock 1 and The Cradle in Thief 3 (if you haven't played these games these are highly acclaimed, innovative levels) took the role of Creative Director in Bioshock 2.
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I appreciate your optimism, but in real life most people do care about money.
Ok, fair enough. I suppose in the case of some of our manufacturing industries the labor was sent oversees not because it had to be fundamentally cheaper, but because it was easier than dealing with the unions.
Interview with a Nigerian Internet Scammer
check out their code:

<li><a title="Prety lady picks the phone and answers all the Queries! :)">Call Us: 09849042407</a></li>

wth? is this venture firm serious?
Conservatives don't get it that advancements in technology have the tendency to make censorship laws impracticable.

In this particular case, you friends can always order e-books, and in case your credit-card transactions are tracked, you can always find pirated versions and download them through an encrypted connection.

And what's ironic is that the censorship of a book makes it a lot more popular that it would've been otherwise.

What next? Plant a chip in every human being that triggers on certain patterns of the brain's electrical impulses? I'm pretty sure there's going to be a crack for that.
Is there anything at all that stands out above the rest?

Assuming that anything more embedded than a phone is not part of the question, we have two choices: a smart phone, or a PC. Kindles and iThings are just feature restricted implementations of PCs or phones. All the smart phones do the same thing, all the PCs do the same thing. The biggest real differences are in marketing and branding. All you can really do is maximize some aspect that all phones and PCs have.

So, similar to csomar's "build it myself" solution, mine would be the fastest, most rugged and capacious laptop I could afford. And three years from now I'd wish I didn't have to live with this pig for the rest of my life.
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I really like this idea, actually. Though even a splash page would probably be enough. If put in the right terms, I think the majority of people would cry shenanigans on their gov't, as many probably have no idea it's going on.
Most of the cues listed seem like they are still used in a 3D film - aerial perspective, relative size, occlusion, etc can be stimulated and peripheral vision is irrelevant.
Dani,

That was really amazing and I learned a lot. A thought on presentation - I've got a longer attention span and more endurance than the average blog reader, I am rather completely fascinated by this topic and it's directly relevant to me, and yet I had a hard time getting through that entire post in one sitting.

It required an awful lot of thinking on one unified theme (how law shapes the business landscape), but all the examples were stand alone and thought provoking in and of themselves. I wonder if a three part series might not get more readers reading all the points, more exposure, and more knowledge spread. But that's a presentation point only, cheers for the very fascinating, incredibly well researched and presented piece. The regulation tying profits to return on capital and inability to store surplus power strikes me as particularly crazy.
So the legend says.
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I used to work for a big 4 company that uses many of these sounding phrases as acronyms.
Maybe a logarithmic version of Moore's law exists where there's a definite upper limit? Where every <time period> the X value doubles, moving it ever closer to the limit (until not financially viable)? It seems to fit to me, as many techs like this skyrocket at the beginning, with huge expectations, and then growth slows until it becomes a steady crawl.
I guess it's fair enough. Homeschooling worked for my older son. If he had been forced to go to school he'd probably be an under educated cog at 18, instead of holding a Bachelor's and having the freedom to travel.
I love how he describes the two types of geeks. I would argue that there is something in between the two, but it's eloquent nonetheless. "The second type is tech-inflected liberal arts types." This makes me laugh, because I probably have to count myself nearer this camp than the first type, "the guys who would invent computers if they didn’t already exist."

The one thing I didn't like so much about the article as it tries to dissuade the fears of developers surrounding networking events, but it doesn't really emphasize what the point of it in the first place is.

1. Make friends
2. ???
3. Profit!!
> Part of the problem with regulated markets in the US (and not just power) is that the ingrained distaste for regulation seems to ensure that when it does happen it's done as badly and obstructively as possible.

I'm always incredibly skeptical of the, "A little of this is going rather poorly, what we need is more of it" argument.

Actually, I've been thinking about this quite a lot lately - I've been in Taiwan and Thailand the last two months, and there's a wonderful culture of street food here. You can buy roasted peanuts or get some noodles or meat or vegetables stir-fried from a cart on the street.

We don't have this in the United States because of regulation - one particular regulation in California says you need to have a sink to wash your hands in order to sell food. Thus, no street vendors unless they have a portable sink (really, I asked a farmer's market person on this - you need a portable sink in a van to run a street market).

Now, on the surface, this is an imminently sensible regulation. Who wants to have food by someone who didn't wash their hands? But that's just the thing - I do! The food is good, the vendor would be happy to sell it, I'm happy to buy it, and I darn well know the guy with the cart doesn't have the highest health standards and I make my own choices. Some street food is not up to my standards, some is.

Regulation prohibits me from making that adult decision for myself, so I'm forced into higher priced food of similar quality, or going to Taco Bell instead of getting some stir fried chicken, vegetables, and noodles.

I imagine at least one-third of regulations make sense on some level and do at least as much good as harm, but it's a little like censorship to me. It's a door you don't want to open if possible, despite the fact that there is rather nasty stuff you'd rather suppress. You'd rather suppress the bad stuff, it's probably objectively good to suppress the bad stuff, but you're always going to wind up with well-intentioned-yet-misguided people going too far. Hence, we're unable to buy street food due to the seemingly sensible regulation that no one can buy food from someone unless that person has a sink.
Ask HN: Sleeping Hacks
I'm writing a chapter on the concept of sleep for my online book (http://howtogetfocused.com). I'm researching what science holds true about sleep, but I'd like to hear any stories or any interesting takes some of you have on improving sleep.

We live in a world where a common response to the question, "How're you doing," is "I'm tired as hell."

Any stories or articles you've found interesting would help.
For instance: how to enhance sleep, how to grow the mind through sleep, sleep tricks (I know Tim Ferris had a neat exercise on this a while back).

Thanks
I went to see him speak at a sportswriter's event in Brooklyn last week (he writes a lot about sports).

He was unbelievable. I could listen to him for hours. He's as engaging in person as he is on paper--clear, not overly verbose, and unfailingly entertaining.
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To be frank, if you don't know the difference between a web browser, a search engine, and a social network, then you're probably too dim to be within my scope of concern as a developer. There are limits.

That's like not knowing the difference between a television, the television guide, and a particular television show.
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If it was their stance that a war crimes court is a bad thing, then it would be a fine, principled stand that I wouldn't have a problem with. But given that the US has never had a problem trying foreigners in war crimes courts (e.g. Nürnberg, or the whole Guantanamo/terrorist deal), they apparently don't think their constitution is good enough to apply it in a more wholesale fashion.

I remember Noam Chomsky saying something like "An argument whose validity depends on who is using it is merely an attempt at justification without any substance", and that seems a lot like what we're seeing here.
The United States constitution forbids anything like the war crimes court [citation needed]
China has over 60x the population of Australia but only 4x the GDP. Sounds like Australia is quite a honey pot relatively speaking. Especially when you consider YouTube ad revenue probably does better in Australia than in China.
In defence of abundance
If it's a short chapter, then this may not make it in, or it might not make it in because it's 'weird', but polyphasic sleep is an interesting twist on traditional sleep schedules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep
"cadence" is also missing
But what does it say about how disruptive it is when I'm seeing as much discussion, if not more, of 'how to turn Buzz off' as about trying the product.
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Don't sweat over it. It's all because of an attitude which is typical to Indian pseudo-VCs. They think they are doing startup-ists[sic] a big favour by investing in them.

So @Chirag is not too queer if he thinks that he can pull off a YC in India by putting up a stupid website with crappy content, bad design and some random names of totally unknown people.

It's OK, it's all right. Kindly adjust :)

PS - I am an Indian startup-ist a$$hole.
Ask HN: What business can you build on services for $100 genome sequencing?
I think you are not giving Apple enough credit. My 1st gen MBP had a runtime of 1.5h new, the current ones more like 6h.
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This is a bit of a trap. It's easier to take big risks if you have little to lose. Once you're established at McKinsey, Goldman Sachs or Google you have a comfortable standard of living and a job that gives you both challenges and social status. Letting go of all that to be the guy slaving away at a crazy idea is often harder than trying the crazy idea because you have little else.

Also when you're busy at work time can just fly by. It's easy to look up from working and find a few years have gone past.
Did you use Reader and share items in there? If so it seems as if Buzz just re-uses those settings.
There's an important nugget in OP's pg rejection quote:

"...you’d spend most of your time dealing with legal and regulatory crap. That sort of work doesn’t really take advantage of your skills.”

The truth is, when someone figures out how to work the regulatory environment in favor of their business, they'll have a defensible competitive advantage. Accomplishing that requires a skill that is usually not found in technology people, and explains why lobbyists and lawyers make a lot of money.
I'd love to see more people to pursue this stream (Join Google, learn, and become a founder in the future).

There's a lot to learn from Google (especially in terms of code review, writing good, clean, well documented code).

Let's rephrase that: "Every time I see a brilliant kid going to a chaotic startup that encourage shortcuts and brilliant hacks, I see our industry dying slowly."

PS: I understand that not all startups are like that, but what are the odds/ratios?
Let us know how it turns out!
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How do I submit new buzz-words?
Ask HN: please review my iPhone app, Cube Paint, or What I am doing wrong?
Sous Vide sounds interesting, but I don't relish the though of eating known carcinogens that are leeching into my foods. BPA is a serious risk, and the FDA so far has refused to take much action on it.

It seems that corporate profits trump safety these days. How much rocket fuel is safe to drink in our public water supply? What are a few deaths against the right to corporate earnings?
From the Wikipedia article, of the 13 depth cues, only 2 aren't properly present in 3D films - accommodation (having to focus the eyes) and peripheral vision - and the peripheral vision cue is also missing from regular cinema, TV etc.

So are there more things going on here? It seems unlikely to me that the focus of the eye lens is having a big impact.
Exactly, most truly successful entrepreneurs I know had a few (or a lot of) years in a larger company before starting their company. This gave them not only vital experiences, but also a lot of insight into the problem which their company tries to solve.
The chapter will be as long as it needs to be. Don't know how many words it will take. Some of my chapters are brisk, whereas other chapters need some more context to get the point across.

Polyphasic sleep definitely looks like it will make the cut. In fact, that may be a major component--I'll have to try this out. Thanks, fragmede.
It's his ability to harness leading-edge action-items that has made this type of disintermediated plug-and-play platform successful.