skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Speaking on behalf of users of banking websites:

Please don't make your site in Flash.
I agree 100%. There's a million posts by people (like Mark Cuban for example) full of the same old boring crap: "maintain good communication", "don't spend money on swag / unnecessary items / etc.", blah blah blah.

If generalized advice actually worked for human beings, the entire human race would probably be a lot better off.

In practice, I find it hard to believe that anyone takes these lists of dos and don'ts and actually turns them into guiding principles for how they run their business.
Link bait or irrelevant -- not sure which.

...add google.COM.
That it took 3 or 4 years to do so. That the "thankful" Chinese might have several caveats. Especially since "and we stopped specifically because of their China campaign" isn't exactly true, since in actuality we waited until they attacked a French colony before we put up the embargo.
Unskilled workers can progress to doing tasks that involve labeling data for machine learning - computer vision, sentiment analysis in audio and text are examples currently being done on mechanical turk.

The only limiting factor currently is lack of imagination and investment from so-called innovators - they'd rather 'innovate' by creating another social network or incrementally improve a 1960s technology (microsoft) than do anything truly useful to society.

Efforts in this area include google goggles/voice and microsoft project natal (though it's woefully underfunded compared to it's potential).
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That's part of what makes life fun :)
But mortgages have an underlying asset that's usually of some value, as do cars, for instance. Getting loans for both is relatively easy, if you have decent credit.

On the other hand, I'm skeptical about this for a few reasons:

- If it was as easy and plugging your qualifications into a computer, why aren't banks doing it already? There is obviously a high level of risk in a startup, and most investors have many defenses in place to try to assess higher quality startups, many of which are exceptionally frustrating to the entrepreneur (although perhaps justifiably so).

- As a follow-up point, how are they going to defend against a large number of people who become good at "faking" a startup? If you're investing $20k, what's to stop someone hungry for cash from outsourcing a prototype and applying? Since they never meet in person, I'd think it would become exceptionally difficult to distinguish between the legit companies and those legitimately good at faking it.

- As has been repeated many times, the most valuable part of YC isn't the money, it's the mentoring. Without mentoring, it's "just money". If you're just looking for money, family & friends of family are a pretty decent place to start. It's easy to think that if you just had money, you'd be able to bring the company to the next level, but oftentimes the reality is that you need help to get there. This model would seem to encourage people to take the money, lock themselves up, and plug away, which really isn't the right approach.
I don't know about "average audiences", but some music-related sites that I read now&then have quite a bit of negativity. Not to mention political discussion sites...
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Thanks man, I'm honored. I wish I had more time to write on more of our infrastructure stuff!
I think many people use redis, but don't necessarily advertise it, which is also one of the reasons of our "coming out" :)
http://sdf.lonestar.org/ is one of the better ones that's been around forever. It has www and cgi-bin in the free account, though you need the $36 one-time-fee account for php/perl/python/ruby CGIs. Cron seems to require the $36/yr account. Details: http://sdf.lonestar.org/?join

A lot of people these days just buy a small VPS instead of getting a shell account. Upside is more control; downside is, well, more control (you're also the sysadmin).
I don't think of it as turning to a network instead of knowing something. I think of it as turning to a network instead of Googling.

(We all look up stuff constantly. Price-checking, deadline checking, version validation, tactics, etc. We probably don't appreciate how often we do it.)

I have one staff-member who is a prominent member of a significant open source project. This person knows a LOT. So do my other staff-members. But the project member turns to his IRC window/mailing list, and gets answers really fast. Plus, he feels certain and comfortable because he typically trusts the answers he gets.

I won't say he's "better" than his peers, but this network, which he has put in a lot of work to earn, has definite value to him and us.
Something to ponder: comments on the Internet are never for the benefit of the person they're addressed to.

The lady in the article is never going to read Hacker News. She has no idea that people are gossiping about her life. All these comments are completely unhelpful to her, because she's never going to read them. And even if she did - what's she going to do now? Even if you "fix society", it'll take so long that she won't be able to reap the benefits. (Reminds me of my mom's work on the sidewalk committee when I was 8: by the time we got a sidewalk by our house, I'd gotten my driver's license.)

However, this site is filled with young people just starting their careers. A good many of them are renting apartments. The advice above isn't completely unhelpful to them. It may save them from some very expensive mistakes.
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For a while I've had a vague sci-fi-like idea that the first true "group minds" are going to evolve from the intersection of Mechanical Turk, augmented reality, personal virtual assistants, and Twitter/Aardvark/Facebook/Ask MetaFilter.

Starting over a decade ago, it was possible to instantly "know" anything that was online just by searching for it. With the addition of Google, Wikipedia, search-inside-the-book, and massive amounts of content of all sorts - plus always-on mobile networks - this now means that we now have just about any fact ever published at our fingertips.

The number of people connected to the net has grown too, and so have tools for finding and talking to them. Most of us can contact dozens of friends at any given moment, plus friends-of-friends, co-workers, fellow members of communites like Hacker News or MetaFilter, and of course complete strangers. So in addition to raw data, we now have access to vast amounts of human judgement, experience, and research skill.

Once only high-powered executives had personal assistants. Now the Tim Ferriss crowd is getting into the game with "virtual assistants" who can work remotely, leverage all the above-mentioned internet superpowers, spread costs by serving many masters, and work off-shore wherever the cost-benefit ratio is right for a given job. Their services are still targeted at busy freelancers and business owners, but I'm sure someone will soon start selling virtual assistants to all sorts of information workers, teachers, programmers, and even stay-at-home parents.

So how long before I can simply touch a button to allow a remote assistant to see what I'm seeing in real-time and help with planning transportation, translating foreign text, taking notes, searching for relevant emails, and even advising me on what to say? Some jobs will just go to legions of cheap generic workers, some to my circle of friends or colleagues, and others to a personal assistant who is paid well to know my needs and background. And that assistant will then sub-contract out portions of each job as needed to computer programs, unskilled Turkers, or to his or her own network of friends and assistants. At that point, it's like I'm carrying around a whole network of brains ready to engage with any situation I face.
Check out this 2008 patent application with Sridhar's name on it: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080318092

Abstract:
A high temperature electrochemical system, such as a solid oxide fuel cell system, generates hydrogen and optionally electricity in a fuel cell mode. At least a part of the generated hydrogen is separated and stored or provided to a hydrogen using device. A solid oxide regenerative fuel cell system stores carbon dioxide in a fuel cell mode. The system generates a methane fuel in an electrolysis mode from the stored carbon dioxide and water by using a Sabatier subsystem. Alternatively, the system generates a hydrogen fuel in an electrolysis mode from water alone.
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> that can outperform equivalent C

Isn't that a bit like saying that it "can outperform equivalent assembly"?

And why can you not prove the equivalent C correct? After all, you're doing that proof by hand either way. A Haskell compiler will only help you prove that your program is well-typed. If you're mutating buffers then you're in a monad like IO or ST and the the compiler will throw it's hands up and tell you that correctness is entirely your problem.
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K.R. Sridhar's "Bloom Box" patent application?
I'm sure the management at Scribd is happy that this ad (http://content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net/atoms/2e/71/ab/d0/...) is annoying readers of their own presentation.
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There's another dichotomy: abstract vs concrete. The more abstract, the larger the potential audience. That's the reason why Joel is so much more popular than the guy writing about OCaml optimization techniques for numerical analysis.

But writing about generalities is not only hard more open to criticism as you suggest, but they are also harder to come up with because they require more condensed knowledge. Coming from that perspective I can understand why Joel says he has nothing more to write about, and I think it's reflected in the quality of his posts recently.
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Right -- at least on a per-capita basis, anyway.

Zuckerberg made an interesting comment at this year's startup school, when he said that he explicitly wanted Facebook to be a "a great place to be from" -- i.e. FB wants to be a good company where you can learn for a few years, and then go off and start your own venture to apply what you've learned. I thought it was refreshing to hear a CEO recognize and embrace that working for his company might only be one step in someone's career.
"First it will be games, but if i can develop my apps for adobe air for all major operating systems and smartphones.. this is bigger than most people think."

Right, that worked great for Java.
Only half joking: I wonder if you could train NLP models to explain rap lyrics automatically. Actually, you could think of it as a sort of machine translation problem, translating one type of English dialect+jargon into another...
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You should read following http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892324/why-program-funct...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017621/why-isnt-python-v...

I still think if you are interested in learning functional programming choose another language.
Although the article is dated 2007, the error it describes is still present in every implementation I've tested. There's a test page for browsers at:

http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma_dalai_lama.html
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Posted this because of it's absurdly distorted claims aimed at misguiding readers for whatever reason.
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PG really should add google.com to the list of domains that have their subdomains shown. It's so mysterious as is.

EDIT: realized that really I should have put this in the feature requests. Someone requested it 68 days ago and it's currently #2 on there. Wonder if there's a reason he's ignoring it or if he just hasn't looked recently. In any case, if you agree, upvote the suggestion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374
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As a big fan of the GPL I don't mean to come across as totally flippant. However, I just don't see a problem with people selling themes.

In a hurry, not enough skills, buy a theme. Skilled with the time to make your own, then roll your own.

You have a choice, you are not compelled to pay for a theme if you don't want to. The software will continue to work regardless.

Unless there is some kind of legal stalking horse that could affect the GPL, I don't see the point of all the fuss.

I use both Wordpress and Joomla and I see the same kind of thriving ecosystem around both projects. Commercial and non-commercial plugins and themes for both. Seems like a good thing to me and I don't see why it has to be an either/or situation.

If I am missing something then I would like to hear it.
To be honest it's more that the vast bulk of people read these things then do whatever they were already planning to do.

Losing weight, for example, should be really simple but there's a boatload of people out there who don't seem to be able to follow the "heavy weightlifting + calorie controlled diet" advice.
you are either on a real lucky streak.. or you're not going to showdown often enough...

People used to say similar things in Warren Buffett's early days - that he was either super lucky or wasn't leveraging himself enough to multiply his investment prowness. Now he's one of the richest men in the world.

And like Buffet, Paul isn't throwing darts at a roulette wheel, hoping for a winner. He is deeply involved in helping build these companies. He's a technical genius that hedges his bets. He can give access to his friends like PG or the Google founders. If making a poker analogy, paul would be the player with x-ray vision, knowing where and when to bet or fold.
nr of visits != nr of visitors ... and the later is more important to me.
Several wordpress developers, both code and themes, were tired of the WP several years ago, and started the Harbari Project, which is an Apache Licensed blogging platform:
http://habariproject.org/en/

They left the wordpress project, and picked the ASL license because of their experiences in wordpress.
you are right, now it's clearer... ;)
Thanks for the detective work!
Oh look, someone has decided to write off a startup by extrapolating details from a fluff article and using their chemistry expertise gleaned from their undergraduate freshman coursework. Color me shocked.

Appropriate given:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141536

If you actually did a little resarch you would realize the point here is that it not only reduces carbon output vs. combustion (and likely makes this output less polluting) but is designed for developing countries lacking a grid to have a better outlet to produce energy efficiently.
Google's goal: 1 Query => 1 visit

Facebook's goal: 1 visit => 1000 page views

This statistic is meaningless when put in context of the function of the two sites.
This article reminded me of "Jukt Micronics", from the infamous Stephen Glass article "Hack Heaven" -- although this case's motives and procedure are very different, there's the same smell of desperation here.

BTW, the movie Shattered Glass is a fascinating look at the Glass case: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323944/
True and not so true - design and engineering do need to work closely together and take turns driving each other to improve, but one is often more important than the other. Guess which one people use to form initial snap judgements about a product?

"Opinions will be formed, rightly or wrongly, within seconds of laying eyes on your site and before they even have a chance to put your code to use."
Offtopic but irritating: the "print article" feature on ZDNet only prints the current "page" you're on and not the full article. I wonder who came up with that bright idea.
Their web site has a 2-day countdown timer, by the way:
http://www.bloomenergy.com/
Anecdote:

I write about programming, and it is entirely worthwhile for me. I changed my style of writing at a certain point, but that had more to do with what I wanted to explore than with whether people were critical.

Speaking of which, lots of people have said critical things about my writing. But lots more said nice things. Overall, I feel that I get far more positive feedback than negative. I could be wearing rose-coloured glasses.

So... My experience differs from the author. But that makes sense, we are different people.
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A really good way to do this is to just reuse your password on every site, but add a site specific string to it. For example, your HN password becomes passwordhn. That way you can pretty safely reuse your password without putting your other accounts at as great of a risk.
There has to be some way for people who like sex less to end up with more children.

It's somewhat plausible. Individuals and couples who like sex more than average may be more likely to forgo having children to avoid negatively impacting their sex lives.
This might be of some use: http://pastebin.com/f10cbf605
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Transmission losses are probably not included, but for reference this new device is only 35% efficient if you cannot use the heat it generates. If your house (or the weather) is already warm enough, you're not going to come out ahead.
I first read the comment, then saw who has written it. I was shocked its PG. This is the person who wrote essay named trolls. I thought PG is oblivious to trollish comments.
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Why Amazon.com "Prime" is a Game Changer
Two weeks ago I joined Amazon Prime, which gives you free 2-day shipping on a large variety of Amazon’s items.

Today I realized that I needed a new funnel to top off my car with oil which would mean a trip down to a physical store, probably a specialty store because I need a special length / etc.

You can see where this is going, I found one for $3.98 on Amazon.com that’s a better deal to begin with than those at PepBoys, etc and it’s going to be at my house in 2 days with zero cost shipping.

Yes, I'm late to the party, but still, this service just expanded Amazon from books & media to EVERYTHING for me.

When Amazon starts offering this at a better value than $79 - let's say to all customers that place at least $100 a month in orders - they're going to rule the world.
Does Urban Dictionary have an API?
The carbon has to go somewhere! If it's not being converted to CO2 then what are they doing?
I'm talking about a higher meta-level: to me, it's surprising that the language semantics of what it means to simply type an identifier of a function change based upon the runtime state of the program. This seems crazy to me, it's like A New Kind of Side Effect I'd never seen before.
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hey look, ad hominem!

For the record, that's high school chemistry, and I'm not writing off the potential of the startup. If they can bring costs down, this has potential wherever you'd normally have a backup generator, or wherever co-generation is efficient.

I do call BS on their green claims, just as I'll call BS on the developing countries bit.
You are right in general principle. Relocation to places that make more sense in terms of employment prospects & cost of living is rational and probably efficient. We shouldn't be preventing it.

However, there is a big difference between moving someplace with better prospects in a planned and controlled way and being driven there by crisis. The latter would most likely see the woman in the article move to a cheaper place within 1-2 hours of here current home. This means she would be disconnected from the people she knows and less likely to find employment for both psychological reasons like disempowerment (many of the individual reasons for unemployment are here) and practical reasons (jobs often come from people you know). It is the difference between losing your old life and "ending up" somewhere & going somewhere where the prospects are good.
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I'll be the outlier: as far as I can tell exercise does absolutely nothing for me mentally. I've started exercising more in the last year to improve my health and appearance (to be honest, not in that order), and have gotten some positive results there, but I've noticed no short or long term change in my cognitive skills or ability to focus.
I met a guy at a party who had a startup where people coukld pay to get bespoke hip-hop tracks created (he had several rappers who did them). I was disappointed when I heard he didn't have an API for TTJ (text to jive).
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If used games are a "problem" for publishers it simply indicates that they haven't worked hard enough to give a game replay value.
There's a lot of content that's not simply translation - context, jokes, etc. Thanks for the link
This isn't about trying to translate rap vernacular into something grammatically correct, though. It's about annotating lyrics with all of the references and "street smarts" that someone from an outside culture might not know about. Similar to how in high school, we read annotated Shakespeare which explained a lot of the obscure 17th century references that a modern teenager just wouldn't get.

The fact that this is done collaboratively, Wikipedia style just makes it all the more awesome, in my opinion. Great job on this!

edit: Some of these are too hilarious to not share. http://rapgenius.com/10554
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So you don't consider the huge comment threads in response to your articles value-added?
1) curious what kind of CMS is powering this site

2) wanna meet the creator and light up a blunt
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How did this get two points?
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The canvas tag being put to use in retro form.
This is EXACTLY like what I wanted to create for the Io language; I wonder how hard it would be to make this work with the Io interpreter instead of Python...