skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a carpenter shortage in canada, why doesn't he work there
I think this would be really computationally expensive. You can build indexes of words, but building indexes of arbitrary regular expressions is much harder. I think Google did a study and found that even increasing the number of results per page was detrimental to their traffic because the pages took longer to load. If they allowed regex searches their page load times would increase by much more.

However, I would also like a search engine like this. I don't know how to make it profitable but I think it would be very useful.
How much did you try with mechanical turk? My experience is that when describing a HIT (Human Intelligence Task) it takes a few tries to get the results you want. I suspect that if you asked for an entire quiz you'd get bad results. If I were setting up a HIT I would give the user three sample quiz topics and only have them create a single question for the quiz. I would then only use the top percentage of questions answered yet still accept people's responses even if they were not used but still within the HIT's requirements.

Also, I think you can still benefit from seeding some more on your own.
Now we know what you've been up to.
(Alas: I was trying to record it myself, for podcasting, but due to brain fail my voice recorder was set on "pause" the whole time.)

There was no sound system in that room, hence the poor audio quality.
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I'm curious to see how it handles emails and .doc and .ppt files.

Whether we like it or not, a lot of day to day business activities happen through word, outlook, and now, powerpoint. If windows mobile displays those files types cleanly, I assure you it will be a success. Blackberrys let you open those filetypes but I think they handle it pretty clumsily.

For me it would be a huge plus if I could go through a deck or read a long word document without having to always be at my desk.
This reminds me of the following installment of a webcomic called "Partially Clips":

http://partiallyclips.com/2002/09/11/paradox-dragon/

The webcomic version is easily solvable with counterfactuals (I think -- I could be wrong).
doesn't require very large inferential jumps. just formulate a hypothesis that postulates a unique solution and test it.

i'd say the average code base works your brain harder.
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Yep, it is.
Ooh boy, shit just got real: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0439...

> Ian Hickson:

> Since I was mistaken about the formal objection, should I prepare the drafts for FPWD publication now? What date should I use?
well, I suppose its not incorrect to say the roots are medieval, but it is most accurate to lay the foundation of our educational system with the prussian school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system
Oh, yes! Applying the Broken Windows theory of criminology and social order to code (not to be confused with Bastiat's economic broken window fallacy).

A bit like the AntiPatterns thesis that good systems will have good patterns and bad have bad, and little mixing.
Funny how it looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDT21oEhW0
No, Google clearly demonstrated that they are evil.

For whatever reason -- it doesn't matter in the slightest -- they decided not to very carefully think through what type of formerly private embedded information they had garnered through gmail, picasa, and reader. They then went and shared this information in an, at best, very difficult to understand and disable manner with a group of people that I didn't choose nor desire to share with. All in an effort to bootstrap their fb/twitter competitor.

To recap: in order to make money, they shared my private information to benefit no one but themselves.

Dear YC folks: now is a perfect time to write a self-hostable gmail clone.
post keynesianism in a nutshell:
http://www.winterspeak.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Sch...

For anyone that hasn't read JTG, this is his most well known work and I highly recommend it (and his others). Surprised that no one had mentioned it yet as it's highly relevant to the issue at hand.
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"... There are a few indicators for the type of company that I believe can benefit from, and should take, VC. ..."

The question I'd be interested in knowing is, "if SO was in accepted into a YC intake, what advice would SO be given to evolve given the app is built, idea is validated?".
With the massive amount of relational data being created in social networks, there is a huge opportunity in the field of analytics. This particular min-study shows trends in happiness vs relationship status, which could be used for a dating site/app spin-off. In a similar manner, analytics can be used to improve media consumption (video, sound, image, text)-- content aggregation is no longer feasible because too much information is being created everyday, so we must find a way to reduce SNR and provide the user with what he/she needs to see.

I am really excited to see many analytics-oriented startups in 2010.

-Ivan
It's okay if the families and friends of murder victims feel murder as a visceral reality in their lives. It's even okay if that completely unbalances their political opinions. If violent crime escalated to the point that such people were anything other than a small minority, drastic measures would be appropriate.

However, people have a tremendous appetite to vicariously live the dramas of others. The more dramatic, the better. The vast majority of the electorate turn on their televisions every day with an appetite, latent or manifest, to become emotionally involved, and television producers strive to feed that appetite. We can't allow that many people the privilege to say "the actual crime rate doesn't matter." They have a civic responsibility to (do their best to) choose appropriate policy approaches to violent crime. If everyone excuses themselves from their civic responsibilities because they were traumatized by CNN's coverage of Natalee Holloway, then our policies will be designed for a nonexistent hyperviolent world.

Obviously people should put their relationships in perspective, but they often prefer not to. If Ryan Seacrest is murdered today, will his millions of Twitter followers take a deep breath and say, "Well, you know, it's not as if he was really my friend." Of course not. People find it deeply satisfying to join in collective grief and outrage. They'll exaggerate their emotional connection for the sake of amplifying the drama. Nobody wants to be left out.

Of course, no one who is really grieving the loss of a close friend would react that way, but when they're outnumbered thousands or millions to one by voyeurs, do their reactions matter anymore?
Microsoft actually announcing an innovative mobile OS? where? all I saw was a flashy presentation with lots of eye candy and nothing that resembled a real device running anything.

that was as fake as the moon landing. Aint fooling anyone
gold is a stopgap against catastrophe, not an investment in the traditional sense.
I wonder how long the page curl meme will stay around. Movies are still being identified by the analog movie strip image, but will it still be the case in 10 years?
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I wish they would change it back to the way it was when usenet was popular. Years ago, when I was looking for an answer, the first place I would go is dejanews and google destroyed that pretty much... so sad.
Love this already (that is, the source code is a really useful reference for me).
OK, I see what you're saying now. That's fine and true, although I tend to use the words "IA-32 ISA" and "IA-32 assembly" interchangeably. Different perspectives on the same thing, I guess.
Big cargo ships are already vulnerable to piracy and the handful of crew on board does little more than give the pirates some hostages.

If the ships were fully automated, and remote controlled, you could simply refuse to comply with the pirates and just keep sailing wherever you planned.
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Why would they pay a tax to raise money from the capital markets when according to you, they save money by paying a regular salary? And if you were really aware that USG doesn't pay a dividend, then why did you bring it up as evidence that it applies to Warren Buffet?

So far the burden of proof lies on __you__ to prove that Buffet gets most of his income from dividends since all the evidence points otherwise. Not the other way around.

This is basically what you are saying:

Buffet probably earns a lot through dividends in his personal stocks instead of the massive holdings he has from Berkshire, but I have absolutely no evidence. I will also ignore all evidence that the stocks he holds pay out no dividends, and the fact that he has publicly denounced dividends and doesn't pay them in his own billion dollar company Berkshire.

Prove me wrong beyond a resonable doubt.
"The most horrible thing about watching a cancer like this kill your sister is that you can’t give up hope, yet hope is something that you can’t drum up in large doses. Evidence and facts work against that. But still you hope. And pulled between the two, eventually you can’t even breath."

I really have to agree with this statement. My dad was recently diagnosed with stage 3 myeloma at 56 years old and is fighting his way back from what looked like the end. He has a 30% chance of surviving beyond 5 years. Hope is difficult, you hope that he will be the exception, the one that defies all scientific data. But the numbers say eventually the cancer will beat him.

What can you do? Does life stop? Even my father says life has to go on, I am 400 miles away doing my job, paying my bills and he's just trying to keep going.
People in an open relationship are less happy. Why?
Very nicely done.
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I agree, this does help fix the "fastest gun in the west" issue, but I don't think it eliminates the problem.

A mediocre answer that was posted one minute after the question was submitted often has more votes than a well thought answer posted several hours later.

A better solution might be to randomly order answers, regardless of votes, for the first couple of hours (maybe even day). This will further help remove any ordering bias.

I also feel that authors of answers should be hidden for the first couple of hours (or day). Just because John Resig answered a question, doesn't necessarily mean it's the best response.
I never knew people rode bikes in LA, interesting :D
In this land rush you offer would-be competitors a turnkey solution to compete with you. So hypothetically let's say you were going to get into Automotive or Cooking Q&A and Car & Driver (or Cook's Illustrated) sees you get a little bit of traction and they sign up for StackExchange and heavily promote it faster and probably more effectively than you can since they have a dedicated core audience. This doesn't worry you? Or are you going to avoid verticals you can't quickly get a critical mass in?
I think it's really tragic what is happening to the youth in america. they have no power, no wealth, no experience, no education, no skills, no credit... nothing. People who are older have worked and gathered all the above and still, congress gives them more. More drugs to keep them living longer and sapping the system. Free health care. Social Security, reduced taxes in the form of mortgage credits, dividend and capital gains discounts...

It's really pathetic.

Until the younger generation combines their voting power (if they'll start voting at all), they will not be listened to and will continue to suffer. With even 10% pooled voting power, they can control the outcome of nearly every election in the nation, local and national.

If all people aged 18 to 35 vote for the same person, that person will win. If a person caters to that demographic and listens to them and makes the future of America and the world better for them then it will be better also for the older generation.

But the older generation votes and the younger generation does not.
It's mostly flat and the weather's perfect, what more do you need?
So is my grandmother. We've decided not to show her as it would just stress her out.
You are right[1], and there won't be a single linear transform. This page curl will almost certainly be a piecewise linear approximation using a triangle mesh whose vertices are animated according to the user input.

1. The GPU will also support projective transforms - but that won't help here.
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I dropped out of school and later earned a BSc. I found out later that rather than taking the performance of the highest scholarship award you have, some people and companies take the entire history of your education when deciding on jobs or further education. This seems wrong to me.
You seem to be implying that all geeks are unattractive. Maybe the word is a little confusing. If you take it to include physical appearance, then we need another word that doesn't. In other words: I've met enough people with very powerful minds and better than average looks to disprove what you're saying.
Once the entire logistical chain is fully automated the teamsters will have much less power. After all, if you don't need workers it doesn't matter if they strike.
$4000 is a donation to the non-profit Sapling Foundation. The rest is pretty reasonable considering it's a 5-day conference with very high production values. (Except the food, which is kinda hit or miss.)
I never watched Pink's talk, but based on his bio I can see what you are basing your opinion off of. However, it's my impression at least that speakers like that are a minority.
It doesn't help with these old Windows games, but DOSBox provides virtual IPX-over-IP emulation so LAN play works on old DOS games. I wonder if there's a way to do something similar for Windows games?
I never really got into the CC franchise. Was always more of a Warcraft/Starcraft guy.
"You make a lot of assumptions that are not necessarily true."

These assumptions were made by leading economists and bankers(Ben Bernanke, Gov of Bank of England, Treasury sec, etc) and they are also based on direct experience from the great depression, the Asian financial crash/contagion of the 90s, etc.

"people tend to overestimate such things because you cannot disprove them."

The problem is that during a financial panic, you cannot make reasonable estimations. History shows financial panics to be very, very destructive. And in our highly interdependent economies, a financial panic is far more destructive than previous times.

The most effective way to deal with financial panics seems to be bailouts. We may not like it, and rightly so. But what choice is there?
I click ads. They interest me often, but I cannot honestly think of the last time (if ever) that I bought something from one.

The less web savvy the audience the higher the click through, best CTRs I ever experienced were on myspace related sites, my target audience was 15 year old kids judging from profile links I saw.
If you need your columns to be equal height (eg: full-height backgrounds) try http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail/
It's useful to think about your use case. Why would anybody ever make a quiz?

It's much more fun to take the quizzes. The payoff for somebody to take a quiz is to learn something about themselves even if it's meaningless. In comparison, it looks very very difficult to make a quiz with little payoff. Why do I REALLY care about quizzing random people I don't know? I have to come up with clever titles, clever questions, clever answers, etc? I think I'd rather just take another quiz or go do something else.

That said, the main thing I'd do is come up with some interim calls to action between making a full quiz and taking a quiz. Maybe give people the ability to modify existing quizzes. Maybe give people the ability to make a question and give other people the ability to come up with fake answers. Anything at all to give the site some sort of learning curve towards making full quizzes.
Hills. But you have those too. :)
In Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt argued that crime rates in a locality are linked to abortion laws in the same locality a generation earlier.

Basically, in the US, states that legalized abortions after Roe v Wade 1973 noticed a drop-off in crime starting around 1990, whereas states that did not legalize abortion did not see a drop. He claimed that changes in police methods around the same time were not so statistically significant in altering the crime rate.
I think the biggest failure of Buzz is how confusing it is. I think this is one of the most misunderstood products that has ever been launched. I honestly believe about 90% of the complaints we've seen are misunderstandings of how Buzz works, and how the information that it sets up looks to other people.

For example, in my experience the autofollow doesn't reveal nearly as much information as some people expect:

1) It doesn't reveal anything if the person you autofollowed doesn't have a public google profile.

2) It never reveals the email address to anyone who already didn't know it

3) It doesn't really reveal on what level you have any contact with the person, because an outside observer has no idea whether you autofollowed this person or chose to follow them. For example, about 50% of the people I'm following I've never emailed before (and I still don't know their email address even though I've communicated with them through Buzz now).

There are some privacy issues with Buzz, but more than anything its biggest failure is being confusing.
reddit also tried to solve this same problem with their "best" ordering: http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...
Anybody got this sucker rolling under WINE?
"While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of so many laborers, his host told him it was to keep employment high in the construction industry. If they used tractors or modern road building equipment, fewer people would have jobs was his host’s logic

Then instead of shovels, why don’t you give them spoons and create even more jobs?” Friedman inquired."

-- Milton Friedman
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Just a heads up, doesn't seem to work in Opera 10.5 (beta).
Fair point, but you have to consider where the distinctions come from. For example, at MIT I'd be willing to bet the quantitative focus comes from the fact that many engineers who go there pick us business as a second degree as an undergrad. At Chicago, the quantitative/scientific focus stems from the fact that the department truly believes in it as a method of investigation. Chicago is all about the raw data and real life case studies. It's my understanding that many other business departments differ in this respect.

Of course, this is all anecdotal evidence I've gathered from talking to Chicago alumni, so take it for what you will.
The logic I've typically seen is that it's a status symbol, and as a nouveau riche (relatively speaking, because relative is all that matters here) nation, status symbols are hugely important because to have something like that BMW before would've meant you were extremely rich and powerful. It's cultural lag.
No details of how they do it, but: http://www.zebraimaging.com/html/lighting___display.html
Obviously, they would need to target a larger audience if they are going after VC. I can see them rolling out the site to 500 different niches. Image answer sites for home improvement, gardening, small engine repair, microsoft office, botany, project management, cooking...
Special case there, the US Govt isn't a car manufacturer per-se. That's just the equivalent of the Buy British message from the UK government.

I don't see BMW, say, doing these kinds of ads and they seem quite popular.
An environment where capricious and terrible drivers texting surreptitiously in gigantic body crushers are not prolific.

LA has a terrible bike culture. I learned to hate biking down there, and it's only now up in SF that I've started repairing that.
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Who knows? It has negatively affected others already.
Books pack really easily, and they're solid enough to stack almost anything on the resulting box. It's the random junk that's hard.
I'm surprised they didn't remind the reader of 'correlation is not causation.'

I would have liked to see time domain analysis -- so when a person goes from 'single' to 'in a relationship' does one see a pop in happiness? Is it sustained?
"We already have methodology for measuring the happiness of Facebook users: by considering how many positive words people use in their status updates (see the USA Gross National Happiness Index). This method allows us to see whether a person's Facebook relationship status affects how positive and negative they are." (from post, emphasis mine)

No it doesn't. Correlation vs. Causation.

Counter-example: assume these two men (simplifying to single and non-single categories) are equally happy in real life:

Singles' non-relationship status updates: "Jeff is psyched for his Super Bowl party!"
vs.
Non-singles' non-relationship status updates: "Tony is psyched for his Super Bowl party!"
Comparison by Fb methodology: equal happiness level

Single's relationship status updates: [non-existent]
vs.
Non-singles' relationship status updates: "Tony loves his super awesome girlfriend Melissa!!! Sweetheart, you're the bestest gf evarrrr!!!1!"
Comparison by Fb methodology: Tony seems happier.

Conclusion: obvious nonsense. Somebody tell these guys to take a stat class.
I know one of the guys from Dell's early days (he was in charge of DOS and Windows 3.1) ... he said their strategy was to definitely NOT be "first mover" ; instead they focused on being "fast follower", as soon as a technology was starting to gain adoption in the marketplace Dell would try to come out with an offering for it.

This may not work in all cases, but it sure worked for Dell...
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Scarcity does not equal value, if value is defined as "something that is useful." Perhaps the language is deficient in not making a distinction between inherent and assigned value.

Gold has real value as, for example, a material used in electronics. That is about it aside from aesthetics.

Additionally, humans ascribe (nonexistent) value to gold for the reasons you mentioned. You can certainly argue, as some others seem to, that being suitable for use as currency is value inherent but that assumes the necessity for currency. In the past, perhaps.
Ah. I figured it was because we spend so much time in the simulator.
Probably jealousy + lack of emotional gratification.
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"died of a migraine"

Sounds like the equivalent of its head exploding, albeit somewhat slower and more painfully...
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Interesting theory, quite plausible in the web industry because everything moves so fast, as well as almost no barriers to competitive entry.

Luck is so much a factor in timing.
I've read full length books in both devices and the Kindle is far superior. The Kindle has much better button placement. The touch screen barely works. You don't want to be holding a pen all the time while you're reading. And that Kindle keyboard is extremely handy if you like to annotate while you read. You can use Calibre with both devices.
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