skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Maybe this is just what you do when you've got a lock on 95% of your market, and you're massively profitable. Defensive maneuvers make more sense when you're executing flawlessly on the offensive front, and you've got resources to spare.
As crad suggests in his reply, never, ever make the mistake of thinking grocery-store chains are managed by knuckle-dragging morons. Grocery retailing is a hell of an interesting business.

A grocery store is like a miniature, specialized Disneyland. Rule #1: everything you see, from shelf height to lighting to back-end IT, is intentional. Rule #2: in the event you see something that looks arbitrary or unimportant, see rule #1.
I'm not so comfortable with making a similar statement about medicine because the rites of passage are implicitly set by government regulation rather than market forces. It's not as if I can start-up a certification program for high-end health professionals which will compete with the AMA's MD designations.

I understand what you're trying to say, but I think this applies to law as well as medicine. The ABA has government-granted privileges, too.
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Eric Schmidt has posted to the Official Google Blog regarding the Ad...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/love-and-super-bowl.h...
Not that its worth much, but it should be pointed out: The block is on Verizon's wireless (cellular data) network, not their FIOS or DSL networks.
I suspect you don't really care about our answers to your title question, and you just wanted to post the link and a quote from this paper. All of which is fine with me, by the way!
It's way more likely that the results that came up for the AA flight were not exactly what was requested (although 100% what I'd want to see if I was searching for one of the other items on the page).
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Ask HN: Please review my Twitter search appendage
URL: http://twhittler.com/

Summary: twhittler is an interface to Twitter search that helps you "whittle down" search results by hiding tweets from any user you want.

I whipped this up after being frustrated at all the spammy or irrelevant tweets surfaced when I was searching for tweets related to one of my projects.

My questions to you are:
* Is twhittler something that would be useful to you in your work?
* Are there features I could add that would make it better?

Thanks HN!
In my opinion, religion is not compatible with Science. Faith is.

At least incompatible when discussing the level of details that religion usually talks about. I'm not a fan of that.
I'm wondering how long it'll stay that way, personally.
The dudes I talked to at the Network Repair Bureau said they'd been pretty slammed tonight. =/
You partly right. I was sure that the mighty filter would have chewed it up and that I would have done the author and the community a disservice submitting it with a different title. I believe in not changing article titles.
I'm continuing to update this post as I get information... stay tuned!
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"A Verizon NRB rep said their center has been deluged with phone calls"

Didn't see that coming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=128IR21ZQa0

Time for Verizon to sell off any yellow vans, change its myspace password, and buy a dog
I only flipped through about ten pages of thumbnails, but as far as I could tell every photo on their stream is accompanied by a link entitled United States Government Work which points to http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

A work that is...prepared by an officer or employee of the United
States Government as part of that person's official duties, is
not subject to copyright in the United States and there are no
U.S. copyright restrictions on reproduction, derivative works,
distribution, performance, or display of the work.

I agree that the notice on their profile could be worded better, but I think they make the copyright status of the photos crystal clear by consistently linking to that summary of the relevant laws.
What "women in technology"?? I've been working techy jobs since the mid 70's. The only "women" I've met are "techy in name only". Can't get into any kind of serious discussion that doesn't involve oprah or some kind of evening sitcom or daytime soap.

Can't recall even one who could pass any kind of serious technical quizz.

Women are good in HR and as CEO's but if you actually want technical work to get done you should be avoiding them.
I'd rather wait for more information to come out before deciding if I want to be outraged or not. For all we know, the block isn't targeted at 4chan specifically, but the IP's to try and fight a DDoS (which is, iirc, what happened with AT&T). Verizon's FIOS network might be able to handle the extra traffic from such an event, even if their wireless network can't.

One interesting thought is: if a DDoS is the case, it might speak a bit about how the network would survive if Verizon got the iPhone.
After your YC startup fails, you have 2 less years of your life and "failed startup" on your resume. After graduate school, you have letters after your name that makes it easier to get jobs.

Just sayin', this article is very fanboish. Startups are for people that want to do startups, not for people that want to "do something" after college. In many cases, starting a startup can be a bad decisions. (And in some, like Google, it can be pretty good.)
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I know that. What I don't get is why they chose that over JSONP, which solves the exact same problem by using <script> tags and a callback function.

Their solution seems to work well, anyway.
There used to be a pop-over when visiting a repository when not logged in. Perhaps that was changed recently (within the last week), because I can't reproduce it from my home machine.
At the moment the page loads on my Verizon Wireless Blackberry.
Far be it from me to suggest that YC is not good for people, but...

After school, you get a job. After YC, you create jobs.

Not necessarily.

You repeat the works of the greats in school. YC expects you to do original work.

There is value in standing upon the shoulders of giants.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
I think that is because of reproducibility. People are bound to repeat the searches in the ad and they will usually turn up sufficiently similar results to make them think "it works". On the other hand, "I'm feeling lucky" is much less likely to yield the same result.
(also, thanks for putting this thread together)
Can we agree that it (according to the depth of the article) that this decision wasn't made based on statistical analysis, but rather just ratings? "ohhh... a bunch of people judged our video and liked it! Statistically we can't NOT do it!"

Please stop attributing everything "scientists" do as hyper-analytical. It's not like the analysis they did was more complex than what takes place in any focus group - it was just scaled by a few orders of magnitude.

Was it a success? Yes. Was it a success because of statistical analysis? No. It was a success because it was a good fucking ad.
Religion must be empirically based, not philosophically. The problem is modern religion no longer does miracles. You must do mysticism.

Take a nansosecond stop watch, sample it when you press a button, use the number as a mystical random value. Or, just crack-open a book randomly.

How can you think the brilliant Greeks were stupid believing in an oracle? You really think they deluded themselves?

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I'd be more likely to read it if it was just "Fuck" (it makes me curious), and then I'd be more likely to upvote it once I saw that that actually is an appropriate title for it.
I thought that blackberries had their own network? Wasn't there was a big outage for blackberries awhile back that didn't affect other smartphones?
I had exactly the same idea with you - before I read the article. However, I changed my mind after reading it and pondering over some of his writings. For example fucking brilliant will not offend but fucking idiot will and then that donkey stuff threw me totally out.
If you're paying to go to grad school, you're doing it wrong.
With Git, every copy is a mirror.
And after you cancel your Visa, Mastercard, etc., because they are no doubt the same kinds of idiots, how are you going to pay?
A failed startup is not necessarily a bad thing. Depends on a lot of factors like how far it got, what funding was used, and challenges that were overcome.

A person who has business, financing, customer, technical, and product management exposure is likely a very promising asset to a company.

How often do you find those qualities in a graduate student where academia itself gives you little real world experience? Need some good internships to back up that degree.
I went back and looked, and on my three newest sites, Bing was first by several days. Oddly, Yahoo is my most frequent on those. Not the case with older sites.

Maybe it's more random that I would have imagined.
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When you think about the tiny margins grocery stores survive on (1% is the commonly quoted stat), it's easy to see that they're forced to be well run. Make many mistakes and they're out of business.
In addition to building up the Google brand, this ad introduces many viewers to uses of Google they weren't aware of (finding how-to's and advice, tracking flights, translating phrases, etc). Remember, a large number of people still don't realize you can use Google for more than simple keyword searches:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8hthy/anybody_els...
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why not just throw a hash function in the middle? technically you're not increasing the search space for a brute-force attack (but that's not the goal), but you are probably slightly increasing entropy. and most of all, you avoid bad PR like this. :)

that said, it's probably still quite expensive and this PR isn't that bad.
"Note: Users with mobile browsers that proxy (BlackBerry, Opera) won't necessarily have issues accessing the boards."
-Moot

http://status.4chan.org/index.html#7155425685835498189
You're missing the point. Google feels a need to respond to Bing, which it hasn't before. However stupid you may think the ads are, Google is responding as if Bing is a (potentially) legitimate threat.
SF startup book club
Hi all,

We're doing a startup book club. Books about tech products, business, managing software projects and companies, etc. Like: The Mythical Man-Month; Amazonia; Design of Everyday Things; Peopleware....

The first book is Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers. Order it here: http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-High-Tech-Mainstream/dp/0066620023

We're meeting Sunday, Feb 28th, at 2pm at the Starbucks on 2nd and Market. We'll be discussing the book.

We're mostly in our 20s and we work at startups or big tech companies. Email me at aarlo@aarlo.com if you have questions or are interested.

Aarlo Stone Fish
Yah, I mentioned the DDoS issue in my post and in an email to moot. We'll see what happens.
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Most BIOSes are written in a mixture of assembly language and C. Have a look at www.coreboot.org if you want to get into more detail. The BIOS found in a typical PC is rather large, 1 MB is common.

The flash memory is programmed in the factory before being installed into the motherboard and can also be reprogrammed in the field. There are other technologies, such as JTAG which allow you to reprogram flash memories. In effect, part of the memory contains a very simple computer (if you dare call it that) which will communicate with an external device to perform the task.

Older technologies, e.g. EPROMs used high voltages (as in 12V vs. 5V) to program what was in effect a huge array of capacitors which could be erased by ultraviolet light. Before them ROMs were actually programmed by changing the manufacturing masks.
Can you expand on this idea? Law school can be expensive but worth the cost, for counterexample.
A lot of web masters in India receive their payments through Paypal. Everybody is stuck.
Most people don't go to grad school to start companies.
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They were also removed from the city of Santa Maria, California (my in-laws live there).

One theory I heard was that an excess of expired/unregistered vehicles made it difficult to issue or collect on citations.
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Think interface - not design
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Sorry, upvoted you by mistake.
(I realize--hope?--that everyone else has moved on from this thread.)

"what you posted is IMHO quite insulting to HN posters"

If it is insulting even with my comment just above that praising an article that itself criticizes the very kind of tribalistic behavior I was ironically exhibiting, then maybe more of those voting should have read the article itself and taken its message to heart.
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Grants, stipends, fellowships. Teaching, odd jobs, seasonal work. Of the writers I have known, none "made a living at it", but few of them stopped writing because it didn't pay enough.

Writing as a profession has always been a rough road, subsidised by elite patronage and government arts programs. Most commercially successful writers barely move themselves above the poverty line by the proceeds of their book sales.

tl;dr It's art. It doesn't have to pay to be worth doing.
In the USA all potential costs from fraud go to the credit card company, not the consumer. This fact excuses a lot of stupidity, because the company bears the risk. In Britain the laws are, I understand, rather different.

If your bank is providing a US based system with British liability rules, then you've got a real problem and I pity you.
I'm assuming that the author is not referring to post-graduate professional schools, e.g. law and medical school. In these cases its more or less impossible to get into the profession without the degree.
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Thanks both links they are very useful. I am interested to create a virtual reconstruction of a pre-historic society and the idea came to me that if I write it using the right tools I might be able later on to create a game out of it or maybe spinoff a meta-language for such problems. To be honest the learning curve frightens me as well as costs.
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Clojure's persistent data structures implementation is so good that I wish it were maintained as a separate library, which could be used independent of Clojure (for example, in Java or Groovy). I wonder if the existing implementation will survive the Clojure-in-Clojure transition.
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I just did a year-end customer survey. I used a Google spreadsheet/form.

I considered incentivising it, but chose not too in the end.

"Incidentally, you might think that you’d get lower quality feedback from incentivized users. I did not get that impression from reading the results, but I can’t reduce that to a simple statistical measure."

I'm curious what gave you that impression–just the fact that people seemed to give honest (i.e. good and bad) feedback?

Also, I'm curious what you think about other incentives–like drawing names from participants and giving prizes? (for situations where you can't simply give free product)
science and religion are compatible if, and only if, you use religion only in areas where science does not provide useful answers. (of course, this is something of a moving target.)
I'm starting to get into Clojure from Python as well. Thanks for this link.

I like how Flightcaster separates their webfrontend tech with the mapreduce backend. So I probably won't make a full switch. Wonder how many other pythonistas are doing the same.
This may be what the person responding to you meant. What I meant was that geeks as in privacy geeks have a mentality (as displayed in this article) that is far different than what a normal person feels. No one I was with said anything about finding the ad creepy, and many of them said it was sweet. All I meant to say was that this article just demonstrates that you should let a guy like it's author be in charge of your marketing, unless people like the author are the only customers you wish to attract.
I'm talking specifically about CS, as CS students would be the main group of people who can choose between grad school and YC. The point is probably valid for all science courses.

Good students get paid to do PhDs in science. That's not generally true for grad school in arts and humanities, but those students would rarely be looking to apply to YC/techstars, etc.
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Except for the childrens thing, what is the bit that makes it harder for women? The article was very long, and children were only mentioned once, quite in the beginning.

Also, why does the startup require the long hours etc? Is there a law in the universe for it? Then it seems curious that the law requires one to work exactly 18 hours per day on a startup. What if the universe decided that to run a startup successfully one would have to work 30 hours per day on it? Then nobody would be able to do startups...
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Also works great for Chess. But horrible for Boxing.
The Bing iPhone app has awesome support for movie times and locations. The Google iPhone app is a collection of annoying pop-out-to-safari links.
I don't know how your cameras are designed but ours (Queensland, Australia) still wouldn't pick this up. They are only meant to activate when a vehicle enters the intersection or crosses the stop line after their light has turned red:
http://www.police.qld.gov.au/Resources/Internet/programs/roa...
Really interesting. I'm curious if there are any iPhone car/racing games that use some of the road techniques described.
Don't you love it when they have 0 comments posted on their blog post.

"Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive. For more information, please see our "

- Guy with ~45K$ of Paypal money, and massively pissed of right now at

1. Lack of communication. (Found it via blogs.)
2. No Email back from support.
Zipcar does the same thing: only numbers and letters. Also, try putting '<' or '>' in your password -- they'll complain about how you're putting HTML tags in your password.

Now why would they worry about that?
Yes! I'm surprised that more people haven't commented on this.

I believe this is the main reason why they even considered running an ad. Most of the examples are contrived to show off little-known but useful Google features. Why else is she in Paris?

Otherwise, the ad is largely celebrating how Google has entered almost every part of our lives. It doesn't really tell us anything we don't know, just associates it with pure gushy sentiment. I guess that's the branding part.
If you're "repeating the works of the greats" in grad school, you're doing it wrong. That's what undergrad is for, and maybe a masters, but getting a PhD is supposed to be all about producing something new. By the end you should be the world expert in your (admittedly narrow) area, and have produced published scientific results that were previously not known to the field.

Overall though, they're two totally different things, and if you don't know which of the two is more appealing to you, you don't have a very good idea of what you want to do. Do you want to advance the current state of scientific knowledge? Or do you want to produce products and services that people will find useful? The two occasionally overlap, but in general they're fairly different occupations.
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It's quite possible to be biased and correct at the same time.
eh, craigslist runs the gamut. I once scored a $200/hr gig back when that was 3x my normal rate off craigslist.
I would pay for that as well :)

Do you know of projects that achieve that correctly ?

I know about custom google search engines with all the big retail stores removed, for instance.
Nervous habit, really.
So it sounds as if nothing has changed, really? If anything, I'd expect more opportunities for writers today, as they don't necessarily need a publisher anymore. Grants and all the other things you mention still exist, I think.
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Stats please? If that were true, people would be outsourcing to the US wouldn't they?
I actually find this kindof odd... I mean, not that I think there is anything wrong with Polyamory- it just, as my parents would say, requires "advanced relationship skills" - something that seems wouldn't be so common in geek culture. I mean, I don't know about you, but I have a hard enough time keeping a relationship with one other person going.
Shut up geek, can't you see this imaginary couple is in love?

I think you touch on another unstated reason for this ad. You could see it in the Youtube comments... people were saying things like "yeah, Google will take over the world, but when they do I will be cheering it on... they're awesome".

People are clearly struggling with this increasing unease they have about Google and online services while embracing them more and more every day. This ad helps them get in touch with their positive feelings. Which is not exactly a lie, but it serves Google's interests.
Two years of industry experience can be a wonderful thing, too. Ideally your job will teach you all the bits of professionalism that your schooling left out (a short list from mine: SQL, SVN, and how to obsessively document everything), and you'll probably get good exposure to an industry. If you want ideas of things which need fixing, work for a living; you'll end up with more than you could ever use.
Perhaps he was thinking more of MS programs for which I think most people pay.