skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I chose extreme examples to illustrate it. But look at it this way: your boss is the least likely person to forgive you for a given offense, because the relationship is more transactional.

The opposite hypothesis seems pretty absurd. You wouldn't argue that, e.g., if you have to disappoint your boss or your spouse, your boss is more likely to remain unconditionally faithful to you.

People don't exploit this, and that's a good thing. But if I were trying to avoid harm in both my professional and personal life, I'd know that personal connections are more loyal, and thus I can more afford to let them suffer in the short term.

I guess health is an exception there. I'm not sure what "spirit" means, but it seems hard to change.
Or more to the point: maybe we should just try something new!
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I don't think she thinks of it as a break, but actually something that enables her to do MORE work :D

As somebody who devoured her twitter, I do feel an absence. But I do think she's working on similar stuff/themes at the moment, as she was pre-Twitter break.
Very true. I'm sure there will be some power apps made for the iPad. It's definitely doable for us to work on the "watered down" machines, but I think the problem lies in the fact that "normals" have been working on the difficult machines. We can create what we want. The "normals" cannot. The "normals" need someone to champion them, kind of like a PC Messiah who will save them from the shitshow that is Windows and difficult computing.
I didn't know that it was called "Bingo Card Creator", but I immediately thought "oh, that must be Patrick's startup" -- so I think that qualifies for "brand awareness" even if I didn't know what the brand was called.
I've actually been meaning to go back through her passionate users blog and reread some of the entries, there was so much great content put up there before she closed it off due to threats.
Quick, Someone write an E-book on LaTex ;)
It's notable because there's a reasonable amount of software released under it, including, for example, some software in Debian's repositories.
Why would it not be?
It's rather ironic how much I had to scroll to read that blog post...
The UI kind of stinks. Good, intuitive front page, but a page dedicated to comments from the site's users kind of stinks - I expected at least a synopsis on that page, even if it was auto-populated by parsing imdb.com
> I wonder though if the additional cost imposed by building code would actually be good for the local economy.

The answer is "it depends".

Some things are likely to have a positive ROI, others aren't. The difference depends on details like exactly what standard is met and its actual costs. Other details include the likelyhood of various quake types.
More power to her. I was one of her followers on Twitter, and I am extremely selective about who I follow (eg. Tim O'Reilly got the boot a long time ago). I have missed her tweets, but Twitter is not a really high value channel for me because I'm not interested as much in what's hot as in true refinement of my craft. To that end I'd rather take the time to read what she has written in longer formats.
I provide support for my code under a "pay it forward" license. i.e. if I provide support to you and help you get my code running, then I expect you in turn to invest the time to clearly document what I showed you. This is a principle of least effort, insofar as I will provide support assuming I won't need to duplicate my work for the next guy. It also means I don't need to needlessly document things that people don't care about. This is similar to lazy coding: "throw an exception if this tricky corner-case pops up, and only if this exception trips will I go through the effort to think through correct behavior for this corner case".

http://thisscientificmethod.com/2010/02/28/this-is-an-experi...
Definitely do it. Also, there are at least 2 full length keynotes gave at different conferences around online (and many shorter videos as well).
Poll: HN Brand Awareness
Which companies have you a) heard of and b) know basically what they do?

I got to wondering how much brand awareness occurs on HN with companies/people that post here. To see posts about them on HN, use searchyc.com, which is what I used to generate this list. Note: I reposted this poll with a shorter list.
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Ask HN: Best payment gateway for storing credit cards?
I'm needing to implement a pay as you go service where you'll put in $5 and that amount gets used up over time as you use the service. Then the user can have an option to auto-refill when they run out.

With this, I'd need a payment gateway that supports storing credit card info and billing at irregular times. Gateways like Authorize.Net can support recurring billing, but it is only at fixed intervals like a day, week, month, etc.

I'd also like a payment gateway that has low monthly minimums. This isn't going to be doing a lot of volume.

Some options I've seen...

* Authorize.Net's CIM service... haven't seen pricing on it, probably varies with each reseller.

* Braintree's Vault... comes highly recommended, but last I heard they still have a minimum of $200 in monthly transaction fees.

* TrustCommerce's Citadel service... read it is $10/month with $0.10 per stored card per month. With a "pay and refill" type service, that could get costly if the user uses the service once then disappears. Would perhaps remove old card after 6 months.

Anyone know of any others?
Honestly, this is more about the general attitude than your post. You were pretty reasonable and acknowledged more of what's going on than most others. Sorry I chose to vent on your post.
> "The ends justify the means"

Of course the ends justify the means. What else is there to justify the means?

The real issue is that the means produce the ends. How often do good ends come from bad means?
Great story! Have you considered video?

http://videocarlot.tv
They have a great opportunity to twist Microsoft's arm with HTML5. Chrome's the fastest browser out there now, and it will be the only option on some devices (ChromeOS/Android). Also, if the Firefox folks don't have the manpower/funding for a good HTML5 implementation, it will be no skin off Google's back to help them out. So, if MSFT doesn't come up with a good implementation in IE9/10/whatever, they risk being the odd man out ["For best results, use Firefox, Chrome, or another HTML5-compliant browser for this site."] Microsoft would have no choice but to completely concede the user experience to an abstraction layer built on top of its cash cow.

And, what chips has Google actually put on the table? One thing might be that they aren't putting out a set of Open Source but non-standard plugins for Chrome/Firefox/IE to replace Flash. Google is implicitly taking the risk that Adobe will implicitly own the web if more and more sites standardize on Flash-based stuff. Perhaps, since it's more likely that the world will rally around HTML5 than around Google's Flash competitor (or Silverlight), Google is actually adopting a least-risk strategy?

Also, for all we know, Google has a set of plugins waiting in the wings should HTML5 die on the vine. It was rumored that Microsoft had a version of Office for Linux ready to go should the desktop market tip so heavily out of its favor that it risked losing its Office semi-monopoly if it didn't support Linux.
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Reposting my comment from the original poll: I didn't know that it was called "Bingo Card Creator", but I immediately thought "oh, that must be Patrick's startup" -- so I think that qualifies for "brand awareness" even if I didn't know what the brand was called.
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This is an interesting poll; what do you plan to do with the data once it's been a little more filled out?
There will always be machines for us

If anything to be able to develop these or for these simple machines.
Based on other similar package/eBooks around at that time and the price it cost me to run AdWords for 1 day.
The initial market research w/ AdWords can also help choosing a price. According to my tests, I guessed I could sell one book per day w/ ads, which cost ~50$/day. I thought $50 was too much, so cut it back to $40.
Part 4/4 ends before the interview is over. It looks like they were re-submitted as a 5-part, but there is no 5/5.
A domain costs what, $8/year? WheneveR I get an idea and there's a good domain for it, I buy up as many as I can of .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .biz, .us, etc. I paid $1,400 for my last important.com .. so dropping $100 to buy up all of the related domains isn't that big of a deal. I think I maintain about 250 domain names right now, but $2,500/year isn't that much money in the end.
Thx a lot! I'm also surprised by the low quality of most products on ClickBank & other sites. That's why I'm talking openly about it, I'm sure most geeks here could do way better then everything on those sites.
No plans; just wondering.
Someone please make a paper-killer application. I love working with pen & ink because there are no distractions and the form factor is awesome for free thinking. I want those thoughts to get permanence. I'd love to be able to jump into a mini-drawing program as well.

For app makers, I could see the tablet as an extremely fast prototyping tool. You could draw up a mockup, add some hooks for click through transitions, maybe some data entry. I could make a full application mock in 10 minutes. I know, I've done it before on paper, but with clumsy transitions (i.e. now look over at this other picture).

Also, I've been colaboratively drawing with my 3 year old a lot. We just draw different parts of a big sheet. I'd love to do this on the go. In fact, I think this is a whole application class that is growing on the iphone: kids apps. The difference with the iPad is that they can be collaborative. The education apps will be awesome.
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"before you tell other cultures how to live"

I didn't. I asked you exactly what you meant, as I am skeptical of your vague claim, especially when it comes to details I mentioned above.

I'm sorry that it's hard for you to stand by your words in a civil way.

EDIT: Folks, vote this down as far as you like. I don't take kindly to someone pulling an accusation of racism out of his ass because I had the effrontery to question him.
Do you mean UIControlEventTouchDragInside/UIControlEventTouchDragOutside?
For Chrome users there's http://code.google.com/p/superchromepass/
Rollover doesn't have much meaning, but the start of a touch is analogous to the :active pseudoclass in CSS.
I actually think that lately (viz., reactions to the "Facebook Login" incident) most tech people are forgetting that the vast majority of computer users are not dummies, but intelligent, educated professionals who use a computer as a tool to complete their job.

For example: how many people use Microsoft Excel at least once a week? 100 million people? 250 million? It's certainly a large chunk of the computing public. These are sophisticated users of desktop software, and I can't imagine they'll be putting down their Windows PCs in favor of iPads.

Lately, HN-types have been suggesting that there are two classes of users: the sophisticated software engineer, and the unsophisticated masses. This is both insulting and wrong.
What kind of threats?
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No I'm not worried. I'm just trusting people buying the book like they are trusting me by buying it. I hate penalizing everyone for what some people might do.

Also, it's a pretty small niche and it got good exposure when it came out. I think it would be hard to copy and sell it to the same market again.
The issue is no matter if you are using a column store or simulating a column store in a row store you will have to do tuple reconstruction. Unless all of you queries really only need one attribute this will require at least one join. Some column stores use clever techniques, like cracker columns, to make these joins faster. This is why a column store may perform better than a row store for specific kinds of queries. But if your queries are constantly asking the dmbs to re-construct the a relation with many attributes a row store may actually work better for you.

My point is that the decision to choose your dbms should be driven by, the kind of data you have, and the kind of queries you are going to run. If performance really matters to you, you should really do some empirical testing before choosing the technology. Both there is some give and take here, one is not definitively better than the other.

That said I agree with you that this is a bad solution don't simulate a column store with a row store it won't perform as well as a good column store since it is not optimized for tuple reconstruction.
"Use EJCKVpVpqdGUDCQgHVwWkc as your password."

Yeah, I don't think so somehow.
All you really need is a scary "programmer mode" on the iPad that lets you be root. Does anyone have any guess as to whether Apple will allow that? Presumably if you could be root you'd be able to get around whatever horrible drm they're planning for iPad as paywall on the client. Does that mean they'd never allow it?
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These kinds of licenses are cute, but you shouldn't use one as it just makes life harder on those that might adopt and patch back into your software. Additionally, in this case, the lack of a disclaimer of warranty in this particular cute license is ill advised.
Death threats. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6499095.stm
The whole situation was weird. Though she specifically was targeted, it seemed like the site the threats came out of was a group of generally angry, lame folks who lashed out in all directions constantly. I could barely understand it at the time (though I of course would have freaked out in her shoes, as the language was so specific and graphic.)
Can we declare this "startup scenester" thing to have officially jumped the shark now?
So that's it... I need to uninstall FontExplorer. I have been using Safari to view Github and other sites whose text turns into [A]-like characters. Very annoying.
That is why I find all of the iPad vs laptop/netbook/whatever silly. They are invariably comparing some excellent value, highly functional Amazon best seller to the iPad. That's not what it needs to be compared. Noone is going to be sitting there deciding between an iPadn & an Eee.

The real comparison happens where the real choice happens: at home. There is a nice new ipad on the kitchen table and a 3 year old computer in the other room. The computer has all sorts of crap installed on it, gives off 4 alerts a minute, takes 5 minutes to boot. It's tied to the power point because even thought it's a laptop, the battery died 2 years ago.

That is where the decision will happen.
They've never allowed it on the iphone/ipod touch. Thats what jailbreaking gives you.
Does Kathy's approach resonate with you? I'd love to talk to you about Packt Beginner's Guides books. Email me on davidb@packtpub.com

Just in case anyone misses it right down in the bottom, it looks like the author is an acquisitions editor with Packt and is looking for authors willing to take a Kathy Sierra approach. That might interest more people around here than the whole post does..
IQ is a measure of capacity, not a measure of the current amount.

IQ is a bucket. Even if you have a 5 gallon bucket, you can still only put 1 gallon of stuff in it.
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I guess hellonwheels.com was already taken
I doubt they're going to allow it. Doesn't matter, since the device will probably be jailbroken rather fast and some dev tools are already out there as iPhone apps. I remember having terminal pre app store days on iPhone v1 when I jailbroke it.

I think jailbreaking on the iPad is going to be a very interesting thing. Jailbreaking your phone was kind of a scary proposition because you'd lose your phone if it got bricked and not be able to get the $200-$300 subsidy on replacement,etc. With the iPad, the worst case is going and buying the equivalent of another computer at the same price.
"While blogging feuds are common, she believes the campaign against her is more likely to be because she is a woman in the male-dominated technology world."
Yeah, but it could be because they assume no one would want to do development on such small devices. Whereas it might actually be optimal to develop some iPad apps on the iPad. I should just ask the guys at Apple...
I think the idea of one company controlling what people may do with computers is pretty horrible. I hope this doesn't happen, and would rather develop or invest in something that could make the iPad fail than something complementary to it.
How many of those people regularly use excel at home though? Not a large percentage I would suggest.

I can see home user switching to ipad like devices simply because if their covenience.
One particularly interesting subproblem is how to introduce iPads into big companies.

There's already an app for this, keynote. The iPad is perfect for sales presentations hooked up to a projector or by passing the tablet around. You can edit on the go and email the deck. It's easy to slip from presentation to app demo.

The only thing missing is easy wireless printing from the iPad or iPhone. Opportunity here?
Draftmix is now BlueFrog Gaming.
The PSN problem, or how Sony got scooped by its own customers.
Did you contract out the voice acting? The wizard performance during the player setup screens is pretty good.
It doesn't take a _whole_ lot of familiarity with the other systems to see which of his criteria they failed.
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Can you post here after you've done that to let us know the results please?

I don't have FontExplorer installed...
Are upvotes not being counted on polls or do polls not rank like other stories or something? Seems to be a lot of people voting, but it doesn't hit the front page.
You say "root", but do you mean, "root"? There's a difference between "more access that permits development" and root.

I want to be root. When it comes to deciding what code runs on my system, I want to be the final decider. I want to be real root, not sandboxed root. See: PS3 Linux. I suspect the Apple of today would give us sandboxed root and tell us to like it or get bent.
There's a great comment in this[0] Reddit thread that explains that while the quake in Chile registered higher on the Richter scale, that scale is not appropriate for judging the affect a quake has on buildings on the surface. Using the correct metric, the Haiti quake was far more damaging. Which isn't to say that building codes wouldn't have made a difference, just that the obvious conclusions are not necessarily accurate.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/b794q/the_88_chile_...
I think that's rather selfish. He's squandering his talents and the rest of humanity is worse-off because of it. There are a lot of problems in the world and they're not going to solve themselves. I think exceptional people have a duty to use their talents to aid humanity.

I don't mean that everyone with an IQ >120 should drop what they're doing an join OXFAM. The greatest help is usually done through research. Also, people aren't robots with infinite motivation. They have to be interested in their work to perform well. That said, he can probably find something he's interested in that also benefits others.
There might eventually be XCode for the iPad, but I doubt it'll come with root access. Apple doesn't want people developing apps that require root access to run, that would circumvent their entire model. Anyway I suspect the current iPad hardware would have a hard time compiling anything.

No doubt if Apple did make XCode for the iPad it would require an Apple developer license to run. What they seem very keen to avoid is having a cheap compiler or virtual machine or interpreter on the platform that lets people download code and circumvent the App Store. I doubt that they are against people developing on the platform for its own sake.
Doesn't this seem eerily similar to the way Steve Yegge suddenly stopped blogging/removed his public presence? And then _why (whytheluckystiff) also pulled down all his online presences. It makes me wonder if some group of kids is systematically threatening lots of top bloggers.
There is no reason that iPad software won't be as sophisticated as current desktop applications like Excel. What makes iPad really interesting to me is that we may be able to invent new ways to interact with software. The iWork (Numbers) demo in the iPad keynote shows some possibilities directly relevant to your point about Excel.

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/inde... [starts at 1:05:40]
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You don't need to be my neighbor to get help from Microsoft on issues like this.

If you're a startup and you're having technical issues with Microsoft software, please reach out to me. I'm here to help :D
That's not a pyramid scheme.
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1. Who did the design and how much did it cost?

2. Can you show me your landing page for the initial adwords exploration campaign? How much was your CPC? How much did you bid? What was your quality score? (Thank you SO much)
Ask HN: Would you buy datasets of Web authoring methods & the Web's structure?
I want to sell datasets that I create from doing regular Web crawls. An example dataset would be the link graph. I would sell the link graph in chunks of 1 billion edges for a price. The dataset would include the source and destination URLs, the anchor and title text of the link, any rel or rev values, and so on. Other datasets would include the top 1,000 [HTML editors, CMSs, forum and blog software, etc.], big lists of sites using X technology (AdSense, Feedburner chiclet, etc.), how many sites are using which advertising platform, and so on.

Are you personally interested in such datasets? Are there certain niches that would benefit from the data that I should be targeting?

Edit: I should note that I've already done a tremendous amount of work on this project. For example, I've completed each of the datasets I listed above from a [rather small] 10 million page crawl. I'm also running a Hadoop cluster with HBase and I'm using MapReduce for data processing.
I think that's an unbelievable remark! Nobody asks in advance to be born intelligent. Can you think of any other trait one could be born with which you would say bestows someone with a duty to lead their life in a certain way? I sure can't.

What's next? Millions upon millions of people have obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in field X, and gone on to a career in field Y. Well, aren't they squandering all their hard-earned experience and knowledge in X? Were they duty-bound to pursue X instead? What's the difference?

I also think it's absolutely absurd to say someone's squandering their talents and not "aiding humanity" when they have a Ph.D. in physics, they're a civil engineer, and they've published ninety academic papers.
2 months of work for $6000? While making money probably wasn't the only reason for doing it, isn't that a pretty bad payoff? I know you will keep making sales, but (especially for technical writing) it will have a short shelf life...
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