skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is ideas do not exist. It is only when they morph into a tangible reality that they can be tested, verified, iterated on, and developed.

Put another way, an idea can be as great and fantastic and beautiful and groundbreaking as you dream it up to be - but none of that matters if it exists in your head only. Only when the idea enters a tangible reality can you really verify these claims. Does it work? how the hell do you know if it does not exist?

PageRank was verified to be a good idea only after they built a tangible search engine to test it with. And I'd argue their initial idea was iterated upon so much through the course of these real-life tests, that you can no longer give overwhelming credit to some spark of genius that bolted into sergey's head one fine day. It's about testing and iteration in real life not about mystical ideas seemingly sent down from the stars - that to me is why ideas are worthless.
I'm surprised he knew what brands of running shoes or tomato sauce he wanted. Confronted with a selection of functionally identical boxes at the supermarket or shoe store, I frequently stand stymied for several minutes.

Eventually I realize that there is no efficient choice possible on the basis of packaging, and resort to making selections by unit price--or choosing a randomly distributed sample in hopes of remembering the results.
I agree. The fact that Moore's Law has held true for so long has made transistors the most important technology.

In terms of world changing technology, the Deion Sanders Hot Dog Express is a close second to transistors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZyGaVNihK0
Ask HN: I/O Ventures?
Out of curiosity, does anybody know what happened with I/O Ventures? Their program was supposed to kick off at the beginning of this month, but my last correspondence with them indicated that they had postponed it due to a high influx of applications. I haven't heard from them since.
Right, people are free to enjoy living by the ocean. It's just kind of suspicious when a block of people balk at the concept of living in not California like this. Relocations are not that unusual in big corporate world, and most employees understand that their job could get relocated at any time. Most are willing to do that. It is unusual that a whole unit would refuse, and seems indicative to me of an unjustified prejudice. Maybe I'm just overly biased and they all have sick mothers in SF to care for.

And Olathe's claim to fame is not "a list in a magazine somewhere", that's distorting my point. I linked to a whole page of awards and emphasized the most recognizable. I used these awards, and that award specifically, to indicate to people that Olathe is a real modern place, not a podunk with four buildings like people seem to think when they hear "Kansas". I used them in conjunction with other anecdotes and data. You're distorting my argument to marginalize the place, again. I don't why there's so much disdain for not-California among people.

Some people like SF and that's fine. I don't want everyone from San Francisco to move to Olathe. But I don't like how there are just a handful of places that people consider "acceptable" and everything else is "flyover country". There is real life and existence, normal people, normal existence, normal cities with normal roads and normal stores, outside of California and New England. People disdainfully refer to everything else as "flyover country", and perhaps even refuse en masse to relocate to some place as humble as Kansas, surely not big enough to contain those people, and it's just really silly imo. There's nothing wrong with Olathe.

I'm all for people living where they want. I agree that Kansas isn't the right place for everyone. I am simply annoyed by the assumptions heretofore described, and that this group refuses to even give the place a try.
It is mentioned in the CNN article and I wonder how relevant it is; Myspace was once the most visited domain. If Facebook can knock Myspace off the list then surely something newer and more exclusive can knock Facebook off.

Personally I switched to Facebook because it was exclusive to universities and I could see who was in my classes. Now that functionality is gone and pages are being filled with garbage apps more and more. I can definitely see another site that starts off exclusive to some demographic and slowly grows and actually stays 'pure' like the original Facebook beating Facebook.

Also am I the only one unsure how these stats are collected? For instance using a built-in search on the iPhone or in Firefox, are those considered visiting a domain because you reach google.com or do you have to explicitly type it and visit it with no referrer (I think the search bars put in some metadata to identify themselves, could be wrong though)?
A few recommendations I'd make are:

- the duck red curry at Little Thai on Polk and Broadway

- the terolise pizza (spelling?) at Pane e Vino on Union

- the camarones taco at the mexican place on 18th and valencia

- the burger w/ fried egg at chez maman
my hypothesis:

- choose a select group (eg. HNs,friends,family)

-deliberately create some questions that are highly relevant, interesting or controversial so that most visitors of this group cannot resist the temptation to answer.

-whenever there is a change to that question, email visitors so that they will come back and answer or ask more.

- copy most features of StackOverflow

-Some of these visitors may become loyal and then they might bring their friends or at least chat about it.

- repeat the process.

-When you have large enough user base (or question/answer_base), techcrunch or other media might cover you.

- repeat the process and you go big!
I doubt the girls in the bar knew anything about physics, or who he was. If you try asking a stranger in an average bar who Richard Feynman is, I am predicting a bunch of blank stares and trying to guess something along the lines of "actor?"
Most people don't want nor need to train and look like a bodybuilder. Bodybuilders do things that might be great for aesthetics, but not always necessarily straight forward nor healthy for the beginner. If you feel that you are at a decent level of fitness and want to take it to the next level, I would first look at the strength and conditioning programs of "normal" athletes.
Try looking at these: http://www.quora.com/q/What_s_my_incentive_to_post_answers_o...
http://www.quora.com/q/What_s_the_strongest_incentive_on_Quo...
That was before HIV. Still, the pick up artists seem to give similar advice.
No. It's a euphemism for a quantum electrodynamics process, commonly known as pair production. ;)
They are WSGI servers. Which one you choose probably only depends on the speed it can interface WSGI to itself to the client, how reliable it is, and so on. The framework you choose is a different layer, on top of WSGI.
This is one of my favorite quotes from him:

"The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it."
– Richard Feynman

http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/pte/310content/nature/feynman.html
Hey EGF, yeah would love to chat sometime. You can reach me at matthew [at] jukaroo [.] com.
The Facebook Connect stopped me as well. Seeing as the entire Quora team previously worked at Facebook (http://www.quora.com/about/team), including Charlie Cheever who "led Facebook Connect and Facebook Platform" it seems unlikely that this unfortunate requirement will be dropped anytime soon.
Original Windows NT team with Cutler leading it was hired by MS when they left DEC (or was hired and then left DEC?).
One of the most reasonable articles on Microsoft that I've read lately. Their recent products show a lot of potential and I'd be very glad to see them execute well.
FCC Broadband Plan Raises Devisive Issues
"Paradoxically, this means that if you want to avoid stupidities, the way to do so is to become even more stupid. It’s only by repeatedly trying stupid things that you can learn where stupidities lie and how to spot them. Being stupid as a reflex is the best way to hone your “wait, this is stupid” detector and gives you a sixth sense about how to spot those buried landmines of stupidities."

Sorry but that's stupid, and I don't just mean "anti-smart". This guy seems to have a fixation on stupidity. Ok, you need to fail a lot before you can win and things like that, but let's not go overboard with it.
Definitely giving this a go on Friday night.
If there were an AT&T subsidy, I would upgrade from my crappy AT&T Samsung phone in an instant.
Here is a regular expression for C++-style comments

(/\*([^*]|[\r\n]|(\*+([^*/]|[\r\n])))*\*+/)|(//.*)

(source: http://ostermiller.org/findcomment.html )

I recently wrote a lexicasl analyser for a language that uses C++-style comments. My first attempt used regular expressions, but I later scrapped them for something I could understand. Here is the relevant bit:

# //... comments
if ss.isNextSkip("//"):
ss.skipPast("\n")
return

# /*...*/ comments
if ss.isNextSkip("/*"):
ss.skipPast("*/")
return

I will leave it to the reader to decide which is clearer.
Isn't criticizing something (linux, Apache, Java, etc) for poor market share the favorite argument of the Microsoft Fanboy? It sure is in my experience. Those style of arguments show up in the "Windows has all the embarassing security problems because Evil Hackers target the largest market share" canard.
You had me at Sprint, but Hallmark and H&R Block really brought it home. I'm moving!
Red Spot Not What Scientists Thought
I think dwwoelfel meant "famously charismatic" not "well-known physicist"
You're missing all the actual work involved in actually executing on that idea. It is only when this process begins do you develop the idea, iterate on it, and uncover new sub-ideas that actually matter or are more integral to money making or bringing it to market etc than the initial "great idea" in the first place. Looking over these comments it seems you are just unwilling to accept that execution is the process of developing an idea into something that has value. All ideas initially are worthless.
Also see: http://www.quora.com/q/How_do_you_build_and_grow_an_active_c...
It's not an addiction like "I'll feel weird for a few weeks". That's not an addiction, that's just a change in habit. It's an addiction in the sense that regular users cannot leave it alone. They won't make it a few weeks. It's like drugs -- some people have the force of will to quit cold turkey and some people luck out and never really develop a dependency, but the majority of users are hooked and need special treatment and help from others to quit. Pornography is the same way.

"Going to work" is not an addiction for most people. Most would be fine to stop going to work; they may languish or feel unproductive now that there's a huge chunk of underutilized time in their day, but they don't have a constant compulsion to need to go to work. Pornography users are addicted in the way that there is a constant, very-difficult-to-resist compulsion to use it again and again. They literally cannot bring themselves to stop using it.

Reading the newspaper does not necessarily steal money, time, and productivity. As long as the practice of reading a newspaper is moderated, it enhances its user by teaching him new things about the world, about his contemporaries, and so on.

Pornography is not some innocent indulgence. It is dangerous and harmful. It cannot ever produce a net good upon its user. It's not like playing a sport or game where effects incidental of the enjoyment are beneficial to the participants. Pornography is always bad.

My opinions are just as good as anyone else's. You are free to do research and substantiate or dissubstantiate them. I'm not interested in finding and providing that research in this context as noted elsewhere in this thread.
I think it works because it takes money out of the equation.

There's a line in a song: "I've got dozens of friends and the fun never ends, that is as long as I'm buying". If the man is spending money to get her attention, how can he not feel like "she wouldn't be here if I didn't have money" and how can she not feel on some level like a commodity being purchased? Your real friends are the ones who enjoy your company without you spending money to garner their attention. It seems to me your real lovers will be much the same in that regard.
A consumer who is proud that he can run on autopilot through a store, guided by brand association rather than rational thought? And proud of it? We have truly entered the next phase of consumerism.
You're assuming what made them balk. I see more assumptions in what you've said than in what they said.
You cut off the quote. Why?

Here is the rest:

"On the other hand, he is the only one who ever explained quantum mechanics to me as if I could understand it." That was the essence of Richard's charm.
In approximately inverse order of importance (sorry about that):

* Misc.:

- Don't like using my Facebook account.

* UI:

- Always find myself hunting for the "follow" button.

- Front page is a visually undifferentiated mishmash of 20ish different questions, most of which contain no more than a few sentences of content. Also: do we really need number of answers, number of topics, follow, star, time, topics (selected arbitrarily?), profile picture, answer snippet, answerer name, answerer description, and answer votes for every single one of these questions? You're making me sort through way too much stuff to decide whether I'm interested in the question or not.

- The options menu is cryptic and poorly located. Ex.: If I want to answer something anonymously, why do I go hunting at the right-hand side of the screen by all the navigational / related links stuff? Put that by the text box.

* Community:

- The personality types on the site are not substantially different from people I already know. Most of the questions (both from my feed and via "All Questions") drip Silicon Valley techie. I'd love to see intelligent questions/answers from people who have lives very different from mine. As things stand, I'm not sure whether, if I were to ask a question, I'd be getting a range of opinions or an echo chamber.

- Answers tend pithy. On the other hand, some of the questions encourage that. Is there some way to see only questions/answers with meat?

Summary: Right now I feel like Quora has a lot of features (too many features) and not enough content, even in what look to be active topics. I don't know how you get people to invest in writing high-quality answers, but that's the question you really need to be focusing on. I would say that you should try to to cultivate a sense of sitewide community, but the siloing of the site into a bunch of semi-intersecting topics could make that tricky.

But then, the only Q&A site I've ever really liked has been Ask Metafilter, so maybe I'm looking for the wrong thing here -- but I don't think so, since, for me, it's the first site that comes to mind when I think of your mission. (Put together a better-indexed version of Ask Metafilter and you'll have a winner in my book.) If I need to ask a short question that can be answered quickly, I'll consider Quora. If I'm looking for significant thought, longer meditations, a diverse range of opinions, or interesting browsing material, though, I'll head elsewhere.
I cannot agree more about skipping breakfast. Skip breakfast = lost weight + less cravings.

Let me add to this list: STOP drinking anything but water past 9a.m. -- coffee until 9a.m. & martinis or wine occasionally at night are fine though ;)

Avoid eating low-fat anything and diet anything.
For tomato sauce, I use the ingredients list to differentiate.
Hey... this is Paul from the i/o team. We're still getting through all the applications. :) We shooting for mid april to have people in the door. So please hang in there.
Great responses. Thanks guys :) I always love to hear how other startups do it. cheers.
I'll be doing the Spanish translation.
The Only Reason Investors Say No
The size of your 'battery' may simply be 60 hours per week, pushing yourself beyond what you can naturally do should be done slowly and with your finger on the pulse looking for signs of trouble.

If you want to suffer what people call a 'burn-out' then try pushing yourself harder and longer than your body can normally sustain, the results are not pleasant, it can take years to recover from something like that.

Your body giving your a warning sign - tiredness - is a pretty good reason to slow down a bit.

One thing that comes to mind is that you may have an iron deficiency or something like that, that's easily checked.
As a threat they're pretty effective at killing successful startups before they start up. I've directly experienced this sort of thing twice (well, I knew better than to sign them but others had).

Note that the lawsuit isn't going to be filed unless you're successful (or starting to be), upon which you're in for a world of hurt. Who wants to invest in a startup where success is going to earn that sort of "reward"?
In follow up, I'm now receiving e-mails notifications about people following me on your site!

There are some major identity issues here. Are you a social network? Why am I getting notifications of people following me, which now I must clear, on a site I'm going to for answers on something specific? These social network tactics were fine for Facebook, but people are over it. You need to deliver meaningful relevant content, not spam users with meangless e-mail to attempt to get them to revisit the site.

Way too much Facebook in your Quora, so to speak.

DOES THIS SEEMS REASONABLE:

Send me an email on:

Question-related

Someone answers a question I'm following

Someone edits a question I'm following

Someone edits details of a question I'm following

Someone adds a topic to a question I'm following

Someone removes a topic from a question I'm following

Someone comments on questions I'm following

Someone edits the wiki on questions I'm following

Someone edits the short wiki on questions I'm following

Someone shares a question with me

Someone adds a related question to a question I'm following

Someone redirects a question I'm following

Answer-related

Someone comments on answers I've written

Someone votes on answers I've written

Someone removes my answer

A moderator edits my answerSuggested edits on answers

User-related

System notifications

Personal notifications

Someone starts following me

Someone asks me to answer a question

Someone shares a question with me

Someone makes me an admin

Someone removes me as an admin

An admin changes the status of my account

Someone edits my topic biography

Someone sends me a message

Topic-related

Someone gives me topics to follow

Someone endorses me on a topic

Someone suggests topics to me

Someone edits the name of a topic I'm following

Someone edits the wiki of a topic I'm following

Someone shares a topic with me

Someone merges a topic I'm following

Someone adds an alias to a topic I'm following

Someone removes an alias from a topic I'm following

Someone deletes a topic I'm following

Someone adds back a topic I'm following

SERIOUSLY?

More importantly, how does one delete their account?
I think it's entirely possible for one person to love Olathe, another to love S.F., and for both people to be right. Arguing about which town is better when the two are so dramatically different is about as productive as trying to decide whether Billie Holiday or Eric Clapton is the better musician.

So go Olathe! And go S.F. And hey... If you aren't in Toronto, Canada you're missing a third great opportunity ;-)
Where has this pervasive notion come from that being a team player means being an ass-kissing yes man?

IMHO, sometimes being a true team player means having the guts to tell management that they're KILLING THE TEAM!
Regular exercise, a proper diet and a pretty strict schedule have helped me maximize productivity. It's very easy to skip working out or push yourself to just 7 hours or 6 hours of sleep, but really it catches up to you as another poster says.
Where is the story about how they actually declined? All I am seeing is their team resume.
Ok, I agree that specific ideas have value. However, I think they're not very valuable regardless of quality, because there is little to differentiate a high quality idea from a low quality idea until they are executed. Then your differentiation takes place after-the-fact, making it useless at early stages.

If specific ideas are to have specific value, there must be a common method of differentiation. How do you tell the difference between a high quality idea and a terrible one?

Finally, if ideas have so much value, how come the market has basically been against the "idea guy", and almost entirely values execution (success = traction, revenue)?
I personally find I do best with a large breakfast before working out and then smaller meals during the day.
I don't think it's about autopilot so much as (shampoo) brands missing a market. As a student, I'm an extremely scrupulous grocery shopper. I compare every item by price per unit, and ignore the pretty pictures on the label because I know they are faked anyway.

When I'm shopping for shampoo, I feel just like the guy in the article. My heuristic now is to buy the largest, plainest looking bottle. But I still have to wade through dozens of bottles of specialty shampoos before I can find one that I want. ("Dry Hair" -- do I have dry hair? I don't know. It doesn't feel wet. "Natural Shine"? Is shiny hair natural?)
A) Work on taking better care of yourself so you have more stamina, mental focus, etc (eat right, exercise, stay hydrated, take your vitamins, etc)

B) Streamline your life in terms of material things that need upkeep and the like. If you have less housework and what not to do when you aren't "working", you will have more time, energy and mental focus for side projects.
I agree. They seem to be proud of their work and would love you to buy more Garmin stuff. If I were Garmin I'd be throwing chairs right about now, I would have de-hired a dev team and a sales force at the same time.
Why is that surprising? I'm sure we tend to have very strong recall when it comes to positive brand associations. Good shoes make your feet comfortable. Good tomato sauce tastes good (yum!). Shampoo, um, cleans your hair. You'd probably be really aware of the brand if you had a dandruff problem, or something similar, though.

I'm sure you know what brand of computer you're using right now or, if you built your own, what brand of CPU, video card, RAM and hard drive you installed in it.

For me, I can tell you without a moment's hesitation that I use the following brands for the listed product categories:

Laptop: Apple

Phone: Apple

Shoes: Puma

Jeans: Diesel

Pasta sauce: Newman's Own

But, with shampoo: beats me, whatever was on sale at Costco.

Interestingly, in 3 out of 4 aforementioned known brands, I almost always shop in their branded stores for their products. (on a related note: I'd love to find a Paul Newman-branded grocery store. that would be killer).
Unfortunately, judging from the context, that wasn't even a joke.
Which is also something you might want to consider when buying Shampoo.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. One thing we do need to work on for sure is making the good content that is already on the site get surfaced better.
This seems to have happened in the late 1930s or the early 1940s (he says "while I was working on the bomb".)

From what I've heard, the US was very conservative at that time; girls & women in general did not have sex before marriage. And additionally was contraception widely available at that time?

The sexual revolution happened in the 60s and 70s. So, this does not make any sense.

Can someone enlighten me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward
http://whenisgood.net/5g99fi
I have used FlightCaster many times and everytime my flight has been delayed, FlightCaster has shown it as on time. I'm wondering if and when it actually works.

Has anyone had a successful delay status notification from FlightCaster?