skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Students hone 'elevator pitches' to rise in falling market
The difficulty in this market is that each business has a different need. Each business has different data and requires different information.

So I'd break this up into individual plugins that just work, and that handle a specific problem.

So I send my data into your system, and you have different pipelines I can send the data into that provide me with different intelligence things.

And then afterwards, just approach all the business in the niche directly.
Nice...and free.
Why not try selling it on sedo.com - I purchased a domain there last year and was fairly happy with the way things worked out.
I spent 2.5 years repairing the distance created by my absence during the first year of my first daughter's life.

Its seems like its only now that I've gotten as close and comfortable with my first as I am with my second child.
This is based on extensive testing of the iPads in their classrooms? No, just hype. If this is the normal operating procedure for Seton Hill I would transfer now.
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Work on your family as hard as you do your career:

"A truly rich man is someone whose children runs into their arms even when they're empty"

"My daughter one time said... We were leaving church, like a church party. We were driving home, in the car. And she didn't want to go home. She was like 3 or 4 at the time. I don't want to go to Mommy's house. I don't want go to Mia's house.

OK, we'll go to Daddy's house. OK.

We pulled into our house and she started freaking out crying. Why? She thought my house was the office.

And that's when I realized I needed to start pulling back.

To step it up, be a baller at home"

- Josh James, founder of Omniture

From video originally posted by adammichaelc (I highly recommend the entire 1-hr video for inspiration and a kick-in-the-seat-of-your-pants)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164815
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I think his idea is to measure how much tax income the government has per person, which basically means how much money it can spend on services per person. The problem is that goverment costs for the same services differ. I imagine a doctor in the U.S. cost more than a doctor in Italy, so 12,478 in Italy can pay for more doctor time than 13,097 in the U.S. His tax level measure is also very sensitive to currency valuations. If the U.S. dollar goes up, then the tax level relative to other countries will appear to go up, even though the economy has not actually changed.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1231607
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Well, to be precise India is close to the average of the rest of the world taken together, but not all the other countries and regions are equally close to that average e.g. Germany is a big user of Firefox, China are big users of IE, Russia is a big user of Opera.

It's possible that the causation is the other way round and the large internet using population of India is causing the average to be close to whatever it's value is, but I don't know if the facts back that up.

India's big difference from the world average is low Safari use and high Chrome usage (14%).
I'd like to have coolthingtodo.com and host a site where people could share cool things to do in different situations.

For example:

* When you're drunk and think you got a cool new domain name on your mind -> Write it down on some note and only buy it the next morning
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The celebrity effect
Personal allowance is ~£6.5k, leaving £23.5k. Then basic rate is 20% of that which is, er, £4.7k. I have absolutely no idea where I got £7k from. Sorry about that. So yes, my numbers are too high by ~£2k. So presumably it matters that I didn't include some other more obscure taxes -- inheritance tax, stamp duty, import duties, etc. Key point: there are lots and lots of taxes, and what Mankiw is looking at is the ratio of total tax revenue to GDP, or population, or whatever.
It's two hours of liberal opinion news during primetime. They are the flagship opinion shows on msnbc. But yea, they are just two people out of thousands that work at msnbc.
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Who is writing these tests? Are they standardized, or does each maintainer have to write their own?
I love the concept of dateahipster.com, however its been my experience that hipsters hate other hipsters.
something about that guy reminds me of Don Mattingly.
"loses more than they gain in controlling the market and shutting out competition from new entrants with their own patents"
Infrequently Asked Questions of FAQs
Which wines?
Some people are just afraid of learning, or never discovered that it could be more than grinding away for a boring teacher. Or they are afraid of falling behind at the "real work". You could try to help these folks with enthusiasm and gently leading through the learning process. If it works, great!

Other people probably have a combination of low IQ and highly-focused attention [1]. Most of this is probably genetically determined; there is nothing to fix, although it will continue to improve into their mid-twenties. These folks are perfectly useful, and even trainable, but management must understand their cognitive limits. They are not so good at solving problems ill-suited to their existing mental tools, and even worse at recognizing the possibility of other approaches. Higher-order systems are probably especially difficult for them. Understand that they can exude confidence even when walking straight into an architecture tar pit. Do no let them drive the high level strategy, and fire 'em if they try to dominate the discussion.

[1] The converse of attention deficit "disorder".

EDIT: fear and activity for the sake of activity create focused attention. An organizational culture of compulsive activity and rapid action can cause this is anybody who buys in to it.

EDIT AGAIN: The opposite of compulsive activity is play. Make a regular game out of trying things just to see what they do.
Honestly, I doubt it. They'll remember the makeup probably, and likely little else. Unless your hair is also noteworthy, I doubt most would remember it.

I remember the story of the naked bank robber, who got away with it because nobody could describe his face, as they were too distracted by his nudity.
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> 2) They should ask you difficult technical questions

More important is if they ask you technical questions at all. If they don't, they don't have a bozo filter, and you'll be working with idiots.
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I'd like to make dateahipster a soft redirect to chatroulette.
Oh yes, sorry, I wasn't querying the total :) just thinking out loud as it were.

(thinking tangentially are we including employers contribution to NI as individuals tax? because that could account for any defecit)
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Because that would mean "installed by default". And until such software is widespread on the targeted platform, that won't happen.

If the (very low) level of pain of the Apple store is low enough for you, then yes, that's definitely possible. We just need a "Free Software Store". The repository system found in Linux distributions is very close (or even on spot, depending on the UI wrapper). Maybe such a system would be desirable on Windows. That could ease the transition to fully fledged Linux systems.
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Done! Should kick in after DNS updates.
Laughable advertising strategy. I hope they purge some of the dinosaurs who still believe you can lie about the experience you provide in your propaganda.

The statement for AllAboutSymbian however.. Nice to see such levels of sincerity in corporate ethics for a change, a huge contrast to the ad in question.
While the idea of giving away a domain to an interested person sounds nice, the quote that goes something like 'if the world is worth saving, it is worth saving at a price' comes to mind - anyone with any really good use for a domain will very likely be willing to pay you your costs, at least.
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There are several other services, for example one YCombinator company started something like that. I forgot the name, unfortunately. I just got suspicious because of your claim that there is only one service.

If you have any good ideas for solving the problem, I might be interested in putting them into code.

Edit: sorry, I can't even figure out what exactly my6sense does. Their web site front page doesn't say anything, and "take the tour" only leads to a flash video that I don't have the patience to watch. Since the probability that it sucks is 99%, I can't be bothered.

Doesn't Twitter work for you? Or Hacker News? My solution is simple: no RSS, just read what comes up on HN. However, there is still way too much crap on HN, wouldn't mind to filter further.

In fact, for an eternity now I have pondered a plugin that would collect votes from volunteering HN users and extract personal recommendations from it (that is, it would hook into the normal HN voting buttons).
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Just slap a screen on the other side! (God, you know someone is going to do this eventually.)
I dislike the way that massive debates turn into selective replies, and think it would be good to try a debate of 2 sides, instead of a debate of 500 serial replies.

When you visit the site, you see the current state, and you can look down the points and rebuttals on either side and contribute to those bits specifically and 'push' the center line one way or the other.

Tug-o-war style, not HN comment style.

Not sure how well it would work in reality - I'm guessing a bit tediously.
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The appropriate xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/701/
Quickbooks. Quickbooks is the single worst piece of software that I have ever had to deal with on a regular basis. I want to be able to reliably pull in all the financial transactions that occur for my company, and categorize them as quickly as possible. Quickbooks does this, but it fails on the reliably, all, and quickly aspects.

I also need to be able to import invoicing information from my billing software, and match that to bank deposits and credit card settlements.
I hadn't thought about using infographics for a resume, but now I can see that might be pretty useful. Maybe not as a paper version, but something online. However, this particular example doesn't cut it - not enough information on what the person did at each company and the coffee/humor thing is pretty much a waste.
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I would agree that'd be beneficial - and I think at some point it may be worth going for - but for now I think its just too complicated for what we're trying to accomplish.
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I see you aced Straw Man 101.

Did you not understand what I wrote, or do you think that "large san" or "fast interconnects limited to machines in the same couple of racks" count as "scaling?"
Not really. N900 occasionally chokes, but it works quite smoothly.

N900 is definitely not the same sh*t as N97. The UI feels quite good actually.
This answers a lot of my irritations with Sass! Now there are only two problems I have, and I really don't have a good solution for either of them: some of my files are heavy on the indentation making it really difficult to see where I really am when adding new stuff, and I really do miss writing more of my CSS on one line.
I see a lot of Chrome installs in the old computers in my college now - simply because it is much faster than IE/Firefox.
Base case.
Good idea. I'd have loved someone to have taken it and turned into a story-based episodic webcomic poking fun at hipsters looking for love and their place in society.That takes real talent and hardwork though so I guess it's best to direct it to chatroulette...
Threads like this are how HN starts to become like reddit. I stopped reading reddit because of threads like this. The fact that this is the #1 post at the moment makes me think HN is overdue for another "Erlang Day".
Besides the kernel, BSD systems aren't entirely GNU free. (They use at least gcc.) You could change the kernel, but replacing GNU is harder. When LLVM and the related projects are ready, that will be another story.
If textbooks from iBookstore is cheaper than paperbacks, this will definitely work!
I knew I would get downvotes. Please forgive me, today I am in a hilarious mood so don't mind the downvotes. And I expect -4 on this one also.

Really, downvotes are liberating.
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The thing with twitter is that there's too much. I get at least 20 tweets a minute, most of them containing links.

And more to the point, people on twitter share for hundreds of their followers, I can't tell if it's going to be awesome for me specifically until I click ... much like with RSS feeds.

The problem with crowd-sourcing (HN, slashdot etc) is that the crowd invariably degrades to the least common denominator and given enough time will become just like youtube comments. So that's not the solution either.
The only thing missing for these Javascript/HTML5 iPhone apps is a way to package them so you could publish them on AppStore.

I know people can bookmark the app but the AppStore is also a great venue for people to discover your app.

Another nice thing would be to be able to mix native code with Javascript code.
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For what use cases?

I'm strongly considering getting one myself to run MythTV, but I don't see how one could replace my laptop, even though it never leaves the house.
What's incredible is that Americans pay all these taxes, but get few of the benefits. The average UK citizen pays $617 more tax, but gets healthcare, and decent public infrastructure (see ASCE's infrastructurereportcard.org). Also, US healthcare eats up 16% of GDP, compared to ~10% in the UK and ~12% in France (source: Economist).
I'd like to make an experimental semantic relevance matcher for twitter on TWANQ. The plan is to analyze and relate tweets using OpenCYC (or even WordNET at first, but I want to try and drop OpenCYC in the mix). It would enable you to possibly start meaningful conversations with people in your extended social graph (the degree of separation would probably be set by a computational limitation on the server-side).

Edit: If anyone has experience with OpenCYC or is interested in collaborating, please get in touch via srdjan@filmit.si
Wow, that's really, really cool. How'd you swing that?
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Showing invisibles in your editor goes a long way towards helping with the first.
Have you tried/seen LiveMocha? http://www.livemocha.com It's social networking for language learners, mixing and matching native speakers (I have no affiliation with them).
Come on HN, you can do better than this!!
Pepsi gets a makeover: Taking the challenge
"Ain't we got all the fools on our side? and ain't that a majority in any town?" - Twain
Telstra appoints new BigPond chief
LaTeX is more difficult than word by a single aspect: the compilation step. The fact that you do not see what you get requires you to think a bit more abstractly. It is also less discoverable.

Once you get past that point (and I agree most people won't), I doubt you have to remember more things in LaTeX than in Word. I one case, it's special sequences of characters, while in the other, it's menus.

Also, this wasn't really about ease of use. The TeX back-end is definitely better than Word's or OOO's, and that fact ends some arguments. A well integrated WYSIWYG on top of that would be great, though.
I think this is what you're referring to: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ag-R_ZlGO21NdE9HSWRk...
I really like the way that this is organized as a FAQ itself. It has a very nice completeness to it in that way.
Very nice article.

I especially like that the article itself is laid out like a FAQ, with all headlines being questions.
Have a look at: http://www.appcelerator.com/

I've installed it, had a quick play around with it and have a 'hello world' sort of app on my iPhone. Just need to clear a few things off my plate before I can focus some attention on it and try to use it to build something substantial.
Technically, both. You use knowledge of the cascades to design the antipatterns.
Going the non-standard way sets really high demands for a CV. This is an interesting take, but I do feel I don't get enough data. And isn't that the goal of a good infographic? Showing a lot of data in a better way than with raw text. It's a very good start, but not quite there yet.
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A problem to some (and definitely for me if I ever used the service), but this is amazing publicity. Even with this problem, Chatroulette is still insanely popular.
FAQs have become so ingrained in the culture of the internet that a lot of people think it is an absolute necessity when building a new website.

I've seen a meeting about website content turn into a brainstorming session to come up with questions that a visitor to the site might ask. So instead of just not having the FAQ initially and waiting until a question is asked a few times to add it to the FAQ people come up with all sorts of ridiculous questions that will never be asked by any real user of the site.

Seems like not the best idea.
While that may be true I don't see how it relates. From what we know FathomDB claims linear, cost-efficient scalability over a fully featured relational database. That's quite a feat, even if you do it "only" in one location.
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Ask HN: Should I create one website or many?
I am trying to start some websites in the anticipation of getting enough traffic that I might make few bucks for pocket money. I am now confused if I should create 'one website or many' because essentially the content is such that it can also be put in one website.

I think if I create many websites then it might help individual PR of the site which can be utilized to make other projects build up on that. How should I go about it?

Edit: Sorry, I should have been more descriptive.

The content is all created by me. Everything is custom and it's about infographs. I shall be creating infographs on many topics which essentially target the web users who want to spend some time reading random facts and information.

It'd be something like good.is

Now I can either get a domain name about the "fastest animals" at fastestanimals.com and just put the infograph about the fastest animals there

OR

I can get a domain like randomfacts.com and put all the infographs on one website.
I figured it would die quite quickly.. however apparently not

This was posted a few times ages and ages ago so I don't think it really counts as a "reddit" claim :) (though the commentary this time isn't as good - could just be because it is old)

A little light heartedness is never a problem IMO.
I didn't get the impression only bad data was fixed, instead they used model misfit to highlight deficiencies in the model (it didn't account for all information, namely the motion of the satellite) and then updated the model.

The question becomes at what point does adding more degrees of freedom to your model lead to overfitting, though for reasons I've never felt fully confident in, Gelman tends to assume that Bayesian methods don't overfit.
Admitting your mistakes is a good start. The question now is whether Nokia have actually learned their lesson and if that lesson is the right one.

Statements like these, though:

"It happens every now and then in a big company, like Nokia, even if you have the most stringent quality control mechanisms."

and

"We have taken the learnings and when Symbian^3 comes out you can rest assured it will be perfect."

and

re:early adopters not getting answers from Nokia about the issues they have encountered - "Like I said, that was a surprise to us. It was not expected."

make me suspicious that they have learned anything.

First these are not QA issues. The problems with N97 are not a result of obscure bugs that could have slipped through. The problems are result of bad design and development decisions. Unless Nokia is staffed entirely by blind and mentally retarded people, they cannot play the surprised-that-our-product-sucks card. And it is very discouraging that Nokia - the biggest mobile phone maker in the world and a company with decades of experience in the telco and mobile phone business - is just learning that user experience is the most important concern they should have when developing a new product.
Bravo, very insightful. Particularly the comment on play.
Please don't do this:

You seem to be using Internet Explorer. I strongly suggest downloading Firefox. I think you'll like it better:

· Firefox blocks pop-up windows.

· It's more secure against viruses and spyware.

· It keeps Microsoft from controlling the future of the internet.

· It's better for web designers and developers.

· Features like tabbed browsing make reading webpages easier.

Click the button on the right to download Firefox. It's free.

Continue without Firefox >>

There are millions of us visiting hn and its links from corporate desktops locked down to ie without the ability to install anything else. Save your political commentary for your blog and learn how to deliver browser agnostic client side content.
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ok ok, I never thought this would last so long :( It's not even my joke originally so there is no need to keep upvoting (though I appreciate the sentiment)
Probably not the best approach to get people to upgrade, but entertaining nonetheless.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190974
That hasn't been my experience. Maybe it's not a smooth as an iPhone, but it works well enough for me.