skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The print friendly version is hard to read due to unbroken lines. The normal version has too many pages splits.

Does anyone know a good javascript commandlet that will apply good style to plain text?
I think it's more than quite a leap to go from worrying about the marketability of your specific idea to asking about the futility of two very broad fields of research.

I work in NLP, my company has a sentiment analysis product. It's a very small part of what we do, and it's focused on a particular application. NLP itself has a very wide range of applications, some theoretical, some practical, some already in use all day long at very popular websites. Two months is a very short time for complex problems in NLP, believe me.

Regarding tech risk, I think you're taking your particular product niche and casting it to something unnecessarily broad. Polarity detection is just one possible task in NLP, which is itself a sub-domain of AI. It can be done reasonably well without using any real NLP techniques even (hence the crowded social media monitoring scene). That paragraph made it sound to me like you are stressing yourself out unnecessarily about 'solving AI'. It's sentiment analysis (which can be a challenge to get right), focus on that.

Regarding market risk, marketing new technology is a challenge for any new technology, and any given startup will have the same questions that must be asked and answered. The application of your idea may be marketable or it may not be, that has little bearing on the viability of AI/NLP. The best you can do is make sure the company has done due diligence and has a plan, hopefully with some market research to back it up.
In which case you would have windows server machines that could run VirtualPC/VMware/Virtualbox.

The only 'point' of this article is that you can distribute a free windows base image.
What do "Web" and "Sites" mean? I assume one tells us whether China is blocking Google search results.
brazzy is using definition 3:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/people
StackOverflow still generally doesn't come up in my Google searches, maybe because the technical stuff I work on isn't the same as their audience.

For instance, compare the number of DB2 questions to the number of MySql questions: 363 vs. 14567

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/db2
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mysql

Experts-Exchange and various other sites of that ilk sadly have much better coverage of some topics.
I presume "Web" is the main web search, and "Sites" is sites.google.com
Web = Search Results; Sites = A Google Apps product and personal websites hosted by Google
There are actually several ways in which LeCroy could have protected the input against moderate overvoltage and ESD, such that repairs could be made without replacing the input hybrid. If nothing else, the guy could buy another half-dead scope on eBay for a couple hundred bucks, fix his bad channel, and have a near-complete parts donor left over for future repairs.

If he's the sort who's afraid of replacing the battery in his iPhone, he has no business monkeying with oscilloscopes and such anyway.
Is there some scientific methodology for this kind of trial?

If I knew I was participating in an experiment and I get presented with this kind of artificial test then I know they are looking for some kind of response, and my actions are highly liked to be influenced by the fact that I know I am under observation.

According to the paper (http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/newthinking/greenproducts.pdf) the sample sizes seem pretty small. I'm no statistician, but is it really valid to draw conclusion of people's behaviour from a sample size of < 100 people??
The two things are completely unrelated. How does Google ceasing to self-censor results in mainland China have anything to do with the Treasury's response to Chinese currency policy? It would be a mistake to conflate the two.
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Is this the Deep series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_of_Reflections ?

If it is, it looks really interesting.
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> If I'm right, then we should try to make our customers feel as if they've won whenever they buy / interact with us ;-). "You clicked on THAT button! AWESOM!!!!E!" =)

Already discovered. Commonly employed tactic by shady fly-by-night companies. Nigerian scams rely on the same principal too, although they count on you secretly feeling like you're lucky/won something, rather than telling you that you have.
Use Clojure to generate your Java code. As far as anyone else is concerned you're writing Java.

I've used code generation at work quite a bit, whenever I've had somewhat repetitive code to write that I couldn't factor away. It makes my job a lot less tedious and more fun.
Then you can create a more open alternative and import their data legally.
I have some colleagues and good friends in Beijing, most of them coming from various provinces to Beijing for their jobs - they are not high up in the ladder socio-economically. The impression I get is that they love China (to the extent of choosing not to go abroad to live and work), but resent the party's overbearing ways. They are not going to go out and protest, but that doesn't mean they like their government much either. They tell me banned publications are fairly widely available, if you know how to find them, and many of them are fairly knowledgeable about stuff the party doesn't want them to know about.
translation into non-bullshit-speak:

In the past 75 years, the self-proclaimed "democratic" fascist regime of china has fucked their people, and their neighbors. 3 months ago, they also fucked us. We are very surprised.

We now stop censoring stuff, in the hope that the masses of chinese internet users will search for "Tiananmen 1989", "tibet deaths" and "is it ok to invade foreign taiwan" instead of their regular searches for pop stars, warez and porn, then recognize the truth and topple their non-elected regime. Your queries might take 0.8 seconds instead of 0.3 during the transition.

We had lots of fights whether to stand up for basic civic liberties or make lots of dough. We want all people to give us dough, yet all that insta-justice > public execution > organ harvesting - business has made us throw up just a little bit. We also started a public page so that the whole world can see the evil chinese censors at work, and look angrily at them. Never mind that the actual people that could do anything about it - the chinese people - will never catch a glimpse of that page.

We hope to keep our chinese people employed. They make our dough, after all. Please Hu Jintao, killer of countless innocents, don't harm them - in addition to the dough, we take the blame. Although we have heard that you already planned to kill a few of them as "american spies" just pour encourager les autres.
I've often wondered if we could deal with graffiti in a similar way. Since it usually consists of an "artist's" tag that personally identifies him, let's start appending "has an itty-bitty wee-wee" to tags and see if the broadcast of one's tiny manhood solves the problem. :P
now we have a tools bypass gfw named west-chamber
Funnily enough I have colleagues in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc who feel exactly the same way.
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Oops, I accidentally wrote: "Note: [...] and be more maintainable than alternatives."

That's intended to mean that the the recursive solution is more maintainable than alternatives. (Or so I glibly claimed...)

And of course, I meant "masked fraud".
Just one point of interest is that Unisys only attempted to charge for the compression of data not the playback. So, browsers were never subject to the licensing fees that Unisys was asking for, only products like Photoshop which created/compressed data.

Also, they were nice enough to grandfather many programs so things like the PBM tools were not subject to licensing fees.
You probably want this awesome little thing:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Makes most any website really, really, _readable_. One of goals when I build my own sites is to make it so I don't want to switch readability on when I'm using it.
If the Chinese government is going to hold some google employees responsible (for whatever), do you think reiterating that statement is going do anything?

Don't be partisan.
The degree to which people inside China complain about the government seems to more closely relate to how much they trust you than their station in life.
Ha! I didn't even realize the connection when I was posting this, that's awesome
Some dumbasses, such as myself, took a very long time to realize that EE answers are visible by scrolling to the bottom of the page.
Presumably you can already do the same thing and get them fined 120 EUR.
If that's the case, one could produce a tool that includes the image and "patches" it after installation, creating a free GUIfied windows.
My plan for O'Reilly books and iPad is to read them via Safari Library. I've already tested this on the iPad simulator, and it works great. iPad + Safari Library == Geek dream.
Sure just make sure they don't have the words, gambling, DRM, downloading, torrent, drugs, porn etc in the code and they won't be detained in the US.
I found it amusing that the <title> of the page is:

Profits = Freedom - (37signals)

Which is the same as saying:

Profits + 37signals = Freedom

Doesn't sound very helpful to us who don't have 37signals.
挖哈哈，天朝威武
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I intended to write a comment with an explanation of how genocide can't be committed against a group formed by a shared ideology. I was going to illustrate my explanation by pointing to the extermination of Nazism. However, according to the definition on Wikipedia, genocide includes the destruction of, or the attempt to destroy, a national or religious group. The Sith certainly fit within that definition. So it turns out that the Allies committed genocide when they wiped out Nazism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
Lack of debt might be good, but lack of credit history is bad.

As an individual, even if you don't ever want to get into debt and pay for all your purchases up-front, you have to make an effort to build your credit history. If you don't have a good one a lot of things completely unrelated to debt become a lot harder in our society.

Same thing applies to companies. Possibly even more.
Sorry. Another technical difficulty on my side. For some reason my new microphone stopped working during the broadcast! When I post the mp3 file, I will also include my questions in the text.
Why did they do so?
From Wookieepedia:

The Sith Order was a sect of Force-sensitives who utilized the dark side of the Force. The term "Sith" originally referred to a species of alien native to the planets Korriban and Ziost, who were later enslaved and ruled by exiled Dark Jedi from the Galactic Republic...Following centuries of interbreeding and mixing of cultures between the aliens and the exiles, the Sith would no longer be identified by their race, but by their dedication to the ancient Sith philosophy.

Furthermore, before Darth Bane (existing something like 1000 years before the destruction of the Death Star), who instituted the Rule of Two, there were many Sith running around (somewhere around 20,000 and even after the Rule of Two, many Sith Lords took other apprentices in secret). So there weren't always only a Sith Master and a Sith Apprentice.
This reminds me of the dunces cap that 37signals were putting alongside stupid or troll comments on the SvN blog. I haven't seen them do it for a long time now so perhaps it really worked.. :-)
That link resolves to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/aug/19/microsoft.b...

I'm somewhat disturbed by the proliferation of short links outside their original motivating uses, like print and social messaging. As it is, bit.ly does various sorts of tracking, but in general, short links add a variable to the chain and and increase the susceptibility of breakage over time; or worse, changing in a bait and switch move.
Ironically the videos don't load in Chrome!
Twitter Will Make Money (Just Not That Much)
Uhh...

Garply is making some pretty good points. Cyber war on that scale is not for good or even great computer hackers. It is for hackers no one has ever heard of. The people you would need don't work for Google, and are very hard to find.

Best to do all this on the up and up. Although I think it will turn out to be nothing more than Google pissing in the wind.

Actually, here in Ningbo I've noticed that the Chinese companies are not as anxious to work with American firms anymore. (I have a shop that makes Flash Games). Especially since it was reported a few weeks ago that Google's partners will probably be left in the lurch. No one wants to bet his money on an unreliable horse. I think if there are tech companies or entrepreneurs out there that are still looking to get into the Chinese market, you should find your partners quickly. I'm starting to suspect that there will be a lot of companies with no seats when the music stops. The climate is definitely cooling.
They do for me, at least.
> Don't be partisan.

In what sense?
Generosity, consideration and pragmatism, meet holier than thou, jealousy and chip-on-shoulder judgement. Welcome to the Internet.
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It's the only part of an interview with Dropbox that would be interesting.

I have a business plan where I send out a dollar free to anyone who logs onto my site. With $5M of funding from YC I think I could also get 4million 'customers'

As it stands I use dropbox for free. When they/or their vc decides to start charging me I will switch to the next free competitor, this is not a business model.
(Shrug) No, welcome to "Hacker News." Supposedly, people here are hackers.

The fellow throwing away the scope is generous, certainly, but other than that, he appears to be the antithesis of a hacker.
Maybe the way you criticize triggered their defensive reaction?

I was an international student myself and have no problem criticizing the government with my friends (Chinese or otherwise). But if someone comes in with harsh tone, I will in all arms defending my country. And I find this common among citizens of most countries.
It's relatively easy for a company to relocate employees, as long as it has a reasonable need for specifically those people. If it wants skilled employees with a native-level knowledge of the language and culture, it wouldn't be hard to relocate them. Having said that, it's entirely possible that those employees don't want to be relocated. If my company's relations soured in my country, I'd rather quit and find a new job then leave for the company.
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Well to be fair a lot of Pre apps are spam too. I see 5 a day that are just some public domain book.
Well, it's not as if eating lots of fatty (high calorie density) food doesn't also result in obesity.

I think that implicit in your expression of dissent to what I initially wrote is belief in the fallacy of "good fats".
"If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself ... and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards. If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles."

―Darth Traya

Sounds like a philosophy I can get behind. It's just unfortunate that behind all that, the Sith will force-choke someone to death for disagreeing with them. But there are many aspects of the Sith philosophy that are appealing, especially to startup founders: particularly that of passion, without which, we wouldn't have too many startups. And Sith are at least allowed to love, unlike Jedi (though, I guess love could be a subset of passion).
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But isn't it against the law to publicly spread false information that affect someone's business?

Not if the city of Ghent has effected a bylaw for this specific practice. When you're part of "the state", you can do that.

It's against the law to clamp a motor vehicle you don't own, yet the council can still come along and clamp you if you don't buy a ticket in their car parks. Punishments aren't typically illegal if you violated the rules effecting that punishment. After all, it's illegal to murder people, yet the majority of US states have provisions for execution as a form of punishment.
Facebook security: doin' it wrong
But it's a catch-22 situation. They would have to incriminate themselves to file a lawsuit. Or if they make the argument that they weren't responsible for the poster being put up, the local government can make the same claim. "I didn't see who put it up there, so it's not my responsibility".

Part of it's brilliance is how easily defensible it is.
First time I stumbled upon this version of Windows about half a year ago. I actually installed it on one of my laptops. When it's BOOTed, the "GUI" is pretty much like in Safe-Mode, only in full display resolution, i.e. a blue background and a console window. I don't remember exactly, but it was missing a lot of libraries.. so I couldn't actually install much software. Though, I'm sure it's possible to install all the missing libraries via Microsoft's website.
First line:

"For a nation that once boasted the likes of Sony, Toyota and Mitsubishi as its entrepreneurial heralds"

Well that's problem number 1, founding years: 1946, 1926/1937, and 1870.
The argumentation is a bit on weak side. There are really no rules, it's just all about confidence, which only comes with practice. You can't learn that by reading articles like this.

During an interview, put your candidate outside his comfort zone, if you can, and it will tell you much more than any formal bullshit.
Hey cool, an irritating JS overlay as soon as I open it.
Ask HN: finding partners for hobby/experimentation projects
This is my first submission ever to HN - I mostly read (avidly) and vote (sparingly). I've been in the position for the past while where I have wanted to start on a project, or have even started, but always get bogged down when it comes to the design phase of it, due to my lack of design skills. Sometimes these projects are websites, or simple applications, but my skills in this area are basically non-existent.

Now, if I was looking to co-found something, I can see embarking on a more serious search. Yet for things you just want to toy around with and try out and see if they lead anywhere it's not as appropriate. This is exarcebated by the fact that all my friends are developers like me, so it's not hard for me to find development partners, just design ones.

So my question to all of you is this: say you have some project you want to try it out, or just experiment with something: how do you go about finding someone to work with when you don't know anyone with that skill set to begin with?

As a sort of "P.S.", if there are any designers looking to try things out, feel free to contact me.
Re relocating to the US, specifically: I've been through the H-1B visa process - I have the visa, but I never actually jumped. Quite apart from times when it's oversubscribed and becomes a lottery, there are any number of small hurdles you could fail on.

But if it's relocation to anywhere not-China, then yes, that ought not to be too difficult.
OK, I assumed 57 was on the list, that's why I asked. Just never knew who its "founder" was.
...and the parent post is a perfect demonstration of that.
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You might like Ayn Rand's Objectivism. She wrote The Virtue of Selfishness, among other fiction (most notably, Atlas Shrugged). To your other point - perhaps even among Sith lords there are good ones and bad ones? No need to paint everyone in a faction the same shade.
Nintendo was founded in 1889. Something of a head scratcher. I understand little of Japanese business/culture but it seems to be fundamental difference in the nature of business enterprises. In the States corporations typically have a specific product or industry while Japanese corporations operate in any industry that might be a growth opportunity for the corporation.
And why is this about green consumers in particular.

Because that's what they tested. It doesn't look to me like they're necessarily saying anything about people interested in the environment. It seems more to me like they think that doing some morally-good thing makes people think like they've got a freebie coming.
Just a thought: if Google is found to be intentionally disrupting the operations of the Chinese government, such as their equivalent of the justice department ("injustice department" perhaps), couldn't extradition be used to bring charges against Google for subverting an investigation?
Traffic reporting companies are, more or less, the credit ratings agencies of the web. Their numbers tell you something, but never what they claim to.
Noticing this a few days late, but feel the need to defend myself. I've worked for two data mining and data aggregation companies. Currently working for a real time vertical search company. We do 45k in the blink of an eye. real time search over millions of documents is HARD. Granted we have lots of hardware and bandwidth. I'd put 45k at entry level scaling problems and see no reason to brag or get excited over it, which is why I asked for clarification.
When you see that, mentally swap it with 'Fo shizzle', then you should be ok.
> But they can’t say Firefox only supports free and open video formats while still supporting Flash.

Mr. Gruber should be more precise by what he means by support.

Firefox's support for Flash is not like the proposed support for H.264. There is no Flash code in the Firefox codebase, to my knowledge. There is only a generic plugin interface, and there is one dominant, proprietary Flash plugin that Mozilla has nothing to do with (in addition to other less-featured Flash plugins).

What Mr. Gruber seems to be saying is that he wants Firefox to distribute H.264 code with their browser. Either that or Firefox should rely on codecs that may or may not be installed on the underlying system.

In the former case, the analogy is fatally flawed, while if the latter is intended, it should be explicitly addressed.
I divide activities into two categories: those I'm supposed to be good at, and those I'm not. For instance, I'm fairly articulate and knowledgeable about certain subjects, so I should be able to get up and explain/present them to other people. Whereas, I'm a poor guitar player, lack 'rock star looks' and have got a weak singing voice, so performing music is probably not my forte. I find I continually grow in confidence with the former activity, and just don't attempt the latter activity (or have need to attempt it).

Of course there will be some things I need to do but am still bad at. Still working on that one! (acquiring more skills would always help though. don't think of 'social skills,' think of things like 'sense of humour' that you can improve).
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I wonder if the price differed much in the study, between "green" and conventional products. Perhaps those who bought green felt like they were forced to spend more, and were owed something because of unfair pricing rather than moral superiority.
This was the subject of a Saturday Night Live sketch starring Rudy Giuliani, who was at the time Mayor of NYC.

"From now on, every time you write your name in graffiti on public property, we're going to put the word "Sucks" right under it. That's right. Instead of being Mr. Cool, everyone's going to think you suck."

Video at
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/06/video-rudy-combats-gra...
I have a similar feeling to the grand parent, frankly, there has been a lot of anti-china stuff appearing from the US lately. I will admit that I support most of the stuff but I still find it odd that multiple companies, the gov and others are all mounting an attack on China right now. It seems a little too coincidental.

/conspiracy