skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Google's goal is to get people to the most useful page for what they're looking for. There's a good chance that what they really want is the website of a brand they've heard of, so it makes sense that Google would want to put those brands at the top.

Sure, it's kind of an unfair advantage, but so is the fact that people have heard of Victoria's Secret and not Freshpair. But you can't fault Google for trying to make their search better at sending people to the site they're looking for.
I figured that my story was the exception. But I just went in to get a new ipad replaced due to a bad rotation switch and I watched as they replaced a macbook that had water on it (they tested it and said they could tell) and they also replaced a little girl's ipod that she dropped in the bathtub.

I think it largely depends on who handles the call. I agree that it's not an insurance policy. I was just sharing my experience. I know from past experience that with my bad luck, they would never replace my macbook if I dumped stuff all over it :)
People have referred me to Real World Haskell as such a book. Lovely though it is (I learned a lot of Haskell), it wasn't teaching software design in Haskell exactly. Hopefully someone will write a book like that.
Also, it serves the public that lives in cities with shitty public transportation.

Example: Dallas. I'm about to borrow my girlfriend's car to go see a band. Without her car, I'd have to catch a bus there - a bus that stops running in an hour - and take the rail back to the nearest point to our apartment, which is six miles away.
Which development path should I take given my goals?
Good call. I'll delete my post.
Some sane form of electronic medical records. The foolishness I've witnessed this last year has been enough to warrant a mandated return to paper charts and clipboards. Until a reliable electronic format can be transferred within and between institutions anyone admitted is at risk.
I find myself acknowledging that we all make mistakes for the second time in as many posts...

Sure, someone's moral character isn't a black-and-white question. People aren't really "good" or "bad" in absolute terms, so in a sense calling anyone a "good person" or a "bad person" can only ever be a generalisation based on the balance of what they do.

In this case, however, if someone repeatedly does very bad things, they'd better also be doing even more very good things to make up for it, or I think it's fair to apply the "bad person" label.
tl;dr: "Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me _to_ it; link me _into_ it." Fuck yeah!
Similar: http://www.merlinmann.com/rightnow/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea

The term idea is thrown around a lot. One should separate, idea from business idea, to business plan. Business plans may be an expression of core ideas and a lot of relevant information to support it. Plans have worth that people sign NDAs on. Some ideas are even patented. Thus, to say 'idea' can refer to many formats. An idea in someone's head unexpressed can be worthless, but put down on paper, thought out, funded and built upon can have tremendous value. Knowledge can also be worthless too, or priceless. It depends on the context.
How to Outsource Effectively
Will you be my valentine? - Wolfram Alpha
This could have been a blessing had you joined forces, circumstances permitting.
I split my time between...

Home office:

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

ENTP office in downtown Portland:

* http://img.skitch.com/20100322-1ry7cncxbshimmt73k6pmbd52r.jp...

* You could be in this photo. We're hiring ROR developers: http://hoth.entp.com/2010/3/23/we-re-hiring-2

1,000,000 coffee shops & hotels:

* Not pictured.
Yes, it took some time to get used to. And it changed the way I code. I try to keep my line-width to under 80 chars now. My code works the same way but it looks different and I think, better/cleaner.
Top of the page: http://github.com/mzarra/ZSync
Google has been tweaking search for a while now. From what I've seen, their goal with all these brand links/shopping links etc is to make people buy adwords to show up in results.
Nobody starts a company to target a market with the goal of being replaceable. Let's say you were going to sell cars. Should you publish all your designs and manufacturing techniques so that the marketplace is "fair"?
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In America: regarding politics a focus on actual issues and problems rather than sensationalism especially in news outlets such as things like the new "tea party" and socialism... but that isn't going to happen in the next 18 months sadly.

Tech: widespread broadband to more rural areas for reasonable costs

Economy: steady improvement, continuing incentives for housing are always nice.
People of class drink alcohol
huh? link gives me: "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure how to compute an answer from your input"
It appears you likely have neighbors working nearby. How do they feel about the Grados?
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The most important aspect of research paper writing is the time required to prepare this presentation. Students cannot afford to leave this for the last day, as they must realize that it would take more than a month for preparing a 15 to 20 pages research document.
Indeed: my records at the now dissolved practice of my former GP are inaccessible "because they're electronic" (and they were) or so I was told by a front office worker. I'm sure all of us can figure out the various possibilities that lead to an apparent total data loss.

Nothing important for me was lost but I'm sure many weren't as fortunate.

However, for better or worse, the stimulus package mandated a move to electronic records.
I use in-hear sound isolation headphones, which "seal" the ear to passively block out ambient noise. Bonuses are: doesn't require power, and can be used during all phases of an airline flight without getting nasty looks from the attendants (though you may find it more comfortable to remove them during ascent/descent to allow pressure equalization).

Here are some suggestions that you might find helpful...
http://www.headphone.com/selection-guide/in-ear-headphones.p...
http://macfreedom.com/ (looks like you would have to configure the hours manually though.)
I thought Hacker News readers were educated and intelligent but there are so many iTards it's not funny anymore. The Apple Cult ... is depressing. You are little ants who forgot what freedom means. Wake up guys ! Sorry to be harsh but I'm starting to be really angry I'm gonna stop reading anything about Apple/Adobe.
Surprising fact despite what your smartphone tells you: speech recognition in general situations hasn't improved since 2001. A good exposition of why Norvig and Google's approach of using statistical analysis may be approaching a dead end.
The point is that people have an inner life which isn't necessarily reflected in their actions. Someone might do "good" things all the time, but if you could read their thoughts and see their motivations, you might not necessarily consider them to be as good as they appear. Similarly, someone who's done a lot of bad things might not seem so bad if you knew their inner motivations. Actions only give you half the picture (if that).

You also seem to be making a terminological point about when it's ok to apply the term "good person" or "bad person", but that's a red herring. You can use those terms however you like, but it doesn't have anything to do with what I was saying.
I accomplish this with a simple Python script: http://github.com/bradjasper/focus

I felt guilty writing a script to stop from procrastinating, but it has actually helped tremendously.
Amusing, but is this really useful? Most of the people who read this are likely to already agree with the sentiment, and those few who did not yet are convinced by reading this are unlikely to have any pull where it matters. (Plus, there was an article recently that suggests that faced with contrary evidence, people will dig their heels even deeper)

And the massive group of people who don't really know anything much about the subject and could be useful if they, the entire group, all read about the issues and thought about it, are hardly likely to read this. (Though I suspect this is the audience that is being targeted, seeing as how the entire article is really just an analogy)

Rather than seeing more of these articles, I'd like to see, oh, arguments that we can use in general regarding such issues.

For instance, someone says (regarding some upcoming restrictive legislation), "Don't worry about it. It doesn't affect you if you have nothing to hide/aren't doing anything wrong". What are the main things you want to say to respond to that?
This is my little "bunker":

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3379/4573463000_c7293409c0_o....

I have white boards on both sides of the room, and a mono laser printer that does not appear in the picture.
Personally, I seem to notice a bit of cognitive dissonance.

On one hand, people are saying that facebook latest changes are all evil and will allow advertisers to make heaps and heaps of money.

On the other hand, people are adament about how facebook ads just don't work.

I understand how the recent privacy changes are alarming, but you can't have it both ways...
> It gives people an incentive to sit on their currency and hoard it away instead of investing it in productive ventures.

Kind of like the incentive people have when evaluating electronics, which are under consistent, massive deflation thanks to technological progress? Not such a problem there, is it? We're not fussing over Dell or Apple, or the car companies, for that matter, who see similar, though less pronounced, levels of technology-driven deflation.

Why would such a force, which is so innocuous in these areas, and which develops naturally due to the rise in productive capacity & efficiency over time, be so problematic macroscopically? Why would people stop investing, any more than stop buying computers and cars now? Before answering, see my following point.

> what incentive do they have to invest in a potentially risky venture that may make more in the long run, but may also cost them their principal?

An incentive driven by seeking greater return. In your world, wouldn't everyone invest in the bond market, or buy annuities, rather than the riskier stock market? Doesn't exactly gel with reality, does it?

> If you have continuous low-level inflation, however, it can be brought under control simply by reducing the money supply.

What does lowering the money supply do, pray tell? Wouldn't that increase the value of the dollars remaining in the system? That's deflation, by definition. How can it be both your solution and your problem?

> Deflation biases people towards inaction, Inflation biases people towards action

We'll speak more clearly if we aren't so broadly. Natural deflation is not static, but a force dynamically determined by facts of the economy, such as the growth in productive output.

For natural deflation, little investment -> less growth in productive output -> little deflation -> more incentive to invest. Likewise for the converse: lots of investment -> more deflation -> less incentive to invest. This dynamic interplay is a self-regulating force which serves to naturally counteract the market propensity to go off the rails on some wasteful bubble or other.

Seems to me your arguments are specious, and the current bias against deflation is an orthodoxy.
You do know that they have a complete history of changes to your account?
Edit: totally responding to the wrong post. Tabs are confusing. Sorry guys.
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Your records, by law, have a paper copy in a medical records warehouse. Accessing them on short notice is the problem.
Google's goal is to make itself as much money as possible. If Google thought that result was the best one for the user, it would rank it #1 in the SERPs. You can see over the last few years that they are increasingly putting profitable (for Google) links in front of the most relevant results. And, when they can't find anything profitable to put in front of the top link, they try to find other ways to avoid you clicking through--e.g. "search within this site."
I just wasted 20 minutes looking at that, chuckling, tweeting the link, emailing it to everyone on my contact list and then having short "that was funny, ROTFL" conversations with the people who responded. Thanks a lot, pal.
yup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_children_(politics)
Great chrome plugin: stay focus'd that let's you designate verbotten sites, with x minutes a day allowed across all of them.
Interesting that the piece calls YC an incubator as well. I think for the lack of a better word, the definition of an incubator has changed considerably since the late '90s. Neither YC nor Betaworks are incubators in the same sense that Idealab was (no sharing of people, or HR, or accounting) but more sharing of wisdom, ideas, technology (in the form of APIs).

Overall, it seems like a decent way to "incubate" startups which are otherwise long, lonely journeys of massive highs and lows.
> Once you realize that the caged animal has more in common with you than any other specie, you start to put yourself in his place.

The same applies to chimps, and then recursively down the chain from other apes all the way to bacteria.
Indeed. Tabs are confusing! :'(
How to hire people for a startup
Im hiring for my startup and just wanted to check w/ HN folks where do they usually look for new jobs? linkedin/craigslist/friends/direct_message? Cheers, --Ricardo
I've been looking for work tables just like those in your office. Where did you find them? Or if you made them, can you give quick rundown of the materials used?
A Microsoft recruiter sent me something very similar to this the spring before I graduated from college.
it was killed for users, not for developers.
Good eye--806v bookshelfs. I picked mine up on Craigslist for half off, and would highly recommend anyone else to do the same. Listening to music is an entirely new experience in hi-fi (I'm new to this).
I just deleted my 0 karma Plurk account a month ago. I deleted my Friendster account (I'm from the Philippines) last week. I "MIGHT" delete Facebook next.
The original article is quite clear. The common practice of paraphrasing source documents just to generate content without linking to the source is deeply irritating.

I present Hawking himself for those who don't think some intern at CNet has much to improve on Hawking.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEP...
Ouch: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+seattle...

76% more in Manhattan. Housing is 164% more expensive.
Mozilla isn't really that deep of a pocket considering the cost of a lawsuit and the likely winnings. If I were Google and were asked to license the patent pool, I'd just take out Theora support in the U.S..
Will you be my prom date?

Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure how to compute an answer from your input

It's like highschool all over.
I know - I had family members asking me 'what this linkedin thing was'.

That's when I quit.

(I don't remember giving them my password, however the link to send someone an invite is actually a link to send EVERYONE and invite, and apparently that includes the contact list they uploaded (or from my point of view, stole))
New Jailbreak for all iPhone OS 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3 devices (including iPad)
Weather.

I'm a Californian who grew up in a "sunny" California city, and I've been living in Seattle for the last year. I've also spent a lot of time in San Francisco in my lifetime.

I, miss, the, sun. Every time I go back to California and visit family/friends, I start to realize how depressed I am up in the Pacific North West. I've had more that one person recommend that I take Vitamin D supplements, which is supposed to make me feel better.

The moral of my own personal story is... I'm moving back to California. I need sun. I'll pay a premium for the mental health of myself and my children.

How many days of sun are there in San Francisco compared to Seattle? If you had to live in a place with awesome tech scenes but with no sun, you might as well choose Seattle... it's cheaper.
certainly but the question is does the limitation arise from a legitimate technical limitation, or because apple has shorted the country real estate market?
Also 3.2. Should have added that...
Well, so much for HAL reading lips - he can't even hear what I'm saying. I call bullshit - HAL's way smarter than that!
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Unsettling thought
The end of software patents in the US.
Actual cost of living calculators give better results than this. This one tells you how much your disposable income would change by keeping the percentile of your current salary constant: http://swz.salary.com/costoflivingwizard/layoutscripts/coll_...

(Hint: Move to Austin.)
I want to see Google get its act together and offer a unified open hardware and software alternative to both Apple and Facebook. On the hardware front I want a tablet device running Android that actually looks good and is a pleasure to use (and comes with a 3G connection). On the software end, I want to see them pull together Wave, Buzz and Gmail into an online communication tool that can let me easily pull together all my online correspondence (and keep it private).
But a social security number already works this way. It's tied to bank account, credit score, driving license (in California) and what-all else.

Until the 80s, that was illegal.

A more universal isn't the gateway to totalitarianism, nor is CCTV on every street corner, data retention laws for private ISPs or warrantless searches of private email[0]. All these add up, but they're not enough on their own.

Imagine though what might happen if we had someone like Dick Cheney as president and some disaster allowed him to declare a state of emergency. I think it's a good idea to be extra careful with this sort of thing; it can get out of hand long before you know it.

[0] http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/04/13
I would like to see Pirate Parties win elections and form governments everywhere in the developed world that holds elections in the next 18 months. They will then proceed to scrap bad laws as software patents, restrictions on circumventing DRM, etc.
duck duck go is rapidly becoming a new goto search engine. It hasn't quite replaced google, but it's farther along in doing so than any other engine.
I work for a large geographically diverse company and we often carry company stuff between offices on our trips to save on the cost of couriers. Perhaps you could whitelabel this service and hook into tripit.com or something similar and demonstrate to a client that with your system you could save $X,000 of money in courier fees by having your staff carry stuff internationally or even just interstate.
What I'd like to see happen is a relaxation in the laws for private investing. I didn't know, but those with a net worth of $1-2.5 million had been burned in scams, so accredited investor status may or will be raised in terms of net worth. I think the law should be changed so that at least 1 investor has to be accredited at the new level, but the rest do not. Or, one's required worth is contingent on what one actually plans to invest.
What's more melodramatic than a company like Apple being afraid of an app like Scratch?
FTA: I hope it sends a message that journalism is still very much alive,

Wow... why don't I see a hue and cry regarding the name revelation by wired.com here. When Gizmodo released the name of Gary powell it was called a cheap shot... But stalking someone using facebook and revealing their name to the world which definitely could affect the person's career is suddenly fair game.
kinda true, I embraced that everything is date based, and it works well for me.
The Social Problems of "Social" Media
Isn't the point larger than there are certain sites that are timesucks but that in general surfing the internet is counter productive? It's not about whether you are looking at HN, it's whether you're browsing aimlessly.

I have a question: what percent of the time is needed to be online or even just on a computer for doing all the pieces of a web software startup? I'd go with 20%, maybe less. And it would probably work better that way without a browser just a click away, ready to steal countless hours that would make the difference between making progress on a project and learning about HN members' workspaces.

(I have a theory that HN is really a devious ploy by pg to divert the attention of wannabe web entrepreneurs from getting stuff done so that his YCers don't have competition.)
Just some personal dreams for the tech world: Apple buys Adobe, Yahoo! buys Twitter, the "next" Facebook launches and grows quickly, Facebook suffers some sort of severe problem/user flight, Google stops messing around with tacking extra contextual trash on to its search results and actually finds a way to get rid of most of the crap riddling their index, the Founders Visa is radically improved upon and passed, Reddit becomes significantly more popular, memristor technologies proven on realistic scales, I reach 10000 karma on HN, err... :-)
My stocks going up.
- More people reading books.

- Less wishful thinking. Actually, no wishful thinking at all.

- New flashmobs and fun projects.

- Some consensus on the Linux community and actually fixing and improving things (sorry if someone is offended, but that's my point of view so far).

- No more "this service is blocked in your country".

That's quite broad, but I think covers everything I could expect to see in such a time frame.
Essentials of Metaheuristics (Free book)
Less people thinking the dark ubuntu theme is nice.
Which office (Home or ENTP)?
But If I want to ruin my iCar (say by putting it in a blender) then I should be able to. That can void the warranty, but I shouldn't be physically stopped from doing it.

Another car analogy (which cuts both ways) I can think of is the Nissan GTR -- it has a speed limiter built in that stops you going over a certain speed on normal roads -- but then when you are on a racetrack all limits are off.
Here's some data, fwiw: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/pctposrank.tx...

Looks like SF is about 66% sunny, while Seattle is 43%. I imagine the bigger contrast is Seattle vs. Silicon Valley or East Bay, though, since SF itself isn't all that sunny (especially the western parts; I'd be surprised if the Sunset District were any sunnier than Seattle).
Francys Barraza Sudnicka Hot Playboy Scans May 2010
Francys Sudnicka heatsup the coverpage of Playboy Magazine May 2010 issue of Poland with her dazzling appearance on the magazine covers.
This article seems to be claiming that people with a larger vocabulary (as tested by a vocab test) are more likely to drink, not 'people of class'.
what works better for you?
For delicious, have the site read the RSS feed for that tag (or just set that tag as your home page).
But then you'd be in Houston. NYC is expensive because people want to live there.
I did the comp of Houston to San Francisco: 20 degrees over 4 months makes a big difference! I'm glad I like to sweat.
I've managed to get interest from a few clients in Kelowna, BC, by attending some of the local New Ventures BC seminars. I'm not a real social guy, so all the networking leaves me pretty exhausted, but I've already made some great contacts and set myself up to do pretty well. I don't think you can beat face-to-face interaction with people.

Edit: Kelowna isn't that big (100k), so I don't think you need to live in an especially large center (unless your skills are extremely specific) for this kind of local networking to be effective.