skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Best Results arrangement Your Essay in Five Paragraph Essay Format 
The five paragraph essay format is the most commonly used format for essay writing. Understanding its five parts and knowing what to include in each respective section and how to structure the relevant paragraphs accordingly will enable students to master the skills required for academic writing.
This would have massive impact on 'real' investors.

If people could not profitably take on short term positions most of the liquidity in markets would dry up. Market Makers and HFT trading groups comprise the great majority of displayed liquidity (and this is precisely the liqudity accessed by 'real' investors when they wish to buy or sell).

If that liquidity is removed spreads would widen and 'real' investors would take the hit.

On a larger scale imagine a state pension fund or a large mutual fund that has $X billion which it needs to invest in the newly illiquid markets how much price impact will their 2M share order for Ford have now?
Aha. You've nailed it I think.. partly anyway. It looks like the plugins do come up in different orders...
China's Great Firewall a trade barrier, says EU Commissioner
I started to write this exact comment this morning and then got distracted. Upvote for you.

Luckily, my current side project has someone offering feedback and is interested in turning into a real product. That is the motivation to handle the boring bits.
Ask HN: Custom code for sales/marketing site or CMS?
Those of you building the front sales/marketing/brochure sites for your startups, what are you using to build these sites? We are in the process of designing our marketing site and since it is mostly content, there is some temptation to use a CMS. However, I wonder if this can be a disadvantage when trying to track things like conversion rates, heat maps, etc. We'll also need a blog and I have no issues rolling in something like Wordpress for that. But since it can easily be used as a CMS, there's temptation to do the rest of the content as Wordpress pages too. Simple custom code using something like Sinatra would be a cinch, but carries some overhead of running a Ruby interpreter compared to a simple PHP site.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
I can't think of any reason for someone to commit changes that hadn't been tested in the working tree or at least ran through the test suite before doing so.
Is time dilation essential to GPS? I know the satellites' clocks have to compensate for time dilation, but that's not the same thing.

Or am I too simplistic? I just figured that, if the engineers who built the GPS hadn't accounted for time dilation, we'd just see the error range on GPS expand, and would have to resynchronize the clocks every once in a while.
Orwell - Improve your speed reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_tax_forms#1099_series

Form 1099 ... is ... an information return to report various types of income other than wages, salaries, and tips (for which Social Security Administration Form W-2 is used instead). The term information return is used in contrast to the term tax return although the latter term is sometimes used colloquially to describe both kinds of returns.

Each payer must complete a 1099 for each covered transaction. Three copies are made: one for the payer, one for the payee, and one for the IRS.

Examples of report amounts paid to independent contractors (in IRS terminology, such payments are nonemployee compensation). The ubiquity of the form has also led to use of the phrase "1099" to refer to contractors themselves. U.S. tax law requires businesses to submit a Form 1099 for every contractor paid at least $600 for services during a year. Although, this requirement usually does not apply to corporations receiving payments, amendments made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would remove this exemption beginning in 2012.
I think that's wildly inaccurate. They look for evidence. It's ONLY based on evidence that they are convinced. You also assume broke and unsuccessful. Yet you're on HN telling us all this? That seems to be the very antithesis of this entire community. It's about geeks being successful.
Docotor argues "information wants to be free" does more harm than good
PayPal Finds a Niche in China
I think it happened with Balsamiq and Peldi (its creator) as well. I have lost count of Balsamiq clones.
I did not claim that evidence should never change views. I gave an example illustrating that some views should not be changed by evidence.

Evidence tells you how to maximize your objective function. It does not tell you what your objective function should be.
Autodesk loses in claiming trademark for .dwg file extension
Wordpress with a cute ThemeForest Theme if you are bootstrapping is a good option !
You even have some plugin to install heatmap on wordpress and you can track your conversions rates with Google Analytics easily.

My 2cents
More like "hindsight is 20/20"...
Huh - apologies. My search fu let me down and I didn't find it, and now it's too late to delete the item.

Sorry.
VCs Looking to Protect Carried Interest Income-- That's a Tough Sell
Soft vs Hard Bounces: A Closer Look at Bounce Rate
I think the author underestimates the problem of finding an explanation out of the mess of data that's available. It's possible there could never be a simple explanation of what caused the sell-off. It could just be that 1) we need more measures in place to reduce this kind of volatility, 2) we need less protective measures and let market corrections happen on their own, or 3) accept that this can happen and handle the next event the same way this one was handled.

I've read some articles suggesting that the drop was more dramatic because automated trading systems were taken offline. I've read that the drop was more dramatic because some stocks are sold on multiple markets with different emergency stop conditions.
>THE world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned.

An important lesson from the Canadian cod collapse is that when populations drop below a critical threshold, the stocks never recover.
A link to the article itself (instead of the blog): http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005011-264.html?tag=mnco...
This is because relationships are paramount to programming languages, start-ups, gadgets, etc.
You should be downvoted for the horrendeous crime you just commited; but instead I upvoted and managed to avoid going to that site. I'm either growing up or growing old.
There's also the possibility that it is a social engineering effort to get people to switch away from fossil fuels in a positive way ("I've switched to hydrogen cells to save the planet!" rather than "Goddamn fuel prices are so high I can't even drive to work anymore! And what the hell are the politicians doing about it?") in a timescale that allows a transition without impending widescale economic meltdown.

"Things have to change within 100 years" is not something that will get shareholders signing checks for R&D and wholesale changes to business practices unless there is considerable pressure from the overall consumer population.

That does assume that benevolence has a higher priority in the world than profit of course. I'm not sure.
I don't have Flash installed and it claimed to be getting the fonts via Java instead.
Well, that tells me that even Steve didn't think that Apple was going to make it.

This is similar to insider's selling in bulk when they themselves are not sure of the future of the company.
Not only that, but I'd imagine your customer felt more involved in the process and felt she had more ownership of the project because of it.

I have this problem: I like to start at the edges. One of the biggest hurdles for me when I code is to make myself do the MVP first, then iterate.
You didn't. Shermer did. That's what I was complaining about initially. If you meant your comment as an interesting side note rather than a rebuttal, that's fine and I misread you. Maybe I should be less defensive.
Go with whatever is fastest to deploy and easiest to maintain. Most tracking and A/B testing stuff can be added via javascript (your CMS should allow you to create "nodes" and other similar content segments; I know Drupal does.)
what is the proper way of thinking of objects that message passing yields (genuinely curious)?
slightly related - quick way to get the number of bytes in a string in javascript when the string is encoded in utf8:

var utf8_length = encodeURIComponent(data).replace(/%../g, 'x').length;
Funny, I'm on my way to Vegas in my RV right now. I don't have a big Virtualmin banner on mine, though...but maybe I should.
This is a bullshit argument. Torture does not save shit and it is good for nothing.

What if destroying the earth would save the universe?

What if Batman wanted you to torture someone?

What if cutting off the eyelids of a brown person meant that unicorns would walk the earth?

What if I snuck into suburban households and cut up humans for body parts so my nanobots could learn regeneration techniques? What if the nanobots could reanimate all the dead humans after I cut them up?

The reason it is bullshit is because you can put anything in the place of torture and justify it by saying it "saves lives". But for some reason, the arguments that we want to justify this way always boil down to freeing ourselves from the shackles of morality. It is the will to power dressed up in the clothing of public policy.

What kind of life are we saving? Is there anything we value more than life?
Seems they finally copied http://searchpoint.ijs.si/Result.aspx
I think a lot of us have read Founders at Work.

How about this, has your wealth made you happier?
I've heard of more capped valuations for convertible debt with negotiable interest and discount rates (and no warrant coverage), but also seen some angels openly demanding priced rounds. Are such capped convertible notes a good middle ground for debt that works like equity? Have you seen any that provide an alternative conversion if no priced round follows?
Palm Was Acquired. Is Motorola the Next?
You're asserting what you seek to prove: that some large fraction, perhaps a majority, of Facebook users do not understand who can see their status updates. It is absolutely true, of course, that some users do not understand who can see their status updates; the law of large numbers assures us of that. So, we actually agree on the fundamentals of the situation: some users don't understand who can see their status updates. The question is, how many? What is your actual guess? 0.1%? 1%, 10%, 50%? What percentage would be acceptable, given that 0% is not achievable no matter what?

There are some complex corners of FB's privacy system; e.g., some of the ins and outs with photos are pretty subtle. However, status updates are one of the more clear areas: Q: Who can see this? A: Everyone.

Finally, with respect to the "trolling" charge, I am only human. Those HN readers who are also Facebook users, thanks for putting food on my family's table, and I'm truly sorry, and professionally humbled, if our product has let you down. However, this is not a Facebook customer support forum; it is a community of technologists, and it would be condescending not to speak to HN as if I'm speaking to my peers. I think the silence of my fellow Facebook engineers on threads like this one, while showing admirable restraint, has left the bogus impression that we do not talk, think, or care about the implications of the products we build. We do, and a searching, frank dialog with our more technically minded users, which will necessarily include argument, can help us figure out how to make things better.
The first time I went to Denmark, I kept noticing the word "og" everywhere and I thought what funny little caveman words these people use. Then I found out its usage and pronunciation is almost identical as our "of". I felt "pwnd".
Seems to me like he was hedging.

Does he really feel a difference between 2.5B and 13B?
That's because it's a "Google experience" phone. Any phone that has the Google logo on it can't be messed with in any way. Vodafone couldn't mess with it if they wanted to since Google wouldn't let them sell it if they did.
<reddit>
My grand grand parents were the dumbest p ever. They sold an estate that has been today found to contain worlds greatest reserve of gold/diamonds/whatever.

They had to be the lamest grand grand parents ever
</reddit>

If anything this has to be the dumbest commentary ever. Please, please delete this from HN.
Slick.
Unfortunately, many of the games don't scale down well- Text is hard to read.
Not too mention many require a keyboard and don't handle touch events.
In the future I hope we have a catalog or great mobile web games like this. A lot of potential for Kongregate.
I guess this is for N900 users? What other current mobiles have Flash?
Perhaps the reason most economic approaches fail to predict this kind of behaviour is because they forget that money by itself is not a motivator—it’s only ever a means to an end for all who use it.

Money gives you the freedom to make choices and spend time doing other things—the autonomy and mastery that Dan Pink was talking about. However, earning more money but being stuck in the same job renders this increase in salary effectively useless, because you don’t stand to gain any satisfaction simply by having the money.
> The guy needs to understand the gravity of his wrong-doing.

Isn't that why the punishment is supposed to fit the crime? Rather than 'charge him with a million things and hopefully scare him into a plead bargain.' That's not the way that the law is supposed to work.
While I admit Obama has some points, the discussion is far too complex to address in a presidential speech and I don't think he struck the proper tone. A man with one watch knows the time; a man with two watches is never quite sure. His speech is a failure, because I think it was the effects of having so much information -- as the quote above mentions -- that he wanted to convey rather than the fact that we have this information in the first place. Presidential speeches are all about take-aways, and this was a miserable failure. The take-aways were "Xboxes, iPads, and technology are diversions" which I'm pretty sure was not his intention.

We live in a world where the uneducated and uninformed speak in terms of certainty and absolutes. Liberals have long believed that if only you can debate and reason with your counterparts, you can sway them to your side. Conservatives figured out that this wasn't how human nature worked and I think the Republicans were particularly good throughout the mid 90s and this past decade, at providing a more reassuring world view that is black and white. The more educated we get, the more uncertain we can be about our opinions. I think Obama wanted to point out that the educated might lose control of political power. There is a very real possibility of a reality similar to that of Idiocracy taking hold, and I think Obama wanted to challenge his audience to ward this off. In order to do this, they'll have to learn how to speak to people and be masters of the human psyche. So it's kind of ironic that Obama failed so miserably at delivering his message. I'm sure he's kicking himself because the whole debate is now being framed around "is technology good or bad?".
It bothered me at first but after not too much time began to feel pretty reasonable. I have a few issues with the language but they're really just trivial ones. Clojure has become my favorite language, so I can't complain too much.
First, the browser. Web pages load fast. Even with a Wi-Fi connection, the Ion and iPhone 3G just didn't have the processing horsepower to fetch the bits and parse HTML well. The Desire was the first mobile phone I've used that felt like a member of the broadband era, not the dial-up era.

Not a fair comparison. The iPhone 3GS would be a better comparison in this case. He's essentially giving the iPhone a 1 generation handicap.
"Amazingly, as stocks were diving downward, willing buyers were locked out of purchasing"

This is Just Plain Wrong. The post offers no evidence for this. For my evidence I'll use the fact that trades were occurring at almost all price levels, which is why some had to be canceled. For the stocks that "went to 0", that in fact means there were no willing buyers for anything other than $.01 (I doubt any trades actually occurred at 0)

"There has to be some explanation, and I can't imagine why it would take days, or even hours to figure out how a $50 stock could get to a price of $0 with no one able to purchase as that price is dropping"

Yes, the answer is that when a deal looks too good to be true, you check it out for at least another second (or perhaps 10 minutes, the duration of the "flash crash") before you put millions to billions of dollars of money into something. Again, I reject the idea that no one was able to purchase at any point.
Can I get a link to that? Not doubting you, but I am very skeptical. That seems like a nightmare for whoever has to find those shares to fill the short order.
I'd assume this is slightly sensationalist? As in not all species of fish and areas are fished simply because of depth, remoteness and species unsuitable for eating.
Debating the Value (and Meaning) of "Great Content" for SEO
I'd rather you sped-up my Photoshopping and my Compiling than my playing of ports of games from the early 90s.

Then buy Windows or Linux laptop. The only reason to use OS X is if you have some legacy app that only runs on Macs, which is pretty rare these days.
Then Google needs to back up "Google experience" with some customer service. Otherwise, that term will mean "nifty device, bad service" forever.
So now it's a race with those Himalayan glaciers. Which will disappear first? ;)
You're doing it wrong. My i7 is not even in the same league as my old Core 2 Duo. Some things, like running test suites, are almost 10x faster. 10x! The i7 is an amazing piece of hardware.
A useful service, but I wonder when they will also support PostgreSQL/PostGIS?

Amazon has a good story for replication, now with RDS across availability zones, and Elastic Load Balancing, etc.

I am helping a customer with some large scale AI/text mining, and I think that they will also have me help set up a split internal data center - and AWS for overload and failover. AWS is a great deployment platform, but it does take a lot of effort to use it for projects that can't just use a platform as a service provider like Heroku.
Say he kept them, apple tanked and he lost everything, now that would have been dumb.
Android should be getting official Flash support with the 2.2 announcement at Google I/O tomorrow.
It looks like the graph shows that this is popular with school teachers.
Its a perfect example of the classic "if it can then it must" brainless rule application.

I once had a car that had a bad bulb socket in the "cyclops" brake light so it wouldn't pass inspection. Did I fix the socket to get past? Hell no. I removed the whole light. If it wasn't there, it didn't have to work. Those were the rules.
Amazon owes you a referral fee ;-). My Canon 50mm is actually broken (and out of warranty), so I just ordered one.
Hmm.. just in time for Google I/O and the launch of Flash 10.1 beta on Android.
I don't think this guy really understands the issues at hand. I'm pretty sure we know EXACTLY what happened, just not WHY. Which is exactly why his "10,000 foot view" is completely useless.
It's sad that this is being up-voted as it is incredibly misleading and a conspiracy theory to boot:

>#1 mainly intended to achieve a long-standing but tactically-shifting goal of governments to control capital

No, global warming is not a government plan. It is an area of scientific consensus that has emerged from the work of thousands of individuals in many countries. Most mainstream solutions to dealing with global warming have absolutely nothing to do with controlling capital. In the US, we constantly bend over backwards to makes sure private enterprise controls lots of stuff (even the alternative energy technologies that are being heavily subsidized in R&D and production).

>you will likely find that even the most committed climate changists are not expending their own resources to short Florida coastal real estate on the weight of their beliefs.

This statement is at best tremendously disingenuous and at worst an amazing attempt at self-delusion. There is no good way to short houses. (Getting CDSs on mortgage backed securities is possible but there are no houses on the coast securities. Shorting those wouldn't even help, as mortgages will be paid off before the sea rises enough). Also, all the global warming sea rise predictions are on the order of decades and centuries. What highly knowledgeable scientist in there late 30s or 40s will make at bet that will be resolved when they are dead?

I'll bet you any amount of money that we will have a Korean president by 2150. Don't believe me? Unless you do, you'd better make a bet with me.
Notice the easter egg in bold letters, when put together it says "assclowns ov teh riaa."
Are you sure running so many things at once, the bottleneck is the CPU and not RAM or hard disk access?
I had wondered if it was an old post....if only....

"ssumed exchange rates: 1 GBP = $2, 1 AUD = 1 CND = $1, 1 EUR = $1.50"

I think I get about $1.47/£1 these days
Interesting thought. Could be a killer iPad application if you could partner with a hardware manufacturer to produce a cash drawer dock. High quality, capacitive touch screen and a integrated cellular modem for trade shows. Cost wise, it's likely to be cheaper than the service contract on normal POS systems.

Looks like someone else has developed it: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/27/the-ipad-pos-system-com....
Don't use this, it's broken. Any % sign in your text will screw things. 3-4 byte characters are not handled by it at all.
Microsoft Plans Hotmail Upgrade this Summer
This is exactly right. Clojure does not abandon what is good about OOP.
Once you reach the $1 billion mark not much of what you did can be safely categorized as "dumb."
There are more well-written and thoughtful academic papers available online than any person will ever make it through in a lifetime. The fact that many (or even most) don't rise to that distinction is irrelevant to the basic point.

It's a rare person who can "look up the occasional chemical compound" to any effective end who hasn't already immersed themselves in the subject of chemistry to know why they are doing so and what the information they're getting back actually means. Information-at-will is unbelievably powerful and amazing, but it's not a substitute for in-depth study.
To be funny yet tasteful while targeting a mainstream audience I'd focus on the elephant in the room, and play with the idea that this is a taboo subject with a certain giggle factor.

My imaginary commercial: A few young women, professional types, talking about "the party" and "the gift" and laughing about what their friend's reaction will be (presumably it's a shower or birthday party). Maybe leave a certain amount of mystery and never say exactly what "it" is, but hint.

It's okay to buy, and it's definitely okay to laugh about it at the same time.

Adding the mainstream credits to your site like someone else suggested would also serve the same purpose.

I think it would be best to avoid anything clinical or mechanical (I believe this is the main complaint about adult movies).
Wordpress would be a good choice. Its pretty easy to extent compared to Joomla and drupal. I strongly suggest avoiding Joomla. Don't reinvent the wheel there are hundreds of CMS out there, find one that meets your needs which in this case sounds like Wordpress.
I don't think Steve Jobs really cares a whole lot about money, anyway.
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ is another place that has a bunch of good open-licensed and free-to-use fonts.
HTML5 For Web Designers (85 Pages)