skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe we're spending so many reply's on such a trivial subject, but the logical fallacies here just bug me, so here goes.

Not portable? Err.. iPad, iPhone, Laptop, Netbook..... Everything on the internet is portable these days, including porn.

As for not social... Dude what kind of social group are you hanging out with that you're sharing your porn with them?!?

As for whether it's difficult to enjoy with a partner: Does this mean people without a partner don't deserve porn?!? Besides which, I'm betting most copies of "tradditional" porn like Playboy, Penthouse, Playgirl, Behind the Green Door, etc. are "enjoyed" in a solitary fashion.
Scholars have understood the different motives for eating as far back as Socrates, who counseled, "Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat."

No he didn't, he said... something in Greek. Why does the Wall St Journal feel the need to use a translation into faux-archaic English?
Absolutely, no question. Bad developers can be found anywhere. Any good company will tell you that good employees are worth traversing the world to find, wherever they are.
Tell HN: Sun, Sand and Startups - networking in NYC on July 22nd.
"Secondly, remember that Java programs may actually be faster than C/C++ programs. Programs written in C/C++ require more time and knowledge to performance tune. Writing something in Java (or other high-level language) allows the author to spend more time focusing on the big picture issues rather than having to deal with a lot of lower-level issues."

I'm not against Java and I'll even admit that theoretically I could imagine a situation where a Java program ended up being faster, but in reality, that never happens.

In reality, we always end up in situations like utorrent vs. azureus (for those that don't know, utorrent is written in c++ and pretty much better than azureus in every way). In fact, I can't really think of one instance where a piece of java software is better than an equivalent written in c or c++ (outside of developer tools, because those aren't really directly comparable anyway)
I don't want to have to follow an entire blog to learn when your API is going to be ready. Can't you just email me?
wow... this comment is hit 4 on my google search for "palo alto metro fiber map" and the rest seem to be fairly useless. I'll spend some time poking around and maybe contact the city after I sleep.

but thanks, this is useful.
Check out http://www.turkernation.com/ - still seems active.
That actually seems a lot more severe a form of punishment than buying donuts. Release management can be a full-time gig.

Some teams want everyone to be familiar with how they do it. If that is your goal, you have to pick the unlucky person in some way.
I'm pretty sure Nassim Nicholas Taleb wasn't the source, but I first heard the term from him.
What a bizarre article.

Firstly, most hedge fund managers are very socially capable and convincing, which is how they manage to get other people to invest with them. The Bernie Madoff's of the world aren't hidden in a basement. I really, really don't get the "geekish" angle around hedge funds.

Secondly, many hedge funds have been doing great during this economic turmoil. Hedge funds make money during turmoil. That's their bread and butter.
Agree.

Plus, C/C++ programmer can do a refactoring or optimizing more in their code, even in low level, with the limit is only their time and skills, but in high level languages like Java/.NET optimizing level is stuck in VM.
Right, high altitude balloon flying is not on the standardized test that all government schools are judged by since the "No Child Left Behind" act.

All government school teachers now have to "teach" to the test and can't waste time on projects like this.
I will never donate.
Wish I could be there
Check out this research project from MIT ... it aims to provide a more sane interface to MTurk:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/turkit/
I'm not familiar with AMT, but you might check out http://crowdflower.com and see if they might be a good fit for your needs.
The Future of Python in Science Keynote at EuroSciPy2010 [pdf]
There's this sort of black-and-white distinction between "good girls" and "gold diggers" and it's entirely imaginary. I'll spare you the evolutionary psychology behind it (which is easy to find if you're interested) but all women care about a man's success (of which money is merely the most frequent, but not only, indicator) to a large degree. Saying a girl doesn't care about money is like saying a guy doesn't care about looks.

Society has come to view both genders' preferences as shallow, but for whatever reason makes a much bigger deal about it when it comes to women, which is really not fair. They can't help being attracted to a successful guy anymore than we can to a hot girl.

My guess is that in NYC, due to the financial industry guys are more sensitive to it, and as such women respond by being a bit more circumspect.
At those prices, I'll just continue to use use Google Analytics' convoluted goals/funnels.
Droid X Vs. EVO 4G - Which is Better?
I use it for http://www.feedbackarmy.com and other tasks. I recommend using an ExternalQuestion. This will let you host the worker form on your own site. I recommend using JavaScript and whatever you want server side to let the user know whether they can work on your stuff or not. Maybe set a cookie with an ID so you can know what kinds of images they've looked at.

Doing something on your end is your best bet. I like MTurk but the API is not so great and support does not exist. Good luck.
Perestroika and Epistemological Politics
"A way to create tiny discussions" was an idea I had for a start-up 3 years ago that I simply never got around to doing. I think there is a massive potential for such a thing, given that there currently isn't any easy way (that I know of) to create a tiny little forum somewhere quickly and easily. Right now, the closest thing is creating a post, or a note, or a group on Facebook and having really crappy discussions ensue. The Facebook discussion system is just awful, and it's a walled garden.

I think you should go with the "tiny discussions" idea, since I regrettably haven't.

There's no maybe about a tour/features/walkthrough... you need it. You need to adequately describe what your service does and why I should use it.

Like I said before, I've been thinking about the commenting space for about 3 years now. I've watched things like Disqus, Facebook Pages, and Ning pop up well beyond the time I had the idea of simplifying and unifying discussion. And, still, it seems nobody has managed to nail down the massive market of tiny forums.

To put this in perspective, google for virtually any type of forum. iPod forum. Nissan forum. Twilight Forum. Etc. The top results you'll get for each of this will be massively popular and lucrative message boards. Basically, they'll be a good domain name with PHPBB loaded up in them, and that's sufficient to get a critical mass of people using it. Now, think to yourself: in the next x years, what new products, movies, brands, etc will be created that will have potential for these similar types of lucrative forums? You can't know the answer. But as the future unfolds, the market will know. And if you could capture some of this market, you'd be in for a lot of traffic.

My conclusion is that the best way to go about this is to have users create the forums. I think there is a lot of money to be made in discussion forums, and user-generated forums is how you guarantee you are the first to capture the market's need for a particular forum. Think: A wikipedia of forums.

I realize this post might be pretty incoherent and barely related to your weekend project. Sorry, I haven't eaten breakfast yet.
A person's life after getting FU money could very well depend on their financial state (and relatedly, their experiences and outlook in life) before getting rich. Seems like a valid question to me.
Many of the questions that confused the author are down to language or cultural issues I think.

A "C Form" is a common name for a tax form in several countries, including India. Also short for concessional form.

CA is likely Chartered Accountant, an important accountancy qualification in several countries.

How can I get office/windows/etc for free: If you're new on the internet, it's going to be difficult to understand how such expensive software is ubiquitous. Office in particular costs 6 months salary in many places of the world (G8 countries: can you imagine spending $20k on an office suite?) Plus of course there are both valid, and copyright-infringing methods of getting these products for free.

How can I view a street? Google Street View - a valid question if you've seen/heard of it but don't have the name.

how can i copyright a website: It seems almost no-one understands copyright well, and copyright notices are everywhere on websites (despite copyright being automatic)

how can i get the new facebook 2010: related to phased rollouts of new features, or some scam or hoax, or both.

what version of windows 7/ office 2007 do I have? They mean which edition, Basic/Ultimate etc. Not a stupid question at all.

how can i start share business?: How can I start investing in stocks/shares.

how can i tell how tall my son will be: It's actually easy to calculate a fairly accurate prediction from the parent's height, and height is pretty important in many cultures.
Seriously think about whether it makes sense, and think about all of the options. Your costs are going to be DRAMATICALLY higher. So you might not need outside capital to expand if you stay where you are, whereas you might if you take on a bay area-sized expense basis.

You could instead take a 2-month vacation/visit to the bay area twice a year, for example. You don't necessarily need to move to get the benefits you want. My $0.02, hope this helps.
WOW... I believe this is highly inaccurate. Maybe in the old days was it naive to type a question into a search engine. (until ask jeeves came along) but with the rise of Q-A sites this is a very valid way to find a question that has been asked before. Certainly it depends on the question you are asking but I think it's quite a false generalization at this point.
Of course not, people will do it for free because of the RDF.
Try changing the video metadata to Podcast and see if that allows you.
I don't believe so. That term has been used for years prior to 2000 in competitive offshore fishing.
The more I think about this -- really think about it -- the more I become convinced that anonymity and a small amount of recurring income, along with a reasonably-frugal life, is probably the best outcome in life.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm not saying to be poor. I'm saying that the more your income becomes visible -- past just having a low-key life -- the more it gets in the way of things, both for you and your family.

That can either mean living in a room where they shove a couple pizzas under the door every day or living in a modest 4BR house in a mediocre neighborhood. It's the visibility and the host of hidden entrapments that come with that visibility. What I didn't realize when I was younger that this problem of visibility isn't just limited to how others view your wealth -- it's really more a problem of of you view it.
why not? (not judging, just wondering)
You may also want to take feedback from HN in context of target market. I am guessing very few on HNers will qualify as your customer, rather this should be aimed at people who are actually interested in 'make money online' kind of products and for them site design might be OK. Better feedback from some other community too.
Most of the samples are voted up as "great off-topic example" so I think we don't have too much to worry about.

Presumably those won't be upvoted on a real site.
How to setup Clojure from scratch
I was apartment hunting in Berkeley a few weeks ago and only one of the eight places I looked at wanted to do a credit check.
There is sentiment that Reddit's developers are too quick to adopt the latest me-too web technology which overall doesn't benefit them. So I think what he's implying is that it's money wasted on EC2 when a traditional server would be more cost effective. I tend to agree.
Totally agree.

Having lived in London, I personally find San Francisco to have a lot of the downsides of being a "big city", without actually being a big city and so not having enough of the upsides (just to take one example, MUNI/BART is a joke compared to London's tube system).

I love Palo Alto and Mountain View though, and would live in either town again in a heartbeat.
Presenter First in GTK and C
Nice. Reminds me a lot of the AMSTRAD CPC days, what a machine that was.
Interesting to see that only less then 0.1 percent of Reddit users donated. Is there really no alternative for ad revenue in content startups?
Does this mean they are running Windows under paravirtualisation?
Seriously? Who allows uploads to a web-accessible directory with execution enabled?

There are so many options that can be transparently used to protect against this without randomly searching for uploaded web scripts.
I wonder if mining it regionally and seeing the unique searches will tell us more about a culture than years of on the ground anthropological observations. Of course, it assumes that people are kinda well off in the country and a sizable majority uses the internet.

Further, this is something that networks would kill for. Most people google the news they want to read. So, they could manage their editorial content better with this.

This data can have so many awesome uses...

P.S. - This comparison between Google USA and Google India is kinda right on the dot http://i.imgur.com/FPk2M.jpg Everyone I know uses a computer for one thing; porn and more porn. I think that this is a symptom of an extremely sexually repressed society. [edit: I am sorry if that sounded like a generalization, but what I intended to say is that from first hand experience and abnormally large amount of people are fixated over porn. It's kinda understandable with teenagers, but grown men and women? I know this stuff since I am sorta an unofficial tech support, so I come upon GBs of stuff that rattles the hell out of me. It might be personal bias, but I genuinely think that porn is more prevalent here due to social norms than a more liberal country kinda like Victorian england.]
Also I think 3D glasses would mean no proper TV to people who have spectacles.
But it won't be Google.

Then Google will buy them
Factor in the cost of parking as well. I've had a car here in SF and unless you have a garage space ($150-$200 per month) you will need to get a permit for your neighborhood ($75 per year I think). The permit is really cheap but you will spend a not insignificant amount of time searching for available spaces, and your car may have a window or two smashed over the course of the year.
I remember reading the term in James Clavell's novel Noble House, published in 1981.
I think you may need to re-read the article. There's one line in there where he almost says what you think he said:

>The social butterflies at the banks got swept up in the popular enthusiasms. The contrarians at the hedge funds made money betting against them. The well-connected bankers knew they’d get bailed out if anything went wrong. The solitary hedge fund guys knew they were on their own and regarded their trades with paranoid anxiety.

But I think he pretty clearly regards hedge fund managers as 'princes,' not 'grinds.'
The plan is to stay local as the service is tailored to the Chinese market.

I've been thinking of Amazon in Singapore as well, especially in combination with Scalr which would allow for a certain degree of automatic scaling.
Signs of a Fear-Based Workplace
Did you make sure personalization in Google India was disabled for you? Just Joking ;)

I do think your statement about porn is an extreme generalization but the differences in suggestions are very interesting.
Do Micro VC’s Invest in the Same Companies as VC’s?
...so this is a HackerNews story, linking to a Reddit thread ... which is about an alpha version of the Digg redesign?

Go here instead, and sign up for yourself:
http://new.digg.com/
Just to echo what keefe said, I successfully apartment hunted a few weeks ago and did what you're planning: crash with a friend for a week and obsessively read Craigslist. Something that helped me get a feel for the area was biking/walking around the general vicinity of where I was wanting to live (Berkeley). A lot of apartments have signs outside stating they're for rent too; in general though, Craigslist is pretty comprehensive.

One other point: come with your checkbook and be ready to put down a deposit on the spot. Don't rush your decision of course, but places go /fast/ and you'll want to act quickly to ensure the place you're looking for doesn't get taken.
Having worked in this area and been frustrated by the lack of an online knowledge base, I can assure you this is a terrible idea. Come to find out there is a very good reason there is no info online about tools, methods, and tricks.

Unlike other areas, the quant space is all about secrecy and not helping your competitor, in any way. In fact, I suppose more misinformation would be given then actually helpful advice.
Oh but these are examples for making people not do stuff (like not flag, vote, or even come back to the site). I don't feel like that's evil at all.
Yes, this is correct and I actually have been there several times, including last month for almost 3 weeks (stayed @ Mountain View).

I'm generally willing to move the whole thing there and pay the extra price to get closer to customers first and I generally like the area. I'm prepared for the extra costs, legal issues, taxes etc and am willing to go this way, just not sure where to start.

I have a 10-year multiple-entry visa, but this will not allow me to move the business, register US entity, pay taxes, etc there.
I do want to start focusing on one project and get it to the point where its useful. Following this I hope to do what you mention and put some more resources behind it and make it grow faster.

I initially had a small startup but that didn't quite work out for various reasons, so for about a year I have been prototyping various projects alone. One thing about the no-deadline situation is that for the last year I have basically been experimenting with different ideas and technologies. I suspect if I have some sort of a deadline I wouldn't have spent so much time on it. But then again maybe the time was well spent as the architecture and ideas are more precise now.

One fear I have is my project becoming a Duke Nukem Forever :)
Ask HN: Ideas We'd Like to Fund No 15,how implement it otheshelf product?
hello all
im looking again in the great Y Combinator ideas list and noticed this section 16 that talking about of the shelf security like companies like ADT are doing , i dont understand who can such product be "of the shelf product" what i missing here ?
"Grinds, on the other hand, tend to have started their own company or their own hedge fund. They’re often too awkward to work in a large organization and too intense to work for anybody but themselves. "

"During the last few years, for example, the princes at Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers behaved with incredible stupidity while the hedge fund loners often behaved with impressive restraint."

In the section you quote he was directly contrasting them - grinds versus princes.

He clearly thinks hedge fund guys are anti-social geeks, which is nothing short of bizarre. I work in the hedge fund industry, dealing with a lot of hedge funds. Such an observation is incredibly off the mark. Many of the hedge fund guys not only have great social capabilities, they have so much confidence that they didn't want to be a grind at a place like Citibank, so they went on their own.

Article is 180 degrees backwards from reality.
I'm curious what proxies or antivirus software would mangle HTTP headers to break gzip compression. I want to avoid buying them, or anything made by the companies responsible for them, ever.

Does anybody know?
Cooperative Grasping and Transport using Quadrotors
too much work & not scalable. sh1tm0nkey and all the "make money fast" people online tell you to do this... I used to hang out on forums with people who do this and I can say that 95% of them are broke, the other 5% are making money exploiting the other 95%.
Surprise - Google Recently Surpasses Yahoo in Time Visited
Tim O’Reilly:

"Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.”
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What google is actually showing me is much more sad:
http://i.imgur.com/sjGqf.png

It matches what is shown to me on http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=how%2... (note that it is NOT sorted by the number of queries)

I didn't search or visit anything related to these searches, and even have bocked google analytics tracker. Yet it's all the same on all my browsers, even those which were never ever logged in my google account.
SQL, or rather the relational model, is great for what it does. A thorough knowledge of both is central to most of what I've done over the last many years.

But there are places where you don't really want named attributes with the names known beforehand, you want to generate new attributes, perhaps named on the fly, perhaps designated ordinally. The relational model doesn't really have room for this. The various flavors of SQL offer bolted-on ways to do this, incompatible & quite different. But it's a living...
The Theology Of Tetris
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One problem is that the people in charge of PHP and their ongoing bad choices.
"MS has spent many multiples of what Apple has spent on UX design". I actually have no clue what windows looks like these days but it certainly used to be the other way around. I did notice that UX consistency has degraded over the last few years in OSX, but I'm not sure I'd call Windows better (again, from my limited experience with corporate windows apps).
Cory Doctorow: Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated
Are you trying too hard to be cool? The Axorcist consults:
Lua is an interesting case, because while arrays and associative arrays (AKA dicts/hashes) are the same data type, when dicts have keys 1..N* , those values are kept in an array rather than a hash table. (For O(1) access with a lower constant factor.)

* Yeah, Lua is 1-indexed. Ah well.
Go work at Google. Even if you have to pay for it.
As long as timezone issues don't crop up, I would have no problem hiring someone outside the US. I've done it before and it has worked out well.
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It beateth me.

In their defense, most of who had to scour our brains for a quotation relating to Socrates would probably come up with "Know thyself", and would have to make a conscious effort to say "yourself."
I'd say, just dive in.

Be sure to read man awesome.

You'll want to customize things a bit, most likely... rc.lua (the config file) is very hackable.
Did you tend to worry a lot before you had the money? You mention the misery is consistent. Is worry part of that.

I think coming into money is pretty much like losing a limb or experiencing a tragedy. After a certain period of time, the person who has experienced the tragedy goes back to where they were, mentally, before the tragedy. Same with lots of money, eventually they return to their norm.