skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be best to do that sort of thing when you can prepare a good chunk of your populace to really try it out. "Hey everyone, start driving on the left on your morning commute tomorrow!" That way, you have a concerted effort to do it right, and lots of people driving on one side or the other would reinforce the behavior. That's all as opposed to having a few bleary-eyed drivers in the wee hours potentially get a surprise.
Demandforce is cheating the review system on Google Local
Why would Google ever partner up with these guys? They are threatening to remover all the positive reviews if you cancel their $300/month service.
I have gone a little step further and actually implemented them. Then no one came.

My new pet is heavily quantitatively researched. Had my first 5 users before I even mocked it up. I just sent them something I made in mockingbird for their review, and they don't seem to be involved in software development (they're all academics/artists and are giddy about the experience :-)
This makes me think of how small countries can (potentially) have the ability to be so much more progressive than huge countries like the U.S. We can't even get on the frickin' metric system.
I've always just looked on highdeas for these?
Aside from the maintainability of this technique, it sounds as though it's taking one of the least efficient routes towards doing its job. (I'm not a LISPer, and although I should stop and think about the code there until I grok it before commenting, I'm looking for a lazier answer.)

So, let's say we have two documents, and want to calculate their distance. Each document has 2,000 words. We can either scan each word in each document once, counting them in memory and processing a total of 4,000 words, or we can start with a word in one document, scan both documents for all occurrences of that word, move on to the next word, scan both documents for all occurrences of that word, and so on, for a total of ~N! scans. Given a choice between a really efficient function running in factorial time, or a longer, uglier function running in constant time ... I'd kind of prefer the latter.

Am I way off the mark here? Is there something I misunderstood?
Darn is right. I'd love to see an article comparing your stats across each channel.
Thanks - the graphics for the stones are actually from a friend's iPhone app. Unfortunately I can't find it in the app store anymore, he seems to have removed it. My main interest with the prototype was to see if the AI in JavaScript would work.
I don't think they ever directly called Tumblr a dying platform. The dig seemed aimed more towards Ning, which was the first platform they supported, and could reasonably be called dying for people who want a free blogging platform, as could several of the other platforms.

The HN comments about the campaign seem to do more to further a catfight than the original blog post did in the first place.
>> Oh really? Feel free to cite any of his scholarly writings.

> "Mar 28, 2008 ... Barack Obama is correct in saying he is a constitutional law professor." source: FactCheck.org (http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_barack_obama_reall...)

The claim was that he was a constitutional law scholar, not that he was a professor. While there are overlaps between the two groups, neither one is a subset of the other.

I'll ask again - if Obama is a constitutional law scholar, where is his scholarly output?
The Beauty Advantage
Ask HN: If I gave you $20.00 US, What would you buy?
If I gave you $20.00 US, What do you buy or subscribe to online?
I can't figure this out either. A friend actually blogs on tumblr, and I find the lack of obvious comments really irritating (even after she said she turned comments on). I guess it's the design, per the Ars article.

* I'm a developer and not afraid to get my hands dirty but I'd rather have something self hosted because I'm not interested a potential cracking vulnerability I'd get hosting my own.*

As others have said, Wordpress.
The thing is though--if you go into a store and by an iPhone, you're guaranteed to have the newest version. If you go and buy an Android phone, you never quite know what you're getting.
So, the easy way around that is to employ people free-lance for a while and if that works out well hire them.

There are plenty of good start-ups in France in spite of this apparent limitation (other European countries have similar laws on the books, but not all of them), in fact I think it makes it clear that both sides have rights and obligations.

Incidentally, it is possible to fire someone with cause, but not 'on a whim'. A pretty humoristic (and unfortunately very realistic) take on this: http://blog.cocagne.com/how-to-fire-in-france.htm
>> It doesn't matter what he says in a speech.

> I disagree. Words have both immediate and historical significance and impact, whether by a dictator like Hitler or a president like John F. Kennedy.

Both Kennedy and Hitler followed up on their words. Their words were significant because of their actions.

With Obama, at least on these issues, the words and actions are very different.
CR has published it share of canards. Most famously, it helped fan the flames of the false Audi 5000 "unintended acceleration" story in the 1980s — and there was nothing wrong with the cars, as a subsequent NHTSA report demonstrated.
That's what I usually do as well, however:

DDG: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=iirc
Gives me an IRC server written in Java - which didn't expect to be of use for Tumblr; Interactive Illinois Report Card which doesn't make any sense. I also checked google.. typed in define:IIRC and then I actually got the result of "if i remember correctly", but by then my brain had become so sure that it was some sort of technology that I dismissed that result right away.

Well, you can call me stupid or a bad researcher, but it was an honest question which was asked after I had honestly tried to find the answer to in another manner.
First off: http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-star...

You aren't even mentioning an S-Corp. Is there some restriction that is keeping you from an S-Corp status? They also avoid double taxation while still giving the benefits of a corporation.
Doesn't it sort of defeat the purpose? If nobody can anonymously shutdown a web site but the NSA, then every time web site is shut down anonymously, it probably IS NSA.
It might be a good time to see it because I think a replica of the difference engine is on display there... pretty cool:

http://computerhistory.org/babbage/
Some phones are too slow, but I think the vast majority of android phones in the wild (by number sold) fall under the umbrella of #2 right now, and that's the much bigger issue. It's hard for a consumer to tell whether the phone they're picking up will be supported a year after the fact.

That is a problem with the structure of the Android ecosystem, which by extension is a complaint with Android itself.
Doesn't mention the #1 objection to drinking alcohol while on a diet: Drunk people don't pass up the peanuts.
How about religious intolerance? http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/13/france.burqa.ban/...
Direct link: http://www.picloud.com
Well, it does seem to have been industry-wide. Customer-friendly, not so much :-)

Seriously, what you describe is how the policies have often been articulated, but how they have been implemented depends on exactly how you define 'processed' - which may not necessarily mean 'applied to your account balance.' I don't want to extrapolate too much from my own experience (which is only one case, and recalled from >2 years ago at that), but the turning point came when I observed that debit/withdrawal times were consistently described in terms of a 12 hour clock, with deposits consistently described in terms of a 24 hour clock. So an outgoing payment took place at '4:30' (pm), but an incoming deposit took place at '16:15', with the implication that since 4 < 16, the debit had happened 12 hours earlier than the deposit. I had receipts and screenshots of my online banking page, so after being given the same explanation - twice - and professing an air of sudden enlightenment, I produced the paperwork and asked to go through the list of transactions one more time but doing them all in the 24-hour format - which led to an abrupt and total resolution of the argument in my favor.

Draw your own conclusions. My beef was about the retroactive reordering of the the transactions as listed by online banking from one day to the next, but in the course of their explanation matters took a distinctly surreal turn.
Beer.

[Edit: Sorry, I only read the title. I would probably not buy beer online.... so... I dunno. An ebook?]
> If you were to do this on nginx you'd have to write the
> module in C.

You can write a module to glue nginx and V8. Many people've done it. It takes less than 400 lines of code and a lot of it is nginx typical module code. (The problem is more about the lack of nginx online help, perhaps.)

> The fact that you can write a web server in a few lines of easy to
> understand and maintain Javascript that can handle over 10,000
> concurrent connections without breaking a sweat is a
> breakthrough.

Yes. But the big performance issue still is hitting the database and disks. There's no point in having a super fast web server if the DB is dog slow like the vast majority of databases out there. Including the NoSQL bunch. They are not fixing the issue of latency vs. scalability vs. reliability. For that they need to address many uncomfortable problems of current hardware architectures. This is the elephant in the room.
More info about bogetery shutdown
ECU (engine control unit) hacking is a hobby of mine; I'd like to point out that those of us with keyboards are actually starting to replace the grease-monkeys, or at least supplement them.

(But there will always be a need to get your hands dirty if automotive construction and modification are your thing.)
What is this process designed to optimize? My guess: it's massively arbitrary, which would be really shameful given the impact immigration policy has on lives & families.
Looks like an amazing product. This is definitely where cloud computing is shifting. Managing servers is just too much of a hassle.
And then pg says that Silicon Valley is the best place to start a start-up:

well only if you are already a US citizen. Otherwise, you can forget it.
I understood your misunderstanding immediately after reading your post. That is why I felt obligated to educate you. Condescending is a word that most would use to describe your responses to some posts. I'm not here for your feedback. I'm here to share information with others who have like interests. Please show some class. The name calling is unnecessary.
A joke came back from 1999 to haunt you. s/VC/angel/ and it could very well apply to some startups these days, probably not Tumblr, but still ...
It does not include free books. No mention of "almost free".

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34551590/AmazonRelease6-19-2010
Well, in reality, I would use it to buy food. Money is tight.

If we're talking some sort of online-only credit, I'd actually like to donate more to a number of podcasts I enjoy (escapeartists.net, drabblecast.org, starshipsofa.com). They work on a lot of productions that enrich the life of my mind.
Nothing. It is designed to please rednecks, who don't want 'em foreigners who are stealying our 'obs.

The entire thing is mess upon mess, upon mess created by lobiests.
I did actually run for Congress a few years ago (http://www.politicsandtechnology.com/2005/10/scott_chacon_fo...), so I can tell you as a developer and having been a political candidate, that being a developer is much, much easier.

I'm a relatively outgoing person for being a software developer - I do a lot of public speaking and so forth, but putting yourself up as a political candidate is incredibly stressful. You have to be an expert in everything - tech issues, yes, but also farm issues, banking issues, environmental issues, taxes, poverty, unemployment, zoning, etc. It involves walking door to door and telling people face to face that they should trust you and give you their vote and hopefully money and time. You have to ask people for money - all the time. You are asking for a job representing everyone around you, so it's hard to relax - you feel like you're slacking when you should be asking for votes or money or studying the issues.

It's also helpful to be very, very partisan. If you're moderate, the people that volunteer for causes like yours will seem extreme for you and saying that people on the other side are not horrible people can lose you volunteers. You have to juggle that. If you think office politics or developer cliques are bad or distasteful, wait until you see what the political circles are like. Everyone has an opinion (including people like us) and knows how everything should be run. When you don't do what they suggest, they might leave.

I love the idea - obviously I invested a lot of my time in it. I think technology can seriously improve our governance for the better and having tech aware legislators would be a good thing. However, before you do it, know what you're getting into. People think politicians are corrupt and stupid, but in general I think they're mostly smart, hard working and want to honestly help. Running for office is complex, stressful and trying. Before you throw your hat into the ring, contact someone you like, volunteer your time, help them understand these issues, build them these tools and convince them they are worth it. You might be surprised how approachable many of them are. Then, if you still feel the need to replace them, go for it. And let me know, I'd love to hear about it.
Is there a reason you would choose to make up your own, untested, license rather than something that has been examined by legal professionals? Did the MIT, BSD or GPL licenses not meet your needs?
haha, nice, hadn't seen that one before. I love the last Japanese one (chosen because I've had some Japanese)

Touou wo ooou. (東欧を覆おう。) meaning "Let's cover eastern Europe."
Disagree. People can blog on many different domains. Just because someone is a regular contributor here doesn't mean that all his ideas about anything under the sun is relevant to HN.

Also, some of his points are highly debatable. The OP seesm to be against the Iraq war and mentions France's occupation of Algeria, but fails to notice the irony that that occupation was as brutal and unjust as the Iraq one.

As for France being the best country to live in, well, this is not the place for that type of discussion, but just a few highlights to the contrary: (i) highly elitist attitude of French towards foreigners, especially if you cannot speak French well; (ii) toxic environment for startups (this applies to a lot of European countries but France is an extreme example, I think), (iii) high taxes (again, true for most Europe), (iv) (to me the worst) the Grand Illusion that French governments for the past 60 years have tried to continue, namely that France is a superpower, with its own sphere of influence (on paper, they love the Francophones, but if you are dark skinned and live in Paris you are despised). They go to great lengths, even detonating nuclear bombs and sinking Greenpeace ships to keep this illusion.

OK, that was my prejudiced (aren't we all?) ideas on France. Now, let the downvoting begin.
But the central question that was in everyone's head
before the press conference - "Is the iPhone 4 a dud"
- has, well, evaporated.

That was never the central question in anybody's head. No one thought the phone was a dud.

A more common question was, will Apple own up to making an avoidable design flaw? Look around the Web at the responses to the press conference and decide just what questions have evaporated, and what new ones appeared.
Well deserved. Tumblr's done a great job focusing on the experience.
C-Corp. Deleware.
It's my understanding that:

1) If you don't intend for investment now, go for the LLC route so that you avoid double taxation.

2) If you want VC, you'll need a C-Corp as you noted.

For the weird states... you may want to register in Nevada or Deleware. However, the state you reside in may make you register as a foreign entity [which costs money], so in most cases in may just make sense to register in that state. YMMV.

For my second LLC, I registered in Nevada by using BizFilings. Very stupid, it cost much more than it needed to. For my third business, my partner just walked into my Secretary of State (Nebraska) and filled out the paper work. Very simple form. We were a business in less than 24 hours.

Again, YMMV depending upon the state. LLC is the most likely answer for most businesses to just get up and get going. Good luck.
That's all fine, but when will the Dashboard get decent loading times? I know you're supposed to be a cool kid & email your blog entries, but I don't like what that does with line breaks.
How to do what you love - http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
Sure - check your inbox -
It also sucks that:

* The culture expects (and until recently mandated) a 35 hour work week.

* The tax administration is a nightmare.

* The employment code is so bad that companies with just a few employees need a full-time person just to manage the forms.

* The culture shuns startups (compare VC industries, for instance, or find articles in Forbes where just 10 years ago the majority of citizens wanted jobs as civil servants).

* The culture is, like much of Europe, deeply classist, with leaders expected to graduate from an ultra-selective Ivy League of top schools.

All respect for pioneering cuisine and viticulture, but, uh, we do that stuff pretty well now too. I'll stick with Wisconsin Hooks blue and Vermont Weston cheese, and you can keep the extra 4 weeks of vacation and the 1,000 forms per employees.
But do they buy iphones and many other tech gadgets? I can't imagine there is much overlap between CR readership and bleeding edge gadget consumers.
If you want to use an unlocked phone and maximize your revenue as a customer, simply get an iPhone 4 on contract with AT&T, put the SIM in $GENERIC_SMARTPHONE, unlock it, and sell it on eBay for around $750.

Maximum profit as a consumer as the $750 spread over the 24 month contract gives you an effective $31.25 a month discount. Plus, you get it up front so you can invest it or do whatever you want with the money.

My corporation qualifies me for a 20% AT&T discount. I could effectively keep my iPhone 3GS, which works just great, and reduce my phone bill from $66 a month down to $35 - and still have unlimited data as a grandfathered plan.

The game works if you know how to play it... ;-)
Two months of the International Herald Tribune for my Kindle. The subscription cost is half that of the New York Times, but the content is virtually identical, with more of an international focus.

I enjoy reading on my Kindle to reading on the computer. No distractions, and much less eyestrain.
> I'm assuming that at least some of these kids who are wagging school are just doing it out of short-term thinking.

Actually, almost all of them are.

> They don't want to be high-school dropouts,

You're assuming that they care.

> Having this graph burned into their minds might scare 'em into showing up on days they otherwise would not have.

Do you really think that seeing that graph will keep them from engaging in short-term thinking? Wowsers.

The graph shows one consequences of short-term thinking. However, they're surrounded by negative consequences of short-term thinking and still they continue.

> Cigarettes are chemically addictive

That's not the only effect. It may not even be the strongest.

And it isn't true of starting smokers. They also know what smoking will do for them, but yet they start.
Why is it develop and have announced?

I have a (couple) side projects that I haven't "announced" on HN, was going to submit, but then I noticed the required "HN Announcement URL".

Maybe my problem is that I just haven't "announced it on HN" formally, and that's what this is all about? Is that the case? Thanks for clarification.
I come from mainland Europe where we drive on the right, and I was in the UK couple of months ago, and was forced (due to the volcano) to drive from London to Glasgow. At first it was all really wired and scary, but once I drove off the rent-a-car parking lot onto a road where there ware other cars it was easy. My point is that other cars help you if you "suddenly" have to drive on the other side of the road. I did, however, drove a car with the steering wheel on the right side, so that might help (unlike here where the driver sits at the edge of the road).
I think most people are just predisposed to share. Tumblr lets you do this quite easily and intuitively. Not everybody gets it of course.

I think if I were to itemize the features that Tumblr does really well:

1. Feedback gratification. I can't think of any other way to describe it. The 'like' function lets you get instant feedback on what you shared, whether it's original content or reblogged content. The reblog function gives you even more gratification because it means what you posted was cool enough to be reposted. Works great for attention-hungry teens (or people in general.) This can get out of control when tumblrs decide they want to flame someone, multiple reblogs that escalate in online dickery sometimes ensues.

2. Tumblr not only lets you share content, it gives you things TO share through its ability to let you 'follow' other users and 'reblog' their content/posts.

3. The tumblr timeline is like twitter on crack. Imagine an endless scroll of content. Funny stuff, serious stuff, links, images, porn, name it. The dashboard gives an very easy way to reply to a post, like a post and/or reblog it. (when I reblog a post, I make it a point to 'like' it, for example)

4. On that, tumblr's got a pretty liberal policy on nudity, pornography, etc. I'm surprised porn sites have not jumped on this yet. The Suicide Girls, for example, have a tumblr, and their content gets reblogged a lot and consistently.

5. Tumblr's also got a generally cool attitude towards its users. No condescension, and their staff have their own tumblr blogs that are snarky and pretty funny.

6. Tumblr activities. This is something they've got over just about everyone except twitter. Tumblr users create activities (one pretty fun one is 'topless tuesdays, I'll let ya'll figure that one out.) that many tumblr bloggers participate in, creating massive amounts of content.

That's just a few of the things that have made tumblr fun. I'm basically on it all day, and have it set to send my posts to twitter. Great way to find content, share content, and just dick around online.
My statement is true of both.
I would get a Manning ebook: http://manning.com/. Probably PostGIS in Action.
A megaupload / rapidshare premium account or would put it into advertising
All this stuff adds up. In the US, you can incorporate inside of a day, online, hire immediately, and fire the instant it becomes clear that the employee isn't working out. We have painless incorporation. We have simple taxes. We have at-will employment. We have no requirements for vacation pay. We have minimal and simple holidays. Just as importantly, we have an economy of vendors and customers and services all built around those assumptions.
Android Market - are new features coming...?
The StarCraft Economy (Infographic)
12 Examples of “Mental Accounting” (And How To Avoid Them)
Why Facebook friends are worth keeping
A programming book from my wishlist: http://amzn.com/w/HWZ6Z22CY8TU
I love Tumblr!

1) It's free.

2) I can edit the HTML.

3) It supports Disqus.

4) Default themes are awesome.

5) Custom domain support is free.
Aqua Sphere Kalman swimming goggles (Amber).
Interesting, when I wrote most of these points 4 mins ago I thought I'd be the only who point out the cons of living in France.