skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking for something like this, but I would find it even more useful if it had like a mindmap feature. Not a classical mindmap, but more like "linking posts together" function. Because I like to review my thoughts as a whole, so a mindmap does a better job there. Nonetheless I do like the simplicity.
Betting on the mobile OS seems old fashion to me. In a few years we'll have complete parity in mobile. It really won't matter what OS you use. Even today we're pretty much there. I don't think Android can Windows-ize SmartPhones. There's too much competition and already too much parity. Google has a big problem if people are buying Android devices to mostly spend their time in non-Google services with non-Google ads. They'll still have a lot of mobile advertising but it may not be in the same ballpark as more targeted ads closer to the services/apps people are sharing data with.
Hey Jamie...great to see you pulled the trigger! Great call. I'm really disappointed in KISSmetrics too, as they seemed really smart and clued-in. Shame indeed.
Hayao Miyazaki Compares iPad Use To Masturbation
if colleges teach you no valuable skills, and only function as a way for employers to 'pre screen' candidates, sure, you are right. (of course, if schools don't teach anything that increases a worker's productivity, then they are pretty useless as a 'pre screen' too.)

However, one would hope that college would actually teach something, and would make the students more productive.

"But" you say "If everyone is more productive, won't their wages stay the same?"

sure, if everyone doubles their productivity, in a fair market, nobody will get a larger cut of the total economic output than they were getting before the productivity increase

However, if everyone's productivity doubles, there will be more economic output to divide. even if your percent of the pie stays the same, it's a bigger pie.

Of course, I'm ignoring inefficiencies here. Obviously, all groups try to maneuver such that they get a larger piece of the pie, but that happens all the time, not just in times of economic growth.
Not sure I understand what you're saying. It sounds snarky, but that doesn't fit the HN modus operandi, so I'm hoping I missed something. :)
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So does PHP: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#l...
I agree with your points and ideas of auto-optimization.

I'd just replace "at some shops" with "at most shops" to reflect reality a bit more.
It is possible to work in an agile manner with the NHS but it is not easy. I have been working for a small company selling software into NHS hiospitals for 7 years now, and we generally take a collaborative approach with customers when developing new functionality (which we can then upsell to our other customers). We have a progressive development environment with a small but talented development team.

However, I believe that the market for healthcare software in the UK is severely flawed, and there is little commercial incentive for companies to produce high quality products. Specifically,

1. As identified elsewhere on this thread, the procurement process generally does not reward quality or functionality above accountability / company financials.

2. The cost of sales is very high, and hospital trusts have no money. Therefore, suppliers will generally sell at a loss and require significant revenue through support contracts to make the contract viable. The business is all about lock-in, and there is very little customer demand for real interoperability between systems. Startups are unlikely to become profitable for a long time. It also means that customers resent suppliers for charging through the nose for an apparently trivial change to the software.

3. For any non-trivial IT solution, there are significant interoperability and business process differences between hospitals. You end up implementing a custom solution for each trust and have to absorb the operational costs associated with this. As a supplier, we spend a lot of time trying to get trusts to talk to each other to agree on standard processes, but really this needs to be done at a national level.

4. Many hospitals will roll their own solutions because it is "cheaper". A huge number of hospital systems have been written by doctors who dabble in programming and grow into a big ball of mud. Indeed, our product started out like this (although the doctor in question was smart enough to hire some programmers early on). For me, this shows the lack of experience in the IT departments which allow this to happen, as it is generally not the right way to go.

There are many other challenging aspects to this market, but it does feel like there are opportunities for good software companies to make a difference.
I found

46 how can i find my son

55 how can i get my son back

very sad.
That's because PHP is heavily influenced by C and Perl, both of which exhibit the same behavior.
The startup market is a relatively small market, the market for corporate websites, retailers, etc. is much bigger and for that audience the pricing seems perfectly viable.
I don't think it's an offence for a US citizen to gamble over the internet, but it's not legal for us as a betting exchange licensed in Malta to let you use our product. So you can register on Smarkets, but you won't be able to deposit from a US IP or a US credit card.

Also the Smarkets founders are US citizens and they'd quite like not to get arrested when they go back home.

For API news, follow our blog: http://blog.smarkets.com/
That's exhaustive, thank you :-)

I should be able to pick enough of the UI and design lingo to communicate with designers.
Chris Sacca – super busy and successful – still a super mensch.
The main reason betting itself is illegal is for moral reasons. In many societies, betting is considered a vice just like drinking alcohol, presumably because of its non-serious nature and the general atmosphere of lewdness that usually surrounds it.

Apart from that, the addictive aspect of gambling is in many places a major argument to prohibit or severely restrict gambling.

As to why paying someone to play badly is illegal, it's because the information asymmetry distorts 'normal' trade relations. It's a consumer protection mechanism. Of course it could be dealt with by a civil claim, but that may not have enough of a deterrent effect.

Sports leagues don't have much power in this matter. They can only influence the player being bought off, not the one paying the player.
Great idea! Good luck!
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in the US, at least, you can, but there are a bunch of limitations and rules. You (the kid) have to get a 'work permit' and can only work certain hours.

I got my first long term job at 14, and I had to go through rigmarole. it was pretty irritating; my mom made me quit my first job before summer was up because they didn't have the right paperwork and workmans comp, etc... Sure, i was being "exploited" as she said, but it was a very positive experience... and I got cheap used computer parts from that place for the next three years.
We want to make betting on a betting exchange easier to understand for the average punter. Loads of people (at least in the UK) still use high-street bookmakers with bad odds. Betfair is a bit of a mess (don't view source if you value your sanity).
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Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?
Here are some questions that I find myself pondering from time to time as I code. To those who have achieved "FU money" (I use this term loosely):

* Has your life changed in unexpected ways?

* Has there been any change in the way you interact with strangers?

* Has the number of things you have to endure increased or decreased?

* And is "FU money" all its cracked up to be? e.g., is your life an order of magnitude more enjoyable now, or is it pretty much the same etc?
Apple's whole response to this has been unusually ham handed and unsubtle. Anybody remember how gracefully Apple responded to the massive price cut on the original iPhone? I'd like that Apple back please. At some point they've decided to switch sides in the 1984 metaphor and never realized it.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always
represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
Be interesting to see. The person or people responsible almost certainly would be easy enough to turn the public on (6-figure salary, first-class travel, gold-plated pension etc, etc) and has wasted a billion quid/year at a time when the NHS is strapped for cash. Let the tabloids do the rest. It might encourage the others, at least.
I like the idea of mapping posts to each other. Are you thinking of having a full "import" of one scribble to another or more of a related scribbles?

Thanks again!
Seems really bizarre to me. What do they offer that, in your experience, is so much better than google analytics?
Money laundering is a big problem for betting exchanges, but it's not an unsolvable problem. Countries that issue betting exchange licenses generally have very tight anti-money laundering requirements.
This is truly great. I hope the teacher(s) are doing a bunch of follow-up work teaching about how and why this worked. Also use that interest to drive into other topics such as how the balloon gets its lift versus a rocket engine.

This type of out of the ordinary teaching gets kids excited about learning. And the best part is because it is exciting, they probably do not even realize that they are "learning", they just go home and talk about all the awesome stuff they did putting a balloon into space. And the talk of that "stuff" is all the stuff they learned without needing to sit and study from a book or have a teacher lecture at you while you stare out the window.
I have a feeling this is one of Neil Patel's marketing ploys to create buzz for KISSmetrics.
It's all about people, not the ORMs or other technical inventions.

Most shithead queries I encountered during years of DBAing were written by hand by poor folks abandoned by their colleagues and over-confident managers.

Just no one cared to educate them, but everyone expected "progress" from them. So they did what they could..

In fact I wished many times that they used some abstraction layer which would save them from doing such harm, simply because this layer would be written by more educated people.
Ask HN: Magazine Niches
I have really been inspired by the success of Hacker Monthly and have been considering putting together a magazine in another niche in a similar fashion. It's got to be a ton of work, but it looks like fun and the end result would be quite an accomplishment.

I've been thinking of travel hacking as a niche (or travel for hackers). Is this something people would be interested in? As an example, searching for "year long trip around the world" and read a few peoples experience for an idea of what I'm going for.

Things I think have contributed to the success of HN Monthly (feel free to correct me or add to it):

1. Having a great source of content to pick from and the willingness of the authors to license it freely.
2. Building off an established community willing to pay for a print magazine (I find that last part really ironic and cool).
3. Having the right to expand with an existing brand name.
4. On-demand printing from MagCloud, meaning low/no upfront costs.
5. All that may get people to buy the first issue, then it comes down to quality and the design of HNM is really great.

So, what do you guys think?
Yes, but I'm pretty sure all US carriers use it all the time

(Though it's true that this opens you up to a potential MITM attack by a well equipped adversary, it's still a far cry from an open wifi network)
That actually seems a lot more severe a form of punishment than buying donuts. Release management can be a full-time gig.

(Aside: how many articles was Joel planning on writing when he came up with that URL scheme? Crikey.)
Someone should keep a list of exciting projects like this that schools could undertake - somewhere teachers could go to for inspiration.
I'm pretty sure those are usually leaked, not intercepted.
I got a Dell Mini 10v and turned it into a hackintosh for Rails development...unfortunately it's useless apart from browsing the web and reading PDFs. The small keyboard can be worked around by plugging in a proper Apple keyboard....but that's not very portable :-(
While in other societies drinking alcohol is not considered a vice, speculating on the outcome of sporting events is considered a relatively harmless pastime and "gambling" on arcane financial events (and the associated lewd behavior) is considered by most to be immoral when those who benefited get bailed out with taxpayers money.
What's the point of named arguments if you can't do something like the following (e.g. Python)?

>>> def some_func(a=1, b=2, c=3):
return (a + b) * c

>>> val1 = some_func()
>>> val1
9
>>> val2 = some_func(b=3)
>>> val2
12
>>> val3 = some_func(c=5)
>>> val3
15
>>>
http://nsl.com/k/s/s.k (from http://nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm)

http://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm

This C code helped me get into the headspace. (http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm)

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=266982
I'm interested in hearing about experiences on people who are not founders and made money in an IPO/buyout. How much can that realistically be? You're diluted down to 0. something percent by the time the exit happens. Compared to the opportunity cost of just getting paid each month for several years, do employees in a startup come out ahead, financially?
Stay classy, Apple.
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NZ1.US: Rate my micro-startup
Just looking for some constructive feedback on my micro startup. It's a news aggregation site. Nothing groundbreaking, but it's my first completed project. For now my revenue is ad placement until I figure out something better or move on to my next idea.
I completely agree with you, and I much prefer Python's method of handling it. I was at explaining why PHP acts the way it does.
Yeah, that really does stink. Once you get more than 2 or 3 parameters, it's tempting to just pass a $config hash instead.
It's absolutely untrue that Galileo is the first sports betting fund. There are quite a few market makers on Betfair.
Thanks. That was what I was looking for in the article.
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Report from the BBC 5 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496936

Many comments there - this SciAm article doesn't appear to add anything extra.
It was purely the simplicity of the user interface for visualising the steps in the sales funnel and seeing exactly where you were losing conversions. I think you can construct something similar in Google Analytics but KISSmetrics is a much more focused tool (but not worth the difference between free and $149/month!)
http://vimeo.com/8995197 (done in 2006, so a little dated). Disclaimer - Sean Park is one of our investors.
I wonder if at least some of the time #55 refers more to getting him back mentally, as in back to the state before puberty hit.

#46 is indeed very sad.
But it seems strange that they are completely ignoring the small business market altogether. I'm pretty sure it would be easier to sell 15x$10 subscriptions rather than 1 $149 subscription, which is probably going to involve at least a phone call if not a face-to-face meeting.
>I'm entirely convinced a sales job won't help you sell a product online through a web interface.

Personally, I agree. However, I believe that a sales job /will/ help you sell your company to investors, and it may help you better negotiate with other sales people. (I'm not sure about the second one, but it seems like seeing it from the other side might help.)
Can you show me one place where it works?
Yeah, and how much of those do the employees get? Right.
Faster is not always what we are after though. I recently wrote a piece of code to run in tightly constrained (but not embedded) environments, and C was the natural choice. The Python or PHP or JavaScript interpreter and VM just wouldn't fit in the RAM.
Nice job, but the headline is somewhat misleading... it is _not_ a 100k foot balloon, but a balloon that reached 100k feet.

My first impression was of a really long balloon tube. :)
Protecting Your Product Without a Patent
why do people keep saying an LCD screen is an 'e-reader'. Completely missing the point. Calling e-ink 'crappy' and then telling me to read books on the same type of screen as the monitors sitting in front of me is stupid. You wouldn't read on a computer screen, and you won't seriously read on an LCD monitor no matter how small it is.

If your use case is to read books, e-ink is for you, all these e-readers with superfluous extra features remind me of the first GPS I got, it had SD card support to play MP3's and Movies but sucked at navigation and had a crap GPS signal. I never used the extra features, and always got lost.
I thought this was going to be an article about the difficulties in writing a web spider in PHP (which is not PHP's strong suit).

I once wrote a crawler loosely based off Snoopy (http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/) and it was a nightmare.
It's not just Perl, every language I've seen or heard of except PHP has a clear distinction between its unordered key-value datatype, and an array datatype. That includes Python, Lisp, Lua, and others.

PHP has a Frankensteinian mix between the two. You /can/ implement it in any other language by just keeping an array along with your hash that indicates the order in which elements were inserted: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Tie::StoredOrderHash

But you almost never want to do this. I've only used it once in all the PHP code I've written. And having to deal with the ambiguity of PHP's key-value array datatype wasn't worth it elsewhere wasn't worth that.
Object Oriented Programming: The Wrong Path?
My problem with this is it barely considers environmental factors and resources. Yet environmental factors affect motivation but using this model motivation would be seen as the issue, not environmental factors. Likewise, if the correct resources don't exist nothing will happen. I'm not always a fan of motivational theory but it is why I love Herzberg's Hygiene Factors.

The thought is that there are hygiene factors and motivators.

Hygiene Factors do not cause motivation on their own but if they do not exist motivation cannot occur (i.e. enough bathrooms, on it's own that doesn't make me work harder but if they are not there I'm pissed).

Only once hygiene factors are satisfactory can you focus on Motivators.
30 day free trial, whats the big deal?

edit: people don't like free trials?
It depends on the kind of idea I'm using it for! But I think linking in terms of import would be more useful.
Wow. I have a new appreciation for disambiguation as a competitive advantage. I know search queries are inexact, but I didn't realize that they might be entered billions and trillions of times

130 how can i work with google 1150000000

Do they want to be employed by Google, learn about SEO, or be a supplier of Google's?

166 how can i get some money 1020000000

Do they want to earn money, win money, or receive a wire transfer?
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35. Too funny.
59 is also hilarious.

And would you look at all those Facebook queries. That alone should have Google shaking in their boots!
Thanks, I edited the headline
I wonder how true this is in England. The last government was all about funneling public money to private companies, but the present one is tearing up those agreements like it's going out of fashion (this is the real story behind the cancelled school building programme - after 13 years and hundreds of millions of pounds, the last government had very little to show, so the programme had to be scrapped).
This is the second post I've seen on HN with the same ridiculous headline about some site "stealing" a creative commons Flickr photo. They did not "steal" the content, they failed to provide the required attribution. That's negligence, probably due to human error, not "stealing". If there was some indication that HP was doing this consistently it might be vaguely newsworthy, but otherwise, for one photo, it's a very trivial lapse in editorial control. A big deal to the photographer, no doubt, but of no interest to the rest of us. All publications have little glitches all the time. This ain't news.

The photographer should address his concern to Huffington and ask them to provide attribution or remove the photo.
would you mind giving an example of one such website ?
Just curious: How is a unit defined? For each copy of it? How should that be measured? Or for each download? That can be very inaccurate if you have your product on a lot of independent mirror servers.
The development tools for WP7 looks great, certainly a good step towards swaying app creators to their platform.
I think it's great that kids are learning like this but what is the chance of danger to aviation out of curiosity?
I'm sorry that I didn't get your error report, or that you didn't get my reply to your error report. But I maintain an errata page, and that error has been on it since 2005-05-24. See http://hop.perl.plover.com/errata/errata-p-1.html#p196.
Type checking has many benefits other than making assertions about value types. It can provide hints to the compiler and has proven useful in some models of parallel computation. It isn't simply "free error checking." One should be able to discriminate from problems that require type-checking.

It just seems that in most cases it isn't actually required.
HPC hits the Cloud (with full bisectional bandwitdh)
A second best method is to think hard of what problems other people might have that you can solve. Let's do [this] by seeing what people are searching on the internet

That's an interesting idea and I found the results intriguing. However, the search results themselves also need to be taken into account.

For example on the search term "How can I have a blog". The author's opinion is... "These suggest that many people are still left out of technology because they find services too complicated. Need for even simpler blogging, site creation, etc. platforms?"

I disagree with this view since it presumes people already know the major blogging platforms before they search. The search itself brings up Blogger and Wordpress as the first two hits which may have satisfied users.
I found

94 how can i get my hearing back

incredibly sad.
That's me...
Facebook has an English (Pirate) setting too, if you click your current language setting at the bottom of the page.
No, it's in all likelihood the the parent-son bond has been broken and the parent would like to fix that. They are both very sad, and no reference to daughters in the list? Sons may stray further or abandon their parents more than daughters.
EU agrees Iter fusion construction shortfall funds
C(++) has got a lower memory footprint than Java/C# which is also quite important.
I recently met Neil at a conference in SC, and I've known and done prototyping work for Hiten for a little over a year. I was also one of the original alpha testers for this product.

I am 100% confident the pricing decision was founded in hard data and experience. One of their other products, CrazyEgg, aimed for and delivered incredibly heavy functionality. However, it resulted in disproportionate load on their people and infrastructure - and it's obvious they've learned their lesson.

People will pay these prices. More to the point, the people who are very serious about this sort of funnel honing will pay these prices.

Also, if you're bootstrapping... bootstrap. Hack together something to track your highest priority funnel. Don't harsh on a product so obviously unintended for you.
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