skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - I figured that someone might have some insights for me, I don't have the share purchase agreement with me and will have a look at it tonight. And then I'll send it along to an attorney.
Humans are naturally sensitive to color, but not to hue fidelity, as hue synthesis shows: all hues are synthesized out of 3 basic wavelengths, color displays are based on this. Also, we tolerate B&W and sepia images well, we even love them. We are sensitive to hue saturation and contrast, and the discussed algorithm fulfills these two requirements. Furthermore, we have been desensitized by the heavy use of compression in color images and by uncalibrated displays.
Be sure to read the "Security considerations" paragraph carefully before using this.
I thought youtube actually made lots of money in Q1 2008?
Yes. Visit a Lisp user group near you and you'll encounter a variety of personalities.
Don't be afraid to use long sentences.

There are no rules, only guidelines.
Get some Perspective
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i think the problem with twitter is that they did not use a real time architecture, like email, irc, or some other messaging platform. instead i think they write each page dynamically off of a db call based on who subscribed where. ie, you would have to start from scratch to scale it. i think the problem is that now that twitter, let the cat out of the bag, they are now chasing problems on an old architecture, and trying to scale that, while also trying to build a new version. it suppose its like running two tech companies.
I know that can be a tough thing. Make sure you can find someone to talk to about it. Doesn't make it magically go away, but it helps.
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It is interesting how highly posts dealing with depression get ranked here. Must mean most here fit the bipolar lisper, making this post kinda ironic.
Someone posted a link to the main site a few days ago but the item slipped past everyone - hence this ajaxian.com link. Way too interesting an idea to not give it another chance.
Here's one:
If your essay turns into a list, use bullet points or numbers rather than a block of semicolons.

Otherwise, great stuff. I like that pg's advice for writing--create a first draft and iterate rapidly--is exactly the same as his advice for creating startups.
Ask YC: PHP6?
How do fellow YC'ers feel about the direction of PHP6? "no magic quotes", etc.. is php becoming like every other language?
Strangely, just yesterday, I got this email in my junk account:

Subject: My name is Cedric Beust and I caused you to get unwanted email

Message:

Hello,

I am Cedric and I blog on beust.com.

I have allowed everyone's email to be exposed throught my sloppy, weak security. I work at Google and this secruity lapse reflects poorly on Google too of course.

If you received this email, then your private email address has been scrapped from my weblog and posted to
http://www.newsreadersite.eu/?page=562

This error on my part cannot be undonw of course. The mailbots have already scrapped your email address and now your address is runined forever. I hope it wasn't important to you.

I like to talk about important things like computer languages and architecture on my weblog, but I know so little about security that I allowed all of your addresses to be scrapped.

Sorry I am so lame,

Cedric
How valuable are you on Twitter?
"is php becoming like every other language?"
Maybe that's for the better. It'd give everyone using the language a nice reprieve from the usual "hurr lawl php kiddie language!" trolls.
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No Social Life in the Startup Phase?
i would much rather be ranked against FF users, than IE users. I suspect that I have more in common with FF users, and that my interest in designing a good site will better resonate with them.
I'll see your D and raise you a friend named Y.

(With apologies for the figure of speech to our poker playing friends).
Yeah one of the things I am working on is ways to do two things:

1) See "more" than the 28 newest on the homepage.

AND

2) See when people click / add stories to the stream.
Summize: Search Twitter in realtime
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The Cell is a magnificent piece of hardware. However, I would just like to echo preinterpost's comment on betanews: the Cell is notoriously difficult to program. Getting efficient speedups requires the most skilled programmers and quite a bit of effort.

To understand the difficulties in programming its worth taking a look at this article: http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/197801624?...
"preinterpost
Doerr and Moritz Stir VCs in One-On-One Showdown
Interesting point. Seth Godin also had a post not long ago getting at something similar (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/04/why-download...).
Django - Database logging for exceptions.
'I was going to say, "for a 15 year old", but that demeans the work'

And 15 yr olds. I mean, I've met some kids who are better hackers than I would ever dream of being -- I'm guessing that markbao is in that category. So concentrating on the guy's age seems like completely the wrong take on this.
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http://www.OtherWeather.com

Social weather forecasting, with a Google Map mashup and some social networking features. Launched in late 07, haven't had time to really promote so it's not deadpool yet. Although I have no users :(
Is this your startup? IIRC summize.com used to be a pretty cool visualization of Amazon reviews... mind me asking what happened to that?
Yes, the article is correct, but it is talking about a side effect, and not the main point. Having no social life is common among the successful ones simply because they are focused. The neglect of a social life is a side effect of the extreme focus these men have put into their businesses.

To be successful, focus is the main requirement. Sometimes I hear it described as 'passion', but I'm not sure that that word is very accurate.

What happens is that a man is caught up with an idea and he obsesses about it, he thinks about it, he works on it, he changes it, fixes it, till at long last, he sits back and thinks - this thing bloody works.

Along the way, he's not going out and partying for two days, waking up with a hangover, deciding to take a week off from his business. He does not socialise because he has not solved the problem yet.

The failures are those who are thinking about money or how to get into yc or the big payout. Those ones are focused on the money, but instead of actually understanding that what they are interested in is the money, they pretend like their product is their interest. It's not.

Look at every successful entepreneur. They were driven by an idea on something in particular. They have an idea and they obsess till they get it perfect.

The companies who say 'We did not understand our consumers' were bound to fail from the start. This is because if you are not your own consumer, you cannot create a successful product. You won't have the focus, energy or drive.

When you choose your product, you have to choose one that you would choose to stay at home working on instead of going to a party with hot willing chicks. Even if you knew the product would never bring you any money. Does your current product fulfill this?
I have to admit, the lack of a "Save" function is one of the things I like best about OneNote (which seems to be my favorite app, these days).
"If you look at Bezos, or [Netscape Communications Corp. founder Marc] Andreessen, [Yahoo Inc. co-founder] David Filo, the founders of Google, they all seem to be white, male, nerds who've dropped out of Harvard or Stanford and they absolutely have no social life. So when I see that pattern coming in -- which was true of Google -- it was very easy to decide to invest." (John Doerr)
My startup? No, just something I came across two weeks ago. Actually, I was a bit surprised it hadn't been submitted yet.
Lies We Tell Kids
It took me a while to realise this. I looked at all the software on my PC that I use, and I realise, almost all were recommended by either my brother or my friend Joe. If he discovers anything new and nice, he'll call me and tell me, because we're both computer fellas.

I will then tell a few of my contacts, and in a single day, the software joe recommended could easily reach 20 people. On the second day, those 20 people will probably spread it further.

Good software needs seed marketing. You need to get the news out initially, after that people will recommend it. What one should do is add features or design around a philosophy that makes personal recommendations easy.

Marketing is not neccessary if you design with marketing in mind. If your app does not get recommended it's because you've not reached your goal yet.

You're not cool enough for Joe to call me and say - hey Max, check out what I just found...
Don't Skip These Critical Startup Marketing Steps
You haven't suffered until you've experienced a Sun sales team desperately rant for half an hour about how DTrace makes Sun a relevant technology company again.
It seems to me that PHP has trying to be like every other language since it's beginning.
One of the things that initially drew me to PG's essays is the attitude of "ok, we think our tech is really that much better, so we're going to put our money where our mouth is, and use it for our startup". Ultimately, showing is better than telling.
Well, for one thing, there are a lot of production Smalltalk applications out there still. Some of them are quite good. There are also a lot of bad implementations out there, but that is true for any language. (Sturgeon's Law!)

The Smalltalk Refactoring browser is still very impressive, though it has now been surpassed by Eclipse. It predated Eclipse by some years, however. There are other tools that were developed under Smalltalk that have yet to be adopted by other programming communities. Also, the performance of the fastest Smalltalk VMs has been very good for many years now. Bad architecture will swamp even programs in C or assembly. I'd hazard a guess that you were dealing with that.

But you are correct that there are serious problems with many of the Smalltalk implementations. None of these had anything to do with the language, the tools, or the VMs. Rather, there was a legacy of "ivory tower" mentality. Instead of doing very necessary but unglamorous things like polishing the GUI framework (and eliminating race conditions) implementors preferred to do cool things like create new garbage collection options.

Smalltalk suffered because community input was neglected, because the same community fostered an elitist culture, because marketing went for an more closed "boutique" approach, and because implementations weren't polished to true professional standards. It would behoove Ruby, Python, and others to heed these lessons. (And I'd note that they've done many things right.)
Microsoft Shepherding Intellectual Property Discussion
I'm not sure I understand your point. If writing your own boot loader is fun, how can it be a waste of time?
Interesting that most of the advice can be well applied to programming also.
Microsoft still profiting from Apple's recent success: Office for Mac sales better than ever
This deliberate, although not new.

deception: Century of the Self
protection: Power of Nightmares

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22century%20of%20th...
It's official: HP bids $25 a share for EDS, will take on IBM in tech services
http://www.feedcrush.com

A mashup of 1 college radio station's play data with much larger ambitions...
Yeah, that's why I added the collapsible arrow thingies at the left-hand side, to hide specific languages. I was going to eventually persist their open/closed state w/ cookies. I might still do it, but it's hard to get the motivation to work on it when I get fewer than five page hits a day. :/
HP rolls up EDS
A very well articulated thesis and something every parent should be aware of as they are doing it.
If they jack the price up, then the value of having a good domain goes up. It wouldn't stop squatters IMOHO
My least favorite pg essay. It's too easy to generalize about parenting, and so little of this essay applies to me.

1. Raising a kid in the city, and quite happily.
2. No prohibitions on swears in my house. Just at Grandma's, and only because it would offend her, not because swearing is inherently bad.
3. He goes to a school where they only teach you how to read, write, and do basic math. Everything else is a child-led research project.
4. We don't lie about turkeys. Turkeys are not very smart, and have no concept of "wanting to die." If he asked this question, I'd explore vegetarian options with him.
5. Pastafarians. He can make his own spiritual allegiences when he feels the desire to do so.
6. Drugs and sex haven't come up much, beyond the basic "where do babies come from" conversation. We've done that, he's satisfied for now.

On and on. I'm not the only parent like me, either. Be careful about generalizations.
PG: what does suburbia mean to you? You paint it in an extremely negative light, and so I'd just like some more detail of how you define that term. I know it means different things to different people.
"I used to think I wanted to know everything. Now I know I don't."

I'd be interested to know what caused the change, and what types of knowledge you'd prefer not having.
"Probably the biggest lie told in schools, though, is that the way to succeed is through following "the rules." In fact most such rules are just hacks to manage large groups efficiently."

Reminds me of something Seth Godin (?) once said - that the whole purpose of school is to institutionalize mediocrity
The tech writing is as good as ever (and I really like the design - feels 'cleaner' than TechCrunch). I thought all the celebrity stuff would be J key fodder but it is strangely compelling.
Am I the only one here who disagrees almost completely with everything that is said? I don't mean to be disrespectful or offensive here. I'm just trying to get a feel for whether or not I'm the outcast in this corner of the Web.
If, and only if, you can craft one that makes sense and is coherent.
Most lies are of a statistical nature. Moving to the suburbs is a good example. You're seeing lots of true things that aren't statistically representative. The extensive coverage of protected groups in history texts is the same way.

Look at some different lies:

1. "Grandma went to heaven." False.

2. "God doesn't kill good people." False, but containing a moral lesson.

3. "Your parents won't die." False, but translated properly ("Your parents won't die while you are a dependent"), probably true.

4. "2,998 people died in 9/11". True, but statistically at odds with its public perception.

The only harmful lie among those is the last one--the one that isn't a lie--and only because the "lesson" its constant repetition is designed to convey is disconnected from it.

..............

When I was a kid, I was told, literally, that bad people went to a hell and slept with burning maggots. This cartoonish lie has done me no harm.
Thanks! I was looking for something like this the other day.

It would be better (for me that is) if you included some refinance options, i.e. compare your current mortgage to your refinance options.
"The companies who say 'We did not understand our consumers' were bound to fail from the start. This is because if you are not your own consumer, you cannot create a successful product. You won't have the focus, energy or drive."

This is so important. I wouldn't say it's absolutely necessary to -be- your own consumer, but you better be 1 degree away, max, and that person better not have any reason to hold back when commenting.
I do not look forward to hunting down and fixing another round of defects in all of our deployed PHP code because they have changed the language for ideological purity.

Code lives longer then their transition periods.

But, thank you for "no magic quotes". I can confidently say that they have only caused me bugs. When our testers try apostrophes in web page input they aren't looking for broken SQL, they are looking for spurious backslashes.
Turkeys are not very smart, and have no concept of "wanting to die."

Turkeys are very smart birds and their behavior is very finely geared around not dying.
Ask YC: Open Source Alternatives for Google Apps?
I'm interested in open source projects for online office/productivity apps like Google Apps etc. Anything goes.

I just haven't seen anything in this area and I want to be proven wrong!

Cheers.
"She wears a two way, but I'm not quite sure what that means." --Bowling for Soup
HP to buy EDS for about $12.6 billion in cash
Never had the resources to launch an advertising network (http://precimark.com), an independent music platform (http://kroomsa.com), a startup aggregator (http://startuplogic.com) from the scratch and without a marketing budget.

I guess hackers like building websites but making them grow is something entirely different. For me, it is extremely hard to focus at a single app and make it grow. Instead, I find it more enjoyable to churn out more and more websites whether anybody visits them or not. Maybe its good, maybe its bad. What do you guys say?
I'm surprised the author doesn't make reference to Knuth's classic work on the subject.
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I predict that you are in for some rough times when he gets a little older.
the version of the Einstein quote that I've heard used the term "orgy of free thinking" rather than "fanatic freethinking". Quite a memorable little phrase and shows the amount of pleasure he got from "thinking".
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Parts two and three:

http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/krishnakumar.html
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"And after having spent their whole lives doing things that arbitrary and believing things that are false, and being regarded as odd by "outsiders" on that account, the cognitive dissonance pushing children to regard themselves as Xes must be enormous. "

Typo: I think there's suppose to be an "are" in "lives doing things that ARE arbitrary"
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I actually like where PHP6 is headed: http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html

There are a couple things I don't agree with. Like adding goto statements. Really? Come on...PHP...

But it seems PHP6 wants to finally remove old deprecated behavior (registered globals/magic quotes/safe mode) which I think is a good thing.

Not to mention namespaces will be a great addition to the language.

At first I had an issue upgrading to PHP5. It didn't have the same speed boost PHP3->PHP4 had, so I didn't see the need to change.

But then I actually looked into the new features.

The OOP improvements, exceptions, SimpleXML and iterator support are all great features I use daily and wouldn't want to move back to PHP4.
Lying to your kids is like the kind of intellectual fashion I wrote about in "What You Can't Say." No parent thinks they lie to their kids-- except of course in necessary or harmless ways-- just as no one thinks what they believe is an intellectual fashion. But in retrospect it turns out most parents do, just as in retrospect it turns out most people's beliefs are influenced by intellectual fashions.

So if one has a strong conviction that lying to their kids is not an issue, that's not necessarily the kind of evidence one can trust. Plenty of parents you'd consider to be lying outrageously to their kids also think that.
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"Grandma went to heaven" is not falsifiable.

I'd prefer keeping this discussion focused on falsifiable lies. Let those of us who believe in the resurrection of Jesus, the coming of the semantic web, or other supernatural phenomena believe what we want to believe.
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There is an exception to every rule. You can't cover every base in a short essay. I'm sure his next few paragraphs were going to make explicit his exclusion of the extremely progressive.
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"On a log scale I was midway between crib and globe."

That is a gem of a description of suburbia.
How about where do I report spam?

This user seems to be spamming the submission inbox:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=duthel
Programmers love taking extreme edge cases and acting like that's the norm, don't they?
Besides being a woman, Marie Curie was the first and ONLY person to ever recieve a Nobel Prize in different sciences. Something her male counterparts have yet to do, so maybe there's something there besides her sex.
I'm not PG (obviously), but I also see suburbia pretty negatively and want to chime in.

To me, suburbia is that neighborhood with the tree-related name that offers four different house models and three different colors of paint. All the lots are roughly the same size, all the people are roughly the same, and the streets don't particularly go anywhere. When viewed from an airplane it looks like a giant millipede wrapped in on itself (driveways). You have to drive everywhere, and the only non-house structures within 20 miles are schools and chain restaurants.

Honestly I think suburbia works well for what it is designed for, which is raising families in a safe environment with a yard and lots of other kids to play with. I view it negatively now only because I'm in my mid-20s, without kids, and it's boring to me. I could take issue with suburbia's wasteful land/energy use, but I won't bother. My view is entirely personal preference.

I think what bothers me is that a lot of people don't realize there is any other way of life out there. Frankly, your opportunities in suburbia are mostly limited to working a 9-5 job and raising a family, so a lot of people I knew in high school just automatically went into that mode after graduating. If they went to college at all, they only did it because all their friends did, but they didn't have any goal for their degree. I think in the backs of their minds they knew that graduating from college meant getting married, moving to the suburbs, and having kids. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with marriage or kids, but why rush it? It just makes me wonder what those people might accomplish or see if that wasn't the automatic life plan.