skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is right. Norvig doesn't see what Facebook is good at and ask how it will make money. He turns the question on its head, looks to a successful business model and asks how Facebook could be used for it. And it is an uphill battle for Facebook to monetize in this fashion.

I think what we've seen so far is that Facebook is about creating social spaces, not solving problems, so it really can't be used that effectively as a recommendation engine. Facebook doesn't have a great way to seek rent on these social spaces because they've built their user base on free service. So where is the money going to come from? Probably selling user data to corporations.
Ask HN: passing the torch on userscripts.org
I'm unable to find the time/energy to give to userscripts.org lately. My startup is currently focused on building Nebula & Nova, and I cannot see finding time to devote to the site I spent 5 years building/running.

The site has been in "maintenance mode" since starting Nebula, but it deserves more.

The site is still very active (Google Analytics for last month):
* 2,474,330 Visits
* 9,532,743 Pageviews

The site is quantified: http://www.quantcast.com/userscripts.org

But it needs someone who can do the right thing for the community.

There will be technical issues scaling (rails 2.3, postgres, git). Legal issues (dealing with DMCA takedown notices/people who don't like scripts that "fix" their site). Community issues (the site lacks a nice directory and community aspects).

Companies or individuals are welcome but I need to know your intentions with the site going forward :)

Private inquiries to anotherjesse (at) gmail.com
Experience - To work for google or not
The normal feeding vs. formula feeding discussion is usually presented backwards. We shouldn't talk about the "benefits" of breastfeeding, we should talk about the harm of formula. Breastfeeding is the normal state. For rare medical conditions we can substitute formula. It's a medical treatment that in extenuating circumstances can save lives.
python :)
Android Becomes Top Mobile OS In The US
What is this person suggesting?

I'm assuming that the size of a person's brain is based on two things. First, their genes. Second, the environment including diet.

If the researcher is suggesting that diet increases brain size, well that should be easy to measure on living people and will give a fairly definitive answer.

If the researcher is suggesting that eating meat changed our genes, well that needs to be explained.
Agreed, this test also shows how websites need a certain amount of complexity to seem legit (even if the experts consider the complexity inferior). If the design is too bland it definitely gives me a scamsite feeling.
Digital Drugs: Meet the Users
Correct, but it avoids the need to have to pay taxes on those funds which were donated. That is what I was referring to.
This article is libertarian bullshit.

"The market" doesn't solve problems that aren't profitable. Apple have been stellar at creating accessible devices and software for a long time and it's wonderful that they include these features for free. Screen reader software for Windows costs a fortune, and while it is more full-featured it's often overkill for someone who isn't totally blind but just has trouble seeing a normal high-resolution screen.

Amazon and Google (with Android) and other tech newcomers are not going to think about accessibility unless there is a stronger force than "the market" pushing them to.

So, if it means adding accessibility features is a necessary condition to being awarded an education contract, I'm all for it.
California has seasons! There's Fog Season, Tomato Season, Banana Slug Season, Dry Season...

Kidding aside, I really miss East Coast seasons, too. Sure I can go to Tahoe if I want snow, but there's nothing like being bundled up and walking around NYC at night after a light dusting of snow... before it turns to gross brown slush.
What would be awesome is if they put a camera on the bottom that somehow read symbols on the track that for example gave the car a boost or activated weapons like in the game.
Probably the biggest argument against doing what you describe is that the status quo gives you control over scheduling which fds to service (of the ones that are active).

If you processed incoming network data in strict FIFO order, a single host on your LAN could totally DoS your system by flanking you with incoming data. That host would never get TCP flow-controlled because if you're processing anything, you're processing his obnoxiously voluminous input.

If he was just on FD among many, you would service him once in a while, but then you would service other clients. While you're servicing other clients, he gets TCP flow-controlled, so he doesn't singlehandedly demand all your attention.
"Millions of Japanese aged 25 to 34 toil as temps or contract employees-- up from 1.5 million 10 years ago, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These workers tend to earn about one-third the typical "salaryman" wages that their fathers earned"

I lived in Tokyo last year in a cheap apartment with alot of young Japanese people, and I was very surprised by their lack of work ethic/prospect from my first time in Japan. They would bounce from temp work (typing) to temp work (waiter) to temp work (salesperson walking everywhere in tokyo door to door), quitting every 2-3 weeks. They would sometimes sleep in and not show up for interview, and wouldn't even call to reschedule. The way they would quit a job they didn't like is by....not showing up anymore. Keep in mind these are people that went to pretty decent universities in Japan, and speak ok english. And when they do get a full time job offer, they would have to wait almost half a year to a year to start working (which I would think depress their morale).
It's shocking to me how few women there are in SF. The east coast is crawling with good looking, single young women. Most of them are really nice normal women with family oriented goals.

Then NYC is full of wild girls that like to dress up, go out and have fun. LA is great in this regard too.

Sure there are plenty of women in SF, but a good share of them are alt, hipster, vegan, etc. Nice enough still, but then the concentration of fairly well off guys really messes up the dating pool. Every time I go to a concert, it's mostly dudes and what women are there are literally held onto by a man.

Then there are no no party girls anywhere, outside of a couple neighborhoods.

SF still is really fun, just a lot tougher to get laid.
ITYM pentacat.
I wrote an app similar to this many, many years ago and then switched over to mint so I had to do less work.

I do agree it sucks that it's slow, but I spend money slowly in general. When I do have a larger expense, I manually add it to mint so it's reflected sooner.

Mint does suck in a couple of ways I wish it would suck less. Are there any competitors to mint in the same space, but still moving rapidly?

Want:

* Android app (iPad app is a bonus).

* Auto sync with my bank (including pending).

* Basic budgeting.

* An API I could write my own apps with would be awesome.
The key lesson - the thing that gets glossed-over in opinion, assumption, and fluff = all that matters are the actions taken by individuals from his target market.

How the thing looks to you is neither here nor there. It's what it does subconsciously to middle-aged women teachers that counts... Wrong as that may sound.

Assumption, anecdote, opinion - back it up with data! We're engineers (literally or metaphorically).
I've lived in a number of cities and surprisingly the Internet looks the same in all of them.
Yeah, mobileorg is decent on the iPhone, but iPhone apps on the iPad are just useless. I basically don't do it and hope it gets updated before I get too frustrated and try to get involved. :)
Giving away 100% of an amount to avoid paying x% of same amount in taxes hardly seems productive.

This only works if it somehow lowers your overall tax load, and for Mr. Billionaire, I don't think it's much of an issue.
Unless you are running a site that has to convey a strong sense of exclusiveness or security you can usually get away with a logo that is considered ugly by many.

Same applies to page layouts as long as the value for the user is there.
Are those benefits really "unmaintainable"? The FACT is that middle class wages have been stagnant or even declined in real terms since the 70s while executive compensation has absolutely exploded. Corporate profits have gone through the roof as well yet workers have not shared in the gains, and it is not an accident.

I maintain that 90% of the union whining we are subjected to is nothing more than propaganda for obvious peoples' benefit.
There's a good version for iPhone that runs on the iPad (though not really in any way I'd want to). There's also an Android version, but it doesn't support dropbox.

looks forward to retirement
Credit Default Swaps could be purchased on the relevant sovereign debt.

Given the success that various hedge funds had with this strategy during the crash of mortgage backed CDOs a couple of years back I would have thought that there must be a lot of speculation of this kind going on.

Assuming that there are still sellers of CDSs out there...
Let's change the tune
It isn't but at the same time, Mountain View != San Francisco any more than Secaucus, NJ == New York. The whole thing boils down to a couple of guys who don't know what they're talking about blogging past each other. Which is their inalienable right, just not very interesting.
Anyone have version of this story which isn't dripping in sensationalism?
Every time I see this product referenced or talked about, I consider spending 3 days creating something better, with a better website, and undercutting their price.
In this case rotating your S3 creds is probably the optimal solution.
There are plenty of men in SF if that suits you.
well good night Ireeene :)
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> But I think you'd soon find that you are simply re-implementing all that code, and that instead of a clean (poll or epoll, either is fairly clean) interface you'd be bogged down in maintaining your own tcp stack.

You're not understanding OP's proposal. He's not talking about implementing TCP in user-space. He said the kernel would still be handling TCP flow control, and would only be sending data destined for a specific port to this fd. So TCP is still in the kernel.

He's just proposing that the payloads for all connections come in on a single fd instead of one fd per connection. But each read from the fd tells you what remote host it came from.
If you think you did everything correctly and followed all of Google's webmaster guidelines, submit your site for reconsideration here:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?pli=...
Change the world, or make money?
Under US federal law publishers are required to provide some compatible format such as ICADD, SGML or ASCII that easily be translated to braille.
Nah. Bridgeport hasn't change one bit since you left (I assume the Bridgeport you know is one whose mayor is caught with a cocaine habit and restaurants in downtown are robbed in daylight). It's just your over-estimating perception of Boston; imagine a bigger New Haven with a couple of more Yale campuses and equal number of run-down neighborhoods next to them.
I think how appropriate talking about others is depends on why you are doing it. If you are gossipping, that is a waste of time at best and could be much worse if it is negative and or untrue gossip.

On the other hand, you may talk about your interactions with others just because you are talking about your own life and this other person is a major factor in your life.

You could also talk about someone in a directly productive way, such as discussing candidates for a job or asking for advice or assistance on behalf of someone else.

It sounds like your sister's conversations are towards the gossip end of the spectrum, but it is important to note that not all discussion of others is like that.
Ask HN: What are good investing books for total beginners?
I've no idea what the stock market is. Take me as a total idiot. Suggestions away!
It does not currently include asset loading, just loading of that URL. Tools like Page Speed and YSlow do this very well, but only from your current location. Combining Ping Brigade with those tools should give you the complete picture.

EDIT: But thank you for the suggestions. Certainly something to think about/add in phase 2.
I think he meant "dominant" market share, of course a new product needs a plan to create and/or take market share. But Apple (under Jobs anyway) is much more interested in profit share, nowadays they own maybe 5-10% of the computer market but their profit/unit dwarfs any other manufacturer.

On the lock-in I'm with you, but I do think the whole iTunes store/Fairplay was a happy accident that the music companies forced Apple to do. The music companies inadvertently helped Apple lock consumers into the iP*d platform, Apple leveraged it for the app store that pundits/developers were demanding (remember when iPhone first came out and the outrage about having to use web apps?)
Only if you live in Daly City.
Right you are. According to p. 9 of this 2009 Umicore presentation production of gold at the Hoboken plant is 25 tonnes/year (still 1% of world mining production):

http://impeltfs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/umicore-impel-...
No, I haven't seen it before, that's why I created PB. Thank you for the link. I'll keep an eye on what features they have that I don't.
Was it to save attachments though? I remember the ability to add attachments to an email but I think you misunderstood the title.

I thought the same thing as you did (I upvoted you even), but the article talks about the other way around: saving attachments to your desktop by drag-and-drop. The post says the file is added to the download queue but is just saved wherever you designated instead of the Downloads folder.
Same here, we had to take eight 3-credit humanities courses to graduate. I ended up taking history, literature, and some sociology. We even had to take physical education for 4 or 6 (I forget) semesters at 1 credit a pop.
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> and I was very surprised by their lack of work ethic/prospect from my first time in Japan

Why would you be surprised by their "lack of work ethics"? They got fucked hard, so it's understandable that they aren't going to care much for "the man" anymore: they were told their contract was to work like mad in their studies, get to a good university and end up landing a good job in a multinational where they'd work their whole life slowly climbing up the hierarchy and pretty much guaranteed they'd be there for life.

Instead, at the end of their studies they found an utterly slaughtered job market and a crappy economy in which Japan has been stuck for 20 years (especially those who got out during the Lost Decade of the 90s).

They don't have "good work ethics" because they've managed not to be stockholm syndrome victims, and because reality showed them strong work ethics didn't matter, and promises were there to be broken.
The Intelligent Investor. Written by Warren Buffetts mentor: Benjamin Graham.

The book appears more intimidating (bigger) than it actually is. In reality it is a very enjoyable read. I suggest reading the commentaries that go with each chapter before reading the chapter. They explain Grahams theories with more up to date examples.

Chapter 8 is also an excellent commentary on why markets move. I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in the stock market.
I had it that way originally, but changed it for a couple of reasons: (1) That way you could create circular redirects very easily. My current setup uses POST so you can't directly create a loop. (2) That way these URL's are permanent. You can send them to your hosting provider when complaining about network/server issues.
If you're looking for breadth and entrepreneurship, I recommend University of Wisconsin - Madison's Biomedical Engineering (BME) program (or similar). I'll be graduating from the program in December. It is also relatively prestigious as it's the only engineering major on campus with a formal application process, and engineering majors on campus are already the hardest.

It doesn't prepare you for industry well (because of it's broad focus) but it really allows you to explore many different engineering fields, perfect for entrepreneurship imho. Although there might be curriculum reform in the future to fix the "unpreparedness" for industry, but change comes slow in Universities.

The program requires you to take introductory classes in biomechanics, bioinstrumentation, biomaterials... and probably a couple more I'm forgetting. In the end, you choose one of these "tracks" and your degree basically turns into one of the other engineering degrees with some bio tacked on, less depth, and more breadth.

One of the other great things about the BME program is that we're required to do a design project EVERY semester, which is a really great opportunity and a pain in the ass (you only get 1 credit for it). But it's a great learning experience working in small teams all the time.

The problem with poor reception among the industry for BMEs is that if they want objects built, they'll hire MEs, if they want circuits, the'll hire EEs, etc. There really isn't any good entry level position fitting for a "well rounded" degree like UW's BME. But again, if you're looking for entrepreneurship, you probably don't care for these entry level positions anyway, but just fair warning.

Conclusion: Look into the details of each program at the schools you're looking into. My example is unique to my major at my school, I know BME programs at other schools are very different, and the other engineering programs here at UW are different from BME. Ask current students students and recent grads about the specific programs you're looking into.
I agree.

The internet is the same here in Helena, MT as it is in any other city or town on the planet. Sure, the connection speeds leave a bit to be desired and there's little startup community. But there are exceedingly few places that have a quality of life to match it, especially if you are into trail running and mountain biking.

Maybe it'll be a bit harder to startup here. Maybe I'll end up moving if I create a startup with legs, or after I completely trash my body running ultras.

I've made my choice. I hope everyone else does too.
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During the 70's/80's in my home state, 7th grade would be about normal to start learning a foreign language if you were seen as college bound. Otherwise, you had to wait until 9th grade. In my area of the US, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian are the predominant languages taught. The choice of languages goes strictly according to the immigration patterns.
When it's really hot in NYC, it's really bad. This summer has had lots of >90f humid days and there are still many more hot days to go until Autumn. Except for the hot NYC summers, I do enjoy the seasons.
Did she really end a high school speech with the term "pedagogic movement"? Sounds like a "Curse of Knowledge" overdose to me.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/213-the-curse-of-knowledge
Not that I don't believe the story but it would be great to have a link to this to read more about it. I googled for a bit but couldn't find anything.
Its a result of diet too. The feed those factory pigs irradiated insanity, which has other debatable negative outcomes, but it does not have the same population of bacteria leading to this kind of infections.
Thank you for pointing it out. I think there is a ton I could do with the infrastructure that supports this (multiple servers capable of doing HTTP and ICMP requests).
Ask HN: What's up with bit.ly links
Perhaps I should know this, but I don't

Is there any reason my latest post doesn't appear in the new posts list? I used a bit.ly link. Is there a problem with those? I don't think there was anything else unusual about the link, and I'm not a spammer or anything.

Is there a reason it was killed? (I suppose that's what happened?)

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1574847
I have a friend who's father makes his living by buying old computer equipment and selling the precious metals.
Palo Alto is "socially dead"?
Regardless of where you end up, I highly recommend trying to start or run a student organization.

Learning to motivate unpaid volunteers to do work for you is one of the most valuable leadership experiences I've ever had.
Is there no end to the linkbait on this "story"?
That's precisely where Norvig is coming from. Given their infrastructure, it's entirely possible that some portion of their A/B testing is run this way (i.e., test thresholds chosen to maximize information gain).
Thank you. That was the goal: make it as clean and easy to use as possible. It seems that others that provide this kind of service have pretty clunky UI's. Glad your girlfriend likes the birds. That was a big consideration (they had to be approved by my wife).

I guess the API is the next thing I should tinker with.
And remember: timing is everything. Japan has been obviously fked for a long, long time now, but hasn't paid much of a price for it in the bond market. Now that they are going to have to finance their debt externally, maybe reality will assert itself.

But maybe not.

Cheers,
Carson
Best comment on this was said by MG:

"Wait, So 20 Phones On 4 Carriers Outsold 1 Phone On 1 Carrier? Shocking."

Indeed. Full article: http://tcrn.ch/ccmuFj
I would agree that there is much misinformation out there.

I would also suggest that very few mothers choose not to breast-feed solely for convenience.

I am not as sure as you that it is a scientifically proven fact that breast milk provides numerous health benefits.

Whilst the recommendation nearly always is to use it (and no modern study suggests that formula is better) the studies are not as conclusive as I would accept as fact.

The confounding and self-selection effects in the studies, and the differences in formula and ethical considerations since the long-term studies were started cast uncertainty on any conclusion.

However, I understand that the majority of the information out there leads people to believe that it is a fact, and agree that the safe option is breast milk.

Edit: "basically every other study...has questionable ties to GlaxoSmithKline". Really? The WHO also says that the benefits are moderate, rather than "wonderful".
I will be adding more locations ASAP. The trouble is often times finding reliable providers when I don't speak the language. That's why I've been focusing on US + Europe for now, but Asia and South America are next.
Warren Buffetts letter is absolutely brilliant.
Except that Intel wasn't in any danger of dying, I agree. Even with Itanium's steep costs and delays, NetBurst came pretty close to keeping pace with the Athlon and Athlon 64 -- close enough for Intel to compete with price. Admittedly, it was largely due to the fact that Intel had the edge in both fabrication technology and capacity, but either way AMD couldn't make enough processors to satisfy global demand.

By way of example, recall that in the first month after Intel started shipping its first 64-bit x86 processor (a NetBurst Xeon whose code name I have forgotten), that processor outsold the combined annual production of G5, Athlon64, AND Opteron.

AMD had a lead in many ways, but wasn't even in the ballpark as far as fabrication capacity.

"The efforts that fail almost always assume that the new system will be 100% capable on day 1 and the switchover will be effortless and complete instantaneously (rather than costly, time consuming, and incremental)."

Agreed -- and it's all the more reason that Intel should have relied exclusively on the binary translation technology that they inherited along with the Alpha development team, technology, and intellectual property.
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