skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concentrating the long-tail keyword ads will increase competition => increase bids => increase Google's and decrease advertisers' margins.

In the medium run this will only benefit Google.
s/summer students/grad students/g

or

s/summer students/postdocs/g

or

s/summer students/full-time research staff/g
Sandwiches are too easy [xkcd parody]
It's nice they don't react angrily or surprised.
> "it's often good to leave out carbs simply because it is so easy to overeat carbs"

Great truth. I find that carbs go through my system like a water slide - I get hungry fast, and that in turn leads to overeating.

A chunk of meat, while not being exactly low on calories (I pick lean cuts) and has a lot more fat than bread, lasts me a lot longer, and reduces cravings by an incredible amount.

For me that's the main benefit - I'm not particularly concerned with whether or not carbs are good for you, all I know is that on carb-heavy diets I eat more.
I meant within the context of weight loss and long term results. I did not mean to imply there are no differences, and I welcome a clarification there.

And even if I did read a few of them wrong, I'm fine with that. I want people to talk in terms of evidence and fact, not "this very smart doctor's blog" or "this book hawking yet another clever secret diet". That's of far more value to the news.ycomb community, and if it costs me a few bruises to my ego, so be it. These studies are accessible and readable, let's use them.
Nice characterization! That said, leadership for major change does have to come from somewhere and impetus for change is difficult to achieve.

The thing about cults is that everything social is a social construct requiring shared belief to exist, I think John Searle calls it assent or something like that.

While a healthy society must critique institutions for their failures and problems, I'm not sure if it's defensible to say that Greenpeace has nothing to do with saving the planet and as much as it pains me to admit, Focus on Family may even help families too. Does Greenpeace hurt more than help, or Focus on Family? And if so, what realistic ways to achieve the intended affects. After all, the environment is in danger, and social conservatism isn't going away. The organizations of social conservatives will be conservative whether we like it or not, we just need to keep teaching them not to fcku with everyone who is not.

In effect your hyperbole here is similar to theirs, yours has the characteristics of a mass generalization which simply won't have any affect except on the already despairing, the true believers any of a number of causes which you aren't necessarily thinking of, and of course the trolls or whatever we want to describe non-constructive criticizers as. I'm trying to break out of that particular cult, it's a long road, but similar to what you're getting at I think this type of cynicism is a destructive force, thus my rant ;)
How Persuasive Is Your Website’s Copy? A Simple, Five-Step Checklist
I was going to comment that their name may not be great for non-techies to "grok" what the URL means to type it correctly. Hence it might hurt their adoption rates with mom-and-pop web stores (since I was about to recommend it to one).

But then I noticed they also purchased adgrock.com, too. Good planning there.
http://github.com/ahe/choco bundles a different js datastore (js-model) with sammy and has mustache support
Seriously! In his keynote, Jobs likened the feel of the iPhone 4 to an old Leica camera. A Leica without a shutter button?
Sorry, should have mentioned that I am getting equity. :) Although I imagine (again, we're just about to start discussions) that the number would be 15-30%

I understand that it depends on circumstances, I'm just looking for a few data points to understand what is kinda-normal
people have different levels of what they consider unethical.

as far as keyword stuffing...google considers that blackhat so you can get banned when they find you
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi
Simple but effective tips. Laziness continues to be the downfall of (sub-par) administrators everywhere, unfortunately.
Out in Southern California (high but not as high cost of living), we found that angels were OK with salaries of around $60k / year for the founders.

If this is your startup (so you're a founder, not first hire...), then figure out how much money you can live on, altering your standard of living as much as you feel comfortable doing. I wouldn't expect to save much money off of your salary, but it should keep you floated. Remember, if you take too high of a salary, it's possible you'll run out of money -- so take as little as possible, for the maximum chances of success.
Find the longest path (song about P vs. NP)
> I'm assuming that if I pick random PhDs and hot dog vendors, I will get a higher average IQ from my random PhDs. Are my PhDs strictly greater in IQ than my hot dog sellers? Maybe, maybe not. But will, say, 99% of my PhDs have a higher IQ? I'd bet on that number or something like it.

Are PhDs dominated by technical types? Can you have PhD in arts or post modern philosophy? Does that require high IQ?

> No, they were not. There were a few geniuses back then, the ones we still read and write books about. All few tens of thousands of them out of billions. But the average was vastly below the modern-day.

Not everyone could write a book back then. Not every book from back then survived. You can't tell how many ancient Ramanujans left no trace. Ingenious concepts of later ages often cropped up multiple times centuries earlier only to be dismissed and forgotten.

That said you are spot on environmental factors. Here http://www.ted.com/talks/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_... it is said that thing as simple as deworming might increase very significantly children spend on learning and training their intellectual capacities.
It looks like the reviewers pointed to specific Apple requirements that the app violated. That was great. The developers already knew that their app violated the requirement and they are responding to the rejection in a mature manner. This is also great.

Whether or not Apple should review/approve apps is a different question. However, given the current system, it looks like the system worked as well as one would want any review/approval system to work.
Representing C# developers who use Github. We're a super-minority.
I tried LXDE last week and was very impressed. It was very lightweight and fast, but felt complete and robust. I'm seriously considering switching to Fedora's "spin" of it.
Unfortunately, simple citations aren't really a way to keep things tied to fact. Most studies are garbage.

It really takes a book or two to lay out a case.
Follow-up re Twitter suggested users feature
I agree.

Sometimes I think that we should switch civil servants and politicians around between countries from time to time. That would be a good learning exercise--for good and bad examples.

E.g. Britain has a socialized health-care system in a broadly capitalist society. It's interesting to see what does and what does not work, instead of spreading all the FUD.

Another, much less charged example are the laws about shop closing times in Germany. Until a few years ago shops were only allowed to open until 18.00 on most day. Looking at other countries, it was obvious that relaxing those rules would not make the sky come down.

On the other hand, you can also look for other countries to spot bad ideas before you have to try them yourself.
I guess it depends how many stock tips you throw out - not saying it doesn't count, but it does depend.
They do add to the discussion because they are real data, not anecdote or speculation.

And I'm a fan of the book you are referencing. Especially when big studies like #5 contradict some of the things you claim are from that book.
Bill Gates and Microsoft started selling BASIC interpreters for the Altair computer. The IBM and DOS thing was several years later.
Capcom testing the water for paid game demos
Great list, and couldn't come at a better time for my startup.
It all depends on the type of business your establishing. If the business ties into the physical world in some way and the agreement is that you handle the technology while he handles everything else then this arrangement seems like a good match. If instead, the business is entirely virtual then you may be setting yourself up for frustration.

I have run 2 virtual-only businesses with partnerships such as the one you have stated and each time it ended in frustration, unlike my real+virtual businesses which were successful. The problem with being the only person with technical skills in a virtual-only business is as follows:

1. Your effort and risk is typically front-loaded, meaning that you are required to create the entire product before your partner is able to utilize the majority of their skills operating the business.

2. If he is financing the business then prepare to feel like an employee. The money guy is usually the decision guy as well.

3. Prepare to possibly be taken for granted. Many non-technical partners read media headlines regarding overseas outsourcing, teenage tech geniuses, and turnkey software. This avalanche of information gives them the impression that technical work is easily and cheaply contracted or purchased. The truth is that paying for technical talent capable of creating a quality product is still ridiculously expensive. Unfortunately this is something that is usually learned through past experience so hopefully your partner either has that experience or is smart enough to see through the media hype.

4. The work never ends. Unlike a technical partnership where everyone carries equal workload, you are responsible for it all. Every bug, every update and every post-launch adjustment that takes your partner 5 seconds to request and you 5 hours to implement. It's all on you, and as a startup don't expect to get quality technical help anytime soon.

5. We are all biased. Nothing is more annoying then spending 18 hours coding only to see your partner make a few phone calls and call it a day. Even if your partner was doing their job perfectly with those calls it is still only natural to have days where you feel the workload is "unfair". This can apply to both business partners when the responsibilities are different.
He just said he's doing his best.
well i just have paypal and google checkout (both as a merchant). I don't have a real merchant account anywhere except those two.

I'd go for authorize.net as a quick solution, but I don't have enough revenue to justify paying $30 / month plus $100 startup fee :-/

Anyway, I basically just sent money from my google checkout account to my site's google checkout merchant account using the provided CC info. I hope it works, I sort of did it without thinking...
0-click. They decide what I want, send it to me, and then bill me. Pay me.
> SS payouts are fairly progressive, so it's a good deal for the poor and sucks for those near the cap.

Don't you mean `regressive' then?
That's exactly right. The property tax rate (the percentage of the value of your home that you must pay every year) cannot be reduced, because many property owners are paying that percentage on the values of their homes twenty years ago or more. This makes the tax rate very unfavorable for new owners and very good for those who have owned since Prop 13 was passed in 1978. If everybody paid tax based on their current home price (an order of magnitude difference for some properties), the tax _rate_ could be reduced for everybody (though many would end up paying more tax).

Edit: re-reading my original comment, I should have made clear that I was talking about the property tax rate, not the dollar amount assessed, which will of course be different for everybody.
How net neutrality deals with customers who run their personal server at home. My view is that they should also get equal preference as public online service providers. At least they are paying the money for the bandwidth used.

Most of the explanations i see in the internet about net neutrality deals with only content downloaded or streamed from public online services. I think it is ironic.
That's something smoker might say to rationalize his/her choice when he/she had any choice to make.

Nicotine only alleviates anxiety caused by lack of nicotine. Instead starting smoking she could withhold her pee to feel greater relief when she finally pees. It would be just as much help in coping with life stress as cigarettes are.
No way that there's a big legal problem here - people said the same about eBay re traders and tax, and look at that - tens of thousands of people turning over decent amounts of money from home, paying little or no tax, and no business rates. Look at all the people on scriptlance, rent-a-coder etc. Those sites don't worry about people declaring income, so I don't see any reason why airBnB should worry about people registering as hostels.
I wrote an article about writing a code coverage tool in Ruby 1.9. :-D
This is from 2009; plug computers, while extremely cool, aren't exactly news, and have been discussed several times here before.
I don't, but I have 3 computers
"In the Central Valley, for instance, regulations designed to save certain fish species have required 450,000 acres to go fallow."

Who could support "impoverishing whole regions" this way? Those who understand ecology. If the Delta Smelt goes extinct, a whole chain of species, fish and otherwise, will likely go with it, with unknown consequences. This is to human Californians' detriment, to say nothing of those species. Extinction is forever.
I read the abstract. How does that imply we shouldn't exercise? It just says that obese people are impaired in their ability to burn fat, which is part of a negative feedback in their lifestyle.

If the argument was that exercise alone is sufficient with a totally unrestricted calorie intake, that'd be a good rebuttal. But I don't think anyone has claimed that so far.
That's certainly a logical possibility. In practice, low-degree polynomial solutions have been developed for most important problems in P, even if the first known polynomial solution had a high degree.
Ask HN: An article gone missing?
I submitted an item here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1589055

It seems to have got two upvotes in the first hour, and all seems well. But I can't find it in the list of items http://news.ycombinator.com/news

I wanted to see where it was in the ranking when it gained its second upvote, but I can't find it at all. Yes, I've clicked the "More" link - several times - but it's gone missing.

I wondered if it had been killed, so I logged off and checked again, but the item itself isn't marked "Dead" so I guess it's still there.

Just not listed.

Very curious. Suggestions and comments to alleviate my confusion would be most welcome.
Graphics drivers on OSX don't come from Apple. They're written by ATI/Nvidia. However, for a variety of reasons including larger development teams and end user upgradeability, Windows drivers just have the cutting edge tech available first. Just like with Apple, were you to go to Dell.com or HP.com and download manufacturer certified drivers, you'd find them woefully out of date also.
Please link citations to real studies instead of a book. If GCBC is a quality, well-sourced work, I'm sure this should be trivial.

Saying, "read this book" is not helpful in this discussion. You don't even offer references from the book, you're telling us to read the whole thing just to even address your claims.
Oh that's right, if I want to earn points I need to support coercion.
According to Founders at Work, Steve Wozniak designed the original Apple I for fun (and as a challenge), and later when he showed it to Steve Jobs and other people at the Homebrew Computer Club they realized that lots of people (well, members of the computer club) wanted something similar.
The fact that the internet functions as an extension of offline social space (see here: danah boyd's work on the subject) doesn't mean that the internet isn't hugely important in shaping a lot of how young people are growing up. There can be overlap in things mediated online and offline, but the fact that the web offers new avenues for interaction is still important.
I agree in general. Also many economists at least thought about tax systems based on mostly consumption taxes, not taxes on income or production.

> If she rents, her rent is certainly higher because of the landlords property taxes.

But here I disagree, at least somewhat. Property prices and rents are---to some degree---determined by how much people bid them up. Taxes on real estate influence how much of the rent goes to the owner and how much to the state. But the absolute level of rent won't be affected much.

(This is more the the more fixed the supply of real estate happens to be.)
6 Animal Sex Lives (Manipulated by the Cold Hand of Science)
In order to figure out exactly what’s going on in the sex lives of some species, scientists will get a little creative with their techniques.
Demystifying Google and Verizon’s Proposed Policy for the Open Internet
The scraping is generally not illegal, though it may violate ToSes. It's just that people who scrape generally republish, which may or may not be illegal.

"Ethics" in cases like this are so subjective that it's almost useless debating them.
There was probably some ass-covering going on in the insurance company asked.
Ask HN: Review our startup, Seekier.com - A search sharing network
http://seekier.com

Hello HN,

We just launched a new search sharing service, named Seekier, which allows users to share their searches instantly with other friends and create discussions and knowledge bases around these shared searches. We hope that this becomes a gateway for users to help each other discover more through suggestions from those following them. We also hope this allows users to gain a greater glimpse into the personal interests of their friends. Our profile pages are located at seekier.com/roosh and seekier.com/michael. We welcome you to try out the site out for yourselves and would appreciate any sort of feedback. Thank you HN.
I tried to select large studies from journals with good indexes. Please give examples of why these studies are bad.

In particular the last one i cited, as that seemed quite large and the methodology seems sound.
This is probably a weighted thread since many people are connected to their startups through their usernames and wouldn't want to post.

For me, the answer is no except for "promising unrealistic delivery dates". For me this wasn't about lying but partly about just being unrealistic with myself and also about setting certain goals publicly to hold myself accountable. I don't think this is in the same boat as the other unethical items mentioned, but of course I may just think that because that's the only one I did...
What if I never read or even open the ToS and proceed directly to screen scraping your site?

Afaik there is no law that mandates you must read/agree to the ToS before loading a website. In fact, what if the ToS states 'If you visit this site, you must pay us 1000 dollars', are you now liable? Despite the fact that just to read the ToS you had to visit said site.

My point is that only a court will decide what happens, and just because something is in the ToS doesn't mean it gives you carte blanch to do whatever you please.
I agree. Since you are getting equity then you want to just take enough to pay your bills. Stretch the initial investment as far as it will last. This is actually a lower risk than most startups where it is your own money you are spending. You would be amazed how much you can cut back to stretch the dollar.
I encourage people to read into Prop 13 if they are not informed about the issue.

He is saying that the burden of property tax is not distributed evenly while the benefits of the property tax in the form of more educated populace, fire and policy protection, and better infrastructure are enjoyed evenly. People living in their houses longer are being subsidized by the new home owners, who are paying high property tax. If it's taxed more evenly, those new home owners would see a lower property tax bill.
Why should correlation be such a big factor? Even if 30 people taking out an insurance are correlated---the insurance company is probably insuring many more than 30 people to balance this out.
agreed - mobile (cut down) version would be great - other ways of logging in that FB - AND even more FB integration (don't want the site to become one MORE place to visit) - maybe tie-in with twitter too?

Like the design but could have a few more colours to feel more social for the non hacker/geek squad like us here :)

Decent name and url - I just bought a shorter URL which might be a better fit, but guess you want to stick with what you got :)

Also - add a simpler feedback form to the site - I couldn't be bothered to add my details / search for similar questions etc.
Brain Computer Interface (article and TED demo)
There's a javascript library under the hood that does just that: http://github.com/marcuswestin/fin
Depends on the coverage you agreed on.
Everyone in Canada hates him too - this sort of connection isn't the norm. For example, see Rogers and Sympatico pricing. They have a monopoly on the Toronto area, mostly.
yeah that's why I said that they should use a throwaway account if they are worried.
I lol'd when I first read that, thinking that by 'not reliable' you meant their reactors tended to melt down, spike, or blow up, in which case adding a second one wouldn't really help but would nevertheless fit the American perception of the Soviet ethos (they pretend to pay us so we pretend to fix the problem).
NoSQL on the Microsoft Platform
mass nuke building before it's too late

I'm pro nuclear power in general, but evidence suggests it's not a very good fit for California.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/
http://www.energy.ca.gov/nuclear/california.html
They'll give a peace prize for anything. Why not a proof of P!=NP?
It's also expensive.
Thanks for the info. I originally posted my request (half serious, half jokingly) when not many explanations in the thread were there to respond to the validity of the paper. Thanks for your insight.
Did you read the article before commenting? You simply parroted point number one (of three) in the article with no apparent acknowledgment that you have done so.
Why can't they stop Domain Registry of America then?

(who also strangely started in Canada and then relocated)
I recommend Collapse by Jared Diamond and The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter, as a treatise over how different societies reacted to resource shortages & environmental damage.

They try to be non-political and are very informative, IMO.
Hey John. I have no design experience what so ever as I'm primarily a coder so I don't have any idea how this is useful for people? Can you elaborate? Also i though people sold this kind of thing on themeforest.
dear retard,

you suck and will be living from food stamps very soon
Sorry for slow reply - just a short test account, even 7 days - just to get a real idea of why what you do is going to really work for me. Then once you got me, offer my the upsell ;)
What is this "AG" class structure? I've never heard of it, and Google wasn't very helpful.
Would a 'genius' really be asking for advice on how to work hard?
Offer variants of your product with different prices. The prices are the test points. See which one people would buy. Apple does it all the time and provide three products (16gb, 32gb,64gb). With three points you can interpolate a curve and locate the maxima. Note that the price difference of the products should not correspond to the production cost difference. It should be the test points.
We sent unsolicited emails to as many addresses as we could (manually) find online over a week or two. We're in a B2B niche so it wasn't hard to find directories online. Never used any bulk email tool, just copied and pasted.

This was 6ish years ago. I wasn't aware of spam laws at the time. I wouldn't recommend it but it worked.