skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet a large majority of success would be based on that piece's past performance (Reddit, Delicious, HN, repeat submissions, etc.). An "algorithm" like that is probably pretty trivial... It would be interesting if it actually has novel concepts powering the beast.
In 1911, Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in radioactivity. Chemistry is the study of matter, as much as (but distinct from) physics.
Government agencies have used cellular phones as recording devices since long before there was such a thing as an iPhone. Take your meds and get some sleep.
It doesn't have to replace cable to be successful. You can still miss a show, and want to get it NOW! This 99c model allows you to do this, without even thinking about it.

There are lots of people who miss a few episodes. There are lots of people who don't want to own tv shows? (what is the point?). There are lots of people who don't watch as much tv.
6 out of ten stories in the new links section can be predicted by whether the top users vote on them. Really, only 6 out of 10? This seems extremely low given the claims of gaming (and if I'm understanding it correctly).
Problems with the article:

> Throughout history, it has invariably been easier to be male than female. Yes, this is an overgeneralisation and yes, there are exceptions, but by any important measure, women have had it rougher than men.

This one is a PC-friendly thing to say, the opposite point of view is not. If you haven't read it, I must urge you to check out the excellent "Is There Anything Good About Men?" essay by Roy Baumeister:

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm

Across history, it's estimated that 80% of women all-time had children, whereas only 40% of men did - the majority of men died without descendents. Things like that. Definitely check out Baumeister's essay.

> In any arena you look — education, legal and voting rights, career opportunities and so on — it is far better to be a woman today than at any other point in history.

At the risk of being controversial, I would point out unhappiness, depression, and suicide are all massively up in those countries among women. I think - I'm hoping - that we're in a transition phase while society gets acclimated to having women as equal participants in the labor market. For a while, being traditionally feminine (focusing on beauty, kind temperament and disposition, managing a household, and raising children) was out of fashion and seen to be a lesser choice, despite the fact that women who act in that traditional role actually have higher happiness levels, lower depression levels, and lower suicide levels than women who are working in so-so positions. As the risk of being controversial, I'll say I firmly understand why a woman would give up these traditional pursuits of being a good wife and mother in order to be an excellent scientist, architect, artist, or entrepreneur, but I have no idea why a woman would rather be a low level middle manager or a clerk instead of being a wife, mother, and active member of the community. Motherhood seems to me like it'd be more enjoyable and more rewarding than all but the most satisfying and self-actualizing of professions. I know this is controversial, but I'm hoping society will adjust to a point where traditional femininity can peacefully coexist as a respected choice for women on how to live their lives, because I think it can be a suitable, powerful, happy, and meaningful for choice for many women, and it'd be a shame if a woman was peer-pressured to do a job she hates because "just getting married and being a housewife" is stigmatized these days.
I think high-level and low-level prostitution are two almost completely different businesses.
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I'd just like to point out to people reading this (since one commenter already said something then deleted his comment), that I am actually very liberal. I strongly believe in the fundamental role of the government in the welfare of the nation and I also strongly believe that we should be taxed for the money that's needed to make that happen.

HOWEVER, what I will never do is frame statistics or data just to fit my argument better. I was curious about this statistic (I don't really believe this tiny bit of data is really evidence for any drastic response) and decided to do the grunt work with the past US census data to satisfy my curiosity, whatever the results.

Also, the US census papers look way better in 1964 than they do in 2005. I think the 2005 documents may have a more legible typeface but it certainly makes me go "ugh." The margins are very bad in the '05 docs, too.
Never, it does not work that way. Get rid of your cable, it is a waste of time anyway.
Is there an HN group how do I find it or join it?
List and details are getting pretty long. Seems that I should turn this into a blog post. I'm pretty exhausted so won't be able to finish it tonight. I'll make sure to post before the week is up.
> If all you do is webapps, fine, Java sucks for webapps,

It sucks, but is actually amazingly performant. (much to my surprise I might add)
I'm not sure if what they are saying applies to the first girl they speak about. A street hooker cannot easily transition to a highly paid escort. You need to be pretty and young at least, to earn that much. And the street hookers, if they increased their prices, would have no customers.
With respect to the name -- I'm really not sure why I hate it so much but I do have a really visceral disgust. If I think of why I'll post again.
This is a pretty good explanation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631206

You've got two problems, though:
1) We don't yet have a consistent explanation for what gravity is. General Relativity is good, but breaks down at small distances.
2) At some point, physics becomes math, and at some point after that there are no explanations. For example, why does 1=1? Basically, the answer is "by definition".
> it'd be a shame if a woman was peer-pressured to do a job she hates because "just getting married and being a housewife" is stigmatized these days.

The pressure does not come from being stigmatized but from the fact that a single person income is not enough to feed a family of four in plenty of places.

And if you don't have children and your spouse is out working you might as well go to work yourself, rather than to hang around the house all day, and increase your expendable income.

edit: Yet another factor, it makes you feel good to not be a dependent but to bring in your own share of the household money.
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I'm one of the people who diligently reads each of these things on monads because I know I don't understand them yet. Right now, I at least understand some examples of monads (Maybe, IO, etc.) and why they're used, but the internals of how they work (and what "context" they carry) are still too fuzzy, even if I think I sorta understand the three monad laws (i.e. monads can bind and return values so you can get normal data in and out of them, as well a property reminiscent of function composition that allows them to be chained).

I think I may have to break down and read the O'Reilly book on Haskell (I've never looked for it, but I'm assuming one exists), because the tutorials all seem to use Haskell syntax nowadays and that keeps me from fully understanding many of the articles, even though I seem to be learning bits and pieces of Haskell each time I read one of these.
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That's really pretty good. I think Zachary really nailed the 'make something people want' angle :)
Yes, one is on-demand by phone, and the other is on-demand at the street corner. In both cases you don't know how they got there (whether by choice or force) and most johns don't care to ask.
How is 6/10 extremely low?
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You have to check it the next day.
http://www.raterush.com/pages/digg-reddit

particularly that section about digg or reddit first
I can't find the source ATM, but apparently it's 10-20% daily, down from 30-40% a year ago.

Scroll to the bottom of this for something tangible:
http://www.raterush.com/pages/digg-reddit
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Well, people claim that digg is entirely run by the top users from what I understand, and if only 6/10 stories that make it to the front page are predicted by the top users voting patterns, theres not much to that claim right?

EDIT: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/top-100-digg-users-control-56-of-...
I read "Categories for the working mathematican" by Saunders Mac Lane and "The Typeclassopedia" by Brent Yorgey before I really understood monads.

If i just waited for this, it could have spared me all this reading ;-)
That doesn't even require a broad definition. From Aho, Sethi, and Ullman: "a compiler is a program that reads a program written in one language - the source language - and translates it into an equivalent program in another language - the target language."
I really admire this achievement in such a short time.
I should study the source code and learn from this.
Soon I will resign from work to start bootstrapping my business and will take a look at the source code.
TL, DR: liberal tax & spend is the way O brother! Heed the call and deliver us from the hideous capitalists!

Oh BTW check out my new startup, we're going to make a ton of money.
The O'Reilly book would be Real World Haskell: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

It is very good, and expressly isn't a monad tutorial in the usual style, although they do get covered eventually of course (but from memory without any extra emphasis or allusions to difficulty, magic, etc).
By 'an AJAX call', do you mean having the client periodically ping the server, and then cleaning up the session if the ping times out?
Please create a mailinglist and put me in it :)
I have no time to test it but would like a notice when it's publicly released.
I know people who would glady pay for this.
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Pity you had to use such crude language while making your point. I'd like to see these figures per state. And then I'd like to see the percentage of the budget over time that is allocated to locking up citizens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_criminal_justice_cost_t...
the majority of men died without descendents. Things like that.

Well, to me that's a reason not to read the essay, because it sounds quite like a naturalistic fallacy to care whether someone had offspring.
> nobody knew there was any linkage at all between sunspots and radioactivity.

There isn't, follow up has already been done to disprove this using the Cassini space probe I believe.
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Did you keep on going and implement it?
The pressure does not come from being stigmatized but from the fact that a single person income is not enough to feed a family of four in plenty of places.

Is this true? Surely the cost of living has decreased over the last 100 years, so it must be easier for a single breadwinner to feed a family than it was back then.
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In truth I think a service like this is more about not having your family and colleagues being able to easily snoop in on your private life, not about giving you iron clad privacy. Or any level of social separation that you want which Facebook doesn't allow easily. Within that assumption, the fact that for example, photos of you can be posted outside that circle of trust, is just a necessary risk if you want to stay connected with your friends when most probably use social networking like facebook/etc.
I like the idea of using DRM to redirect pirates to a suitably prepared order form -- does anyone here have any experiences of similar tactics?
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> Well, to me that's a reason not to read the essay, because it sounds quite like a naturalistic fallacy to care whether someone had offspring.

I think you'll find it a thought-provoking essay regardless of your personal ethics. It's well-written, has lots of numbers, and brings up a lot of counterintuitive/counter-cultural points. I found it through Hacker News originally, actually.
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I'm pretty sure that's working as intended. Might be better off loosening restrictions on how health care providers operate so they can work it out themselves.

On a more serious note, there isn't one solution. There are hundreds of thousands of ways to spend less and bring more money in. It took this country, and that state, a few decades to get into that mess. It will probably take just as long to get back to the prosperity the 40's and 50's were known for.
The same reason why people use facebook and don't just email their friends/family anymore. Having it all organized and separated from other activities is a huge benefit. I don't think too many people actually worry (or even know it's an issue) about the photos being stored on 3rd party servers being compromised.
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This reminded of an App Store developer I met a few months ago who had an app selling for $10. He was working too much answering too many technical support questions.

What he did was increase the price of the app to $25. Less people purchased his app but his revenue is about the same. The volume of technical support questions dropped significantly because he has less users.
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Not where I live and this is a pretty rich country. Between your rent/mortgage, your energy bill, public transportation costs, taxes, mandatory health insurance and food a single person income is not enough to make ends meet. And that's when you don't own a car. Typically a single person income is about 1700 euros net take home, and your costs will be slightly above that (for the above mentioned family of four).

The breakdown: mortgage 500 (no paying towards the principal, so you're stuck with the debt) food 350 (yes, it's that expensive), health insurance 280 to about 320 depending on the coverage, energy 100 to 250 (depending on season and insulation), commute 150 or more, clothing, various taxes (on top of your income tax) and 'unforeseen' will easily eat up the remainder.

If you live in 'subsidized housing' it gets a bit better.
Still there's a good reason not to use 64 bits: interconnections, transistor count, die size. You can't have a CPU that sips milliwats of power and make an architecture of a 50 Watts beast.
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Really? Post it on the Fridge. Put it on the Fridge. Like the fridge at home growing up where you mom would put gold stars on your homework, shopping list, pictures of weddings, messages? There is a fridge in every house, dorm, frat, apartment and it is usually the one place where stuff is posted and shared for everyone but specifically for that group.
There are actually two things that I found surprisingly expensive in Shenzhen: bars (1 beer = ~7$) and movie theaters (1 ticket = ~15$). But that's about it. Clothing (except Italian brands), food, beer, transportation, rent (although Shenzhen is a bit expensive for China), massage, Internet, mobile phone, hairdressers... are very cheap. 25K isn't my actual salary but I know some people here who live very comfortably on that salary. Anecdote: I just go a nice haircut for 1.50$.
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There's one of those in San Luis Obispo too. It's as gross as you could imagine. I've heard that attempts at removing it keep occurring though.
> Physics is pretty much as deep as you can go.

I don't think all physicists actually think that, or there wouldn't be nearly as much interest in and effort expended on things like interpretations of quantum mechanics, i.e. attempts to explain what quantum mechanics means at some level deeper than merely "here is quantum mechanics, and it makes testable predictions" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mech...).
We are also building out features to make it much easier to upload single photos, albums, videos, as well as tag users, invite friends from FB into the group, etc... baby steps.
It was indeed $105 million as SEC filing showed http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/00010928350900000... I am pretty sure there were some additional benefits, as in "you don't tell us what to do, ever" or something.
Bonobo monkeys have been seen trading food (fruits) for sex. What is new for me here is that they adopted a currency.
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What are you really trying to say? Levitt is talking about one case which is not representative, and he is definitely not claiming that it is representative. Citing statistics cannot refute the existence of a non-representative data point.

On the price elasticity: if you're a freelance programmer and you raise your hourly rate from $100 to $400, you might not make more money. So if someone can successfully pull it out, it is noteworthy.
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Not sure if this is a reason to join Facebook or to stay off it...

I miss getting invited to some events, but maybe I'd like to know if someone put me on a hit list. Zuckerberg really is tricky!
Totally different clientele.

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Welcome to the space guys, it looks like a great product, I've signed up for the beta and I'm really looking forward to checking it out. What follows is by no means meant as a slight on the creators of the product, it looks like they've done a sterling job and I wish them every success.

I launched an almost identical product (in terms of functionality) http://geckoboard.com into private beta a little over a month ago and have been steadily improving it since then (adding a bunch of new APIs including Freshbooks, GitHub and an API with the ability to load custom data to your status board). Despite being first to market, accumulating a couple of thousand beta testers and reaching out to TC we only get a one line mention in the article. Getting on Techcrunch et al. is not the be-all and end-all but as a single founder outside of Silicon Valley situations like this reinforce the notion that you're swimming against the tide.

It's inevitable that sort of thing happens but it really does go to show one of the prime benefits of joining YC; the exposure and access you get is second to none and the best leg up a startup could hope for.
I've seen the bitmap to level trick used before, but most "normal" (not developed under severe time constraints) games would eventually have a level editor implemented alongside the game. Personally, I'd be more likely in this situation to implement it as a text file and edit it with emacs picture-mode.

I've also heard of some bitmap-as-data atrocities. A colleague who worked with an engine from a certain well known single player RPG described how bitmaps were used in that engine to control animation states. Like, if walking and getting hit, which animation takes priority. There are as many ways to implement that system as there are game developers. For some reason this developer elected to store those matrices as BMP files, and edit them using a paint program.

The bitmap as level trick is a great shortcut for prototyping and rapid development, perfect for this contest. But I can't imagine the thought process that led to using one for animation data.
Maybe the public primary schools have better lobbying apparatuses than the universities.
Increasing the size of the workforce will tend to put downward pressure on wages. So if you double the workforce I expect you'd see pretty serious downward pressure on wages, maybe to the point where previously one partner working could support the family (historically the norm), but now you need both partners working. Though of course adding women to the workforce has had lots of positive effects, so maybe the overall improvement in the economy cancels out the downward pressure on wages. I am not an economist.
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> I miss getting invited to some events

These are the kind of events that I think it might be better to miss.
I love this app idea. I think we've only scratched the surface on extending the natural social experience with technology.

There are many more to follow in this vein.
As a BI tool QlikView is a different animal to what's being proposed here. QlikView is a fully interactive BI tool designed for use on the desktop. Dashboards like Leftronic are designed to show key metrics from all over the business to a wide audience either via a large screen or a secondary or tertiary display on the desktop. Once it's set up and operating users shouldn't need to interact with it a great deal other than glancing up to check on part of the screen they're interested in. Much like you would use the dashboard of your car when you're on the road.
This summer, I've mostly been saying 'machine learning', 'biological machine learning', 'artificial intelligence', 'programming', or 'artificial brains' depending on the person, the situation and where I want to try to take the conversation. AI and brains sound cool to non-technical people and usually they are curious and it stimulates conversation. Sometimes I tell nontechnical people 'programming' if I want to cut short the conversation about professions (most people will lose interest at the mention of programming) and steer it toward something potentially more interesting. Of course, another way to avoid professions is to not mention one at all and stay that I am a student --- but then I have to go on about what I'm studying. I reserve 'machine learning' mostly for EECS/mathy people who might know what that means.
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It would be fun in coffee shops, bars, and book stores. Probably a good way to break the ice in meeting new people.

It might even be good in apartment buildings or neighborhoods. Say you're having a barbecue, you don't know your neighbors that well, but you have extra food and you'd like to meet them. Put a notice on the local IRC with message party.
Pretty sure this is a duplicate from months ago, except before there was actually context.
The fundamental goal of capitalism, at least American capitalism, is to increase the amount of passive income generated by business activity. The functional representation of this is that lenders share of economic activity increases and the borrowers share decreases, and you are all borrowers because you pay taxes and the government pays enormous interest on its debts.

In fact, the only people who are not borrowers to some extent are those who live off tax free government bonds.