skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I even got a few emails, out of nowhere, furthering discussion that was started here. It was rather surprising (in a good way) and overall feeling I get when I talk to anyone from here (either here or email) is like that from a close colleague that I have respect for and whom I can trust.

One thing I've learned about HN though, don't write anything negative about Apple. Ever. :)
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Well, one could say it's perceived as attractive, since they're putting it on their profiles.

Of course, I wasn't really attempting to make a serious point. And the Sox are in a distant 3rd in the AL East right now anyways, which presumably explains the downvotes :)
The metric about adherence was made up and without explanation of how they categorized people. The Coleman-Liau Index is based on lengths of words, which proves... what, exactly? Many of the "most" religious people scored higher than the ones rated "meh". Also, agnostics are in the middle of the pack.

So what does this chart predict? That certain self-selected religious categories in their dataset correlate with word length in the essays. Is that good statistics, or a confirmation of prejudices, ie, religious people are less intelligent?

With all of those charts they passed over with "no comment", they saw fit to make a joke about a "Comic Sans Bible".

It bothers me because it statistically shaky and baldly prejudiced. I would love to have a conversation about that, and I wish people would engage instead of downvote.
$275K not bad by most standard, you earned it!
This is the first response giving hard numbers. Thanks for the candor.
There may be some situations in which the only way to get honest opinions is to enable people to post anonymously, but in the majority of cases where I've seen people posting anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, the quality tends to slide. HN is a conspicuous exception, although that's probably due to its fairly restricted scope of interest.
Yea, I was surprised to see your first comment anywhere but at the top. $10 will buy a g of dirt. $20 beasters/kb. $25+ for true dank (east coast).
It's improving quickly, but it's not stable yet. Even Aza Raksin, who headed up the Mozilla Tab Candy/Panorama project, couldn't get this extension to work with Chrome. http://twitter.com/azaaza/status/23855793058
Downvoting is often used to express extreme disagreement. Ideally it might not be, but there are no real guidelines on how to use downvoting, and no good mechanism to enforce them if they existed.

It seems to me like the problem isn't that there are certain things you aren't allowed to say, but that there certain things that a large group of people aren't going to even bother taking seriously. It could be because they've seen the argument before and consider it both obviously wrong and inflammatory, or it could be because they've been brainwashed / self-deluded. Regardless, that is a problem with humanity, not the hacker news community.
$33K is pretty low in most places in the US, How do you manage to stay focus on runing the business?
http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/umlaut/umlaut.html

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I agree with you. I will work with your dogs in the office if you work with my children in the office.... no? Ok then.
Multiple submissions on the same subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672391

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672388 <- This is an explanation

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672346 <- First
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Joel is super strong advocate of : 1) private offices for each programmer, 2) free, nicely catered lunch every day (everyone eats together and bonds), 3) usual internet stuff - comfortable office, dogs, flexible schedules etc.

On one hand, a little voice inside of me cries, "Yes! This is what it takes to produce great software: a programmer-appreciative environment."

On the other hand, another little voice claims, "This stuff is all well and good, but nothing more. It's cosmetic, not functional, like putting perfume on a pig."

I have been in many situations with Class A office space, private offices, catered team-building breakfasts and lunches, etc., etc., etc. and was ready to jump out the window. Why? Because the work sucked and all the window dressing in the world wasn't going to change that.

Then I think back to some of my most favorite projects and remember the great work that we did. Sometimes in squalor-like conditions, sharing cubicles or tables, sitting in the server room with too much air conditioning or in the warehouse without enough, eating vending machine garbage and drinking old coffee because that was all there was.

Bottom line? The work itself is 100 times more important than the working conditions. Sure, everything being equal, I'd rather have nicer digs. But everything not being equal, I'll choose the better project every time, no matter what the environment is like.

I suspect Joel gives the programming environment more credit than it deserves. His people are probably happy, and the office helps. But the real reason is the work itself, and they'd be almost as happy no matter what the office was like.
Thanks! Monetization will come. Why take it down? On the contrary I'm trying to get users.
You're taking it a little too seriously. Its not about justice or anything like that.

Its better to think of it as it being nice to have a little part of internet, where your opinions as a hacker actually carry as much weight (if not more) than the typical business guy.
Try typing "fuc" -- it's smart enough not to be instant :)
Search: now faster than the speed of type
Granola with raw milk, but boy does that breakfast burrito speek had sound good!
So how long before we can buy our way to the top of the search term suggestions? What kind of analytics can you do about how streaming search changes the way people compose their keywords? It's an interesting new feature.
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I actually noticed the opposite. A few days ago I had a craving for a snickers bar. I haven't had one in years. So I popped into my local 7-11 and I noticed that the candy bars all looked...smaller... than when I was a kid. There was no king size to be found. Anecdotal? Sure, but it does support what the poster was claiming.
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The whole thing reminds me of when Zed Shaw went on a rantfest on his site against a "faked" Microsoft employee only to find out that his assumptions were completely off the mark.

As the saying goes, it's better to be nice than to be "right".
It's a very interesting event.

I have seen many IT managers that rely on proprietary software because they believe that "having a company behind it" helps solve problems. In reality, this shows not having full access to the internals of the software is much more dangerous than not having a company to sue when everything fails.
Do you have data to support this?
It does not tell you how to calculate the interchange, but it does explain what interchange is and describes the variables that go into the equation.
what does "?sclient=psy" mean?
I would also like to point out that most Angel Investors/VCs won't invest in LLCs/S-Corps. I think this is because of preferred options... I'm sure someone else with actual experience could chime in.
Like it, but hate the dropdown fuzzy match search results layering atop the first result along with the "feelings of euphoria" obnoxiegocentricicity. I hope they fix that before go-live.
This doesn't make sense because it's not true.

I was an avid pot smoker in my college days (long time ago, now) and even over the relatively small span of a 3 year time period I paid everything for a quarter-ounce (~7 grams) from $10 ("ditch weed") to $400 (REALLY good stuff from Cali or Colorado). So I'm not sure what he's talking about with the $10/gram thing being some benchmark that's lasted decades.

I know that's anecdotal evidence, but it's the shared experience of every smoker or ex-smoker I've ever known. And considering the wide variations of produce quality, I think it's odd to suggest that prices are tied to any sort of specific weight.

It's like saying, "Fish always costs $x per pound. (man) Why?" The answer is simply, "No it doesn't."
Just for completeness, you guys should compute g-test statistics for this so that the statisticians see something they're used to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-test
Very true. Nowadays we have both access to crappy food as well as a larger variety of both fresh and ethnic foods which were not available in the US back then (e.g., avocados were uncommon when I was a kid).

I don't know where to find really good data on this, unfortunately...
lol, and "originally attracted to" would be? Am I misunderstanding you or are you accidentally suggesting that gays and lesbians are originally attracted to the "right sex"? You are just digging deeper and deeper.

Seriously, though I realize it wasn't intended, just made me laugh.
They're talking about it live right now http://www.youtube.com/google
I'm really curious how they will count ad impressions in this new system. Can anyone find any comments on that? Google is CPC, but the number of impressions has a dramatic impact on price.
Glad to see comments being posted where nobody has any true expertise. Proof: The conversation should have turned to "grade" from "quantity" and hasn't.

Good on all of you. Don't rearrange your own 1's and 0's.

I'm no expert either, thankfully. Although the medical benefits do seem to be real (i.e. pain reduction, appetite stimulation, etc.)
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Nice, but totally Microsoft centric.
I have no insider knowledge, but the article didn't seem right to me. Thanks for adding your experience.
Aww, but I really wanted to search for "fuchsia plants".
Works with some swear words in Italian too. Wonder if they compiled a list or if they've got an algorithm that says "wait, this is about to return some naughty results".
From stackoverflow.com where some misguided fool wants to draw his page background with canvas:

… Webkit-based browsers do allow you to use a element in the CSS background property. Just give the canvas an id, then use "body { background:url(#mycanvas); }" in your CSS.

Sure, that isn't in the HTML5 standard per se, but since there is no HTML5 standard we can pretend it is.

steveklabnik points out in this thread an example of someone doing it, http://mobdb.com/reddit/button.html , but they use absolute positioning to overlay the button and canvas and will surely go mad if they try to use it for real.

I suppose, with this newfound CSS knowledge I will now have to change my home page background to a hilbert curve.

Edit: Actually, I think I'll use the "background: -webkit-canvas(name)" and getCSSCanvasContext() DOM function documented at http://webkit.org/blog/176/css-canvas-drawing/

Upshot: No hilbert for me. Takes about 1 second to render a maximally detailed hilbert in my browser on a core i7 processor.
http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Excerpt:

When someone searches using Google Instant, ad impressions are counted in these situations:

* The user begins to type a query on Google and clicks anywhere on the page
(a search result, an ad, a spell correction, a related search).

* The user chooses a particular query by clicking the Search button, pressing
Enter, or selecting one of the predicted queries.

* The user stops typing, and the results are displayed for a minimum of three
seconds.
Wow no love for hockey or ice rinks, or unique architecture...
From the response;

"We can't use database transactions because performing a big move would slow Basecamp down for everyone. So we have to log the process of each step of the move, and make it so any failure in the move can be rolled back gracefully. That means a move is actually a series of copies and deletions instead of just changing a field for each moved item"
Multiple submissions on the same subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672391

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672388 <- This is an explanation

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672346 <- First

... and more. I wonder how many we'll get.
Does the author realize that the last image has Mr T. representing flash and Rocky representing HTML5.... in the movie, I believe, Rocky won.
Heh, and most LLCs/S-Corps won't bother looking for Angel/VC investment. ;-)

That said, AFAIK converts (which seem to be getting popular these days, at least among sensible angels) are perfectly compatible with typical S corp structure.
The quality doesn't just slide, it plummets. c.f. YouTube, Chicago Tribune, etc.
I actually wrote a post a while back about Google's search term suggestions [1]. Most interesting fact I found was that Facebook actually has one of the top-ten suggestions for the letter "w" because of people entering "www.facebook.com" into Google so often.

[1] http://www.alfajango.com/blog/google-one-letter-suggestions/
Multiple submissions on the same subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672391

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672388 <- This is an explanation

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672346 <- First

... and more by the minute. I wonder how many we'll get.
Yes, there's an Atlas Shrugged correlation there. However, I'm pretty sure that a governing body forcing the oppressed to make erroneous public statements on their behalf has been a non-fiction occurrence for far longer than Atlas Shrugged has been in print.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. If my service is successful with a less perfect domain I might be able to come back and purchase this domain at some multiple of today's price. However, if I spend too much money on the domain then I may not be able to have enough money to get to product/market fit.
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I'm going to guess it means "psychic mode" which they just made a joke about in the presentation. "It's not psychic, but it's clever".
Fair enough. OKC should really release an api for people to pull data for their own analyses. Make your data viral!
Not sure if this was covered elsewhere, but this actually changes the SEO game in a subtle way. imagine you could rank for the term online deg but NOT online degree.

SEO's rejoice, this could be profitable for consultants and linkbuilders.
This is something that I would definitely subscribe to. The available names that you shared are pretty nice.

I do think that it would be hard to find people willing to pay for a list of available domain names, unless it were a very small amount, but even then you wouldn't likely have very many subscribers (and I think most would be domainers).

I think a way to monetize a free service/list like this would be to charge a fee for specific requests. Once you had established yourself as someone who could definitely come up with good names, I expect people would come to you, and you could charge to come up with a private list of available names for whatever their topic is.
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I have read dozens of articles lately about how lazy young people are today. This is the first article I have read that attempts to defend young people. The author made a lot of good points and did so with an up beat attitude.

Overall it was a good article. You can attack it for generalizing, but that is a low blow, you can attack any age-based observation piece for generalizing.

I think it is funny that this is an uplifting article about how tough young people have it (we got a bad hand but we'll get through it), and the top post is a cynical comment from (what I assume to be) an older guy.
Could you explain how action from the private sector might help to reform the public education system. Unless you're referring to vouchers I'm not sure I understand the connection you're trying to make.

Also, I'm not sure its accurate to claim that Rhee might lose her position if Fenty isn't re-elected. His opponent seems to be on the same side of education reform as him and most of his claims to "anti government" policies are more in the realm of police and tax reform (at least as I understand it; I don't live in DC)
Correct: there's real chance I'll forget what I wanted to search if I'm presented with something else shiny before! It's dangerous and it will mostly make popular searches even more popular. It's a positive feedback loop, often a bad thing.
I think you've taken this article the wrong way - you seem to consider it an attack on your generation.

Generalities hold truths, and while everyone is an outlier to a certain extent, a lot of the points in this essay are pretty valid, the loss of trust in corporate entities is something that will change the way in which companies are structured.

Generations _do_ exist, even if they are a fuzzy concept - without the idea of the baby boomers we'd have a hard time explaining a lot of socio-political movements and changes.

You can read this article as whining, and you obviously did, or you can look at it as a thoughtful reasoning of some of the emergent properties of an era's psyche, it isn't an attack on another generation.
Family history of $COMMON_FATAL_CONDITION plus a cholesterol reading that one should never have in a 120 lb 22 year old.
I don't know much about pot, but the phrase "Da Kine" is a term of high praise in Hawaiian Pidgin, possibly originating from native Hawaiian.
You can add them manually by going to each one and adding it to the book. I'm not sure if there is a less tedious way of doing it, though.
I'm pretty sure a lid was an ounce. A pound for $25 is too low, during the 70s. That's enough for a High schooler to smoke 1 1-gram joint everyday for 2 school calendar years on just a couple of days worth of lunch money.
I'm curious if users will actually change their behavior because of this though.

For example, if you decide you want to go to google.com to search for "online degree", are you likely going to stop in the middle of typing your phrase when you notice some results appear?

For me the lag between typing and displaying of results seems a little too slow for this to really happen.
The first test I give any 'Rate my start-up' is to go to the homepage without reading the submitters post.

The question I ask my self is 'do I know what this is and how I'd use it just by looking at the homepage?'.

Unfortunately, your description isn't on the homepage. "see, scan, connect" may mean something to you, but it doesn't mean anything to me.

On the homepage, I get that the barcode has something to do with app scanning, but it doesn't tell me much more. What do I get if I scan the image? What am I supposed to get? Do I want it?

Your 'faqs' page isn't a whole lot better. I'd suggest getting something on that homepage which is a quick "we're making the world a better place by..."
As a programmer currently looking for work, I find this screening process to be draconian and insulting.

As a hiring manager, I look for someone who gets things done. No surprise that this takes many things: knowledge, skill, smarts, creativity, experience, team work, and maybe most important: attitude. You have just self-identified your bad attitude. If you think this is "draconian and insulting", just wait until your knee deep in digital shit with customers barking at you all day long.

I cannot vouch for it's efficacy as I've never used it when hiring people.

I can. Nothing works better. Period. If I have 30 to 60 minutes to find out how well you'll perform, I'll have you code and teach me what you've done. I don't care what you've done before, your state of mind, or even if your code ever runs or compiles. If you're any good at all, I'll find out. If you're a poser, I'll find that out, too. And if you don't want to play along, then either you're a poser avoiding exposure or a prima donna who is saving me a lot of suffering down the road.

I'm not trying to insult you, just give an honest answer to your (very good) question. This comes up so often, I've responded to it before. A little more light shed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=89669

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834513

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=835092
You should never be the lowest paid.

Executives are paid not for the actual tasks they do, but for the fact that all responsibility and accountability is on their shoulders.
In this context, Rand was merely acting as a reporter.
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I down load from torrent then convert from convert-x but when it trys to burn says disc capasity is to small I am not computer skilled please help, someone else set up my downloading but they are gone now
Yeah, but your really just shuffling costs around. You're either paying up front for a supported product or paying for staff that knows the unsupported product. In this particular case they got hosed by a shitty product, but that doesn't translate into a reality of not having access to the internals of software being (always)dangerous.
The problem with arguments like this is that I have an irrational negative emotional reaction when I read them. Thanks.

Fixed that for you.
Why would I want Google to begin searching at 'he' if I'm looking for 'hello world'? Will the instant search list relevant results so early on, so as to save me from typing the whole term?
Did you try it? It doesn't search for the current search term, it searches for its current best guess. The instant search results for "online deg" and "online degree" are identical, because it's the same search. (I compared it to a direct search for "online deg" and it's not the same search.) There's no optimization for "online deg" to be made.

I don't think there's very much SEO implication here at all, actually, as the goal was already to be the top hit for a common Google search, and common Google searches will be what Google Instant already prefers.
I find that Reddit is great because of anonimity.
People can talk about problems they can't talk about to anyone. People share experiences they would never dare to share. You get to realize some things are extremely common yet never discussed, because of shame or stigma.

Anonimity is the key to getting truth. Even the extremely superficial posts like "U SUCK DICK! LOLOL!" or extremely incendiary posts, or illegal stuff like child porn, they show what people are like or what strange and dark thoughts sometimes pass through their minds.

Anonimity is the counter to hypocrisy.
Yup! guess it's time to eat his old Flash disks LOL!
Looks like "q" is the starting letter for your project name if your punting for it to be the next big thing.
What's the point of having ACID when you don't use its advantages, one might wonder.
Certainly a production artist wouldn't walk into an interview with a portfolio and be asked to draw a puppy.

No, but I could imagine someone being asked how they might go about starting a new assignment or piece of work (art might be a bad example to use here since the process is likely not as important as the end result).

These coding exercises give the interviewer a chance to gauge how the candidate goes about solving problems, if he/she can think on his/her feet, their problem-solving strategies, etc.

Code that you have already written is great but it doesn't tell the interviewers much about the process that led to it.
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Should we let housing prices fall?
Am I the only one who feels like this guy is just a troll???
Why is a transaction necessary? Just change the one field project_id in the table todolists to point to the new project. Because the messages point at the todolist_id instead of at the project_id you don't need to modify anything else.