skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll post income figures again: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-distributio...

I spend money like a person living on the blue line. I earn money like a person living on the red line.

Or, to make another comparison, I imagine people in Sweden consume similarly to people in Maine or Montana (two of the poorer US states).

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otfwl2zc6Qc/S1C7-ttdD0I/AAAAAAAAMe...

(Note that those numbers are PPP adjusted.)
Also, I believe if you submit the exact same link as something that is already posted it normally takes you to the article if it's up on HN already.

You would mostly run into a problem if you are submitting a blog post that is talking about something that is already on HN.
Thanks! It's actually not a mockup -- that is running live as is everything in that Flickr account.

We're actually in our last stage of heavy development. We've got ~35 sites running on the system now and will soon be able to open it up.
How about using the data you collected with the Google Content network and trying to negotiate with your best converting sites directly for ad placement?

Otherwise you're looking at media networks like advertise.com
Great idea, as a side note, I notice that all of the website text is just in an image, which means that there's nothing for search engines to pick up on.

I'd strongly recommend that you put up a paragraph or two of real (non-image) text into that page somewhere, or at least add a decent <meta> description tag.

Googling for your app shows no text at all in the hit, and having no indexable page content really limits what searches you'll show up for.
yeah, it wouldn't be a YC failure, it would just probably be a company YC wouldn't invest in. why would a single-person 200k/year profit company need YC?

edit: this seems to me like she's confused. YC's preferences on companies that they would like to invest their time and money in doesn't necessarily equal "the best way" for all entrepreneurs under all situations and circumstances.
Though i'm not much of a cook, this seems like an awesome idea. Three initial thoughts:

- Readability is critical, but current font/contrast choices don't yet seem optimal (on site or in screenshots)

- Voice control for scrolling could be a giant win -- cooks' hand are messy! (Similarly, a voice-synthesizer reading the recipe on request, with tivo-like voice controls, would be cool.)

- iPad!
>A year later in 1987, IBM released its new vision of the PC, called PS/2; it only offered a standard port for the mouse and another identical but unique port for the keyboard, a mistake that would plague PC users for the next two decades

Hmmm - for as long as I can remember the keyboard ports were colored purple, and the ones for mice were like a teal. I feel like the frequency of plugging in one's keyboard/mouse doesn't warrant it being called a plague.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_word_graph have you considered a DAWG? One win here is you save on storing suffixes, with added complexity of course.
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Great idea. What you are describing sounds like a combination of EtherPad and Skywriter.
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Most interesting aspect of that article is the second update at the bottom linking to a post that so perfectly sumnmarizes Steve Jobs... written in 1997. http://www.scripting.com/davenet/stories/DocSearlsonSteveJob...
Because America is the greatest country in the world people outside America couldn't possibly be happy with the way they do things?
Tax arbitrage means using the difference in tax rates to make extra money. If the tax rate when you contribute to a tax-deferred investment account is higher than the tax rate when you pull the money out, voila, you've profited from tax arbitrage. So I am not sure why you are thinking of income vs. other taxes. The authors are simply saying, if you are a high earner in a top federal tax bracket, it really pays to put money into tax-deferred investments.
>anyone know what he's referring to? why is it useful to have a distinction?

I think because on Windows those two very different operations are overloaded onto the same key combo, and there could be situations where in context it is ambiguous which one would be invoked.
>> I thought, when juxtaposed with the response I got from Nancy Xiao, a recent high-school grad and TeachStreet intern. “I’ve come to realize one of my bigger challenges is not having a technical background,” she says. “Just because a woman doesn’t speak Ruby doesn’t mean she’s incapable.”

If I'm looking for a partner to start a business, then I am looking someone with skills to execute. So, if no skills in the area then no startup. Their are many skills that could be used in a startup, but I am loathe to let anyone manage developers who wasn't a developer. Sure, maybe there are some examples, but from most of my experience it just leads to problems.

Heck, I would partner with a dragon if it had the right skills (and obey the local laws) - any legal, can-go-to-sleep-at-night way to the money is fine.
Why would they want to do that? They're kicking ass on the long tail.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Thanks! I love how it came out graphically as well. I think it succeeds at physicality without being too kitschy. Maybe.

It relies pretty heavily on a lot of internal DNC technologies, though I'm sure the Republicans have similar systems.

Also, I'm not sure the Republicans could afford it…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/rnc-re-assigning-ne...
Thanks! Not a bad solution, though not a perfect. I just search some of the newest HN entry. It seems to have a 2-3 hour lag to crawl and update to the latest post.
We Homeschool, My wife is a full time mom, she was a practitioner so has a lot of Bio background. I Freelance, and generally work from home. I have a friend here in my home town that came back from the valley after a successful exit who introduced us to the concept of unschooling.

I was extremely skeptical of homeschooling in general, when my wife decided that we should do it. But with the gangs, drugs and actual lack of eduction being taught in schools I decided that we would probably be doing them no harm.

After a few years of homeschooling and the return of my friend who was unschooling his children we decided to give unschooling a try. Before homeschooling there is no way that you could have convinced me that some hair brained idea like let you kids choose what they want to do would ever work.

It has changed my perception of how children learn now. My 4 year old is putting together robots and working out logic with a Lego Mindstorm, set and my 12 year old is well into Algebra and rivals any professional graphic artist or digital media professional I have ever seen.

Most of the kids that we know in the homeschooling and unschooling social circles enter into collage at between 14 and 16 years of age. Something is obviously working here.
Then your grandmother should pick up a $2 film camera at a thrift store. This is a scam designed to get old people to opt-in to a mountain of spam.
advertise something else then upsell them on your site

i.e. buy advertising for your "i love guns" line of tshirts

then on your sales page say "get this shirt free with a purchase of any gun"...then list 5 most commonly bought guns with your prices.

another option is to just skip the middle man. Do a google search for high converting terms. i.e. "best gun for self defense"...then see if the first site is privately owned. If it's an enthusiast site, contact them via whois and offer a few bucks for advertising. $100/yr will work for most people. This way it's like you are the first result, which = decent traffic. Just make a flashy ad that gets people's attention...and offer them a deal. And you'll have decent CTR, and decent conversions...all for the cost of 30-40 Google clicks which might get you a single sale.
It's in the little slideshow dealy.
It's not usability that has turned people off, it's the change in underlying functionality. It's no longer a community site.

People can get used to UI changes, even radical ones. But fundamentally changing the way people interact with a site (and the value of that interaction) will guarantee that people will leave in droves.
The site is sweet. I really enjoy finding videos and searching through google is a pain. I can see this website be extremely useful. If you ever need any help with testing let me know.

I would definitely say once you get the core functionality done to work on some UI changes, which would really help out the look and feel.
The colors came a little later (PC97) and were much welcomed.
How was the infinite 2D scrolling implemented? Is it available as a library somewhere? Thanks.
Then the marginal rate must be flat except for discontinuities. It will effectively not be a flat marginal rate except for finite intervals. And if the tax burden is meaningfully curved, the tax rate must have discontinuities in meaningful places.
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I do wish the mac keyboard had the contextual menu key, but I do like how I can use control for terminal apps and command for normal apps (the ctrl-c / command-c difference is nice).
ugh, nevermind, I misread the text. I read it has pressing control+c to copy text, not to cancel something. so the distinction does make sense.

though I still don't like how you can't copy and paste files with cmd+c/cmd+v in os x :)
Here's my take. A recent blog post at OkCupid (http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/07/07/the-biggest-lie...) indicated that most people use dating sites for 6 months. I would estimate Netflix users are multi-year users. Just using those numbers you need to charge more per user.

Obviously this isn't a really deep analysis, but it's perhaps one reason.
No. Any authentication situation where every end user needs to protect a secret shared among many end users is fundamentally broken. That's not the same as what you just said.

OAuth works well for web apps. OAuth works less well for native apps. It's not "fundamentally broken"; it's just been stretched past its design limits in iPhone/Android settings.

The other side of this is that OAuth does backflips to work within the limitations of browsers and web applications. Native clients have much better options than OAuth for strong authentication. As a result, there's much less need for a standardized shared authentication protocol for native apps; OAuth actually doesn't make life much simpler for end-users or app developers than most "interesting" web services auth protocols already are.

This problem absolutely does not require a PKI to solve.
That is what I was wondering since I hadn't really seen anyone outside of the tech world use it.

So with that I can see it being a competitor, but then I wonder how do you compete with something that is illegal and not really an entity?
But are they overloaded? I don't remember much from my Windows/DOS days, but I thought "abort" was Ctrl+Pause?
I'd say that has nothing to do with convertible notes in particular. There are many ways/dynamics to employ to move things along a bit quicker. Convertible notes with different prices could be one, i.e. drop the first price lower. For equity rounds, you just give the first guy extra advisor shares, which does the same thing.
What part do you think is an unfair characterization - that some parents prefer to isolate their children for religious/moral reasons, or that doing so can lead to social awkwardness?

According to a 2001 U.S. Census survey, 33% of homeschooling households cited religion as a factor in their choice, 14% objected to what the school teaches (i.e things like evolution), and 9% cited morality. (See data at http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0053/... and http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0053/...)

In a 1999 study by the National Center for Education Statistics, only 48.9% of US homeschooling parents cited "Can give child better education at home" as the primary reason for homeschooling. That means 51.1% of homeschooling parents in the US think their kids would get a better education at school, but choose to homeschool for other reasons, which are primarily religious/moral in nature.

I'm not saying all homeschooling parents (which includes all religious homeschooling parents) want to isolate their children. The point is that, for a non-trivial percentage of parents, removing their children from the mainstream is a primary motivation for homeschooling.
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Using BitTorrent to pirate media incurs some legal risk; there is always a chance that a media company will decide to sue you. Now, the odds of that happening are low, but once they decide to sue you, you will almost certainly lose thousands of dollars, even if you end up winning.

In a sense, you can think of the money spent legally purchasing all (or most) of your media as an insurance policy -- you're paying for the right to enjoy media without having to worry about losing tens of thousands of dollars. Low probability high cost scenarios might not trouble younger unattached folk, but I found they weighed more on my mind as I grew older and started a family. YMMV.
How in the world is the author going to delegate, automate, or eliminate something stupid from your life to free up YOUR time. Each person fills their day with different tasks, many mundane but everyone is unique.

It's not pontificating. It's simply "a call to action".

I mean, I have no problems pleasing my partner but maybe for you - it's something you could delegate, automate, or eliminate. Maybe the author should've added that in for you.
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According to Wikipedia, another book is planned -- but after 'Fire' rather than 'Deepness':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep#Related_wo...

His earlier short story 'The Blabber' -- in the Threats and Promises collection -- is also somewhat in the same continuity. And before seeing the mention in Wikipedia I had no idea his former wife Joan had written books in that universe as well.
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I would bet that no matter how onerous the terms Apple has with the studios, they're better terms than anyone else has.
Netflix is probably the only pay service that almost everyone I know in the US has.
Perhaps you're not old enough to recall, but that colour coding was indroduced with the PC97 standard[1], in 1997. While 'plague' is over the top, it was a great annoyance for a decade.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide
1) I was sort of ignoring the scalability part and responding as if it just said education and socialization. The author never mentions scalability again in the article, so it's not even clear why it's there.

2) FRPL is free and reduced price lunch. One of the main reasons why schools exist is to feed children whose parents wouldn't otherwise have enough money to feed them. In many parts of the country kids gain weight throughout the spring and fall, and then come back a lot thinner after winter and summer break because they don't get very much food at home. But designing schools to fulfill has a huge effect on the pedagogical and other functions of school.

3) I'm not criticizing the author for lacking the proper credentials, I'm criticizing him for being wrong.
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Most Windows PC users are unaware of the use of either the Windows key or the contextual menu key, and some PC hardware makers refused to add the keys to their keyboards, the most notable being IBM.

i seem to recall ibm refusing to do this because of the old windows/os/2 warp battle. as soon as lenovo bought ibm's thinkpad line, they started putting windows keys on the keyboards.
I agree 100%. I love early tech history articles like this, but he's assigning 'better/worse' valuations to things that are simply a matter of familiarity. Other than having the windows logo, the windows key and the command key functionality are extremely divergent.
And yeah, his mis-characterization of the context menu key highlights his lack of familiarity with the PC keyboard conventions.
Your last sentence: that's exactly what I took to be the point of her post.
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While I agree, I still think there's an important part missing. Testing and Application. While studying topics that you have chosen out of interest is fun, I don't think most people have the discipline to really learn something. That is, until there is an expectation that their knowledge will be tested in some way.

There is lots to learn out there, but I wish there were better metrics to help even just myself understand if I really have learned what I claimed to have been 'studying'.

Perhaps there's an idea in here somewhere. A wiki of tests and exercises which you can use to self-measure your knowledge? You could allow anyone (newbies to experts) to submit tests. Then you could be Vyrotek certified for under-water basket weaving. Not that it would be worth anything to anyone besides yourself.
Aaaah my eyes! (After viewing the page in IE8.)

These buttons don't degrade gracefully at all.
This is so awesome.
More HFCS scaremongering. Making an effort to cut HCFS will probably help you because it'll force you to cut out processed foods that wouldn't have been healthy no matter how they were formulated. But the "HFCS is poison" meme leaves you ready to be victimized by the next sweetener-du-jour.

The food industry adds sweeteners because consumers love them, and foods with sweeteners sell better. Read Cooks Illustrated for a few months and note how many of the winning recipes are balanced with a sweetener of some sort. Extraneously-sweetened foods are not going away.

Being careful about what you eat: good. Rubber chicken health claims: not so good.
Ponder a thought from Alain de Botton (philosopher)
Profit is the reward for correctly understanding an aspect of reality ahead of your peers.
I really like what I see. I think it would benefit from a "browsing" entry point as well as a search box, because I often want to see a stimulating lecture, but don't have a subject in mind.
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Apple seems to be one of the few companies facebook won't be able to push around so easily.
A lot of huge sites run great on Windows. Stackoverflow, for one.

How is that embarrassing?
BBC Scotland is describing it as "RBS move to boost Scottish jobs"!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11165360
Yeah, I agree.

While I understand concerns about using open source software and never give back, I believe AGPL will never be adopted in commercial projects. And since no money will be involved, any AGPL project never get enough popularity to be successful.

On the side note, anyone can mention successful AGPL project? I want to see how they adopt it in business.
The first paragraph assumes you're facing the same way as the pilot - straight ahead. You do have to really build the image of the rotors in your head to follow the paragraph, but I have no complaints.

Both paragraphs were written by an engineer who's deeply involved on the technical side and emotionally connected to the team. Both paragraphs are consistent with their position, and the appropriate tones of voice from a single person in that situation.
I generally accept people's desires as they are

So does Sweden; they are drawing the line at a slightly different point than yourself. I'm assuming that you believe that society's needs trump the rights of individuals at some point, otherwise you wouldn't believe in society at all. Personally, I don't see a problem with encouraging fathers to spend more time with their children; it's likely those children will grow to be better adjusted as a result, and the overall impact on society (including economic factors such as productivity) will be worth it in the long run. To give a similar example: I think that it has been detrimental to the US that parents aren't required to immunize their children; it's obvious that if it continues it will be an overall detriment to the health of American children despite the parents' "desires."

I think that framing the issue as "enlightened bureaucrats considering others defective" is sensationalist and incorrect; The bureaucracy reflects the society, and Sweden is known for their investment and research on gender issues with the aim of resolving societal problems; this policy wasn't some random bureaucratic afterthought.
Shouldn't what? Experiment and write a tutorial?

Maybe you wouldn't ever put them on a site, and maybe I wouldn't ever put them on a site, but the state of the art only advances when people create experiments like this and then share the process.

Snark is easy. Coming up with experiments and then writing about them is far more impressive, even if the experiments don't ever see the practical application.
I agree. He should throw some credit to Microsoft for making Windows so keyboard friendly. I don't know of any other modern GUI operating system that provides the same level of consistent keyboard control. Besides occasional problems like tab stops being out of order sometimes it's very possible to use a Windows PC without a mouse. I realize this isn't something most people want to do but it can be incredibly useful. I have to use a very slow IP KVM to manage a few Windows systems and mouse lag is terrible. I can navigate around the system using only the keyboard at nearly full speed. If you're doing some repetitive tasks that involve typing it's a lot easier to just get into the flow of using only the keyboard.
I wasn't so lucky with them. I was a good customer, but they started silently throttling my account, and they wouldn't admit to it either. It's since come out that that's exactly what they were doing.

If it's too expensive to send me that many disks, fine, but don't lie to me about it.
Copyleft type licenses (like AGPL or GPL) are also business friendly. They just choose different business model.

There was also a discussion on the topic previously and especially how the non-copyleft licenses (like MIT or BSD-like) are not always contributing to the free software ecosystem:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1642140
No problem.

It's hard to be disciplined when your really into the code so having something to trigger you to take a break is very useful.
I think Netflix is aware that their advantage with regards to distribution isn't going to last forever and that they need to focus on getting more (and newer) movies.

They seem to be making headway in expanding their catalog - e.g., the $1 billion deal with Epix (Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM) to increase the size of their "Watch Instantly" portfolio. From what I've read, this is a big deal, as they're paying a bit more (relative to the premium cable channels) for the same rights.

More info on the Epix deal:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i...
The internet really does seem to thrive on kneejerk hyperbole.

On another forum I frequent there are some fanatics calling iTunes 10 an "abomination" because of the new logo and slightly different colours.

It sorta reminds me of that episode of the Simpson where Homer covers for Patti and Selma with the cigarettes where they work (a government building). P&S's supervisor points an accusatory finger at Homer and says "You, sir, are worse than Hitler (for smoking in a government building)."

I guess it's a lesson in keeping perspective.

But back to Ping: it's early days. That doesn't seem to stop people from calling it both a success and a dismal failure. Geez people, it's been 24 hours. Give it time. It's going to take time for people to discover it and how they want to use it as well as if and how artists want to use this new medium.

I saw a tweet (sorry, NY Times, that's what it's called--in spite of your ornithological sensibilities) of something like "@myspace wins". Bit premature don't you think? Besides, the concept of Myspace winning at, well, anything these days is quite laughable.

Even the Kin got six weeks. Let's not rush to judgment.