skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I see is "Forbidden - Users from your country are not permitted to browse this site."
Well, when Yahoo Mail launched, they only reserved some of the employees' @yahoo.com email addresses. My friend is still pissed about that to this day.
Thanks for the link. I think they are located somewhere in Silicon Valley area, while I'm in Boston - I'll try to find something similar here.

As for your question - I think it's better to find somebody who you can really work with rather than an excellent business person whom you will hate. So personality does matter here. But it's a good question, I'll have to think more about that. In any case it's a good problem to have - so far I have nobody to choose from.
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If your corporate office is outside India, then A) they probably don't care and B) if they suspect you of some sort of tax evasion/crime they can always serve your Indian office.

The problem is that if they try and intercept John Doe's (or Patel's) email and have to serve a warrant in Canada it becomes an international incident.

They just want the same cozy relationship that the US/UK/Canada etc have with each other where they quietly share all your communications with NSA/GCHQ/CISC anyway.
Our site gets a lot of spammers from India and other countries asking us to outsource work to them. That was fine but recently we've started doing lots of split testing and the spammers were throwing off our data so we had to take some steps to clean up our data so we can make better decisions. Sorry!
$400 is more than I've been paying for rent.

I got my second monitor (a crappy 17in lcd) off craigslist for $20. I got my (rather comfy) chair from campus surplus for 5.

tldr: When you're a student, $400 is a lot of money.
This article speaks the truth. I was traveling in China last year and was averse to pooping in the squat toilets there (they're generally quite filthy). In any case, eventually push came to shove and I had to bite the bullet.

It was like an awakening, I had not realized how uncomfortable are our western toilets until this experience.
And with the Internet the world's greatest library now has an annex in every home, office, vehicle or pocket with a sub-$500 device in it.
But he is leaving at the worst possible time. A big upgrade requires months of follow up work and he should know that.

I'm not usually an internet tough guy, but this is outrageous. If I was a digg engineer I would be livid. The captain sailed into uncharted waters and then abandoned ship. He should protect his crew. He should do everything in his power to save the ship.
This is great to hear. There are 3 hot new technologies in the wings, waiting to enter:

OMAP4, PixelQi, and now memristors? Can't wait to see the convergence of these three.

Now we just need a miracle in energy storage technology for a perfect storm.
People don't always make optimal, rational economic decisions. If driving a cab is what you've always done and is all you know, it's not as simple as plugging the numbers into the equation each morning before deciding to go to work. You know there are fares out there, and that if you don't take them, someone else will. What motivates any individual cabbie to acknowledge that they should be the one to give that fare up rather than someone else? And what job do they take in its place? You're certainly correct that the decision would get made one way or the other, but there's a human cost that cold, superficial economic reasoning has a hard time accounting for.

The real trick is to set the congestion charge somewhat higher for taxis than for regular vehicles, since taxis spend more time on the road.

Commuter vehicles deliver less value to the city, though. They spike congestion in the morning and the evening, waste time looking for parking, and take up valuable real estate just sitting around during the day. That's the traffic you want to discourage, not cabs, delivery trucks, and other actual economic contributors.
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Actually, it was written in C.

Why? The other choice was Pascal and that required swapping floppy disks to do the compile on a dual floppy PC: http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_112.html#11286
Four ways to build big-time on Epik platform, without breaking the bank
Technical explanation: The Disqus comments don't load until a second or two after the permalink's anchor jump (#comment-55003614) is attempted by the browser. So when the browser tries to jump to the comment, the comment isn't there yet.
I'd suspect it's less to do with cognitive dissonance, and more intentional lying to meet social norms or out of fear of future problems.

Anything controversial, highly personal, or with stigmas attached will get biased results from self-reporting. Alcohol, drugs, sexual history, religious views, political views, racial prejudices, etc will almost always be biased towards what the person thinks is the right answer.
That's really interesting. Out of curiosity, why do you think it's so hard for you to get a job in the industry, despite graduating from a well regarded program? Or maybe to rephrase, since you didn't say didn't get a job, why is having a well regarded degree a negative?
I agree, but I think good co-founder will balance me in a good way. I hate public speaking and all this networking stuff (that's might be the reason why I'm in this position right now). On the other hand I like to work in a team.

Plus I'm not a native American, so for many VC's it's a red flag.
I suspect the most likely buyers would be:
(a) A competitor in the same space looking for market share or
(b) A firm in an adjacent market looking to diversify

Those are only my initial thoughts and there are probably other ways of looking at it.

I'm guessing that one of the the three VC funded competitors could be a likely acquirer. Given that there are three of them, you might even be able to create a bidding war (assuming you have something worth bidding for, e.g tech, market insight/share).

I'd do some research on each of those companies to make sure you have something of value to them and then try to meet with the founders/CEOs informally, if possible.
This is a good point, and it's one of the things I don't like about Lisp. You can't know the semantics of evaluation without memorizing each form or having a doc handy. The code at the call site itself is not enough.
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>Autodesk will soon introduce a free mobile version of the software that will run on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Why do I get the feeling that that was the motivation for bringing it to OSX?
For the particular task of list processing its syntax is pretty optimal ;-)
I don't know that the internet is the world's greatest library yet. In 5-10 years, when Google and Amazon have scanned every book in the world, maybe.
Apple's Social Network Is Coming
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Planning on sticking with SHA2 until SHA3 has been around for a few years. I treat these things like Windows Service Packs. If I were a crypto expert (tptacek?) I might see things differently, but since I'm not, I try to thread the needle between falling too far behind, and cutting myself on the bleeding edge.
You might want to edit your original post to include this info.
I tried with this but the layout breaks; you get the idea. http://aggreddit.com/?r=WTF+Pics+Science+Funny+AskReddit+Phi...
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Don't Try This at Home: You can't build a new Silicon Valley just anywhere
How is that different from Techmeme?
I agree, after seeing that reddit IAMA some time ago about infographics and spamming for search engine rank, I immediately thought that too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_ga...

EDIT: Sorry scrrr, didn't realize you already pasted the link.
Is there an explanation somewhere of what happened, for those of us who are confused? I wish there were some sort of wiki for internet drama; Encyclopedia Dramatica sounds like it should be that, but it's a little too 4channy for my tastes. And very NSFW.
Looks promising. Be forewarned: this is a pre-alpha book -- not a lot there yet as far as I can tell.
They said before the launch that they were going to announce the new CEO this week.
Check out http://www.newsblur.com/. The guy who made it has a background in AI, and designed it to analyze stories and guess what you will/won't be interested in.
No, the features that were used to build LINQ were added to C#. LINQ was then built using them, and those same features are available to you to build anything similar.
There's a decent amount of overlap among the feeds I read. I would love to see Google Reader combine any articles that point to the same link into a single thread.
autolisp is still around, with VBA going the way of the dodo in favour of .NET
I have absolutely no desire to send mail as another person, and I'd hazard a guess that this is the case for many other users as well. I do want the ability so share mail folders with other people, and GMail doesn't handle that.

While this new feature may be useful for some users, that doesn't mean it's useful for users in general.
>sitting on toilets—a recent phenomenon, stemming from the invention of the flush toilet in 1591—might be unhealthy

There's a Roman museum near here that has a model barracks toilet which is basically like a modern compost loo - it's like an enclosed bench with holes to defecate through. I guess you might be supposed to stand on it but it's certainly not presented that way.

I've seen toilets in medieval château and castles with wooden seats on a knee height enclosure too. Doesn't appear to be an invention that followed the flush toilet. Nor can I see how a flush toilet would need a change in posture.
Yes. First image is fake too.
Thanks for the correction! I thought those two were the same.
Angel investors increasingly making convertible loans rather than taking equity
I'm not really sure how golden those eggs were, truth be told. Was digg profitable? How profitable? Not enough for a company that has taken in $40 million in VC money, for sure...
This is an incredibly difficult thing to do. You're essentially going to have to rely on your users to categorize things, which they probably won't do.

One person's academic article is another person's lolcat picture.

This was exemplified to me recently on http://newslily.com/; We had a new user who was constantly submitting things that he thought were appropriate for "science" or "medicine", but they weren't (at least not in the opinion of most of the users). To him, this was hard science; good stuff, but it was mostly things that we weren't interested in. How would the slider work for him?

The solution (one that is similar to what digg did [although we've had this for about a year, humph]) was effectively user-whitelisting. Now, what you see on the front page of the site is things that our moderators have approved, and what you see in the various categories (or "upcoming" section) is things from users that you have whitelisted.

A major misunderstanding (and why I think that user-whitelisting is better than what reddit or HN do [and is also why I think a control like what you're talking about wouldn't workd]) is that people are not all the same; this is why I like the idea behind what digg did (hey, it's worked for facebook and twitter, right?)
Version 4 of Digg launched. The spike in traffic to reddit is a combination of unhappy Digg users scoping out other sites, and Digg's promotion algorithm temporarily allowing reddit.com pages to fill most of the front page story slots.
When I read the headline, my mind processed it as "Chrome OS 2.0 will include node.js", and I was super-excited.

Then I read it again.

WebOS isn't an interesting platform right now, and I think you've discovered a big reason.
NoSQL road to nowhere
> Why run the risk of having someone misperceive your use of the term

Because you'll quickly find out who your brethren are, and who should be ignored.
There's been a steady stream of digg engineers (and product managers, dbas, sysadmins, VPs) heading out the door for at least 2 years. So the ship is long since abandoned, the "captain" stayed on.
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Just like Technorati, Digg's failure at coming up with a business model that doesn't annoy it's entire userbase has rapidly faded it into irrelevancy. Does Digg have a lot of hardware? I hope they use dovebid, so I won't have to register with a new auction site for the bankruptcy specials.
I agree with what you meant to say, but in truth, split infinitives are historically good and proper English. It was a prescriptive desire to make English more like Latin that led to the taboo against split infinitives (and ending sentences with prepositions), which is about as counter-idiomatic as formating Lisp parens according to K&R.
Checkins are lame, people are lazy
Yeah it is very much a WIP, but it's a start. Currently includes roughly 4 complete-ish chapters, the build system etc, but I mean it is free so you cant really go wrong :)
> The central relationship between Oracle and its customers is a business relationship ... The concerns of developers are just not material at the level of that conversation

Sadly, this is why Oracle could buy Sun and not the other way around.
Some might miss the significance of the post title:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_O
Comment on story:
"Government schools are very expensive and normal people can't bear their expenses. I suggest that government should give some relief to the students"
I'm no economist, but isn't that similar to being able to get easy credit? If the government is giving out more federal aid, the schools can keep (or even raise) these high prices. I don't know the solution for this bubble, but just throwing money at it doesn't seem like the solution to me.
Now this is change I can believe in.

And once we've sorted the 'Begs the Question' usage, let's tackle the media with an 'Enormity does not mean Enormous' campaign (Enormity = Great Evil, not Large) and then train sports journalists to pronounce conjure the way it's meant to be pronounced (kun not kon).

It's a losing battle in a language as beautifully fluid as English, but if I stand for nothing I will fall 4 N-E-Ting.
yeah. well, you need someone like you, and you need a manager who is good at communicating specs, and the manager needs to be okay that the end result will still be slightly different from his or her 'vision'

But yeah, it's pretty rare to have someone who keeps working hard on their own. it's more rare that the result looks anything like what the manager had in mind when they drafted the specs.

If you are one of those people, you should be able to charge a significant premium for your time. You are worth it. Now, the hard part here is that it's hard to prove you are one of those people without actually working for someone; still, if you are what you say you are, you should be able to build yourself a high-priced consulting business.
I use my own customised bitmap font under Linux. I couldn't get the font working under OS-X, but didn't try very hard as Linux is on all my main machines.

I have it here in case anyone is interested in it. It allows me to fit 4 terminals across on a 1920x1200 screen nicely with a bit of room to spare.

http://wtf.geek.nz/2010/09/my-small-programmers-font/
"Investors who put up the early “seed” capital for technology start-ups in the US have come up with a novel idea for how to value businesses that in most cases have not started trading: put the issue off until later"

I thought the move towards convertible notes was primarily being driven by the startups/founders rather than the investors.
This is why we fight.

I love it.
>Nor can I see how a flush toilet would need a change in posture.

You're definitely correct. South East Asia (at the minimum) has millions of flushable porcelain squat toilets. :)
Are you implying that need-blind admissions allows universities to increase tuition? The only two ways I could see raising tuitions as justified because of this is:

1. It costs more to provide grants to poorer students.
2. More competition (demand) and fixed supply increases the price of the good.

I'm unqualified to talk on the first point, and it seems kind of a stretch.

On the second point, I don't see how having more poor students lets you earn more. I suppose one possibility is that the government subsidy plays a huge role and the university is trying to tap into those funds. If not, I don't see how the increased demand would drive the price up. If you're admitting richer kids, they'd have the money to fork over anyway.

But I could just be missing something.
Just because an obscure idiomatic usage exists doesn't make it incorrect to use the words literally.

If cats and dogs were falling out of the sky, I could correctly say that it's raining cats and dogs.

Some situations beg for a certain question to be asked.
It's kind of telling that the digg blog now has the same blue that twitter's blog has. Hopefully the CEO can do something about the complete absence of original thought.
You may be right that it will become accepted. I saw this thread on HN, then minutes later while browsing Internet stories came across an article today about anti-Kremlin rallies:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67U4YJ20100831

Excerpt:

"There are hundreds of police and to us it looks disproportionate," Thijs Berman, a Dutch member of the European Parliament's human rights subcommittee, said at Triumph Square just before the rally. "It begs the question: what is such a big country as Russia afraid of?"
But, that doesn't sound dramatic enough!
Maybe I'm insane, but I really wish that people didn't look at school solely as a mechanism for finding a job.

I want to go to school because I want to learn about things (and because I want access to their lab equipment and funding), not because I'm searching for a job.
Sorry, but I don't know a polite way to ask this. How do you urinate while on a squat toilet without peeing all over your pants?
I think you'll need to be a bit more specific with regards to what you're looking for in a biz co-founder. You've already got an MBA (pretty much) so what d'you expect the biz guy to bring to the table that you won't already know something about?

The only thing I can think of would be market experience i.e they've worked somewhere in the industry you're targeting.
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Unfortunately, regardless of whether you are right or wrong, the English language is the rule of the masses.

That is why you are crushed.

If thou hast concern; shall be perplexed withe the change of lang-uage, read thise and acknolege.

(olde English for illustrative purposes only, god knows if it is accurate. )
My apologies, it was in (mathematical) physics.

Though, from the wiki article:

Sir Michael Atiyah said of Witten, "Although he is definitely a physicist, his command of mathematics is rivaled by few mathematicians... Time and again he has surprised the mathematical community by a brilliant application of physical insight leading to new and deep mathematical theorems... he has made a profound impact on contemporary mathematics. In his hands physics is once again providing a rich source of inspiration and insight in mathematics."[6] One such example of his impact on pure mathematics is his framework for understanding the Jones polynomial using Chern–Simons theory. This had far reaching implications on low-dimensional topology and led to quantum invariants such as the Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev invariants.

Even if his degree is in physics, and he's part of the "physics department" at IAS, I would classify him as a brilliant mathematician who decided to apply his energy to his passion, physics. And, come on, the guy won a Fields Medal.
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I bet this guy now would be willing to pay Google $100K+/year for personalized escalation services should such an issue arise again. What if Google had one set of rules for every site it crawled, but offered a personalized appeals process for those who paid up? I'm not sure if I like the idea or not. Let's presume that any "penalty box" algorithms end up (A) wrongly punishing some and (B) incorrectly ignoring others. What if Google's search results changed as a result of this "court only for those who pay" policy such that only those in Category A who didn't pay up were excluded? Would Google's evilness be reduced compared to the current state of affairs? Of course, Google would be less evil if it offered everyone their day in court for free.
I agree, though the difference between HN traffic and spammer traffic is that spammers will fill out the contact form, which counts as conversions which is a lot worse.

In either case, I have disabled my tests as well as the country blocker so you should be able to see the site now. Hopefully Visual Website Optimizer will add ability to test just certain countries soon.
Having an engineering culture and fostering developer mindshare ... hasn't been a bad business choice for companies like Google or Apple or Microsoft (at least in their early days).

And last time I checked, all 3 companies mentioned are bigger in market cap then Oracle.

What strikes me is ... how the fuck did Jonathan Schwartz allow the selling of Sun to a company who's culture is so different?
One of the meanings of the word "beg" has disappeared over time, and the meaning of "question" has evolved as well; as a result, the meaning of the phrase "beg the question" is evolving to more closely fit the currently understood definitions of those two words. It's amusing that none of the prescriptivists criticizing people for misusing this phrase seem to argue that we should be actively start using the second meaning of beg again, nor do they ever use it themselves.

For a much more comprehensive and interesting analysis of this topic, I'd recommend languagelog's article: (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2290). I agree with his conclusion; it's futile to force people to understand the traditional meaning of this phrase, and it would be preferable for the phrase itself to evolve to use words that are currently in use and unambiguous ("assuming the conclusion" and "raising the question," for example)