skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the good news here is that they're all unable to hit that fine line that Zachary knew how to strike and for him it might not matter much, but start-ups can be vulnerable and being 'open' may not be the right approach.

Especially if it looks like you are sitting on a real moneymaker. Zachary is going for subscribers and at the rate it's growing the turnover of awesomenessreminders might well be in the hundreds of thousands before long. That sort of success is bound to bring the vultures in larger numbers than what bingo-card-creator would experience, with the combined pressure of so many jackals it might become a real problem.

After all, if you're the #1 in the field and you're making as much as you do it can't be too lucrative for your competition to be fighting over the remainder of the market, but how do you think it would develop if you made a million or more per year? I'm fairly sure the competition would heat up quite a bit.

By the way, I think you have a great thing going with opening up your figures like that, for the last week or so I've been see-sawing back and forth about doing the same thing, I'm not yet 100% convinced it's the way forward (but I'm a lot less vulnerable than Zachary at this point in time).
I was thinking about this today. In math class I got bored and started playing with my calculator (TI83) and a friends calculator (TI84). I wrote the same program, essentially

x=1
while true
print x
inc x
end while

on both calculators. Starting both at the same time, the TI84 naturally counted faster than the TI83. But while the TI84 was faster, I've used both models a lot and have never really noticed a huge difference.

On the other hand, a TI89 that I use for a different class and performs noticeably faster at stuff (and when I ran the program on it later, seemed to count much faster).
Interesting CSS3 clock
If you are reasoning about this post based on market forces and equilibrium and what-not, I have failed to communicate what was on my mind.

I wasn't thinking, "Pay me $450,000 a year because I'm Raganwald" any more than I was thinking "Pay me $30 an hour because you drive a BMW." What I was really thinking was, "If you give me the impression you are trying to underpay, by whatever irrational measure I have of under- and over-payment, I am going to wonder whether you value my services. And I want to work in a place that values my services."

The cash itself is almost irrelevant, and I think that's why perquisites like chefs and masseuses work even though a "rational" employee would rather have the cash. The company going to the trouble of providing a lot of perquisites is sending a signal that they consider the employee's work important, and that matters to some employees.

I'll let you know if interns are outbidding me. So far, they aren't for the simple reason that I employ two slaves to do most of my work for me. One I call "CPU" and the other I call "The Compiler." The more of my work I get them to do, the better my value proposition compared to interns ;-)
Maybe you are thinking about feedly.

http://www.feedly.com/
Here's a rule you have to get used to:

There is never just one of a thing on the Internet. There are twelve.

Clones are par for the course. Once in a while the clones win, but not very often. They definitely keep you on your toes. Plus you can steal ideas back from them as well. They are kind of like your personal farm league.
A good point, but I think it's a simple distillation from two more important points: 1) Your business can be cloned; if it's any good, it will be - count on it. 2) Always always always be careful about what you put on the internet. If someone complains about their business idea being stolen after posting it online, they sound like the high school girl who can't fathom why her ex-boyfriend would put the naked pictures she sent him on the internet. Those were supposed to be private.

PS: Here's a fun thought. If you have recently had or are soon going to have a daughter, you are going to have to, at some point, teach her about not distributing naked pictures of herself. I doubt it's as bad an epidemic as TV makes it out to be, but you can bet the bank her health teacher isn't gonna touch that with a 10ft pole.
"Killing" a feature before it's rolled out would be great, but it's hard to start talking a potential customer out of a feature request if there's a chance it will put them off your product. Doubly so if it's a salesperson talking to them who doesn't have detailed technical experience.

And killing features after is always a problem. If you've got lots of users then some of them are probably using every single feature, no matter how dumb it is.
Suggested changes ?
This is mostly true, but I think it leaves one thing out: risk. You can get a programmer for $40K that will be as good as a $80K programmer if you're willing to take a risk - e.g. folks early in their career who haven't proven themselves yet. You just can't guarantee it ahead of time. It's risky. And if you find someone awesome, they won't stay at $40K for long.
Thank you, Newsblur it was. Link for others: http://www.newsblur.com/
New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution
People are way too quick to call logic puzzles "impossible".

Most logic puzzles (maybe all?) have a particular way of thinking about them that will lead you easily to the answer. If the puzzle seems hard, that's probably a sign you need to change how you're thinking about it.

Edit: Looking at it again, there's something else: Every logic puzzle is going to try to slip some important fact by you with vague language. In this case, the hint gives it away: the piles can be different sizes. In general, if I tell you to divide this pack of cards into two decks, I mean they should be equal, and you understand that. The puzzle is using that deliberately to trick you.

It's easy to get around, though; you just have to define the puzzle logically. A "deck", in logical terms, is an unordered set of any number of cards. Once you realize that, the answer seems stupidly obvious.
Sorry for the self promotion, but here is a blog post that argues that the latest microprocessors now overshoot the needs of the vast majority of customers and how this spells trouble for Intel: http://www.fernstrategy.com/?p=229. I've appended the key parts of the blog post below for convenience:

In 1965, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, proposed that the number of transistors on a chip (forming a microprocessor) would double approximately every two years (Moore’s Law). Transistor count is important because the number of transistors on a chip affects a microprocessor’s performance; i.e., the number of instructions performed within a given period of time. For the last 45 years, this doubling trend has continued unabated, and the latest generation of microprocessors from Intel contain about 2-billion transistors. Now combine this rate of technology development with the movement towards cloud computing. Cloud computing reduces the need for high performance (bulky and expensive) computers at every desk because complex processing tasks can now be handled remotely. In short, the rate of technology development combined with the advent of cloud computing has given way to microprocessors that now overshoot the needs of the vast majority of customers. Because many customers are content with older generation microprocessors, they are holding on to their computers for longer periods of time, or if purchasing new computers, are seeking out machines that contain lower performing and less expensive microprocessors. The result for Intel is lower revenues and profitability.

The next issue for Intel is that cloud computing is facilitating an entirely new crop of mobile computing devices, such as netbooks, tablets, and smartphones. The issue for Intel is that many of these mobile devices use the ARM architecture, a competing technology that is more energy efficient. And it’s very difficult for Intel to compete directly with ARM because of ARM’s unique strategy. Unlike Intel, ARM does not produce and sell microprocessors based on its technology; rather it licenses the technology to companies. If Intel were to follow a similar strategy, its revenues and profitability would drop significantly.

In sum, Intel is facing a big squeeze; as Intel’s revenues and profits are getting squeezed at the top because the average customer no longer needs or wants the latest generation Intel chip (due to Moore’s Law and cloud computing), it’s also getting squeezed at the bottom as OEMs of mobile devices are adopting the ARM architecture in droves. And, like many disruptive technologies, the ARM architecture is now moving up-market, beyond mobile devices. For instance, the company “Smooth-Stone” recently raised $48m in venture funding to produce high performance, lower powered chips based on ARM technology to be used in servers and data centers.
I think it's the fact that Zachary has been very open about his growth and turnover that brings this on, not the idea per se.
I was really in two minds about opening up the details about my startup although I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. In the end I decided to go for it and the decision was down in no small part to seeing the impact of your openness over the years.
Personally I don't even understand why people want a useless phonecall every day. It might be funny the first few times, but would that wear off rather rapidly for me.

However, if there's really a market for a "nut nibble" call-service, I don't see anything creepy or deranged in providing it. There's surely much creepier and more deranged things out there...
I did mention she was likely an outlier - closer to how the system should work than how it currently does.
Hippie.
I'm obviously asking the wrong person, but if they use memcached as a temporary datastore until another process can come along later and write the data to disk, what do they do if a memcache node fails?

Or would a node fail rare enough for the data loss to not matter much?
Do not write about inane topics with a lack of insight.
you should think of it as validation, if someone is willing to use their time to clone the product. Its mainly about execution, getting users, and building something people want, just building a product now and days can be done fast, cheap, and easy.
Total rip off of awesomenessreminders.com See also: http://jacquesmattheij.com/Beware+of+being+too+open+about+yo...

Edit: the OP totally changed the title of this submission after I posted this. Classssy.
That's a purely subjective matter. I might like the typefaces you mentioned more than Clarendon, but I don't think it's absurd for someone to think Clarendon is a good one to have. Why did Pitchfork and Wells Fargo and Ruby Tuesday choose Clarendon instead of those fonts? I'm not sure, maybe they just decided it was a better fit. Erik Spiekermann thinks Helvetica is terrible — is he right? I don't know...some people love it.

Maybe Clarendon and Rockwell are redundant in the context of the article, but you said that Clarendon was "terribly out fashion", and "really?". That's what I was responded to.

The parts of your criticism that are wrong are the ones that are either not based in reality, or personal opinions stated as fact.
You need just to add a meta attrib, no big deal:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
I know this, and am not trying to claim that high taxes don't exist - I live in California myself, and think we need to trim costs to become more competitive. But I see no value in exaggerating the impact of taxes either.

Call me a pedant if you like, but I'm just tired of seeing economic debates where people begin with best/worst case arguments, eg throwing out numbers which don't take inflation into account or suchlike. I felt the message I replied could have acknowledged that one number does not tell the whole story.
I'm not an aeronautic engineer, but I used to be a pilot. I would say yes, he's getting increased lift by being that close to the ground.

My sources include dusty memories and Wikipedia, so... grains of salt all around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_in_aircraft
This puzzle seemed very simple. "Impossible" puzzles should be a little tougher.
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Six Apart acquired by VideoEgg, Will Movable Type finally bite the dust?
E-Waste: The Dark Side of Technology
To prove the solution works:

Take ten chosen cards from the deck. Call this set of cards C. Number them c1 through c10. Similarly, number the face-up cards f1 through f10, such that if a face-up card was taken, it has the same number in both orderings.

Note that, at the end of arranging the decks, if a card is face-down, it doesn't matter where it is. The only thing we care about is the locations of the face-up cards. So we can ignore all the cards that aren't in the C or F sets, as they're all face-down in the original deck.

Now, for each card cx in the C deck, flip it over. There are two cases: either cx == fx (i.e., the card was originally face-up), or cx != fx.

If cx == fx, you've flipped it face down, and it doesn't contribute to the count of face-up cards for either deck.

If cx != fx, you've flipped it face-up, and fx is in the original deck. So we can increase the count of face-up cards in both decks by one.

So, for each card we've chosen, either that card contributes nothing to the count of face-up cards in either deck, or it contributes one to the count of both decks.
It's his style. He is a pretty smart guy and writes a bit better in most of his other posts.
I can't believe Zynga is expected to make $500 million in revenue this year. What a gold mine.
Validation is one thing, but cutting and pasting whole pages of text goes a bit further than that.
How in the world can someone get away with paying $100/week for childcare? I couldn't find that price (as a buyer) even in smalltown Kansas early this year.
Insightful: A review of the iphone as a Blind person (worth reading)
When I refer to Facster.com as a "demo", most every link (except the obvious ones like external links and links to the contact page) is walking through the site content using features of the API. You could, for instance follow the links to browse all the 4,591 data series currently on the Facster graph.

Searching currently requires an exact match on keyword (obvious room for improvement there). Search results are organized in a single fashion, but could theoretically be organized in many different ways. Also UIs could be devised to derive more value from available meta data. A RESTful interface could be bolted onto the system. In short, there are many other uses that could be made of the Facster graph.

Look to the search results for instructions to derive custom data series through joining selections from disparate data series, and notice the search page keeps track of your custom selections during your session.

So in other words "demo" means this is a very rudimentary use of a diverse unified data graph.
The insight to me is that if you post your turnover figures there will be people right here that will not even blink at cloning your pages to copy your concept.

That's news to me. If you think that's 'inane' that's fine with me but I think the insight is a valid one.

To me that says that there are lurkers on HN that are here with no other purpose than to look for stuff they can rip off.
One word--- fractals...
That assumes you believe non-profits actually do good. I do not feel this is remotely accurate about nonprofits as a class. Some aim to do good but are hideously ineffective, and some do "charitable" things that I find full-stop evil. (Some do good well, and I choose to donate to them.) That is true for just about anyone, since nonprofits are so diverse. Why assume a-priority they are better than other organizations?
I guess the real point I want to make is that child care may be a bad example, because there are a lot of providers complaining very loudly that they are getting underpaid (relative to the standard of living enjoyed by their clients), and it turns out to be very easy to ignore them and source quality child care anyways.

I liked your post, as usual. I'm just saying there was cognitive dissonance between the analogy you chose and the point you were making.
I understand it's not much, but isn't the whole point of standards that you can do things one way, and it works, without any little "no big deal" changes?
Thank you. Telling me to ignore the face-down cards let me wrap my brain around this one.
"Super harvest moon" tonight in North America
Can a religion be created to force people to think logically and scientifically?
It was a good post with interesting story. It's voted up to the front page so there're sufficient interest. Not everything posted needs to read like a press release or dissertation paper. It certainly reminds me there are potential competitors lurking here and be careful of what to divulge.
Totally agree... but again, point of the post was that when you are selling bottom up, and your "customer" is the end user, you are less locked by a singular buyer who think that something is required. No doubt that this approach can cause some friction, and it is way easier before release... but it can be done...if the primary goal is user experience.
Machine Learning and Fraud Detection
Which machine learning techniques have you used for fraud detection, and why? Do you prefer statistical techniques versus artificial intelligence?

Also, any recommendations for introductory texts in these areas would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Free Child Labor (or how I use my kids to promote our new iPhone and iPad app)
Next time keep names out of it, Jacques. I still wouldn't have liked the post much (I usually like your posts!), but I wouldn't have felt burned for following the link.
e.g. International Tobacco Growers Association is a non-profit. They do good?

btw: I think you're looking for 'a priori'
Investors Focused on Data Center Sector
Not a lot of time right now - sent you an email.
The forums are still down. User content was made unavailable for days with no warning. I know it's not technically criminal, but maybe it should be.
Point taken. Thanks! I got a little ticked off at this and I guess it shows, I was debating releasing the pdf of the analysis that 'phpnode' did for my site earlier today and this made me reconsider.

Oh, by the way, congratulations :) : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1717704
I really need to buy a damn helmet.
good luck Facebook. You will need it.
Netflix arrives in Canada
This is freaking amazing. I was a big fan when I was living in the US and one of the few things I was missing up here.

Today Netflix started in Canada, instead of mailing the movies they stream to your computer or tv via Wii/PlayStation. Excellent sign-up experience, I'm watching a movie already and ready to dump zip.ca!
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to create an infographic like this?
I want to make infographics like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wNnxpE79lMQ/Sj5x54_GDCI/AAAAAAAAAeI/-Mn53kWFFug/s1600-h/resume-infographic.jpg

Is this just the product of a lot of photoshop, or would it be easier to use some other program (or code) to visualize it all?
What is a "Hacker?"
For a digital distribution service that depends so much on consumer trust that their purchased content will still be available well into the future, this is even more puzzling...

Why even hint at the idea that you may one day shut down and remove access to purchased content? Surely there are ways to build hype without eroding trust in your brand and angering your audience.
This is pretty old, I've been told it many times in the past... albeit usually as "there are X coins in a dark room".
I'd counter that NYC is not representative of the rest of the country. Most statistics I'm easily able to find say that the average hours worked per week in the US is closer to 35 than 60 or 65.

It's also worth noting that most of the people here don't spend 6 solid hours presenting to adversarial clients every day and then move on to 6 more hours of coding. In fact, most of us likely have jobs that allow us to take breaks whenever we'd like. That's a luxury teachers don't have for at least part of the day.

However, there is something to be said for the benefits and job security.
Great stuff. I already gave you an upmod, so sadly I can't give you another :-(
There is already such a religion: Science.
Former military officers to speak out in Washington on UFOs that disabled nukes
Well, to be fair, Seymour Cray is sadly not around anymore to build some better oxen and Cray has changed hands quite a few times.
When I pull out of my driveway, I look each way down the sidewalk for pedestrians. My visibility is not far enough for anything moving faster than that. Then, I stop at the road where I can see much farther down and yield to vehicles. If you're riding on the sidewalk when I'm pulling out, you'll probably do a header over my car, and get a bill for my bodywork.
For other reasons altogether, a common motorcycling motto is "ride it like you stole it."

I spent some time commuting on a motorcycle through some heavy traffic. Going through intersections, the rule is to have another car go with you at the same time to act as cover.
Short answer, no. Not consistently and without doing a less-than-perfect job.

Long answer:
I'm guessing the entire purchase/install process might take somewhere around 3-5 minutes. You might be able to hack a screen grab scenario in that time, but what about the page title, what about the url? Sure, it's easy to fake those things, but those things take more time...not to mention you have to do that every time you want to wrap a design in a browser window. Once the action is installed, it takes about 3 seconds to run you will get the same results 100/100 times.

There's a free version for the cash-strapped.

Thanks for the feedback.
Ask NH: Chrome Favorites Star?
Does anyone know why the favorites star moved to the right side in Chrome? Is there a way to put it back where it was?
Ideas are worth nothing, execution and timing are everything. http://thenextbigtechthing.com/ideas-are-worth-nothing/
It's funny to me, because I originally wrote (Optima, Rotis) and re-read the post 5 minutes later after re-reading the post and edited Clarendon onto the list. I went out of my way to annoy you! I may have an irrational hatred of Clarendon.

Glad to hear we may agree about Rotis, though.
Meh. Better than the personal attacks, rants, gossip and dick waving that I'm used to seeing.
I got hit this way by a woman in a BMW a few years ago. I don't ride on sidewalks anymore :)
Angie’s List Rakes In $22.5 Million In Latest Equity Financing Round
Steve Jobs needs to bring trademarked benign fascism to Japanese iPad spelling corrections. They get me all the time.
The problem is that in areas where bicycles are required by law to be on the roadway, they're squeezing the cyclists into a very narrow strip of the roadway where all vehicles turn through.

Cyclists should be riding in the middle of the road, like you said, like they own it and force drivers to take notice. However, this is likely to increase road rage and increase the risk of non-accidental cyclist injuries.

I know where I lived in the UK I was legally obligated to be on the sidewalk as a cyclist. By the local road layouts, I actually found it safer, because the sidewalks and junctions were made with pedestrians and cyclists in mind, not just motorists.

What I believe was the most beneficial was no anti-J-walking law. It seems bizarre, but because of the rural nature of the area, I could cross the road in the middle of downtown on a busy street and people would have to yield right of way to me a pedestrian, which made all pedestrians and cyclists more visible to motorists because they had to routinely watch for us.
This is the anarchist solution ;-)
Interesting question. Since I define science as "curiosity to understand nature by asking questions" I wonder if you need a religion to practice science.

When you say "science" you may mean "organized science" controlled by professional practitioners. In that sense, I agree with skowmunk; organized science and organized religion have a lot in common.