skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bots can probably perfectly duplicate the behavior of a toolbar. Only the rate and volume of requests would be different.

I'm assuming the toolbars can't communicate between each other. On toolbar launch, it should pick a random number between 1 and x and wait that many ms before contacting google. Pick x by looking at the number of req/sec that trigger a ban and the high-end number of tabs a power user might restart with. This would spread the requests out over that time period and keep it under the ban.
I help with a youth community center. Our "big project" is a weekly funtime/dinner where we pick up kids from the Section 8 housing complexes and take them to the center. We get food donations from Panera Bread (great organization) to send home with them. We also have video games and some non high tech games so they can just be kids. A lot of the kids don't get to be kids in their situation. We'll sometimes have kids come to us and say things like "my dad told me to come to this so I could have a big hot dinner." I hope to never have to tell my son or daughter that, then send them out on a bus/van with a stranger.

It really puts things into perspective. As fulfilling as hacking and entrepreneurship is, sometimes getting free bread matters more.
computer: freemind //
paper: sticky notes, but, they get hopelessly lost
This assumes that a person cannot be born in a religious culture and convert to a more secular culture or vice versa.

[edit] Could the people down-voting please explain why this is not a valid point?
A Chat with Aaron Swartz (2007)
Of course they can communicate with each other, they're extensions, not web pages. The first one could act as the 'master', and proxy all the requests.

It's obvious the limiting is rate based, otherwise this would never have happened, so if it is rate based then the toolbar could pace itself to below that rate. Of course that would 'give away' the rate to observers of the toolbar during a browser restart but they could observe that just the same by checking when they get blocked, so that's no loss.

The toolbar knows I'm logged in, knows that a browser has just restarted and presumably can see how many instances/tabs are open (after all that's what it provides the info on) so it has all the data at it's disposal to make the right decision. This seems like a simple oversight to me (that a user installing the toolbar on a machine with a large number of tabs open would land in this situation).
I think the broader point is that entrepreneurs should expose themselves to as many domains outside their comfort zones as possible. As hackers/entrepreneurs we're generally pretty good at seeing a solution to a problem. The issue is, that we don't see enough problems, because many of us are confined to a relatively narrow experiences many of which are echo chambers for what we're already interested in/agree with.

Why do you think there are SO MANY productivity apps? Because it's something programmers often need to work with to get shit done. Same for coding tools, etc etc...

Another example: just yesterday someone posted the report recommending an income tax receipt. Within 24 hours, there was a pretty neat app out for that. The issue wasn't that someone couldn't do it -- but that the 'need' wasn't previously well defined to people capable of solving that problem.

So get your ass out there. Find out problems and interests people unlike you have. Maybe you'll stumble upon your next big thing.
I'm fortunate enough to be very local, as well as accepted, so I'm definitely coming. Still, any advice from those who attended in previous years would be great.

How do you make the most of the day?
it's not meant to "encourage" people to have more children. Rather, it's meant to make up for the increased cost of living once your family expands.

Removing discouragement is the same overall as adding encouragement.
Of course it's possible -- people just don't do it, and I don't know why.

I recently needed to bring someone on to take over the basics on a bunch of my web projects, because I'm overcommitted, as usual, and trying not to be. I tried a local resource first, and then I went to Craigslist, which has worked out well for me in the past.

My ad was simple and direct; it spelled out what we were about, what we were looking for, and what we could offer, and then it had instructions: if someone wanted the job, they needed to solve an easy puzzle, not send a resume, and instead send about a paragraph talking about their skills and experience.

It worked out great.

As far as I'm concerned, resumes are next-to-worthless. I don't really care who you've worked for or what you've done for them. I'm not going to call them and see if they say good things about you. I just want to know if you can figure things out and communicate well. During the interview, I'll sort out whether or not you actually know what you're doing.
This makes me want to go and try out varnish. I have heard great things, but never gotten around to setting it up.
How many hits per day are you expecting?

We serve up about 2000 requests per instance per second, 8 instances on an 8 core machine with 32 G of RAM.
The toolbar should really only pull the page rank for active tabs. This would effectively only require a single request initially.
Very nice. It says a lot about YC that they put effort into making rejection letters not sound discouraging.
Why Are Chinese Millionaires So Stingy?
spoken like someone who is a "social media expert"

look this whole Facebook is the future of search is just plain nuts. People want instant results, they don't feel like asking "what colors does the Honda Civic come in?". The answer to that will be "use the search"
will it be online this year at any point of time?
My local ruby user group invites people from various practices to discuss their frameworks and give us business advice.

So many people really do live in a ghetto.
Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It’s...
> Just because I have not been exposed to research methods so far does not mean I cannot develop the necessary skills, .... This however should not mean the less gifted ones among us give up without attempting.

Certainly. I wasn't questioning your ability, but your interest.

> Unfortunately where I come from lack of true research opportunities are far and few.

I must disagree. Any 8-year-old with a pencil and paper can do research in mathematics and the theory of algorithms. Give him a piece of glass, and he can get into optics. Send him outdoors and he can work on biology, chemistry, etc.

Of course, this won't be groundbreaking research. But the point is that people who like doing research are probably already doing it. They just need help getting to the front lines of a field, so that they can make significant, truly original contributions. That is part of what a PhD program is for.

I can't tell much about you from a couple of paragraphs--and you don't need to justify yourself to me, anyway. But some of what you said earlier raised a "red flag" in my mind. As a PhD student, you have, no doubt, been exposed to some of the important and/or difficult problems in your field. Have you tried solving any of them; if not, have you spent much time thinking about how you might go about solving them? More generally, do you enjoy problem solving? Do you work on problems when you are not obligated to? Do you talk about them with your friends (or wish you had friends that liked talking about them with you)?

If so, then, great, figure out how to overcome your current obstacle, finish your degree, and have a fun life being paid to do what you love.

But if not, then you might be investing a huge amount of time & effort preparing for a career that you'll hate. And that is hardly an outcome to be desired.
last year paul said something very memorable... there is a long and storied history of people traveling long distances to obtain specific knowledge.

incidentally, i'm probably going.
Hmm.. I've looked at these mags from time to time, but I still don't understand what you're pointing to. Most of the advertising in these mags would fool you into thinking that the average reader of this magazine is a 20 year old with a million dollar paycheck only interested in pleasing his woman.

I'm not sure most readers of these mags can even relate to the luxury goods advertised. Anyways, how does that help my startup? From what I've read, most of the articles in the mags are highly stylized/fictionalized, I wouldn't trust them to validate a demand, I would much rather sit down 1 on 1 with a small number of people, rather than base that decision on these mags. (Maybe I still don't know if this is what you mean?)
We're totally not normal. That, I'll agree with.

Usage data, smoochage data. The point of bringing up ICQ was that at one time, for what seemed like a long time, it was king.

People seem to have given up and consider Facebook the winner of this era of the Internet. My point is that stuff comes along too often, and changes so much, that it won't matter eventually.

Besides all that are we really talking about two competitive products? People still haven't even decided what Facebook really is, nor have they really defined it either. Why? Because no one can figure it out.
Company Structure And Scaling
Thanks for the numbers they are very helpful.

Probably <500 cache hits per second (a large portion of the content isn't cacheable).

So I should be able to serve that from a fairly low spec machine.
The chain guard will likely stop you from having a nasty fall too, it' s not just pants that get ruined that way, a fall in traffic could easily kill you.
I recall a recent proposal about having ODI's played in the late afternoon and into the night to increase interest. I personally think its a good idea because even though I'm quite a fan of the Black Caps, morning just isn't the time to start a game.

Also for those wondering ODI stands for One Day International.
Thanks for introducing me to jifty, looks cool.
Your article was an excellent read, so thanks for the link. I generally agree with a lot of what you're saying.

My potential audience is pretty targeted - mainly research scientists and possibly some government workers. They'll likely be more computer savvy than the average user (on average, at least - some scientists I know are just as bad as Grandma.) What I worry about in considering a web app is:

1 - People want to be able to run the software anywhere, any time, without a connection to the internet.

2 - When entering large amounts of data, which is potentially sensitive, into an application, it seems like people would trust a desktop app more.

Number 2 is subjective, but as a scientist myself, I would feel better about a program running on my own machine.

Any thoughts?
I should probably add that those boxes have an improbably low load. 500 hits / second out of varnish ? Do you have a spare laptop lying around, could be an old one? ;)

One good way to test is to replay a days worth of log files.
No, his department isn't normal, you're right about that. In a great many workplaces, you're not even allowed to access Facebook.
I think yours confused people because you left out the box of hammers. It's important for clarity.
sarcasm? you really think the majority of HN users are startup founders?
Oh Jesus, can't we all stop gawking at Facebook bullshit? No one can figure out what Facebook is, but if you haven't succumbed to it, you're intimidated by it. It's worth billions of dollars and for what? The pure evil of having everyone's marketing data?

In the mindset of Rodney King, can't we all just move on? Can't we all just get past not being Zuckerberg? Can't we all get back to being hackers who do things because they make our minds happy?
Huff "Why don't people give their money away like I want them too?" Huff

"The busy Mr. Zong said he thinks philanthropy is a bad idea. He can do much more for society by running a productive business, the beverage billionaire noted.
Not every Chinese tycoon is so cold-hearted, however. "

So the guy thinks he can do better for people by running a business and that makes him cold hearted. Just what exactly is going on here? Who are these people to tell other people what to do with their money? Who are these people that think they know better how money should be used? Who are these people and what's their cut?

People that want other people to give away their money to help other people are just as selfish as the people that have the money. They want other people to do good things so they can feel warm and fuzzy knowing that good things are being done and they had a part in it, without actually doing anything at all like earning the money that did those good deeds. It's the grasshopper and the ant all over again just pointed in a different direction.
I skeptical of this. For one, a goodly chunk of those making people feel ashamed of not having goals are probably in the no-goals demographic themselves. Most of the ten probably have better things to do.
You sure didn't read thoroughly; the next sentence after that one explains it.

They were comparing monozygotic and dizygotic twins, which allowed them to measure to the extent that they were similar because of being raised in the same family at the same time. Comparing monozygotic twins raised in different families is another way to measure hertibility. Both have their issues, of course. But measures of the heritbility of personality generally do hover around .5 _+/- .1 in other studies.
Put my email in my profile - I'm interested to see it.
My big fear is that I go to find the content is fairly general and a more encouragement/pep talk style rather than content-rich information that is useful to moving forward.

Of course it's general information and a rah-rah-rah motivational pep-talk.

I went to startup school last year. I was trying not to fall asleep during the presentations.

Ok that sounds worse than it is, I was physically trying not to fall asleep because I was really super-tired from my 3 day extravaganza walking throughout all of San Francisco with my airbnb-mates.

The point is you go for the experience and the people, surely not the content. I'm not trying to take anything away from the speakers, they were great. But it's not like they are standing there giving you this secret information that nobody's every heard before. There are no secrets to success! (really)

Startup school is awesome (and super exhausting) because of all the smart and motivated people you meet. I met the who's who of YC startups, pretty cool! I also met PG and surprisingly he wasn't levitating around the room.

Startup school is also awesome because you get to play around in San Francisco.

Go for those 2 reasons.
Cricket already has a wider audience than most people realise, Its the second most popular team sport in the world (behind Football/Soccer).
I left the movie feeling quite motivated for entrepreneurship. I don't know if I'll take the leap into yc and leaving my current job, but I am revisiting some ideas I had previously set aside.
Nice answer, but I don't see what argument it's in response to. If the $INCOMPREHENSIBLE changes don't affect the data the user exposes to the world, there is no need to ask permission, and the Pace of Change for Web Applications can continue unimpeded.
Even-handed? She reminded me of a puppy on crack.

" I’ve only ever been praised and appreciated for being so geeky “and a girl, too!” In some ways, this all continues to make me feel superior"
Your point about ICQ was fine, but the first paragraph of your original comment was inconsequential.
spoken like someone who is a "social media expert"

I resent the ad hominem attack. I happen to have a computing science degree from when they used to actually teach Lisp in university.

look this whole Facebook is the future of search is just plain nuts.

I said no such thing. It's more like we will see the rise of sort because Facebook and other services (Hunch, Quora, etc) have access to much more structured information.
No - but many of them have dreamed about getting jobs in vancouver
nice discovery. I read somewhere in Blackhat forums about Google Search Engines traffic exploits. I didn't understand what they are talking about until I read your post today.
That is interesting. Maybe I should check with the local youth center(s?) too if I can help in some way.
Feynman's brown-throated thrush anecdote isn't saying that names don't serve a valuable purpose. As you've shown in your examples names are a tool to help us reference knowledge, but they are not the knowledge itself. Unfortunately people don't always make the distinction. This way of thinking may lead them to collect many references but very little real knowledge. That's the point I think Feynman was trying to make.
Education: Embrace the Money Pit
Education is synonymous with college and the ultimate goal is employment. Clearly, we need to separate education and learning because they are wholly different pursuits (as any college grad or student can attest). But, colleges make an awesome business model because they’re like the United States Treasury – they print money.

Myth 1: All college graduates earn more.

In reality, earning a bachelor’s degree does not guarantee you a salary greater than the guy working next to you at Home Depot, H&R Block, or whatever random job you can think of. It’s a fact that the single greatest guarantor of earning power is nepotism. A referral by the “right guy” will always trump whatever printout you’ve gotten from your most recent collegiate printing press.

Myth 2: A college degree pays for itself.

This is surprisingly – true. A college degree pays for itself because you’re probably stuck working a job that you hate to pay off debt from the degree. After you paying off the degree, you return to college and attempt to find a “job or pursuit that you love.” (Sound familiar yet?)

Myth 3: College is your first step into the real world.

College life is surreal. You have limitless amounts of time to shit away and follow any pursuit that your student loans will permit. Never again in your life will PJs, liquor, free-time and pizza align is such perfect symphony.

Then… why sink money into College?

Because everyone else is doing it! College may be useless, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. You’ll still need a degree from some random school because you need to keep up with the Jones in order to have a glimmer of hope to find a shitty job. (Truly depressing)

Silver lining?

1.	College really is buttloads of fun because of the aforementioned alignment of PJs, liquor, free-time and pizza.
2.	Everyone gets a girlfriend/boyfriend and a potential attempt at getting laid. Frankly, you’re all (boys and girls) to horny and liquored up to keep it in your pants anymore, so even the ugliest beast looks pretty scrumptious.
3.	Lastly, you could potentially create the next “big thing” like the shit that no one needs but loves to have for stalking friends and promoting you’re newest dumbass idea. (Cue music and fade in picture of pasty white guy with caption – The Social Network.)

Let’s all just accept college for what it is and stop putting it on a pedestal. It’s a four-year vacation you paid for in the hopes of landing a job.
Hunter seemed to be heavily inspired by Hemingway at this point in his career.

When Hemingway started out, he worked for the Toronto Star (another Canadian newspaper). He wrote his first novel during this time: The Sun Also Rises, about expatriates living in Paris.

Hunter decided to apply to a Canadian newspaper after admittingly not being familiar with it. Then not long after he wrote his first novel - The Rum Diary - which was heavily inspired by Hemingway's first, about expatriates living in Puerto Rico.
There is no sign in his Wikipedia page that he worked for the Sun. So probably not.
It would be great to see a PG review/essay on the movie.
Generally when this type of thing happens, Google will reply with a captcha that, if you correctly solve it, will let you keep going for a while. I guess toolbar requests might be a little different than web requests.
Thanks for your reply. No disasters here currently (thankfully) but I will check out energy efficiency related groups here.
Hmm, can you explain "helps a few kids with their school/college education"? Do you mean financially or do you mean teaching or something else?
I agree China is far from perfect - central government, even with the best intentions, will always be inhuman and inefficient. However, sometimes less so than under mob rule.
Indeed. In Darwin's youth, he was obsessive about collecting and cataloging insects. I wouldn't exactly attribute his theory of evolution by natural selection to naming things, but certainly he would never have arrived at it if he was only able to name one kind of beetle. He had to be able to differentiate between thousands of beetles before he could see how they were connected.
I think he is talking about the psychology of the magazines from a marketing standpoint. There is a lot of sociology literature about the idiotic ideals they portray. You could check out that instead to get a grasp on the mindset of the reader or at the very least what the reader will be receptive to.

Do these magazines attempt to create a market or do they validate a demand? That would be my question.
I wish they would make it possible to do the whole bit with "pretty" urls. Example:

Users go to: /#/abc
Google goes to /abc
and they both see the same content.
Obviously you'd need some way to tell Google that your site follows this scheme but then you don't have to change all of your URLs and existing external links to pages on your site would accumulate page rank appropriately.
Not HN material. Vote accordingly.
ha. well, I was mostly joking, but the usefulness of this kind of tele-presence, haptic feedback system, whatever you call it- is going to be determined by how accurate they can make it.

One of the first revenue generating applications that came to mind in which they wouldn't have to make it very accurate would be porn.
Agreed. I enjoy Maxim but I can't say it's helped me to develop app ideas. At all.

Also... why are you assuming that everyone here needs helping writing apps for a male audience? Wouldn't you be helping them tap into a goldmine by suggesting they read, say, Glamour?
I've seen that before, but it's not like the memories last forever and you can just carry a tape recording of everything you've ever heard or anything like that. I've never quite been able to do the same thing visually, though I've been able to form strong visual images for a very short time when concentrating.

That said, it has always seemed weird to me that people can't remember the exact words people just said and that they always seem to change them, if only a little.
England. They generally use a drywall with plaster veneer for new construction there - DIY plaster searches generally turn up a lot of English sites. And a few American ones as well.

I'm not saying I've ever seen a studs-and-drywall approach in Europe, no. In Hungary things tend to just be concrete or block or brick construction, and wood is used for looks. This is partly because wood is really expensive in Europe, since the Phoenicians cut down their forests, mostly. We've got Canada.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a light steel interior frame wall with drywall and plaster on it, though.
He heard my concerns about work/life balance and family issues, and thought "10 months on, 2 months off to go see family; you won't be a salaryman anymore, so material conditions will worsen as a matter of course" would be among the better alternatives to the company losing me.

I had more compelling options.