skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my new years resolutions for 2010 was to volunteer and help a stranger. Living in Chicago, I went to www.chicago-cares.org and tried two different events.
1) Read to kids at a battered women's shelter.
2) Worked at a food pantry.

I had wanted to do something like that for years, but was unsure of how I could actually help. It turns out that you don't need any special skills to help someone. All you need is a little time. Working at the battered women's shelter was a great experience. I got to see how just being present meant the world to someone who didn't even know me. Working at the food pantry was another eye opener and gave me a different perspective on things.

I also gave blood for the first time at Lifesource. That was pretty cool and didn't take very long.

Check out www.idealist.org for a nationwide search on volunteer opportunities.

Goodluck!
The closest I've ever been to being killed on a bicycle was in a traffic configuration where the presence of a bike lane completely upset the rules of the road. It was in Gainesville, Florida which has bike lanes everywhere and where drivers are familiar with people using them.

While I appreciate that some people favor bike lanes, in my experience riding in the traffic lane as a vehicle is safer than accepting secondary status in a separate lane. And the technique is not dependent on infrastructure...and saying, "But California does it," won't help the cause in most places. [I bought the book about 20 years ago, recently returned to it now that I'm teaching my son to ride]
*typo - www.chicagocares.org is the correct URL.
I had the pleasure of downing a few pints with Mahmud at a HN meet last year, and will second that request in an instant.
You are setting yourself up for failure. Without specific knowledge of the development process you will not know how to place the checks and balances on an outsourced project to ensure success. You need a technical co founder. Take the money that you would put into outsourcing and pledge it to marketing and other items. A co-founder will be more likely to take you up, if he sees that there is some cash to bootstrap the product after it has been built.
One of the problems with T20 though is that you see a very different game than in longer forms. The same contest between bat and ball isn't there, there is no real reason to play defensively and even good balls will get hit out of luck because the batsman is swinging at everything.

This is still a big problem in cricket, the old fans like seeing a draw out contest which shows all the skills of cricket, although in order to interest younger and new crowds T20 is the way to go.
I am looking for someone to work on an online electronic design automation platform. A background in electrical engineering would be helpful.
Live first, write biographies later.

Hack first, write manuals later.

Drinian, are you the bg guy? :-)
A service club such as Kiwanis, Lions, or Rotary is one way to help address needs in your local community and to participate in larger initiatives such as Rotary's Polio Plus.

http://www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAndFellowship/Polio/Pages/ri...

Service clubs also provide an excuse toget away from the office and meet people active in civic life.
You can also get a lot from Cosmo. (Insert "10 Surprising Reasons I'm Not Joking" here.)
I just hit the "historify!" bookmarklet on the varnish page. :)
Congrats! And I'm glad to hear hipmunk is working out so well for you. Don't ever hesitate to send feedback our way! contact@hipmunk.com
same thing happened to me with auto pagerize extension while incrementally refining my search because none of the results i was getting back were meaningful. i moved to duck duck go and bing. if they don't want me to use them for search, then fine. plenty of alternatives. haven't missed google so far.
Sounds cool, but I think these innovations would transform my idea of what Facebook is into something like how I think of Craigslist or Groupon.

Right now Facebook is where I go to see what my friends are up to. I think adding movie reviews, product recommendations, etc. might dilute its brand and its addictiveness factor -- in fact, I think they already have. Some commercial-type messages have already started diluting my news feed a little bit.

Google, despite having relevant ads in its sidebar, is still just a search engine.
This submission needs more meat. Flagged.
I'm not sure what your claim is here: "Say's Law is hokum." or "Marketing is bunk."
I agree. Too many people seems to forget that most of the population aren't geek, they don't live online and they don't think like the average HN user. Guess what, may seems stupid, but stupid can makes millions...
Eek, not to rain the parade, but this is not good historious team. Google's duplicate content filter is generally accurate but in this case it penalized the site that originated the content and ranked yours higher because it assumed you were the owner of the content i.e. the page about sending free SMS's.

Google will quickly correct this error and you'll find the traffic on that page drops to nothing. You may also find other duplicate pages on your site penalized in the same way. You may also find your site penalized by Google for essentially screen scraping sites and copying their content verbatim and in it's entirety.

I'd recommend you set up a robots.txt to block Google from indexing identical pages on your site. Copying content verbatim and republishing in it's entirety is not a good SEO strategy unless you have thousands of throw-away domains and wear a black hat.

Sorry about the negative message, I'm sure this was very exciting for you guys but I don't think it's sustainable.

Perhaps an alternative is to have your users highlight the paragraph or snippet on each page they found interesting and archive that instead. Then publish those snippets on your site. Generally I've found republishing paragraph size chunks of text is OK with Google and will net you decent SEO traffic. It worked for my job search engine when we republished job descriptions and limited them to the first 400 chars. You can also mash the paragraphs up into pages with multiple chunks of text that e.g. show all chunks of text a particular user found interesting or a set of users or by date or location. That will give you the best of both worlds - lots of content to SEO and no dup content penalty.

Best of luck!!
You understood me well.

Do these magazines attempt to create a market or do they validate a demand?

This is the first question that came to my mind, and the answer came to me immediately by looking left and right. It was Saturday afternoon, and while I was there to remove a nasty afro-mohawk that I grew out of boredom, the gentlemen crowding the shop where almost lifted out of the pages, and seem to be following fashions proscribed therein. They're not millionaires, they were your average Joes, but I could flip through pages and find everyone's fashion and accessories; from phones, to shoes, choice of clothes. There was even a guy who had his eye-brows done before he went on to sit underneath one of those "insert head, wait for an hour" bowls that look like a giant reading lamp, or a space helmet (my girl gets those and I never imagined apparently straight men would be into that. Does it blow air or does it vacuum?)

Maybe it takes an outsider to see a world differently, but to me it was a wake up call to keep an eye on that part of society.
I can honestly say I was a little motivated by the movie. Not because of the way they portrayed startup life with the "groupies", the parties, the seemingly instantaneous success and the money, but because he was a college student (like me) who was focused and passionate enough to attempt to change the world and succeeded. That's motivating.
I hadn't realized we were resorting to LifeHacker level posts. I've got a bunch of tips on how to get the most out of Windows Me.
The best way to describe SXSW (interactive) is springbreak for geeks. Sadly, most of the people see the panels in the morning just as a place to consume their hangover.

And since Twitter really exploded at SXSW, every year a lot of startups go there hoping to be the next Twitter, so if you go be ready of being bombarded by pitches and stickers.
This doesn't seem relevent.
If your primary interest is in maximizing the amount of information you
remember, I suggest you look into Spaced Repetition software like
SuperMemo, Mnemosyne or Anki ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition). These are online
flashcard programs that adjust the amount of time between presentations,
so that you see the concepts you're having problems with more frequently
than the stuff you've got solidly locked into your memory.
It is clear that Wesabe lost. What is not clear to me is that Mint won. Yes, Patzer got $170M out of Intuit for the investors, got his share, and a nice new job at Intuit. But now what? Mint's revenues were not that great, and as for profits....who knows. Now it is being absorbed into the Intuit Borg. Intuit is still trying to figure out what the heck it did when it bought Digital Insight. Will Intuit ever see an ROI on its $170M? Oh I forgot, this is Silicon Valley. ROI doesn't matter. But Mint is a neat name. That and $5 will get you a coffee at Starbucks.
The revelation that ordinary people, the type you run into everyday, might be aspiring to live the lives shown in popular rags and television. It's completely accepted that what's shown on pages is something to be desired, and if one can't obtain them, then a lesser quality item of similar fashion is to be accepted as substitute.

In concrete terms: people don't open Maxim and laugh. They open it and get inspired. They know the girl on the cover by name, they know the brand of futuristic car she's posing against, and one of them commented he "just bought" a clone advertised in there.
I strongly recommend that you folks read Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" if you haven't already:

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/074...

Some will adore his writing style, others will hate it. As an essayist, his prose is about as far from PG's style as possible... which is exactly why I'm suggesting it.

Off the top of my head, he goes into extensive, gratuitous quasi-intellectual breakdowns of everything from MTV's The Real World to G'n'R cover bands.

In the chapter on sugary breakfast cereals, Chuck notes that "an inordinate number of cereal commercials are based on the premise that a given cereal is so delicious that a fictional creature would want to steal it." Have truer words ever been written? He continues:

"Being cool is mostly ridiculous, and so is sugared cereal. That's why we like it."

"I eat sugared cereal almost exclusively. This is because I'm the opposite of a 'no-nonsense' guy. I'm an 'all-nonsense' guy. When a button falls off my shirt, I immediately throw it away and buy a new one. I can't swim; to me, twelve feet of water is no different than twelve feet of hydrochloric acid. However, I can stay awake for 72 straight hours. When flipping channels during commercial breaks, I can innately sense the perfect moment to return to watch I was watching. So the rub is that I have all these semicritical flaws and I have these weirdly specific gifts, and it seems like most Americans are similarly polarized by what the can (and cannot) do. There are no-nonsense people, and there are nonsense people. And it's my experience that nonsense people tend to consume Cocoa Krispies and Lucky Charms and Cap'n Crunch (nonsense food, if you will). Consequently, we nonsense types spend hours and hours staring at cardboard creatures like the Trix Rabbit and absorbing his ethos, slowly ingesting the principles of exclusionary coolness while rapidly ingesting sugar-saturated spoonfuls of Vitamin B-12."

If you're still reading... kudos! My point is transcribing this is simply that we geeks tend to see the world in a more or less specific way unless we consciously eat some Trix once in a while.
This article was awfully condescending and insulting to the wealthy in China. I stopped reading a few paragraphs in.
Here is another argument for Facebook: hiring potential.

Right now, Facebook is the most attractive large tech company in the world. Out of 10 new geniuses 8 will go to Facebook, one to Google, one to Apple. Facebook is smaller (you can get a bigger project immediately), at Facebook your commits go live at the second day on the job ("Move fast and break things"), Facebook options are much more attractive, and also working for Facebook can get you laid (seriously, working there has much more sex appeal than working at other tech companies).

Because Facebook can snap the cream of the next generation of talent, it will be in ideal position to take on any big opportunity over the next 5 years.
I like Evernote as well. It's far from perfect, but the ability to clip random bits of text or entire web pages along with plain notes is very useful.
Whatever you do, don't take sex advice from them.

A female friend of mine was hanging out with a bunch of guys who had a lot of Maxims in their bathroom. She wound up reading an article along the lines of "Seven Ways to Drive Her Wild in Bed."

That night she hooked up with one of the guys. To her amazement, she realized midway through that he was trying every one of the techniques in the article.
Trolls used to be normal people too .. http://i.imgur.com/wOY9d.png

I'm a recovering troll myself, so I understand the motivation. Most of them are really just looking for recognition.
> It used to be, that people had kids simply because it was the default

That's not really true in the long perspective. Everybody confuses the global post-war baby-boom with all of human history.

A large fraction of Europeans were historically childless. Most women did not get married until 30 or so. A substantial number of people joined celibate religious orders.
Taobao FileSystem open sourced
Taobao is the Chinese equivalent of eBay. The most interesting project on the Taobao code website is TFS（Taobao FileSystem）.

It's a highly scalable, highly available, high performance Internet service-oriented distributed file system, the design objective is to support vast amounts of unstructured data.

Tair, similar to memcached, might also be interesting. It's a distributed, high performance key/value storage system. Not sure if there are any advantages

You can browse the code via the "source" - "browse" tabs, or just checkout the code via svn.
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Or set the canonical address of your cached pages to the real page.
i agree the discussion links are consuming way too much real estate. if you reduce that you would have room for more stories.

right now the news seems a little google and android heavy.

however overall... it's pretty cool. i am going to bookmark it and check it periodically. do you have a plan to distinguish it more from techmeme?
You might not find app ideas in popular rags, but it's my belief that you will find ways to frame, present and market the product.

There is this "society" of men, the readers of Maxim and clients of that barber, that all seem to share the same "buying ideals". People openly talked about what they bought and what they intend to buy, what's "hot" and what's not. Most telling was when they passed around an issue to share pictures they thought were funny/cool, etc. I say tap into this "culture" and use its language to position yourself. You can grab a few phrases from a trendy/insider lingo, if not for anything, then for Adwords or SEO.

I think my exuberance can be excused :-)

P.S. Thanks for the Glamour reference.
Taobao is the Chinese equivalent of eBay. The most interesting project on the Taobao code website is TFS（Taobao FileSystem）.

It's a highly scalable, highly available, high performance Internet service-oriented distributed file system, the design objective is to support vast amounts of unstructured data.

Tair, similar to memcached, might also be interesting. It's a distributed, high performance key/value storage system. Not sure if there are any advantages

You can browse the code via the "source" - "browse" tabs, or just checkout the code via svn.
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Hi, I am sorry.. I didn't get the difference between Techmeme & techofnow. can you elaborate more? may be I am too used to techmeme that I was seeing whether the "+" symbol comes up before the dicussion section. Also, you can probably show few discussions and show a link as "more discussion on the same topic"
One thing I've learned from my brief time on HN is that HNers don't like humor. I couldn't read your original comment, but I voted this up because this was a funny response.
I would suggest getting a new, non-computer hobby and getting tuned in with the magazines (if any) and blogs that cover the topic.

That'd at least be more focused. Mens mags might be a bit diffuse. And it's possible that, by the time something shows up in Maxim, it's already kinda old hat.

Finally, if something shows up in Maxim, it might be because of a well-funded PR campaign, not because of genuine grassroots interest.
2 other awesome letters he wrote:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/07/your-work-was-inadequat...

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/okay-you-lazy-bitch.htm...
Sorry, I don't care about all the downvotes. I did in fact read your entire article. Your quote:

"It needs to fail. This is not the right way for us to go forward."

You're basically hoping completely that this will in fact fail entirely, without understanding how it could be useful for some people in some scenarios.

Attacking me on a personal level in your comment is also very simple-minded. You have no clue about the kind of person I am, what kind of activities I'm involved in, yet you've already made the assumption that I'm a lazy-ass fat person as portrayed in Wall-E. I'm the exact opposite. I run. I bike. I go to the gym very often. But there are indeed times in some days where I'm tired and want to veg-out, and in those times, I will want to plop on a couch and just watch some television.

Go ahead and downvote me all you want. For your sake, you should at least allow the possibility that you're thinking is wrong. By stating "it needs to fail", you basically hope no one will ever find their product useful, without seeing how people in the real world will react to it in the first place.

If you can, please give me some feedback on the A versus B / A+B thinking that I hope people practice, rather than trying to compare one thing versus another, choose the one that is mostly better, and hope the other goes away. The world is full enough for people to make use of a multitude of products and services to fulfill their needs and desires, and the way you choose to do so isn't the holy grail of how to live one's life.
Exactly. If you think of your life as a problem space, adopting a new hobby or interest is a way of expanding that problem space.

Right now, maybe you're reasonably content with things in your life. You've explored your problem space and solved anything causing stupid problems. Add a hobby, and you increase your problem space, and you may find new itches, that you didn't have before, that need scratching (to mix metaphors).
You should give examples of what you mean.
I honestly don't think we'd disagree on much if we sat down over a beer and discusse the issue. I'm as excited about SSDs as you are, and it seems that, from your above post at least, you agree that speed is the primary driver in SSD adoption right now.

It was not my intent to be argumentative - I just read your post and thought, power consumption as a benefit, are you sure you've done the math on this?

By the way, I couldn't find any 2 TB drives that were not PCI-X, so I do stand by my original analysis. With 1 TB SSDs, you'll still need 2x the servers. If you can piece together an SSD solution, ignoring cost, and including server wattage that can beat out an array of 2 TB drives on wattage, I will retract my original statement. You can use the idle power as the active power for the drives.
It's not that we don't like humor. Most people just aren't as funny as they think they are.
I guess you're in the right spot when everyone else is writing the love articles and you have to write your own hate. :)
That's probably about right. But he is only one person. :) He is planning to expand. But I do hope he gets more upper level stuff in there.
Haha, fair enough.
spoken like someone who is a "social media expert"

What bearing does this have on the factual accuracy of the claims being made?
Take the khan academy, make a transcript of every course for those who hate videos like me, and you have a winner.

Of course, make it interactive and with lots of visuals for better learning.

There you have it, a great idea for a startup.
I don't necessarily endorse it, but Greenspun answers your question, and it's a central point in his essay (http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science):

Having been both a student and teacher at MIT, my personal explanation for men going into science is the following:

1. young men strive to achieve high status among their peer group

2. men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step back and ask the question "is this peer group worth impressing?"
"Whatever you do, don't take sex advice from them."

Well, at least one of them apparently knows how to get laid.
The other day I came across a comment on HN from one of the creators of Erlang. His karma is 31.

I just checked the profiles of the top ten people on the leader-board and while I'm sure they are great people who have really contributed a lot to HN, I would give more weight to a comment/posting from the afore-mentioned HN user with karma 31 than any of them. And, to be honest, I don't really look at people's karma so I'm not sure how you would define the worth of a karma point, let alone determine change in worth over time.
Mark Zuckerberg's most valuable friend is/was Sean Parker. Thanks to Sean, Mark retained control of the board, and thus was able to avoid the utter disaster of a $1b sale to Yahoo.

Sean got to see what happens when shortsighted VCs get control before (at Napster and then Plaxo); he's smart enough to not get screwed the same way thrice.
Ouch, I feel sorry for the bunch of people who just followed me on twitter, thinking I am Mr Fun Stories. Hint: I only tweet to bitch about compilers or APIs. Like everything in #lisp, it's smug despair and violent indifference.
> 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.

Your argument held weight until you said that. Yes, China is still more underdeveloped than the US, and yes, there are many more opportunities for companies there to make large differences.

But did you even read this article? Who exactly is trying to encourage these donations?
Did you even read the rest of the article? It goes on to explain that one of the largest reasons for an absence of philanthropy in China is because of Government interference with charitable organizations; the necessity for a government sponsor, the inability for a non-sponsored organization to get funding because of the fear of government reprisal.

A lack of Government intervention is apparently only good when it involves the accumulation of wealth by a few, is that right?
Wouldn't it be simpler to rate limit the toolbar? E.g. it will only try x requests/second? Then bots wouldn't emulate it because it wouldn't be able to provide a high enough rate to be really useful.

Of course, that solution is so simple, I'm sure there's a reason it's not possible.
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