skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indexes of technical analysis indicators for bullishness/bearishness. This should be done over multiple time periods, to evaluate whether the trend of a few hours or days is just a temporary pullback in a longer weeks-to-months progression. Technical analysis gives important information for timing position entries and exits - and if you screen on both the fundamentals and technicals, you have more tools to narrow things to a few top picks.

An example set of signals I might use to find a bullish stock: Upward-trending SMA-20 and SMA-50, 14-period RSI > 50, MACD 12-26-9 signal line under value line. If trading actively, enter when all signals are ready, exit as soon as one breaks. (haven't actually tried that particular system, but I know for a fact that similar systems work.)
Interesting, I never considered that voting would be so sensitive to these sorts of variables. Although this could have some effect, I'll be the first to admit my ability to communicate through this medium needs some serious work.
Excellent! I'm glad my best-effort extractor seems to work OK.

I have a special case extractor for things like the NYTimes (where their markup makes it really easy to pull things out) and 1-2 other sites. I want to add special cases for more of the popular sites on the 'net. But seems like not a ton of sites really need it unless their markup sucks (I'm looking at you BBC and CNN).
Note that this complements the "How Universities Work," which HN discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1729501 .
Nice, but still not as feature rich as http://www.timetableapp.com/
It's not uncommon. Datacenters will make deals with their customers. I ran a spider for some time off a 100 megabit connection. It was a shared connection which made it dirt cheap and they had a lot of spare incoming and it didn't bother them if I used it 24/7.
I think getting users to click video play buttons tends to be an effort in futility - video is a time commitment. Its a good supplement to the copy, but I probably wouldn't depend on it as your main tool to explain the product...
I realize English is not your first language, but on this particular topic, one must be VERY careful with the terms you use. In classic rhetoric, the ability to control and define the terms is the means to control and define the argument. If you honestly seek a fair resolution, step back from the politics and word-smithing by trying to address everything as fairly as possible including the terms used.

Given that I respect tptacek for being bright, level headed, and having a good mind for reverse engineering and analysis, I had hoped to get him into a friendly discussion addressing root causes:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1798540

Human nature is acquisitive, but this manifests itself in two distinct ways; for a group or for an individual. In the former, there is a part of human nature wanting collaboration (for group), so we want to return favors and want to reward efforts. In the latter, there is a contrasting part of human nature more avariciously (selfish, greedy) inclined to benefit the individual, so there is also a desire to not return favors and not reward efforts.

Copyright laws are an attempt to enforce the former, and of course, copyright infringements are an attempt to enforce the latter. The former creates "monopoly" and the latter creates "theft" but both of these terms are rhetorically loaded, and worse, both of them are a detriment to markets.

The important question is, can we design a better system to both fairly reward efforts of collaboration and at the same time also benefit individuals?

It's a very tough question, but until people are willing to step back from their biases and heated opinions, we will not be able to figure out a better solution.
The page looks very broken.
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790749
The issue with "hard to obtain" in most cases in that it is deliberate. It's easy to make available, in many cases you're even being taunted by publicly displaying its availability, and then telling you you can't have it. As far as I'm concerned, if that's your way of dealing with customers, all bets are off.

Second, copyright laws aren't a question of ethics. They are very artificial (nothing is being "stolen" or removed, copies are not the original property) laws that have originally been created to promote the distribution of original work. If it's being abused to do exactly the opposite, again, as far as I'm concerned any ethical considerations become null and void.

And don't get me started on deliberately crippling a legally acquired product with crap like DRM.
I'm sure I could come up with some more.

Please do. This was very instructive.
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Indeed it does. Almost too heavily..
Also, the ebay alternative does not charge any fees, it only gets it money from ads. They do this, according to the article, because Chinese prefer it that way. If it is true for other services, then China is more ad driven than other countries, so it should be even higher than normal.
it's hard to build a network without morals.
If I'm short of an ingredient, I hate driving to the shops for just 1-2 things so the idea of substitutes is always there and could be useful. Might also be a few things which are best included in the recipe, but which you could get away with excluding. e.g., white vinegar in David Thompson's Pad Thai recipe.
>Tell that to an evolutionary biologist and they will laugh in your face. Wait... you already did that. I'm laughing.

Evolutionary biology, compare to lets say mathematics where my roots are, has a very large part which is "interpretation" and which is very susceptible to whatever is dictated by the current authority in the science (and/or by political climate).

With regard to laughing - how about evolution biologists who thinks that evolution, a large statistical dynamic system process, has produced different bodies for males and females (or are you going to argue that as well?) efficiently reflecting specialization, and ignored for the reason of PolitCorrectness another available degree of freedom extremely important in the context of the specialization - mental abilities, brain (especially considering that for K-selection behavioral/mental characteristics may be playing comparable or even more important role than pure physical body characteristics)

> Consequently they have superior navigation skills to the females who never leave their burrows.

For many, many generations ... Are you, as evolutionary biologist, saying that female squirrels have the same abilities to develop such navigational skills? When did they develop them? While never using?
Let suppose they did develop them in some past. Thus we can suppose the abilities are just dormant now. May
be the female squirrels also have dormant penises?
This could be a good start up idea?
I had a working Xerox 860 in my parents attic when I was in high school. The one with the weird round touchpad on the keyboard.

The school I went to got it as a donation and didn't know what to do with it so I adopted it.

I finally got rid of it when multiple 'experts' that I knew convinced me that it was completely worthless. For a long time, its giant wheeled case housed my dual pentium pro motherboard that was too big to fit into a standard ATX case.

Regrets.
I think it's all about anonymity. I suspect there is a non-empty subset of HNers who like doing destructive things on anonymous basis.
A few weeks ago I was wondering about AirBnB for offices. Wasn't sure if it would be massively successful, but thought it might make a quality side project. Good to see someone's built it and their execution is decent.
You just named two of the files i currently have on my desktop.
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Thanks for the feedback! Will take a closer look, but it seems to solve a different problem.
True, but in it's defense, the posts were being written as the show was being aired which allowed readers to follow along and respond to the "thugs'" questions about what they thought would happen.

But it should at least have a table of contents or something.
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Hey Alex - email me if you want, I have good advice on this. Bacon Hot Sauce is going gangbusters by the way, hat tip to LaunchHear.
It's an annual thing, so there's always next year.
The concept seems obvious, but it hasn't stopped a slow sapping of functionality and permutability of data in the face of 'easy to use' solely GUI based tools. To say nothing of the rather difficult task of automating software without a CLI component...
It's certainly inspired by them. We love Cultured Code and their products!
Great to hear you liked it! :)
Looks very beautiful. Almost like Yammer that's centered around projects only. Do you plan to add more features, or just want it to be a project status updater? For what it's worth, I find many project management tools confusing; always seems like they take too many steps to just get your tasks in there and updated. Still, at least a to-do list under each project would be useful.

What are your pricing plans? An installable, roll-your-own-server option would be cool...
Many search engines and Alexa don't discrimiate subdomains, therefore Go.com will have a super high rank and/or link weight.

Yahoo does the same and so many big companies.

I will say SEO purposes but also their whole infrastructure its quite obsolete.

This whole domain, sub domain or sub folder has a looong almost-philosophical debate.
This spreadsheet is followed a lot but does have a lot of missing and wrong information. You find them in YC and the other incubators as well.
I'm suspect of his statements about Japan, which I don't know much about, given his statements on Germany, which I do, and are complete bollocks.

Germany, like most rich countries, has various incorporation forms, some which limit liability and some which do not. The GmbH and AG (translated literally "company with limited liability" and "stock company") are the standard startup vehicles. Recently there was also a new simpler form created, the UG ("founders' company"), which is also limited liability and doesn't require the initial stock value to any particular amount, unlike the GmbH (€25k+) and AG (€50k+).

Furthermore, Germany is very much a country of entrepreneurs. 66% of Germans are employed at a company that has fewer than 250 employees [1]. Germany does not have nearly as much of the shoot-for-the-moon entrepreneurship that the US is famous for, but to claim that founding companies is an oddity is nowhere close to being factually correct.

In contrast, in the US, half of Americans work for companies of under 500 people [2].

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine_und_mittlere_Unternehmen...

[2] http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/international/news/upload/BERLIN%...
Sounds like they currently run their network in "trusted" mode. They need to start treating all clients as potentially rogue and malicious.

The internet at large suffered similarly when it grew to general use and is now better for it on many levels.
Does the app pull directly from the spreadsheet when there are updates?
Or a client that can be used with a variety of database servers.
I already asked, I didn't get a response, partially because I think buxfer was a interesting startup.
Thanks for the kind words! We do have some plans, but we really need to gather feedback and then decide what's the roadmap.

Firewall version has been planned, but we had no time to think about the pricing yet. I'm sure we need some sleep before that :)
I'm hoping the having the secret codes for the bartender to input works well.
Looks very clean and beautiful.

Feedback on your branding - maybe everyone in your social circle eats bacon and it's cool and loves it, but the name will probably be an emotional level turnoff to vegetarians, Jews who eat kosher, and Muslims who eat halal, or people who otherwise don't eat pork. Something to think about before you really get rolling, because you might potentially have an unnecessarily hard time breaking through to those groups of people.

Disclaimer: I've got kind of a weird diet - I don't eat mammals (chicken, poultry, fish okay - beef, pork, venison, no). The name kind of has a mild yuck factor to me, which I'd get over if the tools were valuable enough, but I'd hesitate at least a half-second to recommend it to, say, my Jewish friends.
Thanks for the feedback! We promise to think about the branding!
We also make an assumption that the person is on an mobile phone with recent webkit browser for redemption. We're going to work on an iPhone and Android app once the rumble is finished.
I think Delaware made the Wall Street people happy. Taxwise I'm sure it makes no difference to Google.
Interesting; what (or who) will you be looking for?

Separate from that particular post, nice to read the rest of your back blog posts and see your thinking there. Always good to see people excited and involved in the Boston tech / startup scene - my dream is still to help realize the Second Coming at home..., re the decline of RTE 128 area tech etc.

Keep it up and keep writing and sharing your thoughts as you go along.
I'm sure! :) Still, amazing work for 48 hours. How large was your team?
This idea goes in the opposite direction of what Daniel Pink talks about in his book "Drive"
( or TED talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html )

What Daniel Pink says is that extrinsic motivators (such as money,) have actually been found to be _harmful_ to performance when used to reward cognitive or intellectual activities. I would imagine "getting an education" to fall under this category, but maybe not so much.

Conversely, extrinsic motivators are still known to work fine for repetitive, "mechanical" tasks (think: assembly line).
Maybe you should make it be tofu bacon, and have a "Powered by 100% Soy" as a humorous tagline
Yes, forgot about Ireland. That's also a good pick but I'm not sure how long they are going to keep that low tax rate given the rumors of their economical instability. Last I looked their corporate tax rate was about 12%.
I ask myself if the symbol is AAPL.
Going by Value investing

- Understand the competitive advantage of the business

- See if it has a "moat" built around it

- See its PE ratio and EPS. A company with a high EPS and a
low P/E is always worth looking into.

- How much cash the company has on its balance sheet, its a
good idea to go for cash rich companies
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It would make sense if it is, I imagine most services have an excess of incoming bandwidth for the same reason we do, we just have even more of it as a % because we serve bigger files. But yeah I have no idea what pricing for incoming bandwidth typically would be...
Great initiative! AirBnB for desks is really needed. Would be great to choose one day where I'd like to work :)

I think a lot of works needs to be done on UI. You don't need location from browser, you can just show desks within my city (get that from ip). And no facebook connect?

Watch how AirBnB did it. Start slow and from few cities then generalize it to other.

Good Luck!
hey sabj, are you talking about what I will be looking for as a VC in a potential portfolio company?
If you provide a source of external motivation, they will never find the motivation within themselves to learn, and thus will be screwed as soon as you remove that external motivation.

In other words, as soon as you stop paying them to learn, they will stop learning. You set them up for failure by removing the chance to learn to be self-motivated.
I also loved the demo. I particularly liked the fresh database every time.

I suggest that you run a background process that always ensures you have say 5 demo databases 'ready to go' so you can dish them out with no delay when a user clicks on the evaluate link. The speed of that first click really is essential.

Also, you could come up with some clever hacks to share the caching for the default dashboards. Until a user makes a modification, they are essentially on a static site which has huge advantages for you under load. If you could automatically bake the site into pure HTML and switch over to a real version on the first modification that might be a big speed win when you get dug or slashdotted.

Then again, it could be a premature optimisation. Well done. Very slick.

Consider making your login page (http://splendidbacon.com/users/sign_in) expand into a sign up page rather than making them separate.

Finally, there should be an easy way to convert the demo account into a real trial account. There could be a big button to do it in the header, or the account button could be re-labeled TRIAL or FREE ACCOUNT and could lead to a form that allowed conversion from demo to real. Right now I can't do this conversion because I don't know the password for the demo account.

Keep the prices low, you have a naturally viral product here (people pulling other people in). You might want to engineer in features that draw in the dev shop's clients too (bug tracker, public project dashboards, etc)
I thought that's how it works everywhere? I'm from NZ, you must take English and Maths up until a certain age, otherwise just pick your other four subjects and enjoy.
Yes, I think you are correct. Downvoters have to be people with otherwise insightful comments (they need certain amount of karma to be able to downvote). Newcomers cannot downvote.

On a side note: I think that too many people misunderstand the purpose of voting. If you agree, upvote. If you disagree, do nothing. Downvote only if a comment is trollish or completely off-topic. If you think that the commenter doesn't understand the topic, help him overcome his ignorance, don't downvote him.
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> Personally i feel that most school systems are factories that teach kids to be test takers, not question authority, not think for themselves and do it the way they're told because thats the way its always been done.

All of those are true. The American public education system is actually based on the Prussian education system. John Taylor Gatto writes about this in "Against School" and argues that this education system is actually designed to make the public mass more "manageable." It also helps to turn us into major consumers.
See, what if they can never be intrinsically motivated? no body wants to do "work" - by providing extrinsic motivation, you at least achieve the result (of making them learn something). Who knows, why might even become good at what they learnt, and turns that into a career.
More accurately it suggests to live close to work and work while your spouse commutes :) (in the beginning of the post he explains how he had extra time because he didn't have to commute).
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Splendid Bacon in simple words is "Splendid". Keep up the good work and make it awesomer! Totally loving it!
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I believe this is done to share a cookie across Disney owned companies (ESPN, ABC, Disney) web properties. These are http://abc.go.com, http://espn.go.com and http://disney.go.com. There are more if you look at the footer of http://go.com.

This is also practiced by Yahoo for their country domains (i.e. http://www.yahoo.de turns into http://de.yahoo.com).
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Which is what I love about smart development. People worry so much about features, scalability et al that they end up never building anything!
No, kids should have jobs. If kids have jobs that suck, then they will want to work harder at school so they won't have a sucky job when they graduate.
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I just started a new project with a friend of mine. We'll be using Splendid Bacon. This is such a KILLER app!!
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I look back at my comment history and see that generally speaking, if I say something relatively thoughtful, almost without exception it doesn't get downvoted into oblivion. Were I insulting, rude or uncivil a different standard would apply.

The same simply can't be said for proggit. Proggit has gone the way most mature forums go: elitist, dismissive, intolerant and reactionary. You saw the same thing on Usenet (eg comp.lang.c) in years gone past (if you're old enough to remember that).

There is a certain personality type that seems to float to the top of such dank, stagnant pools of water. I call such people toxic. You see it on forums, in open source projects and the workplace. Such people seem to be attracted to the ability to exercise power without actually contributing anything (although they're convinced they are contributing). Once a certain number of such people are entrenched it's very difficult for any such organization to ever turn itself around rather than fade into irrelevancy so much effort needs to be spent simply keeping such people away from the controls.

Much of Zed's famous anti-Rails rant revolved around such people (a classic example being someone writing security code assuming there were 30 days in every month).

HN is not that way at all and any stay on Proggit should tell you how far off HN is from that in a very short time.
As I see it, "upvote = agree" increases the danger of groupthink. I try to downvote complete wastes of time or detractions from the discussion, and upvote thought-provoking contributions even when I disagree.
This is exactly the kind of conventional wisdom that needs to be actually tested, rather than assumed.
If someone can't ever be intrinsically motivated, then they are likely suffering from psychological inertia (apathy) and there are other, more pertinent issues to address. IANAPsychologist
Safari/OS X. You have to set "None allowed before asking" in Security if you want to be informed before a db is established. The issue is not that there is a message, it's that it's alarming to have a db set up without an obvious reason for it.

I guess I don't really care though. I am right about the user interface problems, but since your folks are slamming the downvote button as fast as they can in response to useful feedback when you've obviously not done user testing, I don't really care any more about giving good usability feedback. "Someone says our interface has problems! Punish him! He must die!" That's a stupid attitude and your company will fail if it retains it.
I think companies specializing in this sort of operations are outside the reach of a normal startup. If you are big enough for that kind of services, you can just pay your accountant and/or lawyer to fix this. Having more than one company might also make the administrative overhead too big (you need two accountants, two registered offices where you pay some form of rent, etc).

I didn't knew Belgium and Netherlands have some special treatment for high tech products -- I'll look into it.

Regarding Panama, I have no information about them, but I'd personally keep things within Europe.
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I don't view your statement as unacceptable speech (whether it be a joke or not). Instead I view it as noise and a pointless distraction.

HN discourages "+1" type comments, anything that doesn't add to the conversation. I suspect your quote was trying to be funny. If so, it really falls into that same category of adding nothing at which point you have to ask: who exactly is losing the spirit of HN was/is all about?
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