skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're willing to hire a full time person, Google's AdWords team has hundreds of very talented optimizers and account specialists who are in general fairly unhappy with their jobs. They have very deep knowledge of PPC/Adwords from the inside, and have seen a variety of client accounts.

Google doesn't do a good job of nurturing since they tend to hire highly intelligent nontechnical people, train them all about Adwords, but then give them no real way to move up in the organization or challenge themselves.
Forget an agency. It's not hard to manage it yourself, you'll know your target customer base better than an agency will and unless you have massive campaigns based on PPC and Adwords it shouldn't take up a lot of time. Even if it does, then you're probably better off hiring someone internally to do it.
First stage of my startup. Crowdfunding for your project, mass-production, book, documentary, service, etc. Anyone from around the world can signup. Please leave your thoughts.
Security???

Yes, I think that's the point. Or politics if you're cynical, which I might agree with.

Sorry for my brevity, I may have come across the wrong way. What I mean is that this measure doesn't take away control over of person. It's voluntary, just as with a EULA. You could, I guess, argue that EULAs are immoral because they take away your freedoms, but I don't hold that view.

Strictly interpreted my second sentence is trivially false; this whole thing is about controlling the ability of people to take weapons on planes, so let me refine my statement: it's not about power and control over the visibility of your genitalia, which follows from the fact that you still have control over it.

What something is 'about' is a stupid semantic point, and not really worth arguing. More interesting is what it does. Money is spent, TSA officers see through your clothes, you are to some extent hindered from bringing weapons on planes. I consider the seeing through clothes part as the least important term in the equation, hence my confusion and the massive argument.

Just wondering, what kind of security checks do certified pilots have to go through before flying?
I'd distinguish between engineers who use the things that are/aren't standardized, and engineers who build them. The former often like standards because the pain of dealing with incompatibilities can overwhelm any possible advantage of doing things differently. The latter tend to have strong opinions about the technical details of what they're building, which may clash with what the standards dictate.

Couple anecdotes: here's a quote from Richard Stallman:
http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html

"Richard: Basically, my attitude towards standards is that they are useful. They help users figure out how to support a variety of systems, and then they help system implementors figure out how to give the users what the users will expect. But you shouldn't treat standards as though they were gods. There's no need to. We support standards in the ways that are useful to users, and we depart from them when that becomes more useful to users.

... It was already approved and we had already had a chance to object, so all I could do was make a comment. So I couldn't block approval of the standard because I was a voting member of the committee. I couldn't block approval of the standard on those grounds, so instead...I posted a notice about the coup in which the evil repressive forces of POSIX were being thrown off...To have an excuse to say that we still support the spec, if you define the environment variable, POSIX_ME_HARDER was the original way. Then a slightly prudish board member convinced me to change it to POSIXLY_CORRECT which I now think was a mistake. I should have left it as POSIX_ME_HARDER."

It's interesting that IMO Stallman-the-politician (for me not a negative term, BTW) comes off as much more of a standards advocate than Stallman-the-engineer.
Fuel waste is that fuel that enters the engine but is not converted to momentum, because it either didn't burn or the energy was lost.
When did Skype switch to VP8? As far as I know they still use VP7. What does VP6 have to do with VP8?
Probably older as the Tao in the Tao etc.
wealth is the freedom and ability to do what you want with your time.
The article that you listed under [1] to support the fact that Obama lacked legal authority to "shake BP down" says absolutely nothing about Obama's legal authority. I bet you hoped no-one would actually read it.

And by the way, how do you know that "enough" people in business think these things are true? Yours is a very dangerous type of reasoning. It allows one to spread lies and disinformation, and then say "well it does not matter whether all these stories are true, it matters that people may think that they are true" ...

By now it is an obvious fact that any democrat president will be relentlessly attacked from certain corners of the media regardless of what he does. So saying that a bunch of stories or statements are out there is not saying much at all. These stories will always be out there for any even slightly liberal president.

For example, it is clear by now that the Clinton administration was very good for most business and especially silicon valley. But if you listened to certain media outlets at the time you would think that Clinton was a Maoist dictator that rounded up all business people and sent them into gulags.
Articles about religion aren't banned.
VICI.tv - Just turned YouTube into TV (just for fun)
A buddy and I were playing with the YouTube chromeless player, Javascript API, and data API the last couple weeks and next thing you know we made essentially Pandora for Videos. Leveraging jQuery on the front end and a bunch of intelligent filtering, recommendation, and sequencing algorithms (to handle videos in parts 1 of 4, 2 of 4, etc.) on the back end we ended up with a pretty fun web app.

Try typing in a random topic (I dig Heli Skiing & High Stakes Poker) or your favorite musicians (Weezer, Miike Snow are both great) and sit back and enjoy.

Let me know what you guys think. - http://VICI.tv

Happy Halloween

Alexander
Pets and toys never went out of style either, but that didn't stop bubbly companies specializing in each from blowing up. I think Zynga is better positioned, but they are a very shady company and that makes me pause. It feels like a pump with VC and dump to IPO like the dot com era gave us.
I'm confused about something: isn't the issue really that there is no escape hatch on the iPad? That, even if Apple distributed the software without encryption, because you couldn't put it on to the device without the $99 Dev account the distribution of the application would not comply?

You know, I actually wonder how that application of the GPL would stand up in court. The courts have sided with hardware hackers about Jailbreaking. Would they necessarily accept that a license term would enforce the end of distribution of software just because an individual's hardware wouldn't load someone else's copy of the software?
I think every president makes the weight of bureaucracy worse. It seems to be a law of nature that bureaucracy only grows, never shrinks, until it consumes the society that supports it. Then we get another Dark Ages.

I also think that in general, a president's power tends to be overstated. People give Clinton a lot of credit for the 90s boom, but I think he was largely riding a technological wave that he had nothing to do with. Dubya did screw things up, but many of the things he screwed up were already set in motion before he took office. Obama fixed a few things, but he's also made things worse in ways that we probably won't see the ramifications of until several years down the line. I shudder to think of the next financial bubble, now that we've set the precedent that wanton recklessness will get you bailed out by the federal government.
90 hour workweeks come with an undocumented feature, the < 50 years old heart attack.

For a little while, say a couple of weeks it's ok to push yourself like that it if it is actual work, and something you do not enjoy.

If your work is play to you you might get away with it. But anybody that pushes themselves like that is going to find out a few things:

- there is a price

- the price includes an interest

- your 90 hour workweek is on a per-hour basis not as
productive as a 50 hour workweek would be

Also, just like in computers, works smarter, not harder.
For long-time users, isn't this number pretty much going to be static?

I'd love to have a running average of my last 10-20 comments rather than ALL of them.
In my book, "bad" wealth (so to speak) would be any scheme for getting "money" (the paper thing, or the number in your bank account) without actually doing anything useful to anyone. For example, selling your shares in a bubble/ponzi company at a high price.

Sure, these shares might have been something that someone wanted, but it's a form of fraud. What you earned is what someone else ends up losing, for nothing.

I also consider most financial endeavours under a debt-money system to fall somewhere under the "fraud" category. This includes things like speculating on currency and house prices, or anything where your primary activity is hacking the monetary system.
The ability to do what you want, when you want to do it.
In one of my favorite startup books, Made to Stick (http://amzn.to/ccF7X7), the authors describe the genius of Southwest airlines, which has been, by a long shot, the most successful airline company ever (with something like 37 consecutive years of profit).

The Founder and CEO had an incredibly clear and actionable vision: "we are THE low-cost airline."

This worked like magic both internally and externally. At the company, answers to even the most complex questions could be rendered relatively obvious through the lens of this mantra. Does it increase costs or not? (e.g. Halloween costumes for employees? Sure. Lunch on the Houston to Florida flight? Nope - would raise costs).

And externally, customers know why to fly Southwest: it's cheaper.

If your vision isn't as succinct and actionable as Southwest's, then it's not clear enough: both for employees and for potential customers.
Protip: No one has that (including Ferris).
Wealth is the future value of resource and human labor inputs that you control.
You only have one body. When it is gone you don't get another one to throw on the pyre. Instead, we will throw the one you have now on the pyre, and we'll remember you as the guy that worked really hard.
Cool, never mind then :)
okay I got my first downvote. Maybe I care a little. Was this to see if I care about my karma? Okay Mr. Downvoter, tell me ... what was wrong in what I said? :)
Bizspark is a short-term program, where you invalidate yourself when you get revenue. It's a good idea but I understand it only delays those looming SQL Server per proc license costs.

While I congratulate Jeff and Joel I would like to see more numbers about the 'cheap and easy' claim if possible please?
Pure spam.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mitchdev
Moral leadership? You've got to be kidding me.
I've been looking for anything on the TSA site to confirm this statement and so far I've come up empty-handed. The only device I can say I've had success with is my Kindle 3, but I've known others having to re-run an older Kindle in the past.
Also interesting is division by 7 resulting in a decimal.

1/7= .142857 repeating

2/7= .285714 rep

3/7= .428571 rep

4/7= .571428 rep

5/7= .714285 rep

6/7= .857142 rep

It's the same string of six digits, the only difference is which digit you start at.
Indeed, there is such a low barrier of entry to creating games these days with kits and drag / drop interfaces available. It is great for the developers starting out, but generally speaking content made in this manner lacks the polish that is required to stand out.
I don't think that I could skip the daily shower, if only for the fact that it is one time out of the day where you can just let your mind and body completely relax.

PG talks about the ability to find your top ideas in the shower: http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
I'm not going to get into whether it's right or not, but "why even question it?" - because they are spending other people's money.
Ask HN:Should I Optimize my website if I plan to rebuild it?
I have a website at http:://www.safeb4sorry.com the person who originally developed it did not do a great job at programming / optimization. Though I am not the best programmer I did dabble in coding a while back so I know that it wasn't done that great. I plan to pay a real developer to go in and change it once I get the funds together.

Should I optimize the page still even though I plan to change it, or should I wait until its been re-developed?

The Domain Name will stay the same.

Thanks,
Questionable, meaning it's interesting to question their business model.

The answer might seem obvious to you, but it's interesting to question non-the-less.

I for one, am not so sure their business model is sustainable.

My point was, it's a different question.
The ladder from 1918 was a 65 foot ladder (ladder A-1)
Me, if you count absolute value.
Ah, to be fair neither one of us took the time to fully explain our understanding of each other's points, and I sort of attacked with the disagreement phrasing when I could have only asked him what he thought of my issues.
Just for completeness, in case someone doesn't know about it, the Anna Karenina principle (first time I've heard it called this) refers to the first line of the Tolstoy book of that same name:

http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,489...

'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

Downvote threshold now 500. Glad I got to the old threshold (201) in time to see how it worked.

Think my possible upvote demographic for this comment is the set of all Hacker News users between 201 and 500 karma.
Try: "No, it's a net book"

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/04/traveling-with-e-readers-netbook...
> I'm proposing a third option or hoping if it already exists. I would find it incredibly helpful if there were a resource that detailed the thought process and implementation steps that an experienced developer took in approaching a set of problems or projects

tertiary education?
Isin't this extension great ? =D
How do I contact the other of this piece?

"Yank from the current character to the end of the line into register y"

should be:

"yy$

instead of

"y$
See the article at http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-06-25/bay-area/17249021_1_wo... - They don't conduct electricity like aluminum or wet fiberglass ladders do....Aluminum or fiberglass, when it gets too hot, it gets soft; it will actually fold over without any warning."
that's a really good idea. i'd even fire off an email/tweet to the site owner after the first flattr. only takes a few minutes and if it gets out of hand it can be done automatically.
True wealth is love, happiness, and a big freakin' pile o' cash.
That's an easy question to answer. Obama came in promising radical change, and then followed through in some areas. This increased uncertainty in all areas, since it was made clear that radical change was in fact in the works.

After this week's election, uncertainty should drop, since we will then know that nothing much can get done for the next two years.
According to Bucky Fuller, "Real wealth is ideas plus energy"
Why was this down voted? Maybe it read like an ad? I don't work for them.

The OP is asking for an agency and the top voted comment suggests that agencies aren't a good way to go because they're often paid a percentage of total spending. Trada is pay per performance and the OP won't need to hire someone (possibly why they are asking about agencies in the first place).

It seems like it would be worth their while to check them out and I thought I would let them know about it.
Well if theres enough of them that'd be beyond trivial.
Awesome! I learned about zt, zb, zz, ^x ^f, and ^x ^i today. They'll definitely come in handy.
"The problem I see is, people don't come on facebook to find stuff, they come to checkout what their friends are doing."

I think I addressed this in my comment. I don't think there's much value in advertising on FB itself (which is what I meant when I wrote the "bazillions of pageviews" sentence). You are right, people who are on FB don't care much for the ads.

The real value is in FB becoming an ad provider (or filter), and supplying ads to 3rd party sites. Because they know so much about you, and the quality of what they know is so high, they will be able to command a huge premium for using this information to pick the right ads for you.
I started eating paleo around 10 months ago, so I guess my opinion can be a little bit biased regarding this topic.

In any case, after reading the article, I am not sure about the conclusions done by most of the newspapers that I have read.

1. Most of the flour that they are talking about is referred to roots, which in most cases are encouraged in the paleo diet.
2. I miss a more detailed study about the grains that they found: amount of phytates, lectins, gluten...
3. I am also curious about the methods that they used to cook/processing the grains to avoid poisoning. In the study they talk about the process prior to eating as: "The flour would have undergone a multistep processing involving root peeling, drying, and finally grinding using specific tools".
How is this a win for anyone? Apple isn't desperate to have GPL'd software on iOS; they probably like it, but they don't need it. This won't make Apple change their policy on sideloading apps. Furthermore, anyone who doesn't want to subsidize Apple's dystopian future will choose to buy a competitor's product whether VLC is on iOS or not. The only party's substantially affected here are iOS users, who are now deprived of a program to play more video types. Though some of them may feel strongly enough about this to switch to an alternative platform, most won't, because I think that most of Apple's users value a seamless user experience over their personal freedom to tinker with their device. Because of this preference, they will now be deprived of certain software. How has anyone won?
Of course you are right.

But I'd argue that "gain" is quite similar to the utility a entrepreneur gains from doing a risky company.
I'd argue that in this community, there is a better correlation between up-votes and the quality of a comment than between up-votes and how much one user likes another user.

I'd also argue that there are only a few topics that are so polarizing that people up-vote or down-vote based on the position the author takes, and that the majority of discussions here aren't as opinionated, and that the number of up-votes a post receives is based on how interesting and thought-provoking it is.

However, it appears that how to display karma is one of the more polarizing ones :)
Vim is ancient yet its idea can be quite advanced: we have 10 fingers so why not use as many of them as possible?

It's like a puppet master wiring her fingers to fully express herself through the puppet. In the case of programming, Vim is the wire and the puppet is the code.
Flame title, reporting a misleading text of the FSF, that is not only wrong, but also FUD.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1850340
We are living, breathing maximizing expected outcomes functions.
I live in central America, so skipping a shower or two WILL get you on peoples lousy side. Hell in here you'd have to shower twice a day as a minimum. Oh and no deodorant? Oh man I've heard that "but I don't stink!" excuse a million times. Yes you freaking do!
This post was written by an attorney as I pointed out at the beginning of the article. Personally I am not opposed to non-competes in all forms. We have a law in Georgia already and it is fine. The amendment would create a strong non compete environment in Georgia and strong non-competes have been shown to stifle innovation. We have enough challenges down here already without this new law coming into effect.

Many legal scholars believe it is the reason Silicon Valley surpassed Route 128 as the technology capital of the world.

http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/newthinking/francomitchell.pdf
Without a high karma score, how are you supposed to downvote comments? You can't have certain features unlocked by karma and then tell people not to care about their score.
I went out and bought a copy this morning :) Fascinating letter, the chief executive's commitment to opening data feeds is completely at odds with what they're doing here. I've left a comment on his blog post at https://nationalrailenquiries.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/146/ so let's see if it elicits a response.
In most cases, the signaling works the opposite way. If the authors of a website can't be bothered to make it work well in current browsers (which shouldn't be that hard, just don't do anything fancy), people assume either that they're amateurs or they're targeting a specialized audience, most likely the former.

Requiring a specific browser is a form of playing hard-to-get. That's also a form of signaling, but it doesn't work by itself. You need some other way of convincing people that it's worth jumping the hurdle.
People with high average karma aren't the kind of people who will reply to this :) That's not how you get high average karma.
How Non-Competes Limit Mobility and Stifle Innovation
This article convinced me that stronger covenant not to compete agreements limit worker mobility, stifle innovation, and result in fewer startup companies.
Woah, I think I like you better when you're wordy and spell everything out.

Thanks for the exposition!
If I'm not mistaken, VideoLAN never built a version of VLC for iOS devices, but another developer did. Apple has already changed their Licensing restrictions to comply with software such as VLC, as you said.

This sounds like a giant mess of FUD and clever trolling. The FSF is complaining about something that both Apple and VideoLAN had no part of, but that's who they can point fingers at. Why isn't anyone complaining about Applidium, who were the ones that coerced VLC into the app store, which effectively "changed the licensing terms" of a project who's licence says that it cannot be re-licensed?

edit: the above paragraph is referring to the mess that the FSF article is claiming to be an issue, not the fact that VLC's licence can comply with the terms of the app store.

In all reality, Apple wants every piece of quality[1] software on the planet to be distributed through their store, even if it is free and can be obtained elsewhere. The GPL/FSF guys seem to be more restrictive about where their software can and cannot be released than Apple is restrictive on what kind of software can be included in their store at this point. It is making everyone look bad. Can't we just get along?

[1] Ambiguous term, I know.
http://i.engadget.com/2010/04/08/tsa-netbooks-e-readers-and-...

which is based on:

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/04/traveling-with-e-readers-netbook...
Wealth is reading a thread asking what wealth is and seeing all the interesting variations on the same answer.
Rebar definitely looks pretty cool. Is there any documentation for it other than this video (http://vimeo.com/8311407) though?
Are you good or just lucky?
But "in physics" sounds like a university class where people are paying money to learn.

Is Hacker News about teaching people things? Or does it have some other goal?
Sopranos Actress Dies
Now that I'm back at a computer, I found the 'From the Editor' letter that he was responding to:

http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/09/start/...
I hear you. No worries.

I've been running into some dominant themes on HN as I've been participating and learning. This is my first project so usually when I say I can't code, HNers say, "Well you have no resume and can't code, so what value do you bring?"

Since I'm applying for winter session, I want to let the selection people know how I respond to those questions because I'm sure they have similar concerns.
It could do virus scans. So thats a bonus. Maybe if this project works that could be next.