skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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1.) I agree with your argument that a free market with some govt intervention is the proper system for solving such market inefficiencies (i.e. coordination problems amongst infrastructure providers who have different interests than the general public in emergencies).

However, it's not a binary decision between the Wild West and nationalization. The scale goes from:

* Standards ("Here's the minimum." - building codes)
* Checks ("Ask us if it's okay." - gun background checks)
* Certification ("Tell us, and we'll make you more legit." - LEED [non gov't I know])
* Licensure ("You must tell us." - Liquor License)
* Incentives ("Do this and we'll help you." - Tax Credits)
* Nationalization ("Only we can do it." - Post Office)

You gain coordination of public interests and lose long-term innovation as you go down the list. Looking at how many disasters are handled with WalMart, Home Depot, FedEx having better response times - due to their economic incentives.

I'd propose solving this market inefficiency via standards, certification, and perhaps incentives - primarily because this will align incentives without the government needing to know the business and without the moral hazards politicians controlling companies brings. Think of building codes: builder's incentives now are "build cheap, but safe" - not just "build cheap" like 100 years ago.

2.) Most people can see that constitution has been largely deprecated and is more of a talking point than real power restriction. It doesn't mean we don't keep fighting for the new laws to be defined as open as possible (as you mention).

3.) Very true, but this doesn't automatically mean they should nationalize. There are lesser powers that will accomplish the same goal and more efficiently.
I use and love CodeBaseHQ (http://www.codebasehq.com/)

It hosts git repos and does ticketing in a pretty minimal way...
Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks: Our politicians hate democracy
Is there any truth to Silicon Valley (or Boston, or Waterloo, or any of the other small cities surrounding top tech schools) being an exception to this? I've heard both that Silicon Valley is full of Doers, and that it's full of Talkers. I'm sure it's not a binary choice.
So what we're saying is that there's a huge business opportunity for anyone who can gain traction while undercutting OpenTable significantly (say, from $1 per reservation to 20 cents per reservation)?
Unusual Ways People are Crossing into the USA from Mexico
"Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals listed earlier:

1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things..."

More: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
Jeff Atwood did an excellent piece on exactly this issue:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/05/on-working-remotely...
All of these things are possible with Tornado by using simple blocking calls and running more than one instance of the Tornado application behind a reverse proxy. If one instance blocks, then there are other instances of the application to handle new requests.

FriendFeed uses Tornado with MySQL (I learned this from Brett Taylor's blog). It seems to work.
Not really a big fan of the comment either, but the tag line for "Geeks Uncensored" says "We are Smart, Sexy and ♥ talking about Tech, Social Media, Trends, Gadgets and everything Geeky." So "Sexy" and "Uncensored" - seems like they're the ones who are already trying to stay just this side of explicit.
Show HN: Osmoar: A Bayesian Suggestion Engine
A friend and I are launching an alpha first thing in 2011. We're trying to gain some momentum and whatnot, so we're opening early registration as of tonight.

We're planning to develop a Bayesian network to derive suggestions. If you're interested in seeing our progress, check it out.

Edit: Any and all suggestions, criticism, advice, etc is highly appreciated!
I can't help myself. I have to ask, even it's annoying to say, "What is the interest in finding new ways to use lame, 30 year old interfaces?"

And yes, this sounds trollish but I honestly am interested in what applications promise new, interesting advances to computer interfaces. You can do do anything in EMACS, FORTH or MASM but the question is how easily and naturally.
Nominal price per pound to LEO for the Falcon 9 is $2,200, or about $800 per pound for the Falcon 9 heavy.
Closest to slaves are public school teachers who get relatively small pay for their work, at least around these parts of world.
It ain't so. In fact I wrote a whole essay about what a bad predictor people's colleges turn out to be.

http://paulgraham.com/colleges.html

Edit: I just took a look at a random sample of startups in the batch we just accepted. Out of 21 founders, 2 went to Stanford, and 2 went to Ivy League colleges.
Yeap, apologies. Wish I could delete it. Not sure why Facebook mirrors their own blog post on 2 separate FB urls.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

-- Mark Twain
There are some apps in the normal Kindle store (mostly games), but no separate app store.
"Our goal is to be 100% transparent with everything we do at Posterous, especially when it affects your blog and content"
-Sachin cofounder, posterous.com

From: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309849
I work in compiler development, and have worked on a C/C++ compiler. Let me first say that these side by side comparisons are excellent for pointing out the weakpoints in compilers, and showing where extra optimizations could be made, they are, as presented in this article, not very useful.

When's the last time you saw a program that was just a single function? In real production environments, you're going to be running programs with hundreds of modules, thousands of functions, and millions of instructions. Optimizations like inlining, partial inlining, partial redundancy elimination, and inter-procedural analysis become much more important.

When you're a compiler developer looking for more performance, the typical process starts with profiling an important benchmark (like SPEC2006) and looking at where the program is spending most of its time. Then you take a look at the offending code and see if it can be distilled down to one of these microbenchmarks. There you can decide how best to optimize this. Without this context though, these type of microbenchmarks are nearly pointless. They show some optimization that could be done, but who knows if it'll be worth it, or even make any sort of impact on the final performance of a production workload.
He also mentions the same in the amazing documentary, "Objectified" by Gary Hustwit. Highly recommended.
Duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1614609
The best free issue tracker I've used is the one on Google Code. I use GitHub for hosting, but the Google Code issue tracker has plenty of options, and can fit just about any bill you want it to. It also has a built-in wiki! Since there's no requirement to actually host your code there, it works out pretty well.
Makes me wonder what kind of experiences spawn these kind of ideas.
Android Market update - dismantles 24-hour return policy to appease devs
Also I imagine you're going to get a very large negative response when you switch to a working method that's going to be along the lines of "where have all my visitors gone".

By talking about "deeper insight" rather than just openly admitting the data is just bad you're just delaying the inevitable backlash.
bitbucket does the job for me.
Is this a parody website?
I made the decision in 30 minutes.

The only thing I can think of that would get most people to do that would be heartbreak. Did somebody leave you?
Yes - I agree - it's something of a tradition with me to just list my Top Five projects. But it seems to me like the blogosphere / Twittersphere is a better place for that discussion than my small blog and Twitter following, especially since I spend time on things other than open source software.

In fact, I'd think this board is a much better place for discussion than my blog. So ... what do you think are the biggest issues in the open source world? I'd say they're

1. The Oracle lawsuit against Google,
2. The sale of Novell to Attachmate, and
3. The forking of OpenOffice.org.
"Can tell", surely, with some accuracy better than random but not nearly good enough for actual predictions.

It would be interesting to know how the algorithm works, though... if only for my own personal usage. Is it a flurry of sudden communication? Or one partner starts ignoring the other? Do you need to know the words they're using, or can you just get it from the frequency of various types of communication?

Facebook does scare me enough, however, that I refuse to be friends (on facebook or in real life) with anyone who works at facebook. When I meet someone socially who works at facebook (which has only happened a couple of times so far) my next reaction is to edge slowly away from the conversation.

And you'd have to be crazy to date someone who works at facebook. And now I come to think of it, all the facebook employees I've met have been single...
"For most of your school life, it doesn't make that much difference what subject you're taught. The real lesson is the method. The medium in school truly is the message. And the medium is, above all, coercive. You're forced to attend. The subjects are required. You have to do homework. You must observe school rules. And throughout, you're bullied into docility and submissiveness. Even modern liberal refinements don't really help. So you're called an underachiever instead of a dummy. So they send you to a counselor instead of beating you. It's still not your choice to be there. They may pad the handcuffs--but the handcuffs stay on.

Which particular subject they happen to teach is far less important than the fact that it is required. We don't learn that much subject matter in school anyway in proportion to the huge part of our lives that we spend there. But what we do learn very well, thanks to the method, is to accept choices that have been made for us. Which rule they make you follow is less important than the fact that there are rules. I hear about English teachers who won't allow their students to begin a sentence with "and." Or about high schools where the male students are not permitted to wear a T- shirt unless it has a pocket. I no longer dismiss such rules as merely pointless. The very point to such rules is their pointlessness."

http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030301studenta...
Sure, point taken, I know that I did not represent a qualified educational discount, and I never directly called it an educational discount to them. I asked if they had a program and if they would consider applying it for my case, and secondly if they did not have an educational program would they consider upgrading me to the pro if I purchased the basic with an explicit agreement that we would never use it for commercial work. that is why I asked if he would consider it. I know that it was an out of the normal request, but there are some companies that will sell an educational version for any non-commercial use so it was not totally out of the norm. He was well within his right to say no based on the fact that I did not represent you typical case. In fact, the way I see it he is within his right to say no for whatever reason he sees fit, he wrote the software after all.

You never know unless you ask. His response was closer to no go to hell though (just to be clear, he did not tell me to go to hell) and that is what made me chose the path I did.

I am not put off by negotiations, and very much enjoy it when a client negotiates with me, so long as they don't become combative or disrespectful. It gives me an opportunity to show them in detail how much value I am providing for their money. I find that the client that negotiate with me and then see the value seem to be my best customers. The second vendor did just that, took time to show me their value and that is why I chose them. You learn a lot of valuable information about people in negotiations and that was really the point I was trying to drive home, that some times people don't negotiate just to get the best price. Sometimes they see it as a path to insightful information. It's the reason I always negotiate. If that makes me a toxic customer, so be it, but I like to know the paying field before I commit to anything in life.

As well just for the record on this one from your other post:

It's analogous to reducing your tip at a restaurant because your water glass was not promptly refilled, and then further when the silverware is not perfectly parallel..

I have a friend, who does this and I get extremely mad when I am at dinner with him and he does. He does it as a way of rationalizing reducing his tip, he is very cheap and he is a multimillionaire. After several occasions I refused to eat dinner with him, unless I paid and covered tip. He is disconnected from the fact that not everyone has buckets of cash and that that money is a lot more valuable to someone on waiter wages than his principals should be to him. My friend is a good guy, his cheapness just gets the best of him, some times. Anyways, the point I was getting at, is I would never intentionally do that to someone.
http://www.geeksuncensored.com/day/2010/10/16/

"...we decided to do this show as there's a lack of hot females talking about technology..." I'm assuming it's in jest?
I've heard of flying or boating a bike around, but never anything as big as an RV. I imagine any option is going to be really expensive, though I suppose anything is possible.
I can believe that. I listen to music (generally sans lyrics) only when I'm doing stuff that's relatively repetitive and un-taxing.

I don't think it makes me more productive, but it does make me happier.
A friend and I are launching an alpha first thing in 2011. We're trying to gain some momentum and whatnot, so we're opening early registration as of tonight.

We're planning to develop a Bayesian network to derive suggestions. If you're interested in seeing our progress, check it out.

Edit: Any and all suggestions, criticism, advice, etc is highly appreciated!
Wouldn't simply excluding any http request whose user agent contains "googlebot" from the displayed count make it dramatically more accurate without needing a switch to JS-based analytics?
What about pirates and criminals at sea? (seriously.)
I started watching but turned off due to the sound quality. I think its the sound of the fan from the computer being picked up by the mic. Blame steve jobs :) Keep doing what you are doing, looked like an interesting interview.
Yes, but I think the only way to get people to use it is if they don't have to create yet another account just to reserve a table. Let people put in their phone numbers and text to confirm.

You'd also probably want to partner with Yelp if they're not already working on something similar. I'm guessing that OpenTable is so popular with restaurants because customers use it to find open tables at a particular time, so the network effects matter. Yelp gives you a leg up there.
Microsoft Shares Cloud Technology with Top Australian Research Organizations
Show HN: Standup Buddy, a checklist for things you won't care about long
Microsoft’s Montage goes in public beta
I believe companies and people alike should be responsible without outside coercion. I know it is utopian to wish for such things, but if consumers would start demanding more from the companies maybe then the government would not have to step up and regulate all aspects of our lives.
So if Wikipedia is the web's encyclopedia, where is the web's user's manual?
None of the links in the article are useful. Does anyone know what this supposed API is (and, better yet, link to Apple's documentation on it)?
These were awesome, I hope they post the other shuttle flight stages beyond ascent.
I cannot find anything on it, via Google or in the Apple documentation. I also talked to the authors of some of the recent jailbreaks today, and at least a few of them didn't know anything about this.
This is the best joke I have ever read in a comment thread.
true there are tons of hot successful women talking about technology, but most of them are LA based. We were talking about Silicon Valley.
I wrote this app because I was always forgetting things I needed to talk about during daily standups. I'd love any feedback on it. The name needs improvement, as people who would find it useful won't always know what a standup meeting is. It'd also be nice to charge for it. I'm thinking something like $10 for life. In the mean time maybe I'll put up a donate button.

It was first written using just jquery, but after I saw a couple articles on backbone.js here I rewrote it. Man, backbone.js made it way, way easier to deal with.
Microsoft on technology for social engagement
Love Grant's demos, and anyone interested should check out some of his other ones, too: http://sites.google.com/site/kotsoft2/physicsdemos

One request: if possible, please label links that go directly to Java applets. For a lot of us, opening a page with a Java applet on it involves maybe a 20% shot at crashing the browser, and even in the best case scenario, my MBP freezes up for ~30 sec while the piece of crap Java plugin gets started up.

Which I'm fine with if I'm warned, and in this case I'd click through anyways.
I'm the same way, except that it gets hard for me to listen even to instrumental music at times.

In general, I prefer silence when concentrating.
Personally, I love reading how other people use computers. And just because an interface is old doesn't make it bad.
Very insightful analysis. At the very least read the section "How a computing platform dies" - this is the first I've seen that perspective. I wouldn't mind reading more about this.
I don't mean the lack of line, I mean the fact that you're seemingly focusing on that you're "hot successful women". Maybe I over estimate everyone, but I assumed the majority of people who'd be watching your show (and the interview with Jessica) would care about the contents and not you personally and that line was therefore meant as a tongue in cheek joke because the perceived idea is that the average tech viewer only cares about boobies.

I think the point ojbyrne is making is that your selling point is you're hot and are therefore inviting people to comment on that when really we should be commenting on the interview and therefore we're wrong to criticise those that do comment on your appearances etc because you're making that the focus.
I'm happy using Ruby and Python and have built sites with Rails and Django in the past. These days I mostly use Flask (sorta like Sinatra in Python) as its lightweight and has templates that don't drive me insane (sorry Django). For a large app with lots of models and mixed developers I would likely choose Rails.
They indeed fibbed during their campaign about how posterous is better than blog brand x.

Specifically, about tumblr not supporting an email posting option.
I like the comparison of the arts industry to the technology industry. The same can be said for finance and consulting industries. I feel there has been a complete loss of the apprenticeship and mentoring model because of the growth of information. When you discover that the majority of people are selfish, it really turns you away from mentoring. I want to help people that are willing to give back to the next generation and 'pay it forward', but most people take the help and just leave it at that.
The problem is the OpenTable, the reservation management system, is intertwined with OpenTable, the consumer-oriented reservation portal. Restaurants that are oversubscribed can easily switch from OpenTable without losing business, because they only care about reservation management. In fact, I'd guess that the more popular the restaurant, the more likely OpenTable is to give you a discount so they can beenfit from the network effects.

Everyone else is losing out because they're paying to gain access to customers who are using the reservation portal, but would've been customers anyway if it didn't exist. A third-party, back-end agnostic reservation portal would be better for everyone. The best portal would win, and the best reservation management system with the lowest prices would win. It is a market failure, though it will probably resolve itself eventually.
Nice to see, clearly I didn't read that when I applied =)
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Agreed, this quote from it is a good way to summarize, "The symptoms to watch closely are small declines in two metrics: the rate of growth of sales, and gross profit per unit sold (gross margins)".

A good book that elaborates on these is "Every Business is a Growth Business". Unless you are a lifestyle business with a well defended niche reaching a plateau is dangerous.
I am still waiting for the day someone takes down opentable. I'm at an incubator right now, and one of the partners had suggested we compete with them head-on because they operate so traditionally, especially with their equipment and high fees. There is definitely room for someone to take them on with a new software based model, but I think most start-ups are probably afraid of the sales effort and skills they'll need.

I'm invested in the hospitality industry right now and their profit margins are razor thin at 3-8% for those that survive. Of course on top of high sales it's not too bad, but most say that they were better off before opentable.
There is one thing that Gnus was awesome at: dynamic scoring.

It would monitor what you read and assign different weights to articles based on your habits: author of a post gets +10 points, keywords in a subject +2 points each, etc...

Then it reordered the newsgroup articles based on these weights.

After a week or so, you realize that when you enter a newsgroup, you will typically read the first 5-10 discussions that Gnus has put at the top of the list and just ignore the rest.

It was magical and I don't think any other newsreader has ever come close to that.
How I scheduled 4 Venture Capital meetings with 3 hours of work
Is it really so unreasonable to suppose that politicians and bureaucrats will, when convenient, interpret this vague bill in such a way as to allow them carte blanche to regulate whatever they want?

One way I would improve the bill is to target a list of specific industries. They can amend that list later if gaps are identified. They can even have someone write up reports about which other industries ought to be on the list.
Interesting, though I did get the distinct impression that I'm reading at least a bit of propaganda in there, especially with respect to Mr. Xiaobo's treatment in prison. Is there anyway to know if this court statement itself wasn't pre-edited by the powers that be?
just proves that implementation details do matter.
Journalists need to learn what a 'hacker' really is