skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't trying to attract attention to my post by changing the title. I just thought it was the most interesting part of the article. I was hoping to get feedback on why a contestant would be able to compete very well with Pascal over C++. If I posted using the original title how would I generate that specific discussion?
I agree, with the disclaimer (as you pointed out) that it also has some good discussion. I'm all for making sure the question is answered, but asking a question in and of itself doesn't contribute much if the answer is simple.
Try out LABjs: http://labjs.com/
I also didn't see any purchase process for the Eiffel Tower picture he found on iStockPhoto. Finding random images on the Internet and copying them into a design is not how professionals build websites.
It assumes everyone has a sleep cycle of 90 minutes, but I believe sleep cycles get shorter through the night.
In the case of granite countertops, I do think it should be stopped. And not by the government. Stopped through cultural change--hopefully brought about by people pointing out that the practice is wasteful. It should lower status rather than raise it.

I'm not ignoring other harms, you are inventing that out of the air.
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Driving traffic is so very different from building software, because you can do everything right, follow all best practices and rules, build an awesome campaign, and still fail because your competitors are doing it 10% better.

In some ways, different traffic sources are like programming languages. They each have different methods, rules, and tricks, and being a good marketer means being familiar enough with them to figure out the right tools for the job.A lot of that knowledge comes from testing and experience.

You know that you wouldn't build a chat website in BASIC and I know that I wouldn't send international RON traffic to a dating site.

It all boils down to arbitraging traffic and finding and exploiting inefficiencies in the market- you have to answer the fundamental question of "where is the amount and quality of traffic I want priced lower than it would be in a perfect market?"

Obviously, if you can build technology to answer this question in a scalable way, as I and others are trying to do, you can do very well in the space.

There's a reason enterprise-class PPC bid management tools sell for thousands of dollars a month(and 5% of spend).
FCC Seeks Info on Comcast-Level 3 Dispute
That stinks. I didn't verify the download links, sorry.

I have mine in a 'bin' folder that gets copied to each new PC in turn.
Sometimes, a bad question provokes good answers. I won't upvote bad questions, no matter the result. I will, however, upvote the answers.

Good questions get upvoted on their own.
The Mohawk is a large river that feeds into the Hudson just out side of Albany. I think we should name it that :)
The one that stuck with me, and still amuses my kids, is 'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu' on the Amiga (comes out as "yuyuyuyuyuyu" in a slightly descending tone).
The local application would ensure that only .p2p DNS requests would get handled by this system. Presumably this would be open source, so you can verify yourself that it's not going to intercept your bankofamerica.com requests.

Also, I think the intent is that any solution to this would include a cryptographic web of trust. However, it's probably still going to be the case that by visiting any .p2p site you are accepting risk--just as visiting many seedy torrents on an unpatched browser is risky now.
My email is reynoldx at gmail.com

Can you shoot me a quick email? I will probably coordinate one with quora and hn :)
What about a separate "question" thread?

e.g., ntoshev 10 minutes ago | discuss | question

I have a lot of trouble understanding the role of comments online where I don't see them in real life. Questions, by contrast, are perhaps the earliest form of social cognition. The two seem to represent entirely separate information channels. Why not embrace the distinction?
I have an infant son and only sleep 1 - 4 hour stretches at a time. I feel like I am getting a higher quality sleep than I have in years. Also, when you have a reason that you cannot ignore (crying baby), it is much easier to leap out of bed and start doing things.
Location: I live in a rural area and while CL has a section for my county (grouped with two others!), it's still flooded with ads from large cities 40 miles away.

Niche: CL for antiques, or used musical instruments, or used books or for special collectible classes of items

Jobs: specialized job types. CL for nannies or other household services: housecleaning, carpet cleaning, window washing, pet sitting etc.

Every time I use craigslist I'm overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I have to wade through to find the few items I care about.
In Portland, OR, it's Ground Kontrol (http://www.groundkontrol.com)
Shoot me an email, I can probably help push you in the right direction.
This wasn't meant of a critique of the author, it was meant as a critique of a lot of geeks (self included) feelings overall.
I wonder how many of those other languages also really had a different creator to that listed in the quiz, but had its official history rewritten.
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4chan has 7 hours and a 10Gb/s link.
Strolling Through Time: A Walk Aboard the USS Intrepid
But the difference (at least in the example code shown) is entirely in the choice of algorithm. The better / shorter algorithm just happens to be in Pascal...
Pretty sure everyone on here is aware of Github, but thanks I guess.
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I agree that text is probably going to conquer programming for quite some time to come. It is no accident that mathematics is done with text, even though connecting boxes and lines of paper is a lot easier than on a computer. However, like in mathematics, the occasional diagram or graphical notation is helpful.
I came here to say that line cracked me up (and that most of the direct links on that page are broken)
That requires date information to be in the keys of all the views. Some of my views are not chronologically keyed, but i would still like them to have items that i intend to have be published in the future not accessible. I would like to avoid that sort of accidental complexity.

The other issue is that it splits the 'is this a visible fragment' logic across the db and application code boundary. I now have to ensure that all the appropriate checks are in place in two layers rather than one.
I always wonder where they get the data for these numbers. Out of the developers that I know still working 9-5's they are all making well above those numbers.

I have some fresh out of collage HTML, CSS, light Javascript guys that command better numbers than most of the quoted and I am in Florida (silicon swamp). We are not the mid-west, but we are definitely not NY or the Vally. In both those markets 6 figures starts the salary negotiation process and is realistically attainable in the Florida market with 5-10 years experience.

When I see numbers so out of skew, I suspect an agenda. With the market steaming again, it makes them that much more suspect.
I still fail to see why a leaf node internet provider thinks they should be paid for receiving the data their customers have requested.

Paying for transits is easy to understand, and in a complicated topology paying for bytes-in as a peer makes sense because they may be transits.

For a leaf node network like Comcast, whose customers pay to receive bytes and pay to have their connections installed to then demand payment from producers for supplying those bytes seems unjustified.

The author tries to hang this on the relatively higher build out cost per customer Mbps of residential nodes compared large commercial drops, but that is just different businesses. The residential providers already charge many multiples higher for bandwidth, this is just haggling about the multiplier.
You mean labview? Labview succeeded despite its drag and drop interface. It succeeded because its extensive domain specific libraries. Labview code is horrible to write and even worse to read. /physics student hating labview point and click interface
The presentation is there to convince you to use their script. I think more OSS libraries and software should convey such an attitude; I'm way more inclined to use software when the authors tell me that it's awesome and why.
Yeah, it seems to me like the ideal weighting scheme would operate on (sub-)threads rather than individual comments, i.e. take the descendants' karma into account in some way when ranking posts.
You should try MongoDB. Ad-hoc querying is supported, as well as map-reduce. We looked long and hard to various nosql databases, such as couch, cassandra, hbase, etc, and realized that in terms of setup, speed, client interfaces, and most importantly, flexibility, MongoDB was the easiest and best to get going.
I agree with your list, but could you please format it for better readability? Each of those on a separate line would do wonders.
> The power of the [Dirac bra-ket] notation is that can be a symbol, expression, or even words that describe the state values.

No, if this were true, then it wouldn't make any difference what the combination of braces, brackets, parentheses, and pipes were. All that would matter is that you could label a vector by an arbitrary word. That's hardly the importance of the notation.

Rather, the asymmetry of the notation for a vector

|x>

and it's mirror image the dual vector

<y|

emphasizes the canonical duality isomorphism on inner product spaces. The "hanging" pipe on a vector remind one that one must attach a dual vector (possibly sandwiching operators) in order to form a scalar.

As the author later notes, there are other identities which become trivial when using the notation.

Incidentally, it's interesting that Einstein notation (which the author only briefly mentions) is basically a more powerful--though less suggestive--version of bra-ket notation. Basically, you can represent Dirac vectors in Einstein notation as variables with a superscript letter and Dirac dual vectors as variables with a subscript letter. Operators then always have one superscript and one subscript. The power of Einstein notation is that it allows high-dimensional tensors than Dirac.

The GR textbook by Wald has a good discussion of this, and Penrose write poetically about it (and his preferred graphical notation) in "The Road to Reality".
I think you should've mentioned Powerpay more.
A niche business I'd never though of starting. A lot to learn.
That's totally missing the point of the zero-sum thing.

I watched a few episodes of the VH1 show The Pick-up Artist (reality TV where Mystery teaches a bunch of guys to pick up girls). They constantly used corny lines like "I need a female opinion on _"

Any girl who has seen the show is going to respond with "OMG are you one of those pick-up guys?" if she hears a similar line (if she really likes you then she'll ignore it and pretend to play along, but then you could have said anything and it would have worked).

I hear that's exactly what happened with all the lines/techniques in Neil Strauss' book The Game.

The whole point of lines is to show the girl you are articulate and intelligent enough to have a good sense of humor. If everyone starts using the same ones girls will catch on, and the lines will stop working.
It's in the works.
NANOG (people who run the Internet) on Comcast vs Level 3
The flaw there is that it's often hard to control when you fall asleep.

There's a watch on the market that monitors your movements in order to spot when you're lightly sleeping. You can set an alarm, and a window of time before that alarm. If, during that window of time, the watch detects you moving, it'll go off then. Otherwise, it'll go off at the specified time even if you're deep asleep.
I've heard interesting comments from both sides of this issue. Some people say that sleep cycles get longer as the night goes on, while others say that they get gradually shorter.

Although I was originally going to try to compensate for this variation, I instead decided to go with the average sleep cycle times instead. There is always going to be some variance in the length of cycles (usually between about 75 minutes and about 110 minutes), but the average is pretty well documented to be about an hour and a half.

Although it's definitely true that some people will have drastically differently timed sleep cycles, this is usually due to some other neurological condition. My theory is that short of that, the law of averages will help me out :)
Not all talented developers are talented or even good at security.
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I know right. When i re-read it, it felt like an infomercial for them.. Was gonna edit it, but whatever - they are a great company - the only merchant account i would recommend.
Science Friday, 1993: The Future of the Internet
One more detailed note - you guys are using retargeting without a frequency cap. I went to your site from a link on HN and have seen tons of ads for you guys on doubleclick even though I am not in the market for a car. Adding a frequency cap on that will help out big time on your CTR and return on those campaigns.
I work for a small startup company. I work a lot more than you do at a typical 9-5 but I also recently got engaged, got married, went on a honeymoon, am getting ready to purchase a new car and a house. It's all very possible to do as long as you are able to determine what is actually an emergency and what is not.

When your head is constantly bouncing between code, product, algorithms, problem sets, tests it's hard to break away and focus on your family and financial obligations. If you don't though, you really do risk terrible burnout.

The best piece of advice I can give to anyone who feels they work too much is to learn how to say "no." It's easy to say yes, and it's very difficult to learn when and how to say no. The second best piece of advice I can give to anyone nearing burnout is learning to delegate. If you're a one-man show you can delegate to your todo list instead of to another person. Either case requires followup though.

Not everything is an emergency and maintaining your sanity should be your #1 priority throughout all that you do.
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infomercial AND referrer code! ;)
Internet2 is pretty damn big ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2 )
How many people were really involved? A hundred? Two hundred? A thousand? Is that a significant part of all other Americans who didn't know what their government was doing?
Using the Canon Hack Dev. Kit -- Enables Cameras to Perform Neat Tricks
I'd recommend against shortening the key length, given that keeping the keys hard to guess is how you're keeping them private.

See https://gist.github.com/722474 for a proof of concept scraper. If the key length dropped to 4 chars (and you kept l, o, L, and O in the set), there would only be 7,311,616 urls to try to find all the notes.
Will virtualization cut the legs from the IT economy?
Life is very, very short. Given the choice between building yet another Craigslist-killer that nobody will use and anything that people will use, choose the latter. You will never get the most productive years of your life back. Knowing SEO, web dev, and a lot about classified ads is cold comfort.

At the end of each failed company, you are going to feel like "well, at least I learned a lot". I know, because that's how I felt. You feel that way because your brain is insulating you from the real loss. You have indeed learned things; that's what makes this particular rationalization so powerful.

Many, many people tried making Myspace clones. Many, many more will try to make Facebook clones. Inevitably, one or two people will be successful, just like people will occasionally win the lottery.

Other people will succeed with companies that contain elements of Facebook, or OK Cupid, or Twitter, or Craigslist. But their businesses won't be "better Twitter" or "better Facebook"; they'll be distinct, unique, interesting businesses that learned lessons from earlier successful companies and applied them to do something different. Some of these companies may grow to challenge Facebook, just like Twitter did. But they won't have gotten there by pointing a finger at Facebook and saying "you're going down".

My advice: learn everything you can from Twitter, and then use the ideas to come up with something you can build and get money from.
Well, suppose I need to get up at 07:30. It advises me to go to sleep at 22:30, which is 9 hours, or 6 cycles. If I'm out by just 10 minutes, that's an hour.

So perhaps I should go to sleep at 21:30. Or at 23:30.

There's a big difference.

I do love the idea - the challenge it trying to work out whether I'm average.

8-)
I believe that there's also an iPhone application that will use the accelerometer to figure out when you're moving the most during the time frame in which you're supposed to wake up. The increased movement implies lighter sleep, and that will trigger the alarm to wake up.

The idea with http://sleepyti.me is basically to emulate this without the need for external hardware. I'm in the same boat as you--that is, I have trouble actually falling asleep sometimes.

I originally had 'time to fall asleep' option that would allow the user to specify how long it usually took to fall asleep. Unfortunately, no one really ever used it. It's a lot easier to say "the average human takes fourteen minutes to fall asleep," than to try to calculate that in beforehand.

My advice is to give yourself a half hour or so to fall asleep. If it's been longer than that and you're still awake, get up, walk around, go back to bed in 15 minutes (and recalculate from sleepyti.me!). Research says that laying in bed longer than a half hour while awake will actually make insomnia worse. If you're sitting in bed for over a half an hour every night, you might consider talking to a doctor about sleep aids. It helps me sleep better just to know that I could take an Ambien if I need to.
The latency difference between an HTTP req for a 2.3K script and a 500 byte script is pretty trivial. And if you're concatenating with other js assets on your site, the incremental increase in size after minification/gzipping will probably be even less than 2.3K.
I tried viper, and even customized it to be more like vim, but still run into issues, e.g.:
* If I hit escape followed by <something> it often doesn't do what I want
* Various major modes lose the vi keybindings
lol exactly....
1) 2) 6) 7) Thanks. You're right on most points — the website, the copy, and the screenshots definitely need works. I'll have a screencast replace the current image asap.

3) The icon. Some people really like it, some hate it with a passion. I'll come up with a new (hopefully) better one.

4) That's Apple's requirements. All apps that pull data from the internet have to specify a 17-year-old age restriction. There's nothing I can do about that

5) I'm not sure about that. Both the iPad/iPhone version use default OS' skins (gray on iPad & blue on iPhone)
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working on the same exact product. would be curious to discuss it with you. Find me on twitter @fellowshipofone
u could check onmousemove function if button is pressed... ;)
As an internet sales guy, I would preface this by saying most startups should put more of their marketing budget into improving the product experience. I don't think you're communicating your benefits to me the right way in your tagline, your CG video feels like a commercial and shouldn't dominate your splash page (splash tutorial videos are a cop-out and turn off users), I wasn't nearly invested in your site to go through the email signup barrier, and your car selection process isn't fun and provides very little feedback (almost useless if I don't know exactly what I want). Your pricing model turns me off- the only real difference I can see from the descriptors is that you contact 1-3 more dealers. Maybe have one option be fixed pris and the other a % of the savings on MSRP?

Second, I take Bart to work every day. I was pissed I got a yellow envelope on my car on labor day (free parking day), pissed when I complained to Bart employees about getting a parking ticket and they had no idea what I was talking about, and pissed when I finally opened the envelope and saw "This is a PR stunt by CarWoo, let us find your next car and we'll pay your next parking ticket." Now, because I'm in the industry and know who you are I had a laugh about it, and because I'm in PR I get it, but you caused me too much inconvenience for me to "like" the brand, and you failed to communicate your benefits so I didn't even bother going to your site even though I am currently in the market for a car. Okay, I "get" the internet, hopefully you got some buzz, but is this what you mean by hack-centric marketing? Was it so successful you want to hire someone to do this ad infinitum?

I don't really think PR is something you can usefully hack as an outsider, especially if your market positioning and messaging is weak. The reason why you can't find an Internet Sales Guy like you can a Technical Product Building Guy is because you're really talking about successfully coordinating your channel strategy, marketing strategy, PR strategy, SEM/SEO, everything that goes into customer acquisition. You need to be doing these things better, but you're not going to find someone to magically do it for you unless your paying for experts.
"Gaming Mechanics Applied To X Vertical"

I have seen real money spent on something along the lines of "Hey, we're in accounting business! Let's make a Facebook of accounting where accountants will create profiles and publish their annual and quarterly reports." (details changed to protect the guinnocent.)
People in 1997 never expected that <insert project here> could be vulnerable to an attack as simple as a buffer overflow; after all, all it takes to not be vulnerable to overflows is "counting", and who has problems counting with a computer? Tens of billions of dollars in losses later: do you feel safe hitting arbitrary pages with your web browser?
I agree apathy and ignorance, usually fueled by propaganda, played a role in this mess, but to blame all Americans for that misses the point. Americans should have held their representatives responsible, but they failed to even get interested. How many Americans can point Chile or Nicaragua on a map?
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People thought I was mental when I went out and started my own business. They were probably right...especially when you consider WHY I started my own business.

I wanted to spend more time with my family.

WHAT!? Yes, really. I had just gotten married, just bought an apartment, my wife was about to have our first kid and I started a business so that I could work from home and be with them more. I start at 7.30am and finish at 4.30pm. I usually work a half day on the weekend, and occasionally allow myself to take a weekday off to take my family to the zoo, or go shopping or whatever it is we feel like doing.

We're not rich, and we're always keeping an eye on the budget, but in exchange I've spent every day of the first two years of my sons life with him. In may we'll have our second, and I hope to achieve the same for him (or her!).

It IS hard work. I DO have to be disciplined. But with a careful balance of contract work and "Startup" work, we're doing ok.

We may never hit it rich, but whenever I hear my son cracking up laughing, I can walk out and see why and join in. That's worth more than any startup will ever be worth.