skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One more "pain" - looking for job and having your resume and info the same on all those job boards.
If you delete account, it will get purged completely out of servers.

No, we are not sending any kind notifications at this point of time, and we don't plan to include advertisement anyway.

What we actually planning, are new services that you can benefit from, basing on ability to manipulate the data.

In fact, you don't have to give us any credentials to other networks to use our site.

Thanks!
Well let's hand it to Newsweek for enforcing a crappy version of the page because I'm viewing it from my iPhone. It doesn't take me to a mobile version of the story, just a mini-list of "mobile stories".

Dear Newsweek, get a clue.
Your comment reminds me of something I once learned about simplicity in complex business systems.

The early ERP systems had complex algorithms computing action items for people to act upon (what to buy, what to adjust, what to move, what to make, etc.) Nobody understood them. So everyone had a built in excuse, "The computer did it." The bosses had trouble holding people accountable because a) the bosses didn't understand the algorithms themselves and b) It was hard to argue with that logic.

Then ERP systems starting using much simpler altorithms and rules. For example, "Don't tell me to change anything unless it's more than 3 days early or more than 3 days late." Something anyone could understand. It took about 10 years, but man and machine finally started working together.
Given your privacy policy (http://atomkeep.com/member/privacy) that's a little hard to swallow.

These two sections stick out:

"Atomkeep.com may use personally identifiable information collected through our website to contact Users regarding products and services offered by Atomkeep.com and its trusted affiliates. We may also use information collected through our website for research regarding the effectiveness of the website and the marketing, advertising and sales efforts of Atomkeep.com, and its trusted affiliates."

"Atomkeep.com will not disclose information about customers or users without express permission unless the release of said information is required by a trusted affiliate to facilitate action requested by the client, or is required by government subpoena. However, we may transfer information collected from Users in connection with a sale of our business."
There is always a top-ten section refreshed every 24 hours.
Also upcoming stories don't get to the front page as easy, for THAT you use an algorythm.
This one was good too - bomb squad called in over cardboard boxes painted like Mario ? blocks.

http://www.bladediary.com/questionblocks/index.html
The scientific method's death is a little premature
We'll need to take time and write it in a more proper way. Thanks for pointing this.
Just took my 4yo to see this today - loved it. Cute :) When I buy the DVD, I'll look for these.
it is taxed much higher than passive income

Could you elaborate on this a little bit? The passive/active divide is a little fuzzy to me, especially since you apparently include "subscription fees from web apps" in the "passive" category. It seems to me that such fees will either be taxed as ordinary income (if they're coming into a pass-through entity such as an S-corp or some LLCs) or 'double-taxed', first at a corporate rate, and then at a 2nd personal rate when you transfer them from the company to yourself. (The combined effective tax rate generally seems higher than the pass-through rate.)

I can see the lower effective rate being justified a couple of ways: considering the effects of FICA/Medicare taxes, restricting consideration to cap gains (e.g. appreciation in publicly-traded stocks) or tax-free securities, etc. But I'd be interested in where you draw the line between "earned" and "passive" income, and how you conclude that "passive" is taxed at a "much" lower rate.
Could we have a definition of what this does on the profile page? (Along with the other fields.)
Studies can show anything if you cherry pick the right statistics out.

Personal experience says being a parent is one of the coolest and most enjoyable things you can do with your life.

You could also say that "being in a relationship makes people less happy" - quite likely true if you pick out the right statistics.
There are fish that habitually eat which are eaten by fish that are in turn eaten by other fish. So, fish eat. Even fish [that] fish eat [have to] eat. And fish eat fish that eat fish that eat.

Also try it with varying nouns and verbs: Mice cats dogs chase eat sleep. (Dogs chase cats that eat mice that sleep.)

I like it because it seems to exploit a very low maximum stack depth in human sentence parsing.
It's the other way around. yts goes up as the posts are made a greater and greater distance in the future from 12/08/2005. That means that the ratings of new posts are pushed UP, rather than older posts being pulled down.
I use FeedDemon as I like having a dedicated app for this. FeedDemon used to be awesome when you paid for it; now that they have a free edition, it keeps getting more and more bloated - worst of all, it it 10x buggier today than it was 2-3 years ago :( Still the best I've found though.

It's here if anyone wants to use it: http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/FeedDemon/Default.aspx
Payment processing, legal overhead
Hello, I'm a developer running a site by myself. I'm considering adding a feature which allows visitors to pay for services from other visitors. I would like to do this incurring minimal legal cost and minimal operational cost. I would write the software which does payment/order processing , have the money transferred to my account, and cut monthly checks to people who made money.

1) How much legal overhead is involved in providing such a service, and what legal issues should I expect to face?

2) Would this be classified as a money transfer service, like tipjoy is? (http://tipjoy.com/faq/#q8)

3) Is it reasonable for one person to pull this off? Why/why not?

Any information would be helpful, I'm just brainstorming at this point.
Wow. This blows my mind. I have to beg people to email me instead of trying to IM me, talk to me, or (God forbid) send me a Facebook message.

FTFA:
"You can do something as simple as calling people instead of e-mailing them. If you work on the same floor, you can even walk over to their desks and talk to them!"

Interesting. When I'm hard at work coding, I really don't want to be interrupted. (See Peopleware.) If you need something from me, email me.

Email allows me to respond at my leisure (which is fairly often, but not while I'm in the zone, please). Email also allows me to keep a searchable record of what is said (IM has logs, but most of everything is in email). Lastly, email is my task list and if you communicate something to me in a different way, I just have to send myself an email.
You might want to check out "Nutch"/"Wikia Search" ( http://re.search.wikia.com/about/get_involved.html )... They let you download their copy of the web ( http://search.isc.org/download/ ) Not exactly Yahoo quality, but it might be enough to get started on some smaller scale projects.
Using Ruby for IMAP with Gmail
Amen. I really would have expected more open-mindedness here. This whole "muslim plague" narrative I'm hearing from european right-wingers is straight out of 1920's america. It's all the same terms, all the same fear, all the same demographics. The only thing different is the proper nouns.
It's pretty funny when you criticize "cherry picking", then immediately cite "personal experience" as evidence for a position.
Ask YC: What do you think of my new startup?
Please could you spare a few minutes to check out: http://foobets.com and give me your honest opinion.

The basic idea is to allow a community of users to 'pitch' and 'bet' on predictions in tech, sport, politics etc.

The first few hundred folk to sign up get a free Pro Account, which I'm considering charging at $10 per year, but might give away free if I decide to ignore 37 Signals advice and follow PG's strategy to grow as quickly as possible.
It would be fun to retake the SAT as an adult (not just online, going to the testing center and all), knowing that it doesn't matter at all to you.
Education and work experience also change very rarely.
I cannot resist to say, simple and effective. Simplicity is beauty :)
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This guy is tilting at windmills.

Turing did not have "ideas" about the limits of computation but a mathematical proof.

Bitch all you want - but you first of all need to understand what the man was on about - then maybe you can chip away at a few edge cases.
this article reveals that the next version of windows won't be a from-the-ground-up rewrite, as had been rumored. microsoft's research arm built just such an operating system, however.
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I agree with jfarmer, this is a no-go situation. Imagine I give you all my accounts like FB and G, and then you store it in some unsecure manner and it gets hacked... Or, what if you decide to send spam on my behalf using my accounts. These accounts are too important to take "some" startups word for it.
Yeah but the difference is, I labelled it as "personal experience", and not some sort of "study". I also did not state it was in any way evidence for anything.

I simply said that in my experience, it's been great fun...
It's up to you though. Don't have kids.. Don't buy a house. Go travelling. Just don't get to 80 and wish you had done things differently.
A group of my 20+yo friends saw it and we loved it.

WALL•E was excellent.
you might consider adding an openid signup/signin
I find it hard to believe that kick-ass Linux kernel developers (among many others) give away a whole operating system, worth billions in dev. costs, yet on the same planet someone is thinking about charging $10 for a time waster.

There is nothing wrong with trying to make a buck. But the disparity of programmers' mindsets is amazing.
We are not an Instant Messenger service. We are not about making people change everything daily.
We do not store anything, but your login. You password is asked only when we do something.
Why put up this strawman? There is nothing in the article about either the limits of computation or a mathematical proof. Pretty much all it says is that the Turing sequential (or algorithmic) conmputing model is inadequate and I agree. We need a better model.
Yes, don't try to charge for this, you will get nowhere fast..

Giving away a few hundred Pro accounts may get you so far, but as soon as you stop you will come to a brick wall - I can't see people paying for this.

Though I do like the idea a lot! ;)
Just a thought: you could add a brief explanation on what people can get using your app, just a couple of words on the start page.
Same here, we use Engine Yard and have gone through several slashdot/digg/TC posts with no problem. Never have a headache with them.
Sorry to be a nerd, but that wasn't an ad hominem, it was just an insult. (it made me laugh though.)
I don't think people realized that you were a professional host but that you were telling the guy to do it himself. What is your site?
Let's see.

Since (all ?) europeans countries birthrates are agnostics, they include the recently immigrated people as well. Therefore, they include the muslims people. If everything above is true, and the birthrates are still low, then the article contradicts itself when it says : "[...] — mostly Muslim — who have yet to be infected by the modern malady called family planning [...]".

It appears on the contrary, according to our low birthrates, that they don't have as much childs as we fear. Whatever the reality is, there is a logical fallacy somewhere.

Since the science of demography knowns only 2 factors : (1) birthrates (2) migration flows (wich are continuous), we are left with the only other explaination.

Maybe you understand now why you are deluding yourself if you study demographics without considering the whole world population, because this is what is feeding the migration flows. Whatever the laws you pass, you won't be able to stop people from all over the world to try to escape their life of misery, people who have such hopes for a better life that they take insane risks to make it and more than often die in the journey. The first waves of US immigrants were people fleeding oppression too.

But the true problem isn't even here. The demographic doxa wich states that we should have everlasting high birthrates is closely tied the Economic Growth paradigm, and it is the true responsible for the great post-war immigration policies that european countries engaged in. This doxa (more people = more consumers = more taxpayers = more economic growth) is the true responsible for the situation you describe. If you're looking for an ennemy, then fight this doxa.

Maybe we can live in a world where "less is more". Malthus would have been probably right if he lived today : our earth has limited ressources and our problems are just starting as a lot of emerging countries are catching up with the Occidental lifestyle. A lot of our current problems could be solved by having less people around (from education to transportation and ravaged landscapes).

Even if our technology allows us to make it, there is no philosophical nor practical reason to be 20 billions on earth instead of 6 or 3 or even 1. Especially if the conditions of life are greater, common sense would suggest less quantity for more quality. Less misery in black Africa, less hopeless immigrants, and why not, less malls in Occident.

The more people reproduces in poor countries, the more they'll take their shot at trying to reach richer countries. That's just, well, human. In trying to produce too much wealth, the process just becomes destructive for the cultures at some point and benefits to nobody.
> Past the third generation, minorities stop being minorities.

False. Native Americans and Hispanics do not fully assimilate in the United State, ever. We have five generations of data. Globally there are many other examples. In fact, the data show that after the third generation Hispanic educational attainment regresses. You cannot compare what's happening now to the past experience in the US of assimilating waves of western European ethnicities. At the very least there's the critical difference of very long periods of virtually zero immigration in the past.

> In 50 years, all this "ZOMG Muslims!" mania is going to look equally dumb.

In France in the 1890s there was a bunch of alarmism about how the German birthrate was so much higher and this posed a big threat. Of course, it all blew over and Germany never ever bothered France again and the alarmists looked dumb.

> No one freaks out (here in the US) about the Polish Menace any more, nor about what all those greasy catholics...

There is a certain fundamental incompatibility between The West and Islam. There are a lot of Hindus in the West, you know, and nobody really has big issues with them. The comparison to Catholic immigration is ridiculous. You can sing "It's a Small World" all you want, but back here in the real world there are deep differences between cultures.
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Dude, chill. Not every one who is childless plays Halo and not everyone who plays Halo is childless.

Ditto with the porn.
This article is a positive. Those people who read it and decide not to have children, they are at least not replicating there DNA meaning future generations will not have to deal with those who only have love for themselves.

Reminds me of the story of Narcissus where Narcissus fell in love with himself once he saw his reflection. He was so in love with his reflection he didn't leave to eat and died.
I don't know, I think kids are one of those things that change your mind about a lot of things, when you actually have them.

It's funny hearing non-parents views sometimes, as they bear little relation to how things really go in practice.

Imagine taking relationship advice from someone who has never had a girlfriend. Sure, they can have an opinion, but I'm not likely to take much notice of it.
At my old job we used to play basketball once a week after work. I can't say either this article is true or not, but one thing for sure: guys with kids were much less eager to leave the court and go home. They were the last to leave and first to beg others (kidless) to stay and play a little longer.
The percentage indicator seems misplaced. Its a bit confusing at first to even know what it means.
adding a question mark at the end would have been more accurate
Why is the graph not arranged by date? Can't even see trends with that. This is meaningless.
So by your logic, why have a girlfriend either?
> A few generations back there was no "western culture".

Huh? Try as far back as the Gallic Wars. There has been a concept of The West for over 1500 years.

You are aware of the Crusades?
He isn't saying you shouldn't have an opinion, but that you won't _get_ it until you are a parent. I am not a parent, but I can understand that I DON'T know what if feels like until you are. I didn't know what love was until I had a long term girlfriend, and I didn't know what love really was until I broke up with that girl and found the right one, even though I thought I did. So I think it is reasonable to extend that to - you have no idea what it feels like to be a parent until you are one. The pool of parents is so large I don't think you can make broad generalizations, I think a lot of it has to do with the stress of paying for kids so breaking it up by class would be interesting.
Clojure solves this particularly elegantly by using persistent data structures. This works really well if you've got automatic garbage collection, but is almost impossible to pull off when managing memory manually. Java has some decent concurrent/atomic data structures.

I've written implementations of lock-free data structures in C++ before, and in the end it's always the memory management that complicates everything immensely because you have to watch out for dangling references and need to make up arbitrary, hard-to-enforce access rules as a consequence.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the biggest nail in the coffin of C++. Not the insanely complex syntax, not the compiler niggles, but, ironically, the inability to scale and perform well in a concurrent environment - and C++ has been the domain of those wanting the highest possible speed in serial code. And memory management is one of the arguments that's often been used in C/C++'s favour and is now actually killing it.
Charging won't work IMHO...
However, why not make it an actual betting system where people can make money, then skim a profit from each bet/trade/etc.

Sure, might have some legal hoops to jump through, but an online betting on tech things could be fun and profitable.

Positioning it as something that you can make money with, makes it a whole different thing IMHO.
Just extend it.

(Fish [that] (fish [that] fish [habitually] eat) [habitually] eat) [habitually] eat [food].

Fish fish fish fish fish eat eat eat eat eat!
Mathemagic performance (TED video)
Write one.
Because it's fun? Not everything you do has to be an achievement - in fact you would look pretty odd saying 'my greatest achievement was having a girlfriend'.

There isn't really anything wrong with just having fun, but the human race would be better off if people had more of a sense of perspective.
OpenID is the first step.
OpenProfile is the next in line.
Exactly, what happens when you get older and realize that you haven't actually DONE anything.

You will die and no one will actually blink an eye. YOU may have had great experiences, but if you have no one with to share them, after you die they are gone.

Start a great company? How many of the web 2.0 companies people are starting actually will change people's lives?
oddly enough, I mis-typed, even though I knew it and think of it as "hacker news"
I also doubt that there will have to be no theory. While you can analyze huge datasets and look for correlations, you probably need a theory to give you an idea of what data you should collect. Imagine if you tried to build the Large Hadron Collider without any particle physics theory to guide you in the design? How do you decide how to build it and what you should look for? If you build it on a hunch, you might stumble onto some really interesting things, but in most cases it will probably be an expensive collection of nothing special...
I wouldn't go to a non-parent for advice on how to quiet a toddler or get your kids to help clean the house. On the other hand, parents can be somewhat irrational when it comes to societal issues. Risk tolerance goes way down, particularly for "dramatic" risks like child abduction.
How exactly is it "hateful" to have opinions on immigration policy?
In eight generations time, about 200 years, your offspring will have 256 ancestors to learn about.

Do you really think they will bother if you have no other achievements other than having kids? How much do you know about your ancestors from the 1800s? How much do you know about the greatest scientests from the 1800s?

Immortality doesn't come from your children. For most of us we don't have a shot at it at all, of course. But as we will be dead I doubt we will care.
The guy runs http://dnforum.com - he is a very well known domainer. He just took the job not too long ago. There was a thread about it on DNForum.

GoDaddy knew this - it is probably why they hired him. By doing that they probably knew that he would continue his domaining business activities. (Which could, at some point in the future, create a conflict of interest.)

That said.. I don't think this is that big of a deal. So the guy won a few domain auctions - if he wasn't there someone else would have won them. He just happens to be the person that won in this case.
I remember 2001 i was 11 and me and a buddy of mine went to a computer club to play D2. We started the game, conected with each other, but i played with someone elses carecter and we robed him. We made a lot of gold and then got beat up by the owner of the character. I miss those days, i didn't care about anything and i was happy playing for hours(i didn't own a PC then so those hours cost money). Now i only wonder which one should i choose, playing Diablo 3 or studying for my math exam next year, or getting a girlfriend?Blizzard, why are you so cruel to meeee!
What if t is not the age but the first time the story made it to front page? That way old links that suddenly gain popularity can bubble up one day.

I've submitted some good stories only to find that they were posted a few days ago but were not noticed because of bad timing or bad title.
I always imagined that the reddit/HN/Digg algorithms (if you can call it that) went something like this:

1) submit article

2) attach Unix timestamp

3) increment/decrement each timestamp by a fixed time interval of Unix seconds for each upvote/downvote

With this scheme, there is one operation (add a positive or negative increment). Eventually each article will naturally decay as time moves on. You can adjust the size of the increment to be weighted more closer to the actual submission time and have the increment decay to an average to accelerate "hotter" postings to the top if you don't like linear increments.

The overall idea is to project an article (in Unix timestamp) into the future by the number of upvotes; this timestamp is merely a ranking "key". The front page articles would have a Unix timestamp of one or two days into the future depending on how many votes. This would naturally place currently submitted articles somewhere a few pages back.

It more or less mimics the same thing (doesn't it?).
The then Dean of Caius, the late Rev Hugh Montefiore, had an inkling who was responsible and sent a congratulatory case of champagne to their staircase, while maintaining in public he knew nothing of the culprits.

that's definitely the best part! good to know that some people can take a joke