skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this for tipjoy. It's really useful.

Until there is a good scheme migration tool though, I've found that I'm making other models for what should really go into a profile - just out of convenience.

Anyone use any beta modules for scheme evolution for Django successfully?
Crowds are never wise, since they promote the status quo intelligence, which today is frightingly low.
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I don't get why most everyone on HN assumes all hackers are < 30, have no family, and would give their left nut to live in a big city or The Valley.

I know plenty of middle-aged experts in the computer industries with wives and kids who love it out "in the country" and wouldn't trade it for anything else.

While there's a lot to be said for the bling and bang of living in somewhere like NYC, Seattle, SF, Chicago (my hometown! :D), or the valley; there's a whole 'nother side to the coin that involves a quite family life away from the city and the people.
i know this site - you may have to manually print all the chapters or just learn online.. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_intro.asp
This is outrageous bordering idiotic. I still don't get why youngsters refuse to be intelligent.
I don't personally feel any pain by having these in different places. If other people do, then you might be on to something, but otherwise, why not focus on a piece that isn't done well elsewhere, rather than replicating common things (job search, news, forums, etc.)? In particular, I haven't seen a quick-and-dirty outsource app done well. Ideally, I think you want something kind of along the lines of linkedin, where you post jobs to people you know. I'm not going to give SCM credentials to a stranger on elance. If this does well, you could build a community around it, rather than starting with a community.
Quality links can mean more that most on-site SEO for many keywords.
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Investing your life now in a startup seems more like hiking the AT while doing a job 9-5 is more like running on a treadmill in a gym, A couple friends who have hiked the AT (Appalachian Trail) have described that during the course of the semi-year trip, you shed your external identities (e.g. what you do in the real world) and see the beautiful and ugly and honest side of your trailmates. I've noticed recently in discussions with old friends that we talk about frankly about rather serious health issues - I guess that's a modern sign of letting down your guard, trusting someone.
it's called sex and the city. I am not exagerating, but there is a whole generation of women that want to be in "the City", and living the fun/glam life. Anything else is just too boring. Hence, there is much more women than men in NYC.
Well, the reality of living in the city, is completely different, way too expensive, and too many sacrifices to be made.

But, when you are young (early 20s), you are used to live in dorms, sharing a room with another person, etc... so you could put up with those conditions for a while, until it wears you off, and you either get a good paying job, or move out.
I am proud to have the #3 or #4 site for manbearpig and man bear pig related information.

http://www.google.com/search?q=manbearpig

Honestly it's a little sad just how much of our traffic is manbearpig related.
Nothing out of the ordinary!

Not a single word on that page! No meta tags, no text, nothing but a 2 word title. That is out of the ordinary.

If you think that is an easy term to rank for, your mistaken, the next result down is PBS.
could you add "employeers on a startup" in that list? What's the ratio of people that made good fortune (500k+) on a startup, with those that just got scraps, and an ok paycheck, for a lot of work, or nothing at all.
Delphi uses Double as date/time since version 1 IIRC, and works pretty good. I myself created a mini lib on a C project, but don't know if I'd follow the same route again nowadays (you know, DRY and DRTFW - Don't Reinvent The F* Wheel).
Having the right users is more important than having the right features
There might well be no problem to solve here but ... http://www.paulgraham.com/newthings.html
What actually happened was on the previous update google experimented with a PR hit on sites that were selling links. It was specifically targeted to sites who were doing so with intentions of altering the SERPs. Thus paid links that had specific keyword specific anchor text. Most of the sites on the Internet were affected. Sites with organic links, I.e links that were plain advertising without intentions to manipulate the SERPs were not affected! On this last update the vast majority of the sites which had a reduction regained their lost PR. Instead this time round Google have implemented another strategy which looks highly effective.
The majority of "the valley" is suburban and there is absolutely no glamour to living in San Jose. An hour from Palo Alto, and you're in Gilroy, a rural community in the middle of nowhere.

In a lot of ways Silicon Valley is rural/very suburban and far removed from big city life.
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Actually, thats not true. When a crowd operates according to certain constraints (see "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds) they don't promote status quo intelligence, but rather gather the knowledge of individuals composing the crowd.
There's only 220,000 competition. The main factors (yes before, and after all these latest updates) are title tag, and links - both of which you have.

Since its a low competition keyword, you don't need everything to rank. But saying that, you have 4000~ incoming links, which is pretty high.
PBwikis. Sticky for almost 500,000.
You mean to say that homeless are lazy and have no work ethic?

That's true of most homeless, I think. But a small minority of them probably are good physical laborers who just lack the ability to find good jobs. I wonder how one could weed these out of the general homeless population.
GEB? Might take you more than a week, but it's great reading.
Why? Their priorities are socializing and getting by.

It is their choice, and I think it is ignorant to judge them 'idiotic'.
Not a single YC company that I know of has made any remarkable amount of money without being sold. But, in fact, many YC companies have made considerable amounts of money by selling themselves.

Why is having the goal of being sold while making things people want not that great of a strategy?
220K competition sure sounds like a lot to me.

So you agree then that white hat SEO, I.e. meta tags, H1 text, page text, page layout, content on the page, keyword density, validation, is all absolutely pointless. My point entirely!
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Unfortunately, a sizeable percentage of homeless also suffer from mental illnesses that directly impact their ability to hold down a job. A friend of mine who works at a metropolitan hospital constantly sees homeless people there, by their entrance not to beg but because they want to be admitted, to get treated, to get off the streets.
Don't be a boss. Be a leader.

If you can't be a leader, then be a manager.

But please, don't be a boss.
Some people I knew in high school - their big ambition (some of them since they were little) was to get married young live in the suburbs stay at home raise their family. And they're doing that - e.g. like it or not, they're successful. The beauty of being human is your choices can change, as your circumstances change.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.
Most keywords that actually generate traffic have much more results returned, usually 1 million plus, 5 million is pretty normal.

Keywords that generate traffic can also be marked by the amount of PPC ads that appear for the keyword, people paying money don't go after stuff that doesn't generate clicks, or even impressions.

What you've listed there as white hat SEO is just the on-site SEO side of it.

Are you the author of the article? or just submitted it?
I've just noticed, you're actually position 3, on page 2 (not 1).

That puts it even more into perspective.
30 years ago
Now if only Youniversity Ventures had a fund to help aspiring Stanford entrepreneurs to pay Stanford tuition.
He kept asking for soup & quackers?
I know plenty of South Africans that would go for this, in fact I know a guy who was "migrant" worker in the states. Drove a harvester. Two of my other friends worked for a traveling Carnival in the USA.

They all got to see a large portion of North America, and saved some money in the process.
"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." --Alan Perlis
Absolutely. If I could go just one day without hearing about Twitter's problems and some lame solution to them, I'll be happy. Give the team time to fix the problems and they will; the new team knows how to do it, has a plan and is working towards this plan as we speak. All this conversation about decentralizing Twitter, Twitter-proxies and Netflix-style bounties on re-implementations is just link bait, IMHO.
Um, exit via acquisition is not a business model. By very definition. Link bait trash.
Well of course it will end piracy. I mean, obviously. Look at how well the TPM chip stopped the OSX86 project from installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware!
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“You’ve got to forget about brands, you’ve got to forget about, you know, what your mom made you growing up, and take what’s out there.”

So?

Isn't this what people always had to do to get by?

But now it's so unusual it merits a NYT feature story?

Cry me a river.
thanks for the hint, ill go with the quick-and-dirty outsource app instead of the whole shebang.
Paypal has been terribly broken for 10 days and no one's talking about it
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Some of the advice is very useful, i.e. target the right industry and company (soft developers should try to work for a big software development firm)
Great post. Cliff Click, Jr. should read this right away and think some more about this "new paradigm".
Alan Kay and friends do some amazing stuff
Samsung said its 256-gigabyte solid state drive (SSD) for data storage is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives.

To me this just emphasizes how advanced traditional HDDs are. I would've expected a bigger increase in speed.

Then again, I'm not sure how significant a single number is (random access, small files, large files, seek time...)
But do you think any YC combinator wouldn't have eventually made a lot of money if they hadn't sold? Selling your startup doesn't cause it to have value; that's backwards. YC startups were sold for money because presumably the purchaser thought they would be worth at least that much money in the future.

If you can build something people want, it seems relatively easy to convince some fraction of those users to pay for it. Convincing a big company to buy you is a long shot; convincing a big company to do anything (even if you work there) is tough.

Look at Dinosaur Comics -- that guy can't even draw, but he's making a living at it. Now imagine trying to sell such a crazy idea to an existing company.

If you can make something people want, it almost seems irrelevant to think about big companies. They'll only consider buying you once you look like a solid business proposition already. It's a reward, not a bailout.
I think Twitter should put out a personally hosted version of their service, maybe sell it to people for a nominal fee ($10-25). That way the uptime is improved (spread over a lot more computers and decentralized) and they start to have a revenue stream. Providing both better service and making some money seems like a step in the right direction...
Look at Dinosaur Comics -- that guy can't even draw

I think his drawings are pretty good.
One language is higher level than another one for a given problem when it allows a solution to a given problem to be specified in a way that introduces a minimum of concepts and issues external to the domain of the problem.

For example if your problem is to allow a doctor to find the best treatment for a patient with a given disease, you would say an expert system that allows said doctor to express the medical facts and reason about them is higher level than something like Lisp and a raw REPL because the last thing the doctor presumably wants to worry about is something like how a given data structure is implemented.
Servee, looking for Designers in the Bay area to show off to.
No, that's absurd. It's about the level of abstraction, not how close it is to natural languages. Yes, most natural languages support high levels of abstraction, but that does not mean that languages that support high levels of abstraction are close to natural languages. They can still be quite far apart in other ways.

Basically, low levels of abstraction are closer to the underlying mechanics. Higher levels of abstraction allow you to think about what happens without having to worry about the fiddly little details. It's like the difference between neurology (comparatively low-level) and psychology (higher level).
There are plenty of companies that get acquired before having a solid business proposition. Jaiku (along the lines of Twitter) is a recent example, but there are many others. A company can be acquired for a variety of reasons. Maybe the team is a good fit for the parent (talent acquisition). Maybe the product is hard to monetize on its own but it's a good feature that will increase the value of something else (could have been Xobni).

Perhaps it's a loss leader, a service that you plan to give away in order to attract customers to your main business (a contrived example, Godaddy could buy some game that somehow encouraged you to buy domain names).
It used to be, but 1997 is a while ago; the Bishop book is more popular nowadays, I believe.
Yeah. I've played with it. It's very cool! The question is.. why can't the rest of us do this kind of stuff? :)
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Although it's funny and refreshing seeing a comment from like that from Mr. "Advanced CORBA Programming with C++" Vinoski after all these years, there are plenty of good systems built around RPC primitives. It just took them a long time to work out their failure modes because they couldn't reason about them the way they could in an Erlang system.
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This is all decisively untrue. The TPM (or rather, Intel TXT) was specifically designed for this purpose.

What's tripping you up is that the vocabulary they use to describe it is rootkits and OS integrity. But it's the same thing for DRM and copy protection. The idea is a chain of trust that runs from the application code all the way to the chipset, or, more simply, that the system can assure itself that it knows what code is running.

If you take away the ability to inject or modify running code, and provide a secure key store, lots of DRM systems become quite difficult to break. By and large, they work by keeping sensitive code encrypted except while it's executing.
The TPM doesn't live "on the motherboard"; it lives in the Intel chipset. It's not something you just elect not to mount on your board.

Even if it was elective --- and again it isn't --- it helps most consumers more than it hurts. Modders are perhaps 1% of the market. Considerably more than 1% of the market wants full disk encryption and two-factor auth to their bank accounts, both things that the TPM offers.
My pitch is ill-defined and I realize now how similar it must seem to Yelp. However, I would like to elaborate on this point that you made about "slow growth" with a question:

Would Facebook be as popular if anyone could create anyone else's page? They would upload basic information - maybe a picture or two, a few interests, add a few friends, hardly ever write in the blog.

When the person writing content for these pages has a personal investment in the business or venue, the page becomes much more vibrant. Users on Yelp are given points for adding and reviewing places, but the number of pictures they upload, for example, is a non-factor in their user ranking.

Thus, I respectfully disagree with your assessment that this will slow growth.

I'm planning on starting with a small and well-defined geographic reach - say, one small area like a city or a state. Once that user base is satisfied, then I'll work to expand the application's reach.

One more thing, though - I would not be quick to call the profile creation on this web application "burdensome." Most venues, including several branches of a national chain, have difficulty reaching their customer base. The chain "Chili's" for example, has a Web site for their national chain, but few if any (I couldn't find any on a recent search) of their individual venues have Web sites. That means there's very little interchange between the consumer and the venue.

This web application was initially created so that people could not only organize their places, but shape them to some extent. If enough people complain in reviews of an individual Chili's venue that the cash registers are understaffed, that venue will take notice.
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I apologize if it was legit. This is a hard position to fill. Mostly because farming is more of a lifestyle than a "job." It is going to be hard to find someone interested who didn't grow up in the culture, even if the pay and perks seem good.
The TPM had absolutely nothing to do with OS X's hardware binding. You're thinking of the SMC.
Economies win arms races. The Cold War ended because we outspent the Soviets. The DRM arms race will work the same way; it's over when one side makes it prohibitively expensive for the other to keep up.

If you look at the amount of effort it took to break the last X360 iteration, or the fact that there's still no public break of Apple FairPlay, you can see where this is going. If it costs $500,000 to break BD+ v1, and Macrovision has v2, v3, v4, and v5 sitting on the shelf, DRM starts to look a little less silly.
Ask YC: Best Place to Sell a Website/Domains?
Looking to sell a couple functional websites and great domains.... Where is the best place to list / sell?!
I wouldn't trust design advice from someone who makes a site like this: http://www.servee.com
There is probably a bit of the sex and the city effect, but this lifestyle has been a part of new york since new york began.
I think Loopt makes quite a lot of money, actually.

The bad strategy is to build a company few buyers would want.
If you make a good product, it goes back to being a good strategy.
This is a good example of HN users linking to the original source, not just TechCrunch.Much more information, better written (because it's actually happening to Sean @ Clicky not just being reported about) AND it has important practical updates.

Plus parts of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=200028 devolved into a conversation about Arrington.
If food prices keep rising, there'll be a lot of quality careers in Kansas.
too bad this just as powerset only searches wikipedia and a little more, cant really tell how good it is then.
So a group of young people wants to move to an expensive city for the fun and glamour because everything else is just too boring, you say? Funny how that works.
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I don't know if it's piling on as much as "I also disagree with this".
... if you want your Ruby code to look more like Perl.
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Since the food prices are rising primarily due to the price of gas, perhaps there'll be a lot of farming jobs (even careers!) nearer to major cities.
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I think there are probably two schools of thought here. Steve Barsh argues you need to define your customer, their problem, and your extremely compelling solution, then code.

PG tends to argue the other way - code first, release early, GET USERS, and then have them define the solution they need.

Working with a number of businesses I don't think there's a right or wrong. The risk with Steve's method is inbuilt assumptions you can make answering his questions, long before a real person ever sits in front of your program.
YC companies have a ready market of potential buyers because of pg's credibility. Building-to-sell would be significantly riskier and less strategically sound for a non-YC company.
Never said how many 18 to 20 hour days. Depending on this answer, this could be an excellent setup for a software startup. Work double shifts during planting and harvesting, single shift and part time the rest of the year. Live for free, write software the rest of the time. Bank everything. All you'd need is broadband and some deposit slips. By the time your software was done, you could be your own angel.
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Not quite sure what you mean by this. At best, its the least constructive criticism ever. Please elaborate
To the point where you endanger your health and freedom. Startup entrepreneur usually live in the same condition but for different reasons. They want to build a small empire, business, or just help people etc.. But to live in eat ramon for lunch and diner just so your mail is sent to a Manhattan address goes beyond my understanding.
Maybe that was too harsh. I apologize to them.
I think asking what a high level language is akin to asking "What is tall?" If you're talking about buildings, tall can mean one thing, if you're talking about toddlers, tall can mean another. Haskell can seem like a low-level language to, say, English.

A "level" of a language is a very relative concept, but you can approximately define a hierarchy of languages relating the level of one language to another using some arbitrary comparison.

Since my background is in operating systems and some compilers, I'd say anything C and anything higher level is "high level," but then again, that can mean anything :)
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Ask HN: good place to store code online?
what is the best place to store code online?
i want to have a backup of my files somewhere in case something happens and an emailadress is just annoying for this kind of thing.

i could use google doc to save the soource code but i just want to be able to store it as a .py-file or .scm-file and download directly later.

mozy seem to cost even for the smallest storage?
xdrive has 5GB free though.

any tips? should obv support any fileformat.
getdropbox.com
works like a charm.
Seriously! That's exactly what I thought. I'm a (married) consultant living in Queens. I work at businesses all over Manhattan and I find that I'm the only guy bagging my own lunch (seriously - never seen anybody else do it in the two years I've been doing this here). I'm from the south, so I find the NYC idea of "budgeting" to be absolutely laughable.
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it is like being an artist (let's say a painter). You spend 9 months day in and day out painting a "Mona Lisa". You better make sure all the notables like your work. If not you may as well have been working for the love of it because the guys who walk in the gallery will only eat your cheese, drink your wine, have a quick look at your painting and at best comment about it. But no money will be spent. Well unless you manage to sell them premium wine and cheese.

EDIT: @Diego. Had I read you comment, I would probably write mine differently. Apologies.
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