skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested in the HN feedback on this. Almost everyone agrees that when you have a small team startup that working together in an office is important. Then at some point it goes from everyone together as a good idea into a "corporate campus" and it seems a lot of people think the "corporate campus" is an evil bad idea. Is it really more about the company attitude than location?
to be fair, he's polluting Google (and possibly other search engines). Without Google returning his site as one of the possible results for that keyphrase, you'd have no idea his site existed.

Most people conflate "the internet" with what Google shows us when we search for things. The bigger issue is that an exact match keyword domain ranks ridiculously well in Google and yet they know that and aren't changing anything. $9 stands between you and a top 10 ranking for the majority of low competition keywords.
Solving edge-match puzzles with Arc and backtracking
The only reason we don't have it is we don't have accounts. I'd be happy to add it as a cookie setting for now if people would use it.

Also, I'm also happy to take requests to ban these stupid sites for everyone.
I believe you could achieve this by creating a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE).

> I don't, personally, need an algorithmic solution to spam.

Not now you don't. But if everyone started using your approach then the spammers would adjust their behaviour and use many domains instead of one.
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Have you seen Babette's Feast?
Eat better and exercise more.
I can't tell if you're saying that bicycle design is a 'solved problem' or if everything that can be invented has already been invented. Either one is a perfectly valid excuse for not looking at anything in an entirely different way, I suppose. People thought that fire solved all their energy needs for thousands of years, right?

Though the seat does look a little far off the center of gravity to me.
Because their links were fcked up in the process somehow. You need to remove that repeated domain and the /.../ part to get to the right page.
How does yegg deal with this on DuckDuckGo? A lot of us use his search engine, and it's a great one at that, which is not worth forgetting.
Sigh, makes me regret my setup even more, price-wise. I have a big early adopter problem. First SSD was $680 for 80GB, it died, Intel sent me a second generation replacement. Then I purchased a second for $400, put them in my 17-inch MBP (older core 2 duo) in RAID 0 via an optibay. Then upgraded to 8GB of RAM when I started using redis locally. System screams but the SSDs are showing their age. I almost always run the drives close to maxed out storage. I used to have large volumes like iTunes on my Time Capsule but whenever I wanted to play a song it would take 10 seconds for the Time Capsule to spin up the drive.

http://paulstamatiou.com/ssd-raid-performance-9-months-later

I'm waiting until Lion comes out for any more hardware changes. Now that I'm using Jekyll locally (and will be just rsyncing the files) and it needs to regenerate 1000+ posts with layout etc changes, the core 2 duo is showing its age. And I have LSI disabled..
Regarding hiding handles, I understood him to mean hiding the handle from a user until that user votes on it.
"Streets ahead"? :)

Try: Google [timpano casserole -"big night"]; first result is a credible book reference with a recipe.

We need to figure out a way to do some kind of startup supper club in Chicago.
If that is what he means, great idea. If it wasn't, that is a better version. =)
I flew on the Concorde at the EAA AirVenture (or whatever it was called back then) fly-in in 1994.

The thing I remember most about it was the ridiculously steep takeoff angle - that was when you could really tell you were on a different breed of aircraft than your standard Boeing.
"We don’t know. It’s complicated." But then there's the thought bubble with the words "Moral failure" in it:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/physician...
What else would you do if you have thousands of employees? You have to put them somewhere.
I`m actually curious as to what the campus looks like myself (interior). I have been searching for images with no avail. If anyone finds anything, link me?
Which would kill their chances at gaining significant ranking for each of their spam domains.
Primes greater than 2 are always odd. So your first differences will always be even. Since the first differences are always even, then so will be the second differences, and the third, and so on. So the final value will always be an even number given any finite sequence of primes > 2.
The project can't verify content for non-notable subjects.

If that was the case, there would be no need for notability policy, merely the current verifiability standards. Unfortunately, there are many verifiable subjects of legitimate interest to people (startups, English Premier League reserve goalkeepers, fashion models who have only appeared on six magazine covers in their career, Iranian power plants) that deletionists want Wikipedia to forget about entirely because they aren't "notable".
I've always felt that HN was too much of a firehose to digest everything anyway. I rarely visit the front page. I sift through the RSS feed and grab the 5 or 10 articles a day I find interesting.

I've shown HN to some of my coworkers, and they can't handle the volume of submissions. I personally think that 's what makes HN so valuable. The big stories aren't all that interesting to me. It's the random blog posts, often by members of the HN community, discussing something new and exciting that keeps me here. It's those 10 out of 200 stories in my RSS feed that catch my eye. Adding 50 off topic stories a day doesn't change those numbers that much. I'm still skimming for the needles in the haystack.
People might take you more seriously if you bothered to write a little about how you're qualified to even do so in your about section.
Google donated $2 million in early 2010:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia...
For tech products, the review them from the standpoint of an "average consumer"

Yeah, don't use them to rate tech products. But as far as coventional appliances go, they are a very good resource.
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I don't know where you heard that Mozilla is considering breaking the spec to improve JavaScript performance, but I can practically assure you that there are no plans to do that from what I've read.
Why would a corporate campus be seen as an evil bad idea?
Geez, it seems like just the other day they moved from downtown Palo Alto to that giant office way out past California Ave.
This is not too far from what I originally intended to reply to the article itself, too, until I read the other comments. My three would probably be soup, pizza and sweet potato fries. This would give you a kick start on sauces (soup base), breads (pizza dough) and deep frying.

I should also point out that we lived in a small organic farm, giving me the advantage of an abundant source of vegetables, fruits, eggs and dairy.
1) Yes, it's a work in progress, just like NaCl.

2) You're posing a what-if for 5 years down the road? Your horizon is really that far? Sounds like grasping for straws to me.
Exactly. HN has grown. And yes, there are more "bad" stories for everyone. But at the same time, there are more and more excellent stories that make it worth it.
Thanks for informing me, I fixed it.
Amazon was missing from the original list so here you go:
2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20000229073549/www.amazon.com/exe...
2009:http://web.archive.org/web/20091027180426/http://www.amazon....
From Airships to Waterslides
According to the article, just eat fewer carbs (and/or higher quality carbs) because even if they don't realize they're doing it, the people who "eat better" or "exercise more" also cut carbs which is what truly leads to the weight loss they experience.

I don't agree with the premise, for one thing there's a line or two about the science of metabolism as it relates to carbs and naught else to actually support the theory in the article, but alas the point of the article wasn't to prove, rather it was to disprove the methods of comparing diets typically used. That part it did well.
Email without spam (an idea)
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Ok, maybe I was wrong.
WP people don't want the encyclopedia to "forget about" those topics; they are bickering about whether they deserve entire pages to themselves.

... which again gives lie to the idea that the issue is "disk space".

I'm not trying to get sucked into this "deletionism" vs "inclusionism" argument, since those labels suck all the oxygen out of the discussion ("what, you're siding with people who think _why doesn't belong in WP?" --- of course not.) I'm just pointing out how bankrupt the original comment was.
That is overstating the thesis. The article is saying only that it is possible carb restriction is the sole cause of weight loss. While the writing suggests that the author believes that, the explicit point is that until we control for all variables, we can't know.
Honestly, I wouldn't have relied on a phone to wake me up. It's a phone, not an alarm clock. For something so important it can't be worth it to take the risk. Then again, if power goes out with a regular clock you're screwed. I guess the only safe thing to do is a combination of alarm clock types.
I really like that policy. It's clear what's allowed, what's definitely not, where the gray areas are, and who to talk to to get answer.
Any specific reasons you don't use them? It's a pretty interesting view from a security guy really... most of those I heard before say something like "it doesn't hurt to leave it running, while we do our stuff manually - sometimes it works".

Also, did you mean fuzzers in general or only web scanners?
"PG seems largely aloof from his piloting role"

I killed this at 52 minutes. Not that bad.

Nothing happened to HN traffic in October.
We need to figure out a way to do some kind of startup supper club in Chicago.

I'm down.
My big takeaway:

Crazy to think designers needed four small images to get a box with rounded corners.
I thought about it, but like with the iPad, I ended up not bothering with it. My thinking is that now that 4g is rolling out and the next thing is probably in the wings, it's better to use your phone as a wifi hub and connect that way. I just got a g2 and t-mobile makes no attempt to prevent you from doing this, at least as far as I can tell, and their 4g service is super fast so far.
Interesting. I get mail addressed to people with GMail addresses that are similar to mine (gaustin vs. g.austin). I sometimes wonder if other people get emails addressed to me...
Why wouldn't the foundation ever go corrupt? Trusting a single institution is never the kind of system that works--that's practically the first lesson of political history. What will keep Wikipedia going is the GFDL/Creative Commons licensing. The freedom to fork (thus distributing trust over many) is better than trusting any single entity.
So all the merchants that can't buy an ad aren't trying to subtly insert ads as content currently? Advertisers only have one choice now--try to get a mention, try to get a link, perhaps as a source--do whatever it takes to get into the content of the article.

If Wikipedia sold ads, they would have the alternative to buy an ad instead; I don't see how the problem of advertisement-as-content would be worsened when given a choice to buy an ad. If anything, I think it's the other way around.
> In contrast, the only thing I can think that would take out both a cell phone and a clock radio would be an EMP, or an explosion in the same room.

Perhaps more likely: the phone is close to discharged and a blackout happens. Both devices run out of power before morning.

Of course your point still stands.
I've been editing for a couple years now. The vast majority of articles beyond stub class are great. The ones that get brought up on AN/I or ArbCom or MedCab are generally on subjects that people hold very strong opinions on. For example, the first article I became very involved with was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Ar.... When I came to that article, it was in the middle of an edit war between Republican and Unionist factions. Each wanted the article to reflect their POV, so there was much arguing over whether the IRA "caused"/"was responsible for" X deaths, or they "murdered" X people. Similarly, many editors wanted to be sure that the page clearly showed they were a terrorist organization. WP:TERRORIST specifically prohibits the labelling of an organization as such, so instead those editors fought to have the article state that other organizations had labelled the IRA terrorists, etc.

That's generally how it goes on the sensitive articles. The three main areas of political debate on Wikipedia are Israel/Palestine, Eastern Europe, and Northern Ireland. There have been perennial edit wars, and many ArbCom cases. There have been mailing lists and drives by external organizations to infiltrate the ranks of Wikipedia so as to have their viewpoint expressed. There are admins who have acted improperly and had their status stripped, and there are others who have done the same with impunity. Basically, it's a shitstorm.

It also affects less than 0.001% of articles on Wikipedia. As far as articles with promotional points of view, recognize that many companies will actively edit the article on them, and it takes diligent community members to counteract their whitewashing. That's why WP:COIN and other noticeboards exist. Similarly, some people will edit an article with the goal of making the subject of that article look bad. The remedy is the same as for whitewashing: a neutral community member needs to fix the article.

The problem is that there are millions of Wikipedia articles, most of which the average editor will never come across. The community is big, but not that big. We will never make Wikipedia perfect, although I have some ideas for making it more so.

In the end, the best you can do is fix problems as you come across them. If you notice any patterns that you think could be identified algorithmically, consider writing a bot or, if you are unable to do so, approach one of the prolific bot writers like MZMcBride with your idea. Otherwise, just keep plugging away, and realize that the dramawhoring that characterizes the Wikipedia community is largely absent from the articles themselves.
I completely agree with #6. I don't understand why Ask HN posts decay faster. The first thing I browse on HN is Ask HN. These clearly has more values than a post about Apple releasing an update and what not.
It may be because I write (sometimes buggy) code for a living, but I always expect my iPhone alarm to fail. It never has, but the idea of having a second iPhone alarm as a backup is laughable.
There's a difference between how people interested in public health read this research and how people such as us who are interested in our own individual health read it. People interested in public health wonder, "What happens when you tell people to follow diet X?" That's what studies like this test.

People like us wonder, "What happens when an individual actually follows diet X?" Questions like this are never studied at all, because it's difficult and expensive. Almost everybody lies about their level of compliance, and when people aren't actually lying, they're still underreporting because most people remember eating less than they actually do.

Those facts about underreporting are not controversial. I don't know where the misrepresentation happens, whether in the science itself or in the science journalism, but the studies most people read about in the newspaper or on the web are not about diet from an individual point of view. They don't study what happens when somebody actually follows a certain diet. That would require keeping people in an institutional setting and controlling or monitoring their food intake around the clock. That's really expensive, and if you're interested in improving public health, it isn't useful to know what the results of following a particular diet are, because you don't have control over what people eat. You only have influence over the public health message: what people are told they should eat.

So that's what is studied. The scientific debate over diet is not about what you should eat to improve your health, but what we should tell the public to eat to improve their health. If 50% of people on a low-fat diet stay up all night eating low-fat cookies and big bowls of pasta with low-fat margarine, then from a public health perspective, low-fat diets make you fat.
Just scanners. Everyone uses Burp's fuzzer. And in the rare cases we end up doing network pentests, we will use Nessus.

Scanners make testers stupider. Even if you are conscientious about using them responsibly†, they still work to turn off the part of your brain that thinks about the kinds of flaws they do a good job of detecting. If you say you'll only run them at the end of a engagement to see if there's anything you missed, now you're working with a safety net.

† And we've worked on plenty of projects that had previous runs from teams that weren't responsible about scanners, with predictably horrific results.
I used to work on this campus in 1997. It kinda reminded me of an apartment complex in that there is a large open areas surrounded by free-standing buildings. At the time, there was a dry cleaners drop off, at least one small restaurant and an exercise facility. There's also a trail that rings the entire campus. In the building I had access to, the outer walls were built out with small offices that would fit 1-4 people and the middle part of the buildings had reception desks and labs. Everything was taupe and tan with the medium purple Sun color in contrast. The offices have nice large windows looking over the parking lot and the marshes beyond. There was plenty of nice break space, and I remember being surprised to find a room designated for women to pump breastmilk. But then, there were a lot of women on that campus.

ETA: if you click on the map link in the article and zoom in, you'll get a pretty good look. The building off to the left side of the picture that is most separate from the rest was the exercise facility. The building in the upper right is the one I worked in.
Wow, I'd forgotten how cheerful Ebay used to look.

Almost makes one want to use it..
In his defence, I find arguments that it's "coercive" for the state to take money from me in return for services rendered but not for my landlord to do the same to generally be tenuous[1]. The reality is that we live in a world where various entities claim "ownership" of resources, and governments are able to claim the "rule of law" over large areas of territory, and despite the conflicts and examples of egregious unfairness the system generates, we're usually better off for it than fighting for ourselves.

[1]I'm equally free to leave both my rental contract (upon expiry) and the UK tax regime for cheaper/better alternatives. In the absence of the government "coercively" imposing rule of law backed by social norms I would not only be free from the government redirecting a proportion of my pay packet to other causes, but also from any incentive whatsoever to divert a similarly large proportion of my income to be able to live in a property the overseas-based owner has quite possibly never even visited.
Another diet article that's very, very long, low on facts, and repetitive on the few facts they have. Are these showing up just because people have New Year's Resolutions?
Oh, it surely is, but I'm paying a premium for two things:

Additional internal storage – very important if you want one and only one Mac.

Double the RAM ceiling - 8 GB on the MBP versus 4 on the Air. And the MBP is user-upgradable, which feels better to me.

You also get longer battery life with the Pro, but since I'm not usually that far from an outlet, it's not a big deal. I'm also happier to have an incrementally faster and later-generation processor, since that'll hopefully grant a further 6 to 18 months usable lifespan for the machine.
Twitter started in 2006, not 2003: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter
I wouldn't recommend using this as a basis for building your model. Use it to assist you by all means but you'll learn a lot more by building your own, and it doesn't need to be anywhere near as complex as this one.

Always use relevant operational drivers for your business - this model is a very generic one that takes income by month as an input and then just grows it by arbitrary percentages after the first 3 months.

So e.g. for a web based business often key drivers will be traffic to your site, conversion rates, price of product (and percentage growth rates for these). Once you have these you can calculate revenues (which could then go into the spreadsheet linked to here if you really wanted to use it).

But it's this operational modelling that really is key to both helping you and any investors understand the economics of your business.

Make sure everything (revenues and costs) are broken down month by month for 3 years. Roll up to yearly totals on a summary sheet if you want.

You can build a decent model in two/three sheets. One for key assumptions/drivers + summary results, and one for an operational model and P+L. You could do cashflow on the 2nd sheet or separately on a 3rd.
I quit my job. Shipped 2 products. Started consulting. Now what?
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This is my point. I take responsibility for not waking up when I was supposed to but from different items listed what is a item that you can fully relay on? I agree on setting multiple alarms in my case but do we have to or how about the testimonial listed above, I can't imagine going all my life having to set 2 or more alarms for everything.