skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if naturally occurring animal deaths would be sufficient to provide meat for the planet otherwise living on a vegan diet?
I must admit I laughed out loud at the title of this... but then that turned into a frown. I'm starting my own bootstrapped startup because 1) I want to make a name for myself 2) I want to tell people I actually did something successful.

All I want from the end product? Enough money to buy a house, mortgage free. :)
The chances of you making more money with your startup are pretty low. The chances of you being very stressed out are pretty high.

It makes little sense, what you're planning. You have a steady income now and a good skillset, and you want to throw that away and start something where you have no skills at all? You'll probably fail.

The OBVIOUS choice is simply to spend an hour everyday designing your product. Then hire people to build it for you. You are under no time pressure, as you have already a lot of money.

Think of it like writing a book - would you quit your job to write a book? Just do this in the evenings, if it will work, you will know the right time to quit your job. It will be obvious. But leaving a highly paid job to do something that has a > 90% chance of failing is silly.

Even with > 1 million users a month, it's difficult to make $300.000 a year on the web.
You can do it, but is it a good idea? What it implies to me is that at some point in your program, you're constructing symbols from arbitrary strings which aren't known ahead of time. This sounds like a recipe for disaster given that symbols aren't garbage collected.
Are children still accepted into schools without their vaccinations? I know when I was a kid I had to bring a card with all my shots or they wouldn't enroll me. So has this requirement been dropped?

And to get a VISA for some countries you need to bring that card.
Charge (a cut-price amount) for your product and you're somehow indebted to your users forever.

So my parsing of this sentence is that you think that charging the money is what brings in the crazies. That is not the case: people frequently have entitlement issues with regards to things that are free. Oh, the stories I can't tell...

Charging cut-price amounts, on the other hand, attracts pathological customers like crazy. It is amazing how much increasing my price has cut down on pathological customers, and I have heard this over and over and over again from my shareware buddies.
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I respect your disagreement. I see how grouping abuse with other forms of post-traumatic stress could be viewed insensitive to the personal suffering of Mr. Zeller. However, from a psychological perspective, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in all forms is associated with the recurring visions, nightmares, avoidance of treatment, and extreme cumulative pain he refers to. I justify and stand by the timing of my comment using the principle of harm reduction. Whenever painful incidents occur that challenge us very deeply psychologically, the world would be a better place if we all stopped and thought about how we contribute to that pattern of suffering... rather than brushing it under the cognitive rug to "think about later". Because usually we never will.
What do you mean? I don't remember any of the interesting parts of Snow Crash being about 3D globes with search results on them.
Galileo did not introduce the new concept. And he was put under house arrest by scientists. Your point about Einstein just confirms that science is not about belief, but about proof.
Your reference to science in quotes is really off-putting.

Everyone who does that gets gradually sicker and sicker until they die,
usually at a young age.

Sounds like you know everyone and their condition. Can it be?
Your position is based on logical fallacies. Does not look like you are
even trying to understand why people do not believe you.

Orange.
If he grew up expecting to be a nanny then wouldn't it make sense that his chances of actually becoming a nanny would be higher?
yes i now have an quintic equation.now i can use any method to solve for 'x'.
thank you
Well-known offline tech-related media?
What happened to exact search queries:

For instance, if I search for "a-r" I receive results for "ar".

I hate this. It makes it impossible to filter irrelevant results.

Or try this query: "a-c" -"ac"

This will return 0 results.
Is this the first production use of Spanner? (No worries if you're not allowed to comment on this, sorry to be nosy, but this is something I'm curious about)
Sad story, but this is what depression feels like, if I had such a skeleton in the closet, I probably would have done the same. :*(
Sites like Demand Media see a gap for particular content and churn out cheap crap.

Blogs see an idea in the public consciousness and jump on the bandwagon with derivative posts.

Anyone see the parallel? ActualLy there is a difference: the DM writer got paid.

Product searches have been screwed for years. I've often wished I could filter out any price search engines and/or retailers from results. What's worse is that all these sites have places for reviews (of which there are never any) but hey the review keyword is there.

But as for this post there's nothing new here. It's a rehash of a bunch of other posts from the last month.

I can still find what I want with ease on Google. Am I just some kind of gifted searcher? I seriously doubt it.

It's like these posts are all making slippery slope arguments ("there are two content farm results in the first page. If this trend continues there will be 7000 content farm resets") rather than complaining sbout the actuality.

The other mistake made here is to assume Google's algorithm is static. This is false. It's a rapidly moving target.

Like another comment says: such noise (spam) isn't unique to Google so is the "problem" with Google's index or the Web itself?

If nothing else these posts all make the case that Google's index is algorithmic. I say this because at different times you'll see conspiracy theories about Google promoting certain properties over others.

Here's a question: if Google started blacklisting sites, how soon would the complaints of censorship or favoritism take?
Since Google Earth was inspired by Snow Crash I'm not sure you can classify it as prescient in the same way.
It sounds like you'd love CoffeeScript
Thumb and Thumb2 really aren't any more 'CISC'-y then ARM; about the most cisc aspect would be that thumb2 supports two different instruction lengths (2 and 4 byte) whereas ARM supports only 4 byte instructions.

That said i've heard/read that Thumb2 tends to be the optimum size/space trade-off, but that's not because it's somehow more 'cisc'.
Thanks, Also in addition to the case studies that I need to put up, I do actually have a blog post on ways businesses can work together, if your interested to read over it or maybe it will give greater insight into what binkd is trying to achieve.

http://jvblog.binkd.com/general/10-ways-to-expand-your-busin...
Hehe. Not sure you should do that though (according to the HN guidelines, one should submit the original source) ;)

Thanks for the upvote, that's kind of you!

In retrospect, I shouldn't have "whined" in my previous comment. As the Facebook quote goes ("If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook"): had I wanted to post this on HN, I would have posted it on HN!

I'll try to post more links in the future (Java or otherwise), and stop trying to anticipate their success according to some pre-conceived notion of what the HN crowd likes: if I think it is interesting, someone else might like it as well ;)
And as a vision of the future, Germans often don't leave university until after 30...
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What sets Quora apart from the StackExchange sites?
I quit WoW a while ago, and restarting WoW to get me to go to the gym more often sounds like it will be as effective as addressing tooth decay with an icepick. But if you can capture the magic of "Ding! Gratz!" for me when I'm at the gym, I'd pay you a substantial portion of the hmm $6k I have spent at my gym.
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That article is just commercial BS ... the same way GSM pretended "Frequency Hopping" is a security feature because you can't listen to everything and don't know where to listen and you can't listen to everything without very $$$ equipement.

If CDMA is more secure (and I'm not saying it is), then it's not due to their modulation scheme ... it would be due to the better security scheme. (and again, I don't know their security scheme, so it may just be as bad as GSM)
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Over two years I'll give 10 to 1.
Fair enough, but classifying something as "unproductive" just because you don't enjoy doing it seems a bit... incorrect.

I'm curious as to whether developing automated testing and deployment stuff would count as doing testing and deploying, or as developing exciting new stuff.
Foil? In the microwave?
Okteta's beautiful from a user interface perspective, but like most hex editors it fails when trying to deal with large files. There are very few hex editors around that will open files that are larger than the amount of RAM that you have.
The word you're looking for does exist: "Americentric."
BuildIt solar looks like a relatively genuine attempt at building an online resource for information about solar homes, as well as some kits they sell for themselves.

Likewise http://www.treehugger.com/ looks like it has genuine content - although it's obviously a little bit thin on the ground.

These guys are clearly a legitimate business selling a product (well, legitimate website anyway):

http://www.supremeheating.com.au/pool-heating-top/solar-pool...

Now compare those three sites, to these four:

http://www.diy-solar-power-for-homes.com/

http://www.energy4living.hottipsonly.com/solar-power-for-hom...

http://www.diysolarpower4home.com/

http://www.solarwindpowerguide.com/diy-solar-heating/

this one, too, links back to earth4energy - strikingly similar to "earth4living" above:

http://greenerhomediy.com/create-solar-electricity-build-diy...

then we have this incredibly reputable and highly respected forum whirlpool:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1539413

As a human I find it relatively easy to pick out the massively spammy sites amongst those results that are on the first page for the search "diy solar homes" - and I think that any time you were to get several sites that are similar in some set of ways to each other that rank for the same search term then they should be "de-ranked".

So for example, thousands of people use the same wordpress themes, you can't just say "they're all spammers". But if the top 5 results for a particular search all share some measurable characteristics, you could safely say "hmm there's something spammy going on here".
The "see you someday" fallacy did not kill him. Actually, his contempt for his parents' religion (which is a tangential component in the note; certainly not its primary grievance and not "what killed him") was caused by the "I'll never see you because you'll be burning in awful hell forever because you disagree with my pastor" fallacy.
> "Extremely high wealth concentration has historically been associated with revolutions and other unrest."

The truest statement of all. American history books would glorify the American Revolution as a battle against tyranny for freedom, but above anything it was a battle against extreme economic exploitation.

Just like the French Revolution... just like the Russian Revolution... just like the Chinese Civil War...

The rich are digging their own graves. No amount of economic power will hold back a sea of desperate, furious peasants who have nothing left to lose and every desire to see your head on a stick. I'm not looking forward to that mess.
From 2007:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.881:

(5) Considerable progress has been made in reducing mercury exposures from childhood vaccines, yet 8 years after the July 1999 statement, thimerosal remains in several nonroutinely administered childhood vaccines and many pediatric and adult influenza vaccines.

(6) There is no law or regulation to prohibit the reintroduction of thimerosal into any products from which it has been removed, leaving open the possibility that it may be reintroduced at some point in the future in new vaccines or vaccines from which it has already been removed.
Gates was already the world's richest man when he married Melinda; he also met her through Microsoft.

Bezos was already well beyond f-u money when he left D.E. Shaw to found Amazon.

Jobs did not have a stable personal life during Apple's early days; he did not meet his wife until several years after he was removed from Apple.
For a presentation on product that looks as incredible as this, the transition of the presentation on to Ballmer was slightly awkward.
It's because they block things overzealously. When one video on YouTube offended them, they blocked all of YouTube. Some site running on GAE offended them, so the whole of ghs.google.com got blocked.
Let's set up a website that integrates all of them ;)
no, more phone wouldn't make it faster
Also, having the hdd with you is really not required, you can just use a beefy external server you ssh to via a 3G data connection or something.
shudder

Having written and shipped 5+ iPhone apps written in the verbosphemy* that is ObjectiveC, I'm strongly looking forward to being able to do all future iPhone apps in a saner language like JavaScript or Python. If I do them at all. Ever again. In fact it's pretty much a hard requirement. Just after this current one ships.

(*: verbose + blasphemy)
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Hey Guys,

Would love some feedback on a javascript library that I am working on. It's designed to ease the pain with implementing touch support (and maintaining mouse support also) when implementing interactive web apps / demos.

http://sidelab.github.com/interact/

I'm basically re-implementing (and improving in the process) the interaction handling I had built in Tile5 (HTML5 Mapping Library). For this reason, it has a slant towards interfaces that make use of panning and zoom, but you can definitely build applications that don't need these features.

Thanks,

Damon.
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"This is your father's language sabre. A simpler syntax from a more elegant age."
A startup won't have the means for a cafeteria, but I've worked in several "startup hub" type buildings where a cafeteria can be shared between several startups. It's more economical than a local restaurant for employers and employees alike. As an added benefit it provided a good networking space for people in different startups to mix.
>more rational
I don't know why the above comment is being downvoted, but I'm guessing it's because it sounds "elitist" (which is apparently a very great crime).

To elaborate, then: I agree with the parent comment that it's Google's job to make everyone's experience optimal (and not the user's), and it's certainly in the best interests of Google (or any business) to cater to the needs of as many of its customers as possible (although in the case of Google, as has been pointed out many times before, users are in fact the product).

But I would argue that the real elitists are people who think "middle aged women" shouldn't be expected to actually learn how to use machines.

"Middle aged women" (why single them out?) use machines all the time, whether at work or at home. They're expected to know how to use a spreadsheet, a word processor, a food processor. And they do. But somehow this expectation is lifted for "the Internet". Why?

A search engine is not a person; it's certainly not a mind reader. A search engine is just a machine.
We did a similar proposal for university-wide e-mail last year, the bid is for a 3-5 year contract usually. You can take a look on Google's website and they will actually give you the per-user expected $ figure. There are several articles also which compare the two services (sorry just Google for them, I am about to go to bed), but the price is basically < $120 per user, per year.
Personally I ate nothing but processed, microwaveable meals for 3 years during university. I find it hard to believe that this significantly affected my performance since I still managed to get the best result in my year (twice) and second best (once). I also failed to get fat or develop any health problems at all.

So you can colour me sceptical about the true value of eating "healthy" or freshly-cooked food.
Put that in your gesture-based interface and smoke it.

The future is going to be much, much weirder than most people expect.
I just wish Google would have taken 508 compliance more seriously and thus gotten more government contracts in the past. They have only recently begin catching up to Microsoft on 508 compliance in their hosted e-mail solution. If they had done it sooner, more of the CSU system would be using Gmail instead of live@edu and OWA.
Hook up a cycling machine to the "run forward" command in WoW and go do some quests that involve lots of travelling?
While technically it can be done by anyone in the world, it takes certain thriving technology culture to ensure that enough smart people penetrate the ranks of employees in government bureaucracies. Israel's overall IT scene is non-remarkable, not any more than one of Sweden or Greece.

The USA on the other hand, has decades-long successful track record of industrial sabotage involving computers, and NSA alone probably employs more talent than Mossad could ever afford to.
I set up a second, filtered search using Google Custom Search and added it to my browser. I don't always use it, but it's easier to switch to when I encounter spammy topics (like code look-ups). It's pretty easy to blacklist fakes... and even useless SEO-heavy sites like experts-exchange, bigresource, etc.

Here's how, if interested: http://radleymarx.com/blog/better-search-results/
Amazon is great but search on Amazon doesn't work too well; what works very well is to use Google and restrict the search to Amazon:

site:amazon.com some product
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right choice for your body. The manufacturer claims fully supported by customer feedback and testimonials as well
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The future is here. It's a big-ass table.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
That's a good suggestion. Please feel free to add any requested features or bugs you find to the wiki page at http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/docs/wiki/Bugs/Bugs . Thanks!
Most traffic-stop searches triggered by police dogs wrong and biased
As someone who once planned to take a secret to my grave, this whole thing saddens me.

I was luckier in a way that altered the course of my life, I let slip to a friend in college that I had a secret. I had no intention of telling him of course, but then he went ahead listing dozens and dozens of possible secrets until he skipped over mine. So I took a chance and I told him and he accepted me.

Looking back, that was the first crack in the darkness. People like me and Bill Zeller might only drop a hint that something is wrong once in our lives, don't be afraid to go chasing after it.

Thanks for finally sharing Bill, rest in peace now.
Nonsense. So hunter-gatherers didn't understand the impact of sharper stone knifes. And ALL technology prior to 20th century was an accident. Nobody could see the impact of an iron sword. And people in 19th century western Europe didn't understand that say Opium wars were won through better technology.
D.) All of the above.

It seems somewhat fitting when we imagine that Goldman Sachs' customers are the wealthy with "more money than sense," but it's not so funny when the investors turn out to be Universities, charities, pension funds, and the mutual funds trusted with your parents' retirement money...

Going back and re-reading the "Goldman's Facebook Offer" email, I can't figure out how it would get past a spam filter.
I prefer the "hash rocket" (I call it the fat comma), because it looks nicer when you have a hash with keys of varying length. Compare:

{
foo: 'bar',
hello_world: 'OH HAI',
}

to

{
foo => 'bar',
hello_world => 'OH HAI',
}

If you try to do that with colons, it goes all wonky:

{
foo : 'bar',
hello_world : 'OH HAI',
}
See excerpt here (also links to interview with a google earth cofounder explicitly crediting snowcrash for inspiration)

http://ogleearth.com/2005/09/snow-crash-redux/
I received the exact same email word for word - must be some sort of scam - what douchbags
"Sometimes".. maybe so. I don't see anything here that suggests that is the case.

A more likely explanation is Flock ran out of money/gave up in competition with RockMelt - and Zynga bought up the assets instead so that everyone got something as a return, however small, rather than see the company wound up.
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Oh please, get a fucking grip on reality for fuck sake. Those populations starved for years under insanely despotic regimes.

Today even poor people have too much to eat (look at obesity rates) and leave tvs behind when they loose their house cause it isn't worth taking with them. Your computer would have been worth fighting a war over 200 years ago.

To suggest that we are anything close to a "sea of desperate, furious peasants who have nothing left to lose and desire to see your head on a stick" while the peasents have access to better food, medical care, running water, communications, transportation and entertainment that the Sun King ever dreamed of shows how crazy that argument is.
A very interesting use of data. But there's something strange.

1) Looking a Psychology (my major) the "life time value" comes out exactly same ($794,...) whether I choose "doctorate" "bachelor" or "associate" degree. And... the results page does not indicate for which degree its data apply.

2) What does change depending on the degree for which I request data... is the other fields presented for comparison.

3) Requesting data on "doctorate / psychology" compares results for degrees in Real Estate and Cosmetology. Are there really enough people with doctorates in those fields to compute reliable stats? [Note that searching for "doctorate / real estate" does show numbers (albeit low) for Real Estate.

If allowed by the hiring company, can you explain what's going on better than the results pages does?