skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Matt,

I noticed you were looking for some examples to spam and thought I would show you some blatant spamming for some real estate searches. I got a job recently in a small town and noticed, as I was searching for real estate in the area, the same type of websites started popping up. I mean, these sites are horrible. I dugg further and I think I uncovered a pretty blatant spam ring. Here are the sites I have found thus far:

www.ogdenutahhomes.com
www.utahhomesforsale.com
www.kaysvilleutahrealestate.com
www.royutrealestate.com
www.ogdenrealestate.com
www.tooeleutrealestate.com
www.smithfieldutahrealestate.com
www.utahcornerstone.com
www.realestatelogan.com
www.realestateinogden.com
www.homes4saleinutah.com
www.northernutahhomesearch.com
www.searchcachehomes.com
www.bountifuluthomes.com
www.ogdenutahhomesforsale.com
www.utahhomesforsale.mp
www.loganrealestate.mp
www.southernuthomes.com
www.retireinlogan.com
www.davis.countyutahrealestate.com
www.alansharpbarker.com
www.realestateprovoutah.com
www.slcutrealestate.com
www.homesforsalelogan.com
www.cachevalleyfsbo.com
www.cachevalleyhomesforsale.com
www.homesinlogan.com
www.homesinloganutah.com
www.utahrealhomes.com
www.searchloganhomes.com
www.liveinlogan.com
www.searchcachehomes.com
www.providenceutahrealestate.com
www.providenceutahhomes.com
www.paw.utahcornerstone.com
www.hyrumutahrealestate.com

All of these websites seem to be run by the same person. Feel free to pm me if you have any questions. Thanks!
I don't know what impresses me more - The demonstration of the functional prototype or how quickly this was done since the release of Kinect.

That will be a really interesting project to follow.
Thanks for the Pixelmator reference. I've been a gimp user since its early days, but I can do without the irritants.
If you're Dave Mclure, you should add a couple dozen more!
Not only have prices gone up, but exposure and merchandise etc (for the team) have increased in modern times, leading to more money as a whole for the team, and therefore star players.
Tony - I never thought I'd say this on HN, but you should totally open up a brick and mortar store. There's so few places in Chicago to go and get good loose leaf tea, shipping seems silly (I live <1 mile away), and a great tea shop is such a cool thing to have around. There's all sorts of empty storefronts (one under my place, even) just begging for something interesting.

I guess "you should" is the wrong language. Perhaps supplant with "it would be incredibly inconvenient but way cool if you were to"
RethinkDB is not a webapp.
Andrew Weil isn't exactly regarded as the most credible source in medical circles. (And I'm being kind here. I've heard some comparisons to Deepak Chopra…)
Antiweb: a web server written in lisp
Interesting critique of Amy Chua's recent WSJ piece on suggesting the superiority of an autocratic parenting style that stresses individual accomplishment. Shannon Love points out the need for "teamwork" and suggest that it is a uniquely American strength. Open paragraphs:

Noticeably excluded from her children’s activities is any kind of team activities. The secret of American’s collective success as a people is our ability to self-organize ourselves on both the small and large scale into highly effective teams The relative inability to self-organize into teams is why China and some other cultures have lagged behind in the modern world. Americans have long relied on activities like sports, theater, marching band etc to teach that one critical American cultural skill. By excluding such activities from her children’s life, Chua is depriving them of one of the most crucial skills an American must have.

American culture is based on the seeming contradiction of extreme individualism combined with a near instant willingness and ability to join a team to accomplish any particular task. The way New Yorkers spontaneously organized to evacuate Manhatten on 9/11 represented a large scale and dramatic example of the type of self-organization that Americans reflexively engage in on a daily bases.
I think it's safe to say all YC companies have a website.
The title of this post should really be: The Art of Affiliate Marketing

Good show!
Steve Jobs is the Chinese mother in this story, not the child. He demands excellence from his team and is sometimes pretty over the top about the demand part of that phrase.
I've never quite followed why unrelated actions are thought to be somehow indicative of how Oracle is or is going to manage the JVM. Assuming you were going to be using their implementation anyway, extracurriculars like this Hudson drama seem entirely unrelated -- especially given the continued emphasis on OpenJDK (which has a GPLv2 + classpath license).

JVM languages like Clojure, Scala, JRuby, etc. would seem to be an entirely safe choice AFAICT. I'd be interested in hearing concrete contrary theories.
Without a testing infrastructure, you pretty much rely on programmers having code doing what they say it does, instead of having proof it does what they say it does.

Given human penchant to slip up and not realise problems until after they are encountered, having tests makes pretty much the difference between "science" and "hypothesis"
Now we can truly answer the question: do more people like the iPhone than Android phones?

Really? Does that mean that Android is only available on 2 carriers in the US?
Purely anecdotal, but many such risk-takers that I have known were able to mitigate their risk because of familial support mechanisms. Which is to say that while a certain amount of hard work and courage is crucial, it doesn't hurt to have rich parents.
> "In any case, I think the sales on Verizon will be telling"

Somehow I get the feeling that they won't. Armchair observers opining on the internet have never felt the need to rely on data before. They've long since drawn their conclusions and simply shop for justification; freely inventing some if acceptable evidence doesn't present itself.

So no-one's mind is going to be changed, regardless.

If you were bullish and it tanks, then Apple's 'premium' segment is assumed to have already moved to ATT. If you were bearish and it takes off, then it's the usual "marketing" and "cult" arguments again. The very marks of 'tank' versus 'incremental' versus 'wild success' will be subjectively twisted all to high hell. It won't matter if Apple sells 6M or 12M.

Just watch the reactions when the inevitable avalanche of pre-orders and launch-day lines are reported. "macolyte" and "marketing circus" will get bandied about again, along with suggestions that once the early movement is cleared out then the real measuring of Apple's success on Verizon can begin...
Research points pretty heavily to you being better off buying a basket of index funds rather than playing stock picker.
Alex Rodrieguez makes so much money because tickets to see him play cost so much (especially compared to what it cost to see Babe Ruth).

Sorry, this theory is wrong.

Looking at http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/haupert.mlb the average price of baseball tickets has, after adjustment for inflation, not changed very much.

What has changed is the value of the income from TV. Even so, the revenue for players has risen faster than the income from TV.

Another factor, not shown, is the size of the audience.

However even if you add all that together, I believe that salaries have still gone up by more than revenue. And I attribute that to the rise of free agents.
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Not sure what you mean? Because the guy who runs hn-books adds an affiliate code to amzn?

(this is what the book url expands to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596518862?ie=UTF8&tag=...)

EDIT: The first line on the homepage states this quite clearly: external links to amazon are through their affiliate program
Has anyone here actually seen (or written) C++ code that used the and, not, or or keywords (from iso646.h)? These keywords seem cleaner and are standard, yet I have never seen (or dared use) them in practice. In my day job, I write code that must be portable across a dozen platforms, so I am paranoid about using "unusual" C++ features.
There are exactly 21 companies that run an online business. No more, no less.
If people wanted an iPhone, they could have just gone to AT&T and bought an iPhone.

My sister really wanted an iPhone but she absolutely did not want to switch from VZW (she travels a lot and voice calls are a priority), so she got a Droid. The Droid has been good enough, but she's been asking me about iPhone on Verizon ever since the rumors started; a couple of weeks ago when the rumors started to heat up, she told me she was going to switch. (the fact that her 13-month-old Droid is essentially considered "obsolete" in terms of being able to buy accessories locally helped her decision).

I know anecdotes aren't data but I doubt she's unique in this regard.
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First off, there doesn't seem to be much benefit in taking more than what's already present in a cup or so of good green tea, though, so the exact content in varieties probably doesn't matter.

If you ever get bulk l-theanine powder (it's quite cheap), you'll recognize the taste. It's particularly prominent in sencha, gyokuro, and other Japanese green teas - that savory/salty/MSGish taste.

Anecdotally, l-theanine negates most of the jitteriness from caffeine for me. Coffee, pop, etc. make me edgy in a way that tea doesn't.
Okay, it's still not a fair fight, but at least the iPhone is now on the two BIGGEST carriers, which means that it's less handicapped than before :)

Something tells me that if the iPhone was neck-and-neck with the Android phones for a while, now it will outpace them. ONE COMPANY beating a combined set of companies based on brand and quality (rather than lock-in effects). Go Apple!
GNOME Accessibility Application Ocra 2.91.5 Released
GNOME's Ocra screen reader is providing users accessibility to their graphical desktop using assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI).
Essentially, a second password that you may have to enter multiple times.

(And that the host may store and/or present -- at least internally -- in cleartext (or a less protected format), depending upon their practices. So, beware if you start / of doing this across different sites.)

What particularly irks me with regard to security questions with many hosts is the absence of an opt out. Here's this security weakening feature, and you must participate!

(I understand is saves them support time/labor on the front end. A bargain with the devil.)
Beautiful work! This project definitely needs some publicity...did you think about putting it up on Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/)?
The hotspot feature turns the phone into a wireless router where the connection to the internet is provided through the phone's data connection. I don't think an incoming phone call would cause the wifi network to disassociate from any devices, but connected devices wouldn't be able to access the internet. This would be akin to disconnecting your modem from your home wireless router. Devices can still access the network but can't reach the internet.
He could also want to contact Microsoft and file a bug report with them, since the problem only appeared after a Windows upgrade from some previous release to Windows 7, it looks like a Windows problem more than a OpenOffice problem. That's not a very promising road.

Another option would be to try LibreOffice (as pointed out by wccrawford) and see if whatever behavior Microsoft changed in Windows 7 wasn't already compensated for.

I don't see OpenOffice as a viable product right now. LibreOffice, at least, doesn't have the only serious rival Microsoft has in the uncoolness category behind the steering wheel. So far, they never failed to ruin perfectly good products and OpenOffice was not particularly good to begin with.
AT&T makes heavy bet on HTML5
related: Norvig's presentation on how many design patterns are unnecessary in dynamic languages http://norvig.com/design-patterns
Most textbooks are actually badly written. They are written by busy profs who don't put too much time into making the concepts easily accessible. This is because writing a book takes a lot of time, and the author does not get much monetary compensation back. The author gets some recognition, but by spending that much time on grant writing and paper writing, he would get much more recognition and funds.

So the problem could be the book, don't blame yourself for everything. Search for the best book. Recently, I found that often the best book is an online tutorial, resource, blog. My 2 cents.
Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages (Peter Norvig)
They are hands down the most reliable cell voice provider with the greatest coverage. Their customer support is not great, their prices are too expensive but they are reliable.

I don't have a smart phone and use my cell only for voice so Verizon works great for me. Sometimes I travel in US and my wife's AT&T phone loses coverage while Verizon still has a strong signal. It is almost never the other way around.

Hardware-wise, I believe, Verizon own most towers as well. Often other carriers rent space on a VZ tower.
Yes, there are some impatient people who unreasonably ask books to painlessly teach them complicated material. But there is also a problem that most technical books really are poorly written, and the reason for this is simple: for the people who are most qualified to teach material, there are usually terrible incentives for them to invest the enormous effort it takes to write books.

For instance, in Academia, there is pretty much a penalty associated with top professors writing books. Writing a good technical book takes of order a year, and one year not publishing papers is easily enough to prevent someone from getting tenure. Tenure committees give negligible weight to producing good texts, and the royalties from upper-level books is insignificant, so why would a professor bother?

This won't change unless the incentives are changed.
Competence Kills
Absolutely.

When I made a third of my current salary range, I felt well off. Now I have kids and feel poor.
IMO this is a ridiculous solution to the problem - rather than creating a market that's set up in a way so that high frequency traders can't get an edge (for instance, creating a market structured so that money/speed/location/regulatory status doesn't actually give you any advantage in trading), they're just banning anyone that doesn't fit their definition of "value trader" from the market.

It will be interesting to see if this market provides better pricing for non-HFT participants.

Given that the only difference between this and a normal market is that a bunch of people offering to buy and/or sell at prices more favorable than the current inside bid/ask are banned from the market, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that no, it won't help pricing very much.

Or, rather, what it will do is move profits that would have gone to the HFT firms and shift them to people placing normal, non-speculative/exploitative/high-frequency limit orders.

Which means that really, there will be an arms race to figure out how to place orders that are as exploitative as possible without tripping the banhammer. The people that push the closest that limit will make the most money, but spreads will still likely be quite a bit higher than in an unfettered market if the rules have any teeth at all - long term value traders are not good at keeping spreads thin, I'd guess that in the current markets their effects on spreads are not even measurable at all, they are so insignificant...
Or one of the slave collars from Fallout 3.
AT&T does not offer the same service.

Of course, it's worth noting that tethering isn't a "service" that carriers have to build or support. It's an inherent capability of a sufficiently advanced computing device that has access to two networks simultaneously. But in a textbook case of non-neutrality, AT&T (and others) prevent you from using that capability unless you pay them to remove the entirely artificial restriction.
In junior high school, my art teacher stored X-acto knives blade up. He believed this would make students more cautious when using the knives.

But in comparison, a 5-10 meter drop without a guardrail does seem unnecessarily dangerous.
Is funding post legit?
Has anyone been to these conferences? Are they helpful? What can I expect?
Thanks in Advance
use $10 domain name and just launch the MVP to see if it gains traction or not

If you gain traction using the $10 domain name, you don't need the $15k one. DropBox seemed to do just fine with getdropbox.com, and I'd bet the would have done fine if they had never gotten dropbox.com.
Or the ultimate Butler name: Jeeves.
There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work
He's pretty up on his science. Don't forget he graduated from Harvard medical school, was editor of the Crimson, and majored in botany as an undergrad, making him probably vastly smarter and more knowledgeable about science than anyone here on HN. I actually saw him give a talk this year where he talked about how LSD cured his cat allergies: http://www.maps.org/videos/source/video6.html

He speculates about a lot of stuff like this that sounds pretty crazy unless you're willing to take the time to understand his argument. Obviously these kinds of musings are unproven, but that is by definition the nature of speculation. And his actual medical advice is all pretty solid from what I've seen. My favorite talk by him is this:

http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=129

Again there is a lot of speculation, but there's nothing wrong with that at least in my book.
Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena
This, in the form of green tea extract, makes up a major part of Tim Ferriss' PAGG Stack. Interesting :-)
Personal hotspot support is awesome, but will all this extra bandwidth, I'm surprised Verizon is not one-upping AT&T with over-the-air FaceTime as well.
Remember that just because you're not working does not mean your're engaging in "meaningless activity." Taking a vacation or spending time with loved ones are perfectly acceptable ways to spend those 10-minute units.
Great piece. I have a couple of comments, here..

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/11/krocCamenProvesRssIs...
"I think that was $342K/year for 99.5th percentile of single filers - you need to take on some risk"

I don't think this is true - all the traditional "low risk" professions have this ability: doctors, dentists, lawyers, investment bankers and fund managers. $300k+ is not unusual for a mid-level person in these industries. Senior people in these industries will hit $1m+ pretty easily without having taken on any significant personal risk. A lawyer 3-4 years out from law school in a large firm is going to be sitting on $200k+ already.
I would argue that doing is the execution of knowing. So I would posit that if you are executing that 100% in the best direction you know, then if you are in the wrong location it's a matter of not having the information on why you should be in another location.
The thing is, if you're of this "I don't have enough" sort of type (or one of its numerous manifestations) it doesn't matter how much you have. You, thus, by your own words, never have enough of anything and your life is much worse off because of that.

If you're poor, you have worries most people can understand but your worries are real to you. If you're rich, you have worries that seem outrageous to most people and your worries are (still) real to you. Hence, you're not any better off in reality, even if you don't have to starve.

Of course you're not any better off because you still think you don't have enough.

And the funny thing is that it you don't have to become rich to have enough. When you're happy with first what you have, then everything is restored to back to 'okay'. And you can still try to get more but you don't have to try to get more.
There's clearly some correlation between Chua's approach and 'success' as it is narrowly defined within an academic spectrum. However, in practice I think such methods discourage failure so strongly that the children grow up to choose only the narrow paths which guarantee success, and don't explore outwards.
But, they'll still need to buy another iPhone. They're basically going to convince a bunch of their best customers to pay twice for the same product.
Just to throw this out there and give an actual Chinese mom perspective on this...

The two Chinese mothers I know well here in the U.S. (my wife and her cousin) both of whom were born and raised in China, both of whom have 2 children of about the same age as the original author and both of whom are similarly educated to the woman who wrote the original article this one is in response to, were disturbed by the message and methods presented. They found it abusive, excessive and wrong and have been mailing links to this to all of their friends in anger.
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I honestly didn't read it closely, but apparently you didn't either. Your assertion:

Given that the only difference between this and a normal
market is that a bunch of people offering to buy and/or
sell at prices more favorable than the current inside
bid/ask are banned from the market, I'm going to go out
on a limb and say that no, it won't help pricing very
much.

compare that with:

Since trading on Light Pool will be more expensive and
slower for those firms, they’re not likely to use the
ECN, reducing the negative selection investors
experience, Galinov said.

Contributors, which will include long-term investors,
will receive a “significant” rebate when they trade
against orders resting in Light Pool, while neutral
firms, or those whose behavior falls between the other
groups, may or may not get one, Galinov said.

So they are trying to get incentives right, rather than outright banning HFTs. Just slowing down the market may be sufficient, try reading this:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/?p=40

(disclaimer: it's from my Ph.D. advisor, so I'm slightly biased)
>> mitigate their risk because of familial support mechanisms

Or society support mechanisms - many ppl in say Scandinavia use the two or more years of high unemployment benefits to start a business risk-free. Actually in Norway, to stimulate entrepreneurship, they would pay those benefits for the 1st six month of new company operation (to the owner).
So no-one's mind is going to be changed, regardless.

I think people's minds will be changed. Just the most outspoken, like Gruber or Siegler, dominate the conversation and their minds never change.

For example, I thought the iPad would be a modest success and a disappointing product (after seeing the launch). Now, it is obviously a huge success. But more importantly I think it fundamentally changed how we think about computing devices -- in a good way.

of course, I don't have a great pulpit to speak from, nor do I like to blather on about how wrong I was, but nevertheless minds do get changed... even if quietly.