skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently down to a 0.5% difference with samples of a bit over 3000. Seems pretty insignificant to me.
Someone just got a subscription to Duh! magazine. Congrats.

P.S. There's nothing wrong with being inspired by good art, even to the point of highly derivative imitation. Aping what others have done well is how things advance.
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Thanks. Yes, it is a web page editor. By clicking on the code button, you get the html code which can be edited and to view the design you click on the design button. The work flow is the same as (text editor[desktop app]) + (check on browser) but this time everything is on the browser.
Usually "click and drag" programs don't spit maintainable code which is something i want to avoid.
This may be a case of stretching a metaphor too far. Are you aware of any countries saying "Please, Britain, make us one of your colonies again!"?
why is this better than a dedicated editor like coda? or even notepad with firefox split screened. if i have to click anyway, might as well be clicking reload.
I wonder how many of the no soap/no shampoo people neglect to mention the clouds of patchouli stink they walk around in.
Inspired by: probably. Stolen: absolutely not.
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This post had great timing :)
The main reason I'm looking for a new language to learn is so that I could understand programming concepts better. I took up electronics in college and then moved to software development, so my foundation in programming isn't very good. That's what I'm trying to change.
One thing that is important to keep in mind is that if you think there might actually, truly, be one piece of advice in this book, the cost plus time investment is trivial compared to the potential gains. None of his information is so bogus that you can throw it in the trash with other random "Be Slim in 24 hours" books.

Also, note that the placebo effect is still an effect. Fifteen bucks to cure insomnia because you believe it will be cured rather than the ice bath having scientific backing? Sign me up!

Not all information is a sure thing, sometimes it pays to start looking at the "this guy is either a genius or a madman, but it is hard to tell" section.
chime, sharecropping in terms of software development is a topic that Tim Bray has an interesting take on:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...
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My simple statement is the beginning what... I find it assuming what slurs people find acceptable and what they dont.

I'm not familiar with anyone who isn't aware of pansy not being a slur. It is just some people decide... 'o i didnt mean it that way'.

There are many slurs you can get away with say 'i didnt mean it that way' and most people will look the other way and many that people won't.

If you talk race, you probably can't get away with saying 'i didnt mean it that way'

If you talk gender, well that is harder to classify, it is more of a middle ground.

If you talk sexuality, well... i think there most of it is still fertile ground for slurs, intended or not.
Can't agree more. Doing something ridiculous led to us creating the largest live video site. I try to do ridiculous shit all the time for the hell of it, just to practice thinking unconventionally. Last month I ran through a carwash with my clothes on.
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http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

"So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?"
Thank you for your kind words.

To understand where Bill is coming from you really need to hop into his shoes. He tried to trust people but they violated that trust. Regardless of the reasons for doing that, they didn't keep his secret. What he told them was much less important to him than his ultimate secret. If they can't keep those smaller secrets, why can they keep the big one?

For better or worse all of the other things he told people were tests. Who can keep this secret? You, ok, I will let you in on a little more, then a little more, then a little more. But no one kept all of them, so no one could complete the journey to the last one.

Bill had no reason to trust a doctor. Everything in his life confirmed the exact opposite - no one is to be trusted, everyone will tell your secrets. Everyone always has that one person that they want to tell, but no worries, it's ok, that person won't tell anyone.

Yup, but everyone has that person. And unfortunately for Bill, he wasn't able to find someone to tell, and have their "one person" be Bill, thus keeping his secret between two, and only two, people in this world.
"you are either naive or have you head up your ass or live on big rock candy mountain"

I find that to be more offensive than calling someone a pansy.
There's this thing in game design called the "magic circle": the "barrier" between what is socially understood to happen inside a game, vs. outside. It's entirely a social construction, and therefore entirely a voluntary agreement entered into by the players, for the explicit purpose of detaching consequences inside a game from those outside.

The reason people seek to create such a construct, is that, when you don't have to worry about consequences "leaking" from the game, you're free to adopt an entirely different utility function within the circle, or even a variety of different utility functions, to explore the game rules' (and the other players') reaction to the particular mode of play. Through this, we can learn, in a safe environment, what the consequences are to adopting various roles (such as that of the "griefer" or the "twinker".)

We evolved in an environment where there was no separation between the ideas of "action stripped of identity" (i.e. anonymous interaction) and "action stripped of consequence" (i.e. game-play). Thus, most socially-adjusted humans learn to see all anonymous interactions as game-play, and thus to apply their knowledge of in-game interactions: agents who seem sociopathic are really just Playing to Win (http://www.sirlin.net/ptw), agents who keep repeating the same stupid actions over and over are likely looking for exploitable bugs in the game rules, etc.

This even crosses over into what most would term "real life": children on a playground who haven't integrated the idea that they're playing a semi-consequenceless social game 100% of the time they're at school, will usually report being bullied (by someone who does understand the concept, and is exploring the position-space in the game.)
When someone from your company talked at SHDH@hackerdojo, I was a bit put off on the company because of the attitude the presenter gave about the photograph of the woman on the web page. I don't think that you should wear a suit and tie to work every day, but you should know that the jokes that "push the boundary" do influence how people perceive you. It hasn't influenced what I think of your product, but it does influence who I'd recommend to join you.
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> _Look at the -tube sites again... They're dominated by amateur porn, which by a landslide excludes the extremely exploitative/degrading stuff that the article concentrates on._

3 amateur videos out of 20 on the front page of redtube.com. .. hardly _dominating_.

(That's a generous count, as well. "Professional" porn has gone down in production value for various reasons, and they now produce films and market them as "amateur". For that reason, it's hard to get a good count without looking at more than the thumbnails, and I'm not in the mood at the moment.)
Literary and artistic fashions are quite different across cultures and across time. They're a poor data source to come up with an essentialist view of gender, if you pick one time and place. If you look at how, say, romanticism was gendered at first, it was described as essentially masculine -- tempestuous and powerful. Over time that perception changed and the very same material was described as something essentially womanly that reflected how women "are". While I have plenty of other criticisms of this article, this is the most basic one that I don't think has been expressed here yet.
I think it's a fantastic idea I just haven't had the hutzpah to actually book a place in someone else's home yet... yet.
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Serving queries to bots is quite expensive. I once heard someone estimate that until Google started tackling it substantially, scrapers burned a datacenter's worth of traffic all by themselves.
Nothing is created in a vacuum. Good job for noticing the similarity but honestly, who cares?
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A recent New Yorker article "The Truth Wears Off" is based on the same mathematical fact - that statistical tests are being used wrongly in psychology experiments and (more worryingly) in clinical trials.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_...
I've wanted to read the SICP book, but do you think the book may be too advanced for someone who knows next to nothing about Lisp and functional languages?
impressive insights.
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It's funny that it was Picasso who said "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal" (http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3500), a quote that Steve Jobs likes.
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." -- Pablo Picasso
This was recently released as an old Google interview question and sparked some controversy.

This MathOverflow page [1] is a good (opinionated) summary. The best answer's author believes that with finitely many families the ratio actually doesn't work out evenly, but does converge to 50/50 with infinitely many families.

[1] http://mathoverflow.net/questions/17960/google-question-in-a...
I couldn't. It wanted my email address to go any further. I quit then.
I care. It actually fascinates me.
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"Picasso had a saying, he said, 'Good artists copy; great artists steal', you know, and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." --Steve Jobs

So that's about all there is to say about that.
I've begun to think that virtually all software successes come about when some external force redefines "success" to be "whatever we have now". And then people pile on, think you're the next big thing, write glowing articles, and so on, until they redefine success to be "what you had 5 years ago" and write biting articles about how you're passe and going down the t00bs.

The solution? Write lots of code and get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. That way, it's far more likely that someone will think it's successful, and then the herd mentality will make everyone else pile on.
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Steve Jobs: "And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas"

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
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The style is obviously the same. I think the 'stolen' claim comes from the using not only the same style, but (in this instance) the same dual-color scheme on a face.

I say that it's inspired, and not stolen. Though I find it interesting that the color scheme even came from Picasso. I assumed that it was just the style that was inspired by Picasso.
To be honest, I had to Google those names to find what the languages were like. :) Those are definitely going into the list of languages I would like to take another look at some day.
> are you as, what i assume is in an intelligent person, arguing that you think pansy is consider a slur by fewer people than stupid?

How did you come to that? I have no idea of the numbers. Though I'd probably counter-intuitively vote for stupid anyway since it seems to be in more use and I rarely see 'pansy' on forums such as youtube where insulting remarks happen all the time. I wouldn't put a high wager on my vote though.

Anyway, consider a short parable.

"So MC Bob, can you explain to us why you write such sexist lines such as 'All you pussies get out of my way, I'm pushing all you down 'cause you're gay'?"

"What?"

"Pussy. Is there something wrong with a vagina, or having one?"

"...Hell no, pussies are great, that's why my last album was exclusively about getting good pussy!"

"So you're not being demeaning to women?"

"No! I suppose 'pussy' is like 'gay' in that sentence, they're both meant to be taken as insults but are by themselves very meaningless. When I was growing up in Utah, everyone would gasp if you even quoted a swearword, let alone used one in an insulting fashion! It was the taboo of the word that made them offensive rather than any meaning behind the word, and it's like that in many rap songs today. Eminem's not a homophobe, there's just a lot of things that rhyme with faggot or gay or homo."
To me, their website looks 99% static, with a web form that sends messages.

have you used okcupid?
An actual limit to questions might do more than the reputation cap.

My vague, working hypothesis is that Karma gets people moving but habit keeps them going. The habit of rapid question question answering might carry the person well past what the incentive of karma does.

Also, the effect of having to answer quickly, before someone else does, directly reinforces quickness whereas a Karma limit is rather indirect.

Plus, each question answered can keep earning karma beyond the one day limit.

Of course I'm speculating in this whole process...
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A link would help:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7050YJ20110106
Success Story: Launching my simple twitter idea early actually paid off
Perhaps you recognize this pattern. You come up with an idea, do a whole bunch of work getting it up and running and then get distracted by another idea and never actually release the first one. That is something I do all the time. I'm always waiting for the last 20% to be finished or polished up.

However, I was out drinking with some old geek friends in Vancouver the other night and they inspired me to just launch one of my website ideas, regardless of how finished it was.

So I did: http://www.tweetfolk.com

24 hours later, I've hit nearly $1000 in my paypal account balance thanks to just a few tweets being sent out by friends. I now have a bit of cash and can use it towards improving the site and doing that last 20% (ok, 40-50% in this case).

I'd love to hear thoughts from the HN community about this and other simple but crazy ideas or experiences with launching early.

Edit:

Remove a line about how much I love the internet as per some HN advice.
Yes. It's pretty much the same every time I log in.
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Ask HN: Any experience with the Mercury PL?
Pretty much in the title, I'm looking for some comments on people's use of the Mercury programming language and how they felt about it. The language looks great, I haven't toyed with it at all but I do find logic programming languages a bit of a romance.

I want to know if it is something worth learning for future attempts at putting into production.

For some comparison, I use Erlang and Python in production and I play with Scheme on a regular basis.
Ultimately I feel Groupon's model is flawed.
Local businesses need to build loyal relationships with the customers. Using Groupon makes local businesses reveal their hidden card, which is their cost of doing business. If local people realize that this local company can still make some profit after taking this much reduction in price, how will they react to the current price that the local business is setting?

In addition, the profit margins low, and the enormous flow of sudden customer attraction compromises the quality of service. Unless the local business is far superior than all of its competitors, I doubt Groupon will create much value for the business. With the current business model, customers walk away happy, Groupon walks away happy with a 2 year existence and already valuation of 5 billion ( I would say happy as well) , but the local businesses are left with disappointment, like the unsatisfied wife after the husband's premature ejaculation.
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Does anyone remember when google had this feature?

Well sortof, you could block individual responses from coming up under a specific search term.

There was a little x by each result if you were signed into google and it said "never show this result again"

Not enough people used the feature for it to stick around...

I would love this ability but google please, good UI and consumer education. I love your features but don't love when they get taken away because users don't know they exist.
I would be surprised if Picasso was the first to do this. If you play around with permutations of faces, it's probably in the first 1000 things you'd come up with, if not the first 100. So while the answer could be yes, Occam's Razor implies it's no.
There is a big hole in this experiment. Think about it, let's say the future me choose 1 curtain in round 5.And I was wrong so I see nothing and move on to round 6. And the current me reaches round 5. Since in the future, i do not see any sexual photo, there's no future (arousal) information coming back to help me. (well, maybe the waiting punishment may discourage me to pick the same one). If I got to see the sexy photo even if i pick the wrong one (with time delay to separate it from picking the right one), then I might be motivated to send back my arousal feelings back to the past so that i can see the picture without waiting.
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> The vast majority of books on Amazon would have zero reviews if they only let you review a book after purchasing it on Amazon.

A little optional badge to indicate that the user purchased the book from Amazon wouldn't go astray.
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At 8700 samples, it's 0.5% in favor of predicting non-erotic. Yup, seems pretty insignificant now.
Oh, as regards real, I mean dollar volume. You won't get Goldman to underwrite an IPO for such a small valuation. You could certainly do a shell merger or bulletin board/pink sheet listing.
What are you talking about, of course I have no idea where to find those kind of pictures... although, and this is pure speculation, a Google images search with safe search turned off might return some interesting results.
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It doesn't have one-click, instant billing to 150 million subscribers... so that's kind of a big missing piece, there.

In the same way, a horse-drawn carriage has some of the good features of a 2011 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Coupe, like wheels, the freedom to move faster than walking without using much physical energy, and a storage compartment. It also has none of the environmental downfalls.

But, you know, it's kind of missing the internal combustion engine. (And we can argue about the UI – App Bodega's hardly a Prom Queen, itself.)

iTunes accounts are the magic dust Apple sprinkles to turn things into gold. No one else can touch it, save Amazon.
Maybe the clearest way to see it is that the expected number of boys is one (obviously--there's always exactly 1), and the expected number of girls is also one (1/2 + 1/4 + ...) since the prob. of (at least) one girl is 1/2, and the prob. of a second girl is 1/4, and so on.
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the research that I have read indicates that females are aroused by a much broader range of visual images (even images of monkeys)

Physically aroused, not psychologically. There is no way to say this delicately but the women in the study would start lubricating when witnessing anything sexual in nature but they weren't on the verge of orgasm or anything. They could still find the imagery unpleasant and in fact didn't actually feel aroused while witnessing the monkey business. The researchers hypothesized that this had to do with protecting the lady parts even in a situation of unwanted sex.
Instead of tags, why not use a recommendation system?
In the movie "Sneakers", "COOTYS RAT SEMEN" is one of the sillier anagrams encountered when the main characters try to use a Scrabble set to figure out the meaning of "Setec Astronomy". It's a classic hacker movie -- highly recommended if you haven't seen it.
He's wrong. You should not focus on tools, focus on people and ideas. The people will then make the tools (and throw them away when they cause too much friction) as needed.

But Facebook is still young, they're still learning. Unfortunately they don't seem to be learning from the past, which means they get to repeat everyone else's mistakes.
Digikey's shipping is amazing. (and cheap!) Plus, as you say, they have an enormous inventory - and a solid in-house search engine for filtering through it.

It's great to hear that Octopart will be indexing them. I've always liked Octopart's goals, but without Digikey on board they weren't that useful to me, except as a adhoc datasheet search engine.
Langdon would be the only survivor of the senior faculty and would be automatically elevated to the post. He, and a sexy bimbo who is ostensibly an aerospace engineer, would engage in a whirlwind tour of the world, including

* Finding 14th century patterns in the flight paths of major airlines

* A gripping episode at the Boeing High Technology Escapades Centre near Seattle, Washington (warning: location may not exist)

* 50 pages of hastily cribbed history notes about ancient greece

* The discovery that the descendants of the Cult of Pythagoras and the the Eleusinian Mysteries have been secretly at war for thousands of years and that this explains all historical events up to and including Facebook.

edited for typos and misspellings.
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Seriously? Did you get the email? It basically said "we're closing in 2 months. All you data will be delete."

Nothing about thanks for being a customer. Nothing about what the future holds. Nothing about appreciating our trying of their product instead of WebEx and helping them build value or providing feedback. It was embarrassing.

No clue why I'm being downvoted. It was written by someone who clearly doesn't give a shit about their customers anymore.