skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with you in general, a couple of points:

> that by presumably imitating acts seen in pornography (I don't
> know, I'm clutching at straws to parse her comment) that
> she's somehow reducing that capital?

I don't think that she's talking about reduction of capital when she's talking about losses. She's more likely referring to the downsides of imitating porn acts (e.g. vaginal penetration immediately after anal penetration, which could result in a vaginal -- or urinary tract -- infection).

> And the legal system (and society in general) imposes
> much more rigorous consequences on men than on women.

Depends on which legal system/society.
The Unlicense - http://unlicense.org. Put your software into the public domain, forget about all legal complexity. And this way people can reuse your code in the most hassle-free way possible.

Also, keep in mind - no matter which software license you choose, your code will go into the public domain eventually.
This can't get upvoted enough, I have tears in my eyes and my stomach hurts
With that logic, I don't see why Yahoo can't earn more than Google within a couple of years. All they need to do is to 'focus on monetizing', just like Facebook can (if they only put their mind to it).

Google has a lock on the (incredibly profitable) search advertising market. For Yahoo to match that they would have to increase their search market share (as well as improve their monetization of it).

That's a much harder problem than matching Yahoo's revenue. As far as I know, most of Yahoo's advertising revenue is display based, and the money made from that is basically a factor of page views.

Anecdote: Google converts 15X more than Facebook in my circle of peers that have used both.

Converts what? Sales? If that's the case then it doesn't surprise me (search advertising is incredibly efficient). But what you might find surprising is that I find you can get Facebook advertising for less than 1/15th of the price of the equivalent Google ad (by choosing CPM instead of CPC ads).
Simple discipline.

Turn lights low. Get into bed at 10 PM. Read a boring book until 10:30. Turn off the lights. Get up at 6:30 AM.

There's no magic. You simply have to stop doing stuff.
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Amusingly, the password reset tool at iforgot.apple.com still allows six character passwords.
It's a win-win for Goldman and Facebook. Facebook gets a sky-high $50 billion valuation, and Goldman gets dibs on underwriting a potential Facebook IPO.
I don't know enough about their traffic to know how much machine efficiency would help them... however given that there are always C++ programmers to be hired, and that each program just does one thing, perhaps it gives them a layer of isolation and programmer replaceability that makes management happy.
If a good photo dramatically increases the amount of people who want to send you messages, then wouldn't subsidizing your userbase to have good photos be enormously profitable? Especially since getting just 2% of your users to take advantage of the service could make the other 98% much more likely to become paying users.
I disagree that "college students are irrationally risk averse".

College students are just students whose parents care that they get a nice career out of college. The brand name and perception of companies therefore dictates where most of them go. When asked, "so what did you end up doing after college?" most college kids, at least subconsciously, want to be able to say "I am working for great company X" and have the listener know what they are talking about.

That listener is typically their family.

Thus if you want more college kids to join startups, you should make it attractive to their families to do so. You'll still have the brand problem, but maybe the word "startup" will be like the word "wall street" ;-)
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More and more it seems that removing Linux support from PS3 was one of the worst moves of 2010.
OS X only has one corner for resizing windows, so it wouldn't surprise me.
TL; DR: Woman with baggage projects her negative experiences onto the entire world. (XXX) Film at 11.

My reason for saying this:

Armed with a “Take Back the Night” pamphlet, we were led to believe that, as long as we avoided the hordes of date rapists, sex was an egalitarian endeavor.

<SNIP>

This is an intellectual swindle that leads women to misjudge male sexuality, which they do at their own emotional and physical peril.

<SNIP>

At the heart of human sexuality, at least human sexuality involving men, lies what Freud identified in Totem and Taboo as “emotional ambivalence”—the simultaneous love and hate of the object of one’s sexual affection. From that ambivalence springs the aggressive, hostile, and humiliating components of male sexual arousal.

Never was this made plainer to me than during a one-night stand

<SNIP>

in a moment of exasperation, he asked if we could have anal sex. I asked why, seeing as how any straight man who has had experience with anal sex knows that it’s a big production and usually has a lot of false starts and abrupt stops. He answered, almost without thought, “Because that’s the only thing that will make you uncomfortable.” This was, perhaps, the greatest moment of sexual honesty I’ve ever experienced—and without hesitation, I complied. This encounter proves an unpleasant fact that does not fit the feminist script on sexuality: pleasure and displeasure wrap around each other like two snakes.

(Before I am accused of misogyny, please note I am female.)
I think there's a lot of quality in your comment, but I think you're making a whole bunch of broad, generalized assumptions about the state of the entire SO community. In my experience, it's still a highly-functional community with a wide range of interesting questions and answers. As a developer, a lot of questions I see on there during the day challenge me and force me to push the boundaries of my knowledge. Because of this, I understand the languages I code in much better than I did just several months ago. Furthermore, I'm exposed to many other languages that I would've never taken a look at had it not been for that Stack widget on my Android giving my lots of interesting questions.

Just today, for example, I came across this question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4619519/jquery-css-to-sho...

At first I wanted to ignore it because I didn't really have enough time, but then I remembered some CSS3 monstrosity I saw on HN once where they got really clever with border radii and I wanted to see if I could do something similar. An hour later, I had come up with a halfway workable solution to his problem and everyone comes out a winner. (If it's not clear, I'm treeface on SO too)

I typically don't care so much about karma...I care about being able to deeply understand the tools I'm using, and SO really forces me to see them from a huge number of angles.
Apparently the Atom SoC (system-on-a-chip) is shipping any day now (early 2011).

Intel also has a 32nm SoC process developed, unlike the cheap taiwan/korean fabs which churn out most ARM-based designs.
I'm honestly surprised that some people are so desperate to not pay $5 for Angry Birds. I mean, I sort of understand pirating $800 apps like Adobe's suite, but $5 for a bird slingshot game?

For full disclosure's sake, I am an iOS and Mac developer, so I have some skin in the game.
As I said at the outset, it's an off-topic rant about how Growl by default enables every application that wants to annoy me, to annoy me. It's a two-line, two-point HN comment, not my magnum opus. The "larger point" is pretty banal: I want to use Growl for some things, but I don't want Growl to, by default, spam me with every possible notification it can, while providing no easy way to change this default so I continue to be surprised by innocuous-seeming applications that I install. (If you're ever designing software that does something similar, think about whether you have users like me and how to accomodate them. That's as large as the point gets.)
Or alternatively, one of the best moves.

All a matter of perspective ;)
I think in this context, "startup" means a business with investors that is not expecting to break even yet, whereas "small business" means a business that could potentially fold any month because of a cashflow shortage.
Yeah, I'm aware the problem was truncation, it just took me a few tries to figure it out. My making a typo seemed much more probable than something that stupid being true.

In practice, what sort of process do you think would cause someone to implement this mistake? It seems obviously dumb to truncate something that you're hashing anyway. (To truncate it to something human relevant anyway, rather than like 512 characters).

That's why I asked if it was in some bugged library, it seems bizarre that the same totally boneheaded design would be recreated independently. It's not just that it truncates it, it's that it does it differently.
Sounds like a pretty nifty way of doing things, I might try running up an etherpad server at some stage and going down a similar track.

I'm setting something up at a shell level using Jekyll (http://jekyllrb.com/). Won't have the collaboration goodness, but I guess it could be transitioned over to Etherpad at a later date.
imho, it's equally negligent to deny it entirely as it is to accept it entirely.
Wake-up call: Why are we slaves to our alarm clocks?
And number-range searches. I can't count how many times I've wound up with a number-range search query that wouldn't work for me from any IP.
The part of the book that you MUST take seriously is the part about the methods of rehabilitating your body after an injury.

Most of you will be sitting for in a chair for a good chunk of the next 10 years, so bad backs and bad knees are a given. So understanding why this happens and on how to fix it is huge.

Getting all that info in one place took me 2 years of learning as only leading strength coaches know this stuff. Your doc probably won't.
Decomposing Twitter (Database Perspective)
CUBRID has published its technical review about how Twitter works from the database perspective. It covers 4 major types of Real-Time Data that give Twitter engineers a headache. The blog has many links to similar articles discussing Twitter's Database structure.
FWIW, it's easily obtainable online, so it could just be a $0 loss.

(The only section I've carefully read is the sleep section. It's a strange mixture. On the one hand, the Zeo advice is good - I like my Zeo and expect a lot of utility from it. On the other hand, the polyphasic sleep parts read like he is making it up completely and has never actually done it. So...)
I don't think the article does demonstrate a change in "friendships", people have always had acquaintances that they wouldn't really go out of their way to help.

One also has the bystander effect. I've been giving first-aid to someone bleeding heavily with severe lacerations and shouted to people for help ("call an ambulance", "help") and they just kept walking. Some stopped but I was literally amazed that someone calling across the street to call an ambulance could be ignored like that.

In short it's sad in many ways but if she'd pinned a note to the door of a place where she goes with friends I don't _expect_ the response to have been different.
Considering hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people get the same game for free on Android phones/tablets, there's some strangeness to paying for it on other platforms.
No-one disputes search converts more than social ads, the question is cost. As long as CPA makes it viable people will invest in Facebook ads.

Facebook can improve monetization hugely and they're clearly working on it.

Look at how the new profiles encourages people to list employer and job title, Facebook have learnt from Linkedin that allowing advertisers to target by job/industry is hugely valuable. They're going steal a hugely valuable ad market from Linkedin.

Furthermore local advertising on Facebook is vastly under-utilized, there's a whole cottage industry springing up of local affiliate firms who act as brokers buying ads from Facebook and selling leads to local firms.
Illinois is trying to tax online purchases
they constantly eat because the food they're eating is not feeding them?

true, they don't starve. they die of heart disease.
nice to see startups produce great videos about service themselves not involving 'creative' studios that would add boring marketing taste
Sleep requires one to be both physically and mentally tired. Playing computer games can be a relatively lazy way to wear out your mind when you are physically too tired to get much done but can't yet sleep. Getting adequate physical activity can help with the other end of the equation. For bright individuals, sleep sometimes doesn't come because of their mental gears continuing to whir, which is what you describe. You need to find a means to get enough of a mental workout. It sounds to me like you really aren't getting that.

Good luck with this.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ddgjlkmkllmpdheg...

Is there something I'm missing here?

It's not in Google's financial interest to provide this feature, but it already exists rather trivially.
An interview with Adam Lisagor : The Setup
1) Professional critics are not usually the friends and acquaintances of the author. They have reputations and rules (enforced by their publication) that govern their behavior.

2) Amazon reviews are intended for customers who have paid for the book. Not for friends of the author that received it for free with the expectation that they would review it on Amazon.

It's Amazon's failing that they don't protect against this. If you did the same thing on HN the anti-voting ring software would kill the submission.
>Why you should buy shares in BlackBerry right now

Because I just did and I want a quick out ...!?
I'm amazed that I haven't heard of unlicense.org before - I think it's definitely worth considering. I really don't have the need to have copyright notices maintained in what I write, so from a personal perspective it's completely compatible.

So when you release software to the public domain, do you still use the words "open source". I'm just mindful that corporate customers have reached a level of comfort around the term "open source" and may not have the same comfort around public domain.

It looks like the SQLite guys have a pretty good way of handling the situation though:

http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
It's only free because the Android marketplace hasn't yet matured enough for a paid app. To compensate, the Android version has ads.
I think what you're neglecting is the fact that most of these tools actually further silo your information to Facebook.

Consider Facebook's comments widget for example. Yes there is clear value for the publisher, but your theory starts to fall apart on the other end of the spectrum: Facebook gets to silo all these comments and call them their own. The same principal extends to likes and worse yet, user accounts.

Facebook encouraging publishers to user their profiles, comments, likes, friends, etc. takes all of this data out of the publishers hands. Imho, this is not embracing the open web by any standards.
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I came here just to post that exact thought!
I would argue that the target audience of the app store isn't tech-savvy enough to do this anyway. Sure, it's easy to HN readers, but to the general public it probably "sounds too hard."
Or the Rev. Sylvester Graham:

> Grahamites, as Graham's followers were called, accepted the teaching of their mentor with regard to all aspects of lifestyle. As such, they practiced abstinence from alcohol, frequent bathing, daily brushing of teeth, vegetarianism, and a generally sparse lifestyle. Graham also was an advocate of sexual abstinence, especially from masturbation, which he regarded as an evil that inevitably led to insanity. He felt that all excitement was unhealthful, and spices were among the prohibited ingredients in his diet. As a result his dietary recommendations were inevitably bland, which led to the Grahamites consuming large quantities of Graham crackers, Graham's own invention. White bread was strongly condemned by Graham and his followers, however, as being essentially devoid of nutrition, a claim echoed by nutritionists ever since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Graham
I can't really relate to this article. I don't actually own an alarm clock. And in recent weeks I also don't have the alarm on my phone set. I wake up consistently on my own with plenty of time to get ready for work.
They get the game with ads. There is no strangeness at all about not paying for a version with ads and paying for a version without them.
the author has some points, but he does not mention something obvious to the reader: He was always at the mercy of Twitter. It was his fortune that the cap was increased at his whim, and only now have they stopped it, for whatever reason.

The reason sounds fishy, and his retort is well-founded, but it's an important thing to note.
It's hard to buy the competitive advantage argument. Why open source it if that's the case? I think they must realize it's not a core part of their business.
I probably wouldn't use the fact that my software has higher throughput and responsiveness than Apache as a selling point. That also describes almost every other webserver out there (especially nginx).
and some for Venetia too!
actually in Istanbul there was a studio that offered a service of making photos that look like shot in different parts of the world, partying with friends, on a sandy beach with cocktails in hand, etc. for people who otherwise never gets to be in those places and envy others on social networks that do :)
Hardcoding this stuff into your app doesn't make you invulnerable to the attack. One could simply change it using a hex editor.
The problem is, by the site's own admission, the number of apps has doubled (see their previous post) Meaning the per app sales of the store are half of what they were. So while the numbers aren't as bleak as we thought they aren't great either.
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You never minimize or close a window?
Facebook 'friends' reminds me of a derogatory phrase we have here "You don't have any mates, you just know people".
Public domain, unlicensing, the wtf license, etc. create legal hassles instead of avoiding them, because many people have a short list of preapproved licenses that they understand and these aren't on the list. And companies with legal departments generally don't want to touch these licenses.
The one day record for vertical leap improvement?

Not a metric anyone keeps track of. Maybe he beat it because one was never set prior to that. Or perhaps he gamed the system. But most importantly, there are virtually no long term gains you can realize in a day that will increase your vertical leap.

I hate to rag on the guy, but this just sounds ridiculous.
Dot Obits: An Internet Ethicist & A Critic of Technology
A documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes
I would gladly pay to play Angry Birds ad-free on Android.

Or at least, I would have while I was still playing it.
done, but it's not the default. I've added a preferences dialog in the top left
Let V_x be the value of a college degree x. V_x = \Sum_i{E(\pi_i) for all degree x holders, where \pi is a degree relevant portion of "premium" net cash flow from i th person's labor pertinent to degree x, discounted by the labor-demand prospect of the degree x. If we're lucky, it may be possible to compute such values of the less-than-fifty-years-old degrees.
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Registered Apple developers only. Though there's at least one iOS bug that's getting close to being $99 worth of annoying to me (they broke an edge case of "sort album artist" behavior in cover flow a while back -- though I suspect it was on purpose, for efficiency reasons).
"'Reformat the Planet' is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware."
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Absolutely, but hunting and pecking for strings in hexedit is a bit different then opening the info.plist in a text editor.
I can summarise it in two sentences

mind doing so then, for those of us who haven't read it?
Also, paid apps counts apps with in-app payments, so if, for example, you demo MOG, that counts as a paid app as far as I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong)
This overvaluing of quick, superficial answers implies biased, superficial voters. If I were king of StackOverflow I'd try making your upvote be worth more if you're reading in a new mode that lists answers in random order with current scores not shown. I'd like to make it worth more if you've read all the other answers, too, but it's not clear the site can effectively test for that.
Why do you try to avoid gluten products? Just curious as I rely on them for a significant part of my protein intake (being vegan myself).
Whoever wrote this clearly thought it would work on other, more expensive apps. Perhaps they didn't have the money to actually test it :)
The vast majority of books on Amazon would have zero reviews if they only let you review a book after purchasing it on Amazon. Yes, it does suck that Amazon won't delete reviews even when the person admits they haven't read the book, or when they are just complaining that the Kindle version doesn't have a long enough free chapter. But other than that I have no problem with anyone writing a review as long as they've read it. Reading the book takes several hours, so the vast majority of people aren't going to sit there cranking out reviews just to get free books. There are people who do that, but it's really only a couple dozen on all of Amazon.
I greatly dislike how the NYT hijacks my browser's text selection. I'd much rather be able to right click the selected text and search for it on Google than have that silly word lookup hover.
This story rings true for any popular app that depends on a third-party service, not just Twitter - often times you're at the mercy of the host once you become big enough to be noticed.
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I really like keeping response mail for things like hiring in a ticketing system, vs. my individual mailbox, so it's easier to make sure everything has gotten a (fairly timely) response.
I find that aggregate amazon reviews are fairly accurate. Im surprised by the high reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Body-Uncommon-Incredible-Superh...
There are some things that some people can solve in a given time frame, which other people could never solve. For example, could you have ever invented calculus or discovered relativity? What about someone less smart than you? That's an even more extreme example than the one given.

Moving back to programming, debugging specifically, I've had people spend weeks stuck on a bug, only for another programmer to find it in hours or days.
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I'm not here to stifle innovation, but does a company like this really need to invent infrastructure technology? I've served some pretty high traffic stuff--secure web services included--and the current web server offerings have always gotten me there. Is it really cheaper to invent this stuff rather than buy an extra server?
A business is something that has clearly defined cash flows. Ie you put money here and you get money there.

A startup is a new venture which is trying to become a business.

Read drucker's "innovation and entrepreneurship" - he clearly describes the difference. Infact if you read this one book, you can skip every other business book including "4 steps to the epiphany", . It's incredible that his book was written in 1985!