skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not go so far as stop awarding those karma. It gives people the incentive to post those stories and its not that just by posting one gets some karma. It has to be liked by the community. But the quantum of karma per post should ideally be less than that for a comment.

Karma seems more sought after than I thought. It seems there is almost a viable market for it. Shudder
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Sign-up to the newsletter, that's how I'll let ppl know what's up.
Creating the Next Silicon Valley - The Chilean Experiment
You must have checked a loooong time ago...
Our first 6 months: 2010 in review
Ack. Thanks; you're right.

(I'll leave the post as-is so your follow-up doesn't look silly.)
i think that the fact that (1) they perceived this was necessary and (2) this worked, shows that online dating needs a better way of doing things.
Speaking as a person not living in the US, I'd gladly pay to get to this content legally.

Unfortunately that's not possible. Most of the content isn't available and if it is, it's usually only available in a crappy german translation.

These artificial barriers should probably be factored in before doing such calculations.
Not to be brash, but just because you are spending $25 a day on ads and are making $300 a day, does not mean that formula is going to scale linearly upwards ($600 if you spend $50 a day, $1200 if you spend $100 a day).

That said congratulations! $300 a day is nothing to sneeze at, and I hope it's consistent for you.
It really does depend on what you use it for. I use OSX at work because I'm required to, and I tried to use 'OSX' tools like Textmate for a while. They really didn't fit me well at all and now I use quite a lot of linux-y things like Vim, and a lot of things that work on every platform (browsers) and a few things that only work on OSX (Time Machine).

I tried doing the same on Windows and wasn't impressed at all.

I'm still most at home developing on a Linux box, and I use the current Kubuntu. Yes, every time there's a new one I upgrade, and yes, I get burnt by something every time. (Usually Japanese input support or audio. Last time it was video, though.) I still prefer it.
Measuring session length will depend on your app. For a typical web app, what you would do is have some sort of process that updates the current session timestamp when a new user action happens. Then, another process will go through currently active sessions and automatically close those that have been inactive for longer than a certain time period. The actual time period depends on your app, of course.

I haven't spotted a programmer's guide to measuring these metrics. There are a number of people on this site who would be very qualified to write one, though (patio11 comes to mind).
As far as the donation goes, my conscious is clear. I donate a big piece of my income to charities and my family and I work with thousands of impoverished kids in the inner city of Chicago every day.

Based on my experience, characterizing the poster as having a chip on his shoulder is accurate. I run into this problem all the time when working with those less well off than me and it's a serious problem. It's a significant barrier on communication between otherwise well intentioned people.

Finally, I stand by my characterization of innocuous. There was no harm or offense intended and I'd like to see you argue otherwise. I myself had the same reaction to the title of the submission and it's because of my middle class upbringing. What is importent here is not shaming people for their upbringing but rather to seek an understanding of why people react in different ways.
I hope that your implementation is clear and explicit.
The .net version was most likely registered and used while waiting for the .gov (presumably they can take a while to register).
Meaning and Form in Mathematics
Why doesn't Data.PVector.map increment the last element from 14 to 15?

ghci> adjust succ 2 a -- apply a function to a single element
fromList [1,42,14]

ghci> Data.PVector.map succ a -- apply a function to all elements
fromList [2,43,14]
It seems to me that this will actually become a desireable feature, if only because the masses are ignorant of DRM. I wonder if other chip makers will be forced to "offer" DRM in order to compete.
Clickable link for the lazy (like me): http://www.thisiswhyyourock.com
Thanks for this, I had no idea. Do you have any more information about this, or links?
Some of the big banks may still run IE6 (certainly BoA/Merrill Lynch still did about a year ago).
Pretty sure the Pro X2 cards already had Ad-hoc mode enabled. Does this mean they're adding this feature to the standard model?
Related to this but somewhat off-topic: I just worked through Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial[1] and early on he mentions that it's depressing to work on something with absolutely zero style. (He uses Blueprint to jumpstart the process and then gives chunks of CSS along the way, so that what you're looking at as you work is never awful/empty/unstyled.) Along those lines but even more fully-baked, I just found Pilu's[2] web-app themes[3] in a recent blog post[4]. Maybe everyone who does Rails knows about these, but they were new to me.

[1] http://railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

[2] https://github.com/pilu

[3] http://pilu.github.com/web-app-theme/

[4] http://blog.bryanbibat.net/2011/01/03/starting-a-professiona...
Isomorphism and the Evolution of Creativity
True but that doesn't make this statement from the GP any less ridiculous: "You're effectively asking someone from a lower class to possibly break the law".

I know of waiters/waitresses that don't report all of their tips. Do we now say that tipping them is asking them to break the law? Of course not because that's their responsibility, not your's or mine. We're certainly not stopping them.
"I can't see any reference to underachieving in the lyrics"

This is what I see as a kind of reference to under-achieving by calling out and insulting people who work harder: "Let’s have a toast for the jerkoffs / That’ll never take work off." It seems to me that the voice is therefore showing contempt for over-achievers and, by taking the rest of the lyrics into account and the fact that I've met a lot of people who despise fellow employees that work harder than they do, I leap to the assumption that the voice himself must be like one of those under achieving dicks.

"The main speaker is most definitely talking about being a high-achiever."

Others have said similar. I think the voice thinks he's "all that," but in my opinion someone who feels a need to say things like this are decidedly not and therefore I don't agree that the voice is actually a high-achiever. It seems more like the speaker in the song is trying to justify his bad attitude by just declaring that he's the smartest/best person in the room and everyone else are idiots (as if by virtue of him saying that, it makes it true - because after all, he's so damn much better than everyone else!) - but that is not the mark of a truly intelligent person, IMO, and that's probably why I interpret the speaker as just being a dick. If he tried harder, tried to teach and support and didn't attempt to chase the girl away, he could be the smartest guy in the room. Instead, he just chases people away to make room for his ego.

Anyway, you could be totally right. I'm just trying to clarify where I was coming from. I would posit that in the case of interpreting art, there's no one truly "right" answer anyway, so it doesn't really matter - and maybe that's the point. :)
> Imagine you're one of the other guys using the service and you try to talk to one of those fake profiles.

Ok, not hard to imagine. I'm using the service, I message one of those fake profiles (amongst the other multiple of profiles I message). I get no response, figure she is not interested and move on (just like most other messages to profiles).

Yes I think it's cruel if they used them to play jokes. Worse yet is that I know people who are using this for financial gain. They setup fake profiles in dating sites, and respond with messages containing premium rate phone lines. They made millions, got fined in one country but the profits made elsewhere made up for that.
The fact that people are getting smarter over time is the firm scientific consensus and I'd think that most science writers should know that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_Effect

Brain volume contributes to a lot of things. It might be that we're getting clumsier, or that we're less visually perceptive than our ancestors were. But we can be sure that IQs aren't going down.
3 Rules to Live by as a Woman in Business
Yes, fair enough. Agreed. I would revise this to say that I think Android will ultimately be the more accessible of the two platforms - mostly because of the different price pointing strategies. Why should Apple give up the hefty premium people are willing to pay to use Apple products? Their attitude might be "let other manufacturers cater to the cheap flip-phone crowd. We build best in class devices here, and our customers know that, and are willing to pay for the value we provide."
How is this different from Netflix only making movies available via Windows DRM? Netflix has expanded, but initially it was the same deal.

And it remains entirely at Netflix's discretion whom they trust. I agree it's a Bad Thing, but the content industry is entirely predicated on artificial monopolies.
Another "Eat Like a Caveman" article
> The point is, unless you are from the most impoverished society on the planet, you are doing something that someone somewhere could find reprehensible because of social subtext.

When you see a liberal with hunched shoulders, it is because this issue is bearing heavily on their mind. /s

You're right, of course. Selling all your possessions to donate the proceeds to a poor family only gets you so far, and then only in the short term. The real goal is battling for systemic change, either by fixing the system or boosting the economy to give more people more wealth. Infighting because you disagree on a 0.1%, that doesn't help at all, and is why passion needs a little control from time to time...
Why Twitter makes conversations worse, not better.
I know there's not much yet, but I thought it interesting enough, and, perhaps more importantly, I thought it might generate some interesting discussion here.

That the idea is from you means it's likely to actually be executed and executed well, which further encouraged me to post it here.
> taking something in JSON specified as a string, using quotation marks, and automatically converting it to a double.

I can't see anything wrong with this behavior. Double isn't supposed to be any less safe than any other type.

> I wasn't referring to this being the cause, just in other languages if you pass a string through JSON it would never end up being decoded to a double, just because syntactically it is a double.

I believe there is a fundamental misunderstanding here. Other languages would indeed convert to double if so instructed, or if the value presented was a (high) floating point value. And once again, I can see no inherent problem with a JSON parser that looks at a floating point number and interprets it as a double. The only problem would be the memory space of a double vs that of a float or smaller type, but since PHP doesn't make that distinction the point is moot. I don't see the evilness of it, nor do I see how static typing would avoid bugs such as this.

More generally speaking, if one of the basic types of a language is defectively handled, there is no way this bug goes away if you declare that type beforehand. It has quite simply nothing to do with it. I guess an argument could be made that less code would be vulnerable on account of having less instances of doubles around, but it would still be a huge problem. And it's not like floating point numbers are somehow rarely used.
For those who don't know Marc-Andre he is an accomplished developer who created http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/ (used by big sites like Heroku.com) and he also wrote http://createyourproglang.com/ which has sold over 500 copies.
Why was I not allowed to submit a thread?

it kept coming back to submit page? The submission ask if the thread filled flames of newbie startup entrepeneur was harmful to other newbie startup trying to learn the ropes and who only come here for seeking support, network and info? Is it good to accuse them of any other intention then that?

Just an FYI. I have a community website that is for the Parents, cadets, family and friends of a military service academy (nothing to do with my startup), I cannot imagine my members treating each other the way I have been treated in just one thread. Also, ON our site we encourage each other to posts, not discourage them so we too can have content and discussion worth while.

Just because this is a extremely active site, should not be a reason for people that have the power, to do everything in their power, to shut down a newbies good intentions!
Yeah but you have to be able to run non-approved exe's to do that and so many places still don't allow that.
Filesharing: It Just Works.

Someday, the content providers will understand this and focus on providing a better, cheaper service to their customers.
Hi, I'm the creator of calltunnel.com . Will it work with my website too? Thanks.
Virgin Mobile is running bus ads that say "You on Android for $25/month".

Obviously there is some marketing appeal in being able to offer a phone that runs Android, which means people are aware of the name (even if they may be confusing it with the Motorola Droid specifically).
Users are deciding between all of these services? I think it's more like the smart savy (and not so ethical/less well off, if you will) users use all of these services while the better off don't care to shell out the money and not deal with the hassle or just don't even know about the alternative.

This is a silly comparison in the first place, BitTorrent isn't just used for television shows/mainstream movies. Of course it's going to have more users...
Are you saying that having less money than someone else puts you in a lower class in society? Or are you saying that being in a higher class makes money more accessible, somehow?
Yes, of course, it was downvoted because it means going outside.

Or maybe it's just because "LOLOL ONLINE DATING< WHAT LOSERS!" isn't very constructive. Different people meet people in different ways. I've done it both ways: it's all pretty much the same thing in the end.

Just because you use a website to meet people does not mean that you're some kind of troglodyte whose skin is burned by the sun.

Besides, doing _both_ would increase your chances even more...
Ski or snowboard? (nice bug  top of the page)
What is amazing is a service that has comparable numbers of users and bandwidth to the bittorrent network. A river half the size of the Amazon is still a mighty river.
Hmmm. Dare I say <canvas> has arrived?
Thanks for the pointers. It is indeed much more fun to work on an app that looks hot!

I've seen pilu's theme, but I'm aiming at having themes designed by professionals (no offense to pilu), with quality similar to http://www.woothemes.com/
tl;dr: Rich is no longer accepting donations from individuals, but businesses (and presumably not-for-profits as well?) are still encouraged to contribute to the development effort.

There are a bunch of corporate sponsors of Clojure, and the list continues to grow: http://clojure.org/funders

FWIW, Snowtide was the first announced corporate sponsor of Clojure in the 2010 drive, and we'll be renewing that sponsorship for 2011 (I just need to dig myself out of the stuff that accumulated over the past 2 weeks first!).
So now you take this, and write a NodeJS server, and you could have yourself 2 player SNES through a web browser.
> and not so ethical

Sharing content hardly involves ethics. It's more about economy.

EDIT:

What I meant is, it's not ethically wrong per se; it's only considered bad because it's bad for the economy in the long run.

I wanted to make a point. Defending that point would take essays, which I'm not in the mood to write right now.

Refer to RMS's essays:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html

The only 'questionable' act involved in sharing is violating copyright. I don't think of that as a crime or even as an ethically questionable act.
Sociopathy and narcissism are overrepresented amongst executives. Smart people (as meant in the post) usually like to discover (scientists) or create (engineers, writers, etc.) things. They don't have to achieve power for power's sake in order to be happy.

Thus, they aren't as well represented amongst executives in established companies because that form of achievement isn't something they valued.
You made a fuck up. Some people tried to help, others piled on a little strong.

Bottom line is; things are a bit different around here (as well as much the same as any other community). Accept you screwed up, read the advice and take it away. Getting upset at blunt replies isn't really going to help (you or anyone else). Getting mad about the downvotes, even less so. Starting threads moaning about flamewarring etc. is even worse ;)

Don't worry about it. We all make mistakes. Now you've had a crash course in some of the rules and ettitquete.

No one is out to get you.

I would ignore this entire thread from now on if I were you. There is little else constructive to be added. I suspect a mod will kill it off reasonably soon.
Wow... Watching this video made me feel really silly about having spent literally weeks of my life playing this game. Then again, that was 13 years ago as a freshman in high school. It's understandable that game companies will keep a tight lock on the source to protect them for re-releases, but it would still be cool to dig in and hack around. I wonder if, in years time, people will do ROM hacks on these the way they do for NES games?
Lazy Evaluation vs. Macros
I think that's kinda silly too, but "getting in trouble with their employer" is 100% legitimate. His overall point still stands.
Being able to swap out the phone dialer with a SIP client means my Droid can make and receive calls when I'm on Wifi in Europe, where it's CDMA network doesn't exist.
Civic hackers and activism
Wow, I'm sorry you found my comments so offensive and insensitive (and for pseudo-hijacking). I understand this community to enjoy discussing hacks, both computer and non-computer related, and the underground world of tipping is one of the more mysterious and fascinating classes of hacks in my eyes.

What I'm requesting actually isn't so different from what the authors of this site ultimately want; more transparency and widespread knowledge of common bribes. Once everything is out in the open, establishments can either explicitly offer the higher priced solution, or the public outcry can be strong enough to put an end to such practices.

For example, I'd be all for a priority queue at the taxi stand for people with real emergencies. I'm a bit more iffy on express lines at Disney World or restaurants, and I'm guessing very few people would approve of an express list for kidney donations.
Couldn't they just use something like the IE tab extension (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hehijbfgiekmjfkf...)
Sorry Miles didn't mean it was a bad idea. I appreciate you posting it here.

I just hope nobody gets offended that there's not much to see atm.
In countries like Germany or France, films are simply doubled. Elsewhere, they are subtitled. However, very few cinemas outside English-speaking countries (none that I know of) actually show the film with no doubles or subtitles (as it's meant to be watched if you speak the language).
> I'd gladly pay to get to this content legally.

If I paid 20$ for every episode or movie or show I've ever watched, I'd be in a huge financial crisis -- I would not gladly put myself in that position.
That's a completely useless statistic. What's the trend here? Intuitively, the fact that Netflix and Hulu have around half the users of BT seems like good news for streaming providers, since BT's been around for a lot longer.
Thanks for the response. Your answer on #1 is spot-on -- I could implement that.
Ok, That speaks to the moral issue. In the end, She chose.

Furthermore, its not the lady that he was messing with. Its the guys that were on the wild-goose chase. He approached this woman in the normal manner.

I don't know, even if she knew, she might give him an A for effort.
Ask HN: B2C Startups what % of revenues do you spend on marketing?
We are trying to figure out our marketing budget. It would be helpful if you can share your marketing budget as percentage of your revenues both online and offline.
General societal standards - are you sure? The society I know may tell you that their standard is 'lying is wrong', but societies actions proof the opposite.

The whole society works by lies. Sure, they have different names - omission, bluff, exaggeration and so on - but in the end they are still lies and everyone is using them.
>committing adultery (& other crimes) in full view of subordinates

Nit: adultery is not a crime in most of the West.

(Some US states still have it on the books, but it's probably not enforceable, under the same Supreme Court ruling that overturned laws against contraception.)
These kind of hacks are paid for and authorised, I didn't see any signed contracts in these dating "hacks".
Tell HN: Perspective
Lately I'm not sleeping well as I'm worrying about a bunch of things, mostly related to money. The following incident, although only a glimpse into someone's tragedy, made me realize that I should shut up and be grateful for what I have. The most important thing in life is health.

-

Today I was coming back from my daily grocery store run when I saw a man lying on the sidewalk right in front of our offices.

He could not get up, could not move his head, he was only able to look around with his eyes and nod yes or no. A lady had already called 911. She said the man was walking down the street, suddenly yelled out and just collapsed.

He was well dressed and about my age (25-35). He could've been me. I stuck around because my girlfriend is a doctor and only a call away.

The ambulance finally arrived and the paramedics knew the young man. He is a (brain) cancer patient and has epilepsy. He has a tumor in his brain and could die any day, walking down the street.

Perspective.
Perhaps you should consider changing what you post, then? Most of the comments you've left have exactly the same style/tone, and it's a very self-serving and self-entitled one.

It might be better to listen for a while and stop posting more comments complaining about down-voting - the more of those you post the worse your average score will be (because you can be sure that a comment complaining about down-voting will never be voted up much).
Are we talking about BitTorrent.com or the protocol here ? I'm confused.
Wow, enough with the generalizations already!
I don't see any ads.
What country are you in?
Would you be able to run an AMD(ATI) graphics card in hybrid crossfire with the APU's graphics core?

Looking at the general description, APUs are meant for low performance or mobile platforms (equivalent to the NVidia Ion).
when you have zeros next to your post and when you are watching your karma go up and down as much as 5 points, depending on when you posted, then your are being voted. down. Only reason I am being voted down if because someone or a few think I am here for other reason beside just wanting to get may startup going and just trying to figure it all out. Just leave me alone already.
Yup, and I agree that the two issues are distinct. Having more fully designed templates that you would buy for a final project is (to my mind) different from wanting something immediate (and free) that you can use while building.
Y Combinator-like acceleration programme at Cambridge University (UK)
LSD, you're doing it wrong.