skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the critical distinction hinges on required logins/APIs vs. open sites. (Redefining 'open' just be a bit provocative.) In any case, you could argue that loads of unsilo'd sites have been unfairly open to Google through their robots.txt.
I read an article by a painter once and he said PG is full of shit when it comes to painting. I believed him.
$550 million sounds like a big number but it represents less than 6 days of trading profits to Goldman. It was a drop in the proverbial bucket.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/135785-goldman-sachs-why-are...
the purpose of business is to make money. Goldman should have no other priorities but it's shareholders.
I would be very surprised if Apple ships the next iPhone with a Micro USB port in Europe. They will probably just throw in a dock connector to Micro USB cable.
If I pay for you to no longer have something, that's still a sale in that you've sold it. What I've bought is your no longer having it, I don't necessarily have to take possession.

You said that these things were valuable. By definition that means that they have a value, which is something which you'd agree to exchange them for. That's what the word means.

Possibly you actually meant "invaluable?"
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Clojure-conj talk, "Lisp, Functional Programming, and the State of Flow,"
The data structures in that book are also geared towards shared memory; actually, it doesn't cover parallel programming at all, it's just that functional data structures happen to be a good fit for concurrent access in shared memory systems.

You might have more success finding what you want in HPC literature, or maybe in the Erlang community.

That said, it's a decent book, although not exactly a light read; I did struggle to follow some of the numerous proofs. You'll probably find it easier if you have a CompSci background.
H.G. Wells predicted this in The Time Machine (okay, I'm being slightly tongue in cheek). He wrote of far future human descendants, the Eloi, who had undergone severe mental and physical degradation due to no longer being required to solve difficult physical and societal problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloi
An "IE6 compatibility mode" for Chrome anyone?

Easy, all you have to do is reproduce the entireity of IE6 in Chrome. Every little undocumended feature, quirk and difference. And it's all a black box cause IE6 is closed source. Good luck with that. :P
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I did not vote, but I understand:

You commented solely to complain about the main post. Your comment added no more information than a flag would have.

Your comment was completely generic. It made no specific argument against the link except to disparage reddit. The stereotypical HN reader prides himself on being the type of person who'd appreciate clever, insightful material even from /b/, let alone from reddit.

Also, I realize English is not your first language, but it's the lingua franca of this site; and your English was distractingly poor.
It looks like the site is using the HighCharts javascript library to build your graphs, is that right? How do you like that library? I am using Google's charts API right now for a "weekend project", but they aren't as pretty as yours.
Any opinion on how Highcharts compares to other open source charting libs like Dojo, gRaphael, or flot?
Trains, buses and taxis do much of this already. I met people in Japan 5 years ago that were do daily commutes of 30-45mins of much bigger distances than a car could in that time. London to Paris is quicker and easier by train than by plane already.

Public transport has long been used by the young and/or intoxicated.
IE is at insane levels in South Korea (94%)

I believe that's because all online banks don't use SSL/HTTPS, but instead some different encryption standard, which is only available as an ActiveX plugin, i.e. Internet Explorer only.

This is not really a truely free market where people can change.
Well said.

10s: I flagged your posts. Which isn't really too helpful, either, but I doubt this is a place that condones posting dozens of links in one go. Especially when they're old (Top Start-ups to watch in 2010, etc.)
We built a shitty oscillator in passive circuit classes. This type of thing, and Mythbusters, always makes me think how awesome school ought to be.
"Is considered". Considered by who exactly? How subtle of you to use the passive voice to plaster over the cracks in your argument :) There is no best, just norms surely.

That being said, there are ways to be gender neutral without dropping the clangers that this author does. Be gender neutral by all means but for the love of the children don't switch back and forth like an eager yo-yo.

edit: remove snark :)
What does "unfairly open to google" mean?
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Morally wrong"?

As the poet said: all is fair in love and war.
Just curious, how do you go about learning Q/KDB? I was under the impression it was proprietary and expensive - did you just purchase a copy?
As one of the comments suggests, this seems doomed to failure. Paying for a streaming version of a movie doesn't seem very desirable, as it's inherently non-portable. There's a good chance I want to watch somewhere I don't have real[0] broadband. If it's too difficult to do that, I can always find a torrent. This situation does not seem likely to change.

[0] Mobile "broadband" doesn't count. In most places, it is entirely unsuitable for streaming high-def video and will be for several years.
Maybe because someone who is more than 90 days on HN isn't considered a newbie. That's plenty time to get an idea about the community. Besides, most fair play guidelines are universal and common sense and do not really require to be dug out from the dark.

p.s. Just in case you think so, I have not down voted any of your comments and am newbier than you by a shade.
You could make holograms with this.
You can't do that on $500M I'm afraid.
Comcast is my only ISP option. You think I wouldn't rather have FioS?
OK so, Now I am getting the system: Flame A person for being a newbie, Collect as many up points as you can by doing so then, follow that newbie around and down vote everything they post? Do I have that straight? I just want to be sure.
Any way we can see some example pages?
I wouldn't agree, but I find Gmail to be awful to use. So I'm already biased.
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> it really does not affect the vast majority

It does affect the majority, because worthy submissions get lost in this flood and are not promoted to the front page.
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Being cruel to people is cruel. You can accomplish that by telling the truth too ("Yes you are fat", "Santa does not exist").

Lying is a tool, it can be used for good or bad.
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CUFP also run a job board for functional programmers: http://cufp.org/jobs
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Yea, I know. When I was in school I kept wondering why I couldn't just build things using math / science instead of just learning the rote info / methods.
Not that I read so from your post, but that's not something to take much comfort in. To be fair, we saw this coming a long time ago... or at least The Onion did:

CHICAGO-In a report with dire implications for the intellectual future of America, a University of Chicago study revealed Monday that the nation's uneducated are breeding twice as fast and twice as often as its educated. "The average member of the American underclass spawns at age 15, compared to age 30 for the average college-educated professional," study leader Kenneth Stalls said. "America's intellectual elite, as a result, are badly losing the genetic marathon, with two generations of dullards born for every one generation of cultured literates." Added Stalls: "At this rate, by the year 2100 there will be five smart people on Earth, swallowed whole by more than 12 billion mouth-breathers incapable of understanding the binary exponentiation that swamped the Earth with their like." High-school dropout Mandi Drucker, 16, said of the findings, "All I know is, we're in love."

May 14, 1997 | ISSUE 31•18

http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-uneducated-outbreedin...
Of course they report it, there's a spot on the tax return for "tips" specifically.
"In the lyrics, the hard-worker is the person singing the lyrics."

I just don't get that at all from the snippet quoted, but I can imagine how the larger context of the song might flip the meaning of things around - but I don't know the rest of the song and was going only based on the words in the article with no way of knowing how those words were performed. :)

I suppose the use of "toast" could be a clue that he actually means some kind of respect, but then why respect "douchebags" and "assholes" etc? So my reading put large quotes around "toast" in the way you might "toast" someone sarcastically who just made a giant mistake or something.

If the greater context of the song established that the voice was being sort of facetious here, then I can see how my interpretation could be almost exactly backward - but again, without some grander context, I really feel I had no way to know that if that is indeed the case.

Side note: Over the years I've noticed that either, A) I just suck at interpreting song lyrics, or B) song lyrics are often purposely designed to be ambiguous. I suspect some of both is at work here. :)
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Wait, you're getting $300 per day from that site? boggle
You seem to wish that "inflation" was defined as "monetary expansion". It isn't.
Good advice for any "newbie" is to stil back and pay lots of attention first. Get a feel for the norms of the site, and also for the sometimes non-obvious taboos as well.

One tip: most people like HN because it can be a good source of non-mainstream tech news and info. While some of the stuff coming out of CES is interesting, the "Consumer" aspect of CES also means that it's covered end-to-end by dozens of tech journals. CES news is almost inescapable, and so probably not the optimal sort of thing to post to HN.

Second tip: posts whining about your karma hits or inability to grasp the flow of HN also do not yield you a lot of love.
The article doesn't seem to have had more than two sources. I would have more confidence in its perspectives if it had more variety, at least.
Yes, if Midas Mulligan ran GS he would become Robert Stadler.
Give a newbie a break

As a newbie, you can give yourself a break, but lurking quietly for a little while, and watching how things work. It should be pretty obvious, fairly quickly, what kind of behavior is frowned upon, and what is appreciated.

Hint: bulk-posting and complaining about karma/downvotes are generally frowned upon.
I know it's a joke and you might be right, but I don't think the need to reduce brain size would be such a huge evolutionary pressure to see a decrease of 10% in just 20,000 years, that's relatively little.

Granted that the bigger the brain, the more energy it needs, but if the brain uses 25% of our energy, 0.25*0.1= 2.5%. Even if that's wrong by a few percent, it doesn't sound like such a big advantage to cause that decrease in so little time and as it's been pointed out, it actually started happening when more food/energy was available from agriculture or whatever.
Because you can be in the same class as the person you're buying a favor from. It doesn't require any class differences.
This is kind of surprising given that CPython uses its own ad-hoc allocator (see http://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5/whatsnew/section-pymall...) which resorts to malloc() only for large chunks of memory and buffers...
I wonder what's happening there.
Something like

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

This can be found on many /robots.txt files. I imagine that some of them will try to enforce this access policy. My point is that equal access for all has never existed. (Not that it would be realistic to expect it.)
I asked the question because I did not know the answer. Need to ask a question to get the answer. Sorry I have not spent 90 days on here non stop... And as I stated in the question that was asked ( many days ago.. Geez), I did search FAQ before I asked.
Eugh - I hate people like that. In my last job, the whole marketing team (8 people) were like a group of wrecking balls smashing through the company trying to meet their own individual goals. It was chaos but the MD was a marketing guy himself and couldn't see that the marketing team were doing a whole heap of damage to the company.

I played the heretic role for a while, but eventually I quit because it was a loosing battle and my moral had gone through the floor.
Fundamentally the problem is that people who choose (or spec) the software tend to be different from the people that use the software in a day to day basis.

The result is an emphasis on lists of marketable features over usability and workflow improvements.
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"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a final draft of the book. To be published by MIT Press around fall 2011.

Related papers: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/safer-world/index.html
That would seem to me to be beside the point: Buying favours requires some form of capital, which is more available to some classes than others. If you don't have any, you can't buy favours from any class - your own or otherwise.
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I guess this could mean the enforced browser ballot is having a large effect on the market?
It would be nice to see growth rates compared between regions.
Great Idea! And I do spend time making sure that people who submit about the same time I do have up voted points. Also try and leave a comment on one that are worth wile that may be a few pages back just so it is seen. I think more people should do this as well.
I wonder how well these figures follow MS Windows usage.
Delaware tends to be the overall preferred state for incorporation.

However, I can't tell from just the details of your post if you are over-complicating things or not. A cache of domain names is really not anything too significant and I don't think you require too much formality there corporation-wise. Start an LLC, transfer all the domains to that and then file your annual business paperwork.

Ultimately, your question is best answered by a business attorney. If you really have a need for this sort of setup, then the couple of hundred dollars in consulting fees (plus some personal time spent researching things and your own and then asking targeted questions here and elsewhere) should be a small investment to make. Having a good relationship with a business and tax consultant can be very valuable. Again, hard to tell from just your post here, but I don't think the "national" aspect of what you're looking for is anything so extreme that a decent local business attorney couldn't help you out.
Every scenario he described involves people who already make money from tips. If they underreport their tips, that's their own issue. I've read experimental reports from people attempting to bypass social conventions by means of $20 bills, and it only works when the bribee's job and legal status are not on the line.

I'm guessing that bypassing social conventions is where most of the outrage comes from. Queueing etiquette is something sacred; defectors face strong social punishment. Seems wrong to have someone taking something that's yours--your place in line--simply by having more money.

But queueing is just a non-monetary rationing system for a slightly scarce resource that most people don't care enough to pay for. It'd be fairer if everyone waiting participated in an auction for places in line, and the proceeds were distributed evenly, but unless you care enough to set that system up I think the moral outrage against people who buy the front position directly from the coordinator(s) of the queue is misplaced.
Very nice, especially the timing: I'm currently working with Data.Map on a side project of mine, but after a first glance at the code it looks like Data.PHashMap covers most of the functions that I currently use from Data.Map. Maybe I'll try to wrap my head around the code and add some of the functions that are missing in the Data.PHashMap source code by myself, as an exercise, as long as Kevin won't finish the first item in his To Do list within the next weeks :)
I would be cool if it worked with strings like "3 days ago" or "5 business days from now"
I had to edit the submission as the !== got scrubbed to ==. Couple of minor gripes with Eric Ries' year end post. I'm cautious of good ideas becoming a religion.
>Of course they report it, there's a spot on the tax return for "tips" specifically.

And there's a sign at the side of the road with the speed limit ...
Another thing to consider is to have Categories for new post. so easy to scroll through and does not get lost on 2nd page.

YOU can have the categories in the drop down of "New" post link. You can a have "view all" as an option as well.

You can have the category fields as a requirement when filling out the submission form.

I hope the PTB of HN consider this.

wow even this post is getting voted down already. HMMM
I am voting it down because it is a snarky comment. Just that. One-liners are usually downvoted, no matter the political stance they take.
You obviously need Roger, the cokefiend. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2065416)
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HN is not like Twitter in that, here, you're generally expected to actually know what you're doing/what's going on. The problem with this "experiment" is that it was (and still is) disruptive to the intended use of HN ("[gratifying] one's intellectual curiousity").

Also, I don't think the regulars would've jumped on 10smom the way they have if it were obviously a newbie mistake. Personally, what galls (enough to pull me out of lurk-mode) is how this could probably have gone away early on if 10smom actually tried to make amends. Instead, additional comments were posted that point to someone who was aware that what she was doing pretty much amounts to gaming HN's karma system.
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The link to your blog on that page 404s.

But the idea is good. More and more apps are taking advantage of the string-to-date functions (PHP's strtotime and the like) and I think it's great. I'm now able to let my customers enter in just about anything.
Wouldn't that just lead to some people upvoting everything?
Research is always lying...asking questions you don't really need the answer to, at least right now. The questioner is often an agent of the researcher, so is 'lying' about wanting the answer - they are being paid to ask somebody elses question.

Not at all different from putting up fake ads in Google, and counting the number of hits.
Got the following from an article:

According to one of the theories on the shrinking of brain, “The big heads were necessary to survive Upper Paleolithic life, which involved cold, outdoor activities.”

Another theory said, “The skulls developed to cope with a chewy diet of rabbits, reindeer, foxes and horses. As our food has become easier to eat, so our heads have stopped growing.”

http://www.themedguru.com/20110102/newsfeature/shrinking-bra...
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In the UK I've seen adverts on TV, Billboards and online. That's a heck of a financial commitment from google to building marketshare.
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Absent force or fraud, yes. Not sure if Goldman always makes plays absent force or fraud though.
Usually: Downvoting is fair. It provides feedback about how the community views the quality of your posts. Posts about posting and karma in the middle of other threads are generally viewed as non-contributing.

Occasionally: People will downvote because they disagree with you, however the community often corrects this...people will upvote comments which they think are too low.

Always: The nature of Karma is to be inevitable, so there no point in worrying about it, even if you do.
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> so even my question about being a newbie get voted down. NICE!

Is not a question. That's what I was referring to. You will get the context from the indentation level. And yeah I hope :-) that not everyone has been on the site everyday since the day their account was "created".
And this can vary based on driving culture.

I commuted from NYC to NJ for a while (by circumstance, not choice) and traffic wouldn't slow much at all at merge points.

Driving back in Pennsylvania, state of my birth, I was gob-smacked when people all tried to merge into one lane a mile before the merge point, bringing traffic to almost a complete halt. Of course, I was probably one of those people before driving in New York, and never thought much of it.
no offense to this person, but this is a really boring presentation...
So the only way to solve a problem is by applying known techniques, apparently.
Or the humans who make discoveries are anomalous.
Is there any reason not to buy into the IPO with a lot of money? I'm thinking, how can it not go up with all the hype that will surround it.
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why such a great idea no one has have before. it is a need to all people that this idea was introduced since money become power to all people. what majority is doing with this idea will sign the future of our all. so do not dismis this opportunity. child in time the good old ones who brought money into our all lifes must except this idea the vision about the system of viewunity is the solution to many things whats up all about money in exchange to consumers all around the world.
The importance of the frame
I didn't follow the original discussion, but while I agree with the importance of the "open web" and the relative evilness of "corporate blogging silos", I don't quite understand how RSS and HTML are "really different faces of the same thing".

RSS is an open way of discovering new content; it is dead(-ish) because real people don't use it.

I'm aware that there are RSS readers; there even are RSS readers that actually work.

But RSS readers are not what the great majority of people use to discover new content; new content is discovered "socially" on YC or Reddit, etc.
He also said "like two peas in a pod" and "where there's smoke there's fire". He was a poet, not a moral authority.

I think the gist of the quote is, in love and war folks fall from the path more often than in less important things. Don't think even John Lyly thought it was moral.
My body quite likes biphasic rather than monophasic sleep patterns, and I spent around a year on this schedule. It worked well for me, but only because I wasn't forcing my body to do something it didn't want and I could fit it around my work. It can be hard to limit the length of your sleeping phases, and my tip here is to never go to sleep without something you need to do as soon as you wake up.

In general it's far more healthy to hack your schedule to fit your body clock than the other way round. Outsource your admin work so you don't need to be awake at specific times, schedule any remaining meetings to happen during your most awake hours.