skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a small thing: I think it'd be better if they said they were in the Greater Toronto Area instead of Toronto. Their address on their contact page shows them in Markham, a place many miles away from Toronto proper and neighbouring suburbs.
I wonder why doesn't it work in Opera?
No, there are other circumstances, like you have enough money and time to rebuild the whole house to be how you want and make your future better. Of course, other considerations are taken into account, like buying new land and selling the old one, etc... But then that makes the analogy bad.
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Is it worth the money for non-north-american players? (i.e. Israel)
I can't fairly speak to their support quality (having never bought their products, and as someone who sees a fair bit of their money come my way for marketing) but:

- I would have thought most people currently buying linux PCs don't have the same support needs as those buying Windows PCs (generalisation obviously, but lowest common denominator and averages)

- For Dell products at least, support is a paid-for extra that you can add on when buying (at least for OS-level support)

- I wonder how the costs would balance out between needing staff with new skills and saving money on Windows licenses
There is a typo in the article: the software they are using is called OpinionFinder and can be found here http://www.cs.pitt.edu/mpqa/opinionfinderrelease/
>Wait, what? Where was I unpolite?

By trying to decide what is accepted behaviour for web site owners to do on their own web sites. (Apologies if I misunderstood your point.)

> More to the point: if anything is rude, it's tricking users into looking at ads instead of the content they were promised when they clicked on a link.

Do you also complain about advertising at shopping centers, bus stations, airports etc?
A fair point. I've updated those locations.

It's actually only about a 25 minute drive from Union Station to our office. I lived downtown for the last year and did the reverse commute - it wasn't bad at all :-)
It got submitted at least three times.
It does have its advantages like a fast load time. You won't find many modern news sites without the social media clutter.
So, the actual number, is, like, 5.
I've always been fascinated by the romantic idea of writing my own trading engine.

So I did some research, and most people who have written them will tell you that in cases like this, training on past data doesn't correlate well with current & future data.

The stock market of 2011 is not the market of 2008.

But what do I know, not like I've actually done it :)
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well, yeah, but all analogies to coding are bad in the sense that they never quite capture everything and coding is honestly just not like anything else.

But at least with respect to emphasising the cost of a rewrite, it gets at it... somewhat :-)

EDIT:

Perhaps it's better to say 'the condition of a house' - there are definitely occasions where a rebuild is necessary. If the foundation is completely screwed, for example.

The idea that you ought never rewrite is mistaken, but it's important not to jump into it.

Maybe the general principle is 'weigh stuff up'. Perhaps too general to be useful, however...
There are a bunch of things you can do for $5: http://www.fiverr.com/

HN is a good place for finding enthusiasts. I am definitely intrigued, but I'll have to pass unless I can bound some sort of output value. This is especially problematic as it is a spy game, and by nature, secretive so you'll need an even bigger effort to sell. To gauge any sort of confidence, I work with whatever information I have:

1. Service's description

2. captaincrunch's karma, previous posts and his blog

3. Post address (maybe even street view if I want to be presumptuous)

EDIT: I noticed the post address was removed from the description.

Just in terms of opportunity cost, there is too much uncertainty to commit and I'll let my $5 accrue some interest or buy something else.
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Why must it be either a Democratic or Republican candidate? This seems to be a major weakness in American politics, that a failure with one party leads to people endorsing the other, regardless of their positions and merit. I know it is easier said than done, but it looks like there is room for more parties.
Each type of 'information good' is a bit different:

Musicians can at least do concerts, which are excludable and rivalrous, and so make for a pretty good 'traditional' product that they'll get paid for.

Writing a book is likely a bit faster than 50 years ago due to computers, but not that much, as most of it's in your head. Isn't it Neal Stephenson who says he writes everything freehand?
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I would need to hear more to be convinced. The fact that they had a large number of signals they were tracking, without a clear rationale for any one of them, is troubling.

Consider a set of random signals; arbitrarily select one as the benchmark. Then from among the rest take the signal that best predicts the daily direction of the benchmark. That signal will likely have much better than 50% accuracy because by definition the worst signal will be around 50% accurate (if it were any less it would have an equally useful inverse correlation).
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Something to do with it, yes. Everything to do with it, no.
I may be wrong, but an initial success rate of 73.3% before adding the emotional data seems like overfitting.
Alienware has always been focused on gaming systems. Maybe they want to bundle some form of VMWare?
Unless the compromised server already has sendmail or postfix configured to use Amazon's perl script as a transport (according to the directions in Amazon's own help files). In that case, the attacker doesn't have to even bother looking around for the API keys --- everything's already set up.
Well, except in code quality.
Jeff, join the HN phonetool page :-)
Makes no sense at all? That's rather unfair. Would you say that abstract art makes no sense at all unless the author explains it to you? Who says that film is story first, art second? Frankly, I don't want to live in a world where film is limited to works of literal dictation.

You are free to dislike someone's work, but to say it makes no sense is an objective statement about communication. There is an abundance of sense in 2001.
It's far too late for me, I'm already pretty racist.
This doesn't seem like a realistic possibility. There isn't 100% compatability even between different versions of Office itself.
iOS 4.2, mobile safari: Facebook mobile failed, but switching to full site works.
Iit's only the Facebook, Twitter and Digg attacks that don't work in MSIE and Opera. The GMail attacks works in all of them. The reason the "script" based attacks don't work in Opera and IE is because they don't fire the onload/onerror events if the returned content isn't valid JS.
Windows NT - a complete rewrite of windows, and became the core of XP and windows server. This was a major success, IMO, NT/XP was far, far more stable than the 3.1/95 family.
Side note.

https://twitter.com/account/use_phx?setting=false&amp;format=text

Recognised that URL immediately, and (after first changing to newtwitter which I hate), reloading the page did indeed switch me back to oldtwitter.

Edit: Because of the change in URLs between the old and new versions of Twitter, I can only find one alternative to the us_phx option (a fairly obvious one):

http://twitter.com/settings/account

Returns 302 if not logged in, and if logged in then 200 regardless of if your account is set to use new or old twitter.
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I guess this is in direct response to Matt Cutts openly pointing Mahalo on HN. We should make the Aaron Wall the real SEO police. Just read the seobook blog and you will see all the sneaky things sites like Mahalo and ehow does.
I think there's only one appropriate response when Amazon comes stumbling into your market:
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A good place to start: http://www.collective2.com/

You can rent your trading strategies to others, or rent someone else's strategy.

Also some good info/tools regarding automation.
I skimmed the paper, but I couldn't find very much information on how they did the cross validation (like, what dates, they trained, and then what dates they tested the prediction) Also - I do believe that tweet sentiment can predict the stock market, but not on such a large timescale. I would guess that any analyst reading the news could have a good estimate of sentiment, at least as good as the twitter opinion finder. I think the twitter opinion finder is useful when you want to measure sentiment at a rate higher than that which humans can do it.
He says "obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy."

The industry is another matter. Its main contribution is file distribution, a function which we can perform for free now. I expect the industry to ultimately shrink to zero, while authors and creative artists do just fine.

Over ninety percent of the money we pay for music used to go to the industry, and we thought that was fine because they were pressing all those vinyls and CDs. Now the industry thinks they still deserve that ninety percent, just because they used to press all those vinyls and CDs. Free markets don't work that way.
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I have watched a large rewrite fail and cost an engineering manager his job. The next manager, perhaps learning from his fallen comrade, did something that worked spectacularly well. He did a gradual, component focused rewrite. With each release, they would carve out a part and rewrite only that chunk. For anyone looking at the big rewrite, I would suggest this as an alternative.
I don't think those figures are really meaningful. What about the mushroom cloud of new and different bands who are all unsigned, all selling CDs and shirts, and booking shows, etc, while the giants fall? Those are the growth areas, not the giants. It's easier to measure the downfall of the giant and say that's what's happening to "music," but really what we're looking at is corporate revenue. We need a better way to measure the actual music industry, instead of just the dying players who used to dominate it.
Just because an organization receives some tax-based revenue from the government doesn't mean their operations are or can be fully-funded by that
I agree, but this is harder said than done. And, MS makes it hard by making it a moving target.
Can there possibly be such a thing as a 'Hyperbole and a half'?
"For reasons engineers still don't fully understand, NanoSail-D spontaneously ejected itself."
Best line of the article!
Ask HN: Where would you find a great Python/Reddit hacker? 
A few months back I developed some mockups for a web app. I let it sit for a while, and a few days back my business partner reminded me about it and encouraged me to pursue it farther. I did some further research and I realized that Reddit (which is open source) had already solved a lot of problems I would encounter.

I would really like to hire someone who knows Python inside and out (and preferably someone who has already hacked away on the Reddit source code). I have a pretty good handle on what I want, I'm just not sure where to find someone with this particular skill set.

My question to you, HN, is "do programers exist in this space (as a hired gun for just one project)"? If "yes", where do I find them?
I find this interesting because the consensus among the economic community is that markets are highly efficient, that is, information is reflected immediately in stock market prices. This suggests information exists which is not being reflected. That's why I'm skeptical.
Perfect. I needed a replacement for the visited link technique that's being squashed by Firefox.
Like, totally! ;-)
I mean this constructively, but I cringed when I read the second paragraph. A company manager is more likely to interpret "casual" tone as: "This developer may disappear at any time, leaving me with no support for the product I've integrated in to my workflow."

In order to sell to a customer, you must understand what is important to them. Humans respond to people with whom they can identify. When you sit across from a business manager and your selling points match their concerns directly, a sense of comfort overcomes them. You should take any opportunity you get to talk to customers about what is important to them; not only from a software perspective, but from a business perspective. What companies do they enjoy doing business with? What software are they most satisfied with? What's the best product website they can tell you off the top of their head?

Understanding what your customer wants is half the battle. Developing a quality product is the other half.
I agree. Then again, content of your article was below the bottom edge of my screen as well, le sigh. http://i.imgur.com/XFpKx.png

I would venture a guess that dodging ad blocks and bad layout is pretty much the same thing.
The article does mention IKAROS, though changing the title from "Solar Sail Stunner" was probably a good move. This satellite is interesting however in that it uses what sounds like a much simpler sail deployment design. IKAROS used centrifugal force to pull the sail out whereas NanoSail-D seems spring loaded.
You are right, Google is gearing to change its algorithm to start penalize pages instead of sites. Good sites with few bad pages will see that not all their pages are ranked. Whereas bad sites with few good pages will see that only their good pages are bringing traffic. So maybe this could be a nice motivation for bad sites to add more good pages.
Now get the cloud blacklisted instead of your own static IPs!
I am picking up a P/O box today, using my home address doesn't seem appropriate.
All sorts of things can lead people to erroneously assume that an email is spam (and mark it as such).

For example, if your app sends out an automated email that isn't clear about what site/service it relates to, a proportion of recipients are likely to mark it as spam without reading it and figuring out who its from. Few people have time to read email that looks to them like spam.

Or, if your company or service emails its list of subscribers for the first time in months, quite likely half the list will have forgotten who you are and the fact that they opted in to your list in the first place. And a disproportionate number of them will mark your email as spam.

Or if people sign up for MyBrandedWebsite.com, but then receive an email from Software Company X (the company behind MyBrandedWebsite.com), people won't recognize the link, and a proportion will mark the email as spam. It's a rookie mistake on the part of Software Company X, but it happens all the time.

Ultimately, minimizing spam reports requires a lot more than double opt in and an unsubscribe link.

Amazon will be keen to minimize spam reports for emails sent through their system, because they'll need to ensure that their deliverability rates stay high. So they'll need good automated systems to detect spammers. But email/spam detection is an inherently fuzzy business, and false positives are inevitable. If a false positive could bring down an entire service hosted on AWS, even if just for a few hours, then using SES starts to look pretty risky.
Is there some reference that states music sales should always go up and never go down? Maybe music sales just spiked?

Also, how much of sales descreasing is because people no longer have to buy an entire collection of songs all at once (a CD, for example) and instead get to pick and choose their songs? I know my music purchasing habits have changed from when I was young. I rarely buy entire albums and usually just nab an individual song here and there.
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This is not a "me too" product. It is a fork of Open Office by former Sun employees and community contributors who have had an active role in Open Office before the Oracle acquisition. There is now more active development under this liberated model than there was when Sun was the steward of the project. The project is moving forward as never before. This is a good thing.

If you don't care for Open Office, then there is nothing here for you here. But for those of us who do care, and use Open Office every day this is good news. It means that the project will not be impeded by the heavy hand of Oracle, a corporate interest who is only interested in promoting open source in so far as it keeps away the bad press.

FWIW: Libre Office finally displaced Neo Office on my Mac, which is to say that the code base has improved quite substantially.
"Anyone who wants to" is one model, perhaps with some goodies thrown in for those who do. A bunch of musicians have been using that in various forms for the past decade or so (e.g. http://www.neubauten.org/?q=supporters-english), and Kickstarter now sort of formalizes it.
Stephen King did exactly that, though he screwed up the incentive. He released a new book one chapter at a time, allowing each chapter to be freely distributed. He charged a dollar for each chapter download, but it was optional. He asked only that 75% of downloaders pay a dollar.

Where he screwed up: he promised to finish the book if his targets were met for the first two chapters. Naturally, for the first two chapters, they were. People were paying extra just to make sure. But after two, donations dropped dramatically. Ultimately, King broke his promise after seven chapters.

Nevertheless, he netted half a million bucks for an unedited novel that he didn't even bother to finish.
While it doesn't list it in crunchbase, I believe Kevin is an angel on this one
Is this really their groupon replacement? I'm actually asking if their local business feature had the option to do coupons before.
Agreed. I think the author's cut will settle in at between 60% and 90% for a short piece like that. Combine with instant purchasing via Wifi or 3G, and I think it'll emerge as a business model. The $1 to $3 range is really impulse buy territory, around the price for a coffee. I reckon we'll see more of that model coming up.
People sign up. People get tired of your email. Clicking spam is easier than clicking unsubscribe (which people are also taught not to click on). Both AOL and Yahoo have been pretty aggressive about banning mail servers that send too much "spam", which in several cases was a legitimate mailing list people had to ask to subscribe to.
A lesson can be derived form the Facebook , PHP and HipHop story. They did not rewrite the PHP code in another
language, they just made it go faster with HipHop by compiling PHP into C++, and the compiling that into binary.

The end users neither cared nor knew about this change. I do not think the development or release timelines of new features were impacted at all.

What this example serves to illustrates is that one should consider all possibilities before making a decisions regarding code that has been in production and has active users. Rewriting production code should not be the only option you should have on the table.
No offense to the author, but going through one bad rewrite doesn't make anyone qualified to declare the idea unilaterally unsound.

Having gone through dozens of complete rewrites, I can agree that engineers too often want to start from scratch, because it seems easier to build it 'the right way' than continue to wrestle with old code. But that doesn't mean it's always the wrong idea.

I've seen it work brilliantly. I was over one rewrite where we were struggling to get the existing code base to adapt, so I pared off a couple of devs, rewrote the whole app in a few weeks (under a month) while the primary team continued to support the existing app. Maintenance became a breeze.

But I've seen the other side of it, too. I've seen total teardowns and chucking years of QA'd functionality go horribly wrong.
Have you studied system dynamics? It's applying control theory to societies - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics
My default answer: build a new modern database, create a datapump to and from. Don't touch the old stuff, write any new stuff to access the modern database directly.

Inasmuch as new features require storing new data that doesn't fit in the old schema, just don't send that data back.

You get to implement new features piece by piece. But always have your fallback that --crufty or not-- keeps the company going. The big hairball in side-by-side systems is operations that require atomicity. Those can get hairy, so I'd ignore them, leaving that stuff in the old system as long as possible, until you're ready to rewrite those modules in the new system and sunset the old one altogether.
Would like to see something concrete - "lots more productive" is fine, but how much more?

And, dude, tip on the shower schedule - double up. May not save much time, but starts the day out way better.
Has a long way to go. One of Groupon's biggest selling points is its 1000's of writers and their witty descriptions.
I guess I'm on four major rewrites so far - two complete disasters, two great successes.

The only pattern I've worked out so far is: disaster, success, disaster, success...
Rewrite. I led the development team for a rewrite of a successful web product for a small-mid size web company that was built on PHP4 in 2002-2003.

Like you said, the way it was built, a change to one thing would effect everything else which didn't exactly encourage improvements and innovation in the product. We were able to maintain the existing product (5 hours a week) while rewriting it from the bottom up to include the modularity and extensibility that would drive the future of the company and the product.

The rewrite was successful after 8 months of coding and testing, and in the following year the traffic increased by 200M pv/m
The same wikipedia article also lists a variety of methods to overcome the problem.
"If the company in question has a 50M run rate, we are talking about a really mature product. I don't think you can call it the initial prototype any more."

But some of those same companies would love to be called a "startup" years in to their operations.
>the consensus among the economic community is that markets are highly efficient

Really? There are some true believers out there under this impression, but I didn't think anyone credible was. It wasn't so long ago that someone showed efficient markets were an P=NP problem.

EDIT: I'm not the one who downvoted you.
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Hm. It reported I'm on Twitter although I wasn't. Both on Chrome and FF. JavaScript was enabled. A bug perhaps?
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I know that, you did not notice the sarcasm, congrats to Kevin Rose for not managing to keep talented people in Digg.
> What could Hubble see on Earth if it were to be aimed at the Earth?
...
> it can be shown that Hubble could just make out something that is 5.56 inches wide on Earth.

I found that quite odd. I've always heard that spy satellites could read the headline on a newspaper. Why would the Hubble be so much worse? That makes the math in the article a little suspect.