skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure most developers have no idea how much money is saved by avoiding lawsuits.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis will fly another mission
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British minister hails NZ military's Power Point might
My comment is only going to complain about your headline:

Your use of "hacking" is confusing and possibly incorrect. AFAIK when "hack" is transitive it usually means violating, exploiting, or modifying an existing system, which it doesn't sound like you have yet.

"hacking together a startup" would probably be more clear, meaning that you're making it quickly out of technology without regard to elegance (for now).

"hacking on a startup" might be best, meaning that you're playfully modifying or exploiting (but not violating) the startup, but it still semi-implies that it's a pre-existing system. This also doesn't work with "in 3 weeks", so you'd have to change it to "for 3 weeks" or maybe say "hacking on a 3-week startup".

While I'm at it, the "leave kimono wide open" thing isn't really clear. It sounds like "some guys put together their startup too carelessly and got pwned."
We retain (1):

10% of what we read

20% of what we hear

30% of what we see

50% of what we hear and see

70% of what we say

90% of what we teach

I used to lecture at a college. After learning about this the answer for me was like duh...

I made my students teach my classes.

(1) Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching 3rd Edition. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1969)
I work at Signal with John. I hadn't heard of GeoCouch before, so thanks for the tip. The service that uses Mongo isn't core to our application, so we're probably unlikely to change. MongoDB has been working quite well for us so far.
Nice to know where my tax dollars are going...
It's not like Paypal is great outside the US either, though; I have a Japanese account hooked up to my Japanese bank account and it's completely useless. It can't use funds from my Japanese bank, only put them in. What I'd really like to be able to do is use it to quickly facilitate transfers from my Japanese bank account to American services, or to my own account... but I can't.
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I interpreted this as meaning that not all scrolling changed the DOM, only scrolling that reached the bottom of the window.
Google has enough publicity power and local business relationships (AdWords, Places) that they will have less trouble than anyone else signing up businesses to be part of the deals. Probably even FB. Then, they also have their ad network and services (gmail, search, maps, etc) to sign up users and promote offers. This is 2 good solutions for problem #1 for a local business deals network.

Google is making a smart move. Most of the bigger deal sites share an uncanny similarity - they are called "clones" for a reason. And the way to stand out is to offer better deals. I have gotten the Groupon newsletter since they came to NYC, and I have never bought a deal. And I am usually a very compulsive shopper. There is not enough variety and nothing is that compelling. The way to stand out is to target deals better so you can make money on margins instead of volume and offer more lucrative deals for businesses. FB may have as much data, but Google has shipped better big-data targeting than anybody else. You need to acquire, sort, and analyze the data, and then have the relationships to exploit your insights. And as location, purchase history, and timing come into play, the data is going to get big if you want to target deals well.
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Ask HN: Chicken and Egg Problems and Community Building
I'm looking for some prior discussions on HN on these topics. I don't think I'm very good at finding them. Some I have found so far:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663316

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2028985

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1289283

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815156

I'm sure I'm missing lots of others. I'm getting something out of the ones I have found but I'm really more looking for questions people have asked about "how to build a community from scratch" and most of them don't really fit that criteria. I know I have seen this type question asked repeatedly.

Any links? Any good search terms for how to better track this down?

Thanks in advance.
Match.com copies HowAboutWe - Here's HowAboutWe's response
Is #2 really illegal? What's to stop Wal-Mart from analyzing sales receipts before deciding which store-brand product to introduce next?
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem
Clickable:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663316

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2028985

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1289283

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815156

Plus an article found on one of them:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
"Angry Birds" To Become an Animated Series
I agree the current options out there for this aren't very good. I coded up a prototype for this about a year ago:

http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-email-newsletter-c...

My biggest challenge: critical mass.

My hope was that with some seeded pages it would start to rank for long tail keywords, and it would grow organically from there. This largely hasn't happened unfortunately.

I think starting in one niche (ala Facebook), or being prepared to slog through several years of negative cash flow and paid reviews to gain traction (TripAdvisor), or having a giant blog following (StackOverflow) could be what's needed to get critical mass solved.
It seems to me that with this launch, Google has become more like Microsoft when Google was gaining some sort of ascendancy - a juggernaut that is so afraid of the upstarts that they chase the shadows of the next big thing, in this case Groupon.

The local search & commerce space cannot possibly only look like Groupon. On Hacker News, we have seen people try different models & different variations. There are some ways that doesn't even rely on deals. Just yesterday we saw http://getpunchd.com/ a mobile play on loyalty schemes.

And Google has Android, a mobile OS coupled with what was once and possibly still the best mapping site on the web. It would seem figuring out how those two combined can be the wedge into the local space should be their priority instead of being scared into creating a clone.
<plug>
Sharepad at http://GoSharepad.com.

We're still making some last minute changes & fixes but it should be up in a few weeks. Each Sharepad account connects to one Gmail address. Once signed up it will continuously do a real time 2-way sync between your Gmail account and Sharepad account. It will sync emails, contacts, & tasks. You can kind of think of it as email centered around your contacts as opposed to a big dumblist like you have with regular email clients. It allows you to take notes & place follow-up tasks on contacts as well.

Finally, you can share your pad with anyone simply by dragging & dropping any one of your contacts to the "Padmates" group. They can then login and manage the account with you - send emails under their own name - add & edit notes/tasks under your contacts etc.. Perfect for lead collaboration or customer management in that sense. Also good for managing projects together.

Again, we're still in the process of getting help videos up and the blog/FAQ etc but you can signup for a free account to check it out now if you like.

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These are all typical issues of a successful service company. No surprises there, so congratulations!

Slowly paying bills is simply good cash management. You get to collect interest for 60days on that cash. If you paid right away you wouldn't.

As for the billing, I'd get on that right away. Get the cash into the account accruing interest as soon as possible.
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This Crime Map thing is genius. I have no idea why Google Maps hasn't implemented something similar.

Padmapper is awesome btw.
I'm planning on building the suspense until enough responses come in for a follow up post to make sense. When that happens, I'll make sure to share everything.
You mean like, say, search or cost per click advertising?

Google routinely uses it's position as market maker in search and Internet advertising to gain an advantage on other participants on the Internet.

Take AdWords. Many smart people, including many people on HN, think that AdWords is an auction. AdWords is not an auction. AdWords has a price discovery strategy which is partially auction-like, but the actual ad displayed will be a) from whomever Google darn pleases at b) whatever price Google darn pleases. (In addition to being best at the world at processing large amounts of information, Google isn't too shabby at PR, so they call this Quality Score and tell people that the revenue maximization strategy for the world's largest advertising firm is in people's best interest... and people believe them.)

In addition to displaying explicit preferences for particular businesses and for/against particular business models, Google uses large amounts of proprietary black magic to determine minimum pricing. For example, keywords in a field known to be awash in money with no competition will not be priced at the systemwide minimum price, but will rather be priced much higher. The exact level is, again, wherever Google darn well pleases. They have teams of very smart people working on revenue maximization.

I love AdWords. It's the best idea any corporation has come up with in the last twenty years, and is largely responsible for me being at my kitchen table right now instead of being miserable in my cubicle. But let's not kid ourselves: Google is not a one-off gentle giant surrounded by 499 for-profit corporations on the Fortune 500.
They said caching wouldn't work, but they could be wrong. You can't change the Cache-Control header to public for HN responses, because the same URL can appear different to different users. There may be some ways around this, including giving each logged-in user their own URL to browse with.

But that might be a lot of work. You can still set up a proxy that kicks in only for requests that don't contain a session cookie. Then, requests without a cookie can be responded to with a cached copy from Varnish, and Varnish could refresh every 30 seconds or so. That might reduce the number of connections to MzScheme by quite a lot.
on the contrary, surely a feature.
While the macro movement will be dominated random brownian style motion I wouldn't rule out that at a fine level it can seek out the red blood cells - plasmodium cells certainly have motor functions and can move themselves around.
:) Exactly why someone else would be writing the spec! I know just enough to be dangerous, but meta-fortunately, I'm also aware of that fact.
Facebook Ad Spending To Hit $4.05 Billion In 2011
Thanks Ilya, just sent you an email. We are entering the already crowded market of local deals. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Hmm how about that, it looks like you are correct:)

I though John Shirley was the CEO for most of the 80's:)
It would make sense for the current incarnation of AppleTV, as it runs iOS and it's driven by Apple's A4 chip. Technically it could run iOS games, but it's missing a direct intuitive interface (like multitouch on other iOS devices). Kinect-like tech could bridge the gap, and I wouldn't be surprised if Apple came up with something similar.

However, back in June of 2008, the AppleTV was a very different product than it is now. Its innards were more like a bare bones Mac Mini than a iPad. And aside from the architectural differences between Intel and ARM, the App Store was yet to open - Apple could not have predicted iOS becoming such an immensely popular game platform.
Start learning Objective-C on a Windows machine
I didn't get to that tab yet, have been wondering where that nice background sound was coming from for an hour or so :)

Just opened a second tab and passed, though.
'With its vast reach, huge resources and brand recognition, it could prove to be a powerful player in the space.'
Yeah, just like it did with Buzz.
Though this time it actually has more shots at it.
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The logo, maybe: https://www.google.com/images/logos/offers_logo.gif
I see Groupon ads all day. Any guesses on how they might rank in terms of overall AdWords accounts?
it is phony practice though it will be really hard to prove that certain decisions made by Google were based on analysis of AdWords data from Groupon campaigns.
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His Page rank just went from 1 to 1.
I got rid of domain privacy a few years ago. I don't get all that much spam to my personal e-mail account which is associated with my domains. I've also heard that some people see domain privacy as a sign of a potentially scammy/spammy site.
Google acquires mainly technology and talent, or in some cases it would pay big bucks to acquire marketshare.
There is not much technology behind group buying things.
And none of the Groupon competitors have the marketshare Google wants.
Thats why it makes more sense for Google to spend that billion dollars on advertising/promotion etc. to gain probably more marketshare than getting LivingSocial's 10% or whatever.
[Disclosure: I work at Mozilla, and have been closely involved in the JS engine for some time.]

For a while (3.5 and 3.6, I think), Linux distributors shipped 64-bit builds of Firefox, which did not have JIT support. (Mozilla did not produce supported Linux-64 builds until 4.0.) Experimental Windows 64-bit builds had the same problem, but most people even on 64-bit Windows would use the 32-bit version. Linux distributors would also build Firefox to ease their package management, rather than to optimize startup speed, so again if using a distro Linux build you were in the penalty box.

MSVC also has PGO support which we still can't get working properly on gcc, and which used to make a very substantial difference in JS performance, and still makes a small one. Add to that the PIC register overhead, and that we had to compile with frame pointer on Linux for some time until we added CFI support to the crash reporting software, and there were lots of places where the toolchain just didn't keep up.

Animated performance tests are likely to be slower on Linux than on Windows due to graphics differences rather than the underlying JS performance. In fact, one of the ways that we generally tell if something is JS-related or not in initial triage is whether it's cross-platform or different on different OSes.

Windows is where most of our users are, but most of our developers are still on OS X I think. After that is probably Linux, but it's a close call. More are moving to Windows, mostly to be closer to the dominant user experience. Linux generally suffers most in the graphical department, due to the...variable quality of available drivers. compiz itself has an extensive blacklist of drivers, and that's coming from the distros themselves! I don't think anyone can reliably get Linux video driver bugs fixed, and we've been waging a battle against Linux graphics stack performance problems for some time ourselves.

(One major performance issue for us is theme drawing and using stock icons and doing other "be a good Linux desktop citizen" stuff. Chrome went the other way, doing their own thing and not having to load icons synchronously, or re-initialize the font system on startup, or do all form-widget drawing through gdk-indirection-slowtown. I think it's clear at this point that we erred in listening to what the Linux faithful told us they wanted, and we should have listened to our instincts.)

On Android our JS performance is pretty great, even though the native toolchain isn't exactly fantastic. That's probably the most important Linux platform in the world right now.
I'm not even talking about bank accounts. I'm talking about credit cards. I'm not expecting WePay to link up to banks around the world over night.
Not exactly equivalent.. Wal-mart's a distribution channel, Google's more of a marketing channel. Although it gets fuzzy.
Joshua Bloch gave a talk in 2006 that was about "real" API design, not REST API design, and is mainly concerned with much-loathed Java, but despite all this I think it's still very relevant and well worth watching. It's about an hour long.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design
Isn't it just a "X Development Thru an SSH client"? Additionally, retail Chrome OS devices likely won't ship with native shell support. :(
One of the reasons Google may fail at this is the support call center.

Groupon has large and professional support call centers that around the world that takes care of customer inquiries, something very distant to Google culture
IMHO, they will crush Groupon if they execute well. Groupon is still relatively unknown outside tech circles.
Lesson: Don't turn down an offer from Google. They buy because they want in the space.
<sarcasm type="unfair">

If only there were some site to manage meeting people that has existed since the Web 1.5 days.

It could be called Meeting, or Meet With, or Meet Up (though this last one would never work). These days it would probably have a name like Meetr or Meetng.

Presidential candidates might use it and it could wind up being featured in the mainstream media as an example of how the world is being changed by the internet.

</sarcasm>
Is Kinect coming to Windows? - CSMonitor.com
What I tell people who tell me this: You're probably making a simple or sequential app.

Debugger is more powerful, it can do everything print can, and more. Sure if it's a 5 minute walk to the market, then by all means, walk.
I agree with the article. The safe, high-status choice in white American suburbs today always seems to involve spending money. Making clothes yourself has become rare. Little food is made from scratch, let alone beer and wine. Live bands are being strangled by DJs.

However, I see a lot of interest in doing it yourself among young people here in New York City. There's a phenomenon of individual cooks selling out of their home kitchens. Theater and live music is far from dying.

The Burning Man Festival is another exhibit of a nice countertrend. There, you feel like an asshole if you don't get directly involved in creating, performing, contributing, taking action. Selling to the public is not permitted at all.
It'd be interesting if they incorporated this well with their NFC work they're doing with Android.
Couldn't you just type in a passphrase on your phone and have it sign the transaction?
A large fraction of civilization came from "doing it for the chicks".

Heck - Eric Clapton says that's why he learned guitar.
Nice job fighting up. Well done.
But unless there's someone whose advice is reliably better than the market, then merely knowing that some people are better some of the time isn't useful information.
They tried to buy groupon, having that fall through doesn't it make a lot of sense to create a business doing the same thing you were going to do with groupon? These deals are embraced by a large number of people, why try and innovate into a new model that regular people don't get or like when there is already a perfectly good one out there with heaps of traction.
Given how recently it was realeased, it's hard to say that the rumor of Kinect coming to Windows has been kicking around for a while. But it wouldn't surprise anyone at this point: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0120/Is-Ki...
Actively learning and interacting with material is useful.

I'm more trouble by glib and simplistic statistics supposedly illustrating this.
Sadly what my routine is. I have the OCD of getting my favourite RSS subscriptions unread count to 0.
Sadly, that's most of second language 'learning' in public schools in most places around the world.
That will work until an AI can pass the Turing Test.
Ask HN: Webpayment gateway (Australia)
I've gone off and read all the articles using (google) "site:news.ycombinator.com payment gateway australia" and havent found any really good stuff on webpayment gateways in australia.

Is there anyone out there who has used, and integrated a web payment gateway in australia? what are your experiences with the provider/with the integration?

Because of all the horror stories, i'm going to keep away from paypal.
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Recalling information is not necessarily learning. That 'drawing-relation-diagrams' method contributes more towards understanding in my view.

As far as I know, all definitions of learning include the ability to recall. As the article points out, the students that drew concept maps "felt" they understood the material, but later were actually worse at demonstrating it with the follow-up test on understanding of the material (ie, both recall of the previous facts and the ability to draw inferences from them).

It's true that rote memorization is not the same as learning, but that's not what was being tested in the study. They specifically tested to determine both recall and understanding.
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I use Chrome and it worked fine for me.
> And I'd say "pray", but that mind be beyond the scope of your question

I happen to be a Christian as well. Do you think of prayer and mediation as separate activities, aspect of the same activity, or identical? (I am withholding my opinion as to not bias your response)
He's 50/50 at best with his assumptions. He should work on them.

- Web developer since before Bubble 1.0.
aha. That makes a bit more sense. I was thinking 100K URL's was high even for a domainer.
This behavior is essentially what Microsoft did from 1985-2000. Companies that turned down offers saw their software cloned within 2 years, and sold at a discount or bundled with other MS products.
Not HN, but this thread on Quora will be useful to you

http://www.quora.com/Startup-Traction/How-do-social-sites-%2...
I'm excited about this project for several reasons. It's a totally open stack (Linux, Ganeti, Django, etc.), funded through a grant from Facebook based on code from Google and OSU OSL (including Google Code-In students). This is a great example of the open source community working together for the greater good.
Wow that's ugly. I don't know if the Google brand is the best thing for them to use here, maybe they could have bought a lesser Groupon competitor and kept their brand. It seems from the outside that Youtube is one of Google's most successful purchases because they kept it a little separate.
IT's called outsourcing for a reason.
This. The notion that Google would even need to resort to low brow tactics other people are mentioning (like snooping on Groupon advertising data or banning them outright) are pretty absurd, obviously immoral and completely unnecessary for this to work. I've also been a Groupon member and after not seeing anything compelling for awhile I'm starting to dismiss it as spam.

Google has a ton of users on the business and consumer end, and a ton of public trust despite all this recent rambling. For the price they were going to pay for Groupon they can make this work. They will be able to attract offers that can appeal to a wider audience do to their sheer volume of their current business clients who are already earning solid ROIs advertising from Google and could easily be enticed to give this new Offers thing a try.
Sounds interesting, I'll try and show up!