skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with the domain has been less than stellar. I ended up being fired for handing over a petition from all but one employee asking for better treatment. I sued them and they settled out of court.

The best part of it was the "best orgasm faces" contest we had. I was a programmer so I just benefited from it but those working on touch ups would screenshot and save the orgasm faces into a shared network drive and we had new stuff to laugh at every day.
Yes, Toys-R-Us is owns Babies-R-Us. They turned a local TRU into a BRU about 5 years ago. Same place, new look and new merchandise.
Looks great!

One quick note would be that the logo is linking to babyli.st/index when it could really just link to babyli.st. That way I don't have to click the Back button twice. :)
That's a JS bug. Thanks for finding it.
Not sure if it's significant yet. What he really got was: 9 people click on the default form, 5 people on variation one, and 14 people on variation two. These are very low numbers no matter what way you look at them.
Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones
Scala Mail lists move to Google Groups
Why "It's Complicated" With Facebook
For me it's HN, Reddit, and Gmail.
Why are women unwilling to contribute to wikipedia?
What's the Saliency of Your Website?
I believe this is one of the problems that Incanter was made for: really easy embedding in a larger software system. Of course, it's nowhere near as featureful or widely-used as R.

http://incanter.org/
Wow, yea it does. Although I will say that this site has a much better gift registry. Is Born Yet has a much better notification system / baby integration. You and those guys should team up and make an awesome baby site!
What does "81% slower" mean? 19% as fast?
Your favicon is far more complicated than theirs is: http://www.ico.gov.uk/favicon.ico

That's a 10 minute job.
Forced? What would be the consequences if they had stood up and said "no"? Time to grow some balls Vodafone. That government you're obeying will be gone soon anyway.
Heh, an ex-employer had an even simpler filter we used :-)

We had a 2 page tech test and did read it all, but most of the time we could mark it based on the first question. For a VB+SQL job, most of the candidates couldn't write a valid INNER JOIN statement.

Oops. Bye.
That makes sense. It does that because if you're logged in and have a baby registry i just redirect you there. By clicking the logo you can get to the landing page.
-Why using a code and not simply a URL (ex.: http://nearfeed.com/667568)? It will be less manipulation then having to copy/paste the code in a textbox.

-Why using a code and not just giving coordinates?

-Not really accurate for me, 2 km away. I know that its not on your side it has to do with my IP. To obtain the coordinates have you tried another geoip service besides Google Maps? Like maxmind database (http://www.maxmind.com)?
I read this book after seeing all the recommendations in this thread. This book seems to have been targeted directly at me and it was brimming with useful advice that I didn't know I need to know.

I'm thinking about joining micropreneur.com but I'm still on the fence.
That's one of the options they've been talking about. They expect to know tomorrow if they'll remove mine too.
...but Robin Williams told me the Mac is not a typewriter, and I assume that generalizes to Windows and Linux systems, so it is not clear to me why I would care what Mavis Beacon says.
CrowdForge: Open Source Framework for Crowdsourcing Complex Tasks
This may sound controversial, but I wish people who make these self-serving recruiting posts would provide examples other than extremely large, established, or well-funded companies. How about the small 3-person outfit developing a produce/service paid for by hours and hours of grueling consulting work?

As a startup founder that wasn't funded by top tier venture capitalists (just customers) I have an extremely difficult time swallowing this narrative that anything I do has any direct mapping to Zappo's, Netflix, Netscape, Google, or (lol) Disney.

My day to day is concerned about finding customers, getting paid, managing expenditures, creating value (also known as doing real work), not worrying about how to define some sort of 'culture'. My culture is finding customers and getting paid. It's a culture of hustling for sales and doing professionally acceptable levels of work under enormous time and resource constraints with clients that don't really care that I'm trying to develop product.

Wealthfront raised $10.5M from investors including Marc Andreessen.
Agreed; two spaces looks like crap, and I've always quietly removed any extra spaces from all the copy my company has published. It just seems so blatantly wrong and inefficient that it blows my mind that otherwise seemingly intelligent people would consciously perpetuate this anachronistic folly.
http://xkcd.com/195/
IPv4 space, 2006
My instinct, is to include two spaces after a period. I think this is largely due to a business studies class - where I was told that 'two is standard'. It feels weird to only include one space.

My tendency to add two spaces, provides me with a tactile confirmation that I've ended the sentence - which seems to add positively to the rhythm of writing.

I'm not sure I could break the habit of including two spaces even if I wanted to; I touch type and I think the process of typing is too deeply embedded in my brain's neural networks to change it now.

No matter how many spaces are included - when presenting text, one space after a period, can always be rendered as standard; so I'm not totally sure what the problem is. Happily, two spaces are rendered as one in HTML markup (unless a &nbsp; entity is used.
I'm Canadian, but here most, almost all, companies have a 3 month window in which a new hire can be let go without severance.
Never used Visual Website Optimizer, but chances are, whatever they do leaves you vulnerable to the flaw mentioned in the article that swalberg linked.

Basically, every time you peek at the results of a split test to see if the confidence level is high enough, you make your split test more prone to error.

There are ways to adjust for this which allow you to continuously monitor the test and stop if it hits a threshold, but it's much easier just to set a known number of samples to take and accept the confidence level that comes out then.
R is a stable enough language to be used successfully in production systems. But I would definitely not recommend building anything "big" in R-- I've tried and the entire process was not pleasant. R is a research environment for statisticians or statistically-minded practitioners in other fields-- and there has not been terribly much effort (from what I can tell) to change its status. I'd be happy to hear from others who've had similar (or different, perhaps positive) experiences.

It's actually my experiences trying to build production statistical processes in R that have motivated me to work on building out the statistics-related libraries for scientific Python. Hopefully within a couple of years we'll have something that's competitive with R in terms of ease-of-use and comprehensive statistical functionality out-of-the-box.
Thanks!

I'd like to say !Ding, I get it--but that wouldn't quite be accurate. Suffice to say, I understand how you can use a one-to-one correspondence method to proof two collection's equality--despite not really understanding how you are generating those values (as its clearly above my math level). Therefore, from now on, I will at least not use the argument infinity!=infinity-1 when attempting to reason some conclusion.

Thanks again, for taking the time to address my questions.
In the tech world, if blocking social networks means your employees can't access social networks, it means you've hired the wrong employees.
It's impossible for a user over a 3G connection to pull terabytes a month. Assuming 1Mbps, you would be able to transfer 8.6GB per day or 259GB per month if it was always on. Even if you hit the 3.1Mbps theoretical max of EV-DO every second of every day for a month, you'd be shy of a terrabyte. I've had friends who have worked on a network and it isn't unusual that the top 5% of users use 50% of the capacity, but 3G devices can't transfer terrabytes even in theoretical scenarios.

I'd estimate that the top 5% of users starts between 1GB and 1.5GB. AT&T has said that the 65th percentile is below 200MB and the 98th percentile is below 2GB. Usage is likely exponential, but even plotting linearly gets you to 1.6GB for the 95th percentile. So, at most it's 1.5GB, but it's likely considerably below 1.5GB. 1GB, 1.25GB: those figures seem to be likely.
>"VC's are only friends to those contribute to the fund"

No, those are business relationships too. I know that in real-estate deals when the development entity needs to raise more money from the partners, those who cannot do so will find themselves "unfriended." In fact, it is not uncommon for raising additional funds to be used as a tool for increasing returns for remaining partners in that environment. I suspect that if VC's never do so, it is because of contractual obligations not a the kindness of their hearts.
Yeah, the text is so large, grandma's going to be scrolling. Which actually means that she won't be scrolling or seeing all of the text and will be confused before realizing this was done "for her".
I definitely appreciate the "I". It lets you connect with the person behind the operation
Introducing LinkedIn Skills
I've been programming since 8 or 11, depending on how strictly you measure it. (GW-Basic, then C)

I've not really found work to spoil programming any more than any other bad job would.

>Just remember to live a little ;)

Just got back from a 3 week trip to SE Asia.

I'm taking time for myself as I go.

I was raised by the stereotypical protestant parents, so I've always been rather work minded. I'm intensely frugal as well, asia trip notwithstanding.

My childhood was code and hacker/unix lore. I grew up reading stories about ken, rms, Pike, etc. I don't really know what else I could do for a living and be happy with, except for maybe some other engineering discipline.

I'm not as provincial as my background would imply.
It doesn't necessarily need to be flat up to some critical value, but it does need to be very shallow in comparison. Consider the function:

U(i)=i, i<100k
U(i)=100k+2^(i-100k), i>=100k

Say you have a game that costs 10 to play and pays out 100k one time in one million with no other prizes. This is obviously a very unfair game. The expected income change of this game is -9.9.

Now say i=20,010 before playing. Expected utility without playing the game is trivially 20,010. Expected utility with playing is [(20k)*(10^6-1)+(100k+2^20k)]/10^6. This is a stupidly high number, in the 4x10^6020 neighborhood.

It should be possible to produce a more natural form that does this, without going piecewise.
I use 2 now, but to compromise I'll start using 1 1/2.

(Apologies to Stan Kelly-Bootle)
Woohoo, another ten years, and then I'll be in about the center!
I wasn't around during the first bubble, and I don't actually run a company presently. (So take this with a grain of salt.)

But from my perspective, most of the failed sites in bubble 1.0 didn't actually have good products - they didn't actually sell a basic 'X product' to 'Y customer'.

I think the same thing is happening now. Just look at Path, Hipster, etc. being valued at super high numbers. These sites don't actually have a real, solid business model. They're just social networks.

(In my opinion) the startup community needs to stop making social networks and pseudo-businesses and focus on real products and real problems, like the rest of the business world has for centuries.
Well, that's a huge surprise. Something to remember when topics of gender do come up: we are most of us male, and that influences the outlook.
Thankfully, one of the first things I did when I moved back to the US last year is get insurance. I'd hate to think what would have happened if I didn't.

I expect to pay about 20% of the total costs. But with insurance companies everything is a big question mark.
What band?
Mass of Exoplanets Found
The argument this article makes: "Typographers say it looks better. Readability? Evidence? Lol, what's that?"

I'll happily continue using two spaces and being able to parse sentences programatically (e.g. `dis` in Vim).

Programs can display two spaces after sentences however they like (e.g. HTML, LaTeX), but the raw text having two makes it easier to parse.
Interesting idea - but awful marketing. "Hey, gran, call me if you get stuck. xxx" Incredibly condescending.

That said, while my grandfather uses the web every day, he does sometimes get stuck. But a little extra personalization / friendliness would help. Where the phone number is now, I'd love to be able to send my grandpa a new message every day, share a photo of a family member, hook in the NYT headlines, etc.

Of course, then it turns into a kind of Duplo Netvibes and it's 2005 all over again. Still, I can see there being a userbase.
Trauma? Bubbles are great for founders - while they last. Look at it as an opportunity - there's a reason why "Please God, just one more bubble" was a popular bumper sticker for a while.

The primary takeaway from the first bubble is that there's never a bad time to realize a profit. Don't let it ride - put the money in your pocket whenever you can.
I agree with at least one thing bdclimber14 seems to be implying. babyli.st is a 'cute' domain name, but I think it is an extremely poor choice for domain names you want people to remember. How are you supposed to pronounce that to someone? Baby - lee - dot - ess - tee ? (I know, that's terrible -- I can't come up with something better). I still think it is true, for better or for worse, that for businesses the best choice is still a good .com domain (or if you can't get a good one, a .net domain is a not-as-good second choice).

Unfortunately for you, babylist.com is taken -- but babylist.net is available. I know it can be hard to find an available domain in the .com realm that closely matches what you want, but I still think it is important. I think those business domains which have succeeded despite having a .(something-other-than-com) domain name have done so despite that disadvantage.
The Department of Defence Network Information Centre has 151 million addresses. I'm not sure what they're doing with them but they could probably squeeze by with just 100 million if they had to.
I'm curious, having been away from Java for a few years, are there competing libraries that I should be aware of before using something like this?
Linkbait. It's not actually up for sale.
When you get Mavis Beacon installed on your Underwood you will achieve enlightenment.
Very good points.
Obviously, math is a language in itself and trying to make arguments from the trappings of an inexact translation to another language like English is folly.

>I am not trying to be mean here
No worries, no maliciousness interpreted.

Thanks,
there must be a poll 'where are you from', i'd like to know how much people here are from Russia like i am. couldn't google it.. ?
Some of the other books recommended here are more comprehensive, but I found Mitchell's book better at teaching concepts.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html

Simple things, like actually spelling out the steps of a derivation vs. "Here's equation a, from which we trivially derive equation b" but it might take you a while to figure out the steps if you haven't done a lot of Calculus problems recently.

And Mitchell just seems really good at explaining things (having heard him speak in person a few times).
Like SimCity but Real: meet the concept of a charter-city.
No matter who's steering the ship, it's going to be hard to stop this downward momentum: http://i.imgur.com/lD4go.png
I'm wondering if merely displaying a number is really "social proof" in the Cialdinian sense.

Possibly at one time, but now I think the "proof" part of social proof must be demonstrably not BS for it to work. In the same way that testimonials by "J.S., Ohio" have no real meaning anymore, but "Jared Sanderson, CEO of Whatever.com" would probably be taken seriously.

An interesting experiment would be to get permission from some of your better-known users to say something like "Join Bill Gates, Dalai Lama, and 14,152 others...". Possibly even better to use little avatars or pics of a bunch of people, ala Facebook Like or the old BlogLog widget. Who knows? I feel like that'd be a better thumbs up/down on social proof than just the number.
Same here. Internmatch really is a dream come true for college students hunting for opportunities like myself. I must say the user interface just blows away all the other competition I've seen out there and I've certainly checked just about all the competing sites!

excellent job on the site and best of luck, continue the great work!
And I am sorry I called you a name that added nothing to the discussion. It is not a 'casual' word, but I have a very developed vocabulary of obscenities ;-) - so it was just the first thing that came to mind that I thought would make a point about offensiveness and your tone bugging me. In any case, it was flippant and I regret it.

Re: auto-censoring. I may be completely wrong about the lines...I thought they were mildy funny, just not worth losing sales over. It was just a suggestion. If it were the OP's actual stance/belief on something, then that's different. I just thought he could put in something funnier that wouldn't necessarily be creepy to anyone. I have a different perspective than most, maybe. My companies have (aggregate) revenues in the low billions, so a small tweak can be a big thing for me. I don't want to offend a customer unless I think there is a good reason. I started out with exactly this kind of small, opportunistic approach as the OP's t-shirt, so I thought I might have something to contribute. I was apparently wrong.
The quality is always dropping in recent times, at almost any forum you care to visit.
A Hero A Fake

I was in it for the music (looove to drum!) and possibly being a positive influence... let's just say the rest of the guys had other motives. :|
I haven't found them to be particularly useful except as a level 0 filter - you can get rid of some very shoddy people early, but finding the actual gems they do very little (in my experience, anway).

I don't know who started this practice but it seems a lot of interviews recently are the brainteaser type; how many ping pong balls fit into a 1974 Super Beetle (hardtop), etc. Those are the worst.
They can add their address to their babylist. The list itself has no privacy controls so I'm not sure if people will enter it. And there's no integration b/t the address they entered on the site and online stores.
This is why the UK is so broke. Corrupt government procurement procedures. Departments overpay like this for various reasons, having to spend the whole budget is a good one. The UK is very corrupt, but our establishment is very good at hiding it and making it all legitimate. Look up some data about Private Finance Initiatives if you want to be really shocked, a £550 favicon is nothing compared to the billions that have been taken from us. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/nov/24/pfi-nhs

In many of these cases, the procurement procedure is ITSELF contracted out to a third company that will charge a "procurement fee" as a percentage of the value of the final contract. Obviously this incentivises them to pick the most expensive supplier.

I'm trying to find a source but coming up short, google gives me pages and pages of worthless drek from the government websites themselves. I'll try to edit in a link later.
definitely gift cards, they are known as the single most purchased gift for any occasion.
Genial, simple, effective and well paid. I'm a bit jealous I didn't have your "stupid" idea :).
IaaS and PaaS to disappear by 2012
Long long long time ago back in the days of dial up ISPs, I along with friends created a website called Kandyland. We bought a negative film scanner for about $1500 or so for a photographer in return for a 2 year supply of naked women photos.

About 4 months later we got a cease and deist letter from Hasbro asking us not to use the term Kandyland as it was too similar to Candyland the game.

Being young and not exactly flush with VC money, we simply changed it to California Babes or something like that.

Eventually after about one and half years, our girlfriends asked us if we are going to make this a career or not? We picked our girlfriends and have left the business altogether. The experience did help my web development career though.

Fun times.
We should team up or something... I made this baby names website a couple years ago when my wife and I were looking for baby names. I didn't like the sites out there too much and made this to help search. (since then I've been so busy with the kids and main job that I have neglected my baby names site).

http://www.babynameclusters.com/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370745
From the Comcast link:

Each user has been delegated a /64 block of approximately 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) unique IPv6 addresses.

This seems like a ridiculous number of addresses, until you realize that this basically allows for 18 quintillion users, each with 18 quintillion addresses, before we exhaust the IPv6 space.
Hm, that's interesting. Maybe it would make more sense describing the way how to choose a module from various alternatives.

But what I meant by 'author should care if somebody uses it' is that he should make it usable and understandable for somebody else. If it's not, what the point of making it public and open source?
Seems to be a very ambitious project! I'm quite impressed with its abilities.
That's a good point but to be fair anyone who is using a baby register is far more likely to post it to their facebook page, or email it to family members (who are most likely already on facebook), rather than spell it out directly. If you're visiting the new family personally you're not the target for a register anyway, necessarily (as you've got direct access to the source).

Also, natgordon - great site. If it was useful outside of the US I'd point several friends to it immediately.
For a given level of intelligence for a given person, it is possible to write a set of rules that make it appear that you have a reasonable chance of winning when in fact you don't. This is not a slam against the poor or the stupid, it is true across all levels of intelligence. The lotto gets a certain set of these people. Penny auctions step it up to the next level. Bernie Madoff caught another even higher level. (Yes, he committed fraud, but there was actually enough information for anybody paying close attention to figure it out with high confidence; his payout schedule was far too consistent, especially as the market started to drop yet his fund appeared to be immune.) No amount of intelligence will render you immune, though, there's always another layer of trick that would catch you, too, so let me emphasize again this isn't disguised elitism, everyone's vulnerable.

To the extent that the lottery appears to be disproportionately played by those who seem to be below the lottery's intelligence line, it is arguably a scam. And I do mean arguably, not that I have a proof. But I would say that if your response is that people know what they are getting into, I would submit that A: no, they don't necessarily really get it and B: would you be so blase if you were scammed by something a bit more sophisticated? It's easy to be unempathetic and be unable to imagine being fooled by the lottery's statistical games, but clearly it does in fact happen.

Is this proof of immorality or proof it should be shut down or anything else? No, I'm deliberately constraining myself to just the point above. Drawing it out further would take more logic and would itself be controversial. I just want to make the point that there is a plausible way to look at this situation and call it a scam without too much damage to the term.