skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The documentation suggests basic admin things like transferring numbers to subaccounts require an API call. It would be nice to be able to do this using Twilio's web interface.
And in both situations, each company is giving its competitor coarse-grained data about its customer base (Netflix in real time, Apple with a few months' lead).

If Netflix hasn't put DRM on their stream, someone monitoring the pipe could easily get the zeitgeist of what movies are being streamed.
Probably because they were pseudo-transactional.
I just went to Microsoft Azure presentation to technology influencers weeks ago and it was pretty awesome in terms of business value. However I think both of them should stay on each's one side. Google Mail services are way far better than Live and .Net capabilities on Azure are pretty interesting.
Maybe claim 1 is true, but I still think it's badly supported here. Without having read "Unequal Chances", its subtitle "Family Background and Economic Success" seems to indicate that it's not mainly concerned with personality and character issues. The least that Caplan could do is source the relevant part of this book directly, instead of linking to his own blog post, which only mentions the book in one sentence with hardly any detail.

Again, about claim 2, if there is better support available, why not quote it directly? It's hardly good writing to make an important claim that requires the reader to go through reference to reference to reference and read a whole book in order to find some passage that may or may not be what Caplan's claim is based on.

Regarding claim 3, I still fail to see how that has any bearing on teacher's influence on character. Even that weak claim is not supported, much less the central issue whether parental influence (presumably much stronger, at least in this context) does, or does not, affect the formation of character and personality in their children, particularly in the case when parents choose to be very intrusive.
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But not before Google.
There's a chicken and egg problem with formal methods, which is that they're really hard, so nobody does them. But part of the reason they're really hard is that nobody does them, so not much time has been spent optimizing the process of generating them, and when you sit down to write a proof you don't have large libraries of already-proved code to draw from. Does your XML parser carry any proofs? Heck no.

A few people seem to be doing research on this problem, like the authors of Coq, but until the chicken/egg problem is solved I'm not optimistic about it even penetrating the obscure language community, let alone the mainstream. Plus nobody is really sure just how far we can go in making it easier, if we were able to share libraries and common practices; it will always be a challenge, certainly, just as writing good code is today anyhow, but can it ever exceed breakeven in terms of costs/benefits for a significant fraction of the code in the world? I'm cautiously pessimistic, but would love to be proved wrong.
Amazon's Video on Demand works fine in Linux already, so this new service likely will too.

Big win over Netflix if the selection of the upcoming service is just as good.
There will be no need to boot up qemu-kvm on Linux to load Windows, just to stream a video.

Also, Amazon's MP3 downloader program has a Linux version. So they do have some record of catering to us.
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Indeed, and badly written. I read "That’s why we’ve decided to aggressively pursue licensing Ibis Reader in 2011" three times, and gave up on trying to determine whether they were licensing something from someone else, or looking to sell licenses.
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So, because some people are stupid and follow slightly less stupid people for idiotic plans, the entire history of Norse navigation via Sunstones must be this! Due to the fact that some people had claimed the Sunstone magic worked, and they had the evidence of being alive, all Vikings everywhere completely ignored the large number of ships out navigating with sunstones that dissapeared. That must be it, as large numbers of Wall street investors are still hawking derivatives even tho they are shown to be a bad deal now.

It is highly likely that you are guilty of the exact same sort of confirmation bias you are deriding with your diviner example. See you are going back and cherry picking a few (not at all commonplace after better alternatives existed) choice ideas, calling them good evidence, and ignoring the whole confirmation bias issue.

Edit: also intuition is also very frequently the result of lots of observation and experience on the intuiter's part. This may not be formally laid out, yet is still pretty valid. Do intuition launched ventures have a track record that is at all different (in a statistically meaningful way) than other ventures? If not, it is a valid methodology for venture creation.
In my opinion, Bing did not violate Google's TOS because Bing did not use Google's service. The user did, and by installing Bing Toolbar the user gives Bing permission to spy on his/her search (per the Toolbar's TOS, which I presume is carefully written).

I find this bickering between Google and Microsoft amusing. Instead of the concerted public humiliation, a simple private call to Dean, and a public "Yeah, they copied us, and you know why" would suffice.
I met my wife on OKC.

I doubt I would have met her on match.com.
I actually have it from Fark, not sure what year it started being used there, but I have been an active member there since just before 9/11 and stayed because of the awesome community and responsiveness to the events during that time.
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The style of tradeoff taken, in both cases, really exemplifies the difference in engineering priorities for MySQL and PostgreSQL. MySQL optimizes for reads, at the expense of a higher write load. PostgreSQL optimizes more for writes, at the expense of in-line bloat and reads.

When you go to scale out a RDBMS, traditionally you do it with single-master multi slave replication, to scale reads. Today, that's not an inordinately hard task. Scaling writes is a LOT harder, and I think PostgreSQL made the better choice, in the end.
Please do not comment without reading the article. You do not even have the word SQL in it. Sergei is addressing the different approaches to achieve Consistency/Availability and Performance between their solution and MongoDB. A good read and I must say, I would really love to have more details and more general overview of their algorithms. They could be used for other problems.

Note that I am a huge fan of MongoDB and using it in production since the 1.4 something release.
If they are also written in .NET wouldn't patching the timebomb be more than easy: first you decompile the Reflector...
This has got to be the best deal for a prepaid Android phone ever. The $25 month unlimited data and 300 minutes is the best voice/data plan out there as well.
A good point and they're making things simpler in the process - here's the product, it's $35 and this is what it does - no more messages, reminders about a pro version and removal of timebombs. Plus future versions will probably get even more serious features because they can justify it commercially with invested time vs income.

You know where you stand.
As much as I'm NOT here to stick up for Nic and his site, he is telling the truth that this is a 3rd party service. http://www.intellichat.com/demo is one of a number of services like that.

You put a tiny fake-ai-chatbot on the page to help with conversions.

Here in Toronto, I interviewed once with a dating site similar dating site similar to WooMee /* on second thought I won't link to them */ who "Seem" to be doing similar things (this is of course only alleged misconduct, as I have no proof)

There are also numerous accounts of the dating scam sites out there. I read one story of a "Sugar Daddies Dating" site that charged huge fees to sign up, then when you did a chargeback, they'd refer you to collections for many times what you originally pledged.

So it's either pay up or damage your credit rating.
http://maxkle.in/how-elite-dating-sites-scam-people/ Max Klein has a good account of one such scam.
I'm learning this the hard way. It's a great introduction to sales when you stop giving something away and actually charging money. You instinctively begin justifying costs based on features/benefits, value/ROI, etc. Then you start reading books on sales, only to realize you are already doing most of things they talk about :).

It also changes the way you plan and prioritize your development objectives -- you begin approaching your project as a real business instead of just a website. When you are ready to begin your next project, you now have a wealth of business experience to bring to the table along with any development/domain knowledge.
Nice. I didn't say our predecessors were stupid or incapable of remarkable things.

I said that it was likely that the saga was just a story and that the researchers were jumping to conclusions.

The article is extrapolating that the Vikings used polarizing crystals to navigate without providing archaeological evidence that the Vikings used such crystals.

Is it possible? Maybe. Is it interesting speculation? Yeah.

Does the fact that there were other contemporaneously advanced technologies like cathedrals and metal forging mean that Vikings independently discovered light polarization?

No, no matter how much you would like it. Maybe you need to chill a bit.
Wherever it comes from, it’s one of the most obnoxious comment patterns on the internet, and I’d be extremely disappointed to start seeing it here. If something is worth quoting without further comment, a naked quotation is perfectly sufficient. If it needs special emphasis, how about just a simple “!” at the end.

Writing “this.” as a comment and then adding an apologetic explanation afterward is even worse, if that’s possible. If you need to write a sentence about the importance of something, how about writing something relevant instead of driving the conversation onto a tangent about commenting style.

* * *

Edit, since apparently this was unclear: it is obnoxious, to me (implied in my statement, though I’d guess it’s obnoxious to plenty of others as well). The danger with hackneyed phrases† and metaphors generally is that they encourage a lazy discussion style that decreases the signal-to-noise ratio. It is my personal experience that communities where usages like “this.” are popular are, on the whole, less relevant and interesting than ones where they aren’t. I don’t want people to start pulling quotations from linked articles as their entire comments, even if it might sometimes be appropriate, because when such comments are encouraged, the trend is toward banality and repetition.

† a hackneyed phrase itself. hah.
I'm kinda disappointed, I just signed up (with what I thought was a engaging picture: http://www.illusionking.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/horse...) and I've only got three messages from VIP members. Thank you Anita, Yanisa and Shawna !
Nevermind the cheap device. The $25 per month service that includes 300 minutes, unlimited text, and unlimited data is the real story here.

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...

Of course, you get what you pay for in coverage

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/check-cell-phone-coverage

Meanwhile in Canada you can't even get unlimited data over wired internet.
This is the most important comment I've read so far on this issue. What everything comes down to is whether user generated associations between searches and results via clicks are fair game as a signal.

As this comment points out, there is a decent argument that searchers on Google or other engines aren't the ones creating the associations, and therefore perhaps Bing has no right to use that data.
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why would they? The market for Windows, OSX, iOS etc dwarfs the linux-on-the-desktop market. It's business. Linux is for servers, OSX is for clients (and pesky Windows for the office because IT says so)

I don't see this changing anytime soon, and this discussion has been thrashed to death, I think that there will be dwindling support for Linux with desktop apps. The best you can hope for is a browser solution and that Chrome keeps building on Linux.
I read Vinge but not Stross. Can't begin to tell you how much I hate buzzword fiction.
It's sort of funny how removing the article has spawned a bit of the Streisand Effect, though I gather it's probably only limited to our little corner of the web. And even at that, it would probably just 'look weird' if they were still hosting the article after the acquisition, regardless of the attention that removing it draws.
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That wasn't quite what I was getting at - that sentence was tongue-in-cheek. I cleaned up the admittedly messy paragraph
Ask HN: Stack Exchange Knockoff?
I see a domain where the Stack Overflow model would be likely to work really well - repetitive technical questions best answered with expert knowledge from a well bounded community with a fair amount of churn. I would love to use stack exchange (even though it has more features than are probably required at the scale of the endevour) but I don't really want to go through their approval process, preclude monetization or cede control over logistical decisions. So I am looking for suggestions regarding a stack exchange knockoff, preferably on the MS stack. As always many thanks.
This has been done: http://maxkle.in/how-elite-dating-sites-scam-people/
Most databases that I've worked with that need to stand up to any real load do end up getting fairly denormalized. So a database might contain multiple data silos.

A job is a job and data is data. Attacking the interface doesn't seem entirely fair. SQL is used with a good number of non-RDBMS. Should it really matter if my interface is a QBE JSON document, a JavaScript function, or a SQL procedure? That seems like one of the least important concerns.
Copying this from my blog comment answering the same question...

Pseudo-transactional campaigns are very "pseudo". MailChimp campaigns require static predefined content. If you actually wanted to vary the content from recipient to recipient, you need to find a way to stuff the dynamic content into merge fields as you send which can cause latency and concurrency issues.

Also, since pseudo-transactional campaigns uses our sending infrastructure tuned for large bulk mailing, the delivery times are somewhat longer (on the order of minutes) for pseudo-transactional campaigns, vs seconds for STS.
The article does not, in my reading at least, address whether "tiger mothers'" children are likely to become neurotic. But it has been a very widespread claim in the aftermath of Chua publishing her views, and perhaps the main line of attack on those views. I just wanted to point out that acceptance of the "neurotic" line, which seems to be quite common, implicitly disagrees with the main point of Caplan's article.
What most impressed me about ADITS was how I was brought to feel great empathy and even affection for the spiders, not till the end do we see just how truly alien they and their environment are.
That's fundamentally fanfic of Permutation City rather than AFutD.
Hrm... I'd rather see an article about full prices, no gimmicks. It's much easier to compare phone prices here in Italy, as they're basically all unlocked and full price.
Show HN: Because most of us suffer from AD(H)D, here is too-long-didnt-read.com
Hey HN crowd!

Two days ago I realized I'm almost unable to read a book or a long article without getting distracted by Twitter/HN/Reddit/Work.
The situation is so terrible, I'm even getting afraid of big articles, and my ReadItLater list is getting pretty long (shameful I know) ... and I'm pretty sure most of you are in this situation :)

Being used to TL;DRs on long reddit posts, I thought it would be great to have these for everything, so I quickly hacked this website:

http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/

Here is an example of TL;DR: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy

I would love to have your feedback on it, how to improve it, etc.

Thank you a bunch!

(Some info for nerds: Rails 2.3.8, ~150 LOC, Twitter oAuth is used for posting.)

EDIT: Obviously, most of us don't really suffer from ADHD, but I was limited on the characters in the title :)
Portuguese speakers have long used "isto" (translated as this) as an affirmative statement, regular usage of a term meaning "this" as an affirmative didn't start with the internet.
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Thanks for sharing that. After reading about how the Christians and Muslims are protecting each other, I think Egytians in general must be pretty awesome people.
I once washed my phone, and I didn't want to renew my contract.

The guy in the store suggested that the cheapest way for me to get a working phone was to buy a prepaid phone and swap the SIM card from the one I washed.
Me too. then I discovered you could call interrupts in quickbasic and you could inject hand rolled ASM and execute it so upgraded to 4.5 and never looked back. rapid prototyping in DOS :)
Daniel, you've really fleshed out the site since last time I looked at it -- I think when you first posted it here. It's looking really good. Any update as to how the project as a whole is going for you?
I somehow doubt the likes of Thiel, Levchin and the other early Paypal folks were 'stupid'. But then, they really didn't have to run it for a long period of time at eBay so maybe one has to question what eBay was thinking.
A brief guide to a customer acquisition, i.e., your business was bought for its customers.

1. Even though they didn't buy you for your technology or your human capital, they will tell you they did.

2. They'll tell you that they bought you because they never could have accomplished what you did, because of your talented personnel and unique culture, which they plan to carefully preserve and benefit from.

3. Then they will deprecate your technology, drive away your best people, and force you to work just like they do.

4. When the shit hits the fan, the product declines, and you can't even get small releases out the door, you'll think, "Aha, now at least we will get our 'told you so' moment, when they finally realize what they've done." But they knew all along what they were doing. They wanted your customers, they got them, and they don't feel any sense of loss at what they destroyed.
* Your city-of-residence probably requires you to file (and pay annually) for a business license, even if you are doing a purely online business.

* If you accept payments in any name besides your own (e.g., a website name), and you don't have an LLC/corporation/partnership, you probably need to apply (and pay) for a DBA (no, not that kind of DBA - a "Doing Business As"). Accepting payments in a name other than your own without this could result in prosecution for fraud.

In my personal IANAL opinion, the LLC (Limited Liability Company) is the best "side projects for profit" option. Relatively simple and inexpensive formation (order of $100 w/o lawyer), limited liability (how limited? courts will tell), no "double taxation" from a corporate structure.

But do your own research beyond asking on forums.

kb
I started getting excited but then quickly realized that if I had to read a sci-fi novel about coding (or maintaining a codebase) I would throw up.

I spend my days coding.
I agree it's obnoxious, however I didn't know how else to express my feelings towards the quote without taking away from the quote. Simply saying "wow" would have added even less to the conversation. My apologies either way.
"There's pretty substantial industries that are built on advertising revenue - free papers, television, and the internet."

In the beginning, it was easier to get advertising dollars for a website. Things have changed in the last couple of years. Advertisers want numbers. How much traffic are you getting and is it targeted? Sure, you could use adsense or some or service, but it will take thousands of unique, targeted visitors to make enough money for a business to survive. This takes lots of time and energy. If you aren't pulling in any other revenue, you will most likely go under.

Charging for a service or product doesn't require those numbers. You can have 100 people a day coming to your site and make 10X more in revenue.

I've been there.
You seem to have something fundamentally against advertising, which is ok, it's a commonly held view on HN.

I just like to point out it's stupid to rule it out as a possible revenue stream every so often.
I have this phone and have no complaints so far. It's not a high-end phone, but the display is nice and performance is snappier than my old G1.

What wasn't mentioned in the article is that you can use this phone with WiFi only and no plan if you choose.
http://blog.gerundinganimal.com/2011/01/cheap-wifi-only-andr...

I'm not sure how many phones let you do that, but I don't think it's very many. Certainly not at the $150 price for a new device with Android 2.2.
Good points. I don't think we can write them off yet.

But it's pretty clear they lack the leadership at this point to move quickly to remedy their shortcomings. That wasn't true at the come-from-behind points in the past (Gates was still around).
Yes, I voted for BASIC too but ASM was what I first messed around in on an Amstrad 512k using the manual that it came with. Remember when manuals had pin outs of all the ports and sometimes circuit digrams and included a reference manual of the CPU instruction set and sample programs?? Oh those where the days =)
I imagine that happens a lot, although that wasn't the case for me.

And actually, they handled the cancellation process well (at least for me).

I called them up and said I want to cancel because "their site is a scam" and in a no-nonsense way the person started helping me undo the payment (without defending the site). Since I paid through PayPal, I did have to dispute the payment via them (which took a month or two) but I eventually got all of my money back.

So I give the company (or at least the person I talked with) props for their cancellation process, although not everyone may experience it that way.
I must have missed the story on this page's apparent disappearance or whatever.
has anyone bought the optimus v at a radio shack yet? i've tried tracking one down for the last day, and no one seems to have it in seattle; the stores haven't received shipment of them yet.
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This makes sense to me as a general policy. Without this policy, every developer could simply bypass giving Apple a cut of their revenue by offering their app through the app store for free and then charging users through an external payment system to use the application's functionality.

Obviously Apple wouldn't approve such an app, meaning they should have some explicit policy against using external payment systems for any application functionality, such as the ability to read a particular book on the Kindle app.

If you disagree with Apple taking a cut of app developer profits at all, that's another discussion entirely, but assuming that it's okay for Apple to take a cut of developers' profits, I think this policy is reasonable, if not necessary, new or not.
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Here are the clickable links:

http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/

Example of TL;DR: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy
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The OP was making $60 per hour per user. Is there any advertiser in the world who'd pay $60 to "sponsor an hour" with them for access to a single member of the OP's userbase?