skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's worse, these kind of things sometimes don't even generate the numbers randomly. They first generate the outcome they want (e.g. win $0.00), and then they generate the numbers that produce that outcome. They sometimes don't even generate the outcome randomly, but instead generate it in such a way that it's impossible for the site to lose money.
But way less user engagement / time on site / likelihood of me coming back
Bear in mind that the UK is a very expensive place to live

It's all relative. Coming from Ireland (and the Euro) the UK seems cheap. That's mostly the sterling/euro conversion rates in my favour. For example a pint of drink costs about €5 (about £4.50). The difference is so noticable that many people drive to Northern Ireland to do large shopping trips to get cheaper goods.
My new business plan:
1.) Add "anything" to the "end" of my word: "tweet"
2.) Develop something based on the results
3.) ????
4.) Profit
I don't, actually. I'm usually happy to be appreciated.

I do get slightly annoyed if the level of praise is too far above the actual accomplishment, but then I just remind myself that what -looks- difficult and what -is- difficult aren't usually the same to someone outside the field.
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Here's some quick thoughts: if this is going to be used for short stories (fiction/non-fiction, but not blog posts) you could monetize by letting readers build an anthology and printing nice volumes for them. You could also (if the authors agree) license the content to other sources.
This happened to me twice too. It hurt really, really deep. I was trying to find my way through romantic relationships with the help of some "pick up strategies".

Do not take any negative comment from a woman (or anyone) personally. Perception is projection most of the time.

Try to look at your actions and characteristics from the outside objectively (observing ego). Fix any flaws you can find about yourself (Excessive weight, bad teeth, fidgeting too much, weak vocal projection, not being able to let go while with a woman etc)

The most helpful advice about women and dating was looking at the dating scene like a computer game. When you lose you go back to the start (with a different woman). The more you play, the more experience you get, the further you advance the next time.

I know it sounds cold and apathetic, but I couldn't have gotten my current girlfriend if I hadn't failed at my previous experiences. I analyzed every mistake I made, learned from them.

Sorry to say this, but you should be able to endure some pain if you want to be successful with women. Just don't get angry with them and don't take it personally. 95% of the time it's the men's fault when the relationship stops going anywhere. 5% of the time it's psycho women, but they're somewhat rare.
In playing this Game, Players acknowledge that it is a game of chance, that the outcome of a Play in the Game is pre-determined by the Interactive System at the point of purchase, and that the winning of a Prize in the Game does not involve the exercise of any skill or judgement by a Player.

That part is almost certainly to comply with gambling licencing laws. There are different laws if it's a game of chance or luck. That's why many raffles (a game of chance) have a really simple question at the end, to turn it into a game of skill, legally.
The title is a bit confusing because the first letter should be lower case. At first I was wondering what Apple had against Cisco employees.
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Interesting observation (although technically they mean pseudonymity, not anonymity):

"The one thing all the popular Japanese social media platforms have in common is anonymity. Whilst Facebook is all about the people behind the profile, the Japanese web population typically like their privacy, with nicknames, pseudonyms and other monikers used to disguise their true identity."
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I don't actually have one yet =(
In fact, he suggested that that might be what's going on: "It is also possible that the 91% that didn't 'make it' was actually because they were pointing to google rather than to the target. Of course Bing does not like to link to its competitor and filtering out www.google.com/url can't be that hard."

(Answering for Jacques, since he said he won't be here anymore to answer for himself: http://jacquesmattheij.com/Tell+HN%3A+So+Long+and+Thanks+for... )
I think having several apps that do the same thing is very beneficial. Competition from competitors is probably the biggest reason why apps improve.
This article is a pretty blatant rehash of http://www.tokyodev.com/2011/01/23/facebook-is-japans-linked....
Very useful for SEO as well, you can check rankings without logging out of your gmail preferences.
Why the Google Art Project is dumb: Does the Internet really need gallery walls?
Really? The photo of the suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa [1] seems more depressing (to me at least) because of the extant poverty it represents.

Care to elaborate on why the other picture depresses you?

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Because the probability of winning is so overwhelmingly low that even though the total sum you spend is small, it's a net negative for almost anyone. If you have a rare disease and need $1M in a month to cure you and die otherwise, then it might be a good deal.
Oh and btw, "for sale". Recently, I made a price request for some dot-com domain, which sounds kind of fun, has 6 characters, but is not even an english word. The price was $18500. Now image what roller.com would cost.
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From your description, it sounds as if non-workers in the UK live a reasonably stable lifestyle. Their basic needs (shelter, food and healthcare) are met. Is food sufficiently expensive that $100/week is not enough for one person? Or is there a significant danger that one will lose access to the benefits you describe and actually lose access to food, shelter or medicine?

From your description, it sounds as if motters' description of "one highly precarious situation to the next" was incorrect.
What is with the ridiculous use of "In Pictures" features now days?

If they want the page views, put each company on a seperate page, but don't pretend that the pictures count for more than 1% of the interesting aspect of this feature, and don't use a terrible slideshow system that makes it actually annoying to read the text.
Best Buy announces buy back program
I am in the camp of if you are going to go with roller.at make sure you can get rollerat.com! This actually is pretty easy since it seems like a weird URL, but makes sense once you start talking about your product, "visit us at roller dot at" and people will still go to rollerat.com.

Redirect rollerat.com to roller.at and be done with it. It just takes a little extra time to make sure you can get both domains.
Interesting question. The problem is that you've mentioned there being more than one transfinite number, when this question is actually about convergence. It appears that you've simply gone "Alleged paradox - infinity - must be ignorant about Cantor and the uncountables."

In fact, Cantor and the uncountables have nothing to do with it. If you think otherwise then I'd be interested in seeing a more complete explanation of your comment.
That this doesn't have much at all to do with there being multiple transfinite numbers.
Just remember, she didn't reject you, she just demonstrated her own poor judgment / poor taste in men. You are the prize, not her... if she walked away, that's a big win for your new partner, who's out there just waiting to bump into you.

So much of your mental state is about your internal dialog, which is something you can control if you work at it. Consider looking at a book like "What to Say When You Talk to Yourself." http://www.amazon.com/What-Say-When-Talk-Yourself/dp/0671708...

Also, I've found that when I'm down about something, the best therapy is just to immerse myself in something. A startup project, exercise, whatever. This might be a good time to just dive into the startup with even more intensity than before. If nothing else, go with the old-fashioned meme of "the best revenge is living well." Picture yourself cruising in your new Ferrari and passing your ex somewhere and just smiling at her.

Or you could dive into some exercise routine / hobby. If you mountain bike or rock-climb or trail-run or anything fun, just start doing more of it. Find some other people to ride/climb/run/whatever with, so you have people to talk to and keep your mind off of the ex.

And finally there is the old PUA saw of "GFTOW" (Google it if you don't know the acronym.) Sounds kinda vulgar, but sometimes it's what a guy needs.
> Shipping & Handling
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> These costs are already factored into the price of the shirts, so you don't have to pay any additional costs for shipping. All shirts will be shipped via USPS First-Class Mail. Shirts will only be shipped within US/Canada/Mexico.

I can't emphasize how brilliant this is. It really is a privilege to only worry about people on in three countries.

You've really done a great job of refining a website - one that was made in four hours to boot!
Do they intentionally mix smartphone and non-smartphone sales to make some kind of point? Seems a bit misleading otherwise.

If they dropped all the feature phones from Samsung and Nokia etc. I'd guess the graphs would look a lot more similar since they'll be selling much less and at a much higher average price.
What is a fair price for Internet service?
I don't kno HNdroid but there are other three android apps.
http://market.android.com/search?q=hackernews
> the heavy user is operating in an ambiguous zone where continued use of the service at the advertised price is at the whim of the provider

That suggests an interesting business model where: we sell everyone on 'Unlimited', then we wait to see who is the most egregious customer, and drop off the ones on the top of the pyramid (and keep the revenue positive customers).

Reminds me of how the cellular operators used to be towards roaming: sure, you can roam, just don't do it so much that we cancel your contract.
Wanderfly lands $1M, RentJuice gets $6.3M.
Congrats to them
I might be wrong, but VC's are only friends to those contribute to the fund. So say the VC gets a $1 billion dollar fund, they take there 20% commission to run the fund (fly around, acquire space, etc...) then they go out looking for the biggest risk with the biggest return. They are making a killer salary with the 20% commission to run the fund. They don't have any friends at that point.... at least that is what I have come to learn.
Makes sense to me. Mixi is a localized incumbent that supports anonymous profiles. Facebook relied on crowdsourced translations to make the Japanese site (which I think is an amazing idea), but that's not going to cut it as far as localization goes. For very similar reasons, Yahoo! was able to control search in Japan when Google took over much of the rest of the world.
This sounds brilliant, esp. if they pay in Best Buy Bucks or something like that. A lot of people don't want to deal with the hassle of selling their relatively new gadgets on eBay, Craigslist, etc. Example: I bought an iPad three months ago from BB, now I want to buy the new one, that'll come out in two months. I would love if they take that back, e.g. for $300 and give me the new model.
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Interesting point that Microsoft may have special code to filter out google redirects.

On the other hand, do we know the percentage of searches that actually get redirects as results? The 'honeypot' was rather small, so the redirects just might have been too little to appear as a signal in Bing.
Get well, Andrew. Take care of yourself/family first. Life is to short.
As a preamble, when RDF was conceived, databases drove many sites on the web, but their data tended to only be exposed as HTML, instead of a more machine-friendly format.

Now, there are two perspectives on what RDF is.

To an idealist, RDF is the universal data format. There are no semantics baked-in, and you can write arbitrary subject -> predicate -> object triplets to express any possible relationship. To an idealist, it's the perfect format for exposing all the structured data on the web in a machine readable form. The dream has always been for automatic agents to crawl the semantic web for you, understanding the meanings of the RDF triplets, and using them to reason out the solution to your query.

To a pragmatist, that dream has always sounded like a bunch of bull. Absent the presence of strong AI, it's a complete pipe dream that a piece of software will ever be able to infer the "semantic meaning" of interlinked RDF, just because it happens to be defined by triples. At the end of the day, you're going to have a programmer writing rules against specific terms in RDF, and if that's the case, than RDF is nothing more than an extremely awkward API.

Fortunately for the web, the pragmatists won. APIs are everywhere, and RDF is nowhere.

Unless strong AI happens to be right around the corner, the web dodged a real bullet there. Personally, I'm of the opinion that any web agent that could possibly puzzle through RDF triplets should have no problem understanding our APIs, in any case.
Test affirms United States' ability to circumvent Internet censors
That's unlikely. The free apps are a good reason why all those devices are sold in the first place. Apple cares more about selling devices than it does about selling software.
I've met people who are kept very busy at a somewhat higher daily rate - nothing to do with technology though. They do have to dress very oddly.
Nice concept, weak domain name.
They do. It's brilliant, because you pay a surcharge to participate in the buy back program when you buy the device, and when you bring it back in, they give you store credit for the trade in value.
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You can realistically make a handful of products. You can advertise millions.

Would you rather sell 1 product, or advertise a million different products?

Your logic seems to miss that crucial point.

Look at it this way. Paid subscription = Manufacturing. Advertising income = Retailing.

Would you say there's also no money in retailing? (Which is really just a form of advertising supported).

My argument is that there's plenty of money in both if you know what you're doing. Which you chose is likely a matter of personal preference, and how much risk you like taking.
You're probably right, but I distinctly remember buying my first Apple product, which was a 3G. I just returned from Afghanistan and was stoked to have an iPhone. 31 days later (1 day post-return option), the 3GS came out and I watched with horror as all of my friends had a much better phone than I bought just weeks prior.

I got over it, but I learned that I had to keep an eye on release cycles to avoid having that happen again. I believe many Verizon iPhone users will learn the same thing.
While I find the thought interesting, that Microsoft may have google-specific code to filter out redirects, I don't like the notion that Google should not complain because it allegedly ignores copyrights.

I see a difference between aggregating content and presenting it and mentioning the source and just plain copying (such as spell corrections) with no mention of no source.
rsync.net might still be around...
Internet Explorer bug puts 900 million users at risk
I thought it looked rather smart - if I did have to live in suburbia I'd far rather live somewhere like that than the usual grid layout.

[Edit: Given that there appears to be a football pitch between some of the circles it looks like the area surrounding the circles is parkland]
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Jacques suggests that this is all about those 9 results that Google was able to "force" into Bing's index. But -- unless Google are simply lying about this -- the point isn't really those 9 results; they are just the clearest evidence Google has of shady behaviour by Microsoft.

Google claim that they saw lots of (less obvious) evidence of Bing mining search results from Google before they began their sneaky test, and the point of the test was simply to confirm that Microsoft is doing what they thought.

This is not about whether Bing is easy to "game" -- whether Google can get nonsense into Bing's index by sneaky means. It's about whether real Bing searches commonly derive their results from Google.

Imagine that I think you're reading my email and using the information in it to play the stock market (maybe I have secret insider information about some companies, or something). So I do a test: I arrange to be sent a bunch of email that, if you acted on it, would make you buy particular companies' shares that you'd otherwise have no reason even to have heard of. And, lo, you do that for 10% of the companies involved. Would anyone, looking at that, say that the real news is that I was unable to "game" your stock market transactions effectively, and that your spam filters caught 90% of the junk I tried to inject into your information?
>"which they don't claim to have done."

IANAL, but if they have attacked Microsoft, that is probably a prudent legal strategy. Keep in mind that Google claims to have discovered this episode by noticing similarities between their results and Bing's which although it suggests and active program to monitor Bing, is hardly surprising.

On the other hand, however plausible it appears their claim about how they discovered it smells a bit of BS. It strains belief that Google never looked at the packets the Bing toolbar was sending home during browser compatibility testing. They lost their virginity a long time ago.
No infinity other than Aleph-naught appears to be involved in this. Why do you think the existence of other aleph numbers matters here?
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Right, the GPL is not compatible with the App store as you are hindered in your redistribution of the application.

Additionally, it seems that iCoder (intentionally or unintentionally) doesn't have his code out there anywhere and has yet to respond to #2 requests for the code.
Why would you turn down $100+ million? I honestly am not sure where Path is headed. I am at loss for words on this one...

Google must see something?
Exactly; and look [1] at all that ranging space. I think I would have loved growing up there.

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"...weak domain name."

To you. Remember the demographic that will be using this.
Ask HN: Are you ready for IPv6?
With IANA handing out the the final five /8 blocks today, the obvious question arises: Are we ready for IPv6? Obviously most of us aren't going to be getting our own allocations any time soon; but how are people doing with migrating to service providers which support IPv6?
Awesome, the office building I'm in is visible! :D And no, I kind of wish it was that interesting-looking fortress island in Japan, but it's not.
Mentioning the google redirect is a point I haven't seen yet and extremely valid. "Anonymous click data", as Bing said, can't account for what was seen.

But I think the author focused too much in the "9%" part. Who knows what Google did with the other 91%? Maybe they were trying different approaches, which actually would be the most sensible thing to do.
Simply, there are few reasons you might choose Oracle over MySQL or PostgreSQL.

- You have an application in your stack that requires it.
- You are building an app that would be installed on cus
tomer premises, and want to support enterprisey customers.
- You have a founder, or early employee, or team that REALLY knows Oracle very well and doesn't know a cheaper database.
- You're looking to be acquired by Oracle, or by an enterprise-type of company, like Cisco, EMC, etc.
So let me get this straight: Mixpanel is advising me that page views are dead, engagement is all that matters ... and their chosen medium for this message permits no measurement of engagement whatsoever.

Their web2.0 metrics are superior to traditional measures, but a one-way communications medium that has been popular for over five hundred years is apparently superior to any type of online advertising, so much so that you don't even care about the metrics.

This is the worst message/medium mismatch I could imagine.
> a community or hivemind of in-jokes, 4chan memes, and chain puns

Yes, this is true but if you actually spent time there you would also see that it is a community doing some incredible things.

* donating over $500k to donorschoose.org

* helping prevent suicide at reddit.com/r/suicidewatch

The list goes on and on.
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Also if you're doing any government and "enterprise" gigs, hearing the word Oracle and Java somewhat makes them happy. I bet there's some Dilbert comic about it.
I wish Apple had a 'flag application' button in the App Store to flag things that seem amiss and report them. If so, I'd have flagged this for being GPL software on the app store.
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Same problem with IntelliJ IDEA. "IDEA" must be the worst product name ever for googling.
Amazon RDS announces MySQL 5.5.8 instances
Note that the source distribution only includes enough of the game assets to run a demo version of the game. Even if the demo assets were inadvertently licensed under the GPL, iCoder is still in violation of Wolfire's copyright by distributing the full game.
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Everytime I see something like this I wish I had a startup/company/job where I could be actively referring to a dashboard to make sure things were humming along.
As any great entrepreneur or hacker or opportunist would say... Who wants to copy one with me?
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Off-topic now for sure, but IMO the investment / charity is always better spent on local businesses to produce goods rather than donating goods. Donating goods just makes us feel better about our excesses (the fact that we by new clothing based on style instead of wear / utility).
PostgreSQL has to be one of the best kept open source secrets. I'm so tired of the attitude that if MySQL does not work for you, then you have to throw out a relational database entirely and run with one of these klugy NoSQL things. From everything I have seen the last few years, PostgreSQL will scale across multiple CPUs, where MySQL will not, due to differences in the locking mechanisms. To say nothing of the lagging feature impoverishment of MySQL. Yes, MySQL sucks less now, but how long did they simply not bother to implement transactions at all (no rollback, no isolation)? How long until they had stored procedures? Referential integrity to avoid dangling foreign keys?