skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a car through CarWoo a few months ago after learning about it on HN. It was an amazing experience. I got a killer deal and will definitely use it again next time.

Thanks for building it!
The article claimed Kevin Lacy was "chief traffic engineer for the [North Carolina] state DOT". I assume that makes him a bureaucrat rather than a working engineer. And bureaucrats have all sorts of "interesting" ways of working.

Edit: This is not the first time Mr. Lacy has faced criticism either:
http://charlotte.johnlocke.org/blog/?p=453
Study calls critical thinking into question
Why the CRTC was right on Usage-Based Billing
At best I can say it's incredibly poorly phrased if it was trying to raise constructive points. The implication of "if you really cared about security, you'd..." just rubs me the wrong way.
Cutting firewood. I enjoy all of the above sports but usually can't find the time for them. The one activity I HAVE found the time and motivation for is cutting and splitting firewood to stockpile for winter (I live in central Pennsylvania). There's a saying: "Wood warms you twice -- once when you cut it and then when you burn it." When felling dead trees in the woods and then carrying out the large logs, your leg, back, and core muscles get very strengthened. Later, when splitting the logs with a large maul ax (I use an 8lb head), your shoulders and arms get a huge workout.

I am motivated because I can satisfy several objectives simultaneously:

(1) Getting and maintaining all-around top physical conditioning.
(2) Spending hardly any money on heating costs.
(3) Interacting directly with nature to better understand and appreciate it.
It's more like if someone stitches me up, in an emergency, after warning me they aren't a doctor, they will be sued by the AMA for "doctor-level work".
I'd have more sympathy for this argument if government interference didn't play a large part in the construction of the status quo.

In Canada, government regulation and taxpayer money played a significant role in building the infrastructure. In the US, government granted monopolies built the infrastructure and still serve to squeeze out competition.

Government interference isn't a shiny new monster imposing itself on private sector infrastructure. Rather it has been a key player since the beginning and shaped the market in ways that need to be accounted for.
Have you seen the selection from netflix Canada ?

Nobody is downloading that crap - there is no way there is any bandwidth
The Lua code itself (while not <2 kloc) is also clean, well designed C, and definitely worth study. It gets quite a bit of functionality out of 12.6 kloc, and if you work with C, Lua is an ally (it's like Tcl, but good). :)

Also, in my experience, LPEG is a great fit for middle-ground parsing - more complex than Perlish regexps (which it handles well), and including those a bit more complex still, but it's awkward for really complex parsing (since it inherently combines lexing and parsing).

But I dissed Perl and Tcl, so -1. Screw useful information. ;)
In 2000 lines of C, you can encode the HTML5 "named character character entity" table.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#named-character-r...

I hate HTML.
The Milgram experiment
Direct link so you don't have to go to CNN (I got a couple of popups in spite of having AdBlock)

https://indinero.com/

Just out of curiosity - how do you manage to get data from credit cards and banks? Are you using some third party service, or did you write something from scratch?
Is College a Bad Public Good?
There were apparently some anomalies in this: http://pluto.kuri.mu/2011/02/03/mozilla-game-on-and-the-open...
I couldn't believe the gall behind the claim that the Internet is as limited a resource as electricity.

The whole article seems ludicrous. "Discipline" internet usage? As if it's inherently bad or something?
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Wow, it's like a battle of the bands for startups.

This would be a great premise for an episode of an as-yet-unproduced TV show about startup founders. However, the people watching would probably think that it was completely contrived.
19 years old. Currently working towards a bachelor's degree (I graduate in spring 2012 yay!). I'll be applying to PhD programs next semester and hopefully working at the boundaries of human knowledge will help me solve some cool problems :)
NH: like HN, but for shutdowns? (kidding)
I'm in Australia, where we have usage based billing, and I agree with this analysis.

Here, the key to making it work has been competition at the ISP level. I think regulators are better off chasing anti-competitive practices than trying to outlaw business models.

For example, in Australia the incumbent telco has been forced to give access to its copper-based network, and to its exchanges. That has allowed ISPs to install their own equipment (which is how ADSL2 rolled out here), which brought speed & price competition.

(Yes, Australia has a lot of problems with domestic internet policy wrt Telstra. This policy had fairly good outcomes though - if a little slower than could have been ideal)
Common sense angers network execs, film at 11
Arthur's C is stubbornly unconventional, but often, he's got a point.

Also, the APL community seems to be pretty disjoint from the rest of CS (though Arthur is also a Lisper). I think it'd be mutually beneficial if the APLers and the MLers got together, in particular.
So a convincing argument with "maps, diagrams and traffic projections" and referencing information on official documents, is ipso facto itself "official"?

Amateurs then must be forced to make unconvinced arguments unless licensed by the state?

It may be that there's a danger of ignorant people being fooled by those who can spout seemingly convincing, technical arguments. But in a democracy, the only defense is to argue against them and educate the populace. Any other course clearly invites the "dictatorship of officialdom", something that has prevailed in many places throughout history.
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A similar throwaway email forwarding service I've been using for a while is spamgourmet: http://spamgourmet.com/

Spamgourmet has two advatanges I can see: one is that it's dead easy to create aliases, the other is that it's small enough that noone has started an automated system to spam spamgourmet users (something that it is vulnerable to.)
I'm doing that right now.
I don't think that's even worth A/B testing. The red is much better! Even purely from a design perspective. It makes it more vibrant. Thanks for the suggestion.
I didn't know about the PayPal delay payment, so this is even better (more plausible).

I was actually thinking about giving a credit (charge $14 originally, final cost is $12, earn a $2 credit) which can be used for the next purchase. i.e. retention.
Agreed. Here in New Zealand, we've learned to deal with it. You can either pay around $1 per GB if you go over, or get throttled to 64k or similar.

It's like driving your car, you only have so much petrol, and if that runs out you need to put more in, so you use it wisely. (i.e. you drive when you need to)
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I agree, most people feel entitled to pirate, whatever the reason. But many times I have bought media, and it has been significantly more restrictive than a pirated copy.

To illustrate, I bought a bluray movie a few years ago, and put the digital copy on my computer. And since I had just purchased a new video mp3 player, I thought it would be cool to play the movie on there. It even worked great, that is until I accidentally deleted the movie from that device. Too bad the DRM on the digital copy would not let me make another. This was a legally purchased copy that was more restrictive than any pirated version.

Content creators are treating their customers like criminals first, sources of money second, and customers third. So yes, "don't make me steal" does have some arbitrary demands, but a lot of what they say just makes good business sense.
Bing Dominates Google Search
Right. You got it.
My guess: it's more of a "don't make me think" type thing.

Can you divide 9.99 by 12 in your head? How long would it take? How sure would you be of the answer after 1, 2, 3 ... 5 seconds?

In that impulsive fraction of a second that you have the user about to click the button and they are battling within themselves if they can do the calculation then it increases the chances that the "buy" side will win. Being able to do the calculation easily probably also gives a reflection of friendliness and ease onto the entire rest of the service as well.
Congrats on closing a round of financing, but have you had your YC rejection in the back of your mind all along?

If you had pitched with the same co-founder and same idea and still got funded, you could have given PG a big 'told ya so', but different idea, different co-founder, is really a different sitation. Plus, I'm sure YC doesn't invest in many ideas/people that they wish they could, as they have to make selections on very little details.

Out of curiosity, what stage are you at with the new company? Did you close your round with a working prototype? moderate user traction? existing customers?

Again, congrats on the funding. Best of luck with the new biz.
Let's see. You're ok with Bing doing click analysis, but you want them to specifically throw the clicks away when the user stopped by Google, because it would be unethical. And also probably remove clickstreams that involve Yahoo's directory. And StackOverflow answers, because it would be cheating. And blogs referencing interesting links. And... or just accept that clickstream analysis is a great source of data that will be an aggregation of many, many other things on the Internet. Including Google.
Rapt, the winner for most fun, was posted on HN the other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106102

(make sure to bring a friend, since the game is two player.)
I think, though, that reasonable people can -- and do -- disagree about what "within reason" means.

Absolutely, which is where my next questions come from.

I'm not convinced that it's an improvement over, say, multiple rounds of a sha algorithm.

Sure, for this conversation feel free to replace "bcrypt" with "configurable rounds of SHA1".

More importantly, I'm not clear on exactly how big a deal this is.

I agree here.

Yes, bcrypt is better.

Is it "better enough" to warrant backwards-incompatible changes? Maybe not.

I'm not clear on Django's database-compatibility policy though. Are databases created with Django 1.X guaranteed to work with Django 1.Y (where Y < X)? If not, then there are no problems. If so, then you're right, a backwards incompatible change like this is not trivial.

Maybe I completely missed this in the docs.

At the very least there should be some "I don't care about data portability" flag you can set to turn on bcrupt support.

This goes back to my question about databases working with older versions of Django. Did I miss an important part of the docs?

A pure-Python bcrypt implementation would certainly help. But I certainly am not going to rewrite bcrypt -- I know enough about crypto to know that I shouldn't be allowed with a thousand miles of writing an algorithm by hand. And frankly there aren't any active committers I'd trust to write such an implementation. It would have to come from a pretty unimpeachable source, wouldn't you agree?

This is the first argument that really convinces me. If you need to support Windows and don't have anyone you trust to write a real crypt implementation in pure Python, that kind of kills the idea in its tracks.

A third-party app usable by non-Windows-users seems like the best option.

I hope that helps; it's late and I've had a long day. Please ask if I'm not being clear.

Definitely. Thanks for taking the time to answer.
How about a free PDF (either funny or useful)?

Also, see http://www.rewardlevel.com/
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The music industry in particular is infamous for making it's fortunes via the deliberate exploitation of artist and musicians over the decades. So when those same industries turn around and try and take the moral high ground regarding piracy, for better or worse, consumers mostly laugh at the hypocrisy and continue pirating.

I agree pirating is morally indefensible. But the reality is consumers will never be swayed by those arguments. Give consumers the product they want, at the price point they would like to pay. That is the only practical solution to this issue, regardless of how loudly the content industries screams about "stealing."

Failure to accept this reality will only lead to piracy continuing if not increasing.
Celebrities in India are defined by two verticals,Cricket and Bollywood.Though Bollywood is somewhat tarnished with links to Mafia, cricket atleast has a comparatively clean image(Match fixing not withstanding).So, for an influential celebrity, my vote goes to Sachin Tendulkar.

p.s:Maybe in India, we should have two new degrees, MBA and MCA, Master of Bollywood Administration and Master of Cricket Administration where they teach you on how to monetize and build businesses out of these two :)
Plus, fireplaces are the best.
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Cardio Vascular disease can be prevented by reducing salt in your diet
if you want to work at Google, you've got to make a name for yourself

From http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/11/10/how-to-land-a-job-at... : How do you go from one of thousands of resumes, to the one person the whole Analytics team is dying to bring on board?

By doing the job.

What does that mean, really? Look at the product and share your insights. Do you have smart suggestions on how to improve the product? If not, you may have picked the wrong dream job.
How I constructed EgyptianVoices with Twilio and VoiceCloud
That looks like a good start, but is missing the multi-pass approach from the original article.
Arrow keys move around, space to do stuff.
Triathlon training is great (swim, bike, run) even when no triathlons are on the horizon.
Middle click to close inactive tabs = Very Bad Idea
Many number of times this feature has closed the tabs in my browser I was actually trying to open. And I am not even using a mouse; I'm on laptop and some touch combination on the touchpad actually triggering the 'middle click' event.

I think it is a bad feature which shouldn't be there at all.
Looking at the py-bcrypt site, it looks like it has worked on Windows in the past. It should be possible to fix it to work on windows (I see a patch from a few months ago to fix a recent build problem on XP).

py-bcrypt works with 2.4, too.
You're not insane. I think the near-victimless nature of this crime makes it easy to compartmentalize away. Arguments such as "zero distribution costs," "it's just numbers," and "don't call it stealing!" tend to oversimplify the discussion in the hopes of avoiding the vast moral chasm that exists between enjoying media, compensating creators, and being part of a sometimes exploitative system.

Contrast the easy-going attitudes exhibited towards major IP rights holders ("it doesn't matter if I copy this movie...") toward the furor incited when a company is found using modified GPL code, but they didn't release the source modifications. The exact same infraction is occurring in both directions. Yet, in the first scenario, the "companies had it coming" and the media is "too expensive." In the second scenario, "each offender must be punished severely in order to prevent widespread neglect of the GPL."

Sometimes, the tone of each post says more than the post itself.
The iPad is the new IE6
That's what we all think right now. They'll be laughing at us in the future when every nanobot needs an IPv6 address.
I know. My point is that they've established beyond a shadow of a doubt that Google information is ending up in Bing's results. The default presumption is that any data could end up anywhere; the odd argument is that they have specially cased this and they only grab clickstream data when they have no other sources. One would expect that if the data is being collected it's being fed into the search algorithms and always being considered as a weight, not just sometimes.

I hate to be a bit harsh, but that argument sounds more like spin or rationalization than a logical argument. It sounds nice but it doesn't make sense if you try to actually map it back to the real world, where somebody had to type real code to produce the effect you're hypothesizing, and they weren't writing this code with this debate in mind in advance.
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Like mailinator.com?

They have new aliases all the time to prevent people preventing you from using mailinator email addresses.
The ever-increasing cost of education is not sustainable.
The Psychology Of Lotteries
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You're pretending

I'm not pretending anything. Quit with the trollish tactics. The service adapts to the market.

Sure, people can increase their cap by buying the "insurance"

You realize that terminology was coined by Teksavvy right? That company has done a brilliant job playing the public like a fiddle, and you're playing just the note they want to hear.

I'm with Cogeco. I have a 60GB cap. I've gone over it once. For $6 more I have a 125GB cap and a higher throughput, so $0.09 per GB. For a few dollars more I would have a 150GB cap. And so on. The same is true at Bell, Rogers, etc.

It's there in the hopes that you worry about going over your cap

ABSOLUTELY! That is, without a doubt or question, exactly why they have caps. They don't want you to come anywhere close to your cap. They would rather Joe Average uses 5GB / month of their 60GB cap. On my cell phone I have a 5GB cap, and in an average month I use about 200MB (always around WiFi).

However every provider warns you as you approach your cap. One whiny complainer was posting a screenshot of how he went over his cap and there was big letters on it explaining exactly what happened and how, asking him to upgrade now.

They do exactly what you ask for. Turns out that some people are just irresponsible.
Working prototype w/ alpha users, but there's a lot of significant tech involved - i.e. it's not a rails app.

And no, YC hasn't been on my mind at all, nor is this a 'told ya so' to PG. I do hang out on HN under a different name though so I thought I'd post for anyone who was feeling frustrated in their own journeys since I know that in-the-moment rejection can sting disproportionally more than during the time that it actually matters, i.e. the rest of your life.
I don't agree with this meme. Alta Vista had a terrible search engine in the 90s and so did everyone else. The need for better search was obvious and regularly called for at the time.
Ode to the App Review team
Can you open a single thread but give an index when there are multiple threads?
I see you've changed the phone input now, great! Not that it makes any real difference to the signing up, but just for the sake of appealing to international users, "State" could possibly be called "State (within US) or Country (international)" or something similar.

I won't sign up again as I did submit the form before, but good to see the change for future people :)
No, not Page Rank, you can do basic retrieval with tf-idf alone.
Yeah definitely, that would be right at the Facebook end of the spectrum and probably be hard to effectively market on adwords.
Your comparing a life and death scenario to one regarding obtaining an entertainment product. It's a silly comparison and not terribly relevant to the topic under discussion.

But even within the logic of your analogy, you're confusing a moral argument with an argument centered around practical necessity. You could argue that stealing a life saving medicine is necessary, as you would die without it. But that still doesn't make the act of stealing it a moral one, even considering most people would sympathize and likely agree with your actions.
I run 8 miles every other day during the week, and 10-15 on sunday (doing slightly more right now because of the LA marathon coming up)

Off days I do weight training. I need to get a kettle ball and try that. I also need to join a gym again.

I also lug around a 25 lbs toddler sometimes. And chase him.
Well personally it would take me a couple of seconds to get to "roughly 85c/month", but I wouldn't actually be thinking that when deciding to signup.

However, if I did care about how much $9.99/year is each month, rather than even trying to be slightly accurate, I'd round it off as "less than a dollar a month" and go straight ahead. That extra 17c/month doesn't make a difference to me.

(Obviously both my calculations speed and the amount I care about price differences when talking about that amount of money isn't neccesarily equal to that of other, possibly most other, potential customers.)
I'm sorry. I'm a programmer and think in terms of `if X elif Y else Z` statements.

I admitted I might be wrong at pretty much any stage, and Jacob's response convinced me that my "rewrite bcrypt in Python" option is probably not reasonable at this point.

How could I have phrased that differently and still asked the same questions?
What are resources for technical startups not related to web?
I am trying to find any useful references (books or websites) on technical startups.

HN focuses mostly on web startups. Maybe it is worth to discuss resources on startups related to other advances in engineering and science. In medicine, material science, manufacturing automation, sensors etc.

Any suggestions? Thanks!
Wow I have never even heard of the fields of "narrative theory" or "commonsense reasoning". This is such a bizarre and awesome thing.
How do you explain Netflix's move whole hog to AWS?

The equation of cloud vs not cloud is much more complicated than pricing. In fact, I'd argue price is the least impactful component, especially since it's getting cheaper and cheaper.

The most important questions are around personnel, risk, time, and so on. The cloud dramatically changes these and my view each day that goes by it makes more sense to run your business on AWS than it does to rack your own servers.
Ask HN: What are your rock bottom experiences?
Most of us have reached rock bottom at some point or another, whether it's in financial terms or something else. As sad and depressing as they may be, it's fun to hear how the people worked their way back up and got to where they are today. Unless you post from when you are currently at rock bottom, there should be some improvement you've made over the years.

While I don't have any good stories to tell, I'm very interested in reading other people's stories. So if you don't mind, go ahead and fill us in on your rock bottom experiences.
oh, that what I was talking about

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2168753
But not the reverse...

http://www.bing.com/search?q=search

...where Google is 4th (or 6th if you count the local/news blurbs).
you forgot iplotz! intuitive, lots of controls (+more), easy sharing (png or html), collaborative features, desktop version, import images etc.
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Charging something per byte is reasonable. Charging 100 times cost is not.
I think there's also a usability issue with this control. I would imagine a common use case is "Show me all the items at Store X, since that's convenient for me to drop by." Unfortunately, instead of selecting Store X, I have to deselect all the other stores. On the demo registry, that's 5 clicks where one should do.