skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a dabble a few years ago. There was a strong community on a couple of IRC channels.

I saw the potential for seriously automated stuff, but sadly when I went to Uni it all fell by the wayside. Got back into it a little after, but lost interest: it had got a lot harder to get converting traffic in the 5 years between the first dabble and later.

Now everyone wants video. That's gotta be a killer on your bandwidth bills.
Entrepreneurs and businesses can hire workers just like the government can.

And public works such as roads and bridges also apply to my argument. For example the infamous "bridge to nowhere". A lot of these projects are a waste of resources. If the private sector were in charge of building roads/bridges they would be much more inclined to make sure they were actually needed and good investments.
Great post! Its amazing how much influence social pressure has on our productivity, thats the hardest thing to replicate when flying solo.
Thank you very much for that tidbit.
This is happening already. All of Verizon's currently shipping LTE (4G) devices have native IPv6.
Tell me about it. I'm just glad to see there are at least a few votes for the higher age ranges!
Note that this is a book for the more math-inclined, one will have trouble if not familiar with the basics of multivariate analysis/linear algebra.
Shout out to those > 66, may your passion for "teh codez" never grow old.
I wish I knew more about statistics. Punching just the two variants that made it to the end into a Chi square calculator gave me a 90% confidence, not the 95% he cited.

I also wonder about stopping the variation early, and even the conditions under which he stopped the test. http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html talks about pitfalls when "testing until you reach confidence".

Are there any better references for these types of questions?
Create a new poll on HN
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Even looking back at the older surveys, looks like the ratio is somewhere around 20:1. This makes the military look positively feminist.
I love the site, although I am certainly not your market (male, don't want kids).

However, a month ago someone posted an almost identical concept to HN. I think it was for wedding registries though.

Overall, great concept, attractive website, and a real need.

My only criticism relates to it being fairly obvious. What hacker hasn't bought a wedding/baby gift and thought "Wouldn't it be cool if there was a registry for any store?" My point is, I'm sure this has been tried hundreds of times. So you have to ask yourself, "Why didn't those become mainstream, despite solving an obvious need?" and figure out how yours will execute differently. I really don't know the answer, but it has a lot to do with the ease of saying "I'm registered at Bed Bath & Beyond" (which everyone knows) over, "I'm registered with a new universal registry, which shows you what you can get at any online store, it's Babyli.st BABYLI.ST"

I'd really love to know your thoughts, because this same problem applies to a lot of different ideas where large brick & mortar stores still reign king, despite obvious inefficiencies.
The Climate Reports (http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate) has been running for 10 months, without a single failure. The Climate Reports uses R to calculate the trend line.

During development, I encountered a bug with one of the packages. I told the author and he not only fixed the bug within 24 hours but also offered to create a custom build for my CPU architecture.

I have only good things to say about R and its community. And I think R is sufficiently stable for production.
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Great feedback. It was an after-thought because the first people who looked at it were like "oh, i can only register at those 6 stores". Thanks.
> Why did you even upload it on CPAN if you don't even
> care if anybody is going to use it?

Possibly out of self-interested generosity. They hope that others will benefit from it, they hope that they will receive bug-fixes, and they hope that it will be used as a starting point for something better. And they hope that by setting an example of releasing code, that they in turn might gain access to that "something better".

I think you've provided excellent reasons to prefer one module over another if there are alternatives, but I'm not sure why they are directed at the hypothetical author rather than the potential user. Let's flip it around: why should the author care if you use his code? Is it better that the unmaintained code remain unreleased, or is it better to have it out there?

I don't see why the author would care if you use it unless you are capable of contributing to it in some way. And I'd argue it's better to have it out there than unpublished, but that CPAN could do a better job of distinguishing between active and inactive code in the case that there are better alternatives available.
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Almost 16 :)
The article doesn't mean "love" in the literal sense, even though I think you know this. I think it means "love" in the sense of feeling appreciated.

I also agree with your expectations of stable pay and health benefits. I do think that some of the suggestions in the article were a bit lame such as the suggestion about music and friending of social networks, but I think the the intent of the article is correct. Employers should allow encourage their employees to be creative and autonomous people with little restrictions.
I would agree. XML is like OO, it's actually still useful in some cases, but if you don't have marked-up textual content you're probably doing it wrong. I wonder what fraction of XML in the world is actually marked-up textual content, rather than data masquerading as marked up text?
worrying about the end of unix time ;)
If it's for the creation of a new favicon, so that's actually low. Let say, 3 designer hold a discussion together to exchange ideas and mock-ups. They'll need to know what the website is about, what is its' logo, what should the favicon include... If it takes 3 hours, that's 3 x 3 = 9.

Then a designer will need to draw the real favicon from that mock-up, don't forget that he'll need to make many resolutions and then tests them. Let say that take 2 hours, including a final discussion with the other members of the team.

So in total we have 11 hours, if you consider $150/hour a good rate for a professional, then you'll have $1,650.
Are you talking about Rich that works two cubes from me? Wait, you're not!

I don't see many people tweeting from work, but I do see some Facebook abuse. I don't consider gmail being to unproductive unless a person is running a side business at work through Gmail. That shouldn't fly.
Could you wire me $5? Maybe I will give you $1000000 back.

Nothing to lose, man.
In this case, the same exact thing could have been accomplished by entrepreneurs. In fact, entrepreneurs are incentivized to seek out these opportunities because there is profit involved.

The first assertion is not true, and in fact the second assertion is the reason. Entrepreneurs are incentivized, but it is an incentive to get rich quick. If I as a VC can make 10x my investment in 2 years by investing in a 'Hot or Not' web app, I'll do that rather than invest in a fundamental technology that produces a 10x return in 15 years. The market is very focused on web apps now because there are great opportunities for viral growth at the expense of existing businesses. This is cannibalization, not real wealth creation. We should really stop referring to web businesses as tech companies: few of them produce any more real technology than your average McDonalds.

Government plays a valuable role precisely because it invests in technologies that are unlikely to produce a return but nonetheless could provide the basis for new businesses that can in the future. The Internet itself is a good example.
I cited 95% confidence, which was calculated by Visual Website Optimizer. I wonder how they calculate their confidence level.
I can vouch for this as a former government worker. While FOIA is vital for transparency in government, there is usually quite a lot of man hours put into fulfilling these requests.
I would go with a MacBook Pro 13", if you want a Windows machine my experience was that HP has some nice products.
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Although I'm 57 I might as well be 27 for the amount of time I've spend developing and building start-ups. I played saxophone professionally until I was 40, then gave it up as just too much work. I must be a glutton for punishment.
"1 Mar: Polls

Since polls are so common on News.YC, we just added explicit support for them. To prevent the site being swamped by polls for the next few days, we'd appreciate it if you'd only use this feature because there was something you already wanted to ask. There isn't currently any link to it, so you have to go to http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll to make a poll, and for the time being only users with over 200 karma can make them. Once people get used to this we'll open it up to everyone."

Seems that has now been reduced to 20 karma - but I believe the logic of not linking to it to prevent polls taking over the site still stands.
I find it more depressing that corporations conspire with despots to destroy freedom.

By providing material support to the agenda of despots, they identify themselves as enemies of the people. They have taken sides. Let them reap the consequences.
I heard Egypt isn't using theirs.

(edit: i can feel the down-voting coming)
Amazing to see there are 500+ ppl in the 20-30 range.

Curios If i could link a poll of how many are married in the respective agr groups ?
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I hear you. I think the one thing that makes this different is that I'm not going after the universal wishlist market, just the baby registry market. When you go to create a baby registry you're not like "oh, i need a wishlist of items for the baby".

I'm just starting to market this with people in the pregnancy/baby space, and so far they seem to think this is a totally original idea made just for them.
I advise you to quit school and focus on the startup!
It is very well done.

Somebody already posted this on your suggestion forum, but I do like the idea of allowing people an option to offer item suggestions. Expand that idea by also allowing people to alternately "buy" something like a gift card (redeemable credit) for the moms; this would be helpful for the people out there who want to buy a gift, but who don't necessarily want to swoon over baby items. (e.g. Target gift card)

Congrats for the mom-to-be!
While we are all speculating on certain bits of what happened in this she said/he said, I would presume in many/most of those 91 cases what happened wasn't that other inputs outweighed Google's but rather no user running the Bing toolbar (and who had it set to the phone home defaults) took the action which would create the Google-related input to begin with.
Being a convert to HN from Reddit, I really like having a single channel of high quality posts. Yes, it's true that I'm not interested in every single story on HN but that's okay as it keeps me procrastinating less. Plus, it's always good to do some reading in areas you are unfamiliar or not interested in, expand your mind as it were.
I commented above, but the concept definitely has been attempted before, it just hasn't become mainstream.

The real question is why, how could this site execute differently?
I think I like the idea (though I'm wildly outside of the target audience). Any chance you could add the option to use some of the open source icons[1] (or automatically detect and show the favicon for a site)?

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Clear looks like it would fit
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This is a great idea, and looks very nice! Several of my friends are pregnant right now, and they are all registered at multiple places. This would be very convenient.

If I'm buying a gift for a friend, do I need to know their mailing address in order to have it shipped to them? It would be amazing if this took care of that for me.
I suppose you want an answer ... a quick Wikipedia search and voila:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gausss_law

you can find many more articles with a Google search.
My guess is that someone who isn't knowledgeable about web development drew up this list of costs.

Perhaps they transposed a list of requirements / features and assigned the breakdown incorrectly - assigning too much cost/time emphasis to favicon design.
TechCrunch is ... TechCrunch
They are normally so poorly done because it does not matter. Most porn sites are either traffic sites or membership sites. If its a traffic site then the goal is just to upsell and send the user to another site and if its a membership site then the users care much more about the content than the site.
Excellent idea and very nice execution! The design is great, plus it's incredibly easy to signup and share your registry. You're definitely on to something here.

In terms of suggestions, I'd suggest you tweak your index page a bit. When I landed there, I was most interested in seeing what one of these registries looked like. I assumed that clicking the image of John and Jane's Baby List would show me an example, but it's not currently linked. To actually find an example, you have to think a bit and either find the text link under your Create button or realize that the Showcase link is what you're looking for.

Also, the Vendors page needs a bit of work. I'm sure that's number 7273 on your priority list, but I don't think it'll be very successful in engaging vendors as is.
Paypal has a wonderful thing called a refund button. Had things not worked out, all I would have to do is hit that a few times and I'm right back where I started, with no loss except $8 and some time.

Talk about minimizing risk, huh?
I don't think I've ever known anyone who uses two spaces.
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One facet that I really like is the brand names listed. Not even for credibility, but for integration. I know that baby car-seat I saw at IKEA is probably available since the IKEA logo is there. Great job with doing this!
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Better than dead. Much.
The fact that they're going to continue throttling through two billing periods modifies this from "network management" to "unjustifiably punitive conduct".
I used to be the R&D Director at Naughty America, here's what I built:

http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/08/come-and-get-it-naughty-ame...

http://gofuckyourself.com (NWS) is pretty much the hangout for adult affiliates and webmasters. If you're trying to build traffic, that's where you want to be.

Funny enough, I seem to be at it again. My latest client is a porn startup.
I can't comment on the situation, but I think throwing the towel as a CEO is the wrong decision. Just because you don't have an upcoming round, your duty as a CEO is to the company in any condition that it's in, come hell or or high water. I would even argue that a CEO is almost married to the company.

Throwing in the towel when the going gets tough seems like a spineless move.
I realize you say this jokingly, but seeing that at this there are almost as many others as female (14 v 16) I'm curious how they define it. If I had to guess it would be mostly male->female given the overwhelming number of males, but I have no idea.
do you know if goldman sachs or some other financial entity has created an investment vehicle that I can use to speculate in the market with?
How to create a content farm?
Hi guys,

I plan to create a content farm for a niche group of audiences. I need your help to point me to the right resources to accomplish the following:
1. How to make content targeted to search engines?
2. How to make content viral?
3. How to monetize from traffic and ads?

Thank you so much
A long, long time ago I decided to build a machine to pass the Turing test. Part of this involved giving 1000's of people microphones to record the questions they asked and responses they received in normal life. This data was streamed directly to my machine. I then programmed my machine with a complex algorithm that used this data, along with data from many other sources, to attempt to produce human like responses to questions it received. Unfortunately, a group of friends who applied for the microphones decided to ruin my attempt to pass the Turing test by grouping together and repeatedly asking a friend, Jim, 100 different nonsensical questions to which Jim, who was in on the trick, gave pre-determined responses. When I finally finished I put my machine in a box and asked the public to ask it questions. It was doing pretty well for a while since no one could distinguish it from a human. Then Jim and his buddies turned up. They asked it the 100 nonsensical questions, to which, for 7 of them, it gave the same response as Jim had. Jim got very angry. “This machine is copying me!” said Jim.
Not yet - fingers crossed!
How did you find your first programming job?
I'm studying computer science and want to better prepare myself. Just wondering how everyone here managed to find their first real progamming job. Do I have to have a lot of experience to get a niche over others? I have just been doing some small projects myself for fun ... nothing serious or professional.
I am currently using this toolkit and I must say that I really like it.

The main advantages of mallet over weka (the main java toolkit used in academic machine learning) for Natural Language Processing are:

- No need to map words and features to position in a feature vector yourself.

- Instances preprocessing can be defined in pipes that can be saved along the models. So no need to remember the pre-processing of data for each experiments.

- Contains algorithms for structured learning (CRF, HMM and general graphic models).

On the other hand, Mallet implements less algorithm (e.g. no Support Vector Machines to my knowledge).

In short, it is a nice toolkit to be aware of if you are planning to do Natural Language Processing.
I don't care so much about the all in one page, but having to roll over the image to see the text was too difficult. Took me a minute just to figure it out. Have the text below the image without having to roll over it. I also had trouble figuring out at the opening shot where to click. Took me forever to find the next button, I found it just in time. I almost left!

Check out the design books:
The Design of Every Day things
Designing the Obvious
Information Dashboard Design

for a primer on UI design.
I'd add Babies R Us and buybuy Baby logos to the site. Granted you say it works for all online retailers, those are 2 huge ones that together prob own a good % of the market.
The static methods need to go. That's just bad form, because of unit tests, or the ability to use the decorator pattern to enhance an EventManager (or instrument one), or to make an EventManager injectable via something like Guice.

I'm not sure why you're bothered by inner classes, though. Anonymous inner classes are a very common way to write event-handling code in java, especially if the handler needs to capture some enclosing scope for later use.

Edit: this project is more interesting in the context of the owner's other two projects: http://code.google.com/u/skjervold/
Looks great, and as someone with four young children I would say that it's a winner concept for the niche. Targeting a specific niche is a very worthwhile pursuit, especially given that advertisers focused on new and upcoming parents are some of the most desperate to make contact.

Congratulations on seeing it through.
Can anyone quote the opt-in language that Microsoft uses for the Bing toolbar? Although I'm still not sure about whether there's a difference, I think there's a clear distinction between watching users of your site and taking action based on that (Google and search link clicks) and watching users of your toolbar everywhere on the internet and taking action based on that. (And that distinction is as clearly drawn between google.com and the Google toolbar.)

I've always felt that, yes, Google collects a lot of personal data, but they're up front about the collection and they give me good value in return - which is sadly not my general expectation of data collection.
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I strongly recommend this or 6RD. It's a very straightforward and easy way of getting into IPv6 before ISPs start offering IPv6, as comcast did recently ( http://www.comcast6.net/ ).
absolutely. I was shocked at how much my productivity went down when I was at home with the dog and the TV.
I have been reconsidering my workflow for a more data-centric approach. When I first looked around the search results for data-centric workflow, I was shocked that it was limited mostly to theoretical discussions and commentaries.

Why don't we have communities online focussed around using tools and platforms that allow informed discussion and decision making to solve entrepreneurial problems??
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It's worth checking out Nathan Martin's talk given at TEDxPSU in 2010 (CEO of Deeplocal, #12).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju9ZJSSP2h8
I think you're right. But at the same time, we know that Google is grading things on speed, and of course search engines love accessible sites (since they can read them easily too).

Maybe I'll just have to make one myself :)
i just realized you do other shirts on your main site, so maybe you have a special deal arranged to do shirts. if so, that's really cool. plus i didn't realize you went to the same school as me ;)
If you're happy doing what you're doing now, then my guess is the same thing. Like me. For over 20 years.
As for fun exercises, you might want to try out the Hurricane Electric Free IPv6 Certification: http://ipv6.he.net/certification/
It consists of a series of small and manageable tasks that will get you up to speed in no time.