skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who haven't read it yet, AOL's "Master Plan" for its blogs and news sites:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-aol-way

AOL tells its editors to decide what topics to cover based on four considerations:
traffic potential, revenue potential, edit quality and turn-around time.

AOL asks its editors to decide whether to produce content based on
"the profitability consideration."

The documents reveal that AOL is, when the story calls for it, willing to boost
traffic by 5 to 10% with search ads and other "paid media."

AOL site leaders are expected to have eight ideas for packages that could
generate at least $1 million in revenue on hand at all times.

In-house AOL staffers are expected to write five to 10 stories per day.

Every time AOL buys another site, I mourn.
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Has HN readership passed that of say Slashdot? HN is now my daily read but I stuck with SL for 10 yrs or so.
Does HN have the equivalent of getting slashdotted...?
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Well, that's one hell of a marketing strategy. I'm chalking this one up to poor sense of humor and put Groupon in the deadpool.
It's not just about low-cost foreign labor. Chinese staionary energy is dirt cheap (burning dirty subsidized coal doesn't cost a lot) which might be 20% of the cost. And the land might have been free, if the investor had good connections. Oh, and they might have cheap loans. The costs are raw materials, energy, capital, and labor. Labor isn't the only factor. But people accept the $1/hour = 20X cheaper myth, and buy stuff that's 1/10th the quality.
From the way it was described to me at CES, it would be sold as an "on-contract device". That may have changed, but FWIW
There are things like search.yc, the thing with hacker news is I'm sure if interest is maintained and quality doesn't go down over the long term many people will roll their own archive formats for it. If people saved most of the random junk on geocities I'd think that many people would be interested in preserving what's here.
The stereos aren't staying in place, they start in the same orbit as Earth (and thus, with the same orbital speed). So we need to gently speed them up and slow them down. It would be inefficient to have the first probe burn a lot of fuel to stop, burn some fuel so it won't get pulled into the sun, and then 6 months later burn some fuel to resume orbit.
Russian gets ~20k$ http://blog.quintura.com/2011/01/13/russian-sergey-glazunov-...
Sir John Soane's museum. Quietest on Monday, because it's closed on Monday :)

Spotted that immediately, but smart work anyway.
Although it may still win on the barometer.

I bet someone at Apple is trying to figure out
1) How to include one
2) How to leverage one

[yes, in that order]
I don't think they are, I got a G2 phone for free on contract from t-mobile a few weeks ago, and the Droid X is $20 on Amazon.

I would imagine the production costs are similar, or lower, for Apple though and that they are just operatig with a much higher margin.
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I've always enjoyed the "Mental Math" section of the "Mentat Wiki": http://www.ludism.org/mentat/

It covers 'tricks' for quickly and accurately calculating squares, cubes, logs and roots (up to fifth root). Worth a look.
Australia owes way more money than the USA, per capita. That's where the money is coming from. It's just that our government didn't owe a lot at the start of the GFC, and they were able to keep the private sector afloat for a while.
This is quite an incorrect analogy, as in this case nobody prevented anyone from buying the books.

Comparsion to a store, earning $10K every day, then "losing" 90% because someone spreads a gossip that your store sells very low quality stuff, would be much more appropriate. Just an old plain defamation.
This.

The main reason that the XOOM, at least at launch, will not snag the top spot is that people will look at it, and then see the more known, cheaper, and contract-less iPad.

Keep in mind, many people dont need 1gHz and 32 GB. I nearly got the 16gb myself, and only went with the 32 because I see myself flying more this year.
I like your list but you are not using video to your advantage. I don't know what kind of website you are trying to promote but you can get a substantial following by using youtube videos. Your videos would focus on what your audience wants (tutorials, editorials, vlogs) I have been following several websites who are successfully using this medium for their website marketing and I plan on using it for mine when our site is ready to go live.
As others have stated, it's not absolutely mandatory to have a technical co-founder but it will certainly increase your odds of being accepted and successfully executing your project.

It sounds like you're making the assumption that a technical co-founder requires capital. In most cases, founders split equity and money doesn't enter the equation until you're funded. Have you attended local meetups (some communities have "co-founders wanted" gatherings) or gone to networking events to search for a founder?

Also take a look at this similar question that was asked on Quora: http://www.quora.com/How-important-is-it-to-have-a-technical...
Not to derail, but the thing about wristwatches/pocket calculators being more powerful than the best sixties computer is a frequently-quoted and entirely wrong bit of BS. That is all.
Yup, I remember my copy of f-15 Strike Eagle for the tandy 1000. When we got a new 486 with the turbo button, I wondered what would happen with my game...

Suddenly my plane was going fast enough to fly over Syria 2 times a second.
Maybe there's something wrong with my setup, but their 2nd example flashed on/off very quickly about 15 times, really quite a disturbing bug. Anyone else get that?

edit: others who confirm are using chrome, I'm using chrome on mac so it looks like latest chrome on all platforms are affected.
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This is the exact same argument that is used for people in-favor of 'SPEC' work. Which gets down voted to nothing on HackerNews, yet this and its parent are getting upvoted.

Interesting.
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I keep seeing this, but never a citation. Looking at the best data I could find:

http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/prel/pdf/table1p.pdf

Total output: 436,031
Excluding defense: 424,680

Making defense, at least how it's defined in this report, merely 2% of the total output. I'm not sure how much of that 2% is going to the U.S. government as these defense contractors also produce quite a bit for other countries.

That probably doesn't cover the total of it, but I just can't find any substantiation that the government is buying up a significant amount of the manufacturing output. Does someone have a source to help me better understand this?
I agree with some of the articles points and queues can make things complicated. However, people too often ignore elementary queuing theory which goes a long way to simplifying things:

http://www.shamrock-software.eu/erlang.htm

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Erlang_%28uni...

That's the original Erlang :-)
I was sad at how low-res and JPG'y the images were.

I wish NASA would release versions in whatever the native dimensions/resolutions they are receiving the image data back in.
I find that in soccer they're usually rolling around on the ground peeking out from behind their hands.

Also, maybe if anybody ever scored in soccer it would be a little more interesting. At least hockey has better fights and the players don't fall down so much.
That's nonsense. This never happened. If you are going to make an extraordinary claim like that, take a moment to find a source.
Also, completely unrelated, but the processor in the computer you are using right now is very probably presently running at less than half of it's maximum speed.

But of course, for very good reason: it allows the computer to remain on for 10 hours instead of 10 minutes. Power saving is a big deal these days, but back in the 386 days, nobody cared (and 4.77MHz processors were not exactly power-hungry either).
The first computer that I was around to buy was a 386. There were plenty of them out in the wild; you just happened to buy a 486 first :)
Except it's not an analysis, it's a sales pitch. If it were on a satire show, you'd have a point. But they are in fact inviting you to spend your money on discount coupons for shopping instead of sending it to a nonprofit.

My wife and I donate money to a variety of different causes we care about (not these specific ones, but that's beside the point). Besides the patronizing suggestion that people never actually put their money where their mouth is, the Tibet one also comes off as racist. She used to like Groupon, and tended to give them several hundred $ a month in business. Note my use of the past tense here.
I've been doing business with some companies in Tokyo recently, and I've come to realize that Nagoya is kind of an anomaly.

Tokyo can command about half-again what we get paid here in Nagoya. Although, that's still well below the average in America, I think.

Also, when looking at those salary rates, you have to make sure to look at SEs, not Programmers -- as there's a huge wage difference between the two (And you and I are definitely not mere programmers ;)

This site is really great for getting good salary info:
http://nensyu-labo.com/

Here's the SE division:
http://nensyu-labo.com/syokugyou_se.htm
平均年収：547.0万円 (does not include bonus)

And here's a run of the mill programmer
http://nensyu-labo.com/syokugyou_programer.htm
平均年収：399.0万円 (does not include bonus)
I think it is not exploitative if the authors knew it beforehand and agreed to it. They've got exposure as a compensation.

What I find more exploitative is their working method - often, they took some hard news (which is quite expensive to produce, requiring real reporter to go somewhere), and then their blogger (siting at home in pajamas) took the best quotes and facts from that article, wrote some quick fluff around those quotes and hola!, we have content.

Yes, this is essentially what blogging is about, and if someone does this as an amateur to express his opinion, that's ok. But I feel it is a bit exploitative to make business out of work of journalists working for other media.
Useless factoid: "fout" means "error" in Dutch. Seems appropiate.

The term 'FOUT' is actually a nod to a ten year old bug named 'Flash of Unstyled Content' (FOUC). It occurred in early versions of Internet Explorer. One would first see unstyled content while the CSS was still loading. http://bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp/
That's not really correct tho. Here's a handy graph showing the United States manufacturing output as percentage of overall GDP versus percentage of workforce employed in manufacturing:

http://yelnick.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c563953ef01310fc3f3ee...

You'll notice that the output, as a percentage of the overall economy, has remained relatively flat. Jobs, on the other hand, have taken an absolute nose-dive.

What's really happened is that factories in the U.S. have become crazily efficient. Through both technology and significant process improvements.

So we have quite a problem. It's not enough to just make stuff, we need to make it way less efficiently if we're going to solve the blue-collar unemployment problem. I have no idea how we're going to do it.
The entire thread makes for a very, very interesting read for anyone interested in this kind of stuff. Thanks for posting this!

Link to full thread: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/browse...;
They're designed in-house, but Samsung manufactures them.
Oh that superbowl thing? Yeah I just found out they played one last February, I guess that's cool, does it happen every year? I wouldn't know, I'm not one of those proletariat mouth-breathing football fans, it's not even real football anyway. Instead I've been hacking a RESTful Ruby on Rails application that combines social media, blogging, and Markov chaining, all in 200 lines.
And remember, Samsung makes the flash memory for Apple! Surely they give themselves the same price (or better) that they give Apple.

(They also make LCDs, so they probably get a good price on those too.)
Thanks. I certainly need to add some kind of index/homepage that lists all the venues. The current 'venue roulette' navigation isn't exactly the best approach.
Very nice work, navigating backwards wasn't exactly intuitive (clicking the tag gets rid of the tag, maybe add an [x] or breadcrumbs).
There is also http://search.npmjs.org/
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Reminds me of Google Fast Flip

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
Whoops. I should integrate with http://opening-times.co.uk/ perhaps. Although places like the fantastic Soane and Geffrye seem to get very few Foursquare checkins even at the busiest of times
Archos has an entire line, from 2" screens to 10" screens.
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Our source is this, so I guess the answer is yes:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Museo-Slab

Generally we encourage people to notify us if font licenses change. Which they sometimes do. Which is a shame.

The whole font licensing business is crap, I can agree to that.
Profile doesn't pay the rent.

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Yes it could be expanded. Because the Foursquare api doesn't provide historical data it takes a few weeks of monitoring the venue before I have useful data for it however
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iirc in fourier transforms, covolution of signals in time-domain is equivalent of signals in frequency-domain. thus 12 * 23 can be thought of as convolution of two signals (1,2) and (2,3) which gives (6,7,2)...
Good point, I should find a way to indicate what the graph is for.
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Producing more for less = Capitalism

Producing less for the sack of jobs = Socialism
GoDaddy is not the only company doing this kind of advertising. It doesn't make me upset rather it puzzles me how technology companies ignore the 50 percent of the market that buys their products (the female market) Imagine what kind of revenues they would make if they targeted women and tapped into that revenue stream instead of insisting on staying focused on the male market with their ads, a market that is very saturated.
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Yeah, I wonder how much the online element of these revolutions is overblown by the western media. Tunisia is credited to WikiLeaks, Iran was "the Twitter revolution", and this is being credited to facebook. I'd love to know how central a role they're actually playing, or if it's just something for the media to latch on to.
I actually debated posting this earlier today and decided against it (wasn't sure it was HN-appropriate). I'm a newbie so I'm learning every day.
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Wednesdays used to be quietest for cinemas in the UK but now it's one of the busiest thanks to the Orange 241 offer that's been running the past few years
The CPI indeed abstracts over the fact that the basket of goods available today isn't identical to the basket of goods identical 30 years ago. They're not all improvements, though. For example, the CPI doesn't take into account that the same car/gas combination drives you more slowly in Chicago than it used to, due to increased traffic; or that penicillin's efficacy has declined; or that a college diploma now largely serves the role that a high-school diploma served in 1975.
I wouldn't expect much difference. Weekends tend to be busiest as most folks work weekdays for example
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I keep seeing conflicting information about this, but my impression is that the rise of independent television (Al Jazeera) has had the deeper impact so far.

Edit: does anyone here know whether Al Jazeera has typically been censored by states in the region? I mean, of course, before the recent revolts. If not, why not? It seems obvious that a population with random access to independent news media is highly undesirable if you're their dictator.
One of the papers linked on that site talks about that.
What he's saying is gently slow one down, then six months later gently slow down another. Then there will always be two opposing sats.

Only reason I can think of is that there is either other experiments on-board that they need to recover (solar wind collectors, etc), or that they were both taken up in the same launch vehicle, which would be the lion's share of the expense of this experiment.
Wow, what a great read. Thank you. A much needed perspective from what we are used to.
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In other words "content farm". But since it will be done by "leading" blogs it will be considered an ok thing to do. Makes perfect sense, huffpo and TC was never too far from being a content farm. These sites are rarely about quality but quantity. They often rewrite news they find in their rss feed.
Well caveat visitor and all that!

opening-times.co.uk doesn't looks like it carries museum opening hours. Actually a semweb data source of visitor attractions and their opening hours would be a very valuable resource. I don't think one exists.
I think what you're saying is very subjective.

What they have is quite nowaday standard (and comparing to many older opensource projects: high above average) in the terms of design, clarity, quick examples showing the essence etc.

You know it always takes some conscious effort to discover if the technology is cool and useful or not - think like "teach yourself programming in 10 years". It's much better to provide useful essential examples and let people think what they want to than to say "hey we're new ubercool thing, join us or you're the looser lol". I for one am very happy to see Ryan Dahl seems more modest person than some of "celebrities" in the Ruby world for example (to be fair: ruby-talk list was always dominated by modest, hard-working people rather than celebrities). Productive community is the best advertisement and smart, experienced newcomer will quickly add 2+2 and see the value.
Though there are some quirks, this is really helpful. Thanks.
barely. Look at the top 10 submitted articles. How much do they have to do with design (if any)? It's like a crappy version of HN.
I went the business route. Being an entrepreneur is innate. I used to sell the shanked golf balls back to the golfers by my house through a wire fence when I was 6. I would clean the balls first and then I would display the balls on a piece of old carpet (which I found in my garage) out of my Radio Flyer wagon. When I got home I'd have $20-$30, not bad for a kid who is 6, which my mother would "hold" for me.

Back to the point that being an entrepreneur is innate. Now I am 23 and a major in business admin and finance. I find that the big "niche" ideas I come up with (that I can personally produce) have been taken or are reserved by patents. The ideas that haven't been taken require programming skills, which I lack. I must rely on building friendships/partnerships with CS students, hoping that they are willing to take the time to help produce my startups. This route is not so terrible, but also not as convenient.

If I had to go back a few years, I would have chosen the CS route. The entrepreneur in you and I isn't going to wear off (no matter how much of a hacker we become).

Developing programming skills now will allow you to personally create valuable startups in the future by the time you are my age. I recommend this path especially since your talents have already surfaced in the online marketplace.

Good luck.
Anyone else seeing lots of MediaWikis getting hijacked by spammers?
No, and they probably never will...officially The official software story on the G-Tablet is a total disaster that Viewsonic will likely never fix.

However the hardware is great and 3rd party developers are supporting the device with proper software. You can currently run CyanogenMod7 (which is based on Gingerbread/2.3) on the G-Tablet, though it is fully a community project that Viewsonic has nothing to do with. I'm sure the same will be true of Honeycomb soon after it hits full ASOP status.

If you're willing to hack around with the device and not rely on the official software, the G-Tablet is great at <$400. My only complaint is the viewing angles on the LCD aren't that great (the panel is not IPS), if not for that it would be a pretty ideal Android tablet platform for people willing to install community roms.
I'm not sure my reality is normal. In 2000, I wrote SimStructure, a physics edutainment package and distributed it as shareware. I had 6000 downloads and only 1 check for $20. I tried to interest people but discovered no teachers, school administratiors or game distributors or game companies would talk to me.

With LoseThos, not a chance in hell I could sell it with Linux free. The only hope is the option to make money on ads or something--I'll worry about that when I get there.
To finish that Micromachines level that was pretty much undoable at normal speed.
And here you go:

http://www.pastie.org/1536256

P.S. If I were still doing this professionally, I would have been more careful on the editing and y'all would have been more careful on paying the $200 to $300 promptly. (The sky is the limit on translation if you have a high-value high-difficulty niche, and software security counts for both.)
Just to note: I have no connection to this particular wiki, it's just a particularly bad example of a spambot infestation. I've been following the trail of spam, and it leads me straight from one spam-filled copy of MediaWiki to another.

Obviously, the intent here is to create a network of otherwise-legitimate sites that can be used by blackhat SEOs to inflate their relevance.

I just wondered if anyone else has information on who is behind this.

EDIT: So far I've found hundreds, if not thousands, of them. Drupal sites are also affected. The latest spam run, as far as I can see, appears to have started on or about the 27th. I'm trying to figure out if there's some way I could write a crawler to map out the spam network by reading the 'recent changes' pages on affected wikis, but that would take quite a bit of bandwidth, because it appears that they've attacked a ton of random sites, some of which appear to have gone unused for a long time.
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No issues in FF 3.6.13 on Win7, or in IE 9.0.7930.16406 (beta).

In Chome 8.0.552.237 (also Win7) I got nothing on loading, but it did do the flashing thing five times on page three. Haven't been able to replicate it since on any page, though.
The difference is that Wii, PS3 and Xbox360 were all islands of software support, tightly controlled by their respective platform owners. The Xoom is just one Android tablet of many and appears to be targetting the high-end. It's hardly a ridiculous strategy, more like Alienware gaming PC's than your analogy.