skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that people often remember longhand domains better and those ones have more direct visits. But overall I haven't really noticed a difference.
Mankind has built a lot of civilization using bigger steamrollers.
The main difference is that each time we go through this cycle it becomes easier to forget that we have overlords, because each one controls less and less.

Go back to the pre-industrial era, and you own essentially nothing unless you're royalty. Move forward into the mid-19th century and the picture has changed - bankers and railroad barons have grown powerful enough to assert some control over governments. By the 20th century you have a whole array of public services(water/phone/gas/electric). And today, the big discussions are mostly over information businesses.

Example: Even though Apple, Amazon and Netflix have done a lot to usurp the nature of retail and media publishing and can be seen as "tyrants" of their respective markets, they've given up control in other ways; you have considerable freedom to publish and distribute products through their services. They still curate, but not extensively. And, on balance, they offer a better profit/consumer value ratio.

The overall picture adds up to something more complicated than "new tyrants, same as the old" - the quest for profit is increasingly causing them to battle each other, as they keep stepping on each other's toes, and that's forcing a kind of competition that was unimaginable in previous eras. It's still imperfect because some elements of the system will occasionally try to take the rest hostage(e.g. banking, recently), but some amazing things are happening regardless - Twitter revolutions, anyone?
This is done in Philly, too, as well as other PA cities. I'd be very surprised if it was limited to PA though
I've been following the author's blog at http://www.spousonomics.com/ - some fluff, but in general it's pretty good.
Worked at a failed startup that invested rather heavily in a PR firm. We received top tier press but it never came close to paying off from any business POV. It felt nice, but running out of money felt like shit...I do think there is a critical mass of press that can propel a co to success or atleast longevity, take for instance Quora, or twitter a few years ago. Unfortunately most will never hit that tipping point where the press can compound on itself and translate into growth.
Twitter Trends Driven Mostly By Mainstream Media
Video: Chrome OS Shows up on $174 ARM Unit at MWC
I think people sometimes see numbers in a domain as spammy. But if there's a catchy reason to put the number there then go for it!
Actually another suggestion: when going to a person's profile, the extra click to get to the posts is unneeded. You should display a feed of the profile or at least interaction between the two users on that screen.
Python3 core has a better design: strict separation between bytes and characters, no more short integer type, no more
old style class, etc. The stdlib is there. The rocky bits are being fixed all the time. The other important modules all have strong development communities.
Upstream numpy works with Python 3 already. PyGObject is also working on Py3 support.

The point is python2.7 is the last 2.x version. It will be supported, bugs will be fixed but no new feature will be added. Core devs will concentrate on python 3.x. You can still use 2.x, no one is stopping you. But assume that it is stagnant now. After some time only security related bugs will be fixed. Sooner or later you will have to switch.

What you will miss is 3rd party libraries. Some like numpy are ported, but many like mechanize needs to be ported. Google App Engine doesn't yet work on Python3. Not many hosting providers have Python3 as option.

However, i must agree that many of the points people bring up for not switching to Python3 are real. People ARE stuck in limbo right now and there is no good direction to go... Stick with 2.x and have all the 3rd party support but soon enough you will need to do a major bug fixing, or move to 3.x -- oh wait i can't move to 3.x because module xxyy is not 3.x compatible!
I've found that people are more likely to type "fivefolders" over "5folders" into their web browser.

So if I was you I would ensure that I had the longhand domain, and if possible the number version as well.
Then party like it's 1950.

ETA: With the growing number of men who refuse to pick up every check, plan every date/event, act as sole provider for the family, purchase gifts regularly for their other half, etc. for fear of marrying a woman who is too focused on money... I'm really beginning to wonder what women are getting out of this marriage deal anymore.
Could you invert the image and try again or is it background contrast that's the problem? Maybe try looking at a single color channel?
I'm sure his conclusion is correct for most people reading this, but is logic is garbage. It's like saying you don't need a VP Engineering because a founder should do it. Completely fine conclusion if it works, as it often will, but still total nonsense.

If you're paying a PR agency $10k-$20k per month and they're getting your company into blogs where the author reads every comment, you're getting screwed. No doubt about that. And if you can do it yourself through networks and hard work, then paying someone else to do it might not make sense.

But to argue that PR firms are not effective is just a lie. I won't go through linking to the major news coverage that any startup would kill for that PR firms got, but there is plenty.

There are two interesting dynamics at play in this sort of post, which comes up every week or two.

1. No one ever seems to question the source, which seems odd. We have a journalist telling companies how to run their PR. Talk about the fox watching the hen house. I'm not saying this guy or any of the others that write this same blog post on other blogs are being disingenuous, but the conflict of interest is certainly there. It's worth pointing out in my opinion.

2. PR firms, ironically, suffer from being in a position to almost never get positive word of mouth (at least publicly). When they succeed, you never know they're involved; go read the front page of the NYT business section, I promise it produces lots of PR high fives every day but almost no one reading it will ever know that. When a company succeeds with a PR firm, there's not much incentive in beating their chests about it, but when the relationship is a failure it's become fashionable to...well, write something like this except from the company's perspective. To top it off, the really great PR firm successes often masquerade as the sort of companies that are just great stories told by great founders (Mint and Pandora come to mind, both of which use agencies).

I used to work at a PR agency about 2 years ago, but don't any longer and have absolutely 0 financial stake in this sort of thing. I still help/advise a lot of friends on PR and I really just think this is overly generalized advice that leads to a nasty case of groupthink. First principles, guys.
I lived in Bend, Oregon for 3 years and we had roundabouts everywhere. You could literally get across town without stopping at a light/sign.

Maybe they are more of a small/medium sized city feature, but it was hard coming back to California and all it's stop lights and stupid turn lanes.

http://www.ci.bend.or.us/roundabouts/docs/CityEdAug07_Rounda...
Oh boy... Remember how cool Windows for Pen computing would be? How amazing Longhorn would be? How WinFS would solve all our storage problems? Remember the Milo and Kate demo?

Forgive me if I don't exactly trust Microsoft when they say the next release of a so-so product will leapfrog its current competition.
I find it curious why so many people think that there is a small and elegant machine in the brain. In terms of brute force computation, the brain is still far, far in the lead. It has so many neural connections that we are not even close to simulating it yet.

Given that, assuming that it implements some small and elegant algorithm is a very strange assumption to make.
jasondb, a RESTful database
Consider this: I make a blog post on my relatively new blog examplesite.com. Techcrunch picks up on the article and immediately reposts it on their site. Which do you recon would be the first to get indexed?

Now which is the original from Google's point of view? Relatively smaller blogs can take significantly longer to index then sites that have massive amounts of content moving about daily.
My favorite quote from _why:

"when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."
> Of course Sam cannot live on technical stimulation and my gratitude alone

Alas. If only we could live on technical stimulation alone :(
How much Jaccard similar ?
My concern with an "AdBlock Easylist" style centralized block list is that it removes, or at least blurs the consensus feedback to Google of what is a content farm, what is a low-quality non-farm site, and what is useful.

A user above listed about.com as something they wanted to block, while I find them to be not very in depth, I wouldn't classify it as useless, and certainly not a content farm like livestrong.com.
The Next Generation of Apache Hadoop MapReduce
their primary property is light production, heat is a secondary feature

Hmm, not necessarily. Back in the days when this problem was originally offered incandescent bulbs were by far the most popular light source for facilities, and if you look at a graph[1] of such a bulb's output, you'll find the fast majority of it is below the threshold of visible light -- the real primary property of incandescent bulbs is IR (heat) production. As a physicist Feynman would be well aware of this, and hence I think he would approved of the low-tech intended solution over the suggested alternatives.

If you posit fluorescent lights, the traditional solution would still work. LED lights weren't stipulated as a special condition and even they are stated, they're not 100% efficient and hence might well work with the traditional solution.

[http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_...]
Currently most of this work is generic setup, the actual core of the work is simply running

couchapp push --export > file.json

and putting that in the android package correctly. I will hopefully have the mundane setup stuff removed as much as possible, but I wanted to get this out pretty early to see how people may use it.
I second these guides as they are surprisingly helpful. The blog tutorial seems cliche and done, but it really is a great staple and good place to start in learning the changes that rails3 has brought about.
I agree with you, and I have also posted this question on Quora which remains (to date) unanswered:

http://www.quora.com/Have-Quora-admins-ever-unanonymized-a-q...
Oh, my mistake. I didn't read carefully and assumed tty was referring to the usual backlink removal done by a bot after AfDs - I saw one of them for Nemerle on my watchlist today before I came here.
I for one think that (reasonable) asymmetrical internet connections are mostly a good thing. I mean, could you imagine a residential internet connection that really would handle eg slashdotting? On the other hand, you can get cheapo VPS or a piece of cloud for a fraction of a cost of a actual server, and includes internet connection, probably at least 100M, but likely a Gigabit. And because of high download speeds, you can actually put eg HD videos on your VPS and people will be able to actually consume them.

And that VPS will have probably far less limitations on the content you are distributing via it compared to a residential connection, partly because the higher competition. And if your VPS provider decides to shut your revolutionary website down, it's trivial to move to an another provider, compared to switching your home connection. And additionally VPS is easier to anonymize if you need/want to. Your home connection will always point to your home, and to you.
Market validation. :)
Indeed, bloom filters work but, as with all things, do have limitations in practice. You have to make specific choices as to which type of bloom filter you will implement. You have to optimize for variables like n, m or k or you quickly begin to lose confidence in your responses. Also need to optimize for space vs speed.
StarCRaft 2 - Descarga y análisis
Descarga StarCraft 2 demo en español
Case of the Mondays
That's exactly what I do, and my wife and I agree that we have a pretty happy marriage :-)
I'll take the version that walks today over the version that runs in 6 months.
> Also, forcing people to drive an extra 3-4 miles because they missed a turn is probably not very good for the environment. Just sayin'

Compared to damage of burning up a few cars every few months in accidents? Just sayin'
About this new MobileMe service
I certainly can't disagree with your viewpoint. A person with extraordinary characteristics is likely to have extraordinary accomplishments. That's a pretty safe argument.

But, your classification of people into 2 simple categories is exactly the kind of discussion I like to avoid. From the story, I see a person with skill, confidence, and good odds of success. Aaron's description is one of people with willpower and perseverance in the face of almost impossible odds. These are two completely orthogonal issues. It may be that Daniel is all of the above. But, as a community, we should have more sophisticated dialog on what makes folks successful.

If I were to ever start a company on my own, it would be with the knowledge that I have only half of the traits touted around here. I'm more interested, at this point, in the shortcomings of successful founders and how they compensated.
rim : gist :: intuit : mint
JPMorgan creates a social media fund
>And gas is cheap enough (relative to the rest of the world) that it's cost effective to rely on trucks and airplanes to move merchandise.

The US has one of the largest, most used freight rail systems in the world (both overall and per capita).

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

http://www.economist.com/node/16636101
AT&T Announces Mobile Hotspot, Expands Tethering
ahhh com'on now, marketing's part of the game. what're they supposed to say?
You'll have to define what you mean by "home run" if $500M+ exits don't count.
I believe mgkimsal was using roundabouts as another alternative to the two solutions already presented (Michigan lefts and jughandles).
Boeing has flown the 747-8 to Mach .98, within 7 knots of Mach 1
Thanks! The status bar is a little bit of view order trickery. It's actually a UIWindow that resides at the statusBarLevel + 1. The tricky part is making it rotate with the window frame. There are a few open source implementations out there on GitHub (no links handy, sorry).
"But the real reason [married people gain weight] is moral hazard, or the tendency to take more risks and behave more irresponsibly when there are no consequences."

I'd never equated being overweight as behaving irresponsibly. If everyone thought this way, would we all be thinner? If my spouse can't nag me to lose weight (see #1), is there anything she could do to encourage it, or is it all on me?
Agreed. This was a cartoonish version of Feynman I found rather pathetic. It is missing the recurring themes of learning and experimentation found in real Feynman stories. Either the old barometer story or the manhole cover story are far superior to this blog post.
Come on: that's not what is commonly meant when people say 'discrimination'.
Glad to see some competitive response from AT&T in regards to Verizon on the iPhone.
For the record: I intended no disrespect; I have immense respect and admiration for Feynman.

And for the record: I do not think that I am as smart as Feynman; that would be ridiculous.

The piece was intended as satire, and is in a long tradition of such dialogues intended to ridicule a "straw man" of a particular position. Consider, for example, Gallileo's Dialogue Concerning Two World Systems, in which the scientist, Salviati, criticizes the position of Simplicio, who believes the earth to be the center of the universe.

I couldn't think of a better modern figure to stand for science, reason, clear thinking, and a mischievious sense of fun than Richard Feynman as my Salviati, and I hope that he would appreciate the spirit in which it was presented.
The original is relevant because 1) it is valentine's day and 2) most people here appreciate a good math formula.

On it's own the original post was perhaps not too original, but it spurred some interesting discussion, like where the heart shape originated.

The penis graph on the other hand, only comes of as childish. Sure, it would have been really funny when I was 15. And to be sure, there are plenty of clever penis jokes out there ("The hammer is my penis" comes to mind), but this is not one of them.
The Underground Programming Languages Almanac is born.
This may be naive, but other than the local talent pool, why does it matter where you're located? It's relatively cheap to fly around the continent. On top of that, communication has never been so cheap and easy.

When I visit a website, as a user or customer, I could care less where that site was designed or is hosted.
Have you considered jumping on a plane and moving to San Francisco? I'm also English and did that just last week, I figure it will be so much easier to find a co-founder here than in the UK.
Interesting - Sun didn't fold when Apple threatened them but there wasn't a suit either.

The thing is, it seems there are examples of open source companies or developers folding when presented with the "whiff" of a patent suit. See: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-234073.htm...

Further, as I recall, it has been speculated that Nokia's Apple suit involved a demand by Nokia that Apple cross license its UI patents. http://www.businessinsider.com/did-nokia-sue-apple-to-access...

The thing is, if Nokia had previously been "coding around" Apple's UI, it's not surprising that their UI sucked.

It's easy to imagine that the more timid an organization, the more willing they are to be pushed around by an over broad claim.

Altogether, It would be a good thing to provoke Apple into actually suing someone for violating "their" UI controls: Threats people back away from put a bully in a more powerful position than threats carried through.
Consider yourself lucky. I've had Taxi Magic and Cabulous leave me stranded a number of times. My favorite was the night Taxi Magic dispatched five different drivers over the course of 45 minutes and I never got picked up.

Forget calling the cab companies directly, I've waited over an hour multiple times for a pick up in Potrero. Halloween night I couldn't even get the Yellow/Luxor/Veteran numbers to connect they were so overloaded. UberCab showed up in 15 minutes and took us all home that night.
The percentage a network takes is irrelevant. What really matters is your total net revenue. Fill rate and eCPM are the biggest weaknesses of most networks/agencies.
Your splash page is very bland, having looked on http://dinnerplanner.net there isn't much on it other than 20 words.

I recommend that you make your splash page/landing page better by adding more information, or even a few screenshots etc to hep encourage signups to your service.

However, this seems more of a marketing issue. You should focus more on your marketing efforts as well as, how your competitors marketed your product? Also you should consider contacting publications such as a food blog etc, as this will also help you acquire more signups.
This would only be a fair comparison if and only if you allow users the option to view the blocked search results.
Hmm my next project has to be a website written in brainfuck...

But more seriously I did write a search engine using only sed for a little site of mine (http://toybin.org/) just to see how far I could push sed. Its only feature is that you can have negative works like 'blue -car' will show search results for blue and not car. Haven't yet found any hard core sed hackers out there though... :D

Edit: GitHub would also be another Erlang company (with a ruby frontend)
Of course Feynman knows the intended answer. He's way ahead of the interviewer, and is having some fun with him by deliberately avoiding the "correct" answer.
For comparison, here is a screenshot of Concurrence:

http://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/Concurrence.gif
> Well, you can build an equivalent loop without too much difficulty, and you're used to doing that.

You can build an equivalent list or generator comprehension (just generate tuples and feed that to `dict`). It's just ugly.
http://squareup.com does have a beautifully simple page, just compare it to the mess that is PayPal

However, you can tell it was made by designers in a high-end environment (large screens+ fast broadband) - for example, it shows a blank page when javascript is disabled and the image on the right is a whopping half megabyte, not even progressively rendered or split between above/below fold.
In theory you could get real time tracking with Mixpanel, but in practice their results seem to be an hour or two behind at least some of the time, so I'm not sure how that compares to bit.ly. It isn't free either.
The Great Gatsby is one of my favourite pieces of American literature. I don't even know how this can exist. It just makes no sense. It would be like making Jabberwocky Kart Racing or something.

The worst thing is it doesn't seem to be that bad a platformer either!
Seth Godin on standing out
my pedantry for the day: this isn't a macro.