skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's tough for many publishers to find the right ad solution because their traffic, audience, and level of involvement in the business differ.

I work at isocket and want to point out that BuySellAds is great for some people. If you're looking to sell month-long tenancy campaigns on a subscription (pay-until-they-cancel) basis, BSA is the best tool for the job. And for that service, they'll assess a 25% commission on all the ad revenue you generate.

If you're looking more flexibility in your ad packages - CPM, daily/weekly/monthly campaigns, grids, takeovers and a flat fee pricing, you might want to look at isocket. See http://www.isocket.com/group/techcrunch for an example. We're about to release a "free-until-your-first-sale" program so there's essentially no risk in trying us out.

If you've got more questions, feel free to reach out to me at jason@isocket.com.
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It's bizarre to me that many blogging platforms still treat blogging as a content-production exercise, when in reality it's a blend of content-producing and content-aggregating. I wish more platforms would build on what Tumblr has done in terms of making aggregation more painless.
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I like how the Wikipedia article does not mention how this strategy turns the streets into soul sucking suburban wastelands. The Michigan left may reduce accidents, but it divides neighbourhoods (reference: anywhere on 8 Mile).

This is a very bad idea.
And proud of it!

- A Michigander
I'd greatly prefer if my freedom coincided with me being alive. "The long term" may or may not allow for that.

Your argument seems to be akin to "History shows that every tyrant who ever existed has died." Yes but if one or more new tyrants has been born for every one that died, what consolation is it? Different corporate overlords isn't the same as no corporate overlords.
Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country?
Hi, What you people think would be a good business to get ideas from in a emerging country ?

I am from Brazil, things like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedln, GroupOn etc... are very well known here, What would be a nice idea to start in a country that misses it ?

I heard about threewords.me, that is english only and depends on language which sounds like a good idea to start here, or quora also english only,but this one already have some competitor here.

I think there is plenty opportunity in this kind of business as we are missing them and the english only doesn't work here.
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That's the cent sign. It's close, but not quite, the euro sign: € (on my keyboard: right alt + 5)
That's ironic, because "HAL" is a shift of IBM:
[I B M] - [1 1 1] = [H A L].

Apparently Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick didn't notice this. "As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence." - A.C.C.
It would be very strange if the AI had no self-image or were not concerned with its own survival. If it's only lacking a self-image, it may become a solipsistic entity of sorts.
I would have thought iDevices used BSD, since the whole Mach-kernel architecture is BSD based and all iDevices claim to run a Mach-kernel derived OS.

(I am aware there was MkLinux, which was also mach kernel powered, but it had very bloated performance compared to linux.)
Was it just me or did someone else think this was satirical? It could be the "bigger stem-roller" comment he made that made me think that.
From what I read, Accenture built the system using SQL Server 2000... but this was a system that had been upgraded in 2007. Why didn't they use SQL Server 2005? I tried looking around also but couldn't find anymore technical details on what exactly caused the system to fail.

I should mention that despite being a .Net guy by trade I too would recommend a Linux system for something like this, especially for performance reasons where microseconds matter. Still I can't help but feel a little frustrated that no one ever said what exactly occurred beyond "one or two unforseen events happened that brought down the London exchange for several hours". In fact, one article even attributed the outage to human error! Aside from poor UI design or confusing procedures, sometimes it's a matter of PEBKAC.

(or maybe I just didn't get lucky in my searches)
Last June I signed up for Quora, but it rejected my full name. I use "III" in my full name, and their form validation rejected it. Apparently I had committed the pre-crime of trying to enter my name in ALL CAPS. That put me in a foul mood, and I sent a testy email to Quora about a site that was so super focused on real names couldn't validate a common suffix. I received a very quick, professional reply from some programmer that he was sorry and they had already fixed that. So I am a Quora member, but I don't pay much attention to the site.
It was proposed long time ago to only submit posts like these on the first days of the month, and we were doing fine. Don't break that rule, March is just a couple of weeks away.
I hope this company monetizes this quickly and is able to last because this is one of those few apps that as soon as I saw, I utilized. GroupMe just got 10+ active users. Haha.
If you're willing to accept someone from 'anywhere' in Canada, mind if I ask what the obstacle would be to 'anywhere' globally?
I believe I saw a report recently that they had finished taping it.
Try Brazil ones them... you will love yours afterwards.
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Not to mention that Michigan also puts signs for major intersections before the actual intersection (like 1/4 a mile), but they can be difficult to find (or not even there) at the actual intersection...
I've always been surprised at how living in a different state affects far reaching things such as making left hand turns.
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I kind of agree, but OCR with a stable camera on the clue board would be extremely fast, reliable, and trivial, so it wouldn't make it much more impressive. Voice recognition (without OCR or a text interface to fall back on) would certainly be impressive, but I doubt it would be very reliable or impressive. I may be underestimating the state of the art on voice recognition; it may be very accurate considering Trebek's great diction and the clean studio audio that would be captured.
Your points are all well stated and true. I agree with everything you have said.

And yet it is also true that the end-users can have a significant amount of influence in how quickly the marketplace provides more choice and more open solutions. Most immediately they can choose the more open solution instead of the one that provides more of a walled garden (such as selecting android over the iphone). They can, at least in less capital intensive fields, choose to enter themselves and provide a more open solution (as certain Linux providers have done). In the extreme, they can lobby for legislation or regulation to require or at least support openness and choice. While I generally support a very light regulatory touch, there are some rare and extreme cases where it is appropriate.

While everything you say is true, those who wish to resist walled gardens and proprietary traps can choose to do so in an active and conscious way, rather than merely waiting for the inevitable (yet sometimes slow) march of technology to bring this openness.
There is probably no way of formally proving that a human has general intelligence on a human level, except by definition.
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If you're looking to save some money, there are a bunch of hacker houses in the Bay Area that tend to be pretty friendly to having people crash and live on the cheap while doing the startup thing.

There was an HN thread about this a while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536822) but no current information. Anybody have connections?
Last I heard they were still using Twilio.

Do the math.. ouch!
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>Everybody knows what chess is all about,

Well, that's kind of the point. Chess is a hard game, but it doesn't require broad knowledge of a human culture. If you're going to build a machine that exhibits such knowledge, you've got to pick a culture.
You are also welcome to include a simple link to your personal home page

Although, that's not a policy page; it's a guideline, but I realize you weren't using a strict definition of the term wrt to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERPAGES#What_may_I_...
Warning: my reply is a bit strong, but it's aimed at the community and not at your, relatively mild, complaint.

I have an issue with the way people define "spam" as anything they don't like. Spam is a real and serious problem, and we dilute the importance of fighting it when we call anything remotely commercial as spam.

A blog has the right to make money. How? Typically ads and affiliate offers. As long as there is disclosure for both, I see nothing wrong with their use. OP wrote a review of a product and then submitted it to HN. People liked the review and therefore up-voted it. I think that's totally fair. Or are you suggesting that the OP is gaming the site?

The lack of comments may be explained by the fact that people didn't have much to add about the product, they are afraid of being labelled as SEO people, or they are simply toying with SEOmoz after reading the review.

HN-Books.com looks like a site dedicated to (mostly) book reviews. I don't see 10 posts a day from it, so I think it's totally okay.

I'm not crazy about bit.ly either in principle (for the reasons that you said) but again, the OP is definitely within his rights to use that service if he wants. Redirect links can be used for tracking purposes, for convenience, or very honestly for increasing one's conversions rates. Even in the latter case, I fail to see a problem with it.

If you don't like the content, ignore it (and if it's bona fide spam, then flag it by all means). If you like the content, but not the conditions under which it is provided, use AdBlock and don't click on the links. Screaming "spam" every time "commercial-ish" blog entries are posted is uncharacteristic and unbecoming of a community of entrepreneurs.
Like these neat random articles? Check out Best of Wikipedia: (http://bestofwikipedia.tumblr.com/)

Usually twice a day, always good. (Not my site, btw)

Cheers.
Real names on a forever-archived internet that follows you around for life is possibly the stupidest policy I've ever heard of.

What prevents someone from signing up in your name and posting something that would certainly prevent you from getting hired in the future?

Also, what if someone "internet famous" or even worse "real life famous" wants to contribute something?

There has to be a better way to control trolls.

If Quora is going to demand ID, they need to ask ID from EVERYONE before their account is active to prevent fake Steve Jobs, etc. not selectively.

Otherwise I recommend you sign up using your dog's first name or your elderly neighbor's name.
Quite so. Software is enormously varied in size, scope, and character, as are software development efforts. The idea that there is some one size fits all methodology is fairly ridiculous.
Have you read any of the discussion? It's a contentious issue.
>More information is not necessarily better :(

Naivety.
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The problem is the labels themselves which have been rendered meaningless. At a minimum, the US carriers should just cite the theoretical maximum rate. But maybe Consumers Union or someone of that ilk should create an objective, real world rating system that would reflect upload, download and latency speeds.
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Wikipedia has had deletion issues for a very long time. Note that there are also vague rules that allow admins a procedure called "Speedy Deletion". It lets them remove content w/o debate or public visibility. The deleted page, and all discussions about it just disappear (only an admin on Wikipedia can recover it).

One criteria that can be used for Speedy Deletion is:

No indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_d...

It's a very subjective measure, yet it encourages over-zealous Wikipedians to expunge content.

The spam problem is very real for any user generated web site. I think it would be more ideal if Wikipedia didn't delete anything - but rather marked pages as being of low quality, or not meeting their standards, and perhaps removing those pages from their search index.

Here's what I wrote about this problem in 2007:

http://faves.com/users/mike/dot/76699957085
That’s why I wrote “necessarily!” Jeopardy is certainly a great pick, I can’t think of anything better.
This is the other type of turn we were discussing at lunch today: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2044725,00.....
Not sure about the wisdom of this; it could go pretty strongly in either direction depending on the individual.

If you're young and single you can live pretty cheaply and surround yourself with the inspiring people and general atmosphere of silicon valley. The fact that you have some expenses may help light a fire under you and accelerate your progress.

On the other hand, if you are highly self-motivated, and you are productive from your parents house, then you're likely not missing out on much in the short term, because most of your time is going to be spent coding anyway.
Actually, that might be your answer: if 100 geeks show up at a sports bar and ask them to turn one of the TVs to Jeopardy, maybe they'll do it.
See also the Texas Turnaround for highway frontage roads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_U-turn
Of course.

If you create something you want it to be available to people who pay for your work. Paying customers and people who pirate leaked albums are separate groups (though there is significant overlap). I should imagine to most people they'd rather that their paying customers got access first, and arranging your own surprise release enforces this, as well as creating a feel of excitement around a release.
I'll see your Michigan left and raise you a magic roundabout

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
I'm quitting my job in March and heading on the same path as you, I wish you the best of luck for your startup. Enjoy the journey!
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Just another day...:)
Exactly - hello, MarsEdit for mobile, please?
yelp. I think this has the best chance of being useful to local areas. The problem with most of the ones mentioned are they are already worldwide and don't benefit from some sort of local culture. This is not always the case but generally. Local and something that is societally different from American culture that can't be captured just by internationalizing. Example: Mixi in Japan does well as a social network because of cultural differences. China is a huge market that tend to only like Chinese services.
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I am from Michigan. I hate the Michigan left. It basically puts something between you and the other side of the street. I wonder how much gas I've wasted going right for 1/8 of a mile just to go left.
I think something close to reddit would be nice, but it doesn't depend on language to work so people would just use reddit.

We also have here a Yelp like site.
Good luck! Keep us posted. Lots of us (myself included) are interested in doing something similar. It's great to here how people are getting on.
Taking suggestions from popular sites is OK. But cloning? Make sure you do something original.
Love hearing stuff like this. Good luck.
Perhaps something about `dynamic languages'?
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A previous article about another interesting traffic design.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1437430
Heh, I see it as more of an organizational issue, but I suggested a UI solution. Wikipedia is a moderated wiki that seems un-moderated to most users. The Notability rules bother people, but they are really part of a larger tradeoff and scrapping them is risky.
New Jersey Jughandle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle

You have to make a left by basically taking almost like a freeway ramp off to the right.

If you miss your left turn ramp on the right in some parts of Jersey, you end up driving many miles to get another opportunity due to all the Jersey barriers that basically prevent real left-hand turns.
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To get to the heart of the debate, as a species, we still have trouble quantifying what intelligence is. Regardless of its source or its scope.
we have something not close but that tries to copy very badly yelp. and it's not working at all... :( I can't remember it's name now. :(
What should i improve in my css design.
I have made a HTML template using CSS, do you think this HTML design is good enough, or does it require some more work ?
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You realize that if it were only to recognize speech, other players would have a significant time advantage because they can read the text in probably 1/10th of the time it takes the host to speak the question out loud. "Feeding" Watson the text is just another way of saying Watson "reads" the text displayed on the screen, just like every human is allowed to.
Nothing against SpotCloud team, but here is my blog post about why I think the idea will not work any time soon:

http://somic.org/2011/01/19/my-doubts-about-idea-behind-spot...
So what translates the speech to text? I guess I just assumed they used software but perhaps there is a human doing this. I probably just missed when they mentioned this.
Right. When this question first became popular — I remember hearing it from my grandpa sometime in the 1990s — CFLs and LEDs were not common at all (though fluorescents were, in stores/offices; but I think most people assume this is a room in a house.)
Can you explain why? Unless I'm misunderstanding, pedestrians can still cross, and the neighbourhoods are divided by the massive highway, rather than the specific turning pattern...?
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I don't mean cloning as copying exactly... I mean getting the idea and modifying it to fit in a specific country. Like www.peixeurbano.com did here with GroupOn.
I mean copying the business model moreless.
@jsavimbi I am super sorry you feel that way about me, it's funny I do talk a lot but what I am proud of is what i do when I am not talking. I hope we can meet one day and talk, I am not really looking to change your mind but I am hoping you may look at me in a different light, I wish you well and hope to prove you wrong ;) ( In a good way )
To be clear, according to the article the analogy is a compliment.
Probably not much since you'd otherwise waste a lot of gas idling at a red light trying to make a left.
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Have a look at Fabrice Grinda's recent blog post
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Was Martin Martin from Germany? Here at ITA, we used to (before my time) have someone of that name. He was born in Germany, but naturalized in the US; his last name was too difficult for many Americans, so he gave up and had it changed to match his first name, so it'd be easy to say and remember.
"I really do not get why I need a special day to say I love you"

It's not about you. It's about her.
"Hard Candy Shell" is also the name of UX/UI design firm in New York City.
I noticed you worked at Booz Allen Hamilton, is that the consulting company you recently quit from?

I am 23 and worked for Booz Allen 4 months ago before I quit myself to work on my startup.

Best of luck my friend! It is a much better feeling to be working and struggling for the things you love than having it easy with the things you don't!
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Upvote, but there is a large difference in degree. Nobody's paying $86M for Hacker News.
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We are getting ready to bring on some remote freelancers, and of course also provide freelance (remote) gigs from other startups/companies: http://www.virtualrockstars.com

We are based in Dallas, TX.
First, good luck and hope you do well.

My startup Socialblaze is in the social/analytics space, and it looks like you're entering this space as well. Good luck! It's a fun space to be in (and moving very fast).

Here's a few things I think you should figure out before starting to build your product:

- Are you really aware of your customers' needs? Have you talked to any that would use your product? Would they pay for it? (Also, a customer saying that he/she would loves that product and would pay for it is very different then keeping them as an active user with an active subscription for 1+ months).

- Small businesses, musicians, and influencers don't have much money, what's your pricepoint? Would they be willing to pay?

- What's your customer acquisition strategy? Have you tested it? Do you know it works? What's your backup?

- If you're providing analytics, make sure your customers actually get ROI from it. It's possible that a white-label twitpic with 10 new features won't increase engagement at all or not enough to justify costs, making your analytics prove that your product isn't useful.

Honestly, I suggest that you first move to the Valley and join a funded early stage startup as employee #3-5. You'll learn a ton and have the experience + connections (these are so important!) to do your own startup in a few years.

And startups aren't as glamorous as you think or read on Techcrunch, read Suster's post on the startup lifestyle: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/30/should-you-really-be-a-star...

If you still want to do it: fail fast, fail early, and iterate. Also, find amazing advisors as quickly as you can.
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I have been crushing these Lemmings tunes on YouTube all morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7wBdPYric

I just want to start digging like a maniac. Or blocking traffic. Or laying bricks. Or parachuting with an umbrella.
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I don't get it... Uber makes a lot of sense in SF, where it is nearly impossible to get a cab, but not so much in other places where there are enough cabs going around (New York, Chicago). It might make sense for smaller cities, but I just don't see it working at a 50% price premium to regular taxis.

And then there's the problem with the taxi unions, who will fight tooth and nail to disallow this (they will say that using an iphone app is the same as flagging one down)