skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hell, i've never heard of anybody who's ever used Expert Exchange.

I was an expert there about, oh I don't know, 8 years ago¹ - I got a months free premium account for answering and getting X amount of points in a month. Next time I went back (in common with another commenter here) I couldn't generally access solutions despite having provided some of those solutions myself.

However, I did find that it was, when I joined, the best place to get in depth computing answers. My last question there was in 2009 and I still got a pretty useful answer. I've used it since for a couple of specific searches.

Having looked there once again it still looks like I might get useful answers there.

Sample of questions being asked now:

16/02/11	500	Google Maps to be placed in a MS...	Tavasan65	0	PHP Scripting...
16/02/11	500	RHN registration	AXISHK	0	Red Hat Linux
16/02/11	500	Multiple domain names, multiple...	bradpink	0	Lotus Domino Email...
16/02/11	125	traceroute from Mac (Net Utility...	squidzink	0	Apple Networking
16/02/11	500	Oracle SQL query updating the...	jvera524	0	Microsoft Excel...
16/02/11	250	Regex to find relative filenames...	crysallus	0	Regular Expressions
16/02/11	50	Simple scalar tool	Tom3333	0	Programming...
16/02/11	500	Syncing Outlook Notes with iPhone 4	richeyd	0	iPhone
16/02/11	500	jquery thickbox tranaparent window ...	dev09	0	JavaScript
16/02/11	500	NetApp SAN Choice	pitchford	0	VMware*

Their novel way of using points seemed to work pretty well at eliciting good responses. One of the things I did was to build up a reserve of points when I was volunteering with a computer refurb/education charity in case I had specific questions about some obscure piece of donated hardware. The system seemed to emphasise well that most people could trade knowledge.

StackOverflow started 12 years after Experts Exchange.

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1 - just looked it up via Google, 2001-06-06 was my join date apparently.
The record labels won't let them do it. That is pretty much the only reason the streaming companies exist.
> It's more than a shame Microsoft's not providing IE9 on XP.

That means you have to backport DirectX 11 to XP so IE9 could use Direct2D and DirectWrite
Watson beating the snot out of Mortals
When the first practice rounds of Jeopardy began it was very close between the humans and Watson, now it's a total blowout. It's amazing how quickly the computer has advanced since the initial trials. We'll see what happens tomorrow but it looks like computers might be taking over sooner than later. What do you think?
When the article didn't load, it took me a minute to remember I'd blacklisted experts exchange in my hosts file several years ago. Apparently I'm still not missing anything.
or a Fake name... http://caterina.net/archive/000622.html
Konaa User Account Update
This was definitely my experience when Forrst went out in late December. Nonetheless, AngelList is doing a seriously awesome service for folks like me.
in a world where Comcast can buy NBC? Monopoly statutes might as well not exist.
Getting Pressured: Late-stage firms are attracting VCs despite huge valuations
"Growing up on the internet is like walking around for the rest of your life with your baby pictures stapled to your forehead."

I actually like having an archive of stuff I wrote when I was 13 (and having an archive of thoughts is a prime motivator for a blog). I don't really care what people think of my 13-year-old self, especially if my current self isn't going to ever interact with them to update their beliefs. I think it was Gandhi who said "If you see a contradiction between pieces of my writing, assume I currently believe the most recent one."
Cool, yeah I'm obviously not a designer either :) It would be something to work on if this ever moves forward. As for the blank ad - that's a strange problem! What operating system are you using? It worked fine with everything I tested, including Chrome on Windows. Do you have any plugins on? It should work without it, but do you have javascript enabled?

And yeah, I understand what you mean. I would build a sort of "ad marketplace" for advertisers that allowed them to sort ad spaces however they want if there is enough interest.
I really hope it's other trolls modding up these pro-censorship posts.
The Experience Economy and Postmaterialism
Pretty soon..I'm sure it will be 30% of your advertising revenue. Rent? This is more like taking a chunk out of your paycheck. For all the employees out there I'm sure your company would love to take part of your check for the opportunity to work.

30%? do you get any other benefits from Apple? or is it "you take it and you like it."

Apple just has to do is sit there and let the small developers take all the risk. Are they loosing money on each phone sold? I can see charging a payment processing fee like PayPal. 30%? I just hope this doesn't set any precedent.
Pseudonyms allow a person to own what they say* without opening themselves up to retribution from people who misunderstand either the content or the context of what is said, or who take advantage of power imbalances to advance an agenda. People should not feel pressured into putting everything on the line merely for the right to speak freely.

* Maybe not in the sense you mean but in a sense that I think is sufficient -- that statements from that persona can be challenged and measured against other statements in the same context for consistency.
That question is impossible to answer. We don't know what you are trying to do. We can't know what your position actually is.
Wait, forgot to mention that now that google created the chrome anti-google results plugin, expertsexchange is in trouble (missing hyphen there somewhere)
Is it wrong that after reading this I had the urge to check facebook because I hadn't in a day? I don't even like facebook

Edit: my point is that we all may think we hate facebook, but many of us I suspect "secretly" (to HNers) use it
Option 4: Tell your employer you have aspirations and would like them to consider keeping you on the payroll for 20 hours a week instead of full-time. You'd then have the other half of the week to work on a startup.
My father, and his father before him, were military veterans in their middle age.

I lived in a trailer park in Iowa when I was a kid.

Not sure why you think those are negative things.
I don't know if that is necessarily ideal for Apple or any of the other platforms for that matter. What is to stop the next platform from offering 19%, 20% or even 25% non exclusive cut and 15% Exclusive? Competing over the percent of profits taken per app could start a chain reaction race to the bottom that ultimately reduces profits for all platform makers and moves it into the hands of the developers. Which is a good result for developers but not so ideal for the platform makers. So they may all choose to not steer things in that direction for as long as possible.

Also I may be missing something but I don't think reducing margins is typical Apple. They have no problem charging you more with the backing that the experience you get will be top quality and polish compared to the competition. No matter that you are user, developer or publisher.That is their leverage. Their brand is associated with quality, heck given their image of vigorously (note use of vigour v rigour) curated excellence, exclusivity might even be a positive signal to consumers and some developers.

These two points make it so I would actually be more surprised by a reduced percentage trade for exclusivity than outright requirement of exclusivity.
How to Make a 29% Increase Look Bigger: The Unit Effect in Option Comparisons
I definitely think having your full name attached to your account makes you double check what you post - however I will still speak my mind on certain topics, even if they may seem a bit odd to post about.

I only recently decided on this route after 17 years of going by nicknames/handles. I think I am mature enough now to know how to handle what I say, and will always think twice about what possible future employers might find or anyone else from my personal life. If they have an issue with what I post under my full name, then so be it, but at this point it has been a rational decision to do so.
Basically, except that you get the ad right away. There are existing ad networks that let you set a "maximum bid price" for sites but that often turns into a race for the bottom, price-wise. This is different - you can buy any ad immediately as long as you pay at least a dollar more than the last person, and it will be yours until someone who is willing to pay more buys it. The idea is that this lets the market determine the ad value of a specific site rather than keywords a la Google.

Does that make sense? I am trying to refine my pitch, I think the website copy is unclear but I'm trying to make it better.
App Developers Unhappy With Apple’s New Subscription Service
By the way, if you scroll ALL the way down to the bottom of any question page you do see the best answer. Apparently they bank on the fact most people won't scroll that far and get discouraged by the "paywall" on the top. The Google crawler requires the text to be visible I've heard
> Other browsers show that it is technically possible to support XP, without limiting your product on Vista/7

I think that other browsers show it is possible to run using only the APIs that were available in Windows XP without using any of the new snazziness that is Vista/7.

It's like the difference between saying, well, I can write my browser to use Carbon on OSX and it works fine even on OS9, but nobody inside of Apple would write a new product not using Cocoa. If I'm getting the metaphors correct -- apologies to Apple folks if I missed it. I'm an old MSFT developer at heart.

In any case, it's exactly the same as asking modern Safari to run on OS9. But OS9 is considered so bad nobody should use it, whereas WinXP is still considered reasonable, relative to the other operating systems currently in use.
I forgot I had AdBlock running. Sorry about that.
Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You
Thank god Android scares them.

Evidence?
This looks like it was a pretty awesome time. Is this sort of thing open to anyone wanting to build something cool? Could I happen-to-be-in-New-York-City my way into the next Music Hack Day?
I, too, hope it's just rebranding.

Zune Pass is Netflix for music, and I think people on other platforms (including me, back when I was on iPhone+Mac) are really missing out.
In what way does nginx do this differently? It has workers - are they just lighter and more efficient?
Hacked e-mails reveal plans for dirty-tricks campaign against U.S. Chamber foes
What I'd like to know is how does EE always show up so well in Google search results? Even when there are several better results to a particular technical search query EE always shows up near the top of Google's results.

I can't speak for anyone else's queries but from my perspective EE is just Google spam, and their "answers" aren't worth the HTTP traffic.
No worries! I had actually forgotten to test it with AdBlock and was sort of curious how it would handle it, so thanks!
PhotoShelter and Facebook Integration
NYHacker & General Assembly are hosting events like this on a quarterly basis.

NYHacker: http://nyhacker.org
General Assembly: http://generalassemb.ly
To be fair, unlike NYC, a lot of Hong Kong's area is actually uninhabited, so the effective population density is higher.

That's not to say this excuses the North American internet service.
Explorer: Inside North Korea
Yes, but that doesn't help their employees get around when one of their destinations isn't work. Having functioning public transit is a major selling point of the area and thus for those working for these companies.
Source: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-August/08...
I've gotten pretty good reception with a UHF loop antenna like catalog # 46-200 pictured here:

http://www.farnsworthelectronics.com/antenna.htm

I use a matching-transformer to connect it to the coax plug.
Jesus christ relax.
And... that makes it a valid complaint. You don't see Mozilla, Google, Apple, or Opera complaining about having to support XP.

You're pulling at straws here. Microsoft's position is obvious, and it's not to make a better browser for the sake of a better browser.
Could be good news for the Android and Windows Phone 7 ecosystems. Seems like it'd be easy for most of these publishers and services to re-focus their mobile strategies on platforms that are more friendly to their business model.
Came to post this. Well, this, and, "It took you 300 lines to do THAT?" A dozen or so lines of Javascript + CSS would do the trick. I say this from experience, having built a system to auto-print thermal labels from a browser. It's reeaaallllyyy easy. Heck, most of the time was spent fighting with Windows' print settings. While I'm happy for your success, I'm kind of dumbstruck that anyone would pay for such a system.

[Edit] In the interest of not just poopooing on the badge thing, I want to mention view.io actually seems like a pretty interesting idea. One of those so-obvious-why-hasn't-anyone-done-it-yet types, could be big if it works well. Good luck!
People on HN love the soap opera stuff; it is the flip side of the "startup daydream". Yes, it might be indicative of a larger problem. And yes, over and above that, it might be indicative of a larger problem you can't solve. And yes, over and above that, it might be indicative of a larger company you can't solve that might kill the company. I could go on.

But why bother? It's probably not. The guy's partner: not so great at hiring, and not so great at firing. Firing in particular is very hard to do, and if you already weren't managing the role you need to fire properly (his team wasn't), it's next to impossible. These weaknesses describe 60% of all entrepreneurs, including a small chunk of the successful ones. Work the problem.

Also, when he said his partner is getting divorced... hey, 20-somethings on HN? That's a big deal. Extremely stressful. I'm not saying, "cut the guy slack out of empathy". I'm saying not cutting him slack might be a dumb business move.
I'm not sure what you're reading into my posts that you consider "making this personal", nor which person or people you think I'm going after, but I promise you've misunderstood my meaning if that's the impression you've got.
A part of me feels like logging into Facebook to see what my friends are up to (ignoring the ones I'm not true friends with), feels more like a social obligation to not be a reclusive jerk than it is to keep up.

I talk to my friends in person, and do things with them on the weekend. I really feel like Facebook is more for teenagers and college students who need a constant stream of distraction. I can't count how many times I've been angered at parents who tolerate their kids playing DS or wearing headphones at the table when out to dinner. THAT is the Facebook generation.
Real names attached to unpopular commentary = danger.

For example, if you're in a conservative town and you're using your real name while arguing for civil rights for homosexuals, you might draw nutcases tracking you down and harrassing you for your simple viewpoints instead of engaging you in the medium you participated in. This isn't a matter of not owning what you say, but a matter of putting a layer of insulation between yourself and immature idiots.

Another issue with real names comes from identity theft - using real names makes the process a little easier. Real name + known site hack = half the job done.

Pseudonyms aren't just about trolling, they're also a social firewall.
Firefox 4 beta is very noticeably faster than Chrome on my Mac in heavy JavaScript/Canvas experiments. Chrome is especially a dog when in fullscreen (2-3 times slower) for some reason.
Imagine John Goodman from Lebowski....

Frankly, that was the image I had in my head - I wasn't trying to offend or be negative. Maybe you're sensitive?
Signed up and following on twitter... looking forward to getting out and about more!
Derek Sivers' upcoming [2011] TED talk: Why You Need to Fail
What if Rhapsody offered a 23% discount for customers that subscribed via their website rather than through the In-App method? They could call Apple's 30% cut a "convenience fee" like online ticket sales.
I really wish there was - I may get around to asking for this info, but I bet you've got to sign some type of license or pay fees. I don't know - I haven't tried.

Are you interested in making a case or something similar?
Not just the Haradrim (who basically equate to Africans, geographically speaking), although there is a wonderful description of them as "black men like half-trolls with white eyes and red tongues." The Easterlings are also evil.

And Aragorn is noble and powerful and should be followed unquestioningly because he's distantly descended from royalty.

And Denethor is crazy and wrong because he has the audacity to disagree with Aragorn despite not having royal blood.

And elves are all naturally good and pure by nature of their race — to the point where they are basically immune to Sauron's corruption.

And orcs are their inherently evil cousin race. There is not a single good orc in the whole world. You can feel OK about killing them with impunity.

The only race that seems to actually have any moral subtlety is the Maiar, who can be good or evil with no obvious genetic reason. (I mean, they're still inherently superior beings, but they can at least be evil.)
They aren't as essential for desktop browsers (now), since the relative resource constraints on a given tab are so much smaller, but just as relevant as "desktop" runtimes scale down in power/up in efficiency demands, and as the apps run within them scale up in resource demands. Just look to how much RAM your 25 browser tabs burn, and how warm a single tab with Flash ads can keep your MacBook Air.
50 and 94 now, seems the black is selling faster.
Just like hearing the story of World War [1-2] from different sides.
Experts Exchange was the first site I blocked with the new Chrome plugin from Google. Spam.
Absolutely, and it works well for him. In this case the yelling is being held up as an example of why not to use C++ which does NOT work as a valid argument.
I work for a 'stealth' startup.

The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. There are some other serious reasons why we don't want to go public right now. Unfortunately I can only talk about the stuff related to the idea itself.

Our idea is boring and not revolutionary. We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition.

>> Execution is more important than the idea

I like this slogan as much as the next guy, but its implications may not be what you think they are. What if execution is (mostly) a function of money you have? What if someone with double the money we have can execute in half the time? What if they can copy your "execution" just because they can iterate faster since they have enough money in the bank?

>> The most likely cause of failure is your incompetence,
not losing to the competition.

But losing to competition is also a likely outcome. Isn't it?

>> First mover advantage is just silliness

We've got a little funding from VCs. Some of our competitors are more than well funded. Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too. There is a serious first mover advantage to be made especially when VCs are ready to drain money just to get the first mover advantage.

>> You desperately need real feedback

This is orthogonal to going public with your idea.

Also, most people in our team are very good and have proven track records. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. We don't want that at this point.

Again, as I said this is just part of the reasons why we are in stealth. Almost all of our competetors are public with the idea, and of course we don't know about any stealth competitors :)

This article assumes that all startups go into stealth mode just because of the fear of someone copying the idea. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. [Our biggest reasons for being in stealth are people related. Sorry cannot expand on that]
how's this for a meta-ironic comment: when I read your first 2 sentences, I immediately thought of a joke that I was going to make along the lines of, "sorry I have a patent on systems allowing you to submit a negative amount of faith in something, pay up or shutup!"

Then I read your last 2 sentences. Too weird! Also goes to show, again, what a joke the patent system is. Multiple people can "independently" come up with the same "innovation", given reasonably similar skills and context.
Another way of looking at it is: why does a comment from a 'real name' have any more weight than from a pseudonym? Once you've built up a body of commentary you've built up a reputation under that handle anyway.

Just recently I witnessed a heated debate between pseudonyms and the weaker of the two debaters finally said "I am Dave Foo from Sometown, Oregon - are you going to hide or man up?". The response was "I am Bill Bar from Othertown, California - what of it? You still haven't answered the questions I asked". Real names add little in terms of content of validity.

Real names aren't necessary, but if you want a reputation, you'll need to be consistent with the name you pick.
Seeing as nginx requests can be done by their URI, you could have a /write prefix to anything that handles user input, which wouldn't be cached? Especially on sites that don't have masses of user writing (in which case you'd use some sort of intermediary queueing daemon that nginx could shove things to, and could slowly feed the things into your backend).

Writing the /write prefix would immediately invalidate the cache for the changed pages and thus they could be easily regenerated a single time and placed into the cache until the next time (or perhaps the pages could simply be invalidated once every 10 seconds or so - very little has to be truly realtime).
I have a patent on that. Pay up.

(had to get that out of my system. feel better now.)
It's not that they "can't" but they "aren't". It's probably because Microsoft wants XP users to see all the new stuffs Microsoft is making for Windows 7. Microsoft is hoping that those users to change or try the newer OS. After all, IE9 is just an enabler to Microsoft's core businesses (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-we-are-focusin...)
> Web development projects should be undertaken with reference to the current state of support across browsers for current and emerging standards, with the expectation that such support will improve over time.

Says who?

If you're developing a major project, for a major client, for serious money, then there will be formal acceptance tests, and if the product you build doesn't pass those tests, you don't get some or all of the money until it does. What kind of professional web development shop is going to make that kind of commitment when the tests themselves aren't pinned down, or to make any legally binding commitment that their finished product will work properly with software that is beyond their control and not fully specified? You can't even defend this position on the basis of Agile development practices, because a six week cycle is still too short to get through a full round of development, a full set of testing at the various levels required, and final approvals, before the goalposts move again. You don't seem to acknowledge this scenario at all, but outside of relatively small projects it is the norm.

As several of us have observed elsewhere in the discussion, the major problem with making this kind of open-ended commitment when the target platform isn't known yet is that sometimes support doesn't improve over time. We have even given direct examples, such as Google's decision to kill H.264 support in Chrome.