skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the sound from my Grados, but they're not exactly the most comfortable headphones in the world. they can be somewhat painful if you're wearing glasses, since your ear tends to get some pressure on it.

My sennhausiers (585) are a lot more comfortable. A bit clearer sound, a touch less bass, and way less reliable cords.

I've had the Grados since the early 90s, and the Sennhausers since about 2000.
> This was an intentional choice. It attempts to fight duplicate questions by forcing users to see the search results for their question before asking it.

It fails.

When I type a word that matches a topic and hit "enter", it sometimes goes to that topic, and sometimes it goes to the "add question" pop-up.

When I type a word that does not match a topic but matches the body of some answers, it usually goes to the "add question" pop-up when I hit enter.

I have not been able to discern how it decides which of these it is going to do.

While I was experimenting with it, it got stuck in a state where it always went to the "add question" pop-up. I could only search by clicking on one of the suggested search results.

If they intended this thing to discourage asking questions before searching, then someone goofed, and their testers are non-existant or incompetent.
One of the first posts I've commented on even though I read too many posts here. :)
If we have a finite number of publically-supported research labs, I would prefer they be operated by people having scientific discovery as the foremost priority in their lives. I don't believe there are so few of them that we need to make do with people trying to fit it in as a day job around the mundane things they prefer. (Actually there's a surplus of people with this calling compared to positions we fund, judging by PhDs' horror stories about finding work.)

Also, that incivility was uncalled for. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Another great one:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EW...
This could all be a diabolical marketing ploy to move a whole lot of HD555's.
You should write some entries for kanjidamage.
Journaling and ReiserFS
Nice! Something finally exists for those of us in So Cal!
I think it would be wise, as this article does, to not think about the phone market in terms of platforms (iOS, Android, RIM & WebOS) but in terms of manufacturers (Apple, HTC, Nokia, Samsung, etc.)

If you look at it in those terms, there are two manufacturers that are vertically integrated- Apple and Samsung.

Samsung is weak on software, and software is the critical component of this age (more important than flash, RAM or SoCs). Meanwhile, Apple is a design house, and doesn't have manufacturing capability of its own.

So, one question is whether owning your own plants will be critical or not.

Consider this possibility- it is like the Windows market, only instead of it being a licensed OS, it is Apple, and Apple devices, but HTC et. al. become contract manufacturers for Apple. The margins may not be any better than competing in the commodity phone market, but the R&D and marketing costs are a lot less, and so they may be more profitable.

I'm sure this goes against their DNA, but unless FoxConn can expand enough to cover the demand (for Apple and for everybody else) I can see the commoditization happening at the manufacturing level, rather than the device level, as it did in the PC market.

Samsung has had a decade to replicate the iPod, or to build a video game system. I don't know if they will be able to build the expertise or find the mojo that Apple has on software.

I don't think Apple is going to start building plants nor will they build expertise in lithography, etc.

But I think that while software is easy to commoditize (eg: Android) a quality software experience is much harder. Meanwhile, it is cheaper to be a contract manufacturer for a %5 margin than it is to try and compete with your own products.

So, Apple could be the new Microsoft, and Samsung could be the new Apple-- if software is what matters. The reverse could occur if lithography expertise is what ends up mattering.
Netbooks Lose Status as Tablets Like the iPad Rise
I have it set up to create an account with your facebook credentials so you may also login with your email address. That is why you need to supply a password, because you may login more than one way.

Not necessarily high sensitivity, but if someone would happen to get into your account, they may delete all of your Tags.

The email confirmation is important because the entire service runs on email - when someone finds your Tagged item, TaggedBack sends a email to the owner. If that email is incorrect, they will never be notified. I am unsure how else to do it.

According to my analytics, very few people go to the registration page, but when they do, very few leave without registering.

Thanks for the questions and suggestions, they are much appreciated!
"To build a business, you need to understand subjects like finance, marketing, intellectual property and corporate law. "

And you can only learn these topics in university.

"Most importantly, if students don’t learn the importance of finishing what they start, they will never achieve success—this requires perseverance and determination."

And you can only learn perseverance at university.

"And by dropping out of college, they won’t have the alumni networks that they need to help them later in their careers and in business."

And you can only make friends at university.

To me, the only real reason to stay in university until I graduate (aside from inertia) is the belief that being a dropout instead of a graduate will hurt my future career. (I speak as one who's been tempted to drop out a few times)
What about option c.

Make a ton of money. Stay private.

There's some sort of mind-brainwash that the only way to build a company is to get funding by giving some middle aged man who doesn't have the balls to take big risks himself a large share of your company.

It's the Internet. You don't need a lot of capital.
Bí quyết viết tài liệu tiếp thị cho người mới bắt đầu
One would be mistaken to think that this problem is trivial even to us humans.
This cheered me up!
The question is, how does Zynga compare to Facebook? If they have huge growth and half as many users and revenue, why aren't they valued at $25B?

It seems that, even for bubble Web 2.0 startups, Facebook is overvalued.
Humans experienced pleasure long before they knew anything about dopamine.

You seem to be rejecting the reality of subjective experience by equating it to its objectively observable physical correlates.

Moral judgements are not (at least historically have not been) based on such observables but rather on the assumption that that which causes oneself pleasure or pain typically does so for others as well.

You can put someone in an FMRI and find that certain brain signals correlate with that person claiming to feel pain (ie. correlate brain state with behavior) but you can never establish a causal relationship between those signals and the subjective experience of pain because subjective experience is by definition not objectively observable.

These sorts of philosophical arguments have been going on for a long time with little practical effect. However there is a danger that if machines do become sapient and surpass us in intelligence that based on such arguments they will conclude that human beings are merely an inferior form of intelligence which is not worth preserving. If humans themselves deny the existence of subjective experience then why should machines believe in such a thing.
AFAIK, creating electrical signals in somebodies brain can be considered torture.

I read about a new device that can simulate extreme pain, by creating electrical signals in your nervous system - that's torture.

If you harm an ant, is that torture? Or is the ant's brain to simple to make this this count?
Cliffs Notes Style Tech Publications
Hopefully worth the wait...
The AC is more of an incubator - that is, they provide their residents with a lot of resources (business contacts, advisors, even training), whereas coworking places typically don't have the same connections.
I think the key is to actually find out about what you're buying and get some word-of-mouth recommendations rather than relying on brand alone as a measure of quality. I think the pro-audio industry is small enough that nearly all big players expand into the consumer region eventually. That doesn't mean that all their stuff is crap. I still think my Sennheiser HD-25s are some of the very best DJ monitor headphones, but they are a world away from the Sennheiser consumer stuff.
The episode "The Thinking Machine" of the Nova miniseries "The Machine That Changed the World" is my favorite introduction to the history of AI up until around AI winter.

The episode, along with four others, are available here: http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_t...
Amit Singhal of Google disputes antitrust claims
But it's your argument that I transformed, not mine.

Humanity considers torture to be a bad thing because it believes in the reality of subjective experience, which you appear to be denying.
This is why we need downvotes.
Google Axis
The argument could be made the Facebook has potential for more and faster rising growth than Zynga, which would raise their valuation. *(I agree that Facebook is overvalued)
Have you considering demoing the user with a couple of "sample" egistration tags? Like a "Try #4048858 or #832939 in the box below." They wya the user can see A. what the tag numbers look like and B. what entering a tag looks like. Also, I'm willing to bet that almost everyone who logs into your service w/ facebook doesn't want to log in any other way. For FB users you could skip the password and email and simple use FB for signin and send them messages when a tag is entered.

Very cool service btw, I was thinking of something just like this the other day. If, for some reason, you'd like to collaborate with someone on this idea I'd love to help.
As much as I love HN, do you really think it's necessary for an entrepreneur to be part of this site, in order to be successful? Actually, considering what a time sink this can be, the best advice you can give him might be "don't join HN, whatever you do." :-)

I get that one shouldn't operate in a bubble, and I assume that's what you're getting at here... but does he do anything to gain exposure to outside ideas and thoughts on the tech startup scene? If so, maybe what he's doing is enough?

Has he read any books, or anything, related to this subject? If not, there's a fairly recent thread on "Good books for startups" maybe hand him a copy of one or two of the titles off one of those lists?
3D Printing: The Printed World
Van Jacobson - Networking Named Content (2009)
Books/Blogs for start-ups
I doubt this is true. See those holes near the bottom / on the back of your computer speakers? Play some music and shove your thumb in them while it's playing. You'll hear the difference.

Air needs to move for sound to exist, even in the direction away from your ear. If stuff's in the way, the sound's going to be muffled.
Since you seem to be good at picking the right horse early, what are your favorite new sites/companies right now?
Apple also reported in one of their financial calls that they spent $4.9 Billion out of the war chest to secure future supplies of components they consider critical. They didn't say which ones they were... but I think they feel the market is there for any of the others.
How Kindle’s new Public Notes could change the way we read ebooks
You should run the phrase through Chinese more often. Google Translate is horrendous with that language. I just had two Taiwanese exchange students over at my house for a few weeks, and they had a game of watching Google return garbage even with simple phrases.

In particular, "I am happy" gives back "I'm happy" in every case -- except when Chinese is part of the loop. Then, it translates to "I'm very happy."

Nice web app, though. It reminds me of Translation Party, which went viral on Reddit a while ago.
A perfectly efficient market is nice in theory but I don't think it exists outside of commodities like "sorghum and gypsum" (I think those are tptacek's words). Consumers are usually not going to be perfectly informed so there's always room for marketing to increase the perceived value of a product.
There's a couple of coworking places in the Golden Triangle in Ontario that come to mind:

- http://treehaus.ca in Kitchener, I think they've been around a while;

- http://threefortynine.com, a new space starting up in Guelph
Wow, great idea! I will add a sample Tag tomorrow if I have time. I will probably alter the facebook login system soon as well. Thanks for the pointers!
I agree. It might sometimes be a status thing, as in, "I'm so important that I don't need to spellcheck my emails to you."
Velocity residence at the University of Waterloo is basically for the purpose of dorm room startups.

http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca
Yeah. Helicopters in flight use less power because of "free" translational lift, the lift provided by air flowing over the rotor because of the helicopter's forward speed.

It uses much more power to lift off when stationary because there is no translational lift.

So if the helicopter is at maximum power while moving, it has no "extra" power to hover or land gently or take off. It can fly as high as Everest, but it can't land or takeoff.

I remember reading (I think it was "Chickenhawk", great book) that some pilots in Vietnam with an overloaded helicopter stuck on a ridge would basically drop it off the side of the ridge to get some forward speed before they would recover and climb up to altitude. That takes guts.

While I'm telling anecdotes, a long time friend had always wanted to fly, it was his dream, so he joined the Air Force after school. He passed the basic ab-initio training with flying colours and got assigned to heavy transports. He quit after two years. I was very surprised and asked him why. He said he was so scared he couldn't handle it. (He wouldn't say what, but I assume something like short landings at night on unmade strips in the middle of the bush, etc.)
Technically, they absolutely don't have to. They could create a perfectly valid account from your Facebook/Twitter/OpenID token.
I tried to find the quora account I signed up for last year, with which I associated my twitter account, and it was pretty much impossible.
it'd be better on kinect.

Microsoft should buy this company:

http://lightblueoptics.com/products/light-touch/

They claim to turn any surface into a touch screen. Combine that with kinect's technology, and microsoft has a revolutionary UX that could beat apple & google in the mobile, local, and web space.
The quasi-fraudulent nature of their business may be depressing their valuation somewhat.
I appreciate that they've got more and more content and need to scale the interface complexity to handle it.

But I am a little sad to see the old help pages go. There's something wonderful about a single list of articles down the left, and you click one and read it. It's just... minimal, in the best sense of the word.

The new Dev Center reminds me of MSDN... and hours of misery trolling through overly verbose articles about all kinds of crap.

Part of me wonders if limiting yourself to a really simple structure for your help system isn't a GOOD thing. It forces you to keep the content really simple and to-the-point, because you simply don't have space to rattle on and create a confusing web of documentation.

Just a thought.
Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
This has nothing to do with women in tech. It has to do with specialization vs. generalist.

The image of the ultimate hacker assumes a specialist. 100% focused on their expertise. It could lead to a great coder. but a company will also need someone with a decent technical background who can also relate to the end-user for instance, or align more than one sentence when a customer calls. That would be more a generalist.

It's ok not to want to be a domain expert.
I enjoyed this:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd07xx/EWD707.PDF
I am originally from Regina, SK and it seems like there is a lot of CS research in the Gaming space, but the startup community there is almost non existent. The majority of the programmer talent goes to the government IT shops and the consulting firms that help the government IT shops.
I only comment occasionally. I comment even less on other sites I frequent, like reddit (before I quit), lesswrong and ribbonfarm. I normally only comment when I have a point I really want to make, and no-one else has made that point already.

I'd guess there's a lot of people like you - most online communities have a very disproportionate amount of lurkers.
I think this is a biased reaction because of HN's nature.

While most visitors to HN aren't fans of Zynga's products, there are millions of people for whom FarmVille et al. are large and truly enjoyable parts of their lives.
I totally hear what you are saying, but I honestly believe that most people are paying more, at least partially, to get a better product.

Even if they can't tell that the product is better (say, because they can't hear the difference), I think the difference is night and day.
Science is not a 9-5 job. It can't be viewed in the same light as an ordinary career. You literally must drown yourself in your work in order to push the limits of human knowledge just a little further. Only certain kinds of people are cut out for this.

This woman characterized a TF that acts as an oncoprotein. That's not insignificant. It probably took her more mental, repititious, laborious effort than most people output in their entire lives. That said, when you burn out it is time to let someone else carry the flame. We can't waste precious, finite research funding on people who can't give 120%.
No, it's: said it while she/he was sleeping/drunk/otherwise mentally incapacitated.
Two words: longterm outlook.

I think people see Zynga as having already reached a lot of its potential while not so much for facebook.
My 'argument', as you call it, was a straightforward extension of your comment about computers only being capable of "acting like" they feel pain.

How would you show that a silicon life-form lacks subjective experience?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/it-business/on...
My gut feeling -- without delving into the numbers -- is that this is a sensible valuation based on future earnings. Zygna are in a similar financial position to a casino. They make money based on addiction and those sorts of money flows are relatively predictable into the future.

Their major problem is that Facebook is an uneasy partner. Zygna make far more per-user than Facebook do and if they could, FB would almost certainly cut them out tomorrow.
Reddit has about 6 months before the digg spammers, and digtards turn reddit into a bruh-wasteland.

This is not good news at all. Is anyone building a digg/reddt alternative?
That's a studio, not a 1bdr.
My guess is the headphones cost $20 to produce. The $350 price tag covers R&D.
Morphic for JavaScript
The virtuous circle of startups that has occured in the Valley has yet to happen in Canada. The virtuous circle being Startups that make it big or have large exits, helping bring money to more up and coming startups. There are no Kevin Rose's that have startups ( arguably successful ) that are now funding other startups.
In programming most of the variance in ability is explained by intelligence and not effort. You can take, for example, some non-CS student, teach them programming by saying "look, here's how you do it", and if they're the right student, they'll instantly be better than 90% of CS students. (And if they're not, they won't be. Oh well.) A lot of nerdlingtons who "know" programming and argue about Java going into their freshman year end up doing poorly.

So I would recommend taking it easy. It makes sense to do what you're interested in, and much of that is not night programming, then so be it.
A few disconnected thoughts:

* They own the business, not you. If you owned a part then you would be able to make decisions like spending resources on improving the codebase. In the end, it is up to them to run it, not you.

* Businesses come and go, relationships stay. If you think the guy is a good boss stay in touch; even if your notice causes a lot of bad emotions and someone throws a drama fit, just treat it like a temporary thing and it will be -- call them back in two months to see how things are going and they won't even mention it.

* Don't believe that you owe them any sort of extended stay. You can help their new hire transition via email support from your new place. If you agree to stay longer than 2 weeks, they are likely to delay the new hire by that much.
they have more staff / their average revenue per employee is less - and junkies aside, lockin is less with farmville than with facebook
I feel that these results only transform into "politically incorrect truth" when observed through a racist lens. African-Americans also seem to have an aptitude for terrible cancer outcomes, living in food deserts, low school district funding, and higher mortgage interest rates. The Latin American countries that Hispanic-Americans were compared to, and the Sub-Saharan African countries that African-Americans were imagined to have been compared to each seem to have national aptitudes for harsh Western colonialism followed up by dictators installed and supported by Western powers, with all of their wealth filtered through tiny elites and directed back to the West.

I don't have anything against the idea of different concentrations of intelligence distributing amongst different groups of people just like heights or colorations do. The experiment just hasn't been done, and may not be possible. The idea that you could compare the test results of African-Americans and European-Americans and come up with a complete enough set of controls to discover some sort of distribution of intrinsic aptitude is absurd; you have to settle for parental income and educational attainment and ignore the fact that the two groups are facing a radically different environment filled with pervasive beliefs about their potential which are often based on race, and are easily visually distinguishable. For example, you also find correlations between attractiveness or height and intelligence - and similarly, IMO, misguided theorists postulating some sort of Eloi superiority while ignoring any possible effect of the discrimination that unattractive or short people face, even with multiple studies verifying the Pygmalion Effect (the effect that instructor expectations have on student performance) such as:

Pygmalion in the Classroom (Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1968)
http://www.springerlink.com/content/9u01hn7865v7387r/

or

Pygmalion goes to boot camp: Expectancy, leadership, and trainee performance (Eden and Shani, 1982)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WY3-4NNF8B3-D...

Said simply, the cultural environment is simply too messy to jump to conclusions about intrinsic ability distributions about disadvantaged groups, and the temptation has always been irresistible for some to use unsurprising statistics to confirm previously held biases.
I used pleasure and pain as examples of subjective experiences. Hopes and fears are other examples.

If you believe that humanity amounts to more than merely electrical signals and other physical phenomena (ie you're not a reductionist) then I'm surprised it's my side of the argument you're disagreeing with.
You can't reasonably raise kids in a 1 bedroom apartment.