skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this talk of bubble misses the fact that there is real growth happening in the technology sector.

The growth is a combination of many factors, by mostly it seems, the following:

* redistribution of services from a small office, small local market, to a small office but a global market. The models of today, aren't all that dissimilar to what they used to be, just the internet kills the road warrior salesman/support guys, and PayPal pretty much kills the international banking problems too.

* redistribution of premium telecoms based services from traditionally state controlled companies, to smaller, more agile and less restricted companies: this is a LOT of $$$. Look at the services that 5 years ago, people were talking about mCommerce - they are mostly online and ad-funded, app purchase funded (via Apple or Google, not the telcos), and soon to be Facebook credit funded.

* the depressed global market, making a traditional software engineering or marketing/sales job a riskier proposition, reducing relative risk of startups

* a generation of still young investors who have lived through a real boom/bust cycle, and stayed in the game, and understand at least one of the above factors.

Is there a bubble? Only if this growth collapses. I don't see any reason for it to. The economy will start to recover, the markets for apps will stabilise, and there will be some fallout, but don't confuse real growth for unfounded growth.

(What about the Yuri Milner move? Well, knowing two YC 10 W founders, I'd put whatever stupidly small % of his wealth was, of my own wealth into their company ANY day.)
I think is this bigger news than it seems as this enables many other new services to now be built on top of S3.
That would be much of my point in my first post, now wouldn't it?
Recur! To recurse is to curse again! ;)
I'm in the process of converting from Wordpress to Jekyll right now. This announcement made me VERY happy.
From the Ads Preferences page:

"Google does not associate sensitive interest categories with your ads preferences."
That's because the buzzer competition confounds the knowledge competition. It's a shame, really.

But I'm sure IBM is happy.
I was initially curious, thanks to the novelty, but that quickly wore off. There's a cost involved in parsing the chalkboard text that doesn't exist when you're reading computer-generated text. A lot of clicks, too.

At the same time, it's less dull than a standard Word resume template, or something, so maybe you're on the right track.

My suggestion: Tell a more compelling story. You're rattling off a bunch of historical points, which, fine, that's how resumes work, but as long as you're breaking the mold, break the hell out of it. Start with a hook. Start by saying something so wildly compelling I cannot stop clicking until my curiosity is satisfied. Prove your worth by grabbing attention.
In a previous lifetime, I worked on SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs for the PSP and PS3. Designers created levels in Sketchup before the artists prettied them up in Maya and Photoshop.

Looks like Naughty Dog uses a similar workflow and asset pipeline.
To me, singularity is hypothetical nonsense that shows a clear misunderstanding of engineering problems. Computer systems have not become much more sophisticated in the past 40 years, we have just made them bigger. We keep running into the same mathematical and physical limitations that will not suddenly disappear when machines can improve themselves. In fact, even if such a machine was possible it probably would not get much further than a few generations after which the limitations have become orders of magnitude more complicated compared to the sophistication of the machine. (welcome to engineering)
Could you name a few?
This is wonderful, but I would have used less words on the chalkboard as danilocampos points out.

Nice and creative though.
The shadows the tower seem to be casting on the track are pretty convincing, but the reflection of the tower on the floor might indicate that you're right.
Thank you for that link, I hadn't seen that. It sounds kind of funny to read it, though. Essentially, they admit to wanting to support the suit, and they admit to not wanting to appear to be attacking the defendants, and the admit to large sums of money changing hands to "ensure IT interoperability for UNIX migration technology".

Sounds legit. :-)
Just curious, is there a company like LetsLunch in NYC? Are you possibly planning an expansion?
Even were that possible, that doesn't explain the impossible geometry.
I agree that I could care less about all of this stuff, it's the search data that matters. Imagine taking a look at a month of someone's search data, it would be revealing (it might even be revealing to look back over years of your own search history).

But as for the question of forever anonymization I think you have misunderstood:

The data will not be traceable back to a single computer or user. The link between searches is the IP address, and it would be pretty hard to identify a single IP address without the final two octets (ie 255.255.255.255 -> 255.255). It definitely wouldn't be impossible (nothing is), but I would bet it would be within the level of difficulty that many other more privacy-violating things would.

Furthermore, my ISP changes my IP address very frequently (my guess would be about every 48 hours), and even if it was static, I would not have had the same IP for a very long time (moved frequently, etc).

The cookie is the only link between the IP addresses, once you've ambiguated the IP's it's pretty hard to connect the numerous IPs one person would have to people.

The sources you submitted were not very explanatory and have nothing to do with Google, respectively.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/google_to_anony/
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I like what danilocomaps said. I would also add, put your e-mail address and phone number at the bottom of every chalkboard. No sense alienating someone who likes it but is too busy to get to the end.
Thanks for the tip. I will throw it in the comments.
i cannot read it. apparently you need a facebook account to see it.
Best performance can only be had on Windows. Firefox 4 can only accelerate so much on the Mac platform. Firefox 4 and IE9 on windows will be significantly better.
Yes, s3 buckets let you specify a bucket for logging and they include things you'd expect like IP address, referrer: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Server...
s3 has provided access logs for a long time.

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Server...
No, I think you're not granting enough charity to what I'm saying.

1. The incompleteness theorems basically say, "if you have a logical system that includes Peano arithmetic, even if the theory is consistent, it will be an incomplete system." Also, "if you're trying to show that said system is consistent within the system, then you have an inconsistent system." These statements drop the Hilbert program to a dead halt.

2. I'm not talking about a perfect theorem proving system. However, what I _am_ saying is that you still need humans to verify the results - we do have automatic theorem provers already, but we still need to make sure that the steps are logical. Not only that, but the theorem needs to connote something useful. Also, we tend to use axioms that we can't say are consistent within the system (for instance, the axiom of choice; yet, mathematicians use it like candy in order to show useful results in analysis, and weird, unintuitive results in topology [slicing a sphere and producing two spheres with the same volume.]) I understand that the article is saying, "yes, such a proof produced by a computer still needs to be independently verified." To be honest, I think a system that could make mistakes and whatnot is not necessarily what people would want to see - reason being that mathematicians probably have not much trouble trying to figure out the larger details and overall plan of attack.

3. The reason why I'm doubtful that we'd ever see such an AI for proving math statements is because the entire enterprise is still very much a creative one - you not only have to generate the logical forms somehow, but also figure out whether it gets you closer to your goal or not. I suppose you could have some sort of heuristic that could show that a generated theorem or lemma could in fact get you closer to your goal, but my god, math is filled with so many potholes and garden paths that could lead one astray.

Don't get me wrong, it'd be awesome to see such a system - however, I'm very doubtful that such a system could ever be created, and if it is created, that it'd be actually useful to practicing mathematicians.
Very cool. I want to hear more about how you would configure/convince Moveable Type (or WordPress) to put all the static files on s3. Maybe the various plugins that did this kind of caching will now start to explicitly support s3 as the backend hosting for the static html files.
Very impressive credentials, well put together. I think it helps to see your smiling face, in a subconscious level. I have to ask, how did you get from 0 to 250,000 unique monthly visitors per month for linfo?
The other data stored with your searches could be way easier to track you from than your IP address: http://panopticlick.eff.org/

It would (theoretically) be easy to determine which searches are all by the same person using data like that, and then you just have to find one of those searches that reveals their identity.
Better link (high quality version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2xnl6LwJE
Not to be nit-picky, but do you really mean 0.03 cents, or 0.03 dollars on the Slingshot Labs slide?
Willingness to do anything is a good way to ensure you’ll do nothing
I like it. Visually interesting. It also helps that you know how to write a resume (use numbers, focus on results) and that you have some real accomplishments to talk about.
Yep. Just wait until Dave Winer gets going with this :)
email me and I can talk about it
Why do you assume he can only answer one question at a time?
Warn HN: You have 4 months to prepare.
Last time gas was this high (on the way up), it was February of 2008. Then it attained its record high 4 months later, and then the global economy soon collapsed after that.

Will it be different this time? Perhaps. However, US, China, EU, and Japan has engaged in massive money printing this time around, and those money are for sure chasing scarce goods/creating speculations.

Second dip in global recession is coming, and the key moments in the next few months to watch will be:

- How middle east government handles democratic protests currently in Libya, Bahrain, Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan and Yemen

- Impending US government shutdown in March due to budget crisis

- Ireland election in March. Possibility of election of a party that will default its debt. Other EU countries might follow suit.

- Skyrocketing food prices in China and India.

Recommendations are 6 months of savings and cut down on debts.
I think this is pretty solid on advice. At first I thought "wait, where does he want me to put my mouse and what am I supposed to be reading?" Still, better than a word doc by a wide margin.

I appreciate that you are trying to be statistics driven and creative at the same time. Keep it up
I have to log in to some arbitrary thing to know who you are. Why?
Bah. It's still a sock puppet. Calling it a persona just makes it sound reputable.
Is "shakeshake" a sockpuppet?

(For context: The above comment was originally authored by "shakeshake",

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shakeshake )

This, uh, wouldn't happen to be the secret to your social media success, would it?
You are correct, it uses Mono.

I am a little behind the times these days (used debian/ubuntu for a few years of laptop use), but this article seems to have a number of links to the issues, which date back to April 2009.

http://techrights.org/2009/10/22/disinformation-about-banshe...

Too bad Amarok is KDE and not Gnome, it is such a better music player and doesn't carry the MS/Novell stigma (just QT/KDE).
The author states, "Javascript array lookups are not particularly fast, so applying a filter to a large canvas can be painfully slow."

I would be interested to see what using typed arrays does to performance: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_typed_arrays
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Telling a more compelling story is definitely a big part of it and another thing to consider is doing something simlar, but not on Facebook. If you can control the surroundings and the interaction mechanism, you can create a much better experience (hopefully with fewer clicks/hopping around).

Being unique and visual is a good way to get "noticed", but you have to weigh that very carefully against being overly taxing on the reader. In this case, the amount of increased interest is not worth the effort it takes to get through it.

Lose Facebook, tell a story, and make me care.
Anyone noticed drop in quality for AwesomenessReminders?
As a customer I've noticed fewer calls--no longer every day. Some times I'll get the call but no one is talking.

Sorry HN, I can't think of a different venue to ask this question.
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negatory, I share a laptop occasionally and there were different names logged into Firefox v Chrome.

Also HN killed the link the first time.
It says "You have opted out of Google's interest-based advertising. No interest categories are associated with your browser." Sounds good to me.
Looking at the sides of the channel you can see that they get lower towards the "top". I can see how the channel is flat on the floor and that the supporting vertical struts are simply cut to the correct height for the camera's perspective. I'm at a complete loss as to how the water drops onto the wheel though.
There is one key difference. Physical goods.

The logistical challenges of warehousing and shipping physical goods reliably, quickly and with the added complexity of the fact that every day you are dealing with around 100 brand new SKUs that will only be sold for that day... are significantly higher than delivering a virtual coupon to a customer via email. Significantly.

That is why there are many, many Groupon wannabes, and decidedly fewer Gilt wannabes.
I, for one, always install Banshee and make it my default music player. Rhythmbox is not bad lately, but it was way behind Banshee in features and polish.

FWIW, the second thing I do on Banshee? I disable Amazon Store...
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In the spirit of sharing, I did have something similar to the Culinary Education Site mocked up for a while. The idea was to combine techniques/instruction with a recipe site in a simple multi-column layout.

Imagine the ingredients and steps on one panel. Clicking on any ingredient or any step would pull in dynamic content onto the right "content panel". This requires that the recipes use standardized naming conventions + measurement units and we would handle this by making a guided recipe builder. The author of the recipe would be able to add in notes that would show up when you click on an ingredient/step.

Why is this any different than every recipe site out there? Right now, recipe sites, especially the most visited ones, mainly reproduce plain text and try to build some interactivity by finding words to trigger links against like "carrot". Even when you have more information, the sites are designed to open up new windows so you end up having 20 windows open by the time you finish the recipe. In a "twitter-like" layout, you will NEVER leave the recipe page. The ingredients and steps are always visible and all content loads into the content pane.

The types of content would include vetted UGC videos, photos/illustrations, or helpful tips like "shortcuts" or "substitutions". Of course, this is also where users comments would show up. This is where I really had the idea to try and do this.. I was on a recipe site and a popular recipe had over 200 comments.. MOST of the comments related to specific ingredients or steps but they were organized chronologically which is absolutely NOT logical at all. I asked myself why the comments weren't attached to specific ingredients/instructions and thus this idea.

I'm sure someone here will tell me it's been done, so please share any links if it has because I couldn't fine any that did it well enough to satisfy what I had in mind.
I use Google on a daily basis and I'm always logged in. Still, "No interest categories are associated with your ads preferences so far"...

Maybe it's because of adblock+?
> Bad candidates are more likely to laid off,

I've heard people say that, but they were all management and PMs who struck me as incompetent. Do you have any evidence to support your assertion?
Wait, but they weren't identified, right? (I don't know of the blog, so I'm just going on what bugsy says above.) How should they have the right to fire her?
Apple to use 60 percent of world touchscreen supply in 2011
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As someone who works for one of the bootstrapped startups in the area, I wanted to let you know that your company would be missing a huge opportunity if you passed this up. That is if you live in the area. :-)
Sorry, I don't understand your message. What's going to happen in 4 months?
Someone please fix 3d software. Max is 15 years old and Maya is close to that. Any new 3d software that makes things simpler and faster like Sketchup is a major improvement. I'm a 3d artist at a video game company and using Max feels like I'm in a wrestling match. I have to beat through Max's buggy tools and antique UI to make it do what I want.
Ironic that you express this viewpoint here - online, in a small community with extremely high signal-to-noise, where sockpuppetry could easily be discovered.

The people who care about quality conversation will find places like this - and the rest of the people never mattered anyway.
Google finance wrongly shows the dow up 91.5 points
http://finance.yahoo.com/
Ubuntu One is also the name of the Ubuntu music store (which is a branded version of 7digital.com, a European competitor to AmazonMP3 and iTunes).
I'm tempted to apply, but I don't need the office space part, and I can't be there all day anyway because of my $DAYJOB. But the advice from successful founders part could be beneficial. But then again, successful people are - in my experience - surprisingly willing to meet and talk with you one on one if you ask nicely, excepting "celebrity" types who just don't have time to deal with all the people wanting access to them.

Plus my "team" is still just me at the moment, which isn't very impressive. But if the right things were to happen by March 11, I might just give it a shot anyway.
I reckon if you can afford to do this, you can afford to buy one phone per puppet.
Jersey Shore Season 3 episode 8
Jersey Shore Season 3 episode 7 is the last appearance of Sammi as a roommate at the Jersey Shore Season 3 this is. Just to recall the events of Sammi and Ronni, where the Jersey Shore Season 3 weeks yesterday after the fight, the girls along with Sammi went out to release tension. Precisely this is what triggered the anger Ronni
Despite how it looks the yellow paddle wheel is not actually at the start of the track. The rectangular box at the start is not connected to the actual start of the track. It's far away from it, and it holds the yellow wheel and a bucket to catch water.

Next, ignore the beams, and focus only on the water track. Despite looking like it's climbing up, it's actually totally flat (i.e. you could make it from one sheet of wood). But tilted slightly so water flows from the start to the end.

Additionally the entire structure is not actually sitting on the garage floor, but rather is high up in the air, and the camera angle obscures this.

Hidden under the structure is a pump and an outlet at the true start of the track.

He pours water into the catch basin at the end of the track, and that same moment someone else starts the pump. If you watch closely you can see how it looks like the water he pours is being "swallowed", and does not actually flow down the track.

The water from the pump flows down the track, and out the spigot over the wheel and into the bucket.

Next you place beams carefully cut at angles to make them look like they are holding the track - but actually they are open on top.

But this is a pretty amazing piece of work.
It's not meaningless - just a lot more fragile. Clearly anonymous speech isn't as trusted as non-anonymous speech, but there is a tradeoff that leaves anonymity very valuable in many situations.
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Trapped on a bus with other geeks building a startup
This is a powerpoint presentation written in chalk. No thanks.
Unfortunately, the "explanation" feature is not built into the sockpuppet software yet, it is still in alpha, but I am sure in a 6-9 month period you will be able to get some kind of vague generic explanation.
Well, the technical leaps have tapered in the past few years, so it's finally starting to make more sense.
How much is GeoCities worth now?

What about MySpace?
3 cents would be $7500 for 250,000 people. That seems like a lot to pay for getting visitors to a free site, so I'm guessing he really did mean .03 cents, or .0003 dollars.
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Another thing worth considering is that while Amazon offers an official client for Linux systems, it is very difficult to install unless you have a 32-bit system for some reason.
There aren't 20 thousand ways you can monetize a blog network besides ads (which blog owners will hate), themes (which I doubt most people will pay for), and, well I do not know another way.

Now what they have created with this group feature is a way for groups to easily communicate and stay in touch.

This allows teams to stay in touch without the need to have a wiki, a private wordpress install or any other solutions which just do not work.

In my opinion, this is more powerful than Yammer and the likes for the very simple reason that Posterous Groups does not DEMAND web workers (who are already busy with work) to change their behavior to update everyone and stay updated. It all happens from everyone's favorite application, email.

So I think Posterous will gradually realize the little tool which now accounts for 20% of new sign ups is something companies will gladly pay for.

And guess what? When a new employee shows up, they already have a knowledge base to learn from.

I think Posterous is gonna end up going Enterprise.
Photo the tabloids are about to publish:
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4d5c75d8cadcbbc41b1...

But then how is he meeting President Obama tomorrow?
It utilizes social media and is interactive, while still providing core information to the reader. It definitely catches my attention.
actually, they're not that bad for gilt/hautelook etc. if you compare them with other online retailers. Most of the flash sales sites use some sort of dropshipping (brand / manufacturer ships goods to gilt/hautelook and they ship to customer after sale is over) -- contrast this with other retailers where a lot of them stock inventory before hand.
I believe it does.

How? Let's say the change you want to see is a thoughtful, reasoning approach to communication. Your actions are posting on this website, or some like-minded friend's communication channels.

Your actions result in a thoughtful community that has spent a lot of time analyzing itself- which means people know each other and have meaningful interactions.

Now, when a jerk tries to artificially influence the group, he isn't playing the same game, because your personal actions have created a buffer to it.
This statement actually comes from Gandhi's grandson Arun and only goes back to 2001.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

http://www.google.com/search?q=be+the+change+we+wish+to+see+...

(If anyone can find more, speak up - I only googled for a minute.)
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