skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember dealing with this in 1998 or so, at a company located just outside Philadelphia.

The new sales director, and the marketing director, were from SV and made it clear they were in a backwater - they may as well have told us that traveling through hyperspace wasn't like dusting crops.
This works well for women, not so well for men.

For men, typically making a visible effort will cause your spouse to perceive you as weak and low value. This will only make things worse.
I think the title could be updated for 2011 - "The Python Paradox is now the Functional Programming Paradox". Scala, Clojure, Haskell, and Erlang - all your points apply equally well to them.
This doesn't actually take into account that the naggee can influence this. As a 12 year old, I remember finally getting so sick of my Dad nagging me to mow the lawn, that I started doing it before he had a chance to.
Now I just need to figure out a good way to pass that hint along to my wife without her inferring that I hate her and don't ever want to speak to her about anything.
Show HN: A neverending stream of Facebook and Twitter
What I'm using bit.ly for is looking at the distribution and response channels in real-time.

So if I post a link on Twitter, and then one on Facebook, and then one on HN? Bit.ly allows me to see which people are coming from where, how quickly, and what percentages of readers are getting any use from the links on the site. All at the same time.

I had already looked at Google (way too slow) and MixPanel (also too slow)

Somebody emailed me with some product -- clicky? Never heard of it before. I guess there are others?

I need to do some more research on what's out there. I had no idea bit.ly bothered people so much. To me it was an easy, free option that gave me cool real-time graphs. Aside from "breaking the internet", whatever that means, what's not to like? Honestly I still don't get it, but I'm happy to find something else.
My problem with self-PR is that it requires a lot of energy and breaks up my workflow, keeping me from being focused on the product. Sure, I could do it myself, but I'd rather not.

The issue then is how much to pay, and when should you pay. I'm not sure, though I'd love to hear from someone's experience.
Other People's Data – An Interview With "Drawn To Scale"
The new features are two weeks from now, not some blind future marketing.
the stuff between the two is pretty important
Declare your love for Free Software
Sometimes they come from fat fingering the downvote button on a cellphone. Such downvotes are usually rectified eventually.
Study: Bad Things Seem Even Worse If People Have to Live Through Them Again
I would totally play Jabberwocky Kart Racing.
Well, this is the interesting part of the story I'd like to hear.

Harj, I wish you the best in selecting people for the program. But, I don't know what the moral of the story is for the rest of us. Be determined? Never give up? That's not quite right... because that's not sufficient. I'm just tired of the heroic founder myth.
There's quite a bit of outcome bias here. For every founder who sticks with bad odds and succeeds there are ten who stick and fail. Who's to say that the decision with the largest reward wasn't giving up and trying to do something else?

Not specifically in Daniel's case, mind you (he was already in YC with a good idea that's also rather easy to implement, so this made sense), but I will argue that it doesn't generally make sense to persevere when everything is against you.
Do the dishes. Buying a dishwasher was one of the best purchases for our relationship.
I strongly disagree. I recently moved out of Austin to pursue my startup in San Francisco. In my first week here I met countless startups, made some REAL connections, sat in a conference room (and got amazing feedback on my product) for hours with a legendary entrepreneur that everyone here has heard of, ate amazing food, etc etc.

I made more forward progress here in one week than I did in the last year in Austin.

The vibe here is insane and people are genuinely willing to help founders who are just starting out. Forget about stretching your money "a bit further" with mom and dad. Get out here ASAP...

BTW, I currently live in SOMA and pay about $900/month to live with 2 really cool guys who work at startups.
demetris, that's exactly what we improved with a recent algorithm change: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-change-launched/ . As you point out, that was a more straightforward change, and that's why we were able to launch that one first.

That said, if you wanted to share some examples where you're seeing copies rank higher than originals I'm happy to pass that on to the right folks. In fact, some of the right folks are already on this thread. :)
A few simple requests for developers who make Twitter clients
How did you prefill my Facebook information before I authorized with Facebook?
The term "big" doesn't really mean anything. The US has a higher population density. Per person served, it would be cheaper to cover the US than the Nordic countries.
I'd rather have a mostly-good feature than no feature at all, or no comparable feature for the next year or two.
You sound young and/or divorced. No amount of effort will make up for a bad match.
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This reminds me a lot of the processor clock speed arms race that desktop computing went through a few years ago. Mobile devices have the added constraints of heat dissipation and battery life. I'd love to have a quad-core 2.5ghz phone to develop games for but if I can't expect users to have more than 5 minutes of battery life then what's the point?
Secrets of Powerful Presenters
"It would be a good thing to provoke Apple into actually suing someone for violating "their" UI controls"

When HTC started selling Android smartphones, I think Apple considered that provocation. So they sued HTC. [0]

Apple has sued other cell phone manufacturers as well, but those are all countersuits [1] -- AFAIK, the HTC lawsuit is the first in which Apple went on the offensive.

[0] http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/06/apple-su...

[1] http://www.patentlyapple.com/.a/6a0120a5580826970c0134889b01...
The History and Origin Rock and Roll : Music Blogs and Videos
Best Buy allegedly swipes methodology for product buy-back program
Whoa - that's an interesting take on DRM! Nowadays an industrial CT scanning usually gets past that - not sure what Mass Effect claims to use ;-)
i like this idea; it's one of the main reasons i check out places like HN and Reddit on a regular basis: to see what other people are talking about. it's good that you've already got a "pause" button, but maybe "faster" and "slower" buttons would be good too; as is, it moves a little too fast for me to keep up with.
Or just "Average price of those who paid: $5.87"
A Legal Manual for an Apocalyptic New York
A "web netizen" is intelligent. Google - as you're using the term - is a sophisticated piece of software that leverages much of what we know about AI, but it is not actually intelligent. The determination you're making that something is spam and not worth your time may be simple for you to make, but it's hard to get software to consistently make the same determination.
Does anyone know of a concise way to learn Clojure or Scala? I'd like to learn one of these languages, but I don't want to wade through interminable books to do it. Rather, I'd prefer it if there were a place where I could quickly pick up some basics and get a few ideas/exercises I could work on to discover the language on my own, a bit like "Learn Python in 10 Minutes" (http://www.korokithakis.net/tutorials/python).
"If you are looking for a technical cofounder you should stop searching and learn to code."

Maybe you should, maybe you shouldn't. I just can't get my head around thinking otherwise. Can it work your way? Yup. Can it work other ways? Yup. All over-generalized advice works some of the time, that's why it exists in the first place. It probably even works most of the time. My problem isn't with the advice's hit rate--nothing is perfect--it's with the logic behind it.

"I keep seeing big name firms repping pre-funded startups, which is a death wish in my opinion."

If a big name firm is working for a startup before it's funded I'd bet a lot of money that they're doing it for stock or deferred comp. That's almost never cash. Whether that's a good deal depends on the firm, the startup, the deal, etc, but no agency is getting $20k/month out of a startup that hasn't raised anymore unless it's very well self-funded.

"Companies and PR firms just throw up garbage press releases a lot of the times and this could be some valuable feedback for them."

Lots of agencies suck at this is an example of it. No disagreement here. And I don't think advice on PR from a journalist is necessarily bad, but I believe not enough scrutiny is directed at the source. To be fair, I say the same thing about fundraising advice from VC's. Not a bad thing, just silly to take it on face value.
I posted a link to the book the WSJ article is based on earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218045
I didn't. Facebook did. The register plugin is a Facebook plugin and it pre-fills your data if you are logged in to FB.

You can clear up the form if you don't want to carry over your FB credentials. There is a little cross on the right to where your name is filled - click that and your fb credentials will be cleared.
No video or audio clues in this tournament.
You should show users some examples. Don't make me sign up on your site just to see what it's about.
The rule of thumb holds: if somebody calls you up and threatens to sue you, they aren't going to sue you.
Many of these are in W|A already without the need for inputting the full formula; just specify various levels of 'heart curve':

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fifth+heart+curve

...and the 3D surface is there too:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=heart+surface
it seem ridiculous to tell married people they should have sex (with each other)

lmao on the (with each other) emphasis :)
I would like to know more about the 4 people that voted this comment up from zero.
To attempt to prevent people gaming/spaming the system
First thing I liked by Noam Chomsky. But I guess I shouldn't have read his political writings.
And the text itself: http://www.nycourts.gov/whatsnew/pdf/PublicHealthLegalManual...
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Don't forget to do the minimum that's expected at least. eg cleaning up after oneself. Putting dishes in the sink != cleaning up. Especially if they have time to do it.
I like the site. It looks like a more complete version of 3words.me
Thanks Matt.

Will you be offering a Firefox extension?
This kind of analysis is why I read HN. Thanks for doing the legwork jfager!
What Stupid Things Do Smart People Do?
eHow. They appear to be connected with a spambot that's attacking random wikis. They might not be part of it, but even if not, I won't feel too bad about blocking them.
What Does Bias Look Like?
Perhaps it's just that, you know, nowadays they don't have to feel like prostitutes?

Because I sure would if my spouse kept buying me things just so I'd put out.
The ONLY purpose of a 3D printer is to produce durable goods.

Who says durable? The perfect printer is far away, but once you have one, you can get rid of a dishwasher and washing machine; you would just feed your printer the dirty stuff, and print whatever you need at the moment.

Even better, you could feed your furniture to your printer to make a different set of furniture for a party, or turn your car into a convertible for a week.

We will have to solve the energy problem, first, though.
Don't miss the link at the bottom. Yahoo! and Facebook will present the next gen Hadoop this coming Wednesday (Feb 16):
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I think that's a good longer-term option. We wanted to get the Chrome extension launched to start getting data though.
Thanks a lot for your response. I was really looking for honest criticism.

I realize they aren't technically valuable websites. I tried to create them to appeal to users subconsciously. The reason I asked the question is that I feel like I need to know that I can get enough momentum with a project to vindicate taking the startup plunge. I don't want to spend a year on a beautiful product to not have it go anywhere.

And thank god for EC2. Last month's bill for 4 servers: $6
Experiences with Hub: Bay Area?
Does anyone have experience with this place? It has a location in SOMA and is sort of a shared work-space. I was thinking about signing up to get some networking in SF. Trying to find other posts about it is like searching for a needle in a haystack; Their name is horribly ambiguous.
This is step 1. You're asking about step 5. They'll get there, but they have to go through step 1 first.
here is one - http://wordify.me/u/wordifyme
I recommend The Red Queen if you want to start learning about this. The short answer: men largely choose mates based on looks; women choose based more on social status. Signalling low social status reduces male attractiveness; signalling high social status raises it.

n = 1, but this has worked for me. Deliberately act like you can take it or leave it, and you're unlikely to be left. (And note that women initiate the majority of breakups and divorces, so you're not risking much if you risk a breakup.)
I'm flattered.
"Personally I would love to see the Wall Streeters vanish and be replaced by tech companies doing cool, interesting stuff. But I know it won't happen."

That could be the problem with NYC startup scene. You simply _cannot_ get the absolute best and brightest "rock star" developers because they sucked into blackrock, D.E. Shaw, or some such doing rack room quant algorithms. You can't compete with what may as well be a blank check and insane bonuses.

You _might_ get lucky and snag the starry eyed idealist fresh out of college, but then again, the "rock stars" in that crop might go start their own thing, or, worse, hear the siren song of Sand Hill Rd. (or Stanford Grad program, which is eventually the same thing).
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Thanks, but it is kinda half baked(still writing code) and being complete often means user misses the use case(boggled with features).

I am doing a small comics to convey the site and reducing the number of bullets on landing page.
Microsoft-Nokia Love Fest Gets Mixed Reviews
As long as mowing the lawn was +/- the only thing he was nagging you about, I could see how that could work.
You're right. Looks like IBM is doing pretty well.
50% after the divorce?
thanks for your feedback joh6nn. that's a good idea.
You mean I never ever again need to see a search result pointing to experts-exchange?! This is the best gift ever! And it's not even my birthday.
I'm really glad this extension exists.

However, if it is built in to the general results, could you also add a metric to Webmaster Tools showing the frequency with which your domain is reported. It would also be good if the blocking could have timeout period so that sites can be given a chance to improve their behavior, rather than just deleting that domain forever.
I think users are more savvy about recognizing spam/low-quality/content farm sites than a few years ago. At least some of the previous features also had unfortunate UI issues, e.g. the default was to block a single url for that single query.
"Making an effort" might encourage people to talk more during the worst times (like right after work).
I didn't recognize this advice as being gender-specific.
Find a way to infect her friend with this info/site.
They'll be more likely to influence her than you.
It does matter, culture, infrastructure, proximity to events/meetups etc. Walk to see customers, competitors, etc. Can't go to a bar without ending up debating which key value store to use for high throughput write operations, or which python library is better for imap attachment handling, or which ruby gem works the best for hooking up facet search to your app.

Add to that, its also just really beautiful here and we don't spend half the year buried under snow or sweltering in heat. And of course SF women are the best in the country :)
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actually, i know several people who still use both broadcast TV and radio.

a major issue that many people seem to miss is that all communication necessarily self-selects for people who can receive it. today, in what many people consider to be the "internet-age", those of us who use the internet tend to forget about those who do not (or simply miss them, if we do remember). and the people who don't tend to be those who are either disabled (because it is difficult for them to make use of the tech), or those who can't afford it.

while i'll definitely agree that we need to take another look at how we're allocating the spectrum, let's not forget as we do so that there are people who depend heavily on tech that is only obsolete for us personally, not for the world as a whole.
Is getting a lot of traffic really a realistic goal with a landing page?

I mean, I'm sure there are exceptions. But this seems like a strange thing to even care about.
It repeats... So, I guess it's not really a "stream". I know this because I sat and looked at it for a bit, so it must have some appeal... And I'll admit I am a people watching voyeur.
Geo Spatial Search Engine
"The thing is, it seems there are examples of open source companies or developers folding when presented with the "whiff" of a patent suit."

Well, carry the logic out a bit further. $COMPANY threatens $TARGET vaguely with a patent lawsuit. There's two ways this can go: 1. $TARGET has patents important to $COMPANY 2. $TARGET does not. The post is about case 1. This has little relevance to case 2. The next step after threatening the open source developer is to file a suit, and even the slightest legal interaction will drain a disproportionate amount of time from an individual.
No, they are not.

> We finally have a timeframe for the copy-and-paste update—it will arrive in the first two weeks of March—and we also got a first glimpse at a major update due in the second half of this year.
The problem is, most open-source developers don't have their own patent arsenal.
Last week Greplin gave all(?) of it's beta testers a free upgrade to the premium tier of service. That was a nice touch even though I have not yet found a use for their product.
iOS actually supports sending text messages to multiple people, and that "group" is maintained in the SMS app for later broadcasts.

However, when you receive an incoming text message you don't know whether it was coming to just you or CC a hundred other numbers, so there is no way to Reply All.
How to Be Comfortable with Computer Dating (1969)
People did that to Einstein all the time, claiming that he followed one religion or God or another, and it actually did piss him off.
Well, I can't agree, I thought it was clever and witty and I'm hanging on to the 15 year old inside me that still thinks this is pretty funny.
I know. I often fear a nightmarish reality in which women spend minutes or even hours per day carefully disguising natural facial features, odors, and hair--or even exercising at a gym--just so they can manipulate men into wanting to be with them. I pity the guys who get suckered into preferring women who engage in such behaviors. It's almost as bad as men altering their behavior to be more attractive to women.

Empirically, prior girlfriends have been unimpressed with my slavish devotion to their every-moment's well-being. My current girlfriend is much more devoted, and much more enthusiastic.

I am fairly overt about this. I told her to read The Red Queen after our first date. And I don't lie about this. But when I'm asking myself what's better for the relationship, and what's going to make the person I'm with happier, I have to take into account that my behavior affects her happiness indirectly, too. You'd have to be a real jerk to make her date a nebbish.
Previously discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831817
IBM wants to sell the stuff that's Watson's based on to companies. Companies will get their own 'answer engine'. I guess they think that licenses will make them more money than ad-money for search engines. Which could well be true in this case. Watson's insane knowledge still won't give me the cat pictures I want.
Your dates kept appearing as "NaN Feb" for me, on your "About" wordify page (which was the only example I could find without registering/signing in). Minor bug, just a heads up :)
I still don't get it? you tied three words to an email account? for what? Where does it go? What's the use case?
I always glance at the link before clicking it because I like to see where it goes so I prefer direct links. However, I'm not particularly worried about bit.ly links.
I wouldn't stop there.

In my experience, people who nag believe themselves to be "making an effort". Indeed, they think they're doing the right thing.

Willingness to put in the effort is a good first start, but it's not enough. Many people clearly don't understand why certain things do or don't work. And there's as much to be learned from study and experience in the right way to work at a relationship as there is in anything else.
Just watch Hulu on low hd settings. Hulu is the worst by far, but megavideo tends to work pretty well.
They may not do it now, but they used to be as bad as Associated Content.
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Other teenagers may rebel and refuse to do it. YMMV, and the "naggees", teens or not, definitely react in different ways.
yeah, there is a little caching going on.
Thanks for the heads up. Looking into it.
You're right, women DON'T have to feel like prostitutes because the options for women have greatly expanded. We no longer have to be confined to the "traditional" roles that encourage us to be passive doormats content to be totally dependent on our spouses.

My point, anyway, is that the men in the WSJ article cheering this drivel on are often the same guys who don't want to assume the traditional provider role for men. They don't want a wife, they want a maid that "puts out".
In regards to equating being overweight and being irresponsible, I think you're right. I just had never seen it that way, and hopefully this can start a paradigm shift for me.

What this implies is that overeating/under-exercising should be taboo just like smoking cigarettes. These things aren't considered taboo by some people, but maybe that's the reason people aren't healthier.
This is a patent application NOT a granted patent, and I haven't yet found any reason why it would ever be granted a patent.
> Using "esoteric" languages can also be a good long-term hiring strategy.

Actually, it's a good short term hiring strategy but a terrible long term strategy. Most of these languages remain a niche (Ruby, Scala, Clojure, etc...) and hiring more than a couple of people that know how to use them turns out to be a very, very tough challenge.

I have seen several companies try that and then revert back to Java just because they couldn't staff up to meet the demand.

Overall, color me still extremely skeptical of Paul Graham's original argument (which was that Lisp gave his company an advantage over the competition). Interestingly, ViaWeb was quickly switched back to a more mainstream language shortly after PG sold out. Deduce from that what you will.
For Scala you could check First Steps to Scala(http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html).

For Clojure you have very nice video introductions by Rich Hickey on blip.tv.
But Uber doesn't seem to provide that? You can't get any taxi with them, you get a car from their fleet. So they operate exactly like my preferred taxi company?

Or have I misunderstood their service?