skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hi there,
a couple tips/ideas
- almost all brokers are not investors, they get a commission when they sell you investment products - keep that in mind.
- probably invest 80% in stuff that retains value/grows steadily and 20% in high risk/return stuff.
- real estate is probably a good investment now. I would aim for places where a large amount of cash and ability to close quickly gives you a pricing advantage (ie vs a lot of small deals where other people bid up the price)
- within real estate, restaurants are poor credit risks (being hit driven), commercial real estate is down right now, and residential is down except in select areas like SF.
- residential real estate is counter cyclical, ie in a boom, its bid up, in a bust, people turn to renting, so it is a solid investment (assuming the surround location is a stable economy)
- US stock market in aggregate is going to be flat, due to a structural issues.
- areas of growth include tech, so buy what you know or emerging markets, so buy a multinational with solid exposure there.
- other possibilities include ETFs (like mutual funds) are more liquid, but be careful not all ETFs follow the intended basket of investments that closely.

good luck,
max, mba
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Indeed we did. Although I wasn't involved in the negotiations proper I can say from working with Halvar (I'm the BinDiff lead) that google is a tough bargainer... Intense indeed ;-)
Node is really good, until it's not.

I've actually spent a lot of time with Node since the company I work for was an early adopter. This all based on opinion but, my general feeling about Node is that the underlying concept is great but, Javascript is an awful language to do it all in. The lack of real support for continuations (and/or coroutines) means there is no escape from the callback hell and tracking down errors can be a real nightmare. Ultimately for simple projects Node works fine but reach a point where your application becomes at all complex and things can get hairy real fast (of course this statement could be made about client side Javascript as well).

I say this not to discourage anyone from trying Node because for many projects Node may be just what you need but, there are some downsides one should probably keep in mind.
I don't understand what your saying. What if JavaScript devs use HTML5 tools to purposely create poor experience as witnessed in Flash apps?

Then their site doesn't get return visitors and starts dying, just like Flash is.
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I'm not sure. Perhaps an HN admin thinks it's spam?
A very cool idea, but this could get disorganized really quickly.

It looks like someone manually filters ideas before they are posted on the site, which can become extremely cumbersome if you get thousands of ideas a day.

How does one automate clumping similar ideas and filtering spam?
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Important context: Stallman's setup and his work process don't involve being online very often. He thinks and writes emails: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071558

"I spend most of my time using Emacs. I run it on a text console, so that I don't have to worry about accidentally touching the mouse-pad and moving the pointer, which would be a nuisance. I read and send mail with Emacs (mail is what I do most of the time).

...

Most of the time I do not have an Internet connection. Once or twice or maybe three times a day I connect and transfer mail in and out. Before sending mail, I always review and revise the outgoing messages. That gives me a chance to catch mistakes and faux pas."
Works!! Can't thank you enough for this. :)
And what an ugly web site that he has.

I remember reading somewhere that he can't type anymore (or barely write) because of some problems with his hand. That's why he charges for autographs too...
The talk about node.js over the last few months caused me to buy an Erlang book this week. In at least one case, you're onto something.
What's needed is a browser extension that blocks the facebook comments iframe from reading my facebook session. I currently block their various tracking widgets using the widget block extension, which prevents them from ever being loaded, as they are worthless. But this way I won't ever be able to see the facebook comments at all, which will be aggravating if they become as common as disqus for example. Regrettably that isn't unlikely.

So we need a way of appearing to not have a facebook session when displaying the facebook comments widget on other sites, but not interfering with facebook proper.
Microsoft's 'other' tablet operating system: Windows Embedded Compact 7
Yes I saw that announcement. Our iPhone app also uses TCP, the goal is to to switch SMS traffic to TCP traffic over time.
There are no exceptions to Postel's Law : http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/08/postels-law
Microsoft's Rahul Sood says every PC industry exec should use a MacBook
I think what and how are the same thing.

I'm really surprised by this statement, and I hope you will expand on it. I think the example of relational databases and SQL (which is very close to the example in the blog post) demonstrate conclusively that there are many case where huge gains are attained (in development time, maintenance, flexibility, ...) by building systems that allow a question to be answered by specifying "what" instead of "how".

Now I suppose you could argue that writing a SQL statement doesn't really specify "what"; it still specifies a "how", it's just that the "how" includes things like "let the RDBMS decide what indexes to use to answer this query, what order to access tables, whether to get data from disk or in memory, etc". But then I would ask what you propose as an alternative to the what/how distinction ... because there very clearly is a difference between SQL and hand-crafted for loops.
And? RMS is not a web designer. He has more important things to do.
So when will Dotcloud be hiring?
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I'd argue it's still true, but to a lesser degree. In addition to 1seg, I think FeliCa's a big one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa
RFC 5789 - PATCH Method for HTTP
For friends and family? I do any favor they ask for.

I am not so self-righteous that I refuse my friends/family favors.
That sort of help-me-find should be pretty easily possible, it just hasn't been done yet. I'd assume it will come out eventually.

What this solves is that buying shoes online is a total crap-shoot unless you're buying something you've already tried on. It's even worse than buying pants, where waists can vary by several inches off their stated inches. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/pants-size-chart-0...
I don't know, he was pretty good at pretending to be a Russian boxer.

Oh, you mean acting.
That's not fair, he has been in tons of bad movies!
probably not, but this will save him the effort when he inevitably interviews him :)
I only think those work because they are dripping in irony. Would his target market respond to those postings if they were sincere long form marketing.
I would love to use this but these are some serious issues:

1) All packages should have SSL. I don't do business with companies that think security is an optional feature.

2) Single sign-on should be available for all packages. I am not interested in a walled garden approach for my app's support.

3) I don't care about white labeling, but a custom design is extremely important to me. Support is too important for our growth to just throw our brand out the window. Any support system needs to be contained in my website's frame.

That said the app looks really nice. A demo would go a long way to giving me a sense of the user's experience because as it is I don't know what 1/2 of the features are and how they are accessed.
I've gotten this a couple of times. I wouldn't think it would happen in the valley as much, but I'm from Texas where you really don't see that many female software developers.
In my more expansive moments I've even used 'trip dub' to cut it down to even fewer syllables than letters.
Sounds like he needs a CMS. Out-sourcing maintaining your personal website: so? It's a waste of time when others are willing to do it for you, and you can afford their cost. Editing HTML files to do so: WTF.
I knew he was rarely on the web, and even when he is, he doesn't access it directly. Submitted because I thought the mailing list response was, well, funny.
Do you have a source for that? If true, I am a lucky guy - having received his "Happy hacking" signature six years ago. It's still watching proudly from my blackboard.
From the looks of his site neither are any of his volunteers.
Let’s Draw Back the Curtain
you can shop the deal. if you were close to closing on one, just as well go shop the deal with the competitor. or get a banker to shop the deal for you. one is ridgecrestcap in marin, ca. the managing directors have connections all over silicon valley.

you're so close to exit it would be a shame to leave, its like stopping at mile 20 of a marathon, just stick it out and finish. gl.
Maybe someone should write an email based CMS system.
It seems that much of this consternation about munged URLs (here and in other threads) is about preserving the functionality of the "back" button.

Why do we need a back button?

The DOS and Unix command lines never had a back button. Lotus 1-2-3 and WordStar and Word and Excel never had a back button. Photoshop and GIMP never had a back button. SQL scripts and database servers never had a back button.

Many of these programs do have application-specific implementations of an "undo" function. Perhaps that is the way to go for future software, rather than trying to wedge a universal "back" function into applications that don't really map to that paradigm? What does "back" even mean when the application is a game, for example? Flight Simulator and Ultima and Doom never had back buttons.
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The tricky is to remember that an exact copy of the article can be called pre-published version by the author and nobody can say it isn't.

and if you are very afraid, you can just remove or add one meaningless coma. that should get you covered.

disclaimer: i'm not an IP lawyer. Also I do not subscribe to ancient extortion business models like ACM
Cloud9IDE is based on Ace*

Ace does not yet support code folding I think.

It was discussed as possible feature but not yet implemented as far as I know: http://groups.google.com/group/cloud9-ide/browse_thread/thre...

*an open source project based on the work from the people at Cloud9IDE (ajax.org) and Mozilla (Bespin / SkyWriter
nope, they think it's a voting ring
What fork of Emacs ships with this feature? I hate having to do work too!
Not a comment on the design, but rather just something that always bugs me when I see it:

"Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Richard Stallman"

© 2011 is sufficient.
Free as in freeloader.
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That might explain GNU Hurd's development pace
It's nothing to do with the back button. It's about addressability - being able to link to things. Links are kind of important on the Web.
Pfft, rms can't maintain his own personal hygiene either.
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla To Shove It Up His Ass
IQ is the KSLOC of the psychometrics world.
Talent is worth about 1%. The other 99% is effort.
I'm more bothered by rms, being the face of the GNU project, FSF etc not making an effort to maintain personal grooming and also social skills.
You used it correctly.
Or Goldfinger?! ;-)
I'm not sure if "funny" is really what HN is going for. This feels more appropriate on Reddit. But I digress.
Ask HN: A good guide to learning HTML and CSS?
I hate tech books. I really, really hate them. I think the last tech book I read that didn't piss me off was K&R C. It was short, concise, and taught me something without spending an extra 200 pages telling me why they felt I should learn C.

I'm reading Designing With Web Standards right now, and after 100 pages of arguments, there seems to be no end in site. The other 3 books I bought along with this now appear to be the same thing.

How do I learn HTML and CSS without reading hundreds of pages of bullshit?
"Buying shoes online sucks. Sizing between brands (and sometimes even within brands) is different."

Zappos (who Amazon owns) does show whether shoes fit true to size or whether to size up. Is this really that much better?
Dirty Percent
http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/dirty_percent
Because they are an obvious measure of worth for some people. Shallow, yes, but that's the short of it.
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dammit! and i was hopping to use his flute-playing picture as my own!
Looks like someone hasn't heard of CMSes, for example wordpress.
"Richard sends a bunch of emails every day and someone needs to edit the html files on the site with those updates"

Seriously?? Really, get a wordpress or squarespace account.
[W is] also the only letter whose name doesn’t include the sound it makes.

What about H?
The Nobel prize is not the medal or the gold, it's the honor.

They saved the gold, but the prize did not need saving.
In addition, professionally edited journals frequently have feature/news stories and research highlights, which require staff to select relevant topics and to write and edit the articles. Also, journals can have advertisements for products or for open academic and faculty positions, which require curation and communication with the entities posting the products for sale or jobs for hire. These things require money in the form of paying staff.
I especially agree with point 3: white labeling is not so important. but being able to choose from some designs, or letting me provide my own seems important. And having it say "User Voice" with the logo is either a non-issue, or is a plus for users (who might be familiar with User Voice and appreciate that you're taking user support seriously)
> What are the offsetting factors that allow all these smart kids to pursue what they love despite the anti-intellectualism in the wider culture?

If it's like Australia, it's because when you escape adolescent daycare, you discover at university that there are people as smart as you. Often smarter.

And it's bloody marvellous.
I was thinking primarily of "let it crash" and "message passing". They don't seem particularly tied to the language. I'm not familiar enough with the OTP to comment.
There are limits to what generousity should be, though.
There was a similar Speed Racer episode.
Nothing wrong with the basic design. It's functional, and conveys information....makes a change from rounded corners etc etc.
It's all about the back button in a web-app when addressability doesn't matter. The user doesn't expect to be logged out when they click back out of force of habit.
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As usual, Derek Sivers has a wonderfully relevant essay on this: http://sivers.org/15-years
The other tricky bit is that the perfect fitting shoe has to be a current model that they have already scanned. And hopefully it fit perfectly when it was bought, not when it was worn in.
As someone who (a) has tried most help desk services and (b) owns a company that has a really strong reputation for good customer support, I've come to the following conclusions:

1. No tool/service has every feature we need and we always end up compromising somewhere.

2. I personally think most of them are over-priced, especially for new/small startups.

We used an in-house Rails app for support for a long time (it's open-sourced here: https://github.com/bigfolio/big-help/) and now we use ZenDesk. This tool looks cool but they all sort of lock you in because my support staff doesn't feel like re-writing/pasting FAQs, canned responses, etc.

Overall, I just feel like this is a weird space that has no clear winner. I don't see anything compelling with UserVoice that would get me to switch. I think there's clearly room for a competitor with better pricing though. I almost feel like this is an ideal space for a good open-source project (so firms can customize and deploy) that has a commercial hosting side (ala WordPress).
thanks for pointing that out to me by putting that i sort of ruining my research. Since im trying to prove that all the contributers have fulfilled all the needs discuss in Tick all the apply and that they were contributing to open source to fullish the higher needs
"To be honest, I'm not sure there's any degree where the mere act of receiving it would be more impressive than the above feat."

Because being in the presence of popular people is a major accomplishment, right? Far greater an accomplishment than the defense of any original PhD thesis, right?

I can drive to the Viceroy hotel bar right now and be in the presence of a random A-list celebrity if I so choose. By your logic, that act alone sets me worlds apart from the entire body of original research being done by PhD candidates all over the world.

I will never understand the nature of being starstruck. If I want to shut down my rational faculty, I have a bottle of Glenkinchie at the ready.
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I've had the pleasure... of inviting him to talk at UC Berkeley Linux User Group. He made us change the name of the group to the UC Berkeley GNU/Linux User Group. During dinner, he also likes to stick his hair in the communal food. When I invited him a second time to speak, I avoided him like the plague.
> APPLE SHOULD NOT REQUIRE APPS TO OFFER IN-APP SUBSCRIPTIONS

I really don't buy the relation to the initial offering of apps, but I admittedly think this is one of two big problems with this whole scheme. For one, Apple is not providing an end-to-end solution by hosting the content and cannot really keep track of all the SKUs with their current system. Never mind and SaaS providers not getting hosting out of that 30%. The economics and mechanism of app delivery are different than content delivery.

I think Apple should say that if you provide no link to your purchase / subscribing site, then you don't have to use IAP. In other words, if your app downloads content for your account, but doesn't allow in-app sales or link to out-of-app sales, then all is well.
The story is cool, but not actually possible in real life (there's just not enough ink): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archiv...
solve it on the server/browser. not every application.

1. browser: get /something; referrer /anotherpage

2. server: here's the diff data only

Done.
Was it in one of the more "magazine-style" publications, like ACM Queue or CACM? I believe those have a more active editorial staff, as compared to stuff like ACM Transactions on Graphics, which requires authors to prepare a publication-ready PDF, with no ACM-provided editing or formatting assistance.

My only personal experience with editorial "assistance" is with an IEEE journal, which totally messed up one of my articles in a way I didn't notice until it had gotten published. They had moved the "related work" section to a sidebar inset, and since I'd read that section a million times I just assumed it was the same (in new location) and didn't read it closely again. Turns out they helpfully reorganized some of the references and discussion of them, so it no longer made much sense, and even had newly introduced grammatical errors.
To be honest I think the person he is is part of why the FSF GNU succeeded in some sense, he is a radical and often radicals can further change more quickly than any other kind of person.

That said he is very weird and some part of me thinks he would be annoying to hang around with but he always seem to be at least somewhat polite online.
That's a bummer (and not true). These guys deserve a ton of attention. It was presented at Launch and SuperConf so maybe they're getting some false positive from people that were there?
Way back when I was studying intelligence there were a number of specialties, but there were three broad groups that these specialties seemed to cohere under:

1) Algorithmic intelligence: the layman's usual picture of intellegence around working with concepts, figures, space, so on and so forth

2) Verbal intelligence: working with language and expression, vocabulary, etc

3) Social intelligence: being able to read people and social situations

This was the state of play ~15 years ago and things may have restructured, but it points out that acuity can be in places other than the usual geeky fare. The sales guy that can sell you something you don't want and make you feel good about it is able to read your cues and formulate responses to counter 'incorrect' behaviour.
WordPress allows post by e-mail. http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email

Generally you set it up to access an account by POP. Each time WordPress finds a new item while polling, it will create and publish a new post.
Can you think of any reasons why it is a particularly bad reason? Last year's Conj seemed to work pretty nicely in Durham.
tl;dr

On businesses that can't afford 30%: Too bad, Apple wants to be the middleman

On price matching: Apple won't budge because their competitors (e.g. Amazon) insist on price matching

On the 30% slice itself: Apple is proposing that publishers (et al) will make more money at 70% than they'd make at 95% with someone else's business model

On (anti-)competitiveness: Apple is the only one which allows its competitors to have apps on its devices

Summary: iOS is a closed, controlled console system - more akin to Playstation or Xbox than to Mac OS X or Windows
Don't underestimate the value of the back button. In an interlinked software world where you can view your email, read a party invite, add the date to your calendar, and book a flight out there... users need a way to unwind the stack.
Regrettably, the meme-space vis-a-vis Natalie Portman has already been staked out by hot porridge made of roughly ground corn.
Clinton cut the budget by more in 1994 than any year with Republicans in congress.

I'll copy paste that for you, maybe it will stick:

Clinton cut the budget by more in 1994 than any year with Republicans in congress.

Here's the deal.. the deficit is bigger than the entire domestic discretionary budget. A political party that's only interested in cutting the domestic budget and has no desire to close tax loopholes or anything like that physically can't balance the budget. This is basic arithmetic.
Maybe it's just me, but there's this one YC-funded startup that I think could really help with this exact problem...
Congrats on the move! Just because we are less in numbers doesn't mean we're less in great ideas or entrepreneurial energy :)
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I've been working on my startup for over a year. It would be nice to have the skills and resources to create a site in a weekend but I don't and I've accepted the fact that my projects will just take longer. For me, it actually slows the development process down and lets the idea mature a little, giving me time to make decisions that are well thought out. I've also been able to reminded myself many times that if it's not cool or functional it doesn't matter how fast it was built. Plus, building it's just the first step. If anyone has any successful 'over the weekend' marketing plans please send them my way.
Thanks for the feedback:

1) The entire admin experience is SSL only. Our pricing grid references SSL but that's primarily for private communities (our widgets all support SSL environments)

2) We'd love to get SSO in the hands of as many people as possible but the support costs on it are quite high. I'm happy to work with people on this point.

3) We have design customization (check out http://foodily.uservoice.com/) and more is on the way.

We put a bunch of videos on http://uservoice.com/fullservice did you see those? Or were you looking for a demo of a live account?
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