skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not giving anyone any useful information. And when anyone gives you advice you just throw out a few empty statements ("current state of the art of information retrieval..."). If you really want useful feedback stop wasting people's time and just put both products out there so others can give you informed opinions.

Otherwise just work on whichever you prefer. You can build up anything in your mind until it seems like the next big thing but the reality is you won't be acquired and will have to figure out a way to make money with whatever you do if you want it to turn into a business. If you like the work you're more likely to put in the hard time necessary to create something wonderful that attracts and deserves others' attention. So do what you enjoy.
Goldman Sachs likes my blog. Maybe not.
That's not incompatible with being an angel.
You'd also need to stop Mussolini, Stalin, and Hirohito to stop a world war from breaking out at the time. At minimum.
https://www.facebook.com/download

I myself was surprised when I found it.
ROTFL - LMAO ;-))
second this. especially across rafters. never go above 1.5", always drill center and reinforce with a steel brace clip.
Not only that, but the Details arrow is pointing down, which indicates that there is more information available at the bottom that describes the program that is requesting the information.

The entire window is off.
I wonder if it is sustainable. Are the merchants actually making good profits from using Groupon? Will consumers keep visiting Groupon if merchant only post deals they will actually make money on?
Also I've been seeing ads pop up in PWA over the past year (mostly on the homepage), so maybe Google is thinking they can monetize it with even free use, as before now it was reliant on paid storage for profitability.

And of course, Picasa is baked into the Android Gallery app, and they want people to keep using them together.
Sure you can. If you have root access to Mac OS X and can thus load stuff into the kernel you can easily disguise applications that are running by modifying the process tables, or replacing the ps binary by one that does filtering.

Look at some of the BSD rootkits for inspiration on how to accomplish a task like that.
If we work on the assumption that the majority of people aren't rational scientists, then harnessing the superstition towards such things as progress and invention rather than conservatism seems a very brilliant move by those persons trying to leverage political discourse. Its likely much easier to convert the followers of hate, fear, and superstition on their terms than to convince them that rational science is better.
The Impact of Amazon’s new CloudFormation service (from a Chef perspective)
Why would anyone dream of offering goods, services, or other currencies in exchange for "paper"?
Every airline is always under chap11 - it's standard operating procedure.

not JAL's main competitor - ANA.
... Proving, once again, that despite his successes, Calacanis has a fundamental lack of professionalism and respect.
I like their scenario of a projector that could dopy the entire contents of a hardrive in the background. But that would require a projector that would do such a thing.

I think what would be an even better scenario is that, since Thunderbolt devices are meant to be daisy-chained and have 2 ports for that purpose, a 'standard' thunderbolt projector could have a homebrew device chained to it, that the presenter knows nothing of. (Hidden, explained as something else, etc). Then this standard-made projector can be made to be a malicious one simply by daisychaining another device on to it that could copy the contents of the presenter's hard drive.
When I started reading it roughly 2 years ago it was mostly fine. Nowadays I wish I could filter content from users by how often they read the articles posted, whether or not they find 4chan inspired comics to be useful or funny and whether or not they've ever felt the need to repost a "meme". Those filters would probably eliminate most of my complaints.
Maybe you're not reading it with the right expectations? http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

> Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

On a sidenote, Buffett's frugality is reminiscent of Zuckerberg's lifestyle.
As far as I remember to have read somewhere.

The Nazi doctors did quite a lot for the advance of the medical field simply because of all the horrible experiments they could do.
I've started a dating site, and we're launching solely with FB Connect support, with no plans to support alternatives in the near future. Why? Because the data we get from the social graph makes our product better in many ways without the user having to duplicate efforts. We get their interests, their friends interests, their checkins, etc without the user having to put any of that explicitly into our site.

This allows us to give a vastly better experience to our userbase, while losing effectively nothing -- our demo is non-techy 21-35 singles, meaning 95%+ Facebook users.

Edit: To clarify, I mean that no less than 95% of our demographic is already using Facebook.
Get one of those fm transmitters, and use old radios in each room for music. Or carry a ghetto blaster or computer speakers and a portable player from room to room.

If I need a tv in another room. I carry one in there.

Not sure how good networking over electric cables is these days, but would seem like an easy alternative to wifi.

Rather than run Ethernet cables through the house, I ran them on the outside of the last place I lived. It was easier, and less messy (at least from the inside).
I remember the predictions of a $99 Kindle for Christmas 2010.
There's a greasemonkey script that adds filtering. I haven't used it much so not sure if it'd work for you, but check it out. Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), I believe it's called.
It's not enough of the data. It's not in a machine readable format. It's not so much a concession as an insult.
I assumed it changed the processor affinity for a running process. :/
Femdom being one of my fetishes, I rather beg to differ on the statement that there are only a handful of femdom sites.

I will cede that there are a few fantastically successful ones, like I suspect in most media, which are rather strongly linked to...
Boomerang: A bidirectional programming language for ad-hoc data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money

"The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally, a standard of deferred payment."
As does pointing out that you could do this without an iPhone. Clearly these are the sort of thoughts which can only be described using a qwerty keyboard, right?
Discovery doesn't use fossil fules. The main engines are powered by oxygen and hydrogen and the solid rocket boosters are made up of ammonium perchlorate, aluminum and iron oxide.
Firebug does the job for me.
Without knowing whether Facebook will last or not I agree with you that social search is overrated.

But your comparison to pre-google pre-internet doesn't hold up.

You are not only connected to people based on friendship but also much more on affinity and that is the defining factor when it comes to social search. In fact I believe twitter to be much more interesting from a social search perspective than FB.

Other than that I appreciate you have taken the time to provide such a clearly structured argument.
I'm using it increasingly less, as the quality of discussion has largely been reduced to memes and pun threads. To me this is fine in certain subreddits and for certain posts, but it seems to be infiltrating many of the once-safe subreddits too. I never made a conscious decision to go to Reddit less.
Makes sense. Like game consoles, they make the money on the content.

But, unlike consoles, provided a kindle doesn't need the latest, fastest technology, they can keep getting cheaper, til it's negligible relative to the benefits of acquiring a customer.
Rails for Zombies has evolved into Code School [50 invites available]
I go to Reddit one or more times per day when I'm not busy. When I'm busy I go a bit less than once per day. If it weren't for /r/math and a couple of other subreddits I probably wouldn't bother, but those few are hard to replace.
agreed. i avoid the frontpage, but keep track of a few subreddits.
Yeah, well I'm still waiting for my flying car.
Infrequently. The good stories end up on HN with better comments.
> Those questions have been answered many times over the years. Do a bit of searching and I bet you find some answers that are better than my take. But here's my take anyway. :D

You can always find something that is not right.

> Adam and Eve were perfect. Then they chose not to be perfect.

According to the bible, they didn't know exactly what will happen if they eat from the tree, hence they didn't chose, they were tricked. If they were perfect they should have asked God before they tasted it. The story kind of makes me feel that humans were created to be fools according to the bible.

The story condemns curiosity which is one of the best human traits, without it, we'd be still in the stone age. And of course a hood 'nerd' has to be curious.

> God wanted people to have the ability to love Him of their own free will.

Why not just create love, it would save a lot of time, I know love is not a substance to us... but someone almighty could surely create it.

> Because Satan still serves a purpose. I'm not entirely sure of all of it, but the main purpose seems to be to provide an obvious choice for us. God or Satan, who do you want to serve?

This sounds like God is playing a game with Satan, a very cruel game if you ask me and pointless too, because God knows how it will end anyway. And it also seems that he doesn't kill Satan because then he'd be bored.

About the free will thing:

Let's say you create robots and program them slightly differently. And let then interact with each other. In their view they have free will, in your context however you know exactly what they gonna do, you could calculate it all in advance. So in the end we may not even have free will, we are just complicated.

Se my other comments here, I am not saying that God does not exist, I am saying that the Christian religion is probably wrong about it, it can't be that way.
"Nobody wants to be left on the dock when the next Google from the port."
if others see that someone leaves the dock, did not decide whether, as they too have to leave?
By way of contrast: a friend of mine was once working on a contract job in Visual Basic. One day he edited an "if" statement which basically said (I don't know VB syntax, but this will give you the idea):

(0) if foo() then do_something() else do_something_else()

It turned out that it was unnecessary to do anything in the "then" branch:

(1) if foo() then no_op else do_something_else()

My friend, quite naturally, changed that to this:

(2) if not foo() then do_something_else()

After several hours of frustration, my friend finally realized that the transformation from (1) to (2) is not valid in Visual Basic. How can this be? As I recall, there is some false value in VB such that its negation is also false.

This is the kind of hell languages create when they try to be helpful by having lots of different false values (0, the empty string, the empty list, and of course "false") and at the same time have lots of implicit conversions.

So, be glad that Clojure has only two "falsey" values.
It's not but it's relevant in the perspective that fourspace says further up.
The relative durability of bitcoin plus the fact that it becomes scarcer through time means that bitcoins have far too high a potential to appreciate in value.

From an economic standpoint, it will encourage hoarding.

One of the problems with hoarding is that people simply stop producing because there are not enough money in circulation. This is more or less like the old money days when moneyed people didn't have to work, and people who have no money could not find work.

Bitcoins also doesn't solve the problem of derivative bitcoins, e.g. futures and debts. For instance, you can "create" more money in the system if bitcoin deposit taking institutions are permitted to do "fractional" banking.

Remember, that gold itself is a finite resource. As time passes, currencies become backed by gold instead of gold, and eventually it untethers from gold.

On the good side, Bitcoins is the environmentally friendly equivalent of gold. It would make Warrent Buffett proud, since he famously remarked "People dig up gold from somewhere out of the ground, melt and forge it into shapes, dig another hole, bury it again and employ people to guard it."
Why Longer Forms Need to Use Instant Field Validation
All the photos NASA-related twitter accounts are tweeting right now
An Entrepreneur’s Struggle
Actually, the complaint is quite the opposite, that people are "unfairly" assuming that he is working in a set of jobs where such a database makes sense.
i'm 32 and i'm married with 4 kids. i eat dinner with the family 5-6 nights a week, and am always there at night to wrestle and tuck the kids in. then i'm back to work til 4am or so. also i make a point to take my wife out every weekend. helps keep things sane.
Branson encourages people to write his head office with feedback.

Back in 2002 I sent them a letter because I was frustrated with the kiosks at the Virgin Mega Stores and suggested some improvements (you'd scan the barcode on a CD and it'd pull up a 30-second samples of songs on the album that you could listen to. Good idea in concept, but the implementation was horrible.)

I got a letter back several weeks later saying my feedback had been passed on to the appropriate parties and they'd get in touch.

A couple weeks later I got a phone call (!) from the VP of Product of the Virgin Mega Stores thanking me for my feedback and explaining that he knew the kiosks were sub-par, but their hands were tied by licensing arrangements.

I can't begin to explain how impressed I was that

a) Branson's address was on the Virgin website,

b) his office responded by mail to my letter,

c) they passed on my feedback to the relevant party, and

d) the relevant person himself called me to explain the situation and thank me for caring enough to write

I was pretty damn impressed by the experience, and Virgin has been a great example of a company that focuses on great products, and customer and employee happiness as I build my company.
Per capita is not a great metric, especially since GDP is not distributed per capita across the country, and there are many ways of measuring GDP.

Even bad metrics can be better than nothing, and they can also be worse than nothing, but if you're going to quantify it, GDP is probably the only way to go. Based on my limited knowledge of 1930, I'd still much rather be living in 2011. Maybe not 6x, but at least 1.5x more. Back then they didn't even have Turing machines down on paper, much less actual physical hardware...
If someone else said that, he'd probably get panned. If you are a BH shareholder, odds are that the added five hours of driving cost you much more (time, effort, risk) than the difference in ticket prices, especially if you are flying in for a weekend.
The author, Benjamin Pierce, also wrote the book Types and Programming Languages, among others.

His website: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/
I'm not sure what particular issue your friend ran into, but here's one strange fact about booleans in pre-.net versions of Visual Basic:

True is defined as -1.

This allowed there to be a single, type-agnostic "not" operator. There was no distinction between binary and logical negation.

C, of course, has ~ and ! operators and uses 0 and non-zero for truthiness. When calling into non VB "Classic" modules, the mapping of boolean values can be unnecessarily confusing.
All the time, but I stick to specific sub-reddits that are of interest, and have quality content (links, comments, etc.) /r/machinelearning, /r/semanticweb, /r/compsci, /r/compscipapers, among others, are still worth visiting.
Linux Servers for Windows Folk
Actually, our uptime has been better for the last 6 months than the previous few years.
You can't win if you don't play.

AngelList is a marketplace. Marketplaces win because they attracts the best sellers (the companies), and so long as there is competition, the buyers (the investors) will have no choice but to participate.

Investing is a two-sided affair. I'm not really sure where Bryce is going to get his dealflow from if he sits on the sidelines of AngelList as the service itself explodes, attracting all the best companies.

The only companies not on AngelList are the ones that don't quite understand how the service works. As an entrepreneur, the more you understand AL, the more you like AL.
Hydrogen is a storage medium. Fossil fuels are used as the energy source to make the rocket propellant.

I can also guarantee you that fossil fuels were used in the production and distribution of the rocket boosters and that the airplane the video was taken from wouldn't be flying if it didn't have any jet fuel in it's tank.

Humans are smart creatures, but we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking we would be where we are at now if it weren't for a cheap, albeit limited, supply of highly concentrated energy.
CLiki is usually pretty outdated and incomplete. These are probably the best resources for a new CL programmer (in no particular order)

http://common-lisp.net/

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index...

http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

and #lisp on irc.freenode.net
Casual video games demonstrate ability to reduce depression and anxiety
Only 40USD off. That's what, 2 pizzas and sixpack? Pretty damn close if you ask me.
By this logic, Amazon will pay you to take a Kindle by the start of next year.

Amazon makes future money on Kindle owners because they're avid book readers and they buy a lot of eBooks. If Amazon were to give away Kindles for free a lot of non-avid readers would pick them up just to have one, which would kill the model. I think a $99 price point (maybe $49 with Prime) makes a lot more sense.
By that logic, fossil fuel is a storage medium too. Solar energy was used as the energy source to make fossil fuel.
Yes, I didn't mean to blame Linux. I was just referring to the system in the way it was made famous (replacing a Microsoft based system with a Linux one).
Talkexplorer - visualize Twitter conversations
A classic loss leader strategy. Given how much Amazon Prime increases Amazon purchase behavior, this makes all sorts of sense if the cost per unit goes down enough.

Details about how Amazon Prime affects purchasing behavior: http://www.quora.com/Who-invented-Amazon-Prime-What-impact-h...
So, that sounds fairly similar to "unicode in $arbitrary_language": Unicode is supported internally; there is still complexity associated in getting data decoded/encoded when bringing it in/out; new versions of the language are working to reduce the complexity but somehow not there yet; handling of unicode by libraries tends to be inconsistent and probably undocumented.

Someone should do a comparative analysis across languages. My guess is that (in-browser) javascript is probably one of the few languages to not have significant unicode problems, although there are surely some.
He has a point though.

From an entrepreneur's perspective, investors who talk about needing more control, priced rounds, etc. so that they can add more value are no longer attractive to work with. There is nothing stopping an investor from adding value regardless of the structure of the deal.

It comes down to control and the incentives for seed-stage startups giving up so much control at an early stage are simply no longer there.
Yeah, I've seen two launches from Tampa (including the last night launch), and you can see things pretty well. This video blows it away though, I would have loved to be on that plane.
Why would I have plural "passwords" but only use one on every site?
I think Bryce's point is that he doesn't like the way AngelList makes him feel about his investing.
Hollywood doesn't claim that the blockbusters make a loss. They can't get that creative with their accounting to make millions/billions of dollars vanish from the IRS. What they do is shuffle the profits around between their sub-companies. Say you sign a contract with Universal Pictures to get 20% of the profits of the movie. Now Universal Pictures takes a loss on the movie by moving all of the profits to Universal DVD Distribution or some other company under the "Universal" umbrella. So that other corp has record profits, while the one you hold the contract with reports a loss. [ The money can be 'moved' between companies by just charging exorbitant prices for their services rendered. E.g. Universal DVD Distribution charges huge amounts of money to Universal Pictures for the DVD production. ]
Sure. I don't really take issue with the points he's making; more the way he's decided to make them.
How does paying $80/year make something "free"?
It's just part of his shtick. I wouldn't really say that it's a lack of professionalism, so much as a conscious choice to project a brash, unremorseful, "I don't care" attitude. Now maybe some people would say that that's the same thing as not being professional, but I would disagree. And anyway, it seems to work for him, just like it does for Drew Rosenhaus (famous NFL agent) and others.
Possibilities do not add up. They multiply. (Paul Romer)
That's definitely not the case. This isn't your usual shareholder meeting. 40,000 shareholders (I'd call many of them "fans", really) showed up last year and many of them have more enthusiasm than wealth. You can get tickets just by holding a mutual fund that owns Berkshire and calling up the fund.

(My mom and I among them. "At Berkshire, our time horizon is forever." And he pretty much means it.)
This is exciting for many reasons but one being educational systems may finally start adopting the digital tablet.
Has anyone actually used this language? The Overview sounds interesting, but doesn't deliver any specific code examples...
Like the application being built by the author of the post. Query eats up CPU time etc.
Oh please. Blogging is full-contact sport. if Bryce wants to leave @angellist in a huge cry-baby post, he can handle honest response.

You want me to sugar coat it for you Taylor? Here ya go:

"Despite Bryce's interesting thoughts on the value of angel communities like Angle List, I'm left wondering if some portion of his problem might be driven by the fact that said service might make competing for deals a little harder."

You want more PR speak than that?! I can write it in any tone you like kid... you want it in a waltz or blue grass version?

I'm the master of blunt, but I can give you medicine any way you want to take it..... but you're taking the medicine at the end of the day.
fwiw, which very well may be nothing, it's funny that virgin came up as the second example, since you'd be damned to find one of those kiosks anywhere in the US now.
It's interesting looking at Bryce's comment about how AngelList is becoming a "bigger fool's list" is paralleled and Jason's remark that "There are now hundreds of qualified and unqualified angels who are driven by sport and not return!" About that bubble ...

Jason also suggests that deals off of Naval's Playground (aka Angel List) will be in companies "run by very stupid entrepreneurs". Really? Based on Jason's own characterization of the list, smart entrepreneurs who want investors who do care about returns -- or have a different idea of sport than Naval, Jason, and their pals -- would be a lot better off spending their energy elsewhere. It sounds like the AngelList pond is great for some entrepreneurs and some investors, but there are plenty of other good options.
Homemade 16TB NAS dwarfs the competition with insane build quality
Yes but if it is only free with an Amazon Prime account, Amazon gets many more customers. If it is $49 without Prime then many people may just go Prime and Amazon really wins either way.