skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know, I'm going to be testing this tomorrow, but came to work today to a server that was grinding to a halt due to wild running node.js processes. Restarted the server, but that doesn't cleanly shutdown Mongo, and spent an hour repairing everything and setting permissions right (somehow they had gotten reset). This exact problem, so hope the --journal switch in the init file makes the difference.
Ha, well played. In all seriousness I would love to see TechCrunch's traffic in the early days. A quick search primarily revealed other startups traffic after being featured on TC. Does anyone have a link?
They all either are or can be strict supersets of CSS3. What separates stylus is that you can write valid, non-superset CSS3 and invoke the appropriate functions/mixins:

@import css3

#transparent {
opacity: 0.6;
}

----

#transparent {
opacity: 0.6;
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=60)";
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=60);
}

That's input/output in stylus. This uses an `opacity` mixin defined that's being invoked without the optional parentheses and with the optional colon+semicolon.

I have the beginnings of the Compass CSS3 library that's on hold while TJ fixes bugs and adds features to cover edge cases. The eventual goal is the ability to write straight CSS3 and have everything work.
That's an interesting definition of "everything" you have there.
More interesting than the baseball stats, to me:

"StatSmack will give you any stats it can find that support [that a tiny, unranked team will beat #1]. (...) In almost every industry we are faced with an overload of data. (...) We will need to turn to computers to process these piles of data (...) Stat Smack is a clear example of how that dependence could be a danger if we’re not careful. With enough information, an AI can select data to support almost any conclusion you want to draw."

More concretely: to what extent will something like Palantir actually improve decisions, and to what extent will it be used to produce reams of supporting evidence for a predetermined outcome?
People have a 1/x scale with distance.
When I lived in California my grandmother in the UK would call everytime there was a hurricane in Florida.

You can't really expect professional TV reporters to be any better informed than my 80year old grandmother.
I'm working for a client right now that's requiring us to collect no less than three "shared secrets" from users who are signing up to buy a product. I can't imagine they'd have less than a 90% dropoff at that point in the sale process.

Oh, they're also requiring that we encrypt the answers in the database. With encryption keys stored on the same server. But that's a separate (and arguably sillier) issue.
Presumably if it's a standard answer, he'll not have forgotten any of them.
That's a big part of it for me. Nobody seems to be able to explain what makes Quora new and different, or why I should care about it at all, and yet articles about it keep on coming up as though the site is self-evidently a big deal.

It makes me wonder whether the people who enthuse about Quora have ever heard of a question-answer site before; maybe they don't know how to explain what makes it interesting because they don't realize this is already a well-established format.

There's also the fact that there does not appear to be any way to browse the site to find out what it's about - the front page is a completely off-putting sign-up form.
Yes, outside the grid to the left looks good in a full browser -- but as you mention, that wrecks the mobile layout. I wouldn't worry about it too much -- where you've got it isn't bad, it's just a little hard to read on the busier background. Btw, on an iphone the max-height you're applying to .app_summary is causing a little bit of overlap: http://idea.s3.amazonaws.com/appdiem2.png.

Sure, feel free to email me -- address in my profile -- or just reply here.
Votes and reviews will help in keeping the bad apples at the bottom (until they improve their skills).
That's why you almost never see coal fired power stations these days, right?
Nuclear waste is a US only issue. It doesn't exist in any other country. Buy some CANDU reactors from Canada and you can burn your nuclear waste for energy.
First, innovation doesn't only happen in a single application and runtime (the browser). Flash has innovated as much as FF4 has. It's weird that the distribution model for the runtime defines what is innovation and what isn't. A runtime that is distributed as a plugin is inherently not innovative, while one that is a monolithic application is. Go figure.

And I think the point of the original poster isn't that we should drop HTML. But rather that this application isn't cool on first principles. You can show this same app to your child as a Flash app and your child should be just as impressed. It's a good work for HTML, but as far as applications distributed by a web server it isn't especially innovative. But we should keep working on HTHML/JS/CSS as it will get better.
I searched for poop because I don't know any watch makers, I was brought to a page to buy "Elmo's Potty Time"

http://timepiece.me/poop-watches/0
This may actually be true. Uranium decays into radioactive radon sooner or later. Radon is a gas so it escapes the earth. People breathe the stuff and inside the lungs it decays into polonium-210 sooner or later. By mining the uranium and sticking it into a reactor, the radon is removed from the atmosphere. Wether or not this benefit outweighs the deaths from Chernobyl and others is a very good (and still open) question.

By looking at the statistics however, switching all coal plants to nuclear reactor would save lives (mostly miners)
The government is in a bad situation. Their finances weren't great going into the disaster. They have an aging population and have to import everything. This is going to spark an economic disaster as well.

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110314-japan-persian-gulf-e...
Fasnicating Real Estate Facts (Bank Owned)
That's back to the "I use the same password on all sites" problem, which is essentially what he's doing - if he uses it on a site that's compromised, all of his logins are now potentially exposed.
Heyzap (YC 09) Launches Android App for Discovering & Checking In to Games
That'd be pretty easy to implement! :O
Hi Sammville. Just so you know it's nothing personal, I just get a ton of emails each day from startups. If you drop me an email with a clear ask, I always try to at least respond.

All the best, and keep kicking ass!
That's true, although I do hash my answer with a domain-specific secret, I should have mentioned that.

If at all possible, however, I don't fill out the secret question. There are actually a good amount of major sites that let you skip that step.

I'd rather just be locked out if I forget the password, than have that be another vector for taking over the account.
"First, being a founder requires courage, grit, and an ability to get shit done, and I like people like that because they set an example I want to aspire to."

So I think this insight on 'being a founder' is accurate, and I applaud your aspirations. I'd like to twist your thinking 90 degrees though, being a 'founder' is an artifact not a goal. What I mean by that is first:

"Get shit done." - you know, actually do stuff, build a web product, design a new line of swimwear and get it into production, convert the PTA to using Google Docs. Whatever, become a force to be reckoned with, see a need and address it.

"show your grit" - you know, do stuff someone else thinks is stupid but in hindsight is brilliant. To do that ...

"show your courage" - you know, in the face of someone telling you something is stupid or impossible, do it anyway.

And I'll add one

"show your humility" - when you fail, admit it, do a post mortem, learn from it and then go back to getting stuff done.

It sounds trite but really if you want to found a company go out and start one. Your first one you'll pretty much have to do without a lot of support (unless you've done something nearly like it already) because nobody (even you) knows if you can cut it running a company. So I would not try to start a company that involves say, designing a new type of semi-conductor, or requires large government purchases.

If you demonstrate you can execute then the next time you have a problem that takes more resources than you can scrape together you can go to someone and say, "This is what I've done, this is what I'm going to do, I'm wondering if you want in on the ride?" Its you're history that makes that second clause powerful.
I'm sure there are good reasons for it, but as a developer the reasons for deprecating WebSQL are infuriating:

"This document was on the W3C Recommendation track but specification work has stopped. The specification reached an impasse: all interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a standardisation path."

So, for ONCE everyone is in agreement on what we should do - therefore we have to kill it. Arrrrrggghh!
I hate these questions. Except for some questions, like "Mother's Maiden Name", there are a lot of them where I won't answer _exactly_ the same way every time you ask me... Where did I got to college? There are three conceptually equivalent answers (abbreviation with periods, abbreviation without periods, full name) that I might be inclined to respond. Even something as simple as the name of a dog or a make of car often has multiple answers.
I'm guessing @HipsterIE6 disapproves
These are really great apps. I especially like Cashflow and Text.

I'm not sure how many times I've recreated a similar spreadsheet that I was never quite satisfied with and never did the awesome that you've implemented in Cashflow.

Great work and thanks for sharing.
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Definitely what I've seen from the applicant's side as well with regards to the Github link. I was told that I got the phone screen for my current job because of it. Before adding it to my resume I hardly had interviews for an entire year.

I'm surprised more people don't have it on there.
Go can replace Java. Eventually, anyway.
Where, btw.. That was another fake news. There were no trains with 1800 dead.
Neither does Yuhei Sato, who is the governor of Fukushima prefecture:

"Mr Sato said centres already housing people who had been moved from their homes near the plant did not have enough hot meals and basic necessities such as fuel and medical supplies. "We're lacking everything," he said."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12763273
> 9.25 deaths per TWh. It looks pretty dangerous then, given that.

I'm sorry, you're saying that less deaths per TWh than Oil, Coal, Biofuel, and Peat looks pretty dangerous? That looks really safe to me, at least in comparison to our other options.

> It is grotesque doing this sort of calculation in the midst of unfolding events.

I'll give you that, if you admit that it's also grotesque to use current events to support related agendas, given that our information about them isn't nearly as comprehensive as it could be.
Of course there are uncontrolled variables, but there are those in every experiment. With large enough samples, those uncontrolled variables become less significant. That's how statistical sampling works--if you expected everyone to be exactly the same, then you would only have to ask one person.

I understand that this is a personal outlook, but I feel like it is trying to make a more general point than "This is my story".

BTW: Would you consider economics a "soft science"? I study economics with some background with econometrics (statistics, essentially, where the entire focus is on controlling for unknowns)
Crazy to put a face to the handle. It's what I love about old school forums like this. The identity is a token.
And that is the reason i love TSF!! i knew that was the case.. I would compose a good and clear email now..
Haha, nice one, this technology will surely be bought by Microsoft to support their anti-IE6 operations.

http://ie6countdown.com/
Google first to patch Flash bug with Chrome update
> I also fail to see how dumping our waste on generations to come for our own selfish desires is less bad.

You're assuming that just because we consider it waste, they will too. Personally, I'm expecting that at some point some use will be found for the 'waste' -- maybe highly efficient reprocessing or materials for low-radiation (think 'easily traced') medical nanobots -- at which point future generations will thank us profusely for generating such convenient stockpiles of the stuff.
It'd be awesome if someone actually reverse engineered the algorithm and created a bookmarklet to reproduce it. This page [1] seems to have a lot of useful info.

[1]: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html
How come freedom only ever applies to the already-rich cutting corners for an extra buck?

It doesn't. Yaron Brook just addressed this in a debate held in New York last week:

"The biggest victims of government intervention in the economy, the biggest victims of socialism (as someone who came from a socialist country, where government intervened a lot more than here) are the ambitious poor - the people who could rise up under freedom.

The people who want to work, who want to make something of their lives, who want to succeed, who want to prosper. They are the real victims. They are the ones we should shed tears for when we regulate, when we control, when we put them through public education, when we put them through the whole social mechanism, when we use welfare to institutionalize them into poverty and take away their sense of personal responsibility and personal morality that is so crucial for their development as successful, happy, prosperous human beings. If anything Objectivism should rally around, it's those people. You know, I wasn't rich, I was an ambitious poor guy. I came to this country with nothing. Those are the people who are the real victims of state intervention, and the real benefactors of freedom and capitalism."

This quotes is from the last five minutes of audio: http://www.archive.org/details/FirstPrinciples-Government_Wh...
This would be funny if it wasn't so true.
Our Flipboard competitor Zite is on almost 1% of all iPads after one week.
I met someone once who called every variable X. Yes really. The compiler was somehow just supposed to figure out that X on this line and X on that line were different things... What is baffling is that he did have code that worked, kinda.
If you want a spreadsheet, here's the precursor to my CashFlow webapp: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/111770/CashFlow.xls
Definitely an interesting approach to the app discovery problem! I wonder what system they have of making connections to your friends.
It works perfectly fine in Chrome, but runs very sluggish compared to FF4. Does anyone know which particular part is so much faster in Firefox?
This might actually be handy if it really did show what a page would look like in IE6. Instead, it comes across to me as a trivial CSS/JS novelty with a somewhat misleading name. Can I have those 10 seconds back?
because I didn't perform my own scientific studies on the matter

You should be free to do this yourself or to seek the advice of those you've chosen to trust on scientific (or any other) matters.
After years of developing recommender system tech, it's exciting to see such a huge response.

Thanks again, HN!
Even if they were all in the public domain, he's basically "set", being a university professor with tenure.

It would be a less pleasant world where only those with other secure income from other sources could produce information goods.
Blue-sky research is much higher risk. Without the shorter term payoff that corporations seek. It's reasonable to call an endeavor "harder" when it's less certain of success. Particularly when we're talking about real innovations like computers and the internet, versus a company hiring a couple guys to toss together a "minimal viable product" with PHP.

(If that description of corporate productization sounds unfair, I think it's closer to the mark than saying basic research is analogous to "someone banged out a prototype over the weekend".)

When it's able to be productized, that's when corporations come along. This is well known. (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/technology/02darpa.html)
That depends on exactly what you mean by that. The funding sources are quite diverse. Most often, they start out with no funding at all and then, once they solve problems of interest to enough people, they start to attract both government and private sponsors.

But yes, there are government grants. Here's the first example I could find, one for developing a secure Linux desktop:

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/1153
Put even more simply: what good is having the best password security on earth if having a 'secret word' that's not subject to the same strict security requirements will still open up an account. I always find it horribly ironic when you're told over and over again, "don't use easy to guess things like birthdays, child or pet names, or your mother's maiden name as a password because it's easy to guess" only to have the next question be, "What is your mother's maiden name?"

The whole concept has always been silly; glad to read a well-rationed argument against it. But honestly, why should we even need such an argument?
The Real Social Network: The Open Web
ok- you should probably specifically note that this is an investment that will require giving up an equity stake of some amount to be determined..........so that it doesn't look like it's just a cash prize.
Y Combinator Looks for Outliers
This page [1] suggests Southern is a good candidate for "worst team" and Ohio State a good candidate for "best team". It is interesting to compare the two smacks [2] [3].

One interesting side effect of how this is set up is that while the system will tell you what you want to hear, the very first link after that is basically "And here's why that's wrong", which suggests one way to ameliorate your concern. A good understanding of stats could help. Though that's a scary thing to require before safe use of a beguilingly-simple tech can be used safely.... then again we've been using stats to lie by hand for a long time. Maybe this isn't so new.

[1]: http://www.teamrankings.com/ncb/rankings/

[2]: http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/stat_smack?t2=ohio-state&... - Southern better than OSU

[3]: http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/stat_smack?t2=southern-univer... - other way around
Blue-sky research is much higher risk.

That wouldn't stop people from doing it privately. For example, biochemist Peter Mitchell (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Peter_D._Mitc...) won a Nobel in Chemistry in 1978 for work he did entirely without government funding, out of a house he owned. (It's not some little thing he discovered, either - if you take an undergraduate course in biochemistry, you'll run across his chemiosmotic hypothesis directly, and it's taught in less detail in a lot of other biology courses.)
It gives data about reactors that are, as I recall, 40 years old. That's entirely irrelevant to the designs of newer reactors.
Are Patrick's observations a literal case of survivor bias?
Ask HN: The redesign of my startup, please review it.
A couple weeks ago I asked HN to give me feedbacks on my website. I received great feedbacks and did a revision of my website, changing the user interface and build a community forum around it. Well the idea of my startup is very simple but I believe very meaningful. I'm trying to connect local buyers and sellers together via videos instead of photos. Giving users and sellers a better way to showcase their second hand products. Right now we're focusing on users acquisition and marketing but kind of stuck, meaning no growth. We're getting about 500 visits/day and around 5-10 people register/day but not many people are uploading videos. We want to get users more involved in the community and eventually list their used stuff with us. As of now I'm bootstrapping my startup where capital is very limited.

I'm thinking of
1. reaching out to bloggers and get some PR to increase more traffic to the website.
2. Then hire some people to build a mobile app so users can upload their stuff easier and faster.
3. Run some contests to motivate them to sell their unwanted stuff lying around their homes.
4. Contact local used car dealers, furniture stores, and yard sale associations offering people to list their products on the website for free.

Which one of these should I do first or not do at all? This is my first startup and I know I have alot to learn especially with online marketing.
Please review my startup and feel free to offer any feedbacks or criticisms. Please advise me on
some marketing strategies for my startup as well.

Thanks,

Leon
http://www.123exchanges.com
USD-JPY Dollar/Yen experiences flash crash as all support is taken out
Not quite. Here's the cleaned up JS from the bookmarklet:

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Every time you click the button, it does the following:

1. Randomly selects an element from the page that isn't an object or a script.

2. Randomly switches the display property to either block or inline, the position property to absolute or relative, the margin property to 0 or 1 em, the padding property to 0 or 1em, and the width to a blank string or auto.

3. Repeats steps 1/2 until 5 elements have had these transformations applied.