skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You want to appear indifferent to any particular sale for the same reason that playing hard to get works in dating: It implies that you are desirable/successful enough to pick and choose your partners.

But, I thought that traditionally, that was only supposed to work with women. Men, from my understanding, seem to place a higher value on the physical attractiveness of their mates, and a lower value on the perceived social status of their mates.

Not that I'm an expert on selling or dating; it's just that most of the dating advice I've seen women given has to do with becoming more physically attractive, rather than the advice given to men, which seems to be about raising one's perceived social status. I mean, it could be that the advice (or my perception of that advice) is wrong, but it lines up with my personal observations.

This ignoring the vast differences between initiating short-term relationships and maintaining a long-term relationship, and the differences between selling a product and initiating a relationship.

(Oh, and thanks for being a customer. This is what I've always wanted to do.)
Yeah, but they really have their pants down with this whole DroidDream patch.
For me, this is frustrating because it's not that useful in general search results, but it would be extremely useful in pruning Custom Search Engine results - and that's exactly where it isn't.

I want a one-click way to ban a domain from search engine results because most blacklisted domains in my Wikipedia search engine (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009114923999563836576:1eor...) are porn or filesharing sites. One recognizes such spam in an instant, but it still takes a while to prune down the URL to the right domain, flip to the edit tab, paste it in, flip back, and relocate myself.

I'm not kidding when I say such a one-click button would cut by at least half the time I have to put into cleaning up the CSE results for any given query.
The problem with some of those is that their quality isn't consistent. I know with OCW, depending on what you pick, sometimes you might get video of a lecture, sometimes you might just get a powerpoint that doesn't really give you a ton of info.

I haven't looked at it for a while, maybe they've fixed it. But Khan Academy hit the ground running. I originally found him a few years ago when he didn't even quite have a hundred videos up. It blew my mind, I was just looking for some help with algebra but instead I found a rabbit hole of knowledge.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but there's hardware and software involved. I can't possibly program, build, manage, sell, market by myself anymore. I'm a jack of all trades, not necessarily a programmer or server admin, so that's where I need help along with sales.
How many man hours are there to a man year? Is the unit supossed to concider how much hours a man works in a year, or is it just 365 * 24 a man hour?
Javascript badass - Mixpanel
Brief tutorial is linked off off of the wiki: https://github.com/pika/LinearML/wiki/Tutorial

Tried some brief Googling of what I think is the main author, and I found this paper, "HirondML: Fair Threads Migration for Objective Caml": http://www-apr.lip6.fr/~ravet/hirondml_ppl08.pdf
'You attach this single sheet by drawing it across the iPad’s face as though you’re making a bed. With a satisfying clicking sound, hidden magnets anchor the thing solidly to the iPad’s face.

"But Dad," my 6-year-old son pointed out, "you’re supposed to keep magnets away from electronics!"

"I know," I replied sagely. "But this is Apple."

And then I showed him how opening the cover turns the iPad on automatically, and closing it again puts the thing back to sleep."'
This seems like a great idea to block the really bad offenders, but doesn't seem granular enough for the sites that have inconsistent quality of content (i.e. a user generated content site can have both shallow/crappy content AND useful content under the same domain).

I wish we could give more contextual feedback, like... THIS link was helpful/relevant, THIS link was not.
And to a large extent such 'stealing employees' is good for society, and thus public policy as reflected in things like competition law, employee's rights, the recent DOJ investigation/settlement with major valley employers, etc.
Anyone have a list of "bigresource" like sources of bad programming tips? I have been using site:stackoverflow.com but would prefer just to block sites like this: http://mysql.bigresource.com/Fatal-error-Can-t-open-privileg...
(I'm a recovering C++ dev).

C++ has problems unique to C++: a deceptive illusion of abstraction (what Spolsky would call "leaky" abstractions) makes a bunch of idioms in the language dangerous, including virtually all "smart" pointers, iterators, exceptions, allocators, and arrays. It is uniquely difficult to write reliable code in C++.

Add to that the superficial but more practical and common complaints against C++: the ghastly compile times, the header file dependency hell that forces every class into a kabuki dance of "pImpls" and nested classes, the error messages rendered in ancient Sumerian... you know I could go on, but you get the idea.

C++ is just not a very good language. C is a fine language. If you are building a system for which C's abstractions are inadequate --- and I'll stipulate that such systems exist --- you're better off with C and a very good glue language (Lisp and Lua are two good, popular choices) than you are with a uniform C++ implementation.
A 1-2 page article, highlighting why this language is worth checking out, would be a much more useful submission than a link to the github repository.

The readme on the github page doesn't contain much more information than the title on HN.

I can't quickly evaluate whether this is worth downloading, configuring, and installing.

Maybe its just me, but I don't like HN submissions that point to github repositories, with skeleton readmes - I think we could do better.
Ah, good to see Google following our lead :-) (Disclaimer I work at Blekko and we've had this feature from launch, and we don't limit you to 500 sites either)

On a more serious note though, its nice to see Google validate our assertion, that un-modified Google search results are getting poorer and poorer. Not that they would actually say it directly like that of course. Now lets see if they are willing to drop over a million crappy sites out of their index ...
McKinsey is the wisdom-laundering Bing Toolbar of corporate strategery!
I've added a tail-recursive lazy version.

It seems to be about the same amount of a speedup, with the nice addition of less memory use.

http://paste.lisp.org/display/120386#3

I thought the 'better performance' of my other versions were specious because data-structure choice often makes a big difference in these sorts of benchmarks. List vs Array vs Lazy-Seq should make a difference.

I think this is more definitive, as it produces the (program-flow wise) similar computation to the original. (Not just the same results).
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Seems like the ultimate home page would provide everything a prospect needs to decide before clicking "Signup". Basically no funnel at all - Home Page ->> Signup. Nice.

That's the premise behind the (in)famous "long form", and also why they are so successful (even if generally despised.)
Does YC match up Founders with similar ideas to make 1 great idea?
iPad gets Flash yet again with iSwifter app (hands-on) -- Engadget
Joli OS 1.2 available now (hands-on)
This isn't my field at all so I could be wildly off base here, but it seems like Skype does a lot better in the ugly, consumer, ad-hoc real world using TCP. It feels like this is only becoming an even bigger deal in an unpredictable, soupy carrier grade NAT world of IPv4 exhaustion, or do solutions like STUN and ICE hold up? Are there any IETF type standards tracks that take a Skype like approach and support unmanaged mobility, or are we stuck until IPv6 has a significant presence?
I wonder why Google prefers that you block a whole domain instead of a result (what searchwiki did).

As said in another comment I wouldn't be confortable to block the whole expertsexchange.com domain, I get revelant results sometimes, yet some of the results of the same website are so unhelpful I'm sure I don't want to see them again (auto approved solutions and stuff like that).

It also happens when I search for something I already searched for a while back. Some of the results remain irrevelant, but not necessarily the whole domain.
Something about that name suddenly makes me want a union. Or maybe a t-shirt.
>and there wouldn't be kids who didn't know how to tie their shoes;

I've met at least a few people who, being charitable, I would be extremely hard pressed to see passing a calculus exam. I'd agree that for some it's down to motivation but the motivation may come 20+years later or not at all.

Certainly though I'm extremely wary of declaring that all people can attain the same intellectual level which appears to be what you claim.

I'm not going to say it's impossible but I think you must have missed a step where you do some sort of brain augmentation or injection of nanobots to build knowledge pathways without any need to apply a learning process ...
I don't really think of everyone else applying as competition. I'm more concerned with where I am, the ideas I have, and what I want to do with them. No one should let others' success be a reason not to do something

And now that I know I might meet Ashton Kutcher, I'm definitely going for it.
I'm pretty surprised by this information! I've heard the exact opposite - people are more likely to click Twitter links then FB shares, which mirrors my personal experience using both. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I loved this article especially because of the "mythbusting" it does. We've been working on designing our sign-up page for a while, and a whole lot of the conventional wisdom doesn't seem to take into account actual user behavior.

The logged-out homepage that we have put together should provide potential users with enough information to sell them on the quality of our content and usefulness of our product before they even get to the sign-up page.

Nevertheless, it's always great to get more insight on this all-important element of design.
I have a question regarding 1 minute video presentation required in the application.
Is it required that both the founders be on the video presentation?
I read in one of the comments by either Harj or PG that 'we look for chemistry between the founders in videos'.
What Are Apple’s New Smart Covers Really Hiding?
I'm in a similar situation as analyst74. I used to be rather introverted, but in the recent years I started thinking of interaction with people I don't know that well a game of sorts.

Oftentimes, people are far more relaxed and natural with their friends than they are with co-workers or strangers. Subconsciously, we assign these 'roles' for ourselves (you with friends, you online, you on the bus, you at the doctor's office etc) and stick to them. Breaking the boundaries of the roles a bit and being the same across the board is what I found to be quite helpful in being more social and just feeling better about life overall. For example, I'll randomly chat up a stranger waiting for a delayed bus; make eye contact and smile at a person random person on the subway (especially if attractive ;P); or talk to or play with someone's kid while on a train (kids are usually very approachable and love playing on a boring subway ride; your mileage may vary though as North American parents seem to think everyone around them is a potential child rapist).

It might feel strange at first, but the more you behave like a friendly approachable being the more people respond with the same. After all, most people, unless they are rather extroverted, are just like you, and are basically waiting for someone else to initiate contact with them.
"Will you sign an NDA? How do I know you won't steal my idea?

No, we won't sign an NDA. No venture firm would at this stage. The informal commitment to secrecy on our application form is more than any VC would make.

In this connection you may want to read the first section of How to Start a Startup on the value of mere ideas."

Thanks, I missed this. The "informal commitment" is what I was looking for.
Hey David,
I've updated it to say "Suck". I was correcting a typo so I figured why not :)

Share away now!

Regards,
Des
Great page, and thanks for the link to Girl Talk. It's massaging my eardrums right now. Creative Commons license FTW!
That is just sweet, sweet profit for him as far as I'm concerned. As long as I get my product, I'm happy. He can spend it on hookers & blow if he wants. :^)

But, then again I'm a first-time kickstarter user, so perhaps greybeards from there have a different opinion.
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Well said. Another metaphor for this is the crab bucket. If you've ever seen a bunch of crabs boiled in a bucket, you'll notice that don't have to use lids. If a crab tries to escape the other crabs pull it back down. This is often used as a metaphor for the slums.
you should post this on http://reddit.com/r/amiugly
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True this. Two points of "extremism" (say in this case, the FSF and Microsoft) has it's place in establishing a solid middle ground.
Hey Simon,

It wasn't really an allusion. I needed a cover image, I wanted something a bit striking or funny, so I went with a sketchy version of the frame I used in the article. I just picked payment, cause I was giving out about Paypal earlier.
Thanks for reading,
Des
> Some people, in order to hit a few home runs, have to strike out every once in a while too.

If someone never strikes out, they're not trying hard enough.
4-5 years ago would have been a mix of books about 19th century American philosophy, a book or two on foreign policy, common lisp, and a few books on SQL tuning on different RDMSs.
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Aside from the "big two" (experts exchange and Mahalo) I actually think the one I'll block first is Wikipedia. Truthfully, I really like Wikipedia as a resource and love to peruse the information there--but if I want the article from Wikipedia, I'll go to Wikipedia and look it up. If I'm searching google, it's probably for something that's not going to be covered well by Wikipedia anyway.

For example, let's say someone has suggested to me to use the factory pattern to solve a problem in a project and I'm not intimately familiar with that pattern. I search for "Factory design pattern" on Google and notice that the first 2 results are wikipedia results. There's some good, basic boiler plate--but that's not what I need (Ok, what I really need is probably a trusty copy of the "Gang of Four" so maybe it's a bad--or at least contrived example).
How Internet business models are absorbing real world business
I wish some major player (e.g. Google) started backing linked data. It would speed up adoption tremendously.
WE'LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM!!!1!

Just kidding!

What do you think of this in-flight-graphic or designer Shaun Sanders knocked out? Pretty rad, eh? http://blog.hipmunk.com/your-guide-to-a-private-island-vacat...

I can't get over how pretty Dustin Curtis' landing page is, though.
I'm not too familiar with your former business, but didn't you do case studies, ask experienced colleagues for advice, and give industry-specific training? There are lots of ways to share some information without handing over a competitor's balance sheet...
Yup - Ogilvys book "On Advertising" talks about this, exclaiming that good content sells better than over-simplifications.
That'll just block Facebook from showing up in Google results which they never did in the first place unless you searched for someone's name.
I've been using InboxQ for two weeks now. Not specifically for my product, but for my topic of interest. So far, the questions that InboxQ finds seem to simply be a keyword search that also contains a question mark.

I'd say 1 out of 100 have been a real question. The other 99 are usually someone complaining on the internet in the form of a question "Why can't I ever pick the fastest line at McDonalds?".

I'm curious, have others found better results or a combination of keywords to get better questions?
You should read (a synopsis of) The Rules. It's the female equivalent to the PUA craze, and it focuses on consistently acting like a high-value mate.

The idea is that a man with a passing interest in you will slowly convince himself that you are worth striving for and when he finally "wins" your hand he will feel like he has successfully proven himself and earned something he dearly wanted.

It's an implementation of the idea that things you work for are dearer to you than things that come your way with little effort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rules
Awesome video guys
With that said Nokia's brick phones have some of the easiest interfaces to use of any device ever

As someone who uses a recent Series 40 phone, I have to disagree with you. I think their last decent brick was the 6230i.

I got an XpressMusic (don't know the exact model number) Series 40 phone in 2009 , and, although it does the basics well, it has some serious design flaws.

It is a music phone, but it lacks a "stop" button to go with the play/pause button on its side. Therefore it is always on pause, so that, if it is in my pocket, and the "play" button is hit accidentally, a preloaded song called "The Dance of Shiva" starts playing. Very embarrassing.

And if you want to send an SMS, you need to save the number first as a contact, since the SMS UI doesn't allow for numbers in the "number" field.

These are shockingly obvious design flaws that Nokia missed. Something went wrong with Nokia a few years ago, and it wasn't limited to their smartphones.
I for one would not be opposed :)
It's probably the creative-story-class rewriting TDWTF does to submissions. The original was probably a much more credible two paragraph story. But why publish that when you can throw in "It was a dark and stormy night" and lots of unrealistic dialog?
Don't know why you've been downvoted I have upped you again.
IronRuby on Windows Phone 7
Haskell version that is fully lazy, (though not point-free or completely idiomatic).

import Data.List (group)
rle = map (\x-> (length x, head x)) . group
main = print $ rle "aaaabccaadeeee"
thank you for correcting me, sometimes I just throw words about recklessly.
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>Look at how the star players get booed. Look at how people cheer against the New York Yankees just because it's a successful and extremely well-run organization that wins.

Don't confuse a distaste for egomania with a hatred of achievement. People don't boo the guy who comes from nowhere, works his ass off, and remains humble despite success. People boo hubris.
Well you don't have to be dishonest but I would just suggest saying that I'm making X but won't leave my current job for less than Y. I typically would say something like "I'm not really needing to move. I like my current employer and they like me."
If you really need technical people you're going to have to pay them unless you've got something amazing built so far. Or you're going to have to bring in cofounders and give them a more even split. That will be hard if you've got all of the time in it. In my situation I have put a lot of time and effort into my project and I will need to bring someone on board soon but it irks me to think I will have to give up more that 20% to someone who hasn't put the time and risk in.
This reminds me of a really interesting book my parents got me when I was a kid, and which I just got another copy of for my daughter. The book is called "The Third Millennium" and it was a sort of prediction of how science, politics and other factors might evolve and shape the world over the next 1000 years. It's really fascinating, and I'd recommend it to anyone if you can still find a copy. I'm not giving mine up.

In this "future history" at around the year 2800 economists were perplexed at why the metrics they had showed that the economy was slowing down drastically. The explanation that the book gave was that, by the year 2800, we had literally run out of stuff to produce and consume. There wasn't any need for large-scale development on Earth anymore because, to borrow a metaphor, the rising tide had truly lifted all boats. Everywhere on Earth had equal, cheap access to whatever could be made (including interplanetary travel). Productivity that had been getting funnelled into projects like building up the "third world" was suddenly unnecssary. Nobody, whether at a micro or macro level, needed anything else, and from some perspectives that looked like an economic disaster.
Don't forget that the measure is probably in metric too.
The etiquette is that you keep your promises to everyone who donated. This can be harder than it seems. There are some things that you can build 100 of for $5000 in a timely manner that you just can't build 1000 of for $50000 without a much larger lead time and a very different skill set.
It's not intended for use on sites with inconsistent quality. PageRank takes care of the individual pages on those sites.
i'm confused as to why the title of the piece on his website is "what to do after making a ZILLION dollars" whereas it was posted here on ycombinator news (apparently by the author) under "what to do after making a billion dollars".

to me, "zillion" implies a certain amount of snarkieness, which is more fitting for the article. "billion" implies a more straightforward analysis, perhaps more befitting of the HN crowd.

just an observation.
This is recommended.
This is almost starting to get comical.

Apple has sold bazillions of iPads. Do people really think having Flash support is the missing link to even MORE iPad sales?

Note to Adobe: the web has plenty of good content that does not require Flash. At this point, with NO viable mobile Flash option the Internet has pretty much routed around your suckage.

Flash is in its death throes. Yay.
It's in my best interests to get you the highest possible salary on offer

It's in your best interest to maximize your aggregate commissions across all of your contracts, not to maximize the value of any one filled position. If you can close a deal at $X today or you can work an extra 40 hours in hopes of getting $1.1X, the safe bet is to close the deal and start working on the next contract.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jO_w6f8Ck
As good as the Maemo 5 redesign was, I think they set their sights too low (e.g. single-touch), which effectively forced them into another redesign for Maemo 6. The mistakes of switching to Qt and merging Maemo with Moblin seem to have been politically motivated, though.
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Too many chiefs and just one craftsman. This definitely rings a bell.
It's such a shame for startups to "enterprisy" their job roles.
I'm sticking with Disqus. Here's Why
I thought its too much and by the time I click on it and it scrolled over, i forgot what the first part was. Also, too many screens to go through. Cool effect and unique, but i would do if for like 1 or 2 slides and quicker.
Do you check the demo URL for all of the companies you offer interviews to?

"We look at online demos only for the most promising applications, so don't skimp on the application because you're relying on a good demo."

That leads me to believe so, but thought I'd ask!
> Why can't rank-and-file employees negotiate some type of agreement where they get paid to stay?

It's called salary and other compensation.

> It doesn't make any sense that companies put a "value" on retention, but don't put a $$$ value on it.

You're missing the point. Once someone has accepted an offer from somewhere else, they're very likely to leave soon even if they accept a counter-offer. As a result, money spent on them is wasted.

Effective retention spending happens before people decide to leave.