skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the "machine learning" part of the api, but there seems to be no way of improving the learning by giving feedback.

Just testing another article on HN[1] that the tags are pretty far off. I expected iPad 2 and photos/pixels but i got 4G and manufacturing instead[2]. So I am really interested in how the system came up with the right and wrong tags (which I guess sound more important than find the body of the article, as people are making that easier for facebook and others through Open Graph/RDFa/hNews etc.)

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/bending_over_backwards

[2]: tags received:
Recyclable materials, Battery, 4G, Apple Inc., Rechargeable battery, Walter Mossberg, Technology, Computing, Manufacturing, Technology_Internet
I think the differnece here is the P/E multiple apple is getting. They have more E (Earnings) to justify their P (stock Price).
It appears http://cloud9ide.com/ is down and thus the problem with this solution.
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Here's a click-able link. Thanks

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even if they are bound by NDA's they can still use what they know to make decisions for the new client.
I noticed that this will happen for NYT articles behind their registration-wall.
This isn't exactly what you're talking about but I think that it might interest you: Adaptive Data Partitioning Using Probability Distribution by Xipeng Shen, Yutao Zhong, and Chen Ding (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1.31...). They estimate the probability distribution using a subset of the data and then use this to determine the partitions.
You're mistaken, Linked.in has a ton of competition. Where don't you see competition? It does compete with facebook. There are also applications developed for FB that deliver similar information and features that linked.in does - although not to the extent. Just today they launched a product in direct competition with the WSJ - pretty much. They compete with other professional networks in the same space .. there is a big list.
I would agree with this wholeheartedly. They may have a big user base but the engagement per user is very small and most of those users rarely visit.

If you compare average time spent on site in both:

Visits per user per month.
Average time spent on site.

vs say a facebook, these numbers are not even close.

No doubt there is some value here and maybe linkedin hasn't figured out how to engage the users to unlock it, so if you have a great idea on how to do this you could probably move into the space and capture users (and billions).

But, the lack of direct competition would suggest nobody really has a great idea on how to do this and coupling that with the lack of hype lnkedin gets the me too clones in the space have not arrived yet ( a la groupon and the army of social buying clones ).
Security issues abound, although I'm sure there are ways to make this adequately safe to do.

Me, I do something vaguely similar, but using Dropbox instead. The webserver is running on a git repo that is in a Dropbox. When I commit and push to the repo (locally) the webserver picks up the changes automatically.
Or just leave it blank and keep with the whole minimalist theme.
I was hoping for pdf support, but I guess I'll have to make do with converting pdf to html for a while...
I just timed that Huffington Post example on my computer and it took around 80ms to extract at 100% CPU. The rub though is that, if you type in a totally new URL on our demo page, most of the time is actually spent in downloading the page from the original source and its associated CSS files (which we use to do visual rendering).
There is no denying Steve Jobs is a brilliant leader who can inspire people.
I should add that given the mention of 3-4 years amortization (which doesn't net out, given the correct pricing on the sheet), Apple limits your coverage to 3-years. There is no option under any circumstance to acquire a 4th (or further) year of coverage (Apple FAIL). HP, on the other hand, will cover your machine for at least 4 years -- and I believe you can purchase coverage indefinitely (requires further investigation). Killing support on a machine that should last 4-6 years demonstrates a complete disregard for environmental conservation, given the enormous* (frankly staggering) energy required to manufacture it in the first place. Shame on Apple.
Nice work. For android devs there is also:

https://github.com/couchbaselabs/libcouch-android

and

https://github.com/couchbaselabs/couch-android-launcher

Both supported by couchbase officially.
Ditch those S107s and get yourself some Blade MCX2s!!

I'm diggin' the company profile page as well as the team page, nice work!
Why Are Entrepreneurs So Happy?
I have the exact opposite sense of discomfort. I started with System V and BSD 4.3 around the same time, then Solaris and FreeBSD, then OS X. Throughout this, Linux always felt "out in left field". If you look at the UNIX family tree, you'll see why each makes the other feel a little disconnected:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg
...and tries to pass it off as objective criticism.

There's a lot of biased individuals on the internet who post in rational drag every day. What's amazing about Gruber is how he wears his biases on his sleeve and people still claim he's trying to hide them.
"If you're the kind of person that likes to make an impact and learn faster than you've ever learned before, being an early startup employee may be an ideal job."

This is exactly what I'm looking for. Starting to feel like I'm not what people are looking for though.
This might be semantics but after reading your comment it makes me feel like Kahn Academy is an improved version of the present of education. The future of education, in my mind, is still a world where we kids get to be apprentices of real mathematicians, engineers, doctors, biologists, artists, etc.
I'm not really sure I understand the attitude, except to guess that you're just trolling.

Regardless, I suppose they have considerably more right to waste their money how they wish than you do in telling them what to do with it.
There are different types of service. If your time is valuable (I.E. you have money), you want to hire someone, who already knows what you want, what you need, and how to deliver it. Now, assume you have such a product.

Then, you talk to potential customers, and you tell them what you are offering. If somebody calls up, and asks for something stupid, you don't do it for them. Obviously, if somebody discovers a problem with something, you fix it. Obviously, if you realize a lot of customers need something, you probably want to add it to what you offer.

The point is that you have your own quality standards. So, your customers know when they deal with you, they can expect a certain quality. If you are just desperate to do whatever your customers tell you, you will have no quality standard, and you will need to ask a million questions.

People often ask for things they don't really want. You want to understand your customers better than they know themselves.
Beautiful Android Application Interfaces and Icons
So does chrome.
The magazine aisle of the grocery store comes immediately to mind. :)
Diffbot's stuff is in a different league (but it's a hosted service with a large dataset) but if anyone's vaguely interested in this area, I've been working on a Ruby library that performs some similar features: https://github.com/peterc/pismo

It is currently undergoing the "big rewrite" (which includes some proper classification work rather than shooting in the dark), however, but it's still in daily use on several sites. Hopefully I can learn a few lessons from Diffbot!

I should also point out BoilerPlate - http://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/ - an interesting Java based content extraction project that's being worked on an by an actual PhD student rather than a dilettante like me ;-) Again, Diffbot's stuff goes a lot further than this but there are lessons to be learned nonetheless.

Last but not least, a paper by the aforementioned PhD student called Boilerplate Detection using Shallow Text Features is available at http://www.l3s.de/~kohlschuetter/boilerplate/

I suspect that there's going to be a lot more work in these areas in the medium term because of the growth of the "e-discovery" market and because the dreams of a consistently marked up "semantic Web" have been washing down the pan for a while now.
I would be very wary. You are trusting the "cloud" even for access to work on your code let alone store and secure it. I just don't think it's there yet. Maybe I'm just old school but I like having a copy of my code where I know it's safe and secure and where I can get to it on a moments notice if needed.
I really loved this. Thank you so much for the link!

Can't comment much on it because I'm afraid to give spoilers, but it was a very enjoying read that got me thinking in lots of things.

Thanks again!
I take it that you haven't actually read the Unix Haters handbook. They clearly have no love for Unix.

"Each graft of a new subsystem onto the
underlying core has resulted in either rejection or graft vs. host disease with
its concomitant proliferation of incapacitating scar tissue. The Unix networking model is a cacophonous Babel of Unreliability that quadrupled the
size of Unix’s famed compact kernel. Its window system inherited the
cryptic unfriendliness of its character-based interface, while at the same
time realized new ways to bring fast computers to a crawl. Its new system
administration tools take more time to use than they save. Its mailer makes
the U.S. Postal Service look positively stellar."
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If you leave because the negotiation didn't get you enough, and the company feels a pinch as a result, I think that would get the manager more credibility for proactively trying to head off the loss of talent.

Besides, if you negotiate a raise and then leave, it means that they don't have to pay you that raise after all, right?
Reality is a cold, harsh mistress. I'm not a native English speaker. If I were to restrict my knowledge of programming, startups, business etc. to what is available in my native language, I would severely handicap myself compared to those who can read English.

If I were to restrict my software business to only people who use my native language, I would only have 40 millions of potential customers instead of several hundred millions.

At best, it's a Quixotic effort.

At worst, it'll actually do harm to people it supposedly tries to serve by allowing them to stay in the comfort zone because that comfort zone is really, really small compared to richness of knowledge available in English, especially in topics like software engineering or startups. It's the law of unintended consequences.

Sure, learning to read English at a speed equal to reading my native language was a long and arduous process, but I only had to do it once. I reap benefits of that investment every day. When I think about it, it was the best investment of my life.
And the myspacification of Facebook begins.
Right, because Windows comes with gcc?
I've seen Instapaper crash maybe twice, ever, and I've been using it since it came out. I'm a fairly heavy user. Maybe I'm just lucky?

If you still have issues with 3.0, you should get in touch with Marco. Maybe something's out of whack server-side?
The bookmarklet is completely optional. No?
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Those are great questions which I don't have exact answers for because I've spent the last year exclusively on Linux and all the exact OS X problems are flushed from my brain.

I think I was working with Apache at the time, so I probably had trouble starting and stopping (looking in non-existent /etc/init.d). Also, just browsing '/', I remember stumbling upon /sw which is perhaps a darwin thing? Is it like /opt?
Most users don't even block 1 site let alone 500.
Then they would have no one to blame their incompetence on, of course.
We're back up. A combination of reaching maturity and offline support will make this a problem of the past.
So in your opinion OS X is pretty close to BSD? What stuff did they change?
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Entrepreneurs are happy because they not only do what they love, but they have a prerequisite of passion that keeps them going. Owning a company is the combination of creating something out of nothing, changing lives around you, and being able to say "I did that" after hours of contemplating if it was ready or not.
Thanks but I'm not really looking for explanations of the actual params but instead want to know why they aren't documented or described in a clear manner.
No, he argues that they learn English so that they get paid more than they are being paid now.

Technically we're talking about the same amount of money (more than they are paid now, less than a programmer in Silicon Valley) but framing does matter.
You know what?

I think you might be right and I might be wrong on this.

After reading how Apple pulled this previously (on the iPod Touch upgrade) I now think it's possible they may use SOX as justification for this more.

I still don't think it's good a justification, and I still think Apple could have worked around it if they wanted, but yeah - you are possibly more right that I am.

(I know admitting you are wrong on the internet is unheard of, but Strong opinions, weakly held & all that.. )
Did you ever find that Apple crippled certain programs or services, or simply just move things around?
Love the design.

I'd say 1 change would be to make the page end a little after the social site badges.
I mean Google. They'll lose users if they don't do something about the SEO spam.
A well designed Interface is what I believe keeps a start-up chugging. Lets look at history... MYPSACE's interface = garbage, confusing and gimmicking. Facebook = click direct and clean. Baller interface = baller success.
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Sign-up is back up, the entire site was down for a moment. We're improving monitoring systems to deal with this better in the future.
While I can't explain Apple's inconsistency, here's a little bit of "evidence" (admittedly second-hand) from someone who I would not consider to be "uninformed":

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g0o01/xcode_4_i...
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Everyone has competition.
Yesterday, 3.5million Commuters In London & The UK Read That Android Was Unsafe
I'm considering using Azure atm & would love to hear some opinions/limitations. Initial reading is suggesting there will be a lot of configuration to get things going.
although, if you compare then and now - the adverts don't follow that narrative at all.

it looks like apple started off by copying what nike were doing - aspirational branding - attaching it to celebrities to hope it carries over to the brand.

it worked ok

now it seems like their core idea is more of 'we make elegant devices that will change your world' - focusing much more on the design and the use of the products, while still avoiding much of the technical specs and benchmarks
1000x ethics. They're very underrated. Most people will be like, "Hey, I'm ethical, nothing to worry about!" But most people will not have their ethics put to the test until they're in a really tough situation, so talk is cheap.
> However, they could acquire someone who has the "low power CPU technology"

The other possibility is that Atom will slowly become more competitive. Weirdly, I think the most important thing for that would be a solid Android-on-x86 story, so device manufacturers don't have to do so much custom GUI work.
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Awesome and fun!

Who else looked at the source to see what other words you could type in? Only to discover that it's just dance =(
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Asana, can we really become more productive?
As someone who is trying to manage 100 global volunteers spread across The USA, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Scotland, France, Germany & Italy - I'm hoping they're onto something. I registered to be a beta tester this afternoon.
I've read some of his Scheme - thanks for pointing that out. Does anyone know who Oleg is in real life?
I don't think the bookmarklet is going away, but even if Marco did get rid of it, the free API would allow anyone to come along and make a new one.
Did I say anything about skills?
I'm baffled by the premise of this "casual" gem user who is worried about "barriers to entry" yet wants to use... gcc.
That article was great. Its exactly what an early stage culture and experience is like. Finding people that don't give you that "Aw I got tickets to this club tonight" instead of helping create the next big company is what makes filling your team so hard. 100% dedication, 100% candor and the ability to not say "I can't do that" there is always something to learn. Great article.
The retain/copy conventions are inconsistent for Blocks. But once you're aware of those, I haven't seen any major issues in using/debugging them.
Time is free, yet absolutely priceless
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It's impossible to not become a Steve Jobs fanboy.

Look at this guy. In shorts, discussing marketing for his company in a way which an average person can understand.

No bullshit. No paradigm shifting. No synergies. No Dilbert Speak.
"C++: An octopus formed by nailing extra legs to a dog"
Thanks. That sounds good.
Friend of mine who loves VIM recently switched from Ubuntu on PC clone to OS X on MacBook Pro. He doesn't use a mouse for anything, ever.

Just because the icons are there doesn't mean you have to click them. Sounds like you just need someone to show you how Mac keyboard customisation works.
Soon: google for 'inurl:github_update.php' and click each result.

Better alternative: use something like Capistrano to automate deployments. It's not Heroku-style automatic after a push, but it's pretty close.

Still, points for ingenuity.
Honestly, I don't have much respect for "Lifestyle" advertising. Just because you can use pictures of Einstein, Ghandi, Earhart, and Russel on the screen before your logo, doesn't mean you know shit about making a product.

It feels deceitful, and the fact that it works so well disturbs me.
Non-Programmer Applying To YC
Would love some feedback on applying to the YC 2011 Summer Funding Cycle. I am an entrepreneur but not a programmer. I was a CS major, but didn’t want to write code and transferred to Liberal Arts. I was lazy and partied, I admit it. I’ve worked for a tech company, a fortune 100 and over the past 8 years have started 2 separate companies – one in financial services and one in professional services. I’m not some 18 year old kid with an idea and no idea how to launch it. Still, from a start-up perspective in a tech environment I can see the advantages to a program like YC. I’m about to submit the application. Any comments, thoughts or words of wisdom are greatly appreciated.
I believe the reason you see sites without ads as superior on some level is because the absolute-highest-quality writers usually don’t have ads.

Sites like Paul Graham’s, Eliezer Yudkowsky’s, Mark Cuban’s, and Steve Blank’s don’t have advertisements.

I've been subscribed to Cuban's feed for some time now and think he has some interesting things to say on occasion but I wouldn't call him a high quality writer. He's not in the same category as the others listed there.
I really like these ideas, and I'd love to see one of them go. I did notice the demo url was 127.0.0.1 though... I know, it's just a demo..

That said, one question.. Do you guys work 100% in your own IDE? And hosted (not localhost)? I think that's a must if you want other shops to use it.

Also I think a zero-barrier demo on your site would be huge. I ought to be able to click a link, land in an editor, and write some running code, a-la the mongodb shell on their site.
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Awesome! Will try to stop by :-)
How many of the Ten Commandments do Startups break?
How about just adding the Git repo as a remote, and pushing to it over SSH?
Which is where he loses me. If that person wants to deal with gcc, they're not casual, and spending an hour grabbing latest libs and tools is how they roll, Xcode or no. Any time I'm on CPAN I end up updating 50 other things and 3 hours later wonder what I was looking for in the first place.
I was referring to the pleasure (in the utilitarian sense) of apt-get being offset by the pain of not having MacOS-specific software and features. I am a Linux user myself, but recognize that not everyone's computing needs are met by it (just as my needs are not met by Windows or MacOS).
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The point was that at that time the brand was in need of rejuvenation, as it had been neglected.

Nowadays, I think everybody would agree that the brand is quite healthy, so the problem is to remind people that there are new shiny things under this shiny brand, which they should buy right now.
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How do you ensure that they don't play games with numbers? Do the terms of your payment state that you have access to final salary?

Even when you get that, how do you know they didn't completely falsify it or fudge it somewhat?

It seems safer to me to just charge $5K flat fee or something.
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