skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would general agree with this but I think it comes down more towards the type of person you are and the way jobs and study are viewed.

University is seen as a fixed term situation and is at an individual level. Here are the things you need to do, now go and do them by this time. Work is kind of the same but you have set hours that you are willing to do the work in. Generally this is 9ish-5ish. Your boss accepts that you have a life outside of your work(I hope) and will accept that you can only do so much during your set working hours. There will be times that you have to put in extra hours in the evenings or weekends but this should never be the norm. The time frame for the completion of a project is usually based on there only being a certain amount of time each week that any one person can give to the job. You can increase and decrease the amount of workers to change the completion time. While at University it is at an individual level and you cannot increase or decrease your clones. Being at University it is up to you to decide how many hours you are to spend on learning or completing something.

I know when I was a student I certainly spent over the "normal" 40 hours a week on my studies. During the end of my degree I was in the 80+ hours a week. This really does depend on the person though. Some people will do the bare minimum to scrape through with Cs and might not spend over 40 hours a week. I invested pretty much all of my time on my studies, so for me my workload took up a far higher amount of time during my degree than it does at my current job. This is all based on working for a company, not a startup(yours or someone else’s) or contracting. They pose different parameters around working hours, workloads and motivations.
I really think this artistic product is the "achievement" of WoW.

That's one take. Another is its achievement was taking an entertainment medium that people used to pay for only once, applying Skinnerian behavior modification techniques to keep them coming back and paying for monthly, then scaling that model to an unprecedented massive scale.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-gam...

Granted the social aspects of online games are truly fun, but the nice thing about Facebook is that it (initially at least) succeeded and scaled with just the social part and not the psychological manipulations mmo's like WoW relied on from day 1.

Some of the stuff that's been added recently, like Farmville and whatnot, exploits both the social and psychological, but the core value of FB is that it is still primarily a social experience, a way for people separated by distance and/or life (new baby, etc.) to maintain connections and know what's going on in each others' lives.
Here's the solution: Borrow from Edison and the electric light. Look at lighting before the good electric lights -- it sucked. There were open flames that were dangerous. The light quality was awful. Etc. Yes, it was expensive and dangerous, but you have to remember, the light quality sucked.

So, there was no doubt about the customer 'pain' or the 'market' or the 'market potential'.

So, why was there work to do? Because no one knew how the heck to "Do that".

So, the challenge was in how to do that. Eventually Edison pulled it all together, and the earnings have been a lot of what has kept GE going to the present.

It would have been still better if there had been some patents.

It can be still better if the solution is in software, essentially impossible to 'reverse engineer' and very difficult to duplicate or equal, and quite secure in code on servers.

So, TechStars needs to start with customer 'pain' that is huge and clear and not solved. Then TechStars needs to find a solution to this pain. The solution, the 'secret sauce', should give much better results than anything else and be difficult to reverse engineer, duplicate, or equal. For a Web site to order custom printed paper napkins delivered by FedEx (put the print shop in Memphis and let orders in by 10 PM Memphis time be delivered by 10:30 AM local time), that's essentially impossible to protect. So, f'get about it.
It was about the dangers of vaccines. BTW Japan has stopped some vaccines because some children died. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/07/us-japan-vaccine-i... The article says their not sure it was the vaccine. But 3 of the 4 died the next day.
What part of Japan is this?
Are you serious? To think you have the power to decide what people say about a bitcoin gambling site. Is this post worthy?
Great talk. I really appreciate when conferences put up videos. I'm 15, so I can't make it there yet :)
what's interesting on the internet is open-source,
non-profit, or not profit-motivated

You forgot "balls-to-the-wall crazy". An unusual environment is more likely to advocate creativity, from where most of the interesting things spark.
And websites like http://www.graboid.com repackaged usenet to make is accessible to the general population. Movie studios don't seem to mind since they have a DMCA process and most content never gets one.
FYI - I got your email, but the reply bounced! contact@...

Remote host said: 550 No Such User Here
Only one hack: get the f... out of your country, go to Africa, China, India. Don't bring any survival kit, live the life of these billions of humans, you'll never need fancy lifehacks anymore.
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Let's cut RiderOfGiraffes a break; he's one of the most valuable users here.
And Usenet died. But sure. Graboid. Whatever that is. Yay!
They didn't forget - a Tsunami is a block of water a meter high and several km deep moving at 800km/h.

That's a few BILLION tons of water moving at the speed of a jet aircraft - try designing against that.
https://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-w...
I made it together with someone, but I did all of the coding and most of the design.
"Every problem you cite can be solved readily."

... by the simple technique of ignoring our limited resources and engineering skill, yes, sure. Solving them for real is somewhat more challenging. Your ideas are so far-out (a polite way of saying "stupid") that based on experience an explanation of why they won't work will simply be ignored by you. You are off by orders of magnitude, plural.
While Anonymous rose from the primordial goo that is 4chan, I'm fairly convinced a majority of the people who have identified with the hacktivism of Anonymous since have little to do with the imageboard.

Disclaimer: I have never associated myself with Anon, but am curiously interested in them from an emergent behavior standpoint.
“The cost of failure is really high when you’re contributing as yourself,” Poole said.

So Mark Zuckerberg is "totally wrong?" This makes me knit my eyebrows. Just because putting your real identity out there can have good uses doesn't make anonymity "wrong." Neither does the utility of anonymity make real identity wrong. Clearly these are both useful.

The presence of hordes of anonymous least common denominator users can have detrimental effects too. Sometimes, there is a place for close social distance and the good behavior it brings. Sometimes there's a place for freewheeling anonymity and the frankness and creativity it enables. Neither is "wrong."
My guess is that these documents are not the same documents that WikiLeaks holds.
Were you thinking of Plato's Republic when you wrote this?
This BTC gambling site is a business. And its indicative of how P2P international currency can be disruptive. Someone is making money. Of course its post-worthy. You're right though, I'll tone down the language a bit.
Not only that, but there's also value in close social distance and the change in behavior it brings.
LFE is still very much alive and I work on it when I have the time.
Broadband and wireless ISP's have for years have been advertising unlimited plans of service while silently cutting you off if you cross some vague limit deemed as "excessive". You're right, kudos to Comcast and AT&T for putting a hard number out there to monitor against, but forgive me if I don't have the least bit of trust or respect for the ISP community.
I actually think it would lower the cognitive burden: often enough I want to share something geeky, but then need to weigh that off against the non-tech followers (= increased friction).

No idea if the whole circles concept will succeed though.
Actually I burn up about 190GB with netflix, hulu, Xbox 360 games, OS updates, Zune pass, pandora, etc.

I don't use any illegal means to acquire content and am already flirting with the cap regularly. The "bandwidth hogs" of today are the "regular users" of tomorrow. Imagine telling somebody from 10 years ago "the average internet user will be using 10 GB of bandwidth a month." Their mind would be blown.
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A lot of best case solutions to problems like these are known but are blocked by those with interest. It reminds me of the telecoms, and how badly they mucked up the '96 telecom act. The solution was obvious to those who understood the industry and how it was built, run it as a utility.

Once in university ethics class I commented that an ethics structure is broken if you won't give up an advantage in order to follow the ethics system. The class was totally silent, even the prof. A lot of problems are caused by not yielding to what, even by the parties involved, consider right.

Honor is a lost art.
We're a house of 4, we watch the majority of our TV via a Mac Mini, and don't come within 150GB of this limit.
Not really getting the "harbor" connection. And it still looks like a big surge tide rolling in.
That doesn't cover any of the damage from the tsunami or radiation, which should both add quite a bit. The government's also on the hook for a lot of the damage to residential buildings (some of which we saw float by in the linked video).
That's fair enough - but saying it 'cannot' be used for such things is simply false.
It's funny, because I remember watching TV and hearing about this great new program call Napster (this was before it became mainstream). I was writing a program that had the exact same functionality at the time..and stopped when I went to the Napster website and realized how much further along it was. On a side note, I just went to napster.com and discovered that it's owned by Best Buy.
I live in a city of 2M people directly opposite the pacific from this.
Our 50 person earthquake response team was disbanded last year after an investigation into police funding.

Of course since we are mostly on reclaimed land which will liquefy, all our drinking and firefighting water comes into the city across 2 ancient bridges and very few of the buildings have been earthquake retrofitted we aren't worried about the loss of 50 search and rescue people.
Ask HN: Good coworking in Houston for networking, or café substitute?
There seem to be more and more coworking facilities being mentioned of late in Houston. Does anyone have experiences with some of the newer ones? I'm looking for good environments for networking. Are there cafés that are good? I used to get involved in conversations with strangers at Café Artiste, which is closed now.
Article claims NHK reporting that Fukushima plant is going into meltdown
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If you follow the link to 颱 from the wikipedia page to the wiktionary entry, you'll find that:

a) 台 is the simplified version of 颱 in modern Chinese

b) there is nothing in the entry that suggests it means "great" or "big", and that, in fact, the one character translates as "typhoon"

Also, if you check out the Japanese wikipedia page for 台風, you'll find that the Japanese spelled it 颱風 up until 1956. There's also a rational for the 台風 spelling suggesting that it may have meant that typhoons were great winds that came from the direction of Taiwan, which is why the 台　character was used (although none of the suggested etymologies are yet proven).
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"As we drive, we listen to live reports on the state broadcaster NHK, which says the Fukushima No 1 plant has started to go into meltdown."

Anyone found any other sources verifying this statement from NHK?
Sure, they are deploying them, but only because nothing really fits the bill better, and often because their users beg them for them as toys. My wife has a director-level title at a large biotech. Some of this comes from her experiences. Here is where it falls short:

Most large businesses have a variety of native windows apps they rely on. The ipad works well as a web browser, but misses all of these. Companies have large investments in these programs, and having them inaccessible is a liability for the ipad. As an example, I have seen business units literally "powered" by excel spreadsheets and VBA. The iPad can't deal with things like this.

Standard native file access. How do I open a config file with "notepad" in the iPad? How do I browse to the file? What app opens it?

Windows permissions. The iPad can't work with Windows file system permissions, so it is a second class device on Windows-based networks, if you want to access files, it does not play well with your carefully created Windows permissions, so those access rules and group policies are lost on it.

The iPad is not a part of the standard microsoft security apparatus, so it is "special" in this regard. It won't get Windows updates, security bulletins, etc in the same way. It needs special attention from IT, and carries separate and perhaps unknown security risks.

Since the iPad is oriented toward finger-touch, stylus apps don't work well, so note taking apps don't work well.

The app store is consumer and game oriented, something businesses would specifically like to avoid on their devices, generally. Because of the app store approval process, and low price point expectations "Enterprise" business apps are loathe to move to it and risk a heavy investment that could be arbitrarily destroyed.

The iPad's success in the Enterprise is really a result of a failure of imagination and execution by Apple's competitors.
> ...rather than trying a high profile (and high risk) product launch. To me this demonstrated some much needed corporate self-awareness (there are some things Google just isn't good at)

Well said. Wave was far from great — mostly because it was hyped as an email replacement, rather than real-time collaboration.

Further, UI hasn't been Google's strong suit (this is slowly changing for the better, however), and for a social network to steal people from Facebook, it needs to have a great (not just good) design. Facebook started that way (especially compared to MySpace), but has fallen a little by the wayside over the last couple of years.
It's interesting, because sites like HN shows the problems with having a purely democratic system.
The tallest megatsunami ever recorded
This is a terrible article. Not only is it not "brilliant" and the thing that people will take away from SxSw, but it's also untrue. I'm at SxSw and went to the Apple store to check the hullabaloo yesterday and there was no line (afternoon).

So far, I think the thing that people will remember most is Marissa Mayer's talk on Google Location dominance.

Apple makes great products, but I don't see why the 2nd gen iPad is so sought after that anyone would spend an entire day of a festival they've spend thousands of dollars on waiting in line for it (other than to say they were waiting in line)
When Apple released iTools / .Mac and so on, even recently with Ping they usually reserve a bunch of name for either marketing pages or of their own usage. Many exec have usually their accounts created way ahead before the services goes live, and often Apple product name are reserved or unavailable.
When Apple did introduce iTools at MacWorld January 2000, a few days afterward every employee at Apple got a mac.com/iTools account based on their existing apple.com email address.
I can only echo what pivo said and tell you to stick it out longer. You can try it out in a suitable development environment which will help out greatly as you wrap your brain around the syntax.

Once you're done with Erlang, you should move on to Haskell. :)
No, do you mind explaining? Sorry if I am missing the obvious. It is late and I am tired.
AOL's cost was money. Facebook's cost is your personal privacy. Yes, you don't have to shell out a dollar, but you lose all control over the information you associate with Facebook. In some ways, I'd rather pay real money.
This isn't good advice; learning Prolog doesn't make learning Erlang any easier at all (not even the syntax, but especially not the semantics). The syntax of Erlang is actually very simple, and mostly an accident of history since Erlang was originally implemented in Prolog[1].

1 - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3542891/erlang-programmin...
Since the development of commercial nuclear power the costs of building new reactors has risen dramatically primarily as a result of regulation introduced as a result of anti-nuclear lobbying.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anti-nuclear#...

Entire stations don't need to be decommisioned, but new reactors built on existing sites.

Existing U.S. plants will continue operating for another 60 years as their licences to do so are being extended by another 20 years(with a review each additional 20 years, with the same happening in other countries).
It's because the tsunami only becomes visible when it hits your harbors. They used to be called "tidal waves," but the term is inaccurate — that's why it isn't used anymore. They're not like normal waves out at sea, and they have nothing to do with the tides. The fact that it "looks like a big surge side rolling" in does not actually make it tidal.
Stick it out, you will get used to it. Comma is AND, semi-colon is OR, and period means END of function definition.

LFE is probably your best bet in case you never learn to like Erlang's syntax, as it's only a thin layer above Erlang to provide a Lisp syntax + more powerful macros and doesn't try to bolt on any new semantics a la Reia.
I've been going through something very similar myself:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5278873/erlang-otp-applic...

It's not like I am a noob, either, I have a ton of experience programming and I have used functional languages before (my first university language was gofer, an implementation of haskell).

I've attempted Erlang in anger twice now and have ended up terribly frustrated1.

I am currently working on a node.js spike - experimenting with zerommq and node.js to see if I can get something acceptable working robustly.
It only becomes a visible problem in harbours (or otherwise in shallow waters).

It looks like a tidal wave in the sense that it's a lot of water moving in a given direction. The mechanism causing it is not the same at all, so the name tidal wave is misleading.
I think you might be a little bit insane.
There are more points that are questionable in that article: http://bit.ly/fWCuAV
Isn't the Icelandic volcano called Eyafjallajokull? Did he misspell it that bad?
They released a video a /while/ ago (6mo to a year, I think) that explained research into the "Google Circles" idea. That's where this rumor started.

I spent about ten minutes googling around for it, but apparently my google fu is weak tonight.
Facebook did try to implement something like this with their updated Groups functionality, but it still hasn't caught on. There's definitely a wide open gap for somebody to make a usable circles-like social network, but it would probably need to use the Facebook social graph as a starting point to gain any traction, and would probably want to aim for an exit strategy that ends with either Google or Facebook buying them out.

I tried working on a similar idea a couple years ago, but dropped it because I couldn't find enough of a draw to make even myself switch over from Facebook to my network, let alone other people. I wish the OP best of luck in executing this idea better than anybody else has managed to yet.
I think there are two different issues: 1) sharing sensitive information with the wrong people, and 2) sharing types of information with people who don't care to read it

I think the first issue is solved by defaulting to a smaller circle, like Path or like I would expect Google Circles to have. Most of the people I know who use Facebook intend 80-95% of their updates to the same circle of friends, and would only do a full broadcast when asking for information or promoting themselves.

For the second problem of people receiving your more mundane messages as unwanted, tools should provide more advanced relevancy or even manual filters on the receiving end.

I think anything more complex than these solutions is overkill.
Admittedly, Jobs has said many things that end up happening. That the switch on the side of the iPad would not be controllable (which it is now) is just one recent example. So anything can happen!
Well, as I alluded to, I'm not sanctioning forced identity disclosure everywhere, but I do believe that if a site owner wants to keep their site from being a cesspool without resorting to censorship, it's a better compromise to me than moderation.

It's a tricky subject, I agree, and it's clear we lie on different sides of what we consider to be acceptable, but ultimately, it's quite hard to have a community drive site the doesn't devolve -- HN, Reddit, Digg, and every other online community is a testament to that.

The fact that it's technically non-trivial to identify a person absolutely makes it harder to keep trolls away, as they're always free to get a new IP address and re-register as another username, which makes it harder to enforce standards in the community.
Is there a tutorial, or just an article, on how to set up an untraceable web service? Obscuring the ownership of a webserver while at the same time providing reliable service from it sounds like a tricky business.
Try posting a problematic piece of code on StackOverflow.
Color me educated. I used to think that a tsunami was a giant wave which would splash, and then it's gone. I didn't know/realize how slow-moving but MASSIVE this was.

So what happens to all this water? Does it eventually go back into the sea the way it came in? Or is this the default sea-level now?
I wonder if an artificial tsunami of the same scale can be achieved my setting off a nuclear bomb underwater? This seems to be more damaging (infrastructure-wise) than a direct nuke hit.
Personally, I believe the secret to social circles is building mechanisms to allow users to better control their current social networks, as opposed to hoping for wholesale migration.

Is part of your plan to allow people to continue to use their existing services/graph, and trying to slowly move them more into your network?
After those 8 days how long was it until Twitter "took off"?
Yes, it did...about 48 hours ago. The article is written in the present tense to describe the experience of the last 3 days in a vivid manner, it's not meant to be a report of the latest events. This should have been obvious from the frequent references to the passage of time and events which took place on Friday or yesterday.
Did you know Cotton Candy isn't made from cotton?
Would someone like to clue me in on all the hate of this guy named "Dvorak"?
What is "the great American neurosis" that starts with "N"? Can someone spoil it for me? Is it ... nostalgia?
No, it's naive to think that LOC means nothing — it might not be the most important metric for every situation, but given a reasonable definition, it certainly reflects something.

Otherwise, it would sound perfectly reasonable if I were to tell you, "OK, I'm going to give you a 500k LOC program to debug without tool support while I debug a 50 LOC one. First one to finish buys the other a car." You'd be naive to take that bet.
Twitter's Ryan Sarver is walking back the 'no new clients' policy
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Also check out Elixir (https://github.com/josevalim/elixir) or Efene (https://github.com/marianoguerra/efene).
I considered building an exporter to existing services, but I'm lured into to a new site by the idea of controlling the design.