skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of story are you telling to people? The about page is about the team not what the team is doing. I was expecting something about the service and what it does.

Hmmm. That's an interesting thought. There are actually two "About Us" pages, one for forum admins and one for users. Our thought was that we wanted to build credibility behind the fact that we are part of the market that we're targeting. I think special interest groups are particularly harsh to anyone not within the group, like the hacker vs. non-tech guy.

Stop using the word passionate: I keep seeing it when I look at your stuff and it sounds like marketing speak.

I didn't even realize we were doing that. I'll keep an eye out. Thanks.

I don't understand why you are partners with Forum Admins. I don't really get that at first glance.

It definitely makes more sense to the admins. We've built a plugin for vBulletin forums as we want to power their classifieds systems. Forum classifieds are not ideal for buying and selling.

Why can't I leave comments on the blogs? You talk about listening to people, but I don't know how to comment.

I'll be adding this, thanks for pointing it out. Right now I'm using Tumblr and their API to publish the blog to our site, I need to figure out a good way to integrate the comments.

Don't show enthusiastic reviews when there are none.

This is something we're grappling with right now. You're definitely not wrong. I do want to be able to highlight the functionality, though. We'll think more on this one.

Tactic: I don't know the budget you are working on

This is something we're considering and will probably do. When we have a model-specific forum on board we may buy some parts specific to that vehicle to generate a few transactions.

Thanks for the feedback.
They're the same, +new Date doing an implicit cast to number. I prefer getTime as well for its clarity.
pleas deploy http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui-for-ipad-and-iphone/ or something likt that to make the number by bar-thingie working in the ipad
This is a great space which is still in its infancy.

Check out http://www.localmind.com/ for one of your more interesting competitors.
"The EMR is dead." - Lyle Berkowitz, MD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSVIAG11OXM&feature=playe...

EMRs were originally built for data legibility, ordering, patient continuity of data (OK, we still dont have this), and better financial tracking. The large EMR vendors have largely already created this functionality, but to an interesting conclusion - the realized value was not nearly as great as the perceived value. As a result, the opportunity for startups is NOT to built a better mousetrap! For the foreseable future docs are going to be stuck with Epic, like it or not. The perceived value of a "better" EMR is not strong enough for institutions to adopt your software. You can only sell on that failed promise once.

The opportunity IMHO lies in small applications that solve the problems of docs (or nurses). Pick a niche market (primary care, ortho, peds, nursing, etc.), talk to them, find their pain points, and build software that makes it easier.
I have several self-recognized cognitive biases that make me a terrible poker player.

I hate to give up on something once I start. If I start reading a terrible book, it burns me because I feel obligated to finish. This also means its pretty tough for me to fold a hand after I've been had.

Given this bias, I've predicted that my highest EV move in poker is not to play.

(By the way, take out the extra periods from your links)
And another form is:

var I = Number(new Date);
According to Men's Health, Minneapolis is the 4th most socially networked city in the US: http://www.menshealth.com/best-life/social-networking-cities...
That's a pretty elitist view of the Midwest.

The first popular web browser (Mosaic) came from the Midwest, you know.
I love meeting new people. Smiling is like saying "Hey there! I'm So and So, how are you? Tell me about yourself!"
While I don't have any information on the selector performance, here is a snippet of an email @bcherry, the author of the self-updating timestamps, sent on some performance findings:

"Unfortunately, as you'd guess, [updating timestamps] is slow, and degrades as more tweets get added to the page. With the last 12 hours of a [test account] timeline up (1,150 tweets), it would take 115ms to regenerate all the timestamps. I'd already built in optimizations to mark >24hoursago timestamps as not needing to be checked again, and to not change the text if the text didn't change, but it was still slow. Anything more than 50ms is too slow for a recurring process.

...

The unix timestamps appear to be an even distribution in the last digit, so I just do a query on an even slice of them based on the last digit (i.e. $("._timestamp[data-time$=0"])), and update those, changing digits every 2s. This means it takes a 20s cycle to update them all.

On the same [test account] home timeline with 1,150 tweets, each batch of ~110 timestamps took ~30ms, which is totally reasonable."
The most important point that you made is that poker brings nothing to the table for a player except money. You learn little that can be monetized away from the table, and spend your time building a bankroll instead of building a business that has value other than the money it brings in.

Poker doesn't scale. The goal is to increase your hourly rate. Spend your time coding.
You can't sext if you don't have access to a cell phone. Remind me why we think kids need cell phones, computers in their rooms, access to their parents' cash, relaxed curfews, no chores, better clothes than we ever had... And why, even with all the evidence, parents come off as surprised to hear their kids --- the ones they almost never talk with and are inexplicably afraid of --- are sexting.
You need to make a minimum of 50% gross margin in services. This means if the team members make 50/hour, then you need to charge at least 100/hour. One way around this is to do fixed fee projects, but this is risky without strong processes. Also the danger zone is around 3-5 people because you dont quite make enough to hire one full time overhead person but you need half of one. Once you get to 8 or so it gets a lot easier because you can afford some overhead.

Also cash will always be a problem because if your profit margin is only around 10% you will continually be short of cash as you try to grow.
Love it. Brilliantly done article.

Growing up, the sage advice I remember most from my dad was "the law of sunken treasure" and the sunk cost fallacy.

The emotions that invariably underpin...every...thing are incredible. For better or worse, they certainly taint our otherwise rationale (sense of) judgment.

And being able to most clearly draw a distinction between latent emotion and more conscious rationale gives someone an enormous edge.

Wins and losses, and the perception and power of them, respectively is so strong, that despite almost always erroneous, is accepted as a fata compli of illogic and error by even the most seasoned and expert of gamblers.
This is probably the best explanation of the effectiveness of the customary greeting extended even to strangers in US. It may sound mechanical but it does serves an important purpose.
Oh look, Benford's Law again. Here are a few discussions to catch up on:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1917514

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2089809

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653808

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1569669

http://searchyc.com/submissions/benford+law?sort=by_date
Convertible note terms - what's typical now?
My co-founder and I are meeting with an angel next week to negotiate financing of a convertible note. We'd love some insight into or examples of ideal/realistic terms - especially cap and discount.

many many thanks.
In no particular order:

- In Russia when they ask: "how are you" they actually expect a genuine and extended answer.

- Smiles are scarce and reserved for inner social circle only.

- Men act toward any strangers as if they expected to be assaulted at any moment.

- Everyone and especially women dress up most of the time.

- When paying for goods or services change is never given straight into the palm of your hand, it's always placed into a little plate or stand instead. As if the seller is scared of any bodily contact.

- Once the communication barriers are broken and you enter the inner social circle Russian hospitality is genuine and exceeds by far any Western standards.
You may actually be making a lot of money, but cash could be tight. It may actually be hard to tell, because it is easy to let your receivables get too large. If everyone is busy, maybe no one is bothering to collect the $. Or at least you wait too long to collect the $
I picked 7, because that's what I expected other people to gravitate to, and I wanted to see if you had some fun response if I picked the most common alternative. :P
http://xkcd.com/875/
I am not really talking about a language at all (at least not on a byte-alphabet).

Maybe we misunderstood a bit. For example, take a look at the [new Redis 2.0 protocol](http://redis.io/topics/protocol). In this protocol, injections are simply impossible. This may not be the best example because you don't really have more complicated queries but you could just do the same for tree-like structures.
I think we definitely are spiraling. My argument is about how the stance MySQL took on parameterized queries has affected the product's community. I don't disagree with you on the technical issues. Well, except that providing useful tools to handle SQL defense correctly is a database issue. And pathnames are a read herring, as they are not a transport for data manipulation commands.

I guess part of it is that I'm just done watching various problems with MySQL (transaction support, parameterized queries, subqueries, bizarro query optimization) be given a pass as "not quite MySQL's problem". Maybe I'm just taking that out on this thread.
Thanks.

Just a tip: If you replied to my comment instead of to the submission, then I'd see your reply when I look at my submission status via my profile page.
Wait, you actually use a real email / password there? I'd like to introduce you to http://bugmenot.com/view/mysql.com and http://sogetthis.com/
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The App Store bears far more resemblance to Steam than to Linux distro repositories, which are primarily about resolving dependencies and being able to upgrade things without breaking dependencies. iOS and OS X Apps don't even have external dependencies other than OS-provided libraries, and most Linux package management systems don't have a standard GUI, let alone one at all like iTunes or the Mac App Store.
People don't change. However I think it would still be professional of you to talk it over with your boss and then work out when would be a good time for you to leave on good terms. I would give a minimum of two weeks and offer to train the replacement on contract (at a higher rate to encourage them not to continue to use you).
I thought the same thing - but he does seem to have a pretty good argument backing up his terminology:

http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=340#co...

If the link doesn't work, it's down a ways in the comments.
Oracle's security team bear full responsibility for this breach. MySQL's founder Monty Widenius left Sun in 2005. Sun declined, Oracle bought them as a strategic buy and the portal has been neglected to the point of being compromised.

One wonders what internal neglect MySQL is suffering behind the corporate veil.
I think you're wrong, both in your general point and about the possibility about Redis query injection; unfortunately, you're wrong in ways I'm not at liberty to correct. I can only ask that you take my word for it that you need to be as mindful with the code that constructs Redis keys as you do with code that concatenates SQL queries. And, as with SQL, much (perhaps most) production-quality code isn't susceptible to attack; but the lines that are tend to blindside you.
I would say on the diet/food thing, learning to cook properly for myself was one of the best choices I've made. Once you know how to cook you can safely ignore fad diets and you'll intuitively understand how to eat well, because you'll see exactly what goes into everything you eat.
Massive certificate warning. Technical words. Expired 5 minutes ago. And I'm using FF4.

Seems like FF continues to have no consideration for the non-technical audience who will click 'Get me out of there' or close the tab. And just because the certificate expired 5 minutes ago.

This is why I'm not forcing https onto visits.
> Objecting to this is simply inane. NLP may be bunk, but if you truly believe that what people mean === what they say, I feel sorry for you.

You've completely misunderstood what I said. I don't know how to begin to respond as it has no bearing whatsoever to what I wrote.
People haven't seen it, many aren't using a DVCS of some sort.

That's like refusing to keep making foie gras after you've distributed a single package of it. Not everybody gets to be as hipster-early to everything as you were in this case, sadly.
So, is it "app" or "store" that Apple objects to? Or is it simply the combination of those terms and, in all actuality, Amazon could simply call it the "Android App Mart/Market/Superstore/Supermarket" and Apple would just go away?
If parameterized queries guaranteed a total separation between user input and query structure, you'd be right. But they don't. They guarantee a separation between some user inputs and query structure.
Kapi, a keyframe API for HTML5 canvas, hits 1.0 beta
Scotty's Law? (If you think something takes N units time, say it takes 3N units, so that you look brilliant when it takes 2N units)
My favorite line: "easy for me, so hard for others"
What makes any subsequently chosen number any less valid than the first one?
From a comment in the article, you can view the review in iTunes (link launches iTunes):
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewUsersU...
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I am sure many have experienced people in a social situation acting extremely happy to see each other, however, once alone some of these people(not necessarily Russians) start trying to draw a wedge between themselves and the others via backstabbing/two faced behavior. You will see it on school playgrounds, you will see it with friendships & you will see it in the professional world. This leads you to be distrusting of the smile. I smile, you smile, but it doesn't really break the ice because I don't know who you really are or what your motives are. I may see you smiling & shaking hands with the person you were just bitching about ten minutes ago. Again more distrust.

Reading & listening beyond the obvious expression may be more valuable than just taking it at "face value".

That said, the smile is probably more useful as a default than a glower or frown. At least it does seem to present a willingness to open dialog. People are more likely to approach someone who is smiling at them, than someone who is sending them an icy look.
> Apple says, "...nothing like the App Store has ever been attempted before."

What Apple actually says is """As a columnist for The New York Times remarked soon after the launch of the
service, "[nlothing like the App Store has ever been attempted before.""""

Yes, Apple is trying to push that idea, but it is not them that said it (in that instance). Apple even notes that similar mobile phone download marketplaces existed before their version of one (though they do not mention the Wii store or Xbox live marketplace which also predate it).
Nah, come join the fun w/ the Plan 9 crew at http://golang.org!
Maybe the author is old. Every kid in Minneapolis is on Facebook and sends 8000 text messages per month.
A hospital when implementing an EMR is looking for some cost benefit in doing so. One obvious one is reducing medical errors. The other is reducing staff size.
If the physician has to do all the work in entering the medication (drug, dosage, start/stop time, a reason, etc.), someone in the pharmacy department of the hospital is probably not doing it - reduced staff size = more profit for the hospital.
Why? It's a pretty relevant plug -- I think that's ok!
Since Objective-C is a superset of C, it also gets compiled in a top-down fashion[1]. if you don't want to add a method to your interface (public or private), just put it above everything else that will use it.

1. I believe there is something about only allowing fir a single pass in the standard, but, don't quote me on it.
The expanding images on rollover is awful usability, the site idea is clever.

Does anyone have an example number I can use to see how it works? I don't have any text books and don't know what to search for on Amazon.
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Nope, PHP silently converts URL parameters into arrays (and if you don't expect this, than you can get a nasty NOSQL inject)

http://www.php.net/manual/en/mongo.security.php
Squirrel - Timesheet Manager version 1.2.0.0 released.
It's one of a large variety of tools that addresses this problem, which begs for a response clarifying where his product fits in and what its strengths and weaknesses are. Now we're no longer talking about SQLI on MYSQL.COM; we're talking about scanners... because a vendor wants us to.

But, more to the point, how annoying would it be if every time I responded to a comment on HN, I added "this is one of the many things we take care of it you get us to review your applications"?

When threads are about products, I think it's fine --- helpful, even! --- to point out competing offerings and alternatives. But on news stories, let's just keep the commercial offerings off the threads.
Sorry, science wants you break some sweat and move to a proper computer. :P
There is no reason to ask such a question because potential projects are outlined in _thousands_ of places across the net. It seems that he put absolutely no effort into googling and finding such projects on his own.
When I first downloaded the CoverFlow app on a Mac, I said to the person beside me... "Apple will integrate this in iTunes." It wasn't long before Apple bought them out and began sprinkling CoverFlow across everything Apple.

When I first downloaded F.lux I thought the same thing. Here's the next obvious buy.

That they haven't offered you a fat wad of cash to buy your improvement to the iDevices as something you live with in your home suggests to me that Apple is in the process of dropping the ball, when it comes to ergonomics and HI.

This should be baked into Lion. It just should. Thanks.
An alternative idea would be to display a link to a page where the data will be displayed once it is ready. I agree that just getting a "Science thanks you" message feels a little like being cheated, but it didn't bother me because I knew I'd be coming back here and waiting for info about results.
We meant to post a Show HN. We'll work on the usability. We built this out of a startup weekend. Not exactly a startup yet, but we had a lot of fun. Thanks for the feedback.
> At first I decided to hack RSA algorithm, I did too much investigation on SSL protocol, tried to find an algorithm for factoring integer, analyzed existing algorithms, for now I was not able to do so, at least not yet, but I know it's not impossible and I'll prove it

Huh. He kind of lost all credibility at that point. Breaking RSA isn't something you just decide to do. I'll wait for the day when he announces he's broken it.
Product Engineer at BackType
I'm English. I live in the US. I actually like the American "how are you?" ritual; it can simply act as a ritual, but it can also convey genuine welcome, or you can go "off script" as necessary.

Contrast to the older English "how do you do" pairing, which is so much a non-question that it doesn't even deserve a question mark.

In my small town, I'd venture that most how-are-you questions are genuine.
One million electric vehicles: is this video the trailer?
Nice idea, but:

"We're sorry, but something went wrong."

http://www.beerfortextbooks.com/results?brand=bud&q=ISBN...
FF uses scary language etc specifically so that non-techies won't ignore the warning. Make it so that non-techies ignore the warning for Wikipedia and they will ignore it when the connection to their bank is being mitmed.

Why are you blaming Firefox? Why do you not blame Wikipedia for not admining their servers properly?
Thought of submitting this to mechanical turk in order to get a lot of data?
Its a cool idea but I would recommend A/B testing different GUI for picking numbers for removing some of the possible biases. I personally picked 7, most likely because the human eye moves from top left to bottom right so I scanned what the choices were then picked the number near where my eye last looked.

Also, I would love to see a heat map/click map of that page.
I benchmarked all the variations on Chrome, var foo = +new Date() was the fastest—not by a huge amount than the rest, but I remember there was one approach that was especially slow.

I did this while optimizing performance of a fast-paced game in Javascript (LineRage). Profiling showed that getting timestamps was responsible for significant portion of the processing time. I also ended up switching to a global clock approach.

Unfortunately I no longer have the original benchmark code/results. Would be happy to have someone replicate it.
Don't know about 3, but if a price includes lots of 8s, the seller is definitely aiming at Chinese buyers. Seeing this left and right here in Vancouver, and it looks corny at best. Like trying to lure Russians with a picture of vodka, or Americans with that of a cowboy hat.
Thanks for letting us know. We'll work on it and fix the bugs.
I find the argument that this isn't a bubble because the people driving up valuations are private investors to be a bit of a red herring. That doesn't affect bubbletude, just who gets hurt if and when it pops. Inflationary bidding with the expectation of continued growth forms bubbles wherever it happens.

Otherwise, the point about bubbledom being determined by the strength of the companies involved is valid. So too, is the point about diversified revenue streams speaking to a stronger underlying market. I'd actually like to see more on this last point. We can all agree that it makes sense that a market that relies on a single revenue stream (advertising) would be shakier than a diversified one, but I'd like to see some analysis into how diversified the current market is, and what that says about it's fundamental strength.
If there are enough data points (which it seems like there is), and each UI is chosen a random 1/4 of the time, then it will be very easy to isolate and determine the effect of the slider UI. Problems would arise if the slider was chosen 60% of the time in Firefox, but only 30% of the time in Opera, and if Opera had a 20% higher population of hackers, who had a distribution centered around 6 as opposed to the aggregate population centered around 5; as is, it sounds like there's plenty of random sampling solving these complications.