skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why doesn't Stack Overflow make a push API that feeds Google changes to pages when A. they know they happen and B. when they arn't under peak load?

(edit: besides the obvious limitations that Google may not have an API that is exposed to the public)
> there were huge protests against the draft for World War I.

Wilson campaigned against the war, and then turned around and escalated.

FWIW, the WWI draft protests were much less vehement than the Civil War draft protests. (Curiously, the draft protests were much worse in the NE, especially NY and NYC even more so, than the in the midwest and south.)

> And rather than being able to rely on the volunteers, the U.S. had to draft something like 10 million men for World War II.

Nope. WWII had a surplus of volunteers and they used the draft to manage things.
"Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS. People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."

So when did Zuckerberg develop these "lofty goals" and "ideals"?
The contracts that most offices have with professional "gardeners" cost significantly more money than you may expect. If only hoop's office management would have realized that some people may be willing to take on some of the maintenance.

EDIT: Here's a presentation through the Green Building Council of Australia that highlights the benefits of indoor environments on productivity. Note however, it is sponsored by a company that offers the previously mentioned contracts.

(PDF)
http://www.gbca.org.au/uploads/70/2886/Meet%20the%20Stars-%2...

Here is a study published in the American Society for Horticultural Sciences' HortScience journal: http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/cgi/content/full/43/1/18...
While I agree that we should not blindly place trust in security tools and assume we are safe, this link [1] gives me some optimism about TC's security (if it is to be believed... that's the problem with paranoia).

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/brazil_banker_crypto...
How talking about something popular gave me the opportunity to pimp my product.
Startup Quote (Anniv. Ed.): Forrest Gump, co-founder, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
I imagine the ONLY reason is that Google don't have such an API that is exposed to the public.
For me to adopt cloud storage more readily, I would have to see: a) greater demonstration of security of the service, and b) the ability to mount the storage device (NFS-styley) across various platforms.

Dropbox's syncing daemon doesn't quite cut it on the elegance factor for me, though it does serve the purpose well.

All the same, DropBox is an essential tool for me, and I grabbed my free 5 gigs from Amazon this AM. Can't wait to see in what direction cloud storage providers head as the industry grows.
Exactly. In fact, I'd say as an entrenched incumbent, they have every reason now to oppose net neutrality. They can afford to make deals with the telcos and pay more for the bandwidth in order to keep the upstart competition out of the race.
I agree with you for the most part, but consider for a moment that few people will never understand the type of math he explains. For most people, what he says sounds like gibberish. I know my math pretty well, and while my interest was piqued by the outlandish title, I was even more impressed by the boy's ability to explain these concepts so clearly while writing the proofs at the same time. That shows deep understanding.

You may think that this "circus" doesn't do anyone any good, but I disagree. He will get far more attention than he otherwise would have. And I bet there will be someone who will hear about his story in the press with the right patience to develop his mind to the genius it has the potential to be.
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.

- Forrest Gump

http://startupquote.com/post/4185557630
I strongly believe IDC can predict whatever they are paid to.
It actually seems to flow pages better than the stock browser (Atrix running Froyo). Specifically, http://www.linux.org.ru has tab on the left in the proper position in Firefox while the stock browser puts it after the main content div.

The mobile tabs are awesome. And I really like the fact that I can get to the address bar while being half way into the page. The Awesome Bar is also, well, awesome. I thought I might not like it, coming off of an iPhone, but it actually works really well.

My only complaint so far is that spell checking does not appear to be turned on, and capitalization does not work by default. Very frustrating when trying to post comments to HN...

Set it to the default browser in a heartbeat.
OK, sorry for mischaracterizing your point.
A Proposal: Scarcity, Sheep Throwing and NYTimes Pay Wall
The Game: Using Linkedin to Land that Job
Root Cause Analysis
My question would be "does SO create contet at that rate?" It seems to me that google need not index your site faster than you're creating things for it to see. Is there a way to vary how often google indexes you with how often your uses create content automatically?
Why does every discussion even remotely related to lisp have to end with someone saying "the problem with the lisp community was..."?
KeepAlive is off 100% of the time because "Wake up at 3 AM in morning, in response to my cell phone playing Ride of the Valkyries because a server is offline, to tweak the config file locking out thousands of people who want to see my writing" is sensible precisely 0% of the time.
Microsoft Research Details Faster Method For Identifying Player Bodies On Kinect
Everybody is Genius
‎"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
Is this what the world looked like before we invented _why?
Wired's not the source, you extremely nice person you, the photographer is a friend of mine.

And please do go directly to the source, 360cities deserves it.
Peter-Paul Koch at HUGE in April
Jeff Bezos and Root Cause Analysis

http://www.shmula.com/jeff-bezos-5-why-exercise-root-cause-a...
Continued lines for Apple's iPad 2 create 'shock and awe,' sales forecasts surge
The only videos I can find about this is him showing basic calculus. I would love to see a video of him explaining his theory.
Oh sweet, another font where the word "I'll" looks bizarre.
I had the pleasure of being one of Olin's undergraduate students in his also infamous compilers course. We even worked together on a paper for a Scheme conference back in 2004. Anyways, one of the things I will always remember him say to a group of students: "There are no stupid questions, only stupid students." And he always started a class with a story about his college days. Great guy.
> Solar panels are already good enough that they are used in developed countries such as USA and UK. Are they perfect? No, they cost too much, and they don't generate enough electricity, but they are used none-the-less.

Subsidy and vanity explain a lot of economic activity.

Plus, energy costs are not very uniform. It's much easier/cheaper to get power to the next house in a suburb than it is to get power to a freeway sign 10 miles from the nearest town. That's why solar is cost effective in some situations even when it doesn't make sense in general.
hopefully they add the ability to bulk export. otherwise, you are semi-locked into this cloud music solution. what happens when a better/cheaper service comes out and you need to move your music?
Getting paid is when it becomes a real business, IMO.
Sure, but that clearly falls into the domain of personal choice. If you make the decision to raise a family, you presumably do this with awareness of the costs, consequences, and compromises that are likely to result.

You don't ask for cancer( although lifestyle choices do contribute ), but you do choose to say "I do", and either "Let's make a babby" or "Let's keep it", so this is not a material concern with regard to ethical consequences of availability of health insurance to startup founders.
Just shut down :)
More effort does not equal more reward - Here's why
From what I remember, the problem isn't producing something that parses (for the emitter), the problem is producing something that could still be considered human readable and/or not horribly ugly.
One point on the cost issue. To an individual a Windows server license looks like a lot of money but to a business it really doesn't matter. Every server my company buys has many paying customers tied to it so it really doesn't matter to us at all.
Chrome 9.0.597.83 beta for Linux does not do a very good job with the kerning on that page. Not sure if it's bad hinting or just poor rendering, though.
I want to use Sync, but I'm really concerned with the security of it. How do I know my data is safe?

Can I install a sync server on my own domain?
To the most magnificent and exulted poster,

What mayhaps be a most terrifying thing, as that I speak as doth say on a regular regimen. I am a member of the court of the SCA(Society for Creative Anachronism), and it takes me great pleasure to admit as such, milord.
I know there are others out there (Microsoft, Android, etc.) but I do not like corporate branded fonts. I'd much rather they choose a more creative name and open it up for much broader use.
You think that removes it from their database? They've already said that they don't delete the data, they just hide it.
Cisco to buy NewScale
Sakae Muto, a Tokyo Electric vice-president, said the traces of plutonium-238, 239 and 240 were in keeping with levels found in Japan in the past due to particles in the atmosphere from nuclear testing abroad.

"I apologize for making people worried," Muto said.

At the bottom of the article, it even admits that there is nothing to worry about, after spending the rest of the page inciting panic. This is journalism?
'Track Changes' for Your Genes: Darpa Goal
Everyone has potential biases, and there are practical biases for judges that are more significant than "took a paycheck from the RIAA", and we accept them routinely.
FWIW, I didn't think so at first. After reading a few of more of Shivers' writings linked here I get it, but initially it comes off as crazy.
Joking about one's self is not necessarily self-deprecation. You can exaggerate things for humorous effect in a way that's only partially deprecating, or even not at all. Without knowing the author, it may be hard to tell.
Groupon vs. the Price of Gasoline
Ah, I can get outside the building without leaving my computer! I still think talking to actual people is more informing, because they'll often indicate secondary or even completely irrelevant information that is more important. An experiment will mainly either confirm or disprove an existing hypothesis (though you may still get some info by asking for feedback etc - just much less, and less often, than from a live conversation). In summary: personal contact helps (said to be a comparative advantage of SV).

Can people really lauch several mini-webapps over lunch? I guess if you have rails hosting setup and know your way round a domain name registrar, and practice this a few times, you really could get that fast (for, of course, simple webapps, like isitdownforeveryoneorjustme, or isitfriday etc). Payment setup might be more hassle... but I guess if you have set up paypal once, it's not hard to repeat. There are also various 3rd party services (like Wufoo/google forms, fax, recurring charges, etc) and APIs. Though you couldn't learn them all and use them several times over lunch, after a little practice you could (maybe just one use is enough).

Who cares what you call yourself? An entrepreneur by any other name etc. It only matters when you have to impress people, in a courtly procotol sense.
I strongly believe in your belief.

Windows platform mobile phones are going to have to convert a lot a burnt fingers to get any decent percentage of the market.
I agree with everything this blogger saids. It's funny because went attended a conference at UNC about facilitating entrepreneurial growth and I just remember thinking to myself that-"They are creating a new bubble".

Also, another thing to think about is that employers are also using the entrepreneurial framework or wordplay to inspire their employees to create new profitable departments. We are defiantly in the middle of a bubble either way.
Is it legal to fake users?
I thought steve blank was done blogging? Or he once said he was done publishing things on the web or something along those lines...
Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit
Sweet! I'm living there next semester.
25 cents per 1000 calls? Is that a reasonable price? If you were to have an ad-supported page that requires a call to the DB then you would need to have 25 cents CPM just to break even.
The benchmark numbers seem great, but actual browsing perf doesn't seem any better if not worse than the stock Nexus S browser. Just curious if Mozilla spends a lot of time optimizing benchmarks or the top 1000 sites?

I'm just having trouble reconciling their incredible benchmark numbers with how it feels to simply browse the web.
I think, now this is my opinion on the article that this would be more relavent if the 'jobs' were high profile or 'hacker friendly' jobs. Say for x,y,z high profile startup, or Google/Twitter etc... You wouldn't necessarily need to try very hard on getting a job at Generic Skilled Inc or Joe Blow Sys.
If they let me upload and download files using an API instead of browser and all that CAPTCHA nonsense I would actually invest time and maybe some money to develop a native client for this service.

But considering the current experience of 'storing a file' I'm better off sending myself an email, let alone using Dropbox.
relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211928
In general, I'm with you, but in this case, it's significant in my opinion. There's very few people who at 23 could even think of donating $1M, especially money they've earned on their own. Meanwhile it's fairly common to hear about some founder/CEO in general donate $1M. I think mentioning the age is just to highlight how great this guy is. Just saying "Kik founder" might take away from it.
I tend to agree with the sentiment here; I like to play around with new ideas/stuff/software/architecture, and constantly look for way to make use of it day-to-day.

But if I've decided to take on a new project it's best to default to my usual stack (PHP (Kohana), MySQL Nginx) and rattle out the basics. It makes a lot of sense to solve a "hard problem" in an environment that is second nature to you; too many projects flounder because as well as the project you're also dealing with a new architecture.

(this is why I always dislike this idea of using a project to learn an language... it never works out)

Actually, as an example of this, I've been working on a new project at work recently which uses PHP/MySQL - but I've been looking into packaging it as a VM appliance, and the considerations/work related to that has put me about a week behind getting the actual project done.
Queratocono
I find that WHEN YOU gratuitously use CAPITAL letters in your HACKER NEWS posts, it radically lowers READING speed and annoys THE everloving shit OUT OF most people trying to parse WHAT THE hell you're trying to SAY.

That said, I agree that minimal variation of blood sugar levels tends to result in greater focus, though the route to getting there doesn't necessarily have to be through starvation.
Google is constantly re-indexing old pages, so the rate of new content creation isn't that big a factor in the crawl rate (though I imagine it does cause Google to ramp up their crawling rates if they aren't already running at the maximum).
Author is right on. Reminded me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329105 - drawing the line between work, play and deliberate learning.
Independent test by people like Microsoft and Cnet seem to indicate that Firefox is doing well with resource usage. What makes you think otherwise?:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/28/browser-power-...

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20047314-12.html
Start Small, Get Big. 5 NoInvestment Success Stories (audio)
It sounds like he sold part of his personal founders shares in order to prevent further dilution in the round. From the article he only took the 1M? If that's true that's a pretty benevolent gift.

The shares, valued at $1 million, were sold to one of three VC investors to prevent further dilution of other Kik employees’ shares.
Posting a link since I hadn't heard of it before, assuming we're talking about the same one:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud: Cloudal
Yes, google webmaster tools include a multiposition slider for crawl rate. It's on the screenshot at the original answer.
Announcing a New Open Source Application Development Book
Changing the world doesn't have to be through starting a company. Often times, employees of companies, even established ones, end up changing the world. That's the entire point of the article, and one that squares well with the evidence. Consider Apple's recent products, the development of Java at Sun, the creation of Unix at Bell Labs, Gmail and Chrome at Google, and so on. None of the creators of these products (well, except maybe Paul Buchheit) made seven- or eight-figure exits, but they had much more of an impact on the world than the vast majority of startups, even those that did get acquired.
They've been working on a variety of performance indicators:

http://blog.lassey.us/2011/03/29/mobile-firefox-performance-...
Mobile Web vs Native App: Give It a Rest
Interesting. His responses are far more down-to-earth than I would have expected them to be. One funny comment:

> I'm not sure where else people meet women
Spoken like a true /b/tard.
You can.

Source code: http://hg.mozilla.org/services/sync-server
Instructions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Sync/1.1/Setup
Many companies have house typefaces, and, if you're going to do that, you might as well have the page that says you got Bruno Maag to do it.

Really, when you get to the size of a company like Nokia, you're inevitably going to have an enormous marketing budget just for the boring stuff, like printing costs and designing the N+100th version of your N+100th product's N+5th slick. These are marketing dollars that are getting spent not out of ego, but simply to keep the train on the tracks.

Compared to those expenses, no matter how much it costs to engage Dalton Maag, it's still probably a rounding error.

Wouldn't you rather live in a world where big companies occasionally gave excellent typographers interesting problems to work on, rather than paying someone to round the corners on FF Meta or something?
oh a Saviour has come. Adblock plus for mobile.
This is the one killer tool i have been waiting for.
SETI doesn't thrill me -- Bible's been there. Prophecy is in the Bible. A science minded atheist has some catching-up to do. Prophecy is like time travel, unless it's a promise to act and make-it-so. Angels have phenominal predictive powers, or maybe it is time travel.

God says...
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estimated pursuing plainer retard slipped deserts abuse
heavenly you Interrupt maturing fashioned lawfully laughed
sank One whithersoever parted leaps gleams whilst manfully
abashed nearer promising musing Continual concludeth sweetness
cogito goods visions littles ignorance itch drawn north
letter greatly accepted brute wast tongue affect engine
intrude additional Grief solemnities anyone hungered greet
stilled amazement swaying shakes creepeth penally occasion
Apollinarian rob Euodius majesty Prophet baptise wail
Ruler fabulous recesses Eastern irrevocable disentangle
gains naturally snares satiate skirmishes forgetteth extended
seductions Foundation while
Animals That Act Like Humans
Well my site will be solely driven by users interacting with other users. I was wondering if the Hacker News community can provide some valuable insight into a viral marketing strategy to focus on niches and then expand.
I love how they, for the three example sites, quote three different metrics of how much integrating support for Commerce Searched helped:

[...] Woodcraft increased search revenues 34 percent, BabyAge increased site searches 64 percent and HealthWarehouse saw online conversions increase 19 percent [...]

Makes it ... kind of hard to compare, and also hard to draw conclusions, I guess.
Keith Packard explains the future of Linux graphics (2011 linux.conf.au video)
Libertarianism is about liberty, not about optimising statistics like "the cost of climate change" (whatever that's supposed to mean).

The climate will change. That's completely natural and I can't see a reason to stop it (honestly I think it's impossible). Humans and other animals will just adapt and the evolution will continue.
I guess. It just kindof sucks when you're younger, sometimes it feels like people are saying "Yeah, that's really cool...for a kid".

I really don't care that much, I was just curious if other people my age felt the same way.
I like the dots on the i's and j's.
Nice try Ted.
Great Tips. Do you have any suggestion on mixing Social Networks with the power of viral Marketing to bring ample traffic to the site for conversions.
This isn't exactly abnormal. SO is a big site with alot of fresh content, I'm guessing google indexes many thousands of sites at that rate. What's surprising to me is that it surprises them.
>(this is why I always dislike this idea of using a project to learn an language... it never works out)

How than do you learn a language?
How to Target Affluent Facebook Users
You should take a look at Wavemaker, they just got picked up by VMware. http://www.wavemaker.com/
I found an article [1] which cites "The Effect of Live Plants and Window Views of Green Spaces on Employee Perceptions of Job Satisfaction" [2], by googling for "study shows plants office"... I was sure I would find a PR fluff piece with those terms!

See also [3]

[1] http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/eco-friendly/plants...
[2] http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/43/...
[3] http://www.plantcultureinc.com/whyGreen.html
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