skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best line is clearly Buffet's - "Why be CEO of one top-tier business if you are capable of running 10? If Kevin Rose took this advice we wouldn’t have had Pownce.com would we?”

Verbal volleys.
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Ask HN: Review Refynr.com: de-clutter Twitter
I'm at the Beta stage where I'm testing charging a one-time for Refynr, but want to find out if a) anyone is really interesting in filtering Twitter & Facebook, and b) if they're interested, why aren't they willing to pay a one-time $5 fee?

What's Refynr.com?

It's a Twitter + FB client that filters out the clutter from your feeds, and then saves them for you to read later.

You may ask... Why not just unfollow? Or create Lists?

No individual posts interesting stuff 100% of the time, but that doesn't mean I don't want to follow them. I don't want to miss the cool things they tweet, etc. Lists are too hard to maintain, and can only contain up to 500 users. I want to simly refine my feeds with a lot of filter options (and foursquare & FF stuff should be filtered out by default!)

Why don't I put ads on Refynr.com instead of charging $5?

1) I'm solo and bootstrapping, so need more revenue than that
2) Don't you think ads would be kind of inconsistent with the concept of Refynr: keeping the clutter out?

Finally, is there something wrong with the site design or text that would keep you from paying a mere $5 for lifetime access to Refynr.com?

Do I not sell the idea well?

Is something off-putting?

Does it need a 30-day Trial?

TIA!
There is nothing in 99% of Ruby slowness culture that is due to optimizing for the programmer IMHO. It is just the missing profiling step or the right design to be fast most of the times. So many things can be improved without killing any abstraction opportunity.

On the other side, profitable or not, users don't like to wait that 200 milliseconds more because the code is not written in the right way.
(1) Roads and police are a relatively small portion of your taxes. So this statement is a little bit of a bait and switch. Most of it goes towards Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and the DoD.

(2) By aggregating everything into "taxes", individual services do not have accountability. The more locally funded something is, the more accountable it is -- and the more likely it will be discontinued if enough people decide it's not worth the money.

(3) The amount matters. You can assent in the abstract, but 1% vs. 10% vs. 90% vs. 100% taxation are very different. As you increase it, more want to opt out. The guns of the IRS ensure that they can't.
My only caution would be that some employers frown on 2-3 year gaps in employment.

I do wish it were more feasible to find part-time jobs in software development.
The VoIP and System engineer positions are full-time and on-site jobs, no exceptions here. If you're an experienced Perl/Catalyst hacker with a good track record, we would also consider telecommute and/or contracting.
demjson looks crazy fast.
It's nice to know that you guys make mistakes too. Thanks.
Can the company license the code from you for a monthly license fee (Annual license fee + support and maintenance (e.g. beenfits) / into monthly mapyments)
This is certainly a sort of restating of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor except with the assumption that there's a lot of material to start with.

I think these kinds of patterns are nice thought experiments for sure... for instance the antithesis to what you speak is to start with the absolute bare minimum, and then to consternate quite a bit before adding anything.

Additionally one could use randomness or Vonnegut style cut-ups to juxtapose unrelated ideas into possibly new concepts.

I'm glad you have found a method that works for you! That is perhaps the best statement of all.
Seems kind of obvious that Calacanis would eventually do something like this.
If you run rm -r / you'll learn where they got the name "cluster" from
The $151k besting of Start Fund was pretty good, too.
Being a Google Autocompleter
clickable link: http://refynr.com/
Thanks for the clarification, I meant isotopes. My point was not "no analogy is perfect", my point was most analogies I have seen from the pro-nuclear crowd were stupid and insulting. Sorry I can't find better words for it. What haven't we read - from eating bananas to the sun, you name it.
It would be really cool to see how many websites failed because of this. Mashing up the amount of caching that actually goes on would be a cool metric to further improve CDN's with, anyone agree?
There are so many updates that I miss from people I care about, and chance upon them much later !

* There doesn't seem to be a way to explicity follow all the updates of a person

* If I manage to get my friends into a group, their updates still don't show up in the group

* The current News Feed algorithm is weighed a little too tightly to the people I interact with often

Hmm .. maybe I should try writing a client with these features ;)
Agreed. It's definitely not high enough contrast for such a thin font.
Who else checked for a "news.calacaniscombinator.com"?
One nice trick with Option, is how you can replace null checks for common operations. For example, consider the difference between:

InputStream i = ...

if (i != null) {
i.write(...)
}

vs.

val i: Option[InputStream] = ..

i.map(_.write(...))

Simple, safe, works really well.
It wasnt the second time. Since it was an Ask HN, people continued voting for it from what I guess is the ask tab on the main page. At some point it picked up ~15 votes and broke on through to the main page. Also, if you look at the posts so far, none of them answers the question.
I'm the same way. I had to go through all of pi to find the part after 197. For me, it's broken up like this:

3.141 59 26 53 58 979 323 846 264 3383 27950 288 4197 169 399 375 10 58

So it was even a bit hard to see the 197 in there, because it's "4197" for me.
Of course. If I can see an online photo with good comments, it must be legit. My bad.
quant.ly is down temporarily because of the .ly domain issues with LibyanSpider but it'll be back up as soon as that resolves itself.
kind of nit-picky, but your logo looks very similar to stumbleupon's.
Since you said installer I might assume use of windows, take a look at notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)

OS x or linux check out gedit. (http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ Downloads on right side of front page.) Also available for windows, but notepad++ is a little easier to use if you are used to windows programs.
I disagree.

Speed at scale and scalability are the same thing, but speed and scalability most certainly aren't. A server that performs really well on a single request, but slows down as requests are added would be considered 'fast', but not 'fast at scale'.

Yes, there are plenty of instances in which this is the case, and most notably, this is a very common affliction with databases. Also, even in scenarios where you can add more web servers to an application stack, you can't necessarily add more database instances, so you scale those UP instead of OUT.

In summary, the statements made in the article are true, but yours aren't really. In the case of web servers, yeah, they're almost the same thing. In the case of other things, they're generally not.
What's the advantage of open information in the context of social applications? Excluding of course social networks built on mutual interest, like twitter or quora. With real-world friends, family, contacts, etc., the closed nature of facebook is what makes it attractive to me. And I think that's true for most users. It's probably why there's massive outrage every time they relax their privacy defaults.

Maybe data portability? But data on facebook is portable enough, and even if it weren't, what are you going to import it in? Some hypothetical future rival social network? I imagine for a majority of users, simply viewing a friend's profile to remember an email address, phone number, etc, is enough.
Adobe quits Flash, goes full HTML5
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Isn't everything about film and film-watching "exclusively a habit, a purely conventional thing, imposed by culture"? Or are there aspects that are objective? (Would I even watch a James Cameron film if it weren't for cultural norms encouraging me to?)
http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/

http://highfrequencytradingreview.com/
This is why I host my own. Cost of doing business.
If there is a problem and they need us to spend time looking into it, there is a charge for that time. If it is a problem with my workmanship than we will waive the charge.

If they insisted on a language/framework/product/etc and that is the root cause of the problem, they will pay for the fix.
I think many of you are missing the point. One could argue both for and against killing the elephants. I think what's important here, and this is just a guess on my part, is that 1) I believe that Parsons was using this as an excuse to kill some really big wild game in Africa to show how "manly" he is; and 2) he clearly enjoyed it as evidenced by the big smile on his face in the pictures. For comparison, American Indians used to kill buffalo but I don't think they gloated over it as Parsons is doing. They had reverence for the buffalo and demonstrated that by using every bit of each buffalo they killed. Parsons, on the other hand, just did it for the thrill of the kill and that, to me, is wrong.

By the way, I moved all of my domains off GoDaddy last year. I got tired of paying above-market prices just so that GoDaddy could create those lame Super Bowl commercials. Also, their UI sucks.
I want to add a couple more to the list...

http://www.accumulus.com/

http://www.zuora.com/
I wonder what the total amount spent on one off joke domains is per year, and where it would rank on the list of national GDP's.
This is part of the reason that I'd ideally like to never have employees. Because it would be horrible to have to lay someone off.
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"Assuming the bitrates are the same, 48fps will require 80% of the bandwidth needed to handle 60."

Not exactly - while your 80% approximation is true for uncompressed footage, h.264 encoded video and essentially every modern day video compression schema will inherit data from the frame(s) before it. The higher the framerate, the less (generally speaking) the images will change between frames - leading to a reduction in data per frame.

Here's an example:

File 1: http://files.jjcm.org/60fps.mp4 - 127KB

File 2: http://files.jjcm.org/48fps.mp4 - 119KB

As seen here, the 48fps video 94% of the size of the 60 fps video. Granted, this is a singular example, but at least it supports the concepts that I described above.
I've been looking at HipHop lately -- can you give me a general idea of how much you have to work around HipHop for it to still compile? I know that the references I've seen to it have all indicated that it might choke on certain types of code, but I'm curious as to how mindful you have to be?
Robert Greyling on Spark View Engine on 12 April 2011
Oh, so the 1994 look of their website wasn't the joke?
check it http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?list=all&q=solar
No, the Hollywood "look" is having tens/hundreds of millions of dollars to dump. TV looks low-budget because it is low budget. But there's a big difference between real low budget TV and simply TV.

Honestly, download an original British or Canadian drama show that doesn't get carried in the US and you'll see low budget. You'll see horrific, unwatchable direction.

I'm sorry, but give Sam Raimi a video camera with any frame rate and there's a significant chance he'll produce a blockbuster with it. I mean Oliver Stone released big budget movies using Super8!

The Hollywood "look" is genericness, because like everything else about Hollywood the studios are whole-heartedly fearful of anything that might stop someone watching a film, and in doing so turn people off watching films by lacking originality from plot to cast to cameras.
How does it make sense for google to pay for the hosting for this stuff?

Or google charts...I'm building a product that uses this pretty heavily right now, but it seems too good to be true. Generating those graphs for me is really nice, but the bandwidth and CPU cycles that I'm using aren't free (for google), what's their upside?

Cool, google, and thanks, but how does this make financial sense for you?
When will Calcanis Combinator launch Webspam News?
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Awesome, thanks for the great response. Curious if you're familiar with the common trend in the last half-decade~decade or so of Masters in Financial Engineering degree programs popping up.

Would you say spending the 150K+ and years needed to do well on the 7City exam to work as an "official quant" at famous investment banks is reasonable? There seems to be little hiring/demand for quants coming out of these programs, despite the as-of-now still high admission and graduation rates.

If the job description is as variable as you say it is, would it not make more sense to work on becoming a trader at a number of different banks, firms, and prop shops and not waste all the time and money on getting an MFE? It was popular pre-housing bubble and apparently job placement for graduates was high, yet I'm not sure this is the case is now. Could you comment on this, seeing as you're working there already?
i suggest perusing the ssh man, then, as it seems likely that it has other capabilities you don't know about.
"Big and boring"... I thought this was going to be another one of those posts about writing "boring" code instead of being excessively clever, as boring is well tested and boring is easily maintained.

Instead, it's another "I don't like using Facebook" post.

Joy.
sounds like the kind of project a decent coder could make big improvements on fast
It seems to me that the author here is drawing the conclusions that he wants from this data. While there does seem to be a correlation between intelligence and income, this correlation has nothing at all to do with whether or not these smart, wealthy people are indeed exploitative of the poor or not. It is in many cases advantageous for CEOs of large companies to use their wealth and political influence in ways that are detrimental to their workers, the environment, and/or our economy.

Second, "productivity" in this article seems to be a vague metric (this is probably because I'm not well versed in economics). As someone asked above, does productivity increase as you move up an organization's hierarchy? The CEO of Nike has likely never sewn a shoe together, yet he pays the welders on the assembly line; is he more productive? If the amount shoes created is a function of the amount of workers hired, and the amount of workers is a function of how much each worker is paid, doesn't it stand to reason that productivity for those at the top of the hierarchy correlates directly to how exploitative their wages are?
Based on a similar reaction a few months ago, this will definitely change the way you go about system work.
This is hands down the best kinect demo I have seen yet.

I just hope that these sorts of technologies are open sourced and not only for use with heavy license fees and to "The Man".

Weapons tracking for specifically intended targets - like we saw in RoboCops friend/foe identification, and in the terminator... The applications of such systems will surely be sued for both security and death.

Combine this with the other recognition technologies that are out there, and all ninjas are now obsolete.
The "pro-nuclear crowd" has to fall over themselves showing examples of daily safe exposure because there is so much fear-mongering and disingenuous reporting occurring.

For example, A day or two ago, I saw a picture of a UK newspaper with a three inch headline blaring something along the lines of "JAPAN NUCLEAR FALLOUT REACHES UK". This headline easily took up half the page. Now, I'm sure this paper was a tabloid or rag and was just doing it to sell copies, but that doesn't make it okay. I mean, the paper is essentially exploiting the fact that lay people don't understand radiation very well. Even if the story contained within was accurate, the damage would already be done.
Subtle? Really?
Try NuclearPhynance.com
Craigslist has been disrupted
Options and Startup Common Equity Value (Bubble Talk)
Measurements That Mislead
Actually one of the better ones.
Not everything a company does has to bring in revenue (make financial sense).
Welcome to unix. Enjoy your stay!
I can give you an example where speed and scalability are different.

Step 1: Create two WordPress blogs served by two Apache servers — one with KeepAlive on and one with it off

Step 2: Benchmark the speeds — you'll see that the KeepAlive one is faster

Step 3: Get a link to each blog on Daring Fireball

Step 4: Notice which server is still accessible (hint: not the faster one)

The server with KeepAlive will fulfill requests faster up to a certain number of people within a certain time span, but past that number it will simply start turning people away while the other server keeps delivering pages a little bit more slowly because Apache's KeepAlive trades capacity for speed.

At any rate, in a real production environment, there are measures you can take to make sure your site is both scalable and fast. Toy examples of poor configurations aren't very informative IMO.
You lose almost all of the caching benefit when you use the "latest" version references, like 1.5. They're (necessarily) served with a very short expires header, as compared to the specific versions' +1 year.
For Snow Leopard: Open System Preferences, go to Appearance, and uncheck "Use LCD font smoothing when available"
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How does an API become a platform?
Isn't using Google CDN (quite possibly cached by user) with a fallback to a local copy the best of both worlds?
But how do they justify this to their shareholders?

This is literally the type of stuff I daydream about... "Here, I've got all this computing infrastructure, isn't it cool? Tell you what, use it for free!"

That's awesome. I guess I was kindof asking if I was missing the point or something. Are there really people at google who are saying "Listen, boss, I'm going to need $money to build google font library. I'm going to need $foo engineers, and $bar resources, but we should do this because it would be fun!"

And their boss goes "huh, cool! Yeah, here is some money!"

?
Why not fallback? That way you may get caching for first time users.

See HTML5 Boilerplate for an example of this.
How to detect a geek?
I've run into many stats lately on women's use of facebook:
1. "Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, has talked about how women are not only the majority of its users, but drive 62% of activity in terms of messages, updates and comments, and 71% of the daily fan activity."
2. "Women aged 35-54 are the most active group in mobile socialization"
3. "Most women — 83% of respondents in this survey — are annoyed at one time or another by the posts from their Facebook connections."

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/why-women-rule-the-internet...
[2] http://mashable.com/2011/03/23/mobile-by-the-numbers-infogrp...
[3] http://mashable.com/2011/03/30/women-facebook-survey/

So, I started talking to the women in my life about facebook. And I have a speculative theory - sorry that this is a theory based on gender and its kind of vague.. but facebook makes so much more sense to me when I look at it this way, and I find it an interesting discussion.

Basically, you have mother types and you have single women types. Single women are the early adopter social photo sharers - this is fun for them, and it strengthens reputation and attracts men. Meanwhile, mothers are off doing what they do - strengthening their family and social relationships through chat, gossip, hobbies, etc - it forms a safety net for their family.

Then there are men. Single men chase the single women. This forms a crowd. This crowd attracts married men / fathers and mothers alike (including people like me who are standing around saying 'wtf?'). Further, the crowd attracts social capitalists who leverage the crowd's attention to promote themselves, their business or their cause.

But, the average single female may have 2-7 years of her status as a single woman. Whereas the average mother will have her role for 18yrs+. So, you end up with this crowd mass, in the center is hookup activity. However, the majority of the crowd becomes family-centric and cause-centric security nets. And yea, when you look at this from a distance, its big and boring.
Hulu: 1990's style
It makes it easier for people to build web applications instead of Windows applications. If people build web apps, then Google has a shot at making some money off of it if the designer wants to monetize with ads or google checkout.
> It wasn't the second time. Since it was an Ask HN,
> people continued voting for it from what I guess is
> the ask tab on the main page.

Ah - nice to know that happens sometimes. I guess you must have deleted your rather wistful comment lamenting that no one had replied.

> Also, if you look at the posts so far, none of them
> answers the question.

I wonder if there's no one here who uses semantic analysis in automated trading systems. Maybe the semantic analysis people who are here felt excluded by your question.

Who knows. Perhaps there's a better question to ask, or a better way of hooking the people you want into answering.

But I'm pleased you got traction, even if you haven't actually got answers.