skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few other examples that constitute lying: Not putting a former employer on a resume

So I'm lying on my resume if I skip college/pre college work? I guess my resume is about to be filled up with a bunch of irrelevant crap: tech support rep before college, tutoring center guy, grader, lab assistant, tutor at a different tutoring center...
There are all sorts of corporate SEO issues that just "appear" out of nowhere if a person doesn't consider it in advance.

A few examples from our site upgrade to drupal 7...
- comments permalinks were generating new identical pages under different URLs
- paginated pages were getting indexed by category, by author, by month, and sitewide ... creating tons of duplicate content issues
- the rel=canonical set up wasn't set up correctly either
- some of the modules for things like related posts & page titles needed redone

And that is just 1 small blog, whereas when you view the NYT it is likely spread across multiple submdomains, multiple CMS tools, and they likely have different directly competing business objectives for different sections. They also have a variety of inbound and outbound syndication partnerships which likely add yet more layers of complexity & yet more competing business objectives.

Upgrading our site cost 10's of thousands, and that was while valuing my time at nothing. If my time was valued at market rate it likely could have been into 6 figures...and all this was doing was upgrading a few platforms to newer versions, changing the site design, and adding a new payment system. Add in the layers of complexity and bureaucracy you would see at a big slow moving corporation (and tons of money into conducting tests and research) and I am not surprised it was in the 10's of millions.

I know one of our clients had a million Dollar CMS that they ended up having to scrap because of major issues with it...am not surprised that integration of a semi-porous paywall at the NYT would be pretty expensive.
True, but not everyone has the connections and clout to pull 5 figure logo contracts.
what a coincidence :)
I'll be in Ubud for 3 more weeks and then I'll go to Sri Lanka.
We should really meet. I'll be happy to come and see you or if you wish come and see me.
I like your idea btw!
"How thoughts are stored" is the entire premise of Sebastian Seung's (http://bcs.mit.edu/people/seung.html) TED talk it was referencing -- "I Am My Connectome".

The importance of perspective shifts isn't a new idea -- Alan Kay stresses the same thing (http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_shares_a_powerful_idea_abo...).
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What? The only two I consider informative from that list are Netflix and Dropbox.
To be brutally honest though, you probably shouldn't get into freelancing until you have the connections and clout to make a living from it.
Careful how you phrase these things! I hereby consent in writing to not sending you $100 US dollars.
A Design Critique of the iPhone
Some more marks against this embarrassment to my homeland:

* Lots of text rendered in low-quality jpegs full of artifacts (yet it still downloads a bunch of fonts)

* Stolen artwork (the MSN messenger and iCal icons are in there with no modification except they're grayscaled. And is that the old download.com logo I can see?)

* No expires headers
Agreed. I do think domain names are valuable. However, they could have spent their money better. Probably less money too. The name color doesn't evoke anything to the purpose. I would have gone with something that speaks to social interaction and capturing moments. Catchit, lifeline, keeple, or something similar. -Keeple is pretty awesome, actually. :)
The Ryanair bit is funny (if you know how Ryanair normally operate): "They probably charge you if you do".
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but at this point in time, if you're not on facebook, you're pretty unlikely to ever be on facebook.

Really? Is their growth slowing down substantially?
I will concede that it covers it tangentially before the article starts veers from psychology into questionable neurology.

However, the author of the article definitely comes from the camp which mistakes the perspective shift as more important than the hard work. How? Let me count the ways.

1.Sadly, this article succumbs to the myth that Einstein was bad at math. Einstein had fully mastered integral calculus and differential equations by the time he was 15 and achieved full marks for most of his high school subjects. His huge amount of ability allowed him the critical perspective shifts. The author mistakenly thinks dwarves have the vision of giants.

2.The section "Insights from Weak Association" slips into this solipsism with gratuitous flair. I don't believe the "NeuroLeadership Journal" is peer reviewed. However, according to the esteemed, Mark Beeman detecting weak associations may help problem solve. How wonderfully useless. This precedes which states how understanding the problem is "easy" after all.

3. Perspective before focus. This is the title of the third section Sadly, you will not get perspective if you do not focus. Being able to see differently is a product of sweating over it a million different ways. You have it backwards. Tight mental frameworks are the product of focus. Thinking about how you can revolutionize the field before studying it is premature optimization.

I believe that I am exceedingly clear both in my arguments and my opinion of the blog post.
For valuation purposes, "growth" is not necessarily tied to user base growth, but rather profits growth.
Minor correction: diapers.com loses shitloads of money. By the time Amazon acquired them, the founders had diluted themselves down to about 2% and had taken on large amounts of debt as well.

What you can say, however, is that diapers.com sold for shitloads of money.
A nice portfolio site is usually enough to generate connections, if not clients.
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OK. What reason do the bailed-out institutions now have to avoid such irresponsible behavior in the future? Previously, they had "it might ruin us." Now?

If we've merely postponed this problem and are waiting for Round II, then yes, we should have had the guts to have a depression resulting from irresponsible investments rather than a depression resulting from irresponsible investments AND governments up to their nostrils in debt.
The HTPC is the caviar solution. I messed around with "dedicated units" such as an ASUS O!play (highly recommended if you just need to stream media in your network). Also tried streaming media with the Blu-ray drive that came free with my TV. Even tried the pre-built Dell Zino HD with it's tiny atom like intel processor.

In the end, an HTPC is what _I_ needed (wanted). I can stream from netflix, play a blu-ray, watch youtube without a wonky interface (like the blu-ray players/tv have), stream media from my WHS (Windows Home Server), etc. It plays everything I throw at it.

Is it perfect? No way. Too complicated for my wife/family/mere mortals to run and it has the downsides of a full Winders stack (constant updates, etc).

But, at this point I don't see a true alternative. Codecs are king. I can download (almost) any software/codec combo and play the media.

I run and i3 and find it to be a perfect combination of speed/power consumption for an almost silent media pc.

Btw, the little Dell handles everything fine. The major complaint is that the tiny fan spins up when watching blu-ray/high-def/flash content. That's one of the major downsides to a prebuilt PC. Usually one area sucks. I love the tiny Dell form factor but the whine of the fan is a negative.
Isn't it all the more galling for them to see UK government initiatives encouraging businesses to treat them as cheap, disposable commodities? For the record, I think 99designs or Wordpress templates are fine for most small businesses who shouldn't and won't pay more.

But cheap customers are often better than no customers, and a friend of mine picked up some of his larger accounts starting off with some loss leader logo design promotions.
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Ya, it's just this. And also a check against spam farms.
Dictionaries are an artifact of an elitist society where only a small part was lettered. Language is a living thing, just like computer languages are. Oxford dictionary included internet terms like lol and imho, to reflect the current status in language used by a great part of the english speaking world.

The notion of an 'official' dictionary is rather strange. We use certain words, but we can only include them if an institute blesses these words. Having a dictionary is not a bad thing; it serves as a guide to know what language others may expect. The process of having an institute decide for us what's the set of words we ought to use is merely ridiculous. The alternative is this: generate a dictionary from all webpages utilizing the english language. We can do this every -say 5- years, which then will serve as a dictionary for the next 5 years.

The language speakers and writers should decide what the contents of the dictionary should be, not some elitist club of people calling themselves 'language experts'. We, the people are the language experts, not them.
Choice of resources should depend on what you're interested in. Monolithic "neuroscience" remains a myth -- it's a vast field, ranging from cognitive psychology to biophysics. A scientist researching synaptic transmission mechanisms doesn't share much common ground with a guy doing high-level stuff.

For what's commonly called cognitive neuroscience (which generally includes memory, cognition, learning and so on, thereby having the most relevance for a nonspecialist reader), Gazzaniga/Ivry/Mangun (2008) remains an absolutely solid introduction that doesn't dumb stuff down while still providing plenty of illustrations and worthwhile patient cases. Covers basic neurobiology in sufficient detail. My recommendation for this kind of stuff.

For molecular and general neurobiology, I recommend the first few chapters of Squire's "Fundamental Neuroscience." Kandel's good as well. If you're looking for something more basic, Carlson's "Physiology of Behavior" is a brilliant and rather entertaining book.
>It seems the US is the most friendly environment in the world for startups.

Totally disagree. The stakes for failing in the US are very high. The thing that currently gives the US the edge is that that's where so many startup minded people are.
I don't see this as a legitimate site. Looks to me more like a pirated / cracked version of the software. More information on Kaspersky antivirus could be found on their site http://www.kaspersky.com
One of the most powerful traits of concatenative programming languages is that implicit parameter passing through the stack makes it possible to factor any code fragment into a new word that can act as a textual replacement. Anywhere you repeat a sequence of operations, you can factor it out. Most languages that use explicitly passed parameters make this more difficult as you have to start worrying about scoping and the "shipping and handling" of passing in arguments and unpacking results into a local scope.

I've linked this many times before, but I'm reminded of "Thinking Forth"[1], an excellent discussion of application architecture. It specifically deals with the Forth programming language, but carries lessons that are applicable to almost any language. I think the reason it works so well is because you can easily demonstrate factoring with a very short piece of Forth. In a language like C or Java you would need comparatively more involved examples to demonstrate the same principles.

[1] http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
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Sorry guys,

After reading all comments it seems there is no (universal) solution to write good HTML/CSS code. Not like in Ruby or Python or other programming languages.

Since this year I'm struggling to create a post / best practices how to code front-end but the problem is too complex (for me).

The biggest issue is how to mark up HTML to have a DRY (minimal) CSS.
And how to remember easily these mark up rules to be able to maintain anytime in the future your CSS/HTML.

If you would elaborate your naming / marking up best practices instead of suggesting frameworks/tools maybe that would help better.
I have all the blogs I read in my RSS reader.

However, most of these blogs deal with source code and thus far I haven't seen any RSS reader which does syntax highlighting and proper formatting on source snippets.

Therefore I usually read most of the interesting posts on the site itself. But I never visit a blog directly, always through the reader.
As a part-time designer I have loved having a place to refer clients that see more value in the number of different ideas that are created, not the consulting/revision process. For those types, this is the perfect solution.
That is not to say that the quality of the work on 99designs is low, I have been quite surprised by the quality of some of the stuff on there.

Anything that helps get better design out there is fine by me.
McDonald's vs burgers.com, that would be.
> According to the media there is going to be £1,500 of funding/incentives for startups as part of this project, but I haven't quite figured out if that is launched yet, or whether it means those offers and the other bits on the page (which is not very impressive if so).

Click on 'Growing' link. It is the offers on the right hand side, eg, £30 Adwords voucher.
I am surprised this comment and mentioning the company name didn't cost you!
Totally Agree. I think photo sharing is a classic "Thin Wedge" that Dixon and Wilson have written about before. Think about how powerful Color could be:

Business Networking - Go to a conference and create an ad hoc social network. You are basically automating what Fridge and Lanyrd are doing now.

Neighborhood Social Networking - Need to organize a carpool or soccer practice schedule? Moms can set up a network with their phones while sitting in the stands watching their kids play.

Same for schooling, retailing, and dozens of other opportunities where you might want to let people communicate then sell them stuff. If nothing else it might be so it is easier for advertisers to remember and more easily access the self serve ad mechanisms the founders described.

I could see all of those eventually having a traditional "Web" page though it might be assembled and interacted with very differently than a traditional soc net.
Thanks for the feedback, I will write a blog post then.
Just a few quick comments for now:

link: http://www.adormo.com/
we have a blog too, but I haven't linked it yet from the home page as it has only 4 posts: http://www.adormo.com/blog

> Kind of an airbnb builder
yes, eventually you may build something like airbnb.
Of course by the time we get there airbnb will be on the moon :)
The idea did not come from there though, I have been working with online apartments since 2001 and needed a way to build my own websites.
Then it struck me...I can do something for others too!

> Did you solicit your future customers online?
yes

> Did you know them from before?
no, but many knew my travel blog or were part of my travel forum.

> Are you an affiliate marketer?
I'm not
I'm not saying things don't suck there; I just thought that was understood. But since they suck, hey look at this opportunity!

To your point about management: what do you mean? (I'm honestly asking.) Who should be in charge of making sure a town doesn't get lopsided with one industry, for example? And was that even a bad thing, considering how long things went well? Maybe in 20 years we'll look back and say "50 years of prosperity, 10 years of the dumps and now Detroit is doing great again. Not terrible."
Will the Web have a place in a world full of apps?
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What browser are you using? Smooth as can be on Chrome in Win7.
1. It doesn't say Einstein was bad at math, it says his math skills aren't the reason he is considered a genius.

2. The Google TechTalk it references explains "insights from weak associations" in more detail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJSXfXep4M

3. If you don't have perspective, how do you know the thing you're focused on is of any importance? You can see practical examples of this everywhere:

"One of my favourite tuppences for engineers struggling to find a bug is 'breadth first not depth first'. This can be annoying for someone working through complex technical details, because it implies that the solution is actually much simpler if they only looked...I coined this saying because in software matters I find that if we force ourselves to examine the top level considerations first, before tunneling down into the detail of a particular line of inquiry, we can save enormous time" (http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-wh...).
Google vs search.com?
With proper sleep/hibernate, the power useage issue would be (mostly) moot. However, just when I get my sleep/hybrid sleep/hibernate working correctly, MSFT patches Windows and I'm suddenly back to square one.

I'd love to see a version of Windows where sleep "just works". From my research though, this appears to be as much a hardware + driver issue as an OS issue. Apparently that's why Mac's sleep so well. Hardware/OS all under one company's control.
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Indeed. Google's dominance of the search engine market has in no way prevented them from keeping to grow.

Facebook may very well diversify even more to keep its growth, and therefore valuation.
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> It is a durable, consistent, high-performance key-value data store built out of a background-garbage-collected log-structured B+Tree.

Some questions for Colin, if he reads this thread:

I assume log-structured implies 'append-only'. Is that correct?

This seems to be fairly similar in spirit to the design of BDB-JE, but without offering many of JE's features (like ACID). This similarity is a good thing - JE does a really great job in many situations. Have you done any comparisons of kivaloo with BDB and BDB-JE, especially looking at IO constrained performance?

Although its pretty clear why BDB-JE wouldn't be ideal for Tarsnap (starting the the Java thing), why did you chose not to go with BDB? Just a licensing issue, or more technical?

How do you trigger garbage collection? What kind of effect does garbage collection have on the throughput of the database?

What kind of performance drop do you see with very sparse trees/logs, for example with workloads that are very insert and delete heavy?

I haven't had time to look at the source yet, so I apologize if these questions have obvious answers.
The larger the company, the more complacent they get. They become tied to their legacy and have a difficult time adapting to a changing world. This is magnified dramatically in today's tech environment. I think Facebook is just a privacy breach (or stupid privacy decision) away from becoming a company that can rapidly accelerate their time on the upside of the bell curve.
Thanks for the slap. I'm carrying on work, you convinced me again that making money is possible and it's just my laziness that is keeping me poor.
When i read it, i saw glibc. autocorrecting brain i guess.
Facebook paid $200k for their domain a few years ago. Imagine what they would have to shell out now had they decided against it back then.

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What you fail to mention is that they got by on thefacebook.com for a while before they ponied up and got the current domain ... at that point it was clear they were going to be huge so it didn't matter.

Spending $500k on a domain out the gate instead of getting 5 badass developers working on making your product rock, is stupid to me, but thats just me.
> Surely a small instance does not cover the cost of an entire physical machine.

Who said you'd get a machine per instance? All they're promising is that no one else's instances will be on the servers hosting your instances.
This is missing the point. The problem isn't that some designers are losing work to 99designs. The problem is that spec work devalues the entire design industry.
Funny how a corporation is treated as an entity (like a human) by the government, except with superhuman privileges like not putting a corp in jail. If you haven't watched The Corporation, and this article interested you, I would get a copy immediately or find it on Netflix.
MITM attacks don't have to be directed. It's not technically challenging to mass-MITM a channel --- but you probably wouldn't do that, because you can just pick "interesting" connections (like, to Google Mail) to intercept.
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And where exactly does the money won by watson go?
I think the relevance of technology like this is driven by the price floors of smartphones vs. not-so-smart phones.

A pre-paid phone somewhat similar to the once $300+ Motorola Razr is like $20 at Wal-Mart. If a low-rent Android device is priced similar in a few years, skinnyed down mobile software won't matter.
Not if it doesn't force other designers to drop their prices ... As long as designers keep charging their fees the folks that use 99design.com will either have to keep using it or run up against reality (real design costs) at some point.
... so, remove the CNNIC cert.

What's the issue here? CNNIC isn't trustworthy. You should get a warning every time you visit a CNNIC-signed site.

I don't understand how people can build entire advocacy campaigns on getting other people to switch from IE, but removing untrustworthy certificates? Time to scrap the protocol and move to a crappier one that we can at least get our heads around!
I can definitely see Square going into this market. They're hiring aggressively and they have the engineering power to pursue something like this. It could work if they have a special kind of ipad frame that can be bolted onto a cash register.
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> But I think I've fed the troll enough.

I'm glad someone said it. This apenwarr seems to have some good karma here on HN, but IMO a lot of what he says is heavily misinformed and biased.

I had the urge to go point-by-point of his post and refute each with proper references and practical examples, but I then I realized that he is just a troll and that would be feeding him.

Some of his points, like about IPv6 addresses being too long and hard to memorize and that NAT is good/enough for users, basically points that he probably doesn't have much experience with network management and how IP works (specially IPv6 networks). This is strange coming from someone who was the original author of wvdial.

I have already argued here on HN why IPv6 addresses are easier to memorize: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804038
I went from a HTPC to a WDTV and was pretty happy for awhile but decided to go back and build a HTPC/NAS box that runs 24/7.

XBMC, Sabnzbd, Sickbeard, Torrents, Hulu, Transcoding/Stream with AirVideo, on Iphone/IPad.

If your sole purpose is watching video, I think for most people a all in one device that's $70-150 is better suited.