skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow. didn't know others are also having this problem :) thanks for the reply.
I swiped the mouse quickly, ended up at 5, and managed to resist the temptation to change it to something "more random".

How many people leave it at 1? This is kinda neat.

Also, it was nice of science to thank me.
I am in the same boat as you.

The way I look at it is that I come to terms with what I suck at right now and then work hard at sucking less. Eventually I get really good at what I sucked at and move onto the next thing.

And you don't need permission to start something.
All the current members would be committed to working for the new company. "Hired" is probably the right word, but with a huge bonus, which you typically will not get by directly going for a job. Heck, none of the startup CEO's I work with would probably even look at my resume, if I had submitted it through normal channels. However, now I can call them or IM them and talk.

We probably bring more than just the tech skills. Building a team and delivering projects is not easy. It is about 10 times harder than I initially thought. I now have much more respect for all the small independent software consulting shops.

These thoughts actually started in my mind after I saw two ROR firms that recently got acquired. I think LivingSocial acquired one of them. That and the fact that we are not making enough money to justify the hours we put in. Slowly coming to the realization that I might not be tha good of a businessman.
The discussion feels serious to me.

The question in my mind, that I believe is being addressed, is: Is Color a trojan horse big brother spying app looking like the next cool realworld-digital game?

If it is, that lines up with the review's experience of the app not understanding why they have to add their name and photo and why they can't find answers to their questions but feel pressured to just start taking pictures.

If it is, that also hints at the high startup valuation too.
I like this idea.

Another is, if there is a simple closed source service you use but it is missing a feature or two you think would be very valuable to you, start your own version of that service with those features planned.

You might never release anything but it gets you moving towards a goal.
It is not about second rank universities. It is about universities in the third world and people who cannot afford to go to universities at all, and it is about the support of universities for open access to learning.
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I learned more through one internship than four years of college. You can read about theories and case studies all day, but getting actual experience in the field is invaluable.
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First: updated my post to reflect the edit. Sorry for that--didn't think you'd see my response so quickly.

Second, it takes a certain kind of person to repeatedly slam a company that has no effect on their lives. If some hypothetical HN reader is criticizing Color constantly, then no amount of social grace will help them.
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Banks run a lot of servers for accounting, online banking, swift and other internal needs.

Bitcoin network does it with the help of cryptography and proof of work hashing. Probably energy spendings are comparable.
The source shows he's also timing the pick, which I think is probably the more important dependent variable here. Doesn't matter what number you chose - it's how long it took you to find it, click it, and hit submit.
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What I dont understand is the way we build nuclear plants - why are they not built in very large pits, with huge silos that hold a concrete slurry mix that can be realeased to flood the pit and encase the whole thing in concrete should the need arise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_Canyon_Mine

Put it in the base of this pit - and create a way to encase it if needed.
Yeah, I considered a more involved way of choosing the interfaces to present — the server attempts to even out the distribution of interfaces, use cookies to limit, etc — but I also just really wanted to get this made in a couple hours. The current implementation is about as simple as it gets.
This was my thought as well. And thus, I think it's hard to see how they are in competition with each other, aside from competing for users' attention in general.
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Welcome to the real world. Now spend your time reading (You may think not but it's very important. After all, "no man is an island") articles about other apps, how they are changing things for users and then try to come up with situations you'd want an app for (easier said than done, probably the toughest part). Also as stated below, adding a new feature to a github and/or open source project would be a nice way to start.
If someone doesn't want to download separate packages there is All-In-One package (ABC-HR and all samples)
It should be more easy.

http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/ABC-HR_bin_an...
I hope he gathers data from different social groups. Would be interesting to prove that techie-types have a numerical bias different from marketing types.
Picks by country (based on IP geolocation) would also be interesting to see.
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The cheapest approach is to take a break for a little while, then come back and re-read what you just wrote. Is it well-organized? Is anything phrased awkwardly? Are there parts you can tighten up without losing anything?

Just taking the time to do this can make a huge difference in the quality of your writing.
"Nerds we need to have a talk"

http://thingist.com/t/item/4372/

It's kindof sad seeing this stuff. A lot of geeks do this beyond the scope of technology too. Get together with some geeks sometime and watch how they talk about the people around them. Everybody is stupid or a bro or a hipster. It's awful. You'd think that a group who spent out childhoods being made fun of would be nicer.
The speaker is also one of Github's founder.
When you say things like "Very-short-term, they allow quants to make money on arbitrage.", it makes me think you really don't understand the role of market makers, proprietary traders, or quants.

Let me ask you a very basic question: why do market makers (the people you trade against when you buy or sell SPY) make money? They aren't stealing from you. They are providing you the service of liquidity. Market makers connect people who want to buy/sell now with people who want to buy/sell in the future. In the interim, they take on the risk of holding that position that you didn't want. On average, they are compensated for that risk.

The way you say "they allow quants to make money on arbitrage" implies that the quants are just "extracting money" from the markets without doing any good at all. This is the complete opposite of the truth, and more people need to understand this.
Pick a number, then read, please.

The goal at first was to just see what numbers people gravitate toward. I've heard lots of conjecture about how people pick 7 or 3 or 4 more than others, and for a variety of reasons, but had a hard time finding actual demonstration of this. Then, while implementing a choosing system, the problem became: how do you present the information so as not to bias it? This is why there are four different ways of picking. There are also a couple other metrics being measured, including a difference in phrasing (Pick a number… vs Pick a random number…) which may be interesting.

Apologies for any bugs or general wonkiness. The whole thing was a ~2 hour impulse project.

PS: The data will absolutely be shared! Just need time to do a breakdown of all the different permutations.
Not in your target market, but from a general perspective:

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.

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

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

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

Don't show enthusiastic reviews when there are none. Move the parts details up and to the right to fill the space. Social proof is only useful when it is positive. Right now you are showing people that nobody is using the service.

Tactic: I don't know the budget you are working on, but if it is nonzero, start buying car parts and listing them. You have 7 total right now and that does not bode well with a potential customer. Even if it is a niche market, I would want at least triple digits in terms of items.

Cool idea though. Good luck!
You are right. I kept that in mind all along while reading the post, though I perhaps showed less sympathy in my remark. I really regret if I sounded like a smart-arse.

The link you posted is great; the chart alone speaks volumes! Already at that point in time one could notice how the trend with power and CPU frequency was changing, while transistor count kept on growing. James Hague would have had second thoughts, I believe, if he had seen that chart. Moore's Law suffered quite a plot twist the last decade.

(Curiously, Herb Sutter is the secretary of the C++ standards committee. They finally finished the standardization of basic threading — among other stuff — 5 years after the Dr. Dobbs article!)
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Indeed. The goal there is to see if people think about the choice, then second guess it before actually submitting.

Edit: Quickly skimming through the database, it also reveals "tab" loaders who open up a bunch of tabs and let them sit. (It couldn't possibly have taken someone 300s to make a decision!) Not the goal, and it does skew the data, but still interesting.
Believe it or not, it didn't start out that way.

If there was one phrase that could describe virtually everything the web has touched, this would probably be it.
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That's great about income preservation, but what about wealth preservation? No matter how strongly your income growth keeps up (or exceeds) inflation, inflation still naturally diminishes the value of your money (and on the flip side, reduce the debt load).

No talent can protect you from the wealth-distributional effects of inflation unless every penny of your value is in TIPS or something.
Ask HN: How to find summer internships in the city?
I live in a small town in South Carolina, I've been dabbling in web stuff since I was 12. I was lucky enough to learn the right way to do things on the web. I ended up teaching myself HTML/CSS and growing my freelance business in my town developing web sites for businesses. I am now a senior in high school and I want to go out into the "city" and work somewhere that will help me further my abilities and passion. I don't really care where, just in a decent sized city that has a lot of opportunity. I'm ready to get out and explore. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
After you've entered your unbiased data, make sure to refresh the page and see what else you could have been confronted with. You'll notice the different variables in the experiment - just make sure to do this after in order for it to not influence your decision.
Actually you were supposed to _choose_ a number and not generate a random-ish one…
How marvelous. This guy sounds like just the sort of person who would say "OMG", too. Maybe scholars should comb through his letters looking for "I was like".
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Thanks for your feedback! Yeah it only applies the css to the selected page -- will think about extending it though!

I'm working on the ability to update existing pivots (if you are a logged in user). Should be online later today.

BTW: I really like your dribble variation -- added it to the selected examples!
"Make it something you'd actually use" is of great value to a budding (aimless, excited) programmer, but staying too long in this mindset leads to a glut of products and services serving the same purpose for the same market. The highly-upvoted "Hello Ladies" video with patio11[1] really drove home the point that products for people who aren't programmers have tremendous value. This post is good advice to get started, but once new programmers begin to feel comfortable with their abilities, it would behoove them to empathize with people who aren't like them and try to make something others would appreciate.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2371965 -- this comment does not reflect the opinions of patio11
You can switch to the different App Stores by clicking the flag button in the bottom right corner in iTunes. You won’t be able to buy anything but you can read the reviews. There is, however, as far as I know no way of linking to individual reviews and you apparently can’t copy or even just select text.
Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?
I built this app with Google App Engine which I believe can now be said to have reached the MVP stage. I am looking for a female co-founder because the application is a network for “party girls” who go out a lot: http://hello-1-world.appspot.com/about

It is basically an email based app (I built it to learn sending and receiving email with GAE): After an outing with her girlfriends she sends an email to the app and copies her friends. The application increases the ranking of the ccd girls and displays on application’s home page the top 10 ranked girls: http://hello-1-world.appspot.com/

At this point, as you can see, there is no branding, and no activity, just the avatars of 2 dummy users. I thought that it would be good to partner with a female founder to develop and market the app because some initial girl must seed the network with her friends.

I am posting this note because of the frequent mantra that I read at HN: “release early and release often.” I think this is as early as I think it makes sense to release.
Weakened versions of it definitely hold true for programming languages. Try writing software to solve the same non-trivial problem in several different programming languages, and this will quickly become apparent.

I did this, over the past several months, in Python, Haskell, JavaScript, and C. The Python and JavaScript versions felt pretty similar, but Haskell and C felt unique. If I weren't so busy right now, I'd re-write it in Lisp. I'm pretty sure it would fit naturally with Lisp.
Not sure how I missed BitCoins, but I'm trying to get a read on whether this is a real currency or not. As in: something to watch or something to ignore.

I also don't understand why the # of coins is limited to 21M. Given that there are going to be 10B people on the planet that means that, on average, a person will have about 0.002 coins. Maybe I'm just too used to having thousands of units of currency, but it seems odd to consider that prices will be in milli- or nano-BitCoins...
The other methods don't have a default. Sliders don't really present a good way of doing a "non-choice" default. I decided to leave it fixed at 1 to start to see if that particular method skews because of the default. (Not exactly precise and thorough, unfortunately. There could be more metrics, like starting position, but I wanted to keep it simple so I could get it up and running quickly.)
I'm a grad student in cognitive psychology; my advisor works in the so-called "neo-Whorfian" literature.

What Sapir and Whorf were proposing is nowadays called "linguistic determinism" and is pretty much universally repudiated.

However, there is evidence for a less radical version called "linguistic relativity". For an example, see this paper: langcog.stanford.edu/papers/winawer2007.pdf
I'm not sure why this has turned into a photo editing app conversation. I think the paragraph that would be a better use of time to discuss was the last one;
"If you find yourself creating something, and you don't understand how it will be used, and you don't plan on using it yourself, then it's time to take a few steps back and reevaluate what you're doing."

This is a pretty good rule, right? Even if no one else pays to use it at least you've built a tool to make your life a little easier, or solve a problem you have.

An exception to this rule though, would be people already selling a service to customers and turning this into a product you can reuse for others (I think Carbonmade started kind of like this - they had non-technical friends/acquaintances that needed galleries set up). In fact this would probably be better than simply building a product you'd use yourself as you've already validated that people are willing to pay to use it, not just use it.
The simple truth is that when something like this was going on over Cuil, I looked "raganwald" up in Cuil, thought the result was very funny, and posted it on HN. So... Perhaps I wrote that comment with myself in mind, rather than an appeal to other people to change what they are doing.

(The mind is a funny thing. It is the most powerful computing device we have encountered so far, yet it has a ridiculously primitive and broken tool chain with a debugger that hides or even lies about what's actually going on.)
Are not trojan horses also "actual" apps?
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All We Have Is Now

As logic stands you couldn't meet a man who's from the future

But logic broke as he appeared he spoke about the Future

"We're not gonna make it"

He explained how the end will come

you and me were never meant to be part of the future

All we have is now

All we've ever had was now

All we have is now

All we'll ever have is now

I noticed that he had a watch in hand that looked familiar

He was me - from a dimension torn free of the future

"We're not gonna make it"

He explained how the end will come

You and me were never meant to be part of the future

All we have is now

All we've ever had was now

All we have is now

All we'll ever have is now

All we have is now

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No, I posted to HN what I learned from e-mailing the OP. My motive was to sate the curiosity of anyone who wondered exactly what job the OP had in mind.

I did fill in an FBI form the other week (technically not an FBI form --- some organisation funded by the FBI and others to investigate online crime). It was long and tedious. I don't fancy filling it in again, particularly as today I have a rotten cold.

But ultimately I haven't lost $20k to offshore scam merchants, so I'm not particularly fussed whether the OP gets a talking to from law enforcement or not.

Asking whether anyone knew of an appropriate FBI e-mail address was just an aside at the end. I don't know why you thought it was the main point of my comment.
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Were you asked to "Pick a number…" or "Pick a random number…"? One of the metrics is the phrasing of the question.
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Clichés are clichés for a reason.

Yes, we have past, present, and future. But you can't change past: it's gone so in the end it's not much to live for. You can't live for future either: you can just project now into something you think would be a good future. Thus, even planning for future happens now. It is now when anything happens and where any choices are made. Past and future are important and useful, but they only exist as concepts in your mind. You can't live future or past and while trying to do so can be soothing it will never get you anywhere.

In my humble opinion, it is foolish to underestimate the special position of now.
They don't? That's news to me. Linguistic relativity, at least using a weaker "intuitive" understanding of the concept, seems like the most obvious thing in the world.
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The wealthy can avoid estate taxes via Single Premium Life insurance, but this assumes their investments are liquid enough to pull that off.

Life insurance of any sort is a great way to avoid liquidating a company and many wealthy folks use this to avoid both taxes and to cover estate tax needs. I

If you're in your twenties and you expect to be wealthy in the future now is a great time to be buying life insurance.
It was originally a comment here, on the post about a site that had reduced movies to a big color band.
Nostalgic. 8-bit and Floyd will still remain in our souls. Good work, bravo !!
I presume this is your site? Your design has a serious flaw: the number "1" is "selected" when you first view the page, which biases the results. You apparently tried to "fix" this by forcing the user to move the slider before the choice would be accepted, but that also biases the results.

The only way to really make it unbiased is with a text box. The next best thing would have been ten buttons in a row (but then you would have had to make sure that they didn't go off the right side of the screen).
I agree completely.

It's very frustrating to deal with people who apply NLP or lay-CBT on a regular basis. Especially when you are trying to have a rational conversation and they are wasting time trying to "learn about sub-modalities" or apply auditory anchors to things like acceptance or rejectance.

One person I work with occasionally very clearly thinks of himself as talented in mind control by applying these things. However, from the outside it's very apparent that they have simply poisoned his perspective to make him believe he is being successful.

In short, I wish people would stop wasting time propagating pseudoscience.
That or your laptop is sitting on a fluffy mattress and is having a hard time dissipating heat.

Just kidding, of course. If you're pointing at the poor performance of Flash Video on a Mac, I think the video decoder is written in C or C++, it was just... not really optimized: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_...
+1. I never really liked the "build it for yourself" mantra. If this were true, we'd have tons of programming IDEs and project management software. What programmers and entrepreneurs really need to serve are markets where programmers are under represented. I'm talking about agriculture, natural resources, transport, finance, manufacturing, etc.
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