skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm seeing it too much from the perspective of the little guy, but harvesting that much money into your own pockets over a number of years may not be such a bad decision.
I'm surprised to hear this. In my experience (at UC Berkeley), my professors (at least the EECS ones) are at the forefront of their field. For example, in my NLP class, some of the papers we read are from our professor (Klein et al 2010). They are anything but behind the times.
Where does the USA gets its oil from?

"More than a third of our petroleum, about 37% of our total usage, is produced domestically by our own oil companies. I'm not sure why people seem to forget about those guys, ExxonMobil and Chevron and all of them; you may resent them but they are the principal source of our non-foreign-dependent energy. So this means that only a bit less than two thirds of our petroleum is imported. That still means most of our petroleum comes from OPEC, right? Wrong. Most of our petroleum imports come from non-OPEC countries; 56% of it, in fact. Of that 56%, the majority is from Canada and Mexico, who are about as far removed from the Middle East as can be. The rest of it is from other random places like Angola, Russia, the Virgin Islands, and Brazil [...]"

Source: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4032

Also interesting: Peak Oil, http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4100
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I agree they are not very high confidence classifications.
Due to random nature of the algorithm, It is very hard to correctly label a community.
Also since for most users explicit permission to follow is not required which leads to dubious/spam users. Since the data was collected in June 2009, it is possible that a lot of users might have blocked spam profiles from following them.

I guess I need to clarify this point.
Big deal, she's a legacy.
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I've been trying to find summer housing on craigslist, and it's been mostly a failure. The biggest issue is the lack of semantic information in the listings. For example, every listing has a price, but it's mostly useless for filtering because some people list per day, some per week and some per month. There is also no place for listers to put the dates of availability (crucial information for temporary housing) except within the text itself.

Providing richer semantic information would alleviate many of the issues, but the very structure (taken directly from newspaper classifieds) seems unsuited to the web. In particular, why must people re-post every day in order to be seen? Why can't they have a single post which they can keep current and remove when it's been taken?

There are dozens obvious improvements, which could maintain the flavor while vastly improving the experience. Unfortunately, Craigslist still seems like the last word in the housing market, but hopefully that will change soon.
A singular form of "they" has long been used in English writing. Even Shakespeare used it.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Singular_they

That said, constructions like "didn't realized" are best avoided.
So because one country is willfully going back to the stone age with caps, everone living in other less idiotic countries have to suffer?
It sounds like you want CL to specialize in a niche, which is something they're not really setup to do, nor is it their claim to fame. They are a firehouse of classifieds information, that's why a lot of people like them.

They could mine the data they have a bit more, but where do they stop? Should they let you select computers for sale by CPU type(newegg)? Cars by model/make/warrant/color(autotrader.com)? Dates by body measurements/race/religion/compatibility questions(okcupid.com)? Should their forums have a karma system(hacker news)? There is a reason they are called "Craig's List" & not "Craig's Apartments", "Craig's Cars", "Craig's Dating" or "Craig's Computers".

Perhaps they should try harder on the spam, but redesigning how they operate could alienate a considerable portion of their community who like the simplicity & popularity of the site.
Wasn't Manymoon just acquired by Salesforce? How does that acquisition affect the realities of this job?
Yeah. Too many of them, it makes for a very disturbing noise, which ceases to be funny very quickly. Also, I was misled. It's already April 2 in my timezone.
It cost me about $1000 recently to dissolve a Delaware Corporation.
Off topic design note: you should not force people having to pick Minutes before allowing calculation.
TL;DR: We (re)invented automated deployment and packaged it as a website with gaudy colors.

It seems quite fast though; production deployment under 3 minutes.
Consulting a lawyer/accountant would have set someone back even before they started. I asked for the price to consult a lawyer before and it cost around $2500 just to have a chat regardless of the outcome.
There is an unwritten guideline "do first, ask for forgiveness later" among people trying to blaze new trails. (NOTE: felons need not apply =) ).
It's a shame these things aren't more straightforward. This is a somewhat detached and subjective view of the US but it seems to me that US regulations are designed to nickel and dime you at every turn. If you incorporate here in the UK, don't trade, and dissolve, you owe diddly squat and any taxes you do pay are reasonably simple and well known.

I'm far from a defender of the UK in most cases - especially tax rates - but as a business person in the UK, I at least don't feel like the government or regulations are out to trick me and that I need an expert or a lawyer by my side for every decision I make.
Erlang is excellent, but XMPP is bad and ugly, as every other industry standard.

I speaking as somebody involved in scaling ejabberd to huge number of concurrent users and writing XMPP clients in C++.

If you already know Erlang - writing custom Erlang server with lightweight JSON-based protocol over HTTP (comet or long-polling) will beat XMPP servers any day.
Once I decided to start a new career as a developer, the first thing I bought was a new MacBook pro. It's great. Keep in mind that the computer I'd had before this was a Dell Latitude from 2006. I bought it back in 2008 and while it worked for what I used it for, it was REALLY slow to boot, had almost no RAM, and the outside was broken. One thing I've believed in since I had my first job was to use the best equipment you can afford, because that way you can grow your business without outgrowing your equipment.
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That assumes that the government employees are independent of one another and will not "punish" the person reporting the incident.

What works better is a system where the PM alone is allowed to take bribes with impunity but no one else is allowed to. The reasoning behind this is it gives the PM and his inner circle sufficient financial independence to implement anti-corruption measures.

For example, the central government in China has been known to mete out capital punishments on mid-ranking politicians found to take bribes. This limits the base of people who are able to seek an economic rent on the basis of their position. Like any triangle, the people at the top may get filthy rich and in many sense untouchable; they will be able to keep the large pool of people below them honest.
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I don't think incorporating was a mistake, I incorporated a c-corp last year and read that getting 5K shares was the maximum while remaining at a minimum franchise tax. From my understanding, the initial amount of shares is not a big deal as this can be changed later (emitting new shares, blah blah blah).

I created the corp as an experiment and will see how it goes.
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I agree, but I suppose those are the lessons best learned first hand. I'm sure he's very sharp, but once he's gotten his ass handed to him a couple times, he'll come around. There are some great opportunities for new grads now, it almost seems like a waste to give that to people before they've learned what to do with it :-)
Apple does not sell their devices at a loss and make them up with the app / music store. You can see that this is false from their financials.
If you want better apartment searching you should really try out padmapper. They crawl craigslist and post them on a google map.

http://www.padmapper.com/
It's mostly due to delware (other states are very different). The state of Delaware uses its lenient coporation laws as a way to make a ton of revenues for the state. These laws attract most corporations (for foreigners some of these laws are very useful) in the US and franchise taxes for a state the size of Delaware are incredibly important.

Like I said other states have very different laws but most people will tell you that with all the bad delaware is still not decent choice to incorporate.
I'm pretty shocked to hear this. I went to a simple state school, UVA, and even our professors were doing interesting work.

Granted, you wouldn't get to participate in any of it unless you took their electives but it did exist for those cared about learning over GPA.

I insist on the last part, because many of my classmates avoided electives because they were "too hard" or would "hurt my GPA". These were the same that thought that school was essentially pointless---a badge to attain so they could get a good job.
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but this is possible already.

from the business section of apple's homepage:
"Wireless App Distribution

iPad enables enterprises to securely host and wirelessly distribute in-house apps to employees over Wi-Fi and 3G. Apps can be updated without requiring users to connect to their computers. In-house apps can be hosted on any web server accessible to users. Users simply tap on a URL to install apps wirelessly without needing to connect to their computers."

The company I work for distributes its iPad app through this to all our customers. No app store required. And yes, this is a full blown, native iOS app.
and i'm stunned...
Starting with the simplest idea you have in your mind will be the best way to learn python.

Let me share my story, I started thinking about learning python two months back. My brother has been using python since last four years, so i asked him how should i start.
His answer was simple "Learn it by doing". Stumbling with different ideas for a week i came up with a simple idea to write a script that collects publicly shared videos in facebook (I love viewing videos shared in facebook). I have been programming since last 8 years but this was first time i wrote a script in python. I got very excited when 20 lines of python script collected thousands of videos shared in facebook. Next day i shared my script and results with my brother. He was really excited and i asked him to help me to extend the project to collect the interesting videos shared in social media. After the iterative process of learning and refinement of idea, we built http://lolzwow.com.

My idea of learning python by writing simple script that collects videos evolved into a complete site that collects and features Funny, Amazing, Inspiring and Interesting videos shared in web. On top of all i learned Python (one of the most beautiful language i have encountered so far)

By sharing my story, I want to say

1) Start with simple idea that can be converted into computer program

2) If you have someone who knows about python, ask for help

3) If you have any questions that confused you, join python IRC on freenode. From my experience, I can say people in python IRC channel are the most helpful people that i have encountered in any IRC channel. I really love python folks out there in #python channel.

4) Learning by doing encourages you and highly reduces static friction that every people faces when learning new thing.

If you don't have prior knowledge of programming I suggest to go through Introduction to Computer Science and Programming video lectures made available by MIT OCW
http://bit.ly/bdRzad.

Good luck.
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What are they talking about? Bribes ARE legal. All you have to do is call it a campaign contribution.

But, yeah, its the politicians that should be prosecuted for taking, not people who are victims of the shakedown.

And it is a shakedown when in order to do business in a particular fields all of your competition is already bribing and if you don't, you're screwed.

Of course, the reason the politician has power to abuse is that he has power he shouldn't even have. So its really our fault for allowing the concentration of power or believing power is supposed to be concentrated.
Except for one big difference -- today, I or the company I work for, doesn't have to own "the mainframe". Basically its a return to the "mainframe" with the cost and exclusivity. That is a huge difference.
The best way? To show that you are worth funding. Their interest is in funding people before ideas. In fact, they are willing to invest in good people with bad ideas because it's easier to change the idea than to change the people. Most good ideas worth funding are discovered not planned.
Your post's parent and your reply seem to have come up in every single HN thread where this thing or similar have appeared.

Define your point of reference for significance. Considering we may end up producing the beings and machines that colonize much of the observable universe, I think we can be pretty significant from the view of a hypothetical space monster thousands of lightyears away.
If you don't want to deal with the internet, try pygame.
There are some law firms that defer all legal fees until a startup raises money; that way, you can get the legal advice until you have some money in the bank to afford paying their hourly rate.
Lack of determination doesn't mean what they built is valueless.
It's no longer april 1st, if a link isn't marked as a joke and it is, just flag it.
this had me looking into mirasol panels which seem to be a cool tech at first glance, but they do not look very bright without direct sunlight. hope they can improve them as 6x lower power consumption is great for mobile devices.
From my understanding the Professor was ask to give an analysis on the situation currently going on in wisconsin and the it was critical of the governors. The republican party in wisconsin sent a freedom of information act request to the school. The professor thought it was shady tactics and and a violation of his privacy.

Frankly, I've worked in a state University (Florida) and these request are very common. The Professor can't complain here, state employees from the governor all the way down to the lowly secretary can receive such request.

I many cases these things are vital, for example the media makes heavy use of these and this is why I think they are important and should be kept. State employees need to be better informed about this because that should affect how they use government ressources. Your work email should be strictly for business.
the arrogance of youth. I remember it well.
No, definitely not. What I meant is, if I put myself in the prospective employee's shoes, he has been given an opportunity to keep the door open. A compliment to the hiring manager would help do that in light of not taking the job. That's all. No I definitely don't expect a compliment. Just a suggestion along the lines of how to win friends and influence people.
I assume Ben is writing about his experience at Loudcloud and it seems he has a glaring omission about his cofounders (Tim Howes, In Sik Rhee, in addition to Andreessen). Where's the story about when he managed his ego when he had disagreements with them? Or a story/acknowledgment about his cofounders assisting him with psychological support?

I am not disagreeing with the weight on the CEO and overall it was a thought provoking post. But it only scratched the surface and did not write enough about his own experience (and management of his psychology). Incidentally, those were the 2 parts I found most insightful:
1. "The new customers didn’t save us, but we figured out another way to survive and ultimately succeed. The key to getting to the right outcome was to keep from getting married to either the positive or the dark narrative."
2. "Get it out of your head and onto paper"
Yelp is also good. I've read the reviews for my building and they are basically correct -- the staff used to be idiots, the walls are paper-thin, and the appliances are pieces of shit. Yup, pretty much.
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I couldn't believe how many hits I was getting for this from Google. I was sure it had to be the real thing...then I realized that pretty much every page was copy & pasted from Android Police...

It's the afternoon of April 2nd where I am already!
I want to live in a P = NP world. Perhaps airline scheduling isn't something to get excited over, but in my field a P = NP world would be the holy grail.

Imagine being able to engineer proteins. ENGINEER PROTEINS. Not just study them or do domain fusions, but to actually be able to design structures to fill a particular need. We could plug into existing metabolic pathways or we could develop entirely novel ones, complete with complex logic circuitry that models interaction with the physical world.

Pollution would be solved. Energy would be solved. Cells would become a new and quite novel form of both computer and machine. A kind that can self-replicate. A kind that we could now feasibly have a compiler for.

Slightly tangent to biotech, consider the computational investigation of all of chemical space. We could quickly and easily discover novel molecular structures and automate their design. We could develop new synthesis reactions and optimize chemical engineering. The products we buy today--think "mundane" things like plastics, or shampoo--could become space age in a matter of years if P = NP.

Too bad this appears to be a different universe I'm describing. In that world all of the "magic" of the computer industry is essentially ported to all of the science fields.
You do realize that the people that responded are a very self-selecting group right?
"The nuclear power is used to take away demand from the power derived from oil & gas."

That's not an answer as to what the power is used for. Your claim was that the nuclear power is necessary to sustain earth's population. Is that the case or not?
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It would be really cool if Facebook was able to suggest groupings for your friends. They probably have enough data to do a half-decent job of it.

Also, they should make some sort of more visual method to sort people into lists. Maybe like a venn-diagram.
Is this a late April Fools' joke? This reads like a parody of middle class striving meets stereotypical Asian obsession with "face".
"That's quite narcissistic and self-absorbed. You're really not that important and to take a letter like this and try to paint it as a "blessing in disguise" is arrogant and foolish."

He bolded a sentence in his email that read "It may seem arbitrary, but the platform an organization uses is indicative to me of a whole lot." BOLDED IT! If that doesn't scream arrogant prick, then I don't know what does. So, yes, not hiring him is a blessing in disguise. I don't want to work with someone who is that arrogant and condescending.

As I said in another reply, I wasn't suggesting that I need a compliment. I was just giving an example of a successful way to respond in order to keep the door open. A compliment won't hurt that, and in reality, it wouldn't hurt to keep the door opened.
I always thought it should be the opposite---paying bribes should be illegal, but accepting them legal. It would be like collecting a reward for turning in the briber.
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I'm happy that I received so much feedbacks, thank you all!

However I see a few comments that missed a bit the point, and this is probably my fault because I did not specified some very important thing:

Once you substitute not just an hello world template, but a few templates N times (since you have N comments in the page), the performance starts to be so slow you can't serve more than about 10 requests per second, just because template substitution is so damn slow if you don't preload templates, and the obvious way to do it is calling :erb (you see this in all the Sinatra code around, in the examples, and so forth).

10 requests per second instead of the 1000 you get even with 'N' includes if you perform a faster substitution, or if you preload the templates, or using any other trick, is a huge difference.
There's danger in trying to out-think other sites, holding back on upgrades with the expectation that everyone else will do the same. If everyone did that, no one would ever upgrade at all.

On the contrary, I think that the sites which matter (those with high traffic and broad reach, which are also the most actively maintained) will probably upgrade fairly quickly.
Yes, but Apple sets terms and conditions, when and how can you do it (it involves being company of over 500 employees and assk-kissing when handling the certificates).

Basically, you can't do any skunk works in your company, because when you start talking to all people necessary to handle Apple terms, some manager will come and tell you to not do anything, because the standard corporate phone is XYZ and that's it.
"The isotopes in bananas are also much worse because you ingest them: radioactive isotopes on the skin can be showered off; ones in your intestines ... not so much..."

Well you can ingest isotopes from nuclear power plants, too. For example the cesium from Chernobyl "accumulates" in mushrooms (I hope you can figure out what Imean by accumulate, don't know a better word for it), even today. In Germany they still shoot wild pigs and mark them unfit for human consumption because because they eat those mushrooms and hence become radioactive.

Anyway, nobody has claimed that the isotopes from Fukushima are endangering SF - yet. I apologize for misreading about water supply vs rain.

"one of the best aspects of an engineering education is the notion of "tolerances"."

People just seem to have different comfort zones. And there is always Murphy's law, as Fukushima demonstrated again (earthquake+Tsunami at the same time).
Thought the very same thing.
I agree, but I think writing that in a long email where you bold that sentence is pretty condescending. I think that's the main issue people are taking with it. If you want to engage in a discussion about cultures and platforms, I think that's a valid discussion, but this email was not the place to do it.
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Here is the site in question:
http://www.signazon.com/car-magnets/business-magnetic-signs/computer-service-store-961.aspx

We are trying to code a web service that is similar to it. But, because we are novice programmers, we'd appreciate any feedback/advice on how to start such a project?
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It's just hard to believe and sad that in 2011, a major USA university will find themselves in the position to explain what academic freedom is, why it is important and why it is a stake.
Additionally, I don't think anyone was criticizing the book on the basis that working kids like slaves doesn't produce academic results, just that doing so may be harmful and unethical. Even Mussolini got the trains running on time.
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