skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are not relying on the expertise of the people making public ratings. The ratings account for a very small percentage of the judging scores. 80% of the scores are driven by ratings from expert judges. 10% by public ratings and 10% by endorsements.

The public ratings system encourages teams to ask for a small favor from people in their community (i.e. visit a site and rate my pitch).

The endorsements system encourages teams to ask for a small favor from known experts and network hubs in the community.

These are both devices designed to encourage networking, connectivity, pitching and collaboration. Many many teams from last year have indicated that they made critical connections via these processes, especially via the endorsements process, including meeting future investors, customers, service providers and team members.

These are easy steps but that doesn't mean they aren't valuable. They are starting points.
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Failed for me too, I got annoyed by the second 'the'
Yes, I’m familiar with this website and it's great. I do, however, find two problems with this website:
1) It's a separate website i.e. you can't use it while watching another video on YouTube or use it with your playlists.
2) When you want to search for a video that has many results, ytinstant does not necessarily play the right one you want - sometimes I want to hear two versions of one song, or see two different angles of some news story.
FTR, you can continue to collect diamond endorsements until May 20. All discounts (except the early bird discount) are applied via reimbursements. So, no need to rush it. Lock in the early bird by paying today before noon -- then you have plenty of time to find the diamond endorsements and get a full refund. Email endorsements -at- masschallenge.org if you still have questions. Looking forward to your entry. Thanks!
BTW, here's the link: http://goo.gl/yPAfd
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This is similar to solutions I've had to hack around for gems on heroku before, but just to play devil's advocate, one generally tries to avoid committing anything compiled to source control. Especially if you do that "you just have to..." step manually (instead of, e.g., through a post-commit hook), you're writing yourself technical debt, payable at a future date when the compiled output goes out of sync with the source and this causes a problem on the site not seen by the responsible developer. That is going to be a particularly hard problem to notice and debug, since CSS issues are practically immune to most forms of automated testing.

This will keep happening until you do it the right way. (If I sound like someone who has been burned by this...)
Two weeks are quite some time for an automation. But depending on how much time you spend every day, you might want to go for it. It's not only about saving time daily, it's even more about scaling things up.

If the process is automated, it should be quite easy to use modified versions for similar problems. And you can quickly run it again and again without having to worry about making mistakes.
Maybe a good followup article should be "Security Researcher Uses Dumbest Antivirus Program Ever"
I'm confused - there are some Perl modules and some LuaJIT modules. Is it Lua you will be programming if you use this?

Also, if you're interested in that combination, have you seen Zed Shaw's Tir? (http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1289384533.html) Its Lua+ZeroMQ+Mongrel2.
Rhapsody so far avoiding Apple’s 30%, ‘hopeful’ about resolving subscription
Indeed, delayed not solved.

I don't necessarily mean marrying African women (tho' why not? historically colonists have always enthusiastically intermarried) but being out of China and working on labour-intensive projects like major infrastructure. Societies with lots of frustrated young men in them tend to go horribly wrong, Afghanistan is an example, in a society where there is a shortage of women anyway due to cultural reasons (e.g. healthcare), and successful men have 4 wives, and there is no social scene for teenagers and certainly no extramarital sex, what do the young men do? They run off into the mountains and it all goes a bit Lord of the Flies.
I can't automate most of my routine tasks, and I'm not sure I would if I could: eating, sleeping, taking the bike to work, talking to people, ...

I do automate many of my computer related tasks. Since I'm a fan of the command line, small perl scripts, shell scripts and aliases do a lot of "work" for me.
I like the translation just fine, but perhaps one of the following:

"the words you elect to use perfectly reflect you and your views"

"the words you elect to use bring respect to your views"

"the words you choose to use can't fail to enthuse those who muse on your views"

The last one has lost a smidgen of German stoicism (does "Grüne Eier und Schinken von Herr Doktor Süss" even exist?) though I think...
Youtube's robots.txt
The book "Business Model Generation" by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur is mandatory reading wrt disruptive innovation. It's thorough, fun to read and beautifully designed.
http://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-...
Norwich is apparently a military college http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich_University
I always missed the historical context in high school, especially with chemistry and to a lesser degree physics.

You always knew that the current model you were being taught was "kinda wrong" or not the current state of knowledge (Rutherford's atomic model, Bohr's atomic model, and so on), but you never heard anything about the motivations of the people developing it.
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Agreed, and let me add typing speed is important to 90% of a programmer's activity outside a source code editor. The changeset commit message, the bug tracker description, the status report email, commenting on Hacker News... ;)

Anyone who believes typing source code faster increases productivity by any worthwhile amount is solving an inane problem. If the bottleneck is on your fingers, then 10 outsourced developers or a Visual Studio drag-and-dropper will replace you.
This isn't about me. I don't do this. MassChallenge is a community supported by literally thousands of volunteers foregoing value capture to support value creation.

After year 1, we asked our finalists this survey question:

How likely are you on a scale of 0-10 to recommend MassChallenge to another startup?

79% answered either 9 or 10. (Just about 60% answered 10).
One person answered 6 -- the lowest score.

For perspective, that means that our finalists are slightly more enthusiastic about MassChallenge than Apple customers are about Apple Computer ... see here for more details and other metrics:

http://www.masschallenge.org/2010_metrics

Again, please visit some time. I'm sure you will understand why we are so excited about MassChallenge if you do.
I agree completely. I don't think that recreational mathematics should replace calculus. I think that there are some definite changes that should be made to mathematics education, but that the majority of these should take place at a much younger age, even grade school. Early education is the perfect place for recreational mathematics. Fostering an interest at a young age (rather than force memorization of formulas, algorithms, and tables) can help a lot to keep people engaged throughout their lives.

I think that by the time students reach the college level (which I think starts with Calculus, even if they reach this level in high school), they should be able to deal with some of the more boring parts of mathematics, sustained only by nuggets of usefulness and beauty. After all, not all mathematics is wondrous joy.

I also agree that many of these problems could be fixed simply by teaching better. In calculus, for example, the beautiful thing is how closely it mirrors nature. Calculus states that if we know the position of an object at all times, we also know the velocity of the object at all times. This is a beautiful and fundamental result, one that I feel is not stressed enough during a first-year calculus course. I think that it is amazing not just that we know (in theory) the velocity, but that we can actually calculate it explicitly (in most circumstances) or approximate it numerically (in most circumstances). The parts of calculus on how to do that are somewhat less beautiful and paradigm-shifting, but are necessary, and adult students ought to be able to deal with that.
Desparately. Want. This.
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Haven't we all read Cryptonomicon and dreamed of having sovereignty over our very own impenetrable data-bunker?
Not only that, but the guy continues to use the same install of windows after discovering the issue. He then has more issues with the laptop and returns it for ANOTHER Samsung.

First off, if I even remotely sense that there is malware on my machine it gets an immediate format. Second, why in Thor's name would you buy from Samsung again? I get the impression he's a guy with a little knowledge that thinks he has this whole computer thing figured out. If you are going to make these types of allegations and publish them, you have to approach it scientifically and verify your results.
One of my colleagues was telling me yesterday that similar information (e.g. keep the phone away from the ear) can be found buried at the very end of the iPhone manual.
What do lingerie, insurance and seat belts have in common?
We're kind of abusing the format, in that it's me and two other guys bringing an idea to work on as a ready-made team. We haven't started any work, but we've given it lots of thought.

I'm anticipating an article titled somethingn like "How we cheated at StartupWeekend (and still lost)" or something like that.
Yes, server tasks, deployment tasks. My daily routine 'feels' automated to a large extent and I'm still trying to optimize for output.

When I say my daily routine feels automated I mean, when I have two boring tasks I usually combine them to make them less inane. So an automata type scenario comes into play. I don't have to 'think' about the two crappy but necessary tasks.
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Sounds like he was referring to the near-field communications hardware rumors.
After almost 20 years, I recently stopped drinking coffee because of the bad water footprint coffee has. Of course, my co-workers smile at me pitifully, but I believe it's the right thing to do. Now I wonder if that step will make me a worse hacker in the long run? ;-)
I went to salsa dancing for about 1.5 years. Pretty much every guy there who was a regular was either a programmer or an accountant. One day I asked my teacher about this. She said it wasn't just limited to my city, all over the world it's like this.

Her theory about why programmers tended to stay in dancing was that dancing is just a series of patterns. Programmers are good at recognizing patterns so dancing fits into the part of the brain that we are good at using.
"What do I think?" is a simple -- potentially as powerful -- thought.

It can be "disruptive thinking."
An enjoyable read, and a worthwhile exercise for any business even if it has no intention of launching a disruptive business model (at the very least, they're thinking like the potential competition).

Worth remembering too - just because there's a gap in the market, doesn't mean there's a market in the gap. Cliches like 'scratch your own itch', 'do market research before product build', 'release early, release often' etc also have a place when disrupting.
The book by the article's author (Disrupt) is quite good too. It takes he points in the article and expands on them, giving you concrete exercises to work through to generate new ideas. While I don't think you can systematize innovation, I do think there are certain things you can do to come up with interesting business ideas.

If you're like me and find developing applications easy but have a very hard time deciding what to create, I'd recommend reading Disrupt.
Is this just a sticker though or is it an all-or-nothing including things like Android Market + all Google services?

The Google services are tightly integrated with the OS, kind of like IE was back in the day with Windows.
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I did find this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_server-side_JavaS...

which I will probably work through at some point, I'd really like to use JavaScript on the server but I'm not sure if node.js is a good fit.
haters gonna hate

keep it up!
> I have been holed up by my self pretty much, and well I don't seem to understand what is wrong with me / what i need to do to fix this ? is this just a phase of life ?

I'm going to say something a little different than others here. There's nothing wrong with you. This is just a phase and it too will pass. Thinking that there is something wrong with you or that you need to fix something may just make things worse.
Ask HN: I need a rockstar game graphic designer.
Hi.
Does anyone out there knows a rockstart designer that is able to tackle a game design?

i'm willing to go to freelancing site, but i prefere to work with someone who have track record in this area.
It is about yet another Sudoku Game, the graphics need to be of high level (see Sudoku2) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sudoku-2/id366247306?mt=8

If you advise me to go to a freelancing site, which one is best? how much should i plan for a high end designer?

It will be about 8 screens to design plus the game icon.

Thanks.
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A less sensationalist headline might be "Google updates the Android Compatibility Definition Document":

http://source.android.com/compatibility/index.html

Unfortunately that would require you to acknowledge that Android has always had limits if you wanted access to Google's services and would destroy your "Google flip-flops on openness" story.
This wasn't so much aimed as a direct response to the joke but rather a general comment towards the fact that there are actually people who want to believe that Macs are actually more secure then any other computer. Sorry for being so unclear.
But then you don't get all your fancy custom themes and subsidized applications.

I've got a Nexus S and I think this is a feature :-)
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Your right, maybe it has to be about average score. People are going to submit good stuff that doesn't catch on. The only real behavior your trying to avoid is people submitting regardless of quality.
Disruptive failure: How Acer Took Aim at Dell and HP and missed
Maybe I'm cynical, but I'm going to tend towards "guy becomes very unhappy with samsung for unknown reason, guy lies about keylogger".

Because I agree - if you were going to tend to make a big fuss about this (as I would) and I had determined it looked like Samsung installed the first one (as he claimed) in no way would I ever get samsung laptop #2. Not to mention, not even checking the contents of the directory before reporting it widely.

Pretty decent approach to tarnish their reputation too, if it happened that way. To get an estimate of reach, the HN story "Samsung installs keyloggers" currently has 477 votes - it seems quite unlikely the retraction will get that much exposure.
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Foxconn reports $218 million full-year net loss, exceeding analysts' expectation
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I get bored easily with repetitive work. Generally about the third time I find myself doing something, is on the short-list to get some level of automation applied to it.

BCC is in maintenance mode, which means that my only interaction with the site is customer support and moving money around once a week to cover bills and my paycheck. Everything else is automated or outsourced. Bookkeeping for sales, for example, is 99.96% automatic. (Chargeback? Bah, you always miss one case...) Bookkeeping for expenses is about 90 ~ 95% static from month to month modulo dates and numbers, so I have my VA do it for me. Order fulfillment is automatic. Routine server administration is automatic. Customer services problems are, to the extent practical, automatic.

See generally: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busin...

I should probably find a week or so to give BCC in the near future to make the ghost ship a wee bit less rudderless. (Like restarting content creation for it -- that was 99% automatic when I had a freelancer actively working on it, but she quit and I haven't bothered replacing her for... far too long now, it seems.)

AR and my consulting work are both less mature and, by nature, require more hands on attention. Still, you could reasonably expect that as I get more of a hang on what the business needs and where I add the most value to it, more work will get pushed off onto systems or processes.
How can you calculate a trust rank of +1s? Remember that people don't +1 other people, and don't know who +1ed what, so not even people can assess who does quality voting.
Pretty basic stuff, but unfortunately when these errors are made in real life, they are sometimes very hard-to-catch heisenbugs.
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Planning your blog the old-fashioned way.
Here are some pointers to regulations in the UK:

PAYE (Pay As You Earn) is the system that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) uses to collect Income Tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) from employees' pay as they earn it. The term 'employee' in this guide includes directors of limited companies.

As an employer, you'll have to deduct tax and NICs from your employees' pay each pay period and pay Employer's Class 1 NICs if they earn above a certain threshold. You pay these amounts to HMRC monthly or quarterly. If you don't send the correct amount, or if you send it in late, you may have to pay interest. After the end of the tax year you must send HMRC an Employer Annual Return (form P35 and forms P14). Almost all employers are required to send this online.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/intro/basics.htm

Employed or self-employed?

A worker's employment status, that is whether they are employed or self-employed, is not a matter of choice. Whether someone is employed or self-employed depends upon the terms and conditions of the relevant engagement. The tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) rules do, however, contain some special rules that apply to certain categories of worker in certain circumstances. See section on special cases.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/employment-status/index.htm
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/leaflets/es-fs2.pdf

And here is the info for Ireland:

Employer's Guide to PAYE
http://www.revenue.ie/en/business/paye/guide/index.html

Code of practice for determining employment or self-employment status of Individuals
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/code-of-practice-on...
Previous version of this story:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2381905
How hackerspaces make any city an open source city
World Stores: searching for retail success online, backwards
The video headline should actually read:

GoDaddy CEO helps with controlled thinning of population of dangerous animal while still managing to appear masturbatory, insensitive and self-aggrandizing.
Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view
Google's Rubin says that such clauses have always been part of the Android license, but people interviewed for this story say that Google has recently tightened its policies. Facebook, for example, has been working to fashion its own variant of Android for smartphones. Executives at the social network are unhappy that Google gets to review Facebook's tweaks to Android, say two people who weren't comfortable being named talking about the business.

Facebook learns what it means to be a sharecropper.
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This is going to sound mundane, but it has to do with time keeping for the nurses that go to all these different homes. Basically a chunk of home healthcare companies today don't have a clear way to keep track of their employees time. If they do have a solution, there's a good chance they are paying too much for it. I would just want to find out what they are using, cost, how long, etc. Could we connect offline vladik dot rikhter at gmail?
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256k should be enough for anybody.
I use Moonshine for automating server configuration and Rails deployment, git aliases for shortening commonly used git commands, and zsh aliases for shortening things like "cd ~/wiki; soywiki" to "wiki".

I also spent a few bucks on an 8 GB RAM upgrade so I could just set MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis to run on startup and not have to stop and start them whenever I am working on different apps, and I still have plenty of RAM left over for Photoshop, Starcraft II, etc.

I also spend time practicing vim tricks for things that commonly require a bunch of keystrokes, since practicing shortcuts until they become automatic is effectively the same thing as automating the task itself.

There are also a lot of things I don't automate, but it basically boils down to whether or not I use them enough to make it annoying enough to make me want to automate them. For example, I know that it's possible to set up a Rails template that creates a new Rails app with all of the gems, plugins, and configuration that you commonly use, but since I only create new Rails apps once every two weeks or so it's not enough of a pain that I want to spend the time creating the template.
Ah ... I remember the good old days when you just had to be careful about big-endian/little-endian when doing bit twiddling :)
NerdCasts suggestion: The Dev Show
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The swarm of locals butchering the elephant carcass while wearing GoDaddy hats is by far the most disturbing part of the episode.
I think the problem is that this will only make sense to geeks. This is the problem with a lot of Google's UI design, it's not designed for normal people and is often confusing for them.
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The thing is, students already think of math as difficult.

If we switched from algorithms to actual creative problem solving, it would become a lot more intimidating. I'm pretty confident of this. I'm in high school, and the other students have noted how much more they would 'hate' math if it were like the creative problem solving math competition that we have here in the US each year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mathematics_Competitio...

What many -- perhaps even most -- kids really want is a course where they do only simple mechanical work, and get a boost to their GPA. At least, that's what it seems to me to be.

Also, we have to consider that unfortunately, not all teachers care. Now that teaching to the test is rampant(at least in the US), I think many classes would fall apart if the added structure and 'accountability' disappeared, like it would if we made that switch.

I don't disagree with you. The world would be a better place if we could get rid of this; if we didn't have all of this baggage to deal with.

EDIT: RiderOfGiraffes seems to have said the same thing in a different way in this thread; check it out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390960.