skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it compares to breast size. For instance, I really like women with smaller breasts, the larger ones just don't seem very aesthetic to me (especially with no clothes on).

Compared to that, baldness is a style that may look good on a few men; it may look neutral on a few more. But the overwhelming majority of men would be better off (dating-wise) with a full head of hair. All other things being equal, having hair is a plus.

Many people are surprised to hear this, but huge breasts can actually be a turn-off to many men. However I never heard a woman say: "I'd find him attractive if only he was bald, that full lustrous head of hair just doesn't do it for me".
Lisp linkdump, March 2011 edition.
this is what is known as a straw-man argument, and it does nothing to move the conversation forward.

Clearly storing just the 'tweet' contents alone would be unhelpful because what about the username or any of the other 40+ metadata point a tweet carries.

What about keeping the mechanisms needed to store, sort, search, send those tweets, etc etc. I could go on.

Also, what were you expecting - Twitter to their business at-cost?
I recently tried BuySellAds in an attempt to target ads a specific interest group (technology websites). The result has been horrible. CTRs are like 0.001%. I'm getting about 30-50 clicks a day and with the same funds on AdSense I'd be getting nearly a thousand clicks a day. It's too bad i sunk so much into the experiment.
Why don't you make your own little stable of design templates and sell them to these pain-in-the-ass clients on a non-exclusive basis?

Later on you can charge more if they want it personalised.
> Engineering and accounting... don't suffer this problem.

Ha! You're not looking hard enough. Check out the healthcare industry to find "Developer Challenges" where companies attempt to recruit programmers to compete for tiny prizes that won't even replace their lost billable time.

1. http://health2challenge.org/

2. http://smartplatforms.org/

The second example is the funniest, given that the $5000 challenge is intended to promote a platform developed with a $60 Million grant! Bill Gates was even on hand to help kick off the challenge.
Ughhh, after the second pop-over ad I quit reading.
I share the concern voiced by several sources in that article that using performance in AlgII as a predictor for success misses the correlation/causation distinction.

Engineering, science, math, and medicine all require AlgII, and even a substantial portion of lawyers come from science rather than liberal arts backgrounds. So AlgII is a prerequisite for most high-paying jobs, and is thus a good predictor for success by correlation rather than causation.
Unless I'm missing something, even with an MLB.tv subscription, the Android app doesn't provide that feature.
KCK courted Google Internet project quietly, cautiously
TI buys National Semiconductor for $6.5B
Where does it say you need to be the originator of the copy in order to be guilty of copyright infringement?

For instance, if you make copies of DVDs and give them to me and I sell them in my store, then we're both breaking the law, right?
Ask HN: How are you spending your karma points?
Everyone knows that karma is made to ensure that better, more insightful comments remain at the top of discussion pages. For some very understandable but unacceptable reasons, users have begun using karma to commend and acknowledge the comments which they find funny or interesting. This is all obvious.

When I joined HN, I I found a strong intellectual community, fully built and thriving, and I understood it was because all these users collectively bought in, agreeing with one another and PG that they are more interested in the thought provoking, debate rich forums of HN, than the attention starved, recognition contest that is other forum sites. The desire to be funny and social in such a community in understandable, but a poor reflection of character and consideration on the user's part. And when others use the system which is supposed to make the logical and insightful comments most readily available to commend one another for humor, it reflects poorly on the goals of the community. I implore every user, prominent and new alike, to remember one important fact whenever they use HN: Karma points are worthless to individuals, and priceless to the community.

There is no other way of defining the expectation for upvoting. You don't upvote for the user, you upvote for the community. When you know that the article or comment you read has intellectual value, you upvote so the community can collectively benefit from your positive evaluation of the page. So if unintelligent comments are helping bring in the karma points, use your unlimited supply well, because they're worthless. And everyone gets an unlimited supply to donate to the growth of the community, so please try not to squander them.

The simple question is, how are you spending your karma points?
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Something more portable (iPad-ish) or more like a little toy with keyboard, or mini-usb where you can plug one, and HDMI on the out would've been better.

But I guess people cared about the keyboard. I did - for my Pravetz 8C (Apple ][/e clone)
Why be jealous? He has no traction. Copy it and do it slightly better.
Peter-Paul Koch on The Future of the Mobile Web
I learned last week that one of the founders of Etsy is Jared Tarbell, the excellent computational artist (http://complexification.net/gallery/, http://www.levitated.net/). He wasn't mentioned in the article though, I wonder why.
Interesting read.

As an indie game developer I am very lax with my code, do only human-testing on it, and eventually don't really care how ugly it gets under the hood because the code is almost always single-use. I fix bugs that surface in the first days and then every now and then I put in whatever companies' branding when I sell licenses.

The games I and other indie developers make and especially on the casual side just aren't long term investments, we produce them at a blazing rate, make our money or not, and move on.
The best part of this article may be the reference to Regretsy.
http://www.regretsy.com/
I've submitted this since there are still 151 tickets left, and I can't understand that they haven't been "soled out" already :)

In case you're wondering Peter is the author of the quirksmode blog (http://quirksmode.org)
If someone really wanted to do TCP over TCP (say, because UDP packets are blocked), couldn't they build something just like TCP but without retransmits? Does this already exist in some pile of code somewhere?
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Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k Keyword Filters for 1/2 cent per minute
I would highly recommend Michael Geist's blog and writing to anyone who follows piracy issues.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
I've been thinking about this exact problem for a few weeks now. I have gone as far as buying a domain for it (epayfiles.com) and I just started coding. I think I'll continue on with my project I'll just focus on a different payment niche.

After doing some quick research I found five or six sites with similar ideas. Most of them focus on selling digital files not links. The link idea sounds novel. The presentation is also very clean. Looks good.
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It makes sense to me. I have a friend of mine that doesn't live in the US, and she says some movies and tv shows are 6 months to a year late coming to her country, even though they are advertised and hyped up all over the internet. Before the internet, it wasn't as bad because if a movie was coming out in the US, people in other countries didn't really hear about it much due to a sandboxing of each market. Now, it's extremely difficult to avoid, and it generates hype for content that may not be satisfied for months.

While obviously, that doesn't excuse piracy, it definitely plays havoc with the marketplace. The rights holder desires to bring a product to that market on their own timetable. Unfortunately, advances in technology and globalization of the marketplace make it increasingly difficult for someone who desires that product to wait for these arbitrary deadlines and legally obtain it, especially when convenient, simple options to get it immediately exist.

While it may not be the most profitable solution for a content creator to focus on legally making their content as available as possible, it would seem it is definitely the best way to combat piracy as many users would consume the content "as intended" if only the option was available to them and affordable.
AR?
The Video Toaster introduced me to non-linear editing...in 1993.
One man's treasure is another man's knitted kitten bowtie. It's difficult to do a "curated" etsy when their core offering is basically "things not mainstream enough to be mass produced."
"The WebKit project initially landed the SquirrelFish Extreme jit on September 18, 2008; it's pretty clear that this was in the works before Chrome's existence was announced."

In fact, the Apple WebKit folks have said that they began the Squirrelfish Extreme project the day after Tracemonkey was announced. It was quite an engineering accomplishment to have an initial stab at a JIT in a month and have it shipped to users in a few more, especially considering it took Mozilla about a year (Summer '08 - June '08) to ship theirs. And everyone knew about Tamarin's development over the previous couple years - so it ended up being a really amazing coincidence that all three JITs were announced within a one month period.
Obviously, the purpose of the website this guy was running was pretty specific, but according to what you posted, facebook would be liable as well.

If such a case ever actually got to court, it would no doubt come down to an issue of whether facebook was itself posting links to copyrighted content, or whether facebook was merely providing a forum in which others posted such things.

It's the old geeks-trying-to-understand-law problem. The geek says "Well if A is illegal then B must also be illegal. And if B is illegal then C must also be illegal." And so on until you've reducito-ad-absurdumed your way to the conclusion that Z must be illegal, but nobody would ever think Z is illegal, therefore A can't be illegal. Since nobody ever gets fined for travelling 0.01 mph above the speed limit, it must be okay to drive at 120mph down Main Street.

The courts don't work that way, however. They apply fuzzy tests and arbitrarily declare that A through D are illegal but E and onwards are okay.
Note previous sentence: "if the infringement was committed"
The last sentence (A) is applicable only when infringement is present. Mere presence of financial gain doesn't necessarily means infringement.
Not a lawyer, but:

Facebook is not profiting off the YouTube links. They profit primarily off your desire to see what your friends post. A few of your friends posting YouTube videos is incidental.

The subreddit mentioned does seem more like direct profit. Even then I'm sure they could argue their way out of it (they profit off the community, not the 'stuff'), but it's harder.

This is why (hopefully competent) courts are necessary to interpret this stuff.
Ah yes, that is true. The 150K figure is of the usual (ballpark) total cost of a Masters in Financial Engineering program.
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TCP does congestion control + reliable delivery. Retransmits help reliable delivery. So, TCP without retransmits is basically a datagram protocol that does only congestion control. DCCP does precisely this and its congestion control is TCP friendly. It's available in Linux afaik.

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

http://read.cs.ucla.edu/dccp/
If you've raised $50M from VCs, who probably expect you to be worth $1bn (so that their stake can be worth $500M or more) you don't really have a choice. Unfortunately, as a company doing 40M in revenue, that probably means they have to grow at least 10x-15x.

The non-financial issue is that if you hire great people and want to keep them, you usually need growth so that their responsibility and comp keep growing. Otherwise, they're going to have to grow by moving on to other companies with jobs that offer more responsibility / opportunity.
Rhetorical questions: What part of the blog could you have fact checked? What part of my comments could you have fact checked?
I had assumed this was a weekend project that just launched, my bad.
Google bids $900M for Nortel patents, but Microsoft already has them in the bag
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He wasn't selling the DVDs. He was publishing the directory of stores and DVDs they sell.
Many people are surprised to hear this, but huge breasts can actually be a turn-off to many men. However I never heard a woman say: "I'd find him attractive if only he was bald, that full lustrous head of hair just doesn't do it for me".

Many people are surprised to hear it because it rarely gets said. I believe you are the first man I have heard state that he prefers smaller breasts. Just because you don't hear women say "If only he were bald..." doesn't mean there are no women thinking it.

I will also note that women tend to talk less about men and their physical attributes than men do about women and their physical attributes. Women are generally not in a good position to pursue sex for mere fun and typically need to consider the possibility that, oops, she might wind up pregnant and then it will matter a good deal more if he is decent, loyal, has a reasonable income and so on. I will also note that lots of women like older men and older men are often losing their hair. So I think that is indirect evidence that some women are perfectly happy to get with a man with less hair.

I'm sorry this is such a huge issue for you. But I don't think your argument really holds water.
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I've gotten clicks that cost about .01. The whole idea is just to super target. For instance, target users who are interested in runescape, use a runescape image, use a ad text along the lines of "Love Runescape?" and some creative ad text.

Then you want to split them all up into different ads for different demographics.

My problem with facebook is CTR's will drop a lot over time... so you constantly need to keep submitting fresh ads.
There's also the possibility of the placebo effect. I agree with donnyg107 in that it'll be a while before we can begin to form a solid "yes, it's better" or "no, we're Reddit" answer... if you're looking for more insightful comments, that's what you'll remember more of (the same way you remember consecutive red lights, but not green ones).
How does it matter? The retail value of the UFC/NFL live broadcasts would be several orders of magnitude more than $1,000 to the networks/stations licensing them, and even if you let that slide based on what the end viewer is paying instead of the licensees the guy still hits C face-first.

So he's matching either ABC, or AC, either of which put him in the running for a free vacation at club fed.
The second one didn't even have a close link.
You're right. I misread it. And I note further that (B) and (C) were deliberately added to address people copying software electronically without profiting from it.

But we're quibbling over how I (mis)represented the law. The fact remains: this guy got busted for taking $90,000+ out of his infringement scheme. He hit (A), not (B) or (C). That, I think, is a pretty salient detail for the FSF to have provided. Don't you agree with that?
All the pieces to do the whole framework are already in POCO and other libraries, with ssl and cookies etc.

http://pocoproject.org/docs/Poco.Net.HTTPResponse.html

http://pocoproject.org/docs/Poco.Net.html

Doing this in C seems silly to me.
He was not selling nor streaming (copying) anything, he was directing you to the "store" where you could watch streaming video.
It's not that much harder - pretty trivial to register under the "close and substantial connection rule" and then have a valid play at it under the service of "domain monetisation."

Years ago it was much more difficult, but since then it's been pretty straightforward. None of these names were trademarks or anything like that so there wasn't anything I could contest.
I just bought a domain through said service and today received an email asking me to scan a copy of my passport or similar, or they may cancel the order. Is this common practice?
Isn't it little presumptuous of you to claim that their applicants are "new, naive and easily taken advantage of"? If you have something to say, say it for yourself instead of claiming to talk on behalf of others.
Mozilla publishes list of slow Firefox add-ons,
This is a lost opportunity. They could have revived the brand by putting out a new Commodore. Modern hardware, super-slim, "the keyboard is the computer", inexpensive. Maybe with a very simple and fast OS, like a light Linux or BSD or whatever became of the Amiga OS.
That's interesting. Do you see games with longer lifetimes being a thing that the MMO persistent world game categories are causing to change?
In addition to many of those already mentioned I like...
Bookworm! Deep interviews with authors: http://feeds.kcrw.com/kcrw/bw
Stewart Brand's Long Now Foundation talks: http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml
This Week In Venture Capital w Mark Suster: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThisWeekInVentureCapital-audio
Stuff Mom Never Told You: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-mom-never-told-y...
LA Public Library ALOUD talks: http://events.lapl.org/podcasts/rss/itunes/aloudrss.aspx
Futures in Biotech: http://leo.am/podcasts/fib/
Fora.tv audio podcast of the week: http://fora.tv/media/rss/podcasts/featured_audio.xml
Econ Talk with Russ Roberts: http://www.econlib.org/library/EconTalk.xml
C-SPAN After Words: http://www.c-span.org/XML/podcast/aw_feed.xml
Big Ideas: http://feeds.tvo.org/tvobigideas
Automate My Small Business: http://automatemysmallbusiness.com/podcast/
A Prairie Home Companion: http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/podcasts/xml/prai...
I think this is a great idea. Good luck with it!

I'd also like to see it combined in some way with that other startup that makes "writable apis" for the whole internet
That argument didn't work so well for Napster, did it? If he had nothing whatsoever to do with posting the links --- and I think that's a fact in dispute, but, who cares? --- he's still a contributory infringer of the work if he set up a scheme where he benefited by willfully promoting infringing work.
It matters to the extent that one might want to build a case against the law by suggesting it could ensnare innocuous (or even accidental) infringement; the argument being, "look how easy it is to run afoul of (B) or (C)".

And that's an argument I have a lot of sympathy for, even if it isn't germane to this guy's situation.
CTRs will definitely drop over time if you're super-targeting, it's a trade-off you need to make.

FB don't offer frequency capping, so if your target demographic only has 5000 members then if you're showing 10,0000 ads/day then pretty soon everyone in that demographic will have seen your ad and the CTR will drop. FB has some decent reporting though for measuring ad saturation among your demographic.
The author sounds like he's fighting depression.
Ask HN: What is a ballpark timeframe for developing a mobile app?
I'm talkin after design. Going from wireframe to functional mobile app. How long does it take to write the code?
I posted this on his site, for those that may have missed it.

Hey, just a small quibble, but there are no companies on that list growing 1000% per year for 3 years. 10^3 equals 1000, or 100,000% after 3 years of compounding growth.

That said, great post and nice data find.
Clearwire accused of overextending coverage to lure customers
No, it just very likely to mean infringement. Contributory and vicarious copyright infringement liability is a topic that Wikipedia unsurprisingly covers very well; go check it out.

Settling out whether or not it's a crime to run a for-profit online directory of pirated sports feeds is what we have courts for. All we have now is an allegation.
What's the difference between enterprise cloud and private cloud?
I like his site, but he has a lethargic demeanour on podcasts.
Niels (of libevent) is also pretty ridiculously talented; it's also hard to dispute that libevent has had more testing.

Libevent vs. libev really seems like a Linux vs. BSD kind of debate. I'd always choose libevent over libev, but you can apparently get a performance improvement (which is probably going to be marginal compared to other simple things you can do to speed up an evented program) by going with libev. And it looks like if you're doing clientside dev, like building a new browser or file transfer client, that libev is easier to embed.
App Sketcher, a HTML prototyping tool, any chance to go against Mockups?
> I will also note that women tend to talk less about men and their physical attributes than men do about women and their physical attributes

This has not been my experience.

> I'm sorry this is such a huge issue for you.

It's not, actually. Mainly I just enjoy the discussion.

Actually, you make an interesting point. I believe there is a social norm involved that tells men they have to like large breasts or else they're gay/weak/whatever. I do know a few men who are really and credibly into huge pendulous breasts, but I also know some who just try to conform to the "standard" outwardly and privately they prefer them smaller.

So your point is that women prefer hair because being bald is a social stigma, being an analogous process to the stigmatization of preferring small breasts? I'm not convinced, but it's an interesting thought.
As far as I can tell, the comment I was replying to was about Twitter's storage costs. So the fact that my response focused on storage and how much it costs does not make a strawman, which would involve arguing against something other than what I was replying to. Moreover, the point of my comment was that Twitter's storage costs are not the interesting part of their operation, so your question "Were you expecting … Twitter to run their business at-cost?" actually is a straw man. You're just repeating what I said, except with slightly less hard data.
I can see what you mean, Millionaire Fastlane looks quite "salesy".

I recommend that you watch the Mixergy interview with him, he actually addresses this point right in the beginning of the interview.
http://mixergy.com/mj-demarco-limos-interview/
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Show HN: how not to use a welcome popup on your site
He created Turbo Pascal and Delphi when he was young and hungry. C# when he was well-fed and older. Not hungry in any way. Thus the over-engineering and bloat-ware.
Based on your dissatisfaction, sounds like you all will definitely break up sooner or later. Maybe the question you should ask is when is the right time to break up. From the little info you gave, it sounds like you shouldn't split up right now (as that would effect a "significant" distribution deal). After the launch, you should discuss with him how to transition things (perhaps he stays on and continues to help but at a different capacity).
Obviously not in the same price range, but I had a similar experience with my regular registrar that caused me to grab and then lose diagnose.com.au. Happened on a weekend too when they had limited/no tech support running. Very frustrating.
This depends greatly on what your app is doing, what your platform is, how many people you have, and so on.
Sal Kahn's programs rock. I listen to them in the background on my iPhone, instead of watching.