skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to troll...

I don't see how it, "seems fairly unlikely at this point" that being in the 'inner city' isn't due to some genetic issues. I'm not saying it is genetic I just don't think much research has really attacked the problem thoroughly enough, due to the somewhat taboo nature of the statement, to make that distinction.

Heck, we as a culture (U.S.) are still really uncomfortable considering that there may be genetic differences that cause certain population groups to outperform at different tasks. For example Lawrence Summer's comments on girls in Science and math, research into African runners, etc. I don't really have a personal opinion on issues like these but I think the questions are worth asking.
I mostly read Hacker News without posting. I like the change. Something about the feeling of reading comment chains changes when you can't see what the faceless community has thought about every comment. Now you can read the arguments without such an immediate bias.

It also makes me more aware of the clipped, cold feel of the dialogues we have here. Most (though not all) exchanges here read to me as humorless and either blunt or overpolite. I don't know if I entirely like it, but I wouldn't immediately say it's a bad thing either. It works better, I think, in the tech discussions, but elsewhere it keeps me feeling distant from the conversation.

Now, the question I'd have for people who post more than I do is: How do you feel about comment threads where you see your score but nobody else's? How's that change your perception of threads when your score's high, versus when you have a comment or series of comments in the greys?
At the same time, I haven't really reached out, so I feel that I should spend time contacting startups before I declare the search moot.
Active Apps, The best task manager for android?
Here is a new task manager for Android that's based on the Samsung Program monitor. It's very useful and conceptually different compared to Task Killers and other task managers. Simple and clean. what do you think?
Maybe parents don't change the direction of the vector but rather they can influence the magnitude of the vector?
> clocking in at 30.01% in March according to Hitwise. That was a rise from its February tally of 28.48%. Google in the same time period dropped from 66.69% to 64.42%, ceding that ground to Bing.

So Bing gained 1.53% while Google lost 2.27%. Where did the other 0.74% go?
We don't use OSM data on google maps.
This type of 3D (head tracking) combined with 3DS type 3D (glasses free depth) would be amazing.

You would get both depth and the ability to "see" a different perspective as you look around just like real life.
I think the system is designed such that the comments with the most upvotes tend to drift to the top over time.

So, if there is some correlation between the most "insightful" comments and those with the most upvotes, you should see them near the top (eventually, anyway).
Preference will be given to those with experience of:

- Spaceflight
- Commercial flight operations
- Flight instruction

Spaceflight? Not too many people have that that are American.
Adobe Gets Touchy with New iPad Apps
Take this advice! The people that are actually suffering from the problems your business solves are (usually) not managers, CEO, or anyone at the top. It is the people in the middle or bottom. They are usually also so happy to have something that solves their problems, that they will act as an internal champion for you during the sales process.

It's cliche, but Art of the Start http://www.guykawasaki.com/the-art-of-the-start/ explains this tactic very well.
I thought the article was fairly straight forward until I got to the point you quoted. It's as if the attitude is that YC picks all the great startups and non-YC companies are second-rate throw aways that are destined to fail.

While I personally think YC is a great program with a lot to offer, which is why I applied, they don't have the resources to take on every group that applies. It also wouldn't be in their best interest. I was skeptical about YC Reject at first and wasn't sure about applying or looking for work and working on my startup part-time but I'm considering it more and more now.
The point being, maybe IE users don't actually make up more than 10% of traffic. Maybe the situations in which people use IE are such that they use the web less. He did say 10% of traffic, not 10% of unique users.

I still don't believe this. I don't think that IE users are equal to or less than 10% of web traffic in the US or the world. That would be pretty huge if it was the case. Even a drop below 25% worldwide would be pretty huge news.
I believe the problem is more like using their weight as a company to "steal" resources (volunteers, data from governments and what not) from the open initiative to generate a product that is closed.

Seen from that point of view and taking into account that Google has a history of censoring maps, I think it's not that silly an argument.
Sign up if you like people remotely switching off your tools at random.

This has been running as a trial here in Australia for a few years. I've been using it because it's cashflow-friendly and I like the "free" upgrades.

This thing has been a frickin' nightmare. The subscription management BS is a risk to your work.

If you use this, your subscription will be cancelled at random, and the adobe apps will not launch. It's difficult to convey here just how frustrating this can be.

When (not if) this happens, you're left helpless, with the only option being to call adobe. If you've ever called Adobe you'll understand that this experience can bring grown men to tears. The longest this has taken me to resolve was 3 days of full-time effort on the phone. That's unusual though, and the shortest time to fix was about 6 hours.

Good pricing, but not fit for client service businesses or anything involving deadlines.
I think you nailed it there.

Most startups fail anyway, so devoting a single day more than needed on development is a waste of very valuable time and money. How many extra VPS' is a month of saved development time worth?

All skill being equal, choosing Java over Ruby for a new project is one of the worst cases of optimize early I can imagine.
I see this as a purely defensive stance should they want to enable in-app purchases in the future.

As Apple has discovered, they get accused of being greedy when they force developers to go through the app store for In-App purchases.

Perhaps Amazon, by clearly indicating that this device is subsidized by future sales (ads, in this case), makes it easier for them to explain to the customer why they'd like more control over the device. (i.e. the customer doesn't completely own the device).
OSM data isn't the issue. It sounds like Google is asking people to submit map data for free, then claiming ownership of that data.
I like my Python options - to start with Python, pinpoint the hot parts and going from hand-tuning Python code, Cython and then C - is a better option. They started with Ruby and Rails and, possibly, their optimal path was this one: Ruby, then Scala and then Java.

But that's one path I would rather not go down. Not unless I could use another non-Java JVM-friendly language. Java is very low-level compared to Ruby, Python or Scala. C++ is lower still, but the extra performance and control it gives you, as well as a free LLL-to-HLL boundary, are worth it.
Twitter is well known for using Scala. Although the article says Java, I'd like to know if this is the case (i.e. no Scala) or a simplification.

I've done more Java programming than a man ought, and now a fair bit of Scala. The JVM is fast -- far faster than the Ruby/Python/PHP VMs. Harnessing that power has been an issue, as Java is so inexpressive. I find with Scala I can write code as quickly as in any other language I've used. It makes a great combination -- code quickly and get quick code -- and as a result I don't see any use for RoR or other interpreted frameworks in my coding.
Neither this post, nor the link you provide state anything about what you specifically think is broken or how you intend to fix it.

I can only infer from the domain, that you would be emailing a daily healthy tip to users as a preventative measure to prevent one from having to seek care in the "broken" healthcare system.

Cool, but assuming that were the case, that does nothing to fix the broken system.

The system of healthcare is so broken, maybe we need to start a list of all the aspects of the system which are broken such that we can develop a plan to start to address these issues.

While I have a good idea of what is broken from my perspective as a healthcare systems designer - there are too many specialties and unique cases to have a complete view from one set of eyes.

Though, it would help if I started a list.
I had an interesting first experience with the hidden vote count. I was reading through comments in a thread, scanning for those with high vote counts, skipping everything else. Subconsciously I saw a "1" next to every post, ignored them, and skimmed along.

Eventually I started reading some of the comments in detail, thought one was pretty good, but subconsciously still saw a "1" next to it. I didn't vote and moved on. By the third or fourth time I did this, I asked "Why isn't anything good getting votes?" After a closer look, seeing that there was no "1", it was obvious my subconscious was fooling me.

Expectedly, I'm more inclined to read a comment with a high score since it's filtered. Not surprising. But this was striking; I'm more inclined to "vote" for something if it already has a high score, regardless of its content. It's a popularity-based multiplier effect.

It would be interesting to see what happens to the "bell-curve" of vote distribution as vote count remains hidden (mean/median/mode/standard deviation). I'd predict that highly-voted comments won't be as common, and maybe lesser-voted comments might get more votes.

Has anyone else noticed or experienced this? Or maybe something else entirely?
I have set a professional goal for myself to become more active in the Rails community and to begin contributing patches to Rails and other open source projects I use. With the eventual goal of getting the super awesome Rails job that I one day want as opposed to the okay-to-good Rails job I currently have. This article gave me a lot to think about in relation to my goal.
Interesting why they chose Java instead of Scala for this move. The last time they moved off Ruby they moved to Scala, not Java. Anyone at Twitter want to comment?
I think it was more of a remark that, in the absence of evidence to the contrary (that I'm aware of), it seems unlikely that your genetics determine your physical location, especially with such precision (a couple miles off and you may land in the rich area of town).

Is it possible that they do? Sure, animals migrate. We may be genetically drawn to upper / lower classes, somehow. But I, too, find this generally unlikely. But I'm admittedly a self-determinism-optimist (or whatever it's called. Humanist?)
I'm pretty sure OSM did start initiatives in Africa to do this.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Commander_Shepard ?
If he thinks that Smalltalk is a "alternate yet fully capable universe that branched off from mainstream computing long ago" then I'm not sure I want to know what he thinks about selflanguage.org ...

But seriously, his four 'advanced programming languages' seem to be all in the functional space. That's great, but I'd recommend looking outside that as well. Maybe Haskell, Pharo, Factor and Erlang?
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gah, this again eh. Friday's news. This is a pretty unique/upper tier end of the spectrum problem. They needed to be able to cope with the ridiculous amount of realtime indexing and searching going on around the SEARCH stack, so ok, Netty etc. Not really anything about abandoning Rails etc.
The idea of community sourced mapped didn't originate with OSM either. Like any good open source project, we freely credit our inspirations and direct sources. Google however has lifted so many ideas with complete denial of any deep conceptual connections. It only seems proper to acknowledge your influences.

However the real problem is how G glosses over the particulars of their business practices, and paints them in the light of community projects. That's deceptive and damaging, not to OSM, but to communities unaware of the obscure details of data and API licensing.
Yes! As I was looking at the cube, I wanted the viewer to reach out and manipulate it: spin, pinch, what-have-you.

I think the worst thing that could happen is that this sort of experience get baked into the core of the iPad's UI (or the UI of any tablet). But I could see imaging applications (MRIs?) where it would be valuable.
I also thought that was a weird comment. But In my experience a big team benefits from a compiled, statically typed language like Java (better yet, Scala). Perhaps that's what the author meant.
There are two problems:

1) Google paying attention to a community is far more attractive than a bunch of open source guys.

2) Google Maps's UI is much better than Open Street Maps'.

The first is hard to fix, unless some open consortium showers attention on communities.

The second should be solvable by following the dictates of a couple of highly qualified designers who have much sharper eyes than 41Latitude.com, which already does a great job.
I'd call bullshit on the "accounting practices" smokescreen and send them packing. What's next? I get billed for computer time by the hour because they wanted the 12-Core Mac Pro?

But more than that, they way I view someone like that is someone who would rather nickel and dime me to death than to just just honestly charge the rate they need to charge. I would feel there were going to be numerous little surprise charges on their invoices. And being a hired gun myself, who started out as a nickel-and-dimer, I would view the individual or agency as lacking in experience.
Solution: Hide your karma score :P
yep really I find VM is just a 'medium' choice, and one that I don't prefer, but maybe my callers would at the time. Sometimes it's just easier to ramble on about something instead of typing. But VM is by no means instant, don't expect a reply in any soonish timeframe. That's what IM/txt is for. Email and VM might as well be the same...non-current issues.
Continuing off-topic -- I hate programs that think updating is more important than whatever I had in mind when I launched the program. I prefer programs that update/download in the background while I get stuff done then let me update at my leisure when they've finished downloading.
Going to the JVM because of memory usage issues is like going to KFC to lose weight.
There is speculation that the Kindle will be eventually free.

Prior HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266193
Updated projection I made today: http://www.rexfeng.com/blog/?p=945

Based on the HN discussion link, the Kindle may be free after Nov 2011. Taking into account today's price drop, my updated projection shows it taking longer - after Feb 2012.
That isn't an alternative; it's an orthogonal technology. Saying the video tag renders QuickTime obsolete is like saying the img tag renders libpng and libjpeg obsolete. HTML5 video is a standard for specifying video files to play — it doesn't actually provide video playback. QuickTime and its codecs are still used to actually decode and play the videos (again, I'm talking about the Mac here).
I'm not here to defend Hitwise, but your assertion is bogus. Its roughly equivalent to the author of today's HN Funnel Analysis post[1] claiming there's no way 40% of the internet uses IE because his site only sees 4% IE.

Maybe Bing just doesn't like your site. I've worked with many properties that ranked top 3 in Yahoo/Bing yet were all but invisible on Google (not banned, just not ranking well), and vice versa. Especially on long tail terms, which forums like yours usually thrive on, its not uncommon to see a big separation.

[1] http://blog.effectcheck.com/2011/04/11/hackernews-front-page...
No its not as the name suggest that will be to simplistic to solve the problem. I called it that way because I liked the domain. I sent you an email would love to hear what you have in mind.
Is there anything similar for Chrome?

edit: i often find myself trying to switch modes in Chrome... oops :-P
For those that have never been in one. Those pics really don't due any justice. Vids would have been better. Datacenters are cold and they are loud. Those qualities just don't come across with pics.
You're wrong on both counts.

The sub design in question has no ballast tanks. It literally "flies" downward and "sinks" to the surface. No navy subs (at least non-classified subs) do this. Not having ballast tanks is a huge design advantage.

Firing missiles from a Sub against a low tech country with no navy to speak of is hardly a combat situation. In naval combat the only thing subs are really afraid of is other subs and aircraft, and the best way to give up your position is to fire a torpedo.
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Exactly. It's the same basic principle that Farmville uses for more nefarious purposes. It's a method of encouraging participation and engagement, which makes it very effective for cultivating a community of like-minded individuals.
Detrus mentioned Processing and openFrameworks. Basically programming languages for visual artists.

Also Maker Faire for artsy DIY and hardware stuff: http://makerfaire.com/

Zer01, a Bay Area art/technology network: http://zero1.org/

I volunteer for those last two, send me a message if you're in the Bay Area and want to chat! I'm definitely a techie software engineer, but I'm fascinated by art, good design, and grand ideas about anything =)
DNA links to intelligence. Intelligence links to income. Income links to location.

Picking numbers from thin air (80% of your location is income, 20% of your income is Intelligence, and 50% of your intelligence is DNA.) You would get a reasonable but weak DNA > location link.
I think that a large amount of things like getting internships is luck. You have to be good, yes, but you also have to be lucky.

But what you do with the opportunity that you were lucky to get is up to you.
User friendly accounting automation for the personal/SME space, localized for our country. Pulled down transactions from banks, credit card and other sources and did as much work as possible for you, generated a lot of the necessary paperwork for tax and other compliance things etc. It did a lot of stuff around data analysis and memorization so that the user didn't have to do much work.
If the quality of YC startups is improving every round that means that more and more companies YC would have previously invested in are missing out. What's to say you won't find a dropbox or heuroku out of the rejects group that would have made it into previous rounds?
Maybe we just aren't measuring the right things. I often find myself wondering when I read about happiness studies (and generally the steady level there of) if we just can't and don't want to really measure a life. I wonder if there are factors in which you could see a big difference due to parenting - not that in itself that would prove those measures more important. Maybe if you asked other people to rate someones life.
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I think that's exactly what he was wondering.
I read it more as "The six most profitable financial institutions in the US now account for 55 percent of all banking assets" which makes sense to me.
Thought bubble: Companies use universities as a filtering mechanism, like recruiters. But recruiters get paid and universities do not. Conclusion: universities should get into the recruitment business.
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Thanks, I'm not in the Bay Area now but planning to move there in the next year. I'll definitely be looking more into both of those.
To my surprise, for March, Bing is at 15% and Yahoo is at 11% for BCC organic searches. My demographic is older, female-r, and more middle American than most of y'alls are. (Even with that, I cannot remember BingHoo being above 20% in years.)
I was really surprised when I got to college and the only languages people cared about were C++ and Java. Ok, you'll also find some C#, Python, and Ruby, but nobody has heard of any of these "advanced" languages. The only thing they care about are the number of job opportunities they can get. I sometimes try to advocate for Haskell, or Scheme, or even Prolog. The response is usually "Pascal?" It's sad that these students never wonder if there's a better language, or a more fun language, or anything other than Java. It's a desert out here.
Comments are ordered by smth like comment_karma / log(comment_age) so that newer comments stay on top for some time
I don't know how the math works out, but where is the non-profit charity revolving door.

You found a non-profit to help poor downtrodden folk, set yourself up as a principle. Give yourself an incredible services fee for managing the non-profit.

Donate to your rich friends non-profits at glamorous charity events where you get treated like royalty. Write off those expenses.

Get your friends to donate to your charity via the extravagant gala fund-raiser with the mayor and everyone there.

Your friends donate hundreds of thousands to your charity in thanks for your donation and they write off the amount, you then take a hefty % for managing the disbursement of 5% of those proceeds.

Its hard work raising money for those self-entitled down trodden bastards too lazy to stop being poor.

EDIT: since I was downvoted by one who clearly doesnt think this is true - simply the latest revelation in this scheme should be illustrated: Bristol Palin, you know - the un-wed single teen mom who started a non-profit to educate teens on how to not become an un-wed single teen mom. She paid her self ~$260K (Some figures put the number as high as $450K) while donating ~$35K to the cause.

http://www.google.com/search?q=bristol+palin+pays+herself...

Or Bono's RED charity with $21 BILLION in funds where a vast % of which are suspected to be fraudulently funneled off:

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/celebrity/NATLCha...

EDIT: For clarity, I do not know if Bono is, himself, benefiting from the apparent fraud with the RED fund - though as I am a skeptic I will not rule out the fact that some financial benefit is happening here. If not, wouldn't you, if it was your charity, be taking point on figuring this out ASAP?

SO, with that said - I know that the cases of fraud are unevenly distributed through the various channels, but it would seem that this might be fairly indicative that peoples greed affect efficacy of a charity especially when the funds are in the multi-tens of billions.
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> But In my experience a big team benefits from a compiled, statically typed language like Java

My experiences with Java have never been very impressive. Why do you think a bigger team benefits from static typing?
I have mixed feelings about this. With YC, it's not just about the money or the weekly speakers. It's about Paul Graham's experience as a mentor and Silicon Valley connections.

That said, though, there are many of us with good ideas that are asking ourselves right after YC application decisions "What now?" Similar programs that we can immediately start pursuing after being rejected from Y Combinator at least offers a back-up plan.
Bing is included as a search engine in Firefox by default. Did you start a new profile?
This was 2003. Facebook didn't even exist then. Are you just trolling? Would a big YouTube-style purchase of Friendster have even worked out well for Google?