skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps biased, my wife’s pursuit of her undergrad and master’s degrees, coupled with her unbridled passion for learning what we need to do to give our daughter the best education and upbringing possible is surely close to that number. It shows; my daughter has an insatiable curiosity that, according to Gladwell, is a direct result of how we’re raising her.

Having recently devoured a bunch of the works of Steven Pinker, I question this. If their daughter is naturally curious, it could be inherited rather than learned. In "The Blank Slate" Steven Pinker has an entire chapter on children. There he says that all studies that try to figure out what styles of parenting lead to what results, none of them control for heritability. They simply assume that the child's behavior due to styles of parenting. But what if curious parents lead to curious children because of their genes, and not their style of parenting? Pinker goes on to argue that what the evidence shows is that the style of parenting has absolutely no long-term effect on a person's behavior. Instead, what matters is genes, culture (in particular the child's peers), and chance events.
Goldstone admits he was wrong
They list the types of companies they don't want:

Bad Fit: Lifestyle companies. Consulting companies where the pricing model is tied to hourly labor. Anything with a hardware component (i.e. WakeMate or PedalBrain). Med device. Oil rigs in The Gulf. You get the picture.
You have to be very careful when following advice like this, because a lot of the time things that look stupid and shortsighted simply reflect a deeper understanding of what the actual product is.

For example, for many VC-funded and fast-growing startups, the product is not the website, software, whatever that they're showing users. It's the knowledge that users have a particular need, and that need can be satisfied in a certain way. Startups are effectively outsourced R&D for big companies here.

It's quite possible that the most economically efficient way to satisfy that need is to simply fold the startup into some big company's other products. If that happens, the code, most of the employees, cash, and even existing userbase are essentially disposable. They can all be replaced at a larger scale once the company's been acquired. The actual assets that the acquirer is paying millions for is the detailed knowledge of the problem domain - key employees, key algorithms, history of other ideas that tried and failed, and any patents or other intellectual property. That's why acquisitions usually are contingent upon certain employees coming on-board, yet the acquirer is often all too happy to fire other employees.
Cool - I just bought it for my Kindle. Gleick is a master of digging into some interesting branch of science and how it affects society. In the 1980s, I added Common Lisp chaos theory examples to my first Springer Verlag book, inspired by his wonderful book Chaos. I can't wait to savor the new book.
I agree totally, just was unaware of a better source of traffic data for the two sites. (not every site publicly shares its data as willingly as pg does)

I'll probably be using Google trends in the future, thanks for the heads up.

After looking at the chart (assuming as Swannie does, that Google trends is a significantly accurate source), it seems pretty apparent that HN doesn't have enough traffic to cannibalize significant traffic from them.
The author addresses the first issue in the paragraph preceding the one you quoted.

As it currently stands, most 'confirmation e-mails' I get also provide an 'if this isn't you' section. All the author is arguing is that we can do away with the confirmation part and keep the 'if this isn't you' part for those edge cases where a person's email address has been used by someone other than said person.
Oh, many a time. Spent a couple days just browsing eBay for Mac Minis.

Truth is, though, I really won't have the kind of money to drop on a system for quite some time. Hell, I wouldn't even have a laptop if I wasn't lucky to enough to receive a CR-48 :p

Some day, when I have money, I'll probably sell off the CR-48 (it's a nice little system, once you get the BIOS flashed and ChromeOS replaced) and put that towards a plastic Macbook. Until then, I'll just continue lusting over Delicious Library, TextMate, and everything Panic Software puts out...
It's like running with the scissors. I'm not sure if anyone ever hurt themselves that exact way, but any grown up person knows it's a bad idea and you should not try it (or a similar action). If the general idea can be explained and makes sense, do you really want to look for specific examples where doing the opposite failed?

You could probably check the number of questions about php's autoloader on stackoverflow to get an idea why magic is not good.
I'm more annoyed by having to pick a (unique) username. My name is too long and too common, all of the nice short versions are always already gone and why the hell am I so often not allowed to separate my first and (abbreviated) last name with a dot? Use my email address as the unique identifier and let me enter my first and last name or a nickname (which doesn't have to be unique), please.

Don't make me think. You should never ever have to show me the "This name is already in use." message. Your design shouldn't even need it. Not everyone has or would like to have an (as unique as possible) nickname on the web they would like to use.

(Unique) usernames are the one vestige of the old web I would like to get rid of post haste. Call me Michael. (I still positively remember signing up to Facebook because I didn't have to pick a username.)
A bit of an aside, but to my eyes the HN banner is better described as 'burnt orange' or 'dark carrot' rather than fire engine red.
Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity
Hmmm, to torture the idea even further... what about permaculture farming that minimizes the amount of back-breaking work you have to do while building up the soil to be richer than before (albeit at a slow pace)? What's the software company equivalent?
Global labor arbitrage
It's siteadvisor.com not siteadviser.com
fucking chiropractors of all people "quacks" (if they aren't, who possibly could be?)

You're mis-informed. Chiropractic treatments are very useful for certain problems. Some quacks say it will treat any and all illness, but most licensed chiropractors I've dealt with have been highly professional.

I have first-hand experience. After a knee injury playing on my high school basketball team, I suffered from mild swelling in my right knee. As a result it was difficult for me to fully bend it. This condition persisted for 4 months, despite icing, anti-inflammatories and several treatments by multiple physicians. Eventually, one referred me to a chiropractor. It took him about 10 minutes to find the problem, and he was able make the proper adjustment. Within two hours, the swelling was gone and the range of motion was back to normal.

Many whiplash victims are also referred to chiropractors. (FYI, my mother is an MD. I'm hardly a healing crystal using homeopathy enthusiast.)
Good idea. The benefits of user flagging was one of the more interesting points from Matt Haughey's presentation at SXSW a couple of weeks ago. The entire thing is well worth watching actually:

http://vimeo.com/21043675
"When I’m checking my email, the last thing I want to do is context switch back to the app."

Because it's really that hard to Ctrl+click a link in an email, archive it, and move on to the next email?
How to fix Facebook Groups (and take the site into a new era of usefulness)
This would be susceptible to the same problems as Chris mentions in his post:

> Companies like TapJoy let you pay to get in the Top 25, and then once you are there you can get “organic” downloads by being on the toplists.

If they can arrange to actually buy enough copies of an application to get into the Top 25, reviews posted by those accounts would surely weigh very highly under your proposed scheme as well.
Testing. Put the hard yards in early and it'll look after you later. Build up the quality by starting slower.
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No I am not confused - answer the question then, how much power is needed to feed the world, as it seems the most people live in places with bad infrastructure and therefore don't consume that much power after all. You could have answered simply by saying how much power per human is necessary, and give the fraction that is generated with nuclear power. Your claim was after all that we need all the power that is currently generated. It seems unlikely, because as I said, most people are not even in a position to use a lot of power atm.

Even if you claim that all their lives could be improved by access to electricity, by the time we could have built nuclear power plants everywhere, it might as well have been possible to reduce the population again. Remember, this is about options: your claim was that there are no other options than nuclear power plants. I am not saying we should reduce population numbers, just that there are certainly other options.
you should make browser extensions, so user can save their customized css then used as user style sheet on their browser and can share with friends.
I worked in the non-linear dynamics field for a few years and was never impressed by Gleick's book on Chaos. Maybe this one is better ...
It sounds like the digital version of a protection racket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
Because if you're the innocent target of a malicious sign-up then you shouldn't have to take any further action - particularly action that could expose you to further harm, such as clicking on a link randomly emailed to you from some site you've never heard of - to avoid having your email address associated with the account.

Edit: You also shouldn't have to be watching your email like a hawk 24/7 just in case somebody signs you up for something, so that you can stop them from impersonating you before they do any damage.

In short, it's the difference between opt-in and opt-out. Identity theft should almost never be opt-out.
It all comes down to: how big is your practical potential user base (i.e. realistically how many people do you expect to use this service)?

The only time I would ever consider a closed beta, is if I'm targeting a specific market where first impressions are predicated on future opportunities and business. If your potential user base is limited, do a closed beta to refine the product.

Anything else, launch in open beta. The first group of users will feel incorporated into the development of the product and later users will be none the wiser.

So in future if you have this question think about it in these terms: how willing will our users be, to give us a second chance if we bomb? If they are flexible and plentiful, there are no boundaries. If they are limited and dependent, be delicate.
Such a "not me" link only prevents abuse if the person receiving that email checks their email the instant it's sent and clicks the "not me" link instantly as well. Otherwise, someone could sign up for a site using a random person's email address and then do something malicious depending on the site/service... send emails/messages, post nasty forum messages, etc.

Granted, not all sites/services can be used for such maliciousness, but in those cases that the site can be used maliciously, a "not me" link is a corrective measure and not preventative measure.

Edit: zb put it more eloquently than I did.
Plenty of FOSS solutions. For example nagios and munin.
How about addons that eat tons of memory? My Firefox still periodically OOMs and crashes, despite the update to 4, but it's impossible to see which addons are responsible.
In "The Blank Slate" Steven Pinker has an entire chapter on children.

Do you still have the book at hand? I looked it up the last time there was a big thread about this on HN. Pinker bases most of that chapter on the work of Eric Turkheimer, as his bibliographic references should show. And Eric Turkheimer has substantially revised his opinion about what heritability studies mean after continuing his research and thinking about the data more. I'll recommend here two articles from Turkheimer's faculty web page

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/vita1_turkheimer.htm

that more readers of Pinker's book ought to know about, to bring their understanding of human behavioral genetics up to date.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...
But the "if this isn't you" part could be a scam. It would make you click on a link in an email you did not request, which is a bad idea.
I didn't like Chaos or Feynman - and haven't read Gleick since. I find his type of popular science writing to be imprecise and even inaccurate.
I have a very simple service on each of my servers that writes out various performance metrics every few seconds to a text file which I can then pull into graphs.

Eventually I plan to add automatic notifications when things go above or below certain levels.
Super answer. Thank you so much for helping us out with this. I am getting ready to start my learning journey and I've asked so that I won't invest my time into picking up a wrong technology for the job - so again - thanks for the advice.
And don't worry. This is not a homework problem. Rather, it is my side project called StickyFrames.
Lear more in here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2350347
We have the physical prototypes ready, but we need a well functioning web service to make this product a success.
exactly, and why this comment gets downvoted? I dont give a crap, its like following those lawsuits Calacanis filed against Arrington, and Arrington filed agains JooJoo guys.

This is soap opera, and you make fun of soap opera when there are is love, cheating and stuff involved but you discuss it as a serious issue because in this case the auto show and very techy electric car manufacturer is involved.
feel free to downvote me too but I think smart and talented people of HN community (which I observed them to be) must have better things to discuss.

cheers
Me + two part-time contractors.
I've never heard of laws working in the way I will describe, but I've got a better algorithm.

The crime is this: to (1) participate in bribery and (2) to not be the first party to report it to the authorities.

Immediately that the bribe has occurred, a race initiates between the two parties to be the first to register it with the authorities. The bribe money becomes prize money to the winner, with the loser facing consequences.
Think energy efficiency isn’t working? Think again
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Why did you find Chaos to be wonderful? I found many inaccuracies when I read it. Seemed more like a fluff piece designed to ride a popular wave about the topic at the time it came out.
Thanks. Hopefully someone can change the title.
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You should check out The Well Grounded Rubyist.

http://www.manning.com/black2/
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Location is probably it - there is a much smaller pool to draw from where we are (Malaysia).
It may get better responses in the US, Europe, etc. It was as much an experiment as it was a job ad - we also use other channels to recruit. But given linkedin is a global site, I was disappointed with the results.
Any front page link on HN, Reddit or StumbleUpon will get around that number of hits, no marketing required. One of my sites received nearly a million hits last month from social networks without any advertising.
Uh!? Assuming, Android is commoditizing the smartphone hardware, couldn't we say the same thing about Microsoft and computer hardware?
I don't think it has to do with malicious intent. It has to do with whether it serves the good of the public to know the information.

If I distribute pamphlets that say "John Smith is gay", even if true, its libel because it isn't information that serves the public's interest.

If, however, I distribute pamphlets that say "Smith Jones is a convicted pedophile", then I'm on much safer footing (assuming it's true) because it can (and has) been argued that such information does serve public interest.
Just imagine if it were made in Mexico.

EDIT: For those that don't get the reference, there is a running bit/theme on Top Gear about a so-called Mexican Supercar that was released a while ago. They've been thrashing it, and Mexico, ever since. So much so that the US version of Top Gear has been edited to remove the comments, and the Mexican Government has issued official communications about it.

Just Google "top gear mexico supercar" and you'll see.

It's not like I just randomly slammed Mexicans with this post. That's what the Dutch are for.
Chrome has the Task Manager tool which helps you track down tabs which are being resource hogs (CPU and RAM). I was curious if something like this existed in Firefox 4 or there was an extension for a feature like this? (I looked but couldn't find anything promising)
'but you're pinning the mass-murders of the 20th century on "intellectuals"?'

Intellectuals provided the impetus and moral theory for the revolutions, started the revolutions, enabled the continuation of them, and in the non-Communist countries flew active cover for them. We still have intellectuals today like Friedman who fly as much cover for murderous totalitarian regimes as they can; it hasn't even stopped. Intellectuals are yet to give up Marxism, despite what it actually does. It flatters them so, a toxic meme that can only strike the smart.

It wasn't every last person everywhere who might have called themselves an intellectual, but it sure wasn't "the common man" reading Marx and deciding to break out the pitchforks. "I am a barely literate peasant and I demand the immediate centralization of all power into the government so it can be run by the intellectual elite, create a single central bank, eliminate my religion, abolish my private property, remove my means of communication into centralized control of the state, and write glorious Five Year Plans so I can stop farming potatos!" They provided a driving force for change, but the change itself was controlled by intellectuals.

"Intellectuals" may not be solely responsible, but they weren't even remotely innocent, and it is entirely irrational to pretend that intellectual ideas not accompanied by humility and an intense effort made to discover whether those ideas are actually true before making grand pronouncements that move countries have not had massive negative impacts in our world today.

"one of our major political parties and it's major financial backers hate the policy implications of some important scientific conclusions"

I assure you Democrats are equally prone to it. If you think the Democrats have been some great boon to true science it's only because you're a Democrat yourself. As neither Republican nor Democrat, neither political party (emphasis "political") has particularly impressed me with their devotion to scientific truth. Though I will concede the Democrats have done a great deal better job pretending in the past decade, at least inasmuch as it was politically convenient.

And remember perception really matters here. You may refuse to chalk up these actions to "intellectualism" no matter what contortions you have to go through to account only good to its cause and discard the evil, but those of a "simpler, less intellectual" bent won't go through those contortions, and that's not necessarily irrational. It's no great wonder "I'm an intellectual and I'm here to give you the answer!" isn't something that makes an American drop everything to listen.

(And they have done great good, too. One Norman Borlaug can offset an awful lot. But it's not a path to an accurate picture of the intellectual history of the 20th century to take credit for Norman but dance away from, for example, Eugenics, to name just one problematic entirely-intellectual idea, and what it wrought.)
Not sure it matters. Because of the cap, your overall monthly effective transfer rate is probably something like 10x slower.
Also, the bird's eye view in bing maps always makes me go back to it, it's great to see what a neighborhood look like and how it would feel to actually follow a route. Google street view is just too zoomed in and too painful to navigate in to get a broad idea most of the time.
Charlie Sheen bombing hard - who would have thought?
Sheen: "Tell the guy next to you booing to shut the --- up so the rest of us can enjoy the show."

Charlie Sheen is sitting on stage tweeting. Guy behind me just yelled, "I want my money back!"

Sheen has lost control of the crowd. He left the stage and ordered some music. Rapper onstage now.
I would have preferred the name "MacLoad: there can be only one".
This is very cool. Forgive me if I'm missing something but this only runs very specific command line programs right? (ie no iTunes)
No issue with counting iP*d's, that only makes sense. What I was trying to figure out was the big percentage of Android phones that [... or] don't run applications at all". Have a list of those?
Active angels will typically have seen many deals, in the hundreds for people who have been doing Angel investing for more than a couple of years. I think it much more likely that an entrepreneur who is not able to get his business opportunity across in the first meeting, is probably not being very clear, or has not really figured out their business model.
Ah, I was not aware of seq; good one. :)

Good point about not needing semicolons for multiple-line stuff (assuming the EOL's are not escaped, as you have it in your example). I blame the PHP I spent all week immersed in...bleh.
Get the domain you want
I hope you filed Form 1120 also
I'm just on page 4 of 426 and I've already got an intellectual boner for this book. Gleick's Chaos (technically perfect or not) was a huge revelation for me and gave me a truckload of rich metaphors to better understand the world. I'm expecting the same from The Information. AT&T in 1950 sounds a lot like Google. "[It] did not demand instant gratification from its research division."
Usually the 'if this isn't you' section says "don't click the link above" or "do nothing and you won't hear from us again".
I think I missed the point; you linked to the lifelinelive Twitter account talking about how he's preparing the final details to his show? Where's the bombing hard?
You're literally comparing dogs to wolves for health. Dogs live in houses and go to vets, and yes get fed shitty food. Wolves live in the wild and face hardships with no access to care and die young.

No, I'm not. Mainly because I'd have needed to use the words "dog" and "wolf" to literally be talking about them. Literally, Joe Biden. But also because I'm not even figuratively speaking of them.

But since you created the analogy:

The "wolves" that don't die young live far longer than the "dogs" that don't die young due to the "wolves" better diet and in spite of the "dogs" having access to vets and living in houses.

When you're comparing the health of adults you can't use information pertaining to the health of children. The factor is itself defined in the equation.
For now. In theory, with enough emulated libraries, you could probably run anything with this. But I don't think the point is to run "random mac app" on Linux: it's probably more likely to enable something like iPhone development, which right now is Mac only.
Even if you examine a "deprived" group (the kind professors are always trying to make excuses for) such as inner-city kids, you will find stark differences between talent and drive from one person to another. Why does one boy spend 10,000 hours practicing basketball or music, while the others watch television all day?

Maybe nobody introduced "systematic deliberate practice" to them? Or, you know, maybe some people are just lazier than others.