skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm self-taught, without a single credit hour of college. In high school a friend took a programming class and showed me a bit on a demo machine at radio shack, and that hooked me completely.

I've worked mostly for smallish companies, and did consulting for a while. A couple of years ago I had quit my job to work on my own project (a way too ambitious startup idea), but almost immediately I got an interview for my current job, which was too cool to pass up (space exploration). There's more than one way to make a difference in the world. Now I head up the dev team here.

Over the years I have spent a lot of time and money on books, and continue to do so. There's always something to learn, and many people way smarter than me continually creating/discovering new things to learn. If I had earned my degree in the normal time frame that would have graduated in the late 80s, and my education would now be woefully out of date, so I'd still have to continually learn.

Am I recommending not going to college? No. It's probably better to go. But certainly you can have a career without it. But either way, get used to learning and pushing yourself.
To be fair, "bombing" review sites is entirely a market action. The market works through information. The most common way that information is disseminated is through prices, but that doesn't mean it is the only way. Reviews, etc, allow one to more accurately decide how to value something.
Redbox is another example of their lack of vision.
Here is a longer (~half hour) making-of video. Really interesting.

http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11468.htm#id_11468
I find it equally facile to rely on the market to set the price when dealing with an industry that has a history of price fixing and collusion...
Yes and no... just as a single data point, my behavior tends to be to look for the "popular" technical references and choose from those. If a book has a small number of excellent reviews, I probably won't choose that over a book with a large number of average-to-good reviews.

I'm not arguing this is rational, just something I noticed myself doing - if others are the same, I can see a feedback loop where more reviews lead to more purchases.
When did “learnings” become a word that non–MBAs started using? I don’t think there is another word that fills me with a greater desire to flip the conference room table over and leave the room.
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Have you considered implementing some sort of script to scan some of the large biological databases and add links/metadata for the datasets they contain?

Looking at what's in CKAN now, it seems that it's mostly datasets that are a bit more easily understood than most of the biological data that's out there, but at the same time indexing and accessing biological data is a HUGE problem for researchers in this field.

There are currently some big databases such as the data stored by the UCSC genome browser (genome.ucsc.edu/downloads.html) and all sorts of expression/small RNA data available from GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/), and lots of other slightly more esoteric databases like flybase.org, which specializes in fruit fly data.

Truly doing a proper job of indexing/classifying all of this is a close-to-impossible task (and in many cases requires specialized knowledge), but there are an absurd number of publicly available biological datasets out there. If you wanted to rapidly expand the number of entries you have you could use a script to index one or two of the big databases like GEO, and fill in the metadata from what they already have.

Of course, I can also understand why you might prefer to have the majority of the datasets in your site be the sort of thing most people (or at least, non-biologists) can interpret vs. something that's highly specialized like this. Not to mention, keeping up with all the new data, and properly filling in all the metadata could be a real can of worms.
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I also appreciate the perspective. Next time I'm asked if I've managed people I plan to say 'I manage projects, I collaborate with people.'
> Balpa, who commissioned the report, is warning that problems with fatigue could get worse under European proposals that would see the maximum flying time for UK pilots going up from 900 hours in a 12-month period to 1,000 hours

1,000 hours? Did I miss something? If you work 40 hours a week, at the end of a year you've done over double that figure.
My standard go-to comment for 'Show HN' posts is "you need to increase the padding on that button!" Nothing bothers me more than a button you can't click.
if it was the welcome message, that's not a problem. It's up to you to change it. If they're emailing you your password to root after you've changed it, you might have an issue.
What about Minecraft?
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Privacy. Friend of mine travels all over the world. He wants to keep track of where he's been, which photographs he took in which locations, what he did there. He doesn't want to have to share all of that with everybody. It's just for him, so that he can remember and reminisce.

There are wonderful, powerful web apps for this purpose, and many others. But they make him share it all. Social functions are primary. Private apps where you can do what you want are becoming niche.
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You could just submit the quote in the title of the submission.
That idea about rotating leadership within the customer service team is brilliant! I wonder if changing it every week is too frequent though - what about doing it biweekly?
Here's the Google's cache:
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Dish probably came out ahead by purchasing the entire company rather than letting Icahn win and then buying the relevant assets. If Icahn was chasing it, there was real-estate value there.

And that appears to be the case when one considers that Dish only paid $190k per store. Based on $20k per store per year that's a 11% cap rate - and the worst performing locations have already been culled from the portfolio. Consider that $20k per store per year can probably be achieved with less than 10 Dish network subscription sales per month and the deal for corporate controlled retail locations makes more sense.

All the rest of it - the streaming and content deals, kiosks, etc. is just more upside.
This feels a little like link bait to me, because it's silly just to drop arbitrary numbers on game development that determine its success.

Nobody would disagree that a high quality game requires a big blockbuster-movie size budget. Nobody would disagree that an indie developer can make $100k in a year if the game they make has a little polish.

A great indie game requires talent first. The ability to code well and make pretty graphics. Then it takes the patience required to apply the time it takes to make the game work perfectly and the graphics to look just right.

I think a lot of indie devs race to get their games to market because they're hungry to make money. Then when it doesn't earn anything because it isn't finished, they give up a little because it becomes obvious very quickly how much time and energy is required to make an awesome game.
Thanks for your input, which word would you suggest? I'm partly (small part) writing this blog to improve my english. English isn't my mother tongue, and the best way to learn is by doing. :-)
In enabling my Gmail account to use 2 factor authentication, Google required me to hand over my text-enabled cell phone number, and they texted me a code which I was required to input in a form. Similar to having the client call you back, but this can be automated.
Am I the only one dismayed by how drab the resulting image looks?
LinkedIn used to be an amazing project and now it's just trying to adapt trends that others implemented in the market. Really, share on linkedin? That timeline is made with a bunch of twitter updates.

They should differentiate.
Frankly, if their intentions are to build a site which is more secure, and there was a gaping security flaw with the existing site, then it is good news that it won't be available for a year.
Thanks for the concrete link! I never knew the name.
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I had godaddy steal my domain back in January. It was kinda depressing.
It's horribly confusing on a larger screen, too. There's no hierarchy or distinction between ad, meta-info, and actual content.
Is this getting downvoted because people didn't catch the Monty Python joke? Or because they didn't like this specific reference (but accept the parent's reference)?
Ask HN: What are you working on?
I'm curious to see what HNers are building/working on?

Particularly things in the consumer space.
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I characterize the view that this is "largely Apple's fault" to be somewhat myopic. Apple responded to a condition in the market, namely, publishers were plenty upset that Amazon used their position as the only viable ebook venue at the time to handcuff publishers to a $9.99 price point.
"Otherwise they have a very similar method of cloaking detection, a similar policy for punishment, and a similar timeline for reducing the punishment for cloaking… At this point I feel that there are too many coincidences for this to be mere chance."

I disagree. The realities of having to work in the real world will tend to push Google and Bing in the same directions, even if their development is fully independent. The possibility of independent implementations of similar policies is not so unlikely that it justifies accusations of copying. I think you need more evidence.

Besides, it can't flow along the pathways that were previously established to my satisfaction (YMMV). If I understand it correctly, the Bing toolbar analyzes click patterns to see how pages connect together on the web, Google used the Bing toolbar while making their spiked searches, and found that small amounts of that signal made it into Bing, which was exposed when they created searches by design that had no other signal. I'd lay money the Bing toolbar now has an exclusion for Google (and probably other search sites), if only because Google demonstrated it opens an attack vector from the competition. And I do not think the Bing toolbar could pick up on cloaking like this, because that would rest solely on Google's internal servers. I'm not even sure by what mechanism Bing could be copying this signal from Google.
I was under the impression that the professional organizations kept a pretty tight grip on the number of medical school students allowed to graduate every year - the reason we could use more doctors is that doctors enjoy the job security that comes with this enforced scarcity. It's certainly not the case that you really need to have both a perfect 4.0 GPA and have gone to the moon to be capable of performing as a doctor (as the application process for med schools would have you believe... after all, Europe manages to train doctors straight out of highschool in 3 years + internships/fellowships/etc. compared to North America's 4+ years + a bachelor's degree).
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how about just "things I learned." I agree with the other poster, "learnings" sets my teeth on edge.
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It's worth mentioning that Notch began Minecraft as an individual, operating as an individual, so much of that early revenue hits Sweden's ~50% tax rate...

But yeah, as far as I'm aware Minecraft is far and away the most profitable indie game that owns their own distribution channel (ie no XBLA, Steam, etc involvement).
I'm working on a game full-time, solo plus an artist. My knee-jerk reaction upon seeing this was to call BS, and offer my situation as a rebuttal. And then I realized that the simple fact of taking 1 year off paid work to do this is indeed costing me more than $100K, in a very real sense.
Oh, I agree, that's why I think they'll be indistinguishable from real birds in a couple of years.
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I'm not sure whether reviews qualify as a market action; what action comes as a result of a review? It could go either way as the interpretation of the review is up to the reader of the review. It seems that ebooks sales are causing more action than the reviews. And I'll add my anecdote: my view is the negative reviewers don't understand the concept of premium cost for premium access.
I love Chrome but it destroys pictures with it's colour management on Mac.
I really wish there was a company that would produce replicas of these keyboards which used USB. If I thought there was any chance of it being successful, I would open said business immediately. But alas, I don't think anyone wants to use these monstrosities anymore.
The line is drawn by agreement. The relationship is explicitly specified. It would be foolish on the part of either of them to not be clear on this point.
I feel that it's not the primary purpose of a university to train the students for some job.
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I guess what I meant to say is that $10 is too much for an ebook which is selling significantly cheaper in paperback or slightly more in hardcover. My favorite example of this is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand: it is $18.99 to buy it for a nook, but $9.99 for the paperback (and as low as $1 used, but that's beyond the argument).
Here's a good article from a few months ago about the economics of ebook pricing. It supports your comments about the publishers having too much control over the pricing.

http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2011/01/16/why-do-ebooks-cos...
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"The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have."

This quote really, deeply bothered me. One of the major differences between alpha males and the rest of the population is that they will always assume they'll end up in the top spot. Your prototypical alpha male won't even consider the odds of being on the bottom in that lottery.

To push it further, those same aggressive types will have the passion and voice to draw support for their views, no matter the substance. A "flat" structure overvalues the opinions of the loud and aggressive, with little room for more pensive contributors, especially women.

In other words, if you leave the authorship of the social contract to the loudest people, you may end up with a rather oppressive outcome. This is a universal rule, often overlooked by the alpha males who spend their time talking to Inc. Magazine.
The first and only two humans to visit the Challenger Deep did so in 1960, and in recent years not a single submersible has existed that's rated for that depth. We, as a species, have not gone back since. In contrast, twelve humans have walked on the surface of the moon.

Now we're finally going back! This is so cool!
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Ok, thanks. Updated! Don't want to sound too academic. :-)
Ah, I was wondering the same thing, but I hadn't caught that those two weren't the PC brackets-and-braces keys. Thanks.
Yes of course one can just do it. But having a bit of an umbrella organization around this would help get the word out.
Well, first of all, a traditional student will be out by age 26-27 not 40. Secondly, PhD students in the sciences are paid. Not much, admittedly -- about $22k, on average -- but enough that you have positive cashflow.
What's the hyper key? Here there are Control, Super (Windows) and Meta (Alt) but nothing like Hyper.

I can only imagine the huge powers having a hyper key would give me ;-)
"And if all else fails, teach high school or lower biology."

With yet more years in education to get your teacher certificate, while your student debt accrues interest and grows, and which you will have to pay down in a career whose income potential has quite likely already peaked and is quite likely headed down over the next 20 years while you are competing for salary against people who don't need to pay down anywhere near as much debt and with additional qualifications that the schools don't care about at all.
Notice the absence of cursor keys.
How did this get past the dupe filter? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189916
I guess it depends on the originality of said concept. There were many games exactly like Minecraft before it's time, however, Notch had better execution and timing; See Wurm Online, Infiniminer, ect.

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/113252305/credits-due
Let's not forget the information leaked to a third party by using such a service. Personally, I'd rather keep the data we collect to ourselves.
Maybe I'm getting old, picky, arrogant, or some other malady, but I am simply uninterested in working at a company that asks these types of riddles. There are many more practical ways to gauge people's thought processes, and I'd like to think that my PhD and patents are superior evidence of abstract thought than answering questions that are common enough to have books published about them.
RedBull has turned out to be one seriously cool company. They're almost like what we all thought (hoped?) Google was going to turn into.
To answer your question. My theory is that my site dropped in search engine results pages for Google. The Bing toolbar stopped getting click info for my site and dropped their rankings as well. That's how the toolbar could gather that info from SERPs alone.
Is this something built-in or on the app store? I can't find it on my iPhone (v.latest) or on the store.
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Agreed, this is an Apple bash-fest. Stay on topic folks.
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Not only does it slow down Fx start up times, but also new window creation times, even when it's not active ('off' state). Disabling it completely in add-ons restores performance. On my Mac this means seemingly instant vs noticeable delay, and that bothers me.
Agree with jerf. And furthermore, looking at the chart provided its not clear to me that one is trailing the other. For example, Bing has a big dip on March 14th, which is prior to the date that Google does. And even before the March 15th date your incoming data isn't very flat. And during the March 7th week Bing seems to again lead Google on a downward trend.

I don't think you can assume anything from this data at all.

What would be far more useful, to prove this hypothesis, is request to Google to not show the site for a week and see if Bing's results fall off a cliff. I suspect they won't, but give it a shot.
The normal way is to capture that information in a sign-up page that is served over https. The point of digest authentication is not to replace https for what it is necessary for. It is to allow http and authentication to be used more securely than plain text authentication can be.

Incidentally your snideness is not appreciated. Generally something doesn't get to be a widely implemented RFC without the obvious questions having been asked and answered.
Yes, you did: "bodies from the Tsunami are too radioactive to be recoverable".
Ask HN: Dress for interview with an Incubator/VC firm?
This may seem like a silly question, but what is the expectation for dress?

In my mind, I'm not applying for a job, so it would be business casual... a suit would be silly. But I'm not sure if there are any expectations out there with these VCs/angels.

Thanks!
"Dynosaurs" would be fine, that would imply dynamism, or the ability to change. Unfortunately what we actually have are "Dinosaurs" where "dino" means "terrible".
Well, but, so what? Is it the apparent degree to which Bing appears to be weighting information from the toolbar? Otherwise, I don't see how this is new.
That's a remarkably blinkered view of the world and I can probably call about about 200 examples where this is incorrect, especially today when biologist could mean someone with expertise in Bayesian analysis.
This is the cycle of a new opportunity playing itself out. First the store was announced, and everyone flocked there to put up apps regardless of quality and everyone made great money. Then as the app store grew, only apps that were actually good saw success. Now, with a massive number of apps, third party companies are cashing in on developers trying to make it in a crowded marketplace. Pretty soon the it will come full circle and you'll have commercials late at night screaming at you that "you too can be on the app store! And all you'll need to do is pay $39.95 and we'll teach you how to do it!"
Determining who was there first, maybe?
No. I don't like it either. Primary because I'm a single founder and secondly because it does ignore the other opinions posted. Also I'm not going to give up or stop working on my product because I don't have a co-founder. Not to say I wouldn't take one or two on later if they can be a valuable asset to the company, just that this work must be done now and I'm the only one who showed up for work today.
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So, when people submit these Quora links, do we answer the Quora question here on HN, or answer on Quora and have a meta-discussion about Quora here on HN? (LOL)
Where are you accessing it from? Seems to work fine here, although we are getting a spike in traffic now
I think this actually does protect you from exposing your password to an attacker, but only at account creation time. If the attacker waits around for you to log in conventionally at some later time, then it's over.
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I also had a suggestion to show different content to Goooglebot and Bingbot. While that would make scientific sense, it wouldn't necessarily make financial sense ;)
I wonder if age and experience might be a component here. A lot of the internet startups quoted as examples of two founders being ideal were founded by really young people. In that context having support might be an absolute necessity. How does that compare with more experienced individuals in their 30's?

Having been a solo founder all my life I know just how hard it can be. I would not wish some of the lows I have had to navigate on my worst enemy.

If you are unfortunate enough to be in really difficult situations you really need the intestinal fortitude and mental stability to deal with life-changing problems. Few people in their early 20's have had enough life experience to have developed these qualities.

The problem with the co-founder model is that when life is peachy everyone is working hard and having a good time. However, when things turn ugly if all founders are not equipped to manage the situation it can easily turn in to a nightmare. Things like not being able to make payroll, facing lawsuits, facing bankruptcy, catastrophic supply chain problems (manufacturing), etc. can easily create a set of conditions that can break apart a partnership that was great during good times.

While I will not dispute that having like-minded co-founders can be an advantage, I am of the opinion that --for a certain type of businesses-- I'd rather go solo than run the risk of partnering with someone who might become my worst enemy when things become difficult. The right partner, however, can be an incredible asset, no question about it.

I don't think there's an easy universal answer to this question.