skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how long before people get 'viral' exhaustion from this crap. I suppose it would not be inappropriate to extend the analogy to suggest people are going to become immune to 'viral' apps.

Is there anyone out there that has built an app that grows primarily through (ab)use of social network virality like Honestly? Are you seeing any interesting behavioural changes over time as the population gets tired (or conversely, accepting) of this model?
Why Are Americans All So Stupid?
A few weeks ago 1 bitcoin was only 0.8 US dollar. Now it's 8.

My 0.05 BTC is now worth 0.4.

Should've gotten more.
Sounds like the folks from classmates.com have started a new website...

(FYI classmates used to send out emails exactly like this, except for the facebook integration. "Sandy has been looking for you on classmates.com". Except there was no Sandy in my graduating class. I think they quit a few years back.)
I wasn't really suggesting that you take his or anyone else's writing at face value. Simply that I think a lot of what he writes is interesting and makes you consider thinking in different ways. It's rare that any piece of writing, even one published in a scientific journal, will be 100% convincing. You're almost always going to need to do more research and make a decision for yourself.
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If you were to be very lenient with them, it's all fine up to the LinkedIn connection. But then to ask for a facebook like?! That's how College kids play pranks on their mates, not how a community called "honestly" grows.
Having said that, hopefully the team who created this reads HN and will respond to this and save some face.
I think this is definitely "suable" behavior.
I tend read all "C++ is (bad|good)" lists and it never occurred to me to look at operator overloading as something inherently bad, something that sacrifies the clarity of the code for its brevity (see page 23 and onward). This is an excellent angle... but not that I would prefer C++ to not support overloading.
...to just leave the main site in place to preserve the URLs for pages that have been around a while.

Google shows about 4 links pointing to healthgazelle.com (http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=link%3Ahealthgazelle....) ... all from healthgazelle.com. There is nothing to preserve, and if there was the way to do it and preserve search engine rank is by using a 301 redirect (http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php).

You seem to be holding on to your established site, almost with nostalgia, and I can understand that, but that's not the way to be effective when it comes to building traffic. You have to be prepared to start out on the right course, even if it's new.

Healthgazelle.com says it's been around for about 7 years, and it has 4 links pointing to it, all from itself. If you follow the steps I outlined above I guarantee you will see significant results in less than 12 months.

If I were you the first thing I'd do is ask myself what I want to be known for, in terms of traffic. I'd choose something far more popular than cystic fibrosis, but using that as an example I might buy a domain like howibeatcysticfibrosis.com. Next, point that to a newly set up Wordpress blog. Now, you need content for your new site. You have existing content at healthgazelle.com, but Google doesn't like duplicate content, so you have to make a choice. You can either plan on producing all new unique content for your new site and leave the old site, or cut the content from healthgazelle.com and redirect it to the new location.

If you want to use the name healthgazelle.com you can do that too. Although it's not a very good name in terms of informing search engines or people what the site is about it does at least have some age on it. If that's the case I would download all the content from healthgazelle.com, delete the current site, set up the wordpress blog on the server, then start reposting the content you want to use.
There are valid points on both sides of the debate. It's never a time to cut a solid computer science department. The thought is ridiculous. That being said, WWU is absolutely not on the same level as (UW) University of Washington (for Computer Science and Engineering). I'm sure there's a lot of great talent at WWU (as there is at any institution) but much blame does fall on the University for not doing enough outreach to industry and academia to improve the quality of the department and reputation of students.
If you want your University to thrive, push all you have into improving your CSE department, instead of cutting it. WWU, this is your chance to either make something of yourself, or crawl into a hole and die as a liberal arts ghetto, contributing no real value to society.
(edited to cut down the snark)
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this just in -- we have reliable information that the attackers used a keyboard to type their nefarious commands, as well.
Hey, I've already got an accountant (sister in law) and lawyer (father) to help me out, but I'd love to just have you as a friend and person I can turn to for advice when needed. I work with Python and Django all day (and night, my startup is built on Django) so I think perhaps I can be of assistance. Email's in my profile, feel free to contact me, IM me, whatever if you'd like some 1 on 1 django or python help.
Not true. Stanford is better. Better in engineering than MIT, better in non-tech areas than MIT, better weather than MIT, better girls than MIT, better things to do outside of school than MIT. Can't beat it.
Someone needs to alert the FTC about this. Having an email saying "Someone created a profile about you!" only to come to the site and all of the sudden it says(after you're forced to market the company for them) "it looks like there aren't any reviews yet" is textbook deceptive marketing.
I have degrees in finance and economics and worked in banking for a few years. Skip the heavy advanced texts and get Essentials of Accounting by Anthony and Breitner.
Where are you getting these constants in JavaScript? You can't even trust the built-in "undefined" to actually contain "undefined".

(My point is: a library may be more appropriate in the JavaScript case, because of the lack of constants.)
Riordan said the computer science department could be doing more... in terms of forging ties with technology leaders...

It's funny, WWU CS has a repuation for being a very pro-Microsoft department. Not sure what's really going on here.
I don't understand - at which point did the blog author hand over his email address? You can't get it from Facebook unless you specify a separate permission that isn't shown in the accompanying screenshot.
Loved this article. I would love to see a simliar test around polyphasic sleep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep).

I've actually tried the Uberman sleep schedule for three weeks. This is where you sleep 20 minutes for each 4 hours, totalling in a whopping 2 hours sleep each day.

The time gain was insane, and the transition period aswell (between day 3-5 I actually hallucinated due to sleep deprevation). But around 1.5 weeks something strange happened. The 20 minute period that you are allowed to sleep seemed like hours each time, and I would wake up like clockwork on the 20 minute mark.

The whole routine is not just a sleep routine, it affects your entire lifestyle. No stimulants, including sugar, high degrees of fat, caffeine. No sedatives, alcohol, drugs (!). And the fact that you are awake during the night when the whole world seems dead is one of the hardest social aspects to handle. What do you do with 6 extra hours each day?

Of course there's the aspect of finding somewhere to sleep every 4 hours (was at school at the time), and if you ever missed out, you would have hell to pay.

I eventually buckled on a skiing trip with an open bar, had a nice weekend and decided to going back to normal sleeping patterns. Partly because it was not socially acceptable to sleep 2 hours a day (my father threatened to beat some sense into me). But also that there was very little foundation that this kind of sleep pattern was even safe. A couple of million years of evolution had other idea's of when and how long it is necessary to sleep.

Other than that, the foundations that I gathered up from this was that when changing your sleeping pattern. The body frantically tries to adapt. By sleeping extremely short periods the body would effectively increase the amount of REM sleep (and yes, I dreamed a lot during these sleeping periods), however, it has not been proven that you don't need the other types of sleep.

This is probably a lot of rumours, and a lot of wishful thinking. I personally wish there was some solid backing behind this kind of reasoning (more time awake is awesome!), There are a lot of buzz out there (check google and youtube), but I've been unable to find anything reasonably solid.
Hey, they recently doubled the headcount of their sysadmin team!
I like to take advantage of this by approaching the salesman while holding about $300 dollars worth of cables, negotiate a lower price on the tv and then return the cables the next day.
Read the article more closely. Most need 8. There are some who need less, some who need more. The graph might even look like a bell curve ;)
> they are FDIC

My question would be, are individual Dwolla accounts protected on a per depositor basis? Or, is it just Dwolla Corp's own bank account which is protected under FDIC. Their website doesn't make that clear.

It's entirely possible that user funds are stored in a bank account, owned by Dwolla, and that bank account is FDIC insured. If that's the case, then that bank account is only insured up to $250,000 USD.
this is the way things should actually work in our western countries too.
People like people with good luck. Especially when they're handling their money. I'd imagine Ben wants everyone to know how lucky he was.
Maybe if you used an alarm you'd be forced to wake up during a part of your sleep cycle where you're not dreaming, and so won't remember dreaming.
The Art Gallery Problem
You don't write how you've "posted" about it; did you drop a link, give them a tagline, or did you give a demonstration? Maybe you told, but didn't tell. If this is the case, make a usage case and describe it step by step. You could also do this with video.

People shouldn't have to try your service to see its use and potential.

There is nothing creepy about your app that isn't creepy about Facebook itself. So tell that to anyone who says that about your service - I don't have a Facebook account, but I am well aware that Facebook is the best stalker tool out there. Friends and acquaintances tell me all about it.

Hell, you can also embrace the controversy and market your service this way instead; this will intrigue people to explore what people outside your immediate social circle can actually access about you and vice versa.

(I would market it both ways, as if they were two different services offered. You could also tip off a school paper or something of the sort - say, Techcrunch - and give them either angle to write about.)

You could also market it as a guide to unlocking "secret features" of Facebook. That kind of rhetoric often seems to work in the software world.

Always remember that your service is an implementation of Facebook - not an extension beyond its basic functionality.
I gave them my email in the sign up process, but that's not what you should be asking about. The issue is them emailing me before I signed up. I don't know exactly how they got it, but I am guessing it's that one of my friends imported their email contacts which included my info and "made me a profile"
Predictable. The IMF has a long history of raping nations too.
I'd argue that, to some extent, "lamer" is a relativistic term. What is a lamer? Someone who posts content that a preponderance of users in a community think is stupid, non-useful, or distracting. But said content is stupid, non-useful, or distracting with respect to the preferences of the majority of users in the community.

Using this logic, you could argue that a community with a lot of lamers is a community that hasn't properly attracted a target userbase, or has failed to maintain one. In this model, lamers are symptoms and not root causes. The cause is, as you suggest, a flawed content strategy.
I got an email from Honestly showing me a picture of my wife, saying she is on Honestly. She was sitting next to me when I got the email, so I turned to her and asked: are you using Honestly? "Never heard of it" was her answer.

Rarely has a company chosen a name so opposed to their values.
I've noticed a difference based on when I wake up. If I wake up early in the morning when it's still dark I find I am quite alert even on a few hours of sleep. If I wake up later I need the eight hours.
Interesting article, but the results don't reflect the performance of those who have adapted to alternative sleep schedules in the long term. The article states that subjects were to maintain their sleep schedule for two weeks. I reckon that any sudden shift in sleep schedules would have a good chance of causing fatigue. A more interesting experiment would be to see how those with alternative sleep schedules that have practiced them in the long term compare to those with 8 a day schedules.
> Well, you can choose any two of: 1. Fast (less run-time), 2. Safe (cannot crash), 3. Simple types (None of the advanced type hackery). Many choose 1+3 or 2+3, but advanced types let you choose 1+2 which in many cases is remarkable and somewhat surprising that it is even possible.

I don't think it's really that surprising that it's possible. Most programs don't rely on any deep mathematical properties for their correctness, so the ability to formalize a proof that they are correct and encoding it into a type system doesn't surprise me at all. If it is possible to do it on a large program without maintenance or scalability problems, then I will be more impressed.

You also present a false trichotomy. Haskell is not actually a completely 'safe' language; it still has exceptions that can cause a program to "go wrong" and terminate unexpectedly. You can write 'fast' code with it, but it isn't as fast as what I could write in a lower-level language.

> Nothing about this type hackery is specific to singly linked lists, and advanced type hackary is applicable for pretty much any data structure. Also note that the singly linked lists used in zip may not actually be represented by pointer-chasing singly-linked lists. They may be "fused" together into efficient loops that process the input directly.

As the data structures get further away from algebraic data types, the type hackery gets more and more involved. If you start working with arbitrary mutable data structures that arise in practice, the type hackery becomes a topic for a PhD thesis rather than something usable in practical programming today.

I don't know of any compiler that actually does a reasonable job converting uses of data structures like lists and association lists into arrays and hash tables in general. There are compilers (like GHC) that handle special cases but fall over beyond that. I think this falls into the territory of the "sufficiently smart compiler" fallacy. Also, making data contiguous is just the simplest of a common set of data representation optimizations. Does any compiler automatically convert a list into an intrusive doubly linked list or eliminate the use of a visited stack for DFS by stealing a bit from vertices or reversing pointers?
weird. I've had some gray (at least, some I and others could notice) since I was 18 (and quite a lot all these years later). One of my brothers is 15 and has some gray. It's not really saying why the hydrogen peroxide builds up though. :/
For download.com, are you suggesting shareware?
While this isn't your central point, I'm pretty sure the reason Home Depot's propane tanks don't explode is not that Home Depot is concerned for their reputation and therefore takes all necessary measures required to avoid a rather infrequent problem, but that propane tanks and their handling are, in fact, regulated by government, and that those regulations codify best practices for infrequent events.

A purely free-market, reputation-based system of behavior works well for frequent events, but fails miserably for infrequent events, and that's why regulations are necessary.

In other words, and more snarkily, the assumption that Home Depot hires competent staff is probably not sufficient to protect you from explosion.
Yes. That was one of the reasons we were so successful at letslunch: the reviews can't be gamed. You can't ask your friends to review you, because we decide who gets to meet with you. Read some of the profiles like http://letslunch.com/public/316799/Luke_Stangel and judge for yourself, I believe those reviews are way more honest.
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> My question would be, are individual Dwolla accounts protected on a per depositor basis? Or, is it just Dwolla Corp's own bank account which is protected under FDIC.

The former. If it were the latter, then writing "Dwolla Deposits Are Protected By The FDIC and NCUA" on their web page would be fraud.
guarantees that your investment in creative works has a short shelf life

Talk to Thomas if you want actual numbers, but the overwhelming majority of AAA games have fairly predictable sales curves with a peak window measured in weeks or, in some cases, days. See also books, movies, music, etc.

Evergreen content is highly anomalous in creative industries.
Better: http://www.astro.uhh.hawaii.edu/documents/Binder_nv-toae.pdf
I just installed Plex on my Ubuntu media server and bought the Plex for Android app on my Xoom and it works amazingly well. Beware of networking issues if your wifi is on a different subnet than your server: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/26336-no-valid-rou...
Thanks for your thoughts.

In the "advertisement" posts that I've made on some college/university forums, I've been describing it as a tool to find photos of people you're not Facebook friends with - the "creepy" marketing version if you will.

I also made this demo video, which I admit is extremely amateur but I guess serves the purpose of demonstrating the use of the app (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09klp_Lw6w8).
You're completely wrong.
"The average physician's net income declined 7 percent from 1995 to 2003, after adjusting for inflation, while incomes of lawyers and other professionals rose by 7 percent during the period."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/business/22doctors.html
"...none of this really matters, because doctors' salaries aren't a large enough chunk of health care spending in the United States to make a difference. According to Reinhardt, doctors' net take-home pay (that is, income minus expenses) amounts to only about 10 percent of overall health care spending. So if you cut that by 10 percent in the name of cost savings, you'd only save about $26 billion. That's a drop in the ocean compared with overhead for insurance companies, billing expenses for doctors' offices, and advertising for drug companies. The real savings in health care will come from these expenses."
http://www.slate.com/id/2227965/

Interesting data, but the question is if licensing scarcity increase salaries than without. The salary decrease in 1995 to 2003 doesn't tell us anything other than.....net income decrease.

The rest of your comment is incorrect as well. The AMA does not license physicians, state governments do. Many physicians don't even belong to the AMA. The AMA lobbies for physicians, but it's not in any way like a union (not that there's anything wrong with unions).

Would it be possible that AMA effectively limits licensing rate through their lobbying?

There is a reason for (some) licensing. We tried the adolescent libertarian fantasy of letting the "free market" drive things like medical training and licensure back in the early days of the 20th century. You could characterize the vast majority of medical education in that era as training in quackery, before people like Abraham Flexner got involved:

Interesting data, but not enough details to support your statement. We need more details on what kind of reforms were made, privately or governmental.
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IANAL, but in all likelihood, the distinction between "created a profile for" and "posted a review of" would save them. This is a textbook example of how to trick people without actually claiming anything false.

An actual example that was in one of my textbooks: A car company claimed that its new model was three times quieter. The company's competitors objected, saying they didn't find it that superior to their offerings. The company clarified for the FTC that the car was three times quieter on the inside than the outside. The FTC agreed that this was accurate.
There is no reason to buy cables from anywhere but Monoprice.
After seeing some of those rants, especially after the namespace-hatred, I wonder if they'd prefer a flavor of Assembly. Apparently they hate many common methods of simplifying and organizing code - clearly, things like virtual methods should always look different than non-virtual methods, namespaces are pointless when you can `gl_open`, and all macro-like functionality is simply obfuscation.
Here is a debate where RMS talks about the dual license issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrVayqOHbZw
He basically says it's acceptable.
Many people believe that C++ has useful features that improve the ability of the average programmer to write application programs. One problem is that different companies use different subsets. (The question of which language the Linux kernel should be written in is of limited interest.)

We could name a restricted subset of C++ as C+-. Many high quality and well-tested development tools for C+- already exist (the C++ tools). Now the problem remains of standardizing C+-. The most logical C+- variant to standardize on is the C++ subset used by the largest group of people, presumably the version defined by Google:
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...

Now the question becomes is it easier for average programmers to build application programs using C or C+-? Using C+- or C? These are perhaps more useful questions than the long running C vs C++ debate.
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What is "space management"?

It seems clear that if someone is going to recommend putting holes through walls, they should be appropriately educated and licensed. But I clicked through to your link, and it appears that the biggest difference is that interior designers are required to be familiar with various building codes and the like.

In other words, bureaucracy begets bureaucracy.
The wonderful book, Proofs from THE BOOK,

http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-BOOK-Martin-Aigner/dp/364200855...

discusses the art gallery problem, among many interesting mathematical problems, and then exemplifies the playful spirit of mathematical proof by including in that discussion a photograph of what is quite possibly the ugliest art museum ever built--on the campus of my alma mater university.

http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/WeismanArt/photo.jpg

(The photo shown in the book is different from this official photo, but you get the idea.)

For the rest of my life, I will always smile when I think of the art gallery problem, because it will remind me of what the authors of Proofs from THE BOOK asked their readers about the Weisman Art Museum (which I refer to as the "Ugly Art Museum"). Thanks for making me smile by submitting this link to the Wikipedia article.