skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually just looked into your site healthgazelle.com. I'm afraid I would recommend pursuing another avenue to reach $2,000-3000 per month. One area you seem to be good at is writing. I'd pick another area you're an expert in or passionate about which is far more popular, then build up a blog audience writing about it.

There are two problems. The first, good traffic quality, can't be changed. The second, your site not being optimized for search engines can, but without the traffic there isn't much point.

It took me several seconds to find out that the topic of your site seems to be cystic fibrosis. You actually have a decent store of content about your topic, but right now it's practically invisible to search engines (for example, you refer to it as "CF", and you're not implementing good page title tags, or effective headers, urls, etc.). As I said, that can be fixed. The bigger problem is that Google's keyword tool for "cystic fibrosis" (exact match phrasing) shows not many are searching for what you're offering.

The general term "cystic fibrosis" has decent numbers, but that can include everything from people checking what it is to students doing reports on it. You are interested in people looking for treatment for it, and those numbers are very, very low. Perhaps people don't think to look for a treatment for it. Whatever the case, you would need to be near the #1 result for the keyword "cystic fibrosis treatment", beating out sites like mayoclinic.com and nlm.nih.gov, and you still wouldn't have more than a few thousand clicks per month. Maybe that's enough for you, but I'd pick a more popular traffic topic.

Also, please note I have a typo in my recommendation above to learn more about effective SEO. You need to type into Google "seo site:news.ycombinator.com" with no space after "site:" to see only results from HN.
Descendents of immigrants are not immigrants.
Yes, that's the one. I haven't used it myself, but I expect it's good.
All they have to do to kick Kindle off is enforce their recent policy of requiring all downloadable content to also be available through in-app purchasing at a 30% fee. At the moment the Kindle app appears to be enjoying the protection of an unwritten grandfather clause.

If this does happen I hope it does attract some anti-trust scrutiny.
Well, the author does have a balanced point of view, but there are a couple explanations for why Whitaker would offer a more reserved view sometimes. First, critics of psychiatry get easily lumped into the 'anti-psychiatry' group where all drugs are bad, which is not where Whitaker wants to be. He knows empirically that this has weakened the effectiveness of critics (like those who get lumped in with scientologists). Moreover, he's just a really SMART person it seems to me. He is more concerned with the truth than an agenda, unlike probably other critics like Peter Breggin, who seem to manipulate much of the evidence.

Also, that Finland program as described in Anatomy uses very few psychiatric drugs, and it does in low doses and tries to keep people off them. Whitaker is just explaining that his opposition is not to 'psychiatric drugs' like some groups, but to unscientific & harmful practices, which is exactly what gives him so much ethos. The Finland program is from what I remember of it, far from modern psychiatric practices.

In fact, in my email communication with Whitaker, he has stated that no patients would miss antipsychotics if they were banned. Based on his books and many interviews/videos I have seen of Whitaker, I think he would probably agree with the statement "The way most drugs are prescribed, they make the illness worse in the long-run." (note I don't know Whitaker personally)

This is a very complicated debate because one can't talk about psychiatric drugs in general, you have to look at the individual evidence for each one. For example, I have much less faith in the Harrow Study that Whitaker cites as evidence that antipsychotics do worse, because I found the critique that its just the worst patients who stay on antipsychotics very salient. This study indicated the health of the off-med and on-med groups diverged after two years (with the off-med group improving significantly.) However, there seem to be a dearth of studies that are this long testing antipsychotics versus placebo (because of the inherent difficulty of that study, I imagine).
You are 100% incorrect about C-3. I don't take sites that want you to pay for information seriously. Information and knowledge should be free. Charging for information makes you "them" instead of "us" and totally leads people to not trust you.

Examples:
- Get rich selling stuff on ebay! (internet treasure chest)
- Save your marriage! (google "save your marriage ebook")
- Penis enlargement! (...)
- How one mom found a cheap way to whiten her kids teeth! (in ads everywhere, usually leads to a site where you pay for an ebook).

Also, people will pirate it if it's any good.
What I was thinking is if you have a list of scrapers supplied and a publish notification, Google could then index the alleged scraper sites directly (instead of waiting for a general index to find them), and then at some interval later. For true scraper, this should result in no match followed by match. Then Google can establish order of publishing, assuming Googles push-notification-to-index time is shorter than the scraper-polling-interval.
And it seems people often know of their regular scrapers.
Cool idea.

This is currently the online drum machine to beat, IMO:
http://www.soniccharge.com/patternarium
Thanks! changed it. Nice, Ill shortly send you an email
I second the Django Book. I'm no CS major, but I've done a lot of Java/Android dev and read a bit about python in the past. With the Django Book and the awesome Django documentation, I felt like I knew most of the ins and outs of Django with just 2 full days of reading/tutorials. It's a very well documented framework and quite easy to pick up.

I'd be willing to answer any questions about Django on your quest for Django mastery. I'm no Django pro, but I'll help where I can. Feel free to email me: vince@[HN_username].com
thanks for the resources/info
Most, if not all, of his arguments were already beaten to death. The rebuttal should be floating around somewhere on the Internet, but I couldn't find it with a quick search right now.

Anyways, right at the beginning of the presentation you see the quality of his arguments as he uses a very known problem of a particular compiler (GCC) to bash the language. Sort of a straw man fallacy.
It’s kind of funny, but not really how they botch the description “Apple OS/X”; all they has to say was Mac OS X.
You have to stop thinking of yourself as a "skilled developer", for one, since development skill leads to success in software businesses like the ability to cook amazing waffles leads to successfully running a bed and breakfast.

A few years ago I was part of a small company, and one day we had a meeting to discuss our future (and yes, porn was one of the things we discussed, though we ended up not pursuing it). The question we asked was, "What was the goal of the company?" If the answer was "To make money", then was writing code the proper way to do it? Each of us, being coders, had come to think so.

I sometimes think that having a skill or a passion for some hands-on activity is a detriment because it leads you think you can and should be doing that as the path to success. The whole "do what you love and the money will follow" nonsense.

OTOH, if you believe you have no tangible skill, but think you can recognize or anticipate a market, then you don't bother trying to implement the solution yourself; you go hire people. (Of course pulling that off is a skill in itself, but it's a different sort from the "make things with your hands" realm where coding lives.)

From a business point of view it may make more sense to take a high-paying but soul-sucking Rails contract job and use the money to pay other developers to implement you MVP.

(BTW, the book The E-Myth covers some of this.)
> I know what I'm offering is limited in value relative to what you
> are offering me, so I am open to give you anything else I could
> reasonably offer for this mentorship.

Don't undervalue your skillset. If I were a python guru, I would immediately take up the offer and help you out quite a bit for what I would be getting in return. It's just as true that anybody could go online and learn all that "finance stuff" as they could learning all that "python stuff". The value for both subjects is in the mentorship to guide and accelerate the learning. It's not like you're offering home cleaning tips in exchange.
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One of the great things about Heisig's approach is that the student makes their own images and stories for each character. Something that I invent is much more likely to stick with me than something I see online; and once you get used to it, the strategy only takes a few minutes, probably on par with the amount of time it would take to read through that page.

That page presents a lot of information, and most of it isn't ideal for memorizing the character. It's nice to see images and etymologies while you're looking at the character, and they might even allow you to recognize it when you see it later, but it's especially difficult to recall the exact form of the character later from information such as this.

I would suggest you take a look at one of Heisig's books if you're interested in chinese characters specifically. It's a very well thought out system, and he spends some time explaining its specific advantages in the beginning of volume 1 of Remembering the Kanji.
Trulia is a site bought and paid for by the realtor community. You can't trust their metrics.
I'm curious if you looked at Oneswarm[1], as it's built on the azureus platform (i.e. java) and utilizes PKI for authentication. It's not exactly lightweight, but I have setup ~30 friends, that I know and trust, on it in one tightly secure network.

For lightweight, on my router I have a transmission package (.opkg[2]) that handles files not available on my small network.

[1]http://oneswarm.org

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opkg

EDIT: Running Openwrt (Backfire, 10.03) on Asus RT-N16
Can you give me a google-able name (or description) for this proof?
I think heavy, but not overly up-front moderation is the key to building a good discussion - this simply means clearing out comments which are superfluous - thereby creating richer, more readable content.
I have no plans of making $2000-$3000 off that one site. I have other things in the works. They need a great deal more fleshing out (one project has exactly zero actual content). Nor is the site intended to be about cystic fibrosis per se. I advocate eating right, exercise, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" and so on. Those things are more broadly applicable than just treating my specific condition. And I am quite well aware that very few people go looking for info on how to get well while living with CF. Still, I want to use this site to learn about building traffic as it is the most developed site I have. So thank you very much for your suggestions and for correcting the typo.

One area you seem to be good at is writing. I'd pick another area you're an expert in or passionate about which is far more popular, then build up a blog audience writing about it.

:-)

That's kind of the long term goal. Only I am thinking webcomic. Time will tell.
Why is "not anonymous" a pro? Usually, you can't say what you truly think if you know that your identity is revealed, particularly if what you think is negative in nature. In Facebook people wear the same masks that they wear in real life.
Ask HN: Does YC Reserve the Right to Participate in Future Rounds?
On this page, http://ycombinator.com/about.html, it says: "We try to interfere as little as possible in the startups we fund. We don't want board seats, rights to participate in future rounds, vetoes over strategic decisions, or any of the other powers investors sometimes require."

I just pulled up the YC Series AA docs, which includes the following clause in the termsheet under "Investor Rights" and "Right to maintain proportionate ownership":

"Each holder of at least [_________] shares of Preferred will have a right to purchase its pro rata share of any offering of new securities by the Company, subject to customary exceptions. The pro rata share will be based on the ratio of (x) the number of shares of Preferred held by such holder (on an as-converted basis) to (y) the Company’s fully-diluted capitalization (on an as-converted and as-exercised basis). This right will terminate immediately prior to the Company’s initial public offering or five years after the financing."

Is that a reservation of YC's right to participate in future rounds? I don't mean to be accusatory: I'm asking because I'm using what YC does as the gold standard for what an accelerator should do, and I'm wondering whether an accelerator's reservation of rights to participate in future rounds is "standard" behavior.

I'd be very interested to hear the thoughts of those more well-versed in this stuff.
Exactly. There is no point whatsoever in commenting on a multitude of blogs and website across the internet - then your opinions, views and contributions are fragmented in different places across the internet too; with no way to keep track of them, and no way to build rapport.
We've got a 52" Bravia, Sony 5.1 system, PS3 with 15 games or so and will absolutely _NEVER_ knowingly give Sony another penny.

As soon as the PSN is up and I'm able to delete the PSN account (which they're saying will only be possible from your original PS3) we're going to pawn the PS3 and games.

I don't want Microsoft to win the living room and so won't be supporting them either. I guess unless Wii2 has beautiful graphics we'll be an exclusive PC gaming house.

The whole situation is disgusting. I don't get to play much but it really pisses me off that Sony has essentially killed one of the only great activities that I've kept from child to adulthood.
how do you run mongodb on GAE?
Twitter appears to be the problem - further fragmenting discussion across the internet, not bringing it together.
Is upvoting generally a good idea in a community? What kind of commenting behaviour does it lead to?
Do you know that you need a license to be a barber? Or that in Texas, you need a license to be a florist? [ http://www.agr.state.tx.us/agr/program_render/0,1987,1848_56... ]

I can learn programming on my own (through books or Internet) and get a employment as a programmer working on business critical systems and I do not need to get any license from anyone. But hey, if I want to cut someone's hair, I need to pay my dues to the state?

I think for non medical businesses, the licensing requirements should be removed. We save tax payer's money and there could be more competition in the market place which will benefit the consumer. [And don't worry about protecting the consumer, once you get a bad hair cut from a salon, you will announce it to the world (thanks to the Internet) that the hair salon is bad and you will never visit that place again. Market forces will take care of the crappy businesses.]
Dang. How about becoming Prime Minster of the UK or chancellor of Germany then? We don't care where you're born [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_R%C3%B6sler
I don't use nightlies, but last time I checked even clang didn't have great template error messages. C++11 doesn't address his complaint of ever-changing standard (though I don't think that's really serious). Does C++11 support lazy extensions? (Last I checked it didn't. Use case: "Unless someone declared operator&&, then both are evaluated.")

I think most of the complaints are still valid even with C++11. Whether the complaints are worth bothering about is another issue: C++ is hard, yeah, it's not going to get easier. Personally I wouldn't ever start a new project in C++, I'd rather use C or Go or Obj-C if I need low-level speed and there's a plethora of high level languages (that can still connect with C if needed) if I don't. I nevertheless have to know C++ (non-11) for all the older projects out there, most of which probably won't move to standardize on 11 making 11's benefits moot.
And you can't expect serious scholars to take books lacking through analysis, data, and logical arguments at face value. It is entirely reasonable for individuals to question such writing.
The hft stuff is actually what I'm most skeptical of. I think the barrier to entry is huge in terms of knowledge and initial costs, unless you are an outlier. The opportunities are in more basic things. Mixing a decent quant background with a solid financial background is a potent combination for succesful fundamental value investing. Creating an automated tool to help structure the best ways to get equity exposure using options based on live data is another immediately foreseeable benefit.
Actually, anybody can benefit from an illiquid housing market with low rents. Anyone that is smart enough not to buy and just wants to rent and invest their hard earned money elsewhere. In my affluent neighborhood I can rent a house for $2,000 a month that would cost $4,000 a month to pay a mortgage on, not counting maintenance, repairs, and upkeep. I could take that extra $2,000 a month and invest it in conservative financial instruments and make at least 6-7% return. Or I could be paying a $4,000 mortgage with only about $500 of that going towards equity and having to pay an additional $10,000 annually of maintenance and upkeep (generally considered to be 1.5% of total house price per year).

Which one would you do? The reason why _some_ people make money from housing is leverage. You take out a huge loan and if it goes up in value a few %, you made much more than your starting value. Leverage works exactly the same way when prices are declining. Your small $50,000 downpayment is quickly erased by a 5% decline in value.

I don't like leverage in my investments. I prefer to know that I can't lose more money than I invested in the first place. I diversify my risk so that I can never lose more than 10-25% of what I own with a single investment. Why would I put so much money in a single asset that is extremely illiquid and has so much leverage that I can lose more than my net worth?

Housing just doesn't make sense until the market returns to reality - and with federal subsidies including tax credits, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it won't return to a fair market until _all_ government subsidies are removed, including mortgage interest tax credits, Fannie/Freddy backing mortgages, etc.
Its similar to the conciseness of Chinese vs. Romance languages. Chinese is great if I know Chinese, but which would you rather learn from scratch - Chinese or English? For human communication languages, it's generally agreed upon that languages with countless glyphs are more difficult to learn than languages with an alphabet.
Funny, one of the best things one can do to get faster with Vim is to switch CapsLock and Escape (though I know people who are still reaching all the way to that top left corner even after years of using it).
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Just don't go for a physicist. Big mistake in my opinion [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel
Any links to farm tech/forums where you can find out about this stuff? I have zero interest in webapps/dotcoms, but an incredible interest in robotics/physical things.
There are longer then 3-5 year mortgage terms in Canada. I believe up to 15 years is commonly offered.

Amortization length of a mortgage can be up to 35 years for residential mortgages. 35 year amortizations were only eliminated for CMHC/insured mortgages.

I would contend that the system is more stable when borrowers are forced to consider the consequences of future interest rate increases.
"I nevertheless have to know C++ (non-11) for all the older projects out there, most of which probably won't move to standardize on 11 making 11's benefits moot."

Yep, lots of projects out there that if I am lucky have moved up to Centos 5. When they get C++0x where all of these issues are fixed is just this side of never.

Oh wait a minute. Did I write C++0x? I mean when they get C++11 when all of these issues are fixed.
Many good criticisms, mixed with some bad.

Exception safety is achievable (pthread_mutex_lock example) if you wrap resources with RAII classes. If he called this "difficult to use C libraries while retaining exception safety" it would be more accurate.

The iterator criticisms are applicable to C iterators too (represented by pointers or user objects).

The various things `baz = foo->bar(3)` could mean are interesting. Some of them are reasonable, if you assume some sort of consistency. It may make audits hard, but the fact it might use implicit cast converters there should not make it harder to read if you are allowed to make the most basic assumptions about what an automatic cast operator would do.

I enjoyed it, nonetheless.
Information and knowledge should be free.

I completely agree. And the site is free for use. Still, how does one monetize an informational site? If I know something of value that was hard-won knowledge, how do I share that without feeling like I am cutting my own throat for the benefit of others?

(Please note that I have said elsewhere in this discussion that I don't expect this site to be where the money is. But problem solving for this site is intended to be a learning experience for me.)

Also, people will pirate it if it's any good.

In this case: Yay!
Don't they at least have documentation for people who are expected to use these APIs internally? How could they not? And why would that info not be suitable for public release after minor redaction?
Ask HN: Open source vs. proprietary technology for our project?
Hey guys,

Myself and two partners are beginning work on a new project, but we've hit our first obstacle early on; what language/framework are we doing it in? I am strongly leaning towards PHP, one is strongly pushing for ASP.net, and one is impartial.

Does anyone have any ideas why using ASP instead of an open source technology like PHP would be a good and/or bad options? All developers on the team have experience with PHP and ASP.net.
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There are a couple encouraging signs in medicine. First, a lot of doctors advertise that they're board-certified. That's a voluntary, private certification that attests to the doctor's competence and has more rigorous requirements than state licenses do. Without licensure, there's every reason to think that private certifications would take on even more importance.

Second, the market is steadily routing around physician's monopoly on the practice of medicine. There's sverything from questionable stuff like acupuncture and chiropractic to nurses and PAs doing things that only doctors used to be allowed to do (e.g. prescriptions, minor procedures), and those trends seem to be accelerating.
Though, I don't want no technocrats in my government. Just look at China. I'd prefer entrepreneurs, technical or not, but its hard to convince the successful ones to become professional politicians.

edit: Maybe, an effective CEO could run a country as a part time job? :-D
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Very sad, you have read only the first few slides...
I've always wondered how Sony measures these things. What do they use to show that it actually stops piracy (I'm sure it can slow it down a bit) for a lot of people, and that those people then turn into customers? How do they control for things like "popular game" vs. "unpopular game", how do they control for pirates who try the game then buy?
Airbnb is Looking for Product Engineers to Grow a Global Marketplace for Places
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I thought Microsoft required OEMs to place shortcuts to its pre-installed software while disallowing them to install shortcuts to competitors' software.

Is this what you're talking about? If it is, don't you think it is indeed an anti-competitive practice?
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This is the author - thanks for the comments! Interested to see what beats people cook up.