skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I couldn't find that link... but I did discover something equally interesting along the way: check out http://www.centerforintegrativedentistry.com/gum_disease/ind... and scroll down to the "oxygenation" section.

It seems that the more exercise you get, the more oxygenated your gums are, and (gum disease) germs survive better the less oxygen there is- so marathon runners have an extremely low incidence rate of gum disease! wow.
And if you limit the time-frame to the last 12 months, everything but CA disappears. I guess everybody in the northeast who's interested already has it bookmarked?
So, Mr Sink says that there are "so many products under the Eee name that soon the brand will be meaningless." He had one reason, but he didn't bother telling us why that may be true.

His only reason was this : there are so many offerings of Eee, the product version or model is unclear and non-specific. As a result, he claims, the brand will become meaningless and die. It is true that "I have an Eee" is as vague as "I have a game console" or, closer to home: "I have a laptop". But meaningless and dying? Historical evidence suggests otherwise.

The phrase "I have a DS" doesn't tell you if I have an ugly grey brick-shaped plastic or a beautiful, smooth and colourful piece of art; but it tells you I have a gaming console, speficially, one not made by Sony.

The iPod comes in nearly as many different offerings: iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, multiplied by many different version numbers. But I think we can all agree that iPod as a brand is not going to go anywhere, and is certainly not meaningless in the marketing world.

Perhaps Asus isn't trying to make Eee stand out as a single product, but rather an entire product series, or perhaps even an entire category all on its own. It is not a "Laptop model number Eee 701 made by company x", but "an Eee". This is the true power of branding, when your brand is so successful that the average person refers to your product not by what it is, but by its very name.

If I tell you I drive a Porche, I am not being specific about what kind of car I'm driving, but to some people, what I have suggested matters more than if it's red or an SUV or brand new.
I don't either, but then again, I don't vote up and down a lot.

Just guessing, but I think there are probably three levels of visitors: random browsers, occasional voters, and people who play the board like a video game.

I'm more occasional. For instance, I usually don't view things that only make page 2
I've played with the Yahoo! weather api. It gets data from www.weather.com and gives you some flexibility. For your purposes, I'm sure it'll be more than adequate. link: http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/
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I think our technologicies are advancing at a much faster rate than our collective inner wisdom and interpersonal relationships. Without much greater attention paid to this aspect of our lives, it appears evident that our technologies (however wonderful) will become truly awe-full and unfortunately be used to place great portions (if not all) of our species at significant risk for survival.
Paul:

In a word this is exceptional work. You are swiftly becoming a hero to me and at some point you will see how much you've inspired me.
Bleh

Sweeping generalization after sweeping generalization, this article not only provides no substance, but then starts bringing up some of the stupidest "what if" scenarios I've ever read.

"What if Asia all of a sudden started doing well economically?" -- Has this person been under a rock for the past 50 years? East Asia has consistently grown economically since the mid 20th century and and some nations currently rank with the nations of the Western World: Japan, Singapore, South Korea, etc.

Granted, some Asian economies have their problems, but so do many so called individualist Western economies. Mexico, for example, is easily no better off than China.
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http://praxisblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/the-corporation-a...

http://www.davidcogswell.com/Reviews/DivineRightReview.html
I think that's the point of the privacy features. Or are you afraid of the hit men even finding out which city you are in?
Many implementations of multiple inheritance involve the synthesis of a class object. Ruby's multiple inheritance operates this way. So does Strongtalk's. So obviously, "super" has a concrete and specific meaning in these languages.
It's not about successful vs unsuccessful -- obviously nobody can argue that Microsoft is unsuccessful. It's about innovative and non-innovative.

Relative to Apple, BMW is a terrible example of an innovative company, nor do they need to be innovative to succeed: The automotive industry hasn't seen a dramatically different product design, comparable to the difference between an iPhone and a flip phone, since well before World War II [1]. Progress in automobiles has been all about slow, gradual evolution for fifty or sixty years. Even the new hybrid cars are incredibly conventional (they're designed to be nigh-indistinguishable from other cars) and are based on incremental improvements to technologies that are decades old (electric cars, for example, date back to the mid-to-late 1800s).

The most interesting recent BMW product (that I know of, anyway) has been the Mini Cooper, a vehicle whose major selling point is that it closely resembles a famous design from 1959. The equivalent Apple product would be the "iENIAC".

[1] That is, there hasn't been a dramatically different design that went anywhere. Even if you discount all the wacky concept cars that can't actually be manufactured, plenty of folks have tried to change the industry with real products: the Segway, the Corbin Sparrow, etc, etc.
I agree. I'm getting tired of Nokia's concept phones, while their real phones haven't changed a bit in 10years. Probably the hype is even worse here in Finland.
Disclosure: I used to work at amazon.

I find it immaterial considering the easier thing to speed up is the number of HTTP requests on the site, and that has clearly gotten worse over the years, not better. I pushed heavily to get HTML cleaned up and valid (showing an easy 10-20% reduction with HTML alone), reduce the amount of javascript, etc. It simply wasn't a priority. To be fair, at the time I was there the priority was to grow as fast as possible and deal with profits later.
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The most important feature of exercise is that the participant is not doing something unhealthy in place of it. For example, slowly walking around the neighborhood over a period of two hours is awesome--even if it's low-impact. Slow, low impact exercise benefits everyone, even superstar athletes, even if all it does at that level is simply keep an athlete away from trouble. Same deal for people who are out of shape.

Proceeding along the same line of thought, even slow, low-impact exercise benefits participants in avoiding the reinforcement of unhealthy behavior. Not only is one avoiding a day of a bad habit, but they're helping to completely break the habit, as well.

Next, of course, is that any slow, low-impact exercise helps the body replace previous bad habits with new ones. Future exercise is easier to do. One cannot just break a habit; they must find something else to do in place of it.

What is exercise? One can say that it's an activity that isn't unhealthy, regardless of specific activity. If one can't call an activity "exercise", then very likely, not only is it not neutral, it's specifically unhealthy. Otherwise, it would be called exercise--walking, jogging, dancing, swimming, participating in team sports, strolling, mowing the lawn, working outside, etc. Activities that cannot be described as physical exercise should be replaced with those that can, and they don't have to be super strenuous. I think exercise has evolved to mean "running for twenty minutes a day, three times a week" when it can also be "five hours of any kind of bodily motion every single day."
Just to add to that: I imagine that the makers of the first pacemakers were doctors who were better in tune with the need than the patients. In fact, I'm pretty sure that doctor, not the patient, really counts as the target market. He's the one the diagnoses the problem (and understands the need); he's the one that actually orders the devices; he's the one that actually orders the devices. The patient generally only needs to know that he needs one, and that it's going to be installed.

In the same vein, I'll bet that if actual accountants were to design a piece of accounting software, it would probably rock pretty hard. (Assuming of course, that the accountants in question were also competent designers/developers.)
Your submissions are high quality and technical, the way I like them. I would ask you to continue to submit from your sources, especially since the stories about what googlers eat for breakfast are getting old....
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> And technology seems to be accelerating, but whether it is, or not, we should at least err on the side of caution, and have some formal way we integrate new things into society.

How big an error is acceptable?

It's unclear why the arguments in favor are any stronger today than they were, say, 1000 years ago. If we'd "err'd on the side of caution" then, where would we be?

What is the actual track record of folks who think that they should have a veto?
It's a target-rich environment. If you want to find a state with the greatest concentration of people who love to build odd things in their basements... visit Massachusetts.

I'm sure that if we transplanted all the scientists and engineers in MA to any other state we'd see at least the same number of incidents like this.
> It doesn't necessarily matter that he wasn't working with highly dangerous or toxic chemicals.

It does if you're arguing safety.

If you're not arguing safety, what is the rational basis for shutting the guy down? Other than, of course, he didn't have a permit to do safe science.
The page is designed to sell the full version of the article, not get you to play with Wufoo. This page is meant to funnel you to his paid content (or other articles which will funnel you to other paid content).
> How is that related to "stored hundreds of chemicals in his house" and "more than 1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes" ? This is hardly a "chemical set". It sits firmly in "WTF" category, especially if you are charged with protecting public safety.

I know folks who have about that in canned food. Are they a danger?
I really like the term "spelunking" for this.

Pick unexplored corners of toolkit you use, unfamiliar commands, try to learn a new language out in left field from what you already know, etc. Even if you don't use them directly, it's good exercise for your mind, and new ideas you encounter along the way will likely come in handy some day. You never know when a connection to something seemingly unrelated will click and lead to a breakthrough. (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06132002)
I didn't realize it was ordored in the first place.
I think the problem is that even if suggested idea is good and executable, usually these idea-people know little about nothing how to execute the idea. Typically they know nothing of industry, running a business, web, planning, making products, design and never nothing technical. Programmer should just figure out all the features, design and business plans while programming.

My advise is that you have to sell the idea to programmers same way you would sell the idea for investors. You have to do your homework, have some plans, and make clear what you expect from them and what you can bring to the table(eg. money, connections, expertise). You won't go to investors asking for millions with a idea written on a napkin.
I know a number of non-developers who have had an idea, pulled together a team with no funding and built pretty impressive products, which they've then used to raise funding.

The reason they pull this off is because they don't expect 50% just for having an idea. That's ridiculous. If you're not a developer, you better figure out what else you're providing and what you'll be doing so everyone feels like you're justifying your cut.

There are tons of other things to do, like raising capital, finding free office space, getting content, public relations, finding more team resources, etc. Most will rely on connections -- if you have no connections and you can't code, well, then it's going to be more difficult. Better hope you have a lot of charisma :)

(I'm a developer and I end up advising a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs)
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Agreed. There is no other way to possibly interpret his site's look as a statement on how he thinks you should present content sites that aim to have free content lead to paid content sales.

His audience is probably older, and therefore his text is large. He could use a little line-height, but I find the site to be readable and the text size is controllable with browser settings, so I don't see the problem.

When I go back to an article that I have already read, I find that the bolded parts help me find the section I was looking for.
Actually, my daily knife is a Santoku-style German knife whose compromises I like better for much of what I do. It was amazing how much better at knife work I got (and how much more confidence I had cooking!) when I was liberated from my constantly dull knives. :)
I found out in college that I made more friends when I went out of my way to introduce myself to people. Business works in a similar way.
Bah... Academia heaps prestige upon the person who hits it big early, and from then on they don't get the same kind of feedback.

Imagine at Google: "Of course, Sergey, that's an awesome idea". But if it's not then everyone is wasting a lot of time. Chances are it isn't. Sergey had a lot of bad/mediocre ideas before he came up with PageRank, and has had a lot of bad/mediocre ones since.

The point is that ideas are more a function of being at the right place at the right time and acting on it than they are about some particular genius.

A good analogy is Scrabble. When you hit an awesome word early on it can still result in a loss, b/c you keep trying too hard and over thinking things. Also, in life, like Scrabble, some of it has to do with the letters that happen to be in your tray.

This is part of the myth that genius is a phenomenon of the young. That is luck. True genius involves sweat and perseverance.
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A former coworker would go into the bin directory and read through every command at least once a year, if I remember the exacts correctly. He was also the best system admin I remember ever seeing.

I believe I have 80% of the java spec read by the same strategy from when I was a full time java programmer.
Perhaps because in the original (Sanskrit) implementation, Fib(10) = 89?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number
That's where the name came from, yes. No connection to Ze Frank otherwise.
I find a good ajax app to be far more usable than the other two.

Every time I start using Flash or Flex I run into annoying issues. The last one was that Firefox has a bug where it says "transferring data from yoursite.com" forever if your flash object does any network activity. Even after the network activity stops. The status bar doesn't return to normal again until a fresh page w/o flash network activity is loaded.

I have used a few 100% flash/flex apps and they are pretty annoying.

Even websites or blogs that load multiple youtube windows tend to crash Firefox way too frequently.

So I'm rooting for html/ajax.
I like the old one more...the old one is stronger and more memorable. Maybe too strong for some people. don't know.
Perhaps through the use of trade secrets.
Is e-mail on the way out?
I think what the article was saying is: Use common sense

And: People do not know what they want, or to be more precise, decisions of liking or not liking something are made seconds before the person becomes concious of their choice, so most of the people's desires are subconscious and what they say they like is simply a justification and not their true wants. (which has been proven through psychology research)

Of course both the advices are sound, but man what awful and utterly terrible writing.

The guy is patronising, his speech is in your face and he has no consideration whatsoever for my time. He babbles and rambles about useless stuff when I simply want to get to the point of what he is saying and move on.

So to give him a bit of his own medicine, was he actually writing for himself? Or was he writing for others?

The answer is rhetorical of course, he knows his stuff so there's no need to write what he knows unless it is aimed at others. So he is not writing about himself he is writing about others.

Now that he wrote for others was his writing mediocre?

Perhaps, I certainly think so, but was it how should I put it, popular? Well 64 comments from fellow hackers, loads more in his own blogg, probably loads of nutters linked to it.

So would he care to define mediocre?

I just do not know how anyone can read his blog to be honest.

Hello by the way, my very first comment, I'm Andrew, Nice to meet you all :)
If around 98% of your energy can be lost due to water resistance, small improvements in efficiency are key. TI was the difference between not literally being able to swim 50m straight (near hyperventilating like I ran a 100m dash) and 1 mile swims (albeit slow). As for why I posted about TI, it fits in the hacker ethos - doing something differently but better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic
Some beginner swimmers (including myself before TI) swim anaerobically (lactic acid produced, pain in muscles). Only with better technique will you be able to swim aerobically (laps).

"Olympic swimmers are able, at best, to convert only 9 percent of their energy into forward movement while swimming the front crawl or freestyle, the fastest and most efficient of the four competitive strokes. (On average, the butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke follow in speed and efficiency.) Most of the rest of us use as much as 98 percent of our energy overcoming water resistance. " (2)

"But the real killer for competitive swimmers is a third type of resistance that arises at the interface between air and water—wave drag. Moving along the surface of the water inevitably creates waves. Physically speaking, swimmers force a mass of water in front of them to rise up against gravity. This not only robs swimmers of energy, but it has a disproportionately greater effect the faster they go.

The problem is that wave drag increases as the cube of any increase in swimming speed. And it gets worse if a swimmer makes jerky or uneven movements, either bouncing in the water or moving from side to side, because this wastes still more energy making waves." (1)

(1) http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg15921455.600-s...

(2)
http://gymkhana.iitb.ac.in/~swimclub/swim4.html
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[3] One VC who read this essay wrote:

"We try to avoid companies that got bootstrapped with consulting. It creates very bad behaviors/instincts that are hard to erase from a company’s culture."

What are those?
We had a guy come into our animation studio to pitch his "next great startup" idea to us to get us involved. He refused to even give us an outline of the idea until we all signed NDAs, in fact mid-conversation another producer came in to drop off a message and the guy made him sign one too, "My lawyer would kill me if I didn't make everybody sign them".

The idea ended up being something extremely basic - literally something I could have coded up in an afternoon. After he left and took his buzzwords with him, it was my pleasure to assure everybody else that the guy was full of as much BS as it sounded.

Hope his lawyer was cheap, and whoever his "rockstar developer" is must be laughing his way to the bank.

Edit: I think part of the problem is born from people trying to attack niche markets without doing their research or understanding their users. This guys idea was basic, but still good - but he was pitching to the completely wrong crowd. I tried to gently convey that I thought maybe smaller studios would be looking for something like his product but studios of our size would likely recognize it as unecessary... alas, everybody thinks they have beautiful babies - and I guess you can't fault him for trying.
"This is part of the myth that genius is a phenomenon of the young. That is luck"

So then, luck is a phenomena of the young?

We were told of the "genius graph" in psychology in the lectures about evolutionary psychology. The explanation goes something like, we need to reproduce hence our ambition is more to do with getting a partner, hence why we do great works in early age, because once we have a partner we don't bother about it?

It clearly is a theory, but one can hardly argue with the statistics, except that there are " lies, lies and damn statistics"
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>Don't gather business requirements: hire domain experts.

Rather a nice quote, don't you think. I see this meaning several things: (1) I agree with it, as it's hard to create a solution when you don't understand the problem. (2) The more this statement is true, the weaker the argument for outsourcing (or hiring hordes to do what few should do). (3) It argues that real domain experts should be able to keep finding work if they've got any kind of social skills at all.

I'm sure there's more, but these came to mind after reading the articles. Of course, the acid test for this kind of stuff is whether human wave teams outperform experts in the marketplace consistently.
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Do internet tech startups do any marketing?
Hello,

I am a student in a Canadian university doing a research paper on how new internet companies are different from large corporate technology companies.

I have a very big interest in this and this is why I chose this topic. I was wondering if you can help me out with some things please.

-How do new internet companies market themselves? I know the biggest answer is through excellent product/service design and by creating buzz on blogs/community sites. How else do they INITIALLY market themselves?

-Have you EVER heard of an internet startup advertising? Also, have you seen any advertisements for facebook anywhere...not about its ad products, but just about the social network? Just curious, i think the answer is no, but just want to be positive.

-In the beginning, I believe these new companies have little/no money for REAL traditional marketing efforts...how about after they have acquired more money and have grown...from my knowledge, they eventually hire a "Community Evangelist" or a "PR Ninja".

I just want some discussion, not really looking for solid answers.

If some of you don't mind, I'll be emailing some of the Ycombinator funded startups to ask them questions of this sort and other similar things about startups.

If you are answering below and you work for one, if you don't mind mentioning it that would be great.

Thanks everyone,
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