skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I should state that by CEO, I meant CEOs of large, established companies that were built by other people. I was thinking of Fortune 500 CEOs, not startup or small-business CEOs. In my mind were smooth-running companies so massive that advancement within the management and executive ranks has more to do with political play than anything else. These guys, in practice, can be described as both CEOs and celebrities; they're the celebs of the business world.
I know http://www.searchyc.com et al exist, but still do not understand why HN does not have its own search facility.
The reason firms exist at all is that there are transaction costs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_cost

Not to mention the principal/agent problem where people working independently have different incentives than people who are part of the firm.

I had to explain this to my boss the last time I had a full time job. He came up with the brilliant idea of using only contractors. The sad thing is that he majored in economics.
So no partial credit? At all?
Because I have a lot of things to do and don't have infinite time. Implementing search right is not trivial.
It's always seemed odd to me that the link to the comments for any article is small text and light gray, especially since the discussions are usually the real reason I visit the site.

Visually, the comments link should be on par with the article link. IMO
Classifying items into a straight Good/Bad category makes for good article baiting. (Coffee: Is it Bad for You?)

Coffee, like just about everything else on this planet, has good and bad characteristics. One will find that the negative effects of anything that impacts the body will occur at either extreme of the consumption range. (No consumption or Over-Consumption)

As with anything, moderation is the key to avoiding most side-effects. Granted, articles instructing you to moderate consumption are not nearly as provocative.
I think they plan on lowering it. From the FAQ:

"This is an experimental feature so there is currently a fairly high karma threshold for submitting new polls."
I don't mean to diminish it's achievement, it is just that it does not play a big role in my life. I use Open Office maybe 20 times a year to write some business letters. That's it.
Use google custom search?
While we're sharing random anecdotes: my last PC (which I inexpertly built, fairly cheaply) lasted about 5 years of heavy use. While waiting for a new one, I used an old Dell that was lying around which is at least 8 years old, and worked fine. I've seen several people using similarly old PCs.
It's too bad that most of the benzos will be off-patent by the time these kids are in college. Otherwise, I'd move my entire net worth into pharma stocks.

There's a paradox one notices when comparing elite college admissions in 1993 vs. 2008. Admissions to top colleges are much harder to attain, but actually a lot less meaningful. The noise in the admissions process seems to have quintupled, due in part to the (often successful) efforts of wealthy parents to beat the system, and the relative inability of admissions offices to detect and counter this trend.

Top colleges are 2-3 times more selective in 2008, with acceptance rates at the Ivies down into the single digits. At the same time, virtually every professor at an elite college will tell you that admitted students are noticeably worse each year, while professors at state schools notice the students getting much better.

I blame the Common Application, which has made it easier to apply to 10+ schools, making the process noisier and, consequently, creating a lot of anxiety on the part of students who previously had a lock on at least one top school (and moreso, on the part of their parents). This led to a positive feedback loop; it bolstered the admissions-gaming industry, which made the process even noisier, which led to more anxiety... ad nauseum.
Lenovo has the X300 (13" widescreen) which is a bit pricey. They're also releasing soon the X200 (12" widescreen), which I don't know the price of. I've had good luck with ThinkPads in the past (X22, 240), so I may wait for the X200, but am thinking strongly about the IdeaPad U110.

I've also had good luck with Fujitsu Lifebooks, and might give them another shot.
I don't really know why you'd want to search HN or an equivalent site, they're not meant for searching, they're meant for browsing
I don't mind blogs and HN comments, but the blogs are not always very informative (might be written by the CEO, or by the system admin of the startup). Techcrunch is always similar, you know what you get, and it is written by professional journalists (for the most part). It is enough to decide if I want to go on reading the blog.
Sure, standard machine learning stuff.

But in order to be a reliable predictor, I think it would be necessary to predict the economy as well. The same startup that would be successful during the bubble would not be so successful after it popped. In other words, I don't think they have enough inputs to be reliable predictors.

On the other hand, perhaps they don't need to be reliable absolute predictors. The VC's question is basically which should be funded. This might be able to give a rough ordering, which is plenty valuable.
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The power of #7 continues to amaze me. I've had times where I scan a page for something I know is there, and after a minute I realize I was skipping over it because it looked like an ad, completely subconsciously
#5 is a flaw in IE, not a web design mistake.

Edit (since my original brusqueness earned a downvote):

The flaw is that IE6 cannot resize text sized in pixels. IE7 fixed this with its new zoom feature, but left the old, broken resize method untouched. Every other modern browser can resize pixel-sized text.

I personally prefer sizing text in pixels because browsers handle ems and percents differently. Usually it works out fine, but it's really annoying to futz with fractions of an em because one browser rounded it up while others rounded it down.

Pixels also make the translation from mockups to code a tad easier.
Private preschool admissions are based primarily on the socioeconomic status of the parents, as detected during the interview. The child simply has to sit still and look pretty.
ThinkPad X series are more robust the Macbook from my experience, we use them on the field for on-site data processing. Conditions are harsh, basically the is no care but heat and bumps but the ThinkPads just keep going. I was forced to switch to a Macbook from an X60 but still missing it.
I work on two laptops, depending on the project: a MacBook Pro, and an X-series ThinkPad. Both are great. Granted, I'd be on the MBP all the time if it weren't for historical reasons, but I have no complaints at all about the ThinkPad. If you don't want to use a Mac, it's the best alternative I know of.

I had to use someone else's VAIO for a few hours recently, and it sucked. The keyboard is lousy, and has a horrible layout if you're used to Fn and Ctrl keys in the places where Apple and IBM (Lenovo) put them (and you don't properly swap Caps Lock and Ctrl). I ended up plugging in an external keyboard to be able to get anything done. In addition, the whole thing looked and felt gimmicky.
Are there really suburbs in America without sidewalks?
The dragon book is very old fashioned. (At least from an academic point of view.)
Here's Why Some HN Users don't Like TechCrunch Links
Everyone here already reads TechCrunch. Its right next to my HN feed in Google Reader. So there's no need to continually post TC links here.

HN is for me to discover those deep links that I would have missed otherwise.
Just curious, can I ask where?

(I've been at Sony for nearly nine years and almost all laptops I've seen have been VAIOs).
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Ok, sure, but not everyone reads TC all the time. And some of us just whip through it, and rely on HN to indicate which ones are really worth a second look. I'm pretty negative about certain types of content here, but TC isn't that bad. Hopefully people will just not upvote them unless they really stand out.
Most don't, I'd guess. The street I grew up on didn't have them.
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We have the same build quality problems. So we just buy spares. MacBooks are dirt cheap!
Dell:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=197364

The customer service is what convinced me that I'd get another one in the future. I paid a bit extra for it, but then again, this computer is my business, so it makes sense.
No kidding. Everytime I DID manage to grab tickets, the Flyers finished out the series before the game I had tickets to.
How to Be a Public Company CEO
Dell XPS M1330 preloaded with Ubuntu. No hassles of installation at least.
In any case whatever notebook you choose, do a bit of research to find out that the wireless card works properly under linux. I have had decent experience with Intel's wifi cards since drivers are open source and hence included in most distros. Wifi is the number one annoyance on most notebooks.

edit : I wud advice to look for "Centrino" branded stuff. That usually works out of the box. But YMMV.
Work provides me with a Thinkpad T60 and I couldn't be happier with it. I would never buy a different notebook again, not even a Macbook.
As a kid growing up in the nineties, the city seems the inherently obvious place for anyone who enjoys life to live. City-dwellers are flanked on all ends by some of the highest forms of functional art (architecture), not to mention the huge supply of dedicated people who spend waking hours forging enjoyment out of hard work. Cities seem to encapsulate all the qualities of youth. Unfortunately, residence in a prominent city seems to be growing more unattainable by the minute. This should not be the case.

Cities, even during periods of prominent trendiness, should have cheap domiciles on account of the various methods of bulk housing construction used. Things like rent control provide a scathing impediment to the expansion and cost effectiveness of urban areas. Rent control, for example, is a hugely negative incentive for an entrepreneur to throw up a high rise. For my sake, I wish this were not the case, but I know I'll make it anyway.
I've only ever used Thinkpads (from T20 to T61) and now am on MBP. The TPs are definitely built sturdier. I used to carry them in a very flimsy backpack and all of the TPs weathered that fine. That being said, after I bought my MBP, I bought a nice backpack to protect it. And obviously, the difference is in the software.

I think the major diff between a TP and MBP is like the diff between a Jeep Wrangler and a Porsche. Just depends on what you need it for and your OS preferences.
Indeed — and it's almost irrelevant now anyway as IE6 is dying off.
How often do you buy tickets to said events through a reseller?
Don't you like women with beards?
I've heard really scary things concerning Sony and the applicability of *nix drivers. I'd be really weary about buying a Vaio.
The solution to this, I think, lies in niche sites--this is why over the next few years small sites for specific audiences will become more and more important. Instead of one Youtube, we'll have dozens of video sites catering to specific niches. The same thing goes for news aggregators. As people learn to distrust the wisdom of the crowds, the Long Tail will become even more important as the thousands of smaller sites become more important than the few large ones.
Another suggestion: add a line to the guidelines asking users to make polls rather than "vote up if" submissions, and maybe add a link to the guidelines on the submit page,

May not make a huge difference, but better informed users and less dead links have to be a good thing.
I remember BBSes pretty clearly; I can't actually remember the first time I got on the Internet
I had an Inspiron 1420 that I believe packs the same graphics card as the M1330 currently ships with and had a pretty awful experience trying to get Linux (or Windows, for that matter) to drive it well. It was very choppy. I believe it was an 8400M GS.
You/we wish...
No, I've seen plenty of sites that go to great effort to choose a font size (something that should be a user preference / fluid layout).

It is very aggravating on large displays, or for people with imperfect vision.
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The problem with losing a job in high-end American manufacturing [1] is that you often cannot get another such job without, at the very least, moving your family across the country. There used to be half a dozen HP fabs in California. I believe there may still be one of them left, but I'm not even sure of that.

And, mind you, I'm not disagreeing with you. I'd certainly rather be an unemployed engineer than a fully employed minimum-wage day laborer. And, if that were the choice, engineering schools would all be full of people. But what we're trying to explain is why young people choose to pursue legal or medical [2] or business education instead of engineering. That's not necessarily a rational choice. Young people make that choice based on cultural cues. And the culture of U.S. manufacturing has been gloomy for years, not without reason -- the overvalued dollar was a disaster for domestic manufacturing.

[1] As opposed to sweatshop manufacturing, which I know nothing about. For all I know there's plenty of work as sweated labor. But that doesn't exactly encourage folks to go out and get those advanced degrees.

[2] Here it's worth noting that, thanks to their effective political organization, doctors and lawyers have licensing requirements that protect them from foreign competition. That's why everyone's free to talk about outsourcing medical tasks to India over the network, but nobody ever talks about the obvious possibility of importing Indian doctors to serve in roles -- like primary care -- that are suffering from shortages in the USA. For some reason that H1B-visa solution is only ever applied to engineers... do you think that people choosing college majors (and their parents) don't notice that and draw conclusions from it?

Now, I don't think this is as big a problem, in reality, as I just made it sound. Engineering is a much safer career than people think, and medicine and law are much more tedious and problematic than people realize. But that's not reflected in the relative reputations of the fields.
Restrictions on new construction to increase rents count as villainous in my book.
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Yahoo Board Vote 'Miscounted':Shareholder approval of Yahoo board plunges on vote recount
This article doesn't mention a Presidential brief; anybody have a link to what this post's title is talking about?
We looked in to this. Ticketmaster buys all their competitors. Seriously - the only "real" competitor they have is Livenation.
For baseball games pretty much every time (no one sells out besides Cubs/Redsox). Hockey and NFL 50/50. NBA 75/25 (they don't sell out much either).
Let me introduce you to bookmarklets, specifically the "zap" bookmarklets:

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
My coworkers used to use COLOURlovers but now swear by kuler http://kuler.adobe.com/
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the other kind of "Hackers"
Umm, that must be another maxklein. I don't recall using the site, as I'm not even located in the U.S and it would not be relevant to me...
At some point, someone will have to post eviction notices, and the sheriff will have to show up and throw someone's stuff out on the sidewalk.
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Yang should really be more careful about declaring 'Overwhelming support' of Yahoo! shareholders after preliminary results are announced. At least wait until the votes are verified. Propriety is rarely as simple as propriety, a large part of it is the appearance of propriety. Now you have shareholders who are angry AND who feel that there may be some issues of impropriety with respect to corporate governance.
I have beat up my Macbook over the last 2 years - I carried it back and forth to work for a year. I also have dropped it quite a few times.

So far so good for me - no problems. Perhaps wait a few months for the aluminum macbooks?
"Hyper-advertising"?

Scary.
Why is specifying a font size wrong?
the trick is to use a combination of colourlovers and kuler. CL has better search and better pallettes but its much simpler to tweak them in kuler.
It's the volume I have a problem with, not the source. 5 of the top 30 stories right now are TC and more than 11 have been posted in the last 24 hours.
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I think that attending meetings and writing memos are work. Startups do eventually grow beyond the startup phase, and nobody has figured out a better way to manage large companies than bureaucracy. Middle managers, memos, interminable meetings...
But "real" Google's just as good for that:
http://www.google.com/search?q=globalrev+site://news.ycombin...

I think it's reasonable to assume on a "Hacker News" site that the clientele will be up to figuring that out.
Which is a viable business model..."There's a sucker born every minute" or something like that.
Through the end of this year Live Nation tickets are still sold through Ticketmaster. I'm hoping that next year we see some effect on Ticketmaster.

Front Gate is another growing competitor.
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In the mean time, can't you set up search powered by searchyc.com?

(At present I use Xichekolas' HN Toolkit GM script that does this.)
can't go wrong with this mate:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xps...
I think that if the article's "self-esteem/diversity education = bad" thesis were valid, we'd see problems across the board, but we still seem to graduate plenty of lawyers and doctors, both degrees that require self-discipline, dedication, etc...

As someone else noted here, the problem probably has no one cause, but numerous interrelated ones. I have a couple of suggestions to add to the list:

a.) Standardized testing -- studies have shown that extrinsic rewards tends to dampen one's intrinsic desire to do something. (In the study, children given a reward for playing with blocks lost interest in them sooner than students who weren't rewarded.) I can't help but wonder whether increased focus on testing -- and the uninspired teaching that goes along with it -- is undermining whatever sense of curiosity and wonder students might have about various subjects. Now, one might note that other cultures (Japan, for example) place even greater weight on testing than we do, but they're more culturally homogeneous and may view science with more esteem. And in poorer countries, an engineering degree might be one of the few paths into the middle class.

b.) The nerd factor -- Paul Graham has touched on this. It's always been uncool to be a nerd or to be good at school. I was a loner who had few friends in high school. Has this cultural pressure intensified?

c.) Distraction -- hell, I barely have the attention span to skim the newspaper these days. I can't imagine what it must be like with added hormonal turbulence. My cousins (in high school) visited recently and they were on the computer checking facebook every 15 minutes. Is it simply becoming harder to muster the long spans of attention it takes to solve a complicated math problem? Because,

d.) Math is the cornerstone. If we made math fun and interesting, interest in science would follow naturally. It saddens me that we seem incapable of doing this.
"It is very aggravating on large displays, or for people with imperfect vision"
I have a coworker with the Dell 1420 laptop that's preloaded with Ubuntu, and he hasn't had a lick of trouble. I also installed Xubuntu on my Inspiron 1750 multimedia laptop, and once I hooked it up to my router, the Hardware Drivers utility downloaded scripts and everything basically got installed for me.
This is why $DEITY invented Lucene/Solr, Sphinx, etc.
BrowseRank: Ranking pages by how people use them
The HP Mini Note is a pretty awesome little machine. Decent horsepower for every day needs. Small form factor. Solid build with an aluminum case. High 1280 x 768 resolution display. Easily drop in a larger battery. Has Linux installed out of the box (though I would swap out for an Ubuntu spin off, Xubuntu maybe).

Plut it's cheap. Search YouTube for some nice reviews and comparisons.

http://www.buy.com/prod/hp-mini-note-2133-pc-via-c7-m-ulv-1-...
Stateless computing: the future of the cloud?
Tackling information overload, 10 million documents at a time
Ask YC: YC alternatives ?
What are the YC alternatives one can go for?
Are you full time, or part-time? How much time do you estimate you'll be putting into it per week once its up and running?
The virtue of sustainability...what does sustainable mean? Stable, static. Progress means dynamic and changing, it means being forced to adapt when things have changed in a direction you didn't plan.

Okay, what about the society? Chromosomes can't be changed. You can't change your race or gender or who your parents were, so how can you judge someone based on those things? Scientific progress is made by human minds. Arguing about getting more women/blacks/jews/gays/who-ever into a field isn't helpful. It doesn't advance science, it turns it into a meta-discussion about people who do science.

I see a lot of meaning in both, and I haven't even started reading the article yet (I'll do it after I grab a coffee.)

He's talking like a mathematics professor who states some of the steps of his proof and expects the students to be smart enough to fill in the blanks and see his logic :-P
This phenomenon already exists in Japan and other Asian countries.
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The developers, however, are very much pushing this toward "young" (read: single, or married without children) people. I don't think we'll see an influx of families/children into the downtown area

A side effect of having singles or newly married folks is children. Families with children don't so much "influx" into new neighbourhoods like that as "spawn" there naturally.
I have a macbook and a thinkpad (t61p). The thinkpad certainly feels much sturdier.

I use the macbook to screw around online, read mail, etc on occasion. But when I go to do some work, it's the thinkpad that comes with me.

That being said, I am primarily a mac user at home; but on a macpro, not a laptop.