skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you can image ugly things with distributed methods like this. A problem in this case is that it is difficult to draw the line between what is still legal and what not. Paying people to add your web-page to delicious is probably not illegal. Although it kind of fakes interest for a web-site that may not exist, it is only a kind of indirect spamming with little effect on single users - probably even less harmful than many SEO techniques. As you said, interesting topic.
No matter what, find the best surgeon you can. Even if it ends up costing you as much as $6-7000. It's a lot easier to do this with an experienced surgeon than to do it with a bargain one, especially since it's so much harder to fix mistakes than it is to not make mistakes in the first place.

Personally I couldn't consider it at all. I only have one problematic eye and another better than 20/20, so only having to deal with a single contact lens every day is great to me.

(Also it's worth noting that you should take breaks and set up your work environment so it's comfortable to you.)
PCWorld probably pays her more. This list easily could have gone on lifehacker, but I'd also say most of lifehacker's readers would already be familiar with the things on this list.
Nice. This whole "Rock star" thing looks to be here only to generate a lot of buzz. I bet they will change it in a week.
I like the old design better, it seemed cleaner and more elegant. Some sites (like the one this news point to) render horrible in IE7.
Also, I don't want to be a rockstar; I'd rather be an indie rock dude.
I don't think that would serve the audience/community of Hacker News well at all. If you're hiding stories that are popular, the bad content is still existing in the community and shaping the brand and therefore it's current and new audience.

The benefit of Hackers News is the /users/, one only has to look at Digg to see where that goes once you open the flood gates beyond the social geek core.
http://tinyurl.com/69nsln
Drama for your momma
More info: http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0557718/
What do people think of this? I don't know how much bandwidth I use but I'd bet it's well under 250GB (maybe 50-75GB). Although I think it's a slippery slope to get people used to tiered pricing, I think this is a pretty fair limit for the typical customer.
If we're going the animated route, what about Kyle from South Park?
http://twitter.com/sacca/statuses/897820817

A lot of these would make great web apps/sites too.
Is there something wrong with sex?
I didn't say that rich people don't have mortgages, but that that they wouldn't borrow against their house to finance purchases. There may be some tax advantage to having a mortgage, but it wouldn't make sense to borrow against one's house to buy stuff that was going to depreciate in value.

Where did you hear that Bill Gates has a mortgage on his house? It seems very unlikely. You can only deduct the interest on the first million of mortgage debt, so it wouldn't seem worth the trouble.

As for the handbag question, try giving a woman the choice of buying a new handbag or renting a used one, and see what she says.
cool, i did something similar on appengine for searching youtube videos of movie trailers, but i parse the rss for the first video.
Like passive (CSTN?) versus active matrix (TFT) laptop screens in the mid 90's. To most people, the TFT screen was not worth the additional cost. Those of us who valued its quality paid the premium. Now I think all laptops have TFT screens.
Ideally the value of Gina of PC World over some underpaid blogger at Lifehacker is that we assume she's actually reviewed each of these, weighed the results then wrote the article.
But I don't want to be a rock star.

I want to be a postrock star.
I've been learning Prototype, just because I'm working on code that already uses it.

Anyone have a Cliff's notes of the key differences between jQuery and Prototype?
"It's not edgy, it's already old and stale."

Thank you. "Rock star" and "guru" make me think of the clueless IT recruiter who's looking for people with JAVA and PERL skills or 10 years of Rails.
Blogging is not something to be late to, 99% of the blogs are not worth reading, including mine.
This is generous. I download plenty of things, as well as offsite backups of a multi G database every night, and MMO's, and I don't think I'll blow this. But I'm also a little worried I'll be surprised by how much I actually use.

I've never understood the comcast hating. I've been using their cable modems since the beginning and its easily been one of the best consumer experiences of my life.

Mosty likely they set it this high to frustrate the real hardcore users, the people using enough bandwidth to be their own ISP.
Print version:

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,150320/printable...
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Geez... I couldn't see that coming...
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I think FIOS is sweet. I got it installed in my apartment, but they aren't hooking it up yet. Can hardly wait.
I think its mostly set that low to disrupt potential competitors to Comcast like Netflix streaming movies and Hulu.
Wordpress makes sense for the same reasons (good) frameworks make sense: somebody's already written the code to provide blogging/publishing functionality, and they're experts at it. Plus, it is extensible w/ plugins and has numerous options for themes.

If the site needs something that's not part of the Wordpress core and there's no plugin, write some PHP and make it.

Granted, it's not quite as hardcore and writing a custom app, but why reinvent the wheel?
Some clever ideas in there which shouldn't be too hard to port to iPhone.

1. Port ADC winning entries to iPhone

2. ???? (sell on AppStore)

3. Profit!

The share your whiteboard app looks especially cool.

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=39
a secretary and an accountant are both usually good ideas. Usually businesses have the accountant part down pat (most people I know like this live so far below their means that being bad with money doesn't really matter) but often companies will ask this guy to do things that are better suited to the secretary. S/he should be designing the inventory system, if some thing s/he builds needs to go in the inventory system, have someone else deal with that part. 'uninteresting details' are better left to those who are good at dealing with 'uninteresting details'
I live in a house in a college town. There's 5 of us, all pretty heavy Internet users: I think I personally use more than my now 50GB per month cap. I'm not too happy about this--it's not like it's competitively priced.
And the movie industry wonders why they can't make money anymore?
Wow, that does sound sweet. Thanks for the review.
Oh, it's totally true that laser eye surgery has progressed faster and cheapened in price incredibly compared to other surgeries.

But it's a ton different from a web 2.0 startup. web 2.0 startups can (pretty much) handle as many customers as want their product. If a million people want to use reddit, it's better than if 100,000 people want to use reddit. On the other hand, if a million people a year want surgeries from Dr. Goodman, it isn't better for him than if, say, 100,000 people per year want surgeries from him since he can't do even that 100,000.

So, in web 2.0, everyone can use the best (with variance for preference). In medicine, if we ranked doctors from best to worst, some people would end up on the lower end of the spectrum. Those doctors on the lower end of the spectrum are more desperate for customers (since they don't have a line waiting) and are (therefore) more likely to qualify patients who are ill-suited.

Doctors don't scale and therefore not everyone can have the best. Just like any business, those at the bottom are more desperate for customers. In the web 2.0 world, that sometimes manifests itself as lying about features, people can try it out and then defect to a different service. Medicine doesn't provide such an easy situation.

/This is why I'm a web programmer and not a doctor ;-)
How to kill your job with a corporate blog
That's the topic of the SXSW panel, Can you take over your company's blog for promotion and fame.
or ignoring upmod altogether, it's faster

i rarely use point because it's an easily gamed metric

nowaday i filter news based on #comments (and title)

and only follow comments with <= 3 levels deep (5 if interesting)

and start searching /pg /paul /nickb if it's a >50+ comments
.. as opposed to what? I'm not sure I get you. You sound like you're arguing for a true downmod, to help hide it from /everyone/'s view.
I gained a few pounds when I moved from Austin to the valley and was getting a little soft in the middle. I stopped playing tennis and stopped cycling because I haven't met anyone out here who enjoys such things. But I recently took up running, as I already walk my dog every day and she doesn't mind going a little faster for a mile or two. And I've gone somewhat paleo in my eating habits: mostly raw vegetables and fruits, almost no processed grains and simple carbohydrates like breads and pastas, and lots of protein (I'm a vegetarian, so I've been eating more eggs and beans and nuts). I also got a Wii Fit, which didn't seem to have much impact on my weight, but I am getting more exercise (and my pushup and situp count has increased under the kind tutelage of Miyamoto). Anyway, my pants are fitting nicely again. I've gotta fix the buttons on a couple of pair, as they suffered under the cruel tyranny of the Fat Joe regime.

I'd read about the hundred pushup challenge on reddit (and the many other "I bet I could X 100 Y" challenges, which are equally inspiring), but I figured since I don't actually like doing pushups I'd content myself with the 20 or so that I can do now, and do a bit more balanced workouts a few times a week.
Very much so. Cuban's site is supposedly legitimate news and he is making decisions based on said legitimate news. If one were to do the above mentioned it would be like "pumping and dumping", albeit in the other direction.
Yes, by downmodding you help discourage people who post less HN-like stuff. I guess we're relying on PG to bring his methods up to date.
Because "subscribe" is a term not understood by anyone to mean receiving something regularly, of course.
Maybe you could clarify what you mean with an example.
Are you looking for data that already is geocoded? if so, what type of data are you looking for?
Or are you looking for ways to geo code data that you already have?

I think looking for data that may or may not exist is the wrong way to go about your mash-up. Hopefully you already know what you want to mash.
They're investing based on true information they find out about fraud, not spreading misinformation to manipulate the market.

"We're looking for companies that were built for fraud, for executives who are enriching themselves at shareholder expense, and for businesses whose behavior runs counter to their stated objectives or to the public interest."

"In certain instances, the majority partner of Sharesleuth.com is going to make personal investments based on information we uncover. Those investments will be fully disclosed, so that readers can evaluate any potential conflicts of interest.The reporters and editors , however, will maintain policies of not holding individual securities, and we will report Sharesleuth.com stories no differently than we have others throughout our careers. "
Product placement?
If there were multiple android markets as article proposes I would have to put my app to and collect money from all of them.

And in that case I'll just stick with the iPhone. Having a single store with millions of eyeballs is a good thing.

On a related note I am disappointed that google still does not offer adsense for mobile apps. There are several iPhone analytics/ads platofrms already and google is not one of them.
That looks like what it is (my lenses are of a different brand).
I realize this is just having fun, but I'm often reading this-or-that to the effect that startups are bad for your health. And, I just don't get it. Or rather, I suppose, I expect that anyone who thinks startups are bad for your health has never worked for corporate america.

Working a job was the worst thing I ever did for my health. Now that I'm at a startup, I get plenty of sleep and exercise and eat healthy, home-cooked vegetarian meals. And the stress involved in working for myself is so much less that that of working for a PHB... I could never go back.

In the last two years, I've lost 50 pounds. I recently completed my first century. I'm in the best shape of my adult life. I sincerely attribute all this to being my own boss and setting my own schedule. Am I really the only one who finds the startup life superior???
Super sweet stuff! At first it was minor modifications, and now the huges ones. I guess the next step is to make a new NES or SNES game from scratch? I envision a state-of-the-art high-level language compiler and customized development environment...
Might be. Just to put it in perspective, to hit the 250GB cap, you'd have to pull 809Kbps every second of a 30-day month. Considering that standard-definition Hulu is 480-700Kbps, you couldn't hit the cap no matter how much Hulu you watched. The 480p video on Hulu is encoded at 1Mbps peak H.264. Remember, that's 1Mbps peak. So, it is theoretically possible if you watched 480p Hulu for every second of every day that you could run into the cap.

Even if you share an internet connection with 3 other people, how much video can one watch? All four of you would each have to watch about 8 hours per day of Hulu to hit the cap. That's tough to do.

It's more against file-sharers. File-sharing is what really sucks bandwidth because people leave it on perpetually. It's also against people who should really be buying a fractional T1. At 809Kbps, you're using more than half a T1.

Plus, video is only going to become better compressed. H.264 is a great codec, but I'm sure we'll do better in another decade. So it isn't like it even hedges against higher definition video in the future.

edit: source of Hulu info: http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=blog&blog_id=4000000...
review? uhm.

to clarify, my point was that verizon will kill comcast with FIOS. and the more traffic shaping/caps/etc they put out the sooner it will happen.
I had both of my eyes corrected when I was 20 (8 years ago) when my dad offered to pay for half. I guess I was emboldened by the fact that he had his done two years before. It cost about $3000 at the time, and I went to a small clinic in Santa Rosa, CA (where I lived).

I was in and out in less than an hour. I'm sure technology has increased dramatically since then, but the one thing I recall being slightly uncomfortable/freaky was the eye slicer - literally a blade that sliced off the top layer eye to expose the important bits. I'm pretty sure you don't have to do that now.

I also recall the clinic I went to had a 3d imager of sorts - it was supposed to even out the irregularities of my eye, instead of just one blast. That's how I ended up with better than 20/20.

After a day, I was seeing better than I ever had before, and to this day my vision is great. Getting rid of the glasses was a huge confidence boost, made my long hours at the computer more comfortable, and has probably saved me a collective 3 months in fiddling with contacts (had I chosen that route) - Vision is my mac, I no longer have to think about it, it just works.

While I can't speak to the potential for risk, as you've researched the technology more recently than I have, my resounding advice would be to do it. Vision is your greatest asset - and while I know others who'd disagree, I'd argue that improving it is worth the small risk.

Besides, is putting a foreign object in your eye that you wash with chemicals of unknown safety (http://www.tennesseelawblog.com/2008/05/dangerous_contact_le...) EVERY DAY really that much safer than a one-time medical procedure successfully undertaken by hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide?
I'm guessing that it would be more a factor of 'bang for your buck'. That money is going to go a lot farther at a startup than at a company worth billions of dollars:

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

Plus, a weather app is kind of obvious, even if well done.
And anyway, math dorks are a disproportionate number of successful entrepreneurs.
It's on PC World because she got paid for it.

I'm all for top-notch information like this being spread to the greatest audience possible.
Here's a better suggestion to Comcast:

You want to prevent people from over-using. Fair enough. Put in the 250GB cap, but rather than making it a violation of TOS, do something more creative. You sell 6Mbps cable (as the standard). If someone goes over 250GB in a month, reduce their speed to 5Mbps. If they're under 250GB by 10%, up them back up. Tell them what they can do to lessen their bandwidth consumption (like turning of P2P when they aren't using it). This serves two purposes. First, it encourages people not to be wasteful of bandwidth. Second, when you lower speed, you lower the amount that someone can physically push through in a month.

Oh, and don't forget, if someone is paying for a higher speed connection from you, they deserve a proportionally higher cap. So an 18Mbps user would deserve a 750GB cap if a 6Mbps user gets a 250GB cap.

P2P or server hosting is really the only thing that will put you over the 250GB level - even high-quality Hulu won't push you over the limit. As such, people can control it as long as they remember to shut off their P2P programs. Bandwidth is a utility just like electricity. Leave the lights on 24/7 with inefficient bulbs and you'll pay for it.
i had it done 7 years ago. it was $4k, and absolutely worth it.

when i had it done, they told me:
1) there are no serious risks; no one has gone blind from it
2) in the worst case, your vision will return to normal over time

i was 19 at the time, and they convinced me that, since i would need reading glasses around age ~40, then was the best time to do it, to get as many glasses-free years as i could. yeah, it was a salesman-style line and i bought it, but i am glad i did -- the advice people are giving about waiting a few more years likely just means that you are getting less for your money.

i had 20/100 vision and am now 20/20. if yours is not so bad as 20/100, i can't say whether or not it's worth it.

i have some "starbursting" effects, but they are minor, and in any case, definitely a small price to pay.

oh, and that $4k included any touch-ups i may need in the future, if my vision does start to revert (i haven't needed any yet).
This really isn't that bad.

Consider my situation: I attend a research-intensive university, and I get 1 GB a DAY. And no, you don't get a warning, or throttled. You get shut off. Completely disconnected after your cap.

Connectivity U is the name of the provider, and I tried to ask them to provide me with additional bandwidth for an extra price. I'm hearing even students at dorms are getting the 1gb raised to 2gb a day.

I'll take 250GB a month any day over my petty 30. And I probably pay the same.
I think downmod button is necessary but in the right hands, People who care about the good content. I would say, people with more karma points can have have the downmod rights. This is not democracy per se since some users have more rights than other users but it is a free market. People who have worked more harder and earned more karma points tend to have more rights than early users on HN.
it's a slippery slope to get people used to tiered pricing

Yeah. I'm nervous too. I'm also curious. Services like electricity don't have unlimited pricing, but they don't gouge either. Anyone know exactly how that works? Is pricing regulated?
I guess we have differing definitions of blogging; I consider a blog as achieving the same goal of information transmission. From that perspective, your posting could be considered a blog post that has eliminated one click in route, but I can appreciate people having different perspectives of things, blogging being one among them.

And about up and down buttons, current social news system are still inefficient and primitive. Consider this scenario: HN has two non-overlapping audiences, one English-speaking and the other Japanese. Now consider every front-page being equal parts Japanese and equal parts English, with the same articles but in both language. Can you provide a good reason for having up/down buttons or not having any? Any group of a considerable size will find itself coalescing into mini pools of interest, no matter how narrowly you define the group interest (Hackerese, in this group's case). The most desirable scenario is probably one that has the right balance of topic diversity, excluding irrelevant (unless you are interested in learning Japanese) ones. In that case, we are talking about some form of personalized news...so yeah, up and down vote buttons in their current state are like the reply button when browsing using an email client.
While codecs might get better, 480p is small potatoes compared to 1080p.

Moving 100kB/sec (when adding both upstream and downstream) all the time is pretty easy. Seeding legal torrents on the "unlimited" line I signed up for, could easily exceed that. If you're doing VOIP, running a couple legal torrents, and watching HD content from unbox, etc....
Shouldn't the headline be "Competitor claims Microsoft breaks interoperability promise"? The author is not exactly a neutral observer...
I consider a blog as achieving the same goal of information transmission. From that perspective, your posting could be considered a blog post that has eliminated one click in route, but I can appreciate people having different perspectives of things, blogging being one among them.

Well, I have never stopped "transmitting information," there is just a change in my strategy.
HN: Brokerage for options trading?
Does anyone have ideas about a good online brokerage for options trading?

I am looking for a fast, low transaction fee brokerage (maybe even provide api?) for tradings options in high volume.
And most of them are unprofitable...Google doesn't create the next best thing they make the next best thing better.
Eye hacking, duh.
I still think a "Search" link at the bottom of the front page (or a note in the FAQ) would be good, whether it points to searchyc.com, "google site:news.ycombinator.com", etc. People probably only need to be told how to search once, but searching for how to search is a catch-22.
Also, searching via google doesn't always work well because there are redundant copies of most comments on both the relevant post and the commenter's thread page.
is there a 10% chance? that sounds high
If you're so worried about downmods early in the life of a submission, how about this:

Between P and P + H, where P is when the submission was Posted and H is some (constant?) number of hours, any downmods on the submission increment the downmod count but this has no effect whatsoever on the ranking. When we hit P + H, the downmods are made effective. An upmod on a story cancels a downmod.

Then if a story has lots of inappropriate early downmods but is actually interesting, it will get high on the front page and the mass of legitimate upmods will cancel the illegitimate downmods.

Showing the number of effective downmods (abs (- downmods upmods)) on a story might or might not be appropriate.
Was it worth it? For sure! No problem for few years except floating strings around my eyes (got used to it).

Would I do it again? Probably not. I still have memory of the corneal suction ring coming slowing into my eye. At least the surgery was short.
I'm not saying he's not bright and a bad guy, or that PHP sucks.

I've been reading stuff from him since '99 when I first started working with PHP. I've seen him talk. As far as I can tell, the only thing Rasmus ever really gets excited about is performance - he's been saying the same thing for years.
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