skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, okay, now I'm hating them more and more.

>Do you want to buy a new book for calc 2 if you take it with somebody besides me? Or buy a new book if you switch sections?

Well, my idea was to standardize on cheaper books, not that it should be a free-for-all (for your reason precisely). It does involve academic politics and you'd run into the problem with having a lack of books in some cases. This sucks on all sides.
Likewise here. GitHub has encouraged me to publish some side projects that otherwise would have lingered on my hard disk. Getting an email saying someone has started watching one of them is sure motivation to get my ass in gear and do some work on it. GitHub also worked splendidly for a recent freelance job.

Keep up the good work guys.
Bad compression, I know a better one:

while 1
output "\x00"

Just few bytes for infinite effects :)

I guess that given the context it's a shame I can't share this
article of mine: http://antirez.com/post/87 because it's in italian
language but maybe there are more people able to read italian than I hope here.
I've been working on this product (with some unrelated consulting on the side) for nearly a year. Just to head off some obvious comments, here are a few things to keep in mind:

Web browser support for the web-based product itself is fairly restricted. So no Safari, and no Opera. Yet.

I realize the product is a little general-purpose, and that makes a unique selling proposition more difficult to craft. I also realize that you kind folks on HN are not the target market.

Tags are in the works.

I'm trying to build a sustainable business, so I'm not interested in tips for attracting investors/buyers.

If you must post a comment along the lines of, "I don't see how this is any different than all the other wiki / notebook / word processor software out there," then please at least read some of the tour or try the demo first. If it's still not clear, then obviously I need to improve my explanation of the product.

So, what do you think? My main goal at this point is to improve traffic and build a larger customer base. I have a handful of paying customers now, but not nearly "enough". Part of the problem might be that convincing consumers (rather than businesses) to pay a recurring fee is a tough sell.

Anyway, thanks in advance.
How is this any different from printing out an article myself?
When Bigger isn't Better
"Going for Broke" must resonate deeply for anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit.It's really hard to get anywhere fast without taking 'unreasonable risk', like quitting a well paid job in a bad economy in order to pursue your dreams. I've had the balls to do that once. My entrepreneurial endeavor did not really succeed but I ended up learning so much along the way that I landed a 'fantastic' software engineering position. If you have the stomach for it 'going for broke' is a quick way of changing things around you.Think of it this way, you will either Win big or Fail fast.Either way you won't get bored.
"On how he feels about vegetarians: I respect them, just not in our restaurants…"

Ok, there is so much hatred in this line.

I am a vegetarian. I like good food, but most of my friends will most likely differ with regards to what they consider as "good food". But you see, I love those great conversations that can happen only over a dinner table, overlooking a busy bustling street full of new york, or by the window on the ocean front watching the sun move into the sea.

Some of us can not eat non-vegetarian food because we were brought up like that(I grew up in India). Some people think that it takes a lot of discipline and political liberalism to be a vegetarian. Fact is I cannot bring myself to swallow a piece of meat anymore than a regular American can bring herself to eat dog meat or grass hopper fries. I will throw up, it has nothing to do with conscious thought, its faar past that point.

Most of the time, when a bunch of people go to a dinner at a restaurant, I always tag along. I almost never have an opinion as to which place to go to, because I know I wont like the food anyway. But I tag along. And yes, I will ask this chef dude to pick out the meat, not out of dis-respect for what he does, but because I want to be with my friends, because I love conversations and sunsets.
If you are good and bring in capital, I think probably every country will give you a working permit. Just remember that as US citizen you will always to have to pay taxes in the US even if you work outside the US. (in addition to the taxes you pay in the country you are working in) :)
I can kind of see his point, but he's missing the boat if he's never had vegetarian sushi. Vegetables have long been an important part of sushi. I also find this to be a good litmus test for an itamae: the ones my fish-eating friends love the most, also make the best food without fish.

It's simply another constraint, and as much as we say we hate them, they're crucial to our work. I see "make me great food, with no meat" is not much different from "write an interrupt handler, in under 200 bytes" or "paint a fresco, on the ceiling".
That's when it comes in handy to have a U.S. passport.
You can buy chewing gum at drug stores if you show your passport. But remember to flush the public toilet when you are done, or you will be fined 500€.
The other issue present on the iPhone and not on most other smartphones is the lack of a removable battery. I suspect battery packs and power-related accessories are going to be pretty popular with the 3G iPhone.
Also, they don't really benefit from providing better customer service.
Maybe not if it's the local government: have it so that the federal government collects the taxes from the state governments, who collect taxes from the local governments. That way, you (as an individual and a business) only deal with your local government.
Regardless of merit, I like that it is javascript, free, and a focused demo. The idea that there are other ways to read a page is captivating. Losing page context happens with audio books as well.

Suggested Improvements:
* A hotspot animation of the body of text instead of a status bar
* could work well in low page real estate - a ticker-reader.
* clickable, or used to navigate search results
More Dreaming of Better User Interface
...where hiring was very definitely not based on ego and pride

Can you explain what exactly about the hiring process there what unique? In particular, how can we try to replicate it in our workplaces?
Point made and believe me I am usually one to question the relevancy of articles and topics to HN, but in this case the video impacted my perspective on the day, and therefore I supported it. The point about giving customers what they want was to show its relevancy, not the depth of the interview.
Branson unveils space tourism craft 'WhiteKnightTwo'
My initial reaction to Cuil was positive, but that's cause I kinda liked the interface and the first few searches I tried did really well. Lesson learned: Try at least 20, cause some were just horrendous.

That said, there is some promise, and the "related information" tab, while currently only semi-useful does show some promise. The challenge is that people are not going to have the patience for Cuil to be "at least as good as Google". That just doesn't work, and shouldn't
I read both parts and I can only conclude:

This guy is an "expert" in Java and never had a serious look at a non-blub language. To compare languages X and Y I'd rather have someone who has actual experience in both in X and Y rather than a Xer clueless about Y.
Indeed. From the article:

Lieutenant Colonel Cynthia Ryan of the US Civil Air Patrol, who was involved in the operation from the start, said: "I've been doing this search and rescue for 14 years. Fossett should have been found. It's not like we didn't have our eyes open. We found six other planes while we were looking for him. We're pretty good at what we do."

I like the clever citation of the fact that six (!) previous crashes have been missed by S&R personnel to argue that S&R efforts are robust and free of errors. Now that's some prime-time quality spin. This woman needs to get out of her CAP job and into politics where her skills can be properly appreciated.
Never, ever give up your US citizenship. It is one of the most valuable things in the world, inside or outside the United States. I don't think that will change for at least 25 years, due to inertia if nothing else.

If you don't speak Japanese then it isn't easy to get a job in Japan. But, anything is possible. I've talked with many people that moved to Japan and they often found it to be a cold and isolating place after they outgrew the "cute American boy" look and role. You can count on doing most stuff in Japanese in Japan. I have a friend that came to the US and learned a lot of English, and she works as a liaison between her Japanese coworkers and their foreign business partners. Other than that kind of job, everything is Japanese, and Japanese people are much less willing to try to speak to you in English than the natives of other countries in my experience. Anyway, Speaking Japanese is not hard but it takes a long time to read and write. If you save up some money you can take an intensive course for a year and you will be more than good for getting a job that doesn't require too much reading, assuming you have a US degree already.

Anyway, you can go anywhere and do anything. But, there are few places in the world where you can go and do anything easier than you can in the US. When I left, I thought it was great at first; in the end I was making plans to bring my new friends back here with me so they would have more opportunities and a fairer chance at a good life. Becoming a foreigner in another country doesn't increase your freedom whatsoever; you are staying in their country at their pleasure, and you have very little leverage in any situation.

Regardless of where you go, it really helps to have a lot of money relative to those around you. Stick around a little bit and make a nice pile of money to take with you, if you don't have one already.
Diigo does a pretty nice job of highlighting. I don't publish my highlights but a lot of other people do.

Socialbrowse might address something I find a bit annoying about Diigo: I don't care what most people think about an article, especially if I don't know the commentators. The highlights of others just clutters my page most of the time. Diigo allows you to turn page Highlights off but ALL Highlights are removed including my own...

Any Socialbrowse users out there?
The "4chan Fail" is finding too-frequent usage nowadays.
Bloom-filtered Britney
You should try PhotoReading ... the basic principle is that you 'scan' the pages once and then skim through the book in your mind, at your leisure, focusing on comprehension of the text.

Not that I ever learnt how to do this though, not even after I put a full 15 minutes of effort into it.

Concerning this kind of spead-reading; in my experience it's great for alpha-subjects (is that English? It means non-scientific in Dutch). I used to be able to read 400 page books at 40 (or 60, or 80, probably 80 because my memory is always exaggerated) seconds per page and still get enough out of it to pass the tests.
I didn't really feel the hatred that you feel. As a vegetarian as well, I have come to terms with the fact that I will not be able to have the same experience that the people I go out with will have, but it is selfish to believe that people should cater to your needs and beliefs. Vegetarianism is a choice I made and my friends should not have to sacrifice their time or happiness to cater to mine. I just got back from vacation and eating was actually not that enjoyable because almost every restaurant served mainly seafood so I was left to eat various side dishes (most not too healthy). Chang is targeting a certain market and group of people and he said himself that it is NY and there are many other specialty restaurants for people to eat. Enjoy all the things that go along with the meal and experience, and then get your fill after or someone else. To expect that every place cater to your beliefs or lifestyle is selfish and he said he respects vegetarians, what more could you want?
LG KF755 Secret the best phone
Don't bother reading this.

He doesn't know what he's talking about.

Why would proving deflate correct have the slightest effect on the sizes of files it can make?

It's very easy to compress a huge file full of zeros into a tiny one that uncompresses surprisingly large. The fact that it works is not a bug.

I'm trying to understand what he's talking about and I can't. It's probably best to ignore nonsense.
Basic formula for success in life: Hire people smarter and more competent than yourself to do your work for you.
Mostly strawmen. But worth glancing over towards the bottom to read someone claim that Java is more intuitive than Python.
I like it. There seems to be a lot of negativity here but I think it could have a lot of value, especially if you needed to wade through large volumes of text.
Rather than running away, why don't you try voting or running for a public office? Do something about your situation, don't try to get others to fix it for you (and yes, running to some 'better' country is exactly that).
'Kim Toulouse, a spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife, described the empty valleys being scoured for the millionaire adventurer as an aviation "graveyard".

"We're finding them left and right," he said. "The technology we have today is allowing us to find this stuff." These wrecks are years, sometimes decades old.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6987855.stm
Maybe allow submitters to add optional tags along with the url & title, and make those tags searchable using requests such as http://news.ycombinator.com?tag=[TAG] or similar.
Well, there's a difference between what gets submitted and what gets voted up. The original comment was "How is this Hacker News?".
Facebook Tries To Fight Off International Clones. Good Luck With That
How Skype gets around firewalls
I've shot a few weddings, for friends, and I don't think anyone who hasn't done it appreciates how difficult it is. Including scouting the location/attending the rehearsal, the day itself (which is about 10 hours non-stop concentration) and the post-processing, a single wedding can easily be 30-50 hours work. Not only is there the work itself, there's also the stress. How to you tell relatives not to lean into the aisle with their stupid cameraphones when you need to get the shot of the bride entering the church with her father so she can show it to her granddaughter one day? That's who I'm shooting for, not Facebook. How to you get all the losers with their cheap "prosumer" cameras to stop making the family look in different directions when you're trying to take the formals? What about the moron with his stupid Sony autofocus making red spots all over the white dress? I love photography and I love my friends but wedding photography is just not worth it unless you are making a huge pile of money. I'd rather shovel out the elephant house at the zoo.

Not only that, a professional wedding photographer has backups for all their kit (weddings are the definition of mission critical) and none of it's cheap - go and price up a portable Elinchrom setup, for example.
Darn. Wish I had heard about this sooner.
The best thing about Cuil is the layout of results. They feel like site thumbnails in a way and appreciate that.
Where did I say that people have to cater to my beliefs and lifestyle. I know language has limitations when it comes to communication. But I am really astounded as to how you came to this interpretation of what I said.

Let me write it again: My friends go to this place, I tag along because I want to be with my friends. Chef dude or friends dont have to be offended - because I am not demanding anything, I am saying please please don't mind me, and go ahed and have fun.
Could be that we're just jealous of how thoroughly the press covered their adequate-but-not-earth-shattering startup. ;)
I recommend How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. Everyone laughs when I recommend a book about how to read a book, but it definitely helped me a lot.
Vancouver is a beautiful city. I love it there.
GM Volt Gains a Cylinder, Loses a Turbo-charger
Twitter is twitter for Micro-anything
Y Combinator diaries - Week 7
Yeah, this sounds like a great idea:

No taxes of any kind on small businesses with 25 or fewer employees. No employer payroll tax. No state or local taxes. No taxes on earnings. Nada. The business owners will pay income taxes on their personal income they pay themselves, but not corporate earnings

I guess I will start a business that contracts my time out. This company will pay for my insurance, and I'll live in my office. (What can I say, sometimes I work too late to commute home. Which I don't actually have.) One of the perquisites for working for "jrock.us consulting" is that all meals are paid for by the company. The company has a super-fast DSL connection, an HDTV, an extensive array of XBox games, oh... and a Netflix subscription. It will also pay for my trips to conferences (and "conferences"), and if I recall correctly, the contract said the company would buy my girlfriend a diamond once a year!

And oh look, I didn't make any personal income this year! Damn unprofitable company...

My point is, if this is implemented, nobody will pay taxes anymore. That's why it's not been implemented.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fantirez...
Pretty easily.

The idea is to give a feel for what you feel about it and why. 160 characters is easily enough to do that. And you can convey a lot of emotion in the meantime:

http://www.blippr.com/movies/5182-Across-the-Universe/blips/...

If I'm looking to see if I'll like a movie or not, a review like that is perfect.
This was a tough one. I wanted to pull out the "how is this hacker news?" hammer, but then decided I want to be this guy, and probably wouldn't have heard about him unless someone posted here.
This is a breath of fresh air from a normally restrictive music distribution industry.
Reading for cellphones would _really_ be something.

Also, it might be better in cases where you want to be sure you read the whole text, rather then skimming, maybe learning? (obviously not always).
i completely agree that this was a great article, and in the last 5 minutes it took to read i could feel myself wanting to get my side project off the ground that much more -- thanks for the boost guys!
http://www.blippr.com/movies/861-Children-of-Men - 59 reviews give pretty good summury of what to expect.
Exactly. If you share that attitude then you will be able to tolerate Singaporean society. Still, it isn't an improvement over American society.
"When I read, I get hundreds of ideas and have hundreds of questions in my head and I usually either write them down or look up the references on the web. That takes time."

I have a pretty good method down now that might work for others. Whenever I'm reading a (non-fiction) book I put a dash in the margin next to any important point. I usually have two or three marks per page. Then after I'm done reading I go back and retype the sentences I marked into a MindMap. That way I can read the book at a reasonable speed since I'm not making marginalia, and after I'm done with the book it takes maybe three or four hours to transcribe into the MindMap.

Typing out the full text of the interesting parts of the books is relatively fast since I am a fast typist, only slightly longer than condensing it down into quick notes.

The MindMap itself has a few advantages. First, the hierarchical nature of the software provides built in context and allows me to mentally switch gears between the different layers of the argument very fast. Because of this I often am able to create new ideas that I wouldn't have been able to have otherwise. It also makes it very easy for me to incorporate the important parts of the book into other projects later. If someone says something that reminds me of a book on news.yc, I can find the relevant quote and have it cut-and-pasted into the comment field in less than a minute.

Also, because I organize all my startup ideas and other projects in MindMaps, I can easily drag and drop an entire book directly into that project if it is relevant. Then if I'm talking to someone about the project and they ask me a question, I can look up the answer almost instantly if I don't already know it offhand.
Well, if you saw bank or credit card activity that would be a big red flag that something fishy is going on.
On a related note, there's a Gzip quine (a program which produces itself as an output) floating about which I thought was quite impressive if you're into this sort of thing.
It's a decent TechCrunch headline. The idea isn't to be realistic or accurate. It's to portray a startup. And if you take a review site and mix it with Twitter, this is what you would get.
sounds too much like fleshlight
My point is that you can make a twitter bot to take microreviews for a given topic very easily, and people are already on twitter. e.g.

@blippr i find using the hooks in twitter to be the easiest way to produce a 140 character review. Already sufficient network effects FTL
did anyone else think that a "modest inheritance" was going to be a bit smaller than 10 million dollars? with that much money, its [relatively] easy to make more money -- granted to turn it into billions you have to be extremely savvy (and probably a little lucky) but when i started reading i thought this was more of a rags to riches story, not a really rich to absurdly wealthy story haha.
I guess the only way this file could have been created is recursively unless I am missing something.
or "hello world"
Or someone stole the dead guy's wallet and decided to try the credit card.
I'd remove "Pricing & signup" and change it to "Sign up for your free account today"...THEN during the sale process, upsell them "Your free account comes with ______, upgrade to one of our premium plans today and receive a ___% discount"

This way you won't drive people away w/o them at least trying your product to see if its for them
McCain Campaign Yanks 'Obama Love' Web Video
1) Facebook offered something significant to its users over MySpace. Personal networks are HUGE, and they are far more usable if you're Facebook's target audience. With a search engine, all you're doing is searching. Google's enough.

2) Anybody who expects a flawed piece of software to ever compete with Google needs to get out of this industry right now.

3) The article doesn't mention being acquired. It talks only about direct competition. Summize was the equivalent of Google in this scenario: it was the first one to do it well.

4) Techies only have influence when what they flock to is something that matters to users. Look at Linux. Techies LOVE Linux. But most people use Microsoft, because it's all they need.

5) Of course it is. The only way for Google to lose is if the masses boycott it or pull something similar. Otherwise, there's no incentive to switch.

I love being cynical against articles too, as much as anybody, but in this case the article did a good job of explaining things. You're just wasting time.
If the first time you have sex is bad, you're not doomed to bad sex for the rest of your life.

The topic of what makes a good teaching language is valid and deserves consideration, but we should be careful to give it too much weight. In the end, teaching someone how to program requires teaching them new concepts. They will be required to learn a new way of thinking. Any time you do that, you will screw up, confuse issues, and get frustrated. No programming language can prevent this completely.

As with sex, the more you're exposed to programming, the less important your first experience becomes.