skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comments are based on no particular expertise in this area. But, for what they are or are not worth:

How much time, effort, and expense went into developing your skills?

If it's per location, as he expands, so does your business. (And, described well, it can be present as a "win-win" business relationship. You're "invested" in his success. Though I don't mean giving him a break in return for anticipated future volume.)

P.S. I'm talking up front costs. No claw backs of those if/when locations close. Also, would a site license be transferable? That might depend on whether moving it requires your support.

noonespecial mentions support. I'll add liability (and limiting same). Make sure you define the terms.

I saw mention of LDAP or whatever. Sell him what he wants, in a timely fashion, now. Such things, if desired, can be future upgrades -- for a price. Even if you initiate: "You know, I'm continuing to work on the produce. Would you be interested in having this (let me show you how useful it is) feature?"

You may end up giving him breaks, and/or just being a decent business person. Just make sure those actions are on your terms and not coerced. You don't have to be a greedy bastard to want to maintain control over the situation.
Just noticed at X and T follow W and S in the alphabet too...
What should I add?
I have a pretty vast personal list of reasons why I do not, and shall not ever, have a facebook account.

Other than the most blatantly obvious and mundane reasons to have a facebook account - I would like to seriously hear why one should have one. The obvious being "I keep in touch with my friends" -- well, I keep in touch with my friends - most of whom have an account. Our relationships have never suffered from my not having an account.

I find the more insidious motives behind facebook and its founder to be hands down a showstopper from my perspective.

So, other than the ambiguous "keeping in touch/sharing photos" with friends, what would be a compelling reason to have an account.

The "everybody else has one" is rather flimsy.
You should generally speaking use something like AdWhirl, (which will also show iAd's when they're available), because it will show other adds when your iAds don't fill.
Break, but move fast.
Hi Danoc,

Absolutely, I think this is the main reason, you are free and no one expects you to earn money. :)

In my case, I am going to Silicon Valley for the summer, I think, just going away for 3 months would be much harder with a job.
At least in the US, I believe a majority of prison inmates get there initially by means of gang violence, and all it's related crimes such as drug dealing and robbery. Most of these people will tell you that it's simply a way of life, particularly true for people on the edge of society with few other means for advancement. So yes, I think most criminals do believe their actions are just.
Why? So they'll right themselves if they're capsized? If a ship (not a boat) capsizes you've got pretty serious problems already.

Besides, self-righting is a very different sort of problem when you're floating.
Reliable ZeroMQ Pub Sub
There is an episode of QI : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCAg5_vHFmI where in they discuss about this , and also a brief interview with the mathematician involved.
Two words: benevolent virus.
Is it what we haven't learned, or what we've forgotten? I was taught a lot of history in high school, but like most things that don't get recalled very often, I've forgotten a lot.

Is that really the problem? Perhaps we don't reference history enough in modern society.

On the other hand, I have a lot of knowledge of topics that didn't exist back in a time when people were supposedly more historically literate.
This article paints the worst possible picture. I took a look at the actual data on the NAEP website for the questions about Brown vs. Board of Education, which the article claims only 2% of students understand. In fact, a majority of students were able to answer basic questions about the case.

You can see the detailed question results at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/58246319/Brown

The summary is:

82% of test-takers correctly answered the "easy" multiple-choice question (identify the case from a quote) about Brown. 51% correctly answered the "medium" multiple-choice question (identify the case that Brown overturned).

The "hard" question was an essay question that asked "describe the conditions that this 1954 decision was designed to correct." The results broke out as:

47% Inappropriate
26% Partial
2% Complete
23% Omitted
3% Off task

That 2% Complete is the number the article quotes. Which I would describe as "2% of students had enough time, writing ability, and understanding of Brown v. Board of Education to complete a short-answer essay question under time constraints and to the full satisfaction of the scorer."
+ 1 Thanks for the comment. I think the way I am building it will help it sufficiently spread. But I guess everyone will have to wait and see about that..
I think the parentheses are just for grouping of the second command. The "<" means feed the stdout of the second command into the stdin of the first.

So what's happening here is the output of curl (a script) is being fed directly into a bash shell and executed. I think it's basically an awkward way of piping a command in reverse.
Great insight on human nature, or is it on argentinian human nature? Complains, complains, complains.
Did you figure out how to get this working? I tried 7-zip as well as winrar and both errored out
It's becoming more of a risk nowadays than when I was in school. Many schools now set up policies where the school can seize ownership of the student's original work. This is outrageous of course and just one more reason to stay out of college.

I've said this before; I'll bring it up once again since it's on topic here and may help someone exploring this thread. If I had my life to live again, the one thing I would change is start my business 4 years earlier and avoid the debt and wasted time and opportunity cost of going to college. That said, one good thing about it was that back in the old days schools didn't attempt to steal the original private work of their undergraduate students. With that situation having changed at some schools, there is even less reason to bother with the distraction and debt.
That's great, although I think you also need to describe how that is materially different from what we have now.
How much does running everything over HTTPS mitigate this cross-site stuff?
HN could look much better without adding anything. You could spend endless hours tweaking alignment, margins, rhythm and typography.

HN's design currently delivers a solid performance and its content is great. Looking a bit strange to passersby is probably a good thing, I don't think HN's focus is attracting new people, especially new people who are only attracted by the visual design.

I have no idea why the visual design of Stack Overflow is called horrible. It's ok, not awesome but certainly ok.
Hi Bugsy,

Thanks for your thoughts on this. Yes, I think the debt is a lot of an issue and also the Intellectual Property thing. You are absolutely right, one really has to be careful here.

Great to hear you would have started even earlier, much motivation for me! :)
In short - you violate a patent if you use, sell or offer to sell something that violates the patent.

So if you moved the company abroad (or were a non US entity in the first place) then you're fine, providing you never wanted to sell to US customers.

The issue is that in reality, few companies (wherever they are domiciled) want to exclude themselves from the US market place. Which despite being not that big in terms of people (Europe, China, India, SE Asia are individually all bigger) it is hugely significant in terms of advertising spend, technology adoption, and funding.
The article states that the machines are accurate to that tolerance, but not whether that level of precision is required.
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DSpace is pretty easy to get a basic setup going, though it can easily suck a lot of your time if you let it. OTOH, if you want something you can setup an let your clerical support run Greenstone DL (greenstone.org)is simpler, and you can migrate to Dspace later.
Looks like they haven't installed the cert chain properly, which is a bit embarrassing since it's easy to check.

CAcert Class 3 Root is the issuer.

Link: https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl/
Google Acquires SageTV
Great point. This does mean I'm missing potential signups + their potential referrals. The question is do I lose more than I would have with a homepage? I don't have enough data to tell but in the time before I wrote this post, the signups were exactly on par with when I did have a homepage.
Good Haskell source to read and learn from
The admin functionality IS in a separate app. The app just happens to be bundled with Django.

Take a look at the folder structure for the admin code in Django (contrib/admin). It has the same structure and conventions as any user app.
wasn't a startup, tweeting machine. The guy posted a 2 part writeup on his experience [1].

[1] http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-...

http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-...
Everything you've listed except for a "brand" (and the usage here seems pretty ill-defined) is very A/B testable. I'm not really sure how to refute that, but the idea that they aren't is ridiculous. Would that be effective and produce good results? Maybe not - that's a great discussion to have, but whether or not it's possible isn't.

Similarly, you're right - elements of a design do not exist in isolation. However, any design will have a series of choices that resulted in its various elements. Some choices are small/minor enough that there exist other elements that also work together with the whole, and so A/B testing them isn't some insult to the idea of design, but an at least plausible decision-making tactic.
Database Normalization - simplified
I'd like to see the stats on that.
I know how much a gram is.

A gram is a unit of weight. A teaspoon is a unit of volume. A teaspoon of some things might be 4 grams, but not your average grated nutmeg.

Now even if I generously took your large overestimation as fact, and by my sheer lack of luck some person ate a whole pie by themselves, the amount of nutmeg is below even the lower end of that range (5 to 15 grams, by the way, not 0.05 to 0.15 grams).

Finally, you conveniently ignored the last part of my previous post. There are many household substances that you can take undue amounts of. This does not make them more dangerous than most hard drugs. How many nutmeg deaths have there been recorded? How many hard drug deaths have there been recorded? I think number of deaths is a good enough metric of danger. I'll let the jury decide this one.

If you care about making a proper argument, at least use acetaminophen. That's a substance that has actually taken a significant number of lives. And for the record, it wasn't me who downvoted you.
If anyone can find a cad model, I'll machine one out of aluminum or print an SLA.
These vague assertions comes up in every single thread about hacking.

How would politicans get involved with hacking?

Firewalls? A hacking czar?

I doubt they can do anything besides make a few speeches and most of these hackers are in eastern europe or china.
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I think the parentheses are just for grouping of the second command. The "<" means feed the stdout of the second command into the stdin of the first.

Why are there two "<" then? It seems to be required; when I try something like "bash < (curl -s ...)" it fails with syntax error.
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Yeah that was a bit deceptive. A typical desktop CNC machine can easily do precisions in the thousands of an inch, or about 25 microns.
Would be OK for personal use, but for commercial production it looks like they've put a variety of legal protections on the shape/design of it:

http://www.gomboc-shop.com/app/urwfilter/license/do/action/S...

So much for not being able to patent math.
I get a warning on Firefox 5 too.
It is fairly standard for lifeboats to be self-righting. Google "self-righting boat" for examples. The typical shape is not a gömböc, though. A gömböc would self-right, even when completely under water.
The most likely way is regulation similar to HIPAA which mandates data controls for sensitive personal information and lays out penalties and procedures for disclosure.
People are signing up :)
Except most of the email ran on internal company systems. To email an external address took a lot of scripts to convert to x.500 or !-path addresses

In the early 90s I remember mailing copies of our /etc/hosts to other places we worked with and email often. There was no reliable central DNS
Despite the articles attempt not to it ends up talking about style more than anything else.

Design is about finding the solution to a problem. Once you find a solution you can then apply a style to that solution

Does design matter for startups?

Yes always

Does style matter?

Rarely but still sometimes
Brain-Inspired Image Recognition Software From Cortexica Allows Computers to See
HN and Stack Overflow I view as tools, utilities that don't require branding to draw in their audience. The brand is directly connected to the quality of content.

Now for the web as a whole, good design definitely makes a difference, even if it doesn't affect conversion rate. At that point, look at your content.
alright, never mind what I said before:

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html

Looks like the equivalent of the "read" example partway down the page. curl is actually being executed in a subshell.
Ask HN: Fresh grad interested in startup scene visiting the bay area
I'm wrapping up my MS in computer engineering and just happen to be heading to the west coast for some unrelated stuff.

I'll be in the bay area some time in between July 27 and June 6 for about a week.

Is there a good way to "get a feel" for the tech scene? I'd love to run in to a hackathon or something like that (probably ambitious). Is there a site that keeps track of bay area tech events?

My email is in my profile, too. Any advice is appreciated :)
nice to see I'm not the only one...
Life lessons from the very wealthy
If anything you should prefer Rails in this case. Django generates fewer files, but what if you want to customize the automatic stuff? I'm talking about the admin templates, etc. You end up needing to copy the files over anyway.

I'd say the two give you the same amount of framework code to start with. Rails just happens to let you see and fiddle with it right off the bat.

In any case, when I start a new project I don't want to worry about creating a bunch of files and remembering where to put them and doing all this setup. I just need some sane defaults, so that I can start making actual project-related decisions instead of fooling around with "how do I want to arrange my files this time?"
Are you really trying to tell me that you don't believe that the majority of BitTorrent traffic is pirated material? (I nver said all)
I think there are bigger issues to fix on HN:

- Everything is a table
- <FONT> everywhere
- URLs on self-posts doesn't convert into a link
- Un-upvote/downvote
Their intentions aren't to force people to take responsibility for poor security, and they never claimed otherwise: http://pastebin.com/HZtH523f
How fault tolerant are they? What if I made one to within 100 microns - I imagine it would still self-balance itself pretty well, and that specific shape would probably not be covered.
That might work if everything we needed were copyable.

Let's say you spend a year writing some program, and let me freely copy it, I spend a year on the farm, show you my potatoes and apples, and tell you you are free to copy them, too, as long as you leave my copies alone. Would you consider that a fair deal?
Maybe "horrible" is a little strong to talk about HN and SO. "Unappealing" would've been a better word. Stack Overflow especially barely has any styling.

By the way, in that section I was talking purely about visual design, i.e. styling, or "eye candy". I'm not debating the fact that both sites have great user experience (in fact that's specifically why I picked them as examples).
"Red" (https://github.com/dockimbel/Red) is an oss effort in this direction (but very young). Same author as Cheyenne.
Men and Women Start Businesses With Unique Styles
wow, you guys gave 3 examples. This is an exception, no the rule. My point still stands.

Now things like FTP, google, and the web are also used for piracy, but I'm not going to say that the majority of sites out there are for pirated materials.
This is what I expect will finally bring some sanity to the American system. After the Americans have the door slammed in their face on a few must-have new technologies because they've become an "intellectual property" banana republic, the public might start thinking about demanding some change.
The self-righting properties degrade in imprecise environments -- from the level of "100% mathematical certainty it can right itself" -- to something sort of absolute mathematical certainty. Not from self-righting to complete failure.

Dropping an eyelash on it, and using a standard kitchen table probably won't make it fail, and it will probably still work -- but it does impact it at the theoretical absolute level.
These domains are older than Microsoft.com. SCO.com was registered in 1987 while Microsoft.com wasn't registered until 91.
...you mean the ridiculous amount of people that misread my comments? I never said ALL and I never equated it to piracy.

To me, because everyone is so jumpy about it..it means I'm probably correct....just sayin
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Focus is really important problem he pointed out that Indian startups face as A lot of opportunities you see once you enter the arena of big untapped market.
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Or maybe part of an elaborate plot by evil intergalactic entities in league with the Illuminati to conquer the world?
One more model: SAAS. You can have open source product that is free to download and use but offer hosted version, paid, for those who prefer someone else to have the hassle of installation and configuration.
Of course you don't need to be the creator of the open source software to do this.
Yeah, that kind of argument makes me crazy.

I regularly hear designers bitch about Linux, citing the command line as an example of terrible UI. That's fucking wrong. The Unix command line ecosystem has a fantastically good UI for its audience. (Grep is my homeboy.) It's just that the audience isn't your average design school student.

There's no such thing as "good design". There's only good design for your audience. What designers often call "good design" is really "good design for lightweight consumer products".
There are a lot of cases where design does not matter. For example, if your software works without a GUI or even no user interface whatsoever.

Now of course you could argue that even a programming language is "designed", but that's clearly a different kind of design. You have to draw the line somewhere, otherwise "design" can pretty much be anything you want.
I sincerely hope the public cries to "DO SOMETHINGGG!!!!!11" don't result more aggressive surveillance, control and restrictions on the people and instead result in a set of best practices to follow by companies.
Or www.mopub.com - that's what we use - really good stuff, I have been meaning to do a write-up for HN.
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I find http://www.dailychanges.com/top-sites/ interesting
there was no domain sharks back then

Ah, the good ol'days.
I'm not suggesting there is no racism, although I do think back has been broken and dwelling on cases where racism remains is counterproductive. The problem now is more within these communities than without.

My main point is that presuming racism where there is none is as bad as racism itself - because it IS racism and it perpetuates racism. If you say I'm racist because I'm white and I don't think an 11 year old black child is fit to be my team leader, then you are the racist.
using only the second "<" would result in bash being called with a argument like "/dev/fd/N", which is where the output of the subshell is coming from.

The first "<" redirects the output of this file descriptor into the stdin of bash.

So both are needed, but you could just do it with a pipe :/
Well ok, you could A/B test replacing Arial by Helvetica, but it would be pretty meaningless and probably not make any difference.
That doesn't mean that there is no difference. Maybe on a subconscious level, people would start to perceive your site and relate to your brand differently.

And maybe changing the font, and then the background separately would not make a difference, but changing both at the same time would make an impact. All those things are A/B testable in theory, but I don't think it would be very effective.
I think it comes back to active daily use. The author mentions revenue spikes coinciding with installs, so I think its reasonable to conclude that users used the app after they installed and did not return again.
Hacker News’s visual design is just “boring” (though the lines of text that stretch all the way to the edge of wide windows with no space in between them are a pretty bad feature that could be trivially fixed), but I think “horrible” is an entirely fair description of Stack Overflow’s design. It’s claustrophobic and cluttered to the point of being nearly unreadable. Fortunately, the main use of Stack Overflow is arriving from Google, and the question and answer pages – after you scroll past the half-screen of cluttered headers – aren’t too unreasonable.
you might call me crazy, but I get physically excited reading some of that code :D
Here's something interesting: Tupper's self referential plot :-)

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TuppersSelf-ReferentialFormula....
Firstly, I didn't suggest Mexico was part of South America. Secondly, I'm not trying to shoehorn South America under a single mental schema. I'm actually trying to do the opposite, i.e. figure out what South America really is. Doesn't seem I can do that based on news, articles, whatever, and rather have to tour the place myself to come to a conclusion.
<() is a new way to do I/O redirection, by which I mean it was introduced by I think the Korn shell in the early 1990s, which explains why you haven't heard of it. Also it isn't implementable on all Unixes.

The way it works is that if you say

foo <(bar) -o >(baz) <(quuz)

foo sees them as command-line arguments, which might look like

foo /dev/fd/3 -o /dev/fd/4 /dev/fd/5

and if it is clever enough to treat them as filenames and open them, then it will get the stdout of bar, the stdin of baz, and the stdout of quux, respectively.

The way this works is that the shell opens pipes to the other command lines first, then generates filenames for them.

I did not know that you could use it with other I/O redirections such as <!

As a bonus, the <() syntax means you can pipe even to and from commands that don't read from stdin or stdout. They must not, however, depend on the ability to seek.

My most common use for this is nonlinear pipe flow, e.g.

diff -u <(sort -u file1) <(sort -u file2)

Hope this helps!
Yes, you are right. Given this consideration, I think maybe the surface needs to be configurable? Not sure but it will be pretty complicated to dynamically adjust to changing density.
Those who took out loans and spent them on macbooks.