skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate the support. We're doing our best to get it out there and see how people actually use it. We created it because we think it's important, simple as that. So we definitely plan on sticking around.
I suppose it depends on the size of the company, but I can't imagine any HR person at a co with >20 ee's that could identify someone based on their writing style unless it was particularly idiosyncratic.
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Anybody wants to work on this with me?
I would like to learn something from this challenge. Having a partner would help. I am located at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. We can try to get along through emails or skype.
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A forum was recently launched at work which allows anonymous posts and comments. It has been both good and bad.

The good:
Open discussions about sensitive topics with fear being singled out. A good example of this is that someone posted about the company doing more to accommodate individuals who are transgender. Obviously, the person who posted it wanted to speak out with fear of stigmas attached. Also, it has been great for openly discussing what we think the company is doing wrong.

The bad:
There are some bad seeds that have been very negative about the company, how we work, what we focus on, what tools we use, etc. This in and of itself is not bad, but it isn't always a discussion. Instead, it is more in line with trolling.

Overall, it has been good for us, but we are constantly looking at how to make it better. Like how to promote the good aspects while trying to discourage the bad.
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They were acquired in 2009 by MOL[1], an online points and payments system. MOL already has gaming infrastructure and points mechanisms built out (as well as a Friendster-branded internet cafe and licensable cafe management software[2]) - this looks like a push to gain traction for game-related payments in the US market, already popular in much of Asia. If they can start to eat away at Zynga's share, it makes a world of sense.

[1] http://global.mol.com/global/portal/en/Default.aspx
[2]http://www.molglobal.net/?page_id=1325
Interestingly enough, I had the opposite experience last year on the same platform (Firefox on Linux). I found that amongst Open Office, Google Docs and Office Live, the latter maintained the best fidelity towards the original ppt. (Not too surprising since they know the format)

I was also able to do the presentation, streaming it from Office Live, without much trouble.

Could be an isolated experience of course.
Ideographic writing is still sequential text.
Seriously. I've been spending the week writing views and lists for CouchDB. Working in CoffeeScript (for the syntax) and using JS patterns has made me the happiest camper.
That was a smart move. Their product is different and does not compete with Facebook.
We're still tweaking game mechanics, but the general way it works right now is like this:

- If you checkin and your borough already owns that neighborhood your checkin adds a defender to the neighborhood.

- If you checkin and your borough doesn't own that neighborhood, your checkin counts as an attack.

-For an attack we do a dice roll, and based on that dice roll you take out X number of defenders. If your checkin takes out all the defense then your borough now owns that neighborhood and you become a defender.

As the user base increases we'll definitely be tweaking things, but the element of chance is huge to us. It's what keeps things interesting.
Biz Stone's Premature Exit From Twitter
"It definitely stands out in a 'purple cow' sort of way"

It's almost as if they were designed by the same person... :-)

(Derek's book is published by The Domino Project, which is run by Seth Godin, who wrote Purple Cow. The actual artwork isn't by the same person, but all Domino book covers have a similar look and feel.)
Somehow I think you'd get into a pretty big fight with the New York law schools. Not to mention how much it would suck to have taken on $100,000 in not-dischargeable-under-any-circumstances debt and then not be able to get a job because you aren't allowed to take the bar. How would this help anything?
"each time I want to read something new or click a link, I need an active internet connection. "

I think HTML5 is changing this.
Honestly, you could probably even keep it closed-source, so long as people could design their own map overlays. I'm not sure how foursquare works for this - I actually tried to work with the API so my computer could send my girlfriend a text whenever she checked into a shoe store - but it seemed impossible.
Is drug resistance in humans coming from chickens?
The idea that New York cost of living is much higher is just false. You can sacrifice a bit of space and maybe the location and pay the same amount as you’re paying now.

This seems objectively false. By definition, if it costs more to buy the same size apartment, then the cost of living (vis a vis housing) is higher. Yes, you can downsize and accept having to live with roommates to get by, but that doesn't mean the cost of living isn't higher.

According to a cost of living comparison between Austin, TX (where I live) and NYC, you would need to make 140k in NYC to match 90k in Austin:

http://www.bestplaces.net/col/?salary=90000&city1=548050...
How many times does irc need to be re-invented before it's considered fully invented?
Except that they claimed last year that google profiles would be available in a few months. We still don't have it. There has been no official update on the matter either.
Full Tilt Poker shuts down. Players to lose everything.
Ain't it obvious after all that Google+ buzz all over?
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The significant thing about this is that a major outage like this (which started yesterday) doesn't seem to have been followed with any sort of official acknowledgment by Oracle. Is that a sign of their engagement/commitment to the Java community? Or am I being oversensitive?
How does moderation work? I could see the bad seeds, who contribute nothing to a discussion, being filtered out by community moderation? Even taking an approach similar to HN where users who flag down a specific comment to a certain threshold could be less visible.

At least then, the "bad" practices can be discussed without the noise that the trolls bring.
I dropped out of high school when I faced a slump like that. 10 years later, I'm still stymied by my lack of diploma. I've found ways around it, and I still get hired. However, from my experience, you must finish high school. I also had problems in grade 10, puberty combined with drugs and a general discontent at what I saw on the news led to a "tune in, turn on, drop out". I don't recommend this path. You have a long life ahead of you and the improvements you make in your life now will be worth much more years down the road.

There are a few things I do these days to increase my will-power. Working out at gym does wonders for my endorphins and dopamine, the neuro transmitters that get shit done. reddit.com/r/fitness has a great FAQ on how to get started with that. Eating healthy, and ensuring you get all the nutrients your body needs to grow and adapt. Eat lots of eggs, fish, fish oil, anything with choline in it. Get lots of good sleep (which should not be hard). You need more sleep at that age, 10 hours is good.

The key thing is to notice the disconnect between mind and body, and work on improving your body mechanics so that it is aligned with your minds purpose. A particular problem I struggled with for most of my post teenage years was what I would call "neophilia" an obsession with something new. I moved from thing to thing never being satisfied. Satisfaction from hard work has to be imprinted through experience. The sense of accomplishment you get from achieving your goals (you have some right?) is something you want to nurture.
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FTP Shuts Down. Players to lose everything.
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Shorting an equity != Betting against the team.
Also,
Shorting an equity != Really risky.

Shorting a vector of spots is just taking their dot product with a set of negative weights. After a time increment has elapsed, you switch the sign of the weights and do it all over again. Purely arithmetic operation, has nothing to do with team, company, risk etc etc.

In plain English - there are tons of securities whose short interest is quite high, every single day. You short cause you believe the spot is high. Once the spot is at a reasonable level you go long. If the trade sours you close out & eat your loss.
Agreed. I just left NYC for Seattle. There were many reasons behind that - cost of living being one of them.

However, its all relative...

If I were single and wanted to eat noodles and share an apartment I could easily make NYC work - but things are still a bit more expensive, even buying beer on tap ($5 for Bud-like-quality, $6 for Guinness in many places). Don't forget you need to keep up with all those ironic t-shirts and that lomo camera ain't cheap :)

However, now that I have kids and would want very simple things like a garden, a good school, in a relatively safe neighborhood then you have to be prepared to pay a huge amount in rent to be in that school district and to get that ground-sloor apartment in a nice brownstone (in Park Slope, Brooklyn that would be close to $4K a month in rent for a 2bdr - thats based on some parents I know and what they pay).
Your first burnout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_(psychology) . Time to take a vacation, let loose and release whatever is stressing you out. Go meet interesting people and connect.
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I agree. The only choice we have now is cable vs netflix.
It blows my mind that anyone in a startup community, which is all about creating value and making good investments, would suggest that the government tax him (!) and invest in broadband infrastructure instead of that person investing in it himself.
Why users of Facebook should want the Google+ project to succeed
Low cost - if possible, based on a percentage of the revenue that your product will create. This way, it will not look like an aditional cost.

Small business tend to think that they are so small to get any software or product, you should work to change this concept.

Be prepared to overdues.
This is Full Tilt Poker - I can't put poker in the title.
Spot on!

Either that or pi is a symbol and we use symbolic algebra. Just convert to the result in floating point at the last minute.

Ironically my calculator quite happily manages rational form including PI as a constant:

http://h41111.www4.hp.com/calculators/uk/en/scientific/smart...
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you need to keep the quotes in the search. doing that I found this link

http://topsy.com/pycon.blip.tv/file/4879824/?allow_lang=en

which then links to a video of the presentation (watching it now)

http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-how...
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That may have been a good thing. Now they can ride the coat tails of the announcement and attention.

I personally doubt that I would have cared much for the announcement outside of any interesting context.
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This might be useful: a cycle-accurate ARM->x86 JIT, made for the Desmume emulator: http://akuvian.org/src/desmume_jit.diff

Since Android doesn't need the same absurd level of cycle-accuracy (the DS basically relies on it for synchronization), it'll be even faster there.
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Ask HN: Are you using Riak? What for?
That's because everyone justifiably hates BT, rather than it made sense.
Very clever. I'd like to see you re-enact Napoleon of Notting Hill using this system.
What is a better handwritten font that I could use from this list?

http://www.google.com/webfonts?subset=latin&category=han...
... after creating monopolies in the first place
The problem with these studies is that they measure averages. Yes, you can drop a grand for dinner at Daniel in NYC, which makes the average price skyrocket - try to spend a thousand dollars in any restaurant in Austin. The Daniel's in NYC are not an exception, so it seems that the price of food is much higher. But most people live in more normal brackets and my lunch still costs 10 bucks.
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Show HN: ZenTester = Simple[r] Visual Multivariate Testing with a Social Twist
ZenTester is easy-to-use, visual multivariate testing software (SaaS).

"How is it different to what's already out there?"

Firstly, we've [hopefully!] made it even easier to use, and more intuitive, than any of the new generation of multi-variate testing tools out there.

But we've also added one more unique "social test sharing" feature - designed to make coming up with split test ideas easier.

Think of it like GitHub for Website Testing.

Through this system, users can share their test data with the community and you can search through recent results to see what has worked (and what hasn't!), and come up with ideas for your own multivariate tests.

This also allows experts to comment on tests and share their opinions on what you should improve next. (Users can control the privacy levels: free accounts automatically report everything to the community; premium accounts are able to create private tests.)

We'd love to get 25-or-so HackerNews beta-testing "Guinea Pigs" to play with it (keeping it limited to not be overwhelmed with tech support and feature requests).
For your feedback, We'd like to give you a premium account with free lifetime access.

Check it out here:

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You can use the invite code 'hackernews' to register.

If the invites have been all used up please jump on the waiting list at http://preview.zentester.com and we'll try and get you setup ASAP.

Thanks and look forward to your feedback!

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Monopolies and duopolies are not free markets.

In order to create value, monopolies need to be checked.
Hopefully they'll roll it out worldwide as soon as the tech is stable... I want!
I have no idea what any of this means. To me, if you short a stock, and the price goes up, you lose money. And there's no limit to your potential losses, so you could lose a whole ton of money.
I must be missing something. The primary complaint in this article appears to be that Microsoft's web offering consists of a lot of silos instead of a tightly integrated collection. Has the author ever used Google Apps? Because tightly integrated is not what I'd call it.

I can't use Office 365 because it apparently doesn't support Chrome (or it didn't in the beta review I read). That said, it is very attractive to me. The lack of a central directory service in Google Apps and poor scheduling system drives me crazy. Presumably, with their more expensive version, you'd also get access to security controls to force mobile users to have password locking and what not. That is also very attractive.
DSL uses the phone lines to the central, of which there is (at least) one per household, so you just need to hook into a different router at the central. This is easy. For cable you have one cable running down the street, and access is binary, either you have everything or you don't. It's not practical to force the cable owner to "open up", like you can force the phone line owner.

Digital is changing this, very quickly.
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Both of those sound like good things.
Ask HN: Learning photoshop for web design
Hello HN,

I am a hacker who can't design. I can put together css/html but can't create a shiny button if my life depended on it.

I am lost when it comes to layers and other photoshop stuff. I would like to change that.
I am not sure if self learning is going to be easy.
What are some resources for learning photoshop quickly.
1. preferably online classes with someone to mentor.
2. Dead simple screencasts ala railscasts.

thanks
We have checks on monopolies here in the US. The only problem is that often the people checking on the monopolies are the same people who run the monopolies.
I don't think that's necessarily any better. Ever played Telephone?
Another co-founder here. Circles integration is a cool idea. I'll look into implementing it.
There was also a recent study that showed grocery bills in NYC were actually less expensive than most other metro areas. I've noticed the same thing after moving from Brooklyn to the middle of nowhere. I paid less at Fairway than I do here, and Fairway had a much better selection.
You could have found other examples than supporters of eugenics and nazi sympathizers to argue that "genius is rarely universal".

Instead you make hair-raising comparisons and close by writing: "I don't think Jason Fried, DHH, and co. are monsters, but".

This is a low form of an ad-hominem attack.
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How about classic shared hosting? You can go get a server on dreamhost or something and have a PHP app up in a couple of hours. It's not very advanced, but the effect is somewhat the same...
The report which is referenced by Endgaget says about fiber penetration in Sweden:

"Fiber and fiber-LAN networks have a slightly bigger share of the market
than cable, holding 14% and 13%, respectively. Sweden trails only
South Korea and Japan in household fiber penetration rates.”

"Municipal networks alone control 20 to 25% of the coverage.
Among the more than 150 local fiber/LAN networks in 2008, a majority
are owned by municipal authorities or municipally run companies.”

And I think this is probably one of the key factors to high fiber penetration.

My local government owns the fiber, and I paid to connect to it from my house, so I own the last 40 meters. :) And now I can chose from seven companies offering IP services (four which offer services for homes, the others are company offerings only) and four which offer digital-TV services.

92% of apartments in our local community are connected to the fiber network and 37% of the individual houses are. The other houses are likely to use DSL.
Ask HN: Does everything have to be social?
The big buzzword these days is "social". Every major company seems to be working on technologies that allow people to do more and more things together. Social networking, social gaming, social browsing, social TV, social music libraries. I will not deny the benefits these services provide, but to me, "social" is just another way of saying "public".

Perhaps I'm more introverted than the average consumer, but when I get home after a long day of work or perhaps a weekend night spent with friends, I like to unplug from society.

What are your thoughts about this? Are we heading toward a society where no one is ever truly alone?
The Binding Uncertainty of the Present
I'm going to make an argument why, though I'm not entirely sold on it.

I think that many people believe that the current valuation isn't based on fundamentals as much as survivor (or Greater Fool) investing. These valuations are based not on revenues but how much the current investors will be able to sell their shares to some later investor. The issue becomes that once Facebook goes public investing tends to skew much more towards fundamental, which may cause a dip in the stock price. Facebook's current P/E somewhere between 70-110? (I'll source these numbers in a sec). This would indicate an extremely high growth company ie in the front of the hockey stick. I think many would start to argue that Facebooks growth is going to start to flatten out. They already say about 500M active users so thats 1/12 the worlds population their user base doesn't have much more room to grow (though increasing revenue per user still still probably has some room to move).

Personally as a small investor I'm staying away from Facebook when it goes public its too volatile (unless I can get pre IPO shares ;-) But at least an argument could be made that a short isn't a horrible play. There's a really good chance of Facebook's IPO starting extremely high and then seeing a significant dip a few months out of the gate as people start taking their money out.

P/E Numbers - 70B valuation (widely reported)

Earnings 1B - 600M.

P/E 70 - 116

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41521349/ns/business-us_business...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9203999/Facebook_s_le...
This is a very interesting article, especially 'dummifying' the complexities of US telecom markets. I used to always wonder why US was so behind in terms of broadband deployment and the answers that we given to me were always around 'density'. However, there are densely populated areas in US that can create better broadband experience.

The challenge here is that the larger telecom companies (AT&T, Verizon) are required by law to sell their loops to other carriers, but there is a lot of CAPEX needed even with the fiber/copper look. It costs around $1000 per subscriber to bring a broadband TV service home even from the neighborhood (connecting from neighborhood to home and all the equipment in the home). This high CAPEX is a barrier for new entrants in this market.

Another reason why US is behind is that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is not allowing the telecom companies in US to charge users based on their tiered internet usage. Therefore, price per mbps is flat no matter how much bandwidth you use. On the other hand, European telecom companies are allowed to charge extra for higher bandwidth usage.

Once these two barriers fall (cloud based home TV management and tiered pricing) there will be more competition in US.
I've read your sentence perhaps 10 times and I can't figure out what it means in relation to the article. Are you saying telecom incumbents are startups? Does the "him" refer to telecom incumbents? Are you suggesting that the government is taxing startups that are trying to invest in telecoms? Or that the government is investing in telecoms (which is very much not what the article is about)?
Interesting but the problem with this, at least as far as AdWords is concerned, is that low CTR means low Quality Score means higher minimum bid required for the same positioning. So it is costing you more in the long run.

If you're doing a CPM bid on the content network then you're bidding on impressions anyway, in which case there really isn't a reason to disincentivize clicks.