skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see where you're going, but I'm not sure how successful you'll be.

Me? I'd go big with something memorable. Think something like Hudson's approach. I was thinking a mascot with an easier name to remember: maybe a cute dog (Lassie! Install!). A robot might make more sense given the theme. Hey! Maybe a robot dog! I bet you could own the search [robot dog installer] even if you picked (another) unmemorable name for the dog.
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Right, you end up missing out on some great shows. But those great shows leave you with a bad taste, because you only get 1/2 the story, since they are cancelled before their time.

TV shows, at least in the way they are currently produced, are only valuable if at least some subset of the masses likes them.

Just like social networks. they are only valuable if at least some subset of the masses likes them enough.
You would typically know about it if you're into social media analytics and metrics and its effects on advertising and so on.

Their technology stack is very cool. The amount of data it needs to process is staggering. And this whole field is relatively new so there are tons of potential in it.
I don't know how US politics works, but how can this slip trough without public outrage? I read a lot about things like the birth certificate and abortion. I always thought this is just in the media because your population is more diverse.

Here in Germany Merkel and Ackermann (Deutsche Bank) had one dinner together and there was public outrage and questions from the opposition.
I wonder what affect this will have on the open sourcing of Storm.
A) Congratulations to the BackType team! I wonder if they're the first Clojure-heavy startup to be acquired. It will be interesting to see what happens to their technology stack after a couple of years.

B) Does this impact the open-sourcing of Storm?
I wonder where this will end? Claiming all packets that go through the US are in its jurisdiction? All packets that go through routers supplied by American companies who provide finance for the router? All packets that go through routers owned by a company who has 1 or more American shareholders?
Given that China seems to be turning itself into Singapore, one wonders why News Corp. is troubled. An authoritarian business-oriented state ought to be something it could adapt to nicely.
I think it solves the technical problem, I agree that there is an potentially an issue of perception. (Note that the OS won't swap these pages, it will discard them under memory pressure).

(Although an argument could be made that any the OS need not account pages which a process has marked as DONTNEED as "belonging" to that process). In as much as a page does "belong" to a process, anyway.
I was about to say. I have a concept for a CRM that I would willing pay 1,000 to have prototyped. But, is it possible in 3 days... I doubt it.
My brain has redundant pathways to memories and almost certainly stores memories in multiple locations. However, the primary comparison was not to brains but to encyclopedias or books (in keeping with ancestor comments) specifically and other technological artifacts in general.

And therefore, books are more akin to the permanent storage devices such as disks you mention (though tending to be far more persistent).

Generally speaking, It is my belief that computers are not significantly more isomorphic with brains than windmills and any conclusion that there are homuncului should be taken as a reductio ad absurdum against an isomorphism between brains and the internet.
I don't disagree with the conclusions reached by the article nor the Cheesebox board. I disagree with their arguments though.

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Misogynistic isn't defined as "sexuality at a woman's expense". It isn't defined as anything that makes one feel discomforted.

It is hatred and dislike onto women. Even if something is inappropriate or childish or disgusting or any number of epithets that you can tack onto it, it is not automatically misogynistic simply because it relates to women.

Using heighten terminology out of place cheapens the terminology and makes it lose the caustic impact that rightly should have.

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Secondly, inappropriate sexuality is not juvenile. Inappropriate sexuality is often illegal, and I wouldn't characterize that as being something expected from children.

I suspect people want to call it juvenile in order to have a way to publicly shame those who practice it.

In their (and perhaps your too) zeal to censure others, you've created an odd situation wherein:

1. The situation is called misogynist---aka evil.

2. The situation is called childish.

So misogynistic is childish now? Or is it the reverse: are children misogynistic then grow out of it?

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See this is why I don't agree with the arguments as used. They're the arguments of a firebrand or a demagogue---not a logician.
I would rather start up in a nice city andy worry about taxes once I'm making 2M a year in profits than risking to live somewhere less enjoyable without knowing if I will ever have to pay taxes anyway.
One of my early consulting prospects was someone who basically wanted me to do that for their app, at a similar price point. As I recall, the project went nowhere after they didn't follow up about signing a contract and I didn't follow up about following up.

In hindsight, after learning more about consulting, I am so glad I dodged that bullet.

You are setting yourself up for catastrophic failure in every way with this offering. You will not receive a complete spec from your clients. There are people capable of writing complete specs. They have done successful software development before. They will run screaming from your offering, because they're looking at $1k and 3 days and concluding "He's either insane, inexperienced, or out to swindle us." I plead a combination of insanity and inexperience for saying "Yes, that sounds reasonable for $2,000" to my prospect.

If you get takers, they will be the napkin crowd. The napkin crowd believe they have specs. They do not have specs; they have napkins. You can turn a napkin into a prototype; you cannot turn a napkin into a prototype in 3 days if it is not your napkin, because you will chew far more than 3 days of calendar time and $1,000 (or $2,500) in billable time just doing requirements analysis.

There are also jobs which, if one is not acquainted with reality as experienced by engineers, one might think are doable in three days.

Would you really love to receive this email? "Here's a screenshot. Make it work. I'll pay you a thousand bucks."

http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/this-is-n...

Edit to elaborate:

If you're a good Rails/Django programmer, you are at least 20% of the way to a successful consulting business. The market is signaling in a very strong way that it needs them right now. (Ditto mobile anything.) That last 80% is very important, though. It includes things like getting good at estimation and prospecting. I ended up charging off about two months of calendar time to goodwill because I was ludicrously optimistic about estimation and how hard project management would turn out to be.

With regards to prospecting: There are plenty of people on HN who make good consulting clients. waves to consulting clients There are also many people on HN who, and I mean this in the nicest possible way, are not good clients at this point in their lives. Good clients have a clear idea of how the process operates. Good clients cut checks for five or six figures, in a timely manner, without complaining. Good clients have reasonable expectations for what $1,000 will buy them at market rates from someone who is actually capable of delivering projects in Rails/Django. (Hint: not much programming.)
Thanks for this. I was beginning to think git was for gits only.. this and also the quote from Linus corrects my assumptions..
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Well plus one for a blog post with a theme song, anyway.
Duplicated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2730438
"No egos" is a nice take although it appears to address internal dynamics more directly than customer relationship.
It would be nice to add something more consistent with how customers think of the company; google's "don't be evil" would be a good example of a culture motto that reflects equally on employees and customers.
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Neither Rubinius nor JRuby (and probably IronRuby too) have this issue because they all use accurate garbage collection rather than conservative. Accurate requires much more bookkeeping since all pointers must always be properly identified, but if you start writing a system with accurate GC, it's pretty easy. Bugs like this are a direct result of a conservative GC strategy (and these bugs, as I'm sure you got reading Joe's post, really really suck to find).
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Definition
Wait ! Why lift and not AUC ?
Your selection size determines your lift
Your target class proportion determines your lift
How can you use lift for model comparison ?
Large lifts, still small profits?
To simplify : user returns in stead of lift
Congratulations to BackType!
Good question, what could go wrong? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Great idea. The first search I tried seemed pretty excellent (biology), but downhill after that. I did number theory, linear algebra, chemistry, topology, compilers. Only linear algebra gave something that looked reasonable.

Build up the database some and you might have something really useful.
That's some blatant ageism.
Perhaps you should consider $$$ per page. Thus a CRM with 50 different pages: accounts, contacts, billing, reports, dashboard, etc would scale in price with the complexity.
Only US citizens have the right of due process.
I'm not sure this article is worthy of hacker news. It doesn't cite any new information about De-Grey, just rehashes the same arguments he's been making (but not testing) for the last decade at least. In such, its really not news to anyone but those who've never heard of De-Grey.
This is exactly what web consulting is
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Nice looking site. It missed what I searched for (quantum mechanics) but it looks very nice.
.onion ? Technically not a real DNS entry, and is not present in DNS root.
Didn't http://jobs.usethesource.com/jobs replace the whoishiring bot?
This post is a weird mix of careful technical analysis and douchey, Zed Shaw-style hysterical overstatement.

However, I would like to see Matz' response to the recommended steps for a fix at the end. Sounds like a reasonable goal to add for Ruby 2.0.

Note to self: Listening to Papoose while writing a technical blog post turns your otherwise important observations into a Chicken Littleish, end-of-the world rant.
+1 for being careful about emotions. Most of the bad decisions I took were in a state where my thinking was clouded with emotions and immediate events.

Sit on your idea for a few days. Decide with a clear heart (and intellect too).
Healthcare isn't actually paid through taxes. We have mandatory insurance and you have to pay a certain percentage of your income so it's pretty cheap if you don't earn that much. Once you earn more you can switch to fixed monthly amounts and if you can't afford it at all the government pays.

Probably better/cheaper than in the US (for most people) but far from perfect.
The article confusingly states first that China's stake would not be influential, and then states that the apparent reason for China's interest is to have "control in the long run".

Even if China's stake was influential, why would they need it in order to censor Facebook? They censor plenty of sites in which they have no stake whatsoever.
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The minimum share capital of a GmbH in Germany is 25,000 EUR. Registering should not take much longer.
Old readwriteweb article

"Secrets of BackType's Data Engineers - How do three guys with only seed funding process 100 million msgs a day?"

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/secrets-of-backtype... HN discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097926

I am not a Clojure fan, but I found BackType engineer Nathan Marz's fusion of Datalog, Clojure and Hadoop to create Cascalog very impressive, and was looking forward to Storm.
Second startup I hear phrasing it as "no ego". I get pedantic on that word choice. I think "don't be an asshole" is way more accurate :P. For example, I have a very strong ego (ego is defined as high self-esteem, high self-importance), but I always admit I know nothing about something, or that I'm wrong, or that someone made a valid point that trumps me, or I've made a mistake, etc. In fact, I'd even say that it feeds my ego to do these things.

But this concept of open-mindedness is hard to phrase in a catchy way like "no ego", admittedly.
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Last one was $70 bn. It dropped from about $85 bn. Even $70 bn is way too much for Facebook. I think their valuation grew more like a Ponzi scheme. Everyone thought it was going to have a higher value, so they invested more in it and told others about it.

I remember it grew a few tens of billions basically overnight with bit tech sites claiming "..and Facebook's value grew another $5 billion this week".

I think its value will start dropping fast by the end of the year, especially now with Google+ gaining traction.
There are MBA programs that are specifically tailored for entrepreneurship, such as the Babson College program (disclaimer: I am an alum).

For instance, there are specific tools and frameworks that, when used properly, help you identify the opportunities worth pursuing.

Further, you can be an entrepreneur in both cases: when starting your own business, or working for a large company. It's true the other way too: you can start/have your own business and that wouldn't make you an entrepreneur.
> Firefox 5 was all about bug stomping and the stillborn channel switcher, Firefox 6 will see the addition of lots of HTML5 and CSS3 features and more privacy controls, and Firefox 7 — at long last — will focus on memory management and performance increases.

This kind of summary is potentially misleading. It isn't like there is a preplanned 'theme' for each release, or that everybody focuses on one thing each time then switches to something else.

Mozilla constantly focuses on several things at once. So there are memory improvements in FF5 and FF6, not just FF7. It isn't as if until FF7 no one cared about memory, which the summary almost implies. (But, it's possible the memory improvements in FF7 are turning out to be bigger than previous ones.)

I realize the article was just doing a quick summary and there's nothing wrong with that. Just wanted to post this comment to avoid possible misunderstandings.
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Congratulations @BackType!
The article says the animated background diagonal stripes are visible in WebKit-based browsers, but I'm not seeing them in Safari 5.0.5 -- just in case that's of interest to the devs and perhaps to other folks as well.
Google has multiple sign-in support natively as well, I use it to switch between a couple Google apps accounts and my normal Google account. http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
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Good Idea. I had troubles finding non-techy topics. I got nothing from: bikes, cars, trains, animals, and snakes.
Ask HN: What bank do you use for your startup/small business?
To those in the USA:

I have been with bank of america for 4 years for my personal accounts and I need to get a business account setup for my small business since I just went from DBA to an LLC. What bank do you currently use, and do you have any suggestions as to which bank is the best for businesses?
Hamburg and Munich are among the most expensive places in Europe. Living costs in Berlin are probably half (you can rent a place for under 200 EUR if you wnat). There is also a much better startup and developer scene. So if you are into the whole startup thing, Berlin is pretty great.

And the crime rate, schools, ... compared to the US? Really? ;)
You know, I have a lot of RAM in my laptop, but Firefox - even the latest release - still gradually slows down over the course of a single day. If I leave it running over night, my whole system becomes sluggish, every keypress takes visible time to render a character.
I was pretty disappointed when I had to leave my perfectly configured Firefox behind to switch to Chrome, but the thing is just so much more stable.
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Then .com's should be phased out. Migrate all .com to .co.us.
I know, but I dont like approachs that does not scale. I think the best thing to do is to watch and support new series that you like and hope for a second season. If you had a good time watching it that is already ok, it is not an investment.

Thats why I dont watch series that promise a distant final revelation after 4234 seasons like Lost.
They are currently only able to completely block the website from China. If they can get an influential stake then they can have it open in China with back doors to block certain traffic/words and give law enforcement access to information on dissidents.
I don't think in radians, I think in cycles (radians/tau). I used to think in degrees, and could never get the hang of radians. Unfortunately, I cannot imagine the mathematical world moving to cycles, ever. The most I can hope for is that teachers introduce others to a single intermediary constant (tau) rather than two (2,pi).
Does this rely on having internet access available on the iDevice? Or could you bundle default screens in your app, which only update if internet access is available?
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I can't argue on any point except your money point, given my own experiences. (except for the fact that as netflix and TPB are sources for simmilar goods, then yes, they are competitors)

My peers are generally not computer programmers, no, nor do they have much disposable income. They do live in the the united states, which means realtive certian other populations, they are insanely wealthy. We scrape by in the lower end of cost of living in this nation with large student debts, and housing costs in the range of $400 a month...from that, it isn't hard to split a netflix bill two or three ways. It costs, effectively, spare change to buy a netflix account between three people. Seriously on the margin of 80% of the people I know have a netflix account, with far fewer understanding the mechanics of bootlegging movies. We have netflix before we have a tv subscription.
Thanks to whomever clarified title from "China Wants To Buy Facebook" to "China Wants To Buy Facebook Stock"
As a side note, providing the location with a brief job description is probably the 2nd most important piece of information. Let's go ahead and make that the standard right now please.
Good, but I would also like to see the E.U. look at why these changes are necessary (i.e. why this market is not working).
Google offered Groupon $6bn and they turned it down. Facebook is worth at least 10x as much as Groupon in my mind.
Yes I agree. I think this typical U.S. spoilt brat mentality. We need a new internet :).
Since you pointed out that you've read lots of books, I assume that means you haven't actually practiced under a teacher's guidance. Reading about riding a bike is a far cry for actually doing so.

As a practicing Buddhist for a decade, having attending multiple retreats including a 30-day one, this statement right here indicates the flaw in your argument:

In the classic Buddhist disciplines, one eliminates desire

Actually, Buddhism is about being OK with the desire, but the idea isn't to become some robotic zombie walking around. That's a classic mistake. Buddhism DOES talk about the ability to first limit and later eliminate your REACTIONS to desires, but never the desires themselves. They will always arise, no matter whether you're enlightened or not. It's a question of whether you respond to those arisings.
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Sure, but what motivation would they have to open it in China instead of just blocking it and propping up a Facebook-style Chinese site that they can surveil for free?
Keep trying. Didn't work for me 2 days ago. Worked today.
Congrats guys! I worked with Nathan, and he's a brilliant guy. Well deserved success.
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but why would ICE have anything to do with copyright in the first place, regardless of whether their jurisdiction claims are upheld/fair? How does copyright fall under either immigration or customs?
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That's not the case; non-citizens under U.S. jurisdiction also have due-process rights. For example, despite him being a French citizen, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is entitled to the standard Constitutional rights in his criminal trial, including things like being read Miranda rights, not being forced to testify against himself, and receiving a trial that accords with due process. If any of that were violated, he could appeal his case and the appeal would be heard in the same manner as if he were a U.S. citizen being tried in the same New York courts. Even foreign corporations have due-process rights; for example, Texas cannot simply seize a refinery owned by BP without some kind of legal process.

The only cases I'm aware of where it's more murky are: 1) non-citizens held by the U.S. armed forces outside the territory of the U.S., alleged to be "enemy combatants"; and 2) illegal aliens awaiting deportation, who do still have some limited right to due process in challenging their deportation proceedings, but there's more controversy around it.
We use Chase - also got the $200 promotion for opening checking account. (google this promotion) No complaints yet! I've heard good reviews from ppl about many of the big banks, though. Choose something convenient for you.
Human society and psychology is has evolved within the confines of a 50 - 100 year typical lifespan. Keeping your cells alive and functioning longer than that might become possible and even affordable some day, but it seems to me that would only bring many new non-medical problems we would have to confront.