skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea how open they are to exploiting it, but I'd bet just having a high-traffic social hub has significant monetary value in the data and analytics. Twitter makes millions selling analytics and feeds, and will probably increase that in the future. I'd personally pay something for all sorts of slices of Reddit data; for example, a real-time feed of pageview info, or a firehose of all comments, would be great. Of course, the real question is whether people with more money than me would pay.
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For some reason he is also constantly surrounded by very attractive women.

"Some reason" is that he projects confidence and high social status. IQ scores don't really enter into it.

Which was just confusing... there was this smart good looking girl, and she was hanging around acting thick.

Note that she was hanging out with him, not you, even though you would appreciate her intelligence. She's not acting dumb to attract men in general, she's acting dumb to attract men that she finds attractive.
Looks really interesting, but seems limited (maybe wisely) to analytic philosophy.

There is a whole strain of work from the 80s that was partly inspired by Heidegger and phenomenology AND the realization that some classical AI problems were computationally intractable. This work was controversial, to say the least, but influential in its way. I'd suggest that any course on this topic ought to at least touch on this work.

http://mit.dspace.org/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6947/AITR-802....

http://leidlmair.at/doc/WhyHeideggerianAIFailed.pdf
Some time ago, the Reddit community expressed their interest to have an @reddit email account (they were willing to pay for POP access, etc.). I tried to contact the Reddit admins by Reddit messages, email, Facebook, etc, because we can provide them with @reddit mail accounts in no time and scalability is not an issue (we have installations in some of the biggest ISPs in the world) and it would cost them nothing as we were wanting to do a rev-share deal. Sadly I never heard back.

There's an opportunity to monetize Reddit users, even if they seem somewhat far from the core product.
While this advice makes sense in most cases it is just as important to learn where, how, whom and when to ask.

Also as a beginner it is often very difficult to separate good from bad advice, so it can make a lot of sense to ask even simple questions in e.g. an IRC channel even if you could find an answer with Google.
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#1 Startup:

Left before the first year. Company was acquired later. The payout is engineers got to keep their job.

#2 Multinational:

The stock option I was granted once valued 500k at the peak of dotcom bloom. In the short window before the crash I've cashed out about 40k. It goes toward the down payment of the house. This might turn out to be the best financial gain thus far.

#3 startup:

The firm has over 100M VC funding and 300 employee when I join. My stock valued above 100k at acquisition. It has shrink about 25% when they are fully vested.

#4 startup (current):

I took about 25% pay cut to join this startup. If the stock makes the same money as startup #3 I will about break even. Financial aside I'm quite happy working here.
I don't have an official quote. I was just basing my numbers of their ballpark pricing guide: http://www.polycase.com/uploads/131981312383254.pdf

For 100 quantity, milling would be $1.15 each, printing would be $0.76 each and about $200 is setup fees.
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has no key is a much greater impediment to remote PIP
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to product a block which, once encrypted, contains a PIP.
The exact procedure for doing so depends upon the presence of numerous cryptographic mistakes by the vector
protocol and is beyond the scope of this paper

This is amazing. I'd love to see someone pull this off.
> Conde Nast buys reddit, and people predict a train wreck.

Has it not been a train wreck in terms of profitability? Or is Reddit making a few hundred million in profit nowadays?
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It seems to me that the vast majority of spam on hn.newest is submitted through newly created user accounts. Many online communities, e.g. Metafilter, prevents new accounts from submitting stories to prevent spam. I think HN should implement something similar. Exactly how many days someone has to wait can be discussed, but I'm thinking anything from 1-2 weeks. This also gives people enough time to know the dynamics and rules of HN and to settle in, which I think will create a better community and submissions.
I doubt that the women who sign up to be sugar babies are doing it to get laid.
I met him and his team at SHDH48 on Microsoft campus in mountain view last year. It's not trolling. In fact, they invited a bunch of core 4chan users to be early canvas users. He's just moving on to another project, this time with a team of valley insiders he persuaded to move to New York.
> our social/political/economic hegemony

Our?

The fact that some men have status advantages does not imply that being male provides status advantages.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but worrying about whether Bill Gates' daughter has as as good a chance of being CEO as his son isn't all that noble a cause.
It has taken me about 2 weeks to get completely used to my standing desk. Be sure to get a anti-fatiuge mat and a stool. Just sit down when you get tired, sitting on a stool isn't all that compfortable and you will naturally stand back up when you feel rested.

I couldn't be happier about making the switch. I feel more alert, less back pain, and less afternoon slump. I also recently lost about 40 lbs, but I am not in really good physical shape.

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Kudos to Condé Nast for recognizing the importance of Reddit's independence over the years, and handling the acquisition properly.

Aol, Microsoft and even Google could learn something from this...
Why can't you delete your Hacker News account?
I had a similar experience, but one thing I noticed was the fixture mattered a whole lot because heat shortens the CFL lifespan considerably. The ones that last the longest were the old-style end table lamps (with lampshades) with a single vertical socket and plenty of airflow. The worst are multi-socket horizontal fixtures with no airflow.

The newer bulbs are definitely better, but they still don't last long in the wrong kind of fixture, and if that's the kind of fixture you have you're better off just buying incandescents.
What is with the numbers? Git is distributed, commits are inherently unordered, this will become very confusing if you have multiple committers.

Also provide useful messages, if you want to look up changes to something you really want to be able to do a `git log | grep foo`.
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Do want to go but not sure how I can justify it as a business expense. PyCodeConf's home page makes it look more like a party/gtg than a traditional conference, which is great, but not what the accountant is looking for.
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Interesting, the article doesn't really mention Google's motivation for the bid, but I'm guessing it would just be to lock down the rights to some of the media associated with Hulu? If exclusivity was part of the deal, maybe their intention is to use that content to kick start the premium offerings on Youtube?
I dated a nursing student in college, so I ran in that social circle a bit, and I knew a lot of girls who made no bones at all about wanting marriage (with an appropriately expensive wedding), children, and an end to the professional life as soon as absolutely feasible.
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The problem there is that the quality a person is seeking becomes obfuscated, continually shifting into new, unknown subreddits in order to prevent the decay of content. Maybe there's no better way to do this (yet) but if the information a given individual viewed as quality were easily accessible it'd make the concept a lot more interesting to me as opposed to the level of misdirection subreddits seem to manifest.
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Others already mentioned rebasing, but I think the most important tool is the index, or "the staging area". Lots of people not used to Git tend to see the index as an unnecessary extra step, but it's really what enables the good stuff.

In short, the index allows you to decide what goes in a single commit, regardless of the actual contents of a working directory. You can commit only a single line from a file if you want. If you learn how the index works and why it works like it does, understanding the rest becomes much easier.

You can also eg. resolve a conflict piece-by-piece by adding resolved parts to the index, diffing against the working directory, and then finally committing once the content of the index looks correct.

There are many tutorials and I'm not sure which one is the best but I think the book "Pro Git" does a good job at explaining the index among other things. It's freely available online at http://progit.org
I don't think this is a necessity. I strongly believe that for any community to be successfull you always have to put user experience first and not being able to post for a few weeks is really not a good first impression. It's basically saying "Thanks for joining the community, but we don't really want you anyway".

I think the way we report spam by flagging submissions as spam is how it is meant to be, sure you do get the occasional spam but they never last long because people flag them. This also makes sure the community "watches" over the content and is more user friendly than just pissing off newcomers. I think a lot of people are lurkers and at one point they really want to submit something and it's at that moment that they create an account (you don't really need an account to lurk do you?) so if this rule would be applied it would really suck for those long time lurkers but new account guys.
How much have people said they'd pay? I doubt it'll be that much. How can you do it for free? The email market seems to free now, can you really make money by selling email?
I completely agree that it is not reasonable to say that any action taken by an individual is the responsibility of an institution or community, but conversely I don't think it is fair to say that individuals actions should never reflect poorly on the community that they are a part of.

> You are the only one responsible for cultivating a moral compass.

I don't really understand this point; you are the only one responsible for cultivating Physics 1 knowledge as well. If there were high profile instances of people who had recently taken Physics 1 at MIT and clearly did not absorb it at all, then that still can reflect poorly on MIT.

Clearly there are going to be outliers, but it doesn't even sound like you are arguing that this guy is an outlier, but rather that MIT shouldn't strive to cultivate ethical behavior and any amount of unethical behavior by MIT alum shouldn't reflect badly on them as an institution.

I'm actually living in Cambridge now, and (based on completely anecdotal evidence of conversations with students) it appears to me that MIT focuses far less on being a responsible citizen or an ethical engineer than most other universities that I have had experience with. At many schools, ethics is not only a required course, but something that is not uncommonly discussed in the context of any random CS course. One of my interns from MIT was specifically surprised to hear that I had talked about ethical considerations related to being employed in a CS related field in my undergrad.
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I think it is, check out Kneath's (a designer at github) dribble:

http://dribbble.com/kneath
Data is extracted approx every 2 hours. Most services rate limit and none of the services offer "real time" data through their API (excepting Twitter).

Next video we do we'll turn down the peeping noise =)
We already get spammers who wait a week before posting under their new account, to avoid having their username appear in green. I don't see that forcing them to wait will actually cut down on spam that much.
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Some DSP gurus on the site explore reverse engineering one of the (IMHO) most annoying synthesizer sounds on the planet. Alot of good work done in this.
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Exactly, Some more examples: r/motorcycles r/programming r/$PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE r/linux etc.

The NSFW ones are tricky. On one hand there's a lot of money in porn. But most of the content there is either stuff from porn companies (that would be paying for ads), or amateur stuff, and would an amateur audience like porn company ads?
It's not really that far from their core product. To me, Reddit is this big clubhouse where you get all of the references and in-jokes. Having a Reddit email address is just one more thing that shows you belong.
Sorry I read your original as 'crafting perfect commit messages'.
Just from a quick look, it looks like Moot is trying to take some of the interactions that grew organically out of 4chan and build them into Canvas, then making it easy for the non-technical person. From personal experience, it seems like whenever you try to parameterize and enforce something that was organic, you run the risk of killing it.

Something I think to keep in mind is, that making it easy for the non-artist and non-technical person to create and publish content removes a giant filter that would keep out a lot of trash. The effort "cost" of producing a remix of content is much lower now, so there's going to be more people with half-baked ideas creating garbage, and everyone will shit on them for posting it...bad experiences all around. Meanwhile, those people that would've still created and published good content (had the effort-cost been higher) may view Canvas as being too canned and immature for their time.

That's just my $0.02. Best of luck Moot, wish you had returned my emails :)
I can't seem to find the original Reddit discussion. It does not have to be much. Is a numbers game and Reddit has a lot of users.

I remember our initial calculations were interesting to everyone involved.
probably a good idea for groupon. though i enjoy bagging on Groupon's highly unconventional approach to wall street bankers in preparation for its IPO, seven years ago Google was in the same position [1]. Google exhibited hubris and showed no clear purpose for the proposed raised equity, ultimately IPOing shortly after the peak of its 'hotness'. That is not to suggest that Google's business is comparable to Groupon's, but that anything could happen. Google may have not IPO'd like a pro, but they are one of the largest shakers in the tech industry today.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14939-2004Aug19?la...
accidental downvote, sorry. :(
"Numbers in commit messages don't really make any sense. I don't understand what value they might have."

I like to refer to 'commit 347' rather than 'commit a3bh'. There's an implicit sense of how old a commit is.
One could see why they're willing to pony up lots of cash - the combination of Hulu content served by an omnipresent Google TV and paid for with Google ads sounds great.
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I'm hoping this is my answer to better rails development on Windows (I've been having trouble with cucumber and a few different gems). Unfortunately, 64-bit windows isn't supported. Hopefully running as a 32-bit app through xp mode will work.
Hmm, add Hulu to the formidable resources coming from Motorola Mobility's Home division (that is one of the largest cable box suppliers in the US and also has IPTV holdings in Europe, e.g. Kreatel) and you can see that Google is positioning itself aggressively in the coming TV war with Apple TV.
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It's a clever strategy for being reasonable and rational when it comes to damage awards," Baum said. "But I think that if we start going down the road where we're going to let court-appointed fact finders testify at trial, we really are giving up some of our belief in the jury system.

It's a pity that the choice is so often between "reasonable and rationale" and "jury system", especially when it comes down to technical legal decisions like damages in technical fields like patent law. But it seems that dichotomy does exist. Being a blow against the jury system in this type of trial is no argument against the judge's move.
The research I'm following [1] (and probably over simplifying here) indicates that the double dip in the stockmarkets will really kick off this month (Sept 2011) for at least 6 months.

Maybe Groupon thought they could sneak in ahead of that; maybe they thought the economy wouldn't double dip; maybe they thought there was enough positive momentum in the idea of Groupon that external factors wouldn't matter.

But the scary thing is that if they've heavily cut back on marketing AND they're low on cash as other reports have indicated, then they won't be able to postpone the IPO through until March 2012. They may be forced to list as the market tumbles or, best case scenario, at the bottom of the next bull run. Not ideal timing unless your definition of ideal involves "buy high, sell low".

[1] See all the economic articles by Darren Shirlaw here http://www.shirlawsonline.com/editorials .
(Disclaimer: I'm completely biased because the companies I own are licensed through the company Darren founded, so part of everything I bill goes to his research and development team (and I've been part of that team for specific projects, including currently reviewing his articles and predictions from the past 4 years for a short book on navigating through it all).)
I think my original point still stands even if you were correct because I am arguing the biological basis for many behaviors.

However you’re missing the basic concept that the country that used both women and men could simply create a larger army and crush the other country. The reason this did not work historically was more to do with men’s larger size and muscle mass than reproductive issues. If you can fire an arrow and extra 20 feet you can kill someone before they can attack back. If can lift a heaver weapon with a longer range you are far more likely to win in melee combat. Such minor advantages are far less important in gathering food so sending a largely male army off to combat is simply more efficient prior to the use of fire arms. (There is some evidence that women do better in modern firefights so you could see a reversal of this trend fairly soon.)

PS: Population sizes are far closer linked to the ability to gather food and avoid disease than the ability to reproduce. In theory more women = more baby’s but you could also see 4x population growth in 30 years which does not happen.
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You're not wrong by any means, but it's also a question of scale and purchasing power. There's no doubt that r/parenting is filled with people worth talking to about, say, baby products. But then look at the advertising sales minisite for Babycenter.com[1]; a company like Johnson & Johnson isn't going to bother with r/parenting. Smaller companies might be interested, but small companies don't spend much money on ads. When they do, they mostly spend it on Adwords.

Of course the joke here is that J&J bought Babycenter. If I were a category-specific CPG company, I'd cut out the publisher middleman, too.

Ad networks & exchanges lead us to think there's a perfectly efficient & liquid market for ad space, but there's a real scaling problem for big advertisers that leads them to stick with big publishers. Quality control on r/parenting would be a concern.

[1] http://www.babycentersolutions.com/
At first this came off to me as link bait and Arrington being a drama queen. But, surely these types of disagreements go on within every company and blogging about them is the ultimate in transparency as well as a chance for others to learn from TechCrunch. It may be reality blogging, but it's the reality of an extremely successful organization and leader, and that's something we can probably all learn from.

poll - Do you think TechCrunch should have editorial independence?
http://www.wepolls.com/p/2301501
That's not what he was saying at all. Read the last few comments again.
> "The risk is, it turns into a one-witness trial," said Henry Bunsow, an IP litigator at Dewey & LeBoeuf in San Francisco.

So like, maybe justice will actually be served? Litigators amaze me.
Militaries do not think like this. They do not plan like this. If they did, they would only allow gay men in the military. In fact the opposite happens. Your theory doesn't match reality.
I think Arrington for got Option 3:

AOL says F* You Arrington, does what they want since they bought tech crunch and they own it. The past shareholders have no ability to recall the buyout almost a year later and say nevermind we want our company back.

Reality is Arrington sold, Arrington started a new fund. People think this new fund will interfere with Arrington's "Editorial Independence" therefore they claim he will be gone.

At the end of the day it just does not matter that much, If Mike is who he thinks he is he could just go start another blog tomorrow and gain all the traction he wanted. His non-compete (if applicable) is probably non-enforceable after the first twelve months anyhow.

If he is not then he should just go back to his new fund and invest in some startups loudly (which is the Arrington fashion) which is probably what he will do best
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Try giving the accountant the sponsorship brochure, it retains the graphic design with a lot more "business focused" reasons for attending. http://pycodeconf.s3.amazonaws.com/PyCodeConf2011Sponsor.pdf
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To be fair, again, if that was what I meant, that's what I would have written.
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This only encourages a race to the bottom though, which doesn't help them build viable, sustainable long-term careers. While I see where you're coming from, I do still think the advice is sound in the long term.
Lots of assumptions have changed. Here are some assumptions that have changed: "No women can do maths or science". "Women do not want to do very complicated scientific research". "Women are unable to fight in a military and will get very scared and turn into bubbering heaps the first sign of danger". "Women cannot be CEOs because they will just quit as soon as they have a baby". "A woman's life can be fulfilled by raising children & home making"
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IMO, Dish is the best place for Hulu. They're already launching the Netflix competitor.

I see Dish' bid as them adapting as a business to consumer wants/needs.
You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention?
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http://www.ioncube.com/online_encoder.php

I'm not sure how safe this is for running config files, but since the decoder is free, this would be affordable. You can also look into the pricing for Zend Guard.
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I don't think that's a particularly fair jab considering the government's general track record with recognizing technical expertise.