skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations.

I had a Wufoo account but moved to Formstack since Wufoo cannot make any calculations and they plainly said they are not going to implement the feature; they want to specialize in ease of use I guess. I can't think of an advantage of Wufoo over Formstack.
it goes to show you, if you create something people want it's usually not that hard to make money from it, regardless of the competition in that space. The amount may not always be that high, but you can do well.
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Also there -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3007817 (an article from spectrum.ieee.org) with some more details.
I'm going to guess that they'd be crowing about it if they tried to match the no-cap/no-discount awesomeness of the StartFund. Still, huge move for them... It's a nice time to be early-stage!
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I work on localsearch ranking at Google, but this I don't know anything about Google's use of this information in web search, nor am I speaking for Google.

This is about the philosophy of how we approach problems in ranking.

The appropriate question is not, "is this going to work everytime?". If that was the question, basically no one would make progress in web search ever. The web is littered with randomness and corner cases. The question is, "is this a a generally good heuristic, will it help more than it hurts, and can we detect when the heuristic fails badly?" I am guessing that if this prev/next information is used, it will be to boost the front page of an article that has SOME support for the query over the second or third or n'th page of an article that has more, but not exceptionally more support for the query.

Don't think of this as a hard if, but more like an additional weight in a summed comparison that biases towards the first page over later pages in a sequence.
Did you figure this all out in the 24 days you've been registered? Maybe they have been broken recently, but the actually interesting ones still get through.
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The very fact that the Streisand effect is a well known phenomenon suggests that people running large corporations can't always evaluate benefit/risk ratios very well.
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I really wish there would be some way that schools would stop having to worry about these stupid test scores. Hearing "Education" and "SAT" together makes me cringe.
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I think the economy could be in part to blame for the drop in test scores. When the economy is good, parents tend to pay for SAT prep classes. Since 2008, with the downturn in the economy, fewer parents have been willing/able to shell out $1000 or more on SAT classes. Granted, this would only have a small effect on the overall test-taking population, but then again, we're only talking about a 13 point drop
It would seem to me that building the Analytical Engine without following the same sort of material and construction constraints that the Difference Engine #2 project followed would be, in a sense, invalid. The theoretical validity of the means of computation, the "instruction set" and so on could be proven by a "perfect materials" simulation of the machine alone, but things like "signal propagation" (or, rather, the mechanical equivalent thereof) are part and parcel of the physical construction of the machine.

There has to be at least some degree of vindicating Babbage involved in a project of this sort. If it turns out that personality conflicts and a certain shortsightedness on the par of the BA were all that stood between the machine as dream and a major change in the course of history (as some people believe), that makes a very different story than the one that posits that the machine could not have been constructed as imagined; that the partial mill's errors were at least partly due to the fundamental limitations of the materials and processes available for construction at the time.

Yes, it would be nice to know whether the machine could have worked in theory, but it's a much more interesting question to consider what difference the machine might have made if it could have worked in practice.
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Absolutely, any company that does this has a totally broken interviewing process.

Though in our case there wasn't too much structure day-to-day, there was total lack of structure.
There is not enough room in the memory of the main line computers
for all the programs of ascent, descent, and payload programs in
flight, so the memory is loaded about four time from tapes, by the
astronauts.
I suspect that for most general users the web still equates with the big blue "e".
I was also initially confused by that.

Maybe the arrow and the name of the currently selected item could be enclosed in a bounding box with a darker background, so as to more clearly show that it is currently selected.
Strange, the transcripts of the interviews are now delivered as google docs. I always thought it was just search-engine-fodder. Do some people really prefer to read the interviews?
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Do you speak from experience? Or from what you've gathered from various media? I ask b/c I've heard otherwise (especially during the last years of Jobs's tenure as CEO).
Have you checked the review of bely fat
I don't see how your analogy applies. There are, of course, many examples of digitized versions of manuscripts online, some with and some without lengthy explanations. Most of these manuscripts require at least as much efforts as Babbage's plans to understand. Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester is the first example that comes to mind as a popular example. Other examples may be found here (http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/12/digital-hu...).

I have no expertise on Babbage whatsoever; yet I would have liked to peruse images of these plans just for the sheer beauty and importance of them. You can't do that with Polish versions of Lem's text.
Congrats to everyone at Wufoo. I saw these guys do a talk at BarCamp Orlando and was very impressed. I found it interesting that they have engineers and designers take support calls to help light a fire under their ass to fix bugs.
Don't read into this an 'all or nothing' approach from the museum.
Doesn't it seem possible (likely even?) that one or more overzealous "99ers" sent numerous similar mails to many accounts to try to spread their message?
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Make sure that the product is good and not just a hack to attract buyers. If not you could get in a company that worries more about looking like a startup with a killer product instead of actually doing it.
How much has this author worked in open source? Getting a patch into Linux is pretty damn high-context, indeed git was created specifically as a way for Linus to manage a network of trust instead of just a sea of patches.
RIM debacle ‘symptomatic of RIM’s failure’ to address key challenges
I'm new with Node.js, but the "shorten" process shouldn't be an asynchronous process? Maybe something like this?:

app.get('/shorten', function(req, res) {
console.log('Shortening url...');
shortener.shorten(req.param('u'), function(result){
res.send(result);
});
});

It's well known that Redis is pretty fast, but, citing "Node Web Development" (http://www.amazon.com/Node-Web-Development-David-Herron/dp/1...) on it "Architecture: Threads versus asynchronous event-driven" chapter, "(...)Depending on the query that pause can be quite long. This is bad because while the entire thread is idling another request might come in, and if all the threads are busy it will be dropped. Looks like quite a waste. Context switching is not free either, the more threads we use the more time the CPU spends in storing and restoring the state. Furthermore, the execution stack for each thread takes up memory. Simply by using asynchronous, event-driven I/O, Node removes most of this overhead while introducing very little on its own."

It is not a criticism but a question.
I am with you 100% on this. That's why I got Doron Swade involved. It is absolutely vital that this be done in a manner that means we can know whether Babbage would have been able to construct a computer if other obstacles were removed (such as money and his personality).
The $100k is a $3m cap with a 20% discount [0]

Assuming the companies seed round prices above $3m, it's an additional 4% dilution to the company (bringing total initial dilution to about 9%)

[0] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/techstars_nearly_matche...
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Not necessarily. Your example does not refute the premise. You would have to give an example where people contribute a project of yours, not the opposite. I.e. because you contribute in a certain way to a project voluntarily, it doesn't mean that that same project doesn't live by a low context culture fashion.

I've thought about this many times. I see many people with programming skills far greater than mine submitting code to many open source projects, but if I need someone to jump in a form a team with me and I will indeed choose somebody I know personally, even if it's a person with lower technical skills than me.
Wow, OpenEMR is still alive? I was one of the 4 original authors as a junior in high school. Open Source for the win.
It's possible, but given these were raised as issues in the first few days that Plus launched, and in the meantime they've managed to do a large number of big ticket but utterly frilly items like games, Occam suggests screwed priorities somewhere.
Not necessarily faulty, just non-universal. She seems to be speaking from her experience with Mozilla, which does actively recruit strangers. I think large projects are always looking for contributors.
There's obviously content, based on the right-hand bar: http://i.imgur.com/i4B9L.png

But the home page shows a "No posts" error: http://i.imgur.com/jT4L5.png
http://www.opera.com/support/bugs/
Great points.

This guy ( http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?p=209 ) mentions that users prefer bing results over google results when the put a google logo above them (no source cited, tho). That's got to be maddening... But yeah, it's a brand problem as much as it's a product problem.
No one seems to have mentioned the impact this will have on Live systems. I'm frequently called on by Windows users to recover lost data on corrupted systems, which I do using a Live Linux distribution (especially when they have discarded their installation media & access keys, and have no interest in investing money in continuing using Windows if I can give them a free alternative to getting online). How will I be able to do that for people with Windows 8 computers?

I'm sure I'll be able to find unsigned hardware for my personal use, but it's the interoperability that concerns me.
This tool is very nice but it is still hard to gauge since salary is my only form of compensation.
Thank you. That's very useful and I will be getting a copy of the book. My site (jgc.org) gets something like number of monthly page views, so it would be very interesting to understand how I might increase my personal income!
I think he means that by using cookies, you're constrained to their limits. So if you have a large amount of data to pass around, you'll be forced into something external.
Algorithmic censorship?

I bet it's just the machines' way of getting back at us for CAPTCHAs.
You get what you pay for. How can they expect to get commitment and security on those sort of wages? How can they expect someone to resist a little temptation / extortion when they are paid breadlien wages? It is an insult. The majority of IT workers are unerpaid, but this is ridiculous.
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Didn't shareware work like this back in the day? Or are these apps selling themselves as "free!!!!!" and hiding the "(extra features cost $$)" in small, hypothetical print?
Oh man, I can't wait to start playing with this...
Mine says "As a valued customer, we can offer you an upgrade with a new 2-yr commitment and an $18 upgrade fee". I bought my iPhone 4 the day it came out. I'm on a family plan.
How are you sure that is the attackers IP address as opposed to a proxy or other means of anonymity?
And in the (rather depressing) real world, I have gotten flack in the past year for making changes to my source code that required C++98 compatibility, which made said code no longer compile on Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0.
This is excellent news, and a good alternative to YC.

Because of the Yuri/Conway offer, YC had been a substantially more financially viable program for a lot of startups that need capital to get moving- This helps level the playing field.

While I love YC, competition in this space is good for everyone.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022023
That was RPF
Awesome. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Good post. Having just started reading Duncan Watt's "Everything is Obvious" (http://amzn.com/0385531680) critique on common sense, this looks like exactly what he's talking about... people who aren't familiar with the difference between the cultures (like me) don't even realize there is a distinction, and hence won't realize that there's even a problem. Even if the problem isn't that big, as some of the comments on the blog suggest, it's still good to know that the distinction exists.
There's a difference between getting paid in cash, paid in stock in a publicly-traded company (e.g., Google), and paid in stock in a privately-traded company. The latter cannot be turned into cash easily, and its valuation is determined by private parties behind closed doors rather than in an open market.

Which would you rather have: $1 million cash and $34 million of SurveyMonkey stock or vice versa?
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At first glance, looks like it's a Flask for JavaScript.
> I believe Windows servers can currently host more than one user session.

Yes. Windows XP and Server 2003 Standard allow one local login plus two Terminal Server (remote desktop) sessions. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter Editions allow more (but nobody ever bought those flavors because Standard was so much cheaper.) I'm not familiar with Windows 2008 Server but the policies are probably similar.

The limit of two remote sessions in the regular editions is arbitrary, but was chosen mostly for RAM constraints; the windowing environment for each user plus the tasks they're likely to run will consume a few hundred MB of RAM or more. The advanced editions support RAM beyond the 4 GB 32-bit limit.
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Mark Suster: Don’t Commit BSAK Errors. The World is Too Small.
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She has a lot of experience in open source, to say the least. From the author's about page -

"I currently work as the Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla. I also am an advisor for HFOSS, OpenSource World, and IntraHealth Open, as well as founder and president of Kids on Computers, a nonprofit organization setting up computer labs in schools where kids have no other access to technology.

Previously I have worked as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, established OpenLogic‘s Expert Community and founded and ran HP’s Open Source Program Office."
Thats what I'm worried about, I was wondering if there was anyway of knowing for sure. The account recovery actually wasn't in Chinese it was Korean. It's looking like a proxy but I'm pissed and ready to take some of my own action.
There is also the increasing tendency for children to take the SAT a few times a practice. While this may help maximize one score, it may push the average down. Speculation on my part, though.
You can call me narrow-minded, but such books are based on the premise that the blog juice is already there but it just needs to be squeezed the right way.
While I don't doubt that the knowledge exposed in this book is useful, one should be aware that we're talking about a limited fringe of improvement over the real value of a blog: it's content.

There are many ways to squeeze an orange, if you want to get yourself a fine glass of juice, you're better of finding a good juicy orange instead of learning the ultimate squeezing technique. Just my two cents.
> Did you figure this all out in the 24 days you've been registered?

No, I did that over the last couple of years.
You are right, but in order to do this, Bing would have to be DRAMATICALLY better than Google's. This will be tough to do - Google has a large vested interest in making sure that their results are as good as it gets.

I feel like Bing would have better success breaking out into new spaces to push its search engine.
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Oh, good God, I have never read a more slanted article in my life. No mention whatsoever is made of the catastrophic No Child Left Behind Act, which eviscerates any attempt to teach children anything substantial. The fact that their reading comprehension scores are falling is no surprise at all - if they're left to simply read and learn to love reading (which is the only way to read well) their school is put on academic probation and federal funding is cut off.

The author - who was a drug czar, which hardly makes him an expert on anything education-oriented [edit - whoops, he was the sec'y of education, my bad - I just saw "Drug" and freaked] - complains that conservatives couldn't say that diversity is at fault. As though the College Board were made up of flaming liberals, apparently; the entire piece is full of righteous indignation at the vast sums of money Americans are forced to spend on liberal teacher's unions, which are clearly at fault.

This is the other half of the one-two punch. NCLB makes it impossible for schools to function, then assholes like this one say, "See? Public schools are a waste of our hard-earned money!" This is no different from drowning any other part of government in the bathtub, and it's truly dismaying not only to see CNN print it as though this guy were qualified or in any way disinterested, but for it to appear here on HNN where it can raise my blood pressure.
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Someone should do a side-by-side comparison of the batting averages of all these incubator programs and their respective terms.
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I think neither the ruthless testing culture glorifying route learning (as in Turkey, China, Japan) nor the, anything goes, "every child is special", "education is more than scores" approach is the correct or complete answer (I suffered through the first, entered a life-determining exam when I was 12, and experienced the second for 9 years in the US, while TAing during my PhD). If you haven't, please watch Waiting for Superman, the parts about the inner city schools is the main point, but there's a small section on how even suburban schools are falling behind.

Unfortunately, due to globalization US kids, whatever their thoughts about education are, are up against Indian and Chinese competition, who went through the testing machine.
Probably? The editor's note tells you straight up: William J. Bennett is the Washington fellow of the Claremont Institute. He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and was director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H.W. Bush.

His job is to push an agenda.
Occam's razor: A few hundred people getting e-mails about an event hit the 'this is spam' button. How is this news?

At least this time the headline doesn't says "blocked" instead of "censored", but still, it's not like this was a willful malicious act. An automated system hit a (debatably) false positive. Happens every day. Isn't a headline.
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True, maybe having your code in the open is overrated. I have to admit that I'm not talking from experience when I say it gives an edge.

Still, as part of a 2-minute research on a candidate, having LinkedIn and Github appearing first, instead of, say, a World Of Warcraft forum and your MySpace page, most likely help. (Not saying that this is necessarily fair, though.)
UK Government decides to stop funding maths research (except statistics)
Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction?
Infographic: Social Media Reactions to the Netflix-Qwikster Split
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Yeah, I was involved briefly in source. You've got to have your hip-waders on.
So they significantly change the scoring scheme in 2004/2005 and scores are different now! WOW!
"I'm not exactly sure what the strategy is to defend against this, either."

Beat Microsoft at their own game. Initially, people moved to MS-DOS because it was the cheaper computing environment. The first place company in the console wars currently is Nintendo Wii, and lo and behold it is cheaper than the rest.

Pretty damn good + cheap = winner

Nintendo is 1/2 the powerhouse with a 1/3 of the AAA titles, yet dwarfs MS and Sony in console sales (and, with DS portable, completely blows them out of the water).

Another example: Compare how utterly lost iPad competitors are in the tablet space. One had to completely exit the market and slash prices to below cost to even make a dent.

Yet, there is one tablet quietly garnering sales in the millions and is single-handedly keeping a billion dollar company afloat: The Barnes and Noble Nook Color. They're selling these Android tablets like hotcakes. It's well crafted and sturdy, and at a price point ($250) that makes it a compelling purchase. It's making B&N a fortune.
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Completely offtopic, but seeing dozba on HN made my day.
Look at it this way: you should never trust a single guy to manage your entine system. You need to have backup in case of the flu, accidents, anything.
"Sheeps" is a bit shrill, but yeah, the double standard used on China and Iran in reporting from FreedomLand(tm) is a bit rich.

I expect this hypocrisy will eventually be dropped. Though people expecting the better of the two standards to win out are... rather optimistic.
FUNNY FACES - The first social virus aimed to stress test Facebook's capacity.
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Which happened on the same day they are dropping invite-only, correct?
I haven't had much trouble with flipping back and forth. At my company the sys admins won't install zsh on live boxes, but are willing to put it on dev boxes. So I end up dropping to bash whenever I'm on a live box.
I had one of those FW900's. Unfortunately the other half got fed up with me lugging immense bits of kit around so I reluctantly gave up. Now I've got a standard 23" 1080p TFT :(
Yes, for the two CWC customers who managed to find my phone number and call me, my question, "What web browser are you using?" was met with a long pause.
Patent trolls are not new and have been around for as long as capitalism has. They are an essential and useful function of the market. The only reason they've come to light is that the industry moves so quickly now and the legal system around patents does not.
In general, the country with less of a constant trend towards mass censorship gets the benefit of the doubt. And for all the United States' faults, they have a significantly better censorship record than China.
There's also Stardog (stardog.com), from the makers of the Pellet OWL reasoner, which just entered this space. AllegoGraph is pretty cool, one of the best examples of commercial LISP success, and they have a pretty rich ecosystem around AllegroGraph (Jena, Sesame, etc support).
Oh do lighten up folks :)
This looks really awesome.
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