skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got hustled with that today haha!

They hand you a CD and tell you they're trying to get their music out there, etc. Then ask for donations. I felt like a sucker but the lesson was worth it I suppose.
My first thought when I saw this was: "I should check out the source first and see what it does". Here is the source:

const DOMAINS = ['facebook.com', 'facebook.net', 'fbcdn.net'];

/*
Determines whether any of a bucket of domains is part of a URL, regex free.
*/
function isMatching(url, domains) {
const DOMAIN_COUNT = domains.length;
for (var i = 0; i < DOMAIN_COUNT; i++)
if (url.toLowerCase().indexOf(domains[i], 7) >= 7) return true;
// A valid URL has seven-plus characters ("http://"), then the domain.
}

/* Traps and selectively cancels a request. */
if (!isMatching(location.href, DOMAINS)) {
document.addEventListener("beforeload", function(event) {
if (isMatching(event.url, DOMAINS)) event.preventDefault();
}, true);
}

I am not concerned with this plugin. It may break websites, but it does nothing malicious. It is no more dangerous than any other chrome plugin.
Some other ideas I brainstormed: 1)Roses, 2)Guy Fawkes Masks, 3)Create and sell a guide. Maybe a "Guide to NYC Public Restrooms"
Google Plus - aprox 40 million users as of 9/25/11 
Google Plus - aprox 40 million users as of 9/25/11

I am just following up on research from Paul Allen
https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts/bGJPTALDkDe
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747710

I added a couple more recent samples (threw out a few names)

07/04/11 07/09/11 09/21/11 09/25/11
1,700,000 4,700,000 29,372,543 41,308,415

Maring 3 9 50 65
Tomczyk 5 20 165 219
Lagana 7 13 100 150
Shireman 2 12 43 59
Tat 12 51
Tozzi 15 31 175 247
Trudel 9 25 212 286
Yasin 25 52
Greb 3 11
Toepfer 3 13 68 79
Cullinane 7 18 80 100
Fredenburg 3 23 35
Louderback 4 38 53
Santillanes 3 29 45
Murrey 4
Wilcoxen 8 20 40
Revelle 5
Parten 3
Lewter 6 23 30
McTigue 9 49 61
HN is full of spam and has been for years. There are more spam submissions in /newest than non-spam. Thankfully pg and the other moderators are swift in implementing tools to blast spam accounts and urls.
Water, umbrellas, maps, photos.. oxygen
This reminds me of stories of kids setting up lemonade stands in Times Square, and even making a lot of money before getting shut down by the cops.

I can't find the exact news article, but this one is close ($200 profit/half day!):

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110628/midtown/kids-set-up-lemonade...
A few weeks ago a close friend sent me a message on Facebook asking what I've been up to, and I told him about the startup I am working on.

As soon as I hit send I was hit with the impulse that I shouldn't have sent those kind of details over FB messaging -- thinking back to warnings such as (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cdrCYrZIvI).

And sure enough a day and half later I received an email from a Facebook recruiter wanting to talk to me about a job.

Normally that would be fine, but the timing is so suspect. I asked around if anyone had heard of FB mining/reading users messages, and no was certain but reminded me that the FB privacy policy states that they own your data and an ex-FB employee said that many engineers have access to the DB.

Does FB mine or read user messages, and why doesn't it do more to prevent so many engineers from having access to the DB?
The idea is that you have a small number of OS threads that have their own stacks and you cooperatively map all of the user-space greenlets onto these threads, but whilst the greenlets are waiting to run, instead of storing their continuation as their stack and registers, you store the state as a closure. There's an obvious trade-off between responsiveness and memory usage, but you can adjust this by changing the number of OS threads.

So the stack frames aren't allocated on the heap.
> existing large drug companies like Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and Novartis

OK, you aren't as dumb as I thought you were. Some people claim that drug companies do no research, the public sector does all of it, and Big Pharma (a big 'I'm-a-moron' catchphrase if I've ever heard one) steals or suppresses everything it can get its hands on.

> But the last are heavily biased.

Every field has its publication bias. Frankly, results announcing new things and going new places are more interesting than results confirming what we know or saying that the new thing isn't as interesting as we'd hoped after all. What's worse is trying to get science news from non-specialized news sources, like CNN or Fox. You might as well ask an overexcited six-year-old what's in the dark closet.

Your sleeping pill study isn't even in the running for the thing most wrong with how we research and produce drugs in this country, let alone with how terribly, criminally negligent the FDA is in prosecuting the crazies who are bringing crap like reiki and homeopathy into hospitals and university programs (quackademic medicine).
Cool article. I'm wondering, instead of using 4 vertices to represent the sphere could points have been used instead to do the same thing? Would it be simpler?
Congratulations I think you are now the all time #2 behind the announcement that Steve Jobs is leaving!
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I think that you could get a lot of mileage by selling unique trinkets. Imagine taking a Escher style moebius ring and creating an actual ring or a necklace out of it (imagine doing it with flat links to form the necklace, and they all have connections to one another at a varying gradient, so that you can create that moebius strip) [ interesting link to set you up http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/ ]

If you think about it then there are tons of amazing geometrical shapes out there that would make amazing trinkets, and why limit yourself to pure mathematics? Imagine creating a trinket that represents plasma captured in a magnetic bottle. That would be beautiful if you can get it just right.

This will be challenging, artistically, to pull it off (perhaps you can use a 3D printer), but if you do I want one. (yes, I have weakness for such trinkets)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
>when there's so much real correlation between your personality and your birth order //

Do you mean this or do you mean position in pecking order (I guess studies are needed to show it).

I was youngest of two but lived as youngest of four (and not in an enlarged step-family). I feel that the inter-relationships between me, my sibling and my sort-of-siblings is more key to my make up than strict birth order.

Presumably if you're the youngest of 8 but you're adopted in to a family as the eldest (at a young age) then you're more likely to develop as if you were an eldest child.

tl;dr - hypothesis: it's not birth order but age in your groups.
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I’m surprised that this article didn’t talk about doing regression analysis with PHP and R. Using R adds a dependency, but it might be worth it. I’d recommend this article[1] if you’re interested; the “cat file.txt | /usr/bin/R --vanilla” line is particularly helpful in executing R directly from PHP.

[1] https://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers/cgi-bin/drupal/node/25
What science & technology advances will impact your life in next 5 years?
What science and technology advances will most impact your life in the next 5 years & if you could invent one what would it do?

I'm a futurist and am interested in different perspectives from around the world on how science and technology will affect our lives, our work, our society, our challenges, our environment and planet.

I'm also intersted to hear where you think the greatest unmet needs are and what scientific or technolgical breakthroughs you'd like to see created to address them.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

I personally would like to see inventions mentioned below. Some of them may appear funny or may appear practically impossible but anyway I would love to see these become a reality.

1) Fully functional BCI (Brain Computer Interface) i.e. controlling a PC with mind signals or if possible vice versa. Some interesting things come in mind when I think if it can be possible such as a Brain Area Network, direct connection of brain to google or wikipedia,colaborative use of several brains for problem solving, Brain User Interface, Automated Learning etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-computer_interface

2) One smart card for everything - credit cards, ATM cards, Driving license, etc. All such information on one single card.

3) Air bike/car.A small affordable bike/car which can travel onland/sea/air.

4) Music generation from musical notes. Scan/Read written musical notes and generate instrumental music from that.

5) At last this one seems to be impossible and funny. If mass can be converted to energy(e = m (c)square), what if we convert humans to light energy and transfer them thorugh wires. Don't know what will happen if energy is lost while doing the transfer.
Are you being serious or is this parody?
Why use Facebook and not OKCupid?
You think that's impressive? 14 billion years ago a big bang occurred and particles too numerous to count were unleashed. Throughout all that time, these particles danced a particular pattern and interacted with each other through quantum effects that we don't even fully understand today. Just think of all the collisions that have occurred between all the particles in the universe; the ebb and flow of forces acting on the smallest of every single subatomic particle and quantum of energy that exists.

Looking at it from a macro perspective these particles, energy quantums, and forces have resulted in innumerable acts of learning and knowledge. People more learned than you and I have developed all manners of science and technology. Wars have been fought. Nations conquered. Virulent plagues unleashed with millions of people dying. A veritable tapestry of human achievement has been women together due to the interactions of countless tiny little particles, bundles of energy, and forces.

And all this rich history of the universe has been building up like a fantastic crescendo in the most amazing symphony every conducted, culminating in a singular event so that here and now I would post this comment on Hacker News. What are the odds of that?
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Do Ikea allow you to search the site by preferred fit dimensions? If they do then that's new.

I can see them picking it up if they haven't though.

It's a great idea IMO. Kudos.
Ok. Would you mind dropping me an email (mkwst@chromium.org) with details? I'm happy to file the ticket for you.
Reddit? Whatever became Google maps? Hotmail? Android?

There are plenty of startups which have thrived after acquisition. There are also spectacular failures. M&A is risky, but can have a very high payoff.
Also, he gave a great talk at DEFCON about his current project, attempting to document what websites do with your browsing data.

http://disconnect.me/db/
Security professionals habitually grossly underestimate the negative externalities they wish to impose on others.
Likewise. I don't have a million friends, just a few that really matter to me.

The friends that I really care about require no electronic mediums for meaningful interaction. If I didnt hear from them for a year, it would only take 60 seconds to get back into the comfort zone.

Technology is no substitute for heart. : )
Other than working on a Facebook app via my job, Facebook serves as a pretty accurate inverse metric of my productivity.

If I've been on Facebook a lot during a given week, I know that I haven't been that productive.

If I sign on, see a bunch of notifications and realize that I haven't been on in a while, I know that I've been busy, and feel good.

Unfortunately, though, it's how just about everybody I know communicates and shares their photos.
run around with an ipad and offer them to "get a real NY friend" on fb for just 5$. if you can sell that, you can sell anything.
I don't know much about reading films, but I do know something about AI, and this kind of direct data->solution problem with an enormous existing data set is just about as easy as AI problems get. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we are already at the point where its a trust/liability issue rather than a technological one.
Last time I checked, safe-browsing wasn't leaking url, hashes were sent around. Has this changed?
i think this post is useful for everyone....
It might be, though it sounds like at some point he needs to have four points for the sake of drawing each square.

Either way, my guess is that that wouldn’t make much difference to performance, since the expensive part is actually computing and drawing all the little textures.
It doesn't matter what you sell. What matters is how you sell it.

Case in point, Joe Ades with his vegetable peelers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCUct4NlxE0
I've already developed the habit of only accessing Facebook in an incognito tab, but cool extension nonetheless.
Very good really. Because mutations in sperms are very low. So out of the million or so sperm running the rat race to the egg they all hold basically the same info 50% (DNA) of you from your father and the egg will hold the other 50%(DNA) of you from the mother that will make 100% you. Environment factors will play relatively the same if spermA or spermB had made it to the egg. Only other factor is that the role of environment based on if the egg developed as a male or female factor.
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A lot of people in my network had restricted their profiles as well. However, due to some change (I guess around two weeks ago), most of those profiles are somewhat open again, and I can access information that was blocked before. I really dislike having to lock down my profile again everytime Facebook changes this stuff.
if we're using a Bayesian model, the probability is 1.
Hmm, I'm fairly sure I loaded books on the Kindle app for the iPad by just mounting it, the app shows up as a folder. Or maybe that was iBooks...
Exactly.

But let assume that newborn with your exact genes was born.

What are the chances that your conscious would occupy that body?
just 2nd law of thermodynamics at work.
I'm not sure that this what saved Apple. If they were losing billions, 150 millions wouldn't have saved them. It was just a protection measure to buy the trust of the board.

What saved Apple was good products ipod and especially iphone, and an awesome marketing that presented better products under their best light. It's the iphone that changed the game and brought craploads of revenues. I'd love to know the insight that lead them to the iphone.
Sell experiences.

I'm not sure if you've heard of Joe Ades. He used to sell potato peelers in NY and has been mentioned on HN a few times:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ades

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/nyregion/03ades.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCUct4NlxE0

I don't think it really matters what you sell, especially in this case where you just want to improve your sales technique. The main thing is that you sell an experience, not a product.
Some basic details below, maybe I'll write a blog post with more thorough descriptions...

App and scrapers are written in Python with MongoDB storage. I was pleasantly surprised with MongoDB's query speed given I only index keywords. There are a small number of products in the database, but its still very fast.

To get the data I've created scrapers for each site. Currently, only Target and Amazon are implemented (with Container Store soon to come). Target and Container Store provide a product feed when you sign up as an affiliate. They FTP their product info to your site and I use that to parse the links. Using each link, I then scrape the page to store the relevant information for various products in the database. Amazon provides a nice API and there is a Python wrapper which makes it easy to query (python-amazon-product-api).
Live on Ustream later on in English. Its in English but held in Berlin , on the panel are German Vcs so maybe you get an idea of the mindset of VCs there.
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On modern reactors, it would be hard even for the plant operators to cause a meltdown -- there's just too many passive measures in place. You'd probably need to start by walking around the reactor smashing bits of machinery first.

On the other hand, triggering the reactor to automatically shut down would be pretty easy -- and if you shut down all the nuclear reactors in the US for a few weeks, you'll certainly have made a significant impact.
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I was once having a very good day in NYC and an art-student-looking guy outside Cooper Union tried to sell me one of his hand-drawn "life maps" - he was holding a basket of little paper scrolls tied with shiny ribbons, with colorful lines drawn inside the paper scrolls - for a couple dollars, and it actually worked on me (well, I'd stopped and asked about them because I thought they were free, but he still convinced me to pay for one). People like pretty handmade things with some sort of emotional resonance (note also that I'm a girl socialized to like pretty things). It was a good hustle.

There are also people who go to farmer's markets and sell poems written on the spot on typewriters - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=poem%20store - similarly whimsical, handmade, and suitable for impulse purchases for people out on dates or whatever. You could multivariate-test the sign.

Also check out the licensing requirements for street vendors if you haven't yet: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dca/html/licenses/094.shtml (to help make sure you know what you're getting into, and also because it has exceptions for artwork and written matter).
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Not at all! I enjoyed it - coming from Tokyo New York was a great refresher on human interaction outside of Japan for me.
A nice follow up thread or article would be how many of these websites or services would retain this value, based on what some call currently a book market.
I have a facebook tab open on my browser all the time, just like I have tweetdeck and gmail always open. Facebook for me is just a fun communication and entertainment tool. I can do without it.
DNT is privacy theater too. It encourages a business model shift and research into data mining that has the same effect as tracking but without an implementation that would violate DNT. DNT does not solve the problem of ubiquitous online tracking. That problem is most likely unsolvable.

On my home network, Google, Facebook, and Twitter compete for the most web tracking next to my ISP's own capabilities. Traffic weighted, Facebook is now the leader in my household.
I did not read it that way. The premise is more like facial detection is a prerequisite for facial recognition, so blocking the former will prevent the latter.
I bet - as someone that respects what Facebook has crafted but really has no vested interest in their long term success - that Facebook internally feels that it has done a ton at demonstrating it's awareness and empathy towards users and their privacy and has concluded that actually, users as a meaningful percentage, do not give a crap about what Facebook does or doesn't do wit their data.
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It's naturally for humans, especially ones who've invested years of effort into something and get paid a lot for it to continue, to claim that something is "more of an art than a science." They are wrong. Do they collect data on how they make decisions and what the outcomes are, and then check that they are improving?

For contrast, look at http://www.lifeclinic.com/fullpage.aspx?prid=508121&type... There they decided to stop gathering lots of information and making a judgement and instead use a few simple rules to make a decision on whether someone was having a heart attack and how bad. It was more accurate.
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Yup, until the author uploads a new, more 'clever' version and chrome auto-updates your browser, without you knowing it (since permissions didn't change).
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Oxygen... What an idea. At Six Flags Magic Mountain, they sold oxygen with a sign that read: "BENEFITS OF OXYGEN". They must have sold out of ice cubes in Alaska.
I'm missing something. If the goal of revoking ssh access is to stop kernel devs being able to run arbitrary commands on kernel.org servers...surely you can't give them permissions to set their own commit hooks?

If an attacker compromises a kernel dev, instead of using their ssh access to run cmds on kernel.org, they just use their hook access to run cmds on kernel.org.
Turns out that most writers who post their work in public are horribly scared of it being stolen. There's also a myth about something called 'first publishing rights' that persists despite my best efforts to eradicate. Long story short, the site is completely hidden from the general public because the writers who use it prefer their work to be visible only to other members.

FWIW, it used to be visible to the public for a long time, and I would constantly get complaints from my members.
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In Europe there is a similar movment but it comes from the EU. There has been a big change in the handling of cookies and other privacy issues, so that now you are only allowed to save data if when someone visits your site and selects some pop to allow the site to save it. big problems with analytics

http://www.ico.gov.uk/
Theres a guy here in Tokyo who does dramatic readings of manga for people... He's amazing and has been doing it for years but I imagine it would work just as well with older cheesy marvel / dc / Archie comics. The key is he gives it 100% and then some.. You could probably get the comic books for dirt cheap
Missing poll option:

I'm on facebook everyday, but for no more than 5 minutes total.

There's really no need to be on facebook all the time to get the major benefits (messaging, event invites). The iPhone app alerts you when anything happens that involves you so I don't see the need to waste any time browsing the site.
There is also another interesting site:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Facebook-vs-Datenschu...

This German site uses a double opt in button for button like "Like ". Press twice on the grey like button and then it only turns into a normal like.
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No, the refusal to make the effort to design well allowing for this is why we don't have nice things.