skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran a similar quiz-site for a while before flipping it a couple of years ago. It had heavy integration with facebook, and well was rather spammy (I know I might go to hell).

I just visited your website, I was wondering whether you manually create all the quizzes, or whether you have started outsourcing it seeing that you have been at it since the beginning of time?

Also, I am assuming that all your revenue at this point is from the ads on the website?

Kudos to both of you!
If everyone had known from the start that Facebook would make that kind of deal and kick all other apps of the same kind out, it would have been OK. But running a platform that is supposedly governed by rules and then using underhand tactics like these to kill apps arbitrarily is not OK.

It puts a big question mark on Facebook as a platform and I think the author of the article is right that everyone should think very carefully before building on top of that sort of "platform".
"Contrary to popular belief, the people in government who make laws and control regulation are not bumbling idiots."

Actually, in the case of the export restriction laws in question, they were bumbling idiots. These laws were passed in haste after there was an accidental disclosure of technology from the U.S. to the Chinese during an investigation of a launch failure. The law is terribly vague, with industry leaders unable to tell even what is covered by it or isn't. Additionally, enforcement responsibility moved from the Commerce Department to the Defense Department, with a concomitant increase in red tape that really only a large prime defense contractor could have the resources to cope with.

It would not be too much of a stretch to say that this law would be like outlawing airline travel completely on the basis of security concerns arising out of 9/11.

Finally, the arguments that will bring about a much needed change to these regulations will not be economic in nature, they will be arguments about national security. Already there is an international market for technologies untainted by U.S. control. Unfortunately for the U.S., the need for that market is going away as U.S. companies have been isolated for so long, and other nations have been so free to cooperate for so long, that non-U.S. space technology is, for the most part, superior to U.S. technology on cost, reliability, and performance bases. We, the U.S., are losing the larger security war by winning every local security battle with senseless and callous efficiency.
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I was going to say the same- I bet it would have been done long ago if, for example, MS thought they could get away with it.

I'm curious as to how the law is going to interpret this in the future. The closed ecosystem of ios may be a bad (in my mind) precedent.
just wait until Cuba embargo and travel restrictions come down:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/cuba.html

Like Mafia 60 years ago and US government during last 10 years, the medical industry may just happen to discover the benefits of such close, yet completely outside of US laws (or pretty much any laws that can't be worked around with money), location.
God's just. They prolly have a new brilliant idea and are enthralled night and day working on it. Meanwhile their former competators are handling customer support calls.

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God says...
C:\TEXT\DARWIN.TXT

hole subject is included under
the general term of Morphology. This is one of the most interesting
departments of natural history, and may almost be said to be its very soul.
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping,
that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the
porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same
pattern, and should include similar bones, in the same relative positions?
How curious it is, to give a subordi

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Well they prolly would give customer support to subordinates, I suppose. God, why'd You ruin my story? ROFLMAO

God says...
not_that_theres_anything_wrong hey_Mikey_he_likes_it that's_hot
not_too_shabby where's_the_love hopefully in_a_galaxy_far_far_away
atrocious poor beep_beep well_golly bummer jobs ahh doh
home population incredibly I_planned_that skills chill
let_me_count_the_ways you_think_I'm_joking one_more_time
on_the_otherhand Oh_Hell_No hollywood not_too_shabby phasors_on_stun
arrogant so_let_it_be_written I_just_might employer I_made_it_that_way
hopefully yep Ivy_league I_made_it_that_way boss I'll_let_you_know
shucks what_the_heck no_more_tears dang_it praise Burp
desert man I'm_done I_veto_that theres_no_place_like_home
>Eventually the US government will sell back the banks and make some income, so its hardly comparable. Sweden in the early nineties did this and they recovered more than half their money.

Compared to what America got out of the space race, the bailout was a complete waste. America got something like 100X their ROI in going into space. Major investments in materials science, aerospace engineering, battery technology, computer technology, their probably isn't a product today on the market that isn't using some kind of "space age technology" that ultimately came about because of NASA's space race.

So the space race was clearly worth it. The bank bailout is still clearly debatable. I would argue that because the banks turned around and paid out bonuses, that we should have placed the banks into receivership and re-structured them. In our post-bailout system, the banks have grown even more concentrated and reform is pretty much a failure. We're set up to be "way too big to fail" next time around.

When that happens, we won't be talking about "getting half our money back" and saying it was a "good deal".
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These conversations are inherently difficult to articulate. "Creepy" is an adjective one uses to describe how something makes them feel. There's probably a more specific term for words like this. That is, the adjective isn't an entirely objective measure.

Think about this conversation for a moment::

Dick: I sure do hate strawberries. They're gross!

Jane: OMG, you are so crazy. Strawberries are delicious!

Dick & Jane: LOL (literally, they have a laugh)

In this conversation, neither Dick nor Jane are upset or confused by the other's feelings about strawberries. There is little ambiguity to the fact that the adjective "gross" applies only to Dick's feelings about strawberries. Neither feels threatened by the other's feelings about strawberries, because neither of them have any significant emotional investment in the fruit, and their relationship won't suffer as a result.

Step back and look at the Facebook Timeline situation. The author finds it creepy. "It", is the act of inviting others in to your life experiences on such an intimate level. "Creepy" is how the author feels when considering doing so on his own Facebook account.

Some people, when they read the conversation about strawberries above will have a visceral reaction about Dick's dislike of strawberries. "How can anyone dislike strawberries," they'll exclaim!? The same thing is happening here with the Facebook Timeline conversation. For some people, the Facbook Timeline is like inviting a complete stranger in to the bathroom with you, and not a bathroom with stalls and dividers. I'm talking one toilet here. Then again, maybe you're in to that kind of thing. I'm not here to judge.

The point is that in any sizable population, you're going to have divergent viewpoints on what is "creepy" and what is not. Creepy is not an objective measurement. It's how you feel about something. What I don't understand is the author's framing of the issue:

"Nobody’s forced to use Facebook, of course, although for many it’s pretty much a mandatory part of the social experience. What worries me is the trend of radical transparency and social context throughout the web software industry, where it’s expected that everyone will share their lives unless they’ve got something to hide. On the surface, for white males like me living in California, there’s a lot to be said for this on an individual level; don’t lie, be up-front, wear your intentions and motivations on your sleeve. But ultimately the decision about what to share has to be the individual’s – if you don’t feel like sharing something, don’t. Radically transparent interfaces are designed in a way that leads to a kind of peer pressure for disclosure: everyone else is sharing information about A, B and C, so why are you being so evasive?"

To paraphrase, "I recognize that I'm not forced to use Facebook, but I'm worried about the impending pressure to share." Taken further, one could say that the author is concerned about the "implications" of this. Implications is code for something else though. It's a rhetorical device used to represent a growing dissonance between the author's feelings on a subject and the perceived consensus.
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Relevant: why QA jobs are more fun than developer jobs http://blog.foundrs.com/2011/09/19/why-i-prefer-testing-over...
Thanks for the link to Amber. I don't know Smalltalk, but the 'Learn Smalltalk with ProfStef' within my browser is very easy to understand.
We are exactly in this situation right now. We have used our own money so far and it will soon be depleted. But we haven't found a good MVP yet. Now the question is to know whether we should raise money from friends or go back to work on part-time jobs to keep the ball rolling. It really is a tough choice.
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No, not x86. I actually can't remember the actual CPU it was. Something I'd never heard of, nor run across since. Maybe an IBM mini CPU? We would log into the computer via terminals and build and test that way. This was in the late 80s.

I remember that it was a pretty straightforward architecture, though. Something like 68000, which I knew already, but it was even more orthogonal with respect to addressing modes. I think it had 16 32-bit registers, and you could use any as an address to load data from, complete with offset for easy manipulation of data structures.

I do know x86, and while the 8086 was designed by idiots, it's not that hard to get the basics. Segment registers are a PITA, but as long as you're using 32-bit mode and not accessing more than 4Gb at a time, you can mostly ignore them. I've had to deal with something similar in another architecture, and you just end up with abstractions that hide the details as much as possible. Same as coding anything else that's nontrivial, really.
Well, this is just a guess, but you would probably get a bigger, meaner, more accurate V2 missile.

But that could be because the place for rocket scientists before NASA was the Nazi party -- back when they were out to pretty much dominate humanity.

Did that answer your question?
It's funny today, but I hope this doesn't happen every time someone references the speed of light from now on.
Ben & Jerry's Latest Flavor? Schweddy Balls.
My guess is there's something wrong with the statistical modeling, but I realize that's not a very useful statement. I missed the press conference, but I did read the paper
and I even understood a few things. :-)
It was good to see they even thought about seismic activity (centimeters).
One thing I noticed in both the article and the media is that the effect is never expressed in terms of distance (about 15 meters), but only in terms of time and speed.
It surprises me that they're able to determine the point of creation and detection of neutrinos in such huge instruments, but of course they know their stuff. I did get the impression it took a lot of modelling and advanced statistics to achieve that, hence my earlier "gut feeling" that there lies the problem.

A few other possible explanation that crossed my mind and I'm sure are wrong and already thought about:

* the distance between both sides was measured very accurately, above ground. The earth is not flat, so the distance underground is shorter. I'm too tired to calculate how much shorter.

* relatistic effect of the beam going deeper underground on its way over; I read elsewhere that they already considered the effect of altitude difference between the two stations and that it was orders of magnitude smaller.

* some other mistake in distance measurement; have they tried sending other, easier to measure, signals over to figure out the distance? Or some other independent
way to measure that distance?
I can't find anything about this now, just spent a good 20 minutes searching for it. I guess keywords kqueue, buffer request http are too generic in some sense. :-/

Anyway, the idea was to avoid context switches by waiting/parsing in kernel-side till there was enough data for the client to do something else that just another gimme_more_data()-call back to the kernel.

It could even be applied to other methods than kqueue, so perhaps I remember a bit wrong that this was just for kqueues.
This is a weird opening. Why wouldn't you listen to someone trying to sell you something? The opposite pre-supposes that you have all the information needed to make a decision about something you may have never encountered before. It may be that you're projecting suspicion onto the salesman rather than acknowledging that your own judgement may not be trustworthy. ;)
When the term sharecropper is used, one will naturally turn to the meaning of sharecropping today

Only people who know that this term is still being used today and in what context. I suspect that most people don't know this, and will revert to the historical meaning.
Yeah - Oodle runs Facebook Marketplace right now which classifieds-wise is competing with Ebay. I wonder if FB+Ebay means that Oodle is out in favor of some larger deal. Although, maybe Ebay is buying Oodle and taking over marketplace- that would be big news.
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If it's hard to find good QA guys when there's a career path, it's even harder when there's a wall between dev and QA. QA is considered entry level in most companies because the jobs are entry level. Most companies barely value the monkeys-on-keyboards style of QA, much less the more skilled and better paying QA roles that would tempt smart people to stick with a career in QA.
Not to mention that the owner of the site can re-submit on a more favourable hour by appending to the url with things like "/" or "?fromHn=true"
The Real News is Not that Facebook Serves Up 1 Trillion Pages a Month…
What apps did you build if you do not mind me asking?
... and in fact a lot of them actually have economics degrees because it is a great background for that position. So they probably understand better than you or I roughly how many jobs are going to be killed by these tight regulations.

Maybe things have change a lot in the last three years, but:

"As Congress works on one of the most important pieces of economic legislation in a generation, a Washington research group has pointed out that more than 8 in 10 members of Congress don’t have a formal educational background in the business, economics, or finance fields."

"The research by the Center for Economic and Entrepreneurial Literacy, which aims to educate the general public about finance issues, showed that about 14% have degrees in economics-related fields and just 6.7% specifically have an economics degree. More than 30% of members have degrees in politics and government, while 18% majored in humanities. "

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/10/01/most-lawmakers-don...
I think this is a great list for daily, mid-level inspiration. I use Dribbble and it's great. But true, ground-moving inspiration comes from within and usually springs from your personal depth of experience.
put stuff voluntarily on the Internet

later not happy people can see it

uhhh
If you know where you’re going, you’re not pushing hard enough
Wait a minute, didn't these guys steal a whole bunch of information? Downloading a song and stealing credit card numbers seem to be two different types of theft.
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I think IT and devices are two different problems entirely. Most of the healthcare groups I've worked with have their IT purchasing decisions made by the IT department with minimal input from the senior staff or medical staff. The IT departments are making their decision based on begin largely underfunded and are trying to implement any solution that requires the least amount of effort on their part because of labor cost savings. Which is why you don't have too look very hard to find high cost solutions with terrible interfaces for physicians but decent interfaces for IT administrators.

Medical devices have mostly been vetted by physicians and provided to the IT department who tries to discern what works well in their current network. All the fat cat decides is a yes or no to the entire proposition. It's a people system, sales isn't about convincing one person its about convincing many.

The largest problem is always in getting innovative products into the hands users. With IT its no different than normal and with medical devices you have to make disclosures to the FDA because of patient safety considerations, but this paperwork isn't particularly difficult.
To answer your first set of questions: it's both. I'm not sure how Nate got the feeling that I'm against maned space flight? There are plenty of private entities out there with the stated goal of manned space flight, so that's a bit of a straw-man.

"I'd also like to point out the lofty goal of exploring other worlds has the power to unite mankind much better than a couple wars. In 1969, all over the world, people were paying attention to Neil's first steps on another world. For a brief moment, we were one mankind, united around the most extraordinary achievement of the 20th century."

Boy do we ever agree here. Reminds me of the ending of Watchmen. A world united in the effort to save us all from randomly-appearing psychic squid. Gaaaaaaah!

Here's the rub though. I think that private enterprise has a greater chance of leading the charge here. Governments are hamstrung by their constituencies. There's nothing stopping entrepreneurs from reaching out across political boundaries, except for pesky laws in some cases, but that just serves to reinforce my point. The face that the laws like that even exist shows that the government seeks to prevent what some individual may be prone to try. In this context, reaching out in unity with "forbidden" foreign nationals.
Mixergy has given so much to the community...if you're going to be a thief at least have the decency to be modest about it.

Edit: Parent post has been deleted.
The last paragraph of that article is prophetic. Large regulators almost never shrink, or become smarter, or more efficient. At best they tend to grow very, very slowly - at best.

We (high regulation) are going to experience many fewer unwanted side effects from medical innovation. We are also going to have less medical innovation.

Other places (with low regulation) will have a lot more people suffer form unwanted side effects of new medical treatments, devices, drugs, etc. But they will also have a lot more treatment options, and a lot cheaper treatment options.

All other things being equal, where would you like to live?
Fred Wilson posts then. I and other well-meaning HNers on the east coast sometimes accidentally kill good posts of his by submitting them at a bad time.

If you can think of a way to make gravity a function of activity rather than time without making it easy to game, then this problem will go away.
facebook has had huge problems, in my opinion, with how they react to people dying for quite some time now - a friend of mine died several years back and facebook often asked me to send him a message because we hadn't interacted in a while. haven't seen this sort of thing quite as much in a while (although he does show up as offline from time to time, in my chat list on the right side of the new facebook design) but it's a tricky problem and one that certainly can mar the experience. i imagine it would be far worse if you saw this sort of thing after your spouse, child, or parent died.
Thanks for the link--I hadn't seen that before. The last time I looked around for health care for myself (many years ago) I don't recall seeing plan prices that low.
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Seems, I'm too late. Aside, Technicalities..

My suggestion is, Why don't you create some content like beer reviews, Preferably videos.

Gary Veynerchuck had been hugely successful, by his wine reviews. Good news for you is, he doesn't deal with beers.

I'd suggest two things:
1. Beer Reviews
2. Interviews with Beer brewers (who doesn't want to give interviews)

You can host videos on youtube, and embed them on your website. That way you won't have to pay for video hosting.

In my opinion, humans judge a lot by seeing other humans, than seeing text, statistics or beer pictures. If you can throw in some charm, fun and honesty, you can make it big. Just my two cents.
If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
First thing you should ask yourself, do you really need ads for your startup ? If your startup is not compelling enough to get the tech media attention, is it really a good idea to invest in ads ?
Good ads that work like ads on thedeck are expensive and typically not a good idea for small startups here are some suggestions:

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch13_Ride_the_Blog_Wave.php

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/741-ask-37signals-10-ways-to-...
US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers
the thing - Facebook - has been dirty from its very start
fork, code, commit, push, request pull
It's so easy to find someone with just a name, town they live in and Facebook that people should be terrified with the data that's already on there. I've never understood why people put so much of themselves online, but I think the reality is that they just don't understand the ramifications.
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8 surprising hunks of space gear that returned to Earth
Goodluck - others have experimented with this but I don't know of any existing service right now. There's a great novelty factor involved with a "email-to-signup" flow but I agree that that's a bit awkward for many users. One cool idea is a twist on that - use an OAuth signup process with FB/Twitter and send a cool confirmation postcard to the user's address they have listed on FB, etc - depending on how to word it there's a viral element to it.