skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additional piece of advice: Pitch to lots of people who have not seen the pitch before. You've seen the material a billion times! And you know it backwards and forwards... but the downside is that it can be unclear what is a logical step and what's an impossible leap. Pitching to friends who don't know what you're doing is the best way to improve.
Just pick one and worry about the product instead. No one's going to care that much about what it's called.
The best solar cells have something like 30% efficiency at the moment. Even if he boosted it by 1% it would be impressive.

At the moment I've got no idea what he _actually_ did. Obviously, parts of this story are complete BS (e.g. 500 times). Is there something genuinely worthwhile? I haven't read a sufficiently detailed article to figure it out.
> Most solar cells in use today are either photovoltaic, meaning they harness only visible light, or thermal.

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure that's not the definition that I learned.
Did he actually build one? I haven't seen any indication that he did anything other than "design" one. And it's a lot easier to "design" a nanoscale device than it is to build one.

I mean, I'm sure the kid is smart and all (and no doubt has had some help from his parents) but the media-hype to technical-details ratio here is off the charts.
Apple Recalls All iPhone 3G Power Adapters
The people who made the ads used whatever tools they usually use - so what? I don't expect all the camera operators on a McCain ad are Republicans, nor that Pepsi is banned from the canteen at Coca-Cola's ad agency.
The twitter integration doesn't seem to work.

I was talking to a friend about creating a "daily tweet" a daily summary of tweets of a search term. If they get this working then I don't have to build it.
Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Jabber
Maybe the efficiency only counts the visible radiation? So that the fact that it uses ultraviolent screws up the 7-15% (that is, if you include UV light, its much lower?) That'd be my guess...

Although it is rather low on facts and high on hype.
Practice good online password security
Reminds me of the dialysis machine for babies that was up here a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=267510
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i agree thats good advice but it would be wrong of me not to do a quick check for unforseen remarkability (not a word, i know) of one of the names especially since the value added would likely be far greater than the 45 minutes or whatever it takes to set up the test.... It took me 15 minutes to come up with the names its not like its holding up the product

sure a great product overcomes a terrible name but it'd be easier just to not have to leap that hurdle from the start
you could just post them here as comments and we can vote them up... I assume you own all 4 options at this point.
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The "problem" they discuss is the secret-question routine used for hinting when users forget their passwords. However, for the secret-question problem to be relevant, users must first break the first rule of password security which is:

Never commit a password to memory. Always write it down.
buying them as I speak just found the discount codes...
haha... when it comes to domain names I would feel uncomfortable telling it to even my friends with out owning it first.
Becoming popular on web is hard, staying popular harder
(Energy per weight is not energy density. It is specific energy. Energy density is energy per volume.)

A123 batteries are not notably high in specific-energy capacity. They are notably low in internal resistance. Big difference.
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i'd do a google adwords test
Scientists Double The Capacity Of Ultracapacitors Thanks To Graphene
Being perfectly honest, her device could be confusing in an airport context, given the fact that you never know who is the person you deal with. I can understand the arrest, but not what has happened next.

The press seems to have been called too early and my guess is that the officials didn't want to look like fools when their sensationalistic "suicide bomber" story - that was supposed to get them promoted - just vanished. "Suicide bomber arrest" was the first thing I ever heard about this story in a french newspaper. If the lies didn't spread so fast, the story wouldn't have gotten so big and the officials would prolly have released her the next hour with no charges at all. Fuck that, I hope she recovers well.
made sure to keep most of them in the dark and to not ask my developer friends
i don't quite understand what it will tell me though, people arent buying my site necessarily its not a book i suppose, and wont the decision to click on a specific name depend more on what they were looking for than what the name actually is?
I'm aware of the Plagiarism Today post as I exchanged e-mails with its author. I didn't link it because it contains inaccuracies (especially wrt SEO, etc).

Individual comments make up a very small percentage of a page's content, so what we're doing is more similar to Google than you suggest (they also index your comments -- search for them). We display excerpts of pages; we attribute them liberally. A search result on Google leads you to the full page of content; a search result on BackType leads you to a full page of content. We index content for purposes of discovery i.e. search.

== Fair use

Also, it's pretty obvious that we're not in competition with content publishers, and we provide a very effective way to prohibit BackType from indexing comments.
Blind optimization: bad
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Pick the name you like the best and upvote it, in general terms its a shopping site... they're under here so they dont get mixed with other comments and move up or down...
funboxed.com
fundiscovered.com
funopened.com
funwrapped.com
Flagged. This is retarded linkbait.

No offense to bootload who has submitted tons of good stuff.
Good idea for a startup.... buuut it might be better if their site worked.

I tried to register and:

Invalid postback or callback argument. Event validation is enabled using <pages enableEventValidation="true"/> in configuration or <%@ Page EnableEventValidation="true" %> in a page. For security purposes, this feature verifies that arguments to postback or callback events originate from the server control that originally rendered them. If the data is valid and expected, use the ClientScriptManager.RegisterForEventValidation method in order to register the postback or callback data for validation.
System.Web.UI.ClientScriptManager.ValidateEvent(String uniqueId, String argument) +159
System.Web.UI.Control.ValidateEvent(String uniqueID, String eventArgument) +108
System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList.LoadPostData(String postDataKey, NameValueCollection postCollection) +55
System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList.System.Web.UI.IPostBackDataHandler.LoadPostData(String postDataKey, NameValueCollection postCollection) +11
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessPostData(NameValueCollection postData, Boolean fBeforeLoad) +353
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1194
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if it's a critical feature i would say it'd be a problem, but this is something new. if you notice it, use it, if not, you're no worse off than you were before.
I almost agree with you 100%. I've worked with an agency up in SF on a few projects for Adidas, and when the clients are coming in the word goes out banning Nike shoes for the day. So it does get that ridiculous sometimes, but the pc/mac war always drives me crazy.
Strapped camera to head.. turned into company
Yup. Same error for me as well--it was started by a non-hacker... :) However, just quickly glancing the article, I thought that it was a very useful idea. Back in the college app days, I would scour rankings, reports, guides and would get annoyed that they'd show only a peek. Also, it wasn't super clear how something like U.S. News Report graded the colleges.
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It will tell you which site name gets more clickthroughs, which is a proxy for interest. Keep everything in both ads the same, except the name.

The name that makes people click, out of curiosity or whatever motive, will likely be the better name. If you ever do advertise your site, you will have one factor in your favor already. It is ok if you don't have a "product," just put a "site coming soon" message up.
He's making it way too complicated. For your "secret question," you should never actually answer the question. For instance:

First school: Neptune

First Car Neptune

and so on. They only check that the answer agrees with what you said it was when you set up the account. They don't actually check to see that it is true. A lot of people don't get this. In effect, it is simply a second password; a backup, if you will.
Have you looked at this?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_density_i...

Energy density Energy density
by mass (MJ/kg) by volume (MJ/L)

Gasoline 46.9 34.6
Lithium ion battery 0.72 1.9
Lead acid battery 0.11 0.17
Compressed air in fiber-wound
bottle at 200 bar (at 24°C) 0.1 0.1
compressed air in steel bottle
at 200 bar (at 24°C) 0.04 0.1
Go simple, shorter words are better for a huge amount of reasons; easier to remember, can be said quicker (name with lowest amount of syllables), a short word-logo can have larger font than a long-word logo of the same size (perception). Anything that's long isn't sensible.

funboxed.com was my vote, because it's the shortest and the sound rolled off my tongue.
It's definitely a new approach but not a new idea: http://www.collegeconfidential.com/

This really is a great domain (problem area, not uri) for a wiki though.
I've worked at Microsoft before and I can tell you that a lot of people have Apple products. From iPhones to Macbooks and the like. That's the beauty of freedom.
You used "fanboy" like a negative term when you referred to Gruber. The name has negative connotations. Here you dismiss him again by calling him a "fanboy leader" and generalizing against Apple users and Gruber readers. People read his stuff not because he constantly supports Mac, but because he's a good writer, he finds good links, and he tends to be pretty honest about how he feels. I read him before I was a Mac user, and it was the things that he pointed out that made me certain that I wanted a Mac. I don't think that's fanboyish of him, though: he honestly pointed out interesting stuff, and he never acts with a bias towards Apple, beyond the bias of them working well for him. If Apple does a bad job, he points it out.

I'm not digging your style, I must say. Comparing my point to Bill O'Reilly's style is pretty distorted. My point - that if a lot of smart people are also big Apple people, that Apple may actually be making the best products - is hardly irrational. I don't know why you've got a problem against Apple, or why you like tinting every lens in favor of Microsoft, but it's not pleasant and most of your posts have things in them that seem sneering towards things I genuinely like. Apparently your big web site is also a blog that got famous for being offensive, so that's no big surprise, but at the same time you'll forgive me from finding it a bit immature of you.

You think Microsoft only had three ads planned? You think they dropped only a single ad? Citation? And if they DID overadvertise Seinfeld for only a few ads, I'd say that was a bad move on Microsoft's part.
This one has the fewest characters and syllables. It sounds better, probably because it has fewer syllables. Go with it.
We haven't done any Twitter integration yet. We are going to add a button to tweet a comment, but we aren't doing digests. If you want to push a digest to twitter, you can link your comments feed from BackType to:
http://twitterfeed.com/

We'll be releasing an API soon so that the apps/tools/etc we don't build can still be built.
hence: dead man switch
I agree to an extent but I don't think there is a better place to put it. I've noticed it, but I doubt too many people are actively using Chrome yet.
Apple's revenues computed by PCs.
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I didn't notice any inaccuracies in the Plagiarism Today post. The author of that weblog knows a lot about these issues since he has been helping people fight spam blogs for years.

I'm not talking about the rights of the weblog owners. I'm talking about the rights of the commenters on those weblogs. If you search for my comments on backtype, you get the full text of each comment. That goes far beyond fair use. You can search for any fragment of any of my comments on Google and it won't show you the whole comment, it only shows a (fair use) excerpt.

To be extra clear, you "excerpt" pages but you are not excerpting the individually-copyrighted comments. It is analogous to a website that republishes a book a page at a time and then claims that each page is a fair-use excerpt of the book.

Anyway, I don't see how you can say that your assertion is obvious when I've already explained the ways you compete with content publishers and content authors. Besides that, as the Plagiarism Today piece mentions, you compete in SERP placement since you let search engines index the content you plagiarize.
Blogging is still largely unprofessional.

I like that, to some degree. I like how informal blogs can get. But very few bloggers are also good writers.
This article is depressing. Particularly:

Every single journalism class at NYU has required me to bring the bulky [New York Times] newspaper.

This quote gives me visions of the Toy Story "Squeeze Toy Aliens", each with a newspaper in their hands, waiting for a NYT Senior Editor to come down from the sky and take one lucky student to a better place.

This article is obviously working a specific perspective and could be projecting quite a bit of personal experience / opinion into things, but it speaks volumes about the situation the paper media finds itself in.
Little or No Jail Time Likely for Palin Hacker
The title is a little misleading...

Should read: 7 Version Control Systems Reviewed.
I can't argue about the ripping off business: I am not nearly experienced enough with your history to argue that.

What I CAN argue is the user interface, because that's something I've got experience with. Yours is awful. You essentially emulate an old version of Office, which had a fairly terrible interface to begin with. It works because you can modify the toolbar to work with it, to add on. Your products look like Office with all the toolbars enabled. There is no acknowledgement that certain buttons are used more than others, no acknowledgement that such a thing as "user flow" exists. It's unoriginal and it is worse than the original design. This is not usable.

Your aesthetic is questionable. Brown and white in Writer is not pretty by any means. The fact that your UI changes with every product means that you lack consistency. Furthermore, in Safari there is severe clipping whenever rounded corners are involved. It looks about as pretty as a bad student project.

Google understands that the Internet has different requirements, a different medium than desktop apps. Their products are lighter than Office, not just in terms of features but in terms of aesthetic. They don't try and fail to emulate Office. They offer one that's more optimized for the Internet. With yours, I'm seeing vast increases in disk usage. That's poorly done.

Of course you have customers. You have a wide set of applications, and a lot of people will use anything that has a wide featureset without design. That doesn't mean you won't get criticism. Many people despair of the fact that there's so much attention on featureset and so little attention on good design. It's the 37signals crowd, I guess you could say. And that crowd looks down on Zoho as a symbol of what's wrong with web design right now.

I mean, don't get me wrong. Good luck with your site: you certainly do have a product that appeals to a particular market. I just wish you guys would put a little more effort into making something that looks and feels beautiful.
What I meant, and I failed to explain this properly, was that the amount of equity you need to have in the account increases as the stock or index rises, and eventually it can happen that the position requires more money than you have, and you're hit with a margin call. You're correct that if you already have enough money in the account to hold the position, you can continue to short sell.
But his "solution" is to stop using security questions and passwords. That doesn't sound like much of a solution to me.
And subsequently had to have several showers and take time off to, according to some sources, "really reevaluate his relationship with modern humanity."
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love the euro slang 'uni'!
> tell me a startup that is not creating a frivolous toy

https://www.23andme.com/
No, popular and ordinary are entirely different things. Ordinary claims are ordinary because they are well proven and well known and don't need re-evaluated every time.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence precisely because because they haven't been proven. Claiming the Earth was round was at one time extraordinary, it no longer is. Claiming you met God however, is still an extraordinary claim and as such still requires extraordinary evidence.

Stating that the same level of proof is required for each one ignores the reality of the history of the claim.
are there fundamental data on ftp.sec.gov? All I can find is sec filings by the listed companies.
This seems like an ideal way to store energy from home solar or wind power. The safety problems would not be an issue at home, where you could either bury it or put a really heavy shield around it. Maybe this is irrelevant since you can get paid for giving electricity to the grid - unless, of course, you're not on the grid.
I used OpenMosix and a modified version of john the ripper to build a distributed password cracker, back before rainbow tables.

OpenMosix is linux with a modified kernel and some user-space tools; nodes automatically join the cluster, processes get migrated across the cluster to equalize load across all the systems.

It's not as elegant as it could be, but it's quick and dirty.
Went to work for company started by guy who strapped a camera to his head ;-)
That's like saying stay away from PHP because that's what Yahoo uses.
Digg: Still not interesting
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Despite the idiotic title of the article, this is kinda cool! No indication of how many yo-yo hours are necessary to charge the phone, though. I hope you have strong wrists!
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To be precise, I wasn't suggesting anything. I was arguing that those reasons for labeling atheism a belief are wrong.

To answer your post, I think the lack of evidence for all religions is a perfectly good counter. I think it shouldn't matter how long some idea has been around, or whether it appeals to our innate human instincts. But clearly both matter to a lot of people. As I'm not one of those people, I have no idea how to address this need.
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All it takes is a moment to hook up a profiler, and you will know FOR SURE where your performance problems are. Don't sit there thrashing away at shadows when you could be done and on to more important things. Diagnose, THEN fix; always in that order.

I couldn't have put it better myself.
Uhh, no. But thank you for proving my point.

You're making two mistakes: a mistake between proof and belief and a mistake between types of claims.

I might believe you when you say it rained yesterday, but that certainly doesn't mean that you've done the work necessary to prove that it in fact did rain yesterday. To prove it, I'd need to see a video, examine the video for tampering, &c.

Similarly, if you said "someone protected me from the rain by keeping a big umbrella floating over my head the whole day", I'd need to see a video, examine the video for tampering, &c.

What do you know: the same evidentiary proof for two similar claims.

Notice how my second example uses a "smaller" thing than "god reached down" - the way you phrase it is entailing a whole bunch of metaphysical claims not entailed by the first claim. But two metaphysical claims can be examined using the tools available to us, and competing metaphysical claims would use similar evidentiary tools.
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“We have demonstrated that we can extract electrons using this approach,” Ready said. “Now we need to get a good baseline to see where we compare to existing materials, how to optimize this and what’s needed to advance this technology.”
This book will make you an Austrian: that will make you a Paulite ;)

This should be required reading for everyone, considering our current economic situation.
Maybe the best thing I've ever read here. Thanks!
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I would wait until Python 3000 comes out and then judge. Hopefully some of these things will be fixed. The are getting rid of old-style classes, so I have my fingers crossed.
Biggest risk : Not taking a risk, until now.

Going to start on my own from Oct 01, 2008. The current economic scenario makes that option seem more adventurous/challenging, making it my next biggest risk.
Not quitting my finance job.

Actually it was using 90k in credit card debt to finance my first business. It paid off.
The problem is that plain language is full of loopholes and double meanings. Legalese is hard to understand, but it tries to be precise and loophole-free.
She must have had a terrible lawyer. "possessing a hoax device" requires that the person possessing the hoax device intended to scare someone. Since she was just meeting a friend and wanted to impress him (her?), I just don't see the hoax intent. It's like brushing your teeth and shining your shoes before picking up a friend at the airport -- not illegal.

Anyway, if she is appealing, I would like to donate some money to her legal fund so she can get a fair trial.
If the lies didn't spread so fast, the story wouldn't have gotten so big and the officials would prolly have released her the next hour with no charges at all.

This is all the more reason to hold the government accountable for their actions. They did not deserve to win this case and ruin Star's life.

Why don't the TSA employees go to jail when actual bombs get past the security checkpoints? That's an actual risk.

Oh right, it blows the illusion of security theater. Never mind. I thought we were actually trying to protect the traveling public there for a second. Silly me.
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Not necessary... Daniel Eran Dilger has an army of Digg accounts, which he uses to Digg all own articles. Then he cross links to them on AppleInsider under the pen name "Prince McLean".

I wouldn't expect anything less from a guy with a Friendster photo album like this... http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?a=0&uid=1033063
But... he made fun of Our Sacred Relic! THE ONLY SUITABLE PUNISHMENT IS DEATH BY DOWNMODDING.