skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but the webmasters have to know gnip exists.

the webmasters need to know how to turn the switch to publish a feed delta, or even write this themselves

with google or ysearch, you just publish and wait for the crawler to find you

the zero-effort solution always wins
Congrats to the Dropbox team for garnering such a glowing review on such a prominent tech site!
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"data portability" is cursing?
Americans seem to want to be lead by taller people.

What would that have to do with CEO's tending to be taller than average?

Maybe there is some actual correlation between competence and looks.

It has been established for many decades that looks are correlated with g. Here is an abbreviated list of positive-correlations of g that were established by 1987:

http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/eugenics/articles

Eye color, lightness of

Hair color, lightness of

Handgrip strength

Height

Health, fitness, longevity

Income

Leadership

Metabolism (high)

Myopia

Sports participation at university

Symmetry of facial features

Talking speed

Vital (lung) capacity

Inversely correlated with g are:

Aging (biological senescence)

Smoking

Weight/height ratio
I don't care how effective this ends up being - it's creepy. And as another commenter noted: people (including me) will stop going there.
Always minus a month is still always in this kind of context. Otherwise, I would have also meant that Erdös was also on drugs when he was a baby and during his childhood, and I guess it's easy to deduce from context that wasn't the case. I already knew about the one month anecdote but didn't thought it was relevant for my reply.
I knew of a guy who's now in Wall Street, in the very eye of the storm. He also started a company in 2000. What bad luck...he's like a shitstorm seaker or something.
Or trying to learn to hack.
alan-kay: "how could you have possibly done the first interactive-graphics, the first non-procedural programming language, first object-oriented software-system all in 1 year" ?

ivan-s: "i didn't know it was hard" !!!
thanks - I'd change it, but I just saw your reply now, and it's after the edit sunset.
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you need handwriting in order to take notes

Nope.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295110

I was convinced to design a system so that I could actually pay attention in class and take good notes, as well as take notes during these important face-to-face conversations. So whenever somebody says something interesting, I can get it down unobtrusively, quickly, and actually then reuse those notes later on in further conversations.

That's why I made a wearable computer. ...

I went to a heads-up display. I could put the focus on the whiteboard, and suddenly I could keep up. And I found not only could I keep up and take good notes, especially with this one-handed Twiddler keyboard I have, but it actually focused my mental attention, so that during a lecture I got a whole lot more out of it than ever before. And that's why if you've ever seen me in a meeting or a lecture, you'll see me taking notes furiously on my wearable computer not just so I get it, but also because it keeps my attention focused. I can put in new ideas and new offshoots and things I want to ask later into the stream of data that I'm capturing. ...

I also have a one-handed keyboard called a Twiddler. It has 12 keys on the front and six keys on the top. One of those keys is actually a joystick. It allows me to type up to 130 words per minute, though I maintain about 70 when I'm writing papers, that sort of thing. ...

And this is the system I wear basically every day. Right now, if you looked at my screen, you would see that I have all the previous conversations I had with David here – one on 25 January 2006, one on 25 January 2007, and one 29 January 2008, today. So every time I've met with Gartner, I've kept notes on the conversation.

This is the Twiddler:

http://www.handykey.com
Vlad--this is amazing news. Can't wait to see where you end up in the future..
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I agree it's useful to assume it's true - also, comfortingly reassuring, that, well, one has to go step by step.

One way to disprove the "law" is to look for instances of "leaps in complexity" beyond mere evolution. The only example I can think of is the leap of intuition that geniuses sometimes have, that give an entirely different view of a problem: e.g. speed of light would appear constant if observers had different time frames; the molecules could be linked in a ring; water is displaced by volume.

But the new perspective is itself very simple in each case (assuming the background) - the leap is in having the insight at all, not in its complexity. These are not leaps in complexity; and therefore not counter-examples to "Gall's Law".
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the free market caused banks to take bad loans knowing that they could turn around and sell these loans to fannie mae and freddie mac who were taking all these bad loans because they knew that the government would not allow them to fail?

no I stand by the free market, problems pop up when corporations collude with the government. bailouts are socialism for the rich.
A lot of comments already, but I'll just make two points:

1. I suspect that a lot of what's being trained in handwriting classes is not just the ability to make legible versions of the 26 letters of the English alphabet, but rather general skills of hand positioning and fine motor control. Kids need to pick these skills up one way or another.

2. Regardless of whether you can "take notes" with a keyboard just as well as you can with a pen and pad, I'm pretty sure it's damn near impossible to do complicated mathematics without a pen and pad. Or a blackboard.
There's an opportunity here for someone to create a system that dynamically optimizes ad revenue for content providers by weighing potential revenue from various ad networks based on content, context, and user profiles.

TV networks like ABC don't accept ads from just one agency media buyer. Why should web sites commit to a single Internet ad network?
btw, here is an AWESOME whitepaper on ARGs:

http://www.igda.org/wiki/Alternate_Reality_Games_SIG/Whitepa...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/yes-mccain-can-use-...

Here's pictures of him using his blackberry. It's obviously a republican lie to attack obama.
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Ask HN: What traps to avoid when dealing with offshore partners?
I am a US-based entrepreneur who is considering partnering with an offshore hacker -I never met face-2-face- residing in the EU.The deal would involve a fixed payment plus equity/profit share. What are the potential legal issues to avoid? Are NDAs and partnership documents enforceable across borders? Is it worth it or shall I stick with local hackers? Any recommendations for background checks in EU?
Given the difference in market cap, I'd be surprised if either could afford it - GS =~ 60bn, MS =~ 40bn, WB =~ 33.5 bn on 835bn AUM. They're not exactly small, post A.G. Edwards.
Dennou Coil is an uses an 'alternative reality/VR' that overlays the real world with transparent glasses as it's plot device. It's pretty good!
So it's final. A 158-yr old firm going down is sad news indeed.
"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal."

Prescient.
Well, they do, but here is the thing they are afraid of:
Before WW2 the US economy was doing poorly. The war brought a lot of war manufacturing business and huge boom in the US occurred thanks to the war production.

Economist at the time were afraid that the end of war will kill the boom because there will be no more war production needed. Well, once the war was over big US companies just switched their production capacity to civilian markets: cars manufacturing, appliances, houses construction... there was no contraction after the war. Opposite: 50s were the time of enormous economic boom.

Now, you are mistaken with setting "Prisoner dilemma" as the problem foreigners have. They may also look at their situation from the same perspective as Americans did during WW2. That is: If we stop producing for the export to the US (war effort) - there will be crisis. Who will buy our stuff but the American consumer. Well, no fear. Just switch production to your domestic markets as US did by switching industrial production to its domestic market after WW2. Nothing bad will happen with China the day "war" will be over and China will stop exporting production to the US. They will just realize that they have huge 1.3 billion consumer market at home and no need to export to the US. They will just switch production.

Therefore, Prisoner's dilemma has nothing to do with the fear of losing market based on false predictions. Nothing happened to the US market once the war was over. Nothing will happen to China once its main customer goes bankrupt.
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Companies and technologies come and go; this year's derivatives are yesteryear's junk bonds.

It's not the technology, but rather a failed system of incentives that leaves mis-managed firms to die from exposure.
How many people in this world can afford a computer to learn to type on? Along that vein, how many schools in the US can afford to equip each student with a full time computer (since they won't be able to write notes down)?

Get grounded in reality. Writing will be taught for a long time to come, and rightfully so.
I'm currently reading "Halting State" by Charles Stross, it contains some good scenes showing the characters interacting with an ARG. Not necessarily research material, but it goes to show how playing an ARG could fit within life.
a failed system of incentives isn't just responsible for this, it's responsible for most of societies avoidable ills. if we would just own up to the reality of many situations and start providing proper incentives we could engineer away many problems.

what incentive does a cop have to stop crime when he makes more money and is safer busting stop sign violators? what incentive does an elected official have to work for the good of his constituents when he will be out of office soon? what incentive do parents have to raise decent children when retirement is socialized and the government baby sits for them? what incentive do businesses have to compete fairly if the government offers easy outs and chances at monopolization (telcos).
There are a few problems with this:

1. Sometimes, making it work is enough. (one time code and such) There's no reason, other than for practice, to waste time designing such cases.

2. You may find out that you're solving the wrong problem, and it's much easier to justify throwing out code that you didn't labor over an extensible design, etc. It's much harder to throw away wrong code that you've put work into the internal design.

3. This doesn't mean that you don't design the outward facing interfaces correctly. Thus, you have a good set of unit tests already set up, and you can quickly tell if something is working as you refactor. You have a good baseline with which to compare.
summary, stop adding features and make your software fast (oh, and cheap)
First off why do you think a US hacker would be more honest? In US the first line of defense is always legal measures as your comment clearly confirms. This is not the case in Europe. There is a stigma attached to having to resort to legal means and as such things gets settled most of the time amicably.

If I were the Eu hacker I would be somewhat reluctant to work with you. If this is important to you hop on a plane and visit the guy. Your can get a cheap ticket for a few hundred $.
BofA already cleaned house in their banking group earlier this year. doubt the need more bankers.
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Cheers. Dropboxers.
> what incentive does an elected official have to work for the good of his constituents when he will be out of office soon?

Surely you're not suggesting longer terms.

Congress critters tend to stay in office a very long time.
I tend to think that a portfolio is the best way to get a feel for a designer's abilities. It's not fool-proof, but it gives a good overview in most cases. There are quick tests that are obvious with a portfolio: does it look good, does it make sense to you. Beyond that, you could take some of their work and conduct usability tests if you, yourself cannot identify problems in that area. Basic usability tests will give you a good idea of how well the designer understands it.

Another trait that you should watch for is variety. Make sure they can demonstrate proficiency in a number of design styles (unless your needs are particular and they meet that area).

As for interview questions, you can get a good idea for usability instincts by asking for on the fly designs for simple interfaces.

If you have the budget, the best of the best are household names (or you can easily look them up). These will be sure bets to get you a great design, but it will cost.

Something to consider when searching is to find a similarly structured application to yours, with a design you love, and find out who did it.
Stock markets at risk. New exploit in the wild.
"On Linux, the parts of the Dropbox client software visible to the end user are implemented as an open source plugin for GNOME's Nautilus file manager."

If you are on KDE and do not care to use Nautilus (I prefer Konqueror myself) then this is not so attractive. Perhaps in time ...
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You hit it on the head. Players leave rigged markets once they get burned once or twice, and pretty soon the market freezes up altogether.

Withdrawing from iPhone app development is the rational choice. There are other things developers like the author can work on with similar payoffs, but more predictable risks.
I don't quite understand Gnip, but Brewster Kahle's WAIS has/had each machine offering its own results from its own personal database.

I believe Gene Kan (RIP) also had this in mind with his Gnutella work.

I also wanted to build a system based around Gnutella, searching text documents across a whole P2P network, but nobody in the Gnutella community wanted to adopt my ideas.
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"... On Black Monday, October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%. What were the consequences of this collapse? By today’s standards, there weren’t any. The stock market fell. The same investment banks and funds that had been operating on Wall Street continued to operate. ..."

Junk bonds disappeared, Micheal Milken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken got jailed, a lot of people lost money as entrepreneur king-pins went belly up. You could feel the recession in the late 80's, early 90's. Everything just shut down as discretionary spending stopped. The real difference b/w the 80's crash and is that while a lot of money for houses has been handed out with little due diligence, there is still an tangible asset that can be sold. I'm not so sure this was the case in the 80's crash. For Phil to say there wasn't any real effects indicates he was working in cashed up tech world ~ http://philip.greenspun.com/narcissism/resume
So, I've been in the valley for about 10 years, and at least half the startups I've worked for, (and almost _all_ of the startups that my friends/colleagues have started) - have had far worse obstacles, challenges, and difficulties to overcome than this individual seems to have run into. He has described the first two chapters in a 50 chapter novel of building a business.

I don't understand why he quit just when he started to get a bit of traction. He got past his first lawsuit (it appears, and most employees of a company aren't aware of how much legal and sometimes government friction their is involved in running a going concern), he started to discover how important a D&B number (or a proxy thereof) is for customers who buy from him on credit, he overcame some serious product quality issues, and began to understand that running a business is hard, hard, hard work. The story had just _started_.

And then, he quits.

Now is the time that he needed to start networking with other manufacturers (or wholesalers, or retailers, or product designers - or whatever he wanted to be) and understand how to improve his product design, his sales channels, etc...

It sounds like he limited his distribution to less than a hundred organizations. Certainly less than a thousand. The type of product he had _required_ knocking on tens of thousands of doors, calling, emailing, mailing, and reaching out to people who could distribute it.

I don't see where he hired his first employee, that would start to take over some of that manual labor, marketing, calling, packaging, delivery, etc...

I didn't get a chance to read about the technical improvements that he made in shipping, or even any of the passion that he had for selling. I realize this was a "All startups fail for different reasons" + "An MBA doesn't mean you will be successful in a startup" type article, but reading between the lines, I wonder if there was an even better, "I didn't really fit the Startup Character" article - despite some initial victories.

Compare that to an entrepreneur who is passionate like Joel Spolsky - even on a completely trivial side project that I suspect is mostly part of his recruiting efforts for FogCreek he keeps blocking and tackling and overcoming obstacles (check out http://www.joelonsoftware.com/oldnews/pages/December2005.htm... for the summary of one)

Anyways, I do enjoy reading "How my startup failed" stories as much as "How my startup succeeded" - but I don't sense that his startup failed. He just quit.
I was way into ARG's... I played The Beast and Dave Szulborski's excellent "Chasing the Wish," as well as a few others. I also PM'ed (puppetmaster'ed, for those not up on their ARGonyms) Lockjaw, and I believe I wrote a puzzle or two for Urban Hunt. ARG's are a lot of fun and tend to be surprisingly innovative, though actively keeping up with their goings-on can quickly become a full-time hobby.

If you're interested in talking further, let me know: dan [d0t] delany [at] gmail
Which school are you in now?
It is very hard to see someone who has the same passion as you in a university.
And if we do live within our means, and stop borrowing, we'll cause a recession.

No, I don't have answers.
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"... E-Dreams (about Kozmo.com (RIP). haven't seen this ..."

I've got this on disc. Gritty story of how a delivery Startup failed to take into account the costs of doing so. It's worth the look just to see how they blow the $200M+ dollars in funding ~ http://www.kosmo.com/blogs/TimsBlog/2004/04/28.html More details here ~ http://twopointouch.com/2006/07/14/1999-and-all-that/
I find the idea of dropbox amazing but I don't think I can bring myself to use it. I realized some time ago that I was moving into a world that I didn't like. I was closing my self off from my data, my services, and turning myself over to the control of others. See http://autonomo.us/ for a blog from this point of view. (Not my own.)

What I would love is to have an open-source dropbox like tool that can be installed on my own personal webserver. Maybe thats a project to consider working on. If my skills extend that far.

Edit: Clarified autonomo.us and fixed a spelling error.
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While we're at it, we should switch all the keyboard layouts to Dvorak.
Posterous is Not in beta
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Foxit > Adobe reader.

Why? Because its faster. 'nuff said.
I think it is stand-up that Posterous doesn't hide behind "Beta" when something goes wrong. At the same time, the service is not as mature or robust as, say, WordPress. This makes a lot of sense since Posterous is a very recent startup.

Maybe they're in gamma? Maybe, like Hadoop, they're version 0.X? I'm sure rantfoil can enlighten us.
To be fair, reader is their only unbearably slow software (seeing as it takes a while to start even on a fast computer). Photoshop/Dreamweaver have had better startup times, for me at least.
Another fyi -- Unemployment in 1987 wavered between 5.9% and 6.6%. Today we're at 6%.

We're going through some very similar cycles and stuff.
people

...also known as machines...

recognize my face

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22humans+are+machines%22

3,770 hits.
Edge is awesome for deep science. I'm putting this on my list of things to read in an airplane.
>what incentive do parents have to raise decent children when retirement is socialized and the government baby sits for them?

don't get the connection between children and retirement?
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TicketStumbler was in private beta for a month or so, but we never did get around to putting the fancy tag on our logo...

I don't think Posterous is in Beta or Gamma or Epsilon or any other nonsense. It's just... Posterous!
Is it almost as creepy as when you pull up to a controlled intersection, and it turns green for you? It's almost as if it recognizes your car as a car.

http://www.google.com/search?q=traffic+loop

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22creeps+me+out%2C+man%22
I avoid the chains now and go to the local neighborhood stores where people recognize my face know my name.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/122019.html

Economists have been at war with the make-work bias for centuries. The 19th-century economist Frederic Bastiat ridiculed the equation of prosperity with jobs as "Sisyphism," after the mythological fully employed Greek who was eternally condemned to roll a boulder up a hill.

In the eyes of the public, he wrote, "effort itself constitutes and measures wealth. To progress is to increase the ratio of effort to result. Its ideal may be represented by the toil of Sisyphus, at once barren and eternal." For the economist, by contrast, wealth "increases proportionately to the increase in the ratio of result to effort. Absolute perfection, whose archetype is God, consists [of] a situation in which no effort at all yields infinite results."
If your dictionary has rules for sarcasm, I think I would like to see it.
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I am the only one that thinks Greenspan should probably keep a lower profile, since he and his policies played a pretty large part in creating this fucking mess?