skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're doing an endeavor which is designed for the communications medium (which is different than software) the brand is part of the product. And I'm assuming that this is a professional project, if it isn't then don't even bother with the branding and just start writing said blog.
After reading and responding to the comments, I want to add an overall, more clear message:

The argument is that without rigid identity on the web, anonymity and pen names could not really take off and receive audience. Many individuals' first encounter with the Internet and any web communities is with Facebook, and this is because these people would not feel comfortable starting out on a place like Reddit for 4chan. For this reason, rigid identity is a necessary foundation for the usefulness of pen names and anonymity. Moot's argument that pen names are the way to go is flawed insofar as it undermines the "necessary evil" of rigid identity, which is a natural, socially evolved stepping stone for anonymity's value.

Without people going online and possessing monuments to themselves (facebook profiles) in a way they feel comfortable and secure in, anything posted online (including content under pen names) is in aggregate less valuable. Rigid identity is a necessary characteristic of social media content which can result in inexperienced web users taking the plunge to explore the rest of the less-rigid web.
Thank you :)

We were profitable almost right away as long as we were not working on it full time. It wasn't until we were generating 20-30 million impressions monthly that we were able to quit our day jobs.

The service is free and monetized through AdSense - although we have just introduced a virtual currency as an experiment.
"By the end of the summer, I optimized dropbox.com’s pages to render 5X faster."
You? That... that was you? GOAL?

Sir. I have no idea what to say. You were my direct inspiration for a long time. I'm a gamedev (worked at a couple studios now) and I've wanted to integrate Lisp into gameplay for years. I even got a Franz CL evaluation. The discovery of GOAL/Crash Bandicoot further motivated my efforts.

Ultimately nothing came out of it; Lua and Python are just so much easier to integrate into a realtime C++ simulation (video game) and are nearly as effective. However, I became a better programmer for life. Discovering GOAL enabled me to think like "if Naughty Dog could do it, then so could I", which sparked me along a path of learning that profoundly impacted my sense of programming aesthetics and quality. Thank you.
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They have this in Illinois for online gaming subscriptions but of course when companies like Microsoft comply, they limit it to only that state: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name...
The article mentions Germany which apparently is quite high ($0.30/kWh as of 2009):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Global_elec...
We were serving 20-30 million impressions monthly when we started working on it full time. At that time we could live comfortably with our revenue although we still couldn't afford that orbital laser canon quite yet :)
If bikers blow red light with no one on around, people won't be complaining about them since they won't be there to witness it. People are complaining because clearly they saw bikers doing it in their vicinity.
We did look at NSManagedObjectContext... but NSManagedObjectContext doesn't support polymorphism.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/...

You are strongly discouraged from subclassing NSManagedObjectContext. The change tracking and undo management mechanisms are highly optimized and hence intricate and delicate. Interposing your own additional logic that might impact processPendingChanges can have unforeseen consequences.
Gosh that was a longwinded technical article.

All this talk about real identity on the web is a cover for the only real issue. Corporations can track, market to, and monetize what they learn about you more effectively with real id policies for internet use. Governments can track, monitor and control you more effectively with real id policies for internet use. The end.
Poll: do you prefer text or video interviews?
I'm starting up an interview site for entrepreneurs, and I'm curious: do you prefer text interviews or video interviews? Most video interviews do have a transcript, but it tends not to be as user-friendly as a well-written article.

The final product will probably be a mix of video and text, but I'm trying to figure out what I should initially focus on.
A mix of both
No preference
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. Somehow people have this picture of mathematics as this universal body of knowledge, but that couldn't be further from the truth. They are as earthly as anything else we've been doing as a human race. For an interesting perspective on mathematics from a cognitive-scientific point of view, check out George Lakoff's book "Where Mathematics Comes From."
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I always wanted a super lightweight laptop that could serve as my sole laptop, which my current one fulfills. Extra batteries are for the occasional long periods without power (oversees flights, traveling in rural areas, etc.), though yes that is a 5% of the time use case. A modifiable HD is simply there to allow upgrades; I easily moved from an HDD to an SSD and could upgrade to a larger SSD easily in the future.

Thanks for pointing out the backpack space advantage. To be honest, I've so rarely ever had a problem with backpack space (probably less often than needing extra battery power), it hadn't crossed my mind. (looking at the numbers, it makes sense I rarely run into such an issue: a 13" Air is 12.8"x8.94"x0.68"= 77.8 in^3 and a dell latitude is 12.2"8.6"x1.1"=115.4 in^3, a difference of 38 in^3. School backpacks typically have capacities 40 times that difference.)

The price effect sucks for manufacturers, but is great for consumers. :) Truth be told, older Core 2 Duo machines will work fine for most people; my laptop might be old but I find there little reason to upgrade until there are reasonably priced, equally light laptops that can A) play modern games or B) operate at way lower power levels.
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I think you wrote an article that kind of ignored the real point of controversy, which is whether UPP is actually valuable. Does having a rigid identity tend to magnify the reactions of people to the things you do an say? Yes, absolutely. Your article almost wholly pertains to arguing that it does, but that's not what people would disagree with you about. They would disagree on whether UPP is desirable at all. As far as I can tell from your definition of UPP, it's little more than an accumulated distortion of logical merit based on superficial characteristics. The distortion may be to your material advantage, but I still do not see why it is desirable.

Edit: I don't actually have a "real" account. HN may not support anonymity, but signing up and posting doesn't require email confirmation, so I make a new account about every other article I choose to post a comment on.
Agreed, Kinzie would probably be better served by a bike boulevard template [1]. Milwaukee is trying something else, it seems like there will be a driving lane, then a half-curb type thing with a raised bike lane on the right. [2] No parked cars. I'm not sure how it will work (completion 2012) but I'm curious to see, it will certainly be easier to get in/out of it mid block.

Milwaukee is pretty bike-friendly in general though. Well sort of, the people typically will respect you on the road but don't ask them to spend a dime on bike lanes, trails, or anything else not related to driving a car as fast as possible. My ride to work (8 mi. now) is primarily on an off mile street so traffic is light and I have almost no problems with cars.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_boulevard

[2] http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/124686578.html

Kinzie Bike Lane:

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdot/provdrs/bike...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64168757@N02/sets/7215762730854...
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The cases when the light is red and I, as a driver, can guarantee that I can run it _safely_ are very rare.

They are even rarer as a cyclist (takes me longer to clear the intersection).

The number of times that I have seen cyclists run red light safely (both for themselves and others in that intersection at the time) is precisely zero.

I've seen several hundred instances of cyclists running through intersections at this point.

The only good thing here from my point of view is that once I got out of big cities both cars and cyclists got a heck of a lot more courteous and law-abiding, so the number of people I have to deal with who're just completely ignoring the rules of the road, blocking intersections, etc is much lower. Good incentive to not live in a city again...
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Thanks for all fan love :-)

One of the interesting things about LISP is that it's actually a pretty easy language to parse, interpret, and compile. This isn't actually an accident as the S-expression syntax I'm sure was initially chosen for it's machine regularity (in those early days of underpowered machines). Newer languages are syntactically much more complicated. Ironically most normal programmers, being human, seem to find the more complicated syntax easier and the "simple" S-expression syntax confusing (being backward much of the time to normal human convention). I always found it unambiguous, but go figure. It's also precisely this regularity that makes the awesome macrology of LISP possible. In Ruby you can manually build up strings and feed them into the interpreter, which is equivalent to simple backquote. But you can't do the kind of cool nested constructions that are trivial in LISP.
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Dude you are pretty lucky that you failed so hard so young. I know the climb up is going to be hard (depressing and humbling, actually) but now you know what failure feels like. Now you know what counts and whats bullshit.

Hang on man, keep on keeping on. Take it one day at a time, only place to go from here is up.
Can you provide an example of what you mean re. the difference between sheet music and a jazz chart? I have played classical and jazz winds for years and consider them almost synonymous. (You probably won't find "changes" in the kind of sheet music other than that musicians call a "chart.")

I don't feel that any written music can or could adequately convey the feel, shape, or nature of the music--you've got to work through it with the group, or hear someone who already understands the piece.
I keep meaning to check it out. But my pile of "keep meaning too" (which includes bills, taxes, and other boring things) is very large.
Correct. I wrote a post which avoided controversy by analyzing the social evolution of identity instead of taking a stance on the issue which cannot be backed by a model. To make this relevant, I involved Moot's point and showed how it is moot when taken together with the model. Is UPP good or bad, desirable? In relation to who? The answer changes depending on who responds to the output of UPP. Personally, I find UPP desirable because it has the potential to shake things up. I'm a big fan of shaking things up, but not the extent where it removes foundations and collapses a working system.
There are two of us and we are both technical (and we have just hired our first non-founding team member, also a developer). My partner is a rare hybrid of brilliant developer and competent designer, something I am very grateful for.

Both of us have a background in high-performance computing and that has helped keep hardware costs down to a minimum - we served up to 2.7 million users from one single server and it wasn't until we switched to MongoDB that we had to buy more servers.
Simply replace your GoodData reviews with a notice saying you had to take them down after GoodData threatened you with legal action.

You are off the hook because you have complied with their demands, and potential customers will read between the lines, and assume the reviews were not flattering.

Assuming your site is well regarded, this will seriously hurt GoodData, and should also stop any other vendors trying the same trick in the future.
> I don't know where this 1.5% inflation figure is coming
> from.

For inflation expectations? TIPS spreads.

The actual inflation rate is determined based on a basket of goods, which may or may not match your consumption patterns. Of course things get complicated by substitution effects, hedonic adjustments, etc. I don't know that I believe the official number any more than you do. But the fact is that the official number is what the Fed is supposed to target.

Note that groceries are explicitly excluded from "core" inflation calculations in the US because they're subject to severe supply shocks which have nothing to do with the value of money or inflation, by the way.

> how could it be that it is only 1.5% inflation when the
> size of the money supply is doubled or tripled?

Trivially, if everyone keeps their money under a mattress. We're not quite that bad, but not much better off right now, either.
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I like the bicycle boulevard idea a lot. Traffic is not what scares cyclists, it's the speed difference that does. If everyone is driving 15mph, then nobody feels like they're in danger.

Also, getting hit by a car at 15mph is quite survivable.
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I don't know what you are trying to interpret my words.

I take all participants on the road seriously, drivers, bikers, and pedestrians. I pay special attention to bikers to slow down, to get around them, or to yield to them when making turn since they are in a slower vehicle. I myself bike from time to time.

What I don't agree is the prevalent bikers mentality of ok'ing blowing redlight and stop sign, and the hypocrisy coming from the bikers to justify doing it.

Traffic laws are there so that participants of the road can share it SAFELY.
> Gates, Zuckerberg, Larry and Sergey, Torvalds, RMS, Knuth

It's not too hard to imagine a world without facebook, but I'd find it very hard indeed to imagine a world without Microsoft, Google, Linux, Open Source or the Art of Computer Programming.

It's almost like this is one of those trick questions: "which name does not belong in this list". Zuckerberg pops out at me immediately.

All the rest is timeless, Facebook will one day be gone again, I'm fairly sure of that.
Oh, you can't just leave us hanging like that...!

We want to know all about your Lisp experiences; or at least, I would personally love to hear about them.
Knock it off, maybe. Find new friends? That seems silly. Grow a thicker skin and joke right back at them.

In times like these, you can barely hang on to your own skin.
I bank with First Republic, because they offer outstanding service and have good products, particularly if you're traveling overseas a lot; and with a local credit union, because they are a credit union and not a goddamned bank. I got a much better rate on an auto loan from the credit union than any local bank was offering.
Can you describe the purchase experience of the Microsoft store Tom? There won't be one near me for a VERY long time I'm sure.
NYC would appear to be a shining example of this: http://www.nyc.gov/data
The whole redesign seemed engineered to hide the fact that they would be offering less content going forward.

That's when I hit the 'sell' button, personally.
Actually, house prices are not factored into the CPI per se. The CPI is based on a basket of goods for an urban consumer who rents (so does include rent). If you don't fit that profile, the CPI may well not have much applicability to you....

Aslo, the Fed is not desperately pumping money into circulation. For example, they're paying interest on reserves (that is, paying banks to park money in accounts at the Fed). If they were trying to get money into circulation, the wouldn't be doing that, or would even be charging interest on excess reserves. Both policies have been used by central banks in the past; in fact the Fed didn't use to pay interest on reserves until the recent bank crisis started.
I did this when my textbook startup was sent a cease-and-desist by a major textbook player for B.S. copyright infringement. I immediately forwarded the letter to the Harvard Crimson (Harvard was our biggest market), and they promptly ran a front-page story about us being sued.

The cease-and-desist said we had 10 days to take down our data. I never took it down and never replied, and never heard back from the company again.

Not only did the press scare them away, but as you mentioned, gave us a front-page story we couldn't have gotten any other way.

That said, I was very confident that their case had no merit and that they wouldn't take it to trial (or maybe it was that we were on our last leg and had little to lose).

Funny story: my next startup and all-of-a-sudden we're currently partnering with the company that threatened to sue me. I'm assuming they don't know it was me behind both companies!
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Netflix works a treat with my webpass connection on my ps3. Never stops or stutters.

That said, I'll probably cancel because there's nothing I want to watch anymore.
I think the problem and opportunity for Microsoft's stores is the relatively constant changes in products.

Apple has it fairly easy. 4 main products (Air, Pro, iPhone, iPad) which change rarely, and usually have a long lead up to a new release.

Microsoft will find that in PCs, tablets and phones, keeping store employees informed of what is on the floor, and the capabilities of these devices will be a challenge. Particularly with new devices being released every few months.

Of course, this also could make the Microsoft stores more interesting as there is always some new gadget to see and play with.
Whether it is desirable would depend on your values and objectives. I fail to see why UPP is desirable to anyone except the person who wants more accolade for a particular statement or action than it actually deserves. I do not think that an admirable desire.
> Your comment presupposes that advances in mathematics are more important than advances in social communication.

I don't see that... he just said it wasn't a fair comparison. If it comes off like he thinks advancements in mathematics are more important that other advances, it might be because he does think so, but that's not exactly what he's saying.
Quite right. I have followed investment events for quite some time and I cannot recall a shadier-looking company hitting the open market. It really boggles the mind: WHO is buying this? WHO is telling others to buy this? I know Warren Buffet isn't looking at any of this . . .
But it's hard to store energy and to transmit it across long distances. This is the fundamental problem with solar and wind. You can put one of China's new thorium [1] or pebble bed [2] reactors anywhere on the face of the earth, and the wattage per surface area ratio relative to solar will be a great deal less.

Solar will likely be some part of the answer but it's always going to be niche relative to oil, coal, nuclear, and (where the region allows it) geothermal/hydroelectric.

The question that only experts in the space could answer is whether the $1.25 price per Watt is due to a real decrease in the price of fundamental components/manufacturing processes or whether it is due to subsidies of some kind.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_prit...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/global/25chinasid...
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"We understand the complexities of having a child and we also understand how selfish we currently are."
How is not having a child selfish? I believe that having children is way more selfish - there's already 6 billions mouths feed and it's just adding another one.
A bit too much? Half of the posts in this thread are debating this very topic. It's like everyone missed the forest for the trees.
What an odd series of replies. Surely you all realize that:

1) Whether astroturfing does happen has no bearing on whether it should happen,

and

2) Examples of people astroturfing are an argument for having the rule, not an argument against it.

Right? Bueller?
Your UPP is what enabled you to make an account just to respond to this thread. Maybe we're unclear on definitions here. UPP facilitates the desire to make comments whether read by anyone or not, because it is made so abundant by technology as to devalue it as social currency in the first place. Regardless, it adds or subtracts from the UPP of people who took the time to read it (namely my own), and caused a reaction at the expense of my own. It's a force and currency, not an issue.
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Based on the OP, it seems that both parties are overseas. But you're right about the TOS. I think it could go either way.
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I didn't intend the title to be flame bait. I only wanted to get to the gist of the matter as tersely as possible, which isn't easy. What would you have titled this?

EDIT: And why the downvote? I would actually be interested to hear a better title.
Fundamental inventions and discoveries are never recognized right away. That's why Nobel prizes are usually awarded for a work done several decades ago. The guys who do revolutionary work in computing right now do exist, we just haven't recognized them yet.
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