skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was already on the front page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3280061
I'm so weary of this absolute garbage on HN. Sub-Shaun Fanning startup BS. Go away.
What do you need that Firefox can't do? I get the same message in Opera.
Searched for "i=i+1" and got many unrelated results. Tried "new Tree", got results for "Tree". Realised that quotes do not work. Not sure what use the search would be for me.

"this sucks" kinda works. :)
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Yes. The other problem: you're siphoning off the most affluent customers, which are also the most valuable.
I'm not really surprised, I went through Josh Waitzkin's chessmaster tutorials, and one thing that stuck out was him talking about how his coach had him focus on the mid- an end-game, and hardly any on openings.

The idea I think is that by not knowing openings very well, you end up quickly getting out of the opening book, neutralizing your opponent's advantage and into where you're strongest.
Ask HN: How do you get ideas for projects?
Rigth now I've been a while without any idea about what to code, so my habilities are getting worse. Any ideas?
Don't think. Just follow.
I don't disagree with you (fully), but unfortunately, hand-wavy predictions about a bubble appear to be the norm. If someone is predicting a bubble, share the empirical data points that led you to that conclusion.
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Nothing big, it's just a few css glitches I'm fixing
I once negatively reviewed a programming book on Amazon.com using my real name (which is fairly unique). I thought the book was bad and I was not overly polite in my review. I gave point by point reasons as to why I would not recommend the book. A week later, the author of the book posted a page on his website that had my full real name as the filename with a 5 paragraph response to my review. I use the term response loosely - it was actually a diatribe against me personally. I discovered this when my mother in law stumbled on it by googling my name looking for our family site. I contacted the author and he said he would be happy to remove the page if I deleted the negative review.

I left the review up but after about 18 months I guess he got bored because his page about me came down.
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I would watch his TV show.
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Idea of civilians using drone aircraft may soon fly with FAA
Pull network cable? Pfthah! We disable the port at the switch...

SW1(config)#int Fa0/1
SW1(config-if)#shutdown
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1w4d: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0/1 changed state to down
Well, if it's coming from more than one source (multiple trackers) it could rather simply have been tampered with.
For just lounging in bed and going to the bathroom, the iPad is amazing. Instapaper and the web browser are quite great.

Edit. Also, email consumption on it is really good too; not great for long replies though.
Looks (pun half intended) like a way to get kinks in my neck...
"We just finished migrating the entire code base from .NET to Java"

Interesting. I'd love to hear more about the rationale behind this move. I can understand moving from .NET to a dynamic or functional programming language, but why move to what is effectively a peer?
Good point.

Maybe it could be a crowdsourced app then?
Personally I believe the problems with healthcare and education are largely the domain of government to fix.

Is there precedent for this? It's not that I disagree that we have policy-level, institutional problems that won't be fixed by the next hot startup.. But I do think that many of those problems are pinned to overwhelming costs that innovation could demonstrate ways of affecting positively. The way we deliver healthcare in the US is far too costly, inefficient, and frankly dangerous.

It can be a pain in the ass to innovate within the current context of healthcare IT, but there are more opportunities now than ever before to completely ignore the way things have been done until now and make a dent.

[Disclosure: Been building in healthcare for a little over a decade, and currently bashing away at an early stage startup that's devoted to completely rethinking the way primary care is delivered]
It's part of the built to flip mentality of the VC world. Look @ Groupon for godsake. The sustainability of its business model is dubious, but they still rushed the IPO, so they could flip it to ma & pa. But ma & pa aren't buying, so Investment Bank clients that got in during the roadshow are unloading en mass, and has sunk the share price below the IPO price, despite the low float.

web VCs fund companies they believe they can flip. It's also why they are biased towards late stage funding, since they have a higher chance of flipping over their positions.
Yes, in that regard it works exactly like a pyramid scheme. The point where people realize they have been duped the whole thing falls apart and only those who gamed the system profit. The majority will lose everything they invested.
I worked at a semiconductor mixed-signal startup - rife with control-loop theory, analog design, digital design/firmware, and lots of application support/software. They do exist. It's just very hard for them to last without eventually getting acquired by an established bigCo. But the same kind of rings true for a decent chunk of startups in the software space.

That said, most semiconductor startups do partnerships with bigger companies for second-sourcing or foundry help.

The transaction cost problem is true whether you're a startup or a big company. If anything it's better to be a highly-partnered startup than a startup-division at a big company as you may be able to avoid lots of the bureaucratic headaches the large company is accustomed to, helping to keep employees more motivated.
Did i just read the word ergonomic in the same sentence as virtual keyboard?
Too wit for me. I have to see it for 10 minutes until I understand why this interesting.

[Spoiler alert]

Search for:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&biw=1...

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&biw=1...
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You know what his choice made me do? Donate to the EFF (they apparently even have a sponsor to match donations to $500k). I hope Mike realized how asinine his decision was.
China todays always reminds me of Dickens's Tale of Two Cities:

"IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
Sorry, I'm not giving Facebook access to a site that hasn't even told me what it does…
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at first i thought this was just the standard party line. but then i got to the part that describes how i develop over-complex systems just so that i can charge more, and i realised just how deep the insight was.

then an amazing hn-libertarian-market-forces thought hit me: why not have a market for software, where people have to pay for it? and then competition would push the people that make over-complex software out of business.

of course, if that happened, then the world described in the article would be replaced by a different one: one where no-one wants to spend money on things that don't immediately show a profit. like security. but that would be a different article...
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Apple Suppliers Starting to Ship 4" Screens for Next iPhone?
It believe that is -- or used to be -- the standard and is/was called the executive summary.
I'm not part of the team but a qualified guess would be the hosting and/or license fees.

And in either case, moving from .NET to Java would seem more rational than moving to a new functional language because they are so similar and wont require as much work. I wouldn't be surprised if there even are automatic converters.
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Is it like a Tor for search engine where all the searches are performed by DuckDuckGo, keeping the users away from tracking? I tried searching some terms and it gives results pretty fast.I found no ads in their search results,wondering how these guys are getting money to share their revenue with Linux Mint and also pay MS for using Bing data. Making me doubt they might push favorable content up.
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Just don't get too drunk.

A theory floating around HN a couple days ago was that a few drinks help you focus because they are a tax on your mind. It makes your mind disregard distractions (like second thoughts etc.) because otherwise it simply couldn't function.
That is a brilliant idea, which is properly also the first radical invention of the book since scrolls were first cut into pages.
I'm saying that any government (possibly not some of the more representative governments, but certainly many of the more oppressive ones) could outlaw for unlicensed RF transmitters any encryption they are incapable of breaking.

As to what NSA, et al are currently capable of, I honestly have no idea, but I'm willing to bet some of their capabilities would be surprising (in both directions, depending on which specific capability you were to look at).
Firstly, I didn't make the video, I have no connection with it. I found it an interesting argument/point-of-view, and I thought it made some useful points.

You seem to think it's completely content-free. I'd really like to hear why you think this is complete BS.

In short, rather than just dissing it, I'd like to hear a clear and cogent counter-argument. Otherwise you're just adding to the noise.

I can see that others agree with you, because despite getting two upvotes within minutes of being submitted, it's now languishing down in the 500's. It's been flagged. But I find it really frustrating that people won't actually create value by producing decent counter-arguments.

You say:

> I'm so weary of this absolute garbage on HN.

I've done my homework, I've done my best to find out what you would like to see, and guess what: You've never submitted anything! I also see that pretty much every comment you've made has been a negative one. That's a shame.

So what do you want to see?
Which brings the Haggler to his latest million-dollar
idea: a review site that reviews the review sites. It’s
genius! Grade them all on trustworthiness, candor and so
on.

That's a great idea. Let's start with the New York Times. How did the NYT's Judith Miller do during Iraq? How about Jayson Blair for that matter? And let's not forget Walter Duranty.

http://www.nytco.com/company/awards/statement.html

New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded
to Walter Duranty

Duranty, one of the most famous correspondents of his day,
won the prize for 13 articles written in 1931 analyzing
the Soviet Union under Stalin. Times correspondents and
others have since largely discredited his coverage.

Describing the Communist plan to "liquidate" the five
million kulaks, relatively well-off farmers opposed to the
Soviet collectivization of agriculture, Duranty wrote in
1931, for example: "Must all of them and their families be
physically abolished? Of course not - they must be
'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor
into the proletarian mass."

Taking Soviet propaganda at face value this way was
completely misleading, as talking with ordinary Russians
might have revealed even at the time....Some of Duranty's
editors criticized his reporting as tendentious, but The
Times kept him as a correspondent until 1941.

Point: all reviewers are biased. We cannot count on the New York Times to remind us in every story that it's a corporation with its own conflicts of interests. But it is.
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I have personally programmed a lot while tipsy (never drunk, I am not sure I would want to read that code in the morning) and it allows me to get over the humps of writing that utility function that needed to be written but I was putting off, it allows me to just start putting code down in vim without really worrying whether or not it is good enough...

Let me quantify good enough a little better. I am a perfectionist, I tend to write my code methodically and slowly and over-think and overanalyse every last line, I refuse to write a piece of code if I don't think it is good enough.

When I drink alcohol it takes away all of the above and lets me just write the damn code. Most of the time (there have been times that I've been closer to drunk than sober) the code works exactly as required and it passes code reviews without issues. It compiles, it works, and is the "perfect" code for the situation. Sure three months down the line it may need to be re-factored a little bit to add a new feature that was decided on by management, but in the mean time it has shipped.

Now, please don't take my example and think that you can become a better programmer by simply going out and buying a bottle of vodka. It most likely won't work. Should you give it a try? Sure, what have you got to lose? Just don't become dependant on alcohol as a way to function in everyday life. Been there done that, and it is not pleasant at all.
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"Why not read both?": I am thinking that reading Robert C. Martin is not likely to make you smarter.
I'm the other way round - I try not to send emails etc when I'm drinking, because I think my social behaviour changes a lot more than my programming ability does (it's easier to write a message, but much more difficult to judge if it's the right thing to say).

I find that after a beer or two I'm much more likely to stay motivated to work on the same project, rather than procrastinating or switching to something else. Keep in mind that the line between there and being drunk can be surprisingly thin.

(Homebrewing and working from home are a great combination to find yourself drinking when you shouldn't be)
Is it me, or do a lot of the 'statement' links not seem to load?
Linux Mint was first released in 2006, so it's not hopping on some "name our software product Mint" bandwagon.

> Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the [. . .]

Yes, this is a common and frustrating mistake. There's a bunch of stuff that I haven't bothered investigating because I get sent to a blog but can't be bothered to web-search for the product when there's no link.
"The turriptosis nutricula's cell development method of transdifferentiation has inspired scientists to find a way to make stem cells use this process for renewing damaged or dead tissue in humans."

One word: Zombies
AFAIR, the first Linux Mint release is from 2006.
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"My job impacts the bottom line more than yours."

That couldn't be further from the truth. If I make mistakes, websites, phone systems, <insert service name here> become inaccessible for an unknown duration. That's best case. Worst case, data loss. Depending on the nature of the outage, it could ruin the company.

Try selling to a potential customer when their email domain continues to get bounced, or their voice mails never reach you and you'll find out very quickly who has a greater impact on the organization.
does anyone know of a good example of a startup which was forced to bootstrap without significant funding (on account of a burst VC bubble) and survived to stick it to 'em?

I don't know. We started up in the shadow of the dot com bust, so there was not really any funding available for ecommerce companies. That said, we never actively sought any VC money, so it's incorrect to say we are an example of what you're seeking.
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Reminds me of this XKCD, aptly titled "The Ballmer Peak": http://xkcd.com/323/
I can't get the index page now. Sorry, I think the traffic from HN may have killed it. :(
There is rarely political will to increase taxes.
The only downside to DuckDuckGo is that the results it gives for some searches of friends names are extremely stale pulling up old mailing list posts from 2006/2007 rather than showing their new content from their personal blog. There seems to be a ridiculous amount of noise mixed in with signal which makes it a no-go for me or for even suggesting it to my family.
Do they have your face on file? Do they provide this purchasing information to malls?
How do you know if music is RIAA music? (That could be a useful web service.)
I don't know, I have a lot of ideas for projects, the problem is to find the right one to work on. I think it's the compromise between ideas you like to work on and things people need.
It will undoubtedly be available on DVD eventually. It will probably also be online (Amazon, iTunes) and on various torrents.
Lots of very interesting talks lined up for this year's conference. Personally, I'm very much looking forward towards the keynote by Evgeny Morozov.

Pro tip: yours truly will be giving a talk on what can be done with the publicly available Israeli civil registry [1].

[1] - http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4652.en.h...
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I forgot about all the new eastern and central European member states that are in EU but not eurozone, eg Poland, Romania, etc. Most of those joined the EU after the euro started, and so couldn't join eurozone, though many are starting the process.
Reminds me of that scene in Citizen Kane where the reporter has to get completely passed-out drunk to write the review of Kane's starlet wife's opera.
This is a good hypothesis but I see two problems with it. !) I've almost never seen a case where a company could raise a decent Series A and has chosen not to. Theres a lot of validation and peer pressure towards doing so. 2) Just because you are profitable does not mean you have the money needed to fuel growth. Lots of profitable companies raise Series A. Its actually the preferred way for founders to do it.
Heh indeed, and in a couple a days "How I improved my site after Hacker news etc..."
In their defense, it's not usually until much after the original recording that someworks are trully recognized as valuable.

That and videtape (and storage space) were not always cheap.
Taking heat to the people is good, but what about bringing people to the heat? Start selling apartments in the data centers.
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An earlier tweet said:

I am off to London tomorrow, to teach
Advanced TDD, and Clojure.
-- https://mobile.twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/140244588609802240

I'm no expert on this, but when someone says they'll be teaching, the immediate impression given (rightly or wrongly) is that they'll be paid for it. If he doesn't have the right visa, there will be problems.

It may be that he was effectively coming to speak at meetings, and my understanding is that doing so should be fine. But if he says something about teaching, it's plausible that the officer will become suspicious, and then it becomes a complete lottery.

This is all speculation, and I wait with interest to see his more comprehensive report.
Both bottons look elegant. Probably your botton was posted at a wrong time of a day. That's why I've made an app that tells you when it's good time to post a story. Today 9am, a lot of newest stories were upvoted quickly - biggest peak in over two weeks.

It would be nice if clicking the button made you a watcher.
One problem I see with this: Some people are going to see buttons that are identical in style to Twitter follow buttons, and assume that clicking it will "Watch" the repo.

For some subset of the population, they'll either not notice they didn't actually Watch the repo (and hence be a lost Watcher for your project), or they'll notice, be annoyed, and assume its a bug.
Bad idea because it requires a lot of effort (you need large qantities of tbe agent) and may call unwanted attention. It would be better to test the sample on a volunteer before. Then you weaponize the agent that best matches your needs.
All of the links you provided (except for the last) are articles published in one of two journals: "The journal of alternative and complementary medicine : research on paradigm, practice, and policy" or "Homeopathy". Do you have any links to peer-reviewed research published in a first (Science, Nature, Cell, PNAS) or second-tier biomedical research journal?

I mean, I regularly publish "The Journal of Cryptozoology and Mythical Beasts I Wish Were Real", but that doesn't really mean anything...
About two years ago CBC news had a great segment on vitamin D and cancer rates.

Anyone in northern (far south) climate isn't exposed to enough sunlight after early Fall.

Even if you were outside naked all day you'd never get enough sunlight to make enough vitamin D. It's even worse if you have a naturally dark complexion .
No Firefox... no IE9... No idea what it even does... Am I the only one getting tired of clicking ShowHN links to sites with no clear vision or at least some kind of descriptive teaser, and minimal compatibility with the browsers out there on the market in the name of MVP? More dissapointing that it's due to a few CSS gliches...

Advice: If you are intending to ride the initial wave of eyeballs from HN, best to get those kinds of kinks worked out first. I'm hard pressed to find an example of an idea where pushing it out unfinished justified the loss of initial traffic.

Like some other commentors, if I go to a site that will not grab my attention in two of the three browsers that I use in that initial click, I'm never going to go back to it again.
Yeah, sounds like a really great idea to handle business communication while being intoxicated...

If you write 20 lines of BS code, it does not really matter. Thanks to your VCS you revert and finito.
On the hand, one wrong email can haunt you, because it affects people. There is no undo.
...and? Generally, E. coli is not only not lethal, but often serves a role in the human gut as a beneficial partner (i.e. symbiont).
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That first link in particular is excellent. Thanks for posting it!
I have noticed a similar effect in other areas myself. On example is bowling. Sober, I am terrible, but after a few beers I rock the lane; right before I start to wobble and fail to hit even a single pin :P
If I were looking for a car transporter, I'd ask around at a forum for car enthusiasts, like this one:
http://forums.aaca.org/f196/i-want-my-car-transported-help-2...

If you find a guy who has 1000 non-shill posts at a forum, chances are his recommendation for some service provider isn't a shill either.
As a fellow ham and former military communications specialist, I concur.

A lot of smart computer folks that don't have the theoretical or practical experience with RF to understand the issues at hand. But I'm nice enough to point them in the correct direction while resisting the tendency to sigh or giggle at some of the statements I hear.
Then you should have delayed, vs. alienating a huge section of the market (at least half, if you count FireFox, Opera, and IE9/10 together).

It would be one thing (and a lot easier to explain/understand) if it was because it's core functionality was based on a feature only implemented in Chrome - quite another if it is because the project simply is not finished.