skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I think Facebook users would just go elsewhere. Remember that they are college and high school kids with no income, so they don't have a lot of money to spend. That's why Facebook ads don't work.
This website has absolutely no business on the .gov TLD. "Campaign stories" clearly are a partisan concern, and as such belong on a .org.
What's good today might not be good a year from now.

Not that I necessarily believe that that applies to Yahoo's decision... but it is something to consider.
It's longer than two presidential mandates in the US.
Are you implying that it doesn't? How are you supposed to pay for all of those salaries?

It seems like until they have the business model figured out it's not a business -- it's a charity.
as somebody that watches what I eat, just healthy eating is not good enough.

If you don't exercise, you loose muscle, replaced by fat. Even if your weight stays the same, your fat/muscle ratio will change, and you wont look good, or feel healthy.

Exercise is a must.
Gym, running outside, playing co-ed sports (soccer, volleyball, whatever) are a must. If you don't at least one of them, your body will suffer.
Take a look at the sitepoint marketplace - http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/

There should some comparable sites that have sold there. Remember also that the people who want to buy your site approached you so they obviously have a plan that should make it worth more to them than the typical marketplace buyer. The probably believe they could triple your earnings easily.

If in the course of negotiations you find things aren't going well you can suggest that it might be better for you to put the site on the open marketplace. If they baulk at that then they are obviously pretty keen.
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Obama and Yang: Hopefully a Contrast of Leadership
The country elected a Democrat, and a strong critic of the Bush administration. We now have a Democratic administration. Start getting used to it. It's unlawful to campaign from the White House (and thus I guess maybe from a .gov), but the campaign's over.
> But a bald-faced dismissal runs smack against reality.

Gives me the mental image of Balmer head-ramming a wall.
Don't worry about that. Worry about the removal of secret votes following card check procedures at businesses. That will allow union organizers to "organize" unions by way of muscle. But don't worry about that either.
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This is adorable.

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live"
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You only learn the first time
That was succinct. It works, too.
investors usually move to replace founders with more experienced executives.

I don't like that at all. Captains sink with their ships, it's the most time tested adage of being a leader. The notion that investors pull out the founders and replace them with Executives I think showcases a problem with how we analyze human relations in business: people are expendable and don't matter as long as they can keep the gears turning that pad wallets.

I understand the point of business: make money. But when did it become fashionable to give up the ability to command your crew just because a petty officer comes along and says "get lost" just because he's paying the bills? Pay the bills or not, I stand by my opinion: a captain should sink with his ship.

Got a shitty founder, teach him how to be a better founder and in the end you'll all benefit. Or are we all just too greedy to give a damn?
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> If you don't have the experience in-house, and don't want to manage your own servers, that's 100% legitimate, but don't assume beating Amazon's uptime would be hard.

The relevant questions aren't whether you can beat Amazon's uptime but:

(1) How much is it worth to beat Amazon's uptime by the amount that you're likely to beat it?

(2) Could you produce more value by spending the time/money that it would take you to beat Amazon on something else?
This is obvious.

Do you know any startup that has the enough power to start with a heavy weight method?

And if there was such a startup they would be extinct pretty fast.
That's true but I think the pharmaceutical industry is an exception due to all the regulation. If it were possible to market drugs in 5 years instead of 10 most companies would focus on the 5 year drugs. With a 10 year drug there is a lot of uncertainty and is a reason there has been a lot of mergers in the pharmaceutical industry over the past few decades. A big company will contribute a sales force to sell the smaller company's products and then will just acquire them if things are going well.
0. Almost every major corporation leverage in order to grow in order to capitalize.

1. Companies don't have time-lines to figure out how to make money. Google didn't hit on AdSense until years later. Amazon didn't get out of silly pro-forma victories until after a long time. Who are you to claim they need to figure out a slam dunk business model?

2. Facebook has revenue, it has enough revenue to cover its overhead, what is it doing wrong?

3. It uses the ginourmous amount of investment money for infrastructure to grow bigger -- which for all intents and purposes they are experiencing, why is this faulty?

4. Calling it a charity seems like naivete or glibness on your part.
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More accurately, "some artistic refinements were added using Gimp".
Stop it! You're making my mouth water.
You could also aim a real gun at your hard drive. No computer skills required!
I don't want to defend Mr. Yang, but I appeal to everyone to remember that people said exactly the same thing when Apple rejected Sun's offer of $24 a share, a 50% premium over their stock price (at the time) of $16.

And soon thereafter, if memory serves me, AAPL fell even lower as the arbitrageurs cut their losses.
So... basically a pretty tasteless email-harvesting site. This got 8 upvotes?!

edit: What about having a way of knowing the list of people who upmodded a particular story? Seems like we might see some patterns. Also maybe upmodders would be more careful not to vote up crap if they could be held accountable ;P I can't think of a reason not to do it.
Yes, duplicate pages are generally bad, but nobody has demonstrated that having a www domain results in duplicate pages. It's a superstition.

I've the done tests myself, and never found a difference. The link you've provided suggests much the same thing -- as long as you're being reasonable in your use of subdomains, you're not going to be penalized by the search engines.
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I suspect it's less by muscle, and more by social pressure. Don't underestimate the desire to conform.
This depends a lot on your budget. If you are running things on a shoestring you should definitely go 100% cloud - you will not have the expertise or capital to get close to the availability and scaling cloud services offer. If your budget is somewhat larger then you can use the cloud for your primary servers and have a small colo footprint to try to cover for those times that the cloud is unavailable or for staging/testing prior to updating your cloud services (take a look at the eucalyptus project, an open-source EC2/AWS clone.) If you have a large-enough budget to provide the high-scale, high-avail services then you might still want to consider the cloud for handling surges and as a failover system to keep your capital budget lean.
Well, what that really means is that Lisp can handle its own code as smoothly as it can data, since the two take the same form.

The reverse can also be true, though; data "is" code, in that if you design a data structure sufficiently well, for example, the necessary code to work with it should be self-evident. (Interestingly, "data is code" is probably more characteristic of Forth and (in a very different way) the relational paradigm.)
This isn't the whole picture. It's hard to burn 500 calories via exercise.

However, muscle burns calories even at rest. And building muscle requires calories. Over the past two months, I've done little exercise besides weight lifting, and dramatically increased my eating. I've had no noticeable increase in fat, though my weight almost certainly went up.
Increase? Why would a better format use more bitrate for the same quality?

Generally, H.264 is 2-3x (or more) better than FLV1/Sorenson H.263, and 1.5-2x better than VP6, but it depends on the encoder and the bitrate. In general, the lower the bitrate, the greater the advantage of H.264. Note the encoders vary dramatically: Apple's, for example, is so bad I would be completely unsurprised if VP6 won out in a comparison.

Fortunately, basically everyone doing H.264-in-Flash is using x264. Unfortunately, not all of them have a clue what they're doing...
I wonder if the author is perhaps clandestinely trying to tell us something:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/countycart...

http://www.digitalapoptosis.com/archives/science/000455.html
One other point to consider is that while AWS provides nice scaling and availability features, it still has some latency issues to work out. Latency between two EC2 instances will be higher than two systems you are running on the same LAN, so if you need high-throughput/low-latency communication between nodes you should probably also run your own server farm.
One weekend, I trekked down to South Jersey to visit my parents in my hometown of Glassboro.

I cannot believe there is someone else on the internet who shares my hometown. Literally, Nowhere, USA. And one who found those signs as baffling as I did. Astonishing.
Heh. Anyone notice any similarities between the two pages?

"Wyoming, for instance, has approximately doubled in size, precisely because of the bias in favor of small states. "
What else is there to say but: Ugh.
Apple did buy a CPU company a little while ago... http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/apple-buys-chip-p-a-semi-... My guess is that they'll use this together with Intel chips to add functionality.
Blazingly fast in Chrome.
Indeed, imagine if Nixon launched Project Independence, a "Manhattan Project" for clean energy, with the goal of achieving energy self-sufficiency by 1980. Imagine he launched this sometime around, I dunno, November 7, 1973. Just think where we might be today!

http://www.energy.gov/about/timeline1971-1980.htm

Amusingly enough, the actual Manhattan Project did give us a clean source of energy. We just don't want to use it.
What is this, caterpiller???
At times I wonder whether some people upvote based on titles alone.
What startups can learn from the obama campaign (an on-the-ground view)
I am rather surprised that no one has done it so far in frustration.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7091904.stm

[Edit] Well, it looks like, people have shot computers too. I am not surprised at all.

http://cyber.eserver.org/manshoot.txt

http://www.ncns.com/news/797/shoot-pc.html
Zed on Matt: Conclusion
>If workers are free to unionize, shouldn't employers be free to choose who they employ and when?

If there were a one-sided restriction on employers like you sort of make it out to be, yes it would scare me. But it isn't. Unions are not allowed to conduct secondary-strikes for instance. This tremendously weakens their power, and to make up for it we wind up with a cycle of more unnecessary regulation for both sides.

I agree we need less regulation of it overall--but it is crazy to pretend there isn't significant regulation stifling the union side of things.
yeah this is utter shit, the submitting user should be banned
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there goes 50% of craigslist traffic
Wow. The satire of this site is pretty fucking thick (haha see what I did there) and obvious, and apparently it has completely flown over your head.

Hint: You're not supposed to actually put your email address in there.

I agree with your proposal, though, I can't think of a reason why we shouldn't tell everyone who voted for whom in an election. Maybe that will make them think twice before they vote for a godless commie liberal, or else they might be the first ones to get lynched ;)
Can't resist pointing out the joys of wildcard DNS:

http://spare.some.change.gov

(Best read in a cockney accent.)
Indeed, I find it amusing that people spend loads of time looking to increase their productivity... when their time would be better spent getting shit done.

Even if the page itself is a bit blunt, the point remains. If you want to get stuff done... go and do it! :)
I worked on Google's statistical machine translation system during my internship. There, I learned that data really is king. The Google Translator team spends equal effort collecting data as they do improving their algorithms.

The 2008 NIST results [1] show that Google's translator swept every category with unconstrained training sets. That is, when Google was allowed to use all of the data that they collected, they smoked the competition. When the training sets were constraint to a common set for all competitors, better algorithms prevaled. You can be sure that the very talented team at Google will be improving their algorithms to ensure that never happens again. But you can also be sure that competitors will be collecting even more data to counter Google's victories.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/2008/doc/mt08_official_r...
Incidentally, if you had to pick a single rubric by which you could gauge the eventual interestingness of an agent of change, you could do a lot worse than profitability.

I'm guessing a lot of the revolutionaries in the Industrial Revolution weren't thinking so much about causing a revolution. They were "just" trying to get rich.
This whole anti prostitution thing is kind of disappointing, honestly, if people want to trade goods for services, the government should not intervene.
Done, and gets things smart.
Android, Chrome, and much of the other cool tech Google builds are not focused on "winning". They are focused on changing the game. It is not about gaining market share percentage-wise, it is about growing the market.

Phones are the primary way a large portion of the world will be introduced to the internet. The more people on the net using Google's products, the more money Google makes. If Android never sells one phone, but Apple and Microsoft have a fire lit under their asses to make better phones, then Android is a success.
Things to do when you're a bored developer
When I have motivational difficulties, I've found that they usually stem from one of two root causes:

1.) I subconsciously know that what I'm doing is pointless and so my subconscious won't let me waste any more time on it.

2.) I'm lacking one or more skills to make the project happen, but don't consciously realize it, and need to spend time burning in the necessary skills before I can return to "the big job".

In either case, the solution's the same: work on something else for a while. That's what I'd recommend for you.

As for war stories of defeat and then emerging triumphant, I've got a couple...

My first big project that I initiated myself was supposed to be a quick PHP rewrite of a large Harry Potter fanfiction site. I was in college, had worked for a year as a programmer beforehand, and thought it'd take six months. When I started digging into it, I realized I had no idea how to architect a big webapp and a whole bunch of little corner cases that were about to make my job really different. Unlike you, though, I couldn't give up: other people were depending on me, and we'd already announced the rewrite to our ~40,000 users (lesson learned: never preannounce software). I finally finished more than 3 years later, after I'd graduated, having banged out a couple of other PHP webapps in the meantime for my college.

When I was doing Diffle.com, I got to the point where I had to convert my cofounder's Photoshop mockups to HTML/CSS and bogged down. I'd never done the front-end of a website before; I'd always had other people do the HTML and hand it to me to turn into templates. So I shelved it for a couple weeks, launched another website with a dead-simple layout, and then came back to it. After having launched something else, I found my CSS issues were much easier to resolve.
Increase? Why would a better format use more bitrate for the same quality?

HD is not of the same quality.
All traffic is not worth the same to Craigslist.

[edited for clarity, there was an unintended double-meaning]
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This is a very familiar path among hyper growth companies - the point where the expense of growth outstrips their ability to convert to revenue. As long as the site keeps growing and adding users, they will continue to have a strong ability to feed the beast with more raised capital. I mean really - how many other companies are growing like they are? Especially in this market. They should have no problems at all getting access to more capital.
Microsoft 'interested' in open source browser: Ballmer
Right on the money, except for Dell. The company is putting money into key trend and technology. Case in point: the netbook and the 19 hour battery life laptops.
This could be a good opportunity for someone to take over this market from Craig's List.

Maybe an 'uncraigslist.com' : a site willing to do everything the normal Craig's List won't.
Most college students have a certain amount of discretionary funds. They just tend to exhaust it very quickly.

They can and should practice price discrimination. Charge those who can afford it more and those who can't less. Getting a fraction of 110 million users to pay even 5 dollars annually could actually double their revenue (strange but true).
Was Microsoft caused by government? I thought it was because Gates convinced businessmen that using his solution and standardizing it would be the most efficient for the workplace. And it took the government stepping in to decentralize things.
You may also need to do sudo.
We still do lab studies, but we know what to watch for, and what to ignore.

Interesting viewpoint. I suppose some data is better than none, but that attitude is the stuff that failed scientists are made of.
or that they'll natively support tethering over bluetooth like many other phones do.
I saw these guys present at a local startup meetup a few weeks ago: http://frugalmechanic.com
Bringing up examples where a bad plan happened to work is not evidence to follow the example. Google and Amazon took the hard road and it isn't like many companies survive and thrive with the "defer" model.

If I create a website tomorrow where I give DRM-free music away legally on an ad-free site I will have 110 million users in 2 years. I will still lose millions a year and my business model will still read [fill in the blank]. Having a lot of users is not an excuse not to have a business model.
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Most companies don't grow in this type of market because they are not giving the product away for free. Give me a good product, and let me give it away for free and I will give you a fast-growing company.
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You mentioned Philippines. I live here and indeed things are getting better for some people. Cebu - the island where I live is booming with IT stuff and Call Centers. And this is no thanks to the National Government. I can only speak for myself, but i think mostly this is done by the local government. So thanks to them. And by the way, if you are thinking of outsourcing, outsource here in Cebu. People get paid less here compared to Manila/Makati and they are just as talented. So you get more for your money :P

For businesses, the market here is small. The island is small. So do your business in Singapore, Japan, US, etc. and let the people here do the work (with good pay of course heh) -- it's like the internet was made for Cebu
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I see this at a micro level frequently when coding. Very often code that is a complex bunch of if / else statements is dramatically simplified by turning it into a map / dictionary with pointers to either data or functions to handle that type of data (object oriented polymorphism being an instance of this).

There are also interesting parallels with REST vs RPC as well. You can create a rich API of function calls for accessing and manipulating data, but it's nearly always less flexible than just exposing the data and letting people manipulate it directly.

I think the tendency to favor algorithms when it might otherwise not be wise to do so comes from how our minds work: we remember things primarily in terms of stories, scenarios, sequences of events. This causes us to interpret the world in terms of behavior as if behavior is the primary construct on which the universe is modeled. But of course behavior is not primary, data is primary, things are primary - behavior is just a fiction we impose on them. This often leads our instincts in the wrong direction.
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Have you tried orienteering? You get the running around in the woods like an 8 year old plus the mental challenge of navigating and route selection. The community is also generally intelligent and you get to see some awesome places too.
FBI looks into a threat to reveal patient data
For as much shit as people toss in Zed's direction, it's very cool the effort he made for this guy.
If I go the startup route, I'll do it without investors. Start small. Then earn a little, grow a little, and make smart business decisions. Repeat. I'd much rather be on a solid foundation in ten years than on top of the world in two and back on the streets in another.
Spoken like someone who is genetically thinner (or one of the few fat people who can just skip a meal and lose weight) than most and never really has to deal with weight issues.

A few years ago, for 4 months, I ate a small breakfast of oatmeal and black coffee, a lunch of one Lean Cuisine, an afternoon snack of a Balance Bar, and for dinner, a small salad and lean meat option. I lost weight the first 2.5 months. After that, I stopped losing and actually gained some back.

You do not know what you are talking about. Please don't ever comment on weight issues. Normal people have to maintain or add muscle mass or their metabolism will adjust and you are back to square one.
Two words: Student discount. Students pay nothing, but once you're out in the working world, pay a nominal annual fee ($10-25). You could cheat it, but then you'd be labeled on the site as a student forever. It may even be a "coming of age" thing for Facebook users...I wouldn't know, I don't use that site.
Activity level does predict fitness level, and that is more important for your health than just your weight.
> For weight maintainence, healthy eating is definitely more important than exercise.

It depends - I find that in a lot of cases (me included), exercising is a good first step. If you exercise, your diet tends to change as a result anyway (the last thing I feel like after a run is a donut).

> But exercise has to be something you like doing.

This is spot on.

My personal priorities are: 1. drink water, 2. get enough sleep, 3. exercise, 4. think about what I eat... Something like Yoga or Pilates is a good 2a or 3a.

What I would encourage most people to do is learn about their bodies and their metabolism. If you walk down the street you'll see a bewildering difference between people - the same applies to their metabolisms. If someone says "fasted cardio is the only way to go", then I'm sure it works, but nothing works for everyone. For example, I run before I have breakfast - for no other reason than I feel horrible and bloated otherwise. However, I know other people that can barely muster the energy to open the door without eating first.

Try a few things out... Turn what a lot of people find a chore into enjoyment out of hacking your mind & body.