skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I speak english fairly well, I think... and have an IELTS certificate, so in theory I could even teach it. This is strange to say here, since most of you either speaks english as your primary language or also had several years of exposure to it.

Anyway, I can think in English. I told this to a co-worker and he mocked me, "hahaha you're so full of yourself", but he asked a friend, an english teacher, and she told him that she also does it.

My guess is that this s something that comes with usage. I read a lot of stuff written in english. Heck, sometimes I know the english term but not the portuguese one, something specially true for things related to my profession. Sometimes I am not sure how to spell an word in english, or even if it exists, and I google for it, and the first result is from a dictionary... meaning the word isn't even used that much.

Here's an anecdote: I have a friend who is a musician and works mixing movies. Once I told him that I can't think, or make sounds in my head, using multiple tracks. By that I mean, when I think about a drum sound, and try to imagine a guitar riff with it, the drum always "stop". The notes don't intercalate. And well... he told me that he can, which is way cool.
The one in the middle of September was the beginning of Eternal...

(Sorry, that was too hard to pass up.)
So how did you get out? I'm six months out of school, and already struggling with burnout centered around the issues in this article.

I've decided that I will not accept a future job unless I can use a non-Windows OS, and I have extremely flexible time accounting. I'm not sure how reasonable that is, but it has to be out there, right?
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You can get halfway there already. The following addresses are equivalent in gmail:

firstlast@gmail.com

first.last@gmail.com (dots are ignored)

firstlast+work@gmail.com ( http://lifehacker.com/software/top/instant-disposable-gmail-... )

You can use these techniques to create filters that apply labels automatically. So if you already have a label for todo items you can use this if you want to set a todo externally. I would expect that would make its way to filter actions eventually for the new todo tool.
You are right! Some submissions are the same. And all submissions have the quality there too.
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Quite simple. Learn how to manipulate and use people.
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Anything indented two spaces acts like it's inside pre tags.

Like this.
And This.
Etc.
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Well, they're not completely ineffective. How many people do you know that have two or more SSNs? How about multiple email addresses?
Facebook is trying to solve it.

It's easy to create a new email account. It's much harder (though not impossibly so) to create a fake identity with 150 friends.
What makes you think that children who are struggling educationally or whose families are on the economic margins (which is only a subset of "every child") are incapable of appreciating the finer things that come with internet access, presumably including the things you most value about it?

Or more pointedly: what makes you more deserving of internet access than them?
"... I'm a tad sad seeing Techcrunch.com and ValleyInsider.com on the top 10 submitted urls ..."

A function of TC being seen as a leading VC/Startup news source and user submissions to extra points?
I'm not sure if you're trolling, but I don't see how adblocking this site gets you much. I'm sure many large sites get the same information in similar or other ways, but just don't happen to be outsourcing the gathering of that information.
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Someone above already said 15 out of 195-ish countries is pretty good, but more specifically, it's actually kinda on par for the US.

While its easy to assume the US is #1 on many metrics due simply to having the largest economy, it's not in the top 10 in areas such as quality of life, quality of education, press freedom, crime, and so on. The US's biggest asset is its diversity and I doubt the US will ever be #1 in most of these areas while it retains the power of its diversity.
yeah I think I must be missing the "domain" of problem that this is a solution for? If you have relatively non-relational static (more read than updated) data why do you need this to store it? Wouldn't flat files or berkeley db type solutions fit the bill?

Also I am not questioning the validity of the project - more hoping that an advocate can give an example of a foot that this show fits snugly.
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Neat.

Might be neat to try "merging" movies for a particular page. Perhaps it's not too easy because you're modifying one copy of the DOM though. It seems like it'd be useful to watch a whole bunch of users' interactions with a particular page at the same time, and then drill down to more closely examine a few who got confused, etc. I feel like it might get a bit tedious to watch a hundreds of versions of almost the same thing otherwise.
Making internet access available to more people does not only benefit those people.

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
m_eiman, yes, yes, this is a very good idea. We're in the middle of putting up a site so that people like you could play with it.

stay tune.
93% or 96% ontime sounds bad. What is the rate for fedex? I bet it's better.

EDIT:

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/04/09/ups-vs-fedex-battle...

The actual rate of the FedEx station in Las Vegas, Nevada (LASA) is 99.86%.
"Generic native code" is quite literally a contradiction in terms. What kind of virtual machine are you proposing that doesn't require translation of instructions from some intermediate bytecode instruction set into x86 (a process sometimes called "compiling")?

If I can't write assembly in your language and have it run exactly as I wrote it, in the order I wrote it, with the instructions I used, your language is not suitable for performance-critical applications like the aforementioned.

And my assembly includes things like computed jumps to one of 16 functions based on known variables, which you cannot write using intrinsics (you're forced to, at best, do a jump table instead, since you don't know the exact size of each function).

(Now, I do fully understand the argument that JIT is probably easier than x86 code verification, and that you could get "good enough" code using intrinsics in a JIT. But of course, that requires convincing everyone who already wrote their code in C and asm to go rewrite it for your JIT.)
I will definitely get to your questions in my blog.

You're right. There are many novel and exciting ways to play tetromino games including network, combo, 4D, special block game play and much more. The concept is ever-evolving. But this is not solely due to the ingenuity of gaming companies to which the Tetris company grants use of their trademark.

Have you heard of TetriNET? Its a tetromino game that incorporates network game play and special blocks. It was released in 1997 and was the first tetromino game of its kind. Since then it has had many problems with the Tetris Company which has tried to shut it down. Interestingly though, in 1999, a new version of Tetris was released featuring “magical blocks” and two player game mode (The Magical Tetris Challenge).

Look all around and you will find new creative ways to play Tetromino games. Its not just “The official Tetris game” that has evolved. In fact, the official versions are usually the last ones to make modifications.
Its hardly a suckers game if you know what you are doing. I know prop traders that make huge bank essentially daytrading on the forex and others.

Sure, its highly controlled gambling, but you of all people should realize that its not a losing game for everyone. If anything, its just a suckers game for small timers -- like all other gambling.
I get this strange feeling that I may represent a third of all daily hits.

Perhaps I spend too much time here. Something about the company of intelligent individuals...
Spikes in page views are usually misbehaving crawlers.
Very nice. I will definitely be using it in the future. Very near future, I'm sure.
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If that's the case Twitter should ask Google what its business model will be.
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Sure, but some things (eg, surround.vim) can't be emulated with that.
regardless of whether it has "theoretical basis", there are plenty of hedge funds that make plenty of money with it.
I would be surprised if you get any answers that are both honest and "creative".

While I try to stay within the lines of US law, the IRS wins no sympathy by treating the US as a world-wide empire, claiming the right to tax the earnings of its serfs wherever on the planet they may be.
lol... good catch. Perhaps that's my own personal foreshadowing!
Ok, so how the hell did you find 4 rails guys in fricken' Parksville?
dude am i missing something here?? is this a page to some secret hacker society???
Everyone needs his own key. And needs to sign her own documents.
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After 5 mins of farting around - usability by a long shot.
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That's true, although I kinda like being pseudo-anonymous on most public forums.

Also meet my friend:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=622877592
This just makes me chuckle. Apparently you have not seen _Why's other docs, particularly the epic entitled Nobody Knows Shoes.

You're lucky (and I, who have different tastes, am unlucky) that the list wasn't delivered as a napkin scrawl that could only be read by printing it out and folding it into a Moebius strip. Or as an illuminated epic poem. Or in musical form.
How many of you have topcolor in your user profile settings?
Check your profile page -- I don't have anything but someone sitting next to me does..?
i flagged it as spam. the user who posted it was made 15 minutes ago and that was the first submission.
http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#12jan08
> Why is locking the account optional? Well, really, clanging the doors shut on a legitimate paying customer is a lot worse for you than letting 10 illegitimate people take up another record in your database.

This is spot on.
It's not so unreasonable for Visa to take 2% (they often take more than that.) Outright fraud costs them around 1% (though they'll never reveal their stats.) Doing collections costs them a lot, and they lose some to cardholder bankruptcies. They do provide a valuable service of isolating you from all these. Taking checks probably costs you a larger percentage of revenue than credit cards.
I have no idea what your first paragraph means.

Your second two paragraphs are mostly subjective. I also think you've staple gunned your design sensibility to 2008; Java (for instance) is over 10 years old. Do you think that in 2018, you'll be hand-carving computed jumps and manually re-ordering instruction sequences just to decode video? If Perl isn't decoding HD video in 2018, I'm going to be disappointed.

Clearly, pure interpreted runtimes are giving way to "modern" (ie, "standard in academia since 1995") native code runtimes. Java has been there forever. Along with the cost of proving out and converting developers to a verified x86 plugin, you also need to factor in the fact that virtually every browser in the world has Java, and is an auto-update away from a much better JVM.

The real issue is, I don't think anyone's going to care about this. I could be wrong, obviously.
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Will they ever fix their current low-quality webmail offering? Yahoo ranks dead last amongst most surveys of useful metrics like email deliverability, uptime, etc.
A code-free experience is presumably for non-geeks, right?

Your signup form has a field called "hostname". Nitpicky, but... How many non-geeks have the vaguest idea wtf that means?
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So this guy wants to automate trading with $3.5k? You need at least $25k with a cushion otherwise you can't day trade.
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Actually, you should expect fraud rates to be high, but not because potentially legitimate customers are ripping you off. It's because when a fraudster gets a new shipment of stolen credit cards, he wants to test them out online before, say, walking into Best Buy where he might get busted for using a card reported stolen.

So you're not losing revenue, since these guys weren't going to pay you for your SaaS anyway, and you're not losing capacity since they won't actually use it. So what's the problem? The problem is that chargeback fees (that you pay them for the service of taking the money back) can be $25 or more.

If it becomes a big problem, you'll probably find ways to detect common fraudulent usage patterns. For instance, since your variable cost is zero, you might avoid putting through a charge until they actually use your service.
Every few years, they tell us that performance won't matter anymore in a few years, because CPUs keep getting faster.

"In a few years any CPU will be able to decode DVDs easily. SIMD will be obsolete!"

And every single time, a few years pass, and it never, ever happens, because CPUs don't get faster in a vacuum. Just as much, our demand for performance increases.

In fact, right now, I'd say that the demand for performance is outpacing CPU development. The CPU requirement for 1080p H.264 from a Blu-ray disc is easily 20-40 times greater than the video from a DVD. CPU's haven't gotten that much faster in the meantime, forcing graphics card makers to add hardware acceleration, just as in the earliest days of DVD playback.
Heh, I've spent so much time working on that model that I didn't even realize that word was there. Thanks for pointing it out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_income seems lot simpler strategy
I didn't remember that you can't have a comment inside of a statement, but you're still wrong!

It's true that you can't have comments in as many contexts in Tcl as you can in most languages, but it is not true that they are just ordinary statements; ordinary statements evaluate their arguments. "#" comments don't evaluate their "arguments", don't terminate at semicolons, and you can't redefine the meaning of "#" with "proc", so "#" is special and reserved — just in fewer contexts than in other languages that use it as a comment character.
Can I ask a question? What led? Design or development?
Another fact: everything is negotiable, once you have enough volume. So if you're building a serious business, don't worry if the first merchant account charges fees that eat into your profit margin. Once you get the volume up to a few million a year you'll have the leverage you need to negotiate a better deal.
It is, sadly, a little content-free.

>>
Web start-ups struggle with the question of whether to sacrifice revenue for several years, build a huge audience and then sell them ads, as YouTube did
>>

Hmm, my recollection was that Youtube built up a huge audience and then got acquired by Google, which runs them as, essentially, public utility. (They spend more on costs than they recoup from ads but they get the cross-subsidy from AdWords like, well, every other Google property.)

For those folks who can't cross on perpetual cross-subsidization and don't want to play the "get acquired before we are destroyed by the economics of hosting terabytes of content that we don't own the copyrights to" game, could I suggest, say, charging money for value? Its a business model for all seasons.
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Oops! I was speaking from ignorance. Thank you for the correction!
There was a time when reddit was very good. But then the noise came and it was game over.
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this is really interesting to me -- i spent a lot of time examining implied and actual volatility with regards to option pricing right before an earnings report. the short and skinny is that (as makes sense) volatility rises right before earnings are released and falls right afterwards. if you know that volatility is going to rise, you could easily plug the rest of the numbers into the black-scholes model and find undervalued options. they weren't always there, but at times, you could find options that would lose less in value due to time decay than they would gain due to the increased volatility with enough volume to not start making the market -- a great arbitrage opportunity.

unfortunately, i didn't have as much time in college to study this as i would have liked, and all of the good volatility data seems to be hidden behind a pay wall (bloomberg stations!)

one thing is for sure: even though the market approximates efficiency, there are still arbitrage opportunities to be found in the right places.
If you (generously) count MMX, x86 SIMD is still younger than the JVM, or even JIT JVM. But I agree that "hardware acceleration" is going to take up a lot of the slack here; all the more reason not to chase unproven performance tricks like verified x86.
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Yes. Of course, you can do that in Javascript, too.
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I personally don't see the content of the articles degrading as much as the comments. If anything there seems to be more movement and moderation of the articles which mostly is an improvement. The thing that I notice is the depth and quality of the comments. It took me a while to build up enough confidence to go from a lurker to a member and actually make comments. It was nice to feel that sense of pressure to make a quality comment that actually adds to the conversation rather than simply take up space or repeat what another person has said so that I can make my post.

The moment a social news site begins to degrade in my opinion is when comments are posted that add little or nothing to advancing or starting conversation (for example "Modded up for _______", "Really Nice _____" or my favorite "When I read the title of this post I thought it said ___. I have had too much ________ today")

There was a period where it felt as though the same articles would sit on the front page all day. The increase in the gravity for old posts and the increase in total number of posts has caused me (and I would assume others) to become more active in the site. I think the focus in moderation should be on the comments to set an example for what is expected.
...tiny bootstrap... platform... 3D spaces...

That quicksand has swallowed many a tiny startup.
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If you look at the last two dozen articles matstc has submitted over the last nine months (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=matstc ) none of them substantially modify the original title, and in fact this title is taken from a subtitle in the article. If it was "worded just to get modded up" it would be unusual behaviour on matstc's part. The subtitle starts the section of the article that HN readers would be interested in.
Reminds me of this: http://uselesshypothetical.com/

I am not affiliated with that site but they seem fairly similar in concept. Not sure which I like better.
Ugh. This is why we shouldn't want the US Government providing all our broadband.
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Yeah, it's true, comments probably have suffered a bit. It might be possible to do something about this. Maybe I could use a statistical filter to auto-detect potentially vapid comments and ask the submitters if they're sure they want to post them.
I submitted this because it seems strange that as much as we talk about security and it's importance here -- that there isn't an established protocol between leaders for authenticating the other party. We saw a similar situation recently with Governor Palin.

I'm interested to get your take on why the most powerful people in the world can't establish something as simple as a protocol to ensure they are communicating with the right person.
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Isn't that a philosophy?
What! Stop destroying inner-city kids' dreams! Don't you know that if every kid in America had access to broadband, this country could be competitive in the international marketplace again?
Curb IT expenditure and ensure Network performance...
This comment is attached to a story about an emergent, and in my opinion, inevitable, trend where policymakers are proposing to mandate verifiable identity for internet communications. Which is something that anyone who is building a business on the internet today will have to deal with in the near future. And yet only one other person thought it interesting enough to vote on, and noone other than myself has commented on it.

This is one of those things where the implementation details will matter a lot. Especially to people who are interested in stable transaction systems. If hackers don't get involved in the policy debate now; we'll get saddled with some POS that writes a single vendor into the smallest transaction.

This article has fallen off the new page, which means, that at this point it is gone from public discussion.
Ask YC: Will you still consider startups without immediate revenue models?
I'm sort of wondering whether we're really at that point where only the apps that save money or add value will really get funding, let alone survive. Are we basically scrapping the idea of relying on ad revenue or acquisitions entirely? Just hoping to get some feedback from someone inside YC, or even anyone else in the HN community.
That and the fact that they'll spy on everyone even more than they do now.
Check out parenscript. http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/ It is the only non js way of coding js that ever made sense to me. I saw Vladmir speak at an event and he got js and lisp.

I have looked through some of the code for parenscript and although I'm not a lisp expert I could grok what it was doing. I could also see how I could write my own macros if I put my mind to it. One huge advantage of compiling to js is that it makes obfuscation and compression a lot easier (this is true for GWT, objective-j, pyjamas, and parenscript).
Of course. Though the plan for startups without a source of revenue should not be to rely on acquisitions (a suicidal strategy) but try to create one.
Check out type room. pretty similar, but works on non hosted sites as well.

Also, Sythasite is very close in a lot of ways....check them out also.

I am sure you have already seen these, but they are 2 outstanding competitors. Any answer to them?
Cool. I didn't want it to sound as if we would rely on an acquisition. I guess all of the talk about the economy made me curious as to whether you guys will judge apps differently (although I would think the team remains one of the most important aspects). Thanks for following up.
The list of top submitted sites is not a list of the sites users are most interested in. In some cases the site owners submit every post, but many never get enough upvotes to make it onto the front page. To find the sites users are most interested in, you want not the raw number of posts per site, but the number that get over some threshold of points.