skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks useful - something that my company could use at any rate. We're currently a customer of geonames's commercial web service.

I have a few recommendations for the developer:

First, the GMail account restriction sounds odd. But I'm guessing you can sign up with any Google account? Lots of people have Google accounts, but don't use GMail... If you can sign up with a Google account (like you often can with app-engine apps), I'd suggest calling it a Google account, not a GMail account.

Second, I think the one-price-for-all-commercial-use is off-putting. I've already seen a light user talking about the price being expensive for 1 request a day, which perhaps it is, and you suggested that commercial users with low usage requirements should contact you. Generally speaking I think you want to be making custom deals for the heavy users, not the light ones. If you want to cater for the light commercial users, you might do better to offer an off-the-shelf package that will appeal to them (whilst being too restrictive for the customers that want heavier usage).

I think heavy users would often a) be willing to pay more than $200 a year (which is under $17 a month i.e. very little), and b) be concerned about the fixed price because you wouldn't be able to sustain heavy usage at that low price and so the chances are that you'd want to cut them off for making too many requests. That's a lose lose situation, when it could easily be a win win (them as a happy heavy customer and you getting more money).

I suspect some sort of rate-limit-based subscription pricing or credit-based pay-as-you-go system may be the way forward. If you used a service like FastSpring you could be taking subscription payments very quickly. (I recommend FastSpring because we're using them and I think they're great.)

I don't want to imply that I know what pricing would make most sense for you - I don't - but I'm pretty confident that the current pricing is a long way from optimal.
are you really suggesting exploiting poor populations for menial work w/o social benefits, without dignity, suggesting they walk into some booth, put in a few hours of work without even the physical presence of co-workers and bosses that can appreciate their work?

I'll go with "yes". Doing productive work, earning money, and gaining basic computer experience would be much better for everyone involved than panhandling on the street.

In equally loaded terms, why would you deny poor people an opportunity to improve their lives?
JavaScript Blocker 1.4 - A Safari extension.
"We don’t persist logs for our users without accounts and configured networks, I’m not sure Google makes the same statement."

What FUD. Was this statement from the FAQ[0] not explicit enough? "With Google Public DNS, we collect IP address (only temporarily) and ISP and location information (in permanent logs) for the purpose of making our service faster, better and more secure. Specifically, we use this data to conduct debugging and to analyze abuse phenomena. After 24 hours, we erase any IP information."

Or what about this more detailed explanation[1] on the linked privacy page? [Originally posted, but removed on account of formatting issues]

If you don't know the answer to a question about a competitor's service, the appropriate, ethical thing to say is, "I don't know." When you say, "We do <good thing X>, I don't know if they do," you are by your omission sowing the seeds of fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the audience, for your economic reasons.

[0] http://code.google.com/intl/en-EN/speed/public-dns/faq.html#...

[1] http://code.google.com/intl/en-EN/speed/public-dns/privacy.h...
I think the best way to solve this is to have a toggle that removes all the archived messages. That's actually one piece of Facebook system that is awesome - there's no history at the bottom of every message that just gets longer and longer, because every message is a part of the history.

Gmail has an alright workaround - they manage to hide the content they view is copied from a previous message.

I don't know if explicitly breaking the thread would do anything - usually when a thread gets too long, I just change the subject line, problem solved.
"according to the evidence presented, it does appear that Apple has been working on new chips"

Ya don't say!
Ask HN: How much should founders be earmarking for their salaries?
I've been working on my pitch deck and PnL and a lot of feedback (pre-sharing it with angels and VC's) is that I've set the salary for myself and the other founders too high. It's currently at ~$150k, including base + benefits (medical and dental). I've been browbeaten for having it so high, and told it shouldn't be higher than $90k, as an absolute maximum.<p>To put some context into this, this startup is made up of founders in their early 30's, with families, and financial obligations. In addition, while none of us have executed a startup, we all have pedigree in our careers (Microsoft, U.S. military, major global financial firms, and Wall Street bulge bracket banks). Additionally, the product that we're developing is not a commodotized concept, meaning we're not developing another social media site, it's hard science that solves a big problem, with a market size in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Last but not least, we have some initial traction from well known players in the industry.<p>Putting all these factors together, and considering our geographic region (New England, expensive area, not the rural area), are we setting the salaries too high? Should they really be towards the $90k range? Or lower? Or where? Would really appreciate some feedback on this from people with actual experience in getting funded.
Parent meant problems that were in the past of interest to research mathematicians. Someone(s) published the first papers exhibiting Catalan numbers underlying various counting problems. Obviously we don't expect elementary students to be at the forefront of modern cutting edge research.
I spend a lot of my time at work telling junior designers: "That's a great idea - let's not do it!"
"Why not?"
"Because no-one behaves like that"
"But if they only put the info A into the place B every time, their jobs will be much easier"
"Yes. But they won't. We have to find a way to force them (which will annoy them), or work around it."
Or, conversely, you could read this as a really happy video about the triumph of human ingenuity in an extremely challenging environment. I guess it's a capillary-cup half empty / half full kind of thing.
If anything, this is understating the problem that authors just aren't doing the design work to provide addressable, reusable resources to the rest of the world. They either haven't noticed or don't care that siloed javascript apps are destroying the web.
Don't get me wrong. I really like Ruby, but I think Rails has become too all encompassing in places.

The architecture, like railties look pretty cool, but policy of constantly embrace and extend just leads to bloat that gets in the way when you're doing something more exotic than straight server-side CRUD.
"The National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine recently released their long-awaited report on Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace. The report, requested by industry groups and conservative Republicans who opposed an OSHA ergonomics standard, finds that there is strong scientific evidence showing that exposure to ergonomic hazards in the workplace causes musculoskeletal disorders and that these injuries can be prevented. Prepared by some of the world's top scientific and medical experts in ergonomics, the report calls MSDs an important national problem and strongly supports the approach that OSHA took in its now-defunct Ergonomics Program Standard.
This is the third comprehensive review of the scientific literature in the past four years that has come to the same conclusions. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published a comprehensive review of the data on the relationship between MSDs and the workplace in 1997. The NAS also came to similar conclusion in an earlier report published in 1998.
The NAS report puts to rest, once and for all, the claims by some industry groups and conservative Republicans that there is no scientific evidence that workplace exposures cause musculoskeletal disorders. It shows without question that an OSHA ergonomics standard is needed and justified."

If you ask me, any claims stating that there is no scientific evidence that ergonomics is linked to RSI are abuses of science of the kind put out by the cigarette industry. It is bad science by those who want to create FUD about the proper remedies. It is a cynical agenda by those who would rather treat employees as disposable, rather than spending a single penny to help their employees continue on with their means of feeding and sheltering themselves. And then the same such cynical people, after putting employees with such ailments out on the street want to tell them, "Just get a job!"
Minimum wage laws destroy jobs and reduce overall welfare; they should be repealed rather than extended to novel business arrangements.

This is in fact their purpose. Minimum wage laws destroy low-paying jobs by making them illegal, preventing the least competitive members of our society from having the hours and days of their lives "mined" by an employer for negligible compensation.

That having these laws "reduces welfare" is, I believe, a conclusion not supported by fact.

A living example can be found in urban Brazil. By failing to outlaw and enforce certain minima (building codes, wages), large Brazilian cities have created vast marginal neighborhoods that no one wants to live in.

Based just on the example of favelas alone, I would argue that having laws to guarantee minimum wages is one thing a government can do immediately to protect the weaker members of a society.

I think you have not addressed another important duty of governments: to provide a reasonably rigorous educational launchpad so that the less fortunate need not always remain so.
Stores will just pass on the costs to the consumers.

Which just shows that the minimum wage is a convoluted and inefficient form of welfare. If you want to help poor people, give them money. The end.
Hm, I'm evidently coming from a rather different context here. I'm thinking of things in terms of, if you close your door, people typically won't knock unless it's important, because if you were open to talking to people at the time, you would have left your door open or simply been in a public space rather than your room.
Standard rumorology; people care more about what something is called than what it does.
Also surprisingly useful in command line video editing. For instance, you can join mpg files together...

cat intermediate1.mpg intermediate2.mpg > intermediate_all.mpg
http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#How-can-I-join-video-files_003f
The web was never a set of "addressable, reusable resources".
One problem is that it is yet to be proven whether a better textbook is the solution to improving math education. It is not at all obvious that for the average student any textbook is the road to learning.
See where I said "usually"? And where I said your experience is valid but don't assume it's universal? Right
DRM is broken as a theoretical construct.

MD5 is broken, but the concept of cryptographic hashes is solid. There's no theoretical problem with the idea of a function where f(a) != f(b) implies a != b to an extremely high probability. The only trick is coming up with real-world systems which approach the theoretical ideal.

DRM, on the other hand, is a theoretical impossibility. It aims to show content without allowing it to be copied, which is a concept that makes no sense. In practice it can work to an extent, but this is only done by coming up with real-world systems which run in the opposite direction from the theoretical ideal.

I'm not at all convinced that business owners couldn't care less. They keep raising the bar, both technologically and legally. Breaking DRM, even for purposes that would otherwise be legitimate, has been illegal in the US for over a decade now. And this is ultimately the crux of the problem, and what causes people to frustratedly declare that DRM is a broken concept. It is a crime to express certain mathematical concepts, and the only reason that's the case is because businesses make up for the lack of theoretical rigor in DRM by bringing in the power of the law.

Imagine if the cryptographic community's response to the break of MD5 was to lobby for a law that made it illegal to generate hash collisions or create or distribute code that could do that, because theory prohibited anything substantially better than MD5 from being produced. MD5 is still a useful hash through the present day and well into the future, but in that hypothetical and counter-factual situation, I think it would be reasonable to call the concept of cryptographic hashing broken.
Getting an EIN is about 4 minutes on the IRS website and is free. The other stuff, yeah, it might save you some time/money, but probably not very much, unless VA is more cumbersome than other states.
I think it's interesting that many believe the next wave of innovation and value creation will come from BioTech, and the potential implications that will have for hackers like us.

I don't know about anyone else, but frankly it worries me. The beauty of the internet revolution + Moore's law has been that barriers to innovation have become virtually non-existent. It's possible to dream up and build the first iteration of the next world-beating website with no capital or specific education.

It seems like the barriers to entry for BioTech innovation, however, will be multiple. To even participate in that world you need a PhD. I don't know what this means about the future for hackers like you or I, perhaps nothing. But I wonder whether this wave of startup innovation will look like a blip on the radar of normalcy in 50 years' time.
There's two separate phenomenon. Pedagogical approaches follow fads rather than solid principles known to work. Textbook selection is corrupt. Both are problems that have not been solved at least since Feynman's experience in the 1960s despite much effort and an awareness of the problem.
Google's public DNS is not consolidated with any other Google services. From its privacy page[0]: "We don't correlate or combine your information from the temporary or permanent logs with any other data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network."

Warning about consolidation of services would very much be wrong in this situation.

[0] http://code.google.com/intl/en-EN/speed/public-dns/privacy.h...
Unfortunately, during our circle back to the 1970's we lost UDP, which is essential for real time protocols.
I don't suppose you're working on a Gmail/Chrome extension? Because I've been looking for one of those for years.
Spoiler 2: They achieved the low cost by exploiting Kaggle's army of machine learning practitioner suckers/volunteers/competitors.
It's a bit more subtle than that. I have time for people past this initial stage, and lots of time for angel investments. But I don't have time to engage fully with everyone who emails me. I simply get too much email and have too much to do for that to work out mathematically.

So these tips are more about getting noticed. It's really just advice. If you don't do them will you be completely thrown out? No. I read pretty much everything and give it serious thought. But if you don't do them you're not putting your best foot forward.

I also don't think I'm alone here, though I'm of course not speaking for anyone but myself. I suspect that if you did all these things you'd have a much higher conversion ratio, which ultimately will just save you a tremendous amount of time.
Maybe you haven't heard of the LG Prada. Design was public in September 2006, several months before the first iPhone was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
An example of such a user, right here on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3510806

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3510342

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3512102

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3512126

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3262181

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3535333

There's much more, but I guess you get the point. When there are similar people in most Apple, Gruber, Google and Android threads, there are obviously flamebait conversations.The smug superiority and abject hate of of other companies/platforms from Gruber, Marco, 37 Signals, Roughly Drafted, MG Siegler etc. can sometimes be really overwhelming and the labeling of anyone that doesn't share in the worship beaing called a hater causes even worse discourse.

Many fans are not below sending death threats if they feel Apple has been wronged or it's image can be damaged.

http://www.overclockers.com/how-i-pcd-an-apple-g5/

Apple seems to tending to attract such a crowd because of it's cult type of branding, ads and secrecy.and anyone questioning their or their fans outlandish claims seem to be vilified as haters.
I never said my experience was universal, nor did I imply it. So what's your point?
For all the genuine innovations that came out of Bell Labs, it's also the case that they killed inventions that would have threatened their telecommunications monopoly, such as the magnetic answering machine that was invented at Bell Labs in 1934!

http://gizmodo.com/5691604/how-ma-bell-shelved-the-future-fo...
India is mentioned.
It's small in volume but including the rigid piece of the usb connector, it can become quite a lever when the cord is pulled up or down. I wonder whether that causes mechanical problems.
Edit: For comparison, the slightly larger iPad power supply supports itself against up/down motion by resting on the outside of the plug.
I can confirm that. The article he cites to support the claim (from 2009) indicates the author made $4 off a 350-500 word article, and $3 for a product review. Based on my experience, those went for about $1.50 and $0.50 as of about a year ago.

$3/hr on Turk is pretty good, and you need some education and diligence to do it.
"Rare hardware malfunction" brings down Digital River, Directtrack networks
Completely agree. However, instead of bundling one asset pipeline into rails that is "aggressive" like Sprockets about getting into everything, they should have said "here's a connector" where you can attach the "asset pipeline" of your choice and let the community create the tools it needs for different scenarios, such as one asset pipeline for thin clients and another for think clients. Or separate asset pipelines for sass/css and coffeescript/javascript.

Bundling a default that doesn't play well with lots of the client-side innovations hurts rails more than helps.

The asset pipeline as it is currently designed is monolithic and an all or nothing approach.
Yeah, the Theracane is pretty good. My favorite gadget for forearm trouble is the ArmAid: http://armaid.com/ It's very good for kneading your forearm extensors and flexors. When my forearms get tight, a few sessions with this usually fixes it.
Keep in mind that a split-keyboard like the Goldtouch might mitigate wrist deviation and pronation, but it does not eliminate them completely. If you want a completely neutral wrist position, I recommend the SafeType keyboard ( http://safetype.com/ ).
I didn't mean to prioritize it, I'm saying that level of understanding should the goal of average achievement for high school graduates.

It is also really really far from what is being accomplished on average. High schools have seniors who can't do division and don't understand operations on fractions. Calculus is something anyone can understand, but it is seen by teachers as some super advanced mysterious stuff for rocket scientists while they struggle along to teach subtraction to 18 year olds.

Imagine a physical education fitness curriculum whose goal after 13 years of training was for 18 year olds to be able to turn over by themselves and begin to crawl. That's what we are doing, being satisfied with goals for graduates that shouldn't be challenging even for 6 year olds. It shouldn't be tolerated at all.

Schools that are graduating students with no math skills have had 13 years of failed instruction with these students. Not just one teacher along the way. All of them. The system should be burned to the ground and started over. That will never happen though, it's too corrupt and incompetent. Myself I've given up hope reform of the system is possible.
The solution to this is sadly to revolt, en masse. Which is to say the journals cannot exist without papers, and so institutions which are providing free access to their academics papers are effectively revolting. Elsevier will not survive the transition but I do not believe it will be missed either.

At this moment in time, this instant, there is an opportunity to create an alternative to Elsevier and its journals. New journals with a reasonable policy and non-extortionate pricing. If the idea of an organizing identity makes sense then its an opportunity that won't come around again for a while.
You're fluent with regressions and stats. Sounds like you're competent with the mechanics. Where you might have gaps, there are some great tools that can do your heavy lifting. But, that's only half of the battle.

When you're trying to do meaningful data analysis, you really have to understand your dataset. Fancy math can't substitute for domain expertise. Think long and hard about what's in the set, what the causal connections might be, and how an "expert" in the field might approach the problem.

The guys over at OKCupid are awesome at this. Check out this post to see what I'm talking about.

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/

Their advice on taking a good picture is just about exactly what my professional photographer mother recommends. Good stuff. But, the way they analyzed and presented the data shows (a) exactly how powerful putting numbers on something subjective can be and (b) that they know their domain.

If you read through the other posts (do that), you'll see that they have a solid understanding of their dataset. They know what to look for, namely photo attractiveness. They know how to get good data on that (the dependent variable) and they know which independent variables probably matter the most.

Throwing math at a complex dataset can be useful (e.g. bayes spam classifiers), but if you really want to do something that will work well or "speak" to a client, invest a bit of time in understanding the field.
Why do you consider the marketing opinion held by one company of its competitor interesting, let alone worthy to be posted here?
Thank you for the links and reading.
Court: Apologize to wife on Facebook, or go to jail
You don't need superconductors to get around the skin effect. It's actually interesting that you mention superconductors, as the skin depth in a perfect conductor is actually zero. (Anyone know what happens at DC in theory in a perfect conductor? I originally thought it was zero at DC as well, but to me skin depth seems like it becomes undefined.)

Even without superconductors, at 100 MHz the skin depth is still around 2 thousandths of an inch. Litz helps too. High power RF transistors exist. All the things you mention are limiting factors, but I still say the lack of good magnetic materials is the dominant barrier to higher frequency converters.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6806263/websocket-api-to-...

One of the main practical problems is that websockets take a second or 2 to start up, clearly too slow.
The fact that you think it us "usually" a valid assumption is exactly the conceit I am talking about. It's only "usually" assumed to be true because the people who have different requirements don't come to the web because it's such a limp platform.
In the answer to 9 I don't see why 'Evaluating ++i + ++i would produce undefined behavior'