skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also recommend gandi.net and they have decent tools to manage large numbers of domains although they don't have rock bottom prices.
I'm not, but I sent the author of the comment (codacorolla on Metafilter) a message through that site to take a look over here, and also mentioned that there were some appreciations.
If you've been working on this for 2.5 years, with little traction, I think that's more than enough. Noone is expecting Facebook-like success of course, but after 2.5 years, you should have at least a good thousand regular users a day (do you?)

I think the first rule is you need to build something people want. Focus first and foremost on that. It sounds easy, even too simple, but people make the mistake of doing the opposite.

For you, I don't know what people are getting of value from signing up for your site. They get to express themselves, but they can do that anywhere they go. How are you providing value to people? Why should they invest more than 5 mins in your site? In today's world, ppl have their fingers ready to click the back button. You need to come up with a compelling reason for them to stay.
I wouldn't mind having a paid membership in a library that carries O'Reilly's books and like. I would also probably try to convince my company to have one (and that would mean much bigger budget there). Most of such books are needed only for a relatively short periods of time and then sit there gathering dust for years. The library would be ideal for such things.
I don't say this would necessarily work, there are many problems with this idea that would need to be resolved, but on the face of it I don't see why it couldn't work.
Another advantage of "native" analytics is to capture downloads of all file types. Google Analytics does not know about your PDF downloads (unless there is something I don't know about), and or me that is quite important.

I hope you figure out how to block referrer spam. I use both GA and awstats as provided by my webhost, and the numbers are widely different. The referrer list at awstats is almost useless since I get hundreds of hits from viagra selling sites etc, despite the fact that I don't publish the referrer list publicly anywhere.
The Cameron Village library (Raleigh, NC) has a coffee shop. The best info I could find is from their Facebook page [1]:

> Has it been a while since you been to a library? Cameron Village Regional Library is the only library in Wake County that offers coffee bar service to its patrons! Come visit your public library and browse the stacks with a beverage in hand. Or just come and meet up with a friend and catch up before heading over to the shops and events at Cameron Village.

[1] http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cameron-Coffee-at-Cameron-Vill...
It appears that Chrome aggressively prefetches DNS results for most of the links in pages you visit too. It's quite strange to watch as DNS requested for hundreds of domains you haven't even intended to visit start flowing past. The first time I saw it I had to check that nothing unscrupulous was running on my computer...
It's really not that difficult. Adjust the income tax brackets and raise the rates. Oh yeah, and go flush your disgusting self-serving libertarian/objectivist philosophy down the drain, too.
There's no "massive positive externality" to humanity. If you are to take your position to its logical conclusion, all human life should be exterminated.

I don't think I've seen anyone argue for a truly nihilist position as earnestly as you have here.
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I agree with you that there should be focus on both during an interview process.

However I see no problem in a post/discussion/website focusing on a part of the interview process such as coding/algorithmic questions.
http://handthatfeedsyou.blogspot.com/2012/01/yes-santorum-is... doesn't leave much room for doubt that he wants to create an islamic-style theocracy but using catholic dogma.
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Why make it a dichotomy?
Do you have Analogies for Cloners?
I see the US IT scene like a proper hunt where Coders go out there in the wilderness and risk all to come back with some prey, this prey the cloners steal back at no risk behind your back when your huting and sell it back to you. But by then its not fresh and rotting.

This is extreme but I feel this with the Samwer Brothers in Germany. They copy great innovative businesses were US companies took mega risk and managed to emerge with a great new product, that they copy and with some tricks try and sell back.

I think what Air BnB did was the best way of showing the 3 Brothers and the community how not to get crunched by them.

This is a reponse to what i happening in Groupon in Germany , the foundation of Groupon. This could cause the whole structure of groupon issues.

http://venturevillage.eu/leaked-groupon-emails-slavedriver
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An interesting technique I found:

Create a "quiz" every day. For every article, formulate a question answered by the article that is actually important.

Later on, you can go back to your quiz and review your questions.

However, the most interesting part is that you will learn to instantly recognize cruft you don't need.
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I wonder what the news would be like if the feds here raided some foreign company in some foreign country, and someone like Kim had some "panic" secret automated target aquisition weapons systems and killed all of the guys as they ran up and busted down the doors with rifles drawn?

Feds bust corporation in other country, gets slaughtered. Which legal system deals with the situations where one country is imposing its laws on another, and the citizens use deadly force to fight back?
You are correct, I should have been more careful with my language. Mea culpa.
For anything other than page loads, you need "Events":

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTra...

for example:

<a onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Vids', 'Play', 'Title']);">Play</a>
In the RC world, drones are aircraft that can operate for periods of time without real time human input.

In the "real" world, it's about whether the aircraft operates with pilot on board (traditional aircraft), within direct view of an operator (rc), or neither (drone)
I had exactly the opposite experience last 2 times I was there - in one case a couple of years ago, I got an AppleTV... I straight-up said I was not interested in anything else, just that, I got a sales rep in about 2 minutes, then joked with him for another minute about how awesome Netflix on the aTV was. Paid, then I walked out without a bag or paper receipt.

More recently, with Apple's improved "self-checkout", I simply scanned the item on my iPhone app and pay with my AppleID. Again, no receipt, no bag.

I challenge you to find a more geek-friendly checkout mechanism. YMMV of course, but I've gotten really good mileage at my local Apple store.
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Hey man, hope you enjoy the props :)

1. What's an MD? A doctor of medicine, as my dictionary suggests?

2. There's certainly a lot more personality shining through the posts of Jordan Golson. Just an observation.

Keep up the good work!
I never used Megaupload. Never saw their site before the takedown notice went up, so I don't know anything about their business model. But where did they get $50M in assets? I have seen the number $175M as a subscription revenue number, but how did they rake in that much in subscriptions? That's a huge number.
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> There are plenty of ways to bring smart people together to learn and do research.
> They could be nonprofit; they could be separate from teaching or integrated
> with it. You could even call them "universities" if you like. But there's no
> reason they have to resemble the current monster.

Can you name some ways to actually do this? I'd love to hear about them, but have never actually seen a system like that. Even if there was though, before you go yanking money out of the system, you should actually try to replace it. And that will take time and money, and you will have to convince great scientists to make the switch, in spite of the fact that they will probably have less money, less resources, and spend more time doing something other than interesting research in order to build said system. That's all really hard.

Recently a lot of academics have been pushing for open journals, even going so far as to boycott closed ones. Even this is fairly controversial. :(

> Sure, but the university system isn't sold that way. We're meant to believe
> the research done in universities is all useful.

Sold by whom? Guidance counselors? Other students? I don't believe I've ever met a professor who thought that all, or even most research, is life-changing, or even very interesting. I just don't buy that you heard that from a reliable source.

> Universities have special privileges when it comes to fostering immigration.
> If America had world-class research centers with the same privileges,
> people would still love to come here and they'd be able to do so.

It's not only about privilege: schools are known by foreigners as a system that allows them to get to the US. In order for this transition to be effective, you'd have to supplant the educational system, then get everyone to know about your alternative system.

And besides that, the institutions that do the hiring are incredibly biased towards American schools. I work for a reasonably prestigious lab, and the people in charge are (charitably put) deeply suspicious of research from Chinese and Indian schools. When given a choice, they will hire a PhD from an American school almost always. Exceptions include University College at London, Oxford, Cambridge, Utrecht, etc., but it is a vanishingly small list, and even they I would say are much less likely to be hired.

> As you point out, universities aren't very good at this. Maybe a lot of people
> won't use libraries, and many who do won't be very productive. But
> as you suggested in one of your other points, the instances that pay
> off really pay off. And libraries do this much more efficiently than universities, in terms of money spent. There are a lot of
> university students burning tens of thousands of dollars without learning
> very much.

Oh man, I'd really love to believe that, but I just don't see it. Science is still pretty much a communal affair, and the mere availability of knowledge does not make science happen. You need a robust social framework to evolve it. I just don't see that in libraries.
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2pac work ethics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spqz-PDCp80

In maths, the people who write the proof sometimes aren't the people who make it rigorous. The elements of the proof are there and there are people who like coming in and fixing it. Same thing with grammar/writing...There are people who like coming in and fixing it.

Diverge then converge, I do stay a little on the diverge side. http://creatingminds.org/principles/div_conv.htm

Or if you would like, it is part of the art form to stay raw.

PS. No amphetamine were consumed during, or before this post or even ever.
Or what about if they raided some alien company on another planet? Well, they'd probably use something similar to what they use now, an international warrant for arrest or seizure and cooperation with the local law enforcement authorities to the extent that that was available. I suggest looking into how this works rather than trying to come up with B-movie scenarios.
Change that name as soon as you can.

I can imagine all the justifications you might have for triplicating the T, but it's not going to stick.

Consumers have demonstrated for a very long stretch of time their dislike of difficult variations of words. Is that two T's or four T's again?

www.wantt.com goes nowhere; and www.wantttt.com redirects to wantist.com. You've got a big problem right there.

I assume you guys are the ones out of Michigan holding the trademark on "want" - but if you're going to keep that name, you should go hustle digimedia and trade your soul to get want.com
Hate to break it to you, but Universities also employ a LOT of trade workers as well, it's not all academics and students. I think it would be fair to say that cutting a similar amount of funding from the california university system would result in a similar number of janitorial, HVAC, maintenance, landscaping, administrative, _librarian_, technology support, and other job losses.

Sure, cutting something as important as state libraries sucks, but you'd be pretty naive to think that shifting the cuts to any other sector wouldn't result in the same amount of job losses.
It's all about one's point of view. I'm assuming you're out of college and don't care about the cost of tuition. A college student couldn't care less about public libraries because...

1. Colleges have their own libraries
2. Cost of tuition is way more important to him/her

From my point of view, it looks like this:

How much information is in a library that can't be found elsewhere online? Now what about the other way around, though. How well can advanced college topics be taught with a book from a library?
Not to take this thread further off-topic, but I'm curious why your brother-in-law and yourself don't just order from your computer instead of making a trip to the store?
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I'm curious to know more about the quantity of coffee versus the sleep quality you have. Feel free to share tricks you have to sleep better or ways to handle the stress/coffee versus more sleep situation. Thanks
I'd say go ahead. Besides other things, it will give you a perspective on profit vs cost centers (Peter Drucker). You will be asked to control the burn rate and make choices about what produces enough value to the company.

Being a techie, I have a bias towards calling tech chops as must have for any senior role. It just get you to make much better decisions when you are in a technology business.
I recall a friend 20 years ago talking about his dad getting a Phd in vacuum technology. Sometimes I feel lime that today. I still don't think my degree was wasted.

- A CS degree in any era signals persistence and an ability to solve non-BS problems that have a distinct right answer.

- Modern technology is so much fun, I am happy to learn it.

- Google and StackOverflow have made learning specific technologies so much easier. No more staying up until 2 with no resources.

- The earlier you get into the field, the more likely you will know things at the bottom - memory management, database tuning, etc.

This isn't meant to imply that CS is easy now. There is a larger body of knowledge to master with many moving parts. Just that an old degree isn't so worthless. (Neither is a 20 year old Physics degree)
Thank you rochoa. Inconsolata is good. Btw, to answer other comment am using OS X 10.6
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The premise is bullshit. Lego now also sells specialized sets (though even those were toned down in recent years). Also is the important word here. It offers a wider variety of sets, much wider than in past decades. (Though the late nineties and early 2000s were a dark time when Lego hardly sold any sets that only used basic blocks. That has very clearly changed now, though.)

They still sell plenty of mainstream sets that use nearly exclusively basic bricks, like this one: http://creator.lego.com/en-us/products/default.aspx#5771

Or look at this magnificent set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDj_zA1v450

Yes, even this set has more different types of bricks than those in the 70s had, but they are all very universal bricks. They are not in any way limited to a single or few uses.

If you really wanted to, you could even do lots of creative things with the pieces in that Harry Potter set. It’s easy to find ways to not make it look like it’s supposed to look.

As a kid I treasured special pieces. They were rare and could be incorporated in my own builds in novel and creative ways. The only ones I really hated were those with large print on them that was very specific. I’m not a fan of those bricks printed on those large wall pieces in the Harry Potter set. The rest, however, looks like pretty standard blocks that are universally useful. (Only the color is really weird.)

I still wouldn’t buy it – there are other, better choices – but even for that set he depicted the characterization is in no way fair.
Those are important advantages.

I would also say that my experience also suggests that US primacy in world banking contributes to it too. If someone wires money from Colombia to the US, the price is not expensive, but Colombia to Indonesia is ($100 USD per wire? WTF?).

Also wiring ringgits from Indonesia (national currency is the Rupiah) to Malaysia (Ringgit) requires conversion into dollars and then wiring through New York. Some work on local banking connections would go a long way. That's probably one thing the Eurozone was intended to do for Europe. I am not sure you need a multinational every day currency though so much as an international reserve currency for the region....
>state funding

Indirect state (and federal) funding, in the form of scholarships, grants, and loans, is one of the reasons tuition is so high in the first place.

If student loans weren't so plentiful colleges wouldn't cost 10-50k a year, because no one would pay.
Nobody can argue against decision making using facts. Earlier data was "pulled" (surveys, ...), now its "pushed" (social networks, comments on blogs, ...).

Latter has led to tipping the balance of amount of data thats available to make meaningful conclusions.

Lastly computing power is dirt cheap and easily accessible.
Yes, I tried that too and it's quite cool.
All the courses have been delayed, I received one for the Tech. Entrepreneur that indicated the delay has to do with IP and copyright issues. Problems that sound like they do not bode well to resolving quickly ...
One big problem for me with server-side analytics : you can't use CDN (like CloudFlare).

Or nice caching.

Your setup need that requests hits PHP, but most requests hits Varnish on most setups.
Is a music degree 'outdated' if one doesn't learn to play the piano parts to Adele hits, or create synth patches like Skrillex?
I'm confused as to the popularity of this article, given California has cut funding to both universities and public libraries. It's not a zero-sum game; usually funding for both public goods follow hand in hand. Not to mention university libraries, a class of their own.
Yes, it's true that some brands have failed on Facebook- but to write off the entire concept is overreaching. The problem, to date, hasn't been with technology but with merchandising. Brands need to figure out the correct mix of merchandising and marketing before they will be successful. Too many retailers have just been vomiting up their entire catalog and that's what what the consumer wants on Facebook.

Facebook will always remain a secondary or tertiary revenue stream for brands, but there is money to be made in that space.
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The general public is not going to know what a "text stream" is, what a "host" computer is, or what you mean by getting into a computer "manually". And I'd be willing to bet that "interprets" in this context is also going to be difficult. Explaining these things to people who don't care about computers isn't as easy as you make out.
MplayerX and Movist are both in Mac App Store and both are playing one upsmanship on releases since getting there. It's great for video loving users.

I normally use Plex Client (playing from Plex Media Server) but some sources crash Plex if the type of digital audio changes midstream, so I'll play that source in one of these, depending on whether I need the subtitles or am watching a whole series at once.
As the son of another librarian I can also confirm this is true, and point out that just today I overheard a children's librarian lamenting that her library just discarded all their Lloyd Alexander. "They just didn't circulate," she said with evident sorrow.

So don't just use the library, use the specific bits of it that you want to keep. You are doing nobody any favors by letting it sit idle.
Libraries have a short life left. I don't know many people who go to them anymore considering the vast amounts of information on the Internet and now eReaders.

Libraries may offer other services than just the loaning of books and dvd's but in that case community centers will appear or other businesses to fill those needs.

I know some people don't have access to the internet or a computer but that is changing. I don't think libraries will disappear overnight but they are going (as we know them).
One could have made the same argument in favour of Roman numerals, in the face of the less familiar Arabic numerals
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I got a degree in Biochemistry from UCLA. I've had good professors and bad professors, but it is not all about learning theory or even all about getting hands on in a lab. Technique should not be what everything should be centered on, if you are good, you can usually get technique down very quickly. There is so much more that you learn that is kind of intangible. If you take a lab course and just follow the procedure and don't take anything away then you missed out on a lot because anyone can follow a procedure, it is much more about learning to think critically.

Also, it is not only about learning, but having access to cutting edge research in the same building that you are learning in. If all you did in college was go to class and then went back home, then you missed out on one of the biggest opportunities you have in life. A lot of your time should also be spent trying to learn as much as possible from some of the top researchers in their field by volunteering time in their labs.
Analysts are amusing at times. So they speculated not that long ago that Facebook was going to challenge Amazon.com as a retail destination? On what planet was this going to happen?

Sure, and Amazon.com was going to challenge Google (A9!), and Amazon was going to challenge eBay in auctions, and Google was going to challenge PayPal (Google checkout!) and Microsoft was going to challenge Google (Bing!) and Microsoft was going to challenge Intuit (Money!) and Microsoft was going to challenge Oracle (SQL Server, Great Plains) and Facebook was going to kill Twitter, and Microsoft was going to kill AOL with MSN, and and and and.

Who knew it's apparently so difficult to conquer the entire planet? Next you're going to tell me that people don't want their car oil changed by McDonald's.
...public goods of communal learning, discourse, shared meeting spaces, free internet access...

Just because you stick the word "public good" and "free" in front of something you want other people to pay for doesn't make those services non-rivalrous and non-excludible.

As for NSF grants (note: webpage is way outdated, haven't been at NYU for years), the theory behind their public benefit is that published scientific research helps everyone - you are free to build a medical or other device based on the basic research I published.

I'm not going to defend this empirically since I'm unconvinced it's true. The large chunks of grants pilfered by universities, the paywalled publications, and the patented inventions exploited by universities seriously undermine the public benefits.

As for your ad-hominem attacks, I'll ignore those. I recommend reading this, since you seem new here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html