skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the premium content is getting more present on the website, I still believe Andrew delivers a lot of value for his non clients.

But at $25/month, the amount of value is unbelievable, and if you'd look a few years back, $25 wouldn't look much for everything that is being offered.

Information seems to devalue very fast.

As wannabe entrepreneurs, we should encourage people who are trying to make money, not criticize them when they do.
Amazing! His ideas and creative intensity are so refreshing.
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This. Having worked for a few multinationals, I know that any US-based business is subject to the Patriot Act, no matter where their servers are located. Obviously they could choose to refuse access, if they really want to experience Guantanamo's tropical weather, but chances are that Interpol agreements will find a way to get that data anyway. Also, as soon as data enters your US-based network they can tap it, which makes your hosting arrangements irrelevant as long as you have US-based clients. The only practical difference is whether relevant US authorities can just show up at the facilities and get cracking or not.

Besides, it's all pointless anyway; any mainstream business (a category including any mainstream cloud provider) wants to be on the good side of the US government, so they'll bend over backwards at the first occasion.
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If you're rendering an object, you've likely already fetched it from the DB. Rails models (by default) will have a created_at and updated_at datetime columns that are automatically set and updated for you, and you can use them for exactly what is shown in the article.
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That's the main downside to HN's "don't rename the article" policy I think; it keeps people from editorializing the submissions, but favors submissions from publications that already chose more linkbaity titles to begin with.

Also perhaps a downside of not having Slashdot-style summaries, in that it encourages blogspam. If I find an interesting academic paper that I think HN might like, just submitting it by itself rarely goes anywhere, because there isn't space to explain why I think it's of interest to HN. Oddly enough it actually stands a better chance on Reddit, because you have about one sentence worth of space in the submission title to explain it. On HN, it's better if you reblog the paper with a one- or two-paragraph blurb, catchy title, and then submit that instead of the original paper. People will then complain that you submitted blogspam instead of the original, but most of the time they'll upvote it more than they would've upvoted the original despite the complaints.
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I went straight to the HN discussion rather than the WP page and on my way was thinking to myself, hope some one brings up the issue of "right to die". To my pleasant surprise that is the central topic of the discussion.

Many have argued for prolonging the life span of humans to the point of immortality. Its a thought provoking idea to entertain. One comment ponders rhetorically, wouldn't it be nice to have Einstein and Tesla around.

Not only am I ok with right to die, I absolutely covet it. Not just for myself but the entire society. I am not so sure about "right to life", though it might seem such a no-brainer,

Though we use the word "right" they are often privileges and the important question to think over is who gets to exercise the privileges. That is never uniform, it always comes down to who has the wherewithal to secure that privilege. It is this that causes me to worry.

Sure it would be great to have Socrates and Einstein with us if they chose to, we don't know if they would have. Many assholes would, but more seriously, one can conjecture that the dictators who were not defeated but died naturally would probably choose to live. World history would be a lot different. Would authoritarian regimes live longer ? Difficult to answer.

Then there is the question of ideas. Ideas, both good and bad, they often die not because better ideas replace them, but because their champions die. I don't know whether this is an argument in favor of or against prolonging life, but the need to discuss it will only become more urgent over the years.
Hasn't pageviews, online or print, always been the metric by which writers have been held to? I'm sure even the best journalists are pushed to write about stories their editors think people want to read. At the end of the day, the number of views/eyeballs you get, the more you can charge for advertising and the longer your business stays afloat.
Because tornado and node aren't web frameworks? Why don't we use a bus as a boat?... because it isn't a boat.
If you think about it, if jobs are a huge concern, then enormous international war campaigns are guaranteed to give a lot of people employment.

Obviously I'd much rather have that same money spent on making life at home better, but at least you're creating jobs either way.
was about to say the same. he really didnt see that his successful business could kill 200 yrs old competitor with billions of never-ending [habit] profits?
Seems like a great idea to me.

I take it you think there is something intrinsically wrong with that idea?
(1) I object to the use of the term "stole" - there is no indication that the Forbes blogger did anything unethical. She gave links and full attribution to the NYT article and therefore helped to promote it. YES, the quotes from it are more extensive and lengthy than you would normally see but on the other hand it IS a NINE page article so I am pretty sure the excerpts still falls under Fair Use.

(2) The article in question is a feature article in the NYT Sunday magazine which is where they put the long in-depth articles which took months to investigate. These are meant to be Pulitzer Prize level pieces that will get people talking and make a big splash in the news cycle. This explains both the length and the title. There is NO WAY the NYT Sunday Magazine is going to lead with a sensationalist headline like “How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did.“ That smacks of The National Enquirer or something. The title they actually used (“How Companies Learn Your Secrets“) is not THAT bad either - it got me to click on it when I saw it.

(3) Most importantly, I don't see how Facebook Likes can be the sole metric of an article's "success." This weeks NYT Sunday Magazine is just officially coming out today. This is a front page article. Lots of people are going to be reading,talking and emailing it all week. And when they do they are going to send the link to the source and NYT will get the credit.

(4) Lastly, - no evidence is given that the TITLE was the SOLE reason why the Forbes post went viral. It is an interesting topic and the Forbes blogger adequately summarized it, making the post very "shareable." The promotion and SEO strategies of Forbes may also have helped.

So in summary the Forbes blog and the NYT magazine are very different types of publications and it looks like they both succeeded in what they were trying to do.
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I'd be curious to know how much views are accounted for in writers' compensation too. I would hope the editors of more reputable resources like Forbes have more sense than that.
What the NYT should do next time is have one of its army of prominent site bloggers recap the interesting facets of the story.

That is exactly what The Economist does. Most of their writers also have blogs, and when the magazine publishes a feature piece, their bloggers add commentary and try to show how the feature is relevant to their beat. It's a great way of letting readers know that they might be interested in a story that they'd never hear of otherwise.

In this case, perhaps the New York Times' political reporters could go into how this sort of behavioral analysis could be used by political campaigns to market their candidates.
Not Samsung?
Since you brought up lexing I'm going to ask a really noob-ish question: does this book (by Grune) deal with lexing at all? If it doesn't, is it because parsing is the more interesting/complicated of the two?

I've recently started getting into a few "traditional" compiler resources after reading a lot of Lisp centric compiler books (Lisp in Small Pieces... SICP, PAIP) where lexing and parsing are kind of handled by (read) so this is a whole new world for me.
The NYT article was also several different themes, somewhat related to each other, put together. The Forbes re-blog stuck to the one most link-bait theme.
echo "127.0.0.2 www.facebook.com plus.google.com \
www.twitter.com news.ycombinator.com www.reddit.com" >> /etc/hosts

sudo vim /etc/hosts

...and add '#' in front of that line every time you want to get social. Remove the '#' after use. Works miracles.
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ARC in XCode 4.2 takes care of the release/retain business!
as a regular long run runner and coder, I totally agree with you. For training, not only building base is important, if you wanna achieve a good pace during marathon, running fast like a blast is part of it. More detailed, we basically have 4 phases for training.
1)acclimatizing phase,
2)building-up phase,
3)overall preparation phase, and
4)special preparation phase.
Hacktons are more like phase 4, not so accurate analogy,but the spirit is the same. Digging deep, changing the routine, a big improvement is coming.
I spend a few minutes ever couple hours on social networking. If I come across a good article or story throughout the day I take a minute to tweet it as well. The importaint thing is responding to users and being as engaging as possible to show you are still active. We've run 1 or 2 low priced ads on a small blog and miscellaneous other small traffic sites as well as set aside a small daily budget for Facebook ads. These have been quite consistent over the past year, and have been assumed to have a minimal impact on the increase in sales we have seen over the past 2 months which we have attributed to social media.
Yeah, especially when you take into account that some of them are using a proper ORM and others are just using straight SQL queries. Sinatra looks twice as fast as Rails at DB based pages, but if they through in ActiveRecord in the Sinatra app it might be even closer.
Node is arguable. You can use express.

Tornado is definitely a web framework.
great link! geez, this reminds me why i like to use web developer tools so much when i'm adjusting my CSS, HTML, and JS. honestly, a lot of my ideas come from real time editing. i love making small adjustments to my values and getting to see those take effect instantly.
Do you really lack the empathy to see that the statement is offensive and hostile?
Presumably salt on grapefruit is thought to be weird since grapefruit is thought to be good for your heart, while the perception of salt is quite the opposite.
You have to explicitly bridge them in or out of ARC and indicate the ownership rules. Sometimes, for example when you're interfacing straight C code, you have no other option.
The potential for abuse seems staggeringly high.
You conveniently left out the most important part when you quoted me. It's ludicrous.
I know you are intelligent, and said as much, because I read some of your other comments. Unless you work for the Chinese government, the fact that you persist with this idea that America is a fascist country makes me think that something is dreadfully wrong somewhere. It was morning here and I was drinking coffee, maybe it was late there and you were drinking scotch. I'm sorry if I offended you.
did you read my comment at all? the complaint is much more specific than 50% of the population. it's about a very small subset of women. nobody here is claiming that all women are annoying, just a very small group of women who are annoying in a very specific way. the gender is not the basis of identification, the source of annoyance is. the gender is almost incidental.
Another ridiculously linkbait title from Wired, completely misrepresents the entire point.

It erases the emotions associated with painful memories. Not the memories themselves. You won't forget what happened. It doesn't have anywhere near the same potential for abuse a drug fitting the headlines would have (à la MIB).
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I'd be really interested to read a list of these highly remunerative skillsets. Going to be taking some time off, and probably heading in a new direction when I start working again.
I've done numerous hackathons, and more often than not, I'm disappointed. Yesterday, I participated in the Hacker Olympics "hackathon" in Manhattan. It was absolutely awesome, and somewhat of a unique event. We did silly things like have timed contests on who can assemble a computer the fastest, who gets the most kills in N64 golden eye ... oh ... and some coding too! Most of the programming challenges were easy but with tight timelines. This is certainly different from the regular build-an-app-over-a-weekend.
مواجهات واعتقالات وحالة من التوتر الشديد اثر محاولة متطرفين اقتحام المسجد الاقصى
Thanks for making my point for me! The chart really misleads re: the difference between languages. Do we even know if Clojure wages are statistically different from, say, Scala rates?

Other problems:

1. As hinted above, what are the standard deviations? Do we even know if Clojure is statistically different from HAML? Do Clojure rates exhibit higher variation than HAML?

2. $4 difference between pattern recognition v. machine learning, where pattern recognition is, effectively, a subset of ML? We see this with legal services v. contract drafting, and (arguably) info architecture v. interaction design (less overlap with these, to be sure).

Also, while John gets credit for joking about causality, I'd be very concerned about sampling bias if he uses oDesk data to examine human capital decisions.
Wait, is there going to be a FakeFakeMedicalJournal from fake elsevier?

(http://classic.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55679/)

This could get a bit too meta for me to follow.
I was thinking more around the lines of converting the brain connections to software i.e. Scanning the brain and creating a software representation of it. Then put it in a brain simulator (This is a very simplistic example, it will be far more complicated than this). If we can do this then we should be able to replicate everything else, touch, smell, taste. Essentially we would become an artificial intelligent being with the potential to live forever.
This can't be the NYTimes first brush with this business model, it powers every major blog these days since The AOL Way leaked and everyone outside of AOL realized they were doing it wrong.

Engadget have tags for "New York Times", "NewYorkTimes", "NYTimes", "NYT", "The New York Times" and "TheNewYorkTimes" for the articles they hijack.
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I think this is more about proof of concept than a presentation of its readiness for production at a large scale or at any scale. Give it 5 more years and maybe we'll be closer to seeing it more frequently in the technologies we use.
I'm curious to know, what modern devices are built on the MIPS architecture?
(Our computer organization course includes the MIPS Instruction set, wanted to know how relevant or useful that might be.)
I agree that we don't know the answers to these questions, but I don't agree that they outweigh the awful, terribly sucky thing which is death. I don't want anyone to die ever again. That people have died a few times since I started typing this is really, really bad!

Look, if you were designing a society and were trying to make the tradeoff of whether people should die or not, how would you weigh the arguments for and against death? "Hmm, on one hand, old ideas die off, so society might progress faster. On the other hand, we will snuff every conscious being out permanently, and they and their family go through years of suffering. Which should we choose?" Are you seriously arguing we would choose the former?
>>Anything past those two are wishful thoughts.

hardly just skin and liver!

It is easy to find information about e.g. therapies for horses' joints. This link is about humans, just a few years from patients.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1809322.stm

There are people walking around with bladders and (built with a scaffold) throats. There are grown muscle patches for hearts, etc. (I didn't mean to replace parts of the brain surgically of course, stem cells rebuild damaged areas after strokes.)

(I assume you aren't claiming that Parkinson won't be cured in 20 years?)

Do you have any references? What are the show stoppers to scale to more complex tissue? The field obviously moves fast. Muscles like the heart and "simple" organs like kidneys should probably be possible. Is blood supply not solvable?

Edit: Sorry for coming back a few hours later. (I was downvoted a while? :-) )
> Do they keep all of the submissions

I've never actually been to any hackday where they kept the submissions. The only one I've been to that was really organised by a particular tech company, they obviously tried to get you to use their platform but said you didn't have to (some didn't and it was fine). Is this common?
Sorry for not being specific. It said I wasnot logged into any when I was logged into all. I have no extensions for any network, so I do not believe there is anything that would interfere. There were no errors in the console, either.
FTA, the Secret Service replied to a FOIA request:

> ...we are enclosing a list of manufacturers that "have fulfilled or agreed to fulfill document identification requests submitted by the Secret Service."

Canon, Brother, Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Konica, Minolta, Mita, Ricoh, Sharp, Xerox
"Because [MDMA] triggers a rush of positive emotion, the patients recalled their trauma without feeling overwhelmed. As a result, the remembered event was associated with the positive feelings triggered by the pill."

For what it's worth, this isn't entirely true. What actually happens is that MDMA shuts down the amygdala, which allows patients to access memories from the objective perspective of someone who is no longer in danger, and then reinterpret those memories in a more healthy way. The positive emotions created by MDMA do help in this process, but it's not the entire story.

Michael Mithoefer refers to this starting at 10:45 in this MAPS lecture:

http://www.maps.org/videos/source/video3.html

And Peter Oehen has a more in depth explanation in his lecture here:

http://www.maps.org/videos/source/video4.html
Very accessible, yet complete book on parsing
ErLUA felt a lot more intuitive IMHO, looks good though!
To me Mueller has an obvious bias against Google and Android and many in the FOSS community have called him out for behaving like a shill.

This post has more on the story and Mueller has not denied it's veracity:

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-is-patent-expertblogger-f...

"He says that he and Microsoft have worked together more than once, but that because of a confidentiality agreement with the company, he can’t elaborate on the details of that relationship."

Mueller buries his bias and sensationalism amongst otherwise insightful analysis. He also offers no opportunity for rebuttal on his blog (comments are always disabled).
It’s not so hard. It’s probably best to quote what the author wrote in the comments of her post:

“‘Golden Uterus Complex’ is a slur against women. It‘s not even a real psychiatric term, just slang. It dismisses all women who have real life experience of things men don‘t go through first hand—like child birth or sexism. In short, when guys don‘t have a dog in the fight but they still think they have an important perspective, they whip this baby out to cry foul instead of giving a woman credit for her experience and respecting her opinion.

Maybe it‘s annoying to you, but it‘s legitimate to the women involved.”
Just to clarify, I've seen lots of hackdays organised by platform providers so they let you keep the end result and they still benefited because their platform got traction/apps/focus/whatever but never one where they actually take your work off you.
> Lawyers start well above that

Do they?

My wife works at one of the largest law firms in the world, and trainees there makes about $10-$15/hour. On paper their salary is high, but the hourly rate is pushed far down because of ridiculously long hours. Their secretaries make as much or more than them.

Newly qualified lawyers there make $20/hour if they're lucky. This is in the UK, specifically in a London "magic circle" firm - one of the highest paying law firms in the UK. US firms in London pay up to about 1/3 more total yearly salary, commensurate with the same firms salary levels in the US, but also tends to expect even longer hours.

It's first quite a few years post qualification that their salaries get high enough that their hourly rates starts to become decent.

Average salary for a solicitor in the UK was around $37k/year a couple of years back, for longer than average hours, at a time when the national average salary in the uk was ca. $40k/year...

I'm sure there are lawyers who start out at high hourly rates from day one, but I'd be surprised if more than a tiny fraction starts out around the $100/hour rate.

Actual billed out rate from a major law firm, sure - my wife is billed out at around $300/hour as a trainee.
What I find more interesting than repressing memory is enhancing it:

'If the genetic expression of PKMzeta is amped up—by, say, genetically engineering rats to overproduce the stuff—they become mnemonic freaks, able to convert even the most mundane events into long-term memory. (Their performance on a standard test of recall is nearly double that of normal animals.) Furthermore, once neurons begin producing PKMzeta, the protein tends to linger, marking the neural connection as a memory. “The molecules themselves are always changing, but the high level of PKMzeta stays constant,” Sacktor says. “That’s what makes the endurance of the memory possible.”'

Anyone know of any product development based on this, or if it's viable?
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Wondering if this exists? I've been googling around and haven't found anything remotely close to what i need.

The only solutions that i seem to be finding are the run of the mill template type sites.

There doesn't seem to be a simple, elegant landing page service out there for businesses. (Maybe an idea for a startup?)

Anyone able to point me in the right direction? Would appreciate any help.
(4) ... all the required elements for attracting attention are there:

teen girl
pregnant
father

It is true that the title would smack of a national enquirer post than NYT. However, NYT probably could have their own bloggers crafting juicer headlines and summaries that lead to the main article.
I like the idea, it's a nicer interface than dealing with EDGAR.

Unfortunately, any company who's filings are scanned-in (not submitted electronically) will not show up. (and that's fair... that would be a lot of extra work).

Edit: I'm referring to REGDEX filings, which are (always?) scanned paper documents declaring offerings of under $1 million.