skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a effective landing page, you need to do CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization), for this you need to know usability, make test A/B and measuring analytics data =)
He wanted to make it open source, so the money he would have made could only have been done through donations. Not exactly scum bag behavior.
Same! Apparently I took the article submission guidelines too seriously?
It's funny how the author uses published studies to support his claim that science is broken. What's statistically more likely, that 80% of articles conflate "statistical significance" with colloquial "significance", or that one study misinterpreted many of the others. That requires bias on the part of only one team of authors. Nah, the studies that support my thesis must be true.

But if those studies (which reviewed other studies) are true, it's a nice example of the self-correcting nature of science. We've gotten this far. To say that science is fundamentally broken is a bit of an exaggeration.
"The advantage is that it's human-listenable, and not going through any computer networks or algorithms between Colorado and you." That is an advantage?

The Fort Collins signal is awful in the northeast. If you want to deal with the disadvantages of not using advanced computer algorithms to govern your clock i would recommend the USNO's phone service:

Time Voice Announcer, Washington, DC:	202-762-1401 & 202-762-1069 (DSN 762-1401, 762-1069)

Time Voice Announcer, Colorado Springs, CO:	719-567-6742 (DSN 560-6742)
I agree with you. It reminds me of a response someone made to me when I professed that I had a kneejerk negative reaction to something (which I admittedly still have a kneejerk negative reaction to... Oh well).

They linked this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...

Once I got past the vague offense at thinking of someone calling me an intellectual hipster, the point sunk in and I tried to move on.
Here's my free idea:

An email service provider (ESP) that caters specifically to B2B and B2C newsletters (I'm thinking 100k to 10mil+ messages a month). It's crazy that this doesn't exist.

MailChimp and similar have pricing that does not scale up. Meanwhile MailGun and similar do not have the analytics or list management that publishers need. They are geared towards transactional messages, not newsletters. Lyris/EmailLabs and Silverpop cater to this market, but their products are not very cheap and not very good. (For examples, their APIs are terrible.)

I think there's a huge opportunity to simply layer a bunch of analytics and list management code on top of Amazon SES.
Idea #2: Great idea, but many of the hurdles you have to jump over in order to immigrate are always served on a case-by-case basis, and are difficult to standardize.

For example, in most EU countries in order to get a work visa you have to display a reason why employer X should hire you over a citizen of their own country, i.e. what skill puts you over the rest of the populace who already pay taxes.

A counter-example is Cyprus, which will give you residency in 4-6 months if you buy property there. So, the only hurdle is $$$.

A more measured, focused version of this idea would be to start with a recruiter, a lawyer and a site: JobsInCountryX.com. As soon as that is moderately profitable, move on to country Y, Z, etc and cover the planet.
Maybe he's referencing the minor being interviewed by the Sheriff and Principal without her parent's consent.
Whoops, was in the original before I discovered a single newline doesn't provide any whitespace on HN. Thanks!
> Namely, that government creates crimes to control people, ("There is no way to rule an honest man. The only power government has is over criminals. Thus we create more and more laws until every man is a criminal.")

Things like public health directly contravene this concept. There is a collective public good (say vaccination), it only works if some percentage of the population opts in, either through incentive or obligation.

Infants are protected from whooping cough only by our ability to guarantee vaccination of other citizens (since they are protected not by the vaccine itself, but the cocoon effect of having a vaccinated population that is not susceptible to whooping cough).

In other words, governments definitely do have power over honest people.
He is also specific about what he means:

"Technology skills do not necessarily mean hands-on skills, though they can arise from hands-on experience. It means simply understanding the technological state of play in the environment in a way that you can make exceptional decisions.

But the skills do have to be exceptional, even if they are not hands-on."
First off, I'd like to say that Khan Academy is awesome. I've started using it with my 8-year old daughter to practice math and she loves it.

That being said, I have a few criticisms of the iPad app:

1. The title of "Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free" is deceptive. I think the strongest point of the Khan Academy web site is the practice section but it's not available on the iPad app.

2. The transcript is way too granular. It makes it hard to read and it makes the transcript really long in some cases. Breaking it out by paragraph (instead of every 3-5 seconds) would make it more readable. I don't even think the timestamp needs to be shown.

3. It'd be nice to see the directed acyclic graph of lesson dependencies like they have on the site. It's hard to know where to start when you have 2,800 videos.

Great job putting out the app though! It's great to see some good educational tools for the iPad that don't suck.
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please steal this ideas, too:

google analytics with out the new google analytics (the old google analytics interface using the google analytics API) .. as soon as google sunsets the old version (what they wanted to do last jan) there will be a lot frustration (as the new GA - currently - sucks, hard)

huge market (there will be millions and millions of frustrated users) - can easily be a premium market (5$ to 25% per user?) - i would be the first to sign up.
But don't you understand? You only need to put those 10 hours per button in once, then you grok it, and you're a real developer.

Until then, until you've wrestled with 19 variations of CSS hacks on IE5-10, multiple Safari versions, mobile devices and everything else and get it pixel perfect and can do it in your sleep, you're not a real developer. Doesn't matter if that time would be better spent promoting, selling, securing against sql injection/csrf/etc, optimization, or just... having a life - unless you know all versions of CSS across all platforms by heart, you're "uninterested in the craft".
Regarding #1: I just saw alltuition.com at the LAUNCH conference, they have a really nice UI, and seem to address more or less the pain you are describing.

Regarding #2: that sounds like a really tiny market to go after. People who want to change country. What about a site that tells you where you should live, based on what you want your life to be. It wouldn't focus on international only, think of people moving across states to find jobs, sunshine, or what have you.
I enjoyed the talk and admired his good use of clarity when talking about the problems. However, the counter to clarity is that it might be a bit too clean for the real world, and that was apparent when answering the questions about copyright at the end.

I realize that pg wasn't particularly prepared to be dealing with questions unrelated to the talk, but it was the first time I've seen him not easily handle questions with grace. His responses came off as glib and eventually he had to qualify and edit his previous statements to provide somewhat of a satisfactory response.

It's easy to over-believe ideas that are put forth with clarity and match your natural disposition towards clean logic and historical examples. Though pg has intriguing and useful perspectives, I encourage people to study these problems far more in-depth before forming a personal opinion.

On a somewhat related note, it was alarming that pg didn't have a clear moral position when asked about his decision-making process. It's fine for the young and uninfluential to "wing it" when it comes to moral decision-making, but seems irresponsible for someone with his level of power in Silicon Valley.
The Internet gives douchebags a soapbox, news at 11.
Idea #1
http://www.alltuition.com

They presented at the Launch Festival this week, and won the "Best Overall" award.
rdate is awful that is why NIST killed it. If you want a fire and forget time check:

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Amazon Route 53 is $6 per domain per year and they have a whopping 26 anycast locations and 100% uptime SLA.
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This is why I never make a judgment based on the answer of a single trivia-like question. I will jump all over the map and ask about as many different aspects of a topic as I can, hoping to map out where the depth of knowledge is for a candidate. If I am getting mostly blank stares I then give them the opportunity to decide what to tell me about the subject, in case they can surprise me. Unfortunately the vast majority of the time candidates are unable to convince me that they have deep knowledge on a subject. I want to find qualified people as much as these people would like to be considered qualified. But sometimes I feel like I throw a bunch of stuff at the candidate and NOTHING sticks.

I am beginning to believe that the majority of people who consider themselves experts or experienced are really just novice or intermediate and don't realize how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Again, I understand that. My thought is about crashing the system by abusing another kind of "impracticality": having so many people going to jail at once would grind it to a halt.

It doesn't have to be just SOPA or copyright stuff. Take the war on drugs. Abortion. Illegal immigration.

Get all women who had an illegal abortion and doctors who performed one, and get them organized to ask to go to jail. Get anyone who used any illegal drug, and organize them to go to jail. Get all illegal immigrants and organize them to demand deportation back to their countries.

In any of these examples, I'd guess that people would simply DoS the system. The laws would have to be revised, and they would get actual change to the system just by following it through.
C, C++, Java, C#, F#, some good version of BASIC. Anyone who discounts BASIC out of hand is a wanna be.
You have two problems:

1. On the internet large amounts of traffic means that you will have trolls galore. In my eyes some of those comments are normal internet fodder and just need to be moderated out.

2. You are using IP that you do not own. Memes are not public domain. Of course that is going to get people angry, particularly when there is money involved.
Most clients choose not to go to trial, despite their court-appointed lawyer's advice to take it to trial. In SoCal, only about 1 out of every 100 (or more) criminal cases actually goes to trial because the defendants choose not to assert their rights. What's worse, in more than half of these cases, there is a fatal defect in the prosecution's case (usually non-existent evidence of an element of the charge) that would have gotten the case thrown out before trial if only the defendant had not chosen to plead. Frequently, this is because the type of people who rely on court-appointed lawyers are guilty (and freely admit to being guilty), and simply want to reduce the sentencing as much as possible.

Private criminal defense attorneys usually advise their clients to plead, because (1) they make less money overall if the case goes to trial, and (2) their clients usually have too much at stake to risk tossing the dice on a jury. Thus, such cases only go to trial when the DA refuses to accept a reasonable plea bargain.

Also, your reliance on large law firms is misplaced. Most lawyers in law firms, even in the litigation groups, have never gone to trial. Indeed, their closest exposure to trial is usually arguing motions for civil cases, where the procedural and substantive rules are completely different. Life is not like T.V. (Good Wife, I'm looking at you.) The end result would be a lot of inexperienced lawyers making a lot of rookie mistakes. While this could nuke the system, the more likely effect is that the first few defendants would get thoroughly screwed, and the remaining defendants would opt to plea bargain out of ear of getting one of the inexperienced private lawyers.

Finally, with enough money, i.e., the money that would be used to hire the large law firm, you could simply fix the system, at least at the county level.
Yeah, expensive, but the most highly regarded non-degree quant certification in the industry.
Let us say your goal is building a search engine.

Clearly, you have to "know" that it's possible to accomplish and then find out how to do it. I don't think even PG was disagreeing with that.

When he says "don't have a blueprint", he is saying don't presuppose you know how to get from where you are to replacing Google as the de facto search tool. Instead, just make progress. It seems you agree with that.
Let's just say that he was the D.A. of a large, conservative county which is more commonly known for being the epicenter of the housing meltdown.
Interesting. I'm myself a software developer with a strong interest in SEO, so I know what you're talking about :-) I thought hard about breaking into the SEO tools world but I've discarded it so far for being too competitive.

To answer your questions:

1- I'm not sure. The best is to ask your prospective customers.

2- That's a good question. Can you make something better than SEOMoz by specializing? Your initial Unique Value Proposition is that it's easier because the domain and keywords are known. However I don't see that as being much work. Can you quantify that?

3- I think your initial reasoning for choosing the industry is right.

4- no idea. Google searches, reviews sites would only cover a small part of all hosting companies.

5- Contact people directly from LinkedIn or from contact forms on their websites. Try to get smaller hosting companies first (for e.g local hosting companies in your area).

In the end, I'm not really sure about the value of what you're offering. If you could service one niche, you could trivially expand (it's just a matter of entering keywords). So your product needs to have some more niche relevance. Maybe a list of link building tips, bloggers to reach out to do guest blogging, industry-specific opportunities etc.

If you want to brainstorm this more, I'd be glad to help. My email address is in my profile.
The semantics of floating point arithmetic in C do not allow the first line to be eliminated. It has non-trivial behavior in the case of signaling NaNs or denormals or -0.0.
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1. Point taken.

2. Even under fair use? How do sites like memegenerator, knowyourmeme, and others get away with it? They make money. My project was free.
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The punishment for theft historically was (1) execution, (2) then whipping, the stockades, or some other physical abuse, and (3) more recently, imprisonment.
Consequently, in the historical scheme of things, imprisonment is considered humane under the Constitution.

More recent SCOTUS decisions are starting to swing toward more humane imprisonment terms, but it may be a long time before SCOTUS actually rules on this issue. Progress will come from the state and local levels.
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Sorry. I was half joking. I'd much rather educate people than negligently allow them to self-select themselves out of the gene pool.
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I noticed you're a KA intern. Can you comment on any interesting problems addressed or aspects of the iPad implementation? It appears to be fully native as opposed to a wrapped web app. Is that correct?
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All things considered it is not such a bad estimate of the time. It looks like it makes it queries the local clock three times to get an estimation of the clock deltas and network delay . Why do you think 1.8 seconds is wrong? What is your ntpq billboard?
xargs is very useful, although nowadays I usually use GNU parallel instead (it's essentially the same but with a few advantages: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_b...)
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I know... But an iTunes-friendly tool would be seriously useful. And from a quick look around, most attendees can run it without much hassle (sadly, I don't, but I have a Mac for that use case)
When I/O is slow the first thing to check is to make sure it is buffered. This is true in every language and library. Just turns out this guy ran into something with a default that matches the "read input from terminal" case instead of the "process millions of lines" case.
Is this based off anything, or pure speculation?
Fair use is a fickle beast and not something to rely on. I have no idea how those sites exist without lawsuits but I would not consider them shining examples of web success.
Yep, that was me :) I worked on better integration of VLC plugin in browsers on Linux; that was a lot of fun.
I actually agree with you. This is why I never make a hiring decision based on a single trivia question, but I do ask trivia questions that are all over the map on a topic in order to find something the candidate is good at. Honestly, if you can answer any of my trivia questions in a deep and meaningful way that demonstrates insight into the topic then I'm satisfied.
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Sencha Touch 2.0 is supposed to have significantly better Android performance: http://www.sencha.com/blog/announcing-sencha-touch-2/
I'd feel honored someone actually thought my output was good enough to try and make money off of, and good luck to them. Maybe I'll start competing since I could probably do a lot better. (Edit: in case my more general point is lost here, that general point is that we shouldn't be basing our policies on feelings.)
For the morality question, if I was PG, I would've just said that my passion is to provide -you- the user/the world with what you want, so if there's no demand for it, then I won't build it.

Entering into a discussion about objective morality is a dead end.
Note that we are currently a/b testing the effects of offering a "transcript" button under each video on the website itself which does just this. If you're lucky, you may already have the button.

We'll almost certainly launch it to everyone soon even though the test hasn't told us much, just b/c we think it's a useful feature.
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Wow.. that's a new one. Now I have to buy an .is domain.
The hypothesis is generally incorrect.

A jam at the appeals level has little-to-no effect on the capacity of lower-level courts. Appeals courts are designed to sift through the masses of cases they receive to pronounce judgement on the lucky few them deem worth their time. More than 90% of appeals are rejected without explanation.

Also, for the nuke option to work, you would need to overwhelm the ability of the local court system to handle all trials in a timely fashion. In a large county (i.e., any mid-to-major American city), this would require hundreds of simultaneous trials for a period of several months.

I noted above that the nuclear option worked in one county; however that only succeeded because massive budget reductions to the local court system artificially reduced the number of available courts. Without the budget reductions, we would not have had near enough simultaneous cases to successfully nuke.
I came here to yell at you that you didn't include a screenshot. But since no one else was complaining about it, I looked again and read all the text in the README and found the small normal paragraph that says I should open the screenshot.png file in the repo.

Can't you just include that in the README? github supports any markup format you want in READMEs.
Thanks for feedback, and agreed on title. There are many 3rd party apps out there that have taken "Khan Academy" and we didn't want to go through the legal hassle or harm any developers using our API, so we added that on. We may eventually have 3rd party apps rename to something slightly less 100% official.
Wow, thanks for the advice. I would love to chat with you if you have the chance.
What's an example of 0 having a sign being useful?
What if it's not an actual app/site, but a tech demo using Bootstrap plus some other stuff?

The one I have in mind is a tech demo of a Bootstrap module for a web framework. It looks good and is clearly Bootstrap, but very far from the default Bootstrap theme, and really shows off how customizable Bootstrap is. It also uses the Zurb Foundation mobile layout instead of Bootstrap's.

Would that count?
The fragmented state of desktop Linux is a problem.
The breadth and depth of Khans work is nothing short of astonishing. His ability to put a large amount of information out there for anyone to use is an overwhelming kindness.

That being said, Khans work lacks polish. You could suggest that his informal presentation style is a plus, or that focusing on producing as much content as possible is more important, but I disagree.

His narration has an erratic cadence and he is often repetitive in a way that corrects or modifies the previous statement rather than building upon it.

His voice is not "radio-friendly", but thats my personal opinion.

The transcripts are poorly laid out and are nearly impossible to scan visually, there only use is for search purposes.

The information architecture is clear and to the point, but it's not oriented to the true beginner. Someone who doesn't already know what the labels mean wont know why they should or shouldn't learn these items.

I hope khan academy invests in polishing some of the great work he has put together so far, I think it would be worth the investment.
If there was a sudden dramatic rise in the number of cases approaching trial, the natural response would be to increase the value of plea deals until the number of trials drops to a managable level.

As the supply of plea deals increases, and the demand decreases, their price will drop.

Prosecutors with a large volume of unsold plea deals (a large inventory of pending cases and intense pressure to clear them quickly) will be highly motivated to reduce the sentences offered to criminals.

The net result would likely be smaller sentences, but not a fundamental reform of the justice system.

This is basically a form of strike. Although strikes can improve the wages of workers, they won't fundamentally reform the relationship between a company and it's workers.

No strike by the UAW would ever lead to the creation of something like YCombinator, for example.

The key to fixing problems with our government is to disrupt it. To replace it with something that is "not as good", but "much more accessible" (if you are Exon, the current government is great, because it serves your needs exactly, but if you are a non-violent drug offender it is completely in-accessible to you).
Well, for starters, sharing copyrighted material at the level you are suggesting carries a minor fine. Generally, all the court would do is levy penalties on your failure to pay said fine and then issue a court order docking your wages.

Also, as these are relatively minor offenses, not much court time is actually required to handle these cases. It would be very efficient for the federal government (which has jurisdiction) to handle thousands of these cases in a timely fashion. Consequently, you would need hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people willing to put a crime on their record for this to work.