skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reactions still seem to be pretty random -- about as random as reactions on reddit, to be perfectly honest. If I were really focusing on points, I suspect I would adopt a strategy like "don't ever reply to a comment, nobody ever up-votes conversation" -- and then this comment wouldn't have been authored.

Just to quantify the above statement: there is a group of "typically good" posts which I often get 6 or 7 points for: this included 7 for explaining what a plasma is, 7 for explaining how to do square roots and complex numbers with 2x2 matrices; 7 for discussing WTFs on the IRS tax forms, 6 for re-encoding hard-to-read XML as easy-to-read JSON, 6 points for explaining how French copyright law doesn't recognize the public domain.

That's a pretty esoteric set right there. It pales in comparison to the "big hitters." I got an unexpected 27 points for rickrolling Hacker News. I got an unexpected 20 for speculating non-constructively on whether there is a programming "voltage" equivalent to match the metaphor that most programming instructions are like force fields.

Apparently overloading the words "life" and "lolcats" to metaphorically refer to a quality living and the distractions on the internet, and doing it in the only appropriate way possible, is offensive. Okay, I can accept that. The other thing I've discovered was offensive was pulling out a Linus Torvalds quote and saying "this is insanely important, here's why" is offensive if those reasons are ultimately religious in nature.

Those boundaries are not possible for me to know unless I test them, and no, I don't pretend to know what all of them are. It is again a bit of a religious thing, and sorry. It boils down to this: basically, I suck. I will make mistakes, cross boundaries, and not know what the hell I'm doing.

That is a most important thing for me. It means that I have room to grow. And that's what I strive to do whenever I see a comment getting modded steadily downward.
OT: nice signin implementation there!
The idea that men can't be empathetic and perform empathy based jobs such as nursing and teaching kindergarten is as silly as the idea that women don't have the logical aptitude for computer programming.

I can pretty much guarantee you that men have as much to bring to nursing and teaching as women do to the tech sector.
I don't believe that it could address EVERYTHING, but at least suggest a sample of relevant tests.
We will certainly have a deprecation / transition period between the existing shared db plan and the new development plan that will give users ample opportunity to migrate their data. Safely preserving data is our number one priority, so this will be handled carefully.
You could try using Google Consumer Surveys http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/examples
It is getting swamped and not just by little guys: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-busin...
I wonder how much having a existing popular brand helped them on their success.
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- 0 sales

- lots of headaches

- badly behaved bots

- griefers

- ban avoiders

- wanna-be hackers aka script kiddies

Why would one not want to block access to a website from ec2?
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You can find the list of public data sets and descriptions of them here: https://developers.google.com/bigquery/docs/sample-tables
Major debate video: Is ‘who we are’ more than just brain-wiring?
Yet another post on idea validation (for total beginners)
The moment it breaks you will need one...
Thanks, Matt. Can you share what the dev plan's row limit is? The blog post doesn't say.
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In 10 years, Google could be in serious trouble on the search front. Yes it will take that long. Yes they could actually lose. Rock 'em Gabriel.
Oops, you're right. The patent number is 7593939.
I'm not sure if I read this somewhere or if someone told me about this, but I think your system is a good beginning but could be improved by adding a few steps.

I use this formula when I am tired, but still need to network, and it works exceptionally well.

1) Start with exactly what you said, asking questions about the person. When you find something they are interested in, move to step 2.++

2) Tell a brief story. Make sure it has a beginning, middle and an end.+

3) Introduce them to someone else, and tell the new person about the old person’s interests to get them involved in the conversation.

The toughest part is step 2 and requires practice, you might as well start now. Every time you are out, practice by telling stories. The shorter the better and always have a beginning, a middle and an end.

+As an escape, if you tell a crappy story and you can sense it, you can always joke about how it was a crappy story. It isn’t perfect, but usually that will buy you some respect/time.

++ If you ask the person too many questions about them without telling a story you will notice they will start to back off. People who are socially strong may not mind as they will understand you are nervous and will intentionally give you a break, but this is not the norm.

[EDIT] It is important that the story you tell relates to what that person is talking about.
Nope, I'm telling you, I played Quakeworld on my 14.4k modem at 150ms+ lag constantly with no issues.
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It used to be a 'premium' feature of 37 signals products if I recall correctly. At the time it felt like others copied them, perhaps I'm remembering incorrectly. So I'm not surprised to see that.

I believe it was just a way to get people to upgrade. Views have changed in the meantime as it's dawned on everyone how bad an idea it is not to have SSL on for everyone given how negligible the cost is.
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“What Time Is It” explained and ported to Windows Phone
It means automatic numerical differentiation, not symbolic.
I guess when Google wants to counteract negative publicity, such as supervisors knowing full well that Street View was sniffing wifi data, they just talk about open source again to make techies forget all about it.
I'm not quite as sanguine on what technological change will do to employment, though I'm not sure what precisely it will do, either. I don't think the smooth progression you paint is quite accurate; there have been really major upheavals that had significant social impacts, not a slow transition with a constant ratio. The industrial revolution led to a large proportion of the population rushing to cities, and a whole host of urban problems (tenement housing, large-scale homelessness, urban crime, hygiene problems) that produced backlashes such as, at one extreme, Marxism, and at the moderate middle-ground, the modern welfare state and trade unionism.

In particular, there was a large, relatively short-term shift in employment, from "almost everyone" working in agriculture to a majority of people working in factories. It's not 100% clear to me what today's version of "factories" will be in that analogy, the mass employment sink that people can migrate to, the way they migrated agriculture->factories. I guess "the service industry" is as good a guess as any, which is roughly what this article is proposing a more specific version of (essentially, the high-touch, hard-to-automate subset of the service industry).
I do not want to be 'right' or 'catch' anyone. I try to question and understand.

That said, my parser did find some claim to improve the whole world ('benefit everyone') in the explanation. Nothing bad about that goal either
Exactly. As blue-collar jobs are mechanized (or outsourced), the workforce gradually shifts towards knowledge work, which is inherently higher-paying.

Also, perhaps I am not forward-thinking enough, but I hope we never see the day where we have AI Kindergarten teachers. This is a pretty depressing future the author envisions, where cutting hair is among the most valued jobs but we leave the task of hacking at our insides to robots.
How is Flow different than Basecamp?
"In my experience, folks who pay A WHOLE NINETY NINE CENTS OF MY MONEY have very shockingly high expectations of polish / quality / feature selection (but no desire to e.g. read what the software actually does)"

What you do? You shut them out.

Not "remote disable them". But feature/support requests policy has to be simple. Either a user forum, FAQ, etc

You should absolutely not waste your precious time with this kind of work. If they want a refund just give it to them (not sure how easy this is on App Store or others)

Also, if this is so overwhelming, raise the price If they really want this so much they can pay 1.99

You don't need to ignore everything they say, but take it with a huge grain of salt.
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Please provide feedback.
Thanks,
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I wonder if that price was the opportunity cost of not being billed out at $x per day.
I think it's pretty clear that the shift from agri->factories will be mirrored by the shift from factories->unemployment.

There's simply nothing left for uneducated people to do. The service economy is a myth.
I haven't read it. I think as a geek, or maybe just as a male I have a hard time buying what one would typically think of as a self help book. I don't know why it just is some sort of block or form of denial. Even after being upfront about what is or isn't easy for me I still have a hard time being seen reading that book. I think that behavior is fairly common, It's ok to say "I'm a nerd", but it's not OK to be seen working on fixing the problem. I guess that's why more people don't talk about this issue. That being said I'm going against my instinct and buying the book, thanks for the tip.
+1, We have over 1,000 boxes here on KSplice and it's been great.
>See, I like to think of a startup as any other brick and mortar business. If it manages to leap into a world-wide success, nothing wrong with that - but don't expect it. Have a game plan that focuses on the reality around you. A startup isn't always a Facebook or Instagram (although they were too, at a point). It's okay to build an online business and just make $60-120 k/year - you know, like any other B&M business owner. To me a "startup" is simply described as a scaleable model that employs technology intelligently with modern-day principals of delegation, pivoting & management.

The problem is that a lot of startups don't seem to have any plan in place to actually get to the point where they're actually making money on their own. The B&M store comparison is pretty apt here. You don't start a corner convenience store in the hopes that 7-Eleven will come up and buy you. You start the store because there isn't a store there, in the hope that enough people will come and buy stuff that you can make a profit.

That's where a lot of the worry is, I think. Especially because we're seeing a huge amount of VC funding going towards startups that are almost purely pinned on getting snapped up by a bigger company. Instagram is a great example of this. They have a product that has the majority of the current midshare in it's space, has millions of users, is a very cool application on both a technical usability level... and approximately $0 in incoming revenue. And no plan to make money besides "Maybe get advertisers on the platform at some point in the future"(http://behindcompanies.com/2012/04/instagrams-business-model... )[1]. From an investment perspective, it was a very bad investment... until they sold out to Facebook, at which point it was a GREAT one.

I think that's the concern that TFA has. A lot of startups, by and large, have turned into R&D for large corporations rather than traditional entrepreneurial businesses. The concern isn't that people are creating a product that's sold. They're creating a product without any concern about how to make money with it, and are hoping that someone with deep pockets will snap them up. There's a time and place for both, but the second shouldn't be getting nearly as much money as the first.

[1]To be fair, I think that with 30 million users, Instagram would have a viable business model based on advertising, and certainly could have made a profit. The problem, though, is that I don't think that model would return anywhere near the amount that the $500MM valuation indicated. Certainly, it would be in the low tens of millions of dollars, but not in the hundreds.
Local food is one thing—it seems absurd to ship a cucumber thousands of miles when I can just grow some in my garden. But a global society is absolutely essential to the continued well-being of our species. Globalisation is a powerful force against misinformation and propaganda—and in turn xenophobia and war.

And our global transportation infrastructure isn’t perfect, but it is the best it’s ever been in all of human history. So I would argue that buying locally is far less important than, say, buying handcrafted goods from small businesses, regardless of location.
Yep, I'm planning on indexing more jobs from countries outside the US. Right now there are jobs from about 50 countries (http://www.neekanee.com/jobs_by_location/), it's just that the majority of them are concentrated within the US.
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Novel radiation surveillance technology could help thwart nuclear terrorism
In that case, it's not clear to me how we'll "all, collectively, lead better lives", unless we transition to a much stronger welfare state, like in one of those sci-fi utopias where everyone's basic needs (food/shelter/healthcare) are taken care of by robots, and you only need to work if you want luxuries or feel a particular inner drive to do so.

If, on the other hand, we have a proportion of people doing quite well, and a large number of people unemployed in slums, that seems not too good as a collective outcome.
It'd be great if this is just the start of a trend where Google supports open source mapping tech that would make projects like OSM more viable (for reasons why its not currently viable see my other posts.)

Its a bit like Google being the biggest supporter of Firefox, even though they are also a competitor (Chrome.) Though Google supporting OSM is more like Microsoft supporting OpenOffice, since Google has such a large monopoly in maps right now.
Nice product and the team seems very talented. But whenever I read these stories (from 0 to $8 billion in 3 monthz!1!!!11), lots of important details are left out.

#1 How are you able to connect to 4,000+ paying customers so quickly?

Actually, that's it. I'm guessing any number of HN guys could create this product. But we don't know how to get people to buy it.
lol, that's why I probably won't ever get married, I hate "The Speech".
I love this concept and donated to a worthy cause (Comp Sci Camp!!! Awesome)

But there's a blind spot here not integrating Amazon payment gateway or PayPal (like Kickstarter)

I realize that already precious non-profit margins get eaten up by those gateways but the act of having to pull out my CC (and getting a timeout on the order time on first submission) almost ruined the sale for me.

This is a social-news-phenom waiting to happen so make darn sure that you remove as much friction as possible so people can "impulse donate" rather than make a commitment!
Totally agree on 3. My cofounder does that with great success. I'll try out 2 soon. Thanks!
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GitStack[1] has been quite an awesome Windows-only solution for the company I work for.

[1] http://gitstack.com/
That's what I meant: the margins on an ARM SoC.
By itself its a great story, but the background context is metalabs is a very successful company thats well connected prior to launching this product. This type of product is much more successful with the right sales people and connections.
This is almost certainly not for TV programming. Discovery channel realizes that they don't have compelling web content (although they've been trying for years). So instead of turning Rev3 into Discovery, they need to Rev3 to keep being Rev3 to fill a gap in Discovery.

Although I do wonder what will happen if Discovery wants them to censor themselves, or if they ever decide to "shift their demographic focus" or basically dump their current audience for a more lucrative one.
> we were tuned-in to what our users wanted because we built it for ourselves

That only works if there are people with the exact same expectations on the market (which seems to be the case).
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> Start out easy. [..] Just stick out your hand, smile slightly, and say “Hi

Question: How do I get the courage to get that far?
I think wiretapping is one of the big reasons for the rearchitecture. Skype officially claimed they could not comply with wiretapping requests because of the P2P network as late as 2008 (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9963028-38.html), and Microsoft was already working on wiretapping VoIP in 2009 (http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/microsoft-patents-vo...).
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Ditto. Flash is dead.
I had to turn it off after he somehow incorporated Kanye West into his presentation.
As a pay service focused on businesses, I think they would keep it going.

I cannot get to it right now. :)

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I use Workflowy and paste in Google Docs/Drive links to any file I need to reference. I love Workflowy's flexibility - it's amazing for everything from task management to taking meeting minutes to brainstorming... and then organizing it into one cohesive system.
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I think we're seeing option #2 right now. Unfortunately we'll probably be here for a while before we get to see option #1.
We haven't determined the limit yet. Our goal is that it is more than enough to evaluate the heroku platform and to develop and test on, and high enough that any of the existing shared:5mb databases can migrate to it without worries.

It will very likely be on the order of 10^3.
I think Spring.NET is too verbose and too big. I would rather use few well tested and idiomatic C# frameworks as an alternative to Spring.NET

E.g. IOC - You can use MEF which is part of the framework. OR my personal favorite Ninject.

Web Applications - Without a doubt ASP.NET MVC.

Aspect Oriented Programming - Postsharp

DataAccess - I do not think ORM technology is mature enough to use it for any complicated work. For simpler things, Dapper does the trick.

I believe in using best tool for a given problem instead of using one monolithic framework. I especially don't like Spring framework because it needs too much configuration in terms of XML files. I prefer configuration through code approach.

Email me if you want to discuss more.
It's beyond me how providers who operate in the EU space, hence under the 2006 Data-Retention Directive, can claim "no user activity logs" are kept. Either they do retain logon-logoff times, or they're technically breaking the law -- unless the directive has not been adopted yet in the specific country, in which case they're just exploiting a temporary loophole.
I'm pretty sure any VPN operating on UK nodes would need to retain logon/logoff times linked to individual subscriber data; they won't have to log website access, but that's about it.
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There are a few factors:

* Massive includes. Every compilation unit ends up including many header files. Most of these header files include more header files, often ones already included. If a header file has previously been included, it must be included a second time as C++ allows the meaning of including a file to differ each inclusion. This results in a vast amount of necessary preprocessing.

* Compiling the same code multiple times. Every compilation unit must generate code for every template it uses, even if other compilation units are generating the same code. Only at link time are the multiple instantiations of the same code collapsed. As the STL is a massive blob of templates this is a frequent issue!
To be honest, you need to just suck it up and try it, consequences be damned. You're going to suck for a while, embrace it.

I think that's a difficulty for smart people, we're used to being good at things easily and when we aren't we avoid them. It's OK to not be good at something if you're just starting out. You will make mistakes, it's your job to learn from them and get better.
How about it? Will you develop for BlackBerry 10?
From their technical lead on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Flow-web-application/What-JavaScript-fr...

jQuery, (customized) Backbone.js, socket.io, and a fair amount of other custom JS.
To be fair, his name is moron.
I have to wonder if these forced-socialization companies have a hiring filter for the asocial or otherwise uninterested due to time or whatever, woe betide those who slip through and risk an ignominious culture-firing.
I've always been a fan of Crocodoc. They invited me to a few of their beta previews and it was nice throwing emails back and forth with the actual developers on bugs and features. Great team!
It hasn't broken for me. And I don't expect it to. YMMV.