skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those entrepreneurs who adapt quickly and right size their company will survive this and will be stronger when it's all over

So... the upside is... those who fire the most people win?

Man, we should have more of these downturn things.
What do you mean by point and click? There's a free text search (top right) and then an advanced search form (linked in the menu bar). I need to add some more metrics to the advanced search, but it's point and click if I understand what you mean.

As for the data, good ol' manual spec hunting. Hunting down manufacturer spec sheets was a lot of it. Not too bad once you get the hang of it.
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Evan - Twitter needs a better policy on Usernames
This is a made up list. There are too many countries missing and sources not cited.

Plus it's an ad! How is this in HN front page?
I was marvelling a few days ago that I can get bananas and kiwis in the dead of winter.

It's good to keep life in perspective sometimes.
It's more about being able to ask your self - "what am I doing? Is this really productive?"

This is why I created Smacklet. I am much more productive when I use it. http://smacklet.com/
Ask HN: Under what circumstances should massive companies be forced to break up?
Some recent HN comments indicated their authors want companies that are "too big to fail" broken up before they pose a systemic risk to our national and world economies. Other than marketshare monopolies, what metrics and statistics should be used to determine when a company is too big to fail?
No. Something more along the lines of interconnected signal processors that, after a while, achieve sort of a message pumping stasis. I think it would be interesting to evolve the network until it is able to "react" to changes in the outside environment (i.e. signals coming in from outside the network)
Conciousness is somewhat a prevalence over instincts, you got "magically" a way to "choose". You really should read S. Freud, and M. Minsky if you want to know more about.
QWERTY is a more stable protocol. You'd have to do less rip and replace of hardware (read: body parts). You could even handle Dvorak with only a software upgrade ;-)
Congrats! No surprise-- Jason is an amazing dealmaker and buzz-generator. Great (and quick) exit for a lean startup. Love it!
That mechanism was far from obvious. I did enter a name; apparently that text only appears in the URL, not the page.

I also changed the background color, and that was apparently lost when I went back to adjust from 'single site' (which was not confining searches to news.ycombinator.com) to 'multiple sites'.

I see what you're trying to do with the direct click-to-change customization, but the modality/light-boxes/workflow is very confusing and frustrating. I would suggest being unapologetically web-form-like: every change should require a 'submit' to take effect; result in a full-page-reload; the reload should show the change (no separate 'preview' mode).
Well, if you're interested in machine learning NIPS was last week.

http://books.nips.cc/nips21.html

There were several papers near applied areas like text classification, breaking audio captchas, and even brain machine interfacing. However, even the theoretical papers usually come with examples (e.g. image classification) that show optimistic results. If you were doing any learning task that is definitely the place to find the state of the art.
I mean just sort of clicking around to find some categories, like the 'browse' tab gives you, but not just manufacturers, but also price points, maybe a few other things to select on. You can get all that in the search form, but you have to sit there and fill it out.
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Your good intentions are well appreciated, but Scribd is the only site of its kind with a working copyright filter that has to check every single document uploaded against literally tens of thousands of document “thumbprints.” If you had any idea of the amount of content that is blocked, you would take a less condescending attitude toward the uphill battle we fight against illegal activity.

There are literally hundreds of copies of Stephenie Meyer books (”Twilight”, etc) that are blocked EVERY DAY, same with Harry Potter, dummies books, etc.

Sure, someone’s going to run a query and find an exception and will post their ‘gotchas’ here. And yes, everyone has an opinion about what Scribd should be doing to combat infringing users. And someone will upload a copyrighted book, and will post their “See?! They STEAL!!” comments before the copyright filter finds it. They always do.

But the fact is Scribd is doing far more than any of our competitors in this area. We have a far more responsive and effective copyright policy than any of our competitors. As a result, Scribd has more deals with major publishers than any of our competitors.
Just curious, what do you guys think it would cost me to have someone set this up?
Ah yea, that's on the list. Browse by price, screen size, OS, etc.
But at the end of the day, where the line was drawn between significant and not was arbitrary and has no special meaning. The standardization around p values helps us to compare studies, sure, but it is not magical.
http://www.obsessable.com/comparator/netbooks-compared/
You should certainly look into research related to Google's Map Reduce and Big Table.
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The term Suit goes far beyond attire.

What other group of bumbling idiots would sue/lash out/isolate their customers & users while ignoring the latest & greatest technologies.

Actually, they have a lot in common with the auto & publishing industries. I'll enjoy watching them crumble.
It seems the process of getting approved by Apple is about as opaque as process of getting approved by DMOZ. At least the DMOZ had/have the excuse of being volunteer run.
I like what I see. A short demo video of how to create a small script and test it out might be helpful.
Woah, woah, woah. What's this business of talking about consciousness like it exists? The only thing you know for sure is conscious is yourself. You simply make assumptions that other people are conscious based off of their responses to various challenges (questions, interaction, etc). But you don't know whether their 'consciousness' is even remotely related to yours or not.

This is why the Turing test does not seek to address the issue of consciousness. It simply tests the appearance of consciousness. We will _never_ know anything about the consciousness of anything else besides ourselves.
I think it is a bit cumbersome to compare the items. Right now, it's browse -> manufacturer -> netbook -> click compare, and then you cycle that for each netbook.

A filter on the browse page to browse by predefined categories, such as screen size/price point would help as well as being able to select an item to compare from the list view, without clicking through to the details view.
But there were at least 10 times more soldiers than officers. That means officer's death risk was at least 3 times higher than soldier's. They also mention that average IQ of a soldier that died was 95.
everyone probably owns 1 PC + 1 Notebook
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Of course, anyone can set their reverse DNS to anything, and anyone can set their User-Agent string to anything... so I am not sure what, if anything, this says about Microsoft.

Did he check that the IP -> DNS -> IP "round tripped"?
This site is awesome. I (well, a virtual assistant =P) went through the same pain collecting all the data.

Instead of "cells" can you put also expected battery life? I would also be interested in weight and size

I also own an Aspire One - 6 cell variety, shiny blue outside. It's awesome. Light, battery lasts on the full plane flight from Hawaii to/from West coast (tested to/from Los Angeles and Seattle ;) ) with movies running.

My only complaint is the Wifi is a bit weak

Perhaps show inline Amazon reviews? Not sure why so many come up as question marks. Perhaps add a minimum amazon review to the search as well?
Oh man! That interface is only something geeks would enjoy.

Well played Paul. They know their audience well.
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I clicked the first script in the list (the 2d rotator thingy) and it froze up my browser and maxed my cpu when I hit run script. Not too cool. Glad I have the Session Restore addon. Running the latest Firefox on Mac OS X.
In the same income / net work category, maybe. Otherwise, this would just be because of the ridiculously high correlation between IQ and income.
BuildaSearch seemed to work fine with the 'http://news.ycombinator.com' url. I find that buildasearch offer tons more options over Google CSE. I read in some forum that buildasearch will be releasing the best build in January 2009. http://www.buildasearch.com/itsideways works great! BTW this site is not the most user friendly...
So, after a month, when you've downloaded 10 terabytes worth of music you'd just cancel the subscription. I guess you may have to re-enable it everyone few years to update your collection...

So yeah, I agree, if that were available I'd be the first to sign up and buy my array of hard drives.

I think napster is the most viable existing service that provides a service close to what you are talking about. It has DRM to prevent these types of abuses. It's otherwise affordable. It's not like most people around here don't know how to take DRMed music and rip it...
Youtube hd coming soon
In the Browse section instead of listing the manufacturer logo's start listing the netbooks (with pictures). Then have a way to filter out by manufacturer, price range, etc... Kinda like how NewEgg handles it (eg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE...)

Have a little checkbox in the browse section next to each picture to select netbooks, and then use it for comparison.
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Great solution for this problem:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=396186

I wonder if you guys can work out something with pg to have it integrated directly into HN.
I don't think the author is referring to "firing" employees. I think it's about the size of starting a company and what makes sense.
Like a lot of good ideas from Google (Documents springs to mind as well) it seems like the initial version had a lot of promise and then it was followed up with few revisions to bring needed features.
Opera X it is then.
I'm more interested in using interesting concepts in academic computer science from 50 years ago. I'm not against new good ideas, but it's not as if we've run out of old good ideas already.
The data depends on the model, some don't have battery life estimates (that I've found at least). Not that estimates are reality, but it's still nice to have it all. Everything that's in the database is shown. Also, Amazon doesn't sell all models so the reviews don't always get tied in. I'm looking to expand out to reviews on Shopping.com as well since they cover more models. If you're comparing a model that does have Amazon reviews and one that doesn't, the one that doesn't will show up as a ?. The AWS interface can be a bit different for items that are sold through a third-party, so that might be affecting some models as well, I'll have to check on it.
We should privatize the SEC. Put a bounty on fraud detection, and then make the following deal: the government puts up a lump sum now, and the recipient must make whole all parties harmed by fraud, but only if the organization approved the fraudulent financial statements.

You probably need to tweak the numbers to avoid some bad incentives, but the general principle is sound: treat it as an insurance problem, rather than a regulatory problem, and the funding you get will approach the point where the marginal utility of more fraud detection falls below the cost.
BTW, I think that comment sounded a little nastier than I meant it to. Just trying to give some helpfule feedback :-) Cool concept though.
Higher IQ toddlers are likely to have higher IQ parents who may be less likely to leave them unattended at the swimming pool, to have dangerous objects around the house, etc.
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I'm glad they finally stopped suing people. The penalties were too high for the crime, and I wasn't convinced they could technically and legally proof guilt.
That said, this could go pretty badly too. I'm wondering what recourse there will be for people who get falsely accused. Also, I'm wondering if this is legal. There doesn't seem to be much legal precedent, and some of the RIAA's tactics seem to be illegal, or technically unsound. And if the charges won't in a court of law, I don't see how the ISPs could cut someone off from a service they paid for.
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I used to think that I need to work in an office is a prerequisite for getting things done, and since becoming an off-site consultant, I've completely changed my mind. I found that the commute does wonders to dull the brain. In addition, while in someone else's office, the environment almost invariably sucks. Lousy chairs, horrible flickering fluorescent lights and no sunlight, nasty cubicles. Then there's everyone who comes by to say something or interrupt me. Horrible.

In my home office, I control the environment. I have an excellent chair, plenty of natural light, and the ability to go to the kitchen to munch on an apple or some other good snack. I don't have to make excuses if I want to go for a run at 2pm.

The major downside of a home office is that I feel like I have to be more productive than the on-site members of my team, and end up putting in more hours. In an office, I watch the clock like a hawk and get the hell out at 6 o'clock sharp, unless there's an emergency.

YMMV, of course. It seems like productivity in an office varies widely from person to person.
"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive. What they hide is vital."
One of the most important parts of being a wiki is having a low barrier to entry. Revision control systems (git even more so than svn or cvs) is a huge barrier to entry.
Sorry about that, but it's the Java plugin. Not a lot I can do about that:-(
I'm glad you enjoy your job. I share your sentiments as well, but I think what the parent was talking about, is that some kids are thrown "Follow your dreams" so much that they are paralyzed by it. You and I are lucky to have found our passion now, but what were you doing before you found your passion? Some kids don't know their passion yet, and hence can't stand to work any job; doing anything, even sticking with a "random" faculty seems betrayal to their true calling. I've seen so many people who just wont do anything with their lives while they're just "waiting" for that feeling to kick in. They go to a job and come home navel gazing, thinking "is this it? is this it?" and when no magical sparks happen in the first week, they decide this isn't for them and is beneath them, and quit or just don't show up. Same thing in relationships: we're fed 'if you find the right person it'll be perfect bliss' so often that we're not willing to just do the dirty work, and find happiness in it. In short, we are a generation that doesn't know how to "settle". "Settling" and "Contentment" are shameful words in our society.
This is why there are more fart apps for the iPhone than working word processors. Who would spend big money on an uncertain future?
"buddy pit", haha, Glorious =)

i'll take spontaneous ironic humour like that over the artificial corporate "team building/inspirational" talk any day of the (work)week.
> I hope you folks in the US can do something about it.

It's not just a US problem. They are attempting to do the same thing in Europe, either through the EU or by getting laws passed in individual countries.
The large computing power could be useful for large compiles that would normally take a while.
A new tool makes it easier to see the Web changing over time.
So someone is complaining that they registered a bunch of names they thought would be monetarily valuable at a later date, and is complaining when the company that provides the service is disallowing him from doing it? Sorry, but that just earns a big f*ck you from me. I have no sorrow for domain squatters, and that extends to people who grabbed Facebook app names, Twitter names, whatever. Twitter isn't like the DNS system. You are using a service being provided at no charge.
I'll grant that there are likely to be situations where your personal Twitter account name conflicts with some big company. However, on that level if you have a long history of actively using your Twitter account as your own identity then the weight of evidence is on your side. Twitter can tell the Big Bad Company "No, pick another name". But if you've gone out and just registered 50 names, with no activity on them, only in the hopes that you'll get companies to buy them from you later, go screw yourself.
I know it's screwing up my productivity. I've noticed that when I'm stuck in someplace with no internet, like while riding in a car, I'm much more productive.

Also I second the recommendation for LeechBlock, it's a really great firefox addon.
Another counter-strategy would be if the next generation of P2P programs did two things:

1. use encrypted protocols that look like something else, e.g. email or http

2. only connect to trusted peers (e.g. the people on your email software's address book).

That way, it would be very difficult for the RIAA or anyone else to know who's filesharing.

And in five years time, hard disks will be big enough to store every piece of music that's ever been recorded; people will share the contents of their portable hard disks with their friends, copying music that way.

In the future, anyone who wants to will be able to get any piece of music they're interested in, without paying anything. The RIAA cannot alter this (no-one can without banning the Internet) and everyone will have to adjust to the new reality. The RIAA will either get a business model that works, or die.
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of blog posts you keep meaning to write, but don't?
Curious as to how other hackers solve this problem...
In addition to number of battery cells and expected life, perhaps you could list mHh, too. Some cells are more equal than others.
It's the top 50 countries, ranked by computers per 100 population. China and India are still quite rural. I would not expect a significant percentage yet.
The internet seems fine. I don't kn
Twitter don't mandate that you have to use your account for personal reasons only, as far as I know. How you use your account is up to you - that's one of Twitter's strengths... every person uses it in their own way.

I have no sympathy for domain squatters, but I have no sympathy for domain bullies either. the "Boston Celtics", whoever they are, have as little right to the username "celtics" as this guy. As such, he should probably keep it.
does having X * (PC, monitor, laptops, servers <insert hw>) make you X times more productive?

i guess not, it could be diminishing return

or even negative return (more distractions, harder to admin / sync / whatever)
"Right-sizing" is a modern euphemism for "down-sizing", which is a modern euphemism for "firing".
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Well, your site doesn't answer the netbook question I want to know. Why would anyone get an Aspire One A110L over an EEE 901? To me it looks like equivalent models are about the same price, except the 901 has twice the battery.
Could you expand a bit on the "Monetize it" part?
Which, by total GDP, is like 90% of its market.
Did you just downmod without adding anything to the conversation?
Obligatory link to Paul Graham essay:

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html
> the music industry still hasn't developed an acceptable and effectual model of digital content delivery for end users

They haven't developed one acceptable to them. One acceptable to users already exists, it's called P2P.

Attempting to charge people for a copy of easily-copied digital information is unlikely to work as a business model because charging people involves friction and therefore any service that charges people money is likely to be less convenient than one that doesn't.

What might work is pre-payment, where fans pay musicians (or other artists) to create a work. The difference is that they're not attempting to enforce payment at the time of delivery, which is futile given the existance of the massive copying machine known as the Internet. Pre-payment works as a form of copy prevention because you can't copy something before it exists.
I see what you're saying, and I agree. That's why I say you should follow both passions and opportunities. Certainly if all the good opportunities aren't stuff that you're that passionate about, you should follow the opportunities - while looking out for more appropriate opportunities.

I did, however, get the impression, from the article, that it implied you should forget about passion and just do what everyone else doesn't want to do. That to me is just as stupid as what you're describing (following passions only).
Who needs it? My GF. She's an artist working with Photoshop. She works with 1G images. She has an 8G, quadcore, 1T system. Not to mention her HP z3200 printer. (Big mother.) She wants 2T raid storage for Christmas. I'm a developer, I get by with half that. :-)
Not every piece of software is Google or Twitter:

Worse, almost all software isn't like a Google or Twitter. In almost all cases hardware is vastly cheaper than programmers. The Googles and Twitters of the world are extreme outliers and are no where near the median.
That phone has gotten pretty good reviews. It's also the first effort from a small company. Large ones like Motorola begin enthusiastically shipping their first models very soon.
Oh come on. That joke was old on Slashdot 10 years ago.
That's really well put.

In this case, I'd say you need programmers to reduce the O(N^2), and hardware to reduce the K.

If you can reduce K by 50% for $5,000, then it makes almost no sense to use a programmer to reduce K. However, hardware will almost never save you from a programmer who gives you an O(N^2) instead of a log N solution.

This happened at my last job (actually, worse). Management decided I would be an "Architect" and train an offshore team to write the code (hmm... seems kind of fishy). We were building a system that would hold an equation with millions of constraints and variables, and we needed to be able to look up a variable value by name.

The code from the offshore team, no kidding, stored them in arrays. Unreal. I quit, for all kinds of reasons.

(yes, yes, many offshore teams could have written this code very well - the problem was not offshore programmers per se, it was that mgmt wanted top talent for cheap and was outsourcing its core product, and you don't get something for nothing).
Seeing him actually do it was even worse than reading about it!
Good call. I'll add mAh to the list. I'm also planning some help pop-ups so less experienced users can get clued in on what battery cells and what not actually mean.
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You're also wrong, how do you know what deals are coming out of big name mobile chip manufacturers like Motorola? Motorola is betting big on Android and they're releasing 20-30 devices based on Android, and most of them are not cell phones. This is according to a friend working there.