skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be thought of as a loss leader that would bring a lot of people to buy Apple TVs or the Google equivalent. They might sub-license the rights to transmit the SD stream live on terrestrial TV. Etc.

Note that NBC stands to lose $1-200 mio on the olympics (I think is was in this week's Economist), so it's a loss leader for them as well.

Anyway, my point was merely to react to the idea that "I can't think of a better business model off the top of my head" somehow equates "it can't be disrupted".
Yep, I went through the same thought process while trying to decide if I should sell or not. Your side projects may turn into something bigger if you hold on to it...but are you going to put the time in required to do that?

In the end, I looked at everything on my plate and knew that I would never touch ThemeSquirrel ever again. I have other side projects that I'm far more interested in, with much larger visions of growth/monetization.

It didn't matter that ThemeSquirrel was making money, or that there were actionable pieces of feedback that I could use to improve the site. I simply did not care for the project anymore, and had no desire to operate in the WordPress theme ecosystem.

If I held on to the project, it would eventually have died a slow, gasping death. It's fun to dream about scaling side projects into real companies...but if I never acted on it...it's just dreaming.
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Most Koreans have the surnames Kim, Park, or Lee. I once tried searching for the names of Korean friends on a Korean social network. Every name I tried had a huge number of matches, and I was unable to find anyone by name.

Of course I do agree that moderation is important anywhere. Forcing users to identify themselves may have an adverse selection bias. People with anything to lose may comment much less, and the trolls may be proud of their provocative opinions.
Orvant has lots of Python under the hood. It allows us to move quickly. There are very few things we actually need to use C or C++ for. The main reason we'd use C is to write Python bindings for a C library. :)

https://www.orvant.com/
having the user select field list all users is not so bad, but the email a login link is a terrible idea, this is a break is workflow worse than a password.

Even most incompetent users like my mum save their password into the browser keychain so it ends up bring only a single click anyway.

Things like browserID are solving this far more simply.
You know, when I tell people I use Linux, they usually say something like, "But don't you have to spend countless hours on pointless yak-shaving tasks just to get things to work sensibly?"
Repost of a comment I made elsewhere about Flippa:

Yeah, 95% of Flippa is garbage.

A few gems pop up from time to time, but there is so much noise it is hard to find them. For a while I really wanted to purchase an app, renovate it by fixing sales funnels/marketing/bugs and start building a portfolio of semi-passive income.

I ended up with a strict set of filter options. Must be X months old, with Y monthly unique making Z revenue. That filtered out a lot of the garbage. I had Flippa email me once a week with these sites/apps, which I then glanced through manually. Most of them were still crap, or way overpriced (like 20 months net-profit).

I really wish there was an "Abandoned App" equivalent to Flippa. A place where programmers could sell off their side projects and abandoned web-apps. I wouldn't allow any adsense sites or anything that wasn't a real "web app"
I pay for cable, but to me that isn't the issue here. The issue is that the results of this event were already posted, tweeted, and shared long before the event aired. It was a Saturday, why wouldn't they just show it live and if they wanted to increase nighttime ratings, just show it again?

The NBC Olympic coverage sucks.
Math literacy is valuable even for regular people.

Case in point - an innumerate relative of mine has been duped into selling "Nu-skin" products for virtually no money. Nu-skin gave her documents explicitly stating her odds - 99.5% of active nu-skin sellers make < $15k/year. But they also showed her videos of people who won won carribean cruises and made thousands/millions.

Guess which one she bought into?

A math literate person would recognize that her odds are better working at chipotle and reinvesting some of the proceeds in vegas.
Sending link to e-mail is exactly as dependent on third party as OAuth.

Non-power users (11 yo kids) maybe don't always have their inbox open/session active.

Best case scenario with one e-mail entry for multiple devices stand in conflict with link only being usable once.

Don't get me wrong, I think passwords are horrible but this post was just made in too much of a hurry.

Interesting topic!
Strange. It works fine in my early 2008 MBP.
Hmm.. Algebra is not hard. Its actually pretty easy if you know what you're looking for. Heck, the professor even tells you the answers before every test. Just follow the steps.

That's the problem though. There are many steps to be learned. Things like "order of operations" and "FOIL" are necessary to get the correct answer. Its not that learning Algebra is hard, its the discipline that comes from the. Trouble is, most young people don't see the rewards in learning this discipline.

For example here's a few other disciplines that takes time but seems more rewarding to a young student (or anyone)

Swimming - can have more fun at the beach
Martial Arts - self defense and confidence, and proof that you're a bad ass
Learning a FPS - bragging rights, more fun online against friends and other gamers
Guitar Lessons - sing your favorite songs, perform live, get lots of friends/admirers

Algebra - learn about long term goals and ... processes?

Kids are not into the "long term". They are into the short term. Thus, they are kids. Adults needs to show them why it is important to learn how to find "X". Unfortunately, most adults would rather stay far away from that stuff because they've had a hard time with it as a child as well. Its painful to them. Its easier to tell the child "because it is important" than explain why.

I personally think algebra is very cool. I like how things can workout just because you know a proven formula for solving that problem. But then again, that's why I (and other CS) make the big bucks. We do the things that no one else wants to deal with.

Using your brain is hard. Solving a tough equation is probably equivalent to running a mile. It can be done. It can be fun. Yet, you don't see many people with long slender bodies running around everywhere do we?

Everyone has their niche. Its really up to them to find it.
You can call (some) server functions from the client as if they were local.

See http://nowjs.com for another implementation of the idea.
Yeah, PayPal does a lot of crap... But I was buying some stuff on a different-than-usual computer and place just a few weeks ago, and it made me provide my bank account number as verification before it would let me send the payment. (Had to sign into my bank account to find a scan of an old check to read it off of..) In a similar vein, Amazon requires reentering your credit card every time you send to a new shipping address.
The Olympics just aren't that interesting.

Back in the cold war, they fit into a master narriative of domesticating the threat of communist revolution -- rather than crapping up their countryside with plutonium we had them shooting themselves with steroids.

today a whole bunch of genertically engineering latex clad freaks who stepped right out of marvel comics are battling each other and the anti-doping authorities in a bunch of sports you usually don't care about in an inconvenient time zone.

me? i'm busy enough with my own post-human pursuits. I spent some time with a generative model of cat faces last night and realized the Google/Stanford people missed out on the cat butt detector.
My understanding is that this comment is stating that there is a trend towards products having more or less identical functional features, but at different price points and that they will only be distinguished from each other by marketing. I would argue this has always been the case, from the day people first started trading goods instead of making everything for themselves. Whenever there are competing, nearly-identical goods in the marketplace, someone invents ways to distinguish them based on pricing, logos, fatuous claims, etc., but that happened a long time ago.

An interesting thing about FMCG companies and profitability:

BigCo selling a bar of soap for $4 has a similar contribution margin to GenericCo selling a bar of soap for $1. Why? BigCo has larger overheads (i.e., they have to promote and advertise, do consumer research, etc.). In fact, BigCos don't make much profit from categories like soap and laundry powder, but they need them to cover overheads.
Real name means:

(a) lawyers will make more money suing people for ever bad word they write

(b) you will have problems all your life for some puberty-influenced shit you wrote when 16

(c) that people who worry about their real-life reputation do not speak up when they should.

This real name wave is the worst thing happening to web culture since aol was invented.
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Maybe it's not "science", but it's horribly complicated, with then new vibration modes up the wazoo, and look up the fun efforts that were required to F1 engines for the first state of the Saturn V.

And look at how many still blow up or otherwise fail to put their payload in the desired orbit (although maybe in general we're getting better at that).
Who said who was "violated".

When Apple switched to QuickTime Player X they left QuickTime Player 7 around for people who needed its features. Likewise iMovie. all Appl had to do was leave the old version of Mail.
It's more friendly as a visitor coming in is already standing and so is whoever greets him when he comes in.
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I find it challenging to believe that individuals incapable of basic, entry-level algebra are really qualified to attend a university in the first place.

Having many good friends in disciplines which will never require the use of any sort of mathematics, I can safely say that none of them have had trouble with high-school level algebra.

Portions of the article strike me as a depressing appeal to entitlement amongst the lowest common denominator of students to a university education.
For most cases, I think the ideal is identity tied to the device/browser via an email address:

https://login.persona.org/
Making a subject mandatory is a great recipe for sucking all the life out of it, and mathematics is one of the best examples. Is algebra awesome? Absolutely. Does every member of our society need to be able to factor polynomials? ...not really, especially not at the expense of a child's natural love of learning.
Google is too large for me .. at least for now. :) I'm looking for a place where I can work on an entire (or at least a large portion) product.
They are mostly rehashing old arguments against HN (still valid, just not particularly insightful): Apple fanaticism, the fact that there are less code-related news as time passes, the hellbanning system, etc.

I think the real story is that as usual anything that involves 4chan gets upvoted to the top here, indicating there might be some significant overlap between the two userbases, as much as they might both dislike it.

Here's a link to the archive in case it 404s: http://archive.installgentoo.net/g/thread/26490724
Your submission seems to be doing better than mine from earlier in the week http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295093
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Yes it is.

You can easily swap solving math problems for writing essays in that article and get the same conclusion.
Also the whole article completely lacks any statistic basis. 42% of students didn't pass their bachelor exams and 57% students of one university (not saying which faculties were included in statistics) didn't pass algebra course (one math course only is mentioned). So what? How is that connected? What are the long term trends? What about other courses and other universities?
Same applies for all the article - throw together random numbers that SEEM to be related (they may be, of course).

Very shallow and probably incorrect article.
Orvant looks really cool! Are you hiring, by chance?
Using TVCatcup.com absolutely does require a license - the license rule is about "watching live TV in the UK", it doesn't matter if you're doing it on a TV, from iPlayer or from a third party.
I tried it for three days by simply taking a rigid plastic utility table with the legs still folded up and putting it on a couple of milk crates that I put on my desk. I then used bungee cords to tie the folding table through the crates to my desk. It was nice and stable and allowed me to put all 3 of my 24" monitors on it.

I'm glad I spent no money on it because after 3 days my feet and back were killing me. I tried barefoot, with running shoes and even with an anti-fatigue mat that was in the basement workshop when I bought my house.
Thanks for the attempt to explain. However, it's slightly off on several fronts, so I'd like to set the record straight.

I don't know what you mean when you say it's not a "traditional mathematical definition". It's both traditional and mathematical enough.

An "operational semantics" is not necessarily a simplification. Whether or not it's a simplification is a function of what you are specifying.

We chose a route whereby a compiler reduces all of JS to a simpler language (λJS) and then provided an operational semantics for that simpler language. Neither is this non-mathematical nor is the simplification inherent to an operational semantics.

Your restatement of soundness contains dangerous words that have other, technical meanings (like "valid") and is also not quite right. The soundness being proven here is called "untyped soundness", and it simply means "the semantics didn't forget any cases that should have been defined". Perhaps that is what you meant to say, but I'd suggest this way of saying it is a lot less obscure.

Our previous formulation missed a few cases. The cases were sufficiently obscure that all our prior testing and use did not catch them. So I'd say this hardly warrants the label "severe". You can see the sum total of change here (the link was in the original post):

https://github.com/brownplt/LambdaJS/commit/9a7e67ab896c8db3...

Also, our previous attempt to confirm untyped soundness was not hand-written. It too was mechanical, but it used a state-exploration strategy. This caught lots of problems, which we fixed, but because it could not explore the state exhaustively, it missed a few that we hadn't noticed. The strategy in this post explores the state exhaustively (through a proof-assistant).

Hope that clarifies.
Bitly has always interested me because it looks like it would be such a simple project, but there are obviously interesting scaling problems to be solved at Bitly.
The irony is that Techcrunch started using Facebook Comments to decrease the amount of trolls.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/techcrunch-facebook-comment...
Although, confusingly, ASDA is actually the Walmart of the UK and Fresh & Easy is the Tesco of the US.
Recent example. A family member who is an artist asked me about submission rules to a guild competition (now, of all people, the artists are commonly believed to require algebra knowledge the least). The flyer indicated, "the photos/scans you submit must be 300dpi" (dots/pixels per inch). Which is perfectly confusing because even a 100x100 pixel thumbnail can be considered 300dpi if you set its width to 1/3 inches. When I tried to explain said family member that the guideline is confusing, that whoever wrote it probably failed their high-school algebra, he started to mistrust what I'm saying. Words can't explain how dumb the situation was: one idiot writes a guideline that can't be followed (or rather one that can be satisfied even by a still from a security camera), another takes what is written on blind faith and refuses to use logic to understand why the guideline is insufficient.

Now imagine dealing with people who never completed high-school algebra but who are trying to calculate dosage of a drug. According to a pharmacist I knew, a child died on his watch because of incorrect dosage.
But then it's not "such" a solution anymore.
I agree with what you are saying, and I think algebra is an incredibly important skill. However, the article touches on an underlying issue that I think is true: the US education system does not prepare people for certain jobs that are in high demand. Many jobs that could be learned at a vocational or "trade" school don't require much high school math.
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This is simple, brillant. The best solution I have seen ever.

Do you have a patent already? :)
We are not actively hiring right now. Though if you think what we do is interesting I encourage you to send your contact info and resume to support@orvant.com
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Check out www.omnicloudapp.com - they're hiring devs in Stockholm / the US for disrupting the hosting world.
I personally think this could work. The big show stopper occurs on a shared computer. It would be annoying to get logged out of a service daily and have to request a new email link to log back in.
Isn't there a culture difference between Korea and America/Canada/England/France/Russia? Perhaps there are more variables at stake here than just whether or not it's a person's real name.

It's neat that this didn't work in Korea, but that doesn't mean it won't work elsewhere.
So, is good design invisible, or not?
but why they stop from watching anyone anything ? ( they are going to watch the advertise too, so TRP increased right ? whats the problem ? )
Come to Puerto Rico. You don't need a Visa if USA citizen, most people speak English, and we have a booming tech business industry. There are also many awesome engineers looking to build the next big thing. For example, Mayan EDMS was built by a fellow puertorican. So is Blimp, and Hiptape.

I call it the Silicon Island for a reason.
once the affordable health-care act goes completely into effect, it may be out of the reach of 99.995% of people in the US too.
Yeah, more information is coming. It'll be ready for the HN Who's Hiring thread in a few days -- I just saw this story pop up so I figured I'd link it in here too even though most of the site is still a placeholder.

Oh, and we're open to negotiation on timeframes -- though we wouldn't be looking to accept less than six months, ideally at least 12.
This reminds me of the steps a friend of mine took as a cable nonsubscriber to watch Yankees games from New York City.

MLB.com lets you subscribe and watch games online but Yankee games are blocked in NYC due to the team's exclusivity agreement with their own cable channel. I'm waiting for him to write a post about his solution (it involves both a VPN and an FM radio).
My .vim dir and .vimrc file are symlinks into Dropbox. Dropbox versioning is good-enough for stuff like that.
AWS's offerings are not "great new products [built] internally"???

Kindle? Kindle Fire? (Not been following the latter, but I though the e-paper Kindles have been wild successes.)

Or let's get to "culture", does Amazon practice stack ranking?
If you want to download or listen the audio CAPTCHA, you have to click on a <canvas/> element, which is totally unusable by a blind people. It's like saying “Look, we've made an elevator, but you have to climb some stairs to take it”.
Loads of software engineers don't have a degree.
Thinking of it for enterprise users it could really work.

Enterprise users seem to be on Outlook all the time checking their e-mails so this would work if you can't tie your passwords into AD/Exchange.

Maybe have an option to have a token that can be entered or a link clicked.

I get all my e-mails on my phone so if I received a code that I can enter in my phone that can work. I could also click a link in Outlook and be logged on.

Now if someone has my phone which is receiving my e-mails and they enter the e-mail on a website and receive the secure login we got a big problem. I don't know how to get around that.

Interesting discussion, but some flaws. I would think it requires some sort of 2-factor auth to save people whose e-mail addy is compromised.
The server side code of http://www.cyclinganalytics.com/ is almost entirely Python with a small amount of C.

There's one particular bit of data processing that gets a couple of orders of magnitude speedup by writing the code in C rather than Python. It involves lots of loops and indexes, and it's possible there's a faster way to do it in Python, but I couldn't think of one.
I don't get it, if i try 500 + 1% on Google i get 505
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Basically you cam imagine a market with only long term traders, there is a certain amount of money being generated by companies which feeds the profits of the market.

Now add some HFTs, these make a profit (there is empirical evidence for this claim). Now money is leaving the market without going to long term investors. Thus the long term investors are making less profit.

Now the big unsubstantiated assumption I have used above is that HFT adds no value to the market. I do not feel I am in any position to argue about whether this assumption is good or not. The above argument is presented in the hope that it makes things clearer and points towards what I think is the fundamental point which needs to be discussed: "Do HFT traders add value of a market?"
I haven't found that latter part to be true in communities I've participated in, but it does really depend on the people and topics. In many technical communities, there's a tendency for people who use their real names to go in the opposite direction, and use versions that sound like handles! Initials are a popular way of handle-ifying a name (pg, RMS). You can recover that they refer to real names, but in terms of social norms, few people here address 'pg' as 'Paul'. Another one is to use an 8-char version of your name, akin to a username that might've once been assigned on a Unix system, like someone named Richard Stallman going by 'rstallma'.

(For my part, I use two depending on the situation. This one is the pseudonymous version, and I have another handle that is related to my real name for situations where that seems warranted.)
I agree with your main claim about the value of mathematical literacy, but your example is terrible. It's not really about math at all. It seems to be about decision making and many people's tendency to choose very faint hopes, no matter how well they understand (on some level) that the odds are massively against them. I very much doubt that's about math per se. That is, your relative didn't misunderstand how little 99.5 leaves from 100. She simply isn't a logical machine.

tl;dr What a person recognizes and what a person acts on are not always the same.
Automatic termination can be disabled by a low-level preference:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool true

It is one of the settings documented here:
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Nobody seems to understand what college-level math is. This isn't balancing checkbooks, folks. I loved being a math major, and I have trouble doing simple math. College-level mathematics is about as far removed from the "real world" as you can get. We convince ourselves that this learning is valuable because those who have certificates saying they've learned it get better-paying jobs -- because we've convinced ourselves that it's valuable.

Don't get me wrong - math is awesome, and everyone, especially young people, should have the opportunity to explore it. Perhaps it's helpful to think of math as a cultural activity, which is mostly removed from practical concerns.
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