skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why on Earth would TED publish this garbage then? TED is at its best when it's concrete ("here's what I've done") or rigorously descriptive ("here are the statistics"). When it starts getting speculative or political (e.g. "here's how to fix education") it's ridiculous.

"Singularity may rid us of death, but it won’t abolish backscratching."
You nailed it!

I'm an Indian.
I really can't understand you here. Apparently you find it so amazingly obvious that India will click a like button ten times as much as the UK that you said "he acts surprised!?". Why is it so obvious to you that these likes are 'cheaper'? You certainly haven't given any reasons.

People are looking at the market doing something strange and your contribution is "the market functions, who cares".

Sure, I'm not very surprised that if the likes seem highly fraudulent the price per like is lower, but that's not the issue. The issue is these fraud-seeming levels in the first place!
Anomalies aside, it would be interesting to observe correlations between a largely ( >51% ) non-vegetarian diet and athletic predisposition and performance.

Holding every other factor (race, geography, culture etc) constant, the exponentially greater protein availability (in meat consuming countries) cannot NOT have consequences for general muscular build among the populaces and as a consequence, some form of athletic predisposition.

A good question to start with:

Are there any predominantly vegetarian regions - besides large tracts of India - elsewhere in the world?
[disclaimer: I work for Google]
First point: 20% can work very well. Michael misrepresents the scope of 20% time in one signficant way: it need not be self-directed work at all. One of my 20%s was in fact contributing to the Ads pipeline, for the simple reasons that I was interested in learning about what they did, liked the people who worked on it and with them identified a project that they would not be able to get to soon.

I've also had the other type of 20%: A Program manager I knew had an idea and after a hallway conversation, we turned it into a 2 and then 3 person 20% project which involved hardware, embedded and server-side software development and deployment.

In neither of these cases was my manager particularly adept at managing either my time or my main project; it was my doing. I assumed that I had the right to 20% time and basically forged ahead until I was told otherwise, which I never was.

Michael, your repetitive anti-Google (in every aspect) speeches lack credibility for a number of reasons; the most blatant of which is that you simply did not work here long enough to have suffered the injustices that you claim to have. If you had been here longer or made any kind of effort to adapt to your environment, you may have found that 20% time can really be rewarding.
I think there is space (one thing for me working in your favour is that i don't want to sign in with my gmail or facebook.. i want a separate account, if any), but traction is a major problem- if it feels like a ghost town, no one is likely to use it. Getting over that initial hurdle will be huge, especially since you can't really gamify it like quora / so, and no advertising or social proof benefit like FB / twitter.
Thank you for the link, I know what my next read will be!
Google two-factor auth doesn't work if you have IMAP or POP enabled.
Well, in the context of making a new Facebook that is as successful, no I don't think it can be achieved. I go on to explain what can be achieved, though.
Already implemented it in my uploader, but after hearing reports of a memory leak in Chrome I may need to remove it again. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.
Are you kidding me? It's an article about China in it's darkest years. They definitely have done worse things like staving millions of lives due to poor governance. I am talking about the new China. The 21 century China. And the generations of athletes born after 1980s or 1990s (which are the majority of the current chinese athletes). If you're talking about the old generation living under communist rule, sure, there were worse things than kidnapping.
Can Facebook data be used to develop profitable trading strategies?
This is a great idea. I always though that games underused 2d image processing techniques in their quest for visual beauty.
"Sport was never a priority for a majority of [Indian] parents and their kids," this line says it all. India doesn't have a culture that encourages sports. In a typical middle class family, the parents are actively involved in education of their kids but when it comes to sports they will draw some ground rules like 4 to 6 pm for playing, then studies and no play time during exams and that's about it.
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Provides per capita tracking of medals won. Currently New Zealand is in first place with 3 golds and 4 bronzes. India has 1 silver and 1 bronze putting them in 45th place.
Wow, who would give a program like "iCloud" access such that it could wipe your mobile, tablet, and PC? I hope the author can recover his data, but it sounds like he set himself up for disaster by linking all his systems so strongly.
It would seem so.

Although lentils, millets and cereals constitute a sizable portion of protein consumed by the average person.
You are the one that made it personal. saraid216 said that Zynga is getting what Zynga wants and you immediately pretended saraid216 was saying that it was something Zynga 'should' do and we couldn't criticize Zynga for it. Then you directly insulted saraid216's character. Get off your high horse and stop reacting to things people didn't say or mean.

You don't have to pretend someone disagrees with you just so you can post your point.
So if the local Party official came to your house and said 'we're taking your child to athletic school, aren't you happy!' what would you call it?

I suppose you could whisper in the child's ear 'remember to under perform when you want to come back'.

Now that is ridiculous.
Am I only one who thinks that the Horizontal Scroll effect is backwards ? When clicking on the right arrow, I expect to see the next image on the right, not the one on the left.
Thank you very much Sir
Thanks for the reply. A few questions.

Why do you not want to sign in with gmail? I had imagined a gmail password-less signup. There would be only one field: your email ID. The login would then cling on to your computer, unless you want to use the website from another computer in which case, you can enter your emailID again, and you're back.

I think an easy sign in is the most easy way to avoid ghost towns. The way I'm avoiding the ghost town effect is by asserting that this is not a social website. The next time you want to have a discussion with bob and harry, you could just add their emailIDs to the discussion, or paste the discussion link on them. They would click on it, click 2 more buttons to sign in, and voila: They're in the discussion in a flash. The next time they visit, they will have their dashboard with the previous discussions they made.

The point is, you don't need thousands of users to be in town, to enjoy this town. Only when I have MANY users, will I then roll out a public discussion feed. Till then, its only micro-site tool to help you talk with the people you know in a better way.
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This is why you really need to research a company's growth potential before you buy its stock. Just because something's popular doesn't mean it can grow forever. Had all those investors realized that Facebook was a one trick pony they might not have lost 40% of their money (and counting...).

They had all these visions of grandeur that Facebook could plug various services to their existing users and make endless amounts of money. Maybe add a Facebook classified ads service, document sharing service, auction site, shopping e-store for its members that takes a small commission. Whatever other companies did, just copy it and add it on Facebook and watch users instantly abandon competitors. After all FB has close to a billion users. Little did they know that Facebook users were never that engaged nor will they ever be.

The collective hive mind of bored humans completely ignored Facebook Questions. Zuckerberg's first attempt at trying to cultivate its legion of human potatoes. He quickly pulled FB Questions after no one used it and tried again later by changing it to Ask Questions and shoving it right after the "Add Photo/Video" link above the status update box itself. People are still ignoring it. Its members are there to share photos and talk to friends, not seek knowledge, not sell photos, not start businesses, not buy digital products, not share documents, or anything else productive or profitable for that matter.

In general users follow the "One website per one purpose" rule. Auction site neanderthal, eBay learned that the hard way when it simply tried to tack on classified ads thinking its members would ditch craigslist. Even monopolistic cro-magnon Microsoft has tried and failed numerous times at getting its installed base to use more profitable tacked on services and products. Ironically they only succeeded in spreading the worst internet browser in human history this way. Facebook's still in denial about it's useless network of potatoes. Sorry. Humans.

After all these years Silicon Valley still values massive droves of bored users without problems over clusters of customers with money in hand. In some ways they're right, Facebook still makes massive amounts of ad revenue and is still profitable. But I doubt it'll experience any further population boom or miraculous revenue growth.

The company isn't going anywhere for now, but as Facebook fatigue sets in and members find new and easier ways to share photos with friends (a user's main activity) things might not always be "flowers and sunshine" for FB. And in the future we'll look back in hindsight and say "I can't believe they didn't foresee it, all the signs were there."
"I have in mind an incubator similar to Y Combinator "

What you are describing is a charity not an incubator.

"No one is teaching them how to start a business by teaching them a skill."

How do you plan doing this if the kids cannot read or write? Why is this even an important skill for a child?

"I am planning to teach Google App Engine with Python and separately also Arduino."

These kids probably don't even have access to decent food, clean water, reliable electricity, etc, so how are they supposed to have access to computers and Internet? Will you provide these things? Will there be a facility where the kids can come to?

"I strongly believe that school is evil."

This is your privilege talking and frankly it's a slap in the face of those kids who cannot afford to go to a decent school.
Was Dave Scott a vegetarian his entire life, or simply converted to it when he was a fully-grown adult? Most likely the latter.

Protein consumption as a growing child and teenager is directly proportional to height - it's the sole reason the average white male has increased 6" over the past 200 years. Genetics haven't changed, just our diet.
I do not have enough experience or merits to advice you professionally. But, from the bottom of my heart I wish you good luck for this project and wish you success. This is a GREAT initiative. A small tip - If you wish to ask this to PG directly, edit your title to 'Ask PG' instead of 'Ask HN'.

All the best.
There are some things in this article that are true and some false. And as an Indian I can tell you that are many things that people don't understand.

India is huge country. Huge, I mean so huge that it will be difficult to truly explain the diversity we have here. It will be easy for a German to explain what Germany is, Or French to explain what France is and so on. But it will be very difficult for an Indian to explain what India is in totality basically because there are thousands of cultures, ways of lives, languages, people of ethnic origin, color, language, religion and so on and so forth. In fact any form of classification that you can come up to we have diverse categories in that.

This is not true for China. Or Korea or Thailand. Because they are a single ethnic group. People who talk of deficiencies or things not being a part of Indian culture do not understand Indian culture.

In India you will see large metropolitan cities acting as hubs for employment, living and opportunities. Go to villages you see poverty you also see prosperity(Depending on where you go). You will see most advanced technologies to old stone age agriculture methods. At one end you will see farmers in the area of Punjab being the richest of the lot and you will also see farmers committing suicide due to debt and poverty.

You will see people eating stomach full to people barely affording a meal a day.

Amidst all this we have a thriving industry in every domain of business you can imagine. We have the best colleges and universities and we also have a huge problem of illiteracy.

We write software, we have a nuclear weapons program, despite being the worlds most peaceful nation we have one of the largest armies in the world. We have a space program. Yet at the same time we struggle to feed our self.

Our society still has the stains of socialism and communism from the old days. We still have massive corruption and inefficiency in government layers.

Amidst all this parents feels their kids are better off studying and getting good jobs to make a living than doing something like sports which don't offer much incentive to make a comfortable living. There are instances of gold medal winners pawn broking their medals to afford a day's meal.

Also there are not many facilities and training options if you want to be a serious athlete. At the same time we don't believe China kind of policies either.
I love dumb coders!
They would have a better chance of doing that if a cricket match actually lasted an hour, rather than days...
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People are mobile online, they aren't stuck on any controlled ecosystem. This is what will be the end to Facebook, along with their abusing of members.
Corruption and regional politics are major factors too. Suffice it to say sports is not very meritocratic in India. A person has to be exceptionally talented to jump through all the hoops. Quoting from http://www.indianexpress.com/news/corruption-in-sports-leads... Sunita Godara, a former marathon runner and Arjuna Award winner, said, “We decided to join Anna Hazare as we have been fighting against corruption at various levels in the sports bodies for the past 20 years. There is favouritism in the selection process and corruption at every level.”
The Party is still in charge. What is there not to get with this argument? It is also debatable that China has had its darkest years. One could argue that with the Party now having access to technology only dreamt of by totalitarian regimes 30 years ago, the darkest years are now.
"Please. It's so ugly to call this kidnapping. It's an enormous privilege to have your child participate in national athletics. Don't you want that opportunity for her? There are families who would kill for this chance.

Think of the great shame you would bring on your family and your entire village to know that your family rejected the opportunity to have your child participate in national athletics. Also, you have a nice house and a nice family here and it would be a real shame if some kind of terrible accident happened to them.

Ah, you've changed your mind about your youngest daughter participating. Excellent. She will bring honor and glory upon our great nation."
In a sense it does. They provide different random 16 characters passwords for each of the client that request access to your data and does not support two-factor.

So if someone hacks your gmail password, they still cannot login via IMAP or POP, as they require different password (which you shouldn't write down or remember anyway).
A valid question. IRC, however is old technology. There are permanency issues. Unless I have a client configured which saves logs, I can't see old discussions I had.

But, I think you do get the idea. IRC is solving the use case I plan to solve with modern technology, and by getting rid of some of its culture. I don't see any corporate meetings happening on IRC. I don't see startups discussing ideas in IRC. Nicknames, bots, strict environment, lack of ease-of-use and design, mostly limited to technical topics, no idea of multiple topic discussions(from quora). Just few of the many things here IRC stops behind to serve this particular use case.
they have a very competitive programming team. The school its self isn't special, but their CS program is probably the best in florida.
I am offended by your dismissal of the institution from which I graduated.

David Cohen, cofounder of Techstars, came out of UCF.

Alan Eustace, SVP of Knowledge at google, came out of UCF.

I came out of UCF, and I do pretty well.

UCF is a school that has an absurdly large sample size with vairous academic standards.

The spectrum of success is so wide-- you can be an incredibly successful programmer/scientist/businessman with all the opportunities available, or you can be a boozehound for seven years and graduate in the middle of your class in hospitality management.

It's like saying America is a bunch of rednecks-- that's true only for a portion of the population.
Actually, I would argue that Chinese success in weightlifting is one of those caused by heavy government funding. The Chinese model of weightlifting development (starting talent super youge, putting them through special development schools, and picking out the best, and then training them even more / giving them state funding) is exactly the type of money heavy technique that India appears to not have.
Google/Apache Wave?
From what I understand you still need user's udid with test flight. This just simply installs on any device.
I have been using input type date a lot recently. My app is chrome only and has to serve not very tech oriented people. And telling them to add date in a specific format is a huge pain in the ass. So input type date and even color to some extent have saved me a ton of support time. Although the interface can be better. It looks like a poorly designed html popup. (Although it is probably exactly that since chrome uses shadow DOM)
arkitaip: In fact, I don't want to do it as a charity but as a business. That's why I called it incubator.

I assume that kids can read and write but do not have further education.

Yes I hope to provide access to computer and internet. There are many organizations who help these kids. I may ask their cooperation or I can start a place myself or even start initially in an internet cafe. The details are still vague, that's why I posted here.

"This is your privilege talking and frankly it's a slap in the face of those kids who cannot afford to go to a decent school."

This is what I want to prove. You can be a successful entrepreneur without going to brand name school.
I agree. It's not perfect.

I guess I was thinking more along the lines of the actual network it sits on will help, too. Like CJDNS, an added protective layer for privacy, at least.

Public key encryption generated automatically for each user using the freedom box (I think I watched a video of someone explaining their concept of this for the freedom box).

In the end, I don't know. I'm only starting to get involved.
The comments on that blog post make me remember all the things i hate about the Internet.
I know this is not on topic, but I wrote that answer! It's a huge kick to see it on a random HN comment. :D
Therefore, the enrollment should also reflect the real world. Clearly, this is false, so one of my assumptions is false - C is the suspect one.

Assumption C is false: We got more female than male applicants last batch.

Anyway, I'm extremely happy with what you're doing. Keep up the good work.

Thank you!
But the point is that if everyone pays workers less there is no market for anything non-essential you can make. This works if you are making plastic stuff to export to the US and you are in China. It doesn't work so well if you are in the US.

In essence corporations individually do better if they pay their workers less, but collectively they die.
Strange, I had the opposite experience on an iPad 3. The 3D animations performed way better than the 2D ones - a bit of tearing on the sliders.
"This is not true for China. Or Korea or Thailand. Because they are a single ethnic group."

Well true for the most part.

China's largest ethnic group being Han which outstrips the far fewer Zhuang, Manchu & Uyghur etc (order of billion to order of million).
much harder to bring an unsafe product to market I would assume that's the point of the regulation in the first place? Nothing guarantees great software, but say requiring companies to pay for independent 3rd party testing adds significant barriers.
That can only be a small part of the story. If you look at the current medal count, South Korea has 16 while India has just 2. But none of those 16 Korean medals are from taekwondo. There are 3 judo medals, but that is technically a Japanese sport, not Korean.
And of course its half-done. Asks me if I want the site to allow use of my non existing camera, and the options dropdown just has a (none) entry in it.

It's the same approach as with downloads. To this day, the only browser to support resuming downloads (and making use of HTTP range) is Opera.
Every Olympic medal winner is an expert at his/her sport. Given that attaining expertise requires about 10 years of "deliberate practice" under the supervision of a capable coach, the deficiencies in India's sports management come under focus:
1. The lack of native coaches is evident from the need to depend on foreign coaches. This leads to obvious challenges for an aspiring sportsperson. For instance, many potential sports persons may just not be talent-spotted.
2. The incentives to pursue a career in sports are weak: The middle classes - who can think of funding their child's sports ambition - usually give in to the fear of being excluded from a "regular" career, usually based on education qualification.
I guess Branch is trying to do this already.
http://branch.com/
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There are little things that would eventually be improved I'm sure, but right now the biggest, albeit slightly vague, feedback I got is - "Make it more passionate." Like Etsy does for handmade goods or sparkfun does for its electronic parts; (You're lucky because your target audience is easy to excite). Not like ebay does where they have to deal with a generic store because they dont know what to specialise for. As it is the bootstrap theme looks nifty, but doesnt get me excited as much as it possibly could.

Brilliant idea though. So much potential, great job man :)
Well, there's actually T20 Cricket which lasts in about 3 hours.
The world is probably still not ready for that, maybe it will never be. Wave is too confusing. I'm still following a linear discussion model, such as seen in facebook comments. Just that here, they will be more permanent, and not casual.

The novelty of this idea is that you would be able to use this platform with just about anyone. Your email ID would be hidden, but not your name and pic(gravatar or google).
That's the only option those parents have.

If you are very poor and the party offers your kids education, food and a career. I doubt if any parent wouldn't let go their kids.

Its basically like putting up your kid for adoption. People do that when they have no way out. If they had absolutely any other option, trust me they would keep their kids with them.