skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so you've basically crowdsourced the job of an interstitial video editor. It's neat as far as it goes, but I don't see myself coming to a site like this for video discovery purposes so I'm uncertain how you will build traction; however, if you can get a sticky user community to take root then it seems sufficiently fun for that community to grow organically. The underlying technology is not difficult for existing vendors to copy so I think your best bet is to focus on the social-hobby aspect. To that end, I'd be inclined to give front-page content a pretty short half-life: when I see multiple months-old memes on the front page, my reaction as a casual consumer is that it's a me-too site. Make old favorites easily findable, but your front page needs to be baked fresh every morning.
fyi http://www.quora.com/Marissa-Mayer-Named-Yahoo-CEO-July-2012...
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What? how? Its in almost every programming language that I can think of.
The last few paragraphs are insightful, paraphrased below.

"..women who applied for jobs did not make it past the phone interview. The reason was that the women did not flaunt their achievements, so interviewers judged them unaccomplished.

.. women who turned down job offers had interviewed only with men. Now, a woman interviewing at Google will meet other women.

A result: More women are being hired.

.. employees nominate themselves for promotions, but the data revealed that women were less likely to do so. So senior women at Google now host workshops to encourage women to nominate themselves, and they are promoted proportionally to men

The attrition rate for postpartum women was twice that for other employees. In response, Google lengthened maternity leave to five months from three and changed it from partial pay to full pay. Attrition decreased by 50 percent."
I've discussed this in the past with tent's authors, and that is a characteristic they not only tolerate but encourage (for better or worse).

Operating with these assumptions means that the things that you make public are totally and incontrovertibly public. It is, in a manner of speaking, playing for keeps.
fast tiling splits in vim? hell yeah i say. one thing that would be nice, would be to preserve window width ratio on ctrl-f
This is a great option if your target is likely to be an mTurk user. Further, this is a great write-up on how to do it!

If you do this, make sure to validate your psychographics and demographics. You will also want to validate your responses with people you've identified in your psychographics and demographics. In other words, make sure the data you are getting is actually valid data and not coming from some 12 year old playing with his mom's phone. :)
Yup. Kept overthinking it. Oy.
This is not fair. The captial letter requires you to use shift + letter key. It took me more time to do that..... can we fix that bug?
That's a misleading summary of the story. One might just as well say 'Facebook's poor management has cost ...'. It's not like the FTC knew of Facebook's declining stock price in advance, or bears any responsibility for it.
Reading through those responses, the answer seems to generally be "HN is wrong: she was not especially rude."
It is certainly well worth listening to them if they describe what they did that was successful for them while starting out, but that's a very different scenario from describing what they do now.

I don't know swimming, but I do know powerlifting.

I had hip mobility issues when I started. Which meant I put in ages getting my form right and improving my flexibility to be able to safely progress on the back squat. My lightest warmup weight now - a measly 60kg - was a sticking point for me for months where it'd leave me in pain, until I got the flexibility down. Once I did, it took me just 6 months to reach 150kg, and I've improved steadily since.

Someone with the same flexibility problem that were to copy my current training regime, would "just" end up in pain for however long it'd take them to figure out the same flexibility issues that I dealt with if they were lucky. But if they were not, it'd take very little to end up in hospital, e.g. if they started with too heavy weights.

Similarly, I push myself a lot closer to my failure point than you want a beginning lifter to do, because I've had years to learn how I feel when I reach failure and how to manage it without harming myself. If I put too much on the bench when doing bench presses, I know how to put the bar safely down on my chest and roll it off. Meanwhile many beginners will panic and try to put the bar off at a risk of dropping it on their heads or neck. 50kg dropped on your head is way worse than, say, 120kg slowly put down on your chest and rolled down - the latter at worst gives me a slight bruise for a few hours.

What I'd say if I were to instruct a beginner vs. someone near my level would be vastly different. E.g. for someone near my level I'd talk about how essential a belt is, while for a beginner it is counter-productive. I'd talk about alternative grips and using chalk for the deadlift to prevent the grip from failing - something that is utterly pointless for a beginner. For a beginner I'd be stressing form, form, more form and flexibility.

Copying me, or listening to what I would recommend - that works and is safe enough - for someone near my level would either put a beginner at severe risk of hurting themselves or waste their time (I'm far closer to my natural limit - I progress at about 1/10th of the speed I did when I started, yet the effort involved is vastly higher).
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This is fantastically great! I'm a huge fan of typing games (typing of the dead, typeracer, etc.) and always lamented the fact that there were none that focused on programming syntax. Love it!

edit: the more I use this, the more I find myself really hoping that you're storing all of these stats somewhere. I think that some aggregate analytics of typing accuracy across programming languages would be fascinating.
He probably was spot on with several things. I read a good bit of the rest. I have the galaxy note phone. The first time I saw the ad for this tablet all I could think of was how awesome it was. It is good to see negative opinions sometimes though
Hi cousin! I've heard this too, but I thought it was a lower percentage. Are there any good (DNA-based?) studies to support it?
Perhaps you mean, he left? (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MathematiciansWhoHaveLeft)
That's the point - the retrofitted reactors are much safer than the original design. Even if 10 are still in operation, they are much safer (and better staffed).
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> It's not going anywhere, just re-labelling.

Not really. Two things are happening:

1. Asperger's is being dropped as a diagnosis.

2. ASD diagnostic criteria are being redefined with the specific aim of reducing the number of diagnoses, to avoid another epidemic of nonsense treatments of people who, apart from being intelligent, are otherwise normal.

Further reading: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/health/research/new-autism...

> There are definitely things behind AS ...

Yes, there certainly are. It's a gold mine for clinical psychology, because anyone to the right of the mean population I.Q. can be diagnosed using the present criteria, and because of this kind of abuse, it's being abandoned -- it's just too tempting to apply it to everyone. As one of its prominent critics has said, "It's not an evidence-based term."
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At the price point for interviews and with the ability to validate, it's worth a try. Using the guide, it can't take more than 1 hour to set this up... faster and cheaper then getting assets up and ready on FB.
Flipcode had some amazing stuff, and taught me a lot. I can't believe it's been away for 7 years.
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Wait -- isn't Dave McClure a VC? (Why do I even know this guy's name?)

Oh, that's right. This is the guy who is very, very rich and who can't write words good.
I agree with this first point -- the samples appear unimpressive as they are and actually hurt my chance of buying. A PDF or a complete sample of one of the interviews would be great. If I feel it provides me insight, I'll be excited to read the 36 other interviews.
Thanks for pointing this out. I will see if I'm holding on to references to finished lessons for too long.
If you learn the right things.

If you learn from what they did when they were facing the same challenges you are, rather than what they do when facing challenges at an entirely different level.

Chances are you're solving different problems.
@hansef - this was (is?) definitely my impression. But turns out mTurk users, on average, are more educated than the average population. Many in business roles. We were surprised by some of the responses, and indeed the b2b profiles on some of our profiles. I guess like everything startup, worth testing and challenging assumptions.
I'm in a similar boat, but with entrepreneurs instead of PR people. I've been trawling various user groups and will be going to some local meetups, but it isn't highly efficient. Ideas appreciated!

(Speaking of which, if you are an entrepreneur or an early employee at a startup (like <= employee 3), I'd love your feedback via a quick survey! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F7W9P5P )
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Just because you cannot prevent all threat models, does not mean you through privacy out the window. For example, if Alice wants to send Bob a message, in the current system:
1) Alice tells Facebook she wants to friend Bob
2) Facebook tells Bob, who accepts
3) Alice sends Facebook the message addressed to Bob (I think in plaintext)
4) Facebook sends the message to Bob.
5) The message is still unencrypted on Facebook servers, where it is available to Facebook, advertisers, hackers, and government agencies

Using known cryptographic methods, we can construct a system that works as follows:

1) Alice looks up Bob's public key (or gets it from Bob to avoid needing a trusted key service)
2) Using Bob's public key, Alice encrypts a message
3) Alice sends the encrypted message into the network, addressed to Bob
4) Using his private key, Bob decrypts the message

In the second example, the recipient (Bob) is the only one who can release the data. In the first example, a number of potentially malicious parties have access to the data without corporation from Alice or Bob.

I used a direct message for simplicity, but we do have crystallographic methods to encrypt a message such that an arbitrary group of people can decrypt it.
Many IDEs have an option to auto-insert it after typing a "{". This is on by default in Eclipse.
The historical maps don't take reapportionment into account. For example, if you select "2008: Obama vs McCain," it shows Texas with 38 electoral votes, but it had only 34 back then. Also, Reagan's name is misspelled.
What's interesting about this is that this was in fact a dream that Disney himself had, in the last years of his life he was very focused on Audio-Animatronics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio-Animatronics
Really appreciate you sharing this so openly. Excellent stats for the community to leverage.
Are you one of those 170wpm-ers that ruin my win streak on TypeRacer?
Who says port 80 has to be http?
We're still on the slippery slope to peak oil
Samsung didn't design this to look good, they designed it only to not look like something else, and it shows.

Or maybe they designed it to work well with a pen.

Wacom-style handwriting and drawing are two things I enjoy with my oldschool tablet PC that I've been waiting for someone to add to a tablet.
I decided to do some digging and found some demographics[1] of mTurk users. It's far more diverse than I thought.

1. http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2010/03/new-demographi...
Well - in general - that's true. But this is an article written by an Android Fanboy. It's really well written - and clearly by someone who loves the Android platform.

His Bio: "Ron loves everything related to technology, design, and Google. He always wants to talk about "the big picture" and what's next for Android, and he's not afraid to get knee-deep in an APK for some details. Expect a good eye for detail, lots of research, and some lamenting about how something isn't designed well enough."

He starts off with:

"The big difference between a tablet and a phone should be the ability to multitask.
As it turns out, Samsung gets it. The Galaxy Note 10.1 is actually trying to make tablets useful, productive tools. They've added split screen and floating apps. I've actually got my email and a web browser open side by side right now, and it's like a dream come true."

Other comments from the article:

I *really* love the speakers.
The Note is packing a 7000mAh battery, so the battery
life is fantastic.

He also seems to like other Samsung Products:

The Series 9 laptop guys make beautiful, kick-ass
products out of aluminum every day.

It may be possible that this $500 Tablet really is kind of a clunker. Certainly useful to get multiple perspectives - and he really put his heart and soul into the review. Note - I agree that slamming Samsung as a whole was probably the weakest element of the whole review. Perhaps could have benefited from a bit of editing.
Thanks for the comments! We also provide apis/embed urls for bloggers/people to embed highlighted videos anywhere. That's a way of growing early adopters.
because then they can't run reports across all users/languages. This is an awesome dataset that (I hope) they are collecting for language designers.
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That would definitely be cool. Pretty unlikely, however. When it comes to hardware, they like to keep each service's resources separate. While a given box or rack many handle many internal services, they're usually centered around a particular public service. S3 has their racks, EC2 has theirs, etc. Beyond the obvious benefit of determinism - knowing S3 traffic won't impact Glacier's hardware life, being able to plan for peak for a given service, etc - I'm guessing there are also internal business reasons. Keeping each service's resources separate allows them to audit costs from both internal and external customers.

Then there's failure conditions. EBS is an S3 customer. Glacier is an S3 customer. Some amount of isolation is desirable. If a bad code checkin from an S3 engineer causes a systemic error that takes down a DC, it would be nice if only S3 were impacted.

I probably shouldn't go into the hardware design (because 1) I'm not an expert and 2) I don't think they've given any public talks on it), but it's some of the cooler stuff I've seen, especially when it came to temperature control.
I have to agree. You have to enjoy the day to day. The big picture can be an exciting amazing thing, but you have to enjoy the day to day.

As for me, I'm finding that if I really care about being as innovative as I need to be to get my startup off the ground, I must have a hard cap of 40 hours of work a week. If you're truly doing something innovative and technically challenging, breaks and experiential variety are key. Plus it's also fun mix up the staring at math and algorithms with taking the time to build relationships with your prospective customers.

(to the readers:if you're a senior grade person/guy/gal who's strong across math, cs, and engineering things nicely, and youre based in the NYC area, please shoot me an email, I'd love to chat with you over coffee sometime)
My app has been featured three times now by Apple (TextPics) www.textpicsapp.com. The first time, in early 2011, it spent around two weeks at around the #3 Top Paid app position, the second time (late 2011) it made it to #8 I believe and the third time it was a lesser feature in a subsection specific to valentines apps but still did top 25.

I've spent a LOT of time thinking about how to get featured and how the whole mess works, and as for my experience, my first feature was simply based on being a new idea (TextPics was the first app for ASCII art texting - before I experienced Attack of the Chinese Clones) with excellent growth, lots of updates, and a positive rating. These three points were actually laid out on Apple's developer portal and TextPics satisfied all the points and was lucky enough to be chosen.

The second time around I specifically made a move with the aim of getting featured - I made a Christmas edition update. I changed the icon (put a Santa hat on the bunny), the loading screen, and new content was almost exclusively holiday pics. Apple appears to put Christmas features on the main feature page, rather than a sub-page like our Valentines edition. Lucky me, my plan actually worked.

And although it did not matter for us from a server standpoint, Apple did actually contact us before the first featuring asking for artwork and assets. I assume we were in line to be one of the few apps featured so prominently in the hero section, but that did not end up happening.

Every feature for us started on a Thursday, lasted one week, and then moved to the What Hot section for another week.

Between being featured multiple times and being at the top of the app store multiple times I learned a hell of a lot about app store customers, apps store sales dynamics, ratings, and everything else App Store related, though beyond "make a great app and update it often" I can't think of what else can help other apps get featured.

I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone has, as I know first hand what a mystery the whole process can be.

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I think reprocessing specifically is illegal, which means there's a pretty huge volume of high-grade waste to dispose of by sealing it in future-proof (expensive/limited) containment. If we repealed that ban and educated people about the realistic relative benefits of nuclear, I think it'd be a lot easier to sell the idea of a scale-up. I'm not really sure how we could educate everyone on the subject, though, without it getting drowned in noise.
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I believe this is a great idea, but I disagree with some points of your implementation. I actually started writing a lengthy comment about this, and after about two hours of writing I decided it might look better as a blog post, so there you go:

http://www.nicollet.net/2012/08/tent-the-right-goals-the-wro...
Really appreciate the post - especially the thought in making the content relevant for the readers (e.g., the video).
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If anything, he's an "Android" fanboy, so even if he's "unobjective", he's biased towards Samsung (as opposed to iPad, which is what he's clearly comparing this tablet to)!
Show HN: Unique randomized plaid backgrounds using HTML5 Canvas & Three.JS
This app creates a plaid background with random values generated to create grids with different properties. You can go fullscreen to your resolution with F, pan with the mouse, P to screenshot, and R to regenerate a different background.
It was April 2012. We just lost 3 large wholesale clients that were responsible for 80% of our revenue. Our online sales were dropping. We had reached 3k/wk in online sales at our peak but in the few months prior we steadily dropped down to $500/wk. We were falling apart. I was advocating for giving up on our shopify and focusing on more wholesale sales to retailers. My partner was convinced we should build a larger online audience.

He went on a few forums and started pitching our products. The next day we had 10x the sales we had the day before. We're hovering around 4-5.5k/week since then.

I have many anecdotes that all tell the same story: About 90-95% of the things we try don't work. The remaining 5-10% of our initiatives lead to huge boosts in sales.

A very well known counterexample to the article is the 37signals Highrise redesign. Changing the site design lead to a 103% increase in paid signups (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...).

Now I think we should be a bit more rigorous here. There are two parts to making money selling a product/service. There is customer acquisition and customer retention. These examples focus on customer acquisition. I think it would be much harder to keep customers 5x longer than it is to get 5x the customers to purchase your product.
Anecdotally, I'll pay up to $5 for a book on a whim if I think I might be interested. If it's more than $5, I download a sample and might by the book, if and when I even get around to reading the sample, and if I like the sample.

It doesn't matter if you have a great value proposition, without a solid sample I place it in the same bucket as unsolicited phone calls to lower my phone bill.
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Two Bob's with the same name are running for office one chose 1 to go before his name and hacker candidate Bob chose 0 to go before his name. Who goes first? Common CA go tech... go 0.
Only a few publications like Consumer Reports actually buy the stuff they review, everyone else goes to the vendor and asks for a review copy or free membership. If their support team asks for license info or if it's linked to your email (even not a company email) it's easy to tag that license as deserving special treatment. Sometimes you suspect it's going on but there's no way to avoid it, especially when there's some sort of "preview" arrangement before the public even gets to see it.
Getting (some degree of) funding != "Winning the startup lottery". Not by a long shot.

And for what it's worth, I don't know the Elastic Sales team personally but nothing I've heard indicates that Steli or any of the rest of them really "have money" in a meaningful sense, or are "relaxing with a well-funded team".

Does initial funding provide a minimal threshold so you can keep the lights on? Yes. Does it really make you any better off emotionally? Hate to break it to you, but no.

Raising a first round of cash takes away some stresses and gives you others, and on balance I don't think it makes a lot of difference in your overall happiness level. The stuff described in the article (getting married, having a kid, taking breaks here and there, etc) does.
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I took "Chernobyl like" to mean "of the same design family".
Oh nice, thanks for all the info. Most of mine on the subject comes from the book form of this: http://www.withouthotair.com/

I was thinking that the bigger problem that would be bandied about about reprocessing would be with having the middle-lifetime contaminant isotopes concentrated in one place, for convenient pilfering and then manufacturing of a dirty bomb. Plutonium is obviously a worry as well, though.

Would it make sense to build those in conjunction with every nuclear reactor? (Would one reactor create enough waste for that other reactor to be worth building vs. dealing with shipping to a central location)
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Good stuff! I loved flipcode back in the days...

For old time's sake, there is also the wonderful page of Hugo Elias - http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/ - still relevant...
This serves as a great reminder that a good portion of your speed comes from accuracy. I find if I slow myself down ~10% of what feels "fast", I'm much more accurate and my WPM increase significantly over typing faster but backspacing more.
Oh, well I guess the first problem is that you should probably be feeding your children food.