skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think under the circumstances it may actually put a smile on peoples faces. They are probably already in a good mood and the right mindset for something like this.

This was a relatively common tactic in Chicago a few years ago, done by restaurants and a band if I remember correctly. Heading to your car on your way to work in the morning and finding a fake ticket that ended up being, as you say, junk mail, really made people angry. I am pretty sure the city got involved people were so mad.
Ah, I think I see what you are saying: essentially that the time it takes to build and tune the blending method and model selection for a 100+ ensemble gives you only a slightly better prediction than an appropriately choosen reasonably performant model at both a large computation and human labor cost?

What I was addressing was the issue that some users on Kaggle seemed frustrated that people were essentially submitting models with small parameter tweaks in order to marginally boost leader board scores. To these complaints I would argue that over-fitting is it's own punishment.

Thanks for the clarification!
> All new businesses are startups

Is a bakery a startup?
Wow, this works on my HP printer. That would explain the reams of pages I get that look like this:

GET http://www.baidu.com/ HTTP/1.1

Host: www.baidu.com

Accept: /

Pragma: no-cache

User-Agent:
A while back I hacked a cronjob to update mine with the current weather forecast.
"California Vehicle Code 10852. No person shall either individually or in association with one or more other persons, willfully damage or tamper with any vehicle or break or remove any part of a vehicle without the consent of the owner."

This is an all-purpose section that, for example, makes it possible to arrest someone who is walking down the street trying the handles on car doors to see if they are unlocked - even if they don't find any that are unlocked. I guess it would probably apply if someone broke off a windshield wiper while putting a pamphlet there. If someone was sufficiently irate, it might even apply to a used McDonald's bag being put under someone's wiper.
Totally agree here. The surprising part is his pessimism after he was successful. He had his chance and now he's saying there's nothing left for anyone to do? Seems like maybe he's depressed and needs to start over.
Yeah, get this: it syncs across multiple devices. Revolutionary!
The mechanics of this game specifically, as well as the emergent social dynamics of online gaming, are plenty relevant to this story. I can't think of how else you could discuss it.
Replanting the Roots of Education
any workflowy is just an evernote with less apps
Full list: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29465655158/yc-s12-c...
Congratulations! You're an asshole!
Yeah, I guess that misses the point of isolating the javascript, doesn't it? So, the idea is good, but has to be offered by Stripe to really minimize any exposure.
I agree. I think we require his definition of high performance components and what he is building these computers for. I'm thinking a serious mismatch of markets here from he's saying and what he was responding to.
I always felt the same way doing internet marketing stuff. I had fun and was making money, but I didn't consider my company a "startup" because I wasn't really creating any new technology. I think that is kind of the difference...
Distributed locking made easy
You're right, my response was probably a little angsty. There are some that are willing to expand and learn more and they usually turn out to be awesome developers with innovative ideas all the time. I was probably more referring to the "job" types, who don't care for what you might have to teach them and they just wind up getting in your way =\

Hopefully the future will hold more career type developers in my sector, but we'll have to wait and see =)
Show HN: Example of a multi-player HTML5 racing game using Socket.io
Since this app is inherently modal (you can only enter text when you're in an input field), it seems like a huge missed opportunity that it doesn't have VIM-style modal keybindings. Especially because it advertises it self as being for the text-editor set.

I will say that their no-signup approach to getting you into the app is pretty great.
I'm impressed by PopCap's openness and candor in this blog post. Tough business decisions are tough, and it's nice that they're up front and transparent about it. They really have no obligation to be.
Funny, we considered flyering the entire auditorium during Startup School last year, but decided that was too annoying and ended up flyering just the bathrooms instead. No one got the fake grimlock references, sadly...
I have to wonder if the original plan was to leverage the question answering as a wiki generator, but if so they should put pointers on closed questions. I'm not sure whether I have a problem with how SO is conducting themselves, since it could simply be that they're opinionated about what constitutes valid content and aren't afraid to leave the other stuff to other sites. That is, I'm not sure Zawinsky's Law can be extended to GYOFB situations.
I think you'll agree that short URLs and names are hard to come by, and will be more so over time. Plus, the push for short names is getting out of control. I'm sorry, but a name like xzb.ly is retarded, whereas GoodCompanyName.com isn't.

Most of the time when I hear about an app, I'm at my computer. So I type in the full URL to get to that link or go to the App Store's slow search. Half the time there's several search result, and I'm fighting with iPhone's spell checker if it's a cutesy name or have to remember the company's naming scheme. (For example, I searched for "Flight Track" instead of "FlightTrack" and received tons of incorrect results.)

Another good use: connecting the physical world with digital when it's not practical to set up a short URL (think a church having a silent auction, with in-depth descriptions listed on the website)
Ask Old-School HN: What was it like pre internet?
I just got through perusing the IBM archive of mainframes, see here: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_intro.html

And it got me thinking it would be interesting to hear what it was like to be a hacker in the olden days before internet came along to give us unlimited documentation and source codes in a .12 sec google search :)

Was anyone in here around in the days? And if so, what was it like? Was it better or worse? What do you miss if anything? I imagine certain projects could be more rewarding because you could fully understand every aspect of your programs, unlike today where one includes massive java libs on top of frameworks and stacks of other software :)
Thanks for pointing out the connection to Numenta. I was looking for it in the article, but it had nothing.
I read a story a few months or so ago about a company that provides this kind of monitoring service for several major social media companies. They seemed to handle it a lot better than Google. In particular, they had counsellors on site available any time people were working.

I tried to find a link but failed.
Live: Samsung's closing arguments in Apple vs. Samsung
re: "I want to be able to restore my data to my new computer as quickly as my Internet connection will let me"

Really? Why? If you have say 10 years of home pictures/movies, and you know they are 100% safe in Amazon Glacier, why do you need them all on your new computer as fast as possible? I don't understand why its such a rush.

If it's a rush, you pay the fee. If you can afford to wait a month or two or three to get all the data back for free, you trickle your pics/movies back to your new computer one day at a time.

It seems Amazon charges by the peak hour, so if you can throttle your retrieval so that it takes 3 or 4 days to get the data back, the fee would be a lot less.

A 5 GB per hour download would cost $36 for the month. You could download your entire 3TB files in less than a month for $36. So I don't think that's a crazy fee when your computer was destroyed by a fire...

To get your data back in a week requires 17GB per hour, which is $128. Not unreasonable either considering the urgency and the circumstances.
I'm a rather advanced Vim user (10 years, vimrc with custom vimscript, use many shortcuts for movement),
but I find it unproductive to NOT use arrows in insert mode. Example: inserting 'x' two characters before current position.

With arrows:
<LEFT><LEFT>x<RIGHT>

Without arrows:
<ESC>hix<ESC>lli

It also much depends on a keyboard design, the laptop-like often have arrows under ENTER and using them doesn't require hand movement.
> Amazon Glacier is designed to provide average annual durability of 99.999999999% for an archive.

That's pretty impressive. I wonder how many bytes they lost to lose that .0000000001% of data.
I have been playing with the relative numbering all afternoon. I love having all my lines indexed, but it's hard to hit any number above 5 or 6 with my right hand because it's about to hit j or k. I wish it could be indexed with a combination of numbers between 1 and 5 only, but I guess that would mess with the j and k functionality.

Any ideas?

Also note: I am not a touch typist.
Having a multi-hour delay in retrieval lets them move it into their off-peak hours. Since their bandwidth costs are probably calculated off their peak usage, a service that operates entirely in the shadow of that peak has little to no incremental cost to them.
If it was really that bad for customers, why do people keep buying the stuff?

Who's giving them a choice, other than not buying anything at all?

I think people value the benefits of the non-modular design more than you think.

I think people value other things that may or may not have anything to do with the lack of modularity, and I think they buy devices that have those benefits. Often, they probably don't even realise the lack of modularity or its implications at the time of making a purchasing decision, but even if they did, they might still value the other benefits over any downside due to lack of modularity.

We can't really conclude much from the current trends unless manufacturers also offer devices that have the benefits of modularity as well, potentially at a greater cost literally or in terms of things like bigger size or heavier weight.
I completed this program earlier this year after burning out working tech support and failing, failing, failing to move up into dev ops, QA or some more satisfying, challenging technical role no matter how hard I tried.

I got hired right out of the program making twice what I've ever made before in my life, doing satisfying work in an in-demand field, learning every day.

Love it, love it, love it. Highly recommended. Full blow-by-blow here: http://douglascalhoun.tumblr.com
Tooth-i-ologist doesn't have its own Wikipedia page. Just because a job title isn't protected by law or regulation, doesn't mean the job title doesn't exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionist
I live in San Francisco. I can go to any of the nearby markets in Chinatown and buy more produce than I could possibly eat in a day for under $10. I like to cook soup-based dishes which would be a pain to take to an office, but a sandwich and a piece of fruit is pretty doable. I believe my great grandfather did that for decades.

Honestly, I think going with what old people ate while you were a kid will be easier on the pocketbook and the health.
Selling your product by putting flyers on people's cars: yes, totally original.
I do my online backups to BackBlaze. $3.69/month and It backs up both my Internal 256 GB SSD and my External (portable) 1TB HD that I keep all my Aperture "Referenced Masters" on.

A Full Document restore isn't done over the Internet, I have Backblaze fedex me a USB hard drive - though, unless something has gone really, really wrong (Building burned down?) - I have a within-a-week old or so SuperDuper Image of my Hard Drive.

My Use Case for Glacier is Dropping a 10-20 year archive every 5 years. 50 Gigabytes of data will cost me $120 to leave their for the next 20 years. I can make good use of that.
That kind of comparison doesn't work because you can't get a tragedy of the commons situation in minecraft. All you really need is wood and stone, trees regrow extremely quickly, and stone is effectively infinite.
Gatekeeper and the rise of the Total Apple Consumer
Actually, their office is next to ours at 333 Bryant Street, and there's probably around 20 people in there. We borrowed a chair from them last week.
We had a lot of Encyclopedias growing up, and the study/library in our house where I spent most of my time. These days, it's HN. Same deal, just a faster way of aggregating information.
Hey, I didn't write the post, but looking through the comments, he says he did get some sites from flippa. But mainly he did a "rediculous" amount of work.

Seems like that means he was spending all of his time looking for ecommerce sites anywhere he could think of – flippa most likely included.

So it's just a numbers game, he's plowing through lots of opportunities, finding some on flippa, finding some on other places... lots of hustling.
I have at least one friend with multiple Facebook accounts, which he has talk to each other as a joke. Much like Facebook, most of the significant interactions on forums happen between permanent, established accounts (4chan could be the exception that proves the rule, as everything on it is arbitrary and real projects are organized elsewhere).

Facebook wants to portray itself as a one-person-one-account service, but the lack of extra accounts is largely because they've obsoleted most of the reasons people would create multiple accounts.
I did in fact seek out the founder of 9Gag to talk to him. He didn't know who I was.

He's a nice guy with good intentions.
Good question and obviously not an optimal situation.

Since I'm a small shop going through a third party printer, I am last in line for raw t-shirt supply. Mix in color and size availability, and it gets pretty tricky to rely on one brand. So for now, I am using a few high quality brands to make sure t-shirts get out in a timely manner.
I was there. And it wasn't that long ago. Before the Internet, and before wifi and broadband, we had dial-up bulletin board services that used a modem. They were text-based and when you started a download, you had to wait for it to finish before you could do anything else. Some bulletin boards were connected by dedicated phone lines between them, so you could access multiple BBS's without having to hang up and dial multiple phone numbers. Also, the good BBS's were frequently busy. So you had to leave your modem program to keep re-dialing until you could finally get through.
Yeah, because ice cream the sky and the sea are things I experience once in a blue moon... pretty sure I see the sky everyday, eat ice cream most hot days and I live by the coast, so...

In any case, those were obviously examples, like I need to argue why life is awesome...

If you don't want to discuss it on HN, then don't post to HN...
I probably wouldn't respond this way, but: if I see you touching my car, my personal property, and you're not wearing a law enforcement uniform, it would be well within my right to respond as if you're stealing or vandalizing my car. I can't speak to SF, but in many areas, when the police respond to the physical altercation, they'd be asking me if I want to press charges.
Yes, there's the CredWrite API - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa37..., although I must admit I like the OS X keychain a lot better.
> Database development mistakes made by application developers

This is a discussion, not a question. The entire text of said "question" is, quite literally, "What are common database development mistakes made by application developers?" If it can have infinite answers, is it really a question?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/621884/database-developme....

Yes, it really is a question. I don't mean to come off as sarcastic, but it's got a question mark at the end of it - one that you, yourself, put there.

You're the one that's imposing esoteric semantics and restrictions on this.

Great post, indeed, but it belongs on your blog.

Except that:

1) no blogs have the visibility and user base that SO has - not even yours or Joel's.
2) a blog post isn't crowdsourced - at least not to the extent that SO is

One of the biggest misconceptions about Stack Exchange is this idea that discussion is, in and of itself, a net good to the world -- and therefore we are monsters for not allowing discussion. I do not believe this to be true. There is, and will always be, an infinity of discussion. Like Jay Leno once said about Doritos, "type all you want, we'll make more". If something can be had in infinite amounts, what is its value?

Nutpicking and a false dichotomy. Ease up on the defensiveness and try to see it from the point of view of the many people that want/need to know the answer to that question.

For Pete's sake, at least 568 people upvoted the question, and at least 1004 people upvoted the first answer alone.

The community has spoken - they see this as valuable content.

Stack Exchange supports only the minimal subset of discussion necessary to get practical, useful answers to specific questions. The goal is not discussion, but science-in-the-small. Back up your claims. Show us references. Show us data. Share your specific experiences.

This is an overly narrow, baffling and frustrating definition of "question"

(And the goal may not be discussion, but discussion is a characteristic of most answers. It's a community, after all.)
What Is Facebook Really Worth?
My question was more ... well, just a question. I was hoping somebody will either confirm that or deny.
It is positive criticism. It takes a matter of seconds to spot these errors. Lighten up.
As for programming, I'd write in x86 and Delphi (which came on 10 floppy disks) with a lot of GoTO 0 statements. My parents used punch cards [PDF: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/fisk.pdf], so I guess I had it easier.
I just like building things. Cool things are more fun to build, but not everything needs to be in that category. I'm in software because it's significantly cheaper than other ways to build things. I love working on open source software because you can build bigger and better things with a team, it builds good will and unless it's core to a business, there's no reason not to. I'm shooting for a certain dollar amount that would let me work on what I want when I want, not just for the things that come with the money. But on the route there I refuse to give up the enjoyment of building things with a preference to cool things.

On the other hand, I only hear about the feature as a product or network effect startups here on HN. Around town, folks I interact with and companies I all work with have real products and at least a real revenue source.

It's like going to comic-con and deciding the rest of the world dresses like that.
Ah Wi-Fi, I had a blast working on WiMax and what became 4G over at Nortel (before they went bankrupt).
It's not that I want to use this as hot storage, it's that I would like to be able to test my backups once or twice a year.
Enterprise Hadoop - Five issues with Hadoop that need addressing
tl;dr for the flyer text:

"We weren't good enough to get into YC, but want to piggyback off of pitch day. Please please please visit our site! kthxbai"
Sounds easier than winning the Loebner Prize, and yet there is more cash on offer.

I just hope the winning entry will prompt the developers to remove that stupid filter[1] that prevents you from referring to the Halting Problem in question titles.

[1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/107989/using-the-wor...
Interesting idea! Graphic tees are a great market to do an idea like this, as well.

People who have the disposition to wear a lot of graphic tees seem like the same people who would spend $25 on some generic tees just for the game aspect. Personally, id rather bargain hunt on Gilt or something for some high quality, well designed t-shirts, but im not your target audience.
Reads like a regurgitated press release.
But not a problem with the tone or content of the original article? Maybe it's because I'm Australian, but if the OP is a wanker, I don't see a problem with calling him on it.
How to Talk About Security With Your Users
The Thai king is the longest-reigning current head of state, ascending the throne on 9 June 1946. Elizabeth II of England is 2nd, 6 February 1952.

The oldest country (not government) is likely Vietnam (2897 BCE). Other contenders: Japan (660 BCE), China (221 BCE), Ethiopia (~800 BCE), or Iran (678 BCE).

Few of today's modern states pre-date the 19th Century, many antedate World War II or the great de-colonialisation of the 1960s including much of Africa and Oceana (some of the longest inhabited regions of Earth).

Among the more long-lived institutions are the Catholic Church (traditionally founded by Jesus ~30 AD, emerging as an institutional power in 2nd Century Rome). The oldest company I can find is Kongo Gumi, founded in 578, a Japanese construction firm. The record however is likely held by the Shishi Middle School founded in China between 143 and 141 BCE.

My own suggestion would be the Krell, though some might disqualify this based on a requirement for human organization.
Actually for one person $500/month is pretty generous if you don't go out to eat, fortunately I think we can get really really good data here since Safeway [1] lets you browse their products online. I typed in the zip code for Redwood City where they deliver (94065) that gave me access to their products and prices and then put together a shopping list that would provide 3 meals a day for me for approximately 30 days [2]. I didn't use any coupons or sale items, I included eating steak as well as chicken, but I do assume that cooking a whole chicken would equate to the meat item for three meals, the initial one, the left over one, and then perhaps any remaining chicken chopped up and put into a salad. I included condiments although generally you won't use all of a condiment 'unit' in a month, and I included a 5 dollar allotment for 'spices' since you buy one thing of salt (0.99) and it lasts you for 6 months.

You can see that for breakfast I'm eating either cereal, eggs, or maybe pancakes, for lunch its generally sandwiches with soup and a salad, and for dinners its a meat (chicken or beef) a vegetable, and a starch (either rice or potatoes). I didn't go 'all organic' or anything which could raise your prices. I also included a half gallon of ben & jerry's ice cream, tea as the 'non water' beverage, and Oreos (my all time favorite cookie). All totaled its $443. Under my $500 budget.

[1] http://www.safeway.com/IFL/Grocery/Home

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atwe7dq6iPQHdDU...
It is disappointing they are not launching with everything they have promised so far. As itsmequinn suggests, I am not banking with them yet, but have established my account. I think their early motto was to "not suck," or something like that. Right now, they kind of suck. I would be horrified if I'd decided to put all of my money there now, especially when my current bank (State Farm Bank) does pretty much everything Simple has promised, and they do it pretty well. Simple is just a prettier interface with a few nice technology elements. As the author says, there is a certain level of expectation for professionalism from a bank. I want a hacker feel and certain edge to the website and technology, but I don't want a hacker managing my money or a lack of certain fundamental banking tools (like withdrawing/transfering all of MY money at one time).
Relevant xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/1095/
It's mostly recently funded companies that seem to be getting all the coverage. Self-funded or profitable - not so much.

Made me want to blog about it.

http://blog.itrend.tv/no-coverage-for-self-funded-companies#...