skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a silly article.

I read and re-read this article but couldn't detect that it actually gave any insight at all. All the article distilled down to was "make a startup that is successful and not one that fails". This is not something that I believe is opaque to those involved.

The author finishes with the statement "The world doesn’t need another way for consumers to connect with merchants" which I think sums up exactly why this article is reactive rant. Speak to any merchant and they will tell you that there is one thing they care above above all else and that is customers. Those customers are hard and expensive to find and merchants desperately require scalable and efficient ways to find them.

Eric Reis used to have a great piece in one of his talks in which he compared Ali G pitching his Ice Cream Glove (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48TR0vUPQCs) to an advert for a blanket with sleeves. As Eric said, one of the two of those is a $50M/year company and the other is Ali G. Pitch them though and it's not immediately clear which would be which.

Discovery comes from exploration and most lucrative discoveries tend to come from the most risky experimentation.
Stop doing things just because they’re trendy and mainstream media seems to reward it with publicity. It’s not clever business.

Am I the only one left wondering why isn't it clever business?
I had just started using Debian a few days before. I was trying in vain for hours to get a crappy Radeon card's direct rendering to work, futzing around with different settings. Suddenly a train roared across my terminal. "What the fu..." Eventually I figured out what happened and laughed my ass off.
Says the guy making a Groupon clone...
Tom you can signup for an invite on the homepage:

https://www.mailrox.com

Your invite should come straight through :)
+1 it's playing like this that inspires ideas in others - should it be so prominent, maybe not. Furthermore, it's going to get linked a ton which is great for Nissan's brand.
I know Wikipedia isn't the end-all of historical scholarship, but according to the entry, most existing records point to Poland, not Russia.
Alinea has about 20 cooks for 60 diners. Each diner gets 20 dishes, each dish with 10-20 components.
Alumna makes $1 million gift to help liberal arts students find jobs
This is exactly right. Bloom filters used in this way should generate candidates not results to reduce the total amount of work you do when it is expensive to confirm membership in the set. The best used cases check the opposite, e.g. Kevin Bacon was definitely not in this movie, since there are no false negatives.
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I'm not sure that you should explain how to do it, or even worry about my post. I may be a really limited number of potential users and you might have a much better way to spend your time.

If it were me, I'd focus on taking share to get a good number of users first, then worry about growing the market.
Really?

This is a rather well written article that explains why you should focus on potential rather than your track record with examples from various studies.

The author asserts (quoting studies) that this is because of "our unconscious preference for potential over actual success."

This is alone is very insightful and interesting to me.

I think this article is a tad more than your summary and totally worth reading in its entirety.
As a random HN user with no connection to Google who has seen what happens when you comment on stories about Google here (it's a shit storm), might I humbly suggest that you consider not commenting on stories about Google? It seems to always turn into The Michaelochurch Show when you do. Not saying your opinions aren't valid, but I think your contributions re: google are unfortunately not useful because they inevitably spawn arguments about your character.

Take one for the team and sit out the Google discussions maybe? That way when you have a contribution about some other topic, people will see you as a person and not "that crazy ex googler whose credibility is highly suspect." :)
Wikipedia is aware of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Get_to_Philosophy
Posers in Cambridge? I assume you mean in the Boston finance/brahmin/etc. world, or maybe in "academia", not in engineering programs or the tech world.

MIT grad students seem pretty transparent about what they're doing, what impact it could have, etc.
A little under two years ago I got offers from both Facebook and Google. The Google offer was a lot bigger (including in stock, the break even point was a valuation of 50 bln), but I accepted the Facebook offer instead, because I knew I'd only get to work on the kind of infrastructure projects I wanted to work on at Facebook. Bootcamp beats the hell out of preallocation for things like this.
"In the USA we have due process, presumption of innocence, double jeopardy, rules of evidence, speedy trial, reasonable search and seizure, prohibitions on ex post facto laws, Miranda rights..."

I suppose those things are fundamentally still here, as long as you aren't overly interesting to the govt, but I feel like we have a Cheshire Constitution that is slowly fading away, leaving only its memory and myth behind.

- Due process: Bradley Manning, Kim Dotcom/MegaUpload.

- Presumption of innocence: Guantanamo (I know, "combatants"), US citizens held for similar reasons.

- Speedy trial: see Due process.

- Reasonable Search/Seizure: the govt sticks GPS transmitters on cars without warrants. The government declares by law that any email or other electronic information that is on a server longer than six months is "abandoned" and therefore legal to hoover up at their leisure and without a warrant. Which means that all your gmail are belong to them.

- Ex post facto laws: telecom immunity. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=telecom+spying+ex+post+facto&t...

We become less exceptional with each day.
And it has also been said before that addressing subsequent questions _without_ answering that one probably changed the approach to subsequent questions.
i know. when i found that out, i spent half the day on wikipedia trying it out with different pages. so i built a way to automate it :)
Open Source Guerrillas Needed to Hack Wall Street
Seems like it would be nice to cache some of these requests, instead of repeatedly hammering the Wikipedia API. And why is it grabbing images?

http://i.imgur.com/KSju9.png

(Incidentally, my test case for the screenshot did not lead to Philosophy!)
To be fair to Adii, he was one of the first to sell WordPress themes. His startup, WooThemes, helped lead that trend.

Though I completely agree about the blogging on Svbtle.
Basically humans are the greatest long distance runners the planet has ever known.

Sorry, you're wrong, and that book is not a particularly accurate reference. Read http://www.sbrunning.org/Reviews/BookWhyWeRun.htm for some sanity on this.

As an example of a better long-distance runner, there was a kangaroo which was observed in the wild, to have travelled 200 miles in 10 hours. Since it probably did not go in a straight line, it likely travelled farther.

That's almost 8x the distance of a marathon, at around 50% faster than the absolute best human marathon time, all done over wild terrain.
Try it one week and see how many people unsubscribe. Our team is also very critical of email notifications so we try to think like normal users. As long as you make the email insightful or interesting, users wont mind.

A great v2.0 feature would be to use NLP and automatically tag and filter the user's tweets. It would be hard feature to pull off but it would take your product to the next level.
totally agree. i hacked this together pretty quickly last night. definitely a lot of room for improvement. thanks for the feedback!
As far as I can comprehend from WP[0] "lay judges" have a more direct role in trials, where juries are mainly observers and merely make a decision based on the trial (including any instruction the judge gives them on evidence, assumptions, etc.). Interesting system, but I'm not really in a position to say which would be more effective (if either).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_judges_in_Japan
I didn't know it had an official name :) . There are papers and everything (example: http://www.opus12.org/uploads/O12-SCI-V02-N01-P30.pdf )

I guess surfing the web is a form of short-timing - I can't actually leave early or come in late, since I'm heavily penalized for those, like any self-respecting bureaucracy, my company equals time at the desk with productivity, and heavily penalizes lateness.
Yet they're also stepping up to the plate to defend their platform developers in the Lodsys dispute.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/04/court-allows-apple-to-i...

As with most of life, this is not the black-and-white situation that people make it out to be.

Samsung clearly did everything they could to make a bunch of their products seem like Apple products and increase customer confusion.

Apple clearly got patents for things which seem to be fairly obvious or which under better analysis would not have been granted. It's also easy for me to say that something is obvious…five years after it became widely available to the public, and seven years after most of us first saw similar stuff shown in a TED video.

Gooterola (Moogle?) clearly is abusing FRAND obligations on some of their standards-essential patents. As far as I can tell, Samsung is trying to abuse some of their FRAND standards-essential patents, too.

Mercutio:
I am hurt.
A plague a' both your houses! I am sped.
Is he gone and hath nothing?
"Honda" only goes 3 links
I believe that you can index the bloom column, to some extent, with some hacks.

A major problem is a lack of indexes in array elements, which then forces you to build an otherwise unneeded table.

That being said, it's definitely doable, to some extent.
OEMs are run by managers, rated on meeting their this-quarter projections. Exactly the guys that don't want risk.
When I took a HR course (for MBAs), I learned that Human Resources is supposed to have a replacement roster (it's part of their job), I guess that's not common in practice, but they should.
Thinking about proper implementation of tail calls
What other design resources have you found helpful?
Working with Different types of CSS Cursors
As far as I know, this was noticed in May last year on the xkcd forums. http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=71309 There's a writeup of it with a gigantic picture over here: http://www.mrphlip.com/wikiphilosophy/
We've got Uservoice powered support and so if you have any other suggestions it'd be great if you add them over there so we can better track which features to prioritise.

http://support.mailrox.com/

We've added one for this request and so feel free to upvote and make comments on what you'd like to see included in a future text editor:

http://support.mailrox.com/forums/163882-general/suggestions...
Link for reference: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
My experience at Google has been nothing like what you describe. There's a ton of interesting work being done, and from everything I've seen, a culture extremely supportive of internal transfers.
Using a custom index implementation that uses bloom filters internally is probably going to work out better in the long run. It should be way more efficient than storing the data in a bit field, using app-layer code to generate the bloom filter values, then doing bitwise comparisons on-the-fly at query time.

The Postgres query planner can also recheck constraints automatically to recover from bloom filter false positive matches at query time.

FYI -- bloom filters are already used internally within the PostgreSQL intarray contrib module and the full-text search functionality.

See:
http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/bloom-filter-indexes...
http://code.google.com/p/postgres-learning/wiki/BloomFilter

EDIT: for clarity, typo correction
Future of Middleware?
will we be working with tech like TIBCO in 5 years? Where is there opportunity from a start-up perspective?
Ask HN: What are the problems that would prevent this business from working?
Here's a thought experiment for a hypothetical business which would be based in the UK and sell to customers in the UK only. What are the problems that would prevent it from working or being simple.

According to the AA, the average car insurance for 17-22 year olds on Oct 2011 was £2342.

The idea is to create a car insurance business which has a flat rate yearly insurance fee of only £600 for under 23 year olds with 1.4 liter engine car and under.

First year get 500,000 customers at £600 each. That's 300 million. 5% of them make a claim with average cost £5000, that's 25,000 times 5000 which is 125 million. Plus another 10 million for that year for misc fees and total costs are 130 million. You've made 170 million. Close the business down after the first year and go buy your own island somewhere?

If someone could give a US perspective on it, that would be good too.
You're talking more about one-time jobs; the article focuses on hiring people for long term employment or in places where a bad experience is only mildly annoying (restaurants, comedians). In both cases, the risk of a bad decision isn't as high as the (perceived) possible reward from a good one.

When you're hiring a plumber, the best possible outcome is not very different from an average outcome with an average plumber, and the worst is significantly worse.
Cool post, and nice to see code/visuals for different mobile/web platforms. Can I use the same mechanism to connect to other OAuth services?
I've always thought myself a total tool when it comes to interviews. I absolutely hate talking about myself, rather, I talk about my work or other peoples work

The article seems to be reading into the results too much. In my experience, people generally like to go with the underdog. It's like a game for them. These guys know they aren't picking the people who are going to design the mission to mars. People like the mystery in certain things. It makes for a lot of fun, and a much better pay off when it works out for the best.
Openwebos / build-desktop
I find platitudes backed by data pretty useful and interesting.
http://wikiloopr.com/texting Yay! FInally found one that doesn't work.
The best iPhone yet [Pic-funny]
> 1. I hope you've taken everybody's boilerplate negotiating advice and not put yourself in a hard position over money. Did you tell them exactly what you're currently making? Or exactly what you want? If so, next time don't do that. Even if somebody tries to button you down, just finesse it a bit. "Dollar amount isn't the most important thing, yadda yadda" and ask them to give you the range they're considering to ensure you two are in the same ballpark.

As both an employer, and someone that has previously been a hiring manager, this can be counter-productive.

If you think you're underpaid, say so. Don't try to cleverly wiggle your way out of sharing your salary, because what you're doing is obvious. If you don't want to give your salary, you can say "I prefer not to say", but we know what that means, too.

We've offered $30k more than someone's current salary because, by our assessment, they were grossly underpaid. Their current employer came back with an even better counter-offer that we couldn't justify or afford, but the candidate chose us. Their current employer had sunk any goodwill by paying so far below market rate.

As you noted, in many cases, "only one of you his your own wallet on the table". Of course, currently, as a self-funded employer, I do have my wallet on the table too, and I'll tell you as much. We pay market rate, we pay fair, and we negotiate honestly, but we don't play weasely negotiating games.

The best negotiating strategy is to be firm, honest, straight-forward, and to have the substance to back what you're asking for. Stand up for what you want, but don't try to weasel your way into getting it. That'll garner you far more respect than playing games during negotiation.
i guess i could modify it to not include bold links. notice why it's stopping there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company
Openwebos / meta-oe
The speech prepared for Nixon had Armstrong & Aldrin been stranded on the moon
Amd-utils: modular JavaScript utilities written in the AMD format
There are a variety of technical online references. One example would be uptodate.com. they are generally behind pay walls though, so hard to access as a patient.

It is frequently referenced.
I'm suspicious of a study that uses athletes with skills that can be quantified via statistics. Most jobs aren't nearly as quantifiable, and so the interviewer has to evaluate on squishier things such as cultural fit. I'm thinking of Paypal rejecting that guy who liked to shoot hoops, mainly because he used the word "hoops."

Not that using more squishier measures is wrong. It just is. Ergo, I don't see how this study means anything in the real world.
I'm wondering about the weight issue too.

I also wonder about the preparation of the horses. Marathon runners are, in general, fantastically and specifically well trained for their sport. Are the horses involved specifically trained for endurance racing or just generally fit horses? Are they elite endurance racers? If the horses are specifically trained, does the fact that most equine endurance races are 50 or 100 miles effect the training of the horses?
What were they missing? Distribution?
> My choice of implementation would be to pass a discriminator function which takes an error and returns true if the error is recoverable.

Conditions are close to exactly that + syntactic sugar.

`handler-bind` lets you establish a dynamic scope, inside of which specific functions are called when specific conditions are signaled. Signaling a condition = call the first handler function in the list that handles the signaled condition. The handler is called before the stack is unwound, which allows it to elect to either `throw`, invoke a restart, or ignore the condition entirely.

This is in contrast to exceptions in (say) Java. `throw new FooException()` does a lot of potentially destructive work before control gets transfered to the exception handler: It allocates an exception object, which fully captures the current thread's stack. (It's not too common, but this can be bypassed, if you don't throw a new exception object...) It unwinds the stack to the frame that has a matching `catch`.

Only after those two things have happened does the exception handler get a chance to decide how to proceed, and at that point, it's too late for many recovery strategies. Conditions help this by making it easier to intercept the process earlier.

Where they hurt is that they add another level of complexity to API design. With Java style exceptions, if the function fails, it fails completely. There's a convenient simplicity to that. With Lisp style conditions and restarts, A function will let you know how things are going as it does its work and then give you the opportunity to change its behavior midstream. It's a lot more work to design that kind of API, and it's probably well past the point of diminishing returns for most kinds of development.
TL;DR: "The solution to having bad ideas is to have good ones instead."

What kind of advice is that? This is like telling kids to "be like Mike [Jordan]". Yeah, I guess it would be nice...but, that's not a strategy.
Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life (figuratively speaking)
Appreciate the perspective.

In this job market, if you've got an experienced candidate, and he tells you, when you ask, that his current salary isn't important, that we don't want to get hung-up on dollar amounts right now, do you perceive that as he's currently underpaid and/or coming from a positon of weakness?

I've never felt perceived that way. And I have always shared information about my current comp package later in the process, after we've gotten range-setting out of the way, after we've both had an opportunity to drop anchor so to speak. So maybe I wasn't clear about that. I added an "early in the process" to the post.
...If you are shifting from any other IDE to XCode you're going to want to incude a suicide prevention resource!
That was quick: Grooveshark disappears from the Google Play Store (again)
Happens to me even when working directly in Vim on my local system.
Earlier I used to map "Tabnew" to "tabnew" and other such hacks.

Then I saw this trick that saved me considerable grief:

noremap ; :

Now, just hit ; in normal mode to get the command line.
It's attitudes like this that make HN comments so dismal. Ugh.

This is an interesting tool, developed by a group of people doing interesting things, and it's been shared with the world for others to use and/or improve on.

While I'm personally not an Erlang developer, I'm grateful for others who create interesting solutions to their scaling problems. Plus, we utilize Erlang extensively at Whoosh Traffic -- anything that can inspire our developers is always welcome.
Devs using it should replace it with AccuWeather's API's. I've always liked AccuWeather's forecasts. They seemed, well, acurrate.
Cue (YC W10) Debuts Update to Smart Personal Assistant App
Really cool, thanks for sharing.
There's a tool for grooming horses called a "sweat scrapper" for a reason. :)

If you ever watch a horse race or any other time a horse is working hard and fast, you'll see white foam near where the reins touch the horse's neck and and anywhere else there's friction. That's frothed up sweat.
Stochastic Solutions have several papers about this problem: http://www.stochasticsolutions.com/papers.html

In a subscription business who can be saved, who will leave regardless and then the tricky group of people who will leave if they get a sales call?
I participated on digg.com sporadically, and only when drunk; nevertheless, I can confidently attest that none[1] of the content in my 'archive' was ever associated with my digg.com account (and therefore, obviously, none of the actual posts and comments I made on digg.com are present in the archive).

[1]: except this one specific bit: "user":{"username":"masonmark","user_id":"298680"}
Interesting. I have a terrier (~15 lbs). He keeps up with me for 45 minutes and seems barely tired. But if the temperature is above 75 degrees F or so, I can easily run farther and faster than he can. Right from the start I can tell he's less enthused and wants to run slower (which we do, or he stays home; I don't want to bring him anywhere near heat exhaustion).
I've got a small "scratching my own itch" app with a paid and ad version on the store for 6 months, no marketing at all really other than being in an underserved (and small) niche. Paid version has had about 75 downloads, the ad version has a few thousand. By the article's definition, it's "never been downloaded". However, even at such a low download rate, it's basically paid for the cost of putting it on the store, by the end of the first year and assuming the download rate stays the same it will have made a small return.

While it's not going to replace my day job, it was still worth doing IMO.
I've observed this too at a number of startup pitch events. There are countless people ready to build a business based on some little missing feature of Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, etc., but there is almost no one that wants to solve any problems in any established industry. Seems crazy to me. Sure maybe building B2B software isn't always sexy, but there are tons of interesting problems to solve, and lots of real money to be made.
Very first try, The Eiffel Tower, oddly enough, leads to Great Britain
So are they hoping that the Russian customers will be more comfortable with the Russian government handling their data instead of Google?
When images appear first in the page's source, the wrong link is chosen. I assume you are trying to go for the first link, as a human reader would see it.

For example, the page on Anime:

http://wikiloopr.com/Anime

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anime&action=e...