skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually upvote stories to save them or mark them to-read. I don't vote up to thank or agree, though I still do it, subconciously. I reply with a thanks instead. I'm probably starting to rely on other users to do the voting now than it's not 100 users any more, so I guess am using this site selfishly. Also, after 2 years here, I don't care about karma and post whatever I feel (that relates to the topic.). I used to spend the entire hour editing a post, but now I just come to read. Then again, I have to do homework and readings for 7 CS/Math classes this semester, so I am not here so much to say something about some random science topic. On the other hand, this site is great for opening up my mind and feeling like I'm part of a bigger and insightful nerd world. There are more submissions but much less startup advice that I haven't heard before, compared to when this was Startup News. On the other hand l, it is that breadth that I like while I'm in college. Any such stories with a high score, interesting title, or high number of comments I make sure to save to read later by upvoting (see /saved?id= feature). (I didn't save or upvote this article because it's neither science nor start up.)
Why Google Won’t Be A Victim Of Twitter & Why John’s Theory Is Flawed
Your competition doesn't matter. What matters is if you have a quality product which is able to attract a large enough set of discriminating buyers to provide you with a decent profit. For example, if you are one guy living in a developing country, selling 2000 copies of a $15 application is good enough for your yearly income. Modify as necessary.

Focus on your customers, not on your competitors. That's one of the beautiful things that becomes possible when you're charging for your product instead of merely competing to become the biggest service provider capable of attracting the largest advertisers.
Just posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473209.

Its funny how Fred Wilson and others linked to the original post without commenting on the fundamental flaws in the twitter-Google discussion.
What does PIP mean in this context? Is it a probationary status, or a "here's a mentor to teach you to work better" status, or some combination of the two, perhaps?
Just because you're reading/posting on HN doesn't mean you're wasting time.

Its nice to have some sort of down time and catch up on news or other things that are interesting, even if only for a few minutes a day.
yes but your still stuck on type there... those are things that can easily fail (or be made to file) at the compiler or on runtime.

What about logic errors - which is what this is supposed to help fix?
I suspect Performance Improvement Plan. Not a google-specific thing, but I've not seen the acronym used before today.
Is there a more objective comparison of these services somewhere ?

Well, at least they didn't do the usual, pay someone else to come up with an 'impartial review'.
You don't need 17M in cash to use a PR firm.
If you haven't read it yet: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Question remains how does one find a good PR firm, these days a bad(read overzealous) PR firm could do a quite a bit of damage.
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I think about TextMate success story where the author decided to go with the platform dependent library to make it shiny and not waste time fixing behavior bugs due to the multiplatformness
Obviously I'm considering QT only with the new license.
I feel square brackets look better. Also they are not used in emoticons as much as angle brackets and flower brackets.

This is a statement [ its kind of goofy :) ]

and to continue your syntactic way...

This is a statement /* its kind of goofy :) */
How to minimize tax implications of business sale?
Let's say that you are selling a website/software/business for a significant amount of money. What should you do to minimize the amount you are taxed? If you incorporate, does it count as capital gains? Can you have a shell, i.e. company A owns company B, company B gets bought and company A pays you dividends slowly? Is this something entrepreneurs need to worry about before starting a business?
Got it, I was thinking about PyObjC anyway
Not much "story" there but interesting none the less.

Reminds me that when Clive Sinclair launched the ZX Spectrum all those years ago it retailed for £250 (paid up front with quite a wait for delivery) but they were being built for him by Timex at about £12 each. An admirable price/cost "spread" but does underline the fact that useful computing devices can be knocked out at very low prices - although everyone would have to adjust their expectations accordingly.
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Maybe try for a more blatant voting queue, like "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" (you can just ignore any thumbs down votes if you so choose, but make the button tactile - choosing to either vote something up or not vote at all is rare outside of social news sites AFAIK).

I'm not so much as suggesting thumbs up and thumbs down specifically, more that the up arrow means nothing to me and I know what a social news site is.
Nine-year-old writes iPhone code
Guess it does happens with a lot of articles, but the good thing is only the good ones float up - all of PG, joelonsoftware, mattmaroon, techcrunch, avc posts etc. These are things we would anyway checkout if HN did not exist.

I would actually be happy to be assured that all posts from these sites get submitted, hence getting a chance to get upvoted.
Assessing RFID Threats To Ensure RFP Success
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is one of the primary drivers for RFID technology adoption. There are numerous RFPs issued for RFID solutions to address a myriad of applications across the DOD and wider government market. The general purpose of most RFPs focuses on ensuring that the resulting RFID solutions worked. That is simply no longer enough. The DOD is now pushing for RFID implementations that deliver ROI through specific value-add features. However, the desired solutions do not align with current government specifications for RFID.
This also has the advantage of not being as damaging or negative to the employees being let go as well (no stigma of being fired).
I like Real Genius. It's not exactly a good movie, and yet, it has attained a certain cult status. The movie is based on Caltech and some of the pranks featured in the movie actually happened in the 1960s and 1970s.

That character who lived in the tunnels, Lazlo Hollyfeld, was also based on a Caltech student who once lived a few weeks in the campus underground tunnels because he needed temporary accommodation or something like that...
PIP is a Performance Improvement Plan. It's not a Google thing, these things are common in corporate America.

The employee is asked to sign a document that admits they are underperforming, with the promise that they can turn the situation around through their own efforts. In practice, the PIP is used to provide an evidence trail to fire someone.

PIP is not the same thing as being laid off. In a layoff, you sometimes can get your boss to sign a letter that states this was NOT termination due to poor performance.
Do we really need to have someone complain about xkcd being submitted every time it is submitted? If you think it is that bad, flag it, don't complain in the thread.
Ah, yes, Lazlo was the name. Thanks for the Caltech scoop. (I was RPI ages ago.)
Heh, but fact is that not adding the bug in the first place is better than spending time fixing it later. So you must catch problems quickly and attack them swiftly.

There is a nice self-regulation principle at work here: If you make software with a lot of bugs, you also spend time fixing those bugs. This hampers your ability to make more crap software. If you on the other hand produce quality software, much less time is spent at maintenance so you become more productive overall.

I think it is a fallacy to expect bugs to creep into your code. Eradicate them before writing the code lines. But what makes this hard for most people is that you don't think you need that amount of quality in your software.
Agreed. I think it is highly unlikely that PIP is being used on a large scale as a real cost-cutting measure. PIP takes months. More likely, they simply are realizing that they have some duds on staff. They've grown tremendously in the past four years, and not all those hires were gems.

I have even heard that there are new hiring rules, that engineers now have to have X years of experience doing Y before they can be hired. Which is totally anti-old-school-Google; they would hire the greenest college kid if s/he seemed brilliant and industrious. This suggests that they now believe they have a systemic hiring problem. Or, that brilliance is now not as important as experience. Either way, it suggests that Google is changing.
You've chosen to defend a group you're familiar with (bankers) only to unfairly demonize other groups you haven't thought enough about. Let's see:

1) Stupid "homeowners"

How many of these people were really stupid? Many of these new home buyers had no assets to begin with. Banks were willing to let them live in a nice house for a few years. In the worst case, they'll probably end up back where they started. This clearly isn't the best way to manage one's personal finances, but it wasn't totally irrational.

2) Shark-like loaners

People were pouring in to mortgage brokers and asking for loans. If mortgage broker A decided to stop processing paperwork for people asking for a loan, home buyers would have just gone across the street to mortgage broker B (and A would go out of business).

Mortgage brokers just process paperwork - the clients decide they want a loan, the banks make the lending decisions. Demonizing them makes absolutely no sense.

3) Bond structurers

This was a profitable business for years. Professional investors wanted these securities. If you were in this business, who are you to argue with your customers? Besides, many of the buyers were of the highest caliber, Freddie, Fannie, and government pension funds.

5) Regulatory authorities

Regulatory agencies are designed to preserve the status quo, not challenge it. The rational interests of the regulators (such as not challenging the politically powerful) are almost always in conflict with the highest social welfare. Saying regulatory agencies failed is so predictable that it's nearly a tautology.

4) Dumb lawmakers

OK, we can agree on one :)

The finer point, though, is to see how bad laws caused all the other market actors to make rational decisions that worked against the overall social welfare.

For example, if money is free (as it was to banks, because the interest rate was held below the rate of inflation), then how much money should you borrow? Clearly the answer is as much as possible, as long as you can achieve any positive real return. Is it any surprise then that we ended up over-leveraged?
I think

washeroesgoodthisweek.com

is still open. Sadly, I think you can get the job done with one static HTML page these days, and it does not include <h1>YES</h1> in it.

Edit: My little brother remarked to me, regarding "What GPS tracking unit?": "It seems like there is only one good writer on Heroes, and his contract dictates that he only be told to work on scenes between Hiro and Ando."
Wow, that's a been a while. We had one of these for circuit design hooked up to a cad cam graphics terminal (Tektronix iirc).

A new drive got installed and we had to go and rewire some of the option links to get the DMA to work. That was some fun hardware to work on.
Wow... sounds like something that involves lots of TPS reports.
"you thumbs up stuff you do like, thumbs down stuff you don't"?

Do you think if you're struggling to explain your concept to your potential users, isn't that a rather large problem?

The layout isn't very cute. Where are the cute images/colours? Clicking the header "cuute.com" should take you back to the homepage.
pj is a good guy. Kudos and good luck mate.
Thanks for sharing - I might go. Sounds interesting.
I think a large organization like Google, with thousands of engineers can safely fire say 10% without loosing much productivity. I refuse to believe that Google has some magic hiring strategy that allows them to hire only smart, motivated and productive people. I'm sure they, like every other large corporation (PIP agreement?!) have a 10% "fat layer" of people who are not very motivated, productive, etc. I'm not saying these people are stupid, they just might not fit in or whatever.
Thanks. That's a good idea. I need to work on the "vote" button.
Remember that scene where Lazlo comes up with a way of hacking some sweepstakes? That was based on a real event:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Caltech_Sweeps...

More info on the actual stories portrayed in the movie:
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~erich/real_genius_refs.html
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Guess we all agree on this.

He just seems a bit immature to me, after I read two of his posts.
Nope, sorry, but thanks for the links. At the moment, I'm chuckling to myself about the hyper gal who knits sweaters for everyone at night because she never sleeps. Oh, and the ice covered hallway. And here I am awake all night...
That sounds like simple blackmail to me. Sign this now or we'll fire your ass today, if you sign we may not fire you in the future, but we definitely will be able to a lot easier.

You lose either way.
Same thing happened to a team mate 2 weeks ago. He was told he was 'underperforming', put on a PIP. He responded and upped his game a lot. Couple of weeks go walked into a meeting to find HR sitting with his manager to deliver the bad news. Might be a coincidence, then again might not be. Who knows.
Your comment now doesn't make sense because I edited out that bit.

I couldn't care less about identifying him though... he's not a friend, he's more like a former enemy-co-worker. ;) We struggled to fire him for months and then when we heard he got hired at Google you could have knocked us over with a feather.
We aren't bailing out failing universities that have destroyed trillions of dollars in wealth by virtue of martingale mismanagement. We provide state support to universities because they aren't supposed to try to internalize their positive externalities.
See, I can appreciate that. He was able to go homeless without being a freeloader (he had the right to use the gym showers, library, laundry, etc...) and didn't hoodwink anyone to do it.

Good for him. If only the author did the same.
awesome. Really handy. I love delicious. I'd love to pick the brains of the founder, clever chap.
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That would seem logical but I don't think large-scale studies have been done. Large-scale studies on smokers have been done and did not find an increased lung cancer risk.
The results of one of the studies in that article has been stuck in my head for the year or so since I read it and has definitely made an impact in my life. The idea that just splitting up kids in a class and praising them either for innate intelligence or hard work could yield such drastic differences both in test results and attitude was a real eye-opener. And made me reframe some of the "gifted" education I'd had in my formative years and whether it was more about making kids feel special than rewarding them for hard work.
Thanks for the transputer recollections. One of the interesting aspect of the T800 transputer was its 3-register constraint and their usage as the stack.

XMOS looks interesting.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that those were solely responsible. I think if you look at it holistically, a majority of the population is responsible for this mess - which is why the idea of punishing a specific part of it for it is silly... we're all responsible in some way.

Even the lawmakers have excuses - largely, they were probably doing something they believed was right (such as enabling poor people to own a home), rather than plotting the demise of the economy.

However, most of the scorn these days seems to be directed at bankers, who imho are less responsible, in aggregate, than any of the groups I named above.
bad colour schemes, poor form elements, misaligned divs, poor choice of colour for links, slow images, ugly confirmation boxes ...
How is this any better than the existing n+1 scheme interpreters in javascript? Including Crockford's one:

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/scheme.html
I think the most important insight in this article is, NOW Web is happening everywhere and not just on Twitter. Hence I think even if we search on Twitter for something, I dont think we will get comprehensive results and most probably they will be irrelevant.I just searched for iPhone and one of the search result was "Playing with her new iPhone.."

Here is how disruptive innovation is described in Wikipedia:

"A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation that improves a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by being lower priced or designed for a different set of consumers.

Disruptive technologies are particularly threatening to the leaders of an existing market, because they are competition coming from an unexpected direction. A disruptive technology can come to dominate an existing market by either filling a role in a new market that the older technology could not fill (as cheaper, lower capacity but smaller-sized flash memory is doing for personal data storage in the 2000s) or by successively moving up-market through performance improvements until finally displacing the market incumbents (as digital photography has largely replaced film photography)."

After reading this, I don't think Twitter search will take Google's place as of NOW.Since Google is already experimenting with time line search, and I am sure they are working on real time search as well.But I do think that Twitter search can be treated as a very good 'Breaking news search engine', since it asks the question : "What are you doing NOW?"
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The landlord of my old apartment in Palo Alto told me that some previous tenants had tried to pay their month's rent in equity, because they were broke. He turned them down and the company turned out to be very successful. I'm pretty sure he said it was one of the PayPal founders, but I don't remember.
There's a substantial difference between having a net worth of $4 and having a net worth of ($84).
the "unlike this" "like this" button toggle is exceptionally confusing.

Why do you put a really dark gradient through all your buttons, rendering the bottom line of text very hard to read?
Ask HN: why not an API?
We get all these ideas about why not do X, why not do Y, etc. Let's just let these people implement their ideas.

In the Rails world web apps are set up to have APIs by default. That way if somebody thinks a site should be better in a particular way, they don't have to ask anybody's permission or convince other people. They just build it, and if they were right, then people use it, and if they were wrong, they know for sure, instead of nursing a grudge for years about their great underappreciated feature idea or blah blah blah.

It's much more interesting to have a lot of people building different clients for your system than it is to speculate about what might or might not be a good change. Speculation overlooks the fact that these changes are implementation-specific, and the fact that you won't know how you like it until you try it. When a bunch of different people build a bunch of different clients, you find out for a fact what is or isn't a good idea by looking at what clients succeed and what clients fail, as well as what features everybody copies vs. what ideas die on the vine.

A good example is Twitter. I tried most of the popular clients, hated them, stuck with the Web interface, and then Tweetie came along for iPhone. now I prefer to read Twitter on my iPhone even if I'm sitting at my computer, because it's just better (in most cases) than the Web interface. Something like 80% of Twitter's traffic is API traffic, not Web traffic, because practically everyone has a favorite client that isn't the Web site.

I know people find my blog posts about what's wrong with Hacker News interesting. But the thing is, I am not one of those people. I am so bored with talking about what's wrong with Hacker News. And as boring as my own posts about the subject are, all you other people who post Ask HN links about the subject, your posts are even more boring. Wouldn't you find an alternate HN interface implementing my ideas more interesting than reading me rant? Wouldn't you rather build alternate HN interfaces than whine to pg as if he were your daddy?

Lacking an API, I've resorted to hackery. Eric from Internet Duct Tape wrote me a Greasemonkey script which auto-filters Hacker News for links to domains I don't want to see and hides those links. Ironically my own blog is on that list; I don't want to get into comment wars here or anywhere.

I still hear about it from friends and co-workers when my blog "charts" here, but I can tell you all that a HN which makes comment wars impossible or at least harder to get into is much, much better than a Hacker News which makes them easy. I also have a 100% Arrington-free Hacker News through the same script, and let me tell you, my Hacker News is ABSOLUTELY more fun to read than yours. More fun for me to read, anyway, which is really the main point. What one person needs out of a user interface will be different from what another person needs. User interface should vary by user. You can customize Photoshop and you can customize emacs. You should be able to customize any Web app as well.
Depends on your jurisdiction a great deal. Hopefully US-specific answers will come your way soon.

In the UK, if it's incorporated you can just sell your shares. If it's not incorporated and you're self employed, as long as your "trade" isn't "buying and selling Web sites" then if you have a separate site that produces money, you can sell its intellectual property and pay capital gains on it (rather than income). The benefit of this is you only pay 18% tax (now, in prior years it was a lot less if you held the asset for 2 years or more) compared to 20/40% + social security and so forth.

And, yes, if your goal is to sell your enterprise, it's something you need to worry about at some point but not necessarily day one - you gotta focus on actually making some money first :) A good accountant will be able to advise on the structural issues, however.
whats the question?
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Law enforcement in the ancient world was all local (communication being space-shuttle expensive), and the standard of living was too low to support any kind of expenditure on criminals. So most punishments were fast (flogging), irreversible (exile), or stigmatizing in some way (branding "thief" on the forehead).

Bear in mind too that most of Rome's million inhabitants were originally family farmers who went broke trying to compete with big plantation-farmers under Rome's weird political institutions. Lots of urban unrest, gang violence, riots, and so on. Gruesome public executions were an effective (and maybe even necessary) means of keeping the peace.
Would be more interesting if he didn't just 'bum' around campus. Was hoping to read of a more interesting homeless lifestyle.