skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Manhattan, actually.

The truth is that, although I don't care much what people do in private, I could never marry a woman who's had casual sex. I find it pretty unadmirable, and wouldn't want a person who behaved that way having and raising my children. Sex and the City makes me want to throw up. So it would be utterly wrong and hypocritical to hold myself to a different standard... and extremely counterproductive, since it would make me unmarriageable from the perspective of a woman who shares my values.
just go to one of "social media" experts video blogs and watch a bunch of their videos:

i.e. someone like http://garyvaynerchuk.com/
Startup and teardown are cheap. The expensive part is losing a packet in the middle of a high-throughput conversation.
"I do see an ethics problem"

An ethics problem with cloning a site and releasing it as open source? Under an Apache license no less?

http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/source/browse/#svn/trunk

Not only do I not have an "ethics" problem with that, I think it's a good thing.

"Isn't there ANY thing to improve in StackOverflow? "

Well, they "improved" the logo! Seriously though, it's probably a single guy. He probably can't afford a designer, hell it's probably a hobby site. He probably, like me, absolutely loathes writing CSS and so just copied the whole thing. I don't see what the big deal is; you see things like blog themes cloned/ported all the time.

And he did do a lot of work - he rewrote the whole thing in Django and released it open source! Isn't that something? Compared to the effort involved in writing the back end, the font sizes are not a big deal.

"It's all China can do? Copy western things, making them cheaper due to their lower salaries compared with Western salaries?"

Now this borders on offensive. China is not some giant hive mind, acting as a whole in pursuit of a grand shared vision. It's a nation of individuals just like the USA - if anything it's even more diverse. You don't even know if the owner of this site is in China. Regardless, shame on you for lumping "them" all together like that.

Anyway, developing countries have a long and glorious tradition of shamelessly stealing the intellectual work of their more established contemporaries, including America, back in the day. 40 years ago it was Japan stealing from the USA. Now Americans copy their cultural styles all the time. And let's not forget where that grand American company, Disney, filched all its fairytale ideas from. What do you think the Germans thought when Disney copied practically every Grimm brothers story ever written, making billions, and now dares to protect and market its "trademarks"? Doesn't seem so bad when it's your side doing it, does it? But the german newspapers of the time said exactly what you just said about China - all the Amerikaner can do is copy and hide behind convenient legal fictions.

Pull back and take the larger perspective. Stack Overflow is a good thing, right? Well, now it's open source, with a Chinese version online. It's still a good thing.

And the Chinese programmer who takes your outsourced job will be that much more knowledgeable a programmer because of it ; )

(edited to emphasise & link to the open source code for the site)
Couldn't you use archiving websites like the Internet Archive, or RSS readers that save content (like Google Reader or Bloglines)?
TaoTao (twitter), youku (youtube), digg.cn, faceren, and now cnprog.

I heard that there are teams in China that take orders as simple as "copy site X," and get it done within a month or so.
Just fished it out -- paper is here for the curious:

http://public.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/RecSys08tut...

It's one, amusingly, that I'd skipped because it seemed to be less technical. :-) Good stuff.
I'm not sure what Griffin is - tried googling it, but a mess of results with no common theme came up.

I hear the "Instant awareness" thing. I should probably look up an example of this before I go in though. I think I read an article about that here a while back (how Twitter is a potential competitor to Google because of its faster reaction to changes in public mood)

I don't think the customer service angle will work in the context of the company I'm dealing with. The company has certification programs and its main product is in use with banks and other large companies - I don't think the president of Citibank is going to twit about how XYZ screwed up big time. (That said, I wonder if I can explain how it might be a good way to reach out to hacker-types)
Simply a common sense thought : listen to your heart.

Love does not have to be "For your productivity" or something like that. I think it has to be good for your life in general. The relation that i have with my girlfriend has a positive effect on my life. And a by-product of this is a greater productivity.
It's true that not being in academia that I don't hear the conversations that fill the gaps between publications. But if one's simply going from the published output on collaborative filtering at the moment there has been some convergence on RMSE as a benchmark. That's understandable, since it's easily measurable, and as you say, there are some folks throwing $1mm at it (which really isn't much considering what it'd do for their sales).
It's easy to switch search engines, but it's hard to build one.

Since Google launched, the Internet has grown considerably. Not only in content, but the types of content that get indexed.

I think Google hit that sweet-spot when they launched -- the Internet was big enough that a good index was really, really needed, but it wasn't too big for them to get into the game.

So yeah. It's possible, but a generalist search engine would be difficult in my view -- Of course, there are loads of opportunities for specialist search engines. But I think these are less of a threat to Google (and you're right, Google would probably just buy them up).
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Where's your supportive data?
time_management has a history of posting misogynistic, and generally sexist (for both sexes) comments. One needs to take this into account when responding.

Just read his comments here about 85% of women in the US being too low-quality, etc., etc. before you upvote.
I almost ended up using Comcast's "Comcast Cares" Twitter account the other day due to a billing mistake.

http://twitter.com/comcastcares?sess=7fd22e18b74852a62dc6659...

As annoyed as I am with my frequent service outages and the billing error, I really like the notion that I can complain publicly and have their response (or lack thereof) also be made public.
My jaded and unfortunate observation is that most women tend to focus on "number" in the other direction. If your number's lower than theirs, even if that's largely by choice, they don't respect you because you're not "alpha" enough to be worthy of their time. At least, this is what I've observed in the American dating scene; the rest of the world is utterly different.

The big problem is that American women are prone to "groupthink", and judge a man's desirability based on how attractive they presume other women to find him. So a guy with a low number is perceived as unwanted for that reason alone. Women in the rest of the world are a lot more independent-minded and don't fall to this.

I take it the other way. I've decided that if the majority of women in NYC aren't going to respect me because my number is (voluntarily) low-- not zero, but single-digits-- I shouldn't feel bad about being an unforgiving bastard when it comes to women being too experienced/"stretched out". Regardless of age, I don't think I could marry a woman whose number's higher than 5.
Point taken.

However, the situation today is quite unlike the day when Google was born. Back then, most search results were almost a collection of random links with keywords on them. Then Google found a fairly simple new approach, Web-link analysis (PageRank), that totally outperforms the keyword-based approach. And Google was the first to exploit this approach on a large scale. (Yes, there were other researchers who discovered a similar approach based on Web links and also outperformed all those other large search engines at the time. But they didn't commercialize the work well enough.)

Now, there is little chance that such a low-hanging fruit is still left undiscovered. To improve search further, it's likely that you need to either or both of the followings:

1) bring in additional information, like user personal preferences. (Google is doing this with their personalized search.)

2) deal with very complex issues like natural language processing (e.g. reading the Web like humans do), semantic Web, inference with ambiguous chain of evidence, other advanced AI issues. (Google probably bought the whole of Powerset just to help make this problem a little more tractable.) (Chacha.com sidesteps the issue by using real humans to do the work.)

I'd say unless you're a real genius and has been studying NLP & AI for a long time, it's extremely unlikely you'd beat all the AI experts at Google. Since AI & NLP are inherently complex stuff, no single paper or invention is likely to break a total new ground as in Physics (think Einstein's Special Relativity).

Sorry to disappoint, but there are certain product areas where likely improvements will be just incremental. We'd better choose our terrain well. Justin.TV didn't compete directly with Youtube for this reason.

That's why, as a startup, you don't really want to compete with Gillette in shavers or Intel in PC microprocessors (or Hacker News in news for hackers, for that matter) by out-inventing them. We'd have a much better chance by finding a whole new ball game to play.
I'm more productive the more active, engaged, and social I am. This can come from a variety of sources: Anything that gets my mind engaged, gets me to do more things, gets me out and about more, gets me to meet people, gives me things to plan and things to do.

So, for example, I'm more productive when employed than unemployed, even on projects unrelated to work, even you'd think I'd have more time for those when unemployed. Part time work, or multiple contracts and gigs of very different sorts (such as a political campaign and a sysadmin contract) is even more effective than a single every-day job.

Relationships generally have these kinds of effects on me: I plan outings, trips, and dates. I meet her friends, and go to things she likes. Interaction with her is mentally engaging. So, Relationships make me more productive.

I'm not sure what you mean by "unattached casual sex" - if you mean it literally, then I don't have very much experience with it. However, I do have plenty of non-relationship sex, with friends. "Quality women" are definitely not universally opposed to this, and it does improve the richness of a bond with someone even without a committed relationship. It also does some of the things I described above (for example, greater motivation to travel to see someone, as well as a greater variety of people-connections) so that also probably increases my mental engagement and productivity.
Observation only, but I'm far from the only guy who has this perception.

I could be doing something utterly wrong, and if I am, I'd love to know what. I get by, right now, by being extremely selective in terms of whom I'm willing to date, which means that I spend a lot of time single.
Wow. Misogyny alert on top of inductive reasoning fail.

While i, myself, am married to a wonderful Canadian, i know quite a number of wonderful American girls of a wide variety of dispositions, and even geekiness, whose relationships are not fundamentally based on selfishness.

To be honest, having read through your comments on this thread, i have to question this whole endeavor. If your main concern is having a relationship just to be in a relationship and get your other "needs" out of the way of your productivity, i really pity anyone you date.

My relationship w/ my wife is, at this point, no small part of my identity. It is a source for support & discussion about what i'm doing, even though my wife is in a totally different field from me (i'm a programmer with a degree in linguistics, she's a food and nutrition science student w/ a culinary degree). Likewise, i'm a source for support for her, and the puzzles or trials she's going through.

Neither of us are in this relationship solely for the purpose of self-gratification. We're committed to our relationship because we genuinely like each other on a number of levels, and would like to help the other succeed.

I very much believe that relationships are built on trust & mutual respect. And if you want to attract someone who is your equal, who is interested in your well-being and is interested in being around you and supporting you & your life, you've really gotta be willing to do the same.
There was an example on last week's TwiT of some American cold-remedy company scanning Twitter for people saying they had a cold, and @-ing them with a discount voucher.

http://twitter.com/Zicam

There's also the sub-group of 'enterprise social networks', helping people within an organisation connect better.
in my observation, quality women are pretty much universally opposed to casual sex

I'm not advocating anything here, but have you really found that to be true? I've known plenty of people of both genders who aren't exactly chaste, and I wouldn't consider them low quality people.
I'm disturbed that you would depict me as a misogynist because of my opposition to Sex and the City culture and the type of person it has, sadly, convinced a lot of women to try to become.

I'm somewhat elitist, and I think the corporate-made suburban American culture (or lack thereof) is a massive fail. I'm a cultural conservative, and strongly opposed to "hookup culture" because I think it has destroyed something precious-- an environment of mutual respect between the genders, without which love is not really possible. However, I also think that I'm more liberal, anti-racist, and feminist than the vast majority of people.
Okay then, your comment about this in the post was dishonest. Rather than explain that this is something you oppose and that's the reason you won't do it, you tried to explain it as something that "quality women" won't do (and then added an aside about how you're not really interested so that's not a big deal). I wonder if this attempt to rationalize is related to the reasons you're dissatisfied, and whether there are other things your question is hiding or obscuring in similar ways.
I note that the "beta2" branch of this Open Source, Apache Licensed Project lists a "new theme" as a change.

http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/source/list
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Misogyny is a lack of respect for all women. He has an issue with American women. There is a big difference between those two. We need to be careful when we accuse people.
Probably built in 1/4 the time...
I'm not sure I'm following this metaphor anymore.
I know a number of wonderful American girls as well. Three-quarters of them, for what it's worth, weren't born here or are second-generation immigrants.

The problem is not that there are no decent American women. Obviously there are. The problem is that there are few of them, which means that the competition's pretty fierce.

I think the problem is that we live in a society that provides financial incentives for women to leave relationships on a whim. This might not influence actual relationships very much, but it creates a negative and adversarial culture.

On a side note, I think the word "misogyny" is massively overused, just as "feminism" is often misapplied.
Some of the most interesting new ground in this field is happening in politics and music, so I recommend looking at those.
Check the case again: this case is only mandatory precedent for ADMIRALTY cases. While strongly persuasive precedent, b/c it is SCOTUS, it has not been followed in the state courts.
It's both something that I oppose and something that I've observed most potentially marriage-worthy women oppose.

I don't think casual sex is necessarily immoral, assuming that neither person intends to get married in the future. The main victims of consensual casual sex are future romantic partners of the participants, so if both participants have completely foresworn the possibility of having long-term relationships, I have no ground from which to call it immoral. However, it seems that this particular "use case" is pretty uncommon.
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Nicely written, but full of flaws.

It doesn't actually challenge Fred Brooks' point, which is that consistency comes from the overarching control/vision of one person or very small, "resonating" teams.

The author of the essay uses the example of Ezra Pound mentoring and editing T.S. Elliot's work, resulting in something better, to argue against Fred Brooks' assertions.

But... Elliot the writer + Pound the editor is a very small, "resonating" team, don't you think?

Fred Brooks, in the quotes cited, doesn't state that these people work entirely alone, don't take any input from outside, do not use editors, do not owe anything to cultural legacy, etc.

Lots of historical citations and beautiful quotes does not a well-rounded rebuttal make.
If Google pays for half of the $50k price tag they can insert all of the location-based ads they want.
Bullshit.

He's painting all the members of a group with the same brush. The fact that this thread is entirely focused on relationships, the "Woman" component to American Woman, is the focal subject, not the American part.

Also, given that he lives in America, i'm guessing that the majority of his experience (although yes, this is a leap to conclusions) is with American Women, hence, he's still making the same incorrect inductive leap from his sample. America is a big place, and i'm guessing he's not really familiar with American Women in their totality.

Hence, misogyny: he's judging the entire group (negatively), based on his limited experience. Particularly, since this judgement comes w/o any actual analysis of his negative experiences upon which his claims may or may not be founded.
I see things like this coming up in the literature from time to time, since the mid-90s or so when OO started becoming all the rage.

Even back then, though, I could never convince myself that it was a good model, until Perl5 came along and I started using objects without inheritance. Perl5 allowed inheritance, but it made has-a relationships just as easy and convenient to use as is-a relationships, and didn't push the is-a (inheritance) ideology at me, so I didn't bother because it wasn't useful as far as I could see.

I'm still convinced that the disadvantages of is-a OO (using a lot of inheritance) far outweigh the advantages, and that it is a misguided model for programming. has-a (containers without inheritance), on the other hand, is comfortable for me.
> me to stop by his shiny new office and give him a run down of how businesses are leveraging social networks for their own purposes. He was particularly interested in how Twitter was used.

Make sure you bill him for your time.
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Sigh. The code is licensed to allow this.

The mindless China bashing has even come to HN, I see.
I don't see what the big deal is

For one, it's borderline fraud if users don't know what site they are on. Perhaps that's not the case in this situation, but there are many situations where it is the case. Secondly, it's a dirty move. Cloning a website no different than creating a cola, naming it "Cokke," copying the packaging and having it stocked on shelves next to the original.
this is a first iteration, or rather a proof of concept. I use it as a learning project to get more efficient with Apple (I'm a PC guy), so what's more fun and challenging than making Obama talk, south-park style?
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Ask HN: What are your HNs for other domains?
What are the Hacker-News for other domains?
Just submitted a patch for this:

http://scotchi.net/2009/03/patch-to-fix-rss-feed-for-newsyc/
Broadcast something useful and interesting under your brand or product name.

These social networks is just a kind of media (with very limited format in Twitter's case) so the content is what matters.
One thing that I don't get about this contest is that they included Chrome and not Opera.
Yes chrome is the "new kid in the block" but the other one, despite it's low market penetration, has been around for many many years.

(PS: I am an Opera user, but not a fanatic/fanboy etc. I am not trying to start a browser flame here.)
Maybe the audience is more clear to readers who grew up in the United States. The speech would be given to a group of students about to graduate from high school (that is, just completing secondary schooling) and would assume that many of the audience would be going on to college for higher education.
Newmogul

http://newmogul.com/

for business. It has exactly the same user interface as Hacker News.
1 China is not some giant hive mind

You are right there and I was wrong and too simplistic.

2 Stack Overflow is a good thing, right? Well, now it's open source, with a Chinese version online.

I haven't notice that. I just browse the site. And yes, it's a great thing, I agree with you.

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Also, why, then, there is no mention to StackOverflow at all on CNProg.com? A bit of acknowledgement will be fine, even if it's an Open Source thing.

Disclaimer: I'm not American (I'm from Spain), I'm not a programmer and do not have any problems with outsourcing at all
I typed "zach is awesome" unfortunately it pronounced my name with a "ch" sound instead of a "ck" sound.

Would there be anyway for you to write a script that would grab phonetic symbols for common names from a baby names website, or what have you?
This good for DIGG. Not HN.
Downvoted. Attempting to discredit someone by labelling them in this way is a distasteful and intellectually bankrupt way to argue. You play the "sexism card" like this far too often and it grows tiresome.

No matter if what someone says is right or wrong, it should stand by itself and be judged on its merits regardless of the larger trends in their opinion or their posting history.

And for what it's worth, I strongly disagree with time_management's bizarre, retrograde views on morality and "the right type of women", but at least he's not trying to wave away those who disagree with him with cheap, insulting labels.
A good working relationship - be it with family, friends or spouse will keep you happy from the start of the hour to making you feel good at the end of the day no matter what.

Now the involuntary chain is - Relationships (good ones) -> Happiness -> Better productivity.

Now there is a bit of back and forth dependencies with all 3, which needs to be maintained voluntarily. Essentially you ensure you are not wasting time so that u can be happy and satisfied abt your results, you ensure your spouse/parents/friends are feeling great too so that they in return the same spirit back to you, which will make you happy and so on.

In conclusion, its all how you drive. Involuntary chain does help.
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Sounds like he's saying "I'm a bomber."
This is one of the issues I was thinking about when I was looking at that Hunch site. The purest decisions that I make are the ones that have the additional attribute that I think I know why I'm making them. This seems to provide the most fertile ground for creativity.

So experts have worked on the Hunch algorithms - how do they codify this issue of providing solutions without the taint of incestuously created (self-reinforcing) knowledge? It's a closed environment that discourages the existence of black swans.

Specific to the Wired piece, many remember the team of math guys who put together a stock picking app back in the 90's. They thought the algorithms were nearly foolproof, and built an investment business around their work. Of course, their effort ultimately crashed spectacularly. An example of shutting your own brain down from your own work.