skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another possibility is trying a different JVM language.

Jython, of course, tries to implement Python directly on the JVM. Scala and Clojure are two higher level languages (than Java) that run on the JVM with all the deployment advantages and library availability of Java. One of these might be a good way to have your cake and eat it, too.

(Doesn't help with the UI, though. :) )
They didn't invent it with free newspapers in mind either, or do you not remember Clari.net?
Designing for Free: Soren Johnson (Game Developer)
I think people are smart enough to decide what they want to do when they land at a parked page. If they want to leave, guess what, type in another URL. If they want to click and ad, so be it. Another cha-ching in Google's coffers (guess who powers those ad feeds!)

My criteria for an add-on is what value does it provide me that either (a) saves me time (b) improves my experience (c) makes me money (d) gets me laid.

Now, if you can create an add-on that hits (c) and (d), you'll be rich.
Chiffonade, this is simply not the forum for that. It contributed nothing to the discussion and actually took away from it in some regards. This forum is for intellectual discussion, it'd be really appreciated if you respect that in the future. Thanks!
My suggestion would be to reduce the Duck Duck Go logo somewhat.

There is an extremely fine line between appearing spammy/selfserving and actually delivering value to users. Mind you, the application/service might actually remain functionally same, but in former case people will be bringing pitchforks, while in latter they might bring cookies and milk.
"I grew up in the country where"

Right, and since everyone else was in a similar position, I'm sure that worked fine. My problem comes when everyone at school is talking about some element of popular culture, and one kid doesn't have a clue what to say because his parents don't let him watch TV.

Everything in moderation though :)
My nephew is a teenager and he often plays Xbox Live! while:

-his cellphone is on speakerphone to a friend he is allied with on the current game;

-his instant messenger client is busily chiming away with messages sent to him, which he'll respond to in between game rounds.

-his browser is doing the whole Facebook/MySpace/YouTube rotation as links to interesting content is thrown his way.

You're right; it's incredible how focussed that generation is on the conversation. They don't let anything get in the way. In fact, they use every technology at their disposal to ensure that the conversation must go on. I'm not exactly old, but I worry about constantly being plugged-in. He and his friends worry about ever being disconnected.
Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment [pdf]
Modern financial economics assumes that we behave with extreme rationality; but, we do not. Furthermore, our deviations from rationality are often systematic. Behavioral finance relaxes
the traditional assumptions of financial economics by incorporating these observable, systematic, and very human departures from rationality into standard models of financial markets. Overconfidence is one such departure.

Models that assume market participants are overconfident yield one central prediction: overconfident investors will trade too much.
...

Men trade more than women and thereby reduce
their returns more so than do women. Furthermore, these differences are most pronounced between single men and single women.
Possibly, but since it only accounts for 3% of tweets, I think they could pretty safely change the limit if they felt like it.
Modern financial economics assumes that we behave with extreme rationality; but, we do not. Furthermore, our deviations from rationality are often systematic. Behavioral finance relaxes
the traditional assumptions of financial economics by incorporating these observable, systematic, and very human departures from rationality into standard models of financial markets. Overconfidence is one such departure. Models that assume market participants are overconfident yield one central prediction: overconfident investors will trade too much.

...

Men trade more than women and thereby reduce
their returns more so than do women. Furthermore, these differences are most pronounced between single men and single women.
From bitter experience: if you can have someone else host your blog, let them do it. WordPress has been a security debacle. You have better things to worry about.
Efarm. Indian Farm-to-House supply chain. (Needs a US copycat).
Robots [pics]
We're on the same wavelength. If this is to catch on, it should be easy enough for someone to just jump in and make some content without reading the manual. That's a big challenge in its own right: how much multimedia editing functionality can you make trivially obvious?
Maybe I'm dense, but where's the value-add in this?
Live from Facebook: A move to share more information
Fine, but you don't need a metaphor for Calorie Surplus. It is, as shown on the webpage, easy to calculate straight off.
Is that halfway between manufacturing and refactoring?
Time is a very real perception, so the answer is "Yes" unless you're asking the metaphysical question "Is all perception an illusion?"
My professional interest in the world of internet companies, domain/company names, and internet advertising means I like to see how a particular site is parked/squatted. (What ads do they think are related? Is there contact info for a domain purchas?)

I'm also not sure I'd trust Duck Duck Go and/or the crowdsourced 'useless'/'useful' rankings to keep up with site changes.

So on a browser with this, I'd always click 'proceed anyway', making this have negative value for me.
I don't suppose you have a write up or bullet points of what you expanded on for each quote?

I recognize this may sound negative, but if this was a list of 12 quotes and not embedded in slides, I don't think it would be worth putting on the front page of HN (unless of course it was by Joel Spoelsky, PG, etc, because there are enough people who will vote that up on reputation alone).

Just my opinion, obviously enough people disagreed to vote it up ;). I also recognize you must have put some thought into picking these 12 quotes, but they're all quotes I've already seen before, which is why it doesn't really provide much value to me in the form it's in.

I would love to see the meat behind each slide though - I clicked on your quotes tag, that was a little better but had a lot of other stuff to wade through.
I signed up for the service, and I found HN ycombinator there.
I recommended ycombinator of course!

The service is very simple... but maybe this is good if we look at it from the "launch fast and iterate" approach!
Own domain using www.squarespace.com with rest of your site. No reason to deal with self-hosted setup, upgrades, and scaling when you have more important things to do when you're starting your company.

Disclaimer: I work here and am biased ;)
But most of the complaints say it needs to be more explicit because they didn't realize it was a crosswords tool, which inherently means they DID realize it was a crosswords tool.
Gotta love the contrast between his perspective on it and his wife's:

Him: "My one ambition at the moment is to be able to go out on a nice, clear evening and be able to pick up the moon."

Her: "He can do a lot more now than he could before, doing the washing, being able to tell white from a coloured item."
What is TechCrunch?
Comment posted on the site:

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Do you really mean 0.64 cents? As in, 0.0064 dollars, or $0.0064?

If you mean 64 cents, you should remove the decimal point. ".64 x" means "64 hundredths of an x". You wrote ".64 cents" which would be "64 hundredths of a cent", or a little more than half a penny. A dollar would pay for 156 viewer-hours of prime time tv.

I would be more than willing to shell out a penny to watch an episode of The Office without commercials. By your math above, that would be a 36% profit for Big TV.

Why aren't the networks just asking me to chip in a penny per episode that I watch? Better yet, charge me $5 a month to download and watch all the TV I can get my grubby little hands on? Even if I torrent ALL of it, my $5 would have covered the price of admission of every viewer who would "steal" it. It's not hard to provide convenience worth $5. Of course, if you don't mean what you wrote, but actually mean $0.64, then it would cost $500 to make that deal, and I'll just download it from the folks who ripped it from the cable stream.

Whether you mean 0.64 dollars (ie, 64 cents), or 0.64 cents (ie, $0.0064), it would be far more interesting if you cited your source for this information. Your argument seems to hinge on this number to some extent, so it would be far more forceful if you were clear about where it's coming from and what it means.
Took me a while to figure out where the "extra" 8th zero came out.... namely 25. That there are at least 7 zeros is evident, since 5 and 2 is needed for each 0, and 5s are more scarce than 2s in 35!
The list isn't crowd sourced--the buttons are just for feedback.
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You beat me to it. That was my favorite design for distance competitions with my brothers and cousins when I was a kid. When you got it right it really sailed.
Microsoft's 2019 scenario has everything but Windows
Is one diet as good as another?
Get the little schemer. It shows basics of functional programming. Download PLTScheme it's easily the best environment for scheme. Try the examples to get a hang of it.
I’m not wedded to having the logo at all, actually. At first it had no logo, but the feedback from beta-testers was that one would be valuable both to anchor the page and to give a visual remembrance as to what the page was about and where it came from. Anyway, I tried different sizes, and this one seemed to work visually. Perhaps I’ll try again. Thanks for the constructive feedback.
Agreed. This was a bit of a waste of time.
I have always liked the name.
Actually, as far as I understand it, anyway (I'm no SEO expert), putting it under a different subdomain does not get you the SEO value.

Instead, what you want is to have your blog neatly slotted in as:

http://mybusiness.com/blog

That will give you the pagerank.
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Mmm, you're the one who brought the word 'intrusive' into the discussion. I happen to be agreeing with you about increasing intrusiveness.

I don't think "arms race" is a fallacy. Instead of advertising, think security for a moment. We all know browser venders are in a perpetual race against phishers and botnets and so on. So when Firefox came along, it billed itself as being "safer" than MSIE. Now think of pop-up ads. The browser vendors do indulge us in an anti-intrusive advertising race when the browsers block pop-up windows by default. My personal techniques against intrusion just happen to be a few steps ahead of Aunt Sally Sue's.
The most SEO value comes from the blog being as a subdirectory of the main site (like example.com/blog). So when the blog gets links, the domain example.com gets the link, not a subdomain. A subdomain is treated as a different domain name.

Having said all that, you can play the game of hosting teh blog on a subdomain name and thus attempt to dominate the results pages with multiple listings you control, from your main domain name and the subdomain name. It's hard, but you might just get it to work.
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OK, so a lot to cover here...

1) The Parked Domains Project is a separate legal entity that plans to monetize its data, e.g. through catching link spam in real time. There is indeed a real partnership with Duck Duck Go. I don't think any of this is shady. I freely acknowledge I work on both projects--it's in my blog, my twitter, etc. I'm not trying to hide anything here.

2) Reviews are from Philly people (some known, some unknown to me) because that is the base from which I drew my beta-testers. I solicited them through our local startup mailing lists and clubs. There aren't more reviews because it just went public! The two negative reviews came from an initial release that was broken and wasn't working for anyone :(.

3) I'm not wedded to having the logo or the search link on the page at all. Both were not on initially and were suggestions by multiple beta-testers.
Edit-in-place with contentEditable property
I work at a company where this ideology is implemented. There are no "managers", and we are expected to manage ourselves.

The company has divided itself into 2 camps:
1) Design guru - this person does not need to collaborate with anyone (i.e. the mechanical engineer is perfectly competent at designing electronics) because they already know everything. They don't speak to anyone else in the company until they mess something up, at which point they just ask someone else to fix it for them.

2) The other group is perfectly capable of collaborating and working with other people. This group gets things done elegantly and efficiently.

In other words, if group 1 and group 2 were given the same task, group 1 people would end up with a kludge that took twice as long to design than group 2.

So what's the balance? When interviewing job candidates, how do you determine what kind of employee you will be getting? What do you do about the people you already hired?
Your url is still blog.yourname.com you should be paying the $10 a year to have it on you own domain.
I think it means you need to break the airplane into components by hand...
Facebook’s Response To Twitter
We took a radically different approach and are using Webby (a ruby static site generator) to generate our blog as a bunch of static pages with Disqus comments.

This, by the way, is also the approach I've taken with danieltenner.com.

A good example of this is available on github: http://github.com/ReinH/reinh-com/tree

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The advantages:

1) It's easy to slot in your blog as mybusiness.com/blog (which should give you extra SEO)

2) Unless your server is absolute trash, even a major slashdotting won't trouble nginx (or even apache) serving a bunch of static files.

3) There's no hassle to do with upgrading versions, security issues, maintenance, possible impact on your site's performance, etc.

4) It is extremely easy to get the blog/subsite to have whatever structure you want, since you define the structure yourself.

5) Webby supports Haml, Sass, Textile, Markdown, Whatever-the-hell-you-want

6) You can test the site locally to know exactly what a blog post will look like before you push it live.

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The downsides are:

1) Only someone with ruby installed can update the blog

2) You can't have dynamic bits (other than stuff you can include via javascript... which, actually, tends to be all you need. Disqus is pretty much all we're using on ours)

I deemed those to be acceptable downsides, and so far I haven't regretted it.

You can see examples of this at work at:

http://www.woobius.com/scribbles/

and

http://danieltenner.com

and

http://reinh.com
Winer's argument rides on adding metadata, ergo why the SMS discussion is important. For Google to play in his argument, they need to solve the SMS problem, or ignore it altogether.

The way I see it, since both are communication tools, this is why are equal. They soon diverge. The public and ad-hoc nature is where it is substantially different.

A gross simplification of primary use cases:

IM: 1 to 1, private, active

Email: 1 to 1, private, active

Twitter: 1 to many, public, passive -> active

The passive/aspect of the conversation becomes more organic in a public space -- changes into an active conversation when someone tweets back.

Why would he equate them? Only because it's a textual communication medium, IMHO. GTalk is in a way, an extension of GMail. If you're not there, it pops in your inbox. I don't see Twitter merging with email until it becomes part of the active conversation, something which should be pointedly and purposefully in your inbox.
Maybe this could be the thing that brings back technology companies to Massachusetts? A big chunk (I'd say a majority, but I didn't count) of these robots are from companies in or around Boston (including my favorite BigDog from Boston Dynamics in Waltham).

Maybe we'll call it Robot Cove?

Edit: I do realize this is an article from boston.com...
Just downloaded Founders at Work - Excellent!
This entire story smells fishy. And by that, I mostly mean that the poster sounds very immature and conflicted about what it is he wants, and unclear on how the world works.
Seriously - what a great idea! I have wanted to work on something like this for some time now. There are already food co-operatives which have distribution centers and managing teams of volunteers/recipients worked out. Now we just need to combine something like what the article describes with that infrastructure. The only thing is unless you are shrewd there is not much of a mark up to be made so I see it as being more of an awesome project to work on and less of a "start up".
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Ever heard of the continuum hypothesis? Know anything about set theory? Etc.

There are plenty of things that logically are either true or false, but logically cannot be proved either way by mere mortals.
Check out this video of Big Dog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJJQ0zNNOM

It's pretty creepy, when you imagine what's to come...
This is roughly the business model of a company I co-founded in Austin in 2005 - http://www.greenling.com/

Initially we marketed it as 'Farmer's Market to your Doorstep'. The model was fairly well established when we adopted it. For instance in the bay area there is Planet Organics, and several other competitors that have been around for years. The model was also found in Seattle, Oregon, Denver, and several other 'green' locales. I'd imagine today there is some kind of farm to market logistics service in most major metropolitan markets.

Additionally, there is a non-profit version of the model called co-ops. Here members are supposed to be stakeholders in a farm, and there are simple logistic systems to distribute produce, etc to each of the members residences.

In India the customer base is likely different. US Customers for the commercial farm-to-market concept are generally out of greenness (ie, consideration for the earth, or organic farming) or convenience (particular families with newborns). Members of the non-profit co-ops are likely driven by support for local farms and greenness factors.
Excel shouldn't be used for science.
Or for that matter anything important and numerically intensive.

But there's silly people everywhere, even in science.
I like the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the robotic arm. He probably gets Cyberdyn flashbacks from his movies.
That is the ideal, but you can't really do that when the blog is hosted on a different server (barring some really extreme apache rewriting-fu).

The next best option is subdomain.yourdomain.com.
What a $20MM marketing budget for security buys Cisco
The problem is that many good people are just as confident and stubborn about subjects they know nothing of as about subjects they know a lot about. Sure, having a company full of people who know themselves is the best answer, but that's hard. your field is much wider if you can deal with arrogance.

I have had the problem of good technical people asking me to rewrite my business plan.

One way of dealing with that kind of arrogance is to have upper management that lets each person make the decisions they know the most about. It requires good management, but it means that you can hire people who do not modify their confidence level based on their experience.
So: how might we generalize/extend this research to the benefit of HN readers?

Are startup/financing decisions also made more (too?) often by males than females?

Or: might men be more likely to err on redirecting/retooling efforts and women to err on the side of hanging in there when the going looks tough?

Even without any research, the one generalization that might be worth considering for startups: some gender balance might provide useful perspective on company directions.
BlackBerry Application Center redubbed as BlackBerry App World
How to Split Early Profits in a Bootstrapped Software Startup
Fatal flaw: The people who go to these pages and click on ads, aren't people who would install a firefox plugin.

If you're using firefox, you're most likely completely aware that facebok!=facebook.
How the robot deals with ice is incredible. Thanks for the link!
Is the anybody out there doing robotics in a start-up or this is the playground of well funded research?
Is it just me, or does Cappuccino over-complicate things a bit? I'm sure if I fluently knew Objective-C better it'd look easier, but it still looks like a ton of code...
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Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can't
Yahoo Launches Major Challenge to Facebook Connect
> Which physicists?

Well, Cramer (the one I cited) for one. David Mermin. Cerf and Adami. Roland Omnes. John Preskill. How many do you want?

> I gave a talk last week on decoherence

To what audience?
Our Grading System is Broken
You don’t have to be a person who clicks on ads on parked pages to find it useful. These domains routinely come on other search engines and via typoquatting. Yes, even people like us mistype addresses and click on search results we otherwise think to be valid sites. At least I know I do!

As for people who don’t install extensions, I hope there will be other toolbars (and tools in general) for other platforms that reach these people. If you installed Firefox for your parents/grandparents, you could similarly install this add-on for them.
Well stated and I completely agree. TV is valuable socially, although many would like to disagree.
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Because netlog's audience is pretty different from hacker news.

Search for common names to get an idea:
http://www.google.com/search?q=netlog+profile+for+julia
http://www.google.com/search?q=netlog+profile+for+john
Alcoa is in Telecom too. Weird.
I've seen a simple implementation, with a splitscreen and a table of content based on the slides here:

http://videolectures.net/epsrcws08_campbell_isvm/

The ability to see the slides on the split screen and jump to previous slides via the table of contents really helped me as a user much.
His argument that "there are four completely different things that go by the name 'Java'", and about Sun's incompetence at positioning it is still pretty devastating.

I pine for an alternate universe where Sun deftly parried Microsoft's Java to their benefit instead of repeatedly screwing themselves over. Sure, MS management wanted to fuck over Sun, but the grunts writing the software really legitimately wanted Java to be the best language to write GUI apps in for Windows. Unfortunately the language itself was nowhere near ready for that (much less the standard libraries), so they improved the language. Sun promptly freaked the fuck out.

The end result is that progress was delayed by a decade (especially on Windows), and Microsoft ended up with sole control over the only decent industrial development platform for GUI applications.

The world would be a much better place if C# and the CLR were forks of Java and the JVM, with features percolating in both directions towards eventual standardization.
Ask HN: How do you cope with incompetent team members?
I am working on a not-so-small project in a team of 10 people. We like us all, we are all friends and like working together, but I have a problem with one of them. He likes his job, and he tries to do his best, but he just doesn't seem to get the 10000ft view of things, and loses himself in unimportant stuff, so other team members sometimes have to do his work for him, or help him out on all kinds of stuff, not allowing them to get on with their work (which they are best at).
How do you handle these situations? Should I alienate him and get him out of the group, looking for someone else to do his job? Or should I try to explain the situation to him? What do you think?