skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should be interested to hear a well argued explanation on "signal to noise" reduction following the introduction of "Upvote Reversal". The benefits are not immediately obvious to me.
Just awesome. Open source at its best: wanted the fix, wrote the patch. Hopefully pg^H^Hupstream will accept it after vetting.
Review my blog: How I become a millionare
Even some of the people we would call "hackers" consider a "hack" to be a temporary fix they put in that's meant to work until they have the opportunity to do it right.
the thing is, OS is in dominant position on the market for not very long time and it was born purely for abstracting the hardware, to make it accessible for upper layer application and have no other functionalities. As all things moved to the cloud, where the OS is running should not be an important question anymore. The real question should be, where the application is running, where my data stored. Get the OS clone running in remote does not serve any benefits for us. You still have to install MS Word in remote and upload your file to the cloud which make no difference to our current status. However, the cloud gaming service solve a more practical problem we will face and we don't have to update our GPU anymore.

All the cloud service should solve a practical problem (storage, data management, collaboration) otherwise, there is really no need for it.

I hope it will explain why most Cloud OS services now fail.
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The Twitter is not about you, it is about the community
I am sorry for the headline, but you're right about stupid headlines getting reactions.
Fiat Linea wins 'Car of the year' & 'Midsize car of the year' award
Fiat India Automobiles Limited turned a new leaf with the stylish Fiat Linea winning the 'Car of the year' award by UTVi Autocar. The Fiat Linea was also awarded the 'Midsize car of the year' by both UTVi Autocar and CNBC Overdrive.
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The “TFF”
"90%+ of people still use [Microsoft's] products and like them just fine."

Actually quite a few of those people hate them with a passion. And most of them don't hate the products or Windows, they hate computers. They just don't know any better.
The adjectives which come to mind when I read "I'm going to be a millionaire" would probably fall afoul of the HN "be civil" rule; so I'm afraid you're not going to get a completely honest review from me.

That said: Don't talk. Do. Once you've become a millionaire, it will be interesting to hear how you did it. But there are lots of people in the world talking about how they are going to become rich, and roughly 99% of them never do.
Expect more of what, them ALMOST breaking even?

Negative cash flow is still negative cash flow. I'm still waiting to see how/when/if Facebook rolls out an actual viable business model that allows them to sustain their operations profitably.
April Fool's joke?
Here is my review: WTF?
Why There's More Matter Than Antimatter in the Universe
Thanks for the reply. The reason I started this blog is not because I'm going to talk about "how" to get rich, but simply because I need networking and feedback. There'll be no stupid posts about self motivation and theory of getting rich. I don't like that either.
Yes, I've had good luck with branches for trunk, qc, and production. The production branch is always a copy of qc as it existed at some point in the past, so that guarantees that everything's been tested together and without anything extra.

Beyond the benefits of just automating deployment (independent of source control and continuous integration), it's convenient to use source control as a historical record about the state of the production systems, and it's good not to have to remember rarely-used combinations of parameter values in deployment scripts.
Just an idea. Could you extend this so that I could send a text with an ISBN number or numbers and you would return a text with the prices.

I hate the idea of trying to hear a robotic voice in a busy store and then having to write the price down on the back of my hand while holding the phone in my third hand.
I had a similar, but more positive experience on Paxil, and I think my experience is more typical than the author's, which is why it is in widespread use.

I was always very shy, and had problems opening up to others. I was isolated and depressed, so I saw a psychiatrist. I took Paxil and had intensive (and expensive) therapy, and over the course of a year I opened up and learned to enjoy other people. After that I did not require the Paxil, and I am much more outgoing.

The side effects were not much fun: sweating, inability to orgasm or to feel orgasms, insomnia, etc. and yes Paxil made me love alcohol too. The side effects of depression however were much worse, and Paxil addressed those.

In combination with therapy it totally changed my life, and probably saved it. Its not a recreational drug, however, and the author seemed to use it as such.
The best thing for your back and posture is to stand (with occasional resting on a stool). Many professionals stand while they work, and I try to do it when I can too. It's good for the circulation and it keeps you focused on your task. That's because if you're bored, you won't play flash games; instead you'll want to take a short walk. I think it's because it's easy to go wander off if you're already standing.

These guys make fantastic standing desks, but they can be a bit pricey: http://www.standupdesks.com/

My day job has adjustable desks that go to standing height.
Hey snitko,

This looks very interesting. I'm in a similar position myself.
The last point is particularly salient for those of us who post quite often here:

Note that in real life, when we have conversations with family; friends; co-workers and the boss; local government; secret police... we behave differently for each audience. The Internet doesn't distinguish between whom you were addressing at the time. Outside of private forums, most of what you say can and will end up in the public domain for everyone to read and for a very long time.
Thats why you shouldn't use them lazily, as the author did. Taking Paxil as an alternative to therapy is misguided. Taking Paxil, and then working your ass off in therapy is the way it should work. The Paxil opens you up a bit so you can learn social skills with a professional coach, your therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist.

Its just a tool. You still have to work like hell to get over your social phobia. Then you come off the Paxil.
Quad-core Xeon shows major performance gains: Intel's Nehalem simply sizzles
Thanks, that's really helpful! Startuply seems to be the biggest fish in the pond. Might as well try there first!
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I've been thinking about the OnLive business model and the difficulties with the technology/bandwidth and this is what I reckon they are going to do:

Sell it to DSL/Cable companies.

I sorry I just don't believe that the system will work if it is hosted in some nebulous cloud somewhere, and I suspect that the ISPs will go bonkers about the amount of traffic that it generates - if the ISPs aren't getting a payback.

Obvious answer - the ISPs sell it as a service to their customers and colocate the equipment at their exchanges.
How did this get 6 votes?
Cool idea. I'm the same age, working in ruby, and already on my way :-) Would be interested in expanding my network to! How would one go about actually contacting / talking to you?
Is this an Advance April Fool Joke by Google?
So I guess it's still the usual explanation then? Some tiny strong or weak force asymmetry between matter and anti-matter?
The headline is misleading.

Also, if money is your only motivator, it will probably show (like the post you just did). You should build something because you are passionate about it.
I wonder if identica will reach profitability faster than Twitter?
Post pic, add facebook page, add twitter, linked-in and so on if you want to NETWORK with people. Also, you're not going to be able to keep your blog interesting every single day, since the road to your millions will not be that quick. What's the content you are going to generate?
you guys are missing the real conclusion of this - the SAT is racially biased.
A 3700-year-old proof that the diagonal of a unit square has length √2
I always think its really interesting how libraries that would be open source on github if they were written in ruby are 300$ per license purchases when written in .net.

Its like the commercial for profit nature of .NET filters down to the people that write code for it too.
The Ning Controversy Reflects Why Web Platforms Are Stagnating
It has saved my butt on a few occasions already.. all within a couple hours. For 'non expert' programmers the answers always have actual code and not just high level explanations that take hours to figure out.

I too can't say enough about it. Perhaps it's most appealing to people with lower level questions (like mine) that can be answered in 2 paragraphs?
Cool vision, but write more before you ask for some reviews.
In my opinion, comments like this are as valuable as "Why did I get downmodded?"
I've added contacts on the blog page.
Interesting.

My first thought was that I'd seen that list before - nothing wrong with that, some content makes its way around the net a fair bit.

My second thought was that it's only tangentially related to zen - again, nothing wrong with that.

My third thought was that the recent posts and next / previous posts like similarly non-zen and reasonably generic.

And then I saw the links in the last two paragraphs. I smell someone playing games with pagerank...
Great concept!!!

This is exactly the type of thing that I would use given that I do not have an iPhone (or something similar). Even if I did have an iPhone, I think the convenience of punching in the ISBN and getting a direct answer trumps having to launch Safari, navigate to Amazon.com, do a search, select the title, pinch (zoom in/out), etc.

I'm definitely going to try this one out (and this is coming from a hard core skeptic!).

I would suggest adding an SMS interface. Also, if I could get an email reminder of the books I was looking for then that would be pretty cool as well. Also, if I could get some information about discounted bundles then it would be a sure thing for me to actually use regularly.

I agree with JAcobAldridge's comment about a dwindling market. My suggestion in response to this would be to build an iPhone/Android/[whatever] app next and keep all channels open.
Life is such that accountability is not as simple as a blog post - however, a verbal contract between friends and collaborators can work well.

When you break a promise with yourself, no one knows and you may become a bit unhappy. When you break a promise with someone else, that is a another level of hurt.

Becoming a millionaire should be a side-effect of creating value and network effects.

Honestly, if you are looking for accountability, start your own mastermind group. For example, all successful personal athletic charity events (particularly Team-in-Training) use a variant of this approach. A Team-in-Training mastermind group is about attracting individuals who want to do their first marathon or triathlon but feel they are average or below-average athletes, holding them accountable to their training (regular group workouts, coaching - especially for beginners), and the hardest part - fundraising (asking people for money can be a hard experience - and yes they have coaches for that too - successful alumni serve as mentors - I was one - and it was basically emailing/calling your mentees about fundraising weekly - you usually got no response and it was not until the mentee committed to fundraising that they started fundraising [and you got out of the way])

Relating this to your goals, you can start your own millionaire mastermind group. The power of weekly check-INS on productivity (e.g. deploying code or testing marketing or silly social exercises to build confidence like lying down in a public area for ten long seconds) vs activity (basically anything which cannot be measured and is not related to getting you to revenue) is immeasurable.
There's nothing to review on your blog. It's a single post, no design, and you're not asking any questions. So your title is quite misleading. So I'll instead review your concept.

I believe your process is faulty. If there is no pre-existing social bond what motivation is there for me to connect with you? "We could build a business together"? Really? I'm busting my butt on my own projects, as most of the people on here are. You give us no concept to get behind other than YOU. Nope. Sorry I'll have to pass.

You're right in that you do need to network with people, but to spontaneously create a new social web is a daunting task and takes someone with real charisma to draw people to them. This post lacks that.

You seem like you're sincere, you want to be rich and you need help getting there, I see and appreciate that. The problem is that the approach you're taking is the one taken by the charismatic leaders who make others believe in their vision. Steve Jobs is the iconic example. Branson, Bezos and others.

So my review is this: Go for it, see if you can build the network, but count me as skeptical. Without charisma or a vision, it's hard to attract people to this sort of thing.

If you had instead posted "How I'm going to get rid of hunger" and then posted an entry about a business which accomplished this goal, then you draw people in by a shared desire to rid the world of hunger.

Or "How I'm going to make global high speed internet realistic"

Or "How I'm going to get Dodgeball on ESPN"

Etc.

Good luck. There's a lot of harsh responses out there. I do believe you're sincere in this and I appreciate that, which is why I tried to be constructive.
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So why should any of us read your blog?

If you're not going to talk about what you know, what's in it for us?

People contribute to Wikipedia and OSS because they enjoy the work and they get a bit of street cred.

People contribute to their day jobs and their own startups because they earn money (and hopefully enjoy the work).

What are you going to provide in return for our eyeballs?

Will it be enjoyable to read your blog?

Will we learn anything?

Or are we just there to serve as unpaid tutors?
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That is not exactly true. It's a virus idea that was spread by 37signals. Sure, it's great to work on the thing you love and get money for selling it. But that's not how it should always be. There are a lot of businesses, where people just make money. Like for example that recent post about the guy who made 38 millions on selling postcards. What's so bad about this? He now has enough money to finally do something he really likes and not think about the profit at all. So the bottom line is: it's different. Should I miss the opportunity only because it's not something I'm passionate about?
This is a lot of fun actually - but how is it hacker news?
But Sparknotes are not just a summary, they are also an analysis of the work. Consider the following table of contents for the Sparknotes of Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone:

Context
Plot Overview
Character List
Analysis of Major Characters
Themes, Motifs & Symbols
Important Quotations Explained
Key Facts
Study Questions & Essay Topics
Quiz
Suggestions for Further Reading

An author has no more right to claim ownership of this than they do any review/critique of their book.
Both literally and figuratively speaking, walnuts are “brain food”. Physically the walnut looks a lot like the human brain. The thin, outer green cover that is taken out before the walnuts are sold is similar to the scalp. The hard shell of a walnut is like a skull. The thin sheet inside, with its paper-like partitions between the two halves of the walnut, is like the membrane. The shape of the walnut itself represents the human brain’s two hemispheres.

Hmm.
This site has been on 4chan for a few days, It's being bombarded with trolls and the like.

it's unlikely you'll get a good conversation in until they are bored
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[shrug] When I die, I'll lose all the money I made over my lifetime, anyway. What's your point?
OTOH, this sounds like one of those "I'm going to wave my hands and tell cute stories to get good PR for my brand" conferences, not the I did some really cool and deep technical shit and here it is conferences.

... oops ... I don't get my speaker slot, do I?
No comments on tumblr, so you're not going to be tutors.
Like I said, delete me from your rss-reader if you don't like my next post. But I will work hard to let you keep me there, so I'll make sure you'll like the post.

I will certainly post ideas that you might want to think over and use - this might be directly useful to you, at least.
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I will always wish you luck (good luck!) but you're not endearing yourself:

I’m a programmer, entrepreneur and I’m going to be a millionaire. And for that I need you people: I need networking, I want to make friends with you, I want to use you and, probably, when I get rich, I want you to use me in some gentle way.

I appreciate English might not be your first language, but that's like going up to a girl and saying: "I will get a date with you. I want you. You'll want me, and I'm going to rock your world." Which, alas, tends not to go down well.

Be passionate, be brave, but the "alpha" stuff is a bit of a turn off, whether it's just about subscribing to your blog, dating you, helping you out, or whatever.

But.. good luck!
I had a client that moved to Ning... they have not grown very much since the migration from their homegrown platform.
It's actually reasonably interesting. One possibility would be people upvoting in the hope it gets noticed and killed quicker.
I like this idea because I've clicked the wrong arrow on more than one occasion.

It's galling to try to mark a comment as stupid and instead end up giving it my seal of approval...and vice versa.
I knew some folks a few years ago who were writing a plan that started with "When the housing crash happens".
Google Announces Venture Group
Google announces venture group. My Angle: I am curious to see how Google structures their fund. How entrepreneur friendly will they be? Will they be a strategic investor (translation: driven by internal priorities) verses financial profit motive?
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Since when do HN members need someone to tell them to upvote or downvote a story? In my opinion this is just herd mentality.

If the people like it, they'll upvote it. If they don't, they'll downvote it. No need for anyone to direct them one way or the other.
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My Angle: I am curious to see how Google structures their fund. How entrepreneur friendly will they be? Will they be a strategic investor (translation: driven by internal priorities) verses financial profit motive?

http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=3668
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Everybody should do this girl thing at least once to feel this is completely stupid or to know this actually could work sometimes. I mean what the hell - if it works, then it works and you get what you want. If it doesn't then who gives a damn? I bet most people here wouldn't do the same thing in fear of loosing their reputation of serious established professionals. But still they care about those things.
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The company that doesn't let you delete things.
How does Tim Ferriss keep popping up everywhere?
Like everyone else said, SO is great for answering questions like yours. But if you have a more complicated question around code style or something more subjective it doesn't work as well.

It really helps to update a question to clarify if answers seem inadequate. Because of the volume of answers, there's a tendency to post the shortest quickest answer. Otherwise you end up on the third page, unread and forgotten.

Since it's not really a discussion forum, you have to learn to work with the question-answer format to be able to hash answers out and get real insight out of them.

SO still feels a little off for me, partly because it's large and impersonal. The answers don't speak to each other (for good reason) so the whole thread feels disconnected, and doesn't seem to move forward too much.
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Smaz - short strings compression library
> that's like going up to a girl and saying: "I will get a date with you. I want you. You'll want me, and I'm going to rock your world." Which, alas, tends not to go down well.

Actually, it does, because that pitch offers her something that she values. (The opening sentence is awkwardly phrased.)

The blogged offer is different. He hasn't told us what we're getting that we want.
Hello, I wrote this lib as an initial test on short strings compression. It seems like it can be useful for things like memcached, Redis, and alike, but may also be a good idea to make your MySQL DB shorter (chats, logs, user messages, news titles, urls, can all be compressed with this lib). In the README there is some info about the lib, the usage is brain-dead simple.

It's code of few hours ago, but should be pretty stable already, with this kind of programming what's nice is that you can encrypt/decrypt millions of strings from /dev/urandom to spot obvious bugs in very short time.

I wonder if this lib can be useful to somebody else.

Some example:

'This is a small string' compressed by 50%
'foobar' compressed by 34%
'the end' compressed by 58%
'not-a-g00d-Exampl333' enlarged by 15%
'Smaz is a simple compression library' compressed by 39%
'Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide' compressed by 49%
'this is an example of what works very well with smaz' compressed by 49%
'1000 numbers 2000 will 10 20 30 compress very little' compressed by 10%
I would find this more humorous if I didn't get the feeling that The Sun might not care at all that the story was completely made up.
I'm sorry to have to point this out, but this comment doesn't deserve 30 points. It's just a quote from the story, it's not insightful and doesn't add anything of value to the comment thread.
Kudos! The more the merrier, entrepreneurs should be happy there is another source of capital for their startups.

Welcome Google Ventures!
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Seems to me their 'innovation' machine stopped working long time ago. It was expected though, after all those acquisitions. In reality, I haven't seen anything 'new', but just 'better'. This could be their way to go through the downturn..

As for us, we've applied at YC, but when I weigh it out, it's not the money that we really need, but guidance. Real costs of doing a startup, in the beginning, cant be a lot more than 100€ per month. If they are, you are simply not an entrepreneur...
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I don't want to pay for a government inspection of this type of crap after the fact. It's far less expensive for the public to simply force him to take it down at his own expense if he lacks the proper inspections / permits. However, it's unlikely to become an issue until something bad happens which IMO is a reasonable compromise.