skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool graphics, but seems a bit slow & clunky on FF3 ubuntu.
First, we will ask it what problems it would like to solve.
Why I Sued Google (and Won)
What is useful is to discover a specific aspect in every subject. For example discover what is "hacking" in everything or what is "flowing" in everything, and so on.
I have a strong distaste for using Twitter as a marketing tool, in particular "forced" viral marketing, as I call it (where you have to follow and/or tweet something in order to participate somehow... the "ViralTweets" software is the worst).

The Shaq thing is kind of clever, but if someone I followed spammed me with more spammy things I'm very likely to unfollow them.
... and agreed with the comment?
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VMS did. It had a configurable (not sure if it was system wide, or user definable) number of versions it kept and it was simple to retrieve past versions (as long as it was within the number of generations it kept). And since it was at the OS level, anywhere you could request a file, you could also specify the version.

I don't know if the versions applied to directories though (I doubt it, but my exposure to VMS was quite brief).
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USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg'
Advertising budgets are down just as much as consumer confidence - they are tightly related. But even in hard times people's needs don't change - save people time, money, or make them healthier, #2 might be more attractive in recessions, but people will always pay for any of those services.
Similar to optimisation theory, each skill has positive and negative effects on other skills. This has been thoroughly explored in fields such as profit maximisation and breeding, but little has been done in sports.
I am wondering can't we use git as database?
It seems like any second order discussion of behavior on Hacker News that takes place in the comments is now getting down modded. I'm a bit worried about the trend towards groupthink this encourages. Perhaps the user did not read the article, krschultz, but users up voting your comment without hearing a response from the previous commenter is just as bad as your assumption. The fact that your snarky response has gotten up voted seems suspect. Regardless, discussion about the community itself is healthy, hopefully the HN community realizes that and can sustain it. To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the comment should not be down modded at all, just questioning the reason for which you claim you down modded. (I'm curious to see if this comment will be down modded as well)
Dude... you've got to get outside and see some sunlight. I'm serial.
Palm investor puts his mouth where his money is
Thank you for this wonderful resource. I knew about phonegap but I never imagined there are so many other options!
Twitter's real-time search can't be a Google killer cause unless I hadn't noticed Google doesn't have a real-time search product.

The other way round is plausible, Google comes out with a Twitter killer. That is a real-time search product. But, why bother... Besides Twitter is more than just real-time search and Google is much more than just search.
Great article; I had no idea that you could just go up against whoever without some crazy legal team in small claims court...
what about rumours? how/who validates twitter search results as real news?
You overestimate(wish fulfillment?) the prevalence of difficult problems. The vast majority of work involves problems that you classify as not doing "anything especially interesting" and written by "code-monkeys".
Financial Fraud Hits 7.5 percent of U.S. Adults
About 7.5 percent of U.S. adults lost money as a result of financial fraud last year, mostly due to data breaches, according to a new Gartner study to be released on Tuesday night. In the survey of nearly 5,000 consumers, 70 percent said they had never been a victim of identity theft fraud.
The App store doesn't matter because this looks like a PS company. They can deploy enterprise apps directly. Think deploy a POS on iPhone, you don't need to deploy that on App store.
I do martial arts and taking out my aggression or anger on a punching bag makes me feel better, is it me or does a list of what should make me happy or to be happy really getting tiring. I am all for trying to understand the nature of happiness but please don't tell me what should make me happy.
Most post mortems like these totally miss the point. The reason you failed is because not enough people want your product. It doesn't matter where you're located, who's on the team, how AJAXy your product is and so forth if nobody wants to use it. Your user database and server logs don't lie.
Ummmm...it sounds like the guy totally violated google's terms of service. He was hosting ads on a domain-squatting site that had no content. The advertisers were refunded their money, and the guy's account was closed down.

As somebody that buys ads from google, I would be pretty pissed off if I found out that i was paying $1 a click for my ads to be on a parked domain...which is why they have their terms set up the way they are.

Yeah, it sounds like the appeals process sucks, and that they didn't give him a real reason, but "you are a leeching douche-bag cancer to the DNS" should be a pretty good hint.
> I do martial arts and taking out my aggression or anger on a punching bag makes me feel better

Now, imagine what taking out your aggression on a hobo or an old lady would do to you!
Adobe Demonstrating How Not to Run a Software Company?
Unless you meant fake losses. I don't get it.

$10 profit - $8 loss = $2 - $.50 tax $1.50 net

$10 profit - no loss = $10 - $2.50 tax = $7.50 net + your gov has more money to help everyone out for example those homeless blocking the doorway to your coffee shop
Having a life outside programming :)
Small claims court is one of the great levelers, as long as you're literate, calm, and patient. Another one is the art of writing letters on actual paper to people. Because nothing says Serious Business like the magic words Return Receipt Requested.

("I paid the Post Office five dollars extra when I mailed this so that I have admissible proof you got the letter when I sue you for ignoring its contents.")

I used the (well-founded) threat of it to resolve some difficulties after some creditors got the mistaken impression that I owed them money. One letter to get them to stop calling me, one more letter to remind them that the three calls after the first letter mean they owe me $3,000 under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the meter is still running if they want to call me again.

My only regret is that I didn't have enough days off that year to march down the court and actually sue them. I think its... salutary to remind debt collection agencies that the legal system works both ways. For one, if more people did it I'd get less people thinking I owe them money because I share the same first initial, last name, and (former) zipcode as someone who might.
As somebody that buys ads from google, I would be pretty pissed off if I found out that i was paying $1 a click for my ads to be on a parked domain...which is why they have their terms set up the way they are.

But they've now rolled out Adsense for Domains anyway..

Besides, surely it's the context that matters more than the content of the page? If you sell diapers for monkeys (let's say!) and your ad appears on a parked domain called monkeydiapers.com and someone clicks on it, that visitor is probably more likely to be a buyer than someone who clicks on the same ad on a comedy Web site, right?
Looks like Googe send in a pretty useless paralegal to defend their case. Instead, if they had send you (or someone with the same arguments as you), they'd have probably won.

I think it is fairly obvious what this guy did wrong. I am just surprised Google's paralegal was not apt enough to figure this out.
There are a lot of stories about people suing companies in small claims court on the consumerist. A lot of companies don't want to fly someone out there to fight a thousand dollar law suit.

You can even try for damages. There's one story on there about a guy who sued Washington Mutual for $2058 over a $58 overdraft fee.

Consumerist.com stories: http://consumerist.com/tag/small%20claims%20court/

Consumerist.com How To Guide: http://consumerist.com/5100451/how-to-file-a-lawsuit
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Too many WHOIS queries too quickly and you can get throttled :( Also checking for an A record first is a lot faster with no real need for threading (although I guess it could help). I rigged up a basic bash script to do this: http://gist.github.com/63893 - You just call it with da nameofdomain.com (if you call it "da", that is) and if a domain is in use you get a response almost instantly.

And then.. you could just skip the Ruby and do it from Bash:

# da {fox,web,net,though}{whatever,a,b,c}{d,e,f}.com

Bash will the do the permutations for you.. :)
This is the same guy who claims Facebook was his idea, and tried to get Facebook's trademark revoked:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/greenspan_harvard_fa...
I'm sure it was well-intentioned. Separate question - why didn't you say "YC inspired", or something like that? Everybody who isn't dumb knows where the model came from (and you don't want dumb applicants). So why not just be open about the fact and celebrate it? It would increase my respect for you, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. And if you've changed the model, why not say so explicitly and talk about why? It would at a minimum make for an interesting blog post.

This has puzzled me for a long time about the other YC clones, the ones who insist on pretending that they sprang up sui generis and take all these pains to act original. Who do they think they're fooling? How can they not see the incongruence of insulting founders' intelligence this way? All they're achieving by acting so prissy about it is drawing attention to how inferior a copy they really are, and what a culture gap there is between them and the founders they're addressing.
Economically the UK almost did that by seizing Icelandic assets. Quite the quid pro quo, pun intended ;-)
Funny how tail recursion pretty much has "cute optimization hack" written all over it. It really doesn't feel at home in a first lecture on programming.
It looked more like it was strapped on top to me, but I didn't bother to look up close.
I'm all for fairness but this guy was technically at fault and the paralegal should really have known the ins and outs better than he/she did.

Another point, I don't want to send any extra traffic to the huffpost by "liking" this article.
There's an element of randomness to the process. Don't give up, I hope you are applying again this time.
I doubt it. E*Trade's traders ("specialists") on CHX & Cinci weren't really making that much.
http://paulgraham.com/head.html

> "A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he's working on."

http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html

> "I'll call the Python paradox: if a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only those who cared enough to learn it. And for programmers the paradox is even more pronounced: the language to learn, if you want to get a good job, is a language that people don't learn merely to get a job."

http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

> "Lisp will make you a better programmer, and yet you won't use it."

http://paulgraham.com/taste.html

> "Whatever job people do, they naturally want to do better."

http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

> "After a couple years of this I could tell which companies to worry about and which not to. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by real hackers. If I had ever seen a job posting looking for Lisp hackers, I would have been really worried."

Be self-driven.

Be committed.

Think different.
In my opinion, a university education should only be about intellectual curiosity with the greatest research minds. If you are only interested in the practical aspects of programming, I don't think that a university fits your needs.

I agree with this. I've been working as a programmer for a couple of years now and I'm planning to go to university to study computer science. I'm kind of annoyed that all of the universities I've looked at are all business now: the brochures are full of how students won't "miss out" on the practical, real-world side of things.

That's exactly what I'm not looking for, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any place to go if all you want is computer science.
Yet another reason that journaling - and re-reading - can help you seriously grow as a human being. It's been a great boon to me.

All humans tend to believe that if they feel REALLY STRONGLY about something, they're right. The only way to disabuse yourself of this idea is to recognize, in your own words, how you felt REALLY STRONGLY in the past about a lot of stupid things, and to follow that to its logical conclusion.
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I think you exaggerated your metaphor because of the negative association community college has to classist people. If Y Combinator is Stanford, Shotput is the University of Georgia.
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Ask HN: Hacking in a SHTF world
Maybe it's that all the banks that are failing. FDIC fail. Stock fail. Foreclosure, Foreclosure, Layoff, Layoff. All this is so uncharted, nobody really knows what's ahead, but I can't help but want to be prepared. So I've been reading up on how to survive in a depression economy.

Everything I read says I need REAL SKILLS. Chopping, planting, shooting, fixing, cooking, building. Except I sit in front of a computer 12 hours a day-- and even my hobbies are kind of froo-froo (photography, film, working out).

All I keep thinking is that my very valuable skill set looks pretty pathetic in a prospective... "new new" economy.

During Depression 1.0 everyone seemed so nice. Men with little hats carried signs, "spare a brother a dime?" while everyone lined up nicely at the soup kitchen. That's a depression I could almost get on board with! But things have changed. Last night I watched a video of Korean militia defending grocery stores in the '92 riots. A couple months ago a fuel shortage rumor wiped out all the gas stations in Nashville and Atlanta for a couple weeks. My friend who works for Walmart replenishment has made it quite clear that the supply-chain is very efficient... and vulnerable.

I guess I'm kind of rambling because... I'm nervous. Does anyone have some MacGyver preparation tips so I can just start DOING something? Or maybe I just need reassurance?

How does a hacker contribute in a new new economy? Google just released their little money-saver database. Cool. If the future was green-tech and bio-tech, what does depression-tech look like?
It is a database.

Not a relational database, though. But the Tree objects (1) make a hierarchical database.

(1) http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_object_model.html
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maybe something a bit simpler. Creating a spider to dynamically grab content from other websites is bit to difficult for me at the moment. right now i am trying to change the background color. (<- so you know where i am at)
The problem is one of economics. As Varian and Shapiro say in this book:

http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/7/information-rules-a...

"Information commodities trend towards the marginal cost: zero, meaning that selling information commodities is not likely to be successful in the long run."
I wasn't picking on your choice of words. If there is an ever-present something which effects our universe, and there is change in our universe, then there must be change in that ever-present something's universe, right? I mean, I suppose you could look at our universe as just a const 4-dimensional chunk of data with us simply moving along the time axis, but us moving along it is still change.
Sounds like it's using the whole HD as a hash table with open addressing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_addressing
What’s the premise of your assertion that Google had a better case than this guy did?
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The FDIC needs a bailout
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I don't think the title should have a question mark given how much vitriol is in the article.
Not logged into my Adwords account since sometime but surely it would be optional to advertisers whether they want to display ads on parked domains, isn't it?

I agree with your example regarding propensity of the person being a buyer but the advertiser may not want to show his site on a parked domain for, say, branding purposes.
Peoples minds work on such a strong relative level.. You can be upper-middle-class in California and kill yourself from depression. You can live in a slum and work all day and be happy (Theoretically that is, if they weren't constantly reminded by a skyline, TV, commercials and rich tourists of their relative position. In fact, commercials are designed to lower your happiness, as they essentially try to show that life can be better.)

Yes you can live a depressed life in California and you can also live and work in a slum and be happy. But I don't quite agree with the point that constant reminders of a skyline, TV etc in anyways dampen their spirit or make them less happy, on the contrary I think it motivates them. The relative differences show these people what they can be or want to be. I know of slums in other Indian cities as well, not many of them can boast about "running an industry" or the number of television sets as compared to dharavi(the one in Mumbai). What is evident is that in the more developed and prosperous cities, the happiness quotient of people in slums is generally higher as compared to slums in other less-developed cities.

That being said, I am not suggesting that prosperous cities lead to better slums. In fact there isn't a larger difference between the rich and poor anywhere in the world than there is in Mumbai. Poverty needs to be tackled and there are a lot of NGO's working towards this. All I'm trying to say is that the relative difference these people see around them does not make them feel less happier, it's a reality they live with and aspire to reach.
The argument wasn't that he hadn't done anything wrong, it was that he was not informed what he had done wrong. He admitted to violating the ToS.
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Or you can bet twitter would go down ;)
It will be tough to use as a useful database for most applications without cursors. I'm also not certain that its directories are ordered. If they are, I'm even more doubtful that you can specify a custom ordering.
Most of his gripes seem to be coming from the software UI. All these problems seem readily addressable, there are numerous EMR systems out there with vastly different UIs, some more intuitive than others. It's a shame that his article seems to suggest that ALL EMRs suffer and will always suffer from these problems.

It's amazing how many don't see software as something that's malleable and can be suited to their needs. Hopefully an EMR manufacturer will publicly respond to these concerns, else this can become the general view of EMRs if for no other reason than a quick Google search on EMRs will likely result in this article, thus giving any opposer the necessary ammunition for an argument.
What I want to know is how their algorithm looks without the space constraints.

For any compression scheme to take hold, it'll need to handle both large and small files well.

Before looking at your comparison, I thought their pic looked like crap. Now it looks absolutely stunning given the comparison shots. But how would it look at 200kb? Does it compare (dis)favorably against JPEG then?
Here's an article that says entanglement isn't all that weird: http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf. Admittedly, I'm not familiar enough with quantum mechanics to get it, but it's related and YMMV.
Another idea - I don't know how difficult this would be - would be to have some way for websites to give freebies to people who have tipped more than, say $5 in total to anyone that month. The website owners would get two benefits: people would be more likely to tip them, and they would get more traffic (because you would provide an 'if you liked this...' feature to sites who did that). This interacts well with the 'split $X at the end of the month' feature, because tippers would then round up in order to get the freebies.
You can't really have it both ways, though. Twitter wants to be the next big thing; they want to be mainstream. With that comes marketers and other people who's only intention is to use Twitter to make more money. I've grown to hate Twitter, but if it could make me more money, I'd be all over it again.

Believe it or not, many people don't want to talk to their friends in weird, public ways via Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. We want to use them for something productive... like making money.
I know how you feel, but maybe it is premature to worry about such things. Most of the skills you mention might be relatively easy to learn should they become really important. At least chopping should be easy? Cooking definitely is. Shooting I don't know, but perhaps it is overrated?

In any case, it is hard to learn something without having an application for it. Of course one could go to a lonely cabin and practice survival skills now, but it would be inefficient. The benefits of civilization are that we can worry about other things than the low level survival stuff.

Information will always be important - web sites about chopping, planting, shooting etc. would probably experience a boom if SHTF.
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that's a cop out. that's why for the most part my computer never seems to get faster, because the apps are getting slower. I doubt they are getting 'more correct'. I wish more projects thought like webkit and thought that performance was one of there #1 priorities. In fact the only thing to sacrifice performance for is, 1, security, 2 stability. I haven't had any problems with webkit browsers on windows (not that I used chrome for long), and the linux stuff isn't a straight port, I think.
Ok. So the space is too short ( for a full synopsis ). But we ( as synopsis authors ) would invent shortcuts for rating and summarizing the content that would fit to the right or be truncated. And when a user clicks on comments, the full synopsis is always at the top of the comments.

And maybe the descriptors that different users would implement ( like their own tags/ratings for the content ) would become unique to that user, eventually, and have contextual meaning to that author. Each synopsis author would have their own tags that they could reuse. Only people who subscribed to that author could see their synopsis so their silly or cryptic or worthless synopsis descriptors would not clutter HN readers' experience unless they subscribed to a particular s-author ( synopsis author ).

So each user could have a customized right-hand HN site by subscribing to other synopsis authors and each synopsis author would have their own ways ( tags, most likely to start ) for communicating concise summaries/likes/dislikes of the content posted on HN.

But wouldn't a feature such as this take all the mystery out of HN headlines? Or would it add more mystery :) ?

Or would it add too much sub-culture HN? How much would be just enough? ( I hope I am not too off-topic by now )
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I read (most of) that and, to my own surprise, actually understood the principle behind it. I recommend it as well.