skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It occurs to me--I don't think there's any real "social site" focused on making lists. The closest things we have are social bookmarking tools--but those have a ranking algorithm that highly weights novelty, causing the front page to resemble a stream of ephemeral content mixed with periodic reposts of evergreen content.

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How could we improve on this?

[Anyone who wants to do the following is welcome to; I've too many startups on the go already.]

Imagine something like Reddit--with each list being a "subreddit"--but:

A. there's no time-weighting in the front-page algorithm (though there is a "new" page); and

B. there are robust mechanisms in place for preventing duplicate entries from being created, and merging duplicates (along with their votes and comments) into the canonical versions.

Additionally, since the lists created will be far more static, you might want to give people greater influence over the ranking system--using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_voting_systems, for example.
Why does 500 Startups feel like a funnel for getting taken advantage of?

Oh my, just started reading the FAQ. Bad terms. Very bad.
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I think this is an excellent point.
You want to pay $9 * N content providers per month? I don't.
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Sometimes I'm amazed games work at all.
Hmm, nice looking site. There are a few things that irk me with the layout though.

1. The header layout bugs the hell out of me. The logo, tagline, then the login button feel more like a blog post than a header. A little more emphasis on the logo, a little less on the tagline. Shorten it up, make it concise. Something short enough to be interesting, yet long enough to make a point. I know that's kind of general, but that's just my thought.

2. Make it responsive! If I resize my window, it should resize with it.

3. Utilize the space! You have a whole window to work with, use it! Whitespace is dead space. That kind of goes with the responsiveness of the site, because if you had a grid layout that would expand and contract with the view, you'd have a lot more of an effective use of space.

Overall, great site.
That's a straw man right there. Why would it matter? In terms of the decision making, the one with more knowledge is better. In terms of driving, it depends on if the 70 year old still has the PHYSICAL ability and acuity to drive a car, which is exactly what we weren't talking about.
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I agree with this from personal experience. And I have a US white collar job, 70/hr week average, and i'm way less productive than I used to be before that.
HBO already started to shift. It's called HBO GO. With an HBO subscription you have online access.

The problem with HBO adopting a pure-streaming service is that it's still more lucrative for them to work with the cable providers.
You can't really get any meaningful results from a self selected sample.

Since there is no other evidence that a 40 year old in the 90th percentile for mental performance is equal to a 20 year old in the 50th percentile, it seems more than likely that the data is skewed.

Perhaps Lumosity.com attracts above average young people and below average older people (given those results, some variation on that theme is the likely explanation).
Google is actually known for encouraging their employees to work 80% of their work week on task, and the remaining 20% on creative pursuits of their own choosing, so in that sense I would argue that google is fostering creativity (which probably ends up benefiting the company overall) while being less demanding of their employees' time in a traditional sense.
I would also qualify that as "Google spends a large amount of time, energy, and money trying to figure out the best ways to hire candidates AT SCALE"

There are literally millions of resumes being submitted every year, and the cost of a false positive is high (saying "yes" to a bad hire is generally much worse than saying NO to a fantastic hire).
> the Hollywood/TV crooks

What a load of crap. Hollywood/TV doesn't have a lot of leverage because they're crooks. They have a lot of leverage because they sell a non-fungible product. People don't just want to watch a show about advertisers with a lot of sexist banter--they want to watch Mad Men. They don't to watch a movie with some random hot guy, they want a movie with Channing Tatum.

It's the same market dynamic that makes Apple and Louis Vuitton what they are except even more extreme. LV sells purses and so does Kate Spade and so there is competition there. But only Warner Brothers sells Lord of the Rings, and other swords and sorcery movies aren't fungible with LOTR.
I've been watching documentaries on Netflix. They're already stuck with B-grade content in some areas.
I hope they start producing good sci-fi.
If they manage to construct a complete model, they would have a strong AI. However, what they are trying to do is construct a model that incorporates everything we know about the human brain. From their, they can better observe how our model compairs to observed reality, and revise it accordingly. They can also test modifications to the model much easier. If they get to the point where their model is also a strong AI it would suggest that they have made great progress in understanding the human brain.
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But ....what about college students???? People rarely talk about the fact that college students can be as stressful if not more stressful. In graduate school, students are expected to work/study almost all the time... Should we also have a reduce in our work/study load?
"it could turn around and sell syndication rights to networks and overseas."

Very unlikely since Netflix is planning to further expand abroad and the key in their business is exclusivity...

The math in this post is bogus since it's only based on incremental revenue brought by new subscribers. Getting more exclusive content does not only bring new subscribers, it also increases retention.

I think the real news is not that netflix is producing its own content but that it's using state of the art analytics to design this new content predicting/modeling the type of scenario/actors/director that would best work for it's 30M+ subscribers.

That's where the true disruption is. If somehow they are better at predicting what people like or don't like, they can design the right show for a given audience and maybe one day change the scenario in realtime depending on your mood a this very specific time...
You could get up to fairly reasonable values of 'N' there and it will still be cheaper than a decent cable subscription.
When would you ever vote "This is not good, more like this", or "this is good, less like this"?

The relative-karma system you described could work with one-axis karma, though. Interesting idea.
> other swords and sorcery movies aren't fungible with LOTR.

I'd pay for more Legend of the Seeker, or for someone to do a Mistborn series. I'd pay to see Game of Thrones.
What about barter deals? Could Netflix 'trade' the show to AMC for the next season of The Walking Dead?
You kidding me?
I wish this meme would die. It really just taints everything we are trying to do with Strong AI.
>>>Nowhere near proportional to the productivity increases, that's for certain.

What is the proper proportion?
Heroku Add-Ons are essentially hosted services, just with an automated billing tie-up with Heroku.

What the other comment-er is asking for is a hosted instance.
FAQ says that they charge $6,000 per founder and $3,000 per non-founder to participate in the accelerator program.

Do most accelerators charge you to participate in them, while at the same time investing ~$50,000 for 5% equity?
The argument is partially like that, but the more complete version is:
1) We know a lot about brain cognition through psychology, AI etc
2) We know a lot about how people process from all the years of expermentation.
3) The big things we don't know, is exactly what the role of the cell is, or how it processes. For example, is it they synchronous firing of cells that allows us to experience? What is actually going on in all those billions of cells etc.
4) We know a lot about the electrical activity in the brain, some about the molecular and chemical processes etc, but what we don't have is an overarching way of putting all this together, so we know what we are looking at.
5) We don't know what C. Elgans think about or what causes them to do things, so we will have a harder time understanding what exactly makes them tick.

I apologize if there is repetition, unclear lines, or bad reasoning, I am in the middle of running some brain simulations, and had a minute while it ran.
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That is part of what we are trying to find out. We know a lot, but it isn't organized. Lets put together all that we have, and see what is still missing.
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Indeed it does. If you want to see open source models of the brain check out: http://senselab.med.yale.edu/modeldb/ListByModelName.asp?c=1...
You wouldn't? I totally would. Seems like a cable package that includes premium content (HBO, etc.) runs at least $100 per month. If I could ditch the cable and instead get 11 HBO-quality content providers (which is much better than I get from cable), that would be a no-brainer. More likely, I would get half as many, and end up with more solid content than I have time to watch, for much less money.
> (assuming productive hours == 8/day, 5 days/week)

Bad assumption.

> If maintaining a living (comfortable or not) requires 100% of our productive work time (40 hours/week) then how are you not a slave to that subsistence lifestyle?

What is "subsistence" about it? I understand subsistence living to mean "having just enough to survive."
Your wish is granted.

The catch: you will die a lot sooner depending on how much you take other people's needs and wants into consideration when deciding what you want to do with your time.

You're welcome.
Of the 40 hour week, from 10 to 30 hours are spent working for the government. Your tax rate is dependent on where you live and how much you earn, of course.
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As someone who lived in one of the dark orange places in north america, I can tell you that shades are very valuable by themselves. In dry and hot places being under a shades makes a big difference. A shade for your car, a shade for your house, a shade for people in the street. These shades can have the double purpose of capturing solar energy. I bet a lot of people in AZ will be very happy to use their roofs to install solar panels.
They have the option to raise that money.

You're searching for the ability to live without constraint. So long as scarcity exists, this is fundamentally impossible.
I would assume it's an iOS app that connects to the Squiz Matrix WCMS

http://www.squiz.co.uk/
In the 1950s, there was the great promise of "the leisure society" - a future of such material abundance that most people would hardly need to work. That society became possible, but we systematically rejected it in favour of more consumption. The cost of living hasn't meaningfully increased, we've just continually redefined luxuries as necessities.

My grandparents are perfectly typical working-class people. They grew up in cramped, damp houses with no central heating or indoor plumbing. They ate mainly seasonal vegetables, considered a chicken or roast of meat a rare treat and often went to bed hungry. They bought new clothes or furniture only when their old ones were beyond repair. They aspired to owning a bicycle, not a car. The only people they knew who had been abroad had done so while in uniform. They didn't regard themselves as materially deprived, because that was the only lifestyle they knew.

As much as we might deny being materialistic, the naked truth is that what we consider to be a basic comfortable lifestyle today was, within living memory, unattainable luxury. We continue to work 40 hour weeks because we have adjusted our expectations to our income. We overwhelmingly choose to work the greatest number of hours we can sustainably tolerate (somewhere between 40 and 60 hours for most people), in order to maximise our spending power.

The recent kerfuffle over "The 1%" is illustrative of this phenomenon. There was widespread mockery of people earning 500k who regarded themselves as just making ends meet. In a very real sense, we are all a part of that laughably oblivious 1%. The lifestyles we consider just about tolerable are, by any historical or global standard, utter luxury. Almost everyone who has ever lived (and almost everyone living today) would consider themselves lucky to have the spending power of an American on minimum wage.
We'll have to watch it, and decide for ourselves whether it was good or not!
Being outside of academia, I am not privy to the historical reasons that modeldb is the way it is. Something about it has always bothered me.. why on earth are all of these models in different languages? I mean, these aren't exactly CPAN modules or metasploit modules. How are these supposed to be combined reliably? And what about unit tests? what is going on here?

Edit: oh, man :( http://rudylab.wustl.edu/research/cell/methodology/cellmodel...

http://senselab.med.yale.edu/modeldb/ShowModel.asp?model=642...

https://github.com/OpenSourceBrain/Thalamocortical/blob/mast...

last two lines are "sleep(5)" and "exit()" ... that's not how you do python modules :(
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I think it is a good thing that individuals control their own money, and can choose to give it to whomever they want.

Can we agree that people with no money will starve to death unless they use violence to take food from someone, or the government uses violence to take food from someone on their behalf? The foodstamps of this great depression are equivalent to the soup lines of the old great depression: they prevent people from robbing, looting, and starving in the streets.
Watch the money. If there's a season 2, it was a hit.
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A very well reasoned piece. It reminds me of this piece from Hamilton Nolan: http://gawker.com/5968116/hubris-high-socks-and-other-habits...

Personally I find the whole techno-libertarian/utopian side of valley culture quite scary - I guess it's the part where some people decide they want to "fix" everything, without really making any effort to understand what (if anything) is broken to begin with.
The problem is what constitutes "maintaining a living", both in your own choices and governmental influence. I can show you how to live well on $10/day, but then you'd complain about not having X Y and Z (starting with two cars and a mortgage in a narrow geographic range).

If you can't do without what amounts to luxuries to 75% of the world population, discussing how many hours a week you "should" work is a non-starter.
Not only this would be a distraction but I don't think it makes business sense for them. In my opinion exclusivity is key to their long term strategy in a streaming world. They already have the best distribution channel you can think of why would they need to licence their content?
Entrepreneur Press (same shop as Entrepreneur Magazine) has a series of books that concentrate on starting a business in each specific state. Look up "How to Start a Business in North Carolina", for instance. There's only a couple of sections in the book that are truly state-specific; the rest of it is standard startup business stuff, which sounds like that's what you're looking for.
I'm not a fan of political shows. That said, I decided to watch House of Cards last night.

It's not bad. Having Kevin Spacey as the lead is good. There's a good cast of supporting actors too. The writing is a bit mundane, but not terrible. I know the show is somewhat of a remake of a BBC show from a while back, but I never watched it so my take is purely on this experience.

I plan on watching the rest of it. It was interesting enough to have keep me up till 5am doing the "just one more" thing. The format of no commercials and having all the episodes available at launch is a really good thing. I was pleasantly surprised when the 2nd episode started playing as I finished the first one. I was fully expecting to have to wait a week to see the next one. No episode felt rushed, like things had to be crammed into a specific time slot.

The things that work for this format:

1) Release at once
2) Natural variable time lengths
3) Good production values
4) Good cast
5) Decent writing

If they use this as a framework for other types of genres, I think it will be good. I'd personally like to see the next show be sci-fi. Something with a unique premise that has never really been done by networks, because they screw it up. No time travel, or future detective, or alien invaders thing. Something gritty but uplifting, along the veins of Babylon 5, TNG, or BSG.

I'd like to see a near-future show about solar system colonization. Could have an entire system-wide, multi cultural backdrop like Firefly. Hell, try getting Josh Whedon to do it. Visits to Luna, Mars, asteroid mining colonies, deep space science labs, political intrigue from Earth, the companies that own colonies, immigration rights, etc. The solar system as a backdrop is big enough to have an infinite number of stories, but keeps everything so close together that it feels real. Star Trek provided a big galactic tapestry, but many times still felt distant and isolated.

Anyway, check out HoC if you have Netflix. Hopefully we'll see more shows from them.
I'm assuming the Danish professor is framing his findings as a viable public policy assertion.
I believe it occurred while he was CEO, but I'm happy to update that language to be more correct. I don't want that to be any sort of focus of this writing.
Bring back firefly!
I'm going to disagree with caffeinewriter while I sip my coffee.

1) I agree the header could use some work. Having the facebook login below and your full tagline description in a fairly boring font and colors just doesn't to it for me. I'd work on this area, as it is a glaring issue with the design of your site.

2)You could make it responsive, but only to a certain point. Is 3 columns of videos too much? 4? 5? do some a/b testing and see if a certain column size results in more videos watched.

Also, where you have a single video per line, if you did make it responsive, would all the text end up on one line, and therefore leave empty space next to the video?

3) I completely disagree here. Whites pace is an important design element. I think you've used it well.

Now for my further comments.

1) the share buttons are awkward as you have them spread out across one long line. I'd keep them close together, and play with the positioning. You'd likely automatically assume that the left hand side is the best spot, but that may not be the case. I think the far-right, and offset from the video might work, or inline with the video player. I suspect the more these are squeezed together, the more impact they'll have. They just seem to be floating around disconnected from the content at this time.

2) I like how your top two items show how many videos are related to that story. It is a signal in some ways of the importance/popularity of that story. But why don't the other videos on the page have the same display? I'd like to see some consistency in that.
Udacity and other online courses are great for people that already know how to learn. These sorts of programs won't help people that don't know how to learn on their own. However, I will say I can count the classes in college that couldn't have been replicated in an online format on two hands. All of theses classes still could have benefited from putting lectures online. The thing that is lacking in online courses is in-depth, in-person discussion in settings of about 30 people. Forums like this are great for teaching critical thinking. My favorite class in college was an undergraduate anthropology class that focused on a different topic each week. There were two different perspectives (in journal articles) and you'd be assigned one to defend in the next class. I think this kind of thing is hard to replicate in digital settings. Thoughts?
usually the performance is too poor or unreliable except in the case of very old games.

This is far from universally true - in my experience it is actually slightly backwards. A few years ago I had to benchmark a Windows program against a Linux one I had written, and the Windows program ran slightly faster under WINE than under Windows. (This was mostly computational, without much use of Windows APIs, and no graphics in the timed sections.)
It's lame to write up a post accusing seller of selling device w/ shorted-out pins, but not even take the time to confirm the accusations with an ohmmeter.
Anyone know what the benefits/drawbacks are of running WINE on a MacBook/Linix versus running Windows in a VM such as VirtualBox?
>>>So long as scarcity exists, [living without constraint] is fundamentally impossible.

Absolutely agree.

>>>They have the option to raise that money.

Absolutely disagree. They are working 2 and 3 jobs, my friend. They do not have the money to raise that money.

>>>You're searching for the ability to live without constraint.

Please explain where I indicated this, I did not mean to.
The idea is obviously appealing, but is a pipe dream to which employers will never agree. Employers don't care about one's utility over a lifetime, because they only have access to laborers for a finite period of time. (In most cases 3-6 years.) Employers thus want to maximize utility in the short term. Fewer hours means less work and thus companies have to lower salaries, which may make this untenable for workers, and hire more people to compensate for these reduced workweeks, adding to fixed-costs like healthcare and making this untenable for employers.

Would it be great to spend more time with friends, sleeping or otherwise pursuing leisure? Obviously. But the labor market doesn't care about one's happiness (and the companies that do institute "leisure cultures" usually explicitly state that they do so simply because it increases productivity. In this case, companies don't care about you for your sake, they care about you for their own sake) and pursuing it comes at a loss of compensation.
Build a man a fire, you keep him warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, you keep him warm for the rest of his life.

To wit: there is a strong correlation between what constitutes doing whatever the fuck you want, and how soon you'll die.