skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would require teachers who possess emotional intelligence themselves.
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I find pricing tiers distasteful in general -- A man after my own heart!

How do you manage the float of your users' prepaid balances?
I actually quite like pay in advance. If you're not really using a service like you thought you can extend the use over a long period making it worthwhile. Of course the same applies to pay for what you use, after the fact, but then there is some ongoing mental load with remembering to either keep or cancel your account.
This poll seems slightly biased; If you read HN via RSS, why would you bother logging in to answer just for this poll?
In a scenario without effective distribution, the viral scene favors not the best work, but the most easily digestible work.

Maybe. Do you suppose that's why there's so much more good music available now than there was 20 years ago, before we built the internet, as the most effective distribution mechanism in history?

The thing that I fear favors the most easily digestible work is the hair-trigger social voting sites like Hacker News, Reddit, Digg, etc. But I think those depend on effective distribution, rather than being undercut by it.

Not every talented person is good at promotion;

Yeah, and that's a big part of why so many of them get ripped off by music-industry slime who are good at promotion. I for one am happy to be in an environment where fans can do the promotion these days.
Bull. There are plenty of smart ppl successful in this area just as there are plenty of average guys unsuccessful at it.
What other OS-es are out there?
? chater 5 to 7 seem to cover that pretty well.

Part V Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning
13 Uncertainty
14 Probabilistic Reasoning
15 Probabilistic Reasoning Over Time
16 Making Simple Decisions
17 Making Complex Decisions
Part VI Learning
18 Learning from Observations
19 Knowledge in Learning
20 Statistical Learning Methods (pdf)
21 Reinforcement Learning
Part VII Communicating, Perceiving, and Acting
22 Communication
23 Probabilistic Language Processing
24 Perception
25 Robotics
Part VIII Conclusions
26 Philosophical Foundations
27 AI: Present and Future
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And then the architect will send the bots to destroy the underworld and have it rebuilt anew. :-)
No, that's just asking for multiple people to reply. If that's your idea of a "nightmare", I have some recommendations for you: read Elie Wiesel's "Night", look at Guernica, visit an FGM activism web site, maybe volunteer at a suicide or rape crisis hotline.
The RFC2616 requirement was always a bad idea for users; for years I missed the Netscape feature that let you set this parameter to whatever you wanted; I left it at 20. (Was that up to 0.91N? I forget.) It helped out server software that made concurrent connections expensive, though.
Wow, better than anything else? That's a pretty tall claim! What leads you to believe that?

I'm constantly amazed by the people who think writing HTTP servers is really hard.
prepay is a good tactic for small customers -- getting the entire lifetime value up front in most cases.

but why are you bothering with customers spending <$1/mo? (we avoided pay-as-you-go for this reason)
Note this much more detailed analysis, lurking down the page with a lower score due to its lack of a linkbait title:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=568060
Earning six figures and just scraping by
I expected that link to be the general "girls love jerks, so act like one" pick-up artist BS, but quite to the contrary. The tip/story about going to house parties once in a relationship is particularly relevant (and something I wish I'd have read in my younger days!).

That being said, lot of the time most of the guys who complain that they can't get a girlfriend because they're "a nice guy" are generally just inexperienced and going after women who are out of their league. If they lowered their expectations -- and actually made an effort to find out what they really are looking for (rather than drive themselves insane over women they saw as "perfect") -- they wouldn't have had that complaint.
"Move to" does labeling and archive in one action. That's why it is using labels as folders.
My inbox is a monster. Usually I've something like 4000 emails in my gmail inbox, I read most of the things, reply almost only to very important emails if I'm busy. All the rest is a flow - like twitter.

Email is not a serious thing this days. It is too simple to send one, and people keep writing emails about things not important, or that are trivial to figure without any help, containing a lot more words than needed to express an otherwise simple message and so on.

Do you really want to pass half of your life reading/writing emails about things that don't interest you? I don't want. This is one of the things that may affect your work performance in a critical way.
Might I ask what made this one particularly lame. Lame, I understand, but particularly lame? It was a Friday afternoon thing with beer, food, and decent conversation. [disclaimer: I'm a founder @HubSpot, the company that hosted the event]

Also, for the record, @biz did show up for the event.

In any case, don't mean to sound defensive, just trying to learn.
I put together a background of this a month or so back: http://sponge-ing.com/post/83361398/an-image-of-a-whiteboard...
I swear I did that search and it didn't work. Working fine now though.

Work travel (big 3 letter IT) is work travel - and I book through work's systems. A system like this wont change that in the slightest. For personal - I'm price sensitive and sometimes date flexi (I've usually got specific destinations in mind though).. so this looks good for the price aspect.

webjets the best that I've had - so it's what I've used.
This is fantastic. The only thing I'd like to see from this is optionally automatically store the changes across page loads, however not applying them unless a button is clicked.

The use case is those times when you have made the magical combination of css/dom changes to fix a bug and accidentally refresh the page, losing all that work. Just having the diff available after refresh would be great.
Englebart is my new hero.

"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the amount of embarrassment he can tolerate."

-Doug Engelbart

http://www.dougengelbart.org/kids/justforkids.html#4
Thanks for the tip. The french text is translated by a native frenshspeaker who also works for the french government. Perhaps you could mail me a few pointers?
As I mentioned in a different comment, I think the issue boils down to having unrealistic expectations -- and these unrealistic expectations preventing smart individuals from getting any sort of experience in dating (which builds confidence) or finding out what they really want (e.g. Are you unable to date someone who doesn't share your political views? Who isn't a fellow nerd? who doesn't have a specific body type? You'll never whether any of these "must haves" is really something you're looking for until you try).

In addition, getting into physical shape wouldn't hurt: initial attraction (what gets you the first date) is still mostly physical and being in good shape makes one confident (which gets you past the first three dates). Being in shape will also give you far more energy for 80 work weeks and all night hackathons (in no way, will being physically fit magically make you into a "jock").
learn his/her buttons
We automatically convert letter and a4 size paper depending on the destination country. Also the conversion is only done if necessary. I'll empathize the destination country more.
It's great to see 802.15 getting a little bit of press. It's fantastically low power, got pretty good range, and the throughput isn't bad. Far better than 802.11 for these kinds of devices.

For anyone who wants to play with 802.15, I strongly recommend getting your hands on some Sun SPOTs. I've been playing with one of the dev kits, and they're an amazingly hackable platform.
Happy coincidence - work is sending me to Duesseldorf on Monday!
Oh, we definitely understand number 4 now. All scientists and researchers should be aware of the observer-expectancy effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect

Wikipedia also briefly covers the debunking of the Belfast homeopathy results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory#Subsequent_researc...
Yes.

International Use. Hulu's goal is to bring you as much Content as is legally available. That said, we are limited by the rights that our content licensors grant to us. Using technologies to access the Content from territories where Hulu does not have rights is prohibited.

(Of course, in some countries you can ignore Terms of Use.)
Did the western researchers make the music dissonant? That could explain the difference between Germans/Mafa, because the Germans and the researchers have the same sense of dissonance.
It won't get you laid-off either!
The ladies are not fond of awesome UNIX beards.
According to your mom, I don't need to.
Under the US law.

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html#p2p:

Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright:

Several exclusive rights typically attach to the holder of a copyright:

- to produce copies or reproductions of the work and to sell those copies (mechanical rights; including, sometimes, electronic copies: distribution rights)

- to import or export the work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exports#United_States:

An item is considered an export whether or not it is leaving the United States temporarily, if it is leaving the United State but is not for sale (a gift), or if it is going to a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary in a foreign country.

(I personally think this is all bullshit when applied to the Internet, but my opinion doesn't matter.)
I'll sum it up: for a nice guy, the onus is on the female to say "yes" to his advances (if any) and for the dark-triad male, the onus is on her to say "no" to his advances.

As sexuality today is still very much mostly a powerful unconscious drive, it is harder for most females to say "yes" than "no," because saying yes is a conscious decision and the female instead finds it easier to remain passive to her powerful unconscious side around these aholes, and which is why she's even interested in either in the first place.

Aholes can muscle in on the nice guy, and we have not reached the tipping point for many females to take better control of their sexuality.

In the end you can be a nice guy, but when the ahole comes along, be prepared. Don't leave it up to her to say yes.
I am annoyed that I cant downvote the above, so Ill just point out that I would.

That's a very strange and illogical attitude IMO.
The doors for Indian H1B immigration is widely open now...
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "why are you bothering", so I'll answer both versions of the question I can imagine you meaning.

If you mean "why bother charging them instead of making it free" -- as I explain in the post, I don't want to get into a situation where I might have enough small non-paying users that I end up losing money.

If you mean "why accept them as customers at all" -- well, thinking as a user of my own service, I'd be really irked if I got told that I couldn't use a great service simply because I didn't want to use it enough! But from a purely business perspective: In my experience, small-scale users are some of the most important ones to have, since they tend to be the ones who go around telling everybody they know about tarsnap.
Just in case - I am not a racist, I am afraid that somebody in power is...
At the moment, I'm not really managing it. It's just sitting in paypal.

Unfortunately being a Canadian makes it hard to get USD out of paypal without having paypal convert it to CAD at a really horrible exchange rate -- I'm going to get a US bank account soon (a USD bank account at a Canadian bank isn't good enough) to get around this problem, but I haven't made it that far yet. Given how horrible interest rates are right now it's not as if there's a huge amount of money to be earned on the float anyway -- the main reason I want to get the money into a USD bank account is so that I can pay AWS costs in USD instead of having those converted to CAD (at a really horrible exchange rate) so that they can be billed to my CAD credit card.
the 3.0 beta is already available to developers. you can install it on your phone right now, if you bought the 100-buck developer key.
I actually use a blend of C & Python, C for doing the heavy lifting and Python for the rapid prototyping.

Most AI algorithms have clearly defined segments that are very CPU intensive, by only using C in those areas I get the optimal balance of development speed and execution speed.
While you're a startup it doesn't matter much, but if you become a larger company, having the user's money that they haven't "spent" yet can be quite irritating for accountants, depending on which accounting method is being used.

In essence you have may have to refund "unconsumed" funds and this affects how you do your books.
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Well, users' balances can be refunded whenever they want -- I'm not going to hold onto someone's money if they want it back.

As for the accounting side of things: My understanding is (at least as far as Canadian accounting goes, which is what matters to me) that it's handled as a liability called "unearned revenue". So while it's certainly something to be aware of for accounting purposes, it's not a big problem.
That's actually a very good idea! I swear I could save a lot of time by not having to cook and would love to have some homemade cooking for a change (rather than TV/Microwave dinners)
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I'm guessing that this wouldn't be competitive in the market at a higher price point? From a personal viewpoint if I was going to pay for a backup service i'd be open to paying more.

I guess free alternatives would make that hard to be a competitive business move though?
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Sounds like a great idea, especially for people that spend most of their time in an engineering school. It puts you in a different crowd and takes you outside of the sexless place you spend your days.
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Cross-referenced to
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532003
The upas program in http://swtch.ccom/plan9port/ mounts remote mailboxes as file systems

Though see a caveat http://fixunix.com/plan9/329502-9fans-p9p-upas.html

I don't use it myself as I run a real Plan9 system.
Click on the link at the top right to stay in Lowband mode and then explore in super fast mode. Excellent!

There are gaps when you drop into the standard MSDN pages - and wow do you notice the difference.
Roissy is, well, Roissy. He's unique, intelligent, and not just another cookie-cutter PUA (Although, your view of PUA seems skewed to me. Acting like a jerk is only one of a dozen styles that are taught, and is almost always recommended to be performed in a playful manner).

Roissy should come with a warning label, though. He is the dark side. A Nietzsche-an amoral creature. His front page is remarkably tame at the moment, for him.
There are certainly backup services which are more expensive than tarsnap -- Mozy, for example, charges $0.50/GB, and rsync.net charges $2.10/GB for their georedundant storage (which is probably still far less reliable than the backing storage for tarsnap). But I don't particularly want to find out exactly how much I can gouge my customers; I'd prefer to have a comfortable profit margin and hope that reasonable prices result in more people using tarsnap.
They're not fond of it, but I'm saying it's something that can be overcome without resorting to shaving off your luscious chin-mane :P
I think you're definitely onto something here, and I think the guy who puts himself out there and puts the onus on the woman to say 'no' instead of waiting for her to say 'yes' is more successful for a few reasons.

1. As you say, it's easier and less risky for the woman to remain passive and not make the conscious decision to say yes to the 'nice' guy who's waiting for her.

2. There is a lot of social pressure on females to not be a 'slut'. This is becoming less than it used to be but is also subtle and ingrained into society. By remaining passive and letting the man chase, she avoids the possibility of seeming promiscuous.

3. Some of the other comments are saying this as well: the theory that women have evolved to be attracted to a leader. Leadership, strength and confidence are demonstrated by a guy who will go out of his way to pursue a woman, even despite her initial coquettishness and playing hard to get. By doing this he shows that he's a confident man who has balls and is not afraid to get what he wants - themselves apparently attractive qualities in a bloke.
Is there anywhere I can read more about Tarsnap's features/architecture? You're obviously a bright guy, and you say you've been working on it for over 2 years, so I'm just curious about what exactly you built ...

For example, what advantages does tarsnap have over some bash scripts I write in a few hours that give me off-site encrypted backups with the help of GPG and rsync? (That's pretty close to the system I use now). I'm sure there are some, but I just don't see them enumerated tarsnap.com ...
This is partly the micropayment problem. The other way around it is to extend credit, and bill people. I can see this is against your profitability rule. Just saying it's another solution, in general.

You didn't ask for feedback, so feel free to ignore the following :-)

It would be nice to have a demo service, to play with before paying the $5. You could limit it to a trivial amount of storage (like 100 bytes) - the purpose is not to store stuff, but to have a play. An easier on-ramp helps adoption, gives people a chance to kick the tyres.

If your account stays below zero, your backups will be deleted. This is a bit scary for a backup service. I'm sure you haven't actually deleted anything, but it would be reassuring if you gave a schedule, e.g. emails every day for a month (perhaps mimic the warnings of a domain name registrar). The main thing is to reassure people, by communicating what you will do before deleting their stuff.

One warning about "a service that you would use". A multinational corporation has different values from an individual, and they will happily pay more than you can imagine, if you can solve their problems. I guess this doesn't apply to you, because bigger customers would setup their own backup, instead of using your service (as you say). I'm just saying that your own sense of value doesn't always translate to different needs - unless you can imagine yourself as a multinational corp, I guess. :-)
Sounds like a case of "I could if I wanted to" to me.
The tarsnap website links to several of my blog posts about tarsnap, but this one probably has the most information of interest to you: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-11-10-tarsnap-public-be...

For example, what advantages does tarsnap have over some bash scripts I write in a few hours that give me off-site encrypted backups with the help of GPG and rsync?

It's hard to say without knowing exactly how your scripts work, but I'd guess that one big advantage tarsnap has is that it works with a snapshotted model of backups.
I think that only works in the case that the female is insecure, in other words only about 99.9% of the time, so be careful with this technique.
The spyware itself is boring as it just collects IP addresses and similar info. What is interesting, on the other hand, is that the payload is delivered through a single page view. Either FBI is using 0-day exploits or has other "understandings" with OS/Browser vendors. And some systems are more vulnerable than others apparently:

>>> "In these instances, the CIPAV did not deliver its payload because of system incompatibility."

0-day browser exploits are hard to come by, even for the FBI.
It would be nice to have a demo service

That might happen in the future -- the current architecture of the tarsnap server makes this difficult (I don't have "total storage used by user X" updated in realtime).

If your account stays below zero, your backups will be deleted

Right now what I do is send out an email when an account balance falls below 7 days worth of storage, another email when an account falls below zero, and then I wait a week after that before deleting anything. These timelines might change in the future, which is why I haven't specified anything precise on the website.

...multinational corporation...

You're quite right -- but I didn't start this because I wanted to make life easy for multinational corporations. I started this because I wanted a good backup system, and it seemed to me that while multinational corporations had lots of good options available, there weren't really any good options for people like me.
My gmail inbox used to be like that until a friend of mine, visiting me, got so annoyed with it he archived the lot (with my permission).

Trying to stick at inbox zero after that has been a definite improvement, but it does make for painful periods when I'm away for a day and come back to a ton of unread rubbish I'd normally just archive as soon as it came in. Theoretically select-all-unread-archive is easier than interrupting focus, archive, resuming focus, but the mental burden of 200+ unread messages is not to be underestimated.
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He didn't want to remove them, he just wanted to move them out of the global namespace.
Thanks, that answers my questions. Your snapshot system reminds of a reference counting GC - neat trick.
For the record, you don't have to log in to install an extension in the 'experimental' section these days - but of course you still have to log in to leave a review, which is the only way an extension can make it into the public area.

Also, rather than stopping tooltips from disappearing automatically, why not just have some JS that copies the contents of the title attribute into a paragraph just below the image or something?
As it happens, tarsnap's snapshots work via reference counting -- fortunately, it works better for tarsnap than it does for garbage collection. (Reference counting breaks if you have circular references; this is a problem for garbage collection, but not for tarsnap.)
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> Second, I find pricing tiers distasteful in general.

I don't have the time to dig up a great explanation of them, but they're not inherently bad. If you can get more money from some people by giving them a bit more, that means more investment in your service and code, which is good for everyone, no?
This is a such well written sales copy. I followed it through to the 'book' and eventually came across one of those scamy looking very long sales pages. Check it out

http://www.thetaoofdating.com/page3.php

I'm not saying this means the article or product isn't valid or interesting but it does look like they have successful gamed HN.
Thanks for your answers. You email timeline seems reasonable to me, but what I meant was that you need to communicate this on your website. Otherwise, the user thinks that if they forget to pay, their backups are suddenly and instantly lost.
And they might turn into larger scale customers later.
Why didn't you go for a 'real' GC?