skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd tell you what I'm getting insane clickthrough on, but I don't want the competition, thanks. Some ads target REALLY well.
I'm relatively new to Twitter but I think the answer is "no". The interface really does suck. Imho, Twitter has very good uses that many people like and suggests many more potential uses that would be powerful except the platform itself is a piece of crap. Twitter is powerful because of its users, nothing else -- MIT's zephyr has supported all of Twitter's use cases and more (and better) for ~20 years now.

If it's easy to understand, people with little imagination have an easy time understanding it and heralding it as revolutionary. It's not.
$999 whole dollars! Every year!!! And not giving %25-35% to the Feds. Zomg that is so totally worth it.
How your competitors could present a new marketing opportunity for you (Audi vs. BMW)
The audio is incredibly low throughput. The text blurb doesn't contain much information. If you haven't already, you should read his piece on The Atlantic <http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice>. It goes into many of the points you raise. Significantly, he notes parallels to developing nations and discounts specific politicians or power players.
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Do you have any suggestions for how we could improve BumpTop?
There's no doubt that this or any other gun is not going to solve piracy, especially when the root of it is injustice. But the world isn't going to sit back and tolerate piracy either. WWII guns on cargo ships may be closer than you think.

And yes, that won't be a good thing. The interesting thing is, no matter how noble and Robin Hood like the start was, now there is hundreds of millions of dollars worth of loot at stake so I am sure just diplomacy and development aid is not going to stop piracy in the short term.
Well, I assumed it was automated. Perhaps I assumed wrong.
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full disclosure: I build/make money from facebook apps

Facebook made under $300 million last year, was a little shy of breaking even...

Why is this surprising to so many? There are dozens of developers that are netting 100k+ a month (yes i actually talk to one of them quite often), and at least half of this is from ads. Facebook is the largest social network in the world and growing at about 1 million users a day; why is it a surprise that they are actually almost break even?
The article is a bit ..... naive?? :)
Thank you for your compassion, brother/sister noonespecial. Or as we say in Somali, "mahad sanid". Thank you.

We have an infant government in the making. It's not much, but it's ours. We had a U.S. puppet of a prez fighting al-Qaeda supported Jihadis for the last two years. But as soon as W left office something nice happened: the puppet government stepped down after the end of its term, and the "terrorists" put down their weapons and actually participated in elections. Now we have something unique: an Islamist president who wants to reach out to the opposition; almost everyone is happy for it, it's really cute. Both were hardliners til Obama came to office; the warlords lost the guarantee of a U.S. funding, and the Islamists lost the existential adversary in George W Bush. So now they're talking. They are making something that will benefit the Somali people everywhere and make the world proud.

I, myself, have no interest in following their experiment. I'm an American now. I have a home, a country, friends, and a little thing going on for me that I want to keep. My sympathetic understanding of the pirates' issues, thanks to my linguistic affinity with them, is not enough to keep me interested. I might be Somali, but Somalia's problems are not exactly mine. I can go there today, but I'm ruined for it, I'm the "American guy" now. I hope those still there can turn it around into something pleasant.

- Mahmud of Arlington, Virginia.
I'd love to ditch facebook, except that the only reason I'm there is still true: that's where my peeps hang. Some people, that's their only online presence. What I'd like to see is a transparent layer in/out that could "export" these people to the social media of my choice. On the simple side, something that dumps my wall into my IM? That kinda thing.

I'm pretty sure that facebook will fight that kind of thing tooth and nail, though. Doesn't seem to align itself with their interests.
If ‘smart’ is really just a frame of mind

When I was in comp sci tutes, I'd spend almost all my time helping other students. I got the very strong impression that my confidence was the crucial difference.

Although I did have much more prior experience (in a different language), and lots of evidence that I was smart, the way I helped them solve problems that they couldn't solve, was by looking - whereas they didn't look. My extra experience really only helped in the sense of knowing to look at all places for the bug (not just where you think it is). What operationally made the difference in practice, was the confidence to look.

Of course, this is not scientific: maybe I just knew more and was smarter. But my impression does fit with the scientific study you cite.
Not a designer but that is certainly the impression I have.

I imagine coming to a designer with a design and asking just, ya know, snazz it up a bit is like coming to a developer for a fault tolerant, scalable to hundreds of machines, transactional message system and saying "Hey, we got all these win98 and MS Access licenses so just ya know use those. I hear there's a wizard in Access that makes it practically automatic."
My surprise is largely based on the recently published articles suggesting their burn rate was something insane like $200M / year. On the other hand if there are developers making $100k+ a month based on ads, I guess I am just the wrong demographic for facebook ads.
Like I said elsewhere, I may just not be in the right demographic of facebook ad clickers. (Just another way of saying maybe I am getting old :)
The output-agreement used in the ESP game doesn't work all that well for tagging music. Input-agreement is better.
I agree. They are definitely not worth nothing.

Based on the scraps of rumors flying around, I suspect tat if they put their heads down for a year & tried to push down costs & revenues up they'd get somewhere.

The company probably could be a profitable one. The question is how big it will be. Again from rumors, they now take in the 1/4b - $1/2b per year. Lets give them the benefit of a doubt & assume they can get to the bigger number and hold costs down so that the have make 10% profits. Let's also assume they're a growing company. No reason they shouldn't b.

Revenues would probably continue to grow as (a) Advertisers will learn how to use Facebook properly. It will become more valuable to them & competition will drive the price up. Remember that early on most Adwords ads were snake oil salesmen paying 10c per click (b) Facebok improve the advertising platform.

What is a company like that worth? I think less than $15bn. Maybe less than 4. At least everyone will stop talking about how much runway they have.

I don't now nothin' about anti-dilution provisions or expectations investors have for all that capital. But I look at it this way: There is a viable business in there somewhere. maybe not one worth $15bn. But probably one worth more than $375m (the amount of investment they have taken). So

I know. I know. I'm not accounting for risk. Previous valuation. I'm not accounting for the founders & early stage investors getting very rich. But where is the rule that the founder of a $2bn company gets to keep half or a quarter of that? If it takes some founders, $375, some risk & some luck to make a $2bn company, it should get built.
What could they have done to prevent this?
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Quick bits of feedback..
We were looking at doing a quick trip to auckland soon.. my Melbourne to Auckland trip pulled up some great results. It was a bit confusing looking at the prices. You show the fare with taxes - then redirect to Virgin who show the fare without - before the booking screen for virgin that shows the taxes again. Out of your hands I know - but maybe a note saying $154 (including all taxes)

-- Emirates flights MEL-AKL can be awesomely cheap and would love to see you expand and include those. (Also - on Emirates -- their grid view of departure/return dates and prices is an awesome way to look at trips... (Although I did like the dropdown)

-- I'm a Gold Qantas FF -- so I've got some level of incentive to travel on qantas (have to for work - would choose to if the price is almost a wash personally).. I'd like to be able to search "Melbourne to Sydney on Qantas" and just pull back the QF flights... (means I can price shop on your site easier)[1]

-- Your font looks a little too big? Maybe that's just me. Looks like it would be huge in a low res though..

--Looks pretty nice though.. I guess the challenge is that webjet kinda owns this space in my mind - I will try and remember you next time I'm booking a flight though..

[1] Okay - I just noticed the edit tab on the side.. so I can pull these results up after the fact - but I can't just type them in.
The Netherlands isn't much different. You can download a program (even a Linux version :)), download the data they have on you, load it, add info and submit the form. All I did was check that the income was correct and I filled in the amount of interest I paid for my mortgage. Result: they owe me 15 EUR.
Well, the "as a Somali" part in your first comment tripped me up and I forgot that one can be both Somali and American!

I do see your point. Military force is never a solution against extremism bred out of injustice and desperation. Maybe the current US administration will act based on this understanding.

And nice use of Hindi/Urdu over there. Where did you pick it up? :)
What do you mean 'unlock' ?

The story plainly tells you that the whole door is designed in such a way that the door wont go anywhere unless the pressure on both sides is equalized.
It is an interesting story, but now I wonder what the phrase "disarm doors" means that you often hear from the captain to the flight attendants after they've stopped at the airport.
An interesting viewpoint on what it takes to "predict" such influential events (including the adoption of a particular product/service) is the black swan theory. Nassim Nicholas Taleb seems to be very closely associated with it.

Basically, Taleb says the event must be:

1. Quite difficult to predict

2. Have an significant impact

3. Be able to be explained rationally, after the fact

Examples include September 11th attacks, the personal computer, Google and others.

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Read more about at your desired level of interest:

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

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDbuJtAiABA

pdf: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ARTE.pdf

book: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp...

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Note: I found the writing style of the author to be a little quirky. You may want to read a sample chapter at local bookstore before going all in.
I think all the old WWWII guns are too rusty to be fired at this point - they are almost 60 years old now.
Tom Brokaw, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates talk about the Internet in 1995
The plane isn't pressurized, and often, the cabin has no door at all -- you are free to step right out of the aircraft. The maximum altitude is kept below 12-15k ft -- above that, a jump would require special breathing equipment for the dive.

Some planes do have closing doors -- for instance, rear-loading cargo planes. Those are the most fun to jump out of, since you can take a running James Bond-style leap out the back of the airplane.
While it's amusing for us computer science majors to poke fun at the scientific irrelevance of postmodernism, its influence is undeniable.

Few academic fields have been left untouched by postmodern thinking, and you'll quickly run into it if you're studying art, literature, philosophy, architecture, social science, feminism, political science, and more.

A religious person might rightly point out that Darwin's theory of evolution hasn't changed his faith in a higher power, but it's foolish of him to fail to notice that the world around him has been revolutionized.
/dev/audio doesn't exist. i think sounds go through core audio or something. i'm not really sure.

the command say is pretty interesting though
I know of at least one place gives out free pie on Pi day if you can recite 100 digits of pi. (For each digit of pi you have memorized you get 1% off)

Say a slice of pie is $3. Pi day comes around once a year. Assume you'll live for 60 more years, getting your free slice of pi every year, and the average inflation adjusted interest rate will be roughly 3%. Then the present value of memorizing the digits of pi will be $83.03.

How long will it take you to memorize? How much are you getting paid hourly now?
About five years ago, I managed to read all of Everything2 (or at least managed to circumnavigate an entire subgraph until I no longer found any of the remaining outbound links interesting.) It took two weeks. It would probably take even longer now.

I did the same thing with the TV Tropes[1] wiki, even further back; it actually caused me to "queue" so many open tabs at a time that the browser would crash on restore (I think it was about 800, spread out across several windows, that did the trick.) I finally started queueing using bookmarks instead of opened tabs; it was much more annoying to do, but I managed to conquer that site as well.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage — only click if you're a competitor to a YC venture. ;)
I don't understand what everyone's so surprised about. Myspace makes nearly $1 billion in revenue, and Facebook is larger, has better technology, has a more affluent audience, of which they have more information about, has multiple revenue streams (billions of CPM ads [I estimate 6B by Quantcast numbers, they also have a lot more space for them since the re-design], tens of thousands of targeted ad campaigns [many of which I've seen, some of which I've clicked], newsfeed insertion partnerships [youtube charges in excess of 200K for front page ads], gifts [obviously not the core of their revenue stream, but I guarantee they pull in a few million], platform [they aren't really monetizing it yet, but developers are making hundreds of thousands to millions a month on it, so I wouldn't be surprised if FB eventually gets in on some of that action]), etc.

I know it's fashionable to hate or doubt Facebook nowadays, but if you look at the numbers instead of your own personal experience with Facebook (which, since your on Hacker News, is probably not very similar with their core user base), I think you'll come to the conclusion that the demise of Facebook is not just around the corner.
When doors are "armed", opening them automatically deploys emergency exit slides.
already been posted a while ago here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510264
$20,000 Per Source Line of Code
I like Malcolm Gladwell and I enjoyed reading Blink. However, he's selling a book. His arguments are all very biased and do not inform.

Priming has similar effects as hypnosis, and is increasingly believed to be linked. 1/3 of people react negatively to priming and hypnosis, something that is rarely mentioned. Hypnosis research has repeatedly shown that you cannot get someone to believe something they don't want to, or to do something they don't want to. There's a very nice scene in Mythbusters where a researcher clearly refuses a hypnotic suggestion, and then quickly comes out of the hypnosis. Earlier in the episode they tried it on one of the main cast members who knew they were being implanted with a suggestion (to slap someone or jump up and down, depending on the cue) and he broke out in a laughing fit.

Also if you want to see priming in the extreme, read about the Milgram Experiment and then about the Strip Search Prank Call Scam.

Also I know I'm one of the 1/3 who doesn't react to hypnosis. I'm unsure about hypnotic flooding, but its effects are less certain than normal hypnosis due to the fact that it perverts the results. Incidentally I'm one of the (about 10% of people) who react negatively to sleep meds, they wire me like the energizer bunny.

The true effects of priming are the country and state flags sat in the court rooms (this is especially bad in death-penalty cases as national pride usually ups the pro-death vote). What about seeing a guy accused of cop-killing being marched to the stand by two cops?

We have to be careful of the unconscious effects of priming we place all around ourselves, because the conscious use of priming in wide civilization will likely have the opposite effect of what we desire.

> Of course, you like to think you're above such manipulation-- so does everyone else.

I do, as you say everyone does. It's just a mere fact that 1/3 of people are. So you, me and a random person means one of us is above such manipulation.
Norway is very similar. They send you a return that is already filled out, and if you agree with the numbers, you don't have to do anything. If you do need to make changes (such as, say, the 10% credit for foreigners during their first two years in the country) you go online and add the information yourself.
I know someone who got hit with fines for owing less than $50, so it's probably better not to take the chance (she ended up paying over $100 in penalties in addition to the money she owed).
At it again:
Website users create internet script in attempt to reach 1,000,000 followers first
http://www.bnonews.com/news/261.html
Facebook apps and ads appeal to a market very far away from us tech guys so it can be hard to think of how it works. Think of things as random as bored at home fat housewives and Swedish people as your money makers. Also facebook ads can be hyper local, because people in facebook tend to actually put accurate information in! Imagine local businesses and organizations advertising their cancer runs, concerts or what not.
Honestly, I thought everyone knew HTML already.
Well, without even a general idea of what you mean by "some" that information is not very useful.
It is a cool rifle though.
Space Dancer, the 1st Multi Touch Game on Nokia 5800
I'm not sure if crush offers count...
mind-boggling stuff. Bezos is a killing machine - and there was a time when people wrote amazon off in the bust of 2000 - 'selling books online ??? - wasnt getting rid of print the whole point of the net anyways'
>And nice use of Hindi/Urdu over there. Where did you pick it up? :)

I grew up with Amitabh and Dharmendra movies, from Sholay to Silsila to all the classics. The soundtrack of my childhood has been Mohamed Rafi, Asha and Lata. Then came the Khans, Sharuh, Amir and Salman. We loved them in Somalia more than anything else. Then in my teens I moved to Pakistan to study for my O-levels and A-levels and now I sing with the best of them "Sindhi hum, balochi hum, punjabi hum puttani hum .." :-)

And my fiancee is Sri Lankan :-P

Maaf karnaa yar, didn't mean to be a jerk.
I don't get it.

Instead of "Let's get C++ easier to debug"

why not:

"Let's only write performance intense parts in C++", and have the rest in an interpreted scripting language, where things like this (and more) come much cheaper?
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they could just captcha the poll, it's not like they really need the random votes of people to lazy to fill it out in the first place.

seems like ip authentication is useless now because of the amount of proxies avaliable to people.
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Yes, but you'll need to do the mknod yourself, and have a program running in userspace reading from the block special file (or fifo).

I've used portaudio from Python on OS X before for doing this kind of audio manipulation.
Looks like they are still using the same codebase that was gamed before.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27475
I had already bookmarked the >50 tabs I had open for a lazy Sunday. Thanks.
To some degree I'd agree with you more now having done YC than before.

If you live in the USA and have ways of working yourself into Silicon Valley or some other startup culture, or have some other kind of access to seed funding and mentorship, then you don't need YC to succeed.

For us here in Melbourne, it was much harder. There's a few successful tech entrepreneurs from the 80s and 90s but they don't really get the web. And the angel and VC communities are tiny and unsophisticated.

Sure we could have backed ourselves, left our Melbourne lives behind and headed for Silicon Valley in the hope of finding a way to make things work. And had there not been any other option, perhaps we might have tried that, although at our age, probably not.

YC allowed us to fast-track the whole process. In the space of 5 months we went from just another unknown little startup from Melbourne to demoing our product to some of the world's most astute tech investors and being acclaimed by fellow startup founders and high-profile Valley identities alike.

That's not to say we've succeeded... we have a huge task ahead of us. But YC has helped us do in a few short months what might have taken us years any other way.
And when they say "cross-check" it means that the attendant at one door should look across and see that the other door has been done correctly. It's a part of the check-list culture that pervades the aviation industry and is partly responsible for the continuing safety record.
Ask HN: looking for criticism for projectEUREKA.org
ProjectEureka (http://www.projecteureka.org) is a compendium of problems. I know that there are thousand of problem sites, I also know that the name sounds awful similar to projectEuler (we are not very imaginative). However, I believe that there are many puzzle solvers/math enthusiast in HN willing to give it a try and share their experience with us.
Remembering words is different than remembering digits; mainly because remembering digits is actually remembering words that represent them ("five", for example). Therefore remembering digits would actually require you to remember 100 words instead of the current 20 which you then "decompress" into digits in your head using the simple decoding key.
or you might not have run into a very well targeted ad yet. i've run into a few ads related to some of my very niche interests and musical tastes that have definitely caught my eye.
I do. Works well.
The few things I've read indicate that the Sicilian Mafia is behind a lot of the dumping - they get paid to dump waste b/c they can do it "cheaply". Can you point to some sources which indicate that U.S. concerns are involved in this activity? Furthermore, exclusive economic zone only extends 200 nautical miles out from the coast. Given Somalia's coastal length of 1,880 miles, that's about 432,400 square miles of sea. And yet articles like this: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gB7YMEDuCw... say that the danger zone is 1.1 million square miles large. How do you account for the discrepancy?
Dekha ek khwaab to yeh silsile hue - that's one of the first songs I remember listening to as a kid! Glad to know our Ambassadors to Somalia were Mr. Bacchan and Dharam Paaji :)

No offense taken man and you've definitely been all over the subcontinent to the point of being an honorary desi ;)
"I don't understand what everyone's so surprised about. Myspace makes nearly $1 billion in revenue, and Facebook is larger, has better technology, has a more affluent audience,"

Probably thats the problem. More affluent(generalizing to educated) people and people who use better a network for technology, dont click on ads.