skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical, but sad myopic thinking that one language should do every possible thing well.

For example, Unix tools were designed to be good for one single task and then strung together using pipes. Each tool is left to decide how to be implemented in the best way possible instead of being centrally imposed. This could be C, Lisp, Bash, Perl, Python. In the end, it doesn't really matter which language each specific tool chose; it only matters that they work.

Another example, the typical video game on your iPhone is written in multiple languages: C, C++, Objective-C, Lua. The build process may include some shell scripts. And if there is a server component, that may have been written in Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, C, C++, Go, etc.
> As someone who had paid money to remove cubelets

As someone who never pays for in-app purchases, I am quite curious why you did this. Did you feel the purchase was worth it?
I've been waiting for someone to take over where Ebay left off. Selling things doesn't need to be take that much time or favor the those with big shiny paid templates.

However, I really would like to see your marketplace transactions be free, allowing the seller to keep all the profit. If you did this, and just charged on the backend for payment processing similar to Paypal, I think you'd really be competitive.

As it is, theboxngo is cheaper than Ebay, but just by a little bit. If you want me to switch, then you've got to give me a REALLY good reason, not just a pretty god one.
Yeah, that was absurd. I also don't care since I know Houston is changing the most rapidly and will soon win by a landslide. ;)
While it's true that there were no round-the-world chases in exploding robots piloted by naked sea nymphs in the earlier works of Sophocles, they did figure more prominently in his later plays. Scholars remain divided as to whether this was a direct or an indirect cause of the neon helicopter gunships that became a popular and recurring device in the oeuvre of Euripides.

Of course, very few of these "innovations" stand up to any real scrutiny. Close readings of the Odyssey and the Iliad will reveal that, more often than not, Homer did it first.
For Posterous you'd need to check out https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/posterous-grab and run that particular script I believe.
It really shows how badly the DMCA has been drafted then. It never actually defines what "electronic mail" means. This could actually be defined as a fax, because that transmits "mail", "electronically".
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If it was from the one party, then that could be reasonably seen as trying to disrupt their service.
I was about to sort them by letter count, but there's a txt of 4 letter handles: http://peticol.as/twitter-handles/4-letter-ok-sounding.txt
I poked around myself and the earliest use of the term I can find is in an article from 1968:

Pupil size and problem solving
JL Bradshaw
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1968

Of course when I tried to read the text of the article, I got a message saying

Sorry, you do not have access to this article.

How to gain access:

Recommend to your librarian that your institution
purchase access to this publication.
This is much more appealing to me.
Fantastic work! Was thinking about building something similar earlier today, actually.
I do find the top banner quite annoying though: the fixed positioning doesn't add any value, and it's quite large. It looks pretty, just give it absolute positioning.
This is article is brought to you by the sort of people who do 'technical analysis' of stock charts to predict price movements.
Don't forget The Humble Bundle :)
I work for that company as well, and had I known their open source contribution policy was so draconian (and their general attitude toward open source so utterly mercenary), I would have thought twice before accepting the offer.
Here are the articles: http://daringfireball.net/archive/
"Betas," TV Show About Startups (Amazon Original Pilots)
Why would you donate to them? They run the 74th most popular site on the internet and it's full of ads, popups and scamware.
I think literally forever is an exaggeration (as it pretty much always is). But the point is that you have to trust them for longer than you would like to, because once they've signed the certificates for a huge chunk of the internet, you can't take them back out without breaking a ton of stuff. Meanwhile as long as they remain trusted they can keep signing new certificates and making it that much harder to ever remove them.

The ones that get permanently removed are generally because they've already gone out of business.
So, like google except not anywhere near as fast?

I tried it, the results were ok, I didn't see any result that was better than Google (or bing).

I'm suspicious of anything that starts out by saying search is broken. It isn't.

All these things you have built like sentiment analysis and summarization etc do nothing new than using page rank. The reason is, those balanced review, well written pages are the same ones that humans have curated and used in their own citations. People do a much better job of language understanding than some simple sentiment analysis and the other other things you do. Because humans do it better, when google comes along and leverages all that human curation, the results are staggeringly good. Sure, there are easy to find edge cases, just like there were with your engine when i tried it, but I don't see anything new here. Maybe you could provide some example queries that demonstrate it producing better results than google or bing?

If, you could do comparison queries like Nikon vs canon and it produced a summarized report, that would be interesting, but it didn't do that.

Song lyrics are easy! That doesn't demo anything, nothing could be easier for a search engine than song lyrics...
What if confidentiality and authenticity would be handled by IPSec/DNSSEC instead of using solutions at the transport layer? This is not my idea, or new, but it makes more sense to me. Why do we move towards implementing security measures higher up in the abstraction layers when it should be a core part in any system?
Our lawyer wrote that text. I've never read it.
It's far older than the 90s, but that's a product largely of what old papers have been digitized, and minorly on the terminology—I think you'll find some papers that say 'cognitive workload.'

I recently fixed up an old bit of scientific apparatus, which was used to measure the cognitive workload of various aircraft cockpit designs. It used a method called visual occlusion, which you can guess the rest of—the pilots would sit in trainers with a set of glasses, that had spring-loaded solenoid flaps to block the pilots' vision selectively. The open time as well as the frequency of the system was experimentally varied until the pilot could fly the plane safely, for given conditions. The vacuum tube circuit that I repaired had a date stamp from the mid seventies but this technique was already more than a decade old by then. The same technique is now used (with liquid crystal shutters) to evaluate interfaces in cars for drivers, maybe a variant would be useful for certain application areas of software (modulating the screen, perhaps)?
I did say dozens of people. 150 people is just over 12 dozen.
i found out the other day criticizing anything about excel gets you pushback or backlash or some kind of "back"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5574764
I think it is more important to note that the white, upper-middle-class denizens of the valley actually like (or ar least don't mind) being near people who are not like them, relative to the other upper-middle-class people elsewhere.

New York has some of that going too, but it's worth pointing out that the culture in New York subsumes you. New York could still become a tech spot, if it could overcome other difficulties, like the whole employer-owns-all-your-work default.
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Do moviegoers feel bad when people die in movies? I do, and it makes me not like the movie, unless it is a drama and the death gets appropriate attention and consideration.
yes, great point - which is the broad point I was trying to make - Silicon Valley benefits from being in the whole Bay Area which is incredibly diverse and that's a key strength of Silicon Valley's geography which other places won't choose to emulate.

Still. Not quite sure why my original point that started this thread keeps getting downvoted though - that's several so far, as far as I can tell.
And it's easy to write horrifically bad, but working, code in C or C++. How exactly do you propose Excel butt into your workflow to expose advanced features?

If you plan to use Excel to aid you in making serious money (as countless business do), can't you fork out a thousand extra for an employee who actually knows how to use Excel properly?
That's funny...

because having lived in New York, and currently between DC and Houston, whenever I'm in Silicon Valley I'm always sort of, taken aback, by the paucity of blacks there. Reading through that article, I see now that it wasn't just my imagination.
>How could they offer a free achievement system for indie developers and still justify charging $50K for similar services on Xbox?

they can't. but is offering a free achievement system for indies going to net them enough to compensate for the loss of AAA developers on xbox? probably not. microsoft's earnings came out last week - they're still beating google on both gross and net revenue. They're not entirely stupid over there. I agree with you, they definitely don't seem to be progressive or well positioned for the future, but they're making money.
But <$10 for an ARM926 in very low quantities. Add DRAM, NAND (or SD).
> "white-washed asians and indians"

I am pretty sure a lot of Asian and Indian people will find that racist and offensive. I certainly do, and I'm neither.

As to New York, per my comment NY might be but Wall Street sucks the oxygen out of the talent room, similarly London where the City takes all the tech talent and starves startups of top-tier talent.
I've been saying for years that "I've outsourced my memory to Gmail"...
There are penalties for filing a false take down notice. See page 12 of http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

"In order to protect against the possibility of erroneous or fraudulent notifications, certain safeguards are built into section 512. Subsection (g)(1) gives the subscriber the opportunity to respond to the notice and takedown by filing a counter notification. In order to qualify for the protection against liability for taking down material, the service provider must promptly notify the subscriber that it has removed or disabled access to the material. If the subscriber serves a counter notification complying with statutory requirements, including a statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed or disabled through mistake or misidentification, then unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the subscriber, the service provider must put the material back up within 10-14 business days after receiving the counter notification.

Penalties are provided for knowing material misrepresentations in either a notice or a counter notice. Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed or blocked through mistake or misidentification, is liable for any resulting damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner or its licensee, or the service provider. (Section 512(f))"
Woz clearly has a different definition of being a good father to me; I think spending years in court to deny responsibility for your child pretty much disqualifies one for that particular praise.
You are jumping to massive conclusions on the chechen analysis. There is no evidence those kids weremore

than columbine-style depressed.
To quote more fully:

"As someone who had paid money to remove cubelets before this was introduced ID feel somewhat ripped off." Note the emphasized (by me) "ID" or "I'd", aka "I would". This one word changes the entire case of the verb and implies empathizing with a hypothetical victim versus actually being one.
One short-ish reasonable sounding one I was surprised wasn't taken was "kobold"...you'd think that some tabletop gaming fan somewhere would have gotten that one!
> 220 btc

Holy moly: $27K.
Yes, research sbows tbat fantasy violence is a safe outlet for people with violent inclinations, partially
Houston has the advantages of affordable property, more jobs for a wider range of backgrounds and few limits to development. It seems natural that new immigrants not specifically involved in the software industry would choose Houston over Silicon Valley. Especially if they already know they can take the humidity.
That's generally what a lean startup process / mindset is supposed to help you find. The idea being it's not something you can get a read on without putting a prototype MVP into the world to test.
GE Opens Patents to Makers – but There’s a Catch
> The more people get excited about faster ways to hoard bitcoins

People seem to be oblivious to the fact that a currency must be available in order to be useful. There is a reason that Gresham's Law has achieved "Law" status.

Oddly, the right thing to do for currency acceptance would be to shutdown all of the ASICs.
I'm currently trying to choose between Berkeley (Electrical Engineering Computer Science major) and Princeton for undergrad.

Has anyone here gone through the Princeton CS program?
no 3-letter handlers?
Nice idea. In the display, it shows "undefined NaN, NaN:aN PM". Probably a JS bug of some sort.
So I'll have to respectfully take a different view on Houston having lived there for three years (admittedly returning to the Bay Area in 2007). There's certainly diversity in ethnicity in that there are large population of whites, african-americans and hispanics. Outside of those groups there's a large fall-off. But more importantly a key weakness of Houston is its lack of cultural diversity. I found to be the most parochial city of 4million people I'd ever experienced (and I've lived in a lot of places). It is not really remotely comparable to something like Silicon Valley in that regard, sadly.

However, I share your hope that the increased ethnic diversity, and the general nationwide cultural trends of young people being more open to new things and will become thought leaders. Of course my reluctant skepticism comes from what I experienced (great anecdote for another venue) of the control of thought leadership by a very narrow good-ole-boy network which appears pretty well entrenched and able to ride out the best intentions of upcoming potential leaders. I was shocked by the examples of outright corruption while living there.

Not to dampen your optimism - I am absolutely cheering you on to be right, as I'd love to see it, but I'm sadly pessimistic.
To me this kind of makes the earlier article seem overblown. Okay, so the entirety of silicon valley is a toxic waste dump? Well then.
I'm a little confused here. Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but how does that make Rendr any different from any other server-side framework that responds with HTML?
Here's one from 1970

http://books.google.com/books?id=srxOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22cogni...

If you search that book for "cognitive load is defined" you get the snippet:

> "Cognitive load" is defined loosely as the amount of mental strain put on a person during the performance of some task, often at least partially due to the constraints placed on the performance of that task...
short term : identify who are your clients, and reach out to them on LinkedIn. Make sure you write a personalised mail and explain how you can solve some problem that they are facing.

long term : content marketing. writing blogs, being active on quora, facebook and linkedin discussions helps a lot.

Things like AdWords, leaflet drops etc haven't worked for me.
Don't forget Amdahl's law and Gustafson's law on the limits of parallelizing when the problem isn't P-complete. Either way, I disagree with your conclusion that it is misguided.
I like the old logo better, http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-logo.html is waaay too busy.
Fairly well centered on Wilson Sonsini? I'm trying not to confuse correlation with causation here.
Cult leaders get their followers to do all sorts of extraordinary things through systematic abuse. I've read a number of bios of cult survivors and a consistent theme is their incredible dedication and accomplishment.

The interesting question to me is whether there are other ways to do great work. People focus on Jobs and then generalize from their n=1 sample. They also take the visible correlations and turn them into causation. It's ridiculous.

Even if Jobs's behavior towards subordinates is related to his success, it may not be in the way people think. Perhaps his abuse of engineers was valueless, and that the win for Apple was in him abusing management rivals so they were all afraid of playing the normal turf games. Or maybe his prickishness was only needed to get him back in charge of Apple as chief tastemaker, a CEO who was willing to spend on design until a product was fucking right.

If we expand the sample size to n=2 and just add another Jobs company, Pixar, we can see that it's possible to produce an extraordinary amount of great work without anybody running around being a giant asshole all the time.
That nitpick aside--wow! Factor is getting more and more impressive every day.
I've seen this org chart comic 100 times and always assumed it was xkcd. Really surprised it isn't.
Counter-strike has definitely gone somewhere. Compare CS 1.3 to whatever CS:Crap is currently the latest version (and note that the game has been garbage since CS 1.6).

I tried UT3, but compared to UT99 or UT2003 even, it was horrible.

There's a point somewhere there. Maybe it's that the older games were a lot more fun to play and the newer ones focus on dumbing down gameplay and looking pretty. Someday someone will bring back first person shooters.
Perhaps off-topic, but to those that are interested in bloat-free open source Reader replacements, I've had extremely good luck with TT-RSS. It's been in development since 2005, is written in PHP, and is quite slick IMHO. I run my own instance on shared hosting (DreamHost) and it hasn't failed me yet. Open-source Android client as well (though it costs a couple of bucks in the play store.)
http://tt-rss.org/
SolarCity's Chief, on a Turn Toward the Sun
what version of ZSH are you using? I'm having issues installing this on Ubuntu where the metadata commands aren't executing and are instead printed as

$vcs_info_msg_0_`git_dirty` $username `cmd_exec_time`
Ask HN: During startup phase, what lead managment software you use?
During startup phase, how do you manage all your contacts?

During initial phase when as a founder you are doing everything including sales as well, what tool is best for managing all your leads.

There are many sales lead management softwares but I am not sure whether they are a good fit for an entrepreneur (who is primarily not a sales person). HINT: They might be too complicated. Another HINT: I have never used them so I might be wrong.

Do you use any tool which is an obvious choice currently?
I think the key is though - and certainly the point I was trying to make at the start of the thread - it's not just ethnic diversity, though that's important. It's diversity of opinion and other cultural factors. There's an open-mindedness to Silicon Valley that is definitely not there in Houston - my in-laws are from Houston and I lived there for three years, and I don't think anyone would make the case that it's comparable to the Bay Area for that.

Yet that cultural tolerance has been shown time and again to be critical in attracting the creative class professionals which make Silicon Valley tick.
For you, maybe. Not everyone holds that opinion.
Programming is Like a Dream
Knowing somebody's bio photo may not help you when they cut in front of you in the lunch line. Recognition cues there are very different.

Also, recognition is a lot about context. When you see him in a black turtleneck on stage, you're primed.

I was once visiting a pal Google and ran across Eric Schmidt. Turns out his office was right next to a development team. I could have easily picked him out of a set of photos, but I wasn't expecting him to walk out of a small office in a random part of the building. It wasn't until he was walking away that I said, "Wait a minute. Was that..." And that was seeing his face, rather than the back of his head.
Awesome. They did improve their network infrastructure and this clearly shows that.
My problem with startups is the cognitive overhead in linking their company name to their function. I cannot remember what trello does for example? Naming of services should be more obvious.
You might want to filter out words which are too long to actually be Twitter handles.
Contact me please. I want to talk about this a bit more. (email in my profile)
http://www.apple.com/support/ipodshuffle/reference/
Yeah, same here, from someone who's a fan otherwise. He's had some dogs, but the one that stood out to me was some weather app (not Dark Sky, which is excellent) a year or so ago. It was pretty, which I image is what caught his eye. Too bad it was crap for predicting the weather, or even getting the local temperature right for that matter. I really wondered if he ever used it for its intended purpose.
I tested that a while back in 2012.

There's some, but they're all nonsense. Nasty ones like 2q4 for the most part.
It's too bad you didn't read the article. He answers your exact question.
Hard to believe @abdominohysterectomy is still available. Jackpot.

Edit: Equally fortunate: abdominohysterectomy.com is available.

http://www.whois.com/whois/abdominohysterectomy.com

Jokes asides, it would be useful to cross check this with domain availability and username availability on other _popular_ social sites.
The cost of housing alone. An equivalent to my large house in a leafy suburb of Houston is absolutely unaffordable to me now I live in the Bay Area. Personally I prefer my overall lifestyle and standard of living here, but it's bloody pricey!
> You still enjoy a truly great game if you lose, just slightly less than if you win. There's an emergent art to the game that is appealing and interesting regardless of the outcome.

Sigh, and that of course applies to PvP games as well. Back when I played a lot of FPS deathmatch I quite enjoyed a good match, even if I didn't come out on top.
I agree that Yahoo's intent isn't the destruction of historical data, and that the phrasing is hyperbolic, but the end result is more accurate than not.

Internet companies and service providers like Yahoo have collected huge amounts of human communications, intent, and intellectual output ("UGC") that continues to have historical significance even if the commercial interest is no longer there.

Maybe these companies don't make any implicit promises for archiving this data, but as a society, we're a lot poorer for its wholesale destruction and we should be thinking a lot more about the social contract/implications...
I think people are more oblivious to the fact that a "deflationary currency" is inherently flawed because it by definition results in hoarding, which is not what you want people to do with your currency. Why would you bother loaning or investing it if you can make more money just sitting on it?
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My TA for a cryptography class worked on this. I had the pleasure of messing with it one afternoon. Pretty cool stuff.