skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the second time today you've submitted that link and it's a beautiful splash page but I haven't tried your app because it evidently requires me to grant you access to my Facebook profile. Maybe if you had a demo or a screencast we could watch we'd understand how much fun it would be to play Cupid with our friends.

I've clicked on a few Facebook apps and most strike me as invasive in terms of what they automatically publish about me. Maybe you could remind visitors up front what personal information we'll be granting to hookuphelper, what messages you'll be sending to our friends on our behalf etc?
I thought it was supposed to recognize it's a name and tell you interesting facts about the first name - popularity over time etc.
Definitely not over-reacting. I'd say that's under-reacting. Going to job everyday to work under an eye of an overseer selling best days of your life to some corporate schmuck.

Now excuse me while I go work on my side business even more as this was incredibly fucking motivating.
"Tracy Schmaler, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said it was because 'a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge.'

Schmaler also said the request to stay off Drudge wasn’t politically motivated and said it was sent only to the office in Massachusetts. She also said other popular sites were later found to have potential viruses, including ESPN.com."

I'm not seeing the political motivation here. I have Chrome set up to auto-black anything with shady code, and have had it trigger on a whole variety of websites, including political sites of both left and right (edit: based on the ads, not the content). There's a lot of malware out there.
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you have to think of the 10% cut as a 10% discount on your debt PLUS recurring interests. Heck even 1% matters when it comes to paying down mortgages and debt.
I refer you to earlier discussions/wisdom on this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408226

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95912
If you're serious, I can contact the original client and see about IP. My email is this screen name @gmail.com.
All of them belong to that list, except youtube
While I agree this is article is pretty fluffy, don't just discount the idea. Don't knock it until you try it...

Most people waste a lot time in the morning building up enough courage (or guilt) to start their real work. They check email, read blogs, chat around the water cooler...whatever. All that stuff can wait until you actually need a break. Personally, when I jump right in and start writing code, it has a huge impact on my productivity for the day.
Can "the differences between men and women in tech" be added to the things that aren't useful to discuss/post?

It's becoming the 'politics' of HN.
They do provide valid services though: driving you and your family to and from many showings, talking to the owner/owner's Realtor, take care of the legal mumble jumble, provide info on the house's previous owner records, previous sale pries, insight into school districts, commute hours, community by-laws..etc.

House-hunting is certainly NOT less than a day's worth of work. If they end up not buying from him, all this time spent on working their profile earns him exactly $0. The goods that he sells are his time: time that he can't spend with another customer simultaneously.

Bob was an evil realtor; evil [profession] are evil. That's all.
Why shouldn't the engineers have new Aeron chairs? Software Engineers spend most of their careers sat down, so you should buy them the best damn chair you can afford, something that supports their bodies and is very comfortable.

Look at fogcreek software, they managed to move to AWESOME offices and they are still a lean company hiring great engineers who make great products.
very eloquently stated...
Please, let us hear it. The world has enough political correctness to deal with.
That would be ideal, but increasingly that is encrypted and DRMed as well, which further has limits on what you can do with it. It's no longer enough to decode the video once and pass it around the house. Now they want a fully encrypted pathway to make sure you aren't playing it in your bedroom while you watch it in the livingroom too.
Okay everyone start submitting every little problem with Wolfram Alpha now!
No it's not, median is a kind of average (the most common one).
I know three 20-somethings pairs that are still paying off their weddings after getting divorced.
People need to realize WA isn't some generic search engine, it's an academic one.... and must be used as such.

Median and Mean are both "average." You get what you search for.
Here's the second edition from 2008: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/...
This is an interesting idea. But I think it is important for the card not to contain any false information. In the two cases shown, the cards indicate they were issued, respectively, by the U.S. DHS and the San Francisco MTA. And of course they were not.

I think a good solution to this, for the U.S., would be for the card to say "United States of America". Then, assuming the person is correctly named and pictured, there are no falsehoods. The card DOES come from the USA, the individual IS authorized to photograph, etc.

OTOH, I also agree with user callmeed:

> Instead of having a fake license, it's much better to know your rights and be able to defend them to those who accuse you.
Go for it. A thoughtful comment is welcome. I dont think it is as simple as girls trying to please teachers. These kids are putting in far too much effort for that to be the motivating factor. Or is it that fairs are biased towards bio rather than physical sciences and math? I wonder how a mathematical proof would even be evaluated.
You'll die a little after 30, though.
Yes: http://twitter.com/djangocon/status/1637612685
They were recorded (apparently).

Not sure when they will be uploaded though :-(
I wonder if mean gets the same results however.
this is the dilemma. if a guy asks for a prenup, he's a heartless jerk. if he doesn't, he risks a huge exposure in the future.

lets start a poll: would you want a pre-nup?
Did you try "mean"?
Well I think it is naive, but that was the mainstream view back then, takes a long time to shift popular views of things...
Sounds only marginally worse than some of the departments at my school.

(University of Pittsburgh for those wondering)
I haven't read the documentation on how to speak to W|A but I think "average age at death..." would have been clearer form symantically.
OH MY GOD the ratio shifted from 55/45 to 44/56. IT'S SO UNEVEN!!
First of all, the question doesn't mean anything. If you read it literally it's asking "how old is death on average in the united states in 2005?" How old is death? Next query should be "where is the nearest college level logic and critical thinking course?"
Small correction: "$220 cable/telephone/Internet bill for the past two months"

Looks like $220 is not per month, but rather for two months. Still, I agree they should cut down on their monthly expenses.
Ask HN: Great design without designer on-board?
Hey All,

Well, the odds of having a good designer that speaks with people through colors and shapes on a startup team aren't all that great.
Of course, you can always outsource design but here are several problems that I see:

1. Price. Bootstrapped startup often can't afford professional design and cheap design often is crappy.

2. Misunderstanding. A much bigger problem. As I see it, design isn't just pretty decorations on your website or nice drawings in your app. It's a direct projection of your idea through a media similar to text. If you have a tight 1-4 person team that understands the idea very well, a foreign person might fuck it up.

What do you do without a designer? The only possible solution I see is just do what you can and pray to %deity your idea and algorithms carry your through.

Is there another solution?
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Just because they won't be able to pronounce it like an old English man doesn't make the service any less useful or powerful. And I don't buy Yahoo's name is the reason for its success.
William Deming is the reason the Japanese had high quality electronics. American's wouldn't listen to him, the Japanese needed him desperately. Today the Japanese love that man.

(While the Americans weren't listening to Deming, Harvard Biz Profs even went as far as to predict that Deming/Japan's love for quality would not be sustainable and its competitive advantage would erode. It turns out they were right, the Koreans are the example of this.)
I find it interesting that these comparisons often focus on income and not wealth.

"In 1998, for example, the richest 1 per cent of Americans took home 14 per cent of total income, while in Sweden the figure was only about 6 per cent. Wealth concentration is another matter, however. The richest 1 per cent of Americans owned about 21 per cent of all wealth in 2000. Some European nations have higher concentrations than that. In Sweden—despite that nation’s egalitarian reputation—the figure is 21 per cent, exactly the same as for the Americans. And if we take account of the massive moving of wealth offshore and off-book permitted by Sweden’s tax authorities, the richest 1 per cent of Swedes are proportionately twice as well off as their American peers."

And, income inequality doesn't always predict poverty the one one might think.

"What about poverty, not the same thing as inequality? Because inequality is greater in America, relative poverty is by definition also higher. But absolute poverty rates look different. If we take absolute poverty to be living on the actual cash sum equivalent to half of median income for the original six nations of the EU, we see that many western European countries in 2000 had a higher percentage of poor citizens than the US; not only Mediterranean countries, but also Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden. Unemployment benefits in the US, often portrayed as derisory in the European media, are actually higher than in many European nations. Greece, Britain, Italy and Iceland spend less than the US on unemployment, measured per capita."

(Note that the US seems to have lower unemployment rates so higher per-capita spending combined with lower per-capita rates produces even higher per-unemployed-person spending. Yes, I realize that spending doesn't translate into benefits, that administration sucks up a lot of money, but that's a separable problem.)

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10...
The writing off mass injustice and suffering as 'semantics' notwithstanding, you might enjoy learning that 'parasite' described those in Greek and Roman society who earned their daily meals by entertaining and flattering at the dinner tables of the rich

Hopefully you appreciate the irony in the word now describing those forced to live in incarceration, to satisfy a societal elite with a fetish for moralizing and punishment
Thanks, I'm even happier for myself! I'm only 22, so I have my whole life ahead of me. I feel badly for the former ministers, theologians and missionaries etc. who, after dedicating 30 or 40 years to religion realize the irrationality.

There are many more who've 'deconverted.':
www.de-conversion.com
www.unreasonablefaith.com
www.debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com

All of those are run by former Christians. In fact, Nathan Phelps, the son of Fred Phelps (of GOD HATES FAGS fame) recently gave his account of what it was like growing up. Moving stuff.
Would a computing project not be accepted as a submission in a science fair?
Why would you ask Person A why Person B is not interested in a particular subject matter? Why not just go ask Person B?

Is there a good reason for this approach that I have missed? It seems to be a popular approach, but I don see the value in it. Anyone able to enlighten me?
I think it's a somewhat interesting topic, but this article was full of unfounded speculation, and very light on real content unfortunately.
it clearly says,"no data available"

If it had the average age, or the mean age, then it would have given it to you.
Its not a silver bullet, but it is specifically designed for problems like Twitter's back-end issues. If it can handle running telephone systems for years at a time with a large string of 9s of uptime, I think it can handle broadcasting SMS. Well. Its the most proven tool for this type of job and the only one I'm aware of designed from the ground up for building applications like twitter that are utterly reliable.

Not a case of magic, just the right tool for the right job. You could code a web app in C, but why would you? Making twitter in Ruby (and to a lesser extent Scala) is the same thing.

I clicked the profile link to your blog, and it looks like you have a lot of Ruby experience. Compare the syntax for message passing between Erlang and Ruby.

id ! {my_fun,Args},

Thats it. Passing messages between pids on nodes across a network isn't much harder.

Compare the difficulty of parallel computation and storing data in parallel across many systems reliably between Erlang and Ruby. Doing that stuff in Erlang is just as easy as doing CRUD in RAILS, because the tools are designed to make it easy.

The downside is that Erlang is pretty bizarre and hard to learn if you've never coded in a functional language - you only get to set values ONCE, etc. Thats a critical feature for debugging large pools of processes working together, but it sure is strange. Which is why you wouldn't use Erlang to do a simple CRUD web app, you'd use RAILS.

Seriously... its an entire language based around passing messages between lightweight pids working in congress, across many systems, with built-in fail-safes for any failures, and a rock-solid distributed/redundant data store baked in.

In this situation its just about as close to a silver bullet as you will ever see. Erlang would make writing twitter's back-end FUN.

A dozen crazy Swedish mad scientists slaved over a language for years to enable creating scalable applications like twitter trivial, only to be totally ignored by most everyone until quite recently. And still twitter picks something else for the rebuild.

'Heavy metals poisoning' would seem to be a more apt metaphor than 'silver bullet.'
That's exactly what happens when you do the "massive hype big televised launch" strategy.

If cuil had gone for the "Slowly grow organically, iterate, improve", it may well be grabbing market share by now, instead of being dead.
Or even more accurately "Link bait sure to generate controversy and drive traffic to my obscure blog"
If people need to take a course on logic to use it, I don't think it'll be that useful.
It can be to your advantage if your competition steals from you because (1) they don't understand the context, (2) they copy the flaws, and (3) you'll always be ahead of them by at least a few months since the stuff they copied is old.
True, but I think it's fair to say that most do. At least those that take their faith seriously. After all, Christ did tell us to look out for the signs of the end. And throughout history, Christians have have always tried to ascertain the identity of the Antichrist. Some thought it was Nero, some thought it was Antiochus Epiphanes, Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Obama...

Some groups, however, such as the Seventh-Day Adventists, believe that the Roman Catholic church, as an institution, is the Antichrist. This was also the position of the Reformers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin.
Friday launch in the mid-evening. Are they trying to downplay any service failures?
Yes there are time and opportunity costs paid by the custodial parent. However, a custodial parent also gets significant benefits that the non-custodial parent doesn't get. (Otherwise, why fight for custody?) Surely it's fair to take those into account as well.
I am wrapping up 4 months in a similar experience that hasn't worked out.

Before I accepted I put together a spreadsheet which calculated lost salary and opportunity costs versus potential return for a 2, 3 and 5 year period. I had to fudge some numbers but it was a really good exercise and recommend going through for your situation (ie: wife, house, future kids, etc...)

Regarding stock, some questions I asked along the way:

- How Many Shares / What percentage of company do I own?
- What type of stock is it and what restrictions or exercise rights do I have.
- How will my shares be diluted over time?
- Can I see the term sheet being sent to potential investors?

After the calculations I was comfortable with the risk/return for me and did it.

But now 4 months later, they are out of money and starting Tuesday I'll be looking for something else.
Sure. I'd be interested in scientific studies, analysis of male/female brain differences etc - real data - hard facts. Having said that, I still think it's a bit of a toxic subject.
> I wonder why America does not welcome entrepreneurs

To be entirely fair, the U.S. government does not welcome entrepreneurs.

And to be more general, the U.S. government no longer welcomes anyone; even the ones that are allowed in are treated badly.

If I had my way, this would be one of the top current issues in U.S. politics. I wonder why it isn't. I especially wonder why the U.S. tourism industry hasn't been screaming about it for a few years now.
I deeply want the ability to supply my own datasets, which can be graphed/explored with their tools.
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HTC Touch Dual a point to innovate with every product they release. Every device has it's own unique contribution to the world of telecommunications. Touchscreen responds swiftly to gestures and the 20 key QWERTY keyboard.
But maybe natural language queries will always work better if they are grammatical, because ungrammatical queries will have too many ambiguities to parse.
I am so worried about it because I understand the risk involved in creating a digital product with value and the loss of reward to society caused by leeches who choose to enhance their lives at the expense of a creator's benefit.

I think the more telling answer would be to the question, "Why /aren't/ you worried about it?"
If that's the case, then we should also eliminate HTTP because the good chunk of HTTP users are using it to commit crimes by going to BitTorrent websites.

Give me a break.
How much did Twitter cost to develop vs TIBCO Rendezvous? How much of the "easy" part did you come up with yourself vs working at a polished product that already? What are the actual volumes that Rendezvous handles and how do the details of the network topography compare? How do the details of the functionality compare? How much scalability analysis to they teach in CS (answer: only theory)? Is anyone who doesn't have your particular experience an idiot? Is working on a product for a small collection of the filthy rich better work than creating something that millions of people directly identify with?

Finally, how much do you know about Twitter's architecture and do you know the definition of hubris?
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It's not sharing. It's stealing.

If the users of BitTorrent created products of equal value to the products they steal with BitTorrent, then perhaps it may be considered sharing, however, the vast majority of BitTorrent users create nothing and consume everything.

That is not sharing. That is stealing.

Consumers should reward producers for production. Any other system is doomed to failure and BitTorrent creates those in any market for digital products.

It's really super simple. The fact that this community would down vote me for expressing such logic is all the more reason to believe that "hackers" need not be rational.
I'll try, but let me ask you this, which post was more personally offensive? What I said in response to one flip comment? Or what the comment said about a whole group of successful people without any reasoning or substantive argument?
I could use help with design too and it's not so much that I can't design but that I'm too close to my app and need outside opinions about how to lay stuff out and how to phrase things. I wonder if startups could moonlight a little and help one another out on design, doing mockups and copyrighting with the expectation that the effort contributed will be reciprocated.
Wolfram is the existing brand they have already long established which already is well known in Universities through Mathematica product. Since this product will appeal to a similar set of users, it wouldn't be a good idea to start a fresh with a new brand.
This sounds like a good way to ruin your sleep thinking about the goal you want to do in the morning. Anyone else feel that way?
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I clearly said, "This is the problem with BitTorrent and this is why we should simply stop using it to steal."

So you argue against what I said by using an example of something that is not stealing -- even after I acknowledge legal things can be done with BitTorrent. That is called "straw man." Instead of addressing my points, you invent some other point to support your case.

And then you call me illogical.

You and everyone here knows I'm right. Doesn't matter how much karma I lose. The fact that I'm losing karma only proves my case. The BitTorrent community is irrational.
yeah, who needs distribution anyway?
Depends on your criteria for success, For the founders of Youtube it was an unqualified success. For Google trying to make a business out of it it's so far been frustrating to say the least.

That being said by this measure, Digg, Facebook and Twitter are in the same boat (or worse, since they haven't been acquired)
"the good chunk" and "the vast majority" are not mathematically equivalent. One is well under 50% and the other is well /over/ 50%.
Honest curiousity: What computational-biology question would you ask Wolfram|Alpha that you would expect a better answer to, vs. either Google, conventional journal search, or asking your own local computing resources? (In particular the questions that I know enough to ask, such as they are, would seem to be more suited to local resources.)

(In fact, I'd open that question up to any other similar discipline.)
Well, thankfully one of the top priorities of the upcoming release is a stable API.
I didn't say it is unethical and morally corrupt because it is illegal.

It is illegal AND unethical and morally corrupt. They obviously see that it is fit to be produced because they consume it.

I have yet to see anything logical or rational from anyone arguing the pro-BitTorrent side of this debate.
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Exactly. If a human couldn't answer the question, how could a computer parse it?
Robert Anton Wilson overestimated progress towards longevity in 1978. Us too in 2009?
Foxes are animal equivalents to robbers or tricksters in almost every children story I know (in Europe)... I'm not sure, why did you mentioned Asia specifically?

Every single symbol will have a negative bias for someone... but I doubt some person would skip firefox just because of the icon :/
Are your views U.S.-centric?
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Mandatory showering would have been much appreciated during my undergraduate CS course :( Windowless lecture theatres in the summer... never again.

Also, all night raids are a pretty good way to foster teamwork and a common ground, as long as you can survive the next day!
Was that picture really necessary? Oh, man.
Wolfram Alpha may delay launch
servers and bandwidth are tools companies use to make employees more efficient, so yeah, it should be counted.
Theft is the depriviation of men's property, not of potential profit.

The copying and digital distribution of work cannot qualified as stealing because there is no property being stolen. Nobody is depriving anyone of their ability to watch, copy, sell, and modify these movies.

This is very simple logic. The fact that you wish to deflate these actions of copying and distribution with stealing is disingenuous.
When it comes to easy vs. being honest, I usually choose the latter.

Then again, when it comes to being honest vs. not being tasered ...