skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But both those subsets have very little overlap. CouchDB is great at solving problems that relational databases never can be good at.
It's a reality for some women; not all, obviously. There are many men who are just as bad in intention and deed, but they don't get nearly as much support from the court system.

The problem is that we have an unfair system (not just in the courts, but in all kinds of social affairs) that enables female misbehavior (under antiquated beliefs that women are weak and can't protect themselves) while holding men to a higher standard of accountability, which makes women a lot more likely to get away with being spoiled.
Yet another rehashing of the (inaccurate) Credit Suisse story.
As of 2007, NTT DoCoMo had a higher profit per employee than Exxon Mobil. Look at the report. http://www.massmac.org/newsline/0707/McKinsey.pdf
It's feeling more and more like a natural language interface for Mathematica. Which, I think, means that an API is a way to get around the layer of Alpha they've wrapped around Mathematica.
I put my work into the public domain when possible (employers and licenses of stuff I use permitting), but I do care about money, and to a lesser extent accolades. This puts me in the rhetorically enviable position of being a person who creates for a living, does care about money, and still doesn't believe in the ownership of information in the abstract. ;)
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Another x86 VM is vx32 which runs 9vx, a version of Plan 9 From Bell Labs as an application. We promote it to new users as an alternative to finding compatible hardware or running Qemu.

vx32 : http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/

9vx : http://swtch.com/9vx/

I think a Windows port of 9vx is one of our GSoC projects
Maybe the business model (for now) is just that it's a tech demo for Mathematica?
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I'd like to understand what drove the Japanese and American industries to turn around, and how much of that is applicable to China.

Among other factors, a free press and an independent judiciary, neither of which China has yet.
In what year did the first car sell for a net profit?
It'll be most interesting if you can supply your own knowledge representations. Imagine being able to tie up your own information against the huge repository of data that (appears!) to be present in Wolfram Alpha.
Well, to some extent visible role models and tangibly successful women (look how much she earns!) can be inspirational. It's just a matter of how you present it. (Hint: not like this.)
Can I refresh the page to see the distance between the Moon and New York change in real time, including accounting for the 1.3x10^-9 Earth-Moon recession speed? If so that's pretty cool!
Would you please not resort to personal attacks?
It seems to be a proprietary college with an essentially open admission policy.

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...
In this particular case, women aren't particularly good at determining whether a potential husband will turn out to be a scumbag, so it makes some sense for society to protect them against that possibility. (Actually, men aren't very good at determining whether a potential wife will be a scumbag either, so society should probably protect them, too...)

I agree with you. I think men and women are, innately, about equal in terms of stupidity and bad intentions. They diverge for cultural reasons. Men (in general) are rewarded more for individual accomplishments but also are punished more severely for misbehavior, and both of these discrepancies are morally wrong. What this leads to is a country in which the women, on average, are more spoiled and less ambitious than the men.

Most men have a spell when they get burned by their bad tastes in women-- before their tastes mature, they go after the popular bubbly/slutty chicks everyone else wants, and most of them get their asses handed to them. Thing is, for men, these sorts of spoiled/immature/stupid traits get burned out of them when they're young, because they grow up knowing that they have no one to blame but themselves. That doesn't happen as much for women.
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Although it seemed like a good idea when I read the headline -- get a bunch of engineering students, cram them into one school, and see what happens -- actually reading the article was disappointing. Their "core" course listing[1] is heavily stacked towards "enterprise" languages and buzzwords. Where I would have expected a heavy emphasis on maths, there is XML, UML, and Java. The "Math" section itself is anemic, and contains the sort of classes that could be found at any community college.

Furthermore, the culture appears to value immaturity and irresponsibility. All-night Warcraft "raids"? Pervasive hygiene issues, to the point where students are proposing mandatory showering? This sounds less and less like a school, and more like a sugar-fueled gaming convention.

[1] http://www.neumont.edu/education/programs/courses.html
Blaming those ground under the heel of the US Justice system for being forcibly made into "parasites" is almost as repugnant as encouraging our youth to side with the oppressors instead of the oppressed
Of course it's probably not going to return anything relevant when you enter your own name, why should it? It's certainly not Google. I get the feeling the author doesn't understand that.
Right, Realized that a bit later.
Their government has 350 billion / 4.7 million = 74,468$ in their oil fund per person including children. So the average person would need to be holding over 100,000$ in debt (including children) for that to balance out which seems fishy to me.
Yes, the math courses would be considered mostly remedial at a state flagship university like University of Minnesota Twin Cities, not to mention at an Ivy plus university.
Unfortunately, Digg users found 4Chan, who found Reddit, who found HN. It's going to happen.

As a former Digg and current Reddit user, I'm happy to have found HN. The comments are (for the most part) well thought out and intelligent here.
I suppose this could be like watching Nascar... you hope for the best but if there is a terrible accident it's sort of what you were expecting?
Professor Dawkins is one of my all time heroes. Selfish gene theory stands at the center ultimately of all anthropology, sociology, biology, and psychology. He has transformed the world by giving us an understanding of our own existence, he has answered the age-old question of "Why are we here?". We are here, to preserve and copy the genes. They should build a statue of him next to Darwin. He is the apotheosis of human understanding. Like Prometheus, he has "given man a gift they had not conceived, and lifted darkness off the earth."
I'm glad to see you point this out. When I try to point it out I get -5 karma.
There are three things at work here:
1. How stale the index/data is.
2. The coverage of the data.
3. The processing algorithms that do magic on the data to return results.

These are the key things every search engine deals with.

Google, Yahoo!, and MS Live compensate for stale data by scheduling their crawlers very cleverly. Google has published a few blog posts a while back about how it does it (I'm sure it's even more improved now).

The breakthrough of W|A is number (3) in my list above. They kick ass and frankly make search much more useful than anything we have now. You're no longer searching for pages that have the info, but getting answers directly. A Cambridge, UK, startup called True Knowledge does this too, and it's impressive (W|A is much better in data presenation though).

So for an alpha product, please do not judge it by have stale or incomplete data. It simply can't have all the data fresh from the get-go. Judge though by how good or bad are the algos that power the search. The data is relatively easy to get hold of when compared to writing awesome analysis code.
11 years ago it's still naive.

1. GNU has been going for nearly a couple of decades - Linus didn't magic an OS out of thin air. The modern equivalent is the articles written about Safari that suggest Apple did the same.

2. Nor was was Linux for home brews - Red Hat, the commercial distro, had emerged as the current leader for both businesses and nerds, with Apache (written by the ASF, which still had strong commercial roots) and to a lesser extent Samba (which I guess back then was still relatively uncommercial, so I give the article that).

3. As a Linux consultant at the end of 1998, I started on 75 Australian dollars an hour, because I knew Unix despite having no access to RISC systems. Utterly useless? I think not.
Okay...but surely some major organization has measured unemployment in New York more recently than 3 years ago.
Hi Paul,

I apologize for submitting this article. If it is viewed by the community as sub-par or unworthy please know it was unintentional. My thought was that this take on the article helped put the numbers into perspective relative to other classes of trade. It probably would have made a better comment than submission.

I have a huge respect for what has been created at HN and though my account is less than a year old I've been reading for far longer.

Two thoughts on things that could be done other than weighting (which I'm actually a fan of).

1. I would make this guideline a bit more explicit "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. -- Reference replies to the primary source in comments unless the analysis is equal to or greater in quality than the original"

2. Create a 2 column approach for comments with "new" on the right and sequential, or popular on the left. This would help some comments get a fair hearing in heavily threaded stories.

However neither suggestion will take the place of a strong community. Thanks for calling me out.
I agree, but don't feed the troll.
My 5 year old daughter wakes up instantly at about 6:15AM. And her first achievement every morning is to get her dad out of bed with a smile. :)
Isn't that what vote weighting is for?
Also, you may want to consider what additional benefits the large company has to offer, aside from just the "stability" supposedly inherent.

I say this just to balance out the conversation, because it seems like it's considered a given that it's a straight risk vs. reward between the startup and the large company. I'm not saying this is necessarily so, but if your potential spot in the large company is something that (e.g.) you will enjoy, will allow you the opportunity to learn new things, etc., take that into consideration as well.

Maybe this large company job could be a good place to go into a holding pattern for a while. You could be making income and still be on the lookout for another startup opportunity.
Precisely. It is not the strongest nor the smartest often that survive, but the best adapted. Dawkins has made this point himself, in that the genes which survive are the "mediocre" genes, genes that tend to do well in the "average" of their environments. Evolution is more likely to produce spineless wonders like T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock than Superman, roughly speaking, because Prufrock, dipshit though he may be, is adapted to the meine of his environs.
actually I thought the article did a good job not China-bashing. It merely points out the problems nowadays, but it isn't saying that China can't change, or isn't changing.

Just, if you are, this moment, ready to hire a Chinese plant to do your manufacturing, this is what you have to be careful of. A year later, who knows. In terms of "high notes" in technological strengths and quality, China has long ago passed US and Japan. Just that no investor is paying for the best, so, things that aren't the best are shipped.
China may be very different from Japan in terms of culture and industrial history, but I'm not so sure China's current industrial evolution is that different from the US.

If you read books about the US's industrial revolution (both modern ones and ones written during the era), I'm sure you can find a lot of parallels with modern China (even with issues such as IP - Charles Dickens was angry seeing bootleg copies of his books in the US)
This can be a really difficult issue to discuss. I have a theory as to why this is happening, but I think it would inevitably be misinterpreted as being sexist (against females).

I'd also guess I'm not the only one thinking along these lines.

Edit: Well, OK, here goes...I am not at all 100% sure of all this, but it appears females, on average, have more respect for societal measures of prestige than males do. Now that females are more empowered to do what they want (which is great) they're chasing after the generally accepted indicators of prestige of the past and present. School awards, doctors, lawyers, college degrees in general, and in fact credentials of virtually any type are all seeing a dramatically increased female presence; in same cases females are starting to outnumber males entirely. Since credentialism was a mistake to begin with, as it slowly erodes (both because of males starting to choose not to go down the path of credential-seeking and thanks to the later results of that - i.e., as more and more people without credentials do well, credentials become less important) people are going to notice that females are "overrepresented" in many areas where credentials are emphasized. Credentialists[1] (who are usually the ones quoted in the media) will see this as a problem, when it's really a sign of the decline of credentialism.

This is a trend that will probably take decades to play out. But you can already see the signs. There was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently about how going to grad school to study the humanities is a disastrous choice today, and it is now overwhelmingly women who are making that choice. That's just one of the more obvious examples.

Who knows, maybe this is a one-time phenomenon that has resulted from female empowerment, and it won't happen again?

I don't think I did a very good job of explaining myself here, but I'm a little rushed so I'll try to elaborate on it in the future.

[1] People who tend to believe in or support credentials.
> rhetorically enviable position

On the other hand, using yourself as a personal example (based on your own self-evaluation of yourself, which we have no way to assess the accuracy of for ourselves) is a rhetorical error. Your personal attributes are irrelevant to the truth, and anyone who doesn't want to believe your conclusion can easily call them into question and distract from the real issue.
speaking of free press, the 20th anniversary of 6/4 is coming up...

My prayers go out to the families. =..=
Prisoners live off the state. They are, by definition, parasites. Everything else is semantics.
The original car makers did not have the problem of how to make cars profitable, theirs' was a problem of sales and marketing. Once a car was improved enough to make it affordable they received more sales.

Youtube certainly doesn't have a sales/marketing problem. It has a ton of traffic every day. Here the problem is that of figuring out how to make money in the first place.

It's easy to find examples of things that struggled at first only to become popular later, but at the same time there have also been products that struggled at first and still failed later.
Maybe the idea is to put as much of the high traffic links as possible on the page without scrolling, like newspapers put the important stories above the fold.
This was an interesting followup to the tech company rankings -- but doesn't itself have the weight to justify high billing. Perhaps posting such followup links in comments to the original story could be given higher (or folded-under) placement -- keeping the topics together, giving the original story a greater lifetime, reducing clutter, unifying discussion. (That is, posters or editors could fold stories into existing threads.)

Also: can we get comments ranked in classic fashion? Or maybe display two numbers for a comment's score: all/classic? I think I'm seeing more cases where the absolute sign of the score would be different for early-vs.-recent voters.
I bought it new on Amazon.co.uk for a very reasonable price. It was printed on demand, so it took some time, but it was worth it.
We sent in an offer of $460,000 and one day later got our answer: the sellers accepted.

The better way to think about the injustice of this story is to realize that his Realtor & Co. earned at least $27,600 (Six percent of the $460,000) for less than a day's worth of work.

Bob called back the next morning. “Your credit scores are almost perfect,” he said happily. “Based on your income, you can qualify for a mortgage of about $500,000.”

Translation as to what Bob was really thinking: "Based on your credit score, I can earn about $30,000 today, without blinking."

Realtors are the evil behind the mortgage meltdown. If this article doesn't make it obvious, I don't know what does.
'Cause the boys are on the computer.
Erlang is not a silver bullet. It would not magically solve all of Twitter's woes. Neither would RabbitMQ for that matter.
'Wolfram' is a terrible name for a search engine. Many languages around the world do not even use a letter akin to 'w', often using 'v' in place of both 'v' and 'w'. This is one reason for Yahoo's dominance in non-native English speaking countries.

'Wolfram' will be unpronounceable and unmemorable for a large percentage of world's population.
Is there any feedback to the submitter why a story is deleted? I've had a couple of stories deleted, one yesterday. Sometimes it's obvious, but this one wasn't to me. Having said that, I'm still in favor of more aggressive pruning.

Edit: I'll take that back. It disappeared because nobody cared. :-( Lesson to me.
the real story here, is that when you hit print, it doesn't show the entire article.
Almost 100% fluff, though I feel like it could be a decent idea in practice. I can see the value in the self-esteem boost and the feeling of accomplishment early, since the rest of the day may have no such feelings.

Instead of achieving the most important goal of every day before putting on some clothes, perhaps a small, bite-sized task before anything else would be more practical. I can't see myself achieving my important goals for every day before eating anything, as most of those goals take hours, and I like breakfast.

Personally, I'd like to try this with a goal I've been consistently failing on: reading a bit and writing out my thoughts on what I have read. Small, fulfilling, and something I will wake up, excited to do.
So they launch on Friday. Uhm.

What about the biggest no-no of the PR business - no important activity on Thursday or Friday since you can make a way better bang in the beginning of the week ?

(edit) Oh .. nevermind, they are going live during next 48 hours, so it should in fact get to a fully up and running state Monday morning.
I have a morning ritual that involves an hour of preparation before doing anything else on a given day. I'd never even considered the proposal in this article, and I suspect others haven't either. As I can think of several situations in which I might try it out, I'm glad he wrote the article.
Yeah, this was clearly well-intended, but so poorly constructed that it accomplished the opposite. The article is actually sexist because it lists people whose only accomplishment is becoming an internet pseudo-celebrity.

There are lots of actual female entrepreneurs out there in the tech industry I'd nominate, only a few of which were in there. Diane Greene, for instance, cofounded VMWare and ran it into a huge success, but doesn't make the list. I guess she doesn't have enough Twitter followers. Maybe she should publish a video with her iPhone bill or get 30,000 people reading her RSS feed and then she'll qualify as an entrepreneur.
Are there going to be videos of these presentations?
I think it's a sad state of affairs in divorce courts and that fathers usually get the short end of the stick, too

But I don't understand why cjbos is getting downmodded for making a valid argument that $4k isn't that much money to raise a 4-person family.

IF the author points out that his ex-wife is now re-married, or is working and bringing home more than $4k blah blah blah, then yes, evil witch, bad system. But let's not jump to judgment here, guys, especially when the author himself hasn't vilify this woman.
I take it you're an anarchist? This is what the non-capitalist anarchist criticism of anarcho-capitalism usually sounds like. I'd love to discuss this in detail, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate for HN. Let me know if you happen to be interested in discussing this further at some point.
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I don't know about you, but as a young female of the 20-25 group, if my husband made me sign a pre-nup before the wedding, it will pretty well signal the end of the relationship. It will be interpreted as a sign of "if you don't trust me with everything, i can't trust you with anything."

20-somethings believe in "life long marriage".
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Thanks for the clarification:)
Sounds to me that you are interesting in joining the startup more than the large company. What on your mind is that you try to rationalize and compare the stability the large company offering against the possibility of success of the startup.

Since you are young (I just assume so, I'm 24) and have few dependencies and debts, if I was in your shoes, I'd decide to work where my passions would want to work. With the startup, you can make a much bigger impacts and have more freedom to create and innovate. Bigger company provide you a more stable life, but do you see yourself working there for 1, 2, 3 years?

My thinking is that you can always get a job with a traditional company. It's a matter of putting together a solid resume, working through the network of friends and recruiters to place yourself in the right place. On the other hand, joining a start up may offer you the chance to do something different. In a way, you can really learn a lot from working your way at the start up, wearing multiple hats -- these should be invaluable experience that you can brag about in your resume for future employees should you apply for a new job. Best of all, you still get paid working for this start up.

Here's my quick list to compare the pros and cons between the large company job and the startup job:

Large Company:

- you're a number, not a name

- what is the chance of you being able to do something creative?

- how difference the salary would be, compared to the startup

- benefits: insurance and dental are important, if you need insurance, then I'd do some research to see if you can get adequate coverage if you work for the startup company.

- 401K: nice to have, but don't let it determine your life now when you can follow your passion and do something meaningful

- you probably can get a job at a company anytime when the economy recovers.

Startup

- you're their 4th employee. 25% of the workforce.

- equivalent salary. Based on what you said, this should be enough to get your house.

- benefits, retirement: is there a chance for stock options? For retirement, how about starting a Roth-IRA for yourself (you should do this anyway regardless)?

- health and dental insurance: you can do some research so you won't get caught in emergencies without proper coverage, especially when you plan to have kids in the near future. If you're wife can get you on her insurance plan, then it's one less thing to worry about.

- sounds like your passion is here. You do want to work for the startup. Ultimately, what's your gut telling you?

Good luck!