skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
qmail itself is completely unmaintained and patches to it are actually rejected. net-qmail and others have sprung up to fill this void, but its got nowhere near the community surrounding it that Postfix does. Plus, qmail is very hard to use for someone just looking to send some mail, which is the common case (not the case qmail was designed for, either).
Neat. I don't think anything will ever beat Checkershadow though: http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illus...
At my school, the library stacks were continuous structures through all 10 or so floors of the building. I guess they carried their own weight, somehow saving on construction of the building addition in which they were housed. On the top floor, were the top of the stacks. It was a check-off on the "been there, done that" list to take a camping pad and sleeping bag up there with someone and spend the night and make love.

So there you go. Go to college, and go to the library, and get laid. (Trifecta?)
#1 will never work well for the simple fact that when people know that they are being asked to pick something without actually going through the mental process of evaluating options and picking a goal, they will not pick in a way that correlates with a larger population that doesn't know it's being tested.

The best way to test something is to try it on people that actually want something and voluntarily are picking something and going towards a goal... and don't know they're being tested. The proof is in the pudding: if the copy works better than a control, it should produce a sale/signup/whatever.

Asking a bunch of people who are working for pennies if they want to buy some product that they have no clue about and are not in the market for, based on a copy they don't even understand well, is a waste of money and would even do you some damage since your customers might be more sophisticated.

Now, if you positioned it for simple, general websites, it might work better. But then again, those sites are not high paying customers.

PS: Look into Google Optimizer: http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer
integrating with fundraising software is key.
A friend of mine met a wonderful older woman mentor/lover as an undergrad. She's now a professor at another New England school. (That is, both mentor and classmate were female.)
See my other post above.
Actually, Plastic Logic first started marketing this reader in fall 2008. Makes you wonder.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29020
You're thinking of Forth, not Factor- Mr. Pestov seems to want to compete more with high level languages like Python than with C. Factor has garbage collection, and compiles to images [ a la smalltalk ], not really attributes that scream 'embedded' to me.
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#1 and #2 are more or less the same thing. I'd phrase the service as A/B testing, and then give #1 and #2 as some of things users can do with it
Sure. Sometimes I have something I'd like to say, but I can't say it well enough to be satisfied with submitting. Other times I decide my comment, or the whole conversation, just really isn't that interesting.
371 people are, according to github :)
IMHE, all AIR apps "leak" over time (meaning, absorb more and more RSS as time goes on). This is regardless of whether they were written with Flash/Flex or HTML/JavaScript or a combination. I wrote a really small AIR app (one pane with some JavaScript, no images or other media) and it starts off at 100MB on boot and continues on until I kill it at well over 350MB RSS a day or two later. TweetDeck, Twhirl, FriendDeck, etc, they all leak for me, too, on both Mac and Linux.
Better interactivity would be key as well. Interactivity increases the value of many kinds of information tenfold. E-ink is still too slow.
Did it three times on this thread alone. Here's hoping for 15!
someone will market it, though.
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Apple, with their partnership with AT&T, is in a position to compete. They also like thin & sexy.
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College, libraries, girls, and anything else: all about what you are going to make out of it.
I usually DO submit my comments, and regret it. This a tough crowd, and the system works very effectively.
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I suppose a principal question is whether the results tend to extrapolate and generalize.
They have the connectivity, but not the catalog.
It's a bit more than ceremonious folly. See the US Constitution article 1 section 10: "No State shall ... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts".
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_trans...
And Android becomes windows... having to support a gazillion different hardware configurations and not working properly in any of them.

Android is a pretty cool system, bu trying to please everyone will be it's demise.
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What? Even the iPhone OS runs on different hardware -- the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and various iPods. Even with the different hardware, it still works "well enough" everywhere.

Windows mobile and the Blackberry OS run on a variety of phones, and they all seem to run the same software just fine. And FWIW, desktop OSes that run on widely varying hardware all seem to be just fine, too. (Windows obviously works well enough, as does Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD.)

Nice Apple fanboi-ing though, I really enjoyed it.
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The best argument against a gold standard is the environmental damage caused by gold mining. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=629726
i get to HN via google reader, so just front page stuff.
do you have access to the social graph underlying these services? with a graph structure you could let "social authority" get passed around between users and essentially just copy the math behind page rank.

assume, though, you don't have this graph then you are going to be estimating the score based on various features (# tweets, # followers, # friends, # comments on posts, etc)

you could probably roll these up into an adhoc formula, but i think the better thing to do is label some data and learn the model. something as simple as linear/logistic regression might be all you need.
Anyone know if you can convert your device from one of the three types to another?
Hmm, you may want to compare the total amount of known gold to the potential new gold brought in by miners. You may find that new gold accounts for a fantastically small percentage of the total. Compare this, on the other hand, with paper. How easy is it to double the money supply or more in a very short period. There simply is no way to underestimate the stability you get with a gold standard. Please refer to the money supply stability during the period of the gold standard in the US - history speaks for itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
indeed. adding a log would probably make the resulting score a lot more realistic and accurate.

Any additional statistical sophistication would help -- maybe make the 50th percentile the average and assume a normal distribution? Maybe different services/attributes have different distributions, etc.

* fine tuning this might be a good use for wolfram alpha :)
They seem waterproof to me. Immerse them in water, and the contents don't get wet. Just don't open the bag while it's under water, obviously.
true, maybe she considered the relationship applied philosophy and didn't want to pollute it with too much theoretical baggage :)
There is a lot government can do to help, mainly by doing less:

1) Reverting bankruptcy laws to pre-2005

2) Health care availability for individuals (if I knew the perfect solution to US health care I'd be doing that as a startup, but some decoupling of employment and health care is key
i do, and i've noticed that it makes a difference. that is, i'll see what i consider to be an interesting story on the new page and not the front page. after i upvote, i'll see it appear on the front page...and then get upvoted a fair amount more.

i suspect that had i or the other new watchers not found that story, it would have been lost to obscurity. these stories, in my experience, aren't high rollers, but they are reasonably interesting. personally they're much more interesting than the fluff that often passes by the front page...by which i mean: why no customization?! hn: reasonable community; dearth of features.
Rarely, but I wish I did more often just looking at New. I think a lot of worthy material never makes it to the front page.
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the other day i whipped up a mashup:

http://www.wikifieldtrip.org

check it out... the parser is still a bit under construction, but it's still fun.

comments, suggestions?
The problem is that you are comparing inflation/deflation in amazingly small amounts with gold (given the reality connection to actually having to have gold in your hands mined from the ground) to the radical change you get with paper which is happening right now as the printing presses are running 24/7 at amazing speeds. Watch the hyper inflation we get next year and tell me how that could have happened with gold?
no.

products made purely for financial gain rather than making the world a better place are usually not a good thing. spam sux. so does mega-consumption.
I wonder if, simply by making this statement, Google takes a step toward making it true?
Gosh, I'm not familiar with the term "fanboi," does it mean anyone who doesn't agree with you that Windows works well enough? Or anyone who thinks that a hardware company that makes its own OS has certain advantages over an OS company that has no control over the wide variety of devices it must support?

It could be just me, but I think that last line really detracts from the comment. It moves from debating the merits of an argument to a personal attack.
At least once before submitting this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=629784
Pageviews for the new page are about 8% of those on the frontpage.
I agree with the parent - the one thing the iPhone has going for it is a _consistent_ platform, which allows developers to design the user experience around a hardware set that is pretty much standardized. I highly doubt the 18 phones that Android will be on come year end will all have standardized on things like screen resolution, touch features, hard/soft keyboard, etc, and so we'll see a fractured user (and developer) experience. I'm certain that Android will be a wild success, much like other mobile phone OS's before the iPhone were successful, but I don't think it will take off like the iPhone has.

The comparison to trying to be the "windows" of the mobile phone was right on (in my opinion).
I'd buy land in these countries if I had an army backing my land claim. In general, I have a strong dislike for national investments like these. If the only difference between me and China is that I can't trust their courts/government and China can, due to China's large stock piles of guns, then it presents an unfair (and illiquid) market place.
I never commented in support of "intrinsic value." Specifically, the "market value" of legal tender is arguably problematic. There are well established instruments that can be used to determine the market values of things like cars and electricity and the metals in coins. However, "legal tender" status has a clear precedent for confounding this. A penny is a penny, and an employer who pays with older coins whose copper and nickel content is worth more than their face value wouldn't be liable for additional tax.
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is that 8% for people who click new by themselves, or does that also include the people who get taken to the new page when they submit a new story?
Windows Mobile good enough? Did it ever occur to the WM designers that wiping the entire handset for a OS upgrade isn't the best experience. iTunes isn't the best program but it's day when compared to the night of a WM upgrade.

"Installing the new software will erase all data on the device."

"All third-party applications and data that remain on the device prior to downloading will be deleted and unretrievable"

http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23435.xml
Indeed. And the catalog, given how backwards the book industry remains, is the key.

My friend recently finalized his book with a major publisher. Despite efforts to edit electronically, he relented to five rounds of fedex'd doorstops. He offered to generate the Kindle edition himself, but this was deemed contractually impossible.

These companies have to be culled to get to our veritable library of ebooks. But in the meantime, I imagine Amazon has been kicking lots of asses to get this far.
I really hope these devices give Apple a run for their money. As of now, the iPhone is quickly becoming the Windows of the mobile phone world in that application developers are dedicating their time and energy into developing for the iPhone with other platforms being an afterthought (if at all).

Not that I don't love Apple, but due to a large family plan I can't switch carriers. Plus, it's always good when multiple companies can compete effectively. As a long time Mac user - back from the days before the Mac was cool again - I remember how hard it was to get good quality apps. The web, becoming more and more of a platform, and Apple's return to prosperity changed that.

Maybe I'm just being a worrier (it's been known to happen), but I'd like to see another platform drum up the developer community that the iPhone has. I'd rather that the mobile space had better competition than the desktop space did, say, 9 years ago.
Why isn't the extra $900 dollars he pays for every $50 of payroll just like the extra expense of the satin ribbon?
Yes, but more often I'll spend some time writing a comment then fret about word order a bit before submitting it. Immediately after submitting it I'll realize my fretting has mangled my intended message and I'll have to edit the comment.

After I'm content I'll realize that my comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation and I should delete it before it wastes anybodies time.

...see, this comment is articulated well enough, but it's long-winded in comparison to aneesh's post which says the essential thing.

Edit: After a shower, at 22 minutes with nothing. I feel like deleting this comment, but with that being the subject of this post that would be out of place.
This reminds me of vegetarians. There's nothing inherently healthier about the vegetarian diet; you could be a vegetarian and live on nothing but pizza and ice cream. Any health benefits there are come from having to stop and think "can I eat this?" all the time. But anyone can do that on any diet, so long as they form the habit.
But maybe musicians are a societally-accepted way for women to objectify and idealize men.

Well said. I wish I could upmod you twice for this sentence alone!
I saw the question and wanted to answer something along these lines. So I opened the link and saw that I have nothing to add other than "+1". Now I'm thinking if there's a point in submitting this comment. Oh well, once in a while I'll submit what I decided not to submit. Do I make sense at all?
What's the probability of that being true?
While I'm a fan of the German healthcare system, under 10 minutes is an overstatement. Honestly, the only time I've gotten treatment that fast was when I was covered in blood. I'd say my usual (non-critical) ER waits are closer to an hour, but still shorter in general than I had when in the US. (I've lived in Germany for 7 years now.)
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Total, but the number of submissions is probably less than 5% of the number of new page views.
I don't understand why this is an 'OR' conversation - have your static website, then add a blog later if you want.

Businesses need to ask why they want a website before they begin [1]. For many businesses, a static page is more than sufficient - it's a non-confrontational way for them to communicate with a potential client, give that client a feel for the business before the client has to make a phone call. My experience doesn't accord with issues like "the ISP paid in advance, and the site continues as a zombie".

I'd like to see more businesses with blogs, and they would benefit. But in terms of priorities, I work with several businesses right now where a blog would be detrimental because it would overtake things like 'sales' on their to-do list. More advanced websites exist for other business reasons, but this advice isn't designed for businesses wanting to sell product through their site anyway.

[1] http://www.shirlawsonline.com/blogs/171-there-are-only-four-...
Depends how long is long. Fred Wilson stated that their latest VC is about having a war-chest for the purpose of convincing people that they're going to be around long enough to make it worth your while to build twitter-based services. http://www.youtube.com/user/insiteny
Are there truly any major browsers that won't display an error page on bad (spoofed, self-signed, invalid, etc) certificates? A cursory Google search suggests that at least FF, IE, Chrome, and Opera will refuse to load such a page unless the user clicks through.

Unless the attacker obtains the private key for a root certificate, HTTPS remains secure no matter what location it's used from.
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Yeah, this has been said for well over a decade now.
most "vegetarians" are fat, as are most people who eat mostly health food (since it's usually 50% of calories from fat).

The only healthy way to eat is vegan with no more than 10% of calories from fat.
I expected this to be some kind of sick morbid dead pool kind of site, but it's actually kind of interesting...
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You need a way to narrow down, among all the people using Mechanical Turk, people who actually fit the user's target demographic. You need this right from the get go.

e.g. What people in India think of my craigslist add for something in North Carolina is totally irrelevant.

Also, I agree with another poster, who basically stated that you should make a generic comparison service, and let people compare anything, whether they be two domain names, two versions of a site, or whatever.
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The scribd link either seems to be broken, or there is an error in the site. The pdf link seems to load up fine.
When I viewed the examples at http://raphaeljs.com/ I noticed that Opera has the smoothest graphics rendering, followed by IE, then Firefox. Didn't test safari or chrome.

It's especially noticable on this one: http://raphaeljs.com/chart.html
I like how you put [a la smalltalk] in square brackets, rather than in parentheses (a la lisp).
Seriously, this is good advice. It is always fun when you have a "big brother" in your workplace.
the "real" content is being made available via Wikipedia platform api... so your point is?
I kind of like it. I've worked in contexts where the "decision makers" write terrible verbose copy. It would be nice to quickly see "but here is what the data shows"

For that matter, forget mechanical turk. Get some really bad ass copywriters working freelance for you. Give me a text form where I paste in my A/B copy and an optional explanation... I hit submit and within 30 seconds a professional copywriter has chosen the better copy (extra $ for an explantion etc). Charge $2 per review and make it really simple. I've been in enough "copyfights" that would have easily been worth $2 to resolve. "mechanical turk for copy"
i agree w/ gaius that this principle extends to other aspects of living. i'm not sure many of the lifehacks are as universally effective/valuable as they are claimed... i think a lot of the benefit gained from reading productivity porn like lifehacker comes from being forced to actually evaluate how you spend your time and energy...
most "vegetarians" are fat, as are most people who eat mostly health food

As one on a lesser news site might say, pics or it didn't happen.

Or, paraphrased the HN way: Cite sources, please.
Kind of annoying -- I understand people are crazy for SEO, but not linking back to twitter directly to view the stream is not the behavior I care for.
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>What? Even the iPhone OS runs on different hardware -- the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and various iPods. Even with the different hardware, it still works "well enough" everywhere.

There's very little difference in the hardware there. The 3G has slightly better hardware + GPS, and the Touch has no phone. But most of the components are the same. That's not quite the same as running on completely different models from different manufacturers. I don't share the concerns about Android voiced in your comment's parent, but I don't think the iPhone OS is a good counterexample.

>Nice Apple fanboi-ing though, I really enjoyed it.

Unless the parent edited his comment drastically, this is completely unfounded, and it's also the kind of lowbrow ad homimen crap I'd like to think the HN community is above.
Seriously. You can get bags designed to hold electronics for $10-$50. If you're not convinced, remember you'll have plenty of cash left in that $1000 for a spare unit.
This is such an awesome post!

I am doing fairly well too and I have hit this exact same problem. My plan of attack is 5 prong, feel free to use any of them.

1. Minimize visual stimulation outside of work hours. No computers, no reading, no tv.

2. Pick up hobbies that require you to socialize or be active. My personal ones are; golf, tennis, basketball, yoga, running a marathon.

3. Dog! I just put a deposit on my own labradoodle, I think it will help me get out more.

4. Study happiness. Just the act of reading self-help books actually makes you more happy. I'm almost done with the Happiness Hypothesis and I'm about to start Feeling Good.

5. I just started dating a girl, and that has been nice too. Just stray from the dinner and a movie dates.
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I only resort to the 'new' page once I've read everything on the front page, everything on my other news bookmarks and am still bored.
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I remember seeing this on digg, and reddit.

This thread is a call to arms for idiots everywhere. Hell, I never would have post if it were not for this thread. I never post, but I enjoy reading the good posts here that people put thought into making. Beware, HN!