skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't think of any reason that having the UUID in the URL would hurt your SEO in any way. You still have the slug, so key words are in the URL. As far as I know, having unrecognizeable data in the URL doesn't decrease the importance placed on your page.

One thing to consider is if using this method instead of some other method might decrease the number of links to the same URLs on your website. The more links there are to a particular URL, the higher it ranks. But all things considered, I think you're fine.
I don't know if I'd put it like that, but I do tire of this statement as well. I agree that it's rude to hold an extended conversation in front of someone else, particularly if you two were alone and you've left the other physically present person to just twiddle their thumbs, but quickly answering a question of a friend over a cell phone during dinner is hardly something I'm going to apologize for.

I could just as easily say, "What makes you feel so self-important and selfish that you think anyone who spends time with you must shut out the rest of the world?"
This isn't Reddit; please don't write comments like that. If you're going to write a one liner please try to at least find something cleverly amusing rather than obvious and tired.

Some ventures will do better with venture backing, in fact, that's covered in the article, and there are some reasonable gotchas in the article. Your comment, on the other hand, adds nothing.
You wonder what he thought his angle would be. He seems to have knowingly shouldered as much risk as his partner without any of the payoffs. My guess is he was compensated somehow but has thus far managed to shield that knowledge.
Source: http://www.isuppli.com/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=20138
There are at least 3 companies on there (none from YC) that have raised tens of millions and appear to be swirling down the drain.
Is the only source for this guy being Unix Terrorist and Jim Jones Kevin Mitnick? Couldn't they have said "according to Kevin Mitnick" rather than stating it as fact?

That's one reason I appreciate newspaper journalism even today. The standards they use to convey the level of credibility in the presentation of facts is something a lot of blogs, and even Wired, could learn from.
Yeah, especially because it wouldn't have RockYou on it.
homeworks ;)
this list is for people who know very little about what learning constitutes.
It is a patent minefield. For example:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/rim-ntp-settle-for-612-mi...
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Scientists capture the first image of memories being made
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This plus the fact that he was working at Morgan Stanley seems to indicate that either he's managed to cleverly hide the loot, or he was doing it because of the challenge. If the latter, then it wouldn't have been any challenge to rip off Morgan Stanley, since he was already inside.
In chapter 12 Kuhn mistakenly says that Popper is seeking falsifications that necessitate the rejection of a theory. He then points out that falsifications are imperfect, so that is problematic. That criticism would be correct, but Popper is not seeking to necessitate the rejection of any theory. Popper is a fallibilist who does not seek perfect or final falsifications, nor does he seek to justify or prove falsifications. So in short, Kuhn says there are certain difficulties, which he is correct about, and he says Popper's theory faces them, which he has wrong on account of misunderstanding Popper's theory. BTW Popper was aware of the same difficulties Kuhn brings up, and sometimes uses them in his arguments (they are not problematic for Popper's conjectural knowledge approach, but they are problematic for many other approaches).

In the postscript section 5, Kuhn says communication is always partial, so in a debate we can never prove the other guy is wrong in a way he must accept. This is the same sort of thing as before, and it is basically correct, but Popper is aware of it and his theories are compatible with it. One way Popper and Kuhn do contradict in this arena is about how valuable partial communication is. Kuhn is pessimistic about partial communication across paradigms, but Popper is more optimistic and says by an effort we can learn from each other even across paradigms/cultures/frameworks (see Popper's _The Myth of the Framework_, title essay).

I looked through ch8 also, but didn't spot any criticism of Popper's falsificationism. If you are still convinced it is there, please explain it in your own words or site specific paragraphs.

PS regarding justificationism, the prevailing idea of knowledge is that it is justified true belief. This can be found in the dictionary or any intro philosophy textbook.

PPS It is unfortunate that PG's nested thread rate limiting is hiding the reply link on this comment. I think this is a perfectly good, respectful thread. So it's collateral damage? :(
I'll do it for $29m.
Let's call it $70 per year per employee, since we're going to amortize it a bit.

That is, what, a tenth of a percent of the fully-loaded cost of the cheapest FTE they have? It is wasteful, but it is wasteful in a way that is rounding error next to the cost it will be compared to.
I think the author meant his mother paid off the apartment and forbid him from using a computer. At least that's what I understood.
Could it be because the iPhone's removed the need for people like you?
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The California State of Mind (As a Cancer on Atlanta)
>Anything large-scale and organized is usually done to target something they see as "evil", like Scientology, or the Iranian regime, or Sarah Palin

Or Korean pop star Rain? Or Habbo Hotel?

I generally find Anon amusing (and I'm curious why ErrantX thinks his job obliges him to dislike them), but to paint them as noble seems a stretch.
The grandparent said:

> There's nothing in this graph that suggests market share is being taken away.

(my emphasis)
The general idea is that many entrepreneurs outside of the valley act as though they are in the valley, and the same strategies don't work. You have to dream big, but think small by having your eyes firmly connected to the first check from a real customer.
I think it's a bit lazy on Palm's part to rely on Apple for this functionality. I've seen other syncing apps that simply read the iTunes library XML and serve the same purpose in the end. Seems like a more sustainable way of ensuring the functionality will continue to work as advertised. Palm's method is a bit reckless but in the end it may be in Apple's best interest to just ignore it. Anyone who is super concerned about syncing natively in the iTunes application is probably more than happy to buy an iPhone so what is the impact? Not much.

On an unrelated note I wonder how long Pre can hold out at $200/8GB and have any hope of competing with the 3GS/16GB and $99/3G.
I like to think of them as a reference book collection. Reading them cover to cover is probably not a good investment of time.
For chrissake!
So basically 400k of this is actually consumed by employees at the university working on the project (if that), while the other 11.6 million is for paying off good friends of the board that just so happen to have roles in the consulting companies that provide services.
Uh, mobipocket.com, the company that sells most of the e-books is owned by.....Amazon. So if you have an iRex or a Cybook, you are shopping at Amazon for books, it just isn't on the amazon.com site.
Ever since Khoi Vinh joined NYT in 2006, they've been producing some of the best interactive design on the web. One of my recent favorites[1] showed how tennis strategy was affected by the different surfaces.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/08/25/sports/tennis/...
When our kid was 2 and a few months we set him up with an old-school touchscreen. He had no problem playing games that would be hard for a 3.5 yr old with a mouse. May not sound like much, but a year at that age is huge, and even at 4, as the article states, kids are just barely getting the hang of a mouse. By 4, our kid was a mouse jockey. Transitioning from touchscreen to mouse was trivial.
I could not agree more, I've been prompted to move to the West Coast by several Angel friends, really considering it now. It will all depend on how the venture I'm in now goes. It's GreenTech and getting funding in the Atlanta area is like trying to find hen's teeth. We had to go to the west coast Angels and VCs to find it.
IMHO

You're not being humble, you're being arrogant. Did you not notice that the list was overwhelmingly about business and marketing? Did it not occur to you that it was targeted at people other than you? Was it really humble of you to dismiss all but one of them as "junk" and "BS" without considering that context?
The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good
good call on the facebook search bit; it looks like it's something they're planning to roll out shortly.
I'm more likely to believe specific things you've done over general things you claim to know particularly when it comes to specific technical systems. Don't tell me you "know" MySQL. Instead, tell me about the things you did to insure I can't take down your system by injecting a call to BENCHMARK() or about the time you were able to get the database working after InnoDB force recovery didn't work.
Dupe from four days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656979

I'll repeat what I said there:

There's a big problem here. When people like this use the word "capitalism" to mean the massive, ultra-financialized, state corporatist economy we have today, they confuse many into thinking this has something to do with free markets based on voluntary exchange.

So people who are understandably annoyed that Wall Streeters make millions without contributing very much, if anything, are unnecessarily encouraged to support state socialist policies. In reality, it is the lack of free markets which caused such problems in the first place.
Having started a successful startup in NYC, and trying for 5+ years now in the valley, I think the situation is not so black/white.

A lot depends on business cycles, trends, timing, luck, who you know (which you can have some effect on of course) etc. There are many factors.

I think the real difference is partly one of social expectation. Out here, you're expected to quit your job every 2 or 3 years and try another startup. I suspect that in other places, that kind of behavior makes it hard to get jobs, and possibly even puts you in a strange group of social outcasts. Here, if you hold onto a job for 10 years and seem to have no appetite for risk, it's a bit weird. So yes, you feel supported by your friends and relatives, whereas elsewhere you might feel extreme pressure to conform.

But that doesn't make starting a successful company easier than falling off a log, as the OP seems to suggest. There are still at least 10 serious efforts for every success. And right now, the VC's are hurting. I haven't heard about anyone getting funded since October.
I didn't write this to encourage people to leave - but the fact is that if you are unable to change the type of startup you launch, or shrink the scope of your initial product vision to fit our landscape - you may have no choice but to leave if you want to succeed.

I would encourage you to take advantage of what our city has to offer, instead of leaving. Learn customer development. Build something our local economy wants to buy. I'll talk more about that in the next article. The fact is that the improvement in our startup business environment in the last four years has been overwhelming. Things have improved, they are improving, and they will continue to improve. Please, get connected with the community, and help us grow it to be even better.

That being said, if you do leave - come back! Atlanta is an overwhelmingly great place to start your second company, no matter what it does.
The map shows 3402 homicides from a 6 year period, an average of 500 a year.
There have been a few multi-million-dollar VC deals in NYC - I'm working with 3 companies that have gotten funded since last fall. They're the exception, though, and I think the OP's point remains valid - whether it's the norm for your environment or the result of the economic downturn, most of us aren't in the Valley bubble and need to focus on short time-to-market and organic, revenue-driven growth.
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I don't say its easy - I say that the Valley funds and supports exceptional individuals. If you're not exceptional, you're still screwed. By definition: most people are not exceptional, and yet most people believe they are.

Startups are hard.
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Blame Google on that one. IIRC Yahoo mail on the iPhone offers push mail using IMAP and IDLE commands to keep a persistent connection to the server. I have my own IMAP server and I use this method as well. It's as good as my BlackBerry push e-mail through Sprint. Apparently Google either doesn't fully support the IDLE command or has time limits -- otherwise it should work just like Yahoo IMAP/IDEL push.
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So an oligopolist is whining that he now has to deal with competition, and I'm supposed to feel for him? Sorry Konny, welcome to real capitalism.
Re: Windows: ATMs with a BSOD are still a common sight in the DC area.
You have some good points, but many of those books on that list help people learn to truly think deeply, not just read and briefly consider anecdotes. It is that deep, rigorous, logical thought that is valuable to virtually everyone (and certainly everyone who claims to love to learn) that is more important than the contents of those books.

Also, some of them (game theory in particular) are broadly applicable to and by most people who put the time and effort in to properly learning them.
Collecta: Search for what's gonna happen.
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I read Vonnegut, too. I don't think I have learned anything "deep" from his books, but I love them nonetheless. Art is art. Science is science. Both are needed.
The author may have many sources for that identification; she says he "was known in hacker circles" by those names, which suggests there are many people who could (and possibly did) confirm the nyms to her.
I'm just the sort of person who kind of knows what he wants to say; I can't remember ever staring at the blank screen, trying to think of what to write.

This, I suspect, is actually an effect, not a cause. Isaac Asimov and Piers Anthony (both famously prolific writers) have said that they don't get writers block because they never go a day without writing, not the other way around. In other words: the more you write, the more you'll be able to write.
anti anti frame busting here:

http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/anti-anti-frame-bust...
My good sir, if you do think Feynman, Knuth, Cover, Isidori, etc are junk, then you are a monster. What you have just said is equivalent to saying that van Gogh's works are just boring blobs of paint, or that Lord Byron didn't know how to write.

These books are the finest examples of condensed knowledge mankind has ever been able to produce. Sure, they are VERY hard to read, but 1000s and 1000s of years of accumulated scientific and intellectual progress should not be easy to absorb. These books are enough for a lifetime of reading.

My list of books will still be relevant in 1000 years, while the OP's reading list will be worthless in less than a 100 years. Deep knowledge does not get stale. Don't you see the common thread among the books I have listed? Here it is: they are all "bibles" in their respective fields.
I think he's trying to say that at these lower prices, how would they be able to afford his services? He says it himself, more or less:

"If my publishers aren't making [enough] money [to pay me], I'm not making money."
Right, not ethical.
For each, his own. I like working with my hands. Personally, I am into carpentry. It's relaxing and I like to see stuff being build. It just happens that carpentry is learned by doing (especially from someone who knows more), not by reading. Science and Math is fun. Building stuff is also fun. I see no contradiction...
Business and marketing are learned by doing. I have never heard of Jobs reading marketing books. Godin, Gladwell, etc are for the sheep. I remember reading that Jurvetson read poetry and philosophy books instead of business books. Draw your own conclusions.

My list is personal. I don't claim it's for everyone. It's what interests me, period. It's the stuff worth learning. There are other great books I could include there, from Byron to Vonnegut, but literature is not deep knowledge, it's art.
I used to use a bunch of todo.txts, but then I wrote a system that allows you to basically enter todo.txts online, parses and categorizes them, while keeping original text nearby. And it's available wherever you are. The original problem I had with all the other GTD systems was a lot of tabbing, I type around 120WPM and it's much easier for me to enter something like:

project taskulus.reliability.history.milestone36

1. cleanup scheme:30min

2. add observed_in_task field and test:30min

3. add HTML generator for event history:1hr

It's basically like microtasking :)
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Actually, I have read a bunch of them. They're good airport reads. I can't read Feynman during a flight with the babies crying and the roar of the engines, but I can read Godin, Taleb, etc for entertainment. Those books teach nothing deep, but I never said they didn't have entertaining value. Fluffy, non-nutritious, yet entertaining...
It is difficult to arrange things so that all students in a classroom experience a series of mental challenges of the right complexity

I think this correctly identifies the problem - the solution is harder than he seems to think. There are real limits to what a teacher can do without a very small class size and ability streaming.
aka be diplomatic
DSNP: Distributed Social Networking Protocol, with implementation and test sites
"We need an open forum where young founders can learn about problems that our large enterprises are facing"

=> Where do I pledge my support and sign up?

My personal response, not limited to the contents of the written piece:

It's a nice dream to be the next big thing, I convince myself that I will launch the next big thing just to motivate myself. I don't see how that has anything to do with geography.

I heard some where that if Atlanta were a country it would be of the highest carbon emitters per capita. Atlanta is completely suburbanized, tons and tons of trees with roads and homes in between but everything is very spread out without any real geographic barriers to induce compression. Perhaps that does some damage to the startup community.

I haven't personally entered the startup community, in fact I procrastinated this interest of mine by choosing Emory over GT. But I really like the city, despite its imperfections, and I do hope it can be a base for my own international business one day because if anything Atlanta is very good at being an international hub (UPS, Cocacola, etc.) And with all of these giant companies here in Atlanta, not that I have tried asking, but is it true that there is no cash flow? And why limit yourself to VCs in Atlanta, when I do get more practical about my radical ideas, I plan to email and call as many people as possible, despite their geography.

In Israel, where I am from, the local demographic is microscopic. In Israel, almost in exact opposite to the american tradition, successful business men and entrepreneurs are sometimes viewed as frauds/scammers. It's not a good thing to be a business man there like it is here but despite that, look at all the startups, the big tech innovations, the brilliant products that have their roots in Israel because in Israel people don't let their geography, the fact that they are surrounded by enemies limit them. They are driven by ideas for products and solutions to problems.
I got a check for ~$10.

Public libraries all over the country got shipping containers full of Mariah Carey deadstock.

The lawyers leading the class action got tens of millions of dollars.
Awesome, I'd love to see if it helps you out.
Does anyone know of any article/essay length readings that one can read in one sitting of on par quality?
There's no justifying the cost for this project. However, UW has 27 institutions and a central office that this software is supposed to cover. Dealing with all of the campuses is an astonishingly difficult task. University systems in general are not simple hierarchical structures, and state university systems even less so. The challenges of working within that kind of environment are very different than the challenges of dealing with most businesses. Not that $12 million for planning is justified (especially not after a failed $28 million project), but this project isn't quite as cut-and-dry as you might expect.
This is a good question. The answer is subtle: Google isn't going to penalize you, but users will.

All things being equal, long URLs get clicked on in the SERPs less than short URLs. (Test if you don't believe me, which should go without saying.) Additionally, that bit of human-unreadable garbage suggests to many users that your content will be, well, garbage, where the competing

http://example.com/birds/all-about-bluejays

will suggest to them "Well, heck, if I want to know about bluejays these are the guys." You only get a little space on the SERP to attract a click. The URL can be used as a resource there. Use it properly!

Additionally, since SEO is a game where winners win, I'd expect

http://example.com/birds/all-about-bluejays

to get more links than your ugly monstrosity of a URL, which is going to cause it to rank faster. This is a self-reinforcing cycle, obviously.
Nice approach, cuts the noise, we need intelligence to be built in to SNS and this is a cool approach.
I've said it before (and got moderated down). Silicon Valley now == Detroit 1975. The phrase "a theme park" pretty well sums it up. As in - this is the peak, and it will take 30 years of decline before you realize it.
Oh man...I was totally with him until I saw "Selfish Gene". Please, speaking as an evolutionary biologist, don't read that book. Dawkins oversimplifies the important and complicates the obvious. If you want a good book on an analytical approach to evolution, might I recommend "Evolutionary Dynamics" by Nowak in its place.
As someone who has even tangentially dealt with corporate lawyers (crosses himself and spits) I would be hesitant as a young entrepreneur to even think about working with them without my own legal nuclear device.

Imagine that I should develop something for them that was truly revolutionary, or even something for them that was somewhat related to something I subsequently developed that was truly revolutionary. I shudder sir. I shudder.

Of course... I'm not an entrepreneur. So what do I know?
> I meant that things couldn't be reversed as in a movie being played backwards, returning things to their original state.

Even if aliens took all of the "excess" CO2 out of the atmosphere tomorrow, manipulated the climate so it was always 1969 weather-wise (because that's the definition of perfection), and gave us an endless supply of dilithium crystals, things 10 years from now would be different than they are today.

Change always happens. The relevant question is good vs bad. (I don't see how one can assume that new species will necessarily be bad.)
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Actually, they do profess to be experts at building accounting systems. Accenture was spun out of an accounting firm and as you mention they've been building accounting systems since 1953. Building payroll and other accounting systems is one of the main things they do.