skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you know who the OP is. I don't think you know the standing he has in this particular community.
Work on computer problems to break out of melancholy. In my experience, many such issues have a specific solution arc. One tries different things to fix the issue and same error, same error, same error... then DIFFERENT error. Then suddenly it works.

Example. I was very depressed over a relationship ending, and had been for a few months. Then I was was trying to get a Linux server working and trying to get the Ethernet card recognized (this was 1999 so this was non-trivial) and failed, failed, failed... NEW failure, WORKING! Wow, that shock victory was enough to snap me out of the depression, where gradual victories had not.

Good luck though, and be sure to eat well and talk to others...
I think if you're going to do this it'd be better done as a server side redirect, like through .htaccess

However even though I'm, in general, against URL shorteners, I wouldn't do this because I think there are some situations where they are helpful.
This is cargo-cultism at its worst. The way to become the next Tesla isn't to copy his faults. The people on your list didn't get there by having unstable relationships and it's more than a little presumptuous to make start planning your life around being famously successful.
the fact that they're seeing this page means the shortened is working as intended

They won't actually see the page they used the URL shortener to create a link to, because the browser will automatically redirect to another page where you have explained why you are disallowing url shortened links to your content.

I also disagree with your premise. I think the reasons I mentioned are significant to all users of the web.

I do understand the issue you have presented though, that the short term benefits to the user of using a shortened url, may outweigh the long term ramifications I have listed, but perhaps as a group here, we can come up with some arguments that may help us content producers take back the web from the url shorteners.

Really, I just think when taken to the logical conclusion, a web saturated with url shortened links is really a not very good web.

I'm trying to propose a solution here, it may not be the best one and it will take a coordinated effort among content producers. I suppose those who ignore the call to arms are going to "please" url shortener users more than those who don't, but with a little effort and a genuine interest in a sustainable web, I think we can win this war.
Unless I'm missing your point, the argument seems circular: if someone "flips out" then they must have been "damaged" in the first place.

Aren't emotions part of being human? Long-term negation of one's being isn't likely to have zero consequences. I think a better analogy might be sex, repression of which certainly does mean that a problem compounds, at least for most people. But this discussion is possibly too abstract to be resolvable.
Extended Info (Facebook application, so you'd think a little more mainstream than a tech site, although Facebook has problems with IE6 so it may drive that number way down)

25.5k uniques (last 30 days)

Firefox	50.49%
3.x	96.4%
2.x	3.5%
Internet Explorer	31.25%
7.0	77.4%
8.0	12.0%
6.0	19.5%
Safari	12.63%
Chrome	5.01%
Opera	0.36%
You'll have to visit the link and copy the URL in the linked headline of the resulting Digg story. That's better than making people you send the link to have to jump through the same hoop.
What the RIAA is really saying is, "DRM (for digital downloads) is dead."

DRM for subscription, streaming, etc… is and will be alive and well. I think the consumers of these kinds of service understand and accept that the content isn't really theirs; they never bought it for keeps.
That's true. I just threw this together. I think you could even create a database table and generate the redirect on the server side or dynamically create the javascript. Most browsers have javascript enabled. Maybe a hacker with some time (maybe I'll create one) could create a site with a dynamically created .js file and a remote link like this:

<script src="http://takebackthewebfromurlshorteners.com/bannedreferrerslist.js">
</script>

This .js could be dynamically generated from a database table of known url shorteners. Such a service could even get really fancy and show stats from all the known shorteners, etc.

You could add parameters like this:

<script src=".../bannedlist.aspx?allow=digg.com,bit.ly,etc..."></script>

Then the user could customize exactly which url shorteners they want to allow.

All kinds of things a service like this could do!
They hold one of the top 2 spots for "beer pong balls" in Google

For me, it looks like #3, and this seems like the only worth of the company. $20-30k for that? Sounds worth it, if you ask me :-P
a business that lost 50-60% of its profit in 1 year, is hardly what I would call healthy
TweetingTooHard.com (last 30 days)
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Safari	25.52%
Internet Explorer	17.52%
7.0	58.8%
8.0	22.8%
6.0	18.4%
Chrome	5.82%
Geez, dude. Why do you have to change my words (even within quotes!) and twist their meaning to win your argument?

I was never originally talking about corporate spinoffs - I was talking about raw technology, basic science, fundamental ideas and breakthroughs that Apollo helped develop. That got derailed nicely when I happened to provide a link to NASA's corporate spinoff page under the assumption that a reasonable person would consider that commercial products are simply applications of technologies - not a representative list of them! Now you've decided that I meant to say Apollo directly started thousands of companies?!
Here's a more technical description: http://packet.cc/files/Flow%20%20Management.pdf

My take is that flow routing is not necessarily cheaper than doing full routing on every packet, but building a router with virtually no buffers requires tracking flows and interacting with TCP.
This is more like an ad than an article. Flow-based routers have been developed in the past, and the reason they are not prevalent is due to performance issues of one kind or another.

If they truly have solved the problem(s) that other flow-based routers had, great, but this can only be determined in the real world.
Apparently, ~1500 people a month Google "whois 67.222.141.120" and find your website...

http://searchanalytics.compete.com/keyword_destination/whois...
No in depth coverage of the actual R&D that someone like me expected to read and learn from, more like a sales pitch from the BizDev department.
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This thread is already old, but it just popped into my head that a first-rate example of the above is South Park. They "go for shock" more often and more intensely than just about anyone ever has; even I find their vulgarity hard to take sometimes and my tolerance for this kind of thing is pretty high. But they've produced some of the greatest satire of our time, the kind that (at their best) is so good it can make your jaw drop. So while it's true that satire doesn't have to be like this, much of the best over the centuries has: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rabelaisian.

And for the record, while I never implied that Zed's parody of Ariel was great or even good satire (merely an attempt at it), yes I am comparing South Park to Rabelais.
We went to the moon to beat the Soviets.

That's half the truth. The rest of the truth is: We went to the Moon out of sheer terror.

In fact, the Moon trip itself was a side effect. The space race took the form of a race to the moon because "the race to the Moon" was a much more joyful marketing slogan than "the race to design and build the next generation of ICBMs that will enable cities and towns like yours to be destroyed with even greater precision."

Remember that the Moon race was conceived in the early 1960s. ICBMs were a brand new technology. Everybody knew that we had to build more of them, keep improving them, stay ahead in them -- they'd seen the H-bomb tests. People who had lived through the 1940s -- Stalingrad, Auschwitz, Nanking, Bataan, Dresden, Nagasaki -- naturally found it difficult to have faith in human decency and restraint; they all thought World War III was inevitable, and probably imminent. This was several years before the Cuban missile crisis and a decade before the ABM treaty.

But it was hard to stay cheerful when talking about the world's rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals, so the space race was portrayed as a game to get astronauts and/or cosmonauts to the moon, and everyone had a lot of fun playing along. Enormous quantities of money were poured into rocket research, the military on both sides of the Cold War got their high-tech missiles and spy satellites and electronics, and in the end we got to watch some truly amazing pictures of people walking on the moon and feel proud. Smiles all around. A big win for everyone.

But the Moon itself was a secondary goal. A Macguffin. The Soviets didn't even bother to go, and their effort seems to me to have been rather halfhearted. By 1969 they had long since achieved the important goal anyway: Better rockets. The USA followed through but quickly got bored with the actual "moon" part. The Apollo 13 movie talked all about that: Mere months after the first moon missions, the remaining ones attracted scant public interest.

So I find the space race fascinating, and I understand the nostalgia for it, and I'm glad some good came out of the cold war, but I don't want to live through anything like it if I don't have to.
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I think if you time it right getting from Mars to Earth actually isn't so bad since Earth is in a lower solar orbit than Mars. Think of it as a big de-orbit burn. Of course you'd want it to deposit you into Earth-orbit (perhaps after some aerobraking), hence the need for proper timing, but on the whole much easier than trying to enter the higher orbit of Mars. Two rocket scientists I asked confirm this, but asked me not to quote them on it, so I'm paraphrasing :). Also, Mars' lower gravity makes achieving escape velocity substantially easier than on Earth.

Of course, it's still a not insubstantial amount of fuel, but it's not quite as bad as duplicating the trip up to get back.

Personally, though, if we shipped up enough stuff to survive, I'd be cool with a one-way trip.
This is pretty much the best press release I've ever seen in my life.

On a much less apocalyptic note, there is some great lawnbot potential here. A robot that cuts your grass and eats it for fuel sounds pretty good to me.
...the browser will automatically redirect to another page where you have explained why you are disallowing url shortened links to your content.

If you're going to the trouble of serving up content from your site, why would you disallow the content they came to see anyway? Maybe the concept could work if you had support from higher-up in the redirection process (from url shortening services themselves), but to effectively re-direct from your own page to another "you an't access this content" page on your site will only make end users confused and disinterested, driving traffic away.

I agree that URL shorteners are bad and acknowledge you're trying to do something about it, but this isn't the way to solve the problem.
Agreed.
A better metric is a journey of constant distance,
I've been making long journeys(4-6 or 8-10hrs) since early childhood.
They definitely feel considerably shorter now.
Of course, that doesn't clarify whether the discrepancy is because I've seen it before, or simply because of the ratio of distance/lifespan.
Prototype has curry() and bind() methods on functions for some time.

http://prototypejs.org/api/function

String.prototype.splitOnSpaces = String.prototype.split.curry(" ");
"foo bar baz thud".splitOnSpaces(); //-> ["foo", "bar", "baz", "thud"]
We don't like things that contribute to the noise.
Maybe a little trite but I always try to look at the larger picture. I've traveled quite a bit so I often think about the poorest people I've encountered, for example, in India and the life that they live day to day. I figure any day I have food in my stomach and a computer on my lap is a good one.
> Why should real-looking faces be disturbing?

It is actually a documented and fairly fascinating phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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1.) Sometimes new technology does not improve your situation but the opposite. e.g. RFID Passports open new attack vectors. There is no technology which is totally secure.

2.) RFID is not the problem, you can easily put a mesh inside the cover of the passport to prevent reading of the chip.

3.) Hammer time^Wthem. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=9
or tinfoil it.

4.) Subway cards with RFID are scary. In the UK the police uses the "named" cards to track peoples movement.
Rankings can change very quickly. The site has under 1,000 backlinks and a Page Rank of only 3 - not very reassuring.
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You mean like a goat, that also gives you milk and love?
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Best quote ever:

"We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission," stated Harry Schoell, Cyclone’s CEO
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Because it's more important that the shorteners die before they become more entrenched than that I get their traffic. The fact that I can seriously say this right now is something worth fighting to preserve.
Then who's mission is it?
So you won't notice them until they're close enough to eat you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713673 as some sort of pseudocannibal terminator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(character)

(pseudo as terminators aren't people, so it's not really cannibalism).
Jeez, I would kill for a site with 3% IE. For a site targeting enterprise users, we've got got 30% using just IE SIX
one sale in 2008 accounted for basically 50% of revenues btw. explains it some.
Meaning is an Illusion
http://help.msn.com/%28cHJvamVjdD1ob3RtYWlscGltX2ZhcSZtYXJrZ...

A free Hotmail account becomes inactive if you do not sign in for 30 days, or within the first 10 days after signing up for an account. Once an account becomes inactive, all messages, folders, and contacts are deleted, but the account name is still reserved. If the account stays inactive for a further 90 days, it is permanently deleted.

I'm almost positive that the account I had to recreate was no more than 6-9 months inactive.
Someone with a big vested interest in seeing the internet not break needs to step up and provide a shortening service that says "if you own the target, you own the shortened link, period".
Wow! That's frightening.

Without that you'll never become great.
Relevant:

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/animation/watch/v...
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How much energy can a robot extract from biomass? I remember hearing about a similar technology a few years back, but the process didn't recover the energy used to gather it.
Well, it worked in the Matrix.
I think that DRM for music is only maligned because the major players weren't able to come up with a single unified scheme (either for encryption or for encoding). As a result, it becomes a distraction, because not every song plays on any player. There are many incompatible formats that play on a subset of available players.

In the case of DVDs, everyone standardized on one scheme, and any DVD plays in any (region appropriate) DVD player. The encryption itself isn't really a problem, and no one complains about it (except for people who want to pirate DVDs).
I think your biggest mistake is thinking you have a choice: I can choose to be consumed by my business endeavors, or I can choose to fall in love with this girl. Neither is the case - you have little control over what consumes you. Presuming you allow yourself sufficient exposure to each, it will likely sort itself out without you needing (getting) to make a conscious choice.

I didn't put either first or second. I worked my tail off on my professional career and didn't end up meeting the right girl until fairly late on, but when I did I knew it and I didn't hesitate to marry her and keep my work in perspective. But had I met her ten years earlier I would have married her then too, and don't think I would have achieved anything less professionally.
Might find this list of URL shorteners useful: http://www.listable.org/show/url-shortening-sites (can be exported as JSON/SQL/plaintext)
http://www.listable.org/json/url-shortening-sites :)
In my childhood nerd days I could name all the apollo crews and CM/LM names and could name all the gemini and mercury astronauts (could never keep the gemini missions/pairs straight though.) It did not win me many friends or bar bets but it was time well spent IMHO. For some reason I never managed to get excited about or care very much about missions once Cernan's foot left the surface of the moon (except for Deke Slayton finally getting his shot on the Apollo-Soyuz mission.)
Don't forget the distinctive odor that allows you to tell if you have arrived near that love, even in complete darkness. Of course if the new biomass engine does not lack this feature it probably ruins it for any covert use.
Yeah! That's what i'm talking about!!

now it's just a FOR loop!
How long are the URLs on your site, that they are getting shortened so often?
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I'll second the cleaning - particularly around my desk and work area. Nothing gets me more productive than a clean desk. Nothing gets me more frustrated and distracted than a bunch of papers lying around.
Goat won't eat the grass uniformly. So you won't have a nice looking lawn. + unless you have a mansion with a huge lawn the goat will starve after a few months.
Amazing. In the adult world our "job" is part of our "real life".

Here's the thing: you don't live in the Matrix, this isn't a game and there are no "tricks", there are no "hacks". There are two things you need to do—get on with it, and get over it.

Some of the things mentioned elsewhere (like good diet, exercise, and getting out of the house) will help you do both of those, but it will still be a slow and painful process. There are no shortcuts. While that's going on what adults do, is do their work.
A small handful have made a fortune by monopolizing key markets but web sites in general are not profitable and profit never seems to be much of a concern for those investing in the internet.
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There are numerous companies which produce custom ping pong balls. I think that larger-scale printing companies which do all sorts of promotional materials would have better economy of scale in this business.

I went on a recruiting trip and had to snap a photo when I opened the box HR sent me: http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v356/214/9/10500...

Best giveaways ever! Representatives from other companies came over all day long to offer swag trades and students all got a good laugh out of it.
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I think the most interesting aspect of the Mars Direct-style plans is that they can potentially be one-way. The largest expense with a trip to Mars in terms of technology and resources is getting back out of the Martian gravity well and back to Earth. If you go far enough into the Mars Direct-style approach, there's no particular reason why you need to be in any hurry to come back and you can think about sending crews in the dozens rather than single digits.

I'm not sure I can see NASA doing a one-way mission, but I'll be first in line if SpaceX or whoever tries it.
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I'm fascinated by comments like this one, which relate a historical narrative explaining what motivated some event. How do I tell if it's true? What would it mean for it to be false? If it's true (which it is, presumably,) could you tell another story that was just as true, but completely different? There's nothing controversial about the idea that the space program was motivated by the desire to test military technology (indeed, everyone assumed this was the purpose of North Korea's recent "satellite launch" or whatever.) And yet the story being told here is much "bigger" than that fact.

(If you have trouble seeing what I mean, here's an example:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=624495
. People see the same facts and write completely different stories.)
I second SwellJoe's advices, particular #1 -- "Don't go into debt".

During 1999 the pre/post bubble period, I committed 120% into an online game startup with a few of my friends. Even with a bit of VC funding, the business finally imploded after struggling for about two years. Not a cent of salary was paid during the second year, and since we were all fresh grads with virtually no savings back then. We all had to max out our limited credit lines even while living _very_ frugally (sleeping on my friend's couch and not paying rent, for example). The pressure of debt was suffocating every minute and finally left me life long deep scar both mentally and physically. Besides, under prolonged period of stress, I ultimately started to make crazy decisions, and startup is a fragile organism that can not afford any more mistake.

That's why now I only work on my project part-time, even though it's been almost three years with little progress.
One of the cornerstones of the Mars Direct approach is that it takes advantage of the solar system's orbital mechanics such that the actual trip is relatively short in comparison with the duration humans have spent in space so far. I think you probably have a point about 40 tons aerobraking in the atmosphere and then popping a parachute, but I wouldn't expect either to be a deal breaker.

The NASA Design Reference mission is essentially a modified version of Mars Direct, so I would expect reading up on this would provide solutions to these problems, or at least it will go into more detail than this brief article.
I think core CS needs to be brought back into the picture. This Omega character is posited to be able to determine a Rice property about rational agents. As these agents are presumably Turing-equivalent or BETTER, this supposition contradicts our established theory. (for people with less formal CS education: Omega can solve the halting problem) The author's other article on Newcomb's problem (http://lesswrong.com/lw/nc/newcombs_problem_and_regret_of_ra...) hints at this but doesn't get to it explicitly.
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How bout SlugBot, that runs on the garden slugs it catches? (from Wired 2001):

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2001/10/4715...