skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really good article. We at www.nixty.com are creating a platform that supports traditional ways of education, but also facilitates informal learning. The future, as Mr. Reiger pointed out in the article, is definitely going to be a mixture of both. The challenge, and believe me it is a challenge, is to create an atmosphere that supports both the traditional and emerging ways of online learning.

If you are interested in helping us beta test the product, then please sign up at www.nixty.com. Thanks!
It's supposedly a placeholder for when he comes back.
Interesting. Is it close to Zongs claim of 10x a credit card?
In this case, I don't think context matters so much as structure. 4chan is 4chan because there are no individual feeds, only a few giant public ones, and anonymity is allowed. That's hard bits creating the difference, not soft social norms.
I use standard issue Firefox bookmarking, including a large group of bookmarks imported from the last time I was using IE. I refer to those bookmarks often during online discussion--I just did this afternoon.
This is an odd headline; did anyone think that TypeKit wouldn't cost money?
congrats crxnamja, the man apart of the team behind the curtain for this product
“The only faithful representation”? What?
No you sacrifice your right to yell fire. Yea you probably have no reason to, but if you did choose to yell fire, you couldn't (legally at least). As a tradeoff you expect no one else to yell fire (unless there was actually a fire). Same thing for our right to kill people. We sacrifice that too. There's also a lot of rights we sacrifice. The right to run a red light, the right to molest little children, etc. That's what laws are. They define the gray area. They define the boundary as to what's acceptable and what's not. Anarchy is absolute freedom. Wiretapping: legal or not? Well we have courts to rule that and determine if it's too much of a violation of our rights and freedoms.
How do you think it compares to, say, http://www.haveamint.com/ ?
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There will also be times where people want police to come in to police their neighbors (if they're doing something wrong).
Someone get Adrian Holovaty on top of this, right now!
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The 'where' page is empty.
Anybody know where this is happening? what city? That might be a key bit of info.
I didn't see a single thing in there that couldn't be replicated by rising late. I have done both early rising and late rising for extended periods of my life. Both have things to offer. Even the 9-5 routine has some advantages (the word "routine" basically captures it).

s/sunrise/sunset/,

s/breakfast/leisurely dinner/

You win.
I'd be interested in seeing the code. I've always wanted to see what that side of the wall does.
It's happening in Palo Alto, CA.
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good point. complexity is sometimes the worst enemy of security
I'm also interested in hearing about how the idea to create something like this came to them.
This proposal instead wants the area forgotten.

I don't think that's true; they're just giving more weight to the worst-case scenario where future people have no historical continuity to warn them about the site.
Is it possible to monitor bot nets to figure out what they are doing?
I've said it before, and I will say it again: I regularly read theses. Maybe I am insane, but I find them rather enticing when they're really, really good. OK, only one thesis every 100 years can be as monumental as Shannon's thesis, but that does not mean other all thesis suck. I often find myself reading theses by former MIT and Caltech grad students. I like Math, CS and Engineering theses. Needless to say, I don't read bullshit theses on women's studies or other pseudo-intellectual junk.

Conference papers are limited to 6 pages or so. Authors need to cite the right papers to ensure they won't offend anyone. They need to revise prior work. They need to stick to the core of the idea and refer to 1000s of other papers. Theses have less editorial and political constraints, so they're much more enjoyable to read IMHO. And, fortunately, theses don't have that hideous double column format.

If I want to learn a new field, I don't read papers. I read theses.
If his privacy was so precious to him I don't think he would do things like that.

But you don't know, and neither do I. It looks like someone played this game, and we lost.
4 times here - completely different each time... Only thing consistent was it said that I went to the University of Tennessee, which I did not...
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I remember steve gibson reverse engineered the protocol for a bot and figured out what it did.
Fashion is fickle. I'm looking at getting a HTC Hero because a) everyone has an iPhone and b) managing my music in iTunes has been annoying since I did a clean install of Mac OS X.
Ask HN: Can you be a successful entrepreneur without being passionate?
Is it possible to successfully pursue an opportunity that you aren't passionate about?

Have you done it? Are there examples out there of people who have done it?
Something's fishy about _why's "outer"
No, but the alternatives out there (SIFR, anyone?) don't. Which is why it's important to point out.
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Oddly enough, Philosophy is a poor choice here. When measured, philosophy graduates end up doing quite well on the median, possibly because it is a path to law school for many but also because it teaches many skills that end up being useful in the workplace.

I suggest media arts. :)
That number seems pretty typical.
Unless you play chess a lot for years, it's hard to really see the beauty in it.

In that way, it's sort of like mathematics. Few adults would find arithmetic very beautiful, and if that's all they knew of math they might wonder what mathematicians see in mathematics. It takes years of dedication and practice to learn enough math to get to the higher levels, where one begins to see the beauty in math.

Chess is the same. Playing it after just learning the basics might be fun, but it's only once you've put in a significant investment of time in to the game that you begin to get a glimpse of its depth and beauty. Don't expect to see it after merely learning the rules and playing a few games.

That said, something has to keep you going until you learn enough chess to begin to really appreciate it. And that something, for most chess players, is mere enjoyment. For us it's just fun, and that's enough.
How much are you making a month? 10/hr, 40 hours a week, that's 1600 bucks before taxes, ends up being much harder to pay 80 dollars a month from. Hopefully, you don't have student loans to pay back too. (Hopefully, you don't have a kid!)
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I think there was a study that showed sleeping during daylight is not as good as during night time. Don't quote me on it though.
Agree with ojbyrne that this could all be replicated on a late night schedule as well.

How about this: 10 benefits of conforming to your bodies natural rhythm? I've read plenty of research on innate, physical inclination to rise early or late.

Regardless of whether I work late or early, I tend to rise at the same time (unless acted upon by an outside force). Working late means I need less sleep and am more productive.

Of course the downside of this is that the world is on a morning schedule. I am currently conforming to this due to children. I look forward to reverting to a night schedule.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1903838,00.ht...
Wow that putting alarm clock away from the bed is ingenious. I've gotta try that.
Yes. I wouldn't say we were passionate about Viaweb. We found some of the technical challenges interesting, we liked the idea of helping our users, we wanted to make money, we didn't want to have bosses, and we didn't want to seem like failures to our friends. But we weren't jumping up and down about e-commerce.

What I did want passionately was (a) to get enough money to be free to do what I wanted, and (b) not to fail. The latter alone is probably enough of a motivator for most people who would make good founders.
The guy is clearly not a programmer. Programmers' most productive time is at night - everyone knows that.
Personally I've learned to focus without aids. Though I do have one aid - the phrase "A hanging concentrates the mind." Comes up whenever there's a deadline.

There's lots to be said for aimless thought. It's where innovation comes from.
I have a theory that there's a certain addictive quality not just in chess but in a lot of cognitive pursuits. Anything that has certain payoff either in terms of winning the game, or even in simply seeing the solution (correct sequence) to a given position as a sort of "Aha!" moment.
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Ya, I mostly agree with you. But there's a fine line between being a good consultant and being a good hacker.

Running an SSH server was a quick solution for automating some basic tasks in Windows. Incidentally, I had a great conversation today with a Windows guy and I'll probably look further into solving these problems with Powershell.
Yes, it would be a tautology if I had defined it in terms of progress. But progress is the result of the methods and intention of the endeavors of science; falsifiability being one of them. Another is applicability, which often comes in the form of being subject to experimentation.

Logic is a great tradition of in both science and philosophy; and even now there is a working community with practitioners of the field with both titles. But when I was entered graduate school I left for the mathematics department specifically because formal logic was relegated to the unfashionable corner of most philosophy programs.
I think only a few in our batch were not launched by demo day. This seems high to me too, tho only PG and JL know for sure. Paul pushed REALLY hard to get people launched.
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Lies. I've spent >$50k on adwords and had far more garbage clicks in positions 1-3 than with 7-9. They directly affect CR.

More data please, GOOG.
The part where they cycled backwards while standing on top of each other was pure amazing. made me rethink what a bicycle is!
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"They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

My favorite part.
I don't know if I'm successful or not for your definition of successful, but I do know that I don't consider my project much more interesting than toothpaste. The business, on the other hand, I'm passionate about.
Solid set of info there. Anyone know or have a guess as to the forum the botmaster linked to? Email's in profile if you don't feel like posting it for the public.
'stiff' is 30s slang for a working class person (as in 'working stiff'). This would be like saying 'he really lucked out!' today - a mixture of admiration and mild jealousy for someone's (possibly unearned) good fortune.
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When I was younger I used to wake up at 4pm and code till early 6am, pure zen.

Now that I am older I try to go to bed the same day I wake up.

The older I get the earlier I want to wake up, the less I want to sleep.
I'm not sure about advantages, but it seems a little twisted that the main thing this appears to do is wrap a schemaless store with a schema. Yea, I see that you can work around it, but really, as a starting point, why?
I actually get a lot more done early in the morning. All the distractions are gone. No one is sending me email or trying to chat with me on IM.
Don't worry, you'll learn to sleep through the alarm clock =P
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_why's best twitter posts
I've heard the refrain about keeping logic out of templates so many times, and yet professionaly I've never come across a situation where totally programming-clueless designers were actively editing templates. It always falls into one of two categories:

* the designer doesn't go anywhere near the real app and does all their work as mockups of HTML / CSS or even Illustrator / Photoshop. Developers do the work to integrate templates, designers at most fiddle with the CSS or bare HTML in the template and never touch any logic.

* the designer is reasonably competent to deal with the primitive programming in templates and is involved in the full lifecycle of product development

The bottom line is that if they are too leary of programming to cope with simple logic structures in a template then they are altogether incapable of working productively as part of the development lifecycle and should just hand their stuff to people who have those skills.
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Physicalism doesn't predict the existence of conscious experience. (And if you really think its necessary to give an argument for the existence of these experiences other than "we all have them and know that we have them," I am not sure what to say -- you are simply in denial.)

It is absolutely necessary to give an argument for the existence of these experiences.

I know that you believe you have them, and that I believe I have them, but that doesn't mean that they have any tangible reality, it just means that our brains store things in a way that they will respond "yes, I have conscious experience."

Alternatively, should I accept as real everything that a person believes they experience? A schizophrenic's voices are real? A memory of a past trauma that is, in fact, a false memory, proves that the past trauma is real? This is a very dangerous path to walk, accepting the validity of introspection as a means of investigating the world...
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LINQ to Objects is C#'s (very good) take on Python's list comprehensions, and is awesome. However, that's just providing a declarative, functional way to query/iterate objects--not an ORM. LINQ to XML is likewise also okay, since XML's tree-based model happens to map extremely well to objects in a way that a relational model cannot do.

LINQ is great. LINQ to SQL is actually very good, so far as that goes; it just happens to be trying to do something that I'm not convinced can be done well.
The way I figure it the "worst case" is that his account(s) were hacked and that he brings everything back online. In that case he now has a letter, from me, letting him know how much I appreciate him and his work. Frankly, I'm long overdue for writing one, anyway.
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Nope, not even close :).
You think you jest...

I have to have 2 alarm clocks on normal ok-if-I'm-late days, and 3 if I absolutely have to wake up by x:00 AM. Each a progressively further zombie walk away from the bedside.

I have 3 for the important days because walking to the kitchen is apparently not enough to wake me.

The problem now is that my third is my cell phone, and if I forget to turn my ringer way up, I can sleep right through that since it's so far away.

I am not a morning person. -_-
His top post is one of my all time favourite tweets. Often quoted.
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It's great to see a technology-based startup like RethinkDB. It is a wonderful opportunity they are targeting, and their marketing looks great. I can see them getting bought out for $100 millions by Oracle etc.

It sounds like a sustaining technology because it sells into existing infrastructure; but because the initial uses of SSD are in devices like iPhones (rather than data centers), that might make it disruptive.

But I agree that actually solving this problem is the difficult part! OTOH, all they need do is achieve some of the potential benefits in a product that actually works, to be wildly successful. Oh, and be the first. One problem is that everyone else is aware of this opportunity, so it comes down to execution... One advantage they have over Oracle and so on is they don't have to worry about existing customers.

Their long-term view is exactly right: http://www.rethinkdb.com/learn-more/

> As data centers switch to solid-state drives, RethinkDB will be ready to let customers take advantage of these upgrades.
If you're wondering why Zed Shaw is always at the top of HN whenever he blogs about his least favorite kind of steak sauce, this is why. He writes some random, moronic, offensive comment on Twitter, and we can't shut up about it. There ought to be a word for this tactic he's using. I think I'll coin one. Zed Shaw is a message board goblin. He's goblining you.
The usefulness of MixPanel (for me) is in the ability to track custom javascript events. Things like changing an advertisement iris (no page refresh) can get tracked without me having to write the tracking code. As far as I can tell, haveamint doesn't do that (in fact, I don't see haveamint doing anything that google analytics doesn't already do).
No he didn't (mature, right?), he was just showing the obvious flaw in the argument by taking it to its extreme. He did not in any way compayre _why to the KKK.
In my opinion finding a (sound) tactical chess combination is comparable to solving a mathematical proof. Chess tactics are logical, artistically beautiful, and devastatingly decisive. To gain an appreciation for them, try solving the problem below (it's a classic). Every move white makes has a specific purpose - no subjective, wishy-washy strategies here - just absolute truth on the chessboard.

http://chesstr.com/problems/10
I got through hundreds of site a day and never bookmark them. For me the internet is more an experience and I don't' like to read things twice. I can usually find what I want very quickly using google. So my suggestion is to just use google.
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I have this one engraved on the back of my iPod touch:

turtles and goats, turtles and goats, turtles and goats are filling up boats.

(It was free so might as well.)
I used to work an automated call center and 'credit request' was most (service providers) customer's golden ticket to a live agent, but whenever the requested a 'live agent' they'd just get recycled back into the system.
If I'm healthy and exercising 3 times a week and eating right, I can wake up whenever I want and be productive the entire day.

If I'm not, it's simply impossible.

This stuff really isn't that complicated, people.
For anyone looking for a version of the article that you can download without a Physical Review account: http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0438
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How about number of users and applications per line of code?
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Isn't failure an essential catalyst for eventual success? I want to succeed, but I also want to fail.
Awesome posts.

You know, the entire internet is abuzz with _why news right now, but... why? Sure, he deleted his internet presence. It's probably a healthy thing to do once in a while. Like spring cleaning!

He's still alive people! He's probably happily riding a unicorn into a misty valley full of friends. Or, he could be camping.
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I find John Lewis/Waitrose very interesting. Imagine combining Wholefoods with Goldman Sachs (pre flotation) & raw Marxism (the workers literally own the means of production) - that's what this is. It's certainly an interesting combination.
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From what I read, it didn't sound like he had much trouble. And, honestly, the various "swappable components" frameworks are basically in the same boat as far as I know: the ability to mix and match decreases dramatically once you've written application code, because their emphasis is on the up-front choices, not on swapping things later on.
It wasn't their background that convinced us. It was just talking to them. They clearly knew what they were talking about.

You can't let yourself care too much about "background" when you're investing in startups, because some of the best startups are done by outsiders.
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Surely it isn't very hard to close your mail & IM clients?
I have difficulty waking up and sleep through alarms.

Clocky has worked wonders. I just can't believe my gf puts up with it (and actually bought it for me!). It is loud as hell and you can make it drive away from you.

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I recommend buying a vibrating alarm clock like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/ila-Vibrating-Alarm-Clock/dp/B0017TPFY...

and putting it under your pillow.
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I don't think it's essential. When we invest in people's first startups, we're not doing it just to fund their personal growth. We hope the startups will actually succeed.
i couldn't help but think of this exchange when i saw all of the _why things

- Nobody died. How can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?

- Then what died? Who are you mourning?

- A point of view.

Cain, Elbis O'Shaughnessy, and Abel, in Sandman: The Wake
what makes me such a lousy programmer is that i can excuse anything by saying this isn’t so bad— i myself am a much bigger hack than this.
His and your analysis of the argument is incorrect, and I'm surprised you'd endorse such a Godwin-violating^ argument.

^ Yes, I know the KKK are not technically Nazis.

Leaving personalities out of it, there is a big qualitative difference between ceasing to share something (in the worst case, undirected passive-aggressive behavior) and actively attacking other people (in the worst case, highly directed active-aggressive behavior).
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As you already know, forums bring people together and relationships are formed.

Those relationships can become business related, which is where you come in. You’ve seen how popular message boards get, Yahoo! Answers, Facebook, Twitter, and more are examples of high interaction.

A forum is kind of like an email list, except you have stronger relationships and a lot more interaction, so the conversions can be huge.
The data entered into the store has to be validated somewhere. The advantage is that the schema needs only be stored within the code instead of both the code and the database.
I love all this _why stuff on the front page (no sarcasm)! Thank you HN!

_why was a truly prolific member of the Ruby community. Assuming he's actually 'gone', he'll be missed and his work appreciated for a long time to come.
Interesting point. Either such replicators are hard to build, or civilizations capable of building them are rare, or they are already here, but quiet.
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Yes, they admitted they weren't sure.