skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The back-story to me buying these was that I developed really bad shin splints a few years back and had to stop running, tennis, basketball, ultimate, or pretty much anything with an impact on my feet/legs. I was able to keep mountain biking and kickboxing, but I wanted to get into running and couldn't.

Doctors and shoe specialists all told me I needed better support. The supports and insoles only ever made it MUCH MUCH worse. I have one flat foot, so that was the focal point of all their recommendations... But the only thing that seemed to help, which was a fluke discovery and not recommended by any "professional", was being barefoot.

In these shoes, I can run around and play any sport I want with zero problems so far.
That was a very, very bad interview. Heilemann took two different interviews, 8 months apart, and put them together. With a variety of innaccuracies.

Anyway, some engineer told me that in an interview at some point.
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The always-brilliant Maciej already did that :)

http://pinboard.in/
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords
Tests give you type checking for free. If you have to write tests anyway, why bother writing the type checking twice?

The advantage of static analysis is that it can be used to verify general qualities of your code, but those qualities tend to be very weak relative to amount of extra work required to prove them.

Tests can easily verify highly elaborate specific cases, but generalizing is left to human intuition. A skilled programmer knows which tests are needed to effectively cover all cases. If you are not yet a skilled programmer, or you are working with an unskilled programmer, the tests may be incomplete and it might be worthwhile to use static typing for that small amount of extra coverage.
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I've made the "#SharedObjects" directory read-only.

Since then I've been using flash without any problems - the only noticeable effect is that I have to reset the volume on youtube videos each time I play a video.
Play this (addicting) game in Firefox - http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm. It will record your high score. Open Chrome in incognito mode, die quickly, and see that it has kept your high score from Firefox.
I share your disappointment. Maybe a logo interpreter in F# [1] can cheer you up.

[1] http://www.intellifactory.com/articles/LogoInterpreter.aspx
"this argument seems based on the premise that there's a huge underclass of people who can't possibly be trained in a skill once robots take the manual labor away"

Who is going to pay for that training? I don't see any way for people who are currently unskilled laborers to make it through the gap when their current work is no longer available without any assistance. Moreover, plenty of skilled labor will be automated in the future. Nursing, for instance, requires a significant amount of knowledge to do competently, but most of the tasks nurses (as well as family practitioners) do will probably be automated in the next 40 years. Accounting? Skilled profession, but it could probably be automated. Anything that doesn't require creativity seems capable of being automated to me, even without drastic, unforeseen, internet-like advancements in technology. How are all of these people going to be retrained? What will they be retrained in?

"The hardware will become cheap long before the software becomes capable enough to replace humans in most jobs, and the software will improve gradually. People will have time to adapt."

I don't think so. Most of the problems that need to be solved to replace various forms of human labor are fairly similar. When the necessary technology is developed, several industries will start to automate simultaneously. Tens of thousands of jobs will be permanently lost annually. Even at a more gradual rate, I doubt there will be enough work to absorb all of those people.

To recap:

1) What jobs will people switch to?

2) How will there be enough of them?

3) How will people afford retraining when plenty of people barely have enough money to save today?

4) How will they retrain fast enough? Most of the jobs that seem difficult to automate to me require a college education, which many people aren't currently prepared enough for.

I think things will end up being okay, but it will take massive government intervention.
The runtime system seems to be fine with this, at least the results for scala code (which compiles to bytecode consisting of many small, mostly immutable classes with shot lived instances) indicate that this style of programming hits a sweet spot for the JIT compiler and the GC (at least for sun's server VM) which has a far easier time inlining things than with code consisting of few big classes with long lived objects.
I can think of two companies with big popular products who would hire you.
"could care less" really, so I guess they sort of care about it then. Moron.
Also no need to tell the head of Rio Tinto about bribery, corruption, theft of state resources, perversion of justice and even murder - his company has been implicated in all these and more at numerous sites around the world. Their involvement in the Grasberg mine in Papua has been particularly egregious.

I don't have many good things to say about the Chinese govt, but Rio Tinto is an absolutely awful company and it would not surprise me if they had tried their dirty tricks one too many times and been caught trying to bribe or blackmail officials.

Let's wait until the facts come out in this case.
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What's the deal with the /static/{js|css}/combined.(hash) stuff? Is that part of a home-brewed deployment solution?
maybe if they had some creativity instead of producing the same old insipid crap...

Well, probably not then either. But there are some exceptions to the same-old. I would probably sign up for this one if they got off their PC horse and split up the men & women's clips. This is actually almost SFW:

http://www.beautifulagony.com/public/main.php
I see no real difference, I made some queries and they are (about) the same as my default goolge.

may be if you give a difference list.
So far I have only reimplemented what Joshua had built a few years ago. If it weren't for the del.icio.us 2 redesign, I wouldn't have a market at all.
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Why not work for a YC company or some other small startup instead of Google?
Along the side they have an option to view female-only or male-only.

p.s.: I wish people weren't so quick to blame something on political correctness!
The adult industry has often been the predictor of future trends, given that they were typically earliest adopters for stuff like the VHS, DVDs, and the internet.

What they're experiencing now seems to be an accelerated version of what's to come for other media industries.

I wonder if the solution, at least for the actresses, is to start selling more directly to their fans (i.e. hit the strip club circuit more aggressively while using their films mainly for marketing)?
Yes, I'm from Latvia. I calculated that if I had $1M, then on 2.5% interest rate it would give me $25.000 per year, which is $2.000 per month, and since my favorite activity is self-education, $2.000 seems enough to live comfortably and do what I love. I am not sure if it's a coincidence or not.

Well, if I had a company that was worth $1M, I think I'd push its value to $10M and then sell it. ;)
If I knew how to make something exceptionally better, I would do it. Most would appreciate it. There is much to be left untapped and I'm sure there are more ways to push it beyond "bookmarks", as social voting has already done.
CCleaner works well at deleting all those cookies that sneak by private browsing.
Is there a lot of "noise"?

There's too much of that in the Bay area. Most people say they are working on something but doesn't have anything to show.

There
That's kind of traditionally been the means for the less known and non-contract girls to make money, the strip clubs or escort services.
Re: maybe if they had some creativity instead of producing the same old insipid crap

Haha, this reminds me of the Kenny vs. Spenny episode where they have competition to create the best porno and Kenny does what he does best.

Porn is like any other business it's certainly not immune to a recession or competition and it's going to take some ingenuity to get them out of the hole they're (pun intended) in like any other industry.
This seems silly, there is a huge diversity in porn genres that caters to every niche or fetish you know of or unheard of. What exactly are you asking for? A reboot of traditional Showtime/Cinemax porn titles?
Please flag this thread. This is actually really rude, I think. It was part of another thread; leave it there.
So free apparently provided a "backpressure" to it. Could this apply also to drugs ?
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Oh man. I'm so glad I am still up and drunk posting on HN at midnight. Hold on!

So... the (sexy) lead-in is that some performer thought her "career" in the porn industry would last forever. Ha. Enough said about that. Sad but not really interesting.

The meat of the article (lol) is that these free sites all make their money by licensing cheap content (which there is a LOT of) and redirecting traffic to pay sites which pay referral fees (PPA), but the resulting (PPV) revenue is down %50 which has the effect of sucking up (lol) half the money in the pipeline. There are middlemen upon middlemen (hot!) in the porn industry. That kind of drop has shockwave effects through the rest of the industry. Biz 101.

So I guess we're facing a "peak porn" scenario. Future economist PHD's, there's a hot topic for ya.

The existing resources can probably be strip mined for a while. Perhaps the era of get rich quick internet porn sites is over? Dang, I was just about to start one, because I totally read this wired article from 1998 about how that was a guaranteed way to make money on the interwebz. (lol).

Also, any tech geeks out there who can't get laid should remember this: if you hire a girl to have sex with you, that's illegal prostitution. If it's on camera and she signs some forms, it's legal porn! (don't forget your 2257 compliance)
Are you asking about what we would change in the deck or the company? There's certainly a bit of what you seek in the write up in terms of what we did wrong with this deck. In the future, I plan to put up the deck we took to the VCs when we went seeking the Series A round. We received two term sheets from what anyone would call Tier 1 firms. Hopefully seeing that deck, and being able to contrast it against this one, will be useful for entrepreneurs and founders looking to raise capital. If you have more specific questions, please don't hesitate to send them to me on email or twitter.
Not a big fan of Rio either, but does simply working for a bad company justify imprisonment of the local management without charge? The facts should come out before arrests are made, not after.
I wasn't referring to desktop systems exclusively, but if I were then you'd have been right.
Given enough users, you could do a very good job of tracking
influenza or other rapidly spreading infectious diseases

Google already does that using aggregated search data: http://www.google.org/flutrends/
nice idea. awesome implementation, straight forward yet good looking. best of luck!
You should be in PR/marketing if you're not already ;)
I also don't subvocalise when reading (repeating aeiou or 1234 to myself when reading didn't slow me down at all), but I also don't form movies, or even static images, when reading. I actually have no ability to visualise at all, despite the claims in many medical textbooks that such ability is essential. The first source I ever found that took this seriously was an Oliver Sachs article in the New Yorker a few years back on on visual imagery in the blind, where he revealed that he also has no "inner eye": http:://www.truncheon.net/newyorker/20030728_sacks.html - scroll to "visual imagery in the sighted"

I've also found that my retention is entirely conceptual — I soak up ideas, but rarely remember the details. I never remember quotes, and with fiction I often can't even remember the names of the main characters. I don't really read much fiction, though. I particularly dislike books that go into huge depth of description: like Tolkien who couldn't even mention walking past a tree without taking 3 pages to describe it.
Thinking about OSS v5.0 (Open Sound System) project
The first thing you'll want to look at is HAACP, which is required by the US FDA for certain types of food (amongst them, juices, which your product may fall in to). There are likely other laws covering labelling - you may have to pay a laboratory to analyse the product for energy & fat content, sodium, sugars etc.

Have a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_Analysis_and_Critical_Co...

and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition_facts_label#United_St...

There's probably other things too

(Disclaimer: I'm Australian, and not an expert in these things)
On top of that, the lack of context and the formulation in the headline is making it sound like you regretted selling to Yahoo!, while the original post leads me to believe you actually regret selling. (You can correct me if I'm wrong, after all, you are the one that said it...)

This whole topic is in really bad taste :-/
Females:

http://www.beautifulagony.com/public/main.php?page=view&...
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Not exactly an answer to why but the individual toe pockets can also help you if you have a neuroma since they spread out your toes a bit. I know a few folks with a neuroma that swear by these shoes.
Porn seems to hold universal appeal to tech entrepreneurs. I think every startup founder has a backup porn plan. Seems like even in porn you have to actually run a good business, and deal with competitors and the ever present reality of being killed by "free"; just like any other kind of web-based business.
"Mark Zuckerberg, though worth multimillions, ..."

based on the valuation of his FB stock
Aah, this is on a Kindle Dx - I only have the Kindle 2...
Like... The Registry? ;-)
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Or would it be better for me to just practice on my own PC (winxp)?
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Grinning much? So THAT must be what it's like when you earn or spend $50mil!
Yeah, we implemented a build process that combines and minifies all the CSS and JS files, and also converts all the images to sprites to cut down on requests. The hash is to facilitate more efficient caching (you can set it to never expire).

I've been toying with the idea of open-sourcing it, but it would definitely need some cleanup first.
I like the cut of your jib. Internet porn: the world's most sexiest ponzi scheme.
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If facebook somehow lost all data tomorrow and lost its domain to the government, you can bet Zuckerberg would have another job lined up for a ton of money in no time.
He assumes that you cannot create you own types, e.g just create a HtmlEncodedString class. This was relevant in C and VBScript, but certainly not in C# or any other modern language I know of. Hungarian notation is a manually checked safeguard against wrong conversions when the language is not powerful to check it automatically. It is just cargo cult programming to keep using it in modern languages.

Note that his examples are in VBScript (a language which is as obsolete as BCPL). This might also explain his aversion towards exceptions.

Joel is a great writer and have many great points (also in this article), but understand that his coding advice is from a different era.
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No, the formulation is relatively accurate. Would someone have done better? Probably not.

I emailed pg and asked for the thread to be nuked.
Well it is probably correct. What they don't tell you here is that you technically need a permit to live in an urban city like Beijing. Indeed, you can't rise in any company without being a permanent resident of the city where it is based (or at least where your office is).
Surely many startups will be swimming against 2-3 of these? Otherwise there is no risk and they are simply working in the mainstream?

I'd certainly not advocate "make something people don't want", but sometimes isn't it going to be "make something people have no idea they want yet..."?

For me this make it hard to apply this pyramid. For example, "scale" might mean many thousands of users (argh, I need hardware) vs a few extremely high paying users (argh, I need sales, training, etc).
First, for a lot of products on Amazon, you can choose from multiple vendors already.

Second, I'd imagine ads like this–where you know the visitor is ready to buy–will fetch more than $.50.
I think about this every week. The Photos Guy?

Keep trying to do something new, but so much undone after Picasa.

And when you have a TON of stuff going into an acquisition that never sees the light of day, you kind of obsess about making it real, even 5 years later.
I had the same idea as vaksel. I am still a del.icio.us user, but the problem is, that Yahoo devs seems to not understand the product very deeply, since they did NOTHING to improve it, although a lot of work has been done. They just needlessly complicated the design and redirected the service to a boring domain name.

joshu I think there is still a room for you to to resume where you stopped and starting to truly innovate again. I would be your first user. ;o) Let's start with thinking of some good new quirky domain name. ;-))
> It may be a surprise but we have most issues with Opera (Don't worry, I have spoken to both Opera users and they said it's fine for them to use Firefox sometimes:).

You can't have your cake and eat it too. So really, it's completely immature to say that and then go on to say:

> It's not our job to tell the customers which browser to use

That only applies when it's IE6? At least Opera has a steady market share, whereas IE6 is losing it at a rapid pace.
First I had no idea that these where funny notes.....
At least you got things shipped, Mike.

2+ years of sitting on my ass was not fun.
Is the pinboard.in reliable in terms of speed and uptime?
Is JobSpice written in Python? If yes, are you using any framework?
Lack of "register" totally threw me.

Especially when I clicked save and there was only one password field, and no confirm.

That's never a good idea.
Don't worry, all the Californians are up here spoiling Oregon.
So really it should have been called Soft Times in the Porno Industry.
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Excuse us non-technical foreign people, but this says that wearing tin foil hats actually amplifies radio signals instead of blocking them? And paranoid people wear them under the false impression it will block government radio signals?
Someone else's startup? I want to be in charge of a product.

Google seems like a reasonable path to redemption - ship something new.
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Stats in the DB show that the site has been fast (user page loads in about a quarter second) pretty much since launch. This is not due to developer skill; rather, the signup fee has kept the user base small enough to guarantee good performance, which is part of the idea.

As for uptime, we've had about 20 minutes of downtime this month, in order to set up a master/slave and enable SSL. I can't guarantee the happy streak will continue, but again the gatekeeping fee deters any massive spikes in load, spam, and other growing pains that could take down the site.
Doesn't work for me. Besides "old" and "new" google show the same things...
I guess this doesn't work for the majority of the population but I have a simple nice looking LaTeX template for my CV.

Anytime I need to update it it's usually a question of a few minutes tops. It might've taken a bit longer for the initial setup but over time I'm sure I've saved way more time compared to fighting Word every time I want to update it. I highly recommend it.
It doesn't justify it, of course, but it does set the scene, as in it's quite likely there's been bad behaviour of some type. If we're going to be drawing conclusions about China's intentions, it behooves us to consider all the relevant information.

These mega-corps always work within the letter of the law, but not the spirit. They can wreak horrendous damage, taking actions in obvious bad faith, and yet get off scot-free because they've legally dotted every "i". Well, it would not surprise me if some part of Officialdom there is really pissed off at Rio for something they've done, can't actually hang anything specific on them, so is just holding them without charge for a while to punish them. That is also within the letter of the law, but not the spirit.

China could be sending a message here - "you play dirty, we'll play dirty". Anyway, just a theory and probably not a good one, but I hope it demonstrates that Rio's unclean hands are relevant to any discussion of the matter.

Simply stating "be too successful in China and this is what happens!" is unlikely to be the whole story.
Very smart way to create (and then resale) a big HR database.

It also should be integrated with HN, like standard button/link in user's profile.
In my experience, reading papers with math gets a lot faster as you get used to the conventions. It used to take me almost a whole day to digest a single math or CS paper in a field I was familiar with, but now I can get through a couple in an afternoon, provided that I am not interrupted.

The "chunking" that you develop is like that in chess, or programming for that matter. This seems to be one of the primary reasons why journals will reject papers with unconventional notation. Unfortunately, the notation doesn't seem to stay uniform across disciplines (math <-> physics) or even languages (english <-> french) even when using the same mathematical structures.
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To me it seems that they improved a bit collapsing same domains. However they still have a lot of work to do - try searching for basically anything and you will still see domains which were on the first page repeated on 3rd or 4th. Annoying.

Another difference is the size of the indexed web:

Sandbox version: Results 1 - 10 of about 25 120 000 000 for www. (0.22 seconds)

Regular version: Results 1 - 10 of about 22 830 000 000 for www. (0.25 seconds)

Overall that's not much to write home about
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> Reliable revenue and employment figures for the adult industry don't exist, since no analysts or economists track it. Adult Video News estimated in 2006 that it was worth $13 billion...

Those two sentences together seem bizarre. Estimated at $13B, and yet no analysts or economists are evaluating the business? That can't just be because of a puritan aversion to porn...?