skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I'm the OP and author of the paper. I figured I might get criticized for it because it was for my MBA, and there are a ton of stereotypes around MBA's. (Many for good reason, unfortunately.)

But I have my degree in aerospace engineering, have designed and built solar-powered road cars, and used to operate a nuclear reactor. So don't think I don't have my fair share of geek cred.

I understand the sarcasm, but would personally appreciate honest feedback on the content.

Disclaimer: I have gone to bschool.
And here I thought that LaTEX is the standard for mathematicians.
I've always been confused by the "rockstar" thing as well. I know what they're trying to say, but it seems like a strange metaphor. Rock stars are quintessentially style over substance. Sure many of them are competent musicians, some are even very good, but that's pretty incidental to their rockstardom. A rock stars main job is to look the part and sell the brand while others do the heavy lifting. That seems almost the opposite of what you'd want in a programmer. What you really want isn't the rockstar, but the virtuoso guitarist who is always kept slightly in the background but is the main reason why the rockstar sounds so good.
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"The Amish" is on overgeneralization, since there are different communities who use different amounts of and with different rules about "modern technology". They are also not adverse to technology as such, at least most aren't. What they object to is being tied to the outside world. Which is why they use much gas or kerosene powered equipment, but not electrical power lines, the tie is still there but is less direct and nagging. They also are more willing to use outside technology for business related purposes, many shops and businesses have phones, they won't be in their homes though.

As for the paper, I think they may be able to put it online, for printing out in each community, the internet is no more binding to the outside than the postal service is. But there is no real likelihood that most Amish would be willing to get internet connections to their homes.
I would say that in the end, it's all about the user experience, and that unfortunately or not, comes from the design.

The cleverest app, or piece of coding is useless if the user doesn't get what they want from the experience of using it.

Brilliant design doesn't have to be flashy or clever, and of course, the simplest interfaces are always the best. There is a huge amount of skill and intelligence involved in taking what is a potentially complex idea or concept, and expressing to the user, not only how to use it, but also what the app is capable of, in a simple, graphical way.

There's been a of of discussion on HN about the new Sequoia site. I think I'm one of the few who think it's brilliant, because it already assumes a lot about its users, and that if they're on the site, they probably have a pretty good idea already of why they're there. The site is tailored to those people, they don't need to be hand-held with descriptions and explanations. This would be completely out of place in many other instances, but the designers knew their users, and what their needs were, so built accordingly. The web is a graphical interface for information, great design is crucial.

The OP made the point about a team...my point is that this has to a be a balance of skills, each member understanding their value and importance to the project, and understanding and valuing the importance of their colleagues. Teams made up of entirely one skill set will never be as productive as one with a wide range of skills.
What I meant say was it isn't clear to me if she was a worker or ran the factory.
There's a funny thing about dedication in that it doesn't really feel like dedication if you're interested enough in what you're doing. I can recall stealing my father's old college calculus book out of the the top cabinet when I was in third grade and reading through it at night when I was supposed to be asleep, purely out of boredom with the math we were taught at that level. By then, I barely had any concept of a variable, and yet I somehow managed to teach myself a decent portion of calculus in the next three years.

These days, I struggle to apply that level of effort to anything I'm required to do.
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Please no books and no research papers.

Just a short article showing how to get things done.

Exactly as one we're discussing.
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I'm a casual musician that lately also makes music creation software for the iPhone http://www.hopefullyuseful.com/

My brother (Co-Creator of Simple Songwriter) is a more serious musician that uses Cubase and Ableton Live from memory.
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Why?, unless you don't think the writer is a person, too.
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The article didn't mention this, but in my experience, the person who most negatively affects the team's chemistry is the first one out.

Negativity gets people fired more than anything else. If it's true, it inevitably reflects on the managers. If not, well, the complainer is blaming others for what are probably his own problems. In both cases, it impacts the entire team, which is where the real damage happens.
Fueling the IPO Fire? or Burning it Out?
For embedded system you'd not need that much stability.
The story/article mentions that the pit is unlikely to be the work of pirates.
Bayes' Theorem would tell you

P(DSX|DSXdar) = P(DSXdar|DSX)P(DSX) / P(DSXdar)

Using your figures that's

P(DSX|DSXdar) = 0.99 x 0.01 / (0.99 x 0.01 + 0.01 x 0.99)
= 0.5
> if you don't agree with it that's fine with me but do me a favour and point out why

Ok :)

I downvoted for this:

I did read the article

Because the point you made is the exact point the article makes - or as I read it anyway :)
He's not distinguishing gender and sex, he's distinguishing gender and sexuality, meaning sexual orientation.
They tell you on the item's page, right under the item itself, when the item is being shipped from another seller and is just listed on Amazon. If you don't carefully examine the information they provide, that's your choice.
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Ask HN: Why Didn't Captcha Advertising Take Off?
The first occurrence as I know of it was back in 2005: http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2005/10/captcha-advertising.html

There are some companies around it like
* http://www.adaptcha.com/
* http://www.captchaad.com/

But I've never seen it in the wild. The idea seems intriguing. More accessible to my grand parents and a new way to cram more advertising in web pages = make more money.

I haven't seen them in the wild though. Do you know why?
I would assume it's not actually magnets, but rather particles that can detect magnetic fields, because how would they magnetize it?
Are they sure only dogs can follow a pointed finger? What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans ? The horse was following even more subtle clues than a pointed finger.

Of course a horse is also a domestic animal.
http://music.seanmccolgan.com couple of mashups from back in the day. Nothing special just playing around in Ableton.
I had shingles in 2000. I had to go to a hospital emergency room to get a prescription for painkillers, since the extortionists (aka medical professionals) require permission before we serfs are allowed to buy many drugs. It cost me over $300 for what should have been about $1 worth of oxycodon.
The idea that anyone would setup a "clone" without wanting to be better is kind of strange.
I don't think he was being sarcastic.
I didn't know that, so thanks!

But I find the way that ReadItLater works inside Firefox to work well - the fact that it's an icon on the toolbar, showing me how many unread things I have is kinda nice.
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One of the first problems I see is that supposing you are a webmaster of a site and 5 companies have approached you to display a fuzzed up logo in you captcha.

Now since there aren't infinite string variations you are left with randomly displaying only 5 kinds of verification phrases which are easier to manipulate once you take into account that colors associated with brand logos are easier to recognize than actual alphanumeric strings displayed as images.

Also since captcha's are mostly for the benefit of the website/webmaster, they are seen in an annoying light by consumers who actually use the site. And that is a strict no-no to any marketing strategy.
Advertisers don't want to associate their brands with annoyance and inconvenience.
The title is pretty bad; You are confusing memetic drift with creativity.
I have a wave account. I logged in, and I could not even figure out if the thing could send an email to a normal account.

Google Wave is very hard to understand at the moment. It's something that has to be addressed.
a.k.a "Politics & Economics - The Missing Manual"

I'll be keeping this as a HOW-NOT-TO reference.
I dont buy that. Theres plenty of intrusive advertisement on the internet (popup advertisement, advertisement that blocks the page until you close it, advertisement pages that appear when you click a link and then must click "skip this ad" or similar).
This is why I don't include my phone number on my business cards, and haven't for at least five years. I don't want to talk to people I barely know on the phone, I very rarely answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, and I check voicemail very irregularly.

But, if I gave someone my number on a little card, I can't possibly be offended if they then call it.
Regardless, I'd love a x0xb0x :-P One day, one day...
Thorough MIT study says no, yet price that is awarded to corrupt and sometimes criminal statesmen all the time says yes.

I guess that means yes.
The article has enriched me by a new concept: voluntary vs involuntary minorities. Thanks, upvoted.

A disturbing thought: if black racist sentiment says "Plato and hypotenuses are for whites", and white racist sentiment says "crime is for blacks", the performance disparity between the two racist asshole groups isn't all that surprising!

I'd also be very interested in similar in-depth causal studies on the gap between white and Jewish academic achievement, because this makes me, and more importantly my kids in the future, part of the underachieving group.
Well this is a "hacker" forum, whom's origins are in software. Secondly, is it that hard to mentally substitute in your field of choice? e.g. "And if you can't work in the lab, and you can't get brilliant researchers to like and respect you, you probably shouldn't be an entreprenur"
In ALL areas of skilled performance, the performer matters more than the tools, including mental tools. Like the old adage, "There are no dangerous martial arts, only dangerous martial artists". What the individual brings to the project matters more than what tools he uses. As for "it is the culture that matters" nonsense - a culture is just support for the individuals involved; a few competent people are going to trounce incompetents no matter how they are organized. Culture is just another type of tool.
I've written compilers, and even though I no longer have any reason to do so, I'd love to know more about writing better compilers in better languages.

There are dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of articles and "how to" style pages on the web showing a concrete implementation of a small compiler for a toy language using lex/flex and yacc/bison, yet when asked for something similar in ML, SML, Haskell, whatever, the response is to be pointed at books and scholarly articles.

Where are the popular accounts of better compiler building with ML? Are there any? If not, why not?

Yes, building an industrial-strength compiler for a real-world langauge is a big and complex undertaking, but I feel the field would advance more quickly if more hackers had more access to more articles of the "Build a compiler in an afternoon" variety.

And I'd appreciate learning from it too, despite, or perhaps because of, my existing knowledge.
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There is brand-safe advertising, and then there is popup-advertising. Hardly the same thing.
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No, that's pretty basic.

"It works there and is a success, if I copy it bit by bit I'll get success without trying"

Also, it oftentimes works: studivz.de blatantly ripped off Facebook (to the point where they didn't even change the name of the stylesheet files) for the German market in 2006 and was hugely successful (for exactly the same reasons Facebook was in the US). They were sold for EUR 100 mln to a publisher.

Eventually, obviously, you'll have to innovate your own way, if for no other reason than that someone else copies you and does it.
Ask HN: Are numbered lists in headlines OK again?
If you are tired of it, ignore it. IMHO. Don't tell others what to do. Using your logic we've had to tell people to shut up about Apple, Google and Microsoft as well.
A big reason why YC is cloned is to create an ecosystem in a different city. (ie, the YC for Kentucky, the YC for Seattle, etc.) They have tended to want to be the YC for that particular city/region.

They then tend to compare themselves to other local startup options (which are probably pretty bad) and not to the full spectrum of startup options, which is the only way they can get the best startups world-wide.
"Software is like sex.  It's better when it's free."
quote of the day so far from seedcamp London. Courtesy of Emanuel Gal, Brainient, #seedcamp
The HTML5 drag and drop disaster
This is a problem for sure. There is so much in this story I could comment on but I will just say that children definitely get an idea of what they are "supposed" to be from several different sources- parents, television, teachers, peers, etc. When you are young there is a sort of penalty for being different or unusual and children often end up gravitating toward some role at least some of the time. I think certain ethnic groups "over-achieve" and others "under-achieve" because of this pressure- they are just being who they are "supposed" to be. This is my verbose way of blaming the whole thing on peer and societal pressures.

People (adults and children alike) are not really equipped to resist societal pressure. We have a lot of things we are supposed to do- graduate high school/college, get married (maybe even to someone of our own race), have children, get a good job, shower everyday, wear "cool clothes", get good/bad grades, act black, act white and we often suffer societal consequences if we don't "behave"... I think the HN community, being more counter-culturalist/entrepreneurial than average can definitely see where I am coming from on this.
More importantly, why hasn't http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauth taken off?

This is more practical (and cuter) than using brand-logos.. Pictures of kittens and other animals are easy to find, whereas getting a wide enough range of companies willing to let you use their logos will be far more difficult.. It would be like having a captcha where there are only 5 possible strings to enter..
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This little tidbit about Buffet is hard to confirm, as Jason admits in his post. However, I can confirm something like this is common behavior in China.

I first experienced it when going to China in 2000 to meet with banks. My job was to convince them to let us modernize their software and provide Internet banking. We would have a meeting setup and present to a room of top officials. These meetings could never be confirmed until the day before. Keep in mind I had to first fly from NY to Vancouver to Hong Kong to get to Beijing with no schedule of meetings, just several that were in constant "maybe" status and no clear dates.

A typical meeting (once I cleared the previous evening's dinner meeting, also unscheduled, to be sniffed out) would be a vice-chairman, the head of IT, a few others. Then we'd go to a big lunch. If they liked what they saw, word got to the Chairman and he would join us at lunch, we'd get to know each other a bit and then if that suited him, have a meeting with him after lunch. After quite a bit of this, it became clear this was a pattern. In years to come, I learned to accept that all meetings were in flux and decided the day or only hours before. It turns out to be very effective for them in several ways. The multilayered approach allows for quick vetting before access to the decision maker. And the short scheduling approach allows them to constantly reshuffle the deck.

But, of course, as with Buffet (if indeed its true), in China, this behavior is exhibited most by those with the power to do so. The rest of society plans several days or weeks in advance.
Perhaps not... I'm probably a little sensitive to MBA stereotypes.
I'm not a gamer, I would definitely consider it more satisfying than playing a game.
The text explains how they create magnetite (by oxidizing iron).

Also: How would you detect magnetic fields without magnetic material - i.e. magnets?
I wonder why people still have to explain that Twitter has value. After all this company is worth at least 1 billion $. Unless we're all have been abducted by aliens and brainwashed to use it there must be some value otherwise the billion wouldn't be there to back it up.

People who want to convince us that Twitter has no value wanted to tell us the same thing about Facebook a year ago. Now they earn money already, one year earlier than planned.

To me this sounds like envy. Everybody believing that s/he has the best startup idea out there but instead something "value-less" like Twitter is worth a billion. Get over it and try to copy the Twitter business model instead and make some money.

There were people who didn't believe that airplanes would ever fly. They're too heavy! The same kind of mentality abounds when it comes to Twitter critics.
Not pandering to the masses, pandering to juvenile hackers who hold non-techies in contempt.
Actually this page is brilliant. I have not included php.js in my projects but used this page many times to find out how to do in JavaScript things that are easy in PHP but in js ... they are not easy at all.
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Either way the quote is stupid. Had he said "...shouldn't start a software company" I'd be in full agreement. Despite what some people seem to implicitly assume the word "entrepreneur" isn't intrinsically tied to the software field. Saying if you suck at X you shouldn't be an entrepreneur doesn't make sense unless X is "being an entrepreneur".
No, I mean something that is actually magnetic, i.e. has a magnetic field.

Soft iron is affected by magnetic fields, but does not create a magnetic field of its own.
All I can tell you is I was being pretty careful, as I always am in my online transactions, and I feel I was both misled and that Amazon did not provide value to the transaction.

I am absolutely certain each item I put in my shopping cart said it was "in stock", yet days after the purchase, I received emails from the various providers telling me the real story. I am also certain that even though I tried hard to find out prior to the purchase, it was not possible to see the breakdown in shipping costs. Only seeing one shipping cost line item is one reason some might believe its all being bundled together from a big amazon warehouse somewhere. Especially with widespread business articles like the OP educating the world that's what Amazon has become. Otherwise, why not show me 4 different shipping charges, maybe I want to send one priority and the others not.

I also filled out feedback on these purchases after I received the shipments to state what my complaints were about the shopping experience, but never heard back from anyone. This part of course, doesn't surprise me. Simply pointing out that if I were to do something like this again, I may as well buy direct from the real supplier so that if I did have a problem, I wouldn't be complaining through a middleman.
Could a Robin Hobb character get a boob job?
Why-Developers-Get-Fired
Scientists find that individuals in vegetative states can learn
How long does it take to form a habit?
I coded my first drag & drop in 1999 using DHTML. It worked on both major browsers, NS4 and IE5. It's sad to see that 10 years later it still is a problem to use drag & drop in web development.
I believe, the incorporation is a USA thing more than other parts of the world. Again with no credentials im under the impression outside of America it is easier to setup a company and just kick off a web app without an "incorporation".

Maybe a budding lawyer can shed some light on the benefits of incorporating before you have anything truely worth incorporating.
I dont know - I like the ideal.

But imo price is not the most important aspect of quality software. The important thing is cost - and that doesnt just mean monetary.

(to take the sex analogy; a one night stand might be free and great fun, but it could come back and bite you 9 months later just because you forgot an important consideration in the first place)
See the link to the original rather than the /. item here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833287

There's lots of discussion there too.
You have not included 'Aliasing.pdf' and 'An Evaluation of Staged Run-Time Optimizations in DyC.pdf' in the tarball.

Can you include them as well?
This "idea of what they are supposed to be" is at the heart of psychological transaction/script analysis, which takes it to the extreme that people get this "script" describing how they should lead their life from their parents and will do almost anything to follow it, no matter how self-destructive, i.e. someone who gets told by their father "you'll end up in prison" will not only become a criminal, but will also let himself get caught so he can fulfill the script.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis
175 Times. And Then the Catastrophe
Posted regularly, for example

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=802480

but still, as always, very good.
outcome: copying doesn't work, innovate and iterate and you'll be better.

that rule applies to pretty much everything in a startups life.
Which is quite aptly named "Go ogle".
There are patents involved, maybe the licensing costs were too high?

I've been asked to work on something similar, but my lazy/distracted ass hasn't gotten around to it yet.
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Great stuff! You get Reason to sound really good, if you didn't say that I would have never guessed you were using it. Props
Poorly written article with lots of F words.