skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is indeed a terrible idea. Every day it seems like I read folks on hn who are indeed familiar with start-ups and investment but who think they thereby understand economics.

The first thing they often don't understand is how perverse incentives work. Consider, lots of folks with $250K in the bank would be happy to get a guaranteed $50K out of it. So they would "invest" (launder) the money into a fake start-up which would serve only for the "found" to give them back their $250K plus $50K in return for the "founder" getting a green card.

Just one bad effect of this would be the fake start-ups themselves, which would pollute the start-up space with starting with more fake craiglist ads on up.
Am I correct in thinking that a wildcard only gets you one level deep? e.g. that *.mycorp.com matches "foo.mycorp.com" but not "foo.bar.mycorp.com"?
I like the way the UK/Canada do it. Why can't the US?

You need 75 points.

1) An advanced degree gets you 35. A PhD 50 and an MBA 75 (debatable, but good)

2) Gross salary over the last year gets you another 30 points (so if you made above $70k/yr)

3) Age gets you another 20 (below 28)

4) Work experience in the UK and English language qualifications get you another 10 points

Sure, this may not work for the people straight out of school (you do need 1 year of earnings and any decent dev with a Master's should be able to pull 75k) - but a couple of years of real world experience after school is probably a good thing, right?

Why does the US tie you to an employer? Probably because the H1-B program was a way to bring (relatively cheaper) labor into the US.
Facebook adds @mentions to status updates.
Video of Kurzweil’s Latest Talk at Google
Perl was written partly as a replacement for awk, and as such it has command-line switches that make it more suitable than it might appear. You could get very similar behaviour with a much shorter implementation using `perl -nai~`, something like:

BEGIN { open(VOCAB, ">vocab"); }
if (!$imap{$ARGV}{$F[0]}) {
$imap{$ARGV}{$F[0]} = ++$I{$ARGV};
}
if (!$jmap{$F[1]}) {
$jmap{$F[1]} = ++$J;
print VOCAB $F[1] . "\n";
}
print "$imap{$ARGV}{$F[0]} $jmap{$F[1]} $F[2]\n"

Which apart from the BEGIN line is almost a direct translation of the awk. A lot uglier, but for one-off things that isn't much of a problem.

(And if you want to claim awk has a three-line implementation, this is four lines.)

Admittedly, it's not quite the same - instead of putting output from file1 in file1n, it renames file1 to file1~ and puts its output back in file1. If you want to change that, you have to add your own file-handling code. That would only be a few lines. And it's probably never going to be as fast as mawk.

There are other cases where I suspect perl would beat awk, but maybe get beaten by sed. Not to rain on awk's parade or anything - it's still cool. Just not that much cooler than perl. :)
I question the seriousness of this post if you think that it is possible to have 'reasonable' negotiations with the AACS, the MPAA, Sony, etc about their licensing policies.

Large companies/organizations usually dictate their licensing terms downwards. They only make exceptions if they view you as a large enough group to be talking on their level (i.e. a major movie studio).
I'm not sure that mandating young, healthy people to spend their own money on health insurance will make them more willing or more able to start companies. Health care reform can help, or it can hurt. It really depends.
I think those concepts are best understood by example.
They came down, but now there are EV SSL certs that are still a couple hundred dollars/yr for a non-wildcard cert.

As a business owner, I feel a bit like it's a big con game, as I have trouble understanding what it is that EV SSL certs solve that wasn't supposed to be solved with the original SSL certs. It could just be my ignorance, but I still find $400/yr to file some papers and then do some math a bit absurd.
Sony is going to fight tooth and nail for this one. It's the first time that one of their proprietary formats became an industry standard. They rest are failures (ATRAC,BetaMax,MemoryStick,MiniDisc,etc). They still won't cater to independents though.
Great proposal but somehow those companies which currently important H1b's for the wage savings they offer just never seem to behind sensible thinking like this. They must not be thinking very far ... beyond their bottom line.
This makes sense, to be, so, perhaps, I'm confused by how he would then go on to talk about the individual values that make up the pair.

Is that, then, exactly his point? That a random sample of a group can't be modeled like a group of random samples, yet this is what's being done?
actually, the information that I'm getting from it is incredible frustration; of course he can do better than this but why bother?
If all you want is HiDef Planet Earth... it was released on HDDVD. You could probably get a copy and a player for cheap.
"Break functionality" has already been conveyed. Repeating it is unnecessary and awkward.
But there is a cost for running a separate instance for every IP since Amazon won't let you assign more than one address per instance.
I would LOVE to tell that, but unfortunately, I don't have the leave to do so.

Edit: "Pics, or it didn't happen" eh? I see how you are.
well that is a clear shot across the bow of twitter. I wonder if twitter has any response for this?
Ditto. Much like superman, I am powered by the sun.

Note: This is not the only similarity between myself and the man of steel.
Absolutely! I love that HN lets me have civil discussions with people whose worldviews are different than mine.

I'd like to visit Japan and see what the culture there's like. I'd like to visit anywhere that's not the US, for that matter, but Japan's the place that I've heard is radically different in nearly every way.
I really hate to think how many screens I could buy today for the price of my 90's O2...
I'd like to know if this stuff is congenital, or if it can be changed by altering your sleep cycle.

In other words, if someone who is naturally a night owl becomes an early-riser by force of practice, will they retain this "second wind" in the evenings?
Oh boy. What a strange article. While they try to explain all intricate details, their funny use of analogies turns most things they tell either wrong or at least wildly off the mark.

A GPS receiver only receives at a single frequency (leaving out doppler for now) but correlates several pseudorandom codes in simultaneously. It needs four sattelites no to increase the accuracy, but to solve for the fourth unknown, time. Also it doesn't use a quartz clock that resets "lets say at midnight" but measures the relative state of it's correlators' counters (that's what's often called "pseudorange"). And DGPS doesn't correct for incorrectly sent out almanacs. It only corrects for unknown propagation properties of our atmosphere (rather oddly described as slowing down of electromagnetic energy). DGPS also doesn't help you with multipath reception due to reflections at skyscrapers.
At that point in the essay, he had quoted the license, but that sentence is the only time he states what's wrong with it. It's not repetition.
The web design offended me 1000x more than the swearing. (Looking around the site it appears to be his gimmic.)
I did not say that nor did I intend to imply it.
Those corrections are not actually essential for GPS to function. In first order it's only the satellites clocks that have to be run at a slightly elevated frequency (or is it the other way round? Don't know). The actual GPS receivers don't have to mess with relativity at all.
Bret, quick question. Does the framework support an esi type tags to abstract out personalized info? thanks!
Let creationists debate college students (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
I'm all for making it easier to allow talented people entry into the US, but I hate the idea of empowering investors to grant green cards.

Do you really think this will happen? This is a terrible idea, and if it were a good idea, the govt would never give up the right to decide who enters/stays the country, even partially.
There may be only a few forms that have passwords, but every request includes your session cookie. An eavesdropper could hijack your session.

If I want to browse with TOR, it's pretty likely the exit nodes are sniffing my data. It kind of defeats the purpose of using TOR if I can't stay on HTTPS.
It may help gamblers like Richard Branson, but I think few technology startup founders are that type of person. Most technology startup founders would find this kind of pressure a distraction.

Maybe desperation inspires dealmakers, but distracts makers.
The assumption, of course, is that you will have 20+gb of content on a Blu-Ray disc. I am not convinced this is often the case, and an independent could produce these slightly-higher-cost items for distribution and put all sorts of material on them.
Not necessarily. It's not like IBM doesn't sell x86 processor systems along with their POWER (and Cell?) processor systems.

Oracle will probably package their own hardware by leveraging Sun's resources. You will probably be able to purchase a Sun-Oracle SPARC system and have a choice of Solaris or Linux (which also runs on SPARC) to run your Oracle database on. Otherwise you can run Oracle on Linux if you aren't buying into their integrated hardware solutions. I don't see how they would have to drop everything without being able to make it work together.
Drink Attribute
Microsoft Open Source Foundation
Here is my take on it (from personal experience with a couple of failed products):

Desperation forces you to concentrate on short-term goals rather than long-term growth. When you are always worried about where you are going to get your next paycheck, you have a different mindset.

In the end, I want a company that will allow me to never have to work for another company again (which I am working on now..at the same time as my FT job).

I suppose, if you are just looking to pump something out in a few months to get purchased by a larger company, it may work.
Meh, maybe it's just my frustration with trying to find a particular attribute in AD today, but I think this one could have been left out.
Best way to find engineers to iterate from core product
What is the best way to find solid engineers to iterate from a quality product/code base?

We're using a Python/Django stack
Isn't it the same everywhere (assuming there is no war or natural calamity etc like situation)?
Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts
This setup has a fatal flaw: The center, where your character or crosshairs would normally appear, is right on the split between two screens.
> Nitpicky: You don't get a key somewhere. You make your own keypair, and send the public key off to be signed.

Precisely the type of details you'd had to figure out. For my current (very rudimentary) understanding of SSL that doesn't matter. Setting it up myself would mean I would have to know such things and more.

As for costs: We have several IPs and our hosting costs are about 70 euros/month/server. Still, I wouldn't shell out the 100 bucks per year simply because it's lost money. It doesn't solve any of my problems and my users don't care, or at least seem to not care.

I believe that to be the main reason. Users don't care. Tech people care, sometimes. Sometimes a site owner cares (banks etc.), but most of the time no one really cares too much about it. And when you think about it, if nobody cares, is it really a problem?
There has been a wave of new incubator-like things everywhere this year.
Hackers don't need expository, they just want the goods. :)
Facebook Turns To Twitter For Inspiration Again, Brings @ Tagging To Updates
The comparison was done after each group had been awake for 10.5 hours, not at a specific time of day.
Are American eating habits really that significantly different from Canadian eating habits to explain the fact that the US spends twice as much per capita as Canada spends - notwithstanding the 50 million Americans without coverage?
Haha I remember Brian from CNN he was talking about this years ago, I guess it takes a lot of momentum to change something as big as apache.
> Good read, though not really about the OLPC.

I agree. In fact I think the article would have been better if it hadn't been about the OLPC at all, or if it had only mentioned the OLPC in passing.
The house that twitters
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=816040
BSDs already can; the problem is GPLv2 doesn't let you link with _anything_ else. FreeBSD, for example: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS
don't do this - it severely undermines the effort and creativity the blogger(s) wrapped around these mp3s

fwiw, this is 100% personal opinion
I'd say it's a little more similar to Thin, which is a web server based on EM.
Who wants a (unofficial for now) Fedora rpm ? [0]
I just hacked this together in half an hour. Time to sleep now.

[0] http://mapleoin.fedorapeople.org/pkgs/tornado/tornado-0.1-1....
If you want to compare the precision of various positioning methods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System#C...
How about adding a "Why this title is not available in Blu-Ray" as an extra on every DVD published?
Without the lambda, you run the risk of overwriting dl in the global scope, which could cause another script to misbehave.
I am a (US) college senior and i really want to start a company after i graduate. But the regulations just make it so difficult for me. It is good to hear that someone cares enough about this issue to start a conversation.
It's not the cost of the certificate that's the issue. It's the SSL bandwidth overhead.
The headline "Majority US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits" is not the headline of the article, nor is this supposed fact stated anywhere in the article.

I very much doubt it's true, and I don't think it's well-defined enough to even be false.
Well, first of all, punk rock died before I was even born. In fact, it was happening when my parents and teachers were young adults, and they're totally unaware of any of that. This wasn't "Why is this kid acting out?", this was "who would ever do such a strange thing?" My mother once told me that she was alive in the 70s, and nobody listened to Black Sabbath, the media just likes to pretend that everyone did. People in the suburbs are completely isolated into their own little worlds, and they don't interact with (nor care to) anyone who comes from more than one little town over.

Secondly, lo and behold, I was both immature and unhappy with the status quo! So, I did exactly that. Accomplish something? It wasn't about accomplishment, it was about eliciting that reaction. It was pretty freaking hilarious. People acted like it was the end of the world. They couldn't possibly imagine that anyone would be different from anyone else in any real way. It's not like high school offered any kind of real academic challenge or interesting discussion. I had to do something to make those 8 hours of being babysat a day interesting, until I could get back home and start coding again.

I refer to race because that a pretty visible example of how everyone was the same. I don't believe that anyone is better than anyone else for anything but their accomplishments. Nice troll, though.
Would-be Pirate Bay buyer ousted from stock market
> However producers like this guy should work with the owners of the technology and negotiate a better deal.

You really think an independent film producer, hell, even all independent film producers as a group, have any negotiating power with the Blu-Ray licensing people? Seriously? If anything, the owners are deeply in bed with the big studios, who have a vested interest in keeping anybody but themselves off the platform.

I'm not sure why negotiation with and appeasement of the Blu-Ray people would be that productive. Explaining to consumers why Blu-Ray, as a technology, sucks, and encouraging them to use something else -- which right now might be "stick with DVDs" -- so as not to give their money to Blu-Ray's owners, seems like perfectly a valid strategy, since it might result in something better than Blu-Ray down the road. Working with Blu-Ray won't do that.

Blu-Ray may be the "winner" of the HD format war, but they're not gaining traction very fast. If adoption can be slowed down enough -- if users can be convinced it's a shitty format run by a would-be cartel who want to crush independent cinema beneath punitive fees -- then it'll be that much easier for a new format to succeed.

Of course it's the economy more than anything that has slowed down Blu-Ray adoption, but I don't see how telling people about the weaknesses of the format and its backers is a bad thing. The more people who know about it, the better, and the greater demand they'll be for an alternative (whether it's USB sticks, SD cards, or some form of online distribution).
you'd really hate to think how many screens you could buy in the future for the price of your 90's O2...
The real best way is already know people suited to the job, and then go ahead and hire them for it.

This does not scale.
Two words: survivorship bias.
Rich heirs travel pretty freely already, and under this plan at least we'd get their money.

Plus, since such wealthy quasi-tourists create no net cost (and probably create value) with their visits, each year we'd increase the allotment until it reaches the intended audience: productive people we'd rather have here than competing against domestic employers from elsewhere.
For most startups, the performance hit is not a big deal. If your a serious startup, you need your own IP, so this shouldn't be a roadblock. Setup is not hard. If you can't setup an SSL cert, how are you going to manage the rest of your server concerns? Cost of the cert? This is a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of your startup.

For most, the big problem is the all or nothing decision. Most end users don't like the browser asking about switching protocols, for example, for the login or credit card process. So the easy choice is to use https for everything. But that's a waste, most of your requests don't need it. But there is lots of waste that buys you value: ruby, multi-layered frameworks and libs, etc.
Sorry about the bad grammar :-)

Ok, the deal with STP and VLANs is thus: STP works at the level of the actual Ethernet cables in the system, rather than the VLANs.

Imagine you have four switches, A B C and D. Say vlan 1 exists on A and B; vlan 2 on C and D, and vlan 3 on all four, and physical cables (carrying tagged VLANs) run from A-B (vlans 1 and 3), A-C (just vlan 3), B-D (just vlan 3), and C-D (vlans 2 and 3); eg, they're in a square. And you enable STP.

STP will cause the switches (ignoring VLANs) to choose one of those four cables to disable, to remove the cycle in the network. It's as likely to disable the A-B or C-D cables, which will then split vlan 1 or 3 in half.

The solution is to make all VLANs present on all switches and (tagged) on all inter-switch trunks, so that any cable can be disabled and connectivity continues; there are extensions to STP that are aware of VLANs (such as the Cisco proprietary per-VLAN spanning tree); there's the recent (2003?) Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), but that's not supported by the switches I've been playing with, so useless to me at least :-)
Yes, but what happens when the latest 'remix your artist blah' (Macromedia Flash programmes written originally by Koan/Brian Eno and Coldcut), gets tired, and they have to think up something else? Shouldn't the music stand on its own merit?
Did you read the study linked from that page?

http://adlab.microsoft.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/Algor...
Can someone explain why this position would require a bachelor's degree? Did anyone actually learn any Ruby in school?
AlphaLab is now accepting fall/winter season applications
Disclaimer: My startup is in the current season of AlphaLab right now. But I know that there are quite a few HN readers from Pittsburgh.

If anyone has any questions about what it's like to be in/go through AlphaLab, I'd be happy to answer.
unjustified...

and a terrible teaching practice. How could a teacher expect the student's mind to be ready for learning after being made to feel like a freak of nature? "WTF is wrong with you?! Okay, now turn to the chapter on quadratic equations." Did they think a student could just switch gears and turn off the emotional impact? (I'd be a little afraid of the student who could shrug it off.)

Teachers are supposed to inspire learning not setup barriers to it.
20 Lines or Less #29
-excerpt from the study

Human evaluators labeled non-monetized query terms from the first week of Dec ’06. The queries represented the top 70% of queries (by frequency… 1000 sampled per 10% frequency bin). Some of the bot-like queries and most non-English language queries were removed to arrive at 6,258 queries. These were labeled as commercial, non-commercial, unsure, or foreign language queries. Of the 6,258 queries, 5,017 were labeled as ‘commercial’ or ‘non-commercial’ by the majority of the evaluators. This analysis looks at these 5K queries.
They could add an extened profile page, photo album storage tagging and sharing, an event RSVP system, and then get all my friends to sign up.

I don't think that will happen.
holodeck, seriously?

this isn't even new tech, just the same old, but more, faster and better.

at our university, we have a CAVE. that's a 4x4x3 meter box with backprojection screens on four sides and a projection on the floor.

then you stand in there with polarized glasses that are motion-tracked.

now you can move around and what you see is really 3D. there's even a joystick-kinda input device (also motion-tracked) with which you can move and rotate what you see.

calling 6 displays the beginning of a holodeck... hah!
I would be satisfied with a good explanation of why the question is ill-formed, how the illusion comes about, etc.

I really don't think the question is ill-formed, though. There is a big explanatory gap. Denying that is simply dishonest. It would be like, if you don't know why a bicycle is easier to balance when it's moving, pretending that there is nothing to explain. "Oh, it's just bicycle parts."
You won't retain the second wind if my experience is anything to go by.

With my 2am-9:30am sleep cycle, I could stay alert until pretty much any time I liked (very useful for writing a PhD, etc). Now that I am forced to wake up at 7:30am, I find myself crashing at 10pm.
PPoPP '09: Parallel Thinking [pdf]
But seriously--if this bug was in BSD, wouldn't we know it already?
I am 99% sure you can do all of this with Mako templates: http://www.makotemplates.org/
AlphaLab gives out the highest investment amount ($25k) for it's kind of program + the people here are super cool + Pittsburgh is an awesome place to live, the list goes on.

Need an idea? Here's one: http://hacksignal.posterous.com/hackers-heres-an-idea-for-yo...
Comparing Canada vs USA obesity rates shows that YES indeed eating habits seem to be very different:

http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-st...
Port: http://gist.github.com/184760
The chat demo seems to have turned into a tech discussion about the framework. Love it.
If you look at the comments below the post, though, the comparison doesn't seem to be valid, due to different measurement methodologies.