skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So cheap that I convinced a lot of my friends to sponsor my new home; this way I wouldn’t have to pay for any of the furniture.

Sounds like I'd want to be his friend. I live pretty cheap, but I'm not afraid to buy my friend a beer or a burrito. Social capitol is not about money, but about having friends to help you out with things.

And it seems that in business, being frugal at the beginning is important to keep your expenses in check, but eventually you have to spend money to make money.

My Dad lives pretty frugally, but he spends like $5K every year on a great trip somewhere (Turkey, Nepal, Africa, Europe, etc.) He could just save all that money up, but then he wouldn't have been all those great places. He could also do all the trip planning himself and probably save a couple grand, but doing it through a company makes the trip much smoother, and in the end, better.

I think a better mantra is to be as cheap as you need to be on the basics (ie don't waste money unnecessarily), but spend real money on things you really care about. If you love biking, save up for a great bike that you really want.
Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content. So Why Doesn't He Stop Them?
I am not an expert at interpretation but I think he meant the following:

Doing better then others is what bring traction but not always, especially when the market is crowded.
Sometimes it just doesn't work, coz there are numerous out there doing the same thing - trying to do it better. Only if you do it the best you get the traction. Even then its a transient state, there might be someone who will do it better then you, tomorrow.

So in these situations an interesting and better bet could be to break the status quo of the market, make a few new rules and stick to them.

They might seem like friction at the onset but if they are really making things simpler and delivering more value it can result in a lot of traction.

Edit:
I think I would like to agree more to Alex3917's interpretation. Mine seems a bit amateurish approach compared to his. Point taken.
This can be easily done using openid. Openid providers are free to authenticate you any which way including exotic means like those. Here's an implementation in private beta: http://pgpopenid.com/
Yes, but science is supposed to rest on falsifiability. The "story" is supposed to change because the hypotheses are supposed to become more refined. A previous hypothesis was tested and found wrong, and a new one is now put forward.

Without falsifiability there is no science. This same situation -- making the narrative fit the data instead of changing hypotheses -- is what led to Karl Popper's beautiful critique of Marxism (which also claimed to be scientific and also just changed the narrative once facts didn't match up with original forecasts)

Scientific-sounding speculation or scientific consensus is not the same as science. If all you have is speculation, you can change that willy-nilly, whereas if you had a hypothesis, a change would require a truly new way of looking at things.

Without falsifiability, you're never wrong -- you just keep changing your story. And if you're never wrong because you creatively adapt your story to meet changing conditions, you don't have science, you have religion.
https://www.myopenid.com/tutorial Is that good enough?
It wasn't melted after it was removed lol

It was removed because the key no longer registered a click. So it was taken off so that the button under the key could be used instead... 000 ))))) like that.
He's saying that it's difficult to think creatively without any constraints, but it's also difficult to actually create something when there are too many constraints. So the ideal strategy for the entrepreneur is to find an area with the optimal amount of constraints, and then keep working on that problem until you ship. (That is, you need to avoid jumping to a new problem when the first problem gets difficult.)

I'll agree it's a little esoteric, but it's a pretty good recipe for shipping something innovative.
Also facebook to the best of my knowledge is not an openid provider.
-Sophomore year of college, I took the spring quarter off. What did I do with it? I spent much time and money outsourcing the creation of a social network based on iterative drawing. I was truly the "idea" entrepreneur. It failed, mostly because at the time I had no understanding of the concept of product/market fit. I also gave up on the idea prematurely, and lost steam.

-Freshman year of college, I outsourced the creation of oldefriends.com, a site to help you reconnect with your old e-friends (internet buddies) .. I shoulda written it myself and shoulda launched it on HN

-Senior year of college, I outsourced the creation of a multiplayer Flash clone of worms. This time, no concept of minimum viable product, and I ended up with a product nobody wanted to play.

All in all, I spent ~5k learning two valuable lessons.

1. Build something people want.

2. Figure out that they want it early on, before you invest a lot of time. If you can build something that you want for yourself, that's quick validation of #1 and #2.

Fortunately, I made all of that back and way more when I launched & sold a successful Facebook app in between sophomore/junior year.
The immature know how to ask for advice, but not to take it.
msn hack
Truth, beauty and love can be tested. If I think someone loves me, I can hug them and see how they hug back. If I think something's beautiful, I can hang it on my wall next to something else I think is beautiful, and see if I still like it next week. Truths can be tested by finding & testing physical implications of that truth. None of these tests are absolute Popper-grade refutations, but they're good enough to be useful.

Startups are generally based on some hypothesis (like "people want to communicate by multicasting 140-character messages"). Not refutable, exactly, but testable by building a company around it. Smart founders keep track of their hypotheses and are always looking for evidence for and against them.
My biggest failure:
Overworking myself and avoiding put all my energy and focus in only one thing at once.
Hm, we're up to Karma Average. Soon we will be tracking Karma Assists and Total Karma Created.

But it is only when Nate Silver unveils PEKOTA that we will finally know the ONE TRUE SCALE on which greatness is measured. [1]

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[1] Poster Empirical Karma and Optimization Test Algorithm
Your view is basically the consensus in western democracies. However, the more radical left claims that this kind of balance between a democratic state and capitalism can never work because capitalism will always be able to corrupt the state.

It's this reasoning that allows them to put the entire blame for the current crisis on capitalism in spite of the fact that it's the governments and central banks of the world who inflated the credit bubble by providing easy money for so many years.
Stresstesting IMAP clients
I was in a similar situation. I was "recruited" as a co-founder and CTO about a month after the idea was born and organized, but nothing built. I was given a smaller percent then the other founders, but adequate for what I brought to the table. As another commenter mentioned, an even split doesn't always happen even when everyone is there from day one. At this early stage its all about who brings what to the company...
Perhaps Mr. Moore's arguments would be made stronger if he would disclose his net worth, and where he keeps his money?
I can't believe Google ever paid the AP in the first place. Seems like a bad deal from Google's perspective. They could have easily done without the AP's content.
Tinkering with wheels is indeed fun (I have done some tinkering with existing OSs).

A hundred world-class minds over six decades really is a lot.
Is this still going ahead?
There is this theory which states that there are only three kinds of economic (or societal) systems: family-tribe-base ones, command-base ones, and property-base ones. In the first you will be supported unlimitedly by your family tribe, so you generally maximize the number of relatives. The second one (feudal, socialist) there is a small special group instituting an arbitrary distribution (may be good or bad, historically mostly bad). In that setup head-count of the whole economy in general is maximized, and that is why people would not be allowed to travel if they were serfs or living in socialist countries. Thirdly, there is capitalism, which leaves everyone on his own, expecting him to live off his own possessions and produce. And in that system, clearly property maximization is the way to wealth.

For me, with this basic distinction, everything fell into place. Also it assumes that it is not necessarily people who are prone to be greedy, but that the community rules makes them behave in specific patterns that hardly come as a surprise, once you see the benefit structure.
Sex Lines Bring Google, FCC, AT&T In A Love Triangle
FCC has questioned (letter copy attached below) Google asking the reason for the same.
Google has responded to this in their blog and its reason for call blocking to some local phone carrier(in rural areas) is...
Nonsense; the W005H compiler flag will handle this in gcc.
But they may reward externalizing different kinds of costs, and the relative rewards may be larger or smaller than in other systems.

The question is what provides the best results (and, for that matter, how to define "best").
has the domain made a difference to your website?

can I have p@ww.com?
If you're taking a regular wage from a company starting the first week of your employment, then whether there's funding or not, you're probably not a founder.
I mainly agree with the article and you. Yet, I cant help but think that the VC/angels market is NOT perfect, in a sense that not all the best project get financed by the best angels. So forum like these still need to exist. However, their business model must change.
Total karma created would be a really good metric.
Hey, what are you doing on Hacker News, we have a midterm to study for!
That picture is somewhat misleading. Tor (and other VPNs) doesn't bypass the Great Firewall, it makes it irrelevant via encryption and offshore proxies.

If the US broadcast free Wifi across China somehow (a la Radio Free Europe), that would bypass the Great Firewall.
MAPLE is my acronym for Mobile Access to People Living Everywhere. Essentially a web/mobile app that will allow users to connect with each other, anonymously and in real-time to request information (text,photo,video clip,audio clip) based on their global location.
I call it metawork. Perhaps "metaworkers" ?

http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/are-you-really-wo...
I thought it was fine actually.

Wasn't that at some point quite a frequent occurrence in South America ?
Ah,

The problem is that nothing I've seen about Wave indicates that it really addresses the real challenges that email has raised.

Challenge: email invites the user to put in too much text and factual information into their communication knowing too little of psychological/social context that the receiver will get.

Talking face-to-face lets a person judge what to say and not say based on the state of the other person. The phone is poorer than this but still works better than Internet chat. The old personal letter worked better than email only because it forced the person to spend time thinking about the context of their communication.

Wave gives a "context" but there's little indication that this context gives a solid, social foundation for saying and not saying. Instead, it sounds like chat and worse than chat - the context each communicator is made aware of is the previous text rather than the feelings of each person. And so, like forum threads, the pressure will always be there to get the last word.
Please explain. Were you not advancing your skills as much, or were you just plain unhappy?
It basically generates a continuous stream of new people to the site that we can sell to. When we bought it camarades.com was on the way out, ww.com was launched first as a generalized webcam search engine, then we merged the 'corpse' of camarades.com and ww.com together and blew new life in to it. It has made some serious money since then. But I am kind of tired of the whole webcam thing.

Sure you can have p@ww.com, but please note two things:

- if the domain ever sells I can't guarantee that the buyer would let you keep that address

- you need a good spam filter because short emails are used plenty of time for people in 'bugmenot' situations

Where do you want the mail forwarded to ?
> In spite of the fact that it's the governments and central banks of the world who inflated the credit bubble by providing easy money for so many years

Yes, but they're doing that to profit - capitalism at its most pure :)
In decreasing order of painfulness (which is a good proxy for emotional investment):

Diffle/GameClay. That one's public; you can read about it on the web.

The MUD I started when I was 14. This was the first major programming project I worked on; I taught myself C and C++ and Java and UNIX networking for it. But eventually I found it was too big a problem for my programming experience, and gave it up.

RuBeans. Right after I'd finished a Netbeans plugin for my job, I figured that Ruby was becoming hot (this was early 2006) and really could use a decent IDE. I worked on it for a couple months (in my spare time) then gave it up when I found that another group was a lot further along than I was. I think they ended up getting bought by Sun, and Ruby support folded into the default Netbeans installation.

inAsphere.com, a dot-com for teenagers by teenagers. Back when I graduated high school in 2000, a bunch of friends and I were employed by this venture-backed startup to create a "teen content" site run exclusively by teenagers. We had our funding pulled after 3 months.

There are also a bunch that I don't really consider worthy of a blurb - getting turned down from jobs (ITA, Twitter, and FriendFeed are the notable ones), jobs I passed up that ended up being successful (turning down the employee #2 position at DropBox is the big one), programs I wrote at various jobs that never got used, etc. And a few that could easily have been failures, but that I turned into successes at the last moment - basically everything related to graduating from high school and college falls into that category.
In that case you could connect to the same screen session in all of the xterms (see screen -x), but have them display different buffers.
If you liked this, his SF novel Blindsight digs deep into these questions too, and it's free at:
http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
I've also heard "wantrepreneurs".
When I look up the averages of my favorite posters, some are near two and others are near ten. I don't really see a pattern here, but maybe others have figured out a productive way to use this information?
It's more subtle than that. Capitalism aligns the interests of individuals with society. Famine is unknown in the West not because of altruism, but because we pay our farmers well. Famine is common in Communist countries because the farmer is required to act against his own best interest to feed the country (e.g. countryside starving so cities can eat).

Therefore in a properly configured Capitalist system, the "greedier" people are, the better off society is as a whole. I am fully aware that the Western economies are not correctly configured - but they're the least-worst in the world by any reasonable measure (such as, percentage of the population that starved this year).
Tesla was practically a demigod and quite dear, but "worst is better" was the governing principle even in the heydays of the industrial revolution.

That said, your post doesn't make sense. Tesla applied his book learning consistently. I don't see how Tesla is a "counterpoint" to the OP's post.
Next up on HN: Cats give their opinion on long baths
Very nicely put jerf.

When an electrical engineer designs a circuit he accounts, as best he can, for the behavior of electrons. He would never design something that assumed electrons would behave in an unrealistic way.

To me, individual greed in people is as intrinsic and predictable as a negative charge on an electron. Capitalism is designed w/ an honest look at the way humans actually behave rather than the way we wished they behaved.
pinged you an email (my email is peter /at] broadersheet.com - if you could forward it there?) also be good to connect via email anyway :)
You'll be disabused of this implicit notion that you are always right at some point. You can choose to do so now or the world will force it on you later. But you will make little progress until you do.

Actually, the advice to get laid (with a pretty and not too drunk person) might be good here. It will force you to confront any social deficiencies you do have.

No offense, but your personality leaves a bad taste in my mouth, acidic, like a pasta sauce that hasn't been cooked long enough. You have no interest in making any changes in your life, but you admit yourself that you're not happy with what you're doing. You ask for advice with no intent on taking it, instead hosting a pity-party where other nerds stroke your ego by telling you that the world has wronged you, reinforcing your broken worldview.

Getting laid might mellow that out bit. Does for a lot of people. A person is more than just a brain. You must tend to the whole organism, not just the ego.

Right now, I wouldn't want to work with you on a project, no matter how smart you are. Don't need a prima Dona that thinks he's always right.
Only rake less if you risk has been reduced

If all the have done is pretty std business startup crap a monkey with a phonebook and checkbook could do, that does not really count as risky work
sure, you can start and we'll just go down the line.

who CARES what the guys net worth is? Why does it matter? Can not a successful film maker speak for those who are in the down and outs? Just because his films are good, does that make him less worthy to call out the greedy bankers? Who are you, Sean Hannity?!
How To Decide: The Best Story You’ve Never Heard
Figments of my imagination. Every single 'obscure object of affection' that became a thorn in the flesh was something that did not/would not be subjected to 'reality test' early in the game.

At this late point in the game my advice to the young ones is "Test the hypothesis early and often".
Over-developing a product that consumers didn't want.

I learned it would have been much better to rush out an early prototype than to spend 7 months developing apolished product that no one would use.
Optical drive and/or subwoofer.
And by no means am I advocating equal splits. You should b compensated based on what you bring, your risk and based on your opportunity cost
The problem is the word "capitalism" - it implies just for-profit enterprises. But capitalism is really just how Marx branded "free enterprise."

> Therefore if you want to have clean water supplies, universal education, national defense, police, unproductive people not starving in the streets, etc then you need to divert some resources away from capitalism.

Capitalism - free enterprise - handles all of those pretty well except national defense and maybe policing. Charities are part of capitalism. Infrastructure's not so bad for government to build. In wealthy countries, charities vastly outperform government in alms and welfare because it doesn't create power structures that people try to hijack and lobby.

As for government in education, it corrupts education completely. Look at the standard American middle school and high school curriculum - very little of practically important things (scheduling, personal finance, establishing habits, interpersonal skills, critical thinking, problem solving), and a lot of nonsense. They teach algebra fairly well in American high school and almost nothing else. I can't believe that any educator would be in favor of government-run education: It sinks to a very low level, teachers are handcuffed by bureaucrats and public opinion in their teaching methods, honest perspectives on history, ethics, and civics become impossible to learn, bad teachers don't get fired, good teachers with non-traditional backgrounds don't get hired... like, government doing a lot of stuff is a relatively new idea, and it's a nice idea, but it usually doesn't work so well in practice.
Come to think of it, it might.

I presume "total karma created" is all of your karma, plus all of the karma accumulated by other comments that are in response to your comments and submissions?

Wait, don't tell me... searchyc already has a page for this, right?

I'd also love to see that stat broken down by link destination instead of by submitter. My money is on Techcrunch, though 37signals might do well in the PACK rankings. [1]

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[1] Per-post Average Creation of Karma
http://www.google.com/products?q=ipod&aq=f

http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=ipod

Also, don't underestimate the difficulty of doing this. I know a little bit about how Google Squared works, and it's basically a complicated mess, and often doesn't even get the right answer. (A search for [rice cooker] failed miserably, for example.) Granted, they're solving a harder problem - not just products, but all facts on the web - but creating a useful database of products on the web that's comprehensive and accurate enough to pay for is probably an even bigger problem.
The core point of the article is sound -- you should strive to get the most out of every dollar. But there's a danger in spending too much time optimizing expenses in ways that ultimately don't provide much return.

You might spend an extra 15 mins a week looking for coupons that'll trim $0.25 off a package of toilet paper. But over the course of a year, you've only managed to save $13 -- at the real cost of 13 hours. That's not a good optimization if you believe an hour of your time is worth more than $1.

It's like changing all the double-quoted strings in your PHP script to single-quoted strings because you think it'll save a few cycles during parsing, when you really should be spending that time optimizing your I/0 calls.
Ask HN: getting content for online jobsearch
Hi HN,

First of all, I've used searchyc to see if this topic has been discussed before and I didn't find anything. If it has, please point me to it. If it hasn't, please give me your oppinion/ideas.

A little background: some time ago I was looking for a new job. The search was horrible, most jobsearch websites I looked at where not good at doing their jobs imho. I had to enter a whole lot of data to find jobs that had nothing to do with what I wanted. Recently there was a post on HN about where to search for a job in some countries in europe (I live in Belgium). I gave some links to the author of websites I knew from my search earlier. When I visited them myself again, I got annoyed again and decided it could be done far better.

So now I've got the domain I wanted and I've made a proof of concept. I think it's quite an improvement over the others, but how do I get content for such a site? I have no experience whatsoever with this issue. I do know how to create some attention for the user aspect (actual search), but it's getting the jobs to put up on the site that seem hard for me.

Does anyone have any experience with this? The market here is probably small compared with cournties as the USA, France, etc... and I see this as a good thing. I'm probably unable to go on location a lot as I'm working during the day. Quitting my job will be pretty impossible as I like it a lot and am also dependent on the monthly paycheck.

Any advice is welcome!