skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you reason it out, you can see why species that are weaker fail, and their genes are not passed down. After millions of years of filtering down: survival of the fittest, and mutations, which introduce new sets of genes of genes into the mix, we get the better So called "evolved" genes in the end.

Also evolution is not faith based like religion, it is evidence based. I wouldn't really say it's an opinion or preference.

I don't know why people are so trigger happy with the down votes. for the record I didn't down vote you. I think it was 'cause your comments were a little confusing, but that doesn't merit a downvote in my opinion.

Let me know if you have any more questions.
What bank is this?
I heard him say he's adding this, not transitioning to it. Why not do both? Then you've still got revenue coming in from landlords listing direct, and people who want to search for-fee listings can see those as well. As long as they're transparent and respectful about it, there's no downside.
Yeah, it's always been my intention to have a real home page, but I've never been able to figure out what it would be. I've got an about page with a bunch of text, but who wants a wall of text or a sales pitch when they hit a site? It may be a good idea to put a brief description of the site in the guest bar at the top.
To be clear, I didn't mean any foul-play. Quite the contrary. I remember reading that it was chill in the HN comments and don't think I'd bothered to read the original article.

Basically I thought you might have gotten a better than average contract there as a devel since you had a background doing cool stuff and was clarifying that Tipjoy wasn't actually acquired.
I've been working on something almost exactly like this in my spare time. That's an odd feeling.
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>but who wants a wall of text or a sales pitch when they hit a site?

It may be a fine line, but I've noticed myself hitting a lot of new sites thinking "why don't they just tell me what it is/does and show me some screen shots before I have to sign up?"

I think it's a big deal. I almost always pass without it.
Not in the US it isn't.
True, it's no Cassandra :)

Anyway I think 10gb per domain is reasonable for many people, but it is another limit of the store that could cause problems. Fortunately Amazon knows the boundaries of SDB, so it can put these in place and help inform decisions about using it for, say, a project that will need more than 10gb per domain, or more than 100 domains.
"... Some have accused Richardson of being a 'patent troll' but today he rejected this claim, saying "a patent troll is someone that doesn’t execute a business and just tries to make money out of patents, but we’ve been at this for 16 years'. ... During that appeal, Uniloc also asked for the case to be heard by a new judge, but that request was denied. ... The company had claimed the judgment was tainted because Judge Smith had employed an intern with ties to Microsoft to help review the evidence, although the appeals court found this did not have a material impact. ... 'The District Court concluded that an objective, knowledgeable member of the public would not find reasonable basis in doubting the judge's impartiality, given that the intern had no financial stake in the outcome of the case' ..."

You get a peak at Ric's mobile van. When the first ruling came out back in 2009April21 I posted an article to delicious and Ric picked it up on friendfeed. Check here for why he chooses to hack in a van ~ http://friendfeed.com/bootload/ce4164e9/how-man-in-van-outsm...
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DuckDuckGo could make better operators or custom search features that are easy to use.
Nice. I have most of those books, save for a few. All I have to do now is read them completely :)

How good is "Lisp in Small Pieces"? I might get that one next.
How good is "Lisp in Small Pieces"?

It is very good in that it contains a wealth of information on all aspects of implementing a lisp interpreter/compiler. It is just a little bit baroque in style, but I suspect this is because it has been translated from French to English. Overall, great book.

( My copy is falling apart. I heard some rumours there was going to be a new edition but I can't find any supporting evidence online.)
If $15k/mo (180k/yr) is "ramen profitable" it doesn't leave much room for growth/reinvestment. Maybe that's two people and various operating costs. Maybe three. Probably no more -- it's not cheap to live in or around New York.

If they raise 250k and spend it just on salaries for a year, think one bizdev guy and three salesguys who also get commission. Something in that neighborhood. Maybe one less guy and increase the marketing budget. You could cover a lot of territory with a team like that.
FYI, with a 1k limit per item this translates into approx 10.5M items per domain max. That's a pretty big data set to have capacity for without having to shard across domains out of the box at unlimited read/write scalability.
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I think it's a bad idea to punish people who register by locking them out unless they pay $5. At least warn them of what's going to happen...

I liked the idea so I thought I would register right away. Now I'm prevented from trying it out. Why would I shell out $5 now?
No problem, I just wanted to clarify.
That still redirected me to Amazon Payments and asked for 5 bucks...
Ask HN: Mac Python "Build Applet": how does it work?
Does anyone have experience with the guts of the Python "Build Applet" program on Mac OS X? (/Developer/Applications/Utilities/MacPython 2.5/Build Applet.app).

Specifically, I'm really curious what its tiny Python binary is doing, because I may need to replace that myself.

I'll start by saying that I have Googled this to death, and experimented, and I am out of ideas; it is not that I am being too lazy to look elsewhere. :)

The basic problem I face is that applets now embed a binary that is inherently non-portable. On 10.6, it is apparently built in the new default way, which is to require new compressed system libraries. This makes it fast and functional on 10.6, and unusable on 10.5/Intel as far as I can test.

My research suggests that if I could rebuild an equivalent version of this binary in a certain way, the result would be portable to older systems.

I will also say that I've tried not using the binary. After all, Mac bundles are not really rocket science; most of "Build Applet" could be done in some other way. But the tiny binary appears to fulfill a critical role: it ensures that the bundle is identified properly by the system.

For example, if I force /usr/bin/python instead, the system acts as if the whole application is in the bundle "org.python.pythonapp", instead of whatever "com.foo.bar" is requested in my bundle's .plist file. On the Mac, this kind of renaming will completely break anything that searches for auxiliary files (not to mention treat 1, 10, or 50 Python bundles as if they were all the same application).

My use of "Build Applet" is as recent as Leopard. In 10.4 and earlier, the system didn't care how you ran Python, and bundles worked beautifully. I have submitted bugs with Apple requesting that this behavior be improved, that have been ignored.
Allow users to purchase recipes from the site for a small fee (99 cents?).

Allow other users to sell recipes on the site.

Take a cut between the two.
I think DEC did have a patent on link lists in the 80s ;) - but still, your point remains. It wasn't the inventor that did it either (just someone having a laugh).
Prove that an employee with MVP status neither opens Google up to a lawsuit today, nor opens them up to a lawsuit in the future, where the entity filing a lawsuit is a multi-billion dollar competitor and who may be motivated to drop a seemingly-innocuous clause into the next MVP agreement solely to screw over Google.

You can't. And if you put on your lawyer hat for a moment, everything else makes sense after that. And if you're saying "Yeah, but they wouldn't do that...", you still don't have your lawyer hat on. (And I'd question your understanding of Microsoft's past, too. You don't have to be a hater to notice they play hardball.)
The best approach may be to cookie return visitors and then redirect them to the example, with a way for them to get back to the original LP if possible (landing page).
It was nice, it could be better :)

Who does RH legal talk about here, anybody got link: "The brief of one large technology company even tried to argue that patents somehow benefit the open source community."?
I mean, $15K is just their first month, who knows how much their revenues have grown since then. I feel that with the manpower they currently have and their traction, they can scale much higher (and in turn spend profits on new hires) on organic revenue growth instead of seed funding. But hey, what do I know? Many times things look too easy to those who don't know what they're talking about or are on the outside.

I do agree that living in NYC isn't cheap. But neither is Silicon Valley, where many YC start-ups are based and are probably struggling to make $15K in their first three months after launch. Rent, which is most likely their biggest cost, could possibly be scaled down if they do live in the true spirit of being "ramen profitable."
You're absolutely right. I should fix that title.

The "loose weight" entry was from a beta tester and I haven't quite finished the 'similar goals' part of the database, which will connect "loose weight" to the correctly spelled goal "lose weight" (which is also in the database). That should be working soon, which will help to minimize accidental entries.

In regards to malicious entries, this is a tricky subject. I'm thinking of malicious entries in terms of spam-type and just plain junk entries, is that what you mean? To some degree, worthless entries will be weeded out because no one will select them, so they will fall to the bottom of the recommended goals list (more to the point, the opposite will happen - the good will rise to the top). There are also a number of other steps I'm taking, including implementing a flagging system that will help with manual moderation.

Thanks for taking the time to check out the site! I'm going to be making a number of changes based on the feedback I've received here. I'll report back once things are further along.
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I've visited China many times, and it has never felt like a hassle. It actually feels more difficult re-entering my own country (Australia), as it takes considerably longer to get through customs and pick up baggage here.
He refers to the Powerpoint presentation that you would show to VC's or other potential investors. It includes the high level objectives of your company, why you're different, market size, plans, etc.

Refer to Guy Kawasaki's famous blog post on the 10/20/30 rule for a good intro: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html#axz...

I also prefer to have about 20 backup slides at the end that address most common questions. Usually these will be deeper drill downs into market sizing, competitors, financials, short/medium/long term plans.

The successful entrepreneurs who I've worked with are almost fanatical about the investor deck. They obsess over every word on every slide. It's both incredibly inspiring and utterly painful.
[quoted from some website]"It turns out that Mensa has an investment club. Wow. That must be one heck of a way to make money, right? The smartest people in the world making investment decisions.

Well, not so fast. During the 15-year period 1986 to 2001, the S&P 500 had average annual returns of 15.3%, but the Mensa investment club's performance averaged returns of just 2.5%. Let's see, that would be 84% worse than the index.

How could this be? An amusing article by Eleanor Laise ("If We're So Smart, Why Aren't We Rich?") details the smart-but-undisciplined investment approach that reduced Mensa's returns to fiasco status. In brief, the investing "strategy" of the club relied on trendy tech stocks, horrible timing, and over-reliance on charting. The "strategy" was constantly changed. Some stock picks were taken straight from Internet message boards. One member described the approach as "buy low, sell lower.""[/quote]

also: http://minvestmentclub.com/

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I'd still wait for the next generation of the Kindle. The new Kindle has a lot more capability for interaction. The next one will probably have a whole lot more. I think it will take that next generation to cross the minimum threshold for me.
That's really weird, because I can see that it's working for other people. And it works for me. I think I'll just end up turning off the payments until I can get it worked out.
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I whipped up a home page and deployed. The more I thought about it the better the idea sounded.
I don't know if it is accurate, but http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850938 sheds a lot of light on why search might be the way it is.
> The DMCA is surprisingly fair and well balanced.

Right. Tell that to Dimitry Skylarov.
This link should get you in for free, though people have been having trouble. I haven't really figured out why yet.

http://mealfire.com/register?promo=hackernews

I went ahead and set up your account and added a warning if I'm going to charge. You're right, it's a bit of an ambush!
"Mailing lists 2.0" is an interesting term. It's kind of the principle we have used in building MooGroups http://moogroups.com. Instead of setting up a mailing list only for a specific group of people you email often, we make it so that essentially each group email is its own mailing list, so people who are part of that group email can email each other in an organized fashion or opt-out as needed.

Unlike Google Wave, MooGroups is available now, being improved upon everyday, doesn't require any signup, and allows you to use any email system.
I knew someone who applied for a patent on that idea in the 1993-1995 time frame ( I can't place the year exactly ). I have no idea if they succeeded in getting a patent or getting it manufactured, but the guy had done enough research to find out it would not be useful to general aviation planes, because the tires on those planes are usually tossed due to UV sidewall damage before wearing out.
First of all, this seems like a great app; it has a very nice usability in its current form. That said, it seems like there are just a few ideas that could really improve the app:

1. A real homepage. For example, notice how the homepage on www.freshbooks.com shows a decently sized screen shot, followed by a list of the major features, and an invitation to either take a tour or jump right in to "try FreshBooks for free"

2. A tour, FAQ, contextual help, or some method of introducing users to features they may not have noticed otherwise. For an example of where this would be useful: I added a recipe right away and was impressed with the interface, but only after I added all the ingredients did I discover that I could, in fact, group elements together (under "more options").

3. Insert the "add ingredients" and "add directions" buttons directly into their respective boxes.

4. Make the list of ingredients drag-and-drop? I can't say for sure whether this would be useful or just get in the way, but it seems like a good idea to me.
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Human After All IMHO is probably the worst Daft Punk album Bangalter and Homem-Christo put together. Technologic is one of, if not the worst song on the entire album.

Terrible.
"Great minds think alike". Do you feel better?
It's already a big improvement and I realize you just threw this up, so that's especially impressive. I'd suggest making the list of major features more "scan-able", perhaps by listing the features in bullet points, or just creating a tour.
Also, I'm a tad confused on this point, but if it costs $5 to register (for the non HN crowd anyway), I haven't seen mention of that anywhere on the site...that's probably something people should find out before clicking "register".
Newsflash: It IS possible for Web startups to generate revenue.
Is this one of those machine-generated scientific papers? Because I'm not convinced that's actually English.
> In the pharmaceutical sector, they rise the price of medicine.

In the pharmaceutical sector they make new drug discovery economically possible. Were it not for patents we would not have a tenth of the new drugs and treatments available to us today. Marketing costs (an unreasonable expenditure IMHO) and testing costs are completely outrageous and there are so many promising drugs that wash out in stage two or stage three trials that companies need the assured profits of a success to compensate for the risks and costs.

There are many fields that would probably be improved by limiting patents or shortening their lifespan, but in pharmaceuticals the lifespan of patents probably needs to be upped five or ten years...
Any rational analysis will demonstrate that the IOC outguns the United States military by at least an order of magnitude. I assume that's what the post was referring to.
Nice! That one seems to have more features than the site I submitted. I had no idea there's this whole niche of loader GIF generators...
i think you mean 20,000 employees, not engineers.
According to NetApplications, Bing lost 0.2%, Google lost somewhere around 0.2%, and Yahoo lost 0.44%, but it looks like the biggest real change was Baidu, which caught almost all the users google, yahoo, and bing lost.
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Really? ;-)
Awesome! I always get excited when I see other food related apps on hn.

A bug:
All of the blue buttons in the content area(ie Create Shopping List) do not work for me because the ul with id header links is covering them.

I signed up and then wanted to get the bookmarklet, and I had to log out to find it. When I did find it I ended up bookmarking the page with the bookmarklet on it rather than the actual bookmark.

I run a recipe search engine(recipepuppy.com), so we do a lot of the same things. If you need any tips streamlining the parsing of recipe sites or anything else let me know. kris@recipepuppy.com
> That's what patents are for. They are to reward the risk takers.

That isn't what patents are for. The intent of patents is to get inventors to disclose their inventions to the public for the benefit of all. Rewarding the inventor is the incentive that make this happen, makes it work, not the goal.
Your perception of experience is flawed. Ever user interface application is multi-threaded. It's actually fairly rare to run across a single threaded application anymore. Most single threaded applications are going to be daemons (system services), and even then most are multi-threaded.

The question is ill-stated as well. "How to check multi-threaded applications?" Do you mean "How do you debug multi-threaded applications?" or do you mean "How do you verify multi-threaded applications?"

There's a little coverage of a Microsoft tool called CHESS that is designed to help with unit testing of multi-threaded applications. More information at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chess/ if you're looking at Microsoft technologies. IBM has ConTest http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-contest.htm....

For more information on unit testing multi-threaded applications, see http://goodliffe.blogspot.com/search/label/threads.
The original version of this strategy is sane, but it has to actually be followed. And in every "implementation" I have seen, it was not.

The critical part of this strategy is continuous improvement: to not only rank existing employees and lay off some, but to hire new ones. The NET should be no real change in numbers, but an increase in overall quality.

But guess what. Companies invariably failed to do the 2nd, and simply used this as a nifty new way to decide layoffs, during a hiring freeze. The result is predictable: a productivity and morale drain. What did they think was going to happen, that making teams smaller would magically make the remaining people more productive? Let's see: of the people left, the ones who then seem "relatively" productive are just those that didn't lose as many team members; there is no further indicator of who is actually most valuable. But that didn't mean that layoffs stopped: no, the next rounds simply started cutting to the bone.
That's good to hear. On the author's website, he says the new edition bears the new name "Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp". Looks like it hasn't been translated to English yet, unfortunately. Either way, the older edition looks like it's worth it. Thanks!
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According to my copy of the US Constitution the purpose is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts..." and whether this promotion is intended to reward inventors or to convince them to disclose (or both) is open to a great deal of interpretation. Of the two proposals made regarding IP during the drafting of this document one was strictly copyright and the one that covered patents was very clearly about inventors getting a payday...
Do you sign the default contract?
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i think it comes to the bottom line, all the "causes" don't really mean anything. It's always the same 10,000 people protesting environmentalism, darfur, G20, care bears. And even those, majority will come back to Google a week later when the "boo Google" protests get boring and they'll switch to "boo Sponge Bob squarepants, a corrupt depiction of the scumbag capitalist anti-environmentalism"

The bottom line, is that Google doesn't want to lose a 1 billion person Chinese market over a bunch of hippies. Long term(20-30 years) it'll account for 70-80% of their revenue, turning the back on it now would be the dumbest thing for them to do.
which kinda proves the point...all that press, and noone cares about them now. The only recent launch is bing...but even that started out with millions of original microsoft users and then was fueled by a marketing budget bigger than a small country's GDP.
But its an NDA about their upcoming C# news, something Google has less-than-zero interest in. This rationale makes about as much sense as a corporate directive to avoid signing NDAs for MMORPG betas.
It'd probably be more fun to do this with wavelets.
it's venture beat, they probably wrote it as a way to suck up to Facebook, hoping that they'll get some scoops as reward.
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> What I strongly disliked is how it was cast in jocks vs nerds theater.

I agree. I don't like those terms because well, they are labels. And in the article jocks and nerds were essentially, for lack of better terms, dumb and smart people.
I don't understand how the pendulum can swing from one end of the spectrum to the other so quickly in the social sciences?