skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You could still hold opinions/beliefs, but you would need to explicitly say that something is an opinion/belief."

Or people could understand that everything anyone says is an opinion/belief unless accompanied by verifiable backing.

There are unintended consequences of trying to guarantee something. For example, I know people who consume anything available for sale, because, you know, if it was bad for you the government wouldn't allow it to be sold.

I'd rather not encourage people to be less critical in their thinking regarding the assertions of others.

Also, debates over evolution tells me that getting people to agree on what "substantiated" means is a staggering challenge.

Better to have the occasional PSA that tells people, "BTW, some people make shit up. Be skeptical of what you read and hear."
It's also pretty obvious that free speech with limits results in a lot of nonsense that many people believe.
500-900$ if you're willing to live with others. soma, mission, north beach are startup central - the rest is down in the south bay
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Or, maybe you can point out how I'm wrong. You know, provide some evidence supporting "stupid". I'll help. If you're "stupid" as "you're mean, I don't like you, and I'm not going to respond to your arguments", I'll agree.

Stupid, as in: In the context of the sentence, the use of "force" was clearly in terms of market forces, and didn't "concede" anything about the rationality or reality of investing in cleaner energy and processes.

It's clear that any discussion with you devolves into responding to ridiculously irrational devices of rhetoric, so I'll stop here.
hacker houses in/around SF (palo alto and Mtn View are close enough

http://searchyc.com/hacker+house

toilet, whiteboard
http://divvyshot.com/photo/ltIwP/
Foreclosed homes 
hi....
I m sure many of you are like me and one of the first things you do in the morning is head here and check out the new post. Along with seeing the new posts, I’m also always checking out the blog roll rss feed and watching them grow, or shrink sometimes. In one of my past...but all in all excellent site. Keep it up!
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Failure is not a pre-requisite for success or a rite of passage ...(stuff)... Jason advises replicating what succeeded as opposed to learning from your mistakes – the results are much more predictable

What the hell does that mean? The other quips were great but this one really struck me. I've learned plenty from my mistakes.. Either someone is paraphrasing incorrectly or that's horrible advice.
Okay, so you could ignore the obvious resemblance to the Hasidic Jew Hat (http://bit.ly/29cFxJ), I suppose. But then what about "Brown Thighs? = Eww." What is wrong with brown thighs?

At some point I have to question if they guy is doing it subtly on purpose or just completely oblivious, and neither is good.

P.S. We didn't "forget the funny." We went searching for it, and these descriptions are what we came up with.
I think he meant using VMWare Tools on Ubuntu

As opposed to running Ubuntu under VMWare
You only really need to wear kevlar in Oakland by the way.

On the other hand, that's where the hipsters go to keep it real.
Are there good resources for tales of failure?

It's easy to find books and articles on people who made it, but not so for the losers.
For housing: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/ - for shared rooms and sublets.

For tech companies: http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/4358 - this is a map of many of the tech companies in the area.

For activities, check out http://meetup.com - there are lots of tech activities all over the area.
I spend most of my time out of the country but hate staying in hotels for long periods- this would be an awesome solution while in the States for a month now and again.
But don't trust the upgrade if you use advanced features (as I found out the hard way) like Software Raid, LVM, and cryptfs. IT WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM.
Ask PG: what happened to my voting?
All my comment voting seems to have no effect any more - when I vote on comments the score changes and arrow disappears. But on refresh the score is back to the old value and the arrows are still disappeared.

Like it is stored but not counted..

Is there some weird limit I triggered - or is there a bug here somewhere? I dont vote a whole lot but if it is a bug I wanted to make a note...

Anyone else noticed this happen to them?

(article voting works ok still).
"thought experiment" -- happens all the time.
That's one of our strategies.

While we are actively pursuing opportunities with developers, but we also want community to flourish even without the developers present.
This happens to me when my internet connection is spotty and the upvotes don't make it to HN.
Not deliberately purple, I suspect: substituting "weary" for "wary" is a pretty common mistake.
what has ever been said on twitter that needed to be backed up?
I personally stopped using Greader, not because it's a bas tool. It's a great tool, but I stopped using it after realizing that google knew everything about me, and that I was totally dependant on them.
So now I use tt-rss, it's a Greader clone (just better) that I host on my box. And I'm now Google-free :)
" ... as a company, they seem very closed and litigious so I'm a bit skeptical."

Besides, this is not Steve Jobs giving his word as a man, Scout's honor, and all that.

At some point management changes, but the company lives on, and the new owners may decide otherwise.
thanks Alex. it's really not that hard guys.
That's the wierd thing; I figured that was it as well at first. But I lose voting arrows on the comment even after a refresh. Which suggests it does get through.

Crazy.
Cliff Notes version:

-Tainter's model of collapse - that of society reducing itself in complexity when it reaches some level that is too complex to sustain - is flawed. Evidence given in the form of several civilizations for which the decay took place over centuries rather than decades as the argument would suggest.

-The critical aspects of a civilization are modelled by Resources (R), Capital (C), Waste (W). These are simplifications because there are many forms of each category. All of these are combined for the sake of simplicity of the model. Additionally, there is a process of production that generates capital from resources and other capital that produces waste as a byproduct. Waste is also generated over time and is some function of the Capital. The sum of all waste generated by the civilization is called Maintenance (M). Additionally, resources are consumed but regenerate at some rate dR

-A civilization is in equilibrium when its production of capital matches its maintenance cost. When its production exceeds maintenance, it is in a state of expansion. Some examples are provided.

-At some point the production of capital may fall below its maintenance costs. There are two cases:

Case 1: Consumption of resources is below the rate of regeneration, dR. Capital is lost, but production can be maintained because of the availability of resources - the civilization stabilizes around some lower level of capital.

Case 2: Consumption of resources exceeds the rate of regeneration. Capital falls - and as capital falls, production falls as well. This case is different from 1 in that resources are not available to support production in the absence of capital. (Though the article uses dR, perhaps this is also an issue of R reaching 0). As a result, with the loss of capital, both M and production decrease, so that stability is not reached. This is catabolic collapse.

-The article gives examples of civilizations that match these cases.

-The model is compared to the idea of succession, "the process by which an area not yet occupied by living things is colonized by a variety of biotic assemblages, called seres, each replacing a prior sere and then being replaced by a later, until the process concludes with a stable, self-perpetuating climax community"
My interpretation of that joke was scatological. Though, I don't know if that says more about me than Randall.
One thought I haven't seen mentioned is the emotional aspect of several of these movies. In my opinion, Lost in Translation was bad, but I made it through it, I heart huckabees & Sideways were so terrible I stopped watching in the middle. All three movies were good in the sense that I could get drawn into the stories, but the characters/storyline just made me want to scream "Get over it you freaking cry-baby".

They weren't bad in the way that a normal bad movie is bad. They were bad in the way that it took talented writing, acting & directing to make characters and situations that were so pathetic and annoying that it was unwatchable to a guy like me.

I can easily see how someone else (who presumably could relate to the emotions of the characters) would really like the films.
There is no debate over evolution if we restrict ourselves to reputable scientists.

Most people are not capable of critical thought and should not be encouraged to think for themselves.
Just heard Mark Pincus speak with Bing Gordon again yesterday - he's just a really funny guy. Also used the phrase "level up to refer to employees several times... guess that's what you get from a CEO in the gaming space.
Bootstrapping Complexity - remix of Kevin Kelly's "Out of Control"
Mine was doing the same thing. it appears to have taken them, just after a long delay
TI, the EFF, the DMCA, and the person that broke the crypto are all in the US. So I assumed that we were discussing the issue with respect to the US.
i haven't looked into this myself, but i think that Mathematica 'notebooks' tries to reach this ideal of "just leave everything in mathematica, and we'll take care of code, tests, visualizations, documentation, etc."
HBase vs. Cassandra: Distributed Database Battle
> Is it ok to change prices around in the beginning

Not really... or rather you risk pissing off users. However if you take an initial 3 or 4 month hit to run a free "beta" of some description that might help you figure out reasonable pricing. At that point you will be able to

a) confirm the exact cost per user per month

b) ask actual working customers (in a survey) what they would be prepared to pay

Such data would be invaluable in fixing a final release price.
Heroku (YC W08) makes PaaS flexible with Add-ons
ah! ok I hear you. Thanks.

EDIT: that's nearly ten minutes now for my upvote of your comment and it still didnt register... perhaps this one isnt solved? How long were yours taking?
Thanks for the video, I will watch it. The interested readers might want to try the book "An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and its Applications" by Li and Vitanyi (the 3rd edition came out recently). It is comparatively expensive, but Vitanyi's CWI site holds additional material.
Rendering web pages with flyweight pattern
Reputable academics would decide whether someone is guilty of unsubstantiated statements.

Even if this is limited to scientific matters, it could be an improvement over unrestricted free speech.
Ask HN: Evil but brilliant business models?
Think Swoopo (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001196.html) or Demand Media (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia).

Do you know any other examples? What do you think about the evilness of these? Is it unethical or is it a normal use of free markets?
I've always felt that Google was a benevolent overlord. That may change at some point, and at that point I'll leave. Until then, I'm ok with being dependent on them for almost everything.
This is a very very well made video! Just giving my appreciation where appreciation is due. Very nice, and I love the summation of the entire event: "for all the nobodies...Go For It!"
YouTube recently admitted that they have a similar problem with their rating system (http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/five-stars-domina...)

The raw data simply doesn't show a decent distribution of ratings. People are far more likely to simply give something 1 star or 5 stars.

I would say that it's far more meaningful to use a simple thumbs up/thumbs down system...
The right data structure for tagging is probably an inverted index. Look at Lucene, Solr, or Sphinx for this.
It is an interesting fact, though, since there is a sequence of integers called "integers factored by computers". This integer is now a member of that set. The fact that a number this large was factored is interesting to the mathematical community. Should this information be suppressed because TI used this number to sign their OS?

What if there was a table of all numbers and their factorizations, 1 = 1, 2 = 2, 3 = 3, 4 = 2 * 2, ... If you noticed TI was using a number in this list as their signing key, you could just look it up. Would that be illegal?

Then why is it illegal to lazily generate this list as needed?

What other properties of integers are illegal to discuss?

(FWIW, I am almost certain that the DMCA does not apply to this case, anyway. TI is just sending letters Because They Can and because there is no penalty if they're wrong. I can send you a C&D telling you to take down the above comment. The appropriate response is to mock me, not to take the comment down.)

Basically, TI should have used a bigger integer. Why rely on something as flaky as the legal system to protect your business model when you can use mathematical fact instead? (Answer: because using a bigger number would have added 1 cent to the cost of every calculator sold. Sending C&Ds is free.)
Flickr as a paintbrush
_Infinitesimal Jest: Towards A Intertextual Metanarrative Of Subtextual Resonances Between XKCD and XKCD-Explained_

* It can and has been claimed by that the humor in XKCD is superficial, driven more by the dog-whistle power of recogition of cultural signs and signifiers than by a "true" or "significant" humor. Of course, an equally valid critical response questions the notion of "truth" and observes that the free play of signs and signifiers unmoored from a confining narrative core is a potent artistic force driving the work.

* A persistent debate between critical factions regarding XKCD is the question of whether those who claim XKCD is superficial don't understand the scientific and cultural references in the work, which debate is addressed by a direct recitation of those references in XKCD Explained.

* A common critical observation about XKCD that may not be obvious to the lay reader who does not closely track the comic is that it might be repetitive, which is to say that when the comics are stripped to their narrative kernel, many of the comics are essentially the same.

* Another common observation that may not be obvious to the lay reader is that it might be derivative, with comics repurposing the narrative and conceptual core of other, non-XKCD webcomics. This of course is an invalid critique, as XKCD exists intertextually with all other webcomics and is in fact enjoined to make use of and amplify the key ideas of those other comics.

* A more easily observable concern with XKCD is the relationship between the comic and gender, and in particular with sex, that concern being itself the observation of a subtext that implies that all references to sex are titillating to its audience, within which audience broad cultural norms have precluded actual experience with the reproductive act, and often contact with the opposite sex.

* Which of course drives us to the key concern with XKCD AND XKCD Sucks, which is that the authors of both works, being themselves bound to the norms of the media of English text, believe men are superior to women. Note the phallic symbolism of the letters "X" and "K", and the subordinate positions of the vaginal characters "C" and "D", the last of which represents (semiotically) the supressed but controlling desire of the male writer to maintain a pregnant state in the female reader.
He's comparing Google Reader with Twitter. That seems very apples and oranges to me. It seems a bit like saying, "I don't buy books any more because television is much more up-to-the-minute."
In the last 10 years, computers have advanced tremendously. Why do I still see the same TI-whatever calculators in on the store shelves? They don't need to play video or browse the web, but you'd think they'd at least be thinner.

Does TI have any competitors? Do they have an exclusive agreement to supply calculators that can be used on standardized tests?
I think (hope, actually) that you have the numbers in that sentence wrong.
Technically, it's where the artists go to live without going broke. The hipsters just follow.
> Apparently I was too abrasive, or not abrasive enough.

Just the first one.
Bird Deaths from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch [photo essay]
"Hi. We would like you to buy our product. It is annoying and covered in fecal matter."
I love this talk about pricing software: http://venturehacks.com/articles/pricing

I've had it on my MP3 player for about a year and I only just noticed it's by Steve Blank! Audio's a bit crappy in the beginning, but gets better.
This is an interesting line of thought, but you'd be better off if you followed it to its conclusion.

Assuming the same level of property taxes, others must pay more, making the state unattractive long-term. Does this mean overall tax revenue declines eventually?

This statement is true for everywhere, not just CA. Why should it be different here?
Another meta-comic: Garfield Minus Garfield
This guy is writing a blog explaining the comic XKCD using a dry, faintly sarcastic tone.

Note: He seems to have issues with XKCD's apparent feminist slant.
"No one seems to question the dataset".

Actually, this has already been pointed out in papers written on the subject. If you want to learn about the Netflix prize, read the papers from the teams that solved it, and don't waste your time on self-important bloggers who want attention.
Holy Fuck dude I think we need you to consult for us.
> Most people are not capable of critical thought and should not be encouraged to think for themselves

Can you hear yourself talk - seriously?

That lack of capability and you stopping them are such different things. The second you deliberately discourage someone from individual thought your crossing an awful moral line.

Even if a person makes a poor mistake at least it is their choice. Yes you might have made a better choice for them, in your opinion, but crossing such a line for genuinely helpful reasons just one time is a dangerous precedent to set.

You comment is basically the basis for all justification of oppression in the history of the world. That's the kind of things that good critical thinkers should realise it it important to avoid (making me almost suggest your a victim of your own fallacy).
I am not familiar with memcached and my knowledge about memcached is limited to Wikipedia. Having said that, is it fair to say that if you use SSD instead of HDD, you don't need memcached for improved performance?
I think knowing what kind of company you'll be in 3 years time is the biggie
automatically generated spam blogs. i hate running across them, but people make some serious $ off of them.
This guy just just nailed it.
Get Satisfaction
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
While we're on the subject of Marmaduke Explained and XKCD Explained, this is one of my favorite meta-cartoons on the web.
XKCD certainly has its share of completely punchless entries (http://bit.ly/4E2Uv0), especially in the first year.

It sort of amazes me that so many people can be fans of discomfort humor and missed-context humor (like in "The Office" or "Parcs and Rec") and yet when it is applied to something friendly to them they flip out. We all agree the outrage over this silliness is part of the fun in this project. You could probably apply this same joke to ANY webcomic if you have the right tone. If you want to see someone doing it wrong, check xkcdsucks.
Sounds reasonable. We may just have to take the hit. It might also be a good idea to float around a limited number of beta passes.
It's one of the most common calculators in high schools still
I thought "Little Brother" started off well, after that is just went everywhere and ending was meh. I don't really have problem with the technical aspect of the story, after all it is fictional, but the story lost its fire after the first quarter or so.

Anyways, I will give his other books a shot. Whatever it is, it can't be as bad as reading Stephen King or Dan Brown.
Thank you so hard.
Although deconstructionism forces us to concede that any "slant" in XKCD is merely a textual artifact, and all critical perspectives on the work are equally valid, it is nevertheless more equally valid to conclude that XKCD's gender politics may be more self-serving to the author than a legitimate (pace manocentric male-ocratic words like "legitimate") statement of empathy or outrage over the station of the modern woman in today's technological world.
Thanks.. Listening to it now..

EDIT: Quite entertaining and informative.. Only thing I would say is it's more about enterprise software. He does make some great points about not under-pricing your app and how engineers tend to do this.
I had seen your comment on the original article and was very interested. At the time I checked your site just in case you had written on the subject. I think this would be very useful.
There was a concerted effort by Lispers a year or two ago to get it so that Peter Seibel's book would come up first if you Google for "lisp tutorial". I believe it still does, and it's very good.
Oh give it to me KirinDave. Yeah, that's what I need.
Indeed, I find it rather telling that, though PG extolls the virtues of San Francisco, YC is in the South Bay.

Personally, I think that's where it belongs and that having "everything" be "so nearby" in a city is both a fiction and overstated as a benefit.
I cant decide over Demand Media; I mean as I read it they dont necessarily provide really bad content (though not great content either).

On the other hand they are employing a reasonable number of people and spreading some good money around (so it's not like they treat the content providers wholly unethically).

It feels like one of those borderline business models which is actually ok but could very easily slide the wrong way.
Tools runs on the guest OS to provide better mouse/graphics/etc integration. Typically it gets broken with new kernels.

I am still hoping for a reliable/official VMWare Tools .deb repository.
"Is it unethical or is it a normal use of free markets?"

Are those mutually exclusive?

Are you asking about business models that are unethical/immoral but legal?

Those are pretty good examples with regards to Internet companies. I think you can find just as dubious actions in the finance industry. From charging $30 for a $1 overdraft to raising credit card interest rates at whim ... hopefully, new regulations will change that.
Is that $150/month the only plan available for Droid? Verizon has a number of (pay less/get less) plans for their more vanilla phones.

Maybe it's a matter of waiting until next year. Been doing a lot of that lately...
It's a good gimmick, but on the video it seems to be a regular chair with a few thin layers of foam stretched out over it.
ffffFFFUUUUCK SO RIGHT
Is it cool (& simple) enough a 2-year-old gets it?
Within each novel, the characters can debate the literary merits of any of the sub-novels. But, by analogy with classes of machines that can’t analyze themselves, the characters can never critique the novel that they themselves are in.

Clearly he's never seen Spaceballs. (Otherwise it's an excellent article.)
Go Big, Go Horizontal: a look at Demand Media, AOL, Wikia, etc.