skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN:  Why not make people pay using karma points for each submission to HN?
Moreover, when you sign up, you would have no karma points and would not be able to submit anything to HN until you accumulate enough via comments.

You can take this further by providing different prices for various initial point scores of a submission say from one to five with five being five times more expensive than one.
The Facebook Generation
Those born into Internet-enabled social networking will create a different world.
Would be the same to argue that TV is destructive because it has continuous broadcast. Do not like it turn damn TV of.
Regardless of how much buzz the term has, it is valuable in some cases(some are mentioned din the article) and it is up to the user to decide what value it has for him. Rather than talking about negativity, just make it optional so user can make a choice of turning it of or on.
Probably just an oversight on the set, & possibly a violation of his contract with MS??
Enumerating a context-free language [Haskell]
> as electricity prices are not independent of oil prices (and electricity is always more expensive than oil).

Oil isn't used to generate electricity. At least not much. Look for coal, nuclear power, some natural gas.

In general electricity is much cheaper than oil based forms of energy. The reason why cars run on gasoline and Diesel is, that those have a much higher energy density than current batteries.
I read the README/blog post somewhere that vertical scrolling in one of the subwindows is very slow. Hence I have not tried it out. Do you have any experience with this?
I'm pretty sure the verizonwireless.com domain has some serious trust within Google already, not to mention inbound links that have "droid" in the name. They don't need to do the on-page SEO Joe Blogger does.

That said, I really have to agree with this statement from the article: "As far as microsites and marketing landing pages go, DroidDoes.com is out of this world bad." I was really confused when I hit the page. It's like the opposite of Apple's pages and not in a good way.
How many of these students are attending elite schools? I agree that more and more Chinese students will head overseas for school, but what real impact does this have on selectivity?

The elites will always cap the number of internationals they admit, so it would only appear that selectivity will increase for their cohort, but not necessarily the university at large. This of course only holds true if the enrollment cap for internationals is fixed and does not vary significantly year over year.
Here's one price comparison from Aftenposten at 9th October 2009.

Fårikål for 10, aka Mutton in cabbage for 10 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A5rik%C3%A5l

Lamb meat (fresh), 4kg - 200 NOK / 34,7$

Cabbage, 4kg - 10 NOK / 1,7$

Pepper (whole), 40 grams - 7 NOK / 1,2$

Potatoes 2,5kg - 20 NOK / 3,5$

Total 41$ (for 10)

http://www.rema.no/multimedia/archive/00010/Aftenposten_0910...

McDonalds:

1 Filet O' Fish

1 Cheeseburger

1 Big Mac

2 Fries

1 Smoothie

1 Diet Coke

--------------------------

US $31.50

There's no universal minimum hourly wage in Norway, but generally the lowest amount paid seems to be around 100 NOK / 17$.
He's tried to, but it exploded all of the computers in a five mile radius. Now he has nothing to blog with.
I mostly ignore the main page except in the mornings and last thing at night (to check for stuff I missed while away).

The "new" page is always more interesting :D
Uhm, it is a problem I have had to deal with on occasion. It is a problem that I've seen other Linux users deal with regularly. I have a non-techie friend who uses Linux and she calls me about every 3rd kernel update because some driver got messed up and there is no easy solution. It is a problem if someone wants to switch to Linux and suddenly some hardware is not working properly or at all.

The fact that OSX and Vista have the same problem does not mean that it's not a problem. In fact, driver trouble is one of the main reasons that Vista turned into a big failure.

But that's not really even the point. The point is that they are problems. You might have run into different ones, but whatever, they're definitely there and this attitude that if anything goes wrong it's the users fault and if people would just be more open minded and get rid of their Windows preconception everything would be totally fine is not helping.
Ask HN: magazines for new Internet entrepreneurs and startups?
I currently subscribe to Entrepreneur. It's decent and very inexpensive but doesn't always fit my desire to find information about scrappy internet bootstrapped companies. What it does have, however, is a writing staff of people that I've read blog posts from and information about before even subscribing. Thus, the articles all seem to be credible and accurate even if they don't apply much to my current situation.

Any recommendations for other print publications (doesn't have to be reputable name on glossy paper)?
I find that this article applies: http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Inside-Enterprise-Communit... (spoiler: it's "Show me five things you've done.")

If he was worth anything, he should have figured out five searches that Verizon would want to rank high on, but don't because they're doing it all wrong. For an expert in the field, that would be simple, right?
Five-time lottery winner comes out on top once more
Right, the site sucks (I hate Flash ad-sites especially) but that doesn't really have much to do with "SEO" which Verizon clearly does not need any of. What they need is a site that doesn't suck.
Darrell,

I know this is a bad place to ask for it, but we actually have just started a story at my company to look for a better scheduling tool--mostly, just a distributed cron. Do you have any preference for Q&A? Should we use HN?

If not, feel free to send me an email so I could bounce some questions off you (amcfague at wgen dot net)

EDIT: Considering these questions are not answered in the current README, I'd also like to be able to propose additions to the documentation as a result! :)
I doubt that the entire budget is dictated by direct-vote propositions. To abuse the analogy, the government could probably get its hands free if not for the left and right hands each being more interested in keeping each other tied up than in getting lose from the bindings.

That said, are you mad? Holding the citizens as a whole responsible for the actions of a democratic republic? Surely, you jest. Besides, blaming voters is no way to get elected; it's always the fault of the other party.
Have you tried concentrating your content to a select number of schools? Whats the point of a big-bang strategy at this point in the game?
That statenent is about the Burlington Northern board making a decision in 15 minutes, not Buffett...
It makes sense if you think about it. The body is like "I need energy!" and your glycogen stores are like "sorry dude, all out", so it goes and robs the fat-convenience store for its twinkies.

The issue is working out hard enough to take out all the glycogen stores, and not eating for a while (which just replenishes them).

Note, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it sorta makes sense. Post any research you find here.
I love it. If you're looking for an article on a particular topic, this lets you skim them basically before deciding which one to read. A good sample is:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=c%23+custom+controls&v=d

A quick browse lets you pick the article that seems closest to what you're actually trying to do.

Google still owns on being able to find absolutely anything (Duck Duck Go still seems limited to somewhat mainstream searches), but Duck Duck Go is seriously starting to own on sensible search features that actually improve the search experience. So many people are trying to build the next way of searching, and a lot of what they come up with is insane. I really don't want a 3d cloud of search results. It's not about looking pretty. It's about finding what I want. Duck Duck Go gets this like no one since Google.
Define Smart, and maybe we'd be getting somewhere. Bobby Fischer and the Unibomber are two of the highest IQ's in recent history.

I think of IQ as mental processing power. If you're running bad software, or missing a contextual understanding, it doesn't help much.
ycombinator users look down on reddit users who look down on digg users. Ah, the snobby internet pecking-order in full effect.
Just curious if you did a study/survey in your target market and found that the inability to bill at client's site is a big frustration point for your users. I don't know much about small business owner market but s this differentiator strong enough?
Calling all entrepreneurs - introducing PitchTV
An opportunity to have your pitch aired on virgin flights and on virgin.com
Why print?
Well, the problem is that the whole "blub" stance is akin to breaking the ice by punching someone in the face, and then getting all shocked when they think you're a thug and don't want to listen to your pitch about the metric system. It's not a stance that invites discussion.

You can encourage discussion about language design, etc. without being smug and intentionally provocative about it.
What Option Grants Tell Us About The US Dollar
Sure, talk about ideas you're interested in. I didn't mean talk about random ideas. I meant talk about stuff at the level of ideas, i.e. what problem the world needs solved and how you might do it, rather than at the level of financial projections.
I can see how it got lost in translation but by no means I was implying that the 45-year old CEO was horrible (e.g. it's very very unlikely or even impossible that a 16-yr old CEO will ever be equivalent to a veteran CEO - e.g. 16-yr old CEO is a near mockery of the title). Much like what happened when they started giving away Green Berets to non-Green Berets.
wow. reminiscent of this skit from SNL.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?sho...
I would rather bet on rails than MagLev anytime soon.
I'm going to approach this from another side, and ask you what value should I as a user hope to gain from shouldigetthebook.com? I kind of see what you are driving at, but I view your site's potential and possibly its purpose differently. On the surface you are saying your site will answer that question of needing to buy the book, but does it really need answering? Enough to keep users drawn to your site? One might argue that in this day with all the connectivity and info online there is no course that couldn't be passed without buying the book, unless the professor was a stickler for the exact material in question, and even then networking with other students could assuage the need.

I think the question now becomes more philosophical. What do I want out of the course? Just a passing grade or something I can look back on and reference? When viewed that way your site can be about more than just answering that single, quite subjective, question. What I would do is try to foster discussion about the course. Let's say I want to take an art class. I go to shouldigetthebook.com and see nothing there, but I can leave an email to be notified of others inquiring and/or commenting on the same class. Chances are there would be some good discussion we could have. That's the kind of content you could foster on your site, and users would contribute because it's of interest to them. Eventually users could certainly answer the question of whether or not the course book is needed, but there is so much more that the question seems almost incidental.
you guys should really check out: http://www.webreference.com/programming/optimize/speedup/cha...

I have been creating some pretty crazy interfaces in 3D Javascript. I try everything I read to see if its faster. I find that its resizing elements during an animation that really affect speed. Stopping event bubbling is pretty nice too. But things I didn't know like using reverse loops because comparing to "0" is faster than an int. or setting [i] into variable after the "++" so the whole length isnt processed over and over. What about using "Math." instead of (var calc = a1 * a2 / a3), var calc = Math.round((a1*a2)/a3); because using the preMthods in the dom is faster. These things really work and I saw my performance shoot through the roof!! My number one performance enhancer though? Dont use <img> tags. The way the browsers render <img> is different than (backgroun-image:url();) and takes much more out of the speed than using a CSS background.
The best use I've found of the "real-time web" is for tracking live sporting events that I can't attend or stream over the Internet.

For example, I play fantasy football and I noticed during Sunday afternoon that Kevin Smith (Lions' RB) suddenly stopped scoring me points. Did he get injured? I don't have cable & Google's "recent results" showed nothing... so I performed a Twitter search for his name and my worst fear was confirmed by dozens of Lions fans on Twitter: he was out with an injury.

The result of my search wasn't desired, but the "real-time web" was the only place to get the info.
Contextual Alltop for blogs
A3 - Toyota’s way of solving problems and creating plans
At the most recent annual shareholders meeting:

Question: What is your latest outlook on the dollar given what's been thrown up in the air in the last 6 months?

Buffett: It's pretty unpredictable. I guarantee you the dollar will buy less 10-20 years from now. But we are doing things that will hurt the purchasing power of the dollar. On the other hand the same thing is happening in different countries around the world. The British will run a deficit of 12 and a fraction percent of GDP. Even the Germans will run a deficit of 6 and a fraction GDP. You've got governments around the world all electing to run very material deficits. Electiing to do that to offset the contraction demand. How that plays out in relative exchange rates - I can't tell you. In terms of currency's purchasing power in the future - it's going to cause units of currency to buy a lot less.That isn't gonna happen in the next year or two. Doesn't mean markets won't start anticipating it at some point. We are doing things that we havne't seen in the past. And policy makers do not know the outcome and I don't know the outcome. You do know it will have consequences and you can bet on inflation.

Munger: I remember the 2 cent first-class stamp and the 5 cent hamburger. In my life I think I've had the most privileged era to live. The trick is to avoid runaway inflation.

[http://j.mp/3z6gpr]
No formal studies of that kind, no, but I spoke with a few small business owners who thought it was a great idea and that they would love to have it.

I also did some market testing last December where I threw up a simple test page under what I was going to call the product: "Mobilliti". I ditched the name (seriously, look at all the i's and l's, it's completely unreadable), but kept the feedback. I spent $50 on Google Adwords, and got a several people who were interested enough to click through all the way to the "Sign up" button, and then fill in contact information about when the product would be available.
I like Inc., Entrepreneur, Fast Company and Wired.

I get a good selection of information from them when I'm looking to read something that's not on a screen. They all have online versions of their content, so you could check them out to see if you like them.
here is another really good one: http://home.earthlink.net/~kendrasg/info/js_opt/
purely preference, allows me to get away from the keyboard and mouse at a coffee shop or bus stop
That's a point. Please keep in mind that Buffet has a large share of his wealth tied up in Berkshire shares, so he's risking his own money.
Jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded
While I don't agree that everyone should know these things, you make solid points.
This is a good thread to put up as a comment in the Feature Requests thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
I see this quite a bit in my current job.

Question for you, how did IT sell this to the business folks (or the buyer)? Was this under the auspices of enterprise agility?
I find twitter search useful. For example, when I was shopping for a newly released netbook, I searched the keyword on twitter for a few days, to see what people say about it and what new reviews are being released. After a few days, I was able to detect the "mood", in other words, how people feel about the product. That is very hard to achieve with just reading a professional review.

More generally, if I want to know what now is happening about something, twitter can usually deliver that.
They should include in their annual report "this year our corporate tax paid for x nurses and income tax on our employees bonuses paid for y teachers".
Also, if your using trigg based JS, having good math is important. A lot of the time if you can shorten your math into more elegant equations, you will see serious performance gains. Of course I sucked at math, still do, but I'm getting better. I now run a base set of equations and just manipulate the base equations when needed.
Microincentives are great in theory. I agree. I haven't seen them successfully implemented in this context (though you could compare to an ebay seller rating).

You would think someone would have figured out an effective method of user-generated content quality control.
Inkscape Tutorial Easy Twilight Cityscape
Looking for an easy way to create cool graphic backgrounds? In this tutorial you will learn just how easy it is to create a twilight cityscape background using Inkscape.
I look at the main page first, often opening articles in new tabs in my browser while checking the comments on submissions that already have comments, and then I go to the new page to see new articles that might be interesting. Every once in a while I look at my own threads view to see if people have replied to my comments in threads that have already scrolled off the main page.
That's what I'm going for right now, but it isn't obvious because of the site design. I currently have 7 or 8 schools in Michigan that I'm concentrating on.
The subtitle of this website, "The City That Thinks Like The Web", is the name of a talk that was given a couple of times in the last year or so by Mark Surman, a Toronto-based evangelist for the Mozilla Foundation. One of these talks was given with our city's mayor ( http://twitter.com/mayormiller ) in attendance, and things have slowly but surely gained steam ever since. Miller has been extremely interested in pushing open data initiatives in Toronto with both the transit system and other services.

With his term ending soon, I wonder what the next mayor's stance will be on open data / city hacking / revision-controlled urbanism. This is one of those issues that you either totally "get" or completely fail at (in the worst possible political way), and it would be a shame to see us regress along such a frail axis; Long-established systems with regulations, rules, vested contractual / public-private / labour-union interests are extremely difficult to evolve and untangle.... That we have enthusiastic buy-in from the very top is really impressive, I just hope it continues in a truly open manner.
I've seen this "A3" referenced, and I'm trying to find out more about it. It seems that all the information is nebulous and points to this one book, but there are some hints on what it's about.

Here's another link.

http://www.improvementandinnovation.com/features/articles/a3...

If you have more information about this, please share.

Thanks.
So, that brings up another good point. StackOverflow, like answers.OnStartups was leveraged from an already burgeoning community, and quickly got other communities involved. With something grassroots, are you stuck in a chicken and egg problem?

I feel like if there are questions, there can be answers (some of us are better at google than others.. or less lazy or whatever) but if there aren't questions, it's dead.
The logic of google ads
Screen has apparently had this in CVS since 2008:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15442
Using the title CEO is largely meaningless, but for the right audience is a real-world hack.
"It seems strange that the system will allow anonymous voting, but not anonymous comments. Allowing the admin to enable anonymous commenting would be very helpful." Yep. Maybe uservoice should listen to its own users..
But Apple does? I think his point is valid: from a simple search of "iphone," I can go directly to, say, the official features page. I don't do that from a search for "droid." I first have to go through the obnoxious, contentless flash site.
And agreed, the 6 techniques are not that good. If your going for speed, dont expect ppl to read your code. It wont be readable. Animations are processor dependent and the code should be streamlined as possible to make it fast FOR THE PROCESSOR. It won't look like your average JS. It's a re-factor dance for me everytime. Like tuning a car, certain things work better for tuning Ferarris than they do for a Cadillac. (I don't have either) :) MOST IMPORTANT LEARN MATH!!! you now need all that calculous and trigg and geometry. You need matrices, you need x,y,z mapping. I need everything I thought I would never need...and more. Still learning
Yet Microsoft have an awful lot of research suggesting the ribbon is an improvement, which you can read about from their blogs. You could also try it and give them feedback. I refer you to http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/09/14/467126.aspx and the rest of detailed and interesting posts in his blog about the Ribbon design process.

Anyway, the parent post claims windows has got better and you say "no, it was bad now it's been improved" - that's not debatable that's you agreeing.
Had a non-tech blog. I mostly translated and commented on travel writing and news articles on obscure subjects.

Mainly it was for me to organise/summarise my knowledge on various topics. But it got too time consuming to write whole posts at once, so for a while I switched to writing Wikipedia articles. They fulfilled the same organisation/summarisation function, and it turned out to be a better platform than blogging for incremental/iterated writing.
Is there a reason why you haven't changed the design to reflect this?

Also have you looked into behavioral economics? Anecdotally, I know that this is a somewhat "hot" area for loyalty programs (miles, etc.).
Seems like an unwelcoming system for new users when (I assume) what you want to tackle is the very small number of spam posts.

A bad side effect could be that HN users might be reluctant to post interesting items that were only likely to appeal to a minority of their fellows. Technical items on web development rarely get more than three or four up-votes and yet many are likely to be of interest to web based start-ups - part of the core HN target group.

Does not feel like a net win to me.
For comparison purposes:

http://www.uschamber.com/icw/reportcard/default -- Note that Vermont and New Hampshire both do very well overall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels -- Note that VT and NH are at opposite extremes of state tax revenue per capita.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that tax rates have little to do with education quality.
Looks interesting.

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Is there anyway to make safe search the default like most search engines do?

I'm not keen on seeing NSFW links like Encyclopedia Dramatica appearing when I'm searching from a work computer.

Most searches make you turn safe search off to get NSFW sites.
This article is not informative (or technical) enough, IMHO. It lacks :

- The instruction set used is a MIPS-derived VLIW instruction set according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILE64

- It needs to say that 99% of developers don't really care about instruction set as they use higher-level languages.

EDIT: A new cpu architecture is always an exciting sight, though.
Well, technically it is. But Freshbooks does have options for sending recurring invoices and doing recurring credit card charges (two seperate processes). It also has a really nice API.