skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the 'copycats' win, it's just the originals didn't do their best.

ChinaHR sucks balls

http://www.google.com/search?q=chinahr+%E7%83%82

any first year college students can write better .asp pages than that, it's just many hiring companies are using ChinaHR exclusively and you have to apply on it.

Digu.com & Zhenai.com has a terrible reputation for spamming and selling private user data.

The real secret for winning in Chinese market? Marketing and PR. Especially good relationship with the right Communist party leader.
Most of Facebook is a design flaw. Everything since the stalker feed.
The "moment" for me was when the computer turned from a toy to a tool to get things done. No more technology for technology's sake. Now it's which components is best to get to an acceptable solution.

There are of course a lot of other "moments." Moving on from being a snobby technical person to realizing it's better to be an enabler for getting things done. Trying to view the world from my child's eyes, to make her world better. Finding that time is very valuable.
Eek... Reading this article was like watching a nightmare become reality. I've been getting thrown into ehow.com quite a bit lately, now I know why the answers are so terrible. This sort of mathematical approach to maximizing profit is, to me, a cancer on the web.

The analogy in the article was perfect, they're like the kid that screamed out the answer to every question the teacher had, but with absolutely 0 insight.
I want to have an inverse Netflix graph. I want to be able to meet and connect with other cinema lovers based on their ratings of movies I like. In that way, I can find people that probably won't piss me off too much and a way to find other stuff that I think is cool.

So, for example, I would exclude anyone who didn't like The Big Lebowski on the principle of them being nilhists.
Seems like movie ratings would be a great way to find a perfect match. Do dating sites use this data?
No more inconvenient than people with those backpacks with wheels.
s/to/too/g

Where did the edit button go?

[EDIT] works fine for this post. Does it expire, or is this thread causing problems...
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Parking is the main reason I don't ride my bike to work. The streets are no problem for me; I just don't want to leave my bike outside. The bike I commute on is not expensive, but replacing it would be a pain.

The second issue is showering when you get to work. My commute is short enough that it doesn't matter, really, but this is a big deal for other people.
Since about two years I try to learn as much as possible about how to be a salesman. Some of my insights so far:

Try to watch how successful sales-people work. You will get so much fun out of this, after reading some books and spotting their tricks.

Selling is not about logic. It is about feelings.

Do not tell, but ask. Questions are nice to produce images in other peoples head, without being to obvious. 'Where would you place your new $Item?' Implies that the other is already owning the product.

Listen very careful to the answers.

There is some buzz around NLP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming). As far as I know there is no scientific evidence behind it. In my non scientific experiments, some techniques seemed to work great. But the success could be a result of me focusing more on the other person in general. And I see this as a key to a good sale.

One of my clients is a very successful salesman. Asked about his best advice he told me:
'Expensive shoes. -pause- You will have to walk in them for many miles.'
Information Integration Theory of Consciousness
Interesting little theory. I disagree with it, but I want to know what others think of it.
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It's Almost Here: Exclusive Video Of Lala's Upcoming iPhone App
I've just been playing with it. It's extremely cool.

Definitely recommended if you have any interest in games development.
Very good introductory overview of HTML 5, including workarounds for IE.
Assuming your bicycle is properly maintained, it will not be dirty, greasy, or have pointy bits. Daily lubrication of the chain prevents it from becoming dirty, and a chainguard (or even better, a chaincase) prevents most things from touching it anyway. After that, no exposed part should be greasy or dirty.

I share my apartment with three bikes, and they are as clean as anything else in the house.
It blocks Opera... then tells you how to get around it. Why not permit it in the first place?

Well, it doesn't work perfectly with Opera. I was unable to drag the signs past the no-entry sign - when dragged, they only showed up at the top of the window as I dragged the mouse down towards the taskbar.

Wouldn't it be better to redirect it to a page that says, "Your browser may not support this app. Click here to try it anyways"?
It's the new domain squatting (kinda). Content producers are laying claim to keywords/searches that are under served but provide questionable value to those that they seek to reach.

Maybe eHow articles could serve as a flag to better content producers that moderately valuable yet under served "real estate" exists in a space. They might then claim some of that revenue by targeting the topic and providing higher quality content.
> the GFW slows access to everything outside of it down

Just FYI: the GFW works in parallel, all backbone cross nation data are copied to GFW equipments, and GFW actively injects RST packets into backbone transmissions. I don't see how this slows the Internet down. It's just the total bandwidth is too small. There has to be more cross-pacific fiber optics.
Just make sure they're functional. Nothing is nicer than a properly-used "staple":

http://trimet.org/images/portlandmall/bike_staple.jpg

It may not be a work of art, but it is very effective. (The only problem is that many cyclists don't seem to know how to use them correctly. You lean your bike against the long part!)
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> I think Chinese people will just relate better to homegrown stuff.

Under proper localization foreign brand can dominate the market as well. Like P&G.

Localizations is not as simple as just hiring some guy translate the UI language. But that's what most Web companies are doing.
> Many of these phones that are being sold are the official, "Google branded" version.

This is support for my post--they are pushing the experience that provides the best access to their services.

> They make more money if you are using an Android device

Provide a source for what you are claiming as fact.

> Google Voice is getting investigated by the FTC.

Again, source needed. The FTC investigated the interlocking boards of Apple and Google, but that had nothing to do with Google Voice--it had to do with people serving on both boards.

The FCC is questioning Google about Voice blocking certain numbers, but that has nothing to do with Android or anti-trust issues. The FCC also sent letters asking about the Google Voice rejection on the iPhone, but, again, it had nothing to do with Android or anti-trust concerns on Google's behalf.
Twenty years ago, I seriously planned to set up an endowed trust to educate mid-western young people about the advantages of moving to the coastal cities of the US, along with some modest financial aid to move. Since then I have dropped that plan, because the Internet now provides all the information needed to convince mid-western young people to move as soon as they can.
The lock screen shown in that video is a "slide-to-unlock" thing.
Finally, semantic links for the girl i'm crushing on. what took so long?
The implications of this article are depressing. While I usually keep a tiny violin handy for when I run across writers bemoaning the death of journalism, the bleakness of an Internet full of crappy howto videos busted out for $20 a pop has gotten to me. We already have far too much slapdash, zero effort link-baiting blog drivel. But the worst part is the Orwellian (or perhaps Huxley-ian?) idea of all those people being driven to satisfy the demands of an algorithm on tiny margins, because it makes me feel somewhat culpable as a web programmer with an interest in statistics.

But then I observed that I was reading a more than 3000 word article, one which includes several interviews (with at least one on-site). And I wondered: is Wired itself a dinosaur? It's still apparently paying for pretty high journalistic standards. I imagine this article would have taken at least a few days to file, and presumably cost thousands of dollars. Why hasn't Wired figured out that the way to make money in online Journalism is to rip out dozens of 100 word articles per writer per day, consisting of facts plagiarized from others, with a few pithy statements and a linkbait title?

It's like Wired is some nostalgic holdover from the heady days of the print magazine, when they had people like Gibson and Stevenson writing grandiose, timeless (if a bit naive) articles on the coming digital wonderland. It made me want to search into Wired's archive and re-read Mother Earth Motherboard for the umpteenth time -- perhaps before Wired folds like the other dinosaurs and takes its archive with it. But then it occurred to me: the fact that I could, on a whim, pull up an article that was published in an ephemeral magazine more than a decade ago is itself a result of the Internet.

When that article was originally published, Wired's entire opportunity to make back the commission it paid was the shelf life of the issue in which it was printed. After that it would have spent perhaps a few years in library periodical departments, and would have eventually ended up on microfilm in archives, available to those who know the issue and volume number. I would have only been able to access their back catalog with great effort, and their ability to make money off of my doing so would have been nonexistent.

But now Wired's entire catalog is available online -- years and years of articles. And they all have fresh, revenue yielding advertisements around them. I think about how much time I've spent in Wired's archives. Just a few weeks ago I read a huge article about Project Xanadu that made the rounds. If you look at the link-broker sites like news.ycombinator, there is a good deal of blogspam -- no doubt -- but just yesterday there was a Dijkstra essay from the 1980s. It makes me think that perhaps there is a market for quality on the Internet. It's just hidden, because the quality isn't rewarded upfront by the initial wave of attention, but by the slow, slow trickle of back-issue readership -- still producing impressions on articles written and paid for many years ago.
The clarity of the design and writing style of this page drew me right in. It is incredibly refreshing to see just the content on the page and no sidebars, topbars, ads, etc. It feels more like curling up with a book than surfing the web!

And, of course, the content is awesome. Thanks for posting this, SlyShy!
Hmm. I saw it as a sign of adulthood (fully understanding another's situation), which is required to truly have character (how can you make a truly moral choice if you don't fully understand the situation), which is required for real leadership.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, though.
That's not in-depth, that's a "brief overview".

Also, it has a compass.
> The first widely-adapted webgame invented in China (www.mop.com), the company behind renren.com(largest facebook.com copycat in China).

mop.com was the most popular personal website in 2003-2005 then it was aquired by Oak Pacific Interactive. Then mop goes down fail ever since. Oak Pacific Interactive also aquired XiaoNei from WangXing. WangXing operates FanFou, a twitter copycat.
I personally found the part of the article about Abel summation[1] much more enlightening. It really seems to indicate why 1 - 2 + 3 ... = 1/4 instead of just showing that 1/4 arises if you look at the sums a certain way.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_−_2_%2B_3_−_4_%2B_·_·_·#Abel_...
I alway prefer this type of approach for solving problems. Even when formal proofs are required, I usually get the answer in this way and then reverse engineer the proof.

Another example (the sum of 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16...): http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/79/26979-004-CF3F...
I agree. Something I might throw in for the reader is an article like: http://immike.net/blog/2008/02/06/xhtml-2-vs-html-5/
(I have no idea on how credible that is; however, it seems to give some interesting information on the matter)

so he or she understands more about the different "html"s so to speak. (But then again, this is ycombinator....)
I could see this as a "Law & Order" plot. They have done a few other stories involving social-networking sites.
Do you guys in the US really have to pay $150/month for an iPhone? Here in Aus, a 32Gb iPhone is free on an unlimited (data is 2GB) everything plan, including SMS, MMS and tethering, for just a bit over US$100/month
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"If your first version is so impressive that trolls don't make fun of it, you waited too long to launch."

Methinks revision 2.0 of the Mark Your Friend Dead button is right around the corner. ;)
With apologies to Alfred North Whitehead, perhaps it should be: Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without paying for them.
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Launch of Makers, Cory Doctorow's novel on Hardware Hackers.
I told a bunch of journalism friends about this over beers tonight. A few of them were really depressed by this.

One of them is actually on the margins of it. He just started writing for an AOL site and said that this is the direction they're going to start going with for their weblogs inc. sites. He gets a list of topics culled from Google Zietgeist and other sources that his editor wants him to write short posts about for $50/pop. They don't really care what he writes so long as they have content available on the topics that people are searching for right now.

This is the world that's been built.
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flickchart.com must have a lot of data on that. It would be interesting to see some social network or dating service arise out of that. Lots of potential, and more practical than time-filler sites like hot-or-not (which flickchart kind of is right now).
Machine-generated sports stories via Northwestern's CS department: http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/innovation/page.aspx?id=1...
Agreed, 100%. Google is basically saying: "We'd love to get this software on as many devices as we can but Apple has their stuff locked down and won't let us develop how we want to so go talk to them about it."
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What this reviewer, and most commenters on rural depopulation, seem to miss is that there is no inherent virtue in "small town" America. Small towns have existed, historically, either as jumping-off points for pioneer exploration or as local hubs for farmers and their goods. I think it's safe to say that the pioneer exploration of America is a done deal, and factory farms (and even family farms) have shown that advances in technology can make even farming efficient to the point that local hubs are no longer needed.

The average New Yorker has such a significantly smaller impact on the environment than the average small town resident, that I really can't think of a good reason for small towns to exist any longer. The sooner we all move toward urban settlement and leave the rural areas to efficient farming, weekend trips, and mother nature, the better!
From Stewart Brand's "Cities & Time" lecture:

http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/apr/08/cities-and-time/

Vast new urban communities is the main event in the world for the present and coming decades. The villages and countrysides of the entire world are emptying out. Why? I was told by Kavita Ramdas, head of the Global Fund for Women, “In the village, all there is for a woman is to obey her husband and family elder, pound grain, and sing. If she moves to town, she can get a job, start a business, and get education for her children. Her independence goes up, and her religious fundamentalism goes down.”

So much for the romanticism of villages. In reality, life in the country is dull, backbreaking, impoverished, restricted, exposed, and dangerous. Life in the city is exciting, less grueling, better paid, free, private, and safe.

Brand's lecture, in some versions, includes a photomontage of deserted country towns from all over the world. In every country, in every culture, rural residents are leaving for the city. Unless people need a lot of land to grow the food they need to survive, they have no incentive to stay on the land.
I find it more helpful to note that

1/(1 + x)^2 = 1 - 2x + 3x^2 - 4x^3 + ...

for |x| < 1 and then to extend the summation to other values of x.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_series
I have Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32 installed in Chrome on this box, and USATODAY.com is telling me "To view this presentation, you need to install the Flash plug-in". Must be checking for Windows.
This is exactly how you identify chemical compounds using X-Ray Crystallography. You shine x-rays of different frequencies onto a compound, measure the magnitude of the reflections, noting down the 3 highest peaks.

Then, you look up those peaks in a book, which has compounds ordered by the wavelength of the highest peak.

It takes minutes to do it by hand, I'm not surprised computers can do it better.
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Haven't read it yet,but I just downloaded the TXT version (which I always do). I am a not-so-long time fan of cory(2 years). I have read all of his novels (someone comes to town someone leaves town). Was attracted to his writings through his podcasts. I love the open touch he adds to his writings by launching them with a creative commons licenses on the same day as the launch of the paper version. He is a revolutionary, and proves that being open is profitable.
Wolfram Alpha has made even simpler, and (more correct proof)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+-+2+%2B+3+-+4+%2B+5+-....
> This, Reese says, is the ultimate promise of his algorithm: “You can take something that is thought of as a creative process and turn it into a manufacturing process.”

That scares the shit out of me.
I'm sorry, but I agree with almost everything in this post. Not to start a platform war or anything, but Drupal seems like the best CMS in the world until you figure out that you can do it all in half the time using Wordpress.
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It's crap. Just take a look at eHow.com and judge for yourself.
Paying someone a minimal amount to write about something for which they have no in-depth knowledge (i.e. they only scraped it from other online sources) is probably not much different from just having an algorithm write an article. In fact, an algorithm might do a better job.
Agree - the illustrations (all public domain, apparently) and typography really help with that as well. Made me laugh out loud in a few places as well.
Actually, it's $171 after taxes. I'm staring at my AT&T statement right now! I think costs will come down soon though- T-Mobile and Sprint are really lowering the hammer on prices.
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It diverges under the ordinary definitions of infinite series, but one can generalize the notion of summation a little bit to allow for certain divergent series to have finite sums.
Well, I've been to Japan, Kuwait, France, Turkey, Mexico, Canada, and all over the US, and don't consider myself especially well traveled. (I recently bumped into someone I knew in high school; turned out that he had hitchhiked the length of Africa.) Someone who had never left their hometown of 2,000 would have a hard time convincing me they have a better insight into the human condition than I did. Wouldn't be impossible, but...

Now if they want to move back, after kicking around the world for a few years, more power to them.
A good hack is indistinguishable from magic. (Yes I know that the original quote is "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic")
Ask HN: How early (or late) did you submit your YC W10 application?
I believe ours was the last (hopefully not the least) submitted application at around 9:59pm PST. I clicked the mouse so hard my index finger still hurts! And of course, there was a last minute snafu with the connection, ffmpeg acted up, we had to do retakes, etc. so our video did not make it in time. When did you submit your application?
use a attach the mcu to a bluetooth module and when the candy becomes low, send an alert over bluetooth to your smart phone/computer!!! Wonder if i can buy the parts in time...
Yes the GFW is regional - i.e. there's more than one filter across the country. But the GFW actively monitors and blocks on content. This filtering and inspection takes finite time and hence slows everything down.

There is plenty of bandwidth. Accessing the same sites from Hong Kong is orders of magnitude faster. And BTW less prone to random errors introduced by clueless monopoly operators.
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The money has to come from somewhere. In the case of Google search it is still you, just by the circuitous route of via the companies that buy advertising, who in turn you buy their products and services (the difference between this and a conventional business is that Google works for said companies, not for you, and that's not necessarily a good thing).

TANSTAAFL.
If I have to use a word processor, then I use Pages for OS X. The full screen mode is nice, and it seems more responsive that OO or Office.

IMO, best is LaTex, but some collaborators, publishers, and customers don't like it. The advantage of LaTex is that you can spend more time writing and less time worrying about styling and formatting.
Wolfram Alpha continues to impress me.
IPhone Is Still Not The World's Top Smartphone
Or http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/hlvm-has-been-rel...
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Very good point. Let's split the difference; Google has made something significantly cheaper than it was before, (which is a good thing), and moved it to an advertising model, (which is a mixed blessing).
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Wow. Since when is technology ever cheaper in Australia.

Just to re-iterate:
Upfront: $0.
Monthly: $99 (Unlimited Voice, SMS, MMS, 1.5GB Data, Tethering)

In US Dollars (even with the $AUD being high at the moment) that's about $89 / month with nothing upfront.
Well, there goes a day of work.

Seriously though, I've become a huge Doctorow fan. When I first got my Kindle, I didn't have an internet connection at my house for a week or so and decided to grab Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom to give it a shot. I immediately fell in love and over the next week, I read everything available on his site. I'll be reading this over the next day or so, and I'll almost definitely be picking up a dead tree copy for the bookshelf soon after. I can't recommend his work enough, and I'm certain this will be on the same level.
It has now decided to work and not tell me I need flash. Not sure why pointing out that a link is bad is worth a downvote.