skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Central Limit Theorem... that's a good one. Come to think of it, I felt enlightened by it even despite a teacher who wanted to be an actuary but had to teach AP Stat instead because she couldn't pass her actuarial exam, in addition to all the usual horrors bemoaned in the Lockhart essay that was posted the other day. I suppose that suggests that under more organic learning conditions, it would have been quite exciting.
yeah that's definitely gameable but i think there's some merit in your thoughts -- it certainly follows a better outline of what a meme is all about.
Query anything with SQLight - virtual tables make powerful features
well do you expect them to market themselves as being outright insecure? =)

MSFT has been calling their operating systems secure for decades.
email ijustine :)
Mono (.NET Framework) runs on the iPhone
there's several ways to skin a cat my friend.
you didn't have to drag us in with you T_T thanks to you i'll be also reading that list along with all the ones that everyone posted here XD
What did I do wrong, specifically? What should I change, specifically?

Are you saying maybe he took away voting because I wrote annoying comments?
I'll second that Fourier transform. The idea that you could represent basically a list of numbers with a sum of sines, or any other orthonormal set is mindblowing to me. Nothing in math has blown my mind as much as functional analysis.
* Q-BASIC, when I was in kindergarten.

* Lisp, then all over again with Haskell.

* Anarchocapitalism.

* The proof of Turing's undecidability theorem.

* Positivism (even though I'm a Platonist).

* How compilers work.

* RSA.
Love Zeno's paradoxes. And apparently they aren't fully resolved today -- is the universe quantized? Is spacetime really continuous, or is that an unrealistic mathematical abstraction?
I use Joyent, and I'm happy with them. Fast connection, great support, sufficient documentation. But, it's somewhat more expensive than other options if you just look at the technical specs.
On this tangent. I think that the moment I realized that nobody thinks as complicated as we think they do. Basically it boiled down to this thought, "If that girl came up to me right now, how would I feel?" "I'd feel great thats what!". And then I get up the balls to go and talk to her. The idea of putting myself in other's shoes really changed my attitude on a lot of things.
Democracy or mob-intelligence
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I don't use a virtual host, but I can highly recommend webfaction especially for Python based applications.
Basically anything by Greg Egan, particularly Permutation City.

Also nanotechnology, the singularity, and friendly AI, in order of learning about them.
that's like amie.st, where you get cash for recommending cheap songs.
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double entry accounting. -- from Shibumi , bestseller by Trevanian
Do you think Arrington values the community here more than the community reading TC, his own community? Adding value for his readers should be his first priority.
IBM/ISS X-Force 2007 Stats.  This ain't gettin' better soon.
How much weight does this actually carry for the YC readers?
I thought I heard somewhere that your vote gets more "powerful" if you were one of the early voters on a story that garnishes a significant number of votes. Was I mistaken?
Joyent is solid. We've worked with them for several years (we build the control panel they use), and they're among the smartest in the business, technically speaking. I think the price is quite nice on their Accelerators, particularly those for Facebook apps (which are free for a year). $45/mo for root-equivalent access and 512MB of memory is a very nice price. Their shared hosting accounts are in the middle of the low-to-high price continuum, but their support is very well-regarded, and they actually know how to host framework-based apps (Rails and PHP has been their focus, but I believe they accommodate Python frameworks, as well).

Another customer of ours, GridZones, also offers Solaris Zones accounts similar to Joyent's Accelerators, for a few bucks cheaper.

We've got a dedicated box with the Planet and one with Layered Tech, and both have been reliable and cheap--the Planet I've used for about five years, and Layered Tech only this year. Both seem to have competent support and reliable networks.
That a single photon can pass through two slits at once, and interfere with itself.
I took a look at the schedule of events, but that didn't really tell me what outerzone is. Is it some kind of hackerfest or what, exactly?
The naive implementation would create an incentive to go to the "new" page and indiscriminately upvote everything.
I thought Twitter was this year's Meebo...

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/meebo.com+twitter.com/?metr...
FWIW, you can log into Erlang's Yaws.
Seems like it would be cheaper and easier to just hire people of local nationality to the callers instead of trying to create a computerized system to make cultural and psychological inferences based on key words which are then fed to foreign phone support personnel.
As a sometimes .NET developer that works in handheld devices, I think that this means that my bosses should get me an iPhone. True, we work for the manufacturing and utility industries and they'll never use the iPhone as a platform, but you know, I should still get one. For, uh, cross platform testing purposes and, er, other . . . job-related . . . .things.
Sounds like a karma singularity.
@TheTarqin: The problem with these sites is, that they all "were" great places to go. But as soon as the userbase grew, they went downhill...
It's not so much about being elitist, than being afraid of things, we have experienced already at other places.
Daylight savings is a feel-good scam and always has been. Congress gets to look good by being "green" at the cost (to them) of zero dollars. Of course the rest of us have to pay for the tampering - last year's change personally cost me at least a thousand dollars because I spent time updating and checking servers and libraries instead of doing something useful.
Yes it can, potentially.
We have discovered we are creative too.
I'd suggest finding and hiring a lawyer who has done M&A before, since he/she can aid in negotiating your valuation.
Fark isn't in the same ballpark as reddit and digg. The only users that get to vote on stories are the core users who have ponied up $50/year for a totalfark membership and I believe only the admins can put a story on the front page. All the filtering is done by the core group who has incentives to keep the links on topic (if fark can be said to have a topic).

/farker but not a tf'er
I agree with huhtenberg. The number of people who left quietly is much more than that of people who give you feedback when you don't have the minimal feature set.
Ask HN: how to be a VC?
What are the keys for being a VC?

What do I need to take care of legally? How do I handle marketing? How much money do I need? Major gotchas?

I'd be funding friends, but I don't have a lot of time myself.
no need to take such measures. just disallow folks from submitting articles and voting under a certain karma level. they need to earn the right to participate based on making worthwhile comments.

We can automatically remove any user with a karma level too low (-20?). So new users have a choice: make good comments and participate in the discussion, or start get banned relatively quickly for making digg/reddit level comments.
Serveraxis, another Xen host, for me.
Because we have almost no editors, we police ourselves and if the community grows too rapidly it can lose focus, if tomorrow we'll be featured on Oprah this site will lose everything I love about it.

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Or in simpler words "The unwashed masses are upon us"
Worrying like this is a sign of lameness that you should fear. I'm all for community. But the whining I've seen on sites like reddit and digg is a huge turnoff.
The solution is to have a karma cost for voting on a submission/comment that isn't upvoted enough (for example doesn't make the 40th percentile) or to finally add downmod for submissions and make you pay for supporting something the community rejects.
Hope you'll actually commit the change to the codebase so that the problem doesn't resurface on server restart like it happened once...
I think they have a name for those... wait for it... they're called users
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i don't understand how a 12" is more portable than a 15". my bag fits them both the same, so they are equally portable. to me, there are three levels of portability: pocket, bag, and luggable. anything from an eee to a 17" fits in the bag category.
If Twine is for organising your information, Imindi is for expanding your mind!
It sounds like you don't want to be a VC, you want to be an angel. I'd suggest you look at an angel network in your location and go talk to them about what you are thinking of doing.
No, that's silly.

If you don't want HN to suck then do two things: vote up good stories on the New page, vote down stupid comments.
I think the old bellwether award on Reddit somehow fed into the recommendation system. I'm pretty sure that stuff isn't turned on here yet though.
The Uncanny Valley
music distribution without industry or commercialism
If you guys like Munger, pick up his book, "Poor charlie's almanac"
Imindi can help individuals and groups to collect their ideas around subjects of interest and to links notes and resources to these ideas.
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Assuming you want to be a VC:

1. set up a limited partnership (LP)--you'll need a good lawyer for this
2. word of mouth is how the business operates for the most part, but you could gain some exposure by hosting/judging at business plan competitions (e.g. Stanford's BASES Social E-Challenge, which is coming up--they're still looking for judges I think and I know the guy in charge, so let me know if you want to be put in touch)
3. Money needed = (# of boards you want to/can reasonably sit on * average amount of money you want to invest in a startup) + miscellaneous -- most VCs make 1-3 new investments per year in the $1-$10M range, so you would probably need about $30-$50M to have a reputable fund
4. major gotchas: VC investing isn't all about the money, it's really a people business. they spend 70% of their time talking to people, most people that can help their portfolio companies

like jgrahamc said, if you don't have a lot of time, you probably shouldn't be a VC, look into angel investing. if you're really serious about it, try to get in touch with Ron Conway or Mike Maples, they're two of the best known angels in the Valley.
Y Combinator is a...

-- Startapult?

-- Startup-apult?

-- Startup-buchet?

-- Startupifier?
another vote for slicehost.

it's run by developers in response to their own frustrations with other hosting companies. full root access to the VM, flexible pricing/options, super-reliable.

we've been using them for about 3 months for staging and some back-end admin tasks, and so far it's been brilliant.
> My suggestion is that Karma could be incremented based on some fraction of the number of upmods that occur on an article you upmodded after you did so.

Yes, I'm working with a similar scheme on my site. This rewards people for predicting what will be popular and provides a big incentive to check out the new content.

The basic system is something like a stock market (that's how I initially visualized it). It costs zero to vote on something but if it goes negative then you lose points, positive then you gain. Like "icky" says here, this approach would have some vulnerabilities here since content is rarely voted down (which is good.)

Ultimately, the closer the karma number correlates with how useful the user is being, the more benefit the community will receive through some properties of game mechanics. Right now, that correlation isn't very high.
or Seaside:
http://www.seaside.st/documentation/tools
We've used SliceHost for over a year now. We tried one of the free Joyent Accelerators a couple of months back but whole experience for us wasn't as good as with SliceHost. Their kind of hosting is worth paying for.
CNET is pretty...short on cash right now.
Are you coding live on the server? Or do you have a test platform that you work on first, and then past working code to the repl on the webserver?
Just make the points awarded the average number of points per 100 items gained through tel's system. Better?

I'd still have trouble seeing a good way to combine commenting, submitting, and voting ability scores into one number though. I might leave them as separate scores.

The current system is just as vulnerable to robots that submit everything from good rss feeds.
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Those variables are occasionally meaningful. Stripping them all off indiscriminantly would break some links.
Mine: People cannot completely disagree: or, we will always agree about at least one fact.

Proof:
Let's say we do not agree about anything. After thoroughly exploring our belief space and noticing this, we will have to agree that we do not agree on anything. So there you have it, a common belief.

BTW, I am looking for prior art on this one. Any philosophy students around? I think it is related to Russel's Paradox. Any help in elucidating this would be apreciated. Hey, we could co-author the publication :-P
Instead of dropping or merging the article, put a list (or link to a list) of "previous postings" somewhere very prominently on the page.
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Being smart and working hard only mildly correlates with success.
ahem i think you mean Heisenberg's blog - Shcrodinger's blog would be all blogs at the same time until you actually tried to read it - then the blog wave function (a blavtion if you will) would collapse thus revealing the true observed blog. which will almost certainly be a LOL cat. it may be alive or dead - it's mileage has varied.
This guy works at Google as one of the Android "developer advocates".
So don't strip them indiscriminately, have the HN site compare submitted pages it gets by dropping them one by one to the original link, only maintain those that actually affect the resulting page.
The man who owns the Internet
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"... everything in your body is composed of left over bits of exploded stars ..."

Sort of.

It is Iron with Atomic #26, the 6th most commonly abundant element, that in massive stars where stellar nucleosynthesis occurs is the point where the energy generated through fusion. The binding energy to add a neutron or proton, releases energy. After Iron (Fe56) the binding energy required to add a neutron or proton requires extra energy and can result in a collapse with heavier than Iron elements being generated in a super nova.

While stars up to our sun convert H->He and heavier elements it is Carbon, Nitrogen & Oxygen cycle (especially Carbon) that allows larger stars to create energy and finally the advanced fusion stages required for elements up to Iron. So you could probably argue that the existence of Carbon in humans is the just as significant.

Elements heavier than Iron requires explosive nucleosynthesis or a super nova to be created. These elements have unstable half lives. Hence the importance of Iron. [0]

[0] I've butchered a lot of physics here. Feel free to pick me up on the finer points.
lol, no sense of humour I guess
Carl Sagan's Cosmos - Star Stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE9dEAx5Sgw
I suppose I can understand that, but I wonder if a better response might be of the "welcome, new users: here's how this site is different then you're used to" variety.

I understand that News.YC is pretty awesome. It's a fairly small, high-signal community, and I greatly appreciate that. I just don't understand this Digg-o-phobia. Perhaps it's just that I haven't witnessed the transformation you mentioned in other sites. Hacker News is really the first such website that has grabbed my interest.

Anyway, here's hoping it stays as interesting, vibrant, and high S/N ration as is now.
Leading to one of my co-worker's favourite jokes,
Q: What's an anagram of "Banach-Tarski"
A: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski"
HN is one of the very best sites on the web. In fact, it's probably one of the best sites the web has ever had, at least for the tech/startup group. I have confidence that the right people will find it and the others will be bored and go away. It's actually kind of boring for flame wars. But great for news and ideas.
I didn't recognise the site at first. This is Miguel de Icaza (creator of Gnome) personal site. Now the big question. Can GTK+ be added? ~ http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/
Interesting... didn't they sell out at first?
For sure on the Circle of Fifths, and the whole "music theory is stacks of thirds, fourths, or fifths all the way down" thing is pretty neat.

But what blew my mind even more in music is that our 12 tone even-tempered scale is arbitrary and only firmed up a few hundred years ago. Everything before that (and for many years after, and in many non-western musical cultures) was written assuming just intonation. Modern electronic instruments have brought just intonation (and all sorts of weird stuff) back into reasonable usage.
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The Fermi paradox - "where are they?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

After all, besides the importance to us, the earth is still a rather small dot in this universe and I really like to know what's happening out there. I have some hope that we can answer that paradox some day and maybe we will even get the first hints to that within my lifetime.
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Ugh.

That is all.
The video in the middle of the article was good. But it didnt work in IE 6, used firefox instead.
Pace of Change Too Slow to Keep Entrepreneurs in France
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The guidelines actually read like a bunch of common sense. The fact that people find it insightful means that it is easy to forget common senses like "being civil." That civility has to be spelled out as a guideline in a site for an educated audience is rather unfortunate.
It depends whether you're counting law school, business school, medical school, pharmacy school, nursing school, etc. as grad school. Among Hackers grad school is far more likely to be of the type "studying fractal patterns in African architecture while teaching two sections of introductory socio-cultural anthropology" Generally you pay through the nose for the first kind and they pay you (a little) to do the second kind.

It's amazing how few people know that if your PhD doesn't cost -$12,000 a year or less you really are not doing something right.
Two separate concerns, both valid.
There should be a better way to prevent reposts
If you ask me, that was a pretty expensive bug...
Former chief scientist claims Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales traded Wiki edits for donations
Wayward Medical Records sold as scrap paper for $20
Quite a few websites covering India-based startups:

http://www.pluggd.in

http://startups.in

http://www.indianweb2.com

http://www.startupdunia.com
Slicehost!
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Mine too! It's also the inspiration for my favorite math joke:
Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered...Wait, nevermind, they're gone!
I launched a start-up two months ago, and I can't agree more with Paul: it has become ridiculously inexpensive to do so.
I considered chasing some VC funding, but then realized that all I need is a good idea and some time to focus on it; the VC's wouldn't have helped me with either one. As a matter of fact, even owning your own computing resources is unnecessary: check-out Amazon's cloud computing web services (our bill: <$100 / mth)!
Any site like this is designed so that upvoted content is seen by a much larger number of people than down voted content (which is, after all, pretty much the point). So you're going to get a lot more upvotes than downvotes, making rampant upvoting still strategically sound. You could weight negative positions more than positive ones, or you could also have a buy in cost. Buy in cost does provide a disincentive to voting which probably isn't desirable.
Feels like using AutoCAD to me.
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Any chance you could fix a bug in the header handling as well? It's not accepting "Content-length" headers (lower case l) which is perfectly acceptable HTTP and happens to be what w3m produces. Means I can't post comments from w3m.
my thoughts exactly
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Okay, true, but I'll stand by a "nearly everything" since a very large subset of organic molecules are composed entirely of atoms lighter than Fe. We're probably safe to say that only small parts of your body require more exotic cosmological phenomena for their base material.
I see this as being a pretty good way of doing this, too. Uncertain stories, stories with little Karma, are riskier business and are therefore more expensive to support, but if they're good stories the payoff can be lucrative when large parts of the community agree.
Great article. This is 100% how I feel about France and why I plan to leave it.
Anonymous peer review can be a bitch. Most people hate it when they're told that they're wrong. I imagine Einstein who always got the free pass would not take it too well.
Amie.st sort of does this. So does thesixtyone.

Basically, award original motion and value increasing actions by Karma. (Also, as some other comments mention, there should be some risk — cost — involved in taking those actions)
Isn't that more specifically a shortage of really good programmers who will work mainly for equity? That might always be a problem. I think programming is an activity that tends to make people risk-averse.
And a playstation 3. Topographical network load testing.
'fer me ?
Disincentives to voting give more abstract value to an upmod. Right now the only thing that gives an upmod value is that you can only upmod a story once.

Without some sort of constraint the only thing keeping people from upmodding continuously and rampantly is... RSI!
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I think they are still listening to our internets and getting confused as to why we have a global network which seems to exist (at least 60% exist) so we can offer ourselves genital enlargements.

And perhaps wonder why we have "heating stations" all over the planet, when we really have a lack of energy.
OK, maybe not exactly an intern, but wasn't it some guy who would work for $.00?
We're still talking about a single upvote per article. Its just that if you upvote every new article you'd end up ahead of the game whilst adding nothing of value.
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I posted 3 suggestions yesterday that went unoticed : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133618

The 3rd one concerns the karma system : makes a quota of free comments each day then the additionnal ones cost some karma to post. Sometimes your silence has a greater value than a new comment.
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We shouldn't write base on karma, we should write because we have something valuable to say.