skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is going to work. First, ProductHunt and HN are both basically fine as is. Second, the root cause of any issues that both have is basically the same -- almost no one reads or votes on stories from the new page, and the handful that do have all sorts of biases. The reason these communities are able to function despite this is that they have a combination of paid staff and trusted volunteers.

Third, the only way to significantly improve upon these sorts of communities would be to build them on the block chain. But the technology to do that doesn't yet exist.
I was rejected for grad school after submitting half-hearted applications and now work as a fullstack Haskell developer. I didn't even know I would find it as satisfying as research.
Cool website! But your scroll is super messed up. On my macbook scrolling up and down has no effect, but pinch and depinch with scroll the page.
Great initiative. I signed up. Producthunt is now forever flawed. Hopefully we can build a more open community together.
A former Linode employee, actually (why did you edit out the ad hominem accusing me of working for Amazon?), but my employment is irrelevant to pointing out that over subscription means you are not actually getting what you pay for. If everybody used it you wouldn't have it any more. It's not yours. You are deciding entirely on perceived instead of actual value.

And yes, AWS's CPU over subscription on these instances is important if your workload is CPU intensive. They're very quickly outgrown due to that but useful in a pinch.
Totally unrelated to this post, but THANK YOU for Userify. I don't know how you guys are making any money yet (or how you plan to), but you make my life so much effing easier!
When the CPU clock speed increases 3-5x in 3 years, upgrading storage or memory is not going to cover that gap. If I recall, my upgrade cycle was something like 1994: 40MHz 486, 1997: 200MHz Pentium, 2001?: 1.xGHz?
I feel the point of PH is not to create a real business in the sense of earning money by selling you a product or service, but rather to establish personal brand equity and influencing power of the management team.

This can be useful for future projects (such as finding funding), to increase their standing in the SV community, and to establish themselves as marquee valley power brokers.

In this sense, it doesn't make much sense to add more transparency and voting control to ordinary users.

This is pure speculation and assumes the worst. So take this with a grain of salt.
Really? I think the Reddit model works pretty well. It's based on (as far we know) organic upvotes from users. It's also engineered so it makes it very difficult to game with upvote brigades and such.
As the person who started the Product Hunt beatdown last thread, and would like nothing more than to see a good PH competitor, I regrettably have a few issues with this.

1. The hypothetical example you give about the Financial Times writing favorable stories for investors is an example of conflict of interest, which is a different issue than the elitist exclusivity discussed last thread. (And much more gray)

2. As noted in the previous thread, both Reddit and Hacker News are transparent in terms of submission moderation, which is what is being proposed here. (Albeit less modern)

3. Having an anonymous account post this Google Doc does not build trust in that you could build a competitor. There is more to building a link aggregator ranking system than following a Rails tutorial.

4. Having random people come together to build an idea just because they can doesn't work well. That's why Idea Sundays stopped on HN.

My dream startup would be an optimized link aggregator; the use of upvotes as a statistic for quality is why I spent so much time doing data analysis on Reddit and HN data. But this isn't the way to build a competitor.
so sad that for anyone else wishing for an alternative, has to just 'work harder' somewhere else 'where you will be appreciated' by 'others like you' whether the distinction is race or class. But do 100% agree there are such places like that out there where one is valued on experience + credentials, not only background. I guess the much discussed diversity topic around SV was just like a Summer hit song, cool for a few months, forgotten later.

Alrighty then. Gotta go & work harder :-)
Have you been to the eastern part of Michigan? The Detroit suburbs like Birmingham, West Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, etc. are absurdly affluent. Not to mention that places like Ann Arbor, and even Royal Oak and Dearborn Heights are doing fairly well. I'd attribute it to suburban flight more than an East/West divide.

Source: lived in Michigan 22 years
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Of course I have, and in many cases, I prefer the You-Scan.

This is just an application of the general principal that if the most valuable skills you can bring to a job are trivially replaced by an inexpensive self-service kiosk, you have terrible wage prospects. I don't see any reasonable way around that.

Raise the minimum wage and you'll see a lot more robots and kiosks.
The Northeast Megalopolis
Agreed. Anyone who says there is an East/West divide in Michigan... never actually lived in Michigan.
I really don't think any of those were silent takeovers.
Oh, I do remember that, and I was a client at the time and that's why I switched to Digital Ocean.

I was wondering about technical limitations.
Noted. Yeah, my MBA is over a decade old and not an Ivy one.

Guess the Diversity applies as long as you come from a few key schools & employers. It is as it always has been.
As far as I can tell, you cannot eval arbitrary expressions. I used to use it like a REPL back then. That's what I would miss now with source map
To answer your question, 100mbit isn't much these days. This article says you can get transit at $0.63/mbit. http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H...

Explain why despite wholesale internet prices collapsing, AWS continues to charge the same with virtually no yoy decline? Azure et al also do this fwiw. It's just gouging.
Indeed. I also didn't much like the comparison to the .kkrieger demo saying it was "only" 24KB more. Sure the raw exe is but it still needs GB of memory and a crazy fast CPU to do all the content generation at runtime.

He also used inconsistent mb/MB, etc. which always gets on my nerves in a technical post but now I am just being an asshole at it is 2am here ;)
>"Perhaps when you say in the first post "give people placebo", you mean "give the placebo to some subset of the individuals leaving the remainder untreated"?"

I meant just placebo. I am using predictive skill of the theory behind the explanations to distinguish between them, this is common in physics/astronomy/etc. As noted by asherer, placebo effect has been studied for a long time in the manner of seeing how two groups differ. There is nothing wrong with RCTs, but does near sole reliance on them (and their observational analogue) appear to have lead to cumulative knowledge and growth of understanding?
I'm actually contemplating moving out of AWS to DO. I signed up for a 1-year m3.medium reserved instance with AWS (Singapore region) sometime in May when the reserved instance cost was ~$50/month (it's now $35/month but I'm stuck with their old rate).

This doesn't include bandwidth and IO requests.

I might understand charging separately for bandwidth, but IO requests? I end up making between 75M to 95M IO requests, and it adds a good $8 or so to my bill. Plus, there's EBS which for 60GB (not SSD!) adds another $6.

So all in all, for ~$65 I'm getting a single core, 3.75GB RAM, 60GB storage, and am stuck with their old pricing for a year, whereas with DO for $40 I can get 2 cores, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD and no "IO request" costs!

It's DO as soon as my 1-year is done.
We already have one: Hacker News
I agree. Old school doesn't mean it's not useful.
That's a decent argument for just building a subreddit.
I'm interested to hear whether you think it is wise to raise the short term interest rate with the economy the way it is now. You are clearly on top of the positive economics of the situation, but I don't recall you making many normative statements in the past. You strike me as well versed in economics and quite rational and unbiased and I would value your opinions/insights.
Interesting, thanks for the info. Still seems low, but it's more definitive than my anecdotal evidence.
There haven't been enough oil spills.
This seems like an unnecessarily negative way to pitch a positive service:

* anyone who missed the story on HN today would have no idea what this was about,

* leading with accusations that PH is an "elitist/bro community" is needless antagonism, but most of all,

* you're pitching a non-conflict of interest alternative to PH without revealing anything about yourself.
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF) are what you are looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function
IO requests on ebs-backed volumes go across the network, so I guess they are charging for internal bandwidth in some sense.
Very insightful comment, zachrose. At the end of the article I've linked to DCI, which is the perfect complement to MVC - DCI is an architectural pattern that separates what the system is (data) from what it does (function), and mapping the user's mental model directly to code.

When you grasp how it works, things fall into place very well, with no abstractions, polymorphism or similar things that makes the code divided and very hard to reason about.
I'd be curious to read about the software that does the PSNR analysis, or if anyone here has done some automated experiments of their own. I'm constantly looking to improve encoding of screencast-style video, which can be tricky to make assumptions about due to source material that sometimes has windows full of code being scrolled quickly.

Given a source file and, say, a series of ffmpeg encodes at various resolutions/bitrates, is there a simple(ish) way of automated perceptual quality scoring, a'la PSNR or another objective "proxy" variable that closely correlates with the subjective perception of video quality? Maybe representative thumbnails taken from every n-th frame and compared?

I guess that last point would expand the possibilities to include automated static image comparisons, since the script to get ffmpeg (or Elastic Transcoder, for that matter) to save out thumbnails is trivial.
I've had the same experience -- that dynamic typing brings nothing to the party, and often actively gets in the way. I love C++'s extensible explicit static types (enums and structs), and when I don't have them in other languages, I miss them badly. I strongly suspect that dynamic typing is a fad, which will go away as languages change -- especially if programmers stop anthropomorphizing their code and assuming that it wants freedom and liberty. (Imagine if architects imagined that brick or structural steel wanted to be free!)

My experience is in healthcare, machine-language comprehension, enthusiast game development (roughly roguelike-ish -- I haven't ever scraped together the capital and the courage for graphics and music), a little genetic programming, and a little web development (where I outright used Hungarian notation to make Javascript less incomprehensible). What areas have you had experience in, where you've experienced the same?
Thank you, and you're totally welcome!

We're racing against time and 4,000% growth... Userify[1] is also offering an enterprise[2] version for customers that require it for compliance reasons.. and working on some really helpful upcoming features.

1. https://userify.com

2. enterprise[at]userify
>Thanks to an amazing library called "libhybris", AsteroidOS can re-use already existing Android drivers and be compatible with Android Wear watches.

Do they have a hardware compatibility list?
Finance is still usable, but has been getting worse.

For example, they used to have "basic charts" that were clear and easy to comprehend. Then they removed that feature (but kept the link in the sidebar for many months). The remaining "interactive charts" are IMO not as easy to comprehend. Also they are missing features. E.g. with the old charts it was easy to quickly see when historical stock splits had occurred. With the new charts you have to hover over each big "S" icon.

It all smacks of 2nd rate people putting in a 3rd rate effort, just to show they're doing something. But what they're doing is by no means an improvement to what was there previously.

Edit: forgot to mention that, compared to Yahoo, Google Finance is a pathetic joke. It's a night and day difference. It's like Google is actively trying to be bad.

Surely there must be a finance portal that's better. I wouldn't mind paying for something good.
Should probably clarify that it's only important if you're looking for Web jobs :-) Sometimes people here forget there's more to software than the web.
The tech press affects primarily two things:

(1) Your ability to raise early-stage funding

(2) Your ability to hire engineering & product talent

Getting these two things won't guarantee success, nor will not getting these things preclude it. But there is a pretty strong correlation when you try to scale.
Knowing when they were born helps know what age they grew up in. Knowing someone died is great, but how old were they when they died is just as important if not more so.
Ah, while I was writing my response you said the same thing a lot better. I think any alternative to ProductHunt still needs an editorial team of some sort. But the fix could be as simple as changing PH to include 'staff/influencer picks' and 'community picks', while requiring staff/influencers to disclose their relationship to the product.
This inst GPS, 50 miles is actually quite good. The point is to get a general geographic area (City or State, heck even Country is super useful). Obviously there are tons of edge cases and inaccuracy with GeoIP, but that is expected.
It might be possible to pull this off with the new compiler because it's draft mode is a true incremental unoptimized draft, and translating an expression to call the JS is a relatively straightforward ABI.
or a bit more interesting reactive demo searching YouTube http://plnkr.co/edit/SelQZh?p=preview
Reddit model works due to the size of Reddit's user base, and mostly on the larger subs. If you look at smaller subs, you can find examples of astroturfing and vote brigading.

But in those cases, looking at the poster's history and then reporting them to mods is a pretty good (albeit manual) solution.

I think Reddit-PH would still stand a better chance since it discourages anonymity and participation for non-established users.
Perhaps. On the other hand, consider the origins of the site this comment was posted on.
Can someone explain how is this EMS thing better than these : https://www.npmjs.com/package/webworker-threads ?
If all you wanted was general geographical area, why not just use WHOIS which is an actual core part of internet infrastructure?
Angular 2 is the framework for Google's AdWords products. So it's core to how Google makes its money.
Good thing there's still going to be a future in non JavaScript web development.

Bring on Web Assembly. Those who dislike what JS has become over the last 5-10 years will just use their own stuff and can finally just ignore JS completely.
The key thing that this shows is that U3 has come down but U6 hasn't. In other words, U3 and U6 have diverged, and only one has improved. That's a pretty good reason to doubt what U3 is telling us.
64-bit Firefox does not support as many NPAPI plugins as 32-bit Firefox and may have undiscovered compatibility or performance issues with add-ons or web content. Mozilla won't autoupgrade 32-bit users until some time next year.
What type of due diligence must a shark or their team do during the show? I imagine these funding offers are just term sheets pending a legit financial review?
The example looks really clean. Amazing how far modern C++ has gotten in that area.
Egads, please don't spread unfounded conspiracy theories on HN.

Shadowstats is to economics as 911 truthers are to law enforcement[1].

Besides, independent attempts to measure inflation correspond closely to official numbers in the US. Witness MIT's Billion Prices Project, for instance.

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-21/the-inflati...

[2] http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/
Smallest possible for living humans. One person, notably, had a lower number, but he is no longer with us.
As dang said, 1st time was due to false positive on the ring detector. He just asked me honor system style. That was cool, but even cooler, when it was reinstated kevin, YC partner, commented with some practical/usable feedback. This was a thing kevin and dang coordinated on a couple Fridays, and I hope they continue or even expand that effort for the community.

The 2nd time I think it was a flagging, maybe people didn't agree it should have been a Show HN.
I actually love that he started the post talking about WebObjects. Probably the only relatively mainstream MVC framework that was designed by people who actually understood what MVC is supposed to do/be, and why.
The model is nonsense - not even wrong.

But then the data has been massaged into irrelevance anyway, so it's pretty much a twofer.

How these people have the gall to pretend they're doing anything that resembles mathematical analysis is astonishing.
"When we asked him to provide a simple explanation of what happens, computationally, when a voice signal enters his software, he opened his desk and pulled out thick stacks of folders, each stuffed with hundreds of pages of mathematical equations."

This is utter nonsense. The math in the patent would fit in a Tweet. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5973252A/en
Maybe it's a bot designed to promote IncludeOS. Gives a stock response to anything on the Internet that has IncludeOS in its name. That would make more sense.
That clarified the difference! Thank you.

I think I mixed rump kernel and rumprun. I saw a talk long time ago and am not very deep into that nowadays.

Therefore, double thanks!
You know about the Garmin watches, right? They'll do navigation and (some) message notifications.

Some reading:

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/11/winter-gadget-recommendat...

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/12/garmin-forerunner-630-dep...

Polar, TomTom etc have similar devices, but Garmin are probably the default choice.
So in other words, the same way everything in the "startup" world works: It's who you know.
I know this wasn't what you are saying, but it's worth pointing out that higher education funding and professor's pay are two very different things.
What is the relationship between energy and entropy? (Genuinely curios, I'm not a creationist, I personally rank Darwin right up there with Newton and Einstein)
The only person that actually ever replied to me on Gitter was Raganwald.

Maybe I just had an experience of trying to get help at a series of slow times, but it was really hard to get help with the build setup.
Slack launches an app store and an $80M fund
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable deprecation strategy.

To go a bit further...

Document and mark the old endpoints for deletion on the next major release.

Mark the old API endpoints as deprecated in minor releases when the new implementation is completed and the old API endpoint is wrapped.

Isn't that the whole purpose of SemVer?
That is not "disruption" in the technical sense.
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Check out the paper I posted here earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556521
WHOIS is provided by the organization that owns that IP block, and often times is their corporate office or lawyers office. Way worse way of trying to approximate a users geographic location. Please research before making claims.
seriously.... yay for much easier bootloader tinkering in embedded devices, boo for more crappy exploitable embedded devices.
It doesn't have to be that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10698392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699997
A very interesting phenomenon indeed that all these, excuse my French, "rejects" wound up at TWTR, can we deduce something concrete from this about the company's hiring policy or offerings quality?
Much of that is due to demographics (retiring boomers, people staying in school longer) which is what the other figures try to take into account.

Details: https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44055.pdf

See page 11 (prime age employment-population ratio) if you want an EPR that accounts for this trend.
The Federal Reserve can directly control short-term rates, but long-term rates are determined by expectations of future short-term rates.

Since the global economy is still quite weak, raising rates now increases the probability of reduced economic growth, higher unemployment and future rate cuts.

Prediction 1: If short-term rates increase tomorrow, then investors will anticipate this and drive long-term rates lower. Much of this is already priced in, as long-term rates fell today with 30-year treasurys yielding less than 3%.

Prediction 2: Know-nothing analysts on cable news will be shocked to see long-term rates fall when short-term rates rise.
Perhaps, but your comment doesn't teach us anything. It would be better to assume a smart but ignorant reader and walk them through specifically how it's bullshit.
People who are well connected are getting preferential treatment on a system that outwardly appears to be fair. That's gatekeeping.

It seems you work for a company that has already broken through, but what of all the others who are trying to get attention from VCs and the media. For them it could be a matter of life and death for their company. One media report can make all the difference between success and failure. Instead connected companies on Product Hunt suck up all the oxygen, and promote products that are not as good as more deserving ones, which are not as well connected. It's also bad for VCs and the media because they are being fed a distorted version of the market.

As a minimum conflicts of interest should be declared and the system revised not to allow abuse of the voting process. I have other ways to promote my site so I don't care about the Product Hunt circlejerk. But it's sad to see a system with so much potential be corrupted.
But there's practically zero popular reddit's that are ok with people promoting their own products.
Obviously, any link aggregator would need full-time moderators, which is another consideration for this mysterious PH competitor.

The notion that human curation is intrinsically better than algorithmic ranking is a Silicon Valley trend I don't feel is accurate, but that's a topic for another rant thread. (In general, I think the new semimanual approach Hacker News has been doing is an interesting idea)
The author handles show up in a different color to other YC founders. That's another benefit.
Even if there is no upvote requesting, this does bias YC founders to upvote other founders' posts, when they organically check the front page.
Isn't that the point of the article ? They had a nice curve that didn't need to include those elements because everything else followed so they ended up with a nice equation with only money supply and interest rate in it that controlled the key to heaven.

Now they need a new model, probably one or more extra variable in the existing one. However we are at macro-economic level, that's not obvious how to put parent observation in a number.

But the Bank of Japan former director is more or less saying something like that: not all money is equal, money from saving does not trigger the same boost to the economy as money from wage. Or maybe it is just a moral stuff like they suggest too - inflation is a measure of optimism - pessimistic player money just drive inflation down.