skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. Native bookmark sync without unreliable extensions, and real ad-block support through an extension just made Chrome the best browser.

Not to mention, Firefox has a nasty habit of getting slow over the months as the "Awesome bar" stores more and more cruft in SQLite databases. I heard there is a command-line way to trim/optimize the SQLite databases, but seriously, Mozilla expects me to bust out a command line to keep their browser from being slow? Not to mention the memory usage in Firefox is terrible at times.
Goebbels would put it a little bit differently...
I have loved the C7 for a long time, but I was unaware they were available for purchase in the US. Is there some kind of program (maybe like the Noble in which it is sold as a "kit car") where these are available?
Do not confuse source criticism with the ad hominem fallacy; if certain sources have, in the past, been inaccurate or unreliable, then it is relevant and proper to point this out and to treat such sources with caution. In this case, the criticism is that the sources -- a collection of popular British papers -- have in the past been extremely unreliable in reporting on scientific issues (example: the alleged link between childhood vaccination and autism), and a humorous comment was used to drive home the point.
Actually, I believe not supporting mouse gestures would be more "simple" than having every feature including the kitchen sink.
Thanks! I wish I could do it that way, but I was never able to work on the side. I have lots of issues with sleep deprivation, to the point that I find it difficult to manage a normal 8 hour workday. So if I had a normal job, most likely I wouldn't get anything done on the side. I also have a girl-friend who works and wants to spend time on the weekend, so I can not just code all weekends.

Just now I was thinking maybe I should try a "normal" job, like working in a cafe or something, for two days a week. I was always a bit sorry that I never experienced a kind of more social work like that (though it pays a lot less than software development).
You won't make any friends at craigslist (in fact, they'll probably block you), however you could try "importing" craigslist ads (of course, credit and link properly). I don't know if I'd suggest it, but it's a route you could consider. The founder of Lyrics Wiki ( http://lyrics.wikia.com/ ) indexed other lyrics sites, and eventually was bought by Wikia.

Also, look at a few of the paid craigslist alternatives- they might be willing to give you listings if you send traffic their way.

I asked this same question to Jimmy Whales a few months ago. Wikipedia started as a paid service, where professionals were paid for their work. It never got big, so they changed their business model. For them, the already-made articles were enough of a jumping point.

Side note: craigslist already has many, many more-featured competitors. Do you have a theory as to why craigslist is still the most popular software? Make sure you do before you bother creating a craigslist competitor.
Raymond Chen (Microsoft)'s blog post on stuff:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/11/11/491780....
not sure what you mean by "real" ad block support. the chrome extension API isn't mature enough yet to block ads before they're downloaded. it basically just hides them afterwards.

they're working on that, though, apparently.
So did you live outside of Russia for last 20 years or inside Russia for last 13 years?
Hyper-V Live Migration
Nokia Diagnostics Tool to Test and Troubleshoot Mobile Devices
&lt;B&gt; is for Block
I like to get comments in on good articles early, they seem to get more responses that way, before the thread has grown old.
You might want to take a look at the Chrome VerticalTabs extension:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/imimolldggofidcm...
One of the best ways to improve your wealth is imperialism, i.e. taking what isn't yours, but on a grand scale. It has worked for royalty forever, and while it's out in the open, nothing was ever done about it.

What did the royalty do in Arab countries that the common person didn't? Lay claim to the land containing oil. Scarcity can create value, but it's hard to argue that the person who claims it is really "creating value," as anyone else who owned it could do the same. At least not in the same sense that an artist creates something new out of nothing.
I will usually scan newest once I'm done reading through the top 1-60. Everyone has differing tastes and so the stuff that I like to read doesn't always end up on the front page.
thanks for the input!
I think we wouldn't want to link to craigslist ads, or any other craigslist-esque websites, because we are trying to fundamentally change the way ads are served; rather than aggregate more listings.

This is why we're not too worried about the (mostly really bad) more-featured craigslist-clones because we're not in it to tack-on extra unnecessary features.
"The customer is always right" gets re-written for the digital age: "The user decides what the correct behavior should be."
Tumblr Stole My [Subdomain] At The Behest of A Corporation
Your findings are completely consistent with what people have been saying many, many times over the past few months. If something doesn't get noticed quickly on "newest" then it can sink without trace, regardless of its inherent value. Unless you get some friends to check your submissions and upvote them if appropriate, it's very hit-n-miss.

It's mostly because of this that I have always visited "newest" which then also means that I recognise things when seeing them second time around. Recently I've stopped bothering marking repeats and duplications, in part because some people find it deeply irritating, in part because it seems unvalued, and, yes, in part because it drags down my average karma. If one of the metrics PG has put in place gives me a poor grade because of some activity, I'll think twice about continuing.

So certainly your hypothesis "a" seems true. Not sure about "b" because it depends on what you mean by "small fraction," but I would agree with that too.
Yes. In fact, it is not limited to third-graders. I once sat in a class of intelligent undergraduates taking first-year Chinese. These were people who could format APA citations on hand-written exams. When asked to write a paragraph in Chinese, they often started at the edge of the paper, went all the way to the other edge, leaving no margins.

The issue seems to be: are you comfortable enough with a language that some portion of your brain can focus on whether what you're writing looks nice, or are you straining so thoroughly just to control the micro motor movements that these is no attention left for macro aesthetics?
Fantastic, I've been looking for something like this.
I count 8 major names for Microsoft's mobile OS since '96, give or take.
This seems like something someone should have brought up about 18 or 20 years ago.
There are teachers who broadcast their lessons online who are currently doing this and making much more money than normal. This is becoming especially big right now in South Korea: http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_life/2009-07-15/4765869...

As a counter-point to your wealth = personal impact point: Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha, Mother Teresa, Dali Lama. Whether or not these people and their actions were completely real or did all the things people say they did, they've certainly had an impact on history. None of them were/are particularly rich. Was it a failure to capture that value? Can all value be captured in dollars? Should it?
Is MeeGo Linux' Answre to iPad?
It seems a few people use the kick-starting strategy.
I've seen articles get a bunch of points right after being submitted and making their way to the frontpage, while my submissions of the same content that have been made a bit earlier never got any upvotes whatsoever.

Personally, I haven't done it and don't intend to. On the other hand, I'm guilty of checking the newest articles only after I submitted something myself.
Complete aside: I'd never heard this term "South Park philosopher" before and it seems to be rare on Google. Did you make this up or did you hear it somewhere.

It's a good image. I understood it to mean splitting the difference and calling that wisdom, like the end of every South Park episode. Is that about right?
Like Einstein, that would seem too intelligent to be true. But he was.

Einstein was not only a great genius, but also a great person. If you study a little about the man, you can easily believe this story to be genuine.

Great, great man.
Slide tries business model number 5
I remember watching a movie the other day, which had a plot element where a muslim guy living in Chicago is arrested by the police because his neighbour suspects he is a terrorist. And the police arrest him and confirm that he is a terrorist when they find a paper in his apartment with some quotation from the Quran on it and they believe it is some cryptic message/map or something. I was laughing at that time, thinking of the stupidity of the plot. Well I am not laughing now !

This is the movie - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khuda_Kay_Liye
I do agree with much of what you say. What I'm taking issue with is using external debt as a proxy for the total debt load affecting an economy. Large countries with a large domestic debt market will always look better in that comparison even though the actual debt load may be exactly reversed.

I think a much more useful comparison would be to ask what share of personal and government income has to be used for debt servicing and what the trajectory of that number is.
Google now shipping 60,000 Android handsets per day
People like me who subscribe to the RSS feed get almost every story, which is equivalent to newest I think. As a sidenote, maybe there should be a "hourly / daily new good stuff" feed rather than a dump of everything.
Reminds me of that girl who wrote in and kept telling the car talk guys that they stink. It was hilarious when they flew her in to appear on the show. What was her name again?
It might not be helpful advice in your specific case (or that of craigslist type sites), but make it useful even if there aren't any other users. If I remember correctly this is the advice I've always seen from the Reddits on how to solve the problem.
The Rule of Least Power
Quit your day job today! There a plenty of jobs out there you'll really love more. For starters, I'd recommend working on the assembly line in a cozy factory somewhere in South America or Eastern Asia.
How We Tripled Our Traffic - What Google Analytics Tells Us
How much did the inventors of vaccines get paid? Probably a reasonable amount for their expertise and labor, but much less than the wealth they created in saved and enriched lives.
HLVM -- the High-Level Virtual Machine
I usually look at it instead of going to page 2.
Only 8% of white American high-schoolers have a best friend of another race. (For blacks, it’s about 15%.)

Uhm, yeah and? If 99 out of a 100 people are white and 1 is black, which percentage of white people will have a black best friend, assuming random assignment of friends? 1%! And the black guy will have 100% of his friends of different race.

The more diverse a school is, the less likely it is that kids will form cross-race friendships.

Did they control for income level? Because low income coincides with violence and gang formation. Your child income level will not change if you talk to them about race before 3rd grade.

What looks like racism is likely just (poor understanding of) statistics.
Here's an idea...

Make the first 5 listings on the HN frontpage be the 'newest' entries, followed by the top rated entries.

This would force people to scan past new items and give them their "30-seconds" of fame. Plus it would keep the front page very fresh feeling.

It's like singing in front of Simon Cowell for American Idol tryouts.
Very misleading title. Google is only involved in shipping the Nexus One; this number references all Android devices shipped. Still interesting news though.
The RSS feed isn't everything. It's a periodic snapshot of the home page (I don't recall the interval)
Steve Jobs to cooperate on biography
People only understand your emails about 50% of the time
Are these numbers based on page fetches or unique visitors? It's obviously easier to count page fetches but the article implies it's broken down by visitor, without being explicit about it.
Perhaps the problem is pretending that everyone is the same. The kids aren't stupid, they can see this isn't true, and they're bound to fill that vacuum with whatever else they can pick up.

I'd think that the better strategy would be to embrace the difference. Recognize that races and cultures really do have different qualities. But because the mixture is so complex, and the world that we apply those qualities within is also so chaotic, that it's quite impossible to say that, in the final reckoning, any one is superior to another.

[Edit: dropped "up" at end of 1st paragraph]
That's a prominent position to put spam in (which frequently consumes the newest page)
Good point, edited - I think that MobileCrunch actually updated their title after I posted as well.
Making the metric well known can really screw systems up. Take google, for instance. Their original idea of link reputation was clever, but once it became known people came up with ways to game it, and now a large portion of internet exists for only that reason. Perhaps the alternative is worse though... hard to say.
i'm on 3.5.7, so thanks for the tip. I'll pass on 3.6
I was about to post that the "fact" is at least an oversimplification. At the edge cases, it is logically false. A school where everyone is the same, there can be no cross-race friendships, and in a class where everyone is different, there can only be cross-race friendships.

Of course, the deeper lesson here is that race itself is a concept invented by racists. Race does not exist, except in the mind of the racists and those upon whom they exercise their beliefs. If you don't believe that, ask yourself whether you call people Asian, as if the huge proportion of people from the most populous continent on Earth share some fundamental attributes based on the geographic location of their ancestors that are worth distinguishing. Ask yourself if there is some proportion of ancestry that you use to distinguish one race from another- it's a very racist exercise to do this.

There's no simple category that defines the race of my own children. Everyone is miscellaneous.
The trouble with that is that the sole purpose of our product is to facilitate connections between people selling or offering goods and services. Without people and the stuff they want to sell, we've got nothing.
I realize this seems a bit like Valleywag-style tech celebrity gossip. But I posted it because the person writing the biography, Walter Isaacson, wrote a terrific biography of Benjamin Franklin. His Einstein biography is also well-regarded (I haven't read it). I've little doubt the Jobs biography will be very good, possibly superb.
I went to the RSS feed, but I didn't see his old posts.
Most interesting point for me was that works out to 5.4 million a quarter vs. latest iPhone stats at 8.7 million a quarter.
I remember taking my first airplane ride 18 years ago. I remember excitedly talking about bombs, etc., and my dad telling me, "never say 'bomb' in an airport." My dad wasn't a security nut, just someone who knew "when in Rome..." pretty well. It just was common knowledge that "bomb" in that setting was in the same class as shouting "fire" in a theater.

So, here is a student with cards that teach him how to say "bomb," in an airport, in a language that is spoken by most people who have bombed our planes. I am pretty strongly against TSA abuses and they obviously shouldn't have done this to him (and I mean it should be illegal to do this to him), but is it okay to say this kid could have been a little more prudent?
What different qualities do "races" have?
The designers of programming languages should pay attention.
In looking on the newest entries page, I don't see any spam.
I completely agree. I've actually started browsing "newest" much more lately (almost exclusively on some days). My solution is to pick out quality submissions and try to give them the bumps that they need to make it to the front page for other users to see.
Sometimes the most esoteric truths are the hardest to settle on.
that's easy to fix - require karma or age above certain level.
How often do you watch it? It moves faster during the day. There are times where there is more spam than not. And if you feature it on the home page, the amount will only go up.
The title is a bit misleading. Tumblr took away a subdomain on their own domain.
Data is becoming cheaper/easier to deploy than voice. Eventually all "voice" traffic will be data, this is just an intermediate step.
I want to know what a Double Planet is. Is it twice as good as a regular planet?
I completely agree that increasing time at a desk doesn't mean much in terms of productivity, specially when the activity in question involves a lot of mental effort. I like how this article talks about time spent working: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
Cool idea for indirectly measuring HN browser usage =)

I expected IE to be pretty unpopular among the HN crowd, but less than 3%? Wow.
You need to seed content first. That's how reddit got started with the founders submitting stories under different user-names. Take offline ads(news papers) and list them online (throw in some OCR software like ABBY to scale it). It should get you started.
We need our News Feed Control BackGoin viral in Facebook
There is a trend of being viral in internet. Esp. in facebook loads of group and fan page goes viral with a basic appeal in people's mind set. Group associating with Vampire hating or loving..are some kind of phenomenon lately. Group associating with features of facebook demanding dislike button, profile visitor etc have lots of members.
bUT SOME of the group i found like one below, with genuine demand and issue have failed to collect support.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=259090030020
> The more diverse a school is, the less likely it is that kids will form cross-race friendships.

That doesn't make any sense to me at all except in cases where "diverse" means "has a large population of one other racial group than white". I grew up in a tremendously diverse area of the country, the local university is one of the top5 most diverse schools in the country. Almost none of my friends were of my race, and almost none of their friends were their race either. I would expect than in a classroom of 30 kids, 15-20 countries or nationalities could be easily represented. My little gang of school friends represented nearly every continent on the planet, one kid was from Japan, one kid was mixed Japanese/American, one kid was African (from Ghana if I remember), two brothers were Cypriot, another friend was Mexican and another one was Salvadorian. Most of the kids on my school bus didn't even speak each other's native tongue.

Diverse means "diverse" not "bi-polar". It's really easy to separate into like-racial social groups when you have two large groups of different races vs. lots of small groups of many races.
"Double planet" is an informal term used to describe a planet with a moon that may be large enough to be considered a planet in its own right; one definition requires that the objects orbit a centre of gravity that is above their surfaces. The formal term is "binary system".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_planet
Exactly me too. Newest gives me a chance to upvote things that I'd like to see discussed.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=259090030020
Open Source Networks and Heroin
I thought it was pretty disorienting, myself, to have the yearly total for Android compared to the quarterly one for iPhone. Don't know if it was intentionally misleading or not, but I have noticed this tendency for people to want their preferred product to "win", as though being slightly more popular than another product changes your experience of the product somehow.
Blogspam. Original is here:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/top-freeware-picks-c...
I was fully expecting this whole article to be a snarky exposé that he was using Keynote instead of Powerpoint.
The better strategy is to explicitly acknowledge observable differences - skin colour, accent, etc. - and point out that those things don't tell us what kind of person someone is.
Name one quality that races share in the exact same proportion, besides the inevitability of death or other binary conditions.

The first problem with the concept of equality is its mathematical impossibility.
Actually, thinking on it for a second, I realized that Apple products seem to bring that out in people more than anything else. Probably has something to do with their incredibly combative "I'm a PC" ads.
Charon, technically a moon of Pluto, is over half as large. Instead of Charon orbiting Pluto, they sort of orbit each other. Pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto_system_2006.jpg
Five Silicon Valley companies fought release of employment data, and won
"Sadly, I apparently no longer control this image or this information, nor can I exercise my right to remove it from the Internet."

Do you have a right to remove pictures of you, or pictures you took, from the internet?
I wonder how long he was inactive for - "several posts" in a year could mean he did the typical "blog" session - post in a flurry for a week, realize nobody is following you, give up.

If that's the case tumblr may well have terms about rights to a subdomain based on inactivity.
Anonymous Corporate Speech: a Phantasmagoria
Flagged - try linking the original
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7230137...

Instead of feeding the foolish comments of that site
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Genetic Analysis Shows That Malaria Most Likely Killed King Tut
You seem to have assumed that I want to reduce cognitive overhead so I don't have to think.

Rather, I want to reduce cognitive overhead so I have more mental energy for thinking about the problems I'm trying to solve. That way, I can spend a bigger share of my time on productive tasks.
COOL.

Too bad I work in Python at home and work.

Balls. :| Rubyists always get the pretty toys.
I once alluded to something on IRC that I'd submitted here. Granted, I didn't directly link to anything and they found it themselves, it still felt like cheating a little.

Either way, the post only started to get a significant number of points after the first couple of outside votes brought it somewhere in the frontpage.
This is outrageous. The TSA has had a blank check for far too long, and they've become abusive. It's time to put a leash on them.

This isn't an isolated incident. My sister-in-law has to deal with this crap every time she flies. What makes her suspicious? She's black. That's it. She's beautiful, fashionable, and extremely educated. She'd get a free pass if she was white, but instead she gets frisked. Every. Goddamned. Time.

Talk to anybody with an arabic last name, or dark skin. These kinds of abuses are absurdly common. God help you if you're a Sikh that wears a turban, you might as well write off air travel. The stress is amazing.

This is the kind of bullshit that makes us less free, and less healthy as a society. I'm also pretty sure it doesn't make us any safer. Hopefully, Mr. George's case will get enough press attention that some changes get made.
Reblog of a reblog. The original is here: http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/393030100/tumblr-stole-my-...

Yet another exhibit showing that nobody can parse tumblr's stupid retweet implementation.