skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> ...which would address the same problem.

I don't think it would. Points determine the rank, so people would still be inclined to upvote their favourite users' comments if they see them engaged in a debate with someone else.

Anonymizing can be implemented by simply randomizing usernames, but in a way that keeps users uniquely identified in a scope of a single discussion.

For example (a) randomly generate discussion key (b) hash(key + username) (c) use the hash to pick a word from the dictionary and (d) use this word as a username substitute. For extra fun use the list of registered HN usernames as a dictionary :)
as an early adopter, i'd even be cool if we were talking 2 or 3 years, but i'm skeptical of even that, still.
A/B test and see which one gets clicked more.

No, really, I voted for "Ask". I think it is vastly more useful for most people (people who ask, people who answer, and people who like reading answers from smart people), and the number who strongly care about who the leaders are (which is probably a number even smaller than the number of leaders).
it seems to me that you have the same thread manifesting in most aspects of your life.

the getting from 99% to 100% part is good. Perhaps you won't be able to get beyond 99% because of something in your past that makes you reluctant to do 100%. 99% is pretty fucking good if you ask me.
out of curiosity, why not both?

regardless, ask is much more useful on a regular basis. my usage of leaders was almost 100% vanity.
I knew this was coming. Not that difficult to guess :-)
MSN Gets Hyperlocal
Putting your thinking cap on: mind control
Tracking IO patterns in memory-mapped dynamic libraries
you're lucky if you only find 28+ girls who are dying to get married. Almost every girl I meet above 23 is looking to get hitched.
Around 25 they learn to pretend they don't want it but they keep pushing things in that direction.
Nothing is so bad about that. I'm not trying to say that life is going to suck, you are going to fail, and therefore you should never try.

I'm just saying that "knowing" something will be hard, and experiencing something that is hard are two very different things. And to the extent that you can prepare yourself for what's about to come, it will be much easier for you to resist the urge to quit.
shrug I will not get into this debate, I've yet to meet a cyclist who isn't blind to reason about being sure that their lifestyle is the correct one.
shrug I will not get into this debate, I've yet to meet a cyclist who isn't blind to reason about being sure that their lifestyle is the correct one for eveybody.
Sarah Palin to testify in email hack trial
TJX Hacking Conspirator Gets 4 Years
Yet another country (unfortunately mine) joining the bandwagon of "protecting people from themselves". While I can see some potential reasons for it, I am beginning to see it very much as a sort of censorship on free speech, which I believe is a BAD THING in any modern society.

If this is here to stay, then what needs to happen is for there to be a way that each and every person can for themselves decide to bypass the filter.

Does anyone know how these filters work? Ways around them? Things that show up the effect of the filter at work? This would seem to me a first step in seeing how big brother is trying to manipulate society / protect us from ourselves...
Fail Fast is a welcome change from the illusions of 3 year business plans that have been roaming businesses the last 10 years. That doesn't mean, don't think, don't do your research It doesn't mean, don't have a business plan either.

What "fail fast" means is: don't talk about where you are going to be next year, you don't know. Talk about where you are going to be next week and make sure to measure if you in fact are where you want to be that following week.
The new Mario AI contest is at http://www.marioai.org
I just reread my post, and I realize how point #4 sounded. It was somewhat unintentional.

Raising money in silicon valley is hard to do without being part of the silicon valley in-crowd.

Raising money in Boston is hard to do in general, but I don't think it's impossible (although I wouldn't know). I don't think we were ready to raise money when we were still in Boston, and I certainly don't blame investors for not throwing money our way at the time. We were a very different company in Boston than we were after YCombinator.
Is this guy's behavior really so perverse?

Well, you have just neatly described American Psycho...
What keeps Coke defensible from Pepsi?

Sure, "execution" is a loaded word, but if you break it down, a successful startup is a magical combination of marketing, product, design, distribution, customer service, analytics, market knowledge, positioning, network effects etc. All of which, when executed well, strengthens and reinforces a brand that the end-consumer loves to rally around.

Your IP should be a means to this end, not the other way around.
If there is an "ask" section, hopefully it will cut down on the ShowHN, TellHN, etc. which have no parallel to MetaFilter and drive me crazy.
Learning, Post Pokemon (about kids, online games, and academics)
Making the publishing of negative data as prestigious and scientifically rigorous as positive data.
$10... Really?
You're making him sound like a saint. He's not trying to make jobs, he's trying to make money. He'll do it any way necessary. He's a businessman through-and-through. Whether you think that's a bad thing or not is up to you but don't pretend like his intentions are philanthropic.
It's all well and good to say that it's just for filtering the One Thing, but once the door's open, there's no shutting it. Hillary Clinton's recent suggestion that the US view freedom of information as an essential human right and impose sanctions to encourage (enforce?) it doesn't sound so crazy. What are the upsides of this (besides the obvious child pornography thing)?
Lots of YC applicants these days view YC as the starting step. If they get in, they will "do a startup". If they don't, they won't. They are really more in love with the idea of being part of the startup community than the idea of actually building a company. They're outsiders peering into the walls of Silicon Valley and thinking there's some magical formula for success waiting there for them. Of course, they won't tell YC this.
Wow, well that was decisive.
Anonymizing can be implemented by simply randomizing usernames, but in a way that keeps users uniquely identified in a scope of a single discussion.

I think you underestimate the ability of people to identify others based on what English teachers call their "voice". I mean, here's a test you can do in forty-five seconds in Ruby or your language of choice: grab the RSS feeds from searchyc.com for pg and any other user you want to play the game with, have your script randomly spit out a recent post from one of the two lists, see if you can guess who said it.
This turns out to be really, really easy, particularly for good writers who one spends a lot of time reading. (You can do this with Bayesian classification, too. In the "Pick who wrote this out of two possibilities for which there are many samples" case it's like taking candy from a baby in terms of classification tasks.)

Also, do you think you or anyone else is going to have much trouble telling who baby_rutabega_spoon is when he talks about his bingo business or ruthless_carrot_fork when he gets exasperated about password hashing?
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Ben Franklin's essential liberty/temporary safety quote comes to mind here. Sure, it's in place for noble reasons (protecting children), but what happens when "feature creep" starts to set in? "Just one more site can't hurt, can it?"...
Creating jobs by doing a bad thing to a large number of others is not a net social good. There are plenty of other problems that good software engineers should be working on, rather than spamming up the internet for the benefit of a company that will ultimately funnel a decent percentage of its generated wealth to a professional troll.

If it ever gets to the point where Calacanis gets a big exit, business magazine/blog articles will be written about him and how successful he was and detailing some of what he did to generate that wealth, and some future entrepreneurs will see that, look up to him, and say "Hm, that doesn't sound so hard, I can do that too", and then go off and make their own spam sites for fun and profit.

It's really lose, lose, win (for Calacanis) if we let him get away with that, and as disproportionate internet users, we're the ones that will be hurt the most by search engines becoming more spammy.

No break for Mahalo, please. If Google dropped them and all the other MFA sites, that would be better than 5 Christmases.
The social agent
Surely this doesn't work in general. If A and B are arbitrary regexes that are "pure" (meaning they describe a regular language and therefore are each equivalent to a unique deterministic finite automaton), I don't think it's possible to prove that if any string S is in A then it is also in B. Obviously for some regexes this may be possible (e.g. if A and B are finite, or regexes with trivial disjunction) but I do not believe two arbitrary DFA's can be shown to be equivalent. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The Case for Context
If you use the greasemonkey script you have an option to disable sites (HN itself is disabled by default). Won't work for chrome, though.

http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js
I'm a student and work for Columbia College Chicago's Online Student Communications office. We handle most of the school's web projects. What are you working on? (Feel free to email me = daniel.zarick at gmail)
This is based on a Philips invention for their TVs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight) however, the difference is that this HTML5 video doesn't occupy most of the users vision.

Since these TVs are high-end (and thus large) and are viewed at a distance the picture fills the majority of the screen. However ambilight as a fraction of the screen that's much closer to my face felt very distracting.

If the effect was more subtle it might be better, but especially bright colours like reds were pretty distracting.
HN does that to you :)
The greasemonkey script and chrome extension parse HN's newest items page in addition to searchYC. You could just disable the call to searchYC in the script.
Does P = NP?
Censorship Compliance ~ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Censo...

Anti Spam ~ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Anti-...

Censorship & the Internet ~ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Censo...

Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism ~ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Anti-...

I can't find any technical discussion how the filtering is being done, but the above list gives you an idea of the intention. The biggest thing I don't like about this idea for Kiwis is there is no legislation written in law. Nothing to appeal, no legal framework.
This is worth clicking through and looking at.
Seriously, what are you talking about?

We know a lot about cosmology. In particular there is very good evidence for for the basic model: hot big bang, cold dark matter, accelerating expansion, geometrically flat, ~14 billions years old (see http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html for more).

Granted we don't know what the dark matter is, and we don't know what's causing the acceleration. Those are big unknowns! But the basic picture is pretty well understood. And I think it's very unlikely that much of this picture is "deeply wrong".

I mean, what do you think? Some day we are going to discover that the universe wasn't really denser and hotter in the past? That the universe isn't really expanding? That baryonic matter makes up all of the mass of the universe?
Logmein is a remote desktop service/tool. I do use it when I need to help my parents on some problem they have in their computer.

So, you are remotely connecting from computer x, to computer y, and that is a live animation of it placed on a map.
Recognizing courage, securing online freedom (but not for China)
Seen Not Heard: How Obscure Security Makes Schools Suck
I'm not understanding what you're saying. Whether a grammar on one level of the Chomsky hierarchy is also a grammar on a lower level is an undecidable problem.
Bakugan Pyrus: Fire & Power
And it is perfectly within everyone else's rights to frown upon it.

The liberal licensing of Free software/content does not mean every use of those freedoms is a good and positive thing. And nobody is being inconsistent by treating it as a bad thing, while still recognizing it's within one's rights to do.
Even more dramatic, Microsoft didn't release it's first version of MS DOS until it was 6 years old.
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"... I prefer ask in the top bar ..."

The alternative is less specific.
The broken last-mile solutions in the united states.
I actually expected more. I thought Google's as an example of speedy. It would have been longer before Microsoft's potential was really obvious.

I suppose that that after a certain point it doesn't matter to an early stage investor because they will have already sold their shares.
I don't think you'd run into someone who is upset at you from a personal standpoint if you were to claim that there were more black players than white players in the NBA.
I'm confused by the angry tone. I thought investors are paying entrepreneurs to give it their all and earnestly take big calculated risks. Both the founders and investors are buying an out-the-money call option on success, so maximizing volatility seems ideal?

Would investors rather have a 1% chance of Google or a 70% chance of steady single digit returns (and total loss otherwise)?
i was always in favor of having the thing that squirts liquid on to your windshield inverted out. supersoak rather then honk!
You need to read more than 3 reviews to understand the annoyance out there.

Put it another way: remember all the whining and moaning about the lack of cut-and-paste support? How many people do you think have ever used that feature, now that Apple finally gave in and added it? I don't even remember how it works, myself. If the survey data were available, I'd bet $1000 that more users have consciously wished for background audio playback than have ever even thought about cutting and pasting text on their iPhones.

To answer your UI question, the way background streaming should work is for Apple to allow apps to set whatever flag that the iPod app sets.

Yes, you should have to revisit the app to stop and restart a background stream, just as you do with the iPod app. Users understand and expect this. Launching another sound-playing app, including the iPod, will terminate whatever remains of the streaming app's process. There is no need to alter the behavior of the double-home shortcut, or anything else.

Yes, other apps should be able to detect the presence of a background stream and react accordingly. Whatever API they use to detect activity from the iPod app should return the same result if a Pandora-like user app is running. If the best/only way to facilitate this is to allow the iPod app itself to support third-party streaming extensions, then that's fine.

It is trivial for any operating system to schedule an application with only just enough CPU time to conduct basic streaming operations. The iPhone's CPU is fast, almost in the same class as the original Xbox's CPU. Trust me (or not), they could enable background streaming without interfering with other apps or significantly harming battery life.
The problem with that definition is that it also defines rather well most available instances of Communist states. So are you saying Fascism=Communism? Or that those states are not exemplars of "real" Communism but are in fact exemplars of Fascism?
"... why not both? ..."

Simplicity: >6 items introduces "Paradox of choice", Swartz (ted, vid, 19:40 min) ~ http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_par...
http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/06-09-021 appears relevant.

EDIT: http://www.utdallas.edu/~dxd056000/cs4384/lect9.ppt shows how to find the minimum DFA as well.
As a minimalist designer, I like to see the idea put in practice, but your design could be improved upon. Without any differentiation between areas like post, comments, voting, and sidebar. Your design become more difficult to read an navigate. Also, when you're using a fluid design like this, you need to consider what it will look like to users of all screen sizes. Just being fluid and filling a bigger screen doesn't mean it looks good on one. Keep up the good work!

(constructive criticism only, because my compliments won't make it a better website).
What qualifies as being on here? Jason Fried of Basecamp has been on here for almost two years. Granted, most of his comments are on articles releated to 37signals.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jasonfried
I'd like to see a way to get a non-government based passport for travel, where the organization issuing it does basic checks and certifies you're not a criminal and can take care of yourself. It's a bit of a catch-22, but if you could get enough places to start taking this sort of passport for entry, then soon most places would have to. This would be good for people who like to travel to interesting places that are dangerous to travel with their native country's passport, and for talented people with dysfunctional/oppressive governments.
My only complaint is that I've heard it all a million times. Maybe at 28 I'm just old now and this is brand new to people, but I remember these Denis Leary routines from the early 90's. It's just playing to the audience's sense of victimhood, but it's always the rich, white, Protestant males who are supposed to be the victims.
I think that you could find many more surprising power sinks in a large business than in a home - in a house you know exactly what you have purchased. In an office, there are so many people involved it is practically unknowable without monitoring, advance planning or a through (and expensive) audit.

I think that our system will be much more compelling for home owners as the quantities go up, the prices come down and the features get filled out.
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Country Club India with its signature quality provided everything that a member needs in its Jaipur venture, the Country Club Golden Days. This club is one of the crown jewels in the CCIL family.
Also, you could clone their site, but you couldn't clone the underlying understanding required to better it.
Return of the Mac
Hey thanks. I had initially tried on 960 grid. But somehow couldn't fit in the sidebar in the whole design. So thought of making it widescreen. But yes I'll definitely look into the use case again.
Coke vs Pepsi? Patents and copyrights on the secret formula that makes it taste non-crap.

But the rest of your points stand.
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A better way to meet co-founders. Almost like a dating website but instead of going on a date you work on an Open Source project together with someone who would be a good match.
You may be correct. All I did was convert the original script from using GreaseMonkey's proprietary functions to Chrome extensions.
I found it very useful that I don't have to check if a site was on HN. I get a many pleasant surprises this way, on sites I never thought were here.
I'll do a bit of cleanup to the extension. Then I'll post the code, so you can change what you like.
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Actually at one point they are described as hiding things that might disturb you too (massive massive hitchikers fan :-))
build and/or packaging systems
Oh, Less Wrong is awesome. It's a group blog running on a rather cool hack of the Reddit source code. The founder and most prolific and frequently upvoted blogger is Eliezer Yudkowsky. My favorite single piece by him is probably That Alien Message: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

If you want to read more of Eliezer's writing, his book will come out eventually, but until then it is organized here. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences

His sci-fi novella, Three World's Collide is great sci-fi and serves as a not too hard to read introduction to the general values of Less Wrong. http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/

The kinds of posts that make it to the front page of Less Wrong now are often esoteric and boring. Most of the value in the site is in the archives. Note though, that the comments on Less Wrong are interesting because the level of discourse is ridiculously high. You cannot say things that are wrong; someone will downmod you and call you out on it. It's really hard to comment on Less Wrong. Learning how to keep up with the discourse and be able to reply to comments without getting downmodded feels like it has made me a lot smarter.
Yeah, I couldn't find a way to exclude pages on Chrome extensions. But I haven't thought about how I may identify dead pages from code. I have an idea I'll try out soon.
If it works, the extension will be updated automatically.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if someone explained SSH tunnelling to these government agencies. I doubt it would be pretty.
Better branding.
There's been multiple occasions when I thought of your website but couldn't remember the name.
I really like how their main site is too wide to read on the iPhone, even in landscape. You need an Android phone with it's text re-formatting to actually read it. Oh, the irony.
Very strange behavior (seizure) on the slides with Safari Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) and Chrome 5.0.307.11 beta.

http://ejohn.org/apps/workshop/adv-talk/

Press Cmd - to decrease the font size and the slides go crazy. Cmd + to increase it and they stop.
Exactly my thought. I moved to Chrome a few weeks back, and this was the only thing I was missing.
Communism makes grandiose assertions about human nature in one direction, you're just making them in another. Capitalism is the better mode for most things, but in the real world we have nuance. Invoking Capital Letterisms generally doesn't solve any problems.
Ask HN: What IRC client do you use, with scripts  ?
I use XChat for my IRC, but am running into problems automating it. which one do you use. how do you automate it ?
To really think about it now, it's truly remarkable that such a powerful entity can exist in such a material world, free of spam, ads, etc. I don't think we cherish this great resource as much as we should.
Just a bit. There are a few GreaseMonkey functions that are not supported by Chrome (which can run some GreaseMonkey scripts natively, unless they use them).
I had to replace them with something chrome understands. It isn't that difficult. In fact, I think I can make a more general ChromeMonkey to support all GeaseMonkey scripts, but I won't be sure before I try.
That would ruin the site IMO.

For example comments by patrick are always worth looking out for (he's generally insightful) or you can identify tpatek on security stories (domain expertise)

without that value comments just become shouting into the ether :-)
Corruption.

It is a huge problem in India, I wish it is solved using transparent processes, aided by software tools.

RTI (Right to Information) act helps in bringing out issues to an extent, but those who file RTIs get threatened or can even end up being killed..

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=RTI+activist+killed

Something like anonymous or proxy RTI filings can help and all the results should be cataloged.
EU decision on IE (If I was Microsoft..)
In This Horror Movie, the Call Comes From Inside the Theater
irssi

what are you trying to automate?
Yeah, and from the article you just linked to:

"Just click the feed settings menu on any feed in Reader and select “View in Reader Play.”"
Keys. Why, in 2010, do I still have 10 metal keys in my pocket. Why?