skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried the Google Analytics Benchmarking feature: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/03/benchmarking-now-avail... It's pretty neat. It will give you a fair idea of where your website stands comparatively.
Because I don't think Wired would cover it if it were a desktop/web app :)
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Why don't these people just clip the wire leading to the disabler device?
Part of this has to be a Git vs SVN. (I know that Google Code supports Mercurial, but I believe all project I'm subscribed to use SVN.) But I commit and push way more with Git than I did with SVN. Probably twice as often. I usually commit every time I write a function or even a loop. I usually push whenever I've fixed a case in the bug tracker.

With SVN, I used to only commit once I fixed a case.
So if a bank loans you money to buy a house, the bank's officers can come in at night and shoot you for trespassing on their property? Try again.
Thanks for sharing that. I feel for PG that he has to moderate all the normal spam on HN and now he has motivated, libellous spammers too.

Also, I'd prefer tough love from PG at YC over a quiet slide into obscurity any day.
Great idea, I'm all for it. You seriously ought to contact the right people and try to make this a reality, I think it would prove to be very effective and actually bring about some positive change.
There was a last-minute problem with the 2 Chopin songs that were ready to go live with the app. Hopefully have em next week.
What's brilliant is a society where everyone has to have a car to survive.
A lot of repos on GitHub are clones of popular projects hosted somewhere else. I doubt many people import svn repos on Google Code in a similar fashion.
China Drawing High-Tech Research from U.S.
Canon intends to be the first company to buy a custom TLD
I think it is a trick and it's jacquesm.
for real, reusable bottles are great. Though I suppose there is some debate over bisphenol A in nalgene bottles and it's just one more thing to carry around for some people.
Dan, was it your post on HN that got you on wired.com? Or how did that work?
Hint in Perl, Python, or Ruby: blank programs are valid.
Generating 3d text with CSS (incl source code)
I do know Kyle! Cool guy! Luckily, he managed to escape too (and with more tact than I)
Thank you for writing this, and thanks for open sourcing it.
learning about acting really is low hanging fruit for introverts interested in self-improvement.
My somewhat poorly made point was that there don't seem to be many Australian companies that grow into large organizations purely by innovation. Electronics, Internet services, aerospace research/manufacturing, software. That kind of thing.

We seem to do well at taking tried and true business models (dig up iron ore and sell it, buy cheap fruit and veg and sell it at a big mark up) but we have a poor track record for establishing creative companies. Creative in that they create something. products/services that didn't exist before. Its kind of weird that there seem to be so few Australian tech companies that are international big players.

In terms of other large Australian companies there's also New Corp but Im not sure that dead tree publishing qualifies as an innovation based business. Plus I think they moved to the US a few years back.
Yeah, it's an amazing hilarious movie and those guys did it totally independent and then sold it to TV. Buy a DVD on their website (i Did) because it has killer bonus features too and i'm into supporting the Little Guy. www.BoogieManFilm.com
And, being a designer yourself, you'd be an authority on all things design.

Something tells me you're not, though.
Ask HN:  What's with all the articles about scoring with women?
Did y'all just hit puberty, or is that special someone in need of some not-so-subtle hints?
Payment could be in the form of services provided by startups at HN. Subscriptions to our SaaS systems, free products, discounts, etc.
It's not just traditional media, it's a cornerstone of their retarded blog "replacements" too ... linking to any of your own shit = extra ad impressions while a visitor searches for context and instead gets ... every piece of crap Engadget's ever written containing the word Sony.
Why? They have substantial differences. Beyond the fundamental data model (DAG for git vs change-sets for hg) they have significant usability differences.

The most obvious of those is the git concept of manually staging commits. That's a core design decision which you interact with on virtually every git operation (and no, DirState does not compare).

Think of it by analogy to python vs ruby. They both do the same thing and are used in the very similar problem spaces, but that does not make them similar technologies nor does it mean proficiency in one is transferable to the other.
I think that some non-cash prizes could be provided by those HN readers running a startup (should they wish to do so). 6-months of a premier SaaS offering, or license keys, or free publicity / advertising.

Very valuable to the recipient, relatively inexpensive to the donating startup.
The Federal Reserve Cordially Invites You to Another Round of Musical Chairs
On a related note, my school (Washington University in St. Louis) has recently changed the labels on all trash cans from "Trash" to "Landfill." It's amazing how much that little switch makes you think carefully about everything you're throwing away. If you can get people to truly understand the consequences of what they're doing, the majority of them will change their ways.
I think that challenges that encourage the entrants to leverage the power of the internet in a new way are particularly cool. Data mining or wide ranging web scraping for example. Stuff that could become the core of an interesting startup.
Whoops. That was a bad example, wasn't it? Ah well, the rest of the comment (hopefully) is still valid.
Why should they?

No one forced this on them, they requested it. It's the only way they can get a car loan.
text-link-ads.com might also be worth your time. All of the really great advertising platforms are often niche specific or limited by some of your site statistics so it's hard to give examples.
I think some people here view it as another system for hacking.
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Well, I'm a designer and I need ROR help. Drop me an email at proexploit@gmail.com so we can exchange contact info and see what we might be able to work out.
Have you noticed the difference between when you are feigning anger compared to when you are actually angry?

I've been meditating on this for a couple of minutes and I can't recall a time where I was pretending to be angry when I wasn't. Occasionally, I'm guilty of pretending not to be angry when I definitely am. Anger isn't the most socially acceptable emotion, anyway. What would be the motive for feigning it?
Sorry, I have a bit of a grudge, but I'd just like to point out that the photo URLs had to be hard-coded (instead of referenced by a tag or album) because DailyBooth has neglected to provide standard feeds or an API.
This looks cool with the Hacker News Chrome plugin ... the blackbirds are flying over HN as I type this.
John Stewart explains corporate accounting
One acting concept I found fundamental important to learn was how status transactions work: http://greenlightwiki.com/improv/Status
Another "How would you move Mount Fuji?" interview question. If only people would realize they don't need someone to move Mount Fuji.
How many is "all"? There's been like 2 in 2 days, right? And the Ebert one came from the other one.

This site has a lot of topics that generate 3-4 posts back and forth, then it dies out. No big deal.
Actually I did wonder how the music was played (though I didn't start Web Inspector), since I have ClickToFlash installed. YouTube is not on my whitelist, so I'm a bit surprised it did start…
I guess it depends on your goals; I'm not sure there are really "normal" numbers. Some stuff explodes overnight, some grows over years. Some sites have relatively few, very profitable visitors; others a ton of less-profitable visitors. Some sites get all their traffic from word of mouth, others from Google, others from direct links.

One first cut would be, is your main motivation profit or influence? Optimizing for readers who read your articles and then apply or disseminate what they read isn't quite the same as optimizing for ad revenue. Another one would be: do you intend to build a community around the site or not?
The problem with the idea of such a website is who decides what is a positive act and what's a negative act ? Maybe some sort of voting mechanism by interested users?
The point still stands, though: the app doesn't digitize the sheet music, it displays it from sources that have already digitized it.

Unless the scores are beying keyed in by hand, the actual digitization of the sheet music is basically a specialized OCR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_OCR
I already emailed the artist to see if we can get at least one photo under creative commons (if they aren't already).

Hope we can make a "Do not litter" poster with that which anyone can use.
I've heard of a quine but only confuse myself trying to think of a way to write one in Ruby that doesn't involve something like eval-ing strings. Reg Braithwaite -> FAIL.

That being said, something tickles the back of my head... Are quines combinatorial? Something about a program that prints its own source code makes me think of some of Raymond Smullyan's various problems in the field...
Big congratulations to Dan. Excellent app. I like it when people deliver real apps.
Dang, I would've failed that interview question. Fortunately, my day-to-day work doesn't involve writing quines as much as trying to configure the right versions of Ruby, Postgres, and Rails 3. Wait--I'm failing at that one, too... ;)
Content is Not a Feature
I forgot one of his main things was to go through the trash when they threw away items (maybe they couldn't rma them or whatever) and he would return the items to a different store.

He traded the home depot cards for things, cash, trade, he pretty much lived off of it not sure what he is doing now that was awhile ago.
Yes, you can query the google cache. It's fairly easy to do.

You could, but I'm not trying that again. It's easy to get your IP busted depending on what random algorithm Google decides to run each week.. <g>
The usual rule of thumb that I hear is this: don't trust any single medical study. Look at the broader literature in the area and see if there's a general consensus. Until there's some consensus, be wary.
If you read that article it says that the patch being the size of Texas is conjecture by the media.
How the IRS uses Social Media Sites
Rational Ignorance: The Most Powerful Force on the Web
Useful link with good timing; this just came up today for me.

Wasn't destroying my site, but good to fix regardless.
Given how nitpicky the rules for quines are, this would be valid unless a non-zero-length source was mandatory.
Another comment: when playing through For Elise, it plows right through the 1 and 2 endings for each section when it should play the 1 ending before doubling back and playing through again before playing the 2 ending.
You seem to have the impression:

1. That what I said was hypothetical. It wasn't. This happened.

2. That one pageview amounts to no more effect on a server than causing it to process another request and send a few more bytes down the wire.

If you're serving a static HTML page, then an extra pageview probably isn't a big deal. If you're serving an uncacheable, dynamic page that must federate requests to many, many different backends and pull in live content in real time, one pageview is a big deal.

And even if you have enough capacity to handle 3 or 4 or 10 times your usual load, when dynamic pageviews suddenly double (or worse, if there are multiple sourceless images on the page) for no apparent reason, a whole shitload of alarms go off, and it's not the sort of thing you just ignore. It indicates a Problem. It might be just a Problem right now, but it could very soon become a Big Problem. Which is why you try to fix it right away, no matter how big your safety margin is.
Maybe you could switch it up and use commonadult along with tokenadult depending on the perceived demographic?

Though I'm not one to speak, I've used "smokinn" (or "Smokinn" which I generally prefer) for, I believe, 16 years now.
Good points. I put protect in quotes to protect egos with questions like "how do i look?"
Primarily, it doesn't require a desktop - useful if you're sitting at a piano.

It's also a very polished app with a convenient in-app sheet music store.
Really? I do the opposite. You can't commit at all without hitting the server in SVN, where I can go for quite a while in Git without pushing. I would assume that most people would push in Git much less often then committing in SVN. It's obvious that because the commits are faster, they would commit more - and they are (109,000 Git commits over 33,154 pushes vs 17,000 svn commits). So in Git people commit on average 3 times before they contact the server.
What a loaded sensationalist witch hunt. Someone either is an axe murderer or they aren't.

There is no physical thing known as Psychopathy, it is an arbitrary descriptive label known as a category used to group similar behavior together. It is not a scientific discovery but a classification.

This psychology professor is just asserting the classification he's devoted his life's work to is now bigger and applies to more people. He is simply coming up with an excuse to inflate his self-worth and sell more books, even though he is not making any discoveries and doing research.

He's not even making the genetics argument, and if he was I would post articles citing nutritional deficiencies as causes of aggression or how gene expression changes due to epigenetics.

I just want to insist that anyone interested in reading up on psychology stick to the scientific research, specifically cognitive- psychology\neuroscience\computing\science
Humans Only - a podcast look at CAPTCHAs from Hacker Medley
The problem is context, a common issue with tracking things with Google Trends in particular. Tracking programming language usage with it, for example, has been a nightmare ("ruby" and "python" having far too many meanings, but few write "ruby programming").

"high end" has more uses than "high-end." For example, "I bought a car at the high end of my budget." In that case, "high-end" wouldn't make sense. In "datacenters have been targeted by high-end criminals," however, "high-end" is a compound adjective.

Alternatively, you could drop the hyphen and/or form an entirely new word: "highend." The word "highend" doesn't seem to have caught on yet, though. I suspect that's because "upmarket" covers the same meaning already and is less susceptible to these morphological mishaps.

(On seeing what OS X had to suggest as a correction for "highend," it suggested both "high end" and "high-end.")
Google China Uncensors Tiananmen Square Info
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To be pedantically accurate, it's merges with more than two parents.
Dear Mozilla, Please Don't Kill HTML5 Video
Fuckin baller!
Business Promoters Needed or get Paid To Promote
We have a marketing and content solution business online and we are introducing a new package available to people.We would like to find people to promote this package.You can advertise it anywhere you want as long as it is LEGIT! We are offering different amounts for the packages,which means you would make different amounts per each package.
Github > Google Code > Sourceforge

On checking out/exporting:

I had to use Sourceforge a few weeks back: some project I needed the code to was hosted there. I'm not a stupid person, but it took me several minutes to figure out how to grab the source code to the project.

Google Code, in contrast, still makes you jump through a couple hoops.

With Github, it's a simple matter of clicking the little clipboard button (which I think should be bigger), switching over to my terminal, typing git clone and pasting. Easy, simple, fun. Just the way it should be.

On the social aspects of open source:

I have absolutely no idea who the people are that are involved with Sourceforge projects. I'm not sure why they're still using CVS. I'm not even sure I have CVS installed on my laptop (update: turns out I do. Snow Leopard ships with it. Who knew?). I have no desire to join a project.

Google Code is better. At least I can easily figure out how to post an angry comment to a project wiki. But who knows if a given project is still in active development without digging into the commit history? (Click Source, Click Changes. Oh great, the project's dead.) It's a pain to figure this out, especially when I eventually find a link buried somewhere informing me that the project maintainer has moved themselves over to Github.

Github tells me exactly what I want to know as soon as I get to a project page. When was the project last updated. Who's involved in it? How many people find it interesting? How many people find it interesting enough to fork it?

Sourceforge was relevant back when I could say the same about Slashdot. Google Code was fun for a year. I'm glad Github is as big as it is now. To reiterate another commenter, I really hope they never get acquired by Google.
I see his point more as acting angry because social norms say you're supposed to, rather than you're actually feeling angry. It takes a lot for me to get truly angry, but I think I've acted out in anger before to fit in with expectations or get something I wanted.

For example, if a friend accidentally dents my car out of carelessness, I may blow up at him to convince him that he should be more careful. I'm likely not all that concerned about the dent, but just brushing it aside as no big deal doesn't do much good for either of us (or the next person he hits).
If the reviews are to be believed, Ghostery has been sold to an advertising company and may be functioning as spyware

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609

From the Ghostery/Better Advertising Privacy Policy- "We collect user traffic patterns"; "we track click-through information, including IP addresses"; "We may place a text file called a 'cookie' in the browser files of your computer."; "We may provide personal information to or permit access to personal information by our vendors and service providers"; "If Better Advertising should ever file for bankruptcy or have its assets sold to or merged with another entity, information Better Advertising receives from you, from this website, is a Better Advertising asset and may be transferred."
China's economy has been turbulent over the past 30+ years, but with a lot of saved money

japan has the highest personal savings rates in the world yet their economy falls further into the toilet. this is a non-sequiter

High GDP growth at this stage in China's development doesn't mean it's definitely a bubble

every, EVERY debt chart in china has gone parabolic. if this isn't a bubble, then our housing market up until 2008 wasn't a bubble either

China is complex and our understanding of their society and economy seems poor at best

? china's economy is being very well documented. you just don't seem to like the data so you're dismissing it as conjecture
how is giving someone a house they can't afford any different than leaving it empty? its a dead asset either way
Design Doesn't Matter
I think that's where the ipad would do a better job at simulating full sheet music. I suspect the developer has this in mind already.
I imagine the intent is to provide a service to "super talented people" who would like to become entrepreneurs.
Persistent bulls will eventually be right, given long enough time, to call out the bubbles. A broken clock is right on time twice a day. Many bulls long on the bubble leading upto the 2008/2009 crash had lost their shirts.
If you want a nice gradient on an unrelated shape and some shadow/reflection effects, go for it.
"The “scientific method” of testing hypotheses by statistical analysis stands on a flimsy foundation"

If you have only studied first year statistics this is what you will learn as "science". As soon as you get to subsequent study, you realise why hypothesis testing is almost always the wrong approach.

I'm not sure who this guy has been talking to, but it sure hasn't been statisticians!
Uhhh. Calling it Garbage Island can only hurt that case. There is no large continuos plastic island the size of Texas (or smaller) in the Pacific.

That doesn’t make the problem any smaller. Microscopic pieces of plastic entering the food chain is not what you would want.

For more meat and less blah (1988): http://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/TM/SWFSC/NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWF...

This one is a bit fresher (2001), if not quite as extensive: ftp://ftp.sccwrp.org/pub/download/DOCUMENTS/AnnualReports/1999AnnualReport/10_ar11.pdf

PS, don’t wash your face http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481226 :)
Wow, this drawing makes a little more sense now.

http://www.mattfurie.com/032009big.php?id=03
Texts Without Context
Hmmm... the first thing I thought of when I saw this post was "beware the ides of march."
Ask HN: Cheap Or Free Mass Text Message Services
I am looking into building an app that would require sending large amounts of text messages out to people. However, these messages wouldn't need to be sent in a timely manner. Is their a service that is cheap or (as I might have heard) free that I can build off of to send these types of messages with my application? Thanks.
Ask HN: What do you think of my site 40hr Monkeys
> odds are that someone wouldn't bother logging out and in between two accounts.

Unless they use multiple browsers.
Humans Could Regenerate Tissue Like Newts By Switching Off a Single Gene
My favorite thing about this article is that it made me stop and think through why the bug would actually exist in so many browsers.

I can make sense of the IE bug: "" doesn't start with a protocol, like "http://, so it's not a full URL. It doesn't start with "/", so it's not relative to the server root. Therefore, it must be a relative URL, and the browser tries to download the image named "" in the same directory as the page.

But the Safari and Chrome problem baffles me. To have happened in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, it must be a pretty straightforward mistake, but I just can't see it. Anyone else have guesses?

(Safari and Chrome admittedly use the same rendering engine, but still, Firefox doesn't.)
I would sponsor this out of pocket in a heart beat:

a) Get a bunch of those posters printed up.

b) Put together a candid http://www.thefuntheory.com/ type experiment documented on video showing how behavior changes with an in-your-face message like this.

c) Let the YouTubes do the rest - drive people back to the CC licensed poster, have pushed out in local communities.
Pushing to a public repository (especially forks of ones people actually care about, but this is true in general) gives me a small feeling of accomplishment. It's a way of sharing that I did something I think is useful, especially since it shows up in the news feed of my (handful of) followers.

So yeah, I probably push more often than is strictly necessary.
Related videos from TED talks:

- Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic (http://www.ted.com/talks/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_p...)

- Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats
(http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking...)
Malware found on second Vodafone HTC Magic
Fundraiser for nyc student hackathon / hackNY.org via kickstarter
> Primarily, it doesn't require a desktop - useful if you're sitting at a piano.

Yes I had worked that part out. My question wasn't intended as criticism. The context it appeared in lead me to believe there was something else new about this but I couldn't find it so I asked. I have an interested in this area. By the looks of things this would be particularly good with a larger screen such as the ipad.