skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this on the site, but figured it might be of interest here as well:

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Trevor,

Thanks for the thoughtful post. You captured some of the interesting aspects and obstacles we had to overcome in order to realize the HTML based viewer. I'd like to add some commentary on the points you bring up:

- Performance: I'm quite excited about the range of possibilities we have in improving the performance of the new viewer. It's something we discuss endlessly, and it will just be a matter of time before we can implement some more of the ideas we have tossed around.

- Text Selection: We lose some control on this by handing it all over to the browser; which I like. I see what you mean by Acrobat Reader being the gold standard, but the reality of the range of document types we get means that there is no definite standard of behavior therein. That said, I would love to hear some suggestions for creative/usable spins we could put on this.

- Search: Another one that us engineers are immensely excited about. We have so much flexibility. While there are technical challenges, the user experience surrounding the search functionality we have planned should be very impressive.

- Printing: I haven't personally put much thought into the browser based printing, but it should be a simple step with what we already have (as you said). As for flash based printing, I don't know the details, but one of our engineers apparently did some great work on this recently. If you want more details, I can see about putting you in contact with him.

Thanks again for the thoughts. This is an exciting time for these technologies and document presentation.

-Quin
Because this assumption is false.
I really think it would be a great phone with a replacement ROM, like Cyanogen/Droidmod. Then you'd basically have a Nexus One++ on VZW :)

I'd sit tight for the root soon, The Desire and Legend were very recently rooted, so this thing can't be far off.
As long as the recruiters keep believing that "management is a universal function that can be applied directly to any industry", students can hardly be blamed for it.
Yeah, that was huge for me in the list of deciding factors. In my last paragraph I discuss all of them, and that was definitely important. It took Verizon forever to get 2.1 on the Droid, and they left all their other devices out in the cold.

That's the sad thing about wireless companies... they just don't care. They're focused on gaining customers and do that with new devices, not updates to old ones.

Google is independent from all of that, and they actually seem to care about their users :)
The link is an improvement over nothing, at a minimum it will cut down on the number of newbies posting 'how do I search' questions, at least, if they scan the footer.

Experience shows that this is probably not the case but then at least we can point them to the link without having to explain site prefixes, which is still a net gain.

If it were in the header (which is pretty crowded) it would be more useful, but I can see that that might lead to complications, if it were a miniature form in the header it would be better still, but I can see that that would really be much harder to integrate.

Searchyc.com probably can't handle the load if they are the 'sole provider of search' for HN, so it looks like that is not an option, when the HN robots.txt file locked out google because you had to crunch the numbers for the applications it was apparently touch-and-go on searchyc.

Now I'm really curious what your secret startup is that may solve the problem, and I hope they roll out soon.
I was under the impression that you could "turn off" Sense and run the native GUI.
My dad has no background in IT at all. He once was appointed to lead the Operation division (everything including IT). He saw that the systems his bank used was buggy and spent a few days figuring out how the systems worked (flow of the systems, input, output, users, etc).

He found the problems eventually. His solution to the CEO? The IT team should be discipline in almost every step they execute. Discipline in terms of execution, discipline in terms of documentation, discipline in terms of logging information, etc.

Agile, SCRUM, or whatever new methodologies out there (including CMMI) directing engineers in the software industry specifically to be more discipline. Feel free to talk bad/negatives about CMMI, but the intention is to figure out what went wrong and how to not repeat the bad experience (describe in each level).

In Agile, process is not equal bureaucracy. Process is equals discipline. - Eric Ries

UNIX/Linux philosophies teaches software developer to be discipline.

Google has a set of coding/commit rules, rigid structures regarding their source code (code review, etc) because they knew if things were not in certain order, chaos rises.
Hard to sum up in a few words, but one scenario is quite noticeable: the most retweets come from a group sharing similar interests, they basically retweet just for the sake of making this interest into a trend.
I'm sure there will always be people who distrust nanofood or otherwise are willing to pay a premium for organically grown food.
> I'd love to see a wiki aimed at HN newcomers, with a page on frequent topics and a list of the most relevant threads on that topic.

I had an idea a while ago, that this could be the primary interface for a social news site: instead of having new posts get voted on individually and appear without context, which then has to be added in the comments, you'd have "news threads" on certain topics (e.g. "the iPad" would be one thread.). You'd post an article to a thread (different from posting a comment—it would appear at the top with all the other articles under the thread's discussion) and it would get voted on, only allowed to "come under discussion" of the thread once it passed a certain threshold.

* The front page of the site would be threads sorted by aggregate score of their article posts, weighted by the time of their most recent contributed article (so posting a good link would bump the thread.)

* Articles could be submitted individually (into the "uncategorized" thread, I suppose) and then moved into threads by moderation (which would give moderators an opportunity to create a new thread when a discussion doesn't already have a place—a possible insertion point for spam otherwise.)

* Every thread comment would be in reply to both a user (with root-level comments being "to" the submitter) and an article within the thread. Comments would still be threaded, so someone could add a new article to "cite" their comment upon as evidence for/against someone else's comment on a previous article in the thread. Comments in cite of articles that hadn't passed the voting threshold would be greyed out.

* "Spam posts" and "advertisements" would simply be threads, able to rise to the top if something in them happens to merit it.

* A "best of" post is simply a post of one of the thread's comments as an article to the thread, and ties that comment's karma score to the thread's aggregate score (allowing threads that have brilliant discussion, but bad articles/links, to rise.)

Anyone want to steal/implement this?
>Even in a casino you get paid when the dealer makes a mistake.

Perhaps, but I've seen article after article that says a "software glitch" caused the jackpot on some slot machine and they refused to pay out when a player hit it.
Wow, a very active spreadsheet without a clear reason as to why do this? Can I ask what this is for please?
To compete with Facebook and have a desirable product in this decade you have to go at it from another angle. It should not look and feel like a social network, friending, following should be a part of the service, not the focus.

Perhaps something like http://cargocollective.com/ where sharing, updates and follows are on a certain topic, in this case visual work.

You could start several of these topic based networks, where a UI is specific to the topic. A UI for sharing code, another for blogs, news, arguing, gossip etc..

Much of that already exists in the form of Github, Flickr, HN, Reddit, it just needs to be brought together with more consistent UIs. Your main feed of all the sites would be organized by topic. Instead of going to separate sites all with different UIs, you stay on one site and focus on content, not which site you're on.

If someone posts the same content topic on twitter and reddit, it should look all the same to the user. Nobody cares if it's twitter or digg, who runs the site, people just want the content. If some site doesn't include voting but you want to filter content for yourself by voting, then you can vote on tweets.

Some of the privacy problems resolve themselves, because your followers tend to stay in the topic, they probably don't want to know your personal life. Only data miners will link those things together.

For sharing personal details, gossip, a community builder UI could replace the difficult facebook privacy settings. Before sending out updates about your life, build lists just like you would in your AIM buddy list, send certain updates to one list, other updates to another list. Same person can be in different lists. People who get updates they don't want can remove themselves from your list by downvoting your updates on the topic for that list. A system where lists form based on likes, views, responses instead of manual controls would be best though.

I don't remember if facebook had options like this, don't want to bother to find out if groups do some of this, which means it's mainly a UI problem which makes it more likely that people will engage in the spam them all behavior.

So the distributed model already exists, it's just too distributed, makes it too complicated for users to use multiple sites simultaneously, so most people tend to stay on a few.

Facebook would have a lot of work to do before they could turn their service away from spammy personal life nonsense into something that makes a better connected web.
It's possible to disable Sense on older HTC phones (like the Eris), but not on the Incredible. Apparently HTC even stripped out the files needed to support the stock UI from the ROM.
More and more often now, the IPA transcriptions (and alternate pronunications for some terms) could be mined from Wikipedia. Google's dictionary

http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&...

has some entries with IPA transcription of pronunciation, but fewer for mathematics than I expected.
What Is A Tipping Point ?
Many geeks are clamoring for alternatives to Facebook in light of privacy concerns, so it would be useful to see what developers are working on.
Have Facebook and Google Killed Permission Marketing?
It's purely anecdotal. HardForum is a good source of information because of its enthusiast user base. A large group of home NAS builders post there.
VP8 is NOT ubiquitous in flash video, nor it could ever be. It was never released. Only VP6 is supported, but how many relevant people do you still see using VP6?
Can you sum up in a lot of words :) ? Really, I think everyone would find it quite valuable.

By interested to the trend, do you mean specifically like creating a presence for a hashtag?
But you have to keep in mind, the market is specifically afraid of the Euro collapsing, so it might not indicate anything today other than the fact that people would rather have JPY than EUR.
The cause of the apparent paradox is that "business" spans a huge range. MBAs train you to be junior officers in the armies of managerial capitalism. But there is almost zero overlap between that sort of work and what startups do.
This is a solution for geeks, not for mom
Something I have found interesting and useful about Facebook is that it outlasts email changes as a way for people to stay in touch, and connects friends who don't even know each others' email addresses.
> Also computer power tends to increase pretty fast and get cheaper all the time.

The spec is being written now. The encoder needs to be tested and evaluated now. There's no point in doing it now if we'll have to wait 10 years until CPUs can be used for testing whatever you make.

> Also, that software was likely to have a lot of debugging flags, etc.

It was released in source form, so those are easily disabled / removed.
But there are people on the other side of the equation, too, with orders to buy when the price reaches a certain number. And there are the options traders.
Herb Sutter: Design for Manycore Systems
HN is very harsh!
The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines
Yep Apple can make a $500 purchase feel like buying an iPod rather than buying a laptop.
All those, and they couldn't even say which way "tuple" was supposed to be pronounced? I've been dying to know!
How Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Your Community
The Day Facebook Stole My Page
Very good observations. The feedback will help us.
I expect you won't be able to watch "newly released features" at home in the near term (up to 5 years from now), even when Tee Vees with the anti-feature are the norm. You'll just get the new inconvenience, and probably on old crap you wouldn't have recorded anyway.

In this case, Cory Doctorow and the other freedom paranoids are correct.
As a native french speaker, I'm not convinced at all about "zhah(n) bah teest zhoh zef foo 'Ryay" to say "Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier" :D
Words you’re probably using wrong
For non-smokers, it is the "go get a cup of coffee" break.
IIT - most selective school on the planet. Much more competitive than Harvard.
Androgen insensitivity is only one of a number of gender bending genetic disorders, there's about 5 more that are just as common.
I love the arms race between AV and attacks. Always an interesting read.
EUR/JPY is a known gauge of market sentiment, same as copper is for economic growth. Markets go up, EURJPY goes up, markets go down, EURJPY goes down. It's a known correlation that hasn't been broken yet. Intramarket analysis is a widely popular field in the economics. Just because people are afraid it doesn't mean it won't happen. Every possible TA is indicating on further collapse to come this year, at most by the end of summer. Even Elliot Wave suggests it if you are into EW. Even fundamentals are all wrong, carry unwind just happened, dollar is surging because of the credit market collapsing, vix is going mad, ecb is incompetent/inert. ECB will try to do something, tomorrow I'm sure - but it's a bit too little too late. Avalanche had its first run this week. We'll see a period of consolidation for a week, to up to a summers end if we are lucky! People can downvote my first post, but they cannot ignore that chart and should not.
If you had to view source before you were sure, then it can't be a real problem, can it?
True, in the same way that a swimming pool is very similar to a bathtub. Played any water sports in your bathtub lately?
Couple of months ago one of my DBs was migrated to another box where the skip-innodb flag was left turned on in my.cnf by the admin. Unfortunately, Mysql only generates warnings when you use non-transactional MyISAM tables in transactions, and those warnings are only visible from the console, so the problem went unnoticed for months.

Conclusion: if your data is important enough and you're forced to use Mysql because you're at a Mysql shop, write test-cases to test the sanity of the Mysql environment.
PG announced some updates a few days ago. He mentioned that one of the side effects was the ability to make the change you describe.

BTW, as of yesterday, this "uncapping" of the history limit had not been extended to .../classic/ . [Pretty please? :-) ]
What did the researchers propose as a solution? The article doesn't mention any way around this.
"Cheaper to produce" would mean that there's less leeway in the process. That directly equates to fewer ways to game the system to get free money from the process of making, marketing and distributing movies.

Type "byzantine accounting" into Google and see what comes up.
The example specifically referenced stocks going down to $1 from $15, so my statement holds true for what it was in response to.
Thats what I was saying. I wonder how serious they take security 0_0
Quote from x264's assembly guru: <holger_> whatever this guy did, 600x faster suggests a suboptimal cpu implementation and/or a very memory intensive workload.

The GPU, looking at each individual core, is actually a very weak general purpose processor. GPGPU is good for because there are a lot of cores, so you can run highly parallelizable tasks easily in it.

Video encoding is not one of these tasks since each block depends on the previous block, each frame depends on the previous, and even on the next frame.

There have been uncountable proposals to port or accelerate a part of x264 on GPGPU. Nobody has succeeded in two years, not even for the motion search, which is supposedly the component that would be the easiest to port and benefit the most from GPGPU.
While I kinda understand what you're going for here, I feel compelled to point out that while there is a feeling of angst against Facebook from a few people, it is still the de facto social network today whether we like it or not.

It's going to take quite a bit for it to actually be substituted by another platform. My guess at this point is that all this discussion will make Facebook adapt, not necessarily die.
Should freedom be curtailed in the face of illegal threats of violence?
You know is a prime liquidity provider, and paid to be? Goldman Sachs. "Parade of digital nukes". http://www.zerohedge.com/article/where-was-goldmans-suppleme...
Maybe I'll do some sort of analysis later, also I'm working on another twitter app for the retweets specifically.

For now look at this tweet from God_Damn_Batman (7620 followers):

Invented a new drink called The Batman. Ask for vermouth, coffee liqueur & banana vodka, then crush the bartender's windpipe. So good...

It got 42 retweets in 1 hour 48 min, and I can be missing another 5-10.

It all boils down to how many of your followers think your tweet will be welcomed by their followers.
This doesn't really help you with putting out code quicker/more efficiently.
Free business ideas - looking for partners
They may not even adapt, they're big enough that they might just get away with this.

But there is room for more than one social network, and the only thing that matters is that you have your friends in the one where you're hanging out. Some people may have two or more memberships.

In the longer term something good may come out of this and a spreadsheet organizing all the alternatives, listing their strong and weak points would be a useful resource to have in any case.
Death is not far off for any of us. Life and death are two side of the same coin. They cannot exist apart.
What is particularly "smart" or sophisticated about this? Spamming malicious links, this time through Skype. And the user has to elect to actually download the linked file from RapidShare and then manually open it.

This falls under the longstanding mantra: Don't open links, or files, from strangers.
I think it's cool. I am part of two cliques and I maintain forums for both but would love a more fully fleshed social environment. Go ahead!

EDIT: Make sure you think about group leaders - administrators/maintainers/whatever.
MBAs train you to be junior officers in the armies of managerial capitalism.

Some MBA programs do -- most, even. But more and more programs are focusing on entrepreneurship.

I think it is pretty obvious that having an MBA is useful if you're going to do a startup. Is getting an MBA more useful than spending the time/money on something else? Perhaps, perhaps not -- depending on the person involved, the skills of their cofounders, the type of the business, and so on.
I've always pronounced it "toople" but I have never heard many people actually say the word. It's especially confusing as e.g. quintuple is different.
I think the actual education would be very beneficial. Most MBA schools now position themselves as very entrepreneurial. Oxford, for example, has a seed fund for startup ideas from MBA students.

The thing that puts me off doing an MBA is the time and the cost. One or two years is a long time to not act on an idea if you've already got some in your head. If you don't already have some startup ideas in your head and you're thinking of doing a MBA I would argue that you're not really a startup person. There are lots of people that want to be an "entrepreneur" but don't have any actual startup ideas.

The cost is my biggest worry though. Having a £50,000 dept with £700/month repayments really does put a dampener on the idea of bootstrapping a startup. Hence why so many MBA graduates end up doing investment banking or consulting.

Me - non-coder, lots of startup ideas, entrepreneur wanabee, business school interview in a week!
I have a nit to pick with the situation (not the article).

He likes the phone, but he doesn't like the Android "distro" on it. Why can't this be swapped?

That would be basically advantage #1 of open source, I can understand if HTC doesn't want to let everyone else use their Sense UI onto other phones if it is a proprietary advantage, but shouldn't you be allowed to run the vanilla Android on any Android phone? Or am I missing something here?
I'm afraid I don't have a superior alternative to current system. After all, the more regulations are placed, the less free the market is..

Who knows? Maybe one day, when a civilization is born again, people will have the knowledge to see that the currency is something that represents value and that there's something inherently wrong with making money out of money.

We have to deal with things as they are for the time being though. I just can't stand it when this disconnect between the real world and capitalism burns down decent companies and results in millions of people on the fringe of social security being pushed off the cliff. Why is it we take the few success stories, parade them, and ignore the cruel reality of all the victims? Maybe I don't have a solution, but we have to keep pointing out the flaws, otherwise people will simply adjust to a more and more twisted environment.

I don't want to compare apples to oranges, but remember that kingdoms were overthrown because of 10% tax (among other things of course) during the Medieval times. The lion share the state takes these days hardly matches my mother's benefits now that she's being fired after thirty years of manual labour, for a company that had their capital in the wrong markets.

So.. I guess she's still better off, with running water and electricity in tact. But have we done anything to pull the developing world out of it's misery, or isn't it worse off than the farmers in Medieval Europe, who at least had their fertile land to depend on?

We have to maintain our perpective on the negative effects of capitalism, whether or not there is a better solution at hand, so we can perhaps some day through criticism, constructive criticism and brilliant innovations evolve this system before it devolves us to a lesser kind.

I'll start by voting suggestions in this thread by people more educated than me in the area of finance. Somehow, ideas tend to bubble up when they're shared and endorsed.
It doesn't mean that one must capitulate and take their bullshit.
I do not use Facebook or any of these sites. Besides, who are you to decide that revenge on such a #%@$@%# is wrong? Are you god or something?