skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use of easy-to-obtain metrics with little or no predictive value has interesting parallels in all sorts of places.
A Java webapp of Hacker News would be cool.
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This article was absurdly dramatic. He's right about one thing, though -- that the media is largely influencing the public opinion of Facebook. The number of emotionally fueled articles that have been written about Facebook recently (at least in my opinion) greatly outweighs the actual severity of the situation.
Good lord, why not just rewrite it as "How your business card must be!" and list the specs:

* 14-pt Arial
* one datum per line
* 1cm margins
* white 100-lb card stock
* logos acceptable if and only if they do not resemble characters that may be recognized by my OCR software you inconsiderate asshole
For me there is always an "overlap" problem with "infotools" like todo lists, issue trackers, wikis, google notebook etc. And in my case, they're always competing with email, which is hard to beat.

Suppose I have an idea for a neat new feature for my product. What do I do? Write an email to the others, or put it on my todo list, or on a shared todo list, or create a feature request on the issue tracker, or write it in a wiki, or write it in google notebook, or just write it in todo.txt...?

In the end, I use email for most things and google notebook for personal notes. I also carry Moleskine for when I'm not in front of the computer.

Since you asked about collaboration, I think an ideal tool would somehow integrate with email (gmail), because clearly email is not going away for another x years.

Also, I think the quick descent of Wave into also-ran status shows that "fancy" collaboration sounds good, but even if the initial reactions are super-favorable (I used GW for weeks and even wrote a blog post about it), email prevails! Hence my suggestion to integrate with email.
Interesting that it's on HuffPo, considering how completely (some would say intrusively) they have embraced Facebook (and Twitter) on their website.
Have you heard of the phrase, "When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

Well even from the beginning of Facebook, within the Harvard campus, Mark Zuckerberg has been surrounded with allegations ranging from questionable personality traits, unethical behaviors and outright illegal activities.

Now with the release of a new "biography" detailing the early days of Facebook in Silicon Valley, these instances continue to highlight character flaws that seem to some to be quite disturbing. So why are we so surprised to witness continued actions of betrayal and lack of customer-focused decisions on behalf of a company that he runs and guides on a daily basis? "Zuck IS a duck!"

Personally, I totally agree with the concept of a more open society and the need for a platform in which to exchange personal ideas and personal media with friends and family. What I don't agree with are the blatant decisions that manipulate that information in ways contrary to the users' choices.

Many times in the past year, I have been literally offended and personally shocked at the amount of attacks to this information of mine and have contemplated closing my account for those reasons.

Instead, I have controlled my privacy options as best as I can and have held on to see where this all leads, in the hope that Facebook will finally get their act together and re-focus their energy on connecting people, not causing anguish those people who make them the billion dollar company that they are, their customers.

With Zuck the duck in charge, I'm not so sure that this will happen.
You sound exactly like somebody who opposes full disclosure of security bugs because you think it makes systems less secure. Shining the light of day on problems is the only way to solve them. Full disclosure is the only way to move big companies, it keeps them accountable.
It's a great idea.

I already have a reasonably functional PHP implementation http://hackernews.zopte.com, built using my startup, which is a web application builder for non-programmers.
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It is VERY hard, but doable. I am trying to make living doing machine learning freelancing, although this part of "business" makes me just about 10 - 20% of income.

As someone wrote on this forum: most clients want to just scale their Excel spreadsheets and models. There are plenty of similar jobs aroud, so VBA should be your friend.

I then trying to educate my customers on machine learning related topics and sometimes I've got another ML-related projects.

If you choose this, be prepare to spend a lot of time doing nonbillable work, so pay will not be so great at start, but I hope that it will pays in long term.
The author of nginx, Igor Sysoev, actually investigated on this and decided creating contexts in V8 is too slow (2ms) for being used in such a manner:

http://translate.google.ru/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl...
In my opinion, the key to online collaboration is product design for the right audience. It can't be a swiss-knife solution. Collaboration means different things to different people. Targeting large organizations or targeting SMB's will require different strategies, since both perceive and use collaboration differently.

My feedback below derives from experience within medium-large Financial Services organizations AND a small Web-based startup.

We use shared documents and workflows on a daily basis. Currently we use SharePoint internally. But we also use Google Docs between smaller groups of people. We migrated our main Wiki to Sharepoint, and have also been developing on SharePoint to extend it a bit.

I think more than the mere charm of devising a cool collaboration tool, what really works with "document management" is it's centralized version-controlled nature. More than anything, people want quick & easy access to documents. They also want to compare or recover previous versions of a document.

Collaboration (as we geeks think of it) is different from collaboration in the real-world. Some may disagree, but in real-world businesses documents are rarely edited by more than one person at the same time. In medium-large organizations, collaboration and meetings are often synonymous. From what I've witnessed, document-based collaboration in most medium-large organizations means 5 people sitting in a room going through a document and taking notes. Having said that, it's also a fine opportunity to promote a change and make it truly collaborative in the 21st century sense.

SMB's (and startups) are more savvy, flexible and open to experimentation. I think the best way to look at online collaboration is, first and foremost, by taking collaboration out of email.
This is exactly what I do on my business cards. Scan in the QR code and you have all of my data in an easy machine readable format that can easily be stored.
This isn't a bug, it's a graphics setting. You can control how many iterations go into drawing the contents of each portal. The lowest setting is 0, which doesn't draw any. I don't have it installed so I can't tell you exactly how to change it, but the option's in there somewhere.
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I'd suggest a combination of both mcav and cpr's suggestions. Highlight the notes themselves instead of the area around them. Drop the jumpy marker and replace it with a smoothly moving, constant speed vertical marker. It's a commonly recognized and understood element (used in pretty much any and every audio production / recording software). It also gives the viewer a better sense of the tempo. Remember, tempo can change drastically over the course of a song; the current marker doesn't demonstrate the difference between playing shorter notes at a slower tempo and longer notes at a faster tempo.
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I'm skeptical that a wiki is still a sensible angle in this day and age.

I've used plenty of them (and like them for tech centric documentation) but let's be honest; they never quite caught on in a business context.

This is most certainly not due to a shortage of implementations (wikimatrix lists 124, no less) nor due to a lack of user-friendlyness (markup-free WYSIWYG ui's are dime a dozen now, from pbwiki to google pages).

I would rather claim that there is simply a fundamental impedance mismatch between the wiki concept and the common workflow in most companies.

Like it or not (disclaimer: I certainly don't), most workflows are still dominated by Word and Excel documents. Those don't mix well with a wiki, in fact they don't mix at all.

Moreover once you enter this battle you'll find yourself not only competing with the friendly closet fileserver ("Just drop it on drive Z:, Sue") and E-Mail ("I'll mail you the new version in a minute") but also with the ilk of MS Sharepoint, Mindtouch and a truckload of other workflow solutions that more or less "work", but most importantly usually allow the users to stick with their beloved MS Office suite.

Anyways, to make a long story short; instead of beating a dead horse yet again, why not look at the ideas that have caught on in the meantime?

Those would be the whole 37signals stuff (basecamp), dropbox, and I guess you also have to count pivotal tracker into that bucket (as much as I despise it personally). What most of these seem to have in common is the "do only one thing and do it well" approach, as opposed to the old "one tool to rule them all" meme.

So, my humble opinion would be that there's still tons of low hanging fruit in the latter market. A wiki on the other hand... Well, perhaps impl #125 will finally part the users from their Excel. But tbh, I wouldn't bet on it. YMMV. ;-)
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For me it scrolls pretty fast. I am using Chrome on OS X. What browser are you using?
and if it doesn't appear to have peaked? why, just wait a bit longer!
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Always this comment... Sigh.

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Thanks for the insightful comment. You hit the nail on the head - we're not interested in building another wiki (as you mentioned, we haven't seen one we've liked). We're just trying to think about whether it's possible to solve the problem in a simpler way.
This is one of the cool things I think about capitalist systems. Whenever there is some kind of vacuum huge amounts of capital always flows to it. If the federal government had some smarter bureaucrats they would use this mechanism as a gauge and focus their energies on the sectors that are being heavily invested, e.g. education, because that means state services are not meeting certain demands. But more often than not they do the exact opposite. Instead of bringing more innovative thinking to state run schools by stealing some of the good ideas from for profit educational institutions they just cling to their old ways and try to strangle the for profits. This is just backwards because the value state run schools provide to their students is always more than any for profit school can provide but with money being cut back and teachers being let go at state schools the students have nowhere else to go but to greedy for profit institutions.
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How is this unprofessional? Is it inappropriate in some way?
Any other hackers totally disgusted by the state of education?

On one hand, you have "for profit" schools like those documented here. At best, these are a slippery slope. The fact that they are "for profit" doesn't scare me so much, but the predatory marketing and questionable value do. Bottom line, I would never attend one in current form and would take anyone unable to see through the facade with a heavy grain of salt while hiring.

On the other, you have traditional state and established private schools. The problems are myriad here as well. Costs continue to rise and most are hurting for money and have practically become "for profit". The danger of tenure means that quality can and often is lackluster. From personal experience, many professors are more interested in themselves and forget that the primary mission is the development of students. I've found that many college professors are down right awful at conveying their subject matter to students. All in all, it's a hundreds of years old bureaucracy with little oversight and questionable relevance to the 21st century.

I think the real crime is the expectation that everyone in America needs a college education. There is certainly value in pursuing the standard liberal arts curriculum; it pushes you to explore a wide area and develop at least some analytical and argumentative skills. Whether everyone is cut out for this study is another matter. It is a mistake to assume that the worlds needs such a large quantity of generalists. My intuition points to quite the opposite. Technology will continue to push complexity farther and farther into all walks of life. What is really needed is the ability to quickly assimilate knowledge and separate wheat from chaff (i.e. throw out the constant stream of bullshit that society and marketing throw at us). Most coursework focuses on quite the opposite by requiring rote memorization and prepackaged knowledge from the professor. There also seems to be a growing trend of disdain for good, honest work -- the thankless jobs that allow us knowledge workers to exist. It is deceitful to perpetuate that everyone is capable of everything and just because they don't have a degree are inferior. Society requires all sorts of people to thrive.

At least for building software, I can't help but think that apprenticeships and mentoring would do a lot more for software quality than four years of expensive daycare that most degree programs are.

Disclaimer: I've just finished my Junior year as a CS major at a small public military college. All in all, the best thing I gotten are a bunch of really good friends and networking opportunities. Those that weren't programming on their own prior to entering the CS program are going to be seriously disadvantaged in the market place. I'm curious what other startup junkies have to say.
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There's Wikipedia, and then there's wikis.

Wikipedia is an awesome resource because hundreds if not thousands of people every day actually collaborate on it. There are a few big public wikis that are like this, too, but Wikipedia's the main one. Of course, Wikipedia has a toxic and idiotic culture, but they wrote a not-bad encyclopedia. That's fine.

Wikis, on the other hand, are usually just a repository for single-author documents which are, at best, sparsely updated by that single author when he is bored. They don't spin up to full collaborative potential if they're just a documentation repository for a group that has real work to do. They're just another bin of poorly updated documentation.
"Full disclosure" is a discussion about the ethics of publishing an exploit. Publishing exploits is customarily done in a descriptive manner -- I've never seen it done by publicly sharing the spoils of using that exploit.

Did you try publicizing it without the full identifying data available and measuring the response? Did you consider a strategy of escalating outrageousness, instead of going straight for this course of action?

What about automatically contacting the affected users first, and attempt to rouse them to action?

I'm sorry to be so harsh in a public forum, but when someone takes it upon himself to say that the affected lives are going to suffer for a good cause, then he'd better accompany the resulting campaign with a very thorough -- and thoroughly-vetted -- piece of argument explaining exactly why the ethical balance is in his favor. Two guys deciding they'd get more pageviews by going with plan A, and leaving the moral debate for blog commenters after the fact is not a thorough vetting.

There were already numerous forces at play which could potentially result in FB getting things straight. Your app won't have accomplished anything that wouldn't otherwise have been accomplished, except perhaps to cause a few more people to suffer.
Easy to test. Send some emails with pictures of typical objects and see if relevant ads come up.
It seems as if it's mostly tech savvy people quitting Facebook, right? What percentage of this group are web developers?

I was talking to a friend of mine who stopped using Facebook a few weeks back, only to sign up for a new account (throw-away) a few days later in order to implement something Facebook related for a client.
> Portraying oneself more conservatively in less familiar company is often essential.

People's reaction to the 'less conservative' aspects of each other would have to change if there was no way of hiding them. It is rather analogous to gay people 'coming out of the closet' and the whole gay rights movement but applied to a whole spectrum of preferences and proclivities. People's prejudices will eventually dissipate, especially when they are most likely 'coming out' in some way themselves. In fact those that genuinely are conservative in every area will probably find themselves in a minority. Of course if people have really bad secrets like they are a wife beater of something then this is unlikely to be accepted and there would rightly be moves to stop that behavior.
Isn't this how people in the public eye have historically managed their privacy — the public/performer persona and the private individual?
Agreed. Providing structure around an existing workflow for a target group is exactly what the doctor ordered... but even that's a tough nut to crack. One of our hopes in exploring existing workflows is to identify both winners and losers around specific use cases. Thanks for the thoughtful response.
The same paper (a study on rural schools in India) refers to another study whose interpretation of similar results as "being consistent with teachers expending effort towards short-term increases in test scores but not towards long-term
learning."
I don't find this surprising. Windows gaming software (which includes games, drivers, libraries and OS) has been tweaked and optimized over the course of the last 15 years or so. Each new graphics driver release brings improvements.

The Mac world is at the beginning of this path. While it might take shorter (because people know what they're doing), it won't be instantaneous.
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This is fantastic. Can you download his course materials for free?
I've already read it. The scrollbar itself is pretty, but you cannot exactly capture the precision of a mousewheel or in my case, a two-finger scroll event. For me, the two-finger scroll speed is disturbingly faster than other windows that scroll, which makes navigating Cappuccino apps unnatural compared to normal pages. For the git issue browser, where long lists and comment threads are everywhere, it distracts from my ability to use the app.

You won't be able emulate scrolling fully until there is a standard for mousewheel events that includes full X/Y delta information instead of uniform discrete steps. I haven't seen any plans for this in HTML5 or elsewhere. And at the end of the day, anything done via JavaScript events is just not going to match the reponsiveness of the browser scrolling the element natively; for such a fundamental operation, the cosmetic benefit of a reskinned scrollbar just does not outweigh the UI friction.