skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point about RSS spam made me realize that the new design could be interesting.

Right now, I use Google Reader to get content from feeds I personally selected. (so not RSS Spam, just publishers I selected myself) If I want to find links that are popular right now, I come on Hacker News (like I would on Digg, but I haven't checked it out in a long time), because the discovery/social aspect of Google Reader does not work for me. I also get links from friends on Facebook. Finally, on Twitter, I follow mostly what Kevin Rose calls "tastemakers" and sometimes get some links from them, amongst the general "what are you doing?" updates.

But if I just want to read some stuff, it's all separated.

Friends, tastemakers and publishers in the same interface could be a really good mix.

Basically, Digg can become the one-stop shop for links and articles: some from my friends, some from tastemakers, my RSS feeds, and I suppose also from the Digg users in general (friends or not). And I get the ability to share each of them in turn from that same interface.
That was pretty much what I was thinking as well. Say an hour or so before it expires...
This looks a lot like Gordon (http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon) — a JS implementation of Flash. In which case, the point is that you don’t need a service to convert your files — your SWF files would work as-is.

Ideally — provided JS performance catches up — you simply re-tool your templates to use the JS runtime (rather than embed tags) to run your SWF file.

In fact, looking at the source of http://smokescreen.us/demos/lyrisdemo.html it’s conceivable that you could use Flash if available, but fallback to Smokescreen/Gordon otherwise (likely testing for HTML5 support first). That link is also a great example of how easy it would be for an ad agency to continue to use their existing resources for Flashless, HTML5-ready devices.

Is there any relation between the Smokescreen and Gordon projects? I haven’t heard of the latter in a while.
Yeah. I think it's a Vicon motion capture system.

http://www.vicon.com/

They're wildly expensive, but can give you sub-millimeter accuracy at like 100 Hz.
Reddit comments are excellent, and I think that while having a buzzing community creates a lot more noise, there is also a lot more great content. Initiatives like $180,000 for Haiti, or the secret santa wouldn't have been the same 5 years ago.
I was talking about this just yesterday with a game developer friend. I was trying to explain to him how I viewed your former employer as being too successful.

I said Blizzard was Too Successful in that WoW achieves profitability to the detriment of fiendish players, many of whom waste untold hours of what would otherwise be productive time. He, being an almost pure libertarian, disagreed with all too familiar logic: "it's not my fault they get addicted", etc.

I then asked him if he would sell drugs, and he responded that he already had. So, regardless of perspective, it is pretty easy to see where these arguments lead; that is, down the slippery slope and out to the extremes as one tries to justify their position.
Agreed. I'll work out what the best way is to do that and add it to the site.
Except it's not allowed...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.5

RFC 5321 section 2.3.5 specifically prohibits TLDs from receiving email. Other RFCs back that up, actually including RFC5322 (not directly, but in wire format).

That said, we see some TLDs run MX's. I think at least some portion of them sell the mail received there to spammers. Seriously.
Looks great! language filtering url would be a nice addition.
If you really love what you are doing, you'll just stop reading this comment here and take that bag.

You said you refuse to take that bag, so now consider this situation... you have 3 more days to die and you just created something beautiful & awesome and you want to see it thru. Might be a business or even a time travel machine or even someone you love. Won't you regret that you didn't take that colostomy bag to live long enough to see the job thru and have fun?

Still waiting to take that bag? Damn it! you are forcing yourself to be a loser.

As for women, like everyone else said, i dunno how to blow them off their feet. And sadly so do people who have done it :) So take that bag and get lucky!!!
Being smart doesn't necessarily mean cannot getting things done.

The author never worked at Google. It seems not so reasonable to project her experience at one Microsoft group to Google.
Be one of the first to draft a Portability policy. http://portabilitypolicy.org outlines the questions you answer about your users' power over their data.
I get skips in the sound on 5.0.375.55 for Win, but graphics are pretty much flawless.
An open letter to Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder)
Sounds a lot like the gnome underpants plan in a loop (obviously).
My response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1388142
Is the new Digg the Twitter of News?
The interface is really the only thing that matters.
I'm can't propose an equity split, but given those facts I think Eddie deserves more than Mark who deserves more than Fred.

This will be a full time job for Eddie, a part time job for Mark, and a side project for Fred. (Yes, I'm sure Fred will work 100 hour weeks and that his day job is easy, but the mental tax of holding two jobs cannot be overstated.)

But I wouldn't divvy up 100% right now. I would keep some equity unallocated so that if Mark or Fred decide to work for the startup full-time, their equity can be adjusted to reflect that.
Well, he does start the video saying this preview is for publishers -- just as Google has done outreach to advertisers -- that's fine.

When you compare this to FaceBook who wants publishers to put stupid like buttons on everything everywhere, I like this new Digg approach better. It's easier for publishers, and keeps the web from being overridden with "like me follow me save me" spam.

However, FaceBook's strategy is much more conniving because by spreading widgets all over the web, they're collecting a lot of data about your browsing habits on third party sites. Digg won't get that from simple RSS feeds.
Google Knows that Their Growth Requires Outside Developers
What? I don't understand what the big problem with some HN users and 'linkbait'.

Who cares? It's called journalism. In order to catch attention, the headline has to be attention grabbing.

This post was soo timely for HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1384994

If the article was garbage, then yes I would agree with you. But who cares if he manipulates the headline to get attention.

The next time you write a blog post, or anything, that doesn't have an attention grabbing headline and gets a ton of traffic...please let us know.
The fan fiction appearing today on HN actually caused me to submit Three World Collide. (So, if anyone ever wonders why HN sometimes seems to be monothematic …)
I don't work for MS, but I must admit I'm impressed with Bing. Is it better than Google? Maybe not, but it's still impressive. And they certainly seem to rev changes to it just as fast as Google is doing nowadays.

We'll see how Office online plays out. And don't forget that MS Online Services has like 40million paying customers.

They also do something called XBox Live and even Hotmail has gotten a little better over time. And I find Live Mesh to be the best cloud sync'ing app I've ever used. All in all, I think they're doing OK (not great, but OK).
That's true. My main point was the first one. The second point was mainly to illustrate that annoyance isn't hypothetical; I'm annoyed by an extra text box.
Crohn's disease is not fatal.
Some unsolicited advice for Newslily: explain it a little better. The up/down arrows appear to be clickable, but aren't for unregistered or new users and there is no error message. New users can click on the "random" button, but it's not really clear what the randomness is. Etc.

Lower the barrier to entry a bit for new users. Not too far (that's the balance that every community must strike), but a little bit.
Reddit's quality has gone down in flames; it's 6 months away from being Digg with a shitty (if lovable) interface. I still visit Reddit, but less than ever. So to talk down to Digg, which Reddit shamelessly copied, and while Digg is at least trying to innovate is odd. What has reddit done lately? Subreddits? Narwhals? I still have love for Reddit, but this post seems obnoxious.
I think it'd be really cool if you posted the site's code in various snippets on the site. The whole meta-/self-ref thing might be too awesome for your site to handle.

Other than that, looks pretty decent. It would be nice if you could linkify URLs in both code comments, and comment responses.

I like how you use github to host the code. That's a great way to build off existing infrastructure to download/share/render code. I'm not totally sure how gists work -- are they editable, and can they be synced with a normal git repo? If so, this is really powerful.
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what does he care? if you think they are making a mistake, great, they are your competitor... why bother writing an open letter?

I also don't get what he is ranting about..I think the new Digg looks great, just when I was starting to get sick of the top news stories not being relevant to me, now I will be able to follow people with similar interests, just like twitter, but I don't have to read through what they had for breakfast to get the links I want.
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Has he spent any time with Kevin? Because frankly this version reeks of Kevin - it's just endless twiddling with design and a fear of doing anything to actually change the way the site works.
Your regular guy spending of $3,000 a month is about equal to my family of 4 monthly spending. Must be nice.
I won't work at Google because Al Gore is one of their "senior advisors".
I also noticed in one view that ceiling has extremely uniform air ducting, presumably to prevent any kind of gusts (possibly to cause them though).

When I see this same demo being performed out in a field with a combination of variable rotating fans I'll start getting more concerned about robot overlords.
Although the article has valid points, banning these words would be the last thing on my mind. I think it is all about creating a better experience for your users/readers.
I wouldn't call it lame. It's predictable, precisely because it's a fairly standard hero story, the kind we keep telling each other since we have learned to tell stories.

Stories like these are part of what makes us human.
But what about PG ?

(for the record, reddit is my #1 site)
DMC, if you're looking to borrow goals, try http://43things.com. You can see a wide range of what people have on their bucket lists and new years' resolutions.

If you'd like to make a difference, try to doing at least one good deed every day, a mitzvah. Anonymously if possible. It's harder than it sounds, and will get harder as your physical options become more limited.

Those of us with longer time horizons consider life a balancing act: mixing work, fun, education, beauty, family, community, religion, health. Since you're budgeting your time, consider what sort of mix you'd like. It's your story to write. Maybe 60 art museums in 60 days? Or go someplace where they don't speak much English (France and Spain come to mind) and learn the language?

Last, and this may be the hard one, think of ways to leave this world better than when you came. Does freedom from long term consequences create an opportunity to do something extraordinary if perhaps unpleasant, taboo, or illegal? A dictator you can take down because your life is cheap? A government censorbot that needs a privacy countermeasure you can code because you're not afraid of jail? A homeless person you can take into your home and mainstream because the worst that can happen is they steal your property?

Good luck with your life. Live well. Be decisive. Ask yourself always: "What's the best use of my time right now?"
Hedge fund incentive fees are taxed as ordinary income.
I actually will be doing that! I had a request before for the voting code, and I'm going to post it up on the website later on tonight!

Turning links into Gists in the comments is a good idea! I'll add that to my to-do list!

GitHub is great! The Gists are not directly editable because they are created without user credentials but they are real git repositories which means that you can fork them/clone them/etc...

The SSH/git urls are shown on the Gist pages (you can get there by clicking the Gist filename in the bottom right of each Gist)
This new type of satellite, Block IIF, will broadcast a new military signal and also a new civilian signal: L5 (safety-of-life). It'll be interesting to see what kind of accuracy GPS receivers get when they start using the L5 data, because it's supposed to be especially beneficial to aviation.
ah, yes, and when your mail server goes down for a couple hours? that's a lot of fun.

i've managed my own mail servers from ~2000 to 2008, when it practically became a full time job. i use gmail primarily for (1) the spam filter and (2) not having to worry about downtime.

[edit: and on another note, roundcube development is PAINFULLY slow...]
“It is both ironic and disconcerting that legislators can profess commitment to creating jobs — and then discourage the type of long-term investment which has been a proven job creator for the last century,”

.. this is only true if you can show that VCs create more jobs than an alternative investment of the same capital. Is there any data on this?
> There is not any fluff, nor a wasted word.

Except yours, here.
Yes! In fact, if you view source, you can see that there's just a call "new Smokescreen(url, element, width, height, name, params)" which loads the SWF and renders it. (Much like Gordon, mentioned in another comment.)
> First, note the file structure. This step is aided by an editor that has a folder hierarchy view

http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
Craigslist. Be prepared to sift through dozens, if not hundreds, of responses.
> Is my account on an old infrastructure?

I'm starting to wonder about that too - I've discussed this with a bunch of people recently, and those of us who are seeing the really awful performance (>30 second wait times for basic operations like sending a mail) seem to be mainly early adopters.

Personally, I'm using Google Apps "Premiere" which I initially purchased about a month after launch.
Bing search for iPhone deal in place
Additional degree on top of a PhD and MD is ridiculous when there are so many books and internet resources readily available.

Most university engineering programs are not hands on enough for this and will be a waste of time. You really need a facility like www.techshop.ws and access to a bunch of people who need limbs.

Just start building the prosthetic and learn what you need as you go. You might find that you don't even like doing the hands on stuff in which case going to school would be an even bigger waste of time.

John Carmack did not go to school for either computer programming or rocket science and has done alright in both fields. Dean Kamen also has no degree and invented insulin pumps, wheelchairs, the segway, the "luke" arm, etc...
As someone who has written no more than 3 unit tests his entire professional life, I can tell you untested code is fraught with fear.

For things that really matter, authentication, payment processing and service orchestration, I have resorted to ad-hoc specification; I cheesy pseudo-algebra based on axiomatic semantics, guards and boatloads of die() type assertions :-|
VCs are already investing more of their capital off-shore, this bill would further discourage them from investing in US startups.
oh, well did you read my comment? That is exactly what I was speaking of.
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60% of Facebook users consider quitting over privacy
Top Kill Is Failing, Source Tells NY Times
A lot of cognitive science (especially AI related) and cog psychology is DoD related as well. For FY2010 60% of the US governments total R&D spending is military 40% non-military.
That's not Android's UI, that's HTC Sense, which generic device manufacturer in China can't use.
an open letter to Alexis Ohanian

fix search, it's been broken for a couple of weeks now.
I think we are talking past each other, and that part of the problem may be that you are unfamiliar with what ecosystem management actually is[1].

I agree with you about malaria and spraying DDT. I caught and endured through malaria when I was doing field work in Tanzania. But, the WHO also agrees with you about spraying, and I personally feel this is a much less controversial issue than you make it out to be. Spraying continues to be funded by USAID, and I have found no indication that the current administration plans to change that.

It's very nice, I'm sure, that the WHO and company admitted their mistake ... 3 decades later and how many 10s of millions needlessly dead in what is easily one of the 20th century's biggest genocides?

It's not that simple and if you have read the Wikipedia articles on DDT, which you say you have, you know it. If you want to engage in a rational, reasoned discussion, I am happy to do so, but if you want to spout hyperbole like this, go fly a kite because I am done.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_management
A badly designed front-end can negatively affect your backend code. For example, a radio button can lead to cleaner code, only one callback for the whole option-set and one dispatch per each option. However, changing the radio to a checkbox will lead to some woolly code.

Similarly, the introduction of an accurate progress-bar might require the introduction of threads to the backend, or force you to update a global variable, or even rewrite it as an stream-based algorithm.

For CLI applications, independent utilities (a la git) might lead to cleaner code, but sometimes you want to pass more state between phases, and having a per-application shell, a la OpenSSL might be better since you can then implement variables and pass intermediate representations in memory, instead of disk files and sockets.
It looks like they will be monetizing, but with the FOSS + paid support model. They say it on the third panel here: http://smokescreen.us/
That's like saying "This Chinese Louis Vuitton knockoff looks just like the real one! Their designers must be much better than Louis Vuitton's." That device's hardware looks like the iPad. That in no way signifies that the company's R&D dept. is anywhere near as good as Apple's.
Fair enough, but there's nothing overtly weaponizable about communication technology.

Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled the money is there to advance the field, I just wish it wasn't coming from a bunch of dickheads trying to strap guns to it.

I guess since the conventional wisdoms says pornography is the biggest catalyst for new media adoption, it shouldn't be a surprise that killing people drives the other engineering fields forward.
1588 users polled. 400M active Facebook users.

0.000397% population sample. oh yeah, this study is very accurate.
Reddit search? Was there ever one?
-Michael Scott
sort of, before you'd get "crap" results, now you get no results. All you get is:

Our search machines are under too much load to handle your request right now. :( Sorry for the inconvenience. Try again in a little bit -- but please don't mash reload; that only makes the problem worse.
Would be interesting to know which product she worked on at Microsoft. Sure they have teams that don't deliver, but they also have teams that get shit done.
Woops, don't I feel stupid now.
What is Yahoo?
Yes and no. I just made the mistake of looking at /r/pics, and it's a sty.

That said, there are a variety of good communities on Reddit.
Works on Safari 4.0.4 for Mac. Actually indistinguishable from the plugin, as far as I could tell.
A good book and a quick read on the same subject is: Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales.
How is Smokescreen different than Gordon? http://wiki.github.com/tobeytailor/gordon/
The bad thing about MPEG-LA and their patent pool is that they contend that one cannot create a video codec without infringing on their IP. If true, they have a government granted monopoly on all present and future video codecs not already in the public domain.
You can also look at it from a different perspective:

The market is a much harsher master when it comes to fiscal accountability. Stuff doesn't get funded unless it's going to make money. Military spending is a magical well of infinite money with little accountability. You can think up any project you want and get money to do it so long as you say you're going to strap a gun on your robot, or that the decentralized communication network is really to help survive a nuke attack.

I used to work in bioinformatics and money from the typical funding sources was getting tight in the late 90s, early 00s. After 9/11, my department just recast every project as "terrorist bio-defense" and was financially refueled with defense money.
Not laughing -- nothing wrong with getting mental help. Foot doctors, heart doctors, brain doctors; they all help fix you up if there's a problem.

If you haven't talked to a professional (psychologist or psychiatrist) lately, go (or have a friend or relative on your behalf) seek one out and make an appointment before you do anything else. If you explain your situation on the phone, they may be able to squeeze you in for an appointment right away.
Crazy, isn't it? But I guess they felt the risk was worth it. I assume that's how the scientists working on the LHC feel.
Probably not, but there's rumblings about the poor relative performance of VC as an asset class in general (ie in returns relative to illiquidity) --- and investment in, say, corporate bonds also funds business expansion.
Don't forget to expire it server-side. It's not hard to save a cookie before expiration.
Doesn't the FDA regulate the specific words that can be legally allowed to describe the stated effects of any medical treatment? Which is why all of the non-regulated pseudo-science drugs have to use generic terms like "you'll feel better, have more energy and be more successful."

If Oprah pitches one of these products, she's a paid spokesman for it, so wouldn't drug laws trump free speech here? i.e. Business are not allowed to flaunt the laws and claim they have free speech, but individuals of course are given far more leeway.
Two minutes tweaking your subreddits will give you a much better experience. I found that just removing main Reddit made my first page an order of magnitude better.
"Do we really need to have another debate around development methodologies?"

Well, it's not really much of a debate when one side is bluntly asserting, for example:

Good programmers will write good code regardless of
whether or not they use TDD or not.

... without a shred of non-anecdotal evidence, or tossing up strawmen to be knocked down. Like this one:

It becomes ridiculous when people start to think that
this tool that may be useful to some is going to save
us all from bad code and crappy software.
I'm probably making all kinds of Bayesian reasoning errors by coming this conclusion, but I'm beginning to think Eliezer's true calling is writing SF. This one is superb - entertaining and enlightening, but I didn't find the ending(s) very powerful. For a story of Elizier's that starts slow and finishes strong, check out "That Alien Message", a disturbing and inspiring parable about the true meaning of superintelligence: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980876
I put it on http://linkup.com/ a while ago (I require the start/ENTER at the end of the code), but nobody even noticed. I figured a picture of Chuck Norris on our "professional" website would catch the boss' attention and make us take it down. Nope. So it remains a joke just for me (and now HN).

And that's alright.