skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experiences, I believe whatever we call "politics", at least at this level, is just "ways people get along with each other" Sometimes technical people will use "politics" to mean an obviously fake person who says things they don't mean, but it can also mean somebody who is sensitive to how to say things and when. And it's not easy to spot the difference.

I'd just treat everybody the same.

If anything, if you have a good "schmoozer" put him in a PM role or something. Use those skills to help the team perform better (if this is a possibility). If you can't do that, and you have some sort of antagonistic relationship with the office politician? If you're a blunt person like me, the best thing to do is to steer clear. People with highly developed social skills can be very dangerous to deal with unless your skills are close to the same level.
I think your attitude is right-on, but you proceeded to list as "easy" a bunch of things people find hard. ;)

(You might not, but many do...)
Of course all those hardware devices only support H.264 baseline profile, which according to the x264 developer isn't as good a spec as the WebM one. Backwards compatibility cuts both ways. Which means you ethier double your encoding and storage costs or send the same, lower quality file to everyone. This must be what Steve Jobs means by holding back the platform.

(And you can indeed "download a hardware VP8 chip" if you happen to have a Nokia N900, Palm Pre or Motorola Droid and want better quality video since they have a general purpose OMAP3 setup to do exactly this kind of thing, as already shown by Theora DSP work. And OMAP4 has already been announced by TI to have WebM built in so maybe TI themselves will do the work necessary.)
Great idea, I've done it here for our service:

1) 200 / 4189 = 4.8%
2) 200 / 6922 = 2.9%
3) 200 / 8974 = 2.2%

And since we are starting to grow decently, I did users more active than 2 weeks ago: 200 / 2671 = 7.5%
For me, its because I am happy with how I handle music, the same way I have for the last 10+ years: share mp3s with friends, buy the CDs online I like and rip them to FLAC, or purchase download directly from some great artists.

Then copy the files between all my devices, as much as I like, using the usual methods (USB, FTP, SCP..)
And the search interfaces that STBs do have are terrible, you can barely search by name, and can't search by actor or anything like that.

But being able to scroll through a list is much better than having to watch a scrolling list and having to wait for the thing you want to scroll by.
You can also use the search plugin at http://nfriedly.com/stuff/duckduckgoogle/ if you want search suggestions.
Note, however, that this kills some of the privacy as it sends your searches to both Google and Duck Duck Go.
That last bit is from a song I love, for the record:
Atmosphere - Like Today

Woke up, got up, near eleven o'clock
butt naked except I was wearing my socks
and that's cool, 'cause most the time this floor is cold
stand up and stretch look around this mess
my place has been a cage since she left me
make my way to the kitchen, start the coffee
then dip to the bathroom, begin the triple-s
and wash the previous evening off me
now out the shower, get dry, shove a q-tip in my ear
well, what do we have here?
it appears as if a piece of me has got motivation
ain't nothin' wrong with a little morning masturbation
fresh, dressed like fifty cents
clean and awake now I'm ready to commence
spark up the caffeine and nicotine binge
and that's pretty much the pattern of how the day begins

Wonder how different it would be had it been recorded 5 years later... Sure the internet was around in 2001, but aside from geeks, I don't think it was part of everyone's daily routine yet.
Tamarin is what runs AS3 in the Adobe Flash Player.
Excellent work. Thank you for taking this problem seriously.
Every day we could have one post on HN that is something like "Say something funny"

And keep the humor to just that.

It would add some balance, give us a place to vent/joke/whatever, and also give the community a place to point to if commenters got out of control on other threads
You could always register an icanhascheeseburger account.

You will get a torrent of funny pictures and the comments are about as far from Spock-like as can be found. Once you've gorged yourself and start feeling your grip on reality grow wobbly, then come back here and spend time here in the "joke-free-zone", as you put it.
Peace on Earth? Increasingly, Yes.
The funny thing is that the MPEG-LA could have taken a much different strategy and had all the money to themselves. If they had only charged a fee for hardware devices, no one really would have cared.
This looks like an article written to match a desired headline. The control device is hardly 'fundamental' to the concept of a web-enabled TV.
> You seemed to be confused and to not recognize that religion is intrinsically violent.

You should clarify what you meant by the above.

(a) "You... [do] not recognize that religion [in general] is intrinsically violent."
(b) "You... [do] not recognize that [that particular] religion[, Islam,] is intrinsically violent."
yup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System#Asteroid_belt
I had almost the exact same experience at about the same age (seeing Mosaic on a friends' machine, in high school) -- but came to the opposite conclusion; I knew this would be hot! Having had tinkered with gopher, irc, and a little bit of text-only www, seeing the hypertextual web rendered with images blew my mind.
Show HN: didtheywinornot.com Single Purpose Scores Site
I built didtheywinornot.com this week in my spare hours before work. Currently it only does baseball scores, but as new seasons start in the fall, I think I'll expand it to other sports.

Would love some feedback and any ideas as to how to make it better, keeping in mind that this is meant to be single purpose and not at all bloated. Did I miss a stat that people really care about? Is the amount of information good enough?
This will just replace one of the current searches whereas I want to add one. But I figured it out - in the searchplugins directory in the firefox install are a bunch of xml files. I added a new one with the relevant info and now "duck" is the keyword that maps to a duck duck go search.
Nuke the Entire Site — It’s the Only Way to be Sure
Of course all those hardware devices only support H.264 baseline profile

No, a very large proportion of them support High Profile. It was only the very early mobile phones and iPods that used Baseline chipsets. Nowadays H.264 support is almost always H.264 High in hardware devices.
clickable link: http://didtheywinornot.com
I don't have a SAAS solution, but I do have a mobile application, which has a 10% paid accounts upgrade. I have about 60K on the free version and 6k on the paid version.
To quote guest InstaPundit blogger Stewart Baker (http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/did-apple-reject-a-polit...):

"Dear Steve Jobs: If you’re ever making a presentation and see a really fit blonde woman running down the aisle with a hammer, get off the stage. She’s definitely looking for you."
I have every confidence that Google would give any concerns about search every bit of the attentive customer service they are famous for showering their paying customers with.
Found a bug in the GCC system (not deep, complex or new, but very frustrating)
What are the advantages of Redis over Cassandra? (honest question)
Right, I didn't mean to imply that no other browsers have some kind of noscript functionality built in.
As cool as this is Neptune and Pluto orbits are wrong. They cross each others paths.
I take Damage Control Master Formula from Primal Nutrition; in the last six months I've lost about 30 pounds, find myself considerably less hungry than I used to be, and have a lot more energy than I did before. (That all may also be related to the fact that I switched to a high-protein/low-carbs diet at the same time.)

Primal Nutrition also offers Omega 3 supplements, which I also take. I have not had the rancidity problem.

It's all pretty expensive, though.
Hey, I can understand that. Been a picky eater all my life, though I've gotten a little "better" over the years. My parents were the same and they're doing just fine, so I don't think there's that much to worry about as long as you don't get deficient. There's a lot of vegetables I won't touch (but there's others I'll devour in massive quantities, so it's easier on me), but here's a tip that worked for both me and a friend, if you'd actually want a way to both eat more veg without it tasting awful: Make soup! I absolutely despise raw tomatoes, but cooked with thyme, basil, bay leaf, onion, garlic, pepper, and a decent amount of beef stock (or a maggi cube and water, no reason to make it too complicated) it's one of my favourite dishes. It's not even difficult to make. Same with cauliflower soup, too, or any other soup, really, vegetable or not. Having a blender does help if you don't like chunks in your soup, but otherwise you can do without. Just thought you might want to know.
~ Miri, the Soupvangelist ::P
Read the webm license.

If you launch or join attack against VP8, either directly or by proxy, for next 20 years (or however long it takes to VP8 patents to expire) you cannot ship anything that wants to play VP8 video.

For most H.264 patent holders (not MPEG-LA, think Hitachi, LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba...) that could be a problem, if VP8 is successful. Would you want to be CE producer and unable to play Youtube?
Google celebrates 30 years of pacman w/playable logo
Play PacMan at google.com Now.
Nope. It's just that Big Supplement wants a way to make more money off the gullible :P We really don't need that many supplements. Decent food and no absorption issues is all it takes.
That's different. A generation of engineers and scientists grew up on science fiction of authors like Gibson and deliberately went out to create it.
An update on Tout, the web-app I built in 3-days | TK's weblog
http://www.intramax.org/
I don't suppose you'd consider blogging about that setup (and in particular which data store you find to be natural for which scenario)? I don't know Redis or Cassandra (or similar) very well, which means it's hard to know what sort of things they're best suited to, compared to each other or to an RDBMS.
That is one highly negative, pessimistic viewpoint, but I have to agree that he does have some valid points. I can't see that many people will have the technical skill to install Diaspora. They don't know what a server is and think that the internet is somehow magically inside their computer. Unless Diaspora finds some way to make running the server extremely simple people won't adopt it. Also they would have to educate their users on the basics of server operation. (Otherwise someone will start their Diaspora server, then turn the computer off and wonder why no one can see their profile.)

It sounds like a mess to me, and I agree that only the geekiest of people will even attempt to adopt it, and of those I wonder how many will stick with it.
I've done several hackathons (DayOfMobile, iPadDevCamp) and have been involved in judging and organizing several others (SocialDevCamp, Google Android Eco Challenge Hackathon, I can't remember)

Hit the ground running
If you already have a team and an idea, one thing you want to do is hit the ground running. By that I mean, your project environment should be set up, version control, templates etc. If you are wasting time downloading and installing software that the rest of the team uses, that is all wasted time.

Clear division of labor and expectations
Nothing is worse than working on the same thing or overlapping things in a hackathon because you just don't have time. Also, make sure you are in agreement as to what the end points will look like. If someone's working on the backend and returning data, make sure that the UI developer is expecting the right payload etc. A good discussion upfront instead of just coding right away will take care of that.

As organizer stuff you want to think about:
Make sure you have decent internet connectivity.
Power strips.
Food - pizza and redbull type stuff
Comfy furniture - I don't particularly like sitting at a desk hacking for 12+hours. I might want to sit on a couch or a beanie bag.
Maybe music.

I think getting people to cover the hackathon while it's going on is also a good idea. Usually hackathons only get the spotlight when the developers emerge from the cocoon to present. I think its great when you have people from the event taking their flip cam and going around talking to hackers asking what they are doing and just to see the process.

As a judge I'm always more impressed when things work. I've seen entries where it's mostly a mockup or screenshots with no working tech. I've also seen working tech with no UI. Obviously the more you can show, the better.
FYI, https://ddgw.s3.amazonaws.com/external.png is still being loaded direct by s212.css, rather than being proxied via your server. The search term isn't included in the referer though.
man it's been a long time since I heard anyone use the phrase "killer app" it just seems so 90s
Online video -> NYT article -> $170,000 handout -> lots of hard work -> great, successful product

The order and substance of these events are not how new, big, innovative things have been built in the past. If anything, it's like this:

lots of hard work -> failure -> even more hard work -> skepticism, ridicule (optional) -> failure -> even more hard work -> early adopters "get it" -> small successes -> more hard work -> big successes -> mainstream adoption -> donations/funding/etc -> NYT article -> success
Good catch :). Will fix!
If you were approached by these people to invest and you actually told them to send you hardware to evaluate, then I take back what I said initially.
What you're describing sounds like what I'm going through now with Braintrust. A small subset of people "get it" but there's still a lot of hard work ahead.
Each server is single-profile? If so, I agree that that's a terrible design. I'd assumed that it was more jabber-like in that anyone could start a server, rather than having to have one.
What a 3 year old can teach you about improving your business or career
3-5am Wake up to feed baby

7-9am Wake up to feed baby

9am Try to eat breakfast, drink, coffee, brush teeth, read Google reader

10am Start to work (if baby allows)
Yes, the union doesn't come off very well except for one interesting bit: the same workers and union went from crap to good when management changed.
I happen to agree with most of the press about Diaspora being doomed to fail. According to phrases and ideas all of us throw around, it's doomed to fail.

If I were the Diaspora team, I'd print out every piece of negative press and post it up on the wall in front of me. Then I'd make a pot of coffee and get to coding, using my "bad press" wall as my motivation to beat the hell out of the naysayers with a fantastic product a few months down the road.

The number of stories where the underdog or unknown in the start-up world surprises everyone and creates something unbelievably successful is staggering. I guess that's why I can't help but root for them. The odds are stacked against them, for sure, but that kind of pressure has brought forth some world-rocking products, and it's not my place to declare something dead before it's even been born.
They should have just left out Pluto altogether. It’s not a planet. They could have put in the Kupier belt like they put in the asteroid belt.
I remember in college how all the English professors we certain that hypertext novels with interweaving plot lines would replace the novel as we knew it. Even with the adoption of ebooks it still hasn't happened.
My product is project management and code hosting a kind of GoogleCode for your projects with private/public projects. You can get a 10MB storage (good also for private projects) for free and 1GB and up for money. Here are my latest stats (a mix of Google Analytics and my own tracking) for the last month:

- Conversion rate to free or trial offer: 3.56% (GA)

- Conversion rate for visitor having seen the plans page: 11% (Own tracking)

- Ratio paid/free offer counting all the forges: 2%

- Ratio paid/free offer counting only active forges: ~15% (it is hard to define sharply an (in)active forge)

The conversion rate for the hosting in my case is not that good because the product is also available as GPL software. You get both GPL+SaaS and the GPL conversion rate is 30% for the non bouncing visits.

You will soon get all the sales figures etc. directly on the website here: http://www.indefero.net Your question is just 5 days too early as I started yesterday to write all the details down. I will update my comment later not to force you to visit my site.
I use a Firefox addon called "TamperData". It's really good for stuff like this. I just go to a web page, open TamperData, hit <ctrl>refresh and it will give me a list of all the requests that are made. I can then go and take a look at the full set of HTTP Request and Response headers for each individual request.

It lets you intercept and modify request headers on the fly too. Very useful tool.
Also, many browsers block third-party cookies by default, which may screw up your analytics.
<incorrect> And here I thought that Google had implemented PacMan in HTML5 on their logo, given their presentation at Google I/O. </incorrect>

EDIT: I didn't see that you had to click "Insert Coin" to start.
Boy, did that surprise the heck out of me. I never worry about keeping my speakers turned up when going to google.com
Insert a second coin for Ms. Pac-Man multi-player.
Yes, it is a pretty clever hack but one that reads like a parody (at least to a lawyer's eye, having read too much of the usual bloat that fills the S1 statements over the years).

By the way, the most priceless detail in the whole thing: SEC registration fee = $0.90 (Item 13).
The moment for me was the first time I was browsing Yahoo, back when it had a stanford.edu address. I found a webcam in a computer lab in Japan.

Someone had set up some stuffed animals in front of the camera. The lab was deserted. And in the window beyond, dawn was breaking, even though it was night on the east coast of North America.

That's when the world changed for me.
As a picky eater myself, that's absolute torture to go through. My father tried it on me. After a few times of retching at the table, and running to go vomit because I found various tastes so bad, he kind of gave up. No more chicken livers for me. No more brussels sprouts. No more witlof (chicory for those that do not speak Dutch). No matter how well prepared, these things taste awful. Yes, even the witlof. I'm a bad Dutch person, I know.
Check out otherinbox.com too
deliberately? Maybe subconciously
Best. Logo. Ever.
yeah I sorta got that but hijacked the response with my own agenda, hence the 'fwiw' ;)
Someone really needs to start a nonprofit Facebook with the same basic design goals, a steering board, and probably some nominal monthly costs for accumulating more than 2GB of photos. Facebook solves the Internet anonymity problem, but it does so in a business-oriented way, which is gradually eroding the benefits of verified identity.

Only a non-profit with the stated mission of facilitating private and consensual friendship between existing, identified private individuals can really solve the problem.
Not the sound effects I remember from the arcade, but still cool.
Redis has a rapidly growing list of data operations to model a wide variety of problems within a bound storage space (the VM feature expands that space). Cassandra does a specific task, unlimited high volume redundant writes, extremely well. I use Redis for session data, caching and queuing needs but for the huge volume data store Cassandra is the answer.

Redis is a swiss army knife, Cassandra is a Ka-Bar.
There are a thousand low level details in the answer to this question; I'll try to cover some of the basics.

A high end vitamin tries very hard to package nutrients from actual food sources (i.e. extracts and concentrations of something you would really eat) instead of just cramming in raw materials. This tends to mean that the bioavailability (i.e. how much you actually absorb instead of just pass through) is much better. For example, sourcing calcium from ground up oyster shells provides plenty of the mineral, but the absorption rate is terrible. Much research goes into finding the best bioavailable forms.

In general, the ingredients are significantly better quality. Packaging B12 as cyanocobalamin may cost 1/10th as much as hydroxlcobalamin, but isn't nearly as good for us.

The ingredients are plentiful. The FDA's recommended daily allowance numbers are WAY off in most cases. For example, my multivitamin packages over 3000% of vitamin C, and over 8000% of B1.

Finally, a high end multivitamin includes a huge range of stuff beyond just the basics. For example, look at the ingredients list for the LEF Mix Tabs. It's 4 pages long in my browser. If you're curious, I suggest Google or Google Scholar around for the specific chemical forms of all the vitamins and minerals mentioned.
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I don't think the article argued that they can't compete because they're university students. It mentioned that this idea has been tried in the past and failed. Also that the average Joe won't want, likely even know how, to set up their own seed. People probably don't want to pay to host their own seed. Not mention you're going to go where your friends are. People aren't going to leave Facebook in droves because a couple of their nerdy friends left. Did you even read the article? Granted it's rather negative, but some of the points are valid.
I like the idea.

Some sports-related graphics would be nice.

Put input-focus automatically into the text box.

Your auto-complete is suggesting based on words inside the team name (nice!) but the experience is jarring, because it autocompletes the remainder of the matched phrase when I type in a word half-way through the name (type in: blu).
Ugh, this post is irritating. Did you fund Disporia? No? then why do you care about its success? or its funding? or the buzzwords? or whatever?

Let them try before condemning them to failure.

"By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you... just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"
Yeah, the NUMMI workers really improved. But that was only after they were fired and could only come back to work if they accepted the change.

In all other GM plants, both the unions and management blocked the changes for something like 15-20 years.
Exactly. And it's open source. So my question is: why re-invent that part? The other bits seem more pressing for practical use, even if Tamarin isn't as fast as it could be or whatever.
Wonder how many global man hours are going to be wasted by people playing this game today ;)
Someone suggested to me a peer-to-peer file sharing kind of structure, where your friends get a copy of your diaspora instance and can host it to your other friends while you're offline, etc...
I've been bit by this before -- in my case it was math.h and hypot. It was quite frustrating to debug something that I assumed would be correct, so did not look at.
What did you use to build?
That's pretty hot. WASD controls Ms. Pac.
Ebert has a good explanation of that. In the days when people told stories around the campfire, at any time, the storyteller could have asked the audience what should happen next. But they didn't because that would have ruined the story.

Douglas Coupland was more prescient in Microserfs, written about the same time. He said that interactive multimedia wouldn't be like books, it would be more like sports.
That's not what they did?
Diaspora: A word from the development team
And let's emphasize the last line of the posting:

"The moral? Always use -Wall"
bottle.py and sqlobject ontop of sqlite
Are entrepreneurs born or created?
What's Not your job?
Here's how I imagine Google TV when I turn it on for the first time:

"This program is not available in your geographical location"