skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And to be fair, of those first 10 redditors you miss, over half of them were me ;)

Ahahahaha I laugh because I know exactly what you're talking about ;-).

Your guys' comment system really is, in my opinion, the most addictive feature on the site. Those damn orange envelopes man... :) Thanks for the kind words, really.
I wanted to see that session too but got sidetracked somewhere else at IO. That's the biggest problem with IO - at any given time there were two or three places I wanted to be. They've said they'll be posting all of the session videos on YouTube but they haven't shown up yet. Here's the account where they're supposed to be listed: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers#g/u
It's not perfect on my imac+ff system.

There are always easter eggs in these strong bad emails. At the end, after the line printer sheet comes down, click on the lower light switch and the easter egg appears. To make it go away, you're supposed to click on the easter egg but on mine, it just makes everything disappear and the music loops indefinitely.

I also notice Strongbad's "mouth hole" sort of didn't look right, either, like there was this nested circle of some kind.

All in and all, though, pretty good. :)
And the votes are all wrong. The most popular code used to have 15 votes, now the most popular has 2 and many items have negative votes for no good reason.
A couple of weeks?
One possibility: parse "#n" in comments and highlight the line when clicked.
IE6 of some use for Businesses? Being used as Facebook blocker
Indulge me a Simpsons quote:

Baby-Proofer: Your baby is dead!
Homer and Marge: [horrified scream]
Baby-Proofer: That's what you'd hear if your baby
fell victim to one of the thousands of deathtraps
lurking in the average American home!

I would like to think that HN follows some of PG's taste for things, and none of his essays have "Your Baby Is Dead" style titles, even when the ideas inside are provocative. I think there's a line to draw, even though nobody is ever going to agree, but that's the way social norms are.
I'm going to kill this post. This conversation should be happening by email (pg@ycombinator.com).
Congrats, it has been quite a while since their last release.

A short comparison to Django:

- SQLAlchemy is badass.

- Jinja2 (or whatever templating language you like) is also badass.

- Passing data to your templates using a global 'c' object is weird and seems rather hack-ish to me.

- None of the third party form libraries are as good as Django's forms, especially when it comes to ModelForms (FormAlchemy's API is rather lacking, IMO). WTForms is the best I've seen so far, but it's lacking model integration.

- Both of the major user auth systems (AuthKit and repoze.who/repoze.what) are lacking compared to Django's contrib.auth. I found them convoluted, somewhat overengineered, and difficult to set up. Doing authentication in the middleware layer is the wrong approach, IMO. You shouldn't have to shuffle user data and login state around using redirects, query strings, and environment variables. If you search around on this topic, a lot of people end up recommending rolling your own. Blargh.

- Pylons puts a lot of cruft in your project when you create an new project. I'm not convinced how much of this stuff is actually necessary, especially at the beginning of a project.

- The docs have tended to lag behind the actual releases. For example, at one point url_for() was deprecated in favor of url(), but a lot of the docs still referenced it and it was not obvious where to find the documentation for url(). In fact, it's still not obvious. Sometimes you see TODOs in the documentation itself that make you wonder how up to date the docs actually are. Hopefully this has improved since I last used it.

My biggest issue with Pylons is when you run into needing a third party library like forms or user auth, you have to spend time researching 2342 different libraries, only to discover that many of them have fallen into disuse, or are poorly documented. On the other hand, it's great when it lets you choose well written components like SQLAlchemy and Jinja2.

Django and Pylons both have their pluses and minuses, but I think there is still a lot of room for improvement in the Python web world. Armin Ronacher seems to be making lots of progress with Flask, maybe we'll see that grow into a bigger project.
I've heard that a new employee can expect his or her first project to last about 12-18 months - can you confirm or deny this?
No it's not but the complications caused by it can be. If you are willing to live a miserable life with a colostomy bag and tons of med's that make you feel like crap then no its not fatal. If you choose to live life on your own terms then it can kill you.
I've dabbled a bit in both Django and Pylons, and I've found working with Pylons is much easier than working with Django. Django has more "magic", which freaks me out. Pylons, on the other hand, mostly consists of glue code to tie different modules together and the Pylons book goes to great lengths to explain how this glue code works.

Setting any one of them for development is easy: just install them in a virtualenv using pip. Can't say how they fare in production setups. I'm not there yet :p
Gesture-Based Touch Interfaces: A Step Backwards in Usability
Listen To & DownLoad Music For Free
A while back we've showed you how to download music from Google search engine! Now there's a better and more reliable way to get your music straight from the internet to your desktop. Without paying for or downloading 30sec of the MP3 you wanted.....
Fair enough one010101...I am attempting a slightly different format - as you now know :)

So we will see how that turns out.
Possession is nine points of the law, as they say. The property owner has every right to say who can and can not park there -- wouldn't you want that right as a property owner?

Most municipalities have laws in place that regulate towing; an area must be posted, etc. etc. Those laws are more like restrictions on towing, not a grant of some special right. The right is already there.
Please don't turn Hacker News into an argumentative religious platform. We're all here for business, technology, misc. nerdiness.
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title: why i don't work at google

response: they did hire you
shrinks... Go make yourselves useful you worthless scum.

God says...
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how_goes_it hey_thats_right Ill_ask_nicely the high_mucky_muck
bug not_a_chance_in_hell well_I_never unsung_hero caution
voodoo Give_me_praise im_good_you_good manufacturing NASA
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Strangely enough, I just turned down a job offer from Google today, for a complex variety of reasons. Mainly, though, I had a choice between a promotion at my current company, where I know exactly what I'm getting into, and a job at Google, which is a giant black box from the outside with a promise that they'll find you something you will want to work on. (I had two other job offers as well in fact, so it wasn't just those two choices)

Probably the hardest decision I've ever made. I'm sure I would have been happy with any of the offers, but I feel like I might as well take up my employer's offer and see how things go for the next year or two (also they offered more salary than Google did but the bonuses aren't multiplied like they are at Google).
Budweiser, Miller, Coors vs. Dogfish Head, Southern Tier, Bell's
(though best is pretty subjective)

He makes a good point that you should invest heavily in the product, but that doesn't mean that the rest of business isn't incredibly important too.
Seems to be a matter of personal preference. Some people prefer the Pylons style, some prefer the Django style. Nothing wrong with that, and it's why we have both (as well as other frameworks for the people who don't prefer either of Pylons/Django).
The problem is, the author suggests banning words just based on her personal impression of them without testing or feedback. Some of those words or phrases - Welcome, please, click here - might perform better in A/B testing than anything else for some sites and products. If so, they should be used. "Features" is the understood jargon and common navigation in certain industries.

Actually, she did mention testing once:

> After I mentioned this at an industry event last year, a travel company contacted me to say they simply removed ' * denotes mandatory field' and replaced it with 'you must fill in the boxes marked * ' and saw an immediate uplift in conversions.

See, that's good. That's how you do it. Change if conversions or goals reached are going up when there's measurable goals. For more subjective stuff, sure, maybe make it spicier, entertaining, literally descriptive, or concrete. But it's a bit silly to say "the word 'solutions' is overused, don't use it". There's a reason people use the word solutions, which is that it's the most effective word lots of times. But don't take anyone's word on it, split test it on your own site and use whatever works best. Don't blindly go with intuition, intuition is often wrong.
I aspire to this, but succeed less than I would like. If you manage people, this is relevant to you.
This would be good if I were 10.
Yes, there are many sites of all genres that don't require this. Don't underestimate it, do an A/B test sometime.
http://www.searchreddit.com/

Except I never use it, googling site:reddit.com along with my search terms and possibly inurl:subreddit-keyword gets the job done
I'd say the ultimate proof of being both talented and effective is being part of a talent acquisition where the acquired team's product can be fully evaluated.

The fact that Google does many such acquisitions is, to me, conclusive evidence that they do value both of these traits.

But no, maybe not so much in the hiring process, because it's difficult and error-prone enough just to determine potential effectiveness.
I'd be thrilled to. I'm not quite ready for show and tell yet, but I'll be in touch...
Cloudera CEO talks about data trends in layman terms
Engineering vs Architecture
'Interface': iPhone mockups composed on the iPhone
What The Phone in Your Pocket Will Do For You Someday
It depends a lot on what your particular project is, but 3-6 months seems much more typical to me. Mine lasted exactly 4 months from the day I joined to the day we launched...I was joining an already-existing project that was fairly far along, though.

It often takes 12-18 months before you have a good enough understanding of the company and your own desires to figure out where you want to be. (And often more - I know people who joined in 2007 who are just now working through this.) But that time isn't all spent on one project: typically you'll work through a bunch of them, all in the same focus area. I think this is more akin to the normal process of discovery that most young people go through, though, and not something specific to Google.
Oh, sure, but some of the best people won't work on a contract basis.
The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
User-created sections like the subreddits on reddit would be cool. In fact I think the subreddits are what I prefer about reddit over digg. I mainly go to the programming subreddit and sometimes I am deceived into thinking that all of reddit is about programming because it in itself is a large community.

But apart from the programming subreddit I go to the AMA section from time to time and that has allowed me to really grasp the beauty of the subreddit system. It allows each subreddit to develop it's own personality in that it's not just the topics that change as is the case with a category system but the feel and concept of the community changes as well and it offers a unique experience to learn and interact.

You guys really did a great job with Reddit!
Microsoft and Apple market cap with leadership timing
SciDB is going to open up to the public both its source code and documentation as soon as this June (late June). On behalf of the SciDB team: apologies for not responding rapidly to all volunteers - the interest is (almost!) overwhelming. We will be getting back to all volunteers who contacted us over the next few weeks.

Regards,
Jacek Becla
This will be a brilliant site if you can pull it off nicely, keep on it!
Gestural interfaces: A step backwards in usability
I stopped using gmail a while ago. I use lavabit now and its so much better.
I've been thinking about implementing something similar except with the opposite sort of sentiment that this project, application, program was poorly optimized, bug-ridden, and could use some improvement.

Easiest way I can describe is take all that crap on all those code snippet sites out there + all the basic features from DCVS + some experienced developers/programmers with some time to kill + somebody that knows what they've written is crap yet functional and is looking for some suggestions.

I got the idea from the simple fact that there are still plenty of people out there writing sub-par code who could never dream of pushing something serious they've written to github or bitbucket. The goal I had in mind was to a create sort of preliminary sandbox for users to push projects/snippets anonymously to a place where others could criticize, make fun of, and explain to them why their code fails. I'm sure the concept could easily attract programmers trolling other programmers, but that's also part of the fun since the community your pushing it for know their code was crap to begin with.

A couple more comparisons I couldn't resist: a DCVS for 4chan or extending pastebin to the point that it has an API and a user community who prefer logging and learning from their failures by contributing to this repository.
Basically reddit with a different skin?

Is digg a site you frequent? Why so interested in its fate? Wouldn't you rather see reddit leave it in the dust?
Alexis Ohanian's central complaint wasn't that Digg is copying features that exist elsewhere. Instead, he feels the design of Digg V4 is motivated by VC interests, rather than a desire to do what's right for Digg's users.
Maybe I'm just a bit paranoid, but it did get submitted to Reddit.

I smell trolls.
That's the total number of conversations.
How an East Vancouver start-up is transforming gas-guzzlers to pure electric
> RSS feed readers suck!

No. They dont. You'll pry Google Reader from my cold dead hands.

I would like to have seen Marc flesh out this argument.
By the way, thanks for Reddit. I still enjoy it immensely, even if it has gone downhill lately.
Not really, the goodwill can't be measured but it's likely to generate better returns in the long run.
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I hear you....but I respectfully disagree.

I have not seen RSS feed readers gain momentum as the hype around them suggested they might.

Some people like them, some don't.

I guess you can tell which camp I am in ;)
His complaint was that the direction of the product was not one of Kevin's, but rather of the VC interests.

That is the central tenet I disagreed with, and I highlighted why.
These arguments tend to go down two roads -- one that I disagree with and one that I actually agree with.

The Too Successful argument is really a difficult one to draw out moral content from. There have existed people who lose themselves in games (among other things) to the detriment of their "real life" from way back. Forgive me for dredging this up:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YswmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=K...

So that's the question that has to be answered -- if there have been 500 billion hours of WoW played (just my random guess) in the last five years and 500 million hours of Rubik's Cube played in the 80's, is Ernö Rubik also equivalent to a drug dealer, just in smaller proportions? Finally, maybe WoW is keeping guys from even less productive internet addictions, like, say, editing TV Tropes.

So I think I need to understand the moral line drawn in the too-successful argument. Because otherwise I just see WoW as the current bête noire analogous to any other popular diversion, like video arcades were 20 or 30 years ago. Is there a substantive difference, or is it merely quantitative?

Now the argument that does resound with me, as well as most game designers I know, is that designers are making gameplay that basically abuses the player without enhancing their experience of the game.

Some people have pointed at the simplicity of the gameplay in WoW (i.e. questing is too easy) and said that it's abusive to make simple gameplay compelling. I personally find this bizarre. Abusive gameplay is an area where I hold Valve, Blizzard, PopCap and others fairly blameless. That's not entirely surprising for one reason: their customers pay for the game. A fine player experience is what they hope will create more customers.

With many social gaming experiences, players have come to expect abuse, which is a crying shame. That they will be tantalized, guilted, used to spam their friends, inconvenienced and annoyed. Is any of that core to the game itself? No, the proof being that in most cases if you pay, it goes away. It's beyond just breaching the editorial wall -- the lame way that marketing is integrated into gameplay is what makes pro game designers howl with disgust.

P.S. Anyone interested in investing in a startup that breaks social gaming out of these shackles, please email.
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Unfortunately you are right.. someone is actively griefing the site at the moment.

It's my own fault for assuming that only being able to identify users with cookies would be ok. I'm working on a solution now.
Are you getting an error message of any kind?
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/01q2/stilling_the_fires...
I'm a Reddit fan but come on Alexis. Let Kevin be. Digg v4 hasn't even been released to the public yet. You left Reddit a long time ago. If you were still at Reddit then I'd chalk this down as a little trash talk from a competitor. You're no longer in the game. Give him time to prove himself.
I guess it would be a public outcry if they came out and said it is in their interest to have lower privacy to compete in Twitter like real time search and with Google.
I think of web development (SQL, JavaScript, your favorite VCS) as something you'd learn in a vocational setting or on your own. What the author is describing sounds like someone getting a degree in mechanical engineering just so they can change the starter in their car. It's not necessary.

I studied CS at the Masters level and found two years was a very short time to get exposed to a lot of things that our tools haven't even begun to address.
Common topics here include assisting the elderly, industrial automation, disaster response, (minorly) entertainment, (minorly) consumer goods, and one other application area I studiously ignored because smart foreigners have no opinions about Article 9.

There were a couple of interesting discussions at the prefectural technology incubator about possible applications for research which was in the news at the time. It was a (very early prototype of a) man-portable cloaking device. Clearly, we decided, it was destined for the Tokyo fashion scene.
Thank you, I never ever thought of doing that.

Wikipedia never ceases to amaze with respect to the content you can find in it, I should learn to simply always check it no matter what the subject.
Just not possible... That's not fun.

Let me just clarify a little bit. Traveling to the past is not possible. "Traveling" to the future is already known how to.

At least some fiction make a coherent history for how time travel works, like Primer or Asimov's book 'The End of Eternity'... Unlike for example Donnie Darko, a movie that i love, but the ending....
As an update: someone is actively griefing the site right now. Possibly a script kiddie I pissed of a little earlier by foiling an XSS attack they were trying.

I'm working on a fix and hopefully it'll be pushed out before morning...
I think you looked at the joke list in the comments here instead of the original article.
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Looks good, similar feature-set than ZBrush or Mudbox. The big challenge when building these kind of software is handling the staggering amount (multi-million) of polygons that need to be transformed and manipulated in real-time by the artist. To achieve this, ZBrush relies on pixols (voxel-like 3d pixels) and Mudbox uses advanced gpu-accelerated 3D partitioning. Sculptris seems to be more akin to Mudbox.
GitHub is the Best Thing Ever
Or a R&D department at all, seems like it could be as simple as taking the same ipad design replacing some of the components with cheaper off the shelf components alternatives.

They probably know more about how the ipad is made than most people at apple if they have the insider connections where it is being built.
would he consider starting a company again instead of just interviewing people who've done it.
Hello,

On http://github.com/vasili/FSharpBinding is an FSharpBinding that works with MonoDevelop. Please read the README on this web site. I have tested new F# projects and several existing F# projects like Mandelbrot set, Stephen Wolfram's Rule 30, etc. This binding still needs polishing .... working on that with other colleagues.

Kind regards,

Vasili I. Galchin
It's okay, it's just what happens -- you fix it, you move on. I hope we're not at the place where anyone would judge you so harshly on a site you constructed in 24 hours!
I see the value in forcing users to self-curate since it allows you to disconnect from the chaff, and it's an interesting play to capture the value of interest-based link sharing in theory. However, like TC, I don't even need to say why it will fail.
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fuck, who cares?! hasn't twitter made digg completely irrelevant? (well, i guess all the idiots posting consistently useless bullshit helped too... yay mob voting!)

democracy works, unless half the country is texan.
As others have pointed out, this has little to do with the capital itself, but with the compensation that VCs get essentially as money managers. So the impact on actual investment is likely to be close to zero, even if there are reduced incentives to being a VC. Look at it this way - if a plague struck and killed one of every 10 VCs, chances are that the amount of capital wouldn't radically change - it would just mostly get reallocated among the survivors (I'm sure it would change in some marginal case, it might depend a bit on who the affected VCs were, etc.)
I agree that they haven't gained momentum or mainstream acceptance, and I think that they probably never will. My parents will certainly never subscribe to an RSS feed.

However, just because feed readers aren't widely used doesn't mean they aren't incredibly useful to certain people.