skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. You won't have to pay for the service, it would be free.

As for accomplishing the same stuff, here's a bit of rationale we went through when planning it.

Delicious: not social, can't comment, doesn't embed videos/images into posts, hard to add followers.

Twitter: text only, usually shortened bit.ly link with description, no thumbnail, don't know what you're clicking.

Facebook: great for posting, but not public. only reaches your circle of friends. might not get any comments from friends.

Tumblr: awesome site, but do you really need a full out blog just to share links? takes time to customize.
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Yes and no. At Berkeley, frinstance, you won't be able to get into the main part of the main library without a university ID card of one form or another. (And the other parts of the main library often have a few homeless people sleeping in armchairs.) Still, you can always get into the Physics library and that'll have all the journals you need.

If you're a genuine citizen scientist (as opposed to a crackpot) there are always ways around it though. Talk to the librarians, they might be able to hook you up with a card in one way or another.
I wonder, if you are retired, why do you need journals? I could be completely mistaken, but I thought the main point of journals is to rack up your "publications count" so that you can keep your job.

Somehow I doubt that people will read your work just because it appears in a journal. I'd expect you'd still have to go around and advertise it (ie present on conferences, talk to people directly and so on)?
I recently hit a point where my patent attorney needs more money than I have. I'm not willing to part with any share of my startup, especially over just a few thousand dollars so last night I started looking for part time jobs. It seems like 80% of the jobs available in the area are commissioned sales that seem like too much mindshare and risk, 10% were skilled jobs that I don't have experience with, and the rest were programming. I just decided that it doesn't matter what I'm doing as long as I can keep going on my startup....

I applied for some fast food jobs.
Making RSS work for your startup
Interesting. UC Santa Cruz has no card checking at all, and pretty explicitly allows the general public to visit. You can even use the WiFi without any sort of account. It's a little out of the way, though.

Berkeley's website suggests that CA citizens can buy a card that even allows borrowing privileges for $100/yr though, which is pretty cheap: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/services/for_users/alumni_visito...
Getting further OT: I used to agree wholeheartedly with this, but have you noticed how slow Gmail is getting? I recently switched back to Apple mail, after insisting on Gmail as my frontend for years. Can't beat Google on search speed, but Apple does a fine job of that, and every other function is considerably faster.
Ah, reddit comments. Time to go wash my brain out with /b/.
"Caesar adsum iam forte, Brutus aderat.
Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus sic inhat"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin
When I post a link, it should add 'http:// at the from automatically.

Also, could you give an RSS export link for user? So maybe someone else can subscribe what I submitted.
Great ideas - added them to our ideas document. Building out these sort of specific features around link sharing is how we are going to differentiate ourselves from FB, Digg, etc.
For a moment I thought the "cows" would be a class of user you had identified in your network studies.

Which makes me wonder how popular the network study paper could have become had you indeed invented categories like that.
I'm not aware of any journals in physics that do double-blind review.

However your comment did remind me: the American Physical Society has its two big meetings every March and April. If you are a member then they have to let you present at it. There's always a few "unaffiliated researchers" giving posters. (And yes, they're usually crackpots.)
But maybe you should stick with the Ruby. I hear there's money in that.

Come on, Mike. That sort of snipe just isn't like you.
What is the motivation behind limited types on schools/companies?
Good work on all your responses also. You haven't just posted this and sat back, you are actively responding to everyone.

I think that makes a big difference, and being responsive and pro-active like that will manifest itself in other area's of your startup.
I love how you attempt state that non-ironically, even as 70-80% of the world population is essentially already living in what could easily be considered a Malthusian catastrophe.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percentage_of_the_world%27s_p...
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Hey cool, thanks for digging that up, it certainly looks similar at first glance.

I can't tell you how many times I've had the feeling that finally I was doing anything at all that was original and then to find out (usually within five minutes, but this time at least a lot of years later) that it was already old hat when I was a toddler.

Oh well. Keep trying I guess.

One problem with stuff like this is simply to find what is out there given a problem description.
The one-click / ease of share is an important and interesting focal point. A bookmarklet - ~"submit to howl from any page with a single click" - seems a logical step for you there.

the ability for me to provide context for my shared links - through profile info, general insterest statements, etc - might make sense later.

good luck with it
At least part of the problem is the near-constant change in privacy standards at Facebook and the ever-growing TOS. If users could lock into one explicitly-stated clear Terms of Service, then perhaps we wouldn't be so worried. Then, if Facebook wanted to change the terms, new users would come in under the new ToS and older users could opt in, if they wanted to.

Yes, it causes more of a headache for Facebook (or any service that opts to follow that route), but it sets a level of expectation and puts everyone on level playing field.

As it stands right now, unless I'm prepared to read a document that's longer than the Constitution, I pretty much have no idea what they're doing with information that, yes, I'm willing to share with friends, but not the world.
I have presented controversial information, of course i'm going to use a throwaway account.

The fact remains, anyone can do the research i've done and see what i've seen, draw your own conclusions.
Blogspam of a posting that has already passed here on another website.
Not only is it a hassle, but it requires the broadcaster to set the preferences for content rather than the recipient.
This isn't easy to add actually. The mediawiki software, last I checked, doesn't have this capability and adding it would be a royal pita.
That's close, but not exactly the same thing as selecting people to publish to. If I set a post to go to the "Tech People" friend list on Facebook, none of my other friends can see it, nor can the general public. I'm okay with everyone seeing it; I just don't want to pollute people's news feeds with things I know they won't be interested in.
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The word "failure" appears 0 times on this page. It's not in the title. It's not in the story. It's not even in the comments. Same goes for the word "fail".

What's with the agenda?
Exactly. I read every tweet I'm subscribed to, and therefore if someone has too much noise, I have to delete them, but as a result I miss the real gems these people post now and then.
not another Steve Jobs thread. sheesh!
Pure CSS3 iBooks-like Page Flip effect
Ask HN: Affiliate Programs
I have a software as a service app that I've decided I would like to offer an affiliate program for. I spent some time today looking at various programs that are available and they all seem to have relatively high monthly fees, high setup fees, and obtuse setup processes.

Does anyone know of a simple affiliate program without setup or monthly fees? Ideally the provider would setup the affiliate accounts, charge me for the affiliate commissions plus their cut, then pay the affiliates. On my end, I'd look for the affiliate code and setup a cookie, and make a POST to the program with the affiliate code when someone signs up. I'd also like to review the affiliate applications to make sure they aren't spammy.

Does anything like this exist? What do you all use? If nothing like this exists, would anyone use it if I built it?
If you caught the thread on whether search should be available on HN, and pg's response, I feel pretty safe saying that ain't going to happen, ever.
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what's your company's email?
Don't let the naysayer get to you. I think the idea definitely has merit for lot of small businesses like hair salons, etc. that are often one-man (or one-woman) bands. IMHO that seems like a very long tail.

Otherfolks have pointed out that there are competing services. I think the secret here might be to be friendly, non-technical, and drop dead simple.
I recently heard from him. He gets your pages too. But I don't think you're actually logged in as one another, in the sense of being able to do anything (e.g. vote) as one another.

If you know of anything I can change to prevent HN pages being catched by your proxy, please let me know.
I read all my twitter on my iphone, and if I could filter on the server, it could cut my daily reading from 20 minutes to 10 if this problem was solved, so to me that's a big deal.
If Flash is bad then is QuickTime any good?
If Flash is bad then is QuickTime any good?
That's kind of the point.
The name of it was on the tip of my tongue as I read your description, so I googled for "probabilistic constant-space test for membership", and voila, first result.
Here's a start. It's a simple ruby app that runs on heroku and proxies your twitter account, dropping uninteresting things. Extremely raw code.

http://github.com/fizx/sometweets

http://sometweets.heroku.com/
Facebook was initially about sharing things with everyone at your school. Anything you shared could be accessed by an alum who works at the company you're applying to. The only real privacy difference between now and 2004 is that posts are Googleable by default now.

Facebook did not try to trick people into sharing people more people than they intended to. If you disagree, explain what's misleading about this: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/12/how-to-use-facebooks-new-...
Compression algorithms used by Google
A WordPress widget that showed a user's recent links could be a nice addition to how people can use this.

Sometimes people are not really too lazy to blog, but just don't want to write a post about every link they would like to share with others.
Your link only says something about the percentage of people living in developing countries.

A Malthusian catastrophe (also called a Malthusian check, crisis, disaster, or nightmare) was originally foreseen to be a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth had outpaced agricultural production.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe

I come from a developing country and I'm sure such a catastrophe never happened there. It hasn't happened in most of Latin American countries, either. There are people there who do live on subsistence-level but that's not related to a shortage of food.
These lists have been done to death
You have a cool concept, and I "get it" a little more now that I've read your recent comments on this page. However, it still seems like a longshot. Perhaps you're okay with that.

It's either going to catch on and you'll have to monetize very quickly in order to keep up with your ballooning costs (or get funded and kick the problem a bit further down the road), or it'll fizzle out. I'm having trouble seeing any middle ground.

Have you figured out how much traffic you'll need to be viable on advertising income? Are you aware of how many hundreds of thousands (or millions) of visitors it'll take each month to make a reasonable living that way?
1. Google

2. Wikipedia

Then, in no order whatsoever:

HN

Reddit

StackOverflow

Google Reader Shared items by mates and contacts

Twitter (keep good followings and you'll get good tweets)
In parts it looks and reads more like a scholarly journal than like the modern Nattional Geographic. Particularly the article on the Mayans.
So, what again is the reason to use your site? The following is my OPINION only (the following may read a bit harsh, but it's late and this is the last thing I'm doing today).

Tumblr provides exactly the same capability and customization takes anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes to pick a new design.

You run exactly the same risk of not getting comments as you would anywhere else. There is nothing to incentivize commenting on link posts. If there were, you'd have Reddit/Digg all over again.

There are many sites that do exactly the same as what you're doing, they just don't publicize themselves very well (or at all). You find out about them from friends and can drop into an already existing community.

I realize you're probably in the early stages of development, but you really need to consider the look of the site early on. It doesn't have to be perfect right off the bat, but it does need to capture interest in some way.

If they're too lazy to blog, they're likely too lazy to post a link. You need to make it painless (a single button in the the bookmark bar that posts to the site would just about do it).

If you're building this to generate revenue, you need to consider the business model early on - it should shape how the entire site comes together. You have to have something to convince your investors to put money in it.
I bow to your google fu, that would have taken me a week.

At least.

If I would have found it at all. This is one of those areas where I think I can really feel that having English as a first language - or at least a degree in computer science - would have helped tremendously, just knowing the right terminology can be such a huge advantage.

I can parse your description of it but I could never come up with it in those terms. I'd be looking for "compressed index" or "candidate records algorithm" or something like that.
The sands didn't shift without clear messaging that the sand was shifting and how you could opt-out of it. This is what it looked like: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/12/how-to-use-facebooks-new-...

Instant Personalization was a bad idea, but everything else was pretty straightforward.
Looking for a co-founder in Seoul? Send an email to MY.HACKER.NEWS.ID@gmail.com

Otherwise, I found this list of over 60 start-ups in Korea [English]: http://codeinkorea.com/46

Direct link [mostly Korean]: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiIm7SFFVfcFdEhpRGV...
This post really sets off my bogometer. Anyone who is really a retired physicist would not need to ask this question, much less ask it from a newly created account on HN. That this post is getting so many upvotes is worrisome.
Facebook wasn't designed to be public either, it has always been known for being a walled garden where you share stuff with people you choose. Someone might pass something on to stranger but that's no different from having a chat on the phone. That doesn't mean every word I say should be broadcasted to the world.

It's not about embarrassing pictures either. A mom could post pictures of her kids without having her abusive ex-husband commenting on them. I could stay in touch with friends and relatives overseas without exposing to much of my personal life to the people I work with.
Why would you tune into noise? If it's interesting to you, it's no longer noise, it's information.
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my understanding was that if you have an H1b, it is /only/ okay to work for the company that the H1B is for; so it'd be illegal to work on your own stuff (unless your own company got you the H1b)

Of course, I'm also not a lawyer.
Severe poverty (by our standards) doesn't require a "Malthusian catastrophe", there are many different ways to achieve this. Civil war and/or corrupt leadership are two particularly effective means.

And a lot of the people in the world living in "poverty" in 2010 have living standards well above what would be considered middle class in 1910. A lot, however, don't.
The article's whole premise was that tweet quality does not correlate well within an account; e.g., some marvelous twitter streams include breakfast tweets.
There is something pretty similar...
You might want to lookup on euler problems in python..
http://pyeuler.wikidot.com/
really cool stuff....
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The Hacker's Code
Or, you could take a less polarized stance and realize that the regulation in this case failed miserably as well:

AP IMPACT: Fed'l inspections on rig not as claimed http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_...

There's enough blame to go around, all things considered.
This is a great idea

[politics]
us-conservative: http://drudgereport.com/
us-conservative: http://foxnews.com/
us-liberal: http://huffingtonpost.com/
us-liberal: http://dailykos.com/
us-neutral: http://english.aljazeera.net/
us-neutral: http://bbc.co.uk/

[timewasting]
tech: http://news.ycombinator.com/
tech: http://programming.reddit.com/
tech: http://infoq.com/
misc: http://boingboing.net/
misc: http://metafilter.com/
startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/classic/
startups: http://startups.reddit.com/
business: http://www.businessinsider.com/
business: http://economist.com/
It is not their focus - but remember the users' focus is those sites.
Tell HN: Max Klein is really Mark Essien
I'm going to cut and paste a comment from blackwoodHolt. He says it well enough:

I have neither requested nor received any emails from "Max Klein" these finding are a result of simple google searches.

Max Klein does not exist. He is an identity created by Mark Essien (www.essien.org).

Mark Essien has two companies registered in the UK one "Qubikle Development LTD" (www.qubikle.com)and a second "Feather & Moor, Ltd" (www.feathermoor.com).

The namesakes of Feather & Moor are Joel Feather and Tracy Moor. BOTH of these individuals don't exist, they are again creations of Mark Essien. The pictures used for Joel are taken from istockphoto (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-1997908-waiting-for-y...)

whois results for maxkle.in and markessien.com have the same telephone number.

Feather & Moor, Ltd has approaching nearly 300 applications on the appstore. These apps are "cookie cutter" apps that contain pictures and simple text.

The signing identity on the applications names qubikle.

A cursory googling of the text in the screenshots of some of the applications reveals that text is taken from wikipedia and other pages without attribution.
The original quote is simply a defensive version of _why's much HN-loved quote:

"When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create."

Jobs is a human being. How would you like it if you poured yourself into creating the best platform experience that you think is possible, and you find all around you critics that sound to you as if they are saying "fuck you for only making me a chocolate cake, bake me one with strawberries on top!"
Could you give some examples of the kinds of analyst/research work people without PhDs do at these places? What kind of "formal background" do you need to get them to even consider you for one of the more thinky analyst/researcher positions?

I've looked before at some of the places you mentioned, but it seemed extremely difficult to get someone to even talk to you about the interesting analyst/research positions if you didn't have a PhD.

My background: For the longest time, I thought I would go to grad school and become a professor in pure math. I love doing research and don't care about money...but I hated the whole bureaucracy and lack of real freedom (until you're a tenured professor) of it all. I really miss having a research environment, though, so like the OP I've been wondering for a while how to get back into this.
I think that is a fairly naive view. As you are on HN I will assume you are more savvy than most other Facebook users. However, many not lucky enough to be you have found themselves unknowingly publishing information they _thought_ was private. The friction here is about privacy. Many want to maintain control over their personal information, which they wrongly thought Facebook respected.

These mini-memes or movements may not register on the radar of Zuckerberg et al, but it does raise awareness and bring the issue up for discussion. Besides, this latest brouhaha has sparked an entrepreneurial interest in the alternatives. (Diaspora, OpensocialWeb?) And _that_ is interesting...
You make good points.

I up-vote well reasoned comments I don't agree with. I also up-vote comments that ask questions. I ask lots of questions on Hacker News.

I would down-vote a comment that starts out dismissive of a complex problem without having a reasonable explanation.

A simple problem and a problem you don't understand will appear the same. We all do it; the Dunning–Kruger effect is a well known cognitive bias. For that reason, I appreciate a humble tone and I use the one tiny tool I have to try to encourage it.

BTW: here is the official place to give suggestions: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/546759/
Man, karma-whoring is soooooo 2001, back when I was slashdotting :-) No, I have a real interest in seeing this project go forward - I thought HN would be interested...
I've looked for the same thing for many hours with no luck.
However, I still don't upload pictures I'm not going to be proud of

The thing you seem to be missing is that this isn't just your decision, or Facebook's, but rather that of any friends or acquaintances you have who may take a photo of you at any time, under any circumstances, and tag it with your name. It's not hard to imagine circumstances under which this might become a problem for you.
Feathermoor's Twitter account is also following Max Klein's twitter account:

https://twitter.com/feathermoor

Mark Essien's profile picture is the same guy shown previously as Max:

https://twitter.com/markessien
Hi, thanks for your post. I full understand it.

Tumblr is super powerful and very simple, we like them and they influence us. But tumblr's focus is different; they cover all kinds of blogging. Posting a link on Tumblr isn't as easy as posting a link on Howl, try it. We use services like Embedly to embed things right on the page. Theres less clicks in the process.

On Tumblr, every blog is really its OWN blog. We prefer the standardized look (Facebook vs Myspace) which lets the focus fall on the content.

As for incentivizing comments, one of the cool things about a feature we have planned (unified discussion) is that you kind of automatically link to the discussion page along with everyone else on the network. So anything you post might already have a discussion going.

Thanks for your opinion, much appreciated
[startups]
http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
http://cdixon.org/
http://news.ycombinator.com

[business]
tech: http://techmeme.com
And what if those you explicitly choose, go on to share it further? Privacy is simply a byproduct of the large amount of friction the physical world puts on propagating information. Putting information online is like transmitting a signal through a vaccuum—there's nothing to stop it, so it just keeps going.