skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it will work at all. Bots don't trigger the submit event by clicking a button. They do so by scripted form submission, so if the slider is tied to a simple submit event, it's pointless.
An interesting thing here is that this article assumes that the way science is taught is wrong. I do not intend to make any conclusions about this, but I just graduated from high school and I just realized why people don't learn science as opposed to a bunch of meaningless phrases.

Although a lot of it is a broken system, but the truth is that they aren't expected to. What is expected of them is to get good grades, and since that is possible through rote almost all of my peers take that route. If you ask them in a moment of honesty they say; "why should I do it? I'll just get the grades get into a good college a good job... Why should I waste my time learning this?".

I used to gripe about the system whenever I heard that reply and why they just didn't get it, but now I realize that they are simply reflecting society in general. Most parents quite frankly don't care that they know science or anything as long as they get good grades. Most teachers hardly give a damn about teaching and they aren't even remotely interested in science. Most employers upon employment cannot check and do not look at how much the individual understands anything. They just ask for a degree from a reputable institute.

I admit that it is harder to change the mindset of a population, but this is something that has to be done. Changing the school system and bringing out new books will have limiting impact unless the foundations of this problem (societies attitude toward learning) aren't addressed.
Thanks, those are notable differences.
How Microsoft Is Busting Its Own 'The Browser Is Part of the OS' Myth
There was a bit about doing a rough version of the app first, making a video of it, and emailing tastemakers about it. A couple hundred thousand people interested prior to launch beats the typical App Store "submit and pray to Jobs that youu will find favor" marketing strategy.
1. Ask friends and family

2. Using Google Alerts, find people speaking about stuff related to your website and leave comments

3. Find the most popular forums for your target users

4. Find the most popular blogs for you target users

5. Join directories as mentioned by @damoncali

6. Follow what is being said in Twitter

7. Look for LinkedIn and Facebook groups

I wrote about it yesterday on my blog: http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/tips-to-kick-start-...
If it is a rule, it's a rule. There is no reason why every law could not be broken down into one page. Right now ( in the US) we have these massive changes that are encompassing thousands of new rules or modifications to existing rules.

This is a bad idea for the same reason that pushing massive untested changesets into an application would be a bad idea. Incremental, atomic changes that could be revoked is a much better practice on nearly every front (except for maintenance of the power of politicians)
Ahh, thanks for pointing that out. Searching for near SFO to near ITO in August returns flights for over $100 cheaper than what Kayak is showing. (Now I just wish I could actually go.)
Aside from being in control of it's power, why would transmitting behave any differently?
I spent 3 hours sitting on the side of the Jersey turnpike thanks to Fung Wah, but $15 for DC -> NY I might do it again.
Experimenting with Intel Concurrent Collections for Haskell
Actually, it looks like the votes are right on. Top comment essays an explanation for why newspapers stopped calling waterboarding torture, your immature political signalling got downvoted, and an irrelevant straw discussion about waterboarding itself, rather than its treatment by newspapers, also got downvoted. Another top level comment that is half wrong and half reference sits at 1 point. Those all sit about where they should. If you seek converts, or even just votes, please post content and logic, not your political alignment and tear shaped raindrops.
This is really impressive. Even more so because at least for me GSM still has this mysterious "only the big guys can do it" feeling which IP, routing and servers lost a long time ago for me.

Is this the beginning of GSM hacking for the normal people (for a loose definition of normal of course)?
How To: NodeJS on Windows
Class page is even better: http://www.reddit.com/r/UniversityofReddit/comments/c1vi4/fu...

and by better I mean hilarious. If my university was this entertaining I probably wouldn't have dropped out.
Methuselah Genes Discovered
Ask HN: Do you know how much Google raised pre-IPO?
Or any other major tech company.
Paul Erdos, the peripatetic mathematician.
Exactly. I saw that and thought to myself, "I'm so lucky to live in an age with ocw.mit.edu"
Am I alone in finding Google's CAPTCHAs unreadable a good 25-50% of the time?
Agree - I travel to some obscure places, and Matrix is about the only online aggregator out there that goes down to the level of sub-regional airline. It also displays (especially in that graphical view) routings that exist, but that the more mainstream travel sites won't advertise - things that there is no reason for a normal person to do, but which can be incredibly handy if used well.

There's no business reason to, but if they managed to integrate data from SeatCounter into that view, it would rock my world.
That's the editor flexing his/her muscles to protect a family member.

Edit: It was killed for being highly critical of a YC company.

I really hope this is not the case.
Protocol Buffers by Google
New Tool Reveals Cached Passwords in IE
Crunchbase claims a $25M Series-A: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google
A very good (and reasonable) question.
Congrats on launching. I just watched a Mixergy interview with the founder of http://ranker.com. How do you differentiate yourself? They have quite a bit of traction now it seems.
From 1996 to 2003 I was pretty obsessive about Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, Quake1/2/3, UrT.

I played almost no games from 2004-2007 or so. Then I started playing games a few times a week for an hour or two at a time. I've completely avoided WoW and refuse to even touch any game like it: games where the biggest loser wins.

I think it's really nice to be able to sit down and play a game for an hour or two every once in a while. If you're spending more than 5-10 hours a week on gaming or watching TV you're probably going to regret it looking back. That's a lot of time to devote to semi-mindless entertainment. Some amount feels healthy and positive though.
How can you submit a form that has no URL to submit to?

I haven't tried circumventing their form, and maybe they didn't do this, but the basic idea is to store the submission URL in javascript, and assign it to the form only on the slider event.
Let's Do This is looking for a 3rd Developer
You might be able to do this with decorators in Python, but in Ruby (1.9 or 1.8 w/ the fibers patch) there are libraries that make these calls asynchronous with minimal or no changes to your code, e.g., neverblock.

http://www.espace.com.eg/neverblock/
I hasten to point out that humans, in captivity, tend to engage in more homosexual behavior as well.
You are right, it's not content. But currently many OTA have not much more to offer as content. The OTAs are pouring huge amount of money to get those reservations made on their site.

Do you think that Expedia and the rest are thrilled to see this move by Google. The OTA have stopped the disintermediation at consolidation and economy of scale, now they will have to go farther or someone else will.
>he problem with that, is the next negotiation has to go to at least that point again to convince the other party you really do mean it.

But you were saying that the argument is already at that point but that card is just being held below the table despite everyone being aware that it is there.

It's not necessarily emotional - I can say "I'll leave if I don't get these terms", that's not inherently an emotional demand, nor is it overly dramatic if that's your intention.

It's pretty much all-in wrt the negotiation so yes I can see that it increases the stress until terms are agreed. But then the terms from the other side would have to include something to avoid such negotiations if they found it too stressful and/or emotional.

Nor does this necessarily lead to future difficulties in negotiation.

For sure someone could attempt to use this sort of situation for emotional leverage - I guess it depends whether you're talking about negotiation pay+conditions for a job or negotiating terms of a personal relationship.
Journalism's duty is to sell newspapers. Anything else is a tertiary concern.
They had a ton of apps back then. When they showed me some of the install numbers I didn't even believe that there were that many jailbroken iphones.

Like most successful startups, Tapulous was the result of brilliant pivoting much more so than a grand vision.
Paul Erdos (pronounced Air-dish).

He would find the professor's home, and announce "My brain is open," and they would work together.
Is that "Alchemist" or "The Alchemist"? I'm trying to find it on Amazon.
The least time I've taken to knock out a CRUD website with Django is about 45 minutes.
Twilio is doing some amazing things. I can't wait to roll some of their features into our app :D

I seem to rememeber Livejournal offering this a loooong time ago but can't seem to find anything by googling. Anyone else remember this or am I insane?
I love QT for the desktop and I hope that Nokia can make it easily portable to phones... Things sound grim at the moment.
I've yet to know a smartphone user who didn't have to worry about battery life and never experienced their phone dying when they needed it. Being able to have many options for putting your phone into a lower power configuration (turning off 3G, changing screen brightness, maybe even changing the screen color) seem pretty useful for those not so rare situations where you need to stretch battery life.
And here in the animal kingdom, when you exercise and lose thirty pounds, much of that weight is breathed out.
Palm Developer Podcast Series: Episode Six &#8211; Welcome to HP
You may already be a robot. And me, too -- I'm sometimes stumped by the Google CAPTCHAs.
I suspect people are getting tired of the numerous 'Posterous vs everyone' debates and flagging the articles.

I think it's a stretch to assume something more nefarious.
Jade - Haml killer for nodejs
US Crimes from the North-Korean perspective
I find it is much more than that for me, like 75 percent. And for my parents it is pretty much 100% which is extremely annoying.
a very microsofty video indeed
Of course, but I addressed that in my original post.
Genetic Finding May Provide Test for Longevity
HuffPost Innovators Series
All that matters is what goes over the wire. The UI doesn't matter. If the data sent has no dynamic component (i.e. the text of a random word-image), then it can be replayed with different inputs.
HN is going to lose a lot of credibility if these kinds of questions don't get answered. For some reason it always seems like Posterous threads get yanked. It sure is incriminating.
The most interesting takeaway for me was something that had almost the opposite implications from the story's topic. It was the engineer saying that what these robots have done over the last 6 years could instead have been done by humans there in 1 week.
Thanks for the reply. I wasn't really asking for a niche so I could set up the magazine; I just thought it would make for an interesting discussion.

But I can see now that it probably looks like I'm just asking people to provide me with potential business ideas.
Since the work consists of adding to an existing application it is even harder to estimate than usual. In fact, so hard that it is not worth trying. A lot of the time could potentially be spent just figuring out how your application works and the good ways to implement the new feature.

That said...

As long as all the flows for the features are well-defined, I'd say it'd be doable to implement basic search, social networking, and some facility for static pages for $2k. It should be a few of days worth of work for a developer familiar with the framework/libraries your app uses.
I had been considering joining, but I had no idea there was inadequate AC, which is a dealbreaker until September at the earliest.

Surely there are some more hardware-oriented hackers who could help out with getting the best deal on the equipment and, perhaps, some clever efficiency hack.

Could some of the labor be donated, as well? Putting up insulation, for example, doesn't require much skill, beyond safety precautions.
How well does it need to scale? How many concurrent users? How easy does it need to be to add future features to? Does existing off the shelf software not give you most of what you want? What's meant by "social networking / profile features"?
"Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeia_%28wife_of_Julius_Caesa...
I can't really speak to design (we do that in-house), but most of the good/keeper Rails developers that I've used in the last year have been in the $100-150/hour range. So, for $2K that gets you 13 to 20 hours of development.

For that, I think you might be able to implement one of the features you mentioned but not all of them.

I've had good luck finding developers at AuthenticJobs. If you post a freelance job there and you're detailed about your budget and requirements, most good devs will be honest about what's feasible.
Have you watched TV lately? There's no such thing as an HN-esque TV program.
YES. It has happened before as well.
Ask HN : Review my startup whollhelpme
That's the editor flexing his/her muscles to protect a family member.

Do you have evidence to support this accusation of nepotism on HN?
We really shouldn't.
This is completely useless as a solution to the captcha problem. It's only a solution if you're not actually tagetted by spammers.

A slider? Really? Yeah, there's no way a script could fake changing the value of a slider.
First Experiment to Attempt Prevention of Homosexuality in Womb
I wonder what fraction of human sexual encounters are homosexual? There's the old studies the fundamentalist Christians like to trot out where 28% of the gay interviewees reported more than a thousand lifetime sexual partners, while I suspect the median number of lifetime sexual partners across the adult US population is somewhere around 10. So it wouldn't be terribly surprising if the majority of human sexual encounters were between members of the same (male) sex.
FWIW pg says he doesn't kill threads critical of yc companies. Here's his response after he killed a thread about wakemate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358627 (I'm not saying that applies here, it might have been flagged by users)
Check out the archives of the blog Yorkish Ranter. He ran a Bout-tracker, that scanned the air flight databases of places like Sharjah, to track the flights of Bout-connected shady air transport companies.

Very interesting.
It SUCKS for technical books with illustrated examples and diagrams. If you read lots of other books, buy it.
Because it's cheaper and has a shorter feedback loop than other ways of mastering a subject.

Have always felt teaching was one of the best ways to learn. Good students will force you to respect many of the fundamentals that you never had the patience for in school or when you're working in your field day-to-day.
You can still use it here: http://old.thesixtyone.com/ But they ripped out the comment system and the group system so there is no way to communicate with other users or artists.
Well, the author stated that he did not pull the post himself. On what other grounds do you think the post deserved to be pulled if it was for non-nefarious reasons? How often do you see other posts get pulled on HN?
I, for one, flagged the article because I felt:

- the author was trolling

- the post was misleading
Why would you assume Google would provide a good user experience here?
Stones into Schools
Brazilian Banker's Crypto Baffles FBI
Thank you! You should see something in the next few months.
Killing can be done by users, too. If a few users (5? 10?) don't like a story and click "flag", it's gone.

Don't blame the site admins for a conspiracy when it's just a few users out of thousands that are responsible.

(The article shouldn't have been killed... I had a good comment there that people can't reply to now. Annoying.)
MIT Researchers Developing Smartphone App for 2-Minute Eye Exams
Roundup of the Best Online Support and Help Desk Apps
That, and google has an aversion to common lisp... so it would need to be a rewrite.

EDIT: Mind you, I've only heard of the aversion to lisp, so have no data to back my claim up. That said, it has been mentioned several times on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1282583 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363023
Spammers are lazy. They like to target lots of sites at once. A post of mine from a few years ago explains the rationale behind one off schemes such as this:

http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/07/16/a-few-upgrades

My own has worked fairly well for me since then.
Antitrust?
"The article's goals are noble, but in this one spot, we seem to be flirting with flaunting one's ignorance and thinking it wit."

There are plenty of valid reasons to not be a member of the lisp cult.

"Anyhow, here's a slicker way of doing it."

Which entirely misses the point of the article, which is to DIY, not rely on some tool to generate it for him.
Most designers/developers that I know that are good charge closer to $100 or $150 per hour. What you described seems like it would take closer to 30 or 40 hours, so I would say the cost would be more like $3k to $5k.
When NTFS added in support for ADS (alternate data streams) I was doing forensics for corporate customers out in California. In 10 years I never did encounter a case where someone was using ADS to hide data, but I was always hoping to.
Switch your blog from Squarespace to Posterous and pay a rounder price
you clicked on a link to a story about masturbation and were surprised to find it NSFW?!
> Today, almost half of all airline tickets are sold online.

FEWER THAN HALF? Serious question: Who is buying the others, and where?
The AC isn't bad, especially upstairs. It's free to drop by, so you can try before you join.
In practice, I charge my phone when I go to bed. So as long as the phone lasts for the day's usage, I'm all set. (I don't know how long Android phones' battery typically lasts.)
haproxy is brilliant.
I think he was talking about posts that go against Posterous.
1) I was addressing the specific allegations of nepotism.

2) Users, like you, can flag articles. And given sufficient flags, articles get auto-yanked.

3) I can see the article being pulled for non-nefarious reasons, like the article being an unfunny parody and enough people being fed up with such things.

4) Chill. There is no cause here for you to champion.
A fixed number of flags to kill seems silly when the total number of users on the site keeps growing. At the limit everything will get flagged/pulled.
To me, Twitter did not really seem to solve an existing problem at first, but people liked it, and it caught on. Same with Farmville. Personally I think the site has a good foundation as far as look and feel for a site aimed at the general public. This is just a new out of the box site. Let's see where they iterate to in 6 to 9 months. I think they have a good foundation to build on.
Flagging is a pretty drastic response to a post you disagree with. Andrew's article was certainly pretty blistering, but he had an argument backed up with evidence.

Saying a post is misleading but offering nothing to back that up is unhelpful to say the least. There was an active and civil comments thread that seems like the perfect venue to have a more enlightening discussion.
Corporate travel agents make up the majority of the other half, I bet.
"with Oracle RAC as the backend (pretty much the only choice)"

... not any more!
Why do video games have to be art? Why can't they simply be games? Too many games have a fatal flaw in even attempting to be art--they have graphics and music and writing and so forth, but the game qua game is an afterthought. "First-person shooter" is basically one game, and aside from updating the graphics and storyline there's no evolution. Because everyone wants video games to be "art", or to be like the movies. RPG's are even worse.

Forget the art and make a good game.
The WiFi iPad is great. I don't think it's real target audience is even likely to use it away from WiFi often.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of iPad sales are 3G vs. WiFi only.
Isn't the entire Posterous switch campaign something of an exercise in trolling?

I found the thread interesting, even though I like and use Posterous.
Don't waste your time making useless estimates. Focus on what's important. Now return back to your project

- Check all the features you want to implement. What are the most important ones? Prioritize.

- Find a good freelance. The higher you pay, the more quality you'll get. I guess that $50/hour will be okay and would get you a good dev. It depends on the project and the quality your users are expecting.
Start implementing the most important feature. Go as money can go with you. If your project is profitable, you get cash back.

- Learn. If it's jQuery it's not hard, if it's PHP it's not impossible. Even if you don't create features, you can debug them.
nginx. And I've heard a bunch of good things about Perlbal, too.
2011 Tesla Roadster 2.5: New looks, wheels, seats, less noise
I find it unlikely that the flag threshold is a fixed number. I think I remember pg mentioning something about very new and very highly voted posts having a high and variable flag threshold.
Does a question like "If George Washington had 20 white horses, how many grizzly bears did he own?" count? I always like those kind the best.
Did you honestly feel that it was any more so than the Posterous "Tumblr is dying — come over here" post that inspired it? I felt the article in question was significantly less trollish or misleading.
Good points. You're probably right than it'll get spun off given the technologies behind it. I have to ask though, how much of this is a result of technological inertia as opposed to cultural inertia?
The best Flickr app for your iPhone, Reviewed
Since I purchased a new iPhone 4, which is on its way, I made a checklist of applications and online services that I will need.
The OP works for TechStars... conspiracy!
2 hours of work from this guy: http://le.mu.rs/motherfucker/Index/Entries/2010/6/24_What_mo...
A thread on link baiting was flagged down this morning, which started a discussion about people flagging stories because downvoting of stories isn't allowed:

Not to hijack this thread, but since we're having a
meta-discussion about HN already... I am (mildly)
aghast to discover that people are using the flag
feature as a substitute for downvoting! There are
numerous comments throughout this thread to that effect.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477966

Maybe it's time to allow downvoting of stories?
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Check out freelancer.com and rentacoder.com. You have to be extremely detailed and agree on everything in advance. You could always put your idea up for a bid. If it's too high, pull it down. Another approach is to break your specs down to individual pieces. Then, start by outsourcing the smallest piece as a test.