skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't the scaling issues more in the send-to-all cateogry than in the person-to-person?

Aka - a scoble broadcast out to 20,000 different endpoints causes challenges - whether it's pushed or pulled..
This is actually a very old tradition.

One notable example in popular culture is in Chaim Potok's novel "The Chosen"

http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Chaim-Potok/dp/0449213447/ref=p...

From a review here:

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1...

"At Reb Saunders’s synagogue, he experiences Hasidism in practice, especially the practice whereby the Reb makes an intentional mistake in his sermon every week and challenges Danny to identify the mistake and elucidate it from the Talmud and commentaries."
Excepting the terrible execution, http://expertvillage.com seems to have a variety of how-tos.
Monty is so human it's startling. When someone messes with an Asimo or a Roomba, it just looks like a toy. When you see someone thwart Monty, you feel like he's getting mad.
Iron Man’s Opening Weekend Box Office? $201mm Worldwide
I live in the USA. My employer provides my health insurance free of charge. I pay $12 / week for my spouse though.
IT Conversations (http://itconversations.com/) has some good interviews and talks mixed in with the fluff.
I actually like my tech crunch filtered through the great minds that make up the YC community. I also find value in the commentary that gets made here regarding the tech crunch articles that do make it to the front page.
I think Twitter tops the list

http://rails100.pbwiki.com/
What you call crude, I call elegant.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/my-favorite-lia.html

What made Dr. K memorable was a gimmick he employed that began with his introduction at the beginning of his first class:

"Now I know some of you have already heard of me, but for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar, let me explain how I teach. Between today until the class right before finals, it is my intention to work into each of my lectures ... one lie. Your job, as students, among other things, is to try and catch me in the Lie of the Day."
how are they getting their revenue?
As long as the URL you use isn't harder to type in than your address, this has merit. Conversely, I remember my address a lot easier than I remember a URL
Maintaining real relationships online and off: a guide to presence
Why not just add a small negative weight to all articles that come from an address which isn't unique? For instance if someone discovers XKCD for the first time and submits 20 of them, sure they're great but presumably once you've seen one you could navigate the rest of the site on your own. So add a little automatic downmod to the other 19 submissions because it wasn't a unique site. It would alleviate the techcrunch problem and similar ones without actually banning anything.
Battered Yahoo Admits It Overplayed Hand; Open To New Microsoft Talks
That is similar to what my AP English teacher used to do. He warned us that he will occasionally start making ridiculous statements and it is our responsibility to call BS on him. Of course, he also warned us to consider the consequences if we happen to call BS while he is making a genuine analysis of a text.

I loved that class (and this is only a small part why).
Well well worth the read, thank you.
I'll grant you vain, self-centered, and self-absorbed, but not the rest.
C-u 5 M-x cleanup-in-aisle
A Year in Digg Headlines - Charting the Trends from 2006-2008
Yes, that's true. I was referring to the custom of cutting lines at about that length, not where the specific number 80 came from. Though in fact the 80 char convention probably wouldn't have made it past about 1950 it hadn't been a reasonable upper bound for lines of prose.
Ask YC: finding hackers to help with charity work
I've been running http://cleftworld.com/main for a year now but the site looks unimpressive. I have rebuilt it (in Drupal) and have redesigned from the ground up but am unable to do the themeing work myself (no experience in this area whatsoever). Does anyone on this site have any suggestions as to where I might find a hacker that would be prepared to do such work on a pro bono basis.
I don't think that boring books can be made better by injecting errors into them. There are probably better ways to achieve 'deeper reading and understanding' - see 'the Little Lisper' for example.
There's one in every crowd. It used to be legacy users, now it's people who emulate legacy users ;-)
The title of this submission makes me sad. Business sense aside, I really prefer to live my life under the happy assumption that there are still companies out there that can go to-to-toe with MS and not blink.
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as someone else wrote here, einstein's general relativity would have been discovered much, much later if he hadn't; and many people believe we might not even have GR at all today if it weren't for him. it's certainly the greatest leap that i am aware of
Rightly so. With the appropriate suspension of belief, and a timely remind that the story is, after all based on a comic book I found the movie very enjoyable.
A basic understanding of flash, computers, combined with browsing the web and making observations and deductions.

1) With HTML you don't have to use textarea controls.

2) Saving an SWF is not trivial.

3) How much of your target audience really bothers to find a resource viewer?

4) It's necessary because your users don't have a resource viewer.

5) So the flash developer has to know what 'url fragments' are in order to make portions of the app bookmarkable.

6) I can't think of a flash app where open in new tab works. Obviously it is not trivial to implement
Asmallworld.com may be an example of a very exclusive social network, but this is getting ridiculous, you are telling me I have to actually die before I can join this site?
There are such companies: cf. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/how-googles-checkbo...
Twitter has been offering jabber/pub-sub to larger API consumers for a while (most aggregators like tweetscan use it as their interface with twitter)

I agree with the premise that they should be using pub-sub for (most) api clients, but twitter agrees as wel - and have been working towards it (hence large consumers already using it)
In any case, that can easily be done in JS.
Sure, because then all the git coders will replicate that same error again and again in production code. You can't assume that all readers are smart enough to spot the error.
This is a terrible idea.

While it may be adding some suspense when reading a book sequentially (for the first time), intentional errors are absolutely confusing whenever you intend to use the book as a reference.
A handful of people already control the majority of the information on this forum.

ValleyWag posted a flurry of articles which were counter to YCombinator interests and now ValleyWag articles are automatically posted with the dead attribute. The same scenario could happen with TechCrunch.
Yahoo Chief Says Microsoft Was the Stubborn One
Why do people make a big deal of this Outlook plugin. I remember using Eudora email and back in 2001 Eudora mail had some of the same features.

Not all the features but the majority. I hate when people make a big deal out of a basic Outlook plugin. I give them credit for building a good product but I am sure microsoft could develop something better, after all they own the source code of Outlook
Fortune 500 cos go `underground'
Microsoft Acquires Xobni
High income taxes in Denmark worsen a labor shortage
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/05/business/labor.php

I'd rather not pay a 63% marginal tax rate. I'm sure that must hurt when you try to attract talent.
This was a great article, from someone who clearly cares about usability and customer satisfaction. Although many of his points are arguable, it really comes down to one thing: choosing the platform.

Choosing a platform always has trade-offs, and the flash vs. html is no exception. When you decide on a platform for your application, it almost always means your going to exclude users from accessing it. I.E Windows software is generally not usable in OSX or Linux, and Mozilla extensions are not available from other web browsers.

Another thing - people develop levels of comfort with platforms, and switching can be a daunting experience. It's hard for the average Windows user to switch to Linux, because so many basic features of Windows are missing, and the user experience is so different. Same with flash vs. html - things like ctl+f don't work, text highlighting is different, the presentation is not as familiar.

Any smart person will consider these platform trade-offs when developing an application. You might lose some users, but I think people appreciate high-quality applications with good UIs. I don't mind waiting a few seconds to see a beautiful flash site to load (www.schematic.com, for instance).
Thanks Reg, I was hoping you'd see it!
"I hate to see what blogs are turning into: they aren't personal anymore and look more like expanded resumes. "

Why are you restricting blog's definition to only personal diary. Things evolve. Whoever said initially that it's a personal diary didn't know that it can evolve to any extent.

What's wrong in writing your learnings or insights on any professional or niche topic? What's wrong if I spent lots of time in learning some Java hack and sharing it with community so that they don't have to invest same amount of time that I have invested?

I think your view-point is extreme. There are always handful bloggers who write great analysis of particular topic genuinely. It's totally in reader's control to decide what to read and what to pass.
If you get enough messages on your shortcode, the carriers start to pay you (since they make so much per a message). This doesn't mean an OOS solution will be able to pull this off, but I just wanted to note that twitter need not be stuck with that bill.
A regexp library would be nice. But what asrv needs is perhaps a proper markdown parser. That plays to markdown's strengths.
Post on cragislist? Your project seems like a nice way for a young, up and coming, designer/hacker, to get his or her hands dirty.

Good luck.
Who Is Buying Yahoo Shares Today?
Yes thats a fantastic idea! In fact in my next book "Avionics and Applied Rocket Science" I've added an insidious little snippet that all O-rings should be stored in sub zero temperatures to preserve their integrity, that aught to keep those bongo playing physicist on their toes!
According to Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada, 75% of the population lives within 90 miles. So I was off a bit :). You're likely right about the reason though! (climate)
The technical error should be something that an alert reader could pick up given what was written elsewhere in the book.

Also, you would tell the reader that errors have been introduced intentionally to encourage a deeper reading.

The reader could perhaps be referred to an online discussion forum where he/she could search for and discuss potential errors.
No, the carriers don't start to pay you, ever. The only scenario that leads to the carriers paying you are if you have a Premium (pay per message) billing agreement. Twitter does not.

Twitter has taken a significant amount of funding. They have not really expanded their team much, they havent added many new features. They havent been advertising.

I guarantee all of the money is going towards messaging costs and infrastructure. Two things that a distributed, FREE Twitter would have a very hard time accounting for. [But hey, Im all for it. I have many years in the text messaging space and would totally be into helping however i could. I just think that the solution would be far trickier than people might at first glance suspect.]
check out manage.py's inspectdb command. it will make its best attempt (its been great w/ mysql) to introspect your schema and dump as a set of django models.
I'm sure nobody could _challenge_ that fact.
revenue != profit
This approach would work better with computer science and mathematics.
I had to use the MOUSE to go back! It was horrible! :O
the filter gives you a tangible "query" to work with so that you can continually add criteria as you build your query.

for example, i can say:

grants = Grants.objects.filter(is_approved=True)

to get all of the Grants to an Organization, and then

if not request.user.is_superuser:
grants = grant.filter(sponsoring_trustee=request.user)

to filter out grants that only pertain to a certain user.

"grants" isnt evaluated (queried) until its iterated over or otherwise called (print, for example), so i can keep building what i want as i go without having several sql calls or managing building a query via string concatenation. personally, i've always found django's orm to feel natural.
Right, aston's point is that it'd be much easier to build a proper markdown parser with a decent regexp implementation. (AFAIK, most markdown parsers use regexps instead of having an actual grammar.)
A few months ago friend of mine in the movie industry told me to buy MVL.

http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chd...;

Of course, I didn't have any money to put in the market at the time.

The good thing for MVL is that they are no longer just licensing their names, but actually producing the films, so they get all the profits.
It is also a perfect cover should he ever make a genuine mistake.
It depends on which market you are trying to attract: Deliberate errors would only encourage readers who aren't already motivated to find errors. More advanced readers would already be on the lookout for "errors" in case the author has made them inadvertently, or in case the reader can extend the state of the art known & described by the author.
Their LinkedIn Recruiter package is like $10K. Posting a job is over $100. They also have paid premium accounts which I think a fair number of people have, which allow for more aggressive networking (like reaching out to people more than 2 degrees from you). There are probably more, but there's a few.
I guess this is part of 'business' that I'll never understand. Why on Earth is it that Yahoo would have to bow down to MS? If you're thinking of the shareholders, wouldn't you be concerned about what MS is going to do to Yahoo (destroy it)? Is it only a (small) gain in share price that matters? Long-term potential be damned?
welcome to the desert of the real...
I used to but I've moved on to the wonderful world of the internet.

At least I never bothered with TV.
Share holders buy and sell in the short term.

However, when Yahoo! stock gets bought by MS, it becomes MS stock. MS stock is worth more (I presume,) so the stock rises in value. Even if MS liquidates everything Yahoo! had, the stock remains MS stock. Stock is a share of the company. It isn't tied to any particular assets.
"The world owes a great debt to Einstein and Godel, for relativity and incompleteness, but it is widely recognized that without them the same results would still have been achieved only a few years later. "

This is hardly widely recognized.
Looks like Arrington is taking the active step and banning Hacker News: http://twitter.com/TechCrunch/statuses/804383391

Good thing I don't frequent this site =)
Back to Trollinton with you.
does it pay better than 'market rate?'
I did not know this one post attracts so many replies. I did not mean it to be a troll to promote my own karma. I was a bit annoyed this morning when I saw a lot of top 30 articles are from Techcrunch on Yahoo! Microsoft deals. I felt I am not here to read Techcrunch but some other rare stuffs that other members feeling interesting. And I am sorry that I can't modify the title of the post after I submitted it. Yes, it should be a question to "Ask HN:" instead of "Ask PG".
No, theres this idea called "exercises and their solutions", which are designed for provide a mechanism for deepening understanding after reading a text. Beyond that, theres the whole mechanism of in appropriate social or research forums posing questions to one's social peer group, which is at a whole 'nother level!
I would recommend Zend Framework. I have had issues with Code Igniter. All the workarounds and unexpected stuff frustrated me - I think not only me but other users as well - that is why I think there is a fork: http://kohanaphp.org ... By the looks of it, I would recommend Kohana instead of Code Igniter. Either way, I am not so sure about the future of CI. That is why I choose Zend Framework.
Check out http://www.scitalks.com - many science talks from various sources.
I can't believe he said that. But I personally had several arguments with Mike Arrington before on his Techcrunch blog comments. (Mostly regarding to Music business model and one of the startup that I worked before) So I am really sorry to PG and other HN members that my submission causing such a big trouble.

I learned from a friend before that most law school students may take an oath in not telling a lie due to their special status in society. I hope Mike is not really taking this one seriously.

My deep apology to PG.
Bottom line is: PHP can get the job done (cheap and fast) and scales pretty well. I have been using Zend Framework for almost a year now - with the release of 1.5, I recommend it above anything else (other PHP MVC Framework).
The problem with the exercises is that they are voluntary. But intentional errors will irritate you until you figure out what's going on.
If it's boring, it's not what you're meant to be doing. Read up on a subject you actually enjoy.
I think he means MVC (Model-View-Controller) Frameworks. These things are so hot nowadays... If your site is structured well, then you wouldn't have to use templating engines like Smarty (god these things are so annoying)...
Whether something is boring often depends on whether you need it in your present task.

This means that you are more likely to skim material that does not seem highly relevant.

But that's not a good scenario for expanding your horizons.
Absolutely. English isn't the only thing I learned from him ;)
My colleagues and I spent several sleepless nights in grad school tracking down sign errors in our stat mech problem sets, only to find that they arose from typos in the textbook.

I'm very glad you are safely on the other side of the internet, because your suggestion gives me the overwhelming urge to impale you with a mechanical pencil. ;)
Digg Sharing is Flawed
Starbucks to Experience the iPhone Effect
I'd love to see this sort of chart for Twitter topics - the spread between tech and pop-culture might be even more distinguished
Internal javascript functions
http://myaddress.us/trevorj ?

(Link -> parked godaddy domain)
Glad I closed my (relatively small) short position today then. I really didn't see MS doing a hostile takeover. There were just too many poison pills for them to swallow, and it was clear from the beginning that Yang and the board were on an ego trip. They were nuts not to sign immediately.

Reality is setting in. Which makes me think maybe it's time to go long. What do you all think?
"... The feed is in Atom format. It works in Safari, but not in Firefox. ..."

The reason why is you need a link tag per entry. For example:

feed
...
entry
title
id
updated
link <link href='http://foobar.com/permalink'/>
summary
content

the link bit was what I was missing so firefox goes to retrieve the link, finding it's not there fails. I just spent some time today fixing this myself.
You're right. This is a great idea.
After years of underperforming, the shareholders saw a chance to take a stock that was selling for under $20 not that long ago and turn it into $33 or $34 a share. If you're scoring at home, that's a 65% or better increase in the value of their investment. And for options holders, there's a good chance that the price change is the difference between the options being underwater (i.e. worthless) and being worth quite a bit.

If that were your retirement fund or your stock options in your employer, wouldn't you want that money? And if you were a professional investor, wouldn't you be downright berzerk at all that money being thrown away?

Computer geeks like to go around badmouthing Microsoft all the time, but taking that attitude as a CEO or board member of a public company makes you unprofessional and irresponsible. To shareholders, Microsoft's money spends just like everyone else's.

Yahoo has underperformed for years. Sure, it has long-term potential. But investors have little reason to think the current management will realize this potential any better than the last couple of regimes. Meanwhile, as much as geeks love to hate Microsoft, they have decades of experience in producing enormous profits, and there's no particular reason to think that buying Yahoo will change that.

This isn't just short term vs. long term. This is realizing a return on investment vs. watching that return slip through your fingers. And investors are pissed.
Exactly. This is why all the UML-mania is b.s. A UML diagram of the high level classes in a project? Yes that is useful. And guess what? You can generate that automatically from the code. But doing the entire app in UML, as some people would have us do? Yeah you can generate code from a UML diagram, but it is infinitely faster to type code than it is to dink around with funny Visio widgets and try to click inside tiny text boxes & select types from a drop down.

My college recently dropped Java from CS 1 and 2; instead they decide to use Alice (a graphical toy language) to teach all CS concepts. You want a loop? You drag a loop block on to the page. Need a condition on the loop? Select it from the drop down. Sounds neat and it is an interesting concept, but ultimately it's just a pain in the ass. Once a method gets bigger than a few lines, it's almost impossible to position the mouse to make the item drop in the right place. And writing a complex loop condition can be a tedious maze of drop down menus.

Purely visual code input methods are just not an efficient way to enter code. It's as hard to use as trying to crack eggs to make an omelet while only touching the eggs with a pair salad tongs.

These environments don't even address the central issue. Changing the representation of the code is just lipstick on a pig; the real problem is that software is hard. There is an essential something to a program (like QWAN) that can't be reduced. Wrapping it in goofy modeling doesn't change the essential difficulty.

In fact, software modeled graphically is actually harder to understand than the text version, because software is full of relationships that are semantic not spatial. The relationships are not 3 dimensional or 2 dimensional and trying to squish that onto a visual representation just makes things worse. On the other hand, humans have this wonderful ability to comprehend nuances of semantic meaning in prose. The textual representation of software is the "right" model for it.
Depends on whether Yahoo is ready to grovel to get Microsoft back to the table. After all the cheap shots they've taken, I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to wash their hands of the whole thing and move on.

Edited to add: on further review, groveling is certainly overstating the case. But if Yahoo is willing to reach out and make it look like this can be a real partnership both sides are actually interested in, it will be a lot more doable.

The whole thing where they've been trying to make Microsoft look bad and act like they want nothing to do for the deal hasn't benefited anyone.
$172 per month (single person coverage) with a $2000 deductible (routine physicals, dental, eye care covered with small co-pay).

I'm in Massachusetts and use FCHP. The premiums for me have been going down a few dollars every year, which, come to think of it, is pretty remarkable. :-)
The declining value of redundant news content on the web
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/my-favorite-lia.html