skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the train on the way home.
Branchable: ikiwiki blog hosting service
That's nothing, you should see what Google does to conservative news. Google is a pretty big shill for the Democratic party, has a former exec in the West Wing, and has been caught repeatedly spiking stories in their news site that are critical of the left.

Also not sure I'd call this an extremist group. Ideological group perhaps, but extremist? Sure some of the members cited were bad apples (stalking, etc.), but yeah this is pure ideological polemics. When you have the the majority of mainstream media shilling for the left, one can't really blame the right for trying to regain some ground.
You may be certain, but so far a year long undercover investigation has yet to prove there is an elite cabal of liberals desperately manipulating information in an attempt to skew towards their viewpoint.

Or, perhaps, the feeling that conservative content is underrepresented is because of something more benign -- maybe more liberals visit Digg than conservatives?
Clickable chart of distribution relationships
Why do people keep naming things X10? It is already confusing enough...
Agree, that kind of specific behavior is really not cool. I think though the idea of trying to uplift or bury a story through organized voting is fine.
Buy tickets for popular sport/music events, sell for double the money when the venue is sold out. Repeat.

Not that I agree with this kind of business from an ethics point of view, but it's easy money.
simply kill any long-term (12hrs+) TCP/IP connections that are not over a recognized/allowed L7 protocol. [This] is very effective at starving unwanted bit torrent usage.

I don't see how. BitTorrent will just reconnect to a different peer and continue.
Ask HN: Is there an angel investor simulator?
It would be fun. It could be based on crunchbase. everyone starts with $1M. Invest it in startups you think will make it. multiply or go bust.
Sorry, could you cite where Google has been caught "spiking stories in their news site that are critical of the left"? I'm deeply interested in censorship and feel that this would be a pretty big story.
This is a really superb and thoughtful piece on the funding process. The only issue I would take is with the idea that funding terms will become standardized and the process routine. While, even as a lawyer, I would actually love to see this happen (we prosper right along with our startup clients and no one benefits from the waste that occurs with funding games), I have not seen this happen even as all sorts of standardized documents are now widely available to facilitate it. It can and does occur if the investors want to settle for terms protecting their basic interests but giving them no special advantages (what I call vanilla terms). That said, only the friendliest of investors will do this, and by "friendly," I mean in relation to the founders, and this usually means only friends and family or perhaps an individual angel or two that has a long history with one or more of the founders and wants above all other things to help promote the founders' interests. The rest of the angels, and most certainly the institutional ones (so-called "super angels") continue routinely to press for special advantages of one type or other. With special advantages come special terms and with this comes lawyer review, back-and-forth negotiations, and the like. In this sense, absent a huge shift in the balance of power toward founders, I don't see purely standardized documentation and routine processing becoming the order of the day anytime soon. Others may differ, and I may be wrong, but that's how I see this based on considerable day-to-day experience in this field. That said (for what it is worth), this is a brilliant essay that concisely encapsulates the important trends one will encounter in early-stage startup funding, and it should be widely disseminated to all who might have an interest in this field.
Think of this is as "networking". You have to allocate time beforehand to do that: meetups, coffee, etc. This is no different. The only difference is that instead of expecting to make small-talk the expectation is technical talk. Further, I think it is good to be able to make yourself available quickly on a whim "mark me as available now" like you described.

Now, your time may be more valuable than "technical networking" with this crowd. Sure. In that case, you're not in the target demographic, like you concluded.
I can implement this (without the karma points feature) if there's enough interest from the startups.

If you're behind a startup and want to engage or create your community of fan's with t-shirts, mugs and other stuff, drop me an e-mail at matrixownsyou at gmail com
good effort, but ui could be better.

going to swytch.net[http://swytch.net] leads to no heroku app found

don't see much value in a social network where everything is private.. is it still social ?

gowalla does step 4 + a lot of other cool things.

again good effort, and keep it up, maybe eventually you will find that feature that is killer.
Creative Wedding Cakes
Once in a lifetime you will most probably have the opportunity to try out this cake- the wedding cake, so why not make it more beautiful. Take a look at this gallery and maybe you will get an idea.
Their problem I think is that they throw those products over the fence, generate some initial interest, and then they just forget about them ... as if they're good enough.

Those products weren't good enough, and yet they expect them to succeed without incremental improvements?

How hard was for them to do what Twitter did? Now of course it's too late.

Also ... one reason Google Video failed was because the approval for uploaded videos could have taken weeks, while on Youtube it was near instant. Youtube also has a consumer facing design ... they should realize that the guidelines working for their search engine cannot work for consumer-facing services popular amongst teenagers.
Go find poor rural places in the developing world today (or even more so 20 years ago), and you’ll see scenes that look pretty much identical to these. Places where people don’t have enough work or enough to eat, and what work they do have is hard manual labor, tend to be full of skinny people.
Seems I do much better if I hum the Airwolf theme tune. How does that work?
I can't afford $25 a month, maybe $12.
Don't you mean GIMP? ;)

And no, I still disagree slightly. It's not about the kind of design the final product is, it's about what function your role is fulfilling. Are you designing the way the people interact with the application, the way the application looks and feels, or both?
browsers backtracked and reparsed when seeing an EOF inside a script to deal with </script> inside an inline script

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that in order to detect that the </script> is inside an inline script, you'll have to parse the JavaScript. Requiring every HTML5 parser to include a JavaScript parser in order to parse it correctly seems a little too much for me.

Another reason: code complexity. Backtracking makes everything a lot more complex which is the exact opposite of what they're trying to achieve with the HTML5 parsing algorithm. Less code = fewer bugs, easier to understand and easier to implement.
Apologies for the unintentional misdirect. This group is meant for EXACTLY that. A quality group of folks developing apps to let other developers test releases and give feedback. you are right, the community needs something like this to help each other out... (wanted to add this in but the headline was limited to 80 char and ultimately went for a marketing headline instead...)

not sure how many folk have actually reviewed and given feedback to apps yet but i just downloaded an app, tried it out and actually like it... and was worth a rating.

do you have something coming out soon? would love to have a look...
is that THE dieter rams?
Essentially, the article says that the market for search ads is starting to mature, and that the growth of this market is slowing.

This is when Google should begin paying out the excess cash it has to shareholders, as dividends and stock buybacks. That's why stockholders ultimately invested in the company: to get more money back.

But, many companies seem to think that they need to expand forever, so I'd be somewhat surprised if Google actually started paying out its surplus cash anytime soon. Though, as with the many attempts of Microsoft to move beyond desktop software, I don't see Google finding an alternate source of profit anywhere near as large as search ads.
I like first one. However, while the second one is fair enough for the example of rural WISPs - if my ISP starts killing connections as a matter of common practice then I'd be looking for a new ISP.
Which is why:

> I have problems with doctors using these devices with the lack of a replaceable battery.

I'm sure some will misuse their batteries and will have them get crappy in much less than 3 years.
I just rolled out timezone search to hackernewsers, e.g. http://www.hackernewsers.com/users.html?User[timezone]=Europ...

This is part of a larger set of community features that I've been working on for a couple of weeks and will be deployed soon. It looks like we've had the same idea
Sure, it's http://seenly.com
If you like someone's comment, you can click on their office hours link and .. AWESOME!
The Web is Like Canada
"Erase" is a funny word. It doesn't actually wipe all the data when you "erase" a device such as an ipad, it just marks the area as usable for writing.

So a doctor will "erase it", and if people want to hunter for credit cards, etc, they can scan the memory of the device after returning it.

There is a HUGE crime presence buying old hard drives looking for credit card numbers, etc on them. No reason to not assume they'll do it with iPads too.
I've had success with this technique:

1. Sketch it on paper.

2. Draw it using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8487/ without regard to how hard it will be to actually implement with CSS and html.

3. Make it so.
There are already computers there.

There are these little wipe thingys they're supposed to use on stuff like iPads.
> The American government bails out giants of industry, while a substantial part of the populace still protests universal health care. Isn’t that a sort of strange thing?

I think the people protesting government-run healthcare are also protesting GM and bank bailouts even louder. But regardless, this submission seems pretty conducive to an unproductive politics mudsling, so going to just flag and move on.
Michael: I have been enjoying the MEAP while you have been writing it. My enthusiasm for Clojure is increasing and I like the book!

BTW, really off topic, but do you have any advice for making stack traces a little more useful (using Clojure 1.2)? This is still a sore spot for me.
I wonder if there is a simple direct correlation between purchasing power and any one of those specific class segments.
The way I see it, there are only two possible ways to implement that kind of speed throttling:

1. Protocol filtering. This is basically the status quo with wireless. Voice/Text is separate from Internet data.

2. Deep-packet inspection. I'm sure that Schmidt wasn't advocating this, for a variety of moral and practical reasons.

How exactly do you do what Schmidt is describing without favoring a protocol? How do you favor a protocol without locking out third-party protocols? ISPs have no way of classifying the data sent on a third party protocol.
I've only seen a tweet from them thus far: http://twitter.com/futuretap/status/19947170850
Wilbur Ross: Keep jobs in America, tax the rich, and fund Federal R&D
I like the way this guy thinks! One takeaway from this interview: We used to be #1 in the world in college students that graduated with a degree; now we are #12. Ouch.
Not sure why you are being downmodded.

I was never allowed a calculator in math classes (about 10 years ago), but it was allowed in every other undergrad science class. In grad courses, there would have been little point since it was uncommon to see a number besides e, i, pi and -1 (occasionally also a 2 or sqrt(2)).
Well, obviously it got buried by the Google/Digg/MSM liberal cabal.
This one is a Poe's Law for me (that is to say, I can't tell if it's serious or satirical).
I like the way this guy thinks! One takeaway from this interview: We used to be #1 in the world in college students that went on to graduate with a degree; now we are #12. Ouch.
Please, people, listen to me:

tablet != slate

That is all, back to work now.
What's the criteria for inclusion?

I did searches for Ruby and JRuby, and found nothing.
Is your video demo hosted on YouTube? I couldn't load it and my company blocks YouTube. If you are targetting the corporate market consider hosting the video on Vimeo or some other less-popular video sharing site.
Serious question- Does anyone actually read these things? Patent applications are enormously unreadable, and in virtually any internet discussion it comes down to "They patented something trivial!" "No, the details are what matter" .... QUIET....

So what did they patent?
I don't think they cancel each other out. Digg has an extremely conservative bias. Half the stories on the front page are basically "Global Warming Is A Hoax Because Jesus Wouldn't Let That Happen"
I don't generally downvote on HN - but you've made a grave claim against Google, and as the accuser you need to provide corroboration for your (very serious) accusations.
Why everyone loves coming up with ideas in the shower
There are a lot of people in finance making millions outside of their salary working for other people.
In response to this reply:
Ok, I'm not the original poster, but here goes.
The continued existence of the entire human race may depend on space exploration and subsequent colonization. One comet or black-swan type disaster could wipe out humanity as a whole. This is not without precedent (dinosaurs).

Each time we leave this planet we punch a whole in our ozone layer that can't be repaired! Some things were meant to be left alone. Simple education like teaching man to fish and read (not like our socialist education system here in America) will improve life and decerease deficits on this earth! Socialism is not the answer!
Do you really think the post boiled down to just "an unproductive politics mudsling"?

Although you're free to hold that opinion, I have to say that it does perplex me. Either it means that you didn't give it a thorough read, or I simply failed in writing it.

In my mind, the political component was a rather small part of the overall argument--which I'd hope would be worthy of more discussion.

Perhaps I'm a little on the hyperbolic side at times, but I keep thinking that we're doing very little to address a problem that's going to have enormous impacts on all of us.

As for the GM/Healthcare discussion, you'll have to forgive me. Being on the northern side of the border, it's hard to understand why so many in America seem so angry about it.
As always, PG's done a good job of writing a thought-provoking and highly readable essay. I'm hardly qualified to comment one way or another about the ins and outs of startup financing- I'm willing to assume that he's got the facts right on those aspects of the essay- but one part of the essay stuck out at me like a sore thumb: (talking about YCombinator's "competition" with employers)

<blockquote>
Nearly all customers choose the competing product, a job. Why? Well, let's look at the product we're offering. An unbiased review would go something like this:

Starting a startup gives you more freedom and the opportunity to make a lot more money than a job, but it's also hard work and at times very stressful.
</blockquote>

I'd say that this represents about 80% of an "unbiased review". The missing 20%? "... it's also hard work, and at times very stressful, <em>and the odds are very much against all of that hard work and stress paying off for you in any kind of direct, financial way.</em>"
In what world does democracy include: voting with multiple identities, blocking others from participation, fabricating likes about others to to defame them, etc.

Instead of jumping with a canned-response, take the time to read the very interesting article.
Equivalent to node.js but built in Qt?
It would be great to see a server side event driven Javascript web server engine equivalent to node.js but built in Qt. Qt is a better choice for building an event driven server side Javascript engine. Qt is cross platform, Windows, Mac, Linux. Qt supports the Webkit squirrelfish javascript engine rather than the Google V8 engine. Qt would make it much easier to support SSL, HTTP gzip compression and multicore. Is anyone else interested in seeing and using such a thing?
That's sort of the point: investors will need to know more than just how to evaluate pitches in order to make good investments. I'm not sure that there is a "strategy" to evaluate startups very early. What needs be done depends heavily on the situation. However, it seems that it is possible to beat random guessing.
While it is all funny to laugh at the DOW, it is worth pointing out that the talk here is about the remaining 15000 documents that still haven't been released.
Good thoughts, thanks.
For their purposes, either have a consistent implementation on every platform or have a clearly specified reference platform for resolving any disputes. But if you say, "This program is authoritative" then you're left with problems if that program gives different results for different people.
Home and work. They're the same place for me.

I suppose since I'm reading HN I'm not actually working right now, so maybe that means I'm at "home."
It's the free market in action.

Or there isn't perfect knowledge so it's not... but then there never is, doh.
PostPartisan - A final warning to WikiLeaks?
This is why it will be important as an investor to actually understand the business area that the startup is getting into. The problem with the dotcom bubble wasn't that there was pressure for investors to make a decision; the problem was that many investors put in their money without any clue as to even what the companies they were investing in actually did.
A lot of meaning what .. 250,000 globally? Maybe 500,000? I doubt many of those people are hacker news readers.
Well, now that they've ORDERED them...
"Together, these two algorithms form the core of the parser and consist of over 10,000 lines of code."

Anybody else think that if your markup language requires a 10k line parser, somebody took a wrong turn at the complexity vs simplicity fork in the road?
Cancer Cells Use Fructose to Grow: Don't Blame Us, Says Corn Lobby
As the amounts invested in early stages get smaller, and some of the Series A rounds are replaced by angel rounds, there will be an economic incentive to move toward more standardized terms for these early rounds. The less money being invested at a given stage, the more conspicuous the lawyer fees for special terms will be.
searching youtube for "gantto" yields nothing. you have to search for "ganttointro".
I think Playdom is probably a lot larger than Slide... oh hrm and Playdom was just acquired by Disney for $763M. Slide is definitely small fries in comparison to Playdom or Zynga.
Thanks for the feedback. We are hosting on YouTube which is likely the problem. We will consider hosting on another site.
Actually, you can recover from specific types of errors. Check the value returned from recover(), and if it's not what you want to handle, panic(value).
Love me some potato on potato action.
I'm having trouble parsing this statement. Are you saying that Liberals, suspicious of something fishy, launch an investigation and are therefor the same as the people who are actively engaging in extremely unscrupulous and dishonest behavior?

Also, I'm not sure what to make of: "Happens all of the time aka US Congress." Does AKA have a meaning other than "also known as" that I don't know about?
except for maybe the tables for usage

What's wrong with them?
Enormous but mostly empty?
"it would be ad hoc and limit library interoperability."

Panicking across package boundaries is unidiomatic, a bad idea, and explicitly warned against in the blog post.
"There's a number of programmers who really seem to dislike exceptions: Joel Spolsky and Rob Pike among them."

Additionally, the Google C++ style guide forbids the use of exceptions.
Great apps for life
I'm the guy whose blog is linked here. I've posted a followup: http://venomousporridge.com/post/909651311/whereto-patent-fo...
Naturally I read it. Part of the problem is that Digg is actively trying to prohibit political activity, and this drives groups like this underground and force them to use crazy tactics. My snide comment is that when you have a democracy, it's completely natural for people to band together to press their viewpoint, in fact that's the entire point, and the tone of the article is laughable.

Anyway I address multiple identities, but I don't understand how they're blocking other people from participation? Them mining enemies' old posts for TOS violations in order to get them banned, well, who's fault is that really.
I think even laymen should learn the why of the statistics, a few paragraphs about statistical significance would have helped the article's author I should think.

As an aside, wow another one of my favourite bloggers responding to a comment of mine on HN this week!
No one has mentionned price yet. Tablet PCs usually sell over 2000$, that's a lot of money for a "cool gadget". That is why netbooks are selling like hot pancakes, you pay only a few hundred bucks for a low power device. The gab between the iPad and the Tablet PC prices is so huge that no technology seems to be able to justify it.
> Do you really think the post boiled down to just "an unproductive politics mudsling"?

No, but I think the discussion on HN is likely to devolve into that. There's a reason politics articles are more or less banned here. I know it's your own site you're promoting so it makes sense to just submit wherever, but you're talking about politics, economics, egalatarianism, regulation, socialism, healthcare, bailouts, environmental atrocities - this is all crammed into one post.

No one who sees your post is going to get convinced one way or another - people who were sympathetic are going to remain sympathetic, people who were hostile are going to remain hostile. That's we try to stay away from politics here.
The Network Automation Hockey Stick
my iAd-supported Gaia GPS Lite app was approved today
It's an interesting idea, but what they're basically asking for is coding on spec. And with a $500B budget, I don't think the Pentagon needs to be jerking devs around like that.

Or maybe I'm missing some important point about the project?
PseudoID: Enhancing Privacy for Federated Login
This is very interesting to me. The statement from Geoff Morrell seems weirdly passive-aggressive.

"Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell made clear this was not a request"

Which implies legal ramifications.

"We are making a demand of them," Morrell said. "We are asking them to do the right thing."

It's not a request, it's a demand, but they are _asking_ them to do the right thing. If you're in the position to make demands, you don't cross your fingers and hope people do what you think is right. You just make sure they do it.

"If doing the right thing is not good enough for them," the Pentagon spokesman said, alternatives will be explored "to make them do the right thing."

Well thus far the Pentagon is basically begging. If they had a legal stick to hand I'm sure they'd be using it already. So, what I'm interested to know, is how they plan on compelling Wikileaks to withhold the information. My sense is that they're not exactly on a firm footing.

That's not to say they won't come up with a strategy eventually, it's just this statement makes them seem uncertain.
Can you talk more about the integration process, etc? Also, an update with some numbers later would be awesome.