skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've posted an example in response to one of the other comments. In the future I'd appreciate it if you'd refrain from conflating source criticism with ad hominem attacks; someone who has, in the past, been demonstrated to misrepresent or misreport facts in service to political goals is an unreliable source, and there's no fallacy in pointing this out.
IngBoo Powers Facebook 'Like' with Search, Tag and Feed Syndication
Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) August 24, 2010

IngBoo today launched a new web syndication solution that powers websites with Facebook ‘Like’ syndication for search, tags and feeds to maximize Facebook conversion. The solution enables fully-automated, ongoing engagement between publishers and their audiences, dramatically increasing site revisits and revenue.

Web publishers are expanding their reach into the Facebook community via fan pages and integration of social plug-ins. IngBoo’s solution fully supports Facebook Open Graph social plug-in tools and provides a one-to-one content syndication – from a website to a user’s Facebook News Feed.

Additionally, IngBoo’s solution is intent based. If a consumer ‘Likes’ a search, the IngBoo solution will automatically and continuously send updated search result into the individual’s Facebook News Feed. Also, tags and feeds can be connected and shared; updates are automatic and continuous, based on the individual’s discretion.

“Publishers profit from more reach, revisits and revenue when adopting the Facebook ‘Like’ model,” said Rikard Kjellberg, CEO and co-founder of IngBoo. “We expand Facebook ‘Like’ syndication to dynamic content greatly benefitting publishers and consumers by enabling ongoing updates and sharing based on consumers’ expressed interest. Online publishers and bloggers can improve their conversion rates significantly with the IngBoo solution.”

Kjellberg added, “The explosive growth of Facebook social syndication is a testament to the power of this engagement model. More than 350,000 web sites have adopted ‘Like’, and it is growing. IngBoo can immediately benefit these sites. We have made it especially easy for bloggers with our WordPress plugin. They should visit http://www.ingboo.com/pvm/start for more information.”

Publisher Partners
“IngBoo’s ‘Like’ for search has been a very popular feature among our 1.5 million job seekers,” said Monis Rahman, CEO and founder of ROZEE.PK, Pakistan’s #1 job site. “Our Facebook audience remains connected to highly targeted and timely job postings by over 30,000 leading employers, giving them an edge in this competitive job market.”

Additional publishers that have partnered with IngBoo include TGDaily, GadgetReview and Technorati.

About IngBoo, Inc.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, IngBoo brings new and powerful web syndication solutions to publishers. More than 50 web sites use IngBoo web syndication services to connect with their audience via Facebook, Twitter, mobile and email. For more information, visit www.ingboo.com.
Ask HN: Review our website thinktutorial.com
Hi there!

We just released a new website called thinktutorial.com. The goal of the simple website is to provide users with extremely simplified tutorials, and straight to the point.

The main intend is to provide a simple reference for everyone to link to. Let me explain: If a co-worker or family member ask you an IT questions, you usually just say "google it!". Now, you can provide an actual link with free content: ThinkTutorial.com.

The tutorials there do not include programming/photoshop tutorials (yet). Let us know what is missing, what needs to be added, what tutorials would you like to see there ?

The idea of thinktutorial is to genuinely help and provide value.

Thank you in advance for your feedback!
All HN readers are more than welcome! It's a fairly informal event. People drink beer, and chat about things they're interested in, which tend to be the projects their working on, programming, tech, startups etc.
Yeah, offhand, I think that Apple likely does 'innovate' a bit more, but that the PC companies are definitely better at getting newer, faster, better 'evolved' components in front of people faster and for less money.
My wife and I took 4 months off to travel around southeast asia (Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand), and had a great time. Managing to stay just connected enough to read and keep up with goings-on back home, and disconnected enough to not worry about our eMail gave us a great change of perspective and energy about coming back to San Francisco, ready to go build something.

Favourite travel tips:
- Kindle's International Roaming plan is $5/wk for subscriptions, so you can get your NYTimes, FT, Economist, etc. while on the go... even in places w/o paved roads and ATM's

- The Kindle is also great generally because you can be less diligent about charging it, and read it anywhere from the beach to an airport lounge without any eyestrain... It also beats a stack of books (but an iPad would do so as well).

- Taking Pepto Bismol prophylactically changes the PH of your stomach, making you much less likely to suffer from food-borne illnesses. That said, the effects become detrimental to your body as a whole after a few weeks, so we slowly weaned ourselves off of it, to give our immune system a chance to slowly adjust to the local flora/fauna.

- An unlocked iPhone is your best friend... whether it's for maps to find your way, a travel guide for a city, downloading a podcast to teach you the local phrases you need, finding/booking a hotel, or making that Skype call back home.
I never claimed that it was forcing every card to charge every person the same rate.

My claim (and that of the OP) is that it decreases the ability of the CC company to differentiate. They can still do so, but to a much lesser degree.

So they can have different rates, but there will be fewer of them: it forces them to quantize, and put people with different circumstances into the same bucket.
Ask HN:Why we get used to everything?
People get used to poverty. People in unhappy jobs get used to their jobs. People get used to failures. People get used to corruption.People get used to bad marriages.People get used to bad habits. Do you know how to break this cycle?
Clickable Link: http://www.thinktutorial.com
Fedora 14 Alpha Released
I'm not sure that what you're asking is possible. An "explanation" is just a description of a deeper concept that implies what you're trying to explain. Physics is pretty much as deep as you can go. Put another way, physical theories are descriptions of the universe that agree with observation. You can explain other things in terms of physics, but it's hard to explain the nature of the universe in terms of something deeper without religion.

You might want to explain to your son how science works instead; how theories are formed, accepted, invalidated, and replaced. Looking up Feynman interviews on YouTube would be a good start.
On a similar note, Robert Krulwich, one of the hosts of RadioLab on NPR gave a commencement speech at California Institute of Technology called “Tell Me a Story.”

It's a great reminder that we all learn through stories, and that stories are really the only way to convey complex ideas to the general public. Not telling these stories, because we think they won't get it, harms everyone and creates a vacuum of truth where more appealing unscientific stories then dominate.

Audio of the talk:
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/07/29/tell-me-a-story/
Yeah this confused me originally, most people let you know if you don't have it in there though.
I was waiting to get my submission of GithubFinder to the 10KApart contest approved before posting the link here on HN, however, it seems like I'm running into some issue with the rules and I may not get the app accepted. The app is using a small proxy script to grab files from Github and even though I think the proxy script is generic enough to fit in their #3 rule, "3rd party API use", I don't want to bet on that.

So here it is, GithubFinder. I've been using it personally for the past few days and it's awesome. Browsing Github repository now is a breeze. This morning I implemented the Greasemonkey script to add a button to the Github repo page, and with this feature in place, I think the app is pretty complete. So I decided to announce it to the HN community. There are lots of Github users here so I hope it'll be a great tool to all.

For bugs and features request please go to

http://github.com/sr3d/GithubFinder/issues

Thanks!

PS: thanks to Github for being awesome. The API is pretty sweet!
conversion rates depend on your traffic. You can get 1:50 or you can get 1:200...or you can buy some paid traffic and get 0:25,000

This doesn't even make any sense as an argument, it's like saying water is wet and air is dry. And 'buy some paid traffic'? Virtually all marketing traffic is paid traffic, that's what marketers do, they buy traffic.

I'd like to see the product that you are getting 1:10 conversion rates on. Frankly that sounds like bullshit. And if you are really getting those numbers...then you wouldn't be saying you are "just an above average marketer".

So my fault is being modest? Fine, I'm a kickass marketer. Either way, my product is an ebook for which I buy traffic via ppc, ppv and media buys and avg a CPC of $0.40, an EPC of $0.90 and a CR of 10%.

The only way to get numbers like that is by pitching a product that has 0 competition(something like water bottle art making)....which usually means there is almost 0 traffic there.

You have no clue what you're talking about. My numbers are peanuts compared to those of my colleagues (and no, they don't make them by pushing scammy rebills). Take some time to actually study the mechanics of the industry and you'll see what's possible and what's not. Maybe work with an experienced marketer or 2.
Parks and Stone found that unselfish colleagues come to be resented because they "raise the bar" for what is expected of everyone. As a result, workers feel the new standard will make everyone else look bad

Please. People don't like others who raise the bar. This is not news. The same thing can be said about co-workers that work harder. Sure others don't like them because during the performance review they will be compared to them.
I'd appreciate it if you'd refrain from conflating source criticism with ad hominem attacks

I only conflate them because a criticism of the source (as opposed to a criticism of the argument, or objection to a fact) is an ad hominem attack.

See wikipedia: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ad_hominem

An ad hominem, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "to the man"), is an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating the premise.

You cite an (alleged) characteristic of Ms. McArdle, that she's had factual errors in the past. You have not even mentioned the facts of this article: your argument is based on that characteristic of Ms. McArdle. QED
It is not a matter of preventing it, Google is the one that actually conceived of and is promoting this approach.
Schwab is/was 2% on every purchase, deposited into a schwab account.

Costco Amex is 3% for gas and restaurants, 2% for "travel" (hotels, travel fare), and 1% everywhere else. (Anomaly - It's 1% inside theme parks, even for food, but 2% if you pay for things in advance.)

Discover runs 5% promotions on various things that last a month or two. These things include gas, grocery, drug store purchases. However, make sure that you understand the terms. (Some of the travel promotions weren't much good because 5% only applied to the first $500.)
Good questions.

There are certainly many other types of comments here. There are many informative comments on most HN submissions, they usually carry a slight skew to either support or oppose the submission. There are comments that provide additional context to submissions – those usually do quite well.

The “tribes” metaphor fits pretty well with regards to online communities (including HN). HN as a whole values information, both factual and opinionated – as long as the facts have a solid foundation in reason.

Since the economy of this tribe is powered by knowledge, most of the comments that survive are related to determining the value of any given piece of information. An upvote on a story says that it’s worth something. A comment that disagrees says it’s worth less. There are plenty of comments from people trying to determine what the value of the information is from their perspective.

There are a growing number of meta-comments, especially on submissions of questionable relevance or quality. A comment that says “Hacker News?” calls into question how much the submitter actually belongs here. As with other tribes, a constant state of tribal / endemic warfare is present. Refugees are rarely well accepted into existing communities, HN is no different. The “Eternal September” problem is a nicer way of saying a place is being overrun by refugees. A common insult here is “this isn’t reddit”. On reddit, a common insult is “this isn’t Digg” and on Digg, “this isn’t Fark”. It’s not that there is a hierarchy of quality in a series of sites, comments like that exist to point out that someone’s comment (and by extension the commenter) don’t belong here. Pointing out someone’s “otherness” is a diversionary tactic that has existed long before the internet.

I do find a great deal of humor in the “this isn’t reddit” comments, because reddit has a pretty elegant solution to the fact that humans coalesce into tribes – subreddits. It’s significantly easier to recognize other commenters in a subreddit because there are fewer people to recognize. Many of the people that lament the state of HN often mean that they don’t recognize the people making the submissions and comments. I believe that it’s the state of like-mindedness that people are attracted to; not a state of unified agreement or disagreement on a topic. With a smaller set of contributors, the question of “what has value?” is much clearer, the community can then focus on the merit of any given contribution. As a community grows, the idea of what values are espoused by the community become much more murky and it becomes difficult to assess the worth of any given comment or submission.

This has become much more lengthy than I intended it to be; I suppose I could have just said “there are many types of comments on any site, the ones that tend to do well are the ones that help others accurately assess the value of the topic under discussion”. Of course, my point may have been missed if I had just said that ;)
I admire the guy's focus, he checks twitter once for like a minute and goes back to work
The mass-media recipe is either "whatever we think will help republicans" (Fox) or "He said, she said" (everyone else). There's almost nobody who's actually willing to call BS on a lie for it's own sake.
Bank of America is a particularly crappy bank. US Bank is marginally better in my experience, and ING Direct is by far the best. Particularly in terms of dispute resolution, US Bank was very easy to work with, and settled the matter within I think less than a week. (My ING Direct debit card number has yet to be stolen, and when a whole bunch of debit card numbers were leaked by a third party, they preemptively mailed me a brand new card along with a friendly letter explaining the situation.)

But the real solution for dispute resolution is to use an ordinary credit card and put through chargebacks on any and all fraudulent purchases. Lacking the stomach to keep a credit card I don't do this myself, but I hear chargebacks are very easy by design.
text-shadow:1px 1px 1px white is mainly used by the footer to give it an embossed look.

Would love to get some suggestions on how we can improve the text readability overall. We've gotten some feedback that the text is too light.

We are iterating pretty quickly doing a few deploys a day.

Please shoot me an email, we try to be very responsive.
It's interesting to think what will happen to us when we've automated the production of everything we really need.

I think the reality is we don't need to work so much anymore. In fact we need to work less and less.

Especially if you combine this fact with slowed population growth.

If you imagine a large scale automated system that builds homes, grows and processes food and takes care of our other basic needs (which is where this world is going to) then do we really need to work?

The problem is, is that the world and the economy are set up so that you need to earn your place. But if no apocalypse stops us, there is going to come a day where there is no need to do anything, because everything is provided for.

However, that future will heavily favor the owners of the system and it will cost those who are without property.

That army of robots fulfilling your every single want may never come, but we are certainly partially there. Thus the economic effect is already partially here.
Intuit thrives on continual entrepreneurship
The decline of the HN Community
I'm sad to say the HN community has deteriorated beyond tolerability. How can this be measured? By an increase in the use of logical fallacy, including ad hominem, appeal to authority, straw man, false analogy.

Even popular members of the community have fallen victim. You see it in the use of language like, "You haven't really thought it out." Linking to PG's older posts to help you make a point. Comparing a startup to another startup. Name calling.

I've noticed a decline in my interest to read comments. I still read the articles, but the comments are rarely worth bothering with anymore. At one time, I loved to participate in the discussion, but I suppose since the community has grown and the pace of the place has increased, people don't read the comments anymore, they just quickly respond with some quick criticism or thoughtless retort.

The post on the cover right now about skepticism being the default response is indicative of the negativity. It's easy to quickly attack something, but to think about it and understand the value in what is said is more difficult.

The homeless experiment is an example. Rather than discuss what was learned or the experiment, the top post just said, "It's impossible to understand homelessness without being homeless."

Perhaps that is true. Perhaps it is as true as "It is impossible to understand being an elephant without being an elephant." However, that does not mean that elephant studies cannot reveal some insights.

The individual took a big risk and ventured into a land foreign to many of us and wrote about it -- and got attacked -- quickly. Why?

I see this deterioration correlate with community size. The first posts on youtube are fake or some condescending remark to the submitter.

I'm sad. I loved this community. It was one of the only places on the web where truth was valued above all. Where science and reason and rational thought were the primary basis for discussion. Now it has degraded to fanboyism, cynicism, and logical fallacy.

The signal-to-noise ratio has simply degraded too much. PG, I wish you the best in turning the tide, but you're losing the best members of your community to the buzz of the mundane.
The majority of people, who when told of the singularity, automatically dismiss it offhand only because it has that Hollywood "scifi ridiculous" sound to it, seem a lot less sane to me than anyone on that list.
The most powerful words in science are, "Huh. That's weird..."
Star Wars as silent movie
a) Design is nice and clean. kudos for that.
b) You could add the application tags below each tutorial icon. Currently you have bebo tutorials on your front page, I do not know the bebo logo so I had to click your view-friends-profile tutorial to see it was for bebo.
c) Speed and snappiness for search and tags could be improved.
d) Are the tutorials on the front page your best tutorials ?
e) Adding some customer testimonials as they come in would be nice.

Overall pretty good idea and execution. Blogspam means that google queries for technical queries is pretty broken now,and something like this which offers reliable reputable howtos within a niche might get user uptake.
Everything curves space-time. Even the gravitational field itself curves space-time.
In the reddit thread about this, someone mentioned that he had multiple monitors set up, so maybe there was a bit of straying we didn't see :) Nonetheless, I found it very impressive.
New in Google Chrome Beta: More Extension APIs, Free Hoodies
How To Protect Your Job From Robots
Still have a working Netwinder in my drawer. Maybe this time around it'll work out for ARM, would be cool.
It may not the best URL available for what they currently do. I just did a 5-minute IDS check and pickfly.com (WAY better IMHO) is available, for example.

But see, then they would get "stuck" to the market they're starting in, would lose having a Google-unique name and would probably even have to fight their way up to the first result in travel's very-cutthroat SEO environment.

There are so many trade-offs that are hard to evaluate from the outside that I'm a lot more understanding of "weird" names (typified by the notorious Google example) than I used to be.
A Short History of Django
The fear of falling behind and not being able to catch up is unreasonable. The more cultured and experienced, with people of a different mind, you are the more dynamic and "out-of-the-box" your psyche is; I would argue that getting away from the social meme of not wanting to fall behind will get you further ahead than you think.

It has for me. Not just with travel too, it goes for other life experiences people aren't willing to let themselves have because of this action-oriented notion that in order to continue growing (whether it be personally, in business, or whatever) you must be doing something to meet a given end.

World travel is an action, but it's a sort of "pointless" action in the sense that there is rarely any end goal one is attempting to meet by aimlessly wandering about and experiencing what life has spawned. Sometimes I feel like it isn't "worth" my time when I think about backpacking (with no money) down to Argentina; but then I look back at my two months backpacking through India, or my year living on a commune in Kentucky, or being raised on my family ranch, or my month in Costa Rica and realize that all of those life experiences has turned me into an open-minded, dynamic, and powerful individual. I would NOT have accomplished what I have if it hadn't been for my "aimless" life experiences.

Also, many countries do not have more robust social safety nets than any other - that is a pagelong argument I won't get into ATM, but I will say this: compare the amount of freely available resources and recourses for help available in any developed country (if you're thirsty in the US, visit a gas stop bathroom and drink some tap water; can't find a place to stay, spend the night at a homeless shelter or in a park) with that of a developing country. You'll quickly find that any sort of travel is, really, about relying on yourself regardless of the country's technological status. The safety argument is an empty one.
Creationists? Everyone should jump on challenging carbon dating. If we can measure variance inside of 33 days, and that's extrapolated over a few millions of years, that could skew the numbers a bit.

But I bet the ballpark of neutrino's the sun has put out and will put out stays relatively constant inside of some rotational variance. The output behaving like a sin wave doesn't change things much, but if it's on an incline or decline, that has a huge impact on carbon dating.

It seems exciting that we have an observable cause and effect and we don't understand why. That seems like it could be a good treasure chest of knowledge right there!