skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is on one of the SmartMachines that Joyent donated to the Node Knockout competition. We’ve been very impressed with it. Very easy deployment, and the server's been chugging along smoothly since launch (save the occasional restart due to invalid HTTP requests crashing some of our Node.js libs).

The Joyent guys have also been tweeting network graphs for our app, which makes us comfortable that they're keeping a watchful eye on our instance for us: http://skitch.com/jimpick/dwjfw/flow-saber-tooth-moose-lion0... :)
The first time the map pops up I was dismissive. "Eh, so they mashed up a google maps thing with the video. Big deal. You can even see the google (r) watermarks. lame."

Once it started in with the street-level images, swirling around, it started to hit me though. That was my friend's house! I remember when they put in that stone landscaping in front. A whole lot of memories came rushing back, of feeling the dry desert heat, of playing basketball in my driveway with my friends, of rollerblading down that hill, of being a kid.

Along with the excitement though, a sense of longing. I can't help but notice that someone else's car is parked in front of "my" house now. I remember my dad packing up his stuff and leaving. I remember all those fights and tears as we moved out of that house and across the country. I keep up with friends from that time a little, but it's a little message here and there, I hardly see them anymore.

When the window popped up to write a message to my younger self, it felt like there was far too much to say. I settled on "It will be OK. Really."

This was unexpectedly beautiful and touching. Bravo.
Note the phrasing: "Khan has his skeptics in the education business." Emphasis on "business".
I had a lot of trouble seeing past the Hi-Res (studio behind Requiem for a Dream, among others) style pop up-driven website with cheap interactive plays at emotion. Surely this is just an old-school DHTML site built using new tricks? I thought we were past this kind of website.
I disagree. They have millions of users and their growth is flat-- but they've raised enough money that they really can't afford to be flat.

They need to see if they're being attacked my a vocal minority or a true majority. If it's the latter, a revert should happen. If the former, they should consider standing their ground.

See every major change Facebook has ever done. When people exploded about the privacy implications of having a news feed (Oh no!), should Facebook have punted?
My last physical office was basically free.

I rented it out to a Jewish group on Friday nights, a Christian group on Sunday mornings, and one Saturday night per month for each group. It had everything both groups needed: the conference room table folded out of the way so it could seat 30. There was also a piano, a full kitchen, a full bath, and plenty of parking on weekends. The private offices were locked.

Weekend income paid the whole bill. Not a bad deal.
That's the current approach to antibiotic drug resistance, actually. Antibiotic resistant drugs are supposedly treated with antibiotics that are too old for those drugs to retain a resistance to.
The first thing that jumps out is the Peril Canyon logo, you need to refine it. Compare with the style of your Download button.

I'd like to see the video use more screen space for the actual gameplay, perhaps move the iPhone frame out in the HTML background. The YouTube interface that comes up makes the spacing to the Download button look a bit naff too.

The lighting on the plane in the video is weird. In a canyon I would expect everything to be lit from the top by the sun with plenty of ambient light. It actually appears to be lit from behind and is almost black when facing up.

The copy mentions upgrades and unlocking things, can you use some images from the game to tease us with those?

The game actually looks kind of fun, congratulations!
Beer Gets Musical - Multi-Use Products
I think there's a pretty big disconnect between your version of "working prototype" and what is actually necessary.

If your goal is to get some seed money, to build a "prototype" to raise money, then the net requirement isn't a full functional app, but just enough to get the point across in an elegant enough way to secure additional financing.

This could be as simple as a sketch on a napkin, and as complex as a full functional website with an e-commerce component.

As long as you can effectively deliver the experience of what it is you need money to build, then your medium for doing so isn't as important as getting the point across.
Does a flower or giftbasket shop really need to tweetspam everday?
What engine did you use BTW?
It's been a long time since an internet art project has left me speechless. Even ignoring the technical merits of this site, this is beautfull.
Multi-purpose products are an excellent driver of word-of-mouth marketing. Novelty meets utility. I would expect the 'fretted' beer bottle to inspire a viral youtube video that seeds this brand all over the place. (And I mean all of that despite the jargo-speak.
That's not analogous because Bill Nye, unlike Roger Ebert, has not become the public face of pure excellence in his field.
Asking people for links (or asking existing links to tweak anchor text) isn't gaming the system and it isn't frowned upon by Google. BUYING them is-- that's what got this guy into trouble.

If you want to put a lilly-white hat on, the question you can ask is, "Given how valuable my content is, what lists, indexes, blogs, etc., would be interested in telling their readers about us?" Better yet, concoct a system where people are rewarded for linking to you in some (ideally pretty natural feeling) way. Yelp badges, the UrbanSpoon spoonback program, 37Signals' penchant for picking fights with the establishment, etc-- all great examples.

You can wait for linkers to stumble onto you-- but you'll never get to page 1 of any desirable phrase that way unless you are truly an order of magnitude better than your competition in terms of linkworthiness... Because you can be darn sure that they know the value of seeking links rather than waiting for them.
Nice presentation, but that's only on-site SEO - You're never going to drive traffic to your site doing that alone.
I'm not 100% sure about the dell phone, but with a few of the android phones that I've been looking at, the OS image needs to be signed. So, to upgrade your samsung galaxy s to 2.2, you need to wait for samsung to release their version of 2.2. When they decide to stop releasing updates for your model, you're out of luck (jail-breaking aside).

I really, really wish it were as easy as downloading an update from android.com and installing it, but that marginalizes the manufacturers.
Why you should grow your very own Trust Network
It's not really misformatted. The roles of periods and commas are swapped in some countries. In fact, all of these countries in green use commas for the decimal separator rather than periods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.png
I don't know what it was like back then, if anyone could get hired for anything, but someone who can apparently breeze into such disparate roles as political spin doctor and graduate student in mathematics must be seriously, seriously talented... He was going to succeed at whatever he finally decided to put his mind to.
HP acquires 3PAR for $2 billion
"If you want to dive into a movies deeper meaning you need to look at it from the perspective of the content creators ... "

That's another axiom with which I suspect White would disagree. I don't think White considers a film a success just because the filmmaker accomplished what he/she set out to do. White indeed treats film criticism like literary or other art criticism--you identify a set of criteria, perhaps arbitrarily though ideally derived from the history and cultural context of the medium, and criticize a film against those criteria.
I blame digg
Love the concept -- will definitely use this!
I like /.'s tagging of comments. It's good feedback on why something was up or down modded.

It also forces a downvoter to justify why something is getting downvoted.
Bill Gates interview (1986)
Absolutely. There's nothing wrong with drinking water.

I'm just a little annoyed at the article, because all it offers the reader is something along the lines of "drink water before meals, it helps you lose weight, but we're not sure why!"

Any dietician could immediately them that they're losing weight because of a caloric deficit-- a result of feeling more full from the water.

I would have just preferred they point it out rather than equate a glass of water before meals to some sort of magic pill.
Absolutely - as I always say, it wasn't training that gave Phelps his flipper-like feet and extraordinarily long arms and something that all successful athletes have that you can't even see, the ability to recover from exercise and train again more quickly than average.
NodeKnockout'ers try to make a retro MMO in 2 days (Chrome only)
Google Synonym search - How it helped me today
This post basically describes how i spent my last 10 minutes. The take away from the post below is that you can search for a lot of stuff on Google using ~ when you don't know actual keywords and how the search on all the websites should be.

##Story - Start
I saw an article on HN a few weeks back with a chart that described various stages of a startup. I wanted to see the article again and so I began searching... The only things I knew about the article were that It was about how we should avoid not jump from one idea to another and instead focus on one at a time.

- My first query on Google was: "why i don't take up new ideas". It definitely did not work as none of the articles on first page were what I was looking for. - I thought that may be I should look for keywords (even though I did not remember any of them). So I start with the word "Idea". Yeah, it was a bad idea... - Then I added more keywords: "idea" "optimism" "investigation" "uninformed". I knew that the article used these words or their synonyms but I was not sure of the exact words. - I had seen the article in Google Reader so my next try was to search there with different combinations of these. That didn't work either as the search never looked beyond the titles for articles posted on HN.

Finally, The solution that worked:I had seen some time ago, the use of "~" in Google search. It searches beyond keywords by looking at synonyms etc. And so I used it by searching for "~idea ~optimism ~investigation ~uninformed"(without the quotes). And that is how I found the article I was looking for.
##Story - End

Article: http://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-resist-the-sirens-call-of-exciting-new-ideas-2010-8

Details about ~: http://www.google.com/help/features.html#synonym

As a side-note: I am amazed at how powerful searching controls on search engines have become but on the other hand how much other places lack a proper way to search.
My interpretation is that there's a certain amount of faith in the user for figuring what is apropos. This can serve as a sort of gatekeeper - are you properly interpreting the point of the guidelines?

You don't have to be a longstanding member of the community to notice that every story is proceeded by a stub, and to deliberately circumvent this feature is, at best, disingenuous, and otherwise potentially dangerous (see http://mug.gd/). I actually think it's helpful to have a few of these implicit guidelines in place - it may steepen the learning curve slightly, but it does make the system harder to game.

Basically, submitting a story and gaining traction is a sort of agenda-setting power and I have no problem with a few implicit barriers to that power to keep it from being arbitrarily obtained by passers-by.
John Udell ran a very interesting interview with Salman Khan: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4386.html
Yeah, anyone can fill the price with anything really. I'm from Brazil and here we separate that way. I'll change it ;)
The essay itself is a pretty wonderful merging of form and content. At its very best, form helps to convey content. As seen here.
Here is an example from 925 days ago of pg saying it is okay to downvote for disagreement.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

He is still thinking about tweaking the forum settings here to ensure good discussion. On my part, I'm a good bit more disappointed when a user asks a polite follow-up question (for example, "What would be a source I could check to confirm that fact?") and that kind of comment gets downvoted. Why do people disagree with trying to find out more information to enlighten the discussion?
I don't know, I definitely think people a people a much more inclined to downvote for the wrong reasons. I've made a lot of posts in the last day, one of which was by far the longest post in a 200+ comment thread, none of which I think were in any way rude or anything like that, and despite that it's cost me around -10 karma overall (mostly because of one post in particular, which I don't think was that bad. A strong opinion, but no personal attacks or anything).

I've also observed a lot of posts being modded into oblivion for saying things like "thanks" and stuff like that. People generally seem to downvote posts which they disagree with, regardless of how polite or well-reasoned they are.
Email needs to be realtime
It's just Cocoa Touch + OpenGL and some royalty free .obj models from the web.
Your examples illustrate my point (which was not that being a CEO is MERELY salesmanship, but that it-- in terms of time spent-- is mostly salesmanship.) Of course it'd be silly to say that it's merely salesmanship. If I had a crappy vision and I was an epic salesman, I'd be a pretty lousy CEO, right?

In all of those tasks, how much of your time are you spending selling? Discover/find your vision, spend the rest of your career selling it. Deciding who you want to hire and the persuasive dance (where you have to persuade them that working at your company is a good idea AND sell them your vision to boot!) takes a lot more time.

Steve Jobs is a great example. As product-focused as he is, what % of the time do you think he spends tinkering or wireframing? I'd wager he's selling/reinforcing ideas for most of his day. Steve Jobs is different because he spends 99% of his sales time selling vision/product ideas versus all of the other types of persuasion he could engage in. Oh, and because his ideas are unusually good. ;-)

edit: I'd add two things. Once, I've run 2 different companies for about 70% of my 13 year tech career and two: I really don't enjoy sales as much as I enjoy other work tasks. So if I am looking at it through my prism, it's the prism of my experience.
Chumby hacker boards (now available in beta)
We're so dependent on things that use the net. Are we prepared to cripple commerce and unplug everyone's IP based phone? Maybe we should be focusing more on making mission critical services invulnerable to compromise through the net.
>For me "like" is not a binary concept

We're not talking about like the English language word we're talking about "like" the Facebook specific action indicating that you wish to be associated with a particular page of content on that site.
Thanks for the feedback fdiotalevi.

I've fixed the account link. You might need to refresh but it will work correctly now.

All you have to do to create a coming soon page is point the DNS of your site to the duringconstruction.com web server. A site will be automatically created the first time somebody visits the site. To just get one up and running that's all you need to do. After that you can verify the domain and edit the defaults.

I completely agree on the Twitter account. I'm planning on using it for communication with users, but right now there are very few users. :) Naturally I'm hoping that changes and I've only communicated with users so far that have tweeted about buying new domains and they've all been done by hand.

Thanks again for the feedback.
I think there's a very strong difference between Facebook's changes and Digg's. The changes to Facebook were most definitely what the company thought was best for the user. Lots of people don't like change, but Facebook stood their ground and said "we did this for you, you will like it in time." Which the users did. Can you imagine Facebook without the News Feed?

The changes to Digg are very questionably for the benefit of the end-user. I'm not sure what Kevin and Digg hoped to achieve by having publishers directly spamming the Digg front page with content. It's a very rudimentary, very poor, RSS reader, and the anti-thesis of what Digg was about, user-selected stories from all over the web. I can only think Digg are getting an affiliate kickback from the larger publishers.

I'm not a disgruntled Digg user; I abandoned it for Reddit about 3 months ago, and I haven't looked back. It seems to me the small Reddit team know their users pretty well (see the way they handled Prop 14 without the need for a user revolt). I honestly wonder exactly who Digg think they are serving with v4.
I hate it when I do that! Obviously 25 cents. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...
I think the experiment that Scott Adams suggests would be a dismal failure. I think some kids would be naturally good and others naturally bad. Among people with similar natural talent, practice would be the main determinant of success. But natural talent likely varies so widely that this correlation would get lost in the noise, and most of the participants would come away with the wrong message.

Or is it the right message?
Tim Trilla on 30 Aug 20:31:

Why donate to anything in Africa? This is a continent full of people who
can’t govern themselves and never will be able to. They have the richest
continent of natural resources in the world, yet they are so ignorant
they remain broke. If we let the weakest die, maybe, just maybe we could
move forward in the rest of the world. Let the strongest survive without
the weak holding us down.

Comments are hard, let's just disable them, shall we?
Cloud Storage and Adaptability. Plan Ahead
I also try to stop myself from saying the same things that others have already said--i.e. "piling on."
Dan Ariely: The Magic of Procrastination
I can agree with healthy fats being good for you. But explain to me bad calories affecting weight gain more than "good" calories. That doesn't make sense to me at all.

3500 calories = 1 pound of fat, no matter the source.

You can lose weight eating only McDonald's if you counted calories, but you would be:

1. Hungry all the time.
2. Look terrible.
http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_3747_exercises-treating-carpal...

There was a post a while back linking to Akido exercises that help also.. but I didn't make a bookmark I could find..

Also identify what's causing it.. for some people its a keyboard, for others its the position, for me its the mouse. Now I use only touchpads.

If it is the keyboard, this is the most well-recommended solution http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm
Tennis players should challenge more calls
Iirc this is a website for a magazine. Most such websites use the date the article is printed as the publication date rather than the date the article becomes available online. Gotta love old media.
Is the publishing of updates automatic? As in if a user 'likes' a blog page and the blog publishes a new article, does that new page get pushed into the user's news feed automatically? Or does the blog have to do something extra to keep pushing updates?
I generally agree, but publish/subscribe can also lead to a spaghetti of messages. In big apps you can get so many messages you start to lose the big picture and can no longer tell "who calls what? what is the sequence of control flow? etc" It is a great model, but as anything is, it is not a silverbullet.
>And since when in English ... Like =~ Follow? Sure, maybe for maniacs.

If you're going to be pedantic about made up web-2.0 (3?) terms then why not argue that "follow" on twitter doesn't let you actually follow the person only receive occasional messages from them.

Why don't they call it "receive occasional messages from"? There's your answer.
Freakonomics: The Difference Between Americans and Humans?
While I (obviously) don't think you deserved it, it was a very short, controversial post, with nothing backing it up. [1]

And the "thanks" posts don't get downvoted because of a personal disagreement, it's that a comment that just says "awesome, thanks!" doesn't add any value to the discussion. An upvote would suffice.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643726
How about this for a HN feature.

If your post is < 1, add a link to a page about downvoted comments.

That way, the person who was downvoted has an opportunity to read about some common reasons why a post was downvoted, read tips on making better comments, and has more time to emotionally process being downvoted.
Dutch-US water defences keep New Orleans dry
Pro accounts aren't yet ready but they will be $10 per domain for the lifetime of the domain. If this gets abused it may be limited to a year but generally a coming soon site shouldn't be up that long. Currently the planned features for a Pro account are: more styles, no branding and 3rd party mass emailer integration.
Everyone seems to be focusing on the voting of comments, but I think the tips on what to submit (and vote up) are the most violated, as seen by the now almost daily post about men vs women.
Nielsen’s $78 million CEO
That misses the point though. The cheap stuff is all equally bad, anyone who proclaims themselves a loyalist to Smirnoff probably knows nothing of the high-end stuff, let alone be able to tell it apart from it's peer competitors. Likewise, a "Coors man" can easily be fooled into drinking Miller or Bud, because he doesn't base his preference on any quality of the beer itself.
Maybe there should be a link to this on the post and reply forms, at least for newer accounts.
one of the important things about start up is that you have a well documented starting to crawl before you walk is a well established tried and true method; My advice is use about 160 hrs for a good prototype. Use that to test if the idea has stickiness in the first place before you invest 1000 hrs.
The plane does have very little ambient lighting, it's pretty much all specular. The idea was that this would help make it look more "steath fighter-like", but thanks for the feedback that it's not accomplishing that particularly well.

I'll have to think about what to do with the video. Video editing is kinda a big time sink, but I definitely like the idea of putting the iPhone frame around it to make the screen bigger.

Thanks!
I'm done with Digg.

There's way too much noise and not enough material that I genuinely care about. The community mostly sucks -- I read everything with comments sorted by upvotes.

Last week, when my hand-picked Digg RSS feeds stopped working, I deleted them from my reader and moved on. For me, at least, Digg's time has passed.
I upvoted you.

As a nutrition/fitness buff I completely agree with the comment. There is no good or bad calorie when it comes to weight loss. You eat good fats for health reasons, but as far as weight gain/loss goes, it is purely a function of calorie intake-- no matter the source.
Oh, I'm not making any claims, just observations. Like I said, we hardly raised her in isolation -- by the age of two, she was engaged in social activities with other kids (co-ed), and watching TV shows targeted to her age group.

I have almost no doubt that it was a societal influence, it just took us for a loop, as it definitely hadn't come from us. Even saying that sounds somewhat insincere though, as it wasn't as though we were avoiding fairly traditional gender roles ourselves, but Mrs. Melton has absolutely no predisposition to wearing pink.