skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it is the flagging, though it might be.

Might perhaps be that this is the very first time that someone publicly asks to get deleted and no one knows what to do about it, hence deleting the thread t is an easy option.

Perhaps I do not quite so much care about the actual content, but that the content is likely to be permanent does quite change my opinion of social media and their kins such as this website.

I simply would not want to comment on a site like this if indeed all that I have commented has no way of being eradicated. For me on a personal level I suppose that is fine since my Id is fairly anonymous, but others would simply treat such platforms as businesses and that is, well would be, a sorry state of affairs.

I can not believe however that the brightest minds can not deal with this, yet can deal with utterly complex mathematical formulae and even P does or does not equal NP!
Well, I couldn't know that before I clicked. The headline here just said "top 5".
Depends how the poll question was worded. Student income could be derived form a parental allowance.
You can't block Mark Zuckerberg
Please keep in mind that NASA's idea of an 'intriguing planetary system' is probably very different than the general public's.
Ask HN: Where is PG?
He never hangs around anymore, maybe he has taken the lessons from the Pince too literally :P

I wanted to ask on how do you think this community has evolved - and maybe whether the community is getting well ahead of your thoughts perhaps - and so too on why I can not delete myself.
Here is the actual article, which is barely five paragraphs and two images, as opposed to the original link which merely links one of the images:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/how-americans-p...
I believe there is a firm need now (and will become more urgent as time goes on) for a solid framework that can deliver single-page off-line-accessible apps. Somehow, I think Node.js would be the perfect platform for it.
>If you want to not be on the site, change your password, delete you bookmark, just dont visit the url again.

However if the tables were turned, say Facebook and not HN, people would be outraged that they could not delete their account. It wouldn't/shouldn't be very hard to just replace his username with [deleted](ala Reddit).

I do agree that post/submissions should not be allowed to be removed, however, I am against not having an option to remove my user name... for some odd reason.
Oh, I don't disagree with that part at all, I just think that your aside about it encouraging just the right amount of design upfront deserves more thought.

I tend to do design brainstorming on scratch paper, Emacs scratch buffers, and in Prolog, but I'm already convinced about the merits of having a good README, and would write one regardless. (Just like I write tests anyway, whether or not I do them upfront.)
Combine this idea with the pushState() API and you've got your 100% ajax website.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browse...
I didn't have to work during college because my parents paid for all of it, but looking back I wish they hadn't.
I agree Tomayko's method is very helpful, but I came to the conclusion it's better to just commit as often as possible.

- Multiple changes that affect the same line(s) are very difficult to pick apart.

- It is easier to write a meaningful commit message while the change is fresh in your head; otherwise a lot of time is spent reviewing your changes.
I've been trying to introduce an intriguing planetary system to my wife for years now.
He's still active - http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

That said, Demo Day is this week at YC, so this is probably one of his busiest times (along with interview season).
Check out the Pawn concept on this website. http://www.volumique.com/en/..

Koduco--maybe you could implement something like this for your Checker360 board game?
> People have been talking about Intel baking McAfee into > hardware without realizing that they have better options than that.

I buy the point of the article about using McAfee channels for selling, technically, a smaller (less than $ 7B) team can glue hardware with security.
The odds are nowhere near the same. Besides the raw odds -- obviously much better than the zillion-to-one odds on the lottery -- you can actually affect the outcome of your startup to some degree.
Whoa sorry, I wouldn't have deleted the comment if I had seen your response. I had decided that I was just grumbling and it didn't add anything to the conversation.

More or less, I had said that I hate that kind of coding convention, because while it's well intentioned, in reality it mostly adds an incentive against extracting repetitive code out into new functions. Also, I'm tired of seeing comments that say:

/*******************
* theFunctionName *
*******************/

because somebody's shortsighted coding conventions required it - they tend to camouflage comments that actually matter. If you need big headlines to find where your functions start, get a better editor. (But I'm sure that was less applicable a decade or two ago.)
The Periodic Table Song by Tom Lehrer
Right, but say FB can move 100% to ARM. Unless there are big differences in power consumption per x64/ARM unit in Web, Cashe and DB servers.
This is completely off topic
Sweet!

Reminds me of another gripe I have: Rails puts a README in the generated app directory. It's not worth it IMO. I wish they'd get rid of it or change the name, or failing that, GitHub would detect unmodified Rails READMEs and screen them out.

By the way, I think abandoned README-only repos are a side effect of something useful - attempting to start new projects on the right foot. I think starting projects like this probably does more good than harm, overall. :)
I agree that this is probably the future of web apps. I think this approach is becoming more and more common and the trend will continue as tools and libraries and languages improve.

You end up with more responsive user interface but my feeling at this point is there is still a real cost of additional code complexity -- especially for larger apps.
What balance is there for Google?
interesting article, would love to see more like this! for example, i'd be curious to hear her take on phil anselmo.
Trader Joe's and GE are two of my favorite companies mostly because of their amazing depth of vertical integration. They've got this stuff down to an art form.
How to do an AJAX search with jQTouch, Part 2
Does anyone use https://snaptic.com/ ? I've been using them for a while, and they're awesome. Awesome web-based interface along with a native iOS and Android app. I haven't been able to find anything better than them so far.
Great quotes and pictures in the presentation.

Go Vikings ;)
I'd ditto the 'I'm not sure where it becomes sexy'. I suppose putting a sock on a pole is one step away from putting a condom on a penis, but it takes roughly 5-minutes to put a loosely elasticated sock onto a pole. It would probably take the better part of a week to put a condom on a penis.

So really, this wouldn't be in the least bit sexy or even sexually useful. Perhaps it'll find use treating hypersensitive premature ejaculators with a robo-fetish, but I sincerely doubt this is a step closer to the sex-bots that have been predicted forever.

Someone seriously needs to seek out female companionship, even if it's just an old playboy stuffed under the corner of their mattress, if they found that in anyway sexual.
Kurzweil denies the accusation strongly: http://www.kurzweilai.net/ray-kurzweil-responds-to-ray-kurzw...
Imagine it 15x slower, I doubt it would even look suggestive anymore.
This is a public website and it's cached and retained by many servers all over the internet. Even if you deleted your comments at the source there's nothing preventing me from going to Google or The Internet Archive or whatever to find your old posts.

You decide what you make public, once it's public you can't close Pandora's box again. That's just the way things are now.
The Fridge (YC S10) Takes The Privacy Headaches Out Of Sharing
Yeah the default look is crap. We don't have a lot of options on Linux, though. Qt doesn't have many good themes either and it doesn't feel as nice as GTK. Enlightenment feels really quirky and unpolished.
Tip #8 Unsend / Undo Gmail
Already submitted (without www.) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628356
I mean, maybe I'm talking out of my ass here but can you really learn any sort of software development these days without also picking up OOP? In the beginning I knew OOP existed and was a good idea but it took the better part of a year to really grasp how to make the best use of concepts like inheritance and separation of concerns.

With enough practice, though, it just becomes part of the fun -- building tidily organized systems, refactoring the code into specific objects to iron out redundancy.

I'm weak on TDD, though. I have a hard time getting excited about writing unit tests.
Might also help that Australia's population is about 22M. The USA are at 308M and India is 1180M - hand-counting ballots might just be a bigger problem with those kinds of numbers involved.
The vicinity of Trader Joe's is actually a significant consideration whenever I relocate.
Thanks for the guidance. What benefits might I enjoy from meta programming?
Lucky you, someone made it! ;) Check out http://www.aerofs.com
Well, if I were doing it, I would search for words and short phrases that have their own Wikipedia pages. Give more weight to those whose pages contain a lot of text, have inline images, or have particularly contentious editing/reverting/meta-talk.

Likewise search for those same words and phrases in Google. Weight searches with fewer results more heavily.
Planet X on collision course with Earth? :D
Desirable and necessary resources are different. The entirety of the night in regards to hacker news however has been quite revealing.

This place is no less a waste of time than telly. Your insistence simply proves so. Anyone who has been in a university just knows that they had access to the journals they needed, but perhaps not some they might have wanted to.

Yet regardless, neither helps us in our endeavour. Whether the person publishes all the journal articles, I care little. This is no longer a community. No longer are etiquettes and the culture of the site enforced, it is a play ground instead where populism wins.

That is fine, that is how things have been working. You go there first and leave when so it becomes. Yet I thought naively perhaps that this time it would be different.

It is not. Only in the physical world is it different, only in the physical world do we have the freedom, for in that sphere, nature has had the advantage of many years.

Not even the best and brightest can come even close to it. Though maybe I am just naive to suggest that PG is either of those in regards to the internet. He is of a different generation, of a different age too, in his 40s or 50s, chasing money or whatever he chases.

This is our net to make. Ours to learn the mistakes and implement their solutions.

Long Live Youth perhaps I should have said.
Rails 3.0: Release candidate 2
Well lets say you are operating at small scale and you can reduce your 32 servers sucking 20 kilowatts to 4 appliances sucking 5kW. Much reduced footprint, power cost, admin cost (at small scale your per server cost is going to be higher than the large scale guys). Plus someone else will have done the integration and tuning work.

I think even on a small scale, or perhaps that should be especially on a small scale, people could profitably look at the mysql/nosql/memcached (the latter optionally with persistence via flash) from some of the appliance vendors.

I have no financial interest or direct experience, but the data sheet on this:

http://www.schoonerinfotech.com/datasheets/Schooner_DS_Memca...

looks worthy of a closer read.
It does make me wonder to consider what NASA finds intriguing. Exciting would be a green planet of the right size orbiting the right distance from it's sun. What could fall into intriguing but not exciting to people that for most intents and purposes have seen it all?
I like the service. But I wonder, what is their business model?
Insight, "Google: malware"
That is an expressway in China.

Cars/carts/people can enter at any point on most expressways, so the average speed is poor at best and stop and go during busy times of the day.
A good design would have riveted the machine shut, ensuring the only way in was through the tamper-evident seals.

At work today (I work in construction) I managed to remove a latch & lock system from a door without damaging either part. I manipulated the door hook with the padlock on and loosened the top screws, which gave me enough room to remove the top two screws on the door frame latch, which gave me enough room to remove the two screws on the door hook. I then removed the bottom two on latch by using the new upward-slack. I forced the latch section around until the middle screw became loose, angled the latch and slowly removed the centre screw. I essentially just broke into the customer's garage with no signs of forced entry.

Had the lock been installed properly (IE no slack in the system) it wouldn't have been easy to remove it with no signs of tampering. However it wasn't installed properly. Incidentally, one of the easiest ways to solve this problem is to take a drill bit and to strip the head of the screws. This leaves only manually forcing of the lock to open it, which takes a lot of effort if you're using 3 inch screws through a proper stud.
> I never clicked them, they were a joke. Adverts in email is dumb.

I actually did a few times when I got relevant advertisements - the only reason I stopped is because the ads seemed to get targeted and started standing out to me more, distracting me from email. Now when I see an ad I like, I open control+t a new tab open and google the service... hmm, that seems funny somehow. I might click ads again if there was a setting to not have my Gmail remember/optimize for me.
Yeah, damn those jerks who make a Linux distro that people actually want to use. Betcha those asshats also care about making awesome software more accessible to new users! What dicks.
Worlds 20 biggest Yachts
Oh I agree - the general trend is in the direction of win/linux on x86. But it feels like the web world has gone almost exclusively x86.
Maybe it's just the web got their quicker -- but acting like linux on ARM is revolutionary is perhaps overdone. (Especially considering Linux runs on x86, x86-64, IA64, PowerPC, Mainframe, Cell, and probably some other processors that are used in datacenters)
The thing is that there aren't very many companies running 32-server (per colo) storage clusters (unless they're using grossly underpowered machines).
GE really is an incredible "behind-the-scenes" sort of company. When you first think of GE, you probably think something along the lines of "Oh yeah, don't they make light bulbs or something?" But the more you look into them, the more you realize just how big and diversified that company is. Taking a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_General... is a good starting point, and then start clicking on the links therein and you'll probably find that GE is behind a lot of products and involved in a lot of industries that you'd never have guessed.
I just want to not be able to log in tomorrow.

So too I would perhaps also like this website to not contain my thoughts.If it takes a man to go through each of them, then fine. If it takes me going through each of them and deleting them then fine.

Not that I would, but it is in a way a matter of principle. I own all these comments. I should have the right to decide as to which site or which person can view them or otherwise. Not some complete stranger.
I'm quoting a person who works on that project:
"They discovered a huge number of Earth-like planets. The new count is vastly outnumbers previous estimations even over the gas giants due to imperfect technology."
The remaining conclusions are up to you, even if they are not going to be voiced at the conference....
These aren't very geeky. I understood almost everything.

I would rather see the complete back-and-forth of the "most geekiest argument on HN".
It's not really all taxes,more like "deductions". Out of my typical paycheck

- 17.5% is withdrawn for retirements savings/pension funds

- the first 600 dollars are untaxed, then bracketed 10%, 15%, 20% and 22%. I pay up to 22% tax bracket, 25% on the extra holidays check. (in all, it's about 12% of my pre-deductions income except in Christmas where it shoots up to 20% or so)(1)

- 6% goes to healthcare (it's mandatory), I pay an extra 6% on top of that but that was entirely my option (for better healthcare).

- some miscellaneous taxes (a reconversion fund for workers and others)

Well that makes out like 40%, not 50%, but you get the idea :)

After that, we have a 22% Value Added Tax on everything, and a minimum of 60% taxes on imports, but those are "optional" (optional, that is, if you don't eat or buy anything - and it's regressive taxation)

(1)Some companies cheat the DGI (IRS equivalent) by under-reporting employee's salaries (typically so they fall in a lower income bracket, or untaxed income bracket), and then pay a slightly higher than average market salary overall. Of course, that means you can't go to the government and complain if they fail to pay you, and it goes back to bite you when you retire (retirement plans are tied to how much you were paid when working).
the capital investment needed is pretty fantastic

As opposed to, say, the multi-billion-dollar capital investment of a subway or light rail system?
Dude, you play games?
>no data can be considered trustworthy if somebody else has been in possession of the hardware

Actually, this isn't true, given properly-implemented crypto. Or, I suppose I should say, it's true only with very low probability.
I disagree. You do not own those comments. The moment you made them public you shared ownership with everyone on the internet and beyond. If a newspaper wants to quote you they can do so without seeking your permission. If I want to copy it and post it on my blog I can do so, and if you ask me to remove it from my blog I can refuse.
I was the opposite: Wealthy father but he would only pay as much college tuition / apartment rent as my internships could not.

On the upside he would pay for vacations that I could not dream of funding myself at that age.

I also got very good at being poor :D
No, that's exactly my point.

You don't say, "non-programmer equals -200k". You say, "What do they bring to the table? Oh, you have Bill Clinton on your team and you're trying to do a government services startup -- that's a pretty big plus, even if Bill isn't coding". "You're doing a Clicker like company and you have the ex-CEO of Comcast. Maybe a plus". "Doing financial services software, and you have the ex-head of IT from BofA... maybe useful, even if he is 'just' IT".

In fact, I'll say if you have a startup company in front of you who doesn't know how to judge each individual, pass on them. They'll fail.
I'd like to see a source for this. It seems counter-intuitive. A lot of the peasantry were sent to the United States as indentured servants. Most of the white poor land working classes from 17th century on. And it would be consistent with birth rates everywhere else in the agricultural world, that these people had more offspring than the wealthy. So. It just doesn't seem that this would be correct.

That being said. What we call 'The Middle Class' in the United States is kind of deceiving. Class can't simply be a function of how much cash income you bring in a year. Class has more to do with where that income comes from.

Those of us trading our time in exchange for money are working class, even if ( in the rarer case ) it is a greater dollar amount from a person whose primary source of income is the buying low, and selling high of commodities... such as, human labor, or pork bellies... and accumulating and reinvesting the difference.
Seems they broke the fridge!
"fly an airplane at supersonic speeds"

We consumers actually don't do that anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
The Trader Joes return policy is pretty amazing. For the first 5 years I shoped there I never even thought to bring something back, but then once a few years back I felt the need to give it a test -- and honestly I couldn't believe they'd even accept a label off a microwave dish and my word that it tasted awful.

The manager was cheerful about it, and told me I wasn't the first person to bring back that particular item. Then he reeled me in:

"I'll gladly get you a refund; did you have any other shopping to do today? I can have the checker credit your order."

"Oh... I suppose I do."

I returned an item that cost less than $2, and then ended up buying a week's worth of groceries at $50.

Zappos may be the only other company I can think of that has the kind of return policy that increases revenue in the long run.
There doesn't need to be any additional complexity, if anything it can be simpler. I hate to constantly push NOLOH, but we've been doing this since 2005, and it works. It's been used by companies, and sites large and small, and no extra complexity necessary. If anything, it's significantly simpler than the normal web multi-tiered paradigm.

Sure, if you try to do this manually, it's complex, but if you use a tool like NOLOH, there are others, it becomes very simple, and even more natural than conventional web development.

It's so frustrating reading these comments as if the tools don't exist today. They do, and they have. Every year or so I'll read another post that re-hashes a small part of something that an existing framework, like NOLOH, does, and it'll be touted as the way forward.

We should be able use the tools that are available, there's no need to re-create the wheel every few months, or start over. If the cool kids in SV aren't using a tool, that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. It simply means that the cool kids aren't using it. Likely because those cool kids like to re-create the wheel, over and over and over again.

Sorry for the rant. This sort of stuff gets very frustrating.
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Are you guys sharing any invites on HN?
Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
I am planning to register a domain and would love to hear if this group has any recommendations.
Holt sh1t, "unless any blockers are discovered with this release, we’re targeting the final release of Rails 3.0 for this week(!!!)."

Here's hoping that'll be before the weekend and wish for a Heroku update of the Bamboo stack :-)
Why is this person being downvoted? Maybe he is being sarcastic, but the site is indeed down at the time of this writing. Just because its a YC funded startup doesn't mean you can't point out its flaws. Come on guys.

Edit: To clarify, he was -3 when I wrote that comment.
Yeah, I want to know as well. I've read a little on the tech they use. Sounds pretty cool, but could some of these planets be false positives? They said they found a planetary system so I can only assume.

Would be neat if they found a planet similar to ours.
Solar System Planets Weighed Using Pulsar Flashes
by 'ages' you mean 1 year?
Granted, but it can make sense at even smaller scale. Say 8 servers. Or, I know one group of folks that were tempted by a beefier database machine and instead happily moved to such an appliance. There's a lot of ways to spend dollars that makes sense depending on what you are trying to do. (Trading dev cycles off against hardware etc).

Personally, I don't use the appliances because for our extremely latency-sensitive apps we do it all from scratch for various reasons. For large scale storage we build off commodity machines. One of our prototypes runs very happily
off machines from scalableinformatics.com - highly recommended.

Horses for courses and all that..
I use namecheap. Works well for my purposes, but I only have a dozen domains.