skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway."

Always loved a similar quote by Thoreau:

"This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up the garret at once."
For low volume projects it could be a good bug tracker, too. And for those that don't know, its web based and they will host it for you for free.
I like retrospectiva:

http://retrospectiva.org/overview
Part of honoring your contract should be making sure it isn't difficult for the developer to collect on what they are promised.

Also, keep in mind that when they're not writing code, developers often have about as much attention span as a five year old on crack. You might think that filling out a couple pages of paperwork in order to get the company to pay conference registration fees is perfectly reasonable, but it will irritate the hell out of many developers.
Just, what is "Tsunami Season" exactly?
If these are old assets that would otherwise go to waste, selling them for any amount is a win. If there is something useful you can do with them, do that instead.
Ask HN: Avg. replaced Karma in top bar?
Is this a bug or feature? Am I the only one getting this?
Ok, let's try that for a while.
Sure, OpenBSD won't be transitioning anytime soon either - indeed, there are a lot of architectures that aren't supported by LLVM yet, and making sure everything worked with gcc-4.x was enough work...
Apparently I have (2.59 karma.
So I have actually been teaching a class to a dozen beginners, taking them from HTML/CSS -> python/javascript and deploying apps on the web.

What seems to work best, is to get them building anything, and then critiquing as we go. So, they're all hacking on personal projects, and all kind of making the same mistakes, and we go over what they've written and then move on to the next step.

As they run into various hurdles, it opens up lots of discussions on some of the finer parts of things, which would have made no freaking sense to them earlier.

I know you're talking about a slightly more advanced level, but I'd say the technique still stands: Keep hacking on your own (as this is kind of the most important), but put your code out where someone can make fun of it, get it reviewed and critiqued, learn to anticipate criticisms, and you'll be a great developer in no time!
I wonder what it does to workmens-comp and liability insurance when you build the equipment your employees use as opposed to something bought from a vendor.

When a ladder breaks and a firefighter breaks a leg, the department can't really sue itself, can it?
I just noticed that about 30 seconds ago. I'm not sure if this is intentional
Sounds like you have a lot more experience than most of us. What's in the intersection of that and your observations of HN?
Be scared. Be really scared.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853658
I hope it is not. I like to keep track of my karma because it usually correlates with a discussion below my more recent comments.
PG changed it so that it shows your average karma instead of total.
question: is this a counterargument to the paleo/caveman diet?
feature, modified by PG based on another thread (this one, i think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852560)
Incidentally, if anyone has any suggestions for technical changes/features/tricks that would help fix the problem, I'm all ears. Fending off the decline everyone thinks is inevitable for forums is the main thing I work on. It has been since practically the beginning.

My observation has been that hackers tend to look for technical solutions for moderating a forum but forum moderation is a people problem, not a technical problem. Deal with people first, tweak technical stuff second.

My experience has been that an assumption of ignorance is generally more accurate and more productive than an assumption of guilt. The antidote to ignorance is easy access to information. A prominent (top bar) link explaining how the forum works (both technically and socially) and allowing for "dumb" questions would likely do more to promote polite, thoughtful interaction than a million assumption-of-guilt based tweaks to the voting system.

I am not really a hacker, though I do know a little (x)html and css and I am not new to online forums (and have been a moderator in a forum). I found the extremely minimalist design of HN hard to fathom. I did not understand why I sometimes couldn't find the "reply" button and on several occasions I replied anyway, via another means, and then sometimes edited it once the reply button appeared. In spite of the fact that the "logo" being linked to the "home" or "front" page is standard practice, it took me months to figure out that was the link to the 'top stories' everyone talked about so much. I just didn't view the words 'Hacker News' as being part of the menu and I just didn't make the connection.

With so many more people from so many different walks of life and even countries now using the forum, there are probably quite a lot of people who, like me, just don't initially have the info they need to effectively participate. Frustrated people who don't know how to make something work often sound gruffer/have poor 'tone'. Enlightening them and assisting them will likely do a lot more for their tone than finding creative, subtle ways to secretly spank them for it (a la "the beatings will continue until morale improves").

Good luck with this.

Edit: I probably put this in the wrong place. I am not having a good day. I have added pg's remarks (at the top), which is basically what I am replying to. I hope that makes more sense. :-/
As soon as everybody would start driving EVs that price will not remain though, after all increasing demand would surely drive up the price.
I'm sure it's deliberate; whether it's an improvement or not is open to debate. Personally I prefer seeing the total.
I never had a "exit" in the traditional sense but earned a lot of money (around 10-12 million EBITIDA) from several web projects in the last 5-6 years.

The funny thing is i am an immigrant with little coding skills, a lazy attitude and live in a big mid western city with almost zero tech startups!...BTB, i live a normal upper middle class life and my friends don't have a clue what i do!
FWIW -- and it appears that pg has just implemented exactly this -- I decided to play a game with my "average" a while back, back when it was a reasonable value.

I found that it didn't improve my interaction with the site, it just changed the way that I "played the game". Not literally playing a game, but there was a clear difference in motivations for commenting.

For example: thread is more than 6 hours old? Don't comment, nobody will ever see it or upvote, so my average will get dragged down. Don't reply to any comment at the bottom of a long thread. Use short, witty comments, because those take the least amount of effort for others to upvote (I'm not good at making comments like that, though). Etc.
How do you know they didn't intend to enter a smiley face?
Hacker News begins surfacing post average in lieu of karma
I am sorry for my ignorance but Avg. of what?
Adjusting the game? Trying to reduce comments and posts? I once posted a story that got 80 points. Unfortunately, the points went to the guy who posted the same story 10 minute later.
Ok, so does that mean you'd rather work at Google instead of Facebook? Right now, Facebook is doing stuff that is more interesting for programmers I suspect.
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I think you are mistaking "number of employees" with "number of engineers". Facebook has quite a lot fewer than 900 engineers even today.
Extending this idea a bit, add a second statistic which indicates what percentile in the overall HN bell curve you fall into.

For the sake of example, imagine an evenly-distributed bell curve. The high end averages 10 karma's per post, and the bottom end 0 karama's per post. If your average is a 6, you'll be in the 60th percentile. A little "60%" could be displayed next to your username.

This allows you to quickly compare your level of contributions to those of others.
You can still see it on the profile page itself.
Steve Jurvetson interviews Jeff Bezos
Do you think that if investors read that discussion, probability of investment deal would go down?

If so -- why? I would expect that the chance of investment deal would go up for these reasons:

1) Open public discussion makes you more known, and therefore investment outcome is a little bit more predictable.

2) Public discussion promotes your future business.

3) Open public discussion indicates you are not embarrassed to connect your name to your business.
Would it be possible to include both karma and avg. on the top bar or simply chose which one to display. I like the karma on top for 2 reasons:

1. When your karma goes up/down, it's a good indication that you might have replies to your most recent comments.

2. Karma seems to be updated not so frequently.

I like the idea though of encouraging a good ratio vs total karma.
get a girlfriend
In my experience, aggressive moderation often ends up having a worse effect than the symptoms it's trying to treat. Clamping down on a popular (but, in the moderators' opinion, negative) voice usually spawns arguments and discussion that are very rarely productive. Moderating this follow-up discussion leads to a spiral of arguing, resentment, and mistrust between users and moderators. It happens all to easily, and it's not pretty.
I typically watch it to remind me to check my threads for any responses. If my karma went up or down, it's likely that someone responded to one of my comments.
Is there any way I can see other people's average karma?

The individual users pages (except my own) still seem to display total karma.

The leaderboard is still ranked by total karma. If we are adopting (temporarily perhaps) average karma as a metric , it would be great to see who is ranked highest on it or even just how much average karma a user has, just as we can check total karma of a user today

I also suspect that the frequency of average karma calculation may need to be increased.
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I feel that if the avg is important, user profiles should have the average in addition to the total.
Lousy comments (like one-on-one arguments and "Me too!") are discouraged even if nobody votes them down.

Comments which few people will notice are also discouraged. Most of my 1-point comments are the only comment on their respective articles, and many of those are 'Ask HN' posts. I don't want to find myself thinking "I could contribute here, but doing so will drag my average down".
A lot of people probably like logging in and instantly seeing their 'karma results' from whatever they recently posted... but I guess that's kind of addictive behaviour we'd probably be better off without (in terms of spending too much time on HN), even if the change causes some irritation.
Ask HN: What is Wealth?
"What people want" is a common definition. Are there qualifiers to that we could flesh out? For example should we exclude things that people want simply because they believe others will want them more later (speculation)?
Average karma per post. (Total karma divided by number of posts.)
I know I used one mainframe - I access my Chase Manhattan bank account online on a regular basis. You think they're running Haskell on Unix? Or COBOL on big iron?

My point is that new technologies typically coexist with the old ones for a very long time indeed, and talking about the "death" of something is generally hype.
> Don't you get it?

That was a fine example of what people have been complaining about recently.

(And you're not even anonymous! :-)
> Possible solution 1:

I actually built this, but never put it up on a server.
All of the discussion suggests strongly to me that their implementation may be flawed / rushed / poorly scalable in the first place.

Not to say implementing it wouldn't slow things down slightly, nor that it doesn't add extra difficulty to scaling. But there are plenty of very large sites out there with https, and plenty of medium-size, quickly-grown, heavily-virtualized hosts out there with https available everywhere. It can't be that difficult unless you're making it harder for yourself.
1) This would severely impair the earning potential of SpEd teachers; many SpEd students either don't work after high school, or get jobs doing dishes (or similar work). My high school (I went to a school for the Deaf) had 100% of its students on IEPs (Deaf persons are generally underemployed by a pretty decent margin), and about 1/5 of the students there had multiple disabilities.

2) This would encourage teachers to go after those students whose future earning potentials seem highest.

I'm a good teacher, but there's only so much I can do with 180 hours over the course of the year, particularly when that 180 hours is split up among 25 students. This isn't excuse making (there have been a few students for whom I've made a substantial difference), but rather an illustration of the pragmatic difficulty of providing 1-on-1 attention to every student, or even to most students.

3) We already do this, at least somewhat. Here in the US, most public schools are paid for by way of property taxes. In more affluent areas (read: where people earn more money, or at least are able to spend more money), the schools tend to be better, as they have nicer facilities, more resources, and better-paid teachers. More importantly, their students are accustomed to a higher SES, and so see that as the default position (not many people want to downgrade). The biggest predictor of a child's future earnings is how much his or her parents make.
Can we also get thread collapsing ala reddit? Even just on the first level would be awesome.
We had a saying in physics: "there are no stupid questions, (only stupid people)". We encouraged people to ask stupid questions, because (a) quite often that's the only way you learn, (b) it encourages shy people to speak up, and, (c) sometimes a stupid question isn't stupid at all, and leads to a deeper insight.

I'm a little disappointed that HN isn't like this. Most of the time I have a "stupid question", but I don't comment due to the HN's disapproval of stupid comments. I self-censor to the extreme with HN, and I don't think I'm the only one.

Maybe I'm in a minority here, but I'd like to see mean comments flagged/deaded. And stupid comments filtered to the bottom (but not otherwise punished).
pg, I'm only seeing the empty list.

To join in the 'me-too' choir, rather than returning the arithmetic average, perhaps you could slap a confidence interval on it and return the lower bound.
I first thought it was some sort of geek joke since the top bar had my username with the number 3.14 after it. :)

"Ah, the karma point system is broken and they're showing the number pi instead, very funny."
Could we have the avg change color slightly when there is a change to the actual karma?
Or you could just store the date of the last child comment with the user information, and include that on the top bar (near the average)? So a user knows the last datetime of child comments in their threads.

Personally, I like the average. Shows that HN is more 'adaptive', imho.

ETA. Whoa that was fast. I like the (abs., avg.), fwiw. That does seem best.
I like it - I'd really be interested in knowing what the mean and median are for the HN community so I know if I'm contributing a lot or not pulling my weight. Maybe a (+0.65) next to it in the top nav or something to that effect?
Don't worry fellas, I think it's just a trial to see if it makes the quality of comments/submissions any better.

Just keep on using the HN like you normally do, write insightful comments, provide utility for your fellow hackers.
Ha. A friend of my father-in-law used to be a Montreal hipster. She and her husband ran a folk club (folk was the indie rock of the day) and Robert Zimmerman came through before he'd changed his name to Bob Dylan. His show was ok. Annette told him, "Kid, you need something to fall back on. Go back to college!" She was fond of recounting her spectacularly wrong moments. (The other was when Leonard Cohen played Suzanne for her and she told him it was dreck and asked him who wrote it.)
they did it already :)
I used to be addicted to energy drinks, and I used to be a heavy natural coffee consumer, but I stopped doing it. I learned trough my experience that high amounts caffeine are only good for one time use, because it sort of overloads the system, making you feel good at first, but it's only temporary.
Org-Mode can be easily considered a killer app for Emacs http://orgmode.org/
If it were, it would have to account for somewhere on the order of 3 million years (or more, depends on who you ask), rather than 30k.

Also it would need some evidence of granaries or the like for winter storage.
Ok, now both are displayed.
Thought-Provoking Process of Dissertation Ideas
A good dissertation required thought provoking dissertation ideas. These ideas need to be practical and logical. It should be feasible. Therefore, a great deal of time should be spent on the consideration of the best dissertation ideas.
For what it's worth, I hope this gets changed back. Differences in karma tend to alert me to older discussions where something is still happening. Without either that or a Reddit-style notification when replies are made, it's going to be even more difficult to identify the interesting threads and come back to them after the first visit.
The grey area is only that GPLv2 lacked defenses against Tivoization. It's not as if authors who use the GPL are actually happy with end users being unable to circulate modified builds. This a win for anyone who doesn't want to subsidize Apple's dystopian future.
Yes. The paleolithic diet excludes grains for the reason that it was not included in the Stone Age human's diet.

If Stone Age humans did have refined starches in their diet, then if you wanted to follow a truly paleolithic diet you would eat flour.

Of course, I never bought the diet to begin with for totally different reasons, which is that 10,000 years is plenty of time to adapt to a new diet. I prefer the pre-industrial diet. It's obvious that fast food is bad for us, it's not obvious that pasta is generally evil.
What's the time horizon for the avg? Does it change noticeably for non-noobs?
Thanks. As the article states, it might be cyclical. It doesn't give the details on the business services sector, apart from Marc Andreessen's anecdotes.
I partly agree. The design on MacBook Pros was not sufficient to make me switch, although it was very tempting. It was the combination of hardware and software that did the trick.

However, I think you are underestimating their hardware prowess. There is a certain joy to using hardware (computers, musical instruments, name it). You get that with Apple hardware because of the little things. Apple things about the whole experience, which includes software, but even on the hardware side, there are few that actually pay attention to the whole. No one does it better. Packing features into a product shows you are not thinking as a whole, but just checking boxes. Innovation comes from thinking about the end result and user experience, not from features.
On the other hand, once you are growing things, the difference between 100 million and 100 billion is not all that great. Approximately 10 cell divisions is all it takes...
It's not listed in the Misuse of Drugs Act, so I'd be surprised if I even got a fine for importing a personal supply, never mind jail time.
I understood that from the article. But, in the light of recent discussion on Cython, i though it was interesting to note a "2.0" company like yelp using Cython.
As the consumers become more tech-savvy (old dogs can learn new tricks) and technologies become easier to use, it will be easier for them to switch service. All it takes is the influential people to move (think celebrities, popular friend, active family member, etc) for the others to follow.
Same. I'm a bit more aware of my karma now than before.

Karma doesn't matter as much to me because I come to the site for content, but I like to comment on a lot of new links (especially entrepreneurs wanting some design critiques) which doesn't get nearly as much participation as the front page and thus has a much lower chance of gaining a lot of karma per comment. A total karma score doesn't discriminate against that but an average score does.
This definitely discourages posting things that won't be highly upvoted.

The problem I have with this is that absolute number of upvotes is not equal to quality of a comment.

A good comment posted under less popular news item will get eyeballs, less upvotes, and lower poster's average.

Similarly participation in long thread (even if that's constructive thread, not a flamewar) or response far down the page is unlikely to get many upvotes, regardless of quality.
An average is a better indicator to the user of how well they are engaging with the site. It only goes up if the user consistently posts worthwhile comments, which rewards being selective about when you post and thoughtful about what you post. Fewer and better is encouraged. Consistently good is encouraged. Lousy comments (like one-on-one arguments and "Me too!") are discouraged even if nobody votes them down.

I disagree. I like it when people make a post because they have something to say to someone else. I like it when I reply to someone and they reply back and it starts a conversation. Maybe it leads to an interesting train of thought that I might not have otherwise come up with, maybe it does the same for the other person. I wouldn't like to see HN losing that.

And possibly like this post. I don't know how many other people will find it interesting or will agree with me. But, if I cared about average, I might be hesitant to make this post.
The ideal measure would be number of upvotes of a comment divided by the number of views of the comment. That way you wouldn't get punished for making comments late in a thread or on a less well read post. Unfortunately measuring this statistic would require a lot of work to implement.
Showing (total, avg) may be a good compromise. Showing the average is an incentive for / against certain kinds of comments (i.e. against answering questions in old threads), showing both might soften that. Also, I use changes to my karma as a quick proxy for if I have more comments in any threads.

Come to think of it - a "new responses" link on the profile page could be very helpful.

Is there a reason flag isn't shown on comments until the reply page?
It also encourages you to upvote people who are wrong so that more people will see it when you correct them. Similarly, it encourages people to upvote bad stories so that more people will see your comments.
It does not actually say "full browser support" does it? All I see is "browser support" with an asterisk to indicate her determination is based on most recent builds.

I don't think this is in any way meant as an authoritative reference for browser compatibility.

I think its purpose is that suggested by the title: a practical introduction. A subscript might have been: How to use CSS3 instead of various klduges to achieve interface effects.

In my opinion, anyone using the newer markup and style tools should be testing cross-browser anyway.

Anyway, I think its a great presentation.
It would be more accurate to state that "the VLC website maintainers have linked to it". It is disingenuous to say VLC "approves" of it as some developers, including Rémi Denis-Courmont, do not and see it as a GPL and copyright violation. Remember, Rémi is one of the core developers (and the top contributor to VLC according to Ohloh's stats: https://www.ohloh.net/p/vlc/contributors ), so saying 'VLC approves of the iOS port' is just incorrect.