skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine Luke would be very vocal during that conversation, especially if there were pizza and beer :) Thanks for reading, and taking the time to respond.
Sorry for your loss, I can't see how anyone would flame you for this post.
Seems to me that a much better and more elegant solution would be an anonymous inbox or Facebook/Twitter feed. Sort of like the digital version of the classic "suggestion box." Anonymous hints, tips, etc.

Your users aren't going to want to crunch probabilities in their heads and finely adjust a dial there. Rather, what they're really after is probably conveying information in an anonymous manner. Unless I'm misunderstanding you?
I still telnet. So much fun!

Wish gopher's were still around. I was thinking of using a gopher to do a blog with.
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Great points. Thanks.

I've been cold calling brokers, and on the phone, I've been getting very high interest -- maybe 80% of brokers want to hear more via email. But the conversion rate in getting those people signed up is lower.

Your suggestions may be part of the answer. Thank you.
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I thought voting was "to make my voice heard" in the first place.

Alternative: If you don't vote, you fail to validate the enthusiasm of people who support one mostly-interchangeable political team or the other largely out of simple social identification.
It doesn't have to be an election with no votes. Just an election whose outcome could be changed by the votes of people who believe their votes don't matter. An election with 5500 votes for A and 5000 for B could be turned with 1000 more votes for B.
You seem to be trying to implement plausible deniability in email. People are actually capable of rich probabilistic reasoning on communication, but not in the same way that you're thinking.

That is, making electronic plausible deniability more feasible is the kernel of an interesting idea but your implementation doesn't tap into human psychological hooks. Instead of "25%", if you showed pictures of four Facebook accounts and said "one of these sent you this message", that would get the effect you seem to desire. Might be an interesting viral dating site.

Another interesting variation could be for performance reviews or political/government statements. Anytime someone wants to send a message, has an identifiable group from which that message would be seen as legitimate, yet also wants to preserve a degree of plausible deniability...this could be interesting. Suppose someone wants to float a trial balloon to find out what "coming out" as a conservative on Facebook would do. Imagine the wheels turning when it just says "one of the following frienda posted this". It's kind of like the Crushlink scam...humans are fundamentally motivated to try to put a return address on certain kinds of sensitive communication.
Here are the links from the original post since they didn't show up as clickable above:

http://blog.nerdery.com

http://www.lukeandginger.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23LukeComeHome

http://thanks.lukeandginger.com/
http://matrix.itasoftware.com

That and the flyer talk forums.
> not much has really seemed to change.

On the surface perhaps, but the beauty of Linux is that what you see is not what you can get. There are plenty of cool UI paradigms available just an apt-get away.

For example, I use Ubuntu, but I auto-hide the taskbar and use Gnome-Do to access everything. Terminal is available via Guake drop down. Windows are arranged in workspaces on the surfaces of a 3D rotating cube. Mouse is 100% optional for controlling windows and OS. And if I wanted I could exchange all that with a tiling WM like Xmonad or Awesome (though I find Compiz Grid + Guake equally efficient).

Now, I haven't used Windows since my Win 7 eval copy expired last February, or OS X since the last time I walked into an Apple Store, but I don't see that their UI paradigms have shifted significantly at all. It's still basically the same mouse-controlled window systems, perhaps with a few new bells and whistles like desktop search, GPU-enhanced eye candy, and optimized performance thrown in. But none of those change the usage paradigm as far as I can tell.

Am I missing something?
Sort of misleading title, more like "Inside a foxconn dorm"

an aside, it's a bummer that the photos, which appear to be 500px wide, are resized in the webpage to be 1000px wide making it look totally janky.
http://www.coopersmallergovernment.com/why-should-i-vote-for...
The line seems blurry. On the one hand, I'm all for people who want to share their information being able to throw it up - the more feedback the better, right? And it builds a sense of community that can last long past this YC decision. On the other hand, there's no real way of "opting out" of an unmoderated list like this; someone could easily post your application without your permission, and once that information is public, there's no real way to keep someone from putting it back on the list once you delete it.

It almost feels like there should be a "make public" option on the application itself, where applications who opt in can push their application onto HN somewhere, and people are free to comment on it in a sanctioned way. I've seen that done with grant programs with some success. Just thinking aloud here.
I wouldn't, actually. I've got comparable karma (221) after about two years, and I can't even consistently downvote items. I noticed down arrows a while ago for comments, but recently I've noticed that they only appear on certain comments, and others are upvote only. My assumption has been that there is some sort of inflation at play.

Not that I'm complaining of course. I think I've only used my downvote powers once normally. The only other time I've used such powers was when I noticed some spam comments, and chose instead to flag them on the noobcomments list.

I honestly think that something like my level of karma is too high a limit for posting things like an RMS. This place isn't reddit, so I take my comments on here a lot more seriously. As such, I don't comment nearly as often since I don't usually feel I have a comment of sufficient intelligence to contribute.

Really, I'm quite amazed anytime I see my karma increase here. I have a definite inferiority complex when reading some of the great comments here.

With experience like that, building any measure of karma could be a slow and arduous process for the typical new user. Unfortunately, I'd imagine a lot of people working on their first project would have the same sort of inferiority complex, yet they would be exactly the sort to benefit the most from an RMS sort of post.

In fact, I'm building (very slowly, thanks to inexperience and a bit of RSI) my first "major" project, and I had hoped to show it off here first, but now that same "I'm not worthy" feeling is making me feel like it wouldn't be welcome.
I signed up for HN over 2 years ago, made one post, then promptly forgot my login. I've tried on a few occasions to remember, but this is the incentive I needed to finally figure it out - thanks.
Reviewing of startups and providing various perspectives is something very special this community offers for starting entrepreneurs. We should take care to keep that interesting and not to devalue it by too many / spammy posts.
Sorry, I meant days since signup, not time since last login. I haven't see any data that suggests spammers are using old accounts, but I'm not sure.
Thanks for your comment, and for taking the time to read and reply.
We agree. We've looked at some very poor web services in this area.

How do you think our UI handles? We're aiming to make it simple. Thanks for your offer -- we'll definitely take you up on it.

We have plans to add affordable credit checks in the process. For the time being, we're letting people attach credit reports to their applications as a stopgap solution.
ASk HN: I made some changes to my app. Can you please review it again?
I'd say the same for those who vote.
IOS on Macintosh, Day 2
I'm going to get my future wife to put headphones on her belly and play a 24/7 loop of the speech Jor-El gave superman from the movie.

Kid will come up a winner.
Google Docs feature request: Lock formatting, fonts, colors, sizes.
Sweet, I am sure in the next cycle/batch, someone is now going to apply as the Justin.tv of spreadsheets :-p
Youtube to Collaborate With YellowBird - 360º Video Technology
"The more sincere the effort, the more genuine the return. Best. ROI. Lesson. Ever"
So simple yet so few are able to follow it...
Terrible loss.
Rating without looking at the underlying content is horrible. Perhaps it could be mitigated by tracking if the link was followed, weighting authenticated upvotes more heavily than unauthenticated ones (where "authenticated" means a click-through to the content was observed).

You could track a link click either by setting a cookie client-side with javascript, or by linking to a trampoline page on HN that tracks the click, then redirects to the real URL.
Since demand for the new technology considerably exceeds capacity, yellowBird is talking with several venture capital investors to help finance the company's growth with a series of financial injections...

Internet video platform YouTube has approved collaboration with the young Dutch company yellowBird and is going to use the pioneering 360º video technology that yellowBird has developed over the past few years by allowing the companies' special Flash video player on the Google owned website in a special campaign for the Doritos Brand — featuring a 360º music video of the British rapper Professor Green — which can be seen at Youtube here.

This technology produces moving images on the principle of the Google Streetview camera and is ideal to record events and shoot films and commercials, for instance. Viewers are free to decide which camera angle they want to view or where they want to zoom in. It allows them to experience a film as if they are actually in it. For transmedia producers, this is a brilliant channel to carry the narrative in unique directions, using fresh technology. And for brands, it's a no-brainer, this is viral ready.
Ditto. I'm building, grinding on customer discovery, reading HN to stay informed (and maybe a little entertained). Also, most of what I read on HN is stuff that is outside my comfort zone, and therefore I am not as able to comment as I would be if I stuck to reading topics with which I am already very familiar.
You're on Mars, man. None of that has anything to do with your customer.

What hurt does your product soothe?

Right now you're describing a (very complicated) mechanism. It's what you use that mechanism for that counts.

As an exercise I'd come up with three customer stories and write a pretend press release for your product, because right now it's f^%$ing confusing.
Too scared. Looks like an encrypted python file. Any brave soul care to try it?

http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-funserver/src/tip/fu...
Dude, you can have the best idea in the world but all that is useless if you can't execute it.

You can't simply bring an idea to the table. Ideas are a dime a dozen. You better bring some real research, funds, or programming skills for developers to take you seriously. Other than that you could just try to fund the development yourself and keep all the IP rights.
Crap. For some reason my submission got on row 118. Really like the idea though!
Weird Dog Handbag
This designer has designed a bag that will enable you to take your dog everywhere you go.
Thanks. My only remaining point of confusion is what the 10 hash functions are doing? Does each one set one bit in your vector? Does that mean you need a hash function that takes a string as input and returns 0 or 1?
Teach your child two things:

How to learn.

How to keep his/her creative in a world that tries it's best to kill it.
Well, when the OP's software is more-or-less mandatory he can get away with it. Until then... :)
Back when I first started looking at Django, the "apps" concept looked really promising. That you'd never need to worry about writing a comments-system again, because there would be a comments-app. That you don't need to integrate your main app with your blog and your CMS, because they'd just be separate apps that you'd drop in and forget about.

But the mentioned apps .. aren't. They are tools, plug-ins and libraries. What a shame.
Also how do you decide how long to make the vector?
How do you stop spammers from building up their karma by reviewing that moderation queue by upvoting their own spammy submissions?
Like a week ago, I submitted this weekend project of mine for critique. So I submitted it again to know if I did an improvement or made it worse. Sorry if I ask again but I don't know any site that is as reliable as HN to critique a web app. If you do, please direct me to it too.
My wife has said for a long time that the main reason for a position to require a degree, is to demonstrate that the candidate has subjected themselves to the process and bureaucracy of an educational institution, which is often designed to mimic the structure of your average corporate hierarchy.

Given that I got kicked out of college because I simply was either too lazy to do the busywork, or too much of a rebel to please my professors, and she finished, but considers the net gain from the experience to be relatively worthless, I'd say she's pretty spot on. She also does better in your average 9 to 5 job than I do.
I have to agree, especially since it’s pretty easy to make this kind of app work in modern desktop browsers too.

Here’s a preview for a drawing app I made this summer for the iPad and iPhone that also works fine on the desktop in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox: http://stuff.vandervossen.net/temporary/sketch.html

On the iPad it supports up to 11 touch points (don’t ask) and it has some pretty neat curve smoothing to deal with the rather low resolution of the touch events compared to a native app.
Federal money spent within a state (especially military) doesn't usually interact with the State budget. It's like saying you just can't be in debt - your employer is making a profit.

That's what just gets me about people exhorting everyone to vote when even such a supposedly well-informed group as HN has only the vaguest idea of how this country actually works.
YC applicants: In case there needs to be some explanation as to why to allow or discourage this, maybe we can give some explicit rationale here. Why did some of you guys share your submissions and how does it benefit you as a YC applicant? What problem is this solving? I could guess some of the reasons, satisfy curiosity, inspire, a sense of community, relieving some anxiety, exposing some common valuable information ( no one got a YC response yet), etc. danielsiders: what is the story in setting this up?
The throughput is the same: 3 jobs in 9 days.

You mistake the thoughput for the latency. The latency is smaller (less time from start to end) in the AAABBBCCC approach.

The reason ABCABCABC can be slower in a computer is that context switches takes time, and AAABBBCC has only 2 context switches whereas ABCABCABC has 8.
This is from Fedora 13 (not 14, sorry), with subpixel hinting, without the patch: http://i.imgur.com/whG3S.png

Comparing it to your patched F14 version, the roman typefaces look quite different, but overall I can't say I prefer one to the other. The italics, on the other hand, look much better in your version.

There is one strange thing in your F14 screenshot, though--the upper left of the lowercase letter 'a' is straight horizontal, rather than curving down as it does in all the other screenshots, both yours and mine.

Your Ubuntu screenshot looks very similar to your F14 screenshot, but not quite identical: see the dots on the lowercase i, and the above-mentioned problem with the lowercase a.

Thanks!
>> a.tr("N-Zn-zA-Ma-m", "A-Ma-mN-Zn-z")
=> "import webbrowser\n\nfrom django.core.management.base import NoArgsCommand\n\n\nclass Command(NoArgsCommand):\n help = \"FUNserver\".decode('ebg13')\n\n def handle_noargs(self, options):\n webbrowser.open('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t_cLv4pb9o.decode(ebg13))\n

rick roll?
CarWoo (YC S09): Dispelling 3 myths about Y Combinator
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Did you bug report this? Can I have the bz#?
Each hash function indicates a bit to set. If you have an array of 2^n bits, then the hash function must return an n-bit number.
Enter your Info: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZkT2QxZXF...

View the Results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Ataf_IejHzNydFZkT2Q...

This is the harder-to-troll version, which i'll be posting on HN shortly.
There were FB apps like that, but unfortunately the viral channels that made it possible (notifications) are no longer available.
Yeah, good point. Most brokers have either distributed the URL by putting in in their listing, emailing it, or printing it at the top of paper applications. We don't really see people saying the URL out loud to people. Nevertheless, human friendly is always good and something we'll implement soon!
Encrypted with a very strong cypher, I see.
We were curious about the field at large, independent of being applicants. Tired of relying on pg/yc to share aggregate data. We're hackers, we like raw data.
Oh so you don't get ads on your TV or in the magazines you subscribe to?
we're curious, and it helps alleviate the stress and anxiety by having people to commiserate with
Why not disclose it ?

Assuming you're not in stealth, it seems a reasonable way to get additional feedback and publicity for your startup.
No, each hash function tells you a bit to set. Your hash functions each take an input object and return a location in the vector. That location is set to 1.

With regards how big to make things, you need to do the math. If you have a vector of 1000 bits in your vector and you have 10 hash functions then there are 1000^10 = 10^30 possible collections of ten bits that can be set. If your plausible collection is only of size a few billion then coincidences won't be common or frequent.

256 bytes is 2048 bits, 16 hash functions, suddenly there are 2048^16 possible combinations, or 2^176 which is about 10^50.
similar existing product:
redfly, a netbook interface for your windows mobile or blackberry phone
http://www.celiocorp.com/
I don't understand how this is being spun as a failure. It sounds like a success based on the bottom line:

"Depending on the actual CPM, financially they are doing at least two to four times better than they were before. And that is with only about 1.5 percent of their former readers becoming paying subscribers."

Sounds pretty good to me.
Shopobot looks sweet
My objection is not content-based, the content is irrelevant, as long as it has some grainy black and white footage and zero regard for the truth.
Also, which I think was not mentioned is they get to pay less operational expenses because the bandwidth used is lower.
i thought this was a great point too.
Seeing a listing or piece of paper with "See it online at http://leasely.com/apply/vtkj43x1 would 100% absolutely stop me from looking at it.

Who wants to type that in letter by letter?
Blekko allows you to walk back the link chain so you can answer this question yourself. To see sites that link to your site (according to blekko) type into the search box:

http://penisenvy.com /links

where 'penisenvy.com' is the name of your site.
I highly encourage sharing your ideas. The YC application deadline is well past us, and I'm curious about who and what was submitted. I really like the transparancy of this idea, and after the hours we all put into our applications, it's nice to see the outcome, wether you get accepted to YC11 or not.
Ah but it does tell you when to statistically 'work harder' on your relationship. IE Feb/March and Nov/December.

Although this can be compounded in a different way. The first break-up mountain appears after Christmas and spikes after valentines, translation: he buys crappy Christmas presents and he forgets valentines!

The second mountain is in Nov/Dec, translation: I spend all my money on her, she hasn't bought dinner in three months and now I have to get her a Christmas present too?!

Interestingly Aug/Sep/Oct were the months I noticed this year that I spent a vast majority of my time in doors. I'd gotten over the novelty of hot weather (I work outside) and had been cowering inside, which meant lots of movie theaters and dinners with the wife.
This is how Google (and many companies) bypass the high US income-tax rates
The Times is the establisment newspaper in the UK - it's like the BBC of print. The UK newspaper market is not like the US and is still pretty healthy; The Times isn't going anywhere in the near future.
Well, the testing of that form might have been as simple as asking few people (ex. clients) to buy something and watching as they performed the task (and how they fill in the form). It could have been arranged for a few bucks less than that $12m. That magic approach is called usability testing.
Delta downloads are slower if you have lots of bandwidth or have a local rpm source (squid or a local mirror). You can easily disable deltas.

Be careful: apt is deprecated. aptitude has been its replacement for a while now.
The events are touch-specific. Would be pretty easy to add in support for mouse events too, but they've clearly no immediate interest in that.
So why is this an improvement over an ordinary hash table? Does having more than one hash function help in some way?
You can connect some Nokia devices on any screen with HDMI with full UI replication on both devices. There is also a quite interesting demo using the camera to track gestures and control the TV at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA4uBPn7Czw
More companies in the 'quantified self' and 'personal datastore' space?
We imagined people would copy and paste blocks of code that we provide and none of that would include the actual URL in the text, only the link.

But you make a good point. And there's no reason not to do it (your solution is better in every case). We'll get on it. Thanks.
waves goodbye to the goalposts as they fly off

Why would those 1000 votes all be for B? They could be for A. They could be evenly split between them. Most likely, they'd be proportionally split similarly to the original vote.

You're looking at partisans' rhetoric used to motivate their supporters and mistaking it for logic.
Er, I've just shown that you can store several billion records in a bit vector of length 256 bytes and you ask why it's better than a hash table? There's something that at least one of us isn't understanding ...
This is interesting to me because I'm developing a little app to try to minimize the impact of switching between intermittent projects (http://taskover.com - it's parked for now). I'm trying to address the challenge of capturing your train of thought, then "reloading" it into your brain at a later point.

NB: Some studies have interpreted multitasking as doing two or more things at once (e.g., talking while driving). I use the term in the context of switching among multiple projects / tasks over a given set of time.
Most customers are very satisfied with the iPad
I completely agree. I am a HN newbie and wouldn't expect people to care about any of my projects until I spent time offering analytical and positive contributions here first.
How about a simple Bayesian classifier for legitimacy? Parameters: account open date, date of first comment, date of last comment, karma, std dev of time between comments.

Good for drawing crooked lines between accounts of a similar age, eg. there is a signature for legitimacy that appears on short (two day) and long (two year) time scales. Talk about specific thresholds seems misplaced when it can be computed from a small training sample.
Bash is awesome.

This is one of my favorite bash scripts, it's an IRC bot in about 12 lines:

http://inamidst.com/code/shellbot

It's also pretty easy to add other commands & extend.