skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr:

tumblr is awesome, worth it to use even with horrible downtime, but it's getting really weird how they never talk about anything relating to ops/roadmap/product (good or bad)

Long version:

I'm hesitant to dis tumblr to an audience i'm not sure has tried tumblr. i'm always scared i'll send the wrong message.
Tumblr is mostly amazing, extremely valuable, and actually trying to do something interesting + valuable for its users. (From the outside it's hard to see. But as with Twitter, the inside view of using it reveals all sorts of interactions and relationships that make it awesome + addictive.)

Main point? You should use tumblr. It's not just a blog platform. It's a place to discover awesome content, connect with interesting folks, and get your stuff heard really easily.

But... those of us who have used tumblr for a while have different conversations amongst ourselves.

Aside from performance, Tumblr has been buggy for an extremely long time. Since before its recent spike in popularity and sharp growth.
In fact, I almost get bummed when the topic of performance issues come up because i fear that attention to broken things like Dashboard search, saved tags, group blogs, etc... will get overlooked.

Their API is also a bit stagnant, which even if you're not a dev, means less cool stuff you can do w/all the amazing content + people in Tumblr.

As kylebragger wrote above, it's surreal how Tumblr does not mention a thing. They don't have a status blog. They don't have a user forum where we can talk about Tumblr best practices. (There is an abandoned Get Satisfaction presence). They don't have a place to suggest features for users, or developers. No Uservoice. No mailing list. They have a blog which is about 80% recommending fun Tumblrs to follow. They also announce apps. They have a couple of times addressed bugginess around a feature, queues, but only after they felt they fixed it.

This makes me think they are probably working on some giant code bomb that will fix everything, and don't want talk about stuff until they have good news. I understand that, but don't agree with it. It's literally been years. It's just more acute now than it's been before.

Anyway, I don't hate Tumblr, I LOVE tumblr. I recommend it to tons of people. Even if it's down 2 hours every day, i'll still recommend it.

But it is not cool how they never talk about stuff. I get that transparency is not the only style of community and product management. (Something something Steve Jobs Apple.)

But I think it's a bad fit here. Also, even Apple writes (in their own control freaky way) about big issues that everybody is talking about (AppStore scandals, antennagate, etc.)
Zuckerberg Talks Privacy, “The Social Network” on “60 Minutes” [video]
If security is something the employees are worried about, they should not have joined a start-up for whom an exit is their best chance.

Startups are volatile environments with risky financial conditions, hopefully driven by people for whom making the best impact in their chosen area is the most important thing. It should all be about the product, making the best decision for the product, championing the product.

Employees are valuable and necessary. I would never argue that employees contribute less then management in general. However, it's not a founder's place to make sure they get security via an exit... It's their place to make their product fantastic, which as a side-effect, should keep the employees employed.

If they want security, they should bet on a stable job in a stable market. It's boring, it's not as challenging... But it's safe.
> Sorry, time marches on.

Quality always costs. I think that open access journals are net cheaper than their print counterparts, but it will always cost money to produce a good journal. Look at the PLoS group. They are the closest we have to a top-tier online-only journal and they produce a high quality journal with an excellent impact score. However, it still costs $2900 to get an article published (if it's accepted) in PLoS Biology. Why? Because that's their costs.

You are also severely over estimating the ability of most academics to produce a good, publication ready, PDF. If you're publishing in a journal, there is a set look and feel that must be applied. No matter how good the work is, someone still has to apply the right layouts. I've published in a conference before where what you submit is a camera-ready document, but somehow no one seems to set things up the same way. And good luck getting a biologist to figure out LaTex... that isn't going to happen.

What you're describing seems to be closer to a distributed combination of arXiv and PLoS One, which is where I think we'll end up moving in the future. However, for now, the hosting costs of the organization is not trivial. Even arXiv has started seeking external funding for support.

I'm scared to think of the state of science if open journals are going to do to existing journals what craigslist did to newspapers. Now newspapers are struggling to figure out a way to pay for high-quality reporting in a world without a sustainable revenue model. The result is poorer quality news or news dominated by a few big players.

In science, the journal system has long served as a filter for information. Sure, a purely open access environment would let more people publish quicker, but it would also fill up the scientific record with a lot more noise. And there will always be costs to filtering signal from noise.
Whoops! Must have missed that.
What I don't get is why you have to post so many comments on a subject you don't like or are interested in.

I'm not going to play the game where you start questioning me personally, then the whole conversation becomes about me. Let's agree that we don't need to go there. If you'd like answers to your question, I'm more than happy to provide them offline.

I think we actually agree. This IS the biggest tech story of the year, perhaps the decade. I'm just asking folks to do a bit of self-censorship and cut back on the activism and gossip posts. Like I said, if something truly breaks, I'm all for posting and discussing it. But stuff like "take your PayPal business elsewhere!" and "Wikileaks lawyers watched!" and others have this breathless quality that's just a bit over the top. The only thing it invites -- the only purpose it has that I can see -- is a bunch of guys to pile on with "hell yeah!" posts and comments.

You guys want to keep posting them, I'll keep responding and flagging. Fair enough. I just wanted to explain myself, because in the several years I've been on here, I've probably flagged less than 20 stories. I hate flagging.
i would say typically sites use a java applet:
http://www.barklund.org/blog/2009/10/14/how-snapabug-works/

examples in action:
http://screenr.com/record
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/create

google it for you:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/701798/how-to-take-a-scre...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60455/take-a-screenshot-o...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2046812/javascript-to-tak...
This is more of a pro tool than let your mom make websites type thing. The idea is to remove the tedious image slicing / linking from Photoshop and make it easy to link in the relevant parts of WordPress. Will definitely post on HN when done. Send me an email if you want an email when it's done, or want to beta test.
I'm pretty sure it was on cablegate.wikileaks.org the first day of the cable release, but I can't find it anywhere now. It's kind of moot though, as they only had a weeks worth of topics listed through today (sunday).
Seconded. I tested it out, and I don't prefer it... but I can't find a way to switch back. Anyone know how to switch back or is it even possible?
Yup. If I have about 40 tabs open in Chrome, especially with some Flash videos or JS-heavy sites, Chrome can easily chew up a a gig and a half of memory and slow everything to a crawl. There is no magic bullet.

Bumping my memory up to 8GB ($130 from crucial) helped a lot though. No more paging issues for now even when running photoshop, firefox, safari, chrome, zend studio/rubymine/eclipse (yes, I use vim too, but it uses practically no memory)
Good on them for making that choice here, but I'm not giving them too much credit since I have a LG Android phone which has "Facebook for LG" and some stupid LG "App Advisor" thing, neither of which I can uninstall until I get around to rooting the phone. A little more consistency in their corporate policies might be a good move.
I don't see where they try to invoke American law. They did refer to a document from the United Nations that was "Adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders" (which they US could have presumably veto-ed if they had wished).

How have Wikileaks lawyers encouraged people to break the law?
I'm guessing that this just refers to the altered As-DNA structure causing major problems with binding of the enzyme to the DNA.
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Consider my friend who is getting divorced. He is tagged in a lot of pictures of him and his soon-to-be-ex-wife. I don't think he wants pictures of the two of them at the top of his page.
Very heavy in lambda calculus.
With less, you can do:

less myfile.log
&ERROR # filter out any line that doesn't match the regexp ERROR
F # capital f enters follow mode

Now you're tailing a log with a custom grep, which is retroactive on history as well.
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I think you just said the exact same thing as the person you were replying to, no?
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Thanks for a nice post Travis.
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Retailmenot is the best. They even have a time based graph of whether the coupons worked or not, so you can tell if a coupon has genuinely expired by looking at the graph.
Ask HN: what are the best non-cash employment benefits you've heard of?
What are some of the best non-cash employment benefits that you've heard of?

I'm interested in anything really interesting/fun/creative/worthwhile or even the boring stuff like life insurance. If it's of value to you as an employee then it's worth listing.
"Programming in Scala" by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Venners.

Very easy read, explains a lot of functional programming concepts. This book made me a fan of Scala and functional programming.
It's fairly clear you're a hater. That's OK, there is a lot to hate. :-)
My choice: Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

I was actually very surprised on how insightful this book was. It is a great look into the inner mind of a prolific writer and the anguish he felt by in genius.
I think that perhaps you are right on aggregate but most doctors' salaries are decreasing relative to inflation. Certain key specialities (surgeons, cardiologists, GI) have had windfalls, but the rest have gone down. Endocrinologists typically make no more than a typical internist in spite of a multi-year fellowship.
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I think the term you are looking for is 'Metacognition' or 'Meta-cognitive reasoning'. It boils down to being aware of what you are reasoning about (and subsequently reasoning about that).

On a practical level it's about analyzing your own reasoning when performing an operation and changing your reasoning based on the results of the reasoning you applied to the operation.

Being able to do 'thinking about thinking' is generally considered a good indication of sentience (whatever that might be).
RetailMeNot was not their first attempt. RetailMeNot was based on BugMeNot if i recall correctly (for bypassing mandatory login systems).

Out of curiosity, anyone know their revenue model for bringing in $30 Million a year?
Easy.

http://www.startupbook.net/

Informative, in a space I am interested in, and im already applying the techniques. Probably something everyone on this site should read.
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There are quite a few biophysical techniques that could be done such as AUC, spectroscopy, scattering and crystallography. The facilities and equipment would play a role in which to pursue. The experiment I am suggesting is not very complicated, but of course depends on people's backgrounds.
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I think you mean Tony Hsieh?

I haven't finished it, but the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs was by far my favorite book that I've been reading this year. It really opened my eyes to a lot of new ideas, as it apparently has for so many other people.
I'm curious if you tried firefox in safe mode or totally removed your profile if firefox would still big down your system?
My apologies if my comment implies that As creates an issue with the polymerase. I would guess that it doesn't since amplifying the sequence was successful.
The Black Swan (unrelated to the Natalie Portman movie)

A great look behind some of the pseudo-science and psychological principles behind decision-making, rationality, and markets.
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This is very impressive and I appreciate the engineering education to boot.
You mention "Tweet a link to something funny or informational that someone else created" - Is there a way you prevent from posting duplicate or similar items with the rest of the stream? I find that a lot of the twitter feed is the "most popular" items of the day or the most recent RSS updates (from HN, SAI, etc.), especially when the follower base is so focused.
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Don't forget select elements too. An easier way for you to do your whole extension could be to use an XPath expression or `document.querySelectorAll('textarea, select, input:not([type="' + notAllowed.join('"]):not([type="') + '"])')` (results in `textarea, select, input:not([type="checkbox"]):not([type="radio"]):not([type="file"]):not([type="submit"]):not([type="image"]):not([type="reset"]):not([type="button"]))`). Also, may I ask why are you abstracting Array.indexOf away and extending the Array prototype with a non-standard method for such a simple problem?
I am more interested in getting an existing website to display inside my own, than doing screenshots. There are services and APIs out there that does screenshots quite well.
Shouldn't he be untagging himself from those photos regardless (and deleting them if he uploaded them)?
Tumblr's Tweet about downtime : http://twitter.com/#!/tumblr/status/11570891053862912
Linking the coupon codes to affiliate links via onClick so that you're forced to click on them in order to copy/paste the code.
"We take afternoons off to play at the beach, play ultimate Frisbee in the park, go to the movies as a company, have Starcraft 2 nights, etc…"

Spoken like a true "jr engineer" the poster claims to be :) At some point in your life, that stuff just isn't very enticing.

Can people just go home and chill with their family while the rest of you go play frisbee, or will they be ostracized as 'not a team player' if they 'opt out' of afternoon movies/starcraft? A danger in that sort of activity is anyone who doesn't join in may (or will) eventually be left out of key business information.

Glad you found somewhere you enjoy working - keep it up!
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan

Jerry started "GO," the company that was the first to bring to market "pen computing." His company raised over 75M and spent it all on a product that the market did not want. It is a great read. A time before the concept of "product/market" fit had entered main-stream vocabulary
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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd.

It made me think about reality in a very novel way, and the nature of what a tautology really is, and it was extremely readable considering how cerebral it is.
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As a professional, I appreciate the ability to dress down or in casual wear like jeans a t-shirt. this is forbidden in legal and accounting fields so its basically an unfulfilled dream...unless you work for yourself =D
A friend of mine works for Maruti(Indian subsidiary of Suzuki Motors). They let you 'buy' a Maruti car and pay the loan installments for you over 4 years. You become eligible for a new car every 3 years or so. If you ever leave, you keep the car, but take over the payments.

After 4 years, the car is yours.
I'm just curious, can anyone give me a reason why you wouldn't use Appcelerator (http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-applica...). I can understand there might be projects where you need to code natively but I think 99% of companies would be fine with it and could maintain one code base (or have limited deviation based solely around interface issues).

I don't work for them or anything it just seems odd that tools like this aren't mentioned more prominently in these discussions.
I've got no beef with Wikileaks, but how do you construe the actions of a private company as "taking the freedom of the press and flushing it down the toilet"?
The Joy of Clojure - Michael Fogus and Chris Houser (http://www.manning.com/fogus/) Riveting look at the language and functional programming - covers edge cases, gives lots of idiomatic examples, and goes deep into the really interesting parts.
Every Facebook UI change is the worst change ever since the last Facebook UI change.
Ask HN: Good, hosted mailing list service provider?
Hi all,

What are some of the good, and most commonly used mailing list service providers out there? I'm just needing something simple that I can throw on my "coming soon" splash page that will allow people to subscribe for future news and stuff. Mostly I need this to gauge interest in my idea prior to coding the whole thing. :P Ideally it'd be as simple as disquss, and just require me to drop some javascript on the page.

What have you all used?

Thanks!
I guess Google 20% time is one of the most well known.
I doubt Calacanis take parts in the above activities, and likely, they segment by group, as you say.

If something universally appealing, like going to a nice restaurant or seeing a popular movie like The Social Network, you decided to opt-out of, I would be pretty put-off as an employee, or manager, if you chose not to attend.

Few things happen for individuals - if you declared that you didn't want to spend time with your company, socially, that says you don't really love your job - because the people, and the committed, single vision that comes with it is what makes that adoration arise. If you don't love your job, I question what great things you can truly do, given that non-commitment.

So, sure, you can be OK and opt-out. But if you do, I'm pretty certain that's exactly all you can be.
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It taught me (reminded me mostly) what kinds of attitudes I have when I am happiest and kicking ass with my projects. Over time I had somehow lost myself. This book helped me get back to the person I liked the most. I think it's also helping me do a lot better on my current startup, so it's not just a touch-feely book, it is having a lot of real, immediate, positive impact, at least to me.
I loved Black Swan for the same reasons. I also read "Hollywood Economics: How extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry," which reads like an applied version of the Black Swan in relation to the film industry.
I whipped up a Chrome extension for voice search if anyone is interested:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1047706/VoiceSearch.crx

https://github.com/raneath/chrome-voice-search
Best I've heard of so far: Working without a fixed schedule. I can't concentrate for a full 8 hours; however, I can work at odd hours and still get things done.
I just make sure that I hand curate any links that I post. So I never "automate" the selection of links, that is an entirely manual process. In that way I can be sure that I only ever post stuff that I really like and that I never double post anything.

If you mean how do I stop tweeting the same thing that someone else tweeted... I wouldn't know how to go about doing that...
As a software developer, it means a lot to be working on a powerful machine with at least two large screens, my choice of OS if possible, and a generally nice desk. Most companies provide decent machines, but every place I've worked at required me to run their stock Windows XP (now 7) with Outlook.

The worst part of my day, every day, is managing windows (the application windows) in Windows (the OS). It's terrible. We build Java software that has a web front end. It really shouldn't matter which OS I use to develop (assuming I test in IE frequently), but I'm forced to use Windows. sigh A really really simple thing that many companies could do is to let their software developers have a bit more control over their environment.
Free food is the best. It's actually a really strong incentive to get employees to stay at work longer, and who doesn't like free food? Now it is becoming more and more of a standard perk at startups which is a great thing!
One of my favorite non-cash benefits is the ability to use the shipping department for my outgoing packages. (I assume that everyone allows delivery at work.)

It's really nice to be able to take your outgoing packages to the shipping folks, give them some money, and have them take care of fedex/ups. It's much better than leaving work to go to fedex, ups, what have you.

Most large companies already have shipping departments, so the only additional fixed cost is the ability to take money from employees.

And, if fed ex/ups/etc have minimums, this helps meet them, so it may even reduce some company costs.
Justin, I couldn't help noticing you're following 4,873 people.

That's... a lot of people. I can't keep up with more than 400 follows, much less four thousand (I follow about 100 these days). My kneejerk reaction here is that you've leveraged Twitter effectively but that it's pretty one-sided. That is – you're getting plenty out of the deal, but since you can't really keep up with the people you follow, your Twitter presence ends up 99% self-promotional.

Which is okay, if your goals are strictly promotional.

It's worth pointing out, though, that you can derive a lot of value from Twitter by following only those people who say things that are interesting to you. That's the route I choose. As a result, my steam is filled with chatter about subjects I enjoy, people I like, articles that will interest me. I have conversations with people whose tweets catch my attention. I can count on it to serve as useful data pipe, which in the end, I value more than self-promotion. Of course, YMMV.

Hybrid approach for Twitter outsiders: Do Justin's thing for awhile, then after you hit your follower goal, start unfollowing every single person whose contributions don't improve your stream. If they're interesting but not useful on a regular basis, add them to lists. Keep culling your follows until you get under 200, then enjoy your new, always-on chatroom filled with cool people who say useful things.
I'd say this post is fair and balanced, but that wouldn't come out quite right :-)