skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison to Digg feels forced and unnecessary, especially without numbers for Digg in January and December.

Reddit had 250 million pageviews in January, Digg had 200 million in July (before the redesign - this likely means Reddit was already ahead in January), and Reddit ended the year with 830 million.

Most of Reddit's growth couldn't have come from Digg.
Congrats, Jason!
For the most part, it would work in essentially ANY language. The "noun, colon, number" notation completely sidesteps the issue of grammar by dumping the verb, which is usually the instigator of the worst problems (Russian, I am looking at you!). For example, the easy way out in Russian is simply "каталоги: 5", which is the nice and easy plural "directories", free from abusive endings imposed by accusative case verbs.
thanks Chad! We're beyond excited.
One of the court's primary purposes is to uphold agreements where one party has contracted away their right to some speech (NDAs, terms of service agreements, exclusivity agreements, etc).

The only time a court upholds the first amendment is when striking down a law made by congress, a state or a local government as unconstitutional. Read the bill of rights. They are limitations on the power of government.
I paid for my Flickr account and hope to continue paying for it, but at the same time I would feel better if they had explicit export/backup functionality.

I hope if Yahoo! can't keep on supporting Flickr they will at least be able to sell it off to someone who will. It does have some revenue.
What is a company going to do if you break an NDA? Call out a hit squad? Break your kneecaps?

Oh, that's right, they'll get the government to step in.

With regards to your second issue, you're making the classic mistake of conflating a user's right to free speech with a provider's obligation to distribute that speech. Facebook has no obligation to distribute anything, and choosing not to distribute some things is not a limitation on free speech.
Lunch is on you next time you're in SF. :)
As someone who's taken a few classes with said professor, I highly doubt he consulted any lawyers before doing this.
Also has the disadvantage of adding a lot of unnecessary overhead to SVG, changing how you interact with it, and preventing you from using lots of SVG features. For anything that needs much redrawing or interaction, the IE fallback can be extremely slow.

If you have reasonably simple needs or can adapt an existing Raphael demo, go for it. For my own projects, I don’t think it’s worth it, but YMMV.

Protovis is a much more exciting SVG framework.
That will fix the submission page too. Grabbed it, thanks.
I should build something so shitty.
DOMINATE
Moreover I have hired a talented writer via Freelancer.com to keep my niche blog updated to gain more search engine traffic (he takes $1 per article!).

You can't know if the guy is a talent or not, if you are not more talented than him. That being said, and with ridiculously low rate, I highly doubt if he is talented.
Items 1-5: release on the Mac App Store. ;)
Certainly, I'll put it there now. Totally understand about the confusing elements of the site. Something we're working on polishing. Cheers.
"... Backupify for Flickr archives your Flickr content. More details coming soon. ..." ~ https://app.backupify.com/service_types/flickr/backup_detail...

I'll give it a go. Seems there is a 2Gb limit before you pay but there is nothing to say what exactly is backed up.
Did Github remove the code at the request of Sony? While I realize they don't want to get embroiled in a legal battle, I find it unfortunate as well.
Congrats!!! So great to see.
Love the design. Looks great.
I'm surprised they are still 3 engineers. They have been posting jobs for almost a year now and still haven't hired anyone, yet they keep saying in blogs and the job section they want to hire. I understanding waiting for the "best" yet at the same time you're growing a custom stack that requires specific skill sets and I imagine as time goes on it only gets harder. I mean, slow hiring is good too but at some point you need to give in and grow so that your employees can join in on your projects and grow with the company!
As I wrote in the TechCrunch thread:

Congrats Jason and "welcome home" - beer and burger on me at the next Hackers and Founders! :)
A lot of hospitals rely on volunteers, despite being multi-million-$ nonprofits. My mom volunteered for one in high school and said it was one of the more rewarding jobs she'd had. Aside from the various work-experience and work-ethic things, she also learned how to make the bed with hospital corners, which my sister and I benefited from all our childhoods...
Only insofar as it being a potential personal homepage replacement. We're shooting for something that our members can use in that way, but what is not visible yet is a way to browse their contributions to the site. We also have no plans to aggregate social services, only link to them.
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Really exciting and we get to build out a great vision, but honest truth: this means a ton more responsibility.
Congrats jason! I Believe.
Another way of valuing the company is deciding at what value you would be wiling to do the work.

if the guy gave you the $ and wanted 100% you would not do it and you would jump on it at 0%. The reality is somewhere in the middle.
BTW, where are you working out of now in New York?
I do wish there was someone with Sony's PoV here to try to explain to us their rationale and how they hope to actually win this battle overall- as they can't really imagine that they can make the information go away with lawsuits.
...unless you consider financial markets to be sufficiently complex that individual success is unlikely to be correlated to good decisions. It's more difficult to say the same of successful entrepreneurs.
Apple will remove home button on next iPad and iPhone
> "Can/should we be testing anti-depressants on animals at all?"

Yes, of course. We can test a bunch of mice, rats, and monkeys, and then chop up their brains afterwords and actually look at what happened inside. It's not as good as experimenting on people, but it does tell us something.

> "Is it possible that depression in animals is different than depression in humans?"

This is exactly the question being asked. From the article: "Are we in fact modeling the right things? Do the tail-suspension test and forced-swim test detect antidepressant activity after all?" ie, that is, in fact, exactly the question being asked.

> "Is it possible that lab conditions affect the psychology of the animal?"

Lab conditions absolutely affect the psychology of the animal. In these tests, ideally, what they do is they have two populations of animals. Let's say group-A rats get injected with drug XYZ, and group-B rats get injected with saline (placebo). You then look for differences between the two populations. Ideally, the technicians don't know which rat is getting the drug or not, all they know is that rat#1 gets injection#1, rat#2 gets injection#2. So both populations of rats get the exact same treatment, and you look for differences between the two populations of rats.

(Also, some animals don't mind being in cages, but some do. For example, there's lots of experiments with rats and macaque monkeys, because they don't mind cages or people. Whereas chimps would rather rip your arms off than be caged up or experimented on.)
This is part of an ongoing series tracking updates to Webkit and Chromium in case it wasn't clear by the title.
In my experience, one thing to remember before taking any money from a co-founder is that money _will_ change relationships. What happened to me was that within days of taking $5000 of seed from a partner, he/she basically decided to quit working on the project and suddenly saw their financial contribution as equally important to my programmatic contributions.

Needless to say, the situation didn't end up working out very well. YMMV.
What goes, "Squawk! Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!"?

A parroty error.
My reading comprehension might be off here, but I think guywithabike was pointing out what he thought I wasn't.
As in, making a compliment.
Depends on the amount but I am guessing that it is <50k

1. First Vesting. Always vesting.
2. Second Vesting. Always vesting.
3. Do not do preferred for a small round. The legal costs for preferred are high >20-30k
4. Do common. Can be done in less that 5k
5. You could consider what Y combinator offers and tee of that (20k,60%, very valuable connections)

5.
This just adds another layer of security on top of your application. Sure you can use mod_access instead or alongside this system.

Some developers on shared hosting servers don't have the option to change apache/httpd server settings.

This is just a tool for those who find it useful in there situation. I personally wrote it because I needed another layer of security.
clickable http://www.Swayable.com
Looks like it's still there: https://github.com/geohot/ps3publictools
Do you live in a major US city or Small European or Asian Country?

Look at remote places in Canada or Australia.

Local data caching is important.
Broadway and 14th.
Custom commands in the Loggly Shell
Agreed. Although the constantly running Google Updater makes a little paranoid, I love starting up Chrome and always having the latest stuff.
Your welcome) and Thank you) I have a developer access in python planned as well, but thats for way later in the future.
It's the same reason there's no Channel 1 on TV.
Though completely content-less humor comments are not explicitly against the guidelines, as you point out, for a long time now many many users have frowned on them.

Maybe its just time for me to start ignoring the discussions.
Why Carbon Capture Won't Stop Climate Change
CMU CS professors have a history of kicking ass. Robert Harper is another one who is a very vocal anti-DMCA campaigner, and hosts his own political radio show :-)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/
I've paid for a Flickr pro account for a few years now. Ironically, I first got on Flickr when Yahoo Photos shut down and they forcefully migrated me to Flickr. But I'm letting my pro account expire this month. I've been using Flickr for 2 main purposes: sharing photos with friends and backing up all my photos. It hasn't been great for either.

No matter how many guest passes and invites I mail friends, most of them only look at the photos I put on Facebook. Facebook keeps improving their photo service - removing album limits, increasing resolution. I can't name a single new Flickr feature in the past 3 years that's impacted me.

For backing up, it's really not very convenient, especially if I had to restore. I've moved to rotating offsite hard drives a while ago.

I do still enjoy some of the social aspects of Flickr groups, for general photography and related interests. That's enough to possibly keep me active there as a free user, but in general the quality of the average Flickr group is pretty low. It really depends on the group admins and Flickr doesn't offer any incentive for them. Wouldn't it be easy to offer free Pro accounts to the admins of the top 1% of Flickr groups? Or some swag? Or anything?

Then there's the fact that every time I login there I cringe when I realize I'm using my ancient Yahoo id that's been discarded for every other purpose.
Congratulations, Jason!
I looked for all caps and didn't find any, then for an exclamation point and found one after "Have fun!" Would you mind clarifying what you meant by your first sentence?
I agree about the nonexistent permalink, though, so thanks for the copy-paste.
Fyi, we're hiring (front end and back end). I'm biased towards HN users :). j@onswipe.com.
Expect a visit soon! Make sure to grab lunch at Grey Dog on 12th and University Place.
I tried both versions earlier, and the monospaced one sat better with me. Originally I decided on it because I didn't want to bring another typeface into the mix where I already had Menlo and Helvetica, so I tried both and settled on the one that fit my taste better.
and everybody else this sloppy article missed

nice to have a catch-all for your mistakes

(btw the mistake they made is that they are taking pre-dilution percentage figures from 5-6 years ago and adding them to more recent percentage figures, such as Goldman, and then completely forgetting other investors - such as MSFT (preferred stock!), Accel (first VC - preferred stock!). If you add all of these percentages, you would get over 200% - article is completely innacurate)
Unfortunately human logic does not work like that. A general principle is often not enough. Your thought process is astonishingly capable of being derailed by well-practiced salespeople.

To resist sales pitches, you need training. You can't just train your mind, you must also train your reflexes. You must condition yourself such that when you hear specific phrases your hand hangs up the phone all by itself.
Well yes, but I was making the assumption that you were writing the Lisp system. I suppose it makes sense that you don't have to parse it if you're using the Lisp system. :-)
Angels were generous in 2010 - ABJ Entrepreneur
I say he got off easy. It's a bad idea to fuck with the police, generally.
i just downloaded a webkit nightly and tested the full-screen api from his site.

my first thought was that someone could make a page respond to a user clicking a link and instead of navigating to it, make the page go full-screen and draw fake window chrome on the page to trick the user into thinking the browser is on a new site. it's like the old window.popup() stuff but this time you can completely remove the browser's own window decorations.

i hope the final implementation gets some kind of prompt or other warning to the user before going full-screen.
ah, Wikipedia failed me. Thanks for the update.
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Yippee, I can finally start to really put this to use without dredging up YUI 2.x components for mundane things.

It beats me how they choose the order to implement stuff in. For example, somehow we have the Rich Text Editor and Data Table but they have not managed to implement the Button class yet?
The argument is really against using the values of an autoincrement column in mysql as externally visible identifiers --- the problem being that they're easily guessable. I'm not sure I completely buy it --- if someone who isn't allowed to see /stockportfolio/4239 can get a look at it just by asking for it, you're probably missing some access checks someplace. (And likewise for asking for objects with numerically sequential ID's in bunches.)

And one advantage of numerical IDs is that they tend to be shorter than hashes or UUIDs, which can make them easier for humans to cope with.
Minecraft crosses 1,000,000 units sold mark
A little bit of info on its creation, here: http://simplebits.com/work/corkd/
I have both Chrome and Firefox installed on my Mac. I take turns switching between them and Safari. I don't want the "there can be only one" browser limitation to ever happen again. They're all free, and they're trying to implement open standards. Let's spend a little time with each of them.
Branches of Rationality
Actually, I think overall its better to teach some of the immoral ways even "legit businesses" partake in. Maybe some new freelancer won't second guess him/herself by knowing a few more of the opposition's tricks.

And humorous yeah :)
IOS 4.3 almost makes me want to withdraw all the mean things I said about Apple
nah, doubt it.
Computer History Museum Launches Version 2.0
Noah is escorting the animals off the Ark and next up is a pair of snakes.

"Go forth and multiply."

The snakes just sit there, staring at Noah.

"I said go forth and multiply! What's wrong?"

"We can't. We're adders!"

PART II

Noah storms down the gangplank with an axe. He finds a large tree, chops it down, and builds a table. He goes back to the Ark, grabs the snakes, and places them on the table.

"Now, go forth and multiply!"

"We can't! We told you, we're adders!"

"With a log table, even adders can multiply!"

(Thanks to C.L. Liu at U.Illinois for that one.)
Most code was written for internal systems. So even if you don't encounter them there are plenty of hard coded paths including drive letter in plenty of systems.
Btw, thirtysevensignals.com is free, that surprised me I guess.
Doodle Jump Devs Rampage the App Store
what kind of bus do mathematicians travel? -- rhombus.

what kind of ears do trains have? -- engineers.
I imagine that a laser powerful enough to destroy itself would have no problem with a mirror.
I'm a volunteer. I get a $450/month stipend plus room and board. The non-profit I work for has revenue other than donations.

But we definitely rely on volunteers to survive, and that includes real volunteers, though most volunteers do at minimum get room and board. So yes, the non-profit picture is more complicated than the flow chart. But personally, I don't need a stipend to do what I'm doing. A warm room and good food in some of the most beautiful country on Earth is good enough for me.

Incidentally, if any Christian hacker types are interested in spending some time (3+ weeks) in the Cascades, I might have some "volunteer" work for you.
Didn't realize costs for a preferred round we so high. Looking to apply to YC and others next year. Thanks.
I wrote this tool to export your photos from Flickr a few years ago. It should still work: http://nf.wh3rd.net/flickr-rip.tar.gz
Give me a break. Flash is even less "open" than Microsoft Office. Both have published portions of their formats and semantics. But Microsoft Office at least has credible (if inferior) alternative implementations. What's the credible alternative to Adobe's Flash runtime?

And who gives a sh!t if Adobe makes contributions to open source? Contributions to open source don't make Flash open source.
I think the problem is that if a startup hires a poor performing engineer, they get a negative output because other engineers will have to constantly fix/tune the offending code. So I definitely see backtype's cautious view of hiring only great engineers.
Same. I knew of Fanning but didn't recall Parker and initially assumed that Fanning had somehow legally prevented the film-makers from using his name.
Both sound like good ways to get comfortable with determining a value for the equity. Appreciate the insight.
I am ordering high-res print of this. A friend of mine would definitely make use of it.
I can already see the cries coming from people demanding the button back. This seems like a very risky move for Apple to make - taking away the iconic button that so many people have become used to.
I wholeheartedly agree that SproutCore's documentation is poor. There have been plenty of reasons (and excuses) provided, but regardless, that still doesn't cut it. We're beginning to rectify the situation with Guides (http://guides.sproutcore.com) which was announced on Friday. There is already one written (http://guides.sproutcore.com/fixtures.html) and there are more in the pipeline, being written by both core team members and developers from the community. Given we're a startup, sometimes things need to take a backseat but Strobe is definitely committed to making developing web apps as easy as possible and documentation is high on the priority list.

Side note: I work for Strobe.
> IMO american unions are a disaster because of government intervention.

Given that, would you recommend that programmers join unions in the US? If so, why?
Salespeople are human beings. But when they're selling, you're not talking to a human being, you're talking to an affected persona. That affected persona is no more human than my computer, and hardly any more intelligent, usually. Click.
the classic race condition: 3 nanoseconds is a long time.:-)
This reminds me of when I see ads on Craigslist for a logo designer, with a budget of $20.
> Can/should we be testing anti-depressants on animals at all?

Would you prefer we test these things on humans? Scientists must put everything pass an ethics committee, testing on animals isn't ideal but the alternatives are far worse.

I have a vegetarian friend who works on vaccines, he doesn't like it but every now and again he injects a couple of hundred mice with something and a period of time later does them in for testing. He does it for the greater good, and it is done as humanly as possible.

This whole thing has been done to death (pardon the pun) and there isn't an alternative. If we want to save human lives we have to accept sometimes some small furry creature is going to lose it's squeak.

Cosmetics on the other hand . . .

> Is it possible that depression in animals is different than depression in humans?

Mentioned in the article that the tests on animal models of depression need re-evaluating.

> Is it possible that lab conditions affect the psychology of the animal?

See above.
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No. The government cannot make law restricting the freedom of speech. But legally signing away your freedom of speech is an enforceable contract. It has nothing to do with "bringing in the government, ERGO freedom of speech". That is not the way litigation works.
I'm not looking for work but I'd /much/ rather work on gothemburg than san francisco or chicago, or pretty much anywhere in the US for that matter. And hay Leon processor means it might be interesting work too! Not just another webapp. Good luck guys.

Monocle did a nice piece on the city too:
http://www.monocle.com/sections/business/Magazine-Articles/T...
Android vs iPhone: A Personal Misadventure
10 guys walked into a bar...
Yep, Ruby has どのような...我々は日本だ。我々は性交を与えていない
Congrats! Can you give us a hint on what's next for the platform?
Thought I recognized a couple of the investor's names there ;-) did you guys meet at an HN meetup? gotta love this community!
I like that extraneous "like" in the title. It like totally cleared things up and made me feel like I was like totally in high school again.
I think I dislike about the HN design is the visited link color. If I find that it blends in with the background to the point that I scan right over it when looking for visited links. It needs just a bit more contrast.
If this is the truth and they are going to switch completely over to WebM on YouTube, I have one big question. What does Google gain from having control over the video format that they wouldn't get from h264? The only operative difference between the two codecs is that WebM is free. Surely, to justify being responsible for the enormous amount of money the world will spend to switch from one to the other, they have a better reason than "it's free."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46739943/Complaint The law in this case is the DMCA (though it seems that Sony are also trying on accusations under computer-crime laws and bunch of other things). Only the fifth of Sony's eight claims for relief seems to be based on the PS3's user agreement, while it seems the motion for a temporary restraining order is entirely based on the DMCA and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. I am not a lawyer.