skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Y combinator encourage posting news by their rating system. Nothing wrong here by doing exactly what YC encourages. Why not post if I find good news? They even make it extremely easy by their bookmarklet."

There is absolutely no question that you're abusing the system. You're purposefully degrading the experience of everyone, and of course you're aware of it. Whether there's a rule about this sort of thing is completely irrelevant and stating that "Y combinator encourage" this behavior by not implementing functionality to stop it is simply disingenious.

Any system can be gamed or abused if you just make an effort. In the end it comes down to your (missing) sense of honor. Do you want to contribute or would you rather like to corrupt the world? Corrosion is always easier of course, and may even reward you in the short run. And I guess we already are rewarding you by talking about you, so I guess the strategy paid off. HN wouldn't be the first site to die like this, but I'm guessing this is not the time yet.
Why and I get -points on this comment? All I am trying to do is reply to a comment directed to me and you give me minus pts? Come on!
The actual process is shown here:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1_uwl3WDZk_BxNOUL7W0...
If you want to post something about CES 2011 that you think would be of interest to hackers, do it, but pick ONE item that you think is the best and submit that.

If that one item doesn't make it to the front page, then you confirm that others don't have interest in the other not-as-good items, so don't submit those.
The scary alternative is that Milez is alive but that we're all in his imagination.
Some businesses are also using IE6 as a kind of a filtering system. For example, if Facebook Chat doesn't work on IE6, they only consider that positive.
We accept fact-less generalizations and stereotypes around here now?
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Ask HN: Sleep hacking?
Hi there HN! I recently read the 4 hour body, where it mentions ways to reduce your sleep to only 2 hours a day.

I'm interested in hearing your experiences with "sleep hacking", tips/tricks? have you had any success? Would you recommend it?
This is very unwelcoming and an attack to the individual.
Not taking any sides really but the way how you worded the post.

"20 in 20" sounds like you wanted a winning headline (which I guess is the case)

Please stop scolding the user for trying something out of the norm. It just means one will have to take a bit more effort to go back the first page of http://news.ycombinator.com/newest (click the more link... some more).

You can also tell the user that comments hold more value for a person than posting links.

It is like twitter for some people at first you try to mimic the big guys as fast and as abundant as possible but after a while you "get" the system.

Give the user some time o0.
These guidelines are taken as advice no? After all this is just an experiment. Stop smothering the small guys, we are people too :)
MichaelApproved is referring to this http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-20/goldman-sachs-settl...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won court approval to levy a $550 million penalty against Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the largest ever against a Wall Street firm, over claims the bank misled investors in collateralized debt obligations linked to subprime mortgages.
Five minutes ago I was looking for a donation link on your site, but I completely lost interest after reading this post. The person you replied to grew up in a lifestyle and culture different than you. This doesn't mean that he's greedy or that his motivations are meaningless. You seem like you've got a huge chip on your shoulder and that's not going to help you in the long run. Why would people be interested in engaging someone who spits venom after a fairly innocuous comment?
> why not the posting too?

I'd prefer readers to be human filters, submitting only the best of the best out of their RSS feeds, such that the overall submission rate stays at a rate that I can read.
I've worked in molecular modeling, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and related fields. My observation has been that a large percentage of the people in those fields start from the sciences and learn the software development. This likely reflects the length of time it takes to become productive in each field.

I don't do much with bioinformatics these days so can't give you much specifics, but Dan Gusfield at UC Davis is an example of someone who started from algorithms development and (I believe) with collaboration entered bioinformatics. Jim Kent, now at UCSC, was a professional programmer who developed GigAssembler to assemble the data for the public Human Genome Project. But he entered grad school and was working on a PhD in biology before doing that.

But in general there are a number of groups which have people with science and people with programming backgrounds working together, both in industry and academia. The research group I was in in grad school had PIs and students from the physics, chemistry, CS, and math departments. I've worked with a number of companies which have research groups with either direct IT support or they've hired their own software developers.

If you specifically want a company hire the two of you, which means paying two salaries, and there's no history of how well the two of you work together, then I think it's going to be hard to convince them. What's the advantage for them to hire a pair than to hire two people out of the general population, with equivalent backgrounds?
Lying is probably unavoidable. There are innocent lies, or lies that are told for the greater good - these can be acceptable, although they should still be regarded with suspicion.

And then there are lies like the one in this example. Where not only the lie is self-serving, but it had the potential to hurt other people. Imagine you're one of the other guys using the service and you try to talk to one of those fake profiles. You get your hopes up and then the fake profile cuts communication or plays a practical joke and invites you on a date. Don't you think that's at least a little cruel?
Great info, thanks. Before seeing this I was having a tendency to think of Europe, North America and Oceania as somewhat homogeneous WRT browser market share. While it seems the UK (and also Ireland[1]) does follow the other two regions, the rest of Europe is a different beast.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-IE-monthly-201010-201012-...
YMMV but for my Python web app executing mostly OO Python 2.5.x code, I got a 10% performance increase by using jemalloc compared to the malloc in RHEL 5. It's as simply as LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libjemalloc.so -- memory usage is also better (millions of objects allocated than eventually released in a long running process ended up with smaller amount of memory used when using jemalloc).
This is ridiculous This is amy inteial reply to this post and because of all the replies under it It get -pts. I just replied to the guys post directed . Why am I being penalized by answering his question?
I think it's time to stop awarding karma for submitting stories. It really doesn't make sense to do so in the first place, but I suppose it might have helped back when the site was young.

Now, since pretty much every good story is going to end up here anyway, I don't see any reason to reward people for posting them.

Karma for comments makes sense, since it's an actual contribution by you. Karma for posting something you didn't even write just leads to people gaming the system.
15 Years of CPAN (short video)
15 Years of CPAN. Visualized.
Fantasically written!

There is a typo on the list monad example; "x <- ys" should be "x <- xs".
Humans will produce culture and luxury instead. We're already halfway there: Think of the percentage of people directly involved in producing first necessities compared to a thousand years ago.
Better would be to form a US subsidiary of your foreign company. Then you can continue to work for yourself. You would need to hire people in the US to get the visa.
Whatever, idiocracy-like event occurred thousands of years ago, I think the one happening now will dwarf it. At least in most western countries and Japan where successful people have less children. It's almost like an anti survival of the fittest, if you are successful, less people in the next generation will carry your genes.

Brain size might or might not be related to intelligence. In any case, this is what Wikipedia has to say "In general, these studies have reported that East Asians have on average a larger brain size than whites who have on average a larger brain size than blacks."[1]

If you ignore who is having children among whites (successful people or not), you still have the white population rapidly declining with a birth rate below replacement levels, I believe that this coupled with mass immigration and the high birth rates of immigrants, specially in Europe, in addition to race mixing in other places like the US, will ensure that brain size in these places decreases at a fast rate. Unless we have mass immigration from East Asian countries, like Vietnam.

In the "racist" comment above, I didn't lie, I didn't insult anybody and I didn't say that one race is more intelligent than the other. I agree that my opinion might not be politically correct.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Brain_siz...
Thanks for the mention :), I'm trying to update daily but my computer died whilst I was in Wales and I couldn't write posts on my iPad ;)
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An "IE6 compatibility mode" for Chrome anyone? That would be the last hurdle for corporate adoption. Now that's what I call "low barrier of entry"!
Based on my experience, different stages of folding should require differing precision.

For ClusPro (protein docking, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.22835), we the first stage are rough energy functions for global sampling of the protein surface. For these functions, we use floats because it is a rigid body sampling and is very tolerant to clashes. However, when it comes to the minimization/refinement stage, we have seen weird things happen with floats and instead use doubles.

Similarly, the functions used in early stages of protein folding can probably deal with loss of precision, but the stages for producing high quality structures would not.
Yes, I get by just fine on 2 hours of sleep a day. The only problem is those fucking giant pink squirrels that occasionally chase me around the house.

Joking aside, you can doubtless 'improve' your sleep, but I'm very skeptical of claims that you can radically reduce it without serious side effects. (Ok, yes, the squirrels made me type that)
Again I have pts bing taking away from just responding. OH MY! I have gone down 20 pts by just responding. And I can not take pts away in kind for responses to me. HOw fair is this? PLease not this was a comment from 20 minute ago. It is fair to reply to it, but it is not fair to give move down when all I am doing is responding to something that is directed at me. PLease give a newbie a break already and stop bringing down everything a I post.
heh nice.. but soon Chrome will overtake IE also...
lets hope it will be soon :D
Not if they want to sell that phone in the EU...
sooner or later Chrome will get close firefox ;P

firefox is the old era...
Chrome is the future.
Interesting links, thanks.
so even my question about being a newbie get voted down. NICE!
The description for the "Sidekick to the CEO" role is brilliant.

I'd argue that being able to identify with the culture of the company is the most important thing in a good job ad. IMO the reason stackoverflow and carsonified have good job ads is because they have a culture of humor and honesty, rather than because they set out to write an humorous and honest job ad.

It's semantics I know, but a humorous job ad for a boring company wouldn't imo be a good job ad since it would be misleading

I really like the ads SEOmoz put out e.g. http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/web/2120238166.html (disclaimer - I'm a global associate of SEOmoz)
perfect job, I'll really like this kind of visualization.
Which don't work well at all. It's a hard problem, and not nearly close to being solved.
The chip architecture described in the article reminds me of the DEC MasPar system [1] we had at uni back in the mid-90s. 2048 processors (IIRC), where each processor could only communicate directly with it's 8 neighbours. If you wanted to get decent performance out of it, you had to think carefully about you were going to get your data onto each of the processors.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasPar
Definitely. And regarding karma, for me the only karma that "counts" is the messages one, the ones who only dump links on HN without commenting further are on the wrong site, imho.
This. I read this entire RSS Is Dead article in Google Reader, never clicking through. With a Twitter or Facebook post, you don't have a choice but to click through in order to read it. Of course this is going to skew the stats.
"While Frontier's $8.5 billion acquisition of six million users consists largely of DSL and landline customers, there are roughly 100,000 FiOS customers that also have been transitioned to Frontier"

"At the end of the last quarter, we had 3.4 million FiOS Internet customers and 2.9 million FiOS TV customers. "
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-at-Home/FiOS-Where-We-S...

So, I think that works out to ~3% of FIOS customers. IMO, selling off their DSL customers is probably a mixed bag. They are getting ~1500$ per customer in a vanishing market so it sounds like a great deal. But, up selling service to existing customers is probably less expensive overall.
Is it really that hard to implement an alarm clock application? I'd love to hear why these bugs are occurring (I recall once of twice recently hearing friends with iPhones complaining about alarm clocks not working, so this isn't the first time).
Alternatively, one could apply the mask on the GPU by setting CALayer's mask property.
haha, yeah, good one ;)

From what I've seen, it doesn't really work, though Dustin Curtis' article on sleep hacking is most definitely a good read: http://dustincurtis.com/sleep.html
Not being able to modify even the highlight tint colour of the UITabBar is a mini peeve of mine. To me it doesn't make much sense to force blue when a lot of the other UI elements have a tintColor property which works great.

I didn't have the time to do a custom one for my last project so we stayed with the standard blue in the end.

Edit: nice work though! Nice to see a thorough explanation of your thinking.
In case you are right, the good news is that this "survival of the dumbest" phenomenon can only be sustained as long as there are enough smart people to take care of the dumb ones. This trend will inevitably be reversed one day.
Popular BitTorrent Client Transmission Gets an iPhone App
It's hardly what I would call "PROBLEM SOLVED". The source should either not compile without the flag with a nice explanation, or it should be changed to work properly without the flag too. Otherwise, someone will run into it again in the future (or the flag will be removed X years from now by someone trying to achieve something completely different).
Web Design Predictions for 2011
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Nothing new here. I used to work on an anti-fraud and anti-spam platform for SMS and we performed various checks on messages passing through the mobile network to prevent these kinds of messages from being delivered.
Interesting... an opt-out-per-site rather than opt-in-per-site version of Chrome Frame.
A $50 Billion Facebook Valuation Might Not Be So Crazy
Are you a business or a company?
Unless you're trying to collect karma for its own sake, why would you even care if it gets voted down, other than to consider why the community might be disagreeing with the sentiments you're expressing? Complaining about it in a petulant way like this isn't likely to change how the community feels.

Anyway, average karma is probably more important, and you can't game that by submitting lots of links/comments - you need to focus on submitting meaningful content instead.
> Why should I not be able to post? It will be posted sometime in the next 2 hours anyways.

This shows a sense of entitlement that not only goes against the spirit of the community but also against the published guidelines as others have mentioned. Here's a list of some guidelines you've either ignored or are ignorant of:

> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
('what to expect' at CES isn't exactly intellectually gratifying, and certainly not two stories about the exact same topic within minutes of each other)

> If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway.
(Almost every link you submitted)

> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
(Such as "10 Transportation Trends That Rocked 2010 | Autopia | Wired.com")

> Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.
(Obvious)

If you're unsure about what is expected of a community, there's a couple of approaches you might adopt. You can bombard the community with a ton of questions which, depending on the community, many not go over well... like your "Ask HN" about how to search HN -- is it really too difficult to find the "Search" link on the footer of every page? Or you can adopt the age-old tradition called lurking.
Ask HN:  Is it fair that someone decide to follow your  post and vote it down?
All for making a comment? Or just because they could? What would you like me to do? Remove all the news I posted? Give a newbie a break.
Except the demographics actually point to Android being the go-to platform for the non-geeks. Android, not iOS, will be the platform that puts iPhone-like functionality into the hands of millions. And as of today, Android devices very much "work out of the box". Given the lower price points (and increasing quality) of Android devices, I think it's pretty clear which device is designed for "real people" and which is designed for tech enthusiasts and early adopters.
Perhaps we could condemn the lying without doing any ourselves.

Simple condemnation of their deception would have ended after the first paragraph. Continuing on to say "it's easy, just be yourself" supports the implicit rule that unattractive males of mediocre net worth don't deserve physical affection.
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Even if run by Midas Mulligan?
Yeah, I see it now. I was stuck thinking about private/public keys only for some reason :(
I didn't downvote you, but i guess that they don't agree on the fact that those links would have been posted anyway...
"smart people", noun phrase: People who work in computer science or mathematics.
I didn't downvote that comment, but only because I can't. I obviously can't speak for those that did, but I'd downvote your reply because it seems more an ill-formulated rationalization than an actual answer.

Posting a link just because it "would be posted anyways"? That, to me, is an admission of sorts to gaming the system; that you're "sharing" those links only for the karma, not because you're genuinely interested in the content you're linking to.
..Or having every thing I have posted in days past being voted down, by a few individuals in the last 1 hour? No matter how worthwhile it is. NOt right, and I have no recourse. I just get to watch my "Karma" drop non stop. NICE.

I appreciate those who are becoming aware of this and are voting some back up. Thanks
First, searched for: ppa in pbuilder

I received an eFreedom result on the second page of results, and no corresponding Stack Overflow article. The title of the eFreedom page is "DEBIAN - pbuilder storing dependencies - efreedom"

I then searched for: ppa in pbuilder site:stackoverflow.com

This gives one response - not the same article that was scraped by eFreedom. So that seems a little off - as a user I'd expect the Stack Overflow article that was scraped to meet the query if eFreedom does.

Finally, based on the title of the Stack Overflow article that was scraped in my first query, I searched for: pbuilder storing dependencies

Here the original Stack Overflow article is listed first, eFreedom second, so that's good. Unfortunately when you scan a little further down the page, the article "UBUNTU - pbuilder create fail - efreedom" is above "pbuilder create fail - Stack Overflow".

As a side point, my search is not made more valuable by the scraped versions appearing in the results. Making Stack Overflow appear before eFreedom is one thing, but why should I see eFreedom at all? I'd rather the other results be different content, that way I don't have to mentally parse everything to work out if it's the same content with a different skin.
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You've made over 20 posts in one day. pg might need to bring back average karma. This is not the kind of site where you want to games the system for karma. It definitely goes against the spirit of HN.
Interesting. This reminds me of cellular automata. Are we headed towards some kind of hybrid?
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I've had more success with staying awake longer, rather than sleeping less. The problem with sleeping less is that certain parts of sleep are about mental recovery/consolidation and physical recovery. If you miss these, your memory will suffer, and your muscles will ache.
StumbleUpon Passes Facebook As Top Source Of Social Media Traffic
I love see statistics on StatCounter and I go often there, but i didn't see the Philippines!
The deduction that I make about the regional analysis is that:
Europe is the continent of Firefox;
North America is the continent of Safari (about 10%);
South America is the continent of Chrome (near 22%!!);
Russia and Ex-USSR countries like Opera very much! :-)
One redditor, a few weeks ago, related the story of his fiancee using her best friend to test him like that.

However, I have a feeling that the intersection of the sets "Guys who meet girls through large-scale subterfuge" and "guys who get deceptively set up by their fiancees" is not large enough to be worth addressing in a comment like that.
Can anyone cite an example of a situation so far where replacing any of the Google apps has been good for the user?

It seems to me that Google should work really hard on having its apps be must-haves for most users, then use them as a lever to discourage undesirable behavior like replacing built-in functionality such as tethering with paid services.
Extra karma for early upvoters of stories that later take off and get high up the front page would be good too.
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