skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Reddit community actually speaks of this phenomenon in threads addressed to new members ("things you should know about Reddit", etc). They say that once there's several long threads with a lot of upvotes, you're better off not commenting as your comment will most likely languish without any attention whatsoever.

I'd say that's partially due to scrolling, but you're correct - that More button is so non-obvious that I didn't even see it until I read this thread. Those comments below More might as well not even exist.

The most common retort to that viewpoint that I saw was "well, so you won't get karma. Bummer. Your opinion is out there anyway," which is missing the point, I think. It's not about the karma, it's about contributing to the conversation. Now, contributing to the conversation is a competition based on time and popularity.

This change will probably do two things: hide a lot of good comments below page flips, and cause people to quickly comment on stories to fill above the fold.
California cities race to shield funds from state
You should spend some time w/ FreeBSD.
This was because there was no space between [physics] and book. I'm working on a fix to handle that case right now, but if you enter "[physics] book" you'll see the results you were looking for. Hope this helps!

- John (technical cofounder)
AngularJS - Complex Web Apps Made Simple
Angular JS is what HTML would have been if it had been designed for building web applications. It provides your application’s plumbing so you can focus on what your app does, rather than how to get your web browser to do what you need. it is more a templating system with bidirectional data binding, your model is always the single source of truth for your application state and your view is simply a projection of your model.
Here's the link http://jasonstrachan.com/clients/shoebox/SB_05.jpg
Software updates: Windows Phone vs. iPhone
Great explanation, thanks! It's that miracle of compound interest turning up again.
Open-Source Projects Are Getting Ripped On Amazon
Not that I've seen, but I might have a different view of what constitutes an organized crime syndicate than you do.
Are you comparing the official multipage version? Also, the official one has a lot of extra JS features like side-boxes, inline comments, commit messages, etc...
Hadoopy: Cython based MapReduce library for Python (w/ Oozie Support)
Have you tried to, instead of calling them "spare-time developers", file a bug report or a feature request? Did you get involved in any design decision? Do you subscribe to whatever list Gnome Shell developers discuss their ideas?
Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad
I'll inventify more time to work for you.
Good question. If you look at Apple's revenue by product line [1], it does appear that iPad is following the same seasonality as iPhone sales. That means that sales spike in FQ1 and the other quarters are roughly similar. It looks like iPad sales in FQ2 will be about 5 million, slightly higher than FQ4-2010 [2].

Even though the iPad is on a refresh pattern two months earlier than iPhone, I don't think it's going to hamper performance for FQ2, especially since enterprise makes up an increasingly large part of sales.

[1] http://images.macworld.com/images/news/graphics/157242-corre...

[2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18results.html
most industry insiders will tell you that Moore's law is a marketing law that drives timelines more than anything else.

sure he used his experience, but CEO's have also been known to make wild and extravagant statements :)
Thanks for this, Colin. I've never heard him speak, and I respect the guy, but does anyone think comic book guy?
I think it would be entertaining to read an estimated percentage chance that I'd buy each of the shirts you showed me.
It would be interesting to see an auto-extend feature like Facebook does with the timeline. Keep scrolling? We will AJAX load them into the page in batches. That should do ya. No buttons necessary, full comment history the further you go, and you don't show more information than you originally ask for (just a couple of comments).
This is fixed. [physics]book will now work. Thanks for the suggestion!
I've noticed (in several years as an intern software engineer) that it's responsibility and foresight that separate junior and senior level developers, technical skill less so.

Having in depth skill with a new technology is certainly a desirable attribute but I'd rather have the reliability of a n experienced developer (especially since they should be able to pick up something new).
Why null == null is true but null &gt;= null is false in C#
It may not be you individually that's pissing off your ISP, but your ISP is almost certainly not happy with Netflix streaming: http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2010/11/comcast-level-3-in-dis...
sure, most marketing laws that succeed tend to be self-fulfilling
From very early on in the talk:

"Reality: Most applications only need a small set of well-understood standard idioms which are easy to get right."

Turns out that sentence was within a "n't" of being totally true! :)
Its good users were notified to upgrade, but I am surprised he revealed as many details this soon. Does that not further reduce security for the end user for data they have stored with the old version?
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Until it gets reverted (hopefully) -- AutoPagerize [1]

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[1]: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/igiofjhpmpihnifd...
"Gone for lunch, be back in 10"

Oh OK, I'll wait...gone.
Using Ajax for "load on scroll" may be a solution. Or go the reddit way, don't paginate but don't load full sub-threads.
Copy-on-write.

And, as I've said before, you can't "technology-away" moral problems. All you can do is to refrain from deliberately hardcoding them into your creations.
> studies show that women commit 14% to 40% of offenses reported against boys

I don't usually like "studies of studies" because of quotations like this. Its disturbing when the margin is +/-20% difference between the high estimate and the low estimate.
All very interesting but the author fails to discuss the survivor bias inherent in the Dow Jones Index (or any other index, for that matter). This is the results of the companies that survived. A lot of companies have dissappeared over this time, both through poor performance or going bankrupt. In fact, GE is the only company that has remained on the index since it's inception.

So unless you're buying index funds that track the DJIA, the chart loses it use. Because when we look at this, we see that the stock market always goes up with time. But what we are looking at is the fact that the 30 largest/most successful companies in the USA keep pace with inflation. Which is hardly a shock.

Note that I'm not arguing some of the authors points, I'm just encouraging an open mind when viewing graphics like this - you've got to know what you're looking for.
I noticed the same, and assumed that it was a measure designed to improve site performance.

Recently, I've found the HN site has become pretty unresponsive at times - I imagine limiting the number of comments on each page is going to reduce the burden on the server.
I don't understand. Do you think is supposed to be an IDE replacement or something?
Be The Boss, Not a Friend
I like plain text emails, terminals, emacs, and I really prefer un-paginated html pages.
I'm currently an undergrad making a custom major at my university in Computational Finance. Could I get in touch with you via HN to ask about your experience in the industry? Thanks.
Yep - Macworld, in their conference call comments, noted that this is the first time they broke out iPod Touches. And for good reason. What an insane number!
I feel like it would be more tolerable if it loaded the new comments inline a la reddit: at least you wouldn't lose the context/continuity of the conversation that way. Unfortunately it appears that its actually spreading the comments across multiple pages so that when you click "more" you lose everything you were just looking at.
I'm not sure what a "complexity" accountant is, but there is more to accounting than software. Yeah, you need a bookkeeper to input stuff, and that sort of thing can be automated more and more, but someone needs to actually understand what is going on. Especially when it comes to taxes and the like, the 'obvious' answer is quite often wrong.

Much like programming, in accounting there are many "That word, I do not think it means what you think it means" moments. Sure, if you can put the right numbers in the right boxes, and the computer program was designed to the exact sort of business you have, yeah, it could do a lot of the accounting tasks. But the problem is much more complex than it seems.
Funny, I find that I can reply to a comment, even when it's childrens' comments number in the hundreds, and it still gets attention.
The pronounced slowness was primarily due to an upgrade from jQuery 1.4.2 to 1.4.4 (we're going to downgrade). In addition, we're moving from listening to the scroll event to a time-based dispatcher for loading subsequent pages of tweets.
Just developing GPL software for a certain part of an embedded system doesn't necessarily require all other hardware parts to be GPL'ed as well, just as your BIOS being proprietary doesn't violate the GPL if you're running Linux.

Would be great to see a fully open-source phone some day. I believe OpenMoko was striving for this goal, too.
The Internet Makes it More Likely You Will Be Social, Not Less
Looks very cool and promising! This would work great with node.js I think.
Study: College Students Not Learning Much
For those complaining about the details: I think this represents the code and general work on a new interface that is coming out. The applications that it is working with are the utilities that have been included in Gnome for quite a while and the names worked fine with the old menu system; clearly the work being demonstrated is on the interface level. The current interface only takes the default application names it is being fed. I´m sure a finished ¨product¨ will take into account these details, but I don´t find it unreasonable that it looks how it does in an Alpha product. Simply changing what the name appears as in the shell isn´t going to be the long term solution.
// No, I don't think there are 22.5m Android media players and tablets sold a month.

Samsung recently announced that Galaxy Tab, the most popular Android tablet, hit the 1 million mark. [1] Sales of Android devices by Archos, Meizu and B&N -- even when combined -- are flat-out negligible compared to Apple's sales volume.

I'd be surprised if there are more than 5 million non-phone Android devices sold a month. Also keep in mind that the "300,000 Android phone activations a day" is not at all verified, let alone that it applies to the present. Even if the figure was correct, it may well have pertained to a peak during the holiday season.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9199678/Update_Galaxy...

EDIT: My math was off. 30*75k=2.25m, not 22.5m. So yes, I have to agree, there may be non-phone Android sales of over 75k a day.
These are why all cards (and ATMs) should be smart-cards with asynchronous encryption.

These cards and readers have existed for years… it's time to upgrade all the end-user equipment to this new, secure standard.
Naab it's because of shitty posts like yours than HN is slow! New users should not be able to post. Abusing the system is a problem.
How to convert MXF to QuickTime MOV on Mac
"... If we follow everyone we'd have to have some other account that we 'really' use. ..."

Yeah, good point.
very interesting. I wonder how much more code I'd need to write to use this as a backend to handle billing my customers?

I've been looking for a simple billing component that I could then link in to the rest of my system to handle billing, rather than the large, complex and difficult to modify integrated provisioning, billing and management system I currently use.
AT&T iPad hackers' chats were turned in by secret source
The government's case against two men charged with hacking into AT&T's website to steal e-mail addresses from about 120,000 iPad users got a boost last year when a confidential source handed over 150 pages of chat logs between the two and other members of their hacking group.
There's a really easy fix to this: Load more comments on scroll-to-bottom. No button, no bandwidth used, but those who make it to the bottom of a thread don't have to do anything to see new comments.

I agree with OP; the current system is suboptimal, to say the least.
"it could also happen in a million years."

Yeah, any day now!
My new online code analyser program, sponsored by AMD, could have prevented this bug.
On the plus side - this encourages people to check out the New page and upvote stories they find interesting there, so that they can get in on the comment threads before they've become hot.
This looks like a good idea. The midi limitation is actually a good thing if you think about it, you can explore different sounds by playing phrases not drawing notes.
Weird. What OS are you on? On OSX I haven't had a bonafide crash (had a couple tabs hang) in a long time.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke

Seems apt for non-working technology, as well.
"... What we're trying to do with Trunk.ly is rethink how the whole bookmarking experience should work. ..."

The concept of fixing "broken ideas" is counter-intuitive to spot because by nature you have to see they are in fact broken to start with. PG essays are littered with this simple concept ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fpaulgraha...
22.5M? where 1M=1000000? 5M per month = 150000 per day by my late night calculations :)
2011 DataPortability Election Results
Joukuu Lite is ready for download at http://www.joukuu.com
A seedcamp winner, Joukuu is a free and convenience way to manage your cloud based backup files across multiple account, supports Google Docs, Dropbox and Box.net currently!
The best you are likely to do without collateral at a bank is a personal signature loan if you have good credit. But if you have good credit, you can still get a twelve month credit card no interest advance for about 4 points.

The real question is, why do you need a building? It's expenses like that which make a loan necessary.
Pearson’s Acquisition 1 More Step Towards Company’s Global Ed-Tech Dominance
I think what's most unfortunate is that Linux desktop people follow MS' approach of integrating the windows managers and the graphic shell ever more closely.

This approach seems to requires a monolithic application.

I would imagine it could be more open-source-appropriate to separate out the Windows manager (in charge of the details of font and icons) and the shell (the taskbar, start-menu, explorer-type-application etc).

Caveat: I'm working on a shell-like project myself. I suppose I might feel some satisfaction to see Gnome get it wrong but I don't want to see a monolithic system that freezes out alternatives.
Thanks for this, I couldn't find the link to github easily. Please put it in a slightly more prominent place, so people get what you mean by "open source node hosting platform". Great job!
Ask HN: Where and how do I start with PHP/Ruby on Rails and JS for my project
So I've got a few ideas for some sites that I want to build. The sites will, for the most part have user signups, data storage (material uploaded) and will need to have a rich UI.

I could probably accelerate the development by using Flex or Silverlight but I really don't want to depend on plugins for the idea I currently want to build on. It's something that has to be accessible to everyone so PHP is my current option. Especially since it has such a large community surrounding it.

About myself as a developer. I'm not a noob developer. I know programming concepts. But I am completely new to web programming. I do know web architecture and AJAX conceptually but I've never touched PHP or java script in my life.

Oh I am also not developing a web app here.

I just want a few pointers to some good resources out there that could have me applying knowledge to building this site on the go.

It is critical that I will need to know
a) site design
b) AJAX
c) Knowledge on implementing a site in a scalable way so that it doesn't become a monolithic block at any time. It has to support agile development
d) Security. The site will include payment options so the last thing I'd want would be SQL injections into a non encrypted database and everyones personal info getting stolen. (Stop 'gawking').I need to know how to secure the site on ALL fronts
e) FTP services for the site.

So yea. That was a little too much to form into a search query and I don't want to spend time right at the start looking for material that might suit my needs.

So I was hoping the HN community could help me out here by pointing me in the right direction to a bunch of tutorials that help me get into the real development ASAP.

thanks :)

edit 1- first comment I got was to look at Ruby on Rails. I've heard so much about this that I really wouldn't mind. Could people leave resources for both then? If you support Rails drop some resources for Rails here and if it's PHP well.. same thing
I didn't word what I said as well as I could have, but what I meant was to emphasize the "require review before submission" part, not the "all code" part. Do you have mandatory peer review on security-critical code already?
It's also not true for most hardware, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be true. I can be hopelessly optimistic with my blanket statements.
It is a backdoor. Knowing you use disk encryption is not the same amount of infos as knowing that you use FalseCrypt. Read this: http://www.schneier.com/essay-331.html.
Is the feature really saving that significant of load time? I mean HN is as minimal as it gets, I'd rather all the comments load and take 3-4 seconds more than have to manually go through and hit more several times.
I recommend drupal, it's the fastest launchpad for everything you want to do. It's got an impressive amount of pre-written code of various quality that are relatively easy to put together.

However if you're serious about becoming a real web developer who likes to get his hands really dirty, then I recommend avoiding PHP and going for Ruby on Rails.
Government debt is a deferred tax on a country's citizens and their descendants. So it can be a real drag on future growth and, like credit cards, feels cost-free until the bill comes due. What's more insidious is that it is often run like a Ponzi scheme, in which current citizens benefit at the expense of their descendants.

But it is hard to say where the "point of no return" is for the U.S. Many countries have higher government debt as a percentage of GDP than the U.S. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_pub...). Some of these high debt countries have reached their point of no return (Zimbabwe, Greece, Sudan) while others have not (Japan, Singapore). The U.S. is richer than all these countries and also has the advantage of a de facto worldwide dollar standard, so the U.S. is better able to withstand high debt loads than most countries. But then that's like saying the U.S. can afford to run up a huge credit card bill. The U.S. will feel richer than it is while charging, and the U.S. will be much poorer than it is once it pays it off.
KUSF Moves to Online Only Format
I am not an accountant, but I recommend including a schedule C listing the income in your return. Just treat your business as a sole proprietorship. It will probably take about 15 minutes using TurboTax.

Although, the company is required to File a 1099 with the IRS, if you don't get a copy they don't suffer a penalty based on my research in 2003 (again I am not an accountant).
That's the trick in these kind of discussion: the eternal come back.
I've been using this for some time (though on HN it seems to choke on author-comment pages, I haven't taken the time to update the rule): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autopager/

It's such a better experience on every site when things auto-load as you scroll down.
It might be a good idea for PG to charge a small monthly fee if the issue is server strength.
> Some experts have speculated Betelgeuse's explosion may cause a neutron star or result in the formation of a black hole approximately 1300 light years from Earth, but Dr Carter says it could go either way.

> "There's a reasonably even chance of a neutron star or a
black hole", he says.

...Is that supposed to sound reassuring? >_<
It's so quiet. Too quiet. If I had one, I'd only drive it with the stereo blasting engine noises from BMW's old "The Hire" series of short films.
Phil Plait had a lot of excellent comments about this recurring speculation 6 months ago: http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/01/i...
I like it. and with cloud storage becoming the next big thing this is definitely going to get more and more useful
I think if Betelgeuse were about to explode any day now, we would be hearing a lot more from the major astronomy organizations, as Betelgeuse's supernova will be bright and fantastic.

Six months ago there was another rumor about Betelgeuse being close to supernova which Phil Plait also talked about. He doesn't seem to optimistic it will be blowing very soon, also based on the evidence that none of the higher powers are talking about it.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/01/is...
And by any day they mean any day 520 years ago.
or use a new genius p2p system to serve HN! Telehash, here i am!
Someone please get the license plate PWNZOIL. Calacanis, I'm looking at you.
Don't link to blog spam:
http://www.angularjs.org/Main_Page

Can anyone compare this with knockoutjs and backbone please?
Getting loans from the SBA are very difficult for startup businesses. The best is to get a proof of concept going and then go to some angles for the money. SBA will not likely loan you operating capital, but asset purchase capital. They want something they can foreclose on.

hope that helps
Please (also) see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2117387 and tptacek comments.
Link to the original article: http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=7346
yeps. I enjoy having complete control over what I write. . I will look into it anyway. Ok. then... Ruby on Rails resources? Thanks! :)

edit - after looking at drupal i took off the line "Drupal might be ok for initial stages but it probably won't scale as well".
How to create and awesome demo video
> comic book guy?

Totally!
It confused the SDK for application developers with the hardware dev kit for OEMs, and was thus off-topic.
"The important thing is, one day, night will become day for several weeks on Earth."

According to Wikipedia[1] the expected visible magnitude of the supernova is around -12mag. The full moon's apparent magnitude is around -12.74mag[2]. So we'd more likely have "another moon" for some time instead of a second sun.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude
I'm curious: Why does this plug-in need access to my browsing history?
Yep, some shows are pretty sensitive to being spoiled. And some shows are just plain addictive enough to demand instant gratification.

Ultimately it doesn't matter -- the business model of using one or two shows to sell an entire cable channel can't be sustainable in the long run, especially now that so many people are finding they can get by without cable service at all.
As long as it doesn't grow at the same rate as Twitter's, this should scale.
A traditional economist's view of behavior would answer "yes" to this question even if that isn't always the reality. You hit on the point though - not going back to school could very well be the best thing for you. You won't know until you try, and the opportunity cost of time is rarely factored into that equation.
http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar
All current Windows Phone 7 devices are restricted to the Qualcomm QSD8x50 platform, so there isn't much customization to be done as the hardware is nearly the same for every vendor.