skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can read you and reply to you, so you aren't hellbanned.

Go into your profile. There is a selection that says "showdead". The options are "yes" and "no". (I have no idea if there is a karma threshold.)

I usually have it on "no" but not always. I find the site kind of depressing when it shows dead. Personal issue. Most of the time, I see no reason to Work On my Personal Issue so I do what makes me more psychologically comfortable. I also feel it improves the signal to noise ratio.
Hi fellow HNers,

I wanted to show you our new project: SecretPoke.com .

As big shy people ourselves and with Valentine's day coming up, we wanted an easy, anonymous and fun way to reach out to our crushes :)

We would love your feedback as much on the concept than on the execution (name, copy, design,...). We built it in less than 10 days and we are ready to modify the website quickly to take your feedback into account!

I also hope that SecretPoke will come handy to some of you ;)

As a thank you for your feedback, and for all what HN taught me during the past year, here is a code to have 3 more crushes for free: thankyouhn . You can enter it on the homepage when you are logged in.

Thank again, we are eager to hear what you think !

http://www.SecretPoke.com
If he could learn to care less (for comparison, he should not try to read all of Twitter), then Facebook would not present such a problem.
Either he just doesn't have the natural aptitude, or he doesn't love it enough to learn.

I can't fathom how anyone could be a programmer/trying to become a programmer and not have constant side projects, partially written OSes, games, etc

It's easy to say "I want to be an X", but then you realize that you're not spending enough time doing X to become good at it. And the reason you're not spending enough time doing it is because you just don't love it enough, perhaps you love something else more.

He writes "I'm trying to improve my knowledge by studying algorithms, but it is a long and painful process."

Which is depressing. You do not learn how to program by 'studying algorithms'.

Do you learn to become a great author by reading the dictionary? No.

It doesn't sound like he wants to be a programmer for the right reasons to me.
Map of HN visitors that clicked the #3 post this morning
Another problem is that you’re assuming you need the same
number of hours of sleep every night, which is a false
assumption. Your sleep needs vary from day to day.

Dear lord. No joke; this blew my mind. I think I have intuitively understood this for ages, but I never really consciously stepped back and thought about it before.

It's so important, because it's deceptively easy to get a complex about sleep times: "Oh God. I'm only going to get 6 hours of sleep tonight! Noooo!" Well... for many (me included) it's not such a giant catastrophe if you don't do it all the time. Owning that, both intellectually & emotionally, is a pretty big deal.
I completely agree. I made a comment yesterday about my observations on hiring at Google. I realized that there was some kind of bias on my side regarding my observations, I kept thinking about "survivor bias" but I knew that wasn't quite correct. Finally someone chimed in with calling me out on a classic case of "observation bias." Just what I was looking for. I won't forget that next time.

I think the fundamental point of the article is correct. Just write. Do it anywhere, and you'll get better. No finer than here at HN :p
Good call on Maps. I forgot about them. I think I forgot because I mostly use the Maps app on iOs/Android rather than maps.google anymore.

A serious minus that comes to mind on their UI/UX experience is the way they handle image search now. I'm still on the fence about "instant search"
Flinkin: Just another delicious?
Australia also has had a long, rolling property boom, with bank lending behind it all.

It didn't pop when expected because our economy was propped up by mineral/metal prices, due to China's demand and surprisingly little supply from other countries. Both may change.
It redirects to de.secretpoke.com and then I get an error message. Hope you get it up again shortly.

We're sorry, but something went wrong.
We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.
PoF is to Myspace as OkCupid is to Facebook. That was always my impression.
Explain "web server" to your grandma. Oopsie.
Of course it's always being considered, but the question is how much effect it has in practice. I guess this depends on your ontological categories, but personally I distinguish between "Bing is copying (if you want to call it that, and fair enough) certain Google results" and "Bing is a copy of Google" (which I think has been alleged or insinuated, but not shown). The difference is a matter of quantity turning into quality.

I think they probably have statistics that convince them of the latter, and they should show them, so we can see if people outside Google also find them convincing.
It still has a bubble which hasn't popped. Australia is def a nation to watch.
what does the blue dot represents?
I quit using Facebook about 3-4 years ago while I was still in university. Extremely interesting experience.. people I used to be "friends" with got angry at me, people who I had friendly relationships with stopped communicating with me almost immediately, and I no longer received any invitations to any type of social events (http://www.thewrongbox.ca/videos/iamfacebook). At first it was a little lonely, but it made me realize who my real friends were, and we interacted in more meaningful ways-- I also had more time to pursue other hobbies. I still do not have Facebook and I think my life is better for it.

I like this article, and not with a "like" button.

PS. I still use IM, and twitter like a notepad/thoughtstream (although I don't really promote it to friends).
XMPP? Knows what they are doing?

Does not compute.

Using document markup as a packet based message protocol is just perverse.
Whenever I hear about people wanting to break away like that I'm always reminded "There's strength in numbers". As the world economy starts to flatten out, we're all learning that it comes down to a population game. I wonder if we'll see a point where two countries vote to merge together to create a stronger economy.
Redesigning the MailChimp App
An idea for you: give users the option to send flowers (or anything else, for that matter). When the email is sent to the crush, it might say: "your secret crush would like to send you flowers. please fill in your address" or something. The initiator's credit card it charged if the crush fills in the address. You make money off the flower shop affiliate referral.
Clojure: &env and &form
It means 2+ actions, while red is 1 action. So they probably clicked a link on the page after reading.
thank you we seem to have an issue with the german version of the website

it should work in english: http://de.secretpoke.com/set-locale/en

We are gonna fix that ASAP thank you !
His writing about truisms and plugging StackOverflow started to become too frequent for me. I can't help feeling that such posts are only written for their advertisement value. I expect some sincerity from blog posts.
You say frameworks avoid safety worries. As an example if you use Code Ignitor you have to use a library for authentication (or roll your own) and sometimes these libraries are not secure.

Even frameworks themselves can have security issues.

So don't have a blind faith using them.
For the first point, they don't need to know exactly why the apps from the App Store won't break their phone---they can just learn it from experience.
Difference between Computer Science and Computer Programmer. I'm sure there are colleges that teach Computer Programming.
A bit more information is available here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creator_of_instant_mess...
It looks like it is a framework for pulling together information stored by a lot of different apps and networks. You can then use that information in different ways.

Even though it just has contacts now I could imagine it getting much more advanced. Something like "Have I already visited the top links today shared by my friends?" could be another interesting starting point.

It will be interesting to see if something like this can gain traction.
I'm a huge Harry Potter fan, but it never occurred to me to relate that scene to startups in that way. It makes me smile. :) However, I would tweak the "solid wall" metaphor a bit in the context of startups. For example, running full ahead with a bad idea will never magically become a good idea simply by upping confidence level. I would say the metaphor is more like Book 2 where they hit the wall and bounce back painfully (because Dobby sealed it) but find another way to get to school anyway. I think that's more what startup success looks like. Simply having the confidence to run forward is more about how to look at life in general I'd say, when we talk ourselves out of attempting to do things for reasons which are really nothing but false fears.
Who has the time? And you can be employable knowing only 1 of those.

I've done that stuff; by necessity, I'm old enough to have grown up with computers and didn't have it all on a platter. My sons are learning "top down" and doing fine.
I think you just invented OpenID. Better, because more people have email addresses than OpenID providers, and because it piggybacks on existing infrastructure. Worse, because you don't auto-redirect past the login page.

Probably a net win.
I like this idea a lot. I wish the guy the best of luck.

In my opinion, somebody is going to have to do something -- probably coding but perhaps an embedded mixed app -- to start tearing down all these walled gardens companies are creating. It's hurting both people and innovation when tons of folks get lock-in on Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever will come next. Decentralizing it, making the person the hub, is not only the natural state of things, but if it works will be enormously disruptive (in a good way). If I didn't have a zillion things on my plate right now this is something I'd like to participate/help with.
If they trust automatic analysis so much, they should rewrite PostgreSQL in Haskell and trust GHC to generate C-like performance assembly.
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> cut him some slack

You act as if I'm giving him a hard time, I'm not. I've generally found multi-lingual people want to be corrected when they do it wrong because they find it helpful; I was doing him a favor.
If he'd written that Facebook was evil and the following are reasons no one should use it, I'd see your point. The closest he got to that it seems to me was pointing out the quantity/quality tradeoff.

What he wrote were observations after quitting and several of the points he acknowledged were related to higher volume -- points that might not apply to readers with lower public profiles.

Actually, there was a GTD aspect of it (inbox, Tweet usage, LinkedIn) that seemed right at home for HN.
I think there are many ways to jumpstart your system like you do with your shower. For me, it's a tall glass of water. I do have a (single) cup of coffee later on in the morning but right when I get up, get to my desk (work from home), i down a glass of water as I check HN, email, etc. It really starts me up.
What happens if I have more than one email address and my crush enters a different one than I did?
> Hash based challenge-response authentication does require the server to know the plain password.

Not true. Read up on HTTP Digest authentication. It's described in RFC2617.
Look what is inside the famous TED Conference Bag 2010 and 2009
I switched my alarm to use the radio. Listening to the morning talk show (Bob and Tom show, nationwide) gets my mind going and helps wake me up.
This constant cry of "they are attacking and threatening us" from reporters is getting annoying.

Stop making this about you.

The thugs are attacking EVERYONE against keeping him in power. The cellphone companies all gave in and allowed the government to send out mass text messages to coordinate them. They are being bussed in from who knows where (because it's not being reported!) Reporters are easy targets because your cameraperson is lugging around that huge "look at me" camera. Why do you expect thugs to be nice to you?

Do the reporters think they will get special treatment? What about all the innocent people who aren't throwing stones and are getting far more seriously hurt than any reporter?

Reporters are observers. Get the heck out of the way and simply report if you want the job of being a reporter.

The attack on reporters is nothing special or unique to Egypt or non-democracies, it happens every year at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions right here in the USA. Sometimes even by the police.
Poll: What's your startup involvement?
There's been some discussion about how few attendees at last nights Hacker News London event were involved with startups. It'd be interesting to see what level of involvement HN members have generally
I'm currently working fulltime on my own startup
I'm an employee at a startup
I'm planning to start my own startup soon
I'm interesting in working for a startup in the future
I'm working on a project on the side
I just like reading about startups and attending events
This comment really gets to the meat of the issue here. Search is about discovering and then predicting user trends. Google in fact is creating user trends through its position in the market. Should Bing be locked out of the market because Google is currently in the dominant position?

If Bing is allowed to discover user trends then it will necessarily end up being a replica of Google's results in some cases. There's just no way around it.
Sweden drops Assange rape charge
Here's a link to the discussion about the HNLondon event http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179279
Exactly, most people at the meeting were working on startups, just currently a little later in the life-cycle
It'd be interesting to see what level of involvement HN members have with startups generally. I've submitted a poll here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179696
"You're going the wrong way!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZv0FUPtcc
Wish the map had hover - tell me where they are coming from. My geography is not good!
Looks like we lost the 21-25 category.
7 screens of text about quitting using facebook? He seems kind of obsessed by the idea.

> My Facebook page was maxed out at 5K friends and was very active.

5000 friends??? No wonder he got tired of it. Before I passed 100 I rarely used the 'hide' button, now I use it more, and I think hiding people and blocking apps (and sometimes turning chat off) is a good way to make fb experience less annoying.
So far, I wouldn't say it has "changed my life", at least not on the scale that usually suggests. I would like it to. I have a project in mind that I would like to get support for/feedback on. I completely suck at starting discussions and the things I "submit" are generally largely ignored -- which is a problem I have historically in other forums, it isn't particular to HN. I hardly slept this week and then slept like 9 or so hours last night. Maybe this weekend or some other weekend, I will figure out what to ask. :-/ Or maybe not. Time will tell.
Not expecting a CS alumnus to be a programmer is like having an architect not know how to draw buildings, or a surgeon not know how to wield a scalpel.

You do realize that with both professions you noted there is usually an apprenticeship time (internship/residency) -- and also in both professions you must licensed (in architecture typically after your internship and in medicine before the residency).

I do disagree though that there is no value in not being able to program. The main contribution of CS is not programming. It is in the theory of computation. I really do view programming as purely incidental.

You wouldn't expect a mechanical engineer to know how to repair a 2011 Ford Focus. They'll konw the basic ideas under the hood, but all of the technoogy specific aspects of it shouldn't be taught.
Can you send me an email? I use it like a to-do list, and that way it'll get into my workflow.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here, and point out that you can actually construct the proper automaton where the transition conditions are decided by regular expressions.

It might work like this: some programmer working on the project realizes something can't be parsed in a finite state machine, and 'cleverly' separates out one batch of regular expressions into a loop/recursive call

In this case, you've created an "Augmented Transition Network" which is equivalent in power to a stack machine or a Context Free Grammar. Is this really playing devil's advocate? That would imply setting up something that isn't a straw man whose solution isn't basic automata theory.

This also gives you an idea of how broken the project was, since my understanding is that they'd fix "that particular bug" and keep writing more regular expressions.
The problem here is not the internet. I mean, this is the same as if a kid found a gun and shoot their best friend while playing, and this happened way before internet existed.
Why do you say that? I write music myself and I don't want to be associated with myspace.
Yes, it's a DAG. It's easy to slip and say 'tree', though. While not strictly correct, it's pretty close.
Why do you say that the author knows what he's doing? If your statement is based his work on Jabber (now called XMPP), then I am somewhat concerned. Several design decisions make Jabber difficult to implement with no benefit to the use cases. My previous comments about Jabber design decisions are here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2071652
We wanted to simplify the website as much as possible so we limited to one account = one email . But other users requested that feature so we gonna add it in the coming days.

Thank you for your feedback :)
And indeed, these seemingly racism-infused attacks seem to be just what has happened to plenty of other members of international press covering this event in the flesh. Just two days ago a Swedish reporter, Bert Sundström, was abducted by a mob loyal to the Mubarak regime. Stabbed several times in the abdomen and the back, and with blunt force injuries to the head, he survived with the help of protesters who escorted him to one of the hospitals in Cairo where his condition was stabilized. Before abandoning Bert to die, the Mubarak-faithful captors responded to a telephone call made to his cellphone by one of Sweden's national television broadcasters, "Your man is with the Egyptian government, with the military. If you sons of whores want him then come get him".

(pardon for commenting on this non-hackery news entry)
My thoughts exactly.
I think the headline is misleading.
I read the headline as $12/year then hit $9.99 and assumed it was per month had to go back and reread $12/year.
"Frankly, every good programmer I know started programming long before they went to college or at least programmed outside of college for their enjoyment.
If you haven't done that and don't do that then I really have to question if you're in the right profession."

Do you apply those standards to everyone, or just to programmers? If only programmers, why?
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Sorry! It's just a screenshot of the analytics app (Clicky). Maybe next time I'll whip up something more dynamic.
These type of comments are pointless. If you have a point to make then make it.

I think the protocol is actually quite nice, I have an aversion to anything XML but that's just a personal preference. Have you used it in development? It works quite well... I know it sucks for binary data but that's not what it's designed for.

edit: I made my comment before axod edited in the last line "Using document markup as a packet based message protocol is just perverse." I somewhat agree with his point so ignore my reply.
From my experience, users love updates -- of course as long as you're adding meaningful features. We try to update our app every two weeks and and we get a significant increase in traffic each time (i.e. more share on twitter/fb, blog posts by fans, etc). Our customers love the fact that we listen to them and move quickly with features.
That is how it is right now, but run into a brick wall until you conquer it isn't the best approach.

Learning how to recover and navigate gracefully around the brick walls will serve you well in the real world.
And developers and Apple will rake in the cash in the meantime.
Wouldn't that still be a finite state automata?

You can create a submachine representing the regular expression transition conditions, and just attach that at the state you wanted, resulting in a finite state machine.

Of course this doesn't hold when you are talking about non-standard regular expressions, and it's probably a nice feature to have when creating the automata, but IMHO it still sounds like a silly idea when CFG-tools like ANTLR and YACC are available.
I'm simply just saying that even though I like independent and obscure music I find it very difficult to find a band that does not have a myspace.
Ok it's automatically redirecting to the english version now. Thank you !
Don't see what the problem is? Why do you need to quit facebook? Even after reading all these arguments.

I'm on facebook where I occasionally share a picture of my son or a picture from something I enjoy. I don't post often but this way my parents en grandparents can see my son growing up. Don't actually care if my 'friends' see this.

When I'm on the toilet I sometimes take my iphone and check the FB stream. Check it when I don't have much time or feel like investing a lot of effort in reading something.

Just use it like you want to use it. This whole social network hype, like you can only be social online. People have been social even before the phone was invented. It is just another extra tool and doesn't replace normal social interaction. It never will!
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I’m on my 5th productivity motivated SC2 uninstall, but I’ll reinstall for an NYC Startupcraft.
Underclocking your Android phone for fun, profit and longer battery life
Much better. Calling the customer back? That would be magic.
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man some big money was made off this in 2003