skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've already commented on this subject:

https://raganwald.posterous.com/the-freedom-to-eat-pizza

The tl;dr is where I say "Cry me a fucking river." When will people learn? A closed, proprietary system is a closed, proprietary system.

Marco is arguing that the Massah is being too rough on the sharecroppers, he's beating them inconsistently and in ways they couldn't reasonably predict. Let me see if I understand: These poor indentured servants built a business around what they perceived as a loophole in Apple's iOS terms. Their plan was to make millions of dollars off their "free" iOS apps while Apple got nothing. Then Apple shook them down for 30%.

Well I couldn't have predicted exactly how Apple would react, but I don't imagine anyone ought to be surprised that they did something. They're the landlord. That's what landlords do: They extract rents from the sharecroppers, and if rents aren't enough they kick the sharecroppers out and take over the land for themselves.

You can bitch and whine, you can figure out how to make money while Apple tolerates your presence, or you can stop building on proprietary platforms. Arguing that Apple is illogical or ought to be smarter or is shooting itself in the foot... A waste of electrons. Does Apple look like the kind of company that takes our advice on how to run a business? If it listened to people like us, it would be selling Windows PCs right now.

iOS and Kindles and Java and everything else controlled by a profit-seeking corporation are all the same things to developers. Of course Apple markets your work to end users and pretends you're happy with your cut of the two billion dollars in app store revenue. That's like a dating site marketing you to other users.

The bottom line is this: If you are developing for a proprietary system, you aren't in the business, you are the business. Trying to argue that Apple's proprietary system ought to be less closed or more free or have more pixie dust than Amazon's is wishful thinking. If you develop for any of these proprietary platforms, you are a sharecropper. You work at the landlord's pleasure to improve the land he owns.

Period.
Denying the truth doesn't motivate or cause cohesion. A vision of a brighter future with opportunity and prosperity does.
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Göodle’s autocompleteness theorem
Seems to me they're charging for value-add services. From the page you linked:

"Building your app is entirely free until you publish it. You do not need to choose your pricing plan until you get ready to publish your app."

And that seems only to apply if you publish through them.
Poll: How Would You Feel if Hacker News was Shut Down?
I'm currently working on an HN-like site for another demographic and wanted to see the level of HN user satisfaction given its relatively light feature-set.

Of those who would be somewhat disappointed to very disappointed, what changes would you want to see made to HN. Are there any features you've been dying to have?

Thanks!

EDIT: I agree with you all regarding the need for a great community -- that is the first on the list. But a great feature-set to help increase the signal and promote more insightful and intimate discussion among members wouldn't hurt, I think.
Somewhat disappointed
Not disappointed
There are many SaaS companies which provide Call Center systems with the call back feature. It works just as you described. You call in and it asks for you phone number and calls you back when an agent is available. It even tells you your position in line if you call back too early.

http://www.incontact.com & http://www.liveops.com for those interested
You probably didn't see what kind of crap SF.net was before this redesign. I think they did a good job of redesigning homepage but project pages stlll look like they are work in progress..
Out of curiousity, who is "the gang over here"?
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The last free people on the planet
i would light myself on fire, and once self immolated would then proceed to hurl myself off the top of the tallest building possible, but not until after i had run up 50+ flights of stairs (on fire). it would be a truly magnificent feat and a death worthy of hacker news.
Hollywood is a business just like any other business. While many movies have been made at microbudget levels, most movies are going to cost a studio at least a couple million.

Sequals, movies based on other media formats, etc. offer a built-in client base. The studio will probably at least make their money back, and if they are lucky, they might turn a large profit.

Now, I love movies. I've even dabbled in trying to write my own screenplay (never getting far, but I've tried). I always enjoy seeing something new. But, again, Hollywood is a business, and it's going to act like a business.
These sites / my presence on them don't last forever anyway, something else would fill the void soon enough.

I'll probably leave eventually because of low quality stories - I really don't care to read that Gruber wrote a sentence telling us someone else wrote something, or fluff pieces from AOL blogs that we pretend aren't content farms.

When/as they gain critical mass I move along, just like the endless tables vs css crap bored me out of the webdev forums all those years ago, or blogs scraping pics and the powerful little cliques pushing the same content every day made digg boring for me, etc.
I don't intend to be disrespectful to you, but were you perhaps arrogant and an asshole?

In the past, when I was passionate and full of ideas on a particular subject, I have later looked back and noticed my behavior to be.. less than what I would expect from myself. It was too easy to take that energy I had invested in my ideas and snap that around negatively toward others when they came off as ignorant or wasteful of my time.

The historical anecdote of Thomas Jefferson may have left out - for brevity, focus, or other reasons - the notion that Jefferson not only prepared heavily for the meeting, but likely also won over the participants through diplomacy. It's never just one trick that wins the day.

If you're building a team from scratch, that's wonderful. If you are coming into an existing committee or group of people, the soft skills come in very handy.

Before you take my comments as a quick insult, would you be able to look back at the entire newspaper debacle and see if there wasn't anything you could have done better to win people over? In retrospect only, consider those "stupid" and unprepared people a lost cause. It's not for their benefit but yours.
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I believe PrivaCy supports Flurry, if nothing else works: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/com.saurik.privacy
feature set is unimportant. It's about the community.
I have the screenshot actually.
I like microframework or lightweight framework. Both communicate that the framework isn't a full-stack, Django/Rails-type affair, and neither is particularly charged. Nobody's going to get into an architecture argument about scaling or ease-of-use using those terms.
HN's biggest feature is the community. Everything else is bloat.
Wow, just experienced how difficult it is to find source on SF.net. Whoever made this change might be running shareware sites like download.cnet.com in his/her past life.
"The HN title somewhat implies that Jefferson showed up to all the meetings this way; overly prepared. But the title of the original article states "Thomas Jefferson and preparing for meetings" which clearly does not convey that Jefferson was always like this."

Actually, the HN title does not in fact say that Jefferson prepared for all meetings like this. He clearly prepared for at least one meeting this way. And I wouldn't be surprised if this was not the only occasion where he was so prepared. But I'll grant you that perhaps using the plural of the word "meeting" instead of the singular was a tiny bit misleading.

"Furthermore in the article it is narrated one instance when Thomas Jefferson showed up prepared, which does not constitute enough evidence to support that Jefferson was this guy that wanted to be the most prepared in the room. Hence the HN title is very misleading."

Actually, the title doesn't say anything like "Jefferson was this guy that wanted to be the most prepared in the room". The article may have implied that (with good reason, I think), but not the title.

So to call the title "very misleading" because we can't know what was going on in Jefferson's mind is a bit harsh, in my (admittedly biased) opinion.

"Why do people change the wording in the HN tittles (vs original ones) so that people would click on them?"

The fact is that the stories submitted to HN have to compete with other stories. Many, many other stories. Personally, I find every story I submit to HN interesting, and think they would be found interesting by other readers on HN as well, if they'd actually take the time to read them. But if people don't click on them, they obviously won't read them, and not even know what they missed.

Usually, that means the titles have to be attractive, punchy, and interesting to grab readers' attentions, no matter how interesting the contents of the article may be. That's just a fact.

Another fact is that otherwise interesting authors sometimes suck at giving their posts or articles good titles.

Here's a case in point:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143752

The original title was "Understanding Syntactic Macros", while my submission had the title "How Lisp macros differ from static code-generation and metaprogramming" (a title I got verbatim from the body of the article, which I felt was a better and more interesting description of what the article was about).

My submission got a lot of upvotes; and, consequently, was probably read by a lot of people. Do I think it would have gotten the same amount of attention if I'd used the original title? Not for a second. The original title might have been technically correct, but not very interesting at all.

So I do occasionally change the titles of my submissions to improve the odds of the article being read (while remaining faithful to the author's intent), or to make the title more clearly reflect what the article is about. I think of what I do as a positive service to the HN community, and am not ashamed of it in the least, since when it works and the stars are right, people will actually read the article and be pleased by what they read. Then everybody wins.
I'm not sure it would be that hard for Google to identify the crap sites - when you go to one you either click your back button or out through the adsense that usually dominates/perfectly blends with the content anyway, Google is catching that bounce rate damn near 100% of the time.
The feature-set isn't the draw. The community is. The features are only a draw to the extent that they maintain the community.
Building a business on iOS similar to building a business on a single client. It's an issue, but it is done.
Consider an example of the revenue focus:

-- The valley has Dropbox (a Boston company with an awesome product that moved west)

-- People here cite Carbonite (which apparently makes a lot of $$ and is heading to IPO, but no tech person seems to use it, and they market to the Glenn Beck audience)
The reason fork is so slow on Linux is because the default page size is 4k. This means for a 300MB process, 76800 page table entries have to be copied during the fork.

There are ways to enable HugeTBL on linux to increase the page size, which can improve fork performance as well. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2731531/faster-forking-of..., http://linuxgazette.net/155/krishnakumar.html and http://sourceforge.net/projects/libhugetlbfs/

Does anyone know how fork is implemented on BSD/OSX and why it doesn't exhibit the same characteristics?
My ISP and phone provider iiNet (Based in Australia) do this. You call and chose the broad department you want to talk to (tech, sales, or billing), and you're told how long your wait is approximately, and asks if you want a callback on the number you're calling from.

Speaking from personal experience using this sort of system: It's fantastic to use and if you're successfully inserting yourself as the middleman in this sort of experience you're definitely on the right track.

I can see this also being extremely useful for call out tech people who need to jump on the phone to talk to their clients providers on regular occasion.

Great idea, if you expand to Australia it'll be a must have app for me.
Definitely, I agree, and I'll be working on building a great community. But surely there are features that even the most passionate of HN users have wanted that would enhance and leverage the relationships within this community.
I'd feel mystified at all the extra time I suddenly had.
This is a great article. I came across it while hacking on posix-spawn and it was quite useful.
The only way this usually works in software is to JFDI (Just Freakin' Do It). The thing that Jefferson did is he did the _work_ , not just present the idea. In software, the "work" is running prototype code.

Even then if you have a "vision" person, they may not be 100% sold if they don't like the design, but know your audience a bit you can be prepared for it.

I understand what you are saying, because very early on in my career I was one of those people that would present ideas, even architectures and expect people to get on board....now I realize that you have to sometimes drag them and in software, you drag by showing them something working and how it is possible...give them something to tweak and criticize that is real working code, not drawings on a page.
HNs best feature is the HN community, and that seems to have been grown out of 1) the seed users and 2) the guidelines. None of these things are technical features. What the website has contributed is simplicity - the site provides just enough features to start and maintain discussion, but otherwise gets out of the way.
They also said they'd never do something like that again. Bezos personally apologized for the way Kindle users were affected by the 1984 incident.

AFAIK, Apple has never owned up to one of its policy decisions having been a mistake, let alone apologized for it. They've changed their policies -- witness the short-lived language choice terms -- but never issued anything even suggestive of a mea culpa.
I'd guess lots of decompression & file creation. Windows install = lots of CAB files in a flat file structure.
It's possible that I'd finally move to one of those other communities like Quora, reddit, etc... /shrug

I like and prefer HN, but what happens happens, if it ever happens. There are alternatives, though HN is #1 in my mind.
Keep a blog and update often. Our Posterous blog for LaunchRock has been amazing for keeping people engaged.
The ranking algorithms, vote ring detection, spam filters, etc. are great features. Particularly since they don't get in the way.
"If people are willing to live as legal or illegal immigrants, with rights that range from limited to none, then logically, they should be even more eager to move to a Romerplex, which would promise most of the economic gains of uprooting to another continent while allowing migrants to stay closer to their families and cultures."

I think this is one of the stronger arguments- given that's it's better than living as an illegal immigrant in a far away nation, some people in their current living situation would choose this. I definitely agree with you that differences as a result of culture are huge and not to be underestimated. But a lot of these countries are clearly desperate enough to try stuff (similar the Green Revolution when India had problems with extreme hunger), and it's conceivable that this could work.
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Better moderation in submissions and comments is probably on top of my list.

Hacker News has a high minimum quality to its comments and an O.K. maximum quality.

It annoys me that no distinction is made between users. I'd like to have something to let me know who I am talking to: a "friend and foe" list, and something to set users in comments apart such as coloured names, non-hideous gravatars, etc.

I'd also like special people's names to be highlighted such as the OP's and admin's. And a better voting system. And a pony.

Could you link to a Twitter account, e-mail subscription of some sort? There's a 95% chance that I forget everything you just wrote after I close this tab, unless Techcrunch, Daring Fireball, and HN shower you with attention.

EDIT: If you want a good case study to learn from, see how Quora has failed to shape and teach its users how to use the service and post relevant, good content

EDIT2: A "report" button for individual comments would also be great. Moderators can't be everywhere; instead, they should just teach users to (properly) report comments and sift through these. It would also be beneficial to require a description of the infraction.
There is definitely quite a bit of Cobol around on mainframes powering many mission-critical applications. Replacement of these old systems generates huge revenues for companies like Oracle/Peoplesoft and SAP.

Pascal was a great learning language. Probably second to BASIC, but much better as a precursor to learning C.
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Context:

http://searchengineland.com/video-inside-googles-self-drivin...
Anytime a journalist, reporter or blogger has a possible conflict of interest regarding the topic they are covering, it should absolutely be disclosed each and every time as a matter of transparency.

No. A traditional journalist has a conflict of interest when their personal investment or other relationship conflicts with their duty of care to their employer the newspaper or magazine or whatever. That's the conflict: Between their interest and their employer's interest.

If any of these people are self-employed or representing their own personal views and not speaking on behalf of their employer, they have no conflict of interest because they have no second interest. There is only their own interest.

You as a reader may have an interest and it may conflict with a blogger's interest, but the blogger owes you nothing unless you pay them to give you impartial research, in which case you are a client, not a reader.

A blog is no different from one of those ghost-written business hagiographies, full of self-serving writing and written to further the author's interests. If you want to be sure you are getting an impartial viewpoint, then please do your research and decide for yourself whether a particular blogger's viewpoint is biased or not.
You're taking bloggers a little too seriously.

Marco.org is not the NYT, the WSJ, or even TechCrunch. It's someone's Tumblr.
BSD / OS X has native support for superpages.

From version 2.6.38, Linux will get native huge page / superpage support too. http://lwn.net/Articles/423584/
Scaling with MongoDB
Reissuing the Fifth Generation Challenge
Well when you grow up without any vision, your other senses develops at a much faster rate, especially the hearing. Because we grew up with vision, we know what it is to see and our ears will never have the capability to develop the same way.
Some ISPs did license it properly on behalf of their users, and I think demon may have been one (sorry no records as I left the company Trumpet Software some years ago, except the builds I did which are on an archive I still have). You don't want to know how messy the typical licensing arrangements for ISPs ended up though... at the end of the day it was a headache for both us and the ISP. Bottom line was if your version came up unregistered, in all likelihood it wasn't properly licensed as each ISP would have received their own customized build encoding the ISP (or distributor's) name. Needless to say, the number of builds I did was a couple of magnitudes smaller than the number of ISPs using it ;)
Why I'm in total agreement with you that happiness does not arrive in the shape of a Vanity Fair article and 300 million dollars, I don't nesscessarily agree that their drive is because they're lacking something or have Great Inner Pain(TM).

I have a great driving force that I suspect many people here share. Making things. I NEED to make things. Not want, or would like to, or enjoy, I NEED to. I wake up and start thinking about what I can make today, I do chores and I'm thinking about how quickly I can get them done so I can make things.

There's no motivation to make things for a reason, just that I have to, like a clock has to tell time and a fridge has to keep things cold... It's my raison d'être in life. Just like those things, if I'm not making things I'm broken.

I'm building a few things because I want other people to notice them, to use them, because the more something is used the more made it is, the more worthwhile forming ether into substance was. So gradually I'm coming to need to make things other people want, and this NEED is what drives me, what makes me happy.
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I'm on HN for one reason: insightful news and commentary that can directly help my startup.

The minute that HN loses its insightful nature or somehow gets its value diluted will be the time I look for something else.

When you say "another demographic" what do you mean? Age? Language? Geographic location? or outside of the tech community? Since the community and content matters, changing the demographics might impact significantly whether something HN-like would succeed.
What better way to clear up mormon stereotypes than by making prison rape jokes....
It is available on the Galaxy Tab and the demos of Flash on the XOOM are already up. Furthermore, even if we remove the Flash player, the browser is still far superior as is the rest of the OS.
redis is nosql, and they are using it on linux
> So I'd waste my time, or worse, internalize a bad design pattern because I didn't know any better.

Maybe. Or maybe someone would point out that you took a wrong path, you'd be embarrassed for a few minutes and learn the better design pattern way faster.

I say this, but it's not something I do. I'm working on it though.
A link to your award sir. Well deserved. Enjoy dinner ;)

http://www.citivu.com/dvorak/95awds.html#winsock
I like it - it's giving a URI to customer service reps. Might be useful to provide a way for customers to create their own macros for services that you do not support so that the list can be both corporate-curated and community-driven.
Twitter's parody account @ceoSteveJobs is now @falseSteveJobs
Corporate tyranny or personal justice?
A bit more information in the wiki:

- http://code.google.com/p/volatility/wiki/FAQ

- http://code.google.com/p/volatility/wiki/BasicUsage

- http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/List_of_Volatility_Plugins
I have zero sympathy for developers in all of this. Apple has made it clear from day 1 that you are only permitted on iOS at their pleasure and that they can change the rules at any time. For those of you who were slow, the way Apple banned Adobe Flash CS5 apps right before CS5 was going to be released should have been a wake up call. Maybe you bet that your corner of the world wouldn't be interesting to Apple or maybe you didn't realize you could get caught in the crossfire of an unrelated Apple objective. Tough. This is what you signed up for. If you don't like it maybe you shouldn't have been developing iOS apps in the first place.

The people I do have sympathy for are users. They are not going to understand why some of their favorite applications and services on iOS stop being updated / eventually disappear altogether. Among other things, Apple sold devices using the availability of apps. I didn't see any fine print saying "your favorite apps might get rejected in the future" in those ads. And I can't think of a similar platform that might have given users those expectations. So users have a genuine beef. Developers are just not being honest with themselves about the consequences of their own choices.