skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put some teeth into karma. Make more karma mean bigger upvotes and downvotes, say 1 extra point for every 500 points of karma. It doesn't have to be linked to when a person joined. It's elitist like a journal or university, but at least anyone can read HN, and good posters will rise. Problem solved?

EDIT: Oh yeah. 1 week comment lockout for negative karma, with a grace period for newbies to learn how to comment.
I'm going to have to steal that phrase!
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'09 '10 '11

(It must be that time of year again...)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926604

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646871
Why is this on the frontpage of HN? If the redditification craze that everyone is screaming about is real, here's a prime example. Posts about people's individual lives that have absolutely nothing to do with HN.

Expecting feeble attempts to justify that this has "code with ruby-like syntax, jquery colorification, html5 magic, and uses google apis" so it must be hacking and cool enough to post on HN.
Developers need to eat too...
Really helpful. Using this to improve www.khanacademy.org results right now. I find this slightly easier to parse than pagespeed/yslow and look forward to the "performance changes over time" reports.
I find both of their UIs arbitrary and confusing, but at least Zune is prettier, I guess.
Judging by the amount of Russian covers for Western movies, I'm guessing the site is based in Russia - in which case they probably have quite a safe haven against copyright take-down etc.
Yeah, like they got out of the game console market when they were getting red rings of death. Or that time Windows ME was complete and utter crap, and they completely got out of the operating system market. Or that time they did something else wrong, and instead of firing everybody and getting out of the market, they learned from their mistake, came back, and fared very well or perhaps dominated it.

Microsoft, for all their power and ability, are not remotely above mistakes. They also do a pretty decent job of learning from them. I don't know of a home that doesn't have an Xbox 360 in it, or a home that doesn't have some installation of Windows in it.

Sure, it takes them awhile to hit their stride, but the worst thing anybody can do is discount them as a strong competitor, in any market they're in.
I think it's on freenode.
There are still holdouts like Southwest so the whole search one and done mantra has not been fulfilled. I do appreciate that Hipmunk is trying to do something different and they recognize clearly that the status quo was "not good enough".
This has been my experience as well ...
"And that fact is actually quite important."

Important to who and why? I'm not disagreeing, but I don't think it hurts apples profits much at the end of the day. I'm waiting to see how android manages to cope with the divergence of devices that will be running on it.
TechCrunch Not Attending Launch Conference
you might be part of the problem

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree. One thing tho that never seems to come up: we people from older waves ignore the fact that we spent the last $N years growing, getting better, getting deeper into stuff, while the site has not grown with us. So even if the site hasn't changed, our perception of the topics and such has -- intro to X used to be deep, since we were little, but now that we are big, we just see a puddle :)
A little unfair. A lot more could be going wrong (it could be bricking every phone, for example). And to be honest, while the article seems to think the first update should be the least likely to have a problem, for me the first update is where I will cut them some slack - this is a massive distributed update process that has never been tried before in the wild. Any of us real developers know that it's incredibly hard to actually test a process like this completely....
The thing is that they are focusing on what matters to most people and that's exactly the problem.
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Woah, that's a whole lot of bashing. It sounds like a serious fuckup, of course, but we don't know a single detail yet. It could be carriers screwing with firmware, for example.
This is a very thorough analysis by 37signals. I wonder if they are being vetted by Yahoo, and decided to do some due diligence on the fate of prior acquisitions?
Yeah, I did but didn't expect the mods to be very vigilant anyways. Nice to see they're on the ball.
A display that is readable is bright sunlight. I'd pay another $800 for that one. Ok, I'd at least think about it. :-)

Also, if it could handle pen input and finger input sensibly. There are hacks for iPad stylus input, but they're all a little unwieldy, especially if you want to rest your hand on the device.
You know you're doing something wrong when your customers would rather trust binaries downloaded via bittorrent than trust your online store with their credit card number.
Arrington will be there for 3 years exactly. I don't really read TechCrunch anymore, but I'll be keeping my eyes peeled on September 28, 2013 for his new thing.
So... and this is a serious question.

Let's say you cover the next Twitter or Facebook before they become the next Twitter or Facebook. Once they explode in popularity, are you going to stop writing about them? Even though those articles are getting the most traffic on the site? And tons of speciality sites start appearing just about Twitter and Facebook. And you even know people from Twitter and Facebook since you profiled them when they were little, and can get the inside scoop on changes and upcoming features.
Random highly-ranked hacker news threads: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/
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This is pretty exciting except for the fact that lately Youtube has been insanely slow loading anything above 320p quality, if not impossible to watch. They're going to need to step up in terms of speed for this to work correctly.
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Yeah... I've been buying VMWare for my team. After buying it twice online, I started buying it from amazon boxed because it's cheaper than the digital version from VMWare and you can still get the stupid rebate they are currently offering. (I hate rebates).
I'm not. The NFL schedule is very different from the other major American sports and is incredibly lucrative for all parties currently. No need to rock the boat from their perspective.
Ask HN: How do you create help docs/videos?
I'd love to get some advice from my fellow hackers about this.

I love coding, but I hate writing the help files and god forbid shooting the help videos. And I'm sure I'm not alone.

Is there any trick, technique or system that you use to get those all-important help files created for your webapp?

Is there a service somewhere that can do it for you? Or help you in some way?

My current project is especially plagued by my lack of detailed, step-by-step help files. It's trying to get people with no tech savvy (doctors, lawyers, real estate agents) to do something that requires at least some tech knowledge: setting up a simple website. People really need to have their hands held and shown exactly what to do, and I'm having trouble providing that for them.

Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Ask HN: Custom share button vs official share button?
Hello there,

I was wondering, which option do you think is better:

-A custom image for a share button for Facebook and Twitter.

-The official share and tweet buttons provided by the developers sections of Facebook and Twitter.

Which one, is more attractive or more trustworthy?

Let me know what you think,
Thanks,
I've been waiting to give this a test spin, I am going to evaluate it against our current solution.
Let’s crate: un simpatico (e velocissimo) servizio online di file sharing
Odd. I wonder why I got downvoted. I don't make money if people go to that website. My grammar (afaik) was correct. It seemed to relate to the comment above. I will just remain at a loss and move on.
Implying that cryptography is just math and the FBI somehow wants to criminalize end-to-end. Which I don't think is the case...

Does anyone think totally encrypted storage and transport for files and email has a market?
One little tip: many people use Google Analytics and there's no use listing "http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js under "Leverage browser caching" since we can't do anything about it and caching it would defeat the purpose anyway.
Big, huge upvote to your Digital River comments. Dealing with their shopping cart sites is maddening at best. They're ripe to get picked off by a capable startup.
Hmmm. Why the cryptic assembly language stuff? Surely this isn't (_very_) cleverly disguised malware...
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Nothing against hushmail. Just seemed funny that after a page of statements about how they aren't doing anything wrong, they use a service designed to conceal their identities. I'm not criticizing them - it's just funny.
junk url; flagged.
The meanings of words change over time, get the fuck over it.

People like you were complaining about the common usage of "damn" years ago too.
Now I'm a "rabid Mono pusher", brilliant. Thanks for reminding me why most everyone hates people like you.
i dont quite understand, the plugins allow you to view the resultant JSON from an ajax request. Sorry for misunderstanding.

The Firefox plugin states:

Normally when encountering a JSON document (content type "application/json"), Firefox simply prompts you to download the view. With the JSONView extension, JSON documents are shown in the browser similar to how XML documents are shown. The document is formatted, highlighted, and arrays and objects can be collapsed. Even if the JSON document contains errors, JSONView will still show the raw text.
rankest spam; flagged.
Just thinking out loud here.

Could it be that after 5 or so years engineers are in long term relationships, perhaps kids, etc and thus are less inclined to rock the boat and ask for a significant raise.

Could it be that a lot of developers leave after about 5 years or so and go into other fields (management, startups, etc) so that the people left in the job for 10+ years are actually comfortable with just plodding along?

Then again I'm left thinking that it could be because there actually isn't much of a difference between a developer with 5 and one with 10 years of experience (in the general sense).

This is interesting to me, since I've just gone past the whole 5 years of experience thing, hit a limit with one company, and moved elsewhere for nearly 2x the money. Wondering what/where I should go next.
Minecraft coming to Xbox live?
I'm always amazed that people think the iPad display is good. The text always looks blurry and poorly antialiased to me which I attribute to the fact that it has quite low DPI. Further to that the minute I walk out the door I can barely see anything on the screen - it's just not bright enough. I love the iPad in a few ways but the display is one of the things I dislike.
I’ll assume that this is a way to promote a global licensing solution — a great one, because the site actually manages to give iTunes a run for its money.

What surprized me was the lack of ranking by note. Assuming the legal challenges are overcame, I would also enjoy being able to have two lists: “Already seen” and “Would like to see” (that might include films not available yet, or even un-financed projects) to parse it all better. If they manage to make those lists work with my cinema subscription (I pay every month for a all-you-can-go-out-and-see plan) I’d be happy to spend more on that then most would pay for cable.
Oh and by the way, what do you use to losslessly compress PNG's to check for image optimization? Pngcrush didn't yield nearly as big improvements as slowcop suggested...
What you can do and what the product supports are two different things.
Because most things you would want to do with parallel port that actually work through all the layers of virtualization and emulation (ie. connecting a printer) can be done equally well with emulated serial port.
Thanks for asking this! I've been wondering the same thing -- I don't want to spend the rest of my life only working with men, it's ridiculous. If I was skilled at another profession, I think it would be enough to make me go and do that instead..

The obvious answer, I suppose, is to get involved with projects that increase diversity in CS and the tech industry, and also to encourage your HR department to find places to advertise their programming jobs that will be seen by women. (Perhaps a women-in-CS group at the local university, or a more formal group such as LinuxChix.)

There's a negative feedback loop here, though, where women will probably be less interested in a team/company that's so far totally failed to hire technical women. :/
Nice. Very useful.

Suggestion, try changing your URLs.
instead of

http://www.slowcop.com/reports/4d6468ff34b95f3cbb000554

try
http://www.slowcop.com/reports/www.slowcop.com

by doing this you will get a lot of link traffic.
Agreed. This worked for my parents. They were essentially immune to pleading for ice-cream.
Neat, I assume this preserves FS changes upon native boot?
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summary: hear about goose laying golden eggs; buy that goose; then kill it, forget about it or let it starve to death
Finally get a chance to check this boy out!
Wow, BridgeSupport looks amazing! I've always fantasized adding some minimal .h parsing to determine function call prototypes for node-ffi, but it's hellish to try to interpret all the typedefs and includes.
the suggestions are really nice, but can you eventually link to tutorials for those of us who need a bit of help?

For example, under "Minify CSS", you could say: "Need help? Here's a CSS compression tool."
"If you had a brother, would he like soup?"
This post reminded me of the early days. There was a time when all you had to do to get Michael to review your app was to add it to delicious with a tag he watched for.

He reviewed my web2.0, vertical search, Google map mashup (so 2005!). I wish I would have kept a screenshot for nostalgia.
wow, impressive. They should add the Metacritic score for each flick, that would be incredibly useful.
That thread contains this comment decrying the state of HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237127

Admittedly, it wasn't voted up, but there was some agreement with it. You're looking back wistfully at a point where another user thought HN had fallen off precipitously.

I don't see a significant difference between HN now versus about 3 years ago (when I first started lurking), and I believe the community could and (on most days) would have the very discussion you've linked. There are cycles where many of the submissions aren't interesting to me. I usually chalk those up to slow news days. And there have been situations where I've been appalled and infuriated by (what I perceived as) the poor quality of articles/comments that the community was voting up. Some of that is the community offending my own biases. Some of that is just bad days. You can't discern the climate by just looking at today's weather.

The other cycle I've noticed is these efforts at self-policing and reflection. I'm almost annoyed by them because I don't see HN as getting worse. But I'll allow that others are more sensitive to HN's quality. Perhaps these reflective posts are what keep HN's quality high enough for my tastes. Or maybe, as I suspect, they are more about the tastes and perceptions of the long-time users changing. It's more than a little reminiscent of the "golden age" thinking of older generations, where the past was simpler and more innocent because they were younger and insulated from the time's complexity and injustice.

(Sorry for rambling there.)
If you're working for a government grant or project, you are required to fill in timesheets. I knew people in Lockheed, Grumman, etc. who had to diligently fill out which project they were working on, so that their time could be billed to the right grant or agency.
The man who learned better.
True, I forgot about that, that only the names of functions are called. Though I don't think it would be that hard to create some sort of binary/assembly code parser to run over a library to extract out the number of parameters & return values for a function. In general all C like languages share a similar calling structure when viewed in assembly.

The tricky part as I see it would be to identify the parameter types, which could be done with some sort of heuristic that analyses the functions called on each parameter, or more easily by parsing a header file provided with the library.

Then you would have a tool that takes in a header and a library and spits out a class that wraps that library automatically. However it wouldn't be nearly as clean, transparent, or neat as what ActiveRecord does. Still would be a useful tool to have.
I don't know why you're dragging Yahoo into the timesheets discussion. Yahoo does not have timesheets.
there is something about timecard software that brings out the worst in enterprise software developers. I have never, ever seen one implemented well.

If I could upvote that a thousand times I would.

Why o why is this so true? And why hasn't anyone done anything about it?
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Personally, I have a higher propensity to click on official buttons than their third-party counterparts.
A multiple of 24 like, say, 120? I'd always thought that 120Hz TVs were being pushed because 120 is a multiple of both 24 and 30.
Alternatively, perhaps we can let users select (follow) a set of like-minded people and make the up-votes of the people they pick weigh more on a "customized" front page.

But then people may have not like having their up-votes be so transparent..
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"Keep a keynote file of UX/UI examples: I take screenshots of websites, features, UI design, etc that I almost always reference while we build our site."
--> This has been a major theme of my last month; paying more attention to the way I capture and keep organized. A little work as you go definitely saves time later, especially as Michael pointed out competitors cannot copy the 'speed of product innovation of your team.'
Spreedly Core - API powered payments w/o burden of PCI compliance
Just because the incentives say so, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of him actually leaving earlier than that date. That said, I'm looking forward to his new adventure, sooner or later.
Even being an active commenter on his site was enough. It worked for me. (Being the doofus I am, I asked him to hold off till I finished the "new" version of my app which.. never happened ;-))
This is a big deal. They are making it harder to feel safe developing an app that will work with Twitter's API. They just removed any further access to whitelisting of the use of the API too as announced here but I doubt on any public blogs.

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_t...

I want to build great things to make this communication system better, but they are scaring me and starting to sound like the old jokes about the old communication system, "We're The Phone Company... We Don't Care.. We Don't Have To."
You require my name, home address, email address, and phone number in order for me to purchase downloadable software via Paypal. You do not need any of that information. You want it so that some tool in marketing can have pretty powerpoints. It should be optional

This is actually less for marketing purposes and more for running anti-fraud analysis, which is a key consideration when you sell software at their scales. When I write my (totally legitimate) Japanese address and phone number combined with my American credit cards, it often ends up in an order getting held for purgatory for 48 ~ 72 hours until I can point them to the resolutions for the last four orders I did through them and the fact that none were chargebacks for being stolen credit cards.

Steam also does something similar. You can thank your local pirate.

The digital backup fee is scamtastic, and (shockingly) isn't the worst thing they have pulled over the last few years (that would be automatically adding rebill fraud 'coupon booklet' subscriptions to the orders). They split the fee $7 to DR and $1 to the software publisher, which means that for sales of $50 software they make substantially more from that addon than for the software itself at almost all of their (myriad) pricing schemes for the core DR payment processing experience.
Can somebody please intercept the code for me? Seems I am in deep dream; not able to figure out the code.
Eigenvalue/SVD upvoting. Comments and articles are ranked for you according to their ranking with similarly voting/submitting/commenting users.

The frontpage (depending on how you set it up) could look like Reddit's, based on the majority of users, but to logged-in users it'd be more refined to their tastes. Perhaps you could look at the site from others' perspectives.

Defining the model, computing likenesses and finding the appropriate material could be quite resource intensive if you didn't think long and hard about the implementation.

(You'd might also want to avoid up and down arrows, because "like" and "dislike" quickly supplant "good comment" and "bad comment".)
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Nice ad-hominem there.

"damn" is no longer an issue because most people aren't terribly religious nowadays, at least not enough for people to censor themselves. That's not the case for "bitch".
This is called custom software development, and thousands of development shops around the world do this... in fact it's how I make my living.

Is there some particular angle you're taking that makes it non-standard?

Entrepreneur needs X... you charge Y per hour and estimate it will take Z hours, but charge for however many it actually takes.
Funny, I feel like having a spouse actually helps me avoid burnout because I know there's a block of time every day that's devoted to someone other than myself and with different non-nerdy interests.
Design, Ship & Iterate
Despite "No, shut up." being in the title, it does not add anything to the submission, and should be a strong hint that this is not HN material.
I don't see any difference between the 2007 page and today's.
Go work for a big consulting firm, or spin-off. Usually lots of smart female devs.
There seems to be a regular effort to help HN posters connect with each other. Doesn't seem like a month or two goes by without another site that offers that.