skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great start and a fun tool! I'd agree with others who suggest the name and design could use some work but they're totally fixable.

I noticed that all the Pulp Fiction quotes replace 'i' with '¡'
http://www.subzin.com/quotes/Pulp%20Fiction
> If some company wants to pay me a million dollars to fill out timesheets, that's their loss, not mine.

The timesheets are a symptom, not a cause, of the malaise that creeps over acquired startups. Timesheets correlate strongly with TPS Reports (don't forget the cover letter), long conference calls, labyrinthine procurement rules (sorry, you need to buy that widget from our preferred vendor), deeply nested org charts, zero-sum team performance reviews, and so on. It's an environment practically designed to kill productivity dead and drain the enthusiasm of the most dedicated employee.
Doubt that when this goes live it will be accesible from the UK, so don't get your hopes up. Someone needs to disrupt the video streaming space license-wise...
Well, uh, the organization Google and its employees keep buzzing along whether or not the problem gets fixed because although Android is a significant part of Google's long-term strategy, Android is not a significant part of Google's current revenue stream.

For all the hate Apple has been getting over the last year here, Apple's incentive structure is more closely aligned with the people who buy and use their hardware than most tech companies' incentives are aligned with their users, so if the organization can remain rational, it should serve their interests fairly well in the long term, which I guess is an argument for buying an iPhone provided you are a typical iPhone buyer, e.g., not someone used to the freedoms one gets by knowing how to program, communicating regularly with programmers and using open-source software.
Noticed this the minute I installed the Office 2010 beta, but vice versa: the spaces from my Word 2007 document were gone. Made me go back to 2007: wasn't going to rewrite my 20 page report.
From the Wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control ):

Most economists believe that a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing available.[41][42] This view is based on analysis of empirical evidence as well as the understanding generated by theoretical models.[42] Economists from differing sides of the political spectrum, such as Paul Krugman[43] and Thomas Sowell,[44] have criticized rent regulation as poor economics which, despite its good intentions, leads to the creation of less housing, raises prices, and increases urban blight.
Even if I wouldn't like the company, however, I'd still consider it bad form to bring their ethics in question without any basis whatsoever.

That's why he explained clearly why is bringing their ethics into question:

To adverise net price and hide their fee until the very end and then smack it to the total just before you book is fucking disgrace, it's unethical, shady and disgusting business practice. (edited for spelling)

So, are you saying it's always out of bounds to question the ethics of a company - or only when you happen to like their business?
The Kinect is a very interesting piece of technology. Because it is REAL. You can buy it, you can use it. Of course, it is not the end of the mouse and keyboard as we know today, because it is just the first step, but it is here, not just a prototype in some lab.

That said, I don't think it will replace mouse and keyboard, because the way we interact with our computer is based on the periphery, the mouse and keyboard. Without mouse buttons, we can't click on something that good (there are possibilities for clicking with a gesture, but it sucks, at least at the moment). We can't type text with gestures, perhaps we have to dance letters? :) So in order to use motion based computer interaction on a daily basis, we need to invent some new interface link between the computer and our body. The Kinect is a very first but also a very good step in the right direction, because it is here, it is open, and it is not too expensive to use it. And it is a lot of fun to play with :)
He did mean rural. :)
Please cite examples. Your post is practically an example of karma-whoring without them - anyone can make this claim.
This is only vaguely related.

I built a HTPC using Boxee. I installed the official Boxee "Watch Later" bookmarklet. So when I clicked through to that page to see the video, all I had to do was click the "Watch Later" bookmarklet and it found the video in the page, and sent a link to it to my boxee account. When I get home, the video will be in my incoming feed on my HTPC. All I'll have to do is click it to watch it. Neat system.
I would pay to watch movies recently released on cinema.

I mean, why the heck do I need to go to cinema when I have the comforts of my home and I'm alone at the moment?
It looks like an enthusiast or power user tool more than anything else, where the timing of the quote might be extremely useful. If I was a film student I'd bookmark it.

Looks like you're already showing up above the IMDB in Google for "movie quote search"
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Isn't that about what it is in the U.S. as well? Google claims their ratio is 4:1, and that the Valley overall is around 5:1 (source: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/22/google-s-marissa-mayer-gi...).
So... lie. If they want dishonesty, just ask for it.
I can't tell whether this is a serious post or not, but as someone who uses both every day:

> - Virtual invulnerability to malware - no need to buy and use crippling and intrusive anti-malware systems.

> - Partly as a result of the above, it's noticeably faster.

If you let Windows Update do its thing and recognize that downloading and launching freevideo.avi.exe and granting it admin access seems like a bad idea, there's nothing to worry about. Microsoft Security Essentials is free, stays quiet, and uses a negligible amount of memory.

> - Time Machine (albeit it would be much nicer if it were based on ZFS).

Backup and Restore. It's not as pretty nor well marketed, but it does the job just fine.

> - It comes bundled with pretty computers that have no blue LEDs (and most users, Windows and Mac alike, just stick to whatever came pre-installed). My last HP had 18 blue light sources piercing my retinas all the time.

So does Windows. You have a choice of whether to buy a Latitude or the pink Alienware XPS Mega 8000 with the Lady Gaga vinyl faceplate.

> - The company comes with a very charismatic CEO.

Windows comes with a jolly bald guy and an awesome well known philanthropist. Can we call it a draw?

> - It's prettier than Windows.

This depends on the person really, but I do love the borderless windows in OSX. The super-fat window borders in Win7 look silly (although you can make them smaller). The other big difference is the Dock, and that probably falls under UX rather than design. I hate how much space it wastes compared to the Taskbar though.

> - It just works. And keeps working.

Except when something goes wrong, as tends to happen in tech built by anyone running any OS. I think you'll find that the general consensus is that Win7 is rock solid and just as stable as OSX.

> - If you are a developer, it offers a rich Unix environment matched only by Linux machines - that, I have to admit, don't work as consistently. It also comes with a kick-ass IDE for free.

Win7 has PowerShell and MS gives away Visual Studio Express too. It really depends on what you're developing for, of course.

> - It already ships with a decent web browser. No need to download and install one.

IE8 is more than decent - it is by far the most popular and reliable method for downloading Firefox. Also, do any OSX power users even use Safari? All the OSX people I know use either Chrome or Firefox.

> - The App Store promises near-Linux ease for finding, selecting, downloading and keeping software up-to-date. It certainly beats the Windows way of googling for the software, hitting a malware site, going back, searching more, finding the correct site, downloading an executable and giving it the keys to the kingdom so it can do whatever it wants with your computer, something it may never recover from.

My first experience with the App Store was being asked for credit card information when I tried to download the free Twitter app. Ninite is a Windows app that comes close to doing what the App Store does.
Buy a Kindle unit. It's the best piece of hardware that I have bought in a long time. If you were going to do a lot of reading on the iPad then you can't go wrong with it.
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You're looking back wistfully at a point where another user thought HN had fallen off precipitously.

Yes, I think that's what made it a good example.

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.

Yes, it's almost an inside joke. One of the "classic" HN stories is the meta story where we all lament the decaying state of HN. The "naval gazing" stories. You learn either to ignore them or vent (politely) After watching them for a while, I think they serve to help release a lot of frustration people have.

I would note that many of the folks early on who said HN was fine are now also saying there are problems.

To me, HN's core problem was the problem you always have when speaking to more than five people: trying to anticipate reactions. You end up trying to cover every possible response, and it kills the tone. One of the reasons my comments run on so long is that I have to cover every obvious way they could be misunderstood. You're stuck either not replying to anybody, writing long comments, or getting in endless debates. All of that is distasteful to me.

One of the hard lessons I had to learn blogging was not to tease people. I used to put pictures of girls in bikinis up or joke around about making money tricking people online -- to me I was just playing. I live by my reputation: being an internet porn mogul is not on my list of future plans. But there were a heckuva lot of folks who didn't understand my posts, who thought that made me some kind of evil person. It was really sad to have to give up the playful part of my personality simply to get along with people because of the many ways things can be misunderstood. I hate that.

But the real problem is that everybody's personality will piss somebody off somewhere. I know I probably rub thousands of people the wrong way just because I'm the way I am. Others do the same. So then I end up commenting something like "Looks like it is raining outside" and I get 3 or 4 downvotes. Sure, the upvotes outweigh them, but it's just silly nonsense. Vengeance voting.

Hey now I've rambled too, so we're even :)
The core issue here (IMHO) can be summed up as:

* We all (and I'm aware I'm a pretty young account myself) vote on stories and comments to rank their quality

* Newer users vote less in line with the historic ethos because they're less aware of it

* All our votes have equal power (the downvote filter here is a crude effort to suppress that but isn't powerful enough to be fully effective)

* Network effect means a successful site's growth will be closer to exponential than linear

* With exponential growth the new who are unaware of the community standards are quickly able to overpower the existing who are aware

Hence almost inevitable degradation in quality which people here are complaining about and which I can partially see myself.

Two ways to partially address this spring to mind:

* Express vote power as a function of reputation - an upgrade to the downvote system. This has the problem that it provides a direct incentive to align with groupthink and post the easy but commonly held stories and threads so as to attract repuation and so increase one's voting power and.... It also, I think, requires floating point reputation and scoring, and so increases computational load.

* Display voting based on a similarity function - 'users who liked this also liked....'. This permits cohorts of users to work en masse without prior coordination to lower the ranking of content they find less interesting / valuable and so get what they want more easily. This means though that it increases fragmentation and reinforces groupthink again by design, which is clearly not ideal. It's also again significantly more computationally expensive.

TL;DR: Computation can be thrown at partial improvements but they're expensive to operate, open to gaming and likely to reinforce groupthink. I'm not sure it's socially or technically possible to keep the noisy brats out without severely damaging what attracted the Grand Old Users in the first place. Welcome to social groups...
In July of last year Google announced that Android had made them over a billion dollars in Q2.
This is how many private bitorrent sites work, or at least claim to work. You are responsible for your invite tree.
Sadly, I think you're right, although all of the MLS online video content that already exists is available to me, so I typically get my fix from there or from Reddit.
It depends.

It depends on how long you think it will take, how long they think it will take, what their budget is, your experience, your demonstrable experience, your portfolio, whether you want the job, whether there will be feature creep, whether you're willing to take the risk on over-run, how good you are at estimating, and whether you want this to be a one off, or an on-going working relationship.

How 'bout telling us something of yourself? You have no karma, no submissions (except this one), no comments, no contact details, and no pointer to other work.

So, it depends.
The Method of Web Development
Now-a-day online web development has become an essential for all websites. If you have not done correctly, you will finish up with an ineffective website. Therefore, the attention of customer should be necessary.
maybe they don't know about github?
Me too.

I'm not sure how long it will be before we get all the sports I care about (pro and college football and basketball, and mlb baseball) streaming HD live at reasonable subscription prices, but I can't wait.

It seems like you could do a combination of subscription Hulu Plus, Netflix, and the eventual streaming sports options, and still come up well below what cable charges for HD digital service.

Maybe the "Al a Carte Cable" model that many consumers want will come in the form of some online service, or at least the threat of such a service forces the cable companies to rethink their strategies.
Related: I've had all of my SMS messages deleted 3 times on my HTC Incredible from this bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5669
Interesting story about young angels in NY: "The Littlest Angels"
UK Guardian Newspaper: Comment is free, unless you're an application server
I had trouble writing a good unlimited precision package in C because there's no access to the flags. I resorted to assembler for all the interesting bits, and the C ended up little more than a wrapper.
To timesheet software makers: you pretty much must have an "other" option in many of your dropdowns. That will solve a lot of problems right there. Here's why:

http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2010/11/23/4827/data-c...

and

http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2010/11/27/4832/why-ge...
Clickables:

Grammarly : http://www.grammarly.com/

Whitesmoke : http://www.whitesmoke.com/
Do you have a good professional network? You could ask them to recommend someone trustworthy.

FWIW I agree you should put them under an NDA but don't rely on that stopping quiet/silent leakage.
The official word from Twitter (as you pointed out):

* Inactive Account Policy: http://support.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/15362-inacti...

* Trademark Policy: http://support.twitter.com/articles/18367-trademark-policy

However, Twitter have been known to free up unused usernames by request.

Two years ago I used the following method, YMMV[1]:

Send username@twitter.com an email with the subject line "Change username to existing, inactive username" with the following content:

---

* Username I want: @SquattedUsername

* Existing username:@MyRubbishCurrentUsername

* Change username: not start again with new.[2]

---

A day or two later my account was automatically transferred.

[1] This method assumes that you currently have a Twitter account and the 'squatted username is inactive.

[2] If you want the Tweets from your current account to be transferred (rather than deleted/archived) say this. Otherwise state that you would like to start afresh.
You think that's bad, you should hear my experience trying to buy a license to the virtual center for the free version of vmware server in 2009. At one point I had a 3 way call going with VMWare's local vendor and VMWare corporate where they were both denying such a thing as a "free" version of vmware server ever existing.

The last few years of dealing with vmware have shown me quite clearly that vmware doesn't care about little guys. They obviously make all of their money from large business customers.
Can anyone enlighten us regarding the correct spelling in Arabic? Not that I could read it, of course; and I assume that there is one.
You probably wanna look at http://www.slowcop.com/ (which was at the front of HN today), which largely suggests what others have said so far...link to jquery on google, fix missing Cache-Control: Public headers, gzip/minify/merge css/js...add far reaching expiry headers...

0.10 to 0.15$ per GB is pretty standard low-end for low bandwidth sites. Prices only really drop once you cross the 50-100TB/m range.

Your problem is that you're hosting cost (linode) is something you need to pay regardless, so you want to use that "free" bandwidth. I've seen people swap domains. Have images1.mysite.com which points to their main servers...and then when they get near their limit they switch to images2.mysite.com which would point to a place with cheaper bandwidth. Problem is, linode prices are pretty damn reasonable (probably cheaper than S3 when you add storage/GETs/etc).

If you prepay at linode it's $0.10/gb...you should just buy a Linode 512 at that point, since it's the $20/200gb ($0.10/gb again) + you get the extra machine.

100tb.com, a softlayer reseller, is a known large-bandwidth [over]seller. They have VPs for ~$100/month with 10TB included..there may be other options, but I probably wouldn't recommend this route.

I hope you are making backups of your images...
I don't understand all the hype. The playstation eyetoy had similar functionality (as far as I can tell - not having tried the kinect) at least two years ago. Is it really that much better?
How did chris putnam get hired at Facebook?
This could really do with the word "JavaScript" in the title, as "the console" could mean a great deal of different things to different readers.
appears not to have been fixed yet by Google

Or by anyone whining on the bug tracker who say this issue is ruining their life.
Reddit's Founders left the company and since then it has grown to become bigger and better and exceed everyone's expectations.
Thanks for your comment! I am not a heavy user of Facebook, and maybe I miss the point but I do not see what advantage Facebook offers in terms of organizing a get together over just writing e-mails. Is there any specific Facebook feature for making polls or finding an appointment?

With Facebook integration, you mean for example that users could identify themselves with their Facebook accounts (like if they are already logged in they would appear as such)? So they would not have to enter their name when scheduling an event. Maybe that is a good idea. On the other hand I want to leave Fasterplan open to people who do not have a Facebook account (they still exist, and if only one of them is in your group of friends then this blows up the ogranization).
Thanks for creating this. It helps a novice 'see the forrest for the trees' to make significant improvements easier. I love some of these suggestions, too.

How about this one?: Make it game-ish. "Your rank of 88/100 means your site loads faster than 75% of the sites we've tested," or "Congratulations! You've unlocked the Road Runner Badge!" Make the following improvements to unlock Speedy Gonzales."
Ask HN: Good experiences of being acquired by a large company?
With all of the horror stories going around about being acquired by Yahoo!, Aol, and Google (to a lesser extent), does anyone have any feel-good stories about be acquired? Which companies?

UPDATE: Found this thread on the homepage http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252258 (Amazon seems to be doing it right)
Tell me why I suck
+1, it would be nice to see server response time, dns lookup and other numbers in milliseconds.

Otherwise looks like a great tool.
Oh man some consumers behave like spoiled brats... the word "bastards" is extremely unwarranted. These airbnb folks are putting a massively useful service up and airlines put some serious heavyweights up in the air 1000s of times per day. These facilitators' rewards are miniscule compared to the benefit and achievement their customers enjoy. It should be 100% up to them and only them how they present fees and pricings for their business offering which they created painstakingly in any event. Even before some EU bureaucrats "intervened and forced these bastards" there was good competition among european no-frills airlines that also resulted in some (airberlin I'm sure, easyjet at some point tooI think) proudly proclaiming how they do show the full price, including all fees charges taxes. This simply has to be good enough for customers and they better know their place. If you think airbnb is doing it wrong, you have a massive opportunity at hand. If you think this is not enough differentiation to win big against airbnb, that just proves customers do not really care about that particular aspect. They just like to complain sometimes about minor annoyances equivalent to a mosquito sting, and unfortunately some as you think an initial, quite possibly unfounded expectation was not fulfilled is a reason to keep an ever-growing cancer such as an EU alive. You lose more in ever-growing tax payments overall and in the long run than through (some) web site's or airlines' "shady" practices.

This is such a non-issue. You ALWAYS, everywhere see a TOTAL price before check-out and can still fully cancel by simply doing nothing (ie. not clicking check-out). And you prefer officials whose only activity is stifling other activity, who produce nothing but regulate those that do.

I can see that the days of an innocent, pioneering, unregulated internet of a million colors and 10s of big and millions of small innovations and sure enough just as much silliness -- are soon numbered if this kind of mind-set makes it to Hacker News and gets 5 upvotes. :/

Vent over.
That's a good point: users should have immediate feedback on what is going on. Also, I will try to improve the response time.
http://www.pidgin.im/
Use an NDA that's what they're meant for.