skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably one of those darned newbies who isn't a real hacker and is screwing the place up. (Sorry.) So I wasn't around in 2008 (or whenever the Glory Days were). I don't feel like this article or other discussions about the issue have really given me a good idea of what HN supposedly once was that it isn't anymore. I wish I could get such info. I think that kind of information would hold out some hope of figuring out a real solution -- a means to raise the bar or deepen the discussion or whatever it is that people are wanting.

I know there are other large forums on the internet but this is the largest one I have personally participated in. I think such large forums are breaking new ground, socially, in ways that do not compare to sites like Facebook. Where else can I actually speak with my 80K closest friends? If I am in a room of 500 at work (and not on the stage, because I am not one of the big wigs), only a handful of people around me can hear anything I say. We all can listen to the presentation, but we cannot converse. Here, any and all of us can converse. It is unlike anything you can do "IRL". I suspect that is part of the issue: No one really has a model for how you manage that kind of social interaction. And the models we do have break in that setting.

Just thinking out loud.
> The Social Network -
Sort of knew the story and acting was pretty ordinary.

> Inception -
Cool story and nice effects, very captivating movie, made me think a little bit, but the ideas of the movie are too far fetched.

> True Grit -
I didn't see the original, couldn't work out whether it was fiction until near the middle, and then it just went downhill, for me the girl did the best acting.

Worth watching? Definitely, become classics? Probably not, they're all missing the extra magic sauce.
The frontpage content is fine. I'm much more concerned about the comment quality.
We have become exceedingly efficient at ruining online communities.
Ask HN: Where do you advertise for Sales staff?
I run a small consultancy in Seattle, WA. Hiring experts in our niche is usually fine - I know where they hang out, what they read, who they follow on Twitter, etc.

However, I'm about to hire another Sales Exec, and this is all a bit of a mystery to me. If you have any suggestions for where job adverts should be posted - or other considerations to catch the attention of the 'right people' - that'd be hugely appreciated.
In my official capacity as "a relative newcomer", I agree that stuff's broken. I think one of the challenges the site is facing is a question of how much to continue to cater to the old guard and those who share their perspectives, and how much to evolve? The start world in general (and YC in particular) is at a very different place than when HN started ...
It strikes me that a logical step to prevent #2 is "allow only new contributing members that have been vouched for by n old members".

Yes, I'm that elitist. And yes, I'm well aware I probably wouldn't get voted in :)

But here's the other part - keep the site open for reading. That means it (hopefully) self-selects for quality, and other people can observe a high-quality discussion.
YSlow is a great tool - I've used it a lot.

The main problem with using YSlow is it doesn't show performance trends over time. One of my goals for Slowcop is to give a dashboard where you can track performance across deploys.

Also, there are a bunch of other tools and features I'm planning to add, like measurements from different regions and tools that track lower-level HTTP issues.
This appears to be spam.
pg could probably do some things to ward off dilution, but it won't last forever.

I think a paraphrase of this sentence has appeared in HN comments 100's, perhaps 1000's of times.
I also think there are problems (though I've not spoken with you specifically). However, I think this is a universal problem that doesn't necessarily need a solution. Most sites seem to have a group of hardcore participants with axes to grind. Top Wikipedians have lots of issues with Wikipedia. Top eBay sellers have problems with eBay. Even on MetaFilter it's not always plain sailing..
I don't want my OS to be interesting - I want it to be stable & reliable. Those sides are usually mutually exclusive.
If you don't scroll down it appears to be a nifty video, but once you do it does look very spammy.
Many of the best engineers balk at corporate bureaucratic bullshit like timesheets. They don't work merely to pay the bills, they work because it's their passion. Once you take away that passion they may still come to work but maybe they're just zombie-ing through the day just for the paycheck, they're not giving you their best work anymore. And they're also no longer happy, so they'll slowly evaporate out of your company and off to other, more rewarding jobs elsewhere.
I'd be amazed if you could show me a TCP spoofing attack that works against a remote host (that you aren't on the same LAN as).

As far as I know (and google shows), they don't exist.
It's a product, but it's nifty, new, and something I haven't seen before, which seems to be the usual criteria for 'is hacker news'.
365 Days of Rackspace Cloud...
I second the recommendation for "Selling the Wheel"
You are selling your site to potential users. If you have a specific target user, write your message so that it'll sell directly to them.
Looks nice, but who would bother creating an account to see if there are any job offers on that site? What's the point of forcing candidate registration if access is free?
Hm... Story upvotes modulated by users Karma might be good enough. It's an interesting concept...

Stackoverflow operates under this principle, more or less, but it doesn't seem to entirely stop the slow decline.
Because creating software is a creative endeavor that requires talented and skilled individuals working imaginatively. Timesheets and other bureaucratic overhead are poisonous to that process.

The best software can't be created in a factory assembly line with interchangeable drones.
we may need to implement Levenshtein Distance for this
I'm fairly new, but I think HN is great. The level of discussion is way, way higher than other similar communities I've seen, and I think the general focus on tech issues with splashes of other topics is perfect. Seems like a successful self-regulating community if I've ever seen one. People just like to complain.
I think there's a real disconnect between HN and Metafilter. Metafilter is about making good posts. There are tens of thousands of active members and only a few dozen posts per day because you are supposed to make good posts. The motto is "best of the web" and it is a serious motto.

By design (I think?) HN is not about making good posts; it's exactly the opposite. It's about posting whatever link you happen to stumble across. The hope is that maybe the good posts will rise to the top via voting, and that comments will add value to bad posts. This is a really different idea! I'm not personally convinced that it's possible to get a high volume of visible good posts using this idea in an open general-interest community, because no matter what you do, there will always be more people ready to vote for popularized, lurid, and flamebait posts than good posts.

I think that distinction has much more of an effect on content than moderation. (Although if you've decided that you only want good posts, you probably need moderation to enforce your decision.)
The problem is that many of those tools are affected negatively by the regression to the mean as well. An average comment, that would never be upvoted during the early elite, will be upvoted by average people during the mean. Reputation follows.
Now this is a small invention that I like (if it lives up to the promise).

Receiving a phonecall while carrying home the starbucks grande tends to turn into a serious exercise of balance and thumb/pinky coordination...
Do you have any examples of a site where treehousing has improved things?
Another reason HN may be boring: we've beaten a lot of the common topics to death. It only takes a handful of articles about "how to pitch a VC" to soak up most of the relevant advice on the subject. While posts often present a unique combination of previously mentioned ideas, it's becoming increasingly rare to actually find something new if you are a regular here.
No Download, simplicity and you can link reports to show others http://www.slowcop.com/reports/4d645d1434b95f34e70001f3

I dislike Y!Slow though not many good alternatives. This is a good contender.
Great implementation!

Obvious UI, works fast presents the information in a very clean and clear format.

The blog & academy pages could do with some of the polish of the main site, but that is understandable! I also wasn't totally clear on what the NN/100 numbers represented on the report page?
I've recently worked for a large bank still running XP and IE6 and their migration policy stipulated that upgrades to the OS weren't considered until a SP has been released; perhaps this is more widespread, and enterprise applications notwithstanding, the insignificance of the Win7 updates could be in anticipation of IE9...
Netflix Says Use of Amazon AWS is a Competitive Risk
I've been involved in digital filmmaking for a few years and there really is something about the 24fps rate that gives a more dramatic effect to video and that's why it's been so highly sought after in digital cameras. I'm not sure if it's something we've learned by watching real film for so many years or if it's an innate preference but it's real and it's something most consumers don't even realize that they prefer. I suspect it's because when we watch drama, we're watching a highly stylized, surreal version of life and as the article states, higher frame rates sort of bring us down to earth. It feels too real.

When people are shown the 120hz smoothing it kind of reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they ask the children what they want in a cartoon and they give wild, off-the-wall suggestions that create a product they all actually hate. The smoothing may seem better when presented initially because people feel like they're getting "more" from these artificial frames but you it creates this "soap opera effect" on the video that cheapens the feel of the production. So to answer your question, I can't really explain it in a scientific way, but yes.
The solution, ultimately, is for the site to wither and die, and be replaced by something else that will have the same fate. This is what happens to all things, and to all human social groupings in particular, from ancient Rome on down to your nuclear family.

If you're tired of it, start something else. Or hang out and jump ship when the next great thing comes along. Trying to preserve the golden age is rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship.
Awesome! Automated YSlow is definitely something I would like to have. If I pushed something and it's making my pages load slower and that's costing me users, I need to know.

I know some Mozilla folks were working on an automated YSlow tool called Cesium, but progress seems to have stopped there, so I'm glad someone picked up the torch.
http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/07/09/cesium-01/

Interesting to note that a lot of the suggestions I received were about minifying external JS files. It is kind of ridiculous how much external JS every page has now.
There are definitely better ways and worse ways... I guess it depends some on what's be acquired, is it just a revenue and customer acquisition or is it a technology acquisition?

I can't say names here. I once worked at a rinky-dink startup, one of the early guys, we raised some cash, burned through it, and finally found an acquirer. The acquirer had been acquired by a larger company a handful of years earlier and essentially operated as its own entity and they wanted to "not break" us.

They essentially treated us hands off and invested in us, it felt great, we got raises, better insurance, new computers and such. The pressure of not worrying about the company dying was awesome. There
were some things that bothered different people differently, we had to switch to their email system, they eventually came and re-numbered out network and kind of took control of some things we
probably shouldn't have had control of in the first place. No one left, I don't remember anyone being too upset, basically everything was exactly the same as it had been, only we weren't going to die and they gave us more money..

A different sort of thing did start to happen though, we'd been on life-support doing what companies on life-support do, we worked as quickly as possible, cutting out everything that wasn't essential. We were now part of an organization with a name, a brand, a real sales force that was good, and some different expectations on our output. I think it became clear that we were putting out a different callibre product than what was expected from the organization as a whole and at that point that started getting more hands on and we initially reacted with paranoia. Probably cost the product about 9 months to a year and we probably should have changed some of the staffing, some folks just couldn't change gears.

In retrospect, if I could do it again from their side. They made fairly generous offers to the "brilliant engineers" to keep them there, think nice raises and then about $400,000 in various stock based
incentives to hang out for 3 years. They should have been a bit more hands on early, explained what is expected, explained what the brand means, explains how if something takes longer to do it right then
we're going to do it right rather than force it out and after maybe 6 months offered some folks like 1/3 of the stick-around-money to leave if they didn't want to be part of it, just vested it early if they wanted to walk away.

Seems like you want the dust to settle, things to calm down, then you want to tackle the cultural changes (and regardless of how close things are, there will be some) head on. And in my mind, if there are some bad cultural fits, then that just needs to come out, be addressed and have some sort of amicable way to part. If the culture change is one that involves going from the "Adult plan" to time-sheets, it's gonna hurt, in fact it just seems silly.
About 3-4 years ago, I was a sysadmin at a marketing company. One of my primary tasks was making sure our emails got delivered. I've been on both sides of the coin: sending marketing messages and an every day email user. We were more or less forced at the time to use Goodmail to get our emails into AOL.

At the end of the day, marketers are trying to get your attention. They'll do anything no matter how annoying. For example, flash banner ads.

With that in mind, Goodmail was just another way for marketers to get mail into your inbox, with an incentive for the ISPs to let it through -- Goodmail split the senders fees with the ISP's.

They wedged themselves into the industry as middle men. I don't think anyone outside of email admins and marketers knew anything about Goodmail or their blue ribbons, especially rural AOL users.
I hope it didn't look like I was bashing anyone. I think for the most part we're violently in agreement here.

Besides PHP Githubbers maybe being at a higher level on average, I think PHP's gotchas are just generally better known, so people go into it with eyes open. It doesn't take as high a level of experience to realize, say, that the standard library has wonky argument ordering as it does to find all the weird edge cases that will bite you in Ruby and horrific error messages that await in C++. Ask anyone with a decent knowledge of a few languages to criticize PHP and he'll have something memorized. Ask a Ruby programmer with five years' experience to compare and contrast "reduce(&:+)", "reduce(:+)" and "reduce('+')" and it's 50/50 whether he'll even get two right (even though the truth is that there's no difference!).
nice and clean -- i like it. how is it different from tools.pingdom.com though?
Antifeatures: deliberate, expensive product features that no customer wants
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This ebook is fantastic. That's all I can say about it.
There is no client-side ping. My goal is to make this completely server-side. It would be cool to approximate client-side speed with proxies, though.
BitCoin: p2p currency to replace card transactions online
Let me be a bit clearer. We created a survey asking people questions related to our concept and deployed it using ask your target market (AYTM). We reached a nationwide sample slightly above 100 people ranging from 18 to 55. 75% of respondents identified as female.
Great will ping with email address. Happy to barter!
Almost no culture.... there are always a few people doing cool things no matter where you go. But in SV it's a lot harder to find them, or see evidence of them.

SV has one good thing about it. Unintentionally it is the most zen place on earth, because it will teach you the emptiness of money or moving up the career ladder -- the entertainments and distractions are so laughably poor and the treadmill is implacably fast.
Part of "the glory days" was a much more interesting debate. Currently, lots of HN comments are either going for the cute/snide/sarcastic joke, or argue dogmatic points.

Worse - the snide remarks get modded up. Being guilty of them myself, let me post an example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2202958

The discussion was about Google's two factor auth. Somebody asks for a good API, poster #2 suggests OpenID. I joke "you read the part about 'good' API". It's by far the highest-modded comment I have. (Which makes me feel guilty every time I see it). Sure, I don't have a lot of comments or karma, so it might be a fluke, but it exemplifies what's wrong with the discussion.

HN'08 would've modded me to 0 for that and moved on. HN'11 rewards playing to the audience.
It's still glacially slow.
We're in concept validation mode. We basically have a feel for the 'tent' we want to build and will fill in features as we better define our niches. Right now we are in 'is this worth our time' mode!

Thanks for the feedback!
Watching old movies like Star wars, Indiana Jones, old Bond movies, you get the sense that a lot of work was put in to creating the scenes. It must have been very expensive to make, was it because revenue was very high back then?
How is that better than webkit's inspector?

And why every tool on HN now is called a startup?
FTC looking into Apple's in-app purchasing policy
Of that sampling, it hit the apex for me with Jan 2009 page. The Mar 2009 page is when there was an influx, and we started posting Erlang stories as a joke to stem the flow.
That's true I guess, but it seems like a low bar.
It was an innocent observation: I was sharing an anecdote about my experiences on other internet communities.

The mention of the fact that the higher-karma, "ingroup" members of HN seem more likely to communicate with each other on twitter and in private emails than the rest of the population reminded me of bad situations I had seen on other forums.

I then thought how glad I was that here on HN it seems to happen on twitter which is still largely public. You commented quickly here about private conversations regarding HN with other high-karma members. It is reassuring that you were open, and happy to be open about this.

This gives me faith in what I find to be an excellent community that the inevitable psychological group-dynamics type phenomena are playing themselves out here in a relatively benign way, due to its high calibre membership. Your later comment "I'm too high drama for that" came across as an amusingly wry confirmation that you feel the same way.

As I said, this put me in mind of situations I have seen in lesser communities where this dynamic had led to ugly scenes. I posted about them. I then felt bad that you or someone else might misinterpret this as an accusation against them. Thats why I added my parenthetical note. Perhaps I should have reconsidered the whole thing.
You are right. Python and R are not the right tool for them. They are not "dropbox" simple. Er, wait ...
The key, we think, is to look for movies that some love and some hate, which is the likely profile of a bad movie that's "safely" manufactured for an existing fanbase.

Some people love death metal and some hate it. Some people love classical music and some hate it. Polarization is hardly a quality indicator. Indeed, it seems more like an indicator of memorability.
Countdown 'til it's on AppleTV?
The problem with using karma is that it is affected by the regression to the mean. As more "average" people come in, more "average" people will give them karma. Solve that problem, and you might have a solution to the whole problem (I, for one, am not smart enough for that ;).
TinyGrab might continue to stay on iOS after all
Keep in mind this is the first version, it's the result of a couple months work. There's a lot of features I want to add.

Webkit inspector is a great tool, but it doesn't track performance over time, which is the goal of Slowcop.
lol, what? I am not jongales.

I have not noticed ads on markmail. I was mostly surprised people are advocating blocking markmail because I've seen it linked to often by the Apache project sites:

http://couchdb.apache.org/community/lists.html
http://shindig.apache.org/mail-lists.html

I've also noticed when people refer to an posting on the mailing list, they often use the markmail URL.

So it seemed like it has the blessing of the community.
Yes. But, it sounds like he has children, so he probably needs the $60 babysitter.
I've seen them and they're not free ($25):
https://post.craigslist.org/sdo/J?guide=yes

Bigger cities are even more expensive, ie San Fran, NYC. I'll agree that the job postings on craigslist don't look spectacular, but with a few friends who just found jobs and other who are currently jobless, their go to job site is Craigslist. Sure they fill out profiles on Monster and Career Builder, but then they just sit back and wait to be contacted by recruiters.
exactly my point.
I tried it: sat on the 'building report' screen for a while, and then when I hit refresh, said "report not found."
I think requiring the interpretation of fib to be recursive is a little biased toward stack-based language VMs.

Non-recursive ARM (thumb) solution, 14 bytes:

0:	2100	movs	r1, #0
2:	3801	subs	r0, #1
4:	dd01	ble.n	0xa
6:	4401	add	r1, r0
8:	e7fb	b.n	0x2
a:	4608	mov	r0, r1
c:	4770	bx	lr
Sencha Labs releases open source framework for WebGL development
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looks like it should be interesting.
Bahaha, more like walking around with beer goggles... but you end up with something awesome instead of dead, or with a DUI, or naked on the beach the next morning.
Great app, so much better than going at it via de mobile browser
Very nice indeed.

In the Resource Timeline, when hovering, it would be nice to have the exact millisecs in addition to the existing proportional colored rectangles. The absolute total time could be added on the black hovering div on the left.

Thanks to the tool I discovered that the DNS time of my domains was far from perfect, thanks! (my host in on amazon EC2 west, but my DNS is french Gandi.net...)

Also nice would be the performance on reload (ie with a hot cache instead of a cold one).
If there is a T-shirt in the future of that quote, can I get attribution credit :)
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