skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the latest, completely rebuilt version of my web publishing and e-commerce platform, Caribou CMS. The name has been outgrown slightly but there is enough of a brand created in subscription membership websites that it's not worth changing at this point.

It's a content management system and e-commerce software built for developers and designers to rapidly develop their client's website projects. However, it's also able to be used out-of-the-box (as a SAAS app) by the average Joe who's content with using one of the built-in themes or customizing them to taste.

It's a PHP application built on CodeIgniter 2.0 (from EllisLabs) and shares some similarities to their ExpressionEngine project. However, it far surpasses it in many ways such as ease of templating, e-commerce functionality (shopping cart and subscriptions), ease of use for the end user and administrators, etc. Those are its main points of comparison with most products out there.

I'm really excited to finally get this launched after so long. Too many clients have come and gone waiting for it. So, here it is, ready to go! More updates to come shortly as we flesh out the issues always discovered in the first push to mass market.

It's a free 30 day trial so I would love to see some HN signups and feedback! I'll also respond to any questions to this post. Thanks!
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Before you start trying to get your friends to learn how to program, make sure they are interested in it first.

I know several people that got into programming, hated it, but stayed involved anyway solely for the money -- They rarely like their jobs.

With that out of the way, I think the two most important traits are curiousity and good problem solving skills.
Sardines = Easy Health
Hostage? You can't use that word in this context because it means that someone is committing a crime. (And if that were the case, you would be talking to the police about it!)

If you don't like what the owner of a certain venue is doing, you're free (somewhat - the government collects taxes and does other immoral things that limit everyone's freedom) to try to open a competing venue, where you make the rules.

Also, to use the phrase "political fallout" when you're not talking about the government is confusing as hell. Relationships with family and friends do not qualify as political if we are to have a sensible discussion about this.
AT&T or Verizon: Which iPad 2 data plan is best? - CSMonitor.com
It's Asperger, and it's much more serious than standing still for 45 minutes at a software development job interview when you were 15 years old.
No, It doesn't look like Facebook will be dying off in the near future. If anything, Facebook will continue to grow if it can expand and attract users/members outside of the US and Europe.

Oh, and one more thing...

tech people > hipsters
Ask HN: How is work/life balance at Google and Facebook for Software Engineers?
I read reddit way more than HN these days. But I guess I also don't go to startup networking events in lieu of chilling on the beach in Thailand...
8 Tips For Building An Internet Company Outside of San Francisco
Colonizers and their descendants often write papers claim there are benefits for the colonized. This "study" doesn't have a control group ("each of the islands in our dataset spent some time under colonial rule") and uses two numbers as measures of "good modern outcomes" - one of which (GDP) is a synthetic measurement created by colonizers. Color me unimpressed.
I'm not claiming to explain why kernel machines are called this name to the layman. I just think it could be beneficial to people with a background in mathematics or CS (BA would suffice I'd say) that are interested in ML. If one is interested in ML (particularly kernel methods) but does not want to learn optimization and algebra, one will not be able to use (perform ? ;)) kernel tricks. I would have loved to read that during my Master for instance. (But perhaps it is just me scratching my own itch... Not a big deal anyway.)
Mozilla Labs: First developer release of Web Apps Project
hey, shoot me an email - joseph@coursekit.com
Actually, I think that's the point. It's overwhelming how much you can do with it (ie: overwhelmingly awesome), but should you be looking for a specific keyword it's not super difficult to scan the list with your eyes.
Why I think Gnome 3 is a dead end
I check HN at least twice a day. I find myself going nearly a week between Facebook visits now. Many of my friends the same. I don't want to delete my FB, but I feel like it's becoming less and less relevant.
I'm in your target market, though I'm not as serious as many.

My thoughts:

1. Figuring out how to register without Facebook was way too tough. I had to find two links that were indistinguishable from the rest of the text.

2. What is "Brand". Is that car brand (BMW) or part brand (Bilstein)?

3. Okay, now I've gone to the "What do you want to sell" page, and I see "Brand" is the part brand (this is just because I'm poking around -- as a regular user, I'd never do this). Which makes me wonder, how do I find parts for my particular year/make/model (E46 330i, in my case)?

4. I can't do anything useful from the home page. Show me a list of brands, a search box, anything to start me on my way.

5. What does "forensics" mean in this context? The "Show forensics updates" is neat looking, but useless for someone who is buying or selling (but interesting for wasting time / kicking tires). The pictures should at least tell me what the product is.

Hopefully this hapazard feedback is useful. It looks like promising concept and you've clearly worked hard on it, but I think you need to populate it with products and then observe first-hand how people interact with it.
Bing Launches Deals
You answered your own question. This article is exactly the kind of thing the people on this site upvote, and that tells you exactly the nature of the people on this site.
Fair point. I could have gotten carried away with it. The idea is more conceptual than finding that specific answer to your specific question, but it could probably work just as well as a shorter list.
Europeans colonized NA land. The Europeans descendants then colonists then declared independence, but that did not benefit the original inhabitants.
I think the best freemium model which with my previous comment would be to pick about 10 "dynamic" topics, along the lines of say todays current google trends http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
which would give people enough of an indication of the utility of your site.
Have you ever spent a night in a shelter?

More to the point, have you ever been mentally ill and spent weeks, months, or even years in shelters?
I think you know what I mean. If I'd just said the article was immature and silly and doesn't belong on HN because of its outrageous tone my feeling is that I'd be downvoted, as it's happened before, so I made my criticism more oblique.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship
I Hate it When That Happens: Scott Adams' space seed logic problem
Teens Announce Avenir Conference in SF to examine the future of the internet
Hadn't seen that that'd been backed off from. Thanks for updating me.
The Boob Job Economy [Infographic]
1) I think the word "loyalist" was poorly chosen on my part. I meant it only to describe how Fog Creek has traditionally been a fairly Microsoft oriented shop... even after (in my opinion) open source languages/platforms began to surpass MS in usability, documentation, and community support.

2) While it may be the case that it is not necessary to use MS technology to be featured in Bing searches, I think you (Joel) are among the more influential developers in the world and that your firm leverages Microsoft's latest technology was likely a factor in the decision to "feature" the results instead of simply displaying them first when they're relevant. Maybe I'm cynical but that seems like a smart marketing move on Microsoft's part.

3) My mention of license pricing was intended to include all licensing costs, including SQL server. I'd guess the cost of your setup as described would be about $150K in licenses... Perhaps rounding error but still a nice developer salary.

4) No disrespect or insult was meant by my comment. I started out using 100% Microsoft tools and technologies, and I've been intrigued to see open source projects start to offer compelling value and features. Mostly my comment was intended to express surprise that it's not simply a matter of "rounding error" costs to do a 100% Microsoft solution for a major site... and that things like Redis and Ubuntu are part of the reason that StackOverflow is as performant as it is.
Ask HN: Any authors here?
I was just wondering if any HNers are (fiction) authors, either as their main profession or on the side. I'd be interested to see what people here have written, seeing as how much of what is actually written on the site itself is pretty interesting.
Uhm, are you serious? It's tongue-in-cheek, hence the "keep with trends" quip.
Nice. That should be a mechanic in the Hacker News board game.

"Ridicule Competition: Your CEO is losing confidence but is unaware of it. Lose 3 steam points and miss your next turn."
Very nice...or should I say evil? The slowly fading text is a nice touch, and the blurry text just makes it even more evil since it makes it that much harder to read.

It reminds me of a quick script that I wrote to prank a friend. It makes whatever webpage they're viewing <blink>, but only occasionally, and not all elements on the page blink at the same rate.

It's a userscript so it works natively in Chrome or in Firefox with Greasemonkey. If anyone is interested you can check it out at https://github.com/seancron/wtf.js
For "Ultima-style" city maps, check out 8-Bit Cities:

http://8bitcity.com/
They also point out how difficult it is to keep abreast of the increasing amount of information humanity is generating, and how the Internet assists in rapidly accessing this information. It seems that if ingenuity requires vast knowledge of disparate topics, trolling through the Internet's wide seas of information would be only beneficial to the cause, giving ever larger sets of ideas for mental recombination. I expect creativity will weather this age without tarnish.
Wired sync isn't exactly a great experience with iOS, either. iTunes db different from your iPod's? Get ready for some work.
Not to mention the healthcare situation. I guess most people can afford cheap catastrophic coverage, but not everyone is so lucky to be able to draw that line.

All the more reason to do it while you're young and healthy, I suppose.
Paula Abdul former judge of American Idol
Paula Abdul was born June 19, 1962 in Los Angeles.Her father name is Lorraine Abdul. Her father also worked
as an assistant of Billy Wilder who was an American movie maker.
You know what really helps debate? Not lying and not defending liars.
I experience only minimal, practically unnoticeable, slowdown with the stylesheet.
(Firefox 4, Beta 12, badged as Iceweasel, on a Debian 64-bit system.)
Also, a lot of phone service reps are literally not able to end a call. Often, the customer has to do it.
Rumor: Facebook co-founder to sell 10 million shares
The cloud starts here (Appcelerator unveils Titanium+Plus)
I'm still a bit confused on the values of your website. Plus are you building a community to share parts' feedbacks or a marketplace to connect buyers and sellers? But one thing i believe you should change is the font color. I barely can read your text. You can make it a bit darker. Hopefully that helps.
Out of curiosity, how does your app know when a real human gets on the line...? Do you have a database of the automatic messages ("Please stay on the line while we sip Cognac and chortle") for each company so it doesn't get false positives?
He's trying to say you won't be able to upload such a high resolution over your internet connection, so it doesn't matter.

Even 640x480 is tough to stream real time from most people's home internet connection. You also have to compress it real time, which may not be possible at a higher resolution.
Like and Friend Are Broken in Facebook
Brilliant. You've probably added a few years to my life, both in terms of hours lost and frustration listening to the same 24kbps top-40 song over and over.

Thanks. :)
Talking about rest stops and the web.

http://arch.ksys.ru/tualet.html -- An Unofficial Website of Paid Public Washroom at Grabin Street of Korolev city, Greater Moscow Area

Sections are Welcome, Services and Prices, Infrastructure, How to Find Us, About Us and Testimonials.
The difference engine was at least reasonably complete in its specification and some small models had been built. Much of the Analytical engine's description and design was still in the 'power point' stage, so there is significant work to be done to figure out what Babbage was really thinking when various parts of it need to be built.

Another key difference was that the difference engine was mostly the same chunk replicated n times (one for each term of the polynomial) whereas the analytical engine has many different kinds of subsystems.
It's unreasonable to expect reasonable behavior in a HN thread about Android or iOS.
An advanced memory forensics framework (Python)
The big problem with this question is "what's the same dataset"?

The same dataset can be structured multiple different ways. In fact, if your data structure in MongoDB is the same as it is in MySQL, then you're probably structuring it incorrectly.

By the same measure, what are you then testing for? Are you testing for lots of reads, lots of writes? What type of reads? How many servers are you testing across?

MongoDB makes it really easy to denormalize a data structure, so it's easy to "cheat" on the 99% query and perform poorly on the 1% query. This is probably what you want from a real-world performance stand-point, but you have to be really careful about factoring that into your test weightings.

Either way, I'd love to read such a benchmark as well. But to do any justice to the sheer complexity of the task, it probably needs to be a short book.
New Feature Literals in Gosu (first class data binding)
So that justifies your abusive behavior?
Where are the tech people going then if they're leaving Facebook? I don't see many "competitors" that would be an alternative.

For the general population, I definitely don't see Facebook going away. Things such as invitations to social gatherings are done completely over Facebook increasingly by people I know...
Air traffic control system is 'not safe', say UK controllers
Timezone database maintainer retiring
The video you linked "explains" it very well to visual learners such as myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3liCbRZPrZA

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a second of video is truly worth 29,970 words.
7 Essential Nutrient Checklist
Last time I looked at them was a while ago, but with mac book pro vs thinkpad, the mac book pro is significantly more expensive.
A really long list of features that a 37signals app does have. Didn't see that coming.
Not "features" - scenarios.
Nowhere in particular; by "hot new social network" I just meant any potential Facebook alternative. I can't think of any real ones offhand.
Press release from Sangamo Biosciences, which has some good background information on zinc finger nuclease gene editing technology for those who are not familiar with the technique: http://investor.sangamo.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=5531...

More background on ZFNs: http://www.zincfingers.org/scientific-background.htm
Is being 14 years old and not knowing better a valid excuse?

I think it's good to encourage best practices even if everyone should know these things, especially for the newbies.
So, there's definitely the possibility that you might pick up and hear nothing (maybe the operator hung up, we got a bad connection, etc)... but we've got a bunch of stuff working in the background to "gracefully" recover from that scenario. Regardless, we're going to get you an operator one way or the other. :)
Love it. Twilio is a great platform. An idea: if you want to have the customer service rep doing productive work while he waits you can have the user type in a message with their information (account number / name / address) in a text field and read it out to the rep before telling them to wait.

It would probably make sense to do this only for paid customers in the future so that people don't abuse the feature (and CS reps).

Facebooked.
This article pops on hn periodically, so I do not have time to refute it in detail yet again, but should point out quickly that this is just a plan to create private paid for dictatorships. It is very unlikely to result in reduction of poverty as this rarely happens in dictatorships.

What will most likely happen is some type of slave camp deal as it is already happening in Dubai.

Now you will say, "but the people have a right to vote with their feet, i.e. to leave if they do not like the place." Technically yes, but in reality no. The poor foreign workers that are being held in Dubai also theoretically have a right to leave, but they cannot because the Dubai police will simply club them on their heads if they even mention leaving before finishing their job.

If you do not have an overall legal framework that protects individual rights, if the people do not have the right to elect their own leaders and/or police chiefs, then it is very unlikely the police will protect the people's rights.
Today the mobile phone, the Internet and social media mean we are all paparazzi.
"The communism that took resources from the urban coast and built roads, schools, and other infrastructure in rural areas was more likely a bigger contributor to the massive improvement in (purely economic) standard-of-living for most Chinese."

That is just shockingly untrue, intellectually dishonest, and utterly asinine. I have no clue why your post was up-voted so highly. China reformed its communistic system and embraced capitalism toward the late 70s. GDP growth has grown staggeringly since, and is the fastest growing large economy caused by its move toward a freer market system. Communism hardly caused a dent for its GDP growth between the 50s to the late 70s [1], but instead, caused widespread famine, the greatest destruction to real estate in human history, and deaths in the millions due to massive starvation. [2]

The graph below basically discredits communism contributing anything to the "massive improvement in (purely economic) standard-of-living for most Chinese". [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Peoples_Republic...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Consequences

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prc1952-2005gdp.gif
Bing Launches Daily Deals Aggregator, Bing Deals
Bill Atkinson remains one my idols. If only the Hypercard source would be released!
iPad 2 wasn't Apple's big March 2nd announcement
Why did Apple put HD webcams into their new MacBooks, then? They seem to be more optimistic about the resolution that can be transmitted.
Google's Panda Update: An Interview with Matt Cutts & Amit Singhal
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285921
How do you tell the difference between hold music, and a representative?
Interesting from the comments:

> A regular expression (description of a text pattern) can be mapped to a maze as well.

Trying to connect that inuitively... if you just mapped letters to turns in a maze you'd have loops.
I wouldn't advise getting mixed up with a Narcissist ever. You'll lose more than you'll gain. Have you seen the movie depiction of Hitler in the bunker? That's how I think the end game plays out (at its most extreme.) I'd try and find environments that haven't given rise to narcissists. If you want to excel, it won't come from being hijacked.

Maybe if you were a butler or servant to a monarch or dictator, it could help you avoid death or poverty. Just try and get out of there.

Check out: http://www.youtube.com/samvaknin (he's a narcissist, who analyzes his own self)
Today in any current browser you can do execCommand("bold") to embolden text.

Indeed. And it will work, provided you haven't used Backspace to collapse your selection to the start of a DIV in IE. And you haven't selected your text by SHIFT+Left Arrow such that it oversteps the beginning of an editable paragraph and enters the no-mans-land between it and the non-editable div before it in Firefox. And you haven't previously issued an "insertorderedlist", causing the known issue in IE. And that you didn't issue your contentEditable=true as the result of the mouse click that placed the caret inside the text of a H1 tag.

And dozens of other tiny things that continually jump out to bite you that need to be worked around in every single browser just to get it to work.

So yes, I'll grant you "technically possible", but not anything beyond that.
Thanks for the feedback.

1) We would prefer it if people register with Facebook but I agree that I've made it a little too discrete to register without it in the new design.

2/3) I'll add the background text examples to the search fields like we've done on the sell pages so that it's more clear what should be in the Brand field. I hope that'll clear up any confusion.

4) The home page definitely needs some work. The key thing that's there doesn't show until there are listings present, unfortunately. Like on the Forensics tab it will show the most recent listings with prices, etc.

5) I suppose we should make that more clear upfront. Part Forensics is our parts wiki. It made more sense on the original release but clearly doesn't anymore.

All feedback is useful. Right now we are talking about ways to build a user base quickly and adding a few products on our own might be a way to make the site a little more useful.

To go back to one of my questions, by looking around could you identify why our service might be better than the others? We have some very real competitive advantages but I don't think we're communicating them very well so I'm interested in hearing what first time users are taking away from it at first glance - so we can make it better.
I saw nothing that constituted a "lie." This is an article from an obvious Android fan (looking at Seth Weintraub's other articles, it's all Google, all the time) who didn't like that Apple took some shots at competing tablets. I have to agree with one of the comments to the article that says Android fanboys are as bad as Apple fanboys, maybe even worse because they act like the fact Android is open source is some great benevolent act of morality--Google is simply an advertising company giving people free services in order to index their data for contxt-sensitive advertising space.

I imagine that a lot of Apple competitors and their fans were upset at the iPad 2 announcement, because it really seems as if will be another hit.
Cloud + Machine-to-Machine = Disruption of Things: Part 1
Kudos to the Hipmunk team !! The fact that a talented young developer sought them out with his vision of a product for them as opposed to the safe/usual choices like facebook/Google etc. , speaks volumes for the excitement they have created around their venture.
I'm an undergrad CS major in my fourth year, and I have no idea what you are writing about, although it sounds like it might be interesting or useful if I understood it. The first stumbling block came right away, since I don't know what the notation you used here is supposed to mean:

"In algebra (kernel of a linear transform, of a homomorphism, of a matrix), a kernel is the set of elements that map to the neutral element. T : V → W ker(T) = {v ∈ V | T.v = 0}"

What is T.v? Is 0 the "neutral element"? What is meant by neutral element? (I am not an expert at algebra, since I am a CS major, and my major has been focused more on things like compilers, machine architecture, programming languages, algorithms, etc. rather than machine learning) What does V -> W ker(T) mean? I assume you're saying something like "T is a kernel of a function that maps V to W if T.v (where v is a V) is the neutral element", but this means nothing to me. Aren't you trying to explain what a kernel is...? How is the reader supposed to understand this if they don't already know what it is?