skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most folks who churn already have a mortgage or some don't care about maintaining a really high credit score. I was mostly talking about what you can do, what people do, not what you maybe should do.

American Airlines and Citicards right now will give you between 75,000 and 100,000 miles for opening a new card. That's a free round trip business class ticket to europe/asia/south america. $10,000 in flights for opening a card.

Mostly people churn to try and get life time status, it's how people get status without BIS, Butt In Seat miles flown.

I personally get status mostly by flying crazy routes, Uruguay to South Africa via New York and London. I also focus on purchasing tickets which will earn me maximum miles, but for flights i'd fly anyway.
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Umm.. the nametag for www2010 was very similar. It opened and had the schedule for the conference inside along with other info. (plus the name was on both sides)

This is taking the concept a bit further to be sure, but I don't think this is an innovation of the scale it is being presented to be.
Yes, this is my first solo project, by now I don't have a time to provide comprehensive discription. In the future I hope I can provide that.
Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
Sometimes it's difficult to find stuff on HN because of the usual problem of extracting semantics from plain text. The idea of "tags" helps with this problem, but has problems of its own.

Regardless of whether there's any chance of it being implemented, I'm interested in the sense of the community. Would you like to see tags on HN?
Over my dead body - I'd leave if it happened.
I'd dislike it, and I wouldn't use or contribute
I wouldn't use it, but I'd contribute tags to item.
Seems like a good idea, but there will be problems.
That's a great idea - please can we have it?
Here's something I prepared earlier.
Oh yeah, I read the book. It is really insightful and interesting. After I finished it though, I decided to read something of the opposite point view, of the free-market economists (I would recommend "Economy In One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt). It's very simple to fall into the trap of "oh, this mans knows what he's talking about" unless you compare. Actually, the more you read, the less sure you are about things.

For example, Hazlitt shows how inflation, even if not too high, is harmful for the economy and basically his arguments did not seem weaker - which confuses me even more. One thing Ha-Joon Chang does really good when arguing is showing a lot of statistics. That is definitely a very strong point of this book which even the most ingenious free-market economists would find difficult to stand.
All web frameworks do similar things. The important point is what kind of thing each of the doesn't do. Spring doesn't avoid writing tons of boilerplate, specially compared to Rails.
Sounds pretty cool. Are there any examples that you can share? I'm sure a lot of people would like to see a working demo/example before signing up.
Am not really surprised that this happens in India. On the contrary, I was expecting this to happen quite sometime before. Never underestimate the stupidity of Indian bureaucracy (inherited and modeled from the Soviets, rivals even Vogonic bureaucracy), particularly when it comes to technical matters involving software and computers.

On another note, http://toroid.org/ams/etc/dot-india-crypto-nonsense ; on how competent the policymakers are.
I want to both upvote you (`` the chances that it has something valuable to say are low'') and downvote (``is beyond offensive'') at the same time.

See, his arguments about Lisp community being a cult stand. Yours are purely emotional.

Now we could agree that there is a very good reason to be cultic about Lisp -- it is the best thing since the sliced bread etc. etc. and people should just use it -- but that's another matter.

In a way, he pre-empted your reaction with ``If such jokes reliably meet with stifling social disapproval, it's a cult.'' ;-)
Thanks. Its invite only?
But only if I can block specific tags.

I would also suggest the application of default tags, such as "n00b" when the article is posted by someone with less than (total_age_of_hn / 5), "anonymous" (with strong flag bias) when the account is less than a day old, "oldie" when it's a dupe that was reposted.

Anyone would suggest more?
Agree with you!! With all my lack of respect - what a loads of b%&^$£s. I have been following all this fuss about .xxx and I think - all this people are driven by we-have-to-do-something-with-it approach. :)
Writing a video sharing app is a lot more fun than writing a software that reduces credit card fraud.

I knew a guy who wrote software to reduce credit card fraud and he thought it was great fun with lots cool statistical analysis and data mining problems to play with. And personally I think that sounds a lot more fun than writing video sharing apps.
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It's not like this doesn't already exist. I've specifically read about startups doing this from the carrier side several years ago. Whatever it's in service or not is another question. Unfortunately I can't remember the article but there are a lot of startup in this sector e.g. some of these: http://www.iqt.org/technology-portfolio/index-alphabetical.h...
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your facebook oauth is still pointing to localhost. you may have to change.

nice job, btw.
what would this solve?

I'd rather see an un-vote option.
I'm also curious what the amount of money he invested was like. While I really like the hack I think it was a quite expensive one.

With a certain amount of money you can do nearly everything.
The art is to do it with less.
When I was in Morocco, several different people told me that Neil Armstrong converted to Islam after seeing the Earth, and that Cat Stevens converted. At first, this was OK, but soon, after the third person or so mentioned this pair, I got to wondering, maybe they're the only ones.

Neil Armstrong did not convert to Islam; that's a fabrication.

Cite: Wikipedia makes no mention of this, and Google search reveals many people claiming it's a commonly-believed fabrication.
Yes, but it only took a day or two for me to get an invite to the Beta after signing up. And I think if you sign up and refer 2 people you get in immediately (although they might have removed this by now).
I think that tags with which everyone can contribute is tricky, tags usually seem to work better if you can have your own taxonomy of tags and they contribute to the site. (eg: delicious lets you tag stuff, and browse those, in addition to everyones tags.) With an implementation of that scale, I can think of more valuable features to implement (like combatting the decline in comment quality recently)

Really not sure what tags would achieve over Google and/or http://searchyc.com/
Thanks for the correction. I guess I got confused by the similar names, especially since http://forrst.me redirects to http://forrst.com . I can't be the only one confused by this dual use of the same trademark...
Google had their doodles as early as 1998: http://www.google.com/logos/logos98-3.html
At its core, Spring provides some niceties such as dependency injection, resource location, validation, and data binding, all for POJOs: you can use these features in a regular app or in a web app. For other features such as persistence, you can see Spring as a meta-framework wrapping other frameworks (e.g., hibernate).

Spring Framework thus go way beyond web frameworks.

Disclaimer: I'm not a huge fan of Spring and I don't like "meta-frameworks", but to qualify it as a "web framework" is diminutive at best.
The whole idea of hacker news is to keep things simple. I enjoying spending time on this community. I find tags creating clutter. One person will tag "C" other "C programming" and someone else "Programming in C".
Here's a publicly shared url for you of a Hacker News mockup. Hover over the HN navigation on any of the pages and click through for testing.

https://clickdummy.com/shared/E883012B-5B89-4AA3-AB7B-1FB1A9...
I love the idea of tags on HN, and have wanted them for a long time. With tags, I wouldn't need to bog through dozens of posts on things I'm not in the least bit interested in, and tags would help me to find things I am interested in. They would make the fire-hydrant of information that is HN much more manageable.

I have heard various people poo-pooh the idea of having tags. But none of their reasons seemed particularly compelling.

One objection is that it would "splinter the community". But this is far from a given, if the default is to keep the front page full of stories unrestricted by tags. Filtering by tags would be optional, and those who preferred not to do so wouldn't be forced to.

Another objection I've heard is that "it would be an admission of defeat". If the complainant had a better suggestion for how to handle the flood of information on HN, this might be a credible objection. But he didn't.

Keeping the status quo is just not desirable for a lot of HN users. Why not offer them the option of a better user experience and at the same time make it a lot easier to search HN for subjects of interest?
Not the motto so much as how everybody else currently perceives them. It's difficult for them to do something that would overcome their reputation, but if they manage it, that reputation comes right around and bites them in the rear. Suing everybody over something this trivial would do a lot of damage, and the giant reminder they have posted on top of the most visited page on the internet would push it straight into backlash territory.
And nothing Java can be diminutive ;-)

Sorry. I have only used Spring in web-application contexts. The app I am currently maintaining (and going bald because of it) is not a shiny example of elegance and probably doesn't make Spring look particularly good either.

Just as a side note, I wouldn't consider Java for web applications (because we have much better experiences with Django and Rails), but I wouldn't rule it out as easily for desktop apps. And I am also looking for an excuse to play more with Clojure.
I don't think the production of simple toys will be affected at all by 3D printing, at least for the considerable future. Mass-production is so incredibly cost-effective for items that are all the same.

3D printing is nice for prototyping and for custom fitted, user-adapted items. This will likely remain a high-end segment for a long time. Eventually, we might be going for an economy in which every product ordered is printed and produced adapted on demand to customer's wishes, but I'm not sure how realistic that is. There will likely always be something to win by exploiting scale. Especially for low-end products.

2D printing didn't replace print shops with specialized mass-production equipment for printing books/magazines either.
Interesting to note that Spring sees a yearly surge in interest between February and April. Are you sure you cleaned your data correctly, or did you just search by keyword?
we need comment filters instead because its even harder to sift throughu 100+ comments.
Thanks, for the info, will fix it
this is true. definition of hacker is being always hungry for challenge. nothing to do with being cool... damn, we are freaking introverts, right?
It's interesting how Django manages to get good mention on HN. But the fact is, there are very few job opportunities for Django developers compared to, say, Rails developers. Even on the supply side, its difficult to find Django developers for startups.
It might be stupid to ask, but isn't there any limits on usage?
Can we have a built-in search engine first?
Agreed. One of the best things about HN IMO is the comments and the community. However some comment threads are too big.

Maybe limit the maximum reply depth? (to 4 or something well low)?
Lisp can modify its own syntax at runtime, Python most definitely cannot.
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And as if to prove your point, I accidentally downvoted you...
He had to download it into a linked list so it was only natural to download it from right to left.
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Yes you have a good point here, "The Respect" was just from me, sorry i I have miss led you...
Facebook Connect "kriuq may post status messages, notes, photos, and videos to my Wall". Why is this necessary?
looks like they are building a wordwide eyes and ears for some extraterrestrial or computer mind. like the great evil (http://www.moa.dracandros.com/Great_Evil_(Fifth_Element))
The comment interface on HN is embarrassingly bad for large threads. I've been meaning to do a separate writeup about this, but the gist of it is that the epitome of a great interface for managing threaded discussions are some Usenet news readers, which have relatively advanced features like kill files, filters, sorting, collapsible threads, user-controllable thread marking through color codes and tags, actions that can be taken based on the contents of the title and/or body, etc..

Even ordinary web forums are atrociously primitive in comparison, and HN comments are even more primitive than that. The simplicity might arguably be an advantage for very short threads. But for long threads the lack of features can be a nightmare.

At the very least I'd like the HN interface to flag which comments are new since the last time I refreshed the page. That way I don't have to manually reread many dozens of comments in the longer threads while trying to remember which comments I've already read.. and do this over and over and over again as I reload the page.
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Yes please, but semantic tags would be even better:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/favikis_social_bookmark...
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I can't help thinking there must've been some 4chan trolling involved here..
Is there really a downside? Could make a button that allows you to turn off seeing tags at all. Unless there was some kind of a you can have one thing but nothing else I don't see any downside to it.
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Why would ANYONE imagine that companies would willingly put themselves in a ghetto? They know that the reason to encourage use of the .xxx TLD is to facilitate content filtering. They know that when their sites are blocked that's potential revenue lost, and if companies in the "erotica-industry" are good at anything it's making sure they make money.
It's good, but the list of "success stories" that he links is not very impressive (scheduling software for NASA is by far the coolest stuff). Python has http://www.python.org/about/success/; Ruby has e.g. (early) Twitter and Metasploit; PHP has e.g. Facebook and a crushing market share; C has a zillion stories starting with the free Unixes. Yes, these languages have their issues. No, scheduling software does not beat Unix.
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will there be an option to make questions readable to non logged-in people? Also, I think you should add a way for people who signed up via email to also sign up with Facebook later (don't see it). But: cheers and good job!
No. Muslim countries have higher birth rate than India.
Indextank should be all over this...
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What's funny is for a country that frowns upon as little as kissing in movies, India has a pretty big underground porn market.
rabble rabble rabble!

I just had to reply to that one!
I'm also inclined to think that this is a pragmatic move by Google.

Sometimes you have to "close" the source for a period of time to satisfy commercial restrictions and all is well when it is opened again.
That's an interesting objection.

But it might be at least partially solvable by offering the user a choice between existing tags before allowing him to type in his own phrasing.

Or, once the user has typed in his own phrasing, a search could be done on existing tags and the user could be presented with a list of matching tags to pick from.
The world really could use better analytics tools for Facebook apps since the ones that Facebook provides are a little sorry in my opinion.
I sort of see the point, but reddit is dangerously close to dying. Already, it's a hotbed of misogyny and bigoted atheism. At the moment, there is one link to actual information on the front page (Seth Lloyd lecture), and one link to a new movement (BoA). Aside from that, everything is imgur, video games, videos, self., or other stupid junk. You need to be increasingly careful not to click on porn by accident.

Declines in on-line communities tend to be sort of exponential. Stupid people come. Content gets stupid. Smart people leave. Stupid people leave. Ghost town.

If reddit doesn't engage in some sort of censorship, I'm not sure how long it will continue.
No, you are just limited to one app and instance at a time. But this should be more than enough to host your average website that gets a couple thousand hits a week.

From the FAQ (not sure if you can access it without being logged in though):

"Will you offer a free version of hosting?

Yes. You get one free application with one instance for 6 months. If you have one app that is using the free instance, you can delete it and you'll be able to create another free one to replace it."
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Would love to see it.
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I think tags would be a pretty good idea.

I'd like to be able to ignore gadget porn (here's this new iPad cover!) by default, and weigh the programming/science/DIY hacking/design topics higher.
It's probably also easier to manage the development if your development is done by people "under your thumb." I don't see a need to attribute nefarious motives to them for this.
Ask HN: Heroku is down for us... is this affecting anyone else?
because lisp does not have any syntax
or d) those that don't know how to code it learn how to and start contributing to the thousands man hour project they leach off of.
Honestly, who is working in the patent office? A monkey with an "approved" stamp?
won't it make things way too complicated considering the simplicity HN right now. You can't be 100% correct with it all the time.
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Yes, a friend of mine is having trouble too. Not every app seems down though.
Why? What's different compared to Quora or StackOverflow?
But you can't turn off comments arguing over whether an article was tagged properly or not :)

I can envision a lot arguments like that taking over the discussion.
The biggest headshaker for me is the implication that this section isn't NSFW:

Even though they're not nude, this reddit is marked '18+' (NSFW) so we don't have to hear about it anymore.

From my perspective, even though there is no nudity, this is far more NSFW than generic porn.

What does NSFW mean? To me, that means something that is potentially offensive to somebody shoulder surfing accidentally.

By that measure, this channel meets that in spades.

Even more importantly, I believe that this channel is closer to being illegal than generic porn is. The legality of generic porn has been repeatedly tested in court, whereas this channel falls more into the "probably legal" category. Individually, any one image is almost certainly legal, but as a collection the images are obviously sexual in nature, and the legality could be questioned. Probably unsuccessfully, but IANAL.

The other test: would surfing the channel be considered a firing offense in some companies? Almost certainly.
I use http://searchyc.com/ and find it works well enough for me. Despite the lag, I can usually find things I'm looking for.
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Might work as long as tags are not user defined. The submitting user has to select from existing tags.

Keep a few to begin with. For example:

startups - news about or related to startups - IOW what this site was supposed to be about initially

gadgets

products - new products from existing non-startups

hacking - related to programming

business

advice

other - stuff that probably needs to be flagged unless enough people like the topic (cooking/food seems to be one seemingly OT topic that people like)
Well, it's just my personal opinion, but it seems to me that the 6-month release cycle has practically guaranteed they would add new features before they were ready and consequently screw up something that seemed to work just fine before (e.g., Pulse audio). Frankly, that's not a trait I think that makes Linux user friendly for newbies. Now they seem to be screwing over the visual interface in a fit of Mac envy that doesn't include Apple's commitment to polished products. I hated the imperial decision to move window buttons from the top right to the top left, for example. Yes, it was simple to fix, but why should I have to when it was working fine before? (Plus that change only makes your users more comfortable if they're coming from the Mac instead of a Windows experience. The idea that Mac users will move to Ubuntu for the user experience I find extremely dubious.)

And now we're getting the Unity interface before it's really finished. I really think the new interface is something that works on netbooks but is a step backward if you're using a widescreen monitor or regular laptop.

But I'm just a knuckle-dragging throwback who likes minimalism, xmonad, and Vim, who doesn't stream audio over the network and thinks ALSA was perfectly adequate, etc., so what do I know? If I'm the sort who's happier with Arch, then I'm clearly not their target user anyway. YMMV.
Of course it does - it has a very simple syntax built around S-expressions and even that is extensible through reader macros.
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I generally perform a mass whois search with a bunch of keyword combinations and add some prefixes and suffixes for popular endings like LY, ER, ED, S, R, etc. I created a pretty simple PHP script for doing this which I have since made drastic improvements to, but this should get you started:

http://www.jqueryin.com/2010/04/12/finding-available-domains...

The whole thing stores to a file as well as uses a couple different WHOIS servers to avoid you getting temporarily banned by randomly picking one.