skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already growing exponentially. Unsubscribing from the larger subreddits solves most of the issues you address.

The fact is, there is a preponderance of pictures, videos, and gaming news because that's what the majority of users want to see. You may not like it, but that hardly means it's dying. Facebook isn't limited to the Ivy League anymore, and there's a ton of crap on it. Yet it seems to be doing alright.

Reddit is no longer a small, early adopter community. Censorship of the form you seem to propose, that is, getting rid of the stuff you don't like, would be suicidal. They're growing because more and more people are finding things they like on it.

Seriously though, subreddits. You'd find a huge difference in the level of discourse in any of the following:

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/
http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/
http://www.reddit.com/r/coding/

There's dozens more. Yes, pics, funny, gaming, atheism, politics, wtf, worldnews, and a bunch of the other hotbeds of stupidity get the lion's share of the traffic, but there's still tons of great content on reddit. There's far more great content on reddit than HN, simply by virtue of size and diversity. You just have to look for it.
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When you are asking for a Feedback.. Always give demo logins. People wont signup to review any sites.
Taking yourself too seriously and being in a cult are two very different things. I agree that _some_ lisp people(even me at times) do in fact take lisp a tad too seriously, but i can't see how that makes you into a dangerous religious nut.

P.S. Im starting my own lisp cult, called the cult of the mythical lisp cult, our goal will be to find the holly grail of programming language flame wars: evidence of the mythical lisp cult. See, a joke about lisp, and its recursive too :D
And here I just thought it was awesome they had angled the text to match the tilt of having the lanyard connected at the corner, providing more space for names.

Then I scrolled down to discover the booklet and all its goodies.

Surprise and delight.
I absolutely love Lisp, but I'm not in the least bit offended at someone describing some aspects of the culture as cultish.

But the thing is.. the very same thing could be said of most other language enthusiasts.

Look at all the endless hype from Python and Ruby fans (especially when they compare their favorite language to Perl).

Or look at some OCaml or Haskell fanboys and their attitude that static typing is The True Way and only ignorant savages would prefer a dynamically typed language.

And this doesn't even touch on the vi vs Emacs holy wars.

There's plenty of fanboyishness, exclusivity, and and chastisement of outsiders in many computer fields. And I dare say it's not really limited to computers either. I'm not sure if "cultish" is really the most appropriate term, but I feel no offense at it.

The whole discussion reminds me of these images:

http://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/uploads/G7WyP.gif

http://www.rubyinside.com/holiday-fun-how-programming-langua...
Basically you can start by creating simple plugins for wordpress.

And then slowly dive into a php framework like cakephp etc

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If you annotate text, you frequently want to attach information to (word or character position) intervals.

And you do complex queries over these interval annotations, e.g. (for a simple example) "which sentences contain both a date and a room number".

Because of the scale of corpora, people often do the storage and queries over SQL databases rather than in-memory, but the principle is the same.
Until Android is open-source in the public development sense there will always be hope and hype for a properly-free open alternative.

What the world really needs is for some small competitor to Google in some space to make a very public attempt to get some tech into the tree. For example, for one of the smallest mapping companies to try and make an API for in-app mapping-services.

Then Google will wake up.
Surfing Maxim or FHM would be a fireable offense in many companies.

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

That would be violentacrez. He's a well-known mod and troll. IIRC, he made r/jailbait NSFW because people complained that it showed up when they clicked the random link.
Those comments could themselves be tagged "meta". And there should be an option to ignore all comments tagged as such.
But this is Facebook we're talking about ;)
>Here's something I prepared earlier:

I'm working on a site based on news.arc that has tags. They can be followed, and used to sort stories. http://hubski.com

However, hubski is a general news site. Since HN has a focus to begin with, I am not sure how helpful it would be. I would be interested in a custom feed that follows people on HN though. -I have that implemented on my version.

There are some people on Hacker News, where I would like to keep tabs on everything they submit, whether it hits the front page or not.
I like that you kept the design clean.
I have never had a problem with small links. iPhone user here. I can reliably hit a 3x10 pixel area on the 3GS.

Maybe PadKite is a solution to sub-par touch sensor performance on some Android devices, as shown here:

http://www.gadgetsdna.com/how-do-the-smartphones-rank-in-ter...
I think it must be more complex and subtle than that. Isn't India the home of the Kama Sutra? Like, if any country can claim to be the world experts on sex, it's India, they even beat the Dutch.
I'd bet money that a similar list is probably already floating around. Whether it's freely available or not may be up for interpretation.
Even if there's an occasional tagging mistake, I don't think it could be worse than it is now. After all, you'd still have the option of looking at articles with every tag, or doing a regular google search for any word or phrase in the body of the article or its title.
It's also a dupe. I've seen this video on HN at least two times previously.
So we're talking about tagging comments too (as opposed to just the article)? Not sure we need to go that far...
Nice and well executed, but as the others pointed out => how is it different / more useful than the other guys ?

Maybe you could differentiate by only asking (or allowing to answer) my direct social graph. Way less interesting for you in terms of growth, maybe way more interesting for the users as the answer will be by someone they know (close or extended network).

One thing is sure : if you built this in one week end, wow, congrats !
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ahem,

You are aware that OEM engineers who are open source comitters to android do have access, right?
I'm not sure which of two things you mean [EDIT: perhaps both], but neither of them seems to make sense.

1. "All those LCDs and TVs won't need to be backlit; they'll just use whatever light there was behind them." By definition, if you do that then they can't be brighter than whatever was behind them; and unless what's behind them is nice and uniform, you won't be able to see them clearly. This just isn't going to look good enough for the purposes most of those displays are there for.

2. "We'll power the LCDs and TVs photoelectrically, using the ambient light." Then you'll need a large area of photovoltaic cells to power them, somewhere that was well-illuminated but black. You could save more electricity by painting that area white instead and reducing the lighting slightly.
Selamat malan again : one note, your twitter link doesn't work, you should remove the dot in twitter.com/kriuq.com
Startups can learn something from almost any webpage on the internet. HN at this point of time has more mac fans than cultofmac.
One thing I am missing or haven't found in some of the debuggers I have used (mostly Java) is the feature to just print out the code execution and return values for a certain part of or the whole code.

Those prints or printfs are great to get a quick overview of what's going on, if you ask me... instead of stepping through the whole thing.
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Stackoverflow cannot post an article,this site similiar like quora, but more simple and not strict. User can vote up answer but cannot down vote.
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That's more less closed than open though isn't it?
"Since HN has a focus to begin with, I am not sure how helpful it would be."

HN has focus... in theory.

But even according to the guidelines, what's on topic is:

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than
hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might
be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

In practice that allows for a very wide range of stories, even when those submitting and voting on the stories bother to read or follow the guidelines.

And that leads to the very problem tags are intended to solve.
Thanks for ping me :D
Wow, it's interesting how they haven't given up on Cat Stevens over the years. I guess they don't realize that the average youth these days doesn't even know Cat Stevens, let alone give a crap about him.
Yes, FWIW I took it as a request for information, not as an invitation to a Klingon death match because I'd insulted your family's honor. I celebrate diversity! ... even as I remember Philip K. Dick's liberal translation of de gustibus non est disputandum as "those people can have bad taste and I don't care."
Thank you :d, glad to hear it
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This is deviating from the main discussion here, but what are your ideas for combatting the decline in comment quality?
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Simple and Amazing at the same time : Congratulations ! I have a feeling that there are going to be some copycat businesses soon, but still wish you all the best !
The third is planning it up :)

Launching one week before, and hanging at the right time in the right place, congrats guys. Well thought.
If this is true, why the downvotes? If it's not, post some counter-evidence please.
Why I can't see anything before signing up?
Badges do absolutely nothing for me in the web/app context. Twice in the last week or so I have clicked a link from HN and been taken to a site which awards me with a "Just Arrived" badge simply for visiting the site. I can see what they are trying to achieve as the site tells me I need to sign in with FB in order to keep the badge, but that implementation was nothing but an annoyance.
I'm surprised to find out that none of the reused components are GPL besides the kernel. Is the whole tree otherwise licenses like Apache that don't require releasing the sources?
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I can't count how many times a day I misclick on my Galaxy S or on my old G1, despite my skeleton fingers. You must be right, as I've never had that problem on any generation iPhone.
A lot of Spring code predates the rising popularity of "convention over configuration" (thank you, Rails, for getting this so widely accepted), so if you're in one of those code bases, you're going to see a LOT of the Java+XML verbosity that led to everyone lampooning Java.

In exchange, you get a ton of flexibility. You probably only need 5-10% of it, but that 5-10% is NICE. The ability to do clean testing of your data tier, for instance, is glorious when you first experience it. Goodbye, horrible ResultSet mocks!

If you're lucky enough to work on a codebase that fully embraces autowiring and all the spiffy new annotations, then you get all this awesome stuff, but with virtually none of the crazy XML configuration stuff that makes it impossible to just trace the source and figure out what the hell is going on.

For Java web frameworks, Play! http://www.playframework.org/ is definitely on the top of my list for green-field projects. I've only used it on small things so far, but it really seems to have learned the lessons of Django and Rails.

https://github.com/weavejester/compojure is on my To-Try list for Clojure stuff. Until I get around to it, I'm just monitoring buzz on the web, but so far it's been mostly positive.
I suspect you're misunderstanding the logic of his point. He's saying that fancy feature X (runtime-modifiable everything) doesn't help with necessary feature Y (simple package management), and not that X prevents Y.

Clojure and certain Scheme implementations prove that X and Y are compatible, but most CLs have atrocious package management when compared with Python, Ruby or even Java. Lisp's extreme flexibility doesn't remedy that at all.
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We already have a system for classifying pages as having age-sensitive content - ICRA. Let's use that rather than shoving everything under a non-specific .xxx domain.
I guess that might be going a bit overboard. But it's not completely unprecedented.

Slashdot, for instance, has a restricted tagging system for their comments. Comments can be tagged as "Interesting", "Insightful", or "Funny".

I've heard some people on Slashdot complain about the "Funny" comments, but it's quite easy to filter those out via Slashdot's interface. I'd say that was pretty useful.
How come there is no search functionality? I think that is a higher priority.
Found it on Hulu, for those without Netflix.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/174635/born-rich
My advice would be to further explain the 'add pages' concept. It confused me.

Another little gripe is the lack of an instruction video. It'd help.

(Just spend about 6 minutes on the site)
I don't see why i got down voted. I am an Indian myself. Population is/going to be a biggest problem in India. This a truth.
There's a search link at the bottom of every page:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there's also http://SearchYC.com
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Thanks for the feedback, highly appreciated :D
It's just personal preference. I like getting updates to applications and kernels with the six-month release cycle, but their new interface release cycle seems rushed. With Arch I have even faster access to app and kernel upgrades without the gratuitous (to me, at least) system changes.

You want to upgrade users to grub 2.0? OK, not a pressing need for me, but fine, whatever. But at least when you make that change include system support so I don't have to manually repair the grub menu's default selection every freaking time you update the kernel. </rant mode>
Android Honeycomb not immediately open sourced
Yes I would love to have tags on hn
Actualy the questions and post is readable for non loged in user ex: http://kriuq.com/first-post-at-kriuq

"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!"

Yes I was prepared connections 'table' on database that allow us to add our social account.
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As a huge public company providing services to consumers, any damages they could conceivably win would be dwarfed by the damage to their public image by doing it (not to mention the high likelihood of the suit failing, countersuits or scrutiny of other areas of their patent portfolio they'd really rather protect)

If I held Google shares I'd actually consider it a breach of their fiduciary duty for Google's management to waste resources and goodwill pursuing a suit over something so trivial.
Juts "kriuq" :D
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Yes, you might be right. In fact, it might be a good way for the site to provide both with a little bit less competition between tech and non-tech posts.

The tough part is getting tags right. I went the organic route, as I assumed that I would either overlook topics that might be needed, or create redundancies. My site is still too small to see if it works well. I'm not a big fan of the subreddit approach, as I think it divides submissions and attention to a large extent.
Yes, You cannot. In the future maybe I will displaying trending "questions" or "post"
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Can someone please explain to me why a site that is primarily preoccupied with entrepreneurship is filled with socialists? People start ventures to make money. To create disproportionate wealth. Are you people just compensating for your internal selfish desires that you can't come to terms with? Genuinely curious.
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I'm glad that the author's use of "unproven" irked someone else. Something proven is something without doubt. VC and startups would be pretty boring if every investment was a sure thing.
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I think the issue is this: India has been historically openminded about sex, before the British rule. The current situation, i.e., a social taboo to even talk about sex are remnants of the British rule in India: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sex_in_India#Colonia...
I can think of two downsides. First, there might be a better system of organization than “tags”, and if PG implements tags, then even if a better organization system is found later, PG will not want to spend even more time implementing this better system, so we would be stuck with an inferior system. Also, even if tags turn out to be the best system of organization, we would use up goodwill if we asked PG to make them for us, and he might decline to spend time upgrading HN in other useful ways later.
No. One of appeals of HN is the simple interface.
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What's with the [scribd] tag when direct linking to a .pdf file? It's becoming common, but I can't understand it.
Yes.

But more so I'd like the ability to curate and follow lists of people that post comments and articles that I am interested in. It seems to me that this idea from twitter could be used to stop Eternal September problems on sites like HN and reddit (the subreddit system is not fully effective.)
Great article. Hits close to home because I'm also in the same boat - writing an iOS game on the side for fun as someone with no prior gamedev experience.
It's just a convenience link for viewing the PDF on scribd rather than downloading / using a plugin.
You just made my day. I pushed my first snapshot to heroku last night after working furiously to meet the self-imposed "working prototype by Friday morning" milestone I had for myself. At 2am I pushed up to Heroku and my working local prototype never came close to loading. I went to sleep wondering what I and messed up so horribly that the first page couldn't even render on the Heroku servers. All is not lost!
;) I've never been happier to be downvoted!
It would be nice to know what percentage of their 20 million members were effected... being a member myself, this concerns me. Also, in light of the play.com incident, it would be nice to know if it were TripAdvisor that was compromised, or was it their own 3rd party email provider.
No you are right, in the US store, the leather case is ~$70 and this wooden one is ~$70 (not counting shipping or anything).

Ugh, when did cases get so ridiculously expensive? These are really rather exorbitant prices IMHO. For what these things are, I'd maybe part with...$12-15 for the polyurethane one and $20-25 for a leather?

At $40 or $70 (respectively), I'd need a case to protect my case.
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Copyright is the monopoly here. It's an exclusive right to control the distribution of a particular work. The onerous contract is what transfers the monopoly from the artist to the record company.

The problem is the cumulative power that the big four record companies wield, due to the sheer amount of rights they control. It allows then to arbitrarily dictate prices and conditions, because if you don't accept their terms, they can lock you out from their entire catalog. Since they have exclusive rights, no one can start a competing service with more favorable terms or a more economical business model. Which is why these four even have the ability to try to keep their pre-digital business model. If there was any real competition here (not saying I have an answer to how that would work), these companies would have been ground into dust ten years ago. Instead they have manage to either litigate away or drown in fees, any possible successor to their antiquated way of distributing music.

There are of course independent labels, free music, creative commons and so on, but that's competing distribution models for the artist, and offers no possibility for the consumer to "vote with his money". The only choice is to get a different album/song from a different artist, which doesn't make much sense to me. If I want to listen to "The Chronic" by Dr. Dre, I might also want to listen to "Illmatic" by Nas, but they're not interchangeable competing goods in a free market.
Have you seen http://hackerfollow.com/ ??

There's also http://beta.fedang.com/
Please check http://status.heroku.com/ for details - we've seen two issues this morning, so updates will be posted there (and to @herokustatus)
Thanks for suggesting this, as it points out that people come to HN with different mental taxonomies. My fixed-tag system would subsume three of your tags into "startup business advice and paypal alternatives", whereas "hacking" would have enough sub-categories to distinguish "new ways of making drop-shadow gradients in CSS3" from articles about versioning tools and clever exploits for security holes.
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Bit of an inaccurate title there - honeycomb will not be open sourced until they decide it's ready. Android is still open.

Oh, and Steve Jobs has already been vindicated by selling billions of dollars of tech.
At least they intend to eventually. Still a long shot from iOS.
Chrome has problems rendering javascript/HTML5 &lt;video&gt; tag on Windows
pretty good move from them.. if honeycomb is unfinished yet, putting the source code now would be a failure(more phones with unfinished OS)

so take your time google.. we are all waiting for ice cream =)
Like Wordoid? http://wordoid.com/

It can occasionally come up with some gems and is one of the three tools I use when trying to find available domains (the others being http://domai.nr/ and http://impossibility.org/)
I like it. Will definitely be using it for my next project.
"Censorship of the form you seem to propose"

It would not be censorship for Reddit to do this. Censorship is something that a powerful body does (such as a government).

I disagree that removing jailbait would cause Reddit to die. For example, Netflix does not provide pornography and is not dying because of that.
I think they should consult some people with strong experience in marketing in order to present this in the most concise and approachable manner as possible.

Their biggest hurdle is going to be apathy due to a lack of comprehension. The more noob-friendly rstat.us is, the better their chances.

They've actually done much better than most, but it really can't be dumbed down enough. There should be a clear barrier between text for developers, and text for everyone else. I really wish them luck. It's a noble effort.
Great example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".

It's an interesting technology, but besides making CNNs coverage of elections more X-treme, who is going to use this?
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But it's a direct link to a pdf, not to the scribd page.