skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use Chrome there's an extension for that. I don't remember what it's called or if it works on other browsers but I'll find the name and update this when I get back to a real computer.

UPDATE: It's called HN Unread Comments and you can find it at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fpndmkcfggkffpablc...

I don't think it works on different browsers and it can get annoying when you use multiple machines because the read comments don't transfer, but otherwise it is a very nice tool.
> What a brave new world that has such people in it.

And read the Tempest, as well - that's what Huxley references in the title.
I'm not sure that I understand you correctly. Are you saying that you wish you could downvote someone simply because he has more karma than you do?
Wow, this guy is such a level-headed guy...or at least it seems that way, his outlook is great.
Another form of timestamp analysis is to detect submissions that happen too quickly. A spammer's signup script is likely to fill out the form and submit it nearly instantly. Of course a spammer could beat this by waiting a small randomized amount of time, but that makes spam signups more expensive and might also deter them.
I occasionally get downmodded pretty hard for presenting a reasoned argument with citations, especially . Populist one-liners every now and then more than make up for it, though.
Think he probably means spammers are searching for the phrase 'post a comment below' on Google looking for forms they can spam. You'll see this search term in the HTTP referrer header.

Edit: obviously you could just avoid using this phrase on your site instead.
I guess, the only reason why Google took this bold step was the incomplete OS. Honeycomb is still under development and they jumped the wagon pretty fast and released it already just to beat other Tablets and steal their market.
People already have the belief on Android devices and know how fast it grew, under the same pretext many would buy Honeycomb tablets but everyone fails to understand Honeycomb is far far different from the smartphone OS. It would really take time to make it work efficiently.
I don't think you could just hire a Python programmer who has never done web programming. And even if he has some experience in web programming, Django has its own share of learning curve to master.
Google's position on this has always been that they're open to the carriers/manufacturers doing whatever they want with the software, and when they do something bad, well, people do bad things sometimes.

I find it amusing that when Google is open to carriers/manufacturers doing whatever they want, people (usually non-android users, though you're an exception here) complain about how they're not open, and when Google tries to take more control of the development process to protect the user experience, people (again, usually same non-android users) complain about the same thing.

That said, I think Google could definitely do things better. I, for one, wish Google would exercise their "Google Experience" branding to enforce unlocked boot loaders and root access. On the issue of open sourcing Honeycomb, I could really care less. On the spectrum of closed to open, they're way farther on the open side than anyone else in the industry so I don't find it hypocritical at all for them to claim to be open.

(NB: I also own a Motorola device with a locked boot loader. I was very surprised and delighted by how much the devs were still able to do, but I definitely wish I could get some custom kernels installed.)
I always wonder, when people say they don't mind about piracy, what part of it is genuine, and what part of it is pandering.

Do they really mean what they say? Or do they secretly hope there would be no way to pirate their products?
I am disappointed by this: "Lesser protection of commercial speech"

I would like it to be illegal for a news organization or an advertisement to lie to or mislead the public.

If you survey 1000 doctors, and 4 say yes, you better not put "4 out of 5 doctors surveyed" in your ad.
Ah, that makes sense, and is rather clever.

Thanks
Well, Apple did exactly the same thing with iOS. iOS 3.2 was a tablet-only branch that didn't merge with the phone branch until iOS 4.2.
Why Honeycomb Can't Be Open
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I have a pet theory that 'working out the mind' is just like working out the body. You get use to whatever methodology/scheme you have setup and it looses effectiveness. The key is to rotate. Pick up a handful of work methodologies that work for you, and rotate through them every couple weeks. Just like how you should swap up your workouts, you swap up how you work.
Im curious on node fibers. They seem like a second class citizen in node, any chance they will become mainstream or will it always be like Twisted is to Python.
Maybe you are right actually, Android on smartphones has gained fragmentation and this does affect alot to the OS reputation.

There are devices which really can't handle Android OS and many Apps cannot run or even not installed.

To just get over that embarrassment Google must have taken this step.But that destroys the whole idea behind the Android OS.
Well, I think Brave New World is particularly applicable because the same basic philosophy which supports Apple's actions also supports the belief that Huxley's dystopia is in fact a utopia. Obviously there's a difference of scale, but there's still the same sense. If people are content to be protected from smut and 'evil' speech, why do they need to have complete freedom to choose for themselves?
I think it's salient to point out, too, that that shift on the spectrum is tiny compared to the spectrum-distance between Google and any other player in the industry.
I try to comment on only things in the newest section. Inevitably, someone has already made a similar comment on front page items. This strategy and sporadic commenting keep my karma comfortably low.
I get why Google wants to hold back the source, but it sucks for the folks who bought a Xoom and now don't have access to it. Andy Rubin's definition of "Open" (http://twitter.com/#!/arubin/status/27808662429) doesn't have much value if google doesn't make the source code readily available.
A good rule of thumb is to use sans-serif when possible for lots of text

Almost everything I've read on the issue advises the contrary, with an acknowledgment of the caveat for "low resolution" displays.

What qualifies as a "low resolution" display? Anything worse than the iPhone 4?
>I don't think we can say that they've done this, at least not yet. I'm just look at it as an experimental branch of the code that isn't yet ready to be merged into the trunk. It makes a lot of sense to me that, if they rushed this code out for strategic reasons, that they would want to keep it a little close to the chest until it was more stable.

Which would be an acceptable reason if Honeycomb tablets weren't available for purchase. Since the Xoom is running Honeycomb, I cannot see how anyone can say that it's "experimental" at this point. It isn't just a commit that Google isn't done with yet, it is released software.
Make a paid version. Also, what is your app?
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I'm not sure the comparison to Apache was able to develop at a time when things were different and was not a project created by a massive for-profit corporation. Particularly given that Apache is not an operating system and does not have to address hardware diversity in the way that Android does.
Have you ever considered using ScrapeBox or Xrumer for consistently building backlinks over a period of time? A short burst of backlinks and then nada allegedly looks suspicious to Google.
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Azerbaijan (98% Muslim) is 149th in that list, well below India both in ranking and actual births. A casual glance down the list shows a large proportion of Muslim countries with lower birth and fertility rates than India.

His statement is true in the same narrow sense as other nonsensical assertions like "No. Muslim countries have higher per capita incomes than the US" as a counterargument to suggestions the US might be doing rather well financially (without having as much oil per capita as Qatar and Bahrain). It's equally true to say "Christian countries have higher birth rate than India", but I'm guessing the original poster doesn't live in an environment where misleading negative stereotypes about Christians are commonplace.

Insinuating that Islam had anything to do with higher fertility rates is the sort of intellectually dishonest chauvinism and religious stereotyping that HN readers should be above. Couple that with a denial that a birthrate of >3 children per woman in an developing country of over a billion people might present a major challenge and you have a comment thoroughly deserving of downvotes.
Well, out of curiosity I've gone and checked. In the last week or so I've made 30 contributions. These give me:

3 points for a single bare comment
89 points for three polls
13 points for three submissions of a site I'm associated with
285 points for links to other sites.

In that week I've gone from about 19750 karma to about 20230, so that's an increase of about 480. That means I've got around 100 points from comments over the past week.

Not sure that helps, but you did ask.
Nothing, they're a good solution for this company. My point was the conclusions were based on this company, not everyone who suffers spam, the article has since been updated with:

> For some reason this article has hit the front page of Hacker News and is getting quite a lot of traffic. I should mention that yes, I acknowledge CAPTCHAs are of course sometimes unavoidable. That doesn’t mean, however, that we should ever feel good about using them, nor should we fool ourselves that users don’t mind them.

Which was my point. When spam is a serious issue then captchas are unavoidable 99% of the time.
I'd love this. I would put them in my kitchen (white walls, well lit) and run the power cable out to my deck. Handy.
It now works for me; FF4, indeed. I'm not sure if it was a glitch or you fixed it, but...

Don't work too hard on my behalf! But yes, I'd like offline support.
Snarky comments routinely provide me 5 or more votes if properly timed. I haven't tried to exploit it.
My jokes almost always get downmodded :)
I apologize for sounding argumentative, but you are missing the point. I understand Google's motivations, there is nothing mysterious about a company trying to protect its brand by controlling the user experience. I agree their actions are rational given their goals. The problem is that the essence of free open source software, which I believed Android was intended to be, is that users are given the freedom to modify the source code - regardless of whether or not such modifications are beneficial for anyone's brand!

I am not a free software absolutist - people should be free to create and use proprietary software. However, I want to make the personal choice to use free software, and have access to the source code that is not conditional on whether my use is beneficial to any external entity. I understand that Google avoids the GPL for the non linux kernel portions of Android. I was hoping that Google would nonetheless treat Android as a free software OS where you always have access to the source code of any device. I feel like its a "bait and switch" in terms of how it has been portrayed to the community of users who care about software freedom. I don't understand why some people maintain that it doesn't change Android's openness just because Google says it will release the source code "someday".
TL;DR: it's a new way of publishing books on thinner paper that makes them lighter and smaller. In no way a threat to the Kindle.
agree. tags do not work, it is an old model.
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> tightly controlled and still been somewhat 'open' (see Windows vs Mac).

Huge chunks of OS X are open source. It's not necessarily equivalent to throw it into the same box as Windows (there are no "open" forks of a Windows based OS, but there are of Darwin, and FreeBSD has benefited from Apple as well.)
FYI Even entertaining an offer from P&G could open him up to the possibility of losing the domain under ICANN's rules.
This may help people who have problems focusing for long periods of time but procrastination is a behavior problem, not a techniques problem.
won't happen

why? Simple..exact match bonus.

An exact match domain has a much MUCH easier time getting to the #1 spot in search results.

This is why creditcards.com outranks all of the big banks.
I don't think many people who read HN monthly will respond...
Unfortunately it appears that in the common case, "open" for Android has to do more with how much carriers can "customize" the OS, and is not about an end-user's experience.

I think this is in part because the primary customers of Android as a business are carriers (this is where Google makes money).
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Wondering if someone can recommend software for easily setting this up? Was thinking something i could sit down with at the beginning of the day and would track my progress/alert me throughout the day?
I was somewhat surprised by the lack of actual, you know, demos and the emphasis on streamlined slide shows. Is that common now? It's been a while since I pitched something...
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Even better is when you realize SIDT is loaded with karma...

Honestly though, I find a ton of content too heavily dictated by it. On reddit, it's routine to see [deleted] posts, or nonsensical one-liners, all with the purpose of propping up (or preserving) their karma. When you've got 1000 comments with 900 of them referencing the current popular (or obscure) meme, it just gets old. I've heard there are some sub-reddits that are worth subscribing to, but I've found HN a better alternative. The content and conservation seems much more filling here.
Why do you say that? I don't see anything that's different from even everyday speech.
It seems to me like most people commenting here see this as transparent TV instead of seeing it as futuristic window that displays stuff !

I'd like to have this kind of stuff on certain windows, and not as a replacement for a TV, that big piece of furniture that sits in a living room.

It's a bit like "surfaces" by Microsoft. It's not really about turning computers into tables, but it's about turning tables into amazing futuristic furniture (that are extra useful).
That's way more than it's worth.

That keyword term only gets 210 searches a month, and there is no real way to monetize it...short of just doing a blog.

I'd say that's worth 200 bucks tops...and that's with bidding to drive up the price...since you'll have a hard time finding people actually wanting to get it.
daz.com and ww.com are valuable (~$100k-250k), the rest he'd be better off keeping.

secondhandcar.com could be valuable to the right person. You could probably get $50k from the right buyer.

The rest are nice, but not "must haves". Unless a domain is rare and generic its not worth > $10k. Color.com, Mint.com, Tires.com are rare and generic, most of these are not.
++

Here's my PSA: if you're reading Wikipedia from a fullscreen or maximized window on what is typical for a widescreen display by today's standards (desktop or notebook, even), you're doing yourself a disservice for this very reason.
Trust me, you wouldn't. The one-liners just add noise for us people who are looking for good content! :)
There's like 10 jewels an hour, executing a good digest would be a big challenge ... :)
I would also like to know which games you've made. I'm starting as an indie game dev myself but I have a good amount of experience on the App Store (and 5+ years of writing games for mobile devices as an employee). I can give constructive criticism too if you're willing to get some.
Which companies does he think are the most promising?

Is he going to invest in any?
My interpretation is that the OS development has been "spiked" to target certain platforms, as a proof and exploration of the tablet form factor. But, as with most fast, targeted code pushes, some sacrifices have been made in the generalizablility of the code base. They may want a chance to go back and smooth out their hacks before eager vendors get their hands on it and start building the first at large generation of tablets.

This is just one interpretation, but it's an example of a case where I'd be behind Google's actions.
They like the creative freedom and empowerment that a capitalist society brings, but also the knowledge that if they fall on hard times then there is a safety net that keeps them off the streets. Remember, we can't all be winners all of the time, sometimes bad stuff happens to good people.

I understand now. That's the key.

Just my two cents, but it looks to me like there are two types of entrepreneurs. Those who believe in themselves completely and those who believe in luck to some extent.

If you believe in yourself completely, any failure stems from yourself and can be corrected. No need for a safety net, just correct the error and keep going.

Luck, on the other hand, is not something that can be controlled. It just happens or it doesn't, requiring a safety net in case it doesn't happen.

Makes sense to me now. Thank you.
If tags were used, they should be weighted. Not everyone will agree on what the tags should be, but the top 5 should be close.

I think last.fm has used this kind of model successfully.

Weights can combat the chaos from users entering anything, but allows for evolution.
I think you're over-thinking this. It's clear to me that Honeycomb simply isn't done. You can see it on the xoom. It's just not ready yet. It was shipped incredibly early.

Google is holding it back because their probably just not happy with the state the thing is in. It was rushed and this is their implicit omission of it.I think this is a pride of ownership thing, nothing more.
If you're site is running on a popular forum software, robot-only inputs and timestamp analysis would eliminate most of your problems.

Spammers are probably not targeting your website in particular, rather the software your forum is run on. If you add atypical anti-spam measures you'll separate yourself from others using the same platform, defeating the typical phpbb or vbulletin bot which probably accounts for most of your spam.
Thanks - I will check them out. :)
"People who don't pay you generally wouldn't have paid you anyway."

That and other quotes. Man, I'm so glad were finally said by someone who won't be written off as a hippy, communist, hacker, etc.
Ask HN: How would you market PageKite, my "run web servers anywhere" service?
Hello HN!

Me and a couple of friends have been working for a few months on our startup: http://pagekite.net/

PageKite is a software & service solution for making servers (primarily web servers, but it does SSH and other protocols too) on personal and mobile devices visible to the wider Internet. It is in many ways similar to Opera Unite, but it's far more powerful (IMO), it's open source and it's not tied to a browser.

We're bootstrapping and have reached "MVP" in that the software and the service both work, but the UI is still so primitive that it's really only useful to techies. We're working on that. :-)

But now that we have a product, we'd like to find some paying customers!

Got any advice for us? How would you monetize this service and market it? We have some ideas of course, it would be really great to get some outside input as well.

Thanks!
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Hmm, clickable link, I hope: http://pagekite.net/
That would be my point. Practically all post-2007 phones and tablets depend on Apple's open-source work. It's easily the most important application on mobile devices. Had Apple decided to roll their own proprietary browser instead of extending an open-source project, they would have a far bigger lead over the competition. And they did it without a lot of crowing about how moral it made them.
Always been taught: a pitch without a demo is like a sandwich without bread, a beach without sea, a HN without votes, a veggie burger, ...

Is it a fact that the product execution by YC teams will be flawless, so we can just minimize it?
Speaking as someone with a fair bit of domaining experience, unfortunately a lot of the domains listed are worthless, with the exception of daz.com which is a 5 figure domain, ww.com which is a 5 (possibly 6?) figure domain, secondhandcar.com which IMO is a 4 figure domain, webcamsoftware.com which is 4 figures, and a few others which hold a <$100 value. So there are some valuable domains, but the majority are worth $0 in my opinion. (Note: I don't mean to sound insulting when I say they're worthless - indeed, I literally mean it that their valuation is $0).

It's also worth noting that the domain industry got hit a fair bit by the recession, and it's possible that some of the above domains would sell for slightly higher than the rough range I've given (espeically the two 4 figure domains I quote, which could go for low 5 figures in the right circumstances).

It's quite common to see people (as the blog post says) regging domains on a whim since they look good, but usually such domains regged on a whim are worthless. And unfortunately it does seem to be the case here.

Anywhoo, I'll send my semi-informed appraisals along to the blog author now. I've been a domainer since I was 16/17 (am 20; 21 next month), so whilst I'm not an expert or anything, I have a fair bit of domaining experience and hope my appraisals are somewhat useful.

And I'd possibly advise that he looks at DNForum.com and NamePros.com (the two big domaining forums; the former is paid-only though) a little bit to get a general feel of domain prices.
Obviously a troll. Engineers using consistent units‽ HA. Maybe he/she meant chemist, in which case:

- cm3 != cm³. Unicode is 20 years old now, no excuses.

- flour is (a) measured by weight, not volume; (b) at most 14% gluten, and that's very high-gluten flour used for bagels and some breads, not cookies.

I fully encourage feeding the trolls with this recipe, however.
It's a bit premature to say that Steve Jobs is vindicated in so far as Android is concerned from a journalistic standpoint and claims of "vindication" seem to be a bit more editorial than factual. However, timing is everything when it comes to linkbait.
So you disagree that Google/Android is more open than any of the other platforms?

I've never understood Google's 'openness' argument as a moral one. I always took it to mean that I can do whatever I want with my hardware, including side-loading software at various levels of the stack. This has held mostly true.

I'm seeing two kinds of attacks on Google/Android's openness when this kind of thing happens. The first is from F/OSS advocates that feel betrayed and manipulated by Google's use/misuse of F/OSS terms, which is pretty understandable to me as Google's handling of its software seems to be very different from traditional F/OSS.

The other is from Apple advocates trying to score cheap gotcha/schadenfreude points. Your comment is the second kind.
When the client loads the page, the server sends a hash of the timestamp and asks for the client to store it. When the client submits the form, it also sends the stored hash.

This exploits the fact that bots don't usually run javascript or load all resources on a page.

http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Safer_Contact_Forms_Without...
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Isn't this poll going to be extremely biased towards people reading it on the main site, since that's the only place you can comment? :)
This is a good tip. In the past, I've often found myself paralysed by indecision first thing in the morning.

I started leaving myself specific, simple tasks the night before, so that I could get something done first thing in the morning. After doing that first thing, everything else seems to fall into place.