skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have distastes towards some languages I've had limited exposure to. Pretty much, these are languages I had to use, but not languages I had to get good at using. Among these would be PHP, VB, and maybe Java (though I actually liked it before I started using C#).

Then, there is JavaScript, which I cannot avoid using despite having concerns with it. I would not say I "hate" it though, it's more of a "love and hate" relationship that formed over time here. I guess I look at it as being in a large city: if you know where to go it can be a wonderful time, if you don't you'll be shot in the face.

Among the things that bother me the most are function only scope, specifically when it mixes with declaration hoisting and implied globals. You can really end up writing some deceitful, innocent looking code that just does not do anything you'd expect it to. It's somewhat simple to avoid any problems that might come up if you're aware of them, but it's made me extra touchy; I get uneasy feelings when I see a variable declaration that is anywhere except the top of the function it is declared in. At the same time, having a large distance between the declaration of the variable and its use has been somewhat problematic for me: if I change the name of the variable, I must also remember to scroll up to change where it was declared, otherwise I just added a new global property. This bites.

The other significant issue I have is inheritance. I wouldn't mind if it actually resembled normal prototype based inheritance, but it just doesn't. It's too mixed up with the classical approach, making the end result neither simple nor powerful. It's easy to see that this problem in the language since there are so many different patterns of creating and extending objects as a result. Almost every framework/lib uses a different approach and tries to abstract it so the end user doesn't have to be aware of it. Of course, that only gets you so far before you end up having to look at how the libs you're using implemented it, and that sort of defeats the reason for the abstraction in my opinion. Something as fundamental as this shouldn't be so problematic, but it is.

Strangely, when I'm looking at EcmaScript 5 and Harmony, and see the changes that might try and fix these things, I kind of feel sad because it just wont be the same JavaScript I got used to fighting with.
neat. here's how i've been viewing HN through the stylish firefox plugin and my custom style:

http://www.csspivot.com/PRGZ3
I chose 7 with slider preset at 1. Didn't want to leave it at 1 and throwing the slider "left" it there.

Referrer might be interesting information. Do geeks behave differently etc.
Naked Emperors: where are all the connected people?
WTF is marketing exactly?
When I look at people who seem to have lived long, vibrant lives, people such as Frank Lloyd Wright or Georgia O'Keeffe, I see people who acted as if they expected to live forever.

What stands out as a key difference between the happy and the unhappy is the belief that good, interesting, exiting things are ahead. Hell, more than half the fun of a vacation is the expectation of the fun you're going to have. (See also: certain beliefs in an afterlife.)

It pains me, as I get older, to see some of my friends and family shift from being upbeat and energetic, folks who made plans for the future, to dour and nostalgic, as if everything good that might ever happen to them has already passed.

Fuck that. Never stop.
Have you a source for that? I could well believe that the cancer risk is low and obviously is is uncommon for a dose of radiation to be large, but 'comparatively large' doses of radiation are given regularly in hospital catheter labs, CT/PET scanners. And while generally these would be in the 10-20-30 mSv range, for many patients scans are repeated regularly for long time periods, rapidly reaching the 150-500mSv range discussed in the below article. Of course this is a fractionated dose and it would be much more dangerous as a single hit. I cannot find any reference to radiation dose verses cancer risk. Somewhat supporting you is this article which discusses over estimation of dose risk. Interesting discussion too: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc073513
Did it twice before reading comments. 7 and than 3. Have no idea why. My wife just picked 7... Scary
I was leaning towards 7 then thought "everyone chooses 7" and went with 9.
Mashable's thing is social media and how amazing it is and how amazing it will be for you and your business and how it'll make you rich, yet here in this article:

> Mashable: When you come across a web designer with a trendy-looking portfolio and a slew of social media profiles, does that send certain signals to you? If so, are those signals mostly positive, negative or neutral?

> Tan: I focus on the portfolio and the work they’ve done. Most everything else related to how much they use social media is not really an indicator.

I find this ironic I guess, they're completely disproving the entire premise of their blog.
I'm not saying programmers don't have other interests, just that programming is usually their main interest which leads them to build products targeted at programmers (there's quite a lot of empirical evidence to back this observation: just look at all the "Show HN" we're getting here). I think it takes at least a conscious effort to get interested by say agriculture, unless you were raised on a farm :). More people need to make that conscious effort. Interdisciplinarity is where the real money is at.
Your slider could have a * at each end and one in the middle, and have it start randomly on one of the 3 stars, but make them unselectable.
I think the announcement of that big money wasn't a good idea because it putted too much focus on a product "not so good yet". I think they could have waited before announcing this.

In order to succeed, such soo revolutionary app need to live undercover for a while and find the "right product" first.

Now no one can tell if it will fail now or not, but the first impression so far from the tech people seems to be not good.
True - without an open web, arguably your internet-based HTML5 app could be metered by Comcast or the other service providers - hence it would have been better to create your own isolated app for the iPhone, etc.

But what about apps that rely in some part on a web service to exchange data with your server? I'm guessing that Comcast could easily meter that data stream as well, so even a specifically-built iPhone app might fall prey to their meddling if it relies on an outside, hosted data source.
It depends. For example Swedes are very talkative, but Finns not the least bit. Finns are very direct and generally do not engage in small talk. Linus comes from Swedish speaking minority of Finland, so I guess that he is more talkative than an average Finn. Extensive stay abroad helps too. Still I wouldn't be surprised if he slightly hated twaddling :)
How does this compare in terms of thrust to, say, an ion engine?
Sorry I'm losing my sense of humour reading HN today. Time for some Eddie Izzard.
From the Bitcoin FAQ:

How divisible are Bitcoins?

Technically, a Bitcoin can be divided down to 8 decimals, so 0.00000001 BTC is the smallest possible amount. For convenience, the program currently accepts only 2 decimal places.
> And neither are a big deal.

To you. You're assuming that it's not a big deal to people who invest in those concepts too. Or worse, you're presuming to tell other people what they should and shouldn't value, and how much they should value them.

This passage from the Wikipedia article on cultural appropriation says it better than I can:

"A common sort of cultural appropriation is the adoption of the iconography of another culture. Examples include sports teams using Native American tribal names, tattoos of Polynesian tribal iconography, Chinese characters, or Celtic bands worn by people who have no interest in, or understanding of, their original cultural significance. When these artifacts are regarded as objects that merely 'look cool', or when they are mass produced cheaply as consumer kitsch, people who venerate and wish to preserve their indigenous cultural traditions may be offended."

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation
Another big issue: Respect. If you don't respect the design process, or designers, don't ever expect to hire a good designer.

If you've noticed that most designers are either not good, or flaky, chances are the problem is you and not the designers.

Topics to avoid: How engineers contribute to the valuation of a company but everyone else detracts, how great 99 designs is, how HTML/CSS is "for people who can't program," and my favorite: How easy design is, and how you're only hiring because you don't personally have time for it.

When you say stuff like this, it's not really professional for us to get loud and try to correct you. It's also not really professional for us to slowly back away, and then run full speed as soon as you turn your head. But that's what we end up doing.
Good idea! The next iteration will try this.
Ever been unable to think of a word for what you wanted to say? Strictly speaking, linguistic determinism claims that this is impossible.
Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door
An older article - but deserves to to be reposted if it has been posted before.
You can't switch in the iOS App Store App though.
I got different results from Ireland when I was there a month ago, so it has to do with what indexed pages are shown to whom.
CNN just did a pre-commercial blurb where I'm pretty sure they mentioned Color indirectly. Something about "sending photos to strangers."

edit: yep

It's an interview piece.
Without something like facebook or twitter login, the system will be abused. There is no stopping someone who just reloads ( or even make an automated script heh ) and keeps on choosing, resulting in flawed data. Just saying.
I've long thought that at least metaphorically, Sapir-Whorf fit computer languages like a glove. This observation is hardly new ("You can write COBOL in any language"), and it's not particularly useful, save as shorthand for describing, say, potential hires; in my experience, most programmers write code as in the language they first really used, regardless of the language they're actually using, and so it's often useful to ask someone with years of Java but some Python (for instance) to write something in Python and note if they've bothered to learn the idiom. Hardly determinative, and of course there are those who are capable of really picking up new computer languages, semantics included, just as there are those with the gift for human languages, but it's just something that I keep an eye on.
There is also huge "fatigue" in my social network. Posting frequency drops with time, except for those who have put up status rotators.
Ask HN: Can i rent a mac virtual instance for developing iphone apps? 
I am a guy with the hobby of coding, i have an idea for an iphone app but i don't have enough money to afford buying a mac.Is there any service which offers a mac virtual instance i can use with remote desktop or something similar?

Thanks for your help
Get off my high horse?

People value elements of their culture and would like them not to be debased or conflated with the mundane. I'm glad you were able to glean something valuable from an ages-old culture. Try giving back some time.

> "Buddhist" is just an identity, and a core goal of the practice is to bring an end to such things.

First, this is not even the point of the comment.

Second, this is so inane, and a typical attitude of Western admirers of Eastern traditions. Like somehow, Buddhism couldn't manage itself until you came along and told everyone what it really meant.

Try this: go to India, go stop at Bodh Gaya and urinate on the Bodhi tree.

Before the monks who tend the tree beat you up, let them know that they're mistakenly identifying with concepts like "trees" and "cleanliness." But never fear, you have come to set them free and let them know the true meaning of Buddhism, by bringing an end to identities!
Swoopo: The Pay-Per-Bid Auction Site Is Dead
Thanks, i missed that one.
"and no matter how much you learn, much of the world is inherently unpredictable."

I think that's the core lesson. In the West and the rest of the developed world we've created stable societies that we tend to take for granted. It's really just a layer of order superimposed on inherent chaos, that can break down if we're not careful about maintaining and cultivating it (financial crisis I'm looking at you).
Bitcoins definitely have a huge draw for the underground.

Of course, if governments persist in creating undergrounds...
Today's Doonesbury Has Nailed a Fundemental Problem
Totally agreed. I'm relying on people not caring enough to abuse it — a bit risky, I know. I just wanted something simple that wouldn't require people to jump through hoops just to vote. Also, the IPs are now one of the metrics, for regional breakdown, so that could be used to spot obvious anomalies.
Unrealistic. Obama has enough on his plate with Obamacare and deciding the US role in Libya. Nor is their any reason to think that Obama will secretly control Google via Eric Schmidt.

A more realistic outcome is that Eric Schmidt will find his job is to get tech companies to donate. T.J. Rogers a silicon valley CEO tells how the relationship between the valley and Washington was during Clintons time (http://secure.cypress.com/?rID=34975):

"Even though Clinton wooed Silicon Valley by telling us he supported litigation reform, he had also taken political contributions from plaintiff lawyers. He chose them over us and vetoed our litigation reform bill. Fortunately for us, the SLRA was so well crafted that a Democratic Congress overrode Clinton’s veto. Shortly after that fiasco, Clinton returned to Silicon Valley for some more public relations and to raise money at a prominent CEO’s house at a $50,000-perplate dinner. One dinner topic was litigation reform. Clinton then accepted several hundred thousand dollars to perform a back flip."
It should be noted that UNSCREAR use the linear no threshold theory despite the lack of evidence regarding lower doses . Err on the side of safety.
Wikileaks and the Nuclear Cover-Up
'Last week Twitter told 3rd party client developers to essentially fuck-off.'

Twitter's subtext being 'we don’t want your clients using our API and diluting our ability to advertise'.

While neither of these statements are true, the concept of offering a protocol instead of an API is an interesting one. Though, the quote "open protocols are basically a gentleman's agreement" does indicate a similar issue to the one that's being projected onto Twitter.

As shantanubala says, upgrading a protocol with mass adoption could be very difficult, this can then cause issues when you want to offer new services, or deprecate certain calls as they may be too complex at scale.

Coordination definitely seems to be a huge issue when dealing with these open social networks. If a security issue is found in a server which can leak information, how long would it take for every server to be patched? I think a good example for this is to ask how many WordPress blogs get hacked because they're running on old copies of the code?
I would also guess that it's biased more toward 7 than toward 3. That's the conventional wisdom, isn't it? Below 4, 3; below 10, 7; below 20, 17; below 40, 37. Or has this bit of pop-math folklore been lost in translation?
Well, if you reason it out, which applicant is less likely to get the company in trouble? The one who gets caught, or the one who doesn't?
Is it a New Tech Bubble? Let’s See if It Pops
I guess no one gets the "Color" joke here...
Not talking about this specifically, but the model:

If an app only deals with local data, does it need to be a web app?, except that thereby it becomes zero-install, zero-update, global and cross-platform.

Could or is ChromeOS going to play local mp3s before? It's not much of an OS if it can only play mp3s on a server somewhere, with a browser plugin. Will Spotify and other streaming clients work on it? Is it cloud data only?
What are the benefits for the users of your app?
Why a new "specialized" social network?
I'm sure it's extremely rare (maybe not 100% possible) to have all your values be fully consistent with one another. (I'm certainly not there.)

Our mental data is stored out of our conscious awareness unless we're actually thinking about it, and emotions actually come out of that (i.e., out of the subconscious). So one can't even be aware of all the values held in their subconscious unless they take a long time and pay a lot of attention to their emotions. Hence, getting them all to be consistent is no easy feat. Unless one were to start out with sufficient knowledge to do it right in the first place, which we don't.
I haven't read the whole paper yet but I find it interesting that the Russian language prescribes a distinction between light blue and dark blue and that it just so happens that humans are more sensitive to blue than than red or green.

In fact, many expert Photoshop artists are aware of a trick whereby they can make small changes to the blue channel to get dramatic effects on the composite.
Via wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_Press

"In revenue, Elsevier accounts for 28% of the Reed Elsevier group (₤1.5b of 5.4 billions in 2006). In operating profits, it represents a bigger fraction of 44% (₤395 of 880 millions).[3] Adjusted operating profits have risen by 10% between 2005 and 2006."

This is not the only industry where education oriented companies account for a disproportionate percentage of the parent company's profits (hint: The Washington Post's Kaplan.)
Oddly news.ycombinator.com doesn't load in the iframe all the time -- sometimes I need to reload several times.
Author of the app can read your directory listing (and whether that matters depends on what you have in this directory and whether you trust application's author)
Didn't work for a US address for me either.

7095 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles CA, 90028
Mine will be slow due to trying to select a value on a slider with a well used G1 phone...
BitCoins for cash seems a bit suspect. :) Cash? No checks? No registered mail?
I believe that this is a reference to one of the guidelines: "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

It's not a very good way to reference it, though, and in general comes off as snobbish. There's also a distinction between complaining that HN is going downhill (which the guideline discourages) and asking how to prevent it from going downhill (which I see as a good topic of discussion). Of course, asking what HN is doing to prevent it is one which might be more easily answered by watching the site for a while.

Based on an extremely unscientific sampling (going back a bit over a million items and then hopping around randomly between 300 and 386 days in the past), while there is a slight decrease in the level of conversation - and a fair amount of karma inflation - it's not too noticeable, and I expect that it would be somewhat difficult to distinguish between a discussion thread now and one from a year ago, if all temporal identification was stripped out. Maybe the type of articles has changed a bit, and maybe really short comments tend to be upvoted a bit more than they used to, but by and large HN is not going downhill.
Oops, misread your comment and downvoted. Apologies.
I think if you follow his suggestions you dramatically lower the chances that you will be blogging to an empty void.

However not everyone can write well. It might be one of your employees and not the founder. Or you could try a video blog or a podcast.
I appreciate the effort, but I would be happy if I could only download a .ogv/.mp4 file. I honestly don't understand why these "presentations" and "webminars" use these crappy delivery mechanisms.
You are seeing the result from the influx of new people. It's almost time to move on :-/
Depending on where you are (it may be illegal in some places), I believe you could try to build a hackintosh. You can buy a boxed OSX and coerce into installing on some carefully built PCs.

I am not sure OSXs license allows you to rent virtual instalations of it this way.
But isn't pretending you're this guy and trying to determine what you'd do based on what's smart and rational kind of a glaring contradiction?
What on earth makes you think there is significant overlap between "party girls" and entrepreneurial-minded women? What you are looking for would be an extremely rare find -- not only are female entrepreneurs unlikely to be party girls, we generally don't like to socialize with them, either. So, don't get your hopes up for the perfect co-founder who groks that demographic to come along.
Based on that interface I would predict...

middle number: for the graphical choices as it's common/easier to get a valid first click in the middle of the slider.

high number: for the key entry as if most people are right handed it's easier to get to the high numbers instead of going across the keyboard.

all that is predicated on the fact that people are lazy instead of random when using this.
Especially ones that go through Libyan DNS under Gaddafi's control, someone currently in active conflict with the rest of the world.
Oh hahaha nicely done. Unfortunately subtlety and the Web don't mix too well.
Steam-propelled spacecraft. I fully approve.

However, this would likely not be especially cost-effective if we have to pull all the water into orbit from earth; while the article mentions mining water from asteroids or moons, it puts that in a hypothetical future, even more so than using water as reaction mass, with refueling in low-Earth orbit proposed.
Anyone can learn to write well, though. A company blog is maybe not the place to be learning, though - if you have the time, probably better to start with a personal/non-professional blog.
Certainly. Everything that applies to second-rank universities in this respect applies to even less advantaged institutions and scholars, magnified.
Keep in mind that an HTML5 app can behave itself like a native app.
This would drastically vary.
When A person tells B to pick a number there are various things going on in mind. Once its brought down to select from 1-10 the choices are narrowed down to a single digit number. Hardly anyone would choose 1 or 10. If someone's birthday comes in between those numbers, the choice becomes obvious, other wise its moves to the favorable number or a lucky number.

7 being the universal lucky number many believe in that. For numerlogy believers 3 comes to be a common lucky number amongst many. So the choice, not sure why 4.
Anyways the reasons vary alot.

Do keep us updated w/ the result want to know how mind works over numbers for all.
The only problem being, many would refresh and choose all numbers, why don't you add a simple cookie or ip restriction to allow to choose only once? This would reduce alot of fake entries.

Simple small project, I liked it :)
The difference now is far greater access. With smartphones in everyone's pocket and TV boxes that connect to these services the whole thing becomes a lot more compelling.

As someone who doesn't work for any of these companies I can tell you there's truth to what they're saying. My Mog subscription has caused my iTunes spending to all but disappear.
On Refreshing, it changes the interface, every time you get a different input method. I guess its that way so as to avoid being biased over any number by default.
I was going to pick 4, but then realized that 4 has been my default "random" number, ever since http://xkcd.com/221/
Note that it is illegal in the US to use an alternate currency. The second this becomes popular, the feds will raid it and shut it down.

See Liberty Dollar, e-gold, etc.

Casino chips are specifically exempted from this rule, but only inside a casino.
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