skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that a feed of these might be useful. One of the functions on my shortlist is an RSS feed of your hubfeed. That way you can get filtered content from Hubski, not so much of a fire-hose.

One reason why I took the approach of following topics and users, rather than subhubs, is that some of the most interesting submissions might only qualify for a hub with very few readers, which is a problem I've encountered with /r/. Here, you can construct a feed in a way similar to the reddit custom frontpage, but you can choose to follow people as well as topics themselves. Thanks again for the thoughts.

-It's too bad this fell off the new page so fast. Maybe I'll try again in a few weeks after some more work. Maybe at a slower time of day too.
As I wrote, "not likely". For every Craigslist, there are a zillion companies doing their small niche thing.

And that's ok by me, that's where I'd like to be too. Just that I don't think that road is very likely to lead to world-changing stuff, either.
That is very true. I guess I should have explained myself.

During my years in college, a lot of grad and doctorate students would come in and try to help undergrads with their studies, projects, research, senior design projects etc.. What I came to realize is that you can't take what they say too seriously especially when you're aspiring to create something out of the ordinary. For me they weigh too heavily on research, research, research and if you can't validate every single thing you do, then don't do it. I don't agree with that, if you have an idea and think it'll work, do it, and if you execute it properly you will have some degree of success. For me that's the attitude that most of them had. Don't get me wrong, they were extremely intelligent but were too constrained by exact academic procedure and a lot of them had no experience in the real world, let alone the startup world. They would shoot down ideas and make you do ridiculous things for projects, that to me, made no sense and took away time from working on your product. I am not saying those things have no place, but at least from my experience, they weren't terribly interesting people, they were institutionalized by the academic system and didn’t really understand what you were trying to do.

When I say I have no admiration, I don't want to label every PHD that way. They are brilliant people. But for me when you do 4 years as an undergrad, go straight to your Masters in the same school and then to your Doctorate in the same school without anything in between, that doesn't require a lot of determination and resourcefulness. It's a lot easier and less risky to do that than create a startup around a crazy idea and potentially crash and burn. Then again, it might just have been my school.
Act more like a PC, less like an NPC
Caching Dynamically Generated Scripts
Do many web apps use those features yet? (Besides payment, that is; see my reply to your other comment for my view on that.)
If you're implying this may be an extended joke, I'm pretty sure it isn't. I've seen other stories about this in the past couple of months that have nothing to do with April 1. I'm not in any of the test markets though, so I can't vouch that I've seen these personally.
I agree with what you're doing, but I do think you're entirely wrong on this point. That's exactly one of the reasons why the police exists.
As far as I can tell, this is bullshit (the fleeing to South America part.).
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/geohot-flees-south-america-83...
From what the above site seems to indicate [probably more reputable in the context than the alternatives], he is simply on holiday.
There is some awesome stuff done by business and quant stuff in Excel. These people must hang out somewhere online. I even met some guys who had a startup based on this community, got funded and now they're worldwide and a going concern. I want to get to know more before I talk to them more.
Is there some generally agreed upon definition for that?
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Of course they mean the RaphaelJS author!
Twidium is a bit of a skeevy looking tool, I must admit. So far, we've only used it to follow people who have specifically put certain keywords in their tweets or bios, and it has worked well in helping us finding highly engaged consumers. Have you tried using it?
+1 for the effort.. but her choice of typography is a big BIG no-no. It's very hard to read. I don't think Instagram will be too pleased.
It's possible that the writer meant the more verbose nature of philosophy, as well as the explicit appeals to intuition in much of it, force this kind of "aha" moment more directly than math does.

However, I'm willing to bet it was just snark.
She sounds like a lady who's at least 78% unique.
On the modern web, where far-flung strangers collaborate on things like authoring an encyclopedia and overthrowing abusive governments, it's still too hard for most people to contribute to open source projects.

First, its actually not that easy to contribute to Wikipedia. Unless you've got a lot of patience to fight with the people who don't like your changes and are more willing to revert them rather than improve them, getting your contribution into Wikipedia is far more difficult than it first appears. Even if you are willing to undertake that battle, you have to navigate a slew of semi-official organizations and obscure three-letter-abbreviations in order to make your case. For example, I've seen the following on the Wikipedia IRC channel: "The submitter didn't like their article being AfD'd, so he took it to AN/I and argued that it wasn't a violation of WP:N." I wish OSS commentary would stop holding Wikipedia up as some paragon of openness, when in fact it is just as closed and insular as every other online community.

Second, the impact of a bad submission into Wikipedia is much less than the impact of a bad submission to a software project. A buggy patch causes the program to fail. A single bad fact on a Wikipedia article doesn't cause Wikipedia as a whole to be a failure. For that reason, free software projects are justified in being more selective than Wikipedia in accepting patches.
I'd just like to put it out there that when I run a company we will automatically disqualify anyone who tries to get a job w/ us in this way. So remember that if you'd like to work for me sometime in the near future.
There has never been a better time to invest in Detroit. I believe we have hit bottom. Billionaires are investing in the city again and we have competent leadership for the first time in decades....

Detroit is within 90 miles of about 6 major Universities, the lack of talent argument is lame.
Someone should make an app to let anyone make this kind of clean targeted resume.
So this is the new way to get a job huh? Replacing the old boring curriculum, I think it's great. Big and Creative
So what did you do? Just grab your keys and drive it away?
A passionate teacher is likely going to instill greater interest in a large number of students than that of one who does not convey the slightest amount of passion, dooming the poor disciples to such an ordeal -including the brightest ones.
Have you ever tried to transcribe anything? It's crazy how much garbage comes out with the actual words that form the sentences. Many amazing writers (not to mention linguists) have made their careers developing new written languages to attempt to get a little closer to capturing it, but capturing it is both impossible and an exercise in art, not a sane journalistic practice.
I see 'extreme' commercials for baby carrots all the time on local television. They can put all the marketing they want behind baby carrots, there is still one big problem: raw carrots taste like shit. I'd honestly rather go hungry than eat raw carrots, and no amount of cool marketing is going to change that.
Just in time for my next project, thanks!!!
As always, the APK needs to be obfuscated to prevent hackers from decompiling the code and bypassing the client library.

If internet connection is unavailable or androidlicenser.com is unreachable, it is completely upto the developer to determine what to do next. My best practice recommendation is to allow the user to continue to use the application.
...Or possible Detroit is the first of many American cities to go through an as yet unpredictable transformation. Stories like this discount the potentially positive effect this kind of 'reset' can have on a city. Let's face it - Detroit had lost its way a long time before all this economic turmoil sent many of us in a tailspin.

But of course sensational headlines like this get the most attention.
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Love the ambition, but I'm curious why her portfolio work isn't nearly as good as this site.
It looks like something I used to make using Print Master Gold in the late '90s
look the trend Detroit, Cleveland, ... this is the result of shipping jobs to china. I bet, bay area will loose 10% of its population by 2020.
How about this? http://arcv.cwjobs.co.uk/
Is the lack of a working maximize button good UX?
It's a two-hour webpage that says "I wanna work at Instragram", but doesn't answer the important questions. Why do you want to work at Instagram? How are you uniquely qualified to work at Instagram?

I feel sorry for companies that fall for this sort of thing.
One site I used to look at daily was http://linuxhomepage.com/

I would like something like this... but with the ability to drill down into comments rather than jumping to the actual site.

BTW - what did you learn to build this? Was it done with Rails? Or did you state this and I missed it?
So, you will discourage applicants from creating targeted webpages both expressing their love for your product (giving you more exposure) as well as doing something extra to stand out? Harsh.
Here's another article from USA Today, on the same subject, from September 3, 2010.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-08-29-bab...
Here's the thing: The kinds of ads you don't mind are the same kinds of ads that perform the worst for advertisers. The CPMs will probably reflect this.
Value is often derived from the cost of the alternative. I'm not sure I can buy the argument that Twitter should not be free when users could quickly and easily migrate to another free service, like Facebook. I know, Facebook ≠ Twitter, but how far do you think Twitter's user count would plummet as a result of even a marginal fee?

I'd like to see it happen, if only for the fact that we'd have a fantastic case study for future generations of social networks.
Optify To Launch A Social Media Tracking System For Businesses
Businesses are becoming more involved with social media sites by including them into their marketing strategies, but it’s not always easy to see if these efforts are actually adding any value to the business.
With absolutely no disrespect intended, "you have to try it to get it" isn't a very compelling pitch to get a potential user on board. There are just too many things out there that one could try. There must be a way that you could describe the service more explicitly.
It is based on: " As discussed above, to create his PSN account, Hotz was required to first agree to the terms of the PSN User Agreement and thus he is clearly subject to personal jurisdiction in California."
Free idiom upgrade: Perfect practice makes perfect.
I highly recommend that for your first set of questions you either use filter surveys (ask for age, location, gender, etc) to target people who are in your target user demographic, or have test questions to make sure they really understood your pitch (ex: Summarize this product in 30 words or less).

In my studies, I limited the respondents to the US, because I was getting too much noise from international workers. I also gave them the option of leaving more detailed feedback. Most of them did, to my surprise.
Congrats on the new release. Glad to see the project alive and well.

I've been using IronPython at my day job, an all-MS hospital, to write scripts and utilities that integrate with the rest of the ecosystem and supports the work of the main medical applications(.Net based). Using Python for scripting allows me to iterate quickly and saves a lot of boilerplate code.

I use a bunch of IronPython scripts for stuff like pre-generating cache records from our dead-slow database and determining usage patterns. I also use MongoDB for offline processing but i use cPython for that.

One thing that annoys me though is the startup time and I really hope that someone is working on this. The articles mentions a small decrease and so hopefully that's just a step forward in the right direction.
His files were being backed up to Blackblaze, so he just accessed his backup files. I'm guessing the Photo Booth video was also backed up, and he just downloaded it from Backblaze.
You can learn more about AndroidLicenser at blog.androidlicenser.com

These are some good posts to start at:

http://blog.androidlicenser.com/selling-shovels-to-android-g...

http://androidandme.com/2010/10/news/android-licenser-looks-...
Microsoft warns of hack attempt on Windows Live, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla
You can get decent data for about $50, but it may take you a few batches to get your questioning and worker filters on just right. I recommend starting with small batches of 20 or less responses, just to test quality (international vs. US only, specific panels, etc)
Yes, unfortunately no language is an optimum form of communication, so we rely on other cues (often body language when available) to try to determine what an author/speaker really means to convey. Word choice does play a role in that, which is why I think pg (or anybody) would prefer to be quoted correctly :)
Could someone please explain this one for me?

From the info in the article, Geohot testified that he never signed up for a PSN account. Sony is said to have produced evidence that he did, in fact, sign up for one under a different pseudonym.

Lying under oath is generally a crime, but whether or not he would be seriously prosecuted for that I have no idea. Microsoft seemed to do it with impunity in their antitrust trials years ago (e.g., they submitted video which turned out to have been fake to some degree).

In any case, it would seem pretty bad for his case since I think he was claiming that he never once accepted Sony's PSN user agreement.

That he's in South America, presumably with all the money people donated for his legal defense, makes it look even worse for him.

Hopefully, this will not have any negative impact on the general principle that it's legal to do whatever you want with the physical products you buy.

What is so special about California?

In some parts of California the economy appears to be largely based on "intellectual property". It's reasonable to assume that Sony chose this jurisdiction for a reason.
Anything that makes you stand above the crowd of job seekers and get noticed is (almost) always a smart move. Do you think Instagram is thinking "no, this girl is clearly an idiot?"

No, they're clearly going to notice her and give her consideration that she wouldn't otherwise get. They're probably thinking "nice initiative" even if they've seen this type of application before.

I think a few of you are being too cynical about this being overdone. Getting a new career is a highly competitive race and doing anything that gets you noticed (and on the top of Hacker News) is always going to be a win for your career.
September 3 2010 is less perplexing as it's in the past.
Not amazing at all. This is precisely the behavior I would expect from a social networking site. The same factors that drive exponential growth (hey, all my friends are here, I should join too!) now drive exponential decline (hey, my friends are leaving, guess I should leave too!). Facebook should take heed, it could collapse just as suddenly.
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I think this is a prime example of "too much telling not enough showing." While I dig Netta's moxie and possibly would even hire her as a community manager, there isn't much here that wows me. Less than 200 Instagram photos and a lackluster design portfolio don't back up the passion and talent that she claims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_profile_of_Detroit
Actually, at least in some countries, the punishment for buying stolen goods is similar to stealing it.
My wife won't eat carrots because they make her allergic (cooked ones are fine)... she only gets these reactions since moving here to the US from France.

Since this is a duopoly from the same region (Central CA), perhaps the dropoff in the past few years is due to the carrot quality?
The "equation" is a simple cryptographic hash performed on a block of data, as described earlier in this thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358396

The equation itself is trivial -- it can be calculated hundreds of thousands of times a second by even a really slow CPU.

An artificially set difficulty is implemented and the result is that only one of those attempts across the entire network will succeed in about ten minutes, which is the targeted time for processing a batch of transactions (a block).
I don't want employees who love my product, I want employees who are competent. this example is telling in that although the prospective employee clearly wants the job she is also clearly not a particularly talented designer.
It is not. I live in one of the test markets and the commercials run constantly. One of the commercials features an woman shooting a baby carrot mini-gun at a man while he jumps off a cliff.
What's next for Firefox in 2011?
> If you're implying this may be an extended joke

No, just intrigued by the article being apparently from the future.
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Actually it is a cut-down version of W7. But you're still right, as "MinWin" has meant different things inside Microsoft across each release:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minwin#Releases

An interesting excerpt (iirc, Eric demoed this in a Channel 9 video):

In October 2007, Eric Traut, a developer at Microsoft, demonstrated a self-contained MinWin system, made up of about 100 files, on which a basic HTTP server was running.[10][11] Traut noted that MinWin takes up about 25 MB on disk and has a working set (memory usage) of 40 MB. It lacked a graphical user interface and is interfaced using a full-screen command line interface. Traut explained during the demo that MinWin would not be offered as a stand-alone product, but would instead be used as the basis for future operating system releases such as Windows 7.
I agree. I think any employer would be flattered with such a targeted application.

But I think it could be better if she listed benefits she could bring Instagram, rather than her personality traits. She does link to a very nice resume that has more content.
So you plan to buy 'Tipsy'? Just wondering how much of this is a strawman
Yes, OCD is doing really rad things! I encourage others to check them out, http://omnicorpdetroit.com/blog/

If/when I move back to the D Ill be joining OCD asap
Deprecated by Google?
Hm. That gives me an idea. Maybe I could build an alternate 'followed tags' page that have a view broken up like that. Each box would be the content from a different tag. -Thanks for pointing that out.

I'm using Arc, which HN is written in. It is a dialect of Lisp. I love the language actually, but there isn't too much support. I'm just learning. I think I might try another language for my next project.
I was addressing this part of said comment: "clichéd, obsequious". I do agree with your last point. Most people who tell me how funny they are turn out to be the exact opposite.
Google Should Stand up for Fair Use in Books Fight
Really? I love raw carrots and I know I'm not alone.
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Try getting into a PhD program without a high school diploma

Does any graduate program even ASK if an applicant has a certificate of completion of secondary schooling? Which one?

(Note that the submitted post claims that the author knows someone who received multiple offers of admission to graduate programs without possessing a high school diploma, which sounds very plausible to me indeed.)
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1. To initiate speech input, there needs to be direct user interaction on that microphone icon. I wish there was a way for extensions to initiate it manually.

2. This is a bug in Chrome due to the extension rendering in a popup bubble and the usual speech indicator also being in a popup bubble, but it won't render as only one popup bubble at a time can be displayed.
That's completely different, and you know why.
On the contrary, what people care about absolutely is the law in the Anglo-American setup. Laws are black and white (sort of), but the world is grey. We have juries not just to ascertain guilt, but to decide whether punishment should be brought forth.

No jury will ever side with the thief for what is essentially mischief.
Sorry, I still don't get it. Let's put the empirical question aside, and suppose that in fact, if you lined up every American in order of income, the difference between any given person's income and that of the person on his left or right would be no more than 0.000003%.

What does that show? Well, it shows exactly what you say: that income in absolute dollars would grow exponentially from one end of the line to the other. I'm not sure what comfort this is supposed to be. Can you say to the guy at the bottom that, just because there's no place on the line where incomes take a big leap (percentage-wise), he should be content to live in a society that's structured this way? that he is unjustified in thinking the global pattern is wrong, because there's no obvious local point where it goes wrong?

I agree that it sounds ludicrous to say a 0.000003% differential is unfair, while a 0.000001% differential would be okay. But it isn't clear that the issue should be framed in terms of a percentage differential at all. You say that this is a "natural, social, statistical" phenomenon -- but why is it more "natural" that wealth should grow exponentially from one end of the line to the other, rather than (say) linearly? (And why should we expect that making society more fair will consist in adjusting a uniform percentage differential in wealth, as opposed to, say, the normal non-uniform means of redistribution we use now, like progressive taxation?)

Moreover, if exponential growth from poorest to richest really is the natural structure of income in modern society, then the question of whether a 0.000003% or 0.000001% differential makes for the best society becomes quite important, for exactly the reasons you point out: such a tiny difference in percentage has enormous consequences when iterated over hundreds of millions of people. And surely, in doing our moral reasoning and in making policy, those global consequences should count for something. We need not be consigned to incredulity that such an apparently tiny difference could matter.
Do you think you should hold a person morally responsible for a terrible result they have no control over? For instance, if I shoved person A into person B and as a result person B fell onto the third rail of a commuter train, would you hold person A morally responsible?
Our town installed traffic cameras so that police Could start patrolling bars etc instead of the highway.