skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Orange is overused. It comes across as garish, clownish, halloween-ish. I find it so distracting I can't manage to focus on reading the "headlines" (or whatever they are) that I am supposed to be reading. I would highly recommend you grab some of the lovely shades of blue and green from your header/logo and use that more liberally and use orange with a good deal more restraint. I like orange, but both orange and yellow are problematic when overused (so said my class in Cartography for GIS eons ago and so says my poor strained eyes from checking out your site).
Real time hand sign recognition had a published solution in 2005 ( http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1107692 "an automatic Australian sign language (Auslan) recognition system, which tracks multiple target objects (the face and hands) throughout an image sequence and extracts features for the recognition of sign phrases. ") after about 10 to 15 years of prior work (eg: Hand movement classification using an adaptive fuzzy expert system -https://www.socrates.uwa.edu.au/Pub/PubDetailView.aspx?Publi... ) - 1996).

It's interesting that this work flowed out of research and development in sheep shearing robotics ( http://school.mech.uwa.edu.au/~jamest/shearmagic/autoshear.h... ) from the late 1970s / early 1980s.
FWIW, despite using Google Analytics, that Ad Planner shows exactly half of my true traffic (showing 110K pageviews vs 220K real). So I guess they're not working out the numbers from GA then..
I like what the Tesla company is doing, in regards to attempting to make alternative fuel cars, I'm all for such things. And yes, its an up hill battle, which I'm sure the internal combustion engine faced, while trying to oust horses for a viable mode of transportation. Not only is the technology not up to par/cost effective on a mass scale, there is the issue of charging station locations, and the nay sayers like the host of Top Gear, who isn't the only one that grumbles at the thought of electric or "eco-friendly" read Hot Rod magazine sometime. Which seems to be what Tesla wants to answer, electric cars can go fast to.
But this lawsuit seems like its disingenuous, more like they are playing off a couple social issues for their benefit. 1 "Environment" is an emotional trigger second only to stuff like racism and sexism level stuff, its got some emotional appeal just by saying the word, either for or against. So claiming foul on someone who is notoriously pro fast powerful cars, who inherently isn't going to like commuter based cars, really nails that emotion. 2 Taking it to the media, to hit a full scale marketing campaign about it, years after it happened, to help fuel that emotion and go after the media justice that seems to easy to do, like O.J. we all "know" he did it, but was proven innocent pretty much. Enough press coverage to one side, and we all start forming our own judgments. I think these are dirty tricks, that only add fuel to the opposition's fire. Like the scientists who were busted with bad data on global warming. Regardless if the position is true, getting caught doing dirty tricks, is going to make you look bad regardless, doing more harm than good. Just because I agree with their environmental position, doesn't mean I have to look the other way, when they break other beliefs of mine. I'm angered cause of the damage this could do for environmentalism, which I believe in first, their company second.
> In addition, the lawsuits are based on sending a few bytes of the file to someone who has a legal right to those bytes (the company that released the movie).

The lawsuits are based on unauthorized creation and distribution of copies of copyrighted material. What you describe is part of the evidence used to prove that. If the defendant wishes to argue that they normally ran their P2P software in a mode that did not actually share anything, and it was only some weird glitch that one time when the movie company happened to be sniffing that led to an accidental release of bits, they are free to try it, and the jury is free to decide its probative value.

> Bittorrent is like making a copy of a DVD, smashing it into a thousand pieces, and giving each pies to a random passerby.

If you did that, you would no longer have the pieces that you distributed, which breaks the analogy.
his post was a poor personal attack with zero effort to back up any claims. I outlined one of the ways it could have been a better post.
You'd think it was the dark ages back then, with people rubbing sticks and stones together.

In truth it wasn't so bad. Markup was more cruder and more troublesome than today with HTML4/5 and CSS2/3 but there's nothing wrong with a simple layout. Cookies couldn't be entirely depended on but you could still keep track of the equivalent with a query parameter that you put into every url. Server side tools were cruder but there was still perl so you didn't have to roll everything on your own out of C (though many web apps in 1996 were written in C/C++). Some of the biggest web companies of today such as amazon and ebay got their start in that era and were already doing big business even back then.
Yeah I largely agree with this: this is a turd of a hatchet job of an article. Pretty obvious that there are personal gripes coming thru. The dipshit acolytes in the comments there cheering on this asshole are particularly galling.
Apple: http://www.sizzlingbit.com/2010/10/18/apple-made-20-34-billi...

Android: http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=12707
Yes, but still much bigger than HN

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=slashdot.org%2Cnews.ycom...
The point about hydrogen is that you can fill up in a traditional manner (quickly), rather than having to charge a battery.
I just put my site into compete.com and the graph looked the same, with a drop off since august 2010, while our traffic has been steadily climbing.
Wow, nice graphs, great info, thanks.
Bitcoin continues to grow
Right now it's Thinkpads.
Thanks, I guess I never looked beyond the claims of the high-school survey of European history. There are still, no doubt, plenty of examples of people achieving certain results at the expense of more important ones (treating people like people, for instance).
So first, the 55 mile claim was one of the 5 main points of the suit, which is why I brought it up.

And while I agree that much of new Top Gear is entertainment, I'm just saying that based on other information available, Top Gear doesn't look so outrageous. Autoweek also stated that their car died down well before the 220 mile range and went into a reduced power mode.

Moreover, Top Gear isn't the first to point out mechanical or electrical problems on a Tesla (couple examples below). The car itself was delayed because of such problems. And I along with most people also be worried if some fuse controlling my brakes was busted.

And in the episode, they don't hail fuel-cells because they go further without a charge, they hail them because they fit with the model of car ownership that we're used to, allowing you to drive however long you want and just fill up intermediately.

Perhaps I had a poor choice of words, but I certainly understand what Tesla is claiming. I'm more just confused that they would file suit like this especially given that from what I can tell, Top Gear's claims seem valid given not only the accounts of the situation, but also reviews from other publications.

[1] http://www.greenpacks.org/2009/05/29/half-of-tesla-roadsters...
[2] http://www.thestreet.com/story/10877793/1/tesla-initiates-vo...

Edit: Speaking of fiduciary duty, Tesla's apparently asking for "not more than £100,000" in damages, so I'd say this is a waste of the shareholders' and taxpayer money (given its $0.5B bailout).
http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1057705_tesla-vs-topgear-...
Sure, I'm totally with you there.
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I enjoy Top Gear but their (ie Clarkson's) animosity towards hybrids, electrics etc. is pretty pathetic, epically antiquarian.
Unfortunately this also means that there's a lot more competition out there and the game's getting harder.
It does. Being from MN, I really admire what you're trying to do, so I don't know how to ask this nicely, so I'll just ask it... how do you justify your terms being the same as YC when your value proposition is so much less? You can't possibly argue that your network is as valuable as YC's.
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Maybe not a conversation, but an event or mention on mass media that made people interested in HN?

For example, I first heard of HN at an event here in Uruguay (a well known entrepreneur, Nicolas Jodal, mentioned it on his keynote). Probably several other people at the event checked it out too.
Hi! Thanks for taking the time. Here are some answers:

The long username shouldn't be a problem anymore.

Yes, I want it to be a discussion forum, people can post links, questions, comments. I also want it to be novel.

The entropy formula is described in the FAQ, it might not be totally scientific sound but I believe it somewhat describes the informational content of the thread.

Regarding the unit circle; [-1,1] is isomorphic to S1 if we identify -1 and 1 as the same point.
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I wonder how much traffic HN is cannibalizing from more traditional tech news sources like venturebeat and techcrunch ... http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com+venturebeat....
Are you sure about this? That the UK is a more straightforward place to incorporate than the US? I'm dubious.

* First, there's not much evidence that the person we're talking about really owes a dime to Delaware. He set up a C-Corp (!), which apparently owes some corporate tax, but that doesn't make him personally liable. So, despite choosing the most complicated conceivable way to incorporate in the US, he can probably still just walk away.

* Second, does the UK have an LLC or S-Corporation equivalent? That is to say: is there a structure you can use to get pass-through taxation (business proceeds taxed once, as income) instead of corporate taxation, and have a shareholder structure that allows you to grant equity to employees? Because that is exactly the structure most pre-VC and bootstrapped startups want.

* Third, the US doesn't have the UK's system of rules requiring qualified directors; for instance, a bankruptcy in the US can't prevent you from being a principal in a company.

* Fourth, isn't it more expensive to incorporate in the UK than it is in the US? It costs under $100 to get a liability shield to do business under in the US. What's the equivalent UK cost?

* Fifth, and finally, aren't the laws in the US simply more business-friendly than in the UK? UK employees need to be given reasonable notice or compensation prior to termination; the UK is also not an "at-will" employment regime, making it harder to fire and thus harder to hire employees.

The UK is, from what I've read, the best of the business regulatory regimes in Europe, and the rules don't look onerous; they only look marginally more annoying than those of Delaware. However, I think that by looking at the weird choice made by one blogger (a full-on C-Corp), you might have gotten a distorted idea of what the regs in the US actually are.
Mainly for complete beginners, but, learning Ruby and/or Rails is great and all, however, a lot of beginners tend to not understand the principles behind web development such as SQL or javascript or security or HTML.

What really astounds me is that people take ActiveRecord at face value and do stupid things such as Foo.all.sort_by(&:blah) or Foo.all.select {|x| x.stuff == "term"} and don't understand why it's such a bad idea.
"Courts have long recognized that the Copyright Clause exists "in tension" with the First Amendment and, therefore, have tried their best to harmonize the two."

Can I get a citation for that? It seems very interesting, and I hadn't heard of it before.
Just out of curiosity, would working 2000 hours a year for five years make you a "superstar" too?
There's also one for ships, using real GPS data from AIS - http://marinetraffic.com/ais/

and another one for planes http://www.flightradar24.com/
Summary: change the environment.

It also highlights why UX is so important (there's an example of a timesheet where removing a 10 second delay, they saw a huge improvement)
What has helped me is a well filled task list. I use pivotal tracker more or less as a task list and for some scope control, even though I work alone. I guess every form of task list will do the job, however.

The important thing is that there is some sort of backlog. That serves two purposes: I feel more motivated to get started when I see all the work which needs to get done as concrete steps. And I can pick a simple or complex task whichever fits my work mode best at the time.
Have you tried looking for angels through your potential customers? As in, ask your (future) customers if they can introduce you to a VC or angel.
Find industry investors, look up other companies who sell to your market and see who invested in them (also for those which have exited, have a look at their founders).

Alternatively speak to your customers, one of them may be willing to invest. People who buy financial analysis software tend to be sophisticated buyers. Bloomberg was started with an angel investment from their first customer Merril Lynch.

Also if you can get letters of intent from your customers commit to buying your product you can use them as collateral to get a loan from your bank.
"... Isn't the v8 source included in node: V8 is included in the Node distribution. To use TLS, ..."

Yes, right. From v1 (I only looked back to 1) V8 is installed. I install it anyway.
As an entrepreneur, the onus does fall on you to make sure that your elevator pitch is such that any layman can understand it. Generally, the Angels are smart people and are generally quick to catch up. May be you can go with a metaphor that people understand, like you are the mint.com for really small hedge fund managers (it probably doesn't make sense but you get the idea). It's ok to be vague to get people interested and once they give you their full attention walk them through the process (but stay away from too much details, its ok to be slightly wrong than to be entirely incomprehensible).

Once the investors do their research (and they will) they will come to you with specific questions and that's the time to show the entire breadth of your knowledge and full set of features.

All from my personal experience. My $0.02.
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Just for fun, I made a comparison with the data from Google Trends:

http://i.imgur.com/T1H1C.png

Google is actually pretty close, although the last few months are off.
Expecting the Top Gear folks to be fair, sensible or responsible is totally missing the point of the show in my opinion. These are the same guys that do -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjzpx_jUUA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOvp69lnZbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMcZH-1FEHo

Consumer Reports and Car and Driver are factual and fair. But they arent entertaining, passionate or engrossing.
Can I ask why you created a C-Corp in the first place?
I've been intending to try Objective C for many years now. I like C, I like Smalltalk, and I like Mac OS. Maybe when I finish my degree, but there's no time now.
Agree 100% that Textmate is easier for people who are just getting started programming-- heck, I started with it.
Valleys are weekends and January tends to have the lowest valley, most likely due to winter break for and/or vacation time. If you were to measure the time spent on HN only on peaks you could get a rough estimate of the time spent not working, at work.

Thanks for the graph.
[citation needed]

I really mean that. If you have evidence for that belief, please share it here. The leading world expert on the subject of development of expertise, K. Anders Ericsson,

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson.dp.html

is decidedly not of that opinion, after having seen many examples of introducing systematic deliberate practice into the environments of people who formerly didn't have opportunities for such practice.
IANAL, but from what I've read, the original legislative intent, in most jurisdictions, is that the process by which an artefact is created (including a stream of bits sent over a network or data sent on a block device) rather than the data itself which makes something a protected work - and it is the process of copying that is restricted.

If you invent the exact same sequence completely independently, you own it. However, the problem of looking at data and saying that copying happened is one of inference; if I posted exactly the same comment you just wrote, I could have independently come up with your copyrighted comment, and hence own the copyright, but the much more likely explanation is that I copied your comment, and so judges and juries infer copying from similarity that they believe is statistically unlikely.

So if person A generates a random string from the uniform distribution, and communicates it securely to a trusted person, B, who XORs the string with your comment, and A shares the random string with the public, while B shares the XORed string, technically only B commits direct copyright infringement, because B created a derivative work by XORing, and broadcast that work (copying). If done properly, no one could prove which person was A and which was B however. In practice, however, it is likely that if both people acted with intent to distribute the work, they would both be at least secondarily liable.
I would try taking as much time as necessary to explain the idea to a smart friend without an industry background and seeing how they explain it to someone else.
I also put shoes on when I work at home. I have a pair that's just for indoors.
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I was just doing the same thing, you beat me to it. Thanks for the comparison, it's interesting to see how analytics from others compare to the real thing.
Quantcast shows ./ has an order of magnitude more traffic

http://www.quantcast.com/ycombinator.com - 21.3k monthly people
http://www.quantcast.com/slashdot.org - 261k monthly people
I'm taking a multimodal user interfaces course, and for our final project my partner and I discussed a gesture based interface for GMail on March 31. 10 hours later I saw GMail Motion. Granted, we weren't thinking quite the gesture set Google had in mind, but similar idea.
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Looks a bit like a seismograph readout. Are the troughs caused by weekends?
No, that is incorrect. The number produced above is not a copy of any copyrighted work. You would in fact be free to distribute it with no risk at all of liability for copyright infringement. Let's call your number S.

Yes, somewhere in S is a bit string that happens to match the bit string of almost any particular encoding of almost any particular movie or musical performance. If you just distribute S to someone, they have no way practically, or even reasonably theoretically, to actually find those strings.

Now, if you gave a copy of S to someone AND told them "start at offset X and take Y bits and save these as a file with the extension .mp3", and the result of that matched a particular copyrighted piece of music then guess what--copyright infringement (depending on how you found X and Y). Specifically, if the procedure was to start with the copyrighted piece of music and somehow search the string for it to determine X, then distributing (X,Y,S) would be copyright infringement.

No one is claiming, even implicitly, to own S.
Just added Walgreens to the list. Getting Interesting.
I have a similar issue and I am nowhere near the development stage you are at. I flippantly make remarks that "I have found the cure for CF and it is a video game!" and stuff like that. I continue to wrestle with how to simply and accurately convey what I've accomplished (in terms of getting myself well when doctors claim it can't be done), why I believe it generalizes and is replicable, and why I think an improved information delivery system is The Answer rather than some "charity". I think at some point charity to help pay for costs involved in getting well will have it's place but first some serious in-roads need to be made into "mind share" -- into convincing people that a completely different way of viewing the problem is essential, more essential than money, drugs, etc.

I've spent several years talking to people on online forums and working on getting my head wrapped around the issue. I think it's important to find the "skeleton"/framework of it to hook people but it's important to not over simplify. I'm not really planning on seeking investors, at least that is not part of my mental model at this stage. But I think you need to find a) a means give sufficient background info before the actual pitch and b) a really good analogy/metaphor to help bridge the communication gap. For unrelated reasons, I have some practice with stuff like that. I am still working on trying to apply it to the whole "I've found the cure for CF..." thing.

Good luck with this.
"... You mean, he explained that it was necessary to build from source, and why? Is this information available in textual form? ..."

It isn't 100% necessary. You can install from binaries. But as node is a moving target as a dev you get the best feature set/bug fixed version, faster. The talk hasn't been transcribed to my knowledge. Why not view the vid or ask @ryan or irc://irc.freenode.net#freenode why from source? The install instructions here ~ https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation or install binaries here ~ https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-p...
Clarkson is a bit of a prick when it comes to favoritism on cars (you know, kinda like some top tier tech blogs)

He is a 98% octane gear head and will not tolerate electric cars, so his review did not surprise me much when I watched it.

I'm a long time Porsche owner and will never forgive him on an episode when he dropped a Piano on an older 911 or when he totally disrespected the Porsche GT for comparing its composite disk rotors to anti-acid.

Guess I will never get British humor.
customs are in particular established as explicit points where things passing through may legally be inspected.

Drug dealer caught by somebody snooping into his shipments without a warrant has good chances for such an evidence be thrown out of court.
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Other than someone with serious finger/hand issues, I'm having a hard time imagining a disability that would prohibit someone from using a mouse/keyboard as input but would leave them able to use full-body gestures.
Be advised that Caltrain is having money problems and plans to drastically reduce their service this summer, so if you ever need to commute after 8:30 AM or stay past 7 PM you might be screwed. That's a very long bus ride, or a high cab fare.

http://www.caltrain.com/riderinfo/Proposed_Service_Changes.h...

I stayed in motels as I got to know the area and decided where I wanted to commit to staying. Some offer weekly rates that are competitive with local rents. Sequoia Inn was nice, and it's in Redwood City:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/roo/2299556424.html
This is absolutely true. Although rocking a dyed mohawk for awhile may help you develop a strong personality. Because you already stand out, you might worry less about fitting in and be free to express your true self.
Why post a link to compete.com when pg has just discredited as a source for meaningful information?

A similar comparison on Google reflects little change for the others:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com%2Ct...

That said, it relies on GoogleToolbar/Chrome, but we could argue that it's distribution amongst visitors of those sites is going to be pretty similar.

Edit: Updated to include mashable.com
Thanks, now I don't need to do that to satisfy my curiosity :-)