skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, barring the github guys rushing to integrate with us, we made a bookmarklet I'll post here in a bit.

Great suggestion by the way.
I've found Quora to be great for non-tech topics. Human relationships, cooking, pop culture, lifestyle topics are all active on Quora and contain good content.
This is the first I've heard of TinyGrab, but for Mac users looking for something else Cloud seems to do the same thing (that is, it can automatically upload screenshots and put the URL in the clipboard for you). http://getcloudapp.com/
Hi I'm working with sgrove on the project. We had considered an app cacheing or reuse approach for dealing with this influx of traffic, however we wanted every one to have a fresh install experience.

We very well could have directed you to an existing unclaimed install of a popular app and saved the resources of spinning up another. We felt that this could be messy as you might end up on an app that somebody had polluted with test/demo data and settings.

We cache dependencies for popular apps.
How did you print it? I only ask because the print preview for it shows that it loses a lot of it's style (background color, borders, etc.).
Microsoft (Bill Gates specifically) also thought the internet was a fad.
It looks promising... Already a lot going on :)
Invite-only, and one must fill out an application? I'd pass, based on that alone. Under such circumstances, I would have never been able to enjoy HN, for example.

If there is a strong desire for an "exclusive" community, how about requiring people to pay to use it?
Hey, there's another article recently on HN about an MIT professor's "artificial leaf" meaning a solar cell that produces hydrogen directly. So now we know when that will happen.
Reads from /dev/random will block when the entropy pool is empty. You can see the number of bits of entropy available on a Linux systems via:

$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail

If you need more, better randomness, check out the Entropy Key:

http://www.entropykey.co.uk/
I don't understand people who say this about the ribbon UI. "Messy and complex"? Do you remember what Office XP looked like on startup? Literally forty different, tiny anonymous icons?
Interesting observation - I think there are a number of factors at play here...

In my world (Business development/partnerships), I've noticed a diff between west coast and east coast (really Bay area vs. non). The west coast guys are less interested about getting money for BD deals than the east coast guys are. I wonder if that is partially playing out here too... the west coast guys have more money so they can spend their time with pranks (note- we did one too and we're in Chicago)

Could be way overthinking it though.

Another point - I noticed that some of our peers in Chicago did April Fools jokes but they didn't take over the homepage, they were just blogposts that were likely never read.
Just Ruby (rack) and static (CSS/HTML5/JS) apps right now. Our backend is built in a way we think should scale to other languages nicely (although we have to impose some structure), but we're focusing on getting the system and experience right for one group of people first, and once users are sufficiently happy from there, we'll build out in different directions.
I will be probably downvoted for saying this (as I see other people who tried to convey a similar message on this thread were), but I think that posts like these are of little interest to many of us. I don't mean to offend anyone, especially not RiderOfGiraffes who I greatly admire, but I think it's worth pointing out what other HN users have been trying to say.

Posts like these are bad for HN for a few reasons:

- they appear often and usually repeat the same message
- they support the minority of elitists who already dominate HN
- their content is only news-worthy to users who've been on HN
for a while and not the new ones

Basically, any content that is submitted to HN and refers to a user or a user's experience of HN is simply a popularity contest. Whether it becomes popular on HN depends on the popularity of the user. The active and prominent users then feel the need to upvote and comment as they can relate to the poster. However, any budding new user that is trying to 'break in' to the community is confronted with what appears to be a form of exclusivity.

What results is a thread in which the OP, upvoters, and commenters that are supporting news that only apply to them.

HN shouldn't have threads like these - threads should apply to as many people as they can. I'm not saying that life has to be fair, but I think the end of these posts would help make HN feel like a more inclusive place.
I applied, out of curiosity, but I have to say I'm a bit apprehensive about an invite-only community. The insistence on having a Gravatar almost feels cultish.
Thank you, Vim is definitely helpful!
I find that with the new 90 degree connector it is much more likely to be yanked in parallel to the machine. The metal mount is much more durable but I've had my laptop nearly pulled out of my hands a few times by someone tripping/yanking on the cord and pulling the machine straight back.
Patience. Most big things start from saturating a specific, comparatively-small community. They then expand with leverage.

(E.g.: Facebook, Etsy, Flickr, Twitter, Foursquare, etc et all)
> As far as names matching a character in a movie, I think it would be very difficult to make a suit out of this.

You would be very surprised:

'Some controversy has risen in Germany, where Albert Uderzo's own publishing company, Les Éditions Albert René, is claiming in court that certain IT companies whose name end in "ix" (not unnatural in companies who work with Unix) are damaging his brands "Asterix" and "Obelix".'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Uderzo#Lawsuits_in_Germa...
I suggest you patch the call to rm with a call to srm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srm_(Unix)
Argh, meant to upvote, misclicked, sorry.
Do you claim to not know spanish when people say they are going out for burritos?
This is slowly changing. For instance, see: http://www.quora.com/Ashton-Kutcher
Just Ruby/Rails/Sinatra for the near future. As much as we'd like to go after that, it's not likely something we'll be able to handle.

ThinkUp looks pretty damn interesting though :)
Can you point me to a site that discusses the best practices for generating and securing my keypair? I don't have enough faith in an Instructable to get all the details right. How would I go about becoming part of this "web of trust" that I keep hearing about in relation to PGP.
Physics For Future Presidents (voted best course at Berkeley)
Wasn't this always expected to be the point of Google Goggles?
It does seem like fatigue is setting in for some of the leaders. I think that's normal. When you give so much energy and time to something you expect the same in return. You expect that people are going to care as much as you and you become disappointed when they don't.

So change your expectations. When I joined over 2 years ago I remember contributing every feasible moment. It was exhausting and I remember feeling so demoralized from the downvoting or from the fact I didn't receive as many upvotes as I thought I should from what I thought was an insightful comment.

Finally I decided that for me HN was best used as passively as possible. I read HN often but I try to only contribute when a topic is in my domain. That solves the confidence problem and the burnout problem. I dont foresee myself leaving anytime soon. I havent noticed degrading quality in articles submitted or comments like others have. Maybe it's because I don't watch the site as closely, but for me the site still works as intended.
Not at all. Just trying to figure out how they might have a dev environment setup where there isn't a copy on local developer machines. Not all languages make that easy. PHP does.
They're doing ok, probably just a mini-sharkfin from a wave of press. Interesting that HN is over half as big:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=quora.com,news.ycombinat...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/245063794_5ab866053b.jpg
Along the same lines, I think that part of the problem is that there's inflation in upvotes because people have an unlimited supply.

I don't upvote that often. When I do, I really mean it because the content is that good.

I'm sure that there are others who have a much lower bar for submitting an upvote. After all, an upvote costs nothing.

Why shouldn't upvotes from people who are active but upvote rarely count more than those who upvote a lot? How about some of the outstanding long time users with tons of karma: why don't their upvotes count for much more than a newbie upvoting a linkbait article or a reddit-style joke thread?

All upvotes are not equal.

I think this is one of the underlying problems with many social moderation systems, HN included.

Your idea of having upvotes cost karma is an example of one of the possible solutions that economics has devised for us.
It's not the RSA key size that prevents you from using RSA for arbitrary message lengths. Notice that block ciphers used for bulk encryption are similarly constrained by their block length (which are far shorter than an RSA key). In both RSA and AES, you can use a chaining construction to encrypt arbitrary-length messages.

The things that keep you from doing this in the real world with RSA are security and speed.

It's first of all much slower to perform a single RSA operation than it is to perform the AES block transform. AES involves no bignum math at all, let alone bignum modular multiplication.

Secondly and more importantly, RSA encryption is fundamentally volatile and dangerous. As an exercise, go implement it in Python or Ruby (you're going to find it's remarkably easy, since both those languages automatically promote to bignums). RSA is just a simple formula. As a result, there are a variety of pitfalls to using it safely. Among the important ones is the fact that you can't safely encrypt related messages, and that messages require a certain proportion of random padding.
Particularly in the humanities, journalism, and social science fields, where most internships are poorly paid (if paid at all), a prospective intern needs to have enough of a financial cushion to both pay their expenses while not earning money at a paying job. This selects for students from higher-income families. Paying for an internship spot sounds like the next logical step under the current system. The question is, how can we level the playing field?
One thing I've learned is you need to have a 'mission'. You have to want to do X and describe yourself as someone who does X. If you are just wandering around telling people, "I'm a programmer...and like to do web stuff" etc. it's too vague. Definitely have an idea/project you are working on and present yourself as working on it.

I guess it seems obvious--but for awhile I used to just float around at conferences just looking for interesting opportunities....but people won't really reveal them to you if they don't know what you do.
No, but PHP easily allows a "edit source on server" as a deployment model.
It doesn't sound like the OP tried very hard to resolve this before deducing this was all a scam that had to come to light. McAfee isn't going to resolve this out of goodwill after several email complaints -- I wouldn't trust them to. The OP needs to try harder to light a fire under someone's ass. McAfee has little to nothing to gain from bending to the whim of flagged sites.

To say that the OP's experience would be different as a paying customer, either as a mere AV subscriber or as a subscriber to their hacker-safe service, is an unfounded assumption -- to say the next step is forking over protection money and that this is all a scam is pure sensationalist FUD.

I'm firmly in the skeptic camp. Without any evidence, the OP's site could be legitimately flagged. Also, I sure as hell wouldn't let this linger for 2 years. Maybe I missed something though, I gave up on the comments after a minute, my tolerance to the reddit front page hivemind is very low.

Also - thanks for introducing me to Hanlon's razor, it's now posted in my office.
i understand your goal. but realize that current experience is "frozen at 8%"... not a super first impression either.

just suggesting to improve the hn post consequences
From experience in porting an OS, common porting scaffolding can include a cross compiler and a cross linker, and replacing an assembler with a compiler for compiling the assembly code for the new target box.

Getting a native build and a native C++ and a native assembler re-hosted can then proceed secondary to getting the basic OS pieces booted and rolling.
While there are Internet services that purport to realize an actual "web of trust", the "web of trust" concept is really notional. It's more an idea than a thing. The idea is, instead of having a central authority that vouches for every key, you get your keys directly from your acquaintances, verify them directly with your acquaintances, and in turn vouch for those keys with your peers.
While you cannot know the pixel density or reading distance of every device a web page is read with, many of the principles hold true. The design should scale to the font sizes preferred by the various devices, and for example leading (line spacing) and length of text lines should stay sane.
Sacha's an awesome person to work with, for anyone looking for a designer who understands MVP and UX. I've seen him and Didier work magic with LocomotiveCMS!
That said, the U.K. spends a lot less as a percentage of GDP on health care, but then they have a substantially lower per capita GDP.

As someone who has a life-threatening medical condition (and also spends a lot of time talking to others with serious conditions), I will note that being unhealthy has a great many costs involved that go far beyond whatever is spent on doctors and drugs. The very high healthcare costs in the US are not merely a financial cost. They are an indicator of general poor health in the US: High levels of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and on and on. People who are ill have less energy and mental focus for the tasks of day-to-day living and often spend more money on lower quality products, like eating microwave meals and fast food instead of cooking from scratch.

In fact, the degree to which my local grocery store is an utter madhouse right before American holidays that revolve around a big meal where extended family is typically invited suggests to me and others that I have spoken with that most Americans just don't much cook. I was a homemaker for 2 decades and the degree to which I shopped daily for fresh meats and produce and cooked for dinner what I had bought fresh earlier that afternoon drew frequent remarks from people who worked at the grocery store and who wished their wife would cook like I did. I have gotten myself a great deal healthier than doctors think is possible for my condition and dietary changes are a big part of how I accomplished that. It is well known that Europe has a food culture in a way that is unknown here in the US. I strongly suspect that the emphasis on eating well in Europe is linked both to having a high quality of life without a very high salary and to lower overall healthcare costs.

/soapbox
Here's the thing about the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming. It rests on the assumption that uniformitarianism (the doctrine that is the basis for the entire science of Geology) is false.
It does not attempt to prove this, it merely assumes it. Much like the Young Earth Creationists.

All the CO2 currently sequestered in fossil fuels used to be part of our atmosphere. We know what the climate was like before this happened through fossils, changing sea levels, and evidence of glaciation, all recorded in the rock. The climate has followed a predictable and remarkably constant warming/cooling cycle as far back as we can reliably measure. If the sequestration of CO2 in fossil fuels had an impact, it's below our level of precision.

Could the release of CO2 make a slight difference at the margins? Sure it could. The ice age we've got coming down the pike in a few thousand years could possibly be partially mitigated.
But the sackcloth, ashes, and cries of "The End is Nigh! Repent, Ye Sinners!" is stuff and nonsense.

Many of the highest profile advocates of AGW are charlatans. This has been demonstrated time and time again.

Let's take a look at the IPCC report that was so loudly praised by AGW supporters. There are any number of problems with it, but for argument's sake, we'll accept it at face value as the worst-case scenario. It concluded that over the course of several decades that the globe had warmed 0.8 degrees, and stated with 90% confidence that man's influence was responsible for (wait for it) less than one tenth of one degree.
That's not a sound basis for wailing and rending of clothes.

Like it or not, CO2 is a trace gas that comprises significantly less than 0.1% of our atmosphere, and will remain so in any realistic projection. Ice cores have shown little or no correlation between CO2 and temperature. AGW proponents state that this will change soon. But this is a statement based upon faith, not one based on evidence.

Of course, I could ramble on at more length about the difficulties in finding an extremely faint signal amongst mind-boggling amounts of noise. The pretense of a precision that does not exist. The claims of knowledge that is not actually known. And the perfidy of the vocal AGW proponents. (The last one is especially fun.) But I don't think I'd be adding much by doing so. All of that is easily addressed with simple search strings.
Maybe you. Not me.

I found already out that all Uranium mines here in Western Europe have been closed, mostly because of environmental issues and because they are not economical.

I can see every day that millions of people live near coal plants and coal mines - here in Germany. There is is a large movement to shut down coal plants and end coal mining. But that movement still has some miles to go.

These are facts.

Your calculations based on energy density are useless. Nobody wants to live near a Uranium mine contaminating ground water. No matter how much energy Uranium provides. In more densely populated areas like Europe this is hopeless.

The existing Uranium mines are almost all located in areas where not the consumers of nuclear electricity live.
Moderation to represent the interests of the users is moderation done by the users. If you and everyone upvote appropriate content (including on the new page) it will eventually reflect what people find interesting. It is about the users do, not just about what PG does. HN has always been about finding the right mechanisms so that the right balance in content is reached. What has changed is the number and the kind of people on the site, it has changed what type of submission is upvoted, it has also made the number of submissions increase, making it more difficult for the interesting ones to come through.
Nobody else has commented, so I'll give you my opinion...

You have a steady but smallish number of downloads. Given the bad ratings of your app, I think that indicates that there are people who want something like this - enough that 150 people per week will download a 1-star app.

If you're just sick of this app, then either abandon it or maybe sell it for some small amount of money to someone who wants to give it a shot.

But if you're just sick of maintaining something that's going nowhere, then make it go somewhere. There's some interest there. Listen to the complaints. Pivot. Clean it up a bit and make it $0.99 instead of free.
I 100% agree. I think threads announcing you are leaving something are bad form.
Zed's new project: Vulnerability Arbitration
In Engineering, all students alternate between school and co-op usually every semester, so the length of the whole degree gets extended to 5 years, with 3 full years worth of studies, and 2 full years worth of experience.

From what I've seen(my undergrad had a similar program), this is actually a very bad deal for many students.

If you do coop, you pay roughly the same price as a 4 year student. (Typically you pay fees in the semesters you are working.) Your financial aid is significantly reduced, since you now have income, so you might even pay the college more money. 5 years after starting college, employers will consider you a better than average fresh grad. (I.e., your salary on graduation won't be ordinary graduate + 2 years worth of pay raises.)

In contrast, if you graduate in 4 years, maybe doing (usually paid, but even unpaid) summer internships, you get more financial aid. 5 years after starting college, you are an engineer with 1 year of experience, and with a commensurate pay raise.

If you work as hard as coop students, you can even graduate in 3 years. This considerably reduces your costs, and at the end of 5 years, you have 2 years worth of pay raises under your belt.
I didn't say there is a single number, I said they all share a similar mthematical property: when processed by there respective algorithms, then processed again by another complex algorithm (you), they are seen to be related.

If we have a lossy encoding so poor that you can no longer recognize it, then I'm fine with saying it is "no longer that movie".
Does HN have an independent revenue model? Is there enough revenue to support hiring editors here? Arn'te we all just free riding on PG's beneficence?
If you are chronically ill, you are going to have "costs" beyond whatever such studies measure as 'healthcare costs'. I was unemployable for year and years until I finally got a proper diagnosis and began getting my condition under control. The single biggest cost savings I have experienced with getting well is that my food budget has shrunk dramatically. My ex was career military. I had very few out-of-pocket "medical" expenses (co-pays for doctor's visits or for prescription drugs). My health problems did enormous damage to our budget anyway. Anyone spending in the neighborhood of 20% of their income on medical care is not healthy. Please see my other reply if you really want to read more of my rant on the topic.

Peace.
No, but given how often I've seen PHP developers do this, even at larger organizations, it's a plausible explanation.
The majority of other posts doing so were downvoted not for their message but due to the fact they were expressing it in the form of a personal attack against the OP.

The value posts like this provide to the community is to allow us to have a period of introspection, evaluating where we were as a community and how we've changed, and if that change has been for the better or for the worse.

I agree that if they occur frequently without adding new information into the discussion they have less value, but I don't feel we've got to that point. If people don't step up and make posts like this then we're run the very real risk of not noticing a deterioration in our community until it becomes too late to fix that problem.

A high-quality HN is to the benefit of all HN users, not just those most active in the community.