skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was completely unclear to me from your site, although having re-visited it's less unclear. It's certainly unclear what tags exist, how you deal with synonyms, how I edit my tags, whether I can change the order of filter-out and filter-in, and so on.

You need a much better interface to the editing of the tag-based filters.

And content.

Another question - suppose there's an item about an algorithm in PHP. How do I know it will get given the "algorithm" tag? How are tags assigned/chosen?
Right, but I don't think "fixed: replaced with compiler crash" is a resolution you'll see in many bug databases
Really you could have that benefit without using remote servers at all, just run a local server at home. After all, if your home connection dies, your door can't be unlocked by 'the cloud' either.
The hardest thing about getting started with emacs is finding information about getting started with emacs. You get the "learn emacs in 10 minute" guides that show you how to open a file, and move up a line, and then after that everything goes off a cliff into installing packages and writing lisp.

It's hard to get a sense for the "overview" of what emacs is about - what you should learn first, how to customize your setup, and where you should go next. It feels like walking in to a party full of really really really smart strangers.

Like a party full of smart strangers, once you get going it's fine... but most people don't stick around that long.
Confirmation bias overload: this is Quora.
Create A Sleek Business layout
Is there any reason not to just roll your own auth, with something like http://railscasts.com/episodes/250-authentication-from-scrat... and add omniauth if you want to use OAuth? It's not much more work than getting devise running, and it gives you the flexibility to do pretty much whatever you want in terms of fitting auth into your app.

(Also, it works fine with CanCan, which is brilliant and does a good job at staying out of your way.)
well we dont have anything up right now, but one of our beta customers that we are working on is giving away 250 dog toothbrushes. But they sell dog products.

We are at a conference right now and instead of an ipad we are trying out 40 $10 amazon gift cards.
One great source of Emacs knowledge: http://www.emacswiki.org/

I'm sure there are other info sources, but the wiki has proven to be incredibly helpful for me over the years.
Interesting discussion from previous post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532809
Thank you so much. Yes, these are my main problems. But it seems that I cannot find right solutions, as I said I am almost burned.
Beautifully written intro that gave me a complete feel for the language. I think that it is a really difficult thing, to communicate that well.

All the best ! I hope Nemerle becomes a fantastic option on the .NET platform. Though, with the speed that Microsoft likes to develop C#, it might most probably end up looking like this.
Ask HN: Is anyone seeing these HN Bugs?
Ive seen some things lately, but Im not sure if they are algorithms to revive old threads or not:

Im seeing old posts get revived. For example, these threads from hundreds of days ago are on the front page of ask:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973060
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556416
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644956
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1527010
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545774

Several show up on the front page two or even 3 times and all the comments are showing the same number of days ago.
Your point is completely valid, but I have to point out how wonderful what you said sounds out of context.

Ebola's not that deadly, because it kills people too quickly
Helping to connect all humans on the planet is not important? This has been said many time before and you don't have to agree with it, but imho Facebook is a really important and revolutionary tool that has improved many lives including my own. Sometimes the benefits where beyond my expectations.

I think, the reason why you see so much development in software, is because its easy! I'm a mechanical engineer and still spend most of my time writing code. Why? Because, all I need as PC! No staff, regulations, no material, no manufacturing tools. This saves time and money and makes you independent and fast.
The entrance barrier is just very, very low, so as long as there is any demand for innovation in software, there will be someone who will try to code.

I have this "to much software" feeling all the time, too. We definitely need more innovation in hardware. Luckily, with innovations like 3D printers or Polycaprolactone the entrance barrier for hardware is becoming lower, too. However, in my experience, even these trends are largely fulled and based on software. We are living in the Information Age.
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The reason Valve doesn't lose angry and frustrated fans is because it's anger and frustration over something they love. It's the "damn it, why are there only six episodes of Walking Dead in the first season and then I have to wait another year?!" kind of anger and frustration, for the most part. That's the kind of reaction most companies would give anything for.
Without even getting into the ethics of selling health advice before the experiments are complete, consider the probability that it's just a terrible idea to try to monetize your personal health site, no matter how you do it.

The point of your health regimen is to get yourself well. The point of your health site should be to help you get yourself well -- by motivating you to stick to your plan, by helping you keep records of your own plans and thinking and data, and by recruiting folks to help encourage and coach you and share advice and conduct experiments along with you.

Don't screw up your own priorities and motivations by introducing an additional profit motive. When your health is at stake, you need to do what you need to do, not what your audience wants to pay for. If, after all your experiments, it turns out that the healthiest path for you is the most boring thing ever, something that nobody wants to read about and that can't be sold for money but that is nonetheless effective for you... great! Mission accomplished, you're healthy. Don't bias your judgement by asking a market to vote with its money. They'll end up (e.g.) steering you to the latest fad, whether it's healthy for you or not.
I found that Meet Emacs from the PeepCode series was pretty good, and takes you a bit further than just the absolute basics. He also has a nice fork of emacs-starter-kit on Github.

http://peepcode.com/products/meet-emacs
I agree. Don't forget linkedin.
I only signed up for Facebook two years, to linkedin and twitter a few weeks ago. They are all mind blogging.
It's about filtering posts submitted by users on Tagmask.
Tagmask is a community site for programmers.
So, content should be created by users. It's a problem of chicken and egg.

> How are tags assigned/chosen?

If you submit a post you should give it correct tags. For example, if you submit a post about some algorithm on PHP you should attach to it tags "php" and "algorithm". And in this way any user who subscribed to tag "php" or "algorithm" will see it in his feed.
If Windows 8 is a success, I would be quite surprised if Steven Sinofsky didn't become the CEO.
"how can we make our fans happy every day..."

Don't fuck with me Gabe put out HL2 Episode 3 already!!
What's your default page?
Hey guys,

I wanted to ask you what your current default page in your browser is :-) ?
I used google, but it didn't fit my needs.
Since I didn't find something that really works they way I want it to, I and my team are building an alternative right now at launchboard.me, so we would love to hear about your experiences with default pages. Thanks a lot.
Why are usernames not allowed uppercase?
Do you need a Software QA Team?
So, if that "perfect man", the university advisor ask for so much invention that there is no time for innovation you are warmly welcomed to life in the ivory tower.

The best "man" is your free will. Its not the "perfect man" but the best we have.
They do have a policy regarding external code. It's called "third-party". Google has one big shared code-repo. Generally, the only requirement is to plop the code into the directory called "third-party" and make sure its license is clearly visible. If it's good code, yet "external", Googler's won't have a problem finding a way to use it in there projects.
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Do you want us to encrypt Facebook from inside?
Hi guys,

I'm Leonardo co-founder of FriendsAreMine.com, it has been a while we have been reading about Facebook, Google, Twitter, Dropbox just abusing user's privacy we decide to fix this once for all.

FriendsAreMine's goal is to let the user in one click to encrypt all his personal communication, starting with Facebook inbox. Everything is done client-side so no one in the world (not even us) will be able to decrypt it except from the sender and the receiver.

We've been working on client-side encryption almost 10 years now and we're very happy to have to opportunity to build something people really wants.

Question you need to answer: Do you really want this?

We're based between Mountain View and Rome (Italy). We're working on the beta version of the product now and collecting beta invite request. If you're interest please get an invite here:
http://friendsaremine.com/

Feedback is more than welcome.

Thank you
See if this helps:

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/static.py?page=ts....

You will have to click on 'host a URL I already own' and then "top level domain". Then it gives some instructions. I think these are the arcane magic codes you need to fill in the form:

216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
Sure! The Kindle for instance is one of the greatest pieces of hardware I ever owned.
Username used in user's post address:
http://tagmask.com/vladimir/posts/101

Initial idea was to make all Tagmask's URLs in lowercase in order to make them more unified. But it seem that it's a bad idea.
It's not hard for me to imagine that an Amazon Android tablet will push Apple to boot the Kindle off their platform.

That whooshing noise is a DoJ v. Apple anti-trust case on final approach in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

I find it hard to imagine a more overt anti-competitive act than booting an app from your app store because the vendor starts selling a different product that might undercut your company store. And while the DoJ has been remarkably supine in pursuing anti-trust cases since the Clinton administration, Apple's relentless rise in the CE sector has got to have been alarming their rivals.

[ EDIT: Which is to say, I believe such a move would cross the line from business hardball into monopolistic practices at which point politics comes into play. ]
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Is that really still the case today?
Eset Nod32 Username  And Password May 2011
the elephant in the room for healthcare is and always has been that the majority of healthcare is bullshit. or, in more technical terms, has no effect on health outcomes.
Yeah, it's probably better to just not pay taxes.

It is going to be difficult for the IRS to prove that you even own the Bitcoins with money laundering services and the ease of creating new accounts.

As more merchants accept Bitcoin, I will try to convert to fiat currencies only when absolutely needed.
I think rejection therapy is so important it should be a class in school.
I really love the idea of getting a Phd form one of those schools. And its true, people like Paul Graham did it and it seems like it served them well.

However, there are just as many counter examples. Elon Musk left Stanford's grad school after one day!
You need to say it before people type in something that's against the rules, and then passwords, only to be thrown back again and have to do it all over.
The three types of IDE
If I see an article and I think it's mis-tagged, what can I do about it?
Save money on mobile, pick the best PAYG offer
United Kingdom has so many mobile operators it is hard to decide which operator is for you. But there are places where you can check and compare all the offers and pick the best one.
Maybe Americans aren't dumb enough to keep buying houses?
Your arguments throughout this thread aren't substantive because you're basically giving anecdotal evidence which is worthless.

The healthcare industry is enormous. It's a huge political issue in most developed nations. Currently health care spending is 16% of the United States GDP and that is projected to rise much faster than the rate of inflation[1].

You aren't helping yourself by taking an inflammatory and trollish tone. Do you go around to every other thread telling other people what doesn't matter to you as if that's all that matters? "Scala, I haven't programmed any Scala in 20 years, who cares about Scala? Only 8 comments? No surprise, retarded idea." That's pretty much what you sound like right now.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Health_care_i...
aren't all the niches filled?
Exactly! Another very important reason, why the US is THE innovator in the world. Its the only industrial country with lots of young people.
Ash HN: How important is .com vs a domain hack like "compa.ny"?
How important is it for a new web destination to be .com vs a domain hack like "compa.ny"?
Twitter really need to add this functionality to the core service. I use several different Twitter clients. I'm following a couple of users who I'd like to hide the tweets of, but it would potentially be awkward to unfollow them if they notice.
China cracks down on VPN use
You might be right. I still think its worth reading. I still tend to prefer Christopher Ryan's point of view but this might change.
Also, Pinker is afaik not a professional expert on anthropology [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinker
Being the creator of rejection Therapy http://www.rejectiontherapy.com I've had some pretty big rejections. Blown out even. Decimated.

Does it hurt? Yes, like nothing else. My entire being feels shell shocked. It's not a sharp, stabbing pain, mind you. It's a ringing, searing sickness I feel through my entire body. Some rejections have given me flu-like symptoms for days.

But you know what? I also feel like a took a good punch and I'm still standing. I've seen other people be courageous and get completely blown out and I deeply respect them for that. To some, they are victims or suckers. To me, they are heroes I would hug if I could.

So, when I get rejected in an epic way, I try and respect and honour myself.

Best of all, the rejection gives me an experience to draw upon. I can say, "I've been through worse and came out stronger. I'll be okay. I can do this."

It can be the best confidence in the world.
^^this sums up my impression of the bitcoin community.

Bitcoin is backed by what? Oh, right, scarcity.
Honestly this is like trying to sell pages off your own personal diary. Im going to say from my POV there is no way you can make serious money of of this.Google adsense yes but we all know how that goes if you have low traffic. BUT if you can gather an Audience and after that write a book about this..your blog audience could spread the word about ''the guy who defied the odds''
Six Ways to Take Better Facebook Photos
Maryland student becomes first woman to pilot human-powered helicopter
I'm guessing you didn't look at the site.

A) I am well on my way to being well. Although I continue to learn, the site does not exist to get me well. It exists because I made some off-the-cuff remark on an email list where I was held in high esteem, got attacked for it, was politely asked to "prove" what I had said and I said "give me a day or two to get back to you so I can put together the information". The response to the next email where I backed up my remark was stuff like "Can I forward it to someone I know who has a child with the same condition?". So I began working on putting the information on a website so people can share the links without asking to forward my emails.

B) It turns out that there is actually research that backs up some of what I kind of stumbled across. But it doesn't get much press because it won't make any drug companies rich.

C) I don't mind helping people but 1) I have bills to pay myself 2) if it benefits others and has value, why shouldn't I get something in return? and 3) people don't take it seriously when it isn't "for profit". Just being some nice person who got well and is willing to share what I know is very unconvincing for helping others.

D) I often contemplate just taking the site down. I am okay with just getting on with my life now that I am healthy enough to do that. But other people have made it clear they don't want it to come down. Both this year and in a previous year, donations paid my hosting service renewal when I couldn't afford it (this year: Thank you HN!).

As for the ethics question, I have had that thrown in my face before. People are dying from what I have and doctors can't really help them. Is it possible for people to misuse the information on my site and wind up with a problem because of it? Yes. Is it likely that doing nothing is worse? Very much so. My approach is much more conservative than what doctors do and much safer.

Thanks very much for responding.
Despite what you might think, unlike Facebook, people do not really give a damn if you unfollow them on Twitter. Stop being such a wuss and just unfollow people whose tweets you don't want to see. If they're the rare case who gets back to you and asks you why, you can then provide them with valuable feedback.
For now, nothing. It's a problem of the user who submitted the post. If he submits a post about "node.js" and give it just tags "programming" and "web-development", it's just his problem because people who are interested in node.js will not see his post. And, probably, it also means that quality of a post is not so good.
I' m remarkably negative because it's a bad idea. I'm not going to pretend to like the idea to spare someones feelings. To my uninformed judgement, it's something that will not work.
The difference is the more I get rejected, the less each individual one hurts. I don't think that's true about getting stabbed, though I haven't experimented to prove it.
The Soviet Union had tons of biological weapons, including smallpox, before, during and after the implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention treaty. People who worked in those laboratories and the associated germ warfare production facilities sometimes accidentally carried product home unwittingly, with predictable consequences.

Any hope for eradication is lost when somewhere, somehow, an as-yet-unopened bottle of bad stuff remains forgotten or hidden. And this is without considering bad intent.

So keep samples where you can get them quickly.
Windows Phone will beat Android in 2013, analyst explains
In regards to both this reply and the other one where I wrote a lengthier response, please note I have not asked "how do I monetize this?" I have asked "How do I get quality traffic for the site?"

My expectation is that at some point there will be an app and that will have more potential for being monetized. For now, I only want to know how to get more traffic. Can anyone address that specific question and leave out your opinions that I am crazy to try to monetize this?

Thanks.
One thing I never see considered in comparisons to younger or more nimble and retooled competitors is that by 2000, Microsoft was already a convicted monopolist!

For the first few years of the decade, the company was still dealing with governments on two continents on what and how they could compete in the software business.

As others have mentioned, in this time frame they have also paid billions in dividends.

It may well be time for Ballmer to go, but the comparisons in stock price to Apple and Google over these short time frames don't reflect all the context and dynamics of the share prices.
Or maybe it will be the death of Rails.

The alure once was how quickly developers can build web apps. It seems to be becoming more limited to how quickly experienced Rails developers can build web apps.
Clickables:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644956

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973060

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1527010

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545774

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556416
I think perhaps because the WebCore for iOS 4.3.3 is in there. There was a "squeaky wheel" episode a week or so ago about Apple not releasing all of the source code for LGPL projects in a timely manner, this may be the "grease".
Remember The Milk, the online todo web application, uses Scala (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/).

Disclaimer: I work at Remember The Milk and I think Scala is a great fit for the problems we're solving.
How to Balance Entrepreneur and Family Lifestyles
Why C++ is vastly superior to C
Yes, I have seen at least one of those. I saw it in the "Ask" section a few days ago. I also wondered what was up with that.
So, now we know where Minesweeper comes from.
Try spelling "del.icio.us" right from the first take.

Also, regular (<- keyword here) user knows that website name always ends with ".com".
One native-Twitter solution available to you today is to create a private list containing only the people you'd like to read on a regular basis.

https://support.twitter.com/entries/76460-how-to-use-twitter...
Related article I think underscores your point: Dealing with rejection is a core competency: http://blog.summation.net/2011/02/dealing-with-rejection-is-...
<fx: sigh>

For some things, C++ is better than C. For some things Lisp is better than either, and for yet other things, Python is better than them all.

Why are people so insistent on declaring their view is absolutely right, with no arguments, everyone else is wrong, and that one language will rule them all?

Trust me. For some things I do, C is vastly superior to C++, but I'm not going to try to convince everyone that C is better than C++ (or anything else) for everything that anyone wants to do.

That would just make me look stupid.
Whoops CO2 has almost nothing to do with global warming
Evil Android: Google Behaving Badly
People of Intensity, People of Power: The Nietzsche Economy
It doesn't have to be a .com but a) most folks will put .com on anything they hear (I know some .org sites that wrestle with this) and b) it really needs to be something you can verbally convey without a lot of fuss. If they are asking "how do you spell that?" and so forth, you have an issue. Those folks aren't going to be able to go home and find your site.
What phone? Chances are Mono run there...
Ask HN: How to measure market size of a disruptive tech?
A disruptive technology creates new consumers. So how can you estimate market size? Example: Salesforce.
I don't need anything at the moment but wanted to say thank you for help you've given in the past (reviewing our site when we had a hic-cup) and you're awesome for offering! Sally @ peerbackers.com!
and i thought India lacks meaningful/() innovation
The reasons given in the article for smallpox being able to be eradicated the first time was because

a) It has no animal reservoirs

b) The latent period of infection is very short

c) There's an effective vaccine

None of those things would be different the second time around, unless the viruses itself was changed.
I guess this wasn't meant as a feature comparison between both tools but as proof that it is possible to create fully transparent tools for sharing encrypted data across the internet.
Vf: enhanced version of 'cd'
Smallpox is "easy" to get rid of because it's visible. The infected present with lesions. It also isn't contagious while it incubates.

Contrast this with polio, where there are about a thousand infections per every paralysis. Thanks to a couple of ignorant leaders who claimed that the polio vaccine is a Western conspiracy to sterilize African girls, it's spreading again. Great.