skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immediately reminds me of http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/youtube-comment-snob/.

I can't seem to create a string that qualifies as stupid text (Demo: http://stupidfilter.org/demo.php). Apparently I just don't have it in me to be stupid.

Can anyone trigger it?
Like a bayesian spam filter: your blog goes through a training period in which one manually retrains the filter with entries one considers stupid. It could work.
If that quote is true, why does every shirt at american eagle, pacific sunwear, and even the nike store have a company logo on it, usually as the shirt's main feature? I like non-company-logoed shirts simply because I think it's stupid to pay so much to be a company's billboard. At a lot of popular stores, it can be quite hard to find such clothes.
I use Reddit a lot and I never use the downmod button but for spam (which I should be using the `report` feature for). I think HN's decision to just have the up-mod button is a incredibly intelligent one.

(But spam does still get to the front page of HN)
I don't think that the conversation level on Ars is close to what we have here. There are a few blowhards there that really do make some threads painful to read.
The typical one is 60 gig/month
reddit

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"epic lulz!!!1" successfully triggered it.
The internet was supposed to provide redundant routes between points.

Increasingly due to financial reasons people have moved away from that model, since building redundancy typically costs money, and 99.9% of the time the lack of redundancy isn't causing issues.

However, as the requirements for bandwidth, speed and responsiveness keeps increasing, there is no doubt that people will look into establishing more efficient and direct routes to help accomplish this, instead of just sending everything out in the wild, and across the US.

Add to this the incredibly arrogant US "we own the world" powertrip and communications monitoring, and you have to wonder why people are still routing things trough the US when not strictly needed.
Wait, are you saying the only possible alternatives are "mainstream" and "indie"?

What does Walmart sell, then?
Wait, wait, wait.

Who on earth has to justify a javascript framework to their boss? There's so much competition and, unlike in the C++ or Java world, there's no agreement about what's best. Even Microsoft and Google haven't hammered down "the solution". Many projects use 2-3 frameworks.

I've worked at (and am now working at) some pretty big companies, and I've never heard of such a practice moving over to web development. There is usually just a license audit and that's it. And if you're a consultant justifying your use of jquery to your client, you are doing it wrong. They don't care what you use, they care about what licenses you use and how it works when you're done.

I think the complaint itself is "puerile" and pretty darn shallow. The illustration may have been ugly and as one of the original people to have an official job title of "ruby on rails rock star" I'm kind of tired of the metaphor. But I'm not about to throw a giant multi-venue tantrum and poop on the jquery guy's fun.
OK, but that's assuming the years are equally weighted. Three years is an extended "vacation", but he'd already have been out by now. 25 years, on the other hand, means not seeing the outside until his kids are married.
This is some terrible inside joke I'm totally not getting. I went to the site yesterday, and it totally looks the same as it did today. What exactly was the easter egg?
People have had access to this feature for years now from Safari and Firefox, and things haven't exploded. Why is it suddenly a concern with a beta of IE8?

People are really eager to find MS conspiracies to write about. I guess if you're a tech journalist, it's kind of like the white whale of your industry.
Good reading at that link. Thanks!
Anyone know how to copy FF6's Terra and bring her into the IRL module? Thanks to Sex and the City, the quality of females in this module is seriously lacking.
This is a poorly-formed question, because there's no such thing as a uniform randomly-chosen integer. It's more accurate to say that the probability of gcd(m, n) = 1, with m and n chosen from {1, ..., N}, approaches 6/pi^2 as N -> infinity.
Why and How Embargoes Work in Tech Blogging
How often people check stats in rescuetime online is probably a good measure. Installs on computers is certainly a better measure, though harder to find.

RescueTime could easily track how many computers have RescueTime running offline, but there is a bit of a selection bias there.
I think tipjoy's name rocks pretty hard, thank you very much. Wundrbar and Heroku are also great names
I had to justify it to my boss and my fellow developers because everyone has their preference. Some want to use YUI, some want to use prorotype. In the end, the boss makes the decision and the availability of an MIT license comes into play, so he's going to the homepage either way and the last thing I want him to see is some cheesy rockstar shit for a framework that's going into a massive line of business SaaS application.
Even when the speed of light is not an issue (i.e. Canada), many people are essentially barred from storing data in US websites, because the possibility of warrantless searches conflict with privacy laws.
In this house we Obey the Laws of Physics.
I think the article is simplified a bit for the masses who don't understand how the internet operates.

Cookies and browser history aren't saved locally(is my guess of IE8, I haven't used it), but the ISP and/or Website could still have a record of your visit which could be obtained by the police.
My guess is that IE8 finally makes the feature prominent, like the Back button. But haven't seen it yet, so maybe someone who has can comment?
>> "In allowing surfers to access websites but conceal their browsing behaviour, Microsoft prevents internet sites from collecting information about their users" <<

How exactly? I don't get it. I supposed they just turn off local cache and local browsing history...
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> Some want to use YUI, some want to use prorotype.

Well, the nice thing about jQuery is that it is not exclusive. But I'm really surprised that you haven't gone and talked to the other engineers on the project and come up with a unified plan. If the majority of people want to use prototype and you can't show them why they shouldn't, then you probably don't have a good argument against them.

You have to justify jQuery to other engineers, and then your boss's opinion becomes largely immaterial unless he's utterly terribly at his job.

> last thing I want him to see some cheesy rockstar shit for a framework that's going into a massive line of business SaaS application.

If you really do have to justify it to him...

The first thing you want him to see is an unbiased assessment of the library's features and capabilities (not the least of which is its ability to play nicely with other libraries). The second thing you want him to see is other engineers agreeing to use it. That way when he saw the last thing, the rockstar, his mind would probably already be made up.

You make it sound like you have 0 influence over the course of the project you're involved with. If a silly graphic has the power to derail your framework choice, you didn't do your homework in the first place.
How it can be done it Firefox, is there some plugin to do it? I am just curious...I am aware that I can switch on erasing my private data when I close Firefox, but that isn't the same thing.
"why I must admit this message is bloody ridiculous and its stupidity rating is off the scales"

Nope. I even told it it as a stupid message and it didn't listen.

I don't really like the idea anyway, spammers are everywhere, but stupid comments come from real people. If your getting stupid comments your attracting stupid people, so your content is likely stupid too. Or maybe you just got dugg...

-----

OK and tested the message above the line, and the "Text is likely to be stupid." Umm?
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I've found that optical media like CD-Rs and DVD-Rs corrode over time. Many of the CD-Rs I burned over the last 7 years are unreadable now. Different media seems to degrade at different speeds. Beware of burning a DVD, storing it away for 10 years and trying to read it then.
I have to justify all major technical decisions, including choice of JS framework, to the project manager and a technical oversight committee at my company. I work for a mid-sized custom development/consulting firm. Not all of us have the luxury of setting our own rules.
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You missed the Rock Star illustration:
http://jquery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/jquerycom....
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The 5-year failure rate of new businesses isn't the infamous 80 or 90 percent. It's about 55%. A big company job where there's a 45% chance that it will still be worth coming to work in 5 years would be considered very good.
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I used to think that Myspace left open the possibility for embeds by sheer ignorance. It now seems a lot more likely that they knew what they were doing...
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You are to be commended to think like that. But past evidence suggests we'd more likely use the knowledge to increase nuclear decay and make improved weapons.
For the easter egg, go to the jQuery homepage and type in the Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a). Pretty awesome... I love easter eggs.
They say Buxfer merged with Obopay. Would have been nice if they (or Obopay) had told _us_ about that as well.
It used to be a lot better.
Erlang sounds really interesting! Great compilation of resources.
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Part of the thing that people think is fun about myspace is the feeling that they're hacking it by customizing their profile.
Great compilation. I have started looking at erlang and this would really help me a lot.
I don't see what's so interesting about this article...
Hundreds of millions to billions, depending on how "computer"is defined.
In general, you'll be working on your own on an open source project until it's actually useful enough for someone to want to try it, but just barely broken enough that they want to contribute a patch.
I am really beginning to question the intelligence of gaming companies. There is a real opportunity to open old games' development platforms and have open contests for people to make hacks like this. Take the best ones, put them into a collection, and let the creators share in the profits. Everyone wins, especially fans of the games.
This model can only be as good as its data. Which means more forms to fill out. As any IBM cog can tell you the level of that is already staggering. The only way I can imagine this big brother stuff helping is if they use it to root out the bad apple consultants that eventually find their way to every successful project weighing it down until it implodes.
"LOLCat".

QED.
Another interesting metric would be incoming links.

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/inlinkData...
It can still be an interesting point of reference.
And that justification includes things like the look of their website?
Also:

"Yeah, boyee! Flavor flav!" -> Text is not likely to be stupid.
"Yeah, boyee! Flava' flav!" -> Text is likely to be stupid.

Interesting.
Talk about timing. I'm in the process of having to write a couple of adverts myself. I tell you its hard. Especially if you haven't launched yet.

How can you get people excited without disclosing the whole thing that you are trying to build?

What I really need is a job advert copy writer to sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the thing that will cause talented people to send in their applications...

Bonus link: http://joblighted.com/statistics lists all job boards worth posting to.
How many people in your company? If you haven't launched yet and you still have a very small team (less than 10), I'd strongly recommend hiring people via referrals and networking rather than via job ads.
Check out the rankedindex.com website itself. Its pretty cool.

Would be good to be able to make private ranked indexes so that I can map out my competitors without the world knowing that i am watching them :)
There's basically only one way to hire a CTO as a small firm, and that's to poach them from a firm large enough to have promoted one from within.

(A startup one of whose founders is the CTO doesn't obviously need to hire one)
Exactly. Customization pushes a very fundamental human button.

I'm reminded of some archaeological studies of human culture, using gene studies and recovered tools and a million other pieces of evidence. They determined that clothes were developed nearly 70,000 years ago, whereas spoken language, as we now know it, arose around 50,000 years ago.

In other words, fashion predated language.
A 1-week delay between creating an account and being able to submit a story would go a long way to cutting out spam, and not penalize those who haven't had time to build karma yet but still want to contribute.
Gravity is not the main obstacle for America’s space business. Government is
I don't know. Where's the thriving and accessible black market for AT&T SIM cards and DTV cards?

And, with regards to "are they going to be liable", I direct your attention to the track record of the RIAA.
Yes, in that it's much harder for me to make my case if their website looks like the myspace page of a 15 year old.
You're spelling "you're" wrong.
For that you need the Ron Paul Filter.
clothing != fashion
Given that the nuclear batteries for various outer-system probes still work properly, I think it's far less likely that an increase is possible. Standard decay rates seem likely to be close to the maximum possible, since only slowing was reported. I'm not sure if anyone's used nuclear-powered spacecraft closer to the sun; it doesn't seem likely, since solar power is plentiful there.
In my experience, the job of "CTO" goes to the founder who doesn't want to code anymore. I feel like maybe people here mean "CIO", which is the person who controls the IT budget.

Either way, startups shouldn't hire C-titles.
Smart people tend to do smart things that keep surprising the rest throughout their lives.
I can recommend Joe's book (I bought the pdf). He has an endearing self-depreciating tone, despite being Erlang's (key) developer. He also sprinkles in the actual reason for certain features.

I'd also recommend Joe's "A History of Erlang" (free pdf) for the why's of it (which is my main interest): http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/ppxt/HT2007/gen...
I think one has to accept that some days are more productive others less (or not at all). That is why hacking is a creative art form and not a data entry job. The more you freak out about it the harder it gets getting back into flow.

Personally, if I'm absolutely stuck at how to approach a coding problem, I simply start coding the dumbest solution for it, violating every rule in the book just to move forward. Usually that is enough to get the ball rolling and with today's tools, refactoring the code afterwards does not take very long at all.
HN is enough intelligent discussion for me. The problem with intelligent discussion is that its very time consuming, since the people are both knowledgeable and passionate in what they are discussing.

HN is just the right mix of it, because you have intelligent people giving their view points, but they are all busy people, so there is no 5 page replies.
I find it scary that an insane murderer was offered a mere 3 years in prison.
From the sound of it, they're mining data that exists as a byproduct of existing processes, not asking for new forms.
Hacking the Nobel Prize Medals
This is so deliciously brilliant I can't stop geeking happily over it:

When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck into aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation who recast and presented the medals to Laue and Franck.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_regia)
None of the really great coders I know think of themselves as "rockstars" or "ninjas." Usually they think of themselves as senior software developers, and other people call them superstars.
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What is HH?
Best money my wife and I ever spent was on Lasik!
Maybe the NSA will each do something for the public good by insisting on a massive network upgrade to ensure continued use of American routing.
That was actually a damn fine article. Informative, and completely devoid of that TechCrunch fluff. I've got a whole new look at Tom now..
That is an awesome, if random, piece of trivia.
No, I don't regularly read slashdot and no one asked the question here yet so...

I don't find it surprising though that that is the first question that would pop into most peoples heads as dating is the most popularly know use of decay measurements.
One of the oddest things about math, to most people, is how a constant like pi, from geometry, appears in all kinds of things that have little or nothing to do with circles.
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You can always use Google Trends for websites...but also see 'Hot Social': (an idea only) for comparing the number of bookmarks that any set of pages or websites has received from across a set of social bookmarking sites.

http://younoodle.com/startups/hot_social
Ask HN: What's the best way to stop duplicates making it to the frontpage?
Every day it seems like at least 2 stories about the same thing are on the frontpage.

What do people think would be a good way to avoid this issue? Perhaps a duplicate flag to apply to stories.

Do people even see an issue with having a story with the URL of a project and another which is generic [insert tech site] commentary on the release of that project?
That's where the math comes in. I can't think of a single startup, however, that actually pay half the salary of what a person could earn at BigCo... Mostly because most engineers are savvy enough to know what a rotten deal this is (unless the equity position is dramatically bigger).
I think this could be really useful advice for people needing to do a bit of self promotion for their project/startup.

An efficiently run embargo can create a lot more interest in a project by giving the impression of an upswell of interest from a bunch of blogs at once.
Hard work is not the main obstacle for America's small businesses. Government is.
I have no preference among any of the trio so no dander off my back kido.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263098
in 2006.
I think this is actually a really interesting study, but I think the title is misleading.

The essence of the research the article is, badly, paraphrasing is that people over 30 find the number of features on cell phones intimidating. This includes feature as simple as text, the phonebook and voicemail.

A good friend of mine used to work at Vodafone in a product department some years ago. Back then they were talking about launching simplified phone for older people, I'm surprised we've not seen more in this direction.

I think launching a phone that did the phonebook, voicemail and text incredibly well would sell like hotcakes. My mother (62) recently bought a new phone based on the size of front for the ABC, DEF, etc on the keypad so she was able to text.
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I used to work for a corporation whose only concern was with image. They were much happier to pay thousands of dollars to terrible software vendors simply because the vendors projected themselves as corporate-friendly "professionals" with "enterprise-ready solutions". I had an extremely hard time justifying using software written by Zed Shaw for obvious reasons. "It's all about the image," said a co-worker to me, "how long have you worked here and you haven't figured that out yet?"

I hope I never have to work at a place like that again.

The bigger problem lies in the artificial culture of "professionalism" that permeates so many workplaces to the detriment of things with real substance to them.

That being said, I think the jQuery people are wise to listen to the community about things like this.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5830318882717959520

"Hello, Joe."
I always mess up and spell HN as HH, no idea why
I wouldn't quote this article, or even use it as a guide.
'Over 30' is far to broad a demographic, and phone companies are targetting devices to different age groups.

I would suspect the iPhone market is targetted at 18-40 year olds (though more heavily in the 18-30 range), while blackberry is working on 30-50 range.

Just like most technology, the younger the user, the more features they are going to use.
But saying 'Over 30' is pretty meaningless.
I think it means that the ISP will still spy on your movements. Recent laws passed in the UK make ISPs eavesdrop on their users.

It's a very confusing article, probably plain wrong.
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My respect for MySpace Tom almost rose significantly, until I got to this bit...

"Anderson obtained or guessed the passwords necessary to get through the first level of security and, once connected, changed at least two passwords to prevent bank officials from accessing the system. The group also created fictitious accounts, and Anderson, using the Lord Flathead name, left a message saying that unless he was given free use of the system he would destroy records."

Not cool. Pretty stupid too.
This kind of hyperbole makes you look like an unmitigated jackass. Please stop, since I'm pretty sure you're not that bad.

The actual site design is great. It was one illustration.

Why exactly should a single image on the front site make or break your technical case? Have you considered that this might be an indication that your technical case was extremely weak? Or maybe that you're being hard on anyone who exhibits even an inkling of whimsy on their project?

Sheesh. Next you're going to say their association with Devo also hurts jQuery's case because your boss hated Devo.
InPrivate Blocking feature won't allow the site you're visiting to send information to third-party sites, various ad sites, google-analitics.com and friends included.
I second that. Lost 25 lbs this year. Working from home gives me the ability to make my own food and therefore take complete control of my diet.
Those bad habits would probably exist for most of those people no matter where they worked. Startup founders are a tiny portion of the overall population and in my relatively small, unscientifically counter sample don't appear to suffer any more from obesity than the rest of the population.

Obesity comes from people allowing themselves excuses. "I'm not going to work out today because I have to get this code shipped" would just as easily become "I'm going to just eat at McDonalds today because I have to get home to take the kids to baseball practice" if they switched professions/lifestyles.