skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. I cache the API results for 7 days with a random chance of re-poll so I hopefully will notice when new releases happen.

As for the parents, yeah, sorry :( I'm doing a match on the netflix title. I'll try to suck more data out of IMDB and make sure it is the correct movie.

I'll put an expiry date column, good idea.
I didn't mean the code would be complicated, but the additional mental load of all users evaluating every comment for it's trappiness (USERS * COMMENTS * SPLIT_SECOND).

If someone's being a jerk why not just use the current moderation/ban system that's in place? And if it's a specific idiotic/malicious set of characters that keeps popping up, just add a censor for it.

Pretty much all other moderation needs could be solved with slashcode-style meta-moderation.
I think improvement in civility that no-comments brought is a local maximum. I hope so anyway.

It's worth a try to experiment with other options. Like charging karma for commenting.

And maybe try these as A/B tests. Half the topics run with old rules, half with new ones.
If there's a consistent pairing of views between two accounts, this could be flagged as suspicious. If the person isn't proxying one of the accounts' access, all the more so. Of course, more overhead.
Title should be:

IMDB Top 250 THAT are available on Netflix Instant.

It's not a list of 250 movies as it seems many believe.
If you enjoy this stuff, I would highly recommend reading "Le Ton Beu De Marot" by Hofstadter (of Gödel, Escher, Bach fame). It is a really interesting look at the issues of translating between languages. A lot of it is looking at the difficulty of separating form and content (which is especially obvious in poetry).

For example, if you were translating my paragraph up above, would you know that I wanted to write "If you are interested in this stuff", but I didn't because I used the word "interesting" in the next sentence? If you were translating into a language which had two words which roughly meant "interesting", then would it be more or less faithful to use those two words, rather than translating "enjoy"?
I have FlashBlock installed, and the FFT worked just fine without requiring me to enable Flash.
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To play Devil's Advocate:

> Problem #1: Over-aggressive spam filtering

In five years of using exclusively GMail (and GAfB, which has the same filters), I have never once missed a legitimate message (or, at least, noticed). A quick poll of my friends indicates they have had the same experience.

> Problem #2: “… sent on behalf of…”

This is already countered by #3.

> Problem #3: Fixing “… sent on behalf of …”

Just because this is a minor pain in the ass doesn't make it an illegitimate business tool. A few extra minutes to figure it out is certainly worth the productivity gains from all of GMail's other features.

> Problem #4: Calendars

Author should either cancel his GMail account, or read the email that gets sent to it. Either would solve this problem. This is not a valid complaint.

> Problem #5: Customer Service? What’s that?

Semi-legitimate. Every time I (and anyone I've even heard of) have had an issue with GMail, it is fixed promptly with no action on my part. Google has monitoring for this and actively works to solve problems, rather than waiting for support requests. How is this not preferable in every sense?

Mainly what I take issue with here is that the author is claiming GMail to be completely unacceptable for "Business". Full stop. That's an absurd statement to make. I fully respect his decision that it's not suitable for his business, but how he is putting this across is immensely arrogant.
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I don't know, this worries me. I think a reason discussion quality has improved is the only comments posted now are from those who really want to add to the discussion. Knowing people might later credit you with your score gets dangerously close to the original problem of people intentionally scoring points off one another.
As a starting point, I think there is not much downside in showing full integer comment scores for comments over n (n=2?) days old.

In addition, I think there are a variety of ways of improving the "ease of consumption" (ie scanning for good comments) without re-introducing the gaming-type issues with integer comment scores. For example:

1. Use a log(karma) function or some other simple obfuscation method
2. Highlight/mark comments by a small number of point thresholds or quantiles
3. Highlight/mark only the top x% of comments on a thread

I do think there is value in seeing some signals of comment quality, but I don't think these need to be particularly granular at all (even just one or two "good comment tiers" could be sufficient).
Great idea. Coming right up.

Year was easier than Genre. I'll but that one on the back-burner.
I disagree......

I work from home. :)
not questioning your statement, but traffic from two arbitrary days doesn't prove much :)
For better or worse, comment scores are useful for reading. I know how to ignore flamewars: I look for indentation and skip it. My virgin eyes somehow are not offended.

So I'm much less likely to read threads now unless I'm really interested. I guess that has made me less involved.
Without the comment scores, the voting is essentially worthless. It's just a cacophony of opinions I haven't got the time to sift through myself.

There's nothing better than reading a controversial article linked from HN, then going to the comments and reading the top voted comments that debunk it. I can never be sure where those comments are now that the votes are gone.

Bring them back.
Sorry :( I can't edit the title now. I thought IMDb 250 was a known enough list.
> Also, I think we should switch it up so that comments are dimmed at more like -1 or -2. Otherwise, if the first vote is a downvote, people might overlook an otherwise decent (or controversial) comment.

This is needed. I'm constantly upvoting valid, neutral things even if I don't really have an opinion on them simply because their first vote was down, likely by a disgruntled parent post.
I'm working on doing better matching than just title, sorry. Should be fixed by tmrw.

As for your second comment. I'm elated! Thanks. You made my day.
I like it better too, if only because it has The Kleptones' A Night At The Hip-Hopera. However, this visualiser doesn't need Flash for audio playback, and the dancing FFTs are a nice touch.
I really enjoy looking at old threads. I don't always spend a great deal of time on HN 'in the moment', but I like to do searches for old threads when I come across a topic (from anywhere) I find interesting. I want to see what the HN discourse was like on the subject.

Having the comment scores show up after some fixed amount of time (1 month?), would add a little to that experience.
Anyone know of a more automated system to handle forward/backward compatibility? Obviously, there's a lot of manual coding work that has to be done but is there a system that categorizes these various changes (schema or new URL for a page or change in backend service interface), automatically tracks and gets rid of these dependencies after a certain period of time? To give a concrete example, let's say I switched the Facebook messages URL to "/mail" from "/messages". I would mark the old handler as deprecated and eventually, after the new changes have been pushed to everyone, the system will prompt the developer to get rid of essentially the dead code. This is a very simplified example but I believe such deprecation tracking would be useful for more complex changes too.
Great idea. That'll be a bit longer project, but we'll see.
I don't know if it's so much that information technology is bad at reducing bureaucracy. I think it just hasn't been applied to the same degree. In my former life as a manufacturing engineer, every company I worked for focused on making manufacturing more efficient, but few focused on improving the efficiency of indirect labor.

The ones that were efficient with indirect labor divided labor into core product teams that handled all operations from procurement to shipping. The ones that split the responsibilities into specialized departments typically added layers of overhead and bureaucracy to the organization.
That's an interesting point; essentially the problem is comment scores tie to people's ego. If we can split comment scores from the ego, the issues with comments would be resolved.
Thats a really good idea. That'll be next.
PageRank for karma, interesting idea.
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The best way to start fixing and/or improving a particular aspect of our society is probably not by fixing and/or improving everything else in our society first. You have to start somewhere, and the internet is a great place to do so, especially because there are many parties looking to impose rules inconsistent with internet freedom; if these rules are put into place, they will be much more difficult to remove later.
Are external phone designs protected by patents or copyrights?
"I prefer HN without comment scores, because those fights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since I hid comment scores."

I understand the feeling, but ... look away. :)

The more comments per post, the more valuable comment scores are to me, not to judge the worth of comments, but to help me decide whether to skip long sub-threads or read them. If I see a number of comments have high scores I'll slow down and read a few more posts in the sub-thread. High comment scores tell me that there's high interest in the sub-thread.
Could hide the point totals on polls too, and just rank the choices by vote.
U.S. should look abroad for education reform, study says
Similar to my thoughts lately. We have a UI problem to solve, not a paradigm problem.

We don't want provability or inference as the first approach to problems - slapping something together with a mix of mutable/functional code is Good Enough to start understanding the domain. But once the solution is complex, and it's necessary to improve iteration times and lower error rates, it tends to be too hard to jury-rig deeper logical properties into existing languages; it leads to mucking about with the build system and compilation process at a deep level, which adds a ton of extra complexity. The "now you have two problems" quote comes to mind.
At night, in the middle of a thunderstorm, at over 30,000 feet? Those are perfect conditions for vertigo. That's the reason pilots learn to ignore what they are feeling and trust their instruments. Unfortunately, some of those lied.
That is an interesting link; but it will probably catch a lot of flack.

I believe that instead of making poverty "unpleasant", we should structure the reward system so that it drives the poor towards self-reliance using positive rewards. For example: right now, if a mother is not working, she gets support for childcare. But the moment she starts working, her support dries up, so it becomes an economic disincentive to find work. So the rewards should be graded in such a manner that they don't disappear; it should be a continuous function, whose gradient points to self-reliance. So for the same single mother in my example, for every dollar she earns, her childcare benefit would go down by, say, 10 cents. She would still get 90% of the benefit of her labor.

I'm sure if we put our minds to it, we can come up with a system that works.

Unfortunately, a lot of the current stakeholders (in addressing these issues) have a lot to gain by maintaining the status quo; they'd be out of a job if there was no poverty....
I and my wife are educators among other things and want to try this. Please notify me at @mdhopkins or michael at oblique ideas dot com when you're testing.
Instead of just scores, I'd like to see both how many upvotes and how many downvotes a comment has got. I second the suggestion to colorize the most upvoted or controversial comments.

However I think the issue with simple scores is that they cram together agreeability and usefulness of a comment, which should be kept separate. That way, users which just agree with an opinion would be able not to influence the usefulness score of a comment.
I'm on the fence about it.

I liked being able to see the view scores when comments that were considered insightful or extra-correct about a technical practice were upvoted highly. I also think that there is a self-reinforcing aspect to high scores, though. Sometimes I downvote comments which I thought were 'overrated' (hearkening back to Slashdot!), which isn't an issue now.

I think there's less voting overall going on now. I cast fewer, myself.

I can't decide which way I prefer, but regardless I like that this site continues to evolve.
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I wish they were a bit easier to unearth (I lost some saved threads, a while back).

I think they would, could... ok, might have more value, if there was some way to get them more easily in front of the right eyeballs at the right time. How many "seeking advice..." threads appear that remind us old timers of one or several prior discussions that would still be highly relevant.

If we have the time and inclination, we google or otherwise search up a link or three. When someone else does so, I know that I for one am inclined to follow those links.
> "With those beers I finally just let go and put what I have been thinking down on paper, I can finally concentrate."

For different reasons the same works for me. I've had OCD that has gotten worse/changed over the last 7 years since I started having problems. I've been on various SSRIs that help, but not in the ways I need. About one beer is what I need to be able to focus and accomplish something and be happy with how I spend an evening.
Is meta-moderation useful when you can vote on as many comments as you'd like? It works on Slashdot because you can only moderate a handful of comments per day/week, but if you can moderate an infinite number of comments, you can create downvote-sink comments on an alternate account (or just make sure you downvote every actual troll), so that the majority (or a large minority) of your moderations pass meta-moderation.
Google published a specification [1] for "Making AJAX Applications Crawlable" which uses #!. This has been widely adopted; it's plausible that the majority of web apps that store their state in fragment identifiers use this convention. That is why people are using the term "hashbang" to refer to the practice in general.

http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/specification.h...
I think comment scores should return. However, I also think they should be shown like the "down vote" option is when a user reaches a certain level of karma. I think this would be a way to combat the issue of the karma point fiasco from last time.
Chomsky: If capital can be moved freely, it undermines democracy
This isn't even for a new version or anything, old...
I'd also like to add http://ideone.com/
Could you do one for the Bottom 100 as well? That would be almost as awesome.
I'm well aware of the list and I originally read the title as "All of the top 250 are now available on netflix instant".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
I'd say a good way to get started would be to install Windows XP on a machine, start downloading and installing pirated warez, then watch `netstat` or install Wireshark.
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You probably did. The major failing of Netflix is content churn. I can count on at least 20% of my queue disappearing every month, before I get around to watching it.
Unfortunately I think this article only counts a commute if the person is driving. It may be refreshing to see the difference for people who walk, bike, or take public transit.

Personally, my bike commute makes me happier and healthier.
>likely by a disgruntled parent post.

You've never been able to downvote replies to your own comments.
Hashbang urls probably don't make sense for a blog like Gawker is using them for, because maintaining link history and being indexable are pretty much the most important things for a blog. But they DO Make sense for rich, desktop-like javascript applications that don't want any page refreshes but would like to preserve states that people can bookmark for later (and that want the browser's back button to work for).

I've heard a lot of FUDD surrounding hash-bangs, but no real convincing arguments why they're so evil. The argument will be moot once the majority of the internet community upgrades to modern browsers, which is not too far off.
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Students doing any type of business coursework will be assigned the writing of the business plan essay. This type of essay is extremely crucial to a successful grade and therefore, these students should be conversant with how to write it.
>> The strong version of this hypothesis is surely untrue. If it were true, we might conclude that some languages that I speak that lack marked gender in the languages' grammar are spoken among native speakers who are "less sexist" than speakers of languages in which gender is strongly marked. The real-world observation, if anything, is the other way around. I have to respectfully disagree with the strong version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Within each language grouping, people differ far more in their personal thinking along the dimension of visual thinker or not, or auditory thinker or not, than people differ from one another in thought patterns based on language background.

"The real-world observation, if anything, is the other way around." You have surely not certainly convinced me that languages and thought are not correlated.

Continuing along your observations: Perhaps speakers of languages with marked genders respect differences between two genders. "Equal but different". Speakers of other languages may try to fit both genders into the same stereotypes and find their expectations are not met, resulting in a "sexist" response.
I'd love to see comment scores for the first 3 levels of comments.

Arguments typically go on for 5,6,7+ levels, and nobody really enjoys reading those. If that's the behavior that we're trying to modify, why not eliminate scores for those types of comment trees. Or, better yet, how about fading the color of the text as the depth of a comment thread increases? I find deep comment threads are rarely interesting or insightful.

The reason that I miss scores, is because I often skim large stretches of comments, and only read the ones that are above a certain threshold.

Alternately, how about adding a bit of JavaScript that allows comment folding, and letting users define their own score threshold for having comments start collapsed.
North Korea?
no. coding on the bus gives me 1 hour a day of pure fun.
if I don't code I read a book about a new language or technology.

you can't beat that!
I just checked the actual list and Toy Story 3 is rank 34 and the original Toy Story is at 143. He probably stripped something like a [a-zA-Z] regex to improve misses that are actually hits because of slightly different punctuation or spacing.

Toy Story 2 isn't on the top 250 at all, nor any of the Die Hard sequels, and Terminator 2 is named "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" on IMDB so there the above explanation seems like the most plausible to me. Based on my cursory examination none of the other movies would have missed in that way if hes just ignoring digits.
Why is this a problem? How many of you actually stumbled onto Hacker News via a google search? People put way too much emphasis on their listing on Google. If you're selling doodads, then I guess that's important, but otherwise word of mouth is your overwhelming winner. In fact, I would say that goes for almost every site I visit regularly.

I use Google to find tidbits of information. One-off questions. I can't think of a single site that I have ever discovered via google that is something I visit regularly.
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Why haven't more successful tech startups emerged from Los Angeles?
I switched my preferences back again. It's nice that the fights have stopped, but fights or no fights, I haven't been reading comments over the last month because it's too hard to filter without scores.
Oh wow 3 years and I've never noticed. Haha tells you've I've never tried to then. ;)
Yeah, for the commute I do semi regularly, driving (especially is peak hour) will leave me drained and feeling the effects in line with what the article is suggestion. Taking the train though lets me catch up on reading and is pretty much as good as sitting at home and reading for me as long as I miss the middle of peak hour.
Nothing in that piece suggests to me that he hates white people.

He hates the fact that rich people use their power to get the government to spend all it's money on "rich people problems", like landing people on the moon, while letting the poor fend for themselves.

I think technology can be used for good and for masturbation.
Anyone know the URL for the code review tool they said they use and open sourced? He said "fabrication", however I cannot seem to find it. It's also not listed in http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/
I'd really like to know the number of upvotes this suggestion received!
I went through the startup profiling and it was pretty accurate and quite worth it. At the end, it also gives some pretty useful advice on moving forward. Definitely recommend this if you're doing a startup.
I also wonder what impact things like voting and retweeting have on that psychological effect. I can only imagine that this kind of outside validation only reinforces the idea that what you've done is good and good enough. Further, what impact does it have to display the vote count to others (both for the commenter and its readers)?
re #1: I've had a few, and I have relatively low volumes of spam (a dozen a day or less). Strangely enough, most of them have been from major emailers - Borders, a couple tea sites, etc. A couple personal emails, but the last one was over a year ago.

The major business-problem I see with Gmail is the 10-connection limit with IMAP (a single client often has multiple connections). Totally screws over people with multiple devices, which seems to me to be more likely w/ business-oriented uses. I could be wrong, but I think it applies to apps-for-business as well as regular Gmail, which is a bit crippling.
If you do change it back please consider capping the score at +5 or +10 or something.
Scott-Heron said The Revolution Will Not Be Televised means the first change will take place in your mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZvWt29OG0s
Isn't the length of those windows determined by what Netflix is willing to pay? Or do the content owners restrict it?
If you're the sort of person who naturally doesn't care to upvote stuff that the admins think ought to be booby-trapped, then you won't be stung. Versus, if you're a jerk who likes dumb comments, you'll be stung often enough to feel inhibition and a need to contemplate a comment's jerkiness and dumbness before hitting the up arrow. This additional mental load is quite deliberate.