skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not worse, just different. People are desperate for a single villain to blame for their fat asses.

Maintain a balanced diet, keep the total calories down, stay away from cheap processed food, get exercise. It's very simple, but unfortunately there is not a single villain, so people resist.
Seems pretty worrying to me. There aren't many other choices for free XSLT processors in Java, and it seems a pretty basic need for XML devs.
It's amazing what you can do with a CouchApp. Great job!
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Interesting question. I'm not lawerly enough to answer outright, but regardless of the current law I don't that a case against someone lending their Kindle would ever be upheld. It's analgous to saying letting someone use your computer is a violation of your OS license.

Like you say though, likely a moot point.
How do you infer comment scores. The order of comments appears to be determined by both score and elapsed time. You'd have to have pretty exact knowledge of how it worked. Is that information available?
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Comment timing and choice of article to comment on are huge factors for how highly rated comments are.

If you manage to comment relatively early on an article that winds up being popular, your comment is much more likely to itself be upvoted (or downvoted) a lot.

The later you comment, and the less popular the articles you comment on, the less chance your comment will be voted on at all.

I've often commented on articles which were "old" (by HN time) and on articles which I personally found interesting but which which hadn't received many upvotes, and those comments were very rarely up or downvoted (probably because most people never even saw them).

Comment placement is another important factor. "Top-level" comments (ie. comments without any parent comments) are more likely to be voted on than comments buried deep within a thread. Though replies to high rated top-level comments are often more likely to get voted on than top-level comments which appear later on an article with a lot of discussion going on.
Minor note: Tyler is 100 miles east of Dallas. There's a distance marker at US 69 and I-20 that says "Dallas - 100" that I've seen about that many times so it stands out. :) To compare, there are about 40 miles between the city centers of Dallas and Fort Worth, or Fort Worth and Denton.
From the perspective of the advertiser that would be, at least, on the border of being a con job.

But the fine print on http://www.ipadgameforcats.com/ says that one level/theme is free and another is $1.99 as an in-app purchase.
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"Odd as it might sound, we tell startups that they should try to make as little money as possible. If you can figure out a way to turn a billion dollar industry into a fifty million dollar industry, so much the better, if all fifty million go to you. Though indeed, making things cheaper often turns out to generate more money in the end, just as automating things often turns out to generate more jobs." - Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
I think he's referring to some of the recent domain seizures from a handful of major gambling sites.
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Does anybody have a crack for this?

// sarcasm
Is this your site? http://2tablespoons.com/

If so, Cilantro sounds interesting. One of the things I keep reading is that the restaurant industry is super resistant to change and adopting new technology. Or it seems that way.

How are you going about circumventing that issue? Or minimizing it, at least?
Yes, it will likely stabilize in the mid-eighties over the next few weeks. However Blodget's main argument here is that the underwriters left a lot of money on the table. Assuming a more proper price for the stock of around $60 (instead of the $45) means that LinkedIn left about $130 million on the table.
You got downvoted for apparent snark, but for what it's worth: me too. It's pernicious, too, because those comments can germinate in any thread involving money, banking, cryptography, and markets.
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Poll: Display points on comments (round 2)?
It's been a little over a month since the last poll:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445039
The surprise is genuine, and I didn't include any anecdotes in my post.

The research I have seen indicates that high carbohydrate intake (particularly sugars) is more likely to make someone obese than high fat intake. The research I have seen in no way indicates that the reason people select high sugar foods is because those foods are believed to be healthy by virtue of their low fat content.

No doubt companies use "low fat" as a marketing tool. The same can be said of "low carb", "low sodium", "sugar free", "all natural" and any number of other phrases that sound healthy. I don't think this is a significant factor in the obesity epidemic. People aren't choosing Snackwells in preference to a handful of walnuts (to they extent that they are choosing Snackwells; I've never seen anyone purchase them). People are choosing Snackwells in preference to Chips Ahoy.

I think this idea that the dietary advice of 20-30 years ago (low fat) is the primary cause of the obesity epidemic is the result of a desire for a dramatically satisfying narrative (Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.).

Ponder this: the Atkins / Low-carb craze started over 10 years ago. All the advice I see in online fitness forums acknowledges the value of high-protien low-carb eating. "Low-carb" is becoming a ubiquitous phrase on food packaging. Yet the obesity epidemic continues unchecked. To me this indicates that the people who choose foods based on macronutrients are choosing low-carb, but that most people are not involving macronutrients in their food decisions.
I present sorting as a possible solution.

Have a sort (optional setting) that puts the highest rated comments at the top of each thread branch. This combined with graying of zero/neg rated comments should be adequate to see what the community prefers.

That way, skimmers can see and read comments that are rated higher first, but there's much less gaming for higher scores (just implicit ranking within the specific blog-post context).

Also an indicator of a comment that's much higher rated than others in the comment thread or post could also be indicated.

There are many ways to see quality without revealing the scores. Look at say, online stores like Amazon for "bestselling" sorts... you don't see overall sales, but a sales rank and even that's hidden at the search results level.
2nd for http://keynotopia.com/ - i use them and they are awesome!
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'Lending' someone an ebook that they can keep indefinitely is like xeroxing them a paper book, is it not?
I'm not following. Why does a lack of visible comment scores necessitate your post?
Nothing will happen, IMO.

China is just milking Pakistan to get access to the "warm waters" of Arabian Sea as it wants to use Pakistan as a cheap trade route.

Because China wants to avoid sea route via Indian Ocean (on which India has monopoly) as well as South China Sea where China has border disputes with several countries.

See the map - http://wizzyschool.com/images/geography/asia%20political%20m...
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Many thanks, I didn't know about this one.
Last month my revenue was shy of $35,000, pretty minor expenses, and it's basically passive.

I sell a combination of e-books and physical books, I have a few dozen titles.
Oooh, this is the first icon site I've seen that doesn't suck! :) I think you should definitely market this more, there are probably many other people who could benefit.
Here's a comment I made with +41 points:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556647

This isn't a joke, nobody recognizes my name, it's just a comment that I did a bit of research on before posting.

I'm sure there are plenty more like this. Of course some comments get upvoted "incorrectly" (A comment on made about "Winklevoss" being a verb got a lot of points).

How does hiding the points negate this? In my opinion, it does the opposite. If you can see scores, you can decide that a comment is "high enough" and ignore it.
Which is why I said that I used adblockplus rules for this.
I don't have Flash :D
I don't want to pick too much on this project since it's in very early development, but this repeats a mistake that's also found in more mature libraries like iscroll.js: https://github.com/cubiq/iscroll

The problem is that it uses CSS that works only in WebKit, but does not fall back gracefully in any other browser. It depends on CSS3 2D Transforms. Because the 2D Transforms spec is not yet a Candidate Recommendation, browser vendors currently implement it with vendor prefixes in case the spec changes before it's finalized. 2D Transforms are implemented in recent versions of IE (-ms-transform), Opera (-o-transform), Gecko (-moz-transform), and WebKit (-webkit-transform). However, the library uses only -webkit-transform.

That wouldn't be so bad, except that it does this in a way that potentially breaks the page in other browsers. For example, mobile Firefox supports overflow scrolling without any need for libraries. In the latest nightly builds of mobile Firefox 6 (which support touch events), adding iscroll.js to your page will actually break scrollable elements that work fine without the library.

The solution is two-fold: (1) If you are using vendor-prefixed APIs you can easily support more implementations, and (2) do feature detection to fail gracefully on implementations that you don't support. And yes, I plan to submit patches to these projects to address these problems.

(disclosure: I am a mobile Firefox developer)
I love shell aliases and have recently taken to aliasing as much stuff as possible. For example, I journal my thoughts on a more or less daily basis and I store the file in a git-tracked repo, so I have this alias:

alias think="cd ~/Documents/docrepo && git pull && mvim personal/thoughts.htm"

When I want to think I just enter "think".

I also set up aliases for my most commonly worked on projects that cd into the correct folder, set the correct rvm version, etc.
It's not Twitter, it's the internet in general, Twitter's just exacerbated the effect.
> the right meats

There is no such thing as "wrong meat".
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You don't need comment scores to know how to act or whether your comment is meaningful or not.
Do debit cards typically incur the same fees as credit cards?

I thought many places here (Canada) accepted debit but not credit because it was a fixed fee per transaction not a %
Were you at the LA iPad hackathon event right after the iPad's release? There was a team that worked on something similar.
I agree that this could be bad PR for the Pirate Party. But then Anonymous is not the Pirate Party and their goals don't necessarily line up. The way I see it, Anonymous' actions are usually less demonstrations for a particular cause, but more against certain violations of civil rights. In the Wikileaks case e.g. I assume that not everyone who participated in the DDoS against Visa, necessarily agrees with the way Assange leads the organization or cares much about Wikileaks success. And that's probably similar with the current case. You're sailing in the same ocean, but you're not all in the same ship.
Be cruel about someone else's infographic and see if you can't quadruple that score.
They have an icon designed by Susan Kare. Nice touch!

Hype looks cool, I'll certainly buy a copy -- if only to see if there are some ideas I could crib...

I'm somewhat disappointed in myself because I had a bit of a head start in this market with my Radi app 5 months ago [1], but I've failed to come up with a credible path towards shipping it.

I've made six releases since the first beta with nice new features and solid improvements (IMHO), but finishing an app of this type is really difficult. Just writing the documentation will take weeks. Then coming up with some interesting tutorials and demo material may be the most difficult part because it requires inspiration and talent -- and also marketing empathy to understand what the potential customer wants to see (rather than what I think are interesting features from a technical perspective).

Congratulations to Tumult. Apparently they're only two people and they've done a great job. Compared to my lonely one-person team, that one additional person can make all the difference between shipping and getting stuck :)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2040844
The human digestive system evolved over millions of years, and there is not much that is known with certainty about the human diet over that span of time - however, it is known that humans have a better ability to process starchy foods than other primates. So the assumption that a 'paleo' diet wouldn't include lots of starch is not based on science. Take a look at this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6983330.stm
Good idea. Embeddable widget. The thing looks fantastic
The source code for Hacker News is available with the Arc download. pg has said that the actual ranking algorithm differs slightly from the code listed in order to thwart abuse, but for the purposes of ranges I thought it'd be close enough. Knowing the time, relative ranking, and the known scores of participants, the ranges are basically "how many points would this comment need to be one rank higher/lower".
> People talk about "group think", but when you've got an intelligent group (like HN), a bit of group think can be a good thing.

Disagree. Intelligence doesn't undermine groupthink; in fact, the veneer of intelligence seems to make people more prone to groupthink because they'll say, "hey, this group is pretty smart, so they must be right!" Critical thinking is what is necessary, and I don't see enough of that on HN. Also, comment scores are not always indicative of quality, they're indicative of how many people agree. Don't conflate the two.

If you want an echo chamber, go to Reddit.
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But, people still are making a move to score points. Your points still show.

Taking away only other people's points isn't really solving the problem.
Ask for a coke in almost any bar or cafe in Europe and you'll be served a 200ml bottle. Buy a portion of french fries from a snack bar and you'll usually get a palm-sized portion on a paper tray.

French schools serve real food on real plates - a portion of moules marinière or escargot would be completely familiar fare to most french kids. Even lardy Britain is changing school meals from mere fuel to an integral part of a child's education.

American food culture is one of abundance - eating large quantities of the richest foods. The humblest of American meals are based around meat in great quantity. Italians still eat a prima piatti of something cheap and filling before a relatively small secondi piatti of meat or fish, a cultural legacy from harder times when meat of any sort was a treat.

The tide is certainly turning and obesity rates are soaring, but the difference in rates is largely accounted for by cultural difference. The French rightly see it as a crisis that students don't want to sit down for meals anymore. Most of Europe sees food as a vitally important political and social issue.
Is the $6k/mo for you? Or the two of you? What's the product like, OOC?
Mercurial accepts unique prefixes to commands by default. (For example, hg me is the same as hg merge.) Hg wins again!
not sure, but I think I can use this to accept upgrade payments from within my Chrome extension.
What progress?
I had something similar happen to me.

It took a while, but I've come to realize that affiliate/product marketing can make a lot more money. Think about your audience, can you sell them a book explaining how to do something, and what existing affiliate products like those on Clickbank could you sell them?
Adobe should have gotten their act together instead of whining about the iPad. Flash has become so un-friendly that I can see a product like this really hurting Adobe.
Agree Harvest is great and offers a built in invoicing system with reporting, plus it's cheap.
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About $250K/year doing contract work. Declined a lot recently so probably closer to $175K this year.
Because Hype outputs standard Javascript, you have all the flexibility offered by the language. Custom Javascript functions can be run in response to user actions (e.g. mouse down, on key press). Because it's standard Javascript, you're free to use any libraries other js resources made available on the page which embeds your Hype animations.

We also expose innerHTML editing for elements, so you're free to compose whatever HTML you'd like within elements. (e.g. you can code up a form to include in your animation, even though we don't have "native" support for creating forms.)
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Any generic advice on selling ebooks? I'm preparing one and it will be the main offering of the site besides an established forum.
In the US (and the UK I believe), debit card transactions are done through mastercard/visa and can incur similar fees. You can also type your debit card number on online purchases and it will work correctly, vs. interac where that doesn't work. Interac is very nice for retailers in canada since it's just one flat .25 fee for any transaction, just limited by your daily card limit.
Our local lending Libraries, however, are struggling here due to cuts in government funding - nothing to do with these copyright laws as far as I can tell.

5.9p per loan aggregated over millions of loaned books a year is a sizable chunk of change. Funding wouldn't need to be as large without those fees (which is why I suggested "all other things being equal. Of course all other things are not equal"). I'm just saying that without those fees, UK libraries would almost certainly be better. How much better? I dunno. Depends on how much the culture values libraries. US culture, despite having an anti-intellectualism bias in many areas, takes its libraries pretty darned seriously and tends to fund them reasonably well (though I'm sure more would be welcome, and many small towns don't have sufficient library resources), and most rights holders don't get to view libraries as a recurring revenue stream.
I'm happy to say that I make a solid $2k-$5k with a bunch of niche Apps in the AppStore, see http.//010dev.com

Although this requires a good amount of time, I'm still able to do some freelancing on the side which makes a pretty sweet addition to the above, works out just great.
I'm going to reiterate a suggestion I've made before: HN could (potentially) benefit greatly from a karma-rank system inspired by Pagerank, so that votes from more highly respected users carry more weight. The community at the moment is undergoing a serious reversion to the mean, and that's going to cause a whole lot more evaporative cooling if it's left unchecked.

While I realize it's incredibly unlikely that he'd agree, if pg would share a dump of the vote graph and the other necessary data with me in some way (anonymized, IP-stripped, +NDA, etc.) I'd gladly prototype this kind of system to see how much of an effect it would have had on the past stories and comments. I think it would be interesting to see if it helps, even as I fully realize that backtesting cannot capture the second-order effects that would really make this effective (for instance, changes to presentation order would also change voting patterns, similar to how in Google the first results get an extra boost because they're more likely to pick up new backlinks since people find them easier).
> ...unless the MBTA gets special treatment under law.

Agree with the other reply, the "hacker logic" comment.

Also worth noting as a pragmatic matter - throughout pretty much all of recorded history, enterprises with a close working relationship with the government have always gotten favorable legal treatment.

For instance, in Las Vegas, borrowing money from the casino and not paying them back is criminal! No joke. Why? Because the casinos fund the vast majority of Nevada income and have a close relationship with the state.

This isn't anything new. State-charted, state-controlled, or significantly-revenue-generating companies have pretty much always gotten favorable treatment under the law. If you really feel the need to screw with someone, you generally don't want them to be friends with the government.
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I'm from the add-ons team at Mozilla.

We've looked into the Ant Video Player and found that it does send information about websites users visit in order to power its ranking feature displayed for each website, and also includes a unique identifier in this communication. While this does not violate our policies, we do require it to be disclosed in the privacy policy and the add-on's description. We have contacted the developer and asked them to correct this.

The developer has been in communication with us and says that they destroy all user-identifiable information from their logs, and that their privacy policy and add-on description will be updated to reflect that. They'll also show a notice about this on their first-run website.

Additionally, the AntRank feature that uses this tracking can be disabled.

Add-ons publicly available in our gallery have been reviewed for security problems, and add-ons that aren't marked as experimental have been fully reviewed for a range of other issues as described in our hosting policies. Because developers set their own privacy policies and can update them any time, it is more difficult for us to review them for compliance with their own rules. We encourage users to always read an add-on's privacy policy if one is provided and to use the Report Abuse link if anything suspicious is noticed.
I guess I don't really get the point of this. The whole idea of ditching points was to see if it could generate better discussion. By using this extension you are re-enabling points (even if only for a few select users). That re-enabling is going to encourage those users to go back to their bad posting habits... or so we would assume if the original theory that points cause bad posts is correct.

I know a lot of you love your points, but maybe we should see if no points really does generate better discussion rather than trying to find a way to create a point system.

PS: I think points is really tricky, it rewards people for great comments, but it also rewards those stupid-one-line-no-thinking comments. Maybe only show points for comments with more text... whatever, thats a whole other subject.
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I use a tiny little internal mac app to send myself custom desktop notifications in real time.

The app is hooked to a server which listens to HTTP (post) requests and notifies me in real time according to the parameters (custom title, message, icon, click-through link - all optional except for the title)

For example, I use it in one of my webapps to get notified every time a user signs up with a line of code.

What do you think about it?
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Why are you only releasing for the mac app store?
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