skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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More and more the up-vote seems to say: "I agree" instead of "This comment has some value". It's not rare to see a comment like "This is great." to have more points than a "I don't like this because x,y,z" for instance.

My suggestion is just to separate those two meanings. We could have a very little graph like this:

[xxOOOOOOO] # where x = red and O = green

This would fix the "I agree vs I don't agree".

So, to summarize, it'd be possible on a comment to up-vote it (like we do presently) if it has value but still indicate that we don't agree with the author's opinion by clicking on another button.

I think it'd be really interesting to see the opinion of other HN-users in addition of the most valuated post.

And, as a bonus, we could see the total number of vote. Because, presently, some people up-vote, some people down-vote.. so at the end, the comment might have a score of 1. And, we can't differentiate between the +10/-9 (for instance) and the simple +1.

With the new solution, we could really see:

- 10 agreed.
- 9 didn't aggreed.
- 23 think the comments has value.
Exactly. Inflation prevents (in fact promotes the opposite of) hoarding. Hoarding dollars would be just as irrational as spending Bitcoins.

An example of something being hoarded today? Anything that is having its price run up. Gold, for instance.
Do you think that people aren't writing C# web services any more?
Anecdotally, I got 130 upvotes, and something like 8000 visitors on a recent article posted here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597973 ), which is more like 60:1
What is Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape is the form of recording which is being used for the purpose of recording and the recording which is being done in the form of magnetic. This is one of the simplest forms for the purpose
When you're dead all your savings are worthless (to you), so your likely to spend most of them before then.

If that were true, why would there be so much debate around the estate tax? Warren Buffet is a rarity. Most people want to pass money down through generations rather than spend it as they near the end of their lives. Taxes on inheritance encourages spending and charitable giving.

Some consumption cannot be postponed: you need food, a roof over your head, transportation, etc.

Given. Probably not enough to avoid depression though.

Time has value. For example, if you wait another 6 months the same amount of money (bitcoin or not) will buy you a better computer. This is likely to hold true in the foreseeable future. Still people do but computers (and phones, etc)

You seem to be arguing for deflation. Given that I can wait and get a better computer there's even less incentive to spend it today. I remember a study that showed for a computationally intense problem (many years) you could finish sooner by waiting part of the time and buying a faster computer. That's even less incentive to move money around.

There's opportunity cost: even if your savings increase in value over time, investing them in something could increase them even more.

Not if the economy is depressed.

In sum, the natural limitations you site - even if they worked - are not enough to avoid depression. A small bit of inflation is a good thing. Think of a dollar/bitcoin/whatever as a unit of work and inflation as 'urgency'. :-)
Awesome tutorial. I have been experimenting with Backbone for a few weeks now. I did not understand the point of _.bindAll(this, ..) in initialize till now :)

It would help if the sections of code that you add in each step were highlighted somehow. I definitely like the step-by-step approach.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Microsoft are competing on the server with ASP.NET, and shouldn't be competing with HTML5.
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As I alluded to in my other post, I could only imagine the TSA getting a hold of this and integrating it into the scanners. I mean, that would be a great use for catching fleeing criminals, but of course, it's all too easy to use against normal people too as they've shown with less-advanced technologies.
Tongue in cheek - Europe could be defined as federation of countries striving to become like Germany.

Like US could be defined as federation of countries striving to become like NewFornia.
I noticed that "Google" was one of the servers listed in the chart. I'm curious, does that mean "Google App Engine"? Or something else?
US workaholics are ruining things for the rest of the world. Cool the hell off, stop the race.
Ask HN: Any experiences with Flask (Python micro-framework)?
Can anyone shed light on whether there's a significant improvement in terms of memory usage and speed when using Flask + SQLAlchemy instead of Django?

Flask users: Are you generally satisfied with it?
Interestingly the site won't render correctly for me in Firefox 4. I'm getting a nice error about lack of HTML5 and CSS3 support.

And, as a fan of Space Balls, the creator misspelled
"The Schwartz"...
I wish I could do more embedded stuff. I desperately need more free time.
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HTML and email are two things that do not go together well(IMHO). I prefer plain text.
it depends. If it copes with circular references, then yes, it is suffiecient to use for gc.

If not then it's just what COM had.
Cool thanks. I'm not sure docco, the document generator I'm using, allows that type of highlighting. (anyone?)

But to some extent the comments on the left already point out new sections of code - only new material gets those comments.
Campaign Monitor recommends having emails at a maximum of 600px (near bottom of link):

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/design-guidelines/
He didn't say "no". He said "not yes". There's still hope, man! #glassHalfFull
The Problem with America’s Lack of Financial Literacy
Google has their own internal web server software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_web_server#Software
MailChimp templates are all 600px wide, as a comparison, and that's what they recommend. It's annoying, since so many people have large monitors (notably me - so much white space around my drafts), BUT as you point out so many recipients are viewing emails on mobile devices (phone, tablet, even netbook-size laptops) as well as webmail clients and the Outlook preview pane.
Why? Does it contain some sort of resounding rebuttal? Because I read it, and I didn't see one....
Looking at the second to last chart, IIS lost 14 million servers in the summer of 2009. Google picked up 6 million over this period, and Apache four. That still leaves four million servers which vanished, and I'm sure all the lost IIS instances didn't translate directly to Apache or Google.
Ask HN: Is RSS consumption moving to tablets/phones?
This isn't really an academic discussion, more a honest question on your behavior right now. If you are consuming RSS feeds, do you do most of it on the desktop or on your iPad/Tablet/Phone?
Yeah, sorry to rain on your parade, bro. But these kind of ‘confirmed’ articles, in the end, help nobody. Users will be sad when it doesn’t happen, whereas neither Apple nor the MacRuby team have actually confirmed/promised this. Sorrow all around isn't good publicity.

Thanks for the update, though! :)
I'm all for elevating Apache above IIS (as my product uses it: http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper) but...

Comparing the two over all domains is ridiculous as this includes mass domains such as parked domains which can easily give Apache 10s of millions of useless stat points as one registrar switches a couple of servers.

The very last graph is the most sensible one which compares the two over the top 1 million domains and shows IIS to have a relatively stable share over time.

A better graph would compare the top 100,000 sites running on dedicated IPs or servers (no shared hosting accounts) that have existed for at least 6 months.
I agree completely; you can't have it both ways.

However, the point in the OP about Camera+ seems a bit more legit. Rejecting an app for doing X and then doing X yourself in the next release seems like a huge double-standard, and where there are double standards there is foothold for allegations of anti-competitive behavior.

That said, however, the difference between me (sitting in a cubicle typing this) and the creative forces behind Instapaper and Camera+ is (hopefully) that where I see small developers being turned into digital sharecroppers by a dictatorial corporation, they see an opportunity to differentiate themselves from the stock offering by excelling in the very specific area they're focusing on.
HNSearch.com API contest | hnsearch.mobi
Hello I've spent the last two days hacking together a mobile site for hacker new search API... the mobile site is fully function but still needs some UI updating I currently working on integrating into twilio to allow you to pull search results via TEXT kinda over kill but why not!

http://hnsearch.mobi

--Z
If Spine is anything to go by, you bind events from the view to the model and then trigger them from your code on the model instance.
Google Apps as well perhaps.
The average human was far, far poorer 200+ years ago, in relative terms.

The fact is, modern banking and capitalism have created massive amounts of wealth for a vast proportion of the population. Evolution of our economic system has led to where we are now for a reason. It's not perfect, but we aren't going back to the days of measuring your net worth on a stick.

Every time we have a crash or downturn, people begin to under estimate how much we actually know about economics. It's a lot.
Hello I've spent the last two days hacking together a mobile site for hacker new search API... the mobile site is fully function but still needs some UI updating I currently working on integrating into twilio to allow you to pull search results via TEXT kinda over kill but why not!

http://hnsearch.mobi
Delorme's inReach two-way GPS Communicator enables satellite texting for Android
There is talk of breaking up the EU because the bad countries are bankrupting the ones that are doing really well. When everyone notices that the producers and the problem countries are the usual suspects, of course the conclusion is that maybe this agreement wasn't such a good idea after all.
So, whilst those moan at UK politicians, at least they're not as bad as this crazy mob. Quite shocking really!
I have lots of weird one-off gmail contacts that I'm not certain I want to delete, but I am certain I don't want on my phone's address book.
Five ways iOS 5 kicks Android in the teeth
Good Copywriting as Scalable Customer Support
Well, I simply can’t say ‘it will not happen’, because it is open-source software, so for all I know you are currently implementing it. However, I wouldn't hold your breath on someone else stepping up to make this work, because we have been saying this for a while now… C’est la vie.
It's kind of interesting that it uses the ribbon brush from mrdoob's harmony. I guess it would make a match more likely if you did it really quickly.
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As the article mentions, there's also a "preview" for 64-bit linux flash plugin. It's called "Square", runs fairly ok and it's available at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer.html Last version available is 10.3.162 or something like that...
Well Silverlight still does not work on 64 bit macs. It prompts me to restart the browser in 32-bit mode everytime.
I heard that MS pays GoDaddy to run their parked domain on IIS to boost their stats?
I wouldn't recommend fluid layouts with email, most email clients are stuck on HTML 3.2 and have limited CSS support.
To be fair, I DID destroy Zed Shaw with my awesome troll skills.

Oh wait, he did that shit to himself while I watched.
There's also operation turkey:

http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=1005
Tell that to the business executives and the marketing departments :)

I also prefer plain text, but I'd rather have useful tools to deal with the needs of the business, while offering plain-text as an option for people who prefer it.
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I've taken a look at it and placed it into the PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) template system and it immediately spat out four issues:

- width CSS property is not supported by Outlook 07, Notes 6 and 7

- height CSS property is not supported by Outlook 07, Notes 6 and 7, Blackberry

- line-height CSS property is not supported by Notes 6 and 7, Palm Treo (Palm Garnet OS), Blackberry

- display CSS property is not supported by Outlook 07, Palm Treo (Palm Garnet OS), Blackberry

Let me fiddle with the code, and try to fix this up. And like the others, the three tables with 300px cells are not the best of ideas.
Microsoft ‘flattered’ with Apple’s iOS 5 Windows Phone features
Universities Skip Basic Business Survival Skills
Read again: he includes a hidden field for the "normal" user (blind or not) and spambots fill that field out anyway and get caught. Pretty clever, but not hard to work around as a spammer if this get widely adopted.
Honest question: Is WSJ really an HN worthy source anymore?

EDIT: How far are you WSJ fanboys going to downvote me on this? The company is owned by Rupert Murdock. The same one who owns Fox news. And this article was rubbish. Am I really the only person surprised to see this here?
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Does this mean that we can write apps that target iPhone and iPad with MacRuby?
Maybe we've been seeing different criticisms, but the ones I've seen don't just complain that it's not backed by fiat -- they complain that it's not backed by anything.
Using and Understanding IPv6 on openSUSE 11
Please don't send HTML email, there is almost never a scenario when it is necessary. All it does is create larger emails, have redundant information (most HTML emails also send a plain text counterpart), make reading email more difficult (especially if you are using a terminal mail client or are visually impaired), and allow for obnoxious email styling.

HTML Email, just say NO.
I think this is another "make the platform better" move more than anything else. My biggest gripe with every new app is the "Sign in to Twitter to share" button and off late I have stopped doing that. This feature now lets developers use a simpler API to allow sharing while removing the hassle to end users. Again this is one of the features I love in Android where any application just sends a "share" intent and other installed apps can respond to it, allowing app content to be sharable beyond the services the developer could have imagined.
Why not offer both? A well made HTML email will make it easier for your recipients to actually read your email.
You must remember, however that money != wealth.

The money supply of a nation in no way represents the wealth generation going on in an economy. Printing an extra dollar does not mean the users of dollars became wealthier, it simply redistributes the existing wealth. Barter is also another factor that creates wealth, yet does not have anything to do with the monetary system.

Our growing wealth in many ways is in spite of our money and governments. It is worth noting that ever since the USD lost it's scarcity (with the closing of the gold window in the 70's) real wages and quality of life has gone down, not up.
You seem to suggest in all these cases that spending is inherently good. Estate tax = incentive to give away. Inflation = incentive to buy now. I understand this is one of the core concepts of Keynesian economics. But there exists an alternative school of thought that posits that inflation causes volatile business cycles and central banks are inefficient at allocating resources. Success of a bitcoin-based economy would seem to support the correctness of this Austrian school of economics. We shall have to wait and see.
Note the rhetoric " ... seen as Europe's Biggest Obstacle": by using the passive and an authoritative tone, the WSJ tries to make it seem that there this idea comes from nowhere, and is a universal truth without being attached to real people politicking to make the world the world into what they want (umm, low taxes and regulation for us, thank you). Making seemingly universal statements is one of the best tricks to hiding partisan interests (and the left does this just as often as the right).

I would bet money that if you gave a poll, more Europeans would want to move AWAY from a "entrepeneurial culture" (whatever that means) than toward it. For the average working Fritz and Hannah it would mean giving up social services, safety, free education, and excellent vacations.
I agree - but only for homemade email campaigns.

Aweber and Mailchimp, for example, provide the basics needed for sending HTML plus plain text emails.

Sorry, I haven't been able to load the site in this post as it's not loading, so I can't comment on any specifics.
I found a bug : you add <strong> tags around the element that is searched for in the result page. To test it out I searched for "Sony" and the word sony was in the url. When I clicked on the search result I saw <strong> and </strong> tags in the url and the url was broken. Those tags should only be added to title and description, not url.
Should politicians' sexual behavior be private?
Why Can’t More Poor People Escape Poverty?
I don't know what you guys are talking about. That site rocks! It's retro, like bell bottoms. And don't tell me bell bottoms can't be cool.
I've done a ton and moved a ton of my little projects to appharbor. It is just so damn easy. I can't imagine that MVC 3 is reducing the number of IIS installations. It is very, very slick. They probably count that as one and if db ids are any indications there are probably getting close to 100s of thousands of apps being hosted there.
Yes. Not only is this easier to break than a character captcha, it's more painful, fiddly for the user.
Please don't put all of post-communism-counties into one basket, as there are vast differences between them how they are dealing with democracy/capitalism. Russia is quite a special case here and unfortunately most of the times is an example of "how not to do things". But if you look at countries that were not part of Soviet Union (Czech Republic, Poland, etc.), or Baltic-countries (Latvia, Estonia, etc.) you will get a complete different image of things.
You and I are in the minority. Imagine if Groupon sent their daily flyer in plain text: Click-through would plummet.
I'm an entrepreneur in E.Europe. Biggest obstacle is lack of markets, lack of capital. For most tech products like websites and software, the best (and first) market is the US. I used to think that the Internet can bridge this gap, after all, you don't need physical proximity to sell digital goods, but I was wrong. In most cases you need physical/cultural proximity to build your tech business.
Whenever I see an argument about we fully knowing how brains work, I remember some Turing-Gödel stuff that says that we would need much bigger brains to really do that. And the big brains will only be able to get an answer about smaller brains, not about themselves.

So, any final answer about our brains requires far more computing power, in whatever form (mechanical or biological or whatever) than we have now.
The question is are they good reasons. It's probably a mistake to assume that our current knowledge and understanding of economics represents progress from where we were before.

Having just finished a detailed account of the history of economic thought I can assure you that there were times when economists far better understood the nature of prices that came well before Adam Smith and Ricardo-both of whom didn't really understand prices at all.

Schools of thought tend to continue until they reach a dead-end that's impossible to ignore. A new school picks up the pieces and continues on again. We have seen that with the fall and rise of Keynesian economics.
bitcoin will probably never represent a significant proportion of human wealth. However, it will probably remain useful for the next five to ten years as a cryptographically strong way to pay for things outside of government influences. Silk Road is a pretty cool case in point.

It will probably be replaced organically by a more useful form of cryptographic currency -- perhaps something that uses bcrypt or a similar Moore's Law-resistant hashing algorithm -- before serious deflation or broken hashes really start to come into play.
XYDO raises $1.25mm seed round to change the way you experience news
[Disclosure: I'm the author of the deck]

Lots of constructive feedback on the slides. To the questions of the forges included in the study, we were going off of the snapshot of data that Black Duck had available. Because it isn't randomly sampled, it can't be considered representative of the industry as a whole. This is why you don't see any, for example, over-representation of the underperformance of PHP relative to competitive runtimes: this isn't broadly representative, and therefore those type of conclusions aren't justified.

Instead, we're looking at specific trends within the forges studied from an observational study perspective. Which tells us something about diversification as well as forge performance relative to one another. Nothing more, nothing less.

All of that said, I certainly hope we can expand the number of forges studied in future. Bitbucket in particular is of interest to me.
Dunno if they pay, but it seems to be the case that those do use IIS. Response headers from one of my GoDaddy parked domains:

Server:Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-AspNet-Version:2.0.50727
X-Powered-By:ASP.NET
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Yahoo Captures 40% of Arab Display Ad Market -
I think the most interesting thing is the the last graph - "Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites". Apache has held steady over the past 3 years, yet the decline of IIS is mirrored by the growth of nginx.
>In practice, it works extremely well because not everyone is solely motivated by their best economical interest.

Actually free software can be in your best economical interest. I wonder if Linus would have gotten the kinds of jobs he has without Linux. I seriously doubt it, at least not the first ones.
I noticed this the other day. Kinda awesome and kinda scary.
All noses are frozzle.

Some wiggles are noses.

Therefore, some wiggles are frozzle.
With proper settings the AMOLED just blows the iPhone out of the water. I have loaded the same Flickr accounts on both side by side, the extra contrast is very noticeable.
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How many processors (cores) do most iOS devices have?

GC is still supported on MacOS X.
I think it's a certainty that it's a feature in the pipeline. The only question is when it will happen, which is really a function of performance and memory usage. I suspect this is a big step forward.
It's a fashion website. Aesthetics (and brand) are usually prioritized over functionality.
Doesn't this data look, perhaps, too noisy to be trusted? What happened between March 2009 and March 2010? Did 'other' really steal a huge chunk of share from Apache and IIS, and then suddenly give it back? It seems more likely that things were misclassified then (or that they were actually classified correctly then, and that they're misclassified now).

If the data can be trusted, it's interesting that IIS has basically been flat from 1998 'til now, with an upward deviation every once in a while.

This headline seems link bait-y. "Apach the only serious player". Really? When IIS has ~ 20% share? So, Apple must not be a serious player in the desktop/laptop market, since their share is in that ballpark.