skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I have a small site that serves up hamburger casserole recipes ( http://hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ )

She was getting over 15K visits per month -- the site made almost nothing, but we enjoyed creating it together, watching the numbers and responding to emails. And the numbers kept climbing -- at least until a couple of weeks ago.

I noticed the traffic numbers starting to drop. I was wondering why. I thought about digging into it but put it off. Perhaps this new feature at DDG did it? If so, fine with me. They doing a much more awesome job than we did.

The only reason I mention it is because this is the type of question that if you knew enough, you could find the answers in SEO-land. But for a little mom-and-pop site, lots of times you don't have that luxury. You're hot for a few months then suddenly it all dies off and you never know why. You could be adding the best content you can and still all the visitors disappear. No skin off of my back in this particular case, but this has to be frustrating for lots of folks -- especially if your site is a startup instead of something silly like recipes.

Way cool UI! I think we'll add it -- looks like it might be a nice fit.
[disclosure: i'm the author]

i tried to explicitly make the point that MongoDB is not a replacement for MySQL, it is rather following a similar path from a licensing, usage and market reaction standpoint. and that mongo's course within the nosql world may follow the pattern we saw mysql track w/in the relational database market.

from this comment, it doesn't seem like i was successful on that score.
I agree about the intentional. Not sure about the recent part. Still incites alarm bells/nails on the chalkboard response every time I see it
depends on your metric, does it not?
Next they'll discover than when those scientists leave academia and become quants, they don't magically become any better at coding (but at least they now have access to professionals, if they recognize the need).
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Really???? Mod down???? How about a comment explaining which bit you disagree with?
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I don't want to be too prescriptive about which language to use but I do suggest first making useful command line programs rather than graphical interface applications. The problem with GUI apps is that you have to learn too many orthogonal concepts at once (plus a lot of GUI programming involves writing tedious boilerplate code). Python is a good modern language.

Also avoid (for now) any project that requires a relational database and instead opt for saving things to files. You'll end up learning a bunch of bad habits if you try to learn a general purpose language and an RDBMS at the same time; you might start to think that an RDBMS is the only option for storing and retrieving data even when simple reads and writes to the file system will suffice (the hacker news website does not use a relational database for instance).

Some suggestions for projects:

* Some kind of light accounting program.

* Something that reads RSS feeds, looks for keywords and notifies you of relevant links.

* Something that manages your media library.

* A TODO list (this is popular among even experienced programmers, you can easily add a GUI part later as well as graduate to using an RDBMS).

As someone else mentioned, use Stackoverflow.com. I especially enjoy helping new programmers there, my contact info is in my profile.
What is the "viable life line"? Minimum wage jobs are supplements to other income."

oh? what other supplements, exactly? more minimum wage jobs? how many supplements do you expect me to utilize?

"The actual minimum wage required to support a small family without external assistance is probably more like $15-18/hour."

how do you define 'support'? do you mean to educate, clothe, provide warmth and food. Do you just mean food? food and housing? food 4 days a week, and housing 5 days a week? are both parents working? who is looking after the kids? just one parent? so they are supporting how many people?

"1 in 3 black men will find themselves incarcerated during their lives. "

Indeed. lets see whether we can find a solution to that which doesn't require lowering the minimum wage.
And every time Obama dodges/laughs at the question.

Well, we can stop hoping for audacity now.
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The thing that I've found that makes MongoDB super easy for folks migrating from SQL is that it is easy to add indexes to arbitrary fields, and they work the same way as they do in MySQL. It's just a b-tree and if you can setup MySQL indexes, then you can build smart, well indexed structures and systems with Mongo.

Being able to do this without jumping all the way into writing map-reduce bits, but saving the time of setting up a rigid schema, makes it easy to see why MongoDB is so popular. To me, that is why MongoDB is the new MySQL.
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FB won social networking. Game over.

Youngsters today and the lack of history being taught in schools. History is full of winners, who after a period of time became losers (or at least not the same level of winning).
Ask HN: Do the new European standard terms screw founders?
A set of terms have been agreed upon by a wide range of European VCs but they are receiving some criticism that they're not founder-friendly.

What do you think?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2011/jul/06/startups-terms-seed
I would tend to say that MongoDB is the new MySQL in a different way - it's the default not-really-suitable hammer that the current generation of amateur software carpenters are using to turn every problem into a nail. It's not super elegant, but most of the time it works, sort of.

On the bright side, one could say that at least half of the PHP/MySQL tag team has been improved significantly by being replaced with Python/MongoDB, as theological issues aside, Python is a lot less broken than PHP :)
What does "the numbers match the stereotypes" mean? That the numbers match the relative populations of the timezones?

If so, how would I know this from the infographic? Any why would I care? Shouldn't that be the default assumption?
Nevada is excellent (no corporate income tax, statutory indemnification, some privacy protections).

Colorado is now the cheapest place to file: $50 to form an LLC + $0.99 annual filing fee assuming you do everything online.

http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/fees/business.ht...

Most LLCs don't pay corporate income tax anyway (it passes through to the members).
No they don't have a problem with edge detection, it's just how sensitive they want to make the metal detectors/xrays. They can beep at the little rivets in your jeans if they wanted to. I brought safety razor blades with me in a SE asia trip and the only place that found them/cared about them was China.
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Can you share some details about what you found? I am not much of a webmaster, but naive searches with Google don't find any massive backlinkage to jquery.it. Maybe they are already cleaning the index, or maybe I didn't search it right.

EDIT: 1 more datapoint: bing doesn't return anything from *.jquery.it for the search in question.
And, if you are an Aristotelian rather than a Platonist, you may instead be interested in Gosu (http://gosu-lang.org): a party school language for a party school world.
I certainly does _not_ work pretty darn well. A couple examples of high-impact bugs:

- Repeated posts in the news feed. The first ~10 posts or so in the news feed are repeated as you scroll down.

- In the news feed, if I see and play a video, it plays. Great. If I continue going down the feed and then click on a photo, it goes into the "theater" mode, and for some obscure reason, it plays the video again (except I cannot see it; I can only hear it). The only way to stop it is to exit theater mode. This keeps happening over and over again every time I enter theater mode. I am then forced to refresh the entire page if I want to see some pictures without distracting noise in the background.

These are just a couple examples; there are many more. After talking to some friends, it seems I'm not the only one experiencing them. Now, nobody's perfect. It's OK if these bugs got into production for a few days or even weeks before getting fixed. But it's been months now... For a company full of brilliant engineers, that is unacceptable.
"MongoDb Sentiment Distribution" is a riot:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sog/5909237447/in/photostream/

If sociologists ran The Onion this would be on the front page.
Speak for yourself. Will work for cleavage.
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Good points - well taken :) Thank you.
Basically returning results and ordering by the +1s your social graph has possibly already marked?
With a market cap there is still a finite number of shares, there aren't new ones being constantly created. We're also talking about a commodity, not shares of a company which is a value creating entity.
We disagree; there's very few other situations where you can get a quantitative look at which issues have mindshare. Most of the time the reporters get complete veto power.

We saw a rare opportunity to apply technology to something it doesn't normally get to be applied to. Seems pretty germane to HN to me.
Apparently I managed to overlook your statement about it not being a replacement. It's just that the title of the post seems to be in contradiction with that.

MongoDB is indeed an interesting software and it's on a promising start. I'll be interested to see where it's going. Maybe one day the title of your post will be true.
"I would tend to say that MongoDB is the new MySQL in a different way - it's the default not-really-suitable hammer that the current generation of amateur software carpenters are using to turn every problem into a nail. It's not super elegant, but most of the time it works, sort of."

that's an excellent - and much shorter - way of putting it.
he fact that the agent groping my genitals or looking at my x-ray doesn't know my name doesn't make me feel any better.

FWIW I took a short trip recently and opted for groping over porno-scan at both airports. No one touched my junk (though they came close), perhaps because when they asked if there were any parts of my body that were sensitive I said, "Yes, my nuts."
I don't expect someone to work as long as I do, I know this is my baby - maybe that's a line I should cross out.

I think 8 like a normal job is great, if someone gets excited about a project & wants to work late w/ me I'd enjoy it - that's the only point I was trying to make.
Because the market for skilled software folk is very much tilted in favor of employees right now. Demand far outstrips supply. Why would a prospective (and presumably talented/in-demand) employee jump through your hoops?

When the inevitable crash comes and the supply of tech jobs tanks through the floor... then we will put up with these crappy HR shenanigans.
http://searchengineland.com/how-to-put-the-facebook-like-but...

May 2010?

and as for your reply downthread about Google Instant being a hit, how much of Google Instant being a hit is due to it being the default behavior of Google now, and would anyone actually miss it if it were gone?
Context matters. e.g. misusing physics terminology in a political metaphor over drinks is annoying but inconsequential. Misusing physics terminology in papers where the bulk of the work was physics, or in an article for ACM about why computer scientists are bad at physics moves from eye-roll to WTF territory.
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I see what you're saying, definitely not trying to join that camp, but point taken.
This has exceeded its funding goal on Kickstarter. It still has 24 days to go! It sounds like an incredible gadget to solve many photographic dilemmas. Say you wanted to get a wide angle photograph of a leopard as it approaches a watering hole. You don't want to be standing 2 feet away, otherwise you might get attacked, or the leopard just won't make an appearance. What if you wanted to time the shutter speed with the exact moment a water balloon is punctured? This device could apply to both those situations...Pretty neat. Wish I had $75. But I'm saving up for a new camera.
I am amazed that so few people have ever heard of YubNub[1]. It's a service that provides this kind of feature (`g foo' to google, `gim bar' for google images, `am baz' for amazon, etc.), plus some advanced tricks (multiple parameters, default values, command combination).

Anybody can create commands.

It's a hidden gem, and I love it.

[1]: http://yubnub.org
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That has not been my experience. I spent years working on DNA aligners then in a wetlab building software for confocal laser microscopy. In both locations, the best paid and most highly valued people were the scientists. If you, say, were a good developer with masters in stats and a strong understanding (somewhere between an undergrad and an MS) of the relevant science... you were paid 1/2 as much as you would be paid if you did computational advertising.

And yet there aren't many good developers doing science. Weird, huh?
Like I said, wasn't meant to be a cleavage shot - just a picture - I didn't dissect it and think "hmm... how many people will be offended by this" maybe i am just jaded from growing up in Vegas but in my world that is so not a big deal.
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Not sure if I totally agree with the article, but MongoDB really is developer friendly: easy to set up and admin, slaves make create sources of analytics data (put a slave on each server that has analytics applications), useful for both large and small projects, etc.

Personally, PostgreSQL and MongoDB meet just about all of my non-graph data store needs. For graph data, I keep switching between Neo4j, Sesame, and AllegroGraph - can't make up my mind since they have different capabilities (Sesame and AG for fast indexed SPARQL queries, Neo4j for graph traversal).
It could be :) You definitely don't leave Vegas unscathed
My experience is while they may be respected, they aren't paid. And I'm not a charity.
I like the sounds of this service. Is it ready to use in at least a crude form before you hire a CTO?

Keep up the good work! I'm sure that despite the odd comments here you'll find someone to help :)
PostgreSQL is the next PostgreSQL.
Crap, it's getting more offensive the more you think about it? :(
No gray area in the US since 2001. Kyllo v. United States, IR imaging of a private home is a search subject to the 4th Amendment.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-8508.ZS.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
There are companies that provide text analysis services to determine the 'temperature' of the text or mood of the writer.

The x axis of the graph is unexplained, but the idea (of being able to measure sentiment) isn't crazy.
I don't need special access to the specifics, but I would definitely reiterate that at least in terms of talking to us hacker types, you'll be sure to want to address why what you're doing is different than what has been tried before and why what you're doing may work. At least for your own internal analysis, I'd be focusing on the incentive structure for the curators.

I'm sure there are answers; I actually think this space has been mostly unexplored due to the spectre of some spectacular failures like the Yahoo directory (even if the company lived on), but I also think that it's going to take more than vague gestures at "social summatorother" which seems to sum up what I've seen in this space so far.
You know how you can tell it's a crappy HN submission? More than half the comments are about drug legalization. This is a Reddit politics story, not an HN story.

This isn't a value judgement on your infographic. It's just the wrong venue for it.
Allow me to play devil's advocate for a moment.

MongoDB is not the new MySQL, because software with as much inertia and adoption as MySQL will not see easy or even complete replacement. Case-in-point: IE6. IE6 is still with us today, as much as we hate it. You can make all the arguments for a modern browser that you want, but businesses and a few people say, "But I like it better."

Are there easy code migrations to MongoDB? No! Are there easy query migrations? Not really. It isn't a linear transition from one to the other. So no only do you have to rewrite your software, but you've got to pitch your SQL references out the window along with your queries.

I believe that Postgres will replace MySQL. It's mature, SQL-based and similar enough that only tweaks are needed to get a code base running. Oh, and it's free.

New projects may support MongoDB, but I'd be surprised if Wordpress ever came out with a version to support it.

Just my 2¢.
Having a "Why the hell didn't I think of this" moment.

Love it; from what I understand it's basically a HN magazine full of start up (success and dismal failure) stories?

Can't wait to see it, good luck guys :)

Edit:
Just gave you your 100'th upvote, I hope this means I get early access :P
It doesn't take long at all, but there are enough tinfoil-hat folks out there that I assumed you were serious.
this fellow is advocating code reviews before checking in changed code to revision control. i can appreciate the benefits of that -- less churn and junk in the repository, the commit history for most files will be succinct, and each change-set will contain a single change or fix.

but doesn't that bring some logistical challenges? how does the reviewer look at your diffs and code if your changes haven't yet been committed? or do you commit, but you branch for every bug fix, and then merge when the review is completed? is there another clever way to do this that doesn't involve revision control?
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Lol, thank you for being funny :) This thread has brightened my day - and stirred up a serious desire for a pudding cup.
Hasn't google already taken a huge step towards this with their +1 initiative (which is obviously tied to G+)?

With Google's velocity, I think they're probably going to get to "social search" first (good luck to Blekko, but reliance on FB is not going to scale - especially when FB looks to monetize - social search is their meal ticket).
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Thanks! Yep, we're up, running & making money - rolling out a biz model change next week which gives us more recurring revenue.
it's actually just the code from here:

http://jeffreybreen.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/twitter-text-mi...

applied against a mongodb query. obviously not statistically representative; but rather an indication of what an acceptable profile looks like.
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I totally agree. While I am a 'true programmer' (it's my job, my hobby, and my love since 4th grade) as soon as Clojure and Scala became popular, I knew I'd end up learning them one day.

And when I have a -use- for a language, I learn it on the spot. Learning the basics is stupidly easy once you know 3-4 languages, and learning the quirks comes with time for any language.
What a terrible headline. It's indicative of the poor state of science reporting.
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Ask HN: What's a young hacker to do?
Aside from being careful with our grades, what should young (high school) programmers be doing and aspiring to? I program as often as I can and (of course) check Hacker News for the latest. Recently, however, I've hit a wall. When I code, I worry that I will have nothing to show for it, though I might complete a project. What did you do as a high schooler and what do you think we should do?
Yep but I wanted something that would quickly give me links to people in the articles I read.
My approach is a bit trickier since I also get user names inside the content of the article.
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Despite my dislike for Zuckerberg, that's a bit disingenuous.

I honestly think that Google+ is a direct result of Page's ascendancy, and this was unexpected to outsiders.
Not sure why that's a fair assumption. I'd have an easier time believing that they've been working on this and rushed it out the door because of Google+, but even that's just conjecture. You don't drum up a partnership and integration like this in two or three weeks.
Hi saurik :)

Jailbrake is good, I jailbroken my 3G after one hour outside its box. (And I used your VNC implementation to allow a disabled friend in a wheelchair to use an iPhone)

That's said, exploiting a hole in the pdf renderer is scary. This shouldn't be possible.
If you go to a state university, that is a legal state issued ID.
The page says Delaware's new slogan is "Delaware: boring on purpose" which seems to suggest it is a parody site.
"A lot more social" is pretty vague.
Of course. This could have happened to any site, but in this case I just found it funny because 'JQuery -> jquery.com' is so simple and obvious. I'm sure the author knew the actual domain, but used google out of habit or preference.
Some tools (Crucible, at the least) allow you to code-review based off of a diff that specifies the version it is applied to.
Please don't think like that. I'm one of the people that originally started and actively works towards promoting NSCoder Night Santa Monica located in Los Angeles (Tuesday dinners for Cocoa developers).

The overwhelming majority of newcomers I talk to were intimidated to show up because there were people (like me) that had at least dabbled with Cocoa for years, but they had just started that month/year/hadn't started at all but wanted to start someday and they felt like they would be out of their league and unwelcome to the group.

But you know what? We all have stupid and awesome questions to ask each other. We all have something to offer to the group no matter our experience level. Just showing up and opening up is a huge deal. We have people with all kinds of programming experience spanning decades (including one guy that started programming in general a scant couple months ago). We don't even always talk about programming. It's a very casual event where we talk about film editing (this being LA, lots of people are employed in that industry), baking bread, making ice cream, exercise, photography, and more. The only thing that ties us together is that we all are interested in Cocoa. Nobody is ever obligated to talk at all about anything (other than a brief introduction, but we all share in that even if it's our 50th time at the event) or bring anything to the table if they don't feel comfortable doing so, and I'm hoping that newcomers find this environment to be friendly. The fact that we've had several new people that keep on showing up makes me think we're doing it right :)

I know I am a very antisocial person and I really don't enjoy spending time with total strangers, but being an organizer of this event has made me further appreciate the benefits of networking and coming to terms with my being antisocial. Not everyone out there is expecting to hang out with people who are stupider or smarter than them or that you need to do this or that to participate. You won't know that until you actually go and try to at least introduce yourself to people. Don't worry about it :)

In the event anything really doesn't work out, start your own group. That was my reason for joining in on trying to organize our NSCoder group. Los Angeles is huge and lots of events I wanted to go to would have involved being stuck in an hour of traffic to get there. Lo and behold, there were other people that thought the same as me and our group was born. We had 15 people show up yesterday night, I think we were pretty successful in that regard :)