skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First thing: Watch this video from Luis von Ahn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4

He is the creator of reCAPTCHA and working on a translation solution which answers your question (regarding how to get people to eagerly do work for your community) pretty eloquently.

Regarding your specific user engagement problem... I would venture to say that the problem you're solving here is not clear. You describe what your site can DO! But not what your site DOES for me. In other words, you're solving problems. Not providing solutions. This blog post from Dave McClure is pretty relevant here, too: http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2009/08/your-solution-is...

Despite the aggressive tone of the article, I think there's a good insight on how you should be "pitching" on your website's landing page.
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Yes well that was the problem - Greeks are happy to vote for high government spending, they even vote for high taxes - they just don't pay them.

I think we'll also see them sell their half of Cyprus to Turkey too, for a few billion Euros, once the austerity starts to bite. And the Germans have their eye on a few of the Greek islands too.
While we're on the subject of git, can anyone recommend me a Git host that doesn't limit the number of private repositorys? $8 a month and only five private repositories is really restricting, and my only real complaint with GitHub.
That's the announcement post for his 'drawing marathon,' which seems to have taken a very short time indeed. The result is here: http://www.goblinscomic.com/tempts-fate-11/. It stands at $31,261 right now.
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I honestly don't understand why anyone would develop on Win and release on Linux, especially for a web-app.

VMWare Player and VirtualBox are free, and it's quite easy to setup an Ubuntu image that mimics your server platform (if you must be untethered)... alternatively put everything in the (private, if need be) cloud.
Mozilla: We need to not give our friends the finger
> Facebook feed relevance as a point of superiority over some competing services

When I disabled my Facebook account in early March I gave two reasons:

(a) The newly introduced forced sharing of my address and phone number with third party app developers[1] and lack of granular deny on data items for third party apps.

(b) The "edge ranked" news feed suddenly full of social butterflies[2] instead of thoughtful friends' occasional remarks. I very specifically want to see the comments from those who might share something insightful once a quarter, instead of those who chatter several times daily about their snacks.

Most in my "circles" have found Facebook less engaging and less useful this year. Discussion usually ends up pointing at this default feed filter as the reason.

1. http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/facebook-third-party-share-ad...

2. http://www.bizchickblogs.com/2011/06/facebook-edgerank-or-im... (your link explains it wasn't my imagination, thanks for this)
Or just run a sed command and fix a (very small) number of errors that'll pop up. mysqli is almost a drop-in replacement.
Google Code and Git are actually perfect for each other -- both have horrible UIs.
#2. It's fallen in Google rankings for nearly every keyword for which it appears at all.
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I assume you mean this form: var f = function () {}; ?

If so, I don't think that will circumvent the issue since only the variable declaration will be hoisted, the function being assigned will probably not be. You'd end up with 'not a function' like error when invoking instead of undefined.

EDIT: Actually, I'm not sure if your last sentence is talking about the problem in the article since the person your reply was to has deleted their post. If it isn't, then disregard.
So basically you think all advertising is inherently evil? If so, I don't know what else to say here, because we have a very fundamental disagreement on basic principles.

I personally object to advertising that is "invasive" in the sense that it interferes with my ability to do what I'd otherwise be doing, or makes changes to my environment without my permission... so in computer terms, pop-ups, pop-unders, ads that play sound or video by default (and even worse, can't be disable), those I despise.

But as far as banner ads, emails, etc. go, I mostly don't have a problem with the stuff that's A. easy to ignore, and B. relevant.

<shrug />
Hi, i created a Google Chrome extention that does what this person: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430542 was asking (The title is now "$TITLE | Hacker News")
It's not that I don't drink coffee. I just don't drink enough to appreciate Jamacian Blue Mountain (which I've had personally while ON Blue Mountain) over Cafe Bustelo.
Printed and taped up in my cubicle. Thanks.
As a person who teaches PHP (and probably other languages too), you should definitely tell people not to do following mistakes:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO table(field) VALUES('".$_POST['input']."')");

and not to forget, a truly classic one:

include('pages/'.$_GET['page']);

When I started to learn PHP there was a contest between the students: Who brings hosts with vulnerable websites down faster. The trick was to recusrively include the same page (like index.php for example). The most funny thing though was to see the explosively rising load average by including /proc/uptime.

After having some fun, we usually sent emails to the administrators just to not receive any answers and to find the hosts still vulnerable months later...
>lost me again at "ancient brain" and not putting out unnecessary energy.

A lot of evolutionary science talks about energy expenditure. For an animal to survive it needs to take in at least as many calories as it expends, so evolutionary scientists often explain behavior in terms of expending calories and preserving calories. E.g, Predators tend to sleep a lot because hunting takes up a lot of calories. It's better to preserve the calories they gained hunting by sleeping a lot, rather then spend them on another hunt that may or may not be successful. As opposed to large herbivores that don't gain that many calories from grass, but don't spend so many eating it, either. They sleep very little because foraging those extra hours turns out to be a caloric win.

Our "ancient" brain (which is a crappy term, I know) refers to the set of behaviors we evolved to survive in a society pre civilization. In that environment, effort == calories spent. What the author is saying is that for evolutionary reasons, we evolved to not want to waste calories (put forth effort) if there isn't a good chance of getting them back. But, because our food sources no longer in jeopardy, that evolutionary urge which led to our survival in the wild now leads to the vice known as procrastination.
well done!! keep it up, it has a great scope.
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I manage an adwords campaign for a highly competitive local search term and we are getting gouged because of layout changes. about 5 or 6 months ago google added a local map on the right column and lowered the ads beneath the map. the results has been you have to bid much higher and pay more for less.
There has not been a lack of AI progress in the past 30 years, but rather some sort of 'True Scottsman'-esque raised expectations phenomenon. Natural language processing, computer vision, etc have seen dramatic improvements in recent years but every time there is an improvement people say "well that's just standard stuff, not real AI". As long as a technology is real, people seem weirdly unwilling to accept that it is also an example of AI. The "real stuff" seems to include "fictional" as an integral part of it's definition.
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(Speaking purely for myself here.) I agree the code is important, but I think a cohesive project is more important. Github presents itself as a giant pastebin for code, with "projects" bolted on. Google Code presents projects first, and puts the code at an even level with every other part: bugtracker, downloads, wiki.

(That said, I agree pull requests would be cool.)
The problem with this essay is that is paints us as slaves to our genes.

Reminds me of what a friend of mine used to tell his girlfriend when she would catch him looking at other girls walking by.

"I can't fight thousands of years of evolution." :)
I question the belief that tracking a few purchases gives one the ability to have insight into anothers desire to buy your shit.

Fair enough. My own empirical observation is that some ad targeting initiatives (the aforementioned Facebook example, the Amazon example) DO result in the delivery of relevant ads, which are actually beneficial to both the buyer and the seller. I won't argue that it guarantees that all ads will be relevant. But if I'm going to see a stream of X ads in a given day, I would personally prefer that the percentage of them that are for things I'd legitimately be interested in, be as high as possible.
The vast majority of the time when I see a complaint like this about robots.txt, it's usually because the site has missed a character here or there, or because they're not putting a robots.txt file on the right hostname.

Google has a free robots.txt checker that lets you test your robots.txt files. Given a robots.txt file, you can enter specific urls and check whether that url would be blocked or not. Here's a link for more info on that free tool: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
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While I agree with you on the facts of projects vs code, I actually LOVE that the PROJECT isn't
on github. It makes the wily nilly use/patches from 3rd parties so much easier. It makes Google Code feel a little too sourceforgey.
It did provide a really intense story plot, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Rising
This was a very powerful story and I'm glad you guys decided to share. It was certainly fun and I enjoyed working with you both. Time to build the next big thing with a lot of lessons learned :)

-Chad
> The key is UX. I'm still waiting for an easy way to easily add one person to multiple circles without repeated click-drags... Circle auto-discovery (or suggestion) would be even better.

While it's not auto-discovery or suggesting circles, in the profile of a person who's using G+ you can hover over the "add to circles" button, which then expands into a list of circles you have, with checkboxes next to each. It would be nice if they included that interface in the drag-and-drop circle-adding pages, which allow you to sort large numbers of people at once, though.
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It's tacked to my wall also :)
> The internet (and many respectable CS courses) are littered with examples using mysql_query() and string concatenation

Not to mention, "PHP: The Good Parts". I almost threw that book out when I hit those parts.
And if she says "Men are no good", he can reply "Hey, somebody's gotta do the math!" ;)
I think it's largely out of a genuine love for the space.
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For starters:

What is the #1 reason to visit a project page? To download the source. Does the #2 reason come even close? No. So why in the world is the repo URL not on the front page, and easy for me to copy/paste into a terminal? Why? Github even has a button that will copy it to the clipboard for you!
Your explanation is a silly mix of right-wing tropes.

You think it's going to be China that buys the Sistine Chapel, or India that purchases the Washington Monument?

No, it will be crony capitalist groups (formulated by the banksters and politically connected) that do so. The fact that these groups may be involved with some sovereign wealth fund of a BRIC or other country is incidental.

Then they'll rent it out at obscene prices and gouge the public further.
Any word on who the contractor was? Coming on the heels of the Booz Allen & Hamilton break in, this has been a bad week for infosec in the MIC.
You have a dollar bill, you have gold; you want it in your physical possession, you trade in your dollar bill and the US redeems your gold. But for convenience you trade in paper bills.

How is that inherently better than fiat money? You are essentially trusting that the government will provide you with the gold on demand. The government could overprint & not actually have enough in reserves to cover all gold requests.

Additionally silver/gold certificates were redeemable for silver or gold dollars. The world gold market started making these coins worth more than the face value. You started to get speculators who would cash in & then sell the gold for more than the currency was worth. This also happened to Britain with their gold standard. Not to mention the overhead required to maintain & store large volumes of gold as well as punching out expensive gold coins.

I can see the nice concept of having a currency independent of government, but when you boil it down, money is all about trust. Even if we were on a world gold standard we would have to have faith that gold will keep a stable value & that other players in the market are being truthful about their reserves.
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Italy is nowhere like Greece.
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I think Getting a Job is Sales says it all.
That's interesting. It immediately made me think of the way Chicago sold off its parking meter system in 2009(?) to a private company for a fraction of what it's worth. The deal is so bad for the city, I almost have to believe it was corrupt.

I suspect sales of national assets are unlikely to tap their full value, subject as they are to corruption and to the likelihood that the sellers are over a barrel.
Here's a list of non-exciting parts of a business: CRM, forms, cashflow management, hosting, file syncing, due diligence.

Now here's a list of companies that made them exciting: Salesforce, Wufoo, inDinero, Heroku, DropBox, Duedil

If your business isn't exciting your customers, then you're doing something wrong, it doesn't matter if you're b2b or b2c.
Yes the assertion in the linked article that MS is replacing C# with something called "WinC++" is frankly, bizarre, and calls the author's credibility starkly into question.
Did facebook launch with groups out of the box? I remember them being there fairly on, but I don't think they were there when I first joined. I could be wrong though.
I think the main reason is that this is a speech (transcribed). Hence the lack of citation and references, together with rhetorical questions and phrasings more suitable for verbal performance.
The ? ? ? example is readable when you're inserting three values; it becomes really really easy to leave off, or add on an extra, argument when you're inserting fifteen or fifty values.

Think fast: is everything in the code below correct? I've already forgotten whether I've added an extra ? or left one off, and I just typed this 30 seconds ago.

$sth = $dbh->("INSERT INTO a_table (lorem, ipsum, dolor, sit, amet, consectetur, adipiscing, elit, donec, malesuada, purus, et, tellus, dignissim, tristique, in, ipsum, neque, ultricies, quis, hendrerit, ac, pulvinar, eget, enim)
) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?);");
$sth->execute(array($lorem, $ipsum, $dolor, $sit, $amet, $consectetur, $adipiscing, $elit, $donec, $malesuada, $purus, $et, $tellus, $dignissim, $tristique, $in, $ipsum, $neque, $ultricies, $quis, $hendrerit, $ac, $pulvinar, $enim, $eget));
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The thing is, I don't see any effort by Twitter to try to separate the inband metadata, except for what they did with in_reply_to (which continues to have problems). They should have done exactly the same for hashtags, URLs, and pictures a long time ago. As a result, URL shorteners have spread across the web like a disease and tweets are #goddamn #liketotally #nearunreadable http://bit.ly/mjSZ1G now, unless you have a client that gets rid of the junk for you. I don't see the top-down, platform-level vision from Twitter about how they'll innovate and make the UX better, instead I just see them sucking up all the startups that built products around their service.

You can make a better UX for a broadcasting service than by having people squeeze more characters in by switching to a tinier URL shortener and using sillier hashtags. I'm hoping to see some movement that actually indicates they know what a problem this is.
I understand their "pro-bootstrap/anti-VC funding" agenda, but I'm not quite sure why they are so anti-acquisition?
The problem with this approach for image morphing is it makes it difficult to author morphs. A better way is to select features on both images that correspond to one another. The seminal paper on this technique (used by Michael Jackson's "Black & White" video AFAIK) is from 1992:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/cs426/pap...
Their great idea is a standard loyalty program?

No, wait, it's a loyalty program that rewards you for loyalty to any merchant in the program... So, not really loyalty. More like happenstance.
Ha! But that depends on getting an interview! The article says that the shotgun method doesn't work and that the solution is to personalize your messages. You can't personalize based on the interview that you don't have because you didn't personalize!

Article: "If the job seeker doesn’t take time to understand the company, and personalise their written and spoken message to the hiring manager at that company, it’s easy to see why the business might pass them over for candidates that offer more personalized communication."
And thus ensured that either you upgrade your version of PHP and instantly break your application, or that you stick with an older version with potential security flaws, and never bother updating again?

Bonus points if you're not actually in control of the version of PHP your web app runs on.
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Possibly true, but users don't expect the back button to move up, they expect it to move back. In the web browser if you click on a link from HN and then hit back you don't expect the browser to direct you to the parent domain, you expect it to return to HN.
If you'd actually read the economist over the past year and a half (i.e. acute phase of euro crisis) you'd know the paper has been a staunch critic of the reactive measures taken by the various parties trying to save the EU and that the paper has not predicted a time frame in which the euro will end; it's only cautioned that current policies are not solving anything and that the crisis will continue to worsen until either it's comprehensively solved or leads to a dramatic breakup of at least part of the currency union.
How do you get to the interview?
Interestingly, the submission by pixelbeat around the same time already has 78 points and 15 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2768036
Thus I am enlightened.
Nice way to filter TC posts by author
Not necessarily networking related, but it is a 10Gbps port: http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm
Yeah would be great. :) I like getting stuff by mail. As long as its in a format I can easily store/process I mean.
http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/
http://www.meetup.com/trizpug/

Seems like there is a bunch of stuff in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. It may be a bit of a drive for you - not sure how far away from that area you are - but if you are really interested it might be worth a drive up there once a month.
Stopped reading at "Deep discounting is not a sustainable customer retention strategy for the long term,". How can you say this when the most successful retailers in the world use this as their long term competitive strategy?
Well, i am a developer, i know a few languages including Java,C++, C#, Groovy, and a few other scripting languages.

I had a different entrepreneur tech idea in my mind at the time i posted this question here. Now since there's no place on the web to find coder-hippies ;) or business/marketing entrepreneur people, why not create a place for all those entrepreneur students who are looking to connect to one another. I don't mind anyone stealing this idea and working on it, but if there's anyone who would like to join me in creating this application please buzz me.

I am living in a Asian country, and geographical location would not effect a startup.

let me know, what you think :)
Let's all agree to agree:

* URLs shouldn't count towards the 140 character limit.

* Tags should be out-of-band

Having said that, I read and write twerps every day. Most of the people I follow use hashtags only in an ironic sense, and I never pay attention to them. I agree that they are poorly engineered for their problem domain (but again: I cut Twitter a lot of slack on this), but I am not kidding: Twitter is more useful than Facebook, with its rich out-of-band metadata and commenting features, on a daily basis, to my business. I would be unhappy if Facebook-style messaging replaced Twitter.
I would consider e-mailing the administrators an e-mail with something along the lines of "<img src='http://vulnerable_host/?page=/proc/uptime />"

"The call is coming from inside the house!"
That is so cheeky and perfect in context. :D
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It depends very much on the audience of the newsletter.

But you'd be looking roughly in the region of $5-$15 CPM unless you had a particular niche that advertisers really wanted to reach.
Like ihodes says, the AI personalities were coded in a language that looked like Lisp. It was hardly a language though. Everything was oriented around setting the AI 'goals', and you had little control in how the AI would actually achieve them.

Edit: grammar.
Its a distributed system. Use them both if you want. Each have their strengths.

This is what I do. I like the way Google Code is oriented around giving you more of a "project" view, so I have a Google Code page for my projects, but I replaced the "Source" link with the link to the corresponding Github repo. I treat the Github repo as the primary repo for development, but I do use git-svn to push the code to Google Code SVN as well.. I figure it makes a convenient "read only" mirror for anybody who just wants to check the code out, play with it, whatever, but who isn't really interested in contributing... or for people who don't know how to use Git yet.
Is there a proper etiquette for quitting your job?
I regularly see posts on HN about quitting one's job to follow dreams, join a startup, or otherwise advance one's career. I was recently on the other end of this thread, so to speak. An excellent young software developer that had worked in my lab for 4 years walked into my office and told me he was quitting to join a startup. No prior warning, no explanations and just 2 weeks notice. While he did try to wrap things up in the 2 weeks, much was left uncompleted and no replacement was even planned for. When encouraging people to follow their dreams, shouldn't there be a concomitant reminder that employers deserve some consideration, too? If you recently quit your job, how did you handle it?
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>"Google+ doesn't have to become as widely used as Facebook to be a success"

For Google, Google+ is probably already a success. Aside from having given them enormous coverage in the press, it has provided them with huge amounts of data about social relationships to mine for the purposes of improving the advertising upon which their revenue model depends.

As I've speculated is the case with Microsoft and Bing, the first benefit of Google+ is in the data it generates as a research project. Ten million members is nothing compared with Facebook - but it is a statistically significant sample size for analyzing the social graph.