skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN provides an API for some of the functionalities but submitting/upvoting is not included.

Here is the link to HN search API: http://www.hnsearch.com/api
Submit, the original, article.
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Anatomy of a Meltdown - John Cassidy
We were developing data stream processing software for companies in financial sector. We were unable to get performances and controllability/measurability of the system our customer wanted using java. So we end up with C/C++.
Such is the reason the only game I play is a Quake clone (Urban Terror). It is mostly bug free, runs on cheap hardware, and most importantly: it is very fun (due to the great gameplay.) It also has a great community (with a lot of hackers/nerd types.
Steve Jobs Broke Every Leadership Rule. Don't Try It Yourself.
Is this on the frontpage in addition to the Show HN, because every is testing the button out?
Tell everyone: Use target=_blank if your pages have  videos
If a page on your site/blog contains a video be sure to use target='_blank' for all links on that page.
I'm not sure it would make much difference on submissions. People and bots submit articles indiscriminately from a number of sources within seconds of them hitting their RSS feed:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/auto+submission+bots+on+Hacker+Ne...

What it would do is give the large-trafficked sites a significant advantage since they can leverage their own traffic. You could see that on Digg years ago, the front page was largely devoted to a selection of sites - Engadget, TechCrunch, Huffington Post, Ars etc.
You're right, it's "through" not "from". I can't edit it now.
The i5 Macbook Pro 13" has the same performance as the i7 Macbook Air. (5910 vs 5830 on geekbench).
Anyone in a position of responding directly to the public should either know enough to give a reasonable answer or know enough to consult an expert before answering.
I actually like this idea. I am not so sure how it works, but i would love and use daily any service that allows to place my order before I get to the coffee shop.
There's an in-class presentation and a final paper, according to the syllabus:

http://floatinguniversity.com/files/Great%20Big%20Ideas%20-%...
I don't know why everyone is so quick to dismiss the simple explanation, "That's just the current culture of the industry."

Personally, I find this idea very compelling. The quantitive finance profession isn't exactly open and taking a constant influx of new ideas from the rest of the industry. They're a much more secretive bunch. Is it any surprise, then, that their tools stagnate somewhat because of their reluctance to engage openly with the rest of the industry?

I know that some people are engaged in high-speed trading applications where they require a language with a close analogue to machine instructions for the purposes of performance. I haven't seen any evidence that this is all quants everywhere, or that these suites of quantlibs actually provide all their functionality to that segment of the community.

Meanwhile, the CLR and JVM actually generate remarkably fast code from remarkably high-level specifications and LLVM is a real thing. Haskell and Ocaml take functional definitions and often generate better code than longer C++ definitions. I suspect that there is an under-served market here that is reluctant to adopt new tools for social reasons rather than for technical reasons.
There are a lot of problems with the catchphrase. Too many to unpack.

One of them is that this "men with guns" phrase is often deployed to plant some kind of "government over-reach" meme around the most trivial of adult transactions, like paying parking fines and property taxes.

It betrays a childish political naivete. The reason I say it's childish is that it's egocentric, as if the concerns of the speaker (to park where they want, to own large plots of land, that abut other people's land, without any consequence or restraint) were the only ones in existence.

That house is served by roads, protected by police and fire services, and must be in compliance with various perfectly reasonable regulations (like brush clearance). That costs money.

And last, you know where your phrase, "All power comes from the barrel of a gun", comes from, right? Good old chairman Mao, one of the top guys in the 20th century rogues gallery. In a democracy, with functioning courts, this saying is more hyperbole.

I think a more relevant notion is that the state is the entity that has a monopoly on violence (due to Max Weber, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence).
I've never been to an internet forum dedicated to football fans, it sounds like the most terrible way to waste time. But if that's your thing, how sweet.
The pre-loaded stored value cards has been done before, it's hard to get people to purchase $10 for something that they dont know in advance where they are going to be spending it.
Google "Beenz" for some history about why this failed in the past.
I think the future is a "per annum" paywall model for low value amounts eg i'd be happy to pay for NYtimes for $12 a year (i like the $1 per month price point) but i wont pay their current price point, so you arent payign per article as such but the ability to come back for a year and access everything on an all you can eat model.
Cyberspace and 4th Generation Warfare - A Marriage of Convenience
> Cockpit component company Rockwell Collins, for example, made waves at this year’s Paris air show when it talked about developing a “panic button” for commercial airplanes that would give confused and stricken pilots the option of flipping a switch and letting the computer fly the plane to safety. Not surprisingly, the concept drew ridicule from aviators, who are quick to point out that computers are hardly infallible, as anyone who has ever struggled with a crashed Web browser knows.

One of the more dangerous things when operating a vehicle is cognitive overload; when shit goes wrong, a bunch of stuff tends to get dumped on you and you can't think fast enough to catch up. A way to let the airplane worry about itself for a minute while the pilots can catch up seems to be a decent way to address this side effect of being a conscious being instead of an automaton.

The jab about the unreliability of computers is just that; avionics software is on a much slower release schedule and has a much more fixed set of inputs than a web browser, allowing for a more thorough (or even formal) analysis of its behavior.

> “People say it’s impossible to stall an Airbus, right? It has stall-protection systems and it won’t allow you to exceed the maximum angle of attack where a stall would occur,” argues Paul Strachan, an Air Canada pilot who is the head of the company’s pilots’ union. “But that’s not true. If there’s ice on the wing, that whole detection system isn’t accurate to begin with. I would be pretty hesitant to get on a plane with no pilot.”

Flight control systems can be built to compensate for all sorts of failures[1] that would pose grave difficulty for human pilots, but nobody's really advocating for completely-autonomous passenger planes. The problem right now is that the autonomous systems to reduce pilot workload and improve safety have failure modes that tend to overload the pilots with information. A working, reliable "panic button" would definitely help pilots get back in front of the plane in an emergency situation, but so would fixing the information overload to allow pilots to prioritize important issues (pitot freezing up, speed indicators unreliable) over side effects (unreliable stall warning, alternate law activation).

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN9f9ycWkOY
Where did you do "that hostel thing"? Also in Europe? Do you have some examples of hostels you stayed in?
By putting the source on github you're inviting people to use your code in their projects, and pick it apart. It's next to impossible to pick apart like this. In addition, a minified version is a build product, which you don't put in a VCS.
Offer the minified version as a download, that's what that feature is there for.
Two quotes come immediately to mind:

"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission" (both emotionally and in terms of effort/bureaucracy) and

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
It was just the day before yesterday that I've written this
http://garron.me/blog/what-i-have-learned-at-hacker-news.htm...

About how I like HN, and why it is not yet-another-social-site full of kids trying to push their post to the top.

Sorry if this sound negative, but I'd rather prefer HN as it is now, If I find something I think might interest this "mature" community I'll come here and post it, It does not matter if this is not as easy as submit the story to Facebook. It worth the "effort" as here I get real good comments about my submissions.

We already have Facebook for the "brainless" people. I've to admit that I blog a lot and only maybe 1% of my own posts deserve being here. With this button in my blog, maybe lots of me posts might end up here.

Anyway great job designing and creating this. :).

Hope my opinion adds something good to this discussion.
Google charges for Postini's standalone service. Their integration of Postini's function into Gmail and it being "free" in exchange for some of your freedoms is the entire point of this discussion and the mailing list post.
I like this app. Before I had to use windows movie maker to create the video but pixomix creates memory in just 2 clicks.
Encrypting or even obscuring communications on the amateur radio bands is illegal.
Is anyone else consciously trying to practice those skills that are useful in a startup?
It's not original ;) Content strategy/curation is the new buzzword, but I've listened to some talks by people involved in those kinds of projects, and they have interesting thoughts about it.

O'Reilly's page about Data[1] is a nice aggregation of articles and talks about such problems.

[1]: http://radar.oreilly.com/data/
Get off your high horse.

You could say the exact same thing about books, TV, movies, paintings, etc.

Games are just like any other form media. Yes, many of them are superficial, but a lot of them tell incredible stories, teach life lessons, and evoke powerful emotions. To top it all off they can also be incredible teaching tools.

Just because you think something's a waste of time doesn't mean other people aren't deriving real meaning from it.
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Inspiring story that seperates needs.from wants. Somebody found the uninstall button on the pre loaded AntiVirus (puns intended) ;)
OK, that's it. There's a sporadic JavaScript alert on that page that asks for confirmation before closing the page, there's a sporadic refresh on load to some advertiser's page (which has a self-starting video ad on it), and now excessive CPU?

They are making a strong case for a spot on my "automatically flag on sight" list.
What is that site exactly that prompts me for my HN username and password when I click on Like? Needless to say, I will not be doing what it asks for unless the site is news.ycombinator.com itself... but then the real HN should already know that I am logged in. So, sorry, it's a no go.
Instead of a Like button, I would much more prefer a link back to the comments section. That is more in line with my use of Hackers News; read article => read comments.
Client-side Express.js (for Node.js)
"Shatter"ing the Windows Message Passing Architecture and Security Model
Who's going try reading some of this before doing the ML or AI Stanford courses?
>In this case, one of the same people who says DNS filtering will break the Internet just one year ago advocated a whole new piece of infrastructure to allow people to filter the DNS.

Filtering infrastructure is one thing, this is an actual law you could break (accidentally even) and then get into real trouble.
remember that all power comes out of the barrel of a gun

That's a ridiculous simplification. You may as well say, "all power comes from tanks," or, "all power comes from nuclear arms."

If the county takes your house, the sheriff will come out to escort you off the property. Guns don't come into play unless you pose a threat to their lives. Even if guns do come into play, that's still not ultimately the force that moves you. Being outnumbered by a better organized group is what ultimately forces you out. The guns are just one small part of the puzzle.
I agree with most of your post, but I don't think the problem is bugginess.

The real problem is the short-term fix nature of games. As you say, they're (mostly) not designed to be one-shots, with the majority of players playing through the game for a couple of weeks each, within a period of a few months of each other. That is why bugginess is tolerated, not the other way around. It's not worth the time to fix non-critical edge-case problems in situations. By the time the bug can be fixed, and tested, it'll only be useful to, say, 10% of total players.

In multiplayer games (and other games where the player is expected to engage with the game for months at a time) then you find that there are frequent updates and bug fixes.
The guy seems to be thinking too much like a mathematician. The whole purpose of PageRank is not to calculate a perfect mathematical score based on graph topology, it's to model the likely behavior of people surfing the web. Links in the graph represents the flow of attention from one page to the next.

Most of the time people will follow links. But they'll also close pages and open new ones from bookmarks, search engines or memory.

As such, the fact that the PageRank graph is not completely connected doesn't matter, because it's already a subset of the "true" page-to-page graph anyway.

The regularization isn't just a hack to make the numbers work, it also models the uncertainty in user behavior.
Maybe the button should only be visible once a story have gotten some "n" number of votes (the old way)?.
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Lets start something!

What would be a good name?
For what it's worth, all three of my friends whom are quants (at three different companies) spend most their time in SAS and some proprietary in house language.
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Yeah Im kind of realizing this too, we dont want rampant mindless liking. Part of what makes the vote here work is that you can compare posts with one another and see if similar stories were already submitted etc... What if we make the like button really small..."^" so that only people familiar with it will notice it? lol
I do high-frequency trading. My feed handling and order routing logic is in C++ for the performance benefits. But my backtesting is in q/kdb+, my loading scripts are in Python, and my administrative tasks are in bash.

Some of my co-workers use Java because their models aren't as sensitive to latency as mine. My best friend does options pricing in VB/Excel. And I know tons of competitors who use R, MATLAB, OCaml, and Haskell.

There are tons of languages used in finance.
I'd have to content that my own games (Crash + Jak) are far far less buggy than the typical web or desktop application. We had a VERY low tolerance for bugs. I NEVER EVER shipped with a known crash bug (there were some I didn't know about of course). As entertainment we always felt that the consumer had zero tolerance for bugs. Something like MS Word is riddled with serious bugs that don't get fixed major release after major release. We had a huge staff of in house QA and even more external.
And why is that?
Would it not be better to let the user decide whether or not to open in new tab?
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I've had terrible experiences with the usability of ning. It could always just be a private invite only forum. Email me and lets chat more? Email is in my profile.
He doesn't work for Canonical. The domain is canonical.org, not canonical.com.
I figure a good compromise exists. Just release the source code and let everyone host their own hackers like button. Then people get to choose what they want. (and even choose to alter the code to not allow "likes" at all.) And, just show details of how many liked it. This ways they can integrate hacker news info with their own blogs displays, etc.

Personally, I can see through pulse and news.ycombinator.com how many votes something has. If I want to upvote something I'll take the thirty seconds to find the article on hacker news.

Just my two cents.

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What's your primary revenue stream?
Some people love it. Like me. The pointer never feels quite so much like an extension of my brain with anything other than the nipplemouse.
Very much so. Still trying to find out exactly what maths will be required, I'm looking at things from related courses http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx.
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Check out https://www.facebook.com/pages/JomyBooks/226339094085452 from this weekend´s 48-hour Garage48 hackathon.
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I see curation as the important problem right now. It's telling that the two web juggernauts right now are Google and Facebook - both basically curation companies through search and social networking.

Of course blogs don't have to be first-order (in fact, more of them need to be!) Most blogs (like most traditional media these days) are parasitic off of factual traditional reporting and academic papers, and other blogs go off into third-order meta-analysis.

If you need your narrative, there's somebody out there who wants to give it to you, we just have to figure out a way to make sure they can eat. Tax deductions for donations? Monthly billed funds to make sure that you can donate to sources that support the information you like to consume, but you may not have an awareness of?
You have to consider his primary use case (which he explains in the video). He's not writing web apps per se, but wrapping up existing python code in a simple http frontend. From that point of view I agree with him that bottle is quicker and easier to use than flask. That being said, flask is easily my go to framework for getting serious web app work done in python.
Sure Eclipse could be less resource demanding but outright claiming that it's inferior to 20 year old tools is ignorant.
Can you expand on "trivial to alter" part? I get an impression there that many claim that altering JS you get is almost as easy as sniffing your traffic, I'd like to know more why it is so.
Speaking of which, making this look more like the standard social media buttons would be good too.

Why!
> We can probably rent it for our mortgage. (This for me is the most important thing -- basically we bought the rental we would have lived in).

What's your down payment? Unless it is trivial (3 months rent or something like that), there's also the cost of making your down payment illiquid.

Sounds like it is still a good decision, but don't forget that cost as well.
It is just an iframe so if you log into news.yc.com the popup will not ask for your username:password.
the fkin idiot that decided to add this crap to installers needs to be hung then stabbed multiple times and doused with alcohol and lit on fire just before death, ALONG with the other asshole that made Captcha's - which for the disabled are a fuckin "Brick Wall" on the internet, if i try REALLY hard with my disabilities i can accomplish maby 1 out of 20-30 captcha's -- when you add the 2 things together, a fuckin captcha to download bloatware bullshit, FCUK THE WORLD~ FUCK CORPERATE AMERICA, FUCK YOU ALL, FUCK THE HUMAN RACE, FUCK YOU AGAIN! AND AGAIN! FUCK YOU ALL AND I WISH THE WORLD WOULD FUCKIN EXPLODE ALLREADY....

...Fuck you!
I've worked for a couple of game studios over the years. Unfortunately, conditions were atrocious at both, something that seems to be fairly common in the industry. My hypothesis is so many coders spent their teen years playing video games, wanting to write them, that they are willing to work in sub-par conditions.

I won't work at another one, unless it's my own. Sadly, I'm not skilled enough to start my own.
Very impressive Xbox 360 glitch hack. Reliable low-level hardware.
Programmer myopia
@sbashyal: Nice hack. That said, read pg's comment carefully: the issue here isn't simply about HN point inflation. It's about submitting stories thoughtfully, upvoting carefully (after evaluating signals such as the quality of the conversation around an article, alongside the article itself), introduction of random strangers to the HN community - these are potential factors tied in with the creation of the like button.

pg's raised these issues, and I must say I'd like to see some discussion about them.
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Do we really want submitting a story to HN to be as easy as getting fed inside of a Skinner box?
The print version of the article linked to here jumps into the middle of the story. You have to go through a page at a time to get the whole thing.

Frankly, the Fast Company article makes a lot more sense. This, "I lost all my assets, but I'm a happier guy, and now I'm off to Belize with a few pennies in my pocket," stuff is pretty convenient for a guy with five pending lawsuits including a wrongful death that could cost him, well, all his assets.
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My favourite Steve Jobs quote posted on Twitter, after breaking 140 chars limit
Poll: Do you agree with a HN "Like" button?
Today this appeared on HN front page

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934178

The comments are divided, some like the idea some not.
I think a poll can help the community.

If you think that another option may appear, let me know.
One possible approach that might have helped in the Air France case might be to let the pilots know what the plane doesn't know, instead of bombarding them with the unsolvable problems it did know.

At one point, they were at full thrust, nose-up, and climbing, yet in the heat of a storm of warnings, they failed to recognize that the airframe, engines, wings were all performing exactly as designed, aside from a panicking computer.

At that point they had completely lost situational awareness, and held the plane nose-up and falling until it contacted the water. If they had been able to 'step back' and look at the wider situation, they almost certainly should have been able to guesstimate some power settings, trim appropriately to lower the nose to recover to a normal flight attitude and hang on until they could trouble-shoot the frozen pitot tubes that had caused the air data computers to lose airspeed info.
+1 - I hate getting linked to GitHub repos where the "demo" is download, install, and then copy and paste this demo code.
Wow, fascinating. That article paints McAfee and this story in an entirely different light, doesn't it? Thanks.

edit: I should add, I wonder which is more accurate? About 10 years ago my uncle's family was involved in a lawsuit which ended up going to the supreme court. 20/20 and 60 Minutes (I think it was those two) did shows on the story, and it was very interesting to see each show spin the story a different way. So, the media can definitely pick a side which they think will sell well, and selectively quote and share details. I wonder if that's happening here.
The article doesn't mention near misses. How many stalls occur that crews safely recover their planes from? Can we learn anything from their circumstances?
I wonder if it's a different story with longer-running MMORPG's like WoW, FFXI, etc. Wouldn't the situation force the development process to be more stable and follow best practices?
I think what's sad when you compare the games industry to others like finance or telecommunications, (based on my experience) a typical (large) game company does way way more testing than say a big bank or telco.
Don't know / I do not care
The whole discussion reminded me of Malcolm Gladwell's article "blowup".

http://www.gladwell.com/1996/1996_01_22_a_blowup.htm
Maybe, but that has nothing to do with copyright law or even the BBC's polices regarding it.
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