skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You guys did great! Nothing in the world even comes close to /. moderation.

Reddit is a prime example of a simple karma system going off the deep end. Instead of reinforcing good behavior, the trend is now that a substantial majority of the community competes for karma score. The noise level has increased sharply over the previous years such that the "popular reddits" are now in the same domain as Digg or 4chan. (Thankfully subreddits such as proggit are still an excellent source of information.)

I think karma works here at HN because it is a hidden score (to avoid the Reddit scenario) and the community heavily discourages low-quality posts. In a sense it relies directly on the userbase mentality and could easily be negated by a change in demographics. (Hopefully we maintain a high signal:noise ratio...)

/. meta moderation rewards users for moderating "correctly" and it doesn't consider the sum input of all users. It's not something that every community could or should adopt, but it certainly seems to have prevented a large fluctuation in community quality for well over a decade. It's also really awesome that comments are not just quantitatively scored, but also have qualitative tags.

Both you and Rob have effected the evolution of the Web as well as how we consume our news in more ways than we'll ever know.
jsftp: a FTP client library for node.js
That, or the Spiders. But I didn't see an erupting binary with a disturbingly regular 250-year period.
How do you measure human behaviour? How do you predict human behaviour based on that?
While all of this is true, if you're looking to get a job somewhere then just look at where they are recruiting. The big guys in the valley recruit from top tier schools. It is possible to stand out from the crowd as a degreeless hacker, but its much harder to be "discovered."
What I Learned from the First Blogger
Great app, I wish I could code for iOS that well! Slick implementation.
Dashboard Wireframe with colors - Tiger did it
Is it really "Crowd-sourcing" when you are drawing from such a small pool of people?
Ness goes live - Coolest restaurant search app I have used.
UK Government backs down on plan to shut Twitter and Facebook in crises
Why is it that all HTML based widget sets have crummy keyboard support compared to their native desktop counterparts?
That would make a fun blog post! Please write one.
I wonder why would somebody go with S-corp instead of C-corp if they plan to be big (meaning raise money)? Majority of startups will not have enough of profit to pay founders at the beginning, so tax advantage does not look very appealing.
My reaction is "RUN!".

If you aren't an experienced writer, you haven't co-written before, your potential co-author is a possible idiot, and you already have two jobs, then NO. Dear heaven, NO.
Como bajar de peso con dieta naturales
Personal Capital Bets $27 Million It Can Upend Investment Advice - Bloomberg
Come lo que quiera y no gane peso?
Heroku for Java
Does YUI have anything along the lines of extjs' tree grid[1]? Or possibly a road-map with a pertinent entry?

[1] http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.2a/examples/tree/treegr...
Not that amazing. Considering that Vinge is of high interest to a number of HN readers, that there are a fair number of HN users, and that Deepness in the Sky is of sufficient length and density that a readthrough (especially a first) can take a pretty decent length of time, I wouldn't find it at all surprising is there was always at least one HN commenter who either was currently in middle of or had just finished Deepness in the Sky.
How is that limiting for startups? Most startups are built on execution and network-effects and I don't see how the license is a hindrance to that.
Linux suckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Some people might decide the details of their religion are nobody's business. Some would say they were at "church" or "temple" or "religious service". I have heard folks in the midwest say "they went to a religious service". I don't see how it is "Gender-neutral, religion-agnostic, PG-13".
Apple Spends Significantly Less on Washington Lobbying Than Microsoft, Google
>simple description of integral:

dual space to a linear vector space :)
Yup. Producing several megatons of diamond in labs would be many orders of magnitude easier than harvesting it from another planet.

Even if it were the moon that were made of diamond, I strongly suspect that the energy requirements to harvest it would still exceed the normally-extreme energy requirements of growing it in a lab.
A $5B investment, not an outright purchase.
So unfair. Some people would make better use of a TOuchPad, if they had managed to get one.

No offense, but I think there are better (dumber) devices for dashboards that don't have unnecessary features like a TouchPad.
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When I was nineteen, I spent my days in the study center near the Taipei train station preparing for exams I found a research center for an exciting and fascinating,
Friend Karl Heinmiller on facebook, setup a meeting

www.facebook.com/kjheinmiller
spend some time getting a fresh design on that site, and show off much more of the social activity on it. Make it look REALLY busy and active, so new users will want to jump in and participate.

Then I'd recommend some forum marketing personally, go get active on a few major gaming forums and use a signature link to your site. Forum marketing is very underrated but can be very lucrative if done actively. Plus you get to participate in forums you're already interested in (hopefully) so it barely feels like work
HN discussion of the article "The High Frontier, Redux" (the HN title was "Why we are unlikely ever to leave the solar system"):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639456

The submitted article was very sound reasoning on why no one in humankind is ever going to make a trip to an extrasolar planet. The comments on the HN thread that disagreed with that conclusion showed appalling lack of consideration of physics or economics.
I was going to give a quick glance to Opa, but the AGPL license fills me with confidence. Your team is confident that the language is awesome enough that the license won't be a problem even for proprietary/commercial users of it.

Good choice on the license!

(However if you encounter problems with adoption/funding, it might be time to start thinking about paid dual-licensing heh)
Trebuchet feels dated, especially when bolded and part of blue + orange scheme. That look was very trendy a few years ago. Also, too many faces. Two faces usually work fine. Maybe replace all the Trebuchet with Maven Pro, and all the Lucida with Helvetica. And lose any weight variation you can (eg: since a link is already a different color, it doesn't really need to be bold too).
It's very intentionally based on Backbone's example, to demonstrate the similarities and differences between Backbone and the YUI App Framework. It's kind of a tradition now among MVC frameworks.
First Goldman Sachs, now BoA. Stay classy, Warren.
For me basic maths ends with

(3.1^2 - 3^2)/0.1 = (9.61-9)/0.1 = 0.61/0.1 = 6.1

(3.01^2 - 3^2)/0.01 = (9.0601-9)/0.01 = 0.0601/0.01 = 6.01

(3.001^2 - 3^2)/0.001 = (9.006001-9)/0.001 = 0.006001/0.001 = 6.001

When you get to that point you are ready to start calculus and see that d/dx x^2 = 2x and that the derivative of x squared at 3 is 6.

There is a smooth transition from arithmetic to calculus with the laws of calculus having to be what they are or else approximations, such as delta-x = 0.001 are not going to approximate them.
Rebels find photos of Condi Rice in Gaddafi's lair.
As an intern I was sitting in on the meetings, mostly just watching. Those weren’t meetings targeted at interns, they were normal, everyday meetings. (I was there mostly to get to see how those things work and to get a bit of context.)

I’m not sure why you are just asserting a different language. I see no evidence for that. The article treats the statement as a quote, as long as we don’t know any better we have to treat it like that.
This is a case of the legal system working the way it should. Had the decision gone the other way and been upheld, it probably would have meant that ISPs could not do spam filtering. Most people would then be getting thousands of pieces of spam a day.
Startup Quote: Jonathan Ive, SVP, Apple
It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

- Jonathan Ive

http://startupquote.com/post/9390307907
Tente Branda
I am the music man, I come from down your way and I can plaaay (what can you play?)

I play the trombone.

Opa opa opa-pa opa-pa opa-pa

Opa opa opa-pa opa opa-pa
Heroku Adds Java Support
Wow, I was only slightly aware of the problems at BoA, but this deal must mean that they were having a big problem raising money. You would think they could of had a fire-sale of some assets like their china holdings to better protect shareholders. That being said having Buffet show confidence in your firm is valuable and it paid off well in the past for GE, Goldman and before that Salomon Brothers.
I think that makes it a banned meeting if it has more than 7 people in it. Really.
I thought BoA said they didn't need capital...
Love the title - The coolest cat.
I can imagine a colony being set there by the year 4000 run by the "Company"...
20 Years of Linux [infographic]
What Makes Android So Popular?
Android was released a few years back and in the last year or so it has really caught on, it now has around 50% of the smart phone market and it is always growing but what makes android so popular to phone makers and why do people buy android smart phones?
Looks interesting, from skimming the docs.

Only a few obvious downsides/open questions to me:

* License prohibits making closed-source things in it.

* How efficient is the generated client-side code? Language mismatch is a major cause of slow generated code (see GWT). In Opa's case, having no arrays (only linked lists) sounds like a disaster for compiling to JS.

* I've never seen the model work before where you "don't even need to think about what's running on the client or server." I like features like sharing code (same language) and easy transport (serializable data structures), but frameworks that blur the client/server distinction usually download all of your code, or none of it, or little snippets on demand, or some other strategy that's worse than a manual distinction.

* What's development like? Do you really have to recompile your app after every change? My favorite frameworks just let you change the code and reload the web page.

* I've seen many, and even written one, tutorial that goes: "Making a chat room in a web browser is hard. But here's a demo that does it in 20 lines!" With all the frameworks and libraries out there these days, it's not that hard.

* Tons of dependencies (a personal gripe). Coming from the Java world, where lots of things like reading images are built-in, it's comical to see that Opa requires Java, AND libjpeg and a dozen other things (it doesn't actually run on the JVM I don't think).
We just launched PrivacyChoice Policymaker for mobile sites and apps, which is free for early adopters:

http://www.privacychoice.org/policymaker/register

Covered in the NY Times last week:
http://nyti.ms/oYCFcW

Example policy (try on your phone):
http://bit.ly/privacychoice

We also have an API if you want to roll your own with our language. Just write to me jim at privacychoice.org

Looking for input to make this better and better.
The existing moderators can elect new moderators who can carry it on. The current (and only) mod is currently simply choosing not to, and made his intentions clear in that regard.
3D Jargon Sucks Mapping techniques explained
You do have to wonder what the moves of the last few weeks mean for DotCloud. With Heroku launching support for many non-RoR languages and CloudFoundry being adopted by other PaaS players, you have to wonder whether small players like DotCloud are going to get squeezed out.
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It depends a lot on the user, obviously. For your example of WWF, I don't need a notification. When I have a few spare minutes, I open it up and make some moves. It's almost always my turn in one of my 20 games, and I don't need an alert to tell me that one of my 20 opponents just played - the only marginally useful notification would be the first. They added notifications to a recent update and I hate it. (Maybe there's a way to disable it - I'll have to investigate.)
My mind boggles. I know dictators and terrorists collect porn. But Condi Rice? I remember when Nixon was considered one of the 10 sexiest men in the world. It makes me wonder if there is a world of kinkiness that I have completely missed out on.
Am I the only one imagining the Dwight Schrute meme while reading this? http://memegenerator.net/Dwight-Schrute
> And because I've heard these calculators are programmable,...

I'm happy to suggest that a student get himself a programmable calculator and use it like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/jl9gz/evaluate_th...

Notice though that I'm assuming that the student is completely on top of place value and arithmetic. I assume that they can look at 0.17157, 0.16713, 0.16671, 0.16667, and recognise 1/6 emerging from the murk.
Economic growth is nearly exponential. With a title like "Why we are unlikely to _ever_ leave the solar system" I can see why people disagreed.
Ah, yes, the SUV of programming languages.
Also good, but the last line doesn't work (in my opinion): to get from 0x1 to 1 you need to undo the x0, i.e. dividing by 0. Which is undefined ... Zero, confusing 10 year olds for centuries!
How to add the Konami code to your WordPress blog
I wish they supported - here is a war file, run it...
Unfortunately the corporate world has become frequent, long, useless meetings. It is rare that anything is accomplished during them, more and more people attend them, and no one questions them (everyone complains in private). The best skill to have in the modern corporate world is getting along with other people, not getting things done.
Groupon Memo to Staff "It Looks Good"
Gravity Mobile Spy Reviews - Cell phone spy software
Recently I had the opportunity to get my hands on Gravity Mobile Spy. The folks over at CTS Technologies were nice enough to give me a working copy of the latest version of cell phone tracking and spy software to evaluate for them. Being the tech buff that I am I was happy to oblige!
your right it's not an 'outright purchase' but it is a 'purchase agreement'
Welcome to real life!
Same in Mexican Spanish.
For the good of the company? Five Apple products Steve Jobs killed
What will be the impact of Rob Malda leaving Slashdot?
The picture fits so well!
I am really looking foward to seeing what he does next, and I think Slashdot is in good hands.
Although hacker News and Reddit are killing it.
As far as I understood it, it's apples and oranges. DotCloud provides specific services, for example, running a Solr cluster, which is a higher level of abstraction really than providing support for a specific programming language.
Before You Disrupt The Markets, You Need to Disrupt Yourself
Wonderful news. Heroku keeps going from strength to strength. I know a lot of people who'll be interested in this... I'm very pleased that Scala is deployable.

Awesome.
Partial answers/tidbits:

The JS code is not as optimized as what you can write manually, although a lot of work was put in making it work "fast enough" (thanks Mathieu). However, we have many ideas on how to reach native performance. Look for instance at how Java got sometimes even faster than C!

There are hints @server and @client to specify a side for running a bit of your code. Since, as you say, there are things you know and the machine doesn't.

Opa being a compiler, updated projects have to be recompiled. You gain a lot in quality, consistency with this (especially associated to the very advanced type system of Opa). And as we know that compilers are annoying, we made our best to make the compile time short. You probably won't have to take a coffee, sorry.

The chat example does not rely on predefined libraries -- that's the difference. You can also look at bigger chat applications like https://github.com/hbbio/OpaChat and compare with https://github.com/ry/node_chat.

Opa requires Java for building from source - if the package does, that's something you can report at https://github.com/mlstate/opalang/issues?sort=created&d...
I quit years ago when the obvious meme-jokes heavily outweighed any interesting discussion. Even knocking down Funny posts didn't always help.

On the very few occasions when I've returned, I've also really, really disliked the adjustments to the comment filtering and viewing - looks ugly and seems quite confusing. Like others, I do think they had an excellent moderation system that no one else seems to have matched since.

With you on the switch to HN as well. I deleted /. from my bookmarks a few years back and have probably visited twice in the last year just to see if it's still alive.
Amazing UI. Speedy too, which is atypical of apps that try to get fancy :)

It says I have a 84% chance of liking Chipotle... looks like I should give it more data ;)

One of the problems with this I noticed off the bat is that I only gave 4-5 star ratings. Great restaurants stick out in my mind, forgettable meals never. Unless I've had a very negative experience with a restaurant I'm not overly compelled to go and rate it.

[edit] The UI feels really WP7-esque. I like it. It's like a delicious fusion of iOS and WP7... now I'm wondering what the world would be like if we had something like this across the board.
Steve Jobs Resigns; Stock Ends Higher Than Yesterday, Surprisingly
Ask Brian Chesky (Airbnb CEO) anything about your startup
Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor (2004)
If they supported git pushing a war file, then I wonder what the performance improvements would be with Warble-ing a RoR app and running it on a JVM?

Edit
Oh wait, they already did. But not using a WAR file it seems.

For example, JRuby is one of the most frequently-requested languages on Heroku. Matthew Rodley has already put a Rails app onto JRuby on Heroku by adding JRuby to pom.xml. Scala, another common request, could be done the same way. We do look forward to being able to offer the same kind of first-class support for JRuby and Scala that we offer for Clojure; but in the meantime, bootstrapping via Java is a reasonable strategy.

Now if we could just get some performance comparisons between the Ruby and Java platforms on Heroku... pretty please?
Here's hoping that the next language will be Python.
There's a page "leaving card" to thank Steve Jobs for his work as CEO: http://www.plumpl.com/stevejobs
I'll completely agree with you that a student who can't multiply three by five doesn't understand mathematics. However, I'd argue that I'd rather have a student spend ten hours figuring out that 3*5 = 5+5+5 = 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 = 15 than to have a trained parrot that simply squawks the answer. The first student was slower, but it's the parrot that's mouthing a series of words without understanding.

As for the rest, I disagree that I'm fighting that standard learning pattern. In nearly every subject, we start with a generality and then move into specifics. We learn about the Roman Empire before we learn about Cicero. We learn about teeth before we learn about incisors. We learn about protons before we learn about quarks. We learn about function calls before we learn the standard library. We learn about China before we learn about Beijing. Almost all learning is performed through iteratively refining a central abstraction with increasing detail.
Building the Global Startup // John O'Farrell
Happy 4th birthday, Twitter hashtags
Relatively off-topic: The API and Page Contents menus open and immediately close for me in Firefox. Chrome works fine.
I swear that didn't happen before. It works now. Thanks!
being on a rolling release distro means you still get the thrill of running a bleeding-edge kernel :) and no, i never really outgrew that.
Arab Spring Fragrance | Human Victims Of Human
Our favorite startups from Y Combinator Demo Day
If JRuby deploys then I'd suspect that Jython would too.
Is calling your startup "the Airbnb of X" poison?
I'm working on a startup called Stayhound - we use social connections to help pet owners find pet sitters for less than kennels charge. Will calling ourselves "the Airbnb of pet sitting" help or harm us with potential users and investors?
> Metafilter charges you $5 to gain the ability to post. It's a little better than Reddit, but ultimately the discussion software is so bad it's hard to tell if this works or not.

I had forgotten about Metafilter. It's been around since 1999, which is probably the reason for the poor site design. But that also shows that it's possible to create a social news website that doesn't turn to trash within 5 years.

I'd say that it's worth giving a Reddit clone with a Metafilter-style pay-to-post system a shot. I'd do it myself, but I don't possess the requisite time or non-technical knowledge. Hopefully someone does, because I could see myself paying $5/month for a social news site that can indefinitely restrict itself to intelligent and on-topic commentary.

> I think my ultimate solution will be to return to blogging, and when I read an interesting article, write a detailed response. Then I will ignore the rest of the discussion.

I like this option as well, but primarily for a different reason. It's a well-known fact that our brains are plastic, and I've noticed that my shift from reading and writing long-form, thorougly reviewed pieces to short-form comments (like the one I'm writing right now) has severely affected my ability to hunker down and concentrate on detailed work.

Perhaps it's just that my expectations aren't that high, but I don't particularly share the OP's commiserations regarding HN. I still think it's a nice site that provides me with news and corresponding insightful commentary on the latest in the startup/tech scene. However, for the sake of my intellect, I probably need to start cutting back on the internet in general and return to reading more books.

Unfortunately, the internet is quite the addiction, so it's a bit of a struggle to take the first step ;/
The first line:

"Steve Jobs is not dead. Nor is he Jesus."

They're right, Steve Jobs is absolutely not Jesus, Steve existed and has had a meaningful impact on my life.
Not really sure what the deal is here, but your writing style implies a third possibility: driving people away.
As an LGBT person myself, and having struggled for many years to overcome various prejudices, I absolutely celebrate Tim Cook's success and appreciate that he is a great role model for young LGBT persons.
Not only this, but I've read stories that in the early days of his return, you could get into an elevator with him and not have a job any more when you got out. If he asked you what you did and you said marketing, you were out. If you were an engineer on a misguided technical project, also out.

Jobs had respect for the engineers who had slogged over many years, squeezing all the life and functionality they could out of the classic Mac OS under the direction of misguided marketers who innovated by writing a feature list then implementing it, rather than by seeing if it was technically feasible then writing it.

He had no respect for the marketing people who came up with these bullshit feature lists and bullshit adverts and bullshit product lines and encouraged ridiculous R&D projects. (Taligent, Copland, HyperCard 3, etc.)
What would happen to AOL Instant Messenger?
>What we've seen over the last 10 years or so is the increased consumerization of the enterprise. Essentially, large IT depts have been forced to accommodate iPhones and iPads, ...

i'd not say "consumerization of the enterprise" is limited to the last 10 years - it is more like for the last almost 30 years "large IT depts have been forced to accommodate" PC, notebooks, iPhones, iPads ... (mental implants? ask Jobs what is the next :)
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