skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the way you idealize research is not naive by any means, and you should stick to your view.

By all means, one year is not too late - you should change your research project to something that's your very own. If your advisor doesn't let you, change your advisor too.

I think you're exactly the type that needs to lead a project, and be the first author, instead of contributing bits here and there, implementing somebody else's "vision". Leave that for those that think academic success is putting their names on the maximum number of papers.
Load article in Google Chrome web browser.

Press Ctrl+F to search entirety of text on the page.

Enter "sun" nothing found.

Enter "sunspot" nothing found.

Enter "solar" (as in "solar activity") nothing found.

Hmmmmm.
Humans are Naturally Tone Deaf to Probabilities
When he talked of a hierarchy I immediately expected a tree of some kind...
It's interesting that people on the sky-is-falling side of climate change feel that science is unassailable -- at least by the common man. Paid professionals make consensus decisions, and the rest of us should sit down and be quiet.

I have no idea what man's involvement with climate change is, or what the moral ramifications are (I doubt much, but I'm willing to listen) But I think I know what science is supposed to be: provisional, tentative, and falsifiable. And it's not being treated this way. To me that's why this issue is at the top of my list of cultural things to complain/argue about. It's destroying the essence of what science really means.
Powering down servers is a calculated risk
Maybe if you're American this is the most important political story of the decade.

If you're European, Asian, or Africen it probably isn't. Yes it will impact us, but not more than the global economic meltdown, Pakistans near default, the Iraq war, etc.

Were not all from the US.
Hey, maybe you don't want to pay an extra $100 for a GPS gizmo you'd never use. Or a camera, if you have a small camera outside of your phone. Or maybe you want some extra RAM in your phone (for the upcoming days when phones may be doing some more intensive things?). Or a replaceable battery! The list goes on and on.
I wasn't sure what to do about the Economist endorsement story. Some editors wanted to kill it. I resisted for a while, but then I tried asking myself what I'd have done if the story was "Economist endorses McCain." I wouldn't have been so happy to see that on HN. So I decided I was being a hypocrite and killed it.

I agree with you that this election feels historic, though. So let's try a poll about what to do:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349421
Absolutely, yes. While I don't agree with you, I can absolutely respect your opinion. And I love discussions like this - possibly too much.
Poll: Allow stories about the election?
There's a case to be made both for (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349350) and against (politics) having stories related to the upcoming election. Which do you prefer?
yes, allow a few of the biggest stories (2 or 3 a day) about the upcoming US presidential election
no, kill stories about the election unless they're either intellectually interesting in a way that transcends politics, or really big news (e.g. someone winning)
Ask HN: Startup in Kids market, and related issues
Our startup idea has a possible verticalization (not a proper word) in kids market (even though it was turned down by YC !sigh!). However, we are so fearful to brand it that way. Just to avoid all the complications around content sanity, inappropriate usage, and you know the whole gamut.
We are trying to brand it as a parents market, just to make our life easier. Else the entire focus of development will go childproofing the site.
However, from a market verticalization pt of view, we understand that if you have a compelling product for kids, you've got yourself a winner.
Any opinion around that?
The whole tone of the process sounds really immature and unprofessional.

Good people wont put up with this. 15 references, thats a red flag right away. Sorry, but only desperate, or naive people will put up with it.

Remember, a person that has choice (even in a down economy), will be interviewing you as a company just as well.
I can't tell whether this is a serious list. Replaceble battery sounds serious (I mean, I don't want one, but sure). GPS gizmo? Small camera? RAM?
We have the entire nation, TV networks talking about it 24x7 (sick of it) - don't need it this forum.
Number seven sounds suspiciously similar to the halting problem...
The "public" agencies aren't going to take scraping "their" data lightly, especially if they have a data contract with someone like Dialog.

Congressional offices aren't likely to pay. Govt agencies might.
I don't think you can keep it out. But the problem is 1) mob rules (which pisses off dissenters and makes the board just another political hack job), and 2) it's too easy and tempting to be a hypocrite (as you noted)

So allow the stories this one time. But turn off voting (if you can). Have the editors place them at the top and handle the comments in chronological order. Let us all have at it. Just don't turn the place into total crap.

I'm voting "no" because I don't think this is possible.
U.S. Court of Appeals just invalidated most business method patents
I saw all the "this is useless" comments on TechCrunch, so I thought I'd look up what that community thought of "twttr" when it launched:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/

"I do not understand the utility of adding the SMS messages to a public webpage or making messages from my network public. I would have to pass on that type of offering. The ability to make messages private should be added asap."

vs.

"What a silly app… well, more like useless."
Summary from the article: "The summary is that the court has said that there’s a two-pronged test to determine whether a software of business method process patent is valid: (1) it is tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or (2) it transforms a particular article into a different state or thing. In other words, pure software or business method patents that are neither tied to a specific machine nor change something into a different state are not patentable. "
No, but some of us are, and we would show your country the same respect of providing coverage and discussion of your historic events that affect hackers in your country.
Congrats to Snipd! I'll check you guys out.

Two things on your front page, though, which I'll ask about because I'm a pest:

"forget sending links, send snippets."

What makes snippets so much better than links? It takes longer to manufacture them and to send them.

"Establish a community of followers."

This is incredibly convoluted. "Establish" is too elaborate a word to use here, the user isn't getting a "community" of followers - Snipd is - and in general, this does not set the mood in a very pleasing way.

EDIT: using Snipd right now. I don't see how to snip things. I get the green window up top, and a bunch of links, and a chance to tag things and make them private - totally unnecessary images, by the way, neither one helps me at all - and there is nothing that either lets me save my snip or get a link to it.

EDIT TWO: Okay, so I can't just click it to save a link. That's inconvenient. Threw me off a bit. You also made me lose what I was writing: that's a shame. When I highlight, the fact that I have to click once more to open the menu and then click snip is yet another annoyance. This is not a streamlined process for me, even if I have Snip It attacked to a keyboard shortcut.

EDIT THREE: Tumblr's bookmarklet will let me highlight BEFORE I hit the bookmarklet. You should do that too.

Your opening webpage is ugly. The highlighted part? Not necessary. The Snip It bookmarklet's font looks off compared to everything else. The coloring scheme is ugly. And cramming three lines of links at the bottom is ugly, too.

EDIT FOUR: Why is the bar green? The aesthetic of the rest of your site is brown and non-jarring. I like that more.

EDIT FIVE: Honestly, give me a link to what I've snipped. (Not "snipd," because that reminds me of "snipd" and looks stupid. I love how Tumblr never once admits that they have a stupid URL: it's what makes it bearable for me. Don't be cute. I hate cute.) The fact that when I've snipped something, I need to look around for it, just really, really pisses me off.

And I still don't see why I'd use this over a better-integrated plug-in system, or a system like Tumblr or Posterous, in which you take snippets of things but it doesn't feel like amateur hour while you're doing so. Frankly, I'd take Posterous over this in an instant: easier to register with, and click-and-drag-to-email-client works beautifully. I could even make Automator do it automatically. This system has no advantages, and it's inferior to an existing YCombinator product.

But that's my opinion: feel free to explain why this helps more and I'll rant a bit less. :-)
This is hacker news. I come here to see stories which aren't given much attention elsewhere. The election is getting lots of attention elsewhere.

That said, I'm not in favour of a blanket ban-anything-related-to-the-election approach. An article concerning how the candidates want to apply income taxes to startups would be relevant here, as would an article about the lack of security in electronic voting machines. But those articles would be newsworthy in spite of the election, not because of it.
No, not even if they're 'really big'. This isn't 'Headline News', it's 'Hacker News'.
You know, a lot of people still do think that Twitter is stupid. Myself included.

I've said before and I'll say again that I don't understand the utility of Twitter. While I think some people write amusingly on it, I've never seen what makes people so fascinated in it. I doubt I ever will.

Just because something's successful doesn't mean it's useful.
Both of these options are very similar ;)

Ignoring that, though, the fact of the matter is that I don't think most of us come here for political discussion (I know I don't). If I want that, I'll go to Reddit for the immature discussion, or to the major news outlets for the latest update. This is a community of entrepreneurs and, while the elections are important, I don't think having multiple election stories here is appropriate discussion material. Someone winning, sure -- that's news that affects the entire world -- but I'd limit it to a single discussion on the winner.
It was quite serious. Some people may be constrained by money, and a difference between having a GPS and camera and not having them may be a deal-saver. Power-users may want a faster phone, maybe with a different processor or more memory. Like it or not, Apple can't make a phone which satisfies everyone. With different hardware, maybe you can get a phone perfect for you - or who knows, maybe a company will make them on order sometime in the future, like Dell does with computers. Honestly, I don't see what you find so funny about this list, and I don't see the need for a snarky response.
The Value of an idea is in its application.

Patenting a good idea prevents others from applying that idea to create value.

This is a good ruling for those of us who want to create value, not just sit around coming up with ideas.
Oh for goodness sake. This is a spare-time side project website. It's not been A/B tested. It's not been paid for. It's playful, it's different and it's fun. You know, like spare-time side projects are meant to be.

And I hate to be 'that guy', but some of these attempts at usability and UX analysis are straw man conjecture, the hallmark of the amateur. If anyone can show me some user testing or expert opinions based in grounded UX theory I'll be more interested.

Sheesh.
Look at Sam Ruby's Venus (which I've used): http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/ (Python)

Or, his Mars version (haven't used): http://intertwingly.net/code/mars/ (written in Ruby, and newer)
This is a community of entrepreneurs

The site started out as "Startup News" but they broadened it shortly after to be "Hacker News."

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "
No, that's why I get the Post (Washington, not New York).
Someone actually winning the election is interesting to hackers, because it's interesting to almost everyone.
If the stories deal with the technology of elections (Voting machines) and/or elections getting hacked, I'd say YES. Especially if it's being discussed to greater depth than at non-technical outlets.
Is there a neither option? It doesn't seem so bad that it needs fixing yet.
I had about six business meetings today. Since I don't get paid to talk about politics (and it's a good way to piss off half the population) I don't bring it up. In 4 of the 6 meetings people were talking about politics anyway.

I just give up. I'd love to keep the entire board free of this stuff but no matter what the topic, when people are passionate about something, they find some way to put their position in there. Let's review Obama's web security policy, or talk about how some famous IT guy endorses Obama (or McCain.) Just forget that we ourselves are some rather famous IT guys in certain cases and by the same standard should be able to endorse candidates directly on the board.

People are emotional animals and use reason and logic to make the world make sense to them, not to light their way. So no matter what the rule, in an emotionally charged environment, people are just going to do whatever the hell they want to do and come up with reasons (or excuses) to justify it all later on. That's just life.
Is there anything worse that's happened to the world as a whole in the last decade than George Bush being the American president? I don't mean that as a controversial statement; I'm serious. What else had as bad effects globally? Maybe global warming.
Reddit has several very active political sections. I see no reason to have the same conversations here.
I think its a great idea for complex forms gathering in-depth data.
Little late on this one pg.
My old apartment in the US would take credit cards automated or not. I still paid by check.
Broadened? Start-ups and hacking are very different categories, and there is very little in the intersection. This site being for start-ups had too much material that wasn't interesting for hackers, and as the main target of the site was hackers anyway, the focus was put on hacking, maybe very near the intersection.
I use this (as a Drupal module) for http://esciencenews.com

Don't reinvent the wheel, you don't want to custom code this yourself.
Twitter for Plants
I have consistently observed this and been frustrated at decision-makers for making what looks like fear-driven rather than rational decisions.

I like this article because it gives a hypothesis that explains this. But how do you educate people?

When I make cost-benefit analyses involving probabilities, an expected value calculation is really important, and I don't think everyone knows how to do it. So teaching that seems to be valuable. But when people don't have hard probabilities to look at, as the author notes, they seem to overestimate risk. That's something that can't be helped by teaching a formula - you have to teach an intuition.

Strategic games have probably helped me develop this intuition. Starcraft and the board game Puerto Rico both require you to continually estimate risks and rewards of taking certain actions.
That's a pretty solid butchering of the design of daringfireball.net
I see what you're saying, and I don't entirely disagree. That being said I could certainly name a few things that affected me as a European more than Bush being president.

Think of how you would respond if stories about an important election in China popped up all the time, not only here but everywhere. It would certainly affect you since China is a large global player, but the election of your local governor would probably be more important to you.

I think this is how many of us feel - it's important, but not that important.
That is the reason I voted "no". If news.yc was the only place to get interesting political discussion, I might have to think about it - even then I might not necessarily say "yes" - but as it is, I agree with you word for word.
Congrats. Although I was never a huge fan of web snippets I like how easy you've made it. I was a bit confused though initially on what to do after I pressed the snippet bookmarklet. Perhaps make that more clear :-)
I don't think education would completely fix the problem, but it would certainly be a step in the right direction. Even for people who never become very good at it, at least being aware of the problem would be better than nothing.

It's like learning about cognitive biases. You'll still have most of them, but just being aware that they are there is a good start.
I like your comment about strategic games. I played them too, and wonder if they had an impact.

Maybe this could actually be part of education - why should it have to be boring?
There have been many wars by left-wing governments in world history, even in recent world history.

Wasn't Johnson the one that escalated the war in Vietnam?
I don't mean to be demeaning in any way, but no you wouldn't.

I've never seen a post about European political issues here, and I don't think I ever will.
Whaat? My undergrad CS department didn't have anything this focused on a single technology or programming environment. The most specific was the software engineering course where you learned how to use Java and C++ and XML, but the point of that course was not even to teach those things but to teach you how to learn the tools for doing professonal software development (and to help you figure out how to actually build the projects in later courses).

I noticed this was part of stanford's Professional Development course series, but I still am surprised they would offer such a short-term focused course.
John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips
This year maybe. But in two years time most phones will be Androids. We've been down this road before, except this time around an unencumbered OS is there from the inception of the environment.
That's important to note, I know specifically that some non-major service providers (meaning: not Verizon, Comcast, etc.), sometimes don't even show you what spam you get. So, if your using a smaller service provider and you still haven't got it and its also not in your "spam box" there's likely two things that happened.

A) You didn't put your email in your profile "email" box. I would direct you to pg's post last night but its gone now.

B) Your service provider may use a special filter in front of your mailbox which means not only was it marked as spam but it was marked before it actually reached your email and just got tossed overboard in cyberspace. Though, one would expect the number of people to suffer from this problem to be small but it does happen.

What's unfortunate is if that e-mail that got lost was an invite. =C
For the love of money: how humanity created the credit crunch
I clicked on this link to read about copycats related to startup, but they are just talking about everyone's fav rivalry, MS vs Apple. Not too much interest there.
However, I would like to know what you guys think of copycats of web features.
Are you ever bothered by others (in similar business), copying you?
Or, do you ever look at your competitors and get inspired by some of their cool features (so much that your features tend to look like that?)?
"I just give up. I'd love to keep the entire board free of this stuff but no matter what the topic, when people are passionate about something, they find some way to put their position in there."

You post as much about politics as anyone on this site.
The election is almost over, I mean there is really nothing new that can come up. And even if it does, people can get the news elsewhere.

So my choice is to keep politics out, and instead just have one thread on the 4th to discuss the results
What absolute crap. The reference is nothing but word for word crap that says nothing and gives no proof. Only that somewhere they have proof. Craptastic.
20% time nuts and bolts
I value the well tended nature of this forum. Barring a specific comment from a candidate regarding the VC or entrepreneurial environment ("interesting in a way that transcends politics", as stated above), politics represents enough of a deviation from point that I would not care for it.

As far as I've ever seen elsewhere, political discourse seems to dissolve into meritless echo chambers where user-moderation is permitted, or inane bickering where user-moderation is not permitted. Without some serious magic up your sleeve I don't know how this could be avoided.
All companies who did the same are dead now. Eventually, Google can search most image content, face and of cause scanned texts. That means, now all the companies who are founded with image recognition techs, face recognition techs can not efficiently distinguish themselves from Google. Overall, content-based retrieval is only a branch of search technology.
I know a lot of good developers, and I can't imagine any of them jumping through all of these hoops to work for you (or anyone).

When you get this extreme with your process you're filtering out a bunch of great people who won't put up with this all of this bullshit.
Magpie

http://magpierss.sourceforge.net
Don't believe I've ever posted an article that was political, but mea culpa, I didn't exclude myself from my comments.

I am a bit confused about your point.
A typology of network strategies
Not true. I've forgotten what the site was already, and it's been less than 15 seconds since I last saw it.
It's absolutely amazing how these advanced computer models can tell us how the climate naturally varies over years. It won't be long until they can accurately predict if it will rain next weekend.
The video tutorial on vimeo needs to be louder.. I maxed all volumes on laptop and the player, even with headphones on, cant hear what they're saying.

I think this tutorial video is key. This software is totally new to anyone so learning how to use it fast in the short-attention internet mindframe is needed.

Apart from that its very neat. I can snip text,video and images. Awesome.

Also LOVING the bookmark thing too... how is that done?
I don't see anything wrong with political debate, so long as it is on-topic, intelligent and civil. And with respect to those qualities, the debates here are better than most.

Moreover, there's no fundamental reason that "hackers" can't be interested in the world around them, so any argument that simply defines political discussions as off-topic is a non-starter for me. If a discussion is intelligent and technical, then it strikes me as a discussion that a "hacker" might have -- regardless of the subject matter.
If we said 800 we must have been talking per year, not per cycle. The number has gone up since, but it's still not 800 per cycle.
I was pointing out some crocodile tears. If you want to keep this place free of political discussion, then don't talk about politics.

Maybe you were only referring to "articles" about politics, but if you comment on the articles, you encourage them.