skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans have a tendency to take the mental shortcut that scarcity implies value, and so I wouldn't be surprised if this were to actually increase interest in HN.

HN might also be one of the few sites able to conduct such an experiment (most other sites being worried about traffic, revenues, driving users away, etc.)
I tried hard to get it to work, but it's pretty bad on ubuntu. I can't speak for windows/mac.
Why would that be wrong?
Think about the client. What matters most to him? What is valuable to him?
If he doesn't mind that someone else might be using that design (someone in his industry is extremely unlikely), I would absolutely do that. In fact I've done it already and it worked very well.
Most clients want a good, solid design. They don't care where it comes from.
I didn't have to lie to him, I told him I picked it off the Internet, and of course there were some modifications to do.
I couldn't agree more.

Don't social news sites sort of depend on them being "up" in the background "working out" what is interesting? Won't bringing it down for 3 peak hours just reduce the churn of good material?

I tend to check hacker news/reddit/etc. at very specific times (like first thing in the AM, right before and after lunch, etc.). If it's down during those times, or if the content is stale (because it's spent the past 3 hours being down), I'm not going to get more work done. I'm going to just stop coming.
Why don't they just stop making Buicks? Or are they obligated to provide a certain number per month?
Fortunately, that last one is getting corrected right now...
I assume it would be cheating to simply never recommend Napoleon Dynamite and the other controversial movies?
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I have seen many sites before and most of them do not look this good.
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like links that open automatically in new tabs, i think that would take control away from the user.

ps. isn't your state nanny enough ?
I have actually thought very deeply about this question and would often ponder about it in my spare time. Hypothetically speaking if I could go back in time and tell my younger self one thing it would be:

DO NOT FORGET
February 13, 2002: 1,4,19,28,46 M4

If I could say a little more on top of that it would be:
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Is this suppose to be an April fools joke in November? Is this a joke I don't get?
Lingpipe has a semi-open license, and a Java implementation of incremental SVD. The original incremental SVD code is open: http://www.timelydevelopment.com/demos/NetflixPrize.aspx

BTW, SVD is not scalable. I define scalable algorithms to have time and space complexity O(n log(n)) or less. SVD is generally O(n*n)+, requiring matrix multiplication. You'll have to shard your computations in order to scale indefinitely.
Since timezones are a problem, try 10 minutes chosen randomly each hour. 5/6 of the time we could procrastinate at will, but a new.yc binge of ~30 min or more would be interrupted.

This could be an interesting experiment.
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Well sure, but it's mathematically amusing that an apology gets more social credit than lost through the faux pas causing that apology, no?
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Yeah, think of all the ad revenue pg is going to lose. Oh, uh... there are no ads...
I heard rumors that the porn industry had uses for this.
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Watching someone dying and not doing anything about it is different than telling someone to kill himself on a forum.

Yeah, I hate it when consenting adults make their own decisions. I mean, the nerve!! Don't they know that dying is Really Bad?

There will be a public outcry and no doubt some prosecutor is going to try to pin some charges against them.

You do know that this is not the first time that someone has killed themselves on a webcam, right? No charges have ever stuck before, so I don't see why they would this time.
I think it needs to be a source or a service. I also think it's a source. Don't be too parental, papa bear. Let an api happen before you start being the po-lice.

It's actually a pretty fascinating idear. I spend a pretty decent amount of time applying interwebs thinking to the "concrete" world (BA Urban Econ, what); I've never even consciously thought about going the other way.

h^n is a giant time sink, but I also feel like a big part of my job and our education is reading. It's market research. Whatever you know is barely worth shit without understanding the context.

So down thumb. That being said: if you want to run a social experiment, this seems like a sweet place. We probably should be messed with, anyway. We probably are already.
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I am pretty much with you in your sentiments ;). I just made the post to add some humor.

Not just youth, but "now" is a great time for most things. Focusing on getting laid and getting drunk is not what youth is for. At the same time, being too serious and just trying to make money is also not the best thing (that's what I did throughout my 20s). I'm 40 and still learning how to find appropriate balance in life. At least by now I've realized that finding balance is the key.

So I guess if I had to seriously answer the OP, I would say to my old self "find the way of the tao."
I think there's room for both. Turkers might simulate the casual browsers who happen upon your site. There could be valuable data buried in what they do in a short period of time.
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While I would not call it "entirely repulsive," the act of random sex has always been far less fulfilling for me. We are also some of the rare males who consider it possible to have "bad" sex. I collectively refer to us as: Connoisseurs ;)

That being said, I wouldn't call the average college student immature. The older I get, the more I realize that the line between "maturity" and "immaturity" is incredibly fine and not at all well defined -- and one can occasionally act immature while still maintaining maturity. It's not as simple as, "People who goof around and worry about nothing but sex and booze are immature while people who worry about making a living and reading leather-bound books are mature."

Strictly speaking, maturity in this case simply means "having reached an advanced stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult." Now, given that stage, what you choose to do does not necessarily directly reflect on whether or not you've reached it. For instance, a mature person in college may realize that, all things being equal, their college years may well be the last they have to truly live care-free and without serious responsibility. Given this rationale, would you fault them for using that time to pick up random men/women, drink five nights a week, and generally just focus on having fun?

Now, if they continued this lifestyle after college perhaps they aren't mature enough to realize that they must now change their behavior in order to thrive under their new circumstances. Or, perhaps, they just don't give a damn. To me, maturity simply indicates that a person is fully aware of the ramifications of their actions and are willing to own those actions. I don't consider a 40 year old CEO any more mature than a 40 year old McDonald's worker, provided they both want to be where they are and know exactly how they got there. Would you say that Lester from American Beauty one day became immature or finally mature? Or neither? Or both?
I completely agree, the first year was new and fun. Then the next year, and the following years come, and you realize that 95% of your classmates are still as immature as they were when you met them the first year.

Maybe it was just my school. I figured Stanford and other top schools would be different.

I have two semesters left and I will be leaving shortly to work on my startup full time.
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Had a couple of those hit the office today in fact, it is a scary place out there.
You know you're tired when this goes right over your head.

"As a special limited-time promotion,you can get free sugar and cream packets with your coffee..."
Whups, guess I suggested a bad idea. Figures, considering "responsibility" is winning now, ha-ha.

Yeah, on second thought, it's probably a bad idea to make a service like this spurious. Imagine if Google decided to do that to keep me from checking my email.
His advice is good and probably worth implementing. one thing though..

> Make sure to upgrade your domain to private registration so that your contact details don’t show up on WhoIS searches. If you’re on GoDaddy I’d recommend going with Protected Registration <

I thought some WHOIS services offered the ability to view cached pages of all previous contact details, no ?
I had some issues on Ubuntu as well (officially Linux isn't supported by RescueTime ... it's just something a user put together). It works great on Windows & Mac.
Yep. And want to take bets on how long before someone grabs the source from arclanguage.org and sets up a 24/7 variant?
I would probably say something along the lines of, "You've been lucky enough to be born in a time and place where there is nothing you cannot do; the world is there for the taking, so stop sitting around and go fucking take it already!"

To this day, I still don't take as much as I should. But, baby steps.
Fairplay DRM I get.

C&D's for reverse engineering for interoperability purposes --- something specifically allowed by the DMCA --- I don't get.
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> and if anyone else is like me, they'll probably get sufficiently irritated by coming to a frequently-broken website that they'd end up coming here far less frequently.

Thus returning the site to it's original, smaller, more committed more elite character and hopefully raising the level of discourse, improving the signal to noise ratio, etc.

I'm not sure what pg is thinking but I could see the factors you describe as being a good argument FOR restricting access to the site.

I find the site itself and pg's experiments with attention management to be a fascinating exercise in cognitive science. Taking one of the most addictive forms of news display (look up variable reward schedules and operant conditioning if you want to see why it's so compelling) and attempting to manage it so that you get the benefits (better informed people, faster diffusion of ideas, a 'hotter' intellectual environment) while limiting the time and productivity sink.

//and by the way, thank you Paul Graham for making this possible.
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In college I would tell myself not to worry as much about grades, but to focus on a few projects of my own. Take more internships in different fields.
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I'm sorry. You're awesome really :)
what a great comment!
It so true though, that it bears nearly continuous repeating. As a society, we have to make a choice. How many fatalities are we willing to accept per million vehicle miles? The answer can't be zero unless we want no cars at all. The onerous regulations are how we as a society choose that number. Are the regulation always efficient? No. But they are how we choose.

Its also important to remember that other counties and peoples with different world views will have radically different conceptions as to what this acceptable number is.
I guess I would agree with you that no subject is off limits, and I can obviously only speak for myself, but there is a reason that I have a knee-jerk negative and perhaps overly zealous reaction to suicide jokes that I don't have to those about most other tragedies. Most people who end up committing suicide talk about it before they do it and they often aren't taken seriously. Because of this, I take a dim view of anything that makes light of suicide.

Wars are awful, but I doubt that many of them could have been prevented by taking the people proposing them more seriously, and the same goes for most other things.

As I said, it's entirely possible I take this view too far, but I figured I'd explain my reason, since it doesn't seem like anyone else has brought up that particular point.
Everyone outside the US loses access at normal hours.
And there's an even finer line between immature and just fun-loving...
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What about the rest of us who can manage our time just fine? We end up having to deal with the annoyance of the site being down just when we decide to take a break!
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The argument is that a certain class of people ought to have the same rights as all others do unless there is a just reason to deny those rights. Surely you can think up an argument to support that notion. The exercise of those rights isn't important, i.e. I should not be denied the right to a fair trial simply because I don't intend to commit any crimes and thus don't "need" the right.

Moreover, while the institution of marriage may serve a societal purpose, the denial of marriage rights is itself a mechanism of social control independent of that purpose. Hence, "gay marriage" is the subject of debate, while "marriage" is not.
Time to adjust my sleep schedule I guess.
I blame PG for making me sleep during day.
If anyone is interested in some Singular Value Decomposition type of work - take a look at Principal Component Analysis.

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the whole point is to avoid ever exposing yourself as a US resident

you use a whois proxying service to block your ID. and when company C tries to strongarm the ISP over which they have no jurisdiction, they get told to bugger off.
I think this is just good old fashion procrastination. Instead of just doing it the simple way you invent enough new work that you can put it off until later.
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This has to be one of the most ridiculous ideas I have ever heard of.
I'd just use a separate account for viewing. I know I would.
I would classify you as a pretentious psuedo-intellectual scenester based on the fact that you've just demonstrated mastery of that demographic's primary modus operandi.
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I don't know about you, but I take everyone seriously until I have a reason not to.
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Well, a lot of people are mocked and ridiculed all their lives and don't go on a killing spree, but I get your point.
Portland was home to the last Ubuntu conference, and there's quite a few other meets there.
Don't do anything different, I like it here.
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As their family member it's obvious how to react: tell them to get help, and ride them about it until they do. I've done this. The second part is probably the more important.

There's no guarantee that help will be successful of course, but you've at least done what you can.
You wanted to figure out what it all meant, and you were right. Don't give up.

PS You love computer science.
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No, everyone outside of North, Central, and South America loses access at normal hours.
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So, true.

In addition, one needs to fix the problem at the source; the thing that works for me is to turn on "Freedom" and dis-connect myself from the Internet for a few hours.
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Does this guy have a name? Or should I just call him.... "Y"
I'm in China.
Why would Amazon price themselves out of their own business?
This kind of problems arise when people decide to change what Nature decided to be a Constant...
Sure, and let's also mandate the exclusive use of Java to save us from ourselves. No, really, I mean this is going one step too far in terms of taking away responsibility from individuals.

And don't forget that for those of us who haven't yet started a startup, procrastination can be inspiration.
The article implied they were using hard disk sizes. IE. 1 Petabyte is 1000 Terabytes. Not that it makes that much of a difference.
People are not part of nature?
That's why Java is such a beautiful system.
That's true but what's worse is that "normal" is going to be defined not by each of us individually, but by someone higher up who knows what's best for us.
And you are entitled to do exactly as you wish - reprogram it, hack it, reverse engineer it.

It's when you share your findings with the world that the issue arises. You may be exposing trade secrets, copyrighted material etc, or enabling others to circumvent copy protection.

I don't know about DRM, it's optional in Apple products anyway. I have several Apple devices and have never used any DRM. If you don't like it, don't use it.
Dude. You should start doing on your idea right now. Idea is nothing without execution.
Can one of the google employees here ask one of their gmail buddies about this?
I guess the solution is to use Gmail in a separate browser profile that you won't use for anything else.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles
How about going the other way around? Hacker News: available every night from 7pm to 9pm central. Like TV!
Don't be so shy - you'll regret it later. Just do it.
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That's a terribly paternistic idea.
Terrible solution to a problem that can only be solved on the other end.
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I am currently implementing(verilog) a 32bit L2 cache for one of my projects. So yea.. my YC presence has been pretty minimal.
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You can still change the OS time.
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This is the most moronic thing I have heard on yc (today).

Why don't you hire us a babysitter too? Is this a website for you to get useful information and networking, or your own little kindergarden, where you have to manage other peoples time? Does having millions of dollars not give you enough opportunities to control other peoples lives?

Hire a hooker and leave us out of your creepy desire to control other people and what they do with there time. I can manage my own time.
The problem with the override option is that it is a weak barrier. It takes a split second to click it and after two or three times it becomes a habit to override.

A good solution would force the user to become acutely aware of what he is about to do and give him time to regain enough discipline to stop.

Perhaps it would help if the user were forced to watch a video about procrastination or answer a series of relevant or time consuming questions before proceeding to override noprocrast.
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It's already too similar to Comedy Central. :P
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I like this! Can be circumvented, of course, but anything can, and the defaults matter.
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Analogous to the 24hr-licensing debates many countries (especially in Europe) seem to have regarding pub/bar drinking times (aimed at stopping binge-drinking and drink related crime/violence)?

Ultimately they too did not work as they failed to change the culture that creates the (unwanted) behaviour?
I'd say give it a try for a week or two as a social experiment, just to see what happens.
Just parse the URL. Or you can pull in the RSS feed, although that usually only goes back 20 posts.
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It's like the science fiction cliche where humans puzzle over artifacts of ancient alien technology. A mind brought up on modern politics is bound to be often baffled by strange and archaic things seemingly created by nonhuman beings. What's common law? What's religion? What's marriage? Our only framework for understanding is the idea of democracy and human rights, but this stuff predates human rights by hundreds or thousands of years, and the shoehorning fails.

Slightly exaggerating, if you call marriage a "human right" today, you must also believe that free speech mandates taxpayer-sponsored newspapers to publish everyone's words :-) First make marriage totally non-binding on both partners and the government. Make divorce as easy as signing a paper. Abolish alimony and child support. Drop the tax breaks. Make hospital visitation rights, etc., a matter of civil contract. Those measures will change marriage from a state-sponsored targeted subsidy into a proper "human right".
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It seems I need to explain better:

Nature decided that so called "gays" (an artificial term, created in our modern times) can't procreate, so if you would make an island for them, good old Nature would answer with extinction...

(I think Nature is really discriminating here. Someone should sue It.)